Transcript

09/25/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Snap to Penix in the pocket waiting, looking, throws late
0:03
Speaker 1: over the middle, intercepted, Xavier McKinney at the 45-yard line,
0:08
Speaker 1: down he goes, Green Bay take away, and the Packers
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Speaker 1: take over first and 10, 45-yard line at Green Bay.
0:17
Speaker 1: Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Love has time.
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Speaker 1: He lofts it.
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Speaker 2: Right side. Golden turning.
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Speaker 1: Makes it.
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Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: Cross the 45 out of bounds in front of the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta bench. They beat Mike Hughes again. 45 yards to
0:32
Speaker 1: the Atlanta 43-yard line.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Play action.
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Speaker 2: Love bootlegging right.
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Speaker 1: Throws.
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Speaker 2: Touchdown!
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Speaker 1: Christian Watson and a Lambeau lead to the north end zone.
0:46
Speaker 1: They beat the good safety Jesse Bates. Motion by Zaccheaus
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Speaker 1: to the left and the handoff goes to Robinson. Tries
0:54
Speaker 1: to cut it back and sifts through and gets the touchdown.
0:58
Speaker 1: Robinson off the left side. Daniel Whelan down on one knee.
1:01
Speaker 1: Here's the snap placement. And the kick is blocked. It
1:05
Speaker 1: is blocked, and the ball caroms inside of the five-yard line.
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Speaker 1: Atlanta has blocked the field goal try, and it appeared
1:13
Speaker 1: Zach Harrison was the man who blocked it for Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Penix in the shotgun, moves Robinson to his right.
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Speaker 2: Here's the snap.
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Speaker 1: Penix, quick throw, left side, touchdown. Got the tight end,
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Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, who had position on Evan Williams in the
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Speaker 1: left side of the end zone, and Atlanta now leads 16-7.
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Speaker 1: Fourth down, a little bit less than a yard to
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Speaker 1: go here for the Packers. Takes the handoff, bootlegs right,
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Speaker 1: does Jordan Love, throws, end zone, incomplete. Watson in the
1:42
Speaker 1: end zone, pretty well covered, pass sailed over his head, incomplete,
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Speaker 1: and the Bluebirds are out at Lambeau Field. Handoff to
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Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, stutter step, left side, races to the end
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Speaker 1: zone for the touchdown. Brian Robinson scores the touchdown, and
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Speaker 1: it's 23-7 Atlanta. Snap to Love in the shotgun, takes
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Speaker 1: the snap, drills the middle for Golden.
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Speaker 2: Touchdown!
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Speaker 1: A beautiful catch by Matthew Golden. A hands catch right
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Speaker 1: out in front of Mike Hughes and the Packers on
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Speaker 1: the board. 16-yard touchdown pass. Snap Love looking. Fires middle. Intercepted.
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Speaker 1: Intercepted this time. And racing out of the end zone,
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Speaker 1: Xavier Watts. He goes down, slides to a stop at
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Speaker 1: the 20, Atlanta football. And the Atlanta Falcons, as time
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Speaker 1: winds down, score a 35-14 win over the Packers.
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Speaker 4: And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, a montage
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Speaker 4: that we won't ever have to listen to again after today.
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Speaker 4: Welcome in to Fire Your Agent Friday on the huddle,
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere in
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Speaker 4: the iHeart app, streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube. Drew
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Speaker 4: Olson from Stately Olson Manor, where I was dropped off
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Speaker 4: by my limo driver, William Schmid, just about two hours ago. William,
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Speaker 4: good morning.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: It still doesn't make much more sense. And yeah, you're right.
3:18
Speaker 2: Fire Agent Friday, Burn the Tape Friday. Luckily, we get
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Speaker 2: to run through it one more time before we put
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Speaker 2: this thing into a drawer, all the way back of
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Speaker 2: that drawer, light that drawer on fire, and then try
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Speaker 2: to figure out what the heck you're going to do
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Speaker 2: for the next 14 weeks and try to figure out
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Speaker 2: how to bury that one. Because, Drew, that one was
3:38
Speaker 2: about as ugly as I've ever seen and we've ever
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Speaker 2: witnessed up there at Lambeau last night in the opener.
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Speaker 4: Certainly the worst home loss of the LeFleur era at
3:47
Speaker 4: home for the Packers. It was brutal. 35-14 didn't seem
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Speaker 4: that close. Armand put the montage together. Armand presided over
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Speaker 4: the Packers radio network last night. Armand, did you sleep
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Speaker 4: at headquarters? Did you find yourself a nice Steinhafel's lounge
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Speaker 4: to sleep in?
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Speaker 1: I did. I did.
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Speaker 3: I got a little bit of shut eye on one
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Speaker 3: of the couches here. You know, I had my trusty
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Speaker 3: Packers blanket all excited to kind of curl up with
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Speaker 3: dreams of football glory after a 2-1 start to victory,
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Speaker 3: and it didn't go that way. unfortunately, but, uh, here
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Speaker 3: we are guys trying to make sense of it all and, um,
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Speaker 3: bury it.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Was that, was that Tony Sperano? Who was the Raiders
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Speaker 3: coach that tried to bury the football after their own
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Speaker 3: four start? And it was kind of like, they couldn't
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Speaker 3: bury the hole and it was really kind of cheesy
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Speaker 3: and it was kind of a disaster. This was like
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Speaker 3: 10 years ago. I kind of remember that. I'm like,
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Speaker 3: maybe I should go out back and try and bury
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Speaker 3: my headphones or something like that. I don't think that'll
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Speaker 3: really work, but, uh, yeah, one to forget for the Packers. And, uh,
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Speaker 3: Leaving everyone questioning where, what, why, and how, and what
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Speaker 3: next for this Packer team as a couple of YouTube comments.
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Speaker 4: Those are the things we're going to address today.
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Speaker 1: Where, what?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think we all know why and what.
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Speaker 2: You got a pretty good idea.
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Speaker 4: We know where, but how and where do they go
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Speaker 4: from here? Hard to answer. What a weird day, because
5:01
Speaker 4: you got the Brewers hitting a crescendo. at the end
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Speaker 4: of the season of excellence that they've never touched before
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Speaker 4: a hundred wins, they get their hundredth win. They wrap
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Speaker 4: up home field as soon as possible, basically with a
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Speaker 4: Dodgers loss. So they have home field throughout the world
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Speaker 4: series and the NLCS and they will be, you know,
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Speaker 4: they have three games at home to kind of just,
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Speaker 4: you know, relax, unwind, get ready, get ready for their
5:32
Speaker 4: extended time off and then begin the playoffs and And
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Speaker 4: the Packers, the playoffs are the farthest thing from their
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Speaker 4: mind right now. Winning a game and putting together even
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Speaker 4: a half of reasonable football is something that's been eluding them.
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Speaker 4: So it's quite the contrast that we have. But Packers
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Speaker 4: lose now. I'm wondering, how many members of the 5
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Speaker 4: o'clock club made it to the end of the game
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Speaker 4: last night and made it to the end of the
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Speaker 4: postgame show, Packers OT, that Billy and I did? Because
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Speaker 4: our first text, it would appear, came from Joe and P.
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Speaker 1: Walkie.
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Speaker 4: There you go, Joe. On the NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 4: He hit us up at 4.57 before we even came
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Speaker 4: on the air. 4 o'clock club today because I can't
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Speaker 4: wait to hear what you guys have to say. We
6:19
Speaker 4: appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe.
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Speaker 4: Ryan and Muskego didn't like Armand's montage. Why, Armand? Why
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Speaker 4: are you giving us this torture again? Brewer's clips would
6:26
Speaker 4: have gone a long way this morning.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll bring some Brewer clips, too. We'll get to that.
6:30
Speaker 2: I like that you poked the bear early and come
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Speaker 2: back with the good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 2: Listen, they say good news of the bad news. Give
6:37
Speaker 2: me the bad news first. Let's eat the vegetables first
6:39
Speaker 2: so we can have the dessert in a little bit.
6:41
Speaker 2: I like that deal. I like that planning.
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Speaker 3: I want to get everyone, like, crescendoing into their day
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Speaker 3: more positively. So if we bring the good stuff later
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Speaker 3: on in the show, we'll get the vegetables out of
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Speaker 3: the way first, right? I mean, that's kind of what
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Speaker 3: it is at some point.
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Speaker 4: So that was a... I mean, Billy and I, I
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Speaker 4: was flashing back, and the thing that kept going through
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Speaker 4: my mind as we watched that unfold last night, the debacle,
7:03
Speaker 4: was that for the Packers, I don't remember a time
7:05
Speaker 4: when everything that the Packers did looked hard. Like Danny
7:12
Speaker 4: Whalen punted about a couple of times. I'm like, Oh,
7:13
Speaker 4: this is probably going to be blocked. I just said
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Speaker 4: that it was like that kind of night. And the
7:18
Speaker 4: last time we saw them get ragdolled like that was
7:20
Speaker 4: in December when they, when Derek Henry and the Ravens
7:23
Speaker 4: came to town and thrashed them. And it was like,
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Speaker 4: it was completely ineffective, uncompetitive and like, In some ways,
7:32
Speaker 4: like last night feels worse, maybe because we were not
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Speaker 4: as far removed from the Packers playing, you know, competent
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Speaker 4: and almost excellent football then as we are now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, the Packers did have some good games last year.
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Speaker 2: But it's also drew it. I think it even speaks
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Speaker 2: more to just what one win and anything in the
7:55
Speaker 2: W column can camouflage and make you feel a little
7:58
Speaker 2: bit better about that. After that, after that Ravens game,
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Speaker 2: it was almost more so much more resolute because that
8:04
Speaker 2: was seven or eight days after. you had just blown
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Speaker 2: the lead in Chicago and believing that, all right, well,
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Speaker 2: the vision's probably out, but we still know kind of
8:14
Speaker 2: our lot in life. Let's just figure out a way
8:17
Speaker 2: to make sure that you're somewhat healthy and alive for
8:20
Speaker 2: these next couple of games. And they got beaten into
8:22
Speaker 2: submission and you felt even deader than you were before that.
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Speaker 2: And it was, it felt like more of a resigned moment.
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Speaker 2: The little bit of optimism and the excitement, the wind
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Speaker 2: in the sails for a W with a comeback and,
8:35
Speaker 2: four days and you're playing at home, get a little
8:38
Speaker 2: bit of a boost from the home crowd. Hopefully your
8:40
Speaker 2: young offensive lineman play a little bit better, maybe fool's
8:43
Speaker 2: gold to think that you're going to be able to,
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Speaker 2: or a fool's errand to think that you're going to
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Speaker 2: be able to run the ball against one of the
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Speaker 2: best run defenses through two weeks in the league. But
8:53
Speaker 2: certainly you're going to be able to operate a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And instead you get as good of a start as
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Speaker 2: you could have possibly gotten from through two weeks, your
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Speaker 2: best unit, which was your defense and a turnover on
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Speaker 2: the first drive. And as you pointed out against Minnesota
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Speaker 2: pointed out against New York and last night came to
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Speaker 2: fruition again, even drew when they get something good to happen,
9:18
Speaker 2: it's even more difficult because you're unable to cash in
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Speaker 2: and you're unable to play like the most basic complimentary football,
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Speaker 2: like scoring off of turnovers or 68 yard field flipping, uh,
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Speaker 2: kick returns that with two first downs, you're into the
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Speaker 2: end zone and you don't even have to go to overtime.
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Speaker 2: And maybe that has anything to do with the hangover
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Speaker 2: that you get last night. But it was a team
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Speaker 2: that came out relatively. I don't think flat was the problem,
9:50
Speaker 2: but once one thing went wrong, it felt like, Oh,
9:57
Speaker 2: here we go again. And that's a dangerous thing to
10:00
Speaker 2: feel in. I think the first and second quarter. And
10:03
Speaker 2: when that 55 yard touchdown run game, it was a
10:07
Speaker 2: blow to the jaw and the Packers had never picked
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Speaker 2: it up off the floor.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's, that's a great point, Billy. Cause they, they, they
10:13
Speaker 3: came out with a lead. Obviously they got the pick,
10:15
Speaker 3: they got the lead, they had the lead, but you're right.
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Speaker 3: You know, as soon as that Once again, you know,
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Speaker 3: just the worst time, third down penalty. It really changed momentum,
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Speaker 3: and then boom, right away they get you. And shame
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Speaker 3: on me for thinking our run defense.
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Speaker 2: I knew, yes, B. John Robinson is good. Both of
10:30
Speaker 2: the Robinsons are good.
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Speaker 3: But shame on me for thinking, you know what, maybe
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Speaker 3: our run defense is up to the task after what
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Speaker 3: I saw the first two weeks, which was pretty good.
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, so I guess there was maybe
10:41
Speaker 3: some fool's gold there to believe that.
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Speaker 2: Or, you know, obviously B.
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Speaker 3: John Robinson's top three, top one maybe in the game.
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Speaker 3: at that position, but you felt pretty confident at least
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Speaker 3: about what your run defense had done in the first
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks amongst all the other things you were
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Speaker 3: struggling with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We were extolling the virtues of Brees Hall and Allen, right.
11:03
Speaker 4: And yeah, Jets offensive line, which is kind of sneaky.
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 4: We were talking about that and the Packers bottled them up.
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Speaker 4: Gino Smith took care of them, but that is the,
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Speaker 4: to me, the most shocking thing about last night was
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Speaker 4: the collapse of the Packers defense, which had been And
11:22
Speaker 4: I'm wondering if it was a cumulative effect that, you know,
11:26
Speaker 4: they were on the field a lot in Minnesota. They
11:28
Speaker 4: were on the field a lot and played into overtime
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Speaker 4: against the Jets because the Packers only had 50 offensive plays.
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Speaker 4: They've been a three-and-out machine on offense, which is, again,
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Speaker 4: draining for a defense to not be able to catch
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Speaker 4: your breath and having to go back out there. Not
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Speaker 4: an excuse at all, but the time of possession last
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Speaker 4: night was 37 minutes. you know, 50 to 22.
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Speaker 2: Hell of an explanation though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It might not, it might not be an excuse, but
11:52
Speaker 2: it sure, it sure tells a story, Drew, because I
11:54
Speaker 2: want to say in two games. So in four days
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Speaker 2: you had nine combined three and outs. four in this
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Speaker 2: one and five against the jets. And that is, that's just,
12:08
Speaker 2: that's putting your defense in such compromised situations that they
12:12
Speaker 2: look as bad in the second half as they did.
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Speaker 2: Where again, we talked, I mentioned it on post game
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Speaker 2: last night and I'm still trying to wrap my mind
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Speaker 2: around it. They went straight up. team on you in
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Speaker 2: the second half. They ran practice. The ball didn't touch
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Speaker 2: the ground in the second half other than when they
12:30
Speaker 2: flipped it to the official after getting tackled and spotted
12:34
Speaker 2: the ball lined up and ran wide zone on you again.
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Speaker 2: No incompletions. The only time it hit the ground, it's
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Speaker 2: an illegal contact and they still picked up a first down.
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Speaker 2: That's a ridiculous finish to the game and I think
12:45
Speaker 2: some of it has to be the effects of just
12:47
Speaker 2: being on the field for so damn long inside of
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Speaker 2: one week. And unless you're able to get something going
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Speaker 2: on offense on first down there right now, the worst
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Speaker 2: third down team in football. I don't know that we
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Speaker 2: have for sure the stat, but I would struggle to
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Speaker 2: think that there's many teams that are better on first.
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Speaker 4: Down than them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got it.
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Speaker 4: And that's the key to converting third downs is getting,
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Speaker 4: you know, five, six, seven yards on first down, like
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Speaker 4: giving yourself the getting ahead of six. They're just off
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Speaker 4: schedule is the phrase that we'll use in the post game.
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Speaker 4: We'll listen to that. in a little bit, but we
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Speaker 4: in on the stream on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: A lot of comments already.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: A lot of comments already. I know people are going
13:30
Speaker 2: to want to chime in. Some are blaming Armin for
13:32
Speaker 2: going and talking on different podcasts, which I just don't
13:34
Speaker 2: think is fair. I don't think Armin spreading his wings
13:38
Speaker 2: and being a multimedia star and sensation is, is any
13:41
Speaker 2: bit of the problem. But I do believe that like
13:44
Speaker 2: when our friend boss Dobler said, it's going to be
13:46
Speaker 2: hard to carry the G with these fair weather Falcon fans.
13:49
Speaker 2: That is going to be tough, but he's in a
13:51
Speaker 2: tough spot. He's in Georgia, right?
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Speaker 1: Dobbs.
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Speaker 2: We understand that you're up for the, up for the challenge.
13:55
Speaker 2: Cause Dobler is going to be right there in the
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Speaker 2: Hornets nest. He didn't have to do it. Like our
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Speaker 2: friends in Minnesota who, again, we had a couple of
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Speaker 2: check-in with us last night on probably a long drive
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Speaker 2: back across the state last night. Sure. I think there
14:06
Speaker 2: were many though that got a, got a jumpstart on it.
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Speaker 2: You asked how many made it all the way to
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Speaker 2: the post game show. There probably would have been a
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Speaker 2: lot more carryovers and people that would have reached both
14:17
Speaker 2: sides of that Rubicon. If they would have stayed for
14:21
Speaker 2: all four quarters, but the home team didn't give them
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Speaker 2: any reasons to stick around last night. No.
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Speaker 4: So the, I guess today is a day to like
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Speaker 4: pick through it and assign blame, but there's blame everywhere.
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Speaker 4: It's like, We're in Oprah's studio and like, look under
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Speaker 4: your seats. There's blame for everybody. You get blamed.
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Speaker 2: You get blamed.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 4: Goody and the personnel guys. You thought this offensive line
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Speaker 4: was going to hold up. I mean, injuries happen. Baco
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Speaker 4: Buele out. They didn't expect that. Banks still out. I mean,
14:54
Speaker 4: if his past, if past is prologue, maybe they should
14:57
Speaker 4: have foreseen that and given themselves a little bit of
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Speaker 4: a buffer. They didn't. We talked on the postgame show, Billy,
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Speaker 4: about the guys they've allowed to walk away. Played on
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Speaker 4: the offensive line that like the John Runyon, even, you know,
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Speaker 4: Josh Myers, John Runyon, uh, Elton Jenkins, uh, Rashid, Rashid Walker,
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Speaker 4: any one of those guys would walk in and be
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Speaker 4: the best guy in the offensive line room right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But it would probably be the best performing one. And
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Speaker 2: even though, uh, I do believe at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, Jordan morning and still be, and will be
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Speaker 2: a better long-term option at left tackle than she is
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Speaker 2: or will be right now. I think the, the proof's
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Speaker 2: been on the tape that he would have been probably
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Speaker 2: a better option right now. Cause he's been performing decently
15:37
Speaker 2: well in Carolina. It's just drew in it's compounding with interest.
15:41
Speaker 2: We had a caller last night on post game show.
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Speaker 2: Good to hear from our friend, Charles, hanging out with
15:46
Speaker 2: us in Arkdale. Hopefully he hangs out with us in
15:48
Speaker 2: the morning too. Cause I bet he didn't early rise
15:51
Speaker 2: or early rising talent. Arcdale is hanging out with us.
15:53
Speaker 2: You don't live in our town without getting up early. Okay.
15:56
Speaker 2: The fact that they let Darian canard go at cutdowns,
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Speaker 2: not thinking that he would have been any better and
16:05
Speaker 2: or worse than Anthony Belton being forced in that position.
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Speaker 2: Cause I, again, they at least admitted to it a
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Speaker 2: little bit, the way that Adam, Adam Stenovich answered the
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Speaker 2: questions this week at the podium. Like, yeah, we kind
16:16
Speaker 2: of thought there might be some issues with, issues with
16:19
Speaker 2: Zach coming back. We, we, we plan that it might
16:22
Speaker 2: be a little bit Rocky. So he started moving Belton
16:25
Speaker 2: over there. Well, if indeed that was the case because
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Speaker 2: it's the best option. Okay. But they definitely let somebody
16:31
Speaker 2: who played a lot of football for them last year
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Speaker 2: walk out the door and felt pretty confident in doing it.
16:36
Speaker 2: So they've let a lot of snaps walk out the door.
16:39
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter how all of it gets graded out, Drew.
16:43
Speaker 2: Playing football availability is a hell of an ability. And
16:45
Speaker 2: right now it might make him one of the best
16:48
Speaker 2: guys out there for him.
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Speaker 4: It might be a better exercise for us at the outset.
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Speaker 4: Instead of assigning blame, like I said, it's for everybody.
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Speaker 4: It's a team sport, right?
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Speaker 2: It's a family buffet of blame here.
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Speaker 4: Never one thing. It's a family buffet of blame. But
17:03
Speaker 4: it might be better to just do the exercise of
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Speaker 4: who played well and is above blame. Matthew Golden, maybe
17:09
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, though he struggled as a blocker, and then
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Speaker 4: Danny Whelan. And maybe Trace Mack, because it wasn't his
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Speaker 4: fault that the kick got blocked and he didn't do
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Speaker 4: anything else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't Trace Mack's fault that the defensive tackle.
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Speaker 4: Was standing in his lap. And I guess, you know,
17:24
Speaker 4: Whalen put the ball down for him and the snaps
17:27
Speaker 4: were okay. So there's like four guys that didn't have
17:29
Speaker 4: anything to do with it. The rest of it shared equally.
17:33
Speaker 4: Matt LaFleur, you've lost your mojo, clearly. Like, where are
17:37
Speaker 4: these creative schemes that you're supposed to... You're not catering
17:40
Speaker 4: this offense to the personnel and the limitations that you have, clearly,
17:44
Speaker 4: because it's just... It's stale and flat and just ineffective.
17:48
Speaker 4: So Jordan Love, you're not lifting the team. You're not
17:52
Speaker 4: playing at a high level to help erase mistakes the
17:55
Speaker 4: way your predecessors did in many cases where Aaron Rodgers,
17:59
Speaker 4: he camouflaged so many mistakes. It's not happening with Jordan
18:02
Speaker 4: Love at this juncture. Tucker Kraft, back from injury, great story,
18:06
Speaker 4: great contract, great character guy, great locker room guy, team leader,
18:10
Speaker 4: not playing well, dropping balls last night, knocking off the rest.
18:15
Speaker 4: Probably the worst night he's had on a football field
18:16
Speaker 4: since he was about sixth or seventh grade.
18:18
Speaker 2: And the locker room, I would say.
18:19
Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people are very
18:23
Speaker 3: excited about what he said.
18:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can get into that, too, for sure. And then, okay,
18:29
Speaker 4: on the defensive side, the guys had their moments. But
18:32
Speaker 4: for the most part, for me, when I'm watching the defense,
18:35
Speaker 4: I'm focusing on the guys up front that don't seem
18:38
Speaker 4: to be getting it done. So Wayne Larry's going to
18:40
Speaker 4: join us, voice of the Packers, a little more than
18:43
Speaker 4: two hours from now. If you're a Wayne fan, set
18:48
Speaker 4: a reminder. Tell your friends. Because he has often told us,
18:52
Speaker 4: you want to watch a game. You want to know
18:53
Speaker 4: who's winning? Watch the trenches. Just watch the battles up front.
18:56
Speaker 4: And that's where games are won and lost. And the
18:58
Speaker 4: Packers got obliterated on both sides of the ball. Couldn't
19:02
Speaker 4: stop the run. Couldn't block for the run. I mean,
19:06
Speaker 4: when you rush for, what, 17 yards? Terrible. It's terrible.
19:09
Speaker 2: And they ran the ball 12 times. They handed it
19:12
Speaker 2: off eight. So they really ran the ball eight times.
19:15
Speaker 2: And if there's any other times that they ran it,
19:17
Speaker 2: it was because Jordan Love was just running for his
19:18
Speaker 2: life because he was hearing somebody yell for my job.
19:20
Speaker 2: Jordan Love!
19:22
Speaker 4: And one of the runs was a dump off pass
19:24
Speaker 4: to deflect it off a defender to Tucker.
19:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:26
Speaker 2: Which is the luckiest non pick six. I think you'll
19:30
Speaker 2: see in the first three weeks of the NFL drew.
19:33
Speaker 2: And you mentioned like the trenches, look at where Atlanta
19:37
Speaker 2: made their hay last night. They went behind Jawan Taylor,
19:40
Speaker 2: who is a good, but not great.
19:43
Speaker 3: Right.
19:44
Speaker 2: Tackle that they went and signed in free agency to
19:46
Speaker 2: pair with their all pro in Lindstrom, who's been there
19:49
Speaker 2: for a long time, and they ran behind him and
19:51
Speaker 2: Jake Matthews, who has not missed a game in 10 years.
19:54
Speaker 2: So they had continuity up front. They had a couple
19:58
Speaker 2: of guys to call upon, and they had the best
20:01
Speaker 2: player on the field last night.
20:02
Speaker 1: Right.
20:02
Speaker 2: I mean, they had the best player on the field
20:04
Speaker 2: last night. And once Robinson got rolling, there was no
20:08
Speaker 2: stopping him. And then all of a sudden Drake London
20:10
Speaker 2: joined the, joined the party and it took till the
20:13
Speaker 2: second quarter for him to get his first catch. And
20:15
Speaker 2: then he's like, Hey, let me, let me get a
20:16
Speaker 2: couple of more here. Michael, let me, let me see
20:19
Speaker 2: a couple more. Let me see that Southpaw delivery. Send
20:21
Speaker 2: this thing over here and I'm going to run rough
20:24
Speaker 2: shot on the slowest double move you've ever seen up
20:27
Speaker 2: and out. But dang, did he have CC and a
20:30
Speaker 2: blender on that one. That was a rough, rough tape
20:33
Speaker 2: to watch here in the early morning hours.
20:36
Speaker 4: We'll get into all of it. The good, not much.
20:39
Speaker 4: The bad, plenty. The ugly, oh, overflowing. And Armin used
20:44
Speaker 4: the phrase, fools go gold. And with this defense, we
20:47
Speaker 4: thought was improved and kind of got excited about some
20:50
Speaker 4: of it. I mean, they've been carved up now by
20:54
Speaker 4: Carson Wentz, Geno Smith, and Michael Pennix in his first
20:57
Speaker 4: game in a year.
20:58
Speaker 2: That's not a good trend.
20:59
Speaker 4: They're not looking good. This is not, uh, I thought
21:03
Speaker 4: maybe that, Oh, this would be a team that wins
21:04
Speaker 4: with defense and special teams. Well, that would have been
21:07
Speaker 4: the game to do. It would have been last night
21:08
Speaker 4: when you're not moving the ball. Well, and that didn't happen. 35, 14.
21:12
Speaker 4: They got, they got an extra couple of days. Uh,
21:16
Speaker 4: thankfully they're not playing the bears when they return a
21:19
Speaker 4: week from Sunday, they'll be going to Tampa and then
21:22
Speaker 4: facing the bears. Um, But it could get ugly in
21:26
Speaker 4: a hurry. We're going to talk about all things Packers.
21:28
Speaker 4: We have not forgotten the positive news that the Brewers
21:30
Speaker 4: won in Philadelphia. They've won 100 games. They have home
21:32
Speaker 4: field advantage. There's nothing left for them to do this
21:34
Speaker 4: weekend except put their feet up and enjoy themselves and
21:36
Speaker 4: have fan appreciation night and let Miz tune up on Sunday.
21:39
Speaker 4: So they're going to give us something to watch. The
21:42
Speaker 4: Badgers play tomorrow. Huge, huge game. One of the bigger
21:46
Speaker 4: games of the fickle era on the road.
21:48
Speaker 2: Big time game. in State College. And I think we're
21:51
Speaker 2: all going to be a little bit happier tomorrow night.
21:53
Speaker 2: We need that.
21:54
Speaker 4: Big time game. We're going to talk about all of this.
21:57
Speaker 4: We'll take your thoughts. 877-794-1973. Wayne Leary is joining us
22:03
Speaker 4: in two hours. Scott Dolphin will join us an hour
22:05
Speaker 4: from right now. You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
22:19
Speaker 4: Rolling along the Friday edition of the huddle Fox sports radio,
22:22
Speaker 4: Wisconsin drew Billy and Armand bringing it to you. I'm
22:24
Speaker 4: at headquarters today. Cause I was just too tired to
22:26
Speaker 4: drive in. I damn near had my keys in my hand.
22:29
Speaker 4: And I said, I'm not.
22:31
Speaker 3: That's a tough decision. That is a tough decision. You gotta,
22:34
Speaker 3: you don't want to risk it.
22:35
Speaker 2: Power of technology is just a beautiful thing. If we,
22:38
Speaker 2: if we don't flex it, drew, then we're just going
22:40
Speaker 2: to lose out and waste it. Exactly. When you use it, right.
22:44
Speaker 2: We've got to use it.
22:44
Speaker 4: So when you're tired, It's almost like being impaired from alcohol.
22:48
Speaker 2: It's brutal.
22:49
Speaker 4: And I'm, I'm that tired. Well, and even now it's
22:52
Speaker 4: going to be worse at eight o'clock. The drive home
22:54
Speaker 4: would have been worse. Well, and I was a little
22:56
Speaker 4: bit like gauging a snowstorm.
22:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is true. It's kind of more like the
23:01
Speaker 2: forecasting of snow days nowadays. We're looking for when it's
23:04
Speaker 2: going to be worse. It's going to be right there
23:06
Speaker 2: in the middle of the day. So let's get, let's
23:07
Speaker 2: just get out in front of it. Like there's nor'easter
23:09
Speaker 2: that they're trying to nor'eastern that they're trying to for
23:12
Speaker 2: the baseball games with the Cubs and Red Sox. Let's
23:15
Speaker 2: get out in front of this thing. Let's play it
23:17
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit early. You had it right the
23:19
Speaker 2: first time, by the way, right away. It's nor'easter. They don't, they,
23:23
Speaker 2: even though I know you should say it right. Like nor'easter. No,
23:25
Speaker 2: it's just the art nor'easter. You had it, Billy. You
23:28
Speaker 2: had it right.
23:29
Speaker 1: Well done.
23:31
Speaker 3: Oh.
23:31
Speaker 4: Nor'easter with an apostrophe, right, Armin?
23:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, yeah. All right. But you're right.
23:36
Speaker 3: They're moving games around, and they might go to Tampa
23:38
Speaker 3: and all this stuff, and that's pretty crazy. But they're
23:40
Speaker 3: trying to get ahead of it, like you said, Bill.
23:43
Speaker 3: Just trying to get ahead of it.
23:45
Speaker 2: And getting ahead of the talking text line is not
23:48
Speaker 2: happening today because it is doing robust business early and often.
23:52
Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
23:55
Speaker 2: Robbie from Chicago had a good one here, guys. More
23:58
Speaker 2: to fellas. One thing to point out is as well,
24:03
Speaker 2: to point out as well, being a horrible game for
24:05
Speaker 2: Green Bay. It might be the worst game they played
24:07
Speaker 2: all season. Personal foul, roughing the passer penalty was a
24:10
Speaker 2: huge momentum swing, but even Jordan love throwing the football
24:13
Speaker 2: looked like it was lobs as he had very few balls,
24:18
Speaker 2: too many balls batted down. It's going to be a long,
24:20
Speaker 2: painful year. If this continues, the tough thing about the,
24:24
Speaker 2: the momentum shift that happened with the personal foul is drew.
24:28
Speaker 2: We talked about it in the Toyota turning point last
24:31
Speaker 2: night on post game. I mean, goodness gracious, when one
24:34
Speaker 2: thing goes wrong, that next play is the biggest haymaker
24:38
Speaker 2: of the game in the 55-yarder from Robinson. You think
24:41
Speaker 2: you're getting off the field, and again, with a 7-0 lead,
24:46
Speaker 2: defense playing well at that point. Sure, he's kind of
24:49
Speaker 2: roughed you up a tick, but he hadn't run for
24:52
Speaker 2: anything too substantial at that point. He had a couple
24:55
Speaker 2: of first downs, a really nice screen where they– Had
24:58
Speaker 2: Edron Cooper blocked perfectly. But other than that, you had
25:01
Speaker 2: held them kind of in check. But once that damn cracked,
25:05
Speaker 2: it broke quick. And I think that's still the scariest
25:08
Speaker 2: part for the love deal. We'll talk about it. And
25:10
Speaker 2: there's a lot of mechanics, police and footwork coaches online.
25:16
Speaker 2: He mentioned last night, though, Drew, he's a little bit quick,
25:19
Speaker 2: a little bit sped up there. We can't blame him.
25:22
Speaker 2: You can't necessarily blame him, but if they're going to
25:24
Speaker 2: get better, he's going to have to be significantly better,
25:27
Speaker 2: and he's going to have to be one of the
25:28
Speaker 2: biggest reasons. Just because you've got to rise somewhat above it,
25:32
Speaker 2: if you're going to be able to get the ball,
25:33
Speaker 2: going to move the ball at all, you're going to
25:35
Speaker 2: have to get the ball out super quick and be
25:38
Speaker 2: able to try and stay ahead of that rush like
25:40
Speaker 2: he was just mentioning there.
25:41
Speaker 3: Well, and there's a lot to ask a guy to overcome,
25:43
Speaker 3: you know, lack of running attack, lack of great protection.
25:46
Speaker 3: But James Jones said it yesterday at Packers preview. Actually,
25:49
Speaker 3: it was it was sort of prescient that he said
25:52
Speaker 3: it because he basically said. We're talking about all the
25:55
Speaker 3: problems the Packers are having, and that's true.
25:57
Speaker 2: But it was Aaron.
25:58
Speaker 3: Rodgers' job to cover up and erase all those problems,
26:00
Speaker 3: and he was great enough to do it time and
26:02
Speaker 3: time again. That's where Jordan Love has to rise to
26:04
Speaker 3: that level if he wants to be the guy that
26:06
Speaker 3: we want him to be and take the team to
26:07
Speaker 3: where he wants them to be. Eventually, he has to
26:10
Speaker 3: be good enough to be able to erase all those problems.
26:11
Speaker 3: all the other misfortunes of your team and cover up
26:14
Speaker 3: all those weaknesses. It's not, it's not maybe the fairest
26:17
Speaker 3: thing to ask, but at that position, you're going to
26:19
Speaker 3: be asked to do those types of things if you
26:21
Speaker 3: want to get to it.
26:21
Speaker 2: So it did. That's a, that's a good point, Billy.
26:24
Speaker 2: And there's a lot to sift through there.
26:27
Speaker 4: An embarrassing night all around for the Packers. And again,
26:30
Speaker 4: it's easier to go through the list of guys who
26:32
Speaker 4: played decently competently, if not well, like Matthew Golden and
26:37
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, everything's so out of sync and, you know,
26:41
Speaker 4: as Matt LaFleur has famously said, I don't think he
26:43
Speaker 4: said it last night. It starts with me. It does
26:47
Speaker 4: start with Matt LaFleur because all right, he's in charge
26:49
Speaker 4: of everything. And yes, there's nothing he can do as
26:53
Speaker 4: a coach. You know, Vince Lombardi, Curly Lambeau, you know,
26:58
Speaker 4: all the greats, Tom Landry, Chuck Knoll, Bill Belichick. Ain't
27:03
Speaker 4: nobody going to really take like Anthony Belton, who had
27:07
Speaker 4: a bad night and, you know, Jacob Monk, who had
27:09
Speaker 4: an even worse night and, Jagger Burton, who was shaky
27:13
Speaker 4: like rookies often are, they're not going to turn them
27:16
Speaker 4: into the four horsemen.
27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not all of a sudden going to see
27:19
Speaker 2: Jerry Kramer and Forrest Gregg rolling throughout.
27:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not going to happen. But the nuts and
27:25
Speaker 4: bolts of LeFleur's offense and his decision-making, everything he decides
27:30
Speaker 4: is not working. Like, oh, let's go for it. Oops,
27:35
Speaker 4: let's not. Let's check to a quarterback sneak and have
27:39
Speaker 4: the guy stand up with no tush-push. Nothing's working for
27:42
Speaker 4: him right now, but the designs, there were two, if
27:45
Speaker 4: not three plays last night where the Packers ended up
27:47
Speaker 4: with two receivers in the same spot, like Watson and
27:51
Speaker 4: craft on the near sideline almost collided.
27:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:53
Speaker 2: Danny ran into each other on the third down.
27:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:56
Speaker 4: And that's happening. Like when did that happen in the past?
27:59
Speaker 4: When I keep going back to, this is the same
28:02
Speaker 4: guy that designed incredibly creative run based offenses and and
28:08
Speaker 4: and was able to create gaps when malik willis was
28:10
Speaker 4: playing yeah on on short prep you know and just
28:14
Speaker 4: quick turnarounds and he had that game plan and when
28:16
Speaker 4: he when malik willis had to play and he had
28:18
Speaker 4: time to prepare it was like a master class where's
28:22
Speaker 4: that guy why aren't they letting him call plays because
28:25
Speaker 4: i guess like yeah but plays we don't want to
28:27
Speaker 4: be play calling guy but the plays that don't work
28:29
Speaker 4: aren't are you know sometimes sometimes you can call the
28:32
Speaker 4: right play it's it's like the old golf analogy, like
28:35
Speaker 4: you hit a great drive in the middle of the fairway,
28:37
Speaker 4: hit a sprinkler head and kicked into the rough sucks
28:40
Speaker 4: to suck. But I don't get the feeling that this
28:42
Speaker 4: is the case with the Packers right now. Cause it's
28:44
Speaker 4: like you say, is it scheme or is it execution?
28:47
Speaker 4: And you say, yes, yes.
28:49
Speaker 2: Cause not every, not everyone does crank off the sprinkler head.
28:54
Speaker 2: Some just errantly go, uh, rough to rough. And you're
28:57
Speaker 2: trying to figure out where on earth and how you
29:00
Speaker 2: can just, uh, Geometrically drop it right there into the
29:03
Speaker 2: middle of the fairway. That's what it felt like for
29:05
Speaker 2: the scripts for a number of years. The, the backers
29:07
Speaker 2: were able to do and get yourself cooking, get yourself
29:10
Speaker 2: some positive plays early to get yourself ahead of the
29:13
Speaker 2: chains and some momentum quickly. That's just been the furthest
29:17
Speaker 2: thing from what they've been able to do. And, and
29:20
Speaker 2: the other part of where it starts with Lafleur. And
29:24
Speaker 2: I think you're seeing more and more again, I'm I'm,
29:27
Speaker 2: there are many people that want to want to roll
29:30
Speaker 2: in here this morning and, and want to fire this guy,
29:32
Speaker 2: fire that guy. And, and I think we're all at
29:35
Speaker 2: this moment here at five 37. I haven't seen a
29:38
Speaker 2: ton of it because I think we all understand that
29:40
Speaker 2: it just isn't happening. It's not productive at this moment.
29:43
Speaker 2: There'll be plenty of time for that in full assessments
29:45
Speaker 2: as to where you're at. But now you're going to
29:49
Speaker 2: see while Hopefully being able to dial up and design,
29:53
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, creative plays that maybe are a tick
29:57
Speaker 2: above or a tick ahead of the rest of the league,
30:00
Speaker 2: finding things that you see other teams doing and being
30:02
Speaker 2: able to repurpose it and put it into your game
30:05
Speaker 2: plan coming up the next week. I think that's what
30:07
Speaker 2: he's always been best at doing. Now you're going to
30:10
Speaker 2: have to be that guy while also. teacher and developer
30:15
Speaker 2: because they have such a ways to go at so
30:18
Speaker 2: many positions, especially up front and, and whatever. And however,
30:23
Speaker 2: the process led them to sticking with Luke butt kiss
30:27
Speaker 2: in the off season as the offensive line coach sticking
30:29
Speaker 2: with Adam Stanovich as the offensive coordinator and not moving
30:33
Speaker 2: him back as the offensive line coach, not getting any
30:36
Speaker 2: fresh blood really in that process, the running back room,
30:40
Speaker 2: the offensive line room. They brought in Harry Heist. He's
30:43
Speaker 2: staying to work with them during training camp. But there
30:46
Speaker 2: just wasn't a shakeup at all for a team and
30:50
Speaker 2: a unit that was probably the lowest performing group that
30:53
Speaker 2: the Packers have had on the offensive line in a
30:56
Speaker 2: decade plus. So the other part of this that can't
31:00
Speaker 2: be overlooked, and while somewhat out of their control, might
31:07
Speaker 2: be maybe the– issue of how they proceeded drew in
31:12
Speaker 2: the off season to not be able to help the
31:14
Speaker 2: offensive line is the number eight issue. That is still
31:18
Speaker 2: kind of the cloud that we're not really fully talking
31:21
Speaker 2: about yet, because as much as a running back is
31:25
Speaker 2: not going to turn the worst offensive line into the
31:29
Speaker 2: nineties Broncos. What at least you can do is cover
31:33
Speaker 2: up for some of the warts. And you watch Josh
31:36
Speaker 2: Jacobs damn near get a thousand yards doing it last
31:38
Speaker 2: year where he got hit behind the line of scrimmage
31:40
Speaker 2: all the time. The lack of a consistent running game
31:44
Speaker 2: and somebody that can make these guys right at times.
31:48
Speaker 2: Marshawn Lloyd is a great example last night where I
31:50
Speaker 2: think ultimately turns into a third and three. The one
31:52
Speaker 2: that we mentioned on the fourth down where you get stuffed.
31:56
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs is burrowing his head inside, trying to grab
31:58
Speaker 2: as many yards. He get maybe the first down, maybe
32:00
Speaker 2: a fresh set, and maybe you're into the end zone
32:02
Speaker 2: and it's a three point game out of the break.
32:04
Speaker 2: But the hesitancy, the inability to make the guys right.
32:09
Speaker 2: That's something that when did this, when, when did that
32:13
Speaker 2: news pop up in May? And four months to be
32:16
Speaker 2: able to bring in some kind of adequate backup plan,
32:20
Speaker 2: knowing the commissioner's exempt list was not only a possibility,
32:24
Speaker 2: but a real option and likelihood. And said day of
32:29
Speaker 2: cutdowns or scrambling to get a second year back in
32:32
Speaker 2: for a conditional sixth round pick. So there's a lot
32:35
Speaker 2: of missteps I think they made in the offseason and
32:37
Speaker 2: miscalculations as to what they thought they would be up front.
32:42
Speaker 2: and just how much it's hurting every bit of the
32:45
Speaker 2: offensive operation so far. And you do need guys to
32:48
Speaker 2: play well.
32:48
Speaker 3: I mean, and it's not just to defend the floor,
32:51
Speaker 3: but you, you can call things, you can do things,
32:53
Speaker 3: but you know, Vince said it all plays work in
32:56
Speaker 3: the blackboard, but men make them work in the field.
32:58
Speaker 2: You need guys, good players to play well.
33:00
Speaker 3: I mean, even McVay had a five win year in
33:03
Speaker 3: 22 and Shanahan was six and 10 and four and 12.
33:05
Speaker 2: Yeah. Good coaches can have bad years if they don't
33:08
Speaker 2: have the right guys. Um, I think Shanahan lost his
33:11
Speaker 2: quarterback in those four and 12. That's what I mean.
33:14
Speaker 2: You've got to have players.
33:15
Speaker 3: Obviously, we're not in that situation to lose love, but
33:19
Speaker 3: we're loss key players.
33:21
Speaker 4: From the talk and text line, the 608, please ask
33:24
Speaker 4: Wayne Larravee, who's going to join us at 725-ish, 735 probably,
33:29
Speaker 4: why he kept saying that maybe it's because of the
33:31
Speaker 4: short week for the performance. He asked Larry, and Larry
33:33
Speaker 4: stated that it's not an excuse. He asked John Cooney,
33:35
Speaker 4: he stated it's not an excuse. Wake up, Wayne. The
33:37
Speaker 4: pack got butt whipped.
33:39
Speaker 2: This is what we do.
33:39
Speaker 4: No argument there.
33:40
Speaker 2: We go after the ones we love when the bad
33:42
Speaker 2: things happen.
33:43
Speaker 4: There's no argument there. But the stats, though, teams playing
33:46
Speaker 4: on Thursday after a Sunday overtime game are 7-29 against
33:50
Speaker 4: the spread since 2000. And at home, they're 3-11 against
33:54
Speaker 4: the spread.
33:55
Speaker 1: Not great.
33:57
Speaker 4: That's not a great trend. I think so. The overtime
34:00
Speaker 4: game hurt them.
34:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, just trying to make sense of what we've seen.
34:03
Speaker 3: It's really hard to, especially seeing what the Falcons were
34:05
Speaker 3: last week. They didn't come back and play that that way.
34:09
Speaker 2: You know, we were the ones.
34:10
Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's the tough thing to swallow.
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Speaker 4: The numbers are tough. It was just a brutal night. Thankfully,
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Speaker 4: the Brewers won. They reached 100 wins for the first
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Speaker 4: time in franchise history. They're headed to the playoffs after
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Speaker 4: a couple of days off. They have three games left.
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Speaker 4: Put their feet up and get everything right. Nothing left
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Speaker 4: to play for against Cardinals other than getting guys healthy
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Speaker 4: and feeling good. And Miz is pitching on Sunday. They'll
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Speaker 4: try to win as many games as they can over
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Speaker 4: the weekend series. Against the Cardinals. We have a report
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Speaker 4: from Hunter, don't we? A recap?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir. We got Hunter's report in here.
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Speaker 4: Well, yes, indeed.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 4: Let's spin through that next because we need a ray
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Speaker 4: of sunshine after all this Packers stuff. We'll spin through
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Speaker 4: that next, talk a little bit about the Brewers, and
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Speaker 4: then dive back into what is ailing the Packers and what,
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Speaker 4: if anything, can get it turned around. You're in the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Continuing the Friday edition, the fire
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Speaker 4: your agent edition of the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 4: 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. Everywhere in the hour to have Drew, Billy,
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Speaker 4: and Armin coming at you. Dolph will join us at
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Speaker 4: 625 for halftime. And then Wayne Larrabee shortly after the
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Speaker 4: 730-ish to talk to the voice of the Green Bay
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Speaker 4: Packers about what happened last night. But let's think about
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Speaker 4: something positive, shall we? How impressed are you by the Brewers?
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Speaker 4: Not just winning 100 games, but doing it and getting
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Speaker 4: across the finish line. vanquishing the Dodgers for best record
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Speaker 4: of ball and winning two out of three in Philadelphia
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Speaker 4: against a team with everything to play for and everything
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Speaker 4: at stake.
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Speaker 1: Amen.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that was a statement week to win two
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Speaker 4: out of three there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had every reason to, as we talked to
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Speaker 2: Hunter on Tuesday before the series started, Drew, look at
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia with everything to play for and you with very
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Speaker 2: minimal to gain and cash in, lose two or three,
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Speaker 2: especially after you lose the opener.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They, uh, they did not fold like a cheap suit instead.
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Speaker 2: They showed a lot of metal.
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Speaker 4: Now, how about what happened in the game with, uh, well,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure Hunter's going to talk about it, but William
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Speaker 4: Contreras gets pulled from the lineup by manager Pat Murphy.
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Speaker 4: We're not running hard on a ground ball that was
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Speaker 4: bobbled and he might, may or may not have been safe.
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Speaker 4: Murph has done this to several players this year. He's
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Speaker 4: removed pitchers in the middle of counts. He removed Cooper
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Speaker 4: Pratt who was standing on first base. He removed him
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Speaker 4: for a pinch runner for not hustling him when he
36:44
Speaker 4: should have been on second. He puts in Churio as the,
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Speaker 4: you know, kind of the pinch hit for Contreras, who
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Speaker 4: was the DH. So he just yanked him. And then
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Speaker 4: Churio hits a home run to help ice the game.
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Speaker 2: And to sit down McGill, right? Like not only ice
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Speaker 2: the game, but then send Antonio Sensatella out there to
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Speaker 2: get the final out of the 100th win. Beautiful chef's
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Speaker 2: kiss finish.
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Speaker 4: Murph has the mojo that Matt LaFleur is lacking these days.
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Speaker 4: Let's send it over to Hunter Baumgart to bring us
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Speaker 4: his recap of the Brewers. Victory last night.
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Speaker 1: Victory.
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Speaker 4: Number 100. Take it away, Hunter.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 5: I know we are not happy about the outcome up
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Speaker 5: in Green Bay last night, but an outcome we were
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Speaker 5: happy with, the Brewers beating the Phillies 5-1 in Philadelphia
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Speaker 5: and taking the series at Citizens Bank Park and most
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Speaker 5: of all winning. 100 games for the first time in
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Speaker 5: franchise history.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 5: They are 159 heading into the final weekend.
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Speaker 4: Of the season.
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Speaker 5: Get this, they are the first team in Major League
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Speaker 5: history to win 100 games without having a winning streak
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Speaker 5: of more than five games. Yeah, every team that had
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Speaker 5: won 100 games in a season in Major League history
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Speaker 5: had a winning streak of at least six games.
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Speaker 1: Brewers didn't.
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Speaker 5: They won five in a row, three different times, but
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Speaker 5: they never won six in a row So that's a
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Speaker 5: record and just really consistency, consistency, consistency, winning, winning, winning.
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Speaker 5: A couple of the key words for the Brewers and
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Speaker 5: win tonight. Brewers have done that more than any other
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Speaker 5: team so far. Brewers in a good spot heading into
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Speaker 5: the postseason. Three more games against the St. Louis Cardinals
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Speaker 5: this weekend. Robert Gasser on the mound tonight. Dustin May
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Speaker 5: on the mound tomorrow. Jacob Mizorowski on the mound on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: I would imagine it will be incredibly long starts, but
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Speaker 5: it won't be incredibly short depending on who is on
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Speaker 5: the mound. And they'll be able to kind of line
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Speaker 5: up their pitching however they want to. They'll have five
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Speaker 5: days off between this weekend and game one of the NLDS,
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Speaker 5: which will be Saturday, October 3rd. at American Family Field.
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Speaker 5: 100 wins by the Milwaukee Brewers. Let that sink in
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Speaker 5: on this Friday morning. Have a great weekend. I'll have
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Speaker 5: coverage throughout the weekend from the park at Hunter B
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Hunter. 100 wins is the mark excellence in
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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. You don't fluke your way. There's no
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Speaker 4: backing into 100 wins. 100 wins and 100 losses. Very
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Speaker 4: hard to achieve. The Brewers have done both. 100 losses
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Speaker 4: is their high watermark. 106, as a matter of fact.
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Speaker 4: And this is their high watermark, you know, 100 wins.
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Speaker 4: And with an option to get 102 or 103. What
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Speaker 4: an incredible ride this has been.
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Speaker 2: Drew, the craziest part of it is as you do
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Speaker 2: look at the round number that 100 is, the part
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Speaker 2: of the process, the show and the work of what
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Speaker 2: 100 has mentioned there of not having a six-game winning streak, whatever,
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Speaker 2: that didn't mean much other than the fact that they
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Speaker 2: just won a lot. It didn't matter when things... Similar
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Speaker 2: to what we're talking about with the Packers, when things
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Speaker 2: did go haywire, they didn't ride this roller coaster as
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Speaker 2: much as a lot of teams do. And they stunted
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Speaker 2: a bunch of them. They got a lot of mojo.
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Speaker 2: They got a lot of good leadership. And in the
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Speaker 2: midst there of 100 games, there were a couple of
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Speaker 2: seasons that were very forgettable for some of their guys
40:24
Speaker 2: that you would have planned on being their biggest actors.
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Speaker 2: Yellich's number would leave a lot to be desired. Most
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Speaker 2: money they ever spent on a pitcher. Nine starts for
40:33
Speaker 2: Brandon Woodruff didn't seem to matter too much.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's plenty of guys you probably would
40:38
Speaker 3: have figured that would have played a bigger role in
40:40
Speaker 3: something like this. Even a guy in the spring, maybe
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Speaker 3: before in the winter, Quinn Priester, we didn't pitch at all.
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Speaker 3: Guys like that didn't have the contributions, but you had
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Speaker 3: other guys step up, you had young guys step up,
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Speaker 3: and you had that mix.
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Speaker 2: It was just special.
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Speaker 3: A lot more fun than the 100 loss plus year.
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Speaker 3: I can attest to that personally.
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Speaker 2: A lot more fun.
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Speaker 4: I can as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, I did not enjoy Jeffrey Hammonds.
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Speaker 4: For Jackson Churio to be a 2020 guy missing a
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Speaker 4: month of the season. That whole, they never won more
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Speaker 4: than five games. That's quirky. To me, it's not that
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Speaker 4: meaningful other than the fact that George Webb never had
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Speaker 4: to sweat giving out free beer.
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Speaker 2: Never had to worry about it. Never had to worry
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 4: We never even talked about it.
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Speaker 2: We could win 12 straight now and I'd feel okay though.
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Speaker 4: What's their record though in series? Because to win 100,
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Speaker 4: their record in series is just through the roof. It's incredible. Well,
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Speaker 4: and what they've done is look at Mike Salo's game
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Speaker 4: notes because he lists that every time what they've done
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Speaker 4: in series.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one, Drew. And what they've done at home.
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Speaker 2: I mean that, that, that home road split is 52
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Speaker 2: and 26 winning legitimately double the amount of games at home.
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Speaker 2: Then you drop is a staggering number. I want to
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Speaker 2: win the series this weekend just to keep that number alive.
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Speaker 4: We'll take a quick break. You're in the huddle. Fox
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