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09/09/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Navigate through a hot take hump day we're celebrating and
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: basking in the glow of a brewer's walk-off victory over
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the cubs we're looking ahead to packers vikings we're uh
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: looking back at an epic night or slash early morning
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: in uh u.s open tennis very early morning a shocking
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: upset that ended at 3 30 eastern 2 30 our
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  Speaker 1: time which is an absolute travesty i mean that was
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  Speaker 1: A hot take earlier. We've got NFL football tonight with
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl rematch in Seattle. Patriots-Seahawks setting the stage
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: for Rams 49ers in Australia on Thursday. Setting the stage
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  Speaker 1: for our first foray of the huddle live at Pottawatomie
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  Speaker 1: Sportsbook coming up Thursday night, 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Getting you ready for Thursday Night Football. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to be there having a blast. All three of us
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  Speaker 1: in the annex adjacent. to the sports book at Pottawatomie.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: My wife asked me, she goes, so wait, like every
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Thursday night you get to go and hang out at
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: the sports book for the game? I'm like, well, maybe
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: for at least a half. It's work, honey, it's work.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: We're working. We have to be there for a little while.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: And then, I mean, you might as well see if
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: the first touchdown score bet hits. Yeah, might as well.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Might as well grab one of those Jameson green and
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: gold cocktails that they got rolling through. Make them, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Go find a way. We're going to be there every
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Thursday within reason other than Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve maybe.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: and the two times the Packers play on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, we're there. So just bank on it.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast, 5 to 7. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday morning on the show, we're going to give
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: you a phrase that pays. You can drop that on
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: us if you come and see us. And then you
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: can get a $ 10 gift card to use on the facility,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: on the premise. Maybe buy yourself a burger or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: while supplies last. So you got to be there early.
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  Speaker 1: Most importantly, Drew, the 5 o'clock club goes overtime. The
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock PM club, that's going to be a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Like our boy Jeffrey in Milwaukee was hitting us up
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  Speaker 1: earlier this morning. He hit us up late night, last night,
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  Speaker 1: right after the game. Uh, this is going to be,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to pay off to now be a double
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  Speaker 1: timer here on the huddle. I believe we're one of
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  Speaker 1: the first. Well, probably not. I've done no research on this.
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  Speaker 2: One of the first shows to be on at the
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  Speaker 2: same time and two and, you know, spinning the clock 5am, 5pm.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't beat that. I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 2: ask for much more than that. I mean, no, that's perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you are listening, online or on the stream,
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  Speaker 2: watching on the stream, anywhere in the world, you can
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  Speaker 2: catch us at 5 o'clock a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Or p.m.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be streaming that show, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we will be. You know, get everything working. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be doing that.
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  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie in Reedsburg is on line one, an actual real-life
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  Speaker 1: person calling us on the 7 o'clock show. Jamie, welcome
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: to the huddle.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, guys. Thanks. I just want to say after
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  Speaker 3: watching the game last night, I caught the last part
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  Speaker 3: of the game, but it reminded me of what the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals used to do, the Brewers, from like 08 to 2018.
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  Speaker 3: And it is so sweet to be on the winning side.
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  Speaker 3: And it is so fun that it's against the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just my take on it, that it's just
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch. And the Cubs just look lost.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. The Brewers are kicking sand in their faces.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. And we began the show, Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: quoting Pedro Martinez, at a certain point when you've had enough,
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  Speaker 1: when it's like no matter what you do, you put
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  Speaker 1: up runs against Miz, you have a lead late, you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you've set the table at a certain point, Armin. Hey, well,
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  Speaker 1: he put good pitches. I mean, what can I say?
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  Speaker 1: Just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddies.
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  Speaker 3: Pedro.
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  Speaker 1: I love Pedro. Brewers, my daddies. And how many times
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  Speaker 1: did we do that with the Cardinals to Jamie's point?
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  Speaker 1: A lot in that run. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good comparison. Drew, you also caught some smoke. from St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Cardinal fans earlier in the year when it was...
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  Speaker 1: They're a couple of years behind. I said they're getting better,
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  Speaker 1: but they're a couple of years behind the Brewers on
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  Speaker 1: the arc of the continuum of being a really good team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You also said in the beginning of it, like the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers right now are the organization the Cardinals used to
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  Speaker 1: be outside of the titles, right? Outside of titles, which
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  Speaker 1: absolutely is the first thing you acknowledge. still has to
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  Speaker 1: get there but for the regular season organizational strength and
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  Speaker 1: the expectation to do a little bit more with less
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  Speaker 1: and just be consistently pesky for nine innings and 27
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  Speaker 1: outs that's very much like how the cardinals under larusa
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  Speaker 1: would play and we know everyone's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna jump you know cubs have done this fans and
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: cardinals fans jump to the one thing what about world
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  Speaker 2: series where's your trophy yeah i get that.
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  Speaker 1: Divisions don't matter unless you're winning them then they matter
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  Speaker 1: yeah i It all matters, right? And everyone wants to
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: win a World Series. That's the ultimate goal. We want
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: to win one. That's the ultimate goal now for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't take away if you, you know, winning
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs is hard. And if you do it or
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: you don't do it, it doesn't take away the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the body work you have done. It doesn't cap
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  Speaker 2: it off maybe the same way as the ultimate prize.
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  Speaker 2: And that's understandable because that's what you play for. This
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  Speaker 2: is a different MLB than it used to be. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are more playoff rounds to get through. There is
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  Speaker 2: more variance in that result. That's just the reality of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I do the same thing to Vikings fans all the time.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: I throw up championships and Bears fans, so it's fair.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the thing, though. The Brewers, they're establishing a pattern,
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: and for this little tick here, they've been consistent. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't won the big one. They're coming off a
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: year when they went to the NLCS. People forget that,
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  Speaker 1: or does that not count because they got boat raced?
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, because they got boat raced,
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  Speaker 1: it feels different. It feels different. But in addition to
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: winning the division, what is this going to be? Four
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  Speaker 1: in a row? Four straight. And five of six in
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: non-COVID years or whatever? Yeah, in making the playoffs every
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: year since 18 other than 22. Yeah. And then this
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: last night marked the fourth time in a row they've
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  Speaker 1: won 90 games. It's only the 13th time in franchise
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  Speaker 1: history of 56 years or 57 years that they've won
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  Speaker 1: 90 games. 13 times in history. But four years in
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  Speaker 1: a row of winning 90 plus.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Impressive stuff. I'm just saying. That's a staggering consistent run
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  Speaker 1: that teams are just not seeing. The other teams around baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the only other team to be able to put up
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  Speaker 1: that many wins consecutively and consistently is L.A., Right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: LA and maybe the Yankees would probably be right there
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  Speaker 1: in the mix as well. But they've just been so
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  Speaker 1: consistently good over the last four years. And I still
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  Speaker 1: think the best part of yesterday, as much as the
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: shots over at Craig Council, are sublime. And Brewers TV,
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: I know it's Wednesday. I'd give a game ball to
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: every Brewers TV truck executive because all they've done Is
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: say dial it up more, more, more counsel. They have
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: fired that and press that camera six more times than
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  Speaker 1: I think they even envisioned or dreamed of being able to.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: And it's been hilarious. They're milking that cow. Nobody's milking it.
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  Speaker 1: But also now again. I think the biggest one is
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  Speaker 1: your two biggest arms, McGill and Mizorowski, at points yesterday struggled.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: That first inning, you could tell Miz was very frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: They jumped on him early and often. He was throwing
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  Speaker 1: every 104-mile-an-hour fastball he had in that right arm and
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  Speaker 1: limited the damage to one, and that was all they
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  Speaker 1: could touch. When they tap McGill for that kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard contact back-to-back days, he hadn't seen that, and that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't happened in quite some time. And for you to
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  Speaker 1: go back and win that game, that's as deflating that
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  Speaker 1: you can ever imagine. And I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad it happened in a way because McGill wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to continue that streak forever.
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  Speaker 1: Relievers eventually give up runs.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd rather it happen there than maybe get a
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  Speaker 2: streak going again and go into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way I look at it. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: get it out of the way. They've also now picked
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  Speaker 1: up McGill and Mizorowski. Multiple times. Twice in a week.
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  Speaker 3: Huge.
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  Speaker 1: Against the Cubs. Miz gives up five when they're there
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  Speaker 1: at Wrigley, and they end up winning at 9-5.
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  Speaker 2: Grant and Miz settled down after the first, so it
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be a really good start numbers-wise. But
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  Speaker 2: the thing is, you did have some trepidation in the
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  Speaker 2: first because it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Great start.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you pump 104, and you get PCA right away. Boom,
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  Speaker 2: right away.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. You're like, all right, he's on one.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Cubs peck away, and they get a
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  Speaker 2: run off you. It was a labor of an inning
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  Speaker 2: for him, but he got through it. Then he settled down.
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  Speaker 2: The important thing is the velocity was there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he got kind of like... because you're like, well, he's
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  Speaker 2: throwing 103. Why are they hitting him? But that's just
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  Speaker 2: the way it goes sometimes. MLB hitters can time up fastballs.
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: So it was great to see the Brewers pick up
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  Speaker 2: McGill and Miz bounce back and settle down. I think
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: those are the two things in the myriad of things
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  Speaker 2: last night that happened in that game.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Those are a couple of things you forget about.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: So I remember in 2011, John Axford had an amazing year.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: And I don't either blue zero or.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: One saves all year. Like he had an amazing year,
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: but I think he blew one, but he did. But
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: in game five, he blew it and the Brewers had
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: to pick it up and win. So sometimes it just
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: happens like that. So if McGill did it yesterday, so
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: be it. Maybe he'll get a new streak started now.
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: John Oxford's still rocking that mustache.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Good question. I would like to think. I know he
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: shaved the head, which was a sad deal for the
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Flow Bros. Yeah, but you know what? He had some
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: phenomenal lettuce back.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like if you're doing like a public appearance,
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: maybe when it comes back to visit every now and then,
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: that's when you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Put it back.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: It's like with Raleigh, that probably became a burden because
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: you can't just wake up.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: When you're tired. You got to wax that thing every day.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: You got to wax that thing up when someone sees you.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: It's not the same experience. It's like seeing a clown
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  Speaker 2: without his feet up.
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  Speaker 1: Or having a mascot talk to you. You don't want
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: to have that. Shout out to Ryan in Denver who
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: gave a, not a correction, just a little amendment, a
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: little drop in on the hot take of the Corbin
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Burns trade. That is looking more and more like the
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Brewers are winning, kind of going away. Yeah. Orioles got
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: one year out of Corbin Burns, didn't resign him. Now
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: he gets injured, sadly, with Arizona. Comes back last night.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: First start in 13, 14, 15 months from June of 2025.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Three innings. But you got D.L. Hall rolling out of
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: the pen now. Joey Ortiz, been one of your most
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: consistent hitters in the second half. And as Ryan in
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Denver points out, that draft pick that they also grabbed
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: ended up being Blake Burke. big power hitting first baseman,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Vol, who might be coming up here next year.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, like the way he has quickly ascended through,
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: everybody talks about the other Tennessee volunteer of Andrew Fisher,
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: rightfully so, with 46 bombs or something. Look at Blake
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Burke's numbers. They've been pretty damn good over there at
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: first base. Even a better little drop in. The Brewers
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: are kind of running away with that Corbin Burns trade.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: That's right. More and more you look at it. A
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Time for a little Who's Hot? Who's Not? Brought to
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• 10:51
  Speaker 1: that guy saying that the Seahawks and Patriots rematch of
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl tonight is overrated and we'll watch, but
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: it's a crappy matchup. That made Billy hot. Yeah, and
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: you know what? Drew Olsen was hot for calling it.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to get you. I'm going to
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: get you on this one. The more it seeped in,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: the more Billy's like, well, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a second.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. He waited. It's
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: the long offseason for the NFL and we're back now. Yeah,
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: and you're going to tell me that the matchup of
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl is not what you want to see?
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba just recently paid. Going up against
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez, most recently paid. Hot. In the loudest stadium
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: in the league, arguably, Lumen Field. And also hot, one
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: guy that went into Lumen Field and talked some smack
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: to that Lumen Field crowd. Baker Mayfield hot this morning, Drew.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, baby.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Three-year extension for $ 165 million now for Baker Mayfield. Quickly
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: went from... We're done talking. I'll see you in the offseason.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: I'll see you in free agency. Two, three days before
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: the season, all of a sudden, phone still on, answers
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the call. I don't care if you call me last.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: I got the call. And he just got a $ 55
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: million pay call from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That is
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: a hot morning. Gotta think he's happy about that. I
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: know some guys around the league could get more. But
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: the thing is, Baker Mayfield's one of those that has
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: always been kind of tough to determine. And he revived
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: his career in Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: And he's played well so uh you know not a
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: hugely long deal but three years is whatever three years
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: and he gets the guarantee money i'd have to think
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: he's happy about that now to get that done to
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: get that secured baker's buying dinner tonight the.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Other thing is you get three-year deal that means in
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: two years you can you can get out hit him
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: again there's an exit clause that means you can hit
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: him again and re-up when that thing uh doubles up
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: even more from the player's side of it Escape route, yeah.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: So he's now in the class of... Oh, I'm not escaping.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get more.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe escape the contract and get a new one,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: I guess is what I mean. If it's more from
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: them or more from somebody else, so be.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: It, you know? Baker's now making what Jordan Love does.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Right there in line. Right at that line. Because him
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: and Darnold basically took a copy and paste contract when
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: he went to Tampa and Darnold went to the Seahawks
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: of like three years, $ 100 million. We'll see. Who are
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: the top guys? Is it Dak and... Well, Goodell. Mahomes. Well, Goodell.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Goodell would be the number one. Dak is the highest
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: paid quarterback in the NFL. It's $ 60 million guaranteed. He's
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: getting every dollar of that one. Mahomes just got reworked
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: this offseason to, I think, this year he's getting 64.
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  Speaker 1: So he would probably be the number one guy here
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  Speaker 1: this year. But, like, the way the logistics will fluctuate
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: with it, his might be a little bit different. Coming up...
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  Speaker 1: In two years, I'm like, there was a run where
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: he was like the 15th highest paid quarterback. But this year,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: he'll end up being the highest, just over 63, 64.
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  Speaker 2: And then right there by Dak at 60. And then
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen's at that line with Baker.
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  Speaker 1: The same one. I think Josh Allen's getting 55. There's
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys right there at 55. And they're
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: all 255 in a different way. In a different... Sure.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: mechanical mechanism to be able to get them to that 55.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Some are guaranteed, some are different. I'll take it personally.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Your boy Trevor Lawrence, 55.
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  Speaker 3: Oof.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: A lot to pay for him.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: A lot.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Guy just won 13 games.
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  Speaker 3: A year ago.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I know. I was just triggering you there. That was
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: just dirty work by me. Nasty work. I don't know.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: He's good. I'm not saying he's not good. I'm not
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: saying he's not good. Really good coach. Really good coach.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: And Dak Prescott 13-1 to win the MVP. Just saying.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: All right, so who's hot, who's not? Yeah, also who's hot,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Jackson Churio, forehead night. We already knew that. Who was
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: looking like he was going to be very much in
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: the not category, Drew, was last night's hero, Luis Lara,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: until Nestor Corridor translated that little tap on the chest
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: from Murph, tapped him on the chest, fires himself out there.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Who is not hot would be your boy, Jacob Webb.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Jacob Webb, closer for the Cubs, has given up a
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: home run. in three straight save appearances drew was the
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: stat that you read earlier on yeah i think that
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: was maybe on the air or off the air yeah
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: and the epitome of brutality for one jacob webb as
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: he surrenders the home run that ties the game blows
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: the lead uh in the ninth inning and he said
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: it after the game a described dejected webb said i'm
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: tired of letting the team down to be completely honest
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you know It's pretty tough to watch every time I
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: give up a homer. Man, I love that. It is
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: pretty tough. It is pretty tough. It's tough for everybody
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: in the dugout. It's not tough to watch on this side.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Cubs bullpen not hot. Ranks 23rd in ERA since mid-August,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: while giving up 16 home runs in that span. Second
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: most in all of baseball. Most expensive relievers are on
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: their injured list, while Daniel Palencia still works his way
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: back from All of the injuries that he's been dealing with.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: So who's hot? Who's not? Brewer's hot. Donovan Jorgensen.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 15:52
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  Speaker 1: You are enjoying the huddle on a hot take hump
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: day in the good land on Fox Sports Radio. It
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: looked like a big swagger. You kind of looked in there,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: dug out. What was going through your mind as you
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: were walking to the plate? Like I said before, I
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: like to play with that pressure. That adrenaline makes me
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: feel better. And thanks to that, I was able to
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: get that bat.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Well, like I said before, I like to play with
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: that pressure, I think.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: The pressure.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: I think the adrenaline takes my game to another level. So,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: you know, thanks to God for good, solid contact there
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: on that swing.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Luis, what do you guys think when Jackson's coming up
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: in a big moment? What are you guys thinking when
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Jackson's coming up in a big moment?
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: To be honest, I've never.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: To be sincere with you, I was left in shock
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: there in that moment. I don't think I've ever felt
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: the feelings that I was feeling whenever he hit the
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: homer there. So just very impressive, you know, what he's
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: able to do. And yeah, that's something that I think
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I'll remember for a long time in my career.
• 17:29
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• 17:37
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• 17:40
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• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a half until the solstice, correct?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: That's right, Billy. We still got a little bit of
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: time left. Still a little bit of time for those
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• 18:15
  Speaker 1: anybody other than Jackson Churio? It should be Churio. Right,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: like it has to be. For the throw, D.L. Hall,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: for his contributions, Yellich for the... hit that sparked. For
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: keeping it rolling. Keep the night alive and passing the baton.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's Churio. Christian Yelich, like every great party
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: needs one guy that walks back to the fridge and says,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: one more? Yes, indeed. One more at bat, and then
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: one more comes, and then Jackson Churio steps in. And
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of people mentioning it on the
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Talking Text line. You could see his demeanor walking into
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the batter's box. He felt like he was going yard.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He was either going to hit it out of the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: ballpark or Or he was going to fall Carlos Gomez
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: style with one of the hardest swings you've ever seen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Because he was swinging for the fence early and often.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And his confidence in the box right now is insane.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: No pause. That's a dangerous dude stepping in with a
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: bat in his hand right now. My runner up for
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: superhero of the day behind Jackson Shurio is a fellow
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: named Jacob Coxon. What's up, Coxon? 12 hours ago, he
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: posted on the X, I resigned from Anthropic today. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: spent the last three years doing pre-training research at both
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: There we go. Oh, boy. That's a nice thing to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hear on a Wednesday morning. Do not underestimate the power
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress. in
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: each of these domains. Progress is not slowing. The people
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: building AI earnestly believe that it could kill all of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: us by the end of the decade.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Why do we want that? This is not a marketing stunt.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: phrasing in the press to sound sensible, but I hear
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the same people express fear privately. No other human activity
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: poses this level of danger.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want that. I don't want that in
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the world. I don't want all of us to die
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: in 10 years.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. It makes you want to go
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: play with your kids, right? I mean, come on. A
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: common response is, if they truly believe this, why are
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: they still building it? At OpenAI, many have not deeply
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well understood,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: but they're locked in a race to get there first.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: They believe no one else will act responsibly, so they
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: must do it themselves despite the risk. Got to keep pushing.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Accepting this race and entering the endgame is Hugh Brister
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Gamble and should not be launched from a private company, Slack.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Attempting to speed gun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: there are no better trajectories available. And he's a superhero
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: just for posting this and getting people talking about it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: But there are experts who say we have like 10
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: years left before the.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: The AI robots start the end of the civilization.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I guess there's only one thing left to do. Win
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Win the whole thing, baby. The conversation
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: around AI is like... And most people don't realize how
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: warped it is. And you wonder why all these tech guys...
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: are doing what they're doing. Some of them are end
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: gamers anyway, but they're building bunkers and stuff and starting
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to think about surviving. Sounds like the 50s again. Exactly, Billy.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: What good is a panic room if they know how to,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: these AI robots. They're trying to figure out how to.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: They ask you like, is it alarmist or real? And
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: if it's real, why are we building this? And if
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: it's alarmist, what are we, I don't understand.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: It's becoming Frankenstein's monster. We could cure cancer in 10
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: months and be extinct in 10 years.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I did read that it solved some math problem, though,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: that we hadn't solved.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Guess what?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't stay up late worried about the math problem
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: getting solved. I mean, it's cool that someone solved that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: math problem, but like Will Hunting style. But like, hey,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't need that done. I do need us to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: survive as a civilization. So that would be good if
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: maybe we just said, let's pump the brakes here and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: focus on, I don't know, making a new candy or.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Something like that. I don't know, whatever.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I just, it's a lot to wrap your head around.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if this guy's being alarmist or not.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The thing is, well, he's being an alarmist. He's pulling
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the alarm, but- Trying to sound the alarm on it, yeah.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It's worth reading. But then, as someone pointed out, the oversight,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: because we did a good job overseeing social media sites, right?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Didn't we?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: We did a pretty good job. Yeah, right.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Let me know. Now we realize how screwed up everything
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is because they went unregulated. My Twitter account gets back.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The Senate Committee Responsible for Commerce and Technology Policy has
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: zero hearings on AI scheduled for the next four months.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Their top priority right now is to protect College Sports Act.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Come on now. We got to make sure that we
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: figure out how we protect our young people. Make sure
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the SEC stays together. Or not. Maybe they're trying to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: throw the power into Greg Zangie's hands. Hey, man, how
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: about you kick LSU out? And by the way, we're
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: going to give you the power to this AI.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Billy, give me your hot take you gave me during
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the break about what LSU should do.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think they should become independent. I love it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: If they're going to expel me, I'm going to say, sweet,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be an independent. And I'm going to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: rival Notre Dame as the most exciting and outward independent
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: of all time. Everyone's going to want to schedule us.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Everyone's going to want to go to Tiger Stadium. I'm
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: going to go independent. I don't know that that's a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: super hot take. But that's if they get kicked out,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: which they're probably not going to. Although Paul Feinbaum did
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: during the commercial break. I heard him call the... President
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: from McNeese State, who's now the president at LSU. The
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: most incompetent president I've ever seen in my time working
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in college sports. That's always a fun one. That's a glowing,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: glowing recommendation and endorsement from one Paul Feinbaum right there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: That's a scary run. I'm excited that we're going to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: be able to watch football then tonight to at least
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: be able to enjoy it before it finishes us off.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's a scary deal. Hot take. The fact that Josh Jacobs'
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: hearing has moved up to tomorrow tells me that there's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: going to be a plea deal. Yeah, there's going to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: be some kind of resolution here pretty quick. And then
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL can go ahead and act, and then I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: think he'll get his four to six games, and we'll
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: move on. Because, Drew, I think it's pretty clear and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: obvious that they were going to need, that Roger Goodell
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: was going to need to have his eyes on that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: video before anything was done. There's not going to be
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: any decision made until he sees that video. And if
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you're the prosecution, why would you let it out until
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we go to trial?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: So, like, I.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It does pay to be a pro. There's not a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: whole lot of court cases that generally get moved up
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: unless there's a reason for it. It pays to be
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the running back of the Packers in that sense to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get this expedited. But yeah, I'm with you. I think
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: we're going to get a resolution pretty quickly. And then
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: we'll officially know how long it's the Marshawn Lloyd and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Caleb Johnson and Chris Brooks show. More than likely this week,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: very much the Chris Brooks show against this Brian Flores defense.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: That's what it's going to look like. Kind of blitzing
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that they're going to be bringing at you. We always say,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for. The whole let Jordan
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: cook thing. We run the ball too much. You know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: if you can't run the ball or. I was going
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to say, if you can't run the ball and you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: can't protect, it's going to be a tough, it's going
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to be tough sledding either way. Good piece out earlier
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: today about Jordan Morgan and the possibility from Spoon of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: how potentially healthy they can stay throughout the year. Because
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it's tough to know that we're going into week one,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and the biggest health concerns are already on the offensive
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: line with Zach Bacabuele and Aaron Banks' likelihood of either
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: being out there or not coming out on Sunday. There
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you go. Now, we were entering injury report season, where
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: we cling to the injury reports and the status of guys.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But the Packers did release their depth chart, and Bacabuele
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and Banks were listed as starters. Listed as starters. That
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, though. No, no, it means that they'll
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: be in there if they can. They're healthy, but, like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: bet the under. I still, I just, the Zach Bacoboele
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: one to me is there's just only a level of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: confidence that you can get with that injury with playing again. Like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I was on the, in Butchie's den last night, hanging
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: out with him on his Green Bay football primer. I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: going to go back and watch that. Butchie famously. busted
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: his patella and had mentioned, and I was talking to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: him about it. He said he got cleared drew at
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: nine months. And now you were past playing days at
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: this point, right? Way past playing days at this point.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: But when Butchie busted his during the plane, he's like,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I was cleared nine months and I was on the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: floor and I sucked. He's like, I sucked. And I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't myself until maybe 15 months post-op. And, and I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: think that's, Zach had mentioned it in the offseason that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: he wanted to be able to play somewhat in the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: preseason to be able to get that rust off and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: make yourself feel somewhat more normal. And instead, that's going
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to have to come against Andrew Van Ginkle and Dallas Turner.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Or it's not. It's going to come. Because if he's
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: not going to play this week, I got real news
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: for you. Hell no am I putting him on the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: MetLife turf coming up in week number two. So if
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: he's not playing this week, then the first time he
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: plays is at Lambeau Field on the Thursday night. The
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: whole thing about get your five best out there. Is that,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is it superseded by the need to have like five
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: guys who play together and have the chemistry and the,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you know, the relationship? Is that, because it's like, let
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: him be the swing guy and start Jagger Burton or whatever,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: whatever you're going to do.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Like commit, like, I don't know. I keep flashing back
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to last year when they were, playing, what's his name,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: at left tackle. Oh, when they brought Rashid. Rashid Walker
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in at left tackle. They bring up Rashid, and it's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like they had a better option, and they didn't go
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to it. No, and they were trying to move Jordan
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Morgan everywhere other than just playing him at left tackle.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: They would have been better served last year to put
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Jordan Morgan at left tackle. I will die on that hill. Well,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and I hope that he proves you very, very right
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday. I think he will. I have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: confidence in that spot. But I'm just saying, like, what...
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Is Banks worth waiting for is what I'm saying? Or
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: do we just like start the, you know? Start the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: rookie and let it roll. Start the rookie and just
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: start the meter on him rather than like, oh, we'll
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: let this because I'm getting flashbacks to Rasheed and Jordan Morgan.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: You might get your hand forced at the point. I
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: do believe the buzzsaw of US Bank Stadium is part
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of the reason why they would be a little trepidatious
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: with starting them. Now, granted, he played in the SEC.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It's not like he hadn't played in big-time environments, right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He played big road games. But that is one of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the loudest spots of all time. It's a brutal rush.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That might be the only thing. Because I would be
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: with you that, in all reality, getting more opportunity for
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Jagger Burton to play than trying to cling on to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the value of the Aaron Banks contract, the juice probably
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: ain't worth the squeeze. The interesting part with Anthony Belton
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: going out to right tackle and basically staying there after, what,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: week number one of camp, when it was pretty clear
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: he wasn't going to be the starting right guard, I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think some of that was behind closed doors, them trying
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to hedge the bets on Zach being healthy and say,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: let's make sure that this dude is ready, is prepared.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Didn't look great in preseason, but that was now two
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and a half weeks ago. Hopefully, it continues to get
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit better because it's going to have to.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: natural tackle, we took him in the second round to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: play tackle, we're going to put him out to the Wolves,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and that one might be, that's going to be the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: feast or famine spot, because I think you can make up,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay inside, right tackle is the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: one where you are in a massive question, if Anthony
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Belton is right there at right tackle, unless they know
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: something that we don't, and they like something a lot
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: more on the film, because Drew, they knew all this
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: when they cut Darian Kennard. yeah that's a good point
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: like they knew all of these concerns at right tackle
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: were a were a possibility and were a real deal
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: when they cut him two weeks ago and he played
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of football for you a year ago so
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: i think they they got more confidence maybe in anthony
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: belton than all of us do but i think we
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: all right now are having more confidence on the left
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  Speaker 1: side and uh Let's get somebody next to Jordan Morgan
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to play with for a while. A
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: couple of YouTube comments. Xavier Gaucha.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of pessimistic ones. He said, long season for
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the pack, maybe a short one for love. I don't
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: know what that, maybe because of the offensive line. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: don't mean that he would get hurt. Yeah, with the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: And then he has government is fully complicit. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's an AI take or he thinks they're complicit.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I think that's definitely an AI take. He loved being hurt.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Who doesn't? Everyone does.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Eddie from Dallas said, what's up, guys? I need
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: a big greasy breakfast to cure this hangover.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you're in luck.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is Wednesday, which means the Canal Street
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Cafe's got.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: The buffet today at Pottawatomie. Giddy up. So if you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: want to go down there. That means it's Club 50 today, too. Okay,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: let's go. Club 50 goes up for the folks at
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Pottawatomie today. Actually, I think my wife said that might
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: be lunch today. Now we're talking. Can't wait until Friday.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Now we're talking.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Check out the location for tomorrow, Billy. Let's scout out
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the annex a little bit. Make sure the table's ready.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: We're there tomorrow night. You might as well, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: prime the pump. Well, I might as well have some
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: kind of winner for us to cash out tomorrow. That's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I might as well get us prepared. We've got winners, winners, winners.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: We've got 10 years left, so we'll get to get
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: some winners. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: If AI is going to kill us in 10 years,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: can it at least help me win a freaking touchdown
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: parlay this year? I'm saying exactly. Might as well just,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you know. Instead of bankrupting me worse than my own takes.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: All right. 877-794-1973. We've got wake and bake shenanigans up
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: next and some last minute hot takes. Get them in
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: for us. This show is flying by because the Brewers
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: beat the Cubs and football starts tonight and all is
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: right with the world. Make no mistake about why they're
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: going over there. They want some of those cats that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: are wearing those real short shorts playing Australian rules football
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to be playing American football. More and more of those
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: international exempt practice squad guys are coming from Aussie. We
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: want to see those cats. No longer are they only
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: getting punters from Australia. They're getting full grown mammoths coming
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: over from New Zealand and Australia. And the Aussie rules
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: football is a real deal. A lot of the 49ers
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: players were able to see it. And, you know, you
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: want to talk about waking and baking? You know who's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: not waking and baking right now? Well, maybe they are.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Waking to some baking. Okay. On that beautiful long flight
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: from LA to... Well, I meant like actual pig bacon. Oh,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. Bacon. Now, maybe they're baking
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: something in that microwave as they're firing up some cross
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: at Pacific Ocean flight. They're still in the air. Like
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: they're maybe half, maybe a third of the way through
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the flight. You can track it. I mean, you can
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: track it. That's a long, long flight. They posted seven
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: hours ago. The Rams did off to Australia. So they
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: were just posting the videos and people walking onto the flight.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: That's a 16-hour, 17-hour flight. It's long, man. So right now,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they're waking up realizing they still have a full workday
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: ahead of them in the air before they land some 25,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: 30 hours away from playing. It's a weird thing, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: whoever wins this game.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: The result of this game.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Is going to be the process will be justified or
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: not justified, even though it might not matter in reality.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: People are going to justify the process of the Rams
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: getting there early and spending time there or the Niners
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: who are making this a quick work trip and all
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And it's pretty interesting how to slice and
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: dice the result of this. I fully believe the Niners
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: being there for a week will help them in week one.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: It'll definitely help them in week one. I think it'll
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: be more difficult in weeks two and three, right? But
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: like what the Rams are doing, Drew, I think is
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: definitely going to hurt them in week one, but I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: think it's probably going to benefit them in the next
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: couple of days. Does that make sense? Maybe it does.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe it, maybe it messes them up even worse than
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the jet lag that they would have had. Right? Like,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, the- Yeah, it's a great one to wrestle with.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And they're going to be in the- Can't know. In
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: 72 hours, they're going to spend over 30 hours in
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a plane.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Play a football game and then come back.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: But a lot is made of, like, what's better and
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: what's not, the mental process.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard both ways about it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Like, do you want your guys to have the mentality,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: if it's a business trip, get in, get right back
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: on the plane, get out as quick as possible, spend
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the least amount of time there, make it a vacation
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: or acclimate- It's a great debate. I'm not sure there's
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: a right answer because there's a lot more factors than
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: that about who wins a football game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: There's a lot more factors. Yeah, and just because of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: when you came to the game and how that's not
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: going to necessarily affect too much of it, but the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: preparedness and readiness, alertness will. The other part of it is,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and this is something that I'll take to my dying grave.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it'll be something that I think
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: about in those final couple of moments. I hope I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: think of some more positive things than the Packers' 2022 season. Yes.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: But when they go to London, what was that? Week five,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: week six, week five, five, the international game was, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: they bypass the buy on the way back. Then they
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: get routed by the jets at home. They go on
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that five game losing streak and the season's basically a
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: wash from there. All they did drew from the day
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that it got announced in the early part of April
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to the time they played the game in October and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: was bitch and moan about going to the game. Just
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: complain about it. So like at some point, go over,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: enjoy it, make the most of it. If that, if
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you can, I think it'll be okay. I do believe
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: it'll be okay. And then come back and play some
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: football and then get ready for the rest of the season.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Like if they would have just done, I'm not just saying,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just listen to the quarterback, but they would have listened
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers done the week in London and maybe
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: gone to Buckingham palace. That's in London.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They would have went to the London Bridge, would
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: have gotten some beautiful tea and biscuits over at AFC Richmond.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: They could have had a phenomenal time and then played.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I think the Niners are doing it right. Maybe it'll
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: hurt them going forward. If they're going to get hurt, though,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I think they were going to get hurt because they're
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the oldest team in football.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's the reason, right, that they would
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: because of that factor, I think.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And the fact is, listen, if you.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Make it a big deal, if you tell your players
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and they feel like they're supposed to be tired and
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: overwhelmed and then they're going to feel that way. And
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers made a big stink about that, if you remember.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: It's like, we should have been there longer. We should
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: have not approached it that way. We should have actually
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: enjoyed our time. Would they have played better? Hard to say,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: but I don't know, maybe. Maybe they would have. It's
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: going to be interesting to see how different teams navigate this.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they've got data on it. I'm sure they're
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: analyzing it. Oh, they've got to have some, yeah. Yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: all these things physiologically and all these things are going
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to be analyzing the data and stuff like that.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: One last hot take of the day. It's a prediction,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but it's bold. From Mitch Goldich. Oh, come on, Mitch.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated senior writer. All right. His prediction is that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the NFC championship game will be played on a Monday.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Like this year? He has the two Los Angeles teams
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: meeting in the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium. But his
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: playoff bracket also created the NFL's worst nightmare. Perfect storm
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: where both LA teams need to host a conference title
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: game on the same day. Delaying the league's ability to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: begin prepping the Super Bowl field. In years past, the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: league has said that such conflict in L.A. or MetLife Stadium,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: hold for laughter, would result in pushing a conference championship
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: game to Monday. I think the league will have no
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: choice but to relent to this unfortunate year to do it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I spent more time than I care to admit thinking
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: about which game would get bumped today. Knowing the league
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: would probably love to have strong TV ratings for the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Monday experiment. In the end, I think because the Rams
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and Seahawks are both on the West Coast, it would
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: be more fair to delay that game an extra day
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: rather than risk the Bills having to fly in for
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the AFC title game. Then go home and have to
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: fly back across country with one day less of rest.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Even though a Chargers win would make that point moot. Bills, Chargers, Rams, Seahawks.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'd sign up for those two games. And so far
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: as the site. And so far as the Super Bowl. Oh, God,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that's hilarious. That would be some of the best drama
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: you could possibly have.