Latest / The Huddle / 09/15/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Dominating Tuesday in the good land. It's the huddle Fox
- 0:02Speaker 1: sports radio, Wisconsin, Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Sorry. And bringing it to you.
- 0:06Speaker 1: The first week of national football league, professional tackle football is.
- 0:10Speaker 2: In the books. Great feeling.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Are the Denver Broncos coming back to earth? Are they
- 0:16Speaker 1: going to suffer what the AFC runner up syndrome or tiger?
- 0:20Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't look ready for prime time last evening. No.
- 0:25Speaker 3: And, and Bo Nix looked like the one coming off
- 0:27Speaker 3: of a, a season ending game.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Injury.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Well, he was, but Pat Mahomes was the one that
- 0:32Speaker 3: we heard about all season off season long. And one
- 0:36Speaker 3: of those teams came with a whole lot of excitement.
- 0:39Speaker 3: And the other one I'll miss and tackles at the
- 0:41Speaker 3: 45 yard line. Letting Taylor Taylor's Kelsey run all the
- 0:45Speaker 3: way down the field here. Come on now, Travis Swift.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Goodness gracious.
- 0:48Speaker 4: Making me look dumb for taking their deep Broncos D
- 0:51Speaker 4: in my fantasy leagues, but yeah, missing tackles all night.
- 0:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 0:54Speaker 4: And for a guy that had his knee busted, he
- 0:56Speaker 4: did it with his legs last night. Mahomes did it
- 0:58Speaker 4: with his legs most.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Of the night.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Focused on Kenneth Walker and Mahomes, but the Chiefs D
- 1:03Speaker 1: looks pretty good.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Really good. Yeah. And a bunch of guys flying around
- 1:07Speaker 2: to me. It's like, ooh. They had in the first series, Mansoor,
- 1:11Speaker 2: the lane gets the interception.
- 1:15Speaker 3: They get to bust out Justin Fields acting like a
- 1:19Speaker 3: running back at some point. They play with the toys.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Andy Reid knows exactly how to dial things up. And
- 1:26Speaker 3: I mean, they had two first round rookies. Peter Woods
- 1:30Speaker 3: looked as advertised last night as well. One of their
- 1:33Speaker 3: tight ends is a second-year player, Brenning Stone from Clemson
- 1:36Speaker 3: had a catch last night. So they're a factor, but
- 1:41Speaker 3: they're also a factor just because of that guy, right?
- 1:43Speaker 3: I mean, when Mahomes is playing again and being able
- 1:47Speaker 3: to do some of the things that, again, with the
- 1:49Speaker 3: arm last night, I think at one point he was
- 1:50Speaker 3: like three of 12 passing, wasn't phenomenal, but you feel
- 1:55Speaker 3: pretty confident they're going to get there. And that their
- 1:57Speaker 3: offensive line was all right, starting an undrafted rookie at
- 2:00Speaker 3: left tackle. Khalil Benson, last game he plays in is
- 2:04Speaker 3: the national championship game for IU. And then all of
- 2:08Speaker 3: a sudden with Josh Simmons being hurt a week and
- 2:11Speaker 3: a half left in camp, he gets to start a
- 2:13Speaker 3: lot easier to start at home than on the road.
- 2:15Speaker 3: We'll see if it's a little different when they take
- 2:17Speaker 3: that thing outside of Arrowhead. But goodness gracious. And Kenneth
- 2:21Speaker 3: Walker out gaining the Broncos all night long. That's getting
- 2:26Speaker 3: a return on the investment right out of the gates.
- 2:28Speaker 2: 170 plus.
- 2:29Speaker 4: You know, some teams talk about it and they are
- 2:30Speaker 4: about it. I mean, the Broncos, you know, we're going
- 2:33Speaker 4: to get Dobbins involved heavy this year, and so three
- 2:36Speaker 4: carries in the first half. Only 12 running attempts all night,
- 2:39Speaker 4: and they struggled. Waddle only had one short catch, but,
- 2:42Speaker 4: you know, you look at the Chiefs, and it's like,
- 2:44Speaker 4: all right, you think of the Chiefs as obviously, yeah, Mahomes,
- 2:47Speaker 4: high-flying offense through the air, but they're like, you know,
- 2:49Speaker 4: we're just going to retool. We're going to get Kenneth Walker.
- 2:52Speaker 4: We're going to focus around the running game, and they execute.
- 2:55Speaker 4: They just execute whatever they want to do, and they
- 2:57Speaker 4: did it again last night. And it looks like a
- 3:00Speaker 4: whole new kind of chief style, but it's whatever it is.
- 3:03Speaker 2: It works for them. They move the ball. They score points.
- 3:05Speaker 2: They win games.
- 3:07Speaker 4: And it was a little message they sent, I think,
- 3:10Speaker 4: last night as well.
- 3:11Speaker 3: To run the ball. They message sent Armin. It was
- 3:14Speaker 3: six to midnight for the run the ball crowd when
- 3:16Speaker 3: they go. Not one, not two, not three. But let
- 3:20Speaker 3: me see all four plays on the opening sequence runs.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Even out of four of the two, they're like, yeah,
- 3:26Speaker 3: let's bring in number 92, the defensive tackle to run
- 3:31Speaker 3: fullback and go full old school power, full.
- 3:35Speaker 2: House wishbone look.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Two lead backs for one Kenneth Walker and then see
- 3:40Speaker 3: if you can stop it.
- 3:41Speaker 2: They didn't.
- 3:42Speaker 3: And they put that thing into the Super Bowl MVP's
- 3:45Speaker 3: chest a couple of times, 23 of them to be exact.
- 3:48Speaker 2: And he was rumbling through.
- 3:49Speaker 3: The other part of the Broncos deal is last night
- 3:53Speaker 3: was the first night, Drew, that Sean Payton was not
- 3:56Speaker 3: calling the plays. He handed that off to his boy,
- 4:00Speaker 3: Davis Webb. You could see he was stressing on the sideline.
- 4:05Speaker 3: That's not an easy thing to hand over.
- 4:07Speaker 2: I give it.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I said the over under a week seven as to
- 4:12Speaker 3: when Sean Payton ends up taking it back. As you
- 4:14Speaker 3: could tell, he was not enjoying himself over there on
- 4:17Speaker 3: that sideline.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Especially if it doesn't work.
- 4:18Speaker 4: And how many times we've talked about this with coaches
- 4:21Speaker 4: that have been around a while successful, especially the offensive
- 4:23Speaker 4: mind and head coaches. When, you know, and we did
- 4:26Speaker 4: this with McCarthy and people, they did that for a
- 4:29Speaker 4: while and took it back. They ask it about the
- 4:31Speaker 4: floor when the operation starts to struggle. Well, shouldn't you
- 4:33Speaker 4: just give off play calling duties to somebody else? Like it's,
- 4:36Speaker 4: you know, just sweeping the floor. Like it's a no
- 4:38Speaker 4: big deal task. It's like, no, this is what they
- 4:40Speaker 4: want to do. This is why they do it. This
- 4:42Speaker 4: is what they, their whole, they feel that a lot
- 4:44Speaker 4: of their careers based on it is, is calling the
- 4:47Speaker 4: plays and they don't want.
- 4:48Speaker 2: To do it.
- 4:48Speaker 4: So I think you're right, Billy. We'll see how long
- 4:50Speaker 4: that lasts. Cause I got like Sean Payton.
- 4:52Speaker 2: You got to think.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Wants to get that control back a little bit. I
- 4:55Speaker 4: just remember when Big Mike took it away and took
- 4:57Speaker 4: it right back. It's just funny how that works.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Any other teams impress you?
- 5:01Speaker 1: And one of the things I keep going back to,
- 5:03Speaker 1: because you have to remember, just go back to last year.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Seahawks and Patriots both lost their openers at home.
- 5:10Speaker 2: And then they played in the Super Bowl.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And the Patriots lost to Las Vegas at home to
- 5:16Speaker 1: open the season.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Yeah.
- 5:21Speaker 3: That's a reality check. And, and Ashton Gentry with a
- 5:25Speaker 3: couple of scores in that game.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:27Speaker 1: So the Seahawks, I mean the Patriots last year, not
- 5:29Speaker 1: only did they lose at home, then they went and
- 5:32Speaker 1: struggled to beat Miami on the, on the road and
- 5:35Speaker 1: then lost to Pittsburgh at home and open one and two.
- 5:38Speaker 1: and then went on run and won 10 in a row.
- 5:40Speaker 3: And so I don't know how you are drew on,
- 5:42Speaker 3: on this buy or sell Tuesday on all the different
- 5:44Speaker 3: numbers that come out of like, well, if you start, Oh,
- 5:48Speaker 3: and two, you have a 12 to 12.6, eight, 4%
- 5:51Speaker 3: chance of making the playoffs. So many of them are
- 5:54Speaker 3: kind of out the window with the new formats with,
- 5:57Speaker 3: with the expanded playoff teams that you get with seven
- 6:01Speaker 3: on each side. And just that it feels like more recently,
- 6:05Speaker 3: the studies have been the.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Patriots one and two.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Go to the super bowl Houston last year started Owen
- 6:10Speaker 3: three and every number alive told you that no team
- 6:14Speaker 3: is alive for the playoffs when you start Owen three. Oh,
- 6:18Speaker 3: but actually we may have seen two teams do it
- 6:20Speaker 3: in the last three years, but now it will definitely
- 6:22Speaker 3: not happen again. But make no mistake about it this
- 6:27Speaker 3: week for green Bay must win. I'm not sounding the
- 6:30Speaker 3: alarms too much on Tampa Bay. I still think they're
- 6:34Speaker 3: probably the better, the best team in that division. I
- 6:37Speaker 3: would start sounding like a very, very small alarm. I'm
- 6:41Speaker 3: not hitting the panic button, but I'm just making sure
- 6:43Speaker 3: that I do know where it is from those LA Rams, though.
- 6:46Speaker 2: I just want to know where it is. I just
- 6:49Speaker 2: want to know where it is. I want to be prepared.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Is it functional?
- 6:53Speaker 3: I got the box still on it, like in deal
- 6:55Speaker 3: or no deal.
- 6:55Speaker 2: I'm not even.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Taking the little plastic box off to be able to
- 6:58Speaker 3: hit it, but I'd keep my eye there in LA,
- 7:01Speaker 3: but that's an interesting one.
- 7:03Speaker 2: One I was clearly wrong about, though, was the Baltimore Ravens.
- 7:06Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:07Speaker 2: I came in here very, you were all over the
- 7:10Speaker 2: Colts in that game.
- 7:11Speaker 3: I was strongly on the shoe and I did not
- 7:15Speaker 3: believe the artist known as Declan Doyle was going to
- 7:19Speaker 3: roll up here and put up a 41 piece.
- 7:22Speaker 2: On Indianapolis.
- 7:23Speaker 4: It's a football player's name though. You know, I mean,
- 7:25Speaker 4: is it though?
- 7:26Speaker 2: Declan Doyle, man. I'm all Declan, man. Declan Doyle. Sounds
- 7:30Speaker 2: like he was over on floor number eight.
- 7:33Speaker 1: I was just going to say, he sounds like he's
- 7:35Speaker 1: one of the national merit scholar or something.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Summa cum laude walking down Declan Doyle.
- 7:42Speaker 2: It is.
- 7:43Speaker 4: Yeah. But it seems like a guy that, you know,
- 7:44Speaker 4: I'm going to deck Declan Doyle you in the face.
- 7:47Speaker 2: I don't know, but you're right.
- 7:48Speaker 4: The other thing is, listen, if, if, Derrick Henry is
- 7:51Speaker 4: supposed to get older at some point. I mean, running
- 7:52Speaker 4: backs are supposed to age, and he doesn't do it.
- 7:55Speaker 4: So maybe he'll never get older, and he'll never stop
- 7:58Speaker 4: playing well. Maybe he'll be a 45-year-old running back in
- 8:01Speaker 4: this league dominating people. And if it is, so be it,
- 8:03Speaker 4: because at some point you have to stop believing it's
- 8:05Speaker 4: going to stop.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Yeah, the Ravens are pretty impressive
- 8:09Speaker 2: in that sense.
- 8:09Speaker 3: All right.
- 8:10Speaker 2: We need your buy or sell propositions, 877-794-1973. You're buying
- 8:12Speaker 2: or selling.
- 8:16Speaker 1: That the Padres did the right thing and made the
- 8:18Speaker 1: fan base happy by bringing back where the streets have
- 8:20Speaker 1: no name. It is their kind of walk-in hype song.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Buying. Buying. Buying. Buying. Buying. Folks were pissed when they
- 8:28Speaker 2: took that. You got to buy that, yeah.
- 8:32Speaker 3: I sat next to our boy Red Hot the day
- 8:34Speaker 3: that they did take that song away. The day that
- 8:37Speaker 3: they also decided they were going to crank up the
- 8:40Speaker 3: tunes coming up.
- 8:41Speaker 2: That was game one of the launch.
- 8:44Speaker 3: If you remember, if you remember the field, the play
- 8:47Speaker 3: on the field did not launch.
- 8:48Speaker 2: I think they won like maybe 1610.
- 8:51Speaker 3: It was a very mundane Mac school that rolled in
- 8:56Speaker 3: and they sent out a. Survey after the game to
- 9:01Speaker 3: see what you thought of the new game day experience.
- 9:03Speaker 2: They got a lot of ones.
- 9:04Speaker 4: Woo.
- 9:05Speaker 2: On the one through 10, they got a lot of ones.
- 9:07Speaker 2: You're splitting volume of music. It was loud. It was hot.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Tweeting in on putting on social media or calling or
- 9:15Speaker 4: radio station saying it was too loud in game one, man.
- 9:18Speaker 2: I remember that.
- 9:20Speaker 3: But the number one thing that continued was where's the
- 9:23Speaker 3: old video?
- 9:24Speaker 2: Where's the old song? Where's the old video?
- 9:26Speaker 3: They're coming out of the, due to the construction, they're
- 9:29Speaker 3: coming out of the main end zone tunnel. So I
- 9:32Speaker 3: think that was also maybe just lended itself to, why.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Don't we throw a little bit of, why don't we
- 9:38Speaker 2: have a little bit more fun? Why don't we throw
- 9:40Speaker 2: a little bit of a bone? Because there's something to, Drew,
- 9:42Speaker 2: you want to put your stamp on things. You want
- 9:44Speaker 2: to make it your own.
- 9:46Speaker 3: But at some point, if it's been pretty good, let's
- 9:49Speaker 3: not change something that we.
- 9:50Speaker 2: All really like. It's the same conundrum that all coaches have.
- 9:52Speaker 2: They do. It's like you want to adhere to tradition,
- 9:55Speaker 2: but you want to create your own identity.
- 9:56Speaker 1: I don't remember when the Badgers started using that song,
- 9:58Speaker 1: but I know Tom Crean used it during his.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Marquette era. He did. And Marquette fans were like, hey, hey, hey.
- 10:03Speaker 1: And then Marquette started playing jump around, and your boy
- 10:06Speaker 1: in the seventh row started jumping up and down and
- 10:08Speaker 1: becoming a local icon.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Yeah, the engineering professor.
- 10:13Speaker 4: It is interesting because fans hold on to that tradition,
- 10:15Speaker 4: and it's like when someone starts it and then starts
- 10:18Speaker 4: it and associates it with a good era of the program,
- 10:21Speaker 4: you want it to stay. And especially if you change
- 10:23Speaker 4: it and you're not doing well on the court or
- 10:24Speaker 4: the field.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Then people are starting not being happy about it. That's
- 10:28Speaker 2: what happens.
- 10:29Speaker 1: They're not happy about not doing well on the court
- 10:31Speaker 1: of the field. But then the song becomes extraneous. Then
- 10:33Speaker 1: it becomes even worse.
- 10:34Speaker 2: It's the same idea. You win a national championship, you
- 10:36Speaker 2: can play whatever damn song you want. And that's the thing.
- 10:38Speaker 4: Amen.
- 10:39Speaker 2: And you can change it every year if you want to.
- 10:41Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. People aren't that attached.
- 10:43Speaker 3: I don't think they care that Cignetti, if he was
- 10:45Speaker 3: doing anything they were doing from 2008.
- 10:47Speaker 2: That's why if Luke Fickle had teams that reflected that.
- 10:54Speaker 4: It'd be fine, but he hadn't had it, so people
- 10:55Speaker 4: were going to get upset. It's sort of like in
- 10:57Speaker 4: LaFleur's first few years, the Packers were winning a lot,
- 11:01Speaker 4: and then they just casually changed things in the open.
- 11:03Speaker 4: No more get ready for this when they run out.
- 11:06Speaker 4: It was more hip-hop. I think people were like, okay, whatever.
- 11:09Speaker 4: We're winning games. I don't really care what happens, but
- 11:11Speaker 4: I think that's a big factor. So definitely a buy
- 11:14Speaker 4: there because they need any good will when they came
- 11:15Speaker 4: with the fan bases.
- 11:17Speaker 1: To circle back, on a buy or sell Tuesday, to
- 11:20Speaker 1: circle back to our discussion, meaty discussion, the first segment
- 11:23Speaker 1: of the program. If you missed it, back up to
- 11:24Speaker 1: YouTube or find the podcast because we were talking hardcore
- 11:26Speaker 1: football upon further review.
- 11:28Speaker 2: We might do that on Tuesdays this year.
- 11:29Speaker 4: I like that.
- 11:29Speaker 2: We'll go back and look. After seeing the film, I
- 11:31Speaker 2: had questions.
- 11:34Speaker 1: You're buying or selling that the Packers offensive line Sunday
- 11:38Speaker 1: at U.S.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Bank Stadium.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Was worse than the Packers offensive line in Cleveland last year.
- 11:46Speaker 2: I love this question. I love this question.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Remember the, remember the debacle that was the offensive line
- 11:52Speaker 1: in Cleveland last year. And that was another meltdown and
- 11:54Speaker 1: a loss, totally different tenor to it.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:57Speaker 1: But that offense line, it shook the foundation of, you know,
- 12:01Speaker 1: everybody watched that game. Like what the hell? And that
- 12:04Speaker 1: was kind of the beginning of, you know, questioning things.
- 12:07Speaker 3: I guess I'd, uh, a, I know it's a lot
- 12:11Speaker 3: more top of mind for Armin because he brings it
- 12:13Speaker 3: up a lot more. I don't remember it as much.
- 12:17Speaker 3: So I guess I will defer on that one. I
- 12:21Speaker 3: do remember they didn't run the ball very well and
- 12:24Speaker 3: that there were a lot of guys eating. There was
- 12:26Speaker 3: a Malik Collins having a big game, and that was
- 12:29Speaker 3: maybe everybody's first welcome to Mason Graham in the NFL
- 12:33Speaker 3: because he had just been a third game player in
- 12:36Speaker 3: the league at that point. But there was a lot
- 12:39Speaker 3: of attention paid towards Miles Garrett. There's not a Miles
- 12:42Speaker 3: Garrett on this Vikings team. So, like, if that would
- 12:44Speaker 3: be the case, then maybe I would say this one
- 12:46Speaker 3: would be worse because you didn't have 95 to actually
- 12:50Speaker 3: deal with. But I guess I would need to look
- 12:53Speaker 3: at that one more. This is one of the dumb things.
- 12:56Speaker 1: And this is one of the things about football is
- 12:58Speaker 1: that you're that game was 13 to 10.
- 13:03Speaker 2: And McManus had a kick blocked.
- 13:05Speaker 3: That would have been the game winner, if I'm not mistaken,
- 13:09Speaker 3: after they had the bad interception.
- 13:10Speaker 2: And then they lost on a walk-off 55-yarder.
- 13:13Speaker 1: They still should have won that game. People judge the
- 13:18Speaker 1: offensive line's shortcomings. Again, the Packers scored 10 points. Can
- 13:24Speaker 1: you lay claim that you deserve to win when you
- 13:25Speaker 1: score 10 points?
- 13:26Speaker 2: Yeah, tough. Tough one.
- 13:28Speaker 1: They lost 13-10. And not only did they not move
- 13:31Speaker 1: the ball and had trouble... that Judkins' kid almost had
- 13:34Speaker 1: 100 yards, and they couldn't stop him. And everybody's like,
- 13:38Speaker 1: when your defensive line is getting owned, it makes people
- 13:41Speaker 1: more mad at your offensive line.
- 13:44Speaker 2: True, yes. That's like the mirror image of things. It's like,
- 13:47Speaker 2: wait a minute.
- 13:47Speaker 1: It turns into a compounding interest of what the hell,
- 13:49Speaker 1: we can't do anything in these trenches. Then it makes,
- 13:51Speaker 1: you know, you get more pissed. But when you score 10,
- 13:53Speaker 1: you're going to be pissed about something. And you only
- 13:54Speaker 1: gave up 13, but.
- 13:56Speaker 2: But they were on the fourth. It was 100 yards. Yeah,
- 13:58Speaker 2: it was all in the fourth quarter. And you gave
- 13:59Speaker 2: up 100 yards to a kid that no one had
- 14:01Speaker 2: heard of.
- 14:02Speaker 3: And one of them was, and I mean, one of
- 14:04Speaker 3: them was similar to that touchdown drive to the Vikings'
- 14:06Speaker 3: head or whatever they got the ball at.
- 14:08Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 14:09Speaker 3: On the interception. So, yeah, I guess I'd need to
- 14:13Speaker 3: see it again. But more than anything, that one you saw,
- 14:18Speaker 3: it was not good enough. So there's been a time
- 14:21Speaker 3: here where you've seen them struggle a lot up front.
- 14:25Speaker 2: And that one was just different. That one was, I think,
- 14:27Speaker 2: just getting outmanned more than anything.
- 14:28Speaker 1: In that game, Josh Jacobs at Cleveland last year carried
- 14:31Speaker 1: the ball 16 times for 30 yards.
- 14:33Speaker 2: So it was like under two.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Under two.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 14:36Speaker 1: And the Packers carried the ball total. Like they had
- 14:38Speaker 1: a couple of like Golden and Savion Williams combined for
- 14:40Speaker 1: five carries. They had 31 attempts for 81 yards. Did
- 14:44Speaker 1: not move the ball at all.
- 14:45Speaker 3: They also probably should have had like a 90 yard
- 14:48Speaker 3: touchdown to Matthew Golden if He stays in bounds, if
- 14:52Speaker 3: I remember correctly.
- 14:52Speaker 2: That is correct. That is correct. I think I remember
- 14:54Speaker 2: about that game.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Well, the difference with the Vikings, when we just played,
- 14:58Speaker 4: is the Packers had success on offense.
- 15:01Speaker 2: They had big plays. They did move the ball. That
- 15:04Speaker 2: was the thing. That's what we talked about. They didn't
- 15:05Speaker 2: have it against the Browns at all.
- 15:07Speaker 1: They had success because Jordan Love played out of his mind.
- 15:10Speaker 2: He was good.
- 15:11Speaker 3: I mean, they had two real drives, though, in the
- 15:15Speaker 3: first half that were successful.
- 15:16Speaker 2: The other ones were... They got, like, one or two
- 15:19Speaker 2: first downs. That's true. They couldn't sustain drives at all.
- 15:22Speaker 2: They moved the ball up and walked it around on them.
- 15:24Speaker 3: They had a big touchdown run or big touchdown drive.
- 15:28Speaker 3: I was going to say, they didn't have a drive
- 15:29Speaker 3: of more than five or six plays. An 81-yard touchdown
- 15:32Speaker 3: is not necessarily a big drive.
- 15:34Speaker 2: That's true.
- 15:34Speaker 4: And we lock on to the numbers a lot, and
- 15:36Speaker 4: it's like when you see 400-plus yards of offense, like, oh, okay.
- 15:40Speaker 2: But the reality is, you're right, it came in.
- 15:41Speaker 4: Chunks, which is fine, but you had to be able
- 15:43Speaker 4: to sustain drives, which helps you control the game. The
- 15:46Speaker 4: Packers obviously couldn't do that. That was a huge issue, obviously.
- 15:50Speaker 4: But I'm saying the Browns game, nothing was right. That
- 15:54Speaker 4: was my comparison.
- 15:55Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 15:55Speaker 2: I'll still stick with that.
- 15:56Speaker 4: But both, listen, this is not something I like discussing
- 15:59Speaker 4: because both were terrible.
- 15:59Speaker 2: Yeah. They both kind of shook you up a little bit. Also,
- 16:03Speaker 2: you're like expecting to go 3-0.
- 16:04Speaker 4: The other thing that was frustrating was that Packers looked
- 16:06Speaker 4: great the first two weeks of the year last year.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Defense was dominant. Offense was doing things you wanted to do.
- 16:11Speaker 2: You beat two favorites in the NFC. Lions and the Commanders.
- 16:16Speaker 4: And Parsons was on board and everything was looking great.
- 16:19Speaker 4: And then you roll up to the Browns thinking you're
- 16:20Speaker 4: going to dominate, go 3-0, easy peasy.
- 16:23Speaker 1: So that was kind of fool's gold there. Probably much
- 16:27Speaker 1: as our dour outlook after one game at us bank
- 16:31Speaker 1: nfl not for long.
- 16:32Speaker 4: Speaking of outlooks um here's one for you it was
- 16:35Speaker 4: uh from johnny cribbage he said all right guys bears
- 16:37Speaker 4: lost to the vikes in the opener last year it's
- 16:39Speaker 4: a long season if they're one and one does the
- 16:41Speaker 4: sun shine again a bit i would say yeah i
- 16:43Speaker 4: mean a lot better than no one too so there's
- 16:46Speaker 4: no question about that.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah no doubt yeah there's no doubt that
- 16:52Speaker 1: would be a that would be it for sure right
- 16:55Speaker 1: Wins make a lot of things feel better. And the
- 16:58Speaker 1: energy that's going to come when they play Atlanta, right?
- 17:00Speaker 1: And that first night, that first Thursday night.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean, you get a home crowd.
- 17:05Speaker 3: You get the Thursday night football team to attend. And
- 17:10Speaker 3: I mean, listen, we're already into the throes of it.
- 17:12Speaker 3: I'm ready to get this thing on to New York. Now, sadly,
- 17:15Speaker 3: we still have to bask in the L that was
- 17:18Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. But you're now getting ready to not
- 17:23Speaker 3: necessarily get fat. And team that you're going to have to,
- 17:25Speaker 3: as Aaron Glenn said, you got to ask these guys,
- 17:28Speaker 3: they want to fly with the, with the jets. Aaron
- 17:30Speaker 3: Glenn likes to bring heat when he was in Detroit.
- 17:34Speaker 3: It was one of the only reasons why that defense
- 17:36Speaker 3: had any chance against folks because they lost so many
- 17:41Speaker 3: players injury wise. His last season is the DC that
- 17:45Speaker 3: they were bringing six, seven man pressures consistently. So I
- 17:49Speaker 3: think he watched that tape on Sunday, drew and smiled
- 17:52Speaker 3: and said, okay, let's, Let's have some fun here, young fellas.
- 17:55Speaker 3: We're going to give them every chance to stop it
- 17:57Speaker 3: and see if they can because we're going to blitz
- 18:00Speaker 3: them early and often coming up on Sunday.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Going to have to deal with it. It's not going
- 18:04Speaker 2: to be an easy one.
- 18:05Speaker 1: The Cleveland game was quite frustrating, sure, but I don't
- 18:10Speaker 1: remember being as deflated and just... I remember being more shocked. Yeah, exactly.
- 18:17Speaker 1: It was more shocked, but then the hopeless... Maybe because
- 18:20Speaker 1: it was early in the season, but the When they
- 18:23Speaker 1: got spanked by the Ravens at home, I keep going
- 18:25Speaker 1: back to that Ravens game. That was like the epitome
- 18:27Speaker 1: of just hopelessness. Like, they got crushed. And it's going
- 18:31Speaker 1: to happen during the season, right?
- 18:32Speaker 2: Good teams.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, the Patriots were one and two and
- 18:37Speaker 1: not looking good last year to start.
- 18:39Speaker 2: But it's a snapshot. It's a long season. But that
- 18:42Speaker 2: Ravens game, like, shook the entire team.
- 18:45Speaker 3: You know, that one rattles you to the, that one
- 18:47Speaker 3: rattles you to the core where you just get run
- 18:50Speaker 3: on more.
- 18:50Speaker 2: So than puking away leads against the bears. Yeah.
- 18:52Speaker 1: That, that, that's one that Ravens game was like, you had,
- 18:55Speaker 1: it looked like the varsity against the eighth grade.
- 18:57Speaker 2: And that Ravens game. Yeah, and walked out of there
- 18:59Speaker 2: like you had a full-time job.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Right, like walked out of there like you had just
- 19:02Speaker 3: worked a full day saying, holy cow, that was painful
- 19:06Speaker 3: to witness.
- 19:07Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. 877-794-1973.
- 19:10Speaker 1: You need to know that number because Dolph is coming
- 19:12Speaker 1: in next for halftime, and we're going to give away
- 19:13Speaker 1: tickets to see Luke Bryan. He's coming to Alpine Valley
- 19:16Speaker 1: September 26th, a week from Saturday. The Word on the
- 19:19Speaker 1: Street Tour with special guests Drew Baldrige, Lauren Watkins, and
- 19:22Speaker 1: Ray Lynn. We'll give those away next. Dolph is up.
- 19:25Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We've reached
- 19:32Speaker 1: halftime of the Tuesday edition of the huddle. Drew Billy
- 19:35Speaker 1: and Armin Hunter is going to join us live from
- 19:36Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in about an hour from right now. At this juncture,
- 19:39Speaker 1: happy to welcome Scott Dolphin from the country station down
- 19:41Speaker 1: the hall, FM 106, and it's our reminder that we
- 19:44Speaker 1: have Luke Bryan tickets to give away.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, 26th at Alpine Valley.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Alpine Valley, the word on the Street Tour. Special guests
- 19:51Speaker 1: Drew Baldrige, Lauren Watkins, and Ray Lynn Arman.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Pick a caller. You've got to screen them. You've got
- 19:55Speaker 2: to pick the winner. I'll say seven for Javon Bowler.
- 19:58Speaker 5: All right.
- 19:58Speaker 2: How about that? Solidarity. Where's the big sleeves, which I like.
- 20:02Speaker 1: All right. Caller number seven at 877-794-1973 will win a
- 20:06Speaker 1: pair of tickets to that show September 26th. Great way
- 20:08Speaker 1: to say goodbye to summer.
- 20:09Speaker 3: It is.
- 20:10Speaker 2: Go to Alpine and see a show. Yeah.
- 20:12Speaker 1: First day of fall is what? Less than a week away,
- 20:15Speaker 1: the 22nd. I haven't been to Alpine for a show
- 20:17Speaker 1: in a long time.
- 20:17Speaker 2: What about you, Dolph? It's been a few years.
- 20:19Speaker 1: I mean, we still do a lot of country shows
- 20:21Speaker 1: out there, but it has been a few years for me.
- 20:23Speaker 1: I love watching shows there. The biggest crowd I have
- 20:27Speaker 1: ever been in front of, I think, in my life
- 20:29Speaker 1: to bring an act on. Somebody was just talking about
- 20:31Speaker 1: the studio here, the Zac Brown Band. I think there
- 20:33Speaker 1: was 35,000 people there. This was probably 10 years ago.
- 20:36Speaker 1: I just remember walking on stage going.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You just see heads all the way
- 20:40Speaker 2: to the horizon. The sun was going down. It was
- 20:42Speaker 2: a beautiful night, and I saw nothing but heads. That
- 20:44Speaker 2: was pretty incredible.
- 20:45Speaker 3: I have seen one show there, and the one that
- 20:49Speaker 3: I didn't go to is the one that I still
- 20:50Speaker 3: kick myself for. I had a ticket to the Farm
- 20:55Speaker 3: Aid show there.
- 20:56Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.
- 20:57Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
- 20:58Speaker 3: When I think Willie was playing and Luke Combs ended
- 21:02Speaker 3: up headlining it.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Yeah. And I went to the Michigan Wisconsin game. Okay.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Well, earlier in the day, it ended up being a good,
- 21:08Speaker 3: good game. Jonathan Taylor went wild. And then I drank
- 21:11Speaker 3: too much. So I didn't, I didn't make it back
- 21:14Speaker 3: for the show, but that was the one that I
- 21:16Speaker 3: did kick myself for not going to.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Farmade always has those sneaky headliners in there. Like Luke
- 21:20Speaker 1: Combs on that show. The year was in Milwaukee, which
- 21:22Speaker 1: had to be close to 15 years ago. Were you there, Drew,
- 21:24Speaker 1: when it was at Miller park?
- 21:26Speaker 4: Yes.
- 21:26Speaker 2: Kenny Chesney was one of.
- 21:27Speaker 1: The opening acts on that show for Willie Nelson and
- 21:30Speaker 1: Mellencamp and Dave Matthews and Neil Young.
- 21:33Speaker 2: I mean, every year you have the staples, but then
- 21:34Speaker 2: you always have some sneaky surprises, too.
- 21:36Speaker 4: When I was young, Alpine always meant Dave Matthews, right?
- 21:39Speaker 4: All my friends would always go to Dave Matthews.
- 21:41Speaker 2: And fish.
- 21:42Speaker 4: They'd get just messy in the mud, and it was
- 21:45Speaker 4: like a pilgrimage for a lot of people to go
- 21:47Speaker 4: to Dave.
- 21:47Speaker 2: If it does rain, you will be in the mud
- 21:49Speaker 2: at Alpine.
- 21:50Speaker 3: Well, and that was the thing, because it had rained
- 21:52Speaker 3: earlier in the day. So I knew I was walking
- 21:55Speaker 3: into the mud pit. But the other reason why I
- 21:57Speaker 3: still kick myself for not going, not only because I
- 21:59Speaker 3: miss Willie Nelson, but I was going with Pipe Bomb.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Hey, now.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Now, that would have been an experience more in and
- 22:07Speaker 3: of itself just to be at a show with Pipe Bomb.
- 22:09Speaker 2: That's why I think it might have been the bigger
- 22:11Speaker 2: L for me. I would love to join you if
- 22:13Speaker 2: you go to show. He's a big fan. follower of
- 22:16Speaker 2: a band I love, Blackberry Smoke, and we always talk
- 22:18Speaker 2: about going to a show together. Really, because he loves
- 22:21Speaker 2: some tough bands, man. Tough, I mean hard. Well, yeah.
- 22:25Speaker 2: Pipe has got a beautiful musical taste, though.
- 22:29Speaker 3: He loves hard screamo music, but he really likes old-school
- 22:33Speaker 3: country music.
- 22:35Speaker 2: He's got a very, very fun wide spectrum. And he
- 22:39Speaker 2: has a great collection of concert t-shirts from way back when, too.
- 22:42Speaker 2: He always has a bunch of them. No doubt about it. Yeah,
- 22:46Speaker 2: you buy the shirt. Dolph, where do you come down?
- 22:48Speaker 2: Where do you stand? Buy the shirt, put it on
- 22:51Speaker 2: right at the show, the show you're at? No. That's
- 22:53Speaker 2: a big thing.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Don't wear a shirt of the band you're going to see.
- 22:56Speaker 1: It's lame. I, yeah, I was the guy that was
- 22:58Speaker 1: buying the ripoff shirts on the street corners. I walked
- 23:01Speaker 1: in as a kid, but now, I mean, you go
- 23:03Speaker 1: to a, you'll pay 50 to $ 60 for a concert t-shirt.
- 23:07Speaker 2: It's wild. It's nuts. It's kind of like sports memorabilia. Yeah.
- 23:10Speaker 2: And that's why I prefer the ones on the outside
- 23:13Speaker 2: of the street.
- 23:13Speaker 3: Like, because those generally the, uh, the guys at every
- 23:17Speaker 3: sporting event that says B I'm a, whatever the team is.
- 23:21Speaker 3: Right now, it's I'm a badger or I'm a packer.
- 23:24Speaker 3: And then they'll have just random shirts. The best place
- 23:26Speaker 3: for those now are NASCAR races because they'll throw everything
- 23:31Speaker 3: out there as you're walking in. But I my wife
- 23:34Speaker 3: was a huge concert shirt. fan especially the Backstreet Boys
- 23:38Speaker 3: ones yeah that's it but they did they did finally
- 23:42Speaker 3: hit the price point where I think it was 55
- 23:44Speaker 3: bucks when we walked by and she goes there's no chance.
- 23:47Speaker 4: I'm doing it concert shirts are getting crazy just because
- 23:50Speaker 4: they know the commodity of them now and people use
- 23:53Speaker 4: them obviously for a memory but you know they resell
- 23:55Speaker 4: it and you know how it.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Goes it's also the way bands make money because they
- 23:58Speaker 1: don't sell records and records anymore yeah do you see
- 24:01Speaker 1: that you know if you go to a show now
- 24:03Speaker 1: I mean forget about what you're paying for the show
- 24:06Speaker 1: Hotel gas money, souvenirs, beers are.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Going to run you a ridiculous amount of money. Well,
- 24:10Speaker 2: that's the thing.
- 24:10Speaker 4: If you're going to drink or eat, I mean, it's
- 24:12Speaker 4: obviously a lot of money now.
- 24:14Speaker 2: Any ball game or any concert or anything like that.
- 24:16Speaker 1: They showed at NFL stadiums last week. You guys see
- 24:19Speaker 1: those numbers in the last 10 years, how much beer
- 24:21Speaker 1: has gone up. It's like 336% at an NFL game
- 24:23Speaker 1: just to get a beer. Cleveland, beer was $ 5 in
- 24:24Speaker 1: 2016 or 2017.
- 24:25Speaker 2: That's amazing. Now it's $ 13, something like that.
- 24:33Speaker 4: Well, the fact that it was only $ 5 is amazing. Now,
- 24:35Speaker 4: isn't Atlanta the one place where they keep the prices low?
- 24:37Speaker 5: Yes.
- 24:38Speaker 2: Yeah. Is it still the Mercedes-Benz?
- 24:40Speaker 1: Yes.
- 24:41Speaker 2: Mercedes-Benz Stadium. They still sell a $ 5 beer.
- 24:45Speaker 1: And, like, a $ 2 hot dog in Atlanta. Well, my buddy,
- 24:49Speaker 1: Burt Lauderdale, started talking about this, and I thought it
- 24:52Speaker 1: was urban legend at first.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Section 420. Ooh. At American Family Field, the upper concourse
- 24:59Speaker 2: behind Old Plate.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
- 25:01Speaker 2: They sell cans of hams for $ 5. They still do.
- 25:04Speaker 2: They still do. It's the one stand.
- 25:06Speaker 5: Wow.
- 25:07Speaker 2: A 12-ounce can of hams. Five bucks.
- 25:09Speaker 3: I love that.
- 25:09Speaker 2: I can't believe I don't know this. He told me that,
- 25:11Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. Okay,
- 25:13Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up, Drew. And Channel 12
- 25:14Speaker 2: did a story on it. It's not rumor. It's not
- 25:17Speaker 2: an urban legend.
- 25:17Speaker 4: What?
- 25:18Speaker 2: News you can use.
- 25:19Speaker 3: We don't totally want everybody to know about it, but
- 25:21Speaker 3: we do got it here.
- 25:22Speaker 5: Yes.
- 25:22Speaker 2: You know, Bert worked here for a while. He was
- 25:25Speaker 2: a promotions assistant. He was, I know.
- 25:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:27Speaker 2: I remember when he was here. He was a great dude. Yeah,
- 25:29Speaker 2: he is a great dude. He went to high school
- 25:30Speaker 2: with my daughter, actually. Anyway, enough about Bert. Well, Bert,
- 25:35Speaker 2: local weatherman, influencer, rising star.
- 25:38Speaker 1: He's the face of Oktoberfest coming up at the Summerfest.
- 25:42Speaker 2: I love that.
- 25:42Speaker 3: He's got to have one of those hats that they
- 25:44Speaker 3: just gave away at the Brewers games.
- 25:46Speaker 2: That Oktoberfest hat is a good one to have. He's
- 25:49Speaker 2: got the lederhosen and stuff. He's of German descent.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Parks on the golf courses. A can of
- 25:55Speaker 1: hams is half price of any other... tall boy that
- 25:58Speaker 1: they have in the beverage cart. So it's $ 3. $ 3
- 26:02Speaker 1: for a 16-ounce hams if you're golfing in Milwaukee County.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Amazing tip. Hams must be getting some deals out of this.
- 26:08Speaker 2: It's not a bad beer from the land of sky blue.
- 26:09Speaker 3: I was going to say, it's not the worst one
- 26:11Speaker 3: that you've ever had.
- 26:12Speaker 2: It's cold. Golfing, I remember the bear in the cartoon. Oh, yeah.
- 26:15Speaker 2: I love those cartoons. That's a very Minneapolis beer, though.
- 26:18Speaker 5: Is that what it is?
- 26:19Speaker 2: That's Minnesota, huh? Yeah, that's Minnesota. Oh, I always thought
- 26:21Speaker 2: it was a St. Louis one. Old style.
- 26:22Speaker 1: Yeah, hams is their old style kind of Minneapolis. That's
- 26:26Speaker 1: the The hams bear.
- 26:30Speaker 3: I want to say there's a deal at Fiserv before
- 26:33Speaker 3: tip-off for hams, too.
- 26:35Speaker 2: I love it. But you might have to buy two.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Because I know I've definitely bought four hams before tip-off,
- 26:41Speaker 3: simply for that reason.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Because the price was definitely going.
- 26:43Speaker 5: To go up.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Milwaukee County, earlier this year, made the switch from hams
- 26:47Speaker 1: to Milwaukee's best on the cart.
- 26:49Speaker 2: The same deal. $ 3 beers. That's interesting. And people revolted.
- 26:52Speaker 2: They're like, nah, I'm good, brah. Thanks. Just give me
- 26:55Speaker 2: a Miller Lite. Beast Ice? I love Beast.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Well, that surprised me because I thought they just liked
- 27:00Speaker 4: the deal, not necessarily that it's hams.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Apparently, they wanted the hams back, and they got it back.
- 27:05Speaker 4: I guess there is an aspect to the novelty of
- 27:09Speaker 4: getting hams, or if you have a cult following. But
- 27:11Speaker 4: Milwaukee's best has that, too. Billy, your point, the beast,
- 27:14Speaker 4: that's all we had in college.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Especially if you want to put some hair on your chest,
- 27:16Speaker 2: you grab some beast.
- 27:18Speaker 1: That's why I know, Dolph, you like the logo. It's
- 27:25Speaker 1: not great quality, but it's all right.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Pabst Theater, you can get those big cans for $ 8. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 27:33Speaker 2: There we go. That's a good deal. And they're big.
- 27:36Speaker 2: They're silos.
- 27:38Speaker 3: Mike and Racine, can of hams, $ 1 at Wells Brothers
- 27:41Speaker 3: Italian Restaurant.
- 27:42Speaker 2: I love that. And Racine, that's got the pizza. Pizza joint.
- 27:44Speaker 4: I love that.
- 27:45Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 27:47Speaker 2: Go Wells Brothers.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Their pizza's really good. There's some great old spots in Racine, man.
- 27:52Speaker 1: So looking at these beer prices, though, Milwaukee, Pfizer Forum,
- 27:56Speaker 1: American Family Field, we're kind of right in the middle
- 27:58Speaker 1: of all the professional stadiums around the NFL and the NBA.
- 28:01Speaker 1: We're like, I don't know where we were in baseball.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I don't know, 14th, 15th in beer prices, something like that.
- 28:06Speaker 1: I was surprised last year, and I'll be going again
- 28:08Speaker 1: this Sunday to Soldier Field, a can of Miller Lite
- 28:10Speaker 1: there was less than what it is at American Family Field.
- 28:13Speaker 2: You would think Chicago would be a little more. It
- 28:15Speaker 2: was close in price, but it was a little more.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Well, and maybe it was just because they knew that
- 28:20Speaker 3: people were going to have to drink so much to
- 28:22Speaker 3: be able to watch them and have to put up
- 28:24Speaker 3: with it.
- 28:24Speaker 2: That's probably what it was, Billy.
- 28:25Speaker 3: Got to be more excited walking into Soldier Field after
- 28:28Speaker 3: watching that 59-point outburst.
- 28:29Speaker 2: This year I'm going to get stuck because they're playing better.
- 28:31Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, you will.
- 28:33Speaker 1: So the county courses, what's the price now? Three bucks
- 28:35Speaker 1: for a tall boy of hams.
- 28:37Speaker 4: All right.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Yeah, while supplies last, and it doesn't always last. In
- 28:40Speaker 2: the beverages. We talk a lot about the night.
- 28:42Speaker 4: You know, the last time the Packers lost this main
- 28:44Speaker 4: row was 1990. A cup of stadium beer was two
- 28:48Speaker 4: or 250 at the stadium in 1990 at Lambeau. Sure.
- 28:51Speaker 2: It was that it was a cup.
- 28:52Speaker 1: It was that wax cup that they would plastic wrap
- 28:55Speaker 1: over the top of sports.
- 28:56Speaker 2: That said beer. Yeah.
- 28:58Speaker 1: You're making me flashback to the old days of the
- 29:00Speaker 1: prefix at at the Nomad on the east side on
- 29:03Speaker 1: Brady Street. It was five bucks for a shot of Jameson,
- 29:06Speaker 1: a can of Pabst, and they would give you a cigarette.
- 29:07Speaker 2: I was going to say in a smoke. Oh, that's
- 29:08Speaker 2: freaking awesome. You know what?
- 29:10Speaker 1: That reminds me.
- 29:12Speaker 2: They got rid of the cigarette when the smoking ban
- 29:14Speaker 2: came in, but they still kept.
- 29:15Speaker 1: The shot and beer deal. That's the best deal ever.
- 29:18Speaker 1: And you get a freaking lung dart.
- 29:20Speaker 2: I love it.
- 29:21Speaker 3: The best was when you get that dart and then
- 29:22Speaker 3: you walk outside. Billy, I didn't know you smoked. No,
- 29:24Speaker 3: I just needed to cool down.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Hey, it's a free cig. What do you want me
- 29:29Speaker 2: to do?
- 29:29Speaker 1: Nashville prices have gotten ridiculous.
- 29:32Speaker 2: On lower Broadway in Nashville. It is.
- 29:34Speaker 1: However, Robert's Western World, I think this deal, you can
- 29:38Speaker 1: still get a can of Pabst and a fried bologna
- 29:41Speaker 1: sandwich with some potato chips for $ 6.
- 29:44Speaker 2: That's a pretty good deal. That's a pretty good deal.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Come on, now. Robert's has always had the best prices
- 29:48Speaker 2: down there. The recession special, it's still there. It is good.
- 29:52Speaker 2: And a moon pie. Let's go. Hunter's going to join us.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Speaking of beers and stuff, I made a joke earlier
- 29:59Speaker 1: on social media that the Brewers are going to have
- 30:01Speaker 1: an Iron City shower tonight, like an Iron City champagne celebration.
- 30:06Speaker 1: If they clinch tonight, if the Cubs lose and the
- 30:08Speaker 1: Brewers win, the magic number's two. So at some point
- 30:11Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, you would think, with Miz pitching and Henderson,
- 30:13Speaker 1: that they might take care of business in Pittsburgh.
- 30:15Speaker 2: So Hunter is there.
- 30:17Speaker 1: And they got the plastic in the lockers, and I think,
- 30:20Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember how the mechanics of it was
- 30:22Speaker 1: that some teams will, like the visiting clubhouse guy, will
- 30:25Speaker 1: provide cases of champagne for a celebration because they got to,
- 30:28Speaker 1: you know, or do teams travel with it? I think
- 30:31Speaker 1: in the past the brewers might have done both. They
- 30:32Speaker 1: might have traveled with champagne when they thought they were
- 30:34Speaker 1: going to play.
- 30:34Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just throw a couple of bucks at
- 30:39Speaker 1: the visiting clubhouse guy and have him pick it up?
- 30:40Speaker 1: That's generally the easiest thing, but they have a lot
- 30:43Speaker 1: of room on the plane and stuff. You would know
- 30:45Speaker 1: this being a beat writer for as long as you were.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Were there levels of celebratory beverages? Like, if you clenched
- 30:51Speaker 1: a spot, was it just beer? Or did it go
- 30:54Speaker 1: up to champagne.
- 30:55Speaker 2: At a certain point?
- 30:56Speaker 1: It's champagne, unless they started to do it and they sponsored,
- 30:59Speaker 1: like Budweiser sponsored, so they spray Budweiser all over each other.
- 31:02Speaker 2: And the Cardinals always had Budweiser when they wanted it.
- 31:04Speaker 5: Sure.
- 31:05Speaker 3: The budweiser endorsement i remember a lot more prevalent when
- 31:09Speaker 3: the giants started winning like in like the 2010s and
- 31:13Speaker 3: bomb gardener was trying to hold as many of them
- 31:14Speaker 3: in his hand as he possibly could but probably for
- 31:17Speaker 3: when you started seeing some clinches of world series that's
- 31:19Speaker 3: when the real good stuff came out well in the
- 31:21Speaker 3: in the lake or maybe once the media got out
- 31:23Speaker 3: of there that's my buddies my running mates in the
- 31:25Speaker 3: playoffs uh pedro gomez may he rest in peace and
- 31:28Speaker 3: steve ketman we learned When Cleveland was good and they
- 31:31Speaker 3: had these champagne celebrations, we would pick up corks off
- 31:33Speaker 3: the floor and take them to our favorite bar in
- 31:35Speaker 3: Cleveland and give them to the owner.
- 31:36Speaker 2: He would give us free drinks. Oh, that's awesome. Sweet. Thanks, man.
- 31:39Speaker 2: Here it is, right from the celebration. And now everybody
- 31:42Speaker 2: does that.
- 31:43Speaker 1: We kind of started a trend. Genius, yes. Because it's garbage, right?
- 31:48Speaker 1: You're not taking a t-shirt. I would never take a t-shirt.
- 31:52Speaker 1: can of beer or anything from their celebration. But a
- 31:54Speaker 1: cork off the floor as a little memento, I'd give
- 31:56Speaker 1: them to fans and stuff. I would give them to
- 31:58Speaker 1: people that I knew in the stands.
- 31:59Speaker 2: I love that.
- 32:01Speaker 4: A buddy of mine got an empty Andre bottle. That's
- 32:04Speaker 4: the champagne they're using in 08. When the Brewers celebrated it,
- 32:06Speaker 4: and Guillermo Modo was on the dugout dancing. So it
- 32:10Speaker 4: was the cheapest champagne you could get, which makes sense
- 32:13Speaker 4: because you're just pouring it out, basically.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Exactly. Dumping it around. It's usually what I have at
- 32:16Speaker 2: New Year's Eve at my house.
- 32:17Speaker 4: Andre.
- 32:17Speaker 5: Andre.
- 32:19Speaker 2: What is it? Three buck truck? I think it's six
- 32:20Speaker 2: or seven now. For the pink duck or whatever they
- 32:25Speaker 2: call it. Oh, my God.
- 32:26Speaker 4: Hey, man, it doesn't matter, you know, but that's the
- 32:28Speaker 4: same thing. It's like you think, okay, well, we're just
- 32:30Speaker 4: going to dump it.
- 32:30Speaker 2: We're just going to dump it. We're not going to
- 32:32Speaker 2: get the good stuff. Now, I wonder if there's like a...
- 32:35Speaker 2: And beer's not going to burn your eyes, right? That's true.
- 32:37Speaker 3: It's not going to be as painful. Is there like
- 32:39Speaker 3: a handshake agreement in Pittsburgh? Like, hey, you know, guys,
- 32:42Speaker 3: we do have to play in here the next two days,
- 32:43Speaker 3: so let's take it easy on the carpet.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Why don't we go hang out in the hallway or something?
- 32:48Speaker 1: No.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Did you change your wardrobe when you would cover those? No,
- 32:51Speaker 2: I just learned how to.
- 32:52Speaker 1: worked the periphery of the room head on a swivel
- 32:54Speaker 1: and i stayed dry for the most part almost always.
- 32:58Speaker 3: A couple of little splashes that's just that's better for
- 33:00Speaker 3: the story but yeah but now.
- 33:02Speaker 2: I guess yeah you have raincoats and stuff we'll see
- 33:04Speaker 2: how hunter's prepared next segment next uh.
- 33:07Speaker 1: It's almost like now though for me it was a
- 33:09Speaker 1: badge of honor to not get wet now people want
- 33:11Speaker 1: to get soaked and put it on social and say.
- 33:13Speaker 2: Look i was there prime time never doused you with
- 33:15Speaker 2: uh Never. No, I never. You never got McCarver. Real man, Deion.
- 33:19Speaker 1: You're a real man, Deion. I did those, like, every
- 33:23Speaker 1: year I covered the Brewers. They weren't going to the playoffs.
- 33:25Speaker 1: I went every year, and I covered multiple rounds. So
- 33:28Speaker 1: I was in those things. I would see a dozen
- 33:30Speaker 1: a year I'd be in these champagne cellies and stuff.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Those Cleveland teams are so damn good. It's amazing they
- 33:35Speaker 1: didn't have more celebrations. They didn't win a World Series.
- 33:38Speaker 1: I said it to Davey Nelson when he was around
- 33:40Speaker 1: because he was their first baseman. That's the best team
- 33:41Speaker 1: I ever saw, top to bottom. And they never won
- 33:43Speaker 1: a World Series.
- 33:44Speaker 2: They had a great pitching staff, too. Great pitching staff.
- 33:46Speaker 2: The offense, though. Kenny Lofton. Dave Justice. Roberto Alomar. Jim Tomey.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Jim Tomey.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Up and down.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:54Speaker 2: They had dudes. And they never won it. Was Richie
- 33:56Speaker 2: Sexton there yet? No, I don't think so.
- 33:57Speaker 4: Richie Sexton.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Well, he got dumped. They didn't have room for him,
- 33:59Speaker 2: Sean Casey, and Jeremy Burnett. Jeez. They traded him all
- 34:03Speaker 2: the way.
- 34:03Speaker 4: Jeez.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Those were the guys that couldn't crack the roster. Yeah,
- 34:06Speaker 1: I mean, Manny Ramirez and Albert Bell were the corner outfielders.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Yeah, Man Ram. I wish I had Albert Bell. You
- 34:12Speaker 2: don't think I wish I had Albert Bell? 95 Indians
- 34:14Speaker 2: were 144, so think about that.
- 34:16Speaker 4: Wow.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Because it was a strike short year. It was a
- 34:18Speaker 2: strike year, yeah. That was incredible. Those teams were scoring
- 34:21Speaker 2: runs like nobody else. And they lost to the Braves.
- 34:23Speaker 2: Was it 1-0 in the seventh game of the World Series?
- 34:26Speaker 2: Something like that. Well, then the Mays said 97, wasn't it?
- 34:29Speaker 4: The funny thing about the 97ers, they didn't win them.
- 34:31Speaker 4: They won like 80-some, but they still.
- 34:33Speaker 2: Won the Central. The Brewers were in the mix for
- 34:35Speaker 2: a while. They lost to the Marlins. They lost to
- 34:36Speaker 2: the Marlins in seven games.
- 34:37Speaker 4: So it's just the way it goes sometimes. They lost
- 34:39Speaker 4: to the Braves. But the 95 Indians, I mean, that
- 34:41Speaker 4: lineup was sick.
- 34:42Speaker 2: It was sick. It was incredible. Just incredible. Ramirez, all
- 34:45Speaker 2: those guys. What about the 89 Indians with, you know,
- 34:49Speaker 2: all those great... Oh, absolutely. Willie Hayes and Jake Taylor.
- 34:52Speaker 2: That team. I mean, Serrano cleaning up, you know, so...
- 34:56Speaker 2: That's for bats.
- 34:57Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Yes.
- 34:58Speaker 3: Here I am on baseball reference, quickly trying to tab
- 35:00Speaker 3: over to make sure that I got the joke on
- 35:02Speaker 3: the 89.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Sorry guys. I'm just trying to make sure.
- 35:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:04Speaker 2: I barely got Herman love that. Just like a steel trap.
- 35:07Speaker 2: All right. Hey.
- 35:10Speaker 5: Championship locker room. Broadcasters never like it. It burns.
- 35:14Speaker 2: It smells.
- 35:14Speaker 5: It ruins your clothes. Last night, Deon Sanders, apparently upset
- 35:18Speaker 5: with Tim McCarver's criticisms of his two sport day last Sunday.
- 35:22Speaker 5: felt like he would gain a measure of revenge, not
- 35:24Speaker 5: with champagne, but by dousing McCarver with four tubs of
- 35:28Speaker 5: ice water. McCarver was furious. So was CBS Sports. Rick Gentile,
- 35:32Speaker 5: their producer, complained to National League president Bill White last night.
- 35:36Speaker 5: McCarver wants a meeting with White as soon as he
- 35:38Speaker 5: can get one. And after this confrontation... Tim McCarver confronted Sanders.
- 35:45Speaker 5: McCarver's right here.
- 35:46Speaker 2: I got something for you. You are a real man.
- 35:48Speaker 2: You know that? You are a real man, Dion. I'll
- 35:52Speaker 2: say that. Tim McCarver.
- 35:56Speaker 1: Hey, kids, we used to have National League and American
- 35:58Speaker 1: League presidents, too. Did you hear that reference? That's one
- 36:00Speaker 1: of the best references in there.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Very true. That was the thing. Armin, who won the
- 36:04Speaker 2: Luke Bryan tickets? Eric from Plymouth. All right, Eric. He's
- 36:07Speaker 2: won stuff before. Way to go, Eric. Well done. He's
- 36:10Speaker 2: going to enjoy that show. Dolph, thank you for coming in.
- 36:12Speaker 2: Always a treat. See you tomorrow. Hunter joins us about
- 36:14Speaker 2: an hour from right now. You're in the huddle.
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- 36:49Speaker 1: You got any buy or sell props? Armin, you're always
- 36:52Speaker 1: good for one.
- 36:53Speaker 2: What do you got?
- 36:54Speaker 4: Yeah, buy or sell. I should be upset that the
- 36:56Speaker 4: chili yesterday that we ate, because I told you guys
- 36:58Speaker 4: I was going to make a loser chili because there's
- 37:02Speaker 4: no victory chicken Monday. But then my wife made it,
- 37:05Speaker 4: and it was much better than mine. So now I
- 37:06Speaker 4: really feel like a loser. Now, I mean, I already
- 37:09Speaker 4: knew my chili wasn't good, but I tried to take
- 37:11Speaker 4: a special pride in the fact that I made chili.
- 37:14Speaker 2: And Laura made one that was much better than mine.
- 37:16Speaker 2: And now I'm just like, I should just- Now you
- 37:18Speaker 2: just realized you are a loser.
- 37:19Speaker 4: I'm a loser for real. I should get out of
- 37:21Speaker 4: the chili game altogether. And I do appreciate that.
- 37:24Speaker 2: I mean, my daughter loved it. I mean, this is great. Okay, great.
- 37:27Speaker 4: Yeah, she's eating it. Wow, everyone loves it. Everyone loves
- 37:30Speaker 4: mom's chili better than dad. If I can't get one
- 37:32Speaker 4: good chili going at some point in my life, what
- 37:34Speaker 4: am I doing here? So- Buy or sell, I should
- 37:37Speaker 4: really just stop making it at this point and let.
- 37:39Speaker 2: My wife take care of it. I think you should probably, yeah.
- 37:41Speaker 1: You should find something else that you do well and
- 37:44Speaker 1: then just funnel your energy into that.
- 37:46Speaker 2: And Billy, what you've done with your smoking, you know, meats.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Armand, your thing should be making pancakes on Saturday mornings
- 37:53Speaker 1: for the fam.
- 37:54Speaker 2: That's the best one. Drew, you took it.
- 37:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I am good at breakfast. I feel I am
- 37:58Speaker 3: good at breakfast. And it's also the place where dad
- 38:01Speaker 3: can flex a little bit. Now, you don't have to
- 38:03Speaker 3: be one of these TikTok dads going out here doing
- 38:06Speaker 3: the freaking pancake art, okay? I don't want to see
- 38:09Speaker 3: you coming out with three different squirt bottles of the different.
- 38:12Speaker 2: Food dye to make bluey on the pancake. I know. See, exactly.
- 38:16Speaker 2: But you know what Armin Sarian can do?
- 38:18Speaker 3: You could make a big circle pancake with a couple
- 38:21Speaker 3: of little small ones up there, and all of a sudden,
- 38:22Speaker 3: Mickey Mouse is up there.
- 38:23Speaker 2: There you go.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Right?
- 38:24Speaker 3: Like, you very much could, and this is the one
- 38:26Speaker 3: that I've been able to do, a couple of blueberries
- 38:29Speaker 3: around with the circle.
- 38:30Speaker 2: All of a sudden, boom, we got baseball pancake.
- 38:32Speaker 3: Those are the very easy wins that you should be
- 38:36Speaker 3: trying to occupy instead of going for some big swing, Drew,
- 38:39Speaker 3: like chili.
- 38:40Speaker 2: That's a tough thing for our point of view.
- 38:41Speaker 1: When my daughter was young, she thought I was a
- 38:42Speaker 1: genius cook because when she wanted a snack, I would
- 38:44Speaker 1: take a tortilla and throw a piece of string cheese
- 38:46Speaker 1: in it, throw it in the microwave for 15 seconds,
- 38:49Speaker 1: and she had this roll-ups.
- 38:50Speaker 2: And she's like, this is the best. That makes the
- 38:52Speaker 2: best snacks. Yeah, a lot of culinary training. A lot
- 38:58Speaker 2: of culinary training there.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I used to make her nachos and put like chocolate
- 39:02Speaker 1: chips on them too, which she really liked.
- 39:03Speaker 2: That's a game changer.
- 39:04Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Game changer. See, and that's exactly it. Salty, sweet.
- 39:08Speaker 3: You need to be tying in with the one thing
- 39:10Speaker 3: guys definitely do well. We got a better tooth. We
- 39:12Speaker 3: got better taste buds and a better tooth than most women.
- 39:15Speaker 3: So we do know a lot of times what is
- 39:17Speaker 3: going to taste good for the youngsters.
- 39:19Speaker 2: Armand's disappointed with his chili.
- 39:21Speaker 1: I was disappointed with my culinary efforts last night making
- 39:24Speaker 1: some smash burgers, but I take no blame for it.
- 39:28Speaker 1: My wife purchased the ground beef for my smash burgers,
- 39:31Speaker 1: and she got the proper 80-20 mixture. The beef was
- 39:36Speaker 1: like bad. Is this the Argentinian beef? Is this horse meat?
- 39:39Speaker 1: I think we're in a bad spot.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Did you just get hosed?
- 39:41Speaker 1: I think we're in a bad spot. I think we're
- 39:43Speaker 1: importing beef or something because it was not good.
- 39:45Speaker 2: That's what I do, too. It wasn't as good as usual. Yeah,
- 39:47Speaker 2: I think the meat was wrong. I did it wrong.
- 39:50Speaker 1: I'm straight up because I've made some incredible smash burgers.
- 39:53Speaker 2: I'm going to run this summer. But last night's effort
- 39:55Speaker 2: was like, ah, this isn't good.
- 39:57Speaker 3: We went cold. We went with the pot pie. So
- 40:00Speaker 3: I went similar with Arm, and I was like, ah.
- 40:03Speaker 3: I felt the first little chill in the air, and
- 40:05Speaker 3: we're like capitalizing on it. Fill me up with something
- 40:09Speaker 3: pumpkin in my coffee cup in the morning, and give
- 40:12Speaker 3: me some pot pie or a chili or something.
- 40:14Speaker 1: I didn't really have a ramp up, because I kind
- 40:16Speaker 1: of let my wife be in charge of the climate
- 40:18Speaker 1: controls to a point.
- 40:19Speaker 2: She likes it 74 and up. Air conditioning. Come on.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Mine's the opposite. I like it warmer.
- 40:24Speaker 1: But she, I mean, we went from having the air
- 40:27Speaker 1: conditioning on to opening up the house, and the first
- 40:29Speaker 1: day the house is open, she's like, it's too cold
- 40:30Speaker 1: in here.
- 40:32Speaker 2: We got to close up the windows. No, I want
- 40:33Speaker 2: the fresh air. It's beautiful. Let's get a little breeze.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Come on.
- 40:36Speaker 3: Come on.
- 40:37Speaker 2: Yeah. Get some iron jock hoodie and you'll be fine.
- 40:39Speaker 3: Get to the sweet spot. You know, we just went
- 40:41Speaker 3: right from one extreme to the other. I was going
- 40:43Speaker 3: to say it became blanket season real quick. Then we
- 40:45Speaker 3: had that storm last night that snuck up on us
- 40:47Speaker 3: and the dog woke me up.
- 40:48Speaker 2: Unbelievable. All right.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Coming up, more buy and sell propositions and Hunter Baumgart
- 40:53Speaker 1: live from Pittsburgh.
- 40:54Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.