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09/28/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Considerably more rested than we were last time we were
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  Speaker 1: on these airwaves and interwebs. Well, yeah, considerably more rested
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  Speaker 1: and in considerably better mood than we were last time
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  Speaker 1: we were on these airwaves and interwebs.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into the huddle. Hello, 5 o'clock clubbers. Represent. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get it going.
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  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing it to you from headquarters
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  Speaker 1: after this glorious Wisconsin Sports Weekend because the Packers didn't play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, they can't hurt you if they're not there.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to watch how the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: NFL lives.
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  Speaker 2: Not great, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: If you watch around and think that you're walking in
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  Speaker 3: there to see a bunch of teams that feel really,
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  Speaker 3: really good about themselves. There's a lot of scrap peep
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of metal that's hanging around in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of teams took some L's this weekend
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  Speaker 3: that I don't think they were planning on. including one
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  Speaker 3: in Happy Valley that was very fun to be able
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  Speaker 3: to witness on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: The Badgers stunning the world. Down 17-0. You figure, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is it. This is going to get ugly. And
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly it flips Colton Joseph with the comeback, the
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  Speaker 1: in-game comeback of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about as well as you can say it, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: because there weren't, he talked about it on Peacock after,
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  Speaker 3: there weren't many people that would have been watching feeling
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  Speaker 3: like they had a whole lot of confidence in him.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently a lot of the folks on the sidelines still
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  Speaker 3: did after he chucked not one, not two, but three
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  Speaker 3: rather room service INTs in And just continued to set
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  Speaker 3: them back behind the eight ball. The last of which
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  Speaker 3: happens at the eight Oh seven mark of the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: They're down 20 to 10 and the super special wind
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  Speaker 3: probability drew had the Badgers at 1.5%.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my.
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  Speaker 3: To walk out of Beaver stadium, holding that tail and
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  Speaker 3: holding that W on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: That was impressive. Impressive stuff. Impressive. What a comeback. What
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  Speaker 2: a turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: And interestingly, Um, I think, you know, no one reasonably
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  Speaker 1: expected them to beat Notre Dame at Lambeau field.
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  Speaker 2: They did not.
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  Speaker 1: They held serve against the two directional schools as the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and kind of emphatically like we wanted for sure.
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  Speaker 1: They did take care of business. They didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: sweat as much as they had to in previous years.
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  Speaker 1: And then they win Saturday coming back off the scrap heap,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Matt Campbell, welcome to the big 10.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my play 60 here, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: We play 60 here. And, yeah, Penn State fans, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what they're saying over there. They're probably saying
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  Speaker 2: we lost it more than Wisconsin won it. Wisconsin won
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  Speaker 2: it in our books.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's part of it on both sides. The
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  Speaker 2: Badgers held them to check those check the notes that
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  Speaker 2: we have here.
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  Speaker 3: It was the 12 plays on 19 yards and six
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  Speaker 3: minutes and like 26 seconds. on their four drives in
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  Speaker 3: the last 17 minutes. So the Badgers, I mean, didn't
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  Speaker 3: just toughen up. They completely closed the door on whatever
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  Speaker 3: Penn State was doing offensively.
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  Speaker 2: But Penn State was just like, yeah, we're inside. We're okay.
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  Speaker 2: We're inside. We're okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's like that winter storm where you check, they say like,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you check on your grandparents, check on the
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  Speaker 3: elderly folks.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're inside.
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  Speaker 5: We're okay.
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  Speaker 2: We're inside. We're okay. We're not going out. We're not
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  Speaker 2: messing around.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to go out and grab any food tonight.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to stay in here, be safe. And you
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  Speaker 3: could tell the Nittany lion fans were not liking it
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of the third quarter. Tausch and LePay
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  Speaker 3: started laughing because every end of a drive, the fans
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  Speaker 3: were pulling them off the field.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, damn.
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  Speaker 3: Going into the fourth quarter, you guys got a two-score lead,
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  Speaker 3: and we're booing coming off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Tough crowd here in Happy Valley. They sensed what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Impending doom.
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  Speaker 5: Impending doom and probably a reflection of the expectation they
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  Speaker 5: have for their program and maybe for what the Badgers
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  Speaker 5: program had expectations for. But you have to change narratives.
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  Speaker 5: You have to do it on the field, and that's
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  Speaker 5: what the Badgers did. I think that that's probably a
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  Speaker 5: big part of it. They probably said, well, These are
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  Speaker 5: the Badgers of recent vintage. We should be beating this team.
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  Speaker 5: It's probably how Packers fans mostly felt about the Falcons, right?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there should be a reassessment of what games are.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand. And we have all right to
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  Speaker 2: go and boo.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't feel entertained and frustrated, then let
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  Speaker 3: your freak flag fly and do whatever you damn well please.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe we just think and reassess. That not every
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  Speaker 3: game is supposed to be sports freaking Nirvana.
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  Speaker 5: Nirvana and a masterpiece to see. You don't just walk
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  Speaker 5: in and drumroll everybody. This is not the opera. You're
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  Speaker 5: not going to see the best performance every time. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you go to see the orchestra. You go to see
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  Speaker 5: the opera. You're supposed to see them at their best performance.
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  Speaker 5: All the time. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: But you're right.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to see a game. You might win, you
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  Speaker 5: might lose.
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  Speaker 3: There's one difference. You do want to see, and you
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  Speaker 3: might see the opera at their best. The opera's not
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  Speaker 3: going against anybody, Armand. There's not an opposing opera on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of the floor saying, okay, sweet, you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to play Beethoven's Fifth?
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  Speaker 5: Hold us with seven. Yeah, there's nobody throwing stuff at
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  Speaker 5: the instruments to stop them from playing. Absolutely right. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and that's the thing. I mean, sometimes people go to
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  Speaker 5: these games and they expect to see that, and it's like, well, no,
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  Speaker 5: there's two teams playing. This is a competition, and one
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  Speaker 5: of them is going to come out the victor, whoever
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  Speaker 5: plays the best. That's how this is supposed to go.
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  Speaker 5: But we learn this lesson every single week, especially in
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  Speaker 5: college football, Drew. I understand money can dehumanize a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One thing it doesn't do is speed up the aging process,
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  Speaker 3: last I checked. Still 19- and 22-year-old kids. Still 19-
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  Speaker 3: and 22-year-old very young men. And it is hard to
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  Speaker 3: rev the engine twice. And when they thought they had
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  Speaker 3: that thing in the bag, Jacob Harris left one shoe
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  Speaker 3: at the 50 and said, hold my beer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was something. And amazing what's possible when you
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  Speaker 5: have a starting quarterback. You know what I mean? The
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  Speaker 5: Badgers haven't had the luxury of having their starting quarterback
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  Speaker 5: for years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. Not in the game four.
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  Speaker 5: Now we have one.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this, Armand.
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  Speaker 3: There were plenty of folks that were hitting us up
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  Speaker 3: on the talk and text line and tweeting at me
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  Speaker 3: during the game and saying, I wish we had a
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterback. There were a lot of fans, I think,
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  Speaker 3: that were completely out on the Colton Joseph experience there
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing what happens when you just kind of let
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  Speaker 5: things happen for a while.
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  Speaker 2: The Badgers prevail.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers sweep the Redbirds. I didn't realize the extent
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  Speaker 1: of the ass-whooping that they put on St.
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  Speaker 2: Louis this year.
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  Speaker 1: I feel much better about my post saying that the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals are a couple years behind the Brewers on the curve,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody in the Ozarks is driving their El Caminos,
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  Speaker 1: to coin a Matt Vaskersian phrase.
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  Speaker 2: That was a hold-back, let-them-cook moment, because that was a roundhouse.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, they just... What was that, like 11-2
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  Speaker 2: or something like that?
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  Speaker 1: The entire division was disgusting. 11-2 in the season series.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers beat the Cardinals. They stomped them, beat them
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  Speaker 1: all three. Miz tunes up, lowers his ERA, gets to
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  Speaker 1: 252 strikeouts and a 180 ERA.
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  Speaker 2: It locks up the Cy Young.
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  Speaker 5: Wraps it up, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers win that, so they take care of business, and
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  Speaker 1: now they await their fate and the next step. See
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to be the Cubs or the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it on. Champions fear no one.
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  Speaker 3: Man, is that going to be an interesting and exciting
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  Speaker 3: series because they played at Wrigley, we all know, a
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  Speaker 3: year ago in a knock-em-out, drag-out three-game series that the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs end up prevailing. San Diego has been as good,
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  Speaker 3: if not better, than anybody in their own ballpark. They're
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  Speaker 3: one of the few teams that's in the playoffs that's under.
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  Speaker 3: 500 on the road.
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  Speaker 2: So being in.
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  Speaker 3: Petco Park for this series is really, really important to them.
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  Speaker 2: The Cubs with their circuitous journey having to go from
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  Speaker 2: Boston to Tampa to San Diego. How do you pack
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  Speaker 2: for that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, granted, luckily they're all the same climate, so
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  Speaker 3: you'd be okay in that regard, but they might need
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  Speaker 3: to do some laundry while they go out there.
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  Speaker 1: They had to be ready. So that's going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had a slate of NFL games, like
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, Billy. where it was full of adventure, danger,
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  Speaker 1: and romance and one score games. We had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good stuff to chew on from that, including like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Superbowl champs losing. The Colts winning for
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  Speaker 1: once and the first time in like a year. The
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  Speaker 1: Browns winning 2-1. Browns winning.
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  Speaker 5: Nice try trying to make sense of this lead.
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  Speaker 2: And their home opener. The Raiders are 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight we might see the Bears drop to 1-2 because
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  Speaker 1: we don't know who their quarterback is. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Caleb Williams is going on IR at 3 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: or not. Oh, that's another big watch. Yeah, good point
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  Speaker 1: with that three- to four-week timeline. I guess Bajan's been cleared,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to start Case Keenum in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck.
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  Speaker 5: I would, too. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I probably would, too, with somebody that knows how just to, hey,
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  Speaker 3: hand the ball to DeAndre Swift, hand the ball to
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  Speaker 3: Cameron Ungard. It's going to be early and often tonight
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  Speaker 3: at Soldier Field, I can imagine. The Eagles will be
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  Speaker 3: teeing up, so that's going to be fun. My dream
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  Speaker 3: scenario will not come true. That's the one downside of
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: this weekend because– I had hoped that the bracket would
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  Speaker 3: fall the other way and that the Brewers wouldn't face
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs until the NLCS because game one would have
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  Speaker 3: been the same day as Packers-Bears.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been... That would have been nuclear for
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  Speaker 2: the rivalry of the state.
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  Speaker 1: Having those games, like, hopefully not concurrent, but having them back-to-back,
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  Speaker 1: like a 3-25... Brewers game into a 7.30.
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  Speaker 3: You would have gotten a fan halftime there. You would
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  Speaker 3: have gotten a little halftime at about 6.35 to 7.05
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  Speaker 3: by first pitch.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: All their bullets dripping with rage at that rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: At this juncture, the Packers don't look like they're on
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  Speaker 1: the same planet as the Bears. However, with the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: situation being.
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  Speaker 2: An equalizer, we'll see. Yeah, and however, two weeks might
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  Speaker 2: be an eternity in this league.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: The way the Browns look now, the way everybody feels
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  Speaker 1: about themselves... Wayne has told us this for years, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Wayne might join us at 725. Maybe
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: we'll give him the day off because we're not coming
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  Speaker 1: off a Packers game. But he's told us for years, like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't... has basically become preseason part two. It's where
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  Speaker 1: everything gets kind of filtered out, and then you find
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  Speaker 1: out what team you've got after you play four regular
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  Speaker 1: season games, right? That's just the way it is. And
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  Speaker 1: especially with 17 games, it's hard to get any handle
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  Speaker 1: on are.
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  Speaker 2: We good or not.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of guessing at this point in the season. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and Billy's beloved Duvall's look like pretty good. Like they
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  Speaker 1: could be a, the Jacksonville could be a deep playoff
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  Speaker 1: run Superbowl team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Add division that will drag them down in the estimation
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  Speaker 1: of people, but they're good team.
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  Speaker 2: They're, they don't look like they have many flaws.
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  Speaker 3: It seemed to seem like they have everything that you need.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully they don't have to face Josh Allen in the
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  Speaker 3: wildcard round again this year. But I mean, Good coaching,
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  Speaker 3: good offense, good defense, well-oiled machine. But again, we're two
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  Speaker 3: weeks in. Well, and the AFC North was Comedy Central
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: a year ago, and everybody's above. 500, and that Steelers-Bengals
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  Speaker 3: game yesterday was phenomenal entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: Not if you're a defensive fan.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not if you like defense, but fitting that it
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  Speaker 3: ended on a defensive play. The four teams right now
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  Speaker 3: that can boast and celebrate that they're 3-0... I think
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  Speaker 3: there's two of which that you could have guessed. One
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  Speaker 3: picked in the top 10 last year in Kansas City,
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  Speaker 3: so they have a chance to not go worse to
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  Speaker 3: first because the team behind them last year in the
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  Speaker 3: overall standings is one of the others. The Raiders and
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  Speaker 3: Vikings being undefeated, I think there's a lot of folks
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  Speaker 3: you could have woke up in August and said, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's a sweet dream, but there's no chance that's actually happening.
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  Speaker 3: And instead, look at that AFC West. Kansas City and
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas, 3-0. Denver 2-1 with the only drop being
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  Speaker 3: a absolute drumming at the hands of Kansas City in
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  Speaker 3: week number one where they walked into a lion's den.
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  Speaker 3: And then the media's favorite, Justin Herbert and the LA Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: Holy cats! 0-3! Somebody's got to flip that around. There's
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  Speaker 3: no way they lost to the Cardinals. And they got what?
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  Speaker 3: Five turnovers?
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  Speaker 2: They got five turnovers yesterday in Buffalo and still couldn't
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  Speaker 2: win the game.
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  Speaker 5: And they still couldn't win the game. I mean, good
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  Speaker 5: luck trying to make sense of this league, but To
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  Speaker 5: your point, guys, it's like it'll change anyway in a
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  Speaker 5: dime next week. I mean, that's just the way this
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  Speaker 5: thing goes. And early in the season, you know, yes,
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  Speaker 5: early in the season, but I mean, middle, late season.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this is the way the NFL is now. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like I said, after the game, that's just
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  Speaker 5: the one thing that still gives me hope for the
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  Speaker 5: Packers is that things can change quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And what you think you see now might not be reality.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I mean, yeah, figure it out. The Bills had
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  Speaker 5: to come back. How about the Commanders beating the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: with the third, fourth coming of Marcus Mariota? I'm not
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  Speaker 5: really sure, but maybe he's reviving his career. I didn't
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: see that one coming. Is Drake May good? I'm not
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  Speaker 5: sure it didn't look like it. I mean, he almost
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  Speaker 5: won the MVP last year. There's a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Things in this league.
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  Speaker 5: Who are the Texans? Um, the Browns. Hello. This is
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  Speaker 5: Sean Watson. Maybe reviving himself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you just can't, you just don't get, just don't know.
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  Speaker 5: You just don't get anything.
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  Speaker 2: Like the NFL from week to week. It's just amazing. Meanwhile, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mikey Lafleur's Cardinals gave the 49ers a scare. Everything they
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  Speaker 2: can handle and more. That team is playing feisty. Playing
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  Speaker 2: feisty under the new coach. How many Packers fans would
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: just switch brothers? You know? Yeah, exactly. Oh man. They're
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  Speaker 2: just asking. They're just asking. Well, they're, They're switching offensive linemen.
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  Speaker 2: They brought in a veteran. Yeah, did we get the
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  Speaker 2: bad one? Did we get hosed? Is that the problem there?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the problem there? Little brother. But the Packers
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  Speaker 2: have a new offensive lineman to play with, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not Colson. What's his name again? Colson. No, not Volson,
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  Speaker 2: the young man.
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  Speaker 3: Instead, Lincoln Tomlinson, who's been around the block quite a
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  Speaker 3: bit for the former Duke Blue Devil first-round pick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, played a lot of ball.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and at some point maybe they do realize we
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  Speaker 3: need some guys that can pick this system up quick.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they're going to have to play pretty quickly. He's probably,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably seen just about everything you can see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, he'll know which guy to be in
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  Speaker 2: front of.
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  Speaker 3: The tough thing is drew and watching it, uh, watching
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  Speaker 3: some of it back over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Um, It wasn't as much.
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  Speaker 3: That you didn't see what you had seen the Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: Falcons line up and do. Atlanta Falcons lined up and
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  Speaker 3: brought a lot of four-man pressures and just said, would
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  Speaker 3: you like us to bring the heat from the right
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  Speaker 3: side or the left side? Because that will be who
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  Speaker 3: wins their one-on-one matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Any stunt led to a matchup where they just obliterated
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  Speaker 2: the heat. Oh, my goodness. You can't even call it resistance. No.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: The more you watch it, when you watch the ISOs
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  Speaker 1: and stuff and you're, Orlovsky did a nice breakdown of like,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: this is a great play design. Like, look at what
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: happened to these guys. Are you got four guys blocking one?
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: What are we doing?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Like won't work very often. No, it horrific.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: And the tough thing was there's, there's now been three
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: weeks and all three weeks. I think there's been a
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: worst per a new worst performing spot on the offensive line. Now,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: not necessarily individual people, but, but the way you mentioned
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: the combinations, the three interior folks, uh, had a real
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: rough night on Thursday night.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: They didn't win a play.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: No, and not absolving Jordan Morgan on the outside because
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: it might not be the greatest achievement to have, but
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: he was the best of all five on Thursday night
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: and took some real strides at least forward, but goodness gracious,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Anthony Belt was trying out there. There were a couple
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: of plays where you're like, okay, there's a second-round pick,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: and then there were some times where you go, hmm,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: that was a second-round pick. There were a lot of
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: moments where you started to groan consecutively by watching the
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: plays up front.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: It's pretty wild.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Then my favorite stat now is the narratives in the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: league and the way things get cast. I guess Hoddercourt
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: and I used to have a category for it. We
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: called the guy Poor Devil. Yeah, Poor Devil.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: That was the bless your heart. It was Poor Devil.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And the Poor Devil of the NFL for me yesterday
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: was Mr. Joe Burrow. Ooh, that fits. Now he is.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: The stat that he is not... He's 1-34 when trailing
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: in the last eight minutes of a game.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: My goodness. 1-34 when trailing.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Most teams went trailing in the last minute. Yeah, most
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: teams are going to lose, right?
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: The overall record in the NFL when you're trailing with
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: eight minutes left. But one of 34 is Stark. And
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: what he's doing, though, he's, I mean, I guess good
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: enough to lose, but he's putting it up.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: He's playing well.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I was going to say. The numbers are fine.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Three tutties yesterday, I think, right? I mean, he's playing
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: really well.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: If you could possibly find the adjustment in there to
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: see how many times they've lost while they retook the lead.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Retook the lead.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: That was the only.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: After that video. That was the only Aaron Rodgers thing
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: from 2008. I mean, it was the same type of deal, really.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: It was fumble. Yeah, fumble late. And then it's just, man.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: It does seem like he should have better results. I'll
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: admit that. Yes. For what he's done. Like, for instance,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: he's been a good fantasy quarterback for me. But you're right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: He's not getting the team results that I think he
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: would wish to have with the performances he's having. Now,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: are they going to hang that whole can't come back
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: thing on him like they did with Aaron early in
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: his career?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Just because, like, he was always up and never left. Well,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: he did come back 21-3 and win the AFC title
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: game on the road. That probably helps.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: That helps.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, they'd also done a lot of it
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: in their first two games with defense, and Dexter Lawrence
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: had been a huge part of it. He was a
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: problem yesterday, but he was far from the problem for Cincinnati.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Their secondary just got carved up by old A-Rod.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: But to your point, I think that is an example
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: of a team, like, we talk about early in the
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: year things being in, you know, like are unpredictable and
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: not consistent. That's a guy and a team and an offense.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I could see getting better and consistent as the year
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: goes on. Like you just say, you don't know what's
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: going to happen now. And it's been choppy early in
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: the year, but it does seem like what he has
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and how he looks like that. That's a team that
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: will figure it out, or at least an offense that
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: will start to win games.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think so.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You don't think their offense is figured out with Jamar
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Chase having nine grabs for 98 yards and a tug?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Six grabs for 90?
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: I think the offense is. That's what I'm saying.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Running for four and a half a tote?
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: They're going to start winning games more consistently because of it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: I think the offense is good, is my point. The
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: early season choppiness of the results is what I'm talking about.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: But I think they will be more consistent. That's a
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: team that, to me, portends good things to come because
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: of their offense.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Sure. Yeah, their offense has been this for the last
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: four years. I think they're going to win games. That's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: what I'm telling you.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Well, okay.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: But their offense hasn't won them games in the last
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: four years. Their offense is, what I'm saying, Armin, is
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: their offense has done this ever since they've gone to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. Why Drew is saying is, Joe Burrow,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: you look at the numbers that he has put up
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: in all of those years since.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: He's in the top five. Yeah, but he was hurt
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: for a while.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: He was hurt for a while. I mean, that was
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: a big part of that as well. Yeah, there's one
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: year that he gets dinged up.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: But....
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: He now has had two to three years where he
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: has been statistically the one or second best quarterback in
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the regular season, and they've missed the playoffs because they
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: just can't get any shred of defense and any.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Kind of help with them.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: That's why he's the poor devil because he's putting up numbers.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And since, like, 21, he's up there with Josh Allen,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and he's up there with everybody. And all the advanced metrics,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: all the EPA, and all the stuff that everybody loves.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, they've fallen over. He's terrific.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: But, Armand, to your point, their defense is so horrific
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that they can't outscore it. They can't outscore their defensive problems.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And then, much like the Packers are going to have
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a hard time, their defense could be great, but still
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: not be able to withstand the horrible offense.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, and 24 was, I mean, he had a historic
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: season in 24. They missed the playoffs, and he would
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: have walked into the MVP. That was the second, I think,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: that Lamar one, he would have wanted if they could
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: have done anything, but they couldn't. He even said it
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: in the, after the season, post post game press conference,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: they had asked somebody goes, yeah, I don't think you
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: win it at eight and nine.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think you win it if you don't go
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: to the playoffs. So, yeah, he's done this. I mean,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: he's thrown for almost 750 yards in three games and
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: six tugs. But there's a reason why people were wondering
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: if it doesn't get figured out there in Cincinnati this year.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Is he the next great quarterback to say, you know what?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder if this grass is greener somewhere else.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: If their defense did. Much of anything. I'd consider them,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: like Jacksonville, a possible Super Bowl team. Real team that
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: you could contend with. They just don't look at that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: They're definitely explosive enough on offense. You're right. And the
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: defense has to get better.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: The defense is bad. Because I don't think the Steelers
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: are that great.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I'd rather have him than Drake May. Let's put it
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: that way. I mean, that's why I think this league
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: is funny sometimes. And Drake May almost won MVP last year.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: But I don't think I ever thought he'd be as
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: good as Joe Burrow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I still don't. The one thing about Burrow. When you
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: watch him, and I was watching that Steelers game. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: wasn't like hate watching Aaron Rodgers. I was watching.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But Burrow, there are some quarterbacks who just seem to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: take more shots than anybody else. It's the Archie Manning Award.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Or Jim Kelly was like that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Jim Kelly, Justin Herbert. There are some guys
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: who just, they're a magnet. And stuff after the play.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: He got blocked. He got hit by TJ Watt. Yeah,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: he got whacked by Watt a couple of times. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: he gets dinged more than most players. And it's just something,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Is there a, is there a way of saying it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: And I don't know exactly what the, the adjective would be.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Drew, he also, it looks much worse when he gets hit. Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: It's not like that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: He curls down and makes it look worse, but he
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: falls in such a way where you don't know if
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: he's ever getting up similar to Jaden Daniels. Like he
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: gets poked. He didn't play yesterday. I don't know when
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: he's going to play again. Mark's Mariotto gray hair out there.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: gray as the day was Marcus Mariota's hair. When he
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: pulled off that helmet, Victoria's after beating the champs. Listen,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly when he comes back, but when
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: he does, there's only one thing, you know, by Jane Daniels,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: he's going to get hit and it's going to look
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: painful on the couch. Burrow is right there in that
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: same camp. So you're not in the, not in the
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Drake may fan club, huh?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not impressed.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: No, absolutely not.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I wasn't loving him last year.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Everybody else was, I understand why he did perform well, mostly, but,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: And the team did well as well. But I don't know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I'm just definitely not right now. It didn't look good
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: to me.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Maybe I'm crazy.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't look good. Didn't look good. Well, we got plenty
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to unpack today, including. What is our thought on the Padres?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Do you want to face them, or do you want
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: to face the Cubs again right out of the chute? Oh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I want the Cubs again. Bring them on, baby. Bring
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Chicago one more time. I'm kind of with you. I'm
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: kind of with you, but that's such a circus, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it's so draining. Oh, yes, it is.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: You do have to ask yourself, do you expend a
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: lot of emotional energy going through that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: You do, kind of.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: No, I do. I don't know about the team.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I say bring a Championsphere, no one, and whoever comes
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: out of that. I fear Mason Miller more than anybody
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I do on the Cubs.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: They're both good.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: That's the problem.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I do fear PCA is pretty good, too. They're both good.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a time today, folks. The Badgers
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: won a game. We got to talk about them. That's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: nice to have them to talk about in a positive light.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: It's about damn time. With the Packers struggling the way
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they have. But hey, as we've seen, NFL not for long.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Packers might be tied with the Bears after tonight.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Well, right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, right now they're tied with the Rams in
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the NFC playoff race.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Packers and Rams sitting there at one and two. Two
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: teams that are thinking we're going to be undefeated. Maybe
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: we want your input.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, one 97, three of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Nicolet law.com.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Talk and text on.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: You are in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, Drew, Billy,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and Armin coming at you on a Monday in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: good land game balls and kicks to the balls. We'll
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: tee up at six o'clock. You can get them to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: us early. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four, one 97,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: three Nicolet law.com. Talking text line, fertile territory, lots of,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: lots of fresh powder on the game balls and kicks today.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Um, We're going to have some fun with that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart's recap of the Brewers' 103rd victory of the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: season comes up in the next segment of the program.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Sweet graphic they put up on the Jumbotron. A little
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: dancing 103 celebration yesterday. It looked like a live crowd.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Somebody walked away with $ 52, 000 on their 50-50 raffle. That's amazing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: It was a great crowd, obviously, but it means people
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: were in a great mood. Sellout crowds throughout the weekend.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I think they ended up they said the number, I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: can't remember how many sellouts. It was less than 30.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It was like 28 maybe, I think, in the season.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: But they ended up knocking on almost 2.8 million.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, so baseball reference credited him
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: for 2.78, 7th out of 15 in the National League.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So that's pretty dang good. Yeah, they're in the upper...
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: or third of the league, of the majors. They're probably
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a top 10, 11 team in attendance.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: They've now taken out a number of seats since the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: days where they first started knocking on 3 million, it
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: felt like, all the time. That's a good point. They've
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: started taking out a decent amount. They're up into that
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: upper level. Yeah, where they built the.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Numbers, guys. They built the ivory. Is that technically the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: ivory tower? It's the layer for the analytics. The ivory tower.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it sounds weird, I guess, when you say
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: it that way.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Silicon Tower doesn't sound nearly as right.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, they used to say Silicon Valley, but yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: the Silicon Tower does sound kind of odd.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I agree. But you're right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: It's the numbers. It's for expanded mattress guys.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: That's what it was. It was a baseball. They might
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: like Silicon in there. I mean, why not? You could
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: walk in there if they had some. I'm not mad
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: about it. They might could. They might be interested in
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: some of it. They might like what it looks like. So,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: had a discussion. Oh, I was at, when the Badgers
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: game unfolded, the end of the Badgers game. I was
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: actually in a perfect spot. I was upstairs at the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Hey, that's a celebration. Big 12 Sports Saturday show from there.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: So our pal Luis had a great time. And we
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: were there, and then we finished, and the comeback was unfolding.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm not going anywhere. I'm in this
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: VIP overlook. Yeah, not walking away from that seat. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: second deck of the VIP with the secret elevator entrance.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, where am I? So I... And then.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: That's a beautiful spot to be able to watch that unfold.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: It was interesting because, you know, if you spend... The
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: sports book, the Brewers were on a side TV. They
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: had the Badger game. And then the game, the main screen,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the big screen, was USC. Because, you know, you go
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with the biggest game that people have the most money on.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: There was a lot riding on that Oregon-USC game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And then the Badgers, like, towards the end, as then,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they had to shift it over, like, to make sure.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Especially.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: when Penn State was driving, because as great as the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: touchdown was with a minute and a half left, the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: defensive stand, there were some plays, teasing a little game ball,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: but a young man broke up a.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Couple passes that were huge.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, Javon Robinson would be
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the first one in line, number two in that Badger secondary.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: My man was.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Uh, he was able to save the day a couple
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: of times because man backed is a serious cat. He
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: entered the, he entered the portal this year. Now he
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: entered the portal with one of these awesome, uh, do
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: not contact me tags, by the way, I know where
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm going. So I'm shutting my phone off. Don't, don't
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: disturb me at this point. Uh, he entered the portal
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: with the most wins by any active quarterback in FBS. So,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's won before he's won all, all of
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: it with Matt Campbell and company, but And his best day,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: his best time through the year was on that last
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: drive because he had two or three. The one into
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the corner of the end zone, I didn't realize was
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: as close to being completed until I watched it later
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: into the postgame. But the one where number four is
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: just standing all alone.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, yeah.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: There was a quick sudden heart drop here in the
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: studio while we were watching that one. But really impressed
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: for a couple of things.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Obviously.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Being able to put up those kind of points in
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: sudden fashion, having a guy that you bring in from
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Bowling Green who can run 72 to the house and
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: stiff arm safety like Jacob Harris did, that's big time.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And he started to show some of those throughout the year.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: He's in the game against, it was not Western Illinois,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan. He had three grabs in 90 yards. but
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: it was like three 30 yard catch and run. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: he was, he has some, some yak in them. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: he had at least shown the explosiveness there, but to
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: see them be able to put that thing to the
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: side and continue to fight. Cause I mean, they didn't
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: just spot Penn state 14 points. They handed them gift
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: wrapped them. And then had to keep going and playing.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: That's a really, really impressive one. They also don't really
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: have Abu Sama for most of the game, who he
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: wanted to be able to go up against those Iowa
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: State cats who he played with and played under Coach
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Campbell for a while there in Ames. But a guy
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: that you guys had out at Summerfest a couple of
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: years ago. I remember when Darion Dupree committed, Braylon Allen
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: was hanging out with him.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: That's right. He was an iron jock guy.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: And Darion Dupree, one of the few hang holdovers here
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: from the first year of the new regime. And he
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: proved big time, not only this week. He's got a
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: real burst to him. But the last couple of weeks,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: he's had broke off long runs, had a touchdown run
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. So there were huge moments
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: in there. But for that defense, Drew, I mean, they
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: held back to 114 passing yards on 12 completions.
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  Speaker 2: That was a dominating effort.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Huge it was absolutely dominant so yeah that that was
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a just unexpected just a little uh you know unexpected
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: treat has seen the conversation too well and it's funny
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: i said that immediately and i told louise like okay
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: well i kind of thought the michigan state game was
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: going to be like a defining game for the best
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: i didn't expect them.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: To win and have.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Now, the bar has been raised to the point where
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that's becoming a must-win game.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, it's like, well, what did that mean? Oh, it
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: feels like a huge waste. Yes, you're right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: You've got to pay it off now.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: This is a pivot point.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You're turning a corner if you start stacking success, but
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: losing to Michigan State after winning in Happy Valley would
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: be horrific because Michigan State just got boat-raced at home
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: by Nebraska, right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: And it's like you want to get back.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: To the tier where you're competing or beating those teams,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: which the Badgers have fallen out of now, and it's like,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Let's get there.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Let's continue the ascent, right? Start rolling with a little
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: bit of consistency and some confidence. Yeah, and maybe a
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: little juice in the building.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: There should be. Matt even said it. Hey, come on
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: out and join us. There's going to be some spots
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: available for you to come on out and join in.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: On Saturday afternoon. You know, Sparty, it's like now this
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: is games. Now we'll see. It's like you have to
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: wait to see if it was real. 100%. Validate it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Got to validate it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And this is funny because I always love to call
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: out my own hypocrisy. I do think that if the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Badgers lose, well, what did that mean Saturday night? It
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was fun to watch, but if they're not making progress
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and stacking success, it's an inflection point of their season.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: They beat Michigan State, it's like the snowball's rolling down
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the hill a little bit. The more and more fan interest.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Get a little momentum. His seat's not as hot as
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: it was, and let's roll. Conversely, we had a discussion
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: on the TV show Saturday. My colleagues, Dario Melendez and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Steph Sutton, friends of the program, they're in the camp
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that well, the Brewers won 103, but it doesn't mean anything.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: If they don't do well in the playoffs. It's just
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: a waste.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not a yes and no. Sure, yeah,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the expectations are there, but you can't do anything else.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: So it's not meaningless. It's never happened. The Milwaukee Braves
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: never won 100 games. They went to two World Series,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: won one. They never won 100 games. 100 games is
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a great accomplishment. And if you win, if you finish
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: with the best record in baseball every year, seven years
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in a row, you're going to fall into a world
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: series title at one point, right?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: By being that excellent. It's it tracks.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You can't win the world series between March and October.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: You can't, they don't, they don't award the trophy. You
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: sure can't lose it on everything.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And you win the series that you don't have to play.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: They've already won a series. They got one in the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: bank by not playing this week. So I'd see what
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: they're saying that the expectation is that, well, anything less
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: than winning a pennant and going to the world series.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is then makes the whole season a waste. And I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: know it's like Adonazio summer of entertainment and drama, uh,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Stearns bites of the apple.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: That's what it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Is, but you can't do anything else.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I can't fault an organization that has won the two
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: years in a row posted the best record in baseball.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Now they didn't win the world series because of the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: randomness of the playoffs and vagaries of the sport can
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: talk about payroll disparity or whatever, but you overcome payroll
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: disparity all through the season.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you can't do it. in the next month.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What has happened in the last four post seasons or
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: five posts or whatever you want to say, however many
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: you stack up, it leads nothing and will not be
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: a determiner as to why they, will or won't get
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: home this year. But Drew, to your point, you can't
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: do anything more than what they've done right now. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: for a full season accomplishment, there's rare things that need
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: to be celebrated and remembered.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Winning 100 games is that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: If the Badgers hauled off and went perfect through the
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Big Ten, they win the Big Ten regular season, like
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Greg Gard has done a number of different times over
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: the last couple of years.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Those are things that should be remembered and celebrated.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Even if you get whatever it was, holy crossed or high-pointed,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: And some kid goes goal key on you and hits
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: a 40 footer and you lose in sudden fashion. That
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: randomness to me doesn't take away from the entire year.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: But one game and the momentum you're trying to get
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: in a season, yeah, that can be stunted in six days.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I will allow that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're having any parades or reunions
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: for the 2001 Seattle Mariners. Who went 116 and 46.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: It almost becomes an anchor around your neck if you
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: win that much and don't win.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: They won 71% of their games. 116 and 46. Best
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: record ever.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Crazy.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: And then lost.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So I get that. But for me, it's like this
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: summer was not a failure.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Of course not. The season was not a failure.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Independent.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: We can separate the two. There's the regular season and
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: there's the playoffs. The regular season, A +.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: A + +.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: The playoffs.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Still uh indetermined luckily luckily they're on different report cards.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah so but that's harder and harder for fans
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: yeah it is it is to separate the two because
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: there's just no way i'm calling the season a failure
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: i mean they might lose in the first round i
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: said they could beat anybody they can lose anybody if
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: they lose in the first round well you look back
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: did Were you not entertained?
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Dodgers have now become the gold standard
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: of organizations. And since 2017, they've won 100 games. I
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: believe my math is correct here. Five times. You know
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: how many of those five years they won the World Series?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Zero. Zero. They went to one of them.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Great point.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: So there you go. When you cash in with 93,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: nobody will care. You continue to put yourself in position.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: One will come home.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: We just got to get one of these things and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: come home. Just get him to break through. You can't
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: put yourself in a better position than the Brewers have.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Just got to beat these sons of guns this year.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Period.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Have to beat them. Absolutely.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Brewers, Hunter Baumgart's recap of the game yesterday,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: game 162, is coming up next. You're in the huddle,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armin huddled up
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: on a Monday in the good land. Victory Monday for
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the Brewers and the Badgers. And I guess the Packers
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: because they didn't play.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, come on.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: And according to Cal Shee Sports, they right now have
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: a 21% chance to make the playoffs.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Not the worst in the NFC.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: That's a 6% that is held to Mike LaFleur's Cardinals.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Hey, now.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Giants and Commanders, then the Packers.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: It could be worse. It could be worse. It could
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: be worse. It could be more impressive. That's the funny thing.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: You can reach us, 877-794-1973, NicoletLaw.com. Talk a text on
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: game balls and kick the balls, warm it up in
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the bullpen. Right now, however, let's spin through Hunter Baumgart's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: recap of the Brewers. 103rd victory of the season. The
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: final tune-up, if you will, for Jacob Mizoroski. Take it away, Hunter.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: Thanks, guys. The historic regular season for the Milwaukee Brewers
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: came to an end yesterday with a 6-4 win over
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: the St. Louis Cardinals, fitting that they end the season
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: with a sweep 103 and 59, the record 44 games
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: over 500 for the first time in franchise history. Absolutely incredible.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: They won the NL central by 14 games. That's the
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: largest margin they've ever won the NL central by what
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: a season, what a team can't wait for the playoffs.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Now also got to say what a fan base 25th
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: sellout of the season yesterday, Bryce Durang talked after the
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: game about how important it has been to have the
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: fan support here all year.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, wow.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I was telling Yelly, I'm like, man, it seems like
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: the last two months we've not seen a lot of games.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: The fans have been great.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Coming to every game, supporting us. So many people could
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: say it, but I don't think people realize how much
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: that does for us as a team, how much it
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: does for the players. Just having the energy and the
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: support behind you. I mean, the fans are great here.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: They see you out on the street.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: They're very nice.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: They're they're uh they root for us so it's really
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: cool to see um yeah this city's great.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: So and Brewers manager Pat Murphy added on to that
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: saying he doesn't think they would have swept the Cardinals
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: and played this well to end the season if they
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: didn't have the fan support that they have had all
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: weekend long.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: If 25,000 fans showed up all weekend they wouldn't have
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: played the way they did uh it was motivating to
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: them um And they felt that responsibility that we've mentioned
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: a bunch of times to play their brand of ball.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: So shout out to you Brewers fans for showing up
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: all season long. All right, NLDS game one Saturday. Looking
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: forward to it. Stay tuned for our updates as far
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: as our coverage and our pregame shows throughout the postseason.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: We do know that on Thursday, there'll be a Milwaukee
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: baseball tonight at four o'clock getting you set for the postseason.
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• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter B. Let's go.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I like that little shout-out to the fans that Hunter gave, too.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was something else.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Shout-out to you, Brewers fans.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: It was a good atmosphere this weekend. They had already
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: won 100. I was giving our pal Spencer a hard
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: time at the Packers game.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: That was awesome. Why is that?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Another flannel shirt? Well, of course. Yeah, but you got
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: to wear a uniform.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Our buddy Spencer Michaels, when the Brewers won their 100th game,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: He's like, well, if they win the 100th game, I'm
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: not going to go on Friday. I'm like, you're a frontrunner,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you bandwagoner.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: 101's not good enough for you?
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Just another jaded veteran.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I take a bite of my pack and cheese, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: I almost choked on it. He's like, well, I'll be
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: there Saturday and Sunday. I'm like, well, what about Friday?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: It's like Hunter and Kurt Hogan, Todd Rosiak don't take
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: games off.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Any of them not being there? That should clinch his
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: membership to the Milwaukee Press Club, shouldn't it?
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: By having that take.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: It was so awesome. Spencer is so caught off guard.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I had to beat him up. I was just kidding,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: but I had to beat him up. You had him going, yeah. Hook, line,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: and sinker. And there's nothing better than when somebody is
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: that gullible and you have them right there, and then
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: it just gets crushed. Like our boy Matt Schneidman was
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: on Pat McAfee on Friday talking about the disastrous Packers L.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: He came on right after Johnny Knoxville, who they announced
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: was going to be the guest picker on college game day. And,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: you know, Pat welcomed on Schneidman is like, you know,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: you know, Johnny Knoxville, probably very influential in your life too.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Schneid's ends the interview and he goes, uh, and you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Johnny Knoxville just said, tell that kid. And then, the
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: nice backdrop in the backwards hat, I say hello. And
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: thanks for the kind words. It's timing right away.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Did he really? No, we'll see you later.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Thanks, bud.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Right off the screen.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: You can see all of Schneidman's hopes and dreams dashed.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Matt said it was such a thrill for him to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: follow Johnny Knoxville. He was seen every episode of Jackass
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: multiple times.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: That's the funniest.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Part for me. And Wayne Larrabee in there is your dagger.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: All right, get your game balls and kicks of the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: balls ready. We're going to have some fun today. It
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was a glorious weekend as we get ready for another
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: week here in the fall, our overlap season. We get
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: ready for what? The rollercoaster ride with the Brewers is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: going to be fantastic. And it kicks off on Saturday.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.