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08/28/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Talking about a Brewers victory, 8-1. Talking about Packers practice
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  Speaker 1: against the always hated but never feared Arizona Cardinals, who
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  Speaker 1: they will play Friday night at Lambeau Field in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason finale. Cutdown day in the NFL is Sunday. Packers
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  Speaker 1: got to get to 53. We'll do that dance where
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  Speaker 1: we agonize and say, no way, that guy's getting through waivers.
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  Speaker 1: And then he'll get through waivers and go to the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: Drew, I'm excited to start stressing about Mark Perry being
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  Speaker 4: released on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about that. Especially guys who have a
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  Speaker 1: big game on Saturday, and it doesn't matter because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get cut and then put on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Will Shepard goes out and catches two touchdowns on Friday night.
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  Speaker 4: We are going to be very fired up about how
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  Speaker 4: on earth are you going to cut this guy potentially here.
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  Speaker 1: The Stillers. you know, whom, whom the Packers saw a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, it seems like two months ago,
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  Speaker 1: the Packers played, you know, McCarthy and Rogers, the reunion
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  Speaker 1: there's talk that they like McCarthy's tempted to keep four
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks on the roster. Like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Come on. He's never done that. And that won't happen,
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  Speaker 1: but like their preseason, I think they play tonight. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds right. I saw the whole, I saw the whole
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  Speaker 1: way and Al are like going to be a split
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  Speaker 1: in time and they're talking about that. Maybe they'll keep it.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're not going to keep four quarterbacks. There's just
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  Speaker 1: no chance. It just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 4: And when now, if you really firmly believe that Aaron
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  Speaker 4: Rogers isn't going to play 17 games, but then, but
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  Speaker 4: still like you still need to feel the 53 man
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  Speaker 4: roster and you got to have five or six wide receivers.
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  Speaker 4: Like you just can't make it up on this side
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  Speaker 4: type of roster. It's still the number one position. And so,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's the bottom of the roster. Controvers Packers are,
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much buttoned up. Kyle McCord is going to be
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  Speaker 4: the three guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be right.
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  Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. A lot of folks are saying, let's trade
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  Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. Some team might want him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, some team that might be trying to win their
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  Speaker 4: division and go win games in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like the Packers are trying to do. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: McCord's going to get through waivers. He'll be fine.
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  Speaker 4: He'll come right back out of the practice squad, and
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  Speaker 4: he'll be a beautiful break glass in case of emergency.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the interesting one, Drew, was yesterday when Goody
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  Speaker 4: was talking pre-practice. And asked about Pierre Strong, who we
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  Speaker 4: definitely gushed about after that Broncos game. Kick return, looked
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  Speaker 4: good on the offensive side. He could have a big game,
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  Speaker 4: and he also might get cut because he had just
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  Speaker 4: mentioned it. The game day elevation is a weapon. Being
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  Speaker 4: able to elevate guys three times before you have to
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  Speaker 4: put them on the active roster, that means they're going
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  Speaker 4: to be utilizing that coming up pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: Big time. big time um interesting quarterback talk though because
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  Speaker 1: they went through it in cleveland and they landed on
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  Speaker 1: deshaun watson to the chagrin of many many yes and
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  Speaker 1: like they have the they have the first two games
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  Speaker 1: on the road for him to get things ironed out
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  Speaker 1: before he has to play in the dog pound and
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  Speaker 1: if things aren't going well that'll be a that'll be
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  Speaker 1: a hot bed they'll bring a lot of fun pitch
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  Speaker 1: forks and torches the other interesting one is tua Because
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix has returned to practice, and there are folks
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  Speaker 1: who think he should start. That Tua just doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: invested in it right now and just not having a
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  Speaker 1: great camp. And, like, how can they just hand him
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  Speaker 1: the keys when Penix is there anyway? And if Penix
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  Speaker 1: is even ready, even though he hasn't had much of
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  Speaker 1: a camp, he's just gotten to where he's doing 11-on-11 stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So how does that end up going? Or do they
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  Speaker 1: just cut Tua because they have no money tied up
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  Speaker 1: in him and it'll be no cap hit?
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  Speaker 4: You just cut him. And that's the thing, Drew. You
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  Speaker 4: very much could just cut him, and you wouldn't lose anything.
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  Speaker 4: That being said, you could also cut him in week
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  Speaker 4: four when Penix is fully ready if you want to
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  Speaker 4: give him some more of a buildup.
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  Speaker 1: The tough thing is they have the most injured quarterback
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  Speaker 1: room of all time. He has the headaches is coming
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  Speaker 1: off of, I think his third ACL.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's been banged up early in his career.
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  Speaker 4: And, and two is dropping snaps. Like you can clearly
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  Speaker 4: tell he's nervous about getting hit. That's just part of
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  Speaker 4: his career. If indeed it's, if indeed they get ready
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  Speaker 4: to listen, they could have Cooper rush start games. It's
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  Speaker 4: not like any NFL team hasn't done that before. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing is like, well, why keep to
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  Speaker 1: a Cooper rushes just as good or this guy, Jack Strand,
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  Speaker 1: the undrafted free agent from Minnesota Moorhead. Who's dicing it up.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing well. It's like, well, Tua would count like
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  Speaker 1: a million and a half if they cut him. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's what his salary is. So it's like nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It's also like the burden of, like, if Tua gets
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  Speaker 3: hit again and you have more issues with the concussions, like,
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  Speaker 3: it's a heavy burden to be around that and be
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  Speaker 3: the team that's got to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: They signed him and all that stuff. From all the
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  Speaker 1: insiders and my boy, you know. D Orlando.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: People there just say that he just doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: he's loving football right now.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, and that seems like what, uh,
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  Speaker 4: what bow tie sports had mentioned a number of different times.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, you just tell, you can't do they, the
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  Speaker 4: investment isn't the same necessarily. So do they have to
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  Speaker 4: put their, and you got two weeks before the, you know, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you, I am, uh, get the, the, the
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  Speaker 4: keys and they, they move on from to it. Cause
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  Speaker 4: It seems to me like Tua either starts week one
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  Speaker 4: or you cut him. The idea of having him back
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  Speaker 4: up doesn't seem like it's shrewd. Just like, and this
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  Speaker 4: is where I would defend the Browns thought process a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. You already have to pay the money for Deshaun, right?
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  Speaker 4: That one's not a million and a half that you're
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  Speaker 4: writing off the books. And at that point, you're paying it.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to lose the starter if you don't play
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  Speaker 4: him right away, or the veteran if you don't play
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  Speaker 4: him right away. There's no problem with going out, seeing
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  Speaker 4: if you can catch lightning in a bottle. You can
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  Speaker 4: always go back to the young guy. My man Jack Strand, though,
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  Speaker 4: Jack from Bloomer, Bloomer, Wisconsin zone. I'll be pulling for
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  Speaker 4: him to potentially get the gig, because if you're Matt
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  Speaker 4: Ryan and company there in Atlanta, you have nothing tied
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  Speaker 4: to any of these guys. You got a million and
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  Speaker 4: a half to two. You've got like the final year
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  Speaker 4: of Penix when he expires here. And then you go
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  Speaker 4: into your draft next year where Matt Ryan can go
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  Speaker 4: and finally find his new Matty Ice in a quarterback
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  Speaker 4: rich draft. Like it's a weird spot because I think
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  Speaker 4: their roster is better than that. But their best plan
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  Speaker 4: of action might just be to be looking towards 27.
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  Speaker 1: If this is if this situation were happening under last
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  Speaker 1: year's circumstances, would they be calling and saying, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: What would it take for us to get Malik Willis
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  Speaker 1: from your green Bay? Cause that makes me wonder, would
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  Speaker 1: someone say Tyra Taylor's an upgrade over what we're running
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  Speaker 1: out here?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I, they, well, he would be an upgrade
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  Speaker 4: over a couple of different spots. Right. Different because I
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  Speaker 4: think with Willis, you took the lottery ticket of what
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  Speaker 4: was he? Twenty seven last last year. Like that is
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  Speaker 4: of his athleticism. He would have had with at least
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  Speaker 4: a couple of these teams. The intriguing thought of we
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  Speaker 4: could bring him in right now. And at some point
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  Speaker 4: he could play for us very soon. And we will
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  Speaker 4: feel a lot better than whatever our room is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that would happen with in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If they really think that they can go win the division,
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  Speaker 4: which again, I think they probably did before the Pierce suspension,
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  Speaker 4: their other pass rusher, Jalen Walker towards ACL and cam
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  Speaker 4: right away.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they just isn't like creating crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Panthers wanted at eight and nine.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the thing about it. It's sort of like
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  Speaker 1: the AL.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the Falcons won three of their last
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  Speaker 4: four games last year and then fired their coach. They
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  Speaker 4: closed well, looked like they were maybe going to save
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  Speaker 4: Raheem Morris' job. They won their last four games. It
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  Speaker 4: almost looked like they were going to save his job,
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  Speaker 4: and then they're like, no, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Not going to do this anymore. We're still changing this up.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any sense that they still feel like a
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  Speaker 3: pot committal with Penix because they drafted him so early,
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  Speaker 3: or is that gone when Fontenot's gone?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the old regime, and they don't feel that way?
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  Speaker 4: See, Armin, and it's hard to say because there's only
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  Speaker 4: one person's opinion that probably really matters.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Ryan? No. Arthur Blank. Oh, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he was the one that Terry Fontenot was
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  Speaker 4: trying to explain it to there after he gave Kirk
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  Speaker 4: Cousins to $ 100 million, and then you go and sign
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  Speaker 4: this guy. I don't know what we're doing here, but
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  Speaker 4: try to make it make some sense to me. And
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  Speaker 4: if he believes that they're going to roll with it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Jimmy Haslam mentioned it, that it ends with
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  Speaker 4: D & I.
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  Speaker 1: So Arthur Blank might say it ends with me. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Did Jimmy mess that up when he was talking about
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  Speaker 4: the Deshaun Watson deal? They said it ends with me.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't it start with you potentially? But you know what?
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  Speaker 4: The buck stops here and also throws his wife under
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  Speaker 4: the bus, which I don't think was necessarily needed.
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  Speaker 1: Not shrewd.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to see a couple of different teams that
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  Speaker 4: are trying to make sense of it because Minnesota's in
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  Speaker 4: the same boat. Florio floated it yesterday. He's like, Carson
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  Speaker 4: Wentz is a better player. You already gave the starting
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  Speaker 4: job to Kyler Murray. What's this JJ McCarthy doing here?
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  Speaker 1: You're just trying to still make it work.
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  Speaker 3: Just try to hang around and hope that this car
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  Speaker 3: eventually will start in the garage.
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  Speaker 4: And he threw it out there that, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: next week by Sunday, he's either traded or cut.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're another team and Kevin.
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  Speaker 4: O'Connell didn't think that he can fix you, I don't
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  Speaker 4: have a whole lot of great belief in my operation
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  Speaker 4: to be able to make it work.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. If you get turned down there, like, oof, yikes.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough sell to anybody. So there's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a number of guys. I think drew over the
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  Speaker 4: weekend that end up getting moved and there will be
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  Speaker 4: a couple of Malik Willis like trades, right? Cause what
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  Speaker 4: did the Packers give up a seventh round pick?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Seventh round pick. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And with the amount of picks teams have in this draft,
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  Speaker 4: almost everybody has all of their picks in this draft.
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  Speaker 4: That was one of the unique parts of in 20,
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  Speaker 4: the 26 draft that we just watched in April is,
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  Speaker 4: Sixth and seventh round, people are trading, hey, I'll give
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  Speaker 4: you a 27 fifth for this sixth rounder so I
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  Speaker 4: can take this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you this seventh.
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  Speaker 4: Round so i can go in here nobody was doing
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  Speaker 4: that nobody was doing that a lot of it was
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  Speaker 4: because they thought the talent was going to be so
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  Speaker 4: good coming up in this upcoming draft and also it
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  Speaker 4: gives teams a lot more ammunition to go out and
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  Speaker 4: ship off a sixth rounder if you think that At
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  Speaker 4: some point, you know what? Hey, we took Penix at eight,
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  Speaker 4: but maybe McCarthy at 11 was the right choice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring him in and see.
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  Speaker 4: I do believe he's going to get a shot somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: but I would not be surprised at all if he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't play another down in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're onto something.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the three most intriguing ones, right? The Minnesota
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  Speaker 4: one is going to be fascinating to see how he
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  Speaker 4: actually plays, Kyler being that. But otherwise, there's not a
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  Speaker 4: whole lot of, not to say there's not jobs available,
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  Speaker 4: but like Anthony Richardson's another name. That would be a
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  Speaker 4: fascinating one.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Last year, there was some smoke that he could
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  Speaker 4: possibly get moved. Daniel Jones is coming off of the Achilles,
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  Speaker 4: but he's hitting home runs at that Tyrese Halliburton, Daniel
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  Speaker 4: Jones softball game.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's okay. That's a big step.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's okay. I think, I think he's ready
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  Speaker 4: to play week one. So I don't know if Anthony
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  Speaker 4: Richardson would be available. Quarterback spots going to be up for,
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  Speaker 4: there could be a number of different guys that could,
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  Speaker 4: could change teams coming up here. uh, in the next week.
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  Speaker 4: And I do wonder if there's more teams that trade
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  Speaker 4: after deadline or cut down day than before. We always
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  Speaker 4: think that that 53 man roster means you're safe. And
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  Speaker 4: it might, it might just mean that your ammunition to
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  Speaker 4: be going and flipping to somebody else's squad at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and Wayne told us he expects surprises on cut
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  Speaker 3: down day. So I, I'm curious to see what some
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  Speaker 3: of that is, but, um, I guess that's the fun
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  Speaker 3: of this year. You know, we'll never forget the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Josh Sitton day, right?
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  Speaker 1: Was that the, that's the day. That was the day.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say LSU, Wisconsin game. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was it. That's right. That's right. All right. Uh, eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
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  Speaker 1: So check them out, Billy. Who's our superhero of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of nominations.
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  Speaker 4: One is a kicker for high school, Gainesville, Georgia high school,
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  Speaker 4: Dwayne Carter, son of rapper Lil Wayne, Dwayne Carter, president Carter.
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  Speaker 4: He boots two field goals through against the number one
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  Speaker 4: team in the country. Buford High School down in Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: This looks like the best college stadium in Division II
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  Speaker 4: that I've ever seen that they're playing this high school
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  Speaker 4: game at. That would be a possibility for it. The
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  Speaker 4: other possibility would be Connor Sanger, who, former Wisconsin Badger,
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  Speaker 4: former Oshkosh Titan, still passing game coordinator, passing game specialist
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  Speaker 4: with the Arizona Cardinals. He was in town yesterday. Fifth
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  Speaker 4: season with the Cardinals, who he was a scout team
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  Speaker 4: player of the year for the University of Wisconsin, then
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  Speaker 4: transferred to Oshkosh. Connor grew up in the West Allis area,
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  Speaker 4: one of the great dudes of all time, coached at Whitewater,
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  Speaker 4: coached at Carroll, and now ultimately is coaching in the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: and he's one of the absolute goods. We love being
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  Speaker 4: able to say that. The other one, Drew, that I
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  Speaker 4: would say, and I would love to know how you
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  Speaker 4: guys feel about the potential of this guy being named
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  Speaker 4: a superhero of the day. Can we give it to
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  Speaker 4: Roger Goodell for finally laying the hammer down and just
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  Speaker 4: getting rid of the Pro Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. I'm there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Troy Vincent was a part of it. I
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's just him. I am glad that
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  Speaker 4: we're just finally putting it out to pasture. Take it
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  Speaker 4: out back and be done with the entire thing because
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: we've had so much since 2020 with the pandemic. It's
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: been even more thrown around in a weirder spot. I
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: appreciate that they're finally saying the jig is up. We
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  Speaker 4: understand it's awful. We're going to be done with it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's put it to bed and we're all okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they just It almost felt like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're just.
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  Speaker 1: Dice in some spam and then throw it at them
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  Speaker 1: and they'll eat it. It's like, come on. It wasn't...
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they finally admitted that there's a limit.
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  Speaker 1: Not worth our time. There's a limit to what we'll
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  Speaker 1: accept from the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: It's also like, when they moved it out of Hawaii,
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  Speaker 4: it stopped being... the best players going on vacation and
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: hanging out and like chopping it up. And I think
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: that was where you had the most fun in searing
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: some of the, the old stories like Mike Vanderjack getting
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  Speaker 4: drunk and Peyton Manning calling them out. Like you had,
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  Speaker 4: you had a lot of good things that came out
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: of it. You didn't have a whole lot of good
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: things of Dan Orlowski doing target practice in a conference center.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: As much as Dan Orlowski positive as I am. As
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: much as we love it.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: I don't need to see Dan-O taking off the jacket
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: and throwing balls at targets anymore. I think I'm okay
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: with that one being put to bed. Final one would
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: also be Quentin Barry, potentially an honorable mention for hero
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: of the night.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Good pass set right there. He had to block out PCA.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Great video. That video and that lip reading is phenomenal.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Get him out of here. Get him out of here.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: And really quick, yesterday's hero was Kinley Rasmus from the
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: player from Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: City, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: They lost.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: The dream, unfortunately, has ended now as they lost to Ohio.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: But she had a great tournament.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: What?
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: One of the best to do it. Kinley Rasmus was
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: dominating people, pitching, hitting, everything. Colby Rasmus' niece. We talked
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: about that yesterday, Drew.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah, so she had a great tournament. Keep
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: your head up, Kinley. You had a great tournament.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: But the Phoenix City, Alabama team lost to Ohio, so
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: the dream is over. And really quick shout-out to our
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: man Jesse. It's his son Cooper's birthday. Shout-out to Cooper.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: We've been saying the name Cooper a lot last couple days.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Cooper. And this one is happy birthday to Cooper.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 15:49
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• 16:02
  Speaker 4: I have to, I mean all the comments on the,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: on the little Wayne, uh, sun kicking field goals.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Just too good.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: The Carter four, three might be my favorite one. Uh,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: but this one's definitely the best one. Life is a beach.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: I'm just kicking in the stands.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Are you kidding me? That's just the chef's kiss.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. The lyrics write themselves. And the Lil Wayne
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: in the Packers jersey reveal, the rivalry jersey reveal. He
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: gave us a new verse. It wasn't a full song.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: It was just a verse.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: He's heads.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: He crafted it. I don't know that they got enough
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: money to get a full song out of Wayne.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: They've been commissioning him for a while. You got to
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: be spending a little bit more for that.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: He probably did it just for a trip in and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a suite and sideline passes and a hotel. I'm going
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: to get to bring the kid up into the Lambeau
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: suite again.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Sweet.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: That sounds good. Also, the kid's probably a Packers fan
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: because he's the kicker. He's wearing 82. I love that.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Turn that bad boy around, Trey Smack. We got to
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: get this kid a Trey Smack jersey.
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• 17:02
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• 17:58
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock as the Brewers try to win the series
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in Flushing. Hunter, good morning.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Good morning, guys. How are you?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Great. How about the change in 24 hours, Hunter, with
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the Brewers? Just that palate-cleansing 8-1 victory made everybody forget
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the ugliness and the missed opportunities of the extra inning
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: loss and the Cooper-Pratt controversy and all that stuff. It
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: seems like everything's back to normal again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly what they needed to do. They just
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: needed to come out. four runs early Cooper Pratt beats
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: out an infield ground ball, his first at bat. Like,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: of course it makes so much sense. And then they
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: go from there six straight singles. They do what the,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: what they do, what they do.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: And then they finally get a, a big home run
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: there from Bryce terrain to blow it open. But that,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: that was the type of win they needed. And look,
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I kind of expected that like it's this team does
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: not respond poorly to those types of things. I think
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Robert Gasser is another great example of responding to a
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy move.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt did it again, did it last night.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I just, you know, you can argue and, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: we can get into it and all that as far
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: as the specifics of the benching. But at the end
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: of the day, Pat Murphy does it because he knows
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: that clubhouse and he knows his guys and he knows
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: what his guys are going to respond to. And last
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: night is another perfect example of that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about that in a second, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I'm listening to Sal Freelick a lot. And he said,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: let's not under. value and underscore what Bob did tonight.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: So Robert Gasser, I mean, now because Cooper Pratt gets benched, uh,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: checks notes, Robert Gasser, what was it? Seven days ago
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: gets pulled in a two Oh count. So like be
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: able to respond from that as well. Didn't have a
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: chance to think about it. Didn't have time to get
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: yourself into a nervousness mindset because all of a sudden
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: you got to get hot and go, what did you
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: see out of him? And, potentially Hunter? Is he a
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: part of this bullpen? Maybe once the playoffs start and
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: you start whittling things down or is he just he's
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: going to make his last couple appearances for the 2026
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: season and then you're going to talk about Robert Casser
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: in 27.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: I it's I would think he is probably still on
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: this team. I know there's going to have to be
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: some roster decisions. Abner rebate comes back probably this weekend.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Jojo Romero after he finishes his rehab assignment. Now, of course,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: as we've mentioned, we, you know, you do get a,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: another pitcher September 1st. How does that factor into it?
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Do they still want to do with the six man
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: rotation where, you know, they have six guys in that rotation,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: but they're kind of mixing and matching a little bit
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: as far as the order in which they go. They're
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: not going, you know, every six day you're starting, they're
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: kind of doing different ways.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And last night's a good example of it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: What impressed me about it was Robert Gaster did exactly
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: what Pat Murphy did wanted him to do a week ago.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: And that was pitch with a lead and pitch well
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: with a lead and go and attack hitters. And look,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: he allowed six hits, but he only allowed one earned
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: run and one run overall and only walked two compared
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: to the four that he walked in less time last
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: time out last Thursday. So I think you could see
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: it right away. Six days later after that last start,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: he comes in and he does exactly what Pat Murphy
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: wanted him to do last time. And The second part
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: to that is like you mentioned, he comes in and just,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: and he wasn't expecting to obviously come in after one
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: pitch last night. So that makes it even more impressive.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Sal Frehlich giving him a nice shout out after the
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: game as he should to go that long. in the
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: game five and a third to go that long, 82
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: pitches in a game that you weren't expecting to get
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: in that early. Maybe, you know, he was available obviously
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: out of the bullpen or else he wouldn't have been
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: out there was huge.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Now, how does that affect Sunday? You know, do they
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: still have him?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: You know, he could still pitch on Sunday, although that's
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: only going to be, you know, obviously on what would be.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Three days between.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: So I don't know because I was expecting him last
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: night to go, you know, maybe three and then you
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: get Bryce Wilson for three and kind of, you know, they,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: they were in a coming into the bullpen. I said
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: it on the pregame show last night, like you're, you're without,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: you're pretty much you're a bullpen.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So they're going to have to get through this.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: They used four relievers the night before and a loss.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: So they were having, they had to somehow make up
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: those innings. And obviously you had to make up, you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: 26 outs last night and they were able to do it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: And Robert Gasser is a big part of that. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: we'll see how that I, you know, we'll, we'll get
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: the probables for the weekend coming up later today.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And we'll see if that has stayed the same.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: And if that unfortunately would affect the cub series, which,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: you know, it was lined up to get your, your
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: top four guys into that cub series.
• 22:27
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• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Hunter.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised that South freely came back. Wasn't necessarily
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: surprised that he reached base four times with three hits
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and I was a little surprised he played left field
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and Churio got the night off. We haven't talked about
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that yet. A well-timed night off for struggling Churio. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Sal Frelick announces his presence with authority. What do we
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: read into that little substitution there?
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I think it was more of a day off for Churio.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: He does not get many of them, obviously. Churio is
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: a guy who is in that lineup every day. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: after a tough game one, against the Mets in which
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: he went over five, a couple of strikeouts, had a
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: bad at bat with, with runners and scoring position. It
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: just seemed like, okay, this was a good time to
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: get him a day off. It's not like he's been
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: hitting horribly though. He's hitting two 86 in his last
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: seven games, last 30 games hitting two 75.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So it's not like he's been awful.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: It's just, it felt like a good time and a
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: good time to get self-reliant there. Look, the first four
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: batters of your lineup last night were lefties against the
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: righty Robert stock and it worked. So that was, you know, they,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: they clearly had a, a method and a motivation last
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: night to get those lefties in there and thought it
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: was a good time to get Sal Freelick in there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: And he, and he showed why he's look, he said
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: after the game, like, I want to be a spark
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: plug for this team. And that's exactly what he was
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: last night. And I just, this team is a little
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: different with him on it. Now, Luis Lara is also
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: a spark plug and I love the energy he brings,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: but obviously Freelick has the energy, but then he also
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: has the, you know, the cache behind it and the
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: leadership behind it and has been there obviously for, in
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the organization for a longer time and under Pat Murphy
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: and knows how that clubhouse works and was one of
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: the ones to talk to Cooper Pratt after he was benched. So, yeah,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I think you're going to see plenty of Sal Frelick
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: down the stretch.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: With Blake Perkins out of the picture, what's the Brewers'
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: best defensive outfield alignment? Is it what we saw last
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: night with Lara, who's the new Spider-Man, Ben Ogilvie? That's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: an old guy reference for Armand. Love it. Bat speed.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Lara and Mitchell in center. And Freelick and left, is
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that their best outfield alignment right now?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Probably. Probably. Churrio's gotten better at defense. There's no doubt.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: And, you know, his the throwing arm has gotten better.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: The ability to chase down balls has gotten better. Like
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: the reading of fly balls. Like he's gotten better over
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: the last couple of years on the defensive side. But
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: I think you would still say South Freelick and, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Luis Lara, who, you know, is who had a gold
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: glove in the in the minor leagues. You also have
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Garrett Mitchell, who can chase down pretty much anything. And
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: he's gotten, I think, less timid as the year has
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: gone on, more comfortable out there coming back from the injuries.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: So I do think that's your best defensive outfield. Now
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: you want Churio in that lineup. And so you're going
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: to get that. But hey, if you need a late
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: substitution or something like that defensively, you know, that that
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: could be.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And look, that's, again, why you want.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Your top 26, 28 guys on September 1st down the stretch,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: because then you can substitute where you want to.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: As we watched Bryce Durant get off the Schneid on
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the home run front yesterday, what is it, 19 games
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: without one? Doesn't go past me that he had 10
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: of them in the month of August a year ago, Hunter. Now,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I had thought he'd potentially be threatening for that 30-30
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: season this year. It's going to be hard. He's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: to need a hell of a September. Would be a
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: fun one to be able to watch if he's able
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: to get there now with 17 bombs. What have you
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: seen from him, though, offensively? Because he hasn't necessarily clicked
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: in the last month, month and a half, but that
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: was a big swing that he was able to get
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: It was it last seven games hitting under 200. In fact,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: over his last 15 games, he's hitting under 200. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: should say one 97. And it's just, you can see it's,
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: he's just, it's, it's, it's just tough for him at
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: the plate right now. And some of those, some of
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: those times with runners on screen scoring position have been
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: tough as well. I think one of the coolest things
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: to come out of last night was Kurt Hogue. And
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: you guys might've talked about it this week or this morning,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: but his, his reporting that, Terang stayed at the park
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: until the wee hours of the morning the night before
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: last night's game. And it's like and and Christian Yelich
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: was his hitting coach for the session.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just that's just awesome. It shows the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: type of clubhouse that that is.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: And Yelich, who it's not like he's been hitting the
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: cutter cover off the ball himself, but he stays back
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: and tries to help a younger player. And they have
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: a pretty good bond as well. You saw last night,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: which makes a lot of sense. Bryce Terang hits that
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: home run. goes into the dugout, and Terang and Jelic
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: are both looking at the iPad together for a while.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Love that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: And you don't necessarily always see Jelic looking at the iPad.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I think you see those younger players more so looking
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: at the technology. But you saw Terang and Jelic kind
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: of over there, both dissecting what Terang did well on
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: that swing, probably saying, okay, yep, this is what we
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: did last night, or maybe this is what we didn't
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: do last night in the cage or whatnot. But, yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I think it's just simply– Getting him back, and I've
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: said it before and I'll say it again, getting these
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: guys to produce at not necessarily MVP level, but just
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: kind of going back to their average is so big
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: for this offense, whether it's Terang, whether it's Contreras. I mean, look,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Contreras hitting 433 in his last seven. Yelich hitting 348
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: in his last seven. You're starting to see the upward
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: trajectory of these guys, and Terang, great to see. I'm
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: sure it felt good last night, and hopefully that can
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: propel him And you need Cheerio to kind of do
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: the same. And then you're really cooking because the pitching
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: is good enough.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: We know that. Just get that offense rolling.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: And the fact that examples like that, you know, they
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: clearly are working hard and they work together to try
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: and make the bet to figure things out and get better.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: And no one can convince me that Yelch is hitting
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: so many hard balls into fielders. I mean, he really is.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: His hard hit rate is really good. I was saying earlier,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: we talked about him being the unofficial captain. Shouldn't they
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: just give him the C at this point and make
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: it official? I would love to see it a hundred.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know how you feel about that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: If you have an opinion. Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, I, they don't traditionally obviously do that, but
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I think if there was one person who was going
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: to get it, I feel like it's Christian.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Now Brandon Woodruff is up there with the pitchers as well.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: He's obviously instrumental, but obviously he hasn't been on the
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: field this year.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: All right. So Brewers had scored, I think 10 runs
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in the four games leading up to last night. They
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: put up eight last night. It helps six hits in
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a row.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Helps.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Runners in scoring position, they were, what, eight for 15
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: or something? Yeah, that's a little bit better than two
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: for 14. A little bit better than two for 14.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But they put up eight runs without contributions from Jake Bowers.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Where are we with Jake Bowers, and how much are
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: his shin splints a concern?
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it sounds like it's day-to-day right now, something that
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: popped up in May, flared up here. Within the last
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: week or two and flared up pretty badly.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: So yeah, boy, he's been beat up. He had the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: abdominal soreness.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: He had the swollen foot and now he's got shin
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: splints and the guy's like, and look, he's playing every day.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Like that's not something he had done for a really
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: long time. So I think that's significant. And I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: that's part of it. And you know, we talk a
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: lot about the pitching and needing to limit innings on
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: the pitching side. Look at some of these guys have
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: not played a full, full major league season in a
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: while on the hitting side either. So you kind of
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: need to pay attention to that too. And I think
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: that's what they're trying to do. Get these guys off
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: their feet. Sometimes, you know, whether it's, Hey, if you
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: have something little nagging, you maybe keep them out a
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: little longer, whether it was Bryce to rang out of
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: that LA series, Just make sure these guys get healthy
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: before they come back. So they don't do something different.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: I think that was part of Dustin May last night. Like, yes,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: maybe you could throw, but at the end of the day,
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: you're probably going to have to change your mechanics a
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: little bit and maybe you get hurt doing something else.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: And so that's maybe part of the reason with Jake
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Bowers as well. Plus, you know, that can be very
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: painful from what I've heard. That's, you know, a very
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: painful thing too.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So I think, Yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: So I think with Jake Bowers, it's day to day
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: and hopefully he's back soon. The good news was he
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: could play the night before because he came in late
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: in the ballgame, pinch hit in the ninth inning and
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: played first base for the ninth and tenth. But maybe
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: you do keep him out another another night tonight. If
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: you're getting the production from like Yelich, Contreras and obviously
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Terang and Freelick back and hitting like he is. OK,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: you can maybe sustain a little bit without Jake Bowers.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Does Abner Uribe do the full dice celebration pitching with
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the Timber Rattlers since a lot of those kids aren't
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: old enough to play craps and go to the casino?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: How did he look as yesterday?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: It also sounds like he's going to be sooner rather
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: than later back with the big league club.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Scoreless inning made a nice play on the mound, too,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: that I saw on social media. Like he seemed like
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: he had his swagger. One of the things he told
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: reporters was he was trying to work on his confidence
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: over this time that he's been out.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And I, it's just like, you've never seen him lacking it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So I'm excited. I'm excited to know that what kind
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of picture he's going to be after that.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Confidence for him.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: The, the, the showman. And, and, you know, it's interesting.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Cause I, I, you know, he, he is, you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: and Jeffrey Young, we've seen a little bit of in
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: this series, he has not done the jump and strike.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I was really hoping he would.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Really, really were.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: But, you know, Abner is kind of obviously on those
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: those lines when it comes to celebrations. But, hey, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: we don't necessarily think about those guys as needing more confidence,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: especially if they're pitching well. But maybe it's some things
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: that they see from their end that like, oh, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: could be doing this better. And maybe he's able to
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: work on that over this time. It does sound like
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: he'll be back this weekend against Texas, which will be
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: great for that bullpen. You're clearly lacking that one more,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: you know, leverage guy. Because they were kind of lacking
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: one more leverage guy throughout this season. And because you
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: lost on Hill Serpa so early in the season, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: then Sensatella has kind of been that guy. So if
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: you have that, and then you add Abner, you like
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: that bullpen. So it sounds like all systems are pretty
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: much a go for this weekend. And that's really good
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: because whenever a guy is put on The IL with
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: that flexor injury, you worry a little bit, but it
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: sounds like it's going to be pretty much close to
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: at least a minimum stint on the IL.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So Brewers going for a series win today with Miz
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: on the mound. Is it just me or does Miz
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: seem to have a little extra gear when he faces
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: New York teams? It seems like that's been his MO.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: 25th start of the season for Miz, 13-5, 1.68 ERA.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Last time out was Friday against Atlanta. Threw pretty well,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but not like eye-poppingly Miz-like. Hunter, what are you expecting
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: from the big kid tonight?
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's, yeah, he does shine in these moments, right?
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: You do see the velocity go up sometimes against the L.A. 's,
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: the New York's, the Chicago's, the bigger markets. He's admitted
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: that he likes pitching against the bigger markets. And hey,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: who wouldn't? And this is another cool environment for him
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: to be in. I think for me tonight, it's just, OK,
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: can he get that? Can we see that fastball command back?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Because it wasn't there against the Braves.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: That was incredibly impressive and shows how much he's grown
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: that he could work around that against the Braves and
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: still throw six shutout innings. I mean, that was really,
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: really good against the Braves. Was it six shutout or
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: six one run? I can't remember.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Zero or one runs. But either way, he was fantastic.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: But you obviously know that Miz is at his best
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: when he's got the fastball command, when he's got the velocity.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: So I think tonight, let's see if he can get
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: that back, get that velocity back up. You're obviously watching
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: the velocity a little bit because at this point in
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: the year, you obviously don't want it to significantly drop
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: off at all. Not that I don't think it would
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: with Miz, but you're keeping an eye on that. Kyle
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Harrison's velocity went back up against the Mets, which is
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: really good to see. So you're just watching that a
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: little bit because you're getting again, you're getting to these
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: points in the season where these guys are going through
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: a full major league season. His first full major league
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: season for the first time. And you want him to
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: keep their numbers up.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: This was actually the site of the most mortal. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: think Miz looked a year ago. This might have been
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: the welcome to the big league moment. I think he
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: got pulled in like the fourth inning, maybe Soto or Lindor'd.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: hit an absolute tank shot on him last year.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: He couldn't get it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Couldn't find the strike zone for a little while. It's
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: crazy to think just Hunter about how the mounds used
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: to be such an agitator for him a year ago
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: and his ability to calm down and the confidence of saying, Hey,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: you ground circuit folks, let's fix this up here right now.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: I'm going to win the Cy Young. The least you
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: can do is add me a little bit of dirt
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: and a little bit of clay. Like that kind of
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: confidence probably comes from, A couple of conversations with the
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: skippers saying, hey, man, make sure it's to your liking.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: But you put pelts on the wall and strike out
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: as many as he has. That confidence is a lot
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: different than the last time he pitched there a year ago.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he has definitely some some cachet to be able
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: to say, hey, you know, you know, I'd like this
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: changed over here.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Can we get that? You know, it's it's he's got plenty.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: He's he's.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: One of the stars of the league right now. And
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: I think the grounds could be like, yep. Well, Hey,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: whatever you need, whatever you need.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, Mr.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Mr. Mr.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Mizorowski.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely. We will get that for you right now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Hold on one second. Love it. Hunter B. Thank you
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll be listening tonight. Five o'clock. The
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: baseball pre game show.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You got it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Five o'clock for the six, 10 start and a final
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: game here.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: That's three game series.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: And then they host a Texas right in the middle
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: of a playoff race, right around 500.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Coming up this weekend.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Are you going to be able to enjoy any country
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: music night tomorrow night? Hunter Baumgart is a country music man.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: He's going to be at the game. He's going to
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: be in the clubhouse. Are we going to be able
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: to get any Heads Carolina, Tails California for Hunter Baumgart
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: tomorrow night?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I do enjoy Cole Swindell.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: I will be working with Armin on our Packers coverage tomorrow.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: No country music night. for Hunter. I did the math
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: a while ago.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I feel bad he can't go. I didn't do it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't make the schedules.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: We're sorry. Hey, we got to help where it's needed.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Changing the seasons.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can get you out there.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: What time is it? Are you guys going to start
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: at 11? Maybe we can get you guys. We sure
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: hope so. Me too. We hope. All right. Hunter, have
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: a great day.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: See you, buddy.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: We'll be listening. When we come back, we will close
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• 37:38
  Speaker 4: There is a new food item that might be the
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: unhealthiest of all time. Now, we believe that this is actual.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: We believe that we are not getting duped. We have
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: seen this from a multitude of different entities and different
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: outlets telling us that there is a new spot and
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: a new food item, Drew, that is going to potentially
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: ruin everybody's stomach for the rest of their lives.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for it? I am ready.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: KFC is releasing the new Oreo chicken burger.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: The what? This was in Japan or China?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: It launches in China tomorrow, August 28th.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Now, which part of the Oreo is the chicken inside?
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: The bun. So I want cream, though. Is there any cream?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: It's an Oreo bun.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: So the Oreo cookie bun with the stamping of the
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: cookie still right there in the middle, locked in with
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: a nutritious slice of lettuce that definitely won't give you
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: explosive diarrhea.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Slap fillet of chicken right in between the two cookies. Now.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: This tweet had 27.6 million views comes with a cookie bun.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Bizarrest of crossovers you've ever seen. Also mashed potatoes covered
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: in crushed cookies. Let's go on the The fried chicken for,
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know what we're doing, but I mean, this
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: is great. There haven't been any quotes again, asking if
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: this would line up, but the China insider news has
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: pictures of it in the box and it is as
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: strange and awkward looking as you possibly could imagine, but
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: they're right on the box. It's finger licking good KFC
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: and Oreo together for the collab that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Nobody really realizes.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: They needed.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Now the savory flavors have been hot in America, right?
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, chicken and waffles is something a lot of
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: people love.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Deep fried Oreos. You're going to the, going to the
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee mile this weekend. And we talked to our friend
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Tim earlier on. There might be some sport. He's might
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: be some deep fried Oreos there. Those are, those are
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: an absolute staple. I can't say that I wouldn't want
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: to potentially try one. That being said, this might be
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: the one that even I would pass on.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, Billy, you kidding me?
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Oh man.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I'm a little disappointed in you. No, I think the
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: wilder part is the mashed potato with the cookies.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I could see the cookie and the chicken, but the
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: mashed potato with the cookie crumbs, that's the wilder one.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: See, but you needed to be a little, because I
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: was thinking it was going to be too heavy. You
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: had to have some kind of cream, like you said.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: I would like the cream part of the Oreos. That's
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: where the mashed potatoes, I think, compensate for that. And
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: I'm a big mashed potatoes fan. So you're always going
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: to see me getting the KFC bowl because it's got
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: the mashed potatoes in it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: That's the other part. KFC has already won.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: They have that delicious chicken bowl with the mashed potatoes
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: and the corn and everything you need. Don't mess with anything.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Just add an Oreo to it. Just put the Oreo
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: there on top, and that's even better. But KFC, go
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: and get your Oreo chicken burger.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. All right. It's been a good run today. Tomorrow
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: is game day, Packers and Cardinals, of course, and also
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: we'll be recapping Brewers-Mets and looking forward to Brewers-Rangers. Billy
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: off tomorrow. We'll soldier ahead, skating shorthanded. See you at
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: 5 a.m. Peace.