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09/10/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Pulling through a Thursday in the good land, the huddle
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Welcome to the seven o'clock clubbers
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  Speaker 1: who have joined us today.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you miss? Well, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: We're tired from sweeping the Cubs and all the sweeping
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  Speaker 1: that went on the last three days. American family feel tiresome.
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  Speaker 1: Stayed up to watch that and the Patriots Seahawks Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl rematch, which was kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of a dud.
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  Speaker 3: Left a lot to be desired, but you know what, Drew?
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  Speaker 3: There's 271 NFL games to be able to make up
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  Speaker 3: for it now.
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  Speaker 2: Food, Bev, whatever you want to buy. Just went to
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  Speaker 2: the marketplace. Not alcohol, but anything else. I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say, not alcohol, but listen. And not gambling.
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  Speaker 3: The alcohol specials are going to be so good that
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  Speaker 3: you don't even need it. That's true. My wife and
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  Speaker 3: I went to make some investments on that game last night.
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  Speaker 3: uh yesterday and had some lunch at the uh the
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  Speaker 3: marketplace we talked about that burger spot all the time
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  Speaker 3: that burger is legit i.
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  Speaker 5: Love that burger we've talked about that burger billy we
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  Speaker 5: went to the uh taco establishment that's.
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  Speaker 2: Good too i've heard nominal burrito.
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  Speaker 3: So good stuff that you can be able to have
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  Speaker 3: the pizza the pizza spot pizzas the pizza rips and
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  Speaker 3: the other part is uh when you're out you know
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  Speaker 3: watching some games late at night it's also one of
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  Speaker 3: the later kitchens that's open there at the marketplace. I
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  Speaker 3: believe until midnight or 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: And if you're looking for something different, they have a
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  Speaker 5: place in that marketplace called Queen of Ramen.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're looking for a little ramen, I'm telling you, that.
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  Speaker 5: Ramen's as good as any special ramen you're getting.
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  Speaker 3: You're watching them street cooking videos if you're seeing that
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  Speaker 3: ramen right.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the gates, huh?
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  Speaker 5: I had the ramen, and I'm telling you, and I was...
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  Speaker 5: sitting with Laura and we're sitting there. I said, there's
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  Speaker 5: this bowl's never ending. There's all kinds of stuff in
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  Speaker 5: this ramen. I mean, it was really, it was, this
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  Speaker 5: is not your microwave on the third floor. Ramen is
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  Speaker 5: what I'm hearing. This is as good as any restaurant
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  Speaker 5: ramen you're going to get. It's filled with all kinds
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  Speaker 5: of stuff. And me, it's just really good. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if you're looking for something different, Don't sleep on the
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  Speaker 5: queen of ramen spot there as well in the marketplace.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of good options. That one's yes. You're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: That one's always open or open the longest, I think,
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  Speaker 2: of the food spots.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good sports book. It's going to be spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be sampling. I'm getting some fried chicken tonight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to let you guys know.
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  Speaker 5: It's so good.
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  Speaker 2: Hard not to. Let you know right out of the gate.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard not to. Billy's going eight piece chicken dinner.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting the spicy breading too.
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  Speaker 5: They have wonderful salads and stuff. I don't think this
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  Speaker 5: is a salad night.
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  Speaker 3: You know what i mean yeah it is always a
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  Speaker 3: nacho night though when you go there so i'll definitely
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  Speaker 3: one of the times i'll be touching that up but
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  Speaker 3: uh we got to start it out strong we got
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  Speaker 3: to start it out hot we're starting it out with
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  Speaker 3: the spicy dry chicken that's gonna happen tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah and i think of the things that are like
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  Speaker 5: and you mentioned the quesadillas drew because that's one of
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  Speaker 5: the things you can kind of eat in radio and
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  Speaker 5: not get too messy at the table.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's smart look at you i'm just.
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  Speaker 5: Thinking about that i'm just thinking about that stuff Well, Billy,
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  Speaker 5: it's the first night.
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  Speaker 2: The show will also be streamed, by the way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can watch us on the usual channels. You're hearing
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  Speaker 2: about the food. You're like, well, sweet guys, audio medium.
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  Speaker 3: Visual medium as well, because you'll be hanging out with
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  Speaker 3: us on YouTube, Facebook, and X as well on the
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  Speaker 3: video streaming side throughout the night.
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  Speaker 2: So very excited.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make some picks, hopefully have some winners to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: And Drew, talk about a much, much more compelling and
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  Speaker 3: exciting game, because you said it yesterday, tonight's game.
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  Speaker 2: We're all more excited.
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  Speaker 3: I have a higher expectation, a lot higher expectations for
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  Speaker 3: 49ers Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I think this one's going to deliver, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: the jet lag bowl. And we'll see if what's better
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  Speaker 1: to get there a week earlier, the day of to
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  Speaker 1: fire it up and show and go. Well, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the subtext of it, but it's two heavyweight teams with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, high with high hopes for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Both teams won 12 games last year.
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  Speaker 3: Like you kind of forget how good San Francisco is back.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to give us, he's going to be fired
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  Speaker 1: up for San Francisco and, And Aaron Donald will not
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  Speaker 1: play and did not make the trip for the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: but that's, you know, he'll work his way in.
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  Speaker 2: So I was going to say, look, they got miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: They got miles Garrett. So they got, they got a
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  Speaker 3: nice little undercard there. I also am excited to see
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  Speaker 3: how Christian McCaffrey handles it. Like, I mean, we talk
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  Speaker 3: about the jet lag for anybody. McCaffrey, the injury questions
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  Speaker 3: for him are always bountiful. So I wonder how he performs.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Cause we'll have an updated injury report and, When it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Green Bay Packers, well, inside four hours
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  Speaker 1: from right now, there's a little appointment at the Brown
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  Speaker 1: County district attorney's office in Brown County court, Josh Jacobs
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  Speaker 1: with an initial appearance, which was moved up, which tells
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  Speaker 1: me something's going on. I kind of thought it would
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  Speaker 1: happen because when we heard November, like, okay, so they
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  Speaker 1: moved it up to this afternoon or this morning at
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  Speaker 1: 11 AM. I think there's some kind of plea deal
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  Speaker 1: with some kind of like, he'll go to a counseling
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  Speaker 1: program as well. And, And then they can close the
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  Speaker 1: book on that, which will make the NFL more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: in rendering a final decision.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because there needs to be a decision on it.
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  Speaker 3: And I still feel whether or not the court process
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  Speaker 3: is done or not, the only thing that's going to
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  Speaker 3: end the NFL process conversation and give a clear number
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  Speaker 3: on how many games he'll be suspended is when Roger
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  Speaker 3: Goodell sees that video. Now, potentially, if the plea deal
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  Speaker 3: is what it is, it is what is happening later
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  Speaker 3: on today, Drew. Maybe that is, hey, we get to
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  Speaker 3: see it and then it never sees the light of
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  Speaker 3: day again, right? Like we need, we allow it to
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  Speaker 3: be seen by one individual on Park Avenue and then
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  Speaker 3: we never see it again or it comes out after
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  Speaker 3: today and the contents of that video then get judged
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  Speaker 3: and then everything else happens from there. But the first
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  Speaker 3: thing is that you need that video to have Roger
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  Speaker 3: Goodell's eyes on it. And I think the process being
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  Speaker 3: moved up, whether it's expedited for it to be a
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  Speaker 3: no contest or whatever, there's definitely an end game here coming. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I would expect the NFL to handle it pretty quickly
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  Speaker 3: after this process goes, right?
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  Speaker 2: I would think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think once in the negotiations with it, to your point, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: if indeed he pleads guilty or no contest later on today,
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  Speaker 3: I think we might have a resolution from the NFL
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  Speaker 3: as early as like tomorrow afternoon. They'll, they'll make a
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  Speaker 3: determination and let you know exactly what the process is,
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  Speaker 3: but there'll be going into this one coming up this
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  Speaker 3: weekend with Josh Jacobs on the, on the shelf and
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Johnson, Marshawn Lloyd, and Chris Brooks, probably your main
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  Speaker 3: running back coming in there.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to get a verdict. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: a verdict from the NFL, like once that this case ends.
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  Speaker 1: And if I think it will end today, cause there
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  Speaker 1: will be a plea deal of some kind, Then the
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  Speaker 1: NFL can say, okay, with all the information we have,
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  Speaker 1: here's what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's your six games. Four games, six games, here
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one of those two. Everybody moves on.
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  Speaker 1: You in the same boat, do you think it would
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  Speaker 1: be more? I think it could be six is... I
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  Speaker 1: think six is in the ballpark. They might go lenient
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  Speaker 1: with four, depending on the charges and what happens. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the two numbers that have just come to my
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  Speaker 1: head is the four and six. And then, and then
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  Speaker 1: you see where, see where it ends up. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have a, a clear delineation of, you know, Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is probably back week six or seven. I still
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  Speaker 1: thought it would have been later, but it, from all indications,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be sooner. And then you would have
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  Speaker 1: an understanding of you're going to play four weeks without
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  Speaker 1: two of your top five or six guys, two of
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  Speaker 1: your top, 10 guys, wherever you end up stacking those
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  Speaker 1: guys in, but it at least gives you an understanding
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  Speaker 1: of the runway you have to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: And then how long you have for.
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  Speaker 3: These dudes in the wide receiver department to be able
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  Speaker 3: to cash in on. I think what a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people are anticipating this being a lot more offensive driven
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: football team through the arm of Jordan love, right? Like
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  Speaker 3: without Jacobson, the lineup drew and Whatever the offensive line
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  Speaker 3: maturation is, whether it is Zach Bakobole, who told Matt
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  Speaker 3: Schneiman yesterday, he's playing. He expects to play. He's going
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  Speaker 3: to be going. For how long he does, that's a question.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if he's able to hold up or if
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  Speaker 3: they do rotate in Belton at some point to try
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  Speaker 3: to keep him somewhat fresh. Quick passing game and the
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  Speaker 3: ability to get the ball in and out of Love's
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  Speaker 3: hands is going to be how they're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to roll these first couple of weeks. And the injury
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  Speaker 3: front from... going into week one is concerning on the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. But if a guy is out this week,
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  Speaker 3: I would suggest and guess that you're probably out in
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  Speaker 3: week number two.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't think your first game of the year,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to want on that MetLife turf that people
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  Speaker 3: have cursed for years.
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  Speaker 2: My guess as well. I would totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: So if you don't see Baco Buele coming up on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: which he expects, and I expect him to be out there,
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll see him coming up week number three
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  Speaker 3: on that Thursday night game against the Falcons.
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  Speaker 2: At Lambeau. We talked about it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: The schedule is somewhat forgiving early. You just got to
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  Speaker 3: be able to capitalize and finish these games. You saw
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  Speaker 3: it last night with the Patriots, and they're up 10,
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  Speaker 3: nothing on the road opportunity to close out and finish
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  Speaker 3: off the team that just beat you five months ago
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  Speaker 3: for the title and not being able to close what
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  Speaker 3: bit them all of last year.
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  Speaker 2: And it was their point of emphasis all year long.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see if they're able to bear fruits
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  Speaker 3: from that process all year long. Cause as Wayne Larrabee
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  Speaker 3: is going to join us tomorrow at seven 25, he
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  Speaker 3: had talked about it a lot last year, ball King
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  Speaker 3: and being about the ball was their.
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  Speaker 2: Defensive mantra all last year.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it took till week six or seven
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  Speaker 3: for them to force fumble.
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  Speaker 2: To Wayne's point. And Wayne always brings this up. It's
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  Speaker 2: his words.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's a lot of luck and randomness involved in
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  Speaker 5: takeaways and turnovers and getting takeaways at least for defense.
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  Speaker 5: So it just shows you can make it an emphasis
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  Speaker 5: and it doesn't mean you're necessarily going to get them.
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  Speaker 5: So you have to put yourself in position and make
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  Speaker 5: the play. So a lot to see here. Jess man
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  Speaker 5: with a lot of good stuff here on the YouTube chat.
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  Speaker 5: So thanks Jess man for being involved here on the
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  Speaker 5: YouTube comments. His theory is that the Packers will immediately
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: release the craft extension. Once they announced the Jacob suspension,
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: that's another one that people are wondering about. Does craft
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  Speaker 5: get extended? When will it happen during the season? Is
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  Speaker 5: it already done? And we're waiting to announce it. Cause there,
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  Speaker 5: there were some things floating around the Twitter verse that
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  Speaker 5: it might be done, but I don't know how solid
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  Speaker 5: any of that is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see Tucker craft running out and buying a,
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: you know, a DeLorean or something like extravagant, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but just seems like it would be hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell if he got it and it was signed
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  Speaker 1: and you know, but I do think he'll get it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he'll get paid. I just, I would wonder.
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  Speaker 3: And, and depending upon how long this goes, I think you're,
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  Speaker 3: the answer is probably a little bit more clear. There's a,
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: there's a holdup on someone's side here. And I would
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  Speaker 3: doubt that it would be the Packers, right? Like the,
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  Speaker 3: the Packers have done this. And for only Rogers love
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  Speaker 3: and Parsons, have they guaranteed money into future years of
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  Speaker 3: the contract?
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  Speaker 2: If that could be the holdup on Tucker craft.
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  Speaker 3: Side of, no, you're going to guarantee me money into
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  Speaker 3: years three and four, what it's looking like that. Like
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  Speaker 3: it's all language. I think the numbers are probably fair drew,
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  Speaker 3: but it's how long is that guaranteed? And the fact
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  Speaker 3: that we do business.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly what I'm thinking about is the guaranteed money is
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  Speaker 1: the sticking point.
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  Speaker 2: And, and for how long it goes.
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  Speaker 3: And, and I understand crafts frustration with it, but I
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  Speaker 3: also would don't fault the Packers for operating under their
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  Speaker 3: own guidelines.
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  Speaker 2: Of how they kind of do it.
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  Speaker 1: Given the Packers, given the Parsons is out, Jacobs is
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  Speaker 1: out and the offensive line is iffy right now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when three of your five starters are limited participants on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: You go, oh, and those are the guys that you
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  Speaker 2: know of. Yeah, we know.
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  Speaker 1: But my question to you is at the at the
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  Speaker 1: dawn of the season, what kind of games and what
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: kind of vibe do we expect from the Packers? Because
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: will they will every game be a shootout? Do they
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: have to outscore? You know, their mistakes of not having
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: a pass rush. Can their defense be good enough? Will
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  Speaker 1: it be kind of the middle of the pack? Because
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  Speaker 1: I think of a team like the Bengals where with
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  Speaker 1: their offense, they can put up 30 any day and
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  Speaker 1: they often do. But then they lose 42 to 30.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So are the Packers going to be that? Is it
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  Speaker 2: complimentary football?
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  Speaker 1: Will it be in the middle of games and every
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  Speaker 1: game is going to be 20 to 17?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think very much so. I think the latter
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  Speaker 3: is the case. I think it's going to be very
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  Speaker 3: middle of the road on both sides and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to come down to those couple of moments. That's where
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: the finishing is going to be a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Like you feel like you should win comfortably and going
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  Speaker 3: away against the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: A week two game is not.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be the most clear versions of the teams, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's not the truest versions of who those teams are.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a drought last year for takeaways that
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I think that market might correct. And I've been thinking
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: about my regression theories and stuff when it comes to the, the,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: the bears specifically, because on the beyond the booth podcast
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: with Wayne Larrabee, come on now we had Pete Doherty
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  Speaker 1: join us. Pete's awesome. And I gave him my theory
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  Speaker 1: about the bears. Like you can't replicate that. You win
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  Speaker 1: six games in the fourth quarter. You don't do that
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  Speaker 1: year every year. And he pointed out that the Packers,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: and I think it was the, second year under LeFleur.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: They had the big year.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: They went to the NFC championship and everybody thought they
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: were ripe for regression and they almost got better because
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: it was the second year under LeFleur and they were,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: you know, right. And Rogers played out of his mind
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: and he reminded me of that. And then he pointed
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: out that, yeah, the bears still will struggle defensively and
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: they might not have to come back in games though.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Cause Caleb Williams might be better in quarters one through
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: three and they're not going to be in such holes.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: So it might be a different paradigm from that regard.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: And I said, Oh, I can buy that to an extent.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Still think their defense is wobbly.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm with you on that. Couldn't give it up.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: And so they're going to have to be that team.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: And that's a hard way to live because Burrow and
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: his receivers, they're not able to outscore their defensive mistakes.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Joe Burrow and Dak Prescott know exactly what you're talking about.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Right. Like the Cowboys were that same. We'll put up
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: the numbers. We'll score some points and then we'll lose.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Prescott, the last four or five years, every year that
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: he's been healthy, he's put up 4,500 passing yards and
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: they just don't have a defense.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: You have to be.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: And you have to be so productive and on every game.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: when your defense sucks, but the Packers might be able
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: to play complimentary. There might be a game or two
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: where the Packers put up, you know, 38.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: But there's also going to be, games when they score
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: you know 17 14.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: 17 and I definitely don't expect that to be this
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: week like you we've seen love have nice games against
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: this Flores defense I think of the New Year's Eve
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: game uh the one that sticks out in your mind
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: against the Vikings but that's a different defense that's a
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: different defensive coordinator and this is uh this is a
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: unit that is going to bring a ton of heat
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: and Sean Ryan and company are going to have to
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: be on their p's and q's ready to identify everything possible.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I think the Packers are going to bring a lot
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: of heat though. Like that's where from the little bits
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: that we got to see during training camp, you didn't
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: see it at all in the preseason because they weren't
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: going to show anything. I anticipate you see some pretty
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: exotic pressure looks, especially exotic compared to what the Packers
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: have run the.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Last number of years. It's going to be like, Oh,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: look at this.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: A lot of time spent in the backfield for 56.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Edron Cooper is going to be doing a lot. We
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: saw you were there the one day where what they
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: run two cat blitzes in the first three periods of team.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: So I think you see some corners come and they're
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: going to manufacture a lot of pressure.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I see that. Well, I think we'll learn about
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: what they wanted to do.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Cause You know, Kyler, I mean, his legs are probably
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: his best attribute right now.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And they followed him up last year.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: They did. But yes, they did. And I'm hoping they
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: can do it again. But, you know, he's indoor and
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: you feel like, you know, a new team week one,
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: maybe a lot more breakdown stuff happening. You know, what
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: do you try to use his legs more? I guess
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: that's one thing in the.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Back of my mind. I'm excited.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I'm very excited defensively, Drew, to see how they try
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to match up with JJ and Addison, because As much
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: as we want to know and see the matchup of
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Brandon Cisse against Justin Jefferson, I still think they're going
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: to throw it at Keyshawn Nixon most of the time.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a lot of targets
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: thrown towards 25, whoever he's covering.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe if the trend from camp continues, maybe by the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: middle of the season, the Packers, Cisse will be the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: clear number one and will travel. But for the most part,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they don't do that.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: They're going to be. So you're right. They're going to
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: pick on. You're going to have to be ready. Bring
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: your lunch pail and be ready. He's had some moments,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and that's the thing. He has big swings both ways.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: He has great plays, and then the bad ones are eesh.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And he's got the drip and the swagger.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: That pisses people off when he doesn't produce.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: When the ball hits the chest and drops off, Drew,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: they can't lead the league in dropped interceptions.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Like out of the market correction stats, that to me
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: is the most pivotal one.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: McKinney's one of your best players and dropped a couple
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And the one that he catches is like the worst
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: possible one to win Cleveland.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: So I am bullish on their defense. Maybe I'm, maybe
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I'm naive. I also, I didn't like seeing.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Javon Hargrave on the inter report because I'm excited. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: was excited for his revenge game and hopefully we still
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: get it because he was not too happy, not too
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: pleased with his role there in Minnesota a year ago.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: So I'm excited to see him on the field.
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  Speaker 1: on a Brewers off day. He's got Milwaukee's baseball tonight.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Tonight. Come on now. Or wait, does he? Because we
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: have the huddle. Oh, he's going to do it early.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to do it before the huddle.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I like that. A little four o'clock country. Let's go.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: The huddle live tonight at Pato from 5 to 7.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Hunter.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: About all this and the sweep of the Cubs and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a harrowing ninth inning last night.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: That's all ahead. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:56
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• 18:58
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• 19:00
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• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We'll be there from 5 to 7. Good morning, Hunter.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Good to be back with you guys and
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: feeling a little better, which is good. That's what I like.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Big news.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: We were worn down from all that sweeping that was
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: happening this week.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I guess so.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: That was quite impressive.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Brewers got blown out in the very first game against
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the Cubs of the seven games and 10 day stretch.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: And then they come back and they win five of six.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Quite impressive. Yelich said last night, it's a credit to
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: the guys for just washing that blowout, washing it away,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: coming back and winning five of six and burying the
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Cubs in the division.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: They're still celebrating over at the cubby bar and enjoying
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: the fact that they had 17 runs and all the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: homers in the month of August month of September is
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: going to be work for that team from the North side,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: because now they've lost four straight and they're closer to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: being out of the playoffs than they are, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: for the anywhere close to the division closer to be
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: out of the playoffs.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And the Brewers are into the wild card series.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken with the Braves sliding down, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I got to ask you about Tuesday night Hunter. And
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing this video of Jacob Mizorowski jumping over the,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the dugout wall. can you just put it in his
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: ear this week? And we just can't have this kid
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: doing this. Like, I understand the fact that we're trying
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: to celebrate. We're having fun. We need to vibes are
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: almost too good. If we have Mizorowski thing and that
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: he can leap over fences with his six foot seven frame,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we need these guys to be protecting themselves a little bit.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: They're, they almost are having too much fun Hunter.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: That's I thought the same thing when I saw him
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: jump and land. And I was like, you know, it's
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: a slow-mo video. So I was like, All right, maybe
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: this is a little better than it would look in
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: real time.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I felt like Lou Brown. Great jump, Jacob. Don't ever
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: do it again.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, don't do it again.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Just continue to maybe just walk around, you know, walk
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: around the fence there. Do a little bit of a
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: jog onto the field. We want to protect everybody at
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: all costs right now because health is going to be
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: huge coming into the postseason. And yeah, they are having fun.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: This team enjoys beating their rival Cubs. And look, they
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: didn't shy away from talking about how big this series was,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: not just in the standings. We all know that Brewers
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: had a commanding lead heading into the series, but just
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: the rivalry in general. This has become one of the
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: best rivalries in baseball. And honestly, I don't think it
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: probably gets enough love as far as a rivalry around
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: sports right now, because it is just fantastic. Almost every
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: one of these games is close. We had blowouts on
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: opposite ends of the seven-game stretch, although last night didn't
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: turn out to be a blowout because of what happened
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: in the ninth inning, but this has been some great
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: baseball back and forth, really good teams, really talented teams
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: doing it different ways, winning in different ways, and boy,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: it was just super entertaining and stressful baseball over the
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: last week and a half.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing, Hunter.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of fans have echoed this, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I know everyone kind of approaches it differently, but if
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: you're really emotionally invested as a fan, they can be
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: totally exhausting games, you know? And I, so I, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: understand why, although they're.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Fun, some people don't want it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: And even one, like last night, you mentioned brewers up a, okay,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: you're thinking they're going to coast home. Finally, we get
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: one where we can, you know, take a deep breath.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: And all of a sudden you're back in the trenches
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: when it's eight, six and the Uribe had to get
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: it done though.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Was there a palpable nervousness last night in the crowd? I, I,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I just, it felt like, I mean, it was, yeah, that,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: that was, uh, That was not great.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Obviously, you would love Brandon Sprote to, OK, maybe give
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: up a run.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, what and what Pat Murphy said after
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: the game, like you got to throw it over the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: plate or you're not going to be a major league pitcher.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: And that's it's the reality of it. You cannot, especially
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: up seven. That's what that's what gets, you know, Pat
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Murphy the most. Sometimes we saw it with Robert Castor
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: when he had a lead a couple of weeks ago
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: and that led to him being taken out in the
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: middle of an at bat when you have a lead.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: And you are not throwing strikes. There's really no excuse
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: for it because you can go and attack hitters because
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: you have the leeway of, Oh, he hit it out.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Oh no, it's eight to two instead of eight to one.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I think we're okay. And instead they weren't, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Brandon Sproat, especially was not attacking after rebate didn't have
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: his best night as well. And you could see his
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: frustration too, as he slammed his glove into the, you know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: into the mound after that inning ended. And he was
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: able to get out of it in the big sigh
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: of relief. But I thought it was interesting too. Pat
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Murphy said, you know, as a manager, you can't get too,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: you can't add pressure to the moment. You can't let
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: it show emotionally. And you really didn't see every time
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: they panned to Pat Murphy, he was very stoic, just
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: kind of staring straight ahead. You could tell inside of
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: him was just screaming to get these three outs, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: he was very stoic. And I think that is, a
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: big part of being a manager in that moment is
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: he's like, if I'm stomping my feet and everything, that's
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: just going to add pressure to the players on the field.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: So he's got to remain calm and they were able
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: to squeak out.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joining us here, talking Brewers. What are the,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: now that the Brewers have the luxury because of the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: lead in the division, that's going to be inevitable. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: then hopefully the, the number one seed thing will, they'll
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: maintain their lead. They have stuff to play for, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: they also have to get guys ready. Where do you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: think they are? with, let's say, Brandon Sprote or Kyle Harrison?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do when you have those
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: guys struggling to the extent they have? That's one thing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: with hitters, you can just ride it out, but with pitchers,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit different. What's the approach going to be
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: with those guys?
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're going to be creative, especially with
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Kyle Harrison. It sounds like he's still penciled to start
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: on Saturday. We don't have the official probables yet. Everything
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: was TBA when those came out yesterday. We'll probably maybe
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: get those either later today or tomorrow morning. I would
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: think with Kyle Harrison, it's more of a, okay, we're
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: going to go maybe a shorter start, maybe a shorter stint,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: see how his stuff plays for just a shorter amount
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: of time.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Although his starts have not been long.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: So I don't know exactly what that's going to prove,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: you know, or, or bear fruit, but maybe just get
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: some confidence back, work on some things. And Murphy saying yesterday, like, yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: we Kyle's been working with the pitching coaches. We've all
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: been trying to come up with solutions and, And so
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: this is the time to do that. That's what a
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: 10-game lead in the division affords you to be able
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: to do, right? To be able to kind of, okay,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: let's take a grand view of this, a 30,000-foot view.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: What are you doing right? Clearly, what are you doing wrong?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: And then let's fix it and hopefully in time for
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the postseason. So it sounds like he might be kind
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: of like a piggyback with another pitcher. Maybe it is
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Brandon Sproat coming up on Saturday. But I thought it
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: was interesting in telling that they went TBA throughout the
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: weekend as of yesterday, because usually they'd announced those next
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: three days. But Pat Murphy said that he's probably not
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: going to go with a six man rotation after today's
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: off day, which is their first, obviously, in 16 days.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: And so knowing that they might try to be creative
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: a little bit, move guys into different roles and just
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: completely have that mindset of, OK, yes, we have to
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: win the division. Yes, we want the one seed, but
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: we got to get a really good Clearly, your one-two
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: punch right now is Miz and Henderson, and then whatever
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: happens after that happens. And you'd love Kyle Harrison to
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: be in the mix as well. You'd love Dustin May
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: to be in the mix as well. Dustin May was
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: standing in the bullpen last night. So I wonder how
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: creative they'll be in the next couple of weeks to
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: try and just get guys ready for maybe roles that
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: a month or two ago they wouldn't have necessarily imagined
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: themselves in, but come the postseason, that might be the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: role they're in.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Hunter joining us here. Okay, I'm going to reiterate a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: question that I had a while back. Who's the Brewers
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: MVP this year in your mind, as we're entering the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: last two weeks?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's, I mean, MVP and, you know, I remember
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: asking you guys last week on the show, okay, what
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: is that?
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Who's the most impressive, right?
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: And Jacob Mizorowski's probably the pretty easy answer to that,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: but MVP, you could argue, two different sides, but his
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: only pitches every five days, six days, whatever it happens
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: to be in Bowers is in the lineup every day. Unfortunately,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: he's been hurt this series, but they were able to
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: sweep the Cubs without Bowers, which I think is huge
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: as well. And shouldn't be swept down. He played half
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: the game and played a little bit. The first game
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: played half the game on Tuesday, but still dealing with
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: the shin splints. And I think you want to get
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: him as much rest as you can. You're heading down
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: the stretch.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: The MVP is, I think.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I would go Jake Bowers because the offense of what
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: he's provided. However, I would also, boy, I mean, on
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: the offensive side, Jackson Churio's throwing himself into the conversation.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: And so, you know, right. So what he's done lately,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: another candidate you could look at is Trevor McGill. There's
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of teams, including the team they just swept
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: that lost games, that lost a lot of games late.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: And Trevor McGill has been just dynamite on the back end.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Abner and Rebay the same. So, boy, I do think
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: that there are some really good candidates. Miz is there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Henderson is there. And this, again, shows how this is
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: not just like, okay, one guy's carrying this team, right?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: This is a complete team effort that they're able to
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: get starting pitching, offense, defense, and, of course, bullpen as well.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, McGill is one of the toughest ones to
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: ignore because if we don't know all of the rumors
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: and all of the conversations felt like all off season long,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: they were trying to trade them to anybody, right? Like
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: felt like they were trying to ship them off anywhere.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Sometimes the trades you don't make end up being the
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: best one and any concern, or are you happy now
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that he's getting this a little hard contact out of
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the way with two weeks before he can get himself
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: ready for the playoffs?
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: If, if it's going to ever happen, I want it
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: to be. Now he went through his, uh, stretch there
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: where he was basically untouchable. It was his pitch count was,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: you know, eight to nine and outing because he was
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: just attacking the zone and guys weren't able to, you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: they're putting it in play, but the, you know, the
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Brewers are making good defensive plays, which, you know, there's
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: partly that too. Brewers defense, the ninth inning has been
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: really good. And Pat Murphy, you know, tries to put
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: his best defenders if he's got a lead out there.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: So that, that helps.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: And really, you know, almost the entire team are really
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: good defenders at this point. But I think it's, Look,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: he was going to have a blip on the radar.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: He went 15 straight outings without allowing an earned run.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I think the blip on the radar was going to come.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Same with Abner. Abner had a stretch like that heading
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: into last night.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Get it out of the way now when you still
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: can win those games and then kind of get ready.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: And I wonder if.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: they'll try to, you know, try to give those guys
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: a little more rest as we head down the stretch
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: as well, especially after Trevor throwing 25 pitches.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that is a good point.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: You wonder how many guys need a couple of days,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: need a blow or are starting to feel the effects
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: of a long season. But, you know, guys are going
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: to give up runs eventually. And that's just the reality.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: So maybe getting it out of the way. now is
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: a good thing. And Admir is funny. We talk about McGill.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: He's another one you can really put in the mix
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: because he's been like a second closer. I mean, he's
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: been as good. He's been as effective and important. He's
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: been in the eighth inning most of the year.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'd make a case of the unsung guys. Terang, to me,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: is overlooked because of his defense, especially. And he probably
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: leads the team in war again. I didn't look.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: He is right now.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But then Ashby, because he pitches so much and has
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: been so effective, And tell me a team like the Cubs,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: every time the Cubs go to the bullpen, people are
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: white knuckling it because they don't have a guy like
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Ashby that's just nails, right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: They don't have, they don't. And it's opposite, really.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: When you look at the Cubs bullpen compared to the
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Brewers bullpen, whenever the Cubs go to the bullpen, yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: it's like hold on tight because you don't know what's
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: going to happen. Meanwhile, I don't know if there's a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: guy I don't trust in that Brewers bullpen right now
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to get an out or two. And that is huge
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: heading into the, last part of the year, because to
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: begin the year, it was like, oh, this is not the.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Well, okay, yeah, Sprout, you're right.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I'm just being funny.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: You're right, you're right.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just being themself. Your point is correct, Bill. You
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: call him out in a game of meaning, right?
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Right, correct.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of guys they would go to, which pretty much
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: everybody in that bullpen except Sprout, I think they'd go to.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: They'd have a chance to go to.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, Jojo Romero's been good in a Brewers uniform
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: overall since.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: He came in.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Since the tele makes people nervous. And it was good
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: And look, these guys are going to make some people nervous,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: but that's what a bullpen army is.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: These are latent games. These are close situations. That is
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: how it's going to be.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, you can see you've
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: got a really good glimpse this series into what it's
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: like to not have a great bullpen and how scary
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: that can be. And I think we should be thankful
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: here in Milwaukee of what the Brewers have built. And look,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: this was not the case early in the year, especially
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: with Serpa out for the year. Like, it was very questionable.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: McGill and Uribe didn't have great starts this season. It
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: was like, whoa, this is not the Brewers' bullpen we're
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: used to seeing. And now it's coming into form, heading
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: into the most meaningful stretch of the year.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Funny how things ebb and flow, because there was a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: couple months ago, three, four months ago, you'd have said
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers absolutely fleeced the Red Sox in that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: trade right before the season.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Durbin, Monasterio, Siegler, and a competitive balance pick for Harrison, Hamilton,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and Druin. Now that we're closer to the end of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the season, is that trade more even, or did the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Red Sox win the trade?
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think the Red Sox won the trade, just
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: because of how consistent Drohan's been for you. I mean,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: he's been a huge part of this rotation and has
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: held you in a lot of games, and also a
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: ton of games you won in that first half because
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: of Kyle Harrison before the All-Star break.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that body of work still plays, you know. Exactly.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: They've fallen off, though, and then that's like when Durbin
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: was cold to start the season.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: It's more even.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And plus Hamilton had a rough game defensively over the weekend.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Joey started every game in the cub series and, you know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Pam Murphy alluded to it after the game on Sunday. Like, yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I might have to think about playing Joey more. He
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: played against a righty last night. You talk about unsung
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Joey Ortiz in the second half of the season can
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: be a very unsung hero. I mean, defense, we know
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: how good he is, but he's put the offense together
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: and has just not missed a beat since he lost,
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: lost his shortstop job. And has just been just has
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: really fought through that and has come out of the
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: other side.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: The trade that we talked about yesterday from hot take
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: hump day was I think you keep looking back on
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: that Corbin Burns trade and it looks like the Brewers
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: ended up winning even better because of how good DL
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Hall's been mentioned Ortiz. And then Ryan in Denver hit
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: it up on the text line. I totally forgot that
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: they also got a pick in there. And that turned
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: into Blake Burke, who might be your starting first baseman,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: come up next year once certain guys end up hitting
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: free agency. So there's a lot of good that was
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: coming out of that deal.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I did forget about that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there is some trades that have looked really good.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think the Red Sox one is more
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: even as of now than it was obviously a few
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: months ago. But yeah, could 2026 be the year that
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: the Corbin Burns trade really bears fruit?
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: We shall see. D.L.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Hall's ERA 2-1-2 and got huge. They don't win that
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: game unless D.L. Hall does what he does in that
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: ninth inning to get two outs and then the three
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: outs in the tenth inning on Tuesday night.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: He's been so important to have a lefty like that.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: He's been so important in the bullpen.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Hunter.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Will there be a Milwaukee's baseball tonight either in front
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of or behind tonight's debut of the Thursday Night Huddle
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook?
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: There will four to five. We're going to do it beforehand.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: So we're going to lead right into you guys. And yes,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: we'll look back at the series against the Cubs. Trisha
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Whitaker of Apple TV will join me on the show
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: as well. And if you miss it this afternoon, you can,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: you guys can hear it on the huddle tomorrow. And then, yeah,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: so we got four to five coming up today. And
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: then of course the pregame show tomorrow, leading into the
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: first game against the Reds at 5.30.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: How about that? We're chock full of local content in
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: the afternoon. We will talk to you down the line tonight.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: Sounds good.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Hunter's going to be on the board while we are
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: at Pottawatomie Casino Hotel, if I'm not mistaken.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, no, he doesn't nearly get
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: the fun part of that show. However, he gets to
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: listen to it, which is the fun part, which is
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: very much a fun part. The most fun part is
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: coming with the phrase that pays being one of the
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: first 10 to say pay the toll. Pay the toll.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: The phrase that pays today. What a consolation prize is
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: being able to listen to the huddle.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back close, a closeup shop.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: We will have our wake and bake story for you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and type any loose ends that we may have had.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: If you want to get us a last minute word, eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: one 97, three gets you to the Nicolet law.com. Talk
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a text line. You're in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: true billion. Armin bringing it to you. Thursday edition coming
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to a close here.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And it's good.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: We need to catch our breath. We got to tackle
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: football again tonight. 49ers and Rams from Australia down under.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: We got no Brewers game tonight. We got Packers coming up.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: We got Western Illinois against the Badgers on Saturday night
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: at Camp Randall. I just looked at that. Get in
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the door tickets on one of the sites.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: $ 17. That sounds about right.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Get in the door for the field house for Wisconsin
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Marquette Volleyball.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Later this month. I was going to say, hey, now
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: we're talking.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: If you want to see volleyball inside the field house,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: then it is to see football inside Camp Randall.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And I know this might surprise some people. I believe
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: at UWBadgers.com, they still have tickets available. There's definitely an opportunity.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You don't have to go to the secondary, but you can, yeah.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: But you can go and check them out.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: There'll be plenty of opportunities to go see the Leathernecks
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: take on the Badgers on Saturday night. But listen, these
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: two games just look good, feel good, play good. Play good.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Pay good. I like that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: You pay good because you don't want to have a
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Michigan situation. You don't want to have the opponent putting
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: out sweet banners like Western Michigan did.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Don't feel sorry for us. Feel sorry for our opponents.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: You don't want any of that.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: You don't want any of that nonsense. Just route them
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: and be done with it. Let them cash the check
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: on Monday and feel good about what you did.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I like that. Love it. Love it. All right, Billy,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: time for a little wake and bake story. What do
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: you got? Anything to send people into the.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: I wanted to send people in with this because tonight,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, our plate is kind of barren other
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: than the game on Netflix. And listen, there are people
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: like my mother said yesterday, well, I guess we're just
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: not watching. You know, I wonder when the Netflix crew
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: got there. Everyone talks about Rams and the Niners. One
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: of the Netflix crew got there. And you're right, Billy.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: If you don't have Netflix, hey, you're not watching unless
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: you come to Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Come to Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Enjoy the Thursday night huddle. Hang
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: out in the annex of the sportsbook and then watch
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: the game there. But If you're not doing that, starting
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: at 6 o'clock tonight, you can stream the Uke movie.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: The Uke documentary, the movie is phenomenal. Do it tonight.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Brewers TV, 24-hour window for you to stream it starting
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: at 6 o'clock tonight. While you do it, you can
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: also go to obviousshirts.com. and enjoy cringe for a cause. Now,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: people are going to say, why are you pumping up obviousshirts.com?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Cubs to Cubs. That's a Cubs website. Yeah, okay.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Well, because obviousshirts.com is walking back a tweet they.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Had that apparently was all-time cringe. It was, yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: 100% of these shirts will be donated to Make-A-Wish Wisconsin
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: in Bob Uecker's name after the man from Obvious Shirts
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: behind the account.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know his name, but I like the work
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that they do.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Put together a fun story about the background of the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: L flag and tried to embarrass Brewers fans by saying, listen,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: the thing about the L flag is you guys just
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: don't understand it. What's funny about the whole L flag
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: situation is the Brewers fans have no understanding of the
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: flag's purpose, history, and significance. During the Great Depression, the
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: flag was flown on days on the scoreboard for the
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: simplest way to signify won or lost to the surrounding population.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Brewers fans think the L means the Cubs lost. It doesn't.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: It signifies a win or loss to whomever is flying it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: It's like conquering a territory, celebrating by waving that your
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: territory's white flag. You're literally calling yourselves losers and think
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: it's a flex. Had you flown the W flag, it
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: would have been much more a punch in the face.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: You didn't. Well, bud, you swing and miss. Swing and
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: a miss on April 2nd.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: That tweet is on the back of this shirt that
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: they designed at obvious shirts.com.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: It's got an ode to the brewers.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: It's got the w and the L flag and brewers
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: colors right on the front makes a good joke of
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: the situation. But more importantly, make some good money for
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: the make a wish of Wisconsin. So dunk on a
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: couple of Cubs fans that think they were trying to
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: troll you. I'll be it. No, we're still making fun
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: of you guys. We're making fun of you guys for losing.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: The elf leg does mean you lose and we're going
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: to fly it and enjoy it. And we can raise
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: some money and talk some crap virtually and let everybody
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: let all Cubs fans know. We understand what the story
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: is and we're still making fun of you and we're
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Donate some money to Make-A-Wish Wisconsin.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: That's obviousshirts.com. Yeah, pretty cool. We can find those ones.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: They're doing that. That was one of the better. I mean,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: everybody was jumping on that meme. He got absolutely dunked on.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: The amount of times you saw that being repeated, it
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: was hilarious. So now you'll wear the joke. A good
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: way to do it.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the program, we'll get you ready for a
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: great weekend. Brewers, Reds, and of course, Packers, Vikings, Badgers,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Western Illinois. Wayne Larrabee will join the party at 725 tomorrow.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: But more immediately, we've got a show again today. The
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock club will reconvene in the PM at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: We'll be in the annex having the Thursday night huddle live.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Hope to see you there. The phrase that pays, pay
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the toll. We'll see you at 5 PM.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: Peace.