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10/26/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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• 0:21
  Speaker 3: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do. All right?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go out and kick some change.
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  Speaker 2: All right? Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 5: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 2: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 5: We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 2: It is time.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 2: I am. With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 6: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 6: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 5: That son of a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 2: And Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian. Welcome to the huddle. In
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  Speaker 2: the shotgun, the snap to Jordan Love. He steps up.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Scrambles right. Going to take it himself. Throws right side
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  Speaker 2: of the end zone. Got Tucker Kraft. Tumbling grabs. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 6: But did he come across? The line of scrimmage on
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  Speaker 6: the throw. Apparently, I don't see a flag.
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  Speaker 2: It's a touchdown, Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: 3-2.
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  Speaker 2: Runner takes off. It's a hit and run to perfection.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's on the board, and guess who's done it?
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  Speaker 6: William Contreras comes through again, and he says, of course
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Now the 3-2 pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Mitchell strokes a base hit to right center field.
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  Speaker 1: It's 4-2.
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  Speaker 2: They've cut it in half. Well, the handoff to Gibbs
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  Speaker 2: up the middle. Accelerate. Gibbs covered up. Ball came loose.
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  Speaker 2: It's up for grabs and a pileup inside the 10
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  Speaker 2: near the 8-yard line. It's Green Bay football. The Packers recover.
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  Speaker 1: Ground ball to fresh.
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  Speaker 4: Through the legs of Aranda. Everybody's safe and it's 4-3.
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  Speaker 4: Behind the runner, he's safe too. Here comes Hicks. He
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  Speaker 4: doesn't run well at all.
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  Speaker 6: And it's no question he's out at.
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  Speaker 7: Home.
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  Speaker 8: Mmm, boy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I don't know if you've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just seeing it right now. That was awful. That's
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  Speaker 2: an awful, awful call. He just kind of ran into Goff.
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  Speaker 3: He was getting up off his knees.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how much force he put into it.
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  Speaker 2: That's brutal. Third down in a.
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  Speaker 6: Tight pocket, throws the left side, and he's got his
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  Speaker 6: man down the left sidelines. Jacobs breaking a tackle inside
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  Speaker 6: the 10, but he.
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  Speaker 2: Stepped out of bounds. Oh, and they call it a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: It is a touchdown. Goff looks it over, takes the snap,
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  Speaker 2: hands it off to Gibbs.
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  Speaker 5: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: He's tackled on the play. Gibbs hit by Keyshawn Nixon.
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  Speaker 2: And also in on that play, Jordan Riley.
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  Speaker 4: It's served into right, and it's Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: In front. They've turned game two upside down. Daniel Whelan
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  Speaker 2: down on one knee. Snap. Placement. Swing to the leg.
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  Speaker 2: And it is no good.
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  Speaker 3: No good.
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  Speaker 6: And the Lions rejoice at the sideline below us.
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  Speaker 2: 35-yard field goal. No good. Here it is. Placement. Kick
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  Speaker 2: is up. And it is good.
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  Speaker 6: And the Detroit Lions have defeated the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 6: here at Ford Field 20-17.
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  Speaker 5: On to St.
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  Speaker 2: Pete. Indeed.
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  Speaker 7: Mixed emotions. Frustrating Packers finish at Ford Field. Kind of
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  Speaker 7: tempered what was otherwise a glorious sports weekend in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 7: with the Brewers winning a pair of games. Against the
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  Speaker 7: Rays to take a 2-0 lead into the World Series.
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  Speaker 7: Game 3 tonight. We'll talk to Bill Schmidt live from St.
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  Speaker 7: Pete coming up in about 20 minutes. Hunter Baumgart joins
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  Speaker 7: us an hour and 25 minutes from now. Drew Olsen,
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  Speaker 7: Armand Sarian holding it down at headquarters. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 7: 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. Everywhere on the iHeart app. Streaming
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  Speaker 7: live on Facebook, X, and YouTube here in the huddle.
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  Speaker 7: Wanted to shift gears to... the Brewers and just talk
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  Speaker 7: about what's going to happen tonight and where we're at
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  Speaker 7: as a fan base. But we have news from Green Bay.
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  Speaker 7: We wondered if there would be offensive line shuffling. Well,
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  Speaker 7: there is today already officially announced. The Packers have placed
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  Speaker 7: Jacob Monk on injured reserve with a quad injury. And
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  Speaker 7: signed Mekhi Becton to the active roster from the practice
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  Speaker 7: squad to take his place.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's been a lot of talk about Zeitler, Mekhi Becton,
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  Speaker 5: the other one that we were wondering about for a while.
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  Speaker 5: So I guess. Well, Zeitler's been active and is on
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  Speaker 5: the roster. He's been active. Right. Becton wasn't really. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the Packers, you could say, have covered themselves. Picking up
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  Speaker 5: these three linemen, you know, obviously, including Lakin. And they've
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  Speaker 5: had a slew of injuries and they continue at that position. So, Drew.
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  Speaker 5: The big ticket. And he is a large human being.
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  Speaker 5: Big old boy, as I used to say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The big ticket is on the 53. Jacob Monk is
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  Speaker 5: on IR. Is that is that Mackay's nickname? I should
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  Speaker 5: have known that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Big ticket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the breaking news. So a big ticket. Hot rod.
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  Speaker 5: Stay tuned for others.
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  Speaker 7: So, yes, as a matter of fact, good launching point
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  Speaker 7: for our little Monday tradition game balls and kicks the balls.
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  Speaker 5: On the program. It's a tradition unlike any other.
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  Speaker 7: You can call us at 877-794-1973 or text thenicolaylaw.com.
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  Speaker 5: Text line.
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  Speaker 7: Tell us who you'd like to give a game ball to.
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  Speaker 7: That's for a job well done. And that is for
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  Speaker 7: an attaboy. It's a kudo.
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  Speaker 5: A little bonus.
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  Speaker 7: Something from the petty cash drawer. Go out and give
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  Speaker 7: your wife. Take your wife out for a nice dinner.
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  Speaker 7: A little game ball action. Put it on the mantle.
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  Speaker 7: Have it forever.
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  Speaker 5: Today in the huddle. A game ball sounds like this.
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  Speaker 4: What a start to the World Series in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't turn that call down. Joe Davis. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Conversely, if someone needs a performance improvement plan, looking at you, Zebras.
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  Speaker 7: If you'd like to give them a well-placed, well-meaning, hopefully
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  Speaker 7: constructive kick to the huevos.
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  Speaker 2: Constructive.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like this.
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  Speaker 2: That's an awful, awful call.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty much perfect. I had so much layer
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  Speaker 5: to pick from. It was an embarrassment of Rich's. I
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  Speaker 5: really did, but that's the one I went to.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and obviously, well, I'll open the bidding because you've
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  Speaker 7: got to give the referees in yesterday's Packers-Lions game a kick.
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  Speaker 2: To the balls.
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  Speaker 3: That's an awful, awful call.
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  Speaker 7: We don't allow too much griping about referees, and the
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  Speaker 7: Packers could have won the game despite some awful, awful calls.
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  Speaker 5: And there were a lot, but it's the subjectivity of it.
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  Speaker 5: I just saw a side-by-side.
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  Speaker 7: Wes Hodkowitz was getting into it with somebody, and someone
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  Speaker 7: did a side-by-side of the intentional grounding call on Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 7: When he's trying to find Tucker Pratt, he's in Tucker
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  Speaker 7: craft in the flat and he is, you know, being
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  Speaker 7: dragged down and the ball went, I don't know what
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  Speaker 7: the line of scrimmage was, but it went to about
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  Speaker 7: the 14 yard line. It did not look like grounding.
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  Speaker 7: Tom Brady almost threw up. And then there's a play
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  Speaker 7: where Jared Goff had a similar play and he was
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  Speaker 7: in between the tackles, not outside the tackles. And he
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  Speaker 7: threw the ball and he just ditched it. And it
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  Speaker 7: was way more egregious, more like grounding. than what Jordan
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  Speaker 7: Love did.
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  Speaker 5: The inconsistency is what's frustrating. And that's a crippling penalty.
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  Speaker 5: Lost it down.
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  Speaker 7: It was one of those that at first, the referee,
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  Speaker 7: when he announced it, the mic wasn't on. And then
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  Speaker 7: it seemed like on the TV copy, Kevin Burkhart and
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  Speaker 7: Tom Brady were like, what'd they call it?
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  Speaker 5: Was it an extra guy in the huddle? Brady was apoplectic.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, what was that? What?
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  Speaker 7: And that's what we're seeing. And we mentioned with Wayne, okay,
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  Speaker 7: so by the letter of the law, Brandon Cisse committed
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  Speaker 7: pass interference on a play that he got an interception.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't really affect Amon Rice-St. Brown that much, but all right,
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  Speaker 7: letter of the law. Took an interception off the board.
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  Speaker 7: Packers penalties have been so costly, but the fact that
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  Speaker 7: you have to rack your brain, and it's an incredibly
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  Speaker 7: tough decision. Which call in terms of refereeing was the
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  Speaker 7: worst that went against the Packers?
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  Speaker 5: Because the two roughing the passer penalties were horrific.
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  Speaker 2: Just.
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  Speaker 5: So horrific. Carl Brooks is like, and Dean Blandino said,
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  Speaker 5: that's teach tape, teach tape. That's a teach tape. That's
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  Speaker 5: how they tell people.
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  Speaker 7: And then the pat of cake, two hand touch to
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  Speaker 7: the stomach that golf oversold was also awful.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that was more, that was more acting than
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: you'll see on Broadway. My, well, I don't understand drew
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  Speaker 5: is the inconsistency of that call because You can't convince me,
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  Speaker 5: with all the hits Jordan Love's been taking because of
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  Speaker 5: our issues, that we can't warrant one call. He has
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  Speaker 5: not been called one time all year for running. It's
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  Speaker 5: eight to nothing. The Packers have eight.
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  Speaker 1: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: And all of them have been, I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: say all been important. They've all felt like really important plays.
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  Speaker 5: And they've all been sort of like, you're side-eyeing this. Like,
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  Speaker 5: what is really going on here? I mean, some of these,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the falling with the weight thing is what
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  Speaker 5: really frustrating because that's been happening a lot. It really
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  Speaker 5: feels like the Packers have done their best to avoid
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  Speaker 5: it on most of those. you have to have some
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  Speaker 5: sort of judgment in some of these calls. It's just
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  Speaker 5: mind-boggling the inconsistency of what these officials are seeing, and
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  Speaker 5: it seems to be consistent against the Packers. That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Share your game balls and kicks, 877-794-1973. Now, Nick told me.
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  Speaker 5: On Facebook really quick, he said, why is no one
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  Speaker 5: talking about targeting him, Tucker Kraft? Absolute cheap shot, no penalty. Well,
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  Speaker 5: there's too many, Nick. Yeah, well, that's true. We're trying
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  Speaker 5: to get all of them in there. If the CSA
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  Speaker 5: thing was a penalty.
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  Speaker 7: Matthew Golden was running in the open field with a
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  Speaker 7: back judge looking right at the play, and a guy
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  Speaker 7: held his arm down. It wasn't just normal hand fighting.
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  Speaker 7: A guy held his left arm. It was basically pinned,
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  Speaker 7: and he was forced to try to make a one-handed catch.
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  Speaker 5: Brian Branch, you know, I mean, was the one that
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: launched into craft. Now, Brian Branch has been a dirty
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  Speaker 5: player this league. If anyone should get picked on, it
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  Speaker 5: should be him. He should get the Ahmaud Carroll treatment.
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  Speaker 5: They should be looking for every time he plays to
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  Speaker 5: get a penalty.
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  Speaker 2: But then, like.
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  Speaker 7: I know each game is kind of its own entity,
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  Speaker 7: but we're not living in a vacuum. Wayne had said
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  Speaker 7: it too. If you watch the entire league, the Dolphins
• 10:52
  Speaker 7: got caught. Well, first of all, Cam Scott, a bow
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  Speaker 7: got called for what might've been the worst penalty in
• 10:56
  Speaker 7: the history of the league yesterday, a running back with
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  Speaker 7: an unnecessary roughness for running too hard into a defender. I,
• 11:02
  Speaker 7: you know what?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't get a chance to get a good look
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  Speaker 5: at that one. I just saw people griping about it,
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  Speaker 5: but Oh, Armin, we just call it up right now.
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  Speaker 5: Is that you're good at looking things up during the show.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: I give you permission to do that right now. Because
• 11:15
  Speaker 7: what you saw is an unnecessary roughness. Like, did he
• 11:18
  Speaker 7: drop his helmet and run into a, I just, I can't.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's, and that's what I'm talking about. The
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  Speaker 7: Dolphins got called. Yeah, that's bizarre. That's what they call
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  Speaker 7: them for, for truck sticking the guy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, truck stick the guy. Isn't this football? Unnecessary roughness. That,
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  Speaker 5: it's absurd. What would they have called on Christian Akoye
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  Speaker 5: if that was, or Eddie Fullback? What are you supposed
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: to do? The Amon Ross St.
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  Speaker 7: Brown, when he got suplexed by Devontae Wyatt and the
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  Speaker 7: ref got kicked in the stomach and threw the flag
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  Speaker 7: from his back, that to me was the worst one
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  Speaker 7: of the day because that's not a penalty. The other
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: guy should have told him to take that flag and
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: put it in his pocket. That one was bad. When
• 11:57
  Speaker 7: Matthew Golden gets a penalty for taunting and he ends
• 12:02
  Speaker 7: up for flexing with an opponent in the foreground but
• 12:04
  Speaker 7: mostly at the crowd and then the entire Rams defensive
• 12:08
  Speaker 7: line and everybody there, I mean, offensive line, does.
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  Speaker 5: a fortnight, you know, dance party. That was the craziest thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's pointing at Carl Brooks in his head.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 7: And it's touching his helmet to point at him. And
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  Speaker 7: that's not taunting. Like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: I understand some holding calls or some pass interference calls,
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: you know, can go both ways. But when you have
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  Speaker 5: something like that, okay. Letter of the law taunting, you
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  Speaker 5: just called it on us for flexing to the crowd,
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  Speaker 5: which is stupid, egregious. Now you're not going to call
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  Speaker 5: for them for a choreographed multi-person, multiplayer, multi-level event. multi-scene
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  Speaker 5: act performance by eight guys in the field. And that
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  Speaker 5: should have been eight of them right there, Drew. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's just hard to make sense of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to make sense of. That's just why I'm mad.
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  Speaker 7: Matt, Dan Campbell's decision to go for it on fourth down,
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  Speaker 7: which would have been the story had the Packers won.
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  Speaker 7: they'd be beating the drums for his firing in Detroit
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  Speaker 7: had the Packers won that game. Because under five minutes left,
• 13:16
  Speaker 7: you're at your own 25, you go for it on
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  Speaker 7: fourth down, don't get it. He's the only coach in
• 13:20
  Speaker 7: the country that goes for that there.
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  Speaker 5: Right, although I saw Tomlin defending it last night. Tomlin
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: defended it, said it was legit.
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  Speaker 7: And you can maybe, but my friend who's an Alliance fan,
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  Speaker 7: Andy in West Bend, shout out to Andy, was saying
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  Speaker 7: he was upset. And again, it goes to the nuts
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  Speaker 7: and bolts of the referees. He was upset, and the
• 13:38
  Speaker 7: second down spot was pretty bad, he thought, and advantageous
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  Speaker 7: to the Packers that made the third down longer and
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  Speaker 7: then the fourth down.
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  Speaker 5: And they're not even spotting the ball right.
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  Speaker 7: It's one thing to get pass interference wrong or to
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  Speaker 7: be a little.
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  Speaker 5: Too rough in the pass. But we're seeing problems.
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  Speaker 7: We saw it in the last Packers home game against
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  Speaker 7: Dallas where they're having trouble spotting the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Wayne talked about that a lot.
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  Speaker 7: And it's become like even the mechanics now. I know there's,
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  Speaker 7: there's some crying again. I hate to, I know it
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  Speaker 7: feels good. And people think, well, it's a joke. They're
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  Speaker 7: the only major pro league that doesn't have full-time officials.
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  Speaker 7: And these guys are, you know, high school principals.
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  Speaker 5: And Billy and I go back and forth on it.
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  Speaker 5: And my thing is, okay.
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  Speaker 7: So does making 300 grand a year, which for some
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: of these guys who are attorneys and stuff, it would
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: be a pay cut probably. But, and then having them
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  Speaker 7: be your, your LinkedIn says NFL official full-time. as your
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: main gig, does that make their eyesight better? Does it
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: make them, the guys, these guys who are the weekend
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  Speaker 7: warriors that they are, that have fake hips and fake knees,
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: does it make them more physically fit?
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  Speaker 5: Like, oh, they'd have more time to work out. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 7: There's no evidence it would. There's no evidence it's going
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: to help. Now, ostensibly, would it give them more time
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  Speaker 7: to study the rule book and look at film?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: But does that make it better? Because to me, and
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: Wayne said it, Wayne said it best. It's the ecosystem
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: of officiating right now where they get graded on everything
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  Speaker 7: and the all 22 and things. I just think there's
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: this ethos now that they're searching for penalties. They're writing
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: tickets for guys who are going 57 and a 55.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, exactly. It's more litigious. It's a more litigious game.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: And so making them full-time and then spending all their
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: time thinking of penalties.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: They can call, does that make it better? I don't
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: know that it makes it better.
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: I'm all for it, and the league has the money
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: to have full-time officials, and you can say if you
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: want that it's a joke that they don't. To me,
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: it's like, does it make it better? Does it address
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: the root of the issue? I don't know that it does.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: A lot of it starts with people wanting incorrect calls
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: that they saw in replay over the years changed, and
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: they wanted what they saw as an injustice corrected.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Right. Righted.
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  Speaker 5: The problem is, I think we had to accept that
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: this will never be a game of equitable justice. I mean,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: that's never going to happen. There's no utopia. I think
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: that's where we started getting to different levels of replay
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: drew is because when big calls that everyone saw was
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: that were wrong, didn't get, you know, overturned or whatever
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: and said, there has to be a system in place.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Cause on one side, we complain about all the, the
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: officiating being bad and so many flags, but on the
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: other side, once something happens, we'll say there has to
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: be a system in place to right this wrong. You
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: really can't balance those two things. In my opinion, I
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: think as time goes on, you think you can, but
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: you can't. And that's part of the problem. And I
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: think that's, that would be my take for the, the
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: full-time officials thing is what you're saying. Your logic isn't flawed.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: Would it actually help them see better or perform better?
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know. All I know is we had a grow.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: We had a, racks of callers last night saying they
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: have to do something. It's easy to say you have
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: to do something, but what is that thing that they
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: actually can do to fix this? I think that's where
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: I disagree with most people. I don't think there's much
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: you can do. So making them full-time would only serve
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: the NFL to throw meat to hungry wolves, angry people, fans, media, commentators,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: observers that want something done. And there is nothing else
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: actionable you can really do except saying you guys have
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: to be better. Well, that's not really working. That's not working, exactly.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, unless they're trying to be bad, which I
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: doubt they are, but now I wonder. People are wondering that, right?
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: A lot of people are saying that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: And again, that's... You get down that road, right?
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: That's the leap, and that's a logical leap for people
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: to make with the league in bed with DraftKings.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: They're making that leap. Oh, they're all on the take.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: That's always been an undercurrent, but you're not doing yourself
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: any favors.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: No, it doesn't really follow it. This replay review brought
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: to you by DraftKings. I mean, and hey.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Pottawatomie Sportsbook, the sports gambling part of it is Pandora's
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: box is open. It's never going to get stuffed back in.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: The toothpaste is not going back in that tube. But
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: that adds to the shadow of doubt. When you doubt
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: the basics of the officiating, the fundamentals of the game.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: The integrity of the game. The integrity. It's a crisis.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: And it's getting to be a crisis.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: And not only that, it's diminishing everyone's enjoyment because even
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: when there's an electric play made by these incredible athletes
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: that we want to watch every Sunday... You're looking around
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: for the flag, waiting for the waiting for the rug
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: to get pulled, waiting for Lucy to pull the football.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: And then it definitely is annoying and not enjoyable. But
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: someone has to prove to me that it's actually going
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: to hurt the game because I don't see them making
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: less money. I see I don't see people watching less.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I don't see people being less interested. I know I
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: start to think the NFL is just Teflon these days
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: and that nothing will kill the product. Well, here's the
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: other thing. How about a public disclosure?
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: And they started to do this a little bit, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: with the calls that were missed, give us the report
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: card for the referees. Like some people do it with
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: the umpire and the, you know, ABS challenges and stuff.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: And because it seems like this crew last night, there
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: was an, it was an awful performance by them, but
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: just about any measure.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Blandino said it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Brady said, it's not just us Packers fans, even lions
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: fans admit it was brutal.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: And this was America's game. It was in the national window.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: but they're not going to face anything for it, at
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: least publicly. Whereas Xavier McKinney is going to get a
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: FedEx from the commissioner's office. Tell me he's going to
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: get fined probably 25 grand for expressing his dismay with
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: the officiating.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: That's crap.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Do you think if there was some sort of punishment
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: or admonishment by the league or the officials to this crew,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: people would want to know about that? I would think so.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: So I don't know. Maybe there is, and we just
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: don't know about it. I think they absolutely should. Hey,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: you got marked down. You got downgraded.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: I think this crew has a reputation, and they shouldn't
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: have been doing the game in this spotlight between division
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: rivals anyway.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: That's another... Send that to Carolina, Tampa.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: But it doesn't make it better for that product. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: understand what you're saying about this one. I know. But
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: my point is, if fans and observers at least saw
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: that that league cared and agreed and validated their feelings
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: and was doing something, then they would be a little
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: bit more satisfied. But everyone is saying the same thing.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: They have to do something. But what can you do?
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: No one can give that answer. Something to remember with
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: the Packers. I still think goal one is always to
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: win the division. It got incrementally harder Not quite impossible,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: but harder with the loss yesterday, right? Because the Packers
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: now have two division losses. It's going to be difficult.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: So do the Bears.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, but their record's better. Their record's better, but the Bears,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: both of their losses came against division opponents. I mean,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: the Vikings and Lions are probably in better shape. So
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: the Vikings are in the best shape and are now
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: prohibitive favorites to win. I think their team's still the worst.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: But there's two things that are true. I think in
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: order for the Packers to win the division... They might
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: need a tie between Minnesota and Detroit.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: You're going that deep.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I love this.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: But if the playoffs started today, all four teams in
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: the NFC North would be in.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I think it's 94. I feel like 94 over again.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: We're the entire Central, except for the Buccaneers, made the playoffs.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Outside of the division. This division is not losing. Outside
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: of the division, the NFC North is a combined 15
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: and three.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: It's just incredible.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: The only three losses outside the division, well, the Packers
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: lost to the Falcons, and the Lions lost to the
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Bills and the Panthers.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: So 15-3 against the rest of the world. It's amazing.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: This division, unless they play each other, will not lose.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: But when we go to break, we're going to get
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: to Billy. Kurt Schwenke's got my walk-off on YouTube. Hey,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Angel Hernandez is a full-time mom. Good point. That's a
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: good point.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: This is like, what if we saw the Eric Gregg
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: game in a game like tonight? How would baseball fans
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: react to that? They wouldn't be because ABS changed it, right?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Our buddy the.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Barrister, the mayor of Shorewood, said all the other three
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: American League National Leagues play. Between 82 and 162 games.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: They have to have full-time refs. Yeah, that's a full-time job.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Did you ever see the ref schedule for college basketball refs?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: It's insane. They fly 30 times a month to go
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: to games, and they make money. They don't have to
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: study these. That's probably the worst of it. But you
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: need refs for all these games. In the NFL, you don't.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: When we come back, we're going to swing it to Florida.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Billy Schmid is in Florida to attend the game tonight.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: He's going to be tailgating and having a blast. We'll
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: check in with him next. You're in the huddle.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We are huddled up.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: Drew and Armin from headquarters having us some fun on this, well,
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: kind of Victory Monday, Victory Monday for the Brewers. Game
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: three tonight. We're picking the pieces of the Packers. Who
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: better to join us than our pal Bill Schmidt, live
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: from the Suncoast, Tampa, St.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Pete.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Billy, what was it like getting up in the morning?
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Did you flash back to our 5 a.m.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Club?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fellas, it wasn't too difficult.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Now, the 4.30 wake-up was at least a little bit
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: more forgiving than what we used to have, but at
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: least I was well-trained for it, and it all made
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: it a lot easier when you landed in this Tampa sun, fellas.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: It is one of the greatest days you possibly could
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: have weather-wise, and The folks that came from Wisconsin are
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: enjoying all of it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like the weather doesn't suck, Billy. Did
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: you see a large brewer contingent at the airport?
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: In all reality, Armin, you haven't been able to go
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: 25 feet without seeing Brewers fans.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I'm walking by another one right here. Where I parked,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: there were about 25 cars. The lots opened about an
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: hour ago.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: All of them were Brewers fans, and all of them
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: had chairs set up. They started tailgating. I don't know
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: that many people understood what they were doing here. They
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: didn't have any place to dump your hot coals, but.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to figure it out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Guys, it is a wild contention of Brewers fans. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: ran into two of my old high school football coaches
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: down here at an establishment. There was a group of
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: about 25 people that my wife ran into that she
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: knew that she went to high school with. It is
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: going to be an impressive showing for the 414 down
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: here in Tampa.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: It seemed like we understood the assignment here. No, no doubt.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: And I don't remember from watching how big the Packers
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: contingent was earlier in Tampa. But I will say that
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: this based on it could be like 40 percent or
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: higher of Brewers fans tonight.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Potentially or higher, Drew.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: And I want to give I want to give the
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Rays fans at least a little bit of credit.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Because they're also been very, very nice, very hospitable.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: They've given you the nice little gentle ribbing, the nice
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: little trash talk, but, uh, they understand where the series
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: is at. And the, the most hazing I got was
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: when I had my one hour and a half layover
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: in Philly, I got booed walking off the plane.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So they've been very hospitable.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: And the plane was full. I think there are about
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: 25 people.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: I counted that I've seen at the sports bar across
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: the street where everyone is congregating right now. Uh, that
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: were on the plane that flew down there. There were
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: a couple of different flights, one to Sarasota that people
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: were catching. So it's going to be an impressive showing
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: of people that flew down today and yesterday. And let's
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: be honest, guys, there's a lot of people down here
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: that live here.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: That are cheering for the right squad, hopefully tonight.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Well, that's not a good point, Billy. You know, people
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: that might never have been going to Brewers games would say, hey,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: you know what? They're in Town World Series. The ticket
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: market's cratering.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: And I would think the way the ticket market there
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: has dropped, maybe, you know, if the Brewers win, even
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: if they don't, there might be some that say, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: know what? I can stick around an extra day and
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: pick up game four tickets, even though we were planning
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: on game three.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: That's interesting that you mentioned that because I was thinking
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: about it on the drive over. I knew you generally Armin,
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: the hardest flight to catch is the one from Harry
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Reed international airport.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: The hardest one.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: The hardest one tomorrow mornings, six o'clock on Southwest will
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: be the hardest, especially if there's a Brewers win here tonight.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Because it does feel like I spoke.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: To a number of people that were coming down here,
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: getting here today, going to game four. And they're like, yeah,
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: we understand the assignment. We're probably going to hang around
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: for game five and go at that point too. If
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: the clinch, takes an extra day in a gentleman's suite.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Because it feels like there are most people that are
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: coming down here for a celebration.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Billy Schmidt joining us live from St.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Pete.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Getting ready to go into the game. Game three of
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: the World Series starting tonight at 7 o'clock. Hunter Baumgart
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: joins us an hour from now.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: And Hunter's going to have a two-hour pregame show beginning
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: at 5 o'clock. Just saying.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: But my pal Tyler Kepner from The Athletic just posted
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: a picture of a guy and his wife on the waterfront.
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: He's wearing a Euchre jersey. And he said, unscientific survey,
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: but based on everywhere you look in St. Pete today,
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: there will be lots of brewers fans at the drop tonight.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: There's a ton. I mean, there's another family that I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: walking by. I can't see them that far away in the, uh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: in the camera.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: They've got three brewers flags, a Packer.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: One here as well.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: Uh, it's going to be, this is going to be
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: drew this generation's ice bowl. If they clinch this championship
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: in Tampa that you're going to talk to 150 to
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: 200,000 people in the year 2050 that we're all down
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: here in.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Tampa for this clinch.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: That's interesting.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Now, Billy, um, We got Gasser against Fastball Freddy tonight.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Obviously a matchup. Brewers fans have a special place in
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: their hearts for Freddy Peralta. Maybe not tonight, but in general.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: And then Gasser's been, arguably, has he been their most
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: effective starter in the postseason? I mean, the numbers might
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: say that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the numbers would indicate it, Drew.
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: He's definitely had their longest start of five innings out
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: in Los Angeles. The other part about Gasser's game that
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: I think is kind of contrary to everybody else you're
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: facing now, He's not reliant on velocity. It's not like
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: he's out here throwing 92, but he's going to live.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Around 93, 94.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: And I think that kind of subtle change, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: Logan Henderson's not lighting up the radar gun that they
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: just saw a night ago, but it is a, he's
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: been a steadying force in a rotation that was desperately
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: needing a third guy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: We talked about Dustin May.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Right uh threw out a number of different names i
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: don't know gasser's name kyle harrison ever really came up
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: and here he has been logan henderson's last two starts
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: have been nothing to engender a ton of confidence robert
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: gasser's definitely been your most reliable guy.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah i think so too i think it is interesting
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: speaking on that you know change of pace you know
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: the one thing you would get concerned about i mean
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: obviously it seems like the brewers are are you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: they have an advantage in bullpen, but the thing you
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: do get concerned about is if you show these guys
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: the same pictures too many times, will they be able
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: to pick up on it? But yeah, you mix in
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: a gasser, you mix in maybe some other guys you
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: haven't used yet. You know, you think about, you know, Hey,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: maybe Woodruff, you never know that it might, it might
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: serve you well to show them something different.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: It's, it's fascinating.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: I know you guys have probably talked about it today.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Still trying to figure out drew what the best Woodruff
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: spot is. The opener makes some sense. Yandy Diaz, a
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: real dude. Junior Caminero is.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: A real dude.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I'm one of your first three hitters.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I saw your face.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: I saw him facing Jackson Cheerio in the simulated game.
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: So it wasn't like he was going up there against
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: the skeletal remains of Josh Donaldson a couple of years
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: ago and Felipe Lopez.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: But you're you're out.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: Here going up against some of the best than the
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: American League has to offer.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know that that's a first inning guy.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: Maybe they are just holding around for the perfect time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: One of these games gets out of hand.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Maybe you're up, say, 8-2, and then you let the
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: old bulldog go out there and enjoy the last run.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: I just said that's my dream scenario now is that
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: whenever the Brewers are on the cusp of clinching, they
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: lead like 8-2 or 10-3 and Woodruff gets the last
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: three outs and is on the field as a payoff
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: for his 10 years of service. He's on the field
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: when the whole thing goes down.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: And that's what Drew, he was talking about being the
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: dream that he was cooking up during the rehab.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: For that to turn out, it would be the stuff
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: of movies.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: And we know how many movies they made about the
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: 82 Club. They're two wins away from doubling that, if
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: not more. And that would be one of the best
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: stories about it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: I find myself, you know, that's the problem I'm having
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: right now is I find myself thinking and dreaming too
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: much about every aspect of winning. like what it would
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: look like, what it would feel like, who would be
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: hugging who, who would be in what situation. And that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: a scary, you know, cookies theory and all that. It's scary.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: When the Bucs won, Billy, we were down 2-0. And
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: so you weren't really thinking about that until maybe game
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: four or game five. You know, you weren't dreaming like that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: But there's full-on, all-the-way-rocked-up dreams going on right now for
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Brewers fans, right? There's no question about it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, everybody is that American Eagle meme, just straight up
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: to the moon. And rightfully so. This club means a
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: lot to a lot of people. Drew wrote about a
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: team that lost over 100 games and a couple other
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: ones that probably could have lost close to them. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: the amount of people that showed up year in and
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: year out wasn't just for something to do. It's because
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: this club means something, and there's a special relationship with
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: the state of Wisconsin, the people that follow the Brewers.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And this baseball club.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: So I understand what it's going to mean to a
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: lot of people, Armin. And I'm glad that it's a
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: different course than what you saw.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Good luck. Good luck.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: They're going to need it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: But you're in the midst of potentially a generation-defining sports moment.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: And it's cool to be able to dream about it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: Instead of being on the other side, just laughing at
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: LeBron James talking about how Chris Paul's two wins away
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: from greatness that he never ended up getting.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the thing. I mean, you'd rather be
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: on this side of it, no question. All right, so Billy,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: what's got.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: That was a mean stray that I just threw to
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Chris Paul. I didn't even deserve that at all. He
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: won't hear it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: What's got the locals more excited? The prospect of the
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: Rays trying to win their first game in the series tonight?
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: And what is, in essence for them, an elimination game?
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Or the euphoria of the Buccaneers pantsing the Panthers who
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: are coming to Lambeau on Thursday night?
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: You know, Drew, I saw a couple of Buccaneers jerseys,
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: so I wonder if there's still some folks riding the
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: high of yesterday's game. I mean, that was an absolute beatdown.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: You watch some more of the highlights of it. They
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: ran right over and right through the Panthers. The tough
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: thing is I've watched the Packers opponent three of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: last four weeks be similar in games leading up and
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: the Packers not be able to capitalize.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: But there was there's.
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: Some definite buzz as they save their season off life
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: support football wise.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: They try to do the same with the baseball team tonight.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what's going to happen. In essence, it is
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: an elimination game for them. And, I mean, your winning
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: quarterback yesterday, Baker Mayfield, was 7 for 11 for 64 yards.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Because they ran the ball 49 times.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: They didn't have to do anything on the air, through
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: the air.
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: It was Sean Tucker right, left, and Bucky Irving twice
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: before everybody even sat down. Like Jackson Turio's home run
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: in game three, Marquez Ignacio didn't even get into his
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: seat at Dodger Stadium. That was Bucky Irving into the
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: end zone yesterday. So that win against the Bucs a
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: couple of weeks ago could turn out to be even
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: bigger later on you get into the year.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: All right, so on the way out here, Billy, a
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: couple of notes for you.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: First of all, Packers-wise, Jacob Monk on IR, Mekhi Becton
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: active and up. If you had to pick, they're going
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: to have like 10 offensive linemen to choose from. Who
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: does Bill Schmidt have starting Thursday night at Lambeau?
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: Well, Jordan Morgan, Tomlinson, and John Williams are the surest
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: of things. Next to John Williams, who I thought really,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: really played well. Drew, I watched a decent amount of
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: it on the flight down today. In the rewatch, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: thought it was even more validating than what we saw live.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: I thought he was really good in sporadic duty and
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: being thrown into the fire.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Something's going to have to happen with Kevin.
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: Zeitler, whether He's not fully prepared yet, and his body's
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: not ready for the rigors of going into an NFL game.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: Or I would wonder if he starts getting frustrated with
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: the lack of an activation and you start hearing something.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: It's difficult for me to think, Drew, though. He gets
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: his first start without any practice. So my maturation would
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: still probably have Travis Glover as the right guard and
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: then Anthony Belton on the right tackle. But I got
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: to think it's starting to get close to where that
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: right side gets another shakeup.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: The other news that we have is the Brewers lineup
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: is out for game three. And, you know, it's pretty
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: much what we've been seeing. Churio, Bowers, Yelich, Contreras, Terang, Mitchell, Pratt, Freelick, Hamilton.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: No changes there. Yeah, there you go. Going with what works.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Roll with it and you have options on the bench there, obviously.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: By the way, Adam McAlvey just tweeted that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: Jake Bowers turned down the AC in his hotel room
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: to 60 degrees last night and got 13 hours of sleep.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's how we recover.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: That's how it works.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: Man, no other dads all across the city are saying, wow,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: do I wish that I could get.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: 13 hours of sleep in a hotel room at 60 degrees.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: That would be incredible.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: That would be incredible. Oh, baby, 13 hours. Are we
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: going to see Andrew Vaughn once this series? I still
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: think there's going to be an Andrew Vaughn moment that
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: he's going to really. Yeah. I was just thinking about that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: You know, we haven't seen him yet, obviously. A lot
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: of ballgame left, Armand.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: A lot of ballgame left.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: And a lot of, a lot of ball game and
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: a lot of lefties. I mean, you saw him in
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: game two out of that Tampa bullpen. You got to
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: think it's going to be against the lefty out of
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: the pen when Vaughn gets his first taste, but I'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: with you, Armin.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I want to see that bat at some point appear
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: during this series.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: If Mitchell Hamilton and Freela keep hitting home runs off lefties,
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: there's less need for.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Him, but they haven't needed it yet.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: Just saying, just saying, Billy, go have yourself some cocktails.
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: Enjoy the day, the afternoon you've earned this trip. represent,
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: plant your Brewers flag, and come back tomorrow with a
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: bunch of stories for us.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I've got the Brewers flag in the pocket, guys.
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: There's a little bit of new Glarus in the hand,
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: and there's a lot of Brewers fans around, so we'll
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: have some fun.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Outstanding.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Represent, brother.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Enjoy. See you guys.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Bill Schmidt.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: He is our third Musketeer here on the huddle, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: he is enjoying himself on the Suncoast.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Pretty damn cool. I was wondering, you know, with all
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: the everyone going on the same flights down there, which
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: which one of these goons would try and put a
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: mini grill in the overhead on the plane to tailgate?
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: It's so funny.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: All right. All right.
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: Hunter's going to join us in about 45 minutes live
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: as well. He's in the ballpark doing interviews and getting
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: ready for game three of the World Series, as is
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: the entire city. If you're going to the watch party,
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: we got a text earlier from a smart, good-looking listener
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: who was tailgating or pre-gaming. It was Jerry in a
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: plow truck pre-gaming at his house and then going to
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: pre-game games. you know, to tailgate at the watch party
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: outside and.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: Then going into the game. That's a pretty good day.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: Time is a flat circle. That's a pretty good day.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: How much pre-gaming does it take for it to be post-game?
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: We'll take your game balls and kicks. We're going to
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: spin through who's hot, who's not brought to us by
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Donovan Jorgensen. That's coming up next here in the huddle
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. Huddled up on a Monday, Drew
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: and Armin bringing it to you. We just heard from Billy.
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: We're going to hear from our other correspondent in the Suncoast.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: Hunter Baumgart joins us in about 30 minutes from right now.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Team coverage.
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  Speaker 5: Who's hot? Who's not?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Who's not hot? The Oklahoma City Thunder.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, yeah.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: Jalen Williams out, the lower leg injury likely for the
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: season after last night. They won against the Clippers.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: A little brutal, too.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: I didn't see it, but I know they took some
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: special measures to cover it up and stuff.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Not great, Bob. Not great. So for them, that's,
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're still a good club, but that's a
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: devastating loss.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: No, yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: That's supposed to be good. That's not the Miami Heat.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: They're also not hot. I mean, how about that? And
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: people were getting on bam, but it looks, uh, you know,
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: a lot of people obviously with shot and Freud jumping
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: on the honest thing here, but three games in the
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: heat have the same record as your Milwaukee bucks. He
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: could have done that. Here's what everyone's saying. Now we'll
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: see how this thing turns out. Long season, obviously 79
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: more games left drew, but, uh, a tough start for
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: the Miami heat. We're trying to put something together with
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Giannis and bam clay. Uh, yeah, the, the heat and bucks, um,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: At the bottom of the league, the Brooklyn.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Nets, the New York Knicks, the world champion New York
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: Knicks also not had their 0-3 out of the chute.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Now that can't continue, I would think. But maybe there's
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit of a championship hangover. Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: Well, the Pelicans, Warriors, and Kings are 0-3 on the West,
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: and the 0-3 teams in the East are the Nets, Bucks, Knicks,
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: and Heat.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: And you know what?
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: It is what it is. I mean, a lot of
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: people won't be paying attention for a month or two,
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: but it is interesting to see that, yeah. Who's hot?
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Is there anybody hotter on the planet than Aaron Ashby
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: right now?
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Rexpex? It's hard to find somebody. And it's not that he's,
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: you know, he's worked around trouble, too, which I think
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: is impressive about what he's done. Lead off doubles. He
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: had man on third with one out, I think, two
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: or three times in that Dodgers game. So, you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: you expect perfection out of him. But he's been awesome.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's just been the key. The question is,
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: can you overuse him, Drew? It's hard to say that
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: in a short series because... He's so good, and he's
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: been so effective, and you need these performances and these wins.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: But I was pretty sure, and I was like, Murph's
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: rolling with Ashby in game two. He'll go with whatever works,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: and McGill was ready and rested. McGill hasn't been as
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: consistently sharp, and I was like, he's going with Ashby,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: and he did. Now the day off should help Ashby,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: so I would imagine he's available for game three. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: don't know what you think about that, but he's used
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: a lot. He's used to that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: The Rays, interestingly, the Brewers have the significantly higher payroll.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: They spend about $ 40 million more than the Rays do.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: And the Rays' top two starters both debuted in the
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: big leagues with the Brewers. Freddie Peralta tonight, Drew Rasmussen.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: In game two. And Freddie was just like a scrappy pickup.
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: The Brewers' NLCS MVP, Jake Bowers, used to be a Ray.
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: Matt Arnold worked with the Rays. You know, it's kind
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: of wild. The Brewers' most common trade partner in the
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: last five years has been the Rays.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: The Rays.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of wild. The parallels are pretty wild.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: And there is an incestuous nature there. And both of
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: these ball clubs, much has been made about how similar
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: they are, how they're looking in the mirror to each other.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: And I think that's true, although I think our bullpen
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: so far has been the difference. But these have both
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: been close games. And I'll tell you what. I think
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: the Rays would tell you that they probably think they
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: could have gotten both games. Especially with the lead, but
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: the fact that they had so many blunders, they drop
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: in a pop-up and the ground ball first. You got
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: to be vigilant that everything matters right now. Everything does matter. Absolutely.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 40:58
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• 41:00
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• 41:11
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• 41:16
  Speaker 5: So be on Hunter Watch. He's on a great run here.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: And I hope the kid gets to see another champagne celebration.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, be good.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: It would warm the cockles for us to see him
• 41:25
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• 41:28
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