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08/27/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Thursday edition of the Huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: 1070 Madison, everywhere on the iHeart app, streaming live, Facebook
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  Speaker 1: X and YouTube. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarin, your
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  Speaker 1: tag team partners here on a Thursday, the day after
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  Speaker 1: Packers joint practice slash LeFleur family picnic slash Melton family
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  Speaker 1: picnic at Ray Nitschke Field. The day before Packers preseason
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  Speaker 1: finale against the Cardinals as a bunch of guys vie
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  Speaker 1: to keep their professional lives intact and win jobs.
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  Speaker 2: As the Cardinals picked up, I think, three guys, three
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  Speaker 2: safeties that all played in the UFL last year. You
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  Speaker 2: might see a couple of UFL players sporting and playing
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  Speaker 2: coming up, but it'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be fun. Big time. So, Packers yesterday. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: Billy was there with Wayne Larravee, the voice of the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: doing the play-by-play from the perch on the last public practice,
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  Speaker 1: the last training camp practice, per se, of training camp proper,
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  Speaker 1: because I walked through today a game and then We're
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  Speaker 1: in the kind of season mode.
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  Speaker 3: Cutdown day is Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Now, from the coverage, I learned that the Packers' entire
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  Speaker 1: mission and one of their mantras this year has been,
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  Speaker 1: let's finish games, let's finish games. And they got down
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  Speaker 1: to the two-minute drill and went 0 for 4.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and 0 for 4, and 0 for 4 right
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  Speaker 2: by the goal line, Drew. The last one was, I think,
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  Speaker 2: a 4. Third and goal from the one for the
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals that Gardner Minshew punched in. Packers first team offense
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  Speaker 2: got stopped in a goal-to-go situation. I think they got
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  Speaker 2: it down to about the four. They had a big
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  Speaker 2: save and a big pass to Jaden Reed across the
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  Speaker 2: middle that converted what would have been a fourth down.
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  Speaker 2: And for that to be your overall mantra for the
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  Speaker 2: offseason and then that to be your best test of
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  Speaker 2: finishing leaves a lot to be desired. But that means
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  Speaker 2: that it's just the perfect coach's film. Because in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning period, man, Jordan Love was cooking. Him and Christian Watson,
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  Speaker 2: three quick completions early, hit Matthew Golden a couple of times,
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  Speaker 2: deep crosser to Jaden Reed right across the middle where
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  Speaker 2: if he breaks one tackle, he's gone and perfect. Exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you think of when you think of Jaden Reed
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  Speaker 2: back into the offense to add the explosiveness up the middle.
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  Speaker 2: And then really sputtered late and credit to the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: for not you know, cashing it in. Uh, and, and
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  Speaker 2: the Packers definitely need to be able to, to close
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  Speaker 2: down deep. Now they did have the ball into Matthew
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  Speaker 2: Golden's hands on one of those two minutes drew.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Wide open back of the end zone, hit the two mitts,
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  Speaker 2: splits the zero, and it hits the turf. And nobody
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  Speaker 2: was more upset about it than Matthew Golden as he
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  Speaker 2: walked off to the side, visibly frustrated, smacked the helmet
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  Speaker 2: onto the ground, apologized to Jordan Love. Jordan Love was frustrated,
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  Speaker 2: but the two-minute ones are the last thing to remember.
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  Speaker 2: So as much as the first impression is always the
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  Speaker 2: most important one, that's how you close, especially when you–
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  Speaker 2: gave up how many fourth quarter leads. So that was
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  Speaker 2: frustrating yesterday. Other than that though, man, Edron Cooper was
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  Speaker 2: impressive throughout the day. We watched their defense drew last
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  Speaker 2: year and talked about it. They needed, they were kind
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  Speaker 2: of banking and planning for him to be the all
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  Speaker 2: pro go from a good rookie to a all pro
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  Speaker 2: level player. And I think somewhere he stopped around good starter.
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  Speaker 2: It appears that he's ready to, uh, to potentially make
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  Speaker 2: that next lead. He is primed and ready to roll.
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  Speaker 3: We could use that. I mean, that's no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is like a preseason game, you get some
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  Speaker 1: good and bad. Like I saw that Matthew Golden made
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  Speaker 1: a really nice catch on about a 45-yard pass, tumbling
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  Speaker 1: to the turf, and then dropped the touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And then dropped the touchdown, yep. So the good with
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  Speaker 3: the bad, right? Oh, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, like Brandon Cisse broke up a ball
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  Speaker 2: across the middle, had an interception, and then I think
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  Speaker 2: he was on the coverage in one of those two-minute
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  Speaker 2: drills on a fade ball right to Marvin Harrison Jr.,
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  Speaker 2: who went on up and got it. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen in the league, and it's a good baptism by fire. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: Trey McBride had a number of big catches. Tucker Kraft
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of good looks. It's difficult when you've
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  Speaker 2: got legit double-barrel action and you don't have Scott Hansen
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  Speaker 2: flipping in between the screens on red zone.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to watch both and follow both.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to fully track what's going on with both, so
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  Speaker 2: you definitely miss quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, it was.
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  Speaker 2: Early on, Packers offense off to our right, Packers defense
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  Speaker 2: to our left. And Jordan Love in the first team
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  Speaker 2: offense cooking. Every time you look over, Edron Cooper is
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  Speaker 2: seemingly making another play near the backfield. That's when you
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  Speaker 2: saw the breakup by Cissé that I mentioned earlier. And
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  Speaker 2: it was quick.
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  Speaker 3: It felt really, really good.
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  Speaker 4: But....
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals didn't have Jeremiah Love, didn't have James Conner. There's
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  Speaker 2: guys that are out on both sides, but the Packers'
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  Speaker 2: first team offensive line, I did think, held pretty firm
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  Speaker 2: for a group that Drew is now finally getting themselves
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  Speaker 2: some full run together as seemingly all five are ready
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  Speaker 2: to lock and load.
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  Speaker 3: That's good to see.
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  Speaker 4: And Tucker Kraft provided the chippiness that people wanted. If
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  Speaker 4: you wanted to see some of that, wasn't he getting
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  Speaker 4: into the business of Arizona a little bit? Getting hit,
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  Speaker 4: but also making plays and giving the business to Arizona's bench.
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  Speaker 3: I think I read about that. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: you saw, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was hard to see from what exactly happened,
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  Speaker 2: but it was in the two minute and safety came down.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I think it's the right play. He's trying
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  Speaker 2: to trying to make, trying to stop, keep the clock running. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Tucker makes a catch going near the sidelines,
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  Speaker 2: gets hit. Both guys pop up. He's also on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you get hit into an opposing sideline, you
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  Speaker 2: immediately probably have the, the Dukes up. Everyone ran over
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  Speaker 2: onto the other side to, to calm him down. But, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't, there wasn't a big melee. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: massive scrums that you saw throughout. It was a lot
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  Speaker 2: more of everybody pushing each other back to try to
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  Speaker 2: get to your own side.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but yeah, like he was, he was, he was
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  Speaker 3: a factor, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and they ended up not being able to convert
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  Speaker 2: on the four on that series of downs. So, uh, as,
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  Speaker 2: as much as you'd like to say that you want
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  Speaker 2: to see something else happen, uh, they got the first
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  Speaker 2: down and they were unable to put something else together. So,
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  Speaker 2: They were good, not great, plenty to still build upon,
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  Speaker 2: but good things, especially, I think, just from that first
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  Speaker 2: unit on the offense.
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  Speaker 3: You saw Josh Jacobs with a really, really good burst.
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  Speaker 3: He looks ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: And now you take it in, shower up, and Drew
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  Speaker 2: hit a little bit of bubble wrap after probably warm-ups
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night. Get into those warm-up clothes, and away
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  Speaker 2: we go on cut-down day on Sunday. How quick it is,
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  Speaker 2: I heard Goody mentioned it yesterday when he spoke at 10.
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  Speaker 2: that they move the cut down day up a day
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  Speaker 2: and a half almost just because of the Australia game.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, it really forced our hands on a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things. He's like, we probably would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to have a sun Saturday preseason game.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't do that with a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Mandatory cut down day because you kind of need to
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  Speaker 2: get some medicals and everything back from all.
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  Speaker 3: The teams and your own doctors. So I think they're
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  Speaker 3: all ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: One other interesting one was a good to see Damani
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  Speaker 2: Jackson into some team drills. Cause I, He has been
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  Speaker 2: rather MIA with working himself through injuries and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Number 20, their sixth-round pick over at corner, was running
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  Speaker 2: a lot with the twos as Benjamin St. Jude still
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really prepared fully to be back at practice yet.
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  Speaker 3: Good recap by Billy there. I'm fired up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Trace Mack, who's been riding a wave, missed a
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  Speaker 1: couple kicks. How do we feel about that? Were they
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  Speaker 1: glaring misses?
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  Speaker 2: Were they... So I couldn't see, I was really struggling
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  Speaker 2: to be able to see where the kicks ultimately ended up.
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  Speaker 2: So I did see a couple wide right. I mostly
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  Speaker 2: just heard the audible groan that happened with it. I just,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to roll with how Cam Acord and LeFleur
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  Speaker 2: and all them guys had mentioned it throughout the year.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's going to be such a different beast kicking
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  Speaker 2: out there than it is in a stadium. They did
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  Speaker 2: do something different with the kicking game though, Drew, because
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  Speaker 2: I think they were kicking into the far end zone.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of, usually they're kicking right there, smack dab center
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  Speaker 2: of the field. So that was a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: from what I had noticed yesterday, but I think he went, what,
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  Speaker 2: three for five? He missed a couple, and one was
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  Speaker 2: definitely a glaring miss. So, a little disappointing, but more
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  Speaker 2: than anything, you want to be able to get some
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  Speaker 2: full victories, and one Cardinal player compared their two-minute drill
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  Speaker 2: to a Wendy's four-for-four meal.
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  Speaker 3: Which doesn't exist anymore. It's the biggie bag, but whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I guess he's not in touch with the culture, so
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  Speaker 4: That just shows you what the Cardinals are trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: Armin is in touch with the Wendy's culture. It is
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  Speaker 3: pretty funny, though.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you only won because a guy, Yancey,
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  Speaker 4: thick-pinned it in the end zone, did you really win?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you won if it's really a real game,
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  Speaker 4: if a guy drops it. But if you leave a
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  Speaker 4: guy wide open and he just drops it, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if they want to celebrate that, that's fine. And the
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  Speaker 4: thing with Trace Mack is I'm a lot less worried
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  Speaker 4: after seeing him in real games and real stadiums.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, preseason, but, you know, games, because.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, Bill, you trust what Cam Acord and
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  Speaker 4: you trust what they're trying to work on and you
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  Speaker 4: trust that maybe what you're seeing in the practice field
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  Speaker 4: is not necessarily okay. It's a concern that he missed
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  Speaker 4: it and he totally missed it. You never know what
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  Speaker 4: they're trying. So the fact is he's kicked well in
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  Speaker 4: games and in stadiums and that's probably what matters more.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, so I'm a lot less concerned after that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm checking out this Biggie bag that.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about here. Yeah, the Biggie bag. And then
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  Speaker 3: there's like three levels now, right?
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  Speaker 2: I always thought it was a– you used to always
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  Speaker 2: just get a double stack, the nuggets, the fries, and
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  Speaker 2: the drinks.
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  Speaker 3: They change it up, man. Goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 2: That double stack Biggie bag is $ 6 now. These menus
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  Speaker 2: are changing all the time. But I'm down to clown.
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  Speaker 2: The Biggie bundle for $ 8. You throw that big Wendy's
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  Speaker 2: juicy cheeseburger in front of you, you're going to be happy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. We were talking about juices dripping earlier
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  Speaker 3: on today, Drew. Oh, yeah, all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Those juices are going to be dripping after you grab
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  Speaker 2: yourself one of those junior bacon cheeseburgers.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if they're... I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: stop at Wendy's on a regular basis. I know, right?
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  Speaker 3: I did it to you.
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  Speaker 5: My God.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing three... You get a little frosty before a dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Biggie bundle. Guaranteed. They're doing three levels. Man, we should
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  Speaker 3: be getting them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a better shake combo type
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  Speaker 2: to scoop with the fries than the Wendy's Frosty.
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  Speaker 3: No, the Frosty is kind of like... Frosty's superior.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I mean, from that scooping, it... Incomparable to anything else.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a shake. It's not ice cream.
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  Speaker 4: They found a way to kind of corner the market
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  Speaker 4: on their own unique product with the frosting that's worked forever.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they're trying to, like with the
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  Speaker 4: three levels, do what Taco Bell's doing with the boxes.
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  Speaker 4: It's just interesting to see these menus every now and
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  Speaker 4: then when you roll up and you say, boy, things
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  Speaker 4: have changed.
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  Speaker 3: I like people judging things on fast food scales. I do.
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  Speaker 3: It's relatable. Yes, right? A lot easier.
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  Speaker 2: A lot easier than this Drew there always trying to say, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a 60 arm. I'm like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what that means. If you start telling me he's got
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  Speaker 2: a Mighty Kids meal like they used to have at McDonald's,
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Mighty Kids. I mean, that means that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get a double cheeseburger instead of the single.
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  Speaker 4: Because you were grown out of the Happy Meal. I
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  Speaker 4: remember the Mighty Kids. The idea was you were grown out.
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  Speaker 4: They know how to market these.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. You got a little bit cooler toy, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit edgier toy. Yeah, because you're growing up. It's
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  Speaker 3: like you're graduating. I get it. I love it. Love it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so reach out to us if you have
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the Packers, you know, the controlled scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973. Now, the Melton family rivalry. Started it out. First one.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome. Yeah, first pass. Who got the best
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  Speaker 3: of it?
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  Speaker 2: So first of the better day, the first play, both
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  Speaker 2: teams come up after the Cardinals do their warmup. And
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  Speaker 2: there's some of their individual drill in the, in rain
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  Speaker 2: itch key or in Don Hudson center, come back out
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  Speaker 2: to rain itch key. And you have a meeting, both
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  Speaker 2: head coaches talk to everybody and they say, all right,
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  Speaker 2: huddle up. And smack dab right in the middle. Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Love takes a snap and goes one-on-one slant route. Max
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  Speaker 2: Melton against Bo Melton. Quick little shake to the outside,
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  Speaker 2: and Bo got the best of his brother, Max. But
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  Speaker 2: Max had some good run throughout. I do believe he
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  Speaker 2: got one PBU on Bo. Could have been Sky Moore.
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  Speaker 2: But Melton was out there running quite a bit, Max
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  Speaker 2: Melton that being. And Bo with the first team's offense
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  Speaker 2: and defense. So I think they got one more matchup together.
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  Speaker 2: But you saw, at least throughout all of camp, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: for the folks that were calling us on Packers OT
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  Speaker 2: asking why Bo Melton was out there as a wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver on third and eight. You won't be out there
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  Speaker 2: on third and eight again. He's going to be out there.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be rotating in heavily. There was no
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  Speaker 2: saving on Williams, so it was a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, prepare yourself because it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to happen. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that Javon Bullard is back but didn't take
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  Speaker 1: part in 11-on-11s. Is that what happened? So he's back
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  Speaker 1: but not totally back. So he was working out right
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  Speaker 1: around by us, right?
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if that was technically the rehab
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  Speaker 2: group of what you're supposed to say and what you're
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to say.
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  Speaker 3: Most importantly, the last week and a half, you haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen him with a boot on.
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  Speaker 1: He's slowly getting there.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't need to play. I gotta think he's ready
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  Speaker 3: for week one.
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  Speaker 2: We're still two and a half weeks away and he
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  Speaker 2: was going through doing some jogging and some change of
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  Speaker 2: direction thing. Did a little weird eye-boxing with Micah when
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  Speaker 2: he came out. They were imitating where somebody was hitting
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  Speaker 2: them back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: They had some fun.
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  Speaker 2: They were having some jokes over there on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: but he looks ready to roll and Kamal Haddon in
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  Speaker 2: his place played well. And that answered one question for
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  Speaker 2: me is I think Kamal Haddon is definitely on the team.
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  Speaker 2: Like we were talking about it on Packers OT last
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  Speaker 2: week of, is that going to be at the cost
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  Speaker 2: of somebody else? I think they may have been counting
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  Speaker 2: on Kamal Haddon being a part of it. Cause he
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  Speaker 2: immediately walked in to run at that nickel spot with
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  Speaker 2: the first team defense and looked really good doing it.
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  Speaker 3: I heard Carl Brooks's name a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Is he, cause he's a guy that people were saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: they could trade Carl Brooks and Go with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe get a day two or day three pick for
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  Speaker 1: him and then move on? Like, that doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: it's in the cards now, does it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: They've already eliminated from that position with the Colby Wooden trade,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they got better with Franklin being a
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  Speaker 2: part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Jonathan Ford looks good. Hargrave brought in.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think they want to make themselves thinner
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  Speaker 2: at that spot again. And I also wonder if some
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  Speaker 2: of it would be the ghost of last year. When
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  Speaker 2: you get rid of Kenny Clark right before the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the season, it took him a good three or
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  Speaker 2: four weeks before they figured out anybody to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play on the interior. I think he's definitely going
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  Speaker 2: to be a factor of it. Javon Hargrave looks really good, too.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a legit burst. He's got real speed. He's 33,
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  Speaker 2: so you hope that he's able to continue to play
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  Speaker 2: with that throughout the year. But I do think my
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  Speaker 2: man Anthony Campbell, once again, Drew, bats down a ball
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  Speaker 2: and eyes go to 60. He's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: tough guy to cut. He's a weird case study because
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: he just hasn't played a.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Bunch of football. He hasn't. And McClellan, obviously, is having
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: a good camp.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: Brooks.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: What about there's the Josh Sweat fantasy, too, that people had.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: It's still out there. That's getting hot on mine again, yeah.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: It's still out there. I don't know.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Fascinating what that position group is going to be. Anything
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: else stand out to you from yesterday? I mean, one
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: of the things is I know Goody spoke in like
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the Josh Jacobs thing. We're still waiting for a resolution
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: on that. Still like still really no uncertain. And he
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: still hasn't like, when are they going to rip that
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: bandaid off and have him talk? I guess when he's,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: when they declare illusion, I think when, or when he's
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: eligible to play, when we know he's eligible to play.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: See, I think he's going to have to talk probably
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: before the first game. Like the week of Minnesota, I'm
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: guessing he's going to have to be in the locker
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: room for availability. The tough thing is, Armin, I don't
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: know that we're any closer to a resolution. And for
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: the NFL, yes, they can levy their punishment before the
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: courts do. Very rarely do they, right? Like, I mean,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: they absolutely can. They generally choose not to. So I
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: think this is going to hang out there for a while,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: and otherwise you're going to soon be subjecting him to
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: some fines once the season rolls around if they start
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: requesting him in the locker room. So I do think
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: he probably makes himself available before the first, because the
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is you finish the
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: game in Minnesota, and then he's going to answer for
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: seven to eight minutes, right?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not good.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I would think you'd want to do it the week
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: before the week before. Oh, like in this little bye
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: week at a time?
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's fair. That might be even better, ideally. But
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: then we don't know.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: We don't know what we don't know as far as
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the wheels of justice grinding, right? So what is going
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to happen? And could he not be charged by the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: local authorities? and then get sanctioned by the NFL anyway.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Again, very much could. Rarely does that happen. The league
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't do that a whole lot. I also think the
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: other part of it is you've seen the NFL start
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: handing down some judgments. I don't know that they're going
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to come on out and say, Josh Jacobs isn't going
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: to be suspended. It would definitely help us all if
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: they did. Or maybe Schefter will have it pinned into
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: his ear that he's able to report it on a show.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: But They had a big wave, what was that, a
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: week and a half ago? There were like four or
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: five different guys that got suspended. James Pierce was one
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: of them with Atlanta. He had some heinous allegations against him.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I think, again, this is pure speculation. This is a
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: dangerous thing to start doing. Think if he was going
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: to get suspended without a charge, he would have by now.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: But if indeed something happens differently from the Hobart Police Department,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: then I think it becomes a lot different conversation.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know which way it's going to go. I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: don't have a feel for it either way, but If
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: you ask me, what do you think is going to happen?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I think he's just going to play.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I think the whole situation, Drew, gets fully resolved when
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: he's on another team. Like, I think this whole thing
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: takes a lot longer than we like to admit. Maybe
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: they only learn from the NCAA's court cases, but I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: think he's, cause his contract basically slates up for this
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to be the last year of his deal.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: You think we won't hear about it until the end
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: of the year is what you're saying.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I think, I think, I think, I think it, I
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: think it takes a while. I think it takes a while.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: And again, maybe, maybe I'm wrong.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm naive.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe within the next hour, something comes out, but, uh,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Just like the Micah Parsons return table that we got
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: asked about a lot yesterday from fans. So week six, Dallas,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that's going to happen, right? I'm a little bit more
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: reserved on my belief that it's happening sooner rather than later.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to push back a little bit longer.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: When we come back, it's halftime already. Scott Dolphin's going
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to pop in. I've got a couple of headlines I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: want to throw at Dolphin.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: A couple of things that made me happy yesterday in sports,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: believe it or not.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: My Grinch-like heart expanded by a few sizes. Let's go!
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Sports Grinchmas.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Drew Billion, I'm bringing it to you. The Huddle Fox
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Halftime of our program means a visit
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: from our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin from the country station
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: on the hall, FM 1061.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Hello, Dolph. Hi, Drew. Boys, what's happening? Well, we just
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: got a lot better in here. Yes, indeed. Oh, stop it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: There were a couple stories yesterday.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: That I wanted to bounce off you that warmed my
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: cockles as a sports observer.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And Billy was laughing. Billy couldn't wait to hear this. Say,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: holy grinch, let's go. Come on now. Come on. One
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: of them is the announcement. They were both announced yesterday.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Smaller stories.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Not as big as the Brewers' 8-1 victory or the Packers'
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: controlled scrimmage with the Cardinals.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Or the Packers' rivalry uniforms. And the LeFleur, yeah, or
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: the rivalry uniforms, which we'll talk about. I learned two
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: new colors yesterday.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: But.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Got the announcement that ESPN is getting rid of the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: bottom line ticker at the bottom of their college football broadcasts.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: What? That's bizarre.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: ESPN is getting rid of the bottom line score ticker
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: during college football broadcasts this coming season.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Is it just because the screen has gotten too busy
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: over the years? That's basically it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: They want to streamline the college football viewer experience for
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: fans and remove the ticker from all broadcasts of the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: sport across different channels.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Well, we're on our phones so much, I don't think
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: it's going to matter. That was the thing.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Remember the days where we used to yearn and yearn
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: for scores?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: We did. You needed scores.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: You got them once every quarter, and you were like,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: whatever it was. This is way, way back. Then the
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: real ticker started in the nineties underneath the scroll. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: then like that McDonald's game break. And yeah, it's just
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: hard to believe because once upon a time, They wouldn't
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: put any score bugs on the screen. Some networks in
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: the 90s when Fox started doing the Fox box, because
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: they thought viewers would be too distracted. And now I
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: guess we've come full circle 30 years later.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Are we all old enough to remember when you didn't
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: even get the little box with the running score?
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. We remember that. That blows my mind. We remember
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: those days.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: When all of a sudden you see it on the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: play right before, just glimpse up and then fade back out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Third and six. For the most part. That was NBC, yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Wasn't it mostly wallpaper, though? It was like, okay, so.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Southwest Louisiana is beating McNeese State right now.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So we're not getting it right. We're still getting it
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: during all their other programming where they'll roll through scores.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but not live games. Just not during live games.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Occasionally if there's an upset alert, but I was wondering
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: if it was that, I think it's twofold, that first
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: people have it in their palm. You've got the entire
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: world in your palm.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I guess now we do, yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And everybody's got a second screen up anyway. But it
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was screen clutter and If there's an upset, if ESPN's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: broadcasting a game and there's an upset brewing on CBS
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and they show the score, doesn't that make people want
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to flip over?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, very true. Yeah, very true. That makes sense. I
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: get that part of it, right? But it's like that
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: used to be.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And so I heard some squawking about it, but for
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the most part, I like the cleaner experience.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I do too.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I can watch, you can multitask by having your phone
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: or a second screen in your hand and watch the game.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Because immediately I want to be upset about it, right?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Like immediately, I'm like, why are you taking away my
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: opportunity to know if Clemson is covering the five and
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: a half at the moment? But if I am betting
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: on it, I'm definitely watching it on the second screen
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: or on my phone.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Or on the phone anyway.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Or I'm tracking it some way. So that is, that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: just won't be a problem. And it, Definitely is better. Again,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking through this. It adds just a little bit
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: more room on my quad box on YouTube TV when
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm watching it. So there's probably going to be a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: better experience.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I think people are splitting up their screen more and
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: it gets smaller and smaller. I'm going to be the
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: old guy to say, I don't like having to open
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: my phone. I want to see the score in front
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: of my face. That's interesting.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I'm that guy, I guess. So I don't know.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Because, yeah, it's interesting because there's some rumblings that this
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: is a bad thing for people who gamble and stuff
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: But there's also like, there's a, okay. Okay. Boomer or grandpa,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: you know, just get your phone. You don't, what do
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you need that for?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And like, if you look up and you miss it
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and you're going to go to your phone anyway, if
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you miss the score you're looking at.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Well, and that was, I mean, I definitely did it yesterday.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I missed the Bryce Durant home run as I was
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: sitting there scrolling and watching some random scored track through
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: on my phone to see what the White Sox game
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: was doing. If Jack Peterson had actually hit a homer.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So I'm guilty of it as much as anybody. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: really want to be upset about it, but I do
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: think I'm going to like it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I'm going to like it as well. There's certain things
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I would say, no way. No, I would really miss
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: the yellow first down line.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: We'd have some serious problems. Can't go back. That's become
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: a crutch.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: The Fox box or whatever they call it now in baseball,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: you can tell before the catcher challenges if it's going
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: to be a ball or strike.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: What do they call it?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: There's the score box. No, he's not talking about the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: score box. He's talking about the K zone. The K zone.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: He's talking about the strike zone. He used to call
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it the Fox box. Yep. Because Fox was the first
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: one to be able to pop it up. Okay.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And I do– I also think the– we've seen it
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit now in year number two of the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: virtual measurement. We've got to spice this up a little bit.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We got to add some drama to the virtual measurement
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that they're doing in the NFL because now at least
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: now you see the arrow as to where it's pointing
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to because that was some of the best drama is
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: watching some 70-year-old guys try out to the far side
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: of the field to be able to measure that thing out.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: And I love those jobs haven't been eliminated yet. We
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: still have them, yes. Those guys are still there. Oh, yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: The chain gang is still around. You just don't see
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: them as much anymore. Now, the media starts with me, Drew.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I am a little bit nervous because they moved around
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: our configuration at Lambeau Field. I don't know that I'm
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: going to be able to get their leftover snacks out
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: of that chain gang.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: There was always at least a few Nature Valley bars
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: sitting there right at the end that would help us
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: get through that third hour of Packers OT every once
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: in a while. That's one of my jobs that I've
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: always dreamed of having is being on a college or
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: NFL chain gang.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Because you do that in high school. You volunteer on
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: that in high school.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You get to hear some of the darndest things. That
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: is one of the best times on the opposing side.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I think I told you guys one of the thousand
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: jobs I had in my life. I was the orange
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: mitt guy. The orange sleeves. I did that for three
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: years at Soldier Field. And you can't imagine that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Stand on the 25-yard line. Yeah, I still have them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I still have my orange sleeves. That is one of
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the coolest jobs. It was fun.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: It just made for such an incredibly long day. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: when we started having kids, I mean, you're gone. I mean,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: for a noon game, I had to be there at
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: 830 on a Sunday morning. And you're there with the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: production meeting well after the game is over. for like $ 150.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they get paid now. Because you
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: end up being one of the most important people on
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: the broadcast. Definitely. Yeah, you are. You really are.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of responsibility there. You better not miss
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: a command. I hope it's still not this way. But
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: back in the day, you had to try to spot flags. Well,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: when you're on field level, it is damn hard to
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: spot flags in live action. And one day, this was
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: a national, it was a Simmerall-Madden game back in the 90s.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: where they said, any flags, any flags, any flags? And
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I said, nope, on my headset. And there was a flag.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: and they started cutting to a commercial, and they had
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: to bail out of that Chevy commercial.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And come back for the punt. Oh, no, that's the
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: worst situation.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: That was on me, and I thought I was done,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: and I'll never forget the assistant director afterwards put his.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Arm around my shoulder. He goes, don't worry about it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: It happens all the time. I'm like, okay, all right. Sorry,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be upset about it. I'm going
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to go crack a cold one.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I'll feel a lot better. What a load off, because
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: you're probably nervous about it. I know that feeling.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: You don't want to have to cut out a commercial.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: So you're doing TV, and then you're also, for the radio,
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: you've got hand signals that you're doing for them, too, so,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: you know. During the radio timeout, the arm was behind
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: the back. I don't know if it's still like this.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: You'd ask the white hat, or he'd ask you if
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: you want one, and you'd say, I'm asking, or you'd
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: give him a thumbs up. I had no idea you
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: did that. Line judge would come over. The game within
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: the game. Field judge would come over and stand with
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: you in the green hat and hit that stopwatch, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: you had a minute and 50 seconds. to get back
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: because he's putting that ball back in play.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Did you get better than him all of a sudden?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Love it. The Mets goes and puts the X up.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You know that you're going to commercial. All right, sweet.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to run to the back.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Were you on the headset with the director in the truck?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: You know we're on the headset with Madden and Summerall.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: No, no, just the director in the truck. That would
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: have been cool, too. Those guys off mic, yeah. That's
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: pretty good stuff. Director in the truck.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I knew a guy that was in charge of wrangling
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: cords back when they had the long cords and he
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: was on the sideline wrangling coaches' cords for the headsets
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and he's had something to do with the headsets and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: he's standing on the sideline chilling.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden he sees.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady because the Packers were playing the Patriots at
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Lambeau and Tom Brady was taking a knee by the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: bench right by him. And he looked and he's like,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I'm standing there. I'm like, ah, that's Tom Brady. That's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: really wild.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: And then he sees a puddle forming by his feet.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It's like, Tom Brady's peeing right next to me.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. He's just peeing right here. Come on.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: He discreetly took a knee, leaning on his helmet, and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: he discreetly peed on the sideline.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: It's amazing how good you can get at this. Guys
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: do that all the time. That was the original blue tent.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: The real reason for the blue tent at first was
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: the bathroom that would.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Happen to be out there.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I can tell you, I never experienced that in my
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: three years on the sideline. It was cool, though, because
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: players would try to find out where you were because they,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: like anybody else, wants to know when they're going to
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: get a break. And they'd be out jogging early before
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: the game. Junior Seau, I remember coming over and saying
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: hello one time, saying, you're going to be right here
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: on the 25-yard line.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, buddy, you're going to be right here? Yeah, it
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: was amazing. Hey, buddy, you're going to be right here?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And I forgot, all these memories are coming back.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: At 10.30 before noon game, you had to go in
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: with the green hat and the tech guy, and they
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: would get the umpire, or the head official... mic'd up
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: and they test everything. And, uh, so you go into
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: these cramped little locker rooms at soldier field and at hockey,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I would be running around and like, you know, skin
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: tight football skivvies.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Just firing out his pregame guns.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Everywhere, you know, and you'd have to rip out a
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: quick hundred before golf came in to make sure that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: it was veined out.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: All right. So the ticker was one thing that wore
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: my cockles.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: The other was the announcement that they tried to slip
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: through and people weren't going to notice.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: No more Pro Bowl games. Oh, so well done.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Thank God. My boycott finally worked. I'd never watched that crap.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I went to the one in Vegas.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. Yes.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You really?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: We took some listeners to Vegas.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They were really cool dudes that we got to hang
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: out with.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, the little skills competition with the players
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: actually being like no helmets, hanging out, laughing, and having
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: more fun, that ended up being a lot better because
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: you could actually hear some of them.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: But it is. That would be much better in May.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: That is a full-on off-season activity at that point. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: like Peter O'Reilly, executive vice president of the NFL, it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: okay to be the first league to walk away from
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a competitive all-star game.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Brother, you walked away from that years ago. I was
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: going to say, it's been that, that ship sailed.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad they tried what they could to put
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the paddles to it and keep sucking life and sponsor
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: dollars out of the broadcast, but it was bad TV.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: It was a bad live event. It just wasn't good.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It wasn't compelling. And guys don't want to play. And
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: that's what it comes down to. They're not going to
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: do it. They're just going to name the 88 pro bowlers.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: And then that's it. You will give you. Yep. High
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: five handshake. And you're a Pro Bowler.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: And then also, it'll probably mean more when it comes
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: down to contracts because as much as we all say, well,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that doesn't matter anymore.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: The Pro Bowl doesn't matter anymore.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They don't matter anymore until they stop putting in contract incentives, right?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: And it still is in a lot of different incentives
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: for Pro Bowls and stuff like that. So they have
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: to be able to name it. But I do like
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the fact that now there's something like Fellas were the NFL.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: The Superbowl is coming up. We're not going to make
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a mockery on a Tuesday night anymore.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: It was always just behind the eight ball anyway, because
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: nobody wanted to, you didn't want to get anybody hurt.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: You couldn't.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Have it in the season. Like every other major sport does.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: You couldn't have it before the Superbowl. I lost interest
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: decades ago, probably when I was a kid, when it
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: was still at Aloha Stadium.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, after Hawaii, I think that's when a lot of
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: us did. Yeah, they wore the red and the blue
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: unis with their own helmet. That was pretty awesome.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: And those guys didn't get paid. So that was a
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: big deal if you went to the Pro Bowl. They
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: got a vacation for Hawaii for their family. It paid
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: $ 30, 000 to win and $ 15, 000 to lose, and they actually
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: had some incentive, and it was actually fun. It wasn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: the ridiculousness that it became. Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Well, and the other part, the camaraderie around the team
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: or around like the league, I appreciated it of like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: it's cool still to get the best players all together
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: and like hanging out and talking shop. Now they all
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: do that in the off season. All of the top
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: offensive linemen go to one summit. There's the pass rush summit,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: tight end university. All of them have their own little
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: spot where they end up still being able to share
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: shop secrets and all get better. That part of it,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the fun little football side of being able to hang
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: around around a keg and chop it up with some
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: of the best players in the league.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: They all do that now just in the offseason.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Can you imagine before we were around, although I've heard stories,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: the college all-star team used to play the– was it
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl champion?
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: The Super Bowl champions at Soldier Field. That is nuts.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: All those games were important because it was like the
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: rare times that scouts and GMs would look at players
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: back then.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You didn't have a.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Lot of– but, hey, if you still want to hold
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: on to those nostalgic pieces– Mitchell Ness just put the
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Reggie White Pro Bowl jersey on sale.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: So if anyone's out there, that's your tip from Armin today.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: The blue star stripe thing in the side of the
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: shoulder and everything like that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Mitchell Ness.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: The Chicago Charities College All-Star Game, the annual preseason match
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: played from 1934 to 1976 between the top college seniors
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and the reigning NFL champions.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know it went until 1976. I was around.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I remember.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: The only reason I remember it is because I dated
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: a girl in college from Illinois, and every single time
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I went and I talked to her dad, somehow that conversation.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Every single time. You know, they call it Soldier's Field.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Soldier's Field.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Soldier's Field. I used to play a college all-star game
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: there every single day. Every year. Every year.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: The best team of college players.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Best college players. All of them. All the best college players.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Right here. Right in one spot. They're playing the Super
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Bowl champions. Right there. That game was what everybody actually
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: wanted to see. Is there documentation on these games?
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Because, I mean, obviously the 66 and 67 Packers played
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: in those games.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. I don't think or think I've heard or
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: seen anything about it. There's a lot to talk about.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: In Jerry Kramer's book, he talked about it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, them playing. Lombardi didn't want to lose to the
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: college kids. You know what? I guess I got caught.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I thought I read all this in the replay.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: And this is the same era when the Bears and
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Packers would play, if not one, two preseason games, too.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And they'd always play one in Milwaukee. Wasn't that like
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: a big charity game? Bishop's Charities game. Shrine game. Yeah, Billy,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I guess I got on that. Here's the other thing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: That college All-Star game went away in 76. Yeah, that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: what Billy said, yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: From 70 to 77, they played six preseason games.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: That was one of your preseason games, but they played
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: 14 regular season games and six preseason. And then in 78,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they cut it to four when they expanded to 16 games.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Well, and I mean, also, that's when they were doing, what,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: two and a half months of training camp. Guys need
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: to get back in shape.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a good two and a half
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: months of training camp to get in shape, basically, until
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: you started the season.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Because the offseason was second job season. Yeah, that's just it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, you had to get in shape because you were, you.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Know, they always say driving a beer truck, but whatever
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: the job was.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's in Jerry Kramer's book, too. Yeah, I saw.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: I remember that part. All right, that book. But they
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: always did a work second job, so times.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Have changed, obviously.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: In the 60s, it was like you could play four
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: or five, and teams that needed a lot of money would.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Have the extra game and try to, you know. Try
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: to grab as many of them as possible. As many
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: as you could, yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: It's grown a little bit. Because they went from 12
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to 14 games. So it's been metastasizing for a while.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Sports fans were more interested in quote-unquote games that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Didn't matter, right?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: You think about it, though, and those guys all played
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: in every preseason game. So you're playing six preseason and 14.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: That was 20-game season.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Full 20-game season. And they were playing in the preseason
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: like it mattered.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I was going to say they were playing at least
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a half into one of those things.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: They were running it. They had the taxi squad, as
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: they called it back then, too.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Right. the taxi squad yeah exactly.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So we've got no ticker on the bottom line because
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: it got to the point with the draft where i
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: get overwhelmed with the draft coverage because there's so many
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: tickers going on and who's on the clock and the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: stuff spinning like man it gives me like a seizure.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: I'll say this and i assume it was espn that
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: started it the the game changer in non-games is that
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: box that drops down to tell you what story they're
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: going to come with.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: The PTI line? Freaking great.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, you see it on SportsCenter now, too, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: we've adopted that in radio with coming up in six
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: minutes and coming up in 100%.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: The last couple nights as I've been ready to fire
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: up the grill, the Blackstone. uh, ABC nightly news. They
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: basically do that PTI thing. They tell you everything they're
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: going to talk about in the show. And they give
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you like, you know, 15 seconds on it. It's like,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: then why do you need the story?
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Tell you the shot clock.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: 20 minutes later, they're doing the story that they already
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: told me. They spent so much time on the teases
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: that they barely have time for the news.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: To actually tell you the stories. Exactly. We're a headline culture.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: That's where we are as a society, that you can't
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: watch a show and not be distracted.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: You have to know.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: We're giving you the TikTok headlines. I only have four
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: minutes of attention. You let me know exactly when to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: pay attention. So in the first four minutes, they tell
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you everything they're going to talk about in the next
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: 22 minutes.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, hold on one second. All right, sweet.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Call me in seven. It could backfire, too. You could say, nope,
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: I'm out. I'm not interested in those stories going on.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: It's bizarre.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: But now we have to watch our phones. We can't
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: watch TV for scores.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: But I did love that we're the first league to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: get rid of the competitive All-Star game.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: You did that years ago.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, you did that when Jeff
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Saturday went and snapped for Peyton Manning.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I called you out at one point, and, you know,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: come on. They haven't tried in that game in forever.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: If somebody asked me what's the greatest moment in Pro
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Bowl history, I couldn't come up with one thing.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Already a kicker getting liquored up.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: That Peyton Manning interview was my favorite. Wasn't that the
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl?
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Probably. We all know that one. It's Sean Taylor. Well, yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Sean Taylor splitting the punter in half.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I do remember that. On the fake pun.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: That'll definitely be it. And then that was when the
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: competitive all-star game vanished.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Very quickly.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: After that poor guy's soul left his body right there
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: on the far right sideline.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Dolph, thanks for the run today. All right, fellas. See
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: you tomorrow. As always. Yes, indeed. Halftime is over. We
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: plow forward. Who's hot? Who's not? Hero of the day.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart going to join the program to talk Brewers.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: at seven twenty five you're in the huddle fox sports
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: radio wisconsin.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Phil, you've talked in the first half. Remember Reggie Wayne
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: got out of Sean Taylor. Ryan Mormon going back out
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: onto the field. And that is why. Congratulations, Sean Taylor.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Emotional damage from Pro Bowls gone by. Armin Sarin going
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: into his rabbit hole. That's why your algorithm's all screwed up, man.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Well, that and I just got sucked on a rabbit
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: hole of bull riding yesterday.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: My For You page is just the most impressive bucking
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: and tossing you've ever seen in your entire life.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: You know what I like about bull riding highlights? Because
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: that's happened to me. They don't take very long. You
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: can just pop the next one. Very quick. Very quick.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not that invested. It's like a horse race. You
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: can watch old horse races. I'm like, all right. I
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: didn't realize they grade the bull, too. Oh, okay. Well,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I like that. The bull gets a.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Score and the rider gets a score and then it's
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: combined and then that's how it ultimately rolls up. It's
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: a fascinating rabbit hole that I got dragged down. And
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I will tell you this, I might be digging in
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: more to it because the way you started doing that
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: kind of scoring system and give some credit to the
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: real athlete in there. The two-ton bull that's just tossing
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: people up and down, jumping four or five feet up
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: in the air?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one that I can celebrate.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: How about the guys that got to calm the bull
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: down once it's over? That's not easy either. Not a
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: job I'd want to sign up for.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: That is not easy. Those guys should get some credit.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I would pass on that as well.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Time for a little Who's Hot, Who's Not brought to
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: us by Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Billy, who's hot?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Who's hot would be, well, let's be honest. Eduardo Rodriguez
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: was pretty dang hot yesterday. Now may have gotten away
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: with a beautiful balker around the world, but he went
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: seven innings, gave up just two hits. As Pete Crow
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Armstrong very appropriately said, shoved it down their throat. Seven
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: innings of shutout baseball, and the Diamondbacks beat the Cubs 2-0.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Also hot, the Phillies out in Seattle. They get homers
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: from Schwarber and Harper when six goose over the Mariners.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: But the NL East, they don't gain any ground because
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: a walk-off again last.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Night in the ATL.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Hot are the Atlanta Braves after their Little League victory
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: against the Crew. They've won two against Big Blue in
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Roki Suzuki leaves in the fourth inning with
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a finger issue. He had already
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: given up four earnings in those four innings of work.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: And don't look now. We mentioned we're keeping track. It's
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: one of our favorite races to keep. Dodgers and Braves
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: racing for the two-seed. Brewers ahead of both of them,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: but slowly now just a two-game advantage.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Four L.A.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Over Atlanta, and they get one more today, a 6-15
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: first pitch down in ATL. Shout-out once again are the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates. They are not hot as they lose to
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the San Diego Padres yesterday.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Tough scene for the Pittsburgh Pirates who bought at the
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: deadline and then just slid right down the back of
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: the dinosaur.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: But nothing was worse. Drew for one home team yesterday.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: The San Francisco don't call me the New York Giants.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Oh boy. After a booming blast into the gap in
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: center Plated two runs, or three runs, cleared the bases
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: in the bottom half of the eighth inning. The Giants
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: led it 9-3 at the beautiful Oracle Park. And then
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the ninth inning happened. Started with a solo shot, then
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a walk, then two wild pitches, another two walks, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: a Eugenio Suarez grand slam.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: It's 9-8.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Then an infield single, a bun single, a sack fly,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a single. And all of a sudden, it's a 10-9
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Reds victory with seven in the ninth inning as they
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: beat the Giants yesterday. And the G-men go.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: To 31 and 34 at home. That's a tough L.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think the Giants have ever lost a game
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: with that big a lead. Oh, my goodness. And, Drew,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: it looked even worse than it sounds. That's wild. Who's hot? Potentially,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Eugenio Suarez available on waivers right now. And T.J. Friedel.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: And T.J. Friedel just hit waivers. Let's see. Go get
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: that big bat. Yeah, go get him. Could happen.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joins us at 725.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: We'll have our current electric superhero and more for you next.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.