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09/14/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Well, the sun will rise in the east at a
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: certain point this morning, despite what happened yesterday in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in to the huddle.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the iron. I'm streaming live Facebook X and YouTube. Drew Olson,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, bringing it to you. Still trying
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: to process what we witnessed yesterday coming out at U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Bank Stadium. But I'll say this.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: The natives are restless and there are twice as many people,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: maybe it's just a function of the calendar and people
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: settling in the routines, twice as many people standing outside
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the Y waiting to work out their frustrations today.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's not a coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: Working off the BAC and sweating it out from yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and trying to sweat off the L.
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  Speaker 2: I like that, Drew.
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  Speaker 1: And also, it's regular season time for everybody to start
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: figuring out the way that they can start winning some contests.
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  Speaker 1: So I like the fact that We're all trying to
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  Speaker 1: better ourselves at that moment. I'll tell you this right now.
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  Speaker 1: That was and will be one of the more disappointing
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  Speaker 1: and confusing results that I've seen in quite some time
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  Speaker 1: for the.
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  Speaker 2: We good? We good, brother? What's up, man? Armand's just
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix your feet, dude. Yeah. In the midst
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  Speaker 2: of a confusion. I got it. I got it, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. You get back to the post. See,
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  Speaker 2: this is what happens.
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  Speaker 1: When in a in-sync unit, one person tries to go
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  Speaker 1: outside of their bounds. And Drew, people try to figure
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: out how in their everyday lives you can equate things
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: to offensive line play. And I think one of them
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  Speaker 1: would have just been an exact moment. You think that
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: the easy thing is for Armand just to say in
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  Speaker 1: my ear, hey, brother, can you fix that camera real quick?
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  Speaker 1: But we try to do just a tick too much,
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  Speaker 1: especially loud environments. Things get haywire. You try to do something.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Feel like you're just doing something good. Feel like you're
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: just hanging on with Jacob Monk maybe a tick too
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: long because the young man's been struggling in his first
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: start hanging out here at right guard. And instead, you
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: don't rotate back. Blake Cashman comes and molly whops your quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: One of the seemingly 24 hits that he took on
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  Speaker 1: his 42 dropbacks yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That was a.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Physically dominating fourth quarter by the Vikings. And some reason
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: painting myself and watching a little bit more of it
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  Speaker 1: after we finished up Packers OT yesterday. They say it's
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: never as good as it feels or as bad as
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  Speaker 1: it feels. The good parts were real good yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: the bad parts, Drew, somehow felt worse. Yeah, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this at length. Game balls and kicks
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Wayne Larrabee is going to join the program
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  Speaker 1: before we get out today. They have voiced the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: the incomparable one, who was great behind the mic, midseason
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: form for Wayne. Another second half, absolute meltdown. It was
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: another car crash that we watched. And as we process it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm struck by the fact that everything matters. I was
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: thinking about this, again, Reddit, shower thoughts, the butterfly effect
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: of everything being interconnected in football. And something that happens
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  Speaker 1: that you see, and it flows like a river, a
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: raging river at times, an NFL game.
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  Speaker 2: But you see something happen early on.
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  Speaker 1: And you notice it, and then you forget about it
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  Speaker 1: because there's a million other things that happen on every play.
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  Speaker 1: And then you go back and look and you go, damn,
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  Speaker 1: that was interconnected. And I was thinking about that because
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of Trey Smack. Trey Smack missed an
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  Speaker 1: extra point. And you thought, oh, that's brutal. And then
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  Speaker 1: they're winning and the game goes along. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get to Trey Smack making a field goal with an
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  Speaker 1: offside penalty. And his coach deciding, well, we don't need
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: those three points. Let's try to make it seven. Let's
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  Speaker 1: try to step on it. All gas, no brake. And
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  Speaker 1: then you think about that in the context, it blew
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  Speaker 1: up and people are looking at that as Matt LaFleur,
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  Speaker 1: it was like his undoing last night, the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the undoing. And then I realized if Trace Mack makes
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  Speaker 1: the extra point and they're up nine instead of eight
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  Speaker 1: after the field goal, that whole game has changed. Because
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  Speaker 1: Matt LeFleur takes the points and they're up to score it.
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  Speaker 1: And it changes the entire complexion. And every missed block,
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  Speaker 1: every missed tackle, every extra yard, every penalty, everything matters
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all interrelated.
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  Speaker 1: And we focus on a couple key plays a game
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  Speaker 1: because that's how close everything is. And the margins are
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  Speaker 1: so close. And we focus on the obvious and the things.
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  Speaker 1: But then you dive deeper and it's like, okay, like,
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm getting into Matt LaFleur's post-game comments and like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we were all kind of surprised to see Donovan Jennings
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: And he gives us like, well, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: time on task. Time on task. You were at every
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  Speaker 2: practice that was open to the public. Thought he burned it.
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  Speaker 2: Thought he deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: Did he have that much time on task that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't notice?
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  Speaker 2: Not in front of us, mostly, especially with the starting unit.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: No. And the offensive line was under siege and Brian
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Flores can do that. But there was a good chunk
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  Speaker 1: of that game when they handled that.
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  Speaker 2: Right? And they thrived. And Jordan Love cooked.
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  Speaker 1: And there are people, if you go back and look
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  Speaker 1: during the flow of the game on Viking social media, going,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? How are we getting cooked like this?
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  Speaker 1: And then it went the other way because of a
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  Speaker 1: series of events and just the flow of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we're so addicted to this sport.
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  Speaker 2: Because the games are always good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, when 22 points can happen in two
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  Speaker 1: minutes and 40 seconds or whatever the number ultimately was, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the games flip all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: And, Drew, what you just explained is exactly why.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people hate it when somebody drops a
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: pass that would have been a game-winning touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: They say, well, we didn't lose the game on that play.
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  Speaker 2: And people say, well, you kind of did. You kind
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  Speaker 2: of did. You would have been able to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: You go back through it, and there's 60 minutes of
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  Speaker 1: ball that tells a whole story. I....
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  Speaker 2: I did hear Matt say that, and if it was
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: a two-score lead, then maybe we changed the conversation. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's different.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's still on the road, and maybe it's still
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  Speaker 1: probably the best decision to go up eight points and
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  Speaker 1: try to grab any points in a game where last
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: time I checked, EPA doesn't win any football games. Nor do,
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  Speaker 1: and I liked at least he punted on the pushing
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: it to the analytics police as to why you went
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  Speaker 1: for it. No, he went for it because... He's been
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: listening to people all year long. And for the last
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: eight years, say that my man's too conservative. And then
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: you try to be aggressive with it. Try to be
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  Speaker 1: really aggressive with it. Decide that the check is too good.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: That you go with a QB sneak with a man
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  Speaker 1: that Jordan said last night, we've run a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of QB sneaks before. Run a lot of QB sneaks before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember a ton of them.
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  Speaker 1: Define a lot because we watch every play and I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember a lot. I don't remember a ton of
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  Speaker 1: them that he has run. However, you keep your head
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  Speaker 1: up and he probably falls forward for four yards. If
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: you don't turn your back to the play and realize
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  Speaker 1: where you're at and see the massive gap that's being
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  Speaker 1: pushed right in front of Jacob Monk as he falls
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  Speaker 1: forward and his whole ass is on into the first down.
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  Speaker 1: You look at it, and as you mentioned, all of
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  Speaker 1: it matters.
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  Speaker 2: All matters.
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  Speaker 1: Even a guy last night who comes out of here with, what,
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  Speaker 1: 387 yards? Most of these put up in three years.
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  Speaker 1: Looks phenomenal. It's an 81-yard touchdown. There's a play right
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  Speaker 1: there that if it's made differently, you still can go
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  Speaker 1: in for two scores. Or like you said last night,
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  Speaker 1: which I was trying to keep track with, but it's true.
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  Speaker 1: If you pick up the first down and then the
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  Speaker 1: snap goes off your knee.
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  Speaker 2: You're still in the same position.
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  Speaker 1: You're still getting the huge pop of energy that came
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  Speaker 1: to US Bank Stadium in which was a hornet's nest
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  Speaker 1: that you for a moment had the raid can and
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  Speaker 1: you were at the ready and you were holding them
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  Speaker 1: yellow jackets.
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  Speaker 2: Off for a while.
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  Speaker 1: But at some point, them things were going to swarm
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: and they got you and it was on like Donkey
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  Speaker 1: Kong when they got you. The thing is, every game,
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  Speaker 1: everything's interconnected, but then it's also independent. This game was
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  Speaker 1: not related to what happened when they lost at soldier
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  Speaker 1: field and yet it's a continuing theme of the story
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  Speaker 1: the packers have now lost six consecutive games something they
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  Speaker 1: haven't done and since 1990 i believe in the regular
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  Speaker 1: season in a generation and that's hard to fathom and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the losses are awful and then you
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: go back and you look at it and you say
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: well You know, this is a, it's another inside straight.
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  Speaker 1: How many times, how many hands in a row can
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: we sit and watch the dealer pull seven cards to 21?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, it's how many in a row
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  Speaker 1: now where you had like a 90% win rate and
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  Speaker 1: you lose it or 90% probability rate.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk and we're going to open up game
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  Speaker 1: balls and kicks earlier for you. Five o'clock clubbers, right?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do that probably very soon, but shout
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  Speaker 1: out to the five o'clock clubbers who are with us.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody's just trying to process what happened yesterday is
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: it's still, Hard to believe that you knocked out the
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  Speaker 1: other team's starting quarterback. Your quarterback threw for 387 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 2: Lost the game. You had an 81-yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: The confluence of events and the things that are building
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  Speaker 1: up against the Packers, well, you got to look back
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  Speaker 1: and you go, how is this?
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  Speaker 2: How are we watching this?
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  Speaker 1: Because they haven't lost six in a row since 1990.
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  Speaker 1: On the drive that turned this game with the three
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  Speaker 1: penalties on third down, That kept the drive alive and
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  Speaker 1: gave the Vikings a score.
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  Speaker 2: Which looked worse in the second viewing, if you were wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Just like unfathomable.
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  Speaker 1: Three third down plays with penalties that led to automatic firsts.
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  Speaker 2: And one was more questionable than the next. Yes. Well,
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  Speaker 2: on one drive, three third down.
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  Speaker 1: Penalties that led to automatic first downs.
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  Speaker 2: That hasn't happened since 2000 in the NFL.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, perfect storms, man. We keep flying into these perfect storms.
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  Speaker 1: The only time that's happened since 2000 in 26 years
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: was Cowboys-Buccaneers in 2001. A single drive of that magnitude
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  Speaker 1: to have three drive-extending plays when you're getting off the
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  Speaker 1: field and have automatic first downs.
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  Speaker 2: On those plays.
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  Speaker 1: And that one was officiated by Ed Hockley, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be- Probably.
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  Speaker 2: Go back and look and check the DNA.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: And actually kind of forgot about it, Drew, that that
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: series started with a five-yard penalty because Jonathan Ford jumped
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: off sides on the first play.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So there were four penalties on that drive.
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  Speaker 1: As critical as they were, though, in succession, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a character of itself, the penalties. So it's the sixth
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  Speaker 1: straight loss for the Packers overall and for Matt LaFleur
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  Speaker 1: because he owns it.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Starts with me.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: They've blown two 21-3 leads and a 22-10 lead in
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: those six losses.
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  Speaker 2: So half the losses, they're all heinous, but some more
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: than others.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one, as difficult as it is at
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: 5.13 the next morning to say, is the least debilitating
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: of all of them, right? Like, I mean, it's week
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: one in a time where now you can go and
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: you play the New York Jets. You're going to take
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: on Cooper Rush maybe or maybe Tua. in game number three,
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: or maybe that's a situation that it ended up being yesterday, where,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: as you said, you knock out the starting quarterback two
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: series in and potentially ends up being a better thing
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings throughout the game, because I don't know
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: exactly where the confidence level was with Kyler Murray, but
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz, grew up a Viking fan, it was
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: pretty high. And you could hear, because he played some
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: good football for them last year before he got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, they went, I think they ended up
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: winning one of the international games that he was quarterbacking
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: throughout it. So he played some good ball for them,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: and he has some familiarity with the system. But Drew,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: we talked about it off the air last night. Again,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: more credit to Minnesota, which is hard to give. They
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: did put up 39 points. They deserve some of it.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Wentz probably didn't get a ton of reps, if really any,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: throughout camp. The competition at no point was Carson Wentz
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: versus Kyler Murray to be the starting quarterback. It was
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: always JJ McCarthy between him and Kyler Murray to be
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  Speaker 1: the starting guy. Wentz just went about his business, took
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: advantage yesterday. And the officiating was bad on both sides.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Go back and you almost forget about the interesting touch
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: of Aaron Jones that was rather fortunate a couple of
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: steps before he goes down. But it's all interconnected. And
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: as you said, if that Sure, that 51-yard play stands.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows that Lucas Van Ness doesn't generate a pressure
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: and get Wentz behind the chains and turn the ball over.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: But you did see some real positives out of yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: They're really hard to grab this early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: after the L. But it's week one. The Vikings held serve.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: They won the home tilt. And you lost and you
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: got blitzed out of a game against... the third best
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: defense in football from a year ago. So not a
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: no harm, no foul, but this one, there's something to
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: be able to grab from and you're going to have
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: to dust off your boots. And the folks that are
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: going to be hitting us up on the talking text
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: line asking and firing Matt LaFleur one game into his
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: shiny new extension, I got bad news for you.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't happening. So quit asking. Quit asking.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: And you can just peacock around and say you're right. Now,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: the other thing to remember is a couple of years ago,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the Eagles won the Super Bowl and in the first
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Two months of the season, their fan base was screaming
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: for the coach to be fired.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: They were screaming for him to be fired in the
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: third quarter. It's what every fan base does.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Now, again, the things that happen in a game that
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: just wash through like a river. The Packers were up
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  Speaker 1: 22 to 10, and it's like, okay, that's a great situation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what's better than that?
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  Speaker 1: 26 to 10, 25. I was going to say. And
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: then I go back and there's the completion that Love
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: had on a great play to Jonu Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Jonu, right.
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  Speaker 1: Who gets caught at the seven yard line. I'm not
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: going to disparage Jonu Smith. Tucker Kraft might have scored
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: on that play. Maybe he doesn't. He gets caught at
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: the seven yard line. He's wide open. And the Packers
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: end up getting three instead of seven, which is a
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: recurring theme throughout these heinous losses is the Packers getting
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: field goals instead of touchdowns.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the officials didn't go one for four in the
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: red zone. You did. One for four in the.
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  Speaker 1: Red zone for the Packers and three for 12 on
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  Speaker 1: third down. But the three plays after that 43-yard completion
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  Speaker 1: that took them to seven, they did nothing.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: And it's like, ugh. And I know it's a good defense, right?
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  Speaker 1: And then you get the field goal and you feel
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: like you're 22-10 and you immediately give up a 68-yard
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: kick return. That's connected. And that's like that... There were
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: so many things that Billy and I, during the Packers OT,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: which seems like it just wrapped, the Toyota turning point
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  Speaker 1: is always like, okay, well, the obvious one was Matt
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: LaFleur's decision. But there's a million turning points in every game,
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  Speaker 1: and that was one of them to me. It felt
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: like it to me. Special teams were good, but were they?
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: They missed a point after. Whelan had a 12-yard punt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 22.
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  Speaker 2: There was one of the worst. And they gave up
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: a 68 yard return. Like that wasn't good. So it
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: was good and bad. It was good and bad in that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: And that was the thing. Like again, everything matters.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: So much focus on the fourth down call.
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  Speaker 2: Understandably. So I get it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: And it's easy to, it's easy to, you try to
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: make sense of it. You want to find someone to blame.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Okay. A coaching decision, but.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I felt like the momentum flipped on that return by
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, absolutely. I felt it was like, that's why
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I kind of understood the decision at the time to
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: go for the fourth one, because it felt like the
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: avalanche was already coming down. And it's like, all right, well,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: maybe you have to get touchdown here. Maybe you have
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: to go for points here to stem the tide. And
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that was just a killer. If you're looking for the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: recipe to blow a lead in an NFL game, special
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: teams blunders and not, Not cashing into the red zone
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and settling for no points or three points are right
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: at the top of the list. Yeah, trading ways to lose. Yeah,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: trading field goals for touchdowns is the easiest way to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, because just like.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, imagine that game.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: If that play, you're up 19 to 10, and then
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you go up by 16 if you score a touchdown there. Yeah,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: then it's like easy street. It feels like it because
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the onus is on the Vikings, and then they'll try
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to do too much and.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: The fourth quarter, it does not just happen in those
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: 15 minutes. There's a lot that builds up to the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Vikings running off 22 points in two minutes and 40 seconds.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: And that's a part of it because that's all the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: way back in the 10-minute mark of the third quarter
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: when you have the opportunity to take advantage.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: You're inside. You get a goal-to-go situation.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And can't, that's also another one where the officials were
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: bad all night. That's the Matthew Golden ball into the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: back of the end zone that people were ISOing up
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: of the DPI or the illegal contact that they called
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: against Bullard and him. It is what it is, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that's really where the pressure also started by the Vikings
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: actually getting home. To that point, Love had done a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: phenomenal job of being able to mitigate it with just
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: getting the ball out quick enough.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But it just started to crack right there.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They obviously had the back-to-back punts in the second quarter.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: But to that point, they were really handling the blitz.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But you could start to see the foundation was starting
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to crack. And all that rush needs is some confidence.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: The drive when LeFleur made the decision to take the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: points off the board, that should have been a touchdown. Yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Because they had the long pass there. Yeah, you were
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: in position again to not be in that position, if
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that makes sense.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: So I look at big plays in the game. A
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: 43-yard pass to Jonu Smith and a 42-yard pass to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden. That led to three points. On two drives. Yeah, and-
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You can't have that. Yeah, no, I mean- You gotta score.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: But I guess I also don't look at them the same.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: One of them gets you to the 25. One of
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: them gets you inside the 10, right? So I mean, again,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of work to be done. And there's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of parts of this that are close, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: not close enough. I'm fascinated to hear what people have
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to say at 877-794-1973. Obviously, we're able to get to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a couple of folks. On postgame last night, get to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a lot more of it today. It's not Victory Monday.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: We won't be drinking from the chalice of Vikings fans' tears.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: We're choking down our own right now because the Packers
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: have lost six straight games. Life comes at you fast.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They talk about, LeFleur talks about the whole mantra was
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: finish games, and they clearly didn't finish the game. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: they also talk about, Billy, and you hear this all
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the time, overcoming adversity, handling adversity on the road.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: There's adversity. Adversity. Everything that happens.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: When the Packers had to play from behind yesterday, I mean,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the snowball was already rolling.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Down the mountain and getting big.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: But the Vikings took that 25-22 lead, and then the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Packers ran three plays, turned it over with the fumble.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: The Vikings scored on the first play. Touchdown. So turnover, touchdown.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And then two plays. turnover, and then three plays later,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a touchdown.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So in the span of, by my math, nine plays,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Packers turned the ball over twice and gave up two touchdowns.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that math is correct. Yep. Nine plays. So it
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: went from the second longest drive of the game.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: 25 to 22, and then you blink, and it's 39-22,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and it's over.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where the final number, Drew, somewhat feels not
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: necessarily reminiscent of what the game was. But just how
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: cataclysmic the rush was late, it kind of feels like
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it was kind of fair. Just because you were holding
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that house together when they give you the project of
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you got to put 100 toothpicks together and hold up
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: this egg. You were trying how many different ways to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: figure out if I just put the triangle together, I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: can hold that thing up for just long enough. And sadly,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that thing was shaking, shaking, shaking. And once the dam broke,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it just rolled away and there was nothing else that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you could do. Van Ginkle, it felt like, was the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: only guy that hadn't had a pressure before. Until he
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: makes the biggest play and rips the ball out of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: his hands on that strip sack fumble that grabs it
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: at the one yard line.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Because otherwise, it was mostly the Dallas Turner show.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And that's where Drew, going back and seeing more of it,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and understandably so, Donovan Jennings, Sean Ryan didn't paint himself
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: in a whole lot of pass blocking glory. Obviously, Jacob
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Monk blocking air on the one low light is the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: one that people are going to remember.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: But everybody was getting beat yesterday.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I was excited to watch Jordan Morgan after the camp
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: he had. He started out with a penalty and an MA, right?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: First two plays.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And Zach Paco Buele maybe should have been expected coming
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: off of a patella injury. But Drew, he was not
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: himself yesterday as well. I don't know how much of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it was the energy. I don't know how much of
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it was the rush. How much of it was eight
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: pressures from Dallas Turner going up against him. But it
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: felt like everybody on that front five yesterday contributed to that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: That nine-play sequence that you just ran through.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: The worst part of those drives you're talking about, that sequence,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: is it just felt like they had resigned to their
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: fate at that point.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Like they had just given up. Like, all right, the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: dam broke. It's over.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Like, these bad things happened to us, and we're going
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to fold up shop now. It's just the way it felt,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: at least. And I don't know what that's about. But
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it's like 90% win rate was the win rate for
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Vikings line.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: That's the highest in the NFL since 22.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I remember last year against the Browns feeling like the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: worst game an offensive line ever had.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And yesterday made me wonder.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Because they had these.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And then it's like, well, I got to believe you're
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: better than that. And if not, then we got problems.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: That's right. 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Let's fire up some game balls and kicks, shall we?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You know the drill.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: After, you know, on Mondays, you can consider yourself in
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the postgame locker room and you can give out game balls.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of those we'll be awarding today.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: There's some.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I got some.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Or kick to the balls. It depends on how you feel.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: If someone did a good job, you give them a
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: kudo and attaboy. It can be, you know, maybe it'll
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: help soothe some things, perhaps. If you give someone a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: game ball on the show.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Today, here it is. Yes. Yes. A little Larry exclamation there. Simple, concise.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And conversely, for the kick to the huevos, it's this.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Larry Upset. Just trying to get some Larrys in there
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: for you. Baby Rock. Collective groan. Defined it, I thought, well. Yep.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: So there you have it. Off and running. Game balls
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and kicks. Open it up.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You got a whole week in the burst. Now, if
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you want to be a cockeyed optimist, perhaps. I mean,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Please. Please.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is optimistic or not. Jeffrey
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: from Milwaukee, 877-794-1973. Morning, fellas. Somewhat rough weekend because of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the Packers, but I still think there are positives to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: take from that Vikings game, as hard as it is
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to see.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: The Brewers are still great, and the Badgers are working
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: on it. Working on it. Come on, Jeffrey. My guy, Jeff.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Working on it. We're working on things.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen many takes like that in the last
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: 24 hours, so I really appreciate that one, Jeffrey. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I guess he's true. I always tell myself, don't overreact
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to week one, and it's testing that theory.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Our friend, Janny and Appleton.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I honestly think the Packers are going to have a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: long season. The O-line looks terrible. Love was picking himself
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: off the ground the whole game. I hope he can
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: stay healthy. On the positive side, even though the Brewers
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: lost yesterday, so did the Scrubs, the Dodgers, and Atlanta.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Hard for me to get too upset about football when
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: baseball is king right now.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jannie. There you go, Jannie.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And the offensive line did look, did have an awful
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. It's the last taste in your mouth, no
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: doubt about it. They are not facing the Minnesota Vikings
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: every week. This team blitzed 78% of the snaps yesterday.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. That's just not going to happen the rest of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: However, and this is true, yes, other teams are going
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to see this film. Other teams are absolutely going to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: do it. Teams aren't going to just completely go out
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of their own defense to just do, to necessarily combat it. Now,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: there'll be teams that blitz a hell of a lot
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: more probably than they do throughout the rest of the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: calendar when they have the Packers on the schedule, for sure.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Not everybody is as equipped and as good at doing it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: This is what the Vikings do, played into their hands.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And you could hear LeFleur throughout the postgame. And this
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: is maybe the toughest part for the offensive line.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Which.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I saw people frustrated in the first half when 20
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: plays in, they had thrown the ball 14 times. Even
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: with a struggling unit, probably more so than any you
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: gotta try to run the ball. And at least they
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: did a little, they tried to a little bit into
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: this third quarter. And you can see that one drive,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they ran it five times out of the first seven
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: plays because you had to get a little bit of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a change up. These dudes were pinning their ears back
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: all day long, teeing off. And as much as it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: going to be imperative to lock in all your responsibilities
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and blitz pickup and realize that, Chris Brooks is going
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to have to take it on the chin a couple
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of times. Can't get run over the way he did
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: by Cashman on the interception in the back.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: End of the game.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But you got to be able to run it, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to try to do it a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: little bit more than they did last night. Because it's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: one of the only ways that you're going to be
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: able to combat teams just lining up in a sprinter
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: stance and doing what Dallas Turner did yesterday and end
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: up in the backfield seemingly by the time you catch it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: It's pretty stunning. Yeah, you're right.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: It's a perfect storm and you're not going to face
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that every week. No, you're definitely not facing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: That every week, man.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: But you know that going in. Like the schedule came
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: out in May, they knew that going in.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: But again, going in.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Then, they did and they had a 22 to 10 lead.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: So like the going in, you knew it going in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and they combated it pretty well going in until they didn't, right?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: So I mean like that's where the frustrations of.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: The plan and that- That opinion part is true, but
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: then you also got to look at it factually and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: say they did put up with it very well to start.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They were able to combat it by getting the ball
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: out of the hands.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Then when you don't make one play, like a Jaden
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Reed drop where you could have probably bit off some
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: more points before the end of the half, ends up
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: being another moment that stacks up and it's all intertwined. Yeah,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: but they were up 22-10 in the third quarter, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: it's compounding with interest because- They're up 23-14 in Denver.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: They're up 16-6 against the Bears. That's the frustration. With
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: five minutes left. And lost 22-16. They're up 21-3 at
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: halftime in the playoffs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And lost.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: They're up 27-16 with six and a half minutes left.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: And lost.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And it's compounding with interest now. And the trend for
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: people is, you know, it's not just what we saw yesterday.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: It's what we've seen, you know, going back. And it's...
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It's almost inexplicable. Right. And you have to do a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: lot going forward, I think, to erase that trauma for fans.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You win some games, it's in the back of their minds. Yeah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: but also at the end of the day, it isn't together.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: What happened in Chicago in January had nothing to do
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: with yesterday's game.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely true.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And it won't have anything to do with the Jets
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: game coming up in one week.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: That's very true. But you also, part of it, is
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it all a flirt?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: No. No.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But it's almost uncanny.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And the odds of these things happening in six straight games,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: like the meltdowns and the losses like this, and the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: odds of those, particularly the four meltdowns, it's astronomical. Yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I saw Rob Reichlet a tweet trying to add the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: probabilities together. And it's not that simple, obviously, when you
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: talk about real-time games. But if you add the game
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: probabilities together, when you're up with a 95% or 90% probability-
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Whether or not you believe in it, it is unfathomable.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Whatever the probability even means and however the hell it's calculated.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Fire this thumbs stuff up, dude. Oh, my God.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: If I get to hear one more win probability, I'm
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: going to throw this tablet through the wall. Let me
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: get a YouTube comment from Dennis Etliger. I hope I'm
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: pronouncing that right, Dennis. In 63 years of watching the NFL,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I've never seen officials take over a game like they did.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And you never take points off the board unless you're
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: getting a first down.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a common refrain. You know, from Lil
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Wayne too. So not even to go first and goal.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, you get it at the 18 if you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: get the first down. That's just not even close to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a guaranteed thing. Taking points off the board at that point?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I just, I cannot disagree with that one more. It's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: time for the... They will.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to wrap up the division, spray some champagne after a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: toast when they clinched a playoff berth on Friday night.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Now, they would have. 20 to nothing victory.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: If they would have won yesterday, they would have had
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a chance to clinch on the off day today, correct?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Cubs played today. They would have had a chance to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: potentially sneak in there. How do you celebrate that?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You just go immediately to the nearest steakhouse and just
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: rip up their lobby?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I think you do.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: They used to gather in like a room, right? Like
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I remember old videos and stuff of like watching teams
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: clinch on off days where they're all sitting around like
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: circle tables. In a clubhouse or a hotel ballroom.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hotel ballrooms. And then start hugging each other and like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Well, they're in Pittsburgh though. So remember Yuki ran into
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that furry convention.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: That's true. So they might not be able to get
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: one of the ballrooms. Maybe that's the way to do it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe dress up in like furry costumes and then just
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: start hugging each other.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends. We have Hunter Baumgart. Boots on the ground.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, Hunter is heading to Pittsburgh this week
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: for the clinch.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: He's going to be bringing us the content, baby. He's
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: going to be bringing us the goods.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I was hoping to book that travel because, you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you can't get it direct to Pittsburgh around here.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: You can't get it direct to just about anywhere. You
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: can get direct to Baltimore.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I was telling him, trying to swing through Baltimore just
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: in case they don't clinch.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: This was my genius idea last week. I don't know.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: They don't need to, though.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Armin, you're the last guy I'm going to talk to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: about travel stuff, given your history.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to take advice. That's fair. I can't execute.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it just be easier to drive? I thought about that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know about the timing for him.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It's like eight hours, right? I thought about that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It's pretty easy, John. Or fly into a place and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: then drive. Yeah, it's probably not the worst thing. No,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I would think about it. Hunter Baumgart was at American
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Family Field throughout the weekend, and he has this update
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for us brought to us by Import Minded.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Take it away, Hunter. Thanks, guys.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: The Brewers lost 4-3 yesterday to the Cincinnati Reds, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: it was a good homestand. They went 5-1. They swept
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: the Cubs, won the series against the Reds. They set
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: themselves up really well with 12 games to go. Three
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh, three in Baltimore, three in Philly, and then
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: home for three against St.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Louis to finish the regular season.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And a bright spot in yesterday's loss was Robert Gasser
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: pitching into the sixth inning, allowing just one earned run.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: He has a 2.33 ERA over his last four outings.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: And Pat Murphy was asked, is Robert Gasser putting himself
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: in a good spot to be a key contributor, not
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: only down the stretch, but even in the postseason?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, Gasser's thrown the ball great. I don't know
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: how many times in a row, twice against the Cubs,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: another time.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati, whatever.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's been, and he's done it against really
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: good teams that swing it well against lefties. And I
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: think the Reds and the Cubs have got to be
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: in the top five against left-handed pitching. And he's pitched
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: really well. So, Happy for them.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: The Brewers will line up like this as far as
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: their starting rotation goes. Starting tomorrow night, it'll be Jacob
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Mizorowski in Pittsburgh and then Logan Henderson on Wednesday, Dustin
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: May on Thursday.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Brewers are off today.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I'm headed out to Pittsburgh to cover what likely will
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: be the fourth straight NL Central title for the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: They'll clinch that likely this week in Pittsburgh. The magic
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: number sits at two after the Cubs lost to the
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Pirates yesterday. The Brewers have a two-and-a-half game lead for
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: the top seed in the National League over the Dodgers
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: and a five-game lead over the Braves for the bye.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: In the National League with 12 games to go.
• 32:55
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• 33:00
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• 33:03
  Speaker 4: the show from Pittsburgh.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Hunter Baumgart. That's going to be epic. Exciting, exciting.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I'll be in a win too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a good distraction of the signal
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and the noise that's coming out of 1265. Yeah, and listen,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it was somewhat of a foregone conclusion. You know that
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: they're going to get it. You know that they're going
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to finish it off at some point. I like Robert
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Gasser making a push to make this playoff rotation because
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Lord knows you need one with the other left-hander that
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you've been counting on all year long.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: And Dustin May threw okay.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Dustin May was a victim of their offensive success He'd
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: have pitched deeper into that game if he didn't have
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to sit for a half hour in between innings, right?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Take a nap like my three different innings.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a rough one. Yeah, that was a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: pretty good. By the way, game ball to one William
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Tiberius Schmid.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Yes. I'll take that. Thank you. For sending us cute pics.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Of your young lad snoozing at the game and for
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: making some delicious damn ribs for us to feast on
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: during the first Packers game of the season.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: My God. I need that breakfast this morning.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: The rib rub and the smoking, spectacular. It was, listen,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: it's a labor of love and it is fun. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: son of a gun did I think that we were
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: going to be licking some victory ribs and potentially having
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: some victory chicken.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Later on this morning.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Instead, that one, we'll have to keep that whole bird
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in the freezer for one more week.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I know, I had to make chili today. I was
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: going to. I don't know that anybody needs that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Isn't there enough mediocrity on display around here? The chili
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: represents losing, so that's what I eat on Monday. The
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: chili represents losing. I hate to say it, but that's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the reality in this situation. I think you should just
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: go to Wendy's and get their chili next time you
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: go to the cook-off. Listen, you get Wendy's chili, no
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: one's going to be upset. Man, you can get that
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: at the store now, too. They sell it in cans.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But they jacked the price up, man. You can get
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Wendy's beef now from the store and cook burgers with
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Wendy's beef. And I'm like, I don't know. Isn't this
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: just ground meat? So I could do that, but I
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: don't know, man. I'm trying to win one of these years,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's going to happen. I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: keep fumbling it late like the Packers.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Game balls and kicks. Do we even bother a kick
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: to the huevos to Sean Hockley? Let's go!
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Well, not necessarily just him because Carl Johnson, the line judge,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: deserves one. Your boy Jimmy Russell, the side judge. Patrick Holt.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Jason Lettet. Larry Smith, the umpire. He let it get
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: out of hand. Hit yourself a rim shot for that.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I was going to plan on it. I didn't have
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: it ready. Didn't even have it ready. I didn't even
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: plan that one.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Pump it up for yourself.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. The... The game ball that is a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: painful one to go is game ball to Christian Watson.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Because in the midst of.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: The collapse, 147 yards is a hell of a way
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to answer and come off of a contract signing two
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and a half months ago and live up to it
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: in game number one.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Like, I mean, there were so many people that had
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of things to say about that deal. Mostly
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: outside of Green Bay. Well, those fantasy football heads sure
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: got their chuckles yesterday and probably got their win if
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: they drafted the young man because he was off and running.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And last year, we're going to talk to Wayne coming
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: up in our number three. But he said this is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: when nine becomes number one receiver.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Well, he started out this year letting you know who
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the number one guy is. Game ball to Keyshawn Nixon. Hey,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: come on now, Keyshawn. You let him know right away.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: About damn time. He did. He's not in danger of
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: losing his start.