Transcript

09/25/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

0:00
Speaker 1: Snap to Penix in the pocket, waiting, looking, throws late
0:03
Speaker 1: over the middle, intercepted, Xavier McKinney at the 45-yard line,
0:08
Speaker 1: down he goes, Green Bay take away, and the Packers
0:12
Speaker 1: take over first and 10, 45-yard line at Green Bay.
0:17
Speaker 1: Here's the snap. Love has time. He lofts it. Right side.
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Speaker 1: Golden turning. Makes it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: Cross the 45 out of bounds in front of the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta bench.
0:30
Speaker 2: They beat Mike Hughes again. 45 yards to the Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: 43-yard line.
0:34
Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Play action. Love bootlegging right.
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Speaker 4: Throws.
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Speaker 5: Touchdown!
0:41
Speaker 1: Christian Watson and a Lambeau lead to the north end zone.
0:46
Speaker 1: They beat the good safety Jesse Bates. Motion by Zaccheaus
0:51
Speaker 1: to the left and the handoff goes to Robinson. Tries
0:54
Speaker 1: to cut it back and sifts through and gets the touchdown.
0:58
Speaker 1: Robinson off the left side. Daniel Whelan down on one knee.
1:01
Speaker 1: Here's the snap placement. And the kick is blocked. It
1:05
Speaker 1: is blocked, and the ball caroms inside of the five-yard line.
1:09
Speaker 1: Atlanta has blocked the field goal try, and it appeared
1:13
Speaker 1: Zach Harrison was the man who blocked it for Atlanta.
1:16
Speaker 1: Penix in the shotgun, moves Robinson to his right. Here's
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Speaker 1: the snap. Penix, quick throw, left side, touchdown. Got the
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Speaker 1: tight end, Austin Hooper, who had position on Evan Williams
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Speaker 1: in the left side of the end zone, and Atlanta
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Speaker 1: now leads 16-7. Fourth down, a little bit less than
1:34
Speaker 1: a yard to go here for the Packers. Takes the handoff,
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Speaker 1: bootlegs right, does Jordan Love, throws, end zone, incomplete. Watson
1:42
Speaker 1: in the end zone, pretty well covered, pass sailed over
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Speaker 1: his head, incomplete, and the Bluebirds are out at Lambeau Field.
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Speaker 1: Handoff to Brian Robinson, stutter step, left side, races to
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Speaker 1: the end zone for the touchdown. Brian Robinson scores the touchdown,
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Speaker 1: and it's 23-7 Atlanta. Snap to Love in the shotgun,
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Speaker 1: takes the snap.
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Speaker 2: Drills the middle for Golden. Touchdown!
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Speaker 1: A beautiful catch by Matthew Golden. A hands catch right
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Speaker 1: out in front of Mike Hughes and the Packers on
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Speaker 1: the board. 16-yard touchdown pass. Snap Love looking. Fires middle. Intercepted.
2:23
Speaker 1: Intercepted this time. And racing out of the end zone,
2:27
Speaker 1: Xavier Watts. He goes down, slides to a stop at
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Speaker 1: the 20, Atlanta football. And the Atlanta Falcons, as time
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Speaker 1: winds down, score a 35-14 win over the Packers.
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Speaker 4: And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, a montage
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Speaker 4: that we won't ever have to listen to again after today.
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Speaker 4: Welcome in to Fire Your Agent Friday on the huddle,
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere in
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Speaker 4: the iHeart app, streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube. Drew
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Speaker 4: Olson from Stately Olson Manor, where I was dropped off
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Speaker 4: by my limo driver, William Schmid, just about two hours ago. William,
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Speaker 4: good morning.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: It still doesn't make much more sense. And yeah, you're right.
3:18
Speaker 5: Fire Agent Friday, Burn the Tape Friday. Luckily, we get
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Speaker 5: to run through it one more time before we put
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Speaker 5: this thing into a drawer, all the way back of
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Speaker 5: that drawer, light that drawer on fire, and then try
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Speaker 5: to figure out what the heck you're going to do
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Speaker 5: for the next 14 weeks and try to figure out
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Speaker 5: how to bury that one. Because, Drew, that one was
3:38
Speaker 5: about as ugly as I've ever seen and we've ever
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Speaker 5: witnessed up there at Lambeau last night in the opener.
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Speaker 4: Certainly the worst home loss of the LeFleur era at
3:47
Speaker 4: home for the Packers. It was brutal. 35-14 didn't seem
3:51
Speaker 4: that close. Armand put the montage together. Armand presided over
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Speaker 4: the Packers radio network last night. Armand, did you sleep
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Speaker 4: at headquarters? Did you find yourself a nice Steinhafel's lounge
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Speaker 4: to sleep in?
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Speaker 1: I did. I did.
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Speaker 2: I got a little bit of shut eye on one
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Speaker 2: of the couches here.
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Speaker 3: You know, I had my trusty Packers blanket all excited
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Speaker 3: to kind of curl up with dreams of football glory
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Speaker 3: after a 2-1 start to victory, and it didn't go
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Speaker 3: that way.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, but, uh, here we are guys trying to make
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Speaker 2: sense of it all and, um, bury it.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Was that, was that Tony Sperano? Who was the Raiders
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Speaker 3: coach that tried to bury the football after their own
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Speaker 3: four start? And it was kind of like, they couldn't
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Speaker 3: bury the hole and it was really kind of cheesy
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Speaker 3: and it was kind of a disaster.
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Speaker 2: This was like 10 years ago. I kind of remember that.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, maybe I should go out back and try
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Speaker 3: and bury my headphones or something like that. I don't
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Speaker 3: think that'll really work, but, uh, yeah, one to forget
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Speaker 3: for the Packers. And, uh, Leaving everyone questioning where, what, why,
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Speaker 3: and how, and what next for this Packer team as
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Speaker 3: a couple of YouTube comments.
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Speaker 4: Those are the things we're going to address today.
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Speaker 1: Where, what?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think we all know why and what.
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Speaker 2: You got a pretty good idea.
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Speaker 4: We know where, but how and where do they go
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Speaker 4: from here? Hard to answer. What a weird day, because
5:01
Speaker 4: you got the Brewers hitting a crescendo. at the end
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Speaker 4: of the season of excellence that they've never touched before
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Speaker 4: a hundred wins, they get their hundredth win. They wrap
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Speaker 4: up home field as soon as possible, basically with a
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Speaker 4: Dodgers loss. So they have home field throughout the world
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Speaker 4: series and the NLCS and they will be, you know,
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Speaker 4: they have three games at home to kind of just,
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Speaker 4: you know, relax, unwind, get ready, get ready for their
5:32
Speaker 4: extended time off and then begin the playoffs and And
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Speaker 4: the Packers, the playoffs are the farthest thing from their
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Speaker 4: mind right now. Winning a game and putting together even
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Speaker 4: a half of reasonable football is something that's been eluding them.
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Speaker 4: So it's quite the contrast that we have. But Packers
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Speaker 4: lose now. I'm wondering, how many members of the 5
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Speaker 4: o'clock club made it to the end of the game
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Speaker 4: last night and made it to the end of the
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Speaker 4: postgame show, Packers OT, that Billy and I did? Because
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Speaker 4: our first text, it would appear, came from Joe and P.
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Speaker 1: Walkie.
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Speaker 2: There you go, Joe.
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Speaker 4: On the NicoletLaw.com talking text line, 877-794-1973. He hit us
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Speaker 4: up at 4.57, before we even came on the air,
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Speaker 4: 4 o'clock club today, because I can't wait to hear
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Speaker 4: what you guys have to say. We appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe.
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Speaker 4: Ryan and Muskego didn't like Armand's montage. Why, Armand? Why
6:23
Speaker 4: are you giving us this torture again? Brewer's clips would
6:26
Speaker 4: have gone a long way this morning.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll bring some Brewer clips, too.
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Speaker 5: I like that you poked a bear early and come
6:32
Speaker 5: back with the good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
6:34
Speaker 5: Listen, they say good. You want good news or the
6:36
Speaker 5: bad news? Give me the bad news first. Let's eat
6:38
Speaker 5: the vegetables first so we can have the dessert in
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Speaker 5: a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I like that deal. I like that planning.
6:43
Speaker 3: I want to get everyone like crescendoing into their day
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Speaker 3: and more positively. So we bring the good stuff later
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Speaker 3: on in the show. We'll get the vegetables out of
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Speaker 3: the way first.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's, that's kind of what it is at
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Speaker 2: some point.
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Speaker 4: So that was a, I mean, Billy and I, I
6:57
Speaker 4: was flashing back and the, the thing that kept going
7:00
Speaker 4: through my mind as we watched that unfold last night,
7:02
Speaker 4: the debacle was, that for the Packers, I don't remember
7:05
Speaker 4: a time when everything that the Packers did looked hard.
7:10
Speaker 4: Like Danny Whalen punted about a couple of times. I'm like, Oh,
7:13
Speaker 4: this is probably going to be blocked. I just said
7:15
Speaker 4: that it was like that kind of night. And the
7:18
Speaker 4: last time we saw them get ragdolled like that was
7:20
Speaker 4: in December when they, when Derek Henry and the Ravens
7:23
Speaker 4: came to town and thrashed them. And it was like,
7:26
Speaker 4: it was completely ineffective, uncompetitive. And like, In some ways,
7:32
Speaker 4: like last night feels worse, maybe because we were not
7:36
Speaker 4: as far removed from the Packers playing, you know, competent
7:40
Speaker 4: and almost excellent football then as we are now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, the Packers did have some good games last year.
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Speaker 2: But it's also drew it.
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Speaker 5: I think it even speaks more to just what one
7:53
Speaker 5: win and anything in the W column can camouflage and
7:57
Speaker 5: make you feel a little bit better about that. After that,
8:00
Speaker 5: after that Ravens game, it was almost more so much
8:02
Speaker 5: more resolute because that was seven or eight days after.
8:08
Speaker 5: you had just blown the lead in Chicago and believing that,
8:12
Speaker 5: all right, well, the vision's probably out, but we still
8:14
Speaker 5: know kind of our lot in life. Let's just figure
8:16
Speaker 5: out a way to make sure that you're somewhat healthy
8:18
Speaker 5: and alive for these next couple of games. And they
8:21
Speaker 5: got beaten into submission and you felt even deader than
8:24
Speaker 5: you were before that. And it was, it felt like
8:26
Speaker 5: more of a resigned moment. The little bit of optimism
8:30
Speaker 5: and the excitement, the wind in the sails for a
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Speaker 5: W with a comeback and, four days and you're playing
8:37
Speaker 5: at home, get a little bit of a boost from
8:39
Speaker 5: the home crowd. Hopefully your young offensive lineman play a
8:41
Speaker 5: little bit better, maybe fool's gold to think that you're
8:44
Speaker 5: going to be able to, or a fool's errand to
8:46
Speaker 5: think that you're going to be able to run the
8:47
Speaker 5: ball against one of the best run defenses through two
8:50
Speaker 5: weeks in the league. But certainly you're going to be
8:54
Speaker 5: able to operate a little bit. And instead you get
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Speaker 5: as good of a start as you could have possibly
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Speaker 5: gotten from through two weeks, your best unit, which was
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Speaker 5: your defense and a turnover on the first drive. And
9:06
Speaker 5: as you pointed out against Minnesota pointed out against New
9:10
Speaker 5: York and last night came to fruition again, even drew
9:15
Speaker 5: when they get something good to happen, it's even more
9:19
Speaker 5: difficult because you're unable to cash in and you're unable
9:23
Speaker 5: to play like the most basic complimentary football, like scoring
9:27
Speaker 5: off of turnovers or 68 yard field flipping, uh, kick
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Speaker 5: returns that with two first downs, you're into the end
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Speaker 5: zone and you don't even have to go to overtime.
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Speaker 5: And maybe that has anything to do with the hangover
9:42
Speaker 5: that you get last night. But it was a team
9:45
Speaker 5: that came out relatively. I don't think flat was the problem,
9:50
Speaker 5: but once one thing went wrong, it felt like, Oh,
9:57
Speaker 5: here we go again. And that's a dangerous thing to
10:00
Speaker 5: feel in i think the first and second quarter and
10:03
Speaker 5: when that 55 yard touchdown run came it was a
10:07
Speaker 5: blow to the jaw and the packers had never picked
10:10
Speaker 5: it up off the floor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah that's that's a great point billy because they they
10:13
Speaker 3: came out with a lead obviously they got the pick
10:15
Speaker 3: they got the lead they had the lead but you're
10:17
Speaker 3: right you know as soon as that Once again, you know,
10:20
Speaker 3: just the worst time, third down penalty. It really changed momentum,
10:23
Speaker 3: and then boom, right away they get you. And shame
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Speaker 3: on me for thinking our run defense.
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Speaker 2: I knew, yes, B. John Robinson is good. Both of
10:30
Speaker 2: the Robinsons are good.
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Speaker 3: But shame on me for thinking, you know what, maybe
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Speaker 3: our run defense is up to the task after what
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Speaker 3: I saw the first two weeks, which was pretty good.
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, so I guess there was maybe
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Speaker 3: some fool's gold there to believe that. Or, you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously B. John Robinson's top three, top one maybe in
10:47
Speaker 3: the game. at that position, but you felt pretty confident
10:51
Speaker 3: at least about what your run defense had done in
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Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks amongst all the other things
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Speaker 3: you were struggling with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We were extolling the virtues of Brees Hall and Braylon Allen.
11:03
Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, Jets offensive line, which is kind of sneaky.
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 4: We were talking about that and the Packers bottled them up.
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Speaker 4: Gino Smith took care of them, but that is to
11:14
Speaker 4: me the most shocking thing about last night was the
11:16
Speaker 4: collapse of the Packers defense, which had been And I'm
11:22
Speaker 4: wondering if it was a cumulative effect that, you know, they,
11:26
Speaker 4: they were on the field a lot in Minnesota. They're
11:28
Speaker 4: on the field a lot and played into overtime against
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Speaker 4: the jets because the Packers only had 50 offensive plays.
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Speaker 4: They've been the, they've been a three and out machine
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Speaker 4: on offense, which is again, draining for a defense to
11:39
Speaker 4: not be able to catch your breath and having to
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Speaker 4: go back out there. Not an excuse at all, but it's, it,
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Speaker 4: the time of possession last night was 37 yards. you know,
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Speaker 4: 50 to 22.
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Speaker 2: Hell of an explanation though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: It might not, it might not be an excuse, but
11:52
Speaker 5: it sure, it sure tells a story drew because I
11:54
Speaker 5: want to say in two games. So in four days
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Speaker 5: you had nine combined three and outs. four in this
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Speaker 5: one and five against the jets. And that is, that's just,
12:08
Speaker 5: that's putting your defense in such compromised situations that they
12:12
Speaker 5: look as bad in the second half as they did.
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Speaker 5: Where again, we talked, I mentioned it on post game
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Speaker 5: last night and I'm still trying to wrap my mind
12:20
Speaker 5: around it. They went straight up. team on you in
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Speaker 5: the second half. They ran practice. The ball didn't touch
12:28
Speaker 5: the ground in the second half other than when they
12:30
Speaker 5: flipped it to the official after getting tackled and spotted
12:34
Speaker 5: the ball lined up and ran wide zone on you again.
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Speaker 2: No incompletions.
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Speaker 5: The only time it hit the ground, it's an illegal
12:40
Speaker 5: contact and they still picked up first down. That's a
12:43
Speaker 5: ridiculous finish to the game. And I think some of
12:45
Speaker 5: it has to be the effects of just being on
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Speaker 5: the field for so damn long inside of one week.
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Speaker 5: And unless you're able to get something going on offense
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Speaker 5: on first down there right now, the worst third down
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Speaker 5: team in football. I don't know that we have for
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Speaker 5: sure the stat, but I would struggle to think that
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Speaker 5: there's many teams that are better on first down than them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got it.
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Speaker 4: And that's the key to converting third downs is getting,
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Speaker 4: you know, five, six, seven yards on first down, like
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Speaker 4: giving yourself the getting ahead of six. They're just off
13:12
Speaker 4: schedule is the phrase that we're using the post game.
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Speaker 4: We'll listen to that. in a little bit, but we
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Speaker 4: in on the stream on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: A lot of comments already.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: A lot of comments already. I know people are going
13:30
Speaker 2: to want to chime in.
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Speaker 5: Some are blaming Armin for going and talking on different podcasts,
13:34
Speaker 5: which I just don't think is fair. I don't think
13:36
Speaker 5: Armin spreading his wings and being a multimedia star and sensation.
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Speaker 2: Is any bit of the problem.
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Speaker 5: But I do believe that like when our friend boss
13:45
Speaker 5: Dobler said, it's going to be hard to carry the
13:46
Speaker 5: G with these fair weather Falcon fans.
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Speaker 2: That is going to be tough, but he's in a
13:51
Speaker 2: tough spot. He's in Georgia, right?
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Speaker 1: Dobbs.
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Speaker 5: We understand that you're up for the K up for
13:55
Speaker 5: the challenge. Cause Dobler is going to be right there
13:56
Speaker 5: in the Hornets nest. He didn't have to do it.
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Speaker 5: Like our friends in Minnesota who, again, we had a
14:01
Speaker 5: couple of check-in with us last night on probably a
14:03
Speaker 5: long drive.
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Speaker 2: Back across the state last night.
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Speaker 5: Sure. I think there were many though that got a,
14:09
Speaker 5: got a jumpstart on it. You asked how many made
14:11
Speaker 5: it all the way to the post game show. There
14:13
Speaker 5: probably would have been a lot more carry overs and
14:16
Speaker 5: people that would have reached both sides of that Rubicon.
14:20
Speaker 5: If they would have stayed for all four quarters, but
14:22
Speaker 5: the home team didn't give them any reasons to stick
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Speaker 5: around last night.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: So the, I guess today is a day to like
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Speaker 4: pick through it and assign blame, but there's blame everywhere.
14:36
Speaker 4: It's like, We're in Oprah's studio and like, look under
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Speaker 4: your seats. There's blame for everybody. You get blamed. You
14:42
Speaker 4: get blamed.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 4: Goody and the personnel guys. You thought this offensive line
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Speaker 4: was going to hold up? I mean, injuries happen. Baco
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Speaker 4: Buele out. They didn't expect that. Banks still out. I mean,
14:54
Speaker 4: if past is prologue, maybe they should have foreseen that
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Speaker 4: and given themselves a little bit of a buffer. They didn't.
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Speaker 4: We talked on the postgame show, Billy, about the guys
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Speaker 4: they've allowed to walk away played on the offensive line
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Speaker 4: that like the John Runyon, even, you know, Josh Myers,
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Speaker 4: John Runyon, Elton Jenkins, Rashid, Rashid Walker, any one of
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Speaker 4: those guys would walk in and be the best guy
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Speaker 4: in the offensive line room right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But it would probably be the best performing one. And
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Speaker 5: even though, uh, I do believe at the end of
15:23
Speaker 5: the day, Jordan morning and still be, and will be
15:25
Speaker 5: a better long-term option at left tackle than she is
15:30
Speaker 5: or will be right now. I think the, the proof's
15:33
Speaker 5: been on the tape that he would have been probably
15:35
Speaker 5: a better option right now. Cause he's been performing decently
15:37
Speaker 5: well in Carolina. It's just drew in it's compounding with interest.
15:41
Speaker 5: We had a caller last night on post game show.
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Speaker 5: Good to hear from our friend, Charles, hanging out with
15:46
Speaker 5: us in Arkdale. Hopefully he hangs out with us in
15:48
Speaker 5: the morning too. Cause I bet he didn't early rise
15:51
Speaker 5: or early rising talent. Arcdale is hanging out with us.
15:53
Speaker 5: You don't live in our town without getting up early.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 5: The fact that they let Darian canard go at cutdowns,
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Speaker 5: not thinking that he would have been any better and
16:05
Speaker 5: or worse than Anthony Belton being forced in that position.
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Speaker 5: Cause I, again, they at least admitted to it a
16:11
Speaker 5: little bit, the way that Adam, Adam Stenovich answered the
16:14
Speaker 5: questions this week at the podium. Like, yeah, we kind
16:16
Speaker 5: of thought there might be some issues with, issues with
16:19
Speaker 5: Zach coming back. We, we, we plan that it might
16:22
Speaker 5: be a little bit Rocky. So he started moving Belton
16:25
Speaker 5: over there. Well, if indeed that was the case because
16:28
Speaker 5: it's the best option.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: But they definitely let somebody who played a lot of
16:32
Speaker 5: football for him last year, walk out the door and
16:34
Speaker 5: felt pretty confident in doing it. So they've let a
16:37
Speaker 5: lot of snaps walk out the door and it doesn't
16:40
Speaker 5: matter how, how all of it gets graded out. Drew
16:43
Speaker 5: playing football availability is a hell of an ability. And
16:45
Speaker 5: right now it might make him one of the best
16:48
Speaker 5: guys out there for him.
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Speaker 4: It, it might be a better exercise for us at
16:53
Speaker 4: the outset, instead of like assigning blame. Like I said,
16:56
Speaker 4: it's for everybody. It's a team sport, right?
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Speaker 2: It's a family buffet of blame here.
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Speaker 4: Never one thing. It's a family buffet of blame. But
17:03
Speaker 4: it might be better to just do the exercise of
17:05
Speaker 4: who played well and is above blame. Matthew Golden, maybe
17:09
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, though he struggled as a blocker, and then
17:13
Speaker 4: Danny Whelan. And maybe Trace Mack, because it wasn't his
17:17
Speaker 4: fault that the kick got blocked and he didn't do
17:18
Speaker 4: anything else.
17:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't Trace Mack's fault that the defensive tackle
17:22
Speaker 5: was standing in his lap.
17:23
Speaker 4: And I guess, you know, Whalen put the ball down
17:25
Speaker 4: for him and the snaps were okay. So there's like
17:28
Speaker 4: four guys that didn't have anything to do with it.
17:30
Speaker 4: The rest of it shared equally. Matt LaFleur, you've lost
17:35
Speaker 4: your mojo, clearly. Like, where are these creative schemes that
17:38
Speaker 4: you're supposed to... You're not catering this offense to the
17:41
Speaker 4: personnel and the limitations that you have, clearly, because it's just...
17:46
Speaker 4: It's stale and flat and just ineffective. So Jordan Love,
17:50
Speaker 4: you're not lifting the team. You're not playing at a
17:53
Speaker 4: high level to help erase mistakes the way your predecessors
17:56
Speaker 4: did in many cases where Aaron Rodgers, he camouflaged so
18:00
Speaker 4: many mistakes. It's not happening with Jordan Love at this juncture.
18:04
Speaker 4: Tucker Kraft, back from injury, great story, great contract, great
18:08
Speaker 4: character guy, great locker room guy, team leader, not playing well,
18:11
Speaker 4: dropping balls last night, knocking off the rest. Probably the
18:15
Speaker 4: worst night he's had on a football field since he
18:17
Speaker 4: was about sixth or seventh grade.
18:18
Speaker 2: And the locker room, I would say.
18:19
Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people are very
18:23
Speaker 3: excited about what he said.
18:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can get into that, too, for sure. And then, okay, like,
18:29
Speaker 4: on the defensive side, the guys had their moments. But
18:32
Speaker 4: for the most part, like, for me, when I'm watching
18:35
Speaker 4: the defense, I'm focusing on the guys up front that
18:37
Speaker 4: don't seem to be getting it done. So, Wayne Larry's
18:40
Speaker 4: going to join us, voice of the Packers, a little
18:43
Speaker 4: more than two hours from now. If you're a Wayne fan,
18:48
Speaker 4: set a reminder, tell your friends, because he has often
18:51
Speaker 4: told us, you want to watch the game, you want
18:53
Speaker 4: to know who's winning, watch the trenches. Just watch the
18:55
Speaker 4: battles up front, and that's where games are won and lost.
18:58
Speaker 4: And the Packers got obliterated on both sides of the ball.
19:02
Speaker 4: Couldn't stop the run, couldn't block for the run. I mean,
19:06
Speaker 4: when you rush for, what, 17 yards? Terrible. It's terrible.
19:09
Speaker 2: And they ran the ball 12 times.
19:12
Speaker 5: They handed it off eight. So they really ran the
19:14
Speaker 5: ball eight times. And if there's any other times that
19:16
Speaker 5: they ran it, it was because Jordan Love was just
19:18
Speaker 5: running for his life because he was hearing somebody yell
19:20
Speaker 5: for my child.
19:20
Speaker 2: Jordan Love!
19:22
Speaker 4: And one of the runs was a dump off pass
19:24
Speaker 4: to deflect it off a defender to Tucker.
19:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:26
Speaker 5: Which is the luckiest non pick six. I think you'll
19:30
Speaker 5: see in the first three weeks of the NFL drew.
19:33
Speaker 5: And you mentioned like the trenches, look at where Atlanta
19:37
Speaker 5: made their hay last night. They went behind Jawan Taylor,
19:40
Speaker 5: who is a good, but not great right tackle that
19:44
Speaker 5: they went and signed in free agency to pair with
19:47
Speaker 5: their all pro in Lindstrom who's been there for a
19:49
Speaker 5: long time, and they ran behind him and Jake Matthews,
19:52
Speaker 5: who has not missed a game in 10 years. So
19:55
Speaker 5: they had continuity up front. They had a couple of
19:58
Speaker 5: guys to call upon, and they had the best player
20:01
Speaker 5: on the field last night.
20:02
Speaker 1: Right.
20:02
Speaker 5: I mean, they had the best player on the field
20:04
Speaker 5: last night. And once Robinson got rolling, there was no
20:08
Speaker 5: stopping him. And then all of a sudden Drake London
20:10
Speaker 5: joined the, joined the party and it took till the
20:13
Speaker 5: second quarter for him to get his first catch. And
20:15
Speaker 5: then he's like, Hey, let me, let me get a
20:16
Speaker 5: couple of more here. Michael, let me, let me see
20:19
Speaker 5: a couple more. Let me see that Southpaw delivery. Send
20:21
Speaker 5: this thing over here and I'm going to run rough
20:24
Speaker 5: shot on the slowest double move you've ever seen up
20:27
Speaker 5: and out. But, dang, did he have CeCe and a
20:30
Speaker 5: blender on that one. That was rough, rough tape to
20:33
Speaker 5: watch here in the early morning hours.
20:36
Speaker 4: We'll get into all of it. The good, not much.
20:39
Speaker 4: The bad, plenty. The ugly, oh, overflowing. And Armand used
20:44
Speaker 4: the phrase, fools go gold. And with this defense, we
20:47
Speaker 4: thought was improved and, like, kind of got excited about
20:50
Speaker 4: some of it. I mean, they've been carved up now
20:54
Speaker 4: by Carson Wentz, Geno Smith, and Michael Pennix in his
20:56
Speaker 4: first game in a year. that's not a good trend.
20:59
Speaker 4: They're not looking good. This is not, uh, I thought
21:03
Speaker 4: maybe that, Oh, this would be a team that wins
21:04
Speaker 4: with defense and special teams. Well, that would have been
21:07
Speaker 4: the game to do. It would have been last night
21:08
Speaker 4: when you're not moving the ball. Well, and that didn't
21:11
Speaker 4: happen 35, 14. They got, they got an extra couple
21:15
Speaker 4: of days. Uh, thankfully they're not playing the bears when
21:18
Speaker 4: they return a week from Sunday, they'll be going to
21:21
Speaker 4: Tampa and then facing the bears. Um, But it could
21:25
Speaker 4: get ugly in a hurry. We're going to talk about
21:27
Speaker 4: all things Packers. We have not forgotten the positive news.
21:30
Speaker 4: The Brewers won in Philadelphia. They've won 100 games. They
21:32
Speaker 4: have home field advantages. Nothing left for them to do
21:34
Speaker 4: this weekend except put their feet up and enjoy themselves
21:36
Speaker 4: and have fan appreciation night and let Miz tune up
21:39
Speaker 4: on Sunday. So they're going to give us something to watch.
21:42
Speaker 4: The Badgers play tomorrow. Huge, huge game. One of the
21:46
Speaker 4: bigger games of the fickle era on the road. Big
21:48
Speaker 4: time game.
21:48
Speaker 5: In State College. And I think we're all going to
21:52
Speaker 5: be a little bit happier tomorrow night.
21:53
Speaker 2: We need that.
21:54
Speaker 4: Big time game. We're going to talk about all of this.
21:58
Speaker 4: We'll take your thoughts. 877-794-1973. Wayne Leary is joining us
22:03
Speaker 4: in two hours. Scott Dolphin will join us an hour
22:05
Speaker 4: from right now. You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
22:19
Speaker 4: Rolling along the Friday edition of the huddle Fox sports radio,
22:22
Speaker 4: Wisconsin drew Billy and Armin bringing it to you. I'm
22:24
Speaker 4: at headquarters today. Cause I was just too tired to
22:26
Speaker 4: drive in. I damn near had my keys in my hand.
22:29
Speaker 4: And I said, I'm not, I'm not going there.
22:32
Speaker 2: That is a tough decision. You gotta, you don't want
22:35
Speaker 2: to risk it.
22:35
Speaker 5: Power of technology is just a beautiful thing. If we,
22:38
Speaker 5: if we don't flex it, drew, then we're just going
22:40
Speaker 5: to lose out and waste it.
22:42
Speaker 2: Exactly.
22:42
Speaker 4: When you use it, right.
22:44
Speaker 2: We've got to use it.
22:44
Speaker 4: So when you're tired, It's almost like being impaired from alcohol.
22:48
Speaker 2: It's brutal.
22:49
Speaker 4: And I'm, I'm that tired. Well, and even now it's
22:52
Speaker 4: going to be worse at eight o'clock. The drive home
22:54
Speaker 4: would have been worse. Well, and I was a little
22:56
Speaker 4: bit like gauging a snowstorm.
22:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is true.
22:59
Speaker 5: It's kind of more like the forecasting of snow days. Nowadays,
23:03
Speaker 5: we're looking for when it's going to be worse. It's
23:05
Speaker 5: gonna be right there in the middle of the day.
23:06
Speaker 5: So let's get, let's just get out in front of it.
23:09
Speaker 5: Like there's nor'easter that they're trying to nor'eastern that they're
23:12
Speaker 5: trying to for the baseball games with the Cubs and
23:15
Speaker 5: Red Sox.
23:15
Speaker 3: Let's get out in front of this thing. Let's play
23:17
Speaker 3: it maybe a little bit early. You had it right
23:19
Speaker 3: the first time, by the way, they're, Right away, it's Nor'easter.
23:22
Speaker 3: Even though you should say it right, like Nor'easter.
23:25
Speaker 2: No, it's just the R, Nor'easter. You had it, Billy.
23:28
Speaker 2: You had it right. Well done.
23:31
Speaker 4: Nor'easter with an apostrophe, right, Armin?
23:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. But you're right.
23:36
Speaker 3: They're moving games around, and they might go to Tampa
23:38
Speaker 3: and all this stuff, and that's pretty crazy.
23:40
Speaker 2: But they're trying to get ahead of it.
23:42
Speaker 5: Like you said, just trying to get, trying to get
23:44
Speaker 5: ahead of it and getting ahead of the talking text
23:46
Speaker 5: line is not happening today. Cause it is doing robust
23:50
Speaker 5: business early and often 8 7 7 7 9 4
23:54
Speaker 5: 1 9 7 3. Robbie from Chicago had a good
23:57
Speaker 5: one here. Guys, more to fellas. One thing to point
24:00
Speaker 5: out is as well, uh, the point out as well,
24:04
Speaker 5: being a horrible game for green Bay, uh, It might
24:07
Speaker 5: be the worst game they played all season. Personal foul
24:09
Speaker 5: roughing the passer penalty was a huge momentum swing. But
24:11
Speaker 5: even Jordan Love throwing the football looked like it was
24:14
Speaker 5: lobs as he had very few balls, too many balls
24:19
Speaker 5: batted down.
24:19
Speaker 2: It's going to be a long, painful year if this continues.
24:22
Speaker 2: The tough thing.
24:22
Speaker 5: About the momentum shift that happened with the personal foul is, Drew,
24:28
Speaker 5: we talked about it in the Toyota Turning Point last
24:31
Speaker 5: night on postgame. I mean, goodness gracious. When one thing
24:35
Speaker 5: goes wrong, that next play is the biggest haymaker of
24:38
Speaker 5: the game. And the 55 yarder from Robinson, you think
24:41
Speaker 5: you're getting off the field. And again, with a seven,
24:45
Speaker 5: nothing lead defense playing well at that point. Sure. He's
24:49
Speaker 5: kind of rough Jeff a tick, but he hadn't run
24:52
Speaker 5: for anything too substantial. At that point, he had a
24:55
Speaker 5: couple of first downs, really nice screen where they really,
24:58
Speaker 5: Had Edron Cooper blocked perfectly. But other than that, you
25:01
Speaker 5: had held them kind of in check. But once that
25:04
Speaker 5: damn cracked, it broke quick. And I think that's still
25:07
Speaker 5: the scariest part for the love deal. We'll talk about it.
25:10
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of mechanics, police and footwork coaches online.
25:16
Speaker 5: He mentioned last night, though, Drew, he's a little bit quick,
25:19
Speaker 5: a little bit sped up there. We can't blame him.
25:22
Speaker 5: You can't necessarily blame him, but if they're going to
25:24
Speaker 5: get better, he's going to have to be significantly better,
25:27
Speaker 5: and he's going to have to be one of the
25:28
Speaker 5: biggest reasons. Just because you've got to rise somewhat above it,
25:32
Speaker 5: if you're going to be able to get the ball,
25:33
Speaker 5: going to move the ball at all, you're going to
25:35
Speaker 5: have to get the ball out super quick.
25:38
Speaker 2: And be able to try and stay ahead of that rush.
25:40
Speaker 2: Like he was just mentioned in there.
25:41
Speaker 3: Well, and there's a lot to ask a guy to overcome,
25:43
Speaker 3: you know, lack of running attack, lack of great protection.
25:46
Speaker 3: But James Jones said it yesterday at Packers preview. Actually,
25:48
Speaker 3: it was, it was sort of prescient that he said
25:52
Speaker 3: it because he basically said, We're talking about all the
25:55
Speaker 3: problems the Packers are having, and that's true. But it
25:57
Speaker 3: was Aaron Rodgers' job to cover up and erase all
25:59
Speaker 3: those problems, and he was great enough to do it
26:01
Speaker 3: time and time again. That's where Jordan Love has to
26:04
Speaker 3: rise to that level if he wants to be the
26:05
Speaker 3: guy that we want him to be and take the
26:07
Speaker 3: team to where he wants them to be. Eventually, he
26:09
Speaker 3: has to be good enough to be able to erase
26:11
Speaker 3: all those problems. all the other misfortunes of your team
26:13
Speaker 3: and cover up all those weaknesses. It's not, it's not
26:16
Speaker 3: maybe the fairest thing to ask, but at that position,
26:18
Speaker 3: you're going to be asked to do those types of
26:20
Speaker 3: things if you want to get to it.
26:21
Speaker 2: So it did. That's a, that's a good point, Billy.
26:24
Speaker 2: And there's a lot to sift through there.
26:27
Speaker 4: An embarrassing night all around for the Packers. And again,
26:30
Speaker 4: it's easier to go through the list of guys who
26:32
Speaker 4: played decently competently, if not well, like Matthew Golden and
26:37
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, everything's so out of sync and, you know,
26:41
Speaker 4: as Matt LaFleur has famously said, I don't think he
26:43
Speaker 4: said it last night. It starts with me. It does
26:47
Speaker 4: start with Matt LaFleur because all right, he's in charge
26:49
Speaker 4: of everything. And yes, there's nothing he can do as
26:53
Speaker 4: a coach. You know, Vince Lombardi, Curly Lambeau, you know,
26:58
Speaker 4: all the greats, Tom Landry, Chuck Knoll, Bill Belichick. Ain't
27:03
Speaker 4: nobody going to really take like Anthony Belton, who had
27:07
Speaker 4: a bad night and, you know, Jacob Monk, who had
27:09
Speaker 4: an even worse night and, Jagger Burton, who was shaky
27:13
Speaker 4: like rookies often are, they're not going to turn them
27:16
Speaker 4: into the four horsemen.
27:18
Speaker 5: You see Jerry Kramer and Forrest Gregg rolling.
27:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not going to happen. But the nuts and
27:25
Speaker 4: bolts of LeFleur's offense and his decision-making, everything he decides
27:30
Speaker 4: is not working. Like, oh, let's go for it. Oops,
27:35
Speaker 4: let's not. Let's check to a quarterback sneak and have
27:39
Speaker 4: the guy stand up with no tush-push. Nothing's working for
27:42
Speaker 4: him right now, but the designs, there were two, if
27:45
Speaker 4: not three plays last night where the Packers ended up
27:47
Speaker 4: with two receivers in the same spot, like Watson and
27:51
Speaker 4: craft on the near sideline, almost collided.
27:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:53
Speaker 2: Danny ran into each other on the third down.
27:56
Speaker 4: Yeah. And that's happening. Like when did that happen in
27:59
Speaker 4: the past? When I keep going back to, this is
28:02
Speaker 4: the same guy that designed incredibly creative run based offenses
28:07
Speaker 4: and and was able to create gaps when Malik Willis
28:10
Speaker 4: was playing yeah on on short prep you know and
28:14
Speaker 4: just quick turnarounds and he had that game plan and
28:16
Speaker 4: when he when Malik Willis had to play and he
28:17
Speaker 4: had time to prepare it was like a master class
28:21
Speaker 4: where's that guy why aren't they letting him call plays
28:25
Speaker 4: because I guess like yeah but plays we don't want
28:27
Speaker 4: to be play calling guy but the plays that don't
28:29
Speaker 4: work aren't are you know sometimes sometimes you can call
28:32
Speaker 4: the right play it's it's like the old golf analogy,
28:35
Speaker 4: like you hit a great drive in the middle of
28:36
Speaker 4: the fairway, hit a sprinkler head and kicked into the
28:38
Speaker 4: rough sucks to suck. But I don't get the feeling
28:42
Speaker 4: that this is the case with the Packers right now.
28:44
Speaker 4: Cause it's like you say, is it scheme or is
28:47
Speaker 4: it execution? And you say, yes, yes.
28:49
Speaker 5: Cause not every, not everyone does crank off the sprinkler head.
28:54
Speaker 5: Some just errantly go rough to rough and you're trying
28:58
Speaker 5: to figure out where on earth and how you can just, uh,
29:01
Speaker 5: Geometrically drop it right there into the middle of the fairway.
29:04
Speaker 5: That's what it felt like for the scripts for a
29:06
Speaker 5: number of years. The, the backers were able to do
29:08
Speaker 5: and get yourself cooking, get yourself some positive plays early
29:11
Speaker 5: to get yourself ahead of the chains and some momentum quickly.
29:16
Speaker 5: That's just been the furthest thing from what they've been
29:18
Speaker 5: able to do. And, and the other part of where
29:22
Speaker 5: it starts with Lafleur. And I think you're seeing more
29:24
Speaker 5: and more again, I'm I'm, there are many people that
29:28
Speaker 5: want to, want to roll in here this morning and,
29:31
Speaker 5: and want to fire this guy, fire that guy. And,
29:34
Speaker 5: I think we're all at this moment here at 537.
29:37
Speaker 5: I haven't seen a ton of it because I think
29:39
Speaker 5: we all understand that it just isn't happening. It's not
29:42
Speaker 5: productive at this moment. There'll be plenty of time for
29:44
Speaker 5: that in full assessments as to where you're at.
29:47
Speaker 2: But now you're going to see while.
29:51
Speaker 5: Hopefully being able to dial up and design, as you mentioned,
29:54
Speaker 5: creative plays that maybe are a tick above or a
29:58
Speaker 5: tick ahead of the rest of the league, finding things
30:00
Speaker 5: that you see other teams doing and being able to
30:03
Speaker 5: repurpose it and put it into your game plan coming
30:05
Speaker 5: up the next week. I think that's what he's always
30:07
Speaker 5: been best at doing. Now you're going to have to
30:11
Speaker 5: be that guy while also. teacher and developer because they
30:16
Speaker 5: have such a ways to go at so many positions,
30:19
Speaker 5: especially up front and, and whatever. And however, the process
30:24
Speaker 5: led them to sticking with Luke butt kiss in the
30:27
Speaker 5: off season as the offensive line coach sticking with Adam
30:30
Speaker 5: Stanovich as the offensive coordinator and not moving him back
30:34
Speaker 5: as the offensive line coach, not getting any fresh blood
30:36
Speaker 5: really in that process, the running back room, the offensive
30:41
Speaker 5: line room, They brought in Harry Heist. He's staying to
30:44
Speaker 5: work with them during training camp. But like there just
30:46
Speaker 5: wasn't a shakeup at all for a team in a
30:50
Speaker 5: unit that was probably the lowest performing group that the
30:53
Speaker 5: Packers have had on the offensive line in a decade plus.
30:57
Speaker 5: So the other part of this that can't be overlooked
31:02
Speaker 5: and while somewhat out of their control might be maybe
31:08
Speaker 5: the issue of how they proceeded drew in the off
31:12
Speaker 5: season to not be able to help the offensive line.
31:16
Speaker 2: Is the number eight issue.
31:17
Speaker 5: That is still kind of the cloud that we're not
31:20
Speaker 5: really fully talking about yet because as much as a
31:24
Speaker 5: running back is not going to turn the worst offensive
31:28
Speaker 5: line into the nineties Broncos. What at least you can
31:32
Speaker 5: do is cover up for some of the warts. And
31:35
Speaker 5: you watch Josh Jacobs damn near get a thousand yards
31:38
Speaker 5: doing it last year where he got hit behind the
31:39
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage all the time. The lack of a
31:42
Speaker 5: consistent running game and somebody that can make these guys
31:46
Speaker 5: right at times. Marshawn Lloyd is a great example last
31:49
Speaker 5: night where I think ultimately turns into a third and three.
31:52
Speaker 5: The one that we mentioned on the fourth down where
31:53
Speaker 5: you get stuffed. Josh Jacobs is burrowing his head inside,
31:58
Speaker 5: trying to grab as many yards. He get maybe the
31:59
Speaker 5: first down, maybe a fresh set. And maybe you're into
32:02
Speaker 5: the end zone and it's a three point game out
32:03
Speaker 5: of the break. But the hesitancy, the inability to make
32:07
Speaker 5: the guys right. That's something that when did this, when,
32:12
Speaker 5: when did that news pop up in May? And four
32:16
Speaker 5: months to be able to bring in some kind of
32:19
Speaker 5: adequate backup plan, knowing the commissioner's exempt list was not
32:22
Speaker 5: only a possibility, but a real option and likelihood. And
32:27
Speaker 5: said day of cutdowns are scrambling to get a second
32:31
Speaker 5: year back in for a conditional sixth round pick. So
32:35
Speaker 5: there's a lot of missteps I think they made in
32:37
Speaker 5: the offseason and miscalculations as to what they thought they
32:40
Speaker 5: would be up front. and just how much it's hurting
32:44
Speaker 5: every bit of the offensive operation so far.
32:47
Speaker 2: And you do need guys to play well.
32:48
Speaker 3: I mean, and it's not just to defend the floor,
32:51
Speaker 3: but you, you can call things, you can do things,
32:53
Speaker 3: but you know, Vince said it all plays work in
32:56
Speaker 3: the blackboard, but men make them work in the field.
32:58
Speaker 2: You need guys, good players to play well.
33:00
Speaker 3: I mean, even McVay had a five win year in
33:03
Speaker 3: 22 and Shanahan was six and 10 and four and 12.
33:05
Speaker 2: Yeah. Good coaches can have bad years if they don't
33:08
Speaker 2: have the right guys.
33:09
Speaker 5: Um, I think Shanahan lost his quarterback in those four
33:13
Speaker 5: and 12.
33:13
Speaker 2: That's what I mean. You got to have players. Obviously,
33:17
Speaker 2: we're not in that situation to lose love, but we're
33:19
Speaker 2: loss key players.
33:21
Speaker 4: From the talk and text line, the 608, please ask
33:24
Speaker 4: Wayne Larravee, who's going to join us at 725-ish, 735 probably,
33:29
Speaker 4: why he kept saying that maybe it's because of the
33:31
Speaker 4: short week for the performance. He asked Larry, and Larry
33:33
Speaker 4: stated that it's not an excuse. He asked John Cooney,
33:35
Speaker 4: he stated it's not an excuse. Wake up, Wayne. The
33:37
Speaker 4: pack got butt whipped. This is what we do.
33:40
Speaker 2: We go after the ones we love when the bad
33:42
Speaker 2: things happen.
33:43
Speaker 4: There's no argument there, but the stats though, teams playing
33:46
Speaker 4: on Thursday after a Sunday overtime game are seven and
33:49
Speaker 4: 29 against the spread since 2000. And at home, they're
33:53
Speaker 4: three and 11 against the spread.
33:55
Speaker 2: Not great.
33:57
Speaker 4: That's not a great trend.
33:58
Speaker 2: I think so.
33:58
Speaker 4: The, all of us, the overtime game hurt them.
34:01
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just trying to make sense of what we've seen. It's
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Speaker 3: really hard to, especially seeing what the Falcons were last week.
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Speaker 3: They didn't come back and play that that way.
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Speaker 2: You know, we were the ones.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's the tough thing to swallow.
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Speaker 4: The numbers are tough. It was just a brutal night. Thankfully,
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Speaker 4: the Brewers won. They reached 100 wins for the first
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Speaker 4: time in franchise history. They're headed to the playoffs after
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Speaker 4: a couple of days off. They have three games left.
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Speaker 4: Put their feet up and get everything right. Nothing left
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Speaker 4: to play for against Cardinals other than getting guys healthy
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Speaker 4: and feeling good. And Miz is pitching on Sunday. They'll
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Speaker 4: try to win as many games as they can over
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Speaker 4: the weekend series. against the Cardinals. We have a report
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Speaker 4: from Hunter, don't we? A recap?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir. We got Hunter's report in here.
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Speaker 4: Well, yes, indeed. Let's spin through that. Let's spin through
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Speaker 4: that next because we need a ray of sunshine after
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Speaker 4: all this Packers stuff. We'll spin through that next, talk
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Speaker 4: a little bit about the Brewers, and then dive back
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Speaker 4: into what is ailing the Packers and what, if anything,
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Speaker 4: can get it turned around.
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Speaker 2: You're in the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Continuing the Friday edition, the fire
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Speaker 4: your agent edition of the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 4: 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. Everywhere in the hour to have Drew, Billy,
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Speaker 4: and Armin coming at you. Dolph will join us at
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Speaker 4: 625 for halftime. And then Wayne Larrabee shortly after the
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Speaker 4: 730-ish to talk to the voice of the Green Bay
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Speaker 4: Packers about what happened last night. But let's think about
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Speaker 4: something positive, shall we? How impressed are you by the Brewers?
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Speaker 4: Not just winning 100 games, but doing it and getting
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Speaker 4: across the finish line. vanquishing the Dodgers for best record
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Speaker 4: of ball and winning two out of three in Philadelphia
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Speaker 4: against a team with everything to play for and everything
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Speaker 4: at stake.
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Speaker 1: Amen.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that was a statement week to win two
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Speaker 4: out of three there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: They had every reason to, as we talked to Hunter
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Speaker 5: on Tuesday before the series started, drew a look at
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Speaker 5: Philadelphia with everything to play for and you with very
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Speaker 5: minimal to gain and cash in lose two or three,
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Speaker 5: especially after you lose the opener and the They, uh,
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Speaker 5: they did not fold like a cheap suit.
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Speaker 2: Instead, they showed a lot of metal.
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Speaker 4: Now, how about what happened in the game with, uh, well,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure Hunter's going to talk about it, but William
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Speaker 4: Contreras gets pulled from the lineup by manager Pat Murphy.
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Speaker 4: We're not running hard on a ground ball that was
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Speaker 4: bobbled and he might may or may not have been safe.
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Speaker 4: Murph has done this to several players this year. He's
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Speaker 4: removed pitchers in the middle of counts. He removed Cooper
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Speaker 4: Pratt who was standing on first base, uh, He removed
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Speaker 4: him for a pinch runner for not hustling him when
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Speaker 4: he should have been on second. He puts in Churio
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Speaker 4: as the, you know, kind of the pinch hit for Contreras,
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Speaker 4: who was the DH. So he just yanked him. And
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Speaker 4: then Churio hits a home run to help.
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Speaker 2: Ice the game. And to sit down McGill, right?
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Speaker 5: Like not only ice the game, but then send Antonio
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Speaker 5: Sensatella out there to get the final out of the
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Speaker 5: 100th win.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful chef's kiss finish.
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Speaker 4: Murph has the mojo that Matt LaFleur is lacking these days.
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Speaker 4: Let's send it over to Hunter Baumgart to bring us
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Speaker 4: his recap of the Brewers' victory last night. Victory, number 100.
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Speaker 4: Take it away, Hunter.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 6: I know we are not happy about the outcome up
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Speaker 6: in Green Bay last night, but an outcome we were
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Speaker 6: happy with, the Brewers beating the Phillies 5-1 in Philadelphia
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Speaker 6: and taking the series at Citizens Bank Park and most
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Speaker 6: of all winning. 100 games for the first time in
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Speaker 6: franchise history.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 6: They are 159 heading into the final weekend of the season.
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Speaker 6: Get this, they are the first team in Major League
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Speaker 6: history to win 100 games without having a winning streak
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Speaker 6: of more than five games. Yeah, every team that had
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Speaker 6: won 100 games in a season in Major League history
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Speaker 6: had a winning streak of at least six games.
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Speaker 1: Brewers didn't.
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Speaker 6: They won five in a row, three different times, but
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Speaker 6: they never won six in a row twice. So that's
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Speaker 6: a record and just really consistency, consistency, consistency, winning, winning, winning.
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Speaker 6: A couple of the key words for the Brewers and
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Speaker 6: win tonight. Brewers have done that more than any other
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Speaker 6: team so far. Brewers in a good spot heading into
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Speaker 6: the postseason. Three more games against the St. Louis Cardinals
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Speaker 6: this weekend. Robert Gasser on the mound tonight. Dustin May
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Speaker 6: on the mound tomorrow. Jacob Mizorowski on the mound on Sunday.
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Speaker 6: I would imagine it will be incredibly long starts, but
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Speaker 6: it won't be incredibly short depending on who is on
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Speaker 6: the mound. And they'll be able to kind of line
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Speaker 6: up their pitching however they want to. They'll have five
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Speaker 6: days off between this weekend and game one of the NLDS,
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Speaker 6: which will be Saturday, October 3rd. at American Family Field.
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Speaker 6: 100 wins by the Milwaukee Brewers. Let that sink in
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Speaker 6: on this Friday morning. Have a great weekend. I'll have
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Speaker 6: coverage throughout the weekend from the park at Hunter B
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Speaker 6: the baseball pregame show, the final one of the regular
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Hunter. 100 wins is the mark excellence in
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Speaker 4: major league baseball. You don't fluke your way. There's no, well,
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Speaker 4: there's no backing into a hundred wins, a hundred wins
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Speaker 4: and a hundred losses. Very hard to achieve. The Brewers
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Speaker 4: have done both. 100 losses is their high watermark. 106,
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Speaker 4: as a matter of fact. And this is their high watermark,
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Speaker 4: you know, 100 wins. And with an option to get
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Speaker 4: 102 or 103. What an incredible ride this has been.
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Speaker 5: Drew, the craziest part of it is as you do
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Speaker 5: look at the round number that 100 is, the part
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Speaker 5: of the process, the show and the work of what
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Speaker 5: 100 has mentioned there of not having a six-game winning streak, whatever,
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Speaker 5: that didn't mean much other than the fact that they just.
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Speaker 2: Won a lot.
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Speaker 5: It didn't matter when things... similar to what we're talking
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Speaker 5: about with the Packers. When things did go haywire, they didn't,
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Speaker 5: they didn't ride this roller coaster as much as a
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Speaker 5: lot of teams do. And they stunted, they stunted a
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Speaker 5: bunch of them. They got a lot of mojo. They
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Speaker 5: got a lot of good leadership. And in the midst
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Speaker 5: there of a hundred games, there were a couple of
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Speaker 5: seasons that were very forgettable for some of their guys
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Speaker 5: that you would have planned on being their biggest actors.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's a number would leave a lot to be desired.
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Speaker 5: Most money they ever spent on a start on a
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Speaker 5: pitcher is Nine starts for Brandon Woodruff didn't seem to
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Speaker 5: matter too much.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's plenty of guys you probably would
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Speaker 3: have figured that would have played a bigger role in
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Speaker 3: something like this. Even a guy in the spring, maybe
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Speaker 3: before in the winter, Quinn Priester. We didn't pitch at all.
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Speaker 3: Guys like that didn't have the contributions, but you had other.
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Speaker 2: Guys step up. You had young guys step up, and
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Speaker 2: you had that mix. It was just special.
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Speaker 3: A lot more fun than the 100 loss plus year.
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Speaker 3: I can attest to that personally. A lot more fun.
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Speaker 4: I can as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Um, no, I did not enjoy Jeffrey Hammonds.
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Speaker 4: For, for, uh, Jackson Cheerio to be a 2020 guy
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Speaker 4: missing a month of the season that, that whole, uh,
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Speaker 4: they only won. They never won more than five games.
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Speaker 4: That's quirky to me. It's not that meaningful other than
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Speaker 4: the fact that George Webb never had to sweat giving
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Speaker 4: out free.
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Speaker 2: Never had to worry about it. Never had to worry
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 4: We never even talked about it.
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Speaker 2: We can win 12 straight now. And I'd feel okay though.
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Speaker 4: What's their record though in series. Cause to win a hundred,
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Speaker 4: their record in series is just through the, roof. It's incredible.
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Speaker 2: Well, and what they've done is.
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Speaker 4: Look at Mike Salo's game notes because he lists that
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Speaker 4: every time what they've done in series.
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Speaker 2: That's a good one, Drew. And what they've done at home.
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Speaker 5: I mean that, that, that home road split is 52
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Speaker 5: and 26 winning legitimately double the amount of games at home.
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Speaker 5: Then you drop is a staggering number. I want to
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Speaker 5: win the series this weekend just to keep that number alive.
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Speaker 4: We'll take a quick break. You're in the huddle. Fox
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