Latest / The Huddle / 10/19/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:24Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:27Speaker 3: We know exactly what we got to do.
- 0:30Speaker 4: All right?
- 0:30Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some change.
- 0:33Speaker 5: One, two, three.
- 0:34Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming.
- 0:35Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here?
- 0:37Speaker 3: Yellow Weasel.
- 0:38Speaker 4: Quit calling the plays, all right?
- 0:40Speaker 2: It is time. Who do you think you are?
- 0:42Speaker 1: I am!
- 0:43Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
- 0:43Speaker 6: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 0:47Speaker 6: your respect.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick.
- 0:51Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Welcome to The Huddle.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Melton in motion to the right, half loaded shotgun, snap
- 1:00Speaker 3: to Love, looking left, throws, middle, end zone, Golden, touchdown,
- 1:05Speaker 3: back line of the end zone, and a Lambeau leap
- 1:09Speaker 3: to the north end zone stand from Matthew Golden, they
- 1:12Speaker 3: beat Amir Speed. Third down, Dallas, snap to Prescott, clean pocket,
- 1:17Speaker 3: fires to middle, Intercepted. Intercepted by the Packers and back
- 1:21Speaker 3: the other way across the 15-yard line. The interception made
- 1:25Speaker 3: by Evan Williams and the Packers take over the Green
- 1:29Speaker 3: Bay 21. Snap.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Placement.
- 1:31Speaker 3: Swing to the right leg. To the uprights.
- 1:33Speaker 2: The kick is good. Slot right.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Single receiver left.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Snap to Dak Prescott.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Throws left side. Falling down on the play with CeeDee Lamb.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Pass is intercepted by Brandon Cisse. He circled roots to
- 1:43Speaker 3: his left. To the 20 and is out of bounds
- 1:45Speaker 3: at the 23-yard line on the far side. Second interception
- 1:49Speaker 3: of the game for the Packers. Cisse with the pick.
- 1:54Speaker 3: And Brandon Cisse's first career interception.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Wow. Jordan Love, quarterback. Up the middle.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Lunges to the end zone. A touchdown, Green Bay. It
- 2:04Speaker 3: is 16.
- 2:05Speaker 2: To nothing, Packers. That's what we like to see.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Orbit motion by Kraft to the left. Snap to Love.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Looking, waiting.
- 2:11Speaker 3: Throws. Left side, Tucker Kraft. Got it.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Down the sidelines.
- 2:15Speaker 2: First down across the 40.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Balls over a defender across the 35 and down he
- 2:21Speaker 3: goes near the 30-yard line of Dallas swing to the
- 2:23Speaker 3: right leg kick to the uprights and it is good
- 2:27Speaker 3: Prescott waits for the snap here it is rush on
- 2:29Speaker 3: rolls left throws left side it's broken up incomplete broken
- 2:33Speaker 3: up by Bullard oh my goodness I'll tell you what
- 2:36Speaker 3: this has been one of the weirdest officiated games I
- 2:40Speaker 3: have ever seen. Signals being called, here's the snap. Placement made,
- 2:44Speaker 3: and the kick is up. And it's straight through the upright.
- 2:48Speaker 3: Center cut, as we would say on the golf course.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Talk to the referee, and now... Oh, you've got to.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Be kidding me. Evan Williams.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Oh my God. How is he supposed to stop? I mean,
- 3:03Speaker 3: he came in on the pass rush and he's up
- 3:05Speaker 3: in the air. And here they come. Prescott, loft, middle,
- 3:09Speaker 3: end zone. And he overshot everybody incomplete. No flags.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Green Bay takes over.
- 3:15Speaker 3: And there is your dagger.
- 3:23Speaker 6: A nice little montage brought to us by Armin Sarian,
- 3:26Speaker 6: who's on the ones and twos.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Welcome in to the Monday edition.
- 3:29Speaker 3: No.
- 3:29Speaker 2: The Victory Chicken Monday edition of The Huddle.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, iHeartRadio. I'm
- 3:36Speaker 6: streaming live, Facebook X and the YouTubes. It doesn't suck
- 3:40Speaker 6: these days around here. Packers are riding the ship in
- 3:44Speaker 6: quite a slog of a game, as Wayne pointed out.
- 3:46Speaker 6: The weirdest officiated game you're going to see. That's basically
- 3:49Speaker 6: now par for the course in the.
- 3:50Speaker 2: National Football League.
- 3:52Speaker 6: It's World Series week in the good land. Opponent to
- 3:56Speaker 6: be determined possibly as soon as this evening.
- 3:59Speaker 2: At the Trop?
- 4:00Speaker 5: It very much could be, and it could be a
- 4:02Speaker 5: site where there would be, well, tens of fifteens of
- 4:06Speaker 5: Tampa Bay Rays fans if it was a road game,
- 4:08Speaker 5: but there might be tens of thousands of Brewers fans
- 4:11Speaker 5: descending upon there if they get one more win. And Drew,
- 4:13Speaker 5: how about a former Brewer getting the ball for the
- 4:15Speaker 5: Rays to try to send his team against his former
- 4:18Speaker 5: club to the World Series? They got the plastic ready
- 4:20Speaker 5: to drape it over the lockers, and we just sit
- 4:22Speaker 5: and wait.
- 4:24Speaker 4: They could probably let all their fans into the locker room, too,
- 4:26Speaker 4: judging on what I saw in that watch party the
- 4:28Speaker 4: other day.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Oh, come on. That was awesome.
- 4:30Speaker 4: Hey, there were more people there at my surprise 17th
- 4:32Speaker 4: birthday party that mom and dad threw in the backyard.
- 4:35Speaker 2: That was a pretty good turnout for the birthday party. Oh,
- 4:37Speaker 2: are you kidding me? I had half the Greenfield High
- 4:39Speaker 2: School there. That's true. Prom cake. What was I talking about?
- 4:42Speaker 1: Prom cake.
- 4:43Speaker 2: What are you thinking? Dad was making burgers. We got down, man.
- 4:45Speaker 2: It was great. What are you thinking?
- 4:47Speaker 6: So the Packers take care of business. There's still some glaring... issues,
- 4:52Speaker 6: the lack of a run game, drops, penalties, some of
- 4:56Speaker 6: the same bugaboos. But much like your Milwaukee Brewers, who
- 4:59Speaker 6: we're also following, because we have the ability to multitask here,
- 5:04Speaker 6: the Packers are to the point where they're overcoming their mistakes.
- 5:07Speaker 6: They don't need to play a perfect game. They still
- 5:09Speaker 6: haven't come close yet to playing a perfect game. The
- 5:12Speaker 6: Bears game was close, but then Trace Mack missed a
- 5:14Speaker 6: bunch of games.
- 5:16Speaker 2: It's always something.
- 5:17Speaker 6: But the bottom line is they've held the fort.
- 5:21Speaker 2: They're four and two.
- 5:23Speaker 6: You they're in second place within striking distance of the,
- 5:27Speaker 6: you know, of a team that I don't think a
- 5:29Speaker 6: whole lot of people fully believe in in the Vikings.
- 5:31Speaker 6: And Drew, you've somewhat weathered the most turbulent part of
- 5:35Speaker 6: a storm that you could have. And now at worst,
- 5:40Speaker 6: when you come out of the second quarter of your
- 5:42Speaker 6: season at the absolute worst, you're going to be four
- 5:45Speaker 6: and four. and very much in the thick of anything
- 5:48Speaker 6: that's going to happen in the NFC. And as much
- 5:51Speaker 6: as people laughed when we're on Packers OT celebrating as
- 5:55Speaker 6: much as you could, The win against the Jets in
- 5:58Speaker 6: overtime where you run 50 offensive plays. They ran 39
- 6:02Speaker 6: offensive plays in the first half last night. They ran
- 6:05Speaker 6: 50 in an overtime win. And why you celebrate that
- 6:09Speaker 6: kind of a win, why you celebrate the win against
- 6:11Speaker 6: the first undrafted quarterback to start in the first weekend
- 6:15Speaker 6: in October since the merger is because now it allows
- 6:19Speaker 6: you to work through some of those words with W's
- 6:22Speaker 6: and not be looking up at a massive hill to climb.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Like, I don't know. the two and four Los Angeles Rams.
- 6:29Speaker 5: A lot of these teams that did not steal a
- 6:32Speaker 5: couple of those wins drew when they were up for
- 6:34Speaker 5: the taking against bad teams. And then you put yourself
- 6:37Speaker 5: even further behind the eight ball right now. It feels
- 6:40Speaker 5: like the Packers have absolutely turned a corner. And thank
- 6:43Speaker 5: goodness they turned to Jonathan Cannon when Jeff Halfley went
- 6:47Speaker 5: and got that job down in South Beach.
- 6:48Speaker 2: That's tremendous.
- 6:49Speaker 4: It was all about getting wins that first month. It's
- 6:51Speaker 4: all about just trying to put some wins and keep
- 6:53Speaker 4: yourself afloat because you don't know how you're going to
- 6:55Speaker 4: play it. So you see how he turned around, but
- 6:57Speaker 4: you're exactly right, Billy. It was all about giving yourself
- 6:59Speaker 4: a chance to right the ship in a place where
- 7:00Speaker 4: it mattered. And now it does is you're sitting four
- 7:02Speaker 4: and two, which is kind of amazing to think about
- 7:04Speaker 4: all the struggles the Packers had in the first month
- 7:06Speaker 4: that this team is sitting four and two. But whatever
- 7:09Speaker 4: this team has in front of them, if they can
- 7:10Speaker 4: figure out their issues, if they can improve as the
- 7:12Speaker 4: season goes on and make the run, you'll never remember
- 7:15Speaker 4: that first month.
- 7:15Speaker 6: All you can remember is how it ended. That's how
- 7:17Speaker 6: it goes. Josh Jacobs can like, I don't know. They're
- 7:20Speaker 6: not really practicing today. It's a film day and a
- 7:23Speaker 6: massage day.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Victory Monday.
- 7:25Speaker 6: But Wednesday, he'll be, we assume, practicing. Don't know if
- 7:29Speaker 6: he'll tote the rock on Sunday in Detroit. I would
- 7:31Speaker 6: bet the over on that. I would think he'd at
- 7:33Speaker 6: least get a lather going.
- 7:34Speaker 5: Drew, Josh Jacobs not having run a competitive snap in
- 7:39Speaker 5: nine months. Still got to be light years better than
- 7:41Speaker 5: the run game the Packers have trotted out there for
- 7:43Speaker 5: six weeks.
- 7:43Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.
- 7:45Speaker 6: And so, yeah, the Gannon thing, he's not getting enough
- 7:49Speaker 6: flowers because... They were bracketing Pickens and CD lamb and Prescott.
- 7:54Speaker 6: That's a high octane offense for the Cowboys. Their defense
- 7:57Speaker 6: is leaky, but that's a high octane offense. And they
- 8:00Speaker 6: had them seeing ghosts like Dak Prescott was not, you know,
- 8:04Speaker 6: and that was a team that was coming off a
- 8:06Speaker 6: 10 day rest.
- 8:07Speaker 2: That's exactly it.
- 8:08Speaker 5: Drew arrested team coming off a moment where their quarterback
- 8:11Speaker 5: is being called, being yelled at by a staffer saying
- 8:15Speaker 5: they're getting embarrassed at home. Then they went out and
- 8:18Speaker 5: played maybe more embarrassingly here on Sunday Night Football.
- 8:21Speaker 6: Yeah, the pressure got to him. He had some hits.
- 8:23Speaker 6: Got the wind knocked out of him by Evan Williams
- 8:25Speaker 6: at one point.
- 8:26Speaker 5: And Baldy had a great breakdown online of one of
- 8:29Speaker 5: the Evan Williams plays. The Evan Williams interception is almost
- 8:32Speaker 5: the exact same mugged up, you know, look that they
- 8:35Speaker 5: ran a couple of weeks ago against Tampa Bay to
- 8:38Speaker 5: finish the game on the final play where Williams comes.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Williams drops. And ends up robbing Prescott right near the
- 8:45Speaker 5: goal line. And they manufacture a lot of pressure. That's
- 8:49Speaker 5: another part of this where you're four and two. You
- 8:53Speaker 5: far from played your best ball because as much as
- 8:57Speaker 5: you've gotten pressure, you really haven't been able to do
- 8:59Speaker 5: it consistently at all with four guys. Seems like that
- 9:02Speaker 5: will get a little bit better whenever Micah Parsons joins
- 9:05Speaker 5: the party. And as much as Josh Jacobs return is
- 9:08Speaker 5: the one that you're looking forward to, we're all still
- 9:11Speaker 5: thinking that number one is going to be the biggest
- 9:13Speaker 5: acquisition anybody makes in the NFL this year.
- 9:16Speaker 2: So there's a lot of.
- 9:17Speaker 5: Things that can be pointing upward for where you sit
- 9:19Speaker 5: right now because you gave yourself a chance with a
- 9:21Speaker 5: couple of those early wins that felt like remedial wins.
- 9:26Speaker 6: If we can overlook the drops. Matthew Golden is emerging.
- 9:30Speaker 2: He's awesome. I mean, he's playing great.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Right.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I mean, he's got to collect those balls as much
- 9:35Speaker 2: as possible. Pause, pause. Yes, pause.
- 9:37Speaker 4: But the fact that he's consistently open, consistently threatening. I mean,
- 9:41Speaker 4: he's getting a lot of yards, but they don't even
- 9:43Speaker 4: add up the yards. And he's forcing pass interferences. You know,
- 9:46Speaker 4: the drops are something that takes care of itself, I think,
- 9:49Speaker 4: in the end. But the important thing is he's talented,
- 9:51Speaker 4: he's getting open, and he's getting confident.
- 9:54Speaker 2: And those plays are coming. So it's extremely exciting to see.
- 9:57Speaker 4: That happen because– The fact that there's meat on the
- 10:00Speaker 4: bone left is a great level of optimism.
- 10:03Speaker 6: I think Golden has the look of a number one
- 10:06Speaker 6: receiver and it's a little silly to quibble like they're
- 10:08Speaker 6: one in one a and Watson creates opportunity for Golden
- 10:12Speaker 6: because of the attention he has to draw because of
- 10:14Speaker 6: his skill set and his size and speed. But You
- 10:17Speaker 6: got two guys that you could say, I don't know
- 10:19Speaker 6: which one's going to end up catching more balls and
- 10:21Speaker 6: more receiving yards, but those are two guys that you
- 10:24Speaker 6: got a game plan for.
- 10:25Speaker 5: Well, in the last three years, you haven't had a
- 10:27Speaker 5: thousand yard receiver and people wondered, well, will they have
- 10:31Speaker 5: one this year? Will they be able to have one? Well,
- 10:33Speaker 5: they might have both. And right now it's almost going
- 10:35Speaker 5: to be disappointing if both of them aren't. For the
- 10:38Speaker 5: path that they've set.
- 10:39Speaker 2: And you're right, Drew.
- 10:40Speaker 5: What Watson opens up for Golden, he's got to be
- 10:43Speaker 5: able to continue to capitalize on, which is a lot
- 10:45Speaker 5: of the across the middle stuff where the drops are
- 10:47Speaker 5: even more frustrating. He has shown the ability to... And
- 10:53Speaker 5: Wayne Larrabee is going to join us. Voice of the
- 10:54Speaker 5: Packers coming up. When they needed to find somebody to
- 10:58Speaker 5: take over the Jaden Reed across the middle.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Route, well, it seems like they're realizing.
- 11:02Speaker 5: Matthew Golden can do a lot of that. He's that guy.
- 11:04Speaker 5: It feels like Golden can do a lot of that.
- 11:06Speaker 5: And a lot of that works because they can both
- 11:09Speaker 5: take the top off the defense and people have to
- 11:11Speaker 5: be able to respect what Watson does on the outside consistently.
- 11:15Speaker 2: And it was also interesting to.
- 11:16Speaker 4: See Sabian Williams get involved early in his first game
- 11:19Speaker 4: right away. You know, factor on some of the running
- 11:21Speaker 4: plays as well. Obviously, he's getting some catches. That's another one. Like,
- 11:25Speaker 4: you know, you didn't think about him much, but there's
- 11:27Speaker 4: a guy that had great moments as a young player.
- 11:30Speaker 2: And he still is, obviously. And now he's, you know,
- 11:32Speaker 2: going to get in the mix after the injury.
- 11:35Speaker 4: That could be another factor, another weapon that the Packers
- 11:38Speaker 4: desperately need when they have the injuries.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the.
- 11:41Speaker 6: The plan with him, it seems like he's sliding into
- 11:43Speaker 6: the Sky Moore role, who slid into the Jane Reed role,
- 11:46Speaker 6: the orbit motion and the stuff like that. Yeah, so it's, again,
- 11:51Speaker 6: there's a lot to like about the Packers, what they're doing,
- 11:53Speaker 6: and there's a lot to say, hey, they got to
- 11:55Speaker 6: clean that up.
- 11:56Speaker 2: This is, come on, it's got to be better.
- 11:58Speaker 6: Rob Domaski, friend of the program, just posted that they
- 12:00Speaker 6: lead the NFL, according to ESPN Analytics, in drops with
- 12:03Speaker 6: 16 points.
- 12:05Speaker 2: And drop rate at 7.2.
- 12:05Speaker 6: And yet they're fifth in passing and yards per game.
- 12:09Speaker 6: And Jordan Love is third in the league in passing yards.
- 12:13Speaker 6: Make that make sense.
- 12:14Speaker 5: And make that make sense that there's not a potential
- 12:18Speaker 5: for this to be the best offense in the league.
- 12:20Speaker 6: That's the thing. And when you add Jacobs in the mix,
- 12:23Speaker 6: that's going to be even more. It's going to be
- 12:26Speaker 6: more difficult on opposing defenses. And Golden leads. He leads
- 12:30Speaker 6: six drops. yikes um leads the league it was six drops.
- 12:35Speaker 5: Yeah and what two or three of them last night
- 12:37Speaker 5: and the one now the one he said got hit
- 12:39Speaker 5: out of his hand so maybe not a drop felt
- 12:42Speaker 5: like one the other one he said lost in the
- 12:44Speaker 5: lights the one that watson drops now i get again
- 12:47Speaker 5: you can quibble with it it hits him in both
- 12:48Speaker 5: hands it is tipped right before it gets to his
- 12:50Speaker 5: hand so it's going to change up the movement, this, that,
- 12:53Speaker 5: and the third. Love is putting the ball wherever he
- 12:56Speaker 5: damn well wants to. And the play that Winters makes
- 12:59Speaker 5: last night on the interception and the one that Bland
- 13:01Speaker 5: almost makes on the sideline, those are two great plays.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Are they risky throws? Absolutely.
- 13:06Speaker 5: But, Drew, they're throws that you kind of have to
- 13:08Speaker 5: make when you and your offense is asking you to
- 13:13Speaker 5: be that somewhat superhuman every single week. Like, they're asking
- 13:17Speaker 5: him to be an MVP candidate each week And so far,
- 13:21Speaker 5: he's lived up to the hype and lived up to
- 13:23Speaker 5: what their expectation.
- 13:24Speaker 6: And asking for. With a clean pocket, he's devastating. And
- 13:28Speaker 6: when the pocket's breaking down, he's still good. Like, he
- 13:31Speaker 6: still stands in there.
- 13:32Speaker 2: He takes hits. He took a lot yesterday. A lot
- 13:34Speaker 2: of shots. But he's also, he's delivering the ball.
- 13:37Speaker 6: And with the traffic around him and with the, you know,
- 13:40Speaker 6: he's been extraordinary this year. If you look at the
- 13:44Speaker 6: box score, again, partially because of the drops. But if
- 13:46Speaker 6: you look at the box score, it's like, eh, he's
- 13:47Speaker 6: kind of mid. Eh, he's okay.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Eh.
- 13:50Speaker 2: But then when you watch and you watch the games,
- 13:52Speaker 2: you're like, look at that throw. Holy cow.
- 13:54Speaker 5: Yeah, the eye test didn't give a 74 quarterback rating
- 13:57Speaker 5: or whatever it was yesterday. And I think Travis Glover
- 14:00Speaker 5: has played well in the middle so far in his
- 14:05Speaker 5: three games. But I do think that that's going to
- 14:07Speaker 5: even improve once Zeitler comes into the mix. He's going
- 14:10Speaker 5: to be in the mix, right? Like they brought him
- 14:13Speaker 5: in for a reason. And I also think that maybe
- 14:15Speaker 5: helps with the ground game. But we've seen teams win games.
- 14:20Speaker 5: with bad run games before, right? Like now the last
- 14:22Speaker 5: team to win it, I think with the worst run
- 14:24Speaker 5: game in the league, then go back all the way
- 14:27Speaker 5: to like the 2011 giants, maybe good enough to beat
- 14:30Speaker 5: this organization.
- 14:30Speaker 2: So we saw that that can happen. Did you bring
- 14:33Speaker 2: that up?
- 14:33Speaker 5: But like you've seen teams be able to do it.
- 14:38Speaker 5: And right now with this kind of defense, I think
- 14:41Speaker 5: there's going to be a lot of things that are
- 14:42Speaker 5: going to be possible. deny dennis sutton the biggest problem
- 14:46Speaker 5: that he has is the taunting penalty yesterday for screaming
- 14:49Speaker 5: at a guy that's holding him around the neck again
- 14:51Speaker 5: that's a guy that i'll go to war i'll go
- 14:53Speaker 5: to battle with drew and we'll live with the mistake
- 14:56Speaker 5: once shame on you second time shame on me now
- 14:59Speaker 5: we'll figure out ways to be able to calm him
- 15:01Speaker 5: down but uh that's that's a player right there and
- 15:05Speaker 5: evan williams yesterday was a man possessed and he's playing
- 15:09Speaker 5: like the best safety in the league One of the
- 15:12Speaker 5: other top safeties in the league might be the guy,
- 15:14Speaker 5: the two guys playing right alongside of him and Xavier
- 15:17Speaker 5: McKinney and Javon Bullard, where again, you go back to
- 15:21Speaker 5: the Jonathan Gannon thing where we talked about a couple
- 15:22Speaker 5: of minutes ago. What a way of identifying who your
- 15:27Speaker 5: best and most talented players on defense are in trying to,
- 15:31Speaker 5: I know Jonathan Gannon was very proud to say, I
- 15:34Speaker 5: don't have a scheme. He kind of had in Arizona
- 15:39Speaker 5: a real hybrid three safety look that was kind of
- 15:42Speaker 5: their calling card. And that's exactly what this defense is.
- 15:46Speaker 5: was going to be best running, and now they're able
- 15:48Speaker 5: to do it a ton. And he's got three good ones,
- 15:50Speaker 5: I think.
- 15:50Speaker 2: You've got three good ones, and you've got them on
- 15:51Speaker 2: the field, which is great.
- 15:53Speaker 6: What I love about what they're doing defensively is that
- 15:57Speaker 6: they're playing with an edge, with a nasty a little bit,
- 16:00Speaker 6: without Parsons and without Edger and Cooper. Two guys who
- 16:03Speaker 6: provide a lot of that. The two most electric guys. Sideline,
- 16:07Speaker 6: one for the year, one coming back. But they're playing
- 16:09Speaker 6: with that. The corners aren't getting enough, probably.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Enough flowers. Definitely not.
- 16:15Speaker 6: Keyshawn's having a pretty good season so far. You mentioned
- 16:18Speaker 6: the safeties. Got to like them. Devontae Wyatt's starting to
- 16:21Speaker 6: get healthy and have an impact like we've seen him
- 16:23Speaker 6: in the past.
- 16:23Speaker 2: He's starting to get back to his old ways.
- 16:26Speaker 6: And I think Zaire Franklin's a great addition just as
- 16:28Speaker 6: a dog and a guy that gets guys lined up
- 16:31Speaker 6: right and a steadying force.
- 16:33Speaker 5: And he was one of the main guys being able to,
- 16:35Speaker 5: at least as much as he talks a lot of smack,
- 16:37Speaker 5: he was one of the only guys being able to
- 16:39Speaker 5: calm down the situation yesterday where it got chippy because
- 16:42Speaker 5: the referees lost complete control of the game. Whether or
- 16:46Speaker 5: not it was too many roughing the passers, they lost
- 16:50Speaker 5: complete control of the game because nothing was coherent and
- 16:53Speaker 5: consistent throughout the game. So late into that game, there
- 16:57Speaker 5: was a possibility where that got real chippy.
- 17:00Speaker 2: It started to.
- 17:01Speaker 5: I thought Kuhn on the radio broadcast shot it out
- 17:05Speaker 5: a couple of times because you could feel it on
- 17:07Speaker 5: the sidelines. And that's where Zaire Franklin came in.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Huge. They're going to be able to.
- 17:13Speaker 5: They're not figuring they're not going to completely cover up
- 17:17Speaker 5: for the loss of Edron Cooper. Nobody is going to
- 17:19Speaker 5: be able to completely fill that in. But that little
- 17:21Speaker 5: battle they got going with Hopper and McDuffie last night, Drew,
- 17:25Speaker 5: you leaned over to me midway through the third quarter. Like, oh, OK,
- 17:27Speaker 5: that was the that was the McDuffie series.
- 17:29Speaker 2: He had a PBU.
- 17:30Speaker 5: He had a TFL stuff right at the line of scrimmage.
- 17:33Speaker 5: And then Hopper was making plays on the next series.
- 17:35Speaker 5: So that tandem and that little platoon they got rolling
- 17:39Speaker 5: so far. Ride the hot hand and see how long
- 17:42Speaker 5: you can ride it. I think they got talent, and
- 17:44Speaker 5: you've been waiting to see, especially on Hopper's side, you've
- 17:46Speaker 5: been waiting to see more of that athleticism that played
- 17:49Speaker 5: a lot in the SEC.
- 17:51Speaker 2: I think it's going to be able to play here.
- 17:52Speaker 4: And get all these guys building confidence for when Micah
- 17:54Speaker 4: does come back. I mean, that's the other thing that's
- 17:56Speaker 4: exciting about it. Obviously, when he's in the soup, it
- 17:58Speaker 4: makes everyone better. But, you know, Wes Hotkowitz had said
- 18:01Speaker 4: it really well yesterday on Packers preview on the network.
- 18:05Speaker 4: during his segment, he said, you know, it's going to
- 18:08Speaker 4: be more important. You'd rather have him, you know, some
- 18:11Speaker 4: of us hope he'd be back for this game, but
- 18:13Speaker 4: you'd rather have him for the later games in the
- 18:15Speaker 4: year that he missed than the earlier ones that he
- 18:16Speaker 4: played with and then eventually got hurt.
- 18:18Speaker 2: You know, the Packers were 9-3-1 when he got hurt.
- 18:20Speaker 4: Well, if he's going to be healthy for the games,
- 18:22Speaker 4: the later games in the year, then you kind of
- 18:24Speaker 4: take that trade off.
- 18:25Speaker 2: That's when you really want him healthy.
- 18:26Speaker 4: So you get all these guys, hopefully now, hopefully to
- 18:30Speaker 4: continue to stay healthy for what you have left. You've
- 18:32Speaker 4: had to deal with injuries, getting confident, understanding their role,
- 18:36Speaker 4: starting to thrive in it more and more as a defense,
- 18:38Speaker 4: and then you add Mike into that mix for the stretch,
- 18:40Speaker 4: I think that's ideally what you're looking for. That's the
- 18:43Speaker 4: hope of how this thing could possibly be going. Lucas
- 18:46Speaker 4: Van Ness got a sack last night.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Wasn't anything crazy, but another one for him. Having a
- 18:51Speaker 2: nice year, I'd say. Yeah.
- 18:53Speaker 6: I mean, they're showing signs of being a pretty good team,
- 18:57Speaker 6: but they're also showing signs that when you lead the
- 19:00Speaker 6: league in both drops by wide receivers and penalties, that's
- 19:04Speaker 6: not great.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Definitely not usually a team that says it four.
- 19:06Speaker 5: And two no but i think to me that's like
- 19:09Speaker 5: well then there's obvious room for improvement yeah no question
- 19:12Speaker 5: so you think to yourself well at least maybe then
- 19:14Speaker 5: you have a lot of potential there for improvement well
- 19:17Speaker 5: yeah but room for improvement also doesn't mean that you're
- 19:19Speaker 5: going to capitalize on it so you do have to
- 19:20Speaker 5: be able to be about it you have to be
- 19:22Speaker 5: able to clean it up the the penalties last night
- 19:25Speaker 5: a lot of them of the uh roughing the passer
- 19:27Speaker 5: variety and the unsportsmanlike after the flag some of.
- 19:31Speaker 2: Those i mean i don't know drew Mr. Robleski, come on.
- 19:35Speaker 5: I do have two young boys, and to just be
- 19:37Speaker 5: flexing and staring at somebody, I don't know if that's
- 19:40Speaker 5: the precedent that Matthew Golden should be setting for young children.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Come on.
- 19:44Speaker 5: We need to be very, very classy in sports. John
- 19:48Speaker 5: Mara said it. People don't want to watch this.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Fans don't like that. That's what they don't. He knows
- 19:55Speaker 2: what fans want.
- 19:57Speaker 4: And somebody tried slapping the rule book on me on
- 20:00Speaker 4: Twitter yesterday saying, well, it's in the rule book.
- 20:02Speaker 2: You can't flex in a player.
- 20:03Speaker 5: My problem is that I better not see freaking Josh
- 20:06Speaker 5: Allen flexing on somebody on any Monday night football promo.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Every single play and the promo. Good point. It's the
- 20:13Speaker 2: promo marketing. It's the marketing aspect of it. They used
- 20:17Speaker 2: to mark it jacked up until.
- 20:19Speaker 4: They started getting concussions. What does at somebody really mean?
- 20:23Speaker 4: In theory, there's people all over the place. In any
- 20:26Speaker 4: general direction, he wasn't bending down and doing it to them,
- 20:30Speaker 4: I don't think.
- 20:30Speaker 2: It wasn't some obvious step over.
- 20:33Speaker 4: Give me that play, too, by the way, when old boy,
- 20:36Speaker 4: I'm blanking who it is now, Porter, is doing all
- 20:40Speaker 4: kinds of stuff after a pass breakup.
- 20:42Speaker 2: All kinds of stuff yesterday. So, I don't know. Kevin
- 20:45Speaker 2: Porter Jr. had himself a night. Oh, Joey.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Joey.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Yeah, Porter. I was confused. And not to even mention
- 20:55Speaker 2: the roughing the passers, which I don't want to open
- 20:57Speaker 2: that game. Yeah, that's a point of emphasis. You hate that.
- 20:59Speaker 6: It's funny because you guys are Probably a couple years away,
- 21:03Speaker 6: I remember one of my daughter's first homework assignments in kindergarten,
- 21:07Speaker 6: first grade. I had to ask everybody in the family
- 21:08Speaker 6: what their favorite animal was and draw it. And I
- 21:11Speaker 6: love the family dog and stuff, but I wanted to
- 21:13Speaker 6: be different.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, like, what's my favorite animal? I said,
- 21:15Speaker 2: I like polar bears.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Nice.
- 21:17Speaker 6: So polar bear is my favorite because they're cute in
- 21:20Speaker 6: the Coke commercials. They're badass in real life on the
- 21:22Speaker 6: National Geographic. They're about as badass as it is. They're majestic.
- 21:26Speaker 6: They're huge.
- 21:27Speaker 2: That's a good one.
- 21:27Speaker 6: I like the polar bear, right? No one's ever said, yeah,
- 21:30Speaker 6: my favorite animal is the zebra.
- 21:33Speaker 2: I guess unless you're into it. It gets no love.
- 21:35Speaker 5: It gets no love. The giraffe gets a lot of
- 21:37Speaker 5: love because it's tall. You walk by it at the zoo, Drew,
- 21:39Speaker 5: and you're like, wait a second. That's just a weird donkey?
- 21:42Speaker 2: Yeah. Paint that one? Weird donkey. Weird donkey. That's a
- 21:47Speaker 2: great point. They were acting like donkeys in the zebra
- 21:50Speaker 2: outfits last night. I'll tell you that much.
- 21:52Speaker 6: Maybe in the movie Madagascar you watch that and maybe
- 21:54Speaker 6: you'll say, oh, well, okay, I like the zebra. But
- 21:56Speaker 6: for the most part, ain't nobody's favorite animal is a
- 21:58Speaker 6: zebra and ain't nobody's favorite thing about football.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Is the referees.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Their moms were watching last night. They were making sure
- 22:04Speaker 5: that they were a part of Sunday night football. Goodness gracious.
- 22:06Speaker 5: But if you watch Badgers and Bruins on Saturday night,
- 22:10Speaker 5: the referees.
- 22:10Speaker 2: Set the tempo.
- 22:11Speaker 5: They said they set the temperature for what the weekend
- 22:14Speaker 5: was going to be like. Luke Fickle said earlier today, Drew,
- 22:17Speaker 5: they limit you to 10 plays that you can send in.
- 22:19Speaker 2: So I tried to limit it. I could only limit
- 22:22Speaker 2: it to 17. Wow. Officiating is that in all time?
- 22:26Speaker 2: Something's rough, rough.
- 22:28Speaker 3: All right.
- 22:28Speaker 2: It's a great Monday. It's victory Monday.
- 22:30Speaker 6: Packers beating the Cowboys 2313 on Sunday night football. Big
- 22:34Speaker 6: game lurking Sunday in Detroit. Who's going to be playing
- 22:37Speaker 6: for the Packers?
- 22:38Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 22:39Speaker 6: Will it be Josh Jacobs? Will it be Kevin Zeitler?
- 22:43Speaker 6: Might get some answers later on today. We might find
- 22:45Speaker 6: some stuff out. Wayne Larvey, the voice of the Packers,
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- 23:18Speaker 6: 877-794-1973 to the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. This one
- 23:22Speaker 6: comes from Rhonda in the 715. And I find this
- 23:26Speaker 6: one very interesting.
- 23:27Speaker 2: Hi, guys.
- 23:28Speaker 6: I was wondering if guys are slipping more these last
- 23:30Speaker 6: couple years than they used to on the field at Lambeau.
- 23:32Speaker 6: And if so, did they change the makeup of that
- 23:35Speaker 6: real slash synthetic makeup?
- 23:38Speaker 4: Hmm.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Help them, Rhonda. Help them, Rhonda.
- 23:41Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Billy, we talked about that as the game
- 23:43Speaker 6: was unfolding because we see it every damn game.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Every week.
- 23:47Speaker 5: And you consistently see road teams doing it. You consistently
- 23:50Speaker 5: see the Green Bay Packers being able to mostly keep
- 23:53Speaker 5: their footing. And a lot of it is because they're
- 23:55Speaker 5: They know that the drill includes got to go with
- 23:57Speaker 5: the seven studs like you hear sideline reporter John Kuhn
- 24:01Speaker 5: say every single week on the Packers radio network.
- 24:03Speaker 2: It's true. That part is consistent. That's a constant.
- 24:05Speaker 5: They have not changed the blend of Kentucky bluegrass woven
- 24:10Speaker 5: in with some synthetic part.
- 24:12Speaker 2: I don't know all of the ergonomics, but I do
- 24:15Speaker 2: know that.
- 24:16Speaker 5: Unlike a lot of fields in ball, theirs does potentially
- 24:21Speaker 5: get a little slick when it gets.
- 24:23Speaker 6: Dewy at night. Especially night games, yeah, the dewy. And
- 24:26Speaker 6: Rodgers was a big guy on that, too. And Kuhn
- 24:30Speaker 6: always says that players, they're stubborn, and they want to wear,
- 24:34Speaker 6: they wear the mold, they call them the molded plastic
- 24:36Speaker 6: kind of cleats because they feel like those are faster.
- 24:38Speaker 2: You feel faster on those.
- 24:39Speaker 6: But if you wear the ones that you screw in,
- 24:41Speaker 6: the seven studs, you get a better footing and you
- 24:43Speaker 6: slip less. Now, you'll see Packers players slip occasionally. but
- 24:46Speaker 6: nowhere near as often as opposing players do. It's like
- 24:49Speaker 6: they can't figure it out. And we've seen trainers on
- 24:52Speaker 6: the opposing sideline changing guys all the time, mid-game.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Like, we've got to do something about this. You go
- 24:58Speaker 2: through warm-ups.
- 24:58Speaker 5: You see it. Once you've played there, it's not the Cowboys'
- 25:02Speaker 5: first visit to Lambeau. No, and it's definitely not their
- 25:06Speaker 5: only one in primetime.
- 25:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 25:07Speaker 6: Once you've played there, especially in primetime, you'd think, all right, well,
- 25:10Speaker 6: that's the place where I've got to wear these cleats.
- 25:12Speaker 6: It happens every week. Good observation, Rana, because we were
- 25:15Speaker 6: talking about it last night. You saw a couple guys slip.
- 25:17Speaker 6: CeeDee Lamb slipped.
- 25:18Speaker 3: Yes.
- 25:18Speaker 5: And especially, Drew, like that when it is vets, when
- 25:21Speaker 5: you know that they've played there before, it's a shame
- 25:23Speaker 5: on you kind of thing. This is not changing. This
- 25:26Speaker 5: has not changed. And I don't believe it will. The
- 25:29Speaker 5: tale is old as time. Guys are going to go
- 25:30Speaker 5: down because these dudes are so fast and explosive. And
- 25:34Speaker 5: when you're playing on the outside and this is where,
- 25:36Speaker 5: you know, Keyshawn Nixon and Brandon Cisse deserve some credit.
- 25:40Speaker 5: They also have to be able to keep their balance
- 25:41Speaker 5: and footing stable. better than most realizing that that guy
- 25:45Speaker 5: knows where he's going and I'm adjusting to him. Hey,
- 25:49Speaker 5: got to give some flowers to the way Nixon has played,
- 25:51Speaker 5: especially the way they played last night. Nixon got lamb
- 25:54Speaker 5: on the ground. Most of the time, whenever he was there,
- 25:57Speaker 5: eight solo tackles was a big reason why, you know,
- 25:59Speaker 5: most of their production came in garbage time.
- 26:02Speaker 6: It's interesting because Aaron Rogers, when he played in green,
- 26:05Speaker 6: but he liked the surface there and raved about it
- 26:08Speaker 6: and he wore the right cleats and that helped him.
- 26:11Speaker 6: But that now, Basically, everywhere he goes on it. He
- 26:13Speaker 6: always hated it at Soldier Field. He was ripping it
- 26:15Speaker 6: at Raymond James. Frying him yesterday.
- 26:17Speaker 2: Frying the people about the turf at Raymond James. Well,
- 26:20Speaker 2: it almost took out his head coach. His best friend.
- 26:24Speaker 2: He likes to have a boogeyman.
- 26:25Speaker 6: I don't think Aaron Rodgers is particularly fond of the
- 26:29Speaker 6: Accresure Stadium surface either because that gets pretty beat up
- 26:32Speaker 6: by Pitt Panthers and high schoolers and stuff like that.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Every game at Pittsburgh, the city of Pittsburgh has a finding.
- 26:39Speaker 4: I remember early in his career, he admitted and sent
- 26:42Speaker 4: shockwaves that he'd prefer turf over grass because he liked
- 26:45Speaker 4: his turf shoes that he was wearing at the time.
- 26:48Speaker 2: I remember that was a big deal for people. You
- 26:49Speaker 2: don't like playing outside of Lambeau and grass?
- 26:51Speaker 6: I haven't I haven't done a deep dive into Rogers
- 26:54Speaker 6: because I don't really care that much about the Steelers
- 26:57Speaker 6: and his exploits. But is he still wearing that old
- 26:59Speaker 6: antiquated helmet that he wore that he had this favorite
- 27:02Speaker 6: helmet that's been.
- 27:04Speaker 2: No, he's got one of the new Zenith ones.
- 27:06Speaker 5: They did not let him wear the old one that
- 27:09Speaker 5: got got outlawed. So he's got one of the new
- 27:11Speaker 5: position specific ones, I believe. He was like one of
- 27:14Speaker 5: the last men standing. It's like one of the only
- 27:16Speaker 5: good players to ever wear.
- 27:17Speaker 2: A shit helmet.
- 27:18Speaker 6: I'm old enough to remember when they grandfathered, when they
- 27:22Speaker 6: mandated helmets in the National Hockey League. There was a
- 27:25Speaker 6: couple of guys, including the great Craig McTavish of the
- 27:27Speaker 6: Edmonton Oilers, who didn't wear one. If you if you
- 27:30Speaker 6: were grandfathered of a certain age, you didn't have to.
- 27:32Speaker 6: And so we're like a couple of like the last
- 27:34Speaker 6: guy standing to not have a helmet in the National
- 27:36Speaker 6: Hockey League. And that's what Rogers wanted to be that
- 27:38Speaker 6: last guy to use.
- 27:40Speaker 5: I mean, well, and listen, maybe he'd be in a
- 27:43Speaker 5: great class of a rarefied air of the other guy
- 27:46Speaker 5: that went, you know, all hell bent on not being
- 27:48Speaker 5: able to play with his helmet on. I think it
- 27:50Speaker 5: was him and Antonio Brown were the two loudest that.
- 27:52Speaker 5: We're very frustrated about the changing of the helmet regulation. Well,
- 27:56Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers and Antonio Brown, you can start a lot
- 27:58Speaker 5: of sentences like that.
- 27:59Speaker 2: It is still a, is it should? I thought it
- 28:01Speaker 2: was shut. Should? I never played football, Billy. You did.
- 28:04Speaker 4: He does wear a different model that's compliant by that company, though.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Air XP. The one with the air holes up the
- 28:11Speaker 2: middle of it.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Yeah, he criticized it to its bulkier, rounder appearance comparing
- 28:15Speaker 4: to a spaceship.
- 28:16Speaker 2: But you're right. He liked the Air XP Pro Q11 LTD.
- 28:20Speaker 4: It failed with official NFL laboratory safety testing and was
- 28:22Speaker 4: banned by the league prior to the 25 season.
- 28:24Speaker 5: They were giving that to the kid that you knew
- 28:26Speaker 5: was never playing. When you're going through a handout, when
- 28:30Speaker 5: you're going through equipment handout, Drew, and all of a
- 28:33Speaker 5: sudden they'd be like, oh, sweet, the cool revolution, the
- 28:35Speaker 5: one that Peyton Manning used to wear with the little
- 28:37Speaker 5: holes right through here.
- 28:39Speaker 2: That kid, Drew Olsen's getting that helmet. I'm sorry he
- 28:41Speaker 2: walks up. Hey, we got any shut helmets? Let's go.
- 28:46Speaker 2: bouncing on the ground a couple of times. All right,
- 28:47Speaker 2: here you go, kid. We'll be all good. I remember
- 28:49Speaker 2: one of the first things.
- 28:50Speaker 4: I remember talking to Billy years ago when I first
- 28:52Speaker 4: met him, and it was one of the first conversations
- 28:54Speaker 4: that I remember him getting. We were talking about helmets,
- 28:57Speaker 4: and I was trying to think of the other one
- 28:59Speaker 4: besides Rydell, and you were making fun of those shit
- 29:01Speaker 4: helmets for like 10 minutes.
- 29:02Speaker 5: They just look so goofy. They just look so goofy
- 29:05Speaker 5: with the razor up to the top. Again, there are
- 29:08Speaker 5: little aesthetic things that throw you off in sports. One
- 29:12Speaker 5: thing that didn't throw you off, The views last night
- 29:15Speaker 5: at Lambeau Field. My goodness, Drew. We said it a
- 29:18Speaker 5: couple of times on Packers OT. That was a postcard
- 29:21Speaker 5: night at Lambeau. I know the secondary ticket market, I
- 29:25Speaker 5: don't know what it did with folks trying to change
- 29:29Speaker 5: up and hold back their entertainment dollars maybe for what's
- 29:32Speaker 5: going on this week down at American Family Field. But
- 29:35Speaker 5: the folks that were in attendance last night were treated
- 29:37Speaker 5: to a marvelous night It was spectacular.
- 29:40Speaker 6: Absolutely spectacular. And I'm not usually a uniform guy. Here
- 29:43Speaker 6: we are talking about helmets.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Well, let's get it going. I love this.
- 29:46Speaker 6: Watching the Packers and the Cowboys in their proper non-gimmicky, non-highlighter, non-rivalry.
- 29:54Speaker 6: Something was perfect about that.
- 29:56Speaker 2: It was.
- 29:56Speaker 6: That's one of the best uniform matchups you can have
- 29:59Speaker 6: on a night game on primetime is those two iconic uniforms.
- 30:03Speaker 2: The fact that you could have played a lead-in from.
- 30:06Speaker 5: the final sneak at the ice bowl to that and
- 30:09Speaker 5: see the same logos and the same helmets.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
- 30:12Speaker 6: When Jordan Love plunged in, I'm like, oh, man, that's
- 30:15Speaker 6: probably what those people experienced in.
- 30:17Speaker 2: The ice bowl. That's what it was, almost the exact spot.
- 30:20Speaker 2: You know, of course, plus 60 degrees.
- 30:22Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I don't know if they had the big
- 30:25Speaker 5: cans of Miller Lite back then. They were probably only
- 30:28Speaker 5: slamming 12 ouncers then. They were loading up those 24
- 30:30Speaker 5: ouncers last.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Night, Drew.
- 30:31Speaker 2: There was a lot of good beer being drank.
- 30:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:34Speaker 6: It was a spectacular night all around. And I think, again,
- 30:40Speaker 6: there's two reasons to be, I think, totally bullish about
- 30:42Speaker 6: the Packers. Like, you know, it's for anything can happen.
- 30:45Speaker 2: And yeah, a lot of ballgame. They might they might
- 30:47Speaker 2: go lay an egg at Ford Field. We don't know.
- 30:50Speaker 6: But at this point, Jordan Love and Jonathan Gannon have
- 30:53Speaker 6: given me hope that what we saw and the malaise
- 30:56Speaker 6: that kind of hung over them early in the season
- 30:59Speaker 6: was just that.
- 31:00Speaker 2: That was my question to Billy last night.
- 31:02Speaker 6: As we're trying to process what we saw and what
- 31:03Speaker 6: we've seen these last couple games, what the hell happened
- 31:06Speaker 6: in that home opener against Atlanta?
- 31:07Speaker 2: Oh, geez. Who were those guys? Like, how were they
- 31:10Speaker 2: that bad? And on defense? Yes, on defense.
- 31:13Speaker 6: And, like, now the defense is, like, rejuvenated and Jonathan Gannon,
- 31:15Speaker 6: but who was coordinating the defense and who was playing?
- 31:18Speaker 6: Who were the imposters out there in that home opener
- 31:20Speaker 6: when they looked so inept?
- 31:22Speaker 5: And that defense had Edren Cooper. That defense had Cooper
- 31:25Speaker 5: running sideline to sideline.
- 31:26Speaker 2: What is... It's just hard to figure this league out.
- 31:29Speaker 6: I was going to say, is it just one of those, like,
- 31:31Speaker 6: everybody's going to have an absolute abomination of a game,
- 31:33Speaker 6: one or two a year, where you just, like, don't
- 31:35Speaker 6: have it?
- 31:36Speaker 2: And, like, is that the one?
- 31:37Speaker 6: Because I can't square the circle of them looking as
- 31:41Speaker 6: good as they did against Dallas, which is a pretty
- 31:42Speaker 6: good offense. I probably think that the Dallas offense may
- 31:45Speaker 6: be a little bit better than... Obviously, they didn't have Bijon,
- 31:48Speaker 6: but on terms of the guys outside... On paper, it
- 31:51Speaker 6: looks like I like them more than I like Atlanta's
- 31:53Speaker 6: offense and Atlanta's offense dog walked them.
- 31:55Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:55Speaker 5: And Atlanta looked like a team that coming in was
- 31:58Speaker 5: the worst team in football came out of it. Like, wow,
- 32:01Speaker 5: that team might be odds on to win their division.
- 32:03Speaker 5: And so much of it is the week to week nature.
- 32:06Speaker 5: And yes, quarterback play changes a ton of it. But
- 32:10Speaker 5: last night, the way that you were able to make
- 32:12Speaker 5: Prescott look very much pedestrian was, Shows that, Drew, you
- 32:17Speaker 5: should be able to do that against anybody. I don't
- 32:19Speaker 5: know why you weren't able to do it against Michael
- 32:21Speaker 5: Penix in his first game in almost a full year.
- 32:23Speaker 4: And why they struggled against the Bears, who the Packers
- 32:26Speaker 4: just dominated. That's just this league.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is.
- 32:29Speaker 5: That wasn't hard to explain. I don't think he was
- 32:32Speaker 5: walked in there, laid that thing on the table and pretended.
- 32:35Speaker 2: He looked pretty damn good. That was pretty clear how
- 32:38Speaker 2: that one. I don't think I'm going to get more
- 32:40Speaker 2: than 60 yards. I don't think so. Down 14 of him.
- 32:42Speaker 2: The first Brian Schottenheimer is not an idiot.
- 32:45Speaker 6: And he's like, I, you know, I for him to
- 32:49Speaker 6: have 10 days to get ready for this game and
- 32:53Speaker 6: put that out there and not have any answers.
- 32:56Speaker 2: It's like stunning to me.
- 32:57Speaker 6: It's like, well, he might not finish the season now
- 32:59Speaker 6: the way things are going.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 33:01Speaker 5: That, that, that Dallas team looks like it is ripe
- 33:03Speaker 5: for turnover and it didn't feel like Brian Schottenheimer was
- 33:07Speaker 5: going to be their main choice when he got the job.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Originally a year and a half ago.
- 33:11Speaker 6: This is a team that a year ago put a
- 33:12Speaker 6: 40 on the Packers and that was with a healthy Cooper.
- 33:16Speaker 5: And that was one of the games that you thought, okay,
- 33:19Speaker 5: this will be their clunker. This defense looks significantly better
- 33:22Speaker 5: than that one. But now that one also had two
- 33:25Speaker 5: games with Micah Parsons looking all world against Washington.
- 33:29Speaker 2: My, my, how two weeks can change your opinion on anything.
- 33:32Speaker 2: And Dallas walked in last night as one of the
- 33:34Speaker 2: worst rushing defenses. And the Packers could not run the ball.
- 33:38Speaker 5: They might not be able to run on Notre Dame Academy. Well, yeah,
- 33:41Speaker 5: I mean, it's. That's the thing. Josh Jacobs will help,
- 33:45Speaker 5: but how much?
- 33:46Speaker 2: How much?
- 33:47Speaker 5: I'd love to say, and I love to be a
- 33:50Speaker 5: defender of what's going on up front. There were a
- 33:53Speaker 5: couple of lanes last night. Maybe not a ton. Now,
- 33:56Speaker 5: Josh Jacobs has made a lot of chicken salad in
- 33:58Speaker 5: his life.
- 33:58Speaker 3: He has.
- 33:59Speaker 5: He's going to have to put his chef hat on
- 34:01Speaker 5: because he's going to.
- 34:03Speaker 6: Have to cook with what they got going on. That's
- 34:05Speaker 6: where does Zeitler get rotated in? Is that like in
- 34:08Speaker 6: the car? I'm fascinated by him because I wonder, like,
- 34:10Speaker 6: he's just standing there. like wondering why'd they bring me in? Like,
- 34:13Speaker 6: I'm just going to stand here and get barbecue for guys. Uh,
- 34:17Speaker 6: Lake and Tomlinson in the Packers OT shared with us that,
- 34:20Speaker 6: you know, Billy asked him, what's the best thing you've
- 34:22Speaker 6: eaten since you've gotten a green beer?
- 34:24Speaker 2: Like, Oh, it's like they're catered in barbecue for us.
- 34:26Speaker 2: And it was amazing. Like, okay. That's a strong vet move,
- 34:29Speaker 2: by the way.
- 34:30Speaker 5: I I'm glad to know that the, uh, MLB version,
- 34:33Speaker 5: when you go down to the minors seeps into the
- 34:36Speaker 5: offensive line rooms, you walk in, what's the easiest way
- 34:38Speaker 5: to make everybody like you?
- 34:40Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to bring barbecue food. That'll work. Bring food.
- 34:43Speaker 2: Bring food. Fat guys will be a fan of you.
- 34:45Speaker 6: And they're staying at the same hotel, which is cracks
- 34:47Speaker 6: me up, too.
- 34:47Speaker 5: I just I struggle, Drew, to think he's not a
- 34:49Speaker 5: part of the solution. And as as much as I
- 34:52Speaker 5: have loved the way that Travis Glover is played, our
- 34:55Speaker 5: friend Charles and Arcdale called last night. He wants to
- 34:57Speaker 5: move back out to right tackle. Yeah, Belton back inside. Well,
- 35:00Speaker 5: if he's moving out to tackle, which I don't think
- 35:02Speaker 5: he's doing, it's because they're finding a way to get
- 35:04Speaker 5: Kevin Zeitler into the game. The one we talked about
- 35:07Speaker 5: Lake and Tomlinson last night. I don't know how you
- 35:09Speaker 5: take him out of the game because the way him
- 35:12Speaker 5: and Jordan Morgan has played since he was inserted in.
- 35:14Speaker 2: I agree. It's the steadying tide. So I want one
- 35:18Speaker 2: more vet in there.
- 35:19Speaker 5: And I do think I think this week against the
- 35:22Speaker 5: team in a place that he's played before. He's very
- 35:25Speaker 5: familiar with Ford Field. I think this in a division
- 35:28Speaker 5: game is the time that you finally get to see him.
- 35:30Speaker 2: That's right. We have not connected with Wayne Larry, but
- 35:32Speaker 2: we will. We're efforting. We're track him down. We're efforting.
- 35:36Speaker 2: We will track him down. Busy watching.
- 35:38Speaker 6: And coming up after three o'clock, we'll fire up the
- 35:40Speaker 6: old game balls and kicks to the balls. Plenty, plenty
- 35:43Speaker 6: of fertile territory, because since we last spoke to our smart,
- 35:47Speaker 6: good looking listeners, well, not on Packers OT last night,
- 35:49Speaker 6: but on these here on this year program. Well, Billy
- 35:51Speaker 6: was off on Friday and we were chopping it up.
- 35:56Speaker 6: And we had a Badger game since then. We've had
- 35:58Speaker 6: a completely remarkable, like, holy cow weekend in college football.
- 36:03Speaker 5: Historic weekend in college football. We got a lot to
- 36:06Speaker 5: unpack from that as well. Badgers are on big noon kickoff. Oh,
- 36:09Speaker 5: my goodness.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Goodness. We are going to cover all of that for
- 36:13Speaker 2: you as we move ahead. You're in the huddle. Fox
- 36:15Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Chicken Monday. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
- 36:21Speaker 2: We're having some fun today.
- 36:22Speaker 3: I had mine.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Reach us. 877-794-1973.
- 36:25Speaker 6: Nicoletlaw.com. Talk and text line. Golden Chicken. That's where I go.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Man, that's good. That's a good spot. I love me
- 36:34Speaker 2: some chicken. I mean, I love it. Quick Trip's got chicken.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Everyone's got chicken. Pick and Save's got great fried chicken.
- 36:38Speaker 2: They do. Pick and Save does have really good fried chicken.
- 36:40Speaker 2: I get that all the time. We had some good
- 36:42Speaker 2: chicken in the press box last night. Oh, it was
- 36:44Speaker 2: really good. We had some real good chicken in the
- 36:46Speaker 2: press box last night.
- 36:47Speaker 5: I might just have to go to a buffet, though,
- 36:48Speaker 5: because they the broasted chicken and the chicken wings. Then
- 36:51Speaker 5: you obviously have to have a little chicken tender, but
- 36:55Speaker 5: the broasted broiled chicken. That's a tough deal. Tough one
- 36:58Speaker 5: to figure out which one I want to go with.
- 36:59Speaker 5: KFC used to have the buffet way, way back.
- 37:02Speaker 2: If I'm going to KFC, there's no way I'm getting
- 37:05Speaker 2: anything other than that bowl. That's a good bowl. That
- 37:08Speaker 2: little famous bowl.
- 37:09Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 37:10Speaker 2: I remember that.
- 37:10Speaker 5: That's got to be one of the best fast food
- 37:12Speaker 5: items that I couldn't tell you last time I've eaten.
- 37:15Speaker 4: And they're switching from Pepsi to Coke. I just saw
- 37:17Speaker 4: that news. I'm up on the fast food news, I guess.
- 37:19Speaker 4: I don't know why I got that alert.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Sorry, Drew. I'm sure you had something more important here
- 37:24Speaker 2: to talk about, like Brewers World Series.
- 37:26Speaker 6: No, Brewers World Series. We will chat about that. We're
- 37:29Speaker 6: going to get to game balls and kicks to the balls.
- 37:30Speaker 6: And again, we might find out as soon as tonight
- 37:33Speaker 6: if the Rays are going to punch their ticket. And
- 37:36Speaker 6: play the Brewers for the World Series championship beginning Friday
- 37:39Speaker 6: at American Family Field.
- 37:40Speaker 5: Well, I got to figure it out because like many,
- 37:43Speaker 5: many individuals out there, Drew, I think there's a lot
- 37:46Speaker 5: of Brewers fans that have resigned themselves to the fact
- 37:48Speaker 5: they're probably not going to a World Series game at
- 37:51Speaker 5: American Family Field. I think there's a decent amount that
- 37:53Speaker 5: are looking at the two AL venues saying that feels
- 37:56Speaker 5: like a much more realistic shot. And some who think
- 38:00Speaker 5: already are planning on trying to go down to Tampa Bay.
- 38:02Speaker 2: That's absolutely.
- 38:03Speaker 4: I know people have already planned that. And my man
- 38:07Speaker 4: Hunter was going through it today, booking his travel. I
- 38:09Speaker 4: was like, hey, Cleveland could come back. They're only down 3-2,
- 38:12Speaker 4: but I definitely agree. I think if we play Tampa,
- 38:16Speaker 4: I'm using we, yeah. If we play Tampa, it is
- 38:19Speaker 4: going to be AmFam South. I really believe that.
- 38:21Speaker 2: And I know there's some people saying, well, are people
- 38:24Speaker 2: really going to travel? Well, that's the thing.
- 38:25Speaker 6: The Rays, their best nights of the season. Or when
- 38:30Speaker 6: they play the Mets or the Yankees or the Red
- 38:32Speaker 6: Sox because of all the snowbirds and the Jays.
- 38:34Speaker 2: And I would assume they're going to open up that
- 38:36Speaker 2: tarp in the top, right? Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah,
- 38:39Speaker 2: for sure.
- 38:39Speaker 6: But imagine, I wonder if they had to send a
- 38:41Speaker 6: guy in to turn on all the faucets and flush
- 38:43Speaker 6: the toilet to make sure that they all work up there.
- 38:45Speaker 2: And make sure everything's running.
- 38:46Speaker 5: Well, they've even hit the dynamic pricing there where at
- 38:50Speaker 5: certain spots, like in the bleachers, I know when we
- 38:52Speaker 5: looked last week, they're like $ 440 now in like the
- 38:56Speaker 5: very top corner. I think they've almost doubled. to upwards
- 39:00Speaker 5: of 780.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
- 39:03Speaker 6: We're all looking at it, and everybody's going to the sites,
- 39:06Speaker 6: whether it's whatever your favorite is, if it's StubHub or
- 39:09Speaker 6: TickPick or whoever you got. You get sticker shock, and
- 39:15Speaker 6: you're like, holy cow, that's ridiculous. Those tickets are listed
- 39:18Speaker 6: at that. How many are selling? That's the better question.
- 39:21Speaker 6: That's what the market should decide. Who do you know
- 39:23Speaker 6: who has popped down like four grand to sit in
- 39:26Speaker 6: the upper deck?
- 39:27Speaker 2: Like in the upper, in the 400s, in the tariffs.
- 39:30Speaker 3: Level? I don't know.
- 39:31Speaker 6: I mean, they're all listed at that. But then will
- 39:33Speaker 6: it come down? The market can be elastic that way.
- 39:36Speaker 6: Will they start to work their way down? You know,
- 39:39Speaker 6: and I was thinking about this.
- 39:40Speaker 2: I feel like they will dread at least a little
- 39:42Speaker 2: closer towards the opposite so far.
- 39:44Speaker 6: Well, and the Packers tickets are kind of baked in
- 39:47Speaker 6: and the Bears have already visited. Like, what's the hottest
- 39:50Speaker 6: ticket at Lambeau on the remaining home schedule?
- 39:53Speaker 2: Billy, would you say? Like, what would it be?
- 39:56Speaker 6: I would say Buffalo. Their fans travel, and that's a
- 40:00Speaker 6: bucket list-y thing for them.
- 40:01Speaker 2: It's a rare game. And they have a new stadium,
- 40:04Speaker 2: so they'd probably want to go see the old Lambeau.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Once every eight years.
- 40:06Speaker 5: Well, and it's also, I mean, don't discredit it. It's
- 40:09Speaker 5: a Josh Allen effect. That would be the superstar, and
- 40:12Speaker 5: we want to go see him. But otherwise, Drew, to
- 40:15Speaker 5: your point, yeah, I don't know a whole lot of
- 40:16Speaker 5: people that are lining up to go see the Houston
- 40:18Speaker 5: Texans on Monday Night Football in January.
- 40:21Speaker 6: Or the Carolina Panthers on a Thursday. Or even like,
- 40:24Speaker 6: you know, the Lions have been there, done that now. Vikings,
- 40:27Speaker 6: it's always steady.
- 40:28Speaker 2: Always got juice. But there's not going to be a jump.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Nope.
- 40:31Speaker 2: You're right.
- 40:31Speaker 6: So I'm thinking, once the World Series is over, the
- 40:35Speaker 6: toughest ticket in our little universe is going to be Giannis'
- 40:39Speaker 6: return with the Heat to play at Pfizer.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong. That's going to be the big one.
- 40:45Speaker 6: I don't know, but I don't think it's going to
- 40:46Speaker 6: cost three grand to get in the door.
- 40:48Speaker 2: No, that might be three grand to get in the
- 40:51Speaker 2: BMO club.
- 40:52Speaker 6: There will be a brisk demand for that game that
- 40:55Speaker 6: people want to see his return.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Yeah, because the Bears game had a ton of luster.
- 40:59Speaker 5: I know people that were paying $ 1, 000 a ticket for
- 41:02Speaker 5: that Bears game. Now, luckily, most of them are Bears fans,
- 41:05Speaker 5: so I'm glad that they put a lot of money
- 41:07Speaker 5: and hopefully some Packers fans in season ticket holders' pockets
- 41:09Speaker 5: and paid for some packages for the year. But It
- 41:14Speaker 5: is the once-in-a-lifetime tag. People are utilizing it very, very
- 41:20Speaker 5: much so during this run of, hey, I don't know
- 41:23Speaker 5: how many more 44-year runs I got left, so I
- 41:26Speaker 5: don't want to miss it, and I want to be
- 41:28Speaker 5: able to take advantage.
- 41:29Speaker 2: I'm very excited.
- 41:31Speaker 5: For the folks that are going to be able to
- 41:32Speaker 5: be at every one of these games and the memories
- 41:34Speaker 5: that are going to be made. I also am very
- 41:36Speaker 5: excited for the amount of content that we're getting right now,
- 41:39Speaker 5: the people that are kind of hoping and throwing it
- 41:42Speaker 5: out there, like, hey, If you got some extra World
- 41:46Speaker 5: Series tickets.
- 41:47Speaker 2: Which we all do, right? Just laying around. Generally speaking.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Kind of like how Bucks tickets used to be laying
- 41:51Speaker 2: around at Wendy's. Yeah, right. Those days changed. You know,
- 41:56Speaker 2: little Johnny really would like to go to the World Series. Like,
- 41:58Speaker 2: who's going to have the best sob story?
- 42:01Speaker 5: It's almost like the Internet now is the middle of
- 42:04Speaker 5: the section when you catch the foul ball.
- 42:06Speaker 2: And people are like, you're really not going to give
- 42:08Speaker 2: it to the little kid. You're really not going to
- 42:10Speaker 2: give it. Hello. You got four World Series.
- 42:14Speaker 5: You're not going to take this nice eight-year-old boy that
- 42:17Speaker 5: loves the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 42:18Speaker 2: And I'm sorry.
- 42:18Speaker 4: You're going to need something more than my kid likes
- 42:21Speaker 4: the Brewers. Everyone's kid likes the Brewers. Everyone's been watching
- 42:24Speaker 4: for 50. Everyone's been a lifelong fan. Everyone's wanting to
- 42:28Speaker 4: go to the World Series.
- 42:28Speaker 2: They're dead.
- 42:29Speaker 4: That's the thing people aren't understanding about this. It's like
- 42:32Speaker 4: you're not the only main character in this story. This
- 42:35Speaker 4: whole state's been waiting for this. So that's what's driving
- 42:38Speaker 4: a lot of this reality. And we all want to go. So, yeah,
- 42:42Speaker 4: I mean, that is kind of. There's going to be
- 42:44Speaker 4: pressure to give it to this one, right? I'm just excited.
- 42:47Speaker 5: Well, and the best thing is the one person that, like,
- 42:50Speaker 5: knows somebody that does have tickets and then just comments
- 42:53Speaker 5: that person's name on it.
- 42:54Speaker 2: This is mostly on Facebook, right?
- 42:55Speaker 5: Like, most of these things are trafficking around on the
- 42:58Speaker 5: good marketplace sites.
- 43:00Speaker 2: Being able to find some folks like, hey, I know
- 43:02Speaker 2: Cindy's got tickets. You guys should talk to her.
- 43:04Speaker 4: And what's the price? There's a price for everyone. You know,
- 43:07Speaker 4: the price of, no, I'm willing to part with these.
- 43:10Speaker 4: I want to go to the World Series. I bought
- 43:11Speaker 4: a strip and I was ready to go. And then
- 43:13Speaker 4: someone put $ 10, 000 in cash in front of him.
- 43:15Speaker 2: Like, what's the price? I mean, there is a price.
- 43:18Speaker 2: Ted DiBiase said it well.
- 43:20Speaker 5: Everybody's got a price for the million-dollar man. He walks
- 43:23Speaker 5: up with that wad of cash in front of you.
- 43:25Speaker 5: It's going to be hard to say no.
- 43:26Speaker 4: That's why I think, and you guys can tell me
- 43:27Speaker 4: if you think I'm wrong, but if and when the
- 43:30Speaker 4: Brewers open up American Family Field for the road games
- 43:33Speaker 4: and you go, that's where, like, 60 years down the road,
- 43:36Speaker 4: you'll tell everyone you're at the World Series.
- 43:38Speaker 2: No one's going to fact-check that. Just tell everybody you
- 43:40Speaker 2: were at the World Series, at the game. People saying
- 43:43Speaker 2: they were at the Ice Bowl. Exactly.
- 43:45Speaker 6: Or Robin Young's 3,000th hit.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Here's me and your great-grandpa at the stadium, you know,
- 43:51Speaker 2: 40 years down the road. Here's another question.
- 43:54Speaker 6: Logistically, and the prices will go up as the series
- 43:58Speaker 6: would build, but right now, if you're going to buy tickets,
- 44:02Speaker 6: are you plunging for one and two to make sure
- 44:04Speaker 6: you see a World Series game, or are you buying
- 44:05Speaker 6: six or seven with the hopes that you could see
- 44:07Speaker 6: the World Series game? The champagne celebration that's a tough
- 44:12Speaker 6: one can't win the series on game one or two
- 44:15Speaker 6: no you can win it in game six or seven.
- 44:18Speaker 5: Yeah oh wow that's a great question because as somebody
- 44:21Speaker 5: that did have tickets to game seven for that exact
- 44:24Speaker 5: scenario sitting out here into the gold not going that
- 44:28Speaker 5: so that's a tough thing to be able to bet
- 44:29Speaker 5: on the come drew i thought they were going six
- 44:31Speaker 5: or seven games with the dodgers for sure i think
- 44:34Speaker 5: if it's a brewer's raise series i think both these
- 44:36Speaker 5: teams are going to beat the heck out of each other.
- 44:38Speaker 5: And I think it's going to be a great knockout
- 44:40Speaker 5: drag out series. Yeah, could be, but I don't know
- 44:42Speaker 5: that I want to risk it.
- 44:44Speaker 6: That's just it. That's the old bird in the hand
- 44:46Speaker 6: and you speculate. And if you own six and seven
- 44:49Speaker 6: and it's a potential clincher, then you got to weigh the,
- 44:52Speaker 6: do I, do I cash in and watch it on TV?
- 44:55Speaker 3: Right.
- 44:55Speaker 2: On a nice vacation.
- 44:57Speaker 4: Hawaii's always been nice. Looks like we'll have Wayne next
- 45:00Speaker 4: segment if you guys want.
- 45:01Speaker 2: He's in the window. We do. We do.
- 45:03Speaker 6: We also have Bon Jovi tickets for you. We're going
- 45:06Speaker 6: to give those away on the program today. Bon Jovi
- 45:09Speaker 6: playing Soldier Field July 21st. We got a pair of
- 45:11Speaker 6: tickets for you. You can win.
- 45:12Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.