Latest / The Huddle / 08/31/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's the huddle on a Monday in the good land.
- 0:03Speaker 1: You know the drill. Game balls and kicks to the
- 0:05Speaker 1: balls today. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian bringing it
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- 0:23Speaker 1: Broadcasting live, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, and the iHeartRadio app.
- 0:28Speaker 2: It is wild drew on this beautiful game balls and
- 0:31Speaker 2: kicks the balls Monday, where we are now 12 days
- 0:33Speaker 2: or 13 days away from the Packers playing a real game.
- 0:36Speaker 2: The Brewers and Cubs starting up the NL central division
- 0:39Speaker 2: championship series. And also we're now into game week for
- 0:43Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Badgers. Oh, what a beautiful time fall to
- 0:47Speaker 2: officially be alive.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Our cup runneth over Badgers, Notre Dame Sunday night at
- 0:53Speaker 1: Lambeau field. We just had a thrilling, if you can
- 0:57Speaker 1: call it a thrilling, if there's such a thing as
- 0:59Speaker 1: a thrilling preseason game, there was. I was going to
- 1:01Speaker 1: say it sure was entertaining. That's to say the least.
- 1:05Speaker 3: 80 points, back and forth, wild action. I mean, you
- 1:08Speaker 3: get a comeback of the age. The Packers winning at
- 1:11Speaker 3: the end, you had to love it.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Once again, rocked by the news that Josh Jacobs is
- 1:16Speaker 1: on the commissioner's exempt list. Paid leave, basically. I was
- 1:19Speaker 1: going to say, basically paid leave. Paid suspension.
- 1:22Speaker 2: And that's one where, Drew, I wonder how quickly now
- 1:26Speaker 2: the league expedited. Because I think they did put another
- 1:28Speaker 2: player on the commissioner's exempt list yesterday as well for
- 1:33Speaker 2: personal conduct policy issue. I wonder how quickly these get
- 1:36Speaker 2: taken care of. Or if it is just a, as
- 1:39Speaker 2: you said in the first hour, which I think is
- 1:40Speaker 2: pretty spot on, it might be a, all right, now
- 1:43Speaker 2: you expedite the situation now.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Then you can talk to us so we can get off.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Cause now the only person that can take you off
- 1:49Speaker 2: of the commissioner's example list is the commissioner himself. So
- 1:52Speaker 2: you have to be able to say, now this is settled.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Now we will go and be able to potentially go
- 1:57Speaker 2: and play football and understand the full punishment.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Reach a, if, if Josh Jacobs attorneys, like who knows,
- 2:02Speaker 1: maybe they can reach a plea deal of some kind.
- 2:04Speaker 1: And the two charges are, are, uh, disorderly conduct and
- 2:10Speaker 1: criminal damage property. Correct. Yeah, the battery, I thought.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Battery, criminal battery, misdemeanor battery and battery and damage to
- 2:19Speaker 2: property property. And and there's again, I don't I'm not
- 2:23Speaker 2: I'm not going to play a lawyer or a D.A.
- 2:25Speaker 1: On on the radio.
- 2:26Speaker 2: But I will say that there's it's it's difficult to
- 2:30Speaker 2: look and see any kind of trend that the NFL
- 2:33Speaker 2: does in terms of punishment. We had one of our
- 2:35Speaker 2: texters earlier on today here say, like, well, can you
- 2:38Speaker 2: compare it to other ones? It's kind of hard because
- 2:40Speaker 2: Stephon Diggs played all the way to the Super Bowl
- 2:41Speaker 2: a year ago, and his issues were very public. And
- 2:47Speaker 2: then there's other ones that get handled very quickly and swiftly.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Domestic violence is nothing that the NFL is going to
- 2:53Speaker 2: mess around with. So, again, this is going to be
- 2:55Speaker 2: handled now, luckily, after a lot of time where maybe
- 3:00Speaker 2: it wasn't taken seriously. as seriously as possible. It is
- 3:04Speaker 2: at the forefront of their thought process. So this is
- 3:05Speaker 2: going to be a very serious moment for the NFL
- 3:09Speaker 2: as well, Drew, where I think they're trying to, not
- 3:11Speaker 2: that they want to make a, that they're looking to
- 3:13Speaker 2: make examples out of certain guys, but it's nothing that
- 3:17Speaker 2: is going to get looked the other way at in
- 3:19Speaker 2: the NFL office. And I do wonder if it's going
- 3:21Speaker 2: to take a resolution in the court process before they
- 3:25Speaker 2: go and take, before they allow it and they get
- 3:27Speaker 2: back onto the field.
- 3:28Speaker 1: So this is at the bottom of the NFL's list
- 3:30Speaker 1: of concerns, but What are the implications for people who
- 3:34Speaker 1: are fantasy football players? Because the squawking there will be
- 3:38Speaker 1: the loudest. The squawking there will make this... This resonates
- 3:42Speaker 1: beyond Green Bay, then, because of the squawking of the.
- 3:45Speaker 2: People want to know who to have. Well, if you
- 3:47Speaker 2: drafted Marshawn Lloyd, then good on you.
- 3:50Speaker 1: That's the thing, yeah.
- 3:51Speaker 2: There is a part of this for Lloyd where it
- 3:54Speaker 2: completely changes the conversation around of... How will this guy
- 3:58Speaker 2: stay healthy, too? How is he going to handle being
- 4:00Speaker 2: your number one running back? He's been good throughout the
- 4:04Speaker 2: entire preseason, has been waiting for the opportunity. He's looked
- 4:07Speaker 2: good in preseasons before. Um, he's an easy dude to
- 4:10Speaker 2: root for, right? Like when you hear Lloyd and his, uh,
- 4:14Speaker 2: disposition on his first two years in the NFL is
- 4:17Speaker 2: very easy guy to root for. He's extremely positive, very well-spoken,
- 4:20Speaker 2: a lot of fun to listen to in interviews. And, uh,
- 4:23Speaker 2: we're going to see just how much, what he can
- 4:25Speaker 2: make out of this opportunity. Cause I don't know that
- 4:27Speaker 2: there have been a whole lot of better gifts to
- 4:29Speaker 2: have when your career has sputtered as much as his
- 4:33Speaker 2: has to, to begin and To then be able to
- 4:36Speaker 2: take off and grab, seemingly grab hold of the job
- 4:39Speaker 2: and not let it go until... there's a resolution to this,
- 4:43Speaker 2: which could be further rather than sooner. That's an amazing point, Billy.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Of all the things that have not gone Marshall and
- 4:48Speaker 3: Lloyd's way, of all the bad breaks he's gotten, and
- 4:50Speaker 3: I'm sure he doesn't want it to come this way.
- 4:52Speaker 2: This is not the way you want it to happen,
- 4:54Speaker 2: but the opportunities happen different ways.
- 4:55Speaker 3: For the first time ever in his career, in his
- 4:58Speaker 3: pro career, something is broken in terms of giving him
- 5:01Speaker 3: an opportunity. So like you said, we'll see how he
- 5:04Speaker 3: handles it. Staying healthy is job number one for him
- 5:07Speaker 3: as much as he can, but... It's also now been
- 5:09Speaker 3: pushed to the side, as you said, Billy, because you
- 5:11Speaker 3: had to perform now for the Green Bay Packers. You
- 5:13Speaker 3: have a load to carry, and I'm sure Caleb Johnson
- 5:15Speaker 3: is going to be involved in that, too. We'll see
- 5:17Speaker 3: what happens with the rotation there. But, yeah, I mean, yeah,
- 5:20Speaker 3: it added some fodder to your point, Drew, for the
- 5:22Speaker 3: fantasy players.
- 5:23Speaker 2: I'll tell you, the one that's really going to upset
- 5:25Speaker 2: the fantasy owners is when this one.
- 5:27Speaker 1: It's first week. Chris Brooks gets 40. Oh yeah.
- 5:31Speaker 2: It gets about 40 snaps because the only way they're
- 5:34Speaker 2: going to be trying to block that Brian Flores defense
- 5:38Speaker 2: is with somebody that they trust. They're into the shotgun
- 5:40Speaker 2: next to the Jordan love. So I imagine he's going
- 5:42Speaker 2: to get a ton of work or maybe something still
- 5:44Speaker 2: to happen.
- 5:44Speaker 1: John occurs. I would judge chiming in on YouTube.
- 5:47Speaker 3: I'm interested to see how the Packers try and edit
- 5:48Speaker 3: their practice squad today.
- 5:50Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:50Speaker 3: There's things that are going to happen. Well, you know,
- 5:52Speaker 3: Aboniconda's available, right, Billy?
- 5:54Speaker 1: Yeah, your boy Izzy is available. My boy Izzy's available.
- 5:56Speaker 1: He got cut by the Cowboys yesterday. I will say,
- 5:59Speaker 1: looking at the cut list and the Packers in need
- 6:01Speaker 1: of a third quarterback, I think Sean Clifford's coming back.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Maybe a big red card in here. That's an easy one.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Sean Clifford cut by the Bengals.
- 6:08Speaker 5: He's just plug and play, bring him right back, and
- 6:10Speaker 5: he knows where everything is, and he's good to go.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And there's also, you need somebody to be able to
- 6:15Speaker 2: run your scout team that you trust and know. And he, listen, he...
- 6:20Speaker 2: He's been doing it at a couple of different stops.
- 6:22Speaker 2: And I think Sean Clifford is very okay with just
- 6:23Speaker 2: being the third quarterback. I mean, obviously, you like to play.
- 6:27Speaker 2: You want to be the guy that's running out there.
- 6:28Speaker 2: But he seems like a dude that's all vibes for
- 6:30Speaker 2: that spot.
- 6:31Speaker 1: It's not the worst job in the world. And every
- 6:33Speaker 1: now and then, you might be able to put a
- 6:34Speaker 1: uniform on. Well, and that's what everybody says.
- 6:36Speaker 5: Like, okay, Tyrod Taylor was as good as Kyle McCord
- 6:39Speaker 5: was on Saturday or Friday night.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Saturday and Friday night. They all run together.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Yep.
- 6:44Speaker 1: But as good as he was, and I heard people say,
- 6:47Speaker 1: should he be the number two? Like, no. He has
- 6:48Speaker 1: not played 14 years. He's playing vanilla defenses. Like, come on.
- 6:51Speaker 1: There's no pressure packages. He wasn't facing starters. Let's just
- 6:55Speaker 1: pump the brakes and call it what it was. Preseason.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Great story, but come on. Now, the Dolphins decided, since
- 7:00Speaker 1: they traded Quinn Ewers, right? They needed, and they had
- 7:03Speaker 1: a need, and the Packers needed to replace a draft
- 7:06Speaker 1: pick that they didn't think they were going to have
- 7:07Speaker 1: to spend yesterday. Two of them, actually. Two of them, yeah.
- 7:10Speaker 1: But so, the planets aligned, and It's the third quarterback.
- 7:14Speaker 1: He gets elevated. He's the two, if Tyrod Taylor, if
- 7:17Speaker 1: Jordan Love is out and Tyrod Taylor gets elevated and
- 7:19Speaker 1: you need someone, right? So that's the only way you're dressing,
- 7:23Speaker 1: but you do. If you're down to your third quarterback
- 7:26Speaker 1: in the NFL, I mean, come on. The season's going
- 7:28Speaker 1: to be a wash anyway. It's pretty much. I mean,
- 7:31Speaker 1: at that point, you are.
- 7:32Speaker 2: At that point, you're just swimming. You know what the
- 7:34Speaker 2: Vikings were last year at some point.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Yeah, true. But we do do this every year where.
- 7:38Speaker 3: We fall in love with a preseason quarterback. We fall
- 7:42Speaker 3: in love. It's sort of like what happened with Taysom Hill, although...
- 7:45Speaker 3: You know, Taysom Hill might be the top-end example of that.
- 7:47Speaker 1: He ended up having a nice NFL career. He got
- 7:49Speaker 1: a contract. But in a different way.
- 7:51Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't move the needle as a quarterback necessarily.
- 7:54Speaker 3: And that's the thing with people being upset about McCourt.
- 7:56Speaker 3: I get it, but it's also like they just farmed
- 8:00Speaker 3: six-round pick value out of a nothing pickup, you know?
- 8:03Speaker 1: Yeah, a futures contract. And clearly, like, the... The Dolphins
- 8:07Speaker 1: would have put in a claim then because they had
- 8:10Speaker 1: a need. Exactly. So this is, to me, a great
- 8:12Speaker 1: outcome for the Packers. The Dolphins were able to get
- 8:15Speaker 1: a guy that they targeted, and they saw the film
- 8:18Speaker 1: from Friday night. Yeah. They were like, this dude, let's go.
- 8:23Speaker 2: They knew that they liked it because the Packers South
- 8:26Speaker 2: is going to be able to operate in a certain way. Now,
- 8:29Speaker 2: I also think when you look at the draft picks
- 8:32Speaker 2: that they had, end up trading yesterday. Two seventh-round picks, right?
- 8:35Speaker 2: One for Redmond to the Rams, one to the Steelers.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Oh, the sixth.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It's the seventh in 2028 to the Rams. They got
- 8:44Speaker 2: a sixth-round pick back for McCord.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Pardon me. The ones that they traded away was the
- 8:47Speaker 1: one that I was talking about.
- 8:49Speaker 2: They also traded away their seventh-round picks this year, and
- 8:51Speaker 2: then that seventh-round pick, they turned $ 200, 000 over to J.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Michael Sturdivant. And he ends up making the team.
- 8:57Speaker 2: So like you look at some of those draft picks,
- 8:59Speaker 2: they didn't care about him that much in this draft.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Then they ship off to in future years to help
- 9:04Speaker 2: this team because they realize like, hey, the time is
- 9:07Speaker 2: now and I'm not waiting around for a seventh round
- 9:09Speaker 2: pick to maybe make the team coming up in two
- 9:12Speaker 2: years because I just cut a sixth rounder into Monty
- 9:14Speaker 2: Jackson and had no qualms about it. So we're adding
- 9:17Speaker 2: right now and we'll see Sturdivant. made a very, very
- 9:20Speaker 2: good case to make it, and they clearly liked him
- 9:23Speaker 2: and thought about him very early because he was one
- 9:25Speaker 2: of their biggest priorities, guaranteed him 200K for the season.
- 9:29Speaker 1: So I'm not totally shocked he made the team, but.
- 9:31Speaker 2: When we were doing the mathematics, Drew, on Friday night,
- 9:34Speaker 2: didn't know that Williams was going to go to IR,
- 9:36Speaker 2: didn't know how they were going to do it, but
- 9:38Speaker 2: knew that they were going to try and find a
- 9:39Speaker 2: way to keep him. Yeah, Colin Oliver to IR too, right?
- 9:42Speaker 2: And seven defensive tackles. The seven interior defensive lineman Brooks
- 9:47Speaker 2: being one of them. And they only keep four edge
- 9:50Speaker 2: rushers with Micah going on PUP. You're going to tell
- 9:52Speaker 2: me when you're going to get that one coming back.
- 9:53Speaker 2: I mean, Kelly did not make it. Stackhouse, right? Stackhouse
- 9:58Speaker 2: didn't have a good team. I really thought Kelly was
- 10:00Speaker 2: making it after that big night on Friday night. He
- 10:02Speaker 2: is a prime practice squad guy, and hopefully he ends
- 10:06Speaker 2: up there.
- 10:06Speaker 3: He's 21 years old. There's a lot of tools to
- 10:08Speaker 3: work with there. And we saw Sturtevant's post, and it
- 10:10Speaker 3: was awesome and true. The goal is always to make
- 10:13Speaker 3: the big team and to make the club, and you
- 10:15Speaker 3: get the minimum.
- 10:15Speaker 1: You get the belly.
- 10:16Speaker 3: But the practice squad is not a bad job these days.
- 10:19Speaker 3: It never was, but it's getting better and better with
- 10:22Speaker 3: every news. I think they're making a couple hundred thousand now.
- 10:24Speaker 1: It's still good. J.
- 10:25Speaker 5: Michael Sturtevant is also, he will keep alive the tradition
- 10:28Speaker 5: of Packers, 22 years of keeping an undrafted free agent.
- 10:32Speaker 1: It stays alive, baby. It stays alive. A lot of
- 10:35Speaker 1: good options there.
- 10:36Speaker 3: Shepard and Johnson.
- 10:38Speaker 2: One final thing on the trade news. They traded, and
- 10:41Speaker 2: who's going to be their starting inside linebacker this year
- 10:43Speaker 2: is Zaire Franklin. You see who got cut yesterday from
- 10:46Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts?
- 10:47Speaker 1: I did not. Colby Wooden. Oh, hey now.
- 10:49Speaker 2: A little bit of a surprise. He ends up getting
- 10:52Speaker 2: traded in the same offseason that he gets shipped over there.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Fascinating one to see where he felt like he was
- 10:57Speaker 2: playing a little bit out of position last year. I
- 10:59Speaker 2: know he said that when he was traded in March
- 11:01Speaker 2: and now doesn't even make the team after the Packers
- 11:04Speaker 2: end up getting Zaire Franklin for him earlier this year.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Pretty wild. All right, 877-794-1973, nicolaylaw.com, talk text line. Time
- 11:11Speaker 1: for a few game balls and kicks to the balls.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Let's fire up the machine. Arm and sirens in charge.
- 11:15Speaker 1: You know the drill. You're standing in the locker room
- 11:18Speaker 1: surrounded by people in towels and football underwear, and you
- 11:21Speaker 1: envision it any way you want. You get to bestow
- 11:24Speaker 1: a game ball for a job well done. Today on
- 11:25Speaker 1: the program, it's this.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Pause.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself. I just had to leave that
- 11:30Speaker 1: in from PCA last week. Pause. You just had to
- 11:33Speaker 1: leave it in?
- 11:34Speaker 3: Pause. Pause.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Pause. There you go. That's a good one. Geez Louise.
- 11:38Speaker 4: Pause.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I didn't even plan that, Billy. Did you know the
- 11:41Speaker 1: context of this, Billy? The first part of that quote
- 11:44Speaker 1: that led him to say pause? When Eduardo Rodriguez is
- 11:47Speaker 1: just shoving it down your throat? Yeah. Pause. You were
- 11:49Speaker 1: here that day, I think. Yeah, that was. I just couldn't.
- 11:52Speaker 1: That is it.
- 11:53Speaker 3: All right.
- 11:54Speaker 1: And then conversely, a kick to the balls. If you
- 11:56Speaker 1: want to give Armand one for choosing a PCA sounder,
- 11:58Speaker 1: feel free. Thank you.
- 12:00Speaker 5: Yes.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Fair. All right.
- 12:01Speaker 1: But a kick to the balls on the program is this.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Somebody now mooning the pursuit. That's a first.
- 12:07Speaker 3: That's from the Sloan. That's also from last week, the
- 12:10Speaker 3: slow car chase.
- 12:12Speaker 2: From the slowest car chase of all time on ABC7?
- 12:16Speaker 1: Man, you are all Chicago. We're starting a four-game series
- 12:19Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field. You picked two Chicago Sounders on Monday
- 12:23Speaker 1: for game balls and kicks to the balls?
- 12:24Speaker 3: Listen, when I get a good cut on Wednesday and Thursday,
- 12:27Speaker 3: it always sounds better when I say I'm definitely saving
- 12:29Speaker 3: that for Monday. But I did save them for Monday,
- 12:32Speaker 3: so that's just what I did.
- 12:33Speaker 1: All right. If I may open the bidding as much
- 12:36Speaker 1: as Armand's choices are questionable. Our first game ball today
- 12:42Speaker 1: should be to the Cincinnati Reds.
- 12:43Speaker 4: Pause.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Well done. Weekend they had. Because it takes on a
- 12:49Speaker 1: different center. Had the Cubs won that game last night,
- 12:51Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh, they're right here. One game can
- 12:54Speaker 1: change your perception until you realize it's a long season.
- 12:57Speaker 1: It's 162, and every game's just a raisin in the
- 13:00Speaker 1: trail mix, as a man once called it. This is, though,
- 13:03Speaker 1: the Cubs. And for the Reds to go in there
- 13:06Speaker 1: and win the series, giddy up.
- 13:09Speaker 2: What a difference, because when PCA blasts the first one
- 13:12Speaker 2: and I'm watching it on NBC, oh, okay, well, this
- 13:15Speaker 2: is not, you're going to go to bed, the Cubs
- 13:18Speaker 2: are going to have a little bit of momentum, a
- 13:19Speaker 2: little bit of a roll, and to wake up with, yeah,
- 13:22Speaker 2: him hitting five bombs in two games, PCA, that being
- 13:25Speaker 2: in the Cubs, dropping two of three, I.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Feel a lot better. Maybe the market will correct regression
- 13:29Speaker 1: of the mean, my favorite sports theory. Maybe he'll go
- 13:32Speaker 1: 0 for 15 now after hitting five bombs in two games.
- 13:34Speaker 2: I mean, you can't think he's going to hit five
- 13:36Speaker 2: more bombs in the next two games.
- 13:37Speaker 1: He's got to cool off. He's got to cool off.
- 13:39Speaker 1: How about this? How about we don't throw him a
- 13:41Speaker 1: fastball in his first at-bat and maybe pitch around him
- 13:44Speaker 1: in his first at-bat or just pitch him carefully?
- 13:46Speaker 2: He might see four sliders all in the dirt if
- 13:49Speaker 2: I'd be out there. That'd be a tough guy for
- 13:52Speaker 2: me to throw anything inside of that box to.
- 13:54Speaker 3: He's got to be stealing signs or something like that, right?
- 13:56Speaker 1: He's got to be doing something wrong.
- 13:58Speaker 5: Was Christian Yellich stealing signs in 18 and 19 when
- 14:01Speaker 5: he was the best player on the planet?
- 14:03Speaker 1: Hugh Darvish said he was.
- 14:04Speaker 3: He did say that, but he said it in Japanese
- 14:07Speaker 3: or something like that. And Yellich said, no one needs
- 14:10Speaker 3: to cheat against you. Yeah, Cubs wanted to blame Thames
- 14:12Speaker 3: for doing it. Listen, if they're going to throw accusations
- 14:14Speaker 3: to us every time we do well, I'm doing the
- 14:16Speaker 3: same thing.
- 14:16Speaker 1: I like that. I like it. No, listen, he's just awesome.
- 14:19Speaker 1: I get it. He's a good player, and I don't
- 14:21Speaker 1: like that.
- 14:22Speaker 3: All right?
- 14:22Speaker 1: I don't like it.
- 14:23Speaker 3: But that's the reality.
- 14:24Speaker 1: It's going to be a playoff atmosphere. It's going to
- 14:26Speaker 1: be awesome. Either way, it's going to be awesome. The
- 14:29Speaker 1: whole back and forth. How many Brewers fans are going
- 14:31Speaker 1: to invade Wrigley Field? I will give a game ball
- 14:34Speaker 1: to any Brewers fan who goes and shows out. and
- 14:36Speaker 1: goes to Wrigley because you know they're coming this way.
- 14:38Speaker 1: You know they're coming this way, Drew, and it is...
- 14:40Speaker 1: It's a Labor Day game.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and an absolute game ball because I do... It
- 14:45Speaker 2: is one of the better trips you can make as
- 14:47Speaker 2: a Brewer family. It's very, very quick. Made it a
- 14:50Speaker 2: couple of different times with my pops. I haven't been
- 14:52Speaker 2: there in a decade or so. Definitely need to get back,
- 14:55Speaker 2: and this would be the weekend to do because anybody
- 14:58Speaker 2: that was there for game 163... I have not met
- 15:01Speaker 2: a Brewers fan that was there. There were a ton
- 15:03Speaker 2: of them, too, when those tickets went on sale, what,
- 15:05Speaker 2: a day and a half before?
- 15:06Speaker 1: That was one of our best moments as Brewers fans.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Nobody that I talked to that was there, any other game,
- 15:13Speaker 2: was their best in-person attendance. That sweetness of that victory
- 15:17Speaker 2: is as good as it gets, and it'll be pretty
- 15:19Speaker 2: dang good coming up this week.
- 15:20Speaker 3: I'll never forget that game and the way Brewers fans
- 15:23Speaker 3: made noise. On TV, at least I was watching it,
- 15:25Speaker 3: but like showing out like that was the one, that
- 15:29Speaker 3: was the shining moment for Brewers fans to give the
- 15:32Speaker 3: taste of the medicine to Cubs fans.
- 15:33Speaker 1: That they always give us. Yeah, it was awesome.
- 15:36Speaker 3: And they were boisterous and they were obnoxious, just the
- 15:38Speaker 3: way you want your fans to be on the road.
- 15:40Speaker 3: So I love that.
- 15:42Speaker 1: The, the, the door is open game balls and kicks
- 15:45Speaker 1: to the balls. Let's have it. All right, guys.
- 15:47Speaker 3: I got a kick to the balls if you don't
- 15:49Speaker 3: mind indulging me here.
- 15:50Speaker 4: Somebody now mooning the pursuit. That's a first.
- 15:53Speaker 1: I have a feeling where this is going.
- 15:55Speaker 3: Great Novak Djokovic. The great Novak Djokovic who lost in
- 15:58Speaker 3: the first round of the real U.S.
- 16:00Speaker 4: Open, by the way.
- 16:00Speaker 1: None of that golf stuff. The real U.S.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Open happening in Queens to Mariano Navone, the Argentinian unranked player.
- 16:06Speaker 3: He lost in the first round for the first time
- 16:08Speaker 3: since 06, 20-year streak, and started shedding some tears late
- 16:12Speaker 3: in the fifth set, maybe knowing that time was Father
- 16:15Speaker 3: Time was finally.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Going to beat him.
- 16:18Speaker 3: So maybe I shouldn't give him a total kick to
- 16:20Speaker 3: the balls, but he left it all on the court,
- 16:23Speaker 3: as you saw him puking during the match as well,
- 16:25Speaker 3: picking up some illness. I don't know what that was,
- 16:27Speaker 3: but he was puking on the court. He was doing
- 16:30Speaker 3: all he could, but poor, injured and ill Novak Djokovic
- 16:35Speaker 3: losing in the first round of the U.S. Open.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I've said, you know. believing filling their socks or puking
- 16:41Speaker 1: on themselves are terms for guys who don't play well
- 16:44Speaker 1: and don't do well in big situations. And they tried.
- 16:46Speaker 1: He threw up on himself. The definition, he threw up
- 16:50Speaker 1: on himself.
- 16:51Speaker 3: And unfortunately, the thing is, you saw the shots of
- 16:53Speaker 3: his wife and his kids, and his two young kids
- 16:55Speaker 3: are now old enough.
- 16:56Speaker 1: To understand and watch. Armageddon in his feels.
- 16:58Speaker 3: And poor, my man, I forgot, I don't know his
- 17:01Speaker 3: son's name.
- 17:01Speaker 5: So you're kicking him and not giving him game ball? No,
- 17:03Speaker 5: I was going to say, it just sounds like he's
- 17:05Speaker 5: laughing in his face.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Game ball for the great career, obviously, and an unbelievable pro.
- 17:10Speaker 1: But by the way, sucks to suck.
- 17:12Speaker 3: He had a kick in the balls moment when he's
- 17:15Speaker 3: puking on the court and losing in the first round
- 17:16Speaker 3: of Mariano, whatever his name is.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Sounds like this guy had the best moment of his career,
- 17:21Speaker 2: this Mariano, Kathy, you don't even know his last name.
- 17:23Speaker 3: And as John McEnroe said, well, congratulations, kid, you'll be
- 17:25Speaker 3: playing second round on court 21. So McEnroe is kind
- 17:28Speaker 3: of being a jerk to him. Basically saying like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 17:32Speaker 3: You had your shining moment. I will say I did not.
- 17:34Speaker 3: I haven't watched enough tennis in my entire life. Now,
- 17:36Speaker 3: maybe I've watched more than I care to admit.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Both fair. I think both might be true. I mean, both.
- 17:41Speaker 1: I didn't realize how good McEnroe was at his job. Oh,
- 17:43Speaker 1: he's really good.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Like I just, I will say, I don't know the
- 17:47Speaker 2: game enough to appreciate it enough.
- 17:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:49Speaker 2: But when Charles Barkley tells him on the, on the
- 17:53Speaker 2: floor at the finals, he's like, man, you're the best
- 17:55Speaker 2: announcer that there is out here, man.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I love listening to you, man. I'm like, I got
- 17:58Speaker 1: to take a, take a gander. He's amazing on there.
- 18:01Speaker 3: He's a good analyst, but his real skill is kind
- 18:03Speaker 3: of rattling people's cages in a way that like is
- 18:06Speaker 3: actually entertaining. Like Smoltz does it.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah.
- 18:10Speaker 3: But he does in a way that is like, he
- 18:11Speaker 3: had a lot of, it gets a lot of people
- 18:13Speaker 3: upset or whatever. And he'll say, you know, he's a
- 18:15Speaker 3: good analyst, but.
- 18:16Speaker 1: He'll also wild one-liners being analysts for tennis. Isn't easy.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Cause you have to do it in the course of
- 18:21Speaker 3: five hours, the one-liners and stuff like that.
- 18:22Speaker 1: So, That was a four-hour match.
- 18:25Speaker 2: I give Djokovic some flowers there, but I knew you
- 18:28Speaker 2: were going to square them up, and that right and
- 18:31Speaker 2: left one were going to catch a big kick. squarely
- 18:36Speaker 2: from Sarian on that side when I saw that headline.
- 18:38Speaker 3: And on the weekend where Federer got his Hall of
- 18:40Speaker 3: Fame induction, bringing people to tears as well. But Drew,
- 18:43Speaker 3: as you know, McEnroe as a player had that ability
- 18:45Speaker 3: to sometimes be annoying, sometimes be.
- 18:47Speaker 1: But also to entertain.
- 18:49Speaker 5: He was the snotty... And I loved him. It's funny
- 18:52Speaker 5: because my dad hated him because it was like a
- 18:53Speaker 5: generational thing.
- 18:54Speaker 1: He was like my guy.
- 18:56Speaker 5: He was yelling at the chair up and he was
- 18:58Speaker 5: wearing people out.
- 19:00Speaker 1: He created viral.
- 19:02Speaker 3: mic'd up type moments when there wasn't any that helped
- 19:05Speaker 3: tennis during that time.
- 19:05Speaker 1: Could you imagine if he was playing today.
- 19:07Speaker 3: That's the thing you know everything would be like mic'd
- 19:09Speaker 3: up yeah.
- 19:10Speaker 5: He was kind of like the pca oh no who
- 19:12Speaker 5: said that kind of like pca no he was like
- 19:14Speaker 5: uh yeah macro he was just cool playing guitar and
- 19:18Speaker 5: hanging out with rock stars and married to an actress
- 19:20Speaker 5: at the time like he was and he and vitus
- 19:22Speaker 5: garolitis were the definition.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Of cool back in the day well i was.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Just that was the thing like you see him he
- 19:27Speaker 2: is a he's a the cool guy playing tennis and
- 19:30Speaker 2: for a kid that didn't grow up thinking there were
- 19:32Speaker 2: a whole lot of cool guys playing tennis.
- 19:34Speaker 1: I will admit, that was maybe a hole in my game. Well,
- 19:38Speaker 1: I know. Who was good when you were coming up, though?
- 19:40Speaker 1: Because Agassi was cool for a while, but Andy Roddick.
- 19:43Speaker 2: you missed the pete sampras here and he.
- 19:47Speaker 3: Was boring as hell the thing about it is like
- 19:49Speaker 3: when i came up it was sampras and agassi and
- 19:51Speaker 3: sampras was awesome but super boring agassi was inconsistent but
- 19:55Speaker 3: awesome and super fun to watch but you didn't have
- 19:57Speaker 3: either of those when you grew up billy america so
- 19:59Speaker 3: you had erotic one time.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Was and all i had in tennis was me getting
- 20:02Speaker 2: yelled at at the village club because all i wanted
- 20:05Speaker 2: to do was hit the ball over the fence. And
- 20:06Speaker 2: then I got kicked out of tennis lessons when I
- 20:08Speaker 2: was six years old because all I would do was
- 20:10Speaker 2: go hit the ball over the fence. Maybe that was
- 20:13Speaker 2: a me problem. One kick to the ball squarely to
- 20:16Speaker 2: the USC Trojans.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Somebody now moaning the pursuit. That's a first.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Now, you could have mooned somebody at the Coliseum on Saturday,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and I don't know anybody who would have known. You
- 20:26Speaker 2: see these shots of the San Jose State USC kickoff
- 20:32Speaker 2: there in the Coliseum. Now, in fairness to Trojan fans,
- 20:36Speaker 2: I think it was legitimately 100 degrees on the field.
- 20:40Speaker 1: A hot, hot L.A.
- 20:42Speaker 3: Day.
- 20:44Speaker 1: But, I mean, it looks like it is an open scrimmage.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Of smattering people that were at that game. USC with
- 20:52Speaker 2: a little bit of an underwhelming fourth quarter. I think
- 20:54Speaker 2: they gave up 23 points in the fourth quarter. Did
- 20:56Speaker 2: not cover. They were up 35-3. Lincoln Riley's team is
- 21:00Speaker 2: a dark horse to make the college football playoff. But
- 21:03Speaker 2: people are seeing that and saying, wow, Drew, they're going
- 21:06Speaker 2: to fire this guy.
- 21:07Speaker 1: They're firing him.
- 21:08Speaker 2: They're taking his big house that they gave him in
- 21:09Speaker 2: that contract because if they can't fill up that stadium,
- 21:12Speaker 2: what's the point?
- 21:13Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay. 100 degrees is rough, though, man.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Keep the game balls and kicks of the balls rolling.
- 21:18Speaker 1: When we come back, it's halftime already. Time flies when
- 21:20Speaker 1: you're having a good time. Scott Dolphin will pop in.
- 21:22Speaker 1: Our halftime correspondent. They had a great secret show on Saturday.
- 21:26Speaker 1: We'll find out who it was. You're in the huddle,
- 21:29Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Oh, we made it through the
- 21:31Speaker 1: first half of the huddle. Let's make our adjustments with
- 21:33Speaker 1: our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin, from the country station down
- 21:36Speaker 1: the hall, FM 106. Dolph, good morning. Hi, fellas. Good weekend? Oh,
- 21:40Speaker 1: good weekend. And it's coming at us hot and heavy.
- 21:42Speaker 1: We got Josh Jacobs on the commissioner's exempt list. We
- 21:44Speaker 1: got Brewers Cubs this week. We got the Badgers ramping
- 21:47Speaker 1: up to play. But I want to ask you about
- 21:49Speaker 1: the secret show that took place at the Cooperage on Saturday. Yeah,
- 21:52Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. Sold out again this year. So cool.
- 21:55Speaker 1: We had three incredible acts that we had no clue
- 21:57Speaker 1: who was playing there.
- 21:57Speaker 5: Until we got on stage. So this is like, you've
- 21:59Speaker 5: got to get your tickets early. Do you give some
- 22:00Speaker 5: away on the air, too?
- 22:02Speaker 1: Very few. I don't know. I can't remember. Maybe a
- 22:05Speaker 1: pair or two, but it's very limited. So you're buying
- 22:08Speaker 1: tickets on the come, and you know that your station
- 22:11Speaker 1: has the goodwill and the equity that people know it's
- 22:13Speaker 1: going to be a good show. So it sells out
- 22:14Speaker 1: really fast, and then people show up, and they don't
- 22:17Speaker 1: know who's coming on stage, and even you don't know
- 22:19Speaker 1: who's coming on stage. Don't even know.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Shanna, our boss, gives us an envelope. As we walk
- 22:23Speaker 5: on stage, and it's almost like reading the Oscar, it
- 22:25Speaker 5: goes to. That's super exciting.
- 22:26Speaker 1: And then the guys just roll in, like, you don't
- 22:28Speaker 1: see them backstage?
- 22:29Speaker 5: No, you know, Cooper just set up nicely that they've
- 22:32Speaker 5: got that tucked away, like, back alley. So the buses
- 22:35Speaker 5: are back there, and yeah, people just show up, and
- 22:38Speaker 5: you find out when they walk on stage who's coming
- 22:39Speaker 5: on stage. Who was the first act that you introduced? Atlas, A-T-L-U-S,
- 22:43Speaker 5: new artist out of the Denver area. He's written some
- 22:47Speaker 5: stuff with Jelly Roll, and so he was really good
- 22:49Speaker 5: out of the shoot.
- 22:50Speaker 1: We had Mitchell Tenpenny. Mitchell Tenpenny, who's a headliner in
- 22:53Speaker 1: his own right.
- 22:54Speaker 5: Yes.
- 22:55Speaker 1: He was second. And then Brantley Gilbert, who sang nothing
- 22:57Speaker 1: but number one songs. What a show. That's a monster
- 23:00Speaker 1: show for somebody. It really was. You guys playing a
- 23:03Speaker 1: flat tops and playing acoustically. Yeah.
- 23:05Speaker 5: And the artists all seemed to have a great time, too.
- 23:08Speaker 5: They were thrilled by the event. And I hope this
- 23:12Speaker 5: thing continues forever and ever because it's become a hit.
- 23:14Speaker 1: $ 40. It's what you pay to get in. You're there.
- 23:17Speaker 1: It was a two-and-a-half-hour show. That's an amazing deal. And
- 23:19Speaker 1: you saw all this incredible act. What about a.
- 23:21Speaker 3: Great thing like that Abel will still do it, the
- 23:23Speaker 3: fact that Shanna still keeps it secret, does all that
- 23:26Speaker 3: thing from you guys.
- 23:26Speaker 1: I just love that. I thought it was a work,
- 23:28Speaker 1: to be honest.
- 23:29Speaker 2: When I heard Shanna explain it, I'm like, all right, Shanna,
- 23:32Speaker 2: come on.
- 23:33Speaker 1: They don't know.
- 23:35Speaker 2: This man is a man of integrity. He's telling you
- 23:38Speaker 2: he opens that damn envelope, and you have no clue.
- 23:40Speaker 2: You can't even see them weaving backstage. That's a phenomenal
- 23:43Speaker 2: coup to be able to pull over, not only on
- 23:44Speaker 2: the crowd, but on you guys, too.
- 23:45Speaker 1: That's part of the fun of it, right? I mean,
- 23:47Speaker 1: that is awesome.
- 23:47Speaker 5: I couldn't keep a secret that long. There's no way.
- 23:50Speaker 5: I would have to tell someone if I knew those
- 23:52Speaker 5: three acts. There's no way I could do it. So, yeah,
- 23:53Speaker 5: props to Shanna for keeping that a secret from everybody,
- 23:56Speaker 5: including us.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Just wild.
- 23:58Speaker 2: It's got to be cool, though, for the acts to
- 24:01Speaker 2: be able to know that one, you're going to surprise
- 24:04Speaker 2: the hell out of people and immediately get a big pop, right?
- 24:06Speaker 2: Like when there's a surprise, you already know it's going
- 24:09Speaker 2: to be a big pop. But the acoustic spot for
- 24:11Speaker 2: the artist, that's got to be a cool thing, right?
- 24:13Speaker 2: Like it's an intimate setting. It is.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Instead of guys that are.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Usually playing big arenas and bigger shows, you probably get
- 24:18Speaker 2: to show out a little bit more.
- 24:18Speaker 1: They each brought a couple players with them.
- 24:20Speaker 5: You know, Brantley Gilbert had a mandolin player with him.
- 24:23Speaker 5: So it's always cool to hear that sound, but you
- 24:25Speaker 5: still see how incredible these guys are at that level
- 24:28Speaker 5: when it comes to picking. Even when you're on an
- 24:29Speaker 5: acoustic guitar and the finger work, it's still fun to watch.
- 24:32Speaker 5: And a lot of people that buy those tickets, if
- 24:35Speaker 5: they see a lineup, they might say, oh, I've heard
- 24:39Speaker 5: of these people, but I don't know if I would
- 24:40Speaker 5: pay to go see them. Then they get there and
- 24:41Speaker 5: they're like, wow, I had no idea the show was
- 24:43Speaker 5: going to be this good.
- 24:44Speaker 1: That's a great point. It's just wild.
- 24:46Speaker 5: So next year, make it a point, buy your tickets,
- 24:48Speaker 5: and go see the secret show. You're never going to
- 24:50Speaker 5: be disappointed. The Cooperage is a great location, by the way.
- 24:53Speaker 5: They're right on the river. They're attached to Boone and Crockett.
- 24:57Speaker 5: They've got that great food truck park right outside. So before,
- 25:02Speaker 5: you can pregame. And after, everybody went out there and
- 25:05Speaker 5: post-gamed after the concert and hung out and watched the
- 25:07Speaker 5: boats go up and down the river, had a couple cocktails.
- 25:09Speaker 1: And some food. That's a good spot.
- 25:11Speaker 4: It is.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I ran into your partner on the street later in
- 25:14Speaker 1: the evening. You did? As she was having dinner, yeah.
- 25:16Speaker 1: I ran into her on the street. Random running. She
- 25:19Speaker 1: was having a post game. She's been in my neighborhood
- 25:22Speaker 1: all day.
- 25:23Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
- 25:24Speaker 5: She did say she was down there at a couple
- 25:25Speaker 5: different locations. She's more of a downtown girl. She used
- 25:27Speaker 5: to live just off of downtown where I'm more of
- 25:29Speaker 5: a south side guy.
- 25:30Speaker 3: You just dropped the bar. Is that a country song yet?
- 25:33Speaker 1: She's a downtown girl. Send it to somebody for something
- 25:36Speaker 1: to write. Wish it to Nashville.
- 25:38Speaker 2: She's a downtown girl. That's it. That's it right there.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Don't attach that sample with the name. Don't have Armand
- 25:45Speaker 2: sing the demo tape.
- 25:47Speaker 3: That's Scott Dolphin's copyright. Anyone steal him that? It's going
- 25:51Speaker 3: to sound cooler when Brantley sings it.
- 25:54Speaker 1: Downtown girl. We'll get to Brewers Cubs momentarily, but Dolph,
- 25:58Speaker 1: I did not follow. We were so busy with Josh
- 26:00Speaker 1: Jacobs and the Packers cuts. Did not follow anything the
- 26:03Speaker 1: Bears did. Were there any surprises from their cuts? Because
- 26:05Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if you were excited
- 26:07Speaker 1: about an Iowa Hawkeye coming to Green Bay to tote
- 26:09Speaker 1: the Rockets.
- 26:10Speaker 5: I'm never excited about Iowa Hawkeyes going to Green Bay.
- 26:12Speaker 5: It seems to happen. Not as much as it used to,
- 26:14Speaker 5: but it still seems to happen far more often than
- 26:17Speaker 5: I wanted to grab.
- 26:18Speaker 3: Mr.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Van Ness is in the spotlight right now.
- 26:21Speaker 5: Yeah, so Caleb Johnson was a freaking nightmare for defenses
- 26:25Speaker 5: when he was at Iowa a couple years ago.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Yeah, All-American. I mean, he just.
- 26:29Speaker 5: He either ran over people or he ran by them.
- 26:31Speaker 5: For a big man, he's got such great moves, but
- 26:34Speaker 5: for whatever reason, I don't know if he didn't study
- 26:35Speaker 5: the playbook or what last year in Pittsburgh, but he
- 26:38Speaker 5: was lost in the depth chart. I remember him They
- 26:41Speaker 5: tried to use him on kickoff return, and he had
- 26:43Speaker 5: some costly fumbles, and it just did not work out
- 26:46Speaker 5: for him. So hopefully a fresh start in Green Bay
- 26:48Speaker 5: will be just what the doctor wanted.
- 26:50Speaker 1: That's it, Dolph. I don't remember him being a kick returner.
- 26:52Speaker 2: And then when they make him a kick returner, you're like, okay,
- 26:55Speaker 2: I don't know that this is necessarily where you're going
- 26:57Speaker 2: to see a 230-pounder be able to showcase his ability.
- 27:02Speaker 2: I really liked him. I loved him coming out of
- 27:05Speaker 2: the draft. We watched what he did. He did it
- 27:06Speaker 2: to Wisconsin a couple of different times. But he is
- 27:09Speaker 2: just a physical back that when you get now a
- 27:12Speaker 2: second-year player who was a second-round pick, if I'm not mistaken,
- 27:16Speaker 2: for a seventh-round pick.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Second or third, something like that, yeah. You've got to
- 27:18Speaker 1: take a swing.
- 27:19Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot worse swings you could
- 27:21Speaker 2: take than Caleb Johnson, who's run against some legit NFL-style
- 27:25Speaker 2: defenses in the Big Ten before, too.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
- 27:28Speaker 5: I mean, the kid's got all the talent in the world.
- 27:29Speaker 5: That's why I was such a head-scratcher last year for
- 27:32Speaker 5: him in Pittsburgh. And then he had fallen down the
- 27:34Speaker 5: depth chart even farther this year.
- 27:35Speaker 1: The summer.
- 27:36Speaker 5: So it was it was time to go. And that's
- 27:38Speaker 5: a good landing spot for him. There's opportunities.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew we didn't remember.
- 27:42Speaker 2: I'd remember part of Caleb Johnson's night a couple of
- 27:46Speaker 2: years ago when the Hawkeyes put it on the Badgers.
- 27:48Speaker 1: Pretty bad. Forty two to ten.
- 27:49Speaker 4: It was.
- 27:49Speaker 1: And that was the go to hand. Shake the hand.
- 27:52Speaker 2: And the linebacker for the Hawkeyes was just donked.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Dog walking the pack, uh, the Badgers Higgins. Oh, Jay Higgins,
- 28:00Speaker 1: Jay Higgins. He's laughing at everybody. Caleb Johnson. Yeah, I
- 28:04Speaker 1: was right.
- 28:04Speaker 2: It was a 24 totes for a buck 35 and
- 28:06Speaker 2: three teeth.
- 28:07Speaker 1: That's a solid. That's not a bad night. That's not
- 28:09Speaker 1: a bad night. Not a bad night. Yeah. Jay Higgins.
- 28:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:12Speaker 1: He's a Baltimore Raven. Now I think I want to
- 28:13Speaker 1: say did the, uh, Bears cut anybody of note?
- 28:18Speaker 5: The backup running back I thought they thought would make
- 28:21Speaker 5: the team, and he was cut outright. The biggest surprise
- 28:24Speaker 5: to me, and I guess it wasn't to a lot
- 28:25Speaker 5: of Bears fans because they didn't think they were going
- 28:27Speaker 5: to pick up that contract, was Jervon Dexter, who I
- 28:29Speaker 5: liked a lot when he was on the field, but
- 28:32Speaker 5: he was not in Ben Johnson's plans, so he was dealt...
- 28:35Speaker 5: traded away uh yesterday so shipped him off i thought
- 28:38Speaker 5: jedrick wills would have a real chance to be the
- 28:41Speaker 5: left tackle they decided that he wasn't that was another
- 28:43Speaker 5: surprise game performance probably uh did something there but that's
- 28:47Speaker 5: a former top 10 pick it was has all the
- 28:50Speaker 5: talent in the world with cleveland just couldn't stay healthy
- 28:52Speaker 5: and just seemingly doesn't have it is the guy you're
- 28:55Speaker 5: talking about thank you rahman yeah that's the guy that
- 28:57Speaker 5: i thought would make the roster uh But, yeah, the
- 29:01Speaker 5: guy you just mentioned, he got schooled on a couple
- 29:05Speaker 5: of those televised games.
- 29:06Speaker 1: I mean, beaten badly. Yeah, tough.
- 29:08Speaker 2: Dave Wonstadt was liking him. Oh, big guy, don, don.
- 29:13Speaker 2: He can move all over the place. He didn't necessarily
- 29:16Speaker 2: have it once Coach put the play sheet away there
- 29:19Speaker 2: at practice.
- 29:19Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't know. There was no shocking surprises,
- 29:23Speaker 5: I don't think, for the Bears. I mean, I think
- 29:25Speaker 5: Ben Johnson likes who he likes, and they're ready.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Packers-Bears, always an event, especially now. It's one you circle.
- 29:33Speaker 1: But does it compare to what happens this week, this
- 29:35Speaker 1: little seven game tournament, seven games in 10 days of.
- 29:37Speaker 5: The Brewers are playing the Cubs. This is a playoff atmosphere.
- 29:40Speaker 5: These games are going to feel like playoff games. Pleasantly
- 29:42Speaker 5: surprised when I woke up this morning and saw the
- 29:44Speaker 5: Cubs lost again last night.
- 29:45Speaker 1: So they dropped three straight series.
- 29:47Speaker 5: That makes it, that makes a little less stressful for
- 29:51Speaker 5: the Brewers with that eight game lead with seven to
- 29:53Speaker 5: play with Chicago.
- 29:54Speaker 1: How about the Brewers with after that, they got swept
- 29:57Speaker 1: in San Diego. Everybody was just, dobbers were down. It's like, oh,
- 30:00Speaker 1: they're going to LA. Oh my God. This is like, well,
- 30:02Speaker 1: then you saw Atlanta coming off and then the birds
- 30:05Speaker 1: have not lost a series since that time. Fowers gave
- 30:08Speaker 1: one per very, very, uh, pertinent message. Chill the out.
- 30:12Speaker 1: I love bleep out. Boy, did that work?
- 30:14Speaker 3: And it's just emblematic of what they've done the last
- 30:16Speaker 3: few years. When, when they've held these division leads, as
- 30:19Speaker 3: soon as it seems like their foot slipping a bit
- 30:21Speaker 3: or someone gets closer, they push them back at arm's
- 30:23Speaker 3: length and they find a way to, To re-energize themselves.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Yeah, and every spring training, somebody the next year picks
- 30:28Speaker 1: them third.
- 30:29Speaker 3: Yeah, and 84.5 was the total, by the way.
- 30:32Speaker 1: That blew by over the weekend. 84.5 wins. Beat it
- 30:35Speaker 1: in August. An unconscionable number by Vegas. If you got
- 30:38Speaker 1: the money, good. Yeah, the computer nerds had it, too. Yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 1: they were wrong this time. Yeah, I was going to say,
- 30:42Speaker 1: they also do have the best record in baseball. It's
- 30:44Speaker 1: not like.
- 30:46Speaker 2: For them to be able to beat it here, somebody
- 30:48Speaker 2: was going to have their win total cracked probably around
- 30:51Speaker 2: the exact same time.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Probably, yeah. And you don't fluke your way to it.
- 30:54Speaker 5: And we heard Murph's post-game comments that Hunter had, and
- 30:57Speaker 5: he's just like, well, we have to play a certain way.
- 30:59Speaker 5: Say we're underdogs, but we have to play a certain way.
- 31:01Speaker 5: If we have to bunt five times in a row,
- 31:02Speaker 5: we're going to bunt five times in a row.
- 31:03Speaker 1: We have to play a certain way with an intensity
- 31:06Speaker 1: and a defense. So yesterday, defense failed him a little bit.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Mitchell and Churio kind of got a little miscommunication on
- 31:12Speaker 1: a ball. Yeah, I thought that one was going to
- 31:14Speaker 1: get caught, but. I don't know if you buy into
- 31:16Speaker 1: it when you look at the game cast or whatever
- 31:19Speaker 1: and you see, okay, so that ball had like a 15%
- 31:22Speaker 1: hit percentage. So it was 85% of them that's caught.
- 31:26Speaker 1: It was in the air a long time. It went
- 31:27Speaker 1: to the gap and it's like Mitchell just kind of
- 31:30Speaker 1: pulled up because there was hesitation there. Yeah. It's like
- 31:32Speaker 1: kind of landed in between. It was like a no
- 31:34Speaker 1: man's land play. That sent the Rangers on their way.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Always surprised at that level that that happens more often
- 31:41Speaker 5: than not. You see it with Lara sometimes, too, drifting
- 31:43Speaker 5: into Mitchell's radar zone there where it shouldn't happen at
- 31:45Speaker 5: that level.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Lara was a center fielder, so it's like center fielder
- 31:48Speaker 1: has eminent domain. They're the coach. Anything he can get to.
- 31:50Speaker 1: They're the boss. He's Kelly Leak. Anything he can get to,
- 31:53Speaker 1: he can go catch.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Kelly Leak.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Kelly Leak, bad news bear. He can go catch it,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and he's supposed to. And that's the center fielder is
- 31:59Speaker 1: the guy, the default guy. The other one is like
- 32:01Speaker 1: in between, those in-betweens, because... We get a little spoiled
- 32:04Speaker 1: because they're so good now. Players are so good, and
- 32:06Speaker 1: they cover so much ground. Terang makes plays all the
- 32:10Speaker 1: way where a shortstop would be. When he goes into
- 32:13Speaker 1: short right field, the right fielder who's coming in is
- 32:16Speaker 1: supposed to have the priority. He can call them off,
- 32:19Speaker 1: but a lot of times those guys make those plays.
- 32:22Speaker 1: It is weird. Your default setting for defense, but the
- 32:26Speaker 1: Brewers are a good defense team. Cubs are a great defense. Really,
- 32:29Speaker 1: really good. Good as it gets.
- 32:31Speaker 2: And Terang had one I can't, again, over the weekend,
- 32:34Speaker 2: having as high of a BAC for the majority of
- 32:36Speaker 2: the weekend as I did, it was difficult to fully
- 32:41Speaker 2: be able to remember exactly what day. I think it
- 32:43Speaker 2: was Saturday night. He grabs one on the left side
- 32:46Speaker 2: of second base and before he even throws the ball,
- 32:48Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, sweet, guy's out. Because you just become
- 32:52Speaker 2: so accustomed to every single play being made around there.
- 32:55Speaker 5: Right.
- 32:55Speaker 1: That it's difficult when it doesn't happen.
- 32:57Speaker 3: And making great plays look normal. Like, you know, he just,
- 33:01Speaker 3: he makes these hard plays look normal, but yeah, he
- 33:03Speaker 3: dropped that ball on yesterday.
- 33:04Speaker 1: It was kind of weird, but. The Rangers had a,
- 33:07Speaker 1: the Rangers were, they were kind of flat and they're not,
- 33:10Speaker 1: they're not good. I mean, they're good players, but they're
- 33:12Speaker 1: not a good team. They weren't, but they kind of
- 33:14Speaker 1: gave it, they, they looked a little, they showed more
- 33:16Speaker 1: life yesterday.
- 33:18Speaker 2: They, they're in one of the weirdest spots because they're
- 33:20Speaker 2: two games out of the playoffs and winning the division.
- 33:23Speaker 2: They're three games under and, And the team they're chasing
- 33:25Speaker 2: already fired their GMs.
- 33:27Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just too easy. The American League in general,
- 33:30Speaker 5: I mean, when you look at the wild card race. Guardians, Orioles,
- 33:33Speaker 5: all these teams are in it that you wouldn't think.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Brewers still have the Orioles, don't they? Yes. Yes. Back
- 33:37Speaker 1: into September. Brewers are playing. That's the trip. The Brewers
- 33:41Speaker 1: have that three-city trip. It's in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Baltimore. Yes,
- 33:44Speaker 1: the big bedwetter out in the mid-Atlantic. The land of
- 33:47Speaker 1: crab cakes, cheesecakes, cheesesteaks. That's what Maryland does. Permanente Brothers.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Crab cakes and baseball.
- 33:55Speaker 3: That movie's like 20 years old now, isn't it?
- 33:59Speaker 1: It's tough, though.
- 33:59Speaker 5: When you get into that second, third week of September,
- 34:01Speaker 5: there's so much competition for your viewing. Man, college football
- 34:05Speaker 5: is going to be in full swing.
- 34:06Speaker 1: The NFL.
- 34:06Speaker 5: But you want to keep one eye on the Brewers' playoffs,
- 34:08Speaker 5: especially if it's down to three or four games.
- 34:10Speaker 1: They always play on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dolph. Yeah, right.
- 34:13Speaker 1: Great point.
- 34:13Speaker 2: They always play on Tuesday and Wednesday, so there's always
- 34:15Speaker 2: a viewing window for at least a little bit.
- 34:17Speaker 3: All right, guys, I'm working the AI to work some
- 34:19Speaker 3: lyrics on my new single, Downtown Girl.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Can AI do vocals, too? Because I think that was
- 34:25Speaker 2: more of the problem than we heard before.
- 34:27Speaker 3: We'll get a real voice in there. Here's a couple
- 34:29Speaker 3: lines in the hook. She's a downtown girl living on
- 34:31Speaker 3: the clock. I'm a small-time boy kicking up the rocks.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Oh, rocks!
- 34:35Speaker 3: Pause.
- 34:37Speaker 4: Pause. Wow.
- 34:39Speaker 1: What did you think I was going to say? That's
- 34:40Speaker 1: not where we thought it was going. I thought you
- 34:41Speaker 1: were going into Dice Clay territory. Oh, no, no. No,
- 34:46Speaker 1: this reflects the difference. Just a downtown girl sounds like
- 34:49Speaker 1: a Journey ripoff, so you're already going to have to
- 34:51Speaker 1: change the lyrics.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I also think I want Josh Turner
- 34:55Speaker 3: to record this one because he's got hometown girls.
- 34:58Speaker 5: Okay, Billy, was it that close? You just got to
- 35:00Speaker 5: be careful. Don't make it too close to uptime.
- 35:02Speaker 1: It was reading right down there. Uptime girl living on
- 35:04Speaker 1: the clock. I thought she... Hickory dickory dock. All you
- 35:08Speaker 1: had to do was take it out. Okay, okay, okay.
- 35:10Speaker 1: My God. Wait till you hear this. Wait till you
- 35:12Speaker 1: hear this, Bar. Kids are driving to school, Armin. Okay,
- 35:15Speaker 1: I know. Come on.
- 35:16Speaker 3: All right. She has a reservation at a spot you
- 35:19Speaker 3: can't get in. I got a spot by the river
- 35:21Speaker 3: where the catfish spin.
- 35:23Speaker 4: Come on.
- 35:25Speaker 1: No, I thought he was going to be awful. Talking
- 35:27Speaker 1: about his catfish? AI will never replace the guy sitting
- 35:30Speaker 1: in a room drinking beers in Nashville. Exactly. Holy cow.
- 35:34Speaker 1: With their hand-rolled cigarettes. Yeah.
- 35:36Speaker 3: I'm stuck in traffic on Broadway. I got the Nashville
- 35:38Speaker 3: theme going. In a rusted Chevrolet, she's checking a reflection
- 35:41Speaker 3: in a rooftop cafe.
- 35:43Speaker 4: Wow.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
- 35:45Speaker 3: No.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Pretty awful. Well, it wasn't me. It was AI. I know,
- 35:48Speaker 1: but it's pretty awful. That's fine. I guess this one's
- 35:52Speaker 1: not going to hit.
- 35:53Speaker 3: All right.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Is she from the other side of the tracks? Let
- 35:56Speaker 1: me fire in the AI. She got to pick up
- 35:57Speaker 1: and went down to the lake. But she took the
- 35:59Speaker 1: dog now. Oh, my God. Speaking of dog stuff, how's
- 36:04Speaker 1: your puppy doing? Kicking the rocks.
- 36:06Speaker 5: Opal is doing great. Thanks for asking. She got a
- 36:08Speaker 5: haircut over the weekend and lost about half of her
- 36:12Speaker 5: body weight, actually.
- 36:12Speaker 1: She was a big shaggy. She looked like a dog
- 36:15Speaker 1: that had been without a home for a long time.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Shaggy doodle.
- 36:18Speaker 5: How many pounds? She's 12 pounds. So it's a mini doodle.
- 36:22Speaker 5: She'll only get to 25 pounds. My mom has a
- 36:24Speaker 5: mini golden. Yeah, so much fun. Wonderful tackle.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Too smart. For me, it often outsmarts me, but for
- 36:32Speaker 1: the most part, a lot of fun to be around. Fantastic. Dolph,
- 36:35Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us. Appreciate it, as always.
- 36:37Speaker 1: We're going to just make our adjustments and get into
- 36:39Speaker 1: the second half and own it. Wayne Larrabee joins us
- 36:41Speaker 1: about an hour from right now. We'll talk about cuts,
- 36:43Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, and everything that happened on Saturday night, which
- 36:46Speaker 1: seems like it was a month ago. Or Friday night.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Seems like it was a month ago. You're in the huddle,
- 36:50Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Armand Sarian trying to be a
- 36:55Speaker 1: country song, a country music writer. Is this your song? No,
- 36:58Speaker 1: this is a real song.
- 36:59Speaker 2: Oh, I thought I didn't know if AI hit you
- 37:02Speaker 2: with some lyrics in there, too.
- 37:04Speaker 1: All you got to do is punch in. They'll give
- 37:06Speaker 1: you some vocals on it. It's crazy how this works.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll give you some vocals on it that'll be
- 37:10Speaker 2: far better than whatever you put on it.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Far better. Are you kidding me? All right, 877-794-1973. Need
- 37:15Speaker 1: your hot takes. I mean, I'm sorry, your hot takes.
- 37:17Speaker 1: Game balls and kicks today. And we did get one
- 37:22Speaker 1: that kicked to the balls to John Smoltz for his
- 37:24Speaker 1: performance on Saturday night. All right, queue it up. We're
- 37:27Speaker 1: ready for that. A lot of smoke. Everyone loves that one.
- 37:29Speaker 1: A lot of smoke on that one, yeah.
- 37:32Speaker 2: How about a game ball to the Bison of North
- 37:35Speaker 2: Dakota State?
- 37:37Speaker 1: Pause.
- 37:39Speaker 2: 33-7, Drew, in their first ever game as an FBS school.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Moving up from what used to be considered 1AA, is
- 37:47Speaker 2: the football championship subdivision. Now they're into the football bowl subdivision.
- 37:53Speaker 2: They've been a powerhouse in FCS. They've won 10 national titles.
- 37:56Speaker 2: The Fargo Dome was rocking against Jacksonville State on Saturday,
- 38:00Speaker 2: and they dog-walked the Gamecocks. They absolutely donkied them, and
- 38:06Speaker 2: I anticipate they're going to do a decent amount of
- 38:07Speaker 2: that in the Mountain West this year.
- 38:09Speaker 1: They're one of the favorites to win the conference.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Their coach was all fired up, pushing back tears after
- 38:15Speaker 2: the game, but that was the first step, and they
- 38:17Speaker 2: are a powerhouse going into D1. And I'm excited because
- 38:20Speaker 2: that place is a gorgeous spot to watch football on television.
- 38:24Speaker 2: And I'm excited for more of those games to be
- 38:25Speaker 2: on their regular windows. Yeah, that minus seven felt like
- 38:28Speaker 2: an apple right there on the tree.
- 38:29Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Because you know they were going
- 38:31Speaker 1: to play well.
- 38:32Speaker 3: I mean, they always do in these situations. To me,
- 38:35Speaker 3: at least, it seemed like one they were going to
- 38:36Speaker 3: play well. And so a nice one for them over
- 38:39Speaker 3: the weekend. And, you know, just a game ball in
- 38:41Speaker 3: general for college football being.
- 38:42Speaker 1: Back, I think, was nice over the weekend.
- 38:44Speaker 4: Pause.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Pause. All right, time for Who's Hot, Who's Not, brought
- 38:47Speaker 1: to us by Donovan Jorgensen Heating and Cooling. And as
- 38:51Speaker 1: sick as people are of MVPCA. Yeah, that's in there.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Five homers and two at-bats. As hot as can be.
- 38:57Speaker 1: He's crazy. Five homers and two games. He's just a
- 38:59Speaker 1: leadoff nightmare.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Drew, I'm okay walking him. You can't obviously walk him
- 39:06Speaker 2: all series, right? Not what you can do for seven games.
- 39:09Speaker 2: But if there's somebody on second base and first base
- 39:12Speaker 2: is open, there you go, man.
- 39:14Speaker 4: All right.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Come on, throw those four up.
- 39:16Speaker 2: Especially, as you said, There's no chance on God's green
- 39:19Speaker 2: earth I'm throwing him a fastball in that opening sequence.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Thank you. Make him chase him. Someone sent us the
- 39:25Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong has a 160 batting average with 15 hits,
- 39:27Speaker 1: 5 homers, 12 RBI, and 15 runs scored. in 30
- 39:30Speaker 1: career games against the Brewers.
- 39:31Speaker 4: 160.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
- 39:34Speaker 2: I like more highlights of him trying to go up
- 39:36Speaker 2: and rob bombs that are already bouncing off the batter's eye.
- 39:39Speaker 2: That one's a lot better than him hopefully not pimping
- 39:42Speaker 2: a home run like he was able to because he
- 39:44Speaker 2: hit it to the moon again. Also in the hot category,
- 39:47Speaker 2: Bo Perbula, first game with the Virginia Cavaliers. Tony Elliott's
- 39:51Speaker 2: calves just put it on Dave Thorne's Wolfpack.
- 39:53Speaker 1: 34-8.
- 39:54Speaker 2: He had 110 rushing yards, 155 yards through the air,
- 39:59Speaker 2: two touchdowns.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Calves might be something to watch. It's going to be fun.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Also, a tough one for who's not hot, Hawaii bettors.
- 40:08Speaker 2: As that plus four against Stanford looked great until a
- 40:11Speaker 2: scoop and score with a minute to go by the trees.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Bad beats. Cover it up.
- 40:16Speaker 2: Bad beats are back with college football being back.
- 40:18Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Who's hot, who's not? Brought to us
- 40:20Speaker 1: by Donovan Jorgensen. He didn't even cool it. Check him out.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Employee owned for 40 years. All right. When we come back,
- 40:25Speaker 1: we got our current electric superhero of the day. We
- 40:28Speaker 1: got Wayne Larrabee. He's a superhero, too. Don't go anywhere.
- 40:31Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.