Transcript

10/30/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: He spoke, he commanded your attention, and he commanded your respect.
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Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: The boys are back. The trophy is back. More importantly,
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Speaker 3: for the first time since 1957, a World Series trophy
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Speaker 3: is in the city of Milwaukee. The Commissioner's Trophy and
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Speaker 3: your Brewers are World Series champions. It paraded through the
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Speaker 3: streets of Milwaukee today. And as Drew Olson, I'm Billy Schmidt,
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Speaker 3: Armin Sarian's right there. Drew, as the headline at ESPN.com says,
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Speaker 3: Beer-fueled brewers continue World Series party with parade, parading through
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Speaker 3: the streets of Milwaukee. And that they did. Yelly said
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Speaker 3: it right out of the gates. You heard most of
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Speaker 3: the audio from the celebration during that 3 o'clock hour.
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Speaker 3: You heard him say, we had way too many parade beers.
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Speaker 3: And you could feel it early on. You could see
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Speaker 3: the visual of Jacob Mizorowski plucking one out of the
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Speaker 3: air and crushing it right away. They had themselves a
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Speaker 3: very good time over the last 48 hours, and it
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Speaker 3: culminated in a celebration for the ages today.
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Speaker 4: It certainly did. Billy, it went to Lambeau Field, too.
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Speaker 4: They involved the whole state.
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Speaker 1: And they did go out of their way to say
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Speaker 1: not just.
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Speaker 4: Milwaukee, but the state, because they realized. that this is
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Speaker 4: the state's team.
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Speaker 3: In the same year that they start the Wisco jersey thing, right?
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Speaker 3: I mean, the year to really own and buy in
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Speaker 3: and announce your presence as the state's team, it worked
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Speaker 3: out very well here today and this season because of it.
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Speaker 3: You could feel the passion. Obviously, you knew it was
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Speaker 3: going to be hypercharged. You know that there's going to
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Speaker 3: be Brewer's fever for the next number of days and
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks as this still just soaks and you
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Speaker 3: realize what had transpired.
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Speaker 1: But the tough thing is, Drew, how quickly it happens.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we had a MLB Network replay on here
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Speaker 3: and they go 11-2 in the 13 postseason games. Some
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Speaker 3: teams play 13 postseason games to get to the World Series.
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Speaker 3: They played 13 postseason games.
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Speaker 1: To win it.
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Speaker 3: And now you sit back and say, what are we
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Speaker 3: supposed to do next? Like, it does feel like there
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Speaker 3: should be something else here. But now somebody tapped you
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Speaker 3: on the shoulder, says there's no more games, but you
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Speaker 3: do want to keep kind of enjoying it. It feels
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Speaker 3: like there's going to be a lot of people doing
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Speaker 3: Armin Sarian watching of replays of these games for quite
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Speaker 3: some time.
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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I'm looking ahead to Sunday when there's
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Speaker 4: no Packers game because of last night and it's going to,
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Speaker 4: and it's, you know, Daylight saving, get an extra hour
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Speaker 4: of sleep to fuel up for what?
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Speaker 1: What's next? Yeah, it is a little weird.
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Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of people we talked about in
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Speaker 3: the first hour, you got that sense down there at
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Speaker 3: the parade from a lot of people. Like they're going
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Speaker 3: to miss these watching these guys play. They're going to
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Speaker 3: miss them being part of the fabric. Like we've never
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Speaker 3: experienced a World Series title. So we've never experienced ending
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Speaker 3: a season in a satisfying way that you want to.
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Speaker 3: We've experienced disappointment at the end of the season. But
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Speaker 3: you win like this, and it's wistful almost and bittersweet
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Speaker 3: because it's like you don't want it to end.
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Speaker 1: You didn't want this ride to end.
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Speaker 3: This team's now going to be bonded forever as a
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Speaker 3: group with reunions and things like that. But this group
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Speaker 3: of players, this particular group, will never be together again.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: They're not, it's every team is different in some way.
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Speaker 3: They might be a lot of the same guys, but
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Speaker 3: every team is different in some way. Um, every team
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Speaker 3: is its own unique living thing. And this group that
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Speaker 3: did this, uh, this is one of the last times
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Speaker 3: we'll be together. And that's kind of a weird feeling
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Speaker 3: when you realize you, you, you, you do it, you
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Speaker 3: walk out of there. It's like, yeah, well, graduating high school,
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Speaker 3: graduating college. It's like, Summer camp's over, now what? And
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Speaker 3: that part is wistful, but they ended in the most
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Speaker 3: wonderful way. A couple of amazing visuals. Aaron Ashby seeing
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Speaker 3: and meeting Drew, the Aaron Ashby lookalike.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Pretty dang good. Pretty good to be able
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Speaker 1: to see.
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Speaker 4: That guy stopped by the media stand at the rally,
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Speaker 4: the Aaron Ashby doppelganger.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 4: And he got to meet him in person, which is epic.
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Speaker 1: And you could almost.
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Speaker 3: You could tell me in that interaction. Now, again, a
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Speaker 3: lot of parade beers on Aaron Ashby's side. Aaron Ashby
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Speaker 3: almost looked more excited than the imposter was.
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Speaker 1: To be able to see him.
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Speaker 3: He gets out of the off the bus right near
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Speaker 3: the grounds. They're kind of all figuring out how they're
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Speaker 3: going to meander in and get backstage. I mean, Garrett
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Speaker 3: Mitchell's just walking down the line. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you saw that, guys. When somebody just handed him their baby, like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think you should take.
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Speaker 1: A picture of my kid. He's like, all right, sweet.
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Speaker 1: Sounds good. Way to be a dad. Good practice. It
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Speaker 1: was good practice.
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Speaker 3: And it was way less awkward than a rod just
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Speaker 3: deciding to pick up Pat Murphy's son and put him
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Speaker 3: on his lap on Wednesday night. He tried to be
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Speaker 3: cool that it was like, OK, you know, it's like 12.
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Speaker 4: And, you know, the Ashby doppelganger is interesting because of
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Speaker 4: the timing. You know, I don't know if you guys
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Speaker 4: know this or got the memo. If you've been candy
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Speaker 4: shopping yet. Tomorrow's Halloween.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we got our candy.
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Speaker 4: Because, I mean, wearing a brewer's uniform or something is
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Speaker 4: a pretty easy costume.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's going as a world champion Milwaukee brewer this Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think that's my costume, unless we've got the couple's
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Speaker 3: costume I'm not aware of yet.
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Speaker 1: There you go. That'll get put out tomorrow for you.
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Speaker 4: Billy, as a resident gear guy, you and Armin, what
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Speaker 4: did you think of the hoodies they wore on stage today?
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Speaker 3: Beautiful.
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Speaker 4: And then also, those letter jacket type deals.
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Speaker 1: That are $ 1, 000 a pop. That's a rack. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: a rack. They're sweet.
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Speaker 3: I was looking at those, and Billy knows I'm always
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Speaker 3: looking for a deal. Maybe I'm going to find a
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Speaker 3: deal on those.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think you're DH-gating that one.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that one's going to have an AliExpress
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Speaker 3: opportunity for you to get the good one.
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Speaker 1: It's a sweet jacket. No doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: Tough thing about it is, Drew... You're only wearing that
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Speaker 3: a couple of times. Just like how sweet that all-white
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Speaker 3: one was when the Bucs won the title. Good luck
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Speaker 3: wearing that, especially if you're going to go to a game.
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Speaker 3: If you're me, nachos or a pretzel with some cheese
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Speaker 3: is laying right there on the center.
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Speaker 1: So I struggle with it.
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Speaker 3: I think my favorite part of the gear was, and
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Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody else caught this, there's a
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Speaker 3: big old Nike swoosh right down the sleeve. Did you
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Speaker 3: notice who's there wasn't? Wild Bill, William Contreras, rip that
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Speaker 3: son of a gun off. Michael Jordan slapped the Jordan
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Speaker 3: logo right there on the side.
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Speaker 1: I didn't notice that. Kids in on the marketing deal. Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was in. But I really like the sweatshirt. I
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Speaker 1: like the hat. I got the hat earlier on here today.
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Speaker 1: That's sweet. I'm getting one of those.
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Speaker 3: As there was a number of folks that had moved
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Speaker 3: over to the Dick's Sporting Goods in Greendale. Not three-hour wait,
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Speaker 3: about 13 minutes. A lot easier deal there, but... Drew,
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Speaker 3: there's way more coming, and there's going to be so
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Speaker 3: many Brewers Christmas presents and stocking stuffers in the next
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Speaker 3: two months, but I imagine there's going to be some trick-or-treaters,
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Speaker 3: and you might see the entire 26-man roster walking around
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Speaker 3: trick-or-treating coming up tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be wild. That would be the epic group.
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Speaker 3: If you had the whole group costume, because people love
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Speaker 3: the group costume, if you could get the whole thing
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Speaker 3: or the whole bullpen or something. This is the time
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Speaker 3: when I wish I had the Murph jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because at that point, dad could be Murph, and you
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Speaker 3: feel a lot cooler at that point. Yeah, or if
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Speaker 3: you were the ultimate flex, and you had William and Jackson,
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Speaker 3: then you had the Daniel Day-Monaster translator with you at 95,
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Speaker 3: and he was eating, translated everything. That's another one that
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Speaker 3: would be next level, but that would be a pretty good,
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Speaker 3: the Murph jersey. That would be my wife, though, because
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Speaker 3: she can understand when the gibberish really starts happening, so
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Speaker 3: she would be a good interpreter on that one.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that would be great.
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Speaker 3: Then you just need somebody to be grooming her with
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Speaker 3: sallow walking around behind. Not bad. Two more questions. Drew,
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Speaker 3: as you got to see a lot of it, what
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Speaker 3: were some of the underlying parts of it? You could
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Speaker 3: tell the folks that really were giving her, Jake Bowers,
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Speaker 3: really giving her, potentially one last celebration last time.
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Speaker 1: With the squad.
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Speaker 3: I was kind of surprised Abner Uribe and Trevor McGill
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Speaker 3: were not more front and center. I thought that was
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Speaker 3: maybe the shocker of the entire thing. Maybe smart that
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Speaker 3: they didn't give those guys the microphone, but I was
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Speaker 3: kind of surprised we didn't hear from those cats.
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Speaker 4: I think they were afraid Trevor McGill in a microphone
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Speaker 4: today would have been a terrible mismatch. I don't think
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Speaker 4: that would have been best for anybody. But, well, Sal
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Speaker 4: Freeler gave it pretty good. He let it ride, no
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Speaker 4: doubt about it. No doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Braun becoming the Brandon Jennings of the Brewers.
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Speaker 4: Is that the case that they're trying to make here? Man,
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Speaker 4: he's become the ultimate hype man. He's really good on the.
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Speaker 2: Mic, too.
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Speaker 1: Great mic work. Really enthusiastic.
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Speaker 4: He's really good. I didn't see him in that role,
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Speaker 4: but holy cow, has he grown into it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, his statement of, you know, I said before game two,
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Speaker 3: we didn't come here to take part. came here to
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Speaker 3: take over. That is an absolute bar. That is a
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Speaker 3: t-shirt worthy one to be able to enjoy. Were there
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Speaker 3: a lot of folks buying the merch of the sweatshirts
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Speaker 3: and hats and everything down at the Summerfest crowd? Because
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Speaker 3: it did feel like there was a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: there were a lot of people plucking a lot of
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Speaker 3: different things down there. I don't know, did they have
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Speaker 3: little stands set up throughout the gates or was there
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Speaker 3: just too many swarms of humanity to be trying to
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Speaker 3: do any of that?
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Speaker 4: Mostly, I mean, mostly they were waiting in line for
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Speaker 4: beers and Goolsby's cheeseburgers. But I think the bootleg guys
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Speaker 4: outside were doing okay.
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Speaker 1: I saw Billy's favorite.
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Speaker 3: Now, those guys, yeah, they take card and Venmo and
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Speaker 3: all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you got to have a QR code.
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Speaker 3: The first guy had the regular World Series champions.
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Speaker 1: Kind of like.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, AI type screen print shirt, 20 bucks, whatever.
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Speaker 3: But then I saw Billy's favorite, like blank, I'm a brewer. B,
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Speaker 3: I'm a brewer.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is the absolute best. You know it's happening
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Speaker 1: every time.
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Speaker 3: I saw a couple of kids, but he wanted 25
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Speaker 3: for that one. So I was like, man, 25 now
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Speaker 3: for a guy in the street. But for blank, I'm
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Speaker 3: a brewer.
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Speaker 1: That is pretty good. I got to say that's the
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Speaker 1: best one.
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Speaker 3: I just can't see myself as a 42 year old
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Speaker 3: man ever finding a situation where.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to wear that. Yeah, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a tough spot. Like, where am I going to wear that?
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Speaker 3: But it is one of those kind of like. You
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Speaker 3: want to meet the moment and get that? That's like
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Speaker 3: a momentary time. Like, I'm enjoying this moment. It's one
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Speaker 3: of those shirts that is outside of every NFL game
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Speaker 3: every single weekend.
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Speaker 1: There is just no chance. I'm a Viking. I'm a bear.
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Speaker 1: Or I'm a Titan.
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Speaker 3: Well, actually, I don't know that anybody's celebrating. Trying to
10:31
Speaker 3: tell themselves that they're a Titans fan. Drew, we're going
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Speaker 3: to talk a little bit about last night with our
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Speaker 3: buddy Wayne Larrabee coming up in about 15 minutes from
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Speaker 3: right now. There's a little bit more news coming out
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Speaker 3: in the NFL today. Jeffrey Simmons, we didn't really touch
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Speaker 3: on it yesterday. Huge trade in the division as the
10:51
Speaker 3: Bears get the Tennessee Titans interior rusher defensive tackle. They
10:55
Speaker 3: trade two first round picks and a fourth for him. Now,
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Speaker 3: Bears fans are excited. Jeffrey Simmons was up at the
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Speaker 3: microphone today. He looks like potentially the Incredible Hulk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he is huge. He's ripped. He's scary looking.
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Speaker 3: That's a huge price for a team that Drew apparently
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Speaker 3: is deciding that they're all in here this year, thinking
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Speaker 3: they got a chance to win this thing.
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Speaker 4: This is their version of the Micah Parsons trade more
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Speaker 4: than a year later. This is their answer because that's
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Speaker 4: about the price that they paid. Very similar, right, Billy? Totally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty close, right?
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Speaker 3: The two firsts and Kenny Clark, a two first and
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Speaker 3: a fourth, is pretty much right there on par.
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is.
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Speaker 3: A little bit older, but the money is locked in
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Speaker 3: as he's under contract now. Instead of where Parsons was,
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Speaker 3: you had to then give him the record-setting contract.
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Speaker 1: I think Simmons was taken.
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Speaker 3: Care of, and I want to say, Drew, he's through 2030,
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Speaker 3: so at least there's some real cost certainty there as
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Speaker 3: to what you're paying.
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Speaker 4: All right, so where is he on the... Aaron Donald
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Speaker 4: game wrecking scale.
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Speaker 3: He's a little different. He's a little bit more of
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Speaker 3: a slugger than that, right? He's a little beefier, a
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Speaker 3: little bit more of.
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Speaker 1: A meat eater.
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Speaker 3: But my man has got like 40 sacks over the
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Speaker 3: last eight years. And that's a crazy number from the
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Speaker 3: interior to be able to have. He's a three-time Pro Bowler,
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Speaker 3: four-time Pro Bowl selector, 44 and a half career sacks
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Speaker 3: at the age of 29. He's forced eight fumbles. He's
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Speaker 3: broken up 30 different passes in his career. But the
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Speaker 3: other thing that he is, Drew, and this is one
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Speaker 3: that you don't necessarily know until the guy probably gets
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Speaker 3: into your building. He's just that bona fide badass that
12:36
Speaker 3: you want the attitude of a defensive player. Jeffrey Simmons
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Speaker 3: is the exact attitude that people think of when they
12:43
Speaker 3: think of mean, nasty, and physical defensive linemen. So he's
12:48
Speaker 3: right there. He's maybe not as slender and... quick triggered
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Speaker 3: as one uh aaron donald but he's a lot more
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Speaker 3: like a chris jones where he'll just bowl right through
12:57
Speaker 3: you and run right into that quarterback it's hard.
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Speaker 4: To argue with their logic and adding a guy like
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Speaker 4: this billy but is this their glaring need was this
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Speaker 4: what they needed i mean obviously they're trying to change
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Speaker 4: the the culture the tenor of their defense but was
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Speaker 4: that If there was a position of need other than that,
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Speaker 4: what would you have filled there for them?
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Speaker 3: So when I first heard the news, I heard Bears
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Speaker 3: trade two firsts and a fourth. My mind immediately goes,
13:24
Speaker 3: holy cow, they just made the Max Crosby deal.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: They went and got the edge rusher that was going
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Speaker 3: to be able to do what Montez Sweat can't do.
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Speaker 3: Montez Sweat, he can test positive for certain things on
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Speaker 3: his two-game suspension, but he can't pressure the quarterback right now.
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Speaker 3: And he hasn't really since he went to the Bears.
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Speaker 3: I thought that would be the place, but it is
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Speaker 3: kind of more of their position to knee Drew again.
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Speaker 3: You make these moves because of the moves that you
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Speaker 3: made before. They traded Jervon Dexter, who was a second-round
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Speaker 3: pick a couple of years ago, interior pass rusher, defensive tackle.
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Speaker 3: They shipped him off and kind of punted on him
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Speaker 3: in the beginning of the year. He's playing really, really
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Speaker 3: well with Atlanta, and I think it almost opened up
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Speaker 3: more of the whole forum. But if you're trying to
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Speaker 3: stop the run, you're trying to stop a couple of teams.
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Speaker 3: San Francisco, Seattle... I mean, you're not worried about the
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Speaker 3: Packers running the football. We can tell they can't do that.
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Speaker 3: But you're looking at trying to beat the teams in
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Speaker 3: the NFC, and those are the only ones that I
14:27
Speaker 3: can think of that you immediately go, we need to
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Speaker 3: counter with a badass three-tech to be able to slow
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Speaker 3: down this run game and kind of control the football game.
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Speaker 4: Well, they didn't make this trade with the Packers in mind,
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Speaker 4: for sure.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: Dude, 1.9, and I went back and sadly watched a
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Speaker 3: little bit more of it. There's just nothing behind it.
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Speaker 3: In front of Josh Jacobs to be able to make
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Speaker 3: any kind of headway from last night.
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Speaker 4: It is, it's hard to figure. Like you can't, isn't there,
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Speaker 4: like don't you just have some runs that work because
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Speaker 4: somebody blew a gap assignment or something or somebody, you
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Speaker 4: just kind of luck into some runs. They're not doing
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Speaker 4: that even.
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Speaker 1: No, you're spot on.
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Speaker 3: They're not even capitalizing on the seven-yard run because somebody overflows.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say the Savion Williams run was
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Speaker 3: the best one that worked. And I thought of you
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Speaker 3: immediately when he gets the end around.
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Speaker 1: But he went end around. He didn't go A cap.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 3: Not up the middle, which is the arch nemesis. He
15:23
Speaker 3: is a weapon that maybe they could start using more.
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Speaker 3: But I think you have to get creative because a
15:27
Speaker 3: lot of people say at postgame and mantlet floor, you
15:31
Speaker 3: can't continue to be this bad. running the ball if
15:34
Speaker 3: you want to go where you want to go. So
15:37
Speaker 3: maybe it'll improve. You know, it's hard to do that
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Speaker 3: when you have linemen going down, but you.
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Speaker 1: Have to get creative.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk to Wayne about it because I still think
15:43
Speaker 4: play action helps freeze the linebackers out of habit, if
15:46
Speaker 4: only for a split second. But that's really all they need.
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Speaker 4: And Love got the ball out so quick last night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, they took, as usual, they took a couple
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Speaker 4: of shot plays. But for the most part, he was
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Speaker 4: getting it out quick. And I think that's become... That's
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Speaker 4: the new running game for the Packers, is Jordan Love
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Speaker 4: delivering the ball in less than 2.4 seconds.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: And you could just tell that there was a special
16:13
Speaker 3: gear that he was able to hit last night. And
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Speaker 3: they're a dangerous squad when he's going to do that.
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Speaker 3: the state of Wisconsin. And inspired by our friend Andy
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Speaker 3: here on Who's Hot, Who's Not, he just dropped in
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Speaker 3: on our Facebook stream yesterday. All about high school football
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Speaker 3: right now. Well, Andy, who's hot? Maybe the Hamilton Chargers
16:37
Speaker 3: against Marquette coming up tonight. That's a great game going
16:40
Speaker 3: on at Sussex Hamilton that you can go check out.
16:43
Speaker 3: What about a classic eight matchup, Drew, in the playoffs
16:46
Speaker 3: here tonight? Number three, Oconomowoc at Heartland Arrowhead coming up today,
16:52
Speaker 3: a 2-3 matchup.
16:53
Speaker 4: They're familiar with each other.
16:55
Speaker 3: West De Pere, Milwaukee Reagan. Now, that's a 4 o'clock kickoff,
16:59
Speaker 3: so that one just kicked off and potentially is now over.
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Speaker 3: Muskego hosts Franklin. Battle for our friend Luddy in the
17:07
Speaker 3: midst there. Bayport Nina, always hot. That's going to be
17:09
Speaker 3: a big one. And Armin, maybe an early leader in
17:13
Speaker 3: the Division I ranks for longest game traveled.
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Speaker 1: In high school football today.
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Speaker 4: I love that, yeah.
17:19
Speaker 1: Appleton North, Wanakee. Yeah, that's what, at least two and
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Speaker 1: a half.
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Speaker 3: That is no short track that you're making for that battle.
17:27
Speaker 3: But when you really want to win that one, you
17:28
Speaker 3: go to, right?
17:31
Speaker 4: That's a heck of a haul there. Yeah, that's the
17:34
Speaker 4: Mike Heller Bowl. Oh, wait, he didn't go to Appleton North,
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Speaker 4: but just saying.
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Speaker 1: That's fair, though. That's the Appleton-Wanakee spot. Yes, sir. That's
17:42
Speaker 1: exactly him. Yeah, Butch was at West.
17:44
Speaker 3: Also, Regis Fall Creek. Throw the records out when those
17:47
Speaker 3: two get together. Massive game in the D6 playoffs. High
17:50
Speaker 3: school football hot tonight.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy it.
17:52
Speaker 3: Who's not hot? Everybody that wanted to hate watch the
17:57
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah. During this playoff run, you had an
18:00
Speaker 3: unsuccessful one. And Drew, judging by MLB Network's programming, I
18:04
Speaker 3: get it just ended two days ago. I got a
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Speaker 3: feeling we're going to be able to watch the recaps
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Speaker 3: of these games night in and night out for the next.
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Speaker 1: Six, eight, ten months.
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Speaker 3: However long this lockout ends, we're going to watch the,
18:15
Speaker 3: or however long this thing goes, we're going to watch
18:17
Speaker 3: these games almost on repeat because they love that inventory.
18:22
Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 4: And little birdie, source is close to my situation. Name
18:26
Speaker 4: rhymes with excursion.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 4: Said that once the lockout hits December 1st, they're going
18:31
Speaker 4: to do fun stuff like going back and trying to
18:32
Speaker 4: pick the best single season team since MLB Network started
18:37
Speaker 4: in 2009. And the 2026 Brewers will be prominently featured
18:42
Speaker 4: in that discussion.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is a good one.
18:44
Speaker 3: Prominently featured in the discussion on ESPN.com earlier today, they
18:48
Speaker 3: went through and tried to name the all-playoff team for
18:53
Speaker 3: this year's MLB playoffs.
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Speaker 1: All four of the awards, the MVP.
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19:01
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19:07
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19:34
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19:36
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19:42
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Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee. He's next.
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Speaker 3: It's the Huddle with Drew, Billy, and Armin on Fox
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. It's the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: Drew Billion-Armin with you, celebrating a Packers victory from a
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Speaker 3: night ago. The real celebration here today across the state,
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Speaker 3: City of Milwaukee Brewers World Series champions in 2026, and
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Speaker 3: the parade just concluded a couple hours ago. Everybody that
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Speaker 3: is still making their way out of downtown Milwaukee, please.
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Speaker 1: Be safe and enjoy.
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Speaker 3: And you'll hear a little bit more of that celebration
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Speaker 3: coming up in about a half hour from right now.
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Speaker 3: Joining us now is the man, the myth, the legend,
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Speaker 3: the Hall of Famer, and the voice of your Green
22:33
Speaker 3: Bay Packers, Wayne Larrabee. Courtesy of Miller Lite, legendary moments
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Speaker 3: start with a light. Pottawatomie Sportsbook, your sport, our stadium,
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Speaker 3: and Wisconsin Concrete Coatings. Wayne, not a game maybe coded
22:46
Speaker 3: in a lot of glory a night ago. However, you
22:49
Speaker 3: never apologize for winning in this league. It's difficult to do.
22:53
Speaker 3: And if I would have told people in June that
22:58
Speaker 3: you end the first eight games without Micah Parsons and
23:02
Speaker 3: you lose Edrin Cooper in the middle of it, you
23:04
Speaker 3: barely get anything from Josh Jacobs so far out. and
23:07
Speaker 3: you end at five and three, I think people would
23:09
Speaker 3: take it. The process looks a little weird, but get
23:13
Speaker 3: here eight games in, a lot worse places this team
23:15
Speaker 3: could find themselves.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Billy. But, you know, and I want to
23:20
Speaker 2: address your point, but, you know, that moment in Lambeau
23:24
Speaker 2: Field last night when the Brewers came out, you know,
23:27
Speaker 2: I've been doing Packers games now, this is 28 years.
23:31
Speaker 2: And that was one of the most electric moments I
23:34
Speaker 2: think I've ever seen at Lambeau Field. It was just phenomenal.
23:38
Speaker 2: And they brought the Commissioner's Trophy and the whole bit.
23:44
Speaker 2: And when Sal Prelick did that Lambeau leap into the
23:48
Speaker 2: south end zone stands and all his teammates followed him,
23:50
Speaker 2: that was just phenomenal. When you think about this, they
23:53
Speaker 2: were in Tampa the night before winning the World Series.
23:55
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm a little disappointed they clinched because
24:00
Speaker 2: What am I going to watch on TV tonight? I
24:02
Speaker 2: was so locked into watching all these playoff games, you know,
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Speaker 2: every night with the Brewers. You know, Billy, I got
24:09
Speaker 2: nothing tonight. What do I got tonight?
24:11
Speaker 1: You can be like Armin.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little P.O.'d.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Armin's going.
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Speaker 3: To go watch their game from June 13th against the Twins.
24:17
Speaker 1: If you want, you can just go back and enjoy a.
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Speaker 2: Bunch of them.
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Speaker 1: We're just going to re-watch everything. We're just going to
24:22
Speaker 1: re-watch everything.
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Speaker 2: No, what a phenomenal moment for the franchise and for
24:29
Speaker 2: You know, Wisconsin and just awesome. Hey, listen, you know,
24:34
Speaker 2: I'm an American League fan, but that was just great
24:37
Speaker 2: to see. And, you know, but Billy, to get to
24:39
Speaker 2: your point about the Packers, OK, this game last night
24:43
Speaker 2: and the Cowboys game, very similar to me in that
24:46
Speaker 2: the Packers could have blown those teams out. But the
24:49
Speaker 2: problem they're having is to... Well, there are a couple
24:52
Speaker 2: of problems, but I think the number one problem is
24:55
Speaker 2: because you can't run the football, it's hard to close
24:58
Speaker 2: teams out. So in the fourth quarter, though, I never
25:01
Speaker 2: felt the Packers were in a position to lose... you know, Hey,
25:04
Speaker 2: Carolina was eight points away, right? Eight points away from
25:07
Speaker 2: getting that thing tied because the Packers couldn't close them
25:10
Speaker 2: out with a round game. This is going to be
25:12
Speaker 2: in the, um, this is the biggest issue that Matt
25:15
Speaker 2: LaFleur and I know Matt feels this way and his
25:17
Speaker 2: staff base. Um, how do they cobble together a running
25:21
Speaker 2: game that is good enough to, you know, finish teams
25:24
Speaker 2: off in the fourth quarter, that type of thing. Um,
25:27
Speaker 2: how do you get cobbled together Enough of a ground
25:30
Speaker 2: game to support the passing attack because it's getting harder
25:34
Speaker 2: to make plays downfield, big plays downfield. And Jordan Love
25:37
Speaker 2: is having a tremendous year. But if you looked at
25:39
Speaker 2: his numbers, you'd say, wow, he's kind of had an
25:42
Speaker 2: off year, hasn't he? No, he's been outstanding. But drop
25:45
Speaker 2: passes and the fact that teams are scheming a little
25:48
Speaker 2: bit differently as we get into this season because they're
25:51
Speaker 2: not as worried about the ground game. This is really
25:54
Speaker 2: a concern because I think going forward, it's going to
25:56
Speaker 2: be even a major deal coming up here in November
25:59
Speaker 2: and December.
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Speaker 4: Wayne, we've seen the Packers struggle to run the ball
26:02
Speaker 4: this year. That's not really new. But in your time
26:05
Speaker 4: at any point during your career calling the NFL, have
26:08
Speaker 4: you seen a guy transported to the hospital in an ambulance,
26:11
Speaker 4: transported back to the stadium in an ambulance and resume playing?
26:14
Speaker 4: Because that was a new one for me.
26:17
Speaker 2: And lead the team in what receptions and yardage. I'm
26:20
Speaker 2: over a hundred yards. That was, you know, when I
26:23
Speaker 2: saw Christian wants, he wants to go into that ambulance
26:27
Speaker 2: and says, oh my gosh, there he's gone. It's over
26:30
Speaker 2: for him. And I just felt so bad for the kid.
26:33
Speaker 2: Cause he's, you know, he's just a couple of injuries
26:35
Speaker 2: away from being one of the elite receivers in the
26:38
Speaker 2: in the league. You know what I mean? He's had injuries,
26:40
Speaker 2: major injuries over two of his first five years in
26:43
Speaker 2: the league. But you know what? He comes back and
26:45
Speaker 2: he plays. He's tough as nails. You know, I was
26:49
Speaker 2: happy for him and happy for the team, obviously, that
26:52
Speaker 2: he was able to come back and do that. But no,
26:55
Speaker 2: it was an amazing night last night at Lambeau Field.
26:57
Speaker 2: I thought there was a lot of juice in that stadium.
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Speaker 1: It really was. And you're right.
27:01
Speaker 3: The electric factory that was the Brewers walking out. Coming
27:04
Speaker 3: into the game, I made a little detour through a
27:07
Speaker 3: little bit of the parking lot, said hello to some friends.
27:09
Speaker 3: And the number one question I got asked, not how
27:12
Speaker 3: are they going to guard Ted Aroua McMillan? Who's going
27:14
Speaker 3: to get some pressure on Bryce Young? It's Are the
27:17
Speaker 3: Brewers going to be here? Is the trophy going to
27:18
Speaker 3: be here? The energy and the excitement was pretty palpable.
27:23
Speaker 3: One of the things that I was excited to see, Wayne,
27:25
Speaker 3: and we've been able to over the last couple of weeks,
27:28
Speaker 3: and Matt made mention of it with Rock after the
27:31
Speaker 3: game in the interview. Tyron Hopper just keeps getting better.
27:36
Speaker 3: seemingly every single time he's on the field and last
27:39
Speaker 3: night he gets a pick there's a sack a couple
27:42
Speaker 3: of quarterback hits really pressures the quarterback nicely and feels
27:46
Speaker 3: like they're finding a way to make make by without
27:50
Speaker 3: having their two inside linebackers because hopper has been so
27:53
Speaker 3: impressive in the last couple of weeks.
27:55
Speaker 2: You know, I got to say, of course, Isaiah McDuffie
27:57
Speaker 2: is very reliable. I mean, he's not a huge playmaker,
28:00
Speaker 2: but he is reliable. Whatever is there to be gotten,
28:04
Speaker 2: he will get. You know, but when I look at
28:08
Speaker 2: what Hopper's done, and you and I talked about this,
28:11
Speaker 2: we've talked many times over the years about this. Tyron
28:15
Speaker 2: Hopper is not Edger and Cooper, but he has a
28:18
Speaker 2: lot of those same athletic qualities that Coop has. And,
28:22
Speaker 2: you know, it's taken him a little longer. uh okay
28:26
Speaker 2: to kind of come up to speed here but we
28:28
Speaker 2: saw it on special teams last year this year and
28:30
Speaker 2: now we're seeing it linebacker um you know the kids
28:33
Speaker 2: playing with a lot of confidence and he and um
28:36
Speaker 2: deny dennis sutton wow you talk about two guys we
28:39
Speaker 2: weren't counting on they are just outstanding they were outstanding
28:43
Speaker 2: in that game last night.
28:45
Speaker 4: Wayne we've seen guys like hopper sometimes it takes two
28:47
Speaker 4: or three years to get up to nfl speed and
28:49
Speaker 4: they start to bloom and they never they You know,
28:52
Speaker 4: people expect rookies to be plug and play, but there
28:55
Speaker 4: is a learning curve for everybody. But how much of
28:57
Speaker 4: the credit goes to Tyron Hopper and how much goes
29:00
Speaker 4: to the coaching staff for developing him and staying on
29:03
Speaker 4: him and keeping him motivated to continue to improve?
29:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think their linebacking and defensive line coaching are
29:10
Speaker 2: excellent on this football team. I think their defensive staff
29:14
Speaker 2: is very good. And I think that's a big part
29:16
Speaker 2: of it. You know, it's coaching. Yeah. I mean, this
29:18
Speaker 2: is player development. When we talk about draft and develop,
29:21
Speaker 2: you know, the develop part of it is coaching. And
29:24
Speaker 2: then the other part is putting the kid on the
29:26
Speaker 2: field and seeing if he can do it. And so, yeah, Drew,
29:30
Speaker 2: I think that's a good point. I mean, coaching is
29:31
Speaker 2: a big part of that. And, you know... It also
29:36
Speaker 2: has to be the athlete, right? In the end, it's
29:38
Speaker 2: the athlete. Does he take the coach? Does he, you know,
29:42
Speaker 2: sacrifice and do the things you need to do to
29:45
Speaker 2: become a player like that? Hopper has the athletic ability
29:49
Speaker 2: to do it and be a nice player on this level.
29:52
Speaker 2: Is he entering Cooper? No, but you know what? He
29:55
Speaker 2: can be very effective, very good, and that's what we
29:57
Speaker 2: saw last night.
29:59
Speaker 3: Is deny Dennis Sutton playing his way into he's going
30:02
Speaker 3: to be on the field regardless when Micah Parsons comes
30:05
Speaker 3: back as Wayne.
30:05
Speaker 1: It feels like there's going to have to find ways
30:07
Speaker 1: to get this kid on the field.
30:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Billy, you know, and, and just think
30:12
Speaker 2: of edge was still with, you know, able to play
30:14
Speaker 2: and wasn't injured. I mean, the playmakers they've got in
30:17
Speaker 2: that second level of the defense. Wow. So no, I
30:21
Speaker 2: think that I Dennis Sutton, yeah, they're going to continue. Boy,
30:24
Speaker 2: they better. I mean, they're developing this kid's developing in
30:26
Speaker 2: a hurry. You know, he was disappointed. He was picked up.
30:29
Speaker 2: I believe what was the fourth round and you know,
30:31
Speaker 2: he was very disappointed. He thought he should have gone
30:34
Speaker 2: two rounds earlier and you know what he's played. yeah
30:38
Speaker 2: he was right.
30:39
Speaker 3: Yeah and Wayne you uh you were hitting it on
30:42
Speaker 3: the head a couple of weeks ago and you could
30:43
Speaker 3: tell you could feel it wasn't quite where he wanted
30:47
Speaker 3: to be wasn't quite the guy that he is and
30:50
Speaker 3: has been but over the last two weeks twice into
30:53
Speaker 3: the end zone now in two weeks and six grabs
30:55
Speaker 3: on six targets yesterday and a touch feels like Tucker
30:58
Speaker 3: Kraft is really starting to kind of round into form
31:01
Speaker 3: and get a little bit more confident in that knee
31:03
Speaker 3: and in.
31:03
Speaker 2: His game I think so, Billy. You know, he's also
31:08
Speaker 2: an effective blocker on the outside of the running game.
31:12
Speaker 2: But they're starting to get him more involved, and he
31:16
Speaker 2: is starting to reach back to that potential, to the
31:19
Speaker 2: level he played at before the injury. And, you know,
31:22
Speaker 2: the other guy, I don't know if you guys can
31:24
Speaker 2: see it as much, but Devontae Wyatt is starting to
31:26
Speaker 2: make plays in the last couple of weeks that he
31:29
Speaker 2: didn't make the first month of the season. And I
31:31
Speaker 2: think he also... The big guys take a little longer
31:34
Speaker 2: to come back from those kinds of injuries. But Tucker Kraft,
31:37
Speaker 2: you're exactly right, Billy. And I think Devontae Wyatt is
31:41
Speaker 2: coming back to that level. And that bodes well for
31:44
Speaker 2: the Packers going forward.
31:45
Speaker 4: We are chatting with the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larrabee,
31:47
Speaker 4: here on the huddle.
31:48
Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin.
31:50
Speaker 4: Wayne, you can't have a good special teams night when
31:52
Speaker 4: you fumble the opening kickoff. But they cleaned up after that.
31:56
Speaker 4: And I've told Billy, and my theory on the kicking
31:58
Speaker 4: thing is, it's not a crisis until it starts to
32:00
Speaker 4: affect strategy. Well, in the final minute, Packers could have
32:04
Speaker 4: tried a long field goal to put the game out
32:05
Speaker 4: of reach, and instead they decided to punt, putting it
32:08
Speaker 4: at risk. It affected strategy last night, Trey Smack, I think.
32:11
Speaker 4: I think we're at that point now.
32:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it'd be interesting to ask Matt LaFleur.
32:16
Speaker 2: I don't know if he'd answer the question, but ask
32:18
Speaker 2: him about that. But, you know, guys, I thought the
32:20
Speaker 2: same thing. I said, you know... Boy, I don't know.
32:23
Speaker 2: If it was Mason Crosby, they'd probably kick this field goal,
32:26
Speaker 2: you know, and make it a two-score game. But, you know,
32:30
Speaker 2: that was very unusual, wasn't it, to see that situation
32:33
Speaker 2: where they went and decided to punt the ball and
32:36
Speaker 2: then they took an intentional delay game penalty. And, of course,
32:40
Speaker 2: Dave Ganellis on the other side turned it down, and
32:43
Speaker 2: rightfully so. But my point is this. Yeah, you know, Drew,
32:46
Speaker 2: you're right. It does... come into play. I think it's
32:52
Speaker 2: safe for us to assume. We don't know because Matt
32:55
Speaker 2: hasn't answered that question, but it's safe for us to
32:58
Speaker 2: assume that, yeah, boy, it's starting to affect strategy, isn't it?
33:01
Speaker 2: And that's when it is an issue.
33:03
Speaker 3: We talked so much about the offensive line. We won't
33:06
Speaker 3: go piece by piece and guy by guy. But Aaron
33:08
Speaker 3: Banks goes in last night. Some of the numbers, pro
33:11
Speaker 3: football focus, not very kind to him or John Williams.
33:15
Speaker 3: I thought they were going up against Derrick Brown. I
33:16
Speaker 3: thought they acquitted themselves decently well against him. But the
33:20
Speaker 3: numbers over the last couple of weeks, especially the pro
33:22
Speaker 3: football focus pressure numbers, Wayne, very kind to Anthony Belton
33:27
Speaker 3: and Jordan Morgan. Feels like they're starting to perform a
33:30
Speaker 3: little bit better. Albeit last night, I didn't think the
33:33
Speaker 3: offensive line was a problem. Felt like Love had the
33:35
Speaker 3: adequate time he needed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and on the stat sheet, only one quarterback hit.
33:40
Speaker 2: No sacks for Carolina, if I'm reading that right. No,
33:45
Speaker 2: I thought they, but you know where they're, the problem
33:48
Speaker 2: is in the running game. And I was listening to
33:51
Speaker 2: you guys on the driving hall. Um, people were hinting at, well,
33:55
Speaker 2: why don't they go get Jonathan Taylor? Oh man, big
33:58
Speaker 2: time running back. Yeah, fine. Um, I don't think he's
34:02
Speaker 2: going to get, have any more success than Josh Jacobs
34:05
Speaker 2: has had behind this line. I think they've got to
34:07
Speaker 2: block better up front. Very simple. Um, no X's and
34:11
Speaker 2: O's got to beat your man up front a little
34:14
Speaker 2: bit better and give these running backs room to go
34:16
Speaker 2: because Josh Jacobs is a quality back. He's a lead back.
34:19
Speaker 2: He's a bell cow. And, and you know, I don't, he,
34:22
Speaker 2: whatever yardage he got last night, guys, it looked to
34:25
Speaker 2: me like he got it on his own.
34:28
Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: There, there was not a whole lot there to be
34:31
Speaker 3: able to pounce on and be able to go grab.
34:33
Speaker 1: Because drew it. He's right. There were a lot of
34:35
Speaker 1: folks that had some ideas.
34:37
Speaker 3: We had folks trying to trade for offensive line, which
34:39
Speaker 3: I'm always a fan of on, on post game, but
34:42
Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody's changing that round game instantly.
34:45
Speaker 1: No, the ground. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Wayne, to me, it's like they're adjusting a
34:49
Speaker 4: little bit with Jordan, too, because he's getting the ball
34:51
Speaker 4: out quicker than I remember him doing it in a
34:53
Speaker 4: long time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they have to. I will say this, Billy,
34:59
Speaker 2: to your point earlier about the tackles, they seem to
35:02
Speaker 2: be steadying better. And, you know, last night, for example,
35:07
Speaker 2: Larry McCarron's offensive lineman of the game was Anthony Belton.
35:11
Speaker 2: He felt Belton played well, secured the edge, you know,
35:16
Speaker 2: got to the second level when needed, that kind of thing.
35:18
Speaker 2: So if the two tackles can come around to understand
35:21
Speaker 2: they've got issues inside, hey, we know that. But, you know,
35:25
Speaker 2: and Lake and Tomlinson moving to the right side where
35:27
Speaker 2: he's played only a handful of games in his entire
35:29
Speaker 2: career at right guard. I wonder if they'll change things
35:34
Speaker 2: up again going into New England. It'll be interesting to
35:37
Speaker 2: see how they handle the interior three on that offensive line.
35:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, going to be fun.
35:42
Speaker 3: Going to have some eyes on the New England Patriots
35:44
Speaker 3: coming up this weekend as they take on Jeff Halfley's
35:47
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. Big game in the division, Vikings and Lions.
35:51
Speaker 3: That's one way I'm excited in Ford Field. There's a
35:54
Speaker 3: lot of times a Lions tax, a little tax for
35:56
Speaker 3: playing the Packers and the physicality in that game. That
35:59
Speaker 3: should be a very fun one in the division with
36:01
Speaker 3: a lot at stake.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. And I think this is where Detroit gets Minnesota.
36:08
Speaker 2: I really do. But you're right. They come off a physical, emotional,
36:13
Speaker 2: tough ball game against Green Bay. How much will they
36:15
Speaker 2: have left in the tank? The Packers had enough last night.
36:19
Speaker 2: left in the tank to get a win over Carolina. But,
36:23
Speaker 2: you know, Detroit, Minnesota, this should be really interesting to watch.
36:27
Speaker 2: It's going to be a fascinating ball game, in my opinion.
36:29
Speaker 3: Looking forward to it. Enjoy the weekend watching some ball.
36:32
Speaker 3: We'll have to make it through tonight. I was looking
36:35
Speaker 3: through some high school games maybe that we could get you,
36:37
Speaker 3: but maybe just take the night off, Wayne. Enjoy a
36:40
Speaker 3: couple of ice-cold Miller lights because legendary moments start with
36:43
Speaker 3: a light. And we'll talk and we'll reconvene on Monday.
36:46
Speaker 2: You got it, guys. We'll talk Monday.
36:48
Speaker 3: See, there he goes, Wayne Larrabee hanging out with us.
36:51
Speaker 3: Legendary moments start with a light. Might as well crack
36:52
Speaker 3: a couple. There have been a lot cracked over the
36:54
Speaker 3: city of Milwaukee. Legendary moments today started with hundreds and
36:58
Speaker 3: thousands and thousands of lights. Oh, wow. I thought it
37:01
Speaker 3: was interesting Miz got the commemorative can. Everyone else, maybe
37:05
Speaker 3: someone threw that one to him because I don't know
37:06
Speaker 3: how he got it unless that wasn't the tall boy
37:08
Speaker 3: that everyone had, the standard Miller.
37:10
Speaker 1: Lite can today. I thought that was interesting.
37:12
Speaker 3: How many of those commemorative cans are going to go
37:15
Speaker 3: just absolutely stanky in someone's basement for about 47 years?
37:20
Speaker 1: Most of them.
37:21
Speaker 3: We're passing those down to our kids in 30 years
37:23
Speaker 3: to not know what to do with in the garage.
37:25
Speaker 1: That's right.
37:26
Speaker 3: Everybody's dad had like those old beer cans in there.
37:29
Speaker 3: The one was like rusted on the top. And I
37:31
Speaker 3: remember my dad said, go get me a beer. And
37:33
Speaker 3: I grabbed it for him. And he looked at me
37:35
Speaker 3: and goes, you're way smarter than this.
37:37
Speaker 1: Nothing.
37:38
Speaker 3: You're way smarter than this. You know I wasn't drinking that.
37:43
Speaker 1: 877-794-1973. Drew, Billy, and Armin huddled up.
37:47
Speaker 3: We round third, head for home, and finish the celebration
37:50
Speaker 3: victory Friday up next. You're in the huddle on Fox
37:53
Speaker 3: Sports Radio Wisconsin. As folks were working on this, I
38:12
Speaker 3: have a buddy that works with that group, and they
38:14
Speaker 3: were working hard on this one, and they pulled it off. Well,
38:17
Speaker 3: I dropped Drew off this morning, a little peek behind
38:19
Speaker 3: the curtain, right around 3, 3.15 after Packers OT, and.
38:24
Speaker 1: They already had certain spots of it.
38:26
Speaker 3: Blocked off because i did want to go see how
38:29
Speaker 3: many of you know the preparations were underway they had
38:31
Speaker 3: all the signage up i mean it was it was
38:33
Speaker 3: remarkable how in 12 hours from when we departed for
38:37
Speaker 3: lambeau field to how they had that thing dressed and
38:39
Speaker 3: ready to go for the morning when you know a
38:43
Speaker 3: couple of short sausage egg mcmuffins away people were already
38:46
Speaker 3: getting there trying to knock on the door and get
38:48
Speaker 3: in there and start partying.
38:50
Speaker 4: Yeah it was um Boy, and the city needed this
38:54
Speaker 4: on a Friday like this. And the fact that they
38:56
Speaker 4: shut down some school districts was pretty cool.
38:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, big ones. And, Armin, you're right. Maybe we'll do
39:01
Speaker 1: it again in a year or two.
39:02
Speaker 3: I hope so. I just want to do it all
39:04
Speaker 3: over again. I want to wake up this morning again
39:06
Speaker 3: and start over.
39:07
Speaker 1: If this was your brown hog day how would it.
39:09
Speaker 3: Be oh it would be great i would probably try
39:12
Speaker 3: to get to every location of the parade like 20
39:14
Speaker 3: times and then just experience it from a different spot
39:16
Speaker 3: every time this was the greatest man i mean we
39:18
Speaker 3: were lifted to the heavens and uh i i hope
39:21
Speaker 3: the feeling lasts a long time and i know a
39:24
Speaker 3: lot of people today had a lot of texts today
39:26
Speaker 3: we couldn't get to everyone i know everyone's sharing and
39:28
Speaker 3: feeling a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of emotions thank you for a and everybody. We couldn't
39:30
Speaker 1: get to you.
39:31
Speaker 3: Sorry, but.
39:32
Speaker 1: We only have so many hours in the show, but
39:34
Speaker 1: it was just amazing.
39:35
Speaker 3: And wanted to bask in it and wanted to bring
39:37
Speaker 3: as much of the audio, and hopefully if you missed
39:40
Speaker 3: any of it throughout the day, you were able to
39:42
Speaker 3: catch it when we replayed some of it because the
39:44
Speaker 3: sounds from those guys at the podium, this is a
39:47
Speaker 3: full year, yes, climb and build, but Drew, they've been
39:52
Speaker 3: thinking about and dreaming about this their entire lives.
39:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they all said that this was as good
39:57
Speaker 4: as the actual winning of the championships.
40:00
Speaker 1: Because they were able to drink in the morning. I
40:01
Speaker 1: was going to say yes. If you missed.
40:03
Speaker 3: Any of it, we're going to replay some of it
40:05
Speaker 3: here next hour.
40:06
Speaker 1: But we did it, guys. Brewers won the World Championship.
40:08
Speaker 2: We did it.
40:09
Speaker 3: Brewers won the World Series. And we celebrated as only
40:12
Speaker 3: Milwaukee can.
40:14
Speaker 1: And we will on Monday.
40:15
Speaker 3: We'll bask in the glow of still the victories that
40:17
Speaker 3: have happened. And maybe another one coming in Iowa City
40:20
Speaker 3: as they battle for the Bull and the Heartland Trophy.
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Speaker 1: For Drew Olson, Armin Sarian, I'm Billy Schmid.
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Speaker 3: We'll huddle up and reconvene once again on Monday starting
40:29
Speaker 3: at 2.
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Speaker 1: Peace!
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Speaker 3: Yeah.