Transcript

09/18/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Ready to dominate a Friday in the good land football
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Speaker 1: Friday in the good land drew billion arm and huddled
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Speaker 1: after it like it's we're getting into that fall true
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Speaker 1: fall mode and the crowd this morning now granted I
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Speaker 1: was a couple minutes late because we were at potter
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Speaker 1: last night and I was watching the damn bills Lions
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Speaker 1: game kept me up I went 15 rounds with the
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Speaker 1: snooze Swiping. Battle this morning. Just a battle. Swiping the
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Speaker 1: snooze on the phone. I felt like Tiffany Gomes. That's
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Speaker 1: not real. That is not real. The AI edits of
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Speaker 1: that this week have been going crazy, by the way.
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Speaker 1: The Dajon Love one. Oh, my gosh. I just felt like, oh, man.
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Speaker 1: But there was a huge crowd of people just banging
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Speaker 1: on the doors at the Y to get in and
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Speaker 1: start working out. Oh, see.
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Speaker 2: Well, they're moving those workouts indoors now, Drew. There's probably
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Speaker 2: a lot of folks that have been having that early
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Speaker 2: morning 5 a.m. club workout with us. hanging out, jogging
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Speaker 2: around the neighborhood, maybe taking the bike out. Now they're
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Speaker 2: going to have to start moving that thing indoors and
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Speaker 2: it's going to start loading up. And this is where
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Speaker 2: the real work happens. So we're proud of you because
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Speaker 2: you're going into a football weekend, but it's got to
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Speaker 2: be a feel good Friday. You got to start it
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Speaker 2: out fast. These are fast. Friday turns into a feel
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Speaker 2: good Friday. And then it's a football Friday. When you
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Speaker 2: get to hang out and talk some Packers footballs, they
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Speaker 2: get ready to go and write the ship against the
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Speaker 2: New York football jets.
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Speaker 1: And luckily enough, as we.
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Speaker 2: Talked with Wayne Larrabee last night, this is not, Last
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Speaker 2: year's Jets team, which some folks would take as a negative.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a positive.
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Speaker 2: Then you can be able to feel at least a
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Speaker 2: little bit better about yourself when you do go right
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Speaker 2: the ship, cover the three and a half points at
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Speaker 2: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. And then you can say, hey, man,
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Speaker 2: better football team than they were a year ago. Much
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Speaker 2: better unit than they were. They're more physical. They might
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Speaker 2: actually get an interception this year. Hopefully not in week two. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that'd be nice. So that's an improving team and one
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Speaker 2: that's got a little bit better vibes than they did
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Speaker 2: a year ago where they were at the corner of
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Speaker 2: warm cheeks.
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Speaker 1: So when you, yeah, I like this, Billy.
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Speaker 3: So when you talk about a chicken soup game, this
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Speaker 3: is actually the medicine that will get you better when
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Speaker 3: you beat them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's beating a good enough team. Does the chicken
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Speaker 1: soup actually cure you? No, it just keeps you alive.
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Speaker 1: It keeps you comforted until your virus. What actually helps
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Speaker 1: you out? A little bit of Robitussin. Right.
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Speaker 3: You'll need some, you need some pharmaceuticals. You need a
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Speaker 3: little Sudafed. You need a Robitussin. And to your point, Billy, right?
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Speaker 3: This is not a junk. You're saying this is, will
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Speaker 3: not be a junk food type win. These won't be
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Speaker 3: empty calories. This won't be a win.
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Speaker 2: That'll make you feel good about yourself. I got bad
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Speaker 2: news for you. You're going to, we're going to have
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Speaker 2: to choke some of this down. No pause. There's going
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Speaker 2: to be that moment where you're like, Mom, this is gross.
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Speaker 2: Why are you making me drink this?
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Speaker 1: Why do we have to do this? Because you have to.
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Speaker 2: Because you haven't won a game in a long time.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be the way to get through it,
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Speaker 2: and it's going to be tough. It's going to be physical,
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Speaker 2: and you're going to have to slow down a run
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Speaker 2: game where they're going to throw two legit backs at
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Speaker 2: you and Braylon Allen and Brees Hall, and you're going
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Speaker 2: to have to try and stop them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a little thunder and lightning duo going,
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Speaker 3: kind of thing going there. I don't know how you
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Speaker 3: guys look at it.
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Speaker 1: Braylon looks to me like more of a bruiser these days.
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Speaker 1: or the way he runs.
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Speaker 3: And I know he's like, you know, wanting to do
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Speaker 3: the quickness thing like that. But with him and Brees Hall,
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Speaker 3: you're right, Billy. And they're going to lean into that.
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Speaker 3: They're going to lean into the run game. And I
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Speaker 3: think you're going to see their defense try a lot
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Speaker 3: of things that Flores did. Because why wouldn't you? That's
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Speaker 3: a playbook, right? Until this whole line proves they can
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Speaker 3: stop it.
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Speaker 1: So this isn't a game. And now we're talking about
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Speaker 1: Packers playing a must-win game. You know, because it is.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go 0-2 and then play the
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Speaker 1: home opener on a short week and then He's staring
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Speaker 1: on the barrel of potentially 0-3. Yeah. No, you're spot on.
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Speaker 1: This is as close to a must win as you
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Speaker 1: get in week two. It really is. It totally is.
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Speaker 1: Just right the ship. And we talked yesterday how, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the last three Super Bowl champions went one-on-one to start
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Speaker 1: the season. Okay. But there's different one-on-ones. Like, you win
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Speaker 1: the first game, lose the second. It's different than losing
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Speaker 1: the first game and winning the second. It's just this
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Speaker 1: little twist there. A little tinge of hope, a little
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Speaker 1: bit better feel to it. A little twist, yeah. Like
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Speaker 1: the Lions right now, how does their one-on-one feel? Probably
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Speaker 1: not that great. Not great. No, but... Better than all two.
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Speaker 1: But now they got a little longer week.
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Speaker 2: They lick the wounds, try to come back, regroup, and
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Speaker 2: figure it out.
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Speaker 1: But at one-on-one, no harm, no foul. Yeah, you're still
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Speaker 1: in the mix. In the 17-game season. You're still in
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Speaker 1: the mix. Exactly, yeah. Packers, you would hope... Like when
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Speaker 1: we fire up one week from today, we'll be looking at,
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Speaker 1: you know, two and one and feeling good and getting
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Speaker 1: a mini buy and get after it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And at worst case scenario, maybe you're a one game
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Speaker 2: back because maybe Minnesota is victorious this week or maybe
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Speaker 2: Chicago does, but somebody's going to lose in the division.
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Speaker 2: Somebody else is already one and one and you get
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Speaker 2: to go even Steven in what is still the extension
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Speaker 2: of the preseason, Drew.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Because of the regression and just market corrections and just
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Speaker 1: the way sports works, the Packers are due. To get
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Speaker 1: a two-score lead, maybe it'll happen on Sunday. They'll get
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Speaker 1: a lead and actually hold the lead and actually win
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Speaker 1: going away. They haven't won since December 7th. We talked
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Speaker 1: about it last night with Wayne Larrabee at the Thursday
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Speaker 1: Night Huddle Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex. By the way,
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Speaker 1: delicious food. Steak salad this time. So good. I went
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Speaker 1: steak salad. Billy, you had the prime rib burger. The
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Speaker 1: short rib burger. Short rib. Amazing. So good all night.
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Speaker 1: And Armand, what'd you go? A steak sandwich? A steak sandwich, right.
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Speaker 1: And it was just great. Phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wayne had himself a chicken sandwich was delicious. The food
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Speaker 1: is just the food. Like that's such a cool place
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Speaker 1: to be and watch sports that the food doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be good, but it is. Yeah. Then the food
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Speaker 1: comes out and it's really good. If everything else was subpar,
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Speaker 1: but everything else is elevated and the food is great too.
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Speaker 2: So just saying you need to go there. The best
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Speaker 2: sports bar food that you're going to find in the city.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Bar none and the best place to watch a game,
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Speaker 1: but the food, I would agree. But the, the Packers though,
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Speaker 1: The Packers will, maybe it'll come Sunday that they win
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Speaker 1: going away and hold on to a lead. Conversely, I
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Speaker 1: can't wait for that first close game the Bears play
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Speaker 1: or when the Bears are down in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: Show me, right? Because it was freakish what happened to
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Speaker 1: them last year, winning all those games, coming back and winning.
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Speaker 1: And when you think that that's your baseline, it's going
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Speaker 1: to happen all the time. It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: The only team to come back more than the Bears
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Speaker 2: last year were the Broncos. And you saw that already
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Speaker 2: start to rear its ugly head on Monday night. I
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Speaker 2: think there were a lot of folks that thought at
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Speaker 2: some point they were going to turn it on like
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Speaker 2: they did a year ago.
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Speaker 1: And you realize that it's.
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Speaker 2: Hard to have that same kind of second half magic
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Speaker 2: and fourth quarter luck that you did a year ago. Again,
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Speaker 2: I'll believe it, and I'm right there with you, and
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Speaker 2: I'm pulling for it big time. You see how much
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Speaker 2: better their offense is, though, and I think that it
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Speaker 2: is going to lend itself to one of the two
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Speaker 2: things being true, and maybe both will ultimately be somewhat true.
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Speaker 2: They could be worse in one-score games than they were
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Speaker 2: a year ago. and also be a better football team.
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Speaker 2: Like play less one score games. They play far less
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Speaker 2: one score games and go one and three. But if
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Speaker 2: they have double digit leads in the majority of these games,
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Speaker 2: which I think their offense is going to give them,
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Speaker 2: it could be a much different story.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. They'll be better in quarters one through three.
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Speaker 1: And not have to pull. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But we talked about it last year or in the
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Speaker 2: beginning of the year with the Brewers that we thought
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Speaker 2: they'd be a better baseball team.
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Speaker 1: Didn't necessarily mean their wins and losses would be better.
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Speaker 2: This one will be a fascinating one to study because
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Speaker 2: I think they will be better. I think the Bears
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Speaker 2: will be better. Will their record be better?
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Speaker 1: That will.
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Speaker 2: have to bear itself out but i mean that offense
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Speaker 2: is legit you're gonna have to be able to keep
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Speaker 2: up so we need to get some good vibes rolling
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Speaker 2: into that week five because luke fickle said the season
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Speaker 2: starts now i know some people didn't necessarily love that
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Speaker 2: after the notre dame game i'm not ready to go
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Speaker 2: there but the season does start when that bear when
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Speaker 2: that bears team comes to town we better you better
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Speaker 2: be all systems go and have all of the extension
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Speaker 2: of the preseason out of the way because you're gonna
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Speaker 2: have to sprint for 13 games once hopefully you get
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Speaker 2: parsons back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hope we have something for them. I
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Speaker 1: think we do, but we'll see.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, they're looking pretty strong after week one,
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Speaker 3: and that would be a problem. I would not enjoy that.
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Speaker 3: So hopefully we can make our presence felt in that regard.
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Speaker 2: This is just one of those games I'm not, again,
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Speaker 2: I believe the Packers are a better football team than
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Speaker 2: the Jets.
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Speaker 1: That's not a hot take.
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Speaker 2: I do think the hot take is that this Jets
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Speaker 2: team is going to be much improved from what they
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Speaker 2: were a year ago, and that they're going to They're
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Speaker 2: going to make you beat them. This is not a
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Speaker 2: team I think that's going to lay down, especially because
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Speaker 2: they've got proof in the pudding of a victory already.
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Speaker 2: They're going to have the home crowd behind them. Fireman
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Speaker 2: Ed's going to be firing the folks up. If they
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Speaker 2: put them on the Jumbotron, that was big thing last year, Drew.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that. He said they
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Speaker 2: were trying to phase him out. He said that it
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Speaker 2: seemed like they had some new leadership in there trying
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Speaker 2: to keep the hardcore fans off of the screen. We
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Speaker 2: need to get a real home field advantage, and we'll see.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if Fireman Ed was able to talk them
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Speaker 2: into having a real home field advantage, and by that,
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Speaker 2: throwing him on the jumbotron a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was upset about that for a while. You know,
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Speaker 3: this is what the NFL does to you. Every game
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Speaker 3: is so important because there's no other sport, no other
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Speaker 3: professional sport where losing the first game makes you think
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Speaker 3: the next week's a must win, but the NFL, you do.
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Speaker 1: Cause you don't want to go on too.
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Speaker 3: So when you, when there's excitement, when they lose the
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Speaker 3: first one, there's fear and trepidation.
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Speaker 1: Can I push back on that a tick because football
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Speaker 1: or was it? No. I mean, I, I do the
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Speaker 1: show after opening day. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: How many different sports fans immediately after opening day in
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Speaker 2: a baseball season will tip completely over?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We were there when the Brewers went 0-4
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Speaker 1: against the Royals. Yeah, 100%.
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Speaker 3: And it was Elvin and the Chipmunks, Elvin Rodriguez. And
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Speaker 3: it sure looked like the sky was falling. We know
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Speaker 3: now that that wasn't reality. You know, the Brewers actually
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Speaker 3: had a great year. That was the only point I
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Speaker 3: was making, is that it's not really a must-win after
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Speaker 3: the first game. But in the NFL, it kind of
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Speaker 3: can be, you know, in reality. Like, you can't go
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Speaker 3: 0-2 and hope to make the Super Bowl really in seriousness.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it can happen. Very much can happen. It's
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Speaker 1: very rare, though. It's very rare.
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Speaker 2: They were one and two and had a double-digit lead
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Speaker 2: in the NFC title game a number of years ago.
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Speaker 1: One and two, yeah.
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Speaker 3: But I'm just saying if numbers suggest 0-2, it's very rare.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Got it.
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Speaker 2: The only thing that numbers indicate is what has happened,
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Speaker 2: not what will happen. And especially with a 17-game season,
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Speaker 2: whatever statistical numbers you're throwing out there of likelihoods and 15,
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Speaker 2: 20 years of banked evidence, I think it all kind
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Speaker 2: of goes out the window when for 25 years, no
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Speaker 2: team had started 0-3 and made the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Now we've seen two teams do it in the last
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Speaker 1: three years. Now you have the extra playoff spot.
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Speaker 2: So, like, the changing in the mathematics of, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: it does this to your percentage to make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Give me what it does in the last three years.
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Speaker 1: Don't come at me with what it did in 1995.
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Speaker 2: It's a completely different sport at that point.
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Speaker 1: So, I get it. I understand. But it's still not
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Speaker 1: a great strategy to start over.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you have a point that you can always change history, though,
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Speaker 3: and that's true. You can always change those things going forward.
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Speaker 1: We talk about the Packers in the context of a
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Speaker 1: must-win game. It's a must-win game for the Badgers, too.
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Speaker 1: Probably more. That would be the point that I'd make.
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Speaker 1: More for that team. Because if I'm going to count
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Speaker 1: my six and a half that I've got to find.
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Speaker 1: I just, out of curiosity, there's plenty of tickets available
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Speaker 1: at uwbadgers.com. Plenty of tickets on the secondary market. at
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Speaker 1: tick pick, you can get in for between 10 and
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Speaker 1: 20 bucks on pretty good locations. Yeah. It's a seat
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Speaker 1: for 20 bucks a seat to go to a badger game. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Just bring your raincoat, bring your rain, bring your poncho,
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Speaker 2: bring your, bring your, bring your patients because I don't
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Speaker 2: know if rain delay theater is going to get dusted
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Speaker 2: off tomorrow during the badgers network broadcast, but it very
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Speaker 2: much could. It is going to be a wet and
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Speaker 2: a soaky day at camp Randall stadium, but you're right, Drew. I'm,
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Speaker 2: A little birdie told me that there was a sale
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Speaker 2: of a student ticket last week for the opener, and
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Speaker 2: it ended up buying the brother-in-law and three buddies seats
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Speaker 2: that were about 40 on the 40-yard line, about 15
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Speaker 2: rows back. So the student tickets still going for a
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Speaker 2: premium because you want to be in that excitement. Everywhere
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Speaker 2: else in Camp Randall Stadium, probably a little bit more
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Speaker 2: accessible to go and see the T.J.
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Speaker 1: Lang event. Eastern Michigan Eagles hopefully catch a fat out
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Speaker 1: with Noah Kim under center.
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Speaker 3: This is a term I've never heard, but I'm going
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Speaker 3: to try it. It's almost like a, you say must win,
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Speaker 3: which is true. It's almost like a must can't lose.
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Speaker 3: Cause it's not like even if you win this game,
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Speaker 3: people will be really, really excited, but they'll be like
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Speaker 3: less upset. You know, if you don't lose, don't lose
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Speaker 3: the game. So you just have to avoid disaster in
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Speaker 3: this one, but Hey, it should be it. Hopefully this
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Speaker 3: is one of those, like you said, just like last week,
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Speaker 3: going to the fourth quarter with a comfortable, not worrying
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Speaker 3: about it, you know, try and cover the spread type situation.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.
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Speaker 2: That's not, that is not the game. Eastern Michigan's going
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Speaker 2: to play. I mean, they're, they're, they're going to fight.
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Speaker 1: They're going to scrap.
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Speaker 2: They were in a 14, seven game in East Lansing
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Speaker 2: a week ago against Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan state Spartans. Now
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Speaker 2: Spartans ended up pulling away three, three consecutive touchdowns in
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Speaker 2: the second half, made it look a lot more lopsided
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Speaker 2: than it was, but Noah Kim can do some things.
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Speaker 2: He at one particular point in his college career, Now,
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Speaker 2: he's started all over the place. He was a Michigan
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Speaker 2: State guy for a couple of years and then went
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Speaker 2: to Coastal Carolina, transferred right back into the MAC to
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Speaker 2: Eastern Michigan, and he's put up some good numbers. So
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Speaker 2: he's an interesting cat and also won the starting job
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Speaker 2: there in 2023 at Michigan State.
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Speaker 1: So he's no.
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Speaker 2: Slouch, and the Badgers are going to have to be
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Speaker 2: able to play more complete than they did a week ago.
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Speaker 2: There were some real lulls in that Western Illinois game.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, Drew?
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Speaker 2: It's hard to rev the engine twice. And when you
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Speaker 2: go up 17-0 in the first seven minutes, that's a
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Speaker 2: lesson you got to learn. That is not the moment
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Speaker 2: to take the foot up off the gas, but it
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Speaker 2: is hard to learn that lesson without it happening to
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Speaker 2: you in person, right? So at least hopefully you learned
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Speaker 2: that lesson a week ago and now keep that engine
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Speaker 2: revved for 60 minutes. And, you know, the folks that
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Speaker 2: pay 40 bucks to bring the family of four to
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Speaker 2: the game can leave happy.
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Speaker 1: After jump around. Yeah, this is your chance.
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Speaker 2: And dry off before the postgame show fires up.
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Speaker 1: Probably be a more robust action in the Regent Street
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Speaker 1: bars as people are like, hey, you want to go in? Nah.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we just hang out here. Yeah, maybe we just
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Speaker 1: hang out here. We'll see. You never know, Billy. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: like the weather people we talk about all the time,
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Speaker 1: they talk about, oh, we're going to get storms. And
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Speaker 1: they kill people's desire to go out on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: Then it doesn't snow. And the restaurants take a bath.
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Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, come on. And it was wide
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Speaker 2: open for us. Listen, there's always a window. We just
14:30
Speaker 2: come out of Pittsburgh. There's always a window in Pittsburgh. Now,
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Speaker 2: there is always rain. There's going to be some rain
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Speaker 2: while you go and play games in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: But we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully it ends up beautiful for the Badgers tomorrow. And listen,
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Speaker 2: then we can really fire it up and go and
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Speaker 2: welcome Matt Campbell into the Big Ten coming up in
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Speaker 2: one week's time there at Penn State.
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Speaker 3: There's always a window is what your dad would say
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Speaker 3: when you told him you couldn't stay home today to
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Speaker 3: cut the grass because it was going to rain.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, Dad. It's going to rain all day. I might
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Speaker 1: as well just go out. No, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a window. Just stay home and wait. Yeah, there's going
15:00
Speaker 1: to be a window. Keep the cards and letters coming. Oh,
15:03
Speaker 1: here's a I'm worried about Aaron Ashby text from the side. Ooh.
15:08
Speaker 1: I saw someone say Aaron Trashby. Another one who is
15:11
Speaker 1: somewhat questionable is Aaron Ashby. Another one who is somewhat
15:13
Speaker 1: questionable has been giving up home runs. I think he's
15:15
Speaker 1: had 74 appearances currently and isn't the same shutdown guy.
15:19
Speaker 1: Can't give up two homers. He got two run homers
15:21
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It's the nail in the coffin many times,
15:24
Speaker 1: especially with guys like we're going to face this weekend.
15:27
Speaker 1: Old killer Pete Alonzo. Well, that's a good strategy.
15:29
Speaker 3: Just figure out the guys that never give up homers
15:31
Speaker 3: in the playoffs and only pitch them.
15:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
15:35
Speaker 2: At 2021, Scar of Ashby is still rolling strong in
15:40
Speaker 2: the minds of Brewers fans. But he had been on
15:44
Speaker 2: one of the better roles of the season. Yes, he
15:47
Speaker 2: has given up, you could say, four runs in his
15:49
Speaker 2: last one, two, three, four, five, six. In a combined
15:52
Speaker 2: seven outings, he's given up four runs. Before that, he
15:57
Speaker 2: had gone... One run in check math. Well, 14 outings.
16:04
Speaker 2: So he had been on a pretty decent roll yesterday
16:07
Speaker 2: for sure. There's some action there. I also wonder how
16:11
Speaker 2: much they're going to end up throwing him in the playoffs, right?
16:13
Speaker 2: Like he's already at drew 70, what? 74 appearances. Yeah.
16:20
Speaker 2: He's got the rubber arm. They love going to him.
16:22
Speaker 2: They want to deploy him at a moment's notice. But
16:25
Speaker 2: you do wonder how judicious you are with him in
16:28
Speaker 2: the playoffs, especially with the lack of off days that
16:30
Speaker 2: you have there. Because he's going to pitch. They play
16:33
Speaker 2: five games in that first series. He pitches in four
16:36
Speaker 2: of them.
16:37
Speaker 1: He'll be used a lot. He's pitching in at least
16:40
Speaker 1: three of them.
16:40
Speaker 2: I think the number of the Pottawatomie Sportsbook might be
16:42
Speaker 2: set at three and a half because that's going to
16:44
Speaker 2: be a hard one to bet. They always want to
16:47
Speaker 2: pull that phone, and I understand why because he has
16:49
Speaker 2: been so reliable.
16:50
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
16:50
Speaker 3: He's had a good year overall. He really has, and
16:53
Speaker 3: when the guy's that consistent, you want to use him.
16:56
Speaker 3: That being said, if you catch him in a tough stretch, okay,
16:58
Speaker 3: then that's obviously frustrating.
17:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's funny. Everybody wants their relievers to
17:04
Speaker 1: be perfect all the time. Perfect all the time.
17:06
Speaker 3: No runs.
17:06
Speaker 1: You give up runs in back-to-back games, and people are like, well,
17:09
Speaker 1: forget about the 20 scoreless outings you just had. You suck.
17:13
Speaker 1: It's like a kicker now. The threshold of success is
17:15
Speaker 1: very high. Very true. Very true. All right, we have
17:18
Speaker 1: reached halftime of the Friday edition. Oh, they're showing a
17:21
Speaker 1: lot of green on that radar right there on the weather.
17:24
Speaker 1: I'm not liking that. I'm trying to cut the grass
17:26
Speaker 1: out here. That's a lot of it coming up tomorrow.
17:29
Speaker 1: A lot of it coming up tomorrow. When we come back, halftime,
17:31
Speaker 1: and our correspondent Scott Dolphin is going to be with
17:34
Speaker 1: us from the country station on the hall, FM 106.
17:37
Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I love
17:42
Speaker 1: watching Armin meltdown. Armin's hitting buttons back there. He's freezing up.
17:47
Speaker 1: You're just getting the momentary panic. Let me give you
17:52
Speaker 1: a different banger. This is always here. I don't know.
17:54
Speaker 1: I like the crowd noise. It's giving you the feel
17:56
Speaker 1: of a show.
17:57
Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:57
Speaker 1: Drew's about to take the stage. We love you, Drew!
18:01
Speaker 1: Let's go.
18:01
Speaker 2: It's like the Pottawatomie Sportsbook last night where they're asking
18:04
Speaker 2: you to throw out your shirt.
18:06
Speaker 1: I know that didn't happen, I don't think.
18:08
Speaker 2: I think you should have when they started asking for
18:10
Speaker 2: it and clamoring for it.
18:11
Speaker 1: Shirtless Armin would have woke that crowd right up in
18:14
Speaker 1: a hurry, right? Dolph, you want to draw people to
18:16
Speaker 1: an event? You want people to actually show up to
18:18
Speaker 1: an event? Let them know that they're going to see
18:20
Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. That's right, our furry little mascots. Come on,
18:22
Speaker 1: are you kidding? We've got Dolphins, our halftime correspondent. Hello, Dolph.
18:25
Speaker 1: Welcome officially. Thank you. If I was starting a band,
18:28
Speaker 1: it would be Shirtless Armin. Ooh, that's a good name.
18:30
Speaker 1: I like that. They're amazing. I saw them at the rave.
18:32
Speaker 1: They were amazing. What kind of music do you think
18:37
Speaker 1: that would be? Some kind of folk music? No, it
18:39
Speaker 1: would definitely be screamo. It would be. It would be
18:43
Speaker 1: a screamo. Yeah. Thrash, Christian metal. I don't know. Yeah,
18:48
Speaker 1: something like that. Something of the weirdest genre you can
18:51
Speaker 1: think of.
18:52
Speaker 2: One hardcore DJ would have been maybe even better for it.
18:56
Speaker 1: Yes. It's funny because a lot of my friends, local musicians,
19:00
Speaker 1: their busy season is winding down because the summer is
19:03
Speaker 1: when they give gigs every night. There's beer gardens and
19:07
Speaker 1: festivals and church festivals. They're getting like crazy. And now
19:12
Speaker 1: it's starting to wind down.
19:13
Speaker 3: A little bit.
19:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
19:15
Speaker 4: You still see the usual suspects that have been around
19:18
Speaker 4: for years in the Milwaukee area that still play a
19:20
Speaker 4: lot of those festivals. And I always wonder if they
19:21
Speaker 4: just do nothing for the rest of the year, or
19:23
Speaker 4: do they do private parties? I guess the bar scene
19:27
Speaker 4: probably fires up. There just isn't as much live music
19:30
Speaker 4: in bars anymore.
19:31
Speaker 1: Right. People don't want to pay for it. That's true, yeah.
19:34
Speaker 1: That's a generational thing. These kids today, I tell you,
19:39
Speaker 1: they'll put down their card and they'll buy a round
19:41
Speaker 1: of bombs for $ 50, but if you ask them to
19:44
Speaker 1: pay $ 3 to see a band at $ 3 at the door,
19:46
Speaker 1: not a chance. I'm not spending that. The money's tight
19:48
Speaker 1: around here. Come on. 1990s, it was.
19:52
Speaker 4: It was commonplace to have live music at your wedding reception.
19:56
Speaker 1: For sure. And then the DJs took over. Yeah, now
19:58
Speaker 1: it's pretty much DJs for all the weddings you go to.
20:00
Speaker 1: Now it's almost a surprise when you show up with
20:03
Speaker 1: a band.
20:03
Speaker 3: It is, but I think they might be coming back.
20:05
Speaker 3: I've been to a few lately that have had live bands.
20:07
Speaker 3: And I'm not just talking about Armenian weddings, okay? I
20:09
Speaker 3: know that was your first question. Well, of course, Armenian weddings.
20:11
Speaker 1: What is the best Armenian band in the area?
20:14
Speaker 3: Well, there's... There's not really bands you'd know of or anything. Well,
20:19
Speaker 3: with that attitude, maybe Dolph is really into it. You
20:21
Speaker 3: just know people that might be able to play Armenian
20:23
Speaker 3: music or things like that.
20:25
Speaker 2: I don't know how to really answer that question. I
20:27
Speaker 2: think I've only been to one wedding that had a band.
20:30
Speaker 2: Now that I'm trying to rack my brain of it.
20:32
Speaker 2: And it was our boy, the franchise's son's wedding. And
20:37
Speaker 2: Timmy ended up grabbing the guitar and playing a couple
20:40
Speaker 2: of songs.
20:41
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
20:41
Speaker 2: So that made it an electric scene. Other than that,
20:44
Speaker 2: I don't know that I've seen one, and that feels
20:47
Speaker 2: like a miss.
20:48
Speaker 3: My cousin had one that was a regular kind of
20:50
Speaker 3: like play the hits band.
20:52
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool.
20:53
Speaker 3: They had a whole ensemble, and they were playing pop hits.
20:56
Speaker 3: They were playing classics.
20:57
Speaker 1: They were like... good interpretations, you know? It was like
21:00
Speaker 1: a street life kind of deal. Street life.
21:02
Speaker 4: Street life's a great band. So that's kind of like
21:05
Speaker 4: what Drew was referencing, you know, a lot of his
21:06
Speaker 4: friends are in local bands. I think you have to
21:08
Speaker 4: have a good repertoire that goes through all the different formats,
21:11
Speaker 4: all the different generations.
21:13
Speaker 1: For sure. Armin, what's the weirdest Armenian wedding tradition? You're
21:18
Speaker 1: not breaking plates. That's the Greeks.
21:19
Speaker 3: They break plates, although some Armenians do break plates. I
21:23
Speaker 3: stepped on a plate at ours, but only some Armenians
21:26
Speaker 3: have that as a tradition.
21:29
Speaker 1: That's supposed to ward off evil?
21:31
Speaker 3: There's still some Armenians that do a ceremonious kind of dowry,
21:34
Speaker 3: like where you take the.
21:36
Speaker 1: Bride away, and you have to pay off with cash,
21:38
Speaker 1: and the bride comes to the door. Bad news. Bad
21:42
Speaker 1: news when Armin was the groom. I ain't paying a dollar.
21:45
Speaker 1: I would say that. They found the cheapest groom in
21:47
Speaker 1: the world. He ain't doing that. No, that's true.
21:51
Speaker 3: There is a thing where, gosh, my dad's going to
21:53
Speaker 3: help me with this, but you would steal furniture.
21:56
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this, and I'm talking about decades. I
21:58
Speaker 1: like this one. You would steal furniture from the in-laws'
22:02
Speaker 1: house the day.
22:03
Speaker 3: Before or the week before if you were in the groomsmen,
22:06
Speaker 3: the wedding party, and then they would have to get
22:08
Speaker 3: their furniture back by giving the bride at the ceremony.
22:11
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. I haven't seen it in years, but I.
22:14
Speaker 3: Remember when I was a kid, they were bringing couches
22:17
Speaker 3: and chairs into the.
22:18
Speaker 1: I love this.
22:18
Speaker 2: I'm going to start doing this. I'm the best man
22:22
Speaker 2: in a wedding, actually, one month from yesterday. So I
22:25
Speaker 2: have now decided that I'm going to go steal the
22:27
Speaker 2: couch at the bride's mom's house.
22:30
Speaker 3: My dad told me a story that he was going
22:32
Speaker 3: out a window with a lamp or something once, and
22:34
Speaker 3: that was a fun thing.
22:36
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fun traditions.
22:38
Speaker 3: That Armenians do, but not necessarily like specific crazy stuff.
22:44
Speaker 1: Not like in the office. Stealing the bride's furniture is
22:48
Speaker 1: definitely not crazy. The engagement party and stuff, did you go...
22:51
Speaker 1: With your family to Lara's parents' house and, like, bring
22:54
Speaker 1: flowers and gifts and stuff? Is that the... Yeah, I mean,
22:57
Speaker 1: you could do that. That's obviously a courteous thing. You
23:00
Speaker 1: could do that. Did you do that or no? Well...
23:03
Speaker 1: I thought you were traditional.
23:05
Speaker 3: We had an engagement party, but, like, some Armenians... We
23:09
Speaker 3: went for dinner, but some Armenians have engagement parties where
23:11
Speaker 3: it's like a full wedding almost. Oh.
23:13
Speaker 1: For, like, just an engagement.
23:14
Speaker 3: You're supposed to have tea and ask for their hand
23:16
Speaker 3: in marriage, right? Yeah, well, you know, you ask for
23:18
Speaker 3: the blessing in general.
23:19
Speaker 1: You know, you could do that. You could do that. But, like,
23:21
Speaker 1: it wasn't a family thing. Like, my family didn't ask
23:23
Speaker 1: her family. I did. You did.
23:25
Speaker 3: I did with her family. But it wasn't, like, necessarily
23:27
Speaker 3: a family thing. Did you do in the proper way,
23:29
Speaker 3: like Drew said, with tea? It was during COVID, so
23:31
Speaker 3: I did it over stream. Do what you gotta do. Actually,
23:37
Speaker 3: if you really want to know, that's how I did it.
23:39
Speaker 1: I didn't brew a tea though. Did we get the
23:41
Speaker 1: lavash and honey at the door? Yeah, so I wanted
23:46
Speaker 1: to do it, but it was too hard to orchestrate.
23:48
Speaker 3: But if you're coming into the Grand March, you enter
23:54
Speaker 3: the hall, you could break the plate and then the
23:58
Speaker 3: groom's mother, I think, or it could be the bride's mother,
24:01
Speaker 3: they feed you a spoonful of honey and And then
24:03
Speaker 3: they drape the flatbread, the lavash, over your shoulder. It's
24:08
Speaker 3: supposed to give you prosperity and sweet things, things like that.
24:11
Speaker 1: I'd be down with the honey. I love this. Yeah,
24:12
Speaker 1: so that's cool.
24:14
Speaker 3: The bride also, sometimes a big group of people come
24:20
Speaker 3: to the bride's house as she's getting ready to go
24:22
Speaker 3: to the wedding. So basically, the band's there, and they're
24:25
Speaker 3: playing music as she's coming out of the house. and
24:28
Speaker 3: everyone's basically celebrating the brides going to the church. So
24:33
Speaker 3: not just like you're at church waiting for the bride
24:35
Speaker 3: to arrive, but everyone had already seen the bride. They
24:38
Speaker 3: travel with her to the church. That's like a very
24:40
Speaker 3: village type thing.
24:41
Speaker 1: I love these traditions. I was going to say, that's
24:43
Speaker 1: a good one.
24:43
Speaker 3: A lot of Armenian wedding traditions are cultural, but there's
24:46
Speaker 3: a lot of different Armenian traditions based on where that community.
24:50
Speaker 1: Immigrated from over the years. Oh, it's like the Lutherans
24:52
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. There you go. You've got all these different,
24:54
Speaker 1: what are they called, synods? Yeah.
24:56
Speaker 3: It's the same church, but it's like, oh, our family
24:59
Speaker 3: did this in California because they moved from here to here,
25:02
Speaker 3: or our family did this when we were moving from
25:04
Speaker 3: Armenia to Lebanon to this.
25:06
Speaker 1: So everyone picks up different traditions over the years. Interesting. Well,
25:09
Speaker 1: my favorite wedding traditions include major fights, usually between bridesmaids
25:14
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah, sure, yeah. And then when the father
25:17
Speaker 1: of the bride gets exasperated and slaps down and decides
25:20
Speaker 1: to keep the bar open for another hour or two. Oh, yeah,
25:22
Speaker 1: that happens a lot. That's always good. All right. All right. Whatever. Yeah.
25:28
Speaker 1: He's got a few pops in him and he's like,
25:29
Speaker 1: all right, let's keep it open. Let it ride.
25:32
Speaker 3: The main thing I would say is like, you know,
25:33
Speaker 3: you do a grand March at a regular wedding and then,
25:35
Speaker 3: then you, you welcome in the bridal party and you
25:38
Speaker 3: have like a first dance after while you're eating, they'll,
25:41
Speaker 3: they'll do a slow dance at the Armenian wedding. As
25:44
Speaker 3: soon as the bride and groom enter, you're partying for
25:46
Speaker 3: like 40 minutes. And then, like, the whole festivity starts.
25:49
Speaker 3: So that's basically when the whole thing. That's, like, the
25:51
Speaker 3: most electric.
25:51
Speaker 1: Sounds like I need to be meeting some more Armenians
25:54
Speaker 1: and going to some Armenians. That sounds like a hell
25:56
Speaker 1: of a party. It's some good times. There's some good times. Well,
25:59
Speaker 1: you've got a couple more cousins that are getting married, right?
26:01
Speaker 1: You're just at a bachelor party. Well, I went to
26:03
Speaker 1: the one this summer already. That was the one in D.C.
26:05
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
26:06
Speaker 3: At some point, you know, I think everyone's going to
26:08
Speaker 3: grow older and get married at some point. So you
26:10
Speaker 3: would think so. Yeah.
26:11
Speaker 1: We do the chairs, you know. You put them up
26:12
Speaker 1: on the chair, the bride and groom. Oh, so like
26:14
Speaker 1: in Fiddler on the Roof. Same idea. Oh, okay. Put
26:16
Speaker 1: them up on the chair. Got it. Kind of cool.
26:18
Speaker 1: I like that one, too. Good stuff. That's awesome. It's wild. Yeah,
26:20
Speaker 1: there's some wild stuff going on that goes on, you know. So, Dolph,
26:23
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the weekend. Did you watch much
26:25
Speaker 1: of the Bills dismantling of Detroit's defense last night? Yeah,
26:28
Speaker 1: most of it.
26:29
Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be 58 to nothing,
26:30
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden the Lions start scoring,
26:32
Speaker 4: and then they get the ball back down 10.
26:35
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, there's eight minutes left. Damn, they got a
26:37
Speaker 1: shot in this thing. Of course, the Bills... Once they
26:40
Speaker 1: got the ball.
26:42
Speaker 4: Detroit has given up 70 some points now in two games.
26:46
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's going to be better because
26:47
Speaker 4: they're dinged up in the backfield. They're signing people off
26:50
Speaker 4: the street. They've signed somebody last week. It could be
26:54
Speaker 4: a rough first month for the Kitties.
26:55
Speaker 2: Just remember, the Motor City Kitties did have a three-score
26:58
Speaker 2: lead at halftime in the NFC title game.
27:00
Speaker 1: Yes. So, and they had a three score lead last
27:02
Speaker 1: Sunday and blew that. So we know that they've had
27:05
Speaker 1: a moment. They had a moment, but now all of
27:07
Speaker 1: a sudden you're looking at it.
27:08
Speaker 2: And Dan Campbell teary eyed to TJ Lang after that
27:11
Speaker 2: game said, man, there's no guarantee, man. We're ever back here, man.
27:15
Speaker 2: I just don't know. And all of a sudden you're
27:17
Speaker 2: looking at it. Ben Johnson's in Chicago. The other guy
27:20
Speaker 2: that he brought with them is in Baltimore making sweet
27:23
Speaker 2: music with Mar Jackson and their offense is is rough.
27:27
Speaker 2: I mean, like their offensive line, which was the pillar
27:30
Speaker 2: of that team. They lost rag now when he retired
27:33
Speaker 2: because just couldn't play anymore.
27:35
Speaker 1: Sure.
27:35
Speaker 2: They lost this offseason. Taylor Decker, who had been their
27:40
Speaker 2: mainstay tackle forever. He's not playing anywhere. He's out there
27:44
Speaker 2: on the on the street. They move Penny Sewell over
27:46
Speaker 2: to left tackle where he played in college. He hadn't
27:48
Speaker 2: been necessarily great. They drafted one of the first round.
27:50
Speaker 2: He plays in the first game, misses the second there.
27:52
Speaker 2: They're in a tough spot. No doubt about it for
27:54
Speaker 2: the favorites to win the division in the preseason.
27:56
Speaker 4: They're going to score points, obviously, especially playing inside. But
28:01
Speaker 4: that defense, I just don't know if they can stop anybody.
28:03
Speaker 4: That's going to be a rough time for them.
28:05
Speaker 1: People are saying that about the Bears as well.
28:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, and I don't think the Bears
28:11
Speaker 4: have as many injuries as the Lions do on defense.
28:14
Speaker 1: Their whole secondary was different.
28:15
Speaker 2: I mean, they announced the starters last night, and I
28:18
Speaker 2: think DJ Reed would have been the only guy they
28:21
Speaker 2: were planning on being a starter in the preseason for him.
28:24
Speaker 2: Joseph and Branch, their two safeties, both out, both very,
28:27
Speaker 2: very good, both Pro Bowl guys. They had to start
28:29
Speaker 2: Avante Maddox, the skeletal remains of him, and Chuck Clark
28:32
Speaker 2: last night.
28:33
Speaker 1: Chuck Clark. So, I mean, it's a tough.
28:35
Speaker 2: Scene out there in the secondary for a team that
28:37
Speaker 2: was one of the better built groups out there. And
28:40
Speaker 2: they will be once those guys get healthy. But they
28:43
Speaker 2: got one dude facing how many charges now in Seattle
28:45
Speaker 2: that they had to cut bait with in Terry on Arnold.
28:47
Speaker 2: And your two all-pro safeties being in the back end
28:49
Speaker 2: turned into a graveyard back there.
28:51
Speaker 4: Josh Allen, again, reminded us how he's the greatest quarterback
28:54
Speaker 4: in the NFL right now. And I don't think anybody's
28:56
Speaker 4: questioning that. But their defense wasn't great either. What have
28:59
Speaker 4: they given up in their first two weeks?
29:01
Speaker 1: You know, in that way, yeah. I was just going
29:03
Speaker 1: to say, like, the NFL's kind of mirroring the NBA
29:07
Speaker 1: in that you can be down, like, four scores early.
29:09
Speaker 1: And it's going to end up being a close. You're
29:10
Speaker 1: going to end up having a chance, right? To put
29:13
Speaker 1: the paddles to it, and then we'll see if you
29:15
Speaker 1: can hold on.
29:16
Speaker 2: The three-score lead in the NFL is now the 20-point
29:19
Speaker 2: lead in the NBA in what, like, a two-score, two-goal
29:22
Speaker 2: lead in hockey.
29:22
Speaker 1: The Lions did against the Saints. They just relaxed. Okay,
29:26
Speaker 1: this is going to be easy. Let's coast. What did
29:29
Speaker 1: I say, man? It's hard to rev the engine twice.
29:31
Speaker 1: It is, man.
29:32
Speaker 2: And when you put that foot off the gas pedal
29:34
Speaker 2: just a little bit, it's hard to grab it again.
29:37
Speaker 1: Here's one for you, Dolph, because this might be the...
29:40
Speaker 1: destination circle at must-watch game of the weekend across the board.
29:45
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Brett Favre came back
29:47
Speaker 1: to Lambeau as a member of the Vikings. And, you know,
29:51
Speaker 1: it was a divided time, fractured time. And there were
29:53
Speaker 1: people wearing the Favre jerseys. I was there. I was there.
29:57
Speaker 4: The booze were raining down, and I just remember turning
29:59
Speaker 4: to my friend next to me and I said, don't
30:00
Speaker 4: boo that hillbilly because he will come back to haunt you.
30:02
Speaker 1: It was incredible. And he did that night. Well, Lane
30:04
Speaker 1: Kiffin's returning to Oxford on Saturday night. Oh, my God.
30:08
Speaker 1: And Ole Miss has put out an edict that no
30:12
Speaker 1: one can wear anything purple, gold. Like in the student section,
30:17
Speaker 1: you will be ejected. You can't wear any Ole Miss gear.
30:19
Speaker 1: They put it down. Basically, they put down a clothing ban.
30:22
Speaker 1: That's phenomenal. This is America. Yeah. They don't want anybody
30:25
Speaker 1: wearing it. You're not allowed in the student section. I
30:27
Speaker 1: guess it's only for the student section because if it's
30:29
Speaker 1: like a protest thing or something, I mean, back then,
30:32
Speaker 1: you know, there were line strong. There were far people
30:34
Speaker 1: and Rogers people and, you know, never the twain shall
30:37
Speaker 1: meet until Rogers is pretty good. But this thing, this
30:41
Speaker 1: is spicy.
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Speaker 2: Well, and if anybody knows separation of rules, Mississippi.
30:45
Speaker 1: Knows a lot of it. We're going to govern our
30:47
Speaker 1: own selves. No question.
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Speaker 2: That's a fascinating deal because Hotty Toddy is going to
30:53
Speaker 2: be live in the Grove starting at midnight tonight.
30:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. And they want a piece of blood. Of course.
30:59
Speaker 1: And they should. They want a pint. And it's going
31:02
Speaker 1: to be fun to be able to see it. You
31:03
Speaker 1: know what?
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Speaker 4: He's successful, I guess. But the dude is just an instigator.
31:07
Speaker 4: I mean, when Nick Saban doesn't want you around, what
31:10
Speaker 4: does that say about you? And now he's playing games.
31:13
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, the quarterback. I don't know. I don't
31:15
Speaker 1: know who's going to play tomorrow. Sam Levin's going to
31:17
Speaker 1: look like Kevin Nash taking the blanket off of him
31:19
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair. Exactly. Yeah. Well, that makes him an
31:22
Speaker 1: easy villain, and I guess we need that in sports, right?
31:24
Speaker 1: That's true. He does.
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Speaker 4: He's playing a vital role. I just think of, you know,
31:28
Speaker 4: what a legend Monty was, you know, his old man.
31:30
Speaker 4: He was such a great coach, and, you know, I
31:32
Speaker 4: don't want to say. You know, I guess he's earned
31:35
Speaker 4: where he is.
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Speaker 1: He's a good coach. There's no question. Yeah, but you
31:37
Speaker 1: just look back.
31:38
Speaker 4: At his career, you know, that baby face when he
31:40
Speaker 4: was with the Raiders in different places.
31:42
Speaker 1: It's just oof.
31:43
Speaker 2: Youngest coach in NFL history at the time. to get
31:46
Speaker 2: a head coaching job with the Raiders. Uh, also the
31:49
Speaker 2: youngest coach in NFL history, you'd be fired.
31:52
Speaker 1: As quickly as he was hired. And, but this is,
31:55
Speaker 1: this is what he does.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he had batteries and bottle caps thrown at
31:59
Speaker 2: him when he came back, uh, to Neyland stadium in
32:01
Speaker 2: Tennessee golf balls too. And they're going to find anything
32:05
Speaker 2: to be able to Chuck at him in the Grove
32:07
Speaker 2: this week.
32:07
Speaker 1: I think so too.
32:08
Speaker 4: I mean, I hope we'll miss wins, you know, but,
32:10
Speaker 4: but it's, it's interesting to hear the LSU side. I mean, uh,
32:12
Speaker 4: you know, it was at Booger McFarland yesterday on ESPN saying, uh,
32:16
Speaker 4: We don't worry about Ole Miss. I mean, you know,
32:19
Speaker 4: we're used to winning national championships. Three of the last
32:22
Speaker 4: four coaches have won a national championship. You know, Ole
32:25
Speaker 4: Miss is just a, you know, they're a bump in
32:27
Speaker 4: the road.
32:27
Speaker 1: You know, he's throwing all kinds of shit.
32:29
Speaker 2: They've been a welcome mat there in the SEC for
32:31
Speaker 2: a long time. And they're like, wait a second, we
32:33
Speaker 2: own this place now. We're in the playoffs.
32:35
Speaker 3: And the most important tradition, well, besides beating your opponent
32:38
Speaker 3: in the SEC, is to playfully, passive-aggressively disrespect them.
32:42
Speaker 1: That's what everybody wants to do. Caught in the center
32:44
Speaker 1: of the storm is Kiffin's daughter, who's an Ole Miss student,
32:48
Speaker 1: who dates an LSU football player.
32:49
Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
32:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, Whit Weeks.
32:51
Speaker 4: Yes.
32:51
Speaker 1: Which is probably not a big deal to them, but
32:53
Speaker 1: it is for all the fans. Oh, but she's been
32:55
Speaker 1: getting just, I mean, they've been making, you know, these
32:59
Speaker 1: days of... AI and Photoshop. They're like printing up stuff
33:03
Speaker 1: and putting it around campus.
33:05
Speaker 2: Miss beat LSU last year. Kiffin was the one in
33:08
Speaker 2: the press conference that said, or in the post game
33:10
Speaker 2: interviews that I'm.
33:11
Speaker 1: Looking for wit. I don't see him anywhere. I don't
33:15
Speaker 1: see the maybe future son-in-law anywhere. He stokes the fire
33:18
Speaker 1: a little bit. Because for him, it's fun, I think.
33:21
Speaker 3: I mean, he loves knowing that people are freaking out,
33:24
Speaker 3: and he loves knowing that if he tweets out an
33:27
Speaker 3: inspirational quote that might have reference to it. And I get.
33:31
Speaker 4: That, but isn't there a point when your brain tells
33:33
Speaker 4: you you've gone too far? When the freaking SEC is
33:36
Speaker 4: going to ban your school from the conference, maybe you
33:40
Speaker 4: should tone it back a little bit, Lane.
33:41
Speaker 3: Sudden.
33:42
Speaker 1: What if we had NFL players?
33:45
Speaker 3: I think he likes the power to make people think
33:47
Speaker 3: he likes.
33:49
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either, yeah. Yeah, the only one that apparently
33:51
Speaker 1: was able to get him to get off Twitter was
33:53
Speaker 1: his kid. Wow.
33:54
Speaker 2: His son was like, hey, Dad, how about you stop
33:57
Speaker 2: posting hot yoga pics and inspirational.
34:00
Speaker 1: Quotes in the morning? So he's just like all of us. Okay, yeah, sure,
34:02
Speaker 1: I guess I can. Trying to get our dad off
34:04
Speaker 1: social media. Yeah, he's like, come on, Pops, you're making
34:06
Speaker 1: this embarrassing, Dad, all right? Stop this. I got to
34:10
Speaker 1: go to high school. No. What's going to happen in
34:13
Speaker 1: that football game? You got number seven against number eight? Well, listen,
34:16
Speaker 1: if Sam Levitt doesn't play, they got no chance.
34:19
Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss is going to go bonkers in this game.
34:22
Speaker 1: I love Trinidad Chambliss.
34:24
Speaker 2: Is he not the most exciting player to watch in
34:26
Speaker 2: college football? Guy was at a division two school, wins
34:29
Speaker 2: a national title. There comes to the sec and he's
34:31
Speaker 2: the bees knees. It's it's a man watching him in
34:34
Speaker 2: the playoff last year was so much fun. And he
34:36
Speaker 2: fired up four touchdowns right out of the gates early.
34:39
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a phenomenal game. I
34:41
Speaker 2: got Ole miss, but I also think that plus three
34:43
Speaker 2: was also more with the heart. Cause I cannot wait
34:46
Speaker 2: to cheer against lane.
34:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Same here.
34:47
Speaker 4: And with LSU, I mean, you know, sure they look good,
34:49
Speaker 4: but what's Clemson have anymore. I mean, I, it's just
34:52
Speaker 4: hard to say.
34:53
Speaker 2: They might, Listen, Bill Belichick in those sweater puppies that
34:56
Speaker 2: he was rocking in that picture, I think they take
34:59
Speaker 2: on Clemson this week.
35:00
Speaker 1: So we might be able to see what they got.
35:02
Speaker 1: Speaking about a train wreck right now in North Carolina. Yeah,
35:05
Speaker 1: now his other son's going to run the defense, right? Well,
35:09
Speaker 1: better than Jordan, because she let him wear that thing.
35:12
Speaker 1: We'll let him wear that sweatshirt into that interview.
35:14
Speaker 3: When you force Lombardi and a Belichick to resign in
35:17
Speaker 3: the course of a month, you know you really ran
35:19
Speaker 3: through some legendary names.
35:20
Speaker 1: Like, come on. Like a Lombardi and a Belichick. Like,
35:23
Speaker 1: come on. Yeah, that's true. Oh, my goodness. The one
35:29
Speaker 1: offshoot of this, of Belichick's little detour to Chapel Hill,
35:32
Speaker 1: I think it silenced all the people. And I know
35:34
Speaker 1: that there were people saying that they ought to rename
35:36
Speaker 1: the Lombardi trophy, the Belichick. That one's quieted down a
35:39
Speaker 1: little bit. Not anymore. That one's quieted down a little bit.
35:42
Speaker 1: That's why you don't do that. Should have went and
35:44
Speaker 1: been the coach of Navy. You don't name stuff after
35:46
Speaker 1: people when they're still alive. Yeah, that's right. You generally don't.
35:49
Speaker 1: That's a good policy. That is a good policy. He
35:51
Speaker 1: has a history at Navy, right? His dad was a
35:53
Speaker 1: coach at Navy. Should have went and just coached Navy.
35:55
Speaker 1: My goodness. Would have been all good. Yeah. It would
35:58
Speaker 1: have been better. Yeah. Well, hard to be worse. Hard
36:00
Speaker 1: to be worse. Hard to be worse.
36:02
Speaker 2: And listen, I don't know. The cadets might have made
36:04
Speaker 2: some fun of him. The midshipman might have made fun
36:06
Speaker 2: of Jordan.
36:06
Speaker 1: For man boobs? Yeah, she might have laughed.
36:09
Speaker 3: I don't think she would have had the same control
36:11
Speaker 3: in Annapolis at the academy.
36:12
Speaker 2: No.
36:12
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
36:14
Speaker 2: Chess might have been even more impressive if he was
36:16
Speaker 2: working at one of the service academies.
36:17
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the push-ups he would have been doing? Oh, yeah.
36:20
Speaker 1: Goodness gracious. Those pecs would have been popping. Oh, my God. Oh, Billy, Billy, Billy. Oh,
36:26
Speaker 1: my God. Dolph, have a great weekend. Thank you for
36:29
Speaker 1: popping in. Thanks, fellas. I'm going to Bears Viking, so
36:31
Speaker 1: I hope it's a great weekend for me. Yes, we
36:33
Speaker 1: want the full report. Yeah, I'll have to check you
36:34
Speaker 1: guys out on the iHeartRadio app. I can't wait for
36:36
Speaker 1: the refs to win. Hope it doesn't rain. I wish
36:39
Speaker 1: that game was at U.S. Bank Stadium, just so they'd
36:41
Speaker 1: have to deal with the noise and the silent counts.
36:43
Speaker 3: Oh, they will.
36:44
Speaker 1: They will. They'll get there. They'll get there. They'll get there. Dolph,
36:47
Speaker 1: I'm sadly on your guys only in the four and
36:49
Speaker 1: a half this weekend. That a boy. I know. Appreciate it, Billy.
36:51
Speaker 1: That's the way to go, probably. Carson Wentz, two weeks
36:54
Speaker 1: in a row. Yeah, two weeks in a row. That
36:56
Speaker 1: magic pixie dust might wear off. Not betting on it.
36:59
Speaker 1: We're halfway through the Friday edition, football Friday edition of
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Speaker 1: the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armin
37:06
Speaker 1: bringing it to you. We're going to get to our
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Speaker 1: Who's Hot, Who's Not presented by Donovan Jorgensen. But first,
37:12
Speaker 1: a message. from our pal bill schmidt.
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Speaker 2: We have an opportunity coming up this weekend not to
37:18
Speaker 2: just enjoy green bay packers football but to win watching
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Speaker 2: on the line as we hang out with you on
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Speaker 2: the huddle it's time to go deep deep into the
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Speaker 2: line and figure out how on earth and why the
37:34
Speaker 2: green bay packers sit currently right now As a three-and-a-half-point
37:37
Speaker 2: favorite at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook, well, it's because they were
37:39
Speaker 2: a six-point favorite, then did exactly what they did in
37:42
Speaker 2: the final five games a year ago, slid down the
37:45
Speaker 2: back of the dinosaur, blew a couple of leads, and
37:47
Speaker 2: that lead to Minnesota being popped moved the line two-and-a-half
37:51
Speaker 2: full points. In favor of the New York Jets, J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets,
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Speaker 2: catch three-and-a-half. That means if it's a 20-17 finish in
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Speaker 2: favor of the green and gold... the jets are victorious.
38:02
Speaker 2: So they start up basically four points. So then you
38:05
Speaker 2: gotta be able to go and to be the man,
38:08
Speaker 2: you gotta beat the man Packers to win just minus 200.
38:11
Speaker 1: That means you put $ 200 down.
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Speaker 2: You're going to ultimately come back and they're going to
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Speaker 2: give you a $ 300 for a $ 100 profit on the
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Speaker 2: line at the Pottawatomie sports book. And since fellas, since
38:21
Speaker 2: we were so giving last night and gave out that
38:24
Speaker 2: first touchdown score of Josh Allen in here, um, Look
38:28
Speaker 2: for Christian Watson to find the end zone once again
38:31
Speaker 2: coming up this week at plus 185. If you're interested
38:34
Speaker 2: in this sort of thing and you really, really are
38:36
Speaker 2: ready for Armin, what do you call it?
38:38
Speaker 1: The emotional hedge? Emotional hedge, Billy.
38:41
Speaker 2: Braylon Allen, plus 250 to find himself into the end zone.
38:44
Speaker 2: If you want to cheer for the folk from Wisconsin. Also,
38:47
Speaker 2: him to have 30 rushing yards plus 143. Packers rush
38:53
Speaker 2: defense was pretty dang stout last week, Drew. Now, Vikings
38:56
Speaker 2: didn't necessarily have to run all that much because they
38:59
Speaker 2: started in their scoring drives pretty close to the end zone.
39:02
Speaker 2: And when you can throw up a 39-yard prayer ball
39:05
Speaker 2: to Justin Jefferson, going to be tough to need to
39:09
Speaker 2: stop the run. Packers will have to look to do
39:11
Speaker 2: that against the Jets team that's going to run it
39:13
Speaker 2: a ton coming up this weekend. Over-under has dropped down
39:17
Speaker 2: from 44.5 to 42.5.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 2: Because of the rain, this has been on the line
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Speaker 2: with the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Bet big, bet bold, and bet
39:24
Speaker 2: above the rest. Wisconsin's home for investments.
39:27
Speaker 1: Outstanding. We were going to get to who's hot, who's not,
39:31
Speaker 1: but we can save that.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I think we might have
39:34
Speaker 2: to save that because I've got a couple of good
39:36
Speaker 2: ones in here. I've got a couple holstered up from
39:39
Speaker 2: last night that need some reaction and one that I've
39:43
Speaker 2: got to.
39:43
Speaker 1: Bounce off Armin Sarian on a not category. Can't wait.
39:46
Speaker 1: Other side of the break. We'll do it. Nice. And
39:51
Speaker 1: once again, Drew, can I give you a little tease?
39:53
Speaker 1: The New York Mets are going to be involved. Oh, baby.
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Speaker 2: The New York Mets are involved in today's Who's Hot,
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Speaker 2: Who's Not coming up on the other side.
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