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11/06/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do.
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some shit.
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Speaker 1: One, two, three.
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Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
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Speaker 4: What the hell's going on?
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Speaker 2: Let's huddle up. It's Friday in the good land. Welcome
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Speaker 2: Streaming live, Facebook, X, and YouTube for people who want
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Speaker 2: to see Billy's new hat.
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Speaker 3: Ooh, got that thing busted out here. And now it
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Speaker 3: is a little white cap for a fat guy like
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Speaker 3: me and a healthy sweater like myself.
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Speaker 2: That's a dangerous combo to bust out. I thought like
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Speaker 2: having a white car, it doesn't show the dirt as much.
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Speaker 3: The salt water, the salt that comes from this forehead
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Speaker 3: only calcifies it. But on special occasions like a playoff
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Speaker 3: Friday in WIAA, a good chance to be able to
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Speaker 3: bust out the champs.
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Speaker 4: Let's talk about the conundrum now with the light colored
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Speaker 4: clothing and hats. Because I was thinking about that plus
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Speaker 4: the sweatshirt. Oh, by the way, guy in the street
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Speaker 4: has that sweatshirt. I don't know if it's the real.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's the real one, but he's got
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Speaker 4: that cream colored sweatshirt.
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Speaker 2: Hard to pass. I drove by it. I almost swerved over.
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Speaker 4: On what street? 84th and Layton by that sitcom. I
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Speaker 4: almost swerved across four lanes.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that.
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Speaker 3: Well, there was a young man in Madison over by
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Speaker 3: the Clark station when I drove down there a couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks ago that had the sweetest win our way flag.
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Speaker 3: And I'm very excited to see my man tomorrow before
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Speaker 3: Badgers and Rutgers.
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Speaker 2: Is there a rally house right there, too, that you
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Speaker 2: could go to?
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Speaker 4: Oh, very much is. There are a couple of locations.
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Speaker 4: But Armand's tempted to go get the.
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Speaker 2: Gas station sushi or the gas station hoodie. I love it.
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Speaker 2: They're available for purchase. Okay, the conundrum is.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to pay full price. And Kenny talked
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Speaker 3: this guy down.
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Speaker 2: Harmon's looking for deals. That gives me a good deal.
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Speaker 2: Twofer at this point.
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Speaker 3: Champions might be fine. We're a week away.
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Speaker 2: From the parade and those sweet cream-colored hoodies that were
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Speaker 2: all the rage now.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Are they still cool a week later? Oh, they're cool
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Speaker 2: as hell.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: See, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: They put out a black one, Drew. And I think
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Speaker 4: that one might be a little. You guys got to
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Speaker 4: wait to see if there's any cooler ones. But the
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Speaker 4: question is, are you worried to wear it? Because the sweat,
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Speaker 4: it's like that new pair of shoes. You don't want
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Speaker 4: to get dirty because it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: But then you don't wear it. And it's like that
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Speaker 2: sweet jacket. Remember that jacket?
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Speaker 3: The shirt, to me, isn't as much of the sweat.
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Speaker 3: To me, the shirt, Drew, is the ketchup and mustard
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Speaker 3: and beer and relish stains that can potentially happen.
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Speaker 2: A lot of shrapnel flying. Dangerous spots. One bite of
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Speaker 2: pizza that's too hot or a wing, and it's going to, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're going to be.
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Speaker 3: I eat way too much Palermo's with way too many times.
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Speaker 3: Those things to be able to drop a pepperoni right
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Speaker 3: there in the middle. Even oil and grease is tough,
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Speaker 3: but then, but you're right. It's the hat with the sweat.
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Speaker 3: It's the body is more of the, but in the
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Speaker 3: winter sweating is not that big an issue. So you're safe.
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Speaker 4: You're right. Winter.
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Speaker 2: You're pretty safe in that regard. That's fair. But Billy's
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Speaker 2: got the sweet champions hat on the world series trophy.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. I've been waiting to bust this thing out.
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Speaker 2: I had to show it off a little bit. I
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Speaker 2: like it. I like it. I like it a lot.
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Speaker 2: 877-794-1973 to the Nicolet law.com talk and text line. Big
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Speaker 2: weekend of football ahead of us. Big weekend of being champs.
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Speaker 2: The one-week anniversary of the parade everybody will remember for
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Speaker 2: the rest of their lives.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and as I was talking with our friend Aaron
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Speaker 3: Nagler today, so 750,000 people were the estimation. I firmly
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Speaker 3: believe this title run that we just witnessed is going
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Speaker 3: to be this generation's, this millennium's ice bowl. whether it's
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Speaker 3: how many 250,000 folks ended up going to Ferg's over
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Speaker 3: those three days, Drew, or, you know, in 20, 30,
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Speaker 3: 40 years when people are telling their grandkids about the
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Speaker 3: 2 million people seemingly that were at the parade.
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Speaker 2: About the time that they shotgunned a beer with Sal
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Speaker 2: Freelick at the parade.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... where they actually got poked in the eye
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Speaker 3: by the trophy like Yellich did.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, there's no question, especially because of how many
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Speaker 4: people were at the watch parties. And it's going to
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Speaker 4: be very easy in history to tell people you were
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Speaker 4: at the World Series when you were only at the
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Speaker 4: watch party, which is something that I plan on doing.
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Speaker 4: as enough time passes. We got a picture of Lena
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Speaker 4: on the World Series dugout. She sat in the dugout.
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Speaker 4: That was pretty cool. Before one of the watch parties,
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Speaker 4: she'll be able to tell everybody in 30 years, hey,
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Speaker 4: I was there.
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Speaker 2: Look at me. This is me at the World Series.
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Speaker 4: She'll share it on whatever social media platform doesn't exist yet.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure that the landscape will change a.
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Speaker 2: Lot in 30 years. It'll be hardwired into our brains.
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Speaker 2: You won't even have to open an app. You'll just
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Speaker 2: have to think about it. It'll be called Google Brain.
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Speaker 2: Pretty much.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pretty much. But yeah, that's a good point. It will be.
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Speaker 2: Everybody was there and it was, you know, everybody had
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Speaker 2: their their moment and the memories will be there. Just
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Speaker 2: like people. I talked to people who I was on
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Speaker 2: the field at 82. I was, you know, running around
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Speaker 2: on the field after game five when they beat the
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Speaker 2: Angels and.
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Speaker 4: Hold the Brewers our World Series flag.
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Speaker 2: I did have someone ask me the other day, like,
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Speaker 2: have have the Brewers. I know Murph's going under the
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Speaker 2: knife for his hip on Monday. I wish him the best. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Having a titanium hip of my own. Best move ever.
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Speaker 2: Everybody asks me. He's going to be cruising. Everybody asks me,
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Speaker 2: was it hard? I said, there's one part that sucked
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Speaker 2: and that I really regret. Not doing it sooner. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: Hipping around like a jackass in pain and not getting
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Speaker 2: it taken care of. But Murph has that. But for
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Speaker 2: the most part, someone asked me, now Badgers play a
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Speaker 2: home game and they haven't played a home game since
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Speaker 2: the Brewers have been champions. Correct.
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Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Will the trophy make an appearance? Are there any Brewers left?
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Speaker 2: I mean, Mike Vassallo might go watch the game.
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Speaker 3: That's a good call, Mike. Mikey Vassallo usually makes an appearance.
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Speaker 3: That'd be a sweet one to have. And then Lev's
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Speaker 3: probably working a game. I mean, Jeff Levering's back on
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Speaker 3: the football train. I was going to say, and he's
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Speaker 3: either probably got the Badgers this week or next.
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Speaker 2: They've got the 11 a.m. Big Ten tilt as well.
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Speaker 2: I didn't look up the assignments, but... If Lev is there,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Will the trophy make an appearance? Does
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Speaker 2: it mean anything if it's not a player with it?
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Speaker 2: Are all the players out of town? Are we still
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Speaker 2: seeing Brewers in the wild, or have they gone about
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Speaker 2: their own Cancun on three or headed to their summer home?
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Speaker 3: I would assume they're starting to migrate south, right? I'd
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Speaker 3: assume kind of like the geese, they're starting to find
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Speaker 3: their way over to Arizona and Florida. But could, you know,
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Speaker 3: I mean, Sal Freelick was in Chicago a couple of
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Speaker 3: days ago hanging out with the Barstool guys. Would it
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Speaker 3: make a lot of sense for him to roll down
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Speaker 3: there and hang out in the in the nice south
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Speaker 3: end zone?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. It would be a good time to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this would be the chance because it's definitely not
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Speaker 3: going to be a player.
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Speaker 2: I would assume day after Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 3: So if you're going to get that trophy here, it
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Speaker 3: should be for tomorrow and it might be a good
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Speaker 3: time to be. Celebrate our boy, Ryan Hopkins, getting that
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Speaker 3: first start for the Badgers coming up. First 17 and
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Speaker 3: a half point number might look a little different with
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Speaker 3: the Badgers starting a new quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Now you get anybody from modern day. You're going to
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Speaker 2: start feeling good.
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Speaker 4: I was just going to say all these, all these
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks are from modern day. And of course he is too.
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Speaker 4: I looked it up just to be sure, but I'm like,
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Speaker 4: is the modern day kid. I think yes.
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Speaker 3: And he showed, he showed some tools last week in
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Speaker 3: the limited time that they ended up putting them in,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, Colton Joseph not feeling himself, also not producing
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Speaker 3: very well. So all of those reasons are good ones
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Speaker 3: to be able to find the young man out onto
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Speaker 3: the field.
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Speaker 2: I don't mean to laugh. That's just a funny way
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Speaker 2: to say it.
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Speaker 4: But, hey, by the way, you guys are correct on
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Speaker 4: the Big Ten Network call.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me. It is Jeff Levering. So you'll be seeing him, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, all right.
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Speaker 2: You'll see Levering. snag one of their own. We might
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Speaker 2: have to have him pop on with us on Monday.
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Speaker 2: We probably could have done it today had we looked ahead.
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Speaker 4: Alongside Jake Butt, who's going to be the analyst.
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Speaker 2: The old Michigan stud. And another sideline reporter, one of
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Speaker 2: my favorites. Oh, God.
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Jake Cronenworth, Brooke Fletcher. Oh, she's back in town. She's
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Speaker 2: back now. She's got to see the trip.
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Speaker 4: She sees the trophy because her husband was we beat
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Speaker 4: her husband on the Padres.
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Speaker 2: You know, she's salty about the price. Sad about the
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Speaker 2: White Sox.
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Speaker 4: She does a great job as a White Sox sideline
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Speaker 4: reporter all year. So, Brooke, a great professional doing a
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Speaker 4: great job. So Billy's going to run into all them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we might run into Brooke down on the field.
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Speaker 3: I'll let you know if we do. I know that
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Speaker 3: would be a very, very happy moment for you. Just
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Speaker 3: reporting what the assignments are. No, Brooke, one of my favorites.
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Speaker 2: I mean, of course, she's a great professional, does a
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Speaker 2: great job, great broadcaster. Dad played in the league.
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Speaker 4: Son of Scott Fletcher, born in Milwaukee when Scott was
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Speaker 4: playing for the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: She's great. Anyway, yeah, so Lev will be doing the game.
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Speaker 3: I like their call. Jake Butzer, a really, really good one.
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Speaker 3: He was a really, really good player, man. He's a
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Speaker 3: bad boy there in Michigan. He's one of those dangerous
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Speaker 3: examples as to why guys don't play in bowl games anymore.
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Speaker 3: But for the Badgers, it's a hot one. Drew, for
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Speaker 3: the Packers, it's a huge one. I was just talking
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Speaker 3: about it with our boy Aaron Nagler on Carry the
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Speaker 3: G Radio, the podcast. And as much as inter-conference games
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Speaker 3: don't necessarily jump off the page as the most important thing,
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Speaker 3: This is the best game on the docket this weekend
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Speaker 3: on an otherwise kind of unappetizing slate. And Drake may
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Speaker 3: and Jordan love one of these two quarterbacks. I assume
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Speaker 3: by how I think the game's going to come out is,
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Speaker 3: going to take over as the talk of get up
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Speaker 3: the next day because you win this game, you're 6-3,
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Speaker 3: and you're feeling real positive about your chances going forward
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Speaker 3: in the second half of the year.
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Speaker 2: This game, I've been looking at it and dissecting it
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Speaker 2: and flipping it around, and it's going to be a
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Speaker 2: one-score game either way.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: And when I'm looking at it and I see games
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Speaker 2: and I see teams that are evenly matched and you
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Speaker 2: factor in the home field and all that stuff and
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Speaker 2: Packers coming off a mini-bye, I default to which quarterback
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Speaker 2: is better. Jordan Love's going to make more plays than
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Speaker 2: Drake May. I hope so. That's where I'm at. Especially
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Speaker 2: with the arm.
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Speaker 3: And I think that with the legs is going to
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Speaker 3: be the intriguing part where Mays made a lot of
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Speaker 3: plays so far this year of keeping drives alive. Because, Drew,
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Speaker 3: I'm with you. I think it's a one-score game. And
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Speaker 3: I think it's a low-scoring game. That's where the Trey
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Speaker 3: Smack factor will feel important coming up this weekend. Whether
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Speaker 3: or not it's the final play of the game comes
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Speaker 3: down to the right foot of Trey Smack. young man
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Speaker 3: is not, was not great in October. Hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 3: we're not into Toyota thon yet, but maybe he just
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Speaker 3: takes on that version of Jordan love. And once we,
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Speaker 3: once the calendar flips to November, he starts being nails again.
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Speaker 3: It feels like it's going to be a game. That's
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Speaker 3: going to come down to the right arms and love
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Speaker 3: leading the league in passing turnover, worthy plays way down.
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Speaker 3: Drew does it do his receivers make enough plays for him?
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Speaker 3: Because I think the way that new England's going to play,
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Speaker 3: they're going to play a ton of man coverage. They
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Speaker 3: are going to try to keep a top on the
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Speaker 3: defense and take, keep a lid on this offense with,
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Speaker 3: with a defense over the top. We'll love be patient
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Speaker 3: enough coming up this week, which was kind of their
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Speaker 3: biggest bugaboo a year ago was not being patient.
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Speaker 2: Just take it with the defense ends up giving you.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And Patriots are, Are they diminished at corner?
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Speaker 3: Do they have their guys back? They still have some
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Speaker 3: injuries back there. They still have some. They still have
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Speaker 3: their main guy, though, right? So they still have Christian Gonzalez,
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Speaker 3: who is, if not the best corner in football, the
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Speaker 3: second best corner in football. But where they're really dinged
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Speaker 3: up is the pass catcher room. And to your point
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Speaker 3: on the quarterbacks, which one's going to play better? With
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Speaker 3: no Hunter Henry, no A.J. Brown, either Thursday or Friday
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Speaker 3: at practice, I think it's tough to think that either
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Speaker 3: of them are going to be available. And Romeo Dobbs
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Speaker 3: out on the shelf.
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Speaker 2: It should be the Christian versus Christian show, I would say,
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Speaker 2: a lot. I mean, I would imagine. And the Patriots
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Speaker 2: amazingly didn't give it away much in the monsoon in Miami,
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Speaker 2: but they do give it away. They're high in takeovers,
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Speaker 2: and the Packers take the ball away. So I'm thinking
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Speaker 2: that's obviously anytime a game's close, turnovers will swing it.
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Speaker 2: Turnovers in quarterback play, so I'm not breaking any ground there.
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Speaker 2: But turnovers are huge in this game. Big time, especially
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Speaker 2: down the field. And the Packers would seem to have
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Speaker 2: the advantage because they take the ball away at a
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Speaker 2: high rate, and the Patriots until last week, which was surprising,
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Speaker 2: give it away at.
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Speaker 3: A high rate. The Packers halfway through the year, more
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Speaker 3: turnovers or takeaways than they had all last year. And
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Speaker 3: the amount of interceptions that they're getting, I still think
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Speaker 3: the funny one is the ones that still are kind
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Speaker 3: of sticking in. I think a lot of Packers fans
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Speaker 3: crawl are the plays that they still weren't able to make.
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Speaker 3: Like the Evan Williams one in Detroit that is right
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Speaker 3: there for the taking. It's a lot of credit to
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Speaker 3: Jonathan Gannon and the personnel, but they already have 10
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Speaker 3: picks on the year, seven of which are kind of
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Speaker 3: down the field, you know, 10, 15 yards into the
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Speaker 3: year where Drake may wants to push the ball.
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Speaker 2: Could be a big week for those safeties.
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Speaker 3: Whether it's Evan Williams reigning defensive player of the month
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Speaker 3: in the NFC, Or Brandon Cisse, rookie of the month
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Speaker 3: defensively in the NFC.
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Speaker 2: Both nice accolades. I don't want to hear Elijah Ponder's
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Speaker 2: name at all. I like that. And that's a great
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Speaker 2: drop right there, Drew. I don't want to hear his
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Speaker 2: name because they can get after you, too. And they're
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Speaker 2: like the Packers a little bit because they do a
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Speaker 2: lot of that mugging at the line. And then they
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Speaker 2: bring pressure from different spots. Neither offensive line is all
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Speaker 2: that good. And they get, and the Patriots, they do
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Speaker 2: get you off your mark. They do enough. And Jordan
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Speaker 2: Love is as good as anybody hanging in the pocket
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Speaker 2: and diagnosing. you know, when he needs to get the
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Speaker 2: ball out and stuff, he's pretty good at avoiding sacks.
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Speaker 2: Very good, and very good at manipulating. He's hitting a
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Speaker 2: lot of hits this year because the line's been a
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Speaker 2: little Swiss cheesy, but for the most part, when it
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Speaker 2: comes to him having the sense that, oh, I better
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Speaker 2: get rid of this, or, oh, we're overmatched, or that...
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Speaker 2: The guy in my blindsides getting engulfed right now. He
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Speaker 2: seems to have that sense of getting rid of the ball. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: And they also there are a couple of checkdowns, I think,
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Speaker 3: watching back Carolina that were available that could have extended
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Speaker 3: some drives, especially into that fourth quarter.
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Speaker 2: They just don't have a four minute offense.
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Speaker 3: So their passing game is going to have to be
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Speaker 3: how they can control the clock a little bit into
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Speaker 3: those spots. But, Drew, you look at both of these teams.
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Speaker 3: They're both really gettable up front. You mentioned the six-man looks.
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Speaker 3: That was, like, my biggest takeaway watching the full league
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Speaker 3: a week ago with the.
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Speaker 2: Packers Thursday night game. No more Brewers into the peripherals.
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Speaker 2: So it was just all football all.
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Speaker 3: The time as I kicked the screen right on down here.
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Speaker 2: Good Lord. That was a wild thing to see, though,
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Speaker 2: if you were watching live. That was awesome. That was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: That was crazy.
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Speaker 3: I just booted the heck out of this thing right there.
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Speaker 3: I apologize, but that was probably the number one thing
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Speaker 3: I noticed, Drew, is as much as last year, the
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Speaker 3: biggest change in the common theme across the league offensively
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Speaker 3: felt like everybody was running as many tight ends as possible.
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Speaker 3: Seems like every team is trying to bring as many
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Speaker 3: guys up to the line of scrimmage as possible and
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Speaker 3: make you make a decision really, really quick. And, you know,
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Speaker 3: credit Brian Flores is probably the one that does it
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Speaker 3: the most. Packers have seen it a lot. And Jonathan
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Speaker 3: Gannon has started doing a ton of it as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's going to be the keys to me. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we just went through our keys to the game.
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Speaker 2: So you'll hear a variations of it during Doug's pregame
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Speaker 2: show and during Dennis and Wes and James and Mike
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Speaker 2: Heller's pregame show. But that's what they'll be kicking around. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I mean... The defenses and the Packers' lack of
15:58
Speaker 2: a running game, you're right, means they have to continually
16:00
Speaker 2: air it out against good corners. They have to win
16:03
Speaker 2: one-on-one battles. Tucker Craft, 100-yard game, could it be? It
16:07
Speaker 2: very much could.
16:07
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be the biggest week
16:10
Speaker 3: for him, Drew, to feel as back as he's been.
16:14
Speaker 3: Seems like he's trending in the right direction. Seems a
16:16
Speaker 3: little bit more Tucker Craft-ish. This, with the amount of
16:19
Speaker 3: man that they're going to play and The Packers are
16:22
Speaker 3: going to run the deep routes.
16:24
Speaker 2: Are they going to throw it deep?
16:25
Speaker 3: That's going to be one of the bigger questions in
16:27
Speaker 3: how patient does love get, but how much is Kraft
16:30
Speaker 3: able to break one tackle by a linebacker, whether it's
16:33
Speaker 3: Ellis and company or Ponder, as you mentioned, if he's
16:36
Speaker 3: not rushing the quarterback, Jack is, if he's not rushing,
16:38
Speaker 3: if he's not rushing, you're to the benefit because the
16:41
Speaker 3: dude's unreal. He could be one broken tackle away from
16:45
Speaker 3: a 25, 30 yard play. And this could be a
16:47
Speaker 3: huge Tucker craft day where they're desperately going to need them.
16:50
Speaker 2: I'm thinking. We think Sal Frelick might go to this game,
16:53
Speaker 2: might go home to the Boston area. That would make sense.
16:55
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in town a lot. They have
16:56
Speaker 2: to go home eventually, right? That'd be a fun one.
16:59
Speaker 3: I mean, he's probably going to go back there because
17:00
Speaker 3: he's trying to bulk up again. After hitting that home
17:03
Speaker 3: run in the World Series, I've got to assume he's
17:05
Speaker 3: going to be eating a lot of plates of mom's
17:07
Speaker 3: spaghetti this week.
17:08
Speaker 2: You've got to get carbs. You've got to carb up.
17:09
Speaker 2: You've got to go back home. That's what he said.
17:11
Speaker 2: He put on, what, 25 pounds a couple of off-seasons ago?
17:13
Speaker 2: I remember that, yeah. He ate a lot of spaghetti.
17:15
Speaker 4: I remember making the Willie Hayes maze jokes from age
17:17
Speaker 4: two when he bulked up. But the thing is, you know,
17:20
Speaker 4: these guys probably will be going home or going on
17:22
Speaker 4: vacation eventually. I'm sure I get the sense they kind
17:25
Speaker 4: of want to stay in town a little bit longer
17:26
Speaker 4: and see how much they can take a hero.
17:29
Speaker 2: Take a lap. Why not? Which is kind of cool.
17:32
Speaker 2: I think it's about time. It's about time, probably. And
17:34
Speaker 2: now the weather's turning.
17:36
Speaker 3: I was going to say, once you see a three
17:39
Speaker 3: in the forecast, that's probably ready, said Kyle.
17:42
Speaker 2: Time to head for warmer climes. Boys, we all would
17:45
Speaker 2: be really celebrating in South Beach. This would be a
17:47
Speaker 2: good one to go to if you are a sell.
17:50
Speaker 2: This will be a short offseason, or will it? We
17:53
Speaker 2: don't know. That's the question. We don't know what's going
17:55
Speaker 2: to happen. Actually, another advantage for the Brewers, if spring
17:57
Speaker 2: training is pushed and they get more time to recover
17:59
Speaker 2: from their deep, deep playoff run, the deepest in franchise history,
18:03
Speaker 2: well then... especially for the bullpen.
18:06
Speaker 3: I mean, some of those dudes that got taxed a
18:07
Speaker 3: year ago that you sure thought Jared.
18:09
Speaker 2: Koenig was going to be a piece. He'd be a
18:11
Speaker 2: little bit more time off. A little bit more time.
18:13
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was a question. I thought that was
18:15
Speaker 2: a good question someone asked me. Will they mark at
18:18
Speaker 2: the Badgers game tomorrow? One last hurrah. Bucs play tonight.
18:22
Speaker 2: The Brewers have already made a triumphant statement at a
18:27
Speaker 2: Bucs game. We've seen a couple of those guys out
18:29
Speaker 2: there a number of different times, for sure. And the
18:31
Speaker 2: Marquette game at the five serve as well. So it's
18:33
Speaker 2: been a couple five serve I guess you can't have
18:35
Speaker 2: too much of it now. It's never a bad time.
18:37
Speaker 2: I can't imagine anyone's going to not be cheering.
18:40
Speaker 3: Now, will anybody be upset if all of a sudden,
18:41
Speaker 3: you know, it's like Nestor Corridor walks out with the trophy?
18:44
Speaker 2: I was going to say, or Mike Vassallo and Dan Larea,
18:46
Speaker 2: just with the, hey, the Brewers.
18:47
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody would be upset. There might be
18:49
Speaker 3: a lot of, who's that guy now? We'll cheer a lot. Yeah,
18:52
Speaker 3: you know, Mike Vassallo can walk out there. He brings
18:54
Speaker 3: the youngster. The little guy will probably get the bigger pop.
18:57
Speaker 2: Oh, big time.
18:57
Speaker 3: I was going to say, he's the star of the
19:00
Speaker 3: Vassallo family when he rolls into Camp Randall.
19:02
Speaker 2: Always a fun time. You're not trash-talking my man, Nestor Corridor,
19:06
Speaker 2: are you? I love Nestor Corridor. No, of course not.
19:08
Speaker 3: No, I mean, listen, I don't mean, hey, listen, if
19:10
Speaker 3: Marcus Handel walked out there with the trophy, people would
19:12
Speaker 3: get excited. But that's because Marcus Handel shows up anywhere.
19:14
Speaker 3: People get excited.
19:15
Speaker 4: I was going to say, he could be cutting his grass.
19:16
Speaker 4: People would be excited about Marcus Handel. Yeah.
19:19
Speaker 2: No, absolutely.
19:20
Speaker 4: I mean, hey, listen, why not? If there's anybody left, yeah,
19:23
Speaker 4: if it's Vassallo.
19:24
Speaker 2: Just go. Our Boston correspondent, Trenny Casey, a big Brewers
19:28
Speaker 2: fan as well, will join us to talk about her
19:31
Speaker 2: championship experience and Packers Patriots. She's going to join us
19:35
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19:38
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19:40
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19:49
Speaker 2: form friday take your thoughts about badgers rutgers hackers and
19:55
Speaker 2: patriots i agree with billy it's the best game on
19:58
Speaker 2: the slate i think In the 325 window. The most intriguing,
20:02
Speaker 2: best two teams, probably the best two quarterbacks. Two teams
20:04
Speaker 2: trying to make a foothold and tell themselves they can
20:06
Speaker 2: win their divisions and let's get after it. And if
20:09
Speaker 2: you don't win this game, it's going to be a
20:10
Speaker 2: hard case to make. Absolutely. You're in the huddle. Fox
20:13
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
20:31
Speaker 1: Or was he in.
20:33
Speaker 2: True huddle fashion?
20:36
Speaker 3: We missed the.
20:44
Speaker 1: Anniversary of the instant replay game by a day.
20:59
Speaker 2: It was yesterday.
21:00
Speaker 4: Yesterday, 1989. So that would have been, what, 37 years
21:04
Speaker 4: ago yesterday?
21:05
Speaker 2: Yesterday.
21:05
Speaker 5: Yep.
21:06
Speaker 3: Yep.
21:06
Speaker 2: And in further review, we have a reversal.
21:08
Speaker 4: That's the end of that highlight that's not attached on it.
21:10
Speaker 4: But listen, that was one of the all-time great.
21:12
Speaker 2: We have a reversal.
21:13
Speaker 4: That's where, after further review, the Bears still suck first originated.
21:16
Speaker 4: That was on a bunch of shirts.
21:18
Speaker 2: He wasn't even close to being over the line. I
21:20
Speaker 2: don't think so either. I was going to say, I'm
21:22
Speaker 2: watching this highlight. It's not as close. He's got his
21:25
Speaker 2: right foot on the 15.
21:26
Speaker 4: The Bears record book or the Bears media guide always
21:30
Speaker 4: had an asterisk.
21:31
Speaker 3: Doesn't the entire body have to be across?
21:34
Speaker 2: Not even close.
21:36
Speaker 3: Now, Armin, if you want, it wouldn't be true huddle fashion,
21:40
Speaker 3: as Drew said. I did hit the station account with
21:43
Speaker 3: one that actually happened 26.
21:44
Speaker 2: Years ago today.
21:48
Speaker 3: But that's not nearly as cool as 20 or 30
21:51
Speaker 3: some years ago yesterday, because that is one of the
21:54
Speaker 3: great moments.
21:54
Speaker 2: And shout out Kevin Gallagher, the NFL historian.
21:58
Speaker 3: He puts out so much of this good stuff online,
22:01
Speaker 3: videos and telecasts and production stuff with NFL films, because Drew,
22:05
Speaker 3: as great as different production companies are and networks have
22:10
Speaker 3: gotten and streaming and it's.
22:14
Speaker 2: All amazing right now. They're all still second place to NFL.
22:19
Speaker 3: The one NFL film still puts together and the stuff
22:23
Speaker 3: they have from so many years ago that is so
22:26
Speaker 3: well shot and cinematically put together. It is just pure
22:31
Speaker 3: gold whenever it comes to your timeline.
22:33
Speaker 2: A thousand percent.
22:35
Speaker 1: All right.
22:35
Speaker 2: So Billy mentioned it. I'll play it.
22:36
Speaker 4: This was on this date. I probably should play it tomorrow.
22:40
Speaker 4: For the show that we don't have. Stay consistent. Or
22:43
Speaker 4: I guess you have money. That would be funnier.
22:45
Speaker 3: Unless you want to come on and do the Badger
22:47
Speaker 3: postgame show with me tomorrow after the Badgers beat up Rutgers.
22:49
Speaker 2: Always available, Billy. We can do that.
22:51
Speaker 4: If you need an extra hand or if you need
22:53
Speaker 4: a fill-in, I'm always available. But here we go with,
22:56
Speaker 4: I think, a young Bill Schmidt was at this game,
22:57
Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken.
22:58
Speaker 2: Here we go.
22:59
Speaker 3: Oops.
23:01
Speaker 1: Barred.
23:04
Speaker 2: Lays it up for Freeman, and it's incomplete. Or did
23:08
Speaker 2: he make the catch at the 15? What are they
23:10
Speaker 2: going to rule it?
23:11
Speaker 4: He caught it.
23:12
Speaker 1: Touchdown.
23:15
Speaker 4: He did what?
23:18
Speaker 2: He did what? One of the all-timers, and we know
23:20
Speaker 2: our buddy Free loves that one.
23:22
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
23:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always a fun one. You had something going on, Billy, right?
23:26
Speaker 4: A funny story, like you were a kid and You
23:29
Speaker 4: were sick or something like that? That was the first
23:30
Speaker 4: game I ever sat with my dad at.
23:31
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
23:32
Speaker 3: I had gone to one other game, and he had
23:34
Speaker 3: gotten an extra ticket, and I sat with my cousin.
23:36
Speaker 3: So that was the first game that I actually got
23:37
Speaker 3: to go to with my dad. I had a double
23:38
Speaker 3: ear infection.
23:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it was. Desperately didn't want to go
23:41
Speaker 2: into the game.
23:42
Speaker 3: My dad's holding me down in the back of the car,
23:44
Speaker 3: calling my mom, and he's like, Tracy, talk some sense
23:47
Speaker 3: into the kid. We're two hours away. It's pouring rain.
23:51
Speaker 3: We're either going in or we're going home. So there's
23:53
Speaker 3: one of the two happening, and I'm not burning the
23:55
Speaker 3: money here. So we're going in. Let's figure it out.
23:57
Speaker 2: Aren't you glad? And luckily we did.
23:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
23:59
Speaker 2: See, he knows best.
24:00
Speaker 1: What?
24:01
Speaker 2: Man, dads know best. They really do.
24:03
Speaker 3: Now, we have a developing situation rolling on. What are
24:08
Speaker 3: we not talking enough about was our theme of yesterday's show.
24:10
Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
24:11
Speaker 3: One thing, Drew, that maybe should have gotten in, I
24:14
Speaker 3: should have tried to crowbar in, was this Brandon Ayuk situation.
24:18
Speaker 3: Out in San Francisco. I don't know if you've been
24:19
Speaker 3: following or some of our listeners have been. So Brandon
24:23
Speaker 3: Ayuk's been out of football while still on the Niners
24:26
Speaker 3: for the last two years. And played since 2024 when
24:31
Speaker 3: he was injured. Sat out all last year as he's
24:33
Speaker 3: been trying to get himself traded off of the 49ers.
24:36
Speaker 2: Well, he's got new representation. Drew Rosenhaus.
24:40
Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
24:40
Speaker 3: Drew Rosenhaus said, young man, you're going to work. We're
24:44
Speaker 3: showing up at 3 o'clock. On Friday, well, in the
24:49
Speaker 3: last 15 minutes, now a warrant remains active for Brandon
24:53
Speaker 3: Ayuk's alleged arrest from a December speeding incident near Levi's Stadium.
25:01
Speaker 3: The Santa Clara County District Attorney Office is telling NBC
25:04
Speaker 3: Sports Bay Area. This comes out after yesterday when George
25:10
Speaker 3: Kittle was asked at his locker, like, hey, how's it
25:12
Speaker 3: going to be to see Brandon Ayuk tomorrow?
25:14
Speaker 2: He goes... You sure he's making it in?
25:17
Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
25:17
Speaker 4: You sure he's making it into the building? I plead
25:20
Speaker 4: the fifth. I don't know what's going on. This is
25:22
Speaker 4: football fans. I'm the only one.
25:24
Speaker 3: This is a phenomenal reality television show playing out with
25:29
Speaker 3: right now. I think the NFC's best team and a
25:32
Speaker 3: guy that I think they've completely forgotten was actually on
25:35
Speaker 3: their team. But now he decides that he wants to
25:37
Speaker 3: be a part of it. Apparently, let's get back by
25:38
Speaker 3: those power lines. Back for the substation and back getting
25:42
Speaker 3: a check after running it all dry.
25:44
Speaker 2: Heard that Shanahan was FaceTiming Juwan Jennings. They were trying
25:47
Speaker 2: to pry him loose from Minnesota because they wanted that
25:50
Speaker 2: receiver and they have a type and they like his
25:52
Speaker 2: cut of his jib. They like him back and he's
25:55
Speaker 2: getting no targets and no play with, you know, the
25:57
Speaker 2: fighting skull brother. So what? I mean, so there's nothing
26:01
Speaker 2: to that.
26:02
Speaker 3: Apparently he said, yeah, but apparently he's, he's happy in Minnesota.
26:05
Speaker 3: I don't know how, cause you're right. He's getting no targets.
26:07
Speaker 3: The only guy getting less, I think wasn't that straight
26:09
Speaker 3: up more tampering by Shanahan. Who's driven down that street before.
26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah. He might've been made time a receiver on another team.
26:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe it was FaceTime. He was driving
26:17
Speaker 2: down there, down, down the road.
26:18
Speaker 3: I like what a fascinating, what a fascinating year they've had.
26:23
Speaker 2: And this one just bubbles up on top of it.
26:25
Speaker 3: And again, like the dude is not played in two years.
26:29
Speaker 3: But wants to be back into the NFL, shockingly so,
26:32
Speaker 3: because they took all his guaranteed money away. But I
26:35
Speaker 3: thought it was going to play out of, like, the
26:37
Speaker 3: Jamal Adams meme, where he just tried to scan the
26:40
Speaker 3: key card and didn't lock him in, or didn't let
26:42
Speaker 3: him in.
26:42
Speaker 2: Looks like they might just.
26:43
Speaker 3: Be waiting for him at the front. Waiting posted up.
26:47
Speaker 3: All right, you do want to show up. We appreciate it.
26:49
Speaker 3: We're excited for it.
26:50
Speaker 4: Aren't the only ones waiting on you. There's other people
26:52
Speaker 4: waiting on him, apparently. So I don't know who owes
26:55
Speaker 4: more to more people, him or Rasheed Rice. I mean,
26:58
Speaker 4: Rasheed Rice did file for bankruptcy, I think.
27:01
Speaker 2: What, $ 3. 4 million or something?
27:02
Speaker 4: $ 3. 4 million on debts, which is impressive work. If you're
27:05
Speaker 4: that young and you've accumulated that much debt, that's impressive work.
27:07
Speaker 2: And you're not a doctor. You know what I mean?
27:10
Speaker 4: But yeah, this is quite the story playing out. So
27:14
Speaker 4: as the next page turns, or as the world turns
27:17
Speaker 4: in the next soap opera, and I feel like Drew
27:20
Speaker 4: Rosenhaus probably is not excited about this because it's still like, okay,
27:25
Speaker 4: This is my name we're using as, like, a legitimate
27:27
Speaker 4: NFL agent, like, to try and negotiate for you, and
27:30
Speaker 4: this is going to happen.
27:31
Speaker 2: I don't know. But, boy, another wild one. It really is.
27:35
Speaker 3: But he just– he came out right out of the gates.
27:37
Speaker 3: He said, okay, you want me to be your agent?
27:39
Speaker 3: Here's the first thing. You're going to go show up.
27:41
Speaker 2: Show up.
27:41
Speaker 4: Like, you actually have to– like, if Drew Rosenhaus is
27:44
Speaker 4: being tough on a player, you know he's.
27:45
Speaker 2: Got– You know, he's got, like, responsibilities. He might be
27:48
Speaker 2: kind of sick and tired of it. Fascinating one.
27:51
Speaker 3: You see all of these teams, and you wonder what's
27:53
Speaker 3: the known quantity in the NFC. The more and more
27:58
Speaker 3: it looks like it, Drew, the team it feels like
28:00
Speaker 3: you know the most about might be in your own
28:02
Speaker 3: NFC North. And that Bears team is feeling like the
28:07
Speaker 3: most convincing thing in this NFC, depending on what's going
28:10
Speaker 3: on out there in Santa Clara.
28:11
Speaker 4: And this is the time that, like, X does its
28:13
Speaker 4: best work. Like Twitter and Billy always says, I can't
28:16
Speaker 4: believe the site is still free. Some of the funniest
28:18
Speaker 4: tweets right now about, you know, there are guys staking out,
28:20
Speaker 4: you know, outside the facility. People saying, why isn't the
28:24
Speaker 4: Bay Area Sports Channel follow Ayuk's car?
28:26
Speaker 2: You know.
28:27
Speaker 3: No, he's not driving a Bronco, so I don't know
28:29
Speaker 3: that it's going to be as easily identifiable.
28:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, man, I will see how this ends. Will
28:36
Speaker 4: it end with him playing football one day is the
28:37
Speaker 4: question most people have. I think it's going to eventually, Billy,
28:41
Speaker 4: but I don't know. I mean, that's a good question
28:43
Speaker 4: still out there.
28:45
Speaker 3: It's like 2007 Packers.
28:48
Speaker 2: Hashtag IUK watch.
28:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:51
Speaker 2: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
28:54
Speaker 2: This is the last game Sunday or the last games
28:56
Speaker 2: before the trade deadline. Tuesday afternoon. And I think based on,
29:03
Speaker 2: you know, the little research and just talking to people,
29:06
Speaker 2: most people have given up on the idea that the
29:08
Speaker 2: Packers will trade for a Jonathan Taylor or a Brees
29:11
Speaker 2: Hall or.
29:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those have kind of, I think those
29:14
Speaker 3: have subsided.
29:14
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard.
29:15
Speaker 3: It's not, you know. I don't think the running back
29:19
Speaker 3: one's happening. I would be interested, Drew, at a couple
29:21
Speaker 3: other spots.
29:23
Speaker 2: That's it. I say defensive tackle and maybe even tight end.
29:27
Speaker 2: I had not thought about tight end. John O'Smith, eh.
29:30
Speaker 2: But if you could get like a Dallas Goddard or
29:32
Speaker 2: somebody or a Juwan, what's a Juwan John? The kid
29:36
Speaker 2: from New Orleans.
29:36
Speaker 3: Juwan Johnson from New Orleans. Yeah.
29:39
Speaker 2: And Goddard. expiring contract. So you would think seemingly rather available.
29:43
Speaker 2: They're both like day three picks probably. And they're both
29:46
Speaker 2: really good players, both really good red zone. As an
29:50
Speaker 2: offset to have, because that's if you're not going to
29:53
Speaker 2: be able to run the ball. haven't had more options
29:55
Speaker 2: to throw it around.
29:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:57
Speaker 3: And they run enough two and three tight end sets.
30:00
Speaker 3: They've put Redmond out on the field enough to know
30:02
Speaker 3: that they want to have more of it.
30:03
Speaker 2: I like that thought, Drew. So I think that's way
30:06
Speaker 2: more likely to me than a, than a running back.
30:08
Speaker 2: And then I think defensive tackle is the spot that
30:10
Speaker 2: they would give up some capital for because Hargraves out
30:14
Speaker 2: and Brinson's on IL and you just, Can't have enough
30:16
Speaker 2: of those dudes either. No, you can't.
30:18
Speaker 3: And both of the positions, you have somebody coming off
30:21
Speaker 3: injury who has looked better in recent weeks, but still
30:25
Speaker 3: not themselves. John Kurzawa and YouTube Packers don't have the
30:27
Speaker 3: draft capital to make a move before deadline.
30:29
Speaker 2: Well, they have draft capital. They're getting some compensatory picks, right?
30:32
Speaker 2: That's the thing. First rounder. I mean, no.
30:34
Speaker 3: And like Drew said, you know, those are day three guys.
30:37
Speaker 3: I think if you're acquiring a tight end or like
30:39
Speaker 3: a Grover Stewart from Indianapolis on the defensive tackle side.
30:43
Speaker 3: They're getting a what? A fourth round pick coming in
30:47
Speaker 3: from Malik Willis in company.
30:49
Speaker 2: And John, I get it. They had eight.
30:51
Speaker 3: They have eight picks in 20, 20, 27. They also
30:54
Speaker 3: just made six of them in 26. And it's feeling
30:57
Speaker 3: like one of potentially their better draft classes they've had
31:00
Speaker 3: because it feels like they got two.
31:01
Speaker 2: Guys right out of the gates.
31:03
Speaker 3: So the more picks you have doesn't always equate to
31:06
Speaker 3: the best stuff. And the lack of a first round
31:09
Speaker 3: pick is true. None of these guys are going for
31:11
Speaker 3: a first round pick. And I don't think that's as
31:15
Speaker 3: necessary at the moment because you've kind of now identified, Drew,
31:18
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, you've identified your core.
31:22
Speaker 3: You just paid most of the core on offense with
31:25
Speaker 3: the pass catchers and you drafted Golden in the first round.
31:28
Speaker 3: So he's not going anywhere. And defensively, you're going to.
31:32
Speaker 3: lock up at least Evan Williams at the end of
31:35
Speaker 3: the year, you know, Edgerton Cooper is going to be
31:37
Speaker 3: a part of it. So you kind of have your
31:38
Speaker 3: core there. You can, you can muddle through without a
31:42
Speaker 3: couple of those draft picks. I would be, I would
31:44
Speaker 3: be interested. I don't know that they will, but here's
31:47
Speaker 3: the part that's different. And I know he always mentions
31:50
Speaker 3: Ted Thompson, that he's got a little bit of Ted
31:52
Speaker 3: Thompson in him. Does Brian good accounts operates a lot
31:55
Speaker 3: more like Ron Wolf in that category. I think that
31:58
Speaker 3: it'll be much more aggressive in other ways of roster
32:01
Speaker 3: building than just coveting hoarding and holding onto every draft
32:05
Speaker 3: pick imaginable and thinking that's the only way to be
32:07
Speaker 3: able to improve it.
32:08
Speaker 2: They didn't have a lot of picks this past April,
32:13
Speaker 2: but they maximized them. They made impactful ones, made impactful selections.
32:17
Speaker 2: And that maybe that's a blueprint.
32:18
Speaker 3: And maybe there, maybe that's where defensive tackle drew. There's,
32:21
Speaker 3: they're still banking on McClellan who the reason why they
32:24
Speaker 3: liked him in the third round was because he got
32:26
Speaker 3: better as the year went on. The running back thing is,
32:28
Speaker 3: is interesting. The names you brought up, they're all playing well.
32:32
Speaker 3: pollard's having a really good year their offensive line is
32:35
Speaker 3: pretty solid there in tennessee so i don't know how he.
32:38
Speaker 2: I just watching josh jacobs try to run behind this
32:40
Speaker 2: line it doesn't matter no and all of you tomlinson
32:43
Speaker 2: could come aside with the backers.
32:44
Speaker 3: And he ain't gonna find a hole spot on and
32:46
Speaker 3: the way that they're running it at this moment i
32:49
Speaker 3: don't know that any of those guys are markedly better
32:51
Speaker 3: than what josh jacobs should be able to give you
32:54
Speaker 3: yeah now can he that that'll be something that'll get
32:57
Speaker 3: uh you know worked out over the next nine weeks
33:00
Speaker 3: and we'll see if it's rusty or washed will be
33:02
Speaker 3: probably the two differentiators or he's back to being josh
33:06
Speaker 3: jacobs and he starts trending up and up and maybe
33:09
Speaker 3: a tweak on the offensive line that potentially happens this
33:12
Speaker 3: week i would help it out play.
33:14
Speaker 4: Better eventually i think we've all kind of seen the
33:16
Speaker 4: same thing when he's back like is he in shape
33:18
Speaker 4: i don't know but i i think we all kind
33:20
Speaker 4: of hope and expect him to get better. Then again,
33:23
Speaker 4: I thought that about the running game every week. Like, well,
33:24
Speaker 4: this is the week they get something going. Cause how
33:27
Speaker 4: could it stay this bad? And that's what I keep
33:29
Speaker 4: thinking to myself, but I don't know. Maybe it just will,
33:32
Speaker 4: I guess.
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Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, yeah.
33:35
Speaker 4: Hope that they eventually start to get a little momentum
33:37
Speaker 4: on the ground, find something they can get going, get
33:40
Speaker 4: a little more creative. Maybe, maybe working some other guys,
33:43
Speaker 4: you know, Lloyd's gotten his look. Obviously Jacob's got a
33:46
Speaker 4: bunch of carries. maybe Pierre Strong, but they've got to
33:48
Speaker 4: find some way to try and get better there.
33:50
Speaker 3: Well, and everyone's favorite, Chris Brooks, coming off of the IR,
33:54
Speaker 3: soon designated a return, so he'll start his practice window.
33:56
Speaker 3: News from the Packers practice in the reports earlier today.
34:00
Speaker 3: You know, Keyshawn Nixon was back at practice. There were
34:02
Speaker 3: a lot of videos going around of him running at practice. However, Drew,
34:04
Speaker 3: he said, they're all AI.
34:08
Speaker 2: Not real. Not real. That wasn't me.
34:11
Speaker 3: Not real.
34:11
Speaker 2: It's funny. But we got a lot of videos of
34:13
Speaker 2: you running. I didn't do it.
34:15
Speaker 3: Nope. I don't know where you guys made those. I
34:17
Speaker 3: don't know how you guys made those, but those are
34:18
Speaker 3: not real. So Keyshawn Nixon, maybe not back at practice today.
34:22
Speaker 3: Javon Bullard out. Personal reasons. And the four that missed
34:26
Speaker 3: the game last week are the same ones, or the
34:28
Speaker 3: four that have missed most of the week. And Sean Ryan,
34:31
Speaker 3: Zayer Franklin, Travis Glover, and Josh Wiley also out.
34:35
Speaker 2: Wiley.
34:35
Speaker 3: More to your point of a tight end, maybe being
34:39
Speaker 3: the guy you'd go for.
34:40
Speaker 2: That might be the guy they target.
34:41
Speaker 3: They trade for two tight ends in one year. Mark
34:44
Speaker 3: Redman and another one here at the deadline. That could
34:46
Speaker 3: be interesting. I'm going to scour that market here during
34:49
Speaker 3: the break.
34:49
Speaker 2: It'd be interesting if they made that pull. I like
34:51
Speaker 2: both of those two names. John Smith's going to get
34:53
Speaker 2: any better anytime soon, right? No, no. Clearly not getting
34:57
Speaker 2: any younger. Started off, I thought, all right. There's a
35:00
Speaker 2: reason why he didn't score, I think, on week one.
35:02
Speaker 2: That was the one. There's a reason he didn't score
35:05
Speaker 2: week one. That's it. Absolutely. All right. 877-794-1973. Trenny joins
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35:13
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35:17
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Speaker 2: Reach out to us. We're entertaining all Packers trade suggestions
35:52
Speaker 2: with the default program. knowing that they probably won't make
35:55
Speaker 2: a move. Yeah, like, that's just a good one to
35:57
Speaker 2: have in the back of your mind. Not happening, but...
36:00
Speaker 2: But if it did... What would be interesting? If you
36:02
Speaker 2: were in charge, what would you do? Because, I don't know, well,
36:08
Speaker 2: would Sunday's... Obviously, an injury might prompt something, but does
36:12
Speaker 2: Sunday's outcome prompt it one way, or does it push it? Oh,
36:15
Speaker 2: we got to make this move, because you got to
36:18
Speaker 2: think the windows now. You're in the mix. You got
36:20
Speaker 2: Parsons coming back. Your defense looks great. Love is playing
36:24
Speaker 2: at a high level. There's no reason to think that
36:27
Speaker 2: if you can punch your ticket to the tournament and
36:29
Speaker 2: get in, who knows what can happen? You're seemingly right there.
36:33
Speaker 3: And it feels, I don't know, I don't know that
36:35
Speaker 3: there's clearly a great team if there is a great team.
36:38
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
36:38
Speaker 2: Packers right now, if you've watched the first half of
36:39
Speaker 2: the season, they don't feel like a Super Bowl team.
36:42
Speaker 2: What does a Super Bowl team feel like? What did
36:44
Speaker 2: Seattle feel like last year?
36:45
Speaker 3: Correct. They felt like they were very up and down.
36:48
Speaker 3: Very generic and kind of up and down. Yep, 100%.
36:51
Speaker 3: Not like, hey, let's make plans for February. No, if
36:55
Speaker 3: it's a golf tournament, Drew, they've made the cut now, right?
36:58
Speaker 3: Like in this week, this is the start of moving day.
37:01
Speaker 3: Are you going to separate yourselves and get yourself into
37:04
Speaker 3: a conversation where Christmas Day can be for the division?
37:07
Speaker 3: Or is it going to be scrapping with San Francisco, L.A., Seattle,
37:13
Speaker 3: one of these teams for the final wildcard spots?
37:16
Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting. It truly feels... Maybe I'm wrong.
37:21
Speaker 3: Maybe Washington has a great run in a maybe Dallas
37:23
Speaker 3: figures it all out. Feels like it's the NFC West
37:28
Speaker 3: and the NFC North for five spots. So I guess
37:32
Speaker 3: I can clump Arizona in there. I don't believe in them.
37:34
Speaker 3: I'd say seven teams for five spots and a game
37:37
Speaker 3: like today. This weekend is going to be a big one.
37:39
Speaker 3: You mentioned day three pick for a Goddard or Jawan Johnson.
37:44
Speaker 3: Grover Stewart's the other name that's kind of come up
37:47
Speaker 3: from Indianapolis. The other guys that they've at least been
37:50
Speaker 3: somewhat linked to DeForest Buckner just went last week to
37:55
Speaker 3: San Francisco for a 2027 fourth round pick as a
37:59
Speaker 3: three time pro bowler, albeit 31 years old, up there
38:02
Speaker 3: in age, but still a really, really productive player and
38:06
Speaker 3: has good football left in him. And Quentin Nelson goes
38:10
Speaker 3: from Indianapolis to Seattle for a third and 27 and
38:14
Speaker 3: a fifth and 28. That's an eight time pro bowler
38:18
Speaker 3: and a dude that's probably ticketed for the hall of fame.
38:20
Speaker 3: So he's on an expiring contract.
38:22
Speaker 2: I get it again.
38:23
Speaker 3: Both of those guys reportedly the Packers were in conversations with,
38:27
Speaker 3: but if those guys are going for those picks, I
38:29
Speaker 3: do believe there are plenty of guys that can give,
38:31
Speaker 3: that can help you.
38:33
Speaker 2: That will be available for a fourth and a fifth.
38:35
Speaker 2: Has the biggest trade of this cycle already been made?
38:38
Speaker 2: Good question.
38:39
Speaker 3: I struggle to think there's a bigger one than in
38:41
Speaker 3: terms of package than Simmons.
38:43
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. But like Derek Henry, what does
38:45
Speaker 2: he bring?
38:47
Speaker 3: Henry feels more like Henry feels more like a day
38:50
Speaker 3: three pick to that's right. Like, especially after last night.
38:54
Speaker 3: I mean, Drew, I don't know. That's wash out in
38:57
Speaker 3: the rain. I don't know what you could probably take
38:59
Speaker 3: from that, especially with their Fiano guy that was starting
39:02
Speaker 3: at quarterback.
39:04
Speaker 2: They had no chance.
39:04
Speaker 5: Yeah.
39:06
Speaker 2: But he doesn't look good. He, he, if.
39:08
Speaker 3: Anybody looks like there's less tread on the tires, this
39:11
Speaker 3: is the first year you're starting to think that he
39:13
Speaker 3: almost looks old.
39:15
Speaker 2: Um, so I think he's.
39:16
Speaker 3: Probably a day three pick, maybe two day, three picks, uh,
39:20
Speaker 3: gets it for, for Derek Henry, the other one in
39:23
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, probably a second and some, but Simmons, you know,
39:28
Speaker 3: whether you agree with it or not he was instant
39:32
Speaker 3: impact the other night i mean he instantly walked in
39:35
Speaker 3: and wrecked that game so.
39:37
Speaker 4: It's sort of like when they traded for khalil mac
39:39
Speaker 4: i remember that first game against us obviously now he
39:41
Speaker 4: had i think more counting stats there, like sacks.
39:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
39:44
Speaker 4: He didn't have a pick sex. No, but, but I
39:46
Speaker 4: thought he had impact right away. Sort of like similar
39:49
Speaker 4: to that game. Definitely helped them. Now what sustained we'll see.
39:52
Speaker 3: But, but the thought of Chicago in the beginning of
39:55
Speaker 3: the year was, and I think it was kind of right.
39:58
Speaker 2: Their defense is going to give up a lot.
40:00
Speaker 3: And are they going to be, are they going to
40:02
Speaker 3: be a Cincinnati of the last couple of years where
40:06
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow's got to score 35 to think you have
40:08
Speaker 3: a chance to win. Their defense has been a lot better,
40:11
Speaker 3: and that trade just made them a lot more formidable
40:15
Speaker 3: with that offense. I think that's kind of been the biggest.
40:17
Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of people point to Caleb, and
40:18
Speaker 4: Caleb has been good, but he's been in and out
40:20
Speaker 4: of the lineup for a bit, but it's their defense
40:22
Speaker 4: consistently through the 20s. Last year, they depended a lot
40:25
Speaker 4: on the takeaways, right?
40:26
Speaker 2: That was the big story. It was like the Bears
40:28
Speaker 2: get all these.
40:29
Speaker 4: Takeaways, but they were giving up yards, but they're not
40:31
Speaker 4: doing that this year. They're shutting teams down, and obviously
40:34
Speaker 4: that makes them stronger, so one of the storylines to
40:37
Speaker 4: be worked out. Although I, if you listen to bears fans,
40:39
Speaker 4: this is the first time they've ever been six and two.
40:41
Speaker 4: I mean, they are, they're already throwing the parade in Chicago.
40:43
Speaker 4: It feels like, um, so I.
40:47
Speaker 2: Mean, again, I know, I know, but they're excited. Rightfully so.
40:51
Speaker 3: Cause it's the first time that the first time that
40:53
Speaker 3: the quarterback is one of the reasons why they are.
40:54
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
40:55
Speaker 3: I think they feel like, Oh, this could be more legitimate. Now,
40:58
Speaker 3: if Caleb can be, there's some, I would think some
41:00
Speaker 3: real lasting power there. They got a good coach and
41:02
Speaker 3: a good quarterback that that's a good combination to start
41:05
Speaker 3: with when, uh, You haven't had that in, you know, 35.
41:07
Speaker 2: 40 years. Yes, indeed.
41:10
Speaker 4: Or you've had guys, you know, just kind of buttressing
41:13
Speaker 4: the great defense. But if Caleb's a reason, and if
41:15
Speaker 4: he's complete 70 buttress, is that the right term? Buttressing.
41:20
Speaker 4: Buttressing up against the great defense. You had a Rex Crossman.
41:22
Speaker 2: Drew, you ever put that in any stories?
41:25
Speaker 3: Buttress never made it in on any, you know, this
41:29
Speaker 3: really buttressing bullpen problem.
41:32
Speaker 4: The bullpen buttressing up against a great starting group. I mean,
41:36
Speaker 4: if their quarterback throws.
41:38
Speaker 2: Projecting structural support built against a wall or building to
41:41
Speaker 2: absorb lateral forces and prevent the wall from bowing, leaning
41:45
Speaker 2: or collapsing. Yeah, exactly. So there you go. How the
41:49
Speaker 2: hell did you pull that out?
41:51
Speaker 4: Yeah.
41:51
Speaker 3: Well, anyway, where do you where do you find a
41:54
Speaker 3: word like buttressing? Don't know where it came from.
41:56
Speaker 2: To strengthen support or prop up a nonphysical concept such
42:00
Speaker 2: as buttressing an argument with data or buttressing a financial portfolio.
42:04
Speaker 2: That's what I was going for more. Like that second definition. No,
42:08
Speaker 2: I think he used it well.
42:10
Speaker 3: I'm just, again, wondering, is this a word of the
42:13
Speaker 3: day calendar, or is this just you reading through the
42:16
Speaker 3: stories that you're finding?
42:17
Speaker 4: I could never answer where it came in the depths
42:20
Speaker 4: of my mind. I have no idea why that came out.
42:23
Speaker 2: But if their quarterback scores 70% all year, then yes.
42:25
Speaker 2: If Bears fans are ready to throw a parade, though,
42:27
Speaker 2: here's the thing. They're home against the Buccaneers Sunday night.
42:31
Speaker 2: They should win. They go to New Orleans. They should
42:35
Speaker 2: win that. Should win that one, too. Yeah, you're right.
42:38
Speaker 2: They have their bye after that. But after Buccaneers, they
42:40
Speaker 2: have a bye. Then they go to New Orleans. And
42:41
Speaker 2: then they have the short week game Thanksgiving at Ford Field.
42:45
Speaker 2: If the Lions win that game and the Bears go
42:47
Speaker 2: to 0-3 in the division, they ain't winning the division then,
42:51
Speaker 2: I don't think. Much different. Much different story. The calculus
42:53
Speaker 2: gets much different. So that becomes the circle it game
42:56
Speaker 2: for them. Because then you're on the road to the playoffs.
42:58
Speaker 4: Because that's the thing that Ben Johnson still has to
43:00
Speaker 4: prove is division.
43:02
Speaker 2: Division wins. Because then they have in a four-game span,
43:06
Speaker 2: they have the Lions, the Jags at home. I don't
43:10
Speaker 2: know how the Jags will play in December at Soldier Field.
43:12
Speaker 2: We'll see. Yeah, that'll be a question. Then the Dolphins
43:14
Speaker 2: in Miami and the Bills in Buffalo. Ooh, their matchup
43:19
Speaker 2: is in Buffalo. Yes. So if the Lions win that,
43:23
Speaker 2: then the Bears might be on a little thing where
43:25
Speaker 2: they lose like three out of four. I like this.
43:29
Speaker 2: I'm just saying there's now you can look around the corner.
43:32
Speaker 2: You see monsters around every corner in the end.
43:34
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
43:35
Speaker 2: And you look at the schedule and go, oh, yeah. But,
43:36
Speaker 2: you know, it's a week to week league, as we
43:38
Speaker 2: always say. But, you know, I think they'll prevail against
43:41
Speaker 2: Tampa and New Orleans, although you never know. You don't.
43:44
Speaker 2: You're right. Buccaneers on a Sunday night might rise up
43:47
Speaker 2: and shock the world.
43:49
Speaker 3: And Chicago will be, okay, so that's a Saturday night,
43:52
Speaker 3: December 19th.
43:53
Speaker 2: Bears-Bills. Yeah. On CBS. Ooh, that is. And then their
43:58
Speaker 2: next game after that is the Packers on Christmas Day.
44:00
Speaker 3: I was just going to say, because I thought, wow,
44:02
Speaker 3: Packers are going to get them on a little bit
44:03
Speaker 3: of a short week.
44:04
Speaker 2: Packers will be the one on a shorter week. The
44:05
Speaker 2: Bears are for real. That's the stretch when they'll show
44:08
Speaker 2: that they're for real. Great time for some dissension. Lions-Jags.
44:11
Speaker 2: Let's get that. Dolphins-Bills-Packers.
44:13
Speaker 3: And, I mean, the Packers don't get a short week,
44:15
Speaker 3: but they get a bye week the week before because
44:17
Speaker 3: they host Miami.
44:19
Speaker 2: Could be a lot worse. That's also in Toyotathon.
44:23
Speaker 3: I would also think about that.
44:26
Speaker 4: It's around the corner here. Toyotathon hasn't even started yet.
44:30
Speaker 3: We need Jan to start dusting those sails off and
44:34
Speaker 3: get those big bows hanging up on those cars.
44:36
Speaker 2: He's had a great year. Anybody actually buying one like that?
44:40
Speaker 2: Great question.
44:41
Speaker 4: I've wondered, who's out there actually buying cars with a
44:43
Speaker 4: bow on it? That's a great question.
44:45
Speaker 2: I wonder that. If you have one, send it in
44:47
Speaker 2: to us. Because I want to know. I do want
44:49
Speaker 2: to see that picture. I do want to see that picture.
44:52
Speaker 2: Not any other pictures. Put a bow on your cyber truck.
44:56
Speaker 2: That's gone. Before they stop production. Before they stop them.
45:00
Speaker 2: You should have bought a Kia. There you go.
45:02
Speaker 1: It's true.
45:03
Speaker 3: Cardinals are going out.
45:04
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45:08
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45:11
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