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11/02/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do. Let's go
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Speaker 2: out and kick some shit. One, two, three.
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Speaker 1: We got some big plays coming.
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Speaker 2: What the hell's going on?
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Speaker 4: Come on out here!
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Speaker 1: Yellow Weasel!
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Speaker 4: Quit calling the plays, all right?
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Speaker 2: It is time. What do you think you are?
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Speaker 5: I am!
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Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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Speaker 3: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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Speaker 3: your respect.
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Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick.
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Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: Let's get after it. Monday edition of the huddle.
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Olsen, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian,
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Speaker 4: chopping it up, if you will, or chewing the fat,
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Speaker 4: as Armin might say.
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Speaker 2: I said it wrong.
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Speaker 5: I totally misused that term. I'm disappointed in myself. I
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Speaker 5: usually like to fancy myself like a colloquialism master.
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Speaker 2: That wrong.
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Speaker 4: I mean, chewing the fat is having a long, casual conversation.
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Speaker 4: That's what chewing the fat is.
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Speaker 5: If I'm being honest, that's not what I thought I
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Speaker 5: was saying. I thought I was saying more like... Suck
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Speaker 5: the marrow and enjoy?
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Speaker 2: Yes, enjoying the moment type of thing and basking it.
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Speaker 2: Suck the marrow out of life? Yes, to suck the marrow, yes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you really thought you had one there. But I
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Speaker 6: apologize for bursting the bubble. I shouldn't have just let
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Speaker 6: you roll. I shouldn't have let him roll with it, Drew,
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Speaker 6: and that's the problem. Sometimes being a good teammate is
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Speaker 6: just saying, yeah, you're right. That's exactly what it means. Yes,
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Speaker 6: that's exactly what you were trying to say. And instead,
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Speaker 6: I stepped all over it.
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Speaker 2: With just reckless abandon, and I apologize. Don't, because I'd
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Speaker 2: rather you not lie to me. Actually, hit me with
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Speaker 2: a kick to the balls. No, you don't have to
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Speaker 2: get that. I'll get you one.
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Speaker 6: Bad anxiety i got bad anxiety drew that i just
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Speaker 6: botched this one for.
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Speaker 5: Him i should not why because i might be in
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Speaker 5: a more important social situation and use it wrong because
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Speaker 5: i didn't know it was wrong and you might have
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Speaker 5: saved me just now billy so i that's how i
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Speaker 5: choose to look at it that's how i choose to
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Speaker 5: look at it that you might have saved me from
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Speaker 5: a worse situation down the road.
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Speaker 4: Well either way i probably deserve the kick to the
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Speaker 4: balls because uh I, for one, guys, was one of
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Speaker 4: the few.
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Speaker 2: That thought the Badgers were going to have a chance
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Speaker 2: to win a football game. Well, now I got bad
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Speaker 2: anxiety right now.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 2: That's yeah. The Badgers were not competitive. They were not good.
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Speaker 2: It was flashback Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Because that's what the offense looked like a year
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Speaker 4: or two ago when we said, whoa, this is beyond hopeless.
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Speaker 2: So it's 148 to 26 over the last five. It's
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Speaker 2: 109 to 10 in the last three.
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Speaker 6: And 67 to nothing in the.
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Speaker 2: Aggregate scores of the Iowa-Wisconsin team. Game. Good thing we
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Speaker 2: don't have to talk to Dolph today.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because, Drew, you can't even say rivalry because, I mean,
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Speaker 6: I'm on the doorstep of the Pedro Martinez. Just tip
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Speaker 6: your cap and call him daddy because Kirk Ferentz's crew,
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Speaker 6: two years ago when you went down there on the
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Speaker 6: night game and got boat raced, The Badgers had a
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Speaker 6: ton of injuries.
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Speaker 2: They were beat up. They were it was right around.
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Speaker 6: I can't remember if it was right after they dismissed
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Speaker 6: Longo or right before they ended up getting rid of
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Speaker 6: Phil Longo, who, by the way, just got dismissed as
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Speaker 6: the head coach of Sam Houston.
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Speaker 2: So that was a phenomenal one.
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Speaker 6: So they were somewhat going to you knew that it
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Speaker 6: was going to be a tough time. I didn't anticipate
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Speaker 6: the Badgers to put up a ton of points. Sure
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Speaker 6: as heck didn't anticipate their defense. to struggle like it
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Speaker 6: did throughout the game and it started when one of
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Speaker 6: their best players slips and falls might not be able
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Speaker 6: to do anything about that when matt young went down
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Speaker 6: and they give him a 50 yard pass play but
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Speaker 6: they battled they played hard there are a couple of
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Speaker 6: moments that you could put and try to pinpoint to
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Speaker 6: that the game could turn on but as we said
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Speaker 6: on badger post game hard on earth drew does have
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Speaker 6: a lot of turning points when the game's 30 to
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Speaker 6: nothing Yeah. I mean, it's 10. It's 10, 10, nothing.
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Speaker 6: They have the ball on a fourth and goal. And
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Speaker 6: if Abu Sama gets in there, do I want to
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Speaker 6: tell you it's a different game?
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Speaker 7: Maybe.
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Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you one thing. It's not a
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Speaker 2: 30 to nothing game. They at least score. But the race.
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Speaker 6: To 10 was won within the first half. five or
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Speaker 6: six minutes, the first two drives by Iowa. And it
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Speaker 6: felt like it was going to be a massive uphill
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Speaker 6: climb from there to be able to stop anything or
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Speaker 6: anyone in one of them Hawkeye uniforms.
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Speaker 2: For sure.
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Speaker 4: Now explain to me this, and I don't know if
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Speaker 4: it's a game ball or a kick to the balls,
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Speaker 4: to anybody who steps to the window with any level
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Speaker 4: of confidence and tries to put down some shekels on
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Speaker 4: college football. Because tell me how the Badgers dog walk USC,
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Speaker 4: and then a week later, USC.
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Speaker 2: It beats Ohio State. Granted, there's a quarterback conundrum there.
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Speaker 2: The quarterback is out. But still, for Ohio State to
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Speaker 2: not stop.
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Speaker 4: The running game that the batters had no problem trouncing,
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Speaker 4: how do I square that circle?
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Speaker 2: How does that happen?
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Speaker 4: And is the college football now, because of free agency
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Speaker 4: and paying players, Is it now the week-to-week league that
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Speaker 4: the NFL has been forever?
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Speaker 2: Drew, it might almost be worse, right?
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Speaker 6: Like it might almost be harder to try and expect
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Speaker 6: a similar performance week in and week out because at
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Speaker 6: least in the NFL, you at least have somewhat of
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Speaker 6: a firm control of this is how we operated with pros, right?
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Speaker 2: Right now, I think you're struggling across college football and
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Speaker 2: you're seeing it.
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Speaker 6: Saban talked about it a couple of weeks ago on
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Speaker 6: game day that there's a lot of players and a
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Speaker 6: lot of teams and a lot of coaches that on
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Speaker 6: a week-to-week basis are either reading press clippings, reading conversations
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Speaker 6: with coaches, friends, mentors, agents, handlers, what have you. And
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Speaker 6: there's a lot of what have you done for me
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Speaker 6: lately and what am I doing right now that's going
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Speaker 6: to help me get mine coming up. in six to
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Speaker 6: seven weeks it's a tough spot for coaches to be
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Speaker 6: battling with but i mean usc just gets absolutely pantsed
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Speaker 6: on the line of scrimmage in madison a week ago
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Speaker 6: yeah and then bullies bullies one of the best defensive
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Speaker 6: lines in football in ohio state this weekend same thing
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Speaker 6: miami's just rolled over everybody and then oh wait here's
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Speaker 6: bill belichick no longer with jordan hudson by the way
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Speaker 6: I saw that.
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Speaker 2: Did we read that? Oh, did we read that on
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Speaker 2: TMZ this weekend? Holy cow. And I got to be honest.
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Speaker 2: Love dead?
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Speaker 5: How didn't this happen a year ago? But we're just
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Speaker 5: hearing it now. No influencer. Where was Pablo Torre?
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Speaker 2: Where was Pablo Torre? Where was TMZ? No one got
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Speaker 2: a hold of this?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm disappointed for the amount of people that
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Speaker 5: were obsessed with their relationship that nobody figured it out.
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Speaker 2: That's a little weird.
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Speaker 6: Let me just say that shows how big of a
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Speaker 6: story Pablo Torre broke with the Kawhi Leonard's news.
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Speaker 2: Because he missed that. That's it.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 6: That shows how big of a scoop that was. Um, but, and,
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Speaker 6: and Miami is like in, in one of the, the
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Speaker 6: fights for their life. I know that they had a
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Speaker 6: close game a couple of weeks ago, but they're in
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Speaker 6: a fight for their life against UNC. It is, uh,
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Speaker 6: it's really dramatic how different it is. And Drew, I
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Speaker 6: think it's only going to get worse.
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Speaker 2: Or better, right?
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Speaker 6: Like this is there's, there's ways to it, right? Cause
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Speaker 6: it's fun. It's definitely compelling. Um, But the day and
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Speaker 6: age of lining up and saying, what time does Alabama
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Speaker 6: play Georgia for the national title? Those days are so
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Speaker 6: far from over. You don't know who's going to be
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Speaker 6: rolling in and what time slot of wherever these games
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Speaker 6: are going to be a play.
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Speaker 2: That's where we're at. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's bizarre to me because even like just looking around
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Speaker 4: the landscape of teams that look great one week and
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Speaker 4: then the next week they can't, they look like a
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Speaker 4: JV outfit.
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Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, Iowa played one of the
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Speaker 6: most frustrating games I would assume for Hawks fans. in
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Speaker 6: the Kirk Ferentz era, and then they roll up to
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Speaker 6: Washington and just put up a 40-piece on the Huskies,
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Speaker 6: who are one of the tougher teams to play in
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Speaker 6: one of the tougher road venues to play in, and
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Speaker 6: then they play Minnesota and look completely inept.
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Speaker 2: So it's wild how up and down it is. It's also....
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Speaker 6: Beautiful for walking into a new age of college football
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Speaker 6: that there are this many really competitive games and games
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Speaker 6: that have a ton of meaning and value because there
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Speaker 6: was a time and place where a Utah BYU game
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Speaker 6: sure it's seven and seven versus three so there's some
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Speaker 6: significance but BYU beat Notre Dame a couple of weeks
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Speaker 6: ago then lose the UCF 10 years ago, their season's over. Instead,
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Speaker 6: it's just beginning right now. So it's fun. I don't
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Speaker 6: know that it's better, but we're going to only get
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Speaker 6: more of it. And the more topsy-turvy style of college
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Speaker 6: football is only going to get, is only here to stay.
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Speaker 5: And the increase in, I think, parity and equity, whatever
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Speaker 5: you want to call it. I think there are less
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Speaker 5: maybe dominant teams than ever. And therefore, you're going to see,
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Speaker 5: you know, one loss teams, maybe a thing of the past.
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Speaker 5: You're going to see because the expanded playoffs and that
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Speaker 5: you're going to see a three loss national champion at
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Speaker 5: some point.
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Speaker 2: I think it'll happen. So it's one of those.
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Speaker 5: Double edged sword situations because I'm one hand people can say, well,
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Speaker 5: it makes the regular season games less exciting. uh, or less,
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, maybe not exciting, but meaningful is the right term.
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Speaker 5: And on the other hand, it's like, yeah, but those
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Speaker 5: fan bases can stay involved. Right. Where the flip side
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Speaker 5: of that was always a lot of these, maybe teams
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Speaker 5: or fan bases were looking at the end of the
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Speaker 5: year to be just exhibition games.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I think it's exciting either way, but the reality is
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Speaker 5: that people are going to be looking toward the playoff
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Speaker 5: in that situations as at least second life, uh, for,
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Speaker 5: for like maybe the Ohio States of the world, you know,
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Speaker 5: they took a tough loss. I mean, that's going to
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Speaker 5: be tough for them now. And, A lot going on, but...
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Speaker 5: it definitely is going to increase people's, you know, propensity
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Speaker 5: to stay interested, I should.
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Speaker 2: Say, as we get closer to the playoff time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Keep them coming.
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Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 2: Game balls. Kicks to the huevos.
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Speaker 5: Well, Mike Witt, we'll stay on this topic. Mike Witt
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Speaker 5: on YouTube had one for Colton Joseph.
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Speaker 2: I got bad anxiety right now. Which I think is
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Speaker 2: kind of frustrating and tough, Billy. Tell me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 5: And he had a lot of momentum coming into this
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Speaker 5: from the USC win. From the general start, the Badgers
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Speaker 5: have had, which a lot of people probably didn't expect
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Speaker 5: this year.
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Speaker 2: And it feels like you kind of ran that momentum
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Speaker 2: right into the wall. Yeah, he's done that the last
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Speaker 2: three games.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this is now the third consecutive game where
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Speaker 6: they haven't had a 100-yard passer.
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Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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Speaker 6: And I think the tougher part about it for this week, Armin,
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Speaker 6: and to Mike's point, Colton Joseph was brought in as
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Speaker 6: not just for.
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Speaker 2: You're a quarterback, so obviously you have to throw.
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Speaker 6: But one of the big reasons and one of the
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Speaker 6: big allures to his game was his ability to run
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Speaker 6: the football.
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Speaker 2: It only works when you also have.
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Speaker 6: Running backs running the football. And I think this week, Drew,
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Speaker 6: I think they had 11 carries for running backs. And
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Speaker 6: Abu Sama had probably the game-changing run and play against
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Speaker 6: USC a week ago when they go on a 13-play drive.
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Speaker 6: They run at 11 of the 13 plays. And he
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Speaker 6: carries at 8, one of which he cuts back. Sweet
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Speaker 6: jump cut around midfield. Breaks off an almost, like, 20-yarder.
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Speaker 6: And they get the momentum. You're not going to get
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Speaker 6: that when you're giving the ball to the young man
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Speaker 6: six times. So when your quarterback's leading the team and
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Speaker 6: how many rushes he has, they weren't going to get
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Speaker 6: anything going this weekend. It didn't seem like they had
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Speaker 6: they had much juice. And you heard a lot of
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Speaker 6: players talking about it, which is probably the more deflating one.
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Speaker 6: And Sebastian Cheeks was talking about it after the game.
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Speaker 6: He's like, yeah, we there were a lot of folks
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Speaker 6: reading some press clippings this week.
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Speaker 4: Ouch.
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Speaker 6: A lot of guys that did not have their eyes
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Speaker 6: when I looked in their eye today did not have
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Speaker 6: the hunger that you needed to be able to go
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Speaker 6: win this game. And you put a lot into rivalry games.
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Speaker 6: Every fan base does. Every program does. This is a really,
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Speaker 6: really difficult point because I don't know how else you
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Speaker 6: attack it. Last year, Drew, Luke Fickle talked about it
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Speaker 6: every single offseason presser about how focused they were I'm
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Speaker 6: playing better in the rivalry games, better against Iowa. We're
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Speaker 6: building towards Iowa. They got a penalty at first before
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Speaker 6: the opening kick. So they played with too much emotion.
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Speaker 6: This year, you got guys after the game saying we
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Speaker 6: didn't have our heads in, didn't play with enough emotion.
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Speaker 6: So either way, the result was the same. But getting
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Speaker 6: there was different on both sides. That's a really, really
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Speaker 6: tough game. Road to merge in when you say meet
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Speaker 6: somewhere in the middle. I don't know that they know
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Speaker 6: where that middle is right now. All they know is
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Speaker 6: getting pantsed by their Heartland Trophy.
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Speaker 2: Rivals. Yeah, and pants is the right word. I'm just pants.
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Speaker 6: Pants is the right word. Man, it was so frustrating.
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Speaker 6: You had two quarterbacks. Neither one got 100 yards. My
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Speaker 6: man Ryan Hopkins was trying. He was slinging that pill
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Speaker 6: all over the place. Had nothing for him. Absolutely nothing
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Speaker 6: for the Hawkeyes this weekend.
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Speaker 2: You just had hope.
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Speaker 5: They could maybe break through. I just think because you
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Speaker 5: had a good start. You know, you're starting after the
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Speaker 5: last couple years. You're turning it around.
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Speaker 2: You have USC. You're like, can this be the year,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 5: You start breaking through again, win the Heartland back, and
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Speaker 5: then start to rebuild and just like.
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Speaker 4: you know, keep the recruits home, put a fence around
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Speaker 4: the state and beat Iowa and Minnesota. That should be
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Speaker 4: the first step before anybody starts thinking about, well, we
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Speaker 4: can maybe connect the dots and make it to the
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Speaker 4: college football playoff this year. Like let's take care of
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Speaker 4: the basics for, it was for decades. Let's crawl before
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Speaker 4: we walk. But that's, but that's every team now drew, right?
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Speaker 6: Like, I mean, that's every program when Cignetti walks in
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Speaker 6: and flips a team from the worst program in college
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Speaker 6: football history to a national champion in two years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: True.
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Speaker 6: You dream right away. There's a lot of programs that
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Speaker 6: are doing that. Hell, you go talk to a Kentucky
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Speaker 6: fan right now. They can't believe if it's football season
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Speaker 6: or basketball season.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: They're eighth ranked, and their offense is awesome. They're like,
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Speaker 6: wait a second.
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Speaker 2: What am I watching here?
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Speaker 4: UCLA went from pretty dead to a top five. We
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Speaker 4: might win the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of belief.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 4: So given the transitive properties don't work, like the Badgers
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Speaker 4: dog walking USC and then them turning around just beating
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Speaker 4: up Ohio State.
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: You got Rutgers coming in, right? Yeah. Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue.
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Speaker 2: They gave Michigan a scare, but everybody's given Michigan a scare.
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Speaker 2: They scare easily. That's fair. Yes.
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Speaker 4: But Shiano's on the hot seat. He's leading the list
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Speaker 4: now that a bunch of guys have been fired. He's
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Speaker 4: leading the list of people who could be fired. Or
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Speaker 4: he could come in and beat the Badgers handily and
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Speaker 4: keep him by himself.
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Speaker 2: Make it a totally different conversation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And I mean, Maryland's already fired their coach. You go
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Speaker 6: there and finally got it. And, and, and Barry Odom's
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Speaker 6: got those boys in Purdue playing hard. I mean, they,
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Speaker 6: they lost the game against Penn state this week, but
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Speaker 6: they've won two conference games. I couldn't tell you last
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Speaker 6: time Purdue won two conference games. So there's a, they're,
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Speaker 6: they're at least going to play you tough when you
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Speaker 6: look at it on the slate. And again, this is,
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Speaker 6: these are the cruel realities of the sport. And where
15:17
Speaker 6: you've put yourself over the last two years. We immediately
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Speaker 6: win-loss and say you're at worse 3-1. You're 8-4 at
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Speaker 6: the end of this year. You flip your entire record
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Speaker 6: from a year ago. You say pretty dang good. The
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Speaker 6: process with this one, just a real fly in the
15:33
Speaker 6: ointment for anybody. And the haters do still have, and
15:37
Speaker 6: the naysayers still have that one... bullseye on that dartboard
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Speaker 6: that if you feel like you're getting better, you're bringing
15:44
Speaker 6: in a lot of those recruits. You're building that fence
15:45
Speaker 6: around the state tree that you mentioned. You have really
15:47
Speaker 6: good players in the state that you want to keep.
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Speaker 6: And then you still have that one for folks to
15:54
Speaker 6: be able to point back to. So that's a frustrating one.
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Speaker 6: You can change it all around, though. You shut the
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Speaker 6: box here in November when this week starts it up
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Speaker 6: and you shut the box and get that ax back.
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Speaker 2: You know, nine and three.
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Speaker 4: It's a hell of a different story of a season
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Speaker 4: in Madison. There's a column on USA Today about coaches
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Speaker 4: on the hot seat. And the last one listed is
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Speaker 4: Luke Fickle. And here's what it says. A college coaching
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Speaker 4: agent reached out to USA Today Sports on Sunday afternoon
16:18
Speaker 4: with this warning. There are two perfect candidates out there
16:21
Speaker 4: for Wisconsin. Jake Dickert from Wake Forest and Jason Eck
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Speaker 4: from New Mexico. Yep. It's hard to see Wisconsin standing
16:28
Speaker 4: still if Luke Fickle drops one of these next two
16:30
Speaker 4: games against.
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Speaker 2: Rutgers in Maryland.
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Speaker 6: Well, and that's, that's exactly it. I like after USC,
16:38
Speaker 6: I didn't think it could be a conversation because I
16:40
Speaker 6: didn't see them getting beat 30 to nothing.
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Speaker 4: Right.
16:43
Speaker 6: Did I see them losing 16 to six and looking
16:46
Speaker 6: really bad on offense?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Did I see it being a 13, three game where
16:52
Speaker 6: you get 230 yards of offense?
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Speaker 2: Sure.
16:55
Speaker 6: But I didn't see 30 to me either. And I
16:58
Speaker 6: think that's where it adds into the conversation. Those two
17:01
Speaker 6: young men are also very, very capable. Dickert's an interesting one.
17:05
Speaker 6: I don't know for sure he's leaving. So you might.
17:08
Speaker 6: And again, hope's not a great recipe or a plan.
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Speaker 6: I think you're going to be able to get him
17:13
Speaker 6: next year. if that would be the goal and that
17:15
Speaker 6: would be the case to have, he's getting a new
17:18
Speaker 6: job this year. He's got, he's got new Mexico ranked
17:20
Speaker 6: in the top 25 and on the doorstep of the
17:22
Speaker 6: college football playoff, he's getting a new job.
17:24
Speaker 2: You know, who else has been mentioned as on the
17:26
Speaker 2: hot seat? One Lance Leipold in Kansas. Yeah. Honeymoons worn off.
17:31
Speaker 2: They went from being a tough out to just being
17:33
Speaker 2: an out more often in Kansas football.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
17:36
Speaker 2: With a massive new facility.
17:39
Speaker 4: And that's the thing is like they've invested and now
17:41
Speaker 4: they're looking for return.
17:43
Speaker 6: And it's like, well, well, Andrew, this is again, Mike
17:46
Speaker 6: Norvell just got fired yesterday. They owe him over 50 million.
17:50
Speaker 6: Now there's offsetting language. He gets another job. They don't
17:53
Speaker 6: pay the whole money unless you're Jimbo Fisher and you
17:56
Speaker 6: just say, yeah, I'm not working again. They're not going
17:58
Speaker 6: to pay you all of that money. But schools are
18:01
Speaker 6: now having the deal. Lincoln Riley, who this conversation started with.
18:05
Speaker 6: Last week, one week ago today, he went up to
18:08
Speaker 6: the podium and was telling everybody about how much he
18:10
Speaker 6: sacrificed to stay there, about how much he's dedicated and willing,
18:14
Speaker 6: and he's not leaving.
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Speaker 2: Well, brother, it wasn't your choice. No.
18:18
Speaker 6: We were thinking about making a call, and he's got
18:22
Speaker 6: 50-some million on his contract. Teams in schools are not
18:26
Speaker 6: seeing that dollar amount probably as prohibitive as it is
18:30
Speaker 6: because then you also still have to pay $ 40, $ 50
18:31
Speaker 6: million to a team.
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Speaker 5: Right.
18:33
Speaker 6: And for schools like Wisconsin is one of them. We
18:39
Speaker 6: just talked about building a new facility. Kansas is another.
18:42
Speaker 6: They're going to start looking at this saying we just
18:44
Speaker 6: paid how much money for this, how much money for
18:47
Speaker 6: the facilities. Maybe we got to run it back one
18:50
Speaker 6: more year and see if it gets better. There's a
18:53
Speaker 6: lot of moving and shaking. But Fickle was off of
18:56
Speaker 6: all those lists. You can get thumped that way and
18:59
Speaker 6: immediately you get back into the conference.
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Speaker 2: Slide right back in.
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Speaker 4: And the seat's warm heading into, you're playing the Cellar
19:05
Speaker 4: Dwellers now. Yeah, just dominate these three games.
19:08
Speaker 2: You gotta win.
19:08
Speaker 6: Dominate these three games and make Black Friday a fun
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Speaker 6: night in Madison against the Gophers.
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Speaker 2: The thing is.
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Speaker 4: I could see the Badgers winning all four of those games.
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Speaker 4: I could also see them losing.
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Speaker 2: All four of those games. It could go either way.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting, man.
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Speaker 6: They lose all four games. You're going to have to
19:23
Speaker 6: check on me on Saturday. Yeah, you're going to you're
19:25
Speaker 6: going to have to check. And then if they split them.
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Speaker 2: What then what do we think?
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Speaker 4: Well, then it's then then then the winds of change
19:32
Speaker 4: or we swirling and we might be feeling good. Let's
19:34
Speaker 4: say they beat Rutgers and Maryland and then they stumble
19:37
Speaker 4: against Purdue and then and then Goldie Gopher keeps the axe.
19:41
Speaker 6: They go into worse Lafayette and lose. I don't know
19:44
Speaker 6: how I'll feel. I can't I can't even, I can't
19:47
Speaker 6: even begin to think about how I'd be.
19:49
Speaker 2: This little Ryan Brown. He can't do that.
19:52
Speaker 4: So four games left for the four, four games left
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Speaker 4: for the Badgers three and one's the only acceptable number.
19:57
Speaker 2: It sure feels like that. That has to be the baseline.
19:59
Speaker 2: I think so, Drew. And that gets you to an
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Speaker 2: eight and four number that I think everybody in the
20:03
Speaker 2: beginning of the year said, okay, progress. We flipped it.
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Speaker 2: We're on the right track. We're good track. I think.
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Speaker 4: But then again, It's hard to see that happening after Saturday,
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Speaker 4: but it was hard to see what happened Saturday happening
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Speaker 4: after the previous Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Week to week. What the hell's going on out there?
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Speaker 2: It makes no sense. Makes no sense. That's why we
20:19
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: But the Buccaneers cheerleaders. Oh, come on now. Come on now.
21:07
Speaker 4: They made those poor lasses dance in their short shorts
21:12
Speaker 4: and sleeveless T-shirts in a monsoon.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the epic proportions.
21:17
Speaker 4: They were ankle deep in mud, still performing on the sideline,
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Speaker 4: doing their routines, and they still didn't give them a
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Speaker 4: costume change or let them off the field.
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Speaker 2: Like, what were we doing?
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Speaker 6: They could have put them in any suite. There's no
21:29
Speaker 6: way that everybody was in there. Yeah, that's a great call, Drew.
21:32
Speaker 6: They were gamers.
21:34
Speaker 4: If you didn't see it, go back and look at
21:35
Speaker 4: some of the highlights of that game. Baker Mayfield, your
21:38
Speaker 4: winning quarterback, didn't complete a forward pass.
21:40
Speaker 2: Amazing.
21:40
Speaker 5: I was looking to see the stats on if that happened,
21:43
Speaker 5: when it happened. That is crazy.
21:44
Speaker 4: It's the first time, I think, since the 30s, from
21:47
Speaker 4: what I remember hearing on the broadcast.
21:48
Speaker 2: I love that. Oh, I love that. That is just
21:51
Speaker 2: amazing stuff. And it was early on.
21:53
Speaker 6: And they had Kenny Gainwell and the other guy, Bucky Irving,
21:59
Speaker 6: each ran for at least 130 yards all over the Falcons.
22:03
Speaker 2: Drew, you want to talk about a confounding team? Watch
22:06
Speaker 2: Atlanta a couple of weeks.
22:08
Speaker 6: Came in here on a Thursday night and looked like
22:10
Speaker 6: the 90s Cowboys just steamrolling the Packers.
22:14
Speaker 4: Beat the 49ers last week and then get shut out
22:17
Speaker 4: in the rain. And I think Michael Penix Jr. 's
22:20
Speaker 4: quarterback rating was 12.
22:21
Speaker 5: Well.
22:24
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield had to have zero, right? He didn't complete
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Speaker 2: a pass. No, his was like 39. Okay. Somehow. Writing
22:30
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Speaker 4: He also maybe won the day on the Internet of, listen,
22:39
Speaker 4: I might have had the most important spot. I didn't
22:41
Speaker 4: do anything on the group project. We all still got
22:43
Speaker 4: an A. They could have played that with snorkels on
22:45
Speaker 4: and fins. It was so wet. It was ridiculous.
22:48
Speaker 2: So he did not complete a pass. Michael Panix did.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
22:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:53
Speaker 4: Michael Penix completed eight of 24 throws, but actually 12,
22:57
Speaker 4: but four of those were completed to the Buccaneers.
22:59
Speaker 6: Four of them to the Buccaneers, and the first two
23:01
Speaker 6: were just so god-awful. You're like, my man wishes he
23:05
Speaker 6: was anywhere but here today.
23:06
Speaker 4: It's Tampa's first home win of the season in week eight.
23:10
Speaker 2: And they've had a... Think of the teams they played
23:12
Speaker 2: at home. They played the Browns and.
23:14
Speaker 4: The Bucks and Falcons are tied for second place in
23:17
Speaker 4: the NFC South half game behind Carolina.
23:19
Speaker 6: And the NFC South, the NFC East of the two
23:21
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23:25
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23:28
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23:32
Speaker 2: How about that?
23:32
Speaker 6: But there's seven. There's seven teams for five spots. Everybody
23:37
Speaker 6: but Arizona in the NFC West. and seemingly everybody in
23:41
Speaker 6: the NFC North, that's where it's coming down to for
23:43
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23:45
Speaker 6: that awful NFC East and that South.
23:47
Speaker 2: You mentioned it. Three three-win teams all tied for first place. Nice.
23:53
Speaker 6: Including the one that the Packers just beat up in
23:55
Speaker 6: Carolina the other night. So that's a good one. The videos,
23:58
Speaker 6: I didn't see some of these pictures as well. They're tremendous. Drew,
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24:05
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Speaker 6: Staying in the NFL yesterday. How about one Jack Campbell?
24:50
Speaker 6: I love football more than a lot of things in life.
24:54
Speaker 5: Right.
24:56
Speaker 2: And yesterday I had trouble watching football.
24:59
Speaker 4: Any after that young man could not walk off the
25:02
Speaker 4: field and got carted off. And we haven't gotten any
25:07
Speaker 4: really more positive news. Now, some people are trying to
25:09
Speaker 4: speculate exactly what that means, but if you missed it,
25:12
Speaker 4: linebacker all pro a couple times over for the Lions
25:16
Speaker 4: yesterday was carted off the field, presumed for a neck injury.
25:19
Speaker 4: He was taken to the hospital for that, underwent a
25:23
Speaker 4: number of different scans, and the most recent information, guys,
25:27
Speaker 4: that the Lions have put.
25:28
Speaker 2: Out is that they....
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Speaker 6: He continues to rest and recover at a local hospital.
25:36
Speaker 6: Preliminary indications are positive. Out of respect for Jack and
25:39
Speaker 6: his family, we will not share any more information. So
25:42
Speaker 6: you can take that for what you may. There's at
25:45
Speaker 6: no point... They also gave one last night that he
25:47
Speaker 6: is resting in a local hospital. Um, there's, there's nothing
25:51
Speaker 6: that we have not heard definitive that he, uh, can
25:54
Speaker 6: feel his extremities that he has any movement in his extremities,
25:58
Speaker 6: awfully scary situation and a incredibly sad reality check of
26:04
Speaker 6: just what these dudes put themselves through to play this game.
26:07
Speaker 1: Yeah.
26:08
Speaker 2: And that's the, that's the scary reality.
26:10
Speaker 5: You know, you're locked into a game as competition, as competitors,
26:13
Speaker 5: you're locked into the battle, you're locked into winning and losing.
26:15
Speaker 2: And then something like that happens.
26:16
Speaker 5: I can't imagine how quickly and sobering that is to
26:19
Speaker 5: be on the field in that moment, to be watching
26:22
Speaker 5: somebody you're close to, close to their family. We forget
26:24
Speaker 5: about this stuff. The families are so close and things
26:27
Speaker 5: like that. So hopefully good news continues to come. That's
26:30
Speaker 5: all you can say about that.
26:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a stark reminder of what these guys
26:35
Speaker 4: are putting themselves through.
26:37
Speaker 2: Man, it's really, really scary.
26:39
Speaker 6: When you saw Aiden Hutchinson walking away just sobbing from
26:43
Speaker 6: the situation yesterday, you could tell. that it was a
26:46
Speaker 6: different tenor.
26:48
Speaker 4: I don't know about you guys, but come on Friday evening,
26:53
Speaker 4: I had no.
26:54
Speaker 2: Compulsion or compunction to watch any sport.
26:58
Speaker 4: You were totally done with it? You were like, you
26:59
Speaker 4: wanted a break? Saturday, watched football. Sunday, watched football. I
27:02
Speaker 4: went to the Bucs game Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: Ooh, okay.
27:04
Speaker 2: That's cool. Lasted into the third quarter and had seen enough.
27:07
Speaker 2: I was going to say. There was a sense of like.
27:09
Speaker 2: I think they did, too.
27:10
Speaker 4: But tonight, the buffet expands for tonight because Denver at Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. The opener for the Badgers. who are favored by
27:18
Speaker 2: 25 and a half. Yeah, we're getting some. Marquette Mercyhurst.
27:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:22
Speaker 4: Armand's Golden Eagles ring out a favor by 31 and
27:24
Speaker 4: a half.
27:24
Speaker 2: We're getting this thing started. Let's see if they cover.
27:27
Speaker 4: Bucks at the Wolves. I'll be happy if they can
27:29
Speaker 4: cover the 10 and a half. It's a tall order
27:31
Speaker 4: for them. Even though the Wolves are playing not great.
27:33
Speaker 2: It's all right.
27:34
Speaker 4: And then my Panthers. are playing at USC, 21st ranked Trojans. Oh,
27:39
Speaker 4: that's a heck of a start for Bart Lundy's squad.
27:41
Speaker 2: Okay, come on.
27:42
Speaker 4: They're catching 26 and a half. So none of these
27:44
Speaker 4: games are supposed to be good. Plus, we can also
27:46
Speaker 4: hate watch the Bears and cheer for the Seahawks.
27:47
Speaker 2: That's it right there. Which is a little bit like Gordon.
27:50
Speaker 4: Gekko's mixed emotions, like my ex-wife driving off a cliff
27:52
Speaker 4: in my new Maserati.
27:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate cheering for that ugly team.
27:57
Speaker 5: See, yeah, that's true, except, I don't know, it's easy
28:00
Speaker 5: for me to always cheer against the Bears, especially this coach.
28:02
Speaker 2: But the Seahawks are a hated rival as well.
28:04
Speaker 5: They were, but I just feel like that part's worn
28:06
Speaker 5: off over time. The Russell Wilson, kind of Richard Sherman, Seahawks, yeah, okay,
28:11
Speaker 5: back then.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
28:13
Speaker 2: I don't feel that anymore. I just don't like that stadium. Like,
28:16
Speaker 2: there's a lot. That stadium is one that every game
28:20
Speaker 2: played in.
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Speaker 6: It does, Drew, have a little weird ire for me.
28:23
Speaker 6: So I'm with you on that one.
28:26
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
28:26
Speaker 6: I'm going to try to get. I'm not going to
28:29
Speaker 6: be able to get Armin Sarian level in. The college basketball?
28:33
Speaker 6: I'm going to try hard to get into college basketball
28:35
Speaker 6: this year.
28:35
Speaker 5: It should be a fun year. I mean, we hope
28:37
Speaker 5: Marquette will be better. The Badgers should be good. I
28:39
Speaker 5: think it'll be a fun year, you know, around the state.
28:42
Speaker 5: College basketball is one of my favorites. It gets me
28:45
Speaker 5: through the winter. That's just my thing.
28:46
Speaker 2: But listen, I think the Bucs being who they are
28:51
Speaker 2: this year might.
28:52
Speaker 5: Help as well a little bit because it's like the
28:54
Speaker 5: Bucs are always a better distraction the winter basketball wise
28:57
Speaker 5: than I think any of our college teams were the
29:00
Speaker 5: last 10 years.
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Speaker 2: But The Bucs aren't going to be a struggle.
29:02
Speaker 6: But just in terms of, Drew, the overall product, I mean,
29:05
Speaker 6: we were talking about the up and down nature of
29:08
Speaker 6: college football. College basketball is as night in and night
29:13
Speaker 6: out of a sport as there is.
29:14
Speaker 2: It is totally.
29:15
Speaker 5: And they've had a lot more preseason exhibitions between good
29:19
Speaker 5: teams this year.
29:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wisconsin's played, like, what, three games? It's kind of interesting.
29:23
Speaker 2: It's unique.
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Speaker 6: Or three exhibition games, I would say, as they started up.
29:26
Speaker 6: technically for real tonight?
29:27
Speaker 5: And sometimes these college teams now, it's kind of what
29:30
Speaker 5: you're getting at, I think.
29:31
Speaker 2: They seem older than the NBA teams, you know?
29:33
Speaker 6: Patrick's going to have almost five new starters, right? Nolan
29:36
Speaker 6: Winter and Rapper back.
29:37
Speaker 4: Moments ago, we got the official announcement that'll shock Billy,
29:39
Speaker 4: is that the... Badgers and Terrapins next week will be.
29:43
Speaker 2: An 11 a.m. kickoff. All right. That's what we like
29:45
Speaker 2: to see. That's what we like to see.
29:46
Speaker 6: Watch Sports 1, 11 a.m. Ooh, that might be a
29:49
Speaker 6: levering call. That'll be a fun one for him.
29:53
Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
29:54
Speaker 6: That'll play for the Badgers there on 11 a.m.
29:56
Speaker 2: Kick. I mean, where else would you put Badgers against Maryland?
30:00
Speaker 2: They can't flex it to Thursday. But there's there's a
30:03
Speaker 2: WNBA slot. Well, WNBA got up out of the way there.
30:07
Speaker 2: What a bar. Let's give a game ball to that
30:10
Speaker 2: game on Saturday night. We did watch some sports. Yeah.
30:13
Speaker 2: Billy and I were watching that. I don't know. I
30:17
Speaker 2: don't know that it was a good thing to be watching.
30:19
Speaker 2: I was game seven.
30:21
Speaker 6: It was total game seven basketball. Was it 68-63 was
30:24
Speaker 6: the final? Yeah, they got close to the number. Now,
30:26
Speaker 6: the over-under was 143.5, which is low for the WNBA.
30:29
Speaker 6: But I told you, Billy, game seven of W is
30:32
Speaker 6: going to go under. And I'm sitting there in the
30:34
Speaker 6: third quarter, and it was 35-28, and I'm like, oh,
30:37
Speaker 6: my goodness.
30:38
Speaker 2: It was a struggle.
30:39
Speaker 5: Thank goodness.
30:40
Speaker 2: I'm blanking on her name. She got hot in the
30:42
Speaker 2: third quarter for the Valkyries.
30:44
Speaker 4: By the way, the Cavs outscored that. that winning total
30:48
Speaker 4: in the WN in the first half, in the first, we.
30:51
Speaker 5: Were watching it though, Billy, come on. I mean, I
30:55
Speaker 5: would say, you know, we were, you.
30:56
Speaker 2: Know, I want, but drew drew was there. He was
30:59
Speaker 2: able to take it in.
31:00
Speaker 6: What did it look as bad in person as it,
31:02
Speaker 6: as it has so far on my 24 for the
31:03
Speaker 6: box so far?
31:04
Speaker 2: Not as no, no.
31:07
Speaker 4: The one thing that shocked me about the bucks is like,
31:09
Speaker 4: they were getting crushed. on transition D a lot. And
31:12
Speaker 4: I thought that I thought the hustle would be a
31:14
Speaker 4: little bit more pronounced. They were getting beat on made
31:17
Speaker 4: basket transitions. Like that should not happen in the NBA.
31:21
Speaker 2: They'll clean it up.
31:22
Speaker 4: But the offense looked okay to me.
31:23
Speaker 2: They just missed a ton of shots.
31:25
Speaker 4: Like they shot, they were, they shot so horribly to
31:28
Speaker 4: start that it was like, well, I don't think this
31:30
Speaker 4: market is going to correct.
31:31
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:31
Speaker 4: You're not going to get yourself out of this. They
31:32
Speaker 4: were missing no footers. They were missing open looks like
31:35
Speaker 4: it just, It's.
31:36
Speaker 2: One of those nights, man. There's a cover on the hoop. Yeah,
31:39
Speaker 2: I hope there's not as many of those nights as
31:41
Speaker 2: you think there are.
31:42
Speaker 4: I did like the way the offense looked to get
31:44
Speaker 4: the open shots, but then there's the part.
31:45
Speaker 2: About making the open shots.
31:48
Speaker 4: Maybe that's the next step.
31:50
Speaker 6: Maybe that is a good start to have, as you
31:52
Speaker 6: and I were sitting there at Bucs Media Day, and
31:54
Speaker 6: Wes Eden's called Taylor Jenkins the biggest edition of the offseason.
31:57
Speaker 2: I was looking for positives.
31:58
Speaker 4: Admittedly, I was looking for positives, because it's going to
32:00
Speaker 4: be a long, cold winter if the Bucs stink. Give
32:04
Speaker 4: us reason to check in once in a while. You
32:06
Speaker 4: don't have to win every game, but win enough that
32:09
Speaker 4: we're compelled to check in and keep tabs.
32:11
Speaker 2: You know, this time, it's going to have to be built.
32:13
Speaker 5: I mean, I had a history professor once that said
32:15
Speaker 5: the creation of new empires is a bloody process. It
32:18
Speaker 5: doesn't look pretty on the way up sometimes, but you
32:20
Speaker 5: have to set the foundation, hopefully, in this kind of rubble.
32:23
Speaker 6: But I'll say for watching the games and the at
32:27
Speaker 6: least viewability of the product and the excitement level, Drew,
32:30
Speaker 6: Drew just gave me a good selling point.
32:32
Speaker 2: At least there was... Somewhat of a plan, it sounds like.
32:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.
32:36
Speaker 6: Well, there was a plan to getting open shots. There
32:39
Speaker 6: was a plan to their offensive attack. That's a nice
32:42
Speaker 6: change up for what you watched most.
32:44
Speaker 2: Of last year. That's the important thing. That's for the
32:46
Speaker 2: last three or four years.
32:47
Speaker 4: That's a definite change up because the process to getting
32:50
Speaker 4: any of those open looks was very few and far between. Again,
32:53
Speaker 4: for me, it's just like it's not even so much
32:55
Speaker 4: about results. It's about looking for the plan and looking
32:58
Speaker 4: for the development of a culture and looking for Um,
33:02
Speaker 4: just like, yeah, looking for positives.
33:04
Speaker 2: Hey, Gary Trent played. That's a positive. That's a positive.
33:08
Speaker 2: That is one. Take that. Take that investigation. Right, right, right.
33:11
Speaker 2: He got six minutes, three points. You like that? He
33:13
Speaker 2: was one of two from downtown. Um, should we get,
33:16
Speaker 2: can we get Mark in a truck and has been waiting? Hey,
33:18
Speaker 2: get him on, man. Let's go. Mark in a truck.
33:22
Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle, my friend.
33:25
Speaker 7: Hello, old friend. How are you?
33:26
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
33:29
Speaker 3: Hey guys.
33:30
Speaker 7: Um, Well, Drew, they took me out of retirement like
33:34
Speaker 7: the mafia once I thought it was over, but they
33:37
Speaker 7: brought me back.
33:38
Speaker 2: Good God.
33:38
Speaker 7: Just for one day.
33:40
Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Just for one day. Well, that's more Samuel.
33:43
Speaker 7: What's been new, Drew? Anything going on?
33:45
Speaker 4: Oh, Samuel, Samuel, you know, just winning World Series championships,
33:48
Speaker 4: watching our teams on Saturday Night Live, just, you know, normal.
33:53
Speaker 7: 21 years on the radio, and you're going, is this
33:57
Speaker 7: ever going to happen?
33:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. You know what?
34:01
Speaker 4: Mark, look where we live, though, and look at the
34:03
Speaker 4: titles here. And Billy said it initially. We've got to
34:06
Speaker 4: put together this sad sack crap because the Packers won
34:10
Speaker 4: theirs in 16, 15, 16, right?
34:15
Speaker 2: But they were competitive for a while.
34:16
Speaker 4: The Bucs won theirs after some near misses, and then
34:19
Speaker 4: they kind of petered out.
34:19
Speaker 2: And then here come the Brewers.
34:21
Speaker 4: They're passing the baton to each other, just like.
34:22
Speaker 2: The Brewers line up. Like now? All I know is
34:26
Speaker 2: the Brewers for a bit until somebody else steps up.
34:27
Speaker 2: The Admirals are next this year. Oh, I like that.
34:29
Speaker 2: There you go.
34:30
Speaker 7: All I know is 2005, Drew, when you promoted me
34:35
Speaker 7: to the major league because I predicted the Brewers would
34:37
Speaker 7: finish 500.
34:40
Speaker 2: That's true. That's a winner right there. And you should
34:43
Speaker 2: light a cigar on that one. That is a victory cigar.
34:45
Speaker 5: I am.
34:46
Speaker 7: So I got a kick in the old cannoli for
34:51
Speaker 7: future callers. In two weeks when they say. You there?
34:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are. When they say. Okay.
35:02
Speaker 7: Future callers in two weeks when free agency is going
35:06
Speaker 7: and we get to. Antinazio is too cheap to sign
35:10
Speaker 7: free agents.
35:11
Speaker 2: We'll never win with this team.
35:13
Speaker 7: So you can all. Fight me.
35:17
Speaker 2: He's rat hole in the money. All the radio merchandise sales.
35:20
Speaker 2: He's rat hole in it.
35:22
Speaker 7: All the radio heads, the idiot with the toupee on
35:25
Speaker 7: the radio, he can kiss my cannoli.
35:28
Speaker 4: Later.
35:30
Speaker 2: You know what?
35:30
Speaker 5: There's something in what he's saying because you know people
35:32
Speaker 5: are going to start complaining to him about something.
35:33
Speaker 2: They already are.
35:34
Speaker 6: Is Jake Bowers already lining up to be the Brewers
35:37
Speaker 6: version of P.J.
35:38
Speaker 2: Tucker? That's it.
35:39
Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
35:39
Speaker 2: That could be.
35:40
Speaker 5: Because if you don't pay him, if they don't give
35:42
Speaker 5: him qualifying or whatever it is, we're going to start
35:45
Speaker 5: complaining about something or someone's going to make a comment.
35:48
Speaker 5: I think Rick was talking about merchandise sale.
35:50
Speaker 2: I don't know.
35:52
Speaker 5: It's just the nature of the beast, okay? It's the
35:54
Speaker 5: nature of the beast.
35:56
Speaker 6: The William Contreras one will be, I think, the meeting
36:01
Speaker 6: this offseason. Because I don't know that anybody's going to
36:03
Speaker 6: second-guess Matt Arnold if he ends up trading Trevor McGill.
36:06
Speaker 6: I don't think anybody's going to second-guess them at all
36:09
Speaker 6: if Dustin May goes and signs somewhere or JoJo Romero's
36:12
Speaker 6: not back.
36:13
Speaker 2: No one's necessarily going to be shocked at all.
36:15
Speaker 4: But.
36:17
Speaker 2: The.
36:17
Speaker 4: Contreras one feels easy, feels like a deal you should
36:20
Speaker 4: be able to make. And even Terang, I think you
36:23
Speaker 4: can see the forest through the trees of the guys
36:26
Speaker 4: that they got coming up. The Jake Bowers, Jeff Passan piece.
36:33
Speaker 4: The pregame heaters in the batting cage, the love of
36:36
Speaker 4: Sal Freelick and Jake Bowers and the celebration in the
36:39
Speaker 4: parade and the chill the out moments. I think those
36:44
Speaker 4: are going to be the ones similar to Tucker Drew
36:46
Speaker 4: where it was. Well, he was the guy that was
36:49
Speaker 4: an underlying straw that stirred the drink.
36:51
Speaker 2: I think they'll be okay. I think they'll make do.
36:55
Speaker 2: The bigger one is.
36:57
Speaker 6: I don't see Jake Bowers hitting 20-some home runs again
36:59
Speaker 6: and hitting 270. I'd love to say that he matches
37:03
Speaker 6: that Drew for the next four years. He's a great player,
37:06
Speaker 6: but that seems like a hell of a... It was
37:08
Speaker 6: before your time, but we might have a Bill Hall
37:11
Speaker 6: on our hands that one year. You pay him for
37:13
Speaker 6: the one year, and then you say, well, where's the
37:14
Speaker 6: guy that we paid?
37:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the thing is, when you win the World Series,
37:18
Speaker 5: everyone expects you to try to run it back with
37:20
Speaker 5: the same guys. And if you don't, they're going to
37:22
Speaker 5: say you weren't committed to trying to win championships.
37:24
Speaker 2: No, not necessarily. I just think that's how fans react.
37:27
Speaker 2: They've got a bunch of guys, and that's the thing.
37:29
Speaker 4: Even bringing this team back is going to cost more
37:32
Speaker 4: because of all the guys that are going to arbitration
37:33
Speaker 4: to get healthy raises. So therefore, it's like they're not
37:36
Speaker 4: going to be cheap per se. But if that's where
37:40
Speaker 4: like the greatest terrain is going to make is going
37:42
Speaker 4: to be serious.
37:43
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
37:44
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
37:44
Speaker 2: Like two to nine. She's obviously worth it. Yeah.
37:47
Speaker 4: But so that's what I'm saying is like you'll be seen.
37:49
Speaker 4: So running it back is not like at the same price.
37:52
Speaker 4: It's not realistic, but that's not realistic.
37:54
Speaker 5: If you think that fans are all of a sudden
37:55
Speaker 5: going to have implicit trust in everybody like the man.
37:58
Speaker 2: Well, they should question them. I think they should do.
38:00
Speaker 2: But if that's going to happen, good luck.
38:02
Speaker 4: Best record in ball two years in a row. A
38:04
Speaker 4: World Series champion. I think you need to shut up
38:07
Speaker 4: for a while. After game four of the World Series.
38:09
Speaker 2: I agree with you. You should, but it's just going
38:11
Speaker 2: to happen. I'm with you, though. What if we don't
38:14
Speaker 2: get the second guest, the manager? Is it even fun?
38:16
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39:10
Speaker 4: Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing it to you on this
39:13
Speaker 4: huddled up Monday in the good land. Those of you
39:17
Speaker 4: who can actually hear over the air, the bump music
39:20
Speaker 4: might be wondering why we're coming back with a little reggae.
39:24
Speaker 4: And the reason is because Hunter Baumgart just popped in.
39:27
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
39:28
Speaker 6: This is why you should have went home. This is
39:32
Speaker 6: why he should have went home, Drew. Because he walked
39:35
Speaker 6: around here too long. He's going to end up keep working.
39:37
Speaker 4: Tell us that there are eight players who have received
39:39
Speaker 4: qualifying offers today, including Seattle's Randy Arosa-Reina, David Bednar of
39:43
Speaker 4: the Yankees, Ryan Jeffers of the Twins, Brandon Lowe of
39:46
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Pirates, Adrian Morajon of San Diego, Trevor Rogers
39:51
Speaker 4: from Baltimore, Seiya Suzuki from Chicago, and.
39:55
Speaker 2: Sunshine! Jake Bowers. Jake Bowers gets a qualifying offer. You
40:01
Speaker 2: need to sing more. That was great. All right, man,
40:04
Speaker 2: Jake Bowers, yes. That was great.
40:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he has received the qualifying offer. That means
40:09
Speaker 3: that he has until like 3 o'clock Central Time on
40:12
Speaker 3: November 17th, so we're still a couple of weeks away
40:15
Speaker 3: from that, but to accept or decline. Now, if he accepts,
40:19
Speaker 3: he would plan a one-year $ 23 million deal, right about
40:22
Speaker 3: $ 23 million. If he declines, the Brewers would get a
40:25
Speaker 3: draft pick. But, of course, they can also negotiate a
40:27
Speaker 3: different contract as well.
40:29
Speaker 6: Well, that's, you know, Pat Murphy said he was going
40:32
Speaker 6: to be a rich something.
40:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, rich something. That makes you a rich something. It does.
40:37
Speaker 2: I would say it does.
40:38
Speaker 6: I thought $ 20 million would be the cap of what
40:41
Speaker 6: he would end up getting. Now, I want everybody to
40:45
Speaker 6: make as much money as possible. I want all these
40:47
Speaker 6: dudes to sign for the biggest contract possible. I get
40:49
Speaker 6: made fun of for it. So maybe I had over
40:52
Speaker 6: and I had kind of underwhelmed in the thought, but
40:55
Speaker 6: he had such a huge year contract. hunter on a
41:00
Speaker 6: contract year for a guy that was going to give
41:02
Speaker 6: up the sport generally speaking organizations aren't saying yeah let's
41:06
Speaker 6: give that guy 25 million bucks well.
41:08
Speaker 3: Totally so it's it's just a fascinating situation because you
41:12
Speaker 3: know our non-roster invitee a couple years ago to now
41:15
Speaker 3: he's receiving a qualifying offer had a great obviously year
41:18
Speaker 3: but he's also at the age he's at, just after 30,
41:21
Speaker 3: that you think about it and, okay, how much is
41:24
Speaker 3: he really going to demand? Now, this is a question
41:27
Speaker 3: for him. If there is, let's say, just take this
41:30
Speaker 3: at face value and say he can either take a
41:32
Speaker 3: one-year $ 23 million deal or test free agency and try
41:36
Speaker 3: to get a multi-year deal. I don't think he's getting
41:39
Speaker 3: a multi-year deal at 23 a year. So do you
41:42
Speaker 3: bet on just one year, try to prove it again,
41:44
Speaker 3: and then maybe go multiple year? Because you can't do
41:47
Speaker 3: a qualifying offer again, from a team. As the rules
41:51
Speaker 3: stand now, I mean, who knows if the rules could change, too.
41:54
Speaker 2: We don't know. And especially the team that you're enjoying.
41:56
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no question he loves being a brewer
41:59
Speaker 5: right now.
42:00
Speaker 2: Well, who wouldn't?
42:00
Speaker 5: But I'm sure this is like, you know, I'm sure
42:03
Speaker 5: they're thinking like, boy, it'd be great to stay here.
42:04
Speaker 2: Like, everything's been great here. The manager, all that stuff.
42:08
Speaker 2: He's 31. That might help.
42:10
Speaker 1: Right.
42:12
Speaker 2: Which, yeah, I mean, we had a breakout performance. MVP
42:15
Speaker 2: of the NLCS.
42:16
Speaker 5: In a sport.
42:17
Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember when a guy named Jeff
42:18
Speaker 4: Supan was the NLCS MVP and signed a lucrative deal
42:21
Speaker 4: with the team.
42:21
Speaker 2: That's a heck of a comparison.
42:23
Speaker 5: Yeah.
42:24
Speaker 2: And, like, Drew, he also is.
42:27
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say he's a platoon guy, but
42:30
Speaker 6: you kind of thought going into the year you played
42:32
Speaker 6: on him being a platoon. Now, he played his way
42:34
Speaker 6: out of the platoon, and then there were still some
42:36
Speaker 6: folks that wanted to see Andrew Vaughn get more reps and.
42:39
Speaker 2: More at-bats, so... That gets quieted down, I guess.
42:44
Speaker 6: I would want to know, Hunter, and this is one
42:45
Speaker 6: that I know somebody's going to ask him when and
42:48
Speaker 6: if this ends up happening for Matt Arnold to talk
42:51
Speaker 6: to everybody.
42:52
Speaker 2: He's now about people, right?
42:54
Speaker 6: Because that was Pat Murphy's thing of he used to
42:57
Speaker 6: be about numbers.
42:58
Speaker 2: Now he's a people guy.
43:00
Speaker 6: That means that they think Jake Bowers is way too
43:02
Speaker 6: important of a dude to lose in that locker room, which...
43:07
Speaker 6: Maybe I wonder how many more decisions they're going to
43:10
Speaker 6: make like that after a championship, I guess. That's changing
43:14
Speaker 6: your process after the result, I would say a little bit.
43:16
Speaker 3: It does, if they do indeed go that way. I mean,
43:19
Speaker 3: you know, William Contreras is also a dude in that clubhouse.
43:22
Speaker 3: Sal Freelick is also, and you just signed Luis Lara
43:24
Speaker 3: to a big deal, and he's been playing right field.
43:26
Speaker 3: So just some fascinating decisions after a World Series win
43:30
Speaker 3: not even a week ago.
43:31
Speaker 2: Sunshine.
43:34
Speaker 5: Yes.
43:34
Speaker 4: The comparisons I've heard for Bowers and contracts would be
43:38
Speaker 4: Josh Naylor, who got five years at 92, and Christian Walker,
43:43
Speaker 4: three years at 60.
43:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, three at 60 was in my mind, but I
43:47
Speaker 3: don't know that.
43:48
Speaker 2: I know, Billy. They had longer run-ups because they were better.
43:52
Speaker 2: He was just like a league average.
43:53
Speaker 3: So 360, I think, is too much.
43:54
Speaker 4: He was like the replacement level player, and then he
43:57
Speaker 4: had the breakout year. But his barrel rate, his exit velo,
44:00
Speaker 4: all the numbers are great.
44:01
Speaker 2: Good year, William. That's amazing. God is good, dude. God
44:05
Speaker 2: is good. That's all.
44:07
Speaker 6: If I was Jake Bowers, I would be standing outside
44:10
Speaker 6: of American Family Fields pitching a tent for them to
44:14
Speaker 6: give me that deal so I could sign it down. Yes,
44:18
Speaker 6: I would be pitching a tent to sleep in and
44:20
Speaker 6: the other one. Well, I just think he did deliver
44:22
Speaker 6: the goods.
44:23
Speaker 2: Driving all the way to the stadium. I understand the skepticism.
44:27
Speaker 2: I have it, too. But when you deliver the goods,
44:28
Speaker 2: like he delivered the goods. Goods were delivered.
44:32
Speaker 5: But in the LCS, and you can't ever take that away.
44:35
Speaker 5: I mean, whether or not they're going to.
44:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
44:39
Speaker 5: Remember Larry Brown? Remember Desmond Howard? That's NFL, but you
44:42
Speaker 5: have one big playoff run.
44:44
Speaker 3: We were surprised kind of when they offered it to
44:46
Speaker 3: Woody last year. I was shocked.
44:50
Speaker 2: Break down the door, sign it.
44:52
Speaker 7: Thanks, Hunter.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.