Latest / The Huddle / 09/21 26 - Hour 3
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Broadcasting live, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison,
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- 0:09Speaker 2: We had a breakthrough. We had a revelation on the program.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Armin Sarian now understands the significance of the Earth, Wind &
- 0:15Speaker 1: Fire song, September, especially today.
- 0:18Speaker 2: That's incredible. That is just incredible. He just never got
- 0:21Speaker 2: into the first line of the song. Well, listen, Drew,
- 0:24Speaker 2: it's hard. It's hard to hear the first part.
- 0:26Speaker 3: You can generally remember the rest of it, but the
- 0:28Speaker 3: first words are generally the ones that you miss. Like
- 0:31Speaker 3: if you miss the first couple of plays of yesterday's
- 0:33Speaker 3: Packers game, well, you missed part that ended up being
- 0:36Speaker 3: rather significant, but a good one to miss, right?
- 0:38Speaker 2: Like you just missed the first couple. Maybe you feel
- 0:40Speaker 2: like you don't miss a lot of the story.
- 0:42Speaker 3: It's not the story, but it's going to be a
- 0:44Speaker 3: part of the rest of the chapter book that you
- 0:46Speaker 3: hear of the rest of the 2026 Packers season.
- 0:48Speaker 2: But Armin, good work.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Well, it's called September, not September 21st, which I think
- 0:52Speaker 4: now is the issue. It's like I'm always a few
- 0:55Speaker 4: days off, unlike the old highlight recaps. So then I
- 0:58Speaker 4: tried to look at what else happened on September 21st.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Last year, the Brewers clinched the division on this day.
- 1:04Speaker 2: So there's one.
- 1:05Speaker 3: 2001, Drew, you remember this.
- 1:07Speaker 2: You were probably covering it.
- 1:09Speaker 4: During a 5-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, the Brewers
- 1:12Speaker 4: set a new Major League single season record for team
- 1:14Speaker 4: strikeouts with 1,272.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Oh, I remember it all too well. The glory days.
- 1:19Speaker 2: You know, so now how many times have they broken
- 1:22Speaker 2: that record now? Got to be a lot.
- 1:24Speaker 4: I mean, that record was from 96 Tigers, and now
- 1:28Speaker 4: it's got to be broken.
- 1:30Speaker 2: It's a God. Look it up for you guys. That's
- 1:31Speaker 2: a guy. That's a great question.
- 1:32Speaker 3: I feel like they kept breaking their own record a
- 1:34Speaker 3: number of different times as the strikeouts became so much
- 1:36Speaker 3: more prevalent. You would have told somebody in that time
- 1:39Speaker 3: frame that you would be seeing teams strike out at
- 1:41Speaker 3: the rate they are now.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I said, wait, are they still playing baseball? What kind
- 1:45Speaker 2: of game are we playing right now? I Jose Hernandez,
- 1:49Speaker 2: they didn't want him to break Bobby Bonds' record for
- 1:51Speaker 2: strikeouts in a season, which was under 200. It was
- 1:54Speaker 2: like 185 or something like that. I think it was
- 1:56Speaker 2: under 200. I was going to say, now everybody strikes
- 1:59Speaker 2: out that way.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Well, I shouldn't say everybody, but a large portion of
- 2:01Speaker 3: the league.
- 2:02Speaker 2: 89 was the record, and they didn't want Hernandez to
- 2:05Speaker 2: break it. Yeah, he had a good season.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Richie Sexton, one of my first favorite players, but Jose Hernandez,
- 2:12Speaker 3: I always had a soft spot in my heart for.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Watching him come up, all that bad out there. K
- 2:17Speaker 3: out a number of different times.
- 2:19Speaker 2: So good.
- 2:19Speaker 4: American League record is now 1654 from the twins in
- 2:23Speaker 4: 23 and the NL records 1581 21 with the pirate Padres.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Excuse me. So I don't have the full list, but
- 2:30Speaker 2: obviously it's been broken. So, yeah, that's impressive stuff.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Ace and Walker Shaw also with a little bit of
- 2:36Speaker 3: a correction on the Nicola lot.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I'm talking text line.
- 2:38Speaker 3: Mentioned highlighting and celebrating Jackson Churio team record first player
- 2:42Speaker 3: in team history to have three 2020 seasons consecutively. He
- 2:47Speaker 3: said it's not a team record. It's a major league
- 2:49Speaker 3: baseball record. Well, he's the youngest player to do it
- 2:52Speaker 3: in major league baseball. The three guys that he joins
- 2:55Speaker 3: right now to start their careers with 2020 seasons consecutively.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good company.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez just locked up his fifth consecutive 2020 season
- 3:04Speaker 3: to start a career and Bobby baseball. is two home
- 3:08Speaker 3: runs shy of his fourth in a row. Bobby Witt Jr.
- 3:10Speaker 3: there with the Royals.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Pretty solid company to be keeping in Major League Baseball. Absolutely.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Thank you, Ace. 877-794-1973.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Time for our current electric superhero of the day, brought
- 3:21Speaker 1: to us by our friends at callcurrent.com. Current electric superheroes
- 3:23Speaker 1: on the van and the techs inside are superheroes as well.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Now, I really want to give it to OG Nooner
- 3:29Speaker 3: George in Rapids for saying, wake Armin up when September ends.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Jeez Louise. Well, that's a totally different job. Just a
- 3:36Speaker 2: phenomenal drop, though, on the pot.
- 3:38Speaker 3: But current electric superhero of the day. Anybody going to
- 3:41Speaker 3: argue with me on giving it to Lucas Van Ness?
- 3:43Speaker 5: Oh, come on.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Ten total tackles, seven solos, a sack and a half,
- 3:47Speaker 3: three TFLs. Drew, you mentioned just the pressure rate that
- 3:50Speaker 3: he had yesterday and going back in the last couple
- 3:53Speaker 3: of years. The last eight games that he's played has
- 3:56Speaker 3: been really impressive, but he generated a career-high nine pressures
- 3:59Speaker 3: in week two, five of them in under two and
- 4:02Speaker 3: a half seconds. Tied for, according to NextGenStats, tied for
- 4:07Speaker 3: the third most by a Packers defender since 2020. Also
- 4:11Speaker 3: had four QB hits. So he got early pressure, contacted
- 4:14Speaker 3: Geno Smith, hit him, and he was a big reason why,
- 4:18Speaker 3: one of the biggest reasons why they ended up winning
- 4:19Speaker 3: that football game yesterday, 20-17. Any objections on the current
- 4:22Speaker 3: electric superhero of the day? No, I think he's obviously
- 4:25Speaker 3: the guy.
- 4:25Speaker 4: He was huge yesterday, and the Packers have needed him
- 4:29Speaker 4: to emerge, and he's done it. I mean, you can't
- 4:32Speaker 4: You can't swing and miss on first-rounders and be really
- 4:35Speaker 4: successful long-term. And thankfully, it looks like he's finally taking
- 4:39Speaker 4: that next step. And the opportunity's been there for him, obviously,
- 4:42Speaker 4: with Micah out. And he's doing it through hard work now.
- 4:45Speaker 4: I mean, he's out hustling. A lot of Aaron Kampman
- 4:48Speaker 4: in those rushes, to me at least. And I love
- 4:51Speaker 4: to see what he's doing. So he's definitely deserving. I
- 4:53Speaker 4: want to give a shout-out to Lisa Leslie. Got a
- 4:55Speaker 4: statue yesterday for the Sparks.
- 4:56Speaker 2: There we go. Maybe an honorable mention. Now, there's someone
- 4:58Speaker 2: that deserves one.
- 4:59Speaker 4: You know, we always talk about who should get a
- 5:00Speaker 4: statue in number of retirement, but Lisa Leslie, WNBA, women's
- 5:03Speaker 4: basketball icon, Sparks.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Gave her a statue. There was another statue that was
- 5:07Speaker 2: given out yesterday to Todd Helton.
- 5:10Speaker 4: Okay, see, that's where I'm sort of like, and he
- 5:12Speaker 4: had a nice career, don't get me wrong. Was it
- 5:15Speaker 4: for Colorado, for the Rockies?
- 5:18Speaker 2: Yeah, what other team would it have been? Well, I
- 5:19Speaker 2: thought maybe it was like a high school or college.
- 5:21Speaker 2: He played football at Tennessee.
- 5:23Speaker 3: Yeah it's definitely a definitely a baseball one he's holding
- 5:25Speaker 3: up the arms and to me.
- 5:27Speaker 4: I don't think todd helton colorado rocky statue that's just
- 5:30Speaker 4: me i mean i don't think that so okay give
- 5:33Speaker 4: him a stat that's why i thought maybe he was
- 5:35Speaker 4: just high school or something like that because he had
- 5:38Speaker 4: a good career i'm not going to start with the
- 5:39Speaker 4: gatekeeping stuff but i.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Mean five-time all-star four-time silver slugger award winner three-time gold
- 5:46Speaker 3: glove hall of famer i mean I.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Don't know what else you got to get. Triple crown winner.
- 5:51Speaker 2: For Helton and Larry Walker. All right, put them in
- 5:55Speaker 2: the front, guys. Give them a statue. What do I want?
- 5:57Speaker 1: How many do they have? He was a one-team guy.
- 6:00Speaker 1: He's their Hall of Famer. He's a one-team Hall of Famer.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Larry Walker played with other teams.
- 6:05Speaker 2: It would have to be Helton or Walker.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Yeah, and Helton was their home guy. He was there
- 6:09Speaker 3: for when they went to the World Series, too, right?
- 6:11Speaker 3: He was there for the Rocktober year. If you put
- 6:14Speaker 3: him into that spot.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Good question.
- 6:15Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 6:16Speaker 2: I don't know why you got disrespect and hate on
- 6:18Speaker 2: Todd Helton.
- 6:18Speaker 3: How big is the statue? I mean, when he played it. Listen,
- 6:21Speaker 3: it's a better statue than the Dwayne Wade one.
- 6:24Speaker 5: Okay.
- 6:24Speaker 2: It's important.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Or that Allen Iverson mini statue they gave him. It's
- 6:27Speaker 3: bigger than that one.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Didn't they give somebody a dinosaur in Toronto? Or am
- 6:33Speaker 2: I going crazy? Was that wrong on the internet? Probably.
- 6:35Speaker 2: I got tricked. Did you get sent out? I probably did.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I probably did. Maybe I'm underrating Todd Helton's career.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Todd Helton's junior year at Rocky Top, he was the
- 6:43Speaker 1: backup to senior Jerry Colquitt, and he was ahead of
- 6:46Speaker 1: Peyton Manning.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. His five-year peak was pretty good here.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Helton took over as the starter after Colquitt tore knee
- 6:54Speaker 1: ligaments in the season opener, and then three weeks later,
- 6:57Speaker 1: he suffered a knee injury and was replaced by Peyton Manning.
- 7:01Speaker 5: You know what?
- 7:01Speaker 2: Mea culpa.
- 7:02Speaker 4: I'm wrong.
- 7:02Speaker 2: That's not a bad one to get replaced by. I'm wrong.
- 7:05Speaker 1: 12 games during his career with the Volunteers football team,
- 7:07Speaker 1: 41 of 75, 484 yards, four touchdowns, three picks.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Okay.
- 7:11Speaker 4: He had a 1,000-plus OPA, even though it was Colorado.
- 7:14Speaker 4: That's pretty good for five straight years.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Okay. I'm wrong. Mea culpa. Todd, help me. Here we go.
- 7:19Speaker 2: You're poo-pooing his statue? He's in the Hall of Fame?
- 7:22Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 7:22Speaker 3: He was hating on it. Drew, that's why I brought
- 7:24Speaker 3: it up. I knew that would catch him quickly. I
- 7:27Speaker 3: knew I would get Armin a little. He's still mad
- 7:30Speaker 3: that they gave– did they give you Donna Sasselman's statue
- 7:32Speaker 3: down in Miami, or.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Was that retiring the number? They gave him the bench,
- 7:37Speaker 2: the ceremonial bench. The ceremonial bench. No, I think they
- 7:39Speaker 2: retired his number. That's a little– Well, Larry Walker, too. Okay.
- 7:44Speaker 5: All right.
- 7:44Speaker 2: I'm wrong. Me a couple. Give it to him. Give
- 7:46Speaker 2: him the statue. Okay. And we will. Maybe I'm mixing
- 7:50Speaker 2: them up then with somebody, but I'm not. Definitely. Larry
- 7:53Speaker 2: Walker had some also good years in Montreal. Don't forget.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Not that we're talking about him. Absolutely, he was. Yeah, absolutely.
- 7:58Speaker 2: So he was a two-team kind of star. Yeah, Hayden
- 8:01Speaker 2: says Kyle Lowry. He said, I saw that, too. Kyle Lowry, homegrown,
- 8:04Speaker 2: entire career, played for Colorado. In the Hall of Fame,
- 8:06Speaker 2: the statue makes sense. It went to a World Series,
- 8:10Speaker 2: rocked over. I'm going to look before I open my
- 8:12Speaker 2: mouth again.
- 8:12Speaker 3: The Raptors one is true.
- 8:16Speaker 2: What is going on there?
- 8:17Speaker 3: The Raptors one is true. They did give him a
- 8:22Speaker 3: statue in Jurassic Park. The greatest Raptor of all time.
- 8:27Speaker 3: And they put a statue with Kyle Lowry. So it
- 8:29Speaker 3: is a Raptor. With a Kyle Lowry jersey.
- 8:32Speaker 4: But then I saw Toronto people pushing back a Raptors
- 8:34Speaker 4: fan saying it's not his official, like, statue.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Because he's the Grote. Greatest Raptor of all time. Kyle Lowry,
- 8:42Speaker 3: is he? I mean, I guess, oh, total, total.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Well, you got McGrady.
- 8:47Speaker 5: You got other guys there.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Obviously, Kawhi had one here. Vince Carter. Vince is one
- 8:50Speaker 2: of my thinking. Vince, yeah.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:53Speaker 2: All right.
- 8:53Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
- 8:53Speaker 1: One of my thinking, yeah, Vince. Game balls and cakes.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Did we sufficiently have our superhero name, callcurrent.com?
- 8:59Speaker 2: I think so. I think so. Also, game.
- 9:02Speaker 3: I'm just detouring us. It's just incredible stuff. Game ball
- 9:05Speaker 3: to our friend Bob in Sugar Land. He said special
- 9:07Speaker 3: 21st of September, 35th wedding anniversary to him and Mrs.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Bob in Sugar Land.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 9:12Speaker 5: Congratulations, Bob.
- 9:12Speaker 2: What was your wedding song, I wonder, on September 21st,
- 9:15Speaker 2: 35 years ago? If you don't, is that a massive L?
- 9:18Speaker 2: Just massive L.
- 9:20Speaker 5: Massive.
- 9:20Speaker 2: I think it's like, what if you didn't like that song?
- 9:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:23Speaker 2: By the way, congratulations. There's nobody that doesn't like that song.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Come on. It's universal. Yeah, but it's not like a
- 9:27Speaker 2: slow dance song. No. Maybe it starts the dance floor. Absolutely. Always.
- 9:32Speaker 2: That song fires everybody up. It fires them up. I'm
- 9:35Speaker 2: saying for first dance slow.
- 9:36Speaker 4: Dances, you're not dipsy doing with all that stuff or
- 9:39Speaker 4: doing the dip and the.
- 9:40Speaker 1: So you mentioned, Billy, earlier you mentioned a lot of
- 9:43Speaker 1: games were impacted by rain this weekend.
- 9:46Speaker 2: Not so much. Well, the Packers game looked wet. Hard
- 9:48Speaker 2: to tell from TV. That's true. How hard it's raining.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Even the Badgers game on my TV, it's like, is
- 9:53Speaker 2: it raining? They're hard to tell, but it was raining
- 9:55Speaker 2: sideways at certain points.
- 9:56Speaker 1: It was coming down. It was coming down there for
- 9:58Speaker 1: a while. There were some delays, including the one that
- 10:00Speaker 1: probably helped. Clemson overcome a deficit and beat North Carolina.
- 10:04Speaker 2: My goodness, dude. What a game.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Dabo Swinney went from he's going to be fired Monday to, well,
- 10:09Speaker 1: he's going to be around for a little bit.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Now Belichick's seat is hotter, hotter, hotter.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Turn that temperature right back up. That was going to
- 10:14Speaker 3: be the hot seat bowl in the ACC. One team
- 10:17Speaker 3: was going to feel even worse about their aging coach
- 10:20Speaker 3: after that game, and the other was going to try
- 10:22Speaker 3: to tell themselves they feel slightly better. I don't know
- 10:25Speaker 3: if Clemson is any bit good. They started a true
- 10:27Speaker 3: freshman quarterback, I believe. He looked pretty decent. They went
- 10:32Speaker 3: on a 22-3 run, kind of like what happened with
- 10:33Speaker 3: the Packers.
- 10:35Speaker 2: So, yeah, when the delay happened, and they come out
- 10:37Speaker 2: of the delay, Carolina kicked a field goal.
- 10:40Speaker 3: And there was what, like eight and a half minutes left?
- 10:42Speaker 3: So they're up 20 to 15, and then got boat raced.
- 10:45Speaker 3: And Billy Edwards Jr. unable to put that ball in
- 10:48Speaker 3: the end zone, and it sits there with the Tar Heels.
- 10:51Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Now, Steve Belichick has resigned from his position. Lombardi has
- 10:56Speaker 3: resigned from his position. Bill, like the only one of
- 10:59Speaker 3: the first part of that old guard that's still going
- 11:01Speaker 3: to be there. And there were some college football people
- 11:04Speaker 3: that said, hey, look out. They win this game. They
- 11:08Speaker 3: potentially were going to have game day rolling with UNC
- 11:11Speaker 3: for their Notre Dame game. Probably not anymore. Probably not anymore.
- 11:16Speaker 3: But that one was a massive impact on the weather delay.
- 11:20Speaker 3: The weird one in the NFL drew was like, they
- 11:22Speaker 3: took the Buccaneers and Browns off the field yesterday. And
- 11:26Speaker 3: people are in the stadium. Like, Well, but I'm walking out,
- 11:29Speaker 3: and it's sunny. I don't know exactly what's happening here.
- 11:32Speaker 3: You could see on the other side of the stadium
- 11:34Speaker 3: the clouds rolling in, and then it quickly turned into
- 11:37Speaker 3: a trash flood in there as everybody's water and beer
- 11:41Speaker 3: and empty wrapper was getting flushed out of Raymond James
- 11:45Speaker 3: Stadium yesterday because it was a washout there for a
- 11:48Speaker 3: couple hours.
- 11:49Speaker 2: That Clemson game with a freshman quarterback, sophomore running back,
- 11:56Speaker 2: they're not building the teams like they used to But
- 11:58Speaker 2: if you can let those guys cook, might he be okay, Billy?
- 12:02Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 12:03Speaker 3: You know, man, he did– the tough thing about, like,
- 12:06Speaker 3: saying Dabble's washed and he's out of style is definitely
- 12:08Speaker 3: the more in vogue thing to do. It's the first
- 12:11Speaker 3: year that they actually did bring in a couple of transfers.
- 12:14Speaker 3: They started to do a little bit of things different,
- 12:17Speaker 3: maybe adopted a little bit to the new age of
- 12:20Speaker 3: college football. But Tate Reynolds was one of the– most
- 12:25Speaker 3: highly regarded quarterbacks coming out of high school when they
- 12:28Speaker 3: turned it over to him. There was a lot of
- 12:29Speaker 3: excitement down there. I still like Dabo because I like
- 12:32Speaker 3: the cut of his gym and I still like laughing
- 12:34Speaker 3: when he runs out of the tunnel first.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Yes. And down the hill way before the rest of
- 12:40Speaker 2: the team. But they got some they got some guys
- 12:42Speaker 2: that still if they love.
- 12:45Speaker 3: Dabo, they love Jesus and they love football.
- 12:48Speaker 2: Then there's a place for him to play for the Tigers. Otherwise,
- 12:50Speaker 2: you're not going to play for the Tigers.
- 12:51Speaker 3: The only thing is you've got to love football and
- 12:54Speaker 3: your family and Dabo Sweeney right there in the middle. Otherwise,
- 12:56Speaker 3: you're not going to play for these Tigers. But they've
- 12:58Speaker 3: got an interesting squad there in the ACC. Everybody's playing
- 13:01Speaker 3: for second place, though, there.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:03Speaker 3: That's the tough scene because nobody is touching that Miami team.
- 13:08Speaker 2: No. Their quarterback has more touchdowns than incompletions. That's wild.
- 13:13Speaker 2: That won't last, but it's wild. For now, it won't last.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Darian Menz is Heisman Canada. See, we'll tell you maybe otherwise.
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- 13:43Speaker 1: Perfecto. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Huddled
- 13:48Speaker 1: up on a Monday. Drew, Billy, and Armin, bringing it
- 13:52Speaker 1: to you. You're just killing me, Armin.
- 13:55Speaker 2: You're killing me.
- 13:55Speaker 4: Well, see, what you did was the wrong thing, is
- 13:57Speaker 4: you mentioned Frankie Valli at some point.
- 13:59Speaker 3: No, you mentioned Frankie Valli. Because you tried to say
- 14:02Speaker 3: that's why you got... You didn't know of the September
- 14:06Speaker 3: song because you got it messed up with Frankie Vallon
- 14:08Speaker 3: and the Four Seasons.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I did do that. Which are very reminiscent of
- 14:11Speaker 2: each other.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Did you know there, well, sort of the same era.
- 14:14Speaker 4: Did you know there was no Sherry in real life?
- 14:18Speaker 4: Frankie said that once. He goes, there's no one named Sherry.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Usually songs are written not for anybody. Because everyone wants
- 14:24Speaker 2: to believe it's about somebody. You think it was like
- 14:27Speaker 2: one sweet love in high school? I saw somebody ask
- 14:30Speaker 2: him in a video and he goes, no, no, no,
- 14:31Speaker 2: there's no Sherry. I do like any Frankie Valley interview
- 14:35Speaker 2: video I can get. Yeah. It's funny. It's like, especially
- 14:37Speaker 2: when he's older. All right. So I had to, I
- 14:39Speaker 2: had to roll that one. There you go.
- 14:41Speaker 4: Love it.
- 14:41Speaker 3: You thought, you thought a victory Monday would have this
- 14:44Speaker 3: boy locked in straight and arrow.
- 14:46Speaker 2: No chance.
- 14:47Speaker 3: You get love tunes. You get fun for Valley. You
- 14:49Speaker 3: don't know what you might find here today.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Not to be confused with. Oh, Sherry by Steve Perry.
- 14:54Speaker 5: Right?
- 14:54Speaker 2: Yeah. It's so funny how that works. That's what we
- 14:57Speaker 2: were thinking of.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Eight seven seven seven nine four one nine seven three
- 15:01Speaker 3: some pretty great shots from our boy stat man steve
- 15:04Speaker 3: drew i'm glad you posted that one uh the other
- 15:06Speaker 3: day of the the day after the brewers clinch yeah
- 15:09Speaker 3: that shot that steve sent us of american family field
- 15:12Speaker 3: was phenomenal he just said never stop learning arm.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Is our official photographer of the uh huddle don't take
- 15:18Speaker 2: this the wrong way i want you to take it
- 15:20Speaker 2: the right way you're basically like picture man steve now Yeah,
- 15:24Speaker 2: he was. MKE Photo Steve.
- 15:26Speaker 4: But you're great at, like, even Wrigley's gum started as
- 15:30Speaker 4: a glue company, and they would give away gum with
- 15:32Speaker 4: their glue. But they realized, what do they do well?
- 15:34Speaker 4: They do the gum the best. You know, Steve, you
- 15:37Speaker 4: don't even want the stats anymore. You just keep taking
- 15:39Speaker 4: these pictures. That's your superpower, man. Yeah, MKE Photo Steve, right?
- 15:43Speaker 4: That's where you found it. Yeah, he's our favorite drone operator. Really,
- 15:46Speaker 4: really impressive stuff. You got to put some of these
- 15:48Speaker 4: in a book or something so I can buy it,
- 15:50Speaker 4: you know?
- 15:50Speaker 2: Again, what is it?
- 15:51Speaker 3: 1996 and doing a scrapbook.
- 15:54Speaker 2: You got to have something for the coffee table.
- 15:55Speaker 3: You know, a little something, something. Give me a USB
- 15:58Speaker 3: jump drive and enjoy it. Uh, Jannie and Appleton. Good
- 16:00Speaker 3: morning from beautiful Chippewa flowage near Hayward. Colors are just
- 16:04Speaker 3: starting to pop. It's going to be a great day.
- 16:06Speaker 3: Brewers at 98 wins. Packers one, not much of a
- 16:10Speaker 3: five o'clock clubber on vacation though. More of a six
- 16:13Speaker 3: 30 ish clubber. janie and appleton number 15 in the
- 16:16Speaker 3: five o'clock oh no that's totally i like that is
- 16:18Speaker 3: very acceptable on vacay you can clock out for a
- 16:22Speaker 3: little bit in the five o'clock club just let you
- 16:23Speaker 3: know it was going up though it was going up
- 16:25Speaker 3: so if you missed it and you want to tap
- 16:27Speaker 3: in with more of it go and enjoy the five
- 16:30Speaker 3: o'clock on youtube or on the podcast we posted earlier
- 16:32Speaker 3: just zoom that thing back and enjoy all three hours yeah.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Good advice good advice and hit us up all right
- 16:39Speaker 2: any other um Who's hot? Who's not? We mentioned like
- 16:43Speaker 2: the kicks and games and kicks, big stories. Any other? Yeah.
- 16:46Speaker 3: I was going to say, I got a couple of, uh,
- 16:48Speaker 3: I got a couple of kicks real quick.
- 16:51Speaker 4: Focus.
- 16:52Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Kick to the balls of Jonathan Vilma.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Um, now I do generally enjoy his enthusiasm on the game, right?
- 16:59Speaker 3: You can tell he's in.
- 17:00Speaker 2: I'm with you.
- 17:01Speaker 3: As strange as it sounds, Drew, you, we hear enough
- 17:04Speaker 3: broadcasters where you can clearly tell my man's not excited
- 17:06Speaker 3: to be there. Jonathan Vilma likes the game and enjoys
- 17:09Speaker 3: being there. Um, At one point, he called Keyshawn Nixon
- 17:12Speaker 3: one of the best corners in the game. That might
- 17:14Speaker 3: be a little bit hyperbole. They also, at one point,
- 17:19Speaker 3: I believe it was when the Packers had 11 penalties
- 17:21Speaker 3: for over 100 yards at the time. Highlighting, now, it
- 17:26Speaker 3: was a disciplined play. Packers didn't jump off sides. Going
- 17:30Speaker 3: up against, I believe, the two-minute warning where they were
- 17:32Speaker 3: clearly trying to draw them off sides said, that is
- 17:35Speaker 3: what a good, disciplined football team does right there.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Jonathan, have we been watching the football game? Have we
- 17:40Speaker 2: been watching the first two games?
- 17:42Speaker 3: Where I think they've been called for, Drew, what, 25
- 17:45Speaker 3: combined penalties over the two games? Not sure I would
- 17:49Speaker 3: consider that a super disciplined football team.
- 17:51Speaker 2: But, Jonathan, I like where your head's at. Kick to
- 17:54Speaker 2: the huevos on there. But otherwise, good call. We heard
- 17:56Speaker 2: most of it.
- 17:57Speaker 4: What he said was technically true. That is what a
- 17:59Speaker 4: good disciplined team does. Now, I don't know if that
- 18:01Speaker 4: was us.
- 18:02Speaker 5: Oh, that's fair.
- 18:03Speaker 2: That's an example of what a good disciplined football team
- 18:05Speaker 2: would do. See, it's in there. You guys at least
- 18:08Speaker 2: have it in you.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Now you just messed around and set the standard.
- 18:10Speaker 5: All right.
- 18:11Speaker 2: We've been excited all day, which is fine.
- 18:12Speaker 4: The Packers won, but there were some issues.
- 18:15Speaker 2: We talked about third downs. I'm also going to give
- 18:17Speaker 2: a kick in the ball. Got to focus, fellas.
- 18:19Speaker 4: Focus. You can't fumble the ball five times in the
- 18:22Speaker 4: NFL in 2020.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Five fumbles.
- 18:24Speaker 4: Now, we only lost one. That was luck and fortune.
- 18:27Speaker 4: So we have to say that. Packers were fortunate to
- 18:29Speaker 4: not get worse. uh caleb johnson and marshall lost one
- 18:34Speaker 4: tucker lost one like we can't have jordan lost one
- 18:37Speaker 4: we can't have the fumbles and this is 2026 where
- 18:40Speaker 4: fumbles are less so ever than the nfl i don't
- 18:43Speaker 4: people realize that fumbles and turnover they've gone down now
- 18:47Speaker 4: you just can't have that okay we have to clean
- 18:49Speaker 4: that thing up people i think we're wondering initially why
- 18:51Speaker 4: chris brooks was getting late carries well i'm like he's
- 18:54Speaker 4: the one that didn't fumble the ball you know so
- 18:57Speaker 4: that was a concern yesterday and packers were fortunate to get.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Away with only losing one Well, and this one is
- 19:02Speaker 2: a difficult beast.
- 19:03Speaker 3: You didn't anticipate it being the case, so you didn't
- 19:05Speaker 3: want to have to have it be the case. But
- 19:08Speaker 3: game ball to Anthony Belton.
- 19:10Speaker 2: A dagger delivered by the rookie.
- 19:13Speaker 3: Most likely your starting right tackle for the rest of
- 19:15Speaker 3: the season. As Matt LaFleur mentioned it yesterday, the Zach
- 19:18Speaker 3: Bacoboele injury appears to be a season ender. As he said,
- 19:22Speaker 3: he'll be out for a very long time. Don't know
- 19:25Speaker 3: exactly what that means. Throw him in an air cast
- 19:27Speaker 3: on the third play of the game. We all kind
- 19:29Speaker 3: of understand what that is. He looked much better and
- 19:32Speaker 3: much more comfortable. The most comfortable he has all of
- 19:35Speaker 3: this season at right tackle. He drew the one penalty
- 19:38Speaker 3: on David Bailey, who was the second overall pick for
- 19:40Speaker 3: the hands to the face, which I immediately thought was
- 19:43Speaker 3: going to be a hold. Wayne did too, as well,
- 19:45Speaker 3: where he said, oh, that's in the area of offensive holding.
- 19:48Speaker 3: And luckily Larry notices. like, yeah, there's two things on the,
- 19:51Speaker 3: on the field. One's a flag.
- 19:53Speaker 2: One's a yellow helmet rolling around and Belton goes and
- 19:56Speaker 2: picks it up.
- 19:57Speaker 5: Drew.
- 19:57Speaker 3: He, he looked physical in the run game and it
- 20:01Speaker 3: is possible that these guys get better with game reps,
- 20:05Speaker 3: better with opportunities. Anthony Belton is going to be your guy.
- 20:08Speaker 3: And he performed well yesterday. Albeit didn't bring a whole
- 20:12Speaker 3: lot of confidence for the way he performed during training
- 20:14Speaker 3: camp there.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Very true. I mean, but circumstances, man, he's getting a
- 20:17Speaker 2: chance now. Settle in.
- 20:18Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Don't look over your shoulder. It's like, here you go, kid.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Job's yours.
- 20:22Speaker 3: And it's now at a more comfortable position, right? He's
- 20:24Speaker 3: probably more comfortable on the outside. But that would have
- 20:28Speaker 3: been interesting to see Tucker Craft play tackle. We don't
- 20:31Speaker 3: want to see that. But as Matt LaFleur said, when
- 20:33Speaker 3: Jacob Monk was getting checked out, they were potentially having
- 20:36Speaker 3: to get him some reps over there.
- 20:38Speaker 1: I was wondering how and when they were going to
- 20:39Speaker 1: get Jagger Burton and Anthony Belton on the field.
- 20:41Speaker 2: And it was necessitated. By injuries. By injury.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Now, pro football focus is not very kind to one
- 20:48Speaker 3: Jagger Burton on his play.
- 20:50Speaker 2: I thought he looked a little bit better.
- 20:51Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:52Speaker 2: I thought they ran behind him a couple of times
- 20:53Speaker 2: and he was okay.
- 20:54Speaker 3: That's where I just, again, I struggle with pro football focus.
- 20:57Speaker 3: I know a lot of people love it. I know
- 20:58Speaker 3: a lot of people swear by it. I think it
- 21:01Speaker 3: is a really, really cool tool and I appreciate the
- 21:03Speaker 3: hustle of it. I don't know how accurate any grade
- 21:07Speaker 3: is by any human being, but They had him at
- 21:11Speaker 3: certain spots, like 60 some percent in the pass rate,
- 21:13Speaker 3: whatever it was, they ran behind him better. And I
- 21:16Speaker 3: think drew that probably was the impetus for them running
- 21:20Speaker 3: it on first and second down of that drive. When
- 21:24Speaker 3: they got the long kick return, right? Like they just
- 21:27Speaker 3: got Burton into the game. They clearly think he's a
- 21:29Speaker 3: better run blocker than a pass blocker. Maybe we just
- 21:31Speaker 3: don't set ourselves up for a negative yardage here. Let's
- 21:34Speaker 3: see if we can go pick it up with the,
- 21:36Speaker 3: on the ground because we have a little bit more movement.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Belton was physical. I'm excited to hear what Wayne thought
- 21:41Speaker 3: about him.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he brought something, and he's going to
- 21:45Speaker 1: get chances. Now, the Jaden Reed thing, there's no way
- 21:48Speaker 1: he plays Thursday after spending a night in the hospital.
- 21:50Speaker 2: There's no question.
- 21:51Speaker 1: But then the game coming out of that, mini-bye, he
- 21:57Speaker 1: could play. And then after that, Savion Williams can come off, right,
- 22:00Speaker 1: with his ankle sprain.
- 22:01Speaker 2: He's got to miss four. Yeah, no doubt. You'd be
- 22:03Speaker 2: able to move it around there.
- 22:04Speaker 1: There's not going to be overlap, I don't think, because
- 22:05Speaker 1: I think– think jayden reed will be back for that
- 22:09Speaker 1: you know after thursday missing thursday.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Yeah we don't know about the injury right that's yeah we.
- 22:13Speaker 3: Don't we'll know a lot more i i'm with you
- 22:16Speaker 3: though drew like that could be as long as it's
- 22:18Speaker 3: just a stinger as long as he could be coming
- 22:20Speaker 3: off right around that time.
- 22:22Speaker 1: I might be delusional and we can ask the voice
- 22:23Speaker 1: of the packers wayne larry this but it did look
- 22:25Speaker 1: early on with jayden reed and with the orbit motion
- 22:27Speaker 1: stuff they were going to use him in the game
- 22:28Speaker 1: plan they were going to throw screens to him they
- 22:30Speaker 1: were going to use him part of it yeah he
- 22:31Speaker 1: was a big part of the game plan and then
- 22:32Speaker 1: he got you know knocked out on the second play,
- 22:34Speaker 1: and what do you do?
- 22:35Speaker 3: And I think we saw a couple of Sky Moore
- 22:39Speaker 3: orbit motions. I wonder if they tried to put him
- 22:41Speaker 3: in there.
- 22:42Speaker 1: I'm thinking, and that's where Saban Rams could come in, too,
- 22:45Speaker 1: doing stuff with him out of the backfield, so interesting times.
- 22:48Speaker 3: Today, or I should say this week would be the time, right,
- 22:52Speaker 3: where you're allowed to start practicing if you're on that
- 22:54Speaker 3: pup list after week number two, so Maybe we get
- 22:58Speaker 3: some information here.
- 22:59Speaker 4: But if Sky is a bigger part of the offense,
- 23:01Speaker 4: I wouldn't be mad about it. The way he's showing
- 23:02Speaker 4: that burst and things like that, I think you could
- 23:04Speaker 4: use him effectively.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as he's keeping where he's effective. Well, yes, obviously.
- 23:10Speaker 1: We don't want anybody else saying that they're not returning
- 23:12Speaker 1: kicks anymore. It's the flip side of it. It's like
- 23:14Speaker 1: when you have a– it's like that guy's too valuable
- 23:16Speaker 1: as a receiver.
- 23:17Speaker 2: We don't want him returning kicks. It's like, no, he's
- 23:19Speaker 2: too valuable as a returner. I don't want him handling
- 23:20Speaker 2: the ball anywhere else. I don't want him touching the rock.
- 23:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 23:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Let's limit his opportunities to keep him healthy.
- 23:25Speaker 3: He's not Devin Hester, but I watched that experiment for
- 23:27Speaker 3: far too long.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Just let the guy be great at one spot. I'm
- 23:30Speaker 2: with you. I just want good players in the field.
- 23:32Speaker 2: I like where you're at. You're trying to win. You
- 23:36Speaker 2: are concerned about keeping him fresh.
- 23:39Speaker 1: When we come back, the great Wayne Larravee is going
- 23:41Speaker 1: to join the party. The voice of the Green Bay Packers.
- 23:44Speaker 1: It's a victory Monday. Get yourself a comfortable chair and
- 23:47Speaker 1: a cold or hot beverage of your choice because we've
- 23:49Speaker 1: got like a half hour left. We're sprinting to the finish.
- 23:52Speaker 1: It's the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin drew billion arm.
- 23:55Speaker 1: And it's the final segment of the huddle on a Monday,
- 23:58Speaker 1: a victory Monday in the good land.
- 23:59Speaker 2: And we got to make the most of it. And
- 24:01Speaker 2: how do we do that?
- 24:02Speaker 3: Billy by bringing in a hall of famer and the
- 24:05Speaker 3: absolute legend and icon in the broadcast industry. That would
- 24:09Speaker 3: be a way easiest way to do it on the
- 24:10Speaker 3: 21st day of September. Wayne Larrabee joins us with a
- 24:14Speaker 3: super cool graphic joining us here on the YouTube stream.
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- 24:28Speaker 2: When the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larrabee, joins us.
- 24:30Speaker 2: That's when you know it's a good day.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Come on, Wayne.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Wayne, we're thrilled to have you. 288 days. We're 287
- 24:37Speaker 1: days between daggers for you. December 7th to yesterday. What
- 24:42Speaker 1: was your afternoon like in the Meadowlands?
- 24:46Speaker 5: It was it. Felt like a long game, guys, didn't it?
- 24:49Speaker 5: I mean, it was one of the strangest first quarters
- 24:52Speaker 5: I've seen. The two injuries marred it, but it just
- 24:55Speaker 5: felt like it took forever to get through the first quarter.
- 24:58Speaker 5: It was dark. It was dreary, almost foggy. with that
- 25:01Speaker 5: mist falling throughout the ball game. And yeah, I mean,
- 25:05Speaker 5: it was nice to see the Packers rally and get
- 25:07Speaker 5: out of there with a win. That's for sure.
- 25:09Speaker 3: You never apologize for doing it in the league. Some
- 25:12Speaker 3: are better than others. Some look a lot better than others.
- 25:14Speaker 3: But Wayne, you mentioned it. It was hard to not
- 25:17Speaker 3: think of those first two or first two plays in
- 25:22Speaker 3: that first series where you lose Jaden Reed to a devastating, uh,
- 25:25Speaker 3: appears neck injury where he gets carted off the field.
- 25:28Speaker 3: One play later, Zach Baco Buele has a air cast
- 25:31Speaker 3: on his right leg and he's being carted off the field.
- 25:35Speaker 3: How did you feel the emotion of the game and
- 25:38Speaker 3: the energy of the game changed there? And how long
- 25:40Speaker 3: did it feel like it took for you in the
- 25:42Speaker 3: building for the Packers to kind of regain some momentum?
- 25:44Speaker 5: Yeah, it took a while, Billy. I think that when
- 25:49Speaker 5: you lose people like that, especially Jay Reid, and that
- 25:52Speaker 5: affects both teams. As you know from being a player
- 25:55Speaker 5: and seeing devastating injuries, it affects not just your team
- 25:59Speaker 5: but the other team as well. When you see a
- 26:01Speaker 5: guy getting carted off like that, he's on the stretcher,
- 26:04Speaker 5: they've got him roped in, tied in, so he doesn't move,
- 26:07Speaker 5: that kind of thing. It's very scary. It's scary for
- 26:10Speaker 5: anybody who's involved with the game in any way. And
- 26:13Speaker 5: it's hard to overcome that. And I think the momentum
- 26:15Speaker 5: of the game, it took a while for that game
- 26:17Speaker 5: to kind of get moving after those two injuries, but
- 26:22Speaker 5: devastating for the Packers. You lose a playmaker in the slot,
- 26:25Speaker 5: you lose your best offensive lineman. And now where do
- 26:28Speaker 5: you go? Well, I thought they, they reached back and
- 26:30Speaker 5: showed some character and, and eventually we're able to get
- 26:33Speaker 5: a win on the road.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Two games into the season. Are we, can we detect
- 26:37Speaker 2: the trend?
- 26:37Speaker 1: Is it too early to say that the Packers are a,
- 26:40Speaker 1: a defensive and special teams dominated club right now?
- 26:44Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, certainly defense and special teams are carrying this
- 26:48Speaker 5: football team right now. Um, what Sky Moore has done in,
- 26:51Speaker 5: Billy and I talked about it this summer, a lot
- 26:53Speaker 5: of underrated acquisition of all the people the Packers brought in.
- 26:57Speaker 5: Very underrated. Nobody was talking about Sky Moore. But I
- 27:02Speaker 5: thought he would make a huge difference on special teams,
- 27:04Speaker 5: and he has made all the difference in the world
- 27:07Speaker 5: on special teams for the Packers. He had, what, a
- 27:09Speaker 5: 43-yard kickoff return, 63-yard punt return, something like that yesterday.
- 27:14Speaker 5: Just huge numbers in the return game. When you figure
- 27:17Speaker 5: last year, go back to last year, guys. And I
- 27:20Speaker 5: had that stat. I kept reading it all summer. The
- 27:22Speaker 5: Packers had the fewest return yards of any team in
- 27:25Speaker 5: the National Football League on special teams a year ago.
- 27:29Speaker 5: And here, these first two weeks of the season, they've
- 27:31Speaker 5: been outstanding. I mean, you know, hey, listen, Sky Moore
- 27:37Speaker 5: has made a huge difference. But Bo Melton had a
- 27:40Speaker 5: couple of nice returns in Minnesota the week before. So
- 27:43Speaker 5: special teams much improved this year in that regard. Now,
- 27:47Speaker 5: you'd like to see them cover a little bit better.
- 27:49Speaker 5: And I think that will happen as we go along.
- 27:51Speaker 5: But special teams with Sky Moore and then, you know,
- 27:55Speaker 5: Trey Smack hitting big kick after big kick. And at
- 27:58Speaker 5: this stage of the season, when you're struggling offensively, you've
- 28:00Speaker 5: got to make all those field goal attempts. And he's
- 28:03Speaker 5: done that so far.
- 28:05Speaker 3: My wife watched the celebration and she goes, Didn't you
- 28:08Speaker 3: think they went a little overboard celebrating? It was a
- 28:10Speaker 3: 28 yard kick. I was like, the kids are rookie.
- 28:12Speaker 3: It's two games in and they haven't done anything good
- 28:14Speaker 3: to celebrate. So they needed to celebrate something. But for
- 28:18Speaker 3: a team that has now watched the opposite end of
- 28:20Speaker 3: the spectrum with the kicker and the rookie kicker, Wayne,
- 28:23Speaker 3: it does feel like they have their dude.
- 28:24Speaker 2: I get it.
- 28:25Speaker 3: It's a 28 yard field goal pressure pressures on you.
- 28:28Speaker 3: Get a pre, you get a warmup kick. the dagger
- 28:31Speaker 3: was drawn. It was as easy as much of a
- 28:33Speaker 3: layup as it can be, but sometimes the easiest ones
- 28:36Speaker 3: are the hardest ones to cash in on. I thought
- 28:38Speaker 3: that was big stuff and a nice celebration for the
- 28:40Speaker 3: kid yesterday.
- 28:41Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought so too. And, and you know, again,
- 28:45Speaker 5: like I said, this is such so early in the season, drew,
- 28:48Speaker 5: it's hard to figure where this team is going. It's
- 28:51Speaker 5: hard to figure how they'll get it done this year.
- 28:54Speaker 5: There's no question. They need more offensively. They need to
- 28:57Speaker 5: be better offensively, but, that's going to be difficult with
- 29:00Speaker 5: this offensive line, the way it is without Jaden Reed,
- 29:03Speaker 5: who I think is a subtle key to what they
- 29:06Speaker 5: do in the passing game and without your best offensive lineman.
- 29:09Speaker 5: I mean, you know, where do you go? You don't
- 29:11Speaker 5: have your bell cow running back. You might not, who
- 29:14Speaker 5: knows how that case is going to go, but this
- 29:17Speaker 5: is not an easy start to the season for the Packers.
- 29:20Speaker 5: People were saying, well, they're playing the jets and they're
- 29:22Speaker 5: playing the Falcons and they got the Vikings and everybody's
- 29:25Speaker 5: picking the Vikings to finish last in the division. And,
- 29:28Speaker 5: All of that stuff is a bunch of you-know-what because
- 29:31Speaker 5: you don't know what these teams are until you get
- 29:33Speaker 5: into the season. It's probably going to take another two,
- 29:35Speaker 5: three weeks before we have a real feel for who
- 29:38Speaker 5: the Packers are and how they're going to get it done.
- 29:40Speaker 5: or if they can get it done.
- 29:41Speaker 2: If they can.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Talking to Wayne Larive, the voice of the Packers here,
- 29:44Speaker 1: Drew Billy and Armin. Brees Hall and Braylon Allen, we
- 29:49Speaker 1: talked about the Jets' offensive line and their desire to
- 29:52Speaker 1: run the ball and that they were going to be
- 29:53Speaker 1: physical and stuff.
- 29:54Speaker 2: 21 carries, 36 yards. And we were saying against light
- 29:57Speaker 2: boxes a lot too.
- 29:59Speaker 1: Now, Gino Smith had a decent day, like a kind
- 30:01Speaker 1: of day that you can win with, but what does
- 30:04Speaker 1: it say about the Packers that they were, that, that,
- 30:06Speaker 1: that the jets were not able to get anything going
- 30:09Speaker 1: on the ground.
- 30:10Speaker 5: I thought the Packers were outstanding against the run. I mean,
- 30:13Speaker 5: 27 rushing attempts. The jets certainly gave the running game
- 30:16Speaker 5: a workout there, but average 2.5 yards per rushing attempt.
- 30:20Speaker 5: Minnesota the week before we got 3.1 yards per rushing
- 30:23Speaker 5: attempt that, That tells you what you're doing down to down,
- 30:26Speaker 5: and the Packers very good. Lucas Van Ness, what a
- 30:30Speaker 5: game he played, not just as a pass rusher, folks,
- 30:32Speaker 5: but I hope you can appreciate what he does against
- 30:35Speaker 5: the run, how strong he is against the run. And
- 30:37Speaker 5: even last year, people were saying, well, where are the sacks? Well,
- 30:40Speaker 5: he was also very good against the run. He's always
- 30:44Speaker 5: been resolute in setting the edge, and I think he
- 30:47Speaker 5: was outstanding yesterday, and a big reason why that running
- 30:50Speaker 5: game you know, was shut down by the New York Jets.
- 30:54Speaker 5: When I, I look at the running game, I look
- 30:56Speaker 5: at a statistic called losses. And most of this comes
- 30:59Speaker 5: against the running game. Do you realize the Packers had
- 31:02Speaker 5: nine TFLs yesterday? I'm reading the stat, right? Nine. Lucas
- 31:07Speaker 5: had three himself. Bullard had a couple. Edger and Cooper
- 31:11Speaker 5: had three. These are the young stalwart players on that defense.
- 31:14Speaker 5: These are the people that are going to grow with
- 31:16Speaker 5: in the next, this year and beyond.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Wayne, and I'm glad you mentioned it with the youth
- 31:21Speaker 3: because Drew and I were looking at each other yesterday
- 31:24Speaker 3: saying this offense, while borderline offensive at this moment, they're
- 31:29Speaker 3: midway through the fourth quarter. The defense appears to be
- 31:32Speaker 3: not only a unit you can win with, but one
- 31:34Speaker 3: that you might be able to win because of, especially
- 31:36Speaker 3: when they get.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Micah Parsons back.
- 31:39Speaker 3: That four-man front of deny Dennis Sutton as the three-tech
- 31:43Speaker 3: that they kind of closed the game out with next
- 31:46Speaker 3: to Van Ness, Devontae Wyatt, insert Parsons for Brenton Cox Jr.,
- 31:50Speaker 3: that could be as formidable of a four-man front as
- 31:53Speaker 3: you're going to see in football, I think.
- 31:54Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think that's something to look
- 31:58Speaker 5: forward to. This defense, very good. The thing that marred
- 32:01Speaker 5: yesterday's game, and again, second week in a row, Packers
- 32:06Speaker 5: had 14 penalties. Now, the Jets weren't much better. They
- 32:08Speaker 5: had 13. Do you realize there were 27 penalties accepted
- 32:14Speaker 5: in that game? Accepted. 289 yards in penalties between the
- 32:19Speaker 5: two teams. There was a point in the game where
- 32:21Speaker 5: the Packers had more penalty yards than they had offensive
- 32:24Speaker 5: yards in that game. That's the kind of– it was–
- 32:28Speaker 5: I understand we're not supposed to say this. It was
- 32:30Speaker 5: an ugly game.
- 32:31Speaker 2: Okay.
- 32:32Speaker 5: You know, win or lose, it was an ugly game
- 32:34Speaker 5: in many respects. The fact the Packers were able to
- 32:37Speaker 5: rally and win. You know, first off, they snapped that
- 32:41Speaker 5: losing streak. They haven't won a game since Micah Parsons
- 32:43Speaker 5: went out. Well, that was true until yesterday. They're getting outscored,
- 32:47Speaker 5: I don't know, what was it, 85-15 or something like
- 32:49Speaker 5: that in the fourth quarter of their games over the
- 32:51Speaker 5: last six games. And at least they outscored the Jets 10-3,
- 32:54Speaker 5: or 13-3 in fourth quarter and overtime games. Yesterday. So
- 33:00Speaker 5: those were two things that were monkeys. They got off
- 33:04Speaker 5: their back a little bit there, at least for a week.
- 33:06Speaker 5: Let's put it that way.
- 33:07Speaker 2: And talking about ugly, we'll stay on that.
- 33:09Speaker 4: I guess this third down situation on both ends of
- 33:12Speaker 4: the ball is becoming an issue for the Packers. They
- 33:14Speaker 4: really won for nine yesterday on offense, only converted one
- 33:16Speaker 4: third down and then gave up, I think, eight against
- 33:20Speaker 4: the Jets, although they did stop some late in the game.
- 33:22Speaker 4: The problem week one and week two. So is there
- 33:26Speaker 4: randomness in this, Wayne, a little bit, or is it
- 33:29Speaker 4: systemic at all, the third down situation?
- 33:32Speaker 5: I don't know if it's systemic. That may be too
- 33:34Speaker 5: strong a word, but it's an issue, as you pointed out.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Now think about this, guys. Okay, the Jets were 8
- 33:41Speaker 5: of 19 on third downs. They were much better than
- 33:45Speaker 5: that throughout the first three quarters of the game.
- 33:46Speaker 4: Right, right.
- 33:47Speaker 5: Now, they ran 72 plays as a result of those conversions.
- 33:52Speaker 5: They ran 72 plays. The Packers ran just 50 offensive
- 33:56Speaker 5: snaps in that game. That's plus 22 for the Jets,
- 34:00Speaker 5: but only 285 yards, only four yards per play. And
- 34:05Speaker 5: the Vikings were 3-6 the week before offensively against the
- 34:09Speaker 5: Packers defense. So Yeah, the Packers' defense, they're not helping
- 34:13Speaker 5: themselves on the third down conversion situation, but boy, they're
- 34:17Speaker 5: playing tough. It doesn't matter how many snaps you're going
- 34:21Speaker 5: to get. You're not going to get many yards against them,
- 34:23Speaker 5: at least not right now.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Wayne, the way the game ended, we're watching it unfold,
- 34:27Speaker 1: and we're focused on the Packers, and we're thinking about
- 34:30Speaker 1: their side of things. Jets fans and media are barbecuing
- 34:34Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn and the coaching staff for their clock management
- 34:37Speaker 1: at the end of the game, giving the Packers a
- 34:39Speaker 1: free Hail Mary try when they could have had the
- 34:40Speaker 1: ball with a minute left to try to gain 25
- 34:43Speaker 1: yards and kick a game winner. And then the decision,
- 34:45Speaker 1: which seems unfathomable, to receive the ball in overtime at
- 34:50Speaker 1: home was flabbergasting. Both of those things worked out in
- 34:54Speaker 1: the Packers' favor.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Were you shocked?
- 34:55Speaker 1: For us, it was hard to even be aware of
- 34:58Speaker 1: that stuff in the moment. Then you look back and go,
- 34:59Speaker 1: how did that happen?
- 35:01Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I'm the same way. I did think it
- 35:04Speaker 5: was A little unusual, you know, that they won the
- 35:07Speaker 5: toss and elected to receive because a lot of times
- 35:10Speaker 5: what you want to do, especially in a situation where
- 35:13Speaker 5: you know you're going to get the ball. Okay, if
- 35:15Speaker 5: it's the old rules of overtime, folks, where the first
- 35:18Speaker 5: score ends the game regardless, then I understand you take
- 35:22Speaker 5: the ball every time because you're trying to get the
- 35:24Speaker 5: first score and end the game. But in this case,
- 35:26Speaker 5: you're going to, the other team's going to get the ball,
- 35:28Speaker 5: whether you score a field goal or a touchdown. So
- 35:31Speaker 5: in that regard, most of the time, I mean, I
- 35:33Speaker 5: thought it was just conventional. You win the toss, you automatically, yeah,
- 35:36Speaker 5: put them on the field offensively. Let's see what we
- 35:39Speaker 5: have to do once we get the ball. Do we
- 35:40Speaker 5: need a field goal? Do we need a touchdown? What
- 35:42Speaker 5: do we need? So I thought that was kind of unusual.
- 35:45Speaker 3: It's now like three years removed from that Super Bowl
- 35:48Speaker 3: when Shanahan did it with the 49ers and the guys
- 35:50Speaker 3: on the 49er sideline were like realizing, wait, they still
- 35:53Speaker 3: get the football back? They get the ball back? And
- 35:55Speaker 3: Kansas City's like, yeah, thank you for doing that for us. Wayne,
- 35:58Speaker 3: this stat is hilarious, but it kind of leads to,
- 36:01Speaker 3: I think, The bigger conversation about the quarterback. It was
- 36:04Speaker 3: his 50th regular season start yesterday against the Jets. 19th
- 36:08Speaker 3: career game with multiple passing touchdowns and zero interceptions this
- 36:12Speaker 3: The only guy to have more in his first 50
- 36:15Speaker 3: starts as a quarterback is Patrick Mahomes. I don't know
- 36:18Speaker 3: that that tells you that he's anywhere closer to Mahomes
- 36:21Speaker 3: or shorter, but I do think it kind of flies
- 36:24Speaker 3: in the face of the belief that he's this reckless gunslinger.
- 36:29Speaker 3: He's got a real keen control of the offense, and
- 36:33Speaker 3: it felt like they need to be better in the
- 36:35Speaker 3: red zone, 1,000%. I think that part of it is
- 36:37Speaker 3: on him, but his control of the football yesterday is
- 36:40Speaker 3: Just couldn't beat themselves. He put it on the ground once,
- 36:42Speaker 3: but that is a huge part of why they were
- 36:45Speaker 3: able to escape with a win yesterday.
- 36:47Speaker 5: That ball was popping loose. There were four fumbles by
- 36:49Speaker 5: the Packers in that game. Now, they only lost one
- 36:51Speaker 5: of them, but there were four fumbles. That ball was
- 36:53Speaker 5: coming loose yesterday, and I give the Jets a lot
- 36:56Speaker 5: of credit, okay? Aaron Glenn and that Jets defense, they
- 36:59Speaker 5: are much improved, and they are starting to play the
- 37:02Speaker 5: game in his image. So a lot like the Lions
- 37:05Speaker 5: were three and four years ago playing football, playing defensive football.
- 37:09Speaker 5: I thought the Jets were very physical. That was a
- 37:11Speaker 5: very physical football game. And looking ahead, as Larry and
- 37:14Speaker 5: I kind of alluded to in the game, boy, you've
- 37:17Speaker 5: got a short week coming up. But, man, that was
- 37:20Speaker 5: a physical football game. And John Kuhn and I talked
- 37:22Speaker 5: about it. Now, it's going to be interesting to see
- 37:25Speaker 5: what the Packers have left for Thursday night in Green Bay.
- 37:28Speaker 5: Playing at home, home opener, emotion, and you know how
- 37:31Speaker 5: big emotion is in this game. That should help a lot.
- 37:34Speaker 5: But I think Jordan Love has been outstanding. Now, you
- 37:38Speaker 5: have to understand, folks, he's doing whatever he's doing without
- 37:41Speaker 5: a running game. That's hard to do on this level, okay?
- 37:44Speaker 5: And I know everybody thinks that all they do is
- 37:46Speaker 5: throw the football, and that's how you win in the
- 37:48Speaker 5: National Football League.
- 37:49Speaker 2: No.
- 37:50Speaker 5: The good teams can run the football and run it effectively,
- 37:53Speaker 5: and the Packers have been unable to do that. 63
- 37:57Speaker 5: yards rushing, just 18 running attempts, 3.5-yard average, long gain
- 38:01Speaker 5: of 12. That's not much. And then, you know, the
- 38:05Speaker 5: pass protection... Love was sacked three times yesterday, three quarterback hits.
- 38:10Speaker 5: I think the protection was reasonable compared to the week before.
- 38:13Speaker 5: But nonetheless, he's doing a lot of this with him
- 38:17Speaker 5: and his receivers kind of on their own in many
- 38:19Speaker 5: respects because the rest of the components of the offense
- 38:22Speaker 5: haven't quite come together yet.
- 38:25Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, Wayne, the Packers,
- 38:28Speaker 1: Keyshawn Nixon played really well week one. He got kind
- 38:31Speaker 1: of picked on yesterday, didn't play as well. The guy
- 38:34Speaker 1: who strikes me as being consistent and a dude is
- 38:36Speaker 1: Javon Bullard. Supporting in the run and breaking up some passes.
- 38:41Speaker 1: He looks like he's ready. This is just like he's
- 38:44Speaker 1: starting to reach peak effectiveness.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Isn't he?
- 38:47Speaker 5: Javon Bullard and Evan Williams. These are two guys. Evan
- 38:53Speaker 5: Williams made a play. I don't know. What was it?
- 38:55Speaker 5: Second half, fourth quarter, something like that. He chased somebody
- 38:58Speaker 5: down from like, I mean, He was in Delaware and
- 39:01Speaker 5: chased the guy down to the Meadowlands. It was just
- 39:04Speaker 5: amazing to watch. I think Evan Williams, Javon Bullard, Brandon
- 39:09Speaker 5: Cisse was solid again, I thought. Yeah, you know, Keyshawn
- 39:14Speaker 5: Nixon got picked on a little bit, but I thought
- 39:16Speaker 5: he was tough, too. I think they played pretty well,
- 39:19Speaker 5: very well defensively. Defensive activity, which I chart, and this
- 39:23Speaker 5: is sacks, tackles for losses, quarterback hits, interceptions, pass deflections,
- 39:28Speaker 5: forced fumbles, fumble recovery. all those categories. And for the Packers,
- 39:32Speaker 5: those categories totaled 27. The Jets' defensive activity was 20.
- 39:37Speaker 5: That 27 is a pretty high number in an NFL game,
- 39:40Speaker 5: those categories put together. I think Bullard is just– he
- 39:44Speaker 5: was a force in that game yesterday, Drew, and early
- 39:47Speaker 5: in that ballgame as well. Now, there was one play
- 39:49Speaker 5: he let his emotions get in the way.
- 39:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 39:51Speaker 5: But, hey, you've got to love the way those kids
- 39:55Speaker 5: play the game.
- 39:55Speaker 2: That was awesome.
- 39:56Speaker 1: Wayne, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it so much.
- 39:59Speaker 1: And it's a short week, so we're on to Atlanta.
- 40:01Speaker 1: We'll talk about that postgame on Friday.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Thank you, brother.
- 40:04Speaker 5: You got it, guys. Have a good one. We'll talk
- 40:05Speaker 5: to you Friday.
- 40:06Speaker 2: All right.
- 40:06Speaker 1: Wayne Larive, the voice of the Green Bay Packers, brought
- 40:09Speaker 1: to us by Miller Lite, Wisconsin Concrete Coatings, and Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 40:13Speaker 2: Your sport, our stadium.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Listen, our stadium finally gets to hold one of these games.
- 40:18Speaker 3: It feels like forever ago since we've been at Lambeau
- 40:20Speaker 3: for a regular season game. Excited for it on Thursday night.
- 40:23Speaker 3: And way more excited that they're one and one. And
- 40:26Speaker 3: we don't have to talk about the trouble in River
- 40:27Speaker 3: City of an 0-2 start.
- 40:28Speaker 2: Big time. Big time. Brewers off today.
- 40:31Speaker 1: We'll be at it again tomorrow at 5 a.m. Getting
- 40:34Speaker 1: ready to clinch that number one overall seed. Thanks for
- 40:37Speaker 1: hanging out with us. Over 1,000 people on the stream today.
- 40:41Speaker 2: Take a bow, folks. We'll see you tomorrow at 5 a.m.
- 40:43Speaker 5: Peace.