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09/18/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Ready to dominate a Friday in the good land football
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  Speaker 1: Friday in the good land drew billion arm and huddled
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  Speaker 1: up Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin 920 Milwaukee 1070 Madison I
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  Speaker 1: heart app streaming live for the sociopaths people are getting
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  Speaker 1: after it like it's we're getting into that fall true
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  Speaker 1: fall mode and the crowd this morning now granted I
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  Speaker 1: was a couple minutes late because we were at Pato
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  Speaker 1: last night and I was watching the damn Bills Lions
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  Speaker 1: game and I kept me up I went 15 rounds
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  Speaker 1: with the snooze Swiping.
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  Speaker 2: Battle this morning. Just a battle.
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  Speaker 1: Swiping the snooze on the phone. I felt like Tiffany Gomes.
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  Speaker 1: That's not real. That's not real.
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  Speaker 2: The AI edits of that this week have been going crazy,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. The Dajon Love one. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt like, oh, man. But there was a
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  Speaker 1: huge crowd of people just banging on the doors at
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  Speaker 1: the Y to get in and start working out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're moving those workouts indoors now, Drew. There's probably
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  Speaker 3: a lot of folks that have been having that early
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  Speaker 3: morning 5 a.m. club workout with us. hanging out, jogging
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  Speaker 3: around the neighborhood, maybe taking the bike out. Now they're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to start moving that thing indoors, and
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  Speaker 3: it's going to start loading up, and this is where
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  Speaker 3: the real work happens. So we're proud of you because
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  Speaker 3: you're going into a football weekend, but it's got to
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  Speaker 3: be a feel-good Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to start it out fast.
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  Speaker 3: A fast Friday turns into a feel-good Friday, and then
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  Speaker 3: it's a football Friday when you get to hang out
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  Speaker 3: and talk some Packers football as they get ready to
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  Speaker 3: go and right the ship against the New York football Jets.
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  Speaker 3: And luckily enough, as we talked with Wayne Larrabee last night,
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  Speaker 3: this is not– Last year's Jets team, which some folks
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  Speaker 3: would take as a negative.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a positive.
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  Speaker 3: Then you can be able to feel at least a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better about yourself when you do go right
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  Speaker 3: the ship, cover the three and a half points at
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  Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. And then you can say, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: better football team than they were a year ago. Much
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  Speaker 3: better unit than they were. They're more physical. They might
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  Speaker 3: actually get an interception this year. Hopefully not in week two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that'd be nice. So that's an improving team and one
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  Speaker 3: that's got a little bit better vibes than they did
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  Speaker 3: a year ago where they were at the corner of
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  Speaker 3: warm cheeks.
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  Speaker 2: So when you, yeah, I like this, Billy. So when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about a chicken soup game, this is actually
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  Speaker 2: the medicine that will get you better when you beat them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's beating a good enough team. Does the chicken soup
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  Speaker 2: actually cure you? No. It just keeps you, it keeps
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  Speaker 2: you comforted until your virus. What actually helps you out?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of Robitussin. Right. You'll need some, you
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  Speaker 2: need some pharmaceuticals. Yeah. You need a little Sudafed. You
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  Speaker 2: need a Robitussin. And to your point, Billy, right? This
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  Speaker 2: is not a junk. You're saying this is, will not
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  Speaker 2: be a junk food type win. These won't be empty calories.
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  Speaker 2: This won't be a win. That'll make you feel good
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  Speaker 2: about yourself. I got bad news for you. You're going to,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have to choke some of this down.
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  Speaker 2: No pause. There's going to be that moment where you're like, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: this is gross. Why are you making me drink this?
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  Speaker 2: Why do we have to do this? Because you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Because you haven't won a game in a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be the way to get through it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be tough. It's going to be physical,
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  Speaker 3: and you're going to have to slow down a run
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  Speaker 3: game where they're going to throw two legit backs at
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  Speaker 3: you and Braylon Allen and Brees Hall, and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to try and stop them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got a little thunder and lightning duo going,
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing going there. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 2: guys look at it. Braylon looks to me like more
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  Speaker 2: of a bruiser these days. or the way he runs.
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  Speaker 2: And I know he's like, you know, wanting to do
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  Speaker 2: the quickness thing like that. But with him and Brees Hall,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, Billy. And they're going to lean into that.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to lean into the run game. And I
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  Speaker 2: think you're going to see their defense try a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things that Flores did. Because why wouldn't you? That's
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  Speaker 2: a playbook, right? Until this whole line proves they can
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  Speaker 2: stop it.
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  Speaker 1: So this isn't a game, and now we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Packers playing a must-win game. You know, because it is.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to go 0-2 and then play the
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  Speaker 1: home opener on a short week and then He's staring
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  Speaker 1: on the barrel of potentially 0-3.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, you're spot on. This is as close to
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  Speaker 2: a must-win as you get in Week 2. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: It totally is. Just right the ship. And we talked
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  Speaker 1: yesterday how, yeah, the last three Super Bowl champions went
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  Speaker 1: one-on-one to start the season.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But there's different one-on-ones. You win the first game, lose
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  Speaker 1: the second. It's different than losing the first game and
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  Speaker 1: winning the second. It's this little twist there. A little
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  Speaker 1: tinge of hope, a little bit better feel to it.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Lions right now, how does that one-on-one feel?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not that great.
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  Speaker 2: Not great. Better than all two.
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  Speaker 3: Now they've got a little longer week. They lick the wounds,
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  Speaker 3: try to come back, regroup, and figure it out. But
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  Speaker 3: at one-on-one, no harm, no foul. Yeah, you're still in
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  Speaker 3: the mix. In the 17-game season.
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  Speaker 2: Packers, you would hope.
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  Speaker 1: Like when we fire up one week from today, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be looking at two and one and feeling good and
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  Speaker 1: getting a mini buy and get after it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and at worst case scenario, maybe you're a one
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  Speaker 3: game back because maybe Minnesota is victorious this week or
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  Speaker 3: maybe Chicago does, but somebody's going to lose in the division.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody else is already one and one, and you get
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  Speaker 3: to go even Steven in what is still the extension
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  Speaker 3: of the preseason, Drew.
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  Speaker 1: All right, because of regression and just market corrections and
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  Speaker 1: just the way sports works, the Packers are due. To
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  Speaker 1: get a two-score lead, maybe it'll happen on Sunday. They'll
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  Speaker 1: get a lead and actually hold the lead and actually
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  Speaker 1: win going away. They haven't won since December 7th. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about it last night with Wayne Larrabee at the
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  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Huddle Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: delicious food. Steak salad this time.
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  Speaker 2: So good.
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  Speaker 1: I went steak salad. Billy, you had the prime rib burger.
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  Speaker 1: The short rib burger. Short rib.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing. So good all night. And Armand, what'd you go?
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  Speaker 1: A steak sandwich?
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  Speaker 2: A steak sandwich, right. And it was just great. Phenomenal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne had himself a chicken sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: It was delicious. The food is just.
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  Speaker 1: The food, like, that's such a cool place to be
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  Speaker 1: and watch sports that the food doesn't have to be good,
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  Speaker 1: but it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, then the food comes out, and it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: I'd go there for the food if everything else was subpar,
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  Speaker 1: but everything else is elevated, and the food is great, too. So,
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  Speaker 1: just saying. You need to go there.
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  Speaker 2: The best sports bar food that you're going to find
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  Speaker 2: in the city. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Bar none, and the best place to watch a game,
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  Speaker 1: but the food is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I would agree.
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  Speaker 2: But the Packers, though.
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  Speaker 1: The Packers will, maybe it'll come Sunday that they win
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  Speaker 1: going away and hold on to a lead. Conversely, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for that first close game the Bears play
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  Speaker 1: or when the Bears are down in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Show me, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was freakish what happened to them last year,
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  Speaker 1: winning all those games, coming back and winning. And when
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  Speaker 1: you think that that's your baseline, it's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: The only team to come back more than the Bears
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  Speaker 3: last year were the Broncos. And you saw that already
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  Speaker 3: start to rear its ugly head on Monday night. I
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  Speaker 3: think there were a lot of folks that thought at
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  Speaker 3: some point they were going to turn it on like
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  Speaker 3: they did a year ago. And you realize that it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to have that same kind of second half magic
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  Speaker 3: and fourth quarter luck that you did a year ago. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I'll believe it, and I'm right there with you. I'm
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  Speaker 3: pulling for it big time. You see how much better
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  Speaker 3: their offense is, though, and I think that it is
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  Speaker 3: going to lend itself to one of the two things
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  Speaker 3: being true, and maybe both will ultimately be somewhat true.
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  Speaker 3: They could be worse in one-score games than they were
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  Speaker 3: a year ago. and also be a better football team.
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  Speaker 3: Like play less one-score games. They play far less one-score
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  Speaker 3: games and go one and three, but if they have
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  Speaker 3: double-digit leads in the majority of these games, which I
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  Speaker 3: think their offense is going to give them, it could
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  Speaker 3: be a much different story.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. They'll be better in quarters one through three.
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  Speaker 1: And not have to pull rats out of the... This
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  Speaker 1: is a problem for me.
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  Speaker 3: But we talked about it last year, or in the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year with the Brewers, that we thought
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  Speaker 3: they'd be a better baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't necessarily mean their wins and losses would be better.
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  Speaker 3: This one will be a fascinating one to study because
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  Speaker 3: I think they will be better.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Bears will be better. Will their record
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  Speaker 2: be better? That will... have to bear itself out. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that offense is legit. You're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to keep up.
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  Speaker 3: So we need to get some good vibes rolling into
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  Speaker 3: that week five. Cause Luke fickle said the season starts now.
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  Speaker 3: I know some people didn't necessarily love that after the
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame game, I'm not ready to go there, but
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  Speaker 3: the season does start when that bear, when that bears
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  Speaker 3: team comes to town, we better, you better be all
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  Speaker 3: systems go and have all of the extension of the
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  Speaker 3: preseason out of the way. Cause you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to sprint for 13 games. Once hopefully you get Parsons back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope we have something for them. I
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  Speaker 2: think we do, but we'll see. I mean, obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: looking pretty strong after week one, and that would be
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  Speaker 2: a problem. I would not enjoy that. So hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: can make our presence felt in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: This is just one of those games I'm not, again,
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  Speaker 3: I believe the Packers are a better football team than
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  Speaker 3: the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a hot take.
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  Speaker 3: I do think the hot take is that this Jets
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  Speaker 3: team is going to be much improved from what they
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  Speaker 3: were a year ago, and that they're going to, They're
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  Speaker 3: going to make you beat them. This is not a
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  Speaker 3: team I think that's going to lay down, especially because
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  Speaker 3: they've got proof in the pudding of a victory already.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to have the home crowd behind them. Fireman
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  Speaker 3: Ed's going to be firing the folks up. If they
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  Speaker 3: put them on the Jumbotron, that was big thing last year, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember that. He said they
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  Speaker 3: were trying to phase him out. He said that it
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  Speaker 3: seemed like they had some new leadership in there trying
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  Speaker 3: to keep the hardcore fans off of the screen.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get a real home field advantage. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if Fireman Ed was able to talk them
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  Speaker 3: into having a real home field advantage. And by that,
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  Speaker 3: throwing him on the jumbotron a little bit more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he was upset about that for a while. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this is what the NFL does to you.
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  Speaker 2: Every game is so important because there's no other sport,
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  Speaker 2: no other professional sport where losing the first game makes
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  Speaker 2: you think the next week's a must win. But the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: you do. Cause you don't want to go on too.
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  Speaker 2: So when you lose the first one, there's excitement. When
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  Speaker 2: they lose the first one, there's fear and trepidation. Can
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  Speaker 2: I push back on that a tick because football or
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  Speaker 2: was it? No. I mean, I, I do the show
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  Speaker 2: after opening day. Yeah. How many different sports fans immediately
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  Speaker 2: after opening day in a baseball season will tip completely over? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We were there when the Brewers went 0-4 against the Royals. Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And it was Elvin and the Chipmunks, Elvin Rodriguez. And
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  Speaker 2: it sure looked like the sky was falling. We know
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  Speaker 2: now that that wasn't reality. You know, the Brewers actually
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  Speaker 2: had a great year. That was the only point I
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  Speaker 2: was making is that it's not really a must-win after
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  Speaker 2: the first game. But in the NFL, it kind of
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  Speaker 2: can be, you know, in reality. Like, you can't go
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  Speaker 2: 0-2 and hope to make the Super Bowl really in seriousness.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it can happen. Very much can happen. It's
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  Speaker 2: very rare, though. It's very rare.
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  Speaker 3: They were 1-2 and had a double-digit lead in the
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  Speaker 3: NFC title game a number of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: One and two, yeah. But I'm just saying, if numbers
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  Speaker 2: suggest 0-2, it's very rare. That's what I'm saying. Got it.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that numbers indicate is what has happened,
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  Speaker 3: not what will happen. And especially with a 17-game season,
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  Speaker 3: whatever statistical numbers you're throwing out there of likelihoods and 15,
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  Speaker 3: 20 years of banked evidence, I think it all kind
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  Speaker 3: of goes out the window when for 25 years no
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  Speaker 3: team had started 0-3 and made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've seen two teams do it in the last
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  Speaker 2: three years. And you have the extra playoff spot.
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  Speaker 3: So the changing in the mathematics of, oh, well, it
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  Speaker 3: does this to your percentages to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Give me what it does in the last three years.
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  Speaker 2: Don't come at me with what it did in 1995.
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  Speaker 3: It's a completely different sport at that point.
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  Speaker 2: So I get it. I understand. But it's still not
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  Speaker 2: a great strategy to start over. Yes, you have a
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  Speaker 2: point that you can always change history, though. And that's true.
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  Speaker 2: You can always change those things going forward.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about the Packers in the context of a
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  Speaker 1: must-win game. It's a must-win game for the Badgers, too.
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  Speaker 2: Probably more. That would be the point that I'd make.
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  Speaker 2: More for that team. Because if I'm going to count
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  Speaker 2: my six and a half that I've got to find.
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  Speaker 1: Out of curiosity, there's plenty of tickets available at uwbadgers.com.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of tickets on the secondary market. At Tick Pick,
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  Speaker 1: you can get in for between $ 10 and $ 20 on
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  Speaker 1: pretty good locations.
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 a.
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  Speaker 1: Seat or $ 20 a seat to go to a Badger game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just bring your raincoat. Bring your poncho. Bring your
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  Speaker 2: patience because I don't know if Rain Delay Theater is
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  Speaker 2: going to.
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  Speaker 3: Get dusted off tomorrow during the Badgers Network broadcast, but
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  Speaker 3: it very much could. It is going to be a
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: wet and a soaky day at Camp Randall Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I'm A little birdie told me that there was a
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: sale of a student ticket last week for the opener,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: and it ended up buying the brother-in-law and three buddies
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: seats that were about 40 on the 40-yard line, about
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: 15 rows back. So the student tickets still going for
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  Speaker 3: a premium because you want to be in that excitement.
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere else in Camp Randall Stadium, probably a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more accessible to go and see the TJ Lang event.
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  Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan Eagles hopefully catch a fat out with Noah
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  Speaker 3: Kim under center.
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  Speaker 2: This is a term I've never heard, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to try it. It's almost like a, you say must win,
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: which is true. It's almost like a must can't lose.
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  Speaker 2: Cause it's not like even if you win this game,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: people will be really, really excited, but they'll be like
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: less upset. You know, if you don't lose, don't lose
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  Speaker 2: the game. So you just have to avoid disaster in
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  Speaker 2: this one, but Hey, it should be it. Hopefully this
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  Speaker 2: is one of those, like you said, just like last week,
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  Speaker 2: going to the fourth quarter with a comfortable, not worrying
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  Speaker 2: about it, you know, try and cover the spread type situation.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: That's not, that is not the game. Eastern Michigan's going
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: to play. I mean, they're, they're, they're going to fight.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to scrap.
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  Speaker 3: They were in a 14, seven game in East Lansing
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  Speaker 3: a week ago against Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan state Spartans. Now
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Spartans ended up pulling away three, three consecutive touchdowns in
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  Speaker 3: the second half, made it look a lot more lopsided
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  Speaker 3: than it was.
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  Speaker 2: But Noah Kim can do some things.
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  Speaker 3: He at one particular point in his college career, Now,
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  Speaker 3: he's started all over the place. He was a Michigan
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  Speaker 3: State guy for a couple of years and then went
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  Speaker 3: to Coastal Carolina, transferred right back into the MAC to
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  Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan, and he's put up some good numbers. So
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  Speaker 3: he's an interesting cat and also won the starting job
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  Speaker 3: there in 2023 at Michigan State. So he's no slouch,
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  Speaker 3: and the Badgers are going to have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to play more complete than they did a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: There were some real lulls in that Western Illinois game.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, Drew?
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to rev the engine twice. And when you
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: go up 17-0 in the first seven minutes, that's a
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  Speaker 3: lesson you've got to learn. That is not the moment
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: to take the foot up off the gas, but it
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: is hard to learn that lesson without it happening to
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: you in person. So at least hopefully you learned that
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: lesson a week ago and now keep that engine revved
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: for 60 minutes. And the folks that pay $ 40 to
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: bring the family of four to the game can leave
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: happy after a jump around, hopefully. And dry off before
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: the postgame show fires up.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Probably be a more robust action in the uh regent
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: street bars as people are like hey you want to
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: go in nah maybe we just hang out here yeah
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: maybe we just hang out here we'll see or no
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: billy sometimes like the weather people we talk about all
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: the time they talk about oh we're gonna get storms
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: on and they kill the people's desire to go out
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: on friday night then it doesn't snow and the restaurants
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: take a bath and it's.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: Like oh come on people yep and it was wide
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: open for us listen there's always a window We just
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: come out of Pittsburgh.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: There's always a window in Pittsburgh. Now, there is always rain.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: There's going to be some rain while you go and
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: play games in Pittsburgh. But we'll see.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Hopefully it ends up beautiful for the Badgers tomorrow. And listen,
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: then we can really fire it up and go and
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: welcome Matt Campbell into the Big Ten coming up in
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: one week's time there at Penn State.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: There's always a window is what your dad would say
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: when you told him you couldn't stay home today to
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: cut the grass because it was going to rain. Sorry, Dad.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It's going to rain all day. I might as well
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: just go out. No, it's going to be a window.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Just stay home and wait. Yeah, there's going to be
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: a window.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Keep the cards and letters coming. Oh, here's a, I'm
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: worried about Aaron Ashby text from the side.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Ooh.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I saw someone say Aaron Trashby.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Another one who is somewhat questionable is Aaron Ashby. Another
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: one who is somewhat questionable has been giving up home runs.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I think he's had 74 appearances currently and isn't the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: same shutdown guy. Can't give up two homers. He got
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: two run homers in the playoffs. It's the nail in
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: the coffin many times, especially with guys like we're going
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: to face this weekend. Old killer Pete Alonzo.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a good strategy. Just figure out the guys
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: that never give up homers in the playoffs and only
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: pitch them. Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: At 2021, Scar of Ashby is still rolling strong in
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: the minds of Brewers fans. But he had been on
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: one of the better roles of the season. Yes, he
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: has given up, you could say, four runs in his
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: last one, two, three, four, five, six. In a combined
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: seven outings, he's given up four runs. Before that, he
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: had gone... One run in check math. Well, 14 outings.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: So he had been on a pretty decent roll yesterday
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: for sure. There's some action there. I also wonder how
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: much they're going to end up throwing him in the playoffs, right?
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Like he's already at drew 70, what? 74 appearances.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: He's got the rubber arm. They love going to him.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: They want to deploy him at a moment's notice. But
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: you do wonder how judicious you are with him in
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, especially with the lack of off days that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: You have there.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Because he's going to pitch. They play five games in
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: that first series. He pitches in four of them.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: He'll be used a lot. He's pitching in at least
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: three of them.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I think the number of the Pottawatomie Sportsbook might be
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: set at three and a half because that's going to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: be a hard one to bet. They always want to
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: pull that phone, and I understand why because he has
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: been so reliable.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: That's the thing. He's had a good year overall. He
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: really has, and when the guy's that consistent, you want
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to use him. That being said, if you catch him
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: in a tough stretch, okay, then that's obviously frustrating.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's funny. Everybody wants their relievers to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: be perfect all the time.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Perfect all the time. No runs.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You give up runs in back-to-back games and people are like, well,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: forget about the 20 scoreless outings you just had.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: You suck. It's like a kicker now. The threshold of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: success is very high. Very true.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Very true.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: All right. We have reached halftime of the Friday edition.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're showing a lot of green on that radar
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: right there on the weather.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not liking that. I'm trying to cut the grass
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: out here. That's a lot of it coming up tomorrow.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: A lot of it coming up tomorrow.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: When we come back, halftime, and our correspondent Scott Dolphin
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is going to be with us from the country station
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: on the hall, FM 106. You're in the huddle, Fox
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I love watching Armin melt down. Armin's
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: hitting buttons back there. He's freezing up. You're just getting
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a momentary panic.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Let me give you a different banger. This is always here.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I like the crowd noise. It's giving
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: you the feel of a show. Yeah. Drew's about to
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: take the stage. We love you, Drew! Let's go.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: It's like the Pottawatomie Sportsbook last night where they're asking
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: you to throw out your shirt.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I know that didn't happen, I don't think.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I think you should have when they started asking for
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: it and clamoring for it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Shirtless Armin would have woke that crowd right up in
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: a hurry, right?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Dolph, you want to draw people to an event? You
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: want people to actually show up to an event? Let
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: them know that they're going to see Armin Sarian. That's right,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: our furry little mascot. Come on, are you kidding me?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: We've got Dolphins, our halftime correspondent. Hello, Dolph. Welcome officially.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you. If I was starting a band, it would
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: be Shirtless Armin. Ooh, that's a good name. I like that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: They're amazing. I saw them at the rave. They were amazing. Ah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: What kind of music do you think that would be?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Some kind of folk music?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: No, it would definitely be screamo.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It would be.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It would be a screamo.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thrash, Christian metal. I don't know.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. Something of the weirdest genre you
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: can think of.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: One hardcore DJ would have been maybe even better for it. Yes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It's funny because a lot of my friends, local musicians,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: their busy season is winding down because the summer is
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: when they give gigs every night. There's beer gardens and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: festivals and church festivals. They're getting like crazy. And now
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it's starting to wind down a little bit.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: You still see the usual suspects that have been around
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: for years in the Milwaukee area that still play a
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: lot of those festivals. And I always wonder if they
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: just do nothing for the rest of the year, or
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: do they do private parties? I guess the bar scene
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: probably fires up. There just isn't as much live music
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: in bars anymore.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: People don't want to pay for it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's a generational thing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: These kids today, I tell you, they'll put down their
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: card and they'll buy a round of bombs for $ 50.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But if you ask them to pay $ 3 to see
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a band at $ 3 at the door.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Not a chance. I'm not spending that. The money's tight
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: around here. Come on.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: When we got married in the 1990s, it was It
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: was commonplace to have live music at your wedding reception.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: And then the DJs took over. Yeah, now it's pretty
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: much DJs for all the weddings you go to.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Now it's almost a surprise when you show up with
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: a band. It is, but I think they might be
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: coming back. I've been to a few lately that have
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: had live bands. And I'm not just talking about Armenian weddings, okay?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I know that was your first question. Well, of course,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Armenian weddings. What is the best Armenian band in the area? Well, there's...
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: There's not really bands you'd know of or anything. Well,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: with that attitude, maybe Dolph is really into it. You
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: just know people that might be able to play Armenian
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: music or things like that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know how to really answer that question. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: think I've only been to one wedding that had a band.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Now that I'm trying to rack my brain of it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: And it was our boy, the franchise's son's wedding. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Timmy ended up grabbing the guitar and playing.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: A couple of songs. Oh, that's cool.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: So that made it an electric scene. Other than that,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know that I've seen one, and that feels
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: like a miss.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: My cousin had one that was a regular kind of
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: like play-the-hits band. It was pretty cool. They had a
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: whole ensemble, and they were playing pop hits. They were
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: playing classics. They were like good interpretations. It was like
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a Street Life kind of deal. Street Life.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Street Life's a great band. So that's kind of like
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: what Drew is referencing. A lot of his friends are
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: in local bands. I think you have to have a
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: good repertoire that goes through all the different formats, all
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: the different generations.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: For sure. Armin, what's the weirdest Armenian wedding tradition? You're
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: not breaking plates. That's the Greeks.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: They break plates, although some Armenians do break plates. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: stepped on a plate at ours, but only some Armenians
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: have that as a tradition. That's supposed to ward off evil?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: There's still some Armenians that do a ceremonious kind of dowry,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: like where you take the bride away and you have
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to pay off with cash, and the bride comes to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the door. Bad news. Bad news when Armin was the groom.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I ain't paying a dollar. I would say that. They
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: found the cheapest groom in the world. He ain't doing that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: That's good. No, that's true. Like there is a thing where, gosh,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: it was, my dad's going to help me with this,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: but you would steal like furniture. I haven't seen this
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and I'm talking about decades. I like this one. You
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: would steal furniture from the in-laws house the day before
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: or the week before, if you were like in the groomsmen,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the wedding party, and then they would have to get
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: their furniture back by giving the bride at the ceremony.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And then like, I haven't seen it in years, but
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid, they were bringing
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: couches and chairs into the... I love this.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I'm going to start doing that. I'm the best man
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: in a wedding, actually, one month from yesterday. So I
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: have now decided that I'm going to go steal the
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: couch at the bride's mom's house.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: My dad told me a story that he was going
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: out a window with a lamp or something once, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that was a fun thing. There's a lot of fun
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: traditions that Armenians do, but not necessarily like specific crazy stuff.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Not like in the office.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Stealing the bride's furniture is definitely not crazy.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Did you go, like, the engagement party and stuff, did
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you go... With your family to Lara's parents' house and, like,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: bring flowers and gifts and stuff?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Is that the— Yeah, I mean, you could do that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That's obviously a courteous thing. You could do that. Did
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: you do that or no?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Well— I thought you were traditional.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: We had an engagement party, but, like, some Armenians have—
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: We went for dinner, but some Armenians have engagement parties
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: where it's like a full wedding almost.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: For, like, just an engagement.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to have tea and ask for their hand
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in marriage, right? Yeah, well, you know, you ask for
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the blessing in general.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You know, you could do that. You could do that. But, like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a family thing. Like, my family didn't ask
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: her family. I did. You did. I did with her family.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't, like, necessarily a family thing. Did you
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: do it in the proper way, like Drew said, with tea?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: It was during COVID, so I did it over stream.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Do what you gotta do. Actually, if you really want
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to know, that's how I did it. I didn't brew
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a tea though.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Did we get the lavash and honey at the door?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I wanted to do it, but it was too hard
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: to orchestrate. If you're coming into the Grand March, you
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: enter the hall, you could break the plate and then
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the groom's mother, I think, or it could be the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: bride's mother, they feed you a spoonful of honey And
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: then they drape the flatbread, the lavash, over your shoulder.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to give you prosperity and sweet things, things
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: like that. I'd be down with the honey. Yeah, I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: love this. That's cool. The bride also, sometimes a big
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: group of people come to the bride's house as she's
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: getting ready to go to the wedding. So basically, the
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: band's there, and they're playing music as she's coming out
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: of the house. and everyone's basically celebrating the brides going
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to the church. So not just like you're at church
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: waiting for the bride to arrive, but everyone had already
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: seen the bride. They travel with her to the church.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: That's like a very village-type thing. I love these traditions.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's a good one. A
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: lot of Armenian wedding traditions are cultural, but there's a
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: lot of different Armenian traditions based on where that community
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: immigrated from over the years. Oh, it's like the Lutherans
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You've got all these different, what are they called, synods? Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's the same church, but it's like, oh, our family
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: did this in California because they moved from here to here,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: or our family did this when we were moving from
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Armenia to Lebanon to this. So everyone picks up different
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: traditions over the years. Interesting.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Well, my favorite wedding traditions include major fights, usually between
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: bridesmaids and stuff.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And then when the father of the bride gets exasperated
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and slaps down and decides to keep the bar open.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: For another hour or two. Oh, yeah, that happens a lot.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That's always good.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Let's go. All right. All right. Whatever. Yeah. He's got
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a few pops in him and he's like, all right,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: let's keep it open. Let it ride. The main thing
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I would say is like, you know, you do a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: grand March at a regular wedding and then, then you,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you welcome in the bridal party and you have like
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a first dance after while you're eating, they they'll, they'll
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: do a slow dance at the Armenian wedding. As soon
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: as the bride and groom enter, you're partying for like
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: 40 minutes. And then like the whole festivity starts. So
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: that's basically when the whole thing, that's like the most electric.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Sounds like I need to be meeting some more Armenians
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and going to some Armenians. That sounds like a hell
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: of a party. There's some good times. There's some good times. Well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you've got a couple more cousins that are getting married, right?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: You're just at a bachelor party. Well, I went to
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the one this summer already. That was the one in D.C.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. At some point, you know, I
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: think everyone's going to grow older and get married at
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: some point. So you would think so. Yeah. We do
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the chairs, you know. You put them up on the chair,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the bride and groom. Oh, so like in Fiddler on
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the Roof. Same idea. Oh, okay. Put them up on
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the chair. Got it. Kind of cool. I like that one, too.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Good stuff. That's awesome.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's wild.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some wild stuff going on that goes on,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you know. So, Dolph, we're getting ready for the weekend.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Did you watch much of the Bills dismantling of Detroit's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: defense last night?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, most of it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be 58 to nothing,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden the Lions start scoring,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: and then they get the ball back down 10. I'm thinking,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: there's eight minutes left. Damn, they got a shot in
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: this thing. Of course, the Bills, once they got the ball,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: they do it. Detroit has given up 70-some points now
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: in two games, and I don't think it's going to
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: get any better because they're dinged up in the backfield.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: They're signing people off the street. They've signed somebody last week.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It could be a rough first month for the Kitties.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Just remember, the Motor City Kitties did have a three-score
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: lead at halftime in the NFC title game.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Yes. And they had a three-score lead last Sunday and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: blew that. So we know that they've had a moment.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: They had a moment.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But now all of a sudden you're looking at it,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and Dan Campbell teary-eyed to TJ Lang after that game said, man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: there's no guarantee, man, we're ever back here, man. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: just don't know. And all of a sudden you're looking
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: at it. Ben Johnson's in Chicago. The other guy that
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: he brought with him is in Baltimore making sweet music
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: with Mar Jackson. And their offense... is rough. I mean
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: like their offensive line, which was the pillar of that team.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: They lost Ragnow when he retired because just couldn't play anymore.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: They lost this offseason Taylor Decker, who had been their
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: mainstay left tackle. He's not playing anywhere. He's out there
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: on the street. They moved Penny Sewell over to left
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: tackle where he played in college. He hadn't been necessarily great.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: They drafted one in the first round. He plays in
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: the first game, misses the second. They're in a tough spot,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: no doubt about it, for the favorites to win the
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: division in the preseason.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: They're going to score points, obviously, especially playing inside. But
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: that defense, I just don't know if they can stop anybody.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: That's going to be a rough time for them.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: People are saying that about the Bears as well.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think the Bears have as many injuries
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: as the Lions do on defense.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Their whole secondary was different. They announced the starters last night,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: and I think DJ Reed would have been the only
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: guy they were planning on being a starter in the
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: preseason for them. Joseph and Branch, their two safeties, both out,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: both very, very good, both Pro Bowl guys. They had
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to start Avante Maddox, the skeletal remains of him, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Chuck Clark last night.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Chuck Clark.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, it's a tough scene out there in
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: the secondary for a team that was one of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: better built groups out there. And they will be once
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: those guys get healthy. But they got one dude facing
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: how many charges now in Seattle that they had to
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: cut bait with in Terry on Arnold. And your two
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: all-pro safeties being in the back end turned into a
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: graveyard back there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Josh Allen, again, reminded us how he's the greatest quarterback
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: in the NFL right now, and I don't think anybody's
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: questioning that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: But their defense wasn't great either.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: What have they given up in their first two weeks?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You know, in that way, yeah, I was just going
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to say, like, the NFL's kind of mirroring the NBA
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in that you can be down, like, four scores early,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and it's going to end up being a close— you' re going
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to end up having a chance, right, to— To put
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the paddles to it, and then we'll see if you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: can hold on.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: The three-score lead in the NFL is now the 20-point
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: lead in the NBA in what a two-goal lead in
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: hockey used to always be.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The Lions did against the Saints. They just relaxed. They thought, okay,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this is going to be easy. Let's coast.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: What did I say, man? It's hard to rev the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: engine twice. It is, man.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: When you put that foot off the gas pedal just
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: a little bit, it's hard to grab it again.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Here's one for you, Dolph, because this might be the...
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: destination circle at must-watch game of the weekend across the board.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Brett Favre came back
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to Lambeau as a member of the Vikings. And, you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it was a divided time, fractured time. And there were
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: people wearing the Favre jerseys.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I was there. I was there.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: The booze were raining down, and I just remember turning
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: to my friend next to me and I said, don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: boo that hillbilly because he will come back to haunt you.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It was incredible. And he did that night.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Well, Lane Kiffin's returning to Oxford on Saturday night.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And Ole Miss has put out an edict that no
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: one can wear anything purple, gold. Like in the student section,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you will be ejected. You can't wear any.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss gear.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: They put it down. Basically, they put down a clothing ban.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: That's phenomenal.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: This is America. Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: They don't want anybody wearing it. You're not allowed in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the student section. I guess it's only for the student
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: section because if it's like a protest thing or something,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, back then, you know, there were line strong.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: There were Favre people and Rogers people and, you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: never the twain shall meet until Rogers is pretty good.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: But this thing, this is spicy.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Well, and if anybody knows separation of rules, Mississippi knows
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of it. We're going to govern our own selves.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: No question.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: That's a fascinating deal because Hotty Toddy is going to
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: be live in the Grove starting at midnight tonight, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: they want a piece of blood.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Of course. And they should. They want a pint, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: it's going to be fun to be able to see it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: He's successful, I guess, but the dude is just an instigator.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, when Nick Saban doesn't want you around, what
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: does that say about you? And now he's playing games.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know, the quarterback. I don't know. I don't
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: know who's going to play tomorrow. Sam Levitt's going to
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: look like Kevin Nash taking the blanket off of him
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: in a wheelchair. Exactly. Yeah. Well, that makes him an
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: easy villain, and I guess we need that in sports, right?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: That's true. He does.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: He's playing a vital role. I just think of, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: what a legend Monty was, you know, his old man.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: He was such a great coach, and, you know, I
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: don't want to say.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I guess he's earned where he is. He's a good coach.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: There's no question. Yeah, but you just look back.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: At his career, that baby face when he was with
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: the Raiders in different places.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: It's just oof.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Youngest coach in NFL history at the time. to get
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: a head coaching job with the Raiders. Uh, also the
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: youngest coach in NFL history, you'd be fired as quickly
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: as he was hired.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And, but this is, this is what he does.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, he had batteries and bottle caps thrown at
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: him when he came back, uh, to Neyland stadium in
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Tennessee golf balls too. And they're going to find anything
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: to be able to Chuck at him in the Grove
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: this week.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I think so too.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I hope we'll miss wins, you know, but,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: but it's, it's interesting to hear the LSU side. I mean, uh,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: you know, it was at Booger McFarland yesterday on ESPN saying, uh,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: We don't worry about Ole Miss.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we're used to winning national championships.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Three of the last four coaches have won a national championship.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: You know, Ole Miss is just a, you know, they're
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: a bump in the road.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: You know, he's throwing all kinds of shit. They've been
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a welcome mat there in the SEC for a long time,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and they're like, wait a second, we own this place now.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: We're in the playoffs. And the most important tradition, well,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: besides beating your opponent in the SEC, is to playfully,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: passive-aggressively disrespect them. That's what everybody wants to do.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Caught in the center of the storm is Kiffin's daughter,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: who's an Ole Miss student who dates an LSU football player.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Whit Weeks. Yes. And so she's like, Oh.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But she's been getting just, uh, I mean, they've been,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: they've been making, you know, these days of AI and Photoshop.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: They're like printing up stuff and putting it around campus.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Miss beat LSU last year.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Kiffin was the one in the press conference that said,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: or in the postgame interviews that I'm looking for wit.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I don't see him anywhere. I don't see the maybe
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: future son-in-law anywhere. He stokes the fire a little bit.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Because for him, it's fun, I think. I mean, he
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: loves knowing that people are freaking out, and he loves
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: knowing that if he tweets out an inspirational quote that
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: might have reference to it. And I get.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: That, but isn't there a point when your brain tells
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: you you've gone too far? When the freaking SEC is
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: going to ban your school from the conference, maybe you
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: should tone it back a.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Little bit, Lane. Sudden. What if we had NFL players?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I think he likes the power to make people think
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: he likes. I wouldn't either, yeah. Yeah, the only one
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: that apparently was able to get him to get off
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Twitter was his kid. Wow.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: His son was like, hey, Dad, how about you stop
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: posting hot yoga pics and inspirational.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Quotes in the morning? So he's just like all of us. Okay, yeah, sure,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I guess I can. Trying to get our dad off
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: social media. Yeah, he's like, come on, Pops, you're making
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: this embarrassing, Dad, all right? Stop this. I got to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: go to high school. No.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: What's going to happen in that football game? You got
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: number seven against number eight? Well, listen, if Sam Levitt
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't play, they got no chance.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Trinidad Chambliss is going to go bonkers in this game.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I love Trinidad Chambliss.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Is he not the most exciting player to watch in
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: college football?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: He is. He's fun.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Guy was at a Division II school, wins a national
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: title there, comes to the SEC, and he's the bee's knees.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Watching him in the playoff last year was
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: so much fun.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: And he fired up four touchdowns right out of the
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: gates early. I think it's going to be a phenomenal game.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I got Ole Miss, but I also think the plus
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: three was also more with the heart because I cannot
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: wait to cheer against Lane.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same here.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: And with LSU, I mean, sure, they look good, but
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: what's Clemson have anymore? I mean, it's just hard to say.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: They might be.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Listen, Bill Belichick and those sweater puppies that he was
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: rocking in that picture, I think they take on Clemson
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: this week.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So we might be able to see what they got.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Speaking about a train wreck right now in North Carolina. Yeah,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: now his other son's going to run the defense, right?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Better than Jordan, because she let him wear that thing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: She let him wear that sweatshirt into that interview. When
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: you force Lombardi and a Belichick to resign in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: course of a month, you know you really ran through
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: some legendary names. Like, come on. Like a Lombardi and
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a Belichick. Like, come on. Yeah, that's true.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. The one offshoot of this, of Belichick's
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: little detour to Chapel Hill, I think it silenced all
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the people. And I know that there were people saying
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that they ought to rename the Lombardi Trophy the Belichick Trophy.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That one's quieted down a little bit. Not anymore. That
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: one's quieted down a little bit.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: That's why you don't do that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Should have went and been the coach of Navy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: You don't name stuff after people when they're still alive.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: You generally don't. That's a good policy.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: That is a good policy. He has a history at Navy, right?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: His dad was a coach at Navy. Should have went
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: and just coached Navy. My goodness. Would have been all good. Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It would have been better.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Well, hard to be worse.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Hard to be worse.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Hard to be worse.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: And listen, I don't know. The cadets might have made
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: some fun of him. The midshipman might have made fun
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: of Jordan.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: For man boobs? Yeah, she might have laughed. I don't
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: think she would have had the same control in Annapolis
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: at the academy. No. Let's be honest. Chess might have
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: been even more impressive if he was working at one
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: of the service academies. Can you imagine the push-ups he
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: would have been doing? Oh, yeah. Goodness gracious. Those pecs
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: would have been popping. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, Billy, Billy, Billy. Oh,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: my God.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Dolph, have a great weekend. Thank you for popping in.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks, fellas.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Bears-Vikings, so I hope it's a great
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: weekend for me. Yes, we want the full report.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll have to check you guys out on the
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app. I can't wait for the refs to win.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Hope it doesn't rain. I wish that game was at U.S.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Bank Stadium, just so they'd have to deal with the
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: noise and the silent counts.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, they will. They will. They'll get there. They'll get there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: They'll get there. Dolph, I'm sadly on your guys only
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: in the four and a half this weekend. That a boy.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I know. Appreciate it, Billy.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: That's the way to go, probably. Carson Wentz, two weeks.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: In a row? Yeah, two weeks in a row. That
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: magic pixie dust might wear off.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Not betting on it. We're halfway through the Friday edition,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: football Friday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing it to you.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to our who's hot, who's not
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: presented by Donovan Jorgensen. But first, a message from our
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: pal Bill Schmidt.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: We have an opportunity coming up this weekend not to
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: just enjoy Green Bay Packers football, but to win watching
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers football, fellas, landladies. It's time for On
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the Line as we hang out with you on the huddle.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: It's time to go deep. deep into the line and
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: figure out how on earth and why the Green Bay
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Packers sit currently right now as a three-and-a-half point favorite
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Well, it's because they were a
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: six-point favorite, then did exactly what they did in the
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: final five games a year ago, slid down the back
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: of the dinosaur, blew a couple of leads, and that
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: lead to Minnesota being popped moved the line two-and-a-half full
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: points in favor of the New York Jets.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Catch three-and-a-half. That means if it's a 20-17 finish in
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: favor of the Green and Gold... The Jets are victorious.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: So they start up basically four points. So then you
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: got to be able to go and to be the man,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: you got to beat the man Packers to win just
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: minus 200. That means you put $ 200 down. You're going
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: to ultimately come back and they're going to give you
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: a $ 300 for a $ 100 profit on the line at
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: the Pottawatomie sports book. And since fellas, since we were
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: so giving last night and gave out that first touchdown
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: score of Josh Allen in here, um, Look for Christian
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Watson to find the end zone once again coming up
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: this week at plus 185. If you're interested in this
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: sort of thing and you really, really are ready for, Armin,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: what do you call it?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: The emotional hedge? Emotional hedge, Billy.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Braylon Allen, plus 250 to find himself into the end
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: zone if you want to cheer for the folk from Wisconsin. Also,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: him to have 30 rushing yards plus 143. Packers rush
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: defense was pretty dang stout last week, Drew. Now, Vikings
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: didn't necessarily have to run all that much. because they
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: started in their scoring drives pretty close to the end zone.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: And when you can throw up a 39-yard prayer ball
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to Justin Jefferson, going to be tough to need to
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: stop the run. Packers will have to look to do
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: that against the Jets team that's going to run it
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: a ton coming up this weekend. Over-under has dropped down
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: from 44.5 to 42.5.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Because of the rain, this has been on the line
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: with the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Bet big, bet bold, and bet
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: above the rest. Wisconsin's home for investments.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Outstanding. We were going to get to who's hot, who's not,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: but we can save that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, I.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Think we might have to save that because I've got
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: a couple of good ones in here. I've got a
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: couple holstered up from last night that need some reaction
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: and one that I've got to bounce off Armin Sarian
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: on a not category.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Can't wait. Other side of the break. We'll do it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: And once again, Drew, can I give you a little tease?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: The New York Mets are going to be involved.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, baby.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: The New York Mets are involved in today's Who's Hot,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Who's Not coming up on the other side.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I love this.
• 40:01
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• 40:02
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