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08/28/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Talking about a Brewers victory, 8-1. Talking about Packers practice
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  Speaker 1: against the always hated but never feared Arizona Cardinals, who
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  Speaker 1: they will play Friday night at Lambeau Field in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason finale. Cutdown day in the NFL is Sunday. Packers
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  Speaker 1: got to get to 53. We'll do that dance where
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  Speaker 1: we agonize and say, no way, that guy's getting through waivers.
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  Speaker 1: And then he'll get through waivers and go to the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad.
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  Speaker 5: Drew, I'm excited to start stressing about Mark Perry being
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  Speaker 5: released on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Especially guys who have a big game on Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because they're going to get cut and
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  Speaker 1: then put on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Will Shepard goes out and catches two touchdowns on Friday night.
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  Speaker 5: We are going to be very fired up about how
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  Speaker 5: on earth are you going to cut.
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  Speaker 2: This guy potentially here. The Stillers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whom, whom the Packers saw a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, it seems like two months ago, the Packers played,
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  Speaker 1: you know, McCarthy and Rogers, the reunion. There's talk that
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  Speaker 1: they like McCarthy's tempted to keep four quarterbacks on the roster. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Come on. He's never done that.
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  Speaker 1: And that won't happen. But like their preseason, I think
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  Speaker 1: they play tonight.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds right. I saw the whole, I saw the.
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  Speaker 1: Whole way and Al are like going to be a
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  Speaker 1: split in time and They're talking about, maybe they'll keep it.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're not going to keep four quarterbacks. There's just
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  Speaker 2: no chance. It just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 5: Now, if you really firmly believe that Aaron Rodgers isn't
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  Speaker 5: going to play 17 games, but still, you still need
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  Speaker 5: to field a 53-man roster and you've got to have
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  Speaker 5: five or six wide receivers. You just can't make it
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  Speaker 5: up on this type of roster. It's still the number
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  Speaker 5: one position. There's the bottom of the roster controversy. Packers
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  Speaker 5: are pretty much button up. Kyle McCord is going to
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  Speaker 5: be the three guy.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, he'll be right. Taylor. A lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: are saying this straight Tyler, Tyler Taylor, some team might
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  Speaker 2: want him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Some team that might be trying to win their division
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  Speaker 5: and go, uh, win games in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like the Packers are trying to do. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So McCord's going to get through waivers. He'll be fine.
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  Speaker 5: He'll come, he'll come right back out of the practice
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  Speaker 5: squad and he'll be a beautiful break glass in case
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  Speaker 5: of emergency. I thought the interesting one drew was yesterday
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  Speaker 5: when Goody was talking pre-practice. And asked about Pierre Strong,
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  Speaker 5: who we definitely gushed about after that Broncos game. Kick return,
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  Speaker 5: looked good on the offensive side. He could have a
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  Speaker 5: big game, and he also might get cut because he
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  Speaker 5: had just mentioned it. The game day elevation is a weapon.
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  Speaker 5: Being able to elevate guys three times before you have
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  Speaker 5: to put them on the active roster, that means they're
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  Speaker 5: going to be utilizing that coming up pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: Big time. Big time.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting quarterback talk, though, because they went through it in
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland and they landed on Deshaun Watson to the chagrin
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  Speaker 1: of many. Many.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And they have their first two games on the road
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  Speaker 1: for him to get things ironed out before he has
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  Speaker 1: to play in the dog pound.
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  Speaker 2: And if things aren't going well. That'll be a hotbed.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of fun. They'll bring in pitchforks and torches.
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  Speaker 2: The other interesting one is Tua.
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  Speaker 1: Because Michael Penix has returned to practice, and there are
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  Speaker 1: folks who think he should start. That Tua just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look invested in it right now and just not having
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  Speaker 1: a great camp. And how can they just hand him
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  Speaker 1: the keys when Penix is there anyway? And if Penix
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  Speaker 1: is even ready, even though he hasn't had much of
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  Speaker 1: a camp, he's just gotten to where he's doing 11-on-11 stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So how does that end up going? Or do they
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  Speaker 1: just cut Tua because they have no money tied up
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  Speaker 1: in him and it'll be no cap hit?
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  Speaker 2: You just cut him.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the thing, Drew. You very much could just
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  Speaker 5: cut him and you wouldn't lose anything. That being said,
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  Speaker 5: you could also cut him in week four when Penix
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  Speaker 5: is fully ready if you want to give him some
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  Speaker 5: more of a buildup. The tough thing is they have
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  Speaker 5: the most injured quarterback room of all time. Penix is
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  Speaker 5: coming off of, I think, his third ACL. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 5: been banged up early in his career a lot. And
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  Speaker 5: Tua's dropping snaps like you can clearly tell he's nervous
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  Speaker 5: about getting hit.
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  Speaker 2: That's just part of his career now.
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  Speaker 5: If indeed they get rid of Tua, listen, they could
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  Speaker 5: have Cooper Rush start games. It's not like any NFL
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  Speaker 5: team hasn't done that before.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, why keep Tua if Cooper Rush is
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  Speaker 1: just as good? Or this guy Jack Strand, the undrafted
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  Speaker 1: free agent. From Minnesota Moorhead, who's dicing it up.
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  Speaker 2: He's playing well. It's like, well.
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  Speaker 1: And Tua would count like a million and a half
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  Speaker 1: if they cut him.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what his salary is. So it's like nothing.
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  Speaker 4: It's also like the burden of like if Tua gets
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  Speaker 4: hit again and you have more issues with the concussions,
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  Speaker 4: like it's a heavy burden to be around that and
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  Speaker 4: be the team that's got to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: They signed him and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: From all the insiders and my boy, you know. D
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  Speaker 1: Orlando people. They just say that he just doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like he's loving football right now.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say, and that seems like what, uh,
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  Speaker 5: what bow tie sports had mentioned a number of different times.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you just tell, you can't do they, the
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  Speaker 1: investment isn't the same. So do they have to put their,
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  Speaker 1: and you got two weeks before the, you know, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I am.
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  Speaker 2: Get the keys and they move on from.
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  Speaker 1: Tua because it seems to me like Tua either starts
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  Speaker 1: week one or you cut him. Like the idea of
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  Speaker 1: having him back up doesn't seem like it's like shrewd.
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  Speaker 5: Just like, and this is where I would defend the
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  Speaker 5: Browns thought process a little bit. Like you already have
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  Speaker 5: to pay the money for Deshaun, right? That one's not
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  Speaker 5: a minute. That's not a million and a half that
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  Speaker 5: you're writing off the books. And at that point you're
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  Speaker 5: paying it. You're going to lose the starter if you
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  Speaker 5: don't play him right away, or the veteran if you
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  Speaker 5: don't play him right away. There's no problem with going out,
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  Speaker 5: seeing if you can catch lightning in a bottle. You
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  Speaker 5: can always go back to the young guy. My man
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  Speaker 5: Jack Strand, though, Jack from Bloomer, Bloomer, Wisconsin zone. I'll
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  Speaker 5: be pulling for him to potentially get the gig because
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  Speaker 5: if you're Matt Ryan and company there in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: You have nothing tied to any of these guys. You've
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  Speaker 2: got a million and a half to Tua.
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  Speaker 5: You've got the final year of Penix when he expires here.
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  Speaker 5: And then you go into your draft next year where
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  Speaker 5: Matt Ryan can go and finally find his new Matty
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  Speaker 5: Ice in a quarterback-rich draft. It's a weird spot because
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  Speaker 5: I think their roster is better than that, but their
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  Speaker 5: best plan of action might just be to be looking
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  Speaker 5: towards 27.
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  Speaker 1: If this situation were happening under last year's circumstances, would
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  Speaker 1: they be calling and saying, hey... And what would it
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  Speaker 1: take for us to get Malik Willis from your green Bay?
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  Speaker 1: Cause that makes me wonder, would someone say Tyra Taylor's
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  Speaker 1: an upgrade over.
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  Speaker 5: What we're running out here? You know, I, they, well,
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  Speaker 5: he would be an upgrade over a couple of different spots. Right.
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  Speaker 5: Different because I think with Willis, you took the lottery
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  Speaker 5: ticket of, what was he, 27 last year?
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  Speaker 2: Peak of his athleticism.
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  Speaker 5: He would have had, with at least a couple of
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  Speaker 5: these teams, the intriguing thought of, we could bring him
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  Speaker 5: in right now, and at some point he could play
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  Speaker 5: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Very soon.
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  Speaker 5: And we will feel a lot better than whatever our
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  Speaker 5: room is right now. Maybe that would happen within Atlanta, but...
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  Speaker 5: If they really think that they can go win the division,
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  Speaker 5: which again, I think they probably did before the Pierce suspension,
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  Speaker 5: their other pass rusher, Jalen Walker, tore his ACL in
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  Speaker 5: camp right away.
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  Speaker 2: Because the South isn't like anything crazy. Panthers won it
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  Speaker 2: at 8-9 a year ago.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the thing about it. It's sort of like
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  Speaker 4: the AL West.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the Falcons won three of their last
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  Speaker 5: four games last year and then fired their coach. They
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  Speaker 5: closed well, looked like they were maybe going to save
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  Speaker 5: Raheem Morris' job.
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  Speaker 2: They won their last four games.
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  Speaker 5: It almost looked like they were going to save his job,
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  Speaker 5: and then they're like, no, we're not going to do
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  Speaker 5: this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: We're still changing this up.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any sense that they still feel like a
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  Speaker 4: pot committal with Penix because they drafted him so early,
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  Speaker 4: or is that gone when Fontenot's gone?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the old regime, and they don't feel that way?
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  Speaker 5: See, Armin, and it's hard to say because there's only
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  Speaker 5: one person's opinion that probably really matters.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Ryan?
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  Speaker 2: No. Arthur Blank.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, for sure. Right?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he was the one that Terry Fontenot was
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  Speaker 5: trying to explain it to there after he gave Kirk
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  Speaker 5: Cousins to $ 100 million, and then you go and sign
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  Speaker 5: this guy. I don't know what we're doing here, but
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  Speaker 5: try to make it make some sense to me. And
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  Speaker 5: if he believes that they're going to roll with it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Jimmy Haslam mentioned it, that it ends with
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  Speaker 5: D & I. So Arthur Blank might say it ends
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  Speaker 5: with me.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Did Jimmy mess that up when he was talking about
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  Speaker 5: the Deshaun Watson deal?
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  Speaker 2: They said it ends with me. Doesn't it start with
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  Speaker 2: you potentially? You would think.
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  Speaker 6: But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: The buck stops here and also throws his wife under
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  Speaker 2: the bus, which I don't think was necessarily needed. Not shrewd.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to see a couple of different teams that
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  Speaker 5: are trying to make sense of it because Minnesota's in
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  Speaker 5: the same boat. Florio floated it yesterday. He's like, Carson
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  Speaker 5: Wentz is a better player. You already gave the starting
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  Speaker 5: job to Kyler Murray. What's this J.J. McCarthy doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Just trying to still make it work.
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  Speaker 4: Just trying to hang around and hope that this car
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  Speaker 4: eventually will start in the garage.
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  Speaker 5: And he threw it out there that maybe next week,
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  Speaker 5: by Sunday, he's either traded or cut. And if you're
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  Speaker 5: another team, and Kevin O'Connell doesn't think that he can
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  Speaker 5: fix you, I don't have a whole lot of great
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  Speaker 5: belief in my operation to be able to make it work.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing. If you get turned down there, it's like, oof, yikes.
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  Speaker 5: That's a tough sell to anybody. So there's going to
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  Speaker 5: be a number of guys. I think drew over the
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  Speaker 5: weekend that end up getting moved and there will be
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  Speaker 5: a couple of Malik Willis like trades, right? Cause what
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  Speaker 5: did the Packers give up a seventh round pick?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Seventh round pick. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And, uh, with the amount of picks teams have in
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  Speaker 5: this draft, almost everybody has all of their picks in
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  Speaker 5: this draft. That was one of the unique parts of
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  Speaker 5: in 20, the 26 draft that we just watched in
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  Speaker 5: April was, Sixth and seventh round, people are trading, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you a 27 fifth for this sixth rounder
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  Speaker 5: so I can take this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you this seventh round so I.
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  Speaker 6: Can go in here.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was doing that. Nobody was doing that.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of it was because they thought the talent
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  Speaker 5: was going to be so good coming up in this
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  Speaker 5: upcoming draft. And also it gives teams a lot more
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  Speaker 5: ammunition to go out and ship off a sixth rounder.
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  Speaker 5: If you think that At some point, you know what? Hey,
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  Speaker 5: we took Penix at eight, but maybe McCarthy at 11
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  Speaker 5: was the right choice.
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  Speaker 2: We'll bring him in and see.
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  Speaker 5: I do believe he's going to get a shot somewhere,
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  Speaker 5: but I would not be surprised at all if he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't play another down in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're onto something there. Those are the three
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  Speaker 2: most intriguing ones.
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  Speaker 5: The Minnesota one is going to be fascinating to see
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  Speaker 5: how he actually plays, Kyler being that. But otherwise, there's
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  Speaker 5: not a whole lot of, Not to say there's not
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  Speaker 5: jobs available, but Anthony Richardson's another name that would be
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  Speaker 5: a fascinating one.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Last year, there was some smoke that he could possibly
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  Speaker 5: get moved. Daniel Jones is coming off of the Achilles,
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  Speaker 5: but he's hitting home runs at that Tyrese Halliburton-Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 5: softball game.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's okay.
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  Speaker 4: That's a big step.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's okay.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's ready to play week one, so I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if Anthony Richardson would be available.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback spot's going to be up.
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  Speaker 5: There could be a number of different guys that could
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  Speaker 5: change teams coming up here. uh, in the next week.
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  Speaker 5: And I do wonder if there's more teams that trade
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  Speaker 5: after deadline or cut down day than before. We always
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  Speaker 5: think that that 53 man roster means you're safe. And
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  Speaker 5: it might, it might just mean that your ammunition to
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  Speaker 5: be going and flipping to somebody else's.
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  Speaker 2: Squad at that point.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and Wayne told us he expects surprises on cut
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  Speaker 4: down day. So I, I'm curious to see what some
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  Speaker 4: of that is, but, um, I guess that's the fun
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  Speaker 4: of this year. You know, we'll never forget the, uh,
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  Speaker 4: The Josh Sitton day, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's the day.
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  Speaker 4: That was the day.
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  Speaker 2: That's when that shocked us. I was going to say
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  Speaker 2: LSU-Wisconsin game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That was it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for a little Current Electric Superhero of the
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic dudes with superheroes on the side of the van,
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  Speaker 1: superheroes who work for them.
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  Speaker 2: Check them out. Good people. Met them. Hung out with
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  Speaker 2: our friends in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: They're phenomenal people.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Phenomenal folks.
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  Speaker 1: So check them out. Billy, who's our superhero of the day?
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of nominations.
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  Speaker 5: One is a kicker for high school, Gainesville, Georgia High School,
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  Speaker 5: Dwayne Carter, son of rapper Lil Wayne, Dwayne Carter, President Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how about that?
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  Speaker 5: He boots two field goals through against the number one
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  Speaker 5: team in the country. Buford High School down in Georgia.
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  Speaker 5: This looks like the best college stadium in Division II
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  Speaker 5: that I've ever seen that they're playing this high school
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  Speaker 5: game at. That would be a possibility for it. The
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  Speaker 5: other possibility would be Connor Sanger, who, former Wisconsin Badger,
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  Speaker 5: former Oshkosh Titan, still passing game coordinator, passing game specialist
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  Speaker 5: with the Arizona Cardinals. He was in town yesterday. Fifth
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  Speaker 5: season with the Cardinals. He was a scout team player
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  Speaker 5: of the year for the University of Wisconsin, then transferred
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  Speaker 5: to Oshkosh. Connor grew up in the West Allis area,
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  Speaker 5: one of the great dudes of all time, coached at Whitewater,
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  Speaker 5: coached at Carroll, and now ultimately is coaching in the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: and he's one of the absolute goods. We love being
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  Speaker 5: able to say that. The other one, Drew, that I
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  Speaker 5: would say, and I would love to know how you
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  Speaker 5: guys feel about the potential of this guy being named
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  Speaker 5: a superhero of the day. Can we give it to
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  Speaker 5: Roger Goodell for finally laying the hammer down and just
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  Speaker 5: getting rid of the Pro Bowl?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah. I'm there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Troy Vincent was a part of it. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if it's just him. I am glad that
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  Speaker 5: we're just finally putting it out to pasture. Take it
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  Speaker 5: out back and be done with the entire thing. Because
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  Speaker 5: we've had so much since 2020 with the pandemic, it's
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  Speaker 5: been even more thrown around in a weirder spot. I
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: appreciate that they're finally saying the jig is up. We
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: understand it's awful. We're going to be done with it.
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: Let's put it to bed and we're all okay with it.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they just It almost felt like, yeah,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: we're just– dice in some spam and then throw it
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: at them and they'll eat it.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: It's like, come on.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: It wasn't– I'm glad that they finally admitted that there's
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: a limit.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Not worth our time. There's a limit. They just accepted it.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: What we'll accept from the NFL. Just let it go.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: When they moved it out of Hawaii, it stopped being–
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: the best players going on vacation and hanging out and
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: like chopping it up. And I think that was where
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: you had the most fun in searing some of the,
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: the old stories like Mike Vanderjack getting drunk and Peyton
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: Manning calling them out. Like you had, you had a
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: lot of good things that came out of it. You
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: didn't have a whole lot of good things of Dan
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Orlowski doing target practice in a conference center. As much
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: as Dan Orlowski positive as I am.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: As much as we love it.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: I don't need to see Dan-O taking off the jacket
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: and throwing balls at targets anymore. I think I'm okay
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: with that one being put to bed. Final one would
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: also be Quentin Barry, potentially an honorable mention for hero
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: of the night.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Good pass set right there. He had to block out PCA.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Great video. That video and that lip reading is phenomenal.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Get him out of here. Get him out of here.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: And really quick, yesterday's hero was Kinley Rasmus, the player
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: from Phoenix City, Alabama.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: They lost.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: The dream, unfortunately, has ended now. They lost to Ohio,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: but she had a great tournament.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: What?
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: One of the best to do it. Kinley Rasmus was
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: dominating people, pitching, hitting, everything. Colby Rasmus' niece. We talked
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: about that yesterday, Drew.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so she had a great tournament. Keep your head up, Kinley.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: You had a great tournament. But the Phoenix City, Alabama
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: team lost to Ohio, so the dream is over. And
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: really quick shout-out to our man Jesse. It's his son
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Cooper's birthday. Shout-out to Cooper. We've been saying the name
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Cooper a lot last couple days.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Cooper. And this one is happy birthday to Cooper.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: All right. Well done. Way to slip that in. That's
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: a beautiful one. Come on now.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 15:53
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• 15:53
  Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Nicoletlaw.com. Talk and text line.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Give me some President Carter. I have to.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, all the comments on the Lil Wayne sun
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: kicking field goals, just too good. The Carter 4-3 might
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: be my favorite one, but this one's definitely the best one.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Life is a beach. I'm just kicking in the stands.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? That's just that chef's kiss. Good stuff.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: The lyrics write themselves.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And the Lil Wayne in the Packers jersey reveal, the
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: rivalry jersey reveal.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: He gave us a new verse. It wasn't a full song.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: It was just a verse. He's heads. He crafted it.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they got enough money to get
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: a full song out of Wayne. They've been commissioning him
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: for a while. You got to be spending a little
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: bit more for that.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: He probably did it just for a trip in and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a suite and sideline passes and a hotel.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get to bring the kid up in
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: the Lambeau suite again.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Sweet.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: That sounds good. Also, the kid's probably a Packers fan
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: because he's the kicker.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: He's wearing 82.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I love that. Turn that bad boy around, Trey Smack.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: We got to get this kid a Trey Smack jersey.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: That's outstanding. That's the collab that we all actually need. Outstanding.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 17:02
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• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Hunter is up next. You're in the huddle.
• 17:28
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• 17:52
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• 17:58
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock as the Brewers try to win the series
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in Flushing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Hunter, good morning.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. How are you?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: How about the change in 24 hours, Hunter, with the Brewers?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Just that palate-cleansing 8-1 victory made everybody forget the ugliness
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and the missed opportunities of the extra inning loss and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the Cooper-Pratt controversy and all that stuff.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: It seems like everything's back to normal again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what they needed to do. They just
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: needed to come out. Four runs early, Cooper Pratt beats
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: out an infield ground ball, his first at-bat. Like, of course,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: it makes so much sense. And then they go from there,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: six straight singles. They do what they do, right? And
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: then they finally get a big home run there from
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Bryce Durang to blow it open. But that was the
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: type of win they needed. And look, I kind of
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: expected that. Like, this team does not respond poorly to
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: those types of things. I think Robert Gasser is another
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: great example of responding to a Pat Murphy move. Cooper
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Pratt did it again, did it last night. I just,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: you know, you can argue and, you know, we can
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: get into it and all that as far as the
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: specifics of the benching. But at the end of the day,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Pat Murphy does it because he knows that clubhouse and
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: he knows his guys and he knows what his guys
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: are going to respond to. And last night is another
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: perfect example of that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about that in a second, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I'm listening to Sal Freelick a lot. And he said,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: let's not underrate. value and underscore what Bob did tonight.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: So Robert Gasser, I mean, now because Cooper Pratt gets benched, uh,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Checks notes. Robert Gasser, what was it, seven days ago?
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Gets pulled in a 2-0 count. So, like, be able
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: to respond from that as well. Didn't have a chance
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: to think about it. Didn't have time to get yourself
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: into a nervousness mindset because all of a sudden you
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: got to get hot and go.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: What did you see out of him?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: And and potentially Hunter, is he a part of this bullpen?
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Maybe once the playoffs start and you start whittling things down,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: or is he just, he's going to make his last
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: couple of appearances for the 2026 season. And then you're
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: going to talk about Robert Casser in 27.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I it's, I would think he is probably still on
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: this team. I know there's going to have to be
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: some roster decisions. Abner rebate comes back probably this weekend,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Jojo Romero. After he finishes his rehab assignment, now, of course,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: as we've mentioned, you do get another pitcher September 1st.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: How does that factor into it? Do they still want
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: to do it, the six-man rotation, where they have six
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: guys in that rotation, but they're kind of mixing and
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: matching a little bit as far as the order in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Which they go.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: They're not going every sixth day you're starting.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: They're kind of doing it different ways, and last night's
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: a good example of it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: What impressed me about it was Robert Gaster did exactly
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: what Pat Murphy did wanted him to do a week ago.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And that was pitch with a lead and pitch well
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: with a lead and go and attack hitters. And look,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: he allowed six hits, but he only allowed one earned
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: run and one run overall and only walked two compared
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: to the four that he walked in less time last
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: time out last Thursday. So I think you could see
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: it right away six days later after that last start.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: He comes in and he does exactly what Pat Murphy
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: wanted him to do last time. And The second part
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to that is, like you mentioned, he comes in and just–
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: he wasn't expecting to obviously come in after one pitch
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: last night. So that makes it even more impressive. Sal
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Frelick giving him a nice shout-out after the game.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: As he should.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: To go that long in the game, five and a third,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: to go that long, 82 pitches– in a game that
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: you weren't expecting to get in that early, maybe, you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: he was available obviously out of the bullpen or else
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: he wouldn't have been out there was huge.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Now, how does that affect Sunday? You know, do they
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: still have them? You know, he could still pitch.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: On Sunday, although that's only going to be, you know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: obviously on what would be three days between. So I
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: don't know because I was expecting him last night to go,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe three and then you get Bryce Wilson
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: for three and kind of, you know, they, they were
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: in a, coming into the bullpen, I said it on
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the pregame show last night, like you're, you're without, you're
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: pretty much, you're a bullpen. So they're going to have
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: to get through this. They used four relievers the night
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: before and a loss. So they were having, they had
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: to somehow make up those innings. And obviously you had
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: to make up, uh, you know, 26 outs last night
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and they were able to do it. And Robert Gasser
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: is a big part of that. So we'll see how
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that I, I, you know, we'll, we'll get the probables
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: for the weekend coming up later today.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: And we'll see if that has stayed the same.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And if that unfortunately would affect the cub series, which,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: It was lined up to get your top four guys
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: into that Cub series.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: We were talking to Hunter Baumgart. He's brought to us
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• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised that Sal Freeland came back. Wasn't necessarily
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: surprised that he reached base four times with three hits.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I was a little surprised he played left field and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Churrio got the night off. We haven't talked about that yet.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a well-timed night off for struggling Churio and South Relic
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: makes his, uh, announces his presence with authority.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What do we read into that little, uh, substitution there?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I think it was more of a, yeah, a day
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: off for Churio. He does not get many of them. Obviously, uh,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Churio is a guy who is in that lineup every day.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: And after a tough game one against the Mets in
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: which he went over five, couple of strikeouts had a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: bad at bat with, with runners and scoring position, uh,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: It just seemed like, okay, this was a good time
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to get him a day off.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: It's not like he's been hitting horribly though.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: He's hitting 286 in his last seven games, last 30
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: games hitting 275. So it's not like he's been awful.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It's just, it felt like a good time and a
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: good time to get Sal Freelick in there. Look, the
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: first four batters of your lineup last night were lefties
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: against the righty Robert stock.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: And it worked.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So that was, you know, they, they clearly had a,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: a method and a motivation last night to get those
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: lefties in there and thought it was a good time
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to get Sal Freelick in there. And he, And he
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: showed why he's, look, he said after the game, like,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I want to be a spark plug for this team.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what he was last night. And I just,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: this team is a little different with him on it. Now,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Luis Lara is also a spark plug and I love
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the energy he brings, but obviously Freelick has the energy,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: but then he also has the, you know, the cachet
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: behind it and the leadership behind it and has been
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: there obviously in the, in the organization for a longer
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: time and under Pat Murphy and knows how that clubhouse works.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: and was one of the ones to talk to Cooper
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Pratt after he was benched. So, yeah, I think you're
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: going to see plenty of Sal Frelick down the stretch.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I really do.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: With Blake Perkins out of the picture, what's the Brewers'
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: best defensive outfield alignment? Is it what we saw last
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: night with Lara, who's the new Spider-Man, Ben Ogilvie? That's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: an old guy reference for Armand.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Love it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Bat speed.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Lara and Mitchell in center and Frelick in left. Is
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that their best outfield alignment right now?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Probably, probably.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Churrio's gotten better at defense. There's no doubt. And, you know, his,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the throwing arm has gotten better. The ability to chase
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: down balls has gotten better. Like the reading of fly balls,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: like he's gotten better over the last couple of years
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: on the defensive side. But I think you would still
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: say Sal Frelick and, you know, Luis Lara, who, you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: who had a gold glove in the minor leagues. You
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: also have Garrett Mitchell, who can chase down pretty much anything.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: And he's gotten, I think, less timid as the year
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: has gone on, more comfortable out there coming back from
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the injuries. So I do think that's your best defensive outfield. Now,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you want Churio in that lineup, and so you're going
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: to get that. But, hey, if you need a late
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: substitution or something like that defensively, that could be. And look, that's, again,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: why you want your top 26, 28 guys on September
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: 1st down the stretch, because then you can substitute where
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you want to.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: As we watched Bryce Durant get off the Schneid on
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the home run front yesterday, what is it, 19 games
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: without one? Doesn't go past me that he had 10
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: of them in the month of August a year ago, Hunter. Now,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I had thought he'd potentially be threatening for that 30-30
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: season this year. It's going to be hard. He's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: to need a hell of a September. Would be a
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: fun one to be able to watch if he's able
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: to get there now with 17 bombs. What have you
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: seen from him, though, offensively? Because he hasn't necessarily clicked
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: in the last month, month and a half, but that
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: was a big swing that he was able to get
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: last night.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: It was it last seven games hitting under 200. In fact,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: over his last 15 games, he's hitting under 200, I
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: should say one 97. And it's just, you can see it's,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: he's just, it's, it's, it's just.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Tough for him at the plate right now.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: And some of those, some of those times with runners
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: on screen scoring position have been tough as well. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: think one of the coolest things to come out of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: last night was Kurt Hogue. And you guys might've talked
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: about it this week or this morning, but his, his
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: reporting that, Terang stayed at the park until the wee
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: hours of the morning the night before last night's game.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: And it's like and and Christian Yelich was his hitting
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: coach for the session.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just that's just awesome. It shows the
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: type of clubhouse that that is.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And Yelich, who it's not like he's been hitting the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: cutter cover off the ball himself, but he stays back
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: and tries to help a younger player. And they have
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: a pretty good bond as well. You saw last night,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: which makes a lot of sense. Bryce Terang hits that
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: home run. goes into the dugout, and Terang and Jelic
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: are both looking at the iPad together.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: For a while.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Love that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: And you don't necessarily always see Jelic looking at the iPad.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I think you see those younger players more so looking
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: at the technology. But you saw Terang and Jelic kind
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: of over there, both dissecting what Terang did well on
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that swing, probably saying, okay, yep, this is what we
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: did last night, or maybe this is what we didn't
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: do last night in the cage or whatnot. But, yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I think it's just simply– Getting him back, and I've
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: said it before and I'll say it again, getting these
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: guys to produce at not necessarily MVP level, but just
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: kind of going back to their average is so big
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: for this offense, whether it's Terang, whether it's Contreras. I mean, look,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Contreras hitting 433 in his last seven. Yelich hitting 348
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: in his last seven. You're starting to see the upward
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: trajectory of these guys, and Terang, great to see. I'm
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: sure it felt good last night, and hopefully that can
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: propel him And you need Cheerio to kind of do
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the same. And then you're really cooking because the pitching
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: is good enough.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: We know that. Just get that offense rolling.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: And the fact, examples like that, you know, they clearly
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: are working hard and they work together to try and
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: make the best, to figure things out and get better.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: And no one can convince me that Yelch is hitting
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: so many hard balls into fielders. I mean, he really is.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: His hard hit rate is really good. I was saying earlier,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: we talked about him being the unofficial captain. Shouldn't they
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: just give him the C at this point and make
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: it official? I would love to see it a hundred.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know how you feel about that. If you
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: have an opinion. Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, I, they don't traditionally obviously do that, but
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I think if there was one person who was going
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: to get it, I feel like it's Christian.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Now Brandon Woodruff is up there with the pitchers as well.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: He's obviously instrumental, but obviously he hasn't been on the
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: field this year.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: All right. So Brewers had scored, I think 10 runs
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in the four games leading up to last night.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: They put up eight last night. It helps six hits
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: in a row.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Helps.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Runners in scoring position, they were, what, eight for 15
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: or something?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a little bit better than two for 14.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: A little bit better than two for 14. But they
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: put up eight runs without contributions from Jake Bowers. Where
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: are we with Jake Bowers, and how much are his
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: shin splints a concern?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like it's day-to-day right now, something that
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: popped up in May, flared up here. Within the last
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: week or two and flared up pretty badly.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: So yeah, boy, he's been beat up.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: He had the abdominal soreness. He had the swollen foot
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: and now he's got shin splints and the guy's like,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and look, he's playing every day. Like that's not something
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: he had done for a really long time. So I
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: think that's significant. And I think that's part of it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: And you know, we talk a lot about the pitching
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and needing to limit innings on the pitching side. Look
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: at some of these guys have not played a full,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: full major league season in a while on the hitting
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: side either. So you kind of need to pay attention
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: to that too. And I think that's what they're trying
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to do. Get these guys off their feet. Sometimes, you know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: whether it's, Hey, if you have something little nagging, you
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: maybe keep them out a little longer, whether it was
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Bryce to rang out of that LA series, Just make
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: sure these guys get healthy before they come back. So
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: they don't do something different. I think that was part
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: of Dustin May last night. Like, yes, maybe you could throw,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, you're probably going
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: to have to change your mechanics a little bit and
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: maybe you get hurt doing something else. And so that's
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: maybe part of the reason with Jake Bowers as well. Plus,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: you know, that can be very painful from what I've heard. That's,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: you know, a very painful thing too. So I think, Yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: so I think with Jake Bowers, it's day-to-day, and hopefully
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: he's back soon. The good news was he could play
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the night before because he came in late in the ballgame,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: pinch hit in the ninth inning, and played first base
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: for the ninth and tenth. But maybe you do keep
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: him out another night tonight. If you're getting the production
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: from Yelich, Contreras, and obviously Terang, and Freelick back and
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: hitting like he is, okay, you can maybe sustain a
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: little bit without Jake Bowers.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Does Abner Uribe do the full dice celebration pitching with
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: the Timber Rattlers since a lot of those kids aren't
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: old enough to play craps and go to the casino?
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: How did he look as yesterday?
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: It also sounds like he's going to be sooner rather
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: than later back with the big league club.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: It does.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Scoreless inning made a nice play on the mound, too,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: that I saw on social media. Like he seemed like
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: he had his swagger. One of the things he told
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: reporters was he was trying to work on his confidence
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: over this time that he's been out.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And I, it's just like, you've never seen him lacking it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited. I'm excited to know that what kind
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: of picture he's going to be after that.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Confidence for him.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: The, the, the showman.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: And, and, you know, it's interesting cause I, I, you know, he,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: he is, um, you know, and Jeffrey Young, we've seen
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: a little bit of in this series, he has not
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: done the jump and strike.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: I was really hoping he would.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: We really, really were.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: But Abner is kind of obviously on those lines when
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: it comes to celebrations. But hey, we don't necessarily think
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: about those guys as needing more confidence, especially if they're
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: pitching well. But maybe it's some things that they see
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: from their end that like, oh, I could be doing
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: this better. And maybe he's able to work on that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: over this time. It does sound like he'll be back
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: this weekend against Texas, which will be great for that bullpen.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: You're clearly lacking that one more leveraged guy there. Because
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: they were kind of lacking one more leverage guy throughout
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: this season. And because you lost Angel Serpa so early
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: in the season, and then Sensatella has kind of been
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: that guy. So if you have that, and then you
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: add Abner, you like that bullpen. So it sounds like
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: all systems are pretty much a go for this weekend.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: And that's really good because whenever a guy is put
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: on The IL with that flexor injury, you worry a
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: little bit, but it sounds like it's going to be
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: pretty much close to at least a minimum stint on
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: the IL.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: So Brewers going for a series win today with Miz
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: on the mound. Is it just me or does Miz
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: seem to have a little extra gear when he faces
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: New York teams? It seems like that's been his MO.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: 25th start of the season for Miz, 13-5, 1.68 ERA.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Last time out was Friday against Atlanta. Threw pretty well,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but not like eye-poppingly Miz-like. Hunter, what are you expecting
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: from the big kid tonight?
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's, yeah, he does shine in these moments, right?
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: You do see the velocity go up sometimes against the L.A. 's,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the New York's, the Chicago's, the bigger markets. He's admitted
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: that he likes pitching against the bigger markets, and hey,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: who wouldn't? And this is another cool environment for him
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to be in. I think for me tonight, it's just, okay,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: can we see that fastball command back? Because it wasn't
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: there against the Braves. That was incredibly impressive and shows
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: how much he's grown that he could work around that
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: against the Braves and still throw six shutout innings. I mean,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: that was really, really good against the Braves. Was it
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: six shutout or six one run?
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: I can't remember. Zero or one runs. But either way,
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: he was fantastic.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: But you obviously know that Miz is at his best
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: when he's got the fastball command, when he's got the velocity.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: So I think tonight, let's see if he can get
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: that back, get that velocity back up. You're obviously watching
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: the velocity a little bit because at this point in
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: the year, you obviously don't want it to significantly drop
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: off at all. Not that I don't think it would
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: with Miz, but you're keeping an eye on that. Kyle
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Harrison's velocity went back up against the Mets, which is
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: really good to see. So you're just watching that a
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: little bit because you're getting, again, you're getting to these
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: points in the season where these guys are going through
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: a full Major League season, Miz's first full Major League
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: season for the first time, and you want them to
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: keep their numbers up.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: This was actually the site of the most mortal I
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: think Miz looked a year ago. This might have been
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: the welcome to the big league moment. I think he
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: got pulled in like the fourth inning, maybe Soto or Lindor'd.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Hit an absolute tank shot on him last year. He
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: couldn't find the strike zone for a little while. It's
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: crazy to think just, Hunter, about how the mounds used
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: to be such an agitator for him a year ago.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: And his ability to.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Calm down and the confidence of saying, hey, you ground-trigger folks,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: let's fix this up here right now. All right, I'm
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: going to win the Cy Young. The least you can
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: do is add me a little bit of dirt and
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: a little bit of clay. Like, that kind of confidence
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: probably comes from... a couple of conversations with the skippers saying,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Hey man, make sure it's to your liking, but you
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: put pelts on the wall and strike out as many
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: as he has. That confidence is a lot different than
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: the last time he pitched there a year ago.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: He has definitely some, uh, some cachet to be able
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: to say, Hey, you know, uh, you know, I'd, I'd
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: like this changed over here.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Can we get that?
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: You know, it's, it's, he's got plenty. He's, he's, one
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: of the stars of the league right now. And I
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: think the grounds could be like, yep. Well, Hey, whatever
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: you need, whatever you need.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mr.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Mizorowski.
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely. We will get that for you right now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Hold on one second.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Hunter B, thank you for joining us. We'll be listening tonight.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Five o'clock, the baseball pre game show, correct?
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: You got it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Five o'clock for the six, 10 start and a final
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: game here.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: That's three game series.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: And then they host a Texas right in the middle
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: of a playoff race, right around 500.
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: Coming up this weekend.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Are you going to be able to enjoy any country
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: music night tomorrow night? Hunter Baumgart is a country music man.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: He's going to be at the game. He's going to
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: be in the clubhouse. Are we going to be able
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: to get any Heads Carolina, Tails California for Hunter Baumgart
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: tomorrow night?
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I do enjoy Cole Swindell. I will be working with
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Armin on our Packers coverage tomorrow. No country music night.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: For Hunter.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I did the math a while ago. I feel bad
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: he can't go. I didn't do it. I mean, I
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: didn't make the schedules. I love it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: We're sorry. Hey, we got to help where it's needed.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Changing the seasons. Maybe we can get you out there.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Final preseason game.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: What time is it? Are you guys going to start
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: at 11? Maybe we can get you guys.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: We sure hope so. Well, me too. We hope.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Hunter, have a great day.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: See you, buddy.
• 36:50
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• 36:53
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• 36:57
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• 37:04
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• 37:38
  Speaker 5: There is a new food item that might be the
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: unhealthiest of all time. Now, we believe that this is actual.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: We believe that we are not getting duped. We have
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: seen this from a multitude of different entities and different
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: outlets telling us that there is a new spot and
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: a new food item, Drew, that is going to potentially
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: ruin everybody's stomach for the rest of their lives. Are
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: you ready for it?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I am ready. I'm so ready.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: KFC is releasing the new Oreo chicken burger.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: The what? This was in Japan or China? It launches
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: in China tomorrow, August 28th.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Now, which part of the Oreo is the chicken inside?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: The bun.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: So I want cream, though.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Is there any cream? It's an Oreo bun.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: So the Oreo cookie bun with the stamping of the
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: cookie still right there in the middle, locked in with
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: a nutritious.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Slice of lettuce that definitely won't give you explosive diarrhea.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: A slab fillet of chicken right in between the two cookies. Now, yeah,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: this tweet had 27.6 million views. Comes with a cookie bun.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Bizarrest of crossovers you've ever seen. Also, mashed potatoes covered
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: in crushed cookies.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: On Twitter.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: The fried chicken. I don't know what we're doing, but
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is great.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: There haven't been any quotes again, asking if this would
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: line up, but the China insider news has pictures of
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: it in the box and it is as strange and
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: awkward looking as you possibly could imagine, but they're right
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: on the box. It's finger licking good KFC and Oreo
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: together for the collab that nobody really realizes.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: They needed.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Now the savory flavors have been hot in America, right?
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, chicken and waffles is something a lot of
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: people love. Yes. Deep fried Oreos. You're going to the,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: going to the Milwaukee mile this weekend. And we talked
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: to our friend Tim earlier on. There might be some sport.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: He's might be some deep fried Oreos there. Those are,
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: those are an absolute staple. I can't say that I
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: wouldn't want to potentially try one. That being said, this
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: might be the one that even I would pass on. Oh, Bill,
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: are you kidding me?
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Oh man. I'm a little disappointed in you. No, I
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: think the wilder part is the mashed potato with the cookies.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: I could see the cookie and the chicken, but the
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: mashed potato with the cookie crumbs, that's the wilder one.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: See, but you needed to be a little, because I
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: was thinking it was going to be too heavy. You
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: had to have some kind of cream, like you said.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: I would like the cream part of the Oreos. That's
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: where the mashed potatoes, I think, compensate for that. And
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: I'm a big mashed potatoes fan. So you're always going
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: to see me getting the KFC bowl because it's got
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: the mashed potatoes in it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: That's the other part. KFC has already won.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: They have that delicious chicken bowl with the mashed potatoes
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: and the corn and everything you need. Don't mess with anything.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Just add an Oreo to it. Just put the Oreo
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: there on top, and that's even better. But KFC, go
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: and get your Oreo chicken burger.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Fantastic. All right. It's been a good run today. Tomorrow
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: is game day.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Packers and Cardinals, of course, and also we'll be recapping
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Brewers-Mets and looking forward to Brewers-Rangers. Billy off tomorrow. We'll
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: soldier ahead, skating shorthanded. See you at 5 a.m.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Peace.