Transcript

09/17/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin. I love it. Just about ready
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Speaker 1: to hit the air. And Billy says, keep racking that
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Speaker 1: big brain of yours. Keep racking that brain of yours.
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Speaker 1: Keep racking that Marquette brain of yours. Well, that's the.
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Speaker 2: One of these times it's happening. Hey, well, no, that's
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Speaker 2: the off-air show.
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Speaker 1: What did we say? The second show? That's the second show. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the second show. The commercial break podcast. Yeah. That means
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Speaker 1: we have three shows today because we're doing one at
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Speaker 1: Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
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Speaker 3: We're going to have to remember where all the gold is.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a hell of a job.
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Speaker 1: With Wayne Larrabee and our friends from Jameson giving away
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Speaker 1: a pair of Packers tickets tonight and some delicious samples.
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Speaker 3: It is going to be a great day to be
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Speaker 3: there all day, though.
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Speaker 2: You were talking about the Thursday night game, obviously, tonight
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Speaker 2: in Buffalo and them opening the stadium. The fact that
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Speaker 2: the Brewers played during the day. It might be one
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Speaker 2: of those where you say, I'm sorry, honey. I've got
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Speaker 2: to get there early to set up.
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Speaker 1: Two of the teams that the Packers are competing against
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Speaker 1: in the NFC North. um, we'll lose this week. All right.
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Speaker 1: One for sure. And I think, I don't see the
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Speaker 1: bills losing on their, their home opener, but they, uh,
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Speaker 1: stranger things have happened. Well, and that's the tough thing
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Speaker 1: is drew stranger things have happened and worse things have
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Speaker 1: happened to the Buffalo bills, right? Like if any team
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Speaker 1: could have that kind of catastrophe happen of, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: say they're up four with 35 seconds to go. Now
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Speaker 1: the sun's That's kind of Packers. But if all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you're up and all of a sudden Jared
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Speaker 1: Goff lead throws a deep ball and somehow Jamison Williams
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Speaker 1: is wide open the back end and finishes off the
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Speaker 1: game and folks have to walk out of new Highmark
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Speaker 1: stadium sad for the first time. It wouldn't be the
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Speaker 1: most surprise. No, it would be. It'd be the most
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Speaker 1: surprising thing that happens this football season. Josh Allen's dialed in.
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Speaker 1: He's ready waiting for this one. They've been walking around
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Speaker 1: this construction for like two or three years. Right. They
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Speaker 1: got a big Buffalo stadium. Three big Buffaloes that people
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Speaker 1: are walking in and walking through to get into the stadium.
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Speaker 1: It's cool. They're setting a hell of a setting, a
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Speaker 1: hell of a mood there in Buffalo. I agree.
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Speaker 3: He'll be ready. But the defense, you know, the thing
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Speaker 3: is that they're going to be points in this game.
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Speaker 1: You'd think.
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Speaker 2: And then again, it is Thursday night. I've gone back
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Speaker 2: and forth on this over under 54 and a half.
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Speaker 2: We'll get into it more tonight. Talking about the wagering
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Speaker 2: aspect of it right now. The bills are sitting as
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Speaker 2: a five point favorite of Pottawatomie sports book. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: Lions plus 190. I mean, I don't see it happening either.
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Speaker 2: But then again, it's very possible because the Lions are
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Speaker 2: a good team. And like you said, you know, stranger things. Well,
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Speaker 2: this is, you know, this is the NFL where stranger
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Speaker 2: things always happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Bills favored by three and a half at this juncture,
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Speaker 1: which is almost a pick them. But according to the
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Speaker 1: eggheads and the computers, bills are 64 percent probability to win. Well,
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Speaker 1: and that's the nice thing about it. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: it at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. You can move that line around.
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Speaker 1: A lot of institutions have it up at five. You
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Speaker 1: can move it to three and a half, get it
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Speaker 1: at minus 132. Buffalo Bills, it's minus 240 just to
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Speaker 1: win the football game. That and a Josh Allen touchdown.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It should be a lot of fun
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Speaker 1: to be able to mess around here on the old kiosk.
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Speaker 1: I see value in the Sunday matchup at Soldier Field.
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Speaker 1: Vikings and Bears. Bears, five and a half point favorites.
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Speaker 3: And right now it's four and a half.
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Speaker 1: They are everyone's favorite right now. Opened at three and
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Speaker 1: a half. And then, like, I think there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of Bears fans heading to the window to try to
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Speaker 1: crush their man. Well, and there's a lot of folks
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Speaker 1: that are becoming Bears fans nationally. I mean, not only
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Speaker 1: just because on our air, Colin Cowherd, Chicago's newest resident,
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Speaker 1: has been hyping them up. The fact is they're going
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Speaker 1: to put up a ton of points week in and
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Speaker 1: week out. How much are they going to stop folks?
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Speaker 1: That will be a great question to answer. This is
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Speaker 1: going to be a hell of a test week, though,
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Speaker 1: for Williams in this offense of what kind of answers
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Speaker 1: do they have for Flores? Because they lose Dahlman in
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Speaker 1: the offseason, their center. They grabbed Bradbury. They drafted the
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Speaker 1: kid Jones out of Iowa. I thought he was going
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Speaker 1: to be their center. But instead he apparently just didn't
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Speaker 1: look good enough in camp. So I'm, I'm interested to
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Speaker 1: see how they block it up and how Williams handles
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Speaker 1: the pressure because right now he's a understandably. So everybody's
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Speaker 1: top flavor of the year. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The hype, the hype, how we understand the hype too.
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Speaker 3: Cause I understandably.
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Speaker 2: So for bears fans and for the bears right now,
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Speaker 2: it's all puppy dogs and ice cream, but, I don't
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Speaker 2: predict you're going to score 59 points every week.
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Speaker 1: So we'll, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Billy,
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Speaker 1: you hit me with some guys that the Packers could
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Speaker 1: have drafted yesterday. And that will always sting guys. Those
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Speaker 1: are tough. Things that the Packers did. What if we
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Speaker 1: had a time machine, an alternate universe where the Packers
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Speaker 1: acquire Joe Tooney and the, Bears got Aaron Banks and
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Speaker 1: the Bears would have gotten Aaron Banks. Yeah. What would
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Speaker 1: be different then? Oh, man. Well, Andrew, at the time,
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Speaker 1: I kind of thought because Dolman was the number one
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Speaker 1: center on the market at the time. And that was
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Speaker 1: the year that the Packers let Josh Myers walk away.
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Speaker 1: So they're in the market for a center. The thought
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Speaker 1: is they'll move out and Jenkins over, but bears signed
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Speaker 1: Dolman pretty quickly out of free age at the start
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Speaker 1: of free agency for less money than Aaron Banks got.
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Speaker 1: I kind of figured the Packers were in that conversation.
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Speaker 1: It would have just felt like made more sense. Let's
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Speaker 1: not upset all of the apple carts, but they wanted
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Speaker 1: a big body and a parent mauler from San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, that deals you make the deals you don't make. Now,
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Speaker 1: Dolman ends up playing phenomenally as an all-pro and then retires.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So then they're back to square one. But, yeah, it
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Speaker 1: could have been a much, much different situation if they
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Speaker 1: gave up a couple of draft picks and signed some
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Speaker 1: money for Joe Tooney or Jonah Jackson, too. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they paid a decent amount of money for their right
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Speaker 1: guard as well in the offseason from the Rams last year,
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Speaker 1: and he ended up having one of the healthier years
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Speaker 1: of his career. What does it say that the Packers
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Speaker 1: line opened with them favored by 6.5, and now it's
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Speaker 1: down to 4.5? Not surprising. And frankly, Drew, I would not.
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Speaker 1: Since the Pottawatomie sports book is obviously on Green Bay
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Speaker 1: Packer fan land ground. Good point. I think their number
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Speaker 1: might be a little bit different at other places. I
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Speaker 1: would expect the Jets to be a heavily invested on
5:58
Speaker 1: team this week. And one that a lot of folks
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Speaker 1: and books are going to be taking an interesting interest
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Speaker 1: to because they all be it played the Tennessee Titans
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Speaker 1: a week ago. It's not like that is a game
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Speaker 1: that changes many preseason prognostications of the Jets. But they
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Speaker 1: were so god-awful a year ago, and people were so
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Speaker 1: loud about wanting Glenn fired in that fan base, that
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Speaker 1: I think there are many people that just planned on
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Speaker 1: them being cheeks and kind of death-trotting it to the
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Speaker 1: finish line. They come out with some vigor and fight,
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Speaker 1: and you remember that they got some young players that, again,
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Speaker 1: you have that many top five picks, at some point
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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to hit on something. They've
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Speaker 1: got some good players. They've got some, some youth and
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Speaker 1: you're number two in that system. There's some excitement there.
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Speaker 1: So I anticipate the jets number. If anything, you like
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Speaker 1: the Packers. I would wait a little tech. Cause you
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Speaker 1: might even get it a little different number coming up
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Speaker 1: closer to kickoff. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The confidence is not there for the Packers right now.
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Speaker 2: Right. And you mentioned it, Billy, we are where we are.
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Speaker 2: We're in Packers land and maybe that number is affected
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Speaker 2: a pot. A lot of be more, but it is
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Speaker 2: interesting how people chase results in that sense. You know,
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Speaker 2: you just talked about it with the bears and, Um,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's funny. I was getting a text from
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Speaker 2: our engineer, Alec. Usually that's not necessarily a good thing,
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Speaker 2: but in this case it was because he was complaining
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Speaker 2: about the lack of respect that his Seahawks are not.
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Speaker 3: Getting and saying that.
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Speaker 2: He can't believe. that they're only four-point favorites. So it's
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Speaker 2: interesting how people will chase results from week one. But
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Speaker 2: the nice thing is when you go to Pottawatomie, you
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Speaker 2: have an opportunity to, like you said, Billy, move the
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Speaker 2: line to where you want to try and get the
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Speaker 2: best number. And they also have a lineup for Packers-Falcons already.
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Speaker 2: If you really wanted to show some confidence in your
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Speaker 2: Packers and get that at minus six and a half,
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Speaker 2: if you believe they're going to blow out the Falcons.
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Speaker 2: So you can invest on that early. So it is
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Speaker 2: really nice. But it is going to be interesting to
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Speaker 2: see how things shake out as we approach week two.
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Speaker 1: Starting tonight with us as the warm-up act for Bill's Lions.
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Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle, Pottawatomie Sportsbook. The Annex, come and see
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Speaker 1: us from 5 to 7. Wayne Larrabee, the Jamison folks.
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Speaker 1: That's the draw. And a chance to win some Packers
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Speaker 1: tickets for a week from tonight. It's a great draw
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Speaker 1: to be able to have a chance to win Packers tickets.
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Speaker 1: Even better opportunity to see, one, what Armin Sarian looks like.
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Speaker 1: Two Wayne Larrabee in the flesh. Those are huge prizes.
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Speaker 3: I think number two is better.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I would disagree. But you have the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to hang back, listen, and hear what Wano thinks
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Speaker 1: about this Packers offensive line. We talked about it a
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Speaker 1: lot during training camp live. However, all we had waited
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Speaker 1: for was precisely what we had on Sunday. Now we
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Speaker 1: were expecting it and hoping it to be a much
8:29
Speaker 1: better result. But you were waiting for some kind of...
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Speaker 1: Proof something on tape, something in front of you again,
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Speaker 1: a tangible result against another opponent to say, are the
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Speaker 1: concerns that we had all off season long. Were they valid?
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Speaker 1: Turned out very valid. Now you got to figure out
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Speaker 1: how much better and how quickly you can get better.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear Wayne's prognostications of the team. Cause again,
8:52
Speaker 1: Wayne's not going to sugarcoat things. He's going to tell
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Speaker 1: you how he feels about it.
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Speaker 2: He's always honest, always honest, and that's what you love
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Speaker 2: about him, and he'll be honest, especially in that environment.
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Speaker 1: You know Wayne's going to have some fun, and we're
9:03
Speaker 1: going to have some fun. It's going to be a
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Speaker 1: legendary moment, and I've been told Miller Lite legendary moments
9:07
Speaker 1: start with a Lite. There's going to be some of
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Speaker 1: those flowing tonight as well with those Jamesons. For sure.
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Speaker 1: You talked about Aaron Glenn. This is the Aaron Glenn game.
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Speaker 1: It's a Geno Smith game. Can Geno Smith lead the
9:19
Speaker 1: JETs to 2-0? where they haven't been since Joe Namath.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, yeah, the Mark Sanchez years.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but Gino Smith, apparently, and I didn't know this.
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Speaker 1: I love to find stuff like this out. Apparently, Gino
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Speaker 1: Smith has a photographic memory. And I'm wondering, because you've seen,
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Speaker 1: is it McVeigh that knows every call and every play
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Speaker 1: he's ever drawn up in the dirt? But Gino Smith,
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Speaker 1: if he has a photographic memory, do guys with photographic memories,
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Speaker 1: do they ever lose their keys like I do? Like,
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Speaker 1: do you remember everything? Like, where are my car keys?
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Speaker 1: Do they ever misplace anything if you have a photographic memory? Well,
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Speaker 1: that would be a lot easier to sit on the
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Speaker 1: couch and know exactly where you let the TV remote
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Speaker 1: slide through the crack. At least, you know, all right,
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Speaker 1: I was sitting right there last time I actually flipped
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Speaker 1: the remote. No, no, I might have been over here. No,
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Speaker 1: hold on. Let me just rip the whole thing apart here. Well,
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Speaker 1: he definitely forgets something, at least according to that young
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Speaker 1: lady whose video said he forgot a lot of those
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Speaker 1: child support payments this offseason. Hey, now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you can still lose things if you
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Speaker 1: have a photographic memory.
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Speaker 2: OK.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to AI.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's accurate, but lapses do happen.
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Speaker 3: There's a myth of total recall.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you can get every detail like a
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Speaker 2: high resolution camera.
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Speaker 1: Um, so it's still normal brain function, even if you
10:35
Speaker 1: have a highly, so do you have to like take
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Speaker 1: the mental picture? Like in hall pass where you start,
10:39
Speaker 1: it's going click like, like meta glasses. Yeah. Like you
10:42
Speaker 1: have to make the sound too, to know that you
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Speaker 1: have it in your head or do you just look
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Speaker 1: at it and say, this is the stuff I'm going
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Speaker 1: to remember. This is the stuff I don't necessarily care about.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't know.
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Speaker 2: People always say, or when you remember a lot of things,
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Speaker 2: I do remember odd details, but as you know, I
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Speaker 2: forget a lot of simple stuff. Like, Oh yeah, we
10:58
Speaker 2: have to give this one. So I forget that stuff too.
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Speaker 3: So I really don't know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But you remember the things you care about, like the
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Speaker 1: 1992 finals game five.
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Speaker 2: Like I remember like, Oh, I care about like what did, uh,
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Speaker 2: what did so-and-so socks look like in the 1995 playoffs?
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Speaker 1: Um, you're right.
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Speaker 2: So it is interesting. I think the guy, who would
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Speaker 2: you ask Aaron Rogers? I think that's the guy everyone
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Speaker 2: talks about with the photographic memory. Like he remembers every
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Speaker 2: play pretty uncanny.
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Speaker 3: What he can do is crazy. I saw in the, um,
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Speaker 3: Whose podcast was it?
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Speaker 1: I'm blanking now. His teammate. Cam Hayward? Yeah, Cam's podcast.
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Speaker 2: He was talking about his scuffle with, well, scuffle's the
11:33
Speaker 2: wrong word, but his argument with Mike McCarthy on the
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Speaker 2: sideline in 2013 against the Bengals. He remembered, like, every
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Speaker 2: detail of it. So, hey, I mean, some guys just
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Speaker 2: had that ability. But, yeah, I mean, did Aaron ever
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Speaker 2: forget his keys? I'm sure he's forgotten something.
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Speaker 1: I would think so. Yeah, so that is pretty interesting.
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Speaker 1: I wonder. All right. All right. 877-794-1973 gets you into
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Speaker 1: the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. This one, Caleb Williams quote,
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Speaker 1: preparing for mental war with Brian Flores this week. So, Drew,
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Speaker 1: there it is. That shows that's going to be a
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Speaker 1: battle in that noon slate. Pretty solid noon slate this week.
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Speaker 1: Noon slate maybe left a little something to be desired
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Speaker 1: in week number one. It is a girthy one coming
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Speaker 1: up this week, and shockingly so. They'll be rather light
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Speaker 1: in the 3 o'clock window because we only get five
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Speaker 1: games there. I think we could even those out a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but Jags-Broncos will be a good one in
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Speaker 1: that 325. Guys, we had a question from ThisIsSteve in
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Speaker 1: the text line. Come on, Steve. Maybe you can take
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Speaker 1: a stab at it. Guys, he was wondering.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if this is really true. This
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Speaker 2: happens a lot, but he was wondering maybe because of
12:40
Speaker 2: the struggles in week one.
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, guys, good morning. I saw that Packers brought
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Speaker 1: in wide receivers and quarterbacks for tryouts. Why aren't they
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Speaker 1: bringing in any old linemen for tryouts? They did bring
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Speaker 1: in a guard.
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Speaker 3: There was somebody, right?
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask that. There was one guard
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Speaker 1: on that workout list. They'll bring in different guys throughout
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Speaker 1: the season, and teams will check in. I mean, Drew, right?
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Speaker 1: Tuesdays generally is workout day. That's right. And most teams
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Speaker 1: have at least one guy come in, right? Kind of
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Speaker 1: usually have multiple. They'll usually have at least a couple
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Speaker 1: of guys come in. The even the percentage of those
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Speaker 1: guys that then get signed to the practice squad, I
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Speaker 1: think would be strikingly low compared to how many they
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Speaker 1: actually bring in and how many you hear about.
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Speaker 4: But.
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Speaker 1: Steve, it's a fair point. I mean, Lucas Patrick was
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Speaker 1: a tryout with the commanders earlier this week, and then
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Speaker 1: he got signed to the active roster. There are guys
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Speaker 1: out there. The difficult question about offensive line play right now,
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Speaker 1: and one that I think in the last couple of
13:41
Speaker 1: years is a pretty good case study for it. Around
13:45
Speaker 1: the league, the position is being played at a lesser level.
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Speaker 1: It is mostly because of the lack of ability to
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Speaker 1: prepare and practice it. The amount of As Matt LaFleur
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Speaker 1: liked to say, time on task. You can only manufacture
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Speaker 1: so much time on task and on the practice field,
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Speaker 1: playing and repping and working with the same guys that
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Speaker 1: you just don't have a ton of. And across the league,
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Speaker 1: there is a quest to be able to find them.
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Speaker 1: So there's not as many good offensive linemen, or I
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Speaker 1: think even, you know, Serviceable offensive linemen. Available and serviceable
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Speaker 1: is one that there's not a ton of right now. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's why Packers worked out. The guy they worked out
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Speaker 1: was Colson Cordell Volson. Sounds like a sweet name. Cordell Volson.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy that knows what he's doing. They
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Speaker 1: do have a practice squad position open, but he was
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Speaker 1: a fourth-round pick of the Bengals in 2022. Between his
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Speaker 1: rookie season in 2024, he played in 50 games, 48
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Speaker 1: starts for Cincinnati. Hasn't played, appeared in a regular season
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Speaker 1: game since 2024, but he has over 3,000 snaps of
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Speaker 1: regular season experience at left guard. And a North Dakota guy.
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Speaker 1: Most recently with the Tennessee Titans. Was in training camp
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Speaker 1: with them and got released at the final cut down. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and you guys have talked about, you know, the way
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Speaker 1: he allowed 43 pressures and committed eight penalties in 2024. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the reason, the reason maybe why it's not there,
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Speaker 1: but listen, he played, played into that playoff run that
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Speaker 1: the Bengals had notes in 22.
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Speaker 2: But you guys have talked about like the Kevin Zeitler thing.
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Speaker 2: Is that more of a pipe dream? Is that reality?
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Speaker 2: I know maybe the Josh sweat people have moved to
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Speaker 2: Kevin Zeitler as being like, we got to get, I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's understandable. You react that way after a
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Speaker 2: game to say, who can we, how can we fix
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Speaker 2: this problem? But I don't know if that's going to
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Speaker 2: be reality or not. Will he play again with somebody?
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Speaker 1: I rumor his sources close to our situation say that
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Speaker 1: he's been working out waiting for the phone to ring,
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Speaker 1: which is, it would play based on what, but it's not,
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Speaker 1: that is not a Packers type move, right? Billy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not like a, not very, no, you're right. It's
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Speaker 1: like the Packers tend to do the Gene Hackman Hoosiers.
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Speaker 1: Like my team is on the floor. This is who
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Speaker 1: I'm going to war with. This is who I'm taking.
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Speaker 1: And we'll, we'll live and die with it. I can't
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Speaker 1: say that it's not, it would, they would make some,
15:59
Speaker 1: it would make plenty of sense, right? Let me start there.
16:01
Speaker 1: But it would be an unpackers-like move. The tough thing
16:06
Speaker 1: is here, and whether it's this week, whether it's next
16:10
Speaker 1: week on Thursday night, whether it's the week after that
16:12
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, at some point with the resources you have,
16:17
Speaker 1: the food that you got in the cabinet, Jagger Burton's
16:20
Speaker 1: going to have to be a part of the solution.
16:22
Speaker 1: So whether or not they didn't want to put him
16:24
Speaker 1: out there in the wasteland of U.S. Bank Stadium... that
16:30
Speaker 1: I get, I, I could listen to, I would disagree
16:33
Speaker 1: with the decision, right? Like at that, I will firmly
16:36
Speaker 1: disagree with it because the guy played in the sec
16:38
Speaker 1: for how many snaps played, how many years in some
16:42
Speaker 1: of the most raucous crazed environments in college football as
16:47
Speaker 1: a road guy with Kentucky, where they were probably favored
16:50
Speaker 1: to get smacked. Most games going up against teams where
16:53
Speaker 1: they were a lot that they had a talent discrepancy against.
16:56
Speaker 1: So like, if you identified him in the fifth round,
16:59
Speaker 1: picked them, Talked all offseason long, Drew, about him being
17:03
Speaker 1: one of the guys that's going to be a part
17:04
Speaker 1: of it. Got a really, really bright future. Rotate him
17:07
Speaker 1: in with the ones as much as possible. If it's
17:10
Speaker 1: not Aaron Banks, I think it's got to be Burton
17:12
Speaker 1: because whenever you're going to start, whenever you wanted the
17:16
Speaker 1: timeline to be to put him on, I think last
17:19
Speaker 1: game's performance accelerates it by a couple of weeks. So
17:21
Speaker 1: if you were hoping to get him a soft landing
17:23
Speaker 1: in week five, that might have already gotten moved up
17:26
Speaker 1: to week three. And... A couple of series in and
17:30
Speaker 1: similar results with Donovan Jennings there at left guard. Maybe
17:33
Speaker 1: it becomes the second quarter of week two because you're
17:36
Speaker 1: going to have to speed this thing up. The football
17:38
Speaker 1: team will tell you when you have to make decisions.
17:39
Speaker 1: And I think they've indicated very clearly to the coaching staff,
17:44
Speaker 1: we might have to make this decision sooner rather than
17:47
Speaker 1: we'd like to. I can see it.
17:50
Speaker 4: Yep.
17:53
Speaker 1: Speaking of decisions, the Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall
17:55
Speaker 1: of Fame, slashing voters. Haven't heard about Pete Doherty's status yet,
17:59
Speaker 1: but they got rid of a lot of veteran guys.
18:01
Speaker 1: They got rid of John McCain.
18:03
Speaker 3: Wow, they're even gatekeeping the gatekeepers.
18:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:06
Speaker 4: Wow.
18:07
Speaker 1: And John's been an absolute institution talking football down in Houston.
18:11
Speaker 1: And Rick Gosselin from Dallas, who was like, you know,
18:14
Speaker 1: this is a lot of veteran dudes. You got rid
18:16
Speaker 1: of Rick Gosselin?
18:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:17
Speaker 1: These special teams, man?
18:19
Speaker 3: Well, are they giving those spots to somebody else, Drew?
18:21
Speaker 1: No, they said they were going from 50 to 28.
18:22
Speaker 1: They're pairing it down. Interesting. Dungy and Bill Polian out, too,
18:27
Speaker 1: I think. Unlike the Heisman, which has like 500 voters.
18:31
Speaker 1: There's a list of 22 voters getting cut, and at
18:33
Speaker 1: least three other media members have to be.
18:35
Speaker 3: Close ranks, boys.
18:36
Speaker 1: Close ranks. And they're no longer, from what McClain said,
18:39
Speaker 1: they're not doing the personal speech or presentation for guys
18:48
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, they're changing the parameters of it. Interesting.
18:51
Speaker 1: That's interesting. And one of the interesting ones, the guy
18:54
Speaker 1: who got retained. was Va Gregorian of the Kansas City Star,
18:59
Speaker 1: who was one of the guys to confirm no votes
19:01
Speaker 1: on Belichick. Yeah, confirmed that he didn't vote for Belichick.
19:03
Speaker 1: And the reason that they're doing this whole soul search
19:06
Speaker 1: is because of the Belichick. Because of the Belichick thing.
19:08
Speaker 1: So it's just wild. And when all reality, it was
19:10
Speaker 1: the process and the weird logistics of how they allowed
19:14
Speaker 1: you only to vote a certain amount of guys. Now, still,
19:16
Speaker 1: if you're allowed to vote for three guys, Bill Belichick
19:18
Speaker 1: should have been one of the three.
19:19
Speaker 2: But.
19:21
Speaker 1: Interesting on the selectiveness of who ends up getting a
19:24
Speaker 1: part of it and who doesn't. We're going from 50
19:26
Speaker 1: to 28.
19:27
Speaker 3: I would have bet anything that McLean is in every
19:29
Speaker 3: inner circle.
19:30
Speaker 1: That guy, yeah.
19:31
Speaker 2: There's a couple of guys that I've dealt with. When
19:33
Speaker 2: he talks about those old Euler stories, I love him.
19:35
Speaker 1: There were two people from Cleveland there, Tony Grossi and
19:38
Speaker 1: Mary Kay Cabot, both out. Matt Maioco, out. Polian, out.
19:41
Speaker 1: Lisa Salters, out. There goes my chance for a vote. Yeah,
19:44
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys. Yeah, you got Darren Gantz
19:47
Speaker 1: from Carolina. He's been there a long time, too. So
19:50
Speaker 1: a lot of guys got bounced from that committee. Interesting stuff.
19:53
Speaker 1: When we come back, Scott Dolphin's going to join the party.
19:54
Speaker 1: It's halftime of the Thursday edition of The Huddle. It's
19:56
Speaker 1: our doubleheader. So I guess halftime's actually the end of
19:59
Speaker 1: the show today because we got the Thursday night huddle
20:01
Speaker 1: live at Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex tonight, 5 to 7,
20:04
Speaker 1: with Wayne Larrabee and our friends from Jameson giving out
20:06
Speaker 1: a pair of Packer tickets at the end of the show.
20:09
Speaker 1: and some samples during the show. When we come back,
20:11
Speaker 1: Dolph will join us, and we're going to have our
20:13
Speaker 1: last pair of Luke Bryan tickets to give away to
20:15
Speaker 1: see him at Alpine Valley September 26th. You're going to
20:18
Speaker 1: want to listen to the huddle. Drew, Billy, and Armand
20:23
Speaker 1: bringing it to you on this Thursday in the good land.
20:27
Speaker 1: Warm-up act. It's the first game of our doubleheader. It's
20:30
Speaker 1: the Thursday night huddle. Pottawatomie Sportsbook tonight, 5 to 7 o'clock.
20:34
Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee is going to be joining us. Our friends
20:35
Speaker 1: from Jameson have a pair of Packers tickets to give away.
20:37
Speaker 1: So that's nice. Right now we're at halftime of the
20:40
Speaker 1: daily show and Scott Dolphin joins us from the country
20:43
Speaker 1: station on the hall. Our cue to tell you to
20:45
Speaker 1: call 877-794-1973 to win some Luke Bryan tickets coming to
20:49
Speaker 1: Alpine Valley, September 26th. Oh baby. The word on the
20:53
Speaker 1: street tour, Drew Baldrige, Lauren Watkins, and Ray Lynn will
20:56
Speaker 1: be teeing it up a full day of music for
20:58
Speaker 1: you and fun in a gorgeous fall setting. You can
21:01
Speaker 1: do the fall foliage tour during the day on your
21:03
Speaker 1: way in, maybe stop at the, uh, with a pumpkin
21:06
Speaker 1: patch or the Elegant Farmer or something.
21:08
Speaker 4: All those are going to get tagged this weekend. That's
21:10
Speaker 4: a good drop right there. Head into Alpine Valley. When
21:13
Speaker 4: my kid was at Whitewater, my wife and I made
21:15
Speaker 4: a point of taking a separate way home so we
21:18
Speaker 4: could drop by the Elegant Farmer and get some of
21:19
Speaker 4: those caramel apple pies baked in the bag.
21:21
Speaker 1: Baked in the bag. Oh, my gosh. So good.
21:23
Speaker 4: Oh, that's incredible. Worth the side trip to Makwanago.
21:28
Speaker 1: The paper bag apple pie is a beautiful one. Now
21:31
Speaker 1: everybody's doing the apple cider doughnuts. Everybody's trying to fire
21:35
Speaker 1: up the apple cider donuts. They might still do it
21:37
Speaker 1: better than everybody else.
21:38
Speaker 4: I read something this morning where there's a funeral company
21:41
Speaker 4: out east that has a pumpkin spice casket now. Ooh.
21:44
Speaker 1: If you're that into the PSLs. Okay. For eternity. Better
21:49
Speaker 1: PSLs than PCA, I would say. We hit two homers
21:51
Speaker 1: last night. I like that.
21:52
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what? Yeah, we have to get caller five.
21:55
Speaker 4: Caller five.
21:55
Speaker 2: Caller five, okay. Because the Brewers are five wins away
21:57
Speaker 2: from 100. Caller five to win Luke Bryan tickets right now.
22:01
Speaker 2: And I just got to say... Pumpkin spice casket.
22:04
Speaker 1: Wow.
22:05
Speaker 3: Sprinkle a little nutmeg on this wood box. Is that
22:07
Speaker 3: what that is?
22:08
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah.
22:08
Speaker 1: Spice it up a little bit. OK.
22:10
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:10
Speaker 1: Spice it up. What are we doing here?
22:11
Speaker 2: Right.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:12
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, they're striking while the iron's hot.
22:14
Speaker 1: Right. I mean, let me ask you this.
22:17
Speaker 3: Where do you come down on? It's apple season.
22:19
Speaker 2: You know, you go to the apple orchard or, you know,
22:22
Speaker 2: you can pick up where you come down and pick
22:23
Speaker 2: an apples off a tree on someone's tree.
22:26
Speaker 1: Can you just go up to a tree? On someone's tree,
22:27
Speaker 1: that would be theft, wouldn't it?
22:28
Speaker 3: Well, I have a question. Is it theft or is
22:30
Speaker 3: that God?
22:30
Speaker 1: You're trespassing and then theft.
22:32
Speaker 3: Well, that's their tree, but those are God's apples. Aren't they?
22:34
Speaker 3: He grows the apples.
22:35
Speaker 1: I think the tree is your property, though, so I
22:38
Speaker 1: think the apples would be, too.
22:39
Speaker 2: I don't know.
22:40
Speaker 1: I mean, if you see it. Are you just walking
22:41
Speaker 1: up to people's houses and grabbing apples off the tree?
22:45
Speaker 3: What makes you think I'm asking for myself?
22:47
Speaker 1: Maybe, Armin, wait for it to fall. Because it sounds
22:49
Speaker 1: like Armin... Wanted to go to the apple question. Check that.
22:54
Speaker 1: Armin's wife wants to go to the apple orchard. Armin
22:56
Speaker 1: then checked the price of the apple picking. Oh, yeah,
22:59
Speaker 1: that sounds more. And said, hold on. I think Cindy
23:02
Speaker 1: and Cindy and Ray have a couple of apple trees
23:05
Speaker 1: down the road. You just go pick some off theirs.
23:07
Speaker 2: Well, you can pay for the apple orchard here and
23:10
Speaker 2: you paid across this fence or you go down the street.
23:13
Speaker 1: There's apples growing right down the street. So what's the difference? Now,
23:16
Speaker 1: if they fall off and they're on the ground.
23:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, but are city apples in your neighborhood as good
23:20
Speaker 4: as apple orchard apples that actually specialize?
23:22
Speaker 1: No way.
23:23
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll agree with that. The way these orchards do,
23:26
Speaker 2: they're great apples.
23:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
23:28
Speaker 3: And they have different types of apples if you like
23:30
Speaker 3: to make the difference.
23:31
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. They probably don't have worms rolling through them.
23:34
Speaker 1: Or very hungry caterpillars.
23:36
Speaker 3: You cut it open, you know.
23:37
Speaker 4: You ever see the Family Guy episode where Cleveland's giving
23:41
Speaker 4: them a dissertation on the best apples? Yeah. Peter says,
23:45
Speaker 4: what about Red Delicious? Garbage apple. What about Honeycrisp? Science apple.
23:50
Speaker 1: Made in a lab.
23:51
Speaker 4: What do you like, Cleveland? I think he says, Fiji
23:55
Speaker 4: for eating and crab for sucking.
23:58
Speaker 1: Wow.
24:00
Speaker 4: I'm just asking, is it crazy?
24:04
Speaker 1: If there's a raspberry bush and you pick one off,
24:06
Speaker 1: are you a thief? I mean, where do we come
24:08
Speaker 1: down on it?
24:09
Speaker 4: Well, I guess that's like going to the grocery store
24:10
Speaker 4: and sampling a grape just to see if you're going
24:12
Speaker 4: to like it.
24:12
Speaker 1: You ever pluck a grape? Yeah, this depends. I mean,
24:15
Speaker 1: like if you're walking through Whitnall Park and it's a
24:17
Speaker 1: raspberry bush, it's different than someone's yard. Yeah, somebody's yard. Oh, sweet.
24:21
Speaker 1: They got raspberries.
24:22
Speaker 3: So private property is where we draw the line.
24:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably where I would draw the line.
24:26
Speaker 3: I guess that makes sense.
24:27
Speaker 4: As a kid in small town Iowa, I had the
24:29
Speaker 4: best of all that because I walked around. Each neighbor
24:31
Speaker 4: had different types of raspberries or. We had a pear
24:34
Speaker 4: tree in our backyard.
24:36
Speaker 1: Oh, so when you were a kid in small town Iowa,
24:38
Speaker 1: you picked the fruit off the tree. I did, all
24:40
Speaker 1: the time. But it sounds like there was a mutual deal.
24:43
Speaker 1: It sounds like we were a community once upon a time.
24:45
Speaker 1: Red Graham had Concord grapes, man. Those were awesome. Those
24:49
Speaker 1: probably slapped.
24:50
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Billy.
24:51
Speaker 1: No, well, because our neighbor does. She has a very
24:54
Speaker 1: robust raspberry bush, and she'll let us know, like, hey...
24:57
Speaker 1: raspberries just flared up. Come on over here and grab some.
25:01
Speaker 1: That is a different deal than me going and picking
25:04
Speaker 1: up the three-year-old's baseball that he throws over there for
25:07
Speaker 1: the 94th time and be like, damn, they got some raspberries.
25:10
Speaker 1: We should just test a couple of these and see
25:11
Speaker 1: if they're okay.
25:12
Speaker 4: Armin, have you thought about knocking on the door and saying,
25:14
Speaker 4: would you mind if I picked a few apples? Because
25:16
Speaker 4: a lot of times they just fall and they rot
25:20
Speaker 4: after a while.
25:20
Speaker 2: This is a hypothetical, but sure it is.
25:23
Speaker 1: Sure it is.
25:27
Speaker 3: Well, I have thought about it. Let me just say that.
25:30
Speaker 3: Or sometimes I just thought about taking one and going,
25:33
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
25:34
Speaker 1: Or is this that you want to get an apple
25:36
Speaker 1: tree and you want to know if you can sell
25:38
Speaker 1: the apples that fall off? That's what he was.
25:39
Speaker 3: I've wanted.
25:40
Speaker 1: Okay. Drew, that makes a lot more sense. He's going
25:43
Speaker 1: around post labor day specials on apple trees saying, damn,
25:47
Speaker 1: if I do the plant thing now, we can be
25:49
Speaker 1: getting cropped by the end of next year. And I
25:52
Speaker 1: could be making some cash.
25:53
Speaker 2: I have wanted to get like having fruit trees was
25:56
Speaker 2: a plan of mine for a long time, but After
25:58
Speaker 2: I see how much work it is and how they
26:00
Speaker 2: can get messy and bring insects, I don't know if
26:02
Speaker 2: I want one anymore. However, near us on the street,
26:06
Speaker 2: there's a walnut tree, and these black walnuts are falling.
26:09
Speaker 1: You can turn ankles on those things.
26:11
Speaker 2: Right.
26:12
Speaker 3: So you're telling me I can't make money off those then?
26:13
Speaker 1: Well, I guess you could.
26:15
Speaker 4: It'd be kind of expensive if you're trying to process them.
26:18
Speaker 1: Right. I was wondering if there was a... Okay, so
26:20
Speaker 1: forget that, I guess. That's another failed plan. I like
26:22
Speaker 1: that we're trying some side hustles. Sorry and side hustles
26:25
Speaker 1: on people's food. Meanwhile, since Armin often makes reference to
26:29
Speaker 1: pancake eaters and stuff because we're in the mornings and
26:33
Speaker 1: when he puts stuff on social media, he refers to pancakes.
26:36
Speaker 1: Did you see the Packers social team ask the question
26:39
Speaker 1: of the day for players walking to practice yesterday? Was
26:42
Speaker 1: one of the F. Mary Kildee start cut bench or
26:46
Speaker 1: start bench cut? Don't tell me it was breakfast foods.
26:49
Speaker 1: It was pancakes. Waffles and French toast. Start, bench, and cut.
26:56
Speaker 4: Wow, that would be tough to cut anybody out of
27:00
Speaker 4: that family.
27:00
Speaker 1: Hey, man, you got to make tough decisions as a GM.
27:03
Speaker 4: For me personally, I would go pancakes, start, French toast, bench,
27:08
Speaker 4: and waffles would be cut. I mean, if I had
27:10
Speaker 4: to pick, but I like waffles, but they'd be third.
27:12
Speaker 4: They'd be my bronze medal winner.
27:14
Speaker 1: See, now this might be the best answer. He said,
27:16
Speaker 1: waffles are just pancakes with holes in them. He said,
27:18
Speaker 1: Bill Nye, the science guy, we don't need you coming
27:20
Speaker 1: in here with facts. That's why pancakes are going to
27:23
Speaker 1: be superior to me than the waffles. Although I am
27:26
Speaker 1: a syrup guy. And the nice thing about the waffle
27:28
Speaker 1: is little holding spots for all of the syrup. That's
27:32
Speaker 1: a good point. Those aren't necessarily holes. They're little pockets.
27:35
Speaker 1: Little pockets for the flavor. I would agree.
27:38
Speaker 2: And I would also contend that waffle is more versatile
27:40
Speaker 2: because it's a crunchier, more sturdy flavor.
27:43
Speaker 3: You can use that sandwich bread.
27:44
Speaker 1: I don't have. Yeah, that Chick-fil-A one is not that good, though.
27:48
Speaker 1: I would be cutting. Well, I'll try. I'd be cutting
27:50
Speaker 1: French toast for the same reason. Because I've never heard
27:54
Speaker 1: of anybody ordering pancakes and waffles or French toast and chicken.
27:57
Speaker 1: I want the chicken and waffle. Roscoe's in LA. Shout out.
28:02
Speaker 1: The chicken and waffle is so good. That fried chicken
28:04
Speaker 1: breast with a waffle.
28:06
Speaker 4: In French toast, there's just something about that eggy consistency
28:09
Speaker 4: around it.
28:09
Speaker 1: Very custardy. See, French toast is one of my favorite
28:14
Speaker 1: things to fire up. You do feel cool flipping that
28:17
Speaker 1: thing around, get a little bit of cinnamon in there,
28:20
Speaker 1: maybe a tick of a no, and.
28:21
Speaker 4: All of a sudden you're like, wow. Maybe some powdered
28:22
Speaker 4: sugar across the top. French toast on the Blackstone is
28:26
Speaker 4: quite delightful.
28:27
Speaker 1: And it's fun. That's the other thing. It can be
28:29
Speaker 1: a little fun. All of a sudden, if I'm really
28:31
Speaker 1: feeling healthy, maybe I'll even slice up a couple of
28:34
Speaker 1: berries to throw on there. There you go. That's a
28:36
Speaker 1: very rare situation for us. More likely chocolate chips.
28:39
Speaker 2: Correct.
28:40
Speaker 1: Thank you, Drew.
28:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, chocolate chips are good.
28:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw Christian Watson starting pancakes and cutting French toast.
28:47
Speaker 3: So there's some really good answers.
28:48
Speaker 1: See, but that also doesn't, again, I'm going to harmonize
28:52
Speaker 1: the situation here. That's also not accounting for stuffed French toast.
28:56
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
28:57
Speaker 1: You start stuffing that French toast?
28:58
Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
28:59
Speaker 1: Different deal.
29:00
Speaker 3: But you can't.
29:01
Speaker 1: This is just regular French toast, then, for the question,
29:03
Speaker 1: isn't it? I mean, when you start. I agree. That's
29:06
Speaker 1: a different. I mean, chicken waffles. You start stuffing that
29:09
Speaker 1: French toast, and it is a different beast with the
29:11
Speaker 1: Texas toast.
29:12
Speaker 2: If I'm starting it, though, I have to think about
29:14
Speaker 2: something I can use every day on the daily. I'm
29:16
Speaker 2: not eating French toast every day. There's just no way.
29:18
Speaker 2: That's too much. Like, it's a great once in every
29:21
Speaker 2: couple weeks brunch.
29:22
Speaker 4: Kind of thing. I haven't had it in years. I
29:24
Speaker 4: remember going to IHOP. years ago and they had a stuff.
29:27
Speaker 4: You made me think of this. They had a stuffed
29:29
Speaker 4: French toast. Was that good?
29:30
Speaker 1: Yeah. They throw some, a little bit of strawberry cream
29:33
Speaker 1: in there and all. Holy cow. What are we doing?
29:36
Speaker 1: That becomes a, that becomes a deal one. Absolutely. I
29:38
Speaker 1: do appreciate a good. breakfast food conversation, and it is
29:43
Speaker 1: one of the toughest things for me to bypass at
29:45
Speaker 1: the Thursday night huddle because they do have brunch all day. Now,
29:48
Speaker 1: they got the steak and eggs. Phenomenal. A couple of
29:51
Speaker 1: different ones. Chicken and waffles right there is a good one, Drew,
29:53
Speaker 1: and it might ultimately be what I cross off the
29:56
Speaker 1: list tonight. Those mama's pancakes are always circling for me
29:59
Speaker 1: right there. So good.
30:00
Speaker 3: But it might be a difficult one to do while
30:02
Speaker 3: you're on the air.
30:04
Speaker 1: True. Because you eat those mama's pancakes at an 11 a.m.
30:07
Speaker 1: brunch and try not to nap by 2.
30:09
Speaker 4: Well, and the worst part about being on the air
30:11
Speaker 4: when there's a brunch being served is trying to eat
30:14
Speaker 4: in the short amount of time.
30:15
Speaker 1: That you have. My co-host through the years....
30:19
Speaker 4: Their biggest fault of me is chewing while I'm on
30:21
Speaker 4: the air. That's so rude, but I'm going to eat
30:24
Speaker 4: when I can eat.
30:24
Speaker 1: Thank you. Especially when it's free. That's it. And the
30:27
Speaker 1: radio law is you can have like a six-minute commercial break,
30:30
Speaker 1: and the food will come out piping hot and be
30:32
Speaker 1: put in front of you with five seconds left before
30:34
Speaker 1: you go back to the air. That's what it is.
30:35
Speaker 1: You couldn't have dropped this right when we were going
30:37
Speaker 1: to commercial and given me the full six minutes to
30:40
Speaker 1: hoover it up. No. One of the advantages the newspaper
30:43
Speaker 1: industry had over radio, Drew. That's right. One of the few.
30:48
Speaker 1: That is so true. The worst possible timing of, wait
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Speaker 1: a sec, oh, we're starting. You sure we don't need
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Speaker 1: like a 20-minute legal ID real quick to be able
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Speaker 1: to let all our local stations know about that song?
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Speaker 1: In music, right, you could play those long songs. What's
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Speaker 1: the longest country song back in the day that you
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Speaker 1: used to put on when you maybe had to answer
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Speaker 1: the call of nature? Oh, man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, in the 90s, every song was probably four minutes
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Speaker 4: top or plus, so I remember some songs, four minutes,
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Speaker 4: 48 seconds, some old Tim McGraw songs, stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: You'd be stunned at what you can get accomplished, and
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Speaker 1: that's like your internal clock here when you're working radio. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: You realize what literally takes.
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Speaker 4: You like a minute. You can get a lot done
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Speaker 4: in a minute. My first job, I worked in a
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Speaker 4: building where I had to go up a flight of
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Speaker 4: stairs to go to the restroom, and that was brutal
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Speaker 4: because every song in the 80s was like two and
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Speaker 4: a half minutes long.
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Speaker 1: I knew a DJ back in the day who put
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Speaker 1: on a long record he could go outside for a
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Speaker 1: smoke and stop at the adult bookstore downstairs and then
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Speaker 1: go back upstairs. And take it out of the plastic wrap?
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Speaker 1: That's impressive stuff.
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Speaker 4: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: Amazing. The internet says Who Knows by Zac Brown is
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Speaker 1: a 10-minute song. Hey, now.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Does Garth have some long songs? He did. Hank Williams'
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Speaker 1: hidden track was 42 Minutes. I don't know if that counts. Hey, Armin,
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Speaker 1: who won our tickets, by the way?
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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Brenda in Silver Lake.
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Speaker 1: There we go, Brenda. congratulations brenda way to go brenda
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Speaker 1: congratulations have a great joy enjoy that show with luke
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Speaker 1: bryan coming up on the 26th.
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Speaker 4: Armin bumped in with rain is a good thing by
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Speaker 4: luke bryan i see there's an 80 chance of showers
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Speaker 4: and thunderstorms for packers jets on sunday yeah is that
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Speaker 4: is that does that benefit the jets.
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Speaker 1: It benefits orthopedic surgeons maybe yeah slip on that i
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Speaker 1: was gonna say on that turf the only thing i
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Speaker 1: could make it worse yeah that's one of the things Dolph,
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Speaker 1: Brewers fans are running out of things to worry about.
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Speaker 1: They won again last night.
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Speaker 4: Dodgers lost.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers lost. They're up three with ten to play, and
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Speaker 1: the magic number is seven for the Brewers to win,
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Speaker 1: to clinch the number one overall seed.
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Speaker 4: I know the Dodgers still have to play the Padres,
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Speaker 4: and the Brewers have to play the Phillies, so that
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Speaker 4: kind of X's each other out.
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Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the rest of L.A. 's schedule.
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Speaker 4: They probably play the Giants. They're usually in with another
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Speaker 4: division opponent.
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Speaker 1: In the division, yeah. But I've just been telling people
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Speaker 1: if the Brewers go 500, they've been five and five
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Speaker 1: gets them to a hundred games. The Dodgers have to
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Speaker 1: go nine and one. Yeah. So give yourself a little peace.
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Speaker 1: It's a home field advantage throughout the World Series if
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Speaker 1: it happens. It could happen. You were spot on, Dolph.
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Speaker 1: They don't get the Giants once. They get them twice. Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: On the way out. Sandwiching around a three-game set at
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Speaker 1: home against San Diego, which will be a fascinating one
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Speaker 1: because San Diego is right there in the midst of
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Speaker 1: the wild.
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Speaker 4: And that scheduling probably seemed like a hot idea at
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Speaker 4: the time because the Giants preseason, people thought they were
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Speaker 4: going to be a lot better than they were.
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Speaker 1: They thought they were going to be a lot better
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Speaker 1: than they were. San Diego's up four in the loss
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Speaker 1: column on Arizona, so they're looking pretty strong. Yeah, Diamondbacks
33:36
Speaker 1: have slid down the dinosaur here the last week. They've
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Speaker 1: lost five of seven. They're not closing well, and the
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Speaker 1: Padres have been hot.
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Speaker 4: And like you said yesterday, do the Dodgers really care
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Speaker 4: if they're first or second when it comes to playoffs? No,
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Speaker 4: not really. I think they're pretty confident in themselves once
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Speaker 4: October rolls around. I think they're pretty happy with where
33:51
Speaker 4: they're at, yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, the Snell injury that Armand definitely didn't celebrate earlier
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Speaker 1: on here today, though. Definitely didn't celebrate earlier on today, though.
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Speaker 1: I think it was the biggest part of their problems.
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Speaker 3: Well, I just saw that he did have some tightness.
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Speaker 4: Hey, be careful what you wish for. I bet you said, hmm,
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Speaker 4: once Kyler Murray went down on Sunday, didn't you?
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Speaker 1: Hmm. Well, this, this could play to our event. Didn't you?
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Speaker 1: Didn't you? I said a different four letter word. I just,
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Speaker 1: you know what?
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Speaker 3: I actually thought Carson Wentz.
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, he's done it in the past. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to, I'm not trying to be revisionist history on this.
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Speaker 2: I really did think like, I, I thought the Packers
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Speaker 2: were going to win either way.
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Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. And they didn't. That was
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Speaker 1: what I thought to myself. What are we doing wrong?
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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it. What are we doing guys?
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Speaker 1: Let's look at the mirror. That's what I said to myself.
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Speaker 1: Look in the mirror. Good stuff, as always. Dolph, thanks
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Speaker 1: for popping in. Appreciate it. You're welcome to come join
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Speaker 1: us at Pato if you're not doing anything tonight. Good
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Speaker 1: night to do so.
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Speaker 4: Maybe I'll stop by after my nine holes of golf
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Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. Oh, that's a good. It's getting
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Speaker 1: like four, right? Yeah, exactly right. Solid 10th hole right there.
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Speaker 1: All right. Solid, solid. All right. We, moving forward, we're
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Speaker 1: hot category from yesterday's proceedings in Cincinnati? Homer for Ellie
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Speaker 1: Dela Cruz, as he had a, no, he didn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: have as good of a night as the soon to
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Speaker 1: be named NL rookie of the year. Sal Stewart did
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Speaker 1: three hit night and another RBI for the young man,
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Speaker 1: not only leading the balloting, I would assume drew for
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Speaker 1: rookie of the year, but he's been taken over by
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Speaker 1: Alec Burleson. He's leading the charge for runs batted in
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Speaker 1: second in the national league is Sal Stewart with 108
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Speaker 1: of those things driven in, in baseball. That is a
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Speaker 1: heck of a number. PCA went yard last night in
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Speaker 1: a Cubs victory at the old ballpark. So did Alex Bregman.
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Speaker 1: They won 8-4. PCA actually homered twice, taking that total
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Speaker 1: now to 44 in his quest for his first. MVP
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Speaker 1: season he's.
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Speaker 2: Had a crazy year I mean he's gonna win it
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Speaker 2: he deserves it I mean there's no question.
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Speaker 1: About it not category we mentioned it Blake Snell uh
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Speaker 1: had to leave due to some groin tightness Dodgers lost
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned 6-2 to the Reds uh but they
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Speaker 1: also then had to burn through a number of cats
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Speaker 1: into their bullpen ultimately ending it with Chris Bubich who
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Speaker 1: came over from at the deadline uh from the Royals
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Speaker 1: and also in the not category one final time The
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Speaker 1: New York Yankees, albeit they've been very, very good. They
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Speaker 1: lost last night in 13 innings to the Twinkies. Looked
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Speaker 1: like Anthony Volpe was going to ultimately vault them into
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Speaker 1: a victory into the ninth inning. action in the 10th
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Speaker 1: and 11th, and ultimately, Victor Caratini, former Brewer, gets the
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Speaker 1: walk-off in the 13th. So you can put him in
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Speaker 1: the hot category. Not definitely the Chicago White Sox. They're
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Speaker 1: sliding down the back of the dinosaur here. They've lost
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Speaker 1: three of four. They lost two of three to the Guardians,
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Speaker 1: and now Drew have lost control. of the lead in
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Speaker 1: the AL central, which they've led for, I mean, pretty
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Speaker 1: much damn near the entire season. Yeah. They've been in
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Speaker 1: control of that division all year. Guardians trying to do
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Speaker 1: exactly what they did last year. Snatch it back at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season. They are now a half
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Speaker 1: game up on Chicago. Don't worry. Sox fans. They currently
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Speaker 1: still have a one game lead in the wild card.
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Speaker 1: So the full tragic number drew might not come to
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Speaker 1: fruition this but it very much might as they're now
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Speaker 1: 77 and 75. Guardians are that rarity of rarities. They
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Speaker 1: are a team leading a division with 10 games left
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Speaker 1: in the season and a minus seven run differential. It's crazy.
39:30
Speaker 1: And as much as, and rightfully so, we celebrate Murph
39:33
Speaker 1: and he's won back-to-back managers of the year. So has
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Speaker 1: Steven Vogt. Steven Vogt got hired at the same time
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Speaker 1: that Murph did. And actually Vogt was becoming the biggest
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Speaker 1: issue for me when the council conversation was flaring up
39:48
Speaker 1: because it felt like you're going to lose out on
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Speaker 1: Steven vote. If you also lost out on Craig council point,
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Speaker 1: because vote was going to be a big league manager.
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Speaker 1: You could tell when he was a player, you could
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Speaker 1: tell when he was here and he has been a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal one there in Cleveland. They are still even in
40:02
Speaker 1: the last column, but no game one 63 anymore. If
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Speaker 1: you remember, how much better is the national league this year? Well,
40:08
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has the best record in the American league.
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Speaker 1: 92 wins. Very respectful. Plus 71 round differential guardians minus seven.
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Speaker 1: They're in first place. The Astros who are at 500
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Speaker 1: at 76, 76 leading the West. They're minus 54.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And they fired their GMR. Conversely, the division leaders in
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Speaker 1: the National League, the Brewers, plus 200, which is stunning.
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Speaker 1: A little striking difference. The Dodgers plus 173 and the
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Speaker 1: Braves plus 111.
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Speaker 2: 87 twins. Only team to win the World Series with
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Speaker 2: a negative run difference.
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Speaker 1: Cubs also plus 143. Like the first four teams are just,
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Speaker 1: it's incredible. All right. Hunter's going to join us live
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