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08/31/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Dominating a Monday in the good land.
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  Speaker 2: It's the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, nine 20, Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: 10 70 medicine worldwide on the I heart radio app
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  Speaker 2: streaming live on Facebook X and YouTube drew Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: William Schmidt and Armin.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And bringing it to you.
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  Speaker 2: Our cup runneth over Packers news, a plenty with the
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  Speaker 2: final cuts, some trades, some IR moves and the Josh
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  Speaker 2: Jacobs to the commissioner's exemplars Brewers winning a series against
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  Speaker 2: the Rangers. losing on the getaway game, Cubs losing to
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  Speaker 2: the Reds last night, setting the stage for seven games
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  Speaker 2: in 10 days between the rivals, beginning tonight, opener of
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  Speaker 2: a four-game series at Wrigley Field with a playoff-like atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps playoff implications.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely will have some.
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  Speaker 4: And Drew, I know Murph mentioned it yesterday at the
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  Speaker 4: presser with the boys that there's something good to the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: We heard it in Hunter's breakdown in the first hour.
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  Speaker 4: they went there last year and Murph mentioned it pretty
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  Speaker 4: much all off season long that after that playoff series,
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  Speaker 4: going down to Wrigley, having those two road games in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, I think it was good for us.
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  Speaker 1: It drained us.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about how draining that series was not only
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  Speaker 4: from their pitching standpoint, but just emotionally all that went
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  Speaker 4: into it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's.
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  Speaker 4: Something good to be able to go down there in
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  Speaker 4: the month of September and, get some playoff vibes rolling,
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  Speaker 4: especially for a team that's got going to be counting
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  Speaker 4: upon at some point, two rookies to be playing big
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  Speaker 4: moments for them. Now, I don't, I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: much Cooper Pratt's going to be a shortstop come playoff time,
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  Speaker 4: or if that's going to be Joey Ortiz. And we
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  Speaker 4: roll with some guys that are a little bit more, uh,
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  Speaker 4: with some more veteran status, maybe Luis Lara, he's cut
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  Speaker 4: back on, uh, in the playoffs now that you have
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  Speaker 4: Sal Freeland coming back, but For a team, Drew, that's
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  Speaker 4: going to have to play a lot of young dudes
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  Speaker 4: that haven't been in that atmosphere. They got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys that played a lot of playoff baseball, no
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  Speaker 4: doubt about it. But it's a good thing to get
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  Speaker 4: the feet wet in that hornet's nest of Wrigley because
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  Speaker 4: the friendly confines are not going to be friendly to
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  Speaker 4: them coming up these next couple of days unless they
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  Speaker 4: do what they did back in May.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, unless they may turn it friendly, but you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 3: It is going to be that playoff kind of feel, atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: Might not feel like it weather-wise, but it's going to
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  Speaker 3: start to turn to fall soon, and to get that
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  Speaker 3: experience will be pretty good for these guys.
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  Speaker 1: A couple comments on this series.
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  Speaker 3: This is Steve on the NickLayLaw.com talking TechSlam.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get some texts in here. Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, I think we'll be okay if we win
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  Speaker 3: three out of seven against the Cubs, but we have
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  Speaker 3: to sweep the Reds as well then, so we go
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  Speaker 3: six of ten.
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  Speaker 1: Go Brewers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a high threshold. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: we have to do it, but it would be nice
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  Speaker 3: to get those wins. I suppose Derek from whitewater PCA
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  Speaker 3: comes up to bat with two out and a guy
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  Speaker 3: in second, forget walking, put one in his ribs, get
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  Speaker 3: something started up, maybe a.
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  Speaker 1: Little juice, a little, a little action rattler.
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  Speaker 4: That was, that was Katie's thing with Contreras, right? He
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  Speaker 4: would just, he would, he would make him wear it
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  Speaker 4: every single game.
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  Speaker 1: Every serious PCA every time, every time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I, The only bad thing is Contreras, you didn't
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  Speaker 4: have to worry about stealing how many bags once he
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  Speaker 4: gets on there. But he is to the point where
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  Speaker 4: he is going to be for a long time. He
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  Speaker 4: just re-upped what? Eight-year contract they signed him in the offseason?
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  Speaker 4: Something massive. He's a dude that is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: He would be a lot of fun to cheer for
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  Speaker 4: on your team. He's a lot of fun to dislike
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  Speaker 4: on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly is. But when he's rolling like this, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to find ways to be able to try to
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  Speaker 1: get him out. I do miss.
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  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, the kid bleaches his hair, but I
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  Speaker 2: do miss when Murph called him the blue-haired kid.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, the blue-haired kid.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: When Murph called him the blue-haired kid. I think Murph
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  Speaker 2: still calls him the blue-haired kid because he's not.
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  Speaker 1: Letting that go.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say blue-haired and maybe red cheeks
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  Speaker 4: after he gets fired up coming up with a non-bought call.
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  Speaker 4: But you look at him and Churio. Those two dudes
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  Speaker 4: are going to duke it out for the next five, six,
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  Speaker 4: seven years. Churio hits his 20th bomb over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: The youngest player to have three consecutive 20 home run years.
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  Speaker 4: And he missed a month each of the last two seasons.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to say that he's going to hit. Because
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  Speaker 4: PCA is going to what? He's going to hit 40
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  Speaker 4: bombs this year? He's going to go 40-40 probably. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that those numbers are exactly what Jackson's going
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  Speaker 4: to put up. But if you told me both of
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  Speaker 4: them in the next decade won an MVP, PCA is
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  Speaker 4: going to get one this year, I could very much
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  Speaker 4: see Jackson doing one. Because that's kind of like right
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  Speaker 4: now he's a damn good major league player. The next
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  Speaker 4: step for him to be is one of those.
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  Speaker 2: And he's two years younger than PCA.
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  Speaker 4: Two years younger, and again, has been now interrupted by
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  Speaker 4: injury twice and has produced this kind of a player.
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  Speaker 4: I've been confused because PCA, of course, his parents are
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  Speaker 4: both actors. Tom was in Little Big League, Armand's favorite,
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  Speaker 4: one of Armand's all-time favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Mack the Horse's name is Friday.
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  Speaker 2: And he went to the exclusive Harvard-Westlake school.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Which is where, and then his team, like Lucas Giolito
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  Speaker 2: and some other guys, that was in his era.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that big-time stuff, yeah. Privilege and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Yelich, that's the exclusive hoity-toity private school where they
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  Speaker 2: took Harvard boys or And mixed with Westlake girls.
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  Speaker 1: Harvard Westlake School in Los Angeles. And then Yellich went
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  Speaker 1: to the public school, Westlake High School. Which is also
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  Speaker 1: an accomplished sports factory.
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  Speaker 3: This is a nice area, guys. Yeah, by like Thousand Oaks, Westlake.
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  Speaker 3: These are nice areas. It's not like being in the slouch,
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  Speaker 3: but you're right. I think PCA's Harvard Westlake is more
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  Speaker 3: for like... Wow, this has its own Wikipedia page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one of those... Harvard School for Boys,
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  Speaker 1: Westlake School for Girls. Yeah, so they merged them together. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And like, I guess... I saw it on Wikipedia or something.
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  Speaker 2: They bought a neighboring golf course to add it to
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  Speaker 2: their campus and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were spot on.
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  Speaker 4: It was Lucas Giolito, Max Freed, and Jack Flaherty. So
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  Speaker 4: this was that school. They were all three on that
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  Speaker 4: rotation together.
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  Speaker 2: And so PCA was in high school doing his stuff
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  Speaker 2: at Harvard-Westlake, which is a really good top-flight high school
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  Speaker 2: baseball program there. The year Yellich was winning the MVP in, like, 18-17.
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  Speaker 4: He's laying against him in his MVP year, and Yellich
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  Speaker 4: is obviously towards the back end, but hopefully he's playing
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  Speaker 4: a little bit better. He swung the bat a lot
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  Speaker 4: better here in the back half of the month of August, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the numbers are a lot different for Yellich
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  Speaker 4: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: He had that stretch where he was... hitting ball hard
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  Speaker 2: and not getting anything. And then now he's starting to
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  Speaker 2: come through.
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  Speaker 1: He's starting to come through.
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  Speaker 4: He had two, what, 60, what do we have on
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  Speaker 4: the numbers on Friday night? He had a 40-mile-an-hour exit
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  Speaker 4: velocity base hit and a 60-mile-an-hour one or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that big old looper.
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  Speaker 3: And he's been due for some good luck, but he
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  Speaker 3: is getting better. His war is back into the positive
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  Speaker 3: for the first time in like a month.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: So that's big for us. And Murph said he was
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  Speaker 3: working on it until 1 a.m. Have you guys heard that?
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  Speaker 1: On the parking lot?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that stuff. I mean, Murph, I love
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. You know that I eat that all up.
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  Speaker 3: And Murph is really trying to pump him up in
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  Speaker 3: that sense. But hopefully he catches a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a groove here.
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice.
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  Speaker 3: And Mike talking about the PCH or your thing. Long-term,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take Churio over PCA. More complete player, in my opinion. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're both pretty complete players. I mean, PCA's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good player.
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  Speaker 2: He's putting up the best defensive numbers of any center
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  Speaker 2: fielder in history. I mean, I would say he's absolutely good. Churio,
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  Speaker 2: there were two balls in yesterday's game that Churio probably
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  Speaker 2: should have caught.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Churio probably had. But Mike's caping up for his guy.
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  Speaker 1: Glad we're on the capetrain. I appreciate the passion, but
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  Speaker 1: let's not be delusional. PCA's a complete player right now.
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  Speaker 1: PCA is a complete player. That's part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: he's MVP. That's why he's going to win him. His
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  Speaker 1: defense is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: But I saw the numbers Buster only put him out
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  Speaker 4: just a couple of seconds ago. Because the Otani factor
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  Speaker 4: is him pitching is always going to be a tough
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  Speaker 4: thing to be able to best. Since Otani threw his
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  Speaker 4: last pitch, he's hit seven more bombs than His weighted
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  Speaker 4: runs created plus, which I think like the baseline is
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  Speaker 4: 100 for everybody because that evens out all the ballparks
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  Speaker 4: that you play throughout.
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  Speaker 1: He's got 50 more points.
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  Speaker 4: He's got seven more steals, 12 more runs driven in,
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  Speaker 4: almost 20 more runs scored, all since he threw his
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  Speaker 4: last pitch. And that's a crazy runaway with the award
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  Speaker 4: in a time where I thought it was just going
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  Speaker 4: to take Otani fatigue for.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody to win it over the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Time for our current electric superhero of the day. Brought
• 8:00
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  Speaker 4: How about the return of one man that we've only
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: had to sit here and listen to and wait for for,
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know, the last month. Congratulations, Les Snead. You're
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  Speaker 4: able to pull it off. Our superhero of the day
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  Speaker 4: is the returning Aaron Donald. Comes back off of two
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: years missed, one year, $ 20 million contract. 30 million possibility,
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  Speaker 4: and he has now completely changed the game, Drew, for
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  Speaker 4: the Rams to be the Super Bowl betting favorites to
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  Speaker 4: win it because they were already an overwhelming favorite at
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: plus 600. After the news of yesterday, they go to
• 8:35
  Speaker 4: plus 550 at the Potawatomi Sportsbook. They clearly needed some help.
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: The Rams clearly needed some help on that defense because
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  Speaker 4: I just don't know how they were going to stop
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: anybody after acquiring Trent McDuffie in the offseason, picking up
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: Miles Garrett. I don't know how they were going to
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  Speaker 4: get any stops. for the MVP of the league. Now, luckily,
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Donald comes.
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  Speaker 2: Adding Aaron Donald back, and he's still a physical freak.
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  Speaker 3: The Rams practiced for free for how many weeks, too?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he basically was just there.
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  Speaker 1: Just hanging out. Existing. Just hanging out. Don't worry about it, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, shocking is coming back. Nobody could figure that one out.
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  Speaker 4: They waited until cut down day. They announced the deal.
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  Speaker 4: He basically did the exact same thing in McVeigh's first
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: two years, right? Cause he was holding out at the
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: time and signed his deal on August 31st and McVeigh's
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: first year, I think August 28th or something. in the
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  Speaker 4: next year after he held out that time. So they
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: have plenty of time of figuring out how they want
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  Speaker 4: to ramp him up, have him ready to roll. But
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: sounds like the NFL not only going to get Miles Garrett,
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: not only going to get Matthew Stafford and everything else
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: that the Rams bring out there for that 49ers and
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: LA game on Netflix, but the streaming service gets the
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: boost of Aaron Donald. Maybe the greatest defensive player of
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: all time. Three-time defensive player of the year. That's a,
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: but he might, you know, you have, you can make
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  Speaker 4: a case, Billy. It's just when you put it that way,
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  Speaker 4: he's on.
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  Speaker 1: The short list of greatest defensive players of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can make a case.
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  Speaker 4: Add it up with a guy that just broke the
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: NFL sack record a year ago for a team that.
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  Speaker 1: Earned a top five pick. That's a heck of a run. Congratulations, LA.
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• 10:14
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• 10:15
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• 10:17
  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Aaron Donald thing, what can you say? I mean,
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: they finally got it done. You knew it was going
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: to happen. It was going to happen at some point.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: He sets back the meter on his Hall of Fame
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: induction five years.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: Moves back five more years. Not bothered by that. Said,
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: I just saw them making all these moves. I just
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: could not be a part of it. Couldn't just not
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: be a part of it. Well, you very much could have.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: You could have just sat back at home and hung
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: out and waited.
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  Speaker 1: Could have skipped it.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: Could have become a great ambassador for the team.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Hell, Aaron, you could have done the games.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: You could have joined their sweet TV broadcast that had
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: freaking Brenda Song on it. I didn't know that the
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: team that is the favorite to win the championship was
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: going to have London Tipton calling their game.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Brenda Song. She was also
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  Speaker 3: on the social network as a young lad.
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  Speaker 4: We had a lot of things you could have been doing, Aaron.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't have to play, but he decided that he
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: wanted to, so I guess that's the case. I will
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: say right now my favorite value bet at the Pottawatomie
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  Speaker 4: Sportsbook is the plus 370 Rams not make the playoffs.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Really? That's a good bet. If there's an injury to
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: not make it? Why not?
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: Somebody last year was beating the drum all year long
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  Speaker 4: about how they were going to go under their win total.
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  Speaker 4: I know that bet didn't cash over there.
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  Speaker 1: Am I making the same mistake? I don't know.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Last year, Stafford was sleeping in a RV in the
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: team parking lot because they didn't know if he was
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: going to be ready to play all year long with
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: the back injury.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: That's why I bet it. He is one poke away
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  Speaker 1: from them playing Ty Simpson all year long.
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  Speaker 4: That might be a good little insurance policy to have,
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  Speaker 4: but in that division, that's a tough one to see.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Can still get us your game balls and kicks the balls. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
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  Speaker 2: one 97, three game ball to everybody who toughed it out.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about like the, okay. The Packers had a,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: a long preseason finale and people were leaving. Brewers played
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: a pretty ugly game yesterday, but a lot of people
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: stayed until the end. If you toughed it out and
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: stayed through all the weather and all the delays and
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: enjoyed yourself at the Milwaukee Mile for the IndyCar Series
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  Speaker 2: and the Snap-on races this weekend, game.
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  Speaker 1: Ball to you. Awesome. Well-deserved one.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking much about it, but it's like it
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  Speaker 2: is back, and they did announce a five-year extension, like
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Snap-on going to have the five-year racings back at the Mile,
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: which is great. And the Oval is still awesome. Watching
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: these guys go open wheel three wide, perfect. But the
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: weather sucked, and it was like, convoluted and they had
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: to suspend races, dude.
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  Speaker 4: And drew as somebody that sat through a race that in, uh, encounter,
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  Speaker 4: not one. but two rain delays down in Daytona a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, that's a long day.
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  Speaker 1: And we were unable to walk across the streets.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Of Pauley's and Tompkins, potentially, to get some reprieve at
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long day. There were some hearty race fans
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  Speaker 1: right there. But you're right. It is good to make
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: sure that it's going to be back. Some of that
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  Speaker 1: fried chicken. It's not going to draw what it used to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it had, like, I thought, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: with the Brewers playing and the race, it would be
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: massive traffic.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was. It's different, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: IndyCar is also in a much different spot than it
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  Speaker 4: was back in the day. You talked about it when
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: it was at its peak, when that would be right
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: after the Indianapolis 500.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're at the tail end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: There's cool.
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  Speaker 4: There's big stuff in that race, uh, in their league
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: for standing and such, but with how hot F1 is,
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: this is better.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: It's an American when it's right in our backyard. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it continues to build up. That's what I think
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. We need Indy to get the F1 TV show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Cause that's, that's really all it is. That's what started everything.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: And then F1 became kind of a glitterati sport. I
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: think for people to follow that are really into like,
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: like exotic locations and stars and stuff.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It just became the F1 boom here
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: kind of became this interesting thing. You know what's cool
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: about F1? Not motorsports, but it is, yeah. Everything other
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: than the race.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what it is for people. So can
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: you get some sort of excitement for that with this
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: open wheel? I'm not really sure because I don't know
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: if it's about the racing for those people or not,
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: but they seem to follow it because they follow personalities.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: These guys pass.
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: You're right, Billy.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: It's that TV show. It's that people, when they get
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: invested personally, they find a way to get into it.
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a path forward for this, and then maybe
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Mile can be part of it. It would be
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: great to see, because there's a big legacy for motorsports
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: in this thing.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: 2031, they've got an extension.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Let's be the path, the spot that forges that path
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: forward into a new excitement.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: It is crazy, though, how much the streaming service shows
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: will impact your thinking.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Game Ball 2, Scotty Scheffler, by the way. Oh, okay, yes.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: He won the Tour Championship this weekend. There were some
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: folks at the party that were dialed in on all
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: of the golf. So I got to watch, I probably
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: watched more golf this week than I have outside of
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: any other major true throughout, throughout the year. But Scotty
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: brings home a $ 10 million purse with the win. But
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: like people are telling me about Colin Morikawa and he
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: kind of just dumped through on the back end of
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: the weekend.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: It didn't finish awfully, but all.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: I remember on Colin Morikawa, not anything he's done in
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: games or in events. Solely one thing he said on
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: that Netflix full swing documentary about him picking out the
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: outfits he wants. And I was completely out and I
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: have been ever since. That's what racing has done with their,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: with the visuals there. And in football, you see it
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: every single year with hard knocks. Rarely is there a
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: team that goes on hard knocks and people don't immediately say.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I think they might go to the playoffs.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Because you believe in the story. I think this seems
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: a lot better than people are playing. Now, this year
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: they used the Super Bowl champs, so we all know
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks are good. But outside of Hugh Jackson's Browns
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: a number of years ago, I don't know a team
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: that was on hard knocks that people didn't automatically start
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: falling in love with.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: True. The closest you get on those shows and immediately
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you got fans.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: My buddy is still convinced Fisher is the greatest coach
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: of all time in the NFL because of that one
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: speech and the speeches.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: He goes, this is what we need. This is every coach.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he was 8-8 every year. I don't
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: know what to tell you. No, it doesn't matter. Do
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you see the way he talked to these guys and
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: stuff like that? I'm like, okay.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: It just goes to show you, sometimes, well, it goes
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: to show you a lot of things, but you're right, Billy.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: If we get invested in a story, personally, it changes
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: our opinion. We lose objectivity, which is okay. The Lions
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: got a lot of fans when Jared Goff was on
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: that quarterback show.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: That's for sure.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: That's another one. I mean, hey, it became likable. Kirk
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Cousins was the first Viking I ever liked.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Only because of television. Final kick to the balls before
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: we talk to the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larravee.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe another Tennessee Titan quarterback. Former Titan quarterback, Drew, going
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: to be the third quarterback for the Packers.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Somebody now mooning the pursuit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: That's a first.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Will Levis, former second-round pick, gets a cut yesterday. Oh, my.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: The mayonnaise-eating QB out of Kentucky is available on the market. Now,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: the Packers did some with Malik Willis. He was the
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: third-round pick of the Titans yesterday. Maybe they put the
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: paddles to Billy Jeans and he's the third quarterback.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: We shall see. He said, onward. Our best football is
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: still ahead of me. I'd bet more of Sean Clifford
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: returned than Will Levis. We'll see.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: We'll see. I think they want a developmental project, though.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: And I think they might take a shot for some upside.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Will be a fascinating one. Mostly just for me to
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: be able to sing Billy Jeans.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: That's right, baby. He had an exciting start to his career,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I thought, Will Levis.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, then he started throwing the ball exclusively to the
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: other team.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Which, I mean, is not ideal. Bold strategy, Cotton. See
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: how it plays out. Not good.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: He somehow had the greatest highlights of turnovers of all time.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, also, I remember.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: One way or another, he would make the worst turnover
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: play you've ever seen in your entire life, seemingly every week.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: And I remember one time, there was some video highlight
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: of him during practice, and he was spinning it perfectly
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: all over the field. in gym shorts, and he looked
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: like the greatest quarterback of all time. And that made
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: me realize you can get tricked by that stuff. You think, oh, man,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I've never seen a guy throw like this. I did
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the same thing when there was a Marquette prospect, Juan Anderson. Now,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: he had an okay career, played in the NBA, but
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I thought he was the next LeBron when I saw
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: his high school tape.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Turned out he wasn't playing anybody good. You just never know.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: A guy's throwing in his underwear. Juan Toscano was pretty good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Juan Toscano was better. When he changed his name, he
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: made the Warriors.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Had a year.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Who was better, Giancarlo Stanton or Mike Stanton? Who was better,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: David Arias or David Ortiz? I don't know. Mike was
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: hitting some bombs, too, before he flipped that there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
• 18:25
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• 18:43
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• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:46
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• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Packers, after a very
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: busy cut-down day and what's sure to be maybe even
• 18:54
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• 18:57
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• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you, the Monday
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: edition of the huddle in the home stretch here in
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: what is going to be a very busy week. And
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: we are happy to be joined by the voice of
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the Packers, friend of the program, Wayne Larravee joins us,
• 19:12
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• 19:15
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• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Wayne, good morning. Thanks for hanging out with us.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Good morning, guys.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: After a relatively drama-free camp, the Packers yesterday had one
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: of their most eventful, impactful cut-down days in memory.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: What did you think of the way things unfolded yesterday?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, every time we go through one of these,
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: there are surprises. Yes, there are surprises, but There were
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: some twists and turns to this one, adding two tight ends,
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: adding a running back, cutting a running back that I
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: kind of thought had the team made, especially if Josh
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Jacobs went on any kind of suspension approach. type list
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: or commissioner's list. So, um, yeah, you know, I love
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: it because there's a surprise every year, a couple of them.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: And the running back you, you mentioned Wayne, I'm going
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: to be fascinated to see what happens with Pierre strong
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: going forward and what happens with him here today after
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the cut down and waiver claims roll through. But Caleb
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Johnson comes in. I loved him coming out of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: draft from Iowa. He's a physical, big, bruising back who
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: just wasn't able to catch on for whatever reason in Pittsburgh.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: But you look at him and Marshawn Lloyd.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: We talk so much about Lloyd during the preseason of
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: got to shake the rust off, got to get some
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: game reps.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: My man's going to get a ton of.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Them, I would assume, Wayne, because otherwise it's a lot
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: of Chris Brooks blocking against a Brian Flores defense. Johnson
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: and Lloyd have a combined 34 regular season carries for
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: a combined 84 yards. That doesn't lead you to pass
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: performance at that position. There's a lot of tread on
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: the tires, but it just shows they're going to be
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: with a lot of inexperience and probably going to have
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to lean on that passing game that you and I
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: watched a lot of during training camp.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Well, those numbers you mentioned are a little scary in
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: terms of experience.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: But who knows?
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: The only thing I can think of is they must
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: have liked Caleb Johnson, as you did, coming out quite
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: a bit because they had a professional running back in
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: camp in Pierre Strong Jr. Not that he was going
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: to light the world on fire or anything like that,
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: but if you needed a capable back to get you
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: a couple yards here and there, that kind of thing,
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: maybe to take first and second down and then you
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: bring in Lloyd for a change of pace. It'll be
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: interesting to see how the backfield is structured now Will
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Marshawn Lloyd be the lead back right away? And, you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: because again, Caleb Johnson's getting in. He'll have all of
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: two weeks with the team to figure out the offense
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: and everything else. But that's the thing that struck me
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: about that particular transaction was they obviously like Caleb Johnson
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: more than they did Pierre Strong Jr.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee joining us, the voice of the Packers here
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in the huddle. So you look at this and we
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: don't know how long Josh Jacobs is going to be
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: out and we don't know how long Micah Parsons is
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: going to be out. But You think about the two
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: major guys going to be missing extended chunks for the Packers.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It almost seems like, okay, if they can just hold
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the fort until the cavalry arrives, that seems to be
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the mission now. I mean, it wasn't our mindset going
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: into the season, but now it kind of feels like it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: And it's probably going to be, you know, who knows
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: on the commissioner's exempt list what can happen there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: You don't know. But, you know, let's say they're without.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Those two players for, what, the first six weeks of
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the season, that's a tall order to hold. You know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: you're hoping you can at least come out of that
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: with a fighting chance to make a run down the stretch.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: If you come out better, all the better. But I
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: agree with what Billy said. I think now you're really
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: going to see an emphasis. I'm not saying Matt LaFleur
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: is not going to abandon the running game. Remember, the
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Packers ran it almost 29 times a game last year,
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: and that's with an offensive line that was struggling defensively.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: and with Josh Jacobs, who was banged up down the stretch.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: LeFleur will, I think, still invest the time and the
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: carries in the running game. However, how productive it is
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: will determine what they need from the passing game, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: we'll see how that all plays out. But Jordan Love
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: and his group of skilled position people, I do think
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: they can carry the mail during this period of time
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: before Jacobs gets back, if he does.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the statement or the quote that had
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Cheesehead TV and our boy Aaron Nagler all fired up was,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: you're going to let them cook, right?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Well, they might.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Forced to put the chef in the kitchen might be
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the case. Now, at the feasting table, at the dinner table,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Anthony Campbell was eating all preseason long. He makes the team, Wayne...
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: And so does Jonathan Ford. So does Carl Brooks. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: does seemingly the defensive tackle room. Now, Warren Brinson, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: are designated to return stack house ends up being the
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: odd man out, but they keep seven interior defensive linemen,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: only four edges. While we were talking on the perch
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: throughout training camp, I didn't know that was going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: be the mathematics of it, but maybe it was just
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Anthony Campbell and Jonathan Ford forcing their hands. Cause both
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: were really, really impressive over the last six weeks.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, Billy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: And you know, again, As we got into camp, we determined,
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: and many of us who are just observers, determined they
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: probably had their most depth at defensive tackle when you
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: think about sheer numbers of players. Obviously, Goody said, hey, listen,
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: we need to keep good football players, even though we
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: may have more at this position than we really need
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: at the moment. But you never know how it's going
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: to play out injury-wise. All those guys will play at
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: some point. Jonathan Gannon's going to rotate that entire defensive
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: front throughout the ballgame. That's what he told us. So
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I think keeping a few extra players there makes sense.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Well, and it also made me think this mean Edron
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Cooper finds himself on the line even more, especially in
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: that first six weeks. Well, you were talking about without
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Micah Parsons there. We saw that being a– possibility and
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: something that they were looking and showing a lot during camp.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I wonder if that's one of the reasons with the
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: four edges, they're going to make up with a lot
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: of it with 56 on the outside.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they very well could.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I don't think we, you know, let's put it this
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: way in training camp practices. We've seen more of what
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: they're seemingly are going to do with Edger and Cooper.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: You did not see any of that for the most
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: part of the preseason, not any of it at all.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: But I think Koop is going to be deployed to
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: the quarterback more this year than he was.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: A year ago.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Now, the temptation is if you're a defensive coordinator, you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: sitting there saying, yeah, but he's also our best coverage linebacker.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: You know, so what do you do?
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, if we rush him at the quarterback, he
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: can't cover the tight end or the running back out
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: of the back, you know, that kind of thing. So
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: it's a little catch-22 in that regard, but he's such
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: a talented player, and I think he can make an impact.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: We saw him as a first-year player, as a rookie,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: made a nice splash plays at the quarterback.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: And I think we'll see more of that this year.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Had the Packers been on hard knocks where they love
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: an underdog story and under the radar guy, who would
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: have gotten more screen time, Anthony Campbell or J.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Michael Sturdivant?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Because those are two stories on each side of the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: ball of guys that just kind of willed their way
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: onto the team.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Well, from having done TV for a long time, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: know how that would go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: The wide receiver would get the, you see more of
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: the wide receiver, you get better shot angles on the
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: wide receiver. Yeah, no, the wide receivers, probably who you're
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: going to pick there. But Jay Mike had a great
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: camp and you know Anthony Campbell did too. Anthony Campbell's
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: one of these guys just an afterthought on the roster
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: wearing number 60 playing defensive line you think okay well
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: he's going to be one of the guys cut at
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: the end and maybe if he has a good camp
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: they'll keep him on practice squad but that kid played
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: above and beyond and earned himself a spot on that
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: line and I know that had to be a tough
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: cut on Stackhouse Because they invested a year in Nazir Stackhouse,
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: and he is a capable run defender. And I think
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: if they possibly can, they'll get him back on practice squad.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: That would surprise me if he's not back on practice squad.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Were you surprised at all that it was J. Michael
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Sturdivant and the money that they paid him as a
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: priority free agent after the draft over a guy like
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Will Shepard who had a punt return for a touchdown?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: We haven't seen that since maybe the Reagan administration here.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think that has to do with who's
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: going to actually return punts and kicks in the regular season.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: It's not going to be that guy.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Will Shepard was not going to be doing that because
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: you have both Sky Moore and Jaden Reed to do that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: So I think that that was a nice touch. And
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: I think they'd like to keep, you know, again, keep
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: that wide receiver on the practice squad if they could.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: But Will had an excellent camp and there's no doubt
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: about that. But they can't keep them all.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Wayne, it seems like a month ago, but Friday night
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: was a pretty good show for a preseason finale and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: it was the Kyle McCord show. Very entertaining preseason game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: When you see 80 points in a preseason game, that's something.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And then it's kind of shocking that the Packers traded
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Kyle McCord and he's going to be a number two
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: quarterback someplace. It's just that turn of events, that churn
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: was just like dizzying to me.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. He was developing so quickly. in
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: green Bay.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Um, you know, it's interesting because obviously they traded a
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: sixth round draft choice in 2028 to get the running back.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: So they get the sixth round draft choice in 2028
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: back for the quarterback. So I guess, you know, in,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: in the personnel department, we're good. All this whole we're whole,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: let me put it that way. So, um, but no, it's, Hey, listen,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: a great opportunity for Kyle McCourt.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: He was probably going to– they were going to sneak
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: him onto the practice squad. If not, maybe he's the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: third quarterback here. But an opportunity for him down there.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: And he showed a lot. And, you know, I'm sure
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: they're running a similar type of offense down there. So,
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: good for him. He gets that opportunity. I wish he
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: was still– with the Packers because I do think he's
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: a guy who beyond this year you would have as
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: your number two quarterback.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: He showed that much.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So Billy and I have a little bet going.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: He thinks that Will Levis could be on the radar
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: to be the third quarterback. Just released a former number
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: one pick. I think Sean Clifford getting released in Cincinnati
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: is a turnkey operation.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: They could just bring him back and make him the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: third quarterback.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Whose logic is flawed and who's going to be proven
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: right here?
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: You know, Will Levis, not a bad credentials for a
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: backup is long as you're not expecting him to carry you.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Long-term backup, down the road backup.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because Tyron Taylor's not here forever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Only because you've already had the other guy in camp.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: You know what he can do. You know what he's done.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: But is there more upside to Will Levitz? That's the
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: question the scouts will ask.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: And Lord knows maybe they bring in two because now
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Wayne teams are keeping four quarterbacks. We all are clowning
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh for it over on one side. But then here
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: is the week one opponent who kept a dude from
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: the Golden Gophers who played last year in Brosmer and
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: and JJ McCarthy and Carson Wentz with Kyler Murray, the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: guy that's a former number one overall pick being the
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: quarterback for a team that's got a lot of talent
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: on the outside. Maybe they said we're good at all
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: the other skill positions, but four quarterbacks for the Vikings
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: and Steelers is something I did not think we would
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: ever see again.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: I didn't think we'd see it from two teams.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: And, you know, really, I know Pittsburgh, when we were
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: out there, especially after that first preseason game, they really
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: liked the talent they had that quarterback behind. Aaron Rodgers,
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: but Minnesota, that is kind of perplexing that they would
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: keep four on the 53.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: But that's a weird way. I haven't looked in detail
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: on how they cut their team, but usually that means
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: you've got an offensive-minded head coach And that's what they're
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: trying to get some mileage out of that offense.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: They got that quarterback whisper. They did not want to
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: be given up on JJ. They cut, they, they cut the,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: cut the GM pretty quickly. They said, we're not going to,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make sure that we can do anything
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: we can to be able to salvage that last one.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I thought that was hilarious. It's wild.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Uh, Wayne, the tight end room you mentioned earlier, like
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: now it's a completely different look behind Tucker craft. And
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: obviously Tucker craft is the guy, but which of the
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: newcomers will be, uh, the Robin to his Batman in
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the tight end room.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Well, Well, that's, you know, and obviously you have, it's, Drew,
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: I honestly don't know. I mean, the two guys they got,
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: you could both see in that role. You know, I
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: think it says a lot about where they are with
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Luke Musgrave, certainly with his injury.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: And, you know, you would have liked to have seen
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: him come back.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: I thought, I was a little bit surprised that they
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: cut um, that rookie free agent tight end that I
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: really kind of liked quite a bit. Um, you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Drake Dabney, because I thought he was good in line.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: He showed a little bit as a receiver, but, um, they,
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: they went for guys who probably have a little more experience, um,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: a little more know-how that can bring more to the
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: party now than, uh, Drake Dabney can.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: So yeah, you're right. So it's a remade room.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: I just don't have a feel for those guys yet
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: as to who's going to really step up and contribute.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: John Smith was really good two years ago in Miami.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Really good.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Catches.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah. The other kid, the other kid they got was,
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: and I don't have his name offhand here.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Redmond. Redmond.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Was it Redmond?
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: You know, he's got some experience too, but John O'Smith,
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: I just don't know how much he has where he
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: is in terms of the gas tank. I know he
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: didn't do much last year in Pittsburgh, but a lot
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: of times that circumstances, not player, but circumstances, the offense,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: they were running, whatever it is. He just didn't quite
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: fit in there the way he did the year before
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: in Miami. So, You know, Jono Smith could really open
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: some eyes when he gets here to Green Bay with
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: a team that really probably knows how they're going to
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: deploy him more so than the Steelers did.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a coach that's seen him. Now, granted, this
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: was a long time ago when Matt coached him in Tennessee,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: but has a little bit of understanding with him and
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: him with Atlanta, with Arthur Smith. That's kind of a
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: similar offense. And Pittsburgh, I mean, they were running the
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: 300-pound Washington tight end out there as a sixth offensive
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: lineman the majority of the time last year. Tough to
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: be able to get a whole lot of look. When
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: you start getting ready now, Wayne, we'll start prep for
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Minnesota begin today. We had talked about it a lot
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: during training camp live, and you were spot on, and
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: now we do.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Now the team is here. Now the team's together.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: They'll practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and this is when you
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: can start getting the roster together. How will the prep
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: for Minnesota start for them as well as the broadcaster
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: there for week one coming up in 13 days?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the Packers will start putting in Minnesota stuff now
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: this week, these practices they have. They'll get that basically
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: some of the stuff implemented and put together there. Matt
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: LaFleur mentioned to me in the pregame interview the other
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: night that the team really starts coming together And you
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: got the field paraphrasing what he said, that this is,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: you know, once they cut to 53, and this week
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: is big in terms of those players on the roster now.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: It's a different mentality.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: You know, now you have to fight for a roster
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: spot every day. At least that's what the coaches say. Okay,
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: good for that. But, you know, this is when the
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: team has been picked. Now the team comes together. And, Billy,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: you and I talked about it a lot this summer.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: You know, they were trying to make the team. That
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: was the mode of everybody in that locker room during
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: training camp. They're trying to make the team. The team
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: doesn't come together in training camp. It comes together after
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: the team is cut, and you have a team. You
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: don't have a team until then. So this team, they'll
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: try to come together in the next two weeks and
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: be ready to go for Minnesota, and I think they
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: will be.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: On the way out here, Wayne, I was surprised Damani
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Jackson got cut because the Packers tend to hang on
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: to draft picks, especially when you only have six.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: And they cut him and he'll probably go to the
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: practice squad and be developed along the way. But my
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: thing with the draft, I've told you guys this before.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: If you miss on your first round pick, it's terrible.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: But if the fourth round pick that year is Bakhtiari
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and ends up being a 10-year starter and a borderline
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame candidate, it's not a bad draft. This
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: feels like Brandon Cisse is going to play like a
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: first round pick right out of this shoot. And I
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: think that he'll... kind of carry this draft class, but
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: it still might be okay. Cause Trace Mack might be
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: a kicker for a while and, and Brandon Cissé looks
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: like he's going to be pretty good. So despite the
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: small numbers and cutting a draft pick, I think this
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: draft class could be okay.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Chris McClellan is going to play a lot, Drew, in
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: that rotation as a rookie. And it looks to me
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: like he could develop into quite a player and Billy
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: and I really like, uh, uh, deny Dennis Sutton who
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: had a sack the other night, if that kid can
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: get healthy. Um, you know, he had some injury problems
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: at camp a little bit, well, injury He had an
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: illness at camp that set him back just a little bit.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: Damani Jackson had injury, that abdominal surgery, missed most of
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: OTA's mini camp and part of training camp, but that
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: set him back a little bit. You could tell on
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: the field the other night that he wasn't ready. It's
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: a matter of getting him to the practice squad, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: I think they will do that, Drew. He has the
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: physical tools. They have to get his mind right. They
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: have to get his confidence right, and maybe he has
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: to learn a little bit more about the pro game,
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: and I think he will, and it looks to me
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: like That's a guy worth developing because he has the
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: physical tools you look for at that position.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Might be good in a couple years. Yeah, Dennis Sutton
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: was like that. The flash he showed was like, oh,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I like that. That was a heck of a night
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: that he put together on Friday night. He got a
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: lot of game action, and I think he's going to
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: be able to produce.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: That's for sure. You'll see the field at U.S. Bank Stadium.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I would assume so. No doubt about it. Especially with
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: only four edge rushers, you know that he's going to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: be on the field. Yep, he's definitely going to do it. Wayne,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. We appreciate it as always.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: All right, guys, take care.
• 36:41
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• 36:44
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• 36:48
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• 36:53
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• 36:54
  Speaker 2: We are going to take one last break. We'll come
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: back with our wake and bake story and get you ready.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: What a week we're going to have, Brewers Cubs.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Buckle up.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: It's the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond closing
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: ceremonies for the huddle. Monday edition. Oh, what a week
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: we're going to have. Brewers-Cubs tonight. First of four at
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Wrigley Field. Four night games in a row at Wrigley Field.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: And then a day game on Labor Day at American
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Family Field. Seven games in ten days between the rivals.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Playoff preview.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Sounds like it. I'm here for it. It's popcorn ready.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Packers maneuvering their roster. They'll have availability tomorrow to talk
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: about the moves. We still won't hear from or about
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs from them because they're going to let the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Legal matters play.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say. No one knows how
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: long he's going to be on the exempt list.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: This definitely alleviates one of the questions that we were
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: asking is when was he going to speak first, right?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: When was he going to speak publicly?
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Now on the exempt list, he's going to be obviously
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: off limits to anybody in the media. But Matt LaFleur
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: addressed the matter first before the exempt list news yesterday
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: on Friday night and said he fully expects him to
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: be on the team. and fully expects him to be
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: with the team. So I wonder, with the team, could
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: be in meetings getting treatment, or if this was out
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: of left field, that might surprise them as to where
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: everything that transpired yesterday.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Not entirely sure how that's going to go. Time for
• 38:13
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• 38:19
  Speaker 2: What are we waking and baking today, Billy?
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Well, Drew, as it was cut-down day for everybody in
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: the NFL, obviously, yesterday, I thought the Wake and Bake
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: story would be what we mentioned with... Wayne Larravee talking
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: about all the teams keeping four quarterbacks. Browns keep three
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: on their roster, put Dylan Gabriel on the IR. Vikings
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: keep four quarterbacks. Steelers keep four quarterbacks. But the New
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: York Giants decided that they were going to keep not OBJ,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: but Odell Beckham Jr. Yes, the news yesterday out of
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Giants camp was that Odell Beckham Jr. made the 53-man
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: roster after taking his season off of football. But.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: The.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Conversation around the former top 15 pick and the former
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: superstar wide receiver of the Giants is that he's a
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: different man. It's a different Odell Beckham Jr. It is
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: not OBJ coming back as he had to earn his
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: way onto the team. My man wasn't coming out of
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: retirement if he didn't know he was going to be
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: on the team, right? We're acting like he was J.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Michael Sturdivant. undrafted free agent, making the team out of
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: some random deal.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: The 33 year old had played since 24. I get it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: He's not Rudy, but I get it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: But this is, this is not the 86th guy coming
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: in from the training camp roster.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Making the 53 man team.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Did he celebrate by putting on jeans Timberlands and getting
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: on a boat?
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: No, nor putting a hole in a wallet Lambeau field. However,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: he did say about the prospects of him making the
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: team after his preseason finale on Friday night.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: It would mean everything to me if I made it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Show me a more popular athlete in New York, though,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: at this peak. He's right up there.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Well, he had it for a while. He was Jalen
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Brunson for a while. That's the thing, Drew. That's why
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't get this.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: If you were going to bring him out of retirement
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: to be on the Giants, you're the New York Giants.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Who were you going to put out there that was
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: going to be so much better than somebody that was
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: going to at least get eyeballs and some kind of
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: good pub for you? People loved him before he left
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: New York. And the man that maybe loved him the
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: most was John Mara.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: And John Mara.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: He's been sleepless in that New Jersey apartment since Saquon
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Barkley left for the Eagles.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So hopefully he can get some shut-eye now. Spectacular. We
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: covered a lot of ground today, but it's only going
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to ramp up. I was going to say, because game on.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Game on tonight. Game on is the theme. Champions fear
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: no one. Kyle Harrison. We'll see.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: The season can't be won or lost tonight, but we
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: know it's going to be fun. And listen, walk them
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: first or throw it in the dirt, Harrison. Be careful
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: around PCA. All right, we're back at it tomorrow at
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: 5 a.m. Thanks for hanging out with us in the huddle.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Peace!