Latest / The Huddle / 09/18/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's the dawn of a Friday of football Friday in
- 0:03Speaker 1: the good land. Welcome into the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin,
- 0:05Speaker 1: nine 20, Milwaukee, 10 70, Madison everywhere on the iHeart
- 0:08Speaker 1: app streaming live Facebook X and YouTube drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt,
- 0:11Speaker 1: Armin Sarian boys.
- 0:12Speaker 2: It seems like five minutes ago. We were at Pottawatomie
- 0:15Speaker 2: huddled up.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Just hung up, just walked out with Armin Sarian with
- 0:18Speaker 3: excitement in his eye, a handful of tickets and an
- 0:22Speaker 3: under on a random college football game that was being
- 0:25Speaker 3: played in the NFL stadium. What, is better than Thursday nights.
- 0:29Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 0:30Speaker 4: I don't have anything for you. Who's laughing now? Who's
- 0:33Speaker 4: laughing now?
- 0:34Speaker 3: Oh, Pat and our doozy way to hold that football
- 0:36Speaker 3: and way to hold that thing under 50 and a half.
- 0:38Speaker 2: That's what I like to say.
- 0:39Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 0:40Speaker 4: My Syracuse Pittsburgh under came through and Billy comes out.
- 0:43Speaker 2: I'm like, I got the under in this game. Cause
- 0:45Speaker 2: it was like the only game going for college. And
- 0:47Speaker 2: I'm like, why not? You know?
- 0:48Speaker 4: And he goes, what do you know about Syracuse and Pittsburgh?
- 0:51Speaker 2: I said, I know I want to action and I
- 0:52Speaker 2: got the under and it worked.
- 0:54Speaker 4: All right. So Yeah, you guys are in big trouble
- 0:57Speaker 4: down there on Canal Street. That's like $ 4.
- 0:59Speaker 2: 60.
- 0:59Speaker 3: But there's a few winners over there. There's your Josh
- 1:03Speaker 3: Allen first touchdown ticket in there. We got the under
- 1:06Speaker 3: on that one. This boy is smiling from ear to ear.
- 1:09Speaker 3: And really, Drew, the only kind of smile you can
- 1:12Speaker 3: have on your face after you leave the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 1:15Speaker 3: There's a lot of great institutions in America. There's a
- 1:17Speaker 3: lot of great bars to watch sports in the city
- 1:20Speaker 3: of Milwaukee. there's none that potentially pay you to come back.
- 1:23Speaker 3: And Armin Sarian is going, Armin Sarian is rolling right
- 1:26Speaker 3: home back there today. Vince McMahon strutting across that skywalk.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we had a great time last night and
- 1:32Speaker 4: it was great to be there with all of our,
- 1:35Speaker 4: our listeners and friends, good crowd last night and great
- 1:37Speaker 4: to have Wayne. I have to give Wayne obviously all
- 1:40Speaker 4: the credit there. So that was great to see. We
- 1:43Speaker 4: had a lucky winner when a couple of Packers tickets
- 1:46Speaker 4: courtesy of Jameson.
- 1:46Speaker 2: So Hey, that was great. I forget. I'm blanking on
- 1:49Speaker 2: her name. Kay, right.
- 1:50Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Our friend Kay ended up walking away with the tickets.
- 1:52Speaker 3: We got to meet our friend Charlie, cutting the greens.
- 1:54Speaker 2: He was the best. I was talking to him. So
- 1:56Speaker 2: it's great to be there last night.
- 1:58Speaker 4: So, yeah, what this just felt like a few hours ago,
- 2:01Speaker 4: which it was.
- 2:02Speaker 2: It was a great time. It basically was. Yeah.
- 2:05Speaker 4: And the Thursday night game almost ended by the time
- 2:09Speaker 4: we got up this morning.
- 2:10Speaker 2: It was kind of a longer game, but it was
- 2:11Speaker 2: a shootout last night.
- 2:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 2:14Speaker 2: That's the way I felt about it. And the Lions.
- 2:18Speaker 2: The Lions are in somewhat a disarray, aren't they? Well, man,
- 2:22Speaker 2: they walked into a hornet's nest last night, right?
- 2:25Speaker 3: That's a tough spot and a tough ask for anybody.
- 2:29Speaker 2: But they've now lost four of their last five road.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Games, if we're going to do the same thing with
- 2:34Speaker 3: the Packers and count back into last year. I don't
- 2:36Speaker 3: know a ton of football people do that, Drew. I
- 2:38Speaker 3: don't know necessarily people inside of these buildings are doing it.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Like we do with home and road splits and different
- 2:43Speaker 3: things in baseball.
- 2:43Speaker 2: You're like, hey, I got bad news for you. Baseball
- 2:46Speaker 2: people don't really give a care about that.
- 2:48Speaker 4: Right?
- 2:48Speaker 3: Like that's not going to register as much. This one's
- 2:51Speaker 3: not going to register as much. This one last night,
- 2:54Speaker 3: you watch Detroit who in week one got up to
- 2:58Speaker 3: a sweet 21, nothing lead. Look like they're just going to,
- 3:01Speaker 3: blitz and March out the saints. All of a sudden
- 3:04Speaker 3: they got a two point conversion defensively to try to
- 3:07Speaker 3: either win or lose the football game. And luckily somebody
- 3:11Speaker 3: runs into another guy and Tyler Chuck just has thrown
- 3:14Speaker 3: out the back of the end zone and they end
- 3:16Speaker 3: up surviving. They go out down 27 to seven, but
- 3:20Speaker 3: just before halftime, they get the field goal to at
- 3:22Speaker 3: least trim it in, made it a 10 point game.
- 3:24Speaker 3: And that was about as close as they were going
- 3:26Speaker 3: to find in that second half. Cause James cook was
- 3:29Speaker 3: running it in finally. Sam Laporta, Amon Ross, St. Brown
- 3:32Speaker 3: found the end zone. But man, Josh Allen would not
- 3:36Speaker 3: be denied. And I was doing this last night as
- 3:38Speaker 3: I'm driving home and I'm listening on the radio to
- 3:42Speaker 3: Kevin Kugler just describing.
- 3:43Speaker 2: A beautiful scene. Then I realized, what am I doing?
- 3:47Speaker 3: I need to hear Lomas Brown and Dan Miller with
- 3:49Speaker 3: some misery radio on the way home on the Detroit
- 3:52Speaker 3: Lions radio network. And I definitely enjoyed hearing them drew
- 3:57Speaker 3: seem like they are.
- 3:58Speaker 2: In some disarray.
- 3:59Speaker 3: Those boys on the radio broadcast for the Detroit lions
- 4:02Speaker 3: last night, frustrated, confounded, and continually looking for answers as
- 4:07Speaker 3: to how on earth are we going to stop anybody?
- 4:09Speaker 3: I know nobody's going to be Josh Allen running and
- 4:12Speaker 3: throwing it as well as he was last night, but man,
- 4:15Speaker 3: you start looking at the last six quarters of Detroit lions,
- 4:18Speaker 3: defensive football. It is 70 points. If you include the
- 4:22Speaker 3: overtime and, They have not given much defense against anything.
- 4:28Speaker 4: In 63, they've given up 63 first downs in two games,
- 4:32Speaker 4: which I think is right around some of the all-time marks.
- 4:34Speaker 2: But, yeah, so definitely not good numbers for them. And
- 4:38Speaker 2: they barely won week one.
- 4:39Speaker 1: My pal Andy in West Bend, friend of the program
- 4:42Speaker 1: and big Lions fan. I've never seen a display like this.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Did they even have 11 guys on defense?
- 4:47Speaker 2: Somehow did.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Yeah, somehow had 11 guys on there. But when one
- 4:51Speaker 3: guy accounts for basically three of them, It's it's hard, man.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Josh Allen is right now outside of his own mistakes,
- 4:59Speaker 3: which is the only reason why they lost that game
- 5:01Speaker 3: in Denver a year ago. He is as close to
- 5:05Speaker 3: unstoppable for others as I think there is right now
- 5:09Speaker 3: in the in the sport, because when he's on the
- 5:12Speaker 3: outside and he's got at least some kind of capable
- 5:15Speaker 3: weapons and Dalton Kincaid looks like he's taking that leap
- 5:17Speaker 3: that they anticipated he would coming out of Utah and
- 5:20Speaker 3: being a first round pick. They've got a couple of
- 5:22Speaker 3: guys that they know they can get the ball to.
- 5:24Speaker 3: They got Joe Brady who loves cooking it up for
- 5:26Speaker 3: Josh Allen. Why wouldn't you? And right now they got
- 5:29Speaker 3: one of the more dangerous guys in the sport when
- 5:31Speaker 3: he runs and throws it. There's not a whole lot
- 5:33Speaker 3: of answers you have when that defensive end is out
- 5:35Speaker 3: there on the perimeter.
- 5:36Speaker 2: And he was doing it last night.
- 5:38Speaker 3: He was as advertised and listen, fired up because he
- 5:41Speaker 3: was in that beautiful place that Josh Allen didn't build
- 5:45Speaker 3: the stadium.
- 5:46Speaker 4: But he's a sure as a hell of a reason
- 5:48Speaker 4: why they got it. It's sort of like the honest effect, right,
- 5:50Speaker 4: with him. And in some ways, I mean, Buffalo's Buffalo.
- 5:53Speaker 4: I mean, they're going to have their franchise. And they
- 5:54Speaker 4: played O'Canada last night.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:56Speaker 3: And I remember very cleanly that they were bringing up
- 6:00Speaker 3: ideas of going and playing some games at Rogers Center.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. They were very much thinking. A big
- 6:04Speaker 2: chunk of their fan base hails from Toronto.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Trying to figure out what are we going to do here.
- 6:08Speaker 3: And instead, they get the kid from Wyoming to roll
- 6:10Speaker 3: through in Northern California.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, boom. We got the MVP.
- 6:14Speaker 2: We got a brand new stadium. And we got a
- 6:16Speaker 2: lot of hope.
- 6:17Speaker 4: They do have a couple, like basically two home markets,
- 6:19Speaker 4: if you think about it. And Toronto is a huge,
- 6:20Speaker 4: huge metropolis, people don't realize. And, yeah, that's a good point.
- 6:24Speaker 4: You know, we think about our unique situation here with
- 6:26Speaker 4: Milwaukee and the media home in Milwaukee with Green Bay.
- 6:29Speaker 4: But it's a similar situation there, although a little less official.
- 6:33Speaker 1: I can't think of, I mean, I know they are
- 6:35Speaker 1: for two, for local TV and stuff, and they're two
- 6:38Speaker 1: hours apart.
- 6:39Speaker 2: But Green Bay, Milwaukee, like Wisconsin, that's one market. Yeah,
- 6:41Speaker 2: that's one. One market. So we're still the most unique.
- 6:44Speaker 2: We're still special. I understand that.
- 6:45Speaker 1: You know, when the Packers play the Rams, there are 30,
- 6:47Speaker 1: I think 30 suburbs of Los Angeles that have higher
- 6:51Speaker 1: populations than Green Bay.
- 6:52Speaker 2: So, you know. That's true. I mean, the Niners are
- 6:55Speaker 2: in Santa Clara and all these things. So, yeah. No
- 6:58Speaker 2: question about it.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Josh Allen was El Hombre again. Great night for him
- 7:01Speaker 1: in his new playground. The Lions, they weren't exactly Brian
- 7:06Speaker 1: Flores crazy, but they blitzed him 55% of the dropbacks.
- 7:11Speaker 2: How'd that work out?
- 7:11Speaker 1: That's the highest rate that the Lions have had under
- 7:13Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Calvin Shepard. On those blitzes, passing, Josh Allen
- 7:20Speaker 1: was 12 for 17, 137 yards, two touchdowns. He scrambled
- 7:24Speaker 1: five times for 49 yards and a touchdown. And the
- 7:27Speaker 1: quarterback sneaks four for four on conversions with a touchdown.
- 7:31Speaker 3: And listen, if you were one of the folks like
- 7:34Speaker 3: Armin Sarian, maybe somebody else on the show, that were
- 7:37Speaker 3: waiting to see Josh Allen try to run in that
- 7:38Speaker 3: first touchdown, And he runs that sneak down to about.
- 7:41Speaker 2: The two-yard line. You think, oh, my goodness.
- 7:44Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:44Speaker 3: How on earth are you going to catch this thing?
- 7:46Speaker 3: And they're going to hand that thing over to number four,
- 7:48Speaker 3: and he's going to rumble on in. They line up
- 7:50Speaker 3: in that QB sneak. I'd love to know how that
- 7:52Speaker 3: huddle went. Joe Brady right into the headset. You know
- 7:54Speaker 3: what to do.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:55Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:56Speaker 3: You got Terminator back there, and he's rolling as well
- 7:59Speaker 3: as he is right now. I would struggle to not
- 8:02Speaker 3: only have him run the football.
- 8:04Speaker 2: I'm struggling with it, and I'm going to.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Watch Eastern Michigan against Wisconsin tomorrow and talk about it
- 8:08Speaker 3: on the Badger Radio Network.
- 8:10Speaker 2: You can listen to us on 1310 WIBA. Colton Joseph,
- 8:14Speaker 2: not Josh Allen. All right. Let's back that up. Definitely
- 8:17Speaker 2: not that guy. But he's 6'4, 225, 230 pounds. He's
- 8:18Speaker 2: a stout kid, big dude.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And he's going to want to run. And guys want
- 8:25Speaker 3: to run. Guys want to push the envelope on running
- 8:27Speaker 3: the football. I'm generally, let's dial that back, especially week
- 8:31Speaker 3: two in the NFL, week three in college football, playing
- 8:34Speaker 3: at directional school.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Let's pull that back just a little bit. Let's use
- 8:37Speaker 2: that when we need to.
- 8:39Speaker 3: But I would struggle to not spam call the Josh
- 8:42Speaker 3: Allen run outside and maybe dump it 15 yards down
- 8:45Speaker 3: to Dalton Kincaid or maybe just try to run the
- 8:48Speaker 3: bleep over somebody in the flat because he's pretty fun
- 8:50Speaker 3: at that and pretty good at it. And when he
- 8:52Speaker 3: has the kind of juice like he did last night,
- 8:55Speaker 3: I would struggle if I'm Joe Brady to not call
- 8:57Speaker 3: that almost every single time.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when it works, right? When it's so effective.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Who's stopping it? It's hard.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Nobody can stop it. And it's hard to not do
- 9:05Speaker 4: it when it's so effective. I know once upon a time,
- 9:07Speaker 4: and we always said this, and I think... people have
- 9:11Speaker 4: said it early on about Josh Allen, like eventually you
- 9:12Speaker 4: have to take him out of danger and not let
- 9:14Speaker 4: him run so much, but you're out there to produce,
- 9:17Speaker 4: to move the ball, to gain yardage and win football games.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Like that's the goal of this. And when you can
- 9:22Speaker 2: do it as well as you can, when.
- 9:24Speaker 4: You can put the defense at such a disadvantage and,
- 9:27Speaker 4: as Josh Allen does.
- 9:28Speaker 2: I mean, that is a true dual threat.
- 9:29Speaker 4: We thought a little bit last night about, you know,
- 9:31Speaker 4: should Jordan love to use his legs and more things
- 9:32Speaker 4: like that. This is an example of a true dual
- 9:34Speaker 4: threat quarterback that it's not necessarily that he's, you know,
- 9:37Speaker 4: the Michael Vick juke master, Madden juke master.
- 9:40Speaker 2: He does do that though.
- 9:41Speaker 5: A lot.
- 9:42Speaker 4: He's really good at it, but he's just a hoss.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Like he's just a huge unit of a man that
- 9:46Speaker 4: can run well, throw and on the run and do
- 9:49Speaker 4: all these things. And it's just so hard to stop.
- 9:52Speaker 4: And so effective that, Because you put the defense at
- 9:55Speaker 4: such a disadvantage that it's hard not to do that.
- 9:57Speaker 4: And it's hard not to call your own number if
- 9:59Speaker 4: you have to, Billy. when he knows in the back
- 10:00Speaker 4: of his mind look if this thing breaks down i'm
- 10:03Speaker 4: gonna find a way to get 10 yards yeah they
- 10:05Speaker 4: can't stop me they don't want to stop me and
- 10:08Speaker 4: um that's a great you know talk about how you
- 10:09Speaker 4: stop the blitz or how you stop listen it's hard
- 10:12Speaker 4: if that guy gets out and and can punish you
- 10:15Speaker 4: for doing things like that as a defense It's really
- 10:17Speaker 4: hard to deal with, and the Lions dealt with it
- 10:19Speaker 4: last night through most of that game.
- 10:21Speaker 3: Through two games, Drew, Josh Allen has been sacked as
- 10:24Speaker 3: many times as he's scored rushing touchdowns. And he had
- 10:27Speaker 3: to get down first. Got sacked twice against Houston. Maybe
- 10:30Speaker 3: the best defense in all of football. Detroit last night,
- 10:34Speaker 3: definitely not the best defense in all of football. Sacked
- 10:37Speaker 3: in each of those two games twice. A pair of
- 10:39Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns the first two games. He has already accounted
- 10:43Speaker 3: for nine TDs.
- 10:45Speaker 2: In two games. He was the odds on favorite to
- 10:48Speaker 2: win the MVP to start the year. Shockingly.
- 10:51Speaker 3: So at the Pottawatomie sports book, heavy favorite to win
- 10:53Speaker 3: the MVP this morning on September 18th would be Josh Allen.
- 10:58Speaker 3: So at some point it maybe turns around, but maybe
- 11:01Speaker 3: it doesn't, maybe he's 30 years old and he's in
- 11:03Speaker 3: the prime of his career. And the time is now like,
- 11:06Speaker 3: if anybody's going to get one out of the group
- 11:08Speaker 3: of players at that position, win a championship, it's the
- 11:11Speaker 3: only thing left on his resume. It feels like it's,
- 11:15Speaker 3: Going to happen at some point. Buffalo Bills fans thought
- 11:17Speaker 3: it was going to happen for Jim Kelly.
- 11:19Speaker 2: At some point. So we'll see.
- 11:21Speaker 3: But he with performances like that, he quickly becomes, I think,
- 11:24Speaker 3: America's favorite quarterback to watch.
- 11:26Speaker 2: I mean, we've been saying it and it's true. He
- 11:28Speaker 2: deserves one.
- 11:28Speaker 4: I mean, you can say the same about Lamar, too,
- 11:30Speaker 4: but it just shows you how hard it is to
- 11:31Speaker 4: win the Super Bowl in this league. You know, it
- 11:34Speaker 4: really it's so hard to win it. And you can
- 11:36Speaker 4: be really good for a long time and have trouble
- 11:37Speaker 4: doing it. So Andrew Fritch on YouTube or give it
- 11:40Speaker 4: to the guy who led the NFL in rushing last year. Well, yeah,
- 11:42Speaker 4: that's another good option. I mean, there's options abound. So
- 11:46Speaker 4: to your point, Billy, it sure looks like that they
- 11:48Speaker 4: are in good shape to.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Make a run again.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Someone on Polymarket put $ 3. 3 million on Buffalo to win.
- 11:55Speaker 5: Cool.
- 11:56Speaker 1: And it paid out $ 4. 7 million.
- 11:58Speaker 4: I mean, hey, if you have money like that to invest,
- 12:00Speaker 4: I'm sure he had money like that to lose, whoever
- 12:02Speaker 4: did that.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Wow. I'd like to see that portfolio. That is awesome.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Because you don't win every bet you make like that.
- 12:07Speaker 3: I definitely didn't send it that hard, but I'm glad
- 12:09Speaker 3: Marcus in Iowa also. He said, Billy, thanks for handing
- 12:12Speaker 3: out that Josh Allen first touchdown pick yesterday.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Nailed it. Nailed it. Marcus, glad you were right on
- 12:17Speaker 2: that thing. Got me plus 600. Marcus also fired in.
- 12:20Speaker 3: I want Josh Allen to break Favre's consecutive starts record.
- 12:25Speaker 3: But damn, they act like he's made of steel. I
- 12:27Speaker 3: just don't want him to get hurt, but they will
- 12:29Speaker 3: break you. The tough thing is, when you're that big...
- 12:33Speaker 3: You think you're going to break someone else.
- 12:35Speaker 2: You just feel indestructible at some point, right? When you
- 12:38Speaker 2: do that, right?
- 12:38Speaker 3: I mean, he's 6'6, 240 pounds at least, and he
- 12:45Speaker 3: knows how to run, knows how to maneuver. The thing
- 12:48Speaker 3: about Lamar when he runs, Drew, I don't know I've
- 12:51Speaker 3: ever seen him take a big hit. Lamar has an
- 12:54Speaker 3: uncanny ability to not get blown up. Jaden Daniels, conversely so.
- 13:00Speaker 3: I don't think I've not seen him get split in half. Like,
- 13:03Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels gets hit. It always looks like Gumby just
- 13:07Speaker 3: bouncing around and getting ragdolled around. Josh Allen does that
- 13:10Speaker 3: to a lot of defenders, but he does take, like,
- 13:14Speaker 3: smart shots. Yesterday, as he's doing one of the, it
- 13:17Speaker 3: felt like seven or eight QB sneaks, looks like he
- 13:20Speaker 3: gets absolutely mollywhopped by a linebacker flying in. Devin White,
- 13:24Speaker 3: I think it was late. All of a sudden, you
- 13:26Speaker 3: realize Devin White's down. You realize that there's a Detroit
- 13:30Speaker 3: guy down as he's the one that just barreled into him.
- 13:32Speaker 3: And Josh just does that little thing where he just
- 13:34Speaker 3: tries to fix his uniform like the awkwardly fat kid
- 13:37Speaker 3: when you're in grade school football. And all you want
- 13:39Speaker 3: to do is pull your jersey down. All you want
- 13:41Speaker 3: to do is make sure that your stomach's not showing.
- 13:43Speaker 2: You're just like, all right, hold on. Pull it down
- 13:45Speaker 2: real quick. All right.
- 13:46Speaker 5: All right.
- 13:46Speaker 2: I'm all good. I'm all good. I'm ready to roll.
- 13:48Speaker 3: And 248 passing yards later. Enjoy a day and enjoy
- 13:53Speaker 3: a game. Buffalo folks. We're tailgating early into the day,
- 13:57Speaker 3: and I can imagine Drew laid into the night last night.
- 13:59Speaker 2: With that celebrator. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely, they were. I mean,
- 14:03Speaker 2: jumping on the table. Ryan Fitzpatrick jumping through a table. Well,
- 14:06Speaker 2: in that postgame show, now you want to talk about
- 14:08Speaker 2: something that just ended. Yeah, that's true.
- 14:10Speaker 3: That postgame show goes forever. And I'm a fan of
- 14:14Speaker 3: guys just enjoying and having a good time. Drew and
- 14:17Speaker 3: I wrapped up Packers OT yesterday. Two years ago, I
- 14:20Speaker 3: want to say on one of these Thursday night games
- 14:22Speaker 3: and they had finished like 20 minutes before us. They
- 14:25Speaker 3: were just out doing Lambo leaps, running routes, hanging out
- 14:28Speaker 3: on the field.
- 14:29Speaker 2: It is a really, really good show.
- 14:31Speaker 3: I think prime is kind of dialed in some of the,
- 14:33Speaker 3: the honed in on all of the craft of broadcasting
- 14:37Speaker 3: NFL games. Now that they're into year five, which is
- 14:39Speaker 3: crazy to think of the herb street and Michael's experience.
- 14:43Speaker 3: But I also thought just the nerdy side, the football
- 14:46Speaker 3: lover side, The sight lines and the grass looked gorgeous.
- 14:49Speaker 2: In that stadium last night. On television, it looked phenomenal.
- 14:54Speaker 3: And I'm excited to see a lot of games there
- 14:55Speaker 3: because I can imagine we're going to get a decent
- 14:57Speaker 3: amount of playoff games there coming up.
- 14:58Speaker 4: It was nice to also see the open air and
- 15:00Speaker 4: everything like that. If you love that old-time football, the
- 15:03Speaker 4: open-air stadiums, because a lot are going to domes.
- 15:05Speaker 2: I know during the preseason, for some reason, I don't know.
- 15:09Speaker 2: I haven't been in Highmark, obviously, but.
- 15:11Speaker 4: There were a lot of Twitter trends about how there
- 15:13Speaker 4: was bad seats in Highmark or some obstructed view, but
- 15:17Speaker 4: it seemed like nobody was complaining about that last night
- 15:19Speaker 4: when they were rolling up 41 points. Some quick math,
- 15:21Speaker 4: just because he piqued my curiosity. Looks like Josh Allen's
- 15:25Speaker 4: got 127 straight games, so 297 was Favre's number. Some
- 15:29Speaker 4: quick math. He didn't have 170 more games, so that's
- 15:31Speaker 4: 10 seasons. 17 divided by So that's 10 seasons. So
- 15:34Speaker 4: I guess he's 10 seasons behind Favre. If you're thinking
- 15:37Speaker 4: about the consecutive game streak, obviously he has one more
- 15:39Speaker 4: game per year than Favre did. So he has a
- 15:41Speaker 4: season shaved off there overall over the course of 16 years.
- 15:46Speaker 2: So if you're following that, we'll see you in a decade.
- 15:48Speaker 2: We'll see you at geezer Palooza.
- 15:49Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 15:50Speaker 2: All right. So maybe we'll know by then.
- 15:53Speaker 3: It's a, it's a interesting study that feels like one
- 15:56Speaker 3: of those records that would be unbreakable. But I think
- 15:59Speaker 3: we thought the same thing about when Garrick set that
- 16:02Speaker 3: record that there was not going to be somebody to
- 16:04Speaker 3: be able to come through. The game is just so
- 16:06Speaker 3: physical now that I wouldn't anticipate somebody's able to.
- 16:11Speaker 4: But But the way quarterbacks are protected and plus the
- 16:14Speaker 4: recovery and the way they're staying healthy.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Well, I would go recovery wise protected. Yes.
- 16:19Speaker 3: But then I watched Josh Allen try to run through
- 16:21Speaker 3: a lean McNeil yesterday. And I don't know exactly how
- 16:24Speaker 3: much the protection is helping.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Guys to run through a defensive tackle.
- 16:28Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. That's helping. Well, that's a
- 16:30Speaker 2: good point. You know, everything is an opposite reaction.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Right.
- 16:33Speaker 2: So the quarterbacks testing the safety.
- 16:36Speaker 6: Right.
- 16:36Speaker 4: I'm trying to run more and things like that. You know,
- 16:38Speaker 4: the whole Pat Mahomes, Caleb Williams, I'm going to bait
- 16:41Speaker 4: you to hit me out of bounds. So that's a
- 16:42Speaker 4: good point, too, Billy. So I guess we'll see what
- 16:44Speaker 4: happens as we go. I remember for a while, Peyton
- 16:46Speaker 4: Manning was only like five or six seasons behind Favre
- 16:48Speaker 4: while they were still playing. Obviously, he didn't get there,
- 16:50Speaker 4: but I'm not sure it'll never be broken.
- 16:53Speaker 2: That's one that could be, like you said. Eli's second
- 16:55Speaker 2: on that list. That's true. Yeah, wow. I think Eli
- 17:00Speaker 2: might be second on that list. That's impressive.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he is.
- 17:02Speaker 2: He's got at least 165 starts consecutive. You are pretty impressive.
- 17:07Speaker 2: You are correct.
- 17:08Speaker 1: All right, you can reach us on the NicoletLaw.com talk
- 17:10Speaker 1: text line 877-794-1973. Once again, shout out to everybody who
- 17:14Speaker 1: joined us. Potawatomi Xeno Hotel and the Sportsbook Annex for
- 17:18Speaker 1: the Thursday night huddle. We're going to be back there
- 17:21Speaker 1: in two weeks because the Packers have a little engagement
- 17:23Speaker 1: on Thursday at Lambeau Field against the Atlanta Falcons. We
- 17:26Speaker 1: can talk about that and the way it lines up
- 17:29Speaker 1: when we come back. Also going to talk Brewers. We'll
- 17:32Speaker 1: have a report from Hunter Baumgart.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Dodgers locked in. They got their clinch yesterday.
- 17:37Speaker 6: I see it.
- 17:37Speaker 3: I'm watching a video of Kike Hernandez shoving a bottle
- 17:40Speaker 3: of champagne down Yoshinobu Yamamoto's pants. They look like they're
- 17:46Speaker 3: having a good time. And then when we're back at
- 17:48Speaker 3: Pottawatomie Sportsbook in two weeks, guess what? There'll be playoff
- 17:50Speaker 3: baseball on.
- 17:51Speaker 1: There sure will.
- 17:52Speaker 2: We're going to be huddled up there.
- 17:53Speaker 1: It's going to be phenomenal.
- 17:54Speaker 2: What a fast summer.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Get yourself a comfortable chair and a cold or hot
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- 18:19Speaker 1: the game. The game last night, Buffalo-Detroit, was a good
- 18:22Speaker 1: little snacketizer. Packers play a week from last night at
- 18:27Speaker 1: Lambeau Field, their opener. First, it's on to the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets.
- 18:31Speaker 1: But I got to say, Thursday night football, off to
- 18:35Speaker 1: a pretty rocking start.
- 18:36Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Yeah, you get 72 combined points. That's a nice little work. Well,
- 18:40Speaker 2: 49ers-Rams was not a great game. It was a good matchup,
- 18:45Speaker 2: not a great game.
- 18:46Speaker 6: Sure. Right?
- 18:47Speaker 1: But then Buffalo-Detroit, and then we follow that up with
- 18:52Speaker 1: Atlanta-Green Bay, which may or may not be a good game.
- 18:54Speaker 1: It's obviously a big game for us because it's the Packers.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Then October 1st, you got Aaron Rodgers going in to
- 19:00Speaker 1: face whoever's playing quarterback that week for the Browns, week four.
- 19:06Speaker 2: That's a divisional game, rivalry game. Okay. Then Tampa Bay, Dallas.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Of course, Dallas has to make a appearance on Thursday.
- 19:13Speaker 2: It has to, right? Seattle, Denver.
- 19:15Speaker 1: That's spicy.
- 19:16Speaker 2: October 15th.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, hopefully Sam Darnold's back by that time.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Hopefully Bo Nix has dusted off the broken ankle rust
- 19:25Speaker 3: that he's got rolling here.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Then New England, Chicago.
- 19:27Speaker 1: That's going to be a fun one. And we're moving
- 19:29Speaker 1: towards the Halloween weekend. Carolina at Green Bay, which is
- 19:34Speaker 1: the 29th. Jacksonville, Baltimore.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Another good one. Washington, New York.
- 19:40Speaker 1: The Giants, the Gynettes.
- 19:42Speaker 2: Indianapolis, Houston. That would be the groan for me. I'm
- 19:45Speaker 2: seeing some groans here. Denver, Pittsburgh. Kansas City, the Rams. December.
- 19:50Speaker 1: So basically what I'm coming around to, and I'm seeing
- 19:53Speaker 1: Minnesota at New England in December.
- 19:55Speaker 2: That'll be good. San Francisco, L.A., the.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Rematch on Thursday.
- 19:58Speaker 2: That's always a sexy matchup.
- 20:00Speaker 4: 17th.
- 20:00Speaker 2: That's the Chargers. Whatever, man.
- 20:02Speaker 1: Houston, Philly, another spicy matchup on Christmas Eve. And then
- 20:08Speaker 1: they close out scheduled Baltimore at Cincinnati. I can remember
- 20:12Speaker 1: when that was like the place where good games went
- 20:14Speaker 1: to die on Thursday night, right?
- 20:16Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not as much of the color rush Titans
- 20:19Speaker 3: and Jags from 2018 every single week.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Yeah, now it's like they got some legit games. Well,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and it's matchups, but it's also what the performance is
- 20:27Speaker 2: going to be, right?
- 20:28Speaker 4: Yeah. There were a lot of 16 to 13 affairs
- 20:31Speaker 4: too on those nights.
- 20:32Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 20:32Speaker 1: But it's just like Amazon flexed or something because they
- 20:35Speaker 1: got some, they're getting some decent matchups.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Well, when you pay a certain amount of cash.
- 20:38Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 20:39Speaker 3: I mean, when you, when you pay 60 million a
- 20:41Speaker 3: run for one of these things, you're going to, you're
- 20:43Speaker 3: going to want some good games. The other part of
- 20:45Speaker 3: it is at, you know, the onset of Thursday night
- 20:49Speaker 3: football is, When they first came up with the idea,
- 20:52Speaker 3: it was its own product. It was the NFL's own
- 20:54Speaker 3: product because it was on NFL Network. Then when they
- 20:56Speaker 3: started selling it around and sold it to Fox for
- 20:59Speaker 3: that number of years, you started to get some interesting ones,
- 21:01Speaker 3: and you got Joe Buck and Troy Aikman doing double time.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Jim Nansen, Romo would do two games a week when
- 21:06Speaker 3: it would be on CBS for a couple of years
- 21:08Speaker 3: as well. And then when they sold it as its
- 21:11Speaker 3: exclusive package, and also I think the first of what
- 21:16Speaker 3: will ultimately be a full package that Amazon is getting,
- 21:20Speaker 3: They started saying, hey, man, we're at the table. We've
- 21:23Speaker 3: now shown that we can do it. We've now shown
- 21:25Speaker 3: that we're pretty good at the production, that our cameras
- 21:27Speaker 3: are pretty good, that the streaming isn't a problem on
- 21:29Speaker 3: the quality, that everybody pretty much has prime.
- 21:33Speaker 6: Right.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I mean, Armand's deal with Netflix that you said that
- 21:36Speaker 3: you've griped a couple of times, like at least everybody
- 21:38Speaker 3: actually has that one. The amount of people that probably
- 21:41Speaker 3: have Amazon prime and don't realize that they pay for
- 21:43Speaker 3: Amazon prime.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Yes.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Is vast.
- 21:46Speaker 3: And if you have Amazon prime, you have prime video.
- 21:49Speaker 3: So it like the, the value and the amount of people,
- 21:51Speaker 3: the accessibility, I think was a little higher.
- 21:54Speaker 2: And yeah, Drew, when you start ponying.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Up this kind of cash for it, Amazon Bezos said, sir,
- 22:01Speaker 3: We're not going to settle for the Cardinals and the
- 22:04Speaker 3: Browns every single week.
- 22:05Speaker 4: You're going to have to give us the good guys.
- 22:07Speaker 4: And it speaks to the reality that we all know
- 22:09Speaker 4: that NFL is what drives everything in terms of if
- 22:11Speaker 4: you are a streaming company that wants to get subscribers.
- 22:15Speaker 4: If you want to get eyeballs, you know, when you
- 22:17Speaker 4: put the public's feet to the fire, if you dangle
- 22:20Speaker 4: an NFL game in front of them, it will force action.
- 22:23Speaker 4: More than like, you know, even like some reality show
- 22:26Speaker 4: or some.
- 22:27Speaker 2: My folks popped for Netflix last week.
- 22:28Speaker 4: That's the thing. I mean, and like, you would never
- 22:30Speaker 4: have thought that they would have done it, right? They're
- 22:32Speaker 4: not a thing on there that they'd be watching. At some,
- 22:35Speaker 4: you gripe and you complain and then say, all right,
- 22:38Speaker 4: we'll have to do it. And that's why, you know,
- 22:41Speaker 4: and not only that, they've set the culture. Like, over
- 22:44Speaker 4: these many years where Thursday night football, instead of being
- 22:47Speaker 4: a curiosity, has become a destination like Monday night football did.
- 22:51Speaker 2: It's not.
- 22:53Speaker 4: And I mean, you, you, you got me messed up.
- 22:55Speaker 4: If you don't think they're going to try and do
- 22:56Speaker 4: it another night. I mean, they're going to NFL is
- 22:58Speaker 4: going to try and maybe in conjunction with another streaming place, say,
- 23:02Speaker 4: let's do this.
- 23:02Speaker 2: On Friday night. What let's make Friday night football thing. Well,
- 23:06Speaker 2: I think that would.
- 23:06Speaker 3: You know, and, and this is my, this is my
- 23:09Speaker 3: maybe half-baked theory. that's what ultimately the international series is
- 23:13Speaker 3: going to be. Is it going to be a Fridays? Well,
- 23:15Speaker 3: it's going to come into a different day of the week. Now,
- 23:18Speaker 3: the tough thing is, obviously, with the time zone changes,
- 23:20Speaker 3: you can't always crowbar it into the same slot.
- 23:23Speaker 2: But that.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Very much could be the package that Netflix would end
- 23:28Speaker 3: up buying again. Because, again, the folks that you want
- 23:32Speaker 3: to impress, you do certain things for.
- 23:34Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 23:35Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that are listening to
- 23:36Speaker 2: us that are out of their dating lives.
- 23:38Speaker 3: But when you really were, uh, we were really trying
- 23:39Speaker 3: to impress when you were, guess what? You might buy
- 23:42Speaker 3: that filet instead of, uh, saying, you know what? I
- 23:45Speaker 3: might just go with the shrimp cocktail I ate before this.
- 23:47Speaker 3: I'm really not that hungry, but you're going to try
- 23:49Speaker 3: to step up a little bit and flex. You want
- 23:51Speaker 3: to flex for the folks that you're trying to make
- 23:53Speaker 3: a new deal with and soon are going to gone
- 23:57Speaker 3: be the days of them working and doing handshake agreements
- 24:01Speaker 3: and to help out CBS and Fox, uh, They want
- 24:03Speaker 3: to help out Amazon, Netflix, and the other streamers because
- 24:06Speaker 3: that's ultimately where they're going to try to sell the
- 24:07Speaker 3: biggest package to, I would assume, in the next rights deal.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 24:11Speaker 4: And a new revenue source. And that's always exciting for
- 24:14Speaker 4: those guys.
- 24:15Speaker 2: You could see it, though.
- 24:15Speaker 4: Hey, that's how Roger Goodell makes $ 60 million a year, right?
- 24:18Speaker 4: Instead of me poo-pooing it, this is how he makes
- 24:20Speaker 4: his money by getting revenue sources.
- 24:22Speaker 2: Drew, do you want to tell them?
- 24:24Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 24:24Speaker 2: Do you want to tell them? Go ahead. You can.
- 24:26Speaker 2: I got bad news for you. It's going to be more.
- 24:28Speaker 3: He's going to make more on this new contract than
- 24:31Speaker 3: the $ 60 million.
- 24:32Speaker 2: He's getting a bump. He's getting a bonus. Is it
- 24:36Speaker 2: more than that? I thought it was $ 60. Wow. I
- 24:37Speaker 2: think $ 60 was his last deal. Yeah, that's what I thought.
- 24:40Speaker 3: $ 60 was his previous contract. I thought I heard $ 60. No,
- 24:43Speaker 3: $ 60 was his previous contract. What's $ 10 million?
- 24:46Speaker 2: Amongst friends?
- 24:47Speaker 4: Come on.
- 24:47Speaker 2: Come on.
- 24:48Speaker 3: But you could see at least drew a little bit
- 24:50Speaker 3: of the shift here when they put the Rams and
- 24:54Speaker 3: Packers on that Wednesday night test run on Netflix bears
- 24:58Speaker 3: Packers on Christmas day.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 25:00Speaker 2: They're getting the brands on the streamers because they said, wait,
- 25:04Speaker 2: all right. 50 million for this game. 50 for this game.
- 25:07Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 25:07Speaker 3: We're going to need, we're not watching the Titans. We're
- 25:10Speaker 3: going to need some good games. And the NFL is, is,
- 25:14Speaker 3: is complicit with it. They're putting their best products on
- 25:16Speaker 3: a lot of these ones. You listen through that, that
- 25:18Speaker 3: run of games and yeah, It's not a coincidence that
- 25:23Speaker 3: Green Bay and Kansas City are.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Netflix's team this year.
- 25:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 25:26Speaker 2: The Packers play four streaming games.
- 25:28Speaker 3: They want you want to get the brands that are
- 25:30Speaker 3: going to not only be local, but the ones that
- 25:33Speaker 3: do also somewhat stretch internationally, because I do believe that's
- 25:36Speaker 3: the streamers focus.
- 25:37Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:38Speaker 4: So they want the brand. And we are one of
- 25:40Speaker 4: the big brands. And obviously, as long as we're halfway decent,
- 25:43Speaker 4: which the Packers have been. Hey, and if you miss
- 25:46Speaker 4: having a noon game on Sunday every weekend, I'm raising
- 25:48Speaker 4: my hand sometimes, but hey, you got one this weekend,
- 25:50Speaker 4: so enjoy it. Now, we have two competing Al Michaels
- 25:55Speaker 4: techs on the NickLayLaw.com talk and text line, sort of competing,
- 25:58Speaker 4: so I might as well read them both since we're
- 26:00Speaker 4: talking about the business of football here.
- 26:02Speaker 2: Marcus and I, well, first, I'll start with it.
- 26:04Speaker 4: Anyone notice Al Michaels getting tired in the fourth quarter,
- 26:06Speaker 4: not in game shape yet? Yeah, brother, he's 81. Like,
- 26:10Speaker 4: I don't know what else to say. It's pretty impressive
- 26:13Speaker 4: to see what he's doing at this age.
- 26:15Speaker 3: To be honest, I think the one that I noticed
- 26:17Speaker 3: more is Al, like after the two minute warning in
- 26:20Speaker 3: the first half, because he knows he's hungry.
- 26:23Speaker 2: He knows that steak's getting wheeled in.
- 26:25Speaker 3: He knows he's turning around and there's about to be
- 26:27Speaker 3: a big old hunk of meat right there.
- 26:29Speaker 2: No pause.
- 26:30Speaker 3: So I think that was when you started seeing the.
- 26:33Speaker 3: bit of Al being like, all right, let's expedite this thing,
- 26:36Speaker 3: all right?
- 26:36Speaker 2: It's on the hot plate.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Let's get this thing rolling. At the end of the night,
- 26:40Speaker 3: he knows he's getting into a plane and flying home.
- 26:42Speaker 3: So I think he's okay with that one. The one
- 26:44Speaker 3: at halftime, I could see him visibly frustrated with how
- 26:47Speaker 3: long it was taking in between the two minute warning
- 26:50Speaker 3: when they signed off.
- 26:51Speaker 4: And people you could say like, is he getting tired? Like,
- 26:53Speaker 4: I mean, I get tired and I'm half the age.
- 26:55Speaker 4: So I'm pretty impressed with what he's doing. At least
- 26:58Speaker 4: I know some people get on Al. I don't, I
- 27:00Speaker 4: think it's pretty impressive what he's doing at this age.
- 27:02Speaker 4: I think he sounds pretty good. And then Justin Jacksonville
- 27:04Speaker 4: with another Al McGuire, Al McGuire, man, Al Michaels take
- 27:08Speaker 4: kind of on the other way. He said, I think
- 27:10Speaker 4: Al Michaels bitching about the quality of games. The network
- 27:12Speaker 4: is what helped them get good matchups. It might not
- 27:15Speaker 4: have hurt, Probably not.
- 27:17Speaker 2: I don't think it hurts. So maybe he has a
- 27:19Speaker 2: little power there. So pretty interesting. A couple of takes
- 27:22Speaker 2: on Al early. Yeah.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Al might have a little bit, a little bit of sway.
- 27:26Speaker 3: There might have a little bit more than anything. It's
- 27:28Speaker 3: that they know Al's going to say the quiet part
- 27:30Speaker 3: out loud.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. He doesn't care.
- 27:33Speaker 4: He's going to say whatever he wants.
- 27:34Speaker 2: And that's what people like about it. He'll say it.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Excuse me, guys. Can we get somebody else here other
- 27:38Speaker 3: than the Jets and Giants? Fellas, we need to have
- 27:41Speaker 3: something good. If I'm missing my Kings game where I
- 27:44Speaker 3: have ice side seats and I'm up on the glass,
- 27:48Speaker 3: come on. We got to get some kind of good
- 27:49Speaker 3: event here that I'm missing this for.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Quite classic.
- 27:53Speaker 1: 877-794-1973 gets you into the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line.
- 27:59Speaker 2: Taking your thoughts now.
- 28:00Speaker 1: We're far removed from a Brewers game, but they're back
- 28:02Speaker 1: at it tonight in the land of the crab cakes.
- 28:05Speaker 2: In Baltimore, Camden Yards.
- 28:06Speaker 1: By the way, I'm a huge fan of the crab cake.
- 28:10Speaker 1: The local fish seafood restaurant by me does a really
- 28:13Speaker 1: good job, and I'm kind of hooked on that damn sandwich.
- 28:16Speaker 1: The crab cake sandwich.
- 28:17Speaker 2: Is delicious, man. Little Old Bay. And they fly it
- 28:20Speaker 2: in fresh, man. It's incredible.
- 28:22Speaker 4: My dad lived in Baltimore for a while, so he
- 28:24Speaker 4: always has a take on that. And around here, you
- 28:26Speaker 4: don't get a lot of crab cakes, so they usually
- 28:29Speaker 4: fall on deaf ears.
- 28:30Speaker 2: He needs to come to my hood. There's like a
- 28:31Speaker 2: million different recipes. I know, Drew.
- 28:32Speaker 4: There's good spots there. And, of course, your old friend
- 28:35Speaker 4: Antonio Freeman was all about the crab.
- 28:37Speaker 2: All about the blue crab. Yeah, he's big time. He's
- 28:39Speaker 2: a Maryland guy. He's always bragged.
- 28:40Speaker 1: About his crab cooking skills.
- 28:43Speaker 4: Right.
- 28:44Speaker 2: He loved talking about crab. Ooh, there we go. Crab
- 28:45Speaker 2: cake sandwich. And that's the thing.
- 28:47Speaker 1: When we would go to Baltimore and Camden Yards, it's like,
- 28:50Speaker 1: visiting writers the way they get excited about.
- 28:52Speaker 2: The brats in the American family field press box, which.
- 28:58Speaker 1: I got to say, all due respect to my friends there,
- 29:00Speaker 1: those aren't the best brats in the planet. They're brats.
- 29:03Speaker 2: They're brats.
- 29:04Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 29:04Speaker 2: They're not the best. That's not a great representation. It's
- 29:07Speaker 2: probably the way people felt about the crab cakes.
- 29:09Speaker 1: In the media dining room at Camden Yards that I
- 29:12Speaker 1: got so excited about and I ate every night. You're like,
- 29:14Speaker 1: oh my God, it's the greatest thing. Yeah, because it's
- 29:16Speaker 1: once a year. I got to fill up.
- 29:18Speaker 2: It's a tradition. But now I found a spot near
- 29:20Speaker 2: me where I can get them all the time.
- 29:22Speaker 3: Yeah, you do notice when they put those halftime curds
- 29:26Speaker 3: and brats out at Lambeau, the visiting swath of.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Media is right to the curds. And they're like, wait
- 29:32Speaker 2: a second. You can dip this thing in ranch? Yeah,
- 29:35Speaker 2: it's a novelty. Oh, my gosh.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Okay, now we're talking. It's more of just like to
- 29:38Speaker 3: let your freak flag fly. You get to do whatever
- 29:41Speaker 3: you want with these curds. A little salsa?
- 29:43Speaker 2: Why not?
- 29:44Speaker 1: Those curds in the Lambo press box are the saltiest curds, too, man.
- 29:47Speaker 4: Yes.
- 29:47Speaker 2: Because they know what brings the people in. Well, I mean,
- 29:50Speaker 2: it is a tourist novelty, right? You get excited.
- 29:52Speaker 4: It's like when I went to New York, the Big
- 29:55Speaker 4: East tournament, I was all excited to go to Katz's Deli.
- 29:57Speaker 4: I'm sure nobody else was excited as me. Or when
- 30:00Speaker 4: I went, I went to see the Brewers and Citizens Bank.
- 30:02Speaker 4: This was so many years ago now. I think, what,
- 30:04Speaker 4: 09 or 10 maybe? And, you know, I'm taking pictures
- 30:07Speaker 4: of myself getting a Philly cheesesteak at the concession stand.
- 30:10Speaker 4: I'm sure that's the most basic Philly cheesesteak in all
- 30:13Speaker 4: of Philadelphia, but.
- 30:14Speaker 2: It was the one there.
- 30:15Speaker 3: And I might actually be able to make you one
- 30:17Speaker 3: of those things on the blacks probably.
- 30:19Speaker 4: And listen, I mean, now it's like, Oh, you go
- 30:21Speaker 4: to Tony Luke's or you go to Pat's and Joe,
- 30:23Speaker 4: what are you doing?
- 30:24Speaker 2: You tourist?
- 30:24Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 30:25Speaker 2: You tour? Do I care?
- 30:26Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, I'm a tourist. I can't stand
- 30:28Speaker 4: when people are like, Oh, why do you do all
- 30:29Speaker 4: the tourist stuff?
- 30:31Speaker 2: Cause I'm a tourist. That's what we do. Did you
- 30:32Speaker 2: get a, did you get ridiculed at all on that trip? Yeah. Oh,
- 30:35Speaker 2: you like this story?
- 30:36Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 30:36Speaker 2: I'm wearing my brewers, my brewer shirt.
- 30:38Speaker 4: And like, yeah, it was, it was an uncomfortable experience.
- 30:41Speaker 4: What did I ask for an empty cup or something?
- 30:43Speaker 4: Cause I had sunflower seeds and they just shot me.
- 30:47Speaker 4: It looked like, no, I don't do that here in Philadelphia.
- 30:50Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, fine. Get out of here.
- 30:51Speaker 3: It was like, man, I'll spit them on the ground.
- 30:54Speaker 3: Like a, like an uncivilized human. I didn't expect that.
- 30:57Speaker 2: I didn't expect it. I'm like, okay, boo me. I
- 30:58Speaker 2: don't care. This is Philadelphia.
- 31:00Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 31:00Speaker 3: Boo me.
- 31:00Speaker 2: Like it was kind of, whatever that's Philly for you.
- 31:03Speaker 6: Right.
- 31:04Speaker 2: The overrated city anyway.
- 31:07Speaker 3: I didn't know what was going to come out of
- 31:09Speaker 3: that question, but I'm glad I asked because it was
- 31:11Speaker 3: exactly what I was hoping for.
- 31:12Speaker 2: I thought you knew that story. No, I've never heard
- 31:14Speaker 2: that story.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Our boy Jason Wildey was walking into the stadium in
- 31:18Speaker 1: Philadelphia to cover a Packers game as he was, and
- 31:20Speaker 1: he happened to be wearing, because he's Jason Wildey, he
- 31:22Speaker 1: was wearing a pink Oxford shirt.
- 31:24Speaker 4: Nice.
- 31:24Speaker 2: And one of the guys looked up from his tailgate,
- 31:27Speaker 2: nice shirt, douchebag. Jeez. Wow. That's mean. Welcome to Philadelphia,
- 31:35Speaker 2: the city of brotherly love. It's so overrated. I mean,
- 31:42Speaker 2: in a nutshell, there you go. That is just so perfect.
- 31:45Speaker 3: So perfect outside of the, cause it was either going
- 31:48Speaker 3: to be the pink Oxford shirt or we're going to
- 31:49Speaker 3: have some, uh, in Oregon, uh, Robin and instead he's like, yeah, yeah.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Get up out of here, dude. Get your salmon out
- 31:54Speaker 2: of here. Oh, that's fun.
- 31:55Speaker 4: I love when I remember when Billy boat up to
- 31:57Speaker 4: the Philly TV news guy at the Superbowl. when he
- 32:01Speaker 4: was like i hate your city oh my god who
- 32:04Speaker 4: do you think's gonna win i don't know but i
- 32:05Speaker 4: sure as hell hope it ain't you that was so
- 32:07Speaker 4: funny i'll tell you i don't want it to be
- 32:09Speaker 4: he loved it though that was good yeah he actually.
- 32:11Speaker 3: Did respect oh he loved it yeah but i mean
- 32:14Speaker 3: they do act you.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Know what i hate is your football team.
- 32:18Speaker 4: That's great that was fun i mean they act like
- 32:20Speaker 4: they invented beef and cheese like i got news for
- 32:23Speaker 4: you harvey's does that like we all do.
- 32:24Speaker 1: That like Early on in my ball riding career, they
- 32:28Speaker 1: used to have media shuttles and stuff and accommodations. They
- 32:31Speaker 1: don't do that.
- 32:32Speaker 2: No.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Baseball stopped doing that forever. It's so funny because the
- 32:34Speaker 1: football guys are like, hey, where's the media hotel for
- 32:37Speaker 1: the World Series? I'm like, they don't do that. You're
- 32:39Speaker 1: on your own, man. Baseball guys are on your own.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Go find a hotel.
- 32:43Speaker 2: This was before Airbnb.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Really? Call somebody, see if you can sleep on their couch.
- 32:47Speaker 1: But we're getting off the bus one time at Yankee Stadium,
- 32:49Speaker 1: and they were getting ready. They're playing the Padres.
- 32:51Speaker 2: In the World Series.
- 32:52Speaker 4: Oh, great. 98, right? Yeah.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Our bus rolls over, and people are like, Padres suck.
- 32:59Speaker 2: Padres suck. First guy gets off. This is a media bus.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Media sucks. Media sucks. Media sucks.
- 33:04Speaker 1: We got 10 minutes of media sucks. They just kept
- 33:07Speaker 1: going after it, man.
- 33:08Speaker 2: You all suck. That's kind of fun, actually. That's fun.
- 33:10Speaker 2: They were charged up to boo somebody. I like it.
- 33:13Speaker 5: Love it.
- 33:13Speaker 2: Justin in Jacksonville.
- 33:14Speaker 3: Every restaurant in Baltimore will say they have the best
- 33:16Speaker 3: crab cakes, and to be honest, I've never had a
- 33:19Speaker 3: bad crab cake living in Baltimore.
- 33:21Speaker 1: That is kind of true. Is that all right? Like
- 33:23Speaker 1: I was going to say, like a broader.
- 33:25Speaker 2: Pizza or wings in Buffalo.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Yeah, they had that on the media spread yesterday, Drew,
- 33:30Speaker 3: and they don't even call them Buffalo wings. It's just wings, wings,
- 33:33Speaker 3: wings with medium sauce.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Don't worry. But they're going to be better than anything
- 33:36Speaker 2: else you're having. Exactly. Just wings.
- 33:38Speaker 5: All right.
- 33:38Speaker 2: We're off and running.
- 33:39Speaker 1: We got to solve some problems of the world here today.
- 33:41Speaker 1: We got to figure out how the Packers are going
- 33:43Speaker 1: to do, how the Badgers are going to do. And
- 33:46Speaker 1: at what point will the Brewers wrap up the only
- 33:49Speaker 1: thing left on their plate, which is to get that
- 33:51Speaker 1: number one seed? You can say, well, they've got to
- 33:53Speaker 1: clinch the bye.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Bye is coming. Be one of the top two. That's coming.
- 33:56Speaker 1: I think that's a foregone. That's a fait accompli, to
- 33:58Speaker 1: use an Armand term. That's a foregone conclusion. We can
- 34:01Speaker 1: worry about the Doyers as we move forward, and they're
- 34:04Speaker 1: going to have a little hangover as well now that
- 34:06Speaker 1: they've celebrated.
- 34:07Speaker 2: But the Brewers celebrated first. Just saying.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Bottles in their pants. That's a weird way of celebrating.
- 34:12Speaker 1: You are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
- 34:16Speaker 1: and Armand bringing it to you, the Friday edition of
- 34:18Speaker 1: the Huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Our boy Hunter Baumgart has spent, it seems like, a
- 34:26Speaker 1: month in Pittsburgh. It's actually just been a couple of days.
- 34:31Speaker 2: He's coming back this morning. Yeah, he is doing a
- 34:34Speaker 2: lot of great work over there this week. He was
- 34:36Speaker 2: there for the clinch.
- 34:37Speaker 1: They took care of business early, but he's continued to
- 34:40Speaker 1: cover the series and persevered for us on the banks
- 34:42Speaker 1: of the three rivers. And he has a report from
- 34:45Speaker 1: the getaway game, which we didn't talk about it during
- 34:48Speaker 1: the huddle at all yesterday, the evening huddle, the Thursday
- 34:50Speaker 1: night huddle at Pottawatomie. Brewers losing the getaway game, won
- 34:53Speaker 1: the series. Kyle Harrison imploded again. And a lot of
- 35:00Speaker 1: folks wondering, is he going to be in the rotation?
- 35:01Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't think they're going to let him
- 35:03Speaker 1: near anything that's important at this juncture.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Give him a sweatshirt. That'll be about as close to
- 35:07Speaker 2: the playoffs as he gets. Just about it.
- 35:09Speaker 1: But let's hear what Hunter had to say about the Brewers'
- 35:12Speaker 1: loss on getaway day.
- 35:14Speaker 2: In Pittsburgh.
- 35:16Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
- 35:17Speaker 7: One more report here from Pittsburgh at PNC Park.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Look at that view.
- 35:20Speaker 7: Just absolutely fantastic. If you're watching this on YouTube, Facebook,
- 35:23Speaker 7: or X, you're seeing this beautiful view, one of the
- 35:25Speaker 7: best views in baseball, and I've gotten to enjoy it
- 35:28Speaker 7: for the first time over the last three days. So
- 35:30Speaker 7: thankful for it. Brewers clinched the NL Central. They fall
- 35:32Speaker 7: in the series finale yesterday, 7-4. The big, really, storyline
- 35:36Speaker 7: coming out of yesterday was Kyle Harrison gives up five
- 35:38Speaker 7: runs over one and two-thirds. All of those runs coming
- 35:41Speaker 7: with two outs. He talked to us after the game
- 35:43Speaker 7: and said this may be the toughest stretch of his
- 35:45Speaker 7: career so far.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:47Speaker 6: I mean, I'll be straight up. It's just, it's been tough,
- 35:50Speaker 6: you know, first time I've kind of really gone through
- 35:52Speaker 6: this like consecutive starts, not really going my way. Um, yeah,
- 35:58Speaker 6: definitely tough, but, um, just looking at the routine, looking
- 36:01Speaker 6: at the work, it's not going to change. You know,
- 36:03Speaker 6: I'm going to keep putting in the work and to
- 36:04Speaker 6: keep fighting and, um, that's all you can do, right? Um,
- 36:08Speaker 6: go out there and compete and, um, Yeah, I thought
- 36:12Speaker 6: stuff was pretty good today, but yeah, anytime you hear
- 36:16Speaker 6: about the free passes coming up by pitches, leads to
- 36:20Speaker 6: not good things.
- 36:20Speaker 7: He's going to keep putting in the work, and Brewers
- 36:22Speaker 7: manager Pat Murphy and the Brewers not going to give
- 36:25Speaker 7: up on him yet. They are going to send him
- 36:26Speaker 7: back out there. Here is Pat Murphy talking about the
- 36:29Speaker 7: plan for Kyle Harrison.
- 36:31Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we're going to throw him in there again.
- 36:33Speaker 5: I don't know if it will be in the front
- 36:34Speaker 5: end or in the middle. I think we just got
- 36:38Speaker 5: to make sure that the properties of his pitches get
- 36:40Speaker 5: back His delivery has got to be impeccable, and his
- 36:44Speaker 5: mental state has to be improving because when you go
- 36:48Speaker 5: through a stretch like this, it's very tough to get
- 36:50Speaker 5: yourself together.
- 36:51Speaker 2: It's very tough to handle it all.
- 36:54Speaker 6: It is.
- 36:54Speaker 5: It's like a hitter that's.
- 36:55Speaker 2: All for 30. It's a.
- 36:58Speaker 5: Tough game, but he'll use this and.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Get better from it.
- 37:04Speaker 5: We still have tremendous faith in him.
- 37:06Speaker 7: And get this, Kyle Harrison over his last four outings,
- 37:09Speaker 7: nine innings, 24 runs, 21 of them earned. The Brewers
- 37:13Speaker 7: now go to Baltimore to face the Orioles the next
- 37:15Speaker 7: three days. Tonight, 6.05 first pitch, Dustin May on the mound.
- 37:18Speaker 7: I'll have you for the baseball pregame show live in
- 37:20Speaker 7: studio in Milwaukee at 5 o'clock on Fox Sports 920
- 37:24Speaker 7: and our social channels. This report brought to you by
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- 37:28Speaker 7: South 27th, just north of 894. It's been a blast
- 37:32Speaker 7: joining you guys from Pittsburgh all week. Looking forward to
- 37:35Speaker 7: the stretch run and the postseason.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Back to you guys. How about that, Hunter Baumgartner? Great stuff.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Traveling back and still going to host a baseball pregame
- 37:43Speaker 1: show tonight.
- 37:44Speaker 2: That's impressive work.
- 37:45Speaker 3: And as much as I agree, it's been awesome having
- 37:48Speaker 3: Hunter there, boots on the ground and enjoy. I'm excited
- 37:51Speaker 3: for him to be back here for the stretch run.
- 37:53Speaker 3: I'm excited for it to be mostly at American Family
- 37:55Speaker 3: Field and hopefully getting some more sights and sounds from
- 37:59Speaker 3: the celebration because. It did appear, Drew, you're rubbing off
- 38:03Speaker 3: on young Hunter a little bit. Seemed like he stayed
- 38:05Speaker 3: relatively dry. Seemed like he was able to have some
- 38:09Speaker 3: veteran moments in that celebration. Didn't seem like he got
- 38:14Speaker 3: doused too much. It seemed like he was working the peripheries,
- 38:17Speaker 3: and he is starting to become a little bit more of.
- 38:19Speaker 2: A seasoned vet in this stuff. Yeah.
- 38:21Speaker 1: You quickly realize it's not your party. It's their party.
- 38:25Speaker 1: You're just kind of there.
- 38:26Speaker 2: I've been in a lot of those parties. Chaperone. Yeah. Okay.
- 38:30Speaker 5: Just.
- 38:30Speaker 2: Nobody really wants you here, but no one's going to
- 38:33Speaker 2: ask you to leave kind of thing. One of those deals. Yeah,
- 38:35Speaker 2: for sure.
- 38:36Speaker 4: Pretty much how it rolls. You know you're there. But
- 38:38Speaker 4: it's like you still want to be part of it
- 38:40Speaker 4: and say you were. But it's like great stuff, though,
- 38:42Speaker 4: from Murph and Kyle Harrison. Obviously, the tough stretch, but
- 38:47Speaker 4: he's heads up.
- 38:48Speaker 2: He's standing up there.
- 38:49Speaker 1: They're not going to let him anywhere near a meaningful
- 38:52Speaker 1: game unless he writes a ship in the next, you know, what?
- 38:56Speaker 1: 10 days.
- 38:57Speaker 4: It's hard to see it, even if he does have
- 38:58Speaker 4: a good start because you're talking about having to get
- 39:00Speaker 4: the process back.
- 39:01Speaker 2: But I like what Murph said about that.
- 39:02Speaker 4: It's like, well, you worry about his pitch properties of
- 39:05Speaker 4: his pitches, but more importantly, his mental state. It's like,
- 39:08Speaker 4: keep your head up, go through this because that's what
- 39:10Speaker 4: happens sometimes.
- 39:12Speaker 2: But just know you got to stick with the.
- 39:13Speaker 4: Process, the plan and stay positive and try and stay
- 39:15Speaker 4: focused because it can't be easy for a young guy
- 39:18Speaker 4: to have to face adversity like that.
- 39:19Speaker 2: If they hadn't clinched already, there's no way they'd be
- 39:21Speaker 2: running them out there. Exactly.
- 39:23Speaker 4: You have the luxury right now to try and Let
- 39:25Speaker 4: him have that leash to see if he can figure
- 39:27Speaker 4: it out.
- 39:27Speaker 1: This is a case where, you know, why are they like,
- 39:30Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to win every game. You're trying
- 39:31Speaker 1: to beat the Dodgers. You're trying to win a hundred,
- 39:33Speaker 1: but you're also trying to develop and this kid's part
- 39:36Speaker 1: of the blueprint for the future. So you're just trying
- 39:38Speaker 1: to like put some, trying to invest. If there is
- 39:41Speaker 1: a season in 27, he's going to be a big
- 39:43Speaker 1: part of it.
- 39:43Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:43Speaker 3: He will be a big part of it in 28,
- 39:45Speaker 3: 29 and 30. You think you would hope. And, and,
- 39:49Speaker 3: and some of it needs to be development honing in.
- 39:52Speaker 3: And also, I mean, maybe this is just too simplistic, but,
- 39:55Speaker 3: I also think it's a dude hitting an absolute wall.
- 39:58Speaker 3: It wouldn't be the first 24-year-old to hit a wall.
- 40:02Speaker 3: And a lot of times in sports, when you hit
- 40:05Speaker 3: that wall, it is quick and very, very unforgiving. And
- 40:09Speaker 3: it has really been for Kyle Harrison as of late.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the mental thing is probably the toughest.
- 40:12Speaker 2: So he's just got to work through it.
- 40:14Speaker 4: And the best way is to try and focus on
- 40:16Speaker 4: what works for you and execute it the best you can.
- 40:19Speaker 2: So it's all about the process, right? Trust the process, Armin.
- 40:22Speaker 3: Process over results. But we do need some results to
- 40:26Speaker 3: get a little damn better. I don't care how good
- 40:29Speaker 3: the process is. If these are the results, I'll live
- 40:31Speaker 3: with someone else's process.
- 40:33Speaker 1: And that's the thing about that, because you don't take
- 40:36Speaker 1: every pitcher with you to the postseason, so he can
- 40:38Speaker 1: be just right along. He still gets to hang out. Yeah,
- 40:41Speaker 1: he'll be a right along. All right, as we move forward,
- 40:44Speaker 1: we'll continue. We'll talk more about the Brewers and their
- 40:46Speaker 1: prospects for this week. I'm going to slip in some
- 40:48Speaker 1: Badgers talk, because Billy's going to be at Camp Randall.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Cannot wait, baby. Come on. Tomorrow. You're in the huddle.
- 40:52Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.