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11/02/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up. We're
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  Speaker 1: going down. We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 3: Yellow weasel.
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  Speaker 2: Quit calling the f * * * ing plays, all right?
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  Speaker 1: It is time.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 3: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
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  Speaker 3: and he commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 3: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin adjusting to life as World Series champions in our town.
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  Speaker 2: Recovered from the parade. The hangover is starting to fade
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  Speaker 2: into memory. We got basketball season upon us now. We're
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  Speaker 2: on to basketball football season in full swing here. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to have another Thursday Night Huddle for you at
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  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Oh, yes. Which will be great.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not a great Thursday night football game after that,
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  Speaker 4: but a great Thursday night huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Big Monday night of college hoops tonight. Bucks and Wolves, Marquette, Mercyhurst, Badgers, Denver. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you can hate watch the Seahawks and Bears
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  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football.
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  Speaker 5: If you are so inclined. I heard it was a
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  Speaker 5: busy weekend, especially after the parade of people cashing their
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  Speaker 5: futures in. A lot of people cashing tickets in.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of Brewers fans that had faith in their team.
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  Speaker 2: I walked in there. Our friends at pot allowed me
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. So I walked in, uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Sunday. One of the days this past weekend, shockingly,
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  Speaker 2: I was there a couple.
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  Speaker 4: Um, I had to, had to make some college investments,
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  Speaker 4: had to make some pros, a lot of games on WNBA,
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  Speaker 4: mostly donations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Um, and the, uh, the, the security guy at the front,
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  Speaker 4: I had a brewer shirt on drew and he goes,
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  Speaker 4: they're giving away a lot of money in there, brother.
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  Speaker 4: They're giving away a lot of money down there. They
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  Speaker 4: lost a lot. So, yeah, Armin, I think there was
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  Speaker 4: a steady procession of Brewers fans going to cash in
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  Speaker 4: those futures throughout the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: So Cubs fans are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their
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  Speaker 2: World Series 10 years ago today. You want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about a hate watch? Game 7. And they came back
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  Speaker 2: from 3-1 down, didn't they? Yes. That sounds right. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they were down 3-1.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: So now the Brewers are off the schneid. They're off
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  Speaker 2: the list of the longest World Series droughts. Which, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Padres, still up there.
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  Speaker 3: Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Mariners, right, right. Guardians at the top of the list
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  Speaker 2: was 78 years. That's got to be the most painful
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  Speaker 2: one existing. Padres at 58. Mariners at 50. The Pirates
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  Speaker 2: at 47 since the We Are Family year, I guess. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's true. Baltimore Orioles at 43. The Tigers, 42 seasons.
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  Speaker 2: The Mets have gone 40 years since 1986. The Tigers
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  Speaker 2: were close. Oakland A's, 37 years. Cincinnati Reds, 36 years.
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  Speaker 2: They won in 1990. And then the Twins, 35 years, 91. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the top 10 longest droughts. Brewers are off
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  Speaker 2: the list.
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  Speaker 4: The drought list was one, but it was the not
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  Speaker 4: having ever won one that I think is the tougher list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Mariners are the only team now to
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  Speaker 2: never make it to a World Series. I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say, at least a lot of those teams have
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  Speaker 2: made it, but the Mariners still. Mariners have never made it.
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  Speaker 5: And they've had some good course. They've had some good course.
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  Speaker 5: That's the thing about it is that's.
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  Speaker 2: Got to be brutal. I mean, I wouldn't know anymore.
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  Speaker 4: But today being 10 years to the day of the
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  Speaker 4: 2016 team, I had a friend of mine in college
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  Speaker 4: who was the biggest Cubs fan I've ever met. Text
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  Speaker 4: me a couple of weeks ago, right around the end
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  Speaker 4: of the DS drew. And he said, I hate to
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  Speaker 4: say it, but this team gives me 2016 Cubs fives.
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  Speaker 4: And I think there's a lot of baseball people that
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  Speaker 4: would probably draw a couple of comparisons between the two
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  Speaker 4: with how young they were, how seemingly fully established though,
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  Speaker 4: as big league players, they had turned into right. Like
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  Speaker 4: at that point, Chris Bryant winning the MVP, he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be the best player in the sport for the
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  Speaker 4: next decade.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out a decade later, he can't even play in
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  Speaker 2: the sport.
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  Speaker 5: That's the part of the 2016 Cubs I don't want
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  Speaker 5: it to feel like. I want it to feel like
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  Speaker 5: them for this year now to win the World Series,
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  Speaker 5: which it did. Thank goodness we won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: It's real.
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  Speaker 5: Now I don't want to be like them ever again
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  Speaker 5: from this point forward because they're kind of a picture
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  Speaker 5: of a failure of a dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: The day after that title. Now, I don't know that
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  Speaker 4: we did any of that, mostly just because all we
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  Speaker 4: could think about was... celebrating the fact that you had
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  Speaker 4: won the world series and it wasn't the greatest thing
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  Speaker 4: since sliced bread was like, how many more are they
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  Speaker 4: going to win?
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like it was inevitable right now.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Kenny's doing a really sweet best regular season run
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  Speaker 4: differentials drew since 1995. The Brewers are up there with
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  Speaker 4: those 2016 Cubs, the 2018 Red Sox. Now for other
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  Speaker 4: reasons that that one pulled away, but all those teams
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  Speaker 4: were right around in the early portions of what you
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  Speaker 4: thought was the dynasty and The 98 Yankees were the
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  Speaker 4: only ones that cashed in on it. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: interesting how maybe the sport has just changed so much
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  Speaker 4: in those 10 years, but that wasn't the immediate story.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe it was because the Brewers hadn't won one,
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  Speaker 4: but it felt like immediately after that Cubs title, it was,
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  Speaker 4: all right, now how many more are they going to
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  Speaker 4: haul off and win? Now it feels like the dynasty
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  Speaker 4: talk is far different in this sport, maybe more than
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  Speaker 4: all the others do.
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  Speaker 2: The conversation is different. There's no question. Time for a
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  Speaker 2: who's not? Who's hot?
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  Speaker 4: Lauren Bowers. Because now they're never going to have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about health insurance. The Bowers family is never going
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  Speaker 4: to have to worry about health insurance. Jake Bowers, if
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  Speaker 4: you're just joining us about 20 minutes ago, was extended
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  Speaker 4: the qualifying offer for the Milwaukee Brewers. Him and his wife, Lauren,
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  Speaker 4: rose to stardom over the last couple of months, mostly
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  Speaker 4: because Jake Bowers was awesome. That was a three-plus war
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  Speaker 4: player this year, Armin? Our best hitter for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Most of that was offensive. Now, he was a career
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  Speaker 4: two war player?
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  Speaker 1: Career.
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  Speaker 2: This is a cumulative stat. And he had a 3.3
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  Speaker 2: war this year with 26 bombs and an OPS of.
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  Speaker 2: And it was money time. He came through in the NLCS.
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  Speaker 2: What was the exact number?
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  Speaker 1: 23.4?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 23 something.
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  Speaker 5: $ 23.
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  Speaker 2: 4 million on the qualifying offer for Jake Bowers.
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  Speaker 4: Hot!
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  Speaker 2: Hot for that family.
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  Speaker 4: They're not going to have to worry about their health
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  Speaker 4: insurance plan going forward because I would be signing that
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  Speaker 4: right away. I would assume there's more in it and
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  Speaker 4: that there's more maturations of this. And when Jake Bowers, Drew,
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  Speaker 4: told Pat Murphy, you're not going to get rid of
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  Speaker 4: me that easy. Maybe they all knew something. Maybe there
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  Speaker 4: was some scheming going on behind Glover's doors that we
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  Speaker 4: weren't privy to quite yet. Also in the hot category,
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  Speaker 4: Drake May, Packers' next opponent, was hot in the second
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  Speaker 4: half yesterday as the New England Patriots survived down in
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  Speaker 4: Miami 24-19. Drake May had an absolute disaster. dimer deep
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  Speaker 4: to Kyle Williams that started up to scoring more into
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  Speaker 4: the second half. The Patriots were down 13, three at
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  Speaker 4: the break outscore the fins 21 to six in the
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  Speaker 4: second half in may was 16 to 20, a buck
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  Speaker 4: 99 and two touchdowns as well as rushing for one
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  Speaker 4: drew Packers are going to have to find some kind
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  Speaker 4: of way to be able to slow that cat down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They kind of learned a disaster though. Cause that would
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  Speaker 5: have been a bad loss, but they didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't lose. So they avoided the disaster.
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  Speaker 4: They avoided being who's not hot, the Dallas Cowboys, because
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  Speaker 4: they were not able to avoid disaster yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: They're just like a character of themselves. Now, they were
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  Speaker 5: some crazy number when being up 14 in the fourth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was like only one tie, no losses,
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  Speaker 5: and like 100 wins or some crazy number, and they
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  Speaker 5: blew this one.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas, I mean, they led the game. What point in
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  Speaker 4: the game do I talk about? They led it by
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  Speaker 4: 10 throughout most of the game. They're up 17 to
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  Speaker 4: 3 in.
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  Speaker 2: The late stages of the third quarter.
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  Speaker 4: When we got into the fourth quarter, it was a
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  Speaker 4: long touchdown by Tyler Algier that started it up.
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  Speaker 2: 63 yarder.
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  Speaker 4: And they're like, Whoa, okay. This is, this is only
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  Speaker 4: a one score game. Maybe we got to wake up here. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: Dak Prescott runs it in. Don't worry about it. And
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  Speaker 4: then quickly the onslaught was on Tyler Algier. Again, Trey
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  Speaker 4: McBride was left wide open in the end zone with
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  Speaker 4: two 11 ago, Brandon Aubrey called him to town. And
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  Speaker 4: then Michael Wilson drew, it looked like they were going
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  Speaker 4: to walk them off in regulation, catches a touchdown with
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  Speaker 4: six seconds to go. Chad Ryland goes all Trey smack
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  Speaker 4: on him, misses the extra point, sends this game into overtime,
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  Speaker 4: gets redemption, wins it 33-30.
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  Speaker 2: Who's not hot? The Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: They lost to Gardner Minshew, who was inserted in just
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  Speaker 4: before that fourth quarter, finished the game 17-23, a buck 88,
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  Speaker 4: three TDs, and shock to no one, Drew, within the
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  Speaker 4: last hour was named the new Arizona Cardinals starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Go figure.
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  Speaker 4: I'm stunned by that development. Who's not hot, though? Jacoby
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  Speaker 4: Brissett was not just demoted to the... Drew was not
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  Speaker 4: just demoted to the second string quarterback. Mike LaFleur let
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  Speaker 4: us all know Carson Beck is the two. Jacoby Brissett
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  Speaker 4: went from the penthouse to the outhouse. Brother, you're now
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  Speaker 4: the third string emergency quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that holdout that he did during minicamp worked out.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I won't be starting him in fantasy again
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  Speaker 2: this week. Pretty tough. Holdout, how's that working for him? Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he needed that money. How about this? Who's hot?
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Iyuk hires Drew Rosenhaus as his agent as he
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  Speaker 2: eyes return to the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that should be reserved for our wake and bake
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  Speaker 4: story as that guy still is trying to get himself
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  Speaker 4: back into the NFL. His last appearance in an NFL game, Drew,
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  Speaker 4: was over two years ago, October 20th, 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Who's hot? Who's not? Brought to you by Donovan Jorgensen.
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  Speaker 2: Brewers transaction list for the day. They exercised William Contreras' option. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: No shock. They declined the option on Gary Sanchez, which
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  Speaker 2: was a mutual option, and Antonio Sensatella. That was a
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  Speaker 2: club option. They weren't going to pay him $ 15 million
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. Oh, no, no, no. They extended
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  Speaker 2: the qualifying hour to Jake Bowers. We talked about $ 23 million.
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  Speaker 2: Akil Badu, remember him? Got hurt in camp and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Never saw him all year, basically. Yeah, he was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be on the 40, right? Claimed off waivers by Pittsburgh. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Then Bryce Wilson cleared waivers. Did you do it? Was
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  Speaker 2: outrighted to AAA Nashville. Of course he was. As did
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  Speaker 2: Jared Koenig, who was outrighted to AAA Nashville. He elected
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  Speaker 2: free agency. And Bryce Wilson will be a minor league
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  Speaker 2: free agent.
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Wilson's going to pitch again for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be back. At some point.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he can't get rid of it. Like that bad
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  Speaker 4: coffee you just can't get rid of. The Jared Koenig
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  Speaker 4: one is another good example of a dude that you
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  Speaker 4: sure thought was going to be a massive piece for
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  Speaker 4: you this year, right?
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  Speaker 2: Good point. They rung a lot out of that rag. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that bar rag.
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  Speaker 5: But he was a factor going into it. You're like,
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  Speaker 5: all right, he's part of this bullpen. He's part of
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  Speaker 5: the system.
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  Speaker 4: But for the better part of the first three months
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  Speaker 4: when you were trying to straighten out that bullpen, because
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  Speaker 4: right when Zerpa goes down, like, okay, well, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Jared Koenig's going to come back.
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  Speaker 4: And then he finally ended up punting on that in what,
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  Speaker 4: the middle of June when you realized that one wasn't happening?
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  Speaker 2: Never came back.
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  Speaker 5: The twists and turns are amazing in that sense. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we thought Priester was going to be a huge part
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  Speaker 5: of this situation after last year.
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  Speaker 2: People forget he's in the mix for rotation. What's the
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  Speaker 2: Jojo Romero? He's a free agent, too. He's a free
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  Speaker 2: agent as well.
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  Speaker 5: Would you consider bringing him maybe around again? Would he
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  Speaker 5: be a piece that you say, okay, he was elite
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs? I would think about maybe that you
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  Speaker 5: get the right deal.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what relievers ultimately cost in command and
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  Speaker 4: free agency in that span, but I liked him. I'd
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  Speaker 4: bring him back as a left-handed arm because most likely
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  Speaker 4: you've got to face the Dodgers again.
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  Speaker 2: So the Brewers picked up Contreras' option for $ 15. 5 million,
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  Speaker 2: which tells you that they weren't going to go to
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  Speaker 2: arbitration with him because he would have made more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure. So he's going to make $ 15 million. And then,
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  Speaker 2: so he's going from $ 9 to $ 15. And they got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys making significant bumps. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: if they run it back and they let a guy
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  Speaker 2: or two go and people say they're cheap, Well, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to factor that in. It's like the guys that
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  Speaker 2: they have bringing the team back got more expensive. Well,
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  Speaker 2: today they're like 10 or 12 guys that are facing
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  Speaker 2: arbitration going to make more money. So the Jake Bowers
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  Speaker 2: thing doesn't confirm that he's for sure a brewer. He
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  Speaker 2: has until the 17th. So he has like, what, two,
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  Speaker 2: a little more than two weeks to decide whether to
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  Speaker 2: accept it. I would accept it if I was him.
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  Speaker 2: I would accept it tomorrow. Actually, I would have accepted
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  Speaker 2: it yesterday. 23 mil, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 4: But in the midst of it, that immediately, Drew, you
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  Speaker 4: look at, Contreras to rang, who's going to go from
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  Speaker 4: two to nine or two to 10. And, and that
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  Speaker 4: money that you did right there, their payroll is going
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  Speaker 4: to jump significantly this year from where it was a
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  Speaker 4: year ago. And I mean their payroll from a year ago, it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of funny to think of that. Woodruff was
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  Speaker 4: a huge piece of that, that you ended up getting
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  Speaker 4: seven starts in one inning in the playoffs from.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, their payroll was 140 and more than 40
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  Speaker 2: of it was pretty, Woodruff and Yellich, Woodruff and Yellich,
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  Speaker 2: Woodruff and Yellich.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, Jackson's going to, his number goes up
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  Speaker 4: steadily throughout and whatever the Pratt and Lars, those numbers
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  Speaker 4: all do. But you start just wondering where the, where
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  Speaker 4: the changes come because they just, they will, they always do.
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  Speaker 4: And teams are going to want a bite of this.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to want a piece and they're going to
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  Speaker 4: want to try and grab somebody. I thought Jake Bowers
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  Speaker 4: was going to get the Larry Brown deal from somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: But apparently that might be from the Milwaukee Brewers that
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  Speaker 4: he gets a great deal. And hopefully it's way better
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  Speaker 4: than Larry Brown ever was. Well, yes, absolutely that.
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  Speaker 2: That's the more important one.
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  Speaker 5: That's if we consider the qualifying offer. I know it sounds,
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  Speaker 5: it seems that way, but you never know. All it
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  Speaker 5: takes is one team that wants to make a splash
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  Speaker 5: to say, well, we're giving NLCS MVP three years, 55,
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  Speaker 5: you know, all it takes is one team to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Like I would agree with you, Billy. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: it's going to happen, but it's really hard to say.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to say what's going to happen in the
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  Speaker 5: saw season. We just don't know. Teams want a piece
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  Speaker 5: of a champion. I know what fans are going to say.
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  Speaker 5: We'll increase the payroll. You made a lot of money
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  Speaker 5: on us and merchant and tickets. We know you made
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  Speaker 5: a profit time to increase the payroll. I know Brewers
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  Speaker 5: fans are going to say that even though the team
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  Speaker 5: doesn't get all of it, that might be the next
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  Speaker 5: step of it. So we'll see if there's a little
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  Speaker 5: PJ Tucker situation in a couple of weeks of fans,
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  Speaker 5: not being happy.
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  Speaker 2: So that money drew for Contreras.
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  Speaker 4: What would you think that does for what people want
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: him to be for a long-term deal? That 15 is
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: because you're right. That means that he was probably going
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: to win the arbitration, win.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Arbitration and get like 20 something or, you know, probably more.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: And that's significantly more than anybody else at that position
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: is making. So for them to reset the market, maybe
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: that is a little bit different thought than they want
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: to be picturing. Cause it just, these, these deals are
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: so different than it is in the NFL. The NFL
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: deals are easy. I just look at what this guy made.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: I just give you a hundred grand more. I just
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: give you a million more and boom. Then we get
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: to post. You're the highest paid guy ever. Schefter tags
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: me in the post. I get some bump and everything's good.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: And William said it.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: He's like, I don't want to disrespect anyone in this league,
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: other catchers at all, but I feel like I'm the best.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: He's 28.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: He's at the peak of his powers.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: You would think you'd hope that he could continue to
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: catch for another four years. If you gave him a
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: four year deal.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: At that level.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: I think you, you have to pay him like that.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, that would be the number. Around the Cal Raleigh,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: you'd be in that mix. And all I'm thinking is
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: Sal Perez.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Now, he's not the same hitter maybe as Sal was,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: but Salvi Perez won, what, five gold gloves there for
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: a run? Incredible Hall of Fame defensive catcher. But he
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: also still, I mean, he's still behind the dish a
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: number of different times throughout, and it's not like he's
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: a bad player. He's still, at worst, a plus 700
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: OPS guy.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: He's still not a hole in the lineup at all.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: He's helping you. Yeah, I think it's. And he ends
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: up being your captain.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Now, that would be, you know, that's a different conversation
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: for in four years when Yelich ends up going into
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: the broadcasting booth.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: It would be hard for me to say you're honestly
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: telling yourself we're trying our best to win again if
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: you don't bring back, if you don't sign William. It
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: would be hard for me to sit there and say
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: you're honestly saying that because his value is immeasurable.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It was. But the thing is, you can't GM.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: You can't. run your team thinking about what fans think
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and stuff. Of course.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: If the, would the Mariners want to check swing on
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Cal Raleigh's $ 105 million deal right now? That's fair. But how,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: how could you possibly predict that he was going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: drop off that thing? I'm sorry. It's just, We're talking
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: about a guy that you don't think it could happen,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: but Oh my $ 105 million.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: But to the, as much as that happened, he could
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: come back and be one of the top five hitters
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: in the sport next year.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Like guys do that.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: That's where the, that's where the changing in the ebbs
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: and flows will, will really surprise you. And maybe it's
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: only in, we see so much of it. We talked
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: about it with college football. Baseball is no different. That's
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: the baseline.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Would you give William Couturier a six year deal, a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: five year deal? Then you think maybe by the end
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: of it, he's your first baseman, perhaps? See, that was,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and again, that's where the Bowers thing is interesting to me.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Because Drew, I kind of had it ticketed that within
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: three or four years, Contreras just moves over to first base.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Doing exactly what his brother did. Yeah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Like, again, there's a lot of different case studies that
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you can look at. But I'm like, that guy is...
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at maybe the Exhibit B of Exhibit A.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: He kicked over to first base. And still, right now,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: he's a way better hitter at first base than Wilson
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Contreras ever was before behind the dish.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: So maybe you get that kind of bump. I would.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But I also think.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: One, not my money.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Way easier to spend the money over on this side. Also, he,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: to me, would feel like if I'm going to build
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: an operation and a program, if I don't pay this guy,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: who gets paid?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: There's a foundation and a precedent of the human being
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: behind it of if this guy doesn't get it, who does?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: You could very much say the same for Willie Adamas.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: But that one to me is if this guy didn't
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: get paid, like Aaron Jones for me was a number
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: of years ago for the Packers. The deal numbers wise
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: probably wasn't great compared to what he had done on
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: the field and what other teams were going to pay him.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: But you don't pay that kind of culture guy. Who
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: do you pay? All right. So then you got to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: think about in a couple of years, obviously not for
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a while, but Ms.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Because you can try to explore contract talks with him,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: but he's just like, I'll just go year to year,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: beat you in arbitration, get my money.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: For sure. And then go to free agency. That's what
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: they're going to do. And that might be what Contreras' agents,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the octagon, tells them to do. And so you might
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: not be able to say, he might not entertain it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to free agency to see what the market is, right? Now,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: here's the other one. If it's a Yount Molitor type
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: thing and you can only have one, are you keeping
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Contreras or Terang? It's good. Knowing that you've got Mate
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: coming up as the number one prospect in all of baseball,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and he's going to be cheap for five, six years,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and you might be able to give him one of
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: those deals. That's a really good question. That's exactly why
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I'd go Contreras again. That's why I think, yeah, because
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: then you back up the truck, trade Terang after this season,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: after one more season. Trade him, get what you can,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: bring up Mate.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: And you've got to think you're getting a hell of
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: a haul for Bryce to ring. You got to think
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: that would be one of the biggest trade packages. They,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: the sport would be having at that time.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: The data tells you though, that Bryce would be worth
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: more wins and he costs more too. So there's a,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: there's a couple of ways to look at that, but
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: you're right in theory that you mean you should get
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: a better.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Haul for him. That's why when we're kicking around the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: idea of making $ 20 million a year, isn't that just
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: kind of like a four 20 thing? Just think about it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It is the numbers that we throw around with sports
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and athletes. You just, it's mind boggling.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: But drew every single time that I, uh, think about,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm excited to get home and enjoy my happy place.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: But when I put that money into that big old
• 20:22
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• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I'm doing that, 420. What are you? I thought.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I'm having all these conversations of how I'm going to
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: move around a couple million.
• 20:32
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• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larravee joining us. Wayne, welcome to the program. Did
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you have a good weekend? Did you have a good
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Sunday on the couch?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It was a good weekend. Yes, guys, it was. Saw
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of football and enjoyed it, both the college
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and pro game.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Well, the, uh, the college game we mentioned, Wayne, you,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: you watched and you called games in college football for
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: a long time.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Did you ever see it be this week to week?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is a lot. Some of these teams are,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you think this team is going to win the national
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: title one week and the next week they can't beat, uh,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you know, Rutgers are seemingly the Citadel. It is a wild,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: wild sport.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And, and close to our backyard, obviously, uh, the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Badgers one week, the USC and, you know, and an
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: outstanding performance in the next week, go to Iowa and
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: get boat raced. Meanwhile, USC goes home, faces number two,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Ohio state and wins. Just, you don't know how this
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: is going to go week to week, this football stuff.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: So what's happened to the NFL is now happening in
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: college football. All the player movement, Billy, I believe has
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: in part led to this up and down week to
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: week game that we see.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And it's getting very much.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: And it's entertaining. No doubt about it. It's just hard
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to bet on. It's really hard to bet on. They've
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: got to figure it out. They've got to change this up.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Because right now, Wayne, the kids don't know if they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: coming or going. And if we don't know what the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: kids are thinking, the kids don't know what they're thinking,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: it's hard for us to invest on it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Now it's horse racing, Billy. Now it's the Breeders' Cup.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: In horse racing, we don't know anything about nothing. We
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: know nothing about anything.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: But at least you get good odds. At least you
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: get better odds than you do in football. That's the problem,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: which is wild.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So, Wayne, I was very much looking forward to Lions
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and Vikings, and I kind of knew in the back
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: of my mind it would be a rock fight, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: it kind of was. And it was like, did we
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: learn anything from that game that we didn't already know?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Well, just the Jack Campbell situation, which I still don't
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: have a good feel for as to whether he's going
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: to be okay or not. A lot of reports of
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: the Lions had a statement coming out today or whatever,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and I just didn't see anything that was different from
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: what we knew over the weekend. That was really hard
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: to watch. Beyond that, I thought for sure Detroit would
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: beat Minnesota. I don't think Minnesota's invincible by any stretch
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: of the imagination, and they're going to need a little
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: more out of that offense, a little more consistency against
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the good teams to win meaningful games. And I don't
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: think Detroit is unbeatable either. But I did think they
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: would beat Minnesota, and they prevailed. Yeah, it was a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: rock fight. I didn't think it would be an up-tempo,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: high-scoring game either way.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Minnesota's quarterback situation is going to be a prohibiting factor.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like Kyler's bad, Wayne, but there's a
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: level to where their offense is, and that offense that
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: was playing and has the last couple of weeks doesn't
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: really look like a Kevin O'Connell offense has when you
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: see it humming with Darnold or Cousins. He hasn't been
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: able to master any of their core principles of just
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: being able to hit Justin Jefferson on as many crossing
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: routes as possible.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the timing of it looks a little bit
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: off to me, Billy. You know, Kyler's not the kind of,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: he's not the same kind of quarterback that has been successful.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: The Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, those quarterbacks, they're pocket passers.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: They make a read and make the throw. If the
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: read's not there, they move to the next one really quickly.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: That's not really Kyler Murray, and it never has been.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: He's more outside the pocket. He's more moving around, buying
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: time and manufacturing something. And that's really not the Kevin O'Connell, um,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: offense that we know. And it certainly can appreciate.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Did you give a watch Wayne to the Patriots and dolphins,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the fight and Halfleys gave, uh, gave Mr. Vrabel and company, uh, uh,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you know, a tussle. They hung in until they unscored
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: late to make it closer than maybe it was. But
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: did you watch any of that game in preparation for
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Sunday in Foxborough?
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: No, I'm about to do that as soon as I'm
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: off of here. But, um, No surprise. You know, Hatley's
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Dolphins have given everybody a hard time in one way
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: or another. Usually it's a tight ball game late, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: they just don't have enough to finish, Miami that is.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: But the two coaches who knew head coaches who impressed me,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Hatley for sure, but really Mike LaFleur down in Arizona,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the job he's doing down there, they're down, what, 10
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: or 14 to the Cowboys in the second half? Ten
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: points in the fourth quarter. They come back. The game's tied.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: At the end of regulation, they win in overtime. You know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: they've beaten the Rams. they beaten the chargers and the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Cowboys all on the road. Wow. I think if they
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: could stay on the road, they might go on undefeated.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Well, they got good practice because their stadium is only
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: usually half full with Cardinal fans. Everybody else just takes
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: it over, but it is impressive how they've fought and
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: underdogs have been pretty good. You mentioned Halfley's team that
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: they've covered a number of their number of their games
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: and to see it, Wayne, the amount of different quarterbacks
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: that we've watched in one in Baltimore yesterday, uh, goes
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: down in Lamar Jackson. Do you see teams being a
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: little bit more aggressive now in the trade market than
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: ever before? I think it's, they, there was a stat
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: this week that this is now the third consecutive year
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: that at least three guys that have been first team,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: all pro formerly have been traded in the season. That's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: a staggering number for where it was before, but And
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: it feels like maybe the Packers have somebody that teams
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: would be interested in and to Rod Taylor, they just
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: signed Cam Miller to their practice squad. Do you think
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: that would be a spot or that the Packers will
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: be in people thinking buying, but it seems like a
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: market that they might also, they sold once already on
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Kyle McCord.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Do you think that they would do it again?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I, that's a good question, Billy. I'm not sure
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: whether at the talk I'd heard was that they were
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: interested in Jonathan Taylor. I don't know how that meshes
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: with the Josh Jacobs situation they're facing now. It's hard
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: to tell, but I will say this, you're correct. There
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: is more conversation. There's more movement at the trading deadline
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: in the last three years. And certainly this year than
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen in the NFL. And times have changed
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and people are changing out parts and players are moving
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: from team to team, especially the skill position players that
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: can maybe make a difference. He'd be a defensive pass rusher,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: a cornerback, or maybe it's a running back or a
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: wide receiver. Guys who can fit into an offense or
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: defense and make an impact right away. We're seeing a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: lot of that now. The Eagles made several moves last
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: year to try to retool and get their defense back
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to Super Bowl level. Didn't quite work out. And several
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: of those players are now in other locations.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Just got some breaking news on the old wire here
• 28:30
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  Speaker 2: Concrete Coatings. Packers are signing free agent quarterback Cam Miller
• 28:44
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• 28:47
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• 28:52
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• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and as I was just asking Wayne, I think
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: that means that they might be in conversations and maybe
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Terod Taylor is open for business because the Ravens, I
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: can't think, are just going to sit on their hands
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: and watch a season go by. I can't think the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Eagles are going to watch more games than they watched
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: last night. Either they're going to trade somebody or they're
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: going to try to go make a move. And the
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Vikings see a limitation where they are.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I would think. And hell, J.J.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: McCarthy looked like he was the worst player anybody had
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: seen play the position. And he jump-started the Giants to
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: the point where they beat the Texans on the road.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: So that position, Wayne, teams wouldn't. We talk about teams
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: not wanting to trade. That position in particular, teams wouldn't
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: have necessarily thought of.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Billy smelled these winds of coming because you were asking
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: me about whether they would listen to offers on Tyron. Taylor.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: It'd be a roll of the dice, right? But if
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: the winds are right, I could see it. And if
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: they could get draft capital. Because, Wayne, you and I
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: talked about it last year during our draft show that
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: this upcoming year seems to be where a lot of
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: the talent has sat back to and waited for and
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: that this is going to be one of the better
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: drafts that you can ultimately find.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right, Bill. You know, just looking
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: at the landscape of college football and where they're at
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: now with these guys and now that they're out of
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: these six and seven year cups.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Thank God.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, is this Animal House or what? You know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I'm an eighth year senior.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Used to be doctors. That's right.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I just don't want to leave campus, man. I'm telling you,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I'm having too good a time. But, you know, I
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: think that part of it is we've gone through that.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And yes, we're going to have players in the draft
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: who have a lot of experience and are players who
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: have really honed their skills. And you know what, guys?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I understand they may be a year or two older
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: than the scouts would like. But the scouts also like
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the fact that they know what they're getting and they
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: have a better idea on these older prospects than they
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: do on 20-year-old, 21-year-old kids.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: That is a good point. That's a good point. Hey, Wayne,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the fact that Micah Parsons, all signs indicate that he
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: will open his window and start practicing this week. I mean,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: he can't help against New England on Sunday, but does that...
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Add some juice. Does that add some energy? Packers are
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: coming off this bye. Does having him back at practice
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: add energy? When they added Mekhi Becton and Kevin Zeitler,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: we all thought it was a little bit energizing. They've
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: yet to play and do anything. But does that add
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: an energy? Will that help palpably, do you think, as
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: we move into Sunday?
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I really think so, Drew, because he's such a central
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: figure on that team. And not just his performance on
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the field, but the way he handles himself in the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: locker room. and the impact he has on these players
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: in the locker room off the field. So that's why
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I think it would be energizing. Now, it would be
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: great to get that talent back on the field, that's
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: for sure. Everybody understands that. But I think the reason
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: there will be juice as he hits the practice field
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: in the next, what, two days, Wednesday, I think has
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: more to do with who he is in that locker room.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: What do you see in Wayne?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: The Josh Jacobs thing has continued to be a developing
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: factor in the last couple hours. Matt LaFleur mentioned it,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: that they're going to let the NFL process do its
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: thing and that he anticipates him being a member of
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: the team moving forward. That's really all I have to
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: speak on of the additional claims of against him of
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: potential abuse. More importantly, on the football field, they got
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: to find some kind of ground game and to be
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: able to find it and Drew mentioned the two others
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: of the new offensive linemen that have yet to be inserted.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Do you anticipate this being a fluid situation over the
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: next couple of weeks? Because they have the ability to
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: practice over the next couple of weeks with these mini
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: buys where maybe you can move some guys around up front.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: You know, Billy, I was thinking about that today. Aaron Banks,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: a lot of money invested in him. I get that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: They got him back in the lineup off his injury,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: and it didn't go so well the other night, from
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: what the analytics tell me, from what the scouting people say.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: But they do have some things. It wouldn't surprise me
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: if you move Tomlinson back to left guard and put
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Zeitler in at right guard for this game in New England.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: That wouldn't surprise me at all. At some point, Regardless
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: of how much money you have invested in a body
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: here or there, whoever they are, you need to get
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: your best five on the field. And here's the other thing.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I'm just being as honest as I possibly can. The
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Packers went into this past weekend's games with the fewest
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: rushing yards per game of any team in the league
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: by 16 yards. That's amazing when you think about it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: You have got to be able to run. Why was
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: the Dallas game close? Why was the Carolina game a
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: one-score game? Because with four-something to go in the game
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: or five-something to go in the game, you got the ball.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: It's an eight-point game, and you can't close a team
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: out because you can't run the football. You must be
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: able to run the ball in those situations to grind
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: down the clock. We talk about four-minute offense. If you
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: can't run the ball, you can't run a four-minute offense.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: In that scenario the other night, if I'm not mistaken,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Matt called three passes. Why? Well, because at that point
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: in the game, he realized they weren't doing anything on
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: the ground. I think they had 60 yards or 58
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: yards against Dallas, who came in as the worst rush
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: defense in the league that night. And they had, I think,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: 66 yards against another worst defense in the league, Carolina,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: last Thursday night. So you're going to have to run
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the football better. They have to find a way. Matt
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: mentioned that after the game. He says, it's up to us.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: We've got to figure out a way to do this.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Part of it might be personnel, but I think that's
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: a real hard fix. They've done what they could. They
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: added some veteran personnel to the offensive line mix. Now,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: can they put it together to where they can have
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: at least an efficient ground game? Because if they can't, guys,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: it's going to get real hard to throw the football downfield.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Teams will play that. Two shell, two safeties high. They'll
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: back the cornerbacks off just a little bit. They're not
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: worried about you running the football. The box will be light.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And that's what's going to happen. And that'll make it
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: really hard on the Packers, who have so far been
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: a one-dimensional offense. You just can't do that. Furthermore, how
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: many teams have made the playoffs, being the worst rushing
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: team in the league, leading the league in drop passes,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: and leading the league in penalties? Oof.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: They've got to be a very, very razor. It's a
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: tough trio. If not.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: That's three strikes and you're out, boys.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: That is rough.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: So they've got to get the running game straightened out
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: one form or another. And you know what? When I
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: saw Josh Jacobs go in there against Detroit, I said, well,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I guess it's not the back. He looked fine, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: he had nowhere to go.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Nowhere to go. And Carolina was almost tougher. Tampa ran
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: for 324 yards yesterday. the Packers running backs through their
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: first eight games have run for 435. Oh my goodness.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a monsoon though. Oh yeah. But I mean,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: it just think about it.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: One team in 60 minutes has run for three quarters
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: of what you've been able to put together for eight games.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I've never in 28 years here. I've never seen it
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: quite like this. I've never seen an offensive line quite
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: like this. And I've never seen a Packers running game
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: struggle like this one has and And, you know, hopefully
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: they'll be able to get a handle on it, put
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: something together as they go forward. But, boy, they've got
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: to have something because you have to balance your offense
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: somewhat in the NFL. Otherwise, those defensive coordinators, they're going
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to take care of your passing game. They're going to
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: make it very tough for you to throw the football
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: if you can't.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Even with Watson and Golden, it can be hard for
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: them to get open.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Here's the other thing. What's incredible about Watson and Golden
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: is this team leads the league and drop passes 23
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: unofficially by, by a wide margin. And yet those guys,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: and Matthew Golden leads the league and drops. And yet he's,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: He and Watson are terrific. They're top 10 in all
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: the receiving statistics.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: There's so much meat in the bone. Seventh in yards
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: and number one in drops for Matthew. Speaking of receivers,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: my pick to click tonight is Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. Against the Bears. I think he's
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: going to have a big day. As we hate-watch Monday
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Night Football tonight, Wayne, what are you looking at? Both
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: these teams made significant trades, one on the offensive side,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: one on the defensive side. They're all pros. And I
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: just don't know who to cheer for. I almost wish
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this would be a tie.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I'll be rooting, to be honest with you guys, I'll
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: be rooting for Seattle. Oh, yes, for sure, man. You know, but, hey,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons, everybody in Chicago, they got Jeffrey Simmons back. Well,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: you know, the Packers are getting a guy back, too,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: who's pretty good. And so maybe, so I was trying
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: to talk to some friends this week and say, does
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: that move offset their move? Packers are going to get Parsons.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: They got Jeffrey Simmons.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like ours better. I like ours better. Similar
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: investment packages, but yeah. Very similar. Very similar.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: And one's a little bit younger, and one plays on
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: the outside. Yeah, I'd be taking one over the other.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: It's going to be fun. Wayne, we'll talk to you
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: again Friday.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Have a great week. See you, man.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: You bet, guys. Talk to you Friday. Wayne, later.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give Billy a game ball. The last
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: game ball of the day goes to Billy for... Just
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: calling that, Tyrod, you had the spidey senses tingling that
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: the Packers could be listening to offers because you know
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the phones are starting to burn up with people looking
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: for quarterbacks. I got to think they're coming.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: You called it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I got to think they're coming. Billy called it. I
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: love it. Billy was on it. I'm on top of
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: the world. It doesn't get any better. There you go.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: It doesn't, Sal. Back to close up shop. I'm going
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: to drink 100,000 beers. I wish. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Closing ceremonies of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Billy,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and Armin. I got to admit, it's going to take
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: probably the middle of this week for the fog to lift.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I got a mental fog. Oh, you're absolutely right. The
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: double whammy of daylight saving time and falling back and
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: not knowing your body clock is off by an hour,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: but it's even getting dark early. That's always an adjustment anyway. Yeah,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: and my schedule. And the Brewers.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: My schedule always gets thrown off when the Packers don't
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: play Sunday. that too like in football season when there's
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: not football on saturday and sunday it throws my entire.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Week off no question no question so then now it's
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: microwaved it is uh It's.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: A beautiful reason to as disheveled as, uh, and, and
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: it's still a little hung over as the city is
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: from the, uh, from the parade and the last month
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: of excitement, uh, baseball wise, it is cool. And I
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: think the, uh, the neck, the best where's Waldo is
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: going to be, where does the next brewer pop.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Up in the wild?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Or like, where is the net?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Where's the next waiting for since 4.00 AM to see
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: wild bill at Dick's sporting goods. Or at Raising Cane's.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Who's going to be in next year? There were 500
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: people at Raising Cane's, apparently.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Armin, you can attest. I'm surprised there weren't more, to
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. You said it was nuts. Some folks,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: and only like five people got to interact with him
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: because he was doing commercials and stuff. And he popped
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: out and said hello to everybody.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: He did that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: He spoke.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: It was really nice that he did that. And I
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: think Raising Cane's kind of sold it to be more
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: to the fans than it was. Sure.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: They did put on very fine print, not an autograph appearance.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Well, that's true, but they implied that you'd be able
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: to have a few seconds with them.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: You know what you can get? A Kaniak box. Kaniak box.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: That thing is going to smack. Get an extra thing
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: of sauce because you're going to want one. So good.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Because you're going to dip the bread in. You're going
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: to sleep on that. Yes, yes. You're dipping the bread
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: in the sauce. It is phenomenal. Incredible. Thank us later. Incredible.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: All right, tomorrow, a lot of college hoops cover. Bucs
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: play again.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: And we can hate watch the Seahawks and the Bears.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I will find myself rooting for the Seahawks. Not my
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: favorite franchise. I like John Schneider, okay? Mm-hmm. Their uniforms, fans,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the stadium. Not a fan. Not a fan at all.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I'll suffer through it tonight if they can beat the Bears.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I really am going to be watching, though, hoping for
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: one awkward Joe Buck-Troy Aikman moment.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Ooh. Let's do it. We'll see you tomorrow, too.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Peace!