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09/15/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Dominating Tuesday in the good land. It's the huddle Fox
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Speaker 1: sports radio, Wisconsin, Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin.
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Speaker 2: Sorry. And bringing it to you.
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Speaker 1: The first week of national football league, professional tackle football is.
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Speaker 2: In the books. Great feeling.
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Speaker 1: Are the Denver Broncos coming back to earth? Are they
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Speaker 1: going to suffer what the AFC runner up syndrome or tiger?
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Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't look ready for prime time last evening.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: And, and Bo Nix looked like the one coming off
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Speaker 3: of a, a season ending game. injury. Well, he was,
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Speaker 3: but Pat Mahomes was the one that we heard about
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Speaker 3: all season off season long. And one of those teams
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Speaker 3: came with a whole lot of excitement. And the other
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Speaker 3: one I'll miss and tackles at the 45 yard line.
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Speaker 3: Letting Taylor Taylor's Kelsey run all the way down the
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Speaker 3: field here. Come on now, Travis Swift. Goodness gracious.
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Speaker 4: Making me look dumb for taking their deep Broncos D
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Speaker 4: in my fantasy leagues, but yeah, missing tackles all night.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And for a guy that had his knee busted, he
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Speaker 4: did it with his legs last night.
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Speaker 2: Mahomes did it with his legs most of the night.
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Speaker 2: Focused on Kenneth Walker and Mahomes, but the Chiefs D
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Speaker 2: looks pretty good. Really good. Yeah. And a bunch of
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Speaker 2: guys flying around to me. It's like, ooh. They had
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Speaker 2: in the first series, Mansoor, the lane gets the interception.
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Speaker 3: They get to bust out Justin Fields acting like a
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Speaker 3: running back at some point. They play with the toys.
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Speaker 3: Andy Reid knows exactly how to dial things up. And
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Speaker 3: I mean, they had two first round rookies. Peter Woods
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Speaker 3: looked as advertised last night as well. One of their
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Speaker 3: tight ends is a second-year player, Brenning Stone from Clemson,
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Speaker 3: had a catch last night. So they're a factor, but
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Speaker 3: they're also a factor just because of that guy. I mean,
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Speaker 3: when Mahomes is playing again and being able to do
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Speaker 3: some of the things that, again, with the arm last night,
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Speaker 3: I think at one point he was like 3 of
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Speaker 3: 12 passing, wasn't phenomenal, but you feel pretty confident they're
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Speaker 3: going to get there. And that their offensive line was
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Speaker 3: all right, starting an undrafted rookie at left tackle. Khalil Benson,
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Speaker 3: last game he plays in is the national championship game
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Speaker 3: for IU. And then all of a sudden with Josh
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Speaker 3: Simmons being hurt a week and a half left in camp,
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Speaker 3: he gets to start a lot easier to start at
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Speaker 3: home than on the road. We'll see if it's a
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Speaker 3: little different when they take that thing outside of Arrowhead.
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Speaker 3: But goodness gracious. And Kenneth Walker out gaining the Broncos
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Speaker 3: all night long. That's getting a return on the investment
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Speaker 3: right out of the gates.
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Speaker 2: 170 plus.
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Speaker 4: Some teams talk about it and they are about it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the Broncos, you know, we're going to get
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Speaker 4: Dobbins involved heavy this year, and so three carries in
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Speaker 4: the first half. Only 12 running attempts all night, and
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Speaker 4: they struggled. Waddle only had one short catch, but, you know,
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Speaker 4: you look at the Chiefs, and it's like, all right,
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Speaker 4: you think of the Chiefs as obviously, yeah, Mahomes, high-flying
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Speaker 4: offense through the air, but they're like, you know, we're
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Speaker 4: just going to retool. We're going to get Kenneth Walker.
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Speaker 4: We're going to focus around the running game, and they execute.
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Speaker 4: They just execute whatever they want to do, and they
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Speaker 4: did it again last night. And it looks like a
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Speaker 4: whole new kind of Chiefs style, but it's whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: It works for them. They move the ball. They score points.
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Speaker 2: They win games. And it was a little message they sent,
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Speaker 2: I think, last night as well.
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Speaker 3: Well, to run the ball, they message sent Armin. It
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Speaker 3: was six to midnight for the run the ball crowd.
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Speaker 3: When they go, not one, not two, not three. But
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Speaker 3: let me see all four plays on the opening sequence runs.
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Speaker 3: Even out of four of the two, they're like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: let's bring in number 92, the defensive tackle to run
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Speaker 3: fullback and go full old school power, full house wishbone look.
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Speaker 3: Two lead backs for one Kenneth Walker and then see
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Speaker 3: if you can stop it.
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Speaker 2: They didn't.
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Speaker 3: And they put that thing into the Super Bowl MVP's
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Speaker 3: chest a couple of times, 23 of them to be exact.
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Speaker 2: And he was rumbling through.
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Speaker 3: The other part of the Broncos deal is last night
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Speaker 3: was the first night, Drew, that Sean Payton was not
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Speaker 3: calling the plays. He handed that off to his boy
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Speaker 3: Davis Webb. You could see he was stressing on the sidelines.
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Speaker 2: That's not an easy thing to hand over.
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Speaker 5: I give it.
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Speaker 3: I said the over under a week seven as to
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Speaker 3: when Sean Payton ends up taking it back. As you
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Speaker 3: could tell, he was not enjoying himself over there on
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Speaker 3: that sideline.
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Speaker 2: Especially if it doesn't work.
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Speaker 4: And how many times we've talked about this with coaches
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Speaker 4: that have been around a while successful, especially the offensive
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Speaker 4: mind and head coaches. When, you know, and we did
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Speaker 4: this with McCarthy and people, they did that for a
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Speaker 4: while and took it back. They ask it about the
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Speaker 4: floor when the operation starts to struggle. Well, shouldn't you
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Speaker 4: just give off play calling duties to somebody else? Like it's,
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Speaker 4: you know, just sweeping the floor. Like it's a no
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Speaker 4: big deal task. It's like, no, this is what they
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Speaker 4: want to do. This is why they do it. This
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Speaker 4: is what they, their whole, they feel that a lot
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Speaker 4: of their careers based on it is, is calling the
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Speaker 4: plays and they don't want to do it. So I
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Speaker 4: think you're right, Billy. We'll see how long that lasts.
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Speaker 4: Cause I got like Sean Payton. You got to think.
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Speaker 4: Wants to get that control back a little bit. I
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Speaker 4: just remember when Big Mike took it away and took
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Speaker 4: it right back. It's just funny how that works.
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Speaker 1: Any other teams impress you? And one of the things
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Speaker 1: I keep going back to, because you have to remember,
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Speaker 1: just go back to last year. Seahawks and Patriots both
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Speaker 1: lost their openers at home.
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Speaker 2: And then they played in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And the Patriots lost to Las Vegas at home to.
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Speaker 2: Open the season.
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Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Yeah, that's a reality check. And Ashton Gentry
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Speaker 3: with a couple of scores in that game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the Seahawks, I mean, the Patriots last year, not
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Speaker 1: only did they lose at home, then they went and
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Speaker 1: struggled to beat Miami on the road and then lost
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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh at home and opened one and two and
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Speaker 1: then went on run and won 10 in a row.
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Speaker 3: And so I don't know how you are, Drew, on
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Speaker 3: this buy or sell Tuesday on all the different numbers
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Speaker 3: that come out of like, well, if you.
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Speaker 2: Start 0-2, you have a 12.684% chance of making the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: So many of them are kind of out the window
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Speaker 3: with the new formats, with the expanded playoff teams that
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Speaker 3: you get with seven on each side. And just that,
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Speaker 3: it feels like more recently, the studies have been the
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Speaker 3: Patriots wanted to go to the Super Bowl. Houston last
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Speaker 3: year started 0-3, and every number alive told you that
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Speaker 3: no team is alive for the playoffs when you start 0-3. Oh,
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Speaker 3: but actually we may have seen two teams do it
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Speaker 3: in the last three years, but now it will definitely
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Speaker 3: not happen again. But make no mistake about it this
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Speaker 3: week for green Bay must win. I'm not sounding the
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Speaker 3: alarms too much on Tampa Bay. I still think they're
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Speaker 3: probably the better, the best team in that division. I
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Speaker 3: would start sounding like.
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Speaker 2: A very, very small alarm.
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Speaker 3: I'm not hitting the panic button, but I'm just making
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Speaker 3: sure that I do know where it is. If I'm
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Speaker 3: those LA Rams, though. I just want to know where
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Speaker 3: it is. I just want to know where it is.
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Speaker 3: I want to be prepared. Is it functional? I got
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Speaker 3: the box still on it, like in deal or no deal.
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Speaker 2: I'm not even.
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Speaker 3: Taking the little plastic box off to be able to
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Speaker 3: hit it, but I'd keep my eye there in LA,
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Speaker 3: but that's an interesting one.
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Speaker 2: One I was clearly wrong about, though, was the Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I came in here very.
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Speaker 1: You were all over the Colts in that game, as
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Speaker 1: I recall.
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Speaker 2: I was strongly on the shoe.
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Speaker 3: And I did not believe the artist known as Declan
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Speaker 3: Doyle was going to roll up here and put up
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Speaker 3: a 41 piece.
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Speaker 2: On Indianapolis. It's a football player's name, though. Is it, though?
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Speaker 2: Declan Doyle, man. I'm all Declan, man.
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Speaker 3: Declan Doyle sounds like he was over on floor number
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Speaker 3: eight for you on McCormick.
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Speaker 1: He sounds like he's one of the National Merit Scholar
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Speaker 1: finalists or something.
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Speaker 3: Summa cum laude walking down Declan Doyle.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it seems like a guy that, you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm going to Declan Doyle you in the face.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but you're right. The other thing is, listen, if.
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Speaker 4: Derrick Henry's supposed to get older at some point. I mean,
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Speaker 4: running backs are supposed to age, and he doesn't do it.
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Speaker 4: So maybe he'll never get older, and he'll never stop
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Speaker 4: playing well. Maybe he'll be a 45-year-old running back in
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Speaker 4: this league dominating people. And if it is, so be it,
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Speaker 4: because at some point you have to stop believing it's
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Speaker 4: going to stop.
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Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Yeah, the Ravens are pretty impressive
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Speaker 2: in that sense.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: We need your buy or sell propositions, 877-794-1973. You're buying
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Speaker 2: or selling....
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Speaker 1: That the Padres did the right thing and made the
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Speaker 1: fan base happy by bringing back where the streets have
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Speaker 1: no name. It is their kind of walk-in hype song.
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Speaker 5: Buying.
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Speaker 2: Buying. Buying. Buying.
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Speaker 5: Buying.
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Speaker 2: Folks were pissed when they took that. You got to
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Speaker 2: buy that, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I sat next to our boy Red Hot the day
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Speaker 3: that they did take that song away, the day that
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Speaker 3: they also decided they were going to crank up the
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Speaker 3: tunes coming up.
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Speaker 2: That was game one of the launch.
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Speaker 3: If you remember, the play on the field did not launch.
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Speaker 2: I think they won like maybe 16-10.
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Speaker 3: It was a very mundane Mac school that rolled in,
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Speaker 3: and they sent out a– Survey after the game to
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Speaker 3: see what you thought of the new game day experience.
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Speaker 2: They got a lot of ones.
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Speaker 4: Woo.
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Speaker 2: On the one through 10, they got a lot of ones.
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Speaker 2: You're splitting volume of music. It was loud. It was hot.
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Speaker 4: Tweeting in on putting on social media or calling or
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Speaker 4: radio station saying there was too loud in game one, man.
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Speaker 2: I remember that.
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Speaker 3: But the number one thing that continued was where's the
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Speaker 3: old video? Where's the old song? Where's the old video?
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Speaker 3: They're coming out of the, due to the construction, they're
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Speaker 3: coming out of the main end zone tunnel. So I
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Speaker 3: think that was also maybe just lended itself to. Why
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Speaker 3: don't we have a little bit more fun? Why don't
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Speaker 3: we throw a little bit of a bone? Because there's something, too, Drew.
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Speaker 3: You want to put your stamp on things. You want
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Speaker 3: to make it your own. But at some point, if
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Speaker 3: it's been pretty good, let's not change something that we
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Speaker 3: all really love.
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Speaker 2: It's the same conundrum that all coaches have. They do.
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Speaker 2: It's like you want to adhere to tradition, but you
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Speaker 2: want to create your own identity.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember when the Badgers started using that song,
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Speaker 1: but I know Tom Crean used it during his career.
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Speaker 2: Marquette era. He did. And Marquette fans were like.
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Speaker 1: And then Marquette started playing jump around and your boy
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Speaker 1: in the seventh row started jumping up and down and
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Speaker 1: becoming a local icon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the engineering professor. It is interesting because fans hold
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Speaker 4: on to that tradition. And it's like when someone starts
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Speaker 4: it and then starts it and associates it with a
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Speaker 4: good era of the program, you want it to stay.
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Speaker 4: And especially if you change it and you're not doing
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Speaker 4: well on the court or the field. Then people are
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Speaker 4: starting not being happy about it.
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Speaker 2: That's what happens.
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Speaker 1: They're not happy about not doing well on the court
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Speaker 1: of the field. But then the song becomes extraneous.
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Speaker 2: Then it becomes even worse. It's the same idea. You
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Speaker 2: win a national championship, you can play whatever damn song
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Speaker 2: you want. And that's the thing.
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 2: And you can change it every year if you want to.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they care that Cignetti, if he was
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Speaker 3: doing anything they were doing from 2008.
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Speaker 2: That's why if Luke Fickle had teams that reflected that....
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Speaker 4: It'd be fine, but he hadn't had it, so people
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Speaker 4: were going to get upset. It's sort of like in
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Speaker 4: LaFleur's first few years, the Packers were winning a lot,
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Speaker 4: and then they just casually changed things in the open.
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Speaker 4: No more get ready for this when they run out.
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Speaker 4: It was more hip-hop. I think people were like, okay, whatever.
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Speaker 2: We're winning games.
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Speaker 4: I don't really care what happens, but I think that's
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Speaker 4: a big factor. So definitely a buy there because they
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Speaker 4: need any good will when they came with the fan base.
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Speaker 1: To circle back, on a buy or sell Tuesday, to
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Speaker 1: circle back to our discussion, meaty discussion, the first segment
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Speaker 1: of the program. If you missed it, back up to
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Speaker 1: YouTube or find the podcast because we were talking hardcore
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Speaker 1: football upon further review. We might do that on Tuesdays
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Speaker 1: this year.
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Speaker 5: I like that.
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Speaker 1: We'll go back and look. After seeing the film, I
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Speaker 1: had questions. You're buying or selling that the Packers offensive
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Speaker 1: line Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium was worse than the
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Speaker 1: Packers offensive line in Cleveland last year.
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Speaker 2: I love this question. I love this question.
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Speaker 1: Remember the, remember the debacle that was the offensive line
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland last year. And that was another meltdown and
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Speaker 1: a loss, totally different tenor to it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But that offense line, it shook the foundation of, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody that watched that game, like what the hell? And
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Speaker 1: that was kind of the beginning of, you know, questioning things.
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Speaker 3: I guess I'd, I'd, I know it's a lot more
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Speaker 3: top of mind for Armin because he brings it up
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Speaker 3: a lot more. I don't remember it as much, so
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Speaker 3: I guess I will defer on that one. I do
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Speaker 3: remember they didn't run the ball very well and that
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Speaker 3: there were a lot of guys eating. There was a
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Speaker 3: Malik Collins having a big game, and that was maybe
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Speaker 3: everybody's first welcome to Mason Graham in the NFL because
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Speaker 3: he had just been a third game player in the
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Speaker 3: league at that point. But there was a lot of
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Speaker 3: attention paid towards Myles Garrett. There's not a Myles Garrett
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Speaker 3: on this Vikings team. So if that would be the case,
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Speaker 3: then maybe I would say this one would be worse
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Speaker 3: because you didn't have 95 to actually deal with. But
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Speaker 3: I guess I would need to look at that one
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Speaker 3: more because you have only five sacks.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the dumb things, and this is
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Speaker 1: one of the things about football, is that that game
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Speaker 1: was 13-10, and McManus had a kick blocked.
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Speaker 3: That would have been the game winner, if I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 3: after they had the bad interception.
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Speaker 1: And then they lost on a walk-off 55-yarder. They still
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Speaker 1: should have won that game. People judge the offensive line's shortcomings. Again,
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Speaker 1: the Packers scored 10 points. Can you lay claim that
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Speaker 1: you deserve to win when you score 10 points?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, tough. Tough one.
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Speaker 1: They lost 13-10. And not only did they not move
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Speaker 1: the ball and had trouble... that Judkins' kid almost had
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Speaker 1: 100 yards, and they couldn't stop him. And everybody's like,
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Speaker 1: when your defensive line is getting owned, it makes people
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Speaker 1: more mad at your offensive line.
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Speaker 2: True, yes. That's like the mirror image of things. It's like,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: It turns into a compounding interest of what the hell,
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Speaker 1: we can't do anything in these trenches. Then it makes,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get more pissed. But when you score 10,
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Speaker 1: you're going to be pissed about something. And you only
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Speaker 1: gave up 13, but.
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Speaker 2: But they were on the fourth. It was 100 yards. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was all in the fourth quarter. And you gave
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Speaker 2: up 100 yards to a kid that no one had
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Speaker 2: heard of.
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Speaker 3: And one of them was, and I mean, one of
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Speaker 3: them was similar to that touchdown drive to the Vikings
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Speaker 3: head where whatever they got the ball at the door
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Speaker 3: on the interception. So, yeah, I guess I'd need to
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Speaker 3: see it again. But more than anything, that one you saw,
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Speaker 3: it was not good enough. So there's been a time
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Speaker 3: here where you've seen them struggle a lot up front.
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Speaker 2: And that one was just different. That one was, I think,
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Speaker 2: just getting outmanned more than anything.
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Speaker 1: In that game, Josh Jacobs at Cleveland last year carried
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Speaker 1: the ball 16 times for 30 yards.
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Speaker 2: So it was like under two, yeah. Under two.
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Speaker 1: And the Packers carried the ball a total. They had
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Speaker 1: a couple of Golden and Savion Williams combined for five carries.
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Speaker 1: They had 31 attempts for 81 yards. Did not move
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Speaker 1: the ball at all.
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Speaker 3: They also probably should have had like a 90-yard touchdown
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Speaker 3: to Matthew Golden if He stays in bounds, if I
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Speaker 3: remember correctly.
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Speaker 2: That is correct. That is correct. I think I remember
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Speaker 2: about that game.
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Speaker 4: Well, the difference with the Vikings, when we just played,
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Speaker 4: is the Packers had success on offense.
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Speaker 2: They had big plays. They did move the ball. They scored. Well,
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Speaker 2: that was the thing. That's what we talked about. They
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Speaker 2: didn't have it against the Browns at all. They had
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Speaker 2: success because Jordan Love played out of his mind. He
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Speaker 2: was good.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they had two real drives, though, in the
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Speaker 3: first half that were successful.
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Speaker 2: The other ones were... They got like one or two
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Speaker 2: first downs. That's true. They couldn't sustain drives at all.
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Speaker 3: They moved the ball up and walked it around on them.
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Speaker 3: They had a big touchdown run.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, they didn't have a drive
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Speaker 1: of more than five or six plays.
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Speaker 3: An 81-yard touchdown is not necessarily a big drive. That's true.
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Speaker 4: We lock onto the numbers a lot, and it's like
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Speaker 4: when you see 400-plus yards of offense, you're like, oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: But the reality is, you're right, it came in chunks,
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Speaker 4: which is fine, but you had to be able to
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Speaker 4: sustain drives, which helps you control the game. The Packers
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Speaker 4: obviously couldn't do that. That was a huge issue, obviously.
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Speaker 4: But I'm saying the Browns game, nothing was right. That
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Speaker 4: was my comparison. So I'll still stick with that. But both, listen,
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Speaker 4: this is not something I like discussing because both were terrible.
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Speaker 2: They both kind of shook you up a little bit.
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Speaker 4: Also, you're like expecting to go 3-0. The other thing
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Speaker 4: that was frustrating was that Packers looked great the first
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Speaker 4: two weeks of the year last year. Defense was dominant.
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Speaker 4: Offense was doing things you wanted to do. You beat
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Speaker 4: two favorites in the NFC.
16:12
Speaker 2: Two games at home, yeah.
16:14
Speaker 4: Lions and the Commanders. And Parsons was on board and
16:17
Speaker 4: everything was looking great. And then you roll up to
16:19
Speaker 4: the Browns thinking you're going to dominate, go 3-0, easy peasy.
16:23
Speaker 1: So that was kind of fool's gold there. Probably much
16:27
Speaker 1: as our dour outlook after one game at us bank
16:31
Speaker 1: nfl not for long.
16:32
Speaker 4: Speaking of outlooks um here's one for you it was
16:35
Speaker 4: uh from johnny cribbage he said all right guys bears
16:37
Speaker 4: lost to the vikes in the opener last year it's
16:39
Speaker 4: a long season if they're one and one does the
16:41
Speaker 4: sun shine again a bit i would say.
16:42
Speaker 2: Yeah i mean a lot better than no one too
16:45
Speaker 2: so there's no question about that.
16:48
Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah no doubt yeah there's no doubt that
16:52
Speaker 1: would be a that would be it for sure right
16:55
Speaker 1: Wins make a lot of things feel better. And the
16:58
Speaker 1: energy that's going to come when they play Atlanta, right?
17:00
Speaker 1: And that first night, that first Thursday night.
17:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
17:02
Speaker 3: And I mean, you get a home crowd. You get
17:06
Speaker 3: the Thursday night football team to attend. And I mean, listen,
17:11
Speaker 3: we're already into the throes of it. I'm ready to
17:13
Speaker 3: get this thing on to New York. Now, sadly, we
17:15
Speaker 3: still have to bask in the L that was the
17:19
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. But you're now getting ready to not necessarily
17:23
Speaker 3: get fat. And team that you're going to have to,
17:25
Speaker 3: as Aaron Glenn said, you got to ask these guys,
17:28
Speaker 3: they want to fly with the, with the jets. Aaron
17:30
Speaker 3: Glenn likes to bring heat when he was in Detroit.
17:34
Speaker 3: It was one of the only reasons why that defense
17:36
Speaker 3: had any chance against folks because they lost so many
17:41
Speaker 3: players injury wise. His last season is the DC that
17:45
Speaker 3: they were bringing six, seven man pressures consistently. So I
17:49
Speaker 3: think he watched that tape on Sunday, drew and smiled
17:52
Speaker 3: and said, okay, let's, Let's have some fun here, young fellas.
17:55
Speaker 3: We're going to give them every chance to stop it
17:57
Speaker 3: and see if they can because we're going to blitz
18:00
Speaker 3: them early and often coming up on Sunday.
18:02
Speaker 2: You're going to have to deal with it. It's not
18:04
Speaker 2: going to be an easy one.
18:05
Speaker 1: The Cleveland game was quite frustrating, sure, but I don't
18:10
Speaker 1: remember being as deflated and just.
18:14
Speaker 2: I remember being more shocked. Yeah, exactly. It was more shocked,
18:17
Speaker 2: but then the hopeless.
18:20
Speaker 1: Maybe because it was early in the season, but the
18:23
Speaker 1: When they got spanked by the Ravens at home, I
18:24
Speaker 1: keep going back to that Ravens game. That was like
18:27
Speaker 1: the epitome of just hopelessness. Like they got crushed. And
18:31
Speaker 1: it's going to happen during the season, right? Good teams.
18:33
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, the Patriots were one and two and
18:37
Speaker 1: not looking good last year to start.
18:39
Speaker 2: But it's a snapshot. It's a long season.
18:41
Speaker 1: But that Ravens game like shook the entire team.
18:45
Speaker 3: That one rattles you to the core, where you just
18:49
Speaker 3: get run on all night long.
18:50
Speaker 1: Even more so than puking away leads against the Bears. Yeah,
18:52
Speaker 1: that's one that's a little bit more stunning. That Ravens
18:54
Speaker 1: game was like, it looked like the varsity against the
18:56
Speaker 1: eighth grade. And that Ravens game. Yeah, and walked out
18:59
Speaker 1: of there like you had a full-time job. Right, like
19:01
Speaker 1: walked out of there like you.
19:02
Speaker 3: Had just worked a full day saying, holy cow, that
19:06
Speaker 3: was painful to witness.
19:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. 877-794-1973.
19:10
Speaker 1: You need to know that number because Dolph is coming
19:12
Speaker 1: in next for halftime, and we're going to give away
19:13
Speaker 1: tickets to see Luke Bryan. He's coming to Alpine Valley
19:16
Speaker 1: September 26th, a week from Saturday. The Word on the
19:19
Speaker 1: Street Tour with special guests Drew Baldrige, Lauren Watkins, and
19:22
Speaker 1: Ray Lynn. We'll give those away next. Dolph is up.
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Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We've reached
19:32
Speaker 1: halftime of the Tuesday edition of the huddle. Drew Billy
19:35
Speaker 1: and Armin Hunter is going to join us live from
19:36
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in about an hour from right now. At this juncture,
19:39
Speaker 1: happy to welcome Scott Dolphin from the country station down
19:41
Speaker 1: the hall, FM 106. And it's our reminder that we
19:44
Speaker 1: have Luke Bryan tickets to give away.
19:45
Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, 26th at Alpine Valley.
19:48
Speaker 1: Alpine Valley, the word on the Street Tour. Special guests
19:51
Speaker 1: Drew Baldrige, Lauren Watkins, and Rae Lynn Arman.
19:53
Speaker 2: Pick a caller. You've got to screen them. You've got
19:55
Speaker 2: to pick the winner. I'll say seven for Javon Bowler.
19:58
Speaker 4: All right.
19:58
Speaker 2: How about that? Solidarity. Where's the big sleeves, which I like.
20:02
Speaker 2: All right.
20:03
Speaker 1: Caller number seven at 877-794-1973 will win a pair of
20:06
Speaker 1: tickets to that show September 26th.
20:08
Speaker 2: Great way to say goodbye to summer.
20:09
Speaker 4: It is.
20:10
Speaker 2: Go to Alpine and see a show. Yeah.
20:12
Speaker 1: First day of fall is what? Less than a week away,
20:15
Speaker 1: the 22nd. I haven't been to Alpine for a show
20:17
Speaker 1: in a long time.
20:17
Speaker 2: What about you, Dolph? It's been a few years.
20:19
Speaker 1: I mean, we still do a lot of country shows
20:21
Speaker 1: out there, but it has been a few years for me.
20:23
Speaker 2: I love watching shows there.
20:25
Speaker 1: The biggest crowd I have ever been in front of,
20:28
Speaker 1: I think, in my life to bring an act on.
20:30
Speaker 1: Somebody was just talking about the studio here, the Zac
20:32
Speaker 1: Brown Band. I think there was 35,000 people there. This
20:35
Speaker 1: was probably 10 years ago. I just remember walking on
20:37
Speaker 1: stage going.
20:38
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
20:38
Speaker 1: You just see heads all the way to the horizon.
20:41
Speaker 1: The sun was going down. It was a beautiful night,
20:42
Speaker 1: and I saw nothing but heads. That was pretty incredible.
20:45
Speaker 3: I have seen one show there, and the one that
20:49
Speaker 3: I didn't go to is the one that I still
20:50
Speaker 3: kick myself for. I had a ticket to the Farm
20:55
Speaker 3: Aid show.
20:55
Speaker 2: There a couple of years ago.
20:57
Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
20:58
Speaker 3: When I think Willie was playing and Luke Combs ended
21:02
Speaker 3: up headlining it.
21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I went to the Michigan-Wisconsin game. Okay, well.
21:07
Speaker 2: Earlier in the day.
21:08
Speaker 3: It ended up being a good game. Jonathan Taylor went wild,
21:10
Speaker 3: and then I drank too much. So I didn't make
21:13
Speaker 3: it back for the show. But that was the one
21:15
Speaker 3: that I did kick myself for not going to.
21:17
Speaker 1: Farm Aid always has those sneaky headliners in there, like
21:19
Speaker 1: Luke Combs on that show. The year was in Milwaukee,
21:22
Speaker 1: which had to be close to 15 years ago. Were
21:24
Speaker 1: you there, Drew, when it was at Miller Park?
21:26
Speaker 2: Yes.
21:26
Speaker 4: Yes.
21:26
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney was one of the opening acts on that
21:28
Speaker 1: show for Willie Nelson and Mellencamp and Dave Matthews and
21:32
Speaker 1: Neil Young.
21:32
Speaker 2: I mean, every year you have the staples, but then
21:34
Speaker 2: you always have some sneaky surprises, too.
21:36
Speaker 4: When I was young, Alpine always meant Dave Matthews, right?
21:39
Speaker 4: All my friends would always go to Dave Matthews.
21:41
Speaker 2: And fish. They'd get just.
21:43
Speaker 4: Messy in the mud, and it was like a pilgrimage
21:46
Speaker 4: for a lot of people to go to Dave.
21:47
Speaker 2: If it does rain, you will be in the mud
21:49
Speaker 2: at Alpine.
21:50
Speaker 3: Well, and that was the thing, because it had rained
21:52
Speaker 3: earlier in the day, So I knew I was walking
21:55
Speaker 3: into the mud pit. But the other reason why I
21:57
Speaker 3: still kick myself for not going, not only because I
21:59
Speaker 3: miss Willie Nelson, but I was going with Pipe Bomb.
22:02
Speaker 2: Hey, now.
22:03
Speaker 3: Now, that would have been an experience more in and
22:07
Speaker 3: of itself just to be at a show with Pipe Bomb.
22:09
Speaker 2: That's why I think it might have been the bigger
22:11
Speaker 2: L for me.
22:12
Speaker 1: I would love to join you if you go to
22:14
Speaker 1: a show. He's a big fan. follower of a band
22:16
Speaker 1: I love, Blackberry Smoke, and we always talk.
22:18
Speaker 2: About going to a show together. Really? Because he loves
22:21
Speaker 2: some tough bands, man. Tough, I mean hard. Well, yeah.
22:25
Speaker 2: Pipe has got a beautiful musical taste, though.
22:29
Speaker 3: He loves hard screamo music, but he really likes old-school
22:33
Speaker 3: country music. He's got a very, very fun wide spectrum.
22:39
Speaker 2: And he has a great collection of concert t-shirts from
22:41
Speaker 2: way back when, too. He always has a bunch of them.
22:43
Speaker 2: He's grabbing a shirt, yeah, no doubt about it. No question. Yeah,
22:46
Speaker 2: you buy the shirt. Dolph, where do you come down?
22:48
Speaker 2: Where do you stand? Buy the shirt, put it on
22:51
Speaker 2: right at the show, the show you're at? No. That's
22:53
Speaker 2: a big thing.
22:53
Speaker 1: Don't wear a shirt of the band you're going to see.
22:56
Speaker 1: It's lame. I, yeah, I was the guy that was
22:58
Speaker 1: buying the ripoff shirts on the street corners. I walked
23:01
Speaker 1: in as a kid, but now, I mean, you go
23:03
Speaker 1: to a, you'll pay 50 to $ 60 for a concert t-shirt.
23:07
Speaker 2: It's wild. It's nuts. It's kind of like sports memorabilia. Yeah.
23:10
Speaker 2: And that's why I prefer the ones on the outside
23:13
Speaker 2: of the street.
23:13
Speaker 3: Like, because those generally the, uh, the guys at every
23:17
Speaker 3: sporting event that says be, I'm a, whatever the team is.
23:21
Speaker 3: Right now, it's I'm a badger or I'm a packer.
23:24
Speaker 3: And then they'll have just random shirts. The best place
23:26
Speaker 3: for those now are NASCAR races because they'll throw everything
23:31
Speaker 3: out there as you're walking in. But I my wife
23:34
Speaker 3: was a huge concert shirt. fan, especially the Backstreet Boys ones. Yeah,
23:39
Speaker 3: that's it. But they did finally hit the price point
23:43
Speaker 3: where I think it was $ 55 when we walked by
23:45
Speaker 3: and she goes, there's no chance I'm doing it.
23:48
Speaker 4: Concert shirts are getting crazy just because they know the
23:50
Speaker 4: commodity of them now. And people use them obviously for
23:53
Speaker 4: a memory, but they resell it and you know.
23:56
Speaker 2: How it goes.
23:56
Speaker 1: It's also the way bands make money because they don't
23:59
Speaker 1: sell records anymore. Do you see that if you go
24:02
Speaker 1: to a show now, I mean, Forget about what you're
24:05
Speaker 1: paying for the show.
24:06
Speaker 2: Hotel, gas money, souvenirs. Beers are going to run you
24:09
Speaker 2: a ridiculous amount of money. Well, that's the thing.
24:10
Speaker 4: If you're going to drink or eat, I mean, it's
24:12
Speaker 4: obviously a lot of money now. Any ball game or
24:14
Speaker 4: any concert.
24:15
Speaker 2: Or anything like that.
24:16
Speaker 1: They showed at NFL stadiums last week, you guys see
24:19
Speaker 1: those numbers in the last 10 years, how much beer
24:21
Speaker 1: has gone up. It's like 336% at an NFL game
24:23
Speaker 1: just to get a beer. Cleveland, beer was $ 5 in
24:24
Speaker 1: 2016 or 2017.
24:25
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Now it's $ 13, something like that.
24:33
Speaker 4: Well, the fact that it was only $ 5 is amazing. Now,
24:35
Speaker 4: isn't Atlanta the one place where they keep the prices low?
24:37
Speaker 5: Yes.
24:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is it still the Mercedes-Benz? Yes. Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
24:42
Speaker 1: They still sell a $ 5 beer and like a $ 2
24:46
Speaker 1: hot dog in Atlanta. Well, my buddy, Burt Lauderdale, started
24:51
Speaker 1: talking about this, and I thought it was urban legend
24:53
Speaker 1: at first. Section 420 at American Family Field, the upper
24:59
Speaker 1: concourse behind Old Plate.
25:00
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. They sell cans of hams for $ 5. They still do.
25:04
Speaker 2: They still do. It's the one stand.
25:06
Speaker 5: Wow.
25:07
Speaker 2: A 12-ounce can of hams. Five bucks. I love that.
25:09
Speaker 2: I can't believe I don't know this.
25:10
Speaker 1: He told me that, and I'm like, oh, you've got
25:11
Speaker 1: to be kidding me. Okay, I'm glad you brought that up, Drew.
25:14
Speaker 1: And Channel 12 did a story on it because it's
25:16
Speaker 1: not rumor. It's not an urban legend.
25:17
Speaker 4: What?
25:18
Speaker 2: News you can use.
25:19
Speaker 3: We don't totally want everybody to know about it, but
25:21
Speaker 3: we do got it here.
25:22
Speaker 5: Yes.
25:22
Speaker 2: You know, Bert worked here for a while. He was
25:25
Speaker 2: a promotions assistant. He was, I know. Yeah, back in
25:27
Speaker 2: the day. I remember when he was here. He was
25:28
Speaker 2: a great dude.
25:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a great dude. He went to high
25:30
Speaker 1: school with my daughter, actually. Anyway, enough about Burt. Local weatherman, influencer,
25:38
Speaker 1: rising star. He's the face of Oktoberfest coming up at
25:41
Speaker 1: the Summerfest.
25:42
Speaker 3: He's got to have one of those hats that they
25:44
Speaker 3: just gave away at the Brewers game.
25:46
Speaker 2: That Oktoberfest hat is a good one to have.
25:49
Speaker 1: He's got the lederhosen and stuff. He's of German descent.
25:51
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Parks on the golf courses. Can of hams
25:55
Speaker 1: is half price of any other... tall boy that they
25:58
Speaker 1: have in the beverage cart. So it's $ 3. $ 3 for
26:02
Speaker 1: a 16-ounce hams if you're golfing in Milwaukee County.
26:04
Speaker 2: Amazing tip. Hams must be getting some deals out of this.
26:08
Speaker 2: It's not a bad beer from the land of sky blue.
26:09
Speaker 2: I was going to say, it's not the worst one
26:11
Speaker 2: that you've ever had. It's cold. Golfing, I remember the
26:13
Speaker 2: bear in the cartoon. Oh, yeah. I love those cartoons.
26:16
Speaker 2: That's a very Minneapolis beer, though. Is that what it is?
26:19
Speaker 2: That's Minnesota, huh? Yeah, that's Minnesota. Oh, I always thought
26:21
Speaker 2: it was a St. Louis one. Old style. Yeah, hams
26:24
Speaker 2: is their old style kind of. Minneapolis, that's the... The
26:28
Speaker 2: hams bear.
26:30
Speaker 3: I want to say there's a deal at Fiserv before
26:33
Speaker 3: tip-off for hams, too.
26:35
Speaker 2: I love it. But you might have to buy two.
26:37
Speaker 3: Because I know I've definitely bought four hams before tip-off,
26:41
Speaker 3: simply for that reason.
26:42
Speaker 2: Because the price was definitely going.
26:43
Speaker 3: To go up.
26:44
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County, earlier this year, made the switch from hams
26:47
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee's best on the cart.
26:49
Speaker 2: The same deal. $ 3 beers. That's interesting. And people revolted.
26:52
Speaker 2: They're like, nah, I'm good, brah. Thanks. Just give me
26:55
Speaker 2: a Miller Lite. Beast ice?
26:57
Speaker 4: I love Beast. That surprised me because I thought they
27:00
Speaker 4: just liked the deal, not necessarily that it's hams.
27:02
Speaker 2: Apparently they wanted the hams back and they got it back.
27:05
Speaker 4: I guess there is an aspect to the novelty of
27:09
Speaker 4: getting hams there. If you have a cult following, but
27:11
Speaker 4: Milwaukee's best has that too. Billy, your point of the beast,
27:14
Speaker 4: that's all we had in college.
27:15
Speaker 2: Especially if you want to put some hair on your chest,
27:16
Speaker 2: you grab some beast.
27:18
Speaker 1: That's why I know, Dolph, you like the logo.
27:25
Speaker 2: It's not great quality, but it's all right. Pabst Theater,
27:31
Speaker 2: you can get those big cans for $ 8. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
27:33
Speaker 2: There we go. That's a good deal. And they're big.
27:36
Speaker 2: They're silos.
27:38
Speaker 3: Mike and Racine, can of hams, $ 1 at Wells Brothers
27:41
Speaker 3: Italian Restaurant.
27:42
Speaker 2: I love that. And Racine, that's got the pizza. Pizza joint.
27:44
Speaker 4: I love that.
27:45
Speaker 2: Yeah. Go Wells Brothers.
27:48
Speaker 4: Their pizza's really good. There's some great old spots in Racine, man.
27:52
Speaker 1: So looking at these beer prices, though, Milwaukee, Pfizer Forum,
27:56
Speaker 1: American Family Field, we're kind of right in the middle
27:58
Speaker 1: of all the professional stadiums around the NFL and the NBA.
28:01
Speaker 1: We're like, I don't know where we were in baseball.
28:03
Speaker 1: I don't know, 14th, 15th in beer prices, something like that.
28:06
Speaker 1: I was surprised last year, and I'll be going again
28:08
Speaker 1: this Sunday to Soldier Field, a can of Miller Lite
28:10
Speaker 1: there was less than what it is at American Family Field.
28:13
Speaker 2: You would think Chicago would be a little more. It
28:15
Speaker 2: was close in price, but it was a little more.
28:17
Speaker 3: Well, and maybe it was just because they knew that
28:20
Speaker 3: people were going to have to drink so much to
28:22
Speaker 3: be able to watch them and have to put up
28:24
Speaker 3: with it.
28:24
Speaker 2: That's probably what it was, Billy.
28:25
Speaker 3: Got to be more excited walking into Soldier Field after
28:28
Speaker 3: watching that 59-point outburst.
28:29
Speaker 2: This year I'm going to get stuck because they're playing better.
28:31
Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, you will.
28:33
Speaker 1: So the county courses, what's the price now? Three bucks
28:35
Speaker 1: for a tall boy of hams.
28:37
Speaker 4: All right.
28:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, while supplies last, and it doesn't always last. In
28:40
Speaker 2: the beverages.
28:41
Speaker 4: We talk a lot about the last time the Packers
28:43
Speaker 4: lost this main row was 1990. A cup of stadium
28:47
Speaker 4: beer was $ 2 or $ 2. 50 at the stadium in 1990
28:50
Speaker 4: at Lambeau Field.
28:51
Speaker 2: Sure, it was that. That was a cup.
28:52
Speaker 1: It was that wax cup that they would put this
28:54
Speaker 1: plastic wrap over the top of.
28:55
Speaker 2: Sport service. That said beer.
28:58
Speaker 1: You're making me flash back to the old days of
29:00
Speaker 1: the prefix at the Nomad on the east side on
29:03
Speaker 1: Brady Street. It was five bucks for a shot of Jameson,
29:06
Speaker 1: a can of Pabst, and they would give you a cigarette.
29:07
Speaker 2: I was going to say in a smoke. Oh, that's
29:08
Speaker 2: freaking awesome. You know what? That reminds me.
29:12
Speaker 1: They got rid of the cigarette when the smoking ban
29:14
Speaker 1: came in, but they still kept.
29:15
Speaker 2: The shot and beer deal. That's the best deal ever.
29:18
Speaker 2: And you get a freaking lung dart. I love it.
29:21
Speaker 3: The best was when you get that dart and then
29:22
Speaker 3: you walk outside. Billy, I didn't know you smoked. No,
29:24
Speaker 3: I just needed to cool down.
29:26
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a free cig. What do you want me
29:28
Speaker 2: to do? Come on. Nashville prices have gotten ridiculous on
29:32
Speaker 2: lower Broadway in Nashville. It is.
29:34
Speaker 1: However, Robert's Western World, I think this deal, you can
29:38
Speaker 1: still get a can of Pabst and a fried bologna
29:41
Speaker 1: sandwich with some potato chips for $ 6.
29:44
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good deal. That's a pretty good deal.
29:46
Speaker 2: Come on, now. Robert's has always had the best prices
29:48
Speaker 2: down there. The recession special, it's still there. It is good.
29:52
Speaker 2: And a moon pie. And a moon pie. Hunter's going
29:56
Speaker 2: to join us.
29:57
Speaker 1: Speaking of beers and stuff, I made a joke earlier
29:59
Speaker 1: on social media that the Brewers are going to have
30:01
Speaker 1: an Iron City shower tonight, like an Iron City champagne celebration.
30:06
Speaker 1: If they clinch tonight, if the Cubs lose and the
30:08
Speaker 1: Brewers win, the magic number's two. So at some point
30:11
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, you would think, with Miz pitching and Henderson,
30:13
Speaker 1: that they might take care of business in Pittsburgh.
30:15
Speaker 2: So Hunter is there.
30:17
Speaker 1: And they got the plastic in the lockers, and I think,
30:20
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember how the mechanics of it was
30:22
Speaker 1: that some teams will, like the visiting clubhouse guy will
30:25
Speaker 1: provide cases of champagne for a celebration because they got to,
30:28
Speaker 1: you know, or do teams travel with it? I think
30:31
Speaker 1: in the past, the brewers might've done both. They might've
30:32
Speaker 1: traveled with champagne when they thought.
30:34
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question.
30:35
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just buy a couple of bucks at
30:39
Speaker 1: the visiting clubhouse guy and have him pick it up?
30:40
Speaker 1: That's generally the easiest thing, but they have a lot
30:43
Speaker 1: of room on the plane and stuff. You would know
30:45
Speaker 1: this being a beat writer for as long as you were.
30:47
Speaker 1: Were there levels of celebratory Beverages, like if you clenched
30:51
Speaker 1: a spot, was it just beer or did it go
30:54
Speaker 1: up to champagne.
30:55
Speaker 2: At a certain point?
30:56
Speaker 1: It's champagne unless they started to do it and they sponsor,
30:59
Speaker 1: like Budweiser sponsored.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Spray Budweiser all over. And the Cardinals always had Budweiser
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Speaker 1: when they won it.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: The Budweiser endorsement. I remember a lot more prevalent when
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Speaker 3: the giants started winning, like in like the 2010s and
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Speaker 3: Baumgartner was trying to hold as many of them in
31:15
Speaker 3: his hand as he possibly could. But probably for when
31:17
Speaker 3: you started seeing some clinches, the world series, that's when
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Speaker 3: the real good stuff came out.
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Speaker 2: Well, in the, in the lake or maybe once the media.
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Speaker 1: Got out of there, that's my buddies, my running mates
31:25
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Pedro Gomez, may he rest in peace.
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Speaker 2: And Steve Kettman, we learned.
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Speaker 1: When Cleveland was good and they had these champagne celebrations,
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Speaker 1: we would pick up corks off the floor and take
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Speaker 1: them to our favorite bar in Cleveland and give them
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Speaker 1: to the owner.
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Speaker 2: He would give us free drinks. Oh, that's awesome. Sweet. Thanks, man.
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Speaker 1: Here it is, right from the celebration. And now everybody
31:42
Speaker 1: does that. We kind of started a trend. Genius, yes.
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Speaker 1: Because it's garbage, right? You're not taking a T-shirt. I
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Speaker 1: would never take a T-shirt. can of beer or anything
31:53
Speaker 1: from their celebration but i cork off the floor as
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Speaker 1: a little memento i give them the fans and stuff
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Speaker 1: i would give them to people that i knew in
31:59
Speaker 1: the stands.
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Speaker 4: People i knew people like a buddy of mine got
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Speaker 4: an andre empty andre bottle that that's the champagne they're
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Speaker 4: using in 08 when the brewer celebrated it and they
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Speaker 4: had and gear my moto was on the dugout dancing
32:10
Speaker 4: so it was the cheapest champagne you could get which
32:12
Speaker 4: makes sense because you're just you know pouring.
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Speaker 1: It out exactly dumping around for sure excuse me what
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Speaker 1: i have at new year's eve at my house.
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Speaker 2: Andre What is it, a three-buck truck? I love that stuff.
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Speaker 2: I think it's six or seven now. For the pink
32:23
Speaker 2: duck or whatever they call it. Oh, my God.
32:26
Speaker 4: Hey, man, it doesn't matter, you know, but that's the
32:28
Speaker 4: same thing. It's like you think, okay, well, we're just
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Speaker 4: going to dump it. We're just going to dump it.
32:31
Speaker 4: We're not going to get the good stuff.
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Speaker 2: Might as well get beer. Now, I wonder if there's
32:35
Speaker 2: like a... And beer's not going to burn your eyes, right?
32:37
Speaker 2: That's true. It's not going to be as painful. Is
32:39
Speaker 2: there like a handshake agreement in Pittsburgh?
32:40
Speaker 3: Like, hey, you know, guys, we do have to play
32:42
Speaker 3: in here the next two days, so let's take it
32:44
Speaker 3: easy on the carpet.
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Speaker 2: Why don't we go hang out in the hallway or something?
32:48
Speaker 5: No.
32:49
Speaker 2: Did you change your wardrobe when you would cover those? No,
32:51
Speaker 2: I just learned how to.
32:52
Speaker 1: worked the periphery of the room head on a swivel
32:54
Speaker 1: and i stayed dry for the most part almost always.
32:58
Speaker 3: A couple of little splashes that's just that's better for
33:00
Speaker 3: the story but yeah.
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Speaker 4: But now i guess yeah you have raincoats and stuff
33:04
Speaker 4: we'll see how hunter's prepared next segment next uh it's almost.
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Speaker 1: Like now though for me it was a badge of
33:09
Speaker 1: honor to not get wet now people want to get
33:11
Speaker 1: soaked and put it on social and say look i
33:13
Speaker 1: was there.
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Speaker 2: Prime time never doused you with uh Never. No, I never.
33:17
Speaker 2: You never got McCarver. Real man, Dion. You're a real man, Dion.
33:23
Speaker 2: I did those.
33:23
Speaker 1: Every year I covered the Brewers, they weren't going to
33:25
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I went every year, and I covered multiple rounds.
33:28
Speaker 1: So I was in those things. I would see a
33:30
Speaker 1: dozen a year I'd be in these champagne cellies and stuff.
33:32
Speaker 1: Those Cleveland teams are so damn good. It's amazing they
33:35
Speaker 1: didn't have more celebrations. They didn't win a World Series.
33:38
Speaker 1: I said it to Davey Nelson when he was around
33:40
Speaker 1: because he was their first baseman. That's the best team
33:41
Speaker 1: I ever saw, top to bottom. And they never won
33:43
Speaker 1: a World Series.
33:44
Speaker 2: They had a great pitching staff, too. Great pitching staff.
33:46
Speaker 2: The offense, though. Kenny Lofton. Dave Justice. Roberto Alomar. Jim Tomey.
33:52
Speaker 3: Jim Tomey.
33:52
Speaker 2: Up and down. Yeah. They had dudes. And they never
33:55
Speaker 2: won it. Was Richie Sexton there yet? No, I don't
33:57
Speaker 2: think so.
33:57
Speaker 4: Richie Sexton.
33:58
Speaker 2: Well, he got dumped. They didn't have room for him,
33:59
Speaker 2: Sean Casey, and Jeremy Burnett. Jeez. They were trading them
34:02
Speaker 2: all away. Those were the guys who couldn't crack the roster.
34:05
Speaker 2: Nice lineup right there. Yeah, I mean, Manny Ramirez and
34:08
Speaker 2: Albert Bell were the corner outfielders. Yeah, Man Ram. I
34:11
Speaker 2: wish I had Albert Bell. Kenny Lofton. You don't think
34:12
Speaker 2: I wish I had Albert Bell? 95 Indians were 144,
34:14
Speaker 2: so think about that.
34:16
Speaker 4: Wow.
34:16
Speaker 2: Because it was a strike short year. It was a
34:18
Speaker 2: strike year. Yeah, it was incredible. Those teams were scoring
34:21
Speaker 2: runs like nobody else. And they lost to the Braves.
34:23
Speaker 2: Was it 1-0 in the seventh game of the World Series?
34:26
Speaker 2: Something like that. Well, then May said 97, wasn't it? Yeah.
34:30
Speaker 4: The funny thing about the 97ers, they didn't win that.
34:31
Speaker 4: They won like 80-some, but they still won the Central.
34:33
Speaker 2: They won the Central. The Brewers were in the mix
34:35
Speaker 2: for a while. Lost to the Marlins. They lost to
34:36
Speaker 2: the Marlins in seven games. So it's just the way
34:38
Speaker 2: it goes sometimes. They lost to the Braves. But the
34:40
Speaker 2: 95 Indians, I mean, that lineup was sick. It was sick.
34:43
Speaker 2: It was incredible. Just incredible. Ramirez, all those guys. What
34:46
Speaker 2: about the 89 Indians with, you know, all those great— Oh, absolutely.
34:50
Speaker 2: Willie Hayes and Jake Taylor. That team. I mean, Serrano
34:54
Speaker 2: cleaning up, you know, so— Hats for bats. Yes.
34:58
Speaker 3: Here I am on baseball reference quickly trying to tab
35:00
Speaker 3: over to make sure that I got the joke on
35:02
Speaker 3: the 89.
35:02
Speaker 2: Sorry, guys. I'm just trying to make sure.
35:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
35:04
Speaker 2: I barely got it. Harmon loved that. Just like a
35:06
Speaker 2: steel trap. Here you go. Here you go, guys. All right. Hey.
35:11
Speaker 5: Championship locker room. Broadcasters never like it. It burns. It smells.
35:14
Speaker 5: It ruins your clothes. Last night, Deion Sanders apparently upset
35:18
Speaker 5: with Tim McCarver's criticisms of his two sport day last Sunday.
35:22
Speaker 5: felt like he would gain a measure of revenge, not
35:24
Speaker 5: with champagne, but by dousing McCarver with four tubs of
35:28
Speaker 5: ice water. McCarver was furious. So was CBS Sports. Rick Gentile,
35:32
Speaker 5: their producer, complained to National League president Bill White last night.
35:36
Speaker 5: McCarver wants a meeting with White as soon as he
35:38
Speaker 5: can get one. And after this confrontation... Tim McCarver confronted Sanders.
35:45
Speaker 2: McCarver's right here. I got something for you. You are
35:47
Speaker 2: a real man. You know that?
35:48
Speaker 3: You are a real man, Dion.
35:52
Speaker 2: I'll say that. Tim McCarver. Hey, kids, we used to
35:57
Speaker 2: have National League and American League presidents, too. Did you
35:59
Speaker 2: hear that reference? That's one of the best references in there.
36:02
Speaker 2: Very true. That was the thing. Armin, who won the
36:04
Speaker 2: Luke Bryan tickets? Eric from Plymouth. All right, Eric. He's
36:07
Speaker 2: won stuff before. Way to go, Eric. Well done. He's
36:10
Speaker 2: going to enjoy that show. Dolph, thank you for coming in.
36:12
Speaker 2: Always a treat. See you tomorrow. Hunter joins us about
36:14
Speaker 2: an hour from right now. You're in the huddle.
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Speaker 4: I should be upset that the chili yesterday that we ate,
36:57
Speaker 4: because I told you guys I was going to make
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Speaker 4: a loser chili because there's no victory chicken Monday. But
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Speaker 4: then my wife made it, and it was much better
37:05
Speaker 4: than mine. So now I really feel like a loser. Now,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I already knew my chili wasn't good, but
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Speaker 4: I tried to take a special pride in the fact
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Speaker 4: that I made chili. And Laura made one that was
37:15
Speaker 4: much better than mine. And now I'm just like– Now.
37:17
Speaker 2: You just realized you are a loser.
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Speaker 4: I'm a loser for real. I should get out of
37:21
Speaker 4: the chili game altogether. And I do appreciate that. I mean,
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Speaker 4: my daughter loved it. I mean, this is great.
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Speaker 2: Okay, great. Yeah, she's eating it. Wow. Everyone loves it.
37:29
Speaker 2: Everyone loves mom's chili better than dad.
37:31
Speaker 4: If I can't get one good chili going at some
37:33
Speaker 4: point in my life, what am I doing here? So–
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Speaker 4: Buy or sell, I should really just stop making it
37:38
Speaker 4: at this point and let.
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Speaker 2: My wife take care of it. I think you should probably, yeah.
37:41
Speaker 1: You should find something else that you do well and
37:44
Speaker 1: then just funnel your energy into that.
37:46
Speaker 2: And Billy, what you've done with your smoking, you know, meats.
37:50
Speaker 1: Armand, your thing should be making pancakes on Saturday mornings
37:53
Speaker 1: for the fam.
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Speaker 2: That's the best one.
37:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am good at breakfast. I feel I am
37:58
Speaker 3: good at breakfast. And it's also the place where dad
38:01
Speaker 3: can flex a little bit. Now, you don't have to
38:03
Speaker 3: be one of these TikTok dads going out here doing
38:06
Speaker 3: the freaking pancake art, okay? I don't want to see
38:09
Speaker 3: you coming out with three different squirt bottles of the
38:11
Speaker 3: different food dye to make bluey on the pancake.
38:15
Speaker 2: I know. See, exactly. But you know what Armin Sarian
38:17
Speaker 2: can do?
38:18
Speaker 3: You could make a big circle pancake with a couple
38:21
Speaker 3: of little small ones up there, and all of a sudden,
38:22
Speaker 3: Mickey Mouse is up there.
38:23
Speaker 2: There you go. Right?
38:24
Speaker 3: Like, you very much could, and this is the one
38:26
Speaker 3: that I've been able to do, a couple of blueberries
38:29
Speaker 3: around with the circle.
38:30
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, boom, we got baseball pancake.
38:32
Speaker 3: Those are the very easy wins that you should be
38:36
Speaker 3: trying to occupy instead of going for some big swing, Drew,
38:39
Speaker 3: like chili.
38:40
Speaker 2: That's a tough thing for our point of view.
38:41
Speaker 1: When my daughter was young, she thought I was a
38:42
Speaker 1: genius cook because when she wanted a snack, I would
38:44
Speaker 1: take a tortilla and throw a piece of string cheese
38:46
Speaker 1: in it, throw it in the microwave for 15 seconds,
38:49
Speaker 1: and she had this roll-ups, and she's like.
38:50
Speaker 2: This is the best. That makes the best snacks. Yeah,
38:54
Speaker 2: a lot of culinary training. You should wait for Dad's nachos, too.
38:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of culinary training there. I used to
39:00
Speaker 1: make her nachos and put like chocolate chips on them too,
39:03
Speaker 1: which she really liked.
39:03
Speaker 2: That's a game changer. Yes. Game changer. See, and that's
39:06
Speaker 2: exactly it. Salty, sweet.
39:08
Speaker 3: You need to be tying in with the one thing
39:10
Speaker 3: guys definitely do well. We got a better tooth. We
39:12
Speaker 3: got better taste buds and a better tooth than most women.
39:15
Speaker 3: So we do know a lot of times what is
39:17
Speaker 3: going to taste good for the youngsters.
39:19
Speaker 2: Armand's disappointed with his chili.
39:21
Speaker 1: I was disappointed with my culinary efforts last night making
39:24
Speaker 1: some smash burgers, but I take no blame for it.
39:28
Speaker 1: My wife purchased the ground beef for my smash burgers,
39:31
Speaker 1: and she got the proper 80-20 mixture.
39:33
Speaker 2: 80-20, yep.
39:35
Speaker 1: The beef was like bad. Is this the Argentinian beef?
39:38
Speaker 1: Is this horse meat? I think we're in a bad spot.
39:40
Speaker 1: Did you just get hosed? I think we're in a
39:42
Speaker 1: bad spot. I think we're importing beef or something because
39:45
Speaker 1: it was not good.
39:45
Speaker 2: That's what I do too. It wasn't as good as usual. Yeah,
39:47
Speaker 2: I think the meat was wrong. I did it wrong.
39:49
Speaker 1: I'm straight up because I've made some incredible smash burgers.
39:53
Speaker 2: I've had a run this summer. But last night's effort
39:55
Speaker 2: was like, ah, this isn't good.
39:57
Speaker 3: We went cold. We went with the pot pie. So
40:00
Speaker 3: I went similar with Arm, and I was like, ah.
40:03
Speaker 3: I felt the first little chill in the air, and
40:05
Speaker 3: we're like capitalizing on it. Fill me up with something
40:09
Speaker 3: pumpkin in my coffee cup in the morning and give
40:12
Speaker 3: me some pot pie or a chili or something.
40:14
Speaker 1: I didn't really have a ramp up because I kind
40:16
Speaker 1: of let my wife be in charge of the climate
40:18
Speaker 1: controls to a point.
40:19
Speaker 2: She likes it 74. No. Air conditioning. Come on. Mine's
40:22
Speaker 2: the opposite. I like it warmer.
40:24
Speaker 1: But she, I mean, we went from having the air
40:27
Speaker 1: conditioning on to opening up the house, and the first
40:29
Speaker 1: day the house is open, she's like, it's too cold
40:30
Speaker 1: in here.
40:32
Speaker 2: We got to close up the windows. I'm like, no,
40:33
Speaker 2: I want the fresh air. It's just beautiful. Let's get
40:35
Speaker 2: a little breeze.
40:36
Speaker 4: Come on.
40:36
Speaker 2: Come on. Get some Iron Jock hoodie, and you'll be fine.
40:39
Speaker 3: Get to the sweet spot. We just went right from
40:42
Speaker 3: one extreme to the other. I was going to say,
40:43
Speaker 3: it became blanket season real quick. Then we had that
40:46
Speaker 3: storm last night that snuck up on us, and the
40:47
Speaker 3: dog woke me up.
40:48
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. All right, coming up.
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Speaker 1: More buy and sell propositions and Hunter Baumgart live from Pittsburgh.
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