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08/31/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Dominating a monday in the good land it's the huddle
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  Speaker 1: to you our cup runneth over packers news aplenty with
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  Speaker 1: the final cuts some trades some ir moves and the
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  Speaker 1: josh jacobs to the commissioner's exemplars brewers winning a series
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  Speaker 1: against the rangers losing on the getaway game Cubs, losing
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  Speaker 1: to the reds last night, setting the stage for seven
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  Speaker 1: games in 10 days between the rivals beginning tonight, opener
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  Speaker 1: of a four game series at Wrigley field with a
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  Speaker 1: playoff like atmosphere and perhaps playoff implications. Yeah, definitely. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have some in drew.
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  Speaker 2: I know Murph mentioned it yesterday at the presser with
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  Speaker 2: the boys that there's, there's something good to the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: We heard it in hunters breakdown in the first hour.
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  Speaker 2: they went there last year and Murph mentioned it pretty
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  Speaker 2: much all off season long that after that playoff series,
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  Speaker 2: going down to Wrigley, having those two road games in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: Good for us. It drained us.
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  Speaker 2: He talked about how draining that series was not only
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  Speaker 2: from their pitching standpoint, but just emotionally all that went
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  Speaker 2: into it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's.
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  Speaker 2: Something good to be able to go down there in
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  Speaker 2: the month of September and, get some playoff vibes rolling
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  Speaker 2: especially for a team that's got going to be counting
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  Speaker 2: upon at some point two rookies to be playing big
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  Speaker 2: moments for them now i don't i don't know how
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  Speaker 2: much cooper pratt's going to be a shortstop come playoff
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  Speaker 2: time or if that's going to be joey ortiz and
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  Speaker 2: we roll with some guys that are a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more uh with some more veteran status maybe luis lara
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  Speaker 2: he's cut back on uh in the playoffs now that
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  Speaker 2: you have sal freela coming back but For a team, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to have to play a lot of young
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  Speaker 2: dudes that haven't been in that atmosphere. They got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys that played a lot of playoff baseball,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. But it's a good thing to
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  Speaker 2: get the feet wet in that hornet's nest of Wrigley
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  Speaker 2: because the friendly confines are not going to be friendly
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  Speaker 2: to them coming up these next couple of days unless
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  Speaker 2: they do what they did back in May.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unless they may turn it friendly. But you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be that playoff kind of feel, atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: Might not feel like it weather-wise, but it's going to
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  Speaker 3: start to turn to fall soon. And to get that
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  Speaker 3: experience will be pretty good for these guys. A couple
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  Speaker 3: comments on this series. This is Steve on the NickLayLaw.com
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  Speaker 3: talking tech slam.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get some techs in here. Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, I think we'll be okay if we win
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  Speaker 3: three out of seven against the Cubs. But we have
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  Speaker 3: to sweep the Reds as well then. So we go
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  Speaker 3: six of ten.
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  Speaker 1: Go Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's a high threshold. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if we have to do it, but it would be
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  Speaker 3: nice to get those wins, I suppose. Derek from Whitewater,
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  Speaker 3: PCA comes up to bat with two out and a
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  Speaker 3: guy in second. Forget walking, put one in his ribs.
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  Speaker 3: Get something started up, maybe a little juice.
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  Speaker 2: A little action, rattle their cage. That was KB's thing
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  Speaker 2: with Contreras, right? He would make him wear it every
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  Speaker 2: single game.
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  Speaker 1: He now drills PCA every time. Every time, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The only bad thing is Contreras, you didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about stealing how many bags once he gets on there.
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  Speaker 2: But he is to the point where he is going
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  Speaker 2: to be for a long time. He just re-upped, what,
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  Speaker 2: eight-year contract they signed him in the offseason? Something massive.
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  Speaker 2: He's a dude that is a lot of fun. He
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  Speaker 2: would be a lot of fun to cheer for on
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  Speaker 2: your team. He's a lot of fun to dislike on
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  Speaker 2: the other side.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly is. But when he's rolling like this, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to find ways to be able to try to
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  Speaker 1: get him out. I do miss... For whatever reason, the
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  Speaker 1: kid bleaches his hair, but I do miss him when
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  Speaker 1: Murph called him the blue-haired kid. I like that, the
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  Speaker 1: blue-haired kid.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, 100%.
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  Speaker 1: When Murph called him the blue-haired kid. I think Murph
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  Speaker 1: still calls him the blue-haired kid because he's not letting
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  Speaker 1: that go.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say blue-haired and maybe red cheeks
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  Speaker 2: after he gets fired up coming up with a non-bought call.
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  Speaker 2: But you look at him and Churio. Those two dudes
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  Speaker 2: are going to duke it out for the next five, six,
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  Speaker 2: seven years. Churio hits his 20th bomb over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: The youngest player to have three consecutive 20 home run years.
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  Speaker 2: And he missed a month each of the last two seasons.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say that he's going to hit. Because
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  Speaker 2: PCA is going to what? He's going to hit 40
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  Speaker 2: bombs this year? He's going to go 40-40 probably. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that those numbers are exactly what Jackson's going
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  Speaker 2: to put up. But if you told me both of
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  Speaker 2: them in the next decade won an MVP, PCA is
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  Speaker 2: going to get one this year, I could very much
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  Speaker 2: see Jackson doing one. Because that's kind of like right
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  Speaker 2: now he's a damn good major league player. The next
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  Speaker 2: step for him to be is one of those. And
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  Speaker 2: he's two years younger than PCA. Two years younger, and again,
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  Speaker 2: has been now interrupted by injury twice, and has produced
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  Speaker 2: this kind of a player. I've been confused because PCA,
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  Speaker 2: of course, his parents are both actors. Mom was in
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  Speaker 2: Little Big League, Armand's favorite, one of Armand's all-time favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Mack the Horse's name is Friday. And he went to
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  Speaker 1: the exclusive Harvard-Westlake school.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Which is where, and then his team, like Lucas Giolito
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  Speaker 1: and some other guys, that was in his era. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of that big-time stuff, yeah. Privilege and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich, that's the exclusive hoity-toity private school where they
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  Speaker 1: took Harvard boys or And mixed with Westlake girls. Harvard
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  Speaker 1: Westlake School in Los Angeles. And then Yellich went to
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  Speaker 1: the public school, Westlake High School. Which is also an
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  Speaker 1: accomplished sports factory. This is a nice area, guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: by like Thousand Oaks, Westlake.
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  Speaker 3: These are nice areas. It's not like being in the slouch,
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  Speaker 3: but you're right. I think PCA's Harvard Westlake is more
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  Speaker 3: for like... Wow, this has its own Wikipedia page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Harvard School for Boys, Westlake School for Girls. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: they merged them together.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. And like, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on Wikipedia or something. They bought a
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  Speaker 1: neighboring golf course to add it to their campus and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you were spot on. It was Lucas Giolito, Max Freed,
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  Speaker 2: and Jack Flaherty. So this was that school. They were
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  Speaker 2: all three on that rotation together.
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  Speaker 1: And so PCA was in high school doing his stuff
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  Speaker 1: at Harvard-Westlake, which is a really good top-flight high school
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  Speaker 1: baseball program there. The year Yellich was winning the MVP in, like, 18-17.
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  Speaker 1: He's laying against him in his MVP year.
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  Speaker 2: And Yelich is obviously towards the back end, but hopefully
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  Speaker 2: he's playing a little bit better. He swung the battle
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  Speaker 2: a lot better here in the back half of the
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  Speaker 2: month of August, right? I mean, the numbers are a
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  Speaker 2: lot different for Yelich at this point. He had that
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  Speaker 2: stretch where he was.
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  Speaker 1: hitting ball hard and not getting anything and then now
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  Speaker 1: he's starting to come through he's starting to.
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  Speaker 2: Come he had two what 60 uh what do we
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  Speaker 2: have on the numbers on friday night he had a
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  Speaker 2: 40 mile an hour exit velocity base hit and a
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  Speaker 2: 60 mile an hour yeah that big.
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  Speaker 3: Old looper and he's been due for some good luck
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  Speaker 3: but he is getting better his war is back into
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  Speaker 3: the positive for the first time in like a month
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  Speaker 3: there we go so that's big for us and i
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  Speaker 3: and uh murph said he was working on it till
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  Speaker 3: 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Have you guys heard that? On the parking lot?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that stuff. I mean, Murph, I love
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. You know that I eat that all up.
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  Speaker 3: And Murph is really trying to pump him up in
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  Speaker 3: that sense. But hopefully he catches a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a groove here.
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice.
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  Speaker 3: And Mike talking about the PCH or your thing. Long-term,
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  Speaker 3: I'll take Churio over PCA. More complete player, in my opinion. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're both pretty complete players. I mean, PCA's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: good player.
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  Speaker 1: He's putting up the best defensive numbers of any center
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  Speaker 1: fielder in history. I mean, I would say he's absolutely good. Churio,
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  Speaker 1: there were two balls in yesterday's game that Churio probably
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  Speaker 1: should have caught. Yeah, Churio probably had. But Mike's caping
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  Speaker 1: up for his guy. Glad we're on the capetrain. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the passion, but let's not be delusional. PCA is
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  Speaker 1: a complete player right now. That's part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: he's MVP. That's why he's going to win him. His
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  Speaker 1: defense is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But I saw the numbers Buster only put him out
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of seconds ago. Because the Otani factor
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  Speaker 2: is him pitching is always going to be a tough
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  Speaker 2: thing to be able to best. Since Otani threw his
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  Speaker 2: last pitch, he's hit seven more bombs than His weighted
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  Speaker 2: runs created plus, which I think like the baseline is
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  Speaker 2: 100 for everybody because that evens out all the ballparks
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  Speaker 2: that you play throughout.
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  Speaker 1: He's got 50 more points.
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  Speaker 2: He's got seven more steals, 12 more runs driven in,
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  Speaker 2: almost 20 more runs scored, all since he.
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  Speaker 1: Threw his last pitch.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a crazy runaway with the award in a
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  Speaker 2: time where I thought it was just going to take
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  Speaker 2: Otani fatigue for anybody to win.
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  Speaker 1: It over the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Time for our current electric superhero of the day.
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  Speaker 2: How about the return of one man that we've only
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  Speaker 2: had to sit here and listen to and wait for for,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, the last month. Congratulations, Les Snead. You're
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  Speaker 2: able to pull it off. Our superhero of the day
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  Speaker 2: is the returning Aaron Donald. Comes back off of two
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  Speaker 2: years missed, one year, $ 20 million contract. 30 million possibility,
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  Speaker 2: and he has now completely changed the game, Drew, for
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  Speaker 2: the Rams to be the Super Bowl betting favorites to
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  Speaker 2: win it because they were already an overwhelming favorite at
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: plus 600. After the news of yesterday, they go to
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: plus 550 at the Potawatomi Sportsbook. They clearly needed some help.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: The Rams clearly needed some help on that defense because
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: I just don't know how they were going to stop
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: anybody after acquiring Trent McDuffie in the offseason, picking up
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett. I don't know how they were going to
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  Speaker 2: get any stops. For the MVP of the league. Now, luckily,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald comes. Adding Aaron Donald back, and he's still
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  Speaker 2: a physical freak.
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  Speaker 3: His practice for free for how many weeks, too?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he basically was just there. Just hanging out. Existing.
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  Speaker 1: Just hanging out. Don't worry about it, guys. I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Like the shock. Oh, shocking is coming back. Like nobody
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  Speaker 1: could figure that one out.
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  Speaker 2: They waited until cut down day. They announced the deal.
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  Speaker 2: He basically did the exact same thing in McVay's first
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  Speaker 2: two years, right? Because he was holding out at the
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  Speaker 2: time and signed his deal on August 31st in McVay's
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  Speaker 2: first year, I think August 28th or something. in the
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  Speaker 2: next year after he held out that time. So they
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of time of figuring out how they want
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  Speaker 2: to ramp him up, have him ready to roll. But
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: sounds like the NFL not only going to get Miles Garrett,
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: not only going to get Matthew Stafford and everything else
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  Speaker 2: that the Rams bring out there for that 49ers and
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: LA game on Netflix, but the streaming service gets the
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  Speaker 2: boost of Aaron Donald. Maybe the greatest defensive player of
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  Speaker 2: all time. Three-time defensive player of the year. That's a,
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  Speaker 2: but he might, you know, you have, you can make
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  Speaker 2: a case, Billy. It's just when you put it that way,
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  Speaker 2: he's on the short list of greatest defensive players of
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  Speaker 2: all time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, you can make a case.
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  Speaker 2: Add it up with a guy that just broke the
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  Speaker 2: NFL sack record a year ago for a team that earned.
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  Speaker 1: A top five pick. That's a heck of a run. Congratulations, LA.
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  Speaker 1: You definitely needed the help. Definitely. So that's our current electric.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Aaron Donald thing, what can you say? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they finally got it done. You knew it was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. It was going to happen at some point.
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  Speaker 1: He sets back the meter on his Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: induction five years.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Moves back five more years. Not bothered by that. Said,
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  Speaker 2: I just saw them making all these moves. I just
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: could not be a part of it. Couldn't just not
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: be a part of it. Well, you very much could have.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: You could have just sat back at home and hung
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  Speaker 2: out and waited.
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  Speaker 1: Could have skipped it.
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  Speaker 2: Could have become a great ambassador for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Hell, Aaron, you could have done the games.
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  Speaker 2: You could have joined their TV broadcast that had freaking
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Brenda song on it.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: The other.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that the team that is the favorite
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  Speaker 2: to win the championship was going to have London tipped
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  Speaker 2: in calling their name.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Brenda song. And she was
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  Speaker 3: also in the social network as a young lad.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot of things you could have been
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  Speaker 2: doing here. You didn't have to play, but he decided
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  Speaker 2: that he wanted to. So I guess that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I will say right now, my favorite value bet on the,
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  Speaker 2: at the Pottawatomie sports book is the plus three 70 Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Not make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good bet. If it was an injury to
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  Speaker 1: not make it? Why not?
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: Somebody last year was beating the drum all year long
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  Speaker 2: about how they were going to go under their win total.
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  Speaker 2: I know that bet didn't cash over there. Am I
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  Speaker 2: making the same mistake?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, Stafford was sleeping in a RV in the
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  Speaker 2: team parking lot because they didn't know if he was
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  Speaker 2: going to be ready to play all year long with
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: the back injury.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I bet it. He is one poke away
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  Speaker 1: from them playing Ty Simpson.
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  Speaker 4: All year long.
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  Speaker 2: That might be a good little insurance policy. But in
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  Speaker 2: that division, that's a tough one to see.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Can still get us your game balls and
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: kicks the balls. 877-794-1973 game ball to everybody who toughed
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: it out. And we talked about like the, okay, the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Packers had a long preseason finale and people were leaving.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Brewers played a pretty ugly game yesterday, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people stayed until the end. If you toughed it
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: out and stayed through all the weather and all the
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: delays and enjoyed yourself at the Milwaukee Mile for the
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: IndyCar Series and the Snap-on races this weekend, game ball
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  Speaker 1: to you. Well deserved. We're not talking much about it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like it is back, and they did announce
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: a five-year extension, like Snap-on going to have the five-year
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: racings back at the Mile, which is great. And the
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  Speaker 1: Oval is still awesome. Watching these guys go open wheel
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  Speaker 1: three wide, perfect. But the weather sucked, and it was like,
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  Speaker 1: convoluted and they had to suspend races.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Dude, and Drew, as somebody that sat through a race
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: that encountered not one. But two rain delays down in
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  Speaker 2: Daytona a couple of years ago, that's a long day.
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  Speaker 2: And we were unable to walk across the streets of
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  Speaker 2: Pauly's and Tompkins, potentially, to get some reprieve at that moment.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long day. There were some hearty race fans
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  Speaker 2: right there.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. It is good to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be back on. Some of that fried chicken.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to draw what it used to. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that it had like– I thought, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: with the Brewers playing and the race, it would be
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  Speaker 1: massive traffic. I don't think it was– It's different, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And IndyCar is also in a much different spot than
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  Speaker 2: it was back in the day. You talked about it
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  Speaker 2: when it was at its peak, when that would be
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  Speaker 2: right after the Indianapolis 500.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're at the tail end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: There's cool.
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  Speaker 2: There's big stuff in that race in their league for
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: standing and such. But with how hot F1 is, this
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: is better. It's an American when it's right in our backyard.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully it continues to build up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I think is interesting. We need Indy to
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  Speaker 1: get the F1 TV show. Yeah, because that's really all
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  Speaker 1: it is. That's what started everything.
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  Speaker 3: And then F1 became kind of a glitterati sport, I think,
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  Speaker 3: for people to follow that are really into like. exotic
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  Speaker 3: locations and stars.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It just became the F1 boom here kind of became
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  Speaker 3: this interesting thing.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: You know what's cool about F1? Not motorsports, but it is.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Everything other than the race.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: That's what it is for people. Can you get some
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: sort of excitement for that with this open wheel? I'm
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: not really sure because I don't know if it's about
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: the racing for those people or not, but they seem
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: to follow it because they follow personalities.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: You're right, Billy.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: It's that TV show. It's that people, when they get
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: invested personally, they find a way to get into it.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: So Maybe there's a path forward for this, and then
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: maybe Milwaukee Mile can be part of it. It would
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: be great to see because that is a big legacy
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: for motorsports in this thing.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: 2031, they've got an extension.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Let's be the path, the spot that forges that path
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: forward into a new excitement.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: It is crazy, though, how much the streaming service shows
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: will impact your thinking.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Game Ball 2, Scotty Scheffler.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: By the way.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, yes.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: He won the Tour Championship this weekend. There were some
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: folks at the party that were dialed in on all
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: of the golf. So I got to watch, I probably
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: watched more golf this week than I have outside of
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: any other major.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: True throughout, throughout the year.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: But Scotty brings home a $ 10 million purse with the win.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: But like people are telling me about Colin Morikawa and
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: he kind of just dumped through on the back end
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: of the weekend. It didn't finish awfully, but all I
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: remember on Colin Morikawa, not anything he's done in games
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: or in events. solely one thing he said on that
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: netflix full swing documentary about him uh picking out the
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: outfits he wants and i was completely out and i
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: have been ever since that's what racing has done with
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: their with the visuals there and in football you see
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: it every single year with hard knocks rarely is there
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: a team that goes on hard knocks and people don't
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: immediately say.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I think they might go to the playoffs. Because you
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: believe in the story.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I think this seems a lot better than people are playing. Now,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: this year they used the Super Bowl champs, so we
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: all know the Seahawks are good. But outside of Hugh
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Jackson's Browns a number of years ago, I don't know
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: a team that was on hard knocks that people didn't
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: automatically start falling in love with.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: True.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: The closest you get on those shows and immediately you
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: got fans.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: My buddy is still convinced Fisher is the greatest coach
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: of all time in the NFL because of that one
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: speech and the speeches.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: He goes, this is what we need. You know, this
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: is every coach. I'm like, oh, he was eight and
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: eight every year. I don't know what to tell you. No,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Do you see the way he talked to these guys
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that?
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Like, it just goes to show you, like, sometimes, well,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: it goes to show you a lot of things.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: But you're right, Billy.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: We get invested in a story. Personally, it changed our opinion.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: We lose objectivity, which is okay. The Lions got a
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: lot of fans when Jared Goff was on that quarterback show.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: That's for sure.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: That's another one. I mean, hey, became likable. Kirk Cousins
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: was the first Viking I ever liked.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Only because of television. Final kick to the balls before
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: we talk to the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larrabee.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe another Tennessee Titan quarterback. Former Titan quarterback, Drew, going
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to be the third quarterback for the Packers.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Somebody now mooning the pursuit.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That's a first. Will Levis, former second-round pick, gets a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: cut yesterday.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: The mayonnaise-eating QB out of Kentucky is available on the market. Now,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: the Packers did some with Malik Willis. He was the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: third-round pick of the Titans yesterday. Maybe they put the
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: paddles to Billy Jeans and he's the third quarterback.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: We shall see. He said, onward. Our best football is
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: still ahead of me. I'd bet more of Sean Clifford
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: returned than Will Levis. We'll see.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I think they want a developmental project, though. And I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: think they might take a shot for some upside.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Will be a fascinating one. Mostly just for me to
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: be able to sing Billy Jeans.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: That's right, baby.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: He had an exciting start to his career, I thought,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Will Levis.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, then he started throwing the ball exclusively to the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: other team. Which, I mean, is not ideal.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Bold strategy, Cotton. See how it plays out. Not good.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: He somehow had the greatest highlights of turnovers of all time.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, also, I remember.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: One way or another, he would make the worst turnover
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: play you've ever seen in your entire life, seemingly every week.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: And I remember one time, there was some video highlight
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: of him during practice, and he was spinning it perfectly
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: all over the field. in gym shorts, and he looked
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: like the greatest quarterback of all time. And that made
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: me realize you can get tricked by that stuff. You think, oh, man,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I've never seen a guy throw like this. I did
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the same thing when, you know, there was a Marquette prospect,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Juan Anderson. Now, he had an okay career, played in
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the NBA, but I thought he was the next LeBron
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: when I saw his high school tape.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Turned out he wasn't playing anybody good. You just never know.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: A guy's throwing in his underwear. Juan Toscano was pretty good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Juan Toscano was better.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: When he changed his name, he made the Warriors, had
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: a year. Who was better, Giancarlo Stanton or Mike Stanton?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Who was better, David Arias or David Ortiz? I don't know.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Mike was hitting some bombs, too, before he flipped that there.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
• 18:25
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• 18:45
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• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee is going to join the program. Absolutely. Wayne Larrabee,
• 18:49
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• 18:52
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• 18:57
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• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the Monday edition of the huddle in the home stretch
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: here in what is going to be a very busy week.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And we are happy to be joined by the voice
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of the Packers, friend of the program, Wayne Larrabee joins us,
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  Speaker 1: a light. Wayne, good morning. Thanks for hanging out with us.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: After a relatively drama-free camp, the Packers yesterday had one
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of their most eventful, impactful cut-down days in memory. What
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: did you think of the way things unfolded yesterday?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, every time we go through one of these,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: there are surprises. Yes, there are surprises, but... There were
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: some twists and turns to this one, adding two tight ends,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: adding a running back, cutting a running back that I
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: kind of thought had the team made, especially if Josh
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Jacobs went on any kind of suspension approach. type list
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: or commissioner's list. So, yeah, you know, I love it
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: because there's a surprise every year.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: A couple of them.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And the running back, you mentioned, Wayne, I'm going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: be fascinated to see what happens with Pierre Strong going
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: forward and what happens with him here today after the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: cut down and waiver claims roll through. But Caleb Johnson
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: comes in. I loved him coming out of the draft
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: from Iowa. He's a physical, big, bruising back who just
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't able to catch on for whatever reason in Pittsburgh.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But you look at him and Marshawn Lloyd. We talked
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: so much about Lloyd during the preseason of got to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: shake the rust off, got to get some game reps.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: My man's going to get a ton of them.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I would assume, Wayne, because otherwise it's a lot of
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Chris Brooks blocking against a Brian Flores defense. Johnson and
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Lloyd have a combined 34 regular season carries for a
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: combined 84 yards. That doesn't lead you to pass performance
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: at that position. There's a lot of tread on the tires,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: but it just shows they're going to be with a
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: lot of inexperience and probably going to have to lean
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: on that passing game that you and I watched a
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: lot of during training camp.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Well, those numbers you mentioned are a little scary in
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: terms of experience.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: But who knows?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: You know, the only thing I can think of is
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: they must have liked Caleb Johnson as you did coming
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: out quite a bit because they had a professional running
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: back in camp in Pierre Strong Jr. Not that he
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: was going to light the world on fire or anything
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: like that. But, you know, if you needed a capable
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: back to get you a couple yards here and there,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: that kind of thing, maybe to take first and second
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: down and then you bring in Lloyd for change of pace.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: It'll be interesting to see how the backfield is structured now.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Will Marshawn Lloyd be the lead back right away? And,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: you know, because again, Caleb Johnson's getting in. He'll have
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: all of two weeks with the team to figure out
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: the offense and everything else. But that's the thing that
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: struck me about that particular transaction was they obviously like
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Caleb Johnson more than they did Pierre Strong Jr.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee joining us, the voice of the Packers here
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: in the huddle. So you look at this and we
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: don't know how long Josh Jacobs is going to be
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: out and we don't know how long Micah Parsons is
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to be out. But You think about the two
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: major guys going to be missing extended chunks for the Packers.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It almost seems like, okay, if they can just hold
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the fort until the cavalry arrives, that seems to be
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the mission now. I mean, it wasn't our mindset going
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: into the season, but now it kind of feels like it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: And it's probably going to be, you know, who knows
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: on the commissioner's exempt list what can happen there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: You don't know. But, you know, let's say they're without.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Those two players for, what, the first six weeks of
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the season, that's a tall order to hold. You know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: you're hoping you can at least come out of that
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: with a fighting chance to make a run down the stretch.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: If you come out better, all the better. But I
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: agree with what Billy said. I think now you're really
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: going to see an emphasis. I'm not saying Matt LaFleur
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: is not going to abandon the running game. Remember, the
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Packers ran it almost 29 times a game last year,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: and that's with an offensive line that was struggling. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: with Josh Jacobs, who was banged up down the stretch,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: LaFleur will, I think, still invest the time and the
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: carries in the running game. However, how productive it is
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: will determine what they need from the passing game.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: And we'll see how that all plays out.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: But Jordan Love and his group of skilled position people,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I do think they can carry the mail during this
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: period of time before Jacobs gets back if he does.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the statement or the quote that had
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Cheesehead TV and our boy Aaron Nagler all fired up was,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you're going to let them cook, right?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Well, they might.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Forced to put the chef in the kitchen might be
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the case. Now, at the feasting table, at the dinner table,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Anthony Campbell was eating all preseason long. He makes the team, Wayne...
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And so does Jonathan Ford. So does Carl Brooks. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: does seemingly the defensive tackle room. Now, Warren Brinson, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: are designated to return stack house ends up being the
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: odd man out, but they keep seven interior defensive linemen
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: only four edges. While we were talking on the perch
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: throughout training camp, I didn't know that was going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: be the mathematics of it, but maybe it was just
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Anthony Campbell and Jonathan Ford forcing their hands. Cause both
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: were really, really impressive over the last six weeks.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, Billy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: And you know, again, As we got into camp, we determined,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: and many of us who are just observers, determined they
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: probably had their most depth at defensive tackle when you
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: think about sheer numbers of players. And so, you know,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: that's obviously Goody said, hey, listen, we need to keep
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: good football players, even though we may have more at
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: this position than we really need at the moment. But
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: you never know how it's going to play out injury-wise.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: All those guys will play at some point. Jonathan Gannon's
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: going to rotate that entire defensive front throughout the ballgame.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: That's what he told us. So I think keeping a
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: few extra players there makes sense.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Well, and it also made me think this mean Edron
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Cooper finds himself on the line even more, especially in
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that first six weeks. Well, you were talking about without
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Micah Parsons there. We saw that being a possibility. and
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: something that they were looking and showing a lot during camp.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I wonder if that's one of the reasons with the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: four edges, they're going to make up with a lot
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: of it with 56 on the outside.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they very well could. I don't think we, you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: let's put it this way. In training camp practices.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: We've seen more of what they seemingly are going to
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: do with Edger and Cooper. You did not see any
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: of that for the most part of the preseason, not
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: any of it at all. But I think Koop is
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: going to be deployed to the quarterback more this year
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: than he was.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: A year ago.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Now, the temptation is if you're a defensive coordinator, you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: sitting there saying, yeah, but he's also our best coverage linebacker.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: You know, so what do you do?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, if we rush him at the quarterback, he
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: can't cover the tight end or the running back out
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: of the back, you know, that kind of thing. So
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: it's a little catch-22 in that regard, but he's such
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: a talented player. And I think he can make an
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: impact because we saw him as a first-year player, as
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: a rookie. made a nice splash plays at the quarterback.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: And I think we'll see more of that this year.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Had the Packers been on hard knocks where they love
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: an underdog story and under the radar guy who would
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: have gotten more screen time, Anthony Campbell or J. Michael Sturdivant.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Cause those are two stories on each side of the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: ball of guys that just kind of willed their way
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: onto the team.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Well, from having done TV for a long time, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: know how that would go. The wide receiver would get the,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: you see more of the wide receiver, you get better
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: shot angles on the wide receiver.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: No, the wide receivers, probably who you're going to pick
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: there but j mike had a great camp and uh
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: you know anthony campbell did too anthony campbell's one of
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: these guys just an afterthought on the roster wearing number
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: 60 playing defensive line you think okay well he's going
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: to be one of the guys cut at the end
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: and maybe if he has a good camp they'll keep
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: him on practice squad but that kid played above and
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: beyond and earned himself a spot on that line and
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: i know that had to be a tough cut on
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: stackhouse Because they invested a year in Nazir Stackhouse, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: he is a capable run defender. And I think if
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: they possibly can, they'll get him back on practice squad.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: That would surprise me if he's not back on practice squad.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Were you surprised at all that it was J.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Michael Sturdivant and the money that they paid him as
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: a priority free agent after the draft over a guy
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: like Will Shepard who had a punt return for a touchdown?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: We haven't seen that since maybe the Reagan administration here.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think that has to do with who's
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: going to actually return punts and kicks in the regular season.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: It's not going to be that guy.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Will Shepard was not going to be doing that because
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: you have both Sky Moore and Jaden Reed to do that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: So I think that that was a nice touch. And
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I think they'd like to keep, you know, again, keep
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: that wide receiver on the practice squad if they could.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: But Will had an excellent camp, and there's no doubt
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: about that. But they can't keep them all.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Wayne, it seems like a month ago, but Friday
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: night was a pretty good show for a preseason finale,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and it was the Kyle McCord show. Very entertaining preseason game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: When you see 80 points in a preseason game, that's something.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And then it's kind of shocking that the Packers traded
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Kyle McCord, and he's going to be a number two
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: quarterback someplace. It's just that turn of events, that churn
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was just like dizzying to me.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is. He was developing so quickly in
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Green Bay.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting because obviously they traded a sixth
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: round draft choice in 2028 to get the running back.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: So they get the sixth round draft choice in 2028 back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: For the quarterback. So I guess, you know, in in
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: the personnel department, we're good. All is whole. We're whole.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Let me put it that way.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: So but no, it's hey, listen, a great opportunity for
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Kyle McCourt. OK, he was probably going to they were
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: going to sneak him onto the practice squad. If not,
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: maybe he's the third quarterback here. but an opportunity for
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: him down there. And he showed a lot.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: And, you know, I'm sure they're running a similar type
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: of offense down there. So good for him. He gets
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: that opportunity. I wish he was still.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: With the Packers because I do think he's a guy
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: who beyond this year you would have as your number
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: two quarterback.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: He showed that much.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So Billy and I have a little bet going. He
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: thinks that Will Levis could be on the radar to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: be the third quarterback. Just released a former number one pick.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I think Sean Clifford getting released in Cincinnati is a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: turnkey operation. They could just bring him back and make
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: him the third quarterback. Whose logic is flawed and who's
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: going to be proven right here?
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: You know, Will Levis not a bad credentials for a
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: backup is long as you're not expecting him to carry you.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Long-term backup, down the road backup.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because Tyron Taylor's not here forever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Only because you've already had the other guy in camp.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: You know what he can do. You know what he's done.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: But is there more upside to Will Levitz? That's the
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: question the scouts will ask.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: And Lord knows maybe they bring in two because now
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Wayne teams are keeping four quarterbacks. We all are clowning
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh for it over on one side. But then here
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: is the week one opponent who kept a dude from
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the Golden Gophers who played last year in Brosmer and
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and JJ McCarthy and Carson Wentz with Kyler Murray, the
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: guy that's a former number one overall pick being the
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: quarterback for a team that's got a lot of talent
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: on the outside. Maybe they said we're good at all
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the other skill positions, but four quarterbacks for the Vikings
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and Steelers is something I did not think we would
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: ever see again.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I didn't think we'd see it from two teams.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: And, you know, really, I know Pittsburgh, when we were
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: out there, especially after that first preseason game, they really
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: liked the talent they had that quarterback behind. Aaron Rodgers,
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: but Minnesota, that is kind of perplexing that they would
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: keep four on the 53.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? But that's a weird way.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: I haven't looked in detail on how they cut their team,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: but usually that means you've got an offensive-minded head coach
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: And that's what they're trying to get some mileage out
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: of that offense.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: They got that quarterback whisper. They did not want to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: be given up on JJ. They cut, they, they cut the,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: cut the GM pretty quickly. They said, we're not going to,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure that we can do anything
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: we can to be able to salvage that last one.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I thought that was hilarious. It's wild. Uh, Wayne, the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: tight end room you mentioned earlier, like now it's a
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: completely different look behind Tucker craft. And obviously Tucker craft
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: is the guy, but which of the newcomers will be, uh,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the Robin to his Batman in the tight end room.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Well, Well, that's, you know, and obviously you have, it's, Drew,
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I honestly don't know. I mean, the two guys they got,
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: you could both see in that role.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: You know, I think it says a.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Lot about where they are with Luke Musgrave, certainly with
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: his injury.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: And, you know, you would have liked to have seen
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: him come back.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I thought, I was a little bit surprised that they
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: cut that rookie free agent tight end that I really
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: kind of like quite a bit. You know, Drake Dabney,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: because I thought he was good in line. He showed
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: a little bit as a receiver, but they went for
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: guys who probably have a little more experience, a little
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: more know-how that can bring more to the party now
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: than Drake Dabney can.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, you're right. So it's a remade room.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: I just don't have a feel for those guys yet
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: as to who's going to really step up and contribute.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: John Smith was really good two years ago in Miami.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Really good catches.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: The other kid, the other kid they got was, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I don't have his name offhand here. Redmond was it?
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: You know, he's got some experience too, but John O'Smith,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: I just don't know how much he has where he
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: is in terms of the gas tank. I know he
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: didn't do much last year in Pittsburgh, but a lot
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: of times that circumstances, not player, but circumstances, the offense,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: they were running, whatever it is.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: He just didn't quite fit in there the way he
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: did the year before in Miami. So, You know, John O.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Smith could really open some eyes when he gets here
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: to Green Bay or the team that really probably knows
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: how they're going to deploy him more so than the
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Steelers would.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And a coach that's seen him.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Now, granted, there's a long time ago when Matt coached
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: him in Tennessee, but has a little bit of understanding
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: with him and him with Atlanta, with Arthur Smith. That's
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: kind of a similar offense. And Pittsburgh, I mean, they
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: were running the 300-pound Washington tight end out there as
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a sixth offensive lineman the majority of the time last year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Tough to be able to get a whole lot of look.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: When you start getting ready now, Wayne, we'll start prep
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: for Minnesota begin today. We had talked about it a
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: lot during training camp live, and you were spot on,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: and now we do.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Now the team is here. Now the team's together.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: They'll practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and this is when you
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: can start getting the roster together. How will the prep
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: for Minnesota start for them today? as well as the
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: broadcaster there for week one coming up in 13 days.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the Packers will start putting in Minnesota stuff now
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: this week, these practices they have. They'll get that basically
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: some of the stuff implemented and put together there. Matt
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: LaFleur mentioned to me in the pregame interview the other
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: night that the team really starts coming together. And you
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: got the field paraphrasing what he said, that this is,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: you know, once they cut to 53 in this week,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: is big in terms of those players on the roster.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Now it's a different mentality.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: You know, now you have to fight for a roster
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: spot every day. At least that's where the coaches say, okay,
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: good for that. But you know, this is when the
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: team has been picked. Now the team comes together and Billy,
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: you and I talked about it a lot this summer,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: you know, they were trying to make the team. That
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: was the mode of everybody in that locker room during
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: training camp.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: They're trying to make the team.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: The team doesn't come together in training camp comes together
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: after the team is cut and you have a team,
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: you don't have a team until then. So this team will,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: they'll try to come together in the next two weeks
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: and be ready to go for Minnesota.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: And I think they will be.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: On the way out here, Wayne, I was surprised to
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Monty Jackson got cut because the Packers tend to hang
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on to draft picks, especially when you only have six
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and they cut him and he'll probably go to the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: practice squad and be developed along the way. But, My
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: thing with the draft, I've told you guys this before.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: If you miss on your first round pick, it's terrible.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: But if the fourth round pick that year is Bakhtiari
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and ends up being a 10-year starter and a borderline
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame candidate, it's not a bad draft. This
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: feels like Brandon Cisse is going to play like a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: first round pick right out of this shoot. And I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: think that he'll kind of carry this draft class, but
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: it still might be okay because Trace Mack might be
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a kicker for a while and Brandon Cisse looks like
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: he's going to be pretty good. So despite the small
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: numbers and cutting a draft pick, I think this draft
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: class could be okay.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Chris McClellan is going to play a lot, Drew, in
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: that rotation as a rookie. And it looks to me
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: like he could develop into quite a player. And Billy
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: and I really like Danai Dennis Sutton, who had a
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: sack the other night. That kid can get healthy. You know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: he had some injury problems at camp a little bit.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Well, injury.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: He had an illness at camp that set him back
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: just a little bit. Damani Jackson had injury, that abdominal surgery,
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: missed most of OTA's mini camp. and part of training camp,
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: but that set him back a little bit. You could
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: tell on the field the other night that he wasn't ready.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: It's a matter of getting him to the practice squad,
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: and I think they will do that, Drew. He has
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: the physical tools. They have to get his mind right.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: They have to get his confidence right, and maybe he
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: has to learn a little bit more about the pro game,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: and I think he will, and it looks to me
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: like That's a guy worth developing because he has the
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: physical tools you look for at that position.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Might be good in a couple years. Yeah, Dennis Sutton
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: was like that. The flash he showed was like, oh,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: That was a heck of a night that he put
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: together on Friday night. He got a lot of game action,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and I think he's going to be able to produce.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: That's for sure. You'll see the field at U.S. Bank Stadium.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I would assume so. No doubt about it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Especially with only four edge rushers, you know that he's
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: going to be on the field. Yep, he's definitely going
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: to do it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Wayne, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it as always.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: All right, guys. Take care.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:42
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• 37:09
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• 37:17
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• 37:19
  Speaker 1: days between the rivals. Playoff preview. Sounds like it. I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: here for it. It's popcorn ready. Packers maneuvering their roster.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: They'll have availability tomorrow to talk about the moves. We
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: still won't hear from or about Josh Jacobs from them
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: because they're going to let the Legal matters play, you know. Yeah,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I was going to say. No one knows how long
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he's going to be on the exempt list.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: This definitely alleviates one of the questions that we were
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: asking is when was he going to speak first, right?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: When was he going to speak publicly now on the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: exempt list? He's going to be obviously off limits to anybody.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: In the media.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: But Matt LaFleur addressed the matter first before the exempt
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: list news yesterday on Friday night and said he fully
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: expects him to be on the team. and fully expects
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: him to be with the team. So I wonder with
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: the team could be in meetings, getting treatment, or if
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: this was out of left field, that might've might surprise
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: them as to where everything that transpired yesterday.
• 38:11
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• 38:19
  Speaker 1: What are we waking and baking today?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Well, Drew, as it was cut down day for everybody
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: in the NFL, obviously yesterday, I thought the wake and
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: bake story would be what we mentioned with, uh, Wayne
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Larrabee talking about all the teams keeping four quarterbacks. Browns
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: keep three on their roster. Put Derek Dylan Gabriel on
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the IR Vikings. Keep four quarterbacks. Steelers keep four quarterbacks,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: but the New York giants decided that they were going
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: to keep not OBJ, but Odell Beckham jr.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: The news yesterday out of giants camp was that Odell
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Beckham jr. Made the 53 man roster after taking a
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: season off of football, but the The conversation around the
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: former top 15 pick and the former superstar wide receiver
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: of the Giants is that he's a different man. It's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: a different Odell Beckham Jr. It is not OBJ coming back.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: He had to earn his way onto the team. My
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: man wasn't coming out of retirement if he didn't know
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: he was going to be on the team.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: We're acting like he was J. Michael Sturdivant.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: The undrafted free agent making the team out of some
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: random deal. The 33 year old had played since 24.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: He's not Rudy, but I get it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But this is, not the 86th guy coming in
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: from the training camp roster making the 53-man team.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Did he celebrate by putting on jeans, Timberlands, and getting
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: on a boat?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: No, nor putting a hole in a wall at Lambeau Field. However,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: he did say about the prospects of him making the
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: team after his preseason finale on Friday night.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: It would mean everything to me if I made it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Show me a more popular athlete in New York, though,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: at this peak. He's right up there. Well, he had
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: it for a while. He was Jalen Brunson for a while.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That's the thing, Drew. That's why I didn't get this.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: If you're going to bring him out of retirement to
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: be on the Giants, you're the New York Giants. Who
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: are you going to put out there that was going
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: to be so much better than somebody that was going
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: to at least get eyeballs and some kind of good
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: pub for you? People loved him before he left New York.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: And the man that maybe loved him the most.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Was John Mara. And John Mara.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: He's been sleepless in that New Jersey apartment since Saquon
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Barkley left for the Eagles.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So hopefully he can get some shut-eye now. Spectacular. We
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: covered a lot of ground today, but it's only going
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to ramp up. I was going to say, because game on.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Game on tonight. Game on is the theme. Champions fear
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: no one. Kyle Harrison. We'll see. The season can't be
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: won or lost tonight, but we know it's going to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: be fun. And listen, walk him first or throw it
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in the dirt, Harrison. Be careful around PCA.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We're back at it tomorrow at 5 a.m. Thanks for
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: hanging out with us in the huddle.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Peace.