Latest / The Huddle / 08/31/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's the huddle on a Monday in the good land.
- 0:03Speaker 1: You know the drill. Game balls and kicks the balls today.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian bringing it to you
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- 0:28Speaker 2: It is wild drew on this beautiful game balls and
- 0:31Speaker 2: kicks the balls Monday where we are now 12 days
- 0:33Speaker 2: or 13 days away from the Packers playing a real game.
- 0:36Speaker 2: The Brewers and Cubs starting up the NL Central Division
- 0:39Speaker 2: Championship Series. And also we're now into game week for
- 0:43Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Badgers. What a beautiful time fall to officially
- 0:48Speaker 2: be alive.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Our cup runneth over Badgers Notre Dame Sunday night at
- 0:53Speaker 1: Lambeau Field. We just had a thrilling, if you can
- 0:57Speaker 1: call it a thrilling, if there's such a thing as
- 0:59Speaker 1: a thrilling preseason game, there was. I was going to
- 1:01Speaker 1: say it sure was entertaining. That's to say the least.
- 1:05Speaker 3: 80 points back and forth, wild action. I mean, you
- 1:08Speaker 3: had a comeback of the age. The Packers winning at
- 1:11Speaker 3: the end, you had to love it.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Once again, rocked by the news that Josh Jacobs is
- 1:16Speaker 1: on the commissioner's exempt list. Paid leave, basically. I was
- 1:19Speaker 1: going to say, basically paid leave. Paid suspension.
- 1:22Speaker 2: And that's one where, Drew, I wonder how quickly now
- 1:26Speaker 2: the league expedited. Because I think that they did put
- 1:28Speaker 2: another player on the commissioner's exempt list yesterday as well
- 1:33Speaker 2: for personal conduct policy issue. I wonder how quickly these
- 1:36Speaker 2: get taken care of. Or if it is just a,
- 1:39Speaker 2: as you said in the first hour, which I think
- 1:40Speaker 2: is pretty spot on, it might be a, all right,
- 1:43Speaker 2: now you expedite the situation now. then you can talk
- 1:46Speaker 2: to us so we can get off. Cause now the
- 1:47Speaker 2: only person that can take you off of the commissioner's
- 1:49Speaker 2: example list is the commissioner himself. So you have to
- 1:53Speaker 2: be able to say, now this is settled. Now we
- 1:55Speaker 2: will go and be able to potentially go and play
- 1:57Speaker 2: football and understand the full punishment.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Reach a, if, if Josh Jacobs attorneys, like who knows,
- 2:02Speaker 1: maybe they can reach a plea deal of some kind.
- 2:04Speaker 1: And the two charges are, are, uh, disorderly conduct and
- 2:10Speaker 1: criminal damage property. Correct.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Yeah, the battery, I thought battery, criminal battery, misdemeanor battery
- 2:17Speaker 2: and battery and damage to property property. And and there's again,
- 2:22Speaker 2: I don't I'm not I'm not going to play a
- 2:24Speaker 2: lawyer or a D.A.
- 2:25Speaker 1: On on the radio.
- 2:26Speaker 2: But I will say that there's it's it's difficult to
- 2:30Speaker 2: look and see any kind of trend that the NFL
- 2:33Speaker 2: does in terms of punishment. We had one of our
- 2:35Speaker 2: texters earlier on today here say, like, well, can you
- 2:38Speaker 2: compare it to other ones? It's kind of hard because
- 2:40Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs played all the way to the Super Bowl
- 2:41Speaker 2: a year ago. And his issues were very public. And
- 2:47Speaker 2: then there's other ones that get handled very quickly and swiftly.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Domestic violence is nothing that the NFL is going to
- 2:53Speaker 2: mess around with. So, again, this is going to be
- 2:55Speaker 2: handled now. Luckily, after a lot of time where maybe
- 3:00Speaker 2: it wasn't taken seriously. as seriously as possible. It is
- 3:04Speaker 2: at the forefront of their thought process. So this is
- 3:05Speaker 2: going to be a very serious moment for the NFL
- 3:09Speaker 2: as well, Drew, where I think they're trying to, not
- 3:11Speaker 2: that they want to make a, that they're looking to
- 3:13Speaker 2: make examples out of certain guys, but it's nothing that
- 3:17Speaker 2: is going to get looked the other way at in
- 3:19Speaker 2: the NFL office. And I do wonder if it's going
- 3:21Speaker 2: to take a resolution in the court process before they
- 3:25Speaker 2: go and take, before they allow it and they get
- 3:27Speaker 2: back onto the field.
- 3:28Speaker 1: So this is at the bottom of the NFL's list
- 3:30Speaker 1: of concerns, but What are the implications for people who
- 3:34Speaker 1: are fantasy football players? Because the squawking there will be
- 3:38Speaker 1: the loudest. The squawking there will make this... This resonates
- 3:42Speaker 1: beyond Green Bay, then, because of the squawking of the.
- 3:45Speaker 2: People want to know who to have. Well, if you
- 3:47Speaker 2: drafted Marshawn Lloyd, then good on you.
- 3:50Speaker 1: That's the thing, yeah.
- 3:51Speaker 2: There is a part of this for Lloyd where it
- 3:54Speaker 2: completely changes the conversation around of... How will this guy
- 3:58Speaker 2: stay healthy too? How is he going to handle being
- 4:00Speaker 2: your number one running back, right? Like, and he has
- 4:02Speaker 2: been extreme. He's been good throughout the entire preseason has
- 4:05Speaker 2: been waiting for the opportunity. He's looked good in preseasons before. Um,
- 4:09Speaker 2: he's an easy dude to root for, right? Like when
- 4:11Speaker 2: you hear Lloyd and his, uh, disposition on his first
- 4:15Speaker 2: two years in the NFL, it's very easy guy to
- 4:18Speaker 2: root for. He's extremely positive, very well-spoken, a lot of
- 4:21Speaker 2: fun to listen to in interviews. And, uh, we're going
- 4:23Speaker 2: to see just how much, what he can make out
- 4:25Speaker 2: of this opportunity. Cause I don't know that there have
- 4:27Speaker 2: been a whole lot of better gifts to have when
- 4:30Speaker 2: your career has sputtered as much as his has to,
- 4:34Speaker 2: to begin, uh, To then be able to take off
- 4:36Speaker 2: and grab, seemingly grab hold of the job and not
- 4:39Speaker 2: let it go until... there's a resolution to this, which
- 4:43Speaker 2: could be further rather than sooner.
- 4:45Speaker 3: That's an amazing point, Billy, of all the things that
- 4:47Speaker 3: have not gone Marshall and Lloyd's way of all the
- 4:49Speaker 3: bad breaks he's gotten. And I'm sure he doesn't want
- 4:51Speaker 3: it to come this way, but this.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Is not the way you want it to happen, but
- 4:54Speaker 1: the opportunities happen different ways.
- 4:55Speaker 3: For the first time ever in his career, in his
- 4:58Speaker 3: pro career, something is broken in terms of giving him
- 5:01Speaker 3: an opportunity.
- 5:02Speaker 1: So like you said, we'll see how he handles it.
- 5:04Speaker 3: Staying healthy is job number one for him as much
- 5:07Speaker 3: as he can, but It's also now been pushed to
- 5:09Speaker 3: the side, as you said, Billy, because you had to
- 5:11Speaker 3: perform now for the Green Bay Packers. You have a
- 5:13Speaker 3: load to carry, and I'm sure Caleb Johnson is going
- 5:15Speaker 3: to be involved in that, too.
- 5:16Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with the rotation there.
- 5:18Speaker 3: But, yeah, I mean, yeah, it added some fodder to
- 5:21Speaker 3: your point, Drew, for the fantasy players.
- 5:23Speaker 2: I'll tell you, the one that's really going to upset
- 5:25Speaker 2: the fantasy owners is when this one.
- 5:27Speaker 1: This first week, Chris Brooks gets 40. Oh, yeah. Gets
- 5:32Speaker 1: about 40 snaps because the only way they're going to
- 5:35Speaker 1: be trying to block that Brian Flores defense is with
- 5:38Speaker 1: somebody that they trust there into the shotgun next to
- 5:41Speaker 1: Jordan Love.
- 5:41Speaker 3: So I imagine he's going to get a ton of work.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Or maybe something's still to happen. John Kurosawa chiming in
- 5:46Speaker 3: on YouTube. I'm interested to see how the Packers try
- 5:48Speaker 3: to edit their practice squad today. Yeah, there's things that
- 5:50Speaker 3: are going to happen. Well, you know, a Bonaconda is available, right, Billy?
- 5:54Speaker 1: Yeah, your boy Izzy is available. My boy Izzy is available.
- 5:56Speaker 1: He got cut by the Cowboys yesterday. I will say,
- 5:59Speaker 1: looking at the cut list and the Packers in need
- 6:01Speaker 1: of a third quarterback, I think Sean Clifford's coming back.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Maybe a big red card in here. That's an easy one.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Sean Clifford cut by the Bengals. He's just plug and play,
- 6:09Speaker 1: bring him right back, and he knows where everything is,
- 6:11Speaker 1: and he's good to go.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And there's also, you need somebody to be able to
- 6:15Speaker 2: run your scout team that you trust and know. And he, listen, he...
- 6:20Speaker 2: He's been doing it at a couple of different stops.
- 6:22Speaker 2: And I think Sean Clifford is very OK with just
- 6:23Speaker 2: being the third quarterback. I mean, obviously, you'd like to play.
- 6:27Speaker 2: You want to be the guy that's running out there.
- 6:28Speaker 2: But he seems like a dude that's all vibes for that.
- 6:31Speaker 1: It's not the worst job in the world. And every
- 6:33Speaker 1: now and then you might be able to put a
- 6:34Speaker 1: uniform on. Well, that's what everybody says. Like, OK, Tyra
- 6:37Speaker 1: Taylor was as good as Kyle McCord was on Saturday
- 6:40Speaker 1: or Friday night, Saturday, Friday night.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
- 6:43Speaker 1: They all run together.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Yep.
- 6:44Speaker 1: But as good as he was, and I heard people say,
- 6:47Speaker 1: should he be the number two? Like, no. He has
- 6:48Speaker 1: not played 14 years. He's playing vanilla defenses. Like, come on.
- 6:51Speaker 1: There's no pressure packages. He wasn't facing starters. Let's just
- 6:55Speaker 1: pump the brakes and call it what it was. Preseason.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Great story, but come on. Now, the Dolphins decided, since
- 7:00Speaker 1: they traded Quinn Ewers, right? They needed, and they had
- 7:03Speaker 1: a need, and the Packers needed to replace a draft
- 7:06Speaker 1: pick that they didn't think they were going to have
- 7:07Speaker 1: to spend yesterday. Two of them, actually. Two of them, yeah.
- 7:10Speaker 1: But so, the planets aligned, and... It's the third quarterback.
- 7:14Speaker 1: He gets elevated. He's the two, if Tyrod Taylor, if
- 7:17Speaker 1: Jordan Love is out and Tyrod Taylor gets elevated and
- 7:19Speaker 1: you need someone, right? So that's the only way you're dressing,
- 7:23Speaker 1: but you do. If you're down to your third quarterback
- 7:26Speaker 1: in the NFL, I mean, come on. The season's going
- 7:28Speaker 1: to be a wash anyway. It's pretty much. I mean,
- 7:31Speaker 1: at that point, you are. At that point, you're just swimming.
- 7:34Speaker 1: You know what the Vikings were last year at some point. Yeah, true.
- 7:36Speaker 1: But we do do this every year where we fall
- 7:39Speaker 1: in love with a preseason quarterback. We fall in love.
- 7:42Speaker 3: It's sort of like what happened with Taysom Hill, although.
- 7:45Speaker 3: You know, Taysom Hill might be the top-end example of that.
- 7:47Speaker 1: He ended up having a nice NFL career. Got a contract.
- 7:50Speaker 1: But in a different way.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't move the needle as a quarterback necessarily.
- 7:54Speaker 3: And that's the thing with people being upset about McCourt.
- 7:56Speaker 3: I get it, but it's also like they just farmed
- 8:00Speaker 3: six-round pick value out of a nothing pickup, you know?
- 8:03Speaker 1: Yeah, a future contract. And clearly, like, the... the dolphins
- 8:07Speaker 1: would have put in a claim then. And like, cause
- 8:09Speaker 1: then he would have had a knee. Exactly. So this
- 8:11Speaker 1: is a great, to me, a great. The dolphins were
- 8:15Speaker 1: able to get a guy that they targeted and, and
- 8:17Speaker 1: they saw the film from Friday night.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:20Speaker 2: And like this dude, they knew him because, or they
- 8:23Speaker 2: knew that they liked it because the Packers Packers South
- 8:26Speaker 2: is going to be able to operate in a certain way. Now,
- 8:29Speaker 2: I also think the, when, when you look at the
- 8:31Speaker 2: draft picks that they, End up trading yesterday to seventh
- 8:34Speaker 2: round picks.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Right.
- 8:35Speaker 2: One for Redmond to the Rams. One to the Steelers
- 8:39Speaker 2: for six. There is a seventh in twenty twenty eight
- 8:42Speaker 2: to the Rams. They got a sixth round pick back
- 8:45Speaker 2: from a court.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Pardon me.
- 8:46Speaker 4: I didn't.
- 8:46Speaker 2: The ones that they traded away was the one. They
- 8:49Speaker 2: also traded away their seventh round picks this year. And
- 8:51Speaker 2: then that's seventh round pick. They turned two hundred thousand
- 8:54Speaker 2: dollars over to J.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Michael Sturdivant. And he ends up making the team.
- 8:57Speaker 2: So like you look at some of those draft picks,
- 8:59Speaker 2: they didn't care about him that much in this draft.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Then they ship off to in future years to help
- 9:04Speaker 2: this team because they realize like, hey, the time is
- 9:07Speaker 2: now and I'm not waiting around for a seventh round
- 9:09Speaker 2: pick to maybe make the team coming up in two
- 9:12Speaker 2: years because I just cut a sixth rounder into Monty
- 9:14Speaker 2: Jackson and had no qualms about it.
- 9:16Speaker 1: So we're adding right now and we'll see Sturdivant.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Made a very, very good case to make it, and
- 9:22Speaker 2: they clearly liked him and thought about him very early
- 9:24Speaker 2: because he was one of their biggest priorities, guaranteed him
- 9:27Speaker 2: 200K for the season. So I'm not totally shocked he
- 9:31Speaker 2: made the team, but when we were doing the mathematics, Drew,
- 9:33Speaker 2: on Friday night, didn't know that Williams was going to
- 9:36Speaker 2: go to IR, didn't know how they were going to
- 9:37Speaker 2: do it, but knew that they were going to try
- 9:39Speaker 2: and find a way to keep him.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Yeah, Colin Oliver to IR too, right? And seven defensive tackles.
- 9:45Speaker 2: The seven interior defensive linemen, Brooks being one of them,
- 9:48Speaker 2: and they only keep four edge rushers with Micah going
- 9:51Speaker 2: on PUP.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Obviously, you know when you're going to get that one
- 9:53Speaker 1: coming back. Man, Kelly did not make it. Yeah. Stackhouse, right?
- 9:57Speaker 1: Stackhouse didn't have a good team.
- 9:59Speaker 2: I really thought Kelly was making it after that big
- 10:01Speaker 2: night on Friday night. He is a prime practice squad guy,
- 10:04Speaker 2: and hopefully he ends up there. He's 21 years old.
- 10:07Speaker 2: There's a lot of tools to work with there. And
- 10:09Speaker 2: we saw Sturtevant's post, and it was awesome and true.
- 10:12Speaker 3: The goal is always to make the big team and
- 10:13Speaker 3: to make the club, and you get the minimum, you
- 10:15Speaker 3: get the belly. But the practice squad is not a
- 10:18Speaker 3: bad job these days. It never was, but it's getting
- 10:21Speaker 3: better and better with every new season. I think they're
- 10:22Speaker 3: making a couple hundred thousand now.
- 10:24Speaker 1: It's still good. Michael Sturtevant is also, he will keep
- 10:27Speaker 1: alive the tradition of Packers, 22 years, keeping an undrafted
- 10:32Speaker 1: free agent. It stays alive, baby. It stays alive. A
- 10:34Speaker 1: lot of good options there.
- 10:36Speaker 2: Shepard and Johnson. One final thing on the trade news.
- 10:39Speaker 2: They traded, and who's going to be their starting inside
- 10:42Speaker 2: linebacker this year, Zaire Franklin. You see who got cut
- 10:45Speaker 2: yesterday from the Indianapolis Colts?
- 10:47Speaker 1: I did not. Colby wouldn't. Oh, hey now. A little
- 10:50Speaker 1: bit of a surprise.
- 10:51Speaker 2: He ends up getting traded in the same offseason that
- 10:53Speaker 2: he gets shipped over there. So fascinating one to see
- 10:57Speaker 2: where he felt like he was playing a little bit
- 10:58Speaker 2: out of position last year. I know he said that
- 11:00Speaker 2: when he was traded in March and now doesn't even
- 11:03Speaker 2: make the team after the Packers end up getting Zaire
- 11:05Speaker 2: Franklin for him earlier this year.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Pretty wild. All right. 877-794-1973. Nicolaylaw.com. Talk text line. Time
- 11:11Speaker 1: for a few game balls and kicks the balls. Let's
- 11:13Speaker 1: fire up the machine. Armin Sarian's in charge. You know
- 11:15Speaker 1: the drill. You're standing in the locker room, surrounded by
- 11:19Speaker 1: people in towels and football underwear, and you envision it
- 11:22Speaker 1: any way you want. You get to bestow a game
- 11:24Speaker 1: ball for a job well done. Today on the program,
- 11:26Speaker 1: it's this.
- 11:27Speaker 3: Pause.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself.
- 11:29Speaker 3: I just had to leave that in from PCA last week.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Pause. You just had to leave it in? Pause. Pause.
- 11:35Speaker 1: There you go. That's a good one. Jeez Louise.
- 11:38Speaker 4: Pause.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I didn't even plan that, Billy. Did you know the
- 11:41Speaker 1: context of this, Billy? The first part of that quote
- 11:44Speaker 1: that Led him to say pause. When Eduardo Rodriguez is
- 11:47Speaker 1: just shoving it down your throat. Yeah, pause. You were
- 11:49Speaker 1: here that day, I think. Yeah, that was awesome. That
- 11:53Speaker 1: is it. All right. And then conversely, a kick to
- 11:56Speaker 1: the balls. If you want to give Armand one for
- 11:57Speaker 1: choosing a PCA sounder, feel free. Thank you.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Yes.
- 12:00Speaker 5: Fair.
- 12:00Speaker 1: All right. But a kick to the balls on the
- 12:02Speaker 1: program is this.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Somebody now mooning the pursuit. That's a first.
- 12:07Speaker 1: That's from the Sloan. That's also from last week, the
- 12:10Speaker 1: slow car chase. From the slowest car chase of all
- 12:14Speaker 1: time on ABC7? Man, you are all Chicago. We're starting
- 12:18Speaker 1: a four-game series at Wrigley Field. You picked two Chicago
- 12:22Speaker 1: Sounders on Monday for game balls and kicks to the balls?
- 12:24Speaker 3: Listen, when I get a good cut on Wednesday and Thursday,
- 12:27Speaker 3: it always sounds better when I say I'm definitely saving
- 12:29Speaker 3: that for Monday. But I did save them for Monday,
- 12:32Speaker 3: so that's just what I did.
- 12:33Speaker 1: All right. If I may open the bidding as much
- 12:36Speaker 1: as Armand's choices are questionable. Our first game ball today
- 12:42Speaker 1: should be to the Cincinnati Reds. Awesome. Well done. Weekend
- 12:45Speaker 1: they had. Because it takes on a different center. Had
- 12:49Speaker 1: the Cubs won that game last night, they'd be like, oh,
- 12:52Speaker 1: they're right here. One game can change your perception until
- 12:56Speaker 1: you realize it's a long season. It's 162, and every
- 12:59Speaker 1: game is just a raisin in the trail mix, as
- 13:01Speaker 1: a man once called it. This is, though, the Cubs.
- 13:04Speaker 1: And for the Reds to go in there and win
- 13:06Speaker 1: the series, giddy up.
- 13:09Speaker 2: What a difference, because when PCA blasts the first one
- 13:12Speaker 2: and I'm watching it on NBC.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Oh, OK.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Well, this is not this. You're going to go go
- 13:17Speaker 2: to bed. Cubs are going to have a little bit
- 13:18Speaker 2: of momentum, a little bit of a roll and to
- 13:20Speaker 2: wake up with.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Him hitting five bombs in two games. PCA, that being
- 13:25Speaker 2: in the Cubs, dropping two or three. I feel a
- 13:27Speaker 2: lot better.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Maybe the market will correct the regression of the mean.
- 13:30Speaker 1: My favorite sports theory. Maybe he'll go 0 for 15
- 13:32Speaker 1: now after hitting five bombs in two games. I mean,
- 13:34Speaker 1: you can't think he's going to hit five more bombs
- 13:36Speaker 1: in the next two games. He's got to cool off.
- 13:38Speaker 1: He's got to cool off. How about this? How about
- 13:40Speaker 1: we don't throw him a fastball in his first at-bat
- 13:42Speaker 1: and maybe pitch around him in his first at-bat or
- 13:45Speaker 1: just pitch him carefully?
- 13:46Speaker 2: He might see four sliders all in the dirt if
- 13:49Speaker 2: I'd be out there. That'd be a tough guy for
- 13:52Speaker 2: me to throw anything inside of that box to.
- 13:54Speaker 1: He's got to be stealing signs or something like that, right?
- 13:56Speaker 1: He's got to be doing something wrong.
- 13:58Speaker 4: Right.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I can't. He's just that good. Was Christian Yellich stealing
- 14:00Speaker 1: signs in 18 and 19 when he was the best
- 14:02Speaker 1: player on the planet? Hugh Darvish said he was. He
- 14:04Speaker 1: did say that, but he said it in like Japanese, right?
- 14:07Speaker 1: Or something like that. And Yellich said, no one needs
- 14:10Speaker 1: to cheat against you. Yeah, Cubs wanted to blame Thames
- 14:12Speaker 1: for doing it.
- 14:13Speaker 3: Listen, if they're going to throw accusations to us every
- 14:15Speaker 3: time we do well, I'm doing the same thing.
- 14:16Speaker 1: I like that. I like it. No, listen, he's just awesome.
- 14:19Speaker 1: I get it. He's a good player. I don't like that.
- 14:22Speaker 1: All right. I don't like it. But that's the reality.
- 14:25Speaker 1: It's going to be a playoff atmosphere. It's going to
- 14:26Speaker 1: be awesome. Either way, it's going to be awesome. The
- 14:29Speaker 1: whole back and forth. How many Brewers fans are going
- 14:31Speaker 1: to invade Wrigley Field? I will give a game ball
- 14:34Speaker 1: to any Brewers fan who goes and shows out. And
- 14:36Speaker 1: goes to Wrigley because, you know, they're coming this way.
- 14:38Speaker 1: You know, they're coming this way, Drew. And it is
- 14:40Speaker 1: Labor Day game. Yeah.
- 14:42Speaker 2: And an absolute game ball because I do. It is
- 14:45Speaker 2: one of the better trips you can make as a
- 14:47Speaker 2: brewer family. It's very, very quick. Made it a couple
- 14:50Speaker 2: of different times with my pops. I haven't been there
- 14:52Speaker 2: in a decade or so. Definitely need to get back.
- 14:55Speaker 2: And this would be the weekend to do because anybody
- 14:58Speaker 2: that was there for game 163. I have not met
- 15:01Speaker 2: a Brewers fan that was there. There were a ton
- 15:03Speaker 2: of them, too, when those tickets went on sale, what,
- 15:05Speaker 2: a day and a half before? That was one of
- 15:06Speaker 2: our best moments as Brewers fans. Nobody that I talked
- 15:10Speaker 2: to that was there, any other game, was their best
- 15:14Speaker 2: in-person attendance. That sweetness of that victory is as good
- 15:18Speaker 2: as it gets, and it'll be pretty dang good coming
- 15:19Speaker 2: up this week.
- 15:20Speaker 3: I'll never forget that game and the way Brewers fans
- 15:23Speaker 3: made noise. on TV, at least I was watching it,
- 15:25Speaker 3: but like showing out like that was the one, that
- 15:29Speaker 3: was the shining moment for Brewers fans to give the
- 15:32Speaker 3: taste of the medicine to Cubs fans that they.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Always give us. Yeah, it was awesome.
- 15:36Speaker 3: And they were boisterous and they were obnoxious, just the
- 15:38Speaker 3: way you want your fans to be on the road.
- 15:40Speaker 1: So I love that. The, the, the door is open
- 15:43Speaker 1: game balls and kicks to the balls. Let's have it.
- 15:47Speaker 1: All right, guys.
- 15:47Speaker 3: I got a kick to the balls if you don't
- 15:49Speaker 3: mind indulging me here.
- 15:50Speaker 4: Somebody now mooning the pursuit. That's a first.
- 15:53Speaker 1: To the great Novak Djokovic.
- 15:56Speaker 3: The great Novak Djokovic who lost in the first round
- 15:59Speaker 3: of the real U.S.
- 16:00Speaker 4: Open, by the way.
- 16:00Speaker 1: None of that golf stuff. The real U.S.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Open happening in Queens to Mariano Navone, the Argentinian unranked player.
- 16:06Speaker 3: He lost in the first round for the first time
- 16:08Speaker 3: since 06, 20-year streak, and started shedding some tears late
- 16:12Speaker 3: in the fifth set, maybe knowing that time was Father
- 16:15Speaker 3: Time was finally.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Going to beat him.
- 16:18Speaker 3: So maybe I shouldn't give him a total kick to
- 16:20Speaker 3: the balls, but he left it all on the court,
- 16:23Speaker 3: as you saw him puking during the match as well,
- 16:25Speaker 3: picking up some illness. I don't know what that was,
- 16:27Speaker 3: but he was puking on the court. He was doing
- 16:30Speaker 3: all he could, but poor, injured and ill Novak Djokovic
- 16:35Speaker 3: losing in the first round of the U.S.
- 16:36Speaker 4: Open.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I've said, you know. believing filling their socks or puking
- 16:41Speaker 1: on themselves are terms for guys who don't play well
- 16:44Speaker 1: and don't do well in big situations. And they tried.
- 16:46Speaker 1: He threw up on himself. The definition. He threw up
- 16:50Speaker 1: on himself.
- 16:51Speaker 3: And unfortunately, the thing is, you saw the shots of
- 16:53Speaker 3: his wife and his kids, and his two young kids
- 16:55Speaker 3: are now old enough to.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Understand and watch. Armageddon in his feels. And poor my man.
- 17:00Speaker 1: I forgot. I don't know his son's name. So you're
- 17:02Speaker 1: kicking him and not giving him game ball? No, I
- 17:03Speaker 1: was going to say, it just sounds like he's laughing
- 17:06Speaker 1: in his face. Game ball for the great career, obviously,
- 17:09Speaker 1: and an unbelievable pro. But by the way, sucks to suck.
- 17:12Speaker 3: He had a kick in the balls moment when he's
- 17:15Speaker 3: puking on the court and losing in the.
- 17:16Speaker 1: First round of Mariano whatever his name is.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Sounds like this guy had the best moment of his career,
- 17:21Speaker 2: this Mariano.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Kathy, you don't even know his last name. And as
- 17:23Speaker 1: John McEnroe said, well, congratulations, kid.
- 17:25Speaker 3: You'll be playing second round on court 21. So McEnroe
- 17:28Speaker 3: is kind of being a jerk to him. Basically saying like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 17:32Speaker 3: You had your shining moment. I will say I did not.
- 17:34Speaker 3: I haven't watched enough tennis in my entire life. Now,
- 17:36Speaker 3: maybe I've watched more than I care to admit.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Both fair. I think both might be true. I mean, both.
- 17:41Speaker 1: I didn't realize how good McEnroe was at his job. Oh,
- 17:43Speaker 1: he's really good. Like, I just I will say I
- 17:46Speaker 1: don't know the game enough to appreciate it enough.
- 17:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:49Speaker 2: But when Charles Barkley tells him on the on the
- 17:53Speaker 2: floor at the finals. man you're the best announcer that
- 17:56Speaker 2: there is out here man i love listening to you
- 17:58Speaker 2: man i'm like i gotta take a.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Take a gander he's amazing on there he's a good
- 18:02Speaker 3: analyst but his real skill is kind of rattling people's
- 18:04Speaker 3: cages in a way that like is actually entertaining like
- 18:07Speaker 3: smoltz does it maybe that's why i enjoy it yeah
- 18:10Speaker 3: yeah but he does in a way that is like
- 18:11Speaker 3: he had a lot of it gets a lot of
- 18:12Speaker 3: people upset or whatever and he'll say you know he's
- 18:15Speaker 3: a good analyst but he'll also.
- 18:16Speaker 1: He's got some wild one-liners being an analyst for tennis.
- 18:19Speaker 3: Isn't easy because you have to do it in the
- 18:20Speaker 3: course of five hours the one-liners and.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Stuff like that so That was a four-hour match. I
- 18:25Speaker 1: give Djokovic some flowers there, but I knew you were
- 18:29Speaker 1: going to square them up.
- 18:30Speaker 2: And that right and left one, we're going to catch
- 18:33Speaker 2: a big kick. squarely from Sarian on that side when
- 18:37Speaker 2: I saw that headline.
- 18:38Speaker 1: And on the.
- 18:38Speaker 3: Weekend where Federer got his Hall of Fame induction, bringing
- 18:41Speaker 3: people to tears as well. But Drew, as you know,
- 18:43Speaker 3: McEnroe was a player who had that ability to sometimes.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Be annoying, sometimes be... But also to entertain. He was
- 18:50Speaker 1: the snotty... And I loved him. It's funny because my
- 18:52Speaker 1: dad hated him because it was like a generational thing.
- 18:54Speaker 1: He was like my guy. He was yelling at the
- 18:57Speaker 1: chair up and he was wearing people out. He created viral.
- 19:02Speaker 3: mic'd up type moments when there wasn't any that helped
- 19:05Speaker 3: tennis during.
- 19:05Speaker 1: That time could you imagine if he was playing today
- 19:07Speaker 1: that's the thing you know everything would be like mic'd
- 19:09Speaker 1: up yeah he was kind of like the pca oh
- 19:12Speaker 1: no who said that it's kind of like pca no
- 19:14Speaker 1: he was like uh yeah macro he was just cool
- 19:17Speaker 1: playing guitar and hanging out with rock stars and married
- 19:19Speaker 1: to an actress at the time like he was and
- 19:21Speaker 1: he and vitus garolitis were the definition of cool back
- 19:24Speaker 1: in the day well i was.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Just that was the thing like you see him he
- 19:27Speaker 2: is a he's a the cool guy playing tennis and
- 19:30Speaker 2: for a kid that didn't grow up thinking there were
- 19:32Speaker 2: a whole lot of cool guys playing tennis.
- 19:34Speaker 1: I will admit that was maybe a hole in my game. Well,
- 19:38Speaker 1: I know. Who was good when you were coming up, though?
- 19:40Speaker 1: Because Agassi was cool for a while, but Andy Roddick.
- 19:43Speaker 1: I was going to say, they were trying to tell
- 19:45Speaker 1: you Andy Roddick was cool. You missed the Pete Sampras era,
- 19:47Speaker 1: and he was boring as hell.
- 19:50Speaker 3: Up it was sampras and agassi and sampras was awesome
- 19:52Speaker 3: but super boring agassi was inconsistent but awesome and super
- 19:56Speaker 3: fun to watch but you didn't have either of those
- 19:58Speaker 3: when you grew up billy america so you had erotic
- 20:00Speaker 3: one time.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Was and all i had in tennis was me getting
- 20:02Speaker 2: yelled at at the village club because all i wanted
- 20:05Speaker 2: to do was hit the ball over the fence. And
- 20:06Speaker 2: then I got kicked out of tennis lessons when I
- 20:08Speaker 2: was six years old because all I would do was
- 20:10Speaker 2: go hit the ball over the fence.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Maybe that was a me problem.
- 20:14Speaker 2: One kick to the ball squarely to the USC Trojans.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Somebody now booting the pursuit. That's a first.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Now, you could have mooned somebody at the Coliseum on Saturday,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and I don't know anybody would have known. You see
- 20:26Speaker 2: these shots of the San Jose State USC kickoff there
- 20:32Speaker 2: in the Coliseum. Now, in fairness to Trojan fans, I
- 20:37Speaker 2: think it was legitimately 100 degrees on the field.
- 20:40Speaker 1: A hot, hot L.A.
- 20:42Speaker 3: Day.
- 20:44Speaker 1: But I mean, it looks like it is an open scrimmage.
- 20:48Speaker 1: of smattering people that were at that game.
- 20:51Speaker 2: USC with a little bit of an underwhelming fourth quarter.
- 20:54Speaker 2: I think they gave up 23 points in the fourth quarter,
- 20:56Speaker 2: did not cover. They were up 35, three Lincoln Riley's
- 20:59Speaker 2: team is a dark horse to make the college football playoff.
- 21:03Speaker 2: But people are seeing that and saying, wow, Drew, they're
- 21:06Speaker 2: going to fire this guy.
- 21:07Speaker 1: They're firing him. They're taking his big house that they
- 21:09Speaker 1: gave him in that contract because if they can't fill
- 21:11Speaker 1: up that stadium, what's the point? I think they'll be okay.
- 21:15Speaker 1: 100 degrees is rough, though, man. Keep the game balls
- 21:17Speaker 1: and kicks of the balls rolling. When we come back,
- 21:19Speaker 1: it's halftime already. Time flies when you're having a good time.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Scott Dolphin will pop in our halftime correspondent. They had
- 21:25Speaker 1: a great secret show on Saturday. We'll find out who
- 21:27Speaker 1: it was. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Oh,
- 21:30Speaker 1: we made it through the first half of the huddle.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Let's make our adjustments with our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin,
- 21:35Speaker 1: from the country station down the hall, FM 106. Dolph,
- 21:37Speaker 1: good morning. Hi, fellas. Good weekend? Oh, good weekend. And
- 21:41Speaker 1: it's coming at us hot and heavy. We got Josh
- 21:43Speaker 1: Jacobs on the commissioner's exempt list. We got Brewers Cubs
- 21:45Speaker 1: this week. We got the Badgers ramping up to play.
- 21:48Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about the secret show
- 21:50Speaker 1: that took place at the Cooperage on Saturday. Yeah, it
- 21:52Speaker 1: was pretty cool. Sold out again this year. So cool.
- 21:55Speaker 5: We had three incredible acts that we had no clue
- 21:57Speaker 5: who was playing there until we got on stage.
- 21:58Speaker 1: So this is like, you've got to get your tickets early.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Do you give some away on the air, too? Very few.
- 22:03Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 22:03Speaker 5: I can't remember. Maybe a pair or two, but it's
- 22:06Speaker 5: very limited.
- 22:07Speaker 1: So you're buying tickets on the come, and you know
- 22:09Speaker 1: that your station has the goodwill and the equity that
- 22:12Speaker 1: people know it's going to be a good show. So
- 22:14Speaker 1: it sells out really fast, and then people show up,
- 22:16Speaker 1: and they don't know who's coming on stage, and even
- 22:18Speaker 1: you don't know who's coming on stage. Don't even know.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Shanna, our boss, gives us an envelope. as we walk
- 22:23Speaker 5: on stage and it's almost like reading the Oscar. It
- 22:25Speaker 5: goes to that type of thing. Then the guys just
- 22:28Speaker 5: roll in. Like, you don't see them backstage. No, you know,
- 22:30Speaker 5: the Cooper just set up nicely that they've got that
- 22:32Speaker 5: tucked away, like back alley interest. So the buses are
- 22:35Speaker 5: back there and yeah, people just show up and you
- 22:38Speaker 5: find out when they walk on stage, who's coming on stage.
- 22:40Speaker 5: It was the first act that you introduced. Atlas, A-T-L-U-S,
- 22:43Speaker 5: new artist out of the Denver area. He's written some
- 22:47Speaker 5: stuff with Jelly Roll. And so he was really good
- 22:49Speaker 5: out of the shoot. We had Mitchell Tenpenny.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Mitchell Tempany, who's a headliner in his own, right?
- 22:54Speaker 4: Yes.
- 22:55Speaker 1: He was second. And then Brantley Gilbert, who sang nothing
- 22:57Speaker 1: but number one songs. What a show. That's a monster
- 23:00Speaker 1: show for somebody. It really was. You guys playing a
- 23:03Speaker 1: flat tops and playing acoustically. Yeah.
- 23:05Speaker 5: And the artists all seemed to have a great time, too.
- 23:08Speaker 5: They were thrilled by the event. And, you know, I
- 23:11Speaker 5: hope this thing continues forever and ever because it's become
- 23:14Speaker 5: a hit.
- 23:14Speaker 1: 40 bucks. It's what you pay to get in. You're there.
- 23:17Speaker 1: It was a two and a half hour show. That's amazing.
- 23:19Speaker 1: You saw all this incredible act.
- 23:20Speaker 3: What about a great thing like that?
- 23:22Speaker 1: It will still do it.
- 23:23Speaker 3: The fact that Shannon still keeps it secret does all
- 23:25Speaker 3: that thing from you guys.
- 23:26Speaker 2: I know that I thought it was a work to
- 23:28Speaker 2: be honest. When I, when I heard Shannon explain it,
- 23:30Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, come on. But when, when, This
- 23:36Speaker 2: man is man of integrity. He's telling you he opens
- 23:38Speaker 2: that damn envelope, and you have no clue. You can't
- 23:40Speaker 2: even see them weaving backstage. That's a phenomenal coup to
- 23:43Speaker 2: be able to pull over, not only on the crowd,
- 23:45Speaker 2: but on you guys, too.
- 23:45Speaker 1: That's part of the fun of it, right? I mean,
- 23:47Speaker 1: that is awesome.
- 23:47Speaker 5: I couldn't keep a secret that long. There's no way
- 23:50Speaker 5: I would have to tell someone if I knew those
- 23:52Speaker 5: three acts. There's no way I could do it. So, yeah,
- 23:53Speaker 5: props to Shanna for keeping that a secret from everybody,
- 23:56Speaker 5: including us.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Just wild.
- 23:58Speaker 2: It's got to be cool, though, for the acts to
- 24:01Speaker 2: be able to know that one, you're going to surprise
- 24:04Speaker 2: the hell out of people and immediately get a big pop.
- 24:06Speaker 3: Right.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Like when there's a surprise, you already know it's going
- 24:09Speaker 2: to be a big pop. But the acoustic spot for
- 24:11Speaker 2: the artist, that's got to be a cool thing.
- 24:12Speaker 3: Right.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Like it's an intimate setting. It is guys that are
- 24:15Speaker 2: usually playing big arenas.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 24:17Speaker 5: So you probably need to show out. They each brought
- 24:19Speaker 5: a couple of players with them. You know, Brantley Gilbert
- 24:21Speaker 5: had a mandolin player with him. And so it's always
- 24:23Speaker 5: cool to hear that sound. But you still see how
- 24:26Speaker 5: incredible these guys are. at that level when it comes
- 24:28Speaker 5: to picking. Even when you're on an acoustic guitar and
- 24:30Speaker 5: the finger work, it's still fun to watch. And a
- 24:32Speaker 5: lot of people that buy those tickets, if they see
- 24:36Speaker 5: a lineup, they might say, oh, I've heard of these people,
- 24:39Speaker 5: but I don't know if I would pay to go
- 24:40Speaker 5: see them. Then they get there and they're like, wow,
- 24:42Speaker 5: I had no idea the show was going to be
- 24:43Speaker 5: this good.
- 24:44Speaker 1: That's a great point. It's just wild. So next year,
- 24:46Speaker 1: make it a point, buy your tickets, and go see
- 24:48Speaker 1: the secret show. You're never going to be disappointed. The
- 24:51Speaker 1: Cooperage is a great location, by the way. They've got
- 24:54Speaker 1: the little, you know, they're right on the river. They're
- 24:56Speaker 1: attached to Boone and Crockett. They've got that great food
- 24:58Speaker 1: truck park right outside. So before, you can pregame.
- 25:03Speaker 5: And after, everybody went out there and post-gamed after the
- 25:06Speaker 5: concert and hung out and watched the boats go up
- 25:08Speaker 5: and down the river, had a couple cocktails and some food.
- 25:10Speaker 1: That's a good spot.
- 25:11Speaker 4: It is.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I ran into your partner on the street later in
- 25:14Speaker 1: the evening. You did? As she was having dinner, yeah.
- 25:16Speaker 1: I ran into her on the street. Random running. She's
- 25:19Speaker 1: having a post game. She's been in my neighborhood all day.
- 25:23Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
- 25:24Speaker 5: She did say she was down there at a couple
- 25:25Speaker 5: different locations. She's more of a downtown girl. She used
- 25:27Speaker 5: to live just off of downtown where I'm more of
- 25:29Speaker 5: a south side guy.
- 25:30Speaker 3: You just dropped the bar. Is that a country song yet?
- 25:33Speaker 1: She's a downtown girl. Send it to somebody for something
- 25:36Speaker 1: to write. Wish it to Nashville. She's a downtown girl.
- 25:40Speaker 1: That's it. That's it right there. Don't attach that sample.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Don't have Armand sing the demo tape.
- 25:47Speaker 3: That's Scott Dolphin's copyright. Anyone stealing that? It's going to
- 25:52Speaker 3: sound cooler when Brantley sings it.
- 25:54Speaker 1: Downtown girl. We'll get to Brewers Cubs momentarily. Dolph, I
- 25:58Speaker 1: did not follow. We were so busy with Josh Jacobs
- 26:00Speaker 1: and the Packers cuts. Did not follow anything the Bears did.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Were there any surprises from their cuts? Because I was
- 26:06Speaker 1: going to ask you if you were excited about an
- 26:08Speaker 1: Iowa Hawkeye coming to Green Bay to tote the Rockets.
- 26:10Speaker 5: I'm never excited about Iowa Hawkeyes going to Green Bay.
- 26:12Speaker 5: It seems to happen. Not as much as it used to,
- 26:14Speaker 5: but it still seems to happen far more often than
- 26:17Speaker 5: I wanted to grab.
- 26:18Speaker 4: Mr.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Van Ness is in the spotlight right now.
- 26:21Speaker 5: Yeah, so Caleb Johnson was a freaking nightmare for defenses
- 26:25Speaker 5: when he was in Iowa a couple years ago.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Yeah, All-American. I mean, he just.
- 26:29Speaker 5: He either ran over people or he ran by them
- 26:31Speaker 5: for a big man. He's got such great moves, but
- 26:34Speaker 5: for whatever reason, I don't know if he didn't study
- 26:35Speaker 5: the playbook or what last year in Pittsburgh, but he
- 26:38Speaker 5: was lost in the depth chart.
- 26:39Speaker 1: I remember him.
- 26:40Speaker 5: You know, they tried to use him on kickoff return
- 26:42Speaker 5: and he had some costly fumbles and it just did
- 26:45Speaker 5: not work out for him. So hopefully a fresh start
- 26:48Speaker 5: in Green Bay will be just what that's it.
- 26:50Speaker 2: I don't remember him being a kick returner. And then
- 26:53Speaker 2: when they make him a kick returner, you're like, OK,
- 26:55Speaker 2: I don't know that this is necessarily where you're going
- 26:57Speaker 2: to see a 230 pounder be able to showcase his ability.
- 27:02Speaker 2: I really liked him. I loved him coming out of
- 27:05Speaker 2: the draft. We watched what he did. He did it
- 27:06Speaker 2: to Wisconsin a couple of different times. But he is
- 27:09Speaker 2: just a physical back that when you get now a
- 27:12Speaker 2: second-year player who was a second-round pick, if I'm not mistaken,
- 27:16Speaker 2: for a seventh-round pick.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Second or third, something like that, yeah. You got to
- 27:18Speaker 1: take a swing.
- 27:19Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot worse swings you could
- 27:21Speaker 2: take than Caleb Johnson, who's run against some legit NFL-style
- 27:25Speaker 2: defenses in the Big Ten.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Before, too. Yeah, absolutely.
- 27:28Speaker 5: I mean, the kid's got all the talent in the world.
- 27:29Speaker 5: That's why I was such a head-scratcher last year for
- 27:32Speaker 5: him in Pittsburgh. And then he had fallen down the
- 27:34Speaker 5: depth chart even farther this year.
- 27:35Speaker 1: The summer. So it was it was time to go.
- 27:38Speaker 1: And that's a good landing spot for him. There's opportunities. Yeah,
- 27:41Speaker 1: I knew we didn't remember.
- 27:42Speaker 2: I'd remember part of Caleb Johnson's night a couple of
- 27:46Speaker 2: years ago when the Hawkeyes put it on the Badgers.
- 27:48Speaker 1: Pretty bad. Forty two to ten.
- 27:49Speaker 4: It was.
- 27:49Speaker 1: And that was the go to hand. Shake the hand.
- 27:52Speaker 1: And the linebacker for the Hawkeyes was just donked. dog
- 27:57Speaker 1: walking the pack, uh, the Badgers Higgins. Oh, Jay Higgins,
- 28:00Speaker 1: Jay Higgins. He's laughing at everybody. Caleb Johnson. Yeah, I
- 28:04Speaker 1: was right.
- 28:04Speaker 2: It was a 24 totes for a buck 35 and
- 28:06Speaker 2: three teeth.
- 28:07Speaker 1: That's a solid. That's not a bad night. That's not
- 28:09Speaker 1: a bad night. Not a bad night. Yeah. Jay Higgins.
- 28:12Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 28:12Speaker 1: He's a Baltimore Raven. Now I think I want to
- 28:14Speaker 1: say did the, uh, Bears cut anybody of note?
- 28:18Speaker 5: The backup running back I thought they thought would make
- 28:21Speaker 5: the team, and he was cut outright. The biggest surprise
- 28:24Speaker 5: to me, and I guess it wasn't to a lot
- 28:25Speaker 5: of Bears fans because they didn't think they were going
- 28:27Speaker 5: to pick up that contract, was Jervon Dexter, who I
- 28:29Speaker 5: liked a lot when he was on the field, but
- 28:32Speaker 5: he was not in Ben Johnson's plan, so he was dealt.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Traded away uh yesterday so shipped.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Him off i thought jedrick wills would have a real
- 28:40Speaker 2: chance to be the left tackle they decided that he
- 28:42Speaker 2: wasn't that was another surprise game performance probably uh did
- 28:46Speaker 2: something there but that's a former top 10 pick it
- 28:48Speaker 2: was has all the talent in the world with cleveland
- 28:51Speaker 2: just couldn't stay healthy and just seemingly doesn't have it
- 28:55Speaker 2: is the guy you're talking.
- 28:55Speaker 5: About thank you rahman yeah that's the guy that i
- 28:57Speaker 5: thought would make the roster uh But, yeah, the guy
- 29:01Speaker 5: you just mentioned, he got schooled on a couple of
- 29:05Speaker 5: those televised games.
- 29:06Speaker 1: I mean, beaten badly. Yeah, tough. Dave Wonstadt was liking him. Oh,
- 29:10Speaker 1: big guy.
- 29:11Speaker 2: He can move all over the place.
- 29:15Speaker 1: He didn't necessarily have it once coach put the play
- 29:18Speaker 1: sheet away there at practice.
- 29:19Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't know. There was no shocking surprises,
- 29:23Speaker 5: I don't think, for the Bears. I mean, I think
- 29:25Speaker 5: Ben Johnson likes who he likes, and they're ready. Packers-Bears,
- 29:29Speaker 5: always an event, especially now. It's one you circle.
- 29:33Speaker 1: But does it compare to what happens this week, this
- 29:35Speaker 1: little seven game tournament, seven games in 10 days of
- 29:37Speaker 1: the Brewers are playing the Cubs. This is a playoff atmosphere.
- 29:40Speaker 1: These games are going to feel like playoff games.
- 29:42Speaker 5: Pleasantly surprised when I woke up this morning and saw
- 29:44Speaker 5: the Cubs lost again last night.
- 29:45Speaker 1: So they dropped three straight series.
- 29:47Speaker 5: That makes it, that makes a little less stressful for
- 29:51Speaker 5: the Brewers with that eight game lead with seven to
- 29:53Speaker 5: play with Chicago.
- 29:54Speaker 1: How about the Brewers with after that, they got swept
- 29:57Speaker 1: in San Diego. Everybody was just, dobbers were down. It's like, oh,
- 30:00Speaker 1: they're going to LA. Oh my God. This is like,
- 30:02Speaker 1: then you saw Atlanta start coming off. And then the
- 30:05Speaker 1: birds have not lost a series since that time. Fowers
- 30:08Speaker 1: gave one per very, very pertinent message. Chill the out.
- 30:12Speaker 1: I love bleep out. Boy, did that work? And it's
- 30:14Speaker 1: just emblematic of what they've done the last few years.
- 30:17Speaker 3: When, when they've held these division leads, as soon as
- 30:19Speaker 3: it seems like their foot slipping a bit, or someone
- 30:22Speaker 3: gets closer, they push them back at arm's length and
- 30:24Speaker 3: they find a way to, To re-energize themselves.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Yeah, and every spring training, somebody the next year picks
- 30:28Speaker 1: them third.
- 30:29Speaker 3: Yeah, and 84.5 was the total, by the way. That
- 30:32Speaker 3: blew by over the weekend.
- 30:34Speaker 1: 84.5 wins. Beat it in August. An unconscionable number by Vegas.
- 30:38Speaker 1: If you got the money, good. Yeah, the computer nerds
- 30:40Speaker 1: had it, too. Yeah, and they were wrong this time. Yeah,
- 30:42Speaker 1: I was going to say, they also do have the
- 30:43Speaker 1: best record in baseball. It's not like... For them to
- 30:46Speaker 1: be able to beat it here, somebody was going to
- 30:48Speaker 1: have their win total cracked probably around the exact same time. Probably, yeah.
- 30:52Speaker 1: And you don't fluke your way to it. And we
- 30:54Speaker 1: heard Murph's post-game comments that Hunter had. And he's just like, well,
- 30:58Speaker 1: we have to play a certain way. Say we're underdogs,
- 31:00Speaker 1: but we have to play a certain way. If we
- 31:01Speaker 1: have to bunt five times in a row, we're going
- 31:03Speaker 1: to bunt five times in a row. We have to
- 31:04Speaker 1: play a certain way with an intensity and a defense.
- 31:06Speaker 1: So yesterday, defense failed him a little bit. Mitchell and
- 31:10Speaker 1: Churio kind of got a little miscommunication on a ball. Yeah,
- 31:13Speaker 1: I thought that one was going to get caught, but.
- 31:15Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you buy it when
- 31:16Speaker 1: you look at the the game cast or whatever and
- 31:19Speaker 1: you see. OK, so that that ball had like a
- 31:21Speaker 1: 15 percent hit percentage. So 85 percent of that's caught.
- 31:26Speaker 1: It was in the air a long time. It went
- 31:27Speaker 1: to the gap and it's like Mitchell just kind of
- 31:30Speaker 1: pulled up because there was hesitation there. Yeah, it's like
- 31:32Speaker 1: kind of landed in between. It was like a no
- 31:34Speaker 1: man's land play. That sent the Rangers on their way.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Always surprised at that level that that happens more often
- 31:41Speaker 5: than not. You see it with Lara sometimes, too, drifting
- 31:43Speaker 5: into Mitchell's radar zone there, where it shouldn't happen at
- 31:45Speaker 5: that level.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Lara was a center fielder, so it's like center fielder
- 31:48Speaker 1: has eminent domain. They're the coach. Anything he can get to.
- 31:50Speaker 1: They're the boss. He's Kelly Leak. Anything he can get to,
- 31:53Speaker 1: he can go catch.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Kelly Leak.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Kelly Leak, bad news bear. He can go catch it,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and he's supposed to. That's the center fielder's the guy,
- 31:59Speaker 1: the default guy. The other one is like in between,
- 32:02Speaker 1: those in-betweens, because... We get a little spoiled because they're
- 32:04Speaker 1: so good now. Players are so good, and they cover
- 32:07Speaker 1: so much ground. Terang makes plays all the way where
- 32:10Speaker 1: a shortstop would be. When he goes into short right field,
- 32:15Speaker 1: the right fielder who's coming in is supposed to have
- 32:17Speaker 1: the priority. He can call them off, but a lot
- 32:20Speaker 1: of times those guys make those plays. It is weird.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Your default setting for defense, but the Brewers are a
- 32:26Speaker 1: good defense team. Cubs are a great defense. Really, really good.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Good as it gets. And Terang had one.
- 32:32Speaker 2: I can't, again, over the weekend, having as high of
- 32:35Speaker 2: a BAC for the majority of the weekend as I did,
- 32:37Speaker 2: it was difficult to fully be.
- 32:38Speaker 1: Bachelor party weekend. In the UP.
- 32:41Speaker 2: Yeah, fully be able to remember exactly what day. I
- 32:43Speaker 2: think it was Saturday night. He grabs one on the
- 32:46Speaker 2: left side of second base and before he even throws
- 32:48Speaker 2: the ball, I'm like, oh, sweet, guy's out. Because you
- 32:51Speaker 2: just become so accustomed to every single play being made
- 32:55Speaker 2: around there.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Right.
- 32:55Speaker 1: That it's difficult when it doesn't happen. And making great
- 32:59Speaker 1: plays look normal.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Like, you know, he just, he makes these hard plays
- 33:02Speaker 3: look normal, but yeah, he dropped that ball on yesterday.
- 33:04Speaker 1: It was kind of weird, but the Rangers had a,
- 33:07Speaker 1: the Rangers were, they were kind of flattened. They're not,
- 33:10Speaker 1: they're not good. I mean, they're not good players, but
- 33:12Speaker 1: they're not a good team. They weren't there, but they
- 33:14Speaker 1: kind of gave it. They, they looked a little, they
- 33:16Speaker 1: showed more life yesterday.
- 33:18Speaker 2: They, they're in one of the weirdest spots. Cause there
- 33:20Speaker 2: are two games out of the playoffs and winning the division.
- 33:23Speaker 2: They're three games under. And the team they're chasing already
- 33:26Speaker 2: fired their GMs. Yeah, it's just too easy. The American
- 33:29Speaker 2: League in general, I mean, when you look at the
- 33:31Speaker 2: wild card race. Guardians, Orioles, all these teams are in
- 33:34Speaker 2: it that you wouldn't think.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Brewers still have the Orioles, don't they? Yes. Yes. Back
- 33:37Speaker 1: end of September. Brewers are playing. That's the trip. The
- 33:41Speaker 1: Brewers have that three-city trip. It's in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Baltimore. Yes,
- 33:44Speaker 1: the big bedwater out in the mid-Atlantic. The land of
- 33:47Speaker 1: crab cakes, cheesecakes, cheesesteaks. That's what Maryland does. Primanti Brothers.
- 33:52Speaker 1: crab cakes and baseball. It's like 20 years old now,
- 33:57Speaker 1: isn't it? It's tough though.
- 33:59Speaker 5: When you get into that second, third week of September,
- 34:01Speaker 5: there's so much competition for your viewing, man. You know,
- 34:04Speaker 5: college football is going to be in full swing, the NFL,
- 34:06Speaker 5: but you want to keep one eye on the Brewers playoffs,
- 34:08Speaker 5: especially if it's down to three or four games.
- 34:10Speaker 1: They always play on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dolph. Yeah, right.
- 34:13Speaker 1: Great point.
- 34:13Speaker 2: They always play on Tuesday and Wednesday, so there's always
- 34:15Speaker 2: a viewing window for at least a little bit.
- 34:17Speaker 3: All right, guys, I'm working the AI to work some
- 34:19Speaker 3: lyrics on my new single, Downtown Girl.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Can AI do vocals, too? Because I think that was
- 34:25Speaker 1: more of the problem than we heard before.
- 34:27Speaker 3: We'll get a real voice. Here's a couple lines in
- 34:29Speaker 3: the hook. She's a downtown girl living on the clock.
- 34:32Speaker 3: I'm a small-time boy kicking up the rocks.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Oh, rocks. Pause.
- 34:37Speaker 4: Pause. Wow.
- 34:39Speaker 1: What did you think I was going to say? That's
- 34:40Speaker 1: not where we thought it was going. I thought you
- 34:41Speaker 1: were going into Dice Clay territory. Oh, no, no.
- 34:45Speaker 3: No, this reflects the difference.
- 34:48Speaker 1: Just a downtown girl sounds like a Journey ripoff, so
- 34:50Speaker 1: you're already going to have to change the lyrics.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I also think I want Josh Turner
- 34:55Speaker 3: to record this one because he's got hometown girls.
- 34:58Speaker 5: Okay, Billy, was it that close? You just got to
- 35:00Speaker 5: be careful. Don't make it too close to uptime.
- 35:02Speaker 1: It was reading right down there. Uptime girl living on
- 35:04Speaker 1: the clock. I thought she... Hickory dickory dock. All you
- 35:08Speaker 1: had to do was take it out. Okay, okay, okay.
- 35:10Speaker 1: My God. Where do you hear this bar? Kids are
- 35:13Speaker 1: driving to school, Armin. Okay, I know. Come on. All right.
- 35:17Speaker 3: She has a reservation at a spot you can't get in.
- 35:20Speaker 3: I got a spot by the river where the catfish spin.
- 35:23Speaker 4: Come on.
- 35:25Speaker 1: No, I thought he was going to be awful. Talking
- 35:27Speaker 1: about his catfish? AI will never replace the guy sitting
- 35:30Speaker 1: in a room drinking beers in Nashville. Exactly. Holy cow.
- 35:34Speaker 1: With their hand-rolled cigarettes. Yeah.
- 35:35Speaker 3: I'm stuck in traffic on Broadway. I got the Nashville
- 35:38Speaker 3: theme going. In a rusted Chevrolet, she's checking a reflection
- 35:41Speaker 3: in a rooftop cafe.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Wow. Oh, boy. No. Pretty awful. Well, it wasn't me.
- 35:47Speaker 1: It was AI.
- 35:48Speaker 3: I know, but it's pretty awful. That's fine. I guess
- 35:52Speaker 3: this one's not going to hit.
- 35:53Speaker 1: All right. Is she from the other side of the tracks?
- 35:55Speaker 1: Let me fire in the AI. She got to pick
- 35:57Speaker 1: up and went down to the lake. But she took
- 35:59Speaker 1: the dog now. Oh, my God. Speaking of dog stuff,
- 36:04Speaker 1: how's your puppy doing? Kicking the rocks.
- 36:06Speaker 5: Opal is doing great. Thanks for asking. She got a
- 36:08Speaker 5: haircut over the weekend and lost about half of her
- 36:12Speaker 5: body weight, actually. She was a big shaggy. She looked
- 36:14Speaker 5: like a dog that had been without a home for
- 36:16Speaker 5: a long time.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Shaggy doodle. How many pounds? She's 12 pounds. So it's
- 36:21Speaker 1: a mini doodle.
- 36:22Speaker 5: She'll only get to 25 pounds.
- 36:24Speaker 1: My mom has a mini golden. Yeah, so much fun.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Wonderful temper. Too smart. For me, it often outsmarts me,
- 36:32Speaker 1: but for the most part, a lot of fun to
- 36:33Speaker 1: be around. Fantastic. Dolph, thanks for hanging out with us.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Appreciate it, as always. We're going to just make our
- 36:38Speaker 1: adjustments and get into the second half and own it.
- 36:40Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee joins us about an hour from right now.
- 36:42Speaker 1: We'll talk about cuts, Josh Jacobs, and everything that happened
- 36:45Speaker 1: on Saturday night, which seems like it was a month ago.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Or Friday night. Seems like it was a month ago.
- 36:50Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Armin Sarian
- 36:55Speaker 1: trying to be a country song, a country music writer.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Is this your song? No, this is a real song.
- 36:59Speaker 2: Oh, I thought I didn't know if AI hit you
- 37:02Speaker 2: with some lyrics in there, too.
- 37:04Speaker 1: All you got to do is punch in. They'll give
- 37:06Speaker 1: you some vocals. It's crazy how this works.
- 37:08Speaker 2: They'll give you some vocals on it that'll be far
- 37:10Speaker 2: better than whatever you put on.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Far better. Are you kidding me? All right.
- 37:15Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Need your hot takes. I mean, I'm sorry, your hot takes.
- 37:17Speaker 1: Game balls and kicks today. And we did get one
- 37:22Speaker 1: that kicked to the balls to John Smoltz for his
- 37:24Speaker 1: performance on Saturday night.
- 37:26Speaker 4: All right.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Cue it up. We're ready for that. A lot of smoke.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Everyone loves that one. A lot of smoke on that one. Yeah.
- 37:32Speaker 2: How about a game ball to the Bison of North
- 37:35Speaker 2: Dakota State?
- 37:37Speaker 4: Pause.
- 37:39Speaker 2: 33-7, Drew, in their first ever game as an FBS school.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Moving up from what used to be considered 1AA, is
- 37:47Speaker 2: the football championship subdivision. Now they're into the football bowl subdivision.
- 37:53Speaker 2: They've been a powerhouse in FCS. They've won 10 national titles.
- 37:56Speaker 2: The Fargo Dome was rocking against Jacksonville State on Saturday,
- 38:00Speaker 2: and they dog walked the Gamecocks.
- 38:03Speaker 1: They absolutely donkied them, and I anticipate they're going to
- 38:07Speaker 1: do a decent amount of that in the Mountain West
- 38:09Speaker 1: this year. They're one of the favorites to win the conference.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Their coach was all fired up, pushing back tears after
- 38:15Speaker 2: the game, but that was the first step, and they
- 38:17Speaker 2: are a powerhouse going into D1. And I'm excited because
- 38:20Speaker 2: that place is a gorgeous spot to watch football on television.
- 38:24Speaker 2: And I'm excited for more of those games to be
- 38:25Speaker 2: on their regular windows. Yeah, that minus seven felt like
- 38:28Speaker 2: an apple right there in the tree.
- 38:29Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Because, you know, they were going
- 38:31Speaker 3: to play well. I mean, they always do in these situations.
- 38:34Speaker 3: To me, at least, it seemed like one they were
- 38:36Speaker 3: going to play well. And so a nice one for
- 38:38Speaker 3: them over the weekend. And, you know, just a game
- 38:40Speaker 3: ball in general for college football being back.
- 38:42Speaker 1: I think, was nice over the weekend.
- 38:44Speaker 4: Pause.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Pause. All right. Time for Who's Hot Who's Not brought
- 38:47Speaker 1: to us by Donovan Jorgensen Heating and Cooling. And as
- 38:51Speaker 1: sick as people are of MVPCA. Yeah, that's in there.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Five homers and two at-bats. As hot as can be.
- 38:57Speaker 1: He's crazy. Five homers and two games. He's just a
- 38:59Speaker 1: leadoff nightmare.
- 39:01Speaker 2: I would, Drew, I'm okay walking him. You can't obviously
- 39:05Speaker 2: walk him all series, right? Not what you can do
- 39:08Speaker 2: for seven games. But if there's people on second, if
- 39:11Speaker 2: there's somebody on second base and first base is open,
- 39:13Speaker 2: there you go, man.
- 39:14Speaker 1: All right. Come on, throw those four up.
- 39:16Speaker 2: Especially, as you said earlier, There's no chance on God's
- 39:19Speaker 2: green earth I'm throwing him a fastball in that opening sequence.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Thank you. Make him chase him. Someone sent us the
- 39:25Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong has a 160 batting average with 15 hits,
- 39:27Speaker 1: 5 homers, 12 RBI, and 15 runs scored. in 30
- 39:30Speaker 1: career games against the Brewers.
- 39:31Speaker 4: 160.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
- 39:34Speaker 2: I like more highlights of him trying to go up
- 39:36Speaker 2: and rob bombs that are already bouncing off the batter's eye.
- 39:39Speaker 2: That one's a lot better than him hopefully not pimping
- 39:42Speaker 2: a home run like he was able to because he
- 39:44Speaker 2: hit it to the moon again. Also in the hot category,
- 39:47Speaker 2: Bo Perbula, first game with the Virginia Cavaliers. Tony Elliott's
- 39:51Speaker 2: Cavs just put it on Dave Thorne's Wolfpack.
- 39:53Speaker 1: 34-8.
- 39:54Speaker 2: He had 110 rushing yards, 155 yards through the air,
- 39:59Speaker 2: two touchdowns.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Cavs might be something to watch. It's going to be fun.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Also, a tough one for who's not hot, Hawaii bettors.
- 40:08Speaker 2: as that plus four against Stanford looked great until a
- 40:11Speaker 2: scoop and score with a minute to go by the trees.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Bad beats. Cover it up.
- 40:16Speaker 2: Bad beats are back with college football being back.
- 40:18Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Who's hot?
- 40:19Speaker 3: Who's not?
- 40:19Speaker 1: Brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen. He didn't even cool it.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Check him out. Employee owned for 40 years. All right.
- 40:24Speaker 1: When we come back, we got our current electric superhero
- 40:27Speaker 1: of the day. We got Wayne Larrabee. He's a superhero, too.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.