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09/10/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Pulling through a Thursday in the good land, the huddle
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Speaker 1: who have joined us today. What'd you miss? Well, a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. We're tired from sweeping the Cubs and
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Speaker 2: Left a lot to be desired, but you know what
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Speaker 1: premise for food, Bev, whatever you want to buy. Just
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Speaker 1: went to the marketplace. Not alcohol, but anything else. I
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Speaker 1: was going to say not alcohol, but listen. And not gambling.
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Speaker 2: The alcohol specials are going to be so good that
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Speaker 2: you don't even need it. That's true. My wife and
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Speaker 2: I went to make some investments on that game last night.
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Speaker 2: uh yesterday and had some lunch at the uh the
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Speaker 2: marketplace we talked about that burger spot all the time
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Speaker 2: that burger is legit.
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Speaker 3: I love that burger we've talked about that burger billy
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Speaker 3: we went to the uh taco establishment that's good too
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Speaker 3: i've heard.
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Speaker 2: Nominal burritos good stuff that you can be able to
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Speaker 2: have the pizza the pizza spot pizzas the pizza rips
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Speaker 2: and the other part is uh when you're out you
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Speaker 2: know watching some games late at night.
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Speaker 1: It's also one of the later kitchens that's open there
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Speaker 1: at the marketplace. I believe until midnight or 1 a.m.
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Speaker 3: And if you're looking for something different, they have a
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Speaker 3: place in that marketplace called Queen of Ramen. And if
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Speaker 3: you're looking for a little ramen, I'm telling you, that
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Speaker 3: ramen's as good as any special ramen you're getting.
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Speaker 2: You're watching them street cooking videos if you're seeing that
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Speaker 2: ramen right out of the gates, huh?
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Speaker 3: I had the ramen, and I'm telling you, and I was...
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Speaker 3: sitting with Laura and we're sitting there. I said, there's
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Speaker 3: this bowl's never ending. There's all kinds of stuff in
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Speaker 3: this ramen. I mean, it was really, it was, this is.
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Speaker 1: Not your microwave on the third floor. Ramen is what
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing.
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Speaker 3: This is as good as any restaurant ramen you're going
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Speaker 3: to get. It's filled with all kinds of stuff. And me,
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Speaker 3: it's just really good. So, I mean, if you're looking
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Speaker 3: for something different, Don't sleep on the Queen of Ramen
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Speaker 3: spot there as well in the marketplace. There's a lot
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Speaker 3: of good options. That one's yes.
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Speaker 1: You're right, Billy.
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Speaker 3: That one's always open or open the longest, I think,
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Speaker 3: of the food spots.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing. Sportsbook's going to be spectacular and
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Speaker 1: we'll be sampling a lot. I'm getting some fried chicken tonight.
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Speaker 1: It's so good.
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Speaker 3: Hard not to.
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Speaker 2: It's hard not to.
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Speaker 1: Billy's going eight-piece chicken dinner. Yes, 100%. I'm getting the
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Speaker 1: spicy breading too.
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Speaker 3: They have wonderful salads and stuff. I don't think this
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Speaker 3: is a salad night.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no. What are you doing? It is always
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Speaker 1: a nacho night, though, when you go there.
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Speaker 2: So I'll definitely, one of the times I'll be touching
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Speaker 2: that up.
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Speaker 1: But we got to start it out strong. We got
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Speaker 1: to start it out hot. We're starting it out with
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Speaker 1: the spicy dried chicken. That's going to happen tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think of the things that are like,
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Speaker 3: and you mentioned the quesadillas, Drew, because that's one of
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Speaker 3: the things you can kind of eat in radio and
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Speaker 3: not get too messy at the table.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's smart.
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Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about that stuff. Well, Billy, it's the
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Speaker 3: first night. The show will also be streamed, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can watch us on the usual channels. You're
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Speaker 1: hearing about the food. You're like, well, sweet guys, audio medium.
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Speaker 2: Visual medium as well because you'll be hanging out with
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Speaker 2: us on YouTube, Facebook, and X as well on the
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Speaker 2: video streaming side throughout the night. So very excited. We'll
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Speaker 2: make some picks, hopefully have some winners to discuss. And Drew,
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Speaker 2: talk about a much, much more compelling and exciting game
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Speaker 2: because you said it yesterday, tonight's game.
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Speaker 1: We're all more excited for it. I have a higher expectation.
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Speaker 1: A lot higher expectations for 49ers-Rams. I think this one's
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Speaker 1: going to deliver. Even though it's the jet lag bowl,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see if it's better to get there a
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Speaker 1: week early or the day of to fire it up
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Speaker 1: and show and go. But that's the subtext of it.
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Speaker 1: But it's two heavyweight teams with high hopes for the season.
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Speaker 1: Both teams won 12 games last year. You kind of
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Speaker 1: forget how good San Francisco is. And Kittle's back. He's
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Speaker 1: going to be fired up for San Francisco. And Aaron
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Speaker 1: Donald will not play and did not make the trip
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Speaker 1: for the Rams, but he'll work his way in soon.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, they got Miles Garrett. They
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Speaker 2: got Miles Garrett, so they got a nice little undercard there.
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Speaker 2: I also am excited to see how Christian McCaffrey handles it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we talk about the jet lag for anybody. McCaffrey,
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Speaker 2: the injury questions for him are always bountiful, so I
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Speaker 2: wonder how he performs tonight.
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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Packers
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Speaker 1: because we'll have an updated injury report and When it
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Speaker 1: comes to the Green Bay Packers, well, inside four hours
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Speaker 1: from right now, there's a little appointment at the Brown
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Speaker 1: County district attorney's office in Brown County court, Josh Jacobs
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Speaker 1: with an initial appearance, which was moved up, which tells
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Speaker 1: me something's going on. I kind of thought it would
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Speaker 1: happen because when we heard November, like, okay, so they
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Speaker 1: moved it up to this afternoon or this morning at
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Speaker 1: 11 AM. I think there's some kind of plea deal
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Speaker 1: with some kind of like, he'll go to a counseling
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Speaker 1: program as well. And, And then they can close the
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Speaker 1: book on that, which will make the NFL more comfortable
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Speaker 1: in rendering a final decision.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because there needs to be a decision on it.
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Speaker 2: And I still feel whether or not the court process
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Speaker 2: is done or not, the only thing that's going to
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Speaker 2: end the NFL conversation and give a clear– on how
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Speaker 2: many games he'll be suspended is when Roger Goodell sees
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Speaker 2: that video. Now, potentially, if the plea deal is what
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Speaker 2: it is, it is what is happening later on today, Drew.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that is, hey, we get to see it and
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Speaker 2: then it never sees the light of day again, right?
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Speaker 2: Like we allow it to be seen by one individual
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Speaker 2: on Park Avenue. And then we never see it again
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Speaker 2: or it comes out after today and the contents of
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Speaker 2: that video then get judged and then everything else happens
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Speaker 2: from there. But the first thing is you need that
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Speaker 2: video to have Roger Goodell's eyes on. And I think
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Speaker 2: the process being moved up, whether it's expedited for it
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Speaker 2: to be a no contest or whatever, there's definitely an
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Speaker 2: end game here coming. Now, I would expect the NFL
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Speaker 2: to handle it pretty quickly after this. process goes, right?
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Speaker 1: I think so.
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Speaker 2: I think once in the negotiations with it, to your point, Drew,
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Speaker 2: if indeed he pleads guilty or no contest later on today,
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Speaker 2: I think we might have a resolution from the NFL
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Speaker 2: as early as tomorrow afternoon. They'll make a determination and
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Speaker 2: let you know exactly what the process is, but they'll
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Speaker 2: be going into this one coming up this weekend with
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Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs on the shelf and Caleb Johnson, Marshawn Lloyd,
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Speaker 2: and Chris Brooks, probably your main running back coming in there.
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Speaker 1: I think we're going to get a verdict. I mean,
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Speaker 1: A verdict from the NFL. Once that this case ends,
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Speaker 1: and I think it will end today because there will
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Speaker 1: be a plea deal of some kind, then the NFL
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Speaker 1: can say, okay, with all the information we have, here's
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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Yeah, here's your six games. Four games,
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Speaker 1: six games, here it is. I think it's one of
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Speaker 1: those two. Everybody moves on. You in the same boat?
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Speaker 1: Do you think it would be more? I think it
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Speaker 1: could be six is... I think six is in the ballpark.
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Speaker 1: They might go lenient with four, depending on the charges
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Speaker 1: and what can happen. Those are the two numbers that
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Speaker 1: have just come to my head, is the four and six.
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Speaker 1: And then you see where it ends up. And then
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Speaker 1: you have a clear delineation of, you know Micah Parsons
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Speaker 1: is probably back week six or seven. I still thought
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Speaker 1: it would have been later, but from all indications, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be sooner. And then you would have an
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Speaker 1: understanding of you're going to play four weeks without two
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Speaker 1: of your top five or six guys, two of your
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Speaker 1: top 10 guys, wherever you end up stacking those guys in,
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Speaker 1: but it at least gives you an understanding of the
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Speaker 1: runway you have to deal with. And then how long
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Speaker 1: you have for these dudes in the wide receiver department
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Speaker 1: to be able to cash in on. I think what
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are anticipating this being a lot
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Speaker 1: more offensive driven football team through the arm of Jordan love, right?
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Speaker 1: Like without Jacobson, the lineup drew and Whatever the offensive
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Speaker 1: line maturation is, whether it is Zach Bacoboele who told
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Speaker 1: Matt Schneiman yesterday he's playing, he expects to play, he's
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Speaker 1: going to be going.
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Speaker 2: For how long he does, that's a question. We'll see
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Speaker 2: if he's able to hold up or if they do
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Speaker 2: rotate in Belton at some point to try to keep
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Speaker 2: him somewhat fresh. Quick passing game and the ability to
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Speaker 2: get the ball in and out of Love's hands is
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Speaker 2: going to be how they're going to have to roll
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Speaker 2: these first couple of weeks. And the injury front from...
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Speaker 2: Going into week one is concerning on the offensive line,
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Speaker 2: but if a guy is out this week, I would
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Speaker 2: suggest and guess that you're probably out in week number
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Speaker 2: two because I don't think your first game of the
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Speaker 2: year they're going to wind on that MetLife turf that
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Speaker 2: people have cursed for years.
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Speaker 1: That's my guess as well. I would totally agree.
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Speaker 2: So if you don't see Baco Buele coming up on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: which he expects and I expect him to be out there,
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Speaker 2: I think you'll see him coming up week number three
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Speaker 2: on that Thursday night game against the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: At Lambeau. We talked about it a lot.
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Speaker 2: The schedule is somewhat forgiving early. You just got to
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Speaker 2: be able to capitalize and finish these games. You saw
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Speaker 2: it last night with the Patriots, and they're up 10,
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Speaker 2: nothing on the road opportunity to close out and finish
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Speaker 2: off the team that just beat you five months ago
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Speaker 2: for the title and not being able to close what
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Speaker 2: bit them all of last year.
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Speaker 1: And it was their point of emphasis all year long.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see if they're able to bear fruits
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Speaker 2: from that process all year long. Cause as Wayne Larrabee
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Speaker 2: is going to join us tomorrow at seven 25, he
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Speaker 2: had talked about it a lot last year, ball King
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Speaker 2: and being about the ball was their defensive.
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Speaker 1: Mantra all last year.
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Speaker 2: And I think it took till week six or seven
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Speaker 2: for them to force fumble.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a Wayne's point. And Wayne always brings this up.
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Speaker 3: It's his words. It's, it's a lot of luck and
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Speaker 3: randomness involved in takeaways and turnovers and getting takeaways at
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Speaker 3: least for defense. So It just shows you can make
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Speaker 3: an emphasis, and that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to
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Speaker 3: get them. So you have to put yourself in position
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Speaker 3: and make the play. So a lot to see here.
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Speaker 3: Jess Mann with a lot of good stuff here on
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Speaker 3: the YouTube chat. So thanks, Jess Mann, for being involved
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Speaker 3: here on the YouTube comments. His theory is that the
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Speaker 3: Packers will immediately release the Kraft extension once they announce
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Speaker 3: the Jacobs suspension. That's another one that people are wondering about.
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Speaker 3: Does Kraft get extended?
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Speaker 1: When?
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Speaker 3: What will happen during the season? Is it already done
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Speaker 3: and we're waiting to announce it? Because there are some
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Speaker 3: things floating around the Twitterverse that it might be done,
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Speaker 3: but I don't know how solid any of that is.
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Speaker 1: I don't see Tucker Kraft running out and buying a
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Speaker 1: DeLorean or something extravagant like this cash. Maybe I'm wrong,
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Speaker 1: but it just seems like it would be hard to
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Speaker 1: tell if he got it and it was signed.
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Speaker 3: But I do think he'll get it.
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Speaker 1: He'll get paid.
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Speaker 2: I would wonder, and depending upon how long this goes,
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Speaker 2: I think the answer is probably a little bit more clear.
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Speaker 2: There's a, there's a holdup on someone's side here. And
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Speaker 2: I would doubt that it would be the Packers, right?
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Speaker 2: Like the, the Packers have done this. And for only
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Speaker 2: Rogers love and Parsons, have they guaranteed money into future
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Speaker 2: years of the contract? If that could be the holdup
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Speaker 2: on Tucker Kraft's side of, no, you're going to guarantee
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Speaker 2: me money into years three and four.
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Speaker 1: What it's looking like. It's all language.
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Speaker 2: I think the numbers are probably fair, Drew, but it's
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Speaker 2: how long is that guarantee in the Packers that we
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Speaker 2: do business.
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Speaker 4: A certain way.
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Speaker 1: What I'm thinking about is the guaranteed money is the
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Speaker 1: sticking point. And for how long it goes.
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Speaker 2: And I understand Kraft's frustration with it, but I also
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Speaker 2: don't fault the Packers for operating under their own guidelines
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Speaker 2: of how.
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Speaker 1: They kind of do it. So given the Packers, given
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Speaker 1: that Parsons is out, Jacobs is out, and the offensive
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Speaker 1: line is iffy right now. Well, when three of your
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Speaker 1: five starters are limited participants on Wednesday, you go, oh, eek.
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Speaker 1: And those are the guys that you know of. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that we know of. But my question to you is,
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Speaker 1: at the dawn of the season, what kind of games
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Speaker 1: and what kind of vibe do we expect from the Packers?
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Speaker 1: Because will every game be a shootout? Do they have
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Speaker 1: to outscore? You know, their mistakes of not having a
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Speaker 1: pass rush. Can their defense be good enough? Will it
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Speaker 1: be kind of the middle of the pack? Because I
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Speaker 1: think of a team like the Bengals, where with their offense,
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Speaker 1: they can put up 30 any day, and they often do,
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Speaker 1: but then they lose 42 to 30. Right.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: So are the Packers going to be that good? Is
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Speaker 1: it complimentary football? Will it be in the middle of
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Speaker 1: games and every game is going to be 20-17?
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Speaker 2: I think very much so. I think the latter is
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Speaker 2: the case. I think it's going to be very middle
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Speaker 2: of the road on both sides and it's going to
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Speaker 2: come down to those couple of moments. That's where the
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Speaker 2: finishing is going to be a big part of it.
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Speaker 2: You feel like you should... when comfortably and going away
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Speaker 2: against the jets, a week two game is not going
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Speaker 2: to be the most clear versions of the teams, right?
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Speaker 2: Like it's not that the truest versions of who those
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Speaker 2: teams are.
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Speaker 1: It was such a drought last year for takeaways that
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Speaker 1: I think that market might correct. And I've been thinking
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Speaker 1: about my regression theories and stuff when it comes to the, the, uh,
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Speaker 1: the bears specifically, because, uh, on the beyond the booth
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Speaker 1: podcast with Wayne Larrabee, come on. Now we had Pete
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Speaker 1: Doherty join us. Pete's awesome. Pete's awesome. And I gave
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Speaker 1: him my theory about the Bears. Like, you can't replicate that.
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Speaker 1: You win six games in the fourth quarter. You don't
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Speaker 1: do that every year. And he pointed out that the Packers,
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Speaker 1: I think it was the second year under LeFleur, they
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Speaker 1: had the big year. They went to the NFC Championship.
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Speaker 1: And everybody thought they were ripe for regression. And they
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Speaker 1: almost got better because it was the second year under LeFleur.
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Speaker 1: And they were right. And Rodgers played out of his mind.
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Speaker 1: And he reminded me of that. And then he pointed
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Speaker 1: out that Yeah, the Bears still will struggle defensively, and
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Speaker 1: they might not have to come back in games, though,
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Speaker 1: because Caleb Williams might be better in quarters one through three,
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Speaker 1: and they're not going to be in such holes, so
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Speaker 1: it might be a different paradigm from that regard. And
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Speaker 1: I said, oh, I can buy that to an extent.
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Speaker 1: I still think their defense is wobbly. Oh, I'm with
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Speaker 1: you on that. They're going to give it up, and
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Speaker 1: so they're going to have to be that team, and
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Speaker 1: that's a hard way to live, because Burrow and his receivers,
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Speaker 1: they're not able to outscore their defensive mistakes. Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott know exactly what you're talking about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Right? Like the Cowboys were that same.
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Speaker 3: Boat last year.
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Speaker 1: We'll put up the numbers, we'll score some points, and
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Speaker 1: then we'll lose.
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Speaker 2: Prescott, the last four or five years, every year that
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Speaker 2: he's been healthy, he's put up 4,500 passing yards, and
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Speaker 2: they just don't have a defense to be able.
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Speaker 1: To stop anything. And you have to be so productive
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Speaker 1: and on every game when your defense sucks. But the
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Speaker 1: Packers might be able to play complimentary. There might be
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Speaker 1: a game or two where the Packers put up 38. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But there's also going to be games when they score 17, 14, 17.
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Speaker 1: And I definitely don't expect that to be this week.
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Speaker 2: We've seen Love have nice games against this Flores defense.
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Speaker 2: I think of the New Year's Eve game, the one
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Speaker 2: that sticks out in your mind against the Vikings. But
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Speaker 2: that's a different defense. That's a different defensive coordinator. And
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Speaker 2: this is a unit that is going to bring a
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Speaker 2: ton of heat. And Sean Ryan and company are going
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Speaker 2: to have to be on their P's and Q's ready to–
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Speaker 2: identify everything possible. I think the Packers are going to
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Speaker 2: bring a lot of heat though. Like that's where from
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Speaker 2: the little bits that we got to see during training camp,
15:50
Speaker 2: you didn't see it at all in the preseason because
15:52
Speaker 2: they weren't going to show anything. I anticipate you see
15:55
Speaker 2: some pretty exotic pressure looks, especially exotic compared to what
15:59
Speaker 2: the Packers have.
16:00
Speaker 1: Run the last number of years. It's going to be like, oh,
16:02
Speaker 1: look at this.
16:03
Speaker 2: A lot of time spent in the backfield for 56.
16:05
Speaker 2: Edron Cooper's going to be doing a lot. We saw
16:08
Speaker 2: you were there the one day where, what, they run
16:10
Speaker 2: two cat blitzes in the first three periods of teams.
16:13
Speaker 2: So I think you see some corners come, and they're
16:16
Speaker 2: going to manufacture a lot of pressure.
16:18
Speaker 1: I see that.
16:18
Speaker 3: I think we'll learn about what they wanted to do because–
16:21
Speaker 3: You know, Kyler, I mean, his legs are probably his
16:24
Speaker 3: best attribute right now.
16:25
Speaker 1: They bottled him up last year.
16:27
Speaker 3: They did, but yes, they did. And I'm hoping they
16:30
Speaker 3: can do it again. But, you know, he's indoor. You
16:32
Speaker 3: feel like, you know, a new team week one, maybe
16:35
Speaker 3: a lot more breakdown stuff happening. You know, will he
16:38
Speaker 3: try to use his legs more? I guess that's one
16:40
Speaker 3: thing in the back of my mind.
16:41
Speaker 1: I'm excited.
16:42
Speaker 2: I'm very excited defensively, Drew, to see how they try
16:45
Speaker 2: to match up with JJ and Addison. Yeah. As much
16:50
Speaker 2: as we want to know and see the matchup of
16:53
Speaker 2: Brandon Cisse against Justin Jefferson, I still think they're going
16:57
Speaker 2: to throw it at Keyshawn Nixon most.
16:58
Speaker 1: Of the time.
16:59
Speaker 2: I think there's going to be a lot of targets
17:01
Speaker 2: thrown towards 25, whoever he's covering.
17:03
Speaker 1: Maybe if the trend from camp continues, maybe by the
17:06
Speaker 1: middle of the season, the Packers, Cisse will be the
17:09
Speaker 1: clear number one and will travel. But for the most part,
17:11
Speaker 1: they don't do that. So you're right. They're going to
17:13
Speaker 1: pick on him. You're going to have to be ready.
17:16
Speaker 1: Bring your lunch pail and be ready. He's had some moments,
17:20
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. He has big swings both ways.
17:23
Speaker 1: He has great plays, and then the bad ones are eesh.
17:26
Speaker 1: And he's got the drip and the swagger that pisses
17:30
Speaker 1: people off when he doesn't produce.
17:32
Speaker 2: When the ball hits the chest and drops off, Drew,
17:34
Speaker 2: they can't lead the league in dropped interceptions.
17:37
Speaker 1: That's... For sure.
17:38
Speaker 2: Like out of the market correction stats, that to me
17:40
Speaker 2: is the most pivotal one.
17:42
Speaker 1: McKinney's one of your best players and dropped a couple
17:44
Speaker 1: last year.
17:45
Speaker 2: And the one that he catches is like the worst
17:47
Speaker 2: possible one to win Cleveland. So I am bullish on
17:50
Speaker 2: their defense. Maybe I'm naive. I also didn't like seeing
17:54
Speaker 2: Javon Hargrave on the inter-report because I was excited for
17:58
Speaker 2: his revenge game, and hopefully we still get it because
18:01
Speaker 2: he was not too happy, not too pleased with his
18:03
Speaker 2: role there in Minnesota a year ago.
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Speaker 3: Come on now.
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18:49
Speaker 1: of the Cubs and a harrowing ninth inning last night.
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19:06
Speaker 1: Good morning, Hunter. Good morning. Good to be back with
19:09
Speaker 1: you guys and feeling a little better, which is good.
19:11
Speaker 1: That's big news. We were worn down from all that
19:13
Speaker 1: sweeping that was happening this week. I guess so. Wow.
19:30
Speaker 5: That was quite impressive. Brewers got blown out in the
19:33
Speaker 5: very first game against the Cubs of the seven games
19:36
Speaker 5: and 10 day stretch. And then they come back and
19:38
Speaker 5: they win five of six. Quite impressive. Yellich said last night,
19:42
Speaker 5: it's a credit to the guys for just washing that blowout,
19:45
Speaker 5: washing it away, coming back and winning five of six
19:48
Speaker 5: and burying the Cubs in the division.
19:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:50
Speaker 2: They're still celebrating over at the cubby bar and enjoying
19:52
Speaker 2: the fact that they had 17 runs and all the
19:55
Speaker 2: homers in the month of August month of September is
19:57
Speaker 2: going to be work for that team from the North side,
19:59
Speaker 2: because now they've lost four straight and they're closer to
20:02
Speaker 2: being out of the playoffs than they are, uh, you know,
20:05
Speaker 2: for the anywhere close to the division, closer to being
20:07
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs. And the Brewers are into the
20:09
Speaker 2: wild card series, if I'm not mistaken, with the Braves
20:12
Speaker 2: sliding down. But I got to ask you about Tuesday night, Hunter,
20:15
Speaker 2: and I'm seeing this video of Jacob Mizorowski jumping over
20:18
Speaker 2: the dugout wall. Can you just put it in his
20:22
Speaker 2: ear this week? We just can't have this kid doing this.
20:24
Speaker 2: I understand the fact that we're trying to celebrate. We're
20:27
Speaker 2: having fun. Vibes are almost too good if we have
20:30
Speaker 2: Mizorowski thinking that he can leap over fences with his
20:34
Speaker 2: 6'7 frame. We need these guys to be protecting themselves
20:36
Speaker 2: a little bit. They almost are having too much fun, Hunter.
20:40
Speaker 5: I thought the same thing when I saw him jump
20:42
Speaker 5: and land. It's a slow-mo video, so I was like,
20:46
Speaker 5: All right. Maybe this is a little better than, than
20:49
Speaker 5: it would look in real time.
20:50
Speaker 1: I felt like Lou Brown. Great jump, Jacob. Don't ever
20:52
Speaker 1: do it again. Yeah.
20:54
Speaker 4: Don't do it again.
20:55
Speaker 5: Just continue to maybe just walk around, you know, walk
20:59
Speaker 5: around the fence there. Do a little bit of a
21:02
Speaker 5: jog onto the field. We want to protect everybody at
21:04
Speaker 5: all costs right now. Cause health is going to be
21:06
Speaker 5: huge coming into the post season. And yeah, they are,
21:09
Speaker 5: they are having fun. This team enjoys beating their rival Cubs.
21:14
Speaker 5: And look, they didn't shy away from talking about how
21:17
Speaker 5: big this series was, not just in the standings. We
21:19
Speaker 5: all know that Brewers had a commanding lead heading into
21:21
Speaker 5: the series, but just the rivalry in general. This has
21:24
Speaker 5: become one of the best rivalries in baseball. And honestly,
21:27
Speaker 5: I don't think it probably gets enough love as far
21:30
Speaker 5: as a rivalry around sports right now, because it is
21:33
Speaker 5: just fantastic. Almost every one of these games is close.
21:37
Speaker 5: We had blowouts on opposite ends of the seven-game stretch,
21:40
Speaker 5: although last night didn't turn out to be a blowout
21:42
Speaker 5: because of what happened in the ninth inning, but this
21:45
Speaker 5: has been some great baseball back and forth, really good teams,
21:48
Speaker 5: really talented teams doing it different ways, winning in different ways,
21:53
Speaker 5: and boy, it was just super entertaining and stressful baseball
21:58
Speaker 5: over the last week and a half.
21:59
Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing, Hunter. I think a lot of
22:02
Speaker 3: fans have echoed this, and I know everyone kind of
22:04
Speaker 3: approaches it differently, but if you're really emotionally invested as
22:08
Speaker 3: a fan, they can be totally exhausting games, you know?
22:10
Speaker 3: And I, so I, I understand why, although they're fun,
22:13
Speaker 3: some people don't want it. And even one, like last night,
22:15
Speaker 3: you mentioned brewers up a, okay, you're thinking they're going
22:18
Speaker 3: to coast home. Finally, we get one where we can,
22:20
Speaker 3: you know, take a deep breath. And all of a
22:22
Speaker 3: sudden you're back in the trenches when it's eight, six
22:24
Speaker 3: and the Uribe had to get it done though.
22:26
Speaker 1: He did.
22:27
Speaker 3: Was there a palpable nervousness last night in the crowd? I, I,
22:32
Speaker 3: I just, it felt like, I mean, it was, yeah, that,
22:34
Speaker 3: that was, uh, That was not great.
22:37
Speaker 5: Obviously, you would have loved Brandon Sprote to, OK, maybe
22:39
Speaker 5: give up a run.
22:40
Speaker 4: That's it.
22:40
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, what and what Pat Murphy said after
22:43
Speaker 5: the game, like you got to throw it over the
22:44
Speaker 5: plate or you're not going to be a major league pitcher.
22:47
Speaker 5: And that's it's the reality of it. You cannot, especially
22:50
Speaker 5: up seven. That's what that's what gets, you know, Pat
22:53
Speaker 5: Murphy the most. Sometimes we saw it with Robert Castor
22:55
Speaker 5: when he had a lead a couple of weeks ago
22:57
Speaker 5: and that led to him being taken out in the
22:58
Speaker 5: middle of an at bat when you have a lead.
23:01
Speaker 5: And you are not throwing strikes. There's really no excuse
23:04
Speaker 5: for it because you can go and attack hitters because
23:06
Speaker 5: you have the leeway of, oh, he hit it out.
23:09
Speaker 5: Oh no, it's eight to two instead of eight to one.
23:11
Speaker 5: I think we're okay. And instead they weren't, you know,
23:15
Speaker 5: Brandon Sproat especially was not attacking. Abner Ribe didn't have
23:19
Speaker 5: his best night as well. And you could see his
23:22
Speaker 5: frustration too, as he slammed his glove into the, you know,
23:24
Speaker 5: into the mound after that inning ended. And he was
23:27
Speaker 5: able to get out of it in the big sigh
23:28
Speaker 5: of relief. But I thought it was interesting too. Pat
23:31
Speaker 5: Murphy said, you know, as a manager, you can't get too,
23:36
Speaker 5: you can't add pressure to the moment. You can't let
23:39
Speaker 5: it show emotionally. And you really didn't see every time
23:42
Speaker 5: they panned to Pat Murphy, he was very stoic, just
23:45
Speaker 5: kind of staring straight ahead. You could tell inside of
23:47
Speaker 5: him was just screaming to get these three outs, but
23:51
Speaker 5: he was very stoic. And I think that is, a
23:53
Speaker 5: big part of being a manager in that moment is
23:56
Speaker 5: he's like, if I'm stomping my feet and everything, that's
23:58
Speaker 5: just going to add pressure to the players on the field.
24:01
Speaker 5: So he's got to remain calm and they were able
24:03
Speaker 5: to squeak out.
24:04
Speaker 1: All right. Hunter Baumgart joining us here, talking Brewers. What
24:08
Speaker 1: are the, now that the Brewers have the luxury because
24:11
Speaker 1: of the lead in the division, that's going to be inevitable.
24:13
Speaker 1: And then hopefully the, the number one seed thing will,
24:17
Speaker 1: they'll maintain their lead. They have stuff to play for,
24:19
Speaker 1: but they also have to get guys ready. Where do
24:21
Speaker 1: you think they are? with let's say Brandon Sprote or
24:25
Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison? What are you going to do when you
24:28
Speaker 1: have those guys struggling to the extent they have? That's
24:32
Speaker 1: one thing with hitters, you can just ride it out,
24:33
Speaker 1: but with pitchers, a little bit different. What's the approach
24:37
Speaker 1: going to be with those guys?
24:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're going to be creative, especially with
24:40
Speaker 5: Kyle Harrison. It sounds like he's still penciled to start
24:43
Speaker 5: on Saturday. We don't have the official probables yet. Everything
24:48
Speaker 5: was TBA when those came out yesterday. We'll probably maybe
24:51
Speaker 5: get those either later today or tomorrow morning. I would
24:55
Speaker 5: think with Kyle Harrison, it's more of a, okay, we're
24:57
Speaker 5: going to go maybe a shorter start, maybe a shorter stint,
25:01
Speaker 5: see how his stuff plays for just a shorter amount
25:03
Speaker 5: of time.
25:03
Speaker 4: Although his starts have not been long.
25:05
Speaker 5: So I don't know exactly what that's going to prove,
25:09
Speaker 5: you know, or, or bear fruit, but maybe just get
25:11
Speaker 5: some confidence back, work on some things. I remember saying yesterday, like, yeah, we,
25:15
Speaker 5: Kyle's been working with the pitching coaches. We've all been
25:18
Speaker 5: trying to come up with solutions and, And so this
25:21
Speaker 5: is the time to do that. That's what a 10-game
25:23
Speaker 5: lead in the division affords you to be able to do, right?
25:26
Speaker 5: To be able to kind of, okay, let's take a
25:30
Speaker 5: grand view of this, a 30,000-foot view. What are you
25:33
Speaker 5: doing right? Clearly, what are you doing wrong? And then
25:36
Speaker 5: let's fix it and hopefully in time for the postseason.
25:39
Speaker 5: So it sounds like he might be kind of like
25:41
Speaker 5: a piggyback with another pitcher. Maybe it is Brandon Sproat
25:44
Speaker 5: coming up on Saturday.
25:45
Speaker 3: Okay.
25:46
Speaker 5: But I thought it was interesting in telling that they
25:48
Speaker 5: went TBA throughout the weekend as of yesterday, because usually
25:51
Speaker 5: they'd announce those next three days. But Pat Murphy said
25:55
Speaker 5: that he's probably not going to go with a six-man
25:56
Speaker 5: rotation after today's off day, which is their first, obviously,
26:00
Speaker 5: in 16 days. And so knowing that, they might try
26:04
Speaker 5: to be creative a little bit, move guys into different roles,
26:08
Speaker 5: and just completely have that mindset of, okay, yes, we
26:11
Speaker 5: have to win the division. Yes, we want the one seed,
26:13
Speaker 5: but we got to get a really good, Clearly your
26:15
Speaker 5: one-two punch right now is Miz and Henderson, and then
26:17
Speaker 5: whatever happens after that happens. And you'd love Kyle Harrison
26:21
Speaker 5: to be in the mix as well. You'd love Dustin
26:23
Speaker 5: May to be in the mix as well. Dustin May
26:25
Speaker 5: was standing in the bullpen last night. So I wonder
26:27
Speaker 5: how creative they'll be in the next couple of weeks
26:29
Speaker 5: to try and just get guys ready for maybe roles
26:32
Speaker 5: that a month or two ago they wouldn't have necessarily
26:35
Speaker 5: imagined themselves in, but come the postseason, that might be
26:38
Speaker 5: the role they're in.
26:40
Speaker 1: Hunter joining us here. Okay, I'm going to reiterate a
26:43
Speaker 1: question that I had a while back. Who's the Brewers
26:46
Speaker 1: MVP this year in your mind as we're entering the
26:48
Speaker 1: last two weeks? Great question.
26:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's, I mean, MVP and, you know, I remember
26:57
Speaker 5: asking you guys last week on the show, okay, what
27:00
Speaker 5: is that? Who's the most impressive, right? And Jacob Mizorowski's
27:03
Speaker 5: probably the pretty easy answer to that, but MVP, you
27:06
Speaker 5: could argue, two different sides, but his only pitches every
27:08
Speaker 5: five days, six days, whatever it happens to be in
27:11
Speaker 5: Bowers is in the lineup every day. Unfortunately, he's been
27:15
Speaker 5: hurt this series, but they were able to sweep the
27:18
Speaker 5: Cubs without Bowers, which I think is huge as well.
27:20
Speaker 5: And shouldn't be swept down. He played half the game
27:23
Speaker 5: and played a little bit. The first game played half
27:25
Speaker 5: the game on Tuesday, but still dealing with the shin splints.
27:28
Speaker 5: And I think you want to get him as much
27:30
Speaker 5: rest as you can. You're heading down the stretch. The
27:33
Speaker 5: MVP is, I think I would go Jake Bowers because
27:37
Speaker 5: the offense of what he's provided. However, I would also, boy,
27:44
Speaker 5: I mean, on the offensive side, Jackson Churio's throwing himself
27:48
Speaker 5: into the conversation. And so, you know, right. So what
27:53
Speaker 5: he's done lately, another candidate you could look at is
27:56
Speaker 5: Trevor McGill. There's a lot of teams, including the team
27:58
Speaker 5: they just swept that lost games, has lost a lot
28:01
Speaker 5: of games late. And Trevor McGill has been just dynamite
28:04
Speaker 5: on the back end. Abner and Rebay the same. So, boy,
28:08
Speaker 5: I do think that there are some really good candidates.
28:11
Speaker 5: Miz is there. Henderson is there. And this, again, shows
28:16
Speaker 5: how this is not just like, okay, one guy's carrying
28:18
Speaker 5: this team, right? This is a complete team effort that
28:21
Speaker 5: they're able to get starting pitching, offense, defense, and, of course,
28:26
Speaker 5: bullpen as well.
28:27
Speaker 2: I mean, McGill is one of the toughest ones to
28:30
Speaker 2: ignore because if we don't know all of the rumors
28:33
Speaker 2: and all of the conversations felt like all off season long,
28:36
Speaker 2: they were trying to trade them to anyone, right? Like
28:37
Speaker 2: felt like they were trying to ship them off anywhere.
28:40
Speaker 2: Sometimes the trades you don't make end up being the
28:41
Speaker 2: best one and any concern, or are you happy now
28:45
Speaker 2: that he's getting this a little hard contact out of
28:47
Speaker 2: the way with two weeks before he can get himself
28:50
Speaker 2: ready for the playoffs?
28:52
Speaker 4: I do.
28:52
Speaker 5: If, if it's going to ever happen, I want it
28:54
Speaker 5: to be. Now he went through his, uh, stretch there
28:56
Speaker 5: where he was basically untouchable. It was his pitch count was,
28:59
Speaker 5: you know, eight to nine and outing because he was
29:02
Speaker 5: just attacking the zone and guys weren't able to, you know,
29:06
Speaker 5: they're putting it in play, but the, you know, the
29:07
Speaker 5: Brewers are making good defensive plays, which, you know, there's
29:10
Speaker 5: partly that too. Brewers defense, the ninth inning has been
29:13
Speaker 5: really good. And Pat Murphy, you know, tries to put
29:15
Speaker 5: his best defenders if he's got a lead out there.
29:18
Speaker 4: So that, that helps.
29:18
Speaker 5: And really, you know, almost the entire team are really
29:21
Speaker 5: good defenders at this point. But I think it's, Look,
29:25
Speaker 5: he was going to have a blip on the radar.
29:26
Speaker 5: He went 15 straight outings without allowing an earned run.
29:29
Speaker 5: I think the blip on the radar was going to come.
29:31
Speaker 5: Same with Abner. Abner had a stretch like that heading
29:33
Speaker 5: into last night. Get it out of the way now
29:35
Speaker 5: when you still can win those games uh and then
29:38
Speaker 5: kind of get ready and i wonder if they'll try
29:40
Speaker 5: to you know try to give those guys a little
29:42
Speaker 5: more rest as we head down the stretch as well
29:44
Speaker 5: especially after trevor throwing 25 pitches on two.
29:46
Speaker 3: Well i think that is a good point you wonder
29:48
Speaker 3: how many guys need a couple days need a blow
29:50
Speaker 3: or are starting to feel the effects of a long
29:52
Speaker 3: season but you know guys are going to give up
29:54
Speaker 3: runs eventually and that's just the reality so maybe getting
29:56
Speaker 3: it out of the way now is.
29:59
Speaker 1: A good thing.
29:59
Speaker 3: And Admir is funny. We talk about McGill. He's another
30:02
Speaker 3: one you can really put in the mix because he's
30:03
Speaker 3: been like a second closer. I mean, he's been as good,
30:05
Speaker 3: he's been as effective and important even though he's been
30:08
Speaker 3: in the eighth inning most of the year.
30:09
Speaker 1: I'd make a case of the unsung guys. Terang, to me,
30:11
Speaker 1: is overlooked because of his defense especially. And he probably
30:15
Speaker 1: leads the team in war again. I didn't look. He
30:17
Speaker 1: is right now. But then Ashby, because he pitches so
30:22
Speaker 1: much and has been so effective, And tell me a
30:24
Speaker 1: team like the Cubs, every time the Cubs go to
30:26
Speaker 1: the bullpen, people are white knuckling it because they don't
30:28
Speaker 1: have a guy like Ashby that's just nails, right? It's
30:32
Speaker 1: just crazy. Yeah.
30:34
Speaker 4: They don't have, they don't. And it's opposite, really.
30:37
Speaker 5: When you look at the Cubs bullpen compared to the
30:39
Speaker 5: Brewers bullpen, whenever the Cubs go to the bullpen, yeah,
30:41
Speaker 5: it's like hold on tight because you don't know what's
30:43
Speaker 5: going to happen. Meanwhile, I don't know if there's a
30:45
Speaker 5: guy I don't trust in that Brewers bullpen right now
30:48
Speaker 5: to get.
30:48
Speaker 4: An out or two.
30:49
Speaker 5: And that is huge heading into the, last part of
30:51
Speaker 5: the year, because to begin the year, it was like, Oh,
30:54
Speaker 5: this is not the, well, okay.
30:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:56
Speaker 2: Sprout.
30:56
Speaker 4: You're right.
30:58
Speaker 3: You're right. You're right. Okay.
31:01
Speaker 1: I'm just being them.
31:02
Speaker 3: So your point is correct.
31:04
Speaker 1: Call him out in a game of meaning. Right. I mean, right.
31:07
Speaker 4: Correct.
31:07
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:08
Speaker 5: If, if guys, they would go to, which pretty much
31:10
Speaker 5: everybody in that bullpen, except Sprout, I think they'd go to,
31:13
Speaker 5: they'd have a chance to go to, I mean, Jojo
31:15
Speaker 5: Romero has been good in a ruse uniform overall since,
31:18
Speaker 5: since he came.
31:19
Speaker 1: In and it was good last night.
31:21
Speaker 3: He does.
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Speaker 5: And look, these guys are going to make some people nervous,
31:25
Speaker 5: but that's what a bullpen army is.
31:26
Speaker 4: These are latent games.
31:27
Speaker 5: These are close situations. That is how it's going to be.
31:31
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, you can see you've
31:35
Speaker 5: got a really good glimpse this series into what it's
31:37
Speaker 5: like to not have a great bullpen and how scary
31:39
Speaker 5: that can be. And I think we should be thankful
31:43
Speaker 5: here in Milwaukee of what the Brewers have built. And look,
31:45
Speaker 5: this was not the case early in the year, especially
31:48
Speaker 5: with Serpa out for the year. Like, it was very questionable.
31:50
Speaker 5: McGill and Uribe didn't have great starts this season. It
31:52
Speaker 5: was like, whoa, this is not the Brewers' bullpen we're
31:54
Speaker 5: used to seeing. And now it's coming into form, heading
31:56
Speaker 5: into the most meaningful stretch of the year.
31:58
Speaker 1: Funny how things ebb and flow, because there was a
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Speaker 1: couple months ago, three, four months ago, you'd have said
32:03
Speaker 1: that the Brewers absolutely fleeced the Red Sox in that
32:06
Speaker 1: trade right before the season.
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Speaker 4: Sure, sure.
32:09
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Durbin, Monasterio, Siegler, and a competitive balance pick for Harrison, Hamilton,
32:16
Speaker 1: and Druin. Now that we're closer to the end of
32:19
Speaker 1: the season, is that trade more even, or did the
32:22
Speaker 1: Red Sox win the trade?
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Speaker 5: I don't think the Red Sox won the trade just
32:26
Speaker 5: because of how consistent Drohan's been for you. I mean,
32:29
Speaker 5: he's been a huge part of this rotation and has
32:32
Speaker 5: held you in a lot of games. And also, a
32:34
Speaker 5: ton of games you won in that.
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Speaker 4: First half because of Kyle Harrison before the All-Star break.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that body of work still plays, you know. Exactly.
32:41
Speaker 1: They've fallen off, though, and then that's like when Durbin
32:45
Speaker 1: was cold to start the season.
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Speaker 4: It's more even.
32:48
Speaker 5: And plus Hamilton had a rough game defensively over the weekend.
32:51
Speaker 5: Joey started every game in the cub series and, you know,
32:54
Speaker 5: Pam Murphy alluded to it after the game on Sunday. Like, yeah,
32:57
Speaker 5: I might have to think about playing Joey more. He
32:59
Speaker 5: played against a righty last night. Um, you talk about
33:02
Speaker 5: unsung Joey Ortiz in the second half of the season
33:06
Speaker 5: can be a very unsung hero. I mean, defense, we
33:09
Speaker 5: know how good he is, but he's put the offense
33:11
Speaker 5: together and has just not missed a beat since hit lost,
33:15
Speaker 5: lost his shortstop job. And has just been, just has
33:19
Speaker 5: really fought through that and has come out of the
33:21
Speaker 5: other side.
33:22
Speaker 2: The trade that we talked about yesterday from a hot
33:24
Speaker 2: take hump day was, uh, I think you keep looking
33:27
Speaker 2: back on that Corbin Burns trade and it looks like
33:29
Speaker 2: the brewers ended up winning even better because of how
33:31
Speaker 2: good DL Hall's been mentioned Ortiz. And then Ryan in
33:34
Speaker 2: Denver hit it up on the text line. I totally
33:36
Speaker 2: forgot that they also got a pick in there. And
33:37
Speaker 2: that turned into Blake Burke, who might be your starting
33:39
Speaker 2: first baseman, come up next year once certain guys end
33:43
Speaker 2: up hitting free agency. So there's a lot of good
33:45
Speaker 2: that was coming out of that deal.
33:46
Speaker 3: I did forget about that.
33:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting.
33:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some trades that have looked really good. And yeah,
33:53
Speaker 5: I think the Red Sox one is more even as
33:55
Speaker 5: of now than it was obviously a few months ago.
33:58
Speaker 5: But yeah, could 2026 be the year that the Corbin
34:02
Speaker 5: Burns trade really bears fruit?
34:05
Speaker 4: We shall see. D.L. Hall's ERA 2-1-2 and got huge.
34:08
Speaker 4: They don't win that game unless D.L. Hall does what
34:11
Speaker 4: he does.
34:11
Speaker 5: In that ninth inning to get two outs and then
34:14
Speaker 5: the three outs in the tenth inning on Tuesday night.
34:16
Speaker 3: He's been so important to have a lefty like that.
34:18
Speaker 3: He's been so important in the bullpen.
34:20
Speaker 1: All right, Hunter. Will there be a Milwaukee's baseball tonight
34:23
Speaker 1: either in front of or behind tonight's debut of the
34:27
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Huddle live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook?
34:30
Speaker 4: There will four to five. We're going to do it beforehand.
34:33
Speaker 5: So we're going to lead right into you guys. And yes,
34:37
Speaker 5: we'll look back at the series against the Cubs. Trisha
34:39
Speaker 5: Whitaker of Apple TV will join me on the.
34:41
Speaker 1: Show as well.
34:42
Speaker 5: And if you miss it this afternoon, you can, you
34:48
Speaker 5: guys can hear it on the huddle tomorrow. And then, yeah,
34:51
Speaker 5: so we got four to five coming up today. And
34:54
Speaker 5: then of course the pregame show tomorrow, leading into the
34:58
Speaker 5: first game against the Reds at 5.30.
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Speaker 4: How about that?
35:00
Speaker 3: We're chock full of local content in the afternoon.
35:03
Speaker 1: We will talk to you down the line tonight.
35:06
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
35:07
Speaker 4: Sounds good.
35:07
Speaker 1: All right. Hunter's going to be on the board while
35:09
Speaker 1: we are at Pottawatomie Casino Hotel, if I'm not mistaken.
35:12
Speaker 2: I was going to say, now he doesn't nearly get
35:15
Speaker 2: the fun part of that show. However, he gets to
35:18
Speaker 2: listen to it, which is the fun part, which is
35:19
Speaker 2: very much a fun part. The most fun part is
35:22
Speaker 2: coming with the phrase that pays being one of the
35:23
Speaker 2: first 10 to say pay the toll.
35:25
Speaker 1: Pay the toll. The phrase that pays today. What a
35:28
Speaker 1: consolation prize is being able to listen to the huddle.
35:31
Speaker 1: All right.
35:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
35:32
Speaker 1: We're going to be back close, a closeup shop. We
35:34
Speaker 1: will have our wake and bake story for you and
35:37
Speaker 1: type any loose ends that we may have had. If
35:38
Speaker 1: you want to get us a last minute word, eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
35:42
Speaker 1: one 97, three gets you to the Nicolet law.com. Talk
35:44
Speaker 1: a text line. You're in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin,
35:47
Speaker 1: true billion. Armin bringing it to you. Thursday edition coming
35:52
Speaker 1: to a close here. And it's good. We need to
35:54
Speaker 1: catch our breath. We got tackle football again tonight. 49ers
35:58
Speaker 1: and Rams from Australia down under. We got no Brewers
36:03
Speaker 1: game tonight. We got Packers coming up. We got Western
36:06
Speaker 1: Illinois against the Badgers on Saturday night at Camp Randall.
36:10
Speaker 1: I just looked at that. Get in the door tickets
36:12
Speaker 1: on one of the sites. $ 17. That sounds about right.
36:17
Speaker 1: Get in the door for the field house for Wisconsin
36:21
Speaker 1: Marquette Volleyball. later this month. I was going to say, hey,
36:24
Speaker 1: now we're talking. If you want to see volleyball inside
36:27
Speaker 1: the field house, then it is to see football inside
36:29
Speaker 1: Camp Randall. And I know this might surprise some people.
36:33
Speaker 1: I believe at UWBadgers.com, they still have tickets available. There's
36:37
Speaker 1: definitely opportunities. You don't have to go to the secondary,
36:39
Speaker 1: but you can, yeah. But you can go and check
36:41
Speaker 1: them out.
36:41
Speaker 2: There'll be plenty of opportunities to go see the Leathernecks
36:44
Speaker 2: take on the Badgers on Saturday night. But listen, these
36:48
Speaker 2: two games just look good, feel good, play good.
36:51
Speaker 1: Play good. Pay good. I like that.
36:54
Speaker 2: You pay good because you don't want to have a
36:57
Speaker 2: Michigan situation. You don't want to have the opponent putting
37:00
Speaker 2: out sweet banners like Western Michigan did. Don't feel sorry
37:04
Speaker 2: for us. Feel sorry for our opponents. You don't want
37:08
Speaker 2: any of that. You don't want any of that nonsense.
37:10
Speaker 2: Just route them and be done with it. Let them
37:12
Speaker 2: cash the check on Monday and feel good about what
37:14
Speaker 2: you did.
37:14
Speaker 3: I like that.
37:15
Speaker 4: Love it.
37:16
Speaker 1: Love it. All right, Billy, time for a little wake
37:18
Speaker 1: and bake story. What do you got? Anything to send
37:20
Speaker 1: people into the.
37:21
Speaker 2: I wanted to send people in with this because tonight,
37:24
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, our plate is kind of barren other
37:27
Speaker 2: than the game on Netflix. And listen, there are people
37:30
Speaker 2: like my mother said yesterday, well, I guess we're just
37:32
Speaker 2: not watching. You know, I wonder when the Netflix crew
37:34
Speaker 2: got there. Everyone talks about Rams and the Niners. When
37:37
Speaker 2: did the Netflix crew get there? And you're right, Billy.
37:39
Speaker 3: If you don't have Netflix, hey, you're not watching unless
37:41
Speaker 3: you come to Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
37:43
Speaker 2: Come to Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Enjoy the Thursday night huddle. Hang
37:46
Speaker 2: out in the annex of the sportsbook and then watch
37:47
Speaker 2: the game there. But If you're not doing that, starting
37:50
Speaker 2: at 6 o'clock tonight, you can stream the Uke movie.
37:54
Speaker 1: The Uke documentary, the movie is phenomenal. Do it tonight.
37:57
Speaker 2: Brewers TV, 24-hour window for you to stream it starting
38:02
Speaker 2: at 6 o'clock tonight. While you do it, you can
38:04
Speaker 2: also go to obviousshirts.com. and enjoy cringe for a cause. Now,
38:09
Speaker 2: people are going to say, why are you pumping up obviousshirts.com?
38:13
Speaker 2: That's a Cubs website. Well, because obviousshirts.com is walking back
38:18
Speaker 2: a tweet they had that.
38:20
Speaker 1: Apparently was all-time cringe. It was, yeah.
38:24
Speaker 2: 100% of these shirts will be donated to Make-A-Wish Wisconsin
38:28
Speaker 2: in Bob Uecker's name after the man from Obvious Shirts
38:31
Speaker 2: behind the account, I don't know his name, but I
38:34
Speaker 2: like the work that they do, put together a fun
38:37
Speaker 2: story about the background of the L flag and tried
38:40
Speaker 2: to embarrass Brewers fans by saying, listen, the thing about
38:43
Speaker 2: the L flag is you guys just don't understand it.
38:45
Speaker 2: What's funny about the whole L flag situation is the
38:47
Speaker 2: Brewers fans have no understanding of the flag's purpose, history,
38:50
Speaker 2: and significance. During the Great Depression, the flag was flown
38:53
Speaker 2: on days on the scoreboard for the simplest way to
38:56
Speaker 2: signify won or lost to the surrounding population. Brewers fans
38:59
Speaker 2: think the L means the Cubs lost.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't.
39:03
Speaker 2: It signifies a win or loss to whomever is flying it.
39:07
Speaker 2: It's like conquering a territory, celebrating by waving that your
39:10
Speaker 2: territory's white flag. You're literally calling yourselves losers and think
39:14
Speaker 2: it's a flex. Had you flown the W flag, it
39:17
Speaker 2: would have been much more a punch in the face.
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Speaker 1: You didn't. Well, bud, you swing and miss. Swing and
39:22
Speaker 1: a miss on April 2nd.
39:23
Speaker 2: That tweet is on the back of this shirt that
39:26
Speaker 2: they designed at obviousshirts.com. It's got an ode to the Brewers.
39:30
Speaker 2: It's got the W and the L flag and Brewers
39:32
Speaker 2: colors right on the front. Makes a good joke of
39:35
Speaker 2: the situation.
39:36
Speaker 4: But more importantly.
39:37
Speaker 1: Make some good money for the Make-A-Wish of Wisconsin.
39:40
Speaker 2: So dunk on a couple of Cubs fans that think
39:44
Speaker 2: they were trying to troll you. Albeit, no, we're still
39:46
Speaker 2: making fun of you guys. We're making fun of you
39:49
Speaker 2: guys for losing. The elf leg does mean you lose.
39:52
Speaker 2: And we're going to fly it and enjoy it. And
39:54
Speaker 2: we can raise some money and talk some crap virtually
39:58
Speaker 2: and let everybody, let all Cubs fans know we understand
40:01
Speaker 2: what the story is. And we're still making fun of you.
40:04
Speaker 3: And.
40:04
Speaker 1: Donate some money to Make-A-Wish Wisconsin. That's obviousshirts.com.
40:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty cool that they're doing that. That was one
40:10
Speaker 3: of the better. I mean, everybody was jumping on that meme.
40:13
Speaker 3: He got absolutely dunked on. The amount of times you
40:16
Speaker 3: saw that being repeated, it was hilarious.
40:18
Speaker 1: So now you'll wear the joke. A good way to
40:21
Speaker 1: do it. Tomorrow on the program. We'll get you ready
40:25
Speaker 1: for a great weekend, Brewers, Reds, and, of course, Packers, Vikings, Badgers,
40:28
Speaker 1: Western Illinois. Wayne Larravee will join the party at 725 tomorrow.
40:32
Speaker 1: But more immediately, we've got a show again today. The
40:34
Speaker 1: 5 o'clock club will reconvene in the PM at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
40:38
Speaker 1: We'll be in the annex having the Thursday night huddle live.
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Speaker 1: Hope to see you there. The phrase that pays, pay
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Speaker 1: the toll. We'll see you at 5 PM.
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Speaker 4: Peace.