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11/02/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 3: The boys are back.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 3: And they're looking for trouble.
• 0:13
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• 0:26
  Speaker 1: gather around because it's time to huddle up.
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: We're not done.
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  Speaker 1: You know what we gotta do, all right? Let's go
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  Speaker 1: out and kick some shit.
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  Speaker 4: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 2: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 5: Quit calling the f * * * ing plays.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 5: It is time.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am. With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 5: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 5: your respect.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 3: That son of a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 3: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get after it. Monday edition of The Huddle. Fox
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian. Chopping
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  Speaker 3: it up, if you will. Or chewing the fat, as
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  Speaker 3: Armin might say. I said it wrong. I totally misused
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  Speaker 3: that term. I'm disappointed in myself.
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  Speaker 4: I usually like to fancy myself like a colloquialism master.
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  Speaker 3: That wrong. I mean, chewing the fat is having a long,
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  Speaker 3: casual conversation. That's what chewing the fat is.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm being honest, that's not what I thought I
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  Speaker 4: was saying. I thought I was saying more like- Suck
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  Speaker 4: the marrow and enjoy? Yes, enjoying the moment type of
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  Speaker 4: thing and basking it.
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  Speaker 3: Suck the marrow out of life? Yes, to suck the marrow, yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you really thought you had one there. But I apologize
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  Speaker 3: for bursting the bubble. I shouldn't have just let you roll.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have let him roll with it, Drew, and
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: that's the problem. Sometimes being a good teammate is just saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're right. That's exactly what it means. Yes, that's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what you were trying to say. And instead, I stepped
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  Speaker 3: all over it with just reckless abandon, and I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Don't, because I'd rather you not lie to me. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: hit me with a kick to the balls. No, you
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  Speaker 4: don't have to get that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get you one.
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  Speaker 1: I got mine.
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  Speaker 3: Bad anxiety. I got bad anxiety, Drew, that I just
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  Speaker 3: botched this one for him. I should not have done
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  Speaker 3: that to the kid.
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  Speaker 4: Why? Because I might be in a more important social
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  Speaker 4: situation and use it wrong because I didn't know it
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  Speaker 4: was wrong. And you might have saved me just now, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: So that's how I choose to look at it. That's
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  Speaker 4: how I choose to look at it, that you might
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  Speaker 4: have saved me from a worse situation down the road.
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  Speaker 3: Well, either way, I probably deserve the kick to the
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  Speaker 3: balls because... I, for one, guys, was one of the
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: few that thought the Badgers were going to have a
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: chance to win that football game. Well, now. I got
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  Speaker 3: bad anxiety right now. All right. That's, yeah. The Badgers
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  Speaker 3: were not competitive. They were not good. It was flashback Saturday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what the offense looked like a year or
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  Speaker 3: two ago when we said, whoa, this is beyond hopeless.
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  Speaker 3: So it's 148-26 over the last five. It's 109-10 in
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  Speaker 3: the last three. And 67-0 in the aggregate scores of
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  Speaker 3: the Iowa-Wisconsin team. Good thing we don't have to talk
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: to Dolph today. Yeah, because Drew, you can't even say
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: rivalry because I'm on the doorstep of the Pedro Martinez.
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: Just tip your cap and call him daddy because Kirk
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  Speaker 3: Ferentz's crew, two years ago when you went down there
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  Speaker 3: on the night game and got boat raced, The Badgers
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  Speaker 3: had a ton of injuries. They were beat up. They
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  Speaker 3: were it was right around. I can't remember if it
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: was right after they dismissed Longo or right before they
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: ended up getting rid of Phil Longo, who, by the way,
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: just got dismissed as the head coach of Sam Houston.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a phenomenal one. So they were somewhat
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: going to you knew that it was going to be
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  Speaker 3: a tough time. I didn't anticipate the Badgers to put
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  Speaker 3: up a ton of points. Sure as heck didn't anticipate
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  Speaker 3: their defense. to struggle like it did throughout the game.
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  Speaker 3: And it started when one of their best players slips
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  Speaker 3: and falls might not be able to do anything about that.
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  Speaker 3: When Matt young went down and they give him a
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  Speaker 3: 50 yard pass play, but they battled, they played hard.
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  Speaker 3: There are a couple of moments that you could put
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  Speaker 3: and try to pinpoint to that the game could turn on.
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  Speaker 3: But as we said on Badger post game hard on earth,
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  Speaker 3: drew does have a lot of turning points when the
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  Speaker 3: game's 30 to nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's, it's 10, it's 10, 10, nothing. They
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  Speaker 3: have the ball on a fourth and goal. And if
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  Speaker 3: Abu Sama gets in there, do I want to tell
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  Speaker 3: you it's a different game?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you one thing. It's not a
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  Speaker 3: 30 to nothing game. They at least score, but I,
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: the race to 10 was one within the first. five
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  Speaker 3: or six minutes, the first two drives by Iowa. And
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  Speaker 3: it felt like it was going to be a massive
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  Speaker 3: uphill climb from there to be able to stop anything
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  Speaker 3: or anyone in one of them Hawkeye uniforms. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Now explain to me this, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it's a game ball or a kick to the balls,
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: to anybody who steps to the window with any level
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  Speaker 3: of confidence and tries to put down some shekels on
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: college football. Because tell me how the Badgers dog walk USC,
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: and then a week later, USC.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: It beats Ohio State. Granted, there's a quarterback conundrum there.
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: The quarterback is out. But still. Yeah, you're right. For
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: Ohio State to not stop the running game that the
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  Speaker 3: batters had no problem trouncing, how do I square that circle?
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: How does that happen? And is the college football now,
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: because of free agency and paying players, Is it now
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: the week-to-week league that the NFL has been forever? Drew,
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: it might almost be worse, right? Like it might almost
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: be harder to try and expect a similar performance week
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  Speaker 3: in and week out because at least in the NFL,
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: you at least have somewhat of a firm control of
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: this is how we operated with pros, right? Right now,
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: I think you're struggling across college football and you're seeing it.
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: Saban talked about it a couple of weeks ago on
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: game day that there's a lot of players and a
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: lot of teams and a lot of coaches that on
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: a week-to-week basis are either reading press clippings, reading conversations
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: with coaches, friends, mentors, agents, handlers, what have you. And
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of what have you done for me
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: lately and what am I doing right now that's going
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: to help me get mine coming up. in six to
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  Speaker 3: seven weeks. It's a tough spot for coaches to be
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: battling with, but I mean, USC just gets absolutely pants
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: on the line of scrimmage in Madison a week ago. Yeah.
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: And then bullies bullies. One of the best defensive lines
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: in football in Ohio state this weekend, same thing up
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  Speaker 3: Miami's just rolled over everybody. And then, Oh wait, here's
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: bill Belichick no longer with Jordan Hudson, by the way.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: I saw that. Did we read that? Oh, did we
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: read that on TMZ this weekend? Holy cow. And I
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: got to be honest. Love that. How didn't this happen
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: a year ago? But we just hearing it now. No influencer.
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  Speaker 3: Where was Pablo Torrey? Where was Pablo Torrey? Where was TMZ?
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  Speaker 3: No one got a hold of this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm disappointed for the amount of people that
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: were obsessed with their relationship that nobody figured it out.
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  Speaker 3: That's a little weird. Let me just say that shows
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: how big of a story Pablo Torrey broke with the
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  Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard's news. because he missed that. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That shows how big of a scoop that was. Um, but, and,
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  Speaker 3: and Miami is like in, in one of the, the
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  Speaker 3: fights for their life. I know that they had a
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: close game a couple of weeks ago, but they're in
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: a fight for their life against UNC. It is, uh,
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: it's really dramatic how different it is. And Drew, I
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: think it's only going to get worse.
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  Speaker 1: Or better, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like this is there's, there's ways to it, right? Cause
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  Speaker 3: it's fun. It's definitely compelling, but, But the day and
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  Speaker 3: age of lining up and saying, what time does Alabama
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: play Georgia for the national title? Those days are so
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: far from over. You don't know who's going to be
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: rolling in and what time slot of wherever these games
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: are going to be at play. That's where we're at. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's bizarre to me because even like just looking around
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: the landscape of teams that look great one week and
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: then the next week, they can't, they look like a
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: JV outfit. A couple of weeks ago, Iowa played one
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: of the most frustrating games I would assume for Hawks fans.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: in the Kirk Ferentz era, and then they roll up
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: to Washington and just put up a 40-piece on the Huskies,
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: who are one of the tougher teams to play in
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  Speaker 3: one of the tougher road venues to play in, and
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: then they play Minnesota and look completely inept. So it's
• 8:15
  Speaker 3: wild how up and down it is. It's also... beautiful
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: for walking into a new age of college football, that
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: there are this many really competitive games and games that
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: have a ton of meaning and value because there was
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: a time and place where a Utah BYU game, sure.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: It's seven and seven versus three. So there's some significance,
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: but BYU beat Notre Dame a couple of weeks ago,
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: then lose the UCF. 10 years ago, their season's over. Instead,
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: it's just beginning right now. So it's fun. I don't
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: know that it's better, but we're going to only get
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: more of it. And the more topsy-turvy style of college
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: football is only going to get, is only here to stay.
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: And the increase in, I think, parity and equity, whatever
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: you want to call it. I think there are less
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: maybe dominant teams than ever. And therefore you're going to see,
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: you know, one loss teams, maybe a thing of the past.
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: You're going to see, because the expanded playoffs and that
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: you're going to see a three loss national champion at
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: some point, I think it'll happen. So it's one of
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: those double-edged sword situations. Cause I'm one hand people can say, well,
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: it makes the regular season games less exciting. or less,
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, maybe not exciting, but less meaningful is the
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: right term. And on the other hand, it's like, yeah,
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: but those fan bases can stay involved, right? Where the
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: flip side of that was always a lot of these,
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: maybe teams or fan bases were looking at the end
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: of the year to be just exhibition games.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's exciting either way, but the reality is
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: that people are going to be looking toward the playoff
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  Speaker 4: in that situations as at least second life for, for
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: like maybe the Ohio States of the world, you know,
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: they took a tough loss. I mean, that's going to
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: be tough for them now and, A lot.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: Going on, but.
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: it definitely is going to increase people's, you know, propensity
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: to stay interested, I should say, as we get closer
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: to the playoff time. Yeah.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Keep them coming. 877-794-1973. Game Balls. Kicks to the huevos.
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: Well, Mike Witt, we'll stay on this topic. Mike Witt
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: on YouTube had one for Colton Joseph.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: I got bad anxiety right now. Which I think is
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: kind of frustrating and tough, Billy. Tell me if I'm wrong.
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: And he had a lot of momentum coming into this
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: from the USC win. From the general start, the Badgers
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: have had, which a lot of people probably didn't expect
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: this year. And it feels like you kind of ran
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: that momentum right into the wall.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's done that the last three games. I mean,
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: this is now the third consecutive game where they haven't
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: had a 100-yard passer. That's a good point. And I
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: think the tougher part about it for this week, Armin,
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: and to Mike's point, Colton Joseph was brought in as
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: not just for... You're a quarterback, so obviously you have
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: to throw. But one of the big reasons and one
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: of the big allures to his game was his ability
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: to run the football. It only works when you also have.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: Running backs running the football. And I think this week, Drew,
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: I think they had 11 carries for running backs. And
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: Abu Sama had probably the game-changing run and play against
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: USC a week ago when they go on a 13-play drive.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: They run at 11 of the 13 plays. And he
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: carries at 8, one of which he cuts back. Sweet
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: jump cut around midfield. Breaks off an almost like 20-yarder.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: And they get the momentum. You're not going to get
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: that when you're giving the ball to the young man
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: six times. So when your quarterback's leading the team in
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: how many rushes he has, they weren't going to get
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: anything going this weekend. It didn't seem like they had
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: much juice, and you heard a lot of players talking
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: about it, which is probably the more deflating one. Sebastian
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Cheeks was talking about it after the game. He's like, yeah,
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: there were a lot of folks reading some press clippings
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: this week. A lot of guys that did not have
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: their eyes, when I looked in their eyes today, did
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: not have the hunger that you needed to be able
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: to go win this game. And you put a lot
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: into rivalry games. Every fan base does. Every program does.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: This is a really, really difficult point because I don't
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: know how else you attack it. Last year, Drew, Luke
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: Fickle talked about it every single offseason presser about how
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: focused they were I'm playing better in the rivalry games,
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: better against Iowa. We're building towards Iowa. They got a
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: penalty at first before the opening kick. So they played
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: with too much emotion. This year, you got guys after
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: the game saying we didn't have our heads in, didn't
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: play with enough emotion. So either way, the result was
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: the same. But getting there was different on both sides.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: That's a really, really tough game. Road to merge in
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: when you say meet somewhere in the middle. I don't
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: know that they know where that middle is right now.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: All they know is getting pants by their Heartland Trophy. Rivals. Yeah,
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: and pants is the right word. I'm just pants. Pants
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: is the right word. Man, it was so frustrating. You
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: had two quarterbacks. Neither one got 100 yards. My man
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: Ryan Hopkins was trying. He was slinging that pill all
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: over the place. Had nothing for him. Absolutely nothing for
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: the Hawkeyes this weekend.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: You just had hope they could maybe break through. I
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: just think because you had a good start. You know,
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: you're starting after the last couple years. You're turning it around.
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  Speaker 3: You have USC.
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: You're like, can this be the year, you know, you
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: start breaking through again, win the Heartland back and then
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: start to rebuild and just like.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: Keep the recruits home, put a fence around the state,
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: and beat Iowa and Minnesota. That should be the first
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: step before anybody starts thinking about, oh, we can maybe
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: connect the dots and make it to the college football
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  Speaker 3: playoff this year. Let's take care of the basics first.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: It was for decades. Let's crawl before we walk. But
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: that's every team now, Drew. That's every program. When Cignetti
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: walks in and flips a team from the worst program
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: in college football history to a national champion in two years... True.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: You dream right away. There's a lot of programs that
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: are doing that. Hell, you go talk to a Kentucky
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: fan right now. They can't believe if it's football season
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: or basketball season. Yeah. They're eighth ranked and their offense
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: is awesome. They're like, wait a second. What am I
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: watching here? UCLA went from pretty dead to a top five.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: We might win the whole thing. There's a lot of belief.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: All right. So given the transitive properties don't work, like
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: the Badgers dog walking USC and then them turning around
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: just beating up Ohio State. Mm-hmm. You got Rutgers coming in, right? Yeah. Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: They gave Michigan a scare, but everybody's given Michigan a scare.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: They scare easily. That's fair. Yes. But Shiano's on the
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: hot seat. He's leading the list now that a bunch
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: of guys have been fired. He's leading the list of
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: people who could be fired. Or he could come in
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: and beat the Badgers handily and keep him by himself.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Make it a totally different conversation.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: And I mean, Maryland's already fired their coach. You go
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: there and finally got it. And, and, and Barry Odom's
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: got those boys in Purdue playing hard. I mean, they,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: they lost the game against Penn state this week, but
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: they've won two conference games. I couldn't tell you last
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: time Purdue won two conference games. So there's a, they're,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: they're at least going to play you tough when you
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: look at it on the slate. And again, this is,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: these are the cruel realities of the sport and, And
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: where you've put yourself over the last two years. We
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: immediately win-loss and say you're at worse 3-1. You're 8-4
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: at the end of this year. You flip your entire
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: record from a year ago. You say pretty dang good.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: The process with this one, just a real fly in
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: the ointment for anybody. And the haters do still have,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: and the naysayers still have that one... on that dartboard
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: that if you feel like you're getting better, you're bringing
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: in a lot of those recruits, you're building that fence
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: around the state tree that you mentioned, you have really
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: good players in the state that you want to keep,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: and then you still have that one for folks to
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: be able to point back to. So that's a frustrating one.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: You can change it all around, though. You shut the
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: box here in November. When this week starts it up
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: and you shut the box and get that ax back,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: you go nine and three. It's a hell of a
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: different story of a season in Madison. There's a column
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: on USA Today about coaches on the hot seat. And
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: the last one listed is Luke Fickle. And here's what
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: it says. A college coaching agent reached out to USA
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Today Sports on Sunday afternoon with this warning. There are
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: two perfect candidates out there for Wisconsin. Jake Dickert from
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Wake Forest and Jason Eck from New Mexico. It's hard
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: to see Wisconsin standing still if Luke Fickle drops one
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: of these next two games against Rutgers and Maryland. Well,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: and that's, that's exactly it. I like after USC, I
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: didn't think it could be a conversation because I didn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: see them getting beat 30 to nothing.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Did I see them losing 16 to six and looking
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: really bad on offense? Yes. Did I see it being
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: a 13, three game where you get 230 yards of offense?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: But I didn't see 30 to me either. And I
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: think that's where it adds into the conversation. Those two
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: young men are also very, very capable. Dickert's an interesting one.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know for sure he's leaving. So you might.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: And again, hope's not a great recipe or a plan.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I think you're going to be able to get him
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: next year. if that would be the goal and that
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: would be the case to have, he's getting a new
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: job this year. He's got, he's got new Mexico ranked
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: in the top 25 and on the doorstep of the
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: college football playoff, he's getting a new job. You know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: who else has been mentioned as on the hot seat?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: One Lance Leipold in Kansas. Yeah. Honeymoon's worn off. They
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: went from being a tough out to just being an
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: out more often in Kansas football.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: With a massive new facility. And that's the thing is
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: like they've invested and now they're looking for return. And
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: it's like, well, well, Andrew, this is again. Mike Norvell
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: just got fired yesterday. They owe him over 50 million.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Now there's offsetting language. He gets another job. They don't
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: pay the whole money unless you're Jimbo Fisher and you
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: just say, yeah, I'm not working again. They're not going
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: to pay you all of that money. But schools are
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: now having the deal. Lincoln Riley, who this conversation started with.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Last week, one week ago today, he went up to
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the podium and was telling everybody about how much he
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: sacrificed to stay there, about how much he's dedicated and willing,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and he's not leaving. Well, brother, it wasn't your choice. No.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: We were thinking about making a call, and he's got
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: 50-some million on his contract. Teams in schools are not
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: seeing that dollar amount probably as prohibitive as it is
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: because then you also still have to pay $ 40, $ 50
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: million to a team.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: And for schools like Wisconsin is one of them. We
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: just talked about building a new facility. Kansas is another.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: They're going to start looking at this saying, we just
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: paid how much money for this? How much money for
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: the facilities? Maybe we got to run it back one
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: more year and see if it gets better. There's a
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: lot of moving and shaking. But Fickle was off of
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: all those lists. You can get thumped that way and
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: immediately you get back into the column. Slide right back in.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And the seat's warm heading into, you're playing the cellar
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: dwellers now. Yeah, just dominate these three games. You gotta win.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Dominate these three games and make Black Friday a fun
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: night in Madison against the Gophers. The thing is... I
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: could see the Badgers winning all four of those games.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I could also see them losing all four of those games.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: It could go either way. It's going to be interesting, man.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: They lose all four games. You're going to have to
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: check on me on Saturdays. You're going to have to
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: check on me on those post games. And then if
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: they split them, then what do we think? Then the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: winds of change will be swirling. You'd be feeling good.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Let's say they beat Rutgers and Maryland, and then they
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: stumble against Purdue, and then Goldie Gopher keeps the ax.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: They go into worse Lafayette and lose. I don't know
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: how I'll feel. I can't I can't even, I can't
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: even begin to think about how I'd be. So Ryan Brown,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: he can't do that. So four games left for the four,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: four games left for the Badgers three and one's the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: only acceptable number. It sure feels like that. That has
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: to be the baseline. I think so, Drew. And that
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: gets you to an eight and four number that I
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: think everybody in the beginning of the year said, okay, progress.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: We flipped it. We're on the right track. We're on track.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I think. But then again, It's hard to see that
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: happening after Saturday, but it was hard to see what
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: happened Saturday happening after the previous Saturday. Yeah, week to week.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: What the hell's going on out there? It makes no sense, man.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Makes no sense. That's why we love it. That's why
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• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: But the Buccaneers cheerleaders. Oh, come on now. Come on now.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: They made those poor lasses dance in their short shorts
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: and sleeveless t-shirts in a monsoon. Oh, the epic proportions.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: They were ankle deep in mud, still performing on the sideline,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: doing their routines, and they still didn't give them a
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: costume change or let them off the field. Like, what
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: were we doing? They could have put them in any suite.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: There's no way that everybody was in there. Yeah, that's
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: a great call, Drew. They were gamers. If you didn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: see it, go back and look at some of the
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: highlights of that game. Baker Mayfield, your winning quarterback, didn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: complete a forward pass. Amazing. I was looking to see
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the stats on if that happened, when it happened. That
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: is crazy. It's the first time, I think, since the 30s,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: from what I remember hearing on the broadcast. I love that. Oh,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I love that. That is just amazing stuff. And it
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: was early on. And they had Kenny Gainwell and the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: other guy, Bucky Irving, each ran for at least 130
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: yards all over the Falcons. Drew, you want to talk
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: about a confounding team? Watch Atlanta a couple of weeks.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Came in here on a Thursday night and looked like
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: the 90s Cowboys just steamrolling the Packers. Beat the 49ers
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: last week and then get shut out in the rain.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: And I think Michael Penix Jr. 's quarterback rating was 12th. Well...
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield had to have zero, right? He didn't complete
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: a pass. No, his was like 39. Okay.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Somehow.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Writing his name on the SAT. It was a total
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: writing your name on the ACT. He also maybe won
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: the day on the internet of, listen, I might have
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: had the most important spot. I didn't do anything on
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the group project. We all still got an A. They
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: could have played that with snorkels on and fins. It
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: was so wet. It was ridiculous. So he did not
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: complete a pass. Michael Panix did.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Michael Penix completed eight of 24 throws, but actually 12,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: but four of those were completed to the Buccaneers. Four
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: of them to the Buccaneers, and the first two were
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: just so god-awful. You're like, my man wishes he was
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: anywhere but here today. It's Tampa's first home win of
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the season in week eight. And they've had a... Think
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: of the teams they played at home. They played the Browns.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: And the Bucks and Falcons are tied for second place
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: in the NFC South. Half game behind Carolina. And the
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: NFC South, the NFC East are the two, Drew, that
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: somebody's going to win both of those divisions. And it really,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: now maybe Arizona entered the conversation with their stunning comeback
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: yesterday for Mikey LaFleur's bunch. How about that? But there's
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: seven teams for five spots. Everybody but Arizona in the
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: NFC West and seemingly everybody in the NFC North, that's
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: where it's coming down to for the fights for the
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: playoffs because somebody's going to win that awful NFC East
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and that South. You mentioned it. Three three-win teams all
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: tied for first place.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Including the one that the Packers just beat up in
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Carolina the other night. So that's a good one. The videos,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I didn't see some of these pictures as well. They're tremendous. Drew,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: they didn't even give them like mutters. They could have
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: given him some fly fishing boots and it would have
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: been a lot better.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: That would be good to get some waders in there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Could have sold some merch.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. Exactly. It's all about merch sales.
• 24:15
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• 24:16
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• 24:41
  Speaker 3: a game ball as well? Staying in the NFL yesterday.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: How about one Jack Campbell? I love football more than
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of things in life.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: And yesterday I had trouble watching. any after that young
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: man could not walk off the field and got carted off.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: And we haven't gotten any really more positive news. Now,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: some people are trying to speculate exactly what that means,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: but if you missed it, linebacker All-Pro a couple times
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: over for the Lions yesterday was carted off the field,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: presumed for a neck injury. He was taken to the
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: hospital for that, underwent a number of different scans, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the most recent information, guys, that the Lions have put
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: out is that he continues to rest and recover at
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: a local hospital. Preliminary indications are positive out of respect
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: for Jack and his family. We're not sure any more information.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: So you can take that for what you may. There's
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: at no point, they also gave one last night, that
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: he is resting in a local hospital. Um, there's, there's
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: nothing that we have not heard definitive that he, uh,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: can feel his extremities that he has any movement in
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: his extremities, awfully scary situation and a incredibly sad reality
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: check of just what these dudes put themselves through to
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: play this game.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And that's the, that's the scary reality.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: You know, you're locked into a game as competition, as competitors,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: you're locked into the battle, you're locked into winning and losing.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: And then something like that happens. I can't imagine how
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: quickly and sobering that is to be on the field
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: in that moment, to be watching somebody you're close to,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: close to their family. We forget about this stuff. The
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: families are so close and things like that. So hopefully
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: good news continues to come. That's all you can say
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: It is a stark reminder of what these guys are
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: putting themselves through. Man, it's really, really scary. When you
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: saw Aiden Hutchinson walking away just sobbing from the situation yesterday,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: you could tell. that it was a different tenor. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: don't know about you guys, but come on Friday evening,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I had no compulsion or compunction to watch any sport.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: You were totally done with it? You were like, you
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: wanted a break? Saturday, watched football. Sunday, watched football. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: went to the Bucs game Saturday night. Ooh, okay. That's cool.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Lasted into the third quarter and had seen enough. I
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: was going to say. There was a sense of like.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I think they did, too. But tonight, the buffet expands
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: for tonight because Denver at Wisconsin. Mm-hmm. College Hoop, the
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: opener for the Badgers. who are favored by 25.5. Yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: we're getting some... Marquette, Mercyhurst.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Armand's Golden Eagles ring out Ahoya, favored by 31.5. We're
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: getting this thing started. Let's see if they cover. Bucks
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: at the Wolves. I'll be happy if they can cover
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the 10.5. It's a tall order for them. Even though
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: the Wolves are playing not great, it's all right. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: then my Panthers... are playing at USC, 21st ranked Trojans. Oh,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that's a heck of a start for Bart Lundy's squad. Okay,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: come on. They're catching 26 and a half. So none
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: of these games are supposed to be good. Plus, we
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: can also hate watch the Bears and cheer for the Seahawks.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: That's it right there. Which is a little bit like
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Gordon Gekko's mixed emotions, like my ex-wife driving off a
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: cliff in my new Maserati. Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I hate, I hate.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: No. Yeah. That's true. Except I don't know. It's easy
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: for me to always cheer against the bears, especially this coach.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks are hated rival as well.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: They were, but it's more, I just feel like that
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: part's worn off over time. The Russell Wilson kind of
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Richard Sherman.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: He Seahawks. Yeah. Okay. Back then.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I don't feel that anymore. I just don't like that stadium.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: There's a lot. That stadium is one that every game
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: played in. It does, Drew, have a little weird ire
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: for me. So I'm with you on that one. I'm excited.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to try to get. I'm not going to
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: be able to get Armin Sarian level in. The college basketball?
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I'm going to try hard to get into college basketball
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: this year. It should be a fun year. I mean,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: we hope Marquette will be better. The Badgers should be good.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be a fun year, you know, around
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: the state. College basketball is one of my favorites. It
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: gets me through the winter. That's just my thing. But listen,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I think the Bucs being who they are this year might.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Help as well a little bit because it's like the
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Bucs are always a better distraction in the winter basketball
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: wise than I think any of our college teams were
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: the last 10 years.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: But The Bucs are going to be a struggle. But
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: just in terms of, Drew, the overall product, I mean,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: we were talking about the up and down nature of
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: college football. College basketball is as night in and night
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: out of a sport as there is. It is, totally.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: And they've had a lot more preseason exhibitions between good
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: teams this year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Wisconsin's played, like, what, three games? It's kind of interesting.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: It's unique. Or three exhibition games, I would say, as
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: they started up. technically for real tonight?
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: And sometimes these college teams now, it's kind of what
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: you're getting at, I think.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: They seem older than the NBA teams, you know? Patrick's
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: going to have almost five new starters, right? Nolan Winter
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: and Rapper back. Moments ago, we got the official announcement
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: that'll shock Billy is that the... Badgers and Terrapins next
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: week will be... An 11 a.m. kickoff.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: That's what we like to see. That's what we like
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: to see. Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m. Ooh, that might
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: be a levering call. That'll be a fun one for him. Okay.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: All right. That'll play for the Badgers there on 11 a.m. kick.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, where else would you put Badgers against Maryland?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: They can't flex it to Thursday. But there's... Will that
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: be NBA slot? Well, WNBA got up out of the
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: way there. What a Bart. Let's give a game ball
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to that game on Saturday night. We did watch some sports.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Billy and I were watching that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know that it was a good thing to
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: be watching. I was game seven. It was total game
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: seven basketball. Was it 68-63 was the final? Yeah, they
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: got close to the number. Now, the over-under was 143.5,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: which is low for the WNBA. But I told you, Billy,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: game seven of W is going to go under. And
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I'm sitting there in the third quarter, and it was 35-28,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, my goodness. It was a struggle.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Thank goodness.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I'm blanking on her name. She got hot in the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: third quarter for the Valkyries. By the way, the Cavs
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: outscored that winning total in the first half. In the
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: first half. We were watching it, though, Billy. Come on.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, I would say, you know, we were. But
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Drew was there. He was able to take it. Did
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: it look as bad in person as it has so
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: far on my 24 for the Bucs so far? No.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: No.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: The one thing that shocked me about the Bucs is, like,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: they were getting crushed on transition D a lot. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: thought the hustle would be a little bit more pronounced.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: They were getting beat on made basket transitions. Like, that
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: should not happen in the NBA. They'll clean it up.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: But the offense looked okay to me. They just missed
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: a ton of shots. Like they shot, they were, they
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: shot so horribly to start that it was like, well,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I don't think this market is going to correct.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: You're not going to get yourself out of this. They
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: were missing no footers. They were missing open looks like
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: it just, It's one of those nights, man. There's a
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: cover on the hoop. Yeah, I hope there's not as
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: many of those nights as you think there are. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: did like the way the offense looked to get the
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: open shots, but then there's the part about making the
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: open shots. Maybe that's the next step. Maybe that is
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: a good start to have, as you and I were
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: sitting there at Bucs Media Day and Wes Eden's called
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Taylor Jenkins the biggest edition of the offseason. I was
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: looking for positives. Admittedly, I was looking for positives because
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a long, cold winter if the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Bucs stink. Give us reason to check in once in
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: a while. You don't have to win every game, but
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: win enough that we're compelled to check in and keep tabs.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: You know, this time, it's going to have to be built.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I had a history professor once that said the creation
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: of new empires is a bloody process. It doesn't look
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: pretty on the way up sometimes, but you have to
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: set the foundation, hopefully, in this kind of rubble.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: But I'll say for watching the games and the at
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: least viewability of the product and the excitement level, Drew,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Drew just gave me a good selling point. At least
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: there was... Somewhat of a plan, it sounds like. Yeah. Well,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: there was a plan to getting open shots. There was
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a plan to their offensive attack. That's a nice change-up
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: for what you watched most of last year. That's the
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: important thing. The last three or four years. That's a
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: definite change-up because the process to getting any of those
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: open looks was very few and far between. Again, for me,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: it's not even so much about results. It's about looking
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: for the plan and looking for the development of a
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: culture and looking for Um, just like, yeah, looking for positives. Hey,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Gary Trent played. That's a positive. That's a positive. That
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: is one. Take that. Take that investigation.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: He got six minutes, three points. You like that? He
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: was one of two from downtown. Um, should we get,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: can we get Mark in a truck and has been waiting? Hey,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: get him on man. Let's go. Mark in a truck.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the huddle. My friend.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Hello, old friend. How are you?
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Fantastic. Hey guys.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Um, Well, Drew, they took me out of retirement like
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the mafia once I thought it was off, but they
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: brought me back.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Good God.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Just for one day.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Just for one day. Well, that's more Sam.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: What's been new, Drew? Anything going on?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, same old, same old. You know, just winning World
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Series championships, watching our teams on Saturday Night Live. Just,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: you know, normal.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: 21 years on the radio and you're going, is this
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: ever going to happen?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. You know what? Mark, look where we live, though,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: and look at the titles here. And Billy said it initially,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: we've got to put together this sad sack crap because
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the Packers won theirs in 16, 15, 16, right? But
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: they were competitive for a while. The Bucs won theirs
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: after some near misses, and then they kind of petered out.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: And then here come the Brewers. They're passing the baton
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: to each other, just like the Brewers line up. Like now?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: All I know is the Brewers for a bit until
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: somebody else steps up. The Admirals are next this year. Oh,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I like that. There you go.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: All I know is 2005, Drew, when you promoted me
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: to the major leagues because I predicted the Brewers would
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: finish 500. That's true.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: That's a winner right there. And you should light a
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: cigar on that one. That is a victory cigar.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I am. So I got a kick in the old
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: cannoli for future callers. In two weeks when they say...
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: You there?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are. When they say... Okay.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Future callers in two weeks when free agency is going
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: and we get the... Antinazio is too cheap to sign
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: free agents.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: We'll never win with this team.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: So you can all... Fight me.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: He's rat-holing the money for the merchandise sales. He's rat-holing it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: All the radio heads, the idiot with the toupee on
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the radio, he can kiss my cannoli.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Later.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: There's something in what he's saying because you know people
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: are going to start complaining to him about something.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: They already are. Is Jake Bowers already lining up to
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: be the Brewers version of P.J. Tucker? That's it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: That could be.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Because if you don't pay him, if they don't give
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: him qualifying or whatever it is, we're going to start
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: complaining about something or someone's going to make a comment.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I think Rick was talking about merchandise sale.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: It's just the nature of the beast, okay? It's the
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: nature of the beast. The William Contreras one will be,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I think, the meeting this offseason. Because I don't know
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that anybody's going to second-guess Matt Arnold if he ends
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: up trading Trevor McGill. I don't think anybody's going to
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: second-guess them at all if Dustin May goes and signs
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: somewhere or JoJo Romero's not back. No one's necessarily going
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: to be shocked at all. But... The Contreras one feels easy,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: feels like a deal you should be able to make.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: And even Terang, I think you can see the forest
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: through the trees of the guys that they got coming up.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: The Jake Bowers, Jeff Passan piece, The pregame heaters in
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: the batting cage, the love of Sal Freelick and Jake
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Bowers and the celebration in the, in the parade and
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: the chill, the out moments. I think those are going
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to be the ones similar to Tucker drew where it was. Well,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: he was the guy that was a underlying straw that
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: stirred the drink. I think they'll be okay. I think
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: they'll make do the bigger one is. I don't see
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers hitting 20-some home runs again and hitting 270.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I'd love to say that he matches that Drew for
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: the next four years. He's a great player, but that
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: seems like a hell of a... It was before your time,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: but we might have a Bill Hall on our hands
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: that one year. You pay him for the one year,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: and then you say, well, where's the guy that we paid?
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but the thing is, when you win the World Series,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: everyone expects you to try to run it back with
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: the same guys. And if you don't, they're going to
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: say you weren't committed to trying to win championships.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily. I just think that's how fans react. They've
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: got a bunch of guys, and that's the thing. Even
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: bringing this team back is going to cost more because
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: of all the guys that are going to arbitration to
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: get healthy raises. So therefore, it's like they're not going
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: to be cheap per se. But if that's where like
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the greatest terrain he's going to make is going to
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: be serious cash.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Like two to nine. She's obviously worth it. Yeah. So
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that's what I'm saying is like, you'll be seen. So
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: running it back is not like at the same price.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: It's not realistic, but that's not realistic.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: If you think that fans are all of a sudden
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: going to have implicit trust in the, everybody like the man, well,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: they should question them. I think they should do, but
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: if you think that's going to happen, good luck. Best
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: record in ball two years in a row, a world
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: series champion. I think you need to shut up for
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: a while. After game four of the World Series.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. You should, but it's just going
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: to happen. I'm with you, though. What if we don't
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: get the second guest, the manager? Is it even fun?
• 38:16
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• 39:02
  Speaker 3: My life, my life, my life, my life. Drew, Billy,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: and Armand bringing it to you on this huddled up
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Monday in the good land. Those of you who can
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: actually hear over the air the bump music might be
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: wondering why we're coming back with a little reggae. And
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: the reason is because Hunter Baumgart just popped in. Oh
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: my gosh. This is why you should have went home.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: This is why he should have went home, Drew. Because
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: he walked around here too long. He's going to end
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: up keep working. Tell us that there are eight players
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: who have received qualifying offers today, including Seattle's Randy Arosa-Raina,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: David Bednar of the Yankees, Ryan Jeffers of the Twins,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Brandon Lowe of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Adrian Morajon of San Diego,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Trevor Rogers from Baltimore, Seiya Suzuki from Chicago, and Sunshine!
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers. Jake Bowers gets a qualifying offer. You need
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: to sing more. That was great. All right, man, Jake Bowers, yes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: That was great.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so he has received the qualifying offer. That means
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: that he has until like 3 o'clock Central Time on
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: November 17th, so we're still a couple of weeks away
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: from that, but to accept or decline. Now, if he accepts,
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: he would plan a one-year $ 23 million deal, right about
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: $ 23 million. If he declines, the Brewers would get a
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: draft pick. But of course, they can also negotiate a
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: different contract as well.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Well, that's, you know, Pat Murphy said he was going
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: to be a rich something. Yeah, rich something. That makes
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: you a rich something.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I would say it does. I thought $ 20 million would
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: be the cap of what he would end up getting. Now,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: I want everybody to make as much money as possible.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I want all these dudes to sign for the biggest
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: contract possible. I get made fun of for it. So
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: maybe I had over and I had kind of underwhelmed
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: in the thought, but he had such a huge year contract.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Hunter on a contract year for a guy that was
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: going to give up the sport. Generally speaking, organizations aren't saying, yeah,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: let's give that guy 25 million bucks. Well, totally.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: So it's, it's just a fascinating situation because you know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: our non-roster invitee a couple of years ago to now
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: he's receiving a qualifying offer and had a great obviously year,
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: but he's also. at the age he's at, just after 30,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: that you think about it and, okay, how much is
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: he really going to demand? Now, this is a question
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: for him. If there is, let's say, just take this
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: at face value and say he can either take a
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: one-year $ 23 million deal or test free agency and try
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: to get a multi-year deal. I don't think he's getting
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: a multi-year deal at 23 a year. So do you
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: bet on just one year, try to prove it again,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: and then maybe go multiple years? Because you can't do
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: a qualifying offer at again, from a team. As the
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: rules stand now, I mean, who knows if the rules
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: could change, too.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: We don't know. And especially the team that you're enjoying.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's no question he loves being a brewer
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Well, who wouldn't?
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: But I'm sure this is like, you know, I'm sure
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: they're thinking like, boy, it'd be great to stay here. Like,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: everything's been great here. The manager, all that stuff.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: He's 31. That might help. Right. Which, yeah, I mean,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: he had a breakout performance. MVP of the NLCS. In
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: a sport. I'm old enough to remember when a guy
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: named Jeff Supan was the NLCS MVP and signed a
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: lucrative deal with the team. That's a heck of a comparison.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: And, like, Drew, he also is.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say he's a platoon guy, but
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: you kind of thought going into the year you played
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: on him being a platoon. Now, he played his way
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: out of the platoon, and then there were still some
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: folks that wanted to see Andrew Vaughn get more reps
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: and more at-bats, so... That gets quieted down, I guess.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: I would want to know, Hunter, and this is one
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: that I know somebody's going to ask him when and
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: if this ends up happening for Matt Arnold to talk
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: to everybody. He's now about people, right? Because that was
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Pat Murphy's thing of he used to be about numbers.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Now he's a people guy. That means that they think
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers is way too important of a dude to
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: lose in that locker room, which... Maybe I wonder how
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: many more decisions they're going to make like that after
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: a championship, I guess. That's changing your process after the result,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I would say, a little bit.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: It does, if they do indeed go that way. I mean,
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: William Contreras is also a dude in that clubhouse. Sal
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Freelick is also, and you just signed Luis Lara to
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: a big deal, and he's been playing right field. So
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: just some fascinating decisions after a World Series win not
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: even a week ago.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Sunshine.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: So the comparisons I've heard for Bowers and contracts would
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: be Josh Naylor, who got five years at 92, and
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Christian Walker, three years at 60.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, three at 60 was in my mind, but I
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: don't know that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I know, Billy. They had longer run-ups because they were better.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: He was just like a league average. So 360, I think,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: is too much. He was like the replacement level player,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: and then he had the breakout year. But his barrel rate,
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: his exit velo, all the numbers are great. Good year, William.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: That's amazing. God is good, dude. God is good. If
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: I was Jake Bowers, I would be standing outside of
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: American family feels pitching a tent before for them to
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: give me that deal. So I could sign it down.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Laws.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Yes. I would be pitching a tent to sleep in
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: and the other one. Well, I just think he did
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: deliver driving all the way to the stadium. I understand
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the skepticism. I have it too.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: But when you deliver the goods, like he delivered the goods,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: but in the LCS and you can't ever take that away.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, whether or not they're going to, Yeah, I
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: don't know. Remember Larry Brown? Remember Desmond Howard? That's NFL,
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: but you have one big playoff run.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: We were surprised kind of when they offered it to
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Woody last year, weren't we?
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: I was shocked.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: Right, so I think, you know, so.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Break down the door, sign it.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Hunter.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.