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07/20/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: On the air for hour three.
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Speaker 2: It is the huddle that's armand sorry and I'm Billy
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Speaker 2: Schmid Drew Olsen off this week as we get ready
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Speaker 2: to bring you unparalleled coverage of your Green Bay Packers
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Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty six Dare I say championship season
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Speaker 2: of the Green Bay Packers? Is it kicks off in
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Speaker 2: training camp one week from Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope. So, you know, I feel like this is
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Speaker 1: a pivotal year for some people to not lose faith
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Speaker 1: in Jordan Love. Although I'm not, but I feel like
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Speaker 1: and maybe that's because we're developing this July sort of
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Speaker 1: conversation on a lot of the networks billion, a lot
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Speaker 1: of these airwaves that are you know, different receptacles of talk.
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Speaker 1: I like that. I feel like it's okay Jordan loves.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love's got to take the next step now. Jordan
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Speaker 1: Love has approved himself again and the whole Top ten
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Speaker 1: when he wasn't in it. In my opinion, Jordan Love
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Speaker 1: has been getting better every year. Maybe it's not flashy,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's not, but he's been a consistent performer. You know,
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Speaker 1: we haven't had the playoff run that we wanted yet,
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Speaker 1: which is a lot on the quarterbacks legacy. We know that,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know about you, Billy. And we get
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Speaker 1: a lot of that week to week from more Lawsky,
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Speaker 1: who likes what Jordan Love's doing. I don't feel like
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love's been any sort of like disappointing or anything,
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Speaker 1: but it does feel like for some people it's okay,
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Speaker 1: Is this the year he takes the next step? Is
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Speaker 1: this year this team becomes great? He finally, you know,
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Speaker 1: knocks in the MVP door, has a deep playoff run
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Speaker 1: and of course you're judged around these parts on your
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Speaker 1: playoff success and Super Bowl championships.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the tough thing as I'm glad you started
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Speaker 2: to hear. As we fire up our number three, we'll
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Speaker 2: talk to a bunch of bomb Guard coming up in
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Speaker 2: twenty minutes. No, because this was uh and Jordan was
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Speaker 2: the guy that has Aaron Angler and I taped our
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Speaker 2: last episode, our latest episode, I should say latest of
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Speaker 2: the Carry the g Radio the podcast big difference last
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Speaker 2: and latest, Yeah, definitely not last, definitely latest? Yeah, was
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Speaker 2: who do the Green Bay Packers need more from?
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six?
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Speaker 2: Good one rather open ended, gives you an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: take it whatever way you feel, right, Like X factors
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Speaker 2: were what we talked about a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: I think the biggest X factor is what happens in
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Speaker 2: the running back room and whatever happens with Josh Jacobs
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Speaker 2: on and off of the football field, because what they're
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Speaker 2: going to count upon in the on their offense is
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Speaker 2: getting something out of a run game last year that
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Speaker 2: didn't have a thousand yard rusher, where this offense is
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Speaker 2: built upon pretty much anybody being able to run the
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Speaker 2: football and have some kind of success, some modicum of success.
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Speaker 2: You've watched in San Francisco. They've thrown any Elijah Mitchell
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Speaker 2: back there, and all of a sudden, fantasy football owners
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Speaker 2: are salivating, saying.
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Speaker 1: This guy's give me a thousand year back. Sure.
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Speaker 2: I mean we had Peyton hillis get mentioned here. Now
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Speaker 2: that's early versions of this offense with Kyle Shanahan and Cleveland,
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Speaker 2: But Peyton hillis ended up on a damn Madden cover
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Speaker 2: running in the early versions of this offense. So like,
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Speaker 2: this is something that's been around for a while, and
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Speaker 2: you not being able to run the ball was a
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Speaker 2: massive issue not only on Josh Jacobs, largely on the
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Speaker 2: offensive line that was underperforming in front. But I say
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Speaker 2: that to say this, when you talk about the player
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Speaker 2: they need the most out of, I think it. I
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Speaker 2: know it raised the eyebrow of Aaron Egler when I
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Speaker 2: said the first guy was was Jordan Love. Not that
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Speaker 2: Jordan Love has been bad, not that Jordan Love is
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Speaker 2: below average. I think Jordan Love is above average. But
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Speaker 2: to be a super Bowl caliber team and a super
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Speaker 2: Bowl winning team, you need that player at that given
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Speaker 2: point to play above really good.
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Speaker 1: That's it right there.
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Speaker 2: And did Sam Darnold play great in the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Did he play exceptionally well in the final seven weeks
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Speaker 2: of the year. I mean, like you look at those
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Speaker 2: those matchups going back and forth. After he throws three
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Speaker 2: or four picks against LA in Los Angeles, he took
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Speaker 2: the ball over like four times for ten weeks. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and went out and outdueled the MVP, got a favorable
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Speaker 2: call on a weird set two point inversion that helped
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Speaker 2: him out, then went and did it again in the
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Speaker 2: NFC title game. Like you gotta double that kind of
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Speaker 2: stuff up. And not that Jordan's performances Arman are, like
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Speaker 2: I said, below average. But if you're going to take
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Speaker 2: the next steps. We're we're coming off of a war
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Speaker 2: a year where the MVP of the league had his
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Speaker 2: worst game of his career in.
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Speaker 1: The biggest game. It's a great point.
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Speaker 2: What's the number one thing? The Buffalo Bilsney Josh Allen
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Speaker 2: not turned the ball of them to be great all
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Speaker 2: of the time. I don't know that the Packers are
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Speaker 2: built off Jordan Love being great all the time, really
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Speaker 2: good all the time and great at times. I do
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Speaker 2: believe they are, and I think he's been really good.
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Speaker 2: He was really good in the playoff game. Was he great? No,
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Speaker 2: the third quarter happened right to intentional groundings when I
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Speaker 2: think he had three all year. So that part of
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Speaker 2: being able to be your best when your best is required,
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Speaker 2: Jordan has shown at times. For the Packers to be
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Speaker 2: the best version of themselves, you got to be your
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Speaker 2: best ninety percent of the time when it's required. And
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Speaker 2: that is for all quarterbacks across the league. This sport
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Speaker 2: is so driven off that position that if they're going
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Speaker 2: to be the team they want to be and that
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Speaker 2: we all are hoping they are, I think he continue
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Speaker 2: he needs to take another step in being one of
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Speaker 2: the better quarterbacks in the position.
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Speaker 1: In all football. You know what, It sounds like a
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Speaker 1: cop op, but it's true. In this game, you have
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Speaker 1: to be really good and you have to have a
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Speaker 1: really good play out of that position, the most important position,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of times, Billy, it can be enough
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Speaker 1: to win. Teams have made good playoff runs even Super
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Speaker 1: Bowls without great, great quarterback play. But it really helps
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Speaker 1: to add that unless you have, yeah, unless you have
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Speaker 1: like an entire roster full of behemoths.
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Speaker 2: The only teams though, that have done it in the
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Speaker 2: last three decades, what it's pretty rare. I mean Tampa
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Speaker 2: with Brad Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean I'm talking about X like I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about like fantastic quarterback play. Like so fifteen with the Broncos.
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Speaker 1: Did the Eagles have it with Jalen I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: you can argue that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe look at you go back and look at his
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Speaker 2: numbers in that run. He had good numbers and he's
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Speaker 2: the he's argued. I think it's pretty clean. He's the
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Speaker 2: best player in two Super Bowls. Yeah, they lose one
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Speaker 2: against Kansas City because Mahomes Auduels. I'm with one leg,
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Speaker 2: but he was the best player in two Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like sometimes around these parts we've because
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Speaker 1: we've had Aaron so long, we feel like you just
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Speaker 1: need your quarterback to be super human to have a chance.
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Speaker 1: And that's not always been the case everywhere, but it
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Speaker 1: definitely helps, and you need to you need your guy
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Speaker 1: that position and take extra leaps when your team needs it.
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Speaker 1: Like Jordan loves had good playoff games. I mean, we
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Speaker 1: know about Dallas, but even the ones they've lost, I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's had terrible games. I don't think that
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Speaker 1: Bears game was by any stretch of bad game. But
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Speaker 1: Bears game was very good, but it just could it
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Speaker 1: could have been greater to help them win. Like if
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Speaker 1: you dis and that's kind of what.
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Speaker 2: Is completion percentage everything? No, no, but it's fifty enough
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Speaker 2: to win a playoff game. Probably not even if you
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Speaker 2: throw for four tugs and over three hundred yards. You
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Speaker 2: have that many incompletions and that many punts in the
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Speaker 2: second half, it's it's just not gonna be another That's
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: It's tough because the threshold can be very tough at
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Speaker 1: that position. For this team to say we got a
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Speaker 1: lot of it on packers ot that night. Like he
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Speaker 1: had great numbers. It wasn't his fault, but like you
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Speaker 1: could have done more. You could have scored every possession,
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Speaker 1: like and sometimes that's his standard that people are holding
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Speaker 1: him to. I mean, overall, his numbers have been very
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Speaker 1: good coming in, but for some reason people still hold
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Speaker 1: back on giving him that kind of credit or that
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Speaker 1: kind of thing because it's like we're putting everything on
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Speaker 1: you in these parts in Green Bay and in that
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Speaker 1: position to be when when you're losing, when like he
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Speaker 1: could have got to help around him. Like you talked
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Speaker 1: about the running game, Billy, a lot of it was
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Speaker 1: so inconsistent last year. And whether or not that's a
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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs thinger offensive line thing, you could argue that
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Speaker 1: all day. I mean both, yeah, I think good portion
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Speaker 1: of both. I mean we talked about the contact Josh
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Speaker 1: Jacobs had to deal with, but on how healthy was he.
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Speaker 1: But we saw a guy like Emmanuel Wilson have good
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Speaker 1: games when Josh wasn't. I mean there were times where
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Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, what's going on this roster? You know,
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Speaker 1: we don't know the situation with him right now. We
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Speaker 1: surely could use him. We pretty much need him, I
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Speaker 1: mean right now, desperately what you have behind him? Now?
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Speaker 1: What we bounce back. A lot of times we know
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Speaker 1: about the inconsistency of running backs in this league. It
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Speaker 1: can be kind of gap years every other year. Every
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Speaker 1: other year, that can be it sometimes hopefully that's what
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Speaker 1: it is. But that's why I think it's interesting you
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Speaker 1: talk about who we need more from, it's always going
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Speaker 1: to start and end with the quarterback. Now, the reality
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Speaker 1: is you could go anywhere on this roster and say
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Speaker 1: that who do you need more? And this is a
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Speaker 1: cop would answer, we need more if we're going to
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Speaker 1: reach the goal what we want to reach, the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl World Championship, you need more from everybody. Lucas van Ness,
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Speaker 1: the offense, and even some of the players that you're
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Speaker 1: most confident in and the guys that are going to
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Speaker 1: be you believe are going to be big factors. Edrin Cooper,
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Speaker 1: you need more out of Wayne and I talked about
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Speaker 1: it every single day at training camp. It felt like
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Speaker 1: every segment great and who can be great? Who can
9:25
Speaker 1: be as we would say blue chip and Edrin Cooper's
9:28
Speaker 1: name was one or two out of the mouth every time.
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Speaker 1: And I think he stopped somewhere at being a really
9:33
Speaker 1: good player, not all pro a crazy deal when you're
9:38
Speaker 1: a second year player, but for them to get all
9:40
Speaker 1: the way home and for their defense with Gannon to
9:45
Speaker 1: be somewhat reminiscent of the Philadelphia defense that he coordinated.
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Speaker 1: You need somebody in the middle to be a massive playmaker.
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Speaker 1: And you look at the same thing on the offensive side, like,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of players in the skill positions that
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Speaker 1: we like that are playing really good ball, that are
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Speaker 1: helping this team win, that have produced a lot. But again,
10:04
Speaker 1: if you're talking about the goals you want to reach,
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Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft had an amazing year last year before he
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Speaker 1: was hurt. Great? Was he top three at the position? Maybe?
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Speaker 1: I don't know if everyone would say that, but was
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Speaker 1: he the best of the position? Like that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: It's like, even Tucker Kraft, you were really good last year,
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Speaker 1: you were awesome. We could still use more from you.
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Speaker 1: We could if you can be the best at your
10:24
Speaker 1: position in the world, that'd be nice. Jayden Reid is
10:27
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy again, right, I mean, Christian Watson, the
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Speaker 1: receiving core, Matthew Golden, all those are all talented pieces
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Speaker 1: that produce well that we like, but it would help
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Speaker 1: if one of you was top ten to the position
10:38
Speaker 1: like you still just because those are the better players
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Speaker 1: in the roster doesn't mean you still don't need more
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Speaker 1: from them. So it's a compound answer, But it's the
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Speaker 1: reality of like anyone that can lift this boat up.
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Speaker 1: Even if you've been the main lifter Micah Parsons, if
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Speaker 1: you could be the defensive player.
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Speaker 2: Of the year, that'd be great if you again out
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Speaker 2: of your control, if you don't miss four games right right,
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Speaker 2: And it's a huge part.
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Speaker 1: The biggest one probably health is a big I mean,
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Speaker 1: Tucker Craft, if he was healthy last year, who knows
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Speaker 1: what he could have done with the rest of his season.
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Speaker 1: You know, he was on his way to having a
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Speaker 1: great one already did for what he did.
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Speaker 2: Same with same with Christian Watson. But I think one
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Speaker 2: of the more interesting ones is the guy that you
11:16
Speaker 2: put into that combination of Jayden Reid, who gets signed
11:20
Speaker 2: this year to a rather modest deal, Like if you
11:23
Speaker 2: look at it on the base of it, three years,
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Speaker 2: sixty million dollars, holy coow Okay, well, twenty of a guarantine, right,
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Speaker 2: So it's.
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Speaker 1: A nice chunk of change.
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Speaker 2: It's a nice chunk of change for everybody that's working
11:35
Speaker 2: listening to us from the five o'clock club and going
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Speaker 2: to work now. And it's a good goal seven to
11:39
Speaker 2: thirteen in the morning on a Monday.
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Speaker 1: It's a good going rate for a it's a going
11:45
Speaker 1: rate for a middle of the road number two wide receiver, yes,
11:48
Speaker 1: like I mean, and and he's probably paid more like
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Speaker 1: a number three receiver if indeed you get the performance
11:55
Speaker 1: that you hope you get out of Matthew Golden on
11:57
Speaker 1: a rookie contract. Like they're all they're all symbia, they
12:02
Speaker 1: all play together. But read to me somebody that you
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Speaker 1: basically got nothing out of last year because of multiple
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Speaker 1: injury and injury. Yeah, not no fault.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was maybe your best offensive player in
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Speaker 2: the first game in a quarter that he played in.
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Speaker 2: The touchdown catch that gets called back off, the holding
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Speaker 2: that he ends up breaking the collar bone on is
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Speaker 2: a sick play. But then you know, so what have
12:24
Speaker 2: you done for me lately? League? And I think the
12:26
Speaker 2: last play that a lot of people think of with
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Speaker 2: Jayden Reid this year, which is tough because I thought
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Speaker 2: he was good in the playoff game was the drop
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Speaker 2: on the final drive where you hold on to that rock,
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Speaker 2: you're within fifteen yards at worse game changes, Yeah, with
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Speaker 2: thirty seconds to go in legit shots to the end zone.
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Speaker 2: So again we can we don't have to go back
12:45
Speaker 2: into a full post game show on it. But if
12:49
Speaker 2: he catches that ball, what a different look for even
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Speaker 2: Jordan Love money on the table, right, Like you need
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Speaker 2: more out of the easiest one, A guy that's not here.
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Speaker 1: The kicking position, that's a good one, that's a great one.
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Speaker 2: When you got a decent performance throughout the year from McManus,
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Speaker 2: when you look at the numbers in totality until it
13:06
Speaker 2: mattered the most, but when money was on the table,
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Speaker 2: it was maybe the toughest part. So it's it's a
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Speaker 2: it's a fascinating build up to the season where was
13:17
Speaker 2: everything negative for the twenty twenty five packers. Far far,
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Speaker 2: far from it, but some really negative tastes in your
13:23
Speaker 2: mouth when you end the season on a five game
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Speaker 2: losing skin. Yeah, and you hope again it can be
13:30
Speaker 2: it can sound very very cliche. You hope that that's
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Speaker 2: a hell of a motivating factor and something that that
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Speaker 2: sticks with because you can't manufacture ending the season on
13:39
Speaker 2: a five game losing streak, right, just like you can't
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Speaker 2: manufacture the desperation a team is playing with when it's
13:45
Speaker 2: a legit winner, go home game. You can't manufacture that
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Speaker 2: kind of pressure of realizing we had a lead, a
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Speaker 2: two score lead over a team that hosted a championship game.
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Speaker 2: That's what and full control of controlling your own destiny
13:59
Speaker 2: that playoff games being played at lambeau Field. It's it's
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Speaker 2: one that sticks in the crawl and hopefully you're able
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Speaker 2: to utilize it.
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Speaker 1: Well. I think they do.
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Speaker 2: And again I think Jordan has another good year. Did
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Speaker 2: he have a MVP year a year ago?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: What four games in which he had a total of
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Speaker 2: two touchdown passes right in the meat of the season.
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Speaker 1: Was it all his fault? Though?
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Speaker 2: However, that's usually not a not an excuse or an
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Speaker 2: explanation for a Lamar Jackson. Yeah, Josh Allen of Pat
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Speaker 2: mahomes And if you're gonna be trying to thrust yourself
14:33
Speaker 2: into that conversation, that conversation, then you got to judge
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Speaker 2: on that kind of rubric.
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Speaker 1: Is that fair? Yeah? I mean that's what it is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna be judging, but those players
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Speaker 1: are b mvple. You have to be consistent all the time. Now, Now,
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Speaker 1: those are gonna always be moments. But are you the
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Speaker 1: the answer. The funny thing about it is, I don't
14:50
Speaker 1: think that the moniker that's been pushed upon him the
14:53
Speaker 1: whole can you trust Jordan love thing has been really
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Speaker 1: the issue. I don't think that's totally fair. Like I
14:58
Speaker 1: don't think bad bad turnovers has really been a consistent thing.
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Speaker 1: As much as people like to play that up. It's
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Speaker 1: more than what you said. We need you to be
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Speaker 1: consistent all the time and not have these lulls. Were
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Speaker 1: the offense lalls down because starts up the front obviously? Fact,
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Speaker 1: I mean they were.
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Speaker 2: I think the Carolina game is the one where it
15:16
Speaker 2: will get forgotten about how much they were pushed back.
15:19
Speaker 2: The Brown had a phenomenal game that yay. I think
15:23
Speaker 2: Robinson controlled both a gaps and that's a tough way
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Speaker 2: to do. That's a tough way to make a living
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Speaker 2: offensively when you don't control the middle of the line.
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Speaker 1: That in the Cleveland game of the two that I
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Speaker 1: remember the most on that one, and that's just what
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Speaker 1: it is. What do you think New York Giants fans
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Speaker 1: will remember about this year Camp Scatable being healthy at
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Speaker 1: for trying backflips? What was that yesterday for this weekend?
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Speaker 1: Is that? So that was that Fanatics fast? He's fine,
15:47
Speaker 1: by the way, how about a kick to the balls
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Speaker 1: to camp Scouts. Yeah, let's get well, let me let
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Speaker 1: me fire this thing up here for you. But what
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Speaker 1: is going on? My man?
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Speaker 2: Missus, oh my word, missus nine games last year with
15:58
Speaker 2: a tibby frack sure, a right ankle dislocation, and then
16:04
Speaker 2: at super special Fanatics Fest this weekend, decided to do
16:07
Speaker 2: an impromptu backfliph which he almost does a full spread
16:11
Speaker 2: eagle split. Looks to hardcore Botch said backflip. Well they
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Speaker 2: remember the backflips or will they remember Brian Daball trying
16:21
Speaker 2: to run into the medical tent and rip out?
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Speaker 1: Uh Jackson Dart. Yeah, and like you don't need to
16:27
Speaker 1: do this stuff, Like you're gonna get your check from
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Speaker 1: Michael Ruben no matter what.
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Speaker 2: You're also in New York and you're the running back
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Speaker 2: of the Giants, Like people are gonna give you a
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Speaker 2: pop and they like that's the one where you probably
16:37
Speaker 2: don't need to manufacture a pop.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, great point, Like he's a guy that giants
16:42
Speaker 1: fans like.
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Speaker 2: Let's be honest, Aaron Judge doesn't have to walk in
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Speaker 2: there and say I'm buying drinks to get a celebraty.
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Speaker 1: Well, what is it about these guys that they people
16:49
Speaker 1: now feel the need to do a backflip all the time.
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Speaker 1: They have to show that they can do a backflip?
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Speaker 1: My mans did won the Savannah, But like, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to try this, guys, See I would I would
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Speaker 1: push back on that with a couple of things. Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: If I was able to do a backflip it all day, brother,
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Speaker 2: you'd be seeing me backflip on Highway one hundred, just
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Speaker 2: like I've said a number of times, if I looked
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Speaker 2: like a certain you know, celebrity. Uh, Garrett Mitchell on
17:17
Speaker 2: Friday Night. Yeah, Garrett Mitchell on Friday Night gets doused.
17:21
Speaker 2: Gotta talk about this with Hunter. Nobody dumps a Gatoraye
17:24
Speaker 2: bucket on Garrett.
17:25
Speaker 1: Mitchell looking or was the deal? No? Is this bull?
17:29
Speaker 2: Garrett Mitchell dumps a Gatorade bucket on every single brewer
17:33
Speaker 2: and then he just gets water bottles sprayed on him.
17:35
Speaker 2: Come on, somebody had to step up and and dowst
17:37
Speaker 2: Garrett Mitchell. But if when he's got the super tight
17:41
Speaker 2: shirt on because he just got doused in water with
17:43
Speaker 2: the walk off, if I look like Garrett Mitchell, you'd
17:45
Speaker 2: you'd be hard pressed to find me rocking a shirt.
17:48
Speaker 1: Mate. That's the thing. If you like Garrett, if you
17:50
Speaker 1: look like Garrett Mitchell, would you be wearing his jersey
17:52
Speaker 1: and Sprouts pants? They might. They might have to iron
17:56
Speaker 1: on my brand and Sproat like the tightest outfit in comparison,
18:01
Speaker 1: a combination.
18:02
Speaker 2: I saw sprot during BP on on Friday. He's wearing
18:05
Speaker 2: the tight pants during warm ups too. Oh, this is
18:07
Speaker 2: the meaning he's wearing him on off days.
18:10
Speaker 1: Billy. You can't get off.
18:11
Speaker 2: Though at that point, No, I mean, I mean they
18:13
Speaker 2: look like offensive lineman jerseys.
18:15
Speaker 1: You were considered. Maybe he's never taken him off. Maybe
18:18
Speaker 1: he sleeps in those games as two for the road
18:20
Speaker 1: games for the gray Ones, it's pretty wild. Or maybe
18:23
Speaker 1: he does the barklay. He just showers at him and
18:25
Speaker 1: that's how he washes his jersey. You never showered into jersey, Charles.
18:28
Speaker 1: I showered him. I clean my jersey in the shower
18:30
Speaker 1: my jersey in the shower. That's an all timer. Look,
18:33
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, I get it. You're young, you're athletic,
18:36
Speaker 1: you feel invincible, you want to backflip. You don't have
18:39
Speaker 1: to do it. We don't need to.
18:41
Speaker 2: We don't need to, especially in fanatics fuss, especially on
18:45
Speaker 2: a weird, slippery surface, might not be the best idea.
18:48
Speaker 1: A seven fanatics fest thing is so weird in general
18:53
Speaker 1: to me, it's just so much idea. I want you
18:54
Speaker 1: to go sometime. Yeah, I know I probably should, just.
18:58
Speaker 2: Because I want you to be able to walk around
19:00
Speaker 2: and just look around and say, what is all this stuff?
19:04
Speaker 1: Exactly? What are we wasting all our money on here?
19:07
Speaker 1: It's so funny. That would just be phenomenal theater, all
19:09
Speaker 1: these athletes going there to self congratulate on the backs
19:13
Speaker 1: of you buying four hundred dollars screen printed jerseys. Like
19:17
Speaker 1: that's if we do, If we ever get you to
19:20
Speaker 1: do the UH, Like dp's got seating now on the UH.
19:24
Speaker 1: He just goes on road trips and finds cool reports
19:27
Speaker 1: to do. How about that?
19:28
Speaker 2: If we ever get to a point where we can
19:30
Speaker 2: elevate you to that status, army.
19:32
Speaker 1: Around and just hang on a fanatics Fest.
19:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Olympics and Fanatics Fest the two places I
19:36
Speaker 2: need to see armand sorry and.
19:37
Speaker 1: At armand was that Armand was that Fanatics Fest today?
19:40
Speaker 1: Check itself out like me walking.
19:42
Speaker 2: Checking out the eight hundred dollars jackets that you can.
19:45
Speaker 1: Buy, trying to haggle, thinking, I see if yeah, six
19:50
Speaker 1: hundred sixty. The closest thing we got is when we
19:53
Speaker 1: were walking around Super Bowl media role that was the
19:55
Speaker 1: closest thing we got to that. Hey, is that Darrel Rowski?
19:57
Speaker 2: That'll probably be yeah, right even nine seven three, All right,
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Speaker 1: Hunter.
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Speaker 2: That's a heck of a weekend at the ballpark. Two
21:56
Speaker 2: walk off winners. I got to start here before we
21:59
Speaker 2: get to our super her of the day in William
22:00
Speaker 2: Contreras and the yeoman's work of him being able to
22:04
Speaker 2: go in and catch after pinch hitting. Did you talk
22:07
Speaker 2: to anybody in that clubhouse on Friday night? Why no
22:09
Speaker 2: one dumped the gatorade bucket on Garrett Mitchell? I mean,
22:11
Speaker 2: what the heck? This dude is standing out there waiting
22:14
Speaker 2: to go in and celebrate every victory by dumping gatorade
22:18
Speaker 2: on somebody talking to Sophia Minnert, and it felt like
22:21
Speaker 2: the boys let him off the hook there on Friday night.
22:24
Speaker 2: Did you ask that question or were you worried about
22:27
Speaker 2: real important, actual.
22:28
Speaker 1: Baseball stuff we should have.
22:30
Speaker 3: That's a missed opportunity, I think because he is the guy.
22:33
Speaker 3: You know, Willia Domas was always the guy when he
22:35
Speaker 3: was here. But then when Williadamas would hit a walk
22:38
Speaker 3: off home run, somebody would pick it up, you know,
22:40
Speaker 3: pick up the mantle, so to speak, and be able
22:42
Speaker 3: to dump the gatorade on Willia Domas. Whether that Be
22:45
Speaker 3: Contreras or someone else. Edner Rebe has been definitely part
22:49
Speaker 3: of that this year as well, as we saw that yesterday,
22:52
Speaker 3: your Rebay and Mitchell combining for the effort with William
22:56
Speaker 3: for William Contreras. So maybe he should have done it,
22:59
Speaker 3: but either way, somebody should have. I was I was
23:01
Speaker 3: thinking the same thing in the moment, though we didn't
23:03
Speaker 3: ask it, but I was sitting there, I'm like, Okay,
23:05
Speaker 3: who's gonna dump the gatorade? Whereas like, well, nobody's there
23:08
Speaker 3: to dump the gatorade. Garrett Mitchell is the one who
23:10
Speaker 3: just hit the walk off. So yeah, unfortunately that's a
23:12
Speaker 3: missed opportunity because I'm sure Mitchell wanted, you know, that
23:16
Speaker 3: same celebration that he gives everyone else.
23:19
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe today it's a good time to just be like, hey,
23:21
Speaker 2: do you feel like he got slighted?
23:22
Speaker 1: Do you feel like he got short changed? Right now?
23:25
Speaker 2: Where a couple of days removed, they got more wins
23:27
Speaker 2: on it, right He'll be like, no, I'm more worried
23:29
Speaker 2: about getting hit again.
23:29
Speaker 1: Well he's gonna he's gonna say that, but I think
23:32
Speaker 1: he should like yet, Dom wanted the gatorade bath and
23:36
Speaker 1: my thing and I asked is to Billy right before
23:38
Speaker 1: the show. It was like super super early. Why Billy
23:41
Speaker 1: probably didn't think wise armor thinking about this, but like
23:44
Speaker 1: yesterday that that's bubble gum, right that they're dumping on William.
23:48
Speaker 1: So that looks like you could have at least done
23:50
Speaker 1: that with the confetti with the bubble gum. It looks
23:53
Speaker 1: like confetti, sure, I think, okay, and then you don't.
23:55
Speaker 1: What I like about that is that's individually wrapped candy
23:58
Speaker 1: or bubblegum, right, and you don't waste any of it,
24:02
Speaker 1: and then see then you can reuse that. So at
24:04
Speaker 1: least if it's not gatorad, can't we do the candy
24:07
Speaker 1: bucket like that? That's another thing, right, hunter, because those
24:10
Speaker 1: are individuals that that's bubble.
24:12
Speaker 3: Gum, right, those little things? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's
24:15
Speaker 3: bubble gum. They have all sorts of kinds of double
24:18
Speaker 3: bubble in that dugout, whether it be watermelon or apple
24:21
Speaker 3: or what have you.
24:23
Speaker 1: I mixed in there because I'm like, what that green flavor?
24:25
Speaker 1: That that's the green I thought it was apple. But ye,
24:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back in my bubble gum game.
24:30
Speaker 2: You gotta go check out the big league chew. Dick
24:32
Speaker 2: Sporting Goods has a crazy amount of big league chew.
24:35
Speaker 2: I was trying to explain it to my three year old.
24:36
Speaker 1: He was not not understanding how cool it was, but
24:38
Speaker 1: what he will he.
24:40
Speaker 2: Will in due time. Hunter, You've been trying to explain
24:44
Speaker 2: to us, though, how good Garrett Mitchell is and how
24:46
Speaker 2: talented he's been for a while now. His month of
24:50
Speaker 2: July is ridiculous, an incredible average. I think he still
24:54
Speaker 2: currently has the most hits in the majors in the
24:57
Speaker 2: month of July. What have you noticed from his I
25:02
Speaker 2: heard MURV talking about it on Friday Night a little bit.
25:04
Speaker 2: I got a piece of it. Leaving the game but
25:07
Speaker 2: being able to play.
25:08
Speaker 1: A different way.
25:09
Speaker 2: It did appear like he was learning how to play
25:12
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more reserved, a little safer in
25:15
Speaker 2: the outfield. But Friday night he does it with the bat,
25:18
Speaker 2: does it with the glove, and that went from being
25:21
Speaker 2: the Joey Ortiz game to the Garrett Mitchell night.
25:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it for Garrett Mitchell.
25:26
Speaker 3: I think you've seen the confidence grow, of course at
25:29
Speaker 3: the plate with the way he's hitting, but also the
25:32
Speaker 3: way the confidence has grown in the field and I
25:34
Speaker 3: think a great example of that was Friday night when
25:36
Speaker 3: he makes those two catches up against the wall where
25:39
Speaker 3: he's not timid to hit the wall.
25:41
Speaker 1: He's going and making the catch.
25:42
Speaker 3: Now, was it like robbing a home run or absolutely
25:46
Speaker 3: slamming into the wall. No, but he is going full
25:49
Speaker 3: speed towards the wall, and that is probably something early
25:53
Speaker 3: in the season he wasn't as comfortable with. But now
25:56
Speaker 3: he's kind of gotten over that mental hurt a little bit.
25:58
Speaker 3: I mean, we had talked about during spring train and
26:00
Speaker 3: he had talked about how he's literally working on slides
26:05
Speaker 3: and dives back into first base. How can I do
26:07
Speaker 3: that to keep myself healthy? How can I do that,
26:10
Speaker 3: you know in the outfield? How can I dive a
26:13
Speaker 3: certain way to make sure that I am going to
26:15
Speaker 3: stay healthy? And I think that's almost become natural now,
26:22
Speaker 3: you know, halfway more than halfway through the season. I
26:24
Speaker 3: think it's it's really instinctual. Where he is maybe dying
26:29
Speaker 3: oh now we're back wow ACTU. Where he's diving, diving
26:32
Speaker 3: a certain way, or maybe he's running into the wall.
26:35
Speaker 3: It depends on what what it happens to be. But
26:37
Speaker 3: his outfield confidence I think has gotten much better. If
26:40
Speaker 3: I'm breaking up here, let me know.
26:42
Speaker 1: Oh no, we got you, got you, We.
26:44
Speaker 2: Got you there in the middle there, But it is
26:45
Speaker 2: it's tough because you saw somebody who was especially at
26:48
Speaker 2: the plate, swinging and missing a little bit more than
26:50
Speaker 2: you would obviously. Like earlier in the year, they put
26:53
Speaker 2: up a cool thing on MLB Network and I don't
26:55
Speaker 2: fully understand Hunter the chase rates and the hard hit
26:58
Speaker 2: rates and what calculate and what trips the trigger of
27:02
Speaker 2: a chase and all this kind of stuff. They said
27:03
Speaker 2: he had one of the better chase rates as well
27:05
Speaker 2: as hard hit rates in baseball. The comparison and the
27:09
Speaker 2: combination of him and Jake Bauers was rather impressive. Jake
27:12
Speaker 2: Bauers has some of the better numbers that way in
27:15
Speaker 2: all of baseball. But for for Garrett Mitchell, he's in
27:19
Speaker 2: a crowded outfield. Like our friend Wisconsin sports Fanatics said, uh,
27:23
Speaker 2: all the patients that the Brewers had with Mitchell finally
27:26
Speaker 2: paying off.
27:27
Speaker 1: I've always thought.
27:28
Speaker 2: You'd be good if you could just keep uh, keep
27:32
Speaker 2: him going, Go Brewers. But like he's he's at a
27:34
Speaker 2: spot where you desperately know there's spots available, right Like
27:41
Speaker 2: you're there's a lot of guys that are trying to
27:43
Speaker 2: get in there. You're gonna have Cheerio who's gonna have
27:46
Speaker 2: to play every day yell at you for you're trying
27:48
Speaker 2: to make sure you force him into the DH role.
27:50
Speaker 2: We already know the problems that potentially self Freelik is
27:53
Speaker 2: gonna have keeping that spot and Blake Perkins, Damn. Pat
27:57
Speaker 2: Murphy said he'd send himself down before he sent Blake
27:59
Speaker 2: Perkins down. Send him down pretty quick when they knew
28:02
Speaker 2: that Luis Laara was coming up, so like that outfield
28:04
Speaker 2: was going to get crowded. But it does appear Hunter
28:07
Speaker 2: he's making that decision for them long term with the
28:10
Speaker 2: way that he's played.
28:12
Speaker 1: I think he has to.
28:13
Speaker 3: I think that you saw the potential and I think
28:15
Speaker 3: that's the coming into this season, how many injuries he
28:18
Speaker 3: had dealt with, Like we just haven't seen a full
28:20
Speaker 3: season of Garrett Mitchell yet, and now we are starting
28:23
Speaker 3: to see that where it's like, Okay, this is the
28:25
Speaker 3: potential this guy has. Now I think the power can
28:28
Speaker 3: even be a little bit better. I think, you know,
28:30
Speaker 3: I think he still has potential to grow. But I
28:33
Speaker 3: think overall this we're starting to see the whole Garrett
28:37
Speaker 3: Mitchell experience and why this guy's a first round pick
28:39
Speaker 3: and why they invested that type of picking him. I mean,
28:41
Speaker 3: when I asked Trevor McGill about him in the clubhouse
28:44
Speaker 3: over the weekend, McGill was like, Yeah, we're starting to
28:46
Speaker 3: see why he was drafted in the first round and
28:48
Speaker 3: kind of the whole city is starting to see what
28:51
Speaker 3: potential this guy has, and I think the team is
28:54
Speaker 3: as well, not only the front office, the manager, but
28:56
Speaker 3: also the players in that clubhouse and also just being
29:00
Speaker 3: happy for him on a personal level that he's able
29:02
Speaker 3: to kind of come to his maybe not full potential yet,
29:06
Speaker 3: but a lot of his potential in twenty twenty six.
29:09
Speaker 3: So it's been really cool to watch because obviously we
29:12
Speaker 3: haven't been able to in previous years and have been
29:15
Speaker 3: able to really see the full Garrett Mitchell and what
29:18
Speaker 3: he can do defensively and offensively and his elite speed.
29:20
Speaker 1: I mean, don't forget about that.
29:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not all the tools and maybe the most
29:25
Speaker 3: talented younger, you know, he's not crazy young. He's drafted
29:31
Speaker 3: out of college and he's been in the league for
29:32
Speaker 3: a while, so it's not like he's a kid in there.
29:35
Speaker 3: It's not like he's a twenty one year old, but
29:37
Speaker 3: he's been around for a little while. But as far
29:40
Speaker 3: as they're younger, more inexperienced talent, you could say he's
29:44
Speaker 3: probably got the most just tools that if he puts
29:48
Speaker 3: it all together, oh man, look out.
29:50
Speaker 1: And you're starting now to see it.
29:52
Speaker 3: So I'm you know, hey, the patients, if you had
29:55
Speaker 3: patients for him, I know not a lot of people did,
29:57
Speaker 3: and I know they were, you know, the off season,
29:59
Speaker 3: a lot of people we're not maybe wanting him on,
30:02
Speaker 3: saying I'll just just trade him now, blah blah blah.
30:04
Speaker 3: And and maybe even those those crimes will get louder
30:07
Speaker 3: if he has a good season, all his value.
30:08
Speaker 1: Will never be taught.
30:09
Speaker 3: But let's let's hold off on that because that guy
30:12
Speaker 3: could be your center fielder for a while.
30:14
Speaker 1: Well. Absolutely, That's why I think some people, some of us,
30:16
Speaker 1: push back so much on the sentiment of like, all right,
30:18
Speaker 1: we just gotta move on from him, because it's like,
30:20
Speaker 1: when you see that type of talent and it's been
30:22
Speaker 1: because of injury, you don't want to give up on him.
30:24
Speaker 1: And and I'm glad the Brewers haven't I'm glad we didn't.
30:28
Speaker 1: You never know what these guys can do if they
30:29
Speaker 1: stay healthy. Marshan Lloyd, we speak your name, but Hunter,
30:35
Speaker 1: speaking of guys that have had in great years, Okay,
30:38
Speaker 1: Jake Bowers having a great year, generational year for him,
30:41
Speaker 1: right maybe his best. It's been great for the Brewers.
30:44
Speaker 1: But because of that, it's kind of pushed Andrew Vaughan out.
30:47
Speaker 1: We have to find more at bats and stars for
30:49
Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughn because he's had a really good year and
30:52
Speaker 1: he's done his thing when he's gotten in there, but
30:54
Speaker 1: it's hard to find him time right now. Or is
30:58
Speaker 1: this totally fine? Is this the right way to a
31:00
Speaker 1: play Andrew wanted to get the most out of him
31:02
Speaker 1: for the team. That's a good question.
31:04
Speaker 3: I mean, it's tough to really get going when you're
31:07
Speaker 3: getting the sparse starts that he is and you know,
31:10
Speaker 3: coming in in a random pinch hit opportunity like it,
31:13
Speaker 3: just that's that's hard to get going. And to be honest,
31:16
Speaker 3: it's it's admirable that his average is still over three
31:19
Speaker 3: hundred throughout the season so far. I know he has
31:22
Speaker 3: more limited at bats than maybe other guys on the team,
31:24
Speaker 3: or maybe other guys in the league. But still he's
31:27
Speaker 3: gotten a significant amount of at bats. That average still
31:30
Speaker 3: just above three hundred, and he's able to whatever situation.
31:33
Speaker 3: I mean, he is able to pinch hit. He's at
31:37
Speaker 3: least hit the ball hard. You know you're gonna yeah,
31:41
Speaker 3: like the line drive to short yesterday, it's like, well,
31:44
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do about that contact player?
31:46
Speaker 1: A lot of walks too.
31:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he's given you good at bat and I
31:50
Speaker 3: agree you want to get him in there. I wonder
31:52
Speaker 3: if now, because Sal Freelik's out, they give Bauers March
31:55
Speaker 3: starts and right.
31:56
Speaker 1: And then that puts Andrew Vaughn at first.
31:57
Speaker 3: Wouldn't be surprised if that alignment that we saw yet
32:00
Speaker 3: yesterday is very common. I know they want to get
32:02
Speaker 3: Luis Laura in there, and he's given you great at bats.
32:05
Speaker 3: Yesterday was the first game that he didn't get on
32:07
Speaker 3: bass as a major leaguer. So he had went seven
32:09
Speaker 3: straight games to start his major league career on base,
32:11
Speaker 3: which is second best in franchise history. By the way,
32:14
Speaker 3: Joey Weimer holds that record with eight games on base
32:17
Speaker 3: to start a career.
32:18
Speaker 1: That's crazy trivia for.
32:20
Speaker 3: You, little Joey Weamer, who who Kyle Stowers very much
32:23
Speaker 3: looks like as I was.
32:24
Speaker 2: That's a great call, un very much so, and both
32:29
Speaker 2: number twenty eighth if I'm not mistaken.
32:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm like, is that we now it's
32:33
Speaker 3: Kyle Stowers. But yeah, that was so you know, Joey
32:36
Speaker 3: Weimer holds that record. But there you go if you
32:39
Speaker 3: wanted a Joey Reamer reference. But yeah, so I think
32:42
Speaker 3: Bowers is going to be somewhat in the mix there
32:45
Speaker 3: in right field.
32:47
Speaker 1: He was over the series, which is strange.
32:49
Speaker 3: He was over the Marlin series Bowers was, so I
32:52
Speaker 3: think that is part of the reason why they pinched
32:54
Speaker 3: him late. I know there were you know, people saying, oh,
32:56
Speaker 3: we're pinching it in for Bauers again. Yeah, but when
32:59
Speaker 3: you got Contraras on the bench, and when he got
33:01
Speaker 3: some guys on the bench who you think maybe could
33:03
Speaker 3: be a better at bat, especially against the lefty and
33:07
Speaker 3: Bowers not having a great series, maybe you pull that trigger.
33:09
Speaker 1: And hey, at the end of the day one in
33:11
Speaker 1: the game of the night.
33:12
Speaker 2: So when you're tweeting out and responding with your thousands
33:16
Speaker 2: of thousands of followers on X one, hundred b on
33:19
Speaker 2: air if you want to be one of them. If
33:21
Speaker 2: you're not already, what are you doing as a Brewers fan?
33:23
Speaker 2: You're you're missing too much good content.
33:25
Speaker 1: Who is garnering more of the crossfire?
33:28
Speaker 2: Who is getting more of the We need to get
33:31
Speaker 2: this guy out of the lineup? Is it Christian Yelich
33:35
Speaker 2: or Aaron Ashby?
33:37
Speaker 1: Oh, that's all that is that? See, that's that's the
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Speaker 1: good question right there.
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Speaker 3: Nashby's giving up a base runner in eleven straight appearances.
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Speaker 3: Wild part is he's only giving up runs in four
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Speaker 3: of them, so he's like able to work around it.
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Speaker 3: But that's playing with fire every single time you're pitching.
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Speaker 3: I mean, his last one two three inning was June
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Speaker 3: twenty third, so it's fun in today's July twentieth. So
33:59
Speaker 3: it's like he's he's just been playing with fire a lot.
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Speaker 3: And obviously in Pittsburgh was probably the biggest burn, obviously
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Speaker 3: with that that Grand Slam that gave the Pirates to win.
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Speaker 3: But man, it's it's it's it's probably close to being tied.
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Speaker 3: I would say Yellow's just a little more right now
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Speaker 3: because he's well, Ashley's playing pretty much every day too.
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Speaker 3: But yellow is every every day at the top of
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Speaker 3: your lineup as well as as your d H. And
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Speaker 3: he's I think the I think what people are maybe
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Speaker 3: not that Yellick is playing, but that Yelli is still
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Speaker 3: your leadoff hitter.
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Speaker 1: And look, that seems to be the getting mostly too people.
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Speaker 3: Not that we don't want Yellich in the lineup, it's
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Speaker 3: that Yelich is maybe the leadoff hitter, and I get
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Speaker 3: it right. You could argue that there's some other guys
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Speaker 3: that could be better in that leadoff role as of late,
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Speaker 3: because he hasn't been hitting as well. But he gives
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Speaker 3: you some pretty good at bats over the weekend and
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Speaker 3: and and he.
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Speaker 1: Gets kind of the walks.
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Speaker 3: We're back, you could see a little bit obviously driving
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Speaker 3: the ball.
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Speaker 1: Uh, what did you have one or two doubles?
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Speaker 2: Basically a game winning double, because that's those two runs
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Speaker 2: ended up winning you the game on Saturday. I'm trying
35:05
Speaker 2: to be a little more positive with it because that
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Speaker 2: Hunter is going to be in the lineup, and if
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Speaker 2: he's gonna be in the lineup, he's gonna be the
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Speaker 2: one hitter, right like, because he's not gonna be a
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Speaker 2: he's not gonna be in the meat of the order.
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Speaker 2: You're not gonna hit him seventh, all due respect to
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Speaker 2: South Freelick and his family. Like, he's not a seven
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Speaker 2: hole hitter in Major League Baseball, despite what the numbers
35:23
Speaker 2: might indicate. And I heard buddy of mine saying, like
35:26
Speaker 2: he'd be a platoon player a lot of places. Sure,
35:29
Speaker 2: But now when you're paying him twenty million bucks and
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Speaker 2: your other guy who's paying twenty two million too, just
35:34
Speaker 2: announce that he's having season ending surgery.
35:36
Speaker 1: Like there's that.
35:37
Speaker 2: There There are financial parts of this, but I think
35:40
Speaker 2: it's also more of the clubhouse in cohesion. You probably
35:43
Speaker 2: do a lot more damage inside there when Yelich is
35:45
Speaker 2: not on the lineup card. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong.
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Speaker 1: No, I could. I could definitely see that.
35:51
Speaker 3: I mean, look at his that bet late in the
35:53
Speaker 3: I think it was the seventh it was when he
35:54
Speaker 3: got doubled off.
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Speaker 1: Was that the seventh inning? Maybe? Yees?
35:56
Speaker 3: So he grind bocks first that he steals second on
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Speaker 3: the first pitch, and then he forces a throw to
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Speaker 3: second and the pickoff throw goes into center field and
36:05
Speaker 3: he gets to third base, and all of a sudden
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Speaker 3: he's at third base with nobody out. Now he didn't
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Speaker 3: score because the Brewers are just struggling. Sometimes I heard
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Speaker 3: nobody out. But look that I mean that sequence is
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Speaker 3: Christian Yellich in a nutshell, just a first pitch, boom, steal, second,
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Speaker 3: you know, a couple pitches or whatever, what have you. Later,
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he standing a third because the
36:26
Speaker 3: pitcher threw it in the center field like he is.
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Speaker 3: That's the type of threat. And look, that's perfect for
36:30
Speaker 3: a leadoff hitter. You got speed, a guy who runs
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Speaker 3: base as well, and so you want that as your
36:36
Speaker 3: leadoff hitter. So I think we saw some signs of
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Speaker 3: improvement in that Marlin series, and hopefully that continues tonight
36:43
Speaker 3: and into this the rest of this home stand.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's always going to be exceptional coverage when Hunter
36:47
Speaker 2: b on Air is on, and you will be on
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Speaker 2: tonight with the Baseball Pregame show before Freddie Pearlton, Jacob
36:53
Speaker 2: as Rowski, you.
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Speaker 1: Bet that I'm looking forward to that.
36:56
Speaker 3: We were going to get the Freddie peerlt to trade
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Speaker 3: special tonight between s and uh Peralta, but that was
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Speaker 3: switched and now we have miss against Pulta, which I
37:04
Speaker 3: think is probably more fun because you have, of course
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Speaker 3: miss on there. Anytime miss is on the mound, you're
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Speaker 3: gonna want to watch. And then of course the former
37:10
Speaker 3: Brewer Freddie Peralta. So yeah, five point thirty baseball pregame
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Speaker 2: Matchup of potentially the Brewers number one and number two
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Speaker 2: starters in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Let's go could be fun. That would be so fun.
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Speaker 1: That would be it would be hacking me home. Peralta,
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Speaker 1: bring you home all the way to the sixth inning. Hunter.
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Speaker 1: It's next right here on the huddle.
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Speaker 2: Hey send you home with a story that lets you think,
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Speaker 2: huh now, this one happened to me before the show.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to our friend Arman Sarian over there on that side.
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Speaker 1: I'm Billy Schmid.
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Speaker 2: This is Talk Sports Radio Wisconsin and this story about
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Speaker 2: the shoebox, the shoebox scandal, yes, twenty six years ago today,
38:22
Speaker 2: twenty six years ago, Billy.
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Speaker 1: This summer of two thousand, the Badgers football empire was
38:27
Speaker 1: riding high. Barry Alvarez just came off two consecutive Rose
38:31
Speaker 1: Bowl victories, Ron Danes Heisman entering the two thousand season
38:36
Speaker 1: that summer as high as number four the nation, maybe
38:39
Speaker 1: national championship aspirations, and it all came crashing down one
38:42
Speaker 1: day that summer when the big bombshell dropped in the
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin State Journal that more than one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: seven Wisconsin student athletes across fourteen different sports had received
38:54
Speaker 1: unadvertised discouncept up to fifty percent at the shoebox was
38:59
Speaker 1: the Black Earth Wastin shoes store, and just before the
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Speaker 1: season opener against opener against Western Michigan, the hammer dropped.
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Speaker 1: Twenty six football players were suspended by the NCAA that
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Speaker 1: included eleven of the team's biggest stars.
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Speaker 2: Bill, I was gonna say the names on here are serious.
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Speaker 2: Michael Bennett, Yes, Jamar Fletcher, wend O'Brien, Chris Chambers, yep,
39:19
Speaker 2: Nick Davis. The receivers really good, so you know, they
39:23
Speaker 2: they went nine in four that year. They kind of
39:25
Speaker 2: had to deal with the depth issues, like you know,
39:29
Speaker 2: roster shuffling, things like that didn't kind of messed them
39:33
Speaker 2: up for a while.
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Speaker 1: The NCAA officially handed out five years of probation. The
39:37
Speaker 1: next year, they lost football and basketball scholarships, and just
39:41
Speaker 1: four years ago, after more than two decades, the university
39:44
Speaker 1: self imposed band prohibiting athletic staff and players from shopping
39:47
Speaker 1: at the store expired. You couldn't even go to that
39:50
Speaker 1: store for twenty years. Wow, inspired if you were working there.
39:53
Speaker 1: So Billy kind of a crazy onehen we think about
39:56
Speaker 1: what's going on today in the NCAA. Nil money's flying
40:00
Speaker 1: round like like just water on a sprinkler.
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Speaker 2: It falls out one hundred thousand dollars, It falls out
40:06
Speaker 2: of coaches people.
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Speaker 1: Because Billy, because they took the discounts, they had so many,
40:12
Speaker 1: so much trouble, so many penalties, so much, so many things.
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Speaker 2: Extended players for more than three games for benefits more
40:18
Speaker 2: than five hundred dollars.
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Speaker 1: Because they got the discount. It was like coupons or
40:22
Speaker 1: something it was. It wasn't qupon codes back then, but
40:25
Speaker 1: qpons they were. They just kept getting extra coupons basically
40:28
Speaker 1: just Arman type stuff, you know, trying to find a deal.
40:31
Speaker 2: Trying to double up on the wayfer coupon code that
40:33
Speaker 2: you found online, see if you can double them up
40:35
Speaker 2: and see if it works.
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Speaker 1: What's crazy is I never got one of those discounts.
40:38
Speaker 1: I've never I've never been to that source, So maybe
40:39
Speaker 1: I should go, should go check it out? Yeah, well,
40:41
Speaker 1: I mean they finally expired. It's still open. Probably, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we gotta say goodbye. But that rocked. That rocked the
40:47
Speaker 1: world around here.
40:48
Speaker 2: So oh man, that rocked all of the college football world.
40:51
Speaker 2: Hopefully we rocked your world today. We'll do it for
40:53
Speaker 2: four more days without Drew Olsen will somehow be able
40:56
Speaker 2: to muddle through Arman Saryn't great work. Thanks to Scott Dolphin,
41:00
Speaker 2: Thanks to the Hunter Bomb Guard.
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Speaker 1: I'm Billy.
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Speaker 2: It's been the huddle on Fox Sports radios consin see
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Speaker 2: tomorrow live at five mm HM