Latest / The Huddle / 11/06/26- Hour 2
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to The Huddle. It's time
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- 0:24Speaker 2: gather around because it's time to huddle up. We know
- 0:28Speaker 2: exactly what we got to do.
- 0:29Speaker 4: All right?
- 0:30Speaker 5: Let's go out and kick some change.
- 0:31Speaker 3: One, two, three.
- 0:32Speaker 5: We got some big plays coming.
- 0:33Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here?
- 0:35Speaker 6: Yellow Weasel.
- 0:37Speaker 4: We're calling the plays, all right? It is time.
- 0:40Speaker 7: What do you think you are?
- 0:42Speaker 4: I am.
- 0:42Speaker 2: With Drew Olson.
- 0:43Speaker 8: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 0:47Speaker 8: your respect.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:49Speaker 5: That son of a gun is thick. And Armin Sarian.
- 0:52Speaker 5: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Let's huddle up. It's Friday in the good land. Welcome
- 1:01Speaker 5: into the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Broadcasting live. 920 Milwaukee,
- 1:06Speaker 5: 1070 Madison. Everywhere on the iHeart app, streaming live, Facebook, X,
- 1:11Speaker 5: and YouTube for people who want to see Billy's new hat. Ooh,
- 1:15Speaker 5: got that thing busted out here.
- 1:16Speaker 9: And now it is a little white cap for a
- 1:19Speaker 9: fat guy like me and a healthy sweater like myself.
- 1:22Speaker 5: That's a dangerous combo to bust out. I thought like
- 1:25Speaker 5: having a white car, it doesn't show the dirt as much.
- 1:28Speaker 9: The salt water, the salt that comes from this forehead
- 1:33Speaker 9: only calcifies it. But on special occasions like a playoff
- 1:37Speaker 9: Friday in WIAA, a good chance to be able to
- 1:40Speaker 9: bust out the champs.
- 1:41Speaker 4: Let's talk about the conundrum now with the light-colored clothing
- 1:44Speaker 4: and hats because I was thinking about that plus the sweatshirt. Oh,
- 1:47Speaker 4: by the way, guy in the street has that sweatshirt.
- 1:49Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the real, I don't think
- 1:51Speaker 4: it's the real one, but he's got that cream colored sweatshirt.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Hard to pass.
- 1:54Speaker 4: I drove by it. I almost swerved over on. On
- 1:57Speaker 4: what street? 84th and Layton by that sitcom. I almost
- 2:00Speaker 4: swerved across four lanes.
- 2:02Speaker 5: I didn't want to do that.
- 2:03Speaker 9: Well, there was a young man in Madison over by
- 2:04Speaker 9: the Clark station when I drove down there a couple
- 2:06Speaker 9: of weeks ago that had the sweetest win our way flag.
- 2:08Speaker 9: And I'm very excited to see my man tomorrow before
- 2:11Speaker 9: Badgers and Rutgers.
- 2:14Speaker 5: Is there a rally house right there, too, that you
- 2:15Speaker 5: could go to?
- 2:16Speaker 7: Oh, very much is. There are a couple of locations.
- 2:19Speaker 5: But Armand's tempted to go get the gas station sushi
- 2:23Speaker 5: or the gas station hoodie. I love it.
- 2:26Speaker 7: They're available for purchase. Okay, the conundrum is.
- 2:30Speaker 9: You don't want to pay full price. And Kenny talked
- 2:32Speaker 9: this guy down.
- 2:33Speaker 5: Harmon's looking for deals.
- 2:35Speaker 4: That gives me a good deal. Now, twofer at this point.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Champions might be fine. Put an extra O in there.
- 2:41Speaker 5: We're a week away from the parade and those sweet
- 2:44Speaker 5: cream-colored hoodies that were all the rage now. I don't know.
- 2:47Speaker 5: Are they still cool a week later? Oh, they're cool
- 2:49Speaker 5: as hell. What do you mean? See, I don't know.
- 2:51Speaker 4: They put out a black one, Drew, and I think
- 2:53Speaker 4: that one might be a little bit cooler. You guys
- 2:55Speaker 4: got to wait to see if there's any cooler ones.
- 2:57Speaker 4: But the question is, are you worried to wear it
- 3:00Speaker 4: because of the sweat? It's like that new pair of shoes.
- 3:02Speaker 4: You don't want to get dirty because it's so cool,
- 3:04Speaker 4: but then you don't wear it. And it's like that
- 3:07Speaker 4: sweet jacket.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Remember that jacket?
- 3:09Speaker 9: The shirt, to me, isn't as much of the sweat.
- 3:11Speaker 9: To me, the shirt, Drew, is the ketchup and mustard
- 3:14Speaker 9: and beer and relish stains that can potentially happen.
- 3:17Speaker 5: A lot of shrapnel flying. Dangerous spots. One bite of
- 3:20Speaker 5: pizza that's too hot or a wing, and it's going to, yeah,
- 3:23Speaker 5: you're going to be.
- 3:24Speaker 9: I eat way too much Palermos with way too many toppings.
- 3:27Speaker 9: Those things to be able to drop a pepperoni right
- 3:29Speaker 9: there in the middle. Even oil and grease is tough,
- 3:31Speaker 9: but then, but you're right. It's the hat with the sweat.
- 3:34Speaker 9: It's the body is more of the, but in the
- 3:36Speaker 9: winter sweating is not that big an issue. So you're safe.
- 3:39Speaker 4: You're right.
- 3:39Speaker 8: Winter.
- 3:40Speaker 5: You're pretty safe in that regard. That's fair. But Billy's
- 3:43Speaker 5: got the sweet champions hat on the world series trophy.
- 3:45Speaker 5: Thank you. I've been waiting to bust this thing out.
- 3:47Speaker 5: I had to show it off a little bit. I
- 3:48Speaker 5: like it. I like it. I like it a lot.
- 3:50Speaker 5: 877-794-1973 to the Nicolet law.com talk and text line. Big
- 3:55Speaker 5: weekend of football ahead of us. Big weekend of being champs.
- 3:58Speaker 5: The one-week anniversary of the parade everybody will remember for
- 4:01Speaker 5: the rest of their lives.
- 4:02Speaker 9: Yes, and as I was talking with our friend Aaron
- 4:05Speaker 9: Nagler today, so 750,000 people were the estimation. I firmly
- 4:10Speaker 9: believe this title run that we just witnessed is going
- 4:13Speaker 9: to be this generation's, this millennium's ice bowl. whether it's
- 4:19Speaker 9: how many 250,000 folks ended up going to Ferg's over
- 4:22Speaker 9: those three days, Drew, or, you know, in 20, 30,
- 4:25Speaker 9: 40 years when people are telling their grandkids about the
- 4:28Speaker 9: 2 million people.
- 4:29Speaker 5: Seemingly that were at the parade. About the time that
- 4:30Speaker 5: they shotgunned a beer with Sal Freelick at the parade.
- 4:33Speaker 9: Yeah, it's... where they actually got poked in the eye
- 4:36Speaker 9: by the trophy like Yellich did.
- 4:38Speaker 4: Well, yeah, there's no question, especially because of how many
- 4:41Speaker 4: people were at the watch parties. And it's going to
- 4:43Speaker 4: be very easy in history to tell people you were
- 4:46Speaker 4: at the World Series when you were only at the
- 4:47Speaker 4: watch party, which is something that I plan on doing.
- 4:50Speaker 4: as enough time passes. We got a picture of Lena
- 4:54Speaker 4: on the World Series dugout. She sat in the dugout.
- 4:57Speaker 4: That was pretty cool. Before one of the watch parties,
- 4:59Speaker 4: she'll be able to tell everybody in 30 years, hey,
- 5:02Speaker 4: I was there.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Look at me. This is me at the World Series.
- 5:04Speaker 4: She'll share it on whatever social media platform doesn't exist yet.
- 5:07Speaker 7: I'm sure that the landscape will change a lot in
- 5:10Speaker 7: 30 years.
- 5:10Speaker 5: It'll be hardwired into our brains. You won't even have
- 5:13Speaker 5: to open an app. You'll just have to think about it.
- 5:15Speaker 5: It'll be called Google Brain. Pretty much. Yeah. Pretty much. But, yeah,
- 5:21Speaker 5: that's a good point. It will be everybody was there
- 5:24Speaker 5: and it was, you know, everybody had their moment and
- 5:26Speaker 5: the memories will be there. Just like people, I talked
- 5:29Speaker 5: to people who I was on the field at 82.
- 5:31Speaker 5: I was, you know, running around on the field after
- 5:34Speaker 5: game five when they beat the Angels. Holding the Brewers
- 5:36Speaker 5: our World Series flag. I did have someone ask me
- 5:41Speaker 5: the other day, like, have the Brewers... I know Murph's
- 5:44Speaker 5: going under the knife for his hip on Monday. I
- 5:47Speaker 5: wish him the best. Amen. Having a titanium hip of
- 5:49Speaker 5: my own. Best move ever. Everybody asks me. He's going
- 5:52Speaker 5: to be cruising. Everybody asks me, was it hard? I said,
- 5:55Speaker 5: there's one part that sucked and that I really regret.
- 5:58Speaker 7: Not doing it sooner.
- 5:58Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
- 5:59Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 6:00Speaker 5: Hipping around like a jackass in pain and not getting
- 6:02Speaker 5: it taken care of. But Murph has that. But for
- 6:05Speaker 5: the most part, someone asked me, now Badgers play a
- 6:08Speaker 5: home game and they haven't played a home game since
- 6:10Speaker 5: the Brewers have been champions. Correct. Yes.
- 6:12Speaker 6: Yes.
- 6:12Speaker 5: Will the trophy make an appearance? Are there any Brewers left?
- 6:16Speaker 5: I mean, Mike Vassallo might go watch the game.
- 6:19Speaker 9: That's a good call. Mikey Vassallo usually makes an appearance.
- 6:23Speaker 9: That'd be a sweet one to have. And then Lev's
- 6:25Speaker 9: probably working a game. I mean, Jeff Levering's back on
- 6:27Speaker 9: the football train. I was going to say, and he's
- 6:29Speaker 9: either probably got the Badgers this week or next.
- 6:32Speaker 5: They've got the 11 a.m. Big Ten tilt as well.
- 6:34Speaker 5: I didn't look up the assignments, but... If Lev is there,
- 6:37Speaker 5: I don't know. Will the trophy make an appearance? Does
- 6:40Speaker 5: it mean anything if it's not a player with it?
- 6:42Speaker 5: Are all the players out of town? Are we still
- 6:45Speaker 5: seeing Brewers in the wild, or have they gone about
- 6:47Speaker 5: their own Cancun on three or headed to their summer home?
- 6:50Speaker 9: I would assume they're starting to migrate south, right? I'd
- 6:53Speaker 9: assume kind of like the geese, they're starting to find
- 6:55Speaker 9: their way over to Arizona and Florida. But could, you know,
- 6:58Speaker 9: I mean, Sal Freelick was in Chicago a couple of
- 7:00Speaker 9: days ago hanging out with the Barstool guys.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Would it make a lot of sense for him to
- 7:04Speaker 4: roll down there and hang out in the, in the
- 7:06Speaker 4: nice South end zone?
- 7:07Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 7:08Speaker 4: It would be a good time to, yeah, this would
- 7:11Speaker 4: be the chance because it's definitely not going to be
- 7:13Speaker 4: a player.
- 7:14Speaker 9: I would assume day after Thanksgiving. So if you're going
- 7:16Speaker 9: to get that trophy here, it should be for tomorrow
- 7:19Speaker 9: and it might be a good time to be. Celebrate
- 7:21Speaker 9: our boy, Ryan Hopkins, getting that first start for the
- 7:23Speaker 9: Badgers coming up. First 17 and a half point number
- 7:26Speaker 9: might look a little different with the Badgers starting a
- 7:28Speaker 9: new quarterback.
- 7:29Speaker 5: Now you get anybody from modern day. You're going to
- 7:31Speaker 5: start feeling good. I was just going to.
- 7:33Speaker 4: Say all these, all these quarterbacks are from modern day.
- 7:35Speaker 4: And of course he is too. I looked it up
- 7:37Speaker 4: just to be sure, but I'm like, is the modern
- 7:38Speaker 4: day kid. I think yes, it is. Newport beach, California
- 7:41Speaker 4: stand up.
- 7:42Speaker 9: And he showed, he showed some tools last week in
- 7:44Speaker 9: the limited time that they ended up putting them in.
- 7:46Speaker 9: But again, Colton Joseph not feeling himself, also not producing
- 7:50Speaker 9: very well. So all of those reasons are good ones
- 7:53Speaker 9: to be able to find the young man out onto
- 7:55Speaker 9: the field.
- 7:55Speaker 5: I don't mean to laugh. That's just a funny way
- 7:57Speaker 5: to say it.
- 7:58Speaker 4: But, hey, by the way, you guys are correct on
- 8:00Speaker 4: the Big Ten Network call.
- 8:02Speaker 5: Excuse me.
- 8:02Speaker 7: It is Jeff Levering.
- 8:04Speaker 5: So you'll be seeing him, yeah.
- 8:05Speaker 7: He'll be doing that.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Well, all right.
- 8:06Speaker 5: You'll see Levering. He'll be on the TV call, according
- 8:08Speaker 5: to this. snag one of their own. I'd have to
- 8:11Speaker 5: have him pop on with us on Monday. We probably
- 8:13Speaker 5: could have done it today had we looked ahead.
- 8:16Speaker 4: Alongside Jake Butt, who's going to be the analyst.
- 8:21Speaker 5: The old Michigan stud.
- 8:23Speaker 7: And another sideline reporter, one of my favorites.
- 8:26Speaker 5: Oh, God. Mrs.
- 8:28Speaker 7: Jake Cronenworth, Brooke Fletcher.
- 8:30Speaker 5: Oh, she's back in town. She's back now. She's got
- 8:33Speaker 5: to see the trip.
- 8:33Speaker 4: She sees the trophy because her husband was, we beat
- 8:36Speaker 4: her husband on the Padres. You know, she's salty about it.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Probably sad about the White Sox. She's does a great
- 8:41Speaker 4: job as a White Sox sideline reporter all year. So Brooke,
- 8:44Speaker 4: a great professional doing a great job. So Billy's going
- 8:47Speaker 4: to run into all of them. Yeah, we might run
- 8:50Speaker 4: into Brooke down on the field. I'll let you know
- 8:51Speaker 4: if we do. I know that would be a very,
- 8:53Speaker 4: very happy moment for you. Just reporting what the assignments are. No, Brooke,
- 8:58Speaker 4: one of my favorites. I mean, of course, she's a
- 9:00Speaker 4: great professional and does a great job. Great broadcaster. Dad
- 9:03Speaker 4: played in the league. Son of Scott Fletcher. Born in
- 9:06Speaker 4: Milwaukee when Scott was playing for the Brewers.
- 9:10Speaker 5: She's great. Anyway, yeah, so Lev will be doing the game.
- 9:16Speaker 9: I like their call. Jake Butzer, a really, really good one.
- 9:18Speaker 9: He was a really, really good player, man. He's a
- 9:21Speaker 9: bad boy there at Michigan. He's one of those dangerous
- 9:25Speaker 9: examples as to why guys don't play in bowl games anymore.
- 9:27Speaker 9: But for the Badgers, it's a hot one. Drew, for
- 9:30Speaker 9: the Packers, it's.
- 9:31Speaker 5: A huge one.
- 9:32Speaker 4: I was just talking about it with our boy Aaron
- 9:34Speaker 4: Nagler on Carry the G Radio, the podcast. And as
- 9:37Speaker 4: much as inter-conference games don't necessarily jump off the page
- 9:43Speaker 4: as the most important thing, this is the best game
- 9:45Speaker 4: on the docket this weekend on an otherwise kind of
- 9:48Speaker 4: unappetizing slate.
- 9:51Speaker 9: And Drake may and Jordan love one of these two quarterbacks.
- 9:54Speaker 9: I assume by how I think the game's going to
- 9:56Speaker 9: come out is, going to take over as the talk
- 10:00Speaker 9: of get up the next day because you win this game,
- 10:03Speaker 9: you're 6-3, and you're feeling real positive about your chances
- 10:07Speaker 9: going forward in the second half of the year.
- 10:09Speaker 5: This game, I've been looking at it and dissecting it
- 10:12Speaker 5: and flipping it around, and it's going to be a
- 10:15Speaker 5: one-score game either way. Mm-hmm. And when I'm looking at
- 10:18Speaker 5: it and I see games and I see teams that
- 10:20Speaker 5: are evenly matched and you factor in the home field
- 10:22Speaker 5: and all that stuff and Packers coming off a mini-bye,
- 10:25Speaker 5: I default to which quarterback is better. Jordan Love's going
- 10:29Speaker 5: to make more plays than Drake May. I hope so.
- 10:32Speaker 7: That's where I'm at. Especially with the arm.
- 10:34Speaker 9: And I think the legs is going to be the
- 10:36Speaker 9: intriguing part where Mays made a lot of plays so
- 10:39Speaker 9: far this year of keeping drives alive. Because, Drew, I'm
- 10:42Speaker 9: with you. I think it's a one-score game, and I
- 10:44Speaker 9: think it's a low-scoring game. That's where the Trey Smack
- 10:48Speaker 9: factor will feel important coming up this weekend. Whether or
- 10:53Speaker 9: not it's the final play of the game comes down
- 10:55Speaker 9: to the right foot of Trey Smack.
- 10:58Speaker 5: The young man was not great in October.
- 11:00Speaker 9: Hopefully, we're not into Toyotathon yet, but maybe he just
- 11:04Speaker 9: takes on that version of Jordan Love, and once the
- 11:07Speaker 9: calendar flips to November, he starts being nails again. It
- 11:10Speaker 9: feels like it's going to be a game that's going
- 11:12Speaker 9: to come down to the right arms. And Love, leading
- 11:15Speaker 9: the league in passing, turnover-worthy plays way down. Drew, do
- 11:21Speaker 9: his receivers make enough plays for him? Because I think
- 11:24Speaker 9: the way that new England's going to play, they're going
- 11:25Speaker 9: to play a ton of man coverage. They are going
- 11:27Speaker 9: to try to keep a top on the defense and take,
- 11:31Speaker 9: keep a lid on this offense with, with a defense
- 11:33Speaker 9: over the top. We'll love be patient enough coming up
- 11:36Speaker 9: this week, which was kind of their biggest bugaboo a
- 11:40Speaker 9: year ago was not being patient.
- 11:42Speaker 5: Just take it with the defense ends up giving you.
- 11:43Speaker 5: That's right. And Patriots are, Are they diminished at corner?
- 11:48Speaker 5: Do they have their guys back? They still have some
- 11:50Speaker 5: injuries back there. They still have some, they still have
- 11:53Speaker 5: their main guy though.
- 11:54Speaker 6: Right.
- 11:54Speaker 9: So they still have Christian Gonzalez, uh, who is, is
- 11:58Speaker 9: if not the best corner in football, the second best
- 12:01Speaker 9: corner in football. But where they're really dinged up is
- 12:05Speaker 9: the pass catcher room. And to your point on the quarterbacks,
- 12:08Speaker 9: which one's going to play better? With no Hunter Henry,
- 12:11Speaker 9: no A.J. Brown, either Thursday or Friday at practice, I
- 12:14Speaker 9: think it's tough to think that either.
- 12:15Speaker 5: Of them are going to be available. And Romeo Dobbs
- 12:18Speaker 5: out on the shelf.
- 12:18Speaker 7: It should be the Christian versus Christian show, I would say,
- 12:21Speaker 7: a lot.
- 12:21Speaker 5: I mean, I would imagine. And the Patriots amazingly didn't
- 12:27Speaker 5: give it away much in the monsoon in Miami, but
- 12:31Speaker 5: they do give it away. They're high in takeovers, and
- 12:34Speaker 5: the Packers take the ball away. So I'm thinking that's
- 12:37Speaker 5: obviously anytime a game's close, turnovers will swing it. Turnovers
- 12:41Speaker 5: in quarterback play, so I'm not breaking any ground there.
- 12:43Speaker 5: But turnovers are huge in this game. Big time, especially
- 12:47Speaker 5: down the field. And the Packers would seem to have
- 12:48Speaker 5: the advantage because they take the ball away at a
- 12:50Speaker 5: high rate, and the Patriots until last week, which was surprising,
- 12:53Speaker 5: give it away at a high rate.
- 12:54Speaker 9: The Packers halfway through the year, more turnovers or takeaways
- 12:58Speaker 9: than they had all last year. And the amount of
- 13:00Speaker 9: interceptions that they're getting, I still think the funny one
- 13:02Speaker 9: is the ones that still are kind of sticking in.
- 13:04Speaker 9: I think a lot of Packers fans crawl are the
- 13:06Speaker 9: plays that they still weren't able to make. Like the
- 13:08Speaker 9: Evan Williams one in Detroit that is right there for
- 13:11Speaker 9: the taking. It's a lot of credit to Jonathan Gannon
- 13:13Speaker 9: and the personnel, but they already have 10 picks on
- 13:17Speaker 9: the year, seven of which are kind of down the field,
- 13:20Speaker 9: you know, 10, 15 yards into the year where Drake
- 13:22Speaker 9: may wants to push the ball. Could be a big
- 13:25Speaker 9: week for those safeties, whether it's Evan Williams reigning defensive
- 13:28Speaker 9: player of the month in the NFC, Or Brandon Cisse,
- 13:31Speaker 9: rookie of the month defensively in the NFC.
- 13:34Speaker 7: Both nice accolades.
- 13:35Speaker 5: I don't want to hear Elijah Ponder's name at all.
- 13:37Speaker 7: I like that, and that's a great drop right there, Drew.
- 13:40Speaker 5: I don't want to hear his name because they can
- 13:42Speaker 5: get after you too, and they're like the Packers a
- 13:44Speaker 5: little bit because they do a lot of that mugging
- 13:46Speaker 5: at the line, and then they bring pressure from different spots.
- 13:50Speaker 5: Neither offensive line is all that good. And they get,
- 13:52Speaker 5: and the Patriots, they do get you off your mark.
- 13:56Speaker 5: They do enough. Jordan Love is as good as anybody
- 13:58Speaker 5: hanging in the pocket and diagnosing. You know, when he
- 14:03Speaker 5: needs to get the ball out and stuff, he's pretty
- 14:05Speaker 5: good at avoiding sacks.
- 14:07Speaker 7: Very good, and very good at manipulating.
- 14:08Speaker 5: He's hitting a lot of hits this year because the
- 14:10Speaker 5: line's been a little Swiss cheesy. But for the most part,
- 14:13Speaker 5: when it comes to him having the sense that, oh,
- 14:15Speaker 5: I better get rid of this, or, oh, we're overmatched,
- 14:18Speaker 5: or that... The guy in my blind side is getting
- 14:20Speaker 5: engulfed right now. He seems to have that sense of
- 14:23Speaker 5: getting rid of the ball.
- 14:23Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with you.
- 14:24Speaker 9: And they also, there are a couple of checkdowns, I think,
- 14:26Speaker 9: watching back Carolina that were available that could have extended
- 14:30Speaker 9: some drives, especially into that fourth quarter. They just don't
- 14:32Speaker 9: have a four minute offense. So their passing game is
- 14:34Speaker 9: going to have to be how they can control the
- 14:36Speaker 9: clock a little bit into those spots. But Drew, you
- 14:41Speaker 9: look at both of these teams. They're both really gettable
- 14:43Speaker 9: up front. You mentioned the six-man looks. That was like
- 14:46Speaker 9: my biggest takeaway watching the full league a week ago
- 14:50Speaker 9: with the Packers Thursday night game.
- 14:51Speaker 5: No more Brewers into the peripherals.
- 14:55Speaker 9: So it was just all football all the time as
- 14:57Speaker 9: I kick the screen right on down here.
- 15:00Speaker 5: Good Lord.
- 15:01Speaker 7: That was a wild thing to see, though, if you
- 15:02Speaker 7: were watching live.
- 15:03Speaker 5: That was awesome. That was phenomenal. That was crazy.
- 15:07Speaker 7: I just booted the heck out of this thing right there.
- 15:08Speaker 9: I apologize, but that was probably the number one thing
- 15:11Speaker 9: I noticed, Drew, is as much as last year, the
- 15:15Speaker 9: biggest change in the common theme across the league offensively
- 15:19Speaker 9: felt like everybody was running as many tight ends as possible.
- 15:23Speaker 9: Seems like every team is trying to bring as many
- 15:25Speaker 9: guys up to the line of scrimmage as possible and
- 15:28Speaker 9: make you make a decision really, really quick. And credit
- 15:32Speaker 9: Brian Flores is probably the one that does it the most.
- 15:34Speaker 9: Packers have seen it a lot, and Jonathan Gannon has
- 15:37Speaker 9: started doing a ton of it as well.
- 15:39Speaker 5: Yeah, that's going to be the keys to me. I mean,
- 15:42Speaker 5: we just went through our keys to the game, so
- 15:43Speaker 5: you'll hear variations of it during Doug's pregame show and
- 15:47Speaker 5: during Dennis and Wes and James and Mike Heller's pregame show,
- 15:51Speaker 5: but that's what they'll be kicking around. Yeah, and I mean...
- 15:55Speaker 5: The defenses and the Packers' lack of a running game,
- 15:58Speaker 5: you're right, means they have to continually air it out
- 16:01Speaker 5: against good corners. They have to win one-on-one battles. Tucker Craft,
- 16:05Speaker 5: 100-yard game, could it be? It very much could.
- 16:07Speaker 9: I think this is going to be the biggest week
- 16:10Speaker 9: for him, Drew, to feel as back as he's been.
- 16:14Speaker 9: Seems like he's trending in the right direction. Seems a
- 16:16Speaker 9: little bit more Tucker Craft-ish. This, with the amount of
- 16:19Speaker 9: man that they're going to play and The Packers are
- 16:22Speaker 9: going to run the deep routes.
- 16:24Speaker 7: Are they going to throw it deep?
- 16:25Speaker 9: That's going to be one of the bigger questions in
- 16:27Speaker 9: how patient does Love get, but how much is Kraft
- 16:30Speaker 9: able to break one tackle by a linebacker, whether it's
- 16:33Speaker 9: Ellis and company or Ponder, as you mentioned, if he's
- 16:36Speaker 9: not rushing the quarterback. Jack is if he's not rushing.
- 16:38Speaker 9: If he's not rushing, you're to the benefit because the
- 16:41Speaker 9: dude's unreal. He could be one broken tackle away from
- 16:45Speaker 9: a 25, 30-yard play, and this could be a huge
- 16:48Speaker 9: Tucker Kraft day where they're desperately going to need him.
- 16:50Speaker 5: That's what I'm thinking. We think Sal Frelick might go
- 16:52Speaker 5: to this game, might go home to the Boston area.
- 16:54Speaker 7: That would make sense. I mean, he's been in town
- 16:56Speaker 7: a lot. They have to go home eventually, right?
- 16:58Speaker 5: That'd be a fun one.
- 16:59Speaker 9: I mean, he's probably going to go back there because
- 17:00Speaker 9: he's trying to bulk up again. After hitting that home
- 17:03Speaker 9: run in the World Series, I've got to assume he's
- 17:05Speaker 9: going to be eating a lot of plates of mom's
- 17:07Speaker 9: spaghetti this week.
- 17:08Speaker 7: You've got to get carbs. You've got to carb up.
- 17:09Speaker 7: You've got to go back home.
- 17:11Speaker 5: That's what he said. He put on, what, 25 pounds
- 17:12Speaker 5: a couple of off-seasons ago? I remember that, yeah. He
- 17:14Speaker 5: ate a lot of spaghetti.
- 17:15Speaker 4: I remember making the Willie Hayes maze jokes from age
- 17:17Speaker 4: two when he bulked up. But the thing is, you know,
- 17:20Speaker 4: these guys probably will be going home or going on
- 17:22Speaker 4: vacation eventually. I'm sure I get the sense they kind
- 17:25Speaker 4: of want to stay in town a little bit longer
- 17:26Speaker 4: and see how much they can take a hero.
- 17:29Speaker 5: Take a lap. Why not? Which is kind of cool.
- 17:32Speaker 5: I think it's about time.
- 17:33Speaker 7: It's about time probably. And now the weather's turning.
- 17:36Speaker 9: I was going to say, once you see a three
- 17:39Speaker 9: in the forecast, that's probably ready, said Kyle. Time to
- 17:43Speaker 9: head for warmer climes. Boys, we all would be really
- 17:46Speaker 9: celebrating in South Beach. This would be a good one
- 17:48Speaker 9: to go to if you are a sell.
- 17:50Speaker 5: This will be a short offseason, or will it? We
- 17:53Speaker 5: don't know. That's the question. Actually, another advantage for the Brewers,
- 17:57Speaker 5: if spring training is pushed and they get more time
- 17:59Speaker 5: to recover from their deep, deep playoff run, the deepest
- 18:02Speaker 5: in franchise history, well then... especially for the bullpen.
- 18:06Speaker 9: I mean, some of those dudes that got taxed a
- 18:07Speaker 9: year ago that you sure thought Jared.
- 18:09Speaker 7: Koenig was going to be a piece.
- 18:11Speaker 5: He'd be a little bit more time off. A little
- 18:12Speaker 5: bit more time. But, yeah, that was a question. I
- 18:15Speaker 5: thought that was a good question someone asked me. Will
- 18:16Speaker 5: they mark at the Badgers game tomorrow? One last hurrah.
- 18:21Speaker 5: Bucs play tonight. The Brewers have already made a triumphant
- 18:26Speaker 5: statement at a Bucs game.
- 18:27Speaker 4: We've seen a couple of those guys out there a
- 18:29Speaker 4: number of different times, for sure. And the Marquette game
- 18:31Speaker 4: at the five serve as well. So it's been a
- 18:33Speaker 4: couple five serves. I guess you can't have too much
- 18:35Speaker 4: of it now.
- 18:36Speaker 7: It's never a bad time. I can't imagine.
- 18:38Speaker 5: Anyone's going to not be cheering.
- 18:40Speaker 9: Now, will anybody be upset if all of a sudden,
- 18:41Speaker 9: you know, it's like Nestor Corridor walks out with the trophy?
- 18:44Speaker 5: I was going to say, or Mike Vassallo and Dan Larea,
- 18:46Speaker 5: just with the, hey, the Brewers.
- 18:47Speaker 4: I don't think anybody would be upset. There might be
- 18:49Speaker 4: a lot of, who's that guy now? We'll cheer a lot. Yeah,
- 18:52Speaker 4: you know, Mike Vassallo can walk out there. He brings
- 18:54Speaker 4: the youngster. The little guy will probably get the bigger pop.
- 18:57Speaker 5: Oh, big time.
- 18:57Speaker 9: I was going to say, he's the star of the
- 19:00Speaker 9: Vassallo family when he rolls into Camp Randall.
- 19:02Speaker 5: Always a fun time.
- 19:04Speaker 7: You're not trash-talking my man Nestor Cordo, are you?
- 19:06Speaker 5: I love Nestor. No, of course not. No, I mean, listen,
- 19:08Speaker 5: I don't mean.
- 19:09Speaker 9: If Marcus Handel walked out there with the trophy, people
- 19:12Speaker 9: would get excited.
- 19:12Speaker 7: But that's because Marcus Handel shows up anywhere.
- 19:14Speaker 5: People get excited.
- 19:15Speaker 4: I was going to say, he could be cutting his grass.
- 19:16Speaker 4: People would be excited about Marcus Handel.
- 19:18Speaker 5: For sure. No, absolutely.
- 19:20Speaker 4: I mean, hey, listen, why not? If there's anybody left, yeah,
- 19:23Speaker 4: if it's Vassallo, just go.
- 19:25Speaker 5: Our Boston correspondent, Trenny Casey, a big Brewers fan as well,
- 19:29Speaker 5: will join us to talk about her championship experience and
- 19:33Speaker 5: Packers Patriots. She's going to join us in about 45 minutes.
- 19:37Speaker 5: We have the voice of the Packers, Wayne Larravee. He's
- 19:40Speaker 5: going to join us at 425. Can't wait for that.
- 19:42Speaker 5: Always very excited always fun to catch up with wayne
- 19:46Speaker 5: 877-794-1973 nicolaylaw.com talk and text line free form friday take
- 19:51Speaker 5: your thoughts about badgers rutgers hackers and patriots i agree
- 19:56Speaker 5: with billy it's the best game on the slate i
- 19:58Speaker 5: think In the 325 window. The most intriguing, best two teams,
- 20:03Speaker 5: probably the best two quarterbacks. Two teams trying to make
- 20:05Speaker 5: a foothold and tell themselves they can win their divisions
- 20:07Speaker 5: and let's get after it. And if you don't win
- 20:09Speaker 5: this game, it's going to be a hard case to make. Absolutely.
- 20:12Speaker 7: You're in the huddle.
- 20:13Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 20:31Speaker 3: Or was.
- 20:33Speaker 4: He in true huddle fashion?
- 20:43Speaker 2: We missed the anniversary of.
- 20:45Speaker 5: The instant replay game by a day. It was yesterday.
- 21:00Speaker 4: Yesterday, 1989. So that would have been, what, 37 years
- 21:04Speaker 4: ago yesterday?
- 21:05Speaker 5: Yesterday.
- 21:05Speaker 8: Yep.
- 21:06Speaker 5: Yep.
- 21:06Speaker 4: And in further review, we have a reversal. That's then
- 21:08Speaker 4: that highlight that's not attached on it. But listen, that
- 21:11Speaker 4: was one of the all-time great.
- 21:12Speaker 5: We have a reversal.
- 21:13Speaker 4: That's where, after further review, the Bears still suck first originated.
- 21:16Speaker 4: That was on a bunch of shirts.
- 21:18Speaker 5: He wasn't even close to being over the line. I
- 21:20Speaker 5: don't think so either. I was going to say, I'm
- 21:22Speaker 5: watching this highlight. It's not as close. He's got his
- 21:25Speaker 5: right foot on the 15.
- 21:26Speaker 4: The Bears record book or the Bears media guide always
- 21:30Speaker 4: had an asterisk.
- 21:30Speaker 5: Doesn't the entire body have to be across?
- 21:34Speaker 9: Not even close. Now, Armin, if you want, it wouldn't
- 21:39Speaker 9: be true huddle fashion, as Drew said. I did hit
- 21:41Speaker 9: the station account with one that actually happened 26 years
- 21:44Speaker 9: ago today. but that's not nearly as cool as 20
- 21:51Speaker 9: or 30 some years ago yesterday, because that is one
- 21:53Speaker 9: of the great moments and a shout out. Kevin Gallagher,
- 21:57Speaker 9: the NFL historian, he puts out so much of this
- 21:59Speaker 9: good stuff online videos and telecasts and production stuff with
- 22:03Speaker 9: NFL films. Cause drew as great as different production companies
- 22:09Speaker 9: are and networks have gotten and streaming.
- 22:13Speaker 7: And it's all amazing right now. They're all still second
- 22:17Speaker 7: place to NFL.
- 22:19Speaker 9: The one NFL film still puts together and the stuff
- 22:23Speaker 9: they have from so many years ago that is so
- 22:26Speaker 9: well shot and cinematically put together.
- 22:30Speaker 5: It is just pure gold whenever it comes to your timeline.
- 22:33Speaker 5: A thousand percent.
- 22:35Speaker 1: All right.
- 22:35Speaker 5: So Billy mentioned it. I'll play it.
- 22:36Speaker 4: This was on this date. I probably should play it tomorrow.
- 22:40Speaker 4: For the show that we don't have. Stay consistent. Or
- 22:43Speaker 4: I guess you have money. That would be funnier.
- 22:45Speaker 7: Unless you want.
- 22:46Speaker 4: To come on and do the Badger postgame show with
- 22:47Speaker 4: me tomorrow after the Badgers beat up Rutgers.
- 22:49Speaker 5: Always available, Billy. We can do that.
- 22:51Speaker 7: If you need an extra hand or if you need
- 22:53Speaker 7: a fill-in, I'm always available.
- 22:54Speaker 5: But here we go.
- 22:55Speaker 7: I think a young Bill Schmidt was at this game,
- 22:57Speaker 7: if I'm not mistaken.
- 22:58Speaker 5: Here we go.
- 22:59Speaker 4: Oops.
- 23:02Speaker 6: Bar.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Lays it up for Freeman, and it's incomplete. Or did
- 23:08Speaker 2: he make the catch at the 15? What are they
- 23:10Speaker 2: going to rule? Did he caught it? Touchdown.
- 23:14Speaker 5: He did what? He did what?
- 23:19Speaker 7: One of the all-timers, and we know our buddy Free
- 23:21Speaker 7: loves that one.
- 23:22Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 23:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always a fun one. You had something going on, Billy, right?
- 23:26Speaker 4: A funny story, like you were a kid and You
- 23:28Speaker 4: were sick or something like that? That was the first
- 23:30Speaker 4: game I ever sat with my dad at.
- 23:31Speaker 5: That's awesome.
- 23:32Speaker 9: I had gone to one other game, and he had
- 23:34Speaker 9: gotten an extra ticket, and I sat with my cousin.
- 23:36Speaker 9: So that was the first game that I actually got
- 23:37Speaker 9: to go to with my dad. I had a double
- 23:38Speaker 9: ear infection.
- 23:39Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it was.
- 23:40Speaker 7: Desperately didn't want to go into the game.
- 23:42Speaker 9: My dad's holding me down in the back of the car,
- 23:44Speaker 9: calling my mom, and he's like, Tracy, talk some sense
- 23:47Speaker 9: into the kid. We're two hours away. It's pouring rain.
- 23:51Speaker 9: We're either going in or we're going home. So there's
- 23:53Speaker 9: one of the two happening, and I'm not burning the
- 23:55Speaker 9: money here. So we're going in. Let's figure it out.
- 23:57Speaker 5: Aren't you glad? And luckily we did.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 23:59Speaker 5: See, he knows best. What? Man, dads know best. They
- 24:02Speaker 5: really do.
- 24:04Speaker 9: Now, we have a developing situation rolling on. What are
- 24:08Speaker 9: we not talking enough about was our theme of yesterday's show.
- 24:10Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
- 24:11Speaker 9: One thing, Drew, that maybe should have gotten in, I
- 24:14Speaker 9: should have tried to crowbar in, was this Brandon Ayuk situation.
- 24:18Speaker 5: Out in San Francisco.
- 24:19Speaker 9: I don't know if you've been following or some of
- 24:20Speaker 9: our listeners have been. So Brandon Ayuk's been out of
- 24:24Speaker 9: football while still on the Niners for the last two years.
- 24:28Speaker 9: And played since 2024 when he was injured. Sat out
- 24:33Speaker 9: all last year as he's been trying to get himself
- 24:35Speaker 9: traded off of the 49ers.
- 24:36Speaker 5: Well, he's got new representation. Drew Rosenhaus.
- 24:40Speaker 8: Oh, boy.
- 24:40Speaker 9: Drew Rosenhaus said, young man, you're going to work. We're
- 24:44Speaker 9: showing up at 3 o'clock. On Friday, well, in the
- 24:49Speaker 9: last 15 minutes, now a warrant remains active for Brandon
- 24:53Speaker 9: Ayuk's alleged arrest from a December speeding incident near Levi's Stadium.
- 25:00Speaker 9: The Santa Clara County District Attorney Office is telling NBC
- 25:04Speaker 9: Sports Bay Area. This comes out after yesterday when George
- 25:10Speaker 9: Kittle was asked at his locker, like, hey, how's it
- 25:12Speaker 9: going to be to see Brandon Ayuk tomorrow?
- 25:14Speaker 5: He goes... You sure he's making it in?
- 25:17Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
- 25:17Speaker 5: You sure he's making it into the building? I plead
- 25:20Speaker 5: the fifth. I don't know what's going on.
- 25:22Speaker 7: Football fans aren't the only ones that have been waiting.
- 25:24Speaker 9: This is a phenomenal reality television show playing out with,
- 25:29Speaker 9: right now, I think the NFC's best team and a
- 25:32Speaker 9: guy that I think they've completely forgotten was actually on
- 25:35Speaker 9: their team, but now he decides that he wants to
- 25:37Speaker 9: be a part.
- 25:37Speaker 5: Of it, apparently. He wants to get back by those
- 25:39Speaker 5: power lines.
- 25:40Speaker 7: Back by the substation and back getting a check after
- 25:43Speaker 7: he was running it all dry.
- 25:44Speaker 5: I heard that Shanahan was FaceTiming Juwan Jennings and they
- 25:47Speaker 5: were trying to pry him loose from Minnesota because they
- 25:49Speaker 5: wanted that receiver and they have a type and they
- 25:51Speaker 5: like the cut of his jib. They like him back
- 25:54Speaker 5: and he's getting no targets and no play with the
- 25:57Speaker 5: fighting Skull Brothers. So what I mean, so there's nothing
- 26:01Speaker 5: to that.
- 26:02Speaker 9: Apparently he said, yeah, but apparently he's, he's happy in Minnesota.
- 26:05Speaker 9: I don't know how, cause you're right. He's getting no targets.
- 26:07Speaker 9: The only guy getting less.
- 26:08Speaker 5: I think wasn't that straight up more tampering by Shanahan.
- 26:10Speaker 5: Who's driven down that street before. Yeah. He might've been
- 26:13Speaker 5: made time a receiver on another team.
- 26:15Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 26:15Speaker 5: Maybe it was FaceTime. He was driving down there, down,
- 26:18Speaker 5: down the road.
- 26:18Speaker 9: I like what a fascinating, what a fascinating year they've had.
- 26:23Speaker 9: And this one just bubbles up on top of it.
- 26:25Speaker 9: And again, like the dude is not played in two years.
- 26:29Speaker 9: But wants to be back into the NFL, shockingly so,
- 26:32Speaker 9: because they took all his guaranteed money away. But I
- 26:35Speaker 9: thought it was going to play out of like the
- 26:37Speaker 9: Jamal Adams meme where he just tried to scan the
- 26:40Speaker 9: key card and didn't lock him in or didn't let
- 26:42Speaker 9: him in. Looks like they might just be waiting for
- 26:44Speaker 9: him at the front. Waiting posted up. All right, you
- 26:47Speaker 9: do want to show up. We appreciate it.
- 26:49Speaker 5: We're excited for it.
- 26:50Speaker 7: Aren't the only ones waiting on you. There's other people
- 26:52Speaker 7: waiting on him, apparently.
- 26:53Speaker 4: So I don't know. I don't know who owes more
- 26:55Speaker 4: to more people, him or Rasheed Rice. I mean, Rasheed
- 26:58Speaker 4: Rice did file for bankruptcy.
- 27:00Speaker 5: I think. What, $ 3. 4 million or something?
- 27:02Speaker 4: $ 3.
- 27:02Speaker 7: 4 million on debts, which is impressive work.
- 27:04Speaker 4: If you're that young and you've accumulated that much debt,
- 27:06Speaker 4: that's impressive work, and you're not a doctor. You know
- 27:10Speaker 4: what I mean? But yeah, this is quite the story
- 27:13Speaker 4: playing out. So as the next page turns, or as
- 27:17Speaker 4: the world turns in the next soap opera, and I
- 27:19Speaker 4: feel like Drew Rosenhaus probably is not excited about this
- 27:23Speaker 4: because it's still like, okay, This is my name we're
- 27:26Speaker 4: using as, like, a legitimate NFL agent, like, to try
- 27:29Speaker 4: and negotiate for you, and this is going to happen.
- 27:31Speaker 5: I don't know. But, boy, another wild one. It really is.
- 27:35Speaker 9: But he just came out right out of the gates.
- 27:37Speaker 9: He said, okay, you want me to be your agent?
- 27:39Speaker 9: Here's the first thing. You're going to go show up.
- 27:41Speaker 5: Show up.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Like, you actually have to. Like, if Drew Rosenhaus is
- 27:44Speaker 4: being tough on a player, you know he's got him.
- 27:46Speaker 4: He's got responsibilities.
- 27:48Speaker 5: He might be kind of sick and tired of it.
- 27:50Speaker 5: Fascinating one.
- 27:51Speaker 9: You see all of these teams and you wonder what's
- 27:53Speaker 9: the known quantity in the NFC. The more and more
- 27:58Speaker 9: it looks like it, Drew, the team it feels like
- 28:00Speaker 9: you know the most about might be in your own
- 28:02Speaker 9: NFC North. That Bears team is feeling like the most
- 28:07Speaker 9: convincing thing in this NFC, depending on what's going on
- 28:10Speaker 9: out there in Santa Clara.
- 28:12Speaker 4: This is the time that X does its best work.
- 28:14Speaker 4: Like Twitter and Billy always says, I can't believe the
- 28:17Speaker 4: site is still free. Some of the funniest tweets right
- 28:18Speaker 4: now about, you know, there are guys staking out, you know,
- 28:21Speaker 4: outside the facility. People saying, why isn't the Bay Area
- 28:24Speaker 4: Sports Channel following Ayuk's car?
- 28:26Speaker 5: You know.
- 28:27Speaker 4: No, he's not driving a Bronco, so I don't know
- 28:29Speaker 4: that it's going to be as easily identifiable. Yeah, so, man,
- 28:33Speaker 4: I will see how this ends. Will it end with
- 28:36Speaker 4: him playing football one day is the question most people have.
- 28:39Speaker 4: I think it's going to eventually, Billy, but I don't know.
- 28:42Speaker 4: I mean, that's a good question still out there. It's
- 28:45Speaker 4: like 2007 Packers.
- 28:48Speaker 5: Hashtag IUK watch. The more things change, the more they
- 28:53Speaker 5: stay the same. This is the last game Sunday or
- 28:56Speaker 5: the last games before the trade deadline. Tuesday afternoon. And
- 29:00Speaker 5: I think based on the little research and just talking
- 29:05Speaker 5: to people, most people have given up on the idea
- 29:08Speaker 5: that the Packers will trade for a Jonathan Taylor or
- 29:10Speaker 5: a Brees Hall.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Or Yeah, I think those have subsided. Tony Pollard. It's not...
- 29:17Speaker 4: I don't think the running back one's happening. I would
- 29:20Speaker 4: be interested, Drew, at a couple other spots.
- 29:23Speaker 5: That's it. I say defensive tackle and maybe even tight end.
- 29:27Speaker 7: I had not thought about tight end.
- 29:28Speaker 5: Jono Smith, eh. But if you could get a Dallas
- 29:31Speaker 5: Goddard or somebody or a... Juwan, what's the Juwan John?
- 29:35Speaker 5: The kid from New Orleans.
- 29:36Speaker 7: Juwan Johnson from New Orleans.
- 29:38Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 29:39Speaker 9: And Goddard expiring contract. So you would think seemingly rather available.
- 29:43Speaker 4: They're both like day three picks probably. And they're both
- 29:46Speaker 4: really good players, both really good red zone.
- 29:49Speaker 5: As an offset to have, because that's if you're not
- 29:53Speaker 5: going to be able to run the ball. haven't had
- 29:55Speaker 5: more options to throw it around.
- 29:56Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:57Speaker 4: And they run enough two and three tight end sets.
- 30:00Speaker 4: They've put Redmond out on the field enough to know
- 30:02Speaker 4: that they want to have more of it.
- 30:03Speaker 5: I like that thought, Drew. So I think that's way
- 30:06Speaker 5: more likely to me than a, than a running back.
- 30:08Speaker 5: And then I think defensive tackle is the spot that
- 30:10Speaker 5: they would give up some capital for because Hargraves out
- 30:14Speaker 5: and Brinson's on IL and you, you just, Can't have
- 30:16Speaker 5: enough of those dudes either. No, you can't.
- 30:18Speaker 9: And both of the positions, you have somebody coming off
- 30:21Speaker 9: injury who has looked better in recent weeks, but still
- 30:25Speaker 9: not themselves.
- 30:26Speaker 4: John Carzella and YouTube Packers don't have the draft capital
- 30:28Speaker 4: to make a move before a deadline.
- 30:29Speaker 7: Well, they have draft capital.
- 30:30Speaker 5: They're getting some compensatory picks, right? That's the thing. First rounder,
- 30:34Speaker 5: I mean. No, and like Drew said, you know, those
- 30:36Speaker 5: are day three guys.
- 30:37Speaker 9: I think if you're acquiring a tight end or like
- 30:39Speaker 9: a Grover Stewart from Indianapolis on the defensive tackle side,
- 30:43Speaker 9: They're getting a fourth.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Round pick coming in from Malik Willis in company. And John,
- 30:50Speaker 4: I get it. They have eight picks in 2027. They
- 30:54Speaker 4: also just made six of them in 26. And it's
- 30:57Speaker 4: feeling like one of potentially their better draft classes they've
- 31:00Speaker 4: had because it feels like they got two guys right
- 31:01Speaker 4: out of the gates. So the more picks you have
- 31:05Speaker 4: doesn't always equate to the best stuff. And the lack
- 31:08Speaker 4: of a first round pick is true. None of these
- 31:11Speaker 4: guys are going for a first round pick. And I
- 31:13Speaker 4: don't think.
- 31:13Speaker 9: That's as necessary at the moment because you've kind of
- 31:17Speaker 9: now identified, Drew, over the last couple of years, you've
- 31:20Speaker 9: identified your core. You just paid most of the core
- 31:23Speaker 9: on offense with the pass catchers and you drafted Golden
- 31:27Speaker 9: in the first round. So he's not going anywhere. And defensively,
- 31:31Speaker 9: you're going to. lock up at least Evan Williams at
- 31:35Speaker 9: the end of the year. You know, Adrian Cooper is
- 31:37Speaker 9: going to be a part of it. So you kind
- 31:38Speaker 9: of have your core there. You can, you can muddle
- 31:42Speaker 9: through without a couple of those draft picks. I would be,
- 31:44Speaker 9: I would be interested. I don't know that they will,
- 31:47Speaker 9: but here's the part that's different. And I know he
- 31:49Speaker 9: always mentions Ted Thompson, that he's got a little bit
- 31:52Speaker 9: of Ted Thompson in him. Does Brian good accounts operates
- 31:55Speaker 9: a lot more like Ron Wolf in that category. I
- 31:57Speaker 9: think that it'll be much more aggressive in other ways
- 32:00Speaker 9: of roster building than just, coveting, hoarding, and holding on
- 32:04Speaker 9: to every draft pick imaginable and thinking that's the only
- 32:06Speaker 9: way to be able to improve it.
- 32:08Speaker 5: They didn't have a lot of picks this past April,
- 32:13Speaker 5: but they maximized them. They made impactful ones. They made
- 32:16Speaker 5: impactful selections, and maybe that's a blueprint.
- 32:18Speaker 9: And maybe that's where defensive tackle drew. They're still banking
- 32:22Speaker 9: on McClellan, who the reason why they liked him in
- 32:24Speaker 9: the third round was because he got better as the
- 32:26Speaker 9: year went on.
- 32:27Speaker 4: The running back thing is interesting. The names you brought up,
- 32:30Speaker 4: they're all playing well. Pollard's having a really good year.
- 32:34Speaker 4: Their offensive line is pretty solid there in Tennessee. So
- 32:36Speaker 4: I don't know how he.
- 32:38Speaker 5: I just watching Josh Jacobs try to run behind this line.
- 32:40Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
- 32:41Speaker 1: No.
- 32:42Speaker 5: And all of Tomlinson could come aside with the Packers
- 32:44Speaker 5: and he ain't going to find a hole spot on.
- 32:46Speaker 9: And the way that they're running it at this moment,
- 32:49Speaker 9: I don't know that any of those guys are markedly
- 32:51Speaker 9: better than what Josh Jacobs is.
- 32:53Speaker 5: Should be able to give you. Now, can he?
- 32:56Speaker 9: That'll be something that'll get worked out over the next
- 32:59Speaker 9: nine weeks, and we'll see if it's rusty or washed
- 33:02Speaker 9: will be probably the two differentiators, or he's back to
- 33:05Speaker 9: being Josh Jacobs, and he starts trending up and up,
- 33:08Speaker 9: and maybe a tweak on the offensive line that potentially
- 33:11Speaker 9: happens this week would.
- 33:14Speaker 4: Help it out. I think we've all kind of seen
- 33:16Speaker 4: the same thing when he's back. Is he in shape?
- 33:18Speaker 4: I don't know, but I think we all kind of
- 33:21Speaker 4: hope and expect him to get better. Then again, I
- 33:23Speaker 4: thought that about the running game every week, like, well,
- 33:24Speaker 4: this is the week they get something going. Cause how
- 33:27Speaker 4: could it stay this bad? And that's what I keep
- 33:29Speaker 4: thinking to myself, but I don't know. Maybe it just will,
- 33:32Speaker 4: I guess.
- 33:33Speaker 5: Uh, but yeah, yeah.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Hope that they eventually start to get a little momentum
- 33:37Speaker 4: on the ground, find something they can get going, get
- 33:40Speaker 4: a little more creative. Maybe, maybe working some other guys,
- 33:43Speaker 4: you know, Lloyd's gotten his look. Obviously Jacob's got a
- 33:46Speaker 4: bunch of carries. maybe Pierre Strong, but they've got to
- 33:48Speaker 4: find some way to try and get better there.
- 33:50Speaker 9: Well, and everyone's favorite, Chris Brooks, coming off of the IR,
- 33:54Speaker 9: soon designated a return, so he'll start his practice window.
- 33:56Speaker 9: News from the Packers practice in the reports earlier today.
- 34:00Speaker 9: You know, Keyshawn Nixon was back at practice. There were
- 34:02Speaker 9: a lot of videos going around of him running at practice. However, Drew,
- 34:04Speaker 9: he said, they're all AI.
- 34:08Speaker 3: Not real.
- 34:09Speaker 7: Not real.
- 34:10Speaker 5: That wasn't me. Not real. It's funny.
- 34:12Speaker 7: But we got a lot of videos of you running.
- 34:14Speaker 7: I didn't do it.
- 34:15Speaker 6: Nope.
- 34:15Speaker 9: I don't know where you guys made those. I don't
- 34:17Speaker 9: know how you guys made those, but those are not real.
- 34:19Speaker 9: So Keyshawn Nixon, maybe not back at practice today. Javon
- 34:22Speaker 9: Bullard out. Personal reasons. And the four that missed the
- 34:26Speaker 9: game last week are the same ones, or the four
- 34:29Speaker 9: that have missed most of the week. And Sean Ryan,
- 34:31Speaker 9: Zayer Franklin, Travis Glover, and Josh Wiley also out.
- 34:35Speaker 5: Wiley.
- 34:35Speaker 4: More to your point of a tight end, maybe being the.
- 34:39Speaker 5: Guy you'd go for. That might be the guy they target.
- 34:41Speaker 7: They trade for two tight ends in one year? Mark
- 34:44Speaker 7: Redman and another one here at the deadline?
- 34:46Speaker 5: That could be interesting. I'm going to scour that market
- 34:48Speaker 5: here during the break.
- 34:49Speaker 7: It'd be interesting if they made that pull.
- 34:51Speaker 5: I like both of those two names. Johnnie Smith's going
- 34:53Speaker 5: to get any better any time soon, right? No, no.
- 34:56Speaker 5: Clearly not getting any younger.
- 34:58Speaker 7: Started off, I thought, all right.
- 34:59Speaker 8: Meh.
- 35:00Speaker 5: There's a reason why he didn't score, I think, on
- 35:02Speaker 5: week one. That was the one.
- 35:03Speaker 7: There's a reason he didn't score week one.
- 35:05Speaker 5: That's it. Absolutely. All right. 877-794-1973. Trenny joins us in
- 35:10Speaker 5: 20 minutes to talk Brewers looking back, Packers Patriots looking ahead,
- 35:15Speaker 5: our NBC Boston correspondent, and the voice of the Packers,
- 35:18Speaker 5: Wayne Larrabee, joins us today at 425. In the meantime,
- 35:21Speaker 5: let's just enjoy a Friday, shall we? You're in the huddle.
- 35:23Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armand huddled up
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- 35:48Speaker 5: to us. We're entertaining all Packers trade suggestions with the
- 35:53Speaker 5: default program. knowing that they probably won't make a move. Yeah,
- 35:56Speaker 5: like that's just a good one to have in the
- 35:58Speaker 5: back of your mind. Not happening, but... But if it did...
- 36:01Speaker 5: What would be interesting? If you were in charge, what
- 36:03Speaker 5: would you do? Because, I don't know, well, would Sunday's... Obviously,
- 36:09Speaker 5: an injury might prompt something, but does Sunday's outcome prompt
- 36:14Speaker 5: it one way, or does it push it? Oh, we
- 36:15Speaker 5: got to make this move, because you got to think
- 36:18Speaker 5: the windows now. You're in the mix. You got Parsons
- 36:21Speaker 5: coming back. Your defense looks great. Love is playing at
- 36:24Speaker 5: a high level. There's no reason to think that if
- 36:27Speaker 5: you can punch your ticket to the tournament and get.
- 36:29Speaker 7: In, who knows what can happen. You're seemingly right there.
- 36:33Speaker 9: And it feels, I don't know, I don't know that
- 36:35Speaker 9: there's clearly a great team if there is a great team.
- 36:38Speaker 4: That's the thing.
- 36:38Speaker 5: Packers right now, if you've watched the first half of
- 36:39Speaker 5: the season, they don't feel like a Super Bowl team.
- 36:42Speaker 5: But what does a Super Bowl team feel like? What
- 36:43Speaker 5: did Seattle feel like last year?
- 36:45Speaker 7: Correct. They felt like they were very.
- 36:47Speaker 5: Up and down. Very generic and kind of up and down. Yep, 100%.
- 36:51Speaker 5: Not like, hey, let's make plans for February. No.
- 36:54Speaker 9: If it's a golf tournament, Drew, they've made the cut now.
- 36:58Speaker 9: In this week, this is the start of moving day.
- 37:01Speaker 9: Are you going to separate yourselves and get yourself into
- 37:04Speaker 9: a conversation where Christmas Day can be for the division?
- 37:07Speaker 9: Or is it going to be scrapping with San Francisco, LA, Seattle,
- 37:13Speaker 9: one of these teams for the final wildcard spots? It's
- 37:16Speaker 9: going to be interesting. It truly feels... Maybe I'm wrong.
- 37:21Speaker 9: Maybe Washington has a great run in a, maybe Dallas
- 37:23Speaker 9: figures it all out. Feels like it's the NFC West
- 37:28Speaker 9: and the NFC North for five spots. So I guess
- 37:32Speaker 9: I can clump Arizona in there. I don't believe in them.
- 37:34Speaker 9: I'd say seven teams for five spots and a game
- 37:37Speaker 9: like today, this weekend is going to be a big one.
- 37:39Speaker 9: You mentioned day three pick for a Goddard or Jawan Johnson.
- 37:44Speaker 9: Grover Stewart's the other name that's kind of come up
- 37:47Speaker 9: from Indianapolis. The other guys that they've at least been
- 37:50Speaker 9: somewhat linked to, DeForest Buckner just went last week to
- 37:55Speaker 9: San Francisco for a 2027 fourth round pick. That's a
- 37:59Speaker 9: three-time Pro Bowler, albeit 31 years old, up there in age,
- 38:03Speaker 9: but still a really, really productive player and has good
- 38:06Speaker 9: football left in him. And Quentin Nelson goes from Indianapolis
- 38:11Speaker 9: to Seattle for a third and 27 and a fifth
- 38:14Speaker 9: and 28.
- 38:15Speaker 5: That's an eight.
- 38:17Speaker 9: Time pro bowler and a dude that's probably ticketed for
- 38:19Speaker 9: the hall of fame. So he's on an expiring contract.
- 38:22Speaker 5: I get it again.
- 38:23Speaker 9: Both of those guys reportedly the Packers were in conversations with,
- 38:27Speaker 9: but if those guys are going for those picks, I
- 38:29Speaker 9: do believe there are plenty of guys that can give,
- 38:31Speaker 9: that can help you. That will be available for a
- 38:34Speaker 9: fourth and a fifth.
- 38:35Speaker 5: Has the biggest trade of this cycle already been made?
- 38:38Speaker 5: Good question.
- 38:39Speaker 4: I struggle to think there's a bigger one than in
- 38:41Speaker 4: terms of package than Simmons.
- 38:43Speaker 5: That's what I'm thinking. But like Derek Henry, what does
- 38:45Speaker 5: he bring?
- 38:47Speaker 9: Henry feels more like Henry feels more like a day
- 38:50Speaker 9: three pick too.
- 38:51Speaker 5: That's right.
- 38:52Speaker 9: Like, especially after last night, I mean, Drew, I don't know.
- 38:56Speaker 9: That's a wash out in the rain. I don't know
- 38:58Speaker 9: what you could probably take from that, especially with their, uh,
- 39:01Speaker 9: Fiano guy that was starting at quarterback.
- 39:04Speaker 5: They had no chance. Um, But he doesn't look good.
- 39:08Speaker 9: If anybody looks like there's less tread on the tires,
- 39:11Speaker 9: this is the first year you're starting to think that
- 39:13Speaker 9: he almost looks old. So I think he's probably a
- 39:16Speaker 9: day three pick, maybe two day three picks gets it
- 39:20Speaker 9: for Derek Henry. The other one in Jonathan Taylor, probably
- 39:24Speaker 9: a second and some. But Simmons, you know, whether you
- 39:29Speaker 9: agree with it or not, he was instant impact the
- 39:33Speaker 9: other night. I mean, he instantly walked in and wrecked
- 39:36Speaker 9: that game. So it's sort of like when they traded
- 39:38Speaker 9: for Khalil Mack. I remember that first game against us,
- 39:40Speaker 9: obviously now he had, I think, More counting stats.
- 39:43Speaker 5: There, like sacks.
- 39:44Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't have a pick six. No, but I
- 39:46Speaker 4: thought he had impact right away. Sort of like similar
- 39:49Speaker 4: to that game. Definitely helped them. Now, will it sustain?
- 39:52Speaker 5: We'll see.
- 39:52Speaker 9: But the thought of Chicago in the beginning of the
- 39:55Speaker 9: year was, and I think it was kind of right,
- 39:58Speaker 9: their defense is going to give up a lot. And
- 40:00Speaker 9: are they going to be Cincinnati of the last couple
- 40:04Speaker 9: of years where Joe Burrow's got to score 35 to
- 40:08Speaker 9: think you have a chance to win. Their defense has
- 40:10Speaker 9: been a lot better, and that trade just made them
- 40:13Speaker 9: a lot more formidable with that offense. I think that's
- 40:16Speaker 9: kind of been the biggest.
- 40:17Speaker 4: A lot of people point to Caleb, and Caleb's been good,
- 40:19Speaker 4: but he's been in and out of the lineup for
- 40:21Speaker 4: a bit, but it's their defense consistently through the 20s.
- 40:23Speaker 4: Last year, they depended a lot on the takeaways, right?
- 40:26Speaker 5: That was the big story.
- 40:27Speaker 4: It was like the Bears get all these takeaways, but
- 40:29Speaker 4: they were giving up yards, but they're not doing that
- 40:31Speaker 4: this year. They're shutting teams down, and obviously that makes
- 40:34Speaker 4: them stronger. one of the storylines to be worked out. Although,
- 40:38Speaker 4: if you listen to Bears fans, this is the first
- 40:40Speaker 4: time they've ever been 6-2. I mean, they are already
- 40:42Speaker 4: throwing the parade in Chicago, it feels like. So, I'm
- 40:47Speaker 4: hoping that reverses course.
- 40:48Speaker 7: Again, I know, but.
- 40:50Speaker 9: Rightfully so, because it's the first time that the quarterback
- 40:53Speaker 9: is one of the reasons why they are.
- 40:54Speaker 5: That's the thing.
- 40:55Speaker 4: I think they feel like, oh, this could be more
- 40:57Speaker 4: legitimate now if Caleb can be this guy.
- 40:59Speaker 9: I would think some real lasting power there. They got
- 41:01Speaker 9: a good coach and a good quarterback. That's a good
- 41:04Speaker 9: combination to start with when You haven't had that in,
- 41:07Speaker 9: you know, 35.
- 41:07Speaker 5: 40 years. Yes, indeed.
- 41:10Speaker 4: Or you've had guys, you know, just kind of buttressing
- 41:13Speaker 4: the great defense. But if Caleb's a reason, and if
- 41:15Speaker 4: he's complete 70 buttress.
- 41:18Speaker 5: Is that the right term?
- 41:19Speaker 4: Buttressing. Buttressing up against the great defense. You had a
- 41:22Speaker 4: Rex Crossman.
- 41:22Speaker 5: Drew, you ever put that in any stories?
- 41:25Speaker 4: Buttress never made it in on any, you know, this
- 41:29Speaker 4: really buttressing bullpen problem. The bullpen buttressing up against a
- 41:34Speaker 4: great starting group. I mean, if their quarterback throws.
- 41:38Speaker 5: Projecting structural support built against a wall or building to
- 41:41Speaker 5: absorb lateral forces and prevent the wall from bowing, leaning,
- 41:45Speaker 5: or collapsing. Yeah, exactly. So there you go. How the
- 41:49Speaker 5: hell did you pull that out?
- 41:51Speaker 7: Well, anyway.
- 41:53Speaker 4: Where do you find a word like buttressing? I don't
- 41:55Speaker 4: know where it came from.
- 41:56Speaker 5: To strengthen support or prop up a non-physical concept, such
- 42:00Speaker 5: as buttressing an argument with data or buttressing a financial portfolio.
- 42:04Speaker 5: I think that's what I was going for more.
- 42:06Speaker 7: Like that second definition.
- 42:08Speaker 9: No, I think he used it well. I'm just, again, wondering,
- 42:12Speaker 9: is this a word of the day calendar, or is
- 42:14Speaker 9: this just you reading through the stories that you're finding?
- 42:17Speaker 4: I could never answer where it came in the depths
- 42:20Speaker 4: of my mind. I have no idea why that came out.
- 42:22Speaker 4: But if their quarterback scores 70% all year, then yes.
- 42:25Speaker 5: If Bears fans are ready to throw a parade, though,
- 42:27Speaker 5: here's the thing. They're home against the Buccaneers Sunday night.
- 42:31Speaker 5: They should win. They go to New Orleans. They should
- 42:35Speaker 5: win that. Should win that one, too. Yeah, you're right.
- 42:38Speaker 5: They have their bye after that. But after Buccaneers, they
- 42:40Speaker 5: have a bye. Then they go to New Orleans. And
- 42:41Speaker 5: then they have the short week game Thanksgiving at Ford Field.
- 42:45Speaker 5: If the Lions win that game and the Bears go
- 42:47Speaker 5: to 0-3 in the division, they ain't winning the division then,
- 42:51Speaker 5: I don't think. Much different. Much different story. The calculus
- 42:53Speaker 5: gets much different. So that becomes the circle it game
- 42:56Speaker 5: for them.
- 42:56Speaker 7: Because then you're on the road to the playoffs.
- 42:58Speaker 4: Because that's the thing that Ben Johnson still has to
- 43:00Speaker 4: prove is division.
- 43:02Speaker 7: Division wins.
- 43:03Speaker 5: Because then they have in a four-game span, they have
- 43:07Speaker 5: the Lions, the Jags at home. I don't know how
- 43:10Speaker 5: the Jags will play in December at Soldier Field. We'll see. Yeah,
- 43:12Speaker 5: that'll be a question. Then the Dolphins in Miami and
- 43:15Speaker 5: the Bills in Buffalo. Ooh, their matchup is in Buffalo.
- 43:21Speaker 6: Yes.
- 43:21Speaker 5: So if the Lions win that, then the Bears might
- 43:24Speaker 5: be on a little thing where they lose like three
- 43:26Speaker 5: out of four. I like the sound of that. Let's manifest.
- 43:28Speaker 5: Let's manifest. I'm just saying. Come on now. You can
- 43:31Speaker 5: look around the corner. You see monsters around every corner
- 43:34Speaker 5: in the NFL.
- 43:34Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 43:34Speaker 5: When you look at the schedule and go, oh, yeah,
- 43:36Speaker 5: but it's a week-to-week league, as we always say. But
- 43:40Speaker 5: I think they'll prevail against Tampa and New Orleans, although
- 43:43Speaker 5: you never know. You don't. You're right. Buccaneers on a
- 43:46Speaker 5: Sunday night might rise up and shock the world.
- 43:49Speaker 9: And Chicago will be, okay, so that's a Saturday night,
- 43:52Speaker 9: December 19th.
- 43:53Speaker 5: Bears-Bills. Yeah. On CBS. Ooh, that is. And then their
- 43:58Speaker 5: next game after that is the Packers on Christmas Day.
- 44:00Speaker 9: I was just going to say, because I thought, wow,
- 44:02Speaker 9: Packers are going to get them on a little bit
- 44:03Speaker 9: of a short week.
- 44:04Speaker 5: Packers will be the one on a shorter week. The
- 44:05Speaker 5: Bears are for real. That's the stretch when they'll show
- 44:08Speaker 5: that they're for real.
- 44:09Speaker 7: Great time for some dissension.
- 44:10Speaker 5: Lions-Jags. Let's get that. Dolphins-Bills-Packers.
- 44:13Speaker 9: And, I mean, the Packers don't get a short week,
- 44:15Speaker 9: but they get a bye week the week before because
- 44:17Speaker 9: they host Miami. Could be a lot worse. That's also
- 44:21Speaker 9: in Toyotathon. I would also think about that. It's around
- 44:27Speaker 9: the corner here. Toyotathon hasn't even started yet. We need
- 44:31Speaker 9: Jan to start dusting those sails off and get those
- 44:34Speaker 9: big bows hanging up on those cars.
- 44:36Speaker 5: He's had a great year. Anybody actually buying one like that?
- 44:40Speaker 5: Great question.
- 44:41Speaker 4: I've wondered, who's out there actually buying cars with a
- 44:43Speaker 4: bow on it? That's a great question.
- 44:45Speaker 5: I wonder that.
- 44:46Speaker 7: If you have one, send it in to us.
- 44:48Speaker 5: Because I want to know.
- 44:49Speaker 9: I do want to see that picture. I do want
- 44:50Speaker 9: to see that picture. Not any other pictures. Put a
- 44:54Speaker 9: bow on your Cybertruck.
- 44:56Speaker 5: That's gone. Before they stop production.
- 44:59Speaker 7: Before they stop them. You should have bought a Kia.
- 45:01Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. You know what I'm saying?
- 45:03Speaker 4: Cardinals are going out.
- 45:04Speaker 5: Baby on board. All right, when we come back, we're
- 45:08Speaker 5: going to go to the Boston Bureau. Packers, Patriots. Our
- 45:11Speaker 5: pal Trini Casey from NBC Sports Boston is going to
- 45:13Speaker 5: join the party next.
- 45:15Speaker 7: You're in the huddle.
- 45:16Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to The Huddle. It's time
- 45:37Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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- 45:48Speaker 2: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up. We
- 45:52Speaker 2: know exactly what we got to do.
- 45:54Speaker 1: All right?
- 45:54Speaker 5: Let's go out and kick some tape.
- 45:55Speaker 6: All right? One, two, three.
- 45:56Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
- 45:58Speaker 5: What the hell's going on out here? Yellow Weasel. We're
- 46:02Speaker 5: calling the plays, all right? It is time. Who do
- 46:05Speaker 5: you think you are?
- 46:07Speaker 2: With Drew Olson.
- 46:08Speaker 8: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 46:12Speaker 8: your respect.
- 46:12Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
- 46:13Speaker 5: That son of a gun is thick.
- 46:15Speaker 2: And Armin Sarian.
- 46:16Speaker 5: Daddy Sarian.
- 46:17Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle.
- 46:22Speaker 5: Welcome indeed to the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Olson,
- 46:25Speaker 5: Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian bringing it to you on this
- 46:28Speaker 5: fabulous football Friday. One week removed from the Brewers World
- 46:32Speaker 5: Championship World Series Parade. Billy's representing with that championship hat
- 46:36Speaker 5: right now. Get it rolling. That's right. And we have
- 46:38Speaker 5: a very special guest on line one of the NicoletLaw.com
- 46:41Speaker 5: talk and text line. Come on. From the Boston Bureau
- 46:43Speaker 5: of the Huddle, it's our pal Trenny Casey. Trenny, welcome
- 46:46Speaker 5: to the program. How are you?
- 46:49Speaker 8: I'm great. I, too, have a World Series hat. But
- 46:52Speaker 8: can I have a grievance right now with fanatics in
- 46:55Speaker 8: the MLB.com shop?
- 46:57Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone's listening.
- 46:58Speaker 8: Why is it taking like two and a half weeks
- 47:00Speaker 8: for me to get my championship sweatshirts?
- 47:02Speaker 7: It's unreal.
- 47:04Speaker 4: Why?
- 47:04Speaker 3: It's unreal. Like, how are they the only sporting.
- 47:08Speaker 8: Like, only store in America that cannot ship something to
- 47:11Speaker 8: you within, like, 36 minutes? Like, everywhere else I can
- 47:14Speaker 8: get anything at any time as quickly as I want it.
- 47:17Speaker 3: And Fanatics is like.
- 47:19Speaker 8: Oh, you want to order your Brewers championship stuff the
- 47:21Speaker 8: minute the game's over? You'll get it around November 18th.
- 47:24Speaker 3: Come on, fanatics.
- 47:26Speaker 9: It's a joke. He must be planning more of his
- 47:28Speaker 9: white parties instead. The tough thing is, like, Trini, it
- 47:31Speaker 9: was like that in the WBC. Oh, I'd really like
- 47:33Speaker 9: to wear the WBC jersey to the game that I'm
- 47:35Speaker 9: going to next week. Joke's on you, you'll get it
- 47:38Speaker 9: in August. The biggest ripoff there is possible.
- 47:42Speaker 3: In fairness, it's all year round.
- 47:45Speaker 8: So I ordered that cool sort of throwback starter jacket
- 47:48Speaker 8: that I wore to all the games, which I got
- 47:51Speaker 8: tons of compliments on.
- 47:52Speaker 3: Awesome product, Fanatics.
- 47:54Speaker 8: Why did I order it before the postseason started and
- 47:57Speaker 8: I didn't get it until the start of the NLCS?
- 47:58Speaker 3: Now, I was.
- 48:00Speaker 8: It's like 8-1 or something in that jacket, but that's
- 48:02Speaker 8: beside the point.
- 48:03Speaker 3: I should have been able to wear it the entire postseason.
- 48:05Speaker 2: Well, that's a you thing.
- 48:06Speaker 7: You were 8-1, though. Let's not give the jacket credit.
- 48:08Speaker 5: Let's give you the credit.
- 48:09Speaker 4: First of all, I got a watch list going, and
- 48:12Speaker 4: Michael Rubin's always at the top of that list. Fanatics
- 48:14Speaker 4: has ruined sports merchandising. You know how I feel about it.
- 48:17Speaker 4: We haven't talked about the prices, even, that are still
- 48:20Speaker 4: outrageous to me. But this is a year-round. It's not
- 48:22Speaker 4: just because everyone, there's a high demand for these products.
- 48:25Speaker 5: You're right. I mean, this is an all-year-round. All the time.
- 48:28Speaker 4: So that's why I just keep going to my guy
- 48:30Speaker 4: at 84th and Layton in the back of the truck.
- 48:31Speaker 5: I mean, he's got all the good stuff. Armand's all
- 48:34Speaker 5: about the bootleg stuff.
- 48:35Speaker 7: You already left.
- 48:36Speaker 6: I know.
- 48:36Speaker 3: That's the thing, Armand. Like, I can't do that.
- 48:38Speaker 8: Like, I knew I had limited time in Milwaukee. And
- 48:40Speaker 8: I was like, I don't want to stand in line
- 48:42Speaker 8: at the Brewers team store and then risk getting shut out.
- 48:45Speaker 8: So I was like, I'll just order it off Fanatics.
- 48:47Speaker 8: I'll have it at least probably by the time I
- 48:49Speaker 8: get home. I don't know why I thought I'd have
- 48:51Speaker 8: it by the time I get home. That was a
- 48:52Speaker 8: silly thought because, of course, I won't have it till, like, Christmas.
- 48:55Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 48:56Speaker 7: That's probably, yeah. I'll get you one from Kev outside
- 48:59Speaker 7: of Fiserv.
- 49:00Speaker 9: He was selling them outside of the Jonas Brothers show
- 49:02Speaker 9: on Sunday night.
- 49:03Speaker 3: Love it.
- 49:04Speaker 7: They had some really, really good stuff.
- 49:05Speaker 5: I love that. Trini, did you stick around for the
- 49:07Speaker 5: parade or did you have to get out of town?
- 49:09Speaker 3: Sure. Sure did, Drew.
- 49:11Speaker 8: I sure did. I found a good friend, Mark Tauscher,
- 49:18Speaker 8: and his family. We're hanging out on the parade route.
- 49:22Speaker 8: And I was like, do you mind if I just, like,
- 49:25Speaker 8: saddle up with you guys?
- 49:26Speaker 3: I have just one friend coming. She's small.
- 49:29Speaker 8: She'll, you know, we'll let the kids hang on the railing.
- 49:34Speaker 3: It's fine. Yeah.
- 49:36Speaker 8: And there was, like, the only thing that stunk was
- 49:38Speaker 8: that I didn't think ahead of time to bring, like, nips.
- 49:42Speaker 8: or anything to drink, which there weren't bathrooms anyway, so
- 49:45Speaker 8: probably smart. But I did, Mark did arrange for my
- 49:48Speaker 8: friend Mags and I to get a little pull off
- 49:50Speaker 8: a bottle of Hennessy to warm us up.
- 49:51Speaker 2: A little bit.
- 49:52Speaker 3: Come on now, man.
- 49:53Speaker 8: Which was super fun. And then we proceeded to go
- 49:56Speaker 8: towards the end of the parade. We went to Sporting Club?
- 50:01Speaker 1: Yes.
- 50:02Speaker 3: Is that over.
- 50:02Speaker 8: Like Cathedral Square area?
- 50:04Speaker 3: And then, you know where I'm going, boys.
- 50:07Speaker 8: We got some roadies and we walked to Joe cats.
- 50:12Speaker 7: I love it.
- 50:15Speaker 5: Did you notice how she slipped from, from Boston to
- 50:18Speaker 5: back to Scottie? She, she started with the nips, which
- 50:20Speaker 5: is a total new England thing. That's the little shoot
- 50:23Speaker 5: bottle things.
- 50:24Speaker 8: Oh, you don't know the airplane bottles.
- 50:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 50:29Speaker 5: And then there, then she said roadies, which is a
- 50:31Speaker 5: total Scottie.
- 50:32Speaker 8: Yes.
- 50:32Speaker 6: Yes.
- 50:36Speaker 8: I'm a woman of many homes.
- 50:40Speaker 3: I have two homes and I love them both.
- 50:42Speaker 8: Milwaukee always will have the slight edge because it's my true,
- 50:45Speaker 8: true hometown.
- 50:47Speaker 3: But no, it was fun. I have literally just been
- 50:49Speaker 3: living this week. I stayed out.
- 50:52Speaker 8: So not only, guys, did I go to the parade.
- 50:54Speaker 8: I went to the Flippin' Packers game on Thursday.
- 50:56Speaker 5: Nice.
- 50:57Speaker 3: So I drove.
- 50:58Speaker 8: So after I partied with Drew and his lovely wife
- 51:02Speaker 8: and his lovely daughter and my family until like almost
- 51:05Speaker 8: 1 a.m. after the Brewers won the whole thing. On Wednesday,
- 51:09Speaker 8: I got up, ate breakfast at my hotel. Drove to
- 51:15Speaker 8: Green Bay to see a friend who's dealing with some
- 51:17Speaker 8: health issues. Spent some time with her. Went to the
- 51:20Speaker 8: Packers game. Left the Packers game after roll out the
- 51:23Speaker 8: barrel because I was like, they've got this in a bag.
- 51:24Speaker 3: They're going to win. I need to beat traffic.
- 51:29Speaker 5: Another Wisconsin.
- 51:30Speaker 8: And so I got out because I got up at
- 51:32Speaker 8: 5.45 a.m.
- 51:33Speaker 3: On Thursday.
- 51:35Speaker 8: Got in the quickly, like didn't even shower. Full disclosure,
- 51:37Speaker 8: didn't even shower. Put on my parade clothes. drove back
- 51:41Speaker 8: to Milwaukee, but not before stopping at a Green Bay
- 51:44Speaker 8: quick trip to get coffee and three Milwaukee Journal Sentinels,
- 51:47Speaker 8: the commemorative ones.
- 51:48Speaker 5: They had three. They had three.
- 51:51Speaker 3: Well, Armin, it was 6.06 a.m. in Green Bay.
- 51:55Speaker 7: Good move.
- 51:57Speaker 3: So they still had this on papers.
- 51:59Speaker 8: And then drove down and went to, to the parade
- 52:03Speaker 8: and then to sporting club and then to Joe cats
- 52:05Speaker 8: and then to Dorsey next door for dinner, where I
- 52:07Speaker 8: hear Pat Murphy was having dinner in the back room.
- 52:09Speaker 8: I did not actually get eyes on him, but I
- 52:11Speaker 8: have good sources that tell me he was having dinner there.
- 52:14Speaker 8: Finally got home about eight 15 PM, crawled into bed
- 52:18Speaker 8: and probably slept from nine a nine PM. 9.00 PM
- 52:21Speaker 8: to 9.00 AM the next day.
- 52:23Speaker 3: I slept for 12 hours.
- 52:24Speaker 4: So I've been living.
- 52:27Speaker 3: On DayQuil and NightQuil for a week. I'm a little
- 52:31Speaker 3: under the weather.
- 52:31Speaker 5: Trenny Casey joining us from NBC Sports Boston. Have your
- 52:33Speaker 5: colleagues been congratulating you and they know that you're just,
- 52:36Speaker 5: because you've been in Boston when they've won a lot
- 52:39Speaker 5: of titles because they win a lot of titles there,
- 52:41Speaker 5: but now you get to live it. And how are
- 52:44Speaker 5: you being treated in the office and around town?
- 52:47Speaker 8: People are actually very, very happy for the brewers. I've
- 52:50Speaker 8: actually weirdly had two days of back-to-back charity events. So
- 52:54Speaker 8: last time I emceed something and today I was just
- 52:56Speaker 8: a guest at a charity event for another foundation that
- 52:58Speaker 8: I do some work with. And like to a person,
- 53:01Speaker 8: everyone's like, oh my God, congratulations. Oh my gosh, I
- 53:03Speaker 8: was so excited for the brewers. Like they were such
- 53:06Speaker 8: an easy team to root for. I've been wearing my
- 53:08Speaker 8: brewer stuff around town. I walk past our, we live
- 53:11Speaker 8: in like little Italy is where my husband and I
- 53:14Speaker 8: live in Boston. And I walked to my car because
- 53:16Speaker 8: there's no parking almost anywhere here. So you have to
- 53:18Speaker 8: park far away. And I walked to my car. I
- 53:21Speaker 8: passed the fire station, engine one, every day. And all
- 53:24Speaker 8: the firefighters there were like.
- 53:26Speaker 3: We haven't seen you. Congratulations. That was so awesome.
- 53:29Speaker 8: So, yes, people are very and like one kid stopped
- 53:31Speaker 8: me on the bridge. My husband and I were coming
- 53:33Speaker 8: back from dinner last week. And I had my brewer's
- 53:36Speaker 8: hat on and my brewer's jacket.
- 53:38Speaker 3: And he was like. I'm such a big Brewers fan.
- 53:40Speaker 8: Like I rooted for them the whole post-season and they're
- 53:42Speaker 8: like now my favorite team. I just love them so much.
- 53:45Speaker 8: Like I love Sal Frelick and he was probably like
- 53:47Speaker 8: 13 years old.
- 53:48Speaker 3: It was really exciting. And I just, they have captured
- 53:51Speaker 3: the hearts of a nation.
- 53:53Speaker 5: Love it.
- 53:54Speaker 9: They really did, and it's hard. Very rare does the
- 53:56Speaker 9: best team become the most lovable team. That crossover doesn't
- 54:01Speaker 9: happen a whole lot. Trenny, I'm wondering, you've done so
- 54:04Speaker 9: much in media and now obviously working in Boston, but
- 54:07Speaker 9: having a connection and a fandom. Being in this business,
- 54:11Speaker 9: a lot of people say it just gets sucked completely dry,
- 54:13Speaker 9: and you don't watch a certain game that you're covering
- 54:16Speaker 9: as a fan, but in your job, how much do
- 54:19Speaker 9: you think the fandom and having that love of the
- 54:21Speaker 9: team being able to celebrate it makes you better in
- 54:23Speaker 9: being able to connect with the viewers that are fans
- 54:26Speaker 9: watching the product every night.
- 54:28Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
- 54:29Speaker 8: Like, I understand, like, I kept, and I think, Drew,
- 54:32Speaker 8: we talked about this last week when I was on
- 54:34Speaker 8: the show prior to Game 5. Like people have been
- 54:38Speaker 8: drawing the comparison to 2004. And like when I talk
- 54:41Speaker 8: to people here about it, everyone says, oh, my God,
- 54:44Speaker 8: that was exactly what it was like here in 2004.
- 54:46Speaker 8: Like people who had lost loved ones were like dedicating.
- 54:50Speaker 3: The run to them. And when they won the championship,
- 54:52Speaker 3: even though they won, I mean, really like.
- 54:55Speaker 8: Similar to the Brewers, the real big series was, like,
- 54:58Speaker 8: getting over the hump and beating the Yankees, right? So
- 55:01Speaker 8: similar to the Brewers, what was getting over the hump
- 55:02Speaker 8: was beating the Dodgers. And then the World Series almost
- 55:05Speaker 8: at that point, like, felt inevitable. The Red Sox, I believe,
- 55:09Speaker 8: swept the Cardinals in 0-4.
- 55:10Speaker 3: That's right.
- 55:12Speaker 8: Whereas, you know, the Brewers, they only needed five games
- 55:15Speaker 8: to dispatch, you know, the Rays. And they're, like, the parade,
- 55:18Speaker 8: and everyone's like, oh, my God, I partied for days,
- 55:20Speaker 8: and I watched the game with my dad.
- 55:22Speaker 3: And so I.
- 55:24Speaker 8: It's nice to finally have that connection with them because
- 55:27Speaker 8: here I think they've become sort of numb to titles
- 55:31Speaker 8: and in turn I've become.
- 55:32Speaker 3: Numb to titles and parades.
- 55:34Speaker 8: So to be a part of it simply as a
- 55:37Speaker 8: fan was so awesome. All I will say, I'm good
- 55:41Speaker 8: on the parade was awesome.
- 55:42Speaker 3: I probably don't need to do a parade again. I
- 55:44Speaker 3: probably have my fill.
- 55:46Speaker 5: Fireworks are always my number one.
- 55:48Speaker 3: You know what though?
- 55:48Speaker 8: I will say this because I've never, of all the
- 55:50Speaker 8: parades I've covered, I've covered six parades out here. I
- 55:53Speaker 8: have never seen players get off of vehicles and get
- 55:58Speaker 8: into the stands the way.
- 56:00Speaker 3: The Brewers did.
- 56:00Speaker 8: Like actually truly interact with their fans. That was something
- 56:05Speaker 8: different and special. Like, I've seen Gronk, like, lean out
- 56:08Speaker 8: and do the beer tosses and kind of, like, slide down. Like,
- 56:11Speaker 8: you know, they get– but there's still, like, a barrier
- 56:14Speaker 8: between them. Like, the way that the Brewers– and maybe
- 56:17Speaker 8: this is just my Wisconsin bias, but I feel like
- 56:19Speaker 8: the way that that team embraced the entire city and
- 56:23Speaker 8: the whole state, like, that felt special and different from
- 56:26Speaker 8: anything I've ever seen.
- 56:27Speaker 4: Yeah, see, and when you have the duck boats going
- 56:29Speaker 4: in Boston– On the Charles, you had that barrier. You
- 56:31Speaker 4: can't do that, right? So they were getting out.
- 56:33Speaker 3: Well, they do. So the duck boats are land and sea.
- 56:36Speaker 7: I know, but come on.
- 56:38Speaker 5: They do.
- 56:38Speaker 3: It's a rolling rally.
- 56:39Speaker 4: Are they all?
- 56:39Speaker 2: But it is harder.
- 56:41Speaker 3: But you know what, though?
- 56:41Speaker 8: It's not like the Brewers were jumping out of the windows.
- 56:44Speaker 8: They came down the exit, the bus exit.
- 56:47Speaker 5: That's right.
- 56:47Speaker 8: I mean, any player could do that. Any player in
- 56:50Speaker 8: any city could do that. And the Brewers chose to
- 56:53Speaker 8: interact with their fans in a way that other athletes
- 56:56Speaker 8: did not. And that's something super special.
- 56:59Speaker 5: It's pretty cool. Now, Trent, we got to shift gears
- 57:01Speaker 5: because you got another little Packers game in your neighborhood.
- 57:04Speaker 5: Important one. Coming up on Sunday. Huge. Not going to
- 57:07Speaker 5: that one, by the way. You're not going to that one?
- 57:09Speaker 5: I don't blame you.
- 57:10Speaker 3: No.
- 57:10Speaker 5: Watch it on the couch. Yes. Like the rest of us.
- 57:13Speaker 5: But what is the buzz there? Packers coming off kind
- 57:17Speaker 5: of a mini bye and they've had time to get
- 57:20Speaker 5: ready for Drake May and company. How do you see
- 57:21Speaker 5: this one laying out?
- 57:23Speaker 8: So most people here think it's not a layup for
- 57:27Speaker 8: the Patriots, but most people expect the Patriots to win
- 57:29Speaker 8: this game. Like they see this as one of the more,
- 57:31Speaker 8: they've got six pretty tough games coming up. So the
- 57:34Speaker 8: Patriots have the Packers on Sunday at here for 25.
- 57:38Speaker 8: And then next week they, is it next week that
- 57:40Speaker 8: we go?
- 57:41Speaker 3: I think.
- 57:43Speaker 5: Detroit. Yeah. Next week, Detroit in Munich. Is that right?
- 57:47Speaker 3: In Munich. Yeah.
- 57:48Speaker 8: Like the early morning game. And then they've got like
- 57:50Speaker 8: somewhere in there, they've got Minnesota. They've got a game
- 57:53Speaker 8: against the Chiefs coming up on the road. They've got
- 57:56Speaker 8: a game at home against the Bills. Like they have
- 57:58Speaker 8: all these really difficult games, like pretty good playoff caliber
- 58:01Speaker 8: teams coming up. And when people look at the schedule
- 58:04Speaker 8: out here and even me, like I look at this
- 58:06Speaker 8: as quite frankly, after watching the Packers play on Thursday night,
- 58:09Speaker 8: like Drake May is, I would say, a top five
- 58:13Speaker 8: quarterback in the NFL. And if you have a top
- 58:14Speaker 8: five quarterback in the NFL, that's a hard.
- 58:16Speaker 3: Team to beat.
- 58:17Speaker 8: And he has been winning games like without A.J. Brown,
- 58:21Speaker 8: without Mack Hollins, without Romeo Dobbs. Hunter Henry went down.
- 58:25Speaker 8: It was announced, Mike Vrabel made it clear today, announced
- 58:28Speaker 8: today that both A.J. Brown and Travion Henderson, which is actually,
- 58:31Speaker 8: I don't know if you guys saw the story, it's
- 58:32Speaker 8: actually kind of sad. He's had like some experiencing like
- 58:35Speaker 8: neurological symptoms.
- 58:36Speaker 3: So he was hospitalized.
- 58:37Speaker 8: They don't really know what's going on with Travion Henderson.
- 58:40Speaker 8: So he's going to be out again. They've had a
- 58:43Speaker 8: patchwork offensive line. They lost Elijah Vera Tucker.
- 58:50Speaker 3: They lost Mike Unwenu.
- 58:51Speaker 8: So, but like, for whatever reason, like with Drake May,
- 58:55Speaker 8: they have not entirely skipped a beat. He has been
- 58:58Speaker 8: able to find a way to help them win. I mean,
- 59:00Speaker 8: the Packers defense is going to have their hands full.
- 59:02Speaker 8: Where I think the Packers might have an edge is
- 59:05Speaker 8: they're so good at forcing turnovers and the Patriots, this
- 59:08Speaker 8: year like if the packers are going to win they
- 59:09Speaker 8: have to force the patriots into mistakes the patriots have
- 59:12Speaker 8: turned the ball over i believe 15 times already this
- 59:15Speaker 8: year they only turn the ball over 16 times all
- 59:18Speaker 8: of last season and they're doing it in myriad ways
- 59:21Speaker 8: guys they're throwing interceptions they're fumbling the ball like they
- 59:24Speaker 8: like they can they can get a little sloppy with
- 59:27Speaker 8: the ball um the Patriots center and Drake May sometimes
- 59:32Speaker 8: like it doesn't just not a clean snap. So there
- 59:34Speaker 8: are ways I think for the Packers defense in particular
- 59:37Speaker 8: to take advantage of them. But like Drake May is
- 59:40Speaker 8: a hard quarterback to beat. He's got a big arm.
- 59:43Speaker 8: He's not afraid to like take the check down when
- 59:45Speaker 8: he needs to. And the biggest thing is he's just
- 59:47Speaker 8: a big body who can run. And he's not afraid
- 59:52Speaker 8: to run. Their run game, though, has not been great
- 59:54Speaker 8: because their offensive line, similar to the Packers, isn't very good.
- 59:56Speaker 3: It should be a good game.
- 59:59Speaker 8: I just feel like the Patriots probably have the edge
- 1:00:01Speaker 8: with Drake May at quarterback and being at home.
- 1:00:03Speaker 9: It feels like a field goal game either way. And
- 1:00:06Speaker 9: I like the contrasting thoughts because here people think, Jordan
- 1:00:10Speaker 9: loves the better quarterback.
- 1:00:12Speaker 5: You see the quarterback each week. I think it's different.
- 1:00:15Speaker 9: Drake over the last four weeks has been remarkable putting
- 1:00:18Speaker 9: the first four games to bed where it was a
- 1:00:21Speaker 9: little skittish, little frustrated, obviously, in that fourth quarter in
- 1:00:25Speaker 9: week one against Seattle. What have you noticed? I mean,
- 1:00:27Speaker 9: 13 touchdowns in one pick in four games is a
- 1:00:30Speaker 9: remarkable run to be on.
- 1:00:32Speaker 8: I don't know what was going on early on in
- 1:00:34Speaker 8: the season with him. He did not look at all
- 1:00:37Speaker 8: like the quarterback. He was tentative with his throws. And
- 1:00:41Speaker 8: I don't know if it's because he was trying to
- 1:00:43Speaker 8: sort of get used to an offense that added A.J. Brown,
- 1:00:49Speaker 8: that added Romeo Dobbs, and this feeling of having to
- 1:00:52Speaker 8: get the ball to those guys if he wasn't quite
- 1:00:53Speaker 8: sure who he could trust yet. But over the last,
- 1:00:57Speaker 8: let's see, I guess... Let's see, first four, they've played nine.
- 1:01:01Speaker 8: Have they played eight games, nine games? I guess like
- 1:01:02Speaker 8: the last four or five games. And I think they're
- 1:01:05Speaker 8: five and three. You lose track now with the 17,
- 1:01:08Speaker 8: plus the 17-game season totally throws me off.
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: He has just been more decisive. he has made much
- 1:01:14Speaker 3: better decisions.
- 1:01:15Speaker 8: The biggest issue in the first, especially the first three
- 1:01:18Speaker 8: games of the season, he was making bad decisions. He
- 1:01:22Speaker 8: was throwing into, and he did it again against Chicago,
- 1:01:24Speaker 8: and that's what I mean. If you can get Drake
- 1:01:27Speaker 8: May a little confused and a little frustrated, have him
- 1:01:31Speaker 8: keep the ball and not be able to find a
- 1:01:32Speaker 8: receiver after he goes through his checkdowns, he sometimes will
- 1:01:36Speaker 8: try to force a ball out into like five foot
- 1:01:39Speaker 8: nothing Efton Chisholm like he did against the Bears and
- 1:01:42Speaker 8: the next thing you know you've got a streaking defender
- 1:01:44Speaker 8: coming over across the top and picks him off easily
- 1:01:46Speaker 8: like that's something that happens with Drake May but he's
- 1:01:49Speaker 8: been much smarter like he was he wasn't even throwing
- 1:01:52Speaker 8: away the ball early on he'd be under pressure and
- 1:01:54Speaker 8: he would chuck it up to nobody or he would
- 1:01:56Speaker 8: keep it and get sacked and then fumble the ball
- 1:01:58Speaker 8: like there were times that he fumbled the ball and
- 1:02:00Speaker 8: just happened to fall on it himself like and so
- 1:02:03Speaker 8: they weren't recorded as fumbles but I would say over
- 1:02:06Speaker 8: the first couple of games, I think he was credited
- 1:02:08Speaker 8: with like seven interceptions and two fumbles. I think he
- 1:02:10Speaker 8: honestly had three or four fumbles that he just didn't lose.
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: So they didn't show up on the stat sheet.
- 1:02:16Speaker 8: Like there are ways to, like there are ways to
- 1:02:19Speaker 8: frustrate him. But he's so good at just like picking
- 1:02:23Speaker 8: apart defenses. He's actually sometimes I think better under pressure.
- 1:02:27Speaker 8: Like he, there was a play last week where there
- 1:02:29Speaker 8: was a defender bearing down on him from his blind side,
- 1:02:33Speaker 8: from his left side.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: And he just moved.
- 1:02:35Speaker 8: He's like, he could sense the, he could sense the
- 1:02:38Speaker 8: rusher coming and moved a little bit. The rusher fell
- 1:02:40Speaker 8: on top of him. Like I kind of just skimmed
- 1:02:42Speaker 8: his ankles and then he completes a pass and He's
- 1:02:45Speaker 8: just a really athletic, naturally gifted guy. And the one
- 1:02:49Speaker 8: thing he has that why I think May is a
- 1:02:52Speaker 8: better quarterback than Jordan Love is May is also a runner.
- 1:02:55Speaker 8: He's also a running quarterback. Jordan Love runs because he
- 1:02:58Speaker 8: has to sometimes, doesn't really like to. Like, for Drake May,
- 1:03:01Speaker 8: that's part of his game. They had a design run
- 1:03:04Speaker 8: for him last week. I don't think they're going to
- 1:03:05Speaker 8: be able to do it again because they used it
- 1:03:07Speaker 8: last week against Miami.
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: But, like, they also have shown some warts.
- 1:03:12Speaker 8: Like, Miami's a bad team, and they only put up
- 1:03:14Speaker 8: three points against them in the first half. Like, you
- 1:03:16Speaker 8: can't get away with that against the Packers. Like, the
- 1:03:18Speaker 8: Packers will take advantage of that.
- 1:03:20Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be fun to watch. I think
- 1:03:22Speaker 5: this is, yeah, pretty stoked around here. Best game on
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: the card. That's for sure. You mentioned Chisholm.
- 1:03:29Speaker 9: Now, I don't want to just do the white wide
- 1:03:30Speaker 9: receiver thing because that's a little easy, but more than anything,
- 1:03:33Speaker 9: it seems like the Patriots just breed these kind of
- 1:03:35Speaker 9: guys of Welkers and Edelman's.
- 1:03:37Speaker 7: Where do they find this cat? Eastern Washington and he
- 1:03:39Speaker 7: has five catches on.
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: Five targets last week? He was an undrafted rookie free agent. Wow.
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: There's a machine out there.
- 1:03:47Speaker 8: He's just like, I don't know if it's like, which
- 1:03:49Speaker 8: is so weird because honestly, when they draft wide receivers,
- 1:03:52Speaker 8: they're terrible at drafting wide receivers. Like, they can't, like,
- 1:03:56Speaker 8: unlike the Packers, who find really good guys in, like,
- 1:03:58Speaker 8: the second.
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: Third, fourth round.
- 1:04:00Speaker 8: Like, if the Patriots actually draft someone, they usually end
- 1:04:04Speaker 8: up being, like, Kyle Williams has been, like, Boomer bust. Like,
- 1:04:07Speaker 8: we always think about, like, Nikhil Harry and what's the
- 1:04:10Speaker 8: kid who's a really tall, lanky kid who now.
- 1:04:13Speaker 5: Plays with the— Kayshaun Booty?
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: Yeah. No, with the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: Oh, Thornton.
- 1:04:19Speaker 5: Tyquan Thornton.
- 1:04:20Speaker 3: Thornton. Tyquan Thornton. Thank you. Tyquan Thornton. Yeah, like, just
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: a tall drink of water. Like, he couldn't do anything here.
- 1:04:25Speaker 8: Then he goes to Kansas City and he's catching, like,
- 1:04:27Speaker 8: 60-yard bombs from Patrick Mahomes. So like, they're just not
- 1:04:29Speaker 8: great at drafting and developing receivers, but there is something
- 1:04:32Speaker 8: about these guys that either they trade for or sort
- 1:04:35Speaker 8: of the overlooked, like the Julian Edelman's of the world
- 1:04:38Speaker 8: who were quarterbacks and then, you know, moved over to
- 1:04:41Speaker 8: wide receiver that just sort of have like this, this
- 1:04:43Speaker 8: toughness to them. Like, Efton Chisholm, like, guys, I think
- 1:04:46Speaker 8: I'm bigger than Efton Chisholm. I've never stood next to him,
- 1:04:49Speaker 8: but my guess is I might look down. I might, like,
- 1:04:51Speaker 8: tower over him.
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: You might.
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: But he's got a toughness.
- 1:04:55Speaker 8: Like, he is not afraid to go over the middle.
- 1:04:57Speaker 8: He's not afraid to go between two defenders and, like,
- 1:04:59Speaker 8: take a hit. And they do do a good job of, like,
- 1:05:02Speaker 8: finding and utilizing those guys.
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: Josh McDaniels has been around the block. He's a really
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: good offensive coordinator.
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: He's listed at 5'10. I don't know if I believe that.
- 1:05:11Speaker 5: No, no, no.
- 1:05:12Speaker 7: That's what I said, too.
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: 5'10.
- 1:05:13Speaker 5: Stilts, maybe. Yeah, right.
- 1:05:15Speaker 7: He's probably like.
- 1:05:18Speaker 5: 5'7, 5'8. Throw some heels on him.
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: He's a little taller than me. I'm shrinking in my
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: old age.
- 1:05:22Speaker 5: Trent, on the way out here, I'm wondering if you're
- 1:05:23Speaker 5: going to see a lot of cheesers. Do people contact
- 1:05:25Speaker 5: you coming in for the Packers game? I got a
- 1:05:28Speaker 5: feeling a lot of people blew the travel budget going
- 1:05:30Speaker 5: to Tampa to watch the Brewers in the World Series.
- 1:05:32Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 1:05:33Speaker 5: But you'll have that. And then how big a story
- 1:05:34Speaker 5: also is Brady being in the booth there? Is that
- 1:05:37Speaker 5: still a big thing or is that old hat by now?
- 1:05:40Speaker 4: It is.
- 1:05:40Speaker 8: To answer your first question, now that you say it,
- 1:05:42Speaker 8: no one has reached out to ask me for recommendations
- 1:05:46Speaker 8: or tell me they're going to be in town, which.
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: Is a little.
- 1:05:49Speaker 8: Because when the Brewers were here this year, I got
- 1:05:52Speaker 8: messages from people that were coming in. People like to
- 1:05:54Speaker 8: come see. They played at Fenway this year. They like
- 1:05:57Speaker 8: to come in summer, go to Fenway, although this year
- 1:05:58Speaker 8: is April.
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: So I haven't heard that. The Brady thing is interesting.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: Because he's kind of a weirdo.
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: He's kind of a weirdo.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: All right, not kind of. He's a total weirdo, right?
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: He's going through this weird midlife crisis.
- 1:06:12Speaker 8: But people here, their butts are pretty chapped because I
- 1:06:15Speaker 8: don't know if you guys remember this, but last year
- 1:06:17Speaker 8: during the Super Bowl, when the Patriots were in the
- 1:06:20Speaker 8: Super Bowl, he's like, I don't have a dog in
- 1:06:21Speaker 8: the fight. And everyone here is like, you don't have
- 1:06:22Speaker 8: a dog in the fight? Are you kidding me? And
- 1:06:25Speaker 8: so we had a whole conversation on my show the
- 1:06:30Speaker 8: other day on Wednesday about whether.
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: Or not people think he'll get booed.
- 1:06:35Speaker 8: I don't think he'll get booed, but they're putting Gronk
- 1:06:38Speaker 8: in the Patriots Hall of Fame this weekend. But like
- 1:06:40Speaker 8: earlier this year, they honored that 2001, like the 25th
- 1:06:43Speaker 8: anniversary of that first Super Bowl winning team. And Belichick
- 1:06:46Speaker 8: had nothing to do with it. And Brady had nothing
- 1:06:48Speaker 8: to do with it. And like, listen, I think Brady
- 1:06:50Speaker 8: was calling a game like out in Seattle that week
- 1:06:53Speaker 8: or something. So I don't think anyone expected him to
- 1:06:55Speaker 8: be here, but he didn't even do like a video.
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: Recording for it.
- 1:06:58Speaker 4: Wow.
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: So there have been some like weird, and now he's
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: like a part owner.
- 1:07:02Speaker 8: Like instead of being a part owner with the Patriots,
- 1:07:04Speaker 8: he's a part owner with the Raiders in Vegas. And
- 1:07:08Speaker 8: so there's like a weird relationship with him out here
- 1:07:12Speaker 8: right now. Like I don't think, I think people respect
- 1:07:14Speaker 8: what he did, but I don't think he's everybody's favorite out.
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: Here right now.
- 1:07:16Speaker 5: Weird or him or Belichick?
- 1:07:19Speaker 8: I mean, honestly, Belichick's always just been a gruff, so
- 1:07:22Speaker 8: I don't think Belichick's.
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: All that weird. Brady's, like, weird.
- 1:07:25Speaker 5: Brady's weird.
- 1:07:26Speaker 3: He does weird stuff to his face. Like, come on, man.
- 1:07:28Speaker 5: That's true. Yeah, too slim. Too chiseled right now.
- 1:07:32Speaker 3: Just, like, leave it alone. Like, you're a handsome guy.
- 1:07:34Speaker 3: Just age gracefully, you weirdo.
- 1:07:36Speaker 7: Yeah, and Belichick's single now, so it doesn't matter.
- 1:07:38Speaker 5: He's not weird anymore.
- 1:07:39Speaker 7: Oh, my God, right?
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: That's true.
- 1:07:40Speaker 5: Come on.
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: He doesn't want to talk about it, though. He's not
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: going to take your tabloid questions.
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: No, he's on to Cincinnati. No tabloid questions. He's on
- 1:07:46Speaker 5: to Cincinnati.
- 1:07:47Speaker 7: But he'll post the Instagram when he is dating.
- 1:07:49Speaker 4: Listen, if he's... If a guy brought six Lombardis to
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: your stadium and you're going to boo him, then it's
- 1:07:55Speaker 4: your problem.
- 1:07:55Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
- 1:07:56Speaker 7: That's just my opinion.
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: Totally.
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: You can be salty about it, but he just brought
- 1:08:00Speaker 4: six trophies.
- 1:08:01Speaker 5: Come on. Come on now. That's a little ridiculous. By
- 1:08:03Speaker 5: the way.
- 1:08:04Speaker 8: I don't think he'll get booed, Armin, but I don't
- 1:08:06Speaker 8: think people, I don't think he'll get, like.
- 1:08:09Speaker 7: There's main character energy in Boston. Everyone thinks you should
- 1:08:12Speaker 7: love us.
- 1:08:12Speaker 3: I don't think people have warm.
- 1:08:14Speaker 7: And fuzzies about him right now.
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: And Boston fans think you should love us the way
- 1:08:18Speaker 4: we love us. I think that's what they think about
- 1:08:20Speaker 4: their athletes.
- 1:08:21Speaker 5: That's just my opinion. It is a doubleheader on Sunday
- 1:08:23Speaker 5: because the Bucs are hosting the Celtics. 7 o'clock tip
- 1:08:26Speaker 5: at 5. They just played there two nights ago in
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: your neck of the woods. It was closer than I
- 1:08:30Speaker 5: thought it would be. Closer than we thought. Bucs still
- 1:08:32Speaker 5: not great. But they are... In fact, I had to
- 1:08:36Speaker 5: turn down tickets to the Bucs game because we got
- 1:08:37Speaker 5: this little Packers postgame show to do. Oh, man.
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: Tough.
- 1:08:41Speaker 5: There will be more.
- 1:08:43Speaker 7: It almost might be better. There will be more tickets
- 1:08:45Speaker 7: to be had.
- 1:08:46Speaker 5: Oh, definitely. Definitely.
- 1:08:47Speaker 8: It didn't look like it was a hard to see
- 1:08:50Speaker 8: to get what I was talking about.
- 1:08:52Speaker 5: Nah, not tough. Things have changed. Can't thank you enough, Trent,
- 1:08:54Speaker 5: for joining us. We appreciate it. Enjoy your weekend. Thanks, guys.
- 1:08:58Speaker 3: Go Pack Go.
- 1:08:58Speaker 6: JPG.
- 1:09:00Speaker 5: Championship. We don't think it's going to disappear until New Year's.
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: Not stopping.
- 1:09:03Speaker 5: Not until pitchers and catchers report.
- 1:09:04Speaker 3: Just tagged you in another post, Drew. I just tagged
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: you in another Instagram post.
- 1:09:08Speaker 5: Love it. Love it. Love it. Thanks, Trenti.
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: Bye, guys.
- 1:09:12Speaker 5: You bet. Milwaukee's little sister, Trenti Casey, joining us here
- 1:09:15Speaker 5: live on the huddle. Fantastic.
- 1:09:18Speaker 7: Did she think that Tony Graff, a Nino, right?
- 1:09:21Speaker 3: When, Oh yeah.
- 1:09:22Speaker 9: It's a Tony G or goodness. Can't imagine that they
- 1:09:25Speaker 9: were having a lot of world series dreams back then.
- 1:09:27Speaker 9: That's not a lot back in the day.
- 1:09:30Speaker 4: She was close to the Oh 18, but I don't,
- 1:09:32Speaker 4: I don't think she was working sidelines that year unless
- 1:09:34Speaker 4: I'm wrong.
- 1:09:35Speaker 5: She was. Yeah. Well then that was, you know, that was,
- 1:09:37Speaker 5: I remember her like she ran the Milwaukee marathon and
- 1:09:40Speaker 5: then worked a playoff game the same day.
- 1:09:41Speaker 4: So she started everything. But you're right, Tony Graffagnino, good pull.
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: Tony Graffagnino.
- 1:09:47Speaker 9: I saw a Tony Graffagnino jersey at the parade, one
- 1:09:49Speaker 9: of the pictures. That's when you know somebody's been there
- 1:09:52Speaker 9: for a while.
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: You know, I love that.
- 1:09:53Speaker 3: You know what?
- 1:09:53Speaker 4: I always said he'll give you a good professional at-bat.
- 1:09:56Speaker 4: I don't know what's going to happen, but he'll give
- 1:09:57Speaker 4: you a professional at-bat.
- 1:09:59Speaker 5: Fair enough. I remember you saying that. Fair enough, Armin. Yeah,
- 1:10:02Speaker 5: he's put that on a t-shirt.
- 1:10:03Speaker 7: I remember him saying that.
- 1:10:04Speaker 5: Yep, that's right. I call Tony Graffagnino having professional A-Bs.
- 1:10:08Speaker 5: You were in middle school, Billy. Our buddy Wayne Larive
- 1:10:10Speaker 5: is going to join us an hour from right now
- 1:10:12Speaker 5: to talk more about the Packers. and the Patriots.
- 1:10:14Speaker 7: Keep it right here.
- 1:10:15Speaker 5: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We're huddled
- 1:10:42Speaker 5: up on a Friday. Drew Billion-Armond from headquarters bringing it
- 1:10:45Speaker 5: to you. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, iHeartRadio app, streaming live, Facebook, X,
- 1:10:49Speaker 5: and YouTube. Thanks to Trini Casey for hanging out with
- 1:10:51Speaker 5: us for a little bit. That was so awesome. Wayne
- 1:10:52Speaker 5: Larrabee joins us in an hour for the last word
- 1:10:56Speaker 5: on Packers Patriots on this here program. Of course, pregame
- 1:10:59Speaker 5: programming starts, well, kind of in an hour when Wayne
- 1:11:02Speaker 5: joins us, but officially kicks off at 11 on Sunday
- 1:11:07Speaker 5: with Doug's pre-pregame show. Doug Russell, and then that's Packers
- 1:11:12Speaker 5: game day. And then Packers preview with Dennis Krause, Wes Hodkowitz,
- 1:11:15Speaker 5: James Jones, and Mike Heller into the broadcast. And then
- 1:11:18Speaker 5: Packers OT, Billy and I will be holding court on
- 1:11:21Speaker 5: Packers OT. All right, you can reach us at 877-794-1973.
- 1:11:25Speaker 5: That's the NicoletLaw.com talk and text sign. Time for a
- 1:11:28Speaker 5: little Who's Hot, Who's Not. Top of the Who's Not
- 1:11:30Speaker 5: list is Bruce Chen. Who's not Bruce Chen? Oh, poor Bruce.
- 1:11:35Speaker 4: I mean, imagine that. Who's actually, all you knew about
- 1:11:38Speaker 4: him is what? That he had a long big league career.
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: My man has a full baseball reference page.
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: Here, dude.
- 1:11:43Speaker 5: Yeah, he's had a long career.
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: What was weird about, not weird, but what was unique
- 1:11:46Speaker 4: about him was obviously Chan is Chinese, but he was
- 1:11:50Speaker 4: a Panamanian baseball player, if I remember right. So that
- 1:11:53Speaker 4: was always unique about him.
- 1:11:55Speaker 5: Latin American.
- 1:11:56Speaker 9: 11 teams across 17 big league seasons.
- 1:12:00Speaker 7: He was having a nice retirement, I'm sure.
- 1:12:03Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 1:12:04Speaker 4: Just going alive on a nice day, and then boom,
- 1:12:06Speaker 4: your whole world just got messed up.
- 1:12:09Speaker 7: If you don't know the story, Billy, I'll let you
- 1:12:11Speaker 7: read it.
- 1:12:11Speaker 5: Sure, yeah.
- 1:12:13Speaker 9: Sylvia Sage, who is an adult film actress.
- 1:12:17Speaker 5: Is that her real name?
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: No.
- 1:12:19Speaker 5: Potentially.
- 1:12:20Speaker 9: And she was on the Holly Randall Unfiltered podcast. Now,
- 1:12:25Speaker 9: not much of this conversation was filtered. And it fit
- 1:12:29Speaker 9: up to the name, as Sage described, potentially having what
- 1:12:34Speaker 9: she thought was going to be, or what some player
- 1:12:36Speaker 9: thought was going to be, a rendezvous with a former
- 1:12:40Speaker 9: first baseman, now turned MLB network analyst, Derek Hosmer, who then...
- 1:12:46Speaker 9: When things did not go the way towards the making
- 1:12:50Speaker 9: of the situation.
- 1:12:52Speaker 5: She was forced out.
- 1:12:53Speaker 9: And then young man Bruce Chen was apparently drew there
- 1:12:57Speaker 9: to sweep her off her feet, telling her to pick
- 1:13:00Speaker 9: up the pieces. And as apparently the story goes, you know,
- 1:13:04Speaker 9: a tone for how a real man should have treated her,
- 1:13:08Speaker 9: like flying her out to many away games, treating her
- 1:13:11Speaker 9: to first-class luxury and first-class flights. Month-long relationship, as she said.
- 1:13:16Speaker 9: He met her family. And at one particular point, about
- 1:13:20Speaker 9: eight months into the excursion, her aunt called.
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
- 1:13:27Speaker 4: And said, Sylvia, I don't know how to say this,
- 1:13:29Speaker 4: but I just saw on the news that Bruce is
- 1:13:33Speaker 4: engaged to someone else. I said, well, that can't be true.
- 1:13:38Speaker 4: That can't be right.
- 1:13:39Speaker 5: Let me call him. Calls him up. For eight months,
- 1:13:42Speaker 5: I've been dating him. He never mentioned a fiance. And
- 1:13:45Speaker 5: what did my man Bruce Chen say?
- 1:13:47Speaker 7: Importantly, why did you think you were going to the
- 1:13:50Speaker 7: away games?
- 1:13:51Speaker 4: Wow.
- 1:13:54Speaker 7: See, and that's what she probably didn't want to do.
- 1:13:55Speaker 5: See, she wasn't in the adult industry then. She was
- 1:13:57Speaker 5: just a promo model in Kansas City when she met
- 1:14:00Speaker 5: Hosmer and Chen. Then she probably realized how the whole
- 1:14:05Speaker 5: import thing works, right?
- 1:14:06Speaker 7: It's like, wow, this flying around thing is interesting.
- 1:14:10Speaker 5: First class.
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: All the time.
- 1:14:11Speaker 5: But the thing is, you know, I think.
- 1:14:17Speaker 4: He probably shouldn't have said that because that always probably
- 1:14:20Speaker 4: got her a little salty.
- 1:14:22Speaker 7: And then she's like, I'm going to wait for my
- 1:14:24Speaker 7: moment to get him back.
- 1:14:25Speaker 4: Because if you didn't make her mad, maybe she would.
- 1:14:27Speaker 5: Well, who came off worse than this? Bruce Chen or
- 1:14:29Speaker 5: Eric Hosmer, who showed her the door and threw her
- 1:14:32Speaker 5: stuff out the door when she wouldn't. Get up out
- 1:14:34Speaker 5: of here. Yeah, she wouldn't come across. I was going
- 1:14:37Speaker 5: to say, wouldn't go across the line. She wouldn't. Yeah,
- 1:14:40Speaker 5: she did not sleep with him. You're going to the
- 1:14:41Speaker 5: penalty box. Yeah, so he threw her out. Well, it depends.
- 1:14:44Speaker 4: I mean, I know Bruce Chen's married. I don't know
- 1:14:47Speaker 4: when he was married, but he was engaged at the.
- 1:14:50Speaker 5: Time.
- 1:14:51Speaker 7: No harm, no foul for Eric. I'm not really sure.
- 1:14:53Speaker 5: Well, apparently not.
- 1:14:55Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:14:56Speaker 9: Just one of the, one of the funnier runs on
- 1:15:01Speaker 9: the internet last night as maybe one of my favorite
- 1:15:06Speaker 9: was dang.
- 1:15:08Speaker 5: Hosmer couldn't even hit back then. That's rude.
- 1:15:12Speaker 9: Eric Hosmer had a good big league career. Silver Slugger
- 1:15:15Speaker 9: in there. I thought he was a pretty good baseball player.
- 1:15:17Speaker 9: He married someone on Fox Business, I think. Eric Hosmer's
- 1:15:20Speaker 9: wife is on TV or was on TV or something.
- 1:15:23Speaker 9: So that was another thing I thought about. Man, what
- 1:15:25Speaker 9: a tango we weave.
- 1:15:27Speaker 5: It's pretty wild, yeah. Yeah, to catch strays on that
- 1:15:30Speaker 5: 25 years after something happened. I mean, that long? That's
- 1:15:33Speaker 5: the thing.
- 1:15:33Speaker 7: You're going to do this to me now?
- 1:15:35Speaker 5: He's not hot. We have who's hot, who's not. Brought
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- 1:15:41Speaker 5: It's getting colder. We're dipping below freezing. The heat's going
- 1:15:45Speaker 5: on soon. I don't know when, but soon. Who was
- 1:15:47Speaker 5: not hot? Me last night.
- 1:15:49Speaker 9: Well, actually hot because I did cave and the heat
- 1:15:52Speaker 9: came on in our house last night.
- 1:15:54Speaker 5: But I wasn't hot.
- 1:15:55Speaker 9: Because your boy at that point did not atone for
- 1:15:59Speaker 9: the difference in the moisture in the air. Man, I
- 1:16:02Speaker 9: woke up thinking that I was in the Sahara Desert.
- 1:16:05Speaker 5: Yeah, it's dry.
- 1:16:06Speaker 7: I was drier than a fart.
- 1:16:08Speaker 9: So they needed at some point, needed to slow down
- 1:16:11Speaker 9: and need a lot of water. And we're going to
- 1:16:14Speaker 9: get the humidifier up rolling because that Donovan Jorgensen heating
- 1:16:17Speaker 9: and cooling system, the heat was rolling in there yesterday.
- 1:16:21Speaker 7: Who's also hot.
- 1:16:22Speaker 5: Stay hydrated.
- 1:16:24Speaker 7: I never heard that.
- 1:16:25Speaker 5: Never heard that one before?
- 1:16:26Speaker 7: No, it's pretty good, though. Who's hot now, Bill?
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: Who's hot?
- 1:16:30Speaker 9: Well, there's a couple of guys that could potentially be hot.
- 1:16:33Speaker 9: I like to frequent in the not category.
- 1:16:35Speaker 7: Brownie got sent down.
- 1:16:37Speaker 5: He's not. He is not hot.
- 1:16:39Speaker 9: Who's also not hot would be your boy, Tyler Kolick.
- 1:16:44Speaker 5: Yeah, Tyler Kolick. Okay.
- 1:16:45Speaker 9: Who yesterday drew during an NBA 2K League livestream that
- 1:16:51Speaker 9: was posted to YouTube. Him and Knicks teammate Deuce McBride
- 1:16:57Speaker 9: were asked about the, quote, fakest celebrity fan they've seen
- 1:17:00Speaker 9: courtside at an NBA game. A little damage control had
- 1:17:05Speaker 9: to be done by the New York Knicks today because
- 1:17:07Speaker 9: the question was answered by Colick as at the Knicks game.
- 1:17:11Speaker 9: I'd say it's very performative because, like, they just want
- 1:17:15Speaker 9: to be seen at the game. They're not necessarily fans.
- 1:17:17Speaker 9: Probably answering the question of the fakest celebrity fan, probably
- 1:17:22Speaker 9: Taylor Swift.
- 1:17:23Speaker 5: Ooh, it's tight.
- 1:17:25Speaker 9: As McBride acknowledged and agreed, Kolek did say, I'm going
- 1:17:29Speaker 9: to get some hate from the Swifties, but said, I
- 1:17:31Speaker 9: guess she's got a lot going on. So I can't
- 1:17:34Speaker 9: blame her for not being able to go there all
- 1:17:35Speaker 9: the time, but it's a little performative.
- 1:17:38Speaker 4: Tyler keeps it real. Now, whether or not that's true
- 1:17:40Speaker 4: is who knows, but Hey, you had to be careful.
- 1:17:43Speaker 4: Cause yeah, the Swifties will come out after him, but
- 1:17:44Speaker 4: I think he probably understood.
- 1:17:45Speaker 5: Not only the Swifties. Oh my.
- 1:17:47Speaker 9: The only his, his own Dolan, his own team spokesperson,
- 1:17:51Speaker 9: James Dolan said, don't you tick off one of our fans?
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: No quote.
- 1:17:55Speaker 9: Taylor Swift has been a Knicks fan for many years
- 1:17:57Speaker 9: and has a long history with Madison square garden.
- 1:18:00Speaker 5: And we are very.
- 1:18:01Speaker 4: Extremely appreciative of her support of the organization. Isn't her,
- 1:18:07Speaker 4: isn't that she's performing. That's her job though. She performs
- 1:18:11Speaker 4: like professionally. She's her job is to perform. So isn't
- 1:18:15Speaker 4: that like, okay, that's sort of what you do. So
- 1:18:18Speaker 4: I'm not going to sit there and say, well, you
- 1:18:20Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
- 1:18:21Speaker 7: I mean, she's a performer. So maybe it's just in
- 1:18:24Speaker 7: her blood.
- 1:18:24Speaker 5: I don't know. It could be worse. Right?
- 1:18:27Speaker 9: I was interested to see how you were going to
- 1:18:29Speaker 9: spin this one around as a Marquette.
- 1:18:32Speaker 5: She's a performer?
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: What?
- 1:18:35Speaker 5: She's not fake. So she's chasing clout by sitting courtside
- 1:18:38Speaker 5: at a Knicks game?
- 1:18:38Speaker 4: No, I thought one of the reasons why you like
- 1:18:40Speaker 4: her is she's just a normal person. Just acts normal.
- 1:18:43Speaker 5: Like she always is.
- 1:18:43Speaker 4: That's normal for her. She's been performing since she was 14.
- 1:18:45Speaker 4: So is she performing when she's at Arrowhead Stadium? Watching
- 1:18:50Speaker 4: and celebrating Travis' touchdowns? Is that performative in acting? I
- 1:18:54Speaker 4: just think that's not fake. I thought that was all wholesome. Well,
- 1:18:59Speaker 4: I think it's wholesome.
- 1:19:00Speaker 7: Now, Tyler, I defend.
- 1:19:01Speaker 5: But she's a performer.
- 1:19:02Speaker 4: I defend Tyler. He can have any opinion he wants.
- 1:19:04Speaker 4: He probably knows what he's talking about.
- 1:19:06Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. I mean, it Larry David Seinfeld.
- 1:19:10Speaker 5: Ben Stiller. They got the OG fans. Spike.
- 1:19:14Speaker 9: That was Tracy Morgan, Ben Stiller, and Spike Lee were
- 1:19:17Speaker 9: the ones that got the shout-outs as the solid, hardcore
- 1:19:20Speaker 9: OG ones that are always there.
- 1:19:22Speaker 7: Chalamet probably deserved a little shout-out.
- 1:19:23Speaker 5: And they've been there when the Knicks were really bad.
- 1:19:26Speaker 5: But yeah, I thought that was interesting. I wanted to
- 1:19:29Speaker 5: see the blender that I'm going to get tossed into
- 1:19:31Speaker 5: a little bit there. I figured Tyler would have gotten
- 1:19:33Speaker 5: more out of his Marquette education and realized that that
- 1:19:35Speaker 5: is a PR battle you don't want to get into.
- 1:19:37Speaker 5: Because there's no upside for ripping Taylor Swift. Well, Tyler's
- 1:19:41Speaker 5: his own man. He's not afraid. He'll stand up to
- 1:19:43Speaker 5: the smoke. He had a two-way contract?
- 1:19:45Speaker 4: I think he had a guaranteed second-round deal. I don't
- 1:19:47Speaker 4: think it's two-way. No, I think it's guaranteed. Unless it's
- 1:19:51Speaker 4: ran out by now, but I don't think it is.
- 1:19:53Speaker 5: He's got a ring, so he's all good. No, he
- 1:19:56Speaker 5: was one of the highest-paid second-rounders ever.
- 1:19:58Speaker 4: I remember that was kind of the storyline for a while.
- 1:20:00Speaker 4: Although he's been back with Westchester Knicks a lot, so
- 1:20:03Speaker 4: I don't know that it's technically a two-way, but he.
- 1:20:04Speaker 5: Has played with them. By the way, that Knicks celebration
- 1:20:07Speaker 5: of their finals victory... is the one party that could
- 1:20:10Speaker 5: probably rival Milwaukee's because they were getting after it. Getting
- 1:20:13Speaker 5: after it, yes.
- 1:20:15Speaker 7: We didn't have anyone twerking on a light pole, I
- 1:20:17Speaker 7: don't think.
- 1:20:17Speaker 5: I'll admit that.
- 1:20:18Speaker 7: Or stealing garbage cans.
- 1:20:19Speaker 5: You didn't see Water Street. That's a normal weekend on
- 1:20:22Speaker 5: Water Street. They don't need a brewer's victory to do that.
- 1:20:24Speaker 5: I saw my man climbing the light pole right away.
- 1:20:28Speaker 5: Brady's become even like the round zero. It seems rough, huh?
- 1:20:32Speaker 5: Not nearly the excitement that we were trying to pump
- 1:20:36Speaker 5: up about. Who's not hot? How about Doc Rivers, Drew? Oh,
- 1:20:39Speaker 5: this is big. Two and a half hour pod with
- 1:20:42Speaker 5: Bill Simmons.
- 1:20:43Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'm not going to listen to it. However,
- 1:20:46Speaker 9: I listened to some of the highlights. I listened to
- 1:20:47Speaker 9: some of the clips. No, we can listen to the
- 1:20:48Speaker 9: cut if you.
- 1:20:49Speaker 5: Want to listen. Jimmy O wrote a story about it,
- 1:20:52Speaker 5: I think.
- 1:20:53Speaker 9: As Bill Simmons and Doc were chopping it up about
- 1:20:57Speaker 9: his last job as a coach in the NBA with
- 1:21:00Speaker 9: the Milwaukee Bucks. and spoke about the challenges of coaching
- 1:21:04Speaker 9: Giannis at that Akumbo and how it's maybe a little
- 1:21:08Speaker 9: more difficult than people would think.
- 1:21:09Speaker 6: It's not easy. It's not easy because he plays at
- 1:21:15Speaker 6: this crazy downhill pace. He's really a difficult guy. I
- 1:21:24Speaker 6: was telling someone this. He has this great passing ability.
- 1:21:28Speaker 6: But he doesn't necessarily have the super IQ at the
- 1:21:31Speaker 6: same time. It's really a strange thing. And he really
- 1:21:34Speaker 6: has one way. Downhill, force, force, force. Like every play,
- 1:21:40Speaker 6: he wants to force it. And there's times where I
- 1:21:44Speaker 6: wish he did one thing. I wish he learned how
- 1:21:46Speaker 6: to execute better. He's one of those guys that you
- 1:21:50Speaker 6: get a lot of them from the U.S.
- 1:21:53Speaker 8: A.U.
- 1:21:53Speaker 6: Guys that have never needed to execute because they can
- 1:21:56Speaker 6: do it on their own.
- 1:21:58Speaker 5: But that doesn't help the team.
- 1:22:00Speaker 6: And I think, and I told Giannis this, the thing
- 1:22:04Speaker 6: he needs to still learn is the value of execution.
- 1:22:07Speaker 6: How important it is when you're in practice and in
- 1:22:09Speaker 6: shoot-arounds to lock in on execution. And now he has
- 1:22:14Speaker 6: a coach who is as good as there is in execution.
- 1:22:18Speaker 5: Well, it's hard when you've been able to, your athletic
- 1:22:21Speaker 5: ability is so dominant.
- 1:22:23Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 1:22:23Speaker 5: That that can carry it half the time anyway. Yeah,
- 1:22:25Speaker 5: but that's good for him.
- 1:22:26Speaker 6: Yeah. And what a lot of players don't know is, yeah,
- 1:22:28Speaker 6: I don't need that. I can do that.
- 1:22:29Speaker 5: Yeah, you can.
- 1:22:30Speaker 6: But for the team to work, you have to learn
- 1:22:32Speaker 6: how to execute.
- 1:22:34Speaker 9: And the one time that that style of play worked
- 1:22:36Speaker 9: was when Chris Middleton was closing out.
- 1:22:39Speaker 5: Drew Holiday was at the top of the snake. Yeah.
- 1:22:41Speaker 9: And they rolled in 2021. The one that was very interesting, though, Drew,
- 1:22:46Speaker 9: was when Doc was talking about Giannis's, as he said, quote, yo-yoing.
- 1:22:53Speaker 9: I'm not wanting to publicly request a trade last year.
- 1:22:55Speaker 9: He said Giannis wanted out, but he was a buck,
- 1:22:58Speaker 9: and he didn't want to be the bad guy. He
- 1:23:01Speaker 9: wanted John Horst and Wes Edens, paraphrasing, he wanted them,
- 1:23:05Speaker 9: and those guys to say, we're trading you instead of
- 1:23:07Speaker 9: him saying, I want a trade. To me, that was
- 1:23:10Speaker 9: the game that was being played. Well, Doc, I don't
- 1:23:14Speaker 9: know that it was just you. I think we all
- 1:23:15Speaker 9: saw that game being played, that back and forth, and
- 1:23:19Speaker 9: it led to one of the more uncomfortable and frustrating
- 1:23:22Speaker 9: years any of us have watched for a team here
- 1:23:26Speaker 9: in the state.
- 1:23:26Speaker 4: I thought it was interesting. Jason kid ran to a
- 1:23:28Speaker 4: TV set today to defend Giannis. I don't know if
- 1:23:30Speaker 4: you guys saw him and he did really quick understanding
- 1:23:33Speaker 4: doc saying that his IQ, I disagree with that. I
- 1:23:35Speaker 4: think Giannis understands how to play the game for us
- 1:23:37Speaker 4: when it's getting downhills, what it's all about for him.
- 1:23:39Speaker 4: So when he causes a problem, he's one of the
- 1:23:41Speaker 4: top five.
- 1:23:41Speaker 5: In the league. You know, I, I don't know.
- 1:23:45Speaker 4: If you throw that low IQ at somebody, that's pretty disrespectful.
- 1:23:48Speaker 4: You have to be careful when you say that. You're
- 1:23:50Speaker 4: calling a.
- 1:23:50Speaker 5: Guy stupid at that point.
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:23:52Speaker 9: Low basketball IQ and low human IQ are two different things.
- 1:23:56Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't think these players look at it differently, Billy.
- 1:23:58Speaker 4: This is my opinion.
- 1:24:00Speaker 5: No, that's fine.
- 1:24:01Speaker 4: I'm just telling you there's a difference in there.
- 1:24:03Speaker 5: People can take it all different ways. There absolutely is
- 1:24:06Speaker 5: a difference. There is.
- 1:24:07Speaker 9: 877-794-1973.
- 1:24:07Speaker 5: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.