Mike Harmon & Dan Beyer Talk NFL Preseason, Fantasy Drafts, & So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Former White Sox now good. So I have to pick
where I can to find some positivity. Mike Carbon alongside
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and kids going back to school, that it all comes together.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Absolutely. You mentioned the Mets, You mentioned the Brewers. The
Brewers are facing the Reds right now, and the Mets
are thankful for that because the Reds are the closest
team to the Mets and those wild guard standings. So
with Milwaukee being on the wind streak, even though it's
been as bad as it has been for the Mets,
they still sit in that final wildcard spot in the NL.
That's the last time we have to talk about the
Mets today.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So we're good appreciate it. We're onto preseason football, where
we've got a game that's kicking off. You heard Isaac say,
we got Jags and Saints coming up in less than
an hour, and a full slate of games from yesterday
with a little sprinkling from Friday, should be fun to
get into.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Let's start with the fun of Jacksonville and New Orleans
for a minute, though, because part of ILO is updated.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
This will be quick, by the way, especially because it's
New Orleans. There's not a lot of fun with the
Saints this season.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Come on, it's it shuck. As people fight to figure
out how to pronounce his name, they named Rattler. I mean,
it's all great stuff. Look, the will find fantasy value there,
damn it. There's at least a former Buck guy that
we'll have to talk about. But for the Jacksonville side
of things, Travis Hunter. As soon as we start describing
injuries in hockey terms, I get a little bit nervous.

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It's an upper body injury.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
What exactly is it? It's an upper body injury. Just
to deal with it.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I love how we're like not even going to It's
basically hemispheres now, right, We're not even it's just northern
or southern, upper or lower. That's all that we're dealing with.
We're not doing right or left. We're not telling anything
upper body injury, lower body injury. The Jaguars I think
are intriguing, but they're not intriguing on a national scale. MIC.

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But when you've got Trevor Lawrence now with another coach
that's gonna be brought in to try to fix him,
makes it makes it an interesting topic. Plus, from the
fantasy world, you've got a dilemma that we think in
the backfield, I know who you like better than the other.
And then you have Brian Thomas, who's there outside of

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the drama with Travis Hunter. Brian Thomas shockingly enough too
many including myself halfway through in three quarters to the season,
it's pretty darn good with the Jacksonville Jaguars. And so
now you're wondering, all right, how much does Travis Hunter
eat into that production and does he at all? Or
does he help Brian Thomas shoot up to be one
of those elite wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was one of the fun things looking back at
the twenty twenty four season is that you know, one
of the mantras long long established in what we do
Dan is we can find stats anywhere, right, You're gonna
find numbers. So we joke about it with the NBA
all the time. Someone is going to score twenty points
a game by accident because you have to score sa
I think and fantasy football. But the fact that you

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had Brian Thomas Junior and Malik Neighbors on two of
the worst teams that we watched of our two seventy
two probably ranked those games pretty low on that list.
You had two guys that were top ten wide receivers
in terms of what they brought to you in the
weeks that they were available, even despite the problems on
both sides, and the Giants are one of the great

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stories coming out again this week with Jackson Dart having
another fantastic preseason game, but Brian Dable and Joe Shane
having to do everything they can to tamp things down.
We've got a plan, We've got a process. Because you
did bring in Russell Wilson, who's not Russell Wilson of
five years ago. You watched him in Seattle. We watched

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that together, right, of this is not the guy that
he was in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen as you rose up.
He got some good numbers in Denver, but they were hollow. Right,
go back and watch those games. They not all touchdown,
interception ratios and everything are created the same.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
And the ones that were good numbers, I mean outside
of the ones that weren't good weren't good numbers. There
were some bad games, there were some stinkers. There was yeah,
it was. It was a mess. Right.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
If you just looked at the back of the bo
you know, back of the football card, you go Hey,
that's pretty good year. And then you actually go back
and watch the taps like, wow, okay, no, that was good.
And then obviously we saw what would happen, what happened
with Pittsburgh a year ago when Mike Tomlin was probably
the most stubborn he's ever been in his life. Not
that Justin Fields was a world beater, but they go

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to Russell Wilson. This is why I get paid. You
got a little bit of juice, and then eventually that
magic war off and you hit midnight. Now you come here,
You've got him, You've got Jamis Winston is a guy
mopping up the back end of preseason games number two,
Like you've got this quarterback situation, and you've got a
guy in Dart that comes out and looks every bit

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the part, but you're trying to slow play it on
a team where expectations they can't be any lower. And
you've got a coach in GM that, at least outside
looking in, the temperature's pretty hot under their seat, like
I'm on a cooking show. Yes, and you got two
guys that are nothing more than placeholders ens up top.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
The reality is is that Jackson Dart would save Brian
Dabole and Joe Shane's jobs. That's the reality of what
this is. Because if Dart wasn't good enough to take
over for Russell Wilson, I think that's enough of it
in indictment for Giants' ownership to make a change with
Shane as the general manager. And then that I don't

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see the Giants winning tons of games this year, So
then that means Brian Dabole is gone. If Jackson Dart
plays as well as he did in relieving Russell Wilson yesterday,
then the Giants have something to be excited about in
the future to look for, and maybe those two end
up sticking around a little bit more. But the funny
thing is, Mike is even within yesterday's game against the Jets, like,

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there was a point where Wilson was in, then they
replaced him with Dart for a play, then Wilson came
back in, and then Wilson was done, and you're like,
wait a second, what's going on here? Nobody under necessarily
stands why you're flip flopping these guys, So that makes
it looks like the coaching staff is it been, you know,

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incompetent to what they're doing so. Now, even if you
get great play from Jackson Dart, you're not necessarily knowing
if you're handling it the correct way.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
In the preseason, yeah, the curiosity and just a preseason
as a whole, Like we're watching team to team and look,
coaches are going to be as tight lipped as they
can be about plans and what they want to do.
Right you think they that you know, the second white board,
the one you walk past if you're going for meetings
with them, there's actually the second white board underneath that
really has the master plan of it all. Because coach

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speak has hit a new level this year in some
of these press conferences. To me, you know, between what
we've got going on in New York, what we're looking
at with Shane Steichen in Indianapolis, with the Daniel Oh,
we've watched it for three weeks, we know we've got it.
It's like, okay, so just rip the band aid off

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at some point, right, you're not gonna spare one guy's
feeling or the other. Either way, pick a direction and move,
whether it's Richardson or whether you decide that Daniel Jones
is your guy. Both who had uneven games yesterday depending
on where you watched. Yeah, right, So it's but it's
fun that we actually have some quarterback battles, sure, which

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is kind of going out to the wayside for the
last several years where we really have it. It's except
for what Tomlin did a little bit with fields in
Wilson last year. But the young guys normally they just
play anymore.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well. It's funny because I do think that in the
Giants perspective of having Dart in that specific quarterback room,
it looks like and again his numbers were great yesterday,
it looks like Mike progress. When you say we're gonna
make Jackson Dart our number two, because on paper, heading

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into the season, into this preseason, Jameis Winston the number two, right,
he's the veteran. This is why you brought him in,
Russell Wilson. Wilson seems like the incumbent. You have Tommy
DeVito there. On paper, it looks like, well, Jackson Dart
has improved so much that we're gonna make him number two,
our number two quarterback and we can now move on

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without Jameis Winston. The funny thing is is we've had
people on this network and other people saying it that
Jameis Winston was likely the odd man out that even
a month ago, you saw this. I filled in an
up on game with Plexico buris great giant himself and
in analyzing the quarterback room at that point, and he said, yeah,
I think Jamis is probably going to be the odd

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man out there. And it allows at least Jackson Dart
to make it look like he is progressing towards that
number one spot. I have no idea what the Colts
are going to do. I I Mike, I may maybe
at some point the Giants get rid of Jameis Winston
and the Colts will bring him in as well.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
That he's sixth Cleveland Brown Fogo.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
There's I don't have an answer for what Indianapolis has done.
And it's funny because you're right, there haven't been quarterback battles.
There was no quarterback battle in Nashville like it was
gonna be cam Wards. As much as you wanted to
tell us that will Lovis had a chance before he
was injured, that was that was not going to happen.
Jayden Daniels was handed the keys pretty early, you know,

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from day one with the Washington Commanders, Drake Mays got
that reign after finally taking over in New England. That's
not really necessarily a battle. The last battle that I
really remember was just a Baker Mayfield Kyle Trask battle.
And now you look back at that and say, well,
that was pretty silly considering how good Baker has played
for Tampa. So you're right about the quarterback battle. But man,

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I don't know if anybody wins in that one in Indy.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
No, I mean, but which is funny because you actually
have a bunch of talent assembled at least I don't know.
I look at it that there are plus players at
the wide receiver position. You've got Jonathan Taylor, an above
average offensive life like, it's just been interesting to watch.
And now you've obviously got you know, Ursa passing and

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the family pushing forward and trying to figure out what
the next iteration of the squad is. But they haven't
gotten the quarterback position right. They've done a good job
building at least outside looking in as best I can evaluate,
watching this as we do and talking to people we
do for all these years. But it's been kind of

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a roll the dice at TB ever since Andrew Luck
walked away.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yes, went down the Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan Road, rivers
ten year more of a success. Last year they went
down the Flaco Road to back up Anthony Richardson and
Flacko you got time at that point. Now trying to
do something a little different, I guess with someone who's
not in their late thirties and going to Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
But it was the complete opposite, right, It's like, here's
all these late thirties guys like and now we'll have
the guy that played what fourteen games, seventeen games whatever
the count is for Anthony Richardson in college and just say, hey,
let's roll the ball out with him.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's completely the opposite end of the spatter.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I guess it's progress. Maybe this is the year where
you do take the hit. Maybe this is the one
where the Colts then again are trying to now get
back up into that top four, top five to draft
Anthony Richardson. That's ultimately the issue is they did try
to address it with the draft with Richardson and it
hasn't worked out, so now they're back to doing this
sort of stuff again. But it's it's been one of

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the few spots where we've actually had a battle. Yeah,
and it's but it's just a battle that unfortunately for
Colts fans, and they were up early, they lost a
Green Bay. That wasn't That wasn't Daniel Jones or Anthony
Richardson's fault. But neither has done anything to separate themselves.
Even if Shane Steiken is saying he's got a decision
coming up pretty soon, I would feel it if you
haven't decision, Mike, it's probably gotta be Richardson, because you

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just you need to squeeze every ounce of juice out
of that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
There's dead yes.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
And and hope for the best and if not, because otherwise,
if you start, Daniel Jones will turn it over to
Anthony Richardson. I feel that's a weird message to to send.
I feel that Anthony Richardson probably needs the confidence and
then we'll see if he can go from there.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
If he can roll with it.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Is that thirteen nothing lead the biggest lead the Colts
will have all year.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I did have. This is our cults, this is our team.
In my head driving in this morning, I would say, yes,
I want to answer your question. I would say the
thirteen point lead in Week two of the preseason. Although
I like Jonathan Taylor. I think there's gonna be a
lot of carries if he could stay healthy fantasy wise.
But yeah, that's it's it's gonna be tough in Indy.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
I would be remiss.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I spent a couple of days in the greater Tampa
area over the last couple of days, and you mentioned
Baker Mayfield. Boy, the excitement there listening to a little
local radio, reading the local newspapers. This is a squad, right,
Abuca comes in. We'll talk about him a little bit
as we get into rookies. But you got a depth
at wide receiver, Bucky Irving. Obviously another year you put

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some more money into Baker and said, hey, you're our guy.
Pretty solid defensive division to go take. I mean, I
got Bucco Bruce stuff all over the place at the
airport shops.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
As it should be, as it should be, And you're right,
the first greatest things are like it for people who
I had hope about Carolina yesterday. Like Bryce Young was
a little bit of the Bryce Young that maybe we
saw early on in his career, not that late stretch. Again,
not to read too much into preseason, but there are
certain things that pop up or things that you want
to see, and for Carolina, yesterday wasn't necessarily there. For

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Bryce Young, I you know, I like Atlanta, you know that,
and the Saints of the Saints so.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well put, yes, the Saints are the Saints. The Saints
coming up around top of the hour as we get
ready for another big day Bears and Bills later on.
You know, me watching all the fun media coming out
of Chicago. So that's been fun in Mitchell Trubisky getting
a Heroes welcome, as well as the Savannah Bananas selling
out rate field multiple days which gets everybody mad.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
And one other point on just the preseason as well.
It's a battle of la here and Mike, you know.
My thoughts about how inner city rivalries should be regular
season games in the NFL, Like if we're adding a seventeenth,
we're adding in eighteenth. The Rams and Chargers should play
every year. Jets and Giants they played yesterday, they should
play every year. Cowboys and Texans should play. It's a
Texas rivalry, the whole deal. But in the Rams Chargers game,

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you know, Stetson Bennett plays the whole game, throws for
over three hundred yards. But if Stets and Bennett's playing
the whole game and Jimmy Garoppolo is being untouched, how
many more questions do we now have about Matthew Stafford
If you're trying to keep Jimmy Garoppolo in bubble.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Wrap, Well, that's just it, right, not really the updates
we were anticipating once upon a time. A week ago,
it was, Hey, Matthew Stafford threw the ball sixty times.
Oh wait, now he's shut down again, and now he's
not in practice. We'll talk more about him as we continue.
Also taking a look at our beloved Big Ten Conference,
because well, petit might be suited for a clown mask

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at dan Byer on Fox. I wanted to put a
bow on one of the statements with the Matt Stafford
questions that are going on here. Okay, because we had
the workout a week ago, right, sixty throws. Nothing imminent
right about returning, other than he's going to be at practice.
He's going to show up Monday. We're ready, all right,

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Matthew Stafford, he's been in bubble wrap.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
He did his throws. The back seemingly in theory was better. Well,
then we had the well, he was supposed to work
out again, and before the preseason game, a Rams spokesman
declined to comment on whether the workout actually ever occurred. Wow,
and then this coming off Pro Football Talk, and then

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they had a spokesman that deferred comment to McVeigh. So
when he meets with reporters on Monday, we'll get an update. Otherwise,
it's been pushed off as to whether it actually occurred,
rather than all right, here's here's the next round. He's
not at practice and pushing forward. So the stetson Bennett
Jimmy Garoppolo legitimately in bubble wrap.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Really should fuel more speculation. We've talked about it.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
The wind totals starting to get pushed out a little
bit in the Vegas markets, but they for fantasy purposes. Dan,
you know, we talk about Stafford even though they weren't
world beating numbers in terms of winning football, it's a
much different animal.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
If he's not there.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
That was actually gonna be my question, because we know
how the NFL doesn't want you playing with the injury
report and messing around with that and how it could
affect things that week. I'm curious. I don't think that
there's any there's any protocol that would allow them to
do anything with Matthew Stafford. But to your point, there
are people who are betting on wind totals, right, So

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if you're withholding information on those sorts of things or
season stats and different futures. That would be something that
again probably doesn't fall into the weekly purview that the
NFL can do something about if you're not being honest
about your injury report. But I don't think that they
would have. I don't think they'd love this information coming

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out if they're openly lying about what Matthew Stafford has
or hasn't done.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, the anticipation of a workout versus actually having done it.
And if you're just mum right, it's like when they say,
well I didn't really lie, Well it was a lie
of a mission. Right, we get into those kinds of things.
You're all thinking of a situation at work or at
home where this is transpired. Three two, Okay, let it
go and we move forward with positivity. All right, maybe

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not so much.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, you just one quick point in looking at this,
because also it just doesn't seem like Matthew Stafford's going
to be ready for the Rams in week one, just yesterday.
Just feel that way. You open up with the Texans, Mike,
then you're at the Titans and at the Eagles. I
think you think, all right, we could beat Tennessee with
who we've got, we're probably gonna lose to the Egles.

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Even if we had Matthew Stafford, could be.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
A two and one start. Yeah, even if we go
to go to back the Texans.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Game, I think could be a coin flip in that essence.
But then you have the Colts and Niners and Ravens
follow that with a London game against the Jaguars, and
you're by like, there's a I'm not saying that Matthew
Stafford is not going to come back until early November.
It's just the point of where do you find a
spot to put him in where you feel comfortable? And

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maybe that's not how the Rams think, That's not how
their thought process is. They just think, like, when you're healthier,
gonna play, And sometimes it is as simple as that.
But if you can keep them out of the Titans game,
and you should be able to beat the Colts at home,
like you bring him back for a forty nine Ers
game on a short week, do you wait after the
forty nine Ers game because you have a little bit
of time because that's a Thursday night affair. That's the

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stuff that the Rams are going to have to decide
if Stafford isn't ready week one, when exactly do you
want to bring him back?

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, the curiosity, right obviously is we watched the Chips fall.
We talked last to start the show about some of
the situations whether a guy like Jamis Winston is suddenly
cast off, right, he's a ten year veteran, he's you
get a lot cheaper by having Tommy DeVito around and
a guy who's been in the system and been there
for years. As much as we love the character, and look,

(22:26):
if you could have given me an offseason hard knocks
of a room with Jackson Dark hanging out with Jamis
Winston and Russell Wilson, I think that might have been
the most fun quarterback room to just you go big
brother style and just let a camera run for twenty
four hours. But all of that to say, we start
the Domino's falling because you've got a RAMS team that
is expected to be one of your leaders in the NFC. Right,

(22:50):
We've got a great young defense that carried them a
lot of last year. Kien Williams got his new deal,
he shuffled up in your receiving corps, a bit Cooper
Cup being out, but Pokin Takua guy that people have
a great expectations, you'd bring in Devontae Adams, so you've
got two bookends. There is this where Kirk Cousins suddenly

(23:11):
gets activated if this is a real, real issue, gets
released from purgatory there in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't think so, because I don't think that the
Rams will look at it like that. I feel that
if they don't have Stafford, they'll just punt on the season,
try to figure out a certain way. But this is
a team that started off one and four, So taking
on a Cousins sort of deal to try to salvage
something for this year. If two first round picks next year,

(23:37):
they're likely going to try to find their quarterback of
the future. What should be a better quarterback draft. So
if it's not working out with Stafford this year for
a Super Bowl, I would just end up looking forward
to what then could be the new Rams starting in
twenty twenty six. I really think it could botom out, honestly, Like,
if you don't have Stafford, they were one and four,

(23:58):
and they you know what they're.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
As we're talking about the potentially hitting the eject button
last year, right with all those injuries they had and
all the inconsistency of whether Stafford himself was going to
be dealt mid season.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, and if you have an opportunity to get two
higher draft picks when you're not going to do this
with the Matthew Stafford again, even though we got to
sue your deal that I use an air force. He's
not back next year, so you're gonna have to find
somebody to replace him, and you're likely going to try
to find somebody in the draft come late April.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Time for a reboot as it were at Dan Byron Fox.
Where you find Dan, find me over at Swollen Dome.
We'll get to the Big ten and an immodest proposal
in a moment. For first, let's kick it over to
the news desk for the first time today with our
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find him in the X universes going on.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
I loove happy Sunday, fellas. In today's National Football League
preseason action. We'll kick off at the top of the
hour width in New Orleans Saints hosting the Jacksonville Jaguars. However,
Jacksonville confirming today that they will hold rookie receiver and
cornerback Travis Hunter out of the game because of an
upper body injury. Meanwhile, rookie second round draft pick Tyler

(25:10):
Schuck will start at quarterback today for the Saints. We've
got one Major League baseball game underway right now. The
Philadelphia Phillies with a six to nothing lead at Washington
going to the bottom of the third inning. The phil
scored five at the top of the second inning, including
a three run home run by Alec Bohm as ninth
home run of the season. Earlier today, Boston Red Sox
manager Alex Cora announced that infielder at Marcelo Mayer will

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undergo season ending surgery on his right wrist. On Saturday night,
at the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres
six to nothing to take over first place in the
National League West. And Andrew Monasterio hit a three run
home run in the top of the eleventh inning to
give the Milwaukee Brewers a six to five win at
Cincinnati for their franchise record fourteenth consecutive win.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Mike and em thanks so much at Isaac Low and
grond again. We'll hear from Ilo again next hour.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
A funny thing shout out to Ben Bromley, who I
was a was a media peer early in my broadcasting career.
I say that name because I saw on social media
he and his buddies did a crazy double dip yesterday
watching Colts Packers in Indianapolis, hopped in the car, drove

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a couple hours to Cincinnati to watch Brewers Reds. So
how about that taking it in. I don't know if
they showed that, if they arrived at game time, but
Packers Colts was pretty early kickoff yesterday, So I mean,
if you're doing a double dip with preseason football, I mean,
that's diehard there.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
And we have a Ben Bromley follow up question. It
says here that he's from a place called bear a Boo.
Wiscon Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yes, Circus City absolutely.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Wow, Baraboo. Yes, I spent many a day in Barraboo
when I was a teenager.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
The neighbor to bear a Boo is the much more
famous Wisconsin Dell's. But that just just couple of miles away.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Go out to a little Tommy Bartlett water bar, and yeah,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
It's my early broadcasting career.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
How about that.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Now we're showing our Midwest roots there? Dan, no question
about it. All Right, let's get tur we we'll get
back into the big ten because it was a busy week,
busy forty eight seventy two hours here between rumor, conjecture, speculation,
and then a feather that laid down after a big investigation,
whatever we want to call it.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
We'll do that next hour.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
But from the fantasy perspective, as we get the iWatch
of flex muscles flexing up here as we get ready
for a new season, a lot of rookies getting ready
to make an impact. But I'm already being asked a
lot about sleepers, Dan, Right, that's the number one question.
I'll be doing a regular radio spot. Right, I visit
my guys in Baltimore, like hardcore it like, hey, I

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need fantasy guys. Like it goes quickly in in that
left turn.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Here's my question to you. Do you consider a sleeper
someone who has done well in the preseason that isn't
number one on the depth chart, whether it be running back,
wide receiver, or tight end. Like they're making a name
for themselves in the preseason, so we're talking about them,
but they wouldn't be the first player off the board
for that team. Is that a is that considered a sleeper?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I think it could still work.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, all right, and you know we've used the term
ninja coming out of the shadows yes before, but just
that idea of you know where, whether ADP's caught up
with it or maybe the trading card market, whatever the
case may be. Yeah, it might be on your lips,
but you're still not drafting, right. It's all a question
of does that now give you the surge to where
you're going multiple rounds earlier or is it just Hey,

(28:39):
that's a nice story because I think for a lot
of folks with preseason games, there's still just a lot
of what does it mean?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right of like you see you guy have a big games, Like, hey,
that guy's like no, no, no, the other five wide
receivers didn't play.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
You talk about wearing a clown suit, like you think, hey,
this guy a great preseason going to start the week one.
Then they have one target for one catch for four yards,
and then here comes the clown mask and the clown
music in the whole deal.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, so it gets gets interesting right when we tried
to talk about you know, coordinators and offensive sets because
we see so much change in the NFL, And that's
what's always the curiosity, right of what's gonna get transferred
and handed down? Right, A lot of questions in a
city like Detroit with Ben Johnson gone, how much different
does the offense look running it around? How much do

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you rely on Gibbs and Montgomery and things like that?
But then we try to parse it out, whether it
be rookies or guys that are on the come, like
we talked about the Colts a little bit earlier, Like
you go deep in that depth chart, Right, does a
guy like ad Ni Mitchell get a shot?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Right?

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Not that it becomes a week to week and this
is where it gets dangerous. Right, it's just a guy
who gets on the radar. Does it mean six to
eight targets a week? No, but he's at least an
option for you at the back end. Right, I mentioned Abuka. Yes,
people are getting very excited about just based on what
that offense could be. But again, week to week, how

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many balls is he seeing if everybody else is healthy?

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I think like Abuka is going to be a
hot name. Plus it's a first round wide receiver, so
you know people will try to jump on that to
keep along those lines, Mike, I'm going to go to
one of Abuka's teammates, Trevianna Henderson with the Patriots. Yeah,
had the kickoff return last week yesterday, you know, played
decent against the Minnesota Vikings. So we feel that it's

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probably Romandre Stevenson's job with Henderson being the change of pace.
But Henderson could play three downs. There's he's shown that
he can do that, so there's some hype about him.
I'll give you another name in New England that I
think is a bit of a sleeper, and that's Mac Collins.
Stefan Diggs should be ready. Rabel was barking at reporters

(30:50):
and talking about Stefan Diggs and his availability for a
week one. But if you don't have Stefan Diggs or
he's not necessarily at one hundred percent, Matt Collins could
be an early guy. Drake May's thrown to him throughout
this preseason. Matt Collins may not be a guy you
start every week, but for the first couple of weeks
of the season, he could be somebody that could do

(31:11):
a little something for you, just because of where the
Patriots wide receivers are at this point.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Henderson's also the guy I'm Remindra Stevenson probably won't hang
onto the ball a lot, which means he in hanging
on to his job either. I go to Arizona, where
I've got probably more hopes on the team than most.
Maybe it's because Kyler Murray is a little guy like me,
so I keep waiting for that full season.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I like them too.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
I don't know where you have them or where you
will have them, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I like them a little more with all this Rams drama.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I can tell you that absolutely it's for dang sure,
But Trey Benson it comes in James Connor like it's
the question we ask of him, of Derrick Henry, of
some of these backs that we've watched for a number
of years, when do the wheels start to come off?
When do they realize, Hey, you know what, this guy's
still good. But carries fifteen through twenty aren't the same

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as they used to be. So we need to start
using a little bit of a youth infusion. And I
think with Arizona, all the attention they paid to their defense,
they change up the style of play.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I think that that's a very sound advice. James Connor
has been great, but also just the style that he
runs with Mike. At some point it's just going to
break down, and this could be the opportunity again in
a season where we both kind of like Arizona. I'll
stay in that division. Seahawks looked really good against the Chiefs.

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The Chiefs didn't play a lot of their guys, but
they looked really good. Kenneth Walker third kW three not
in not playing again being held out. Zach Sharboney looked
alright in what is a new offensive scheme in Seattle,
So sleeper wise for Walker, who's battled injuries throughout his
young NFL career where he'd miss games here and there.

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Charboney could be a fit. Oli Gordon has shined with
the Dolphins and had a great day physical running yesterday.
So there was another running back name to bring up.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Let's god of the quarterback position real quick as we
can talk about QB two's and you know the break
glass in case of emergency, guys, sorrybody that stands out
to you either a bounce back candidate that may be
underdrafted or a guy that hasn't broken through yet.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
I say this with caution because I liked him last
year and he helped cause a fight. But if Darnell
Mooney is dinged up in Atlanta, Ray Ray McLeod for
the Falcons, you know me and Penix, I'm much higher
on Penix. But you said wide receiver position right that. Yeah, yeah,
Ray Ray McLeod to me with the Falcons would be

(33:45):
would be the one, just because I am so high
on Michael Pennox and the Falcons and Penix is what
twenty four to twenty five right now?

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, that's that's where he's being drafted as a back
end too, with aspirations of the division title with ra London.
I mean, he loves Kyle Pitts. I don't know what
that means once we actually start playing in the season,
but for now he's loving life there. So the other
I'm gonna look at and this becomes the best ball scenario.

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And I know it wasn't a great look yesterday, but
Bryce Young sure on the occasion because he's being drafted
in that same realm. And then last I'd be remiss
because week two years ago was the expectation of high flying.
Now they're still trying to figure out their personality quirks
and whatever. But to a tongue of Ilo is currently
QB twenty one with Waddle with Tyreek Kill with a

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chan in the back.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah eight chan a little soft tissue issue. Mcdalla says
he should be okay, but yeah, that's really good value.
It's funny when you do mock drafts, the quarterbacks that
you will see available to you if you wait. Just
don't want to say, wait eleven rounds, but they're just
a bunch of names that are very familiar. When you
get into those later rounds, you feel like, hey, I
got a good backup quarterback. Just the question of are

(35:03):
they really good? I think to what kind of falls
into that.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's like ice cream. Everybody likes to throw on the flavor.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
At Dan Bira on Fox and Dope, you said quarterback,
and I'm like, why did I go right to the
wide receivers? But hey, that's mine. Mine wants what it wants.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
No, no, because you went to Pennix first and then you
grabbed Ray Ray McCloud and you're all good, brother, we
got it.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
So there's a list of sleepers for you.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
We'll get that up and posted as we flow through
the Iywatcher Flex podcast getting ready for Week one of
your NFL season. But hey, it's a little big deal
when it comes to this story. What's it about? Ponder that?
As we continued, Dan Byer, Mike Carbon, Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio Action.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
On the pitch MLB.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
We're getting ready for some preseason football, some Little League
World Series.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
But that's he's not the only type of game we
got going on here.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
No, we're playing the few. The Fox Family is together.
He's Mike Carmen, Chris Prefet, Shay Mogan Guard and Isaac
Glowenkron make up our Fox Family. Top eleven answers on
the board, guys, And I've got clues for you because
I just was, Yeah, if you get an answer right,
I'm gonna give you a clue to help you with

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the other answers. Okay, countries or states with three or
more Little League World Series titles. Countries or states with
three or more Little League World Series titles. Mike Carmon,
we start with.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
You, who do I just start with Chinese typeey.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah, show me Chinese typeey ak eight Taiwan. There it
is final score twenty one to one Numero uno on
our list with seventeen. That reveals one clue. There are
seven states and four countries on the list, so that's
one of four countries. The other seven are states. Chris
proffetto over to you.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
This is cruel, this is this is awesome.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
So I'm gonna assume the USA isn't a contest, correct, Yes, okay,
just just to just to make sure it's totally fair. Hey,
I I don't know. Sometimes you throw the curve balls
in there. I'm gonna keep going at the uh, I'm
gonna keep going at the countries because I have no
idea about the states right now. Is Puerto Rico a country?

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yes? That would that? Would that would fit? Is that
your answer? Yeah, I'm gonna go with Puerto Rico. Is
it Puerto Rico? It is not over to Shay.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
So would southern California be different from northern California.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, just be California, Californiography, California, show me California. Eight
titles for the great State of California. By the way,
there are no Midwest states in this, so that should
take a chunk of teams and possible answers. Off the board.
Over to Isaac Lohankron.

Speaker 6 (37:57):
Well, I remember from growing up Venezuela, I had a
star pitcher named Roberto Plasio. So I'm gonna go with Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Is it Venezuela, man, I'm surprised. Yeah, going with the
countries as opposed to the UH to the states. Venezuela,
by the way, has one twice then once twice, they
have not won three or more, so that's two strikes.
Mike Harman, over to you give me Texas. Texas is
a great state. A lot of lot going on. If

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you had to pick a different state, let's just say, wow,
that's shocking. Yes, let's just say you had to pick
a different state.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Those kids in New York.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Show me New York. Those kids in New York. Three
jips for New York. No Caribbean countries in this? What?
No Caribbean countries? Over to Chris Purfett.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
All right, with that, off the board, Japan.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Show me Japan eleven champions. All right? No South American
countries as a portion of this, there are two countries
left over to Shay. No South American, correct, No Midwest,
no Caribbean, No South American, But.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
That means Mexico could still be one.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Show me Mexico. Titles for Mexico. There is one country left.
No European countries are included. Isaac Crono.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Well, I was gonna pick Iceland, but all right, how
about China? Uh okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, not China. Okay,
all right, I'm actually gonna go because the only one
I remember is Trouble Connecticut. I'm gonna go with Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Show me Connecticut. All right, there are there are a
couple of other East Coast teams or states. Excuse me
on this list, Mike Carmen, over to you.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
I mean we get Massachusetts or the there are Wait,
you already got New York.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
You already got New York. Yeah, my bad. I that
But there's another one. There's another one. Show me New Jersey.
There it are, yes, four four titles.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Just start rambling and mumbling. It was loud enough for Dan.
Do I accept it?

Speaker 3 (40:17):
All right? Another hand? One of these states is bordered
entirely by water. Chris Burfett, I don't think it fits.
But Pennsylvania. Show me Pennsylvania. All right, We'll get to
the rest of the answers. How about that?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
As we continue, we got the team. It's Dan, it's Mike,
It's Fox Sports Sunday. Greetings and welcome in hour two
of the program. On a beautiful Fox Sports Sunday. Hopefully
you're having a great one wherever however you're celebrating this
beautiful day, heading to work.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
We got you.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Heading to the park to go watch your kids run
around a bit, put in the headphones.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
We got you all of that.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
It's a full slate of action across every sporting landscape.
Repitch on the sporting landscape, including what is a standalone
football game that you normally would have seen as a
standalone game on a Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
It's the Jaguars and Saints.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Hearstone.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, buddy, my carbon Dan byer with you. But we
also have one game that we have not quite finished.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Dan.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
A lot of complexity, a lot of confusion. Yeah, the
feud continues.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
One of my favorite highlights of this last of this
show this summer came about ten minutes ago when I
said the state is entirely surrounded by water, and Chris
Burfett goes Pennsylvania and I know that he wasn't listening
to my clue. That was his guess.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
I was, but it took me about eight minutes to
figure out what you had met. We got some real
cartographer show.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
The best part was Pennsylvania was on the board, in fact,
was the number four answer.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
So Lake Erie, I will.

Speaker 8 (41:56):
Have Chris is back and say he might have said
the state I had locked in the river. It's not
like we have too many difficulty joins on it. The
final the final three are interesting.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Now. I was asking what countries or states have three
or more Little League World Series titles. So we had
Taiwan Chinese Taipei with seventeen, Japan at eleven, California eight,
Pennsylvania four, Connecticut four, New Jersey for Mexico three, and
New York three. Those were the eight that we got.

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There are three more answers, two states in one country.
I told you there's no Midwest, no Caribbean, no South American.
Gave you a clue that the state is entirely surrounded
by water. I can tell you that the other state
is in the Eastern time zone, but you just may

(42:53):
need to look a little south for the other two
answers as well. All right, so where were we, Shaye
do you want to take a stab at one of
the three. Final answer, I.

Speaker 8 (43:05):
Think I'll get rid of the countries for you guys.
I think I got it here. All right, let's go Korea, US,
South Korea. Show me South Korea.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
There it is, yes, three championships on that, Shay, You're
free to go. So yeah, I am dismissing from his responsibilities.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
He had a good run.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah all right, Isaac Low and Crown.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
I'm just trying to confirm the bodies of water here. No,
not the Gulf of Not, the Gulf of Mexico, the
Atlantic Ocean. Let me see. Yeah, the Atlantic Ocean qualifies.
But that's it. But despite that, I'm going to say
that Georgia is on my mind.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
All right, show me Georgia. All right, there it is
ten answers, one to go.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
So I get the dunch cap. Is that? What this is?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
The state entirely surrounded by water is a clue that
still works?

Speaker 1 (44:00):
The meat ball to mon, I mean he's he stole
the Pennsylvania guests. That No, Hawaii, Let's just show.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Me Hawaii four time champ recent titles as well for Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
That was a pretty good game. Chris shay Iloa Thank you, gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
And thank you Dan for being very generous.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I knew we were up against it. There's there's there
were Sometimes they try to give you guys pathways that
if you go down that trail you'll be all right.
Today there really wasn't one. But it's Little League World
Series time, and why not bring that into the equation.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
We have the celebration later on.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
As we mentioned last hour, we've got Mets and Mariners
that that'll play their game the annual tradition. It's fun
to see Mets guys smiling. So that's kind of cool
because the last couple of weeks not so much.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
No No saw Francisco Lindora in the booth earlier today
for some of the Little League action that was going on,
having a good time.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, they go shake hands, kiss babies, a lot of autographs,
take a lot of photos, and try to remember what
it was like when it was fun and you didn't
have a bunch of guys, you know, like Denzel Washington said,
a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Guys who did nothing chirping and yelling on the radio.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Yes, absolutely, Denzel in quite the week. My goodness, that
movie must really be bad. I was gonna say, cause
out Jerry Jones then calls out everybody of the media
who's left.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, hit a rough week, and who heard him this week?
That's all I want to know. Well, celebrated. I mean,
I don't think there's ever been anybody that said up
an unkind word about whether he's doing Shakespeare on the
stage there in New York, whether he was you know,
even some of the movies that maybe you didn't watch,
you still said he was probably going to be pretty
good in it. Yet there's a lot of hate and vitriol.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Well, and the one thing that I will say is,
and I'm not talking about myself in this case as
a talk show host, I don't want to speak for you.
I don't want to speak for anybody else. But there
are people who are extremely talented that do this line
of work. So for Denzel to take shots and say
people are just talking heads and whatever, that's fine. Everybody's

(46:00):
the same, some people are different, some people have you know,
certain personalities, but there are some people who are really
really good at this medium and telling their words. And
I think that if Denzel had us just throwing all
actors into the same boat and saying all actors, all
you do is just play pretend all the time. That's

(46:21):
all you do is just play pretend. You're not even
you real. That would be pretty offensive and demeaning. And
I know that he's talking about some on TV, and
they're easy to be targets because they bring it on themselves.
But when you look at you know, throughout the years
and the decades of you know, what people have done,
you know there is there is something to this job
and something to this medium, and some have excelled in

(46:43):
ways that others could only dream of them.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
But that's the same thing like you bring up the
acting stuff, like to be a character actor, a professional
working actor for many a year is a skill, yes,
right to be able to be wanted on sets, not
always at the twenty million dollar leading man, like everybody
goes through their highs and lows and in our business
longevity and I you know, when when he starts jabbing,

(47:08):
like there's the obvious targets of who he's jazz. But
from the just general standpoint is like, you know, something
we were talking about earlier, I referenced, you know, the
Savannah bananas and selling out a couple of games at
rate Field, which got a bunch of people going after
the White Sox and whatever else or demeaning the product,
like you don't like it, don't watch. I will steal

(47:28):
from Kevin Durant one of my favorite quotes of any
that any athlete has ever given us, Like, there are
so many things, and you say it all the time, Dan,
not everything is for you, right, the bananas style of
play whatever, And what is kind of entertaining is when
they start interspersing guys doing backflips to catch fly balls
and then watching major league outfielders camping under something and

(47:50):
then misjudging it. Yeah, pee Crow Armstrong a couple of
days like there are those all the time.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
But it's just the idea of you know, everybody puts.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Their their work in and how much prep you do
doesn't always yield you know, the same You may put
a lot of hours in that you hit the cutting
room floor, right, Just like a lot of actors, a
lot of what you think was your best work might
have never seen the light of day or might live
ones in that one guy that saw it live and

(48:21):
that's it.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yes, that's the way it works, absolutely, And there's there's
different ways to people's different methods to people's madness mic
and everybody's different and some people have different ways of
going about things, but just to just to fight back
for our peers. And I just didn't want to bring
myself into it just because I don't think it's about
it's about me, which was actually something that I learned

(48:44):
when I realized that not everything was about me. So
the Savanna Bananas, while I may not be interested, I
realized that they don't care if you know, forty eight
year old Dan doesn't want to go, they probably care
if forty eight year old Dan wants to bring his
son to the you know, like it's that sort of thing.
And guess what if my son wants to go, We're
gonna be going to a Savanna you know, Savannah Bananas game. Right,

(49:07):
That's just the way.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
It's just like you're gonna go to see Disney stuff
on ice, So you're gonna go. See I've certainly done
my share of those through the years. And and the Bananas,
I think the biggest thing. Again, they got Burley and
Perzinski out to do a couple of pitches, and they
got Paul Canerico to come out of his recluse state.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how you can
argue with that, right.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Well, my guys once got so Frostburg once got Canerico
to do a happy Birthday message for me and basically said,
don't ever call I don't do media stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Don't call again, Like this is your one call. It's it,
that's all you get. It's like tell.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
All of that to say, all right, so we've got
the preseason, We're getting ready to watch some Jaguar Saints.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
We'll do it so you don't have to. And then
Bears and Bills.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
A little bit later that I almost got the Bulls
into the mix because you know, Chicago on the brain.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
But we've got that a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
And so much being made about this performance, this appearance
for Caleb Williams, the amount of noise that has come
out on this. I don't know that I've really agreed
with Ryan Poles on a lot of his public facing
comments of things in his tenure as a leader there
for the Bears. But the idea that he just poked

(50:21):
back on folks going, yeah, one or two clips of
video do not a preseason make. And that doesn't mean
there haven't been a bunch of hard times and hard issues,
you know, as he tries to do something he's never done,
play in a timing offense, play in a system, as
opposed to you're the best athlete, go make a play.
Even last year in his rookie season, oftentimes we had

(50:44):
that little scramble because we watched shad Or Sanders do
the same thing. We watch all college quarterbacks do it.
I can outrun that guy. I could buy a couple
extra seconds. Oh no, I can't, and he's about to
crush me. And we watched Caleb Williams do that a
lot last year. So that little thing with the nets
that became such a big It's like we're going to
base how well or poorly a guy is adapting to

(51:05):
a new coaching scheme.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Off that right. Just like when you take a still
photo of a hole for a running back, which I'm
guilty of doing and saying how could the running back
miss this or not see this? Lineman running backs will
come back and say, well, the play is designed here
and this is why the running back didn't see that
or didn't go there. There's a lot of stuff with

(51:27):
that as well, I will say, Mike, because we're we're
gonna be talking about two different things here. I do
think it's actually the biggest story to start the NFL
season is how he starts out of the gate, fair
or unfairly. But to your point of what we're taking
to try to deem if he's a success or a
bust from a couple of preseason clips or practices from

(51:51):
a training camp, isn't fair to Caleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, I mean, and we got a guy in Trubisky
coming back right, everybody loves him now, the guy that
was got to a couple of playoffs, which now you
start putting it in perspective of the pantheon of Bears quarterbacks,
like you'd love for your quarterback to actually see the
playoffs a couple of times, not that he has to
put up world beating numbers because even you know, I'll
use the Stafford excuse, and I'm not putting them on

(52:16):
the same path in terms of, hey, this is what
the impact is and how great he is reading right, Stafford,
your quarterback's favorite quarterback and all that stuff. But last
year his total numbers were twenty touchdowns against twelve interceptions.
They ran the ball, they played defense. They want a
lot of defensive games. He made a play when accounted,
that's what you're hoping, Caleb Williams becomes. You don't want

(52:38):
pinball numbers if you can help it. That's not the
way you want to win games because it's not sustainable, right,
because you're eventually gonna find the defense that has the
answer for whatever you're solving at. Ben Jonson knows that
as well as anybody. Sorry, Chris had to do it,
but yeah, you look at those kinds of things where
it's going to come and find you. I'm looking at
a guy. Look, the over under total is seven and

(52:58):
a half wins. Vegas is telling you exactly what this
team is. So if they get to eight, is it
a success?

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Right? And in a tough division, no matter what the
Lions lost, Even if he's the new Bears head coach
for the Vikings changeover, there's sure a lot of questions
about JJ McCarthy, but Brian Flores's defense was like the
huge story last year, and really on Darnald was good too.
I don't want to take anything away from from what
Donald did in the first because he was really good.

(53:25):
He sure, guy, Now come on, I think you'll have
to do less than he had to do in Minnesota,
which is which is fine. Let the defense do the work.
But the point is Minnesota's defense is still there, so
you expect them to be something in the NFC North,
and Green Bay should be there as well, even with
Jordan Love and dealing with the thumb injury. Yeah, it's yeah,

(53:46):
it's not going to be easy for Chicago. Whether Caleb
Williams gets it ready in week one or week four,
it's still going to be a bit of a grind.
And there's something else that happened this week, Mike, that
all all of us talking heads talked about, and it
was Mike Sandals quarterback tiers that came out and we saw,
you know, Stafford was the topic of conversation of him

(54:08):
being in the top tier. But what struck me about it,
Mike was we had nine quarterbacks in Tier two and
I think another ten or eleven in Tier three, so
we're talking about two thirds of the league is basically
this tier, this middle tier. So you either have a
great quarterback, you either have a first or second year

(54:31):
quarterback that is not yet high enough outside of Jayden
Daniels on this list, or you have an old veteran
that's not going to keep the job. Otherwise, everybody's kind
of the same. You know, Gino Smith, the Sam Donald
brock Purty is. You may not say that brock perty
is the same as Gino Smith or Sam Donald. Well,
he was only three spots higher in this tier, you know,

(54:53):
in the rankings of it. And while party maybe borderline
tier two, A lot of guys are just and so
that was my big takeaway from this week. So if
you're expecting Caleb Williams to be the short fire number
one future Hall of Famer that we probably unfairly hyped
him to be, you're probably going to be disappointed because

(55:15):
more likely than not, he's likely to be destined than
that tier two or Tier three group of quarterbacks in
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Well, that's it.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Everybody wants the savior, yes, right, and look we were
being guilty of it. And this is one I guess
I can agree with Denzel on. It's the one part
of our business that gets a bit unsaver. We want
the next greatest.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
But is that the worst thing we do?

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Maybe I don't know, But looking at a guy and
projecting greatness onto them, I don't know. We should all
hope to have that, right, right, I mean we talk
about things in our own life.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
You want someone to champion for you.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Same thing here is like, if you've got that kind
of expectation, means you've given us some reason, some some
bit of your resume says you can be that guy.
So what do we do We want to gravitate towards
great yea, I think that's the best of what we
do at times here in Sports Dog Radio. Now we're
quick to tear a guy down when he doesn't measure
up to what we set as that bar, But to

(56:11):
at least want that achievement, I think is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
For Caleb Williams to play to a different standard than
Bryce Young, as both were first overall picks, is foolish.
Caleb Williams and cam Ward should have the same sort
of projection, Like we shouldn't just put all of everything
on Caleb Williams because of the generational talent. If he

(56:37):
becomes a great quarterback in the NFL that is tier
two or high on tier two, I think that would
be a pretty successful pick. And it's us who misjudged
Caleb Williams coming in, so that's on us, that's not
on him. If the Bears get fifteen years out of
Caleb Williams as a good to great quarterback like Matthew Stafford.

(57:00):
It's a home run of a first, you know, first
overall pick. He doesn't have to be John Elway or
Peyton Manning or Tom Brady like that's I think those
are unrealistic expectations that we put on him, and it's
because of our hype machine that does that come.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Also, you know Southside Chicago kid. So I'm a realist.
Two greatest quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Jim McMahon's in a whole other world on his own right,
got the title, and that offense did score a lot
of points for as much as the defense was great.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Did they set it up? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Absolutely, But I got Cutler and I got a couple
of years of Trubisky. Those are my playoff runs and
where there was any level of excitement.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Otherwise it's a lot of guys.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Do you agree if Caleb Williams ends up being let's
say he never never gets an MVP vote but goes
to you know, six or seven Probo has a Philip
Rivers career, that would be a home run.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Do you pick me he's the greatest quarterback Bears history? Yes?
That isn't named Sid Luckman, here's some guy from one
hundred years ago.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
But we will look at it and we as talk
show hosts and maybe as fans, almost as a disappointment
because of all the hype that he got coming into
the game. So whose fault is that? Is that our fault?
There is that Caleb William's fault or the Chicago Bear's fault,
that's our fault. Like, you just have to get what
you can get out of him, and if they can
make him that quarterback or he could turn into that quarterback,

(58:18):
then it's a home run no matter what the expectations are.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
It's funny you and I have been doing shows together
a long time. The toughest thing for me is always
trying to reconcile how it is to be a Steelers fan.
I aspire to have those kind of conundrums in my
life where in December I'm playing my team is playing
meaningful football. I know it may end the first week
of January every year, I guys, but I'm playing meaningful

(58:43):
football as opposed to, Hey, it's November, November eighth. What
have we got on the slate? Are we gonna go
to this game?

Speaker 4 (58:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
We're not gonna go to this game. You guys going No,
You're like nobody's going. You're selling off the tickets to
try to recoup what you can, and you're already looking
at draft boards for next year. I'd love to be
out of that for three or four years. Yes, And
maybe Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson can do that. And
if it takes tough love to do it, so be it.
Ben Johnson doesn't seem like he's got the greatest the

(59:11):
bedside manners, and you know what, that's good. Sometimes that'll
still work.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
We'll be watching week one.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Absolutely and we'll have it all for you here on
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Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
As we sit here, Dan, we get ready for college
football season right week zero coming up in a few days.
We've got a bunch of major matchups here in these
first couple of weeks. But be remiss if we didn't
do a little rewind, since we are a couple of
big ten guys of what's transpired over these last couple
of days. Do you want to go with the end

(01:01:07):
of a long saga or something that's just beginning.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Well, we can transition from one to the other. The
Michigan scandal, as I've called it, Some said it's not
even a scandal, just Mike, it just got to a point.
And I'm speaking as as an Ohio State fan, so
it's completely biased here. I understand all of that. But
in also taking from that view, nobody cared anymore. The

(01:01:34):
only people that cared were Ohio State fans and Michigan
State fans. Like that was it. And I think other
people have realized that as well, And that's actually been
the frustrating thing about it is that nobody does care.
And what seeming like in this now Da and AG's
where we're onto the next thing, so quickly that's what

(01:01:54):
this felt like. And you could say that everybody steals
signs and everybody cheats, but that's not accurate, it's not true.
And I just felt that the cover up that Michigan
had was actually worse than the crime itself. They just
acted like bullies and wanted their own way, and apparently
everyone was now too afraid to even deal with them

(01:02:18):
to give them a proper punishment. And that means the
Big Ten at the time of giving Harball the three
game ban and then Tony Petiti coming out and saying
that they they hope that that's you know, like that
was sufficient. Well, no, it wasn't sufficient. Plus it was
on top of another scandal where they were penalized, but
nobody wanted to deal with it, including the NCAA, who's
taken this easy way out. And that's been the frustrating

(01:02:41):
part about it. And it is this new way of
penalizing everyone is laughing in your face. And I'll just
use the example of the NFL. When we see a
fourth down play in the NFL, the new phrase we
say is what does your opponent want you to do?
Then do the opposite, don't do what your opponent wants

(01:03:01):
you to do if you were the NC double A,
ask Michigan what penalties you would like, and then do
the exact opposite. But they gave Michigan all of the
penalties that they would appreciate. Michigan fans are laughing. Finds
thirty million dollars fines. The current players aren't affected by it.
Searon Moore, they're a head coach, is hardly affected by it,

(01:03:23):
and he's the one who's deleting text messages. It was,
it was absurd, It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Well, the more part of it was one that just
stands out in all of it. Right, you're trying to
hold on to whatever bit of power you had by
coming down with this ruling. Now it's been how long
a couple of years. Meanwhile, you could buy Connor Stallion's
trading cards that say, hey, steal this from one of
the companies. But it's been a couple of years moving

(01:03:49):
forward and now like there's no teeth to it whatsoever.
Like Moore is going to miss a couple of games.
We joked about it, Smith and I was like, he's
going to miss the Nebraska game. So if you're Nebraska,
you're ticked off because like they said, hey, doesn't coach
against this, right, but but you go through it, it's like,
all right, here's a couple of games for a guy
that what was it, fifty two texts that he said
he had to delete for storage purposes. Why did you

(01:04:11):
just wave a couple of middle fingers at me? Absolutely
me while you're at it. I mean that you got that.
The other we we threw it in. And they don't
have subpoena power. And that's one of the big things
in this right because you can always go find the data.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
It's not dead.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
We all understand that, but you don't have the ability
to go get law enforcement to go get it. So
there's some level of cooperation, which clearly Michigan wasn't gonna do.
Jim Harbaugh continues to talk about, you know, the righteousness
and whatever else, which is I don't know how he's
got plausible deniability in any of this, and you know
you could try that, and we've certainly seen plenty of

(01:04:46):
instances where you go, okay, you know, there might be
enough degrees of separation in this. You know, this guy
got a burger, this guy got you know, a little
bit of something from a booster that maybe you don't know.
This is this is tool ingrained right, this is too big.
And the fact that the kids, you know saying, hey,
well we're not going to vacate stuff. Okay, they weren't
in you know, none of the players were in violation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Fine, but we're not going to do things going forward
to not penalize guys are here. Go talk to USC
about that, Go talk about some of these other go
Penn State, go all the way across over the last
fifteen to twenty years and just saying fines, you can
get five guys together in a room, they're going to
cut a check that covers that shir it's going to
pay back into the because it's about twenty million a

(01:05:31):
year based on operating revenues is what they lose plus
the bowl money whatever. But they're not banned from the
postseason because you don't want to blame those kids, even.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Though Cheril Moore are still working there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
And then let's penalize the kids probably in the non
revenue sports that could get cuts because the athletical department
is shy thirty million dollars if those checks aren't cut.
Your issue is with Sean Moore. Minds with Jim Harbaugh.
He's an absolute bully. It's it's what he is. They
you know, they beat Ohio State four straight games. I

(01:06:03):
don't think that you can argue that last November's game
had nothing to do with Connor Stallions. None of that's debatable,
but it's the fact of in multiple occasions, you denied responsibility,
failed to cooperate, and then we're actively looking to leave
your job. And ultimately he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish,

(01:06:26):
and that was bring a national championship to Michigan and
he'll be forever, you know, thought of as a Michigan
great because of that. Former quarterback comes and brings the
program back to glory and amusing air quotes. But the
show cost penalty for him doesn't matter, doesn't matter at all.
It's not going to coach you in college again. And

(01:06:48):
if you were to take away the one thing on
why they did all of this, and that's that national championship,
that would be penalty to Michigan. This isn't a set
an example for everyone else. Ohio State fans lost an
entire season because of a tattoos a tattoos and it's
not the level and people say, well, tattoos and this

(01:07:10):
is spying. Ohio State didn't actively delete text messages and
try to cover this entire thing up on multiple scandals.
So forgive the fan base if they're a little butt heard,
if you will on a recent because it's only fifteen
years ago, you know, I mean, this is that's when

(01:07:30):
it happened. So in twenty twelve they had nothing to
play for. Granted, it allowed urban Meyer to come in
and take over for Jim Trusse, who, by the way,
lost his job. Actually had to serve a penalty in
the NFL for consulting because of the penalty that he
was handed out during that scandal. But that's why people
are also man like, wait, we lost an entire season

(01:07:51):
over this, and this program has done it twice and
now only gets fined and doesn't miss any postseason or
lose any TV or anything. It just seems I could
double standard.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Well, I say, you lose a job and you get
you get penalties, and all the season long over guys
getting rid of stuff that they didn't want that was
given to them. Like that will never I don't know
that will come up with something dumber.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
This is close.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
This is close, right, because Moore's part like, look, I
got a blame pie for everybody. Everybody gets a slice.
There's no question about the Harbaugh bully thing goes all
the way back, you know, I argued for like when
folks were calling him to be fired, it's like, realize
who you are, right, You're an eight to ten win
team at your best days. And then well now we
found out how the sausage was made and he's not

(01:08:41):
going back. It's like shades of what Pete Carroll did
you knew what everything was going on? Yes, and then
you fled to the NFL pek With Jim Harbaugh. It's
the same thing. I got my title. They're they're not
taking it away. They're not doing anything. Absolutely ridiculous. I
have no doubt that you know a lot of the
moneies that flow in because Michigan still I think fourth

(01:09:01):
or fifth best in terms of Big Ten championship ods
that the money that flows through college football stated a
lot of this as well as to how you know
the hand of fate was dictating.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
It's funny too because Michigan prides itself on their all
time win total, because I mean, they dominated college football
in the nineteen hundreds. Sure, it's true they had all
these wins, and somebody made the point of, you know,
take some of those wins away. But even the NCAA
wouldn't do that because you know, you can't do that.
You can't do that to Michigan. I'll make a quick analogy,

(01:09:34):
and I hope that sports fans can can realize it.
The US Open for years used to be a golf
tournament where the rough was it felt like it was
knee high. You hit it in the rough, you were dead,
like there was there was not much that you can do,
and it was the one time of year you're like, great,
we can watch players struggle. Well, there was a shift

(01:09:55):
in philosophy to say, like, we're gonna do gradual rough,
so right off the it's not going to be as deep.
It's still playable. If you're way off the fairway, that's
where it's going to be thick. We won't have it
around the greens. We'll have some closely mode areas so
the ball moves away. Best players in the world were
able to navigate that, they were able to take advantage

(01:10:15):
of it. This past year at Oakmont, it was more
of a traditional US Open again. The rough, really thick greens,
really fast, and you had players struggling, and you're like,
you know what, this is great to finally see again
the old US open. And I feel it's the same
way with the penalties. You know, I know the NCAA
doesn't have power, but this new way of thinking of

(01:10:37):
this is how we're going to penalize as opposed to
this old way. This new way doesn't work. No one
is satisfied except the team that should be penalized because
they feel like they're scott free. You go back to
the other way and people feel that there's actually justice
being done.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Yeah, as long as all those other programs also, Dan,
as you're saying, don't end up losing because of the
money's lost in this. That would be another feather in
the cap of the great decision makers in this one.
But I agree with you the harsh penalties at points
they got egregious, maybe a little bit overreaching here. This

(01:11:11):
is like the Astros, nobody, nothing happened. You get to
keep that hunk a metal and everybody moves on.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Yes, doesn't make a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Meanwhile, I mean, those guys lost all of that over tattoos.
Maybe they regret those tattoos, but not for the same reason.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
They shouldn't have gotten the tattoos. But again, they got
an entire bull season postseason banned the next year, and
they didn't cover up one scandal, let alone two.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Yeah, but as soon as it's my stuff, Dan, I
should be able to trade it for whatever I want.
Goods and services man at Dan Byron Fox where you
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We'll talk about burgers. But first the Times is glow
and crown with another look in to Major League Baseball
and this thriller in the National Football.

Speaker 6 (01:12:00):
League m.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
Burgers. Yes, I had you, buddy.

Speaker 6 (01:12:06):
They're in Washington right now in the top of the
sixth inning and a slugfest. The Phillies up eight to
six over the Nationals. Phillies scored five in the top
of the second, including a three run home run by
Alec Bohm. Washington tied it with six in the bottom
of the third, but since then the Phillies have surged
a head. Just underway at Fenway, Red Sox hosting the
Marlins and just underway in Toronto, the Blue Jays playing

(01:12:28):
host to the Texas Rangers. NFL Media reported a short
time ago that the Cincinnati Bengals are listening to trade
offers for four time All per excuse me, four time
Pro Bowl pass rusher and an All Pro last year,
Trey Hendrickson, who's in the midst of a midst of
a contract dispute. NFL Media adds that no deal is
presently imminent. Hendrickson is at seventeen and a half sacks

(01:12:52):
in each of the last two seasons. Meanwhile, just a
short time ago, Cleveland brown Head coach Kevin Stefanski asked
on a media zoom call when he plans to name
us starting quarterback in Cleveland.

Speaker 9 (01:13:04):
I want to get through the next couple of days,
but certainly that's something that we're going to do here
sooner than later.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
I need to get the football.

Speaker 9 (01:13:11):
Team in here, talk to the players, those type of things,
so we'll make all those type of determinations in the
next couple.

Speaker 6 (01:13:17):
Of days, Stefanski adding that rookie quarterbacks should door. Sanders
remains day to day with an oblique injury. One game
going on right now. The Jacksonville Jaguars with a seven
to nothing lead at New Orleans two minutes. It'll the
second quarter. Trevor Lawrence started this game. He played two possessions,
went eight out of ten for seventy six yards, including

(01:13:37):
a seven yard touchdown pass to Parker Washington. Tyler Schuck,
a rookie, getting the started quarterback board. New Orleans has
completed two of four passes thus far for twelve yards. Finally,
we have video beginning to go viral on social media
courtesy of an Instagram post from at Vin DC, who

(01:13:59):
posts video of her significant other watching yesterday's Philadelphia Eagles
preseason game on his phone.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Interception. Figure it out, Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
So Pugs down, theybe easy go birds.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
Now. It's notable about that is the location the caption
on the video. We're at the Eiffel Tower and he's
watching the birds unquote. They're literally at the base of
the Eiffel Tower, but he doesn't care. He's watching his
beloved Eagles on his phone. Back to you guys, I
know you guys would never do that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Spend lot a little bit of time or around the
Eiffel Tower. At one point, I was too busy making
sure nobody was coming to take my wallet.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
So oh that's so true.

Speaker 6 (01:14:49):
Gotta play defense, baby.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
I love those pick pickpocket videos on TikTok where they
call them out pickpocket, pickpocketer or whatever they say in French.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Well, I have to learn the word pickpocket in French.
By the way, Thanks Ilo, I appreciate you at Isaac Lowcron.
The Dylan Gabriel stuff yesterday was really fun because I
was starting to see it was like people were cutting
and pasting everything they did for Shdor Sanders in his
first game and just putting Gabriel's name in until the
pick six.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Then it went off at once, and then his comments
afterwards were misconstrewed. A little bit could have gone down
a slippery slope, but I feel like it was cut
off at the pass.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Talking about being entertainers versus performance. It's like, yeah, just
a tough place to go when you've got a teammate
that everybody's got a giant spotlight on. Probably some media
training would have thought he'd gotten in all those.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Years and he wasn't calling him out, but I'm sure
he probably wish he just used a different phrase.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Much better phraseology would have been better, And he did
clarify in in post.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
No question about it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
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Speaker 6 (01:16:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Big promotion, Dan, your Brewers are actually crushing all of baseball,
crushing souls but making fans very happy. As George Webb,
a longtime Milwaukee institution, has come up with a burger
promotion that has been on the books for many, many years.
They've changed the thresholds. But on the twelfth win of

(01:16:58):
this current streak, fans across Milwaukee, and many who hold
travel just in Milwaukee made from Chicago, they decide they
want a free burger too.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
There will be There was even something on the police
log that somebody showed up at a George Web after
the Brewers won their twelve and wanted their free burger.
Then and now that's not necessarily how it works. They
set it up for a future date because you could
just imagine on how many people want free burgers. But
even with the lowering of the thresholder I'm not even
sure what it was prior to twelve. But in nineteen

(01:17:28):
eighty seven, the Brewers opened the season with thirteen straight wins,
one of the most magical season runs. As much as
people talk glowingly about nineteen eighty two, they talk just
as glowingly about the start of eighty seven, which I
do remember Jan Yevis threw a no hitter against the
Orioles as part of that streak. There's just not a

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lot of highlights in Brewer's history. They had a twelve
gamer a few years back in twenty eighteen. But there's pressure.
This isn't free Chick fil A on a free throw
where Bob misses it. So you know, the former Clipper
fans whatever can get their sandwiches. This isn't an every
game event of keeping a team under one hundred, so
there's obviously pressure to get it done, to get the

(01:18:12):
twelve and now they're on their way with fourteen straight.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Well, let's hear from Brandon Woodri if he was the
guy in charge of making this happen.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
I was.

Speaker 10 (01:18:18):
I was telling my wife this our last night, and
I was more nervous about I wanted to win the
burgers for everybody, you know, and the stands with myself.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
But no, it was it was fine.

Speaker 8 (01:18:31):
A it's a cool thing.

Speaker 10 (01:18:33):
You could tell. You could tell the energy around today
is like on a day game was a little bit
more than usual, and.

Speaker 9 (01:18:41):
That was fine.

Speaker 10 (01:18:42):
But seriously, I wanted to win those burgers back.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
He wanted to win those burgers.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Bag twenty eighteen, they had the promotion ninety thousand burgers
plus another one hundred thousand vouchers. Go back to eighty seven.
You brought jandievis. Now you're making me pull out a
bunch of nineteen eighty seven tops cards off of that
hundred sixty eight thousand free burgers. They've done some of these.
If you can't make it, they'll give you a voucher
over the next couple of days at the airport location,

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which normally these institutions, right, they don't do it at
the airport. They gave out a thousand vouchers the other day,
So they're looking at potentially, you know, a record breaking
number of burgers that's going to be on the twenty
if so, if you want to get that in your
calendar for later on in this week. But Dan, I mean,
I'm looking at their menu. They've got everything under the sun,

(01:19:28):
and you get a sack of burgers seven for twenty bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
As I said, it's funny enough. Even though being a
native of the state, I can't say that I've been
to a George Web because it's more of a Milwaukee thing.
I didn't grow up anywhere near Milwaukee, so it was
you know, so it's it's really to that area and
how popular it is. But I mean, brewers Mania has taken,
you know, over the entire state. They essentially might have

(01:19:53):
the top seed in the NL wrapped up. I mean
it's eight and a half game lead basically right now,
You just hope, as Brewers fans hope, that this carries
onto more In October.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
We've watched the meltdown, Crow, Armstrong and Tucker have been listless.
They've got as many RBIs combined this month as they
think you and I do. Dan So, opportunity knocks for
the Brewers and a pretty exciting squad. He's dam Byre
at dan Byer on Fox. Find me over at Swollen Dome.
Hartman and Husky coming up next as they're ready to
storm the studio. We'll see you next time.

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