October 1: Hour 2: Brewers NLDS Roster Predictions, NLDS Chat, Packers and More

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So we were talking when we wentto the break.
We got into a few questionsthere uh from the fans.

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And I want to get back into thebrewers here as we prepare for
this NLDS series here coming up.
Don't know the opponent yet, butwe'll wait and see on that one.
But I want to do a little bit ofa roster prediction.
So here we go.
My roster prediction for theBrewers going into this NLDS.

(01:05):
I catcher is pretty easy.
Contreras is gonna be there,Danny Jansen will be there, the
backup catcher.
Infield is where it's gonna getweird.
In my opinion, the infield iswhere it's gonna get weird for
the Brewers.
You're going to have JakeBowers, Andrew Vaughn, Bryce
Durang, Caleb Durbin, JoeyOrtiz.

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This is where the weird part'sgonna be.
Who do you carry next?
Andrew Monasterio's gotta bethere.
So you have six.
After that, I I don't know.
Reese Hoskins, I don't think hemakes the postseason roster.
I gotta be not for the NLDS atleast.
Maybe he gets on later on.

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I just don't see him making theroster for this NLDS.
He might be a taxi squad guy,but he's not going to be on the
roster right off the bat.
So that's that's kind of where Isee that one.
Outfielders in this one.
I think you're gonna carryChurio, Yelich, Frelick, of
course.
You're going to have uh IsaacCollins, and then I think it's

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gonna be Blake Perkins.
Brandon Lockridge is probablygoing to be that last guy in
there.
I think you're you're looking atif you do that, you have 14 guys
for position players between thesix infielders, six outfielders,
and two catchers.
What I could see them doing alsois I could see them leaving one

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of these position players off,which would be Brandon
Lockridge.
I think it'd be Lockridge, staysoff.
I don't think if it's gonna beeither Lockridge or Hoskins, in
my opinion.
And I think you have two firstbasemen already.
I don't know in the playoffs ifyou try to monkey with Jake
Bowers in the outfield andVaughn at first.
I think you're gonna have thosetwo work in like a DH kind of
role, if anything, if they'reboth in the lineup.

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Otherwise, one's gonna come offthe bench.
So, in my opinion, it's betweenLockridge and Reese if you're
gonna carry 14 and 12 forpitchers, if you're gonna have
14 position players and 12 uh uhpitchers.
I think you're going to probablyI it wouldn't surprise me if you
got 13-13 and you carry TobiasMyers in that uh pitching room.

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So that's kind of where I thinkit's gonna be.
I think they're gonna probably,if anything, Lockridge will be
there for outfield, you know,depth.
And if they're not gonna care,if they're gonna look more 13 to
13, then I think Lockridge getscut out, and I think that's the
rest of it then.
So that's kind of where I'm atright now with it.
Starting pitchers, I think thisone's pretty relatively easy as
long if Brandon Woodruff is notthere.

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If Brandon Woodruff's there, Ithink this changes.
Freddy's gonna have game one.
I think Gwynn Priester has gametwo, and then I think Jose
Cantana's set up for game three.
I think that's going to be thethree that they roll with.
I don't think Mizorowski's evenin the question at this point.
I don't.
So I think you're going to seethose three set up for your
starting pitchers in this one.

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Relief pitchers, I think it'spretty straightforward.
Who's at the back end?
Trevor McGill came back.
He looked good.
You're gonna have him, you'regonna have Abner Uribe, you're
gonna have Jared Canning.
Those are gonna be your threebig guys at the back end.
Nick Meir has been fantastic.
You're gonna have him in there.
Aaron Ashby's also gonna bealong with him.
And then this is where theinteresting part comes in,
right?
Your long relievers are alwaysthe interesting ones, and this

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is where I might differ fromsome.
I think you have to.
Chad Patrick's going to bethere, I believe.
I think Tobias Myers has got tobe in there.
So if you had Tobias Myers inthere, and you have Chad

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Patrick, I don't know.
It's almost like okay, so thenit comes down to you have Rob
Zanstrinsky, who's a lefty, youhave Dion Hall who's a lefty,
and you have Jacob Mizorowskiwho's your flamethrower and
right-hander.
I think Jacob Mizorowski isgonna be there.

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I don't know if I I like JacobMizorowski.
I think he's got a ton oftalent.
I don't know if I put him on theroster.
Just be point-blank honest.
Because in my opinion, JacobMizorowski, the control, where
where do you put him?
Like, where do you see him in agame?

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Throwing him in the sixth,seventh?
Throwing him in the fifth?
Like, where do you see JacobMizorowski's role?
It's not in a spot up like baseis loaded to get out of an
inning.
The control's not there.
The walks have been high.
The pitch junk gets real high.
And when he starts missing, he'smissing.

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It's hard for him to get backinto a groove.
So you get nervous aboutbringing him in into a spot,
bringing him in with a smalllead.
He he makes me nervous the waythat he's been throwing.
Tobias Myers has been solid.
Chad Patrick's been solid allyear.
Raps Trinsky against left-handedbatters, 196 average for the

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batters.
523 OPS this season.
The Miz why he wouldn't get apass to get into the bullpen is
he's just got dynamite stuff.
When it's all working, it'sdynamite.
But he sometimes feels likelightning in a bottle.
It's there.
When it's there, it's exciting.

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When it goes out, it's well,yeah.
Can get scary.
So I don't know what they'regonna do.
I the pitching, the long reliefis where I think it's gonna get
weird.
That's where I think the mostthe biggest question marks for
me are is in the long reliefportion of it.
I I would have Tobias Myers inthere.

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You can have well, I guess ifyou win it depends on how you
set it up.
If you went with how manyposition players versus how many
guys in your bullpen.
Because what if you had 12 and14, if you had the 14, which
mean Brandon Lockridge or ReeseHoskins made it, then you
wouldn't be able to have TobiasMyers along with Chad Patrick

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and all them guys.
If you didn't have, or if youwent 13 and 13 with your roster
for the 26-man roster, if youwent 13 and 13, then you'd be
able to have a guy like TobiasMyers in that spot with a Miz,
with Chad Patrick, with theSastryinski, with the DL Hall,
you'd be able to have them allin that bullpen.

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So that's why I'm kind of inthat 13-13 role because uh you
just I don't trust JacobMizorowski to stretch a game.
I don't, I think he's aone-inning hitter.
That's it.
So I if I'm the Brewers, I'mlooking at a Chad Patrick or a
uh Tobias Myers, one of themguys, to come in for a long

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relief for all if you needed it.
Or a spot start if you'd have ifyou needed it.
I don't know what you know ifJose Quintana's not ready.
I do not Jacob Mazerowski, he'snot extendable.
I don't think he's extendable atthis point here.
He's a guy where you put him in,it's like a first sign of
trouble, you're getting him outas fast as you can.
That's where I'm at with JacobMeserowski.
So that's gonna be the the weirdone, will be the the long

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relief, what they decide there.
But for me, I think TobiasMyers' got to be in there, and
then it's a question mark well,who we leave out at that point.
Chad Patrick's been good.
So I don't know if you leave outa lefty then, if you leave out
Deal Hall.
That's a question.
That's what we're gonna we'regonna find out.
We're gonna find out here, mostlikely on Saturday, what the
Brewers are kind of lookingthere.
But they have a lot of guysthere for workouts.

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I mean, Brandon Woodruff wasback with the team on Saturday,
so that's good good sign there.
They Pat Murphy said that wewere gonna know more about it.
We haven't gotten any news, sowe'll kind of just wait and see
what uh what Pat Murphy comesout and says about Brandon
Woodruff, if he will beavailable, if he'll be there,
what the plan is with BrandonWoodruff here moving forward.

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So I wanted to look.
We just got the rosterprediction there.
I want to look what the lineup'sgonna look like.
The rotation, I kind of expectit to be Freddie Quinn Priester,
and then Jose Cantana.
If anything, you maybe wait withPriester.
If you win game one, maybe youwill leave Priester for game
three and then you pitch JoseCantana game two.
I don't know what the Brewerswould kind of shake up there.
It's it's uh you kind of try toplay spots, you kind of try to

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play well, how can we work this?
And then they have a day offafter game one, so you kind of
get that space.
So there's gaps, right?
There's gaps for this Brewersteam to be able to maybe wiggle
around, maybe have a QuinnPriester wait until because
you're gonna have game one onSaturday, game two will be on
Monday, and then you'll haveanother day off, and then game

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three.
So you can almost go, you'regonna have Freddy, and then
you'd pitch, let's just say,you'd almost want Quinn
Priester, to be honest with you,because then you could get Quinn
Priester back for game five ifyou needed him.
So I guess you're looking atJose Cantana being your game
three starter, so you can haveQuinn Priester back for a game
five.

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So yeah, there you go.
That's the way I'd set up therotation.
Freddy for game one, so you canhave him back for game.
It would be one, two, three,four, five.
You'd have him for game four.
And then if you needed it, gamefive would be Priester after he
pitched in game two.
So that's the way that I wouldkind of shake it if I was to
Peru.
It's Freddie, Quinn Priester,then Cantana for my rotation.
Looking at the lineup, this iswhere it gets weird.

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Pat Murphy's been kind ofrolling out with Yelich in the
leadoff spot, and a lot ofpeople who are skeptical about
that one.
Pat Murphy says it's they'rekind of thinking about it.
It might be uh a plan for theplayoffs.
Get I don't, it's you know, youwant your leadoff guy to have
like the most at bats, right?
That's what they say, the mostat bats, most RBI chances, and

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you know, kind of protects thenine-hole hitter, which is Joey
Ortiz.
They want to have that safetyblanket behind them, as they
say.
So that's kind of the way thathe's been looking at it.
And that's I mean, okay.
So Yelich in the leadoff spot,interesting.
How do you look at the the restof the lineup then?
Yelich leadoff spot in your DHrole, followed by the way that

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it's been shaken out.
I wouldn't have him here, Iwould have him in the five spot,
in my opinion.
But you have uh Jackson Churioup there.
I don't know, would you go?
Would you almost think Yelichthen Tarang?
I wouldn't hate that.
I wouldn't hate a Yelich thenTarang, then Contreras, then you

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throw Vaughn and Churio inthere, one or the other, maybe.
I wouldn't hate that.
I wouldn't hate that kind ofoption there, but I think that
it's gonna be end up beingYelich, Churio, Contreras,
Vaughn, then we see a guy likeFrelick working that fire.
Or no, you're gonna see that'sthe weird part.

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So now he Tarang.
Okay.
No, let's scratch that.
Scratch that idea.
Let's go.
I think you're gonna have Yelichlead off spot because that's the
way he seems like he wants toshake it right now.
Yelich, then Churio, thenTarang, then Contreras, then
we're going to see Vaughn, thenFreelick.

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Then I think you put IsaacCollins in there.
Yeah, I think it's IsaacCollins.
Then we see Caleb Durbin, andthen we see Joey Ortiz.
I think that's gonna be thelineup.
I think that'll be the lineupthey roll out with.
The only one that might fliparound depending on pitching
matchup will be, I think, JakeBowers for Andrew Vaughn.

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I think that'll be the one thatthey kind of switch up.
If anything, outside of that, Ithink that's I think that's the
lineup that we're gonna seethere rolled out for the
playoffs there.
So that's kind of where I'mlooking.
Lineup, rotation, everythinglike that.
Yelic in that leadoff spot,getting a little weird with it.
But hey, we like it there.
We like it there.
So we got lots more to get intotonight here on the show.
We're gonna look into next yearon the show.

(12:54):
We're gonna dive into thePackers.
Elmer's gonna stop by.
We're gonna talk some Packers.
Kyle's gonna stop by later.
We're gonna talk some NFL.
We have lots of stuff to talkabout.
We're gonna wrap, we got hournumber two.
This is just hour number two ofthe show here.
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We're talking a little Packers.
Ummer, how are we doing on thisWednesday?

SPEAKER_00 (13:38):
Not bad, man.
It's been a crazy, another crazyweek at work, and uh I'll be
honest with you.
I'm kind of happy it's a byeweek because I don't think I can
go through any more stress thatthe Packers have put me through
these last two weeks.

SPEAKER_01 (13:49):
Man, for a team that like you went, you beat the
Lions, you beat the commanders,and then it's been like, wow, we
thought this was gonna be theeasy part of the schedule.
And right, it has turned to benothing but it is it is it has
been anything but anything butan easy part of the schedule
here.
So let's just get right into it.
Let's just get right into ittoday here.

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The Packers tie with the DallasCowboys 40 to 40 in that game,
and a lot of Packer fans,there's well, you always have
this, right?
You lose a game that or you tiein a game that you don't think
you're supposed to, and you losea game a week before that.
You have a lot of fans who callfor the main man's job.
That's what they do, and we'vehad a lot of guys who call for
Matt LaFleur's job.
Now, I think that's a littlecrazy because first off, you'd

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have to tell me who you're gonnahire that's better than Matt
LaFleur.
I don't think there's a DanCampbell or uh uh a Harbaugh or
anybody, you know, standingoutside the doors right now,
waiting to come in, right?
You Matt LaFleur is one of themost winning and better coaches
in all of football.
So I don't think you're justgoing to drop Matt LaFleur.
But but and here's the but.
And this summer and I were kindof we're chit-chatting at the

(14:56):
break there at the commercialbreak, and we're kind of talking
about this.
I said, I don't want to talkabout because we we're gonna
talk about the special teams,we're gonna talk about Rich
Pisaccia today.
And I said, I'm so sick ofhearing people talk about Rich
Pisaccia because as much as wecomplain, right?
As much as we say about it, ithasn't changed.
Nothing's changed, he hasn'tfixed anything, he hasn't you

(15:17):
know grown with the times, thenew kickoff rule.
You watch what Brandon Aubreywas doing to the Packers there,
putting it in just the rightspot.
The Packers haven't adjusted tothat, the kick returns,
everything like that.
Special teams have just beenterrible.
He hasn't adjusted.
And if you're not gonna get ridof the guy, then why hasn't Matt
LaFleur walked in there andsaid, Rich, we need to fix
something here.

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We need to fix this, we need tochange up the way you scheme
things, whatever it is.
He hasn't done that, as we asfar as we know, because we
haven't seen it happen.
I mean, Ummer, that's I guess mybiggest problem.
And we we're gonna talk abouthis conservative play and
everything.
We'll get to that in a minutehere.
But let's talk about the specialteams first.
That's one of my biggestproblems is we sit here and we

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say, okay, Rich Passace, RichPisaci, and I agree.
He's he's not good, he's hehasn't been good, he hasn't
shown that he's been good.
I get that, and I'm all in withthat.
But I'm also at the point whereI'm like, Matt LaFleur, Brian
Gudikins, I don't care who ithas to be, whoever's above him
has to walk in and say, Rich,this is what's going on.
It hasn't been improved.
You either are gonna figure itout or we're gonna find somebody
else do your job because you arenot doing your job.

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We have seen multiple extrapoints blocked, we've seen
special teams give up 40 yardsevery time we have a kickoff.
I mean, watching Turpin just Iget Turpin's a very good kick
returner.
You had nobody in the area code,you had nobody around him.
He's getting it out to the 40.
How much easier is it for Dakand Dallas to move the football
when they're basically inBrandon Aubrey's field goal
range when they start the drive?

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It's simple, but you have towalk in there as Matt LaFleur
and just be that be the headcoach of this football team.
So I guess, I guess I'm I don'tknow, am I crazy thinking
something like that?
Like Matt LaFleur has to be thehead man, the head coach of this
team, and lay it, lay down thelaw here pretty darn soon.

SPEAKER_00 (16:57):
I mean, I think we all knew that Rich coming back,
even though he was contemplatingretirement, should have been a
tall tail sign for us to knowthat he wasn't the guy for the
job anymore.
And seeing what this specialteams has been, there has been
no improvement on the specialteams.
When you look at Rick Gosling'sRick Gosling's rankings, it's
been in the low 30s, sorry, thehigh 30s for the last three

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years.
He's really done nothing.
And I agree with you, I think itgets to a point where like when
you keep a coach on the staffwho is underperforming
continually, it becomes anindictment on the head coach.
And LeFleur has done this in thepast.
But the funny thing is when hesaw Mo Drayton not get the job
done, he cut him after one year.
Shamanenga cut him after twoyears.

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No, one year for him as well,too.
Joe Barry, he let him play outhis contract and then he cut
him, right?
He has made decisions in thepast for whatever reason, he's
not cutting this guy.
And the thing is we are startingto see like uh not like you you
mentioned it, minus the punterand the kicker doing their jobs,

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which they both are really goodat what they do.
You're not really seeinganything else improve.
You're having extra pointsblocked, you're having field
goals blocked, you're you're youare not able to even return stop
any kickoffs, and then you yourguys don't even know what
they're doing.
You have Golden, your firstround receiver back there,
fielding punts, and then he'strying to spin move like he's in

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Madden and taking massive hits.
Lucky and fumble that you gotXavion Williams who grabs a ball
that should have gone into theend zone and then tries to take
it out.
And these guys don't even knowthe basic rules of what they
should and shouldn't be doing inthese situations, and that is
all on coaching.
And then when it comes to theblock, we all saw it, it's it's
basic pee-wee football stuff.
Everyone, Justin Muscaden, Iwould have said it, where you

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block from the out, you know,you block from the outside and
never the inside out.
And he, for whatever reason,completely whiffed.
Maybe I'm saying that reverse,but he completely whiffed on the
inside then out.

SPEAKER_01 (18:55):
Worry about the inside guys work today.
Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 (18:58):
You don't worry about the outside.
That's why you always see theoutside guys always, you know,
the zooming in a lot of timesbecause you're blocking the guys
that are coming in.
So, with all that being said,after you saw how you lost a
game last week because ofspecial teams, where is the
emphasis?
Where's the where is theurgency, right?
Because I'm not seeing it.
And then, of course, ourdefense, you know, Devontae
Wyatt goes down.

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It looks like he was likeliterally like, you know, I
don't know, the second coming oflike freaking, you know, uh,
what the hell, Jonathan Allen?
Um, give me give me a gooddefensive tackle, man.
Give me a good defensive tackle.
Oh, uh, Gilbert Brown.
I don't know.
Like they made him seem like hewas like unstoppable on the
defensive line.
Once he goes down, the Cowboysbasically scored on every single
drive.
It was embarrassing.
And I I just I'm at a point nowwhere LaFleur's a good coach.

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He's a good, he is a good coach.
A part of me is like maybe weare giving him too much latitude
because of what he's done in thepast because he's become
lackadazal and making the harddecisions when it comes to a
coaches and keeping them on toolong, and then B, I know we're
gonna talk about theconservativeness,
conservativeness of his playcalling because he used to be
highly aggressive, and we needthat guy back because the guy

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that here is now he he'sliterally he in his press
conference today said that hewas scared about Aubrey and last
week he was scared aboutGarrett.
And I'm sorry, like othercoaches around the NFL, they are
they game plan for those guys,but they're not scared of those
guys.
Yeah, and if you're playingscared because of certain
players, I I really feel likeyou may not be the right person
for the job, and I'm not and Idon't want to lose him, but if

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you're not getting better everyyear, you're getting worse.
And honestly, that's it's kindof scary to think like just it
feels like we have the trainingrolls back on, and it's not
good.

SPEAKER_01 (20:35):
Yep, yep.
And yeah, let's let's get rightto that.
I mean, you mentioned some greatstuff in there, but that
conservative flight calling thatwe saw in that game, and you
know, the really the thing thatirritated me was if he knew this
was his quote if he knew thegame was going to end like that,
yeah, he would have probablywent a little faster.

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Okay, so it's what did youexpect was gonna happen?

SPEAKER_00 (21:01):
Like, that's what you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_01 (21:04):
And that's why that's what I guess my
conservative playing, and heplays, and this is how Matt
LaFleur plays the game rightnow.
He plays not to lose, but healso plays not to be
embarrassed.
Yeah, so he plays slow, he playsmethodical, he doesn't do
anything crazy, he doesn't getaggressive, he doesn't want to
be embarrassed, he doesn't wantto do those bad things.

(21:27):
The Dan Campbell things, right?
Yep, but nobody sits here at theend of the day and yells about
Dan Campbell's aggressivenessunless if he goes for like a
fourth and ten from his own like30-yard line or whatever that
the weird stuff he did againstthe Packers last season where he
like didn't care and he went forit on fourth down.
The Packers stuffed him, andthen he ended up scoring, and he
doesn't care, right?
And nobody would be upset withMatt LaFleur if he just said on

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that the Packers, and this iswhere my irritation, I guess,
came in with especially withthis game against Dallas.
Yeah, and they're Jordan Lovewas torching their defense over
the top.
There was nobody that could slowhim down.
That secondary was getting eatenalive by the Packers.
Romeo Dobbs was having a fielddeck, yeah.
Matt LaFleur decided let's runthe football.
Yeah, Josh Jacobs.

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If you take out, he had two runsin that game of big yardage, one
for 19 yards and he had anotherone.
I think for over 18 years old.

SPEAKER_00 (22:17):
And the game they started running up because the
defense was gas, but you'reright, though.
He just kept like hammering awayat it.
And I'm like, your offensiveline is not good at run
blocking, but they're prettydecent at pass blocking,
regardless of you having backupsin there.
Just throw the freaking ball,man.
I hate just throw the ball, man.

SPEAKER_01 (22:32):
Yep, yep.
And that's where I guess myirritation came in with his
conservative play calling,especially where he's like, Oh,
we're driving down the field.
He had just hit a couple of goodroutes, and then he throws that
ball behind the line to Golden.
Yeah, zero yards, gets smacked.

SPEAKER_00 (22:46):
I'll just say one.

SPEAKER_01 (22:47):
And it's like, why I get the run path, the the it's
been there, it's been theretonight.
Yep, but not now.
We don't need that now.
This was a drive where you can'thave negative plays.
You got to keep working down thefield, and then all of a sudden
it's oh, let's run the ball,let's run the ball, and it's
like third and two or whateverit was.
He's like, let's run the ball.
Now just dump it off to a guy,dump it off the craft, let him

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do a thing.
You know, get keep the offensemoving, keep it moving down the
field.
Don't slow it down with the runbecause we know what happens,
okay?
Josh Jacobs gets tackled.
He goes to the ground, right?
He's on the ground laying there.
Guys are on top of him, they'renot getting off very fast
because the clock's stillticking.
Why would you get off fast?
Oh, now we got to burn atimeout.
Okay, now the timeout's gone.
Then you get to that 30 secondswhere you don't have a timeout.

(23:29):
You can't stop the clock.
Jordan Love doesn't know what'shappening right now.
He's he's walking to the line.
There's no nothing.
The offensive line's like,what's happening out there right
now?
The tight ends don't know what'shappening, the wide receivers
are confused.
And you got Jordan Love like, Idon't care.

SPEAKER_00 (23:46):
Come on.

SPEAKER_01 (23:46):
Yeah, just do something.
Do something with it.
And Jordan Love looked lost.
Matt LaFleur's on the sidelinegoing, let's go, let's go, let's
go.
And Jordan Love's like, I don'tknow what's happening right now.
Jordan Love played a great gameoutside of the last 30 seconds.
The last 30 seconds made hisgame look bad.
Yeah, that's that's as much as Igotta say about that.

(24:06):
Is Jordan Love had a fantasticnight?
He went toe-to-toe with DakPrescott, who was having an
all-star night himself, yeah,and he ruined it in the last 30
seconds because he looked lost.
Yep, he had that killer instinctall night long, and it just went
away in the last time.

SPEAKER_00 (24:22):
I wonder what the conversation was before you on
the sideline before you went outthere.
Like, hey, don't make a mistake,just try to drive down the
field.
Let's get you know, let's try towin this if we can, let's kick a
field goal.
Like, I'm trying to figure outlike what was the thought
process, right?
Or was one.
Yeah, I don't it just didn'tmake any sense.

SPEAKER_01 (24:38):
It felt like they were honestly going for the
field goal.

SPEAKER_00 (24:41):
Yeah, it really did.
Like, oh, we're gonna try toscore, but if we don't score,
we'll walk away here with a tie,no big deal.
That's how it felt like.
And I'll just like, yeah, like Ithink what's his name?
Eric Branchek said it on thepeer that hit they have a
podcast they do, and he said,like, Dan Campbell wouldn't have
done that, he would have gonefor it on that last play.
He wouldn't even kick the fieldgoal, he would have said the
hell with it, he'd have gone forit.
Yep, and he's and even if helost, he would still he would

(25:03):
still stay true to himself andwent for it.
And part of me was kind of like,yeah, like a part of like you
know, if he didn't get it, okay,yeah, that would have sucked,
but I would have wanted that,you know what I'm saying?
Because like, I mean, and thatin that play then where he threw
the ball to Golden and bouncedoff Samborn's back.
He had clay, he had Tuckercraftand Wicks open, they were both
open on their slant routes.

(25:23):
He just he just focuses onGolden for some reason.
I don't know why Golden wasn'topen, he had double coverage,
and he rushed it, even thoughI'm like, yo, you have time.
Well, actually, no, the clockwas ticking, and that was
another thing, like you don'teven like spike the ball or
anything.
Like, were they scared thatAubrey that they were they were
they scared but they had to killthe clock to where they get the

(25:44):
last second score, so then theDallas Cowboys couldn't come
back and like you know get infield goal range and kick a
field goal or something?

SPEAKER_01 (25:50):
Like they were almost like the video where it's
Aaron Rodgers having too muchtime, and you know the other
teams giving him too much time.
That's what like Matt LaFleurwas playing that game like is
that primetime Rogers was on theother side, and that tells you
what he felt about his defensethat night.
Oh, yeah, that defense wasbecause he's playing like he was

(26:11):
conservative football, tryingnot to let them have the ball
back.
It feels like he's scared thatthey're going to walk the ball
down the field and put it in thefield goal, which they basically
did after Devonta by it wentout, right?

SPEAKER_00 (26:21):
Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 (26:22):
Yep.
No, I agree 100%.
And you know, you look at theold saying.
The old saying is at home you gofor the tie on the road, you go
for the win.

SPEAKER_00 (26:28):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (26:29):
So the conservative play calling, once again, that's
it's gonna be Matt LaFleur'sdownfall.
It really is.
His choice of words right now,and his play calling is going to
be his downfall if there is adownfall for Matt LaFleur in
Green Bay.

SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
And one last thing, I know we beat up on special
teams a lot.
If they don't get that blockedextra point for two points, they
get no momentum.
Yep.
We had them on the ropes, wehave quote go up two scores.
We're even though you and me areboth mad as I don't know what,
when they're over the 50 andit's fourth and two, and they're
not going for it, and they'retrying to do that same crap
where they get up to the lineand they don't go for it, and
they think they're gonna fakesomebody out, even though they

(27:05):
out of like 10 times they'vegone for it once.
And I'm just like, I just can't.
I think at that moment Ibelieved he was believing his
defense.
Okay, fine, no big deal.
Because they got three and out,right?
But part of me is kind of like,yeah, like he it's like he's in
this in this bad space wherewhen he should go for it, he
doesn't, and when he shouldn'tgo for it, he does.
And he's doing that over andover and over.

(27:26):
And that's what's gonna that'sgonna be the end of him if he
can't figure out because his gutstuff is what's killing him.
He was doing analytics before,now he's doing it by the gut,
and I wonder if that's RichBisaccia in his ear giving him
all the wrong advice.

SPEAKER_01 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's like his challenge, it's like
his it's like his use ofchallenges, his use of
challenges have always beenterrible.
Yeah, exactly.
I think he finally won one nottoo long ago.
I think he had actually evenbeen close to winning one, and
he finally got one there.

SPEAKER_00 (27:51):
So his first game, actually, I think it was because
Detroit won the one out there.

SPEAKER_01 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it was.
That's what it was there.
So, I mean, it was all in all,and and we'll just wrap it up
with this here.
I mean, we'll just wrap it upwith final thoughts on this game
against Dallas.
But all in all, I mean, you lookat the whole grand scheme of
things.
The defense, there was no gangtackling, there was no flocking
to the football.
It was the exact opposite ofwhat we've seen from week one to
now.
They were rushing with four.

(28:15):
I thought, honestly, all in all,the offense looked good.
I mean, they scored 40 points.
It's hard to not look good inthat.
But like you said, the specialteams was a letdown once again,
giving Dallas good fieldposition in all areas, whatever
it was.
And then that block field goalwas huge.
People don't see it as beinghuge, but two point two points
didn't seem big until it was.
So that was huge.

(28:37):
Yep, that was huge in that game.
Gave him life.
Um, Matt LaFleur's conservativeplay calling down the stretch.
I thought his play callingthroughout the game was wasn't
bad.
And he tried to get Josh Jacobsgoing.
I understand it, you want to,but there's a time and a place.
Yeah, it's not at the end of thegame when you're trying to push
the ball down the field, it'searlier in the game when you
want to get it going.

(28:57):
So I I can see where he wasgoing, but a little late for
that one.

SPEAKER_00 (29:00):
Cooper had a rough game, but I don't know who he's
been he's not been really he'she's been off these last couple
weeks, so I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (29:06):
The defense was off, but it was also because, like I
said, Jeff Hafley had one of hisworst games as a defensive
coordinator in the NFL.
So that was a problem.
I've seen good things out ofKeyshawn Nixon.
I saw lax daisical effort out ofKeyshawn Nixon too.
So we saw both in that one.
Carrington Valentine got torcheda couple times.
Hobbs is not he's Hobbs had areally let's just leave it at

(29:28):
you see that point where he's hedoesn't even know where the ball
is.

SPEAKER_00 (29:31):
I'm like, bro, yeah, corner dog.

SPEAKER_01 (29:33):
Like Hobbs was rough.
Let's just go with that.
Hobbs was rough.
I mean, this this is one toforget.
It was a tie, and that's whatyou can look at it as.
It was a tie, and thank goodnessit was a tie because it might
not have been, it might not havebeen.
It was one second left in theclock.
So, I mean, there it could havenot been a tie.
So at the end of the day, weshould be happy that it was a
tie because it could have been alot worse looking back on it

(29:54):
right now.
That's true, that's true.
So, I guess, Umer, I mean, finalthoughts before I gotta let you
go here.
Final thoughts on that.
Game against Dallas.
Let's put a bow on it.
Let's move to the bye week.

SPEAKER_00 (30:03):
Man, just they got a lot to clean up in this bye
week.
I hope they figure it out.
And I hope Watson is back onMonday because they need the
helper receiver.
I mean, I think, you know, yeah,they don't with Jaden Reed going
down and and just that I and youknow, Dobbs played his butt off,
but we just need another guy outthere because Golden, he's not
there yet.
Savion hasn't even been throwingthe ball.
He's been just literally usingsweeps.

(30:25):
Don't Tavian Wicks, you know,again, his first drop of the
season was one where it fallsinto his breadbasket, even
though you get PI'd and hecouldn't catch it, right?

SPEAKER_02 (30:33):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (30:33):
And yeah, all in all, I'm telling you, like it's
it's I'm just happy it's the byeweek, so I can not I can watch
Sunday football and not have tofreak out about the Packers for
a weekend.
That's it.

SPEAKER_01 (30:44):
Gives you a chance to relax.
Brewer baseball's on thisweekend.
That's all you need to know.
Brewer baseball's on, so we canwatch that.
Hopefully, they bank whoeverthey're playing, and we can just
not worry about anything else.
That's that's the hope.
That's the hope there.
So, Ummer, thank you as alwaysfor stopping by tonight here.
Let the people know where theycan find you out there across
social media.

SPEAKER_00 (31:02):
Find me on Twitter at AMAR3455.
We missed last week, and a lotof things going on on both our
sides, but we're hopefully we'llprobably have a bye-week episode
this week and then keep itpretty short and simple, and
then after that, get back ontotrack next week.
So, but yeah, uh, just you canfind me there.
You can find Coast to CoastPackers on Twitter, uh, TikTok,
Kick, and Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 (31:24):
Make sure you guys are checking him out.
He's always got great opinionsout there, he's sharing a lot of
stuff, so make sure you'rechecking them out there across
social media and make sure youguys are checking out coast to
coast there.
Like he said, there's a lot ofmadness.
I was under a sink working on asink this weekend.
It was there was a lot of notgood things happening there.
Electrician tries plumbing.
That's what was happening at myuh it's like a cat in water.

(31:45):
We don't mix very well.
So, Ummer, thank you as alwaysfor stopping by tonight.
Here, we'll be back here at theback side of the ad break.
Kyle's gonna stop by.
We're gonna talk some NFL, we'regonna talk some MLB.
We'll be right back here.
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(32:48):
We're gonna talk a little NFL,we're gonna talk a little MLB
here.
Kyle, how are we doing?
It's Wednesday, MLB playoffs infull swing.
NFL getting kind of weird on us.
There's a lot of weird thingsgoing on in the NFL, a lot of
teams that we didn't expect todo good or whatever, you know, a
lot of that going on.
So, Kyle, how are we doing onthis Wednesday?

SPEAKER_03 (33:05):
No, I mean it's a it's a great time of the year.
Uh, you know, Red Sox make theplayoffs.
I'm obviously happy about that.
Didn't look like that couldhappen all year.
Uh seems like it's an it's aweird NFL season, and I'm kind
of here for it.

SPEAKER_01 (33:18):
So yeah, it's I agree.
I agree 100%.
It is absolutely weird.
Like the AFC for me is wild,it's all over the place.
Let's start there.
Let's start there, Kyle, withthe power rankings of the week.
We've been we've been hittinghere and there throughout the
show about you know NFL Packers,everything like that, but let's
look at the grand scheme ofthings right now because it's

(33:41):
odd when you look at it.
So let's look over at the AFCright away.
I mean, for me, there's aclear-cut favorite, and then
after that, it gets weird andjumbled after that.
So, Kyle, I mean, looking at theAFC right now, who do you have
in your power?
Give me your top five powerrankings right now.
Who do you got in there?

SPEAKER_03 (34:01):
All right, so I normally go one to five.
I'm like, let's let's go theother way.
That's how you normally do itanyway.
So five, I'm actually gonna gowith the Patriots.
Oh, they're two and two.
I think Drake May isestablishing himself as one of
the good young quarterbacks inthis league.
Uh defensively, they're they'restopping the run, they're
they're making it tough onopposing quarterbacks coming off

(34:22):
a big win over Carolina.
I have them at five.
I have the Chiefs at four.
Obviously, they were out of mytop five.
Last week, they're back in aftertheir big win over Baltimore.
Now they're getting guys back,which might be the scary part.
They're still a few weeks awayfrom getting Rice back, but
Worthy comes back, he has a bigimpact on the Baltimore game.

(34:44):
I have them at four.
I've got the Colts at three,even though they lost to the
Rams, but they're still a goodteam.
Uh Rams are a good team as well,so a loss like that, I feel like
I can live with.
And Daniel Jones is stillplaying well.
Two, I still have the Chargersat two, despite the loss to the

(35:05):
uh the Giants.
But you know, Herbert, thatteam, they're playing well.
Only hesitation.
Joe all gets hurt, Slater'salready missing time.
If those two if the two tacklesare gone, then it could be it
could spell trouble for theChargers.
Then one, like you uh alludedto, Buffalo's still the best

(35:26):
team in the AFC, like, noquestion about it.

SPEAKER_01 (35:28):
Yep, yep.
No, I agree 100%.
That that AFC is tough becauselike the Steelers, not even
there.
I mean, you're you're talkingabout it.
It's weird to think athree-and-one team top of the
AFC North, but it's because thethe AC North, I mean, that got
like the way that the Ravenshave looked as of late, the
injuries that they have pilingup with Lamar and everything
else, Joe Burrow being out withthe Bengals.

(35:51):
It's like the Steelers couldjust run away with it, and they
should.
And that's kind of where we'reat right now.
And that's why, I mean, theyknow not even a top five when
you really think it's hard toeven think about them as a top
five because they they haven'tplayed great football
themselves.
I mean, honestly, they haven'tplayed great football
themselves, but they should beable to run away with the
division the way that it's goingright now.
So, yeah, I'm I I like that atop five.

(36:12):
The Broncos we all thought theBroncos were maybe better what
they are, they haven't reallyshown it yet.
I would I like that there.
Uh, outside of that, I mean,there's not nothing really,
yeah, nothing really have wrongwith your top five at all.
Because like it's the AFC is Idon't want to say bad, just very
jumbled right now.
And a lot of things still tryingto figure a lot of injuries.

(36:32):
That's what it is.
There's a lot of injuries acrossthe board in the AFC.
So let's flip over.
Look, NFC.
What are you seeing right now inthe NFC?
What are your power rankings?
This one, there's a lot of goodteams, and that's why this one a
little trickier when you look atthe NFC picture.

SPEAKER_03 (36:47):
So NFC, I'm gonna go Packers at five.
Uh, they they tied against theCowboys.
I didn't like their execution inovertime, but they're still a
talented team.
Uh, I think what we'll learn isthat the Cowboys, at least
offensively, are morecompetitive than we might have
thought.
Defensively, they they're stillgonna give up a lot of points.

(37:09):
But I have the Packers at fivedespite the tie, whether you
want to consider it a loss, butuh they're still a good team.
I have the Seahawks at four.
I love what the Seahawks dodefensively, and Darnold is
actually playing well.
So if he can keep that up withthe way that their defense is

(37:30):
playing, I think the Seahawkscould be a playoff team.
Three, I have the Rams, big winfor them over the Colts.
Uh you know, love the way thatthey executed late in that game.
You know, Stafford's playingwell.
That that was my Achilles heelwith them, is his health.
He's healthy.
So the Rams are three.
I have the Lions at two.

(37:50):
I I just I just love thephysicality that they play with.
Goff plays within himself.
Dan Campbell is a greatmotivator coach.
Like he he's the spearhead foreverything going on in Detroit.
And then one's the Eagles.
They're they're undefeated,they're they're now doing
variations off the tush push.

(38:11):
So now that's something else youhave to think about.
Even with AJ Brown having hisyou know yearly uh hissy fit,
but the the Eagles are the bestteam in the NFC.

SPEAKER_01 (38:22):
Yeah, yeah, I like that one.
I like that one there.
So yeah, I I would be in thatsame boat.
The Packers have five.
I yeah, the execution andovertime.
We've we talked about it justbefore, but that whole game was
it was a tie, but it felt like aloss because it just the way
that it went down, and then theafter the aftermath, some of the
press conferences that just ohit just got to you, got to you

(38:42):
there.
So yeah, I I like that powerranking there.
I mean, the San Francisco threeand one, but we haven't they
haven't been there, there'sholes.
Nick Bosa being out, there'sholes, you can tell.
So I yeah, I kind of see thatone there.
And outside of that, I meanTampa, they've looked bakers
look good.
I mean, there's the the NFC is alittle harder, that's what I was
saying.
Like, you look at the AFC, it'slike ah, there's a clear-cut top

(39:03):
and then down.
I mean, you look at the NFC, theEagles, they I mean, they're
winning games.
That's what matters, right?
They're winning games, but havethey impressed yet?
And that's where you look at thestats, it's like they haven't
impressed yet, they're justwinning football games.
So, I mean, you take wins withlike I don't know, you take wins
with losses, but you take winsover stats, I guess.
And that's where the Eagles areat right now there.

(39:24):
So I would completely agree withthat.
So, Kyle, before we jump over,we're gonna get to the Mel
Yellow minute here in a second.
But give me, I I always ask youevery week the fantasy players
of the week, the guys that weneed to look for.
If you have a fantasy team outthere, these are the guys Kyle
thinks that you should belooking for, or maybe they're on
your bench, maybe you got tostart them, maybe you have them
already.
Who are your guys going intothis week, Kyle?

SPEAKER_03 (39:44):
So I have CJ Stroud, who in ESPN's fantasy football
is available in 47% of leagues,which I was kind of surprised by
that, but he's going up againstthat Ravens defense.
We just saw the Chiefs get rightagainst that defense.
Now they're even more banged up,and CJ Stroud and that offense

(40:04):
haven't looked great.
I feel like they found somefooting against Tennessee last
week.
So I'm looking for CJ Stroud tohave a good game against that
Ravens 31st ranked pass defense.
Uh, if you need a running back,Trey Benson is free in about 46%
of ESPN leagues.
He's going up against theTennessee Titans, who have a

(40:28):
good pass defense, but theirrush defense is 28th in the
league.
You know, James Connor ismissing.
Uh the Cardinals need to run theball to take pressure off of
Kyler Murray.
So look for Trey Benson.
If you need a running backbecause of the bye week, Benson
might be a one-week play becausehe does play some tough defenses
after.
Then, if you need a defense, I'mlooking at the Browns' defense,

(40:50):
which is actually available in96% of ESPN leagues going up
against the Minnesota Vikingsteam, where Carson Wentz, real
shaky, uh, you know,spearheading that offense.
And they're 24th in passingyards, they're 30th in rushing
yards, while the Browns arefirst in rush defense and fourth
in pass defense.

(41:11):
So I think you have a reallygood matchup there if you need a
defense, once again, with biweeks now hitting you in fantasy
football.

SPEAKER_01 (41:18):
I like that.
I like that.
Browns available.
That's that's crazy to think howgood the Browns' defense has
been this year.
I mean, that's the only reasonwhy they're semi-relevant to the
world at this very moment.
You know, beat the beat thePackers too.
I mean, that defense is verystingy, very good.
I like that one there, andespecially going up against the
Vikings, who right now it's theymight sign Joe Flacco.
I don't know.

(41:38):
Maybe Joe Flacco ends up there.
We don't we don't know what'sgonna happen with the uh with
the Vikings up there.
It's kind of a hot mess at thisvery moment.
But Kyle, as always, we got todo the mellow yellow minute.
Kyle looked at me when westarted this and he's like, did
you forget?
Did you forget?
And I'm like, no, no, no, wedidn't forget.
We're gonna get it halfwaythrough.
Split up this in the MLB.
So, Kyle, mellow yellow minuteof the week, the uh trivia

(42:01):
portion of the show that we doin honor of my grandpa.
And this next, this littleportion here, we are gonna do
the top breakfast foods, popularin the U.S., ranked worst to
best, tastingtable.com.
This is the top five accordingto tastingtable.com.
Kyle, we have hash, which is abasically a breakfast food,

(42:24):
potatoes, other veggies, um,some meat mixed in there.
So it's called hash.
We have a fritata, so that's auh that's just basically an egg.
What is this thing?
It's a fluffy pillow of savorygoodness, is what it's called
here.
You'll have to look up what afrittata is if you really need
to know.
So we got fritata there.
We have oatmeal, we havebreakfast burritos, and we have

(42:46):
breakfast sandwiches.
Why are two of them just randomthings that nobody has ever
really done?
And then the other ones arebasic like breakfast foods.
Like that just oh, that justbaffles me.
Okay, Kyle.
One through five.
What do you got?
Give me number five.

SPEAKER_03 (43:00):
All right, so number five, I'm gonna go.
Let's go oatmeal.
Five.

SPEAKER_01 (43:05):
Oatmeal is not number five.
Oatmeal is a surpriser in thisone.

SPEAKER_03 (43:11):
All right, so then five.
You know what?
Give me the fritata at five.

SPEAKER_01 (43:16):
Fritata is number five.
Fritata's number five.
Get the weird one out of theway.
It's probably not even weird.
People listening are like, Ihave frittadas every morning,
and I'm like, yeah, okay.
So four?
I'll go breakfast burrito atfour.
Breakfast burrito is not four.
Okay.

(43:37):
I would think of the yeah, thehash, yes.
Think of the staples near thetop, and then uh the weird ones
get towards the the middle andbottom, I guess you could say.

SPEAKER_03 (43:46):
Okay, so for Tata Five, hash four.
I'll go I'll go to breakfastburrito three.

SPEAKER_01 (43:55):
Not breakfast burrito.
Is it the oatmeal?
It is the oatmeal at three.
I knew it's gonna oat me.
It's a middle of the pack.
It's a it's a bland yet boring,yet still good food.
So you got breakfast sandwichesand breakfast burritos one and
two.
What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 (44:11):
I have to think the burritos two with the sandwich
being one.

SPEAKER_01 (44:15):
It is not the sandwich and burritos one.
Okay, it's that Taco Bell magic.
I don't know.
Those breakfast burritos hadTaco Bell must have put them
over the top.
Okay, hey, it threw me for aloop when I saw frittadas and
all that kind of stuff.
I I oh I when I pulled this listup, it looked pretty good
because I looked at the topthree and I was like, oh,

(44:37):
burritos, sandwiches, oatmeal,and then I looked at the rest.
I'm like, hash.
What's hash?
And then I look further, I'mlike, frittata.
I mean, you get this.
There's some crazy stuff on thislist.
Like it, oh, there's a quiche onhere.
Goodness.
There's a quiche.
Bacon comes in at number 12.
That's crazy.
That's nuts.
What is this?
What is this crap list?
I'm done with this list.
Done with this list.

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We're done with it.
We're done with that.
Just bacon at 12?
Are you serious right now?

SPEAKER_03 (45:03):
Man, I mean could have like a just a good
scrambled egg.

SPEAKER_01 (45:07):
Yeah, that's what scrambled eggs number 14.

SPEAKER_03 (45:10):
Okay.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (45:11):
How is it like these are basic?
We just gave this.
Who's making frittata in themorning?
Like you go up, you makescrambled eggs or bacon.
You ain't making a frittata on arandom weekday at 5 a.m.
while everybody's screaming atyou because you gotta get to
work.
No, uh, yeah.
Whatever.
Whatever.
This list is this list is junk.
I'm gonna I'm writing a badreview on this tastingtable.com

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when I'm done here.
That's all I know.
They're getting a bad review.
So, Kyle, let's look a littleMLB real fast here.
Let's look at the MLBpostseason.
Regular season's wrapping upnow.
We're moving into postseason.
The playoffs have alreadystarted here.
I mean, looking at this bracket,just seeing it, is there any?

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I guess we've already seen thematchup start, right?
We've already seen the wild cardstart as we're talking right
now.
We all got wild card games goingon, all crazy.
Right now, we don't know theoutcomes.
As you guys know, we're daybefore or shooting the day
before, so we don't know theoutcomes of all these wild card
games.
But is there okay?
Let's look ahead.
Let's look ahead because by thetime we're done talking here,
the wild card's gonna be overwith.
Is there any matchups that aregonna entice you if you got

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them, right?
Out of the wild card round, wesee like who's gonna match up
with the mariners there, who'sgonna match up with the blue
jays, the barrors, the Phillies.
Is there a matchup or matchupsthat entice you to see in that
division series?

SPEAKER_03 (46:30):
Well, I I guess if you get um I guess you would get
the Yankees Red Sox winner toface the Mariners, which I think
could be interesting.

SPEAKER_01 (46:44):
Because the Mariners are gonna have a lot of blue
jays, right?
Is it yeah, it's goofy becausewe think opposite of what it's
supposed to be.
The four and five ends upplaying the one, and the six and
three ends up playing the two.
When I talked about it earlierin the show, I think it should
be reseeded after, where thelower seed would end up playing

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the one seed.
So it's it's weird, it's weird,yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (47:09):
But okay, so your Yankees Red Sox winner would
face the Blue Jays, which wouldthen mean divisional opponent
for the Blue Jays, they finallyhave a good year, and staring
them in the face could be a teamthat they faced all season,
right?
That's that's intriguing to me.
Uh, I think National Leagueside, like I believe you could

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get what Cubs Brewers in thedivisional round.
Yep.
So I I feel like if you getdivisional foes in the visional
round, those matches alwaysinterest me.
Because those are teams thatknow each other so well.
And postseason baseball, everypitch you're like on the edge of
your seat.
A bloop here, a double there canjust change momentum in October.

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That's what makes it so muchfun.
So I'm so I'm looking for thosedivisional matchups in the
divisional round.

SPEAKER_01 (47:58):
Let me ask you a question before I have to let
you go.
Yeah.
Because I talked about this alittle earlier when I was
talking about the Brewers.
Can you win in the postseasonwithout home runs?
Because according to Aaron Booneand the statistics, you got to
hit home runs to win in the winin the postseason.
As we've seen, the Dodgers hithome runs, they hit timely home
runs.
The Yankees hit home runs, theymade it to the World Series.

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Do you have to?
Because the Brewers, if they'regoing to end up going far, are
not a team that lives off thehome run ball.
And I feel like that benefitsyou because, like you just said,
a bloop, a bloop, a bloop, gamechangers.
When you can just put the ballin play in the postseason,
because, like you said, thelights are bright, the plays a

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little bit more intense.
You could get a third baseman,whatever rattle, make a bad
throw by just putting the ballin play.
So I guess, in your opinion, isit is it gonna be possible that
we see a team like the Brewerswho don't use the long ball win
in the postseason?

SPEAKER_03 (48:57):
You can.
I think the opposite is yourpitchers can't give up the long
ball because home runs inOctober are killers.
So if you offensively my biggestthing outside of home runs is
timely hits, that's moreimportant to me.
So if you get a walk and thenext guy can come up and you

(49:19):
know move a guy over to second,plays like that, if you don't
hit home runs, actually canbuild momentum for you as well.
Yep, because that's the lastthing pitchers you know want to
see.
They get two outs, they make amistake, a guy bloops one, and
then they're throwing morepitches and you're extending out
the inning.

SPEAKER_02 (49:37):
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (49:37):
The brewers can be pests and win that way.
And I think that's the way thebrewers should do it.
You get a guy on, steal a base.

SPEAKER_01 (49:45):
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (49:46):
Play that way.

SPEAKER_01 (49:47):
Put pressure on guys, put pressure on other
teams, and that's what they'vethat's the pedigree.
That's what they've been doingall year is putting pressure on
opposing teams to win baseballgames.
So I love that answer rightthere.
So, Kyle, I gotta run here.
Let the people know where tofind you out there across social
media.

SPEAKER_03 (50:01):
Easiest way, uh, YouTube or Facebook, look up
Chomping at the Bit, and thenthe links to the other socials
will be there.
That's the easiest way to findme.

SPEAKER_01 (50:11):
Awesome stuff.
He's got awesome stuff.
The NBA season's right aroundthe corner.
Kyle's gonna be diving into thathere pretty darn soon.
He's diving into MLB playoffs,he's got NFL stuff on there.
This guy, he works harder thanjust about anybody out there
across it.
So make sure you guys arechecking him out, Chomping at
the Bit across all social mediaplatforms.
Thank you, Kyle, as always.
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So, final thoughts of the dayhere.
The Brewers, they're gonna bewaiting for their opponent now.
We're gonna see is it gonna bethe Cubs?
Is it gonna be the Padres?
We wait and see here.
We'll find out here in thecoming days.
Hopefully, if I don't know, it'sso hard.
Do you want to cheer for theCubs because you want to play

(51:37):
the Cubs?
But you don't want to cheer forthe Cubs because you don't like
the Cubs.
So, like, who what do you dothere?
You don't want to play thePadres.
So it's like it was a tough,tough little stretch there.
But final thoughts on that onethere.
The Brewers, I mean, they justgot to get back to playing
Brewer Ball.
I think if they play Brewer Ballhere in the NLD, I think they'll
be fine.
I really do.
I think the the thing with theBrewers and why I think they ran

(51:58):
into some trouble this season,or not this season, but the end
of the season here, is theystarted to get away from playing
brewer baseball.
I think they got to get back totheir roots, get back to what
they were doing early on thisyear, and winning baseball
camps.
That's the biggest thing is thatwhen they play brewer baseball,
when they play putting pressureon teams and playing that style
of baseball, they're a hard teamto beat.
They do the little things betterthan you do anything.

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So that's the way I think thebrewers get by and win in this
NLDS.
So we'll see what kind ofhappens there.
We're gonna be talking when wecome back here on the show next
Wednesday.
We're gonna be talking,hopefully, about the Brewers
going for a series win there inthe NLDS, maybe looking forward
to game five.
I don't know.
Whatever, or game four,whatever, whatever we got going
on.

(52:39):
We're hopefully we're talkingabout some good stuff there.
Badgers got Michigan coming upthis weekend here.
I think it's an 11 o'clock kick,if I'm not mistaken.
So yeah, it's gonna be big noonkickoff there in Ann Arbor.
Should be a should be a goodone.
Should be a good one for, Imean, hopefully a good one,
right?
Hopefully a good one at the endof the day.
Set up a good day there to watchthe Brewers later on that night

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get a good get a win in game oneof the NLDS.
So, with that, this has beenWisconsin Sports on the Go with
Trage.
Thank you all for tuning in.
I hope you guys enjoyed the restof your Wednesday.
But until I talk to you guysagain next Wednesday, see ya.