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Good evening, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler Verse. I'm Bart Winkler. Great to be with you on this Thursday night. As we get into the Brewers Dodgers series, a very interesting lineup has Gary Sanchez at first.
And Andrew Vaughan at third is now Bryce Terang. Has a mysterious injury, so we'll try to figure out. What's going on there? But we will take some Happy Place Hemp gummies and morphing to the couch in a little bit to watch that game. Happy Place Hemp, by the way, promo code BART, 25% off each and every order at checkout.
But let's talk Packers, Steelers. And the preseason opener that just concluded here as I come live to you on a Thursday night. Shout out to everybody on the live stream and shout out to everybody on the podcast. Remember, Apple, Spotify, and others for your listening pleasure. And then most of the stuff that is cranked out is on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream.
uh on the youtube channel Let me. Say this first, 28 to 9, the final. The Steelers beat the Packers, you know. It was exciting for a little bit, kind of a game. You want it to be a game.
You want to win. They didn't win. That's fine. Whatever. Here's how the Friday morning conversations are going to go at work.
Hey, did you watch the game last night? Oh, yeah, I caught a little bit of it. You know, preseason, hard to get into. They lost. Yeah, I didn't catch much of the second half.
Oh, yeah, yeah, they lost, but you know, it's a good outing. Trey Smack, the kicker. Oh, he looked really good, man. He was great. It was great.
Overall, hey, if we can find a kicker, that's good for me. Uh okay, how did Jordan Love look? Yeah, Jordan. Jordan Love looked pretty good. Yeah, he looked fine.
Oh, okay. Any injuries? Maybe a couple, but I think we got out of it pretty good. Great. Rogers didn't play, did he?
No, he didn't play.
Okay. I watched this game tonight, this preseason game. Excited for it. I watched this game excited for the game. I didn't watch much of Family Night.
I haven't been following everything going on with Training Camp. This Is my foray into the 2026 Packers season. And I'm excited that they're back. And I think they're going to be good. How good?
I don't know. I have a lot of confidence in Jordan Love. I truly do. I don't have a lot. in Matt LaFleur.
My Matt LaFleur gripe of the night Is him, was he biting his t-shirt while watching Trey Smack kick a field goal? We did not put pressure on your guy, by the way. It's the first preseason game, and I'm biting my t-shirt. On this 58-yard field goal, you're about to kick. And then I celebrated as if it was the field goal that we kicked against the Buccaneers to make a one-score game, a one-score game.
Guys. You know the drill by now. I'm on LaFleur's ass and I'm going to nitpick the shit out of him because I don't think he deserves to be here.
So I'm nitpicking everything. And it's not even nitpicking. It's me accurately describing his... actions and why he's a bad leader of men. Motherfucker.
He's probably too busy getting mad at printers to have ever seen Trey Smack kick before in practice.
So I didn't like that. Trey Smack is going to be the thing that everybody celebrates after this game.
Okay, I want to get back to the excitement. Because I am going to pour a lot of cold water on what we just watched.
Okay. Because there's a couple preseason things that I get it. We have not had football. In seven months. Packers football.
I get it. We're excited, okay? Um Trey Smack making these field goals. is better than him missing these field goals. Mm.
He made three field goals. He actually made four. One, there was a penalty. The Packers were going to be. Bitches and not go for it, but then they kick the field goal.
So he made the field goal. The one that he made and then they took back was at 57 yards. Because then he made a 58-yarder, he made a 37-yarder. And he also made the 58-yarder was at the end of the half. And in the second half, he made.
He made a 38-yarder.
So, yes, kicking was one of the reasons we had problems last year. Even in that playoff game. Kicking was a problem.
So we want a kicker, right? And we should be Happy that we want a kicker, but I just feel like. Sports radio on Friday is going to be way too much. Trey Smack, Trey Smack, Trey Smack. It's just going to be too much.
He just like it was one long field goal he made in a preseason game. And it's better that he made it than not. But I I feel I I don't want to fall into the trap of, well, I guess we have a kicker.
So, as a rookie kicker, six-round pick, you clearly made an investment in him. You want him to work. You got rid of the other guys. This guy's going to be your kicker.
So, yeah, you want him to work. I just, we've done too many times where it's like, wow, Versace is great on special teams and he sucks. Or wow, we have a defense and then we don't. Or, oh my god, this guy's going to be great, and then he's not. I just don't want to put all my eggs in the TraySmack basket.
Or, or I do. That's what the Packers have done, but I don't want to celebrate it like it's the first time we've ever seen an egg.
So it's a very specific complaint. And what is the actual complaint? The complaint was I saw too many people just like over the moon about Trey Smack. This is 2026. You better make fucking 58-yard field goals.
Okay? And you better make the 37-yard field though.
So those shouldn't even be a question.
So better he made him than didn't. But what if next week he's two for four? I felt like the only thing the Packers wanted to do in this game was get Trey Smack reps. And I think that's kind of stupid. Um You got to get everybody reps.
Did they do a good enough job of getting these other guys reps? Let me look at the box score here because this just felt like a game that was for it was for Trace Mack. Trace Mack's the only one that they bothered suiting up. They were always going to kick field goals. They wanted field goals, get us in the field goal position.
Look, I'm not saying they needed to try to win this game. But it just felt like It was 52 players or whatever. in the preseason rallying around Trey Smack. I understand that some of my complaints this week specifically have been. Are you stretching a little bit?
Like Matt LaFleur v. Printer, and now this, but. I don't think I'm wrong. The other thing that bothers me about this game. Is Jordan Love.
This is his what? Fourth year as a starter. And I was corresponding with a buddy who did not watch the beginning of the game. And the first thing he had asked me was, how did Jordan Love look? Can we get past the point where it matters?
Like Jordan Lowe's making $55 million a year. He's a very good quarterback. He is a very good quarterback. What does it matter if he looks bad or not? You'd rather again you'd rather he look good Rather than bad.
This is very simple. Binary stuff here. Rather make field go than miss field go. Yes, part. Rather look good than look bad.
But we shouldn't be watching a preseason game. And then after one drive, ask. How did Jordan Love look? It does not matter. How Jordan Love looked.
He's our quarterback. Third gripe. Let's just go Grepefest. I'm looking on Twitter, and there must be an audience for it. But I don't think there is.
I really don't. Because a lot of the people that cover the Packers And they do this much better than me. Because I I won't do it. for I don't care. We're charting offensive line move.
I mean, if you're. If your whole job is Packers. You should be versed on what the offensive line is doing. But I don't think. That The average fan, even the above average, even this.
I would say I'm not an average fan. I'm an owner. I'm a diehard. I might not even be able to name you. The five starters on the offensive line.
I don't care. I don't care. Just get your five best out there and don't get them hurt. I don't care who's coming in and out. on the offensive line.
I just never have. And I never will.
So Was this game only for Trey Smack? It felt like it. Did Jordan love look good? Why are we still asking that question? And then uh Who cares about The offensive line.
AJ says.
Some of them need to do these super nerdy breakdowns because none of them get info from the team. The Packers only break news with national media guys. That's fine. I mean, I'm not saying they shouldn't do it. I just wonder if the people that do it think there's a bigger appetite for it than there is.
There might be a very small appetite for it. It's like. Talking about the Packers offensive line, I'll do a Marvel here. It's like the show Echo. Nobody that's doing a Marvel watch is watching Echo.
You might not even know what it is. I know it because I'm a diehard and I want to know it. But if you were doing a Marvel show, you'd never be like. Hey, let's go and revisit Echo for a minute. Daredevil was in that for 12 seconds.
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Hate Jake. Stepdad, Jacob. I see, I see, I see, I see. Yeah, if you know, you know. Nice flat brim.
Yeah, this looks fucking insane. Like, I didn't realize how flat this brim is. This is nuts, man. You guys wanted flat brim hats. I know.
Like, I'm impressed. I knew it was flat when I took it out of the package, but like seeing it now is just like holy moly. Yeah, that is that is flat as it gets. That is as flat as my freshman year girlfriend, right there. Look at that.
Good. Served ranks on that. Anyways, hey, speaking of Marvel. This Spider-Man movie made a billion dollars. I don't know a single person who saw it.
Like, who's going to see these things? I saw it opening day. Yeah, but like were you by yourself? What what was happening? Like the theater was packed and people were dressed up.
What time of day was it? Thursday at noon. There's people there dressed up. The theater was packed. Mm.
But they were like dressed up as Spiderman and stuff. Oh yeah. Hold on, I gotta do this. That's that's gotta change.
Okay. That's better. I was distracted myself there. Anyways, how was the movie? It was good, but it...
It was like the way I would say is like. Did you like Thunderbolts? Yeah, it's a good movie.
Now, imagine if it was Spider-Man. Mm. So like You wouldn't go to see it again. Um I'd go to see well, I would go to see it again, but Like the opening weekend, it kept leaking online. Oh.
So I watched it again online. Gotcha. I thought you were going to say you're a big Sadie Sink fan, but. Uh my flavor of the week right now is AOC. Yeah, I'm a little bit disillusioned with.
Don't be weird. Don't be weird. Yeah, I'm not going to be weird. Oh, I know what you're talking about. I've seen the clip.
So and then the clip she's going to the gym. And then the photo of her in the jeans. I smell what you're cooking here. Do you want to talk Packers or do you want to talk Bucks' schedule, or what are you doing here? I want to talk about how I don't want to talk about the Packers because.
I think There's like certain events that happen in your life that change you.
So like when they blew it against Seattle, And it was like catastrophic. The next day, I changed as a person where it just kind of hit me as like. That was horrible, but why? Is this affecting me in my day-to-day life? Like, this is something that I watch for entertainment.
Um Or like, you know. You get really, really excited about something, and then you decide, like, yeah, I don't think I'm ever voting again. You know, those kinds of things.
So I think what happened when the Packers blew it against the Bears is like, I just don't get up for football anymore. Because we've alluded to it many times on the show. I know you have, Bart, that as long as Matt LaFleur. is the coach of the Packers. There is no reason to be excited for the team.
Like, we know how the story ends. 9, 10, 11 wins. Playoff failure in the game. I watched uh the opening drive. I thought Marshawn Lloyd had some burst.
Okay, that's the other thing. Why does everyone, why is everyone like. Marshawn Lloyd, God, get over. I mean, everyone, everyone, the last two years is more shown, who cares? We got Sky Moore back there, baby.
Yeah, I mean usually and it here was the test like when the Packers first play in the preseason I never watched Family Night, but When they play in the preseason, like when you see that first glimpse of them on the field in the yellow of the uniforms, it makes me feel something. And I did not feel a thing because, again, I felt it, I was pretty pumped. I wish, but like even going into the offseason, usually I'm all about, you know, what are we doing? Like, I'm totally into the draft. I study these guys, I get way into it.
I couldn't tell you a rookie that's on the team. I couldn't tell you. I know they drafted a kicker. You said his name a bunch of times. Trey Smack.
Smack, yeah, which is a dumb fucking name, by the way. He's going to be a bus based on that. But Um, yeah, I couldn't tell you a single one of their rookies. Like, I just don't have any juice, and then you know, with the Bucs, like, I think I don't have any juice for that either. What the hell?
But yeah, like it's just I'm pissed that they have two national televised games and they're both against Giannis. Yeah, but did you expect any different though? I don't want those games to be on TV. I don't want anyone to see them. I'd rather they do that.
I'd rather they had none. I think that the Bucs are going to win both of those games because Giannis is going to be so in his head. No, he'll play. He will fit like. If there's two games, like Grant said it about LeBron, if there's one game this year that he'll play, it'll be against LA on Christmas.
If there's two games Giannis plays this year, it'll be against the Bucs. Because he has this weird victim complex thing that's going on. Like, even though they did every fucking thing that he asked for. Um, and made him the GM. But I think he will play, but he will be so in his head and pressing so hard that he's gonna play like shit and the Bucks are gonna win both games.
What happened to your camera? Uh nothing happened on my camera. Um The light just turned. We have like they're called whiz lights where you can change the color and stuff. And uh My wife must have turned it blue.
I don't know what her uh. I mean, I can speculate on what her motivation is. What's up? I barely see you. Yeah, I am in my bedroom right now, and the lights just went blue.
So I don't know if that's like she's trying to signal something to me or. what the deal is. As always, Jake, as always, some pro, some con. Chad says, Jake bringing the fire with the spot on take about the current state of Packers. Things?
M Shark says, Jake, I don't get excited for Packer game. First preseason game after calls into a preseason post-game show. Buddy, if you think I'm excited for the game, I'm excited for that handsome son of a bitch on the left right there. That's what gets me up. Alex says: stop screaming about third-stringers sucking.
Stop it. And then JR says Bart loving AOC is so on brand woke loser. Woke? You know what's woke? These eyes are awake because she's hot.
Well, and isn't she done with Woke now? Didn't she say that? She made fun of Woke? Yeah, Woke 1.0. Yeah.
Well, I think That whole party's dumb with woke. All right. Are you still upset? I am a little upset. Um I took my daughter to go vote with me.
And then the lesson the next day was: by the way, honey, don't vote. It's just pointless. No, it's not. My candidate won. I'm happy for you.
I hope you encounter when did they break ground on the Shorewood Data Center? That's what I want to know. She won Sherwood by 400 votes. Yeah.
Tom Tiffany got 200 votes in Shorewood. Would love to be in the room when they talked about those USB drives, but I digress. By the way, I will say, Tony. I don't know how they fucked that up. That was like.
Can Tony Evers just shut the fuck up? All right, can we get off of this? I'm sorry. I can't help myself, but yeah, anyways. How are you?
You didn't like the Unity breakfast? No, I sent you that picture and I told you that's going to be when he gets fucking annihilated in November, that's going to be the most memed picture of all time. Like that's going to become the symbol for losers. It's just. Everybody all happy, holding up their French toast and their coffees.
Fucking losers. Yeah.
All right. Sorry, we just Anyways, I'm gonna get back to the this is the Winkler group instead of the Winkler verse, like the McLaughlin group. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah, old school. But yeah, I don't know. That's all I got.
Chad says Hong was wrong for Wisconsin. Ooh. Burn. And to that guy that was like, oh, you don't care, but you're calling into a post-game show, dude. You think I fucking have anything to do?
Fuck it. This is my social life right here.
So don't hate. Oh, God. I just saw a funny thing from LeFleur. He he bit his shirt. when Trey Smack was kicking a field goal.
What do you mean he bit his shirt? Like, can you decide? Oh, it's better. Go, this better go in. He did that while the guy was out there kicking.
Yeah.
Oh my god. What what kind of leadership is that? He's a loser. He f oh my god. You know what?
He should freaking run for governor. He's perfect. Zach Jacobson tweets. Matt LaFleur said he didn't even get to say hello to Aaron Rodgers before or after the game. That was a bummer.
Certainly, a guy I have a ton of respect for, as long as he's not. Playing the Green Bay Packers, I'll always root for him. How do you not if you want it If if you wanted to meet Roger if Rogers wanted to meet you. He would have met you. He would have talked to you.
Yeah, what the fuck else was he gonna do? Roger LaFleur got Like, cause I did Rogers even suit up tonight? Yeah.
Yeah, what yeah.
So there's okay, whatever. Everything that motherfucker does is calculated.
So he did not, as you said, he did not want to talk to Matt LaFleur. That's quite clear. I saw a picture of him in love, though.
Well, yeah, he wants to talk to Jordan Love because he. He thinks um He thinks Jordan loves like his. Yeah, I was gonna say, he probably thinks he's responsible for Jordan Love being great. Yeah.
Yeah, when you're that self-absorbed everything is because of you or, you know, in spite of you. Yeah.
All right, Jake, I can't see you, so I'm gonna. All right. I love you, buddy. You got a big weekend coming up. I might go to a.
There's a soccer game. The Timbers are playing the fire MLS Soldier Field. It's Sunday at five. I can get tickets three rows up for $50. Yeah.
No, I will be. I'm taking the kids to, there's like a Taylor Swift thing at State Fair.
So. They're very excited for that. I gotta find a picture of LaFleur because I'm gonna rip on this thing for I mean I Ah. I don't know if anyone's going to actually have it. I should go back and What's the picture?
Is it him with the shirt? It's just, yeah, it's him biting the shirt. They showed it at one point during the game. I taped the game. I'll go find it and tweet it and.
You know what you should do? Do you know how like um Someone made an account about the rapper Drake, and it was like: Drake is the type of guy who. And then they just name the lamest shit. You should do that for Matt LaFleur. Like, Matt LaFleur is the type of guy who...
Watches a horror movie, covers his eyes and says, Oh, I can't watch, I can't watch. Like, he's that kind of guy. Lua's the kind of guy that pours the milk in and then the cereal. Oh yeah. Okay.
LaFleur is the kind of guy that turns the water off while he brushes his teeth.
Well, that's we need that water for data centers, aka valuable assets going to waste. They're making those to enslave us. We all know that. Yeah, yes, surveillance centers. It's not.
Yeah, I looked at there's a website where you can see where flock cameras are, and I looked at it. Said there were none in Shorewood, and then I went to the metro market today, and there was like two fucking huge ones. Yep, that's gonna be um basically like stop signs now. For what? I mean, I think you know for what, so they can watch everything you do and track every th every move you make.
All right. So you're still not over 12 years ago, huh? Uh no, I don't think so.
Well, maybe someday. That one will never leave. But, anyways, all right, Francesco Hong to take Ron Johnson's seat. Love you. You still gonna write her in, you little bitch?
Oh, definitely. Fuck yes. I am so contributing to this. I cannot wait. My bitterness knows no ends.
You're not blue no matter who. Blue no matter who. It's the blue wave. No, you know what? Is a good message?
Um You're going to need those votes, right?
Well, no, they're just going to have to fall in line. Fuck you, Mitch McConnell-looking ass. I'd love to slap the shit out of that man. Tony Evers. Yeah.
There's one good thing that boomers can do to help this world that left that they can do. I don't say what it is.
Well, okay, yeah, you named it. You nailed it. All right, love you buddy. Like dye their hair gray so we know they're a boomer. Yeah, and frickin' uh they wear vests.
Yeah.
All right, I love you. I gotta go. All right, I'll take Jake. He mentioned the um NFC Championship game of 2014. It spurred me to think of this audio.
I will play it. I believe it's been played before. But this was my first crack at a microphone. After 2014. At the time, I was producing the big show in the afternoons on WSSP.
I um Did not work Mondays or Tuesdays.
So my first crack out of sports radio microphone was Wednesday. And uh This is how This is how it went. On that Wednesday. Day three. How you feelin'?
Bart Winkler, Big Packers fan on the other side of the glass. Just distraught and dejected when I walked into these studios today. How you feeling, Bart? Outside of a death, this is the worst thing that's ever happened. What?
I'm not kidding. I, on Sunday night, And t and yesterday and today and and the day before that. Oh, was it Bostick's fault or McCarthy? I haven't even gotten to that point yet. I'm at why do I like sports as much as I do?
Why why do What happened this year for me? I get all pumped up. Badgers Final Four looks like we're going to the title game. No. Brewers We're talking about we're talking about Is this staff good enough to win a World Series?
They don't make it. The LSU game.
Okay, for the Badgers. This Seattle game, which I was running up and down, panting all through my house, I still haven't seen the two-point conversion, and I never hoped to. I they would they replay the game on NFL Network last night? And I turned it on immediately. I'm like, no, no.
And then it was in her. It was in a commercial. Thank God.
So I turned off my remote and I threw it against the wall. Shut up. I'm not kidding. My neighbors say he took his batteries out of his remote so he wouldn't turn the TV off. I've never felt this way, and I'm going to make sure that I never feel this way again.
I'm not going to get into this team this hard until they get back to the title.
So you're over it, basically, is what you're saying. I think I'm with Jay. I don't think that I don't think. Think? There's been, no, I don't know.
I mean, there's been times. There's been times where. You're back into it, but I don't think it was ever. Like you can't Go back from that. When you lose your innocence.
Your innocence is lost. You can still. Have your childhood and But your innocence is lost. And I think my innocence was lost. as at least a Packer fan.
I know that is almost a little too like... dramatic but That is how I feel. Granger knows when you're a procurement manager for an office park, you're not managing one building, you're managing all of them. And to stay ahead, you need to see through walls and around corners. Lights about to fail, filters ready to clog, H back on its last leg.
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In the month of August. You can leave a voicemail on the Carl's Place voicemail line: 402-915-BART. 402-915-2278. I don't know where this is going, but this is a voicemail I got. It looks like Matt in Chicago.
Mark, what's going on man? It's Matthew in Chicago. Just checking in, man.
Sorry I missed the tailgate. But do what he calls sometimes. You know how it goes. Hey, I got a couple things for you, Bart. I hope your old son had a nice birthday with all the wrestling presents, all that.
My dad got me a cane mask when I was a little boy. Until that bitch Tori cheated on him with DX, then he got me a A Ray Mysterio Mask. I stuck with Ray.
So anyways, hope your son, our presence was cool there. The the Matt LaFort you've been on with the with the copy machine. I can see that in the bears training camp on the poster board right now. Just a big blow-up, Matt LaFleur tweaking out on the. On the copy machine.
You know, Ben Johnson. Put that up on the On the big trains. Mm-hmm. And one more thing, too, but I was going to tell you this, because I saw you did an episode with Kat about a couple of weeks ago. You know how Cap does the, he calls it the recap bark.
But he does postgame uh shorts. Oh.
Everyone's hot and calm game. And I think you would be good at that for the brewers because No one else is doing a YouTube chart post-game, just quick syncopasis, this, that. win, find another way, or, you know, bad game. Let's let's figure it out tomorrow. Even though I have to be elaborate, just...
I don't know. I think you'll be good at that, Barbara. It's original and to be honest with you it'll stick too because, you know, not everybody watches the game, man. You know? People will just subscribe too because they know that you got the quick info.
Anyways, man, looking forward to the season coming up. Should be a good one, man. I'll highlight you then, all right? Take it easy, Bart. Matthew, appreciate that.
Thanks for calling. You can call 402-915-2278. Kane, we watched Kane today. We watched a 2005 Royal Rumble. This was the Rumble where they were very heavy on SmackDown versus Raw.
The GMs came out and at one point they all lined up against each other. And Batista and Cena both went over the top rope. At the same time. And then the SmackDown refs said Cena had won. The Raw refs said Batista had won, and eventually Batista won.
But the match started. Because my kid knows all these wrestlers, and we're going backwards in Royal Rumbles. This is how he's learning about some new ones. Because you still got to see Cena and Batista and Edge and Jericho and Rey Mysterio in this one. But the the the Royal Rumble in 2005 started with Eddie Guerrero versus Chris Benoit.
And I told them both have since passed. Um I didn't tell them I didn't tell them how. Then we were watching here's a complaint. We were watching the game. And at halftime, I was in the kitchen.
Dishes And then he comes running in and he goes, Dad, I saw a man get attacked on the street. And I'm like What?
So I thought I thought Outside of our home, a man got attacked. And I was ready to help. I grabbed my spatula. And then he goes, rewind the TV. And I rewind it, and it was.
Where was this? Tosa? I don't remember where it was, but there was a. Video of a guy just attacking some dude on the street. Let's not show that at halftime during a Packer preseason game.
Okay. Can we? Like I try to not watch stuff. Talk about losing your innocence. He's like, why'd that guy even get hurt?
Just got pushed. He got pushed from behind, kid. He was attacked. He was sneak attacked.
So now my kid knows about that. Then again, when the war in Iran started, we had the TV on for 48 hours. And he had a lot of questions. I just kind of ignored them. Anyway, the Packers lost 28-9.
Tonight they lost twenty-eight. Denine.
Okay. Some other things that you'd like to know, your leading quarterback. In everything. Rating, yards, average. attempts, completions.
Kyle McCord. The Syracuse Grad. Didn't he play somewhere else? Didn't McCord go somewhere else? None of these guys stay.
What is happening with Jaden Daniels in the number five at LSU? Boy, is that a stupid fucking story. Oh yeah, he was in Ohio State to begin with. Yeah.
Jaden Daniels trying to have five retired. Because it's part of his NIL. You would never have expected that when NIL started, but that was the can of worms that was always going to get opened. Love was, yeah, how did love look? Love looked like Jordan Love.
He threw. One nice pass and then didn't do much else.
Okay. Um Chiron drones. He looked bad. Tyrod Taylor, there was a comment earlier. about quarterbacks.
M Shark. Packers should bring in a fun quarterback to entertain us for the preseason. This game was a boar fest minus the special teams as a whole. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the most enthralling thing you'll ever see. It wasn't Hall of Fame night from a week ago, Panthers, Cardinals, Tarico Collinsworth calling it like it's the Super Bowl as a play comes down to the wire.
But yeah, I don't know. I mean, we'll see what happens. He's 37 years old. That's a good mentorship. But i if if love is gonna miss a month I always say backup quarterbacks need to go two and two when your stop guy misses a month.
I mean Malik Willis. Tyrod's not going to be Malik Willis, if that's what you're thinking. You just, I mean, love can't get hurt. Packers rush the ball 24 times for 63 yards. Marshawn Lloyd had a few touches.
Damian Martinez, 8 for 20. Isaiah Nayer is a wide receiver that I've wanted to keep in dynasty leagues for a while. He's a super, super deep dynasty guy. But I also don't think he'll ever actually do anything. Like guys like Lambert Smith.
uh with the Chargers is a guy that Some of these receivers that are like, could they pop? Like Jimmy Horn with the Panthers, you know, the fourth and fifths on these teams. Nair is more like a six or seven. He might not even make the team. He led the.
Packers 4 for 34. Sky Moore. I think there might be a spot for Skye Moore on this team. I thought Mervyn Kenyon III, who I didn't know who it was. I did Google Packers 39 tonight.
He prevented a touchdown by pushing that guy out of bounds. That was a good play. Um Cissé had three tackles. Everyone was kind of had their eye on him. Keyshawn Nixon's terrible.
He's terrible. And I don't know what we're doing. How does that not get addressed I'm very much. Pro love. It's like too hot just right and too cold.
Look, Goldilocks here with the Packers. I'm very much on board. Jordan Love. That's That's too hot because I may be too into them. I'm maybe too cold on the floor.
But Goody, I'm like just right on, because there's some bad, some good. And the secondary is not bad. The safeties are as good as any position. But man, Nixon is your QB1 or CB1. He fucking stinks.
He stinks. He's bad. There's no redeeming hope for him. He's bad. He's bad.
His efforts are bad. He plays bad. He is bad. Keyshawn Nixon is bad.
Now, if Keyshot Nixon's your Q CB4 and a kick returner. Sign me up. He's your Number one guy. At a position you fucking sucked at for 15 years. Only hired gun Charles Woodson was worth a damn.
Even your big guy, Jair Alexander. That wasn't a successful tenure here. Based on where he got drafted, I don't think.
So Nixon sucks. You all know that. Van Ness had a sack. Packers had three sacks. Steelers got penalized a shitload.
That was weird. I'm sure Big Mike's not happy about that, but. They won the game. Rodgers at some point is going to play in the preseason. I don't know why he just didn't dress up and play a snap against the Packers.
Was it like it doesn't count 'cause it's the preseason? Let's fucking play. You can get out there and Throw one fucking pass. Jair was good and then he wasn't. And then he was weird and then he would.
Like, um Sometimes the end is so rotten. David Bakhtiari's end was very rotten, but he had a lot of equity built up.
So he had a successful tenure as a Packer. Jair, there's more like. You suck, or what are you doing? Or are you coming to camp? Or are you healthy?
Or are you not? Yeah, he had a good run there, but we still like. Who are all the Josh Jackson, Ahmaud Carrolls? Lenny McGill, these are the guys I'm thinking of. Bawa Ju.
Jared Bush making plays. Was that his name? Was that the Was that the Packer? Cornerback Jared Bush.
So all in all, the game was fine. It's good to have the Packers back. It was in a nice window where you can watch them and then watch the Brewers. Yeah.
I like that idea that Matthew had. Freems does that. From time to time. the instant reacts looks like Zero-0 Brewers Dodgers. You'd like them to split this series.
Like almost best case scenario, right? After losing to the Padres three games in a row and what I think it was the dumbest series of the year. Two close losses and then a drubbing. you lose all the games.
So I don't have they been swept? Before this season, have the Brewers been swept? before this season. At all. Uh Washington got him in April.
And that would be it. Yeah, every other series they've at least salvaged it. Oh, duh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, at the end of the all-star break. Going into the all-star break, they're always pretty bad. And then coming out of the trade deadline, they've maybe not been great because.
I don't know if the team is demoralized or what. But they were winning more, they were winning their games after the trade deadline. They just had that stinker in Pittsburgh where they lost. But they won that series three out of four. They beat the Twins two out of three.
It's just they lost it. It was so stupid. And the infield was so fucking bad. The infield was so fucking bad. I'm sorry, Brazilian Bronco.
I'm sorry, but Matt LaFleur is a. Best a QB coach, not a head coach. Don't be sorry. Booger, there's a booger. There is a booger, Carlos.
The third and five screen that Matt LaFleur called with Jordan loving the game was peak. Yeah, the announcers were like, oh, he's trying to look for someone else. And then he had to check down to Lynch. I'm sorry. I think if it's fourth down in the preseason, you just go.
I know you want to get Trey Smack some reps, but. Was this the Trey Smack game? Is that what it was? The Trey Smack game. Packers start the preseason 0-1.
Good to have him back. Definitely good to have him back. Their next game will be next Friday night at 8 p.m. You guys up for a Friday night? Postgame next Friday, I think we could accommodate that.
Why not? Finally. Time to take some happy place M goonies. And sink into the couch and watch the Brewers. Lose one to nothing tonight.
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