March 4: Hour 1 Brewers, Bucks and Packers

We break down why the Brewers’ stockpile of arms is a smart hedge against bullpen burn, challenge the Bucks to fix ball movement and turnovers, and question whether the Packers’ continuity is complacency or a call for higher standards. We finish with a Badgers vs Maryland primer built on defensive matchups and aggressive offense.

• Brewers build depth with controllable, multi-inning arms
• Opener vs power arm for opening day balance
• Injury timelines for Woodruff and Priester
• Bisaccia exit and Clemson rumors
• LaFleur’s standards and locker room accountability
• Backup QB profiles that fit Green Bay’s system
• Bucks’ turnover problem and offensive rebounds allowed
• Aligning Doc’s rotations with ball movement targets
• Badgers’ plan to slow Andre Mills and attack the rim

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This is Wisconsin Sports on the Go with Trade. Your place for all things Wisconsin Sports. Now, your host, Trage.

Brewers Pitching Depth Strategy

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How are we doing, everybody? And welcome in to Wisconsin Sports on the Go with Trage. I'm your host, Trage, as we're coming in here on this Wednesday. I hope you guys are enjoying your Wednesday so far here. Hope you guys are enjoying your week. It's getting a little warmer outside there, so you can't beat the weather right now. I mean, if it was 60s, that'd be that'd be okay. But it's getting warmer. That's all I know. It's getting warmer. They're talking about rain this weekend, though, so that's not great. But I mean, all in all, you'll take it over the snow. So definitely some nice weather here we have coming up for the week. So, lots of stuff we have to dive into tonight here on the show. We have to get to the Packers. We're gonna talk Packers with Ummer coming up next year. We're gonna get to that. We have the Bucks talk with Whistle for the X guys. They're gonna stop by in hour number one. We got some brewer talk coming up later. Kyle's gonna stop by, talk about the World Baseball Classic, some Badger talk to get to later on here in the show as we prepare for that game coming up here against Maryland. When we're done with the show here today, that game's gonna start up. Can't wait to watch the Badgers take on Maryland. Last home game of the season for the Badgers after they just completely rolled Washington over the weekend there. And I loved every second of it because we talked about it going into it. And we were we were actually before the Washington game, we had the show here on Saturday. If you guys missed it on Saturday, make sure you guys check us out. Saturdays 10 to 11. But we talked about it, and I said the only preview that we needed to do for the Washington game coming off that Oregon game was the Badgers need to come into this game and play like a team that wants a game more than the other one. Because they've had so many games this season where they play, you hate to use the term lesser opponent, but a team that is worse than them, just get record-wise, whatever you want to say, personnel even, and they just come out flat, they get down big, they try to crawl themselves out of a hole, and they can't, and they lose. We've seen it against Ohio State, where I think the Badgers are the better team, lost that game. Mobley wasn't playing, and the one of their better guards didn't, I mean, just looked terrible in that game. And then they have the loss to Oregon mixed in there. They've had some losses this season where you look at it back at it and you say, Wow, I mean, this is a different team than what we watched a game ago. But they bounced back against Washington, they look a lot better in all facets, and now they have this date coming up tonight here with Maryland before that big one ended the season at Mackey there on Saturday. So lots of good stuff to dive into today here with that Badger team. There was a lot of good games across uh across Wisconsin, their high school sports, happening too over the weekend. So lots of great stuff that we watched over this last weekend here. But I want to start out today. We're gonna talk a little brewers here to start out the show, and then I want to hop into the brewers later on here in our number one. But just talking about the brewers and what we've kind of seen. And I was we've talked about the Durban trade, the Freddie Peralta trade, and we talked about those things thoroughly by now. So I don't want to get back in, well, kind of get back into them, right? I don't want to talk about the trade itself, I guess. But the Brewers gained a lot of pitching depth in those games, or in not in those games, in those, in those uh trades there. And we went back at it and we're looking at it, we're like, well, what do they need all these lefties for? What do they need all these pitchers for? There's just there's so many pitchers on the roster now. Why do they need so many pitchers? Why do they need no so many starters, right? And we were speculating. Well, what are they gonna do with them? Are they gonna try to make another trade? That's a possibility. They might try to trade for somebody, they might try to move on from one of these guys. But when I was really thinking about it, and just kind of going, you know, looking at last season a little bit there, the Brewers went through a stretch where they had a lot of guys on the injured list. That's why they got Quinn Priester was because they were banged up in the starting pitching, so they went out and got a starter. Now you have a lot of depth. And the question, you know, the question that comes across is well, what are you gonna do with all this depth? I think it's needed depth, if you ask me. Because you have a bullpen that gets taxed. Because the Brewers, I mean, you look at their starters, they don't have guys who really go six, seven, eight innings into a game, right? Their starters don't. Their starters are more four, five, six, and that's what we saw last season. And if all trends in the same direction, their bullpen is going to be used pretty heavily this year. We look at Jared Caney from last year, look at guys like Nick Mears, Grant Anderson, they all had innings that were pretty high. So then you think about okay, now they got a lot of young, controllable arms with options that is needed, and that's where I'm kind of looking with what they did in these trades, is they got guys who have length, who are able to go multiple innings, but also have options. So you're able to have those moving pieces. You can bring off the big league roster, send back down to AAA when you need them. You have guys go down, maybe you have guys who've been overused in your bullpen, whatever it is. You're able to bring in some guys to give you some length. That is much needed. So when I think about what the Brewers have done in moving on from some of these guys and getting those controllable arms, I starting to trend towards the I like this. I like what they did. They made these moves to give themselves options in case if they run into one of these problems, right? Because now you have, I mean, you look at guys, you have Angel Zerpa now, and you have Brandon Sprout, you have Harrison's in that mix now, you're gonna have uh Duran in that mix a little bit. He looked good in his first outing. I don't know if he's gonna be there right away, but you have, I mean, all options of younger guys. Coleman Crow has been kind of in the talks there a little bit as being a guy we could potentially see at some point. Carlos Rodriguez, we've seen him a little bit along the way, but you have these guys who give you flexibility now. And to have that ability where the bullpen's a little bit taxed, we might need to have a couple more guys with some length up for this game, whatever. Maybe you're playing a lot of back-to-backs, maybe you're in a stretch of I haven't looked at their schedule, I don't have it right in front of me, but maybe you have a stretch where you're playing 11 straight games and you need to have that sixth guy. You need to have that extra guy in your rotation. Your bullpen's kind of being overused because one of those guys went, maybe one of your guys only went four innings on that Tuesday, and now on Thursday, your bullpen's a little bit taxed. Okay, what are we gonna do? Okay, we make a quick, quick phone call, we get some guys up here, a little bit more length. That's where I'm that's where I kind of like what the Brewers did here. Getting some of those guys to add more depth, but add length and add control and add options into that bullpen, into that starting rotation. So just some thoughts that I had coming off the weekend there when thinking about these trades that they made and the amount of pitchers that they have now to pick from, because I believe if you think about the starting rotation, they have like 11, 12 guys that you could, I mean, realistically say that could be starters. Now, most of them won't be, but you have those guys in there now, and some of those guys will transition to the bullpen, but then you have options to bring back up and down. So definitely I I like if that's the idea, I'm good with the idea of what the Brewers did because you got to prepare for worst case scenario, right? Especially with guys like Brandon Woodruff and Quinn Priester. I don't think Quinn Priester is going to be very long before we see him in spring, but we don't know about Brandon Woodruff. He's still in simulated games, they've gone well, but we'll wait and see when he's actually going to make a start down there in spring training. So when we come back from the break, Ummer's gonna stop by. We're gonna talk little Packers. We have the Whisco Fanatics guys coming up here in hour number one, we're gonna talk some Brewers here to end hour number one, and then we have Kyle coming up, hour number two, Badger talk in hour number two there, getting you ready for Badgers Maryland coming up tonight here. So when we come back, Ummer's stopping by, we'll be right back here. So, anyways, this is Wisconsin Sportsman the Go with Trage. I'm your host, Trage. We're coming back in here on this Wednesday. And hey, this next segment, um, are stopping by. We're gonna talk a little packers. This next segment is brought to you by Chili Implements. Tackle your toughest jobs on the farm or in your yard with equipment from Chili Implement. Visit Chili Implement and find what you need today. Spring is here, it's warming up. You're getting into the backyard, you're getting out to the fields, you might need some equipment. Check them out there, Chili Implements. So, Amr is here tonight. Amor, how are we doing on this Wednesday?

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Good, man, good. Just uh Combine ended. I really enjoyed that. And um, just really looking forward to this weekend and just trying to see what happens in the beginning of the new league year, who gets cut, and where we save money and all that good stuff.

Managing Bullpen Wear And Rotation Options

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I I I watched the combine and I enjoyed it too, just so everybody knows. See, see, that's so everybody if you guys don't know the context behind that. I had my own hiccup explaining why I didn't think the combine was as important as what other people say. And if you guys missed that, listen back to the show on Saturday. I have it on the podcast platforms. You can hear it there. I apologize for it already, but I did enjoy the combine, it was great. I was texting Ummer during it. I said, don't tell anybody I'm watching it because they might lose their minds on me, anyways. So I watch a combine, it was fantastic. So we're gonna talk a little Packers today. The surprising thing that came out of the weekend, and I know the Packers aren't nothing's really happening, right? They had a special day, hired their special teams coordinator, but nothing really crazy is happening, right? Well, this is a storyline that I didn't expect. So Rich Pisaccia steps down as the Packers special teams coordinator and the assistant to Matt LaFleur. He steps down, and everybody, you know, kind of was in the same, you know, kind of mindset where it was like it was just time, he was getting older, he just wanted to retire and just be done. Well, then it comes out that Rich Pisaccia is thinking about going to Clemson. Now, the weird part is, and this is what I was just reading up on, is there's no actual job, there's no open staff positions on the Clemson football team at this very moment, and he is still pending approval from the Board of Trustees if he's even going to be brought on to the coaching staff. But just odd, because I thought, I guess in my mind, was that Rich was stepping down because he was just getting older and he just wanted to step away from football for a while. And I understood that. That's okay. Like you've been in the league for a while, you just wanted to step down and be done. But then he's going to Clemson, which then brought out to a new light. Well, what's going on? Like, I didn't think that he'd step down from Green Bay, to be honest with you. And then all of a sudden he steps down, and now he's talking about going to Clemson. Now, what his role is going to be there, I don't know. Maybe it's just an advisor. I have no idea. They college football is in crazy times, right? With NIL and everything else. So maybe bringing a guy like Rich to oversee things, maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea. He's not a bad coach. Like, I don't want to make him out to be a bad coach. He's not a bad guy, he's not a bad coach. He's a good people person, right? Good in the locker room. So maybe that's what Dabo Sweeney's thinking out there in Clemson. But I mean, just an odd thing. And I don't know, it makes you question like, did he actually want to leave Green Bay? Was it a forced step down? They just said he stepped down. What happened behind the scenes? Did he finally feel the outside noise, right? Everybody's been kind of calling for his job for a while. Did he finally like give in to that outside noise? I mean, Amr, when you heard this news, just odd. Like, I didn't expect like this. Was like, whoa, whoa, what? Really? Why? I don't know what's happening. Like, I mean, what's your thoughts coming off of it?

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I mean, honestly, it I know he had a relationship with Dabbo Sweeney. I think he actually started out his uh collegiate career at Clemson, I believe. I know he has I know he's friends with Dabo. I think I wouldn't be surprised if he's retiring from the NFL to get back to his roots. Maybe just wants something to do, and here he is now. Like he's just gonna try something different. I don't know. It again, it's really weird where he waited for the coaching cycle to end, coaching hiring cycle to end, makes his decision, and then you know, everyone was blindsided by it. So maybe there's more to it. Who knows? You know, and maybe unfortunately, sometimes he started hearing the rumors a little more than he expected, and maybe he started hearing the fact that no matter what was going on, he was gonna get blamed for everything, and maybe he just got tired of it, you know. And the funny thing is, never once did LaFleur in the media ever blame Rich. Ever. He never blamed his coach and stuff, he never blamed him. He was very diplomatic in that sense. So who knows what's going on behind closed doors? But you know, I wasn't very happy with the things that like happened under Rich's watch. Um, but unfortunately, you know, he can't make people kick, he can't make people you know recover uh uh onside kick. You know, you can't help people block, but again, um the day, like he was a good dude, a good coach, a good man. Every single person that spoke on him spoke positively. So I hope nothing for the best for him. And I think a guy like him, who's a good culture guy, like you just said, would be really, really good for the call drinks.

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Isn't it something how you come around on a guy once he's fired? Like we spent five weeks calling for his job and everything and not having a good thing to say, and then all of a sudden he's gone, and we're like, Yeah, he was a good guy, good coach, like you know, and nobody ever said anything bad about him and this and that, and it's like oh no, I did feel bad.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Yeah, 100%. I'm talking about like the players, all the players, like right very positive and elusive for him. But don't get me don't get it twisted. I'm I'm happy he's gone because you know, if you keep bringing back the same coach and expecting different results and they're not doing anything to change the way they're you know attacking things, and he's old school coach, I don't think he's gonna be changing his methods because of that. Um no, I'm happy that we got someone new in there. I don't know how this guy's gonna be. Like, he's he has coached a number one special teams ranking before, and he's coached a couple of mid ones, but the mid is better than last. So I have nothing but the best for Cam and Cord. And yeah, like again, don't get it wrong. I'm very hearing about the stories about Rich. You knew this about him when he was at the Raiders, where when he got at the end of the season, he wrote hand let handwritten letters for every single player on that team when he was the interim head coach. And I mean his daughter had taken a picture of him doing that, and he got really upset about it because he didn't want that to get out. But like it just shows you the kind of man he is, and of course, you have to separate the man and the coach, right? Right. Like, you know, there's there's guys that we've seen that are like just amazing people, but just not good coaches.

Injury Timelines And Contingency Planning

Packers Segment Intro And Sponsor

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Yeah, no, I agree. They needed a change, they're gonna change the change. Yeah, they 100% needed to agree with you on that. It's just it's just it's so it's it's crazy to me how you listen to so many different shows, you know, and they go from you know, because yes, it is people are separating the man from the coach, right? And now he was, and it was just so many weeks upon this guy's the worst, we need to get rid of him, and then afterwards, like this guy's the nicest guy in the world, this and that, and it's it baffles me sometimes, and I know I'm at fault for this too, it's just a crazy thing. But I mean, yeah, he's super great guy, super great coach. I just you needed a change in Green Bay, and you know, we've talked about it a million times, but something comes down to personnel too. It does come down to personnel. Now, does he have a hand in that too? Yeah, but Goody's there, Matt LaFleur's there. You have a lot of other guys who are included in that personnel decision, too. So, I mean, there's a lot of different factors that go into it. I don't think all the blame's on Rich. I don't think that the special teams were good under Rich, but I also don't think everything is on him, too. There definitely has to be some changes with the way Matt LaFleur runs things, with the way Goody does things. There definitely has to be changes in that aspect too, and more of an emphasis, right, on the special team side of the ball, especially with the new guy coming in, trying to get the special teams back to where it should be, at least in the top 20, I would say, of special teams. If you could, that'd be nice. Getting in the top 20 for special teams here every once in a while. So, speaking of Matt LaFleur, speaking of Goody, perfect transition. We'll go right into it because we had another thing we want to talk about. A lot of people out there, and I've been saying I saw it after Matt LaFleur and Goody were extended. I saw this chatter, but it's still out there, and a lot of people still talking about it. The Packers are okay with staying complacent with bringing back Matt LaFleur and Goody. And I thought about that. I said to myself, hmm, you know, I can see where they're coming from, right? Because you tell me all the time the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That's the definition of insanity. And I thought about it and I was like, yeah, right? Because Matt LaFleur, you just keep bringing them back and he keeps leading you to the playoffs and keeps leading you to these. I'm not gonna say always a seven seed, but always into the playoffs and he falls short, and then we have something else to blame, and then we move on to the next year, and it all looks good, and then it kind of falls off the track, the train kind of falls off the tracks for a little bit. They maybe get it back upright a little bit, and then it just completely crashes. And it's just been like that over and over and over again, and we just keep doing it back and forth, back and forth, right? We keep talking about it every year. It's like, should Matt LaFleur even come back as a head coach? And then he comes back. And I guess I agree with people if Matt LaFleur doesn't change his ways, right? If he doesn't start ruling with an iron fist in that locker room and start expecting the best out of his guys night in, night out, Sunday after Sunday, Monday after Sunday, whatever you want to say, at practice during the week. If he does not expect the best out of his guys, then demand it. And when he sees guys like Rashawn Gary jogging, and he doesn't think that's 100%, pull him off the field, put somebody else out there because somebody on my bench will give that 100%. I don't know, I don't even care how much money you make. I'm gonna throw somebody else in there who's gonna care. Lucas Van Ness, whoever was Agabare. Those two, those two guys gave all the effort in the world every time they were out there. Anyone can say Lucas Van Ness stinks and that he was drafted too high and blah, blah, blah. But I have never once said Lucas Van Ness was not giving him his all on that play. I have never once said that. Egabare. I have never once said that. Micah Parsons, you can't say that guy doesn't give 100% every play because he does. And that's the model that you have to build this team after, and that starts with Matt LaFleur. So I would say I agree with people on the complacency part if Matt LaFleur does not change his ways of being a head coach of a football team. Because, you know, some people are like, oh, he's too soft. And some people are like, What do you want him to be? All yellow, yell all the time. It's like, no, I want to be tough. I want him to demand the best out of his guys. I don't need him to be like Dan Gamble, all growly. I don't need that. I need Matt LaFleur to rule with an iron fist and demand the best out of his guys. Because when you have a young roster, as the Packers love to continue to build as young rosters, you have to demand the best out of those guys because otherwise they're going to start getting away with little things, and then it leads to bigger problems, and then you lead to penalties, and then you lead to all the unnecessary stuff. And that's what leads to problems in the locker room and on the field. So that's where I'm looking and saying, I don't believe it's complacency if Matt LaFleur sees this as an opportunity to change himself, to change the way the Packers have been trending and make it look better. I mean, all right, are you kind of in that same border? What do you think when people say the Packers sticking with the floor and Goody is them being complacent?

SPEAKER_00 18:56

I mean, end of the day, I think that no matter what these guys do, until they win a Super Bowl, that's what they're gonna keep getting. Right. Right. I mean, that's what it comes down to. End of the day, uh, you you have continuity with bringing back the floor, bringing back Goody. If you made a change with Goody, I'm not saying I would agree, not saying I would disagree. I can, you know, I can go either way on that one. Coach LaFleur, though, if you did fire him, who would you bring in?

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Right?

SPEAKER_00 19:19

And then if you do you got a whole new staff, you have a whole new offense, probably have a whole and then you know, you got Ganon there. We wouldn't have a Ganon at this point, right? Who knows what you would have on defense? And then you gotta figure out all these players that you have now, do they now fit this new scheme that you're bringing in? And it's just to me like people are looking at teams like just other teams like the Patriots or like the Chiefs or you know, possibly other teams that have consistently gone to the Super Bowl and won it multiple times, they're like, why not us, right? And so then when you feel like the person can't get over the hump, then you're like, okay, well, do we need a change? And sometimes change isn't always better, right? The grass isn't always greener. So for me, I think that people are really bored right now because it's the offseason. The see how Seahawks won the Super Bowl, and everyone's a little unhappy that their team didn't win, and there's you know, poke at holes on things that they can feel like they can complain about, and then you know, the new league starts next week and the Packers don't have a first-round pick. So there's a lot of things for people to complain about, and that's what they're doing right now. They're trying to fill the void. Um, and I think being negative with the team at this point doesn't serve us any good because we have no idea what's gonna happen this next year, right? Now, if we see the same things over and over again, then I think people might have an argument.

Bisaccia Steps Down And Clemson Rumors

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Yeah, no, I think it's the way that it's gone down. I I think when you really think about it, I think that's where people, and I think that's where I get my biggest issues, I guess, with Matt LaFleur is the way that the seasons have boiled down to like last season. How many games did they lose because of costly penalties or because of just I don't know, you would say like unprepared teams, or they weren't prepared for a game, or they just got outcoached, or you know, special teams was a problem, or they just had mental mistakes throughout a game. I mean, it's just those losses, I guess. I I think those are the ones that weigh on people the most, right? And I think that's where we go. We look back to the Buccaneers game in the NFC Championship game where you just had costly errors in that game, and you've you've had seasons now where you've had good teams opportunity, right? I watched, I was just watching earlier the first drive of the season for the Green Bay Packers against the Detroit Lions, and they walked right down the field and it looked masterful and it looked beautiful, and it was like, oh boy, here we go. And then I could honestly say, since that moment, everything just slowly trended downward from that drive. It just all like you know, there was good drives in between, right? But you get what I'm saying, where it's like that first drive of the season was awesome, and everything looked fantastic. And if you just show me that drive, I'd be like, that was gonna be a really good football team. And then you look at the end of the season, you lost five games in a row, and I don't think I ever saw a drive like that again. So you just question you just question of okay, what does that what does that tell you about this team and getting better as the season goes on? Because that's the Way it's supposed to work, right? Week one is supposed to be most of these guys' preseason week one, right? We look back on it, we say, Well, most of these guys didn't play the preseason, so they're still getting into the flow of things, they're still getting better, right? And then you're supposed to week four, week five, week six, you're supposed to see this team start to blossom and get better. And I know injuries don't help that. I get that. And but injuries stink. And the Packers had the biggest problem with injuries last year. That's why I give Matt LaFleur the biggest pass for last year. Was the injuries that he sustained weren't just normal injuries.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

They're like marquee injuries.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

You had Devontae Wyatt go to like if you would have lost Micah Parsons but not Devontae Wyatt, the defense would have been a lot better.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Vice versa. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

It would have been a lot better. And if you wouldn't, Tucker Kraft on the offensive side of the ball, that really hurt because you look at the stats he was putting up before that, he was on his way to possibly being a thousand-yard receiver or a thousand-yard tight end that year. So definitely was on his way to being fantastic. So, I mean, just the the key injuries that happened definitely made Matt LaFleur look worse. And that's why last season I kind of put it to bed. I'm like, uh, I don't know if I can really judge what happened there. Well, the loss to the Bears in the playoffs, I can definitely say they should not have lost like that. Giving up 25 points in the fourth quarter, that's definitely on the coaching staff, the players too, because I thought there was a lot of problems in there, but that's also on the coaching staff, getting their players up and ready. I mean, you're in the fourth quarter. I don't know how much more motivation you need to go put the bears away. But if it ain't there, you need to go find guys who can find that motivation in the fourth quarter to go put a team away. That's all I know. You're in the playoffs, you're playing your heated rival, and you can't put them away. Like, I don't know, it just drives me nuts. I don't really want to talk about the Bears games. So, anyways, I think that's where a lot of people's problems come with Matt LaFleur is the way that the Packers lose games and the way that the seasons kind of fall apart is a lot on the coaching staff and a lot on the way that they set up personnel along the way and not addressing needs along the way. So you can look at Goody to say that, and you can look at Matt LaFleur to say that too. So, Ulmer, one last thing I want to hit today here on the show. Packers back up quarterback spot. I've seen a lot of people kind of talking about this, and we just watched the combine, a lot of good. Not the quarterback draft is a lot of guys who could have potential. One guy who has got a lot of potential, right? Fernando Mendoza, gonna be the number one pick. And then after that, the quarterback draft kind of drops. You got Ty Simpson in there, you have a Drew Allers in there, you have a lot of quarterbacks who are, yeah, they could be good, but they're gonna be lower in the draft. So if you're the Packers, a backup quarterback, you have Ritter in there right now, and you said Kyle McCord is also in that room right now. If you're the Packers, do you think of somebody else that you want to see maybe in the draft or as a free agent or even a trade right now? Are you looking somewhere else for that backup quarterback spot? Or are you looking those guys are good enough, those guys could be good service of backup quarterbacks?

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Honestly, like out any way they bring to be in Matt LaFleur's like coaching quarterback coaching school, I would call it, is gonna benefit from it. I mean, honestly, like I think like right now Desrin Ritter is a good choice. I think Kyle McCord was a freaking amazing quarterback at Syracuse. Uh so he would he may have an opportunity to at least learn a good offense. And then on top of that, too, you could trade for a guy like Anthony Richardson who's gonna be cut, right? You could uh wait to see how the market develops for somebody like uh Kyler Murray or uh for that matter, Tua, even though both guys are like, you know, former first round picks, high first round picks, too, actually mad. But if they're cut and no one wants to sign them as a starting quarterback, why won't you be a backup at Green Bay? You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of guys out there. Like, so for me, like I'm okay that we can go to Desmond Ritter, third-round pick out of Cincinnati. I'm fine with that. I think that would be great for I think it's a good for his development. He has a lot of good skills, he has a lot of tools. He has like, you know, he's tall, he's he's tall, he's got a little weight on him, he has a good arm, he's fast. Um, he also played at a very successful college uh program. Um he did have a little bit of success in the NFL as well, too. So for me, like I he I think he's a great opportunity to try to see if you can make him into something a little better than he already is. And then of course, if you feel like there's somebody in the draft, like the I forgot what the kid's name is that we we were talking about, but this guy was just he just blew up the combine, right? And he was a kid, and then also like I think um also the the quarterback for North Dakota, same thing for him too. Like there's a lot of guys that there's they can bring in to help supplement the coaching room, uh the quarterback room. Uh for me particularly, like I think they stick a rhythm and maybe bring in a rookie, just you know, someone that has loads of talent that you can get like in the sixth or seventh round and see if he can make something of them.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

I like that. There's one guy that entices me that if he became a free agent with a cut, I would definitely go after him because I see Malik Willis in his game a little bit, and that is Justin Fields. That's one guy that I would kind of look into where getting him into a good spot with Matt LaFleur in Green Bay, I think if if Justin Fields is smart, he sees what Matt LaFleur did for Malik Willis after he had problems down there in Tennessee. And now he's gonna go out and get this big contract here in free agency as he's the number one quarterback out there in free agency right now. Somebody's gonna give him a big payday. Justin Fields is gonna look at that and say, what could Matt LaFleur do for me? What could he do for me? And that's where if I'm Justin Fields, if he gets cut by the Jets, I'd bet on myself, go to Green Bay, take a little bit less on a contract, be a backup to Jordan Love and see what you can do. That's a that's a quarterback I'd look at. I'd look at guys who are a Malik Willis type. That's where I'd look if I'm the Packers, because Matt LaFleur thrives with those guys in the backup quarterback spot there. So, Armor, I gotta run here. Let the people know where to find you out there across social media.

Culture, Coaching, And Special Teams Expectations

SPEAKER_00 27:24

I'll stay where you can find me at AMAR345 or AMAR3455, uh X, Coach to Coast Packers, everywhere else. Instagram, TikTok, the whole nine yards, come at us. Uh and as always, Drake, thanks for having me, man. I'll see you this weekend.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Of course, we'll see you this weekend. Thank you as always for stopping by. Make sure you guys check him out there across Twitter and the Coast to Coast Packers. He's on a lot of different shows too, so make sure you stay up to date. He's got a lot of different Packer shows he's jumping on there. So make sure you guys check him out at uh AMAR. What was I always forget to know?

SPEAKER_00 27:52

3455, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

3455. Make sure you check him out there. Random numbers, of course. You gotta have those random numbers at the end, whatever ones they suggest, right? You just you top in your name and they're like, we suggest this. And it's like, oh, that makes sense. All right, you know. So, anyways, when we come back here from the break, the Wisco Fanatics guys are gonna stop by. We're gonna talk a little bucks, we're gonna talk a little bit of everything. We'll be right back here. I'll Wisconsin Sportsman to go for them to go with Trage. I'm your host, Trage, and we're coming back in here on this Wednesday. And hey, this next segment, the Wisco Fanatics guys are stopping by. We're gonna talk a little bucks, we're gonna talk a little badgers. This next segment is brought to you by Foreman's Hardware. They offer you everything from homeless centrals to farm supplies, house to farm, grills to drills, Foreman's hardware has got you covered. Visit today in Loyal Colby or Metford, Wisconsin. Tell them I sent you down there. Get 5% off your purchase down there in Loyal Kobe or Metford. The weather is starting to heat up. We're gonna get out in the yard, do some yard work. You might need some bags for all that random stuff that got left over from the snow. You don't even know what you're gonna find out there. Make sure you check them out there. Foreman's hardware in Loyal Colby or Metford, Wisconsin. So I have the Wisco fanatics, guys here. Both of them, both of them are here tonight. Not just not just Jake, not just Tyler. I have them both here tonight. So, Jake, starting with you. How are we doing on this Wednesday?

SPEAKER_02 29:02

We're doing fantastic. Like you said, the weather's starting to warm up, and uh that makes me very happy. Kids get outside, they're not bothering me all day because they're not cooped up in the house. I love it, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Yeah, 100%, 100% agree. I'm not gonna bring up the dirty pause thing because the last time it warmed up, Jake was telling me how the dirty paws were gonna happen and we all had to worry about it. So I'm not even gonna bring it up. I'm gonna kick it over to our resident fan duel commercial hater, and that is Tyler down here. Tyler, how are we doing on this Wednesday?

SPEAKER_03 29:32

Just let it be known that my disdain for the repetitive fan duel commercials that that rant can't be done on national radio.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

We were in commercial break and we were talking about a little bit of everything. We got the topic of commercials because of pregame shows, and then he brought up fan duel, and thank thank goodness that the uh the show kicked back on because otherwise we were gonna hear the rants on a commercial break there. So there we go, there we go. We have to get our Foreman's hardware. Who needs to bring the tools to an upcoming matchup here for Wisconsin Sports? Maybe it's a coach, maybe it's uh a GM. Who knows? Jake, who do you got for me? Who needs to bring the tools to an upcoming matchup?

SPEAKER_02 30:14

I got Miles Turner. Um, I feel like Miles Turner, especially the last two games, has been a little underwhelming for me. Um overall, over the last four games, he's shooting 45% for the field, 15 of 33. He is shooting 10 of 23 uh behind the beyond the three-point mark. Uh, so that's 43%. So that's a good clip. But I need him to be a little bit stronger down low. I feel like he hasn't, you know, really made an impact on the offensive end down low. Um, also, we've been giving up way too many points in the paint. Um, 170 points in the paint over the last four games. The Bucks scored 110. So, for context, that's a getting outscored on an average of 15 per game. That cannot happen if uh you're the Milwaukee Bucks and you're trying to go on a run here to make the play in.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

I completely agree with that one right there. Tyler, who do you got for me? Who needs to bring the tools to an upcoming matchup?

Are LaFleur And Gutey Extensions Complacency

SPEAKER_03 31:04

So it's it's it's a few weeks out yet, but I'm looking at Pat Murphy and who he's gonna have starting opening day for the Brewers, just because it sounds like they're being very cautious with Brandon Woodruff, they're being a little cautious with Quinn Priester. So we're looking at Jacob Mizarowski opening day question mark. But it's Pat Murphy, just gotta figure that stuff out. Um, Jake and I are gonna be planning our brewer's primer real soon. So um I'm looking at that with a couple of question marks based on some of Pat Murphy's comments recently.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

I like that one. I'm gonna throw the quite before I get to mine. I'm gonna throw the question out here. If I had to ask you guys who's your brewer's opening day starter, just if you had to throw one out to me right now, knowing that Brandon Woodruff is up in the air, if he's even gonna be ready by opening day, and Quinn Priester hasn't worked yet, but is expected to work here pretty soon, who would you say is gonna be your opening day starter if you just had to throw one out right now?

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Based on the way that it's going right now, knowing what we know about Woodruff, like you said, I'm leaning towards Mizorowski. I think even if Priester is ready, I still think he's gonna be the day two starter. Just because you're gonna go a high strikeout guy, a guy who's gonna give you some length, and then a high strikeout guy, just because you don't want to have your back-to-back guys who could give you seven innings, but also could give you four and two-thirds if their pitch count gets high. You don't want to have those guys back to back and then really mess up your bullpen on the second day of the season.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

I like that. I like that. Jake, who do you got for me?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Tyler gives this whole analytical. I'm gonna break it down all smart, blah, blah, blah. I'm going with the vibes. It's opening day, it's Milwaukee, the roof is open. I am still gonna be open on March 2013. I'm sticking it into existence. And I'm on 100 miles an hour on the mound, dude. Think about the vibes. Opening day, Mizorowski 100 miles an hour. Everybody's excited. He gets like 13 strikeouts. Yeah, we're living good. Give me Mizorowski on the mound.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

I yeah, you know, no, I'm gonna go Pat Murphy really weird. I'm gonna go opener. They're gonna throw an opener, maybe like Jared Kaning to start the year.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

We might. We might.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

I wouldn't put it past him to throw an opener out there on opening day. I wouldn't put it past him. Maybe we get Trevor McGill in the first inning just to set him down, and then we we were all on from there. I could see a Chad Patrick. You know, like you guys are talking Mizorowski, and I can see I could definitely probably Ms. Arowski. But I could see a Chad Patrick if he works himself into the rotation. I could see you throwing him opening day. Why not? Why not throw a guy like Chad Patrick? He's showing he's got he's got some big cojones on him. We saw that last season of the post season. He could definitely be the guy to start opening day for you. I could see a Chad Patrick working in there, but probably Mizorowski because he, like you guys said, he got the vibes, he got opening day. Mizerowski.

SPEAKER_03 33:42

Chad Patrick was super reliable last year, so I wouldn't be mad at it, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

I can see it happening. If it's not Quinn Priester, I think it's up in the air. And then I think it's between Chad Patrick and probably Mizorowski to be that opening day starter because I could probably see Chad Patrick working his way into the rotation. They have a lot of options. There is a lot of options in the rotation right now for the Brewers. So, oh wait, Jake, I almost cut you off. You go quick. You go. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

Chad Patrick would be the most Brewers thing of all time in opening day. Would it not? Would it not be the most Patrick Brewers thing of all time?

SPEAKER_01 34:12

He's Corbin Burns, man. He's Corbin Burns 2.0. So you might as well throw him on opening day. He's gonna become the ace of the staff. Cy Young. Might as well just give it to him right now. It's gonna be Chad Patrick. So I gotta get to my format's hardware who needs to bring the tools to an upcoming matchup. I got a combo of guys here coming up tonight here for the Badgers. I have the combo of Blackwell, Carrington, and Roadie because there is a guy from the Maryland Terrapins who has been lighting up the stat sheet as of late here, and that would be Mills. Now you look at the you look at Maryland and you say, okay, who's your leading scorer? You want to see all that. Their leading score is technically David Colt. If you look further, it's Payne, but Payne's been out since, I believe, December. So you look at a guy like David Colt, 14 points a game. Andre Mills has actually been really good as of late for Maryland here. And in his last five games, when you look at it, he had 39 against Northwestern, 21 against Washington, 19 against Nebraska and Rutgers. He had 15 in their last game out there. He's been really darn good for this Maryland team. He's actually been their leading scorer as of late. So I'm looking at those three guys most likely to be the guys guarding them in this one. And that's the guy. This is a really not a very good Maryland team. But if you slow this guy down, you're gonna slow down Maryland. That's where I'm looking. It's gotta be Blackwell, Carrington, and probably Roadie are gonna be the guys who are gonna be matching up with him coming up tonight here in the Badgers versus Maryland matchup. So, fellas, we got to talk some Bucks. What we really came here to talk about, we got to talk some Bucks. And I know Tyler calls me the curse of the Bucs because the last time we came on here for the Saturday show, I said the Bucs have been looking really good as of late. And well, it all went south really fast. So apparently I can't say that anymore. I just have to be a downer. So the Bucs have looked terrible as of late here, fellas. They have just looked downright terrible. Let's talk about it. Jake, I mean, as of late here, this Bucs team, they dropped that one to the Celtics, 108 to 81. There was really nothing great to talk about except for Giannis came back. Outside of that, 120 to 97 against the Bulls. That was a clunker. And then the Knicks game was, yeah, 127 to 98. It's been some very bad performances as of late for this Bucs team. So Jake's turn with you. Good, bad, and ugly. What have you seen here as of late?

SPEAKER_02 36:16

Well, I don't even know if I can say good. And I mean, outside of that first half versus the Bulls, I mean they were they were all right in that first half versus the Bulls. That'd probably be the good that I would talk about. The Knicks came in, uh, they were arrested. Uh they came in, they slapped the Bucs in the face. The Bucs didn't slap back. The New York led 89% of that game. Um, just not the Bucs just looked unorganized all night is the word I guess I'm gonna use. Uh the second half versus the Bulls, uh the Bucs lost 69 to 31 in the second half. They gave up a 27-0 run. I mean, that's just inexcusable. Uh, I guess a team that is actively trying to lose because they have literally no future. I mean, they have one guy that I would say is they can build around. But other than that, they don't really have a cornerstone player. Um, the Bucs in the Bulls game specifically, the fast break offense was atrocious. They had an opportunity after opportunity after opportunity in the second quarter. I'm gonna get deeper into the numbers uh uh on our show if you guys want to tune into that. But uh we are on a time limit for this one, so I can't talk for 15 minutes straight. Um as for Bucks for Celtics, I know we're gonna talk about it. I still don't understand why Giannis came back in this uh for this game. That's just my opinion, I guess. Uh, but the points in the paint, I talked about it with uh performance hardware, uh, who has to bring the tools. The points in the paint for me is really something that I think the Bucks, with how their roster is set up, I think they should dominate that, to be honest with you. They have length, they have guys that are athletic, they have guys that can handle the ball. Um they just have absolutely zero offensive just creativity. It's really just I said this to Tyler last night. I said, our offense is really just watching Kevin Porter Jr. or Giannis handle the ball for 15 seconds, and if they can't figure something out, they'll pass it off to somebody else, they'll get the ball back, and then they'll throw a shot up, and then you run back on defense. And it's either that, they turn the ball over, they give up fast break points. I mean, it's just it's been really, really ugly basketball lately. And they just need to figure something out. And what they need to figure out is getting back to everybody sharing the ball. You guys remember that from like two weeks ago? That was pretty fun to watch. Maybe they should all share the ball and everybody should shoot the ball and not just one guy dominate the ball. Just my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

I like that. Tyler, what do you got for me? Good, bad, and ugly as of late here.

Demanding Standards And Locker Room Leadership

SPEAKER_03 38:49

So I agree with Jake on the ball movement, and it's something if you watch our show regularly, you'll hear him talk about it almost every single week, whether it's good or bad. Whether the, you know, whether we're having a streak of games where they won three out of four, and we're like, hey, the ball is moving really well, or this week where we're talking about winning one out of four, and we're like, hey, where's the ball movement? It's it's such a thing when it comes to the game of basketball. Like, it's such a thing that it just correlates with winning. Regardless of what level you play at, what skill level you play at, how old your players are, it does not matter. Ball movement correlates with winning strongly. And it's like I said, it's at any level, any age, and the ball movement, it's just not it's not good enough. And with that, the inverse of it is not taking care of the ball, and it's turnovers. You can't keep giving your opponent 21 more shots than you take. You can't be averaging 15 plus turnovers and expect to win a lot of basketball games against any good teams. You can beat some bad teams that way because they're gonna be equally as sloppy as you, but you can't play sloppy and expect your point guard to have one assist and five turnovers and expect to win a lot of basketball games. If there's one guy in particular who had a pretty solid month of February, he's had a couple bad games, and now the team looks bad. So I'm kind of feeling as go Kevin Porter Jr., so go the Bucks. And unfortunately, I'm not seeing enough out of Ryan Rollins as a point guard specifically to say that he can carry the team as the primary ball handler. He's got he's gotta tune down the turnovers and just the bad decision making, because yes, once in a while you're gonna take some bad shots, you're gonna have some time where the shot clock runs down and you have to just chuck something up. That happens. I understand that. But eight seconds into the shot clock, and you're taking a step back mid-range over a guy who's six inches taller than you, that's as good as a turnover. That's just a terrible shot to be taking. Like at that point, if you're gonna take that step back, you might as well make it a three and make it worth one more point to somehow make it. But the the live ball turnovers, like the it was the bulls game, I believe, that they had 19 turnovers and 14 of them were fields. Yes, it was the bulls game. 14 live ball turnovers where the bulls don't have to wait for you to get back on defense. That's exactly like what Jake's talking about. Similarly, with bad shots. If you're sitting there watching a bad shot go up, hoping it goes in, the other team gets to just grab the ball and go. All you're doing by taking bad shots is creating fast break opportunities for the other team. So that's why I'm saying it's like it's good a turnover at that point. The Bulls got 20 points off of turnovers in that game. That's double what you should be allowing or striving to allow. 19 turnovers. That's six more than I want to see the Bucks at. My my golden number for the Bucks has been 13. If they can stay under 13 turnovers, I'm good. I'm allowing up to 15 on days where they're playing with a faster pace, because I understand when you have faster pace, more possessions, you're gonna have more turnovers. But I mean, another 16 turnovers against the Celtics on Monday and another 19 points off turnovers. You just can't keep gifting your opponents easy opportunities to score the basketball, especially in today's NBA where everybody can shoot threes, and the best opportunity to get open threes is in transition. All that's gonna do is dig you a super deep hole, super fast, like it did against the Knicks and the Celtics.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

And you don't have a team that can get you out of that.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

I mean, you don't have the star stuff that's a horrible model to try to play through.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Right.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

Like against the Timberwolves last year where they're down by like 20 points and they went on like a 33-2 run. Like that's just that's just not sustainable over a long period of time. You can do it a couple times a season, but you can't do it a couple times a week.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

Right, right. No 100%. I mean, you look at the just the Celtics game in general here. You look turnovers to assists, right? 16 turnovers to 18 assists on the game. I mean, if there's a turnover to assist ratio, very bad in that aspect there. And then you look offensive rebounds. I mean, you're talking physicality from the guys on the inside. 19 offensive rebounds you allow to the Celtics. And I know you can look across a couple of the games and you're not gonna be able to blame offensive rebounds for first a, right? That's not the main reason. But still, I mean, you allow 19 offensive rebounds to a good team. What do you think they're gonna do with them? What do you think they're gonna do? They're probably gonna beat you 108 to 81, and you're gonna look like this was a terrible game. That's just, I mean, that's the Bucs is like it's it's odd because we go back to that consistency talk that we had. Like, how do you stay consistent and you see this team? And like we we mentioned, like you guys said a week ago, the ball's moving. It looks great. The amount of assists are up. This team, they go out there and it's just like boom, boom, boom, they're getting good shots, they're creating open shots by moving the ball. And then you go a week later and this is what you see. And it was even before Giannis came back. It's still the same stuff. So, I mean, how I guess how do you get I don't know how to say it like how do you get back to that consistent play on a consistent play? Consistent basis. Is that I guess on Doc? Because you hear a lot of people saying Doc Rivers and the problems with Doc right now, rotations. I I I missed I texted you guys after the Bulls game, and I was like, he came out afterwards and said the second team was playing better than the first team, yet he let the first team you know try to I don't know, make it work. Like it wasn't working, but the second team sat on the bench and watched that, but they look better. So I guess I don't know. Is it a Doc Rivers problem now? Like it's it's for me, it's gotta be at this point.

Backup QB Options And Draft Targets

SPEAKER_03 44:29

So the way I'm looking at it is I don't know that it's necessarily like I'm not gonna say it's 100% on doc that we're in the position that we're in, right? Because it's not easy to deal with what I would say are your two most important players being Giannis and Kevin Porter Jr. having barely played together at all this season. Like you can't you can't plan for that. Um what I will say is from here forward, it is 100% on doc to figure it out. Like he's he's coaching to see if he's gonna have a job next year on the bench. I'm fine with him moving into the front office. The guy's got tons of ball knowledge, I'm perfectly fine with that. But right now, he's got a month-ish, a little over a month, to figure out what they're gonna do. And in my opinion, you got about four or five games to figure it out if you're gonna try to do anything significant this year. You Giannis just came back. The reports were that he's been itching to come back for a little bit now. So he wants to play. And I get you know, getting him reps, and if he's 100%, I'm okay with him playing. But you have about four or five games to see if you can do what you can do to try to make the playoffs and just see what happens. I'm fine with that. You know, if they make it as the ninth seed and they still end up with the 13th overall pick, I'm not gonna be like upset. You know, so I'm like, I'm not I'm not upset about that, especially in a class that's deep. Like if they're the difference between the ninth seed and the third, or the nine, the ninth pick and the thirteenth pick, I'm not super worried about it. But if you get to that point and you stay the next four games or five games and they win two out of the next five, then it's time to shut it down. And it's not time to shut it down where like if Giannis is 100% and you're just not gonna play him and you're gonna tank that way, it's who are the guys that are gonna be here in 26-27 and play them with Giannis. So if you're gonna get to a point where you're no longer trying to make the playoffs, Kyle Kuzma, zero minutes a game, Bobby Portis, zero minutes a game. Those guys are not in the 26-27 plan. Sorry, if you are the Bucks, those guys are the two biggest salaries that John Horace is absolutely gonna trade this summer to try to get a bigger piece here with Giannis.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Right.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

So you you put Giannis out there, you play him 35 minutes a game with Uzman Jeng because those are the guys that he wants to play with. I'm perfectly fine with bringing Kevin Porter Jr. back next year. He's cheap. You've seen him do really great things, and like I just said a couple minutes ago, as he goes, so goes the Bucks with their ball movement. Even in games where they're not moving the ball well, Kevin Porter Jr. comes back in, ball movement picks back up, offense picks back up. Miles Turner, Jericho Sims, Pete Nance, give those guys minutes with Giannis and go forward there. And obviously, AJ Green and where I'm at, I'm looking at potentially a shooting guard upgrade over the summer. Not to say that AJ Green can't be giving you know good minutes, but if you can get a starting caliber shooting guard, you know, there's a name that's kind of floating around out there, that's where I think the biggest upgrade can be made.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

All right.

SPEAKER_03 47:38

I've been kind of vocal about Kawhi Leonard, but I'm kind of talking myself more into Devin Booker as the days go by.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Alright. I started that for you. I started that for you.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

And I'm I'm on board. Like I said, the the more days go by, I'm on board.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

I like it there. I like it. The Bucks definitely have their work to do here in the upcoming days here. And if it doesn't, uh like you guys said, we're talking a commercial. If they don't uh these next couple games here are gonna really tell you a lot about what the rest of the season is gonna look like for the Wisconsin. Or for I just said Wisconsin, for the Von. I don't even have two weeks to figure it out. I just had my mind going on the Badgers, and I almost said Wisconsin Badgers, and we're talking about the Fox. Anyways, anyways, I just got the Tyler J. Give me a quick hitter for tonight's game. Badgers, Maryland, give me a quick hitter. What do you want to see tonight?

SPEAKER_02 48:26

Well, I want to see a little bit more of uh what I saw versus Washington. I don't need I don't need Carrington to hit nine three-pointers, but I feel like the offense was a way more fluid uh versus Washington than it was versus Oregon. It was kind of night and day. So I like the ball movement. I obviously Tyler talked about that before, but we're big ball movement guys, we're big physicality guys, and I feel like the guys down low uh they they got the message after the Oregon game. They played a lot better in the in the Washington game, and then the ball movement was great. And you saw, wow, they called plays for a shooter and he was making shots. Maybe the Milwaukee Bucks should do that with a guy named AJ Green.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

I like it. You know, I agree. I don't want to see nine threes. I want to see ten. I want to see him break his record and send another score.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

That'd be amazing.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. Tyler Quick Hair, what do you got for me tonight's game? Badgers, Maryland.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

Uh, I'm actually gonna give credit to Jake for calling this out. And it's just that John Blackwell needs to be more aggressive offensively. Uh, he got a little passive offensively in the Washington game, and it got him into some bad spots, and he committed some turnovers, which if you listen to the last 15 minutes of us talking, not a big fan of turnovers. So uh be aggressive offensively, look to finish the ball instead of trying to find somebody to pass it to once you get to the paint.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Right, because when he looks passive, he looks sad, and I don't want him to look sad anymore. I want him to make it look like he wants to be there because I think he wants to be there. I want to make him look like it in this game here against Maryland. I completely agree. So, fellas, thank you as always for stopping by tonight here on the show. Let the people know where to find you guys out there across social media.

SPEAKER_03 49:53

Yeah, Facebook and YouTube is where our shows are live on Tuesday nights. We're gonna have our draft shows ramping up pretty soon. That's gonna be 8 o'clock Central Time. And then on uh Wednesdays is when we cover the Bucks, Brewers, and the Badgers basketball and football team starting at four o'clock, also on Facebook and YouTube. So uh we're always live so that people can join along, and then uh we're pretty active on Twitter and TikTok as well. So Wisco Fanatics everywhere.

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