HERE WE GO! Can the BADGERS SHOCK THE WORLD? Final SCORE predictions for Wisconsin and Notre Dame!!

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2:01And thank you to everybody that's part of this community, that's part of the show. This is Lockdown Podcast Network. The number one sports podcast network. Got to hang on with a lot of incredible people today, which we're definitely going to get to. But Rajeev, you're going to start with Notre Dame Wisconsin. For one day out, we have some final thoughts, some ex-factors, some superlatives, some keys to the game. But I want to start here, and this is something I've been thinking about a while. This is something our good friend Kevin has talked about. If you just look at the back half of the season, the Master of Wisconsin, and you look at a team that with no quarterback, at all, beat two ranked teams, competed with Washington or Oregon and Indiana, if that was the team, if you were just evaluating this game based on that team, does it feel a little different? Are we ignoring the momentum we built down the stretch last year? I mean, I think that's a really fair discussion. We probably are ignoring it because at the end of the day, you're still going to look at the fact that it was a four-win team. You do have to remember that we played Carter Smith, right? You do have to remember that. Carter Smith, Coles and Joseph, very different things.

3:02But we also lost some production on the defensive line. We also lost guys like Darryl Peterson and Ben Barton, who were really instrumental in what that team did down the stretch. Now, linebackers are obviously there. There's a lot more pieces that we added. But I do think it's fair to say, yeah, there's some things added. There's some things lost. But I think in general, you're right. You look back at last year as kind of a train wreck, but then you do forget that we did have two massive wins. But honestly, man, the way we ended against Minnesota is part of the thing that I still hold on to. We got manhandled by a team after against our rival, by the way, after we had just done that, after we had had two really big wins, they took care of us. And that kind of sticks with me as like, was that more the team that we actually were? Yeah, let's get fair. It's 100% fair. And if we had beaten in Minnesota, do you imagine, I just feel like the entire narrative of the off season is different, right? You win five games, you finish so strong, then you get the reinforcements in the portal,

4:05then you have the axe. And of course, you didn't, it is what it is. But I do think this team is better than the national narrative. I've seen some people talk about this team regime just in the national sphere, and I don't blame people. Like we are so hyper focused on Wisconsin. You and I could do a show on the fifth string quarterback and do 30 minutes on that, right? So the national means is just, but I feel like the national media is kind of lazy with it. Yeah, four wins, no other names, no other names pissed off. Yeah, it is what it is. I don't think this is a case. I think Wisconsin is a lot better and I think they could come out and play a lot better tomorrow. I hope, and I think part of the thing is, and we talked about it a lot today, it's like, we just don't really know what we're going to get. It gets such a big question mark. Are we going to get a team that potentially upsets Notre Dame? Are we going to get a team that loses by 40? Are we going to get a really close game where someone misses the kick at the end? Like there's so many opportunities and things that, because it's like the great unknown at the beginning of college football and you're going up against one of the best teams in the country.

5:06And it's all the ultimate measuring stick. We're going to learn a lot about our team tomorrow and that's exciting. But yeah, it's just, it's great, by the way. All these things are considered, it's really fantastic to still be talking about this, but I just don't know what we're going to get. And I'm excited and we all are in the same boat of like, we just don't know. And we're going to find out really soon. I love Bo Dreyne that's what is positive as he's going to get. He says, Joseph is great. They can win. I don't think that's a wrong take. Because if you have great quarterback play, a great quarterback performance can elevate a team in any moment. Yeah, I mean, how are we defining great, right? Like if there's a lot of things that have to happen for him to be great, can't turn the ball over, like has to be, you know, has to use his legs, has to find weapons. Like if he can, if he can be a, like at the end of the game, we're like, wow, what a great game by Coleson Joseph against that defense. Absolutely, we can win. Because that's ultimately the matchup that matters the most.

6:07It's, can we score on them? We know our defense is going to be all, it's going to be good. They're still really good. It's going to be hard to stop TJ Carr, but can we actually put points up on them? And if Coleson Joseph can do that and that defines a great game, then yeah, man, absolutely. And the Anderson says, we ain't losing by 40. Come on, man, we just watched Oregon almost lose to Boise. In Oregon has more blue chips than Notre Dame. I agree. We're not losing by 40, by the way. I agree with that. I agree. I also agree. We're not going to get steamrolled. I also, this is the other thing I want to hit on and be Anderson really good comments or kind of hit on it. We also don't know about Notre Dame. Like so here's the thing. I think we're pretty sure, right? I'm making no mistakes. I know there'll be a couple more day in fans that watch this, but for the Badger fans watching too, I think we're pretty sure Notre Dame's really good. But can you just never know in the portal era of how a season starts and how all the pieces fit? For example, I use all the time, I think it's the 2010-2009 Michigan team, right? They were really good and they brought everybody back.

7:09Mike Hartson, all those guys came back because they said we're going to make a run to the finals. And then the entire off season was Michigan, Michigan, Michigan, we know they're great. And then week one, they lost half state. My point is every team is a different iteration and you never know. The pieces can all be great and sometimes they just don't fit together great. Yeah. You know. And that's exactly why Luke Fickle has said a week like, this is how we're going to find out where we are. We're going to, there's the measuring stick game, how much have we closed the gap? Like, yeah, like there are, there are known commodities on that team now. Leonard Moore, the reason known commodity, CJ Carr, like they, they, they, other defensive backs, there are some people on that team that are really going to be good. But and also like, we also have to think about the steps that we've taken. Like we, in four games last year, post in Catalana, we're amazing. They probably got better. They probably, they've had another offseason of straight the conditioning. They've had more training like they are going to be better too. So yeah, but you're right about Notre Dame. Like we don't know what we're going to get here.

8:09This is a team historically, by the way, that doesn't play well in September. That can never be forgotten. They lost their first two games, not sure they've lost the, Northern, Northern Illinois in the past. Like this team has struggled. Marcus Freeman has struggled in September. So you could also look at it and be like, man, they're kind of primed for another September, upstate potentially, which is always, it's a thing. Give me your, I think I'm going to give you a big key to the game for me. I'm going to ask you what you're key. And then we're going to get to some superlatives, X factors and see if our predictions have changed a little bit over the last couple of weeks. I think the first quarter, dude, is so incredibly important in this game. Wisconsin has to come out, has to come out and they have to, well, they just can't go into a hole, right? You can do what you've done against Alabama in the past. Ohio State in the past. In the end of the first quarter has to be like a seven to three game, three to three, 10 to seven. If it's 14, nothing, if Notre Dame jumps on you quick, I don't think this is a team that claws out of it. So I think first quarter to me, this first couple drives is so incredibly important

9:10for the Badgers. It is. And for me, the key that I just can't get out of my head is turnovers. Like I just, you, we'd seen games where Wisconsin can play good defense and all of a sudden they have a crazy interception and then the team goes on the scores and you have this avalanche coming. You've got this like eruption of points on the other team and all of a sudden you kick it out of your own way and they're more confident. They're playing more downhill. They know you have to throw the ball like we cannot turn the ball over and we certainly can't lose the turn of a margin. And that, that to me is like the biggest key of all is we have to play smart. I said, when I showed earlier this week that I did, he, Colton Joseph needs to be like aggressive with his legs and safe with his arm. Like, you know, he has to make sure that we, we can't put the ball in harm's way. We cannot because that is a team that will take advantage of that. We know this about that team. Like there are certain things. Learn more one of the best quarterbacks in the country if not the best quarterback. So we have to just be more strategic and not turn the ball over.

10:12That to me is the ultimate key. Like if we don't turn the ball over, we are going to be in this game. I'm curious how Notre Dame is going to play defensively. Not in terms of how well they're going to play. I'm confident Notre Dame is going to play well defensively. I'm curious if they're going to be aggressive, right? Or if they're going to let the game kind of come to them. I just feel like they're going to say, look, we know our defensive backs. Or at least that's their mentality. I think they're defensive backs are going to play with, with our receivers. They're not worried about it. They, I think they're, they can very much just play like single high. They can play more man coverage. Like they're not, maybe not too much man because they don't want Colton Joseph to run all them. But they're going to make sure that box is stacked. And they're going to try to shut down our running game and say, Colton Joseph, beat us with your arm. Like we're going to shut down the running lanes. We're going to spy you. We're going to make sure you don't beat us with your legs and you're in this crazy stuff. Just prove that you can throw the ball. And that's how I think they're going to defend us. And they're pretty confident that that our riders, our receivers are not going to get separation and they argue that they cover us.

11:14And that I think might be the matchup of the game. And here's the thing, you can play man on the boundary and still spy Colton Joseph. Like the idea that if you play man, certainly at times you can lose a quarterback a little easier, but they're going to play man on the boundary and have a spy align backer and take care of both things in their world. I can tell you talking to somebody who is connected to Notre Dame who talked to kind of one of their coaches and it's kind of just, they're going to be very disappointed if they give up more than 10 points. Is is where they're I'm just telling you from their side and that's from inside one of their rooms. That's where they're at. So it's a great challenge. But again, it's week one. You don't know. You just don't know when to start linebackers is banged up. You know, they you don't know man. And quite frankly, we don't know what they're off and see their to your point. We're going to take a quick second here. Reggie, we're going to come back. I'm going to ask you who your ex factor is. Who's the guy that can swing this game that we don't know a lot about? That's coming up next on lock down badgers. We're going to take a quick second. A bunch of your comments in the chat that we'll get to as well. Reggie, you've seen you like police star those.

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14:17I mean, I for lack of an easier one for me offensively it really truly is Colton Joseph's ability to throw the ball and like I know that's not really an X factor, but I just feel like it is. It's not under the radar X factor. Every single thing in my opinion is going to depend on his ability to make the throws. As I said, I think Notre Dame is going to invite him to do that. There's going to be man coverage on the boundary. They're definitely going to say just do it. Throw go ahead and throw in man coverage and see if your guys can if your guys can get it done and his ability to find those and really the decision making itself is it to me is going to be the absolute X factor then. And the defense I we have to stop the run like we have to. And because CJ cars a great quarterback and if we can make Notre Dame one dimensional, then at least it gives us a chance to pin our ears back and hopefully our past rush can get in there. But if they can run the ball on us and then they have CJ car and their receivers, that's going to be really difficult to stop. So I think it's really going to be guys like the clogging of that lane, the perkins, the

15:20poisers of the world, that to me, the interior, the defensive line, which is I've always said, it starts everything like that. Everything starts and ends with how good those guys up front can be everything from the past rush, we're on stopping everything. And that to me is if those guys can get penetration, disrupt the play or and you're even just be able to eat up the blocks to allow the linebacks to do their thing, that would that will mean that our defense can really make can make ways. Mark Roth will says the specific game to see if the culture has changed for the better. Mark Roth will by the way, a tremendous do give me some really good advice when we were moving to Wisconsin. So I appreciated running into in volleyball, Mark. Yeah, like both of those, I don't know if Colton Joseph can be like the X factor, like the X factor to be is just something that's a little more like we just know he has to play well. Everything he says true, but like we know Colton Joseph has to play well, right? We just know that I'm like to me, it's like Eugene Hilton. Like is can Hilton get separation? Because I think you're right, dude. I think Notre Dame is going to say we have studs on the outside.

16:22I dare you to get open. I dare your receivers to be able to create separation. Good. If Eugene Hilton Jr. can be the type of receiver, I know you think he can be, be the type of receiver that we song fall. If he can create separation and win some one on one on the edge, that changes the game, right? Because now Notre Dame has to respect that. I think that's to me, it's those receivers. And when I look at those receivers, I look at a guy like Eugene Hilton Jr. To me, that is an X factor on offense. And on defense, I think it's Clayton. A guy that, third and seventh, third and eighth, third and 11 receive can, because you got to hit car. You do not win this game unless you make car a little uncomfortable. And Clayton's a guy that not all the people know about outside of like the badger sphere. But he's a dude that on third and seventh, he might have a half sack or a sack this game. Do you think that he's going to get a lot of snaps out there? Like do you think Clayton's going to play a lot? I mean, when you look at like cheeks and february and like, there's a lot of guys that can play that position. I hope he does. And I do think he's going to get a lot of snaps. I think situationally in this now, in the situations where they're going to throw, where

17:25you know they're going to throw, I think you're going to see Clayton. And if you don't, I'll be a little, I'll be honestly a little disappointed if you don't. Because I think he gives you something athletically that teams, not just Notre Dame, I think teams are going to struggle all year dealing with him off the edge. So it's Notre Dame's running the ball really well, Regif, which by the way, if they're doing that, we're in a whole heap of trouble. But if they are, then no, I don't think you're going to see Clayton. I think you're going to see Garner, Fearbury, those dudes, but they're in 11. I had better see Nicholas Clayton out there. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a good one. I mean, in our ability to get pressure on car, we'll be able to affect that dramatic. Like, we obviously, like I said, we have to stop the run. That's key number one. But then can we get pressure on car? And if we do, then yeah, I mean, Sean Mullitz is Abu Sama. Yeah, Abu Sama. I'm really fascinated to see if we can actually run the ball between the tackles with Abu Sama. Yes, cool. And Joseph's going to get out. He's going to get great contain and he's going to make some things happen. Just straight up, like first in 10, lining up, they've got the box loaded.

18:28Like we're going to, you know, we're just going to run a standard, like up the middle type. Like, can we do that? Can our offensive line create those holes that actually can spring Abu Sama for some runs? Like we saw in camp, like there's definitely been positivity around the running game. That's something that's really fascinating to me. And I don't know what we're going to do. Now, if we can, Notre Dame, Notre Dame is going to have, they can start to get in trouble, right? If Abu Sama can get going and that line can get major push, now it creates a real, it creates an uncomfortable situation for Notre Dame. What do you, what do you feel better about our ability to run against their defense or our ability defensively to stop their passing game? Oh, I was hoping you were going to say running game. I was going to say, that's what I'm going to tell you. I know. I agree. I think on both sides, Wisconsin has to strive to not be one dimensional, which means you have to be able to run the ball a little bit. And then defensively, you got to try to make Notre Dame a little one dimensional. And I think one of the ways you could do that is with your athletes in the second day that we like. We just don't, we got to see it.

19:29What are you more confident in? Our ability to run the ball against their defense or our ability for our secondary to kind of stick with their receivers? I think I would say secondary and knowing that we don't actually know because these are all new guys. Just from what we've heard and learned about like Javin Robinson and these guys, I do think that that's what I'm most comfortable in. I think it's going to be hard for us to run the ball. I really do. And I think that they are absolutely going to say, look, like this is just what we're going to do to stop you and we've talked about that. So that's going to be hard. But I do like the athleticism in our secondary. I know Notre Dame is good. I know that's going to be hard. But if there's one thing that Notre Dame fans in general are underestimating, it's our defense. And I do believe that. And a key part of that is our cornerbacks and can they actually stay with those receivers. And if they can, so I'm more confident in that. I'm not saying I'm super confident in our ability to do that, but I definitely am more confident in that. So I think I'm on the flip side of that. And I think both are tough. I hear you on the athleticism.

20:31It's also quite a few young pieces that just might need a little bit of time to go through some more reps. I think we're going to run the ball this year. And I think this is a, if nothing else, a really physical offense line, you and I have both heard, we don't know, and we're not breaking news. But we both heard, I think it's fair to say relatively positive things about maybe our offense line is going to be fully at least out there ready to go. I think this offense line's physical. I think they're big. I think we have a, we do have a really deep group of physical tight ends. I love Abu Sama and I think Colton Joseph helps open up some creases. I think you're going to run the ball. Conversely, I'm a little worried defensively just about, it's, it all it is to me is the youth of the secondary. I don't question the physical tools. I think they did a great job reloading, but it is weak one for several guys that haven't played a ton of ball and several new pieces collectively in the same secondary. I think those things worry me against the veteran quarterback. Yeah, man. There's, there are, it's the secondary.

21:32It's probably, would you say it's definitely the biggest unknown on our team right now? Like as far as our ability to project their quality tomorrow. If you look at all the position units, what's the biggest unknown? I feel like it's the secondary because while there's a lot of talent, it's just completely unknown to us. We can argue we know what the linebackers do. We know what the D line can do. We know what some of the O line men can do. We know what some of the receivers can do. Colton Joseph certainly, but I think our secondary might be the biggest, the greatest unknown. Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's, I think it's receiver still for me because I will say even though there's new pieces together in the secondary, I think we do know what Javan Robinson can do. He's got multiple years of film and he was really good at Arizona State last year. I think we have a pretty good field for it, Marvin Berksis. That's another guy who started multiple years in Missouri last year. Receiver dude like who is, there's like no returning production there, right? At the FBS level.

22:32Demagio from a lower level who got 48 balls, but everybody else is like a question mark, right? Am I crazy? You're not. I mean, I think we saw and we saw some health in last year. So we do have confidence that he can do pretty good. And I think there is confidence in Brigham B as well. But yeah, you're right. You're not wrong. There's still a lot of question marks on this team. But one thing we always talk about, there were not no question marks or our linebackers. We're like, okay, we know those guys are going to do their thing. And talk about the most important part. Like, I mean, Marcus Freeman even said in his press conference, he goes number eight might be the best linebacker we see all season. And I think he's going to be right. I mean, obviously we know how incredibly good Mason Posts and Cooper Catalano are despite what some Notre Dame people might think about Cooper Catalano. Dude, he's so good. Those guys can play anywhere. Cooper and Posts can play anywhere. Couple of quick comments here. Bill Wojsh says fishing sucks in Carmel and Wisconsin. I will take no, no back talk. There's a compliment Wisconsin bill. You know way better than that.

23:34You are going in timeout. Like, there's nothing wrong with any part of Cumberland, Wisconsin. We had a comment up here from Haunch. I thought I started. Maybe I didn't. But he said Eric says hi. I think Eric and Haunch are hanging out. We got to see Eric and his two kids today. That was awesome and phenomenal. So Eric, thank you for coming up saying hi to us. As always, Haunch, you'll thanks for being there. All right, we're going to take one more quick break. We're going to come back, take some more of your comments for JV. Any more that you see that you like, Star, and we're going to make our final game predictions. Maybe we've changed our mind a bit. Kind of being amidst a badger faith, Ulrichy. Maybe we're a little more often to stick on. It's coming up next on Lockdown Badgers for a second. For our tremendous friends of the show over at Ultra Pouches. Ultra Pouches are phenomenal. And listen, football season is here. We have made it through the Doldromes and the Long Dereery off season. And now you have long days. They're great days, but they can be kind of long, right? Football can start early. You can last late. If a lot of time where you need to stay focused and energized, whether you're heading to a workout, come back from a workout, or maybe you're just settling in for a full day of football,

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25:41What's more exciting than two NFL division rifles going head to head on Australia? It's knowing you can watch it live on Netflix. Netflix is expanding its NFL coverage this season and beyond. In addition to the Rams and the Niners kicking off week one, be sure to catch the first ever Thanksgiving Eve matchup and two Christmas Day games on Netflix. Watch week one of the NFL on Netflix. The Los Angeles Rams versus the San Francisco 49ers live on Netflix. Thursday, September 10th at 8.35 PM Eastern, 5.35 PM Pacific. All right, Vigil. Final game prediction. I know we both done shows on this. We both made predictions. I'm going to give you an opportunity to change your mind. Are you more optimistic now that the closer that we've gotten? I want to I want to hear your answer to this first. Okay, I was about to play your, your, um, do I not have your audio? I do badgers winning a national title. Absolutely going on final four runs. Why not? It's believe with the regime on today's Lockdown Badgers.

26:41Badgers winning a national title. Absolutely. I don't play that in a minute. Has have I changed my prediction? I think so. I think I can't help. Let's not still let no one is going to win. No, no, it's really good. But we just sat together, me and Justin, right in a bar, drinking beer, eating food, watching Oregon almost lose the boys he stayed at home. You know, like I tell you, week one things are weird. I do think this was Constance. It's better. I do think they're being overlooked. And if you can run the ball, which I think they can do, here's the thing, if you can run the ball and stop the run, I think you're going to be in a lot of games. And I think you can do both those things consistently all year long. I like how the team finished last year. I think like 31 20. Wow. So I think it's closer. Now listen, that's still a two possession loss, right? And Notre Dame is really, really good. But yeah, man, I'm starting to buy in a little bit to this just being a tougher game than Notre Dame thinks it's going to be. Yeah, I mean, I'm close to you. Like I set 31 10.

27:42Now, it was my original prediction that I made on Wednesday. And I'm not far off that. Honestly, I feel like maybe 31 17, 31 14, something in that area. I just, I just feel like Notre Dame's going to score points. And let me tell you something, they could absolutely only score 20, 24 on us. That could absolutely happen because our defense is going to be or can be that good. So there is an opportunity in a window for us to potentially get it done. But there's a lot of things that have to go right. So I'm going to officially say 31 14 is my new prediction. I didn't we cover, but it's going to be difficult. And I, the biggest thing for me is turnovers. Like that's the stat that we just, we can't, if we lose the turnover margin, we will lose the game. That's a fact. It's just not going to happen. Yeah. If we can protect that, maybe we can get a strip sack from Posa or Catalano or Clayton or something and we can force a turnover and have a big special teams play or whatever. Like that's going to matter a lot. And if we can win that margin, then we are definitely going to have a shot at it.

28:45How many points does this team need to score to win? You mentioned that you think our defense could hold them to 24. If we score, can you win a game where we're up and scores 21? I think we can, I think we'd have to have to have as minimum of 2021 to win. Yeah, like we may be, I mean, and listen, that means they're turning the ball over. Like that means our defense is really is frustrating them. And Carr has a bad game, which could obviously happen. Then yeah, like if we can hold them to under 20, if we score 21, maybe we can, we can get it done. That's the recipe for that is that those, you know, that's that's kind of the area. I don't think you're holding, oh, in order to aim to 14 points. That I just don't see that. I don't either. What's, what's the stat Wisconsin has to win outside of turnovers? Like, obviously, turn, but what's the other stat when you look at the box score? And if it's a close game or even if Wisconsin trips the upset, what's the stat they want? Rushing yards. And we've got to have more rushing yards than them. And that's that, that's it. It's twofold. That's our ability to do that. It's cold and Joe's disability to scramble and run. And it's our ability to shut them down and make them a bit more one-dimensional

29:45to where they have to throw what C.J. Carr. And we have to rush the ball better than them. They, I think we all agree. If they can, if they're running the ball on us, we're in trouble. I'll give you another one that I think is important. C.J. Carr, we, we said new and excited several times. And people we've talked to have talked about it. C.J. Carr is really good. He's smart. He's intelligent. He's a good arm. He's incredibly accurate. I think you got to make him a little less efficient. So if you look at the end of the day and he's at like 63% completion percentage, I think that's kind of a win. If you remember like our game against Alabama, Ty Simpson was a lot like 87% completion percentage like some unfathomable number. They have to make, C.J. Carr is going to get his. No name's going to get theirs, Reggie. But can they make him a little less efficient? Right? Can they make it a little more difficult? And if they do that, again, it goes back to making Notre Dame a little more one-dimensional. And that's the key to the game. You can't let them dictate on both, on both ways, right? You have to take something away. Yeah, yeah, totally. I'll give you another one. Average depth of target for Colton Joseph.

30:47That can't be super high. We know that was a staff from his last year that he was one of the highest in the country. And I'm hoping that a really good play design from Jeff Grimes and short passes and Crossers across the middle and meshed concepts and things like that. Because that will allow us to find ways to beat that vaunted secondary, which it is. I'm not continually from away from them. But if he's firing the ball down field, honestly, with our receivers and their defenders, I don't think that's going to work. So we've got to have much more methodical offense if we're one we're going to pass it. It's got to be really good concepts, right? We've got to scheme guys open and that's Jeff Grimes' job. And then our guys have to get that separation. But I don't want to see a huge A-dot from Colton Joseph like he had last year. That will spell disaster in my opinion. Yeah, I don't think your offense line holds up. Incredibly well if you're going to be taking those deep shots either. Right. The seven step drops. Sean Mullin says, he can be close when people think downstream agrees with you. X-Factor offense line if you can run the ball. Like if you can't run the ball, the game is over 100% agree with that. Or jeep, I'm going to pull a few more comments up here.

31:48But who's under the most pressure? Now outside of Luke Fickle, like who on this? Can you play or in a coach outside of Luke Fickle, who's under the most pressure tomorrow? Yeah, I mean, I think that, wow. I mean, obviously the obvious answer is Colton Joseph, but I have to tell you, I think it's kind of Posa and Catalano. Not because like the dirt great players, but they have to shoulder a lot of our defensive prowess and the defensive load. Like they are really good. But it also means that after four games last year in the production they had, it means that they're at the expectation. The bar has gone up dramatically for their play. And for the play of our linebackers and our ability to stop the run and making those open field tackles and the sideline to sideline speed, I think they're going to be good. But I do think they're under some pressure now because everybody sort of expects those guys to be great. And they're not someone that we've talked about in that way. But I do think it's interesting to think about like, they've got to play well. They have to play well. That's really the answer.

32:49I didn't thought about that. Like your best players do have to kind of like shoulder so much responsibility. I think I'm going to go with Perkins. I just, man, talking about a guy that came in with a lot of expectations and didn't really for a lot of reasons play out last year. And you hit on it. It was one of the first things you hit on was, he needs to be really good. The middle of your line needs to be really stout. And that opens up Posa and Catalano. If Perkins is doing his job on the inside, I think there's a lot of pressure on him. A cold is the easy one. And then Jeff Grimes. Like there's so much pressure on Jeff Grimes. And last year wasn't fair to him. I was critical of Jeff Grimes, but I can also acknowledge that that's a really tough deck to play with. But okay, you got a quarterback. I know he noted him incredibly good, but you have to manufacture something on offense this week. You have to tomorrow. Absolutely. And yeah, I mean, if I'm thinking coach, it's 100% graph. A lot of people in the comments have been flashing up there. Jeff Grimes obviously. Because it's, it's, it's, can he,

33:49can he be the guy that we brought him in to be? Like when we got, when the long go experiment ended, right? We were all pretty excited that we were bringing in Jeff Grimes. He had a lot of different concepts. And it seemed like he fit with the talent we had. But he hasn't had the talent, especially quarterback. And he likes running quarterbacks. So can he scheme up that right game? Can you do something that, as you said, manufacturers offense, but just puts our guys in good positions. Like you know this transfer to your quarterback? You know the weaknesses of your quarterbacks. So make sure that you, you put him in a position to utilize his strength. Last question here. Because we want to let everybody get going. We've done 30 minutes. We are going to be, well, it's like what we're going to do tomorrow. I think we start a comment there. Yeah. While I pull that up, or jeeve, here's my last question for you. If you're my trestle, how aggressive are you tomorrow? And I caveat that with, I think no matter what, you got to make stuff a little bit. You can't play all vanilla or all aggressive. But if you have to lean a direction tomorrow, are you leaning aggressive? More blitz? More man? Stop the run. Are you leaning more conservative?

34:50Week one, let's let them come to us. Let's play more zone. I am of the opinion when you are a team like us. We're not, they are one of, they're a top five team for a reason. You better be aggressive. Like I want to see that because we're playing Lambo. It's going to be a 50-50 crowd, most likely. There's a lot of energy. There's so much pent up, you know, like feelings on both sides. Like we need to be aggressive. And that means being aggressive is smart, though. Not like just balls to the wall, everything. Like we have to be smart, as you said, situationally. You know, I like, I'm a big fan of rushing four or five, but from different areas, like pull guys off the line, like you know, do some different things to, to, to, to disguise pressure. Quarterback blitzes. We saw that last year, a lot with trestle. Like I want to be aggressive, but I want to be aggressive knowing that it has to be situational. And there has to be times when we do it and times when we don't. Because otherwise, like they'll figure it out quickly. We've got to mix it up a lot. But if we, if we're going to just sit back and try to take it,

35:51they're going to score a lot of points. Yeah, I definitely lean aggressive to your point. You got to be, you got to understand, try to understand your spots and picking shoes. But do take a swing. Like go into this game in this opportunity to take a swing. There are 20 point favorite. You're a 20 point dog. You got dudes and athletes on the corner, right? Like you have linebackers that are really disruptive. We have one of the more disruptive linebacking room. It's a strength to the team. And it's not just Posa and Cadet. It's John Junkamara. It's Nicholas Clayton. It's Sebastian Cheeks. Dude, as I told you today in a game or jeep, send the F and House. I forgot game we were watching. And listen, like, yeah, and the thing is, like you're going to get to him at some times. And what if one of those times you get to him, it's a sack fumble, right? And then all of a sudden, it's a scoop and score or something. Like you're right. You've got, if you play this team straight up, they're better. They just are. They're a better team than we are. We have to outsmart them. We've got to do something that's a little different. We've got to use emotions in those margins and sports where

36:51who wants it more? The hunger. Like we know they're hungry. All this non-leave no doubt stuff. They just been yapping about non-stop. Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going to be screaming out from the rooftops if we win. But like, they are better. So we just have to, we have to be aggressive. We can't just act like we're just a better team now. No, like you're playing a top five team. Take a swing, as you said. You've said it perfectly. Take a swing. Like you're expected to lose this game anyway. So if you're going to lose, let's give it a shot. Yeah, 100% agree. He is Regif. I am Ryan. Regif, we are at Stadium View tomorrow. Stadium View 11am tomorrow. We're going to be there for, we're planning to be there from 11 to 2. Then we're going to bounce around to some other tailgates. But come check us out. Stadium View is near, it's on Holmgren Way near the stadium. Anyone who's in Green Bay probably knows what that is because it's a big famous bar, I guess. But we'll be there. It's going to be a lot of fun. We saw a lot of people today. Thanks for everyone who came out to Title Town. Tomorrow it's going to be a great atmosphere. I'm excited to just see everybody. And it's always fun to be around people who just want

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