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should be. I know LeVar is excited.

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We are under a half hour away

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from the opening tee off. I

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guess, as you called, are you sure at

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August?

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Yeah? Are we sure that it's just a

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half an hour?

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Yeah? The opening tee off there.

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To guess what they say is like check off the t off.

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Hey, you don't know that, you're not familiar with that. That's

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how they're talking to Gustino. Tom Watson

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out here getting his warm up on. You know, Tom

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Watson getting his little swing open

1:06

as we get set. Yeah, I tell you,

1:08

man, you don't know the vernacular.

1:10

All right, I'm trying to catch you up to speed on. I'm trying

1:12

to put you up on.

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Games checking Matt Berry. You know, Jeff

1:20

Darlington. It's not that complicated.

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No, it wasn't Darlington. It wasn't

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Darlington. We're talking about the people covering

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the event that I watched, Thank you very much.

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I watched. I watched the Masters.

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Okay, well, Darlington's there.

1:34

Darlington was not on the screen

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that I was just watching, okay, or

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that I am watching.

1:40

It was not him?

1:42

Why Darlington there?

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Jeff?

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This actually is Jeff's first Masters, so

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he's pretty stoked about it. He's he's getting into

1:48

some golf, which you know, he's a big

1:50

golf enthusiastic. I'll put it this way.

1:53

I've gotten to know Jeff over the years,

1:56

good friends. He's a sneaky

1:58

good golfer. He did play high school golf.

2:00

So all you out there, if you play against Jeff,

2:03

then he tries to act like he doesn't.

2:04

Get to play very often or anything else.

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He's sneaky kind of good because he had like a good

2:09

upbringing and playing golf, So do not buy

2:11

whatever handicap he says he is.

2:13

See, so he's trying to hustle.

2:15

Oh, I mean, look, you know what.

2:17

Everyone's trying to hustle a little bit.

2:19

All right.

2:19

I got my buddy down the street for sana. That guy's

2:21

got like a he's probably he's playing as like an eight.

2:24

He's probably like an actual six.

2:27

So you just just surrounded by hustlers.

2:30

All air out everyone.

2:31

And that's the hard part with golf handicaps

2:33

is depending on the club you're at too. If there's a bunch

2:35

of matches and gambling, then it's

2:37

it's kind of baked in. Like you know, guys are usually

2:40

like one or two points probably higher

2:42

than they should be on their handicap because

2:44

they're factoring for everyone else. Being the same

2:47

with the steroid era in baseball,

2:49

Well everyone's doing it. If I'm not doing it, then I'm playing

2:52

at a big disadvantage.

2:54

The good old days. Man, just when you when

2:56

you never knew, like, hey, what's that realie? We're doing over

2:58

there?

2:59

Nothing.

2:59

He's just on the gas like everybody.

3:01

Else, looking

3:03

like a linebacker. Yeah, just playing golf.

3:07

Please.

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I'm just gonna say, if you've seen a picture of Brooks keptical

3:11

Lavarn, do you find it offensive that people say

3:13

he's as big as a linebacker.

3:15

Uh.

3:17

I don't get offended by it, but I

3:19

find it to be a tabbit comical. For

3:21

certain, he does not look like an

3:23

NFL linebacker. He looks more like a

3:28

a snapper, maybe

3:30

a long snapper. Yeah,

3:32

maybe a long snappers at.

3:34

One hundred and eighty five pounds. Like, how many

3:36

players in the NFL weigh

3:38

under one hundred and eighty eighty five pounds,

3:41

like Davante Smith?

3:43

Not many?

3:44

And straight to him. I mean, I know they call him

3:46

a slim.

3:47

Reaper, but oh, he's a great player.

3:49

You could put some mass on by now he might be a little bit over

3:51

one.

3:52

I'm thinking about, Like, there's not a lot of players that are

3:54

under one hundred and eighty pounds in the NFL.

3:57

So like the fact that he's not only in the NFL

4:00

fell but a linebacker at that weight, which.

4:04

Brooks is in the NFL

4:06

playing linebacker.

4:07

Yeah, people see they're like, oh, he's

4:09

built like a linebacker. I don't think

4:11

you've seen an NFL linebacker. They've never watched NFL

4:14

football.

4:14

That's all right, Yeah, they're

4:16

they're too busy, you know, watching them greens

4:19

and making fun of us.

4:21

We have real greens. You guys have artificials.

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Wait.

4:25

You know what's a little bit offensive about golf

4:28

is like LeVar is probably offended

4:30

because you know, he played lot, like he actually did

4:32

this professional at a really, really high level,

4:35

and people are like, no, he's built like a linebacker.

4:37

Like no, no, he's not, dude, he's not built.

4:39

Like what's worse is it's the only sport

4:43

where people dress up like

4:45

they're going to play when

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they go to watch. Think

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about that, Like, no one's sitting on their houses

4:52

on a Sunday in full pads

4:54

and a helmet watching a game, right,

4:57

Or like you're sitting back and your basketball shoes

4:59

and you're jersey and mess shorts watching an NBA

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game.

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What's point NBA?

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It's like going to a concert

5:06

of some band that was hot, Like like if you

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went to go see Olympiscuits show. Now you know

5:10

how many people probably dust off their old

5:12

red New York Yankees hats and throw them on

5:15

backwards to be some Fred Durst want to be.

5:17

And that's no knock on olympisk it. Okay, they did

5:19

some amazing.

5:20

Things that.

5:23

But just the idea. I mean, they're still doing shows

5:25

here and there because they make a bunch of money touring.

5:27

But like you go to a golf

5:29

and it does you don't even have to go to like a big time

5:31

golf event. You could go to like the Corn Faery.

5:33

Tour and

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that's like the that's

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like the minor league.

5:40

Yeah that Brady pulled out, but

5:44

like if you go to that one, like everybody's

5:46

dressed up as if like the only thing

5:48

they need is to get their clubs from

5:50

the back of their car and they could just go do with all.

5:52

These guys or they're going

5:55

to do or someone they tag them in. It's

5:57

like, oh no, like

5:59

there, I'll come tap you and you just play with my clubs

6:01

the rest of them, Like there's a slight chance that may have.

6:04

How many fans are going to NFL games with shoulder

6:06

pads in their car? Hey, just in case, like

6:08

you never know, something could happen, Just in case they

6:10

need me. I could be here. It's like come on, man, like

6:13

it should be just go

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go have a good time. You don't have to dress all

6:17

the garb and get dressed up and all that stuff.

6:19

Do they have alligators out Augusta? No

6:22

crocodiles?

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Nope, no, sir, by

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the way, they're not indigenous to Atlanta.

6:29

Oh well, Georgia.

6:31

Some of those videos that

6:33

go viral of those gators

6:35

or crocodiles crawling around on the course

6:38

in Florida, are those legit.

6:40

Or oh yeah, they're legit because

6:42

those come across one Hell

6:44

yeah, do you get nervous? Like

6:47

I saw the one that went and like kicked

6:49

them into the back into the water, and

6:51

then I saw the other one that ran away, Like

6:54

which one are you? Q Are you the kick the gator

6:56

back in the water or just my own business.

6:58

If my balls stay near the gator,

7:01

I'll check out to see if it's like sleeping

7:03

or not. If it's sleeping, then I'll

7:05

quickly hit my shot. If it looks like its eyes are

7:07

open and it's a little aware of what's happening, I

7:10

will probably just go ahead and do it. That to the

7:12

alligator listening.

7:13

Apollo Creed lost his arm, so.

7:17

That wouldn't that's yeah, I want no part

7:19

of that. What was his hand actually was

7:22

his hand his hand broke

7:25

pieces off of his hand.

7:26

Man.

7:26

They then broke the man's fingers off.

7:30

They did my man, he did any more wrong?

7:33

Did wrong?

7:34

I mean, if you want to why

7:36

is he die.

7:37

In every movie too? By the way, have you ever noticed

7:39

that he dies in every movie?

7:40

Loses a limb to predator happy

7:44

Gilmore. It's not cool,

7:46

man, it's not cool. But

7:53

if you want to lose potentially

7:56

your marriage, just

7:58

sign up for the NFL in Brazil.

8:00

Yeah, all right, all right, don't say that. We're

8:02

going to don't say that at

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all.

8:05

Because week one it has been announced.

8:08

It has been announced that the Packers and Eagles

8:11

it will be the first Friday

8:13

night in September as

8:15

they will face off in Sal Paulo,

8:18

Brazil as the first ever

8:20

NFL game in Brazil.

8:22

I know.

8:22

Lead to lap Our executive producer die Hard

8:24

Packers man. Uh he is already

8:28

throwing his hand up in the air saying, I want to go

8:30

to Brazil. I want to cover this Packers Eagles

8:32

game. But nonetheless, that's

8:34

going to be the stage and going to be

8:37

the scene coming up this September.

8:39

Feels like there's gonna be a lot of people that get in trouble

8:41

there.

8:42

I don't think. I don't think

8:44

Lee's coming back. If that's the case, so.

8:48

Tell wife and kids. I love them, but I

8:50

ain't never coming back.

8:52

Yeah, I'll cover the game. I'll cover a bunch of stuff.

8:54

Now, if I'm not mistaken.

8:55

What were originally anticipating this being

8:57

the Eagles versus the brown Yeah?

9:00

Is it? God?

9:01

Who is the guy on the podcast that ruined

9:03

it?

9:03

For man?

9:06

No, No, he's learned a lot of other things. Oh, he's

9:12

got to do a lot of podcasts. I wouldn't

9:14

imagine. I

9:16

forget who it was for the Browns, but yeah, he

9:19

showed up out on podcast and said, yeah,

9:21

we're playing the Eagles week one, and I was like, Okay,

9:23

I guess that's the that's the game it's going to be. And I wonder

9:25

if the NFL heard that and said, well, you

9:27

try and ruin our surprise, sucks

9:29

for you, or they realized maybe

9:32

not a great idea to send it to Shaun Watson

9:34

out to Brazil for that game could be a

9:36

problem. It was Maurice Hurst who

9:38

who made the comment on that podcast, but it

9:41

is going.

9:41

To be Peter King also had

9:43

hinted at that a little bit too.

9:46

Yeah, but he also said the Bears are going to keep

9:48

justin fields too, So yeah, well he

9:50

said a.

9:50

Lot of things.

9:53

There's a multiple people I think thought that that being

9:55

said, Uh, Packers fans get

9:57

excited, you know, playing,

10:00

but that's that'll be a great game, great matchup. I do

10:02

wonder, like what other cities the

10:05

NFL is still targeting, you know, to play some

10:07

of these international games in, and then also how they

10:09

handle you know, what's going what's

10:12

going on.

10:12

I mean, let's just be real with with each one of those

10:14

countries.

10:15

I mean, right now there's a battle

10:17

between you know, the government there in Brazil

10:19

and Elon musk and censor

10:22

ship over over x or Twitter, whatever you

10:24

want to call it.

10:24

I wonder how they.

10:26

Go about, you know, handling some

10:29

of the you know, some of what's happening

10:31

in these other countries as they prepare for

10:34

really presenting their game to the rest of the world.

10:36

I mean, how they go about factoring that into the

10:39

decision of selecting some.

10:40

Of these cities.

10:41

I don't know about all of that, but

10:43

I love nothing

10:45

more than to visit sal

10:48

Polo for this game.

10:51

I like that very much, like to do

10:53

that very much.

10:54

Now, do you like the fact that there's already a

10:56

betting line on this game in Brazil.

10:58

We got a Egle minus one and a

11:00

half. Like I'd

11:02

like to bet the over of Eagles minus one and

11:05

a half players that make it back on the plane to get

11:07

back over to the States, because.

11:08

I think that's the point total, but the player

11:10

total.

11:11

Some of those guys are gonna be looking around going, you know what, dollar

11:14

goes a long way here. I'm good, I still

11:16

got my signing bonus. I'll figure things

11:18

out. You guys go have fun, you know, wrecking

11:20

your bodies for eighteen weeks. I'm gonna go enjoying

11:23

my time here in Brazil. And would

11:26

you say, like, this is the other thing I wonder about,

11:28

what are these teams gonna feel like week two?

11:31

Because I know it's a Friday and

11:33

they're gonna go out there ahead of time to try and get

11:35

acclimated to you know, the time

11:38

change and you know the life

11:40

and the scene and all that stuff. But what are

11:42

they gonna look like week two when

11:44

they come back and they've got to fly all the way

11:46

back and it's it's too early in the

11:48

season to have your bye week after what some teams

11:50

do when they play international games. I'm

11:53

telling you right now, that's the move.

11:56

The second that schedule comes out, all

11:58

the experts out there, the sharp if you will,

12:01

are going to jump on the week two line,

12:04

and whoever Green Bay and Philly is playing,

12:06

they're gonna jump at that chance to try and fade

12:08

them because they're gonna be worried about the Brazilian

12:10

hangover that they're dealing with that early in the season.

12:13

You heard it here first, not how you

12:15

break down weekly Curious.

12:17

Like what is their schedule? See NBA.

12:20

I had a lot of NBA

12:22

friends. Their their

12:25

travel schedule is so relaxed,

12:28

like they'll stay after.

12:29

The games they they get there.

12:31

They they just have to be there for like

12:33

shoot arounds and stuff like that. For the most

12:35

part, they're just you know, they're kind of on their

12:37

own. But but the NFL,

12:40

man, they'd be having you on such

12:43

a tight time schedule that

12:46

you have to find pockets of time

12:49

to be a degenerate. If if that's

12:51

your you know, that's how you're feeling, you

12:53

know. So I'm curious knowing

12:56

that this is that type of environment.

13:00

And by the way they played in Mexico.

13:03

Mexico is that

13:05

environment as well.

13:06

I know that.

13:08

Yeah, but I've been to Mexico several times

13:10

to do some games, and boy, I tell

13:12

you, it

13:15

was a very nice trip.

13:16

It was very nice. It was very nice.

13:18

And so I'm just curious as to how

13:20

they're going to manage these guys because

13:22

it will have that

13:25

element where you know, you don't

13:27

want you don't want guys.

13:29

You know.

13:29

It's interesting they went to Barcelona,

13:31

they played him. I was telling the story because

13:33

I interviewed Merril Hodge the other week. He

13:36

came onto the he came on

13:38

to the beach with a leopard print speedo

13:40

on on that trip and we were

13:43

talking about it. But they played in Barcelona,

13:45

Spain, and I was young. I was like

13:47

fourteen years old, but I wasn't too young to have

13:50

eyes and to realize that there are some

13:52

very very beautiful people in Barcelona,

13:55

Spain. So I guess they've they've

13:57

gone to unique place.

14:00

Yeah, I feel like we're covering a lot of where the beautiful

14:02

people are. Yeah, I would say I would say this

14:04

though. It's a legitimate concern for a lot of teams

14:07

who see this early in their season, you

14:09

know, preparing for the travels,

14:12

the difference in climate and all that based

14:14

on you know, how.

14:15

Hot it is cold as that time of year.

14:18

But the interesting thing is how as far

14:20

as sports performance goes, what's changed a lot

14:22

is you know, you talked about that NBA travel

14:24

schedule. Oftentimes because the

14:26

games are so late, instead of trying to

14:28

fly out that night, and this happens in hockey,

14:31

happens and baseball, happens a lot of other sports,

14:34

they'll just stay over. And the hope and

14:36

the desire is to try

14:39

to get those players the

14:41

most amount of rest following

14:43

competition. And all the studies

14:46

show that, you know, that's when the body

14:48

obviously has mostly you know, impacted

14:50

it. And as far as what gives them the best chance

14:52

to recover to make sure they're good for

14:54

that next game is staying

14:56

overnight at that same place, not traveling,

14:59

not getting a bad night's sleep, and

15:01

then trying to fly out the next day. Even though it may impact

15:04

you know, that schedule for the next few days, it

15:06

still is better off for that team re covering. So

15:08

for football for the following week, or with

15:10

baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever, it is

15:13

staying overnight, getting good rest in that one spot

15:16

and then getting up and traveling the next day.

15:18

That is typically been what.

15:20

A lot of teams I think have come to the conclusion

15:22

of, at least of late in regards to some

15:24

of these international travels or crazy

15:27

travel schedules.

15:27

That that have.

15:28

I mean, some things are worth a poor start to

15:30

the season or a week two letdown,

15:32

and I would argue that this is one of them. This

15:34

is worth it. You know, if you're gonna go to Brazil

15:37

and go enjoy your time in Brazil

15:39

and stay over an extra night, probably

15:41

gonna impact the second game, but

15:43

it's worth it. So congratulations

15:46

to the Eagles and Packers that are going to be a part of

15:48

that. And I wonder how

15:50

many because I also saw that they were,

15:52

you know, logistically wondering like

15:55

getting out of Green Bay, getting out of Wisconsin

15:57

to fly to Brazil, Like how would they pull that

15:59

off? I know Mark Murphy had said, you

16:01

know, we're just trying to figure out if it makes sense.

16:04

In the NFL just said, yeah, you'll figure it out, and we'll

16:06

send you over there for for week one to start out the

16:08

season. So it'll be fun to have Friday

16:10

night football though. That'll be fun NFL football

16:13

on a Friday night first time.

16:14

You know, it was fun watching all of these

16:16

NFL prospects walk in

16:18

and out here. Olu just walked in and

16:20

out, adsa Isaac,

16:23

he just walked in. And so

16:25

I'm they're doing construction on

16:28

on the building, like it's looking really really

16:30

nice, very very upgraded, like

16:32

a place that you would want your kid to come play

16:35

football, like over like Notre Dame or any

16:37

of these other schools. But anyways, I digress.

16:40

It's a lot of these guys coming in here

16:42

right now and they look really good like they look

16:45

so if y'all happen to hear some noise in the background,

16:48

just know it's it's uh I'm in the football

16:51

offices at at Penn State, and uh

16:54

yeah, there are a lot of players that are walking in

16:56

this office because my normal place

16:58

that I would go do radio the show

17:01

is under construction and us

17:04

doing this later, later time slot.

17:07

Everyone seems to be congregating in

17:09

the area where I'm doing the show. Just a

17:11

disclamor for everyone out there. If you

17:13

happen to hear some background noise, yeah,

17:16

that's that's some all Americans

17:18

walking in and.

17:19

Out of this office that I'm in.

17:20

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at the m m QB. You can find them on Twitter

19:02

or x at Albert Breer a B.

19:04

What's happening? Good morning to you Er.

19:08

We're just now Albert. Could you be trusted?

19:11

Like if they pulled you aside and said, hey, thinking

19:15

about sending you to Brazil for Week one? Could

19:18

you be Could you be trusted to

19:20

be a professional while out in Brazil

19:22

covering Packers Eagles to kick off

19:24

the season on a Friday night.

19:26

I'm pretty good at juggling different

19:28

things, So yeah,

19:30

I mean, I think there's a relatively high

19:33

percentage chance that I would make it to the game

19:35

on Friday night.

19:36

Yeah, so you at least

19:38

be to the get to the game. That would be the that would

19:40

be the goal, and then we'll figure it out from there.

19:42

Yeah.

19:42

I mean, although although I've heard I've heard uber

19:44

rides down there, it can take you to weird places.

19:47

I don't know if that's true or not.

19:48

I've heard, Yeah, that's true.

19:50

That's problematic, the type of places

19:57

you'd be something a little strange for a little change.

20:06

So we were talking about how there's a

20:09

report out that the Vikings have set up a private

20:11

meeting with Jaden Daniels, and you know,

20:13

now the commanders are meeting with

20:15

Drake May and JJ McCarthy and they're

20:17

also meeting with Jade and Daniels, and there's

20:20

just like, it feels like this is a lot of the

20:22

run of the mill sort of stuff

20:24

as we gear up for the draft coming up here in a couple

20:26

of weeks. But is there a draft story out

20:28

there, something that you've heard or

20:31

you've got any sort of intel on that you look

20:34

at and go, that's interesting that

20:36

could have a real impact near

20:38

the top of the draft or even in the first round.

20:41

Yeah, I think the one thing that already has is the Giants

20:43

at least creating the perception that

20:46

they're in on the quarterbacks right now. Whether

20:48

they are or not remains to be seen, but like

20:51

they're doing everything you would do if you were

20:53

going to take one, you know, And so

20:55

that's you know, they had McCarthy and may

20:58

in at the beginning of March, which is incredibly

21:01

early to be doing a thirty visit. Those

21:03

normally happen during April, like right around now,

21:06

and they went and worked a few of the guys out privately.

21:09

They showed up to the pro days. So like,

21:12

you know, least say the Giants have done

21:14

all the things you would do if you were going to take one

21:17

in the top ten, and

21:20

you know, like that does two things one and prepares

21:22

them if they are going to take one, but two it

21:24

also has created this perception that

21:27

they're the team that you have to jump over to get one

21:29

if you want the fourth one. So you

21:32

know, Minnesota, Vegas, Denver,

21:34

like if one of those teams wants to go get the fourth quarterback,

21:36

now there's just a perception out there that they have to get

21:39

over the Giants to go get that guy. Well,

21:41

could that be because that's what the

21:43

Giants want out there? And if the Giants want

21:46

that out there, well what would

21:48

the effects be?

21:48

The effects would be that would guarantee.

21:50

Either Malik Neighbors or Marvin Harrison would

21:52

fall into their lap of six. So,

21:55

you know, like I think that that's one of the interesting

21:57

ones. I just think Denver's lurking,

22:00

Like I just like, you know, they've

22:02

been kind of quiet about their quarterback

22:04

evaluation and everything else. I

22:06

just know this, like Sean Payton loved

22:09

Patrick Mahomes seven years ago and

22:11

was very close to getting and would have taken them eleventh

22:13

overall. They wanted to Marshaun Lottimore in that spot.

22:16

So a good player.

22:17

But you know, obviously things

22:19

probably go a lot differently in New Orleans. If

22:22

you know, Patrick Mahomes is on the roster and

22:25

maybe Sean Payton's still there, and so does

22:27

that linger with them? And if there is one of these

22:29

guys that he really likes, is he get aggressive to go and

22:31

get get him? You

22:34

know, right now they're starting quarterbacks Jared Sidham.

22:36

I know, you know, Sean feels like he could go out

22:38

and play a season with Jared Sidham if he needed

22:40

to. I just you

22:42

know, there's a big part of me that wonders that they got another

22:44

swing in them somewhere at that position.

22:48

What is the one thing you're keeping an

22:50

eye on right now, given it's

22:52

kind of that dead period before we actually get

22:54

to the draft. Is there any potential

22:57

trade, any potential signing,

22:59

or something that couldn't happen that would change the

23:01

landscape of what the draft looks like of

23:03

up the end of the month.

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Yeah, I mean, I think the receivers, Brady, you

23:08

know, Brandon, I you T Higgins.

23:11

Now, like those guys aren't on the block per

23:13

se, but you

23:15

know, teams are gonna call and and

23:17

and see, you know if

23:19

if either of those guys are available, you

23:22

know, and I think in both those cases, you know, for

23:24

those teams there's like a big picture element.

23:26

You know, they love the players.

23:27

But you know what what like if you

23:29

pay T. Higgins at the top of

23:31

the market, like then you're probably gonna have to pay Jamar

23:34

Chase more than you pay T.

23:35

Higgins And you've.

23:36

Already got Joe Burrow and they're fifty five

23:38

million dollars per So we're talking about between

23:40

the three of them, one hundred and ten million,

23:43

one hundred and twenty million per year, you

23:46

know, and that's just in one phase of the game that you're

23:48

investing at. You know, So can you do that

23:50

if you're Cincinnati long term? Or is

23:53

it better to get a second round pick for t Higgins

23:55

and then.

23:56

You know, draft his replacement. You

23:58

know that that's the question.

23:59

Brandon and I Obviously the Niners have a lot of

24:01

mouths to feed. You know, they paid Fred

24:03

Warner, they paid Nick Bosa, they paid Trevarius

24:06

Ward, they paid Trent Williams, they paid Deebo

24:08

Samuel and George Kittle, they

24:10

paid Christian McCaffrey.

24:11

You know.

24:12

So you know, if you're

24:14

looking at it and you know something's got

24:16

to give over the next couple of years, would that something

24:19

be, well, we've got a surplus at receiver

24:21

right now.

24:22

You know, we've got Deebo Samuel there.

24:24

Kyle is really good at scouting

24:26

and developing them.

24:28

You know.

24:28

Is that where you know, we you know, wind

24:31

up trying to save a little bit from a cash and

24:33

cap standpoint.

24:34

So you know, those would be those would be the.

24:36

Guys I think, like right now, I would look at and

24:38

say, if there's somebody that's

24:40

going to be moved or talked about being moved in the

24:42

next couple of weeks that could have materially

24:44

affect things in the draft. Those

24:47

those would be the guys. You

24:49

know, I think that those two guys, you

24:51

know, again, they're not being shopped, but you know.

24:54

The Bengals and Niners are certainly going any calls.

24:56

On them, abe Ca,

24:58

can you put us up as on

25:00

what's going on in Dallas?

25:03

I mean hearing about there's the possibility

25:05

of a CD Lamb hold

25:08

out looming. Yeah,

25:10

Michaeh Parsons, They're they're complaining

25:13

about him and too

25:15

many people would be glad to see him

25:17

go.

25:18

This sounds like horrible

25:20

dysfunction.

25:22

If your two top players are

25:24

in the media for things

25:27

like this.

25:29

Well, it's Dallas, so I mean this

25:31

function just means that it's Thursday. Right.

25:35

Yeah, But I I uh, you

25:37

know, I like the way I look at this. I think

25:39

it's similar to what we just talked about with Cincinnati,

25:42

where there's like a contractual bottle neck

25:44

coming right, And the difference

25:46

is that, you know, where the Bengals have one of

25:48

those guys taken care of.

25:50

The Cowboys has zero their three.

25:52

Right, So it's Dak, it is CD,

25:55

it's Michah Parsons. And you can

25:57

say we can wait for a year on Michaeh Parsons

25:59

to pay him. But is he going to be okay

26:01

with that?

26:02

Right?

26:02

Like, I don't know, maybe he won't be, you know, because

26:04

of his value is what it is right now?

26:07

And Nick Bosa got thirty four million

26:09

a year last year? You know, does he

26:11

want to strike while the iron's hot and push for

26:13

a deal now? You know obviously Ceedee

26:15

Lamb already waited a year, and

26:18

you know if you wait much longer, well, you know,

26:20

justin Jefferson could change the market at

26:22

receiver, you know, and then how do you compensate

26:25

Dak? You know, based on where the market went last

26:27

year, where Joe is making

26:29

fifty five million dollars a year? Now, do

26:32

you go to sixty four? Do you go

26:34

to fifty six or fifty seven million?

26:37

Or do you do? You do? You wait this one out?

26:40

Like there's a lot of big picture questions for

26:42

the cowboys there at those positions,

26:44

and you know, it's a it's a credit to

26:46

them like that they've been able to identify and

26:49

and and and and and have

26:52

guys like that home grown on their roster.

26:54

But you know, in some of these cases,

26:56

waiting an extra year has sort of created

26:59

this situation where, now,

27:01

how do you take care of all these guys at once? I

27:04

think it's certainly going to be a talking point over the next

27:07

couple of months leading up to training camp.

27:10

He's Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports

27:12

Radio. It's LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas

27:14

Knox in for Dan Patrick and the guys here on

27:17

FSRL. I want to ask you because I know obviously

27:19

you're in and around the area there, and I know you've

27:22

been close to the organization for a long time.

27:24

In the Patriots, they're sitting at three.

27:27

What is the feeling as

27:29

far as what they do at that spot, because

27:31

if they don't love the separation

27:34

between the second and third best quarterbacks

27:37

potentially going at that point. Is there

27:39

a chance that that's a team that could trade

27:42

back because it feels like they've got a lot to

27:44

improve on the roster.

27:45

Yes, I think they could trade back.

27:48

I think it's going to take a lot, though, So

27:50

what's a lot? You

27:52

know, like if you look like so the

27:55

Niners spent three

27:57

first round picks to move from twelve

28:00

the three in twenty one. The

28:02

Redskins did the same move three

28:05

first round picks to go from six to two in

28:07

twenty twelve. So

28:10

I think that's the starting point of any negotiation,

28:12

especially for the teams that are coming from a whole further down

28:15

with the Vikings, say at eleven. The

28:17

one thing the Vikings have that those other teams

28:19

didn't have is they've got two first round

28:21

picks this year, so they can offer,

28:25

you know, the Patriots eleven and twenty three,

28:27

you're going to have you have certainty, you know where those picks

28:29

are, and those guys are going to be

28:32

on your roster this year, and then Adam another first

28:34

round pick next year.

28:35

So do the Patriots think about that?

28:37

And beyond just that, do the Patriots not only think

28:40

about that? Do they think about doing that trading

28:42

down and then trading back up if they really

28:44

say, like JK. McCarthy and

28:46

you know, like they look at it and say, okay, we want

28:49

we're going to move down and now we're going to try to move back up

28:51

to four or five.

28:53

I think all of these things are in play with New.

28:55

England, and you know, I think it's especially

28:57

if here's them and you look at it and

28:59

you you have like May and m

29:02

have you have May and McCarthy close, Like if you

29:04

think those two guys and there's such vastly

29:06

different prospects. But if

29:08

you think that, if you think there's merit

29:10

to taking either guy, maybe you

29:12

talk yourself into that. You know where you you

29:14

trade down.

29:15

And back up.

29:16

They're in a really interesting spot because I

29:18

think, I mean, we know Chicago's sticking at

29:21

one and taking Caleb, and I think ninety

29:23

nine percent the Commanders stick

29:25

at too. I think it'll

29:27

be Jaden. I'm not ninety nine percent on that part

29:29

of it, but I'm almost certain they'll stay it too

29:32

and take a quarterback. So, you

29:34

know, being being the first team,

29:36

you know, in that upper group that's willing

29:38

to move the pick could give you a lot of bargaining power.

29:42

Albert, you know, it's been a pretty soft,

29:44

easy interview so far. I figured i'd just kind of throw

29:46

you a curve call. Any thoughts

29:48

on Aaron Rodgers and you know, the VP nomination

29:51

with Robert F. Kennedy one through or

29:53

some of the conspiracy theories I donything you

29:55

got force there out you have.

29:56

Any thoughts on UFOs or Area fifty

29:59

one.

30:00

Well, I wasn't Monday.

30:01

Monday was a Monday was a tough day for the

30:03

flat earthers, wasn't it.

30:06

Oh yeah,

30:07

yeah.

30:12

Right, I'm not sure.

30:13

I'm not sure how you would explain that if you're if you're

30:15

if you're a flat earther. I mean, I

30:17

I don't know if Hollywood has like some sort

30:20

of curtains or something like that that you can put

30:22

over the sun.

30:24

Yeah, so I like that that would

30:26

be.

30:26

My first thought, just just

30:28

you know, talking.

30:29

To what you guys we were talking about there.

30:30

But uh, yeah, the

30:33

the the Aaron Rodgers vice president presidential

30:37

campaign didn't didn't last very long.

30:39

I will say that there might have

30:42

been some Jets people that were quietly

30:45

pleased to see it end, but I'm not sure

30:47

that they would.

30:47

Ever admit that.

30:49

I mean, you know, and

30:51

and I and I would also say this, there were some people

30:54

in Green Bay who were entertained by it.

30:56

Yeah, yeah, it does.

30:59

It does feel like there's a

31:02

portion of the media, whether you know

31:04

they want to admit this or not, that is

31:06

sort of rooting for the Rogers

31:08

experiment In New York to fail, like

31:11

it does feel like that that there's kind of a slanted

31:14

view of him and whether it's his political

31:16

belief Oh yeah,

31:19

no, no, no.

31:20

That that absolutely exists, which

31:23

is why I hate that everybody has to draw

31:25

everything on political lines now,

31:27

Like I'm just watching football, man,

31:29

I don't need to, like, yeah, I don't

31:32

need to relate everything to who's

31:34

on the right or who's on the left when I'm watching a football

31:36

game, you know. But that's what we've come to, I guess,

31:38

And I don't want to turn this into a deeper conversation,

31:41

but I guess we already have since I killed

31:43

all the flatter.

31:44

If there's about three minutes.

31:45

Ago, well listen, it

31:47

happens. But Ab, we appreciate

31:49

a few minutes of your time here on a Thursday

31:51

morning. He is Albert Breer, senior NFL reporter,

31:54

also lead content strategist at the MMQB.

31:57

Get him on X at Albert Breer.

32:00

We'll do it again next week.

32:01

Thanks Ab, All right, thanks guys.

32:03

All right, it is the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox

32:05

Sports Radio. LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas

32:07

Knox with you, and right now

32:09

we turn it over to Nick co for some breaking

32:11

news out of the.

32:12

ENNI breaking

32:16

news from Fox Sports.

32:20

All right, all right, guys, this comes from

32:22

the Twitter account verified from

32:24

OJ Simpson. Apparently

32:26

OJ has passed away, according to

32:28

a post made by his family

32:31

on his verified Twitter account. It says,

32:33

quote, on April tenth, which was yesterday,

32:36

our father, Orenthal James Simpson

32:38

succumbed to his battle with cancer. He

32:40

was surrounded by his children and grandchildren

32:43

during this time of transition. His family as

32:45

that you please respect their wishes for privacy

32:48

and grace. Signed the Simpson family.

32:50

Haven't had any media reports

32:53

of his death yet, but this from OJ's

32:56

personal verified Twitter account.

33:00

Well, I don't

33:02

this is I don't know how to yeah,

33:05

exact to this. It is a tricky one.

33:08

Was it known that he was battling with cancer.

33:10

I saw that somewhere that he was dealing

33:12

with an illness, but I hadn't heard anything about

33:14

it and some time. Yeah,

33:17

so it's kind of obviously we know, look,

33:20

playing career, you know, one of the

33:22

best ever. But then that court sort of

33:24

takes a step back when you consider all the stuff

33:26

that happened afterwards, the double murder

33:28

and many people feeling

33:30

like he did it and got

33:32

away with it, just kind of was able

33:35

to kind of live and do his thing

33:37

and play golf and play fantasy football,

33:40

and it just sort of we just sort of looked past

33:42

that and just kind of almost, I don't want to say we accepted

33:45

it. It just almost felt like, how's

33:48

this? How is he able to do all of this with

33:50

with that in his past? And then

33:52

it's you know, you never want to see anybody pass

33:56

away. It's sad for the family, it's sad for the people

33:58

that had nothing to do with the incidents that took place

34:00

after his career. But this is this

34:02

is surprising obviously that this.

34:04

Came out, And so yeah, I think the one

34:07

thing that surprised me is when you go

34:09

through what he went through post career in

34:12

regards to what is accused of criminally

34:14

and I believe convicted of civilly at

34:16

least in the civil court of law, which are two different

34:18

burdens approved. But that being said, you

34:20

know, the fact that he chose to be out in the open,

34:23

you know, he chose to be on the public eye,

34:25

which you know, you realize there's

34:27

going to be a lot of criticism and a lot of people who you

34:30

know, based on the allegations,

34:32

believed he was guilty, believe he got away

34:34

with it. So a lot

34:37

of obviously mixed emotions, I'm sure

34:39

for people out there who aren't really sure how

34:41

to you know, view OJ

34:43

Simpson because it's hard to remove

34:46

you know, what his identity was built by, which was,

34:48

you know, his football career with obviously

34:50

what occurred afterwards.

34:52

I mean I still remember where I was when

34:54

that trial was going on and it was announced that he

34:57

was not guilty, like people, I

34:59

mean because talk about an uproar

35:01

in the country, like people.

35:03

Feelings

35:06

in a way, yeah, during

35:08

that time.

35:08

But yeah, I mean you know, people

35:11

get old.

35:11

They die, all

35:15

right there you go, well, well

35:17

put here on. Yeah,

35:20

he was definitely was, uh

35:23

you know, and that'll be that, and

35:26

that's that. It is the Dan Patrick

35:29

Show here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,

35:31

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35:33

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35:35

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35:37

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35:40

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35:42

themselves. That's yours here on FSR.

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35:54

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35:57

We are going to uh have

36:00

a discussion about motivation in the NFL.

36:02

Somebody's got an idea. Not sure it actually

36:04

works, but we'll get into that for you coming

36:07

up top the next hour a little over ten minutes

36:09

from now. The breaking news it just came out a

36:11

few minutes ago that we had

36:13

here on the show. It's LeVar Arrington, Brady

36:15

Quinn, Jonas Knox in for Dan Patrick and the guys.

36:18

Oj Simpson reportedly has

36:20

passed away due to cancer at

36:22

the age of seventy six. And

36:24

so, you know a lot of people sort

36:27

of obviously

36:29

surprising news, but you know, trying to figure

36:31

out how to how to respond

36:34

and react to that news with all with his track

36:36

record and background and everything that comes along with

36:38

it. And so to give you a little peek behind the

36:40

curtain on this show, lead

36:42

to lap Our, executive producer for

36:44

two.

36:46

Texted me, yeah, he said,

36:48

no, Jay for Ojul

36:54

could have been connected to the past

36:56

or even the present.

36:57

I guess that is uh.

37:00

Yet you're a classy

37:02

guy. Classy guy there, Lee,

37:04

but he so

37:07

Lee to lap Oar, executive producer, We have joked

37:10

with Lee and trust me, we are going to get

37:12

to a story about a team in football that made

37:14

things more difficult on themselves to stick around for

37:16

that formatics kids. But we

37:19

joke with Lee because he's got an interesting

37:22

life to where we call him the Big Lee Bowski

37:24

because he's the most relaxed, casual

37:27

dude you'll ever meet, you know, likes

37:29

to get after it a little bit. He also interacts

37:32

with celebrities and an alarming rate

37:34

and has intel on stuff that you can't

37:36

possibly imagine, and he'll just throw it

37:39

on you as kind of a side Oh, by

37:41

the way, I was like, what do you mean? Like his

37:43

dad was in Back to the Future. He was the drummer

37:45

for Michael J. Fox's band. His

37:47

dad designed certain sets at Universal Studios.

37:50

He delivered pizzas or got pizzas delivered

37:53

to him by Eva Mendez. And it's

37:55

just like all sorts of like what was the one that you dropped

37:57

on us recently?

37:59

A surprise my friend who is the zoo keeper

38:01

at the Playboy mansion.

38:02

Right, Like it's that kind of stuff like who

38:05

not only like there's a zoo keeper the Playboy mansion

38:07

and Lee also is friends with her. So

38:10

Lee walks into the studio after the news that

38:12

O. J. Simpson had passed away, and

38:14

we were talking just about the trial and everything

38:16

that came along with it, and Lee just says, oh,

38:18

yeah, I saw kato'klen at the supermarket the other

38:20

day. You saw Really, I

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see him there all the time. I always give him the head

38:25

nod.

38:26

Does he give you the head nod back?

38:28

Yeah, because I think he recognizes me because

38:30

we've met a few times.

38:31

And fellow, fellow, you

38:34

guess what's talked about Green Bay Packers we have Yeah,

38:37

yeah, what's that?

38:39

Never never aside and

38:41

said, hey, what really happened?

38:43

Yeah?

38:45

Uh not me personally, No, But

38:48

it's just like, of all the

38:50

people that would like have some sort of an

38:53

acquaintance relationship, all

38:56

right.

38:56

I don't understand that.

38:59

I mean I know why yeah, why,

39:02

I mean, why would you bring up your acquaintance

39:04

with kato'kalin unless you

39:07

know this topic.

39:09

And by the way, Lee does have a Kato Kalin vibe,

39:11

like if they put him on this like.

39:13

They could like be friends because they look.

39:15

Like like he just

39:17

walked in the studio and goes like

39:19

his hair still long.

39:20

He'd be like, I don't know, man, you still got

39:22

the same exact hair, like not

39:25

long, but he's got the same hair on

39:27

the stand and ask some questions. I don't know,

39:29

man, I'm just st hanging out.

39:31

He's some Jimmy Buffett.

39:32

It's just like he just walks into the studio

39:35

and drops these things like I dated

39:38

a girl that was a zoo keeper, the Playboy mansion.

39:40

Okay, I guys think that the country,

39:42

Like how do you think sports media is

39:44

going to cover it? Like is

39:47

it going to be is it going to be focused

39:49

on one thing, the other

39:52

or all of the above? Like it's

39:54

such a complex that.

39:57

I mean, this is one of the more complex

39:59

Uh is it that complex?

40:01

I mean.

40:04

Hall of Fame athlete, but controversy.

40:07

Can I take a guess.

40:09

I'm gonna go ahead, that's what makes it complex?

40:11

Well, I mean that's not that's not simple.

40:13

I'm gonna guess that social media is not going

40:15

to be kind to him right

40:18

now. That's that's what I guess will.

40:19

Be probably a lot of similar comments to what

40:22

Lee had.

40:23

Yeah, Like it's just so unfortunate

40:27

that you would take that approach and make a comment

40:29

like that on the air. But I just

40:31

feel like that there's

40:34

gonna be a lot of comedians out there who

40:36

are going to.

40:39

No jail.

40:40

Oh okay,

40:43

I got it, No thank

40:46

you.

40:46

You could say no juice. You know, I was.

40:48

Thinking juice, I was thinking justice.

40:50

I wasn't sure where where it was at. I just

40:52

didn't get it. But okay, maybe that's something

40:54

I wasn't an so.

40:56

Okay, So again, o Ja Simpson has

40:58

passed away at the

41:00

age of seventy six. A great loss

41:02

for the fantasy football world because

41:04

I mean nobody promoted fantasy football

41:07

like that.

41:07

Just going back to that, I mean, after

41:11

having those accusations and

41:13

everything that transpired, like

41:16

you'd want to put yourself into the

41:18

spotlight, you know, public sye. I always

41:20

found that mystifying.

41:23

I had a buddy who played golf. This wasn't

41:25

that long afterwards after the and

41:27

I remember it was one of my brother's

41:29

friends, and he said, you

41:31

know, he showed up on the golf course and it was

41:33

like a public course. He goes, OJ like

41:36

he was in the group behind us. I was like, yeah, how'd

41:38

you handle that he goes. I didn't know how to handle

41:40

that. It's like, why is he golfing? Like

41:43

when you want to disappear, like just go

41:45

away, like like you feel like

41:47

you got one up on somebody. And he's out there on

41:49

like a you know, a

41:51

three par golf course trying

41:54

to trying to figure out get a

41:56

swing. Right after all this stuff came out

41:58

so very just wild

42:00

story and yeah, that is the

42:02

breaking news. OJ Simpson dead

42:04

at the age of seventy six and lead to lap Our

42:07

producer will probably be at the

42:09

funeral next to Cato Kalin with

42:11

a Vaughn's grocery bag apparently