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Huh? Good morning?

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Yeah, I feel like amazing, although a little

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disappointed. The Masters is

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already in a rain delays.

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Oh, come on, var Oh the

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rain delay for the

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mess.

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Is what I

1:02

will say this though, If there's any course that

1:05

will make sure that they play and

1:08

get all these rounds of golf in it's

1:10

augusta National, all right. I did

1:12

have the blessed opportunity of going and playing there,

1:14

and I'll never forget the morning when it was raining

1:16

and we were having breakfast, were like, oh no, I

1:19

might not get an opportunity to get out there. There

1:22

was a gentleman in a rain

1:24

suit with a blower while

1:26

it was raining. That's great blowing

1:29

the green, I.

1:30

Want to say.

1:31

I think it was on number nine and I was

1:33

like looking, I was looking thinking to myself, he

1:35

does realize, like, it's.

1:36

Just going to keep rating for at least in the next thirty minutes.

1:38

But that is how well manicured

1:40

that course is and how much they care

1:42

about that thing.

1:43

So they will play some golf today at some point

1:45

whenever it stops. Gosh,

1:48

he was blowing it in the rain.

1:51

I mean, what's you know Listen, you know it gives.

1:53

Them less blow when it stops raining. You know.

1:57

Yeah, I think they don't want puddling. That's small.

2:00

Oh now I got to ask you because

2:02

I have not had the opportunity to go to Augusta

2:04

National because there's sort of a you

2:07

know for people that don't know, like there's kind of an elite

2:09

class of people that are allowed even on near

2:11

the course. Like if I walk near the

2:14

course, I would get tased and hand handcuffed

2:16

and be told to go away. But Brady, you

2:18

go there and it's like, not only can you go, you

2:20

can play around of golf and don't worry about it. Mother

2:23

nature is going to acquiesce to you so you can get your

2:25

round of golf in. So does

2:27

it look as beautiful in person

2:30

as it does? Maybe not right now because

2:32

it is raining, But does it look as beautiful in

2:34

person as it does on television? Because on

2:36

television, the way they dress it up,

2:38

it looks magical.

2:40

It actually looks better. It's even

2:43

better than you could imagine because everything on TV.

2:45

You usually go there and you think, okay, this

2:47

is made for TV. There's gonna be some defects. There's

2:49

gonna be something. There is not a

2:52

weed that is anywhere on

2:54

that course on top for however many acres

2:57

it is, there is not one thing

2:59

that's to place, not any

3:01

mult pinestraw, nothing like. That

3:04

place is immaculate. I've never

3:06

seen anything like that. It doesn't

3:08

feel like real life. And so once you go

3:10

there you can understand the hype

3:13

and the reason why everyone kind of used that place

3:15

as so special.

3:16

Just different. When I had that experience,

3:22

that's it, none of it all

3:25

over.

3:25

Hey, So when you're watching the bastards and you

3:27

marry me, none of it, none

3:29

of it grabs you, and you go, man, that's that's a beautiful

3:32

place. I'd love to be there because some of who yeah.

3:35

Oh no, come on, I'm not even

3:37

really I'm just interjecting just to poke

3:39

at at Q and sort

3:41

of count at.

3:42

You as well, because all I have to do is say,

3:44

Tiger, what's back? He's

3:48

back? What how's

3:51

he back? It's right?

3:52

Well, you know, tigers don't like water,

3:54

so I don't know how that's gonna play

3:57

out. They just can swim. They

3:59

can swim. They just don't like ton

4:01

Then now they don't like it. They just you know, they

4:03

can swim. They just you know, cats,

4:06

you know, they stay away from the water, you

4:08

know, but they can't swim.

4:09

You know, what do you mean don't

4:12

like water?

4:12

Yeah, we're talking about they don't like

4:15

water. They don't excellent swimmers.

4:17

And they didn't Tiger Woods say

4:20

yesterday when we heard him, And if

4:22

you're wondering where you can hear us slapping

4:24

around here on Fox Sports Radio there normally

4:26

six to nine am Eastern Time, three to six

4:28

am Pacific time. It's two pros and a cup of Joe.

4:31

That's where you can find this show. But

4:33

you know, we were talking yesterday in that time

4:36

slot about Tiger Woods. Wasn't he saying

4:38

that he wanted some humidity, he wanted some

4:40

warmer weather.

4:40

Yeah, for forts joints. But but

4:43

the rain isn't good for your joints. That pools

4:45

at your you know, at your injuries. It's

4:48

sore, real humid, it's

4:51

it's sore.

4:51

There's gonna be mosquitoes the size of seven forty

4:54

seven zone.

4:54

No, not at the Masters, it's too manicure.

4:57

They'll blow them bad boys right on off they

4:59

do. Bet they I bet they got like a mesquite

5:01

mosquitoes just

5:05

disappear.

5:06

Yeah, something

5:08

like the stick to you know, they

5:10

got Scottie on the s S

5:13

Enterprise beaming them up.

5:14

They out of there, straight to space.

5:16

I would have loved to have been somebody working at an ACE

5:19

Hardware in southern California and they go, is that

5:21

LeVar Arrington? What's he doing in

5:23

here? He's buying a mosquito racket near

5:25

the registered.

5:26

Because that's the truth. That's

5:28

the truth. And let me tell you something about

5:30

that. Oh I bangled

5:35

banglem that. Listen, you

5:37

have not had a true experience

5:40

until you have zapped an

5:43

insect. I'm just saying, and to

5:45

all the peed of people out there that want to protect

5:47

the insects and all that stuff,

5:50

I will zap a bee's ass too,

5:52

just so you know, I'll knock them all down.

5:54

You come near me while I got my my swater,

5:57

my fly tocintegrator

5:59

on. You're added here, I don't

6:01

care. I'll hit my kids with it. I'll try to take

6:03

them up out of it. I don't care if

6:06

you can get.

6:07

Bugs, and I don't know I've ever seen him take a strong

6:09

stance against bugs.

6:10

Who's that pete? I was just I

6:12

was joking, I hope not.

6:15

I mean, you know, but some birds, uh,

6:17

some some insects have like

6:19

fur on them, don't they like? What about a

6:21

hummingbird gets

6:24

that's considered an insect?

6:25

Isn't it a humming bird?

6:27

Yeah?

6:27

I think it's a word bird.

6:29

That's why they call it a humming bird.

6:31

Yeah, I think the word bird kind of like veered

6:33

it towards the bird category.

6:34

Well, since you guys want to be smart

6:37

asses, you know they call dolphins

6:39

killer.

6:39

Well, you know, Okay,

6:42

relax, relax.

6:45

Look, I'm just uh, you know, don't shoot

6:47

the messengers.

6:49

They do call them birds. You're

6:53

a bird.

6:53

I'm just excited for Tiging to be back. I'm rooting for him,

6:56

man, but I'm rooting for

6:58

him.

6:58

He looks strong, like he bends

7:00

over slow and

7:02

he gets there eventually. But all the highlights

7:05

that I've seen of him, he looks real strong, real

7:07

broad. He's he fills out

7:09

his outfit.

7:10

You know what I mean?

7:11

Is he still working? I mean, this is right here.

7:15

Oh gonna die? We

7:19

have waited to kill me in hour three.

7:21

We'll play this at your funeral, though.

7:23

I hope

7:25

you guys give give him a wonder. You get my

7:27

eulogy, and and they have this song

7:29

on while you're doing it. Like LeVar, he

7:32

truly truly was

7:35

a good man that truly

7:38

tru hated this song.

7:41

Now, let me ask you a question. I'm

7:43

assuming you would want to.

7:44

Be buried with the Tiger

7:47

woods.

7:47

Well, the hall of Fame ring, your college football hall of

7:49

Fame ring. Now do we also

7:51

put the bugs apple racket

7:54

on the casket or.

7:55

Insand it's

7:57

a great question, man, that is

7:59

a great question. I almost feel like,

8:01

you know, like in ancient times, you know,

8:03

like in Egypt when they used to mumfi them and

8:05

all that stuff, and they put the one

8:07

thing in their hand and then the other thing in their other

8:10

hand, and they crossed them up, and it's like they had

8:12

like a hulk like look and then

8:14

like a staff on one side, Like, just give me

8:16

two zappers, you know, you

8:18

know, I'm to loss my arms up, put the zappers

8:21

in my hand, and like this here

8:23

lies a man that used to

8:26

zap them.

8:27

Yeah, you know, I have a question on this, and I feel like

8:29

you guys would be the experts to go to on

8:31

this. It's a question about mummies. If

8:34

you were gonna go to your final

8:37

place all wrapped up, wouldn't

8:39

you want it to be in like some decent outfit.

8:42

Like if I'm gonna go wrapped up, like give

8:44

me like a nice leather jacket, good pair

8:46

of jeans, some shoes, and if you need

8:49

to cover my face, give me a ski mask. I don't

8:51

want to be wrapped up in one play toilet paper

8:53

that somebody saved from COVID so they could

8:55

send me to my final place.

8:57

I seem more comfortable though, I

8:59

mean you to your grave site in a in

9:01

a herd leather jacket. I mean that

9:04

leather is gonna get a little bit like kind of uncomfortable

9:07

at some point while you're resting.

9:08

Were talking about like those guys are still like

9:10

from rock bands from like from the sixties,

9:13

they're still performing. All those guys are

9:15

in leather.

9:16

How often do you go to sleep with your

9:18

leather leather jacket that you'd.

9:19

Be wearing, and how much I drink?

9:23

Being honest, Well, that well, if we're being honest,

9:25

then if I had a leather jacket on last night,

9:27

I may slur a couple of words. I've

9:29

already heard three words I've slurred.

9:32

I may slur a word or two today because

9:34

I might still be a little hit I'm

9:36

just telling y'all how I got. I

9:38

got hit up last night. Stay college,

9:41

baby, we are

9:45

I got hit up?

9:46

Yeah?

9:46

Can you explain to the Dan Patrick listeners

9:48

who are unaware of your location and why

9:50

you were excited about the later star time.

9:53

Because I'm in State College, Pa, Mike people,

9:56

and uh, well, so

9:58

I'm here. It's blue White

10:01

weekend, it's spring football going on, obviously,

10:03

but I'm also here doing some nil business

10:06

hung out with the other sports teams with

10:08

a panel that I did last evening.

10:10

It was awesome.

10:11

It was great, and

10:13

did a kind of like a shark tank

10:15

deal earlier yesterday and got those

10:17

things out of the way. But once I finished

10:20

up that panel, guys, it

10:23

was LaVar Allen time and

10:25

it went down.

10:26

I didn't count. I didn't want to count.

10:29

But they you know, the.

10:30

The fair here is improving

10:33

tremendously, like we're updating

10:36

so much now.

10:37

So I was eating oysters last.

10:39

Night, man, I had I had,

10:42

uh what what type of baked chicken

10:44

or like roasted chicken and mushroom

10:48

risotto with some asparagus

10:51

and some oysters. And I didn't count

10:53

how many LaVar islands that I

10:55

had. And that, my friends,

10:58

is why I sound the way that I sound. I

11:00

mean, I feel like I sound good, but I may

11:03

What a LeVar island is though, yeah,

11:06

as well, it's a it's a long island

11:08

that you know, Kean and Jonas

11:10

named LeVar Island because well, that's my

11:12

poison of choice.

11:15

And for those of you don't know what a long island is, just

11:17

think about every alcohol ever created in

11:19

one glass at the

11:21

time.

11:22

LeVar doesn't know this, but here's what I do.

11:24

When I do choose to go have a LeVar Island,

11:26

I will ask for it, and I may I have to

11:28

make sure they bring it out in a cold

11:31

mug or a cold glass. You know what I

11:33

do on the side of that glass, LeVar put in

11:35

the sticks.

11:36

Yeah,

11:41

we'll shout out to Matt McGloin.

11:43

Yeah, he's running for the Board of Trustees,

11:45

is he? The election is coming up,

11:49

man, it should be interesting and

11:51

the real competitive around here to get on

11:53

that board to trust I'm.

11:54

Just gonna say, I'm just wondering.

11:57

But usually when you're on those boards, there

12:00

comes a significant donation or

12:03

donations that have already been made that helps

12:05

helps the cause from getting Yeah.

12:07

Yeah, you do.

12:08

You do fund your your candidacy

12:11

to get onto the Board of Trustees, which,

12:13

by the way, you don't get paid to do. I

12:17

pay attention to our Board of Trustees politics,

12:20

and if

12:22

you ever want to be entertained, just

12:25

just find a way. I'll

12:27

send you some links and stuff so you could pay attention

12:29

to it. But it gets pretty interesting.

12:31

I mean you would think that there was it's

12:34

right and left, you know, that's that's

12:36

going forward. Seats and

12:38

well, I wouldn't say you wouldn't think

12:40

it's kind of what it is. It's interesting,

12:43

you know. It's very like game of throne ish around

12:45

here.

12:46

Yeah. Yeah, you could get it.

12:48

You go running for a board seat, a route you

12:51

can get you can get it.

12:52

You can get that work.

12:53

You get that work, man, it's

12:55

a little competitive.

12:59

Yeah.

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What's happening? Good morning to you.

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It's up, ALBERTA.

14:50

How we doing.

14:51

We're just now, Albert, could you be trusted?

14:54

Like if they pulled you aside and said, hey,

14:57

thinking about sending you to Brazil for Week one,

15:00

could you be could you be trusted

15:02

to be a professional while out in

15:04

Brazil covering Packers Eagles

15:06

to kick off the season on a Friday night.

15:09

I'm pretty good at juggling different

15:11

things. So yeah,

15:13

I mean, I think there's a relatively high

15:15

percentage chance that I would make it to the game

15:18

on Friday night.

15:18

Yeah, so you at least

15:21

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

15:23

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

15:25

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

15:27

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

15:29

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

15:32

Yeah, that's true.

15:32

That's problematic, the type of places.

15:38

You'd be something a

15:40

little strange, for a little change, weird

15:43

or.

15:49

So.

15:49

We were talking about how there's a

15:52

report out that the Vikings have set up a private

15:54

meeting with Jayden Daniels and you know,

15:56

now the commanders are meeting with

15:58

Drake May and JJ mccar and they're

16:00

also meeting with Jade and Daniels, and there's

16:03

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

16:05

of the mill sort of stuff as

16:07

we gear up for the draft coming up here in a couple of weeks.

16:10

But is there a draft story out there, something

16:12

that you've heard or you've

16:14

got any sort of intel on that you look

16:17

at and go, that's interesting that

16:19

could have a real impact near

16:21

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

16:24

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

16:26

at least creating the perception that

16:29

they're in on the quarterbacks right now. Whether

16:31

they are or not remains to be seen, but like

16:33

they're doing everything you would do if you were

16:36

going to take one, you know. And so that's

16:39

you know, they had McCarthy and may n at the

16:41

beginning of March, which is incredibly incredibly

16:43

early to be doing a thirty visit. Those

16:46

normally happen during April, like right around now,

16:49

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

16:52

They showed up the pro days. So like,

16:55

you know, least say, the Giants have done

16:57

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

17:00

in the top ten, and

17:03

you know, like that does two things. One and prepares

17:05

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

17:07

also has created this perception that

17:10

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

17:12

if you want the fourth one. So you

17:15

know, Minnesota, Vegas, Denver,

17:17

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

17:19

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

17:21

over the Giants to go get that guy. Well

17:24

could that be because that's what the

17:26

Giants want out there? And if the Giants want

17:28

that out there, well what would

17:31

the effects be? The effects would be that would guarantee

17:33

either Malik Neighbors or Marvin Harrison would

17:35

fall into their lap of six. So

17:38

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

17:40

ones. I just think Denver's lurking,

17:42

Like I just like, you know, they've

17:45

been kind of quiet about their quarterback

17:47

evaluation and everything else. I

17:49

just know this, like Sean Payton loved

17:52

Patrick Mahomes seven years ago and

17:54

was very close to getting and would have taken them eleventh.

17:56

Overall, they wanted Marshaun Bottimore in that spot.

17:59

So a good player.

18:00

But you know, obviously things

18:02

probably go a lot differently in New Orleans. If

18:05

you know, Patrick Mahomes is on the roster and

18:08

maybe Sean Payton's still there, and so does

18:10

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

18:12

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

18:14

get get him? You

18:16

know, right now they're starting quarterback Chared Sidham.

18:19

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

18:21

and play a season with Jared Sidham if he needed

18:23

to. I just you

18:25

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

18:27

swing in them somewhere at that position.

18:31

What is the one thing you're keeping an

18:33

eye on right now, given it it's

18:35

kind of that dead period before we actually get

18:37

to the draft. Is there any potential

18:40

trade, any potential signing

18:42

or something that couldn't happen that would change the

18:44

landscape of what the draft looks like up

18:46

the end of the month.

18:48

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

18:50

know, Brandon auk t Higgins.

18:53

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

18:56

se, but you

18:58

know, teams are gonna call and and

19:01

see, you know, if if either

19:03

of those guys are available, you know,

19:05

and I think in both those cases. You know, for

19:07

those teams, there's like a big picture element.

19:09

You know, they love the players, but you

19:11

know what what like if you pay T Higgins

19:14

at the top of the market, like, then you're probably

19:16

gonna have to pay Jamar Chase more than you pay T. Higgins.

19:19

And you've already got Joe Burrow and they're fifty

19:21

five million dollars per So we're talking about

19:23

between the three of them one hundred and

19:25

ten million, one hundred and twenty million per

19:27

year, you

19:29

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

19:31

investing at. You know, So can you do that

19:33

if you're Cincinnati long term? Or is

19:36

it better to get a second round pick for T. Higgins

19:38

and then you know, draft his replacement. You

19:41

know that that's the question Brandon and Yuk. Obviously,

19:43

the Niners have a lot of mouths to feed.

19:45

You know.

19:45

They paid Fred Warner, they paid Nick Bosa,

19:47

they paid Trevarius Ward, they paid Trent Williams,

19:50

they paid Deebo Samuel and George Kittle, they

19:53

paid Christian McCaffrey. You know, so you

19:56

know, if you're looking at it and you know, something's

19:59

got to give over the next couple of years. Would

20:01

that something be, well, we've got a surplus

20:03

at receiver right now. You know, we've got

20:05

Deebo Samuel there. Kyle is really

20:07

good at scouting and developing

20:09

them. You know, is that

20:12

were you know, we you know, wind

20:14

up trying to save a little bit from a cash and

20:16

cap standpoint, So you know, those would

20:18

be those would be the guys. I think, like right now,

20:20

I would look at and say, if

20:22

there's somebody that's going to be moved or talked about

20:24

being moved in the next couple of weeks that could have

20:27

materially affect things in

20:29

the draft, those those would be the guys.

20:31

You know, I think that those two guys, you

20:34

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

20:36

the Bengals and Niners are certainly going any calls

20:38

on them.

20:39

AB can can you put

20:42

us up to speed on what's going on

20:44

in Dallas? I mean hearing

20:46

about there's the possibility of a CD

20:48

Lamb hold out

20:51

looming. Yeah, Michael

20:53

Parsons, they're they're complaining

20:56

about him and too

20:58

many people would be glad to see him

21:00

go. This sounds like

21:02

horrible dysfunction if

21:05

your two top players are

21:07

in the media for things

21:10

like.

21:10

This, Well

21:12

it's Dallas, So I mean this

21:14

function just means that it's Thursday, right, Yeah,

21:18

But I I uh, you

21:20

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

21:22

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

21:24

where there's like a contractual bottle

21:27

neck coming right, And the difference

21:29

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

21:31

guys taken care of, the Cowboys

21:33

has zero of their three. Right, So it's

21:36

Dak, it's CD, it's Micah Parsons.

21:39

And you can say we can wait for a year on Micah

21:41

Parsons to pay him, But is he

21:43

going to be okay with that?

21:45

Right?

21:45

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

21:47

of his value is what it is right now.

21:49

And Nick Bosa got thirty four million

21:52

a year last year. You know, does he

21:54

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

21:56

a deal now? You know obviously Cebee

21:58

lamb already waited a year, and

22:01

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

22:03

justin Jefferson could change the market at

22:05

receiver, you know, and then how do you

22:07

compensate Dak? You know, based on where the

22:09

market went last year? Where Joe is

22:12

making fifty five million dollars a year.

22:14

Now, do you go

22:16

to sixty four? Do you go to fifty six

22:18

or fifty seven million? Or

22:20

do you do? You do you wait this one out? There's

22:23

a lot of big picture questions for the Cowboys

22:25

there at those positions, and you

22:28

know, it's a it's a credit to them like that they've

22:30

been able to identify and and

22:32

and and and and have guys

22:35

like that home grown on their roster. But

22:38

you know, in some of these cases, waiting an extra

22:40

year has sort of created this situation where,

22:43

now, how do you take care of all these guys at

22:46

once? I think it's certainly going to be a

22:48

talking point over the next couple

22:50

of months leading up to training camp.

22:52

He's Alba Brier joining us here on Fox Sports

22:55

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

22:57

Knox in for Dan Patrick and the guys here

22:59

on Fire. I want to ask you

23:01

because I know obviously you're in and around

23:03

the area there, and I know you've been close to

23:05

the organization for a long time. In the Patriots,

23:08

they're sitting at three.

23:10

What is the feeling as

23:12

far as what they do at that spot? Because

23:14

if they don't love the separation

23:17

between the second and third best quarterbacks

23:20

potentially going at that point, is there

23:22

a chance that that's a team that could trade

23:24

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

23:27

on the roster.

23:28

Yes, I think they could trade back.

23:31

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

23:33

what's a lot? You

23:35

know, like if you look like so? The

23:38

Niners spent three

23:40

first round picks to move from twelve

23:42

to three in twenty one. The

23:45

Redskins did the same move three

23:48

first round picks to go from six to two in

23:50

twenty twelve. So

23:53

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

23:55

especially for the teams that are coming from a little further down,

23:58

like the Vikings, say at eleven.

24:00

The one thing the Vikings have that those other teams

24:02

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

24:04

picks this year, so they can offer,

24:08

you know, the Patriots eleven and twenty three,

24:10

you're gonna have you have certainty, you know where those picks

24:12

are, and those guys are going to be

24:14

on your roster this year and then Adam another first

24:16

round pick next year. So do Patriots

24:19

think about that? And beyond just that,

24:21

do the Patriots not only think about that, do they think

24:23

about doing that trading down and

24:25

then trading back up if they really say, like

24:27

JJ McCarthy and you know,

24:30

like they look at it and say, okay, we want to We're

24:32

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

24:34

four or five. I think

24:36

all these things are in play with New England. And

24:39

you know, I think it's especially if here's

24:41

them and you look at it and you have like

24:44

May and you you have May and McCarthy

24:46

close, Like if you think those two guys and there's

24:48

such vastly different prospects, but like

24:51

if you think that, if you think there's

24:53

merit to taking either guy, maybe

24:55

you talk yourself into that, you know, where you

24:57

trade down and back up. They're

25:00

a really interesting spot because I think, I

25:02

mean, we know Chicago is sticking at one and taking Caleb,

25:04

and I think ninety nine percent the

25:07

Commanders stick at too. I

25:10

think it'll be Jaden. I'm not ninety percent

25:12

on that part of it, but I'm almost certain they'll

25:14

stay it too and take a quarterback. So

25:17

you know, being being the first team,

25:19

you know, in that upper group that's willing

25:21

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

25:23

Power, Albert.

25:25

You know, it's been a pretty soft, easy interview so far.

25:28

I figured i'd just kind of throw you a curve call. Any

25:31

thoughts on Aaron Rodgers and you know, the VP

25:33

nomination with Robert F. Kennedy one

25:35

through or some of the conspiracy theories,

25:38

anything you got force there out You.

25:39

Had any thoughts on UFOs or Area fifty

25:41

one.

25:42

Well, I wasn't Monday. Monday

25:45

was a Monday was a tough day for the flat earthers,

25:47

wasn't it.

25:49

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

25:51

yeah. The eclipse kind of throws are.

25:53

You justified the eclipse the right? I'm

25:56

not sure.

25:56

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

25:58

if you're a flat earther. I mean, I don't

26:01

know if Hollywood has like some sort of curtains

26:03

or something like that that you can put over the sun. Yeah,

26:07

so I like that that would be my first

26:09

thought, just just you

26:11

know, talking to what you guys were talking about there.

26:13

But uh, yeah,

26:15

the the Aaron Rodgers vice

26:17

president presidential

26:20

campaign didn't didn't last very long.

26:22

I will say that there might have

26:24

been some jets for people that were quietly

26:27

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

26:30

that they would ever admit that.

26:32

I mean, you know, and I

26:35

would also.

26:35

Say this, there were some people in Green Bay who were entertained

26:38

by it.

26:39

Yeah, yeah, it does.

26:42

It does feel like there's a

26:45

portion of the media, whether you know

26:47

they want to admit this or not, that is

26:49

sort of rooting for the Rogers

26:51

experiment in New York to fail. Like

26:54

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

26:57

view of him and whether it's his political

26:59

belief.

27:00

Oh, I hope that. Yeah, no, no,

27:02

no, that that absolutely exists,

27:04

which is why I hate that everybody

27:07

has to draw everything on political lines

27:09

now, Like I'm just watching

27:11

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

27:14

I don't need to relate everything

27:16

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

27:18

a football game, you know. But that's what we've come

27:20

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

27:23

conversation, but I guess we already

27:25

have since I killed all the platter. If there's

27:27

about three minutes ago.

27:29

Well listen, it happens. But ab

27:31

we appreciate a few minutes of your time here

27:33

on a Thursday morning. He is Albert Breer, senior

27:36

NFL reporter, also lead content

27:38

strategist at the MMQB. Get him

27:40

on x at Albert Breer. We'll

27:43

do it again next week. Thanks Aby.

27:45

All right, thanks guys.

27:45

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

27:48

Sports Radio. LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas

27:50

Knox with you, and right now

27:52

we turn it over to Nick co for some breaking

27:54

news out of the.

27:55

NFL, Breaking

27:59

news from Far Sports.

28:02

All right, all right, guys, this comes from

28:05

the Twitter account verified from

28:07

oj Simpson. Apparently

28:09

oj has passed away, according to

28:11

a post made by his family

28:14

on his verified Twitter account. It says,

28:16

quote on April tenth, which was yesterday,

28:19

our father, Orenthal James Simpson,

28:21

succumbed to his battle with cancer. He

28:23

was surrounded by his children and grandchildren

28:26

during this time of transition. His family as

28:28

that you please respect their wishes for privacy

28:31

and grace. Signed the Simpson family.

28:33

Haven't had any media reports

28:36

of his death yet, but this from Ojy's

28:38

personal verified Twitter account.

28:43

Well, I don't

28:45

this is I don't know how to

28:48

react to this. It is a tricky one.

28:51

Was it known that he was battling with cancer.

28:53

I saw that somewhere that he was dealing

28:55

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

28:57

it and some time. Yeah,

29:00

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

29:02

playing career, you know, one of the

29:04

best ever. But then that court sort of

29:07

takes a step back when you consider all the stuff that

29:09

happened afterwards, the double murder

29:11

and many people feeling

29:13

like he did it and got

29:15

away with it, just kind of was able

29:18

to kind of live and do his thing and

29:20

play golf and play fantasy football,

29:22

and it just sort of we just sort of looked past

29:25

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

29:28

it. It just almost felt like, how's

29:30

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

29:33

in his past? And then it's

29:36

you know, you never want to see anybody pass

29:38

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

29:40

that had nothing to do with the incidents that took

29:42

place after his career. But this is surprising

29:46

obviously that this came out.

29:48

And so I think the one thing

29:50

that surprised me is when you go through

29:52

what he went through post career in

29:55

regards to what is accused of criminally

29:57

and I believe convicted of civilly at

29:59

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

30:01

burdens of proved. But that being said, you

30:03

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

30:05

you know, he chose to be out in the public eye,

30:08

which you know, you you realize there's gonna

30:10

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

30:13

know, based on the allegations,

30:15

believed he was guilty, believe he got away

30:17

with it. So a lot

30:19

of obviously mixed emotions I'm sure

30:22

for people out there who aren't really sure how

30:24

to you know, view O. J.

30:26

Simpson because it's hard to remove

30:29

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

30:31

you know, his football career with obviously

30:33

what occurred afterwards.

30:34

I mean, I still remember where I was when

30:37

that trial was going on and it was announced that he

30:39

was not guilty, like people, I

30:42

mean, because talk about an

30:44

uproar in the country, like of people

30:46

feeling the country.

30:49

In a lot of way, yeah, during

30:51

that time, but yeah, I mean, you

30:53

know, people get old, they die, Oh

30:57

Jay's out of here.

30:58

All right, there you go, We'll

31:00

put here on Yeah,

31:03

he was, He definitely was, you

31:06

know, And that'll be that, and

31:09

that's that. It is the Dan Patrick

31:11

Show here on Fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington,

31:14

Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you in for DP

31:16

and the guys. So coming up next here, we're going to

31:18

tell you about one team in the world

31:20

of football who did something

31:22

that might have made things a little bit more difficult on

31:24

themselves. That's yours here on FSR.

31:27

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31:29

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31:32

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31:34

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31:37

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31:41

LaVar Arrington, Brady

31:44

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31:46

DP and the guys. Coming

31:48

up in a little over twenty minutes from now, we're

31:52

going to have another edition of You and You Out. That

31:54

is a special segment that we do here on

31:56

the show that we host called Two Pros and a Cup

31:58

of Joe Monday through Friday. And basically

32:01

our executive producer, lead to Lap who

32:04

dropped a little bit of a a not

32:06

a bombshell on us, but drop something on us

32:09

earlier that apparently he goes shopping

32:11

with kat o'caalin, which, all of a sudden is

32:13

the name that is relevant again because if

32:16

you're just tuning in, oj Simpson

32:18

died earlier at the age of seventy six

32:20

from cancer. So that has been making the

32:22

rounds via the media, social

32:25

media, news, all

32:27

over the television, wherever you look, wherever you hear.

32:29

So we were on the air when that came out earlier. Apparently

32:32

lead to lap On kato'caalin, who was

32:34

featured and what was his role in that? Was he like

32:36

the chef or was he like Lee,

32:39

you're friends with this guy?

32:40

What did he do? Again?

32:40

For Ojba, he was the house guest that lived

32:43

in the back house. Yeah, so he lived in the back house, so

32:46

he yeah, So lead

32:48

to lap In kato'calin apparently shop at bonds

32:51

together and sort

32:53

of head not each other whenever they run into each other.

32:55

But the point is we're

32:58

going to have a special segment called You and You Out

33:00

and basically Lee's going to drop some stuff on us.

33:02

We don't know where this usually goes, but

33:05

it's usually very frustrating because Lee finds

33:07

out that it's a special day, it's

33:10

somebody's day, it's like National

33:12

dog food Day. It's like National

33:15

donut Day. It did you just nod

33:17

your head? Is it really National dog food Day?

33:19

No?

33:19

It's National uh pet your dog Day?

33:21

Okay I was.

33:23

I wasn't going to share that one. But you need a.

33:25

Day we should be petting our dogs

33:28

every day for you dog owners.

33:29

It's the only day you can do that, apparently and

33:31

be celebrated for it. It's

33:33

like National Breathing Day. It's

33:36

the one day you're allowed to but apparently

33:38

we will have more of that.

33:40

Enjoy breathing today.

33:43

Is it too soon? Is it

33:45

too soon?

33:46

I feel like everything we're going to say is going to have

33:48

some type of connectivity or a way to relate

33:51

it to what's going on. I mean, I'm

33:53

just going to not say anything. I just feel like this is

33:56

a show for me to just just.

33:57

Let you out go.

33:58

Well, but like, how do you it is?

34:00

I do feel sharp today.

34:03

That extra three hours, I

34:05

got.

34:06

That extra sleep and then

34:09

it's finally worn off.

34:10

The LeVar Islands elusive,

34:13

you know, yeah, yeah, I have just bulletproof

34:16

in some ways.

34:18

Yeah yeah, kind of untouchable.

34:22

Yeah, well you know

34:25

many you know.

34:29

What to say? I

34:32

have no great comeback for you. All

34:34

I can tell you is is that you know, well,

34:37

you're good. You're good. You know what I mean.

34:40

You're like a runaway Bronco on a freeway, you

34:42

know. Now

34:47

do you want to point this out.

34:49

That it could be a Jaguarre

34:54

Mercedes? I mean we're doing dance show.

34:56

Yeah, definitely, definitely.

34:58

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slash patrick right now. Aaron

35:22

Rodgers spoke recently. This was on the I

35:24

Can Fly podcast. Brady

35:27

Quinn is a big fan of these podcast names, big

35:30

fan. There was the big podcast

35:32

of Shack.

35:34

It's not that I'm not a fan, it's just,

35:36

you know, like, what's the thought pross behind him?

35:38

And here's the thing is I get it is if you've

35:40

gotten late into the podcast game. Obviously,

35:43

if someone else already has the title, you can't take it.

35:45

And there's a lot of people who you know, remember

35:47

people like squatting on websites. Oh yeah,

35:50

it's kind of like what they've done now with somebody's podcast

35:52

names. Like they'll have podcasts that are completely

35:55

irrelevant, but if you

35:57

know, they want to sell it to someone or

35:59

they're like, no, you to pick something else because I'm doing

36:01

my podcast even though it doesn't have as many you

36:03

know, listeners or subscribers as someone

36:05

like shat it didn't.

36:06

Somebody had to do that with the Washington

36:09

name. The Commanders.

36:10

Yeah, yeah, they barked all cons and that they.

36:12

Remember like red wolves is what they wanted. Then they

36:14

realized some guy was already got it.

36:17

It's which why would you want to be the red

36:20

Wolves anyway?

36:21

I just all I remember about that is

36:24

they started talking about what the name

36:26

was going to be, and there was so

36:28

much stuff about red Wolves that I honestly

36:30

stopped paying attention.

36:31

I was like, Oh, there's gonna name the team red Wolves.

36:33

And then I come to find out later on

36:35

People Home it was like no, someone already had that,

36:38

yeah, and.

36:39

It was going to sell it, like they could have

36:41

named the team the red Wolves. He's just going

36:43

to pay that man for that name. It's

36:45

not a bad hustle. It could backfire on

36:48

you, backfied on dude, dude, Oden's name.

36:50

That ain't got no value to it right now.

36:52

I don't know even I feel like these bigger companies,

36:55

like anybody's got a price, so like they

36:57

could they could just do or have a work around to try

36:59

and get those names, you know, like we

37:01

want the red Wolves, We'll get the red Wolves. But

37:03

they decided to go with the Commanders. Look, they should

37:05

have kept the Washington football team. It's a

37:07

better name than the Commanders or Commando.

37:12

Just not good, you.

37:14

Know, yeah, definitely

37:16

is. Well, here's what I'm.

37:18

Sure pushing the envelope today. I'll tell you

37:20

what you mean. What you mean, why

37:23

why they got to be the Commandos. We're

37:25

just trying to kill them softly, you know, dang.

37:31

I mean, okay,

37:35

all right, I mean, if the name doesn't fit,

37:38

you must have quit.

37:39

That's

37:42

a great point. I'm just saying

37:44

that is a great point.

37:46

God, you guys are ruthless.

37:48

Man.

37:48

Well as we uh we transition smoothly

37:51

from that over to this. On the I Can Fly

37:53

Podcast, Milk, Aaron

37:56

Rodgers spoke about

37:58

the injury last year four

38:01

plays into his New York Jets career and

38:03

just the impact that it had on him emotionally,

38:05

and what he was feeling at the time was take a lesson.

38:08

I was heartbroken on Sepember eleventh

38:10

in the locker room, thinking my career might be over.

38:12

And that's how I'm going to go out one

38:14

of the highest highest in my sporting career,

38:17

running on the field on nine to eleven with

38:19

an American flag, which I had never done in my

38:21

life. After all the beauty in the

38:23

summer and hard knocks and the new team

38:25

and just being in New Jersey and the excitement

38:27

talking with their amazing fan base and just

38:30

feeling just the energy and the

38:32

momentum building. And then that

38:34

I look back now and so much

38:37

changed in my life for the better. And I often

38:40

have a hard time with people who say everything happens

38:42

for a reason. Sounds I called on that part

38:45

of it is the ego wanting things to just be a little

38:47

bit easier sometimes. But just like so many things

38:49

had to happen for me to be sitting right here today

38:52

with the both of you, so much changed in my

38:54

life in the last six months. It would not have

38:56

happened had I not been carted off that

38:58

field. But only in that has

39:00

all this beauty being able to happen. How

39:02

can I not be wakeful?

39:05

It was the music for me.

39:07

Yeah, you could put that theme

39:09

music under a fart and it would be and

39:11

that's going to be the best part ever dramatic

39:15

thing ever.

39:16

Hey man, y'all better cut that out. Stop playing

39:18

around, man, let's stay on top of that.

39:21

Is it Hame, he's

39:23

super dope? Yeah, he did the

39:25

song on.

39:33

Your mic?

39:33

Was on?

39:34

Tell your mike cut

39:39

his mic. Dang

39:49

than what

39:52

you eat last night? You

39:55

better check your.

39:55

Pat

40:00

check your socks.

40:02

Dang the

40:06

vallid what I've ever heard? What's

40:09

wrong with you? Lee?

40:18

We're never going to be invited back. That

40:22

was real, at

40:25

least clean the mic off?

40:26

My god, what

40:35

was that real? Was

40:37

that our loss was

40:40

real? Was that

40:42

real? Oh my gosh?

40:44

Oh man gosh.

40:49

Well yeah, listen,

40:54

we put the music to that part. Are

40:59

you going to say, what's more dramatic? That are the Master's

41:01

theme music? But that, I mean, that

41:03

was very over the top. Rogers

41:06

talking about his injury.

41:08

Hans, you know it's

41:10

terrible about it is you

41:13

start talking about the Master's theme music. We talked

41:15

about it earlier in the week, How like it almost sounds like funeral

41:17

music.

41:17

Yeah, what are you getting at?

41:19

Well, you know, oh

41:21

no, yeah, I

41:23

mean I'm just saying if that was

41:26

the underbed, like.

41:30

You know, I feel like, you know,

41:33

we've you know, we've been covering that that topic

41:35

thoroughly, you know, every angle possibly

41:37

needed to cover.

41:38

The Oh no,

41:39

no, no, you know he was

41:42

one of only eight players whoever won the

41:44

Heisman Trophy and it was an a

41:46

p NFL MVP.

41:47

Yeah, in the NFL. So think about

41:49

that.

41:49

Yeah, if you wonder why we're playing

41:52

the funeral music, Yes, O J.

41:54

Simpson passed away. This is actually a funeral

41:56

for Lee's trousers that are now

41:58

being thrown away in the garbage.

42:00

Nineteen seventy three NFL MVP,

42:02

A five time first team All

42:05

Pro mhmm, remember

42:08

of both the Player Pro

42:10

and College Football Hall of Fames.

42:12

What else about is by a bioto you

42:14

have, like anything else in his resume?

42:17

Got Well, maybe you should cover that. Maybe you should

42:19

cover that part of all the music stops,

42:21

so you have to.

42:24

He was once a run a car spokesman

42:26

hurts, Yeah, it was a herd through

42:28

the airports.

42:29

Yeah, he also did the Naked Gun.

42:31

I do believe he did.

42:33

Yeah, he did, he did, and

42:37

I think.

42:37

He and he was actually good.

42:40

He was actually good in the movie

42:43

Your Biscus saying he was a good actor, which some people

42:45

would.

42:45

Say, I mean he was acting. Oh

42:49

damn, yeah, damn. Oh

42:51

man, that one caught me like I tripped over

42:53

that one. Yeah, you fell into that one.

42:55

Hey, hey, brouh, that

42:57

that's something that that was a good one right

42:59

there.

43:00

Yeah, damn a

43:02

good actor. Godd

43:04

he was good in the movies. He was.

43:09

Would we say that that was the birth of reality

43:13

television?

43:14

Well, I mean it did involve a Kardashian.

43:17

It did.

43:19

Did I'm saying that Robert Kardashian.

43:22

It did. I know you're going here, it

43:24

did?

43:26

Just where am I?

43:27

God? I just I'm

43:29

not sure I really were least fart came into

43:31

playing all this.

43:32

Oh well, I just figured you know what else? I mean,

43:34

I mean, what do you would you rather talk about?

43:36

But it came out of nowhere.

43:38

That's why it's it's relevant to this

43:40

because the topic of the whole topic

43:43

has come out of nowhere.

43:44

Everything has come out of nowhere.

43:45

Just all right, First, of all, like, don't

43:47

blame us. We're trying to place a clip

43:50

of Aaron Rodgers talking about being emotional

43:52

after the injury, and they're playing some Hans

43:55

Zimmer song at such a level

43:57

underneath him talking that you can't even focus

43:59

on words music, right,

44:02

that's very true. It's like it's the same music

44:04

they play at the end of Inception where the top

44:06

is spinning on the table. It's like Rogers talking about

44:08

blowing his achilles at MetLife Stadium

44:10

and they've got and pants

44:13

over.

44:15

Basically, I

44:18

keep question whether or not it was real. I guess if he played

44:20

it again, we'd know.

44:22

But I can't handle hair and that again,

44:24

like that that was so random.

44:27

It might be the funniest dip I've ever heard.

44:30

You want to know if it was really? Just ask Mike Lingard

44:33

or the guy who runs the editing department here to hose

44:35

him down in the parking lot. Oh, so you're

44:37

wondering whether or not that was real.

44:40

Poor Mike, Poor Mike.

44:44

Like pulp fiction where they're trying

44:46

to clean brains and skull under their hair.

44:48

The other thing is we like we know Lee well

44:50

enough to know that guy's stomach

44:53

is like a garbage disposal. He

44:56

is not afraid of any type of cuisine

44:58

and he will mix any quisit, alcohol,

45:00

whatever, and it does not

45:03

come out the other end very well.

45:04

So you

45:09

could not.

45:09

Have time that any perfectly than

45:11

what it was, though. I mean, it just gotta be the

45:13

best ever. That's got to be the

45:15

best one ever.

45:16

Like, it's just it's just

45:19

this is one hell of a eulogy. Well

45:22

this show. That's that's.

45:25

It's stuck in my head. Guys. I keep

45:28

hearing it in my head.

45:33

It's like it was yelling on the way I gotta get out.

45:38

It was so many things wrong with whoever

45:41

did that in real life. There's

45:44

something they need.

45:45

They needed help, man, they needed they

45:47

need his medical assistance.

45:49

And Joel, you gotta be ashamed of yourself.

45:51

Man, Brady

45:57

Brady, because

45:59

you're quest did it? You did request

46:01

it, but you kind of did.

46:03

I just I said, like, you know, it's certain dramatic

46:06

music you can like play like any

46:08

time anywhere, and it like changes the entire vibe

46:10

of whatever's going on a

46:13

fart in particular.

46:14

Yeah, there you go, there you go. That

46:16

was the setup. That's what happened the first time.

46:18

You know, change the vibe of this show. I'll take you.

46:20

That's how I shame about the first time. Here

46:22

we are.

46:24

Here, we are, by the way, Lee's on Amazon

46:26

right now shopping for new

46:28

studio chairs. For some reason, I don't

46:30

know why that is.

46:34

New. It gives new meaning to throw aways.

46:36

Yeah, somebody

46:40

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46:43

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47:20

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