December 11, 2025 • 42 mins
In Hour 3 of the show today, the guys chat it up with Albert Breer on some information relating to the Philip Rivers signing in Indianapolis. Plus, the guys talk about Sherrone Moore's replacements, have some fun with the Leftovers, and more!
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right now we welcome in a Thursday tradition here on
the show. He's the one and only Albert bri your
senior NFL reporter, lead content strategist at d M MQB.
Get them on X at Albert Breer. By the way,
apparently a baseball savant or insider if you will, because
(02:12):
I was looking at your X feed yesterday, Albert, and
I saw this guest. Third base ain't all it's cracked
up to be. So what baseball reference were you referring
to there?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Just uh, you know, I just you know, sometimes I
don't like to cross over another sports that's all.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, you are.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You got to be ashamed of yourself. Man, That programs
for a.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Lot of Hey, and I thought listening to Indiana was
bad news.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
I guess yesterday gave me some perspective on.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
All Oh dude, do that geez wow.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
I mean, let's not distract from the initial point of
the mush. All right, you show up at all high
state games, they've got a losing record.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
With you there, you'd be like, well, you know they're
gonna winning worker versus Notre Dame. What is with you
showing up at games and they're not playing well? Albert?
Speaker 9 (03:05):
You know what? Like, I don't know, I think part
of the problem. But I'm going to all these really
high leverage games. I think I need I need to
make my way to a few more like Ohio State,
Michigan State, or Ohio State Rutgers. Like maybe that's the problem.
That's my second one two game of the year. I
actually I'm not one and one in those, by the way,
(03:27):
So yeah, I mean I get I think that may
be the problem, is that all the games I go
to are are just these high leverage one two, two
versus three games, And uh, maybe maybe that's the problem.
But again, like I wouldn't want to take away from
the news of the day.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Were talking about what do you know albert in it.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Yeah, what do you got, Well, I don't I mean
this whole situation, Brady. I'm sure you guys.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Have heard, Like I.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
There was stuff floating around two months ago, just like
with the NFL people that I talked to that Like,
and you guys know how this works, right, Like a
lot of times people will start to kind of circle
around jobs that they think are going to be open,
and and there's a lot of crossover at college and
pro and everything else. You know, one thing that I
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this isn't all serious, because one thing that I had
heard two months ago was that the administration there was
sick of the school's reputation being dragged through the MUDs,
and that they felt like the football program had really
like leaned in to the cheating allegations and leaned in
on all the stuff that had happened there, and there
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were people there that were sick of it. And so
you know, I had heard again like a couple of
months it was probably middle of October that like there
was a possibility that job was going to come open. Now,
I don't know how much of it related to this.
I hadn't heard about this stuff specifically, like involving Sharon.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
But you know, the.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Idea that a change might be coming, I think had
been been like at least discussed and coaching circles for
a little while now, you know. And again whether or
not like this just gave Michigan reason to do it
or this is the root of the whole thing, I'm
not sure, but I mean, I I don't know. You
(05:23):
look at the last couple of years there, and you
would have to think they would have to hit reset
and maybe you know, go outside the family all together
to take their nets tire.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, it seems like it.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
Do you think do you think it was Albert Do
you think it was more mean, I mean, just from
your your perspective of what you've heard that was circulating around.
Do you feel like this was more geared towards getting
from underneath Charon Moore as the coach or was this
like this is like this is a bad situation and
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the school was more so forced into the actions that
they had to take. Because that does feel like the
timing of it all is you know, it's a horrible
time for Michigan to have to look for a new
a new hay coach.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean, I wonder Levar's it a little about
you know what I mean, like I I don't know.
I mean, like they they obviously had like you know,
NCAA issues, and you know, in twenty twenty three, and
we're very defiant, you.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Know about about about ever you know.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Having to ever accepting sanctions or firing people over it
and everything else, and so like, I mean, like there's
the question is impossible to answer here is how would
the school have reacted if Michigan were twelve and h
right now and going to the you know, twelve and
oh thirteen to oh twelve and one whatever going into
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the playoffs, you know what I mean, Like, would the
reaction from Michigan have been different if they'd just beaten
no Ohio State, you know, two weeks ago. We'll never
know the answer to that, you know, but I certainly think,
like you know, these situations, you know, schools are a
lot quicker to move on from people when they're not winning,
you know, and they certainly weren't winning the last two
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years at the same club that they've been winning the
three years before that.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Yeah, they're eleven and six in conference play, and if
it was sixteen and eight or something like that, in
the last two years actually fifteen and eight if you
take away the one win when he took over as
head coach for that game. One thing that's interesting I
keep hearing people talk about is like, oh, they pulled
it over the recruits heads. They didn't want to, you know,
lose out on the early signees and do this beforehand.
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I do hope people realize the early commits who had
just signed their national letter of intent, they do have
the ability penalty free to request the release so they
don't have to be forced out out of the year.
They're breaking that agreement. It's not like people say that,
but the reality is those kids who just signed can
still choose to go elsewhere if they don't like the
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head coach.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're not stuck with Michigan for the next year or whatever.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
That was Julian sane, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I mean Julian saying signed with Alabama. Actually I think
went through practice with Alabama for like leading up to
their bowl game a two years ago and then and
then he hopped in the transfer portal and wound up
Ohio State. So like it doesn't give you I mean,
maybe like with those with those kids, it gives them
a chance to, like a couple of weeks to sit
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down and say, okay, like can we make this work somehow?
It does maybe give them that opportunity, but it definitely
doesn't handcuff the kids the way maybe it would five
or ten years ago from from from leaving if they
want to. And you know, I'd say it's probably Christmas
shopping season for some college coaches right now looking at
that Michigan recruiting class.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Albert Breer with us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
So let me ask you about the news, which it
feels fun, it's a great story, but the Philip Rivers
return to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
And had you heard that this was a possibility at
any point during the course of this season last season
and his relationship with Shane Steiken.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, I mean I would start here like it's born of.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
A really tough situation.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
You know, I don't think anybody wanted to see, you know,
Daniel Jones go through what he went through, and he's
already playing on a fracture of tibula and it sucks
like seeing him Popa's achilles and then for Riley Leonard
to you know, like have tweaked his knee. It was
sort of like that was you know, that was kind of.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Like be okay, like we have to.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Look at our options, which provoked the conversation on Sunday
night between Shane Stikeen and their general manager Chris Ballard.
You know, the interesting thing about it was they were
they were actually delayed, you know, out of Jacksonville. There
was some mechanical issues in the plane and so they
had to bring in a new plane and all that,
and that gave them, you know, that gave you know,
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and Chris a chance to kind of discuss their options
right then and there. And you know, Shane talks to
Phillip twice a week. You know, they actually exchanged film.
Philip runs a version of Shane's offense, you know, with
the high school that he that that he coaches in Alabama,
and so it was a very very close relationship there.
(10:21):
They were together for eight years with the Chargers, and
you know, Shane just said to Chris like what about
Rivers and and Chris was like, do you think he
would do it? And that was sort of what sparked it,
and you know, they called him when they got back
to Indianapolis. Philip said, well, you know, like let me
sleep on it, and you know if I if I
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feel I feel okay about it, maybe I'll fly up
there and see, you know, and throw it around for
you a little bit. So that happened on Monday, and
then you know they talked for a couple hours after
after after he after he threw for them, and you know,
they could just see the passion that Philip still has
for football and that that that's what I think, guys,
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is really cool about this, you know, Like I I
think for Philip, like you know, I he's really happy
in his life and coaching high school football down there
and getting to coach his sons that I know was
a dream of his forever and ever and ever he
played for his dad, and so like he would never
want to walk away from from from his opportunity to
do that. But he doesn't have to now. You know,
(11:22):
it's like he was signing with a team for a
full year, like we'd be talking about like a you know,
a six seven months commitment, and that's not what this is.
So you know, this is an opportunity for him to
go and do something he loves. And I think that's
coming from a really pure place, like it's just that
there's just the chance to play football again, you know,
and you know, and he helps the Colts out and
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with a difficult situation. I don't think anybody knows what
this is going to look like, you know, after the
first time he gets hit, or what it's going to
look like coming out of a game day if he
does start on Sunday. But you know, for right now,
I think it is a really really cool story.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
I'll take it. Let me ask you this, abe, the
Pittsburgh Steelers and the Ravens. They seem to be two
teams that mirror each other in so many different ways,
and they have not limited that mirroring this season in
terms of their struggles. The Steelers get a much needed
win against their divisional rival and the Ravens fall to
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under five hundred. We hear a lot of speculation and
a lot of criticisms and a lot of conclusions that
get drawn about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I just wonder how
how did they quiet it down by being able to
win against the Ravens or is that just you know,
is that just for now? And what does that mean
(12:45):
for Horrball?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And the Ravens.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Shouldn't If you're saying that about Mike Tomlin, should you
having the same conversation about Horrball.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, I think I think those conversations are
sort of when you do one place for this long, right, Like,
I think they're ongoing conversations in both places. And we've
and I think we they pop up periodically, right Like
we've heard it with Harbaugh a couple of times over
the last five years or so, when he's been up
for a contractor when they aren't winning at the same
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level that they're used to winning at, it's like, is
this time? And that's just what happens. I think when
you've been in one place for this long, you know,
I mean, Tomlin's in his nineteenth year in Pittsburgh. Harbaugh
is in his eighteenth year in Baltimore. And right now
it doesn't look like both those teams are going to
make the playoffs. It looks like it's probably going to
be one or the other, whichever one wins the AFC North, right.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
So.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
You know, like I I think that those those are
natural conversations that that are going to happen in those places.
And and sure, you know, like the more Pittsburgh wins,
the less you're going to hear about Mike Tomlin's future.
You know. But I think I think in both cases,
like it's sort of an ongoing conversation. I think what
(14:00):
I think what kind of exacerbates it a little bit
in Pittsburgh, What makes it a little bit more of
of pressing topic? I would say in Pittsburgh, it's just
the age of the roster, right Like, So, like if
you look at the Steelers roster, you know they're relying
on a lot of older guys. You know, guys like
Aaron Rodgers and TJ. Watt and Jalen Ramsey and Cam Hayward.
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There are a lot of older guys on that roster.
They aren't going to be around for very much longer.
And so you know, like there's like a roster reset
that's coming, and we don't know if that's going to
be after this year, after next year, but it's coming.
And whenever that comes, that would be sort of a
natural breaking point, right Like, so that will be the
point where you say, if you're the Steelers, do we
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want to keep building with Mike Tomlin. And if you're
Mike toml and you're saying do I want to go
through a rebuild with this team again? And so, you know,
I think that that's that natural point is coming in Pittsburgh.
It's probably a little less so in Baltimore. But with
both guys, you know, if one or the other I
assume one or the other is going to miss the playoffs,
then obviously the temperature gets turned up a little bit on.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
That discussion, Albert, you know, and looking at just the
landscape right now of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I I.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Guess I'm one of like, what do you foresee is
the biggest issue as we head into the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And maybe it's more I'm just talking a big picture,
you know.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
It seems like every time this time of year, it
could be an officiating issue, it could be something else
that you're kind of keeping an eye on. I don't
know if it's something in regard in regards to just
like the TV media rights and like the streaming services
coming in. Like what kind of big picture things is
the NFL kind of looking at as we end the
regular season headed into the postseason.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I think officiating is a big one, Brady, you know,
I know there's sense to it. The official CBA is
up and.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
At the end of May, and so.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
A new collective bargaining agreement needs to be hammered out there.
We remember the ref lockout of you know now thirteen
fourteen years ago, you know. So you know, I think
that a global look at how the game is officiated
is coming, you know again, And and maybe this isn't
the time when it happens, but I think that there's
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enough noise around the way that the game is officiated.
And you know, obviously if this is such a huge
topic of conversation, and this is just like I mean,
I look on social media, I look up, you know,
among my friends, you know, my non work life like
and then you know, just talking to people inside the NFL,
everyone is talking about it, you know what I mean.
(16:39):
So like I think officiating would be one you know.
Then I think, like the television deals are looming and
eighteen games is looming. But a lot of that stuff
that the thing is like a lot of that stuff,
you know, like that that that that we talk about there,
like some of it can't happen when out the union
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and right now the unionism fluxed. So I'd say there's
a bunch of big picture of things that are happening now.
It's the leadership in the union. It's like you said,
the TV deal, it's the officiating. Those would be some
of the things I think coming out of the season
that we'll all be talking about.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Albert Breer joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL reporter, lead content strategist at the MMQB. We talked
about this a little bit on Monday. Yeah, the Chiefs
look washed. Look they look like a shell of themselves.
There's no threat, there's no bite, there's no scare. And
I just wonder if hey listen, they missed the playoffs
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and it appears with got I think a twelve percent
chance of making it, but appears like it's done. This
potentially with Travis Kelcey stuff out there. Could it also
mean the end of Andy Reid in Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I'd be surprised.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I think.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I think Andy still genuinely loves it, and I think
Andy's one of these lifers. And I think we've all
you know, met and been around these people like I
I think Andy, you know, in a good way, is
one of these guys who has a hard time envisioning
himself not going to work and having a team to
work with every day, you know, And so I think
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for that reason, like he's going to be like Belichick.
I think, you know, he probably coaches into his seventies,
you know, and I and I don't think like his
passion for it changes. Now. Are they going to have
to look at a few things based on the way
this season is going, Yes, Like scheme wise, roster wise,
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Like if things don't turn over the next four weeks
and they don't get in the playoffs and make another run,
you know, they are going to have to, you know,
take a hard look at all that stuff, because I
do think there's a natural pressure that comes with having
a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes where it's like, you know,
we need to continue the field, you know, a championship
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operation around this guy, and you know, keep this guy,
keep to keep this guy happy, and keep this guy
where were where, you know, keep to keep this guy
content and being achieved. So, you know, I think there
are a ton of like big picture things that they're
gonna that that that they're going to, you know, like
have to address when they get to the end of
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the season if things don't turn But it's hard for
me to envision a scenario where Andy says, Yep, that's it.
I'm walking away, And I certainly don't think that this
would be any sort of situation where they would fire him.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead Content Strategies.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
At the m m QB.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Get him on x at Albert Breer, maybe, you know,
just last last thoughts on Ohio State, following that difficult
loss in the Big Ten Champions, did you foresee that coming?
I mean, I.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I appreciate your tone there. I I think I said
to you guys last week, but like, all we needed
to do was get seventeen points and we'd be okay.
And did I not say that.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I was you said that you were right, Albert, that's
seventeen point you were, You were on the you were right,
just on the wrong side, on the wrong side of.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
The seventy seventeen points would have done it. I still
I'm still a little baffled by, you know, running two
and three tight ends out there and taking you know,
you know, taking first team All American receivers off the field.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
But you know, I I think there were.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
There was a lot going on with the program last week,
for sure, and there's a lot that they were sorting
through and hopefully I mean look in all serious, in
all in all seriousness, like I have never seen anything
like what Kurt Signetti has pulled has pulled off at Indiana.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
It is incredible, right, it.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Is freaking unbelievable, like and it's not just it's happened
this quickly too, like you know, and then he sort
of called his shot two years ago. I mean, I
thought what they did last year was amazing, but I figured,
all right, like now it'll level off a little bit,
and for them to then take this to another I mean,
(21:15):
it's just it's absolutely mind blowing.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean, he is.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
He has done an.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable job. I mean, I personally, like I
had an NFL this is amazing. So I had to
answer I answer a mail bad question yesterday, right, and
somebody asked me, like, would Kurt Signetti work in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Like, So I figured I'd ask some guys who work
like on the college scouting trail, like some college scouts
like like what you know, like like how they saw
Signetti because obviously they're you know, they're scouting their players
and they've they've been around the program and everything else.
And one of them said to me, like, so, what
you would have.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Worked in the NFL.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
And somebody said to me, well, he's like all the
pluses and minus is he's a carbon copy of Nick Saban.
And this scout said this so casually, and I'm like,
oh my god, you just compared him to Nick Saban.
But you look at the job he's done, and he
deserves all the credit that he's got. But I now,
it just blew me away. And I know there's an
(22:20):
easy comparison there because he worked for Nick, but like
he said, like he's like Nick in so many different ways,
and yeah, it's just incredible what they've done.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
No, it's funny. Tom Ronoldays said the same thing I said.
When you sat down with him and you've talked to both,
obviously a number of times he goes he's Nick Saban,
he goes, that's how And honestly, like I was telling
these guys, like he has them so locked in and
so process oriented that it's it's hard to get an
appreciation for until you're on the field and you see
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the differences between the teams they go up against. I mean,
they do not look like they would be able to
compete with the likes of an Ohio State or so
these other bigger programs. And when you see those the
way those kids play, how well they're coached, how well
they do their job, and they just they continually do
all the things that they're asked to do time and
time again versus the best opponents. It's incredible. It really
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is incredible to watch. I was going to ask you
quickly because I know joy.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
To your point. One of these scouts that I talked to,
like just to what you're saying. He said, he's like,
it's like a cult and like a good life.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm not going to go there. Yeah, that's that's a
great that's a great line.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Okay, the coach at you, maybe yeah, maybe it'd be
more than what has it been eighty years since they
want to outright Big ten championship. I was going to
ask you quickly on the coaching front, because you didn't
mention Chris Sinnetti and and the potential of him coaching
at the next level. There's a lot of talk around
Marcus Frame, and there's a lot of talking specifically about
the New York Giants. We both know there's ties there
(24:00):
to the Notre Dame program, but what about some other
jobs too.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
He's been one of the.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Names that has kind of serviced not just for that job,
but other potential openings. It feels like teams look at
him and they don't give him that like, well, he's
a college football coach, can he do it at the
next level? Like he's not getting that tag or people
aren't looking.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Aim that way.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Yeah, I would say, like I would say, part of
this Brady is like a result of like the fact
that there aren't a ton of obvious candidates this year,
you know, in other words, like last year at this point,
I think I said this two guys last week. But
like last year at this point, I think, you know,
I would have been able. I would have told you,
and not that this would have made me a genius,
(24:41):
but I would have told you, like Ben Johnson, Mike
Rable will get jobs, right Like I would have felt
very very confident saying that, And you know, obviously it
wound up, you know, like that both those guys got
their jobs. And I think every year you have a
couple of guys like that, and this year you really don't,
you know, so I think it's forced the Giants and
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the Titans and whoever else is going to be out
there to start to look under every rock, and that
means being open minded to Maybe it's not an offensive
guy being open minded to, you know, maybe there is
somebody in the college ranks. And I do think for
Marcus Freeman, you know, one thing that helps is the
success of guys like Dan Campbell and like Frabel, right like,
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and that Marcus was a former player, you know, he
did play in the NFL. It was brief, you know,
and that an injury cut that short, but he did
play in the NFL, and he does have like that
sort of gravitas, you know what I mean. Like, so
I think because of the success of guys like Rabel
and Campbell, you look at like, okay, like how did
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those guys do it? It wasn't necessarily be by being
a guru on one side of the ball or the other.
It came from being a really smart guy, a guy
who command respect right away, and a guy who could
be a CEO of a program, you know. And I think,
you know, from that perspective, Marcus checks a lot of
those boxes, you know, And so I think that's why
(26:09):
why you would look at like a Marcus Freeman if
you're if you're an NFL team, I don't have any
indication that that he's leaving Notre Dame, you know, like,
but but I do think like he he has you know,
positioned himself in a way where, you know, his success
at Notre Dame and his ability, his ability to captivate
(26:29):
people and run a program, and you know, and and
and and succeed in the modern era, which is a
lot more like the NFL at the college level. You know,
I think has at least drawing the interest of NFL
folks where they're looking at it and saying, could this
guy be our version of Dan Campbell or Mike Rabel?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
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Albert will do it again next week, all right, now
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Speaker 10 (27:10):
All right, agreed, they got the playoffs. You know they
did this last year.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
We'ven make it to the to the championship game. So,
and they're the best team in the college football playoffs,
so he's.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Still going to get the last laugh. They have the
best odds they do.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
So as far as the game's coming up, you know,
if they can do what they did last year, if
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in about ten minutes from now. I did want to
ask you this, Brady, on the subject of Marcus Freeman,
because we talked obviously about Sharon Moore getting fired by
Michigan and some speculation as to who gets hired now
in place of him. With it this late in the process,
(30:49):
but with the Marcus Freeman stuff, Like, I know that
there's the NFL and interest in everybody. If I were him,
I'm not going anywhere, Like I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Like, I don't know. Whatever job you take.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
In the NFL is going to be a bad team,
which is why the job's open, And you would just
be starting in a place from so low that if
right now you're on the precipice of maybe bigger things
in South Bend and that place loves him and the
job he's done since taking over for Brian Kelly, who bailed.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I just don't I don't know why.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
What would be the appeal other than a boatload of
money for him to want to leave there?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah, and look, I think Nonadame would look to match that.
So I don't know that it's going to come down
to money. I think it just comes down to the
aspirations of a man. Like a lot oftentimes, when you coach, well,
let's just start off with this, You play and you
try to exhaust that to the highest level possible, right,
And as players, we all want to win the ultimate
goal when you get in the NFL, and that's a
super Bowl. So it's no different once you get into coaching.
(31:51):
I'm sure there's that thought in your head of hey man,
I've been successful at doing this at the college level.
That's why they're looking at me for the NFL if
I go there. How awesome would it be to win
a Super Bowl for the New York Giants, right like
or any other team that I think he's been linked to.
He interviewed for the Bears last year. So those goals
and aspirations and those things you know when you're successful,
(32:12):
they're out there for you, and I think for someone
like him, like, you can't blame a guy for wanting
to go try that. You know, he's young enough where
I feel like even if you went up there and
if it didn't work out, you'd still be able to
come back down based on his resume as a head
coach in college football, and that might be the route
he ends up taking. You know, I don't know what's
in his heart. I think he's not a great job
at Notre Dame and I think he would be missed.
(32:34):
But at the same time, you know, you can't blame
him for wanting to take that opportunity if that's what
he wants to do.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I've said this too.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
If the Ohio State job ever came open, and if
he left Notre Dame for Ohio State, Like, to me,
that's understandable.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
That's his alma mater and he's from the state of Ohio.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So there's a lot of things there too, where it's
it's to me these coaching decisions when they decide to leave,
and it's not them being fired. Oftentimes, I just try
to look at it from their perspective as to what
makes it that next opportunity so attractive, and if it's understandable, like,
you can't blame someone for wanting to do that. So
(33:09):
I again, I understand the interest. I understand what you're
saying too, and I think there's a lot of validity
to it.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
But at some point he might say, like, I can
always come back to college football. You know, there's only
so many times you get a shot to go up
to that NFL level.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
And the Giants are a great organization and it's a
big market, and he might, you know, look at it,
evaluate it differently. And by the way, I'm sure the
Giants are not the only one he's gonna be linked to.
So this this will it will be interesting to see
how this plays out. I think it's it's funny that
everyone thought, with them deciding not to go to a
bowl that it was specifically about the ESPN thing. There's
(33:45):
a little more working behind the scenes, you know, as
far as you know, for as far as the attraction
that he is at the NFL level to other jobs.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And I would say this too.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I thought one of the interesting things was people are
getting upset we're talking so much abot notre dame this week.
Isn't that kind of the point? Like, isn't that kind
of the point of Like ESPN has not stopped talking
about this. We haven't stopped talking about it. No one
else on any other radio show or if they else
has has stopped.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Talking about it.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Yeah, and it's why, Like as much as people hate
to admit it, and you're gonna say it's oh because
your bus you're a neuter dame, you're right, I am.
But also, doesn't this prove the point. It's Thursday, we're
still talking about this. If they were snubbed out of
the playoffs, you know, or if they weren't snubbed out
of the playoffs, we'd be probably talking about them as
(34:35):
a part of whatever the playoff is.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
They'd still be a part of that conversation. But now
they're not.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
And yet ESPN, everyone else, every other media outlet's still
using them to get clicks. I see people writing articles
about what they are in their teving ratings, and people
hit us up on Twitter like.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
We're gonna talk about it for four thirty in a row. Dude,
I don't make the news. I don't make the rundown.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
That's not how this works, right, Like they're just their
topical is something to talk about. I did find an
interesting too, Ivan Maselle, who was writing a book I
believe on New Rockney and he was supposed to speak
tomorrow at Notre Dame's bookstore, and I guess the event
got canceled, which was completely new to like anyone within
(35:16):
the administration and Notre Dame. I'm not sure someone had
put out there, like maybe it was a safety concern
because he sits on the college full playoff committee and
they were concerned about him coming there and now working
out for a Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
What that would mean. It's back on the whole thing
was blown out of proportion.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Of course, social media did their thing, and it was
like all the actual people involved with the administration and
the athletics department were like unaware of any of this happening,
and so they reached out and you know, they obviously apologized.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Everything's back on as it was.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
But it was just kind of it was funny how
much people try to like downplay Notre Dame's impact, yet
it's basically taken up this entire week of content.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
I mean, like, what what did people expect? Like what
else was the big story from from college football? Should
we break down like the the old mismatchup?
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Like okay, fun you've seen that it's bigger. It's it's
certainly not bigger than the news that broke yesterday. So
I don't think anybody should be but heard over talking
about Notre Dame as much as Notre Dames wouldn't discuss.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's a it's a program, it's a brand name.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
It's like we're talking about the Penn State stuff, Like, well,
why do you guys, what what else were you supposed
to talk about? It's a big time school, it's a
blue blood program, and they're in the middle of a
coaching search and there's storylines attached to it, Like what
else are you supposed to do? Like like shoehorn in
you know something about you know, Texas Tech and their
their linebacker who looks like Tom Selleck, Like, what are
(36:45):
you supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Like it just that's a compliment. And he's got a
great mustache. I don't know that I'm gonna throw them
in Tom Selleck category.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
It's an awesome must I mean it is one of
the greatest mustaches that I've seen in college.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Football for that age.
Speaker 10 (36:59):
Damn it, Tom, Look is that is high praise.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Though, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That might be an
old timer there, right.
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yeah, man, magnum Pire come home.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, gosh, that lustache got him so much. I did
it so much.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Well, yeah, undefeated, he got him on undefeated.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Okay, that's what you referred to as.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
By the way, Urban Meyer has an old photo with
a mustache. And we were sitting there looking around on
one time. We're like, coach, you need to bring this
back and he's like, oh no, I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I can't do that. And I was like, coach, didn't
work and he goes, that's all I got. Shelly. I
was like, all right, all right, he's that's all I got.
My wife. I was like, all right, it works, man,
if you can grow one.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
And grow one, uh Barley alone.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
I'm not messing with it.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Say what you want to say, man, no, because.
Speaker 10 (37:55):
My brain is it's not functioning that right now.
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By Lary Ray. What do we got Ooh?
Speaker 12 (39:17):
Well, it's not often I actually catch something live. I
don't watch a lot of games, but I was watching
that Chargers game on Monday Night Football and there was
a little altercation I guess you could call it at
the end. After Herbert led the Chargers to their victory,
he led himself to a fine Yes, Monday Night Football
reporter tried to interview him post victory, and he initially
(39:39):
denied her and tried to walk away. Hey, Patrick Gore,
gonna play the sound.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
On the time of thought my day, I know, but
can we just talk early.
Speaker 12 (39:49):
Past that little interaction of saying no. He then turned
around and did the interview, but he got fined seventy
five thousand dollars for that No.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yes, he did the interview.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Five hundred. Okay, let's just paint the entire picture here.
Seventy He was chasing tho, she was chasing him.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
He said no, I want to go celebrate with my teammates,
and then he kind of turned back around to do
the interview.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
He did the interview. He wasn't really even that short,
although there's a couple short responses.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
I kind of see both sides of this, Like, you know,
as a quarterback after a game you win, they're gonna
pull you aside and want to talk to you, and
there's a lot of things to talk about in regards
to his injuries, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
But at the same time, too, it's like.
Speaker 6 (40:33):
He did end up doing the interview. I just think
the NFL is trying to make an example. They don't
want this to become common, and they want to make
sure that every single media party is well respected.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And I also wonder that this was an ESPN game, correct, Yeah,
Monday Night.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Well, remember too, the sale that has recently occurred between
those two, the NFL and Disney and ESPN.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
So I also wonder too if internally there's even more.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
So we need to make sure that we send a
very very strong message that when you're asked to be
interview postgame, you interview.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
There's no questions about it.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
Yes, and the NFL did release a statement saying we
expect all players to have full availability pre and postgame
to give the fans what they want.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
I don't have a problem with giving the fans what
they want and being available, But seventy five thousand dollars
to have that interaction, that's excessive. That's like crazy excessive.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 10 (41:32):
Like I get it, I get it, like seventy seventy
five hundred and ten thousand, Hell go fifteen thousand, but
seventy five geez, I don't think so that's excessive.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Yeah, just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (41:47):
And by the way, shouldn't there be like you got
a pr person there, that should be kind of an aviatable.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Or just even a warning by the way, Yeah, like
we can't get a warning first seventy five grand I
would rather.
Speaker 12 (41:58):
Watch them celebrate, to be honest, go jump around over.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
With all those guys for me, Well yeah yeah, guy's
got a broken he always has to come back, willing
to celebrate the fall.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
She wants to day for dinner.
Speaker 12 (42:11):
Anyways, have a good weekend, guys. I'll see you later.
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Get them on X at Albert Breer. By the way,
apparently a baseball savant or insider if you will, because
(02:12):
I was looking at your X feed yesterday, Albert, and
I saw this guest. Third base ain't all it's cracked
up to be. So what baseball reference were you referring
to there?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Just uh, you know, I just you know, sometimes I
don't like to cross over another sports that's all.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, you are.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You got to be ashamed of yourself. Man, That programs
for a.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Lot of Hey, and I thought listening to Indiana was
bad news.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
I guess yesterday gave me some perspective on.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
All Oh dude, do that geez wow.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
I mean, let's not distract from the initial point of
the mush. All right, you show up at all high
state games, they've got a losing record.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
With you there, you'd be like, well, you know they're
gonna winning worker versus Notre Dame. What is with you
showing up at games and they're not playing well? Albert?
Speaker 9 (03:05):
You know what? Like, I don't know, I think part
of the problem. But I'm going to all these really
high leverage games. I think I need I need to
make my way to a few more like Ohio State,
Michigan State, or Ohio State Rutgers. Like maybe that's the problem.
That's my second one two game of the year. I
actually I'm not one and one in those, by the way,
(03:27):
So yeah, I mean I get I think that may
be the problem, is that all the games I go
to are are just these high leverage one two, two
versus three games, And uh, maybe maybe that's the problem.
But again, like I wouldn't want to take away from
the news of the day.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Were talking about what do you know albert in it.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
Yeah, what do you got, Well, I don't I mean
this whole situation, Brady. I'm sure you guys.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Have heard, Like I.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
There was stuff floating around two months ago, just like
with the NFL people that I talked to that Like,
and you guys know how this works, right, Like a
lot of times people will start to kind of circle
around jobs that they think are going to be open,
and and there's a lot of crossover at college and
pro and everything else. You know, one thing that I
(04:20):
this isn't all serious, because one thing that I had
heard two months ago was that the administration there was
sick of the school's reputation being dragged through the MUDs,
and that they felt like the football program had really
like leaned in to the cheating allegations and leaned in
on all the stuff that had happened there, and there
(04:41):
were people there that were sick of it. And so
you know, I had heard again like a couple of
months it was probably middle of October that like there
was a possibility that job was going to come open. Now,
I don't know how much of it related to this.
I hadn't heard about this stuff specifically, like involving Sharon.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
But you know, the.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Idea that a change might be coming, I think had
been been like at least discussed and coaching circles for
a little while now, you know. And again whether or
not like this just gave Michigan reason to do it
or this is the root of the whole thing, I'm
not sure, but I mean, I I don't know. You
(05:23):
look at the last couple of years there, and you
would have to think they would have to hit reset
and maybe you know, go outside the family all together
to take their nets tire.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, it seems like it.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
Do you think do you think it was Albert Do
you think it was more mean, I mean, just from
your your perspective of what you've heard that was circulating around.
Do you feel like this was more geared towards getting
from underneath Charon Moore as the coach or was this
like this is like this is a bad situation and
(05:58):
the school was more so forced into the actions that
they had to take. Because that does feel like the
timing of it all is you know, it's a horrible
time for Michigan to have to look for a new
a new hay coach.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean, I wonder Levar's it a little about
you know what I mean, like I I don't know.
I mean, like they they obviously had like you know,
NCAA issues, and you know, in twenty twenty three, and
we're very defiant, you.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Know about about about ever you know.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Having to ever accepting sanctions or firing people over it
and everything else, and so like, I mean, like there's
the question is impossible to answer here is how would
the school have reacted if Michigan were twelve and h
right now and going to the you know, twelve and
oh thirteen to oh twelve and one whatever going into
(06:55):
the playoffs, you know what I mean, Like, would the
reaction from Michigan have been different if they'd just beaten
no Ohio State, you know, two weeks ago. We'll never
know the answer to that, you know, but I certainly think,
like you know, these situations, you know, schools are a
lot quicker to move on from people when they're not winning,
you know, and they certainly weren't winning the last two
(07:17):
years at the same club that they've been winning the
three years before that.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Yeah, they're eleven and six in conference play, and if
it was sixteen and eight or something like that, in
the last two years actually fifteen and eight if you
take away the one win when he took over as
head coach for that game. One thing that's interesting I
keep hearing people talk about is like, oh, they pulled
it over the recruits heads. They didn't want to, you know,
lose out on the early signees and do this beforehand.
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I do hope people realize the early commits who had
just signed their national letter of intent, they do have
the ability penalty free to request the release so they
don't have to be forced out out of the year.
They're breaking that agreement. It's not like people say that,
but the reality is those kids who just signed can
still choose to go elsewhere if they don't like the
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head coach.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They're not stuck with Michigan for the next year or whatever.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
That was Julian sane, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I mean Julian saying signed with Alabama. Actually I think
went through practice with Alabama for like leading up to
their bowl game a two years ago and then and
then he hopped in the transfer portal and wound up
Ohio State. So like it doesn't give you I mean,
maybe like with those with those kids, it gives them
a chance to, like a couple of weeks to sit
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down and say, okay, like can we make this work somehow?
It does maybe give them that opportunity, but it definitely
doesn't handcuff the kids the way maybe it would five
or ten years ago from from from leaving if they
want to. And you know, I'd say it's probably Christmas
shopping season for some college coaches right now looking at
that Michigan recruiting class.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Albert Breer with us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
So let me ask you about the news, which it
feels fun, it's a great story, but the Philip Rivers
return to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
How did this happen?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
And had you heard that this was a possibility at
any point during the course of this season last season
and his relationship with Shane Steiken.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, I mean I would start here like it's born of.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
A really tough situation.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
You know, I don't think anybody wanted to see, you know,
Daniel Jones go through what he went through, and he's
already playing on a fracture of tibula and it sucks
like seeing him Popa's achilles and then for Riley Leonard
to you know, like have tweaked his knee. It was
sort of like that was you know, that was kind of.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Like be okay, like we have to.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Look at our options, which provoked the conversation on Sunday
night between Shane Stikeen and their general manager Chris Ballard.
You know, the interesting thing about it was they were
they were actually delayed, you know, out of Jacksonville. There
was some mechanical issues in the plane and so they
had to bring in a new plane and all that,
and that gave them, you know, that gave you know,
(10:00):
and Chris a chance to kind of discuss their options
right then and there. And you know, Shane talks to
Phillip twice a week. You know, they actually exchanged film.
Philip runs a version of Shane's offense, you know, with
the high school that he that that he coaches in Alabama,
and so it was a very very close relationship there.
(10:21):
They were together for eight years with the Chargers, and
you know, Shane just said to Chris like what about
Rivers and and Chris was like, do you think he
would do it? And that was sort of what sparked it,
and you know, they called him when they got back
to Indianapolis. Philip said, well, you know, like let me
sleep on it, and you know if I if I
(10:41):
feel I feel okay about it, maybe I'll fly up
there and see, you know, and throw it around for
you a little bit. So that happened on Monday, and
then you know they talked for a couple hours after
after after he after he threw for them, and you know,
they could just see the passion that Philip still has
for football and that that that's what I think, guys,
(11:02):
is really cool about this, you know, Like I I
think for Philip, like you know, I he's really happy
in his life and coaching high school football down there
and getting to coach his sons that I know was
a dream of his forever and ever and ever he
played for his dad, and so like he would never
want to walk away from from from his opportunity to
do that. But he doesn't have to now. You know,
(11:22):
it's like he was signing with a team for a
full year, like we'd be talking about like a you know,
a six seven months commitment, and that's not what this is.
So you know, this is an opportunity for him to
go and do something he loves. And I think that's
coming from a really pure place, like it's just that
there's just the chance to play football again, you know,
and you know, and he helps the Colts out and
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with a difficult situation. I don't think anybody knows what
this is going to look like, you know, after the
first time he gets hit, or what it's going to
look like coming out of a game day if he
does start on Sunday. But you know, for right now,
I think it is a really really cool story.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
I'll take it. Let me ask you this, abe, the
Pittsburgh Steelers and the Ravens. They seem to be two
teams that mirror each other in so many different ways,
and they have not limited that mirroring this season in
terms of their struggles. The Steelers get a much needed
win against their divisional rival and the Ravens fall to
(12:25):
under five hundred. We hear a lot of speculation and
a lot of criticisms and a lot of conclusions that
get drawn about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I just wonder how
how did they quiet it down by being able to
win against the Ravens or is that just you know,
is that just for now? And what does that mean
(12:45):
for Horrball?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And the Ravens.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Shouldn't If you're saying that about Mike Tomlin, should you
having the same conversation about Horrball.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, I think I think those conversations are
sort of when you do one place for this long, right, Like,
I think they're ongoing conversations in both places. And we've
and I think we they pop up periodically, right Like
we've heard it with Harbaugh a couple of times over
the last five years or so, when he's been up
for a contractor when they aren't winning at the same
(13:15):
level that they're used to winning at, it's like, is
this time? And that's just what happens. I think when
you've been in one place for this long, you know,
I mean, Tomlin's in his nineteenth year in Pittsburgh. Harbaugh
is in his eighteenth year in Baltimore. And right now
it doesn't look like both those teams are going to
make the playoffs. It looks like it's probably going to
be one or the other, whichever one wins the AFC North, right.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
So.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
You know, like I I think that those those are
natural conversations that that are going to happen in those places.
And and sure, you know, like the more Pittsburgh wins,
the less you're going to hear about Mike Tomlin's future.
You know. But I think I think in both cases,
like it's sort of an ongoing conversation. I think what
(14:00):
I think what kind of exacerbates it a little bit
in Pittsburgh, What makes it a little bit more of
of pressing topic? I would say in Pittsburgh, it's just
the age of the roster, right Like, So, like if
you look at the Steelers roster, you know they're relying
on a lot of older guys. You know, guys like
Aaron Rodgers and TJ. Watt and Jalen Ramsey and Cam Hayward.
(14:24):
There are a lot of older guys on that roster.
They aren't going to be around for very much longer.
And so you know, like there's like a roster reset
that's coming, and we don't know if that's going to
be after this year, after next year, but it's coming.
And whenever that comes, that would be sort of a
natural breaking point, right Like, so that will be the
point where you say, if you're the Steelers, do we
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want to keep building with Mike Tomlin. And if you're
Mike toml and you're saying do I want to go
through a rebuild with this team again? And so, you know,
I think that that's that natural point is coming in Pittsburgh.
It's probably a little less so in Baltimore. But with
both guys, you know, if one or the other I
assume one or the other is going to miss the playoffs,
then obviously the temperature gets turned up a little bit on.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
That discussion, Albert, you know, and looking at just the
landscape right now of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I I.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Guess I'm one of like, what do you foresee is
the biggest issue as we head into the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And maybe it's more I'm just talking a big picture,
you know.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
It seems like every time this time of year, it
could be an officiating issue, it could be something else
that you're kind of keeping an eye on. I don't
know if it's something in regard in regards to just
like the TV media rights and like the streaming services
coming in. Like what kind of big picture things is
the NFL kind of looking at as we end the
regular season headed into the postseason.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I think officiating is a big one, Brady, you know,
I know there's sense to it. The official CBA is
up and.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
At the end of May, and so.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
A new collective bargaining agreement needs to be hammered out there.
We remember the ref lockout of you know now thirteen
fourteen years ago, you know. So you know, I think
that a global look at how the game is officiated
is coming, you know again, And and maybe this isn't
the time when it happens, but I think that there's
(16:17):
enough noise around the way that the game is officiated.
And you know, obviously if this is such a huge
topic of conversation, and this is just like I mean,
I look on social media, I look up, you know,
among my friends, you know, my non work life like
and then you know, just talking to people inside the NFL,
everyone is talking about it, you know what I mean.
(16:39):
So like I think officiating would be one you know.
Then I think, like the television deals are looming and
eighteen games is looming. But a lot of that stuff
that the thing is like a lot of that stuff,
you know, like that that that that we talk about there,
like some of it can't happen when out the union
(17:00):
and right now the unionism fluxed. So I'd say there's
a bunch of big picture of things that are happening now.
It's the leadership in the union. It's like you said,
the TV deal, it's the officiating. Those would be some
of the things I think coming out of the season
that we'll all be talking about.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Albert Breer joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL reporter, lead content strategist at the MMQB. We talked
about this a little bit on Monday. Yeah, the Chiefs
look washed. Look they look like a shell of themselves.
There's no threat, there's no bite, there's no scare. And
I just wonder if hey listen, they missed the playoffs
(17:38):
and it appears with got I think a twelve percent
chance of making it, but appears like it's done. This
potentially with Travis Kelcey stuff out there. Could it also
mean the end of Andy Reid in Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I'd be surprised.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I think.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I think Andy still genuinely loves it, and I think
Andy's one of these lifers. And I think we've all
you know, met and been around these people like I
I think Andy, you know, in a good way, is
one of these guys who has a hard time envisioning
himself not going to work and having a team to
work with every day, you know, And so I think
(18:23):
for that reason, like he's going to be like Belichick.
I think, you know, he probably coaches into his seventies,
you know, and I and I don't think like his
passion for it changes. Now. Are they going to have
to look at a few things based on the way
this season is going, Yes, Like scheme wise, roster wise,
(18:43):
Like if things don't turn over the next four weeks
and they don't get in the playoffs and make another run,
you know, they are going to have to, you know,
take a hard look at all that stuff, because I
do think there's a natural pressure that comes with having
a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes where it's like, you know,
we need to continue the field, you know, a championship
(19:03):
operation around this guy, and you know, keep this guy,
keep to keep this guy happy, and keep this guy
where were where, you know, keep to keep this guy
content and being achieved. So, you know, I think there
are a ton of like big picture things that they're
gonna that that that they're going to, you know, like
have to address when they get to the end of
(19:25):
the season if things don't turn But it's hard for
me to envision a scenario where Andy says, Yep, that's it.
I'm walking away, And I certainly don't think that this
would be any sort of situation where they would fire him.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Albert Breer, Senior NFL reporter, Lead Content Strategies.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
At the m m QB.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Get him on x at Albert Breer, maybe, you know,
just last last thoughts on Ohio State, following that difficult
loss in the Big Ten Champions, did you foresee that coming?
I mean, I.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I appreciate your tone there. I I think I said
to you guys last week, but like, all we needed
to do was get seventeen points and we'd be okay.
And did I not say that.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I was you said that you were right, Albert, that's
seventeen point you were, You were on the you were right,
just on the wrong side, on the wrong side of.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
The seventy seventeen points would have done it. I still
I'm still a little baffled by, you know, running two
and three tight ends out there and taking you know,
you know, taking first team All American receivers off the field.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
But you know, I I think there were.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
There was a lot going on with the program last week,
for sure, and there's a lot that they were sorting
through and hopefully I mean look in all serious, in
all in all seriousness, like I have never seen anything
like what Kurt Signetti has pulled has pulled off at Indiana.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
It is incredible, right, it.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Is freaking unbelievable, like and it's not just it's happened
this quickly too, like you know, and then he sort
of called his shot two years ago. I mean, I
thought what they did last year was amazing, but I figured,
all right, like now it'll level off a little bit,
and for them to then take this to another I mean,
(21:15):
it's just it's absolutely mind blowing.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean, he is.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
He has done an.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable job. I mean, I personally, like I
had an NFL this is amazing. So I had to
answer I answer a mail bad question yesterday, right, and
somebody asked me, like, would Kurt Signetti work in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Like, So I figured I'd ask some guys who work
like on the college scouting trail, like some college scouts
like like what you know, like like how they saw
Signetti because obviously they're you know, they're scouting their players
and they've they've been around the program and everything else.
And one of them said to me, like, so, what
you would have.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Worked in the NFL.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
And somebody said to me, well, he's like all the
pluses and minus is he's a carbon copy of Nick Saban.
And this scout said this so casually, and I'm like,
oh my god, you just compared him to Nick Saban.
But you look at the job he's done, and he
deserves all the credit that he's got. But I now,
it just blew me away. And I know there's an
(22:20):
easy comparison there because he worked for Nick, but like
he said, like he's like Nick in so many different ways,
and yeah, it's just incredible what they've done.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
No, it's funny. Tom Ronoldays said the same thing I said.
When you sat down with him and you've talked to both,
obviously a number of times he goes he's Nick Saban,
he goes, that's how And honestly, like I was telling
these guys, like he has them so locked in and
so process oriented that it's it's hard to get an
appreciation for until you're on the field and you see
(22:51):
the differences between the teams they go up against. I mean,
they do not look like they would be able to
compete with the likes of an Ohio State or so
these other bigger programs. And when you see those the
way those kids play, how well they're coached, how well
they do their job, and they just they continually do
all the things that they're asked to do time and
time again versus the best opponents. It's incredible. It really
(23:14):
is incredible to watch. I was going to ask you
quickly because I know joy.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
To your point. One of these scouts that I talked to,
like just to what you're saying. He said, he's like,
it's like a cult and like a good life.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm not going to go there. Yeah, that's that's a
great that's a great line.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Okay, the coach at you, maybe yeah, maybe it'd be
more than what has it been eighty years since they
want to outright Big ten championship. I was going to
ask you quickly on the coaching front, because you didn't
mention Chris Sinnetti and and the potential of him coaching
at the next level. There's a lot of talk around
Marcus Frame, and there's a lot of talking specifically about
the New York Giants. We both know there's ties there
(24:00):
to the Notre Dame program, but what about some other
jobs too.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
He's been one of the.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Names that has kind of serviced not just for that job,
but other potential openings. It feels like teams look at
him and they don't give him that like, well, he's
a college football coach, can he do it at the
next level? Like he's not getting that tag or people
aren't looking.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Aim that way.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Yeah, I would say, like I would say, part of
this Brady is like a result of like the fact
that there aren't a ton of obvious candidates this year,
you know, in other words, like last year at this point,
I think I said this two guys last week. But
like last year at this point, I think, you know,
I would have been able. I would have told you,
and not that this would have made me a genius,
(24:41):
but I would have told you, like Ben Johnson, Mike
Rable will get jobs, right Like I would have felt
very very confident saying that, And you know, obviously it
wound up, you know, like that both those guys got
their jobs. And I think every year you have a
couple of guys like that, and this year you really don't,
you know, so I think it's forced the Giants and
(25:02):
the Titans and whoever else is going to be out
there to start to look under every rock, and that
means being open minded to Maybe it's not an offensive
guy being open minded to, you know, maybe there is
somebody in the college ranks. And I do think for
Marcus Freeman, you know, one thing that helps is the
success of guys like Dan Campbell and like Frabel, right like,
(25:24):
and that Marcus was a former player, you know, he
did play in the NFL. It was brief, you know,
and that an injury cut that short, but he did
play in the NFL, and he does have like that
sort of gravitas, you know what I mean. Like, so
I think because of the success of guys like Rabel
and Campbell, you look at like, okay, like how did
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those guys do it? It wasn't necessarily be by being
a guru on one side of the ball or the other.
It came from being a really smart guy, a guy
who command respect right away, and a guy who could
be a CEO of a program, you know. And I think,
you know, from that perspective, Marcus checks a lot of
those boxes, you know, And so I think that's why
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why you would look at like a Marcus Freeman if
you're if you're an NFL team, I don't have any
indication that that he's leaving Notre Dame, you know, like,
but but I do think like he he has you know,
positioned himself in a way where, you know, his success
at Notre Dame and his ability, his ability to captivate
(26:29):
people and run a program, and you know, and and
and and succeed in the modern era, which is a
lot more like the NFL at the college level. You know,
I think has at least drawing the interest of NFL
folks where they're looking at it and saying, could this
guy be our version of Dan Campbell or Mike Rabel?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, uh well, Abe always appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
You can get him on x at Albert Breer, senior
NFL reporter, lead content strategist at the m m QB,
and he's got thoughts on baseball random in the middle
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Speaker 5 (27:06):
Albert will do it again next week, all right, now
there he is.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
All right, agreed, they got the playoffs. You know they
did this last year.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
We'ven make it to the to the championship game. So,
and they're the best team in the college football playoffs,
so he's.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Still going to get the last laugh. They have the
best odds they do.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
So as far as the game's coming up, you know,
if they can do what they did last year, if
you're making their school a.
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in about ten minutes from now. I did want to
ask you this, Brady, on the subject of Marcus Freeman,
because we talked obviously about Sharon Moore getting fired by
Michigan and some speculation as to who gets hired now
in place of him. With it this late in the process,
(30:49):
but with the Marcus Freeman stuff, Like, I know that
there's the NFL and interest in everybody. If I were him,
I'm not going anywhere, Like I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Like, I don't know. Whatever job you take.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
In the NFL is going to be a bad team,
which is why the job's open, And you would just
be starting in a place from so low that if
right now you're on the precipice of maybe bigger things
in South Bend and that place loves him and the
job he's done since taking over for Brian Kelly, who bailed.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I just don't I don't know why.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
What would be the appeal other than a boatload of
money for him to want to leave there?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah, and look, I think Nonadame would look to match that.
So I don't know that it's going to come down
to money. I think it just comes down to the
aspirations of a man. Like a lot oftentimes, when you coach, well,
let's just start off with this, You play and you
try to exhaust that to the highest level possible, right,
And as players, we all want to win the ultimate
goal when you get in the NFL, and that's a
super Bowl. So it's no different once you get into coaching.
(31:51):
I'm sure there's that thought in your head of hey man,
I've been successful at doing this at the college level.
That's why they're looking at me for the NFL if
I go there. How awesome would it be to win
a Super Bowl for the New York Giants, right like
or any other team that I think he's been linked to.
He interviewed for the Bears last year. So those goals
and aspirations and those things you know when you're successful,
(32:12):
they're out there for you, and I think for someone
like him, like, you can't blame a guy for wanting
to go try that. You know, he's young enough where
I feel like even if you went up there and
if it didn't work out, you'd still be able to
come back down based on his resume as a head
coach in college football, and that might be the route
he ends up taking. You know, I don't know what's
in his heart. I think he's not a great job
at Notre Dame and I think he would be missed.
(32:34):
But at the same time, you know, you can't blame
him for wanting to take that opportunity if that's what
he wants to do.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I've said this too.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
If the Ohio State job ever came open, and if
he left Notre Dame for Ohio State, Like, to me,
that's understandable.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
That's his alma mater and he's from the state of Ohio.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So there's a lot of things there too, where it's
it's to me these coaching decisions when they decide to leave,
and it's not them being fired. Oftentimes, I just try
to look at it from their perspective as to what
makes it that next opportunity so attractive, and if it's understandable, like,
you can't blame someone for wanting to do that. So
(33:09):
I again, I understand the interest. I understand what you're
saying too, and I think there's a lot of validity
to it.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
But at some point he might say, like, I can
always come back to college football. You know, there's only
so many times you get a shot to go up
to that NFL level.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
And the Giants are a great organization and it's a
big market, and he might, you know, look at it,
evaluate it differently. And by the way, I'm sure the
Giants are not the only one he's gonna be linked to.
So this this will it will be interesting to see
how this plays out. I think it's it's funny that
everyone thought, with them deciding not to go to a
bowl that it was specifically about the ESPN thing. There's
(33:45):
a little more working behind the scenes, you know, as
far as you know, for as far as the attraction
that he is at the NFL level to other jobs.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And I would say this too.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I thought one of the interesting things was people are
getting upset we're talking so much abot notre dame this week.
Isn't that kind of the point? Like, isn't that kind
of the point of Like ESPN has not stopped talking
about this. We haven't stopped talking about it. No one
else on any other radio show or if they else
has has stopped.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Talking about it.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Yeah, and it's why, Like as much as people hate
to admit it, and you're gonna say it's oh because
your bus you're a neuter dame, you're right, I am.
But also, doesn't this prove the point. It's Thursday, we're
still talking about this. If they were snubbed out of
the playoffs, you know, or if they weren't snubbed out
of the playoffs, we'd be probably talking about them as
(34:35):
a part of whatever the playoff is.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
They'd still be a part of that conversation. But now
they're not.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
And yet ESPN, everyone else, every other media outlet's still
using them to get clicks. I see people writing articles
about what they are in their teving ratings, and people
hit us up on Twitter like.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
We're gonna talk about it for four thirty in a row. Dude,
I don't make the news. I don't make the rundown.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
That's not how this works, right, Like they're just their
topical is something to talk about. I did find an
interesting too, Ivan Maselle, who was writing a book I
believe on New Rockney and he was supposed to speak
tomorrow at Notre Dame's bookstore, and I guess the event
got canceled, which was completely new to like anyone within
(35:16):
the administration and Notre Dame. I'm not sure someone had
put out there, like maybe it was a safety concern
because he sits on the college full playoff committee and
they were concerned about him coming there and now working
out for a Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
What that would mean. It's back on the whole thing
was blown out of proportion.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
Of course, social media did their thing, and it was
like all the actual people involved with the administration and
the athletics department were like unaware of any of this happening,
and so they reached out and you know, they obviously apologized.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Everything's back on as it was.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
But it was just kind of it was funny how
much people try to like downplay Notre Dame's impact, yet
it's basically taken up this entire week of content.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
I mean, like, what what did people expect? Like what
else was the big story from from college football? Should
we break down like the the old mismatchup?
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Like okay, fun you've seen that it's bigger. It's it's
certainly not bigger than the news that broke yesterday. So
I don't think anybody should be but heard over talking
about Notre Dame as much as Notre Dames wouldn't discuss.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's a it's a program, it's a brand name.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
It's like we're talking about the Penn State stuff, Like, well,
why do you guys, what what else were you supposed
to talk about? It's a big time school, it's a
blue blood program, and they're in the middle of a
coaching search and there's storylines attached to it, Like what
else are you supposed to do? Like like shoehorn in
you know something about you know, Texas Tech and their
their linebacker who looks like Tom Selleck, Like, what are
(36:45):
you supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Like it just that's a compliment. And he's got a
great mustache. I don't know that I'm gonna throw them
in Tom Selleck category.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
It's an awesome must I mean it is one of
the greatest mustaches that I've seen in college.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Football for that age.
Speaker 10 (36:59):
Damn it, Tom, Look is that is high praise.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Though, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That might be an
old timer there, right.
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yeah, man, magnum Pire come home.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, gosh, that lustache got him so much. I did
it so much.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Well, yeah, undefeated, he got him on undefeated.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Okay, that's what you referred to as.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
By the way, Urban Meyer has an old photo with
a mustache. And we were sitting there looking around on
one time. We're like, coach, you need to bring this
back and he's like, oh no, I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I can't do that. And I was like, coach, didn't
work and he goes, that's all I got. Shelly. I
was like, all right, all right, he's that's all I got.
My wife. I was like, all right, it works, man,
if you can grow one.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
And grow one, uh Barley alone.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
I'm not messing with it.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Say what you want to say, man, no, because.
Speaker 10 (37:55):
My brain is it's not functioning that right now.
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Speaker 5 (39:15):
By Lary Ray. What do we got Ooh?
Speaker 12 (39:17):
Well, it's not often I actually catch something live. I
don't watch a lot of games, but I was watching
that Chargers game on Monday Night Football and there was
a little altercation I guess you could call it at
the end. After Herbert led the Chargers to their victory,
he led himself to a fine Yes, Monday Night Football
reporter tried to interview him post victory, and he initially
(39:39):
denied her and tried to walk away. Hey, Patrick Gore,
gonna play the sound.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
On the time of thought my day, I know, but
can we just talk early.
Speaker 12 (39:49):
Past that little interaction of saying no. He then turned
around and did the interview, but he got fined seventy
five thousand dollars for that No.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yes, he did the interview.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Five hundred. Okay, let's just paint the entire picture here.
Seventy He was chasing tho, she was chasing him.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
He said no, I want to go celebrate with my teammates,
and then he kind of turned back around to do
the interview.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
He did the interview. He wasn't really even that short,
although there's a couple short responses.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
I kind of see both sides of this, Like, you know,
as a quarterback after a game you win, they're gonna
pull you aside and want to talk to you, and
there's a lot of things to talk about in regards
to his injuries, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
But at the same time, too, it's like.
Speaker 6 (40:33):
He did end up doing the interview. I just think
the NFL is trying to make an example. They don't
want this to become common, and they want to make
sure that every single media party is well respected.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And I also wonder that this was an ESPN game, correct, Yeah,
Monday Night.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Well, remember too, the sale that has recently occurred between
those two, the NFL and Disney and ESPN.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
So I also wonder too if internally there's even more.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
So we need to make sure that we send a
very very strong message that when you're asked to be
interview postgame, you interview.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
There's no questions about it.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
Yes, and the NFL did release a statement saying we
expect all players to have full availability pre and postgame
to give the fans what they want.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
I don't have a problem with giving the fans what
they want and being available, But seventy five thousand dollars
to have that interaction, that's excessive. That's like crazy excessive.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 10 (41:32):
Like I get it, I get it, like seventy seventy
five hundred and ten thousand, Hell go fifteen thousand, but
seventy five geez, I don't think so that's excessive.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Yeah, just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (41:47):
And by the way, shouldn't there be like you got
a pr person there, that should be kind of an aviatable.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Or just even a warning by the way, Yeah, like
we can't get a warning first seventy five grand I
would rather.
Speaker 12 (41:58):
Watch them celebrate, to be honest, go jump around over.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
With all those guys for me, Well yeah yeah, guy's
got a broken he always has to come back, willing
to celebrate the fall.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
She wants to day for dinner.
Speaker 12 (42:11):
Anyways, have a good weekend, guys. I'll see you later.
Speaker 10 (42:13):
But alright, alright,
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