Hour 2: LaVar, Brady & Jonas – Albert Breer

Top prospect Jalen Carter comes in almost 10 pounds heavier than his combine weight at his Georgia Pro Day. Senior NFL Reporter for the MMQB, Albert Breer sheds light on the negotiations between the Jets and Packers for Aaron Rodgers. Plus, some underdogs in the first round of the Men’s Basketball Tournament.

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The College Football Hall of Famer is currently making selections. Yeah,

(01:26):
how far you got Penn State on? We've gotten there,
you haven't gone. Yeah, that's tough round one match up, man,
I don't know. Uh, they'd be all right. My wife's
got Penn State going to the final four. Yeah, I
swear to god. Well they're friend Yeah what a friend
of the program. Sweet sixteen. You know, not confident, I

(01:47):
mean that's confident. Who they have to beat them? They
have to be a two seat coming out. Uh, they
gotta beat what region is that? That's the Kansas region,
that's the UCLA region or no, no no, no, that's that's
the region below. That's Texas. They got Texas, Texas, Okay,
they've got who just work twelve. Um, they've got Houston

(02:10):
the second round game Jonas. Yeah, you follow the bracket.
I believe they have to play the two seed, which yeah,
which is Texas. Yeah, so it will be Texas and
it would be Penn State. I'm trying to figure out,
Like on my bracket, it shows that i have Texas
A and I'm winning. I'm trying to figure out why
that is. Why would I do that? I don't know,
I don't know. It's interesting, I'll be honest, LeVar, I
really contemplate that one for a while. I did too.

(02:31):
I love Buzz Williams though, man, I just I'm just
a big fan of his. Has nothing to do with
our relationship. It purely has to do with the fact
that I'm a huge I think he's he preaches stuff
as a coach. I feel like everyone needs to hear
every day. Put it that way. Yeah, listen, judge, you
we get to see how this shakes out, and uh,

(02:51):
we'll let you know how sticks what his selections are. No,
you're not as we I'm going to at least tell
us your final four dude. Nope, why maybe I will?
I mean I just log on a sea No, what
do you mean? No? No? On the bracket by though,
I don't want you to see it. By the way,
my final four feels like it would have been a
good final four like ten years ago. So I'm a

(03:13):
little bit outdated with Do you like Duke Kentucky North Carolina?
Duke's there, but so is Gonzaga, Houston, and Arizona. So
not awful except for the day hosts Basketball Blade. Yeah,
very they're trendy, like five seed to make a run, right, yeah,
which means they'll lose they're opening round. Yeah, it's just
you're a chocky kind of guy. You know, you got

(03:34):
the blue bloods. That's that's your status quo for you. Yeah,
I mean yeah, but that's the Ohio eight underdogs. It's okay,
it's all right, Well, that means Charleston's of the world
and everyone else like they just they got no shot
y College of Charleston beating San Diego State in the
opening round. Unfortunately, I got them going against Virginia and
round two and then they're gonna lose there. And I
do have Virginia knocking off Alabama, so that that could

(03:57):
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walking into Saint Patty's Day with a couple of black eyes.

(05:25):
I don't know what you want coming over, but you're
not gonna hit the button on that. I clicked a
couple of black eyes. What did you say? Black eyes?
Whoa bro? I can't go with you on that one. Sorry,
jest oh man racist? What happened there? Whitlaw calls from

(05:46):
Juicy Juicy Juice bro? That clip that came out with
the two brothers. I didn't get a chance to watch
it as a good with Michael Blackson. With Michael Blackson,
they're they're describing, they're going through the entire night what
they're told to do. M oh the real account. Yes,

(06:11):
I've been meaning to watch and I want to check
that out. That's Michael Blackson did a spoof on it. Yeah,
thank you, Berto. I mean, why does it have to
be the Blacks? That is his name? Okay, so that's
opposite to Homie Yep, that is his name? What Mike?
All right? All right, So here's a story in the

(06:31):
world of football for you. Probably not a good, good
sign for something that's happening coming up here. A little
over a month. So Jalen Carter had his pro day
at Georgia yesterday and reportedly came in nine pounds heavier
than he was at the Combine and he couldn't finish
his workouts because of cardio issues and cramping. Well, I mean,

(06:56):
how how long ago is the combine? Wasn't that long ago? Right?
Go a couple of weeks? Okay, that's Southern food will
get you though, Man, I get it. But you know,
it feels like it's kind of an important time to
go ahead and put the fork down and get ready
to write the good time to put the fork down,
especially when you know you have all these other things
that are happening off the field. Unless this was all

(07:18):
strategic because he wants to drop down to number nine
so the Bears pick him. Unless that's what this is,
I don't. This just feels like it's heading in a
bad direction. To My question is how far does he
actually drop? Is this concerning enough to where you're like,
he's off my board and the first ten fifteen picks?
Is that? Is that where this is headed to? When

(07:38):
it comes to Jaco I think they have a follow
up workout team. Team will come individually and work him out,
and they'll be able to judge for themselves. That's my
feeling on it. He's a tremendous talent. The tape's great,
The protea wasn't good. Okay, we've seen some bad protos before.
Guys still get drafted, Guys still show out in the NFL,
So I don't want to read too much into it.

(07:59):
I mean, should be a time of year where you're
in tip shop top shape, you're doing all the right things, um,
while you're being evaluated until April. But I mean, teams
will continue to dig in on this, but it does
only light I guess more of a fire too. The
thought during the season, and I forget who said it.
I don't know if it was it was Tom who

(08:20):
said he's got some you know, off the field issues,
and you're like, all right, what does that really mean. Well,
at the time of which he said it, the whole
car incident that we heard about that that happened after
the National Championship game, so that wasn't a part of it.
So it leads you to think there's maybe even more
out there, and you know, not showing up for a
proto in shape and overweight. I mean nine pounds is

(08:41):
a big on a big guy. I mean, LeVar, you
played lineback. I'm sure you saw d lineman who fluctuated
in their way to a decent amount. Yeah. I mean
if you can, if you can carry it, you can
carry it. If you can't, you can. I mean it
sounded like he couldn't. I mean, listen, I said the
market spoke on him when Chicago traded out of the pick.

(09:03):
So whatever it is people experienced being around him, or
what they saw or what they uncovered or new informationally speaking,
he was not going to be the number one overall
draft pick like that. That ship sailed on him, and
I don't know where he goes. I know we mentioned

(09:24):
Arizona as a possible landing space. I'm just not sure.
And maybe the extent of it is now beginning to
come out, and maybe it's starting to show which on
his behalf or whoever is advising him, or who's around him,
and most importantly himself should be holding himself to an

(09:47):
expectation and a standard of where he's overly prepared, not
under prepared, not underwhelming, over prepared, overwhelming with everything that
he does. You have the opportunity of a lifetime and
all you you're right hair, you're right hair at it

(10:08):
and all you have to do is be prepared and
and stay stay out at any type of situations that
would would lend to you not being considered a top guy.
Like that's that to me. You've done the hardest work
to get to this point, and why would why would

(10:30):
you allow yourself to not be in shape? And I
mean this is twenty twenty three, Like workout, workout, God,
like this is this is such a different era. People
work out. That's like what athletes do these days. And
I know that sounds weird to say, but like when
I was coming out, we worked out, the specialized working out.

(10:54):
The amount of working out that this generation of athletes
they do is essing on what what we did when
I was younger. It's not even close the amount of
work that these guys are putting in in the off seasons.
It's like everybody's got a personal trainer these days. You

(11:16):
go to the school and you work out with your
school trainers, but then you're leaving school and you're going
and you're working with specialists on you know, plio metrics
and bio whatever mechanics and this done the other and
stretching this, and how your foot touches the surface of
the ground and all these different things that my brother

(11:37):
and my nephew plays junior college football. And my brother
was telling me about all the different things he goes
to throughout the week. He's got like three sessions, and
it's it's, it's it's I don't want to say it's ridiculous.
It's just where sports where it is, and how important
it is for these these guys and these young aspiring

(11:57):
athletes to be as prepared it is possible. And so
for him to come in, you know, out of shape, overweight,
is it? Is it a terrible thing? It's it's I
would say it's not the worst thing ever. Guys have
shown up out of shape before. But is it a

(12:19):
is it a missed opportunity where you know you're in
a quarterback heavy top ten, you know, top of the draft,
you know draft class, It's a missed opportunity, That's what
I would say. Yeah, I just I don't think he's
going one number one, regardless with what the quarterback needs.
It's just too many teams. But even if he was

(12:39):
like the best. It just you don't see those guys
leap frog a quarterback, you know, especially if a team
really needs them. So I think it's gonna interesting to
see if Arizona takes him, you know, for a team
that hasn't done a ton in free agency so far. Um,
you know, they let Zach Allen go to Denver. That
was tough Byron Murphy. They lost out, he moved on. Um,

(13:01):
they've they've got some holes now and that's a team
that could really use his talent skill set. So if
they stay put, I could still see them taking him
at three. God, so he's gonna drop. Do you think
he drops out of the top ten because you've got
obviously yeah, Well no, I'm just I'm just saying, do
you think there's a possibility he drops out of the

(13:21):
top ten? No, because the dropoff on tape from watching
him compared to the other D tackles is significant, like
every other D tackle Like, um can see the kid
out of Pittsburgh. He's awesome, fun to watch, really undersized
for some of the splash plays you see, there's times
you see him get maulled. He's likely two hundred and
eighty pounds, you know, Brazie, solid player, not to the

(13:44):
ability of Jalen Carter, like completely different category or different tier,
if you will. The only thing I would say to
that is they might not take a defender, they might
take an offensive lineman. They might go O line instead
of D line, and that would be the possibility of
where he could end up dropping out of one of
those top picks. How is the old line in this draft?

(14:05):
Because you've got the kid out of Northwestern? Is it Scronsky?
And then Paris Johnson is the guy out of Ohio State,
Dwan Jones the other one? Okay, so how how are
they are? Those top tier linemen are just in this class?
Those are the top of the top. Uh. And then
this class, I mean, Scronsky's pretty good. The problem is,
you know you're playing a Northwestern um. They've actually been

(14:26):
throwing the football more than half of late. So UM,
take that for what it's worth. I don't know that
you're you're walking away saying, hey, they've got a bunch
of first ballot Hall of famers in this class. That's
not m that's not necessarily the conversation around the tackle class.
It's good, Um, there's some some depth in some spots,
but this isn't one of those classes that has that
like surefire guy that you could take number one overall,

(14:48):
like we saw at Jake Long, like we saw some others.
But again, going back to those draft classes way back when,
different time. You know, it's two thousand and eight and
you know, and an era where again, if there's a
quarterback need at the top of the draft, teams are
moving up or teams are drafted them, whether they're fully
sold in that guy or not. See Pat Fitzgerald was

(15:08):
campaigning for the Bears to take Scronsky at number nine
at the pro day there, so he'd like, do you
want to explain to the Matts Sue pet Fitzgerald is, well,
you know, he's a Northwestern head coach, you know, and
again Saint Patty's week another guy who's out there. You know,
he's shopping around trying to let everybody know he's got
a guy. I believe Fitzgerald is irish. Is that correct?

(15:29):
Probably who cares? But point being, there's some speculation about
where that where that heads. And then you know, the
odds would say if you go to Draft Kings, you've
got Will Anderson, who's the favorite to go be the
first defensive player to selected. And then you've got Jalen
Carter too, So that's where that is shifted. It is
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(15:50):
it's coming up next. We're gonna find out when the
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(16:13):
the iHeart Radio A. So, we are going to take
a special look ahead to the big day in college
basketball coming up here in a little over twenty minutes
from now. But right now we turn it over to
Albert Breer, senior NFL reporter at the MMQB. You can
get him on Twitter at Albert Brier. Albert, Good morning,
Happy Turney day to you. Yeah, happy Turney day. Noah,

(16:35):
my Alba Water is not playing today. I'll say, how
far you got the books going Oh, Franklow, how far
you got the books going out five standard this year?
That's right? Still gamble on it, all right? And I
see is that where it's going. No, not even n
I T this year, Brady, we weren't even good enough
to make the n I So well, I think I

(16:55):
think I'm right there with you with my water. So, Albert,
and I got to ask you, when is this trade
going to get done between the packers and the Jets?
Because I think you had pointed out that you feel
like the packers have the leverage here. So what's the
timeline in your mind that this deal gets done between
these two teams? Well, I actually I thought all along

(17:15):
the deal was relatively workable. Now the packers want to
be difficult about this, but I think Aaron Rodgers sort
of as a parting gift, fully gave them the ability
to do that yesterday. Because the Jets are really painted
into a corner now. They can't not get Aaron Rodgers,
you know, Joe Douglas, Robert Solid, they can't afford to
not get them. And so you know, I think the

(17:39):
big thing in Aaron Rodgers contract right now is that
fifty eight point three million dollar option bonus, and that
doesn't need to be exercise fully guaranteed, so he's gonna
get it, but that doesn't need to be exercised before
September first. Whichever team exercises it can exercise any time
between now and then, which gives the Packers a tremendous

(18:01):
amount of flexibility to trade him whenever they want to.
In addition to that, his cap hit actually goes up
when he's traded, so they don't get any extra flexibility
from trading him, So it doesn't even affect the way
that they're going to do business over the next couple
of weeks. So you know where I think like this
was a really workable situation. Now the Packers want to

(18:24):
sort of make it difficult and say, Okay, well, you
know you're operating as if you're the Jets quarterback, but
we still have your rights. And the Jets are sort
of in a position where they have to go and
get you now because the Derek Carson and Jimmy Garoppolos
the world are off the market. Well, you know, now
you got to do what we want and you got
to give us what we want. So you know, I

(18:46):
think in an interesting sort of way, Aaron Rodgers might
have made things a little bit more difficult on the
Jets yesterday. Now, I think ultimately it behooves everybody to
you know, get closure here, the ranking inclusion and so
you know, I think like after the dust settles and
after maybe some of the hard feelings that will come

(19:06):
out of you know said yesterday, participate a little bit
a deal, get done. But you know, I don't think
Aaron Rodgers did the Jets a lot of favors when
it comes to leverage with what he said yesterday. Could
you make the case though, that Mark Murphy didn't either.
I mean, he's already laid his hand out, and that
the fact that the Packers obviously going with Aaron Rodgers
is not their plan. And I would actually argue too,

(19:29):
the Packers haven't done it much of anything in free agency,
and we can sit there and say like, well, hey,
that's not Brian Googoost what he does. That wasn't necessarily
the case. When he first took over. He was much
more active, and I think you probably need to be
more active when you have twenty million in cap space
and you've got a quarterback that's not going to raise
the level of people around him if you want to
see what he's capable of. So isn't there a thought

(19:51):
process to really no one having much leverage here only
because of the way Rodgers and Murphy has played this
thing out. And I guess the last thing, I'll just say,
if I'm the Packers and I'm sitting there looking at
this year's draft and I could get a first round
pick and maybe a second round next year, one of
the case is if I let this thing go past
the draft, how am I helping us evaluate Jordan Love? Yeah, yeah, no,

(20:13):
I agree with that, Burr. Like, but I think if
there was a first round pick on the table, this
would deal would be done. You know, I don't think
there's a first round pick, not as of right now.
I don't think it's like the thirteenth overall pick. I like,
that's where the Jets pick is. Like, I don't think
that's on the table right now, Like I think it
could be. It could be, but really like I think,

(20:34):
like I think like where this deal was going to be,
and I think where ultimately it may end up landing.
It's maybe the Jets second round pick, which is the
forty third overall pick and then conditional picks down the
line based on how Rogers plays, maybe whether he plays
in twenty twenty four. Um, I think that's where this
I think that's where this has been going. Now, Like

(20:57):
could that change now that maybe the pack the steel
that they have a little bit more leverage and can
play hardball. Maybe, But because of the contract, because of
the sixty million dollars, it's old, because of Aaron Rodgers age,
because you're probably trading for I don't know, like a
year or two of them and not five or ten
years of him. You know. I don't think that the

(21:21):
thirteenth overall pick has been part of the discussion yet
from the Jet standpoint. Now again, like that could change,
but as of right now, like my guests would be
like that this is probably the framework of this deal
would be a second round pick and then conditional picks

(21:42):
down the line. Again, that could change now because the
Jets have sort of been painted into a corner. But
but but I think if the thirteenth overall pick had
been on the table, we'd be talking about things getting
done pretty quickly. My understanding is if he goes, it's
not for a year, he'll be there at least two
that's my underst situation. Okay, and I you know, but
but you're still pray. You're still saying though, you know,

(22:04):
like if he goes right, like that's two years. That's
not trading for like the Shaun Watson where when the
Browns trad for to Shaun Watson for better or worse,
they're trading for ten years of him. You know what
we think? I mean, there could be a massage table
that gets in the way of that album. I understanding.
It's it's one harmony and massage table that gets in
the way of the whole situation. That's a great brand.

(22:26):
If you guys need a nice massage table at your house,
go with harmony. I'm pretty sure I can't stop by
a grab lab once. Next thing, you know, he's got
to hear about it for two years. Oh god, maybe
if if what you're saying is correct, I mean, is
there a possibility and I asked this earlier with the guys,
is there a possibility that this deal could fall through

(22:51):
if they don't want to give up. If you're saying
they got to give up a first rounder and that's
not on the table, and that's what's holding things up.
You can look at it and say, all right, green
Bay is in danger in that risk of having to
pay Aaron Rodgers. Why would they do that? So, now,
if you're saying, you know what I mean, like, I

(23:13):
don't know. I don't think it happens. I don't think
it comes to that. I don't like, I don't think
it comes to that. I think ultimately cooler heads will prevail.
But but look, like you know, I mean, the thing is, like,
I think the situation between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers
got worse yesterday, not better. Right, I think we can
agree on that, would you guys? It seems personal. It's

(23:36):
like it got worse yesterday, and like so I think
because of that, the Packers might feel more embolded now
to play hardball. Now they have a lot of runway
to do a deal, right, Like again that money, they
don't have to do anything until September first. Do I
think they're gonna wait that long? No? I think ultimately
cooler heads are gonna prevail, and the Jets and the

(23:56):
Packers are gonna get to the are going to come
to an agreement. I think Joe Douglas and Brian Good
at this and they'll find a way to do something creatively.
They'll be fair for everybody. But in the immediate aftermath
of what happened yesterday and what Aaron Rodgers said yesterday,
like do I think by Brian grew Goodacoonst and Mark

(24:17):
Murphy are a little hot over this probably yeah, you know,
and so like I I think in the immediate aftermath again,
like I think that there's there's there's going to be
I think it just makes it a little harder to
do the deal. Ultimately, I think cooler heads are going
to prevail and the deal will get done because that's
what's best for everybody. It's what's best for the Packers
to get capital for him that they can spend, like

(24:39):
Brady said this year to help Jordan Love. It's best
for Jordan Love. It could create a cleaner situation for him.
And I think it's best for the Jets of course
to have Aaron Rodgers on board and helping to recruit
players there and ultimately maybe even taking part in the
offseason program, which obviously he didn't do the last few
years and bring back get him on Twitter at Albert Briers,

(25:00):
senior NFL reporter at the MMQB Albert. We were talking
a little while ago about Jalen Carter's pro day less
an ideal comes in nine pounds heavier than the combine,
which was you know, not that long ago, and then
couldn't finish his workouts because of cramping and cardio issues.
And we were just talking about how far he could
potentially fall. Is there a chance maybe he falls out

(25:20):
of the top ten? What are you hearing from people
you talk to? So Like when I was as a combine,
I had more than one person compared to the situation
to Warren Sapp, and I think that was nineteen nine,
right than four. Um and Warren Sapp, Like for people
who don't know, I'm unfortunately I'm old enough to remember

(25:41):
this draft, but um and I was just about the
hotel rooms situation. That's more recently, the hotel room situation.
It's another wrong that. Yeah, but if you guys remember,
if you guys remember, Warren Sapp would have been like
a top five pick, right, yeah, and then the we
ask and all that stuff that came out, all the

(26:02):
stuff that came out before the draft, and he slept.
I think it was twelve Okay, yeah, I think eleven
or twelve overall. So um, you know, a couple of
people have compared this situation to that situation where it's like,
he's not gonna fall out of the first round. But
like you know, if you're if you're picking in the
top seven or eight, you know, or are you gonna
look at this hard and say, you know, I I

(26:25):
don't know, Like you know, I'd rather put it in
the middle of fairway with Will Anderson, who may be
not as talented as as Jalen Carter, but as clean
as they come, you know, But Jaylen Carter is not
as good as Warren Sap coming out of college. Like
let's be clear here, Like that's an entirely different stratosphere
of a player. Jaylen Carter is well, I mean, Carter

(26:45):
is really good. Like Carter's really talented. Though I'm not
saying Sap, but he's like, bro, he's not a Sap
coming out. I'm making the I'm making the comparison LaVar
like just kind of conceptually what could happen. And that's
interesting because if he's being compared to a player that
was a better prospect like in theory coming out in
his draft and and Sap slipped to outside of ten,

(27:08):
then what does that mean for a guy that you know,
like Jalen Carter. So I mean that's I think that's
pretty in an interesting comparison. And so here's what but
I think a lot of people would say, just in
the context of this year's class, like there are teams
that think Jaylen Carr is the best player in the draft, right,
no doubt, no doubt prospect. So so like I think,

(27:30):
like if he I'll put it this way to you guys,
like I know for a fact they're teams nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirty and that range, right that we're thinking that, like
you know, they're studying him, but they're like, okay, like
he's not going to be there, So they weren't and
now they're putting all the work in, you know what
I mean, Like because they're looking at it and they're saying,

(27:53):
all right, see he had the arrest warrant, so before
it was there are all these questions about football character
with him, right, and his makeup and how he would
fit into a team environment in the NFL and all
of that, right, those are the questions, but nothing criminal.
And then all of a sudden, the thing happens is
the combine, and you couldn't say nothing criminal anymore because
there is a criminal investigation, right and then you come

(28:16):
after out of that and less than two weeks later
this happened, right, Like I mean, I don't know. You
guys are pro athletes. You you guys can help me
here in the media. If guy, if guy didn't if
a guy, if what happened with Jalen Carr at the
combine with the arrest warrant wasn't a wake up called,
what will be right? Like if he still shows up

(28:38):
to the pro day like this, like right after what happened,
if that wasn't a wake up call for him like that,
I have to be at my very best for the
rest of the process. Like I don't know, Like if
you're a GM, wouldn't like alarms being going off in
your head right now? Right? Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes
I have a big dinner, I'll gain like four or
five pounds overnight. Maybe he had a full rack of ribs.

(29:00):
Point I mean seriously, I mean, like boss hog, I
mean exactly, never like you could have all of a
sudden you could go up forty Well, I'm probably not
my weight fluctuates a lot, so I'm probably not the
guy to ask on this one. Hold on, could you
go nine pounds? And well, how long was that after

(29:20):
the combine? What like two weeks? I mean weeks? So
let mean yeah, two weeks ago. Yeah? Yeah, I mean
that's not that hard, especially if you were, like I
feel like some guys try to get a targeted weight,
especially for the bigger guys, even some of the small Yeah.
But if you if you add that to like, you
can't you can't finish trolls and you're not doing athletic testing. Yeah,

(29:41):
can I just maybe hit a big bullet chili for lunch? Yeah?
I don't know. I mean, it's it's tough to be
able to tell, but it seems plausible. I mean, some
turbo lex and is green tea Albert before we let
you go, How banged up are you gonna get for
Saint Patty's Day? Yeah? Come on, al I'm I'm, I'm

(30:03):
I'm retired from Saint Patrick. It's it's a Friday, you
got to turn it out, come on the weekend. I
don't believe that my best story from Saint Patrick's So
I had a This is like probably my twin. I
was probably twenty eight, twenty nine. I um, I think
this is a Saint Patrick's Day parade and um yeah,

(30:26):
I got started really really early and uh pulled the
old Irish exit from this bar. It had to be
four or five o'clock. I don't remember taking the tea
the subway am there in Boston. I don't remember taking
the tea home. I woke up at eleven PM with
like the TV on full blast, all the lights in
my apartment on McDonald's fries all over my chest. That

(30:48):
was like, that was sort of like the last big
one for me. And after that, I'm like, all right,
I'm getting a little old. Ah, well, you know what
that's that's a fun memory there. He is the great
Albert Breer, Albert, we appreciate it, senior NFL reporter at
the MMQB. He's a professional, fright, he is a professional
and he knows how to have a good time as

(31:08):
well too. At Albert Breer on Twitter. Thanks Albert, we'll
do it again nextra it is. He was sad though
we didn't have a technical glitch there. That's the first
time in a while that's true. That's actually kind of disappointing.
That's true, it's not. It's not football season, it's not.
He's not as busy, you know, he's not like dropping
my kids off and getting me the real story of
last week. So now I know exactly what he was doing.

(31:31):
But oh it happened last week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was because he was on a run. I think he
forgot so he ran back and then made it back
in time. But I think he was at a spot
I had bad service. Oh I'll listen. It worked out
great this week. And the visual of him having fries
on his chest in his late twenties with all the

(31:53):
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(34:05):
the great sporting events all year long. And what do
they draw? They draw Purdue and they're over twenty point underdogs.
Is Fairleigh Dickinson coming up on Friday, So that'll be
that'll be a lot of fun. I believe Brady, you
have perdue in your final, correct I think I do. Yeah,
Big big zact Eddie Fan and your final Yeah yeah,

(34:27):
I mean they are a one scene. They do have
a seven foot four guy who plays like Yoming that
no One wants to make that comparison for some reason.
Why not? Why don't they want to make that? I
don't know. I just every time I watched the Birthday,
I mean, Berto does okay, I said, please like that
looks like, oh my god, it's two completely different comparisons.

(34:49):
I said, please like, I mean, oh my god, thank you.
He's Canadian. I'm just saying they're similarities. I was just
saying similarity. It's very similar in stature seven four, three
hundred pounds, a little bit shorter. But there's a there's

(35:09):
there is there is the very ming gets type of looked.
It definitely is there. That is the Almin compass fair
and he's gonna be the player of the year in
college basketball, overwhelming favor to do so. So there's that
he's already got that in the bad Yeah, merely, Dickson's
screwed basically unless pretty shoots out of Texas Southern did
last night. My god, I mean, at one point they're

(35:30):
over twelve for three. Did they even end up hitting one?
Last night? They were probably not. Du was up by
like twenty. I was like, okay, I'm back over to hockey.
I watched the app blatch winner to shootouts. Yeah, so
so go Jack, Yeah, what up Jack? Hey, By the way,
Penn State plus twenty five thousand to win the tournament. Wow,

(35:51):
do you go, LaVar, get him in there. It's not
that come on, get him in there. Man, what are
I'm making it out of the first round though, Well,
they got one of the toughest matchups because I thought
Texas A and M got jobbed being a seventh seed. Yeah,
I got them winning tonight. If you bet five dollars
on Penn State to win the tournament, it would pay

(36:12):
out twelve hundred and fifty five dollars. But on draft
kickings it's not going to happen. So well, we don't
know that. But what about to get to the sweet sixteen?
I think we know that there odds for that efforting.
I don't know efforting right now. I will let you know, effort.
There's a chance they can make the sweet sixteen, right,
so too, we keep in mind they lost to Purdue

(36:33):
that which you have in the final by two points,
and it was it was like a thrilling game like
it was a it was actually by the whole time.
Yeah all right, well, Penn State. Time back Penn State.
If you go to the sweet sixteen plus four seventy
five on Draft Kings. I would take that, all right,
take that Bett, get that beat a little. We are yeah,

(36:56):
y'all stop, come on, hey, this it is the season
bone Pickel. We are see what he did on a
pay per view for the UFC dominant performance routed us out.
Now you got Penn State basketball making a run here.
I mean we made it to the Big Ten championship game.
We beat Indiana. I mean, I'm just saying that is true.
And I mean we're not that bad of a team.

(37:19):
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