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August 10, 2023 39 mins

The guys are all-in on the Panthers this year thanks to Bryce Young’s “It Factor.” Senior NFL Reporter for TheMMQB, Albert Breer joins the guys amid his Training Camp Tour. Plus, another edition of “You In or Out.”

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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probably wondering, is it something else that had to do
with headliner line you getting your doors blown off by
Brady Quinn and his partner in Ohio.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, there's not that.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh okay, sorry, I thought that was where you're going.
Just in there's a little miniature trophy or you created
some sound or like one to play we are the
Champions or something for Chris and I.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And also to your point, my partner had somebody, he
had somebody helping him in the background.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah, he still couldn't get one right.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, and still got shut out for nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
I didn't want to say anything, but after the first
headline or lie, you could kind of hear someone trying
to help him out, and that's where I.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Was like, this, get this could end poorly for Jonas.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it's just so so awful.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Did you give blown out? You're you're part to try
to cheat and it's still didn't work for you.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, and I give kudos.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
To Thomas though Thomas and Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, and I tried the old I call it the
meat wagon. This is this is my move. I make him,
you know, I spread it out the story and the headline,
and I try and get him to doze off. And
if I can get them to doze off and not
pay attention because they're so long, that that way they're
going to give me the wrong answer. He stay locked

(02:35):
in focused, Lee, Lee did come.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
There's also the portion of the fact that no one
writes a paragraph long headline anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh well, I mean, listen, I'm trying to change journalism.
I don't know what to tell you. By the way, Lee,
did you get confirmation Thomas was, uh, you know, partaking
in a little bit of the liver lube this morning.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You had some yengling and some whiskey.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Nice. That's a combination.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
At stake, my man kind of stake, All right about it?
Let me a bottle of bourbon, little glass and some
mice had an old school Brady Quinn Jersey. By the way,
he goes to his yearly checkup and they go, so
what's your diet? Like, Well, about seven am, I have
a Ribi with a yingling and a shot. Okay, well

(03:21):
we'll see in six months. No need to do blood work,
everything should be fine. So there's that. And he's a
headliner light champion with Brady Quinn, So congratulations on that.
Now to the battles this Jets Panthers joint practice. We
open up the show talking about Aaron Rodgers maybe a
little frustration with the way things have gone. They were

(03:41):
supposed to practice later on today. Yeah, that ain't happening.
It has been canceled. The Carolina Panthers have announced the
cancelation of the practice. They cited weather and safety concerns
as the reason for the cancelation. Is they were set
to go go in and do battle at the train
camp there in Spartanburg, South Carolina, at the Wafford College campus.

(04:05):
So it's not happening. The second training camp practice will
not get done, and so now Rogers has got to
wait a little bit longer to try and get the
offense more in sync than they were yesterday. But one
of the things that Rogers did talk about yesterday was
his thoughts on Bryce Young of the Carolina Panthers. And

(04:26):
he's obviously shares an agent with Bryce Young. Adam Thielen
is a close friend of Aaron Rodgers. He is now
a member of Carolina and so Rogers spoke about his
thoughts on the number one overall pick and the Panthers
rookie quarterback.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
I like the kid a lot. We have we share
an agent, so I've known about him for a long time.
I love watch him at college. I like his demeanor,
I like his movement. I like the way he throws.
I trust a guy like god him. You know him
and our good buddies for a long time, and he
just raves about him. So I think Caroline is a
good answer.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Here's question.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
And by the way, Adam and Adam Feeling, yeah, I
believe a series referring.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, put that's you know. In the presentation, I said,
Adam Feeling is a good friend.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
But here's my question for you. How could everybody be wrong?
Because I haven't heard anybody who's dealt with Bryce Young,
been around Bryce Young, played with, had any sort of
interaction with him on the field or off the field,
say anything but glowing things about him. The only thing
you heard was while he's undersized, Like, how could everybody

(05:31):
be wrong in their assessment that this is going to
work with Bryce Young.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean again, there's there's things that are outside the
control of Bryce Young, and the Carolina Panther isn't all involved, right,
I'm not gonna you know, injuries are obviously one thing
that can impact your career. He's been fortunate enough not
to deal with too much of that. He to me,
is the type of player when you watch him, everyone

(05:58):
talks about the quarterback position.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
And you know, oh, he's got it.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Have you ever heard that phrase when coaches talk about
all they have it, or even maybe in a different industry, right,
even in radio, you get certain personalities, certain people.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
You're like, I don't know what it is. I can't describe.
They just have it.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Bryce Young has it, and I think it's very easy
for everyone to see what that is. They can't really quantified,
you know, in a certain way or qualitatively, like explain
what exactly it is. He just is everything that you
look for in a quarterback from a leadership standpoint, from
the way he communicates, from the way he carries himself,

(06:36):
from the way he plays the game. He just understands
how the game is supposed to be played. And he's
one of those unique talents that when you come across
someone like him, they're such an outlier, they're so different
from other people that you've been around, and they're so
consistently that Like, that's the one thing that I think

(06:59):
at the NFL level differentiates the greats from the goods,
from the average to the everybody else, is their consistency
at being able to display that it factor.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Because we throw on that.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Term often and there are instances or moments where you
see a guy have a great season, you see him
have a great game, you see him have a great
whatever it is, and you see, yeah, he's got it,
like I've seen it before. But the difference between guys
that like get to the Patrick Mahomes level or an
Aaron Rodgers level, or Tom Brady or whoever you have
thrown in the conversation, they sustain it. They're able to

(07:37):
consistently be at that level where you see that special
uniqueness of the way they play, the way they carry themselves,
the where they operate. They do it all the time.
It's not like part of who they are, it's who
they are. And that's why I think he is so special.
It's why you saw Carolina jump up to take him

(07:58):
where they did. I don't think there is any any
hesitation that it was about Bryce Young, that it's no
disrespect to the quarterbacks in this draft class. If you'd
been around the other quarterbacks in this draft class, you
come away and you say, that's the one that I
don't have any questions about. You just look and go, Okay,
smaller in size, so what so what he can go,

(08:19):
he can go win, he can go win a Super Bowl.
He I mean, I'm telling you, I'm sure Nick Saban
behind closed doors was as glowing talking about him to
every team, specifically Carolina, as he's ever been for any player.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, because I've never.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Seen Nick Saban during his time there. When a press
conference end, make Will Anderson, who's the other player he
probably spoke lonely about and Bryce Young both sit back
down so he could publicly praise them. Like when's the
last time you saw Nick Saban do that to any
football player he's ever had? Like I remember watching that thinking, wow,

(09:01):
like what's he gonna say? And then in Nick Saban's
way where he's always tempered with his compliments, that was
like as good as it gets. That's like an outside
the norm of Nick Saban doing something he's never done
when he's never overly flatter flattered a player. He did
that for Bryce youngl Will Anderson, and I think I
spoke volumes about probably what he was raving about behind

(09:22):
closed doors, even though he takes a more measured approach it.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I mean that Belichick does the same thing, and talking
about Lawrence Taylor, he does the same thing talking about
Matthew Slater. Like when you hear those guys who are
sort of you know, curmudgeons or maybe don't give a
compliment here or there when they're glowingly speaking about certain players,
it just means more. And yes, Saban was all about
Bryce Young and Will Anderson and and then.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
You know those guys don't use hyperbole right like they
use like like they just don't ever give out compliments
like when they say he's a great player, Like they
don't call everyone a great player.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
They're just measured. I mean Saban gets a little bit
more hot and bother than Belichick does publicly and likes
to pound the podium a little bit more. But yeah,
they don't hand out those sort of compliments to just anybody.
And still knowing all that and hearing all that and
listening to you predict months ahead of time that Bryce

(10:18):
Young was going to be the Heisman Trophy winner and
do it at ten to one odds at the time
of your state.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
He's going to have been Rookie of the Year and
get it now while you still can't at five to one.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
But still I took the bait, hook line and sinker
that CJ. Stroud was going to go number one over
all to the Panthers. Still after having all that information,
all that intel, and I still look like a horse's
ass because I saw the betting odds move and I
just assumed, oh God, somebody must know something.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
CJ.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Stroud's going to go number one overall, and it got
as high as three to one in favor of c J. Stroud.
And now we're sitting here talking about Bryce Young looking
like outside injury or anything else. I can't miss prospect
for the Carolina Panthers, and the betting odds would say
five to one, still not moving in the favor of
Bryce Young to be Rookie of the Year. Jean Robinson

(11:09):
still getting all the love there. So there's there's the
update on your Rookie of the Year, which, by the way
I think Jean Robinson was. Uh was he the third
on the depth chart at running back for the Falcons.
So maybe maybe a little bit of trouble there. Brady
Quinn in Atlanta, Maybe no, he'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
The way they utilize them, it's those opening depth charts,
it's like who did who did Mike Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Had Darnell Washington. It's like the fourth tight end, which I'm.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Like, okay, Like he's he's gonna immediately race up the
depth chart to eventually be starting for them or playing
very soon.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
In the two tight end sets and so forth.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's just a lot of coaches want them to, you know,
earn it when they get in these preseason games and
showcase the ability to do it and uh and then
look that that's all part of the culture that they're
trying to create. And so there's nothing wrong with that.
But you can't always believe what you see on some
of these opening training camp depth charts and preseason depth charts,
because that's going to change drastically once they have the

(12:10):
final cut and you're cutting away you know thirty some players,
you know, almost forty some players from your roster.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
All right, So now I do have a question for
you here because in talking about Bryce Young, there is
another prop bet that's out there. Curtis of our friends,
a DraftKings is.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
This touchdown passes?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, you want to guess or you want me to
give you the number and you tell.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
Movies, Oh guess the over unders said at twenty six and.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
A half twenty two and a half.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Over geez over.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, I'm just look, I know I've been overly complimentary
of him.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
I combed through college film and you don't see players
play the game like he does. He it's almost like
he's got the ability to slow down time with.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
As poised as he is.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
The way he's I know it sounds like it's like
a superhero, but I've never seen a kid be so
poised and be able to play the game and then
move quickly but reset and make throws into windows. You're like,
my god, he made that look so easy and it
is incredibly difficult.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
He's just he's a special, special talent.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, So that's the feeling there. So you heard it
here first and again. This is somebody who called it
a ten to one Heisman Trophy winner months before it
happened watching an Alabama spring game, and we're telling you
five to one you can get Bryce Young.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
The Panthers go to the playoffs. That has to be.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Every one efforting here, you know this just efforting here.
We are formulating the numbers because we go by calculations. Yeah,
there's a lot of well do you want to type
in some of that?

Speaker 4 (13:48):
So while you're doing this you can.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
I mean listen, I have it right here. I mean
I just yeah, because there's a lot of there. We've
got pages and pages of research here.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
That we have done.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
We're old school on this show. We don't care about trees.
Screw your trees.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
We'll come them down cycle.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, we'll cut them down and uh and use the
printer and print all this stuff out. The odds for
the Panthers to make the playoffs, Yes, is plus two
to h five. No is minus two forty five. So
two to one, baby on the Carolina making the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Take it right now, Take it right now.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
So we are all in on the Carolina Panthers. And
if this season goes offul for him. This entire segment
was deleted from the podcast.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
It won't happening.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
It'll be better than what it's been in the past.
What were there seven to ten team last year?

Speaker 5 (14:35):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
And furthermore, who cares you know? But we care? Now
the Panthers are back. It is Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
So coming up, we are going to find out how
one person in the NFL has pulled off one of
the great magic tricks of all time, and that's yours.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Arrington
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Speaker 1 (15:10):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe Here Fox Sports Radio.
Twenty minutes from now, we're going to put a ball
on this bad boy with another edition of UNI You out.
But right now we turn it over to our guy,
Albert Breer, senior NFL reporter at the MMQB. You can
get him on Twitter at Albert Breer AB. What's happening,
Good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Gus. What's happening?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
What's odd to me is Jonas keeps calling Twitter Twitter?
I mean isn't it like X Now is that how
we should refer to it?

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Or what about that?

Speaker 5 (15:36):
But what do you call it? Albert?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean I still call it Twitter. That sounds weird,
doesn't it. I don't know, like anybody would really like.
The thing is like, if you say Twitter, everybody knows
what you're talking about. If you say X, well, if
somebody said and I'm on there every day, if somebody
said X to me, it would take me a second
to realize what the hell they were talking about.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
You know. That sounds like a U problem, not a
new problem.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, well, but it's just I'm just trying to be
efficient here, Brady, and I just see the most efficient
way of communicating with people here is the called Twitter.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right, Yeah, I would agree, Albert. I'm team Albert here,
that's for sure. I'll tell you that. Hey, Albert, can
I choose I want? So it feels like there's some
sort of magic trick being pulled off in San Francisco.
So you were just at forty nine ers training camp
and you saw the team up close and personal, and

(16:29):
it's like, yeah, we're getting ready for a season where
a Super Bowl contender and rock party is going to
be our starting quarterback. And it's almost like they figured
out a way to get everybody to pay attention to
all that stuff and not the fact that the guy
they traded up a grip of first round picks for
to take top three overall is battling it out with

(16:49):
Sam Darnold for the backup job. What the hell's happened
to that?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Well, it would be a much bigger deal if they
didn't wind up with Rock Party who they believe and
we can argue about this if you want. They believe
these are legitimate starting quarterback with you know, some upside
and you know the weird thing about it is and
I you know, if you go back to the decision
to take Trey Lance over Mac Jones, because that's really
what it was two years ago. Really, the logic for

(17:17):
Kyle Shanahan was pretty simple. It was half the league
is running my offense, and that means half the league
is practicing against my offense. And so now what we've
been doing here for the last five years is going
to be a less perspective, and so we need a
way to build onto our offense. Matt Jones can run
our offense. Trey Lance can add to our offense, So

(17:39):
that was a whole logic of it. And so they
swing in miss at least to this point on Trey Lance,
and then they sort of wind up with Matt Jones anyway,
you know what I mean, Like, is brought party worse
than Matt Jones?

Speaker 5 (17:54):
No, well, I mean, let's see a little more from him.
But yeah, it's for so.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Far maybe, but it's like a legitimate thing, right like,
so you like that's that's that's why people aren't talking
about as much. It's like if they were wheeling Sam
Darnold out there as their starting quarterback or Brandon Allen
out there as their starting quarterback, then this would be
a major talking point, you know, right, But you know
the fact that they may end up with the guy

(18:20):
that they like the equivalent of the guy that they
passed on anyway, Like I think is what really softens
the blow here. And the fact that they only had
to spend a seventh round pick on him offsets the
amount of picks that they gave up.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
To go get Trey I get that.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I guess I'm just curious as to what's the long
term for Trey Lance, since it seems like he doesn't
have a shot or an opportunity in San Francisco. You'd
think that they want to get something back in return
for what they lost. And I kind of feel like
the Jets in the same position with Zach Wilson. You know, like,
if if Rogers is going to be there for what
two more years maybe three more years, which he's now

(18:55):
stated and talked about not being there for a one
year deal, They're gonna have to what extend Zach Wilson
at some point, and that's gonna be a contract he's
gonna have to agree to and take a discount, unless
you know, they let him hit free agency. Like, there's
are two scenarios I look at and go high draft
picks hasn't worked out. Why are the team's not moving
on and letting both get a fresh start.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, you know, Brady, I think the model for both
players and maybe what the teams are hoping right now
might actually be Geno Smith. I'd be interested to hear
your opinion on this, because, like, honestly, like so, I
was with one of the Seahawks coaches the other day
and we were talking about Geno and he said to me, like,
Geno's success makes me wonder how many other Geno Smiths

(19:39):
there are out there, you know, guys who were in
not great situations at the beginning of their careers. It
started a bunch of games, it didn't work out, they
wind up getting ditched by their first teams, They get
to sit for four or five years, and now all
of a sudden, oh wait a minute, still, this is
a good quarterback, you know what I mean. Like so
like it was just an interesting point. Like a lot

(20:01):
of times these guys to enter into bad situations and
then if they get the opportunity to go a little
while and learn and develop, then you know, there are
cases where they can come out the other side and
be better players, you know. And so I mean, I
don't know, I'd imagine you'd agree with that, right.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
I think I've always said this quarterbacks the number one
developmental sport where you gotta have the reps. But I
think paramount to that is he also found himself in
a great situation. I mean, the Seattle Seahawks is one
of the best organizations in football, and so yeah, you
could talk about the four or five years he had
to develop, but let's be honest, the Seahawks have had

(20:43):
way more success with Pete Carron John Schneider, and that's
the situation that he got to that then allowed him
to have a chance when he got his shot to
go flourish, like the reality is for Zach Wilson or
or let's let's just look at Sam Donald. Sam Darnald
got drafted into a Jets organization that didn't handle that well.
He then goes to the Panthers and they're in an
interesting state where he gets kind of a short time

(21:06):
to showcase himself. And I thought he started to play
a little better ball when he got back in the
end of last year.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
But it's like, that's unfortunately what you're throwing.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
And if Sam Darnold plays this year, if Brockberty can't go,
or he gets hurt or whatever happens, he will play well.
Like Mike Mark Mywarts, that's a great organization. You have
a great play caller. That to me is more important
than even development, because if you have a Kyle Shanahan,
you could take a less developed player and a lot
of times he'll be able to work around that. Or

(21:35):
if you have an organization that's willing to be patient
and build it the right way, they can get through
some of that, so we could talk about you know, Gino,
and Gino is always talented. He you know, he was
in a tough spot and obviously needed to grow and
matureity and he did.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
But still the Seahawks organization is one of the best
in the NFL. I think that isn't as much to
do with it as anything.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
But I think, yeah, I think I think you're back
in my point then, because it's like, all right, like
bad situation, walkout goes to a better situation, is contend
to be a backup and works him so works his
way up into becoming a starter in a much better
situation than the original situation, right, And not everybody can
be afforded that, but it is like sort of it's

(22:15):
an interesting test case of like the nature versus nurtured
thing and how important everything around you is. Like the
unfortunate thing with Trey Lance. And that's when it started.
The unfortunate thing with Trey Lance is like last year,
the Niners were willing to take their lumps with him,
right in twenty twenty two, they were willing to say, Okay,
this is going to be right now, and then it hurts,

(22:40):
and now it's like, well, we're not gonna just you know,
we're not gonna we're not going to put another season like.
We can't do that. You know, We've got too good
a team to do that again. And so like now
Trey who what Tray really needs trade needs to play
because he just hasn't seen anything, you know, he only
started fourteen games in college, and he's there all in

(23:00):
the pros. This guy's played like what sixteen seventeen games
since high school? Right, and so this guy, this guy
needs to play and he's not going to be afford
that opportunity. Why Well, because the team that has him
right now is a super Bowl contender. So they can't
afford to go on like a three game losing streak
because the guy is hitting a developmental bump, you know.

(23:20):
And so I think that that's sort of the problem
with Trey. But yeah, I mean I think there's a
there's a really really good argument to be had here
on how many quarterbacks are mismanaged earlier in their career.
And I wouldn't even like point the finger at the
Niners here. The Jets, I think you can, right. I
think with the Niners is a little bit more like
it's sit the timing of where the player is and
where the team is don't really line up.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'm still not sold on the fact that they didn't
trade up to give that pick to the Packers and
the Rogers trade deal that I'm sticking with that theory.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's an interesting theory. I mean, can you imagine Rogers
on that team?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:57):
And look, we know John Lynch makes those sorts of
news because he would call it Bill Belichick and ask
if you get straight for Tom Brady.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
I mean, he makes me.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Look, what do you do with Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, Yeah, it's Albert Breer joining us here on Fox
Sports Radio, senior NFL reporter at the m m QB. So, Albert,
you're in the middle of your training camp tour. You're
back home now, but we know that you were over
in Denver taking a look at the Broncos and what
is the relationship and dynamic like between Sean Payton and
Russell Wilson from what you saw.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I mean, I gotta tell you, guys, it's like visible there.
I mean, you know there's.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I mean, it wouldn't be an Albert it wouldn't be
an Albert Brier interview if you didn't have some issues.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean, listen, it's it's tough to do an
over the phone interview with a snorkel in your mouth.
You know, that's the problem. And so I feel like
if we could just get that figured out, Albert will
be ready to go with us here and we'll be
off and run and finding out what the dynamic is
like between the Denver Broncos and Russell Wilson and Sean Payton.

(25:08):
So Albert, one more time you were cutting out there
talking about Russell Wilson, uh, and just his presence in
camp this year.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, I'm back up from underwater guys.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
I hope you had a good swim.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, best form of exercise, Brady, Yeah, I think. Uh.
I mean, it really is like Russell Wilson's invisible there,
and it was. It's it's interesting because it's just, you know,
I felt like coming out of last year, like they
had to bring in somebody would stand up to Russell
Wilson's And if you look at the guys they interviewed,

(25:42):
you can clearly see that, Like they talked to Jim Harbaugh,
they talked to Tamika Ryans, they talked to Sean Payton,
all guys who weren't gonna, like, you know, weren't going
to count out to Russell Wilson. And so I think,
you know, you look at where they are now and
Sean Sean Payton's clearly the guy in the organization, and
you know, Russell is you know, I think they're they're

(26:04):
sort of working to get the right offense for Russell
Wilson now, and Russell Wilson put his head down. You're
hearing a lot from them. You don't see the entourage practice.
It's just it's a very it just feels way way, way,
way way toned down from where it was last year.
And that's probably a good thing. And again, I think
there's a lot of like what they went through last

(26:24):
year that was going to happen to any team that
acquired Russell Wilson, whether it was having the people in
the building, the office, getting to run an offense that
was going to highlight him as a thrower like Russell
Wilson was going to get all of that wherever he went.
He wasn't going to accept the trade to any other team.
And maybe he had to fall on his face to
see that it didn't work that way. To be back

(26:46):
in this spot. So I think you're going to see
an offense that's going to use him a little bit
more like he was used in Seattle. And it does
seem I mean, finally, finally, finally, like it does seem
like there is some level of self awareness here and
that you don't have a whole lot of the Russell
Wilson superstar stuff going on that you did last year.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
All right, Albert, we're probably getting close to the end
of your training camp tour.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
We done.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
My big swing is done, so I have like the
big swing of sixteen teams and then I will go
and I'm going to the Texans Patriots game to night. Yeah,
and then I'll pick you more along.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
The way the bo so yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
So, so give me your team that you think is
going to surprise a lot of people from what you've
seen so far and make a run this year. Because
we've got a lot of degenerate gamblers, especially in the
state of Iowa.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
As Iowa Sam will tell us off the seats here.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
They need to know so they can play some future bets.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I think the let me say that's like I I
would say, I think Justin Herbert is going to have
a massive year, and I don't know it's going to
show up in the wins and losses. I mean, because
they're in such a tough division. But I think the

(28:09):
Chargers are gonna be really good. Like I think that
could wind up being a twelve or a thirteen win team.
They are loaded, They're gonna be healthier, you know, haveing
enjoyed Bosa that healthy. I think it's a big deal
for them. They were receiver rooms as deep as any
in the league. Their line is healthy, I you know,
and I think Kellen Moore is going to make a
difference for Justin Herbert. And I know the Chargers are

(28:30):
forever next year's team, right like they've forever and ever
they've been the most talented teams in the league. But
I just it was hard. I'll just put this way, Brady.
It's hard to go. It's hard to be. It's hard
to go to go to one of their practices now
and not be like, holy crap, look at this group.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
You know, Okay, okay, but here's the thing. That was
a playoff team last year. I want someone who wasn't
a playoff team. That's that's going to surprise a lot
of people.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Atlanta Wow, Okay, that's surprising Atlanta. Yeah, and I know
everybody's staring at the quarterback. I think they're one of
the most well coached teams in the league. And if
you look at the beginning of last year, Wow, they
actually Now like last year, if you will go back
and you look at the first months, they played really
well and you know, they did fade as the season

(29:18):
went on, but like, I think that that was indicative
of a team that was like being coached over its
head a little bit early in the year. They started
to put good young players in that roster. There's some
depths in that roster. Now. The offensive line is really good.
They've invested in the defensive line, and I think if
you're good on the lines of scrimmage, then you're going
to be in every game. I think they can manage

(29:38):
the quarterback position. Like I don't think Desmond Ridder is
a world beater, but I do think he's a winner.
And then you look at the skills that they have
on offense between Beijon and Drake London and Kyle Pitts.
And it's in a weak division. You know, I would
not be Florida if Atlanta won that division.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Wow, Albert, is something so one quickly we got about
thirty seconds left and just kind of throwing a random
number out there again, just you know, just spitballing here
on the air. But you mentioned Justin Herbert having a
monster year. Do you think Justin Herbert will have I
don't know more or less than twenty nine and a
half touchdown passes this year?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Over over over.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, come on, Oh, just wondering, because I mean that
is something if anybody's interested in. That's where we have
the line set at here in twenty nine and a half?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
You can you find a way to like, can you
find a way to I'm not an expert gambler, but
can't you find a way to move that number up?
So because you might say no, you probably can't, you
maybe tease that alcohol.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, I think they're doing that at Hawkeye Stadium in
Iowa City right now. I think that's where they're putting
that stuff together.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hey, Albert, Albert, who's your pick for the next athletic
director at Ohio State.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Jean Smith's in a hell of a job. He's obviously
up here in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, Notre Dame guy Jane Smith, Right, that's right. Yeah,
I I you know the name. I've heard that. I
really like this patch On at Washington State. He's from
I believe Strongsville, Ohio worked you know, under Jean Smith
at Ohio State, and you know this Brady like they like,
you just need somebody who understands that place. It's just

(31:18):
like and and understanding that place is understanding football is
number one, and investing in football and being ahead of
the curve on that stuff. And I think bringing in
patch On from from from Washington State would be the
right move. So that'd be the guy for me.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Was get him on X or Twitter or whatever the
hell it's called. At Albert Brier. He's a sort we're
going X.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
How careful now Brady gets Brady got mad earlier when
we call the Twitter.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
Right, I didn't get mad. I just was more posing
the question, like what do we call it? Now? That's
all I see is X.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
And then like I was doing something the other day,
they put up my my ex handle and had the
X with my name and I was like, oh, yeah,
it's not like it's not really the Twitter bird anymore.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's odd, but none of the.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
This is not just like a bord rich guy seriously, Like, right,
that's what this is.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, I don't know. He's pretty entertaining if he is bored.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It is funny, but does just seem like it's like,
let's see what I can get away with? Yes, I
mean it just feels that way.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Hey, if I'm paying forty four billion dollars or something,
I want to see how everything works and mess with
some stuff. Why not. Yeah, you know, I spent spend
a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
On me, so I can appreciate. I can appreciate somebody
who likes to mess with people this way. And yeah,
because of the money, he can do it. It's, you know,
at pretty high level.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
So forty four billion dollars to bust everybody's balls, there's
nothing wrong with that. So good for Elon Musk. Albert Briers,
senior NFL reporter at the mmqb uh so there he goes.
Albert's going to be at the Bob Bowl later on
tonight the Patriots and the Houston Texans as they deal
with Bill O'Brien's he and his exes there. Speaking of exes,

(32:53):
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Speaker 4 (34:47):
Well, hey, do you think we're gonna get the right
music this time for our football Friday?

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Who knows?

Speaker 5 (34:53):
If I know you've got your hand in it.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Because nothing to do with it.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
I know Levar's on board with it. I'm on board.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
You're the only person who wants to keep that stupid
old song we use.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Look, I have nothing to do with it. I don't
have any say on any of the production elements on
this show. I just see is that true with what happens.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Does Joe just really not have any say in any
of the production of it?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
M I'm gonna leave that up for a debate. Well,
I mean, if you want it to sound good, you
go to me. But other than that, I just kind
of stay out of it. But that's just the way
I operate.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
What do we got?

Speaker 1 (35:29):
But before I'm saying, before we get to oh, they
should have you any you out? Like I don't know,
Like I'm just trying to be progressive on the show.
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Speaker 3 (35:50):
Pros and a cup of show.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
What you to know?

Speaker 3 (35:54):
If they're at please or they're out?

Speaker 6 (35:58):
All right?

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Lead the lab?

Speaker 9 (35:58):
What do we got those the FedEx Saint Jukee Championships?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
He's off right now? Are you guys in er out
in out in Memphisice?

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Do you even know what that golf? Okay, wasn't sure,
it wasn't quite sure.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Why would I not know that Why would you know
that I'm a golf guy.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
First of all, I don't know why you're laughing. I'm
partaking in a charity golf tournament in Ohio this weekend.
No you're not, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
No, I decided not to want to make your way
across that. I get it. It's a long flight for you.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Listen, I gotta I gotta check with my assistant to
see whether or not that was scheduled. I thought I
was appearing, but maybe I wasn't a lot going on.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
I mean, the invitation was there. We just we never
got an rs VP.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, well listen, Uh, you know, maybe you'd rather have
guests than me.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Fair, I fell know that Gus is making serious he's
too busy.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Uh eating his mom's spaghetti.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
I'll put it that way.

Speaker 9 (36:56):
What else we got, lead, fellows, we have three season
football tonight tech since at New England. When I hear
New England, I hear New England Slam showder you guys
enter out.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
On New England clam ow and let me just say this,
you got it? You gotta have it in a sourdough
bread bowl and you gotta add tabasco. Tabasco in your
clam chowder is awesome.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Yeah, I'm out. I think it sounds and looks great,
but I'm out.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, because so you don't like, see, can you have
clam chowder? You can't have clam chowder, can't.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Well I'm looks the shellfish, so that'd be one of
the issues. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
See, I don't think it doesn't look good enough where
I like could sit there with that bread bowl and
a bowl of New England clam showder and just started
like to just scarf my face and then have to
stab myself with an epipath. To me, it's not good enough.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
So what if you did like cream of broccoli soup
and a bread b Oh yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah
that bread bulls fantastic.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Man, there's like a corn shower that's really good.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Oh yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Actually right a bye with Sam that's for his alley.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah. I like the New England clam chowder.

Speaker 8 (38:00):
You do, oh yeah, with some tabasco or some hot sauce,
said che kids, what else?

Speaker 9 (38:07):
We also got vikings at Seahawks. When I think Seattle,
I think Starbucks. Are you guys more local? Independent coffee
shops or the chain.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Local whoever is a sponsor. That's kind of the way
I operate my life. Class sell out.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
What do you mean local man support local small businesses?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
You know, a cup of Joe however's a sponsor. You
want to be a sponsor, that'll be I support. Oh geez,
that's the way Coast we got.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
I think Elslie.

Speaker 9 (38:31):
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third time NASCAR Cup Series is raised on the road
course instead of the usual brickyard.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
For you know what, Let's send Albert Breer there and
see if you get better cell phone.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Oh gee, I'm just saying, hey, that is that on Fox?

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Lee?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
That event? Is that? Is that a Fox event? I mean,
if it is, I'm in. If not, I'm out.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Yeah, I'm in. But let's say at Albert there, it's
a better cell phone.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
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