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You can tell college football's here. He is fired up
behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
How can you tell he's fired up behind the scenes, just.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Letting it fly on anything that comes to mind. He's
got opinions. He wants to share those opinions.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean, Iowa Sam, can we can we get it
a hot take on air?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Uh? You know?
Speaker 7 (01:37):
Ready for two Big ten teams to just not even
have a single non conference game to warm up? Just
get right in there. It matters, baby, let's go.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Here's my take.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Can I ask you this because you are an Iowa fan? Correct?
Speaker 8 (01:50):
That is correct?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, I'm a great Keet macnamara might not be starting
Week one right well, banged up?
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Yeah, they're hopeful that he will play. Otherwise.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
They have Deacon Hill from Santa Barbara, but he was
actually a Wisconsin Badger before this. Big boy, big boy
Deacon Hill.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You see that that line was at twenty five and
a half in favor of Iowa yesterday, it's down to
twenty three, and it's different.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
A lot of people pounding Utah State.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Let's go Utah.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
They don't have Jordan Love, so I'm not too worried
about it.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I have a kid on Utah State, do you so,
Cari Black, I'm not sure if he's going to play.
He's a freshman, he's your kid. Well, you know my
mentored him, like.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I mean, with the way you said that, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
I was like, well, no, one of my my uh
he didn't come from me. But he's he's like, all right, yeah,
he's one of my kids. Got arranted out there, shouts
out to Utah State. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
By the way, you know what's great about Sam being
a part of this show.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
My kid is playing tonight though, but go ahead.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
It gives us something to.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Root for because you just root against Iowa just hoping
for an outburst on the air.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
I'm listen. I'm a calm, cool, collected observer. No you're not.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That is the last thing.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Maybe if I'm watching, But I know how to I
know how to give impartial observations.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That is no, Sam, you got offended when they said
that they were sitting inside a broom closet and not
a kitchen.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
That had nothing to do with Iowa football. But it
was Iowa.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I mean Iowa.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Okay, it was iowaun related to the sport. I saw
what I saw. Wow, still hold on to it.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Everything you see through your eyes. I have already lived
in Iowa City.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Okay, all right, that's that. That that's a man.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well it is.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It is good to be back at full strength here
on the show. Lee's here, Iowa. Sam's here quietly. Yeah,
well Lee's I think he's still dealing with.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Uh did you detox over that camping trip?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
He was hosted a bit? He's got that that your
hangover that? Yeah, he just he stepped out. He went
to go vomited. He did step out to go to
his office.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
He's probably in the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
His orifice might be sleep in a corner somewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Only at train stations.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
He's probably probably, you know, dealing whiskey.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
He fills that home when.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
He's coming running in here.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He did send a picture of tealing whiskey.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You took the tealing to the lake?
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Ali? Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
By the way, were you were you about to step
into your office? Did we interrupt step into my orifice here?
Speaker 9 (04:46):
I was about to do a few things, I thought there, Yeah,
something take care of the Yeah, the lake was a
good time.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
Yeah, the tealing was involved.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, Hey, what time you got on Lake Minnetaka what
time do you guys get back to.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
The room last night?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
At least drops the got into that whiskey when I
got back to the ends.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Just so funny man.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Also, can we point this out as well too, So
we're at the President's We were at the big event
that was taking place before the game where Brady was
on stage with Joe Montana.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
I was there. You know, one of these things.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Is not like the other, Like there was a lot
of I mean, Martin short, can.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
We go through the intro, Like half this room is
like Notre Dame folks. The other half are like dignitaries
and folks from Dublin, Ireland who have no idea what
American football is. And Jonahs just assumes that, like there's
no proper introduction.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
He's just like, hey, you guys know, you guys know
pretty quick. You guys know Joe Montana?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
All right, Yeah, let's I mean, what are we waiting
around for? I mean, everybody's been drinking. Joe Montana was
going to buy us a beer or at least give
us a being on stage. Yeah, a little toast with
a couple of beers, so if I figured that would
be ideal. But the best part was they hired. You
could tell people that you know, didn't have a lot
of experience in serving or waiting tables, but it was
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a big event so they needed help. So there was
a lot of people there that were not experienced bartenders
or waitresses or waiters. They were just there to help.
So Lee walks up to one of these young kids.
No way, no way, this person was above twenty years old,
and they asked me, Yeah, well, Lee walks up to this,
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to this I think it was a jet.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Was it a guy or girl? I didn't even look
on it, but yeah, I think they were.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
He just walks up and they go, guy, can I
get you something?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And he said, yeah, I'll take a G and T
And they're like, I'm sorry, and.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
He's oh, uh, gin and tonic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He drops a G and T to a non bartender
in Ireland, like they're supposed to know what a G
and T is, and you've got to explain of them
exactly what you were looking to order.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I just as I said it once, I'll say it again.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
The big Lee Bouse was just making his presence felt
just he's just everywhere he went, man.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
He's like he's he's no Now.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
It's kind of like he's just an interesting person to
watch live their life, you know, like the.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Decisions he makes.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Like for example, we were so we were a positioned
to the back of Buskers Bar and I told him
I'm like, hey, I want to slip out because I
had to go to the restroom. There's some people who
you know, would have want like a picture of autographs fans. Well,
I just didn't want them to like impede on us
when our live show, because we already have multiple people's
We talked about who would just come up and start talking.
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We're like, dude, we're in the middle of a live show.
This isn't a podcast, Like, we can't edit this out.
So I tried to slip through like the back kitchen
to go to like a side restroom that was part
of this hotel. And somewhere in the ten feet that
I walked, I lose lee and then the owner of the.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Bar ends up coming. He finds me. He's like, hey,
your producers panicking. I was like, yeah, yeah, he has
a tendency to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
But I end up coming back, and Lee's like sweating profusely.
His heart's race.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Swing a lot of busks.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
I was like, I would like, I've got it, Like
we're okay. I could find the bathroom and make my
way back. And then I'm not sure what you thought
was gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
No, I was trying to You asked me to point,
and you went You did not go where I pointed.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
So I was just okay, you.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Got nervously, that was fine.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Lee pointed me in like a longer direction, longer way.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I was like, noise, But by the way, did you also?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Another another highlight was this Lee's got this habit where
he pretends like he's packing a can of dip, but
he's got no cana dip in his hand.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's right, And he just.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Dropped that in front of all these stignitaries at this
like this invisible dip.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Can can you make the sound to the mic?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Lee?
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Yeah, like all right.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So they finished the national anthem at the Notre Dame
Navy game. Everybody's patriotic, and Lee's way of clapping is
using the invisible dips snap.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
A thing like that's not a lead thing, that's like,
that's a thing.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's a weird thing, but it was a weird that
it's stuck out. Definitely, definitely was like a leapouse.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Everybody else's is whistling and they've got their hat off.
It's patriotic. He just did a fly over there, clapping
round of a plus standing ovation and Lee's got an
invisible can of skull in his hand and he snapping
his finger.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Yeah, it's like how you clap for a poet.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
That's how people do that with their fingers. That is
a thing. I'm it's just.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
The best. Well when you got you know, the other
hand is filled with a cup, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yeah, Lee, Lee, don't worry. It's cultural dog like, don't
I got you? I got your back, bro.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Yeahs cool.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
It was an invisible thing of skull, like if you
knew culturally speaking, it's actually, you know, it's done all right.
People snap and people clap with their fingers. It's a
snap thing.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Let's go live to our I have a question about
invisible dip insideer Iowa Sam for the latest Sam.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Actually not that, I have a question, Actually two questions.
So I saw you signing an autograph on a football.
What was that all about? So he was someone wanted yours.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
They wanted I do want to hear about it, just
to prove the point.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
No one really Like there's a bunch of people from Dublin,
and there was like, all right, these people are on.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
A stage right outside of football.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And that's why I was like, well, Jonas probably should
have introduced us a little better with like something.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But he was like, hey, you.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Guys got what you got That football is gonna be
worth something some days.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Jonas did do a read the other day where he
said we all played football.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
I mean, first of all, he did. First off, he did.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's not that's not false.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
All right, technically he didn't play football technically.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
First of all, I was simply, you know, passing along
the message that was handed to me on the great Read.
It's not even a read, it's a way of life
here on this shift from from our friends are graduate hotels.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna pop by the one here in Minneapolis,
just see what's going on, you know, nice put the
vibe maybe, yeah, hell yeah, I'll start smacking invisible dip.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Can you?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I wish I could do it. I can't do that,
the invisible dip can snap. I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You never dipped, so how would you know?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, okay, have you dipped?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I've tried it once, bad experience.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You can you would you swallow it?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I just felt like mistake.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Everyone said that too after they like, why do you
why did you do that?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Would you go Copenhagen?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You Kodiak?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You got to wrap it in uh and bubble ishous
bubble gum, wow, bubble gum.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's some baseball guys who did that.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I had a guy who wanted to see what would happen.
He did horseshoes on the top and the bottom with Kodiak,
and he almost threw up with it.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Les.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
He literally was spinning. He was about to throw up
in a car on the way to Vegas.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I did it one time. I used to do it
once per per meeting and training camp. Keeps you awake, right, No,
not me? I mean you want like that is the
most lopiest feeling that that like I've gotten, like any
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type of like you know kind of I guess, uh,
tobacco substance or or whatever. Even the other leaves leaves
that you use at that that one is the one
that hits the hardest man that jump like a body.
That's a body messed up. I was messed up body,
full body, you know, sitting there like and it was
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like the coach would be talking and I do the deal,
like give me the dip and take the dip. I
put dip in my little lower lip. Boom boom boom,
starts spitting like you start feeling like kind of warm
and tingly, and then it just intensifies. And then the
coach's voice goes from like yes, and then you get
over here, you jump into the fla. It's like over.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Fly, you got hit with a blow dart.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Huh Like, bro, that dip ain't a game man, You
don't play around with that. Yeah, snuff snuff snuffer.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Did you guys get to meet Martin Short? Sorry to seg,
just curious. Did you meet Martin Short?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
That was the second question, right.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
That was that was my follow up question. I saw that.
That was awesome. A he's a big deal. That's really cool. Yeah,
she had to get a selfie way them, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I mean, just you know, can can I be honest?
I didn't really have a desire to meet him.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
He's got a big show on right now. So I
wanted to ask him who the murder is once upon
murders in the building.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I'm just saying I wasn't I dodn't really care.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I like Martin Short and the Three Amigos. That's really
all I can get with with him though. That's that's
that's like where it starts and ends with me. Like
I thought he was pretty cool in the movie, you know,
I think he was. He was the really good gunman,
and was he the good gunman? And for the Three Amigos,
I think he was the quick gun for the Three Amigos.
I could be wrong, but I liked Three Amigos. I
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might watch it today after the show.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Well, listen, a lot a lot of famous people there
and a lot of other people doing invisible dip can snaps,
you know, in front of all those famous people. So
we represented well there at the show. I felt like
it is two pros and a cup of Joe here
on Fox Sports Radio. Also apparently just to pay off
the teas here apparently the Indianapolis Colts. One of the
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reports out there was that in conversations with the Dolphins,
they asked for Jalen Waddle in exchange for Jonathan Taylor.
So I'm not sure if they expected that a real
trade was going to happen, but there was that that
was thrown in so and the Packers were involved potentially,
and Jonathan Taylor is still in the pup list and
all that fun stuff.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We pay off the teas. Jonathan Taylor is still a
cult Chris, I'm happy about it. And some formatics. Some
formatics here all right. Coming up next though, on Two
Pros and a Cup of Joe, we are going to
find out the very latest on the potential of a
blockbuster trade involving one of the star players at his
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Speaker 8 (16:52):
How we feeling here?
Speaker 11 (16:53):
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. I think we have
a quarterback, so I feel okay about that. And yeah,
I think i'll be in in South Bend in three
weeks too, so that's when we'll really find out.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
All right, that'll be uh, that'll be a fun one.
I feel like there's a lot of uh. I'll be
honest with you, Albert. And then there's two like schools
of thought, like I get it, it's Navy. Navy's gonna
be bad this year, but it's hard to deny. Like
Sam Harvid looked really really good, really clean, Like.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Yep, I get it.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And there's a lot about how.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
State fans like, Oh, it's just Navy, and I was like, okay,
like keep saying that, like, you guys, keep feeling that way,
because we'll have State fans feel really unsure about your
quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It's almost like they're a little bit scared to admit it.
But that's that's where it's at right now.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
Yeah, I hate to admit this, but I may or
may not have been one of the people that was
like ready to bench CJ. Strad after the Oregon game
years ago. Early on, early on, I think I'm gonna
I'm gonna learn, I'm gonna learn from that experience with
twenty years ago, and I'm gonna just kind of keep
my mouth shut for the first month with whoever's in
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there and let the thing play out. I would say, yeah, like,
you've definitely got a you got a better quarterback situation
than Ohio State has right now.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I would say that it's not even debatable.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Yeah, yeah, No, I don't think there's any quoite. I mean,
what is it like forty five or fifty starts to zero.
It's not it's not it's not hard to come to
inclusion that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
It's crazy too.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Albert I was talking to one of our researchers last
night about what we've got Minnesota Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I'm here in Minneapolis now.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
And like, if Jeff Simms was the Ohio State quarterback,
like he would be able to crush it there. Like,
there's so many good quarterbacks around college football. And I
think if you look at the Ohio State quarterback position,
as long as you can utilize the talent you have
around you, like, you're gonna be good. But to me,
like this is I don't want to say a drop off,
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but there's a lot of other guys that I think
out there that are just as talented, if not more,
that are in different situations right now. Jeff Simms the
quarterback into brasses into one of them.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
Jeff Simms is an interesting one. And I I know
there have been some stuff out there about, you know,
Ohio State at one point sniffing around Drake May at
the end of last year, you know. I I think
the one thing is, you know, again, two years ago,
no one knew who CJ.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Strad was.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
So I think you got to give the guys who've
been in the program, you know, a minute and see
where it goes. But it's it's so interesting because it's
such a different environment now too, Like this is a
conventional way of doing it, right, like, but so many
programs have pivoted and decided to do it another way.
And you know that's I think what makes this time
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of year so interesting is it's almost like free agency,
right Like, there are so many quarterbacks that are going
to be that we know of, that we've heard of,
that we've watched play, that are going to be in
new uniforms as fall.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Albert as we transition over to somebody else that was
in the Big ten for a long time and played
at a high level, Jonathan Taylor. When you hear Chris
Ballard's comments yesterday, does this seem like something that is
repairable as he wants it to be or are we
already past that point and he goes on the pup
list and eventually he's going to get dont.
Speaker 11 (20:16):
I mean I hate to say it, but it almost
sounds like it's something above his pay grade, doesn't it?
Like I mean, I and and there aren't very many
levels above his pay grade, I'll put it that way.
But you know, I think this has been a really
frustrating thing for for Chris Ballard and for Shane Sichin,
and I actually think those guys would be amenable to
doing a deal with with Jonathan Taylor, at least that's
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the sense I get. And you know, this is a
really tough spot for Shane's Psychin to be in as
the first year head coach, because, uh, you know, lebar
and Brady know this, Like the locker room pays attention
to everything a first year coach does. Who you know,
who's going to be rewarded in the new program, what
they're going to reward in the new program. And you know,
Jonathan Taylor is not only one of the productive and
(21:01):
best players in the team, he's also one of the
most respected and one of the most well liked players
in a team. And so you know, I'm sure there's
a lot of head scratching that locker room and looking
at it and saying, this is the guy that you're
going to war with. And that's a tough thing for
Chris Ballard to manage. And I think that's why he
tried to strike a sympathetic tone yesterday and certainly is
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a tough thing for Shane's Sichon to deal with. So
you know, I think Ultimately, this is one of those
is going to be up to the owner and what
the owner wants to do. And you know, I think
absent in a new contract, this thing is going to
be ugly the rest of the year. And yeah, I mean,
you know, so he's out the first month of the season.
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Does he come back in October? Have you know a
strong three or four weeks to get traded? I certainly
think that that would have to be unstable right now
unless the owner pivots from from from where he's been
over the last couple of months.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
What about the Chris Jones situation, ab Like, how does
that compare?
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Yeah, it's a little different, LeVar. I would say, you know,
everybody in the Chiefs building wants Chris Jones in. And
you know, obviously Chris Jones is putting his money where
his mouth is and making his point. You know, I
believe today tomorrow he's up to two million dollars in
fines and those are fines that can't be forgiven under
the under the rules of the CBA. And you know, I,
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you know, we're what I think that the Chief's open
a week for tonight, right, I think that's right. The
days are running together. But but yeah, you know this
is different and that this is about the market. They
want to pay him, and you know they want but
they want to pay him at the level that the
defensive market is at right now, and they don't want
to pay him the outlier contract. So they want to
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pay him, you know, incrementally more than what Jeff Simmons
got Tennessee, than what Gwenn and Williams got from the Jets,
which is, you know, right in the twenty four to
twenty five million dollar range. And he believes that he
deserves the outlier contract, which was thirty one million and
change almost thirty two million that Aaron Donald got. And
in a way, it's not this similar from the Calvin
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Johnson situation ten years ago. And I don't know how
many people out there listening remember this, but Calvin Johnson's
contract was a total outlier and it made it really
difficult for Dallas to resign Dez Bryant and for Denver
to re sign Damarius Thomas. And I think that's probably
the best comp right now for this situation, in that
you know that you got a team on one side
that's willing to pay to give a guy a market
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deal and reward him. But there's one outlier contract sitting
out there, and that's what that what the player in
question is going after.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
All.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Right, Albert, let's get to a fun topic. What the
hell are the Patriots doing at the quarterback spot? You've
only got one on the active roster and Mac Shones,
I know, Zappi cleared waivers as side packed to the
peace squad. They can bring him up, moving back down
a few times. What's the plan?
Speaker 11 (23:58):
So the plan is to bring in a veteran and
you know, and I think a big part of what
happened Brady over the last six months was slowly, I think,
but surely the Patriots started to go back to what
they've done traditionally and what they did over Bill Belichick's
first twenty two years there, which is back to a
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more quarterback centric model where the quarterback is going to
be responsible for more and they think that leverages Mac
Jones's greatest strengths, right Like, So the quarterback is going
to make the might call, the quarterback is going to
set the protection the quarterbacks night for everything, and they're
going to do that. They're going to go back to
what they have been. That's not what they were last year,
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and I think like what they tried to do last
year in simplifying things brought the best out in Daily Zappy.
But as they went back to what they were doing before,
they moved further towards mac Jones's strengths and further away
from Bailey Zappi's strengths, and Bailey Zappi playing in a
more traditional NFL offense didn't look the same. I mean,
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he looked like a practice squad guy over the course
of camp and and preseason. And that's not an insult,
that's just what it was. So you know what the
Patriots preference right now would be is the lead Bailey
z Appy in the practice squad, try to develop him
mentally a little more over the next year or two
and bringing a veteran who can be a resource to
mac Jones. And whether that's Cold McCoy trading for case Keenum,
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whoever it is, they want to get somebody in there
who can play the offense. They're going to run in
a pinch and that's not Bailey's Appy right now. And again,
like I think you can speak to this Brady, like
getting a veteran guy in there can be good for
a young quarterback, you know, and so I think that
they want to give mac Jones that sort of resource. Again,
whether it's Cold McCoy, case Keenum, somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Alb it makes a ton of sense.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Albert Brier joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, senior
NFL reporter at the MMQB. Get him on Twitter at
Albert Breer. All right, so the training camp tour is
in the rear view mirror. That being said, most impressive
and least impressive team you saw on your training camp tour,
Albert Breer.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
Now you're talking to them like surprises, like kind of
like what because there's the obvious, right. So San Francisco
is super impressive, their rosters loaded. Cincinnattie I was there
when Burrow was down, and even with out Burrow, they
look really, really impressive. Those are my two Super Bowl teams.
I'll tell you the one that I think a lot
of people aren't paying attention to that I think is
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a really it's going to be really good and that's Seattle. Now.
I know there's focus on Gino and whether or not
you can get back glove last year's an open question.
I think he can, but look at the rest of
that roster. I mean, they had six seven rookies starting
every week last year, and they think this year's rookie
class might be better than last year's with Devin Witherspoon
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and Jackson Smith and jigbut and Derek Hall and Zach Sharboney.
So like, I think Seattle is a team that kind
of caught me up guard a little bit like this,
the winning the NFC West might not be so simple
for the Niners, the one that I was kind of
like caught off guard guard by And we'll circle back
on this one to the top of the fall. The
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Colts looked okay when I saw them at the beginning
of training camp. Then I saw them again because I
was in Philly and they happen to be doing a
joint practice with the Eagles that day. They they look
a little rough around the edges now, and I just
I don't I don't know which way this is going,
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but it feels to me like it's some And what
was a little alarming to me was at some key spot,
I've just got questions at corner, at left tackle. Quarterback
is going to be an up and down year. We
know that with Anthony Richardson in there their receivers. Are
they good enough at receiver? You know, so you have
these premium positions and you know, edge rusher, you have
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these premium positions. It's like, what are they going to do?
And it's not that they don't have the players. They do.
They've got Shack Leonard, They've got Quintin Nell, and you
know if maybe the laugh Jonathan Taylor, maybe not. But
you just look at like the most important positions on
the field and you're like, ah, god, that does not
look great. So so yeah, maybe Anthony Richardson will have
Marvin Harrison to throw to next year.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Oh man, I'll give you. I thought you might throw
Pittsburgh in there as one of those teams that has.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
Yeah, I think the Steelers are a team that's on
the commp definitely.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
I mean I didn't get to the Camp LeVar, but
they are like sneaky. Like I'm doing this quarterback poll
right this every year, and I asked GM's head coaches,
OC's quarterback coaches, give me who you think the top
five quarterbacks and the league are going to be at
the end of the year. I've gotten a few votes
for Pickett inside that top five and he looked really
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good in the preseason, and he's got like people around
him now, you know, like between Pickens and Deontay Johnson
than Pat Fryer moves Najie Harris behind him. They draft
the left tackle Broderick Jones, and you know the defense
is going to be pretty good. Plus they finished the year.
I think they were eight and two down the stretch, right,
is that right?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (29:12):
I mean I think that that AFC nor is going
to be a fair There's not a bad team in
that division. If Fittsburgh, certainly, it wouldn't shock me if
it's for somehow found a way to win the North.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I got one more for you, Albert. Minnesota's a thirteen
win team last year. There's no buzz. No one really
talks about them really making a run.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I'm not sure if you got there or not, but
just kind of curious, like why are people i mean,
Brian Florest comes in to coach the defense. I think
it's a better fit for the personnel they have. I'm
just kind of curious why people aren't looking at them
as a legitimate, like playoff contender in the NFC given
what the NFC looks like.
Speaker 11 (29:48):
Yeah, I think I think a part of it, well,
I mean, I think a part of it is people
like habitually underrate Kirk Cousins. And I'm not saying Kirk
cuss is like not saying these boems are Allen or Burrow.
But he's a pretty good player. So I think that's
part of it. I think, you know, a big part
of it is I think you have to look this up.
I don't have it in front of me. I think
they were nine to zero in one score games last year,
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So you know, part of it is probably you figure
that's not going to happen again, and if they play
that many close games again, then that's going to be
a factor.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
And then yeah, but let's say let's hold on, but
let's let let's say they lose four of those, so
they're a nine to eight football team in that instance,
like maybe give them a win two or here, Like.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I don't know, I kind of looked at I kind
of look at it, Just go what am I missing?
Like why are people given how bad their defense was
last year and.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Good and good, good systems on both sides of the ball, right,
like you know that, Like we know we know Flow
can coach defense, we know we know, Kevin can coach offense,
So yeah, I'm with you, like I think that I
think that program is in a really good place now.
The question to me is, like you are taking some
key pieces out, and this was sort of their reset year.
This is when they were going to go in and
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they were going to kind of reset their cap, right,
which is why Adam Gelan's gone, why Dalvin Cook's gone,
why Eric Kendrickson's gone, why Peterson's gone. Right now, I
think a lot of whether or not they're able to
get back to where you're talking about, like that level
is can they develop young players to fill those spots? Right,
Like so Jordan Hicks, Brian Osamoa at linebacker where Eric
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HENDRICKX used to be. You know, what does Madison kJ
Osborne look like next to Justin Jefferson, Alexander Madison and
Dalvin Cooks old spot. They've got young corners to replace
Pat Peterson. To me ask the question, you know, and
you still have some of the guys that were a
huge part of what they built over the years that
are back there too, you know, I mean the Neil
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Hunter is still there, obviously, Harrison Smith is I think
the dean of the entire operation now and it's huge
to have him in the in the fold. But yeah,
I mean, I think that's a big part of it too,
is that you're resetting in some key positions and it's
going to be on you know, Kevin and Flora. Is
not just to you know, build great build, build good
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systems and call good games. It's also going to be
on them to develop a lot of young talent and
some of those spots that have been held down by
those guys for so long.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Get them on Twitter at Albert Breer, senior NFL reporter
at the MMQB always kind enough to join us here
on a Thursday morning, Albert, We appreciate it. We'll do
it again next week as we get set for Lions
Chiefs to kick off the season.
Speaker 11 (32:23):
That's right, all right, thanks guys, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
There he is Albert Breer, dealing with.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
On the settler was ready to get them on.
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Two pros and a cup of Show what et enough?
If they're in at least or if they're out, all right?
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Lead to lap.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
What do we got?
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Guys?
Speaker 9 (34:45):
We've talked a lot about college football today. We obviously
got lots of college football. We're pretty much all in
on that, correct, Well, if you're looking for something else
to watch, Primetime at the US opens got Carlos Alcarez
versus Lloyd Harris.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
You guys, it are out.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I did watch Chiafo last night. He's fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Was there any football days all last night?
Speaker 4 (35:07):
No?
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Probably? Oh god man out.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Today is for football.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Out with two t's.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Although there is a football connection there, Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Coco Goff's doubles partner is the Uhula daughter the owners
of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
So we are baby yeah, which if you didn't know
what we are meant in that moment, it's because I
do believe his wife is a Penn Stater too, But
but I think they're both Penn Staters.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
Actually, so you're in LeVar now.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
I'm in on the doubles partner, but not not in
on out not today, guys.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
We were talking earlier in the show about the difference
between dots and Dippin' dots. I'm not sure if you're
in or out on either of those. But it's also
National trail Mix there, you guys interer out on trail Mix.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
He comes up with Daly.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
He was like, Today's Okay, here's what I would say.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I'm in on trail mix if it doesn't have the
eminem's inside, because then it just turns into a candy
and as opposed to something that feels like you're on
a hike and you go, hey, I could really use
a mix on this trail and you reach in and
what do you know? You throw M and ms in there.
It's it's like some gimmicked movie theater.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
So it's better with eminems. It is better with eminems.
I'm in with. It's without eminems, I'm out.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
You needs sugar?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Disagree? You don't need sugar. You need sugar for energy.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Jonas doesn't like flavor or taste.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Jonas, you know he hold on a second, How dare
you accuse me?
Speaker 8 (36:59):
Not I can flavor? You know what isle I shop.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
Low calorie, low taste.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
You know you know what ile I shop in. You
know I like playing ship?
Speaker 6 (37:09):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
You damn?
Speaker 6 (37:12):
We know the only thing you like spicy? Jonas?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
What damn?
Speaker 9 (37:18):
We talked SeaWorld earlier in the show. It's National Zoo
awarenes stay, we'll skew that one, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
What is National Zoo Awareness Day?
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Hey, Brady, your thoughts on National Zoo Awareness?
Speaker 8 (37:29):
I mean, where does this stuff come from?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
They asked Jack.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Picking on the end of August, all have a uh
national zoo this day.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
I'm in on zoos Lee. What about SeaWorld?
Speaker 6 (37:46):
No, I'm out, I.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Mean our show on all I'm in on sea World.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
I might switch up if they do a deal with
our show.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, I'm in on sea World. Look, there's uh, you
know a lot of things out there that people should
feel guilty about. I don't have room on that list
for Sea World.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Didn't go to Penn State eitherbut went.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Take that take that out of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So are you removing that?
Speaker 6 (38:15):
We are now take that back to remove it from
from Patula?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Are you out make Penn State seem cooler Penn State?
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Or though your husband is all right, there we go?
Speaker 8 (38:31):
What else?
Speaker 9 (38:32):
Taco Bell is making a gelato version of Baja Blast?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
You older out out out?
Speaker 8 (38:37):
What about Chocko Tacos?
Speaker 6 (38:40):
I mean, hell yes, and.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
I didn't like Choco Taco Taco.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Bring that my way. I take a bath in Chaco
Tacos way.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
I'm sure i'mscribed somebody hasn't claimed that's offensive.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
I go swimming in Chaco Tacoatagos are canceled Damn to
to be the