August 20, 2021 • 37 mins
Jonas, Brady and LaVar discuss Nebraska being under investigation. Could they be setting up Scott Frost like Tennessee did Jeremy Pruitt? The fellas have Scott Frost quotes and ask if they should go back to Big 12. Outkick's NFL insider Albert Breer is in the house to talk everything football! He's been on a nationwide tour of team's training camps! Plus, Animal Thunderdome for your Friday, featuring a dad who's a hero and a big snake on a shelf.
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here on Fox Sports Radio. And guys, I don't know
if you're aware of this, but we are officially now
just a little over a week away from college football.
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A week away from college football. We talked about the
high schools, Oh my god, and and and it's just
it's disrespectful. People want to call it week zero. Absolutely disrespectful.
These teams can other teams. Yeah, you know, I mean,
come on, man, we got you next Saturday. We got Nebraska, Illinois,
we got Hawaii, U C. L A. We got obviously
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the big one Southern Utah and San Jose States. But
well listen, look, we'll take a week again. We'll take
a week again, but it will be on Fox from
Champagne next Saturday. It will be Nebraska and it'll be Illinois.
Now I'm assuming Scott Frost is going to be on
the sidelines from Nebraska. The my assumption is he will
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be there. But there is a situation that has taking
place over the past forty eight hours where the n
c A is investigating, uh, the improper use of analysts.
Um that there's video surveillance of them having workouts and
and a bunch of videos of them having workouts and
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and practices that are all violations during the time of
the pandemic. Uh, this is very similar, Brady. I know,
we were talking about just the Arizona State situation that
they got popped doing things. Uh sort of not really,
I mean, and so this whole thing is shaping up.
Trev Albert's who is now the athletic director there, made
sure to point out to everybody when he got in, Oh, yeah,
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all this stuff happened. I found out about it after
I have the job. Yeah, I just wants you to
know my my hands are clean on all this. But nonetheless,
not a good look for Nebraska as they head into
the next next week's season opener against Illinois. Well, I
believe that for a couple of reasons. One Trevor Alberts
was recently hired this year, these allegations uh stemmed back
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to what was happened during COVID. So that's that's where
I I do feel like it it happened before he
got there. If you're interviewing for a job and you're
the university and you're like, oh, no, yeah, come and
complete an athletic director. We've got nothing to worry about here. Yeah,
you probably not want to drop their dump that on
him until he actually takes the job. It comes back
to help build back up his alma mater. So I
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do believe Trevor Albert Albert's side of all this The
SISS a play by those in control in Nebraska to
set up a very similar to scenario to what happened
to Jeremy Jeremy Pruett at Tennessee. They want to be
able to be able to fire Scott Frost if they
choose to do so, if they are unsuccessful this year
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with cause and why is that important? Then avoids any
guarantees he would have left in his contract the school
doesn't have to pay that out and they can move
on and find their next head coach. So it's it's
it's already getting a little bit dicey, but that's a
lot of the motivation behind this. Obviously, you know they
want to be doing what's in the best interests of
student athletes, but it sounds as if, you know, what
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what they're trying to do is set themselves up where
Scott Frost doesn't get that, you know, golden parachute on
the way out. Uh. But in regards to the use
of analysts, first off, look, it's kind of clear analysts
are not supposed to be able to work with athletes
on the field and and have and be able to
essentially be a coach, Like that's not what the role is.
A're not supposed to be able to do that. There
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are a lot of gray areas as far as how
schools use analysts though, So that's where it gets a
little bit dicey, and obviously we I don't think we
can rely on the n c A to set forth
much guidance at this point. I think they're all on vacation.
I think they're just trying to stay out of the
whole entire situation. So I didn't think that there was
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because I thought, all right, Scott Frost is there, he's
you know, it's his alma mater. It would take a
lot for him to get canned. And and I didn't
actually believe, and we had talked about this off the year.
I didn't actually believe there was a possibility he was
going to get fired until I saw these quotes from
Scott Frost and which he said, quote everything we did
through COVID was in the best interest and health of
our players in mind. And everything we did was approved
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by athletic department administration and campus administration. Yes, which is
uh there clearly, Um, there's not not They're not on
the best terms there at Nebraska. When it comes to
Scott Frost. That's joy right there. That's called it's called
because that that will be used in the court of
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law or in in the arbitration that takes place. Uh So,
so is this so you think that this is going
to shape up in they have a poor year and
then they fire him, or they just they just you know,
or it's it's not gonna happen. Now, it could happen
at some point during the season, especially if they want
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to get a jump on recruiting for cycle and then
save some of those recruits. That's always that's always something
and and and Look, Nebraska feels like almost similar to
to Michigan. You know, they feel like they should be competing,
They feel like they should be a part of the
national conversation. They are a big brand, but they haven't
been anywhere close to what I think we recalled remember
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about Nebraska, especially dating back to their days in the
Big Eight, where that was where they probably were best suited. Um, Look,
I'm I love him in the Big Ten. I think
it's a great brand. It's obviously fun to go watch
them play, but like this year, getting ready to see
them play Oklahoma Nebraska. That's one of those nostalgic his
story matchups that I miss, And I think they'd probably
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be better suited, especially looking at what's happened to the
Big Twelve. It's going to happen here in a few
years bringing back a team like that, that probably makes
more sense in the Big Twelve moving forward. Yeah, but
they get fifty four million from the Big Ten, right,
I think each team gets fifty four minutes. There's no
way you can walk away from that kind of money, Like,
what are you getting in the Big twelve? Like a
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bag of rolled golds and a six path to your point,
almost half that Jesus. So I've got to re establish
that brand though, you know, and and some of these
other teams have to. We watched Notre Dame reestablished their brand, right.
I mean there was a slide, a tremendous slide for them.
As as strong as their brand is Nebraska, they just
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don't have the appeal anymore. I mean, it would be
interesting once this if if those dominoes do fall, who
do you bring in? Who who can revive or re
recreate or create something new. I mean, Tommy Osborne is
one of those guys. He's he's a Bobby Bouten, He's
a Joe Paterno, he's a Lou Holtz. And how do
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you recreate that? I mean, maybe that's why they brought Travin,
is to to figure out somebody who understands the DNA
of what that school really represents. But you'd have to
assume that that's why they brought Scott frost in and
and he fell on. He's falling. I mean, listen, he
doesn't have an overall losing record as the head coach
of Nebraska, just just so we're clear on that he
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did have a tough year and tough go of it
last year, being three and five. But I think it'll
be interesting to see if this does happen, because you'd
have to assume as hot as Scott Frost was when
they brought him in as the head coach, who is
going to be the one that can resurrect what this
this team has been, this program has been. Remember what
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bull Polini was forty games over five hundred, and that
wasn't enough. No, No, he's gotta go with bopolin He's
gotta go. He won nine or more games every full
season that he coached, like like every full sea he had.
He coached for one game back in in two thousand
three and he won his one game. But other than that,
he won nine or more games every single year, and
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that wasn't good enough. And it just to to to
what Brady said at the at the start, I just
wonder are the expectations just out of whack? Because that's
been my big issue when people criticize Jim Harbaugh, like
like do you think they're the same as Ohio State
they're not. They're not the same they're supposed to be.
The problem. The problem you run into with programs like
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that that have such a defined tradition that is connected
to them. Your fan base is connected to success. You're
you're connected to a tradition and a legacy that that
says it's it says excellence on it. It's almost in
a way, if people want to be real about what
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they're saying, you feel like an elitist because of the
school that you represent, that you played for, that you
went to. There's this you I feel different, Like I'm
a Penn State. That means something to me. If you
say I'm a Golden Domer, that means something to me.
If you say I'm a corn Husker like when they
were corn Huskers, that meant something like there's there's d
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n A connected to that. Like if you think about
the old teams, if it was the triple you know,
the triple back, like the wishbone, the wishbone option. You're
thinking of Oklahoma, You're thinking of of running backs like
Lawrence Phillips and quarterbacks like Tommy Fraser from Nebraska. Like
you think of some of the most historical events and
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games that have taken place in college football history. I
can think back to when Miami with with Ray Lewis
and all those guys played against Tommy Fraser and Lawrence
Phillips and those guys. You had James Taylor in the backfield.
You had Warren Sap on the defense line. You I
mean you you're talking about at fullback. I ate them
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alive in that ball game. But didn't you think about
like we Gert and and all these different guys that
were on the offensive line. You you thought of Nebraska,
You thought of these hard nose country fed straw chewing. Well, bro, dude,
there's a fair amount of steroids squad. Well maybe I
mean that then It wasn't illegal in the seventies and eighties.
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They were just openly ship those steroids. It was almost like, well,
Peyton Manning's wife getting those ship what are you talking about?
Hold on, do you guys remember though? So tom Osborne
was two hundred fifty five and forty nine and three,
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Like it was absurd how good tom Osborne was as
a coach. He never won less than nine game games. Jonas,
you threw out the stat of bo Polini literally tom
Osborne walking in the door in nineteen seventy three, never
won less than nine games twenty five years during that time.
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He coached from seven nine. Didn't he become the governor
at that point? Whatever? That dude, Okay, one of the
most powerful dudes in Nebraska. But but I think the
part of the reason is is a lot of the
people now who are ages thirty five to fifty five,
which are consuming college football, are talking to their kids
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and saying, yeah, like Nebraska used to be, like it's
hard for the our kids, and yeah, but like we were,
like no, they were always in the national title fun
they were dominant, they were the team. Like those were
formidable years for that twenty year age group, And that's
why there's that perception of like, well, why is Nebraska
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what it should be? Like thirty five to fifty five
is that time of your life where when you're out working,
when you're a lumb of Nebraska, that's when you're really
starting to make all your money. And so when they're
calling to give back and donate, you're like, what happened
to us? Like I remember growing up and we were
in the heyday. You want me to give money back,
but to what what's your plan? Moving forward. We brought
in the prodigal son when Scott Frost, it hasn't worked
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out so far, like what's next? And so that's the
hard part for Nebraska is I don't know that like
their alumni base is as fired up to get this
thing back on track because it takes money. The reality
is it takes money with it, Scott Frost, whatever whatever
o the head coach, it takes money. I mean, you
talked about Notre Dame Lavark with their identity and well
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you think I want to private donors that we got
im look at their stadium, I mean all of that,
and I think they understood how to recruit to what
they needed to do to be successful. I think I
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think Nebraska is just trying to get whatever the best
player they can right now. I don't I don't think that.
How do you get them? And that's the thing. You
don't have an identity, So how do you get them who?
How do you get a disconnect and generations to to
want to go to Nebraska, to Lincoln, Nebraska. That's a
hard one. But here's here's the thing. So they want
to bring back the past. They hire Scott Frost, they
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want to bring back the past. They hired Trev Alberts. Okay,
So then like, what's it gonna take to for them
to do what you like? There's no so there's no chance.
And I know this would never happen because of the money,
but damn they could. Like how much better would they
be in the Big twelve though? Like, like they would
be much more competitive? Correct? I mean, look, I I
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know you would you would take you take a hit
obviously financially, but I mean maybe it might be worth
them thinking about going back, Like if you want to
go back to the past, why not go all the
way back to the ask because you guys made the
point man, Like there's there's certain things about teams that
play a certain style that lasts for generations. Like the
Steelers is always running the football like the steel Like
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defensive Nebraska had a certain way they played. It's like Wisconsin,
Wisconsin plays a certain way. Nebraska has a certain way
that they played. And that was was so awesome. It
didn't matter who it was, but he knew they were
going to what you're saying, those teams that you're mentioning Wisconsin, Iowa,
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they have those they have those same characteristics. But you know,
what they're able to do. They're able to recreate what
it is that they have have built as an identity
with local talent. So, for one reason or another, I
don't know why Nebraska is not being able to generate
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the type of players that they were generating before. And
and where are those kids coming from? I don't I
don't know where that disconnect is taking place. Because when
you look at him, when Brady said, oh, they're shipping
this there, I immediately thought of teams like Wisconsin and Iowa.
If they were shipping them in, then take a look
at them dudes in Iowa City, and and and and
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and Wisconsin Madison. They are ginormous and they are not fat.
They are yoked up and their local talents they don't.
You never really hear of out of state too many
out of state players, out of area players that go
to those types of schools, so to me, But then
you've never seen them be dominant teams and the Big
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Ten as well. So when I look at Nebraska being
in in the Big Ten, I think to myself, the
reason why they don't go back to the Big twelve
is that you see that a lot of teams are
trying to get the elite teams are trying to get
out of the Big twelve. There are teams, they're having conversations,
they are trying to listen. Brady hit it right on
the hit when you're talking about the revenue that you're
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trying to generate when you don't have that private funding,
those donors that are generally driving what it is that
you're doing. If you don't have the oil money or
you know the the I'm I'm from Penn State and
I'm the CEO of of Nike and stuff like that.
If you don't, if you don't have those people that
are going to generate and circulate the type of funds
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that you need to be competitive in the recruiting game,
you have to go where the money is. And they're
getting the money from the from the conference they're generating.
They're relying on getting that money from the conference. So
tell Warren Buffett to step up. Isn't he from Nebraska?
What about Dominican support creating I mean in Suka man,
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and he supports creating over Nebraska Man. That might be
the most biggest time that could be wrong. I think
it's closer to where he's at right crazy, all right,
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Though he is from mm QB, he is senior NFL reporter.
He's been covering the league for a long time, always
kind enough to join us every single week. Here it
is Albert Brier and he has been traveling the country
going from training camp to training camp. I don't even
need to leave the house. I just follow him on
Twitter and he takes me all throughout the country. You
have to be a certain age to be the senior person.
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That means you get paid more to Brady it Animal
Thunderdome Hour. I gotta know because you were at Jags
training camp earlier this week and you've been traveling around
going from from team to team, and I don't know
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if you were there for the tebow stuff. I don't
even want to spend any time on that. Just the
Urban Meyer experience at the NFL level. You being an
Ohio State alum, you know Urban Meyer. Well, how do
you think it's translating to the practice field. From what
you've seen, there's no question there's a a college field
to it, and that it's very efficient. You see them
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trying to maximize the amount of reps they're trying to
get out there. Um, they had a they had a period.
I can't it was called the difference was the name
of the period, and like every single player is getting
reps all at once, and in that way, it felt
like college because I know that college coaches do these
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sorts of things because they've got less time, they've got
more restraints of their time, and you're seeing some of
those timer strengths now coming to the NFL. So I
think Urban smart to take some of that stuff from
the college game to the NFL game. And you know
I I know this having talked to him after the practice. Um, yeah,
he thinks a lot of that stuff is gonna translate
the one thing that he definitely has working for him here. Um,
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it's a little bit different than i'd say when Chip
Kelly got to the Eagles or when Jim Harbaugh got
to them, got to the Niners, and maybe a little
bit more like when Pete Carroll got to the Seahawks,
and then that team is very very young, and so
being as young as they are, I think it's easier
for him to program build because those guys have less
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of an idea of what it's supposed to be at
the NFL level. So he's gonna do some things that
he's taking with him from Utah, Florida, Ohio State. I
think the players are gonna be a little bit more
accepting of it because it's the younger group, all right.
So you had an opportunity to look at the Ravens.
I think they're an intriguing team for this year because
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they're kinda at that point of where you want to
see them take the next step, but you're not sure
if they can take the next steps. What what was
your takeaways when you were able to see them up close?
Do you think this is a year that they take
a step forward? Do they stay the same, which I
don't know how that happens or do they slide back
a little bit. Well, there are two things that stuck out,
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um LaVar and I'll be honest like one of the
things that um, it was a little hard to get
a read on the offense overall, just because they are
really being up the receiver right now, a bunch of
soft tissue injuries with the receiver, So a lot of
those guys weren't out there and they were giving I
think a couple of their offensive lineman a day. Um,
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they're starting tackles weren't out there, So I think it's
hard to get a read on the offense overall. That said,
you know, having talked to some of the guys, UM,
two things really stand out. They think the defense is
gonna be really really good. Um. You know between you
know what they have in the secondary of guys like
Marlon Humphrey and and Marcus Teeters, and the safeties have
shown really well this on Elliott and Chuck Clark. Um,
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they feel like the front is going to be excellent. Um.
And you know Brady haven't covered the big tent l
last year. A dafe o A say they think he's
gonna be a superstar, and so like even is the
one thing that you take away, you say, they feel
like they've got this has got a chance to be
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like a vintage version of the Ravens defense. They're always good,
but they've got those upticks and they think that this
is one of those years where they're gonna get that
uptick right. And then I think with Lamar, it's an interesting,
like very specific thing that the coaches are saying. Now
he's throwing a tighter spiral, and you know, I it's
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not that he wasn't capable of that before. It's that
his ballwood flutter at times and it was a little inconsistent,
and they've really tightened up his fundamentals and they've tightened up,
you know, some of the mechanical stuff, and he's throwing
a tighter spiral more consistently. And it's something guys that
even just talking to the Panthers people, you know, they
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were enjoying practice with the Panthers the last couple of days.
The Panthers people noticed it. So it's gonna be interesting
to see what Lamar looks like out there when you
give him his full complemented weapons, which again those guys
weren't out there when I was out there. Albert, you
just mentioned you were at the Panthers camp. How Sam
Donald look with this new team we were talking about
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a day or two ago. Just how what exactly does
Zach Wilson bring that Sam Turtle didn't outside of, you know,
the financial commitment that the Jets would have had to
make sooner to him. But how is Donald looking his
new digs down there in Carolina? Well, I had the
one that it's gonna happen. He was sitting next to him,
because Christian McCaffrey looks like he's all the way back
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and so like that. I think is the number one
thing is that they're not going to be asking the
world of him. And because the Jets were in a
I would say, to put it nicely, a difficult spot
from a personnel standpoint on offense. When Sam was there,
he had to carry the offense and the Panthers aren't
going to ask him to do that. So that's the
first thing. The other thing that's sort of interesting that
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I picked up and and I I won't be able
to take this the right way like the Panthers. Panthers
at people who've talked to Adam Gaze about what went
wrong with Sam Donald. Now you know, some people might say, well,
why would you talk to Gaze about it? Well, Adam
knows exactly what went wrong, you know, And so I
think it's sort of been helpful for the Panthers people
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to talk to Adam. And Adam has been very, very
i think, honest with them about where he messed up,
where some of the things maybe didn't go quite right.
And so I think the Panthers feel like because they've
been you know, like sort of taking a really hard
look at what went wrong with the Jets, not just
from personnel standpoint, but with him personally. Um, they've been
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able to do some things to make Sam more comfortable,
like don't give him long play calls, like get him
playing fast. And as a result, they've seen in camp
and we'll see if it translates to the games, is
that he's seeing things faster now than he did before. So,
and I'm talking about back in O t A s
like it's it's come along that fast. So they've seen
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some positive things and I think using Adam Gaze as
a resource it's actually helped the Panthers in a certain way.
He's Albert Breer of the MMQB, senior NFL reporter, joining
us here on out kicked the coverage here Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas Knox, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quimby here on FS are
um the Titans. I don't know what the hell to
make of the Titans because I keep thinking, oh, well,
you know the Indianapolis culture, you know, are the team
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to be. We all know that that Houston's got no
shot and Jacksonville is sort of rebuilding and trying to
change the culture. The Titans at Julio Jones, you got
to see them up close and personal. I don't know
how much of Julio you got to watch, but how
impressive could this offense be this upcoming season? I mean,
the offense is gonna be the problem and the open
is gonna be fine. Um. I picked up an interesting
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number when I was there, which it's kind of like
an obscure thing, but I thought, I I thought it
was fascinating. Like I didn't know this, but I guess
the four last year, no team that had like a
worse than fifty third down conversion rate on defense and
never made the playoffs before, and the Titans did it.
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Last year, like they were worse than I think they
were fifty two percent on third down, So like sort
of tells you how they've used their offense to like
mask some of the problems on defense and how much
work they had to do on defense. And so I think,
like the with the Titans, it really sort of comes
down to some really simple stuff, which is can make
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cover and where's the pass rush? Um, that's how they're
gonna be better against you know, the past. Now they're
gonna be better on third down and so um, you know,
you simplify things. I think with them, where all of
our attention was on Julio and you know what where
the offense could go with all this and where Ryan
Tannehill is going into year three there and all that stuff,
and that stuff's important, you know, But I think like
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there's a feeling there that the offense is gonna be fine,
you know, regardless of who they added whatever, Like, the
offense is in a good place, especially with Taylor la
Wan coming back at left tackle. It's really gonna come
down to the work they did in trying to bolster
the task rush and bringing in Bud Dupree and then
almost completely turning over the corner position um and bringing
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in guys like Caleb Farley from Virginia Tech, um like
Norris jenkins Um, and then getting Christian Fulton, who looks
like a different player going into year two. So I think,
really what the Titans is gonna come down to just
a couple of things, which is is that edge position
correct where it needs to be and is a corner
position where it needs to be If it is, and
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they're really well rounded team, and I think they're dangerous
in the a f C. If it isn't, I don't
think there's a whole lot better than they were last year.
Oh my, My last question for you would be watching
Cam last night. There are a lot of things that
you could take away from the game, and you don't
have to put two much weight on the performance in
general because obviously it's preseason. But one thing you can
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say definitively is he moved well. He looked good in
terms of his movement, He stepped up in the pocket, well,
he looked crisp, he looked like healthy, he looked like Actually, uh,
Cam Newton last night, can you expand on that, like,
what was the feeling of that um and covering that.
I mean, I LaVar like I think it. Brady be
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more qualified to talk about this than me, But I
just thought the pocket movement in general, and I'm not
talking about running, um. I think the pocket movement in
general was so much better. And I don't know what happened.
I don't know what Josh did with him over the
last week, but I mean this week a lot last
week too. This week, you know what he looked like
in camp to what he looked like in the game
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last night, it just looked different and definitely different than
last year. Because the problem last year wasn't that he
couldn't run as much. It was that he wasn't moving
in the pocket. He'd stand there and get hit. And
so I think that's a really encouraging sign um now,
Like to me, like a big part of this is
gonna be what is he as a runner? Um? And
I think that's what other teams are watching too, And
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it's interesting because nobody has played that position that way
for that long I think ever, like like, I can't
think of another quarterback that's lasted as long as he's
lasted playing the way that he plays. And I you know,
I think there's a real question that's lingering out there
across the NFL about the sort of effect that's had
on him. In fact, like you know, somebody put it
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a good way to be said, with older running backs,
what happens is they go from getting tackled to getting hit.
And when they go from getting tackled to getting hit,
because they've lost this step, it's over for them. And
I know some people feel like that's what's happened with Cam,
which is where why he's maybe a little bit more
hesitant to run than he used to be. And if
he can't run the way he used to run, can
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he be what he used to be? And what is
he as an NFL player? So I was very encouraged
by what I saw on the pocket last night. I
still think a lot of this is gonna come down
to what he can be still as a runner, as
a run threat, and we're not going to get that
for a preseason game because the Patriots aren't going to
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run him, you know, eight, ten, twelve times in a
preseason setting. He is Albert Brier from the MMQB senior
NFL reporter. You can get him on Twitter at Albert Brier.
He is traveling the country from training camp to training camp. Albert.
We always appreciate it, man, and well let's do it
again next week. All right, thanks guys, have a great weekend.
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all right and here we go, Danny g. What have
we got this week. Yeah, let's start with a story
that's been tweeted into US dozens and dozens of times
all week long. Everybody's been talking about this West Valley City,
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Utah trainer. She was at West Valley Scales and Trails
there in Utah and had to be taken to the
hospital after an alligator bitter and pulled her into an
enclosure and then rolled Bystanders were credited with pulling the
woman from the enclosure and securing the alligator. Officials from
the Reptile and Bird Company said that the gator trainer
(31:24):
was treated by emergency medical technicians at the scene and
taken to the hospital for treatment. This happened as the
woman was showing the reptile to a group of adults
and children this past weekend, and as she opened the door.
You guys have seen this video, the alligator lunges forward.
She pushes it back into the enclosure and it snaps
its mouth down. With her hand caught in its grip,
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she tries to free herself, stepping into the enclosure to
try to get leverage, and that's when the gator pulled
her in and began to roll. You could see two
guys jump into action this video. Both dads that were
there this video show was this guy, Donny Wiseman get
into the water with the trainer and the alligator. What
a g She was able to direct both the guys.
(32:08):
She was really calm during all this. She directed both
guys on how to handle the situation. They were eventually
able to free her from the alligator's bite. The second guy,
Todd Christopher, pulled the woman to safety while Wiseman remained
in the enclosure securing the alligator. The trainer was able
to instruct him on how to get out. He choked
that alligator out. Yeah, yeah, he was choking it out.
(32:31):
She instructed crocodile Dundee Brady, he put that lockdown on
that gat. Here's what I think was the most impressive
part about this video is when he jumped into help out.
I don't think he knew he was gonna be in
there by himself though at the end of it, yes,
he never thought about that part the hero. But then
(32:55):
he's like, oh wait, now I'm stuck having to hold
on at this choke, hold on this gator by myself,
and think how am I getting now? Man? I mean,
if if a gator grabs onto you. Aren't you taking
an eye. I'm taking an eye, Like I'm coming out
of there with an eye. He might get a limb.
I'm taking an eye. I gotta be honest. I think
about eyes. I do think about that. Let go. Yeah,
(33:16):
I would assume they would. That feels like the sensitive
spot for anybody. But I always say but I always
say this, you can always talk about what your plan
of attack would be until it really happens, you know,
because when you're in the heat of the moment and
that's like, this is an alligator. I thought it was.
I thought it was real. Get up to that he
started choking the alligator out. I'm not buying it. I
(33:38):
think it was all stunt. I'm buying it for a minute.
I'll tell you what. I'm sure he was getting all
kinds of phone numbers. If he was a single man,
and maybe even if he was a merryman, I'm sure
all kinds of people were all into him after that.
That's the thing that's a turn on. There are there
are people out there really turned on by wrestling alligators.
So shockingly, I think there's a lot of that in Florida.
(33:59):
A harrow, you know a hero that saved the woman,
by the way, and it wasn't another dude, which he
would have still been a hero, but it's that much
more of a hero when you say a lady. Brandy's
thought on that is right on because off the air
in the studio a few days ago, when we were
watching this for the first time, I told Coop, I'm like,
we'd like to think that our first reaction would be
to jump in and help. But then at the end,
(34:20):
when you're just on the gator's back and you're in
there by yourself, like what am I doing? That's when
the dude was like, oh, like what did what did
I just do? Yeah? What am I going to do?
Like the smell like you ever smell an enclosure? Like
it smells like a wild place, Like what I'm in water?
Like I can't just run away. It's not like we're
on ground. I am in water. Answer and I'm in
(34:41):
his place? Easy answer A nine millimeter carry that in
your pockets. My concern is Pita coming out and being like, oh,
he abused the he abused the alligator in some way?
Has that not already happened? I'm sure By the way,
two News Utah's reporting that The woman did suffer injuries
to her hand obviously, but otherwise she is expected to recover.
(35:03):
And let's move to Australia. Helena A. Lotti was browsing
the spice aisle at a supermarket there when she came
face to face with a huge snake. Sent everyone on
the show a picture of this. I will tweet it
out at Danny G Radio. The head of a ten
foot diamond python emerged through a space in the shelf
above the spice jars in a Woolworths there. She says,
(35:26):
I was in the spice ale just looking for something
to put on my chicken that night, so I didn't
initially see it because it was curled up way behind
the little jars of spices. She says, I kind of
turned to my right and then it poked its head out, thankfully.
A Lotti has a background in snakes. She uh, she's
a trained snake catcher there and the irony, so you're
(35:51):
so stupid, Woolwortz. Stupid Woolwartz confirmed in a statement that
a slippery and rare customer was bought it in the
spiceyle at its store. Here's the best parts. Wasn't a
black mamba a Lottie told the store members. She said,
I'm gonna go home really quick and get my snake
(36:13):
catching bag. Wait, she left, I'm gonna take this snake
on home. So she came back. Only in Australia. She wait, wait, wait, wait,
I'm gonna take this snake home. No, she came back
with her snake catching gear. And he's taking this way
too seriously, right, I think he's missing LaVar Boy and
(36:37):
Peter like this. She then released it into the nearby woodlands. Okay,
so she said forget, She said, forget about everybody else
who might coming, face to coming, everybody staying here. You
figured it out until I get my bag. This is
in Australia, right, Like does it like like three or
four and every five people have like their trained snake
(36:59):
catching license or something. I feel like that's one of
those kind she does happen to be a snake trainer.
Australia is a wild place, Danny. Of all all the
animal Thunderdome stories, the craziest ones are Australia correcked. Like
the size of some of those spiders that people see
in their houses, like the size of buicks, and they're
just hanging out in their house. Like bout those bird
(37:21):
eating spiders in Venezuela. They eat entire birds. Way to
go to a different species, Jonas just saying, man, way
to get away here, staying away from the stant account.
It was no part of that thunderdome. Keep snakes away
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wherever the hell you are making us a part of
your Friday as your head into the weekend. We appreciate
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up until nine am Eastern time, six o'clock Pacific, right
here on Fox Sports Radio. And guys, I don't know
if you're aware of this, but we are officially now
just a little over a week away from college football.
(00:49):
A week away from college football. We talked about the
high schools, Oh my god, and and and it's just
it's disrespectful. People want to call it week zero. Absolutely disrespectful.
These teams can other teams. Yeah, you know, I mean,
come on, man, we got you next Saturday. We got Nebraska, Illinois,
we got Hawaii, U C. L A. We got obviously
(01:09):
the big one Southern Utah and San Jose States. But
well listen, look, we'll take a week again. We'll take
a week again, but it will be on Fox from
Champagne next Saturday. It will be Nebraska and it'll be Illinois.
Now I'm assuming Scott Frost is going to be on
the sidelines from Nebraska. The my assumption is he will
(01:31):
be there. But there is a situation that has taking
place over the past forty eight hours where the n
c A is investigating, uh, the improper use of analysts.
Um that there's video surveillance of them having workouts and
and a bunch of videos of them having workouts and
(01:51):
and practices that are all violations during the time of
the pandemic. Uh, this is very similar, Brady. I know,
we were talking about just the Arizona State situation that
they got popped doing things. Uh sort of not really,
I mean, and so this whole thing is shaping up.
Trev Albert's who is now the athletic director there, made
sure to point out to everybody when he got in, Oh, yeah,
(02:13):
all this stuff happened. I found out about it after
I have the job. Yeah, I just wants you to
know my my hands are clean on all this. But nonetheless,
not a good look for Nebraska as they head into
the next next week's season opener against Illinois. Well, I
believe that for a couple of reasons. One Trevor Alberts
was recently hired this year, these allegations uh stemmed back
(02:34):
to what was happened during COVID. So that's that's where
I I do feel like it it happened before he
got there. If you're interviewing for a job and you're
the university and you're like, oh, no, yeah, come and
complete an athletic director. We've got nothing to worry about here. Yeah,
you probably not want to drop their dump that on
him until he actually takes the job. It comes back
to help build back up his alma mater. So I
(02:56):
do believe Trevor Albert Albert's side of all this The
SISS a play by those in control in Nebraska to
set up a very similar to scenario to what happened
to Jeremy Jeremy Pruett at Tennessee. They want to be
able to be able to fire Scott Frost if they
choose to do so, if they are unsuccessful this year
(03:17):
with cause and why is that important? Then avoids any
guarantees he would have left in his contract the school
doesn't have to pay that out and they can move
on and find their next head coach. So it's it's
it's already getting a little bit dicey, but that's a
lot of the motivation behind this. Obviously, you know they
want to be doing what's in the best interests of
student athletes, but it sounds as if, you know, what
(03:40):
what they're trying to do is set themselves up where
Scott Frost doesn't get that, you know, golden parachute on
the way out. Uh. But in regards to the use
of analysts, first off, look, it's kind of clear analysts
are not supposed to be able to work with athletes
on the field and and have and be able to
essentially be a coach, Like that's not what the role is.
A're not supposed to be able to do that. There
(04:01):
are a lot of gray areas as far as how
schools use analysts though, So that's where it gets a
little bit dicey, and obviously we I don't think we
can rely on the n c A to set forth
much guidance at this point. I think they're all on vacation.
I think they're just trying to stay out of the
whole entire situation. So I didn't think that there was
(04:22):
because I thought, all right, Scott Frost is there, he's
you know, it's his alma mater. It would take a
lot for him to get canned. And and I didn't
actually believe, and we had talked about this off the year.
I didn't actually believe there was a possibility he was
going to get fired until I saw these quotes from
Scott Frost and which he said, quote everything we did
through COVID was in the best interest and health of
our players in mind. And everything we did was approved
(04:44):
by athletic department administration and campus administration. Yes, which is
uh there clearly, Um, there's not not They're not on
the best terms there at Nebraska. When it comes to
Scott Frost. That's joy right there. That's called it's called
because that that will be used in the court of
(05:05):
law or in in the arbitration that takes place. Uh So,
so is this so you think that this is going
to shape up in they have a poor year and
then they fire him, or they just they just you know,
or it's it's not gonna happen. Now, it could happen
at some point during the season, especially if they want
(05:26):
to get a jump on recruiting for cycle and then
save some of those recruits. That's always that's always something
and and and Look, Nebraska feels like almost similar to
to Michigan. You know, they feel like they should be competing,
They feel like they should be a part of the
national conversation. They are a big brand, but they haven't
been anywhere close to what I think we recalled remember
(05:49):
about Nebraska, especially dating back to their days in the
Big Eight, where that was where they probably were best suited. Um, Look,
I'm I love him in the Big Ten. I think
it's a great brand. It's obviously fun to go watch
them play, but like this year, getting ready to see
them play Oklahoma Nebraska. That's one of those nostalgic his
story matchups that I miss, And I think they'd probably
(06:09):
be better suited, especially looking at what's happened to the
Big Twelve. It's going to happen here in a few
years bringing back a team like that, that probably makes
more sense in the Big Twelve moving forward. Yeah, but
they get fifty four million from the Big Ten, right,
I think each team gets fifty four minutes. There's no
way you can walk away from that kind of money, Like,
what are you getting in the Big twelve? Like a
(06:29):
bag of rolled golds and a six path to your point,
almost half that Jesus. So I've got to re establish
that brand though, you know, and and some of these
other teams have to. We watched Notre Dame reestablished their brand, right.
I mean there was a slide, a tremendous slide for them.
As as strong as their brand is Nebraska, they just
(06:50):
don't have the appeal anymore. I mean, it would be
interesting once this if if those dominoes do fall, who
do you bring in? Who who can revive or re
recreate or create something new. I mean, Tommy Osborne is
one of those guys. He's he's a Bobby Bouten, He's
a Joe Paterno, he's a Lou Holtz. And how do
(07:14):
you recreate that? I mean, maybe that's why they brought Travin,
is to to figure out somebody who understands the DNA
of what that school really represents. But you'd have to
assume that that's why they brought Scott frost in and
and he fell on. He's falling. I mean, listen, he
doesn't have an overall losing record as the head coach
of Nebraska, just just so we're clear on that he
(07:35):
did have a tough year and tough go of it
last year, being three and five. But I think it'll
be interesting to see if this does happen, because you'd
have to assume as hot as Scott Frost was when
they brought him in as the head coach, who is
going to be the one that can resurrect what this
this team has been, this program has been. Remember what
(07:57):
bull Polini was forty games over five hundred, and that
wasn't enough. No, No, he's gotta go with bopolin He's
gotta go. He won nine or more games every full
season that he coached, like like every full sea he had.
He coached for one game back in in two thousand
three and he won his one game. But other than that,
he won nine or more games every single year, and
(08:17):
that wasn't good enough. And it just to to to
what Brady said at the at the start, I just
wonder are the expectations just out of whack? Because that's
been my big issue when people criticize Jim Harbaugh, like
like do you think they're the same as Ohio State
they're not. They're not the same they're supposed to be.
The problem. The problem you run into with programs like
(08:38):
that that have such a defined tradition that is connected
to them. Your fan base is connected to success. You're
you're connected to a tradition and a legacy that that
says it's it says excellence on it. It's almost in
a way, if people want to be real about what
(08:59):
they're saying, you feel like an elitist because of the
school that you represent, that you played for, that you
went to. There's this you I feel different, Like I'm
a Penn State. That means something to me. If you
say I'm a Golden Domer, that means something to me.
If you say I'm a corn Husker like when they
were corn Huskers, that meant something like there's there's d
(09:20):
n A connected to that. Like if you think about
the old teams, if it was the triple you know,
the triple back, like the wishbone, the wishbone option. You're
thinking of Oklahoma, You're thinking of of running backs like
Lawrence Phillips and quarterbacks like Tommy Fraser from Nebraska. Like
you think of some of the most historical events and
(09:43):
games that have taken place in college football history. I
can think back to when Miami with with Ray Lewis
and all those guys played against Tommy Fraser and Lawrence
Phillips and those guys. You had James Taylor in the backfield.
You had Warren Sap on the defense line. You I
mean you you're talking about at fullback. I ate them
(10:06):
alive in that ball game. But didn't you think about
like we Gert and and all these different guys that
were on the offensive line. You you thought of Nebraska,
You thought of these hard nose country fed straw chewing. Well, bro, dude,
there's a fair amount of steroids squad. Well maybe I
mean that then It wasn't illegal in the seventies and eighties.
(10:30):
They were just openly ship those steroids. It was almost like, well,
Peyton Manning's wife getting those ship what are you talking about?
Hold on, do you guys remember though? So tom Osborne
was two hundred fifty five and forty nine and three,
(10:52):
Like it was absurd how good tom Osborne was as
a coach. He never won less than nine game games. Jonas,
you threw out the stat of bo Polini literally tom
Osborne walking in the door in nineteen seventy three, never
won less than nine games twenty five years during that time.
(11:15):
He coached from seven nine. Didn't he become the governor
at that point? Whatever? That dude, Okay, one of the
most powerful dudes in Nebraska. But but I think the
part of the reason is is a lot of the
people now who are ages thirty five to fifty five,
which are consuming college football, are talking to their kids
(11:37):
and saying, yeah, like Nebraska used to be, like it's
hard for the our kids, and yeah, but like we were,
like no, they were always in the national title fun
they were dominant, they were the team. Like those were
formidable years for that twenty year age group, And that's
why there's that perception of like, well, why is Nebraska
(11:57):
what it should be? Like thirty five to fifty five
is that time of your life where when you're out working,
when you're a lumb of Nebraska, that's when you're really
starting to make all your money. And so when they're
calling to give back and donate, you're like, what happened
to us? Like I remember growing up and we were
in the heyday. You want me to give money back,
but to what what's your plan? Moving forward. We brought
in the prodigal son when Scott Frost, it hasn't worked
(12:21):
out so far, like what's next? And so that's the
hard part for Nebraska is I don't know that like
their alumni base is as fired up to get this
thing back on track because it takes money. The reality
is it takes money with it, Scott Frost, whatever whatever
o the head coach, it takes money. I mean, you
talked about Notre Dame Lavark with their identity and well
(12:43):
you think I want to private donors that we got
im look at their stadium, I mean all of that,
and I think they understood how to recruit to what
they needed to do to be successful. I think I
(13:06):
think Nebraska is just trying to get whatever the best
player they can right now. I don't I don't think that.
How do you get them? And that's the thing. You
don't have an identity, So how do you get them who?
How do you get a disconnect and generations to to
want to go to Nebraska, to Lincoln, Nebraska. That's a
hard one. But here's here's the thing. So they want
to bring back the past. They hire Scott Frost, they
(13:26):
want to bring back the past. They hired Trev Alberts. Okay,
So then like, what's it gonna take to for them
to do what you like? There's no so there's no chance.
And I know this would never happen because of the money,
but damn they could. Like how much better would they
be in the Big twelve though? Like, like they would
be much more competitive? Correct? I mean, look, I I
(13:49):
know you would you would take you take a hit
obviously financially, but I mean maybe it might be worth
them thinking about going back, Like if you want to
go back to the past, why not go all the
way back to the ask because you guys made the
point man, Like there's there's certain things about teams that
play a certain style that lasts for generations. Like the
Steelers is always running the football like the steel Like
(14:11):
defensive Nebraska had a certain way they played. It's like Wisconsin,
Wisconsin plays a certain way. Nebraska has a certain way
that they played. And that was was so awesome. It
didn't matter who it was, but he knew they were
going to what you're saying, those teams that you're mentioning Wisconsin, Iowa,
(14:31):
they have those they have those same characteristics. But you know,
what they're able to do. They're able to recreate what
it is that they have have built as an identity
with local talent. So, for one reason or another, I
don't know why Nebraska is not being able to generate
(14:52):
the type of players that they were generating before. And
and where are those kids coming from? I don't I
don't know where that disconnect is taking place. Because when
you look at him, when Brady said, oh, they're shipping
this there, I immediately thought of teams like Wisconsin and Iowa.
If they were shipping them in, then take a look
at them dudes in Iowa City, and and and and
(15:13):
and Wisconsin Madison. They are ginormous and they are not fat.
They are yoked up and their local talents they don't.
You never really hear of out of state too many
out of state players, out of area players that go
to those types of schools, so to me, But then
you've never seen them be dominant teams and the Big
(15:34):
Ten as well. So when I look at Nebraska being
in in the Big Ten, I think to myself, the
reason why they don't go back to the Big twelve
is that you see that a lot of teams are
trying to get the elite teams are trying to get
out of the Big twelve. There are teams, they're having conversations,
they are trying to listen. Brady hit it right on
the hit when you're talking about the revenue that you're
(15:57):
trying to generate when you don't have that private funding,
those donors that are generally driving what it is that
you're doing. If you don't have the oil money or
you know the the I'm I'm from Penn State and
I'm the CEO of of Nike and stuff like that.
If you don't, if you don't have those people that
are going to generate and circulate the type of funds
(16:19):
that you need to be competitive in the recruiting game,
you have to go where the money is. And they're
getting the money from the from the conference they're generating.
They're relying on getting that money from the conference. So
tell Warren Buffett to step up. Isn't he from Nebraska?
What about Dominican support creating I mean in Suka man,
(16:39):
and he supports creating over Nebraska Man. That might be
the most biggest time that could be wrong. I think
it's closer to where he's at right crazy, all right,
It is an out kick to coverage here on Fox
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(17:21):
Though he is from mm QB, he is senior NFL reporter.
He's been covering the league for a long time, always
kind enough to join us every single week. Here it
is Albert Brier and he has been traveling the country
going from training camp to training camp. I don't even
need to leave the house. I just follow him on
Twitter and he takes me all throughout the country. You
have to be a certain age to be the senior person.
(17:44):
That means you get paid more to Brady it Animal
Thunderdome Hour. I gotta know because you were at Jags
training camp earlier this week and you've been traveling around
going from from team to team, and I don't know
(18:06):
if you were there for the tebow stuff. I don't
even want to spend any time on that. Just the
Urban Meyer experience at the NFL level. You being an
Ohio State alum, you know Urban Meyer. Well, how do
you think it's translating to the practice field. From what
you've seen, there's no question there's a a college field
to it, and that it's very efficient. You see them
(18:27):
trying to maximize the amount of reps they're trying to
get out there. Um, they had a they had a period.
I can't it was called the difference was the name
of the period, and like every single player is getting
reps all at once, and in that way, it felt
like college because I know that college coaches do these
(18:48):
sorts of things because they've got less time, they've got
more restraints of their time, and you're seeing some of
those timer strengths now coming to the NFL. So I
think Urban smart to take some of that stuff from
the college game to the NFL game. And you know
I I know this having talked to him after the practice. Um, yeah,
he thinks a lot of that stuff is gonna translate
the one thing that he definitely has working for him here. Um,
(19:11):
it's a little bit different than i'd say when Chip
Kelly got to the Eagles or when Jim Harbaugh got
to them, got to the Niners, and maybe a little
bit more like when Pete Carroll got to the Seahawks,
and then that team is very very young, and so
being as young as they are, I think it's easier
for him to program build because those guys have less
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of an idea of what it's supposed to be at
the NFL level. So he's gonna do some things that
he's taking with him from Utah, Florida, Ohio State. I
think the players are gonna be a little bit more
accepting of it because it's the younger group, all right.
So you had an opportunity to look at the Ravens.
I think they're an intriguing team for this year because
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they're kinda at that point of where you want to
see them take the next step, but you're not sure
if they can take the next steps. What what was
your takeaways when you were able to see them up close?
Do you think this is a year that they take
a step forward? Do they stay the same, which I
don't know how that happens or do they slide back
a little bit. Well, there are two things that stuck out,
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um LaVar and I'll be honest like one of the
things that um, it was a little hard to get
a read on the offense overall, just because they are
really being up the receiver right now, a bunch of
soft tissue injuries with the receiver, So a lot of
those guys weren't out there and they were giving I
think a couple of their offensive lineman a day. Um,
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they're starting tackles weren't out there, So I think it's
hard to get a read on the offense overall. That said,
you know, having talked to some of the guys, UM,
two things really stand out. They think the defense is
gonna be really really good. Um. You know between you
know what they have in the secondary of guys like
Marlon Humphrey and and Marcus Teeters, and the safeties have
shown really well this on Elliott and Chuck Clark. Um,
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they feel like the front is going to be excellent. Um.
And you know Brady haven't covered the big tent l
last year. A dafe o A say they think he's
gonna be a superstar, and so like even is the
one thing that you take away, you say, they feel
like they've got this has got a chance to be
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like a vintage version of the Ravens defense. They're always good,
but they've got those upticks and they think that this
is one of those years where they're gonna get that
uptick right. And then I think with Lamar, it's an interesting,
like very specific thing that the coaches are saying. Now
he's throwing a tighter spiral, and you know, I it's
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not that he wasn't capable of that before. It's that
his ballwood flutter at times and it was a little inconsistent,
and they've really tightened up his fundamentals and they've tightened up,
you know, some of the mechanical stuff, and he's throwing
a tighter spiral more consistently. And it's something guys that
even just talking to the Panthers people, you know, they
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were enjoying practice with the Panthers the last couple of days.
The Panthers people noticed it. So it's gonna be interesting
to see what Lamar looks like out there when you
give him his full complemented weapons, which again those guys
weren't out there when I was out there. Albert, you
just mentioned you were at the Panthers camp. How Sam
Donald look with this new team we were talking about
(22:24):
a day or two ago. Just how what exactly does
Zach Wilson bring that Sam Turtle didn't outside of, you know,
the financial commitment that the Jets would have had to
make sooner to him. But how is Donald looking his
new digs down there in Carolina? Well, I had the
one that it's gonna happen. He was sitting next to him,
because Christian McCaffrey looks like he's all the way back
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and so like that. I think is the number one
thing is that they're not going to be asking the
world of him. And because the Jets were in a
I would say, to put it nicely, a difficult spot
from a personnel standpoint on offense. When Sam was there,
he had to carry the offense and the Panthers aren't
going to ask him to do that. So that's the
first thing. The other thing that's sort of interesting that
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I picked up and and I I won't be able
to take this the right way like the Panthers. Panthers
at people who've talked to Adam Gaze about what went
wrong with Sam Donald. Now you know, some people might say, well,
why would you talk to Gaze about it? Well, Adam
knows exactly what went wrong, you know, And so I
think it's sort of been helpful for the Panthers people
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to talk to Adam. And Adam has been very, very
i think, honest with them about where he messed up,
where some of the things maybe didn't go quite right.
And so I think the Panthers feel like because they've
been you know, like sort of taking a really hard
look at what went wrong with the Jets, not just
from personnel standpoint, but with him personally. Um, they've been
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able to do some things to make Sam more comfortable,
like don't give him long play calls, like get him
playing fast. And as a result, they've seen in camp
and we'll see if it translates to the games, is
that he's seeing things faster now than he did before. So,
and I'm talking about back in O t A s
like it's it's come along that fast. So they've seen
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some positive things and I think using Adam Gaze as
a resource it's actually helped the Panthers in a certain way.
He's Albert Breer of the MMQB, senior NFL reporter, joining
us here on out kicked the coverage here Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas Knox, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quimby here on FS are
um the Titans. I don't know what the hell to
make of the Titans because I keep thinking, oh, well,
you know the Indianapolis culture, you know, are the team
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to be. We all know that that Houston's got no
shot and Jacksonville is sort of rebuilding and trying to
change the culture. The Titans at Julio Jones, you got
to see them up close and personal. I don't know
how much of Julio you got to watch, but how
impressive could this offense be this upcoming season? I mean,
the offense is gonna be the problem and the open
is gonna be fine. Um. I picked up an interesting
(24:54):
number when I was there, which it's kind of like
an obscure thing, but I thought, I I thought it
was fascinating. Like I didn't know this, but I guess
the four last year, no team that had like a
worse than fifty third down conversion rate on defense and
never made the playoffs before, and the Titans did it.
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Last year, like they were worse than I think they
were fifty two percent on third down, So like sort
of tells you how they've used their offense to like
mask some of the problems on defense and how much
work they had to do on defense. And so I think,
like the with the Titans, it really sort of comes
down to some really simple stuff, which is can make
(25:39):
cover and where's the pass rush? Um, that's how they're
gonna be better against you know, the past. Now they're
gonna be better on third down and so um, you know,
you simplify things. I think with them, where all of
our attention was on Julio and you know what where
the offense could go with all this and where Ryan
Tannehill is going into year three there and all that stuff,
and that stuff's important, you know, But I think like
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there's a feeling there that the offense is gonna be fine,
you know, regardless of who they added whatever, Like, the
offense is in a good place, especially with Taylor la
Wan coming back at left tackle. It's really gonna come
down to the work they did in trying to bolster
the task rush and bringing in Bud Dupree and then
almost completely turning over the corner position um and bringing
(26:23):
in guys like Caleb Farley from Virginia Tech, um like
Norris jenkins Um, and then getting Christian Fulton, who looks
like a different player going into year two. So I think,
really what the Titans is gonna come down to just
a couple of things, which is is that edge position
correct where it needs to be and is a corner
position where it needs to be If it is, and
(26:44):
they're really well rounded team, and I think they're dangerous
in the a f C. If it isn't, I don't
think there's a whole lot better than they were last year.
Oh my, My last question for you would be watching
Cam last night. There are a lot of things that
you could take away from the game, and you don't
have to put two much weight on the performance in
general because obviously it's preseason. But one thing you can
(27:05):
say definitively is he moved well. He looked good in
terms of his movement, He stepped up in the pocket, well,
he looked crisp, he looked like healthy, he looked like Actually, uh,
Cam Newton last night, can you expand on that, like,
what was the feeling of that um and covering that.
I mean, I LaVar like I think it. Brady be
(27:28):
more qualified to talk about this than me, But I
just thought the pocket movement in general, and I'm not
talking about running, um. I think the pocket movement in
general was so much better. And I don't know what happened.
I don't know what Josh did with him over the
last week, but I mean this week a lot last
week too. This week, you know what he looked like
in camp to what he looked like in the game
(27:49):
last night, it just looked different and definitely different than
last year. Because the problem last year wasn't that he
couldn't run as much. It was that he wasn't moving
in the pocket. He'd stand there and get hit. And
so I think that's a really encouraging sign um now,
Like to me, like a big part of this is
gonna be what is he as a runner? Um? And
I think that's what other teams are watching too, And
(28:11):
it's interesting because nobody has played that position that way
for that long I think ever, like like, I can't
think of another quarterback that's lasted as long as he's
lasted playing the way that he plays. And I you know,
I think there's a real question that's lingering out there
across the NFL about the sort of effect that's had
on him. In fact, like you know, somebody put it
(28:32):
a good way to be said, with older running backs,
what happens is they go from getting tackled to getting hit.
And when they go from getting tackled to getting hit,
because they've lost this step, it's over for them. And
I know some people feel like that's what's happened with Cam,
which is where why he's maybe a little bit more
hesitant to run than he used to be. And if
he can't run the way he used to run, can
(28:53):
he be what he used to be? And what is
he as an NFL player? So I was very encouraged
by what I saw on the pocket last night. I
still think a lot of this is gonna come down
to what he can be still as a runner, as
a run threat, and we're not going to get that
for a preseason game because the Patriots aren't going to
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run him, you know, eight, ten, twelve times in a
preseason setting. He is Albert Brier from the MMQB senior
NFL reporter. You can get him on Twitter at Albert Brier.
He is traveling the country from training camp to training camp. Albert.
We always appreciate it, man, and well let's do it
again next week. All right, thanks guys, have a great weekend.
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This is outkicked the coverage. Hey, what's up everybody? It's
me three time Pro Bowl Little Warrington and I couldn't
be more excited to announce a new podcast called Up
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it is time for this, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just glad.
I was scared, boys and girls. I thought he thought
(30:39):
I was like this enormous piece of chicken dium times.
I had to my Space. This is Animal thunder Dog
all right and here we go, Danny g. What have
we got this week. Yeah, let's start with a story
that's been tweeted into US dozens and dozens of times
all week long. Everybody's been talking about this West Valley City,
(31:03):
Utah trainer. She was at West Valley Scales and Trails
there in Utah and had to be taken to the
hospital after an alligator bitter and pulled her into an
enclosure and then rolled Bystanders were credited with pulling the
woman from the enclosure and securing the alligator. Officials from
the Reptile and Bird Company said that the gator trainer
(31:24):
was treated by emergency medical technicians at the scene and
taken to the hospital for treatment. This happened as the
woman was showing the reptile to a group of adults
and children this past weekend, and as she opened the door.
You guys have seen this video, the alligator lunges forward.
She pushes it back into the enclosure and it snaps
its mouth down. With her hand caught in its grip,
(31:46):
she tries to free herself, stepping into the enclosure to
try to get leverage, and that's when the gator pulled
her in and began to roll. You could see two
guys jump into action this video. Both dads that were
there this video show was this guy, Donny Wiseman get
into the water with the trainer and the alligator. What
a g She was able to direct both the guys.
(32:08):
She was really calm during all this. She directed both
guys on how to handle the situation. They were eventually
able to free her from the alligator's bite. The second guy,
Todd Christopher, pulled the woman to safety while Wiseman remained
in the enclosure securing the alligator. The trainer was able
to instruct him on how to get out. He choked
that alligator out. Yeah, yeah, he was choking it out.
(32:31):
She instructed crocodile Dundee Brady, he put that lockdown on
that gat. Here's what I think was the most impressive
part about this video is when he jumped into help out.
I don't think he knew he was gonna be in
there by himself though at the end of it, yes,
he never thought about that part the hero. But then
(32:55):
he's like, oh wait, now I'm stuck having to hold
on at this choke, hold on this gator by myself,
and think how am I getting now? Man? I mean,
if if a gator grabs onto you. Aren't you taking
an eye. I'm taking an eye, Like I'm coming out
of there with an eye. He might get a limb.
I'm taking an eye. I gotta be honest. I think
about eyes. I do think about that. Let go. Yeah,
(33:16):
I would assume they would. That feels like the sensitive
spot for anybody. But I always say but I always
say this, you can always talk about what your plan
of attack would be until it really happens, you know,
because when you're in the heat of the moment and
that's like, this is an alligator. I thought it was.
I thought it was real. Get up to that he
started choking the alligator out. I'm not buying it. I
(33:38):
think it was all stunt. I'm buying it for a minute.
I'll tell you what. I'm sure he was getting all
kinds of phone numbers. If he was a single man,
and maybe even if he was a merryman, I'm sure
all kinds of people were all into him after that.
That's the thing that's a turn on. There are there
are people out there really turned on by wrestling alligators.
So shockingly, I think there's a lot of that in Florida.
(33:59):
A harrow, you know a hero that saved the woman,
by the way, and it wasn't another dude, which he
would have still been a hero, but it's that much
more of a hero when you say a lady. Brandy's
thought on that is right on because off the air
in the studio a few days ago, when we were
watching this for the first time, I told Coop, I'm like,
we'd like to think that our first reaction would be
to jump in and help. But then at the end,
(34:20):
when you're just on the gator's back and you're in
there by yourself, like what am I doing? That's when
the dude was like, oh, like what did what did
I just do? Yeah? What am I going to do?
Like the smell like you ever smell an enclosure? Like
it smells like a wild place, Like what I'm in water?
Like I can't just run away. It's not like we're
on ground. I am in water. Answer and I'm in
(34:41):
his place? Easy answer A nine millimeter carry that in
your pockets. My concern is Pita coming out and being like, oh,
he abused the he abused the alligator in some way?
Has that not already happened? I'm sure By the way,
two News Utah's reporting that The woman did suffer injuries
to her hand obviously, but otherwise she is expected to recover.
(35:03):
And let's move to Australia. Helena A. Lotti was browsing
the spice aisle at a supermarket there when she came
face to face with a huge snake. Sent everyone on
the show a picture of this. I will tweet it
out at Danny G Radio. The head of a ten
foot diamond python emerged through a space in the shelf
above the spice jars in a Woolworths there. She says,
(35:26):
I was in the spice ale just looking for something
to put on my chicken that night, so I didn't
initially see it because it was curled up way behind
the little jars of spices. She says, I kind of
turned to my right and then it poked its head out, thankfully.
A Lotti has a background in snakes. She uh, she's
a trained snake catcher there and the irony, so you're
(35:51):
so stupid, Woolwortz. Stupid Woolwartz confirmed in a statement that
a slippery and rare customer was bought it in the
spiceyle at its store. Here's the best parts. Wasn't a
black mamba a Lottie told the store members. She said,
I'm gonna go home really quick and get my snake
(36:13):
catching bag. Wait, she left, I'm gonna take this snake
on home. So she came back. Only in Australia. She wait, wait, wait, wait,
I'm gonna take this snake home. No, she came back
with her snake catching gear. And he's taking this way
too seriously, right, I think he's missing LaVar Boy and
(36:37):
Peter like this. She then released it into the nearby woodlands. Okay,
so she said forget, She said, forget about everybody else
who might coming, face to coming, everybody staying here. You
figured it out until I get my bag. This is
in Australia, right, Like does it like like three or
four and every five people have like their trained snake
(36:59):
catching license or something. I feel like that's one of
those kind she does happen to be a snake trainer.
Australia is a wild place, Danny. Of all all the
animal Thunderdome stories, the craziest ones are Australia correcked. Like
the size of some of those spiders that people see
in their houses, like the size of buicks, and they're
just hanging out in their house. Like bout those bird
(37:21):
eating spiders in Venezuela. They eat entire birds. Way to
go to a different species, Jonas just saying, man, way
to get away here, staying away from the stant account.
It was no part of that thunderdome. Keep snakes away
from La Bar. Everybody's. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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