Hour 2 – NFL Schedule Breakdown, Albert Breer

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Speaker 1: You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio Our two.

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Speaker 2: On this Meet Friday, Dan and The Dan Nets Dan Patrick Show. Thank you for the text, the emails, the phone calls wishing me a happy birthday. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. We're gonna give away the Rectech grill coming up next hour. Chef Greg is in from Rectech whipping up my birthday meal and it's a chicken leg lollipops party ribs. I haven't heard of party ribs. I got to find out what that is, Dylan. Would you check with Chef Greg on what party ribs are?

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Speaker 3: I will.

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Speaker 4: I believe they're cooked, not in the rack. They're like separated, so you kind of talk almost cook them like burnt ends, a little bit like you saw some in like a foil pan.

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Speaker 2: I'll double check, though. We have a meat cake that includes a chicken pizza, bass wag u brisket, pulled pork, burnt ends, jalapeno poppers, and chicken lollipops. Who has it better than we do? No loody, and my gift is right in front of me. The Dan Nets that's that's my gift rank. Thank you. It's the same gift I get every single year. Although Todd got me a traveling humidor Marvin got me an old ABA T shirt slam Dunk contest, Dylan and Paul didn't get me anything yet, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Dylan, yeah, I mean we're already on it. But just for fun, is there anything in particular you want?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 2: I mentioned it a Porsche, Yeah, like an older one, like a like a seventy three maybe like a seventy three blue Porsche something like that. I think, Paul, Paul, you got one of those, right, yes, Paul.

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Speaker 6: Does it have to be running because that would affect that.

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Speaker 2: They have to be okay? No, no, just look good? Yeah, yeah, yeah I could. I could have a project here in my retirement. Yes, Todd, can we make.

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Speaker 7: That book of top main golf courses? Can't that be from Paul and Dylan?

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Speaker 2: Nobody knew about that time?

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Speaker 3: Or was that supposed to be top secret? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Todd got me. Here we go. Todd got me a book about golf courses in me, just a little paperback book. I know, I just spread it.

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Speaker 3: Well, so that's so that could be from everybody.

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Speaker 2: You wanted me to let everybody know that you got me.

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Speaker 7: I was actually more concerned that you didn't see it in the bag or something like that, because you didn't mention it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you weren't that impressed by it.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't.

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Speaker 7: We're not, no, but I wanted to get you the hard cover, the fancy one, but I only came in paperback.

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Speaker 2: The Traveling humidor for my cigars. He was great, it's beautiful, and I thanked you for that.

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Speaker 3: You did, but you didn't mention the main golf course.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thank you for that book.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little needy, I'm a little said to this, so I to make sure you saw the whole deal.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Dylan Todd could have done the cool thing there and said that the book is from all of us, Thank you Todd.

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Speaker 3: I did say that, so that could be from Dyland and Pulley the book.

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Speaker 2: No, it should if you were going to give something and be part of it, he could have said, you guys were part of the human door that I got because it's really nice. The book is nobody cares about the book? Yes, Marvin, he said, a little needy, what about the book I got?

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Speaker 3: Your book there about just that you were at.

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Speaker 2: The just a Segon alrighty, Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback, will join us. Coming up. We'll talk about the schedule release and we have to do winners and losers on the schedule release.

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Speaker 8: Here.

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Speaker 2: DraftKings has point spreads for every game already this year, which I find really interesting because there are some players we don't know about. Aaron Rodgers, I mean, there's guys coming back from injury, Patrick Mahomes obviously, Lamar Jackson's situation. Like you're not quite sure with some of these players, but the point spreads are already there. Now. Can I bet as much money as I want to win these games? Dylan?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean theoretically, the I mean, if you put a million dollars on the Bucks Bengals game right now, they might, you know, raise some eyebrows. But you're free to do as you please.

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Speaker 2: Because if somebody got information that Mahomes was not going to be playing in the first three games, let's say, and it was going to be justin fields, if you get in before they adjust the betting line on this, this is why inside information. You know, now, I've had inside information before, but I don't gamble, and I and I didn't tell anybody about somebody who was playing or not playing, or somebody who was banged up, because I got it in normal conversation. It wasn't where somebody said, hey, come here. But I'm sure that Schefty, like I wonder if Adam Schefter or Ian Rappaport or you know, any other insider was going to be hired by a casino or you know, draft kings where they're going to get information and through sources and true effect how people bet and your betting lines on this. Because Chefti's making a lot of money from the Mothership. But imagine if he was an insider now, people would be far more cautious of what they're going to share with him. I'm sure of that. But if he had certain sources and these casinos were like, hey, we'll pay you twenty million dollars, we want you to help us make money.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paulin, there's an article from Front Office Sports from twenty twenty one that Caesar Sportsbook might pursue people like Adam Schefter, Adrian Woodronowski and other people that for information experts.

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Speaker 2: I would, I would if I could find I just have to make sure that you're getting true inside information. A lot of times the insiders will just give you something that's transactional that you're going to eventually find out. I want information that nobody is going to find out about, or if they do, they find out far later than I do, and it would affect the outcome of the game. Yeah, point yeah.

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Speaker 9: Imagine you could find out the Raiders' game plan at quarterback, like what they plan to do with the handoff from one to another.

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Speaker 6: If you knew that in August and you make some.

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Speaker 2: Bets, you can make bets right now, you know, Like I said, if you knew something about the Kansas City chief Now, do I think Mahomes is going to be ready to play Week one? All indications are yes, But I'm just guessing the Chiefs are going to say that no matter what, because I don't think you want to have that. We're not quite sure. Everything I've read is man, he's getting ready, he's ahead of schedules. Usually what you get yes, don So this might be a.

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Speaker 3: Question for Dylan.

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Speaker 7: So if they're assuming the oddsmakers that the Mahomes is going to play, and that's what it is, two.

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Speaker 3: And a half the Chiefs are favorite at home against Denver Monday Night.

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Speaker 7: How would that change if for some reason he was definitely not playing.

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Speaker 3: How would that change the eyes? Would Denver be favored? It would be a pick them.

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Speaker 7: I'm just curious how that would be if we knew Mahomes wasn't playing week one Monday Night.

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Speaker 4: My guess is that the spread would basically just flip. So the Chiefs are minus two and a half right now. I think you probably get Broncos minus two and a half. So that's what you're doing with the If you these early action bets, you're it's another level of gambling. Essentially, you're sort of gambling on these possibilities as well.

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Speaker 2: I want to say good morning those watching on Peacock download the app if you haven't done so, or radio affiliates including iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio, Scott Van Pelt from the PGA Championship. In an hour from now, Rich Eisen from The Mothership will join us in studio as well. Get phone calls. Pull question for hour one and what are we going to go with our two? All right?

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Speaker 6: Dan?

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Speaker 4: From our one, we had who would you rather have seen the Seahawks play in the season? Opener, Chiefs, Cowboys, Rams are forty nine ers. Obviously, I know two of those teams are going to be in Australia, but just for argument's sake, fifty nine percent said the Rams overwhelmingly. And have you already looked into travel for any of your team's road games? Seventy six percent say.

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Speaker 2: No, Todd has Todd was looking at local games that you could go to for the Broncos.

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Speaker 7: It's like a week seven GM or something. I s that the Broncos will be playing at the Panthers. I just didn't know when un till last night. And since I have a daughter that goes to Wake Forest, we can make a nice weekend.

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Speaker 3: Out of it. Go see her Friday night at Saturday.

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Speaker 7: Then Sunday is at one o'clock Broncos at Panthers game in Charlotte, which I definitely want to go to.

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Speaker 3: Fly back in plenty of time before Monday.

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Speaker 2: Show Lucas and Texas. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 3: Hey Dan?

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Speaker 2: Get me any good morning?

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Speaker 5: I did, and to wish you a happy birthday, but by extension, I have to wish a two day belated happy birthday to my dad Russell he's two years or two days older than you, and he's a big fan of the show, so wanted to wish him that happy birthday. But really, this introduces a question that I think only the dan Nettes or maybe your children could solve. I know you'll briefly mentioned it earlier in this section, but what do you get someone who just turned seventy. My dad is one of those who says, I just want to see my kids and my grandkids. He got that this past weekend. The physical thing he was most excited and if war was a laser pointer, so he can simply point with his laser what he is talking about rather than having to get up and explain further.

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Speaker 2: So what does Van want?

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Speaker 5: Especially from the kid demographic, would love some help in this area.

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Speaker 2: I just think handmade card photos always great, and I tell that to my wife and tell that to my kids. I don't need anything, and sometimes when they try to buy something that they think you might need, then it ends up being something that you probably wouldn't use. But a picture a card always great, especially handmade stuff always great. So Dylan, you and Paulie maybe in the next hour and a half you could probably whip something together a nice little, nice little card. Maybe you could do a step brother's photo, just like Mendoza and Kirk d Cousins.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Dylan, you don't want a second copy of the Great Golf Courses of Maine.

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Speaker 2: Who you know? I'd have one up in Maine and one here. That would be awesome. There you go. Yeah, it's not necessarily Mike and Wisconsin. I Mike, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 10: Hey, good morning Dan, Good morning fellows suck at Dylan and your dad.

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Speaker 3: Dan.

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Speaker 10: I just had to call and wish you a happy birthday.

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Speaker 5: And then I was curious, of all the gifts you've.

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Speaker 2: Gotten over the years, do you have a favorite?

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Speaker 5: Is there a best gift you've ever gotten?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. My wife got me a trip to Normandy, and she knew that I wanted to go. I had this incredible calling. I couldn't get it out of my mind. I started buying books on Normandy, started watching documentaries on Normandy. For some reason, I couldn't shake it. I had to go. I had to walk on that beach. I had to go there and see everything I could. And uh, I remember she said, uh, We're going to get a tour guide and if you do go to Normandy, get a local tour guide, because you'll skip some of the stuff that you don't need to see, and you'll see things that others won't show you. But you can't imagine. You just can't imagine eighteen nineteen twenty year olds getting off those boats and knowing and seeing up where the machine guns were and you could still see these caves up off the beach where they were there with their machine guns. And these poor kids eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one get off those boats and they had no chance, and it just, man, it hits you. It can't help it hit you. And then you go to the US Cemetery, and then you go our tour guide said we're going to get there at five o'clock, and we get there and they're playing taps oooh. Then you go to the German Cemetery, just to kind of juxtapose that powerful powerful. So I would say that that's one that I wanted to go to and left a lasting impression on me will the rest of my life. But if you do get a chance to go to Normandy, get a local tour gun.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul and your wife probably propelled the trip. You thought about it, thought about it, and then she made it happen. Sometimes we don't do that for ourselves.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done it, but I knew I had to go. I just I had to see that, I had to feel it. For some reason. They don't stay with me the rest of my life, that feeling of walking on that beach where they walked, where they died. But you can still see the little cutouts in a it's a cliff, you know. And they had machine guns, and they mounted the machine guns to not shoot straight they would I think it's called strafing, where they're shooting at angles. So they made sure that if you shoot straight ahead and you miss, then you're not hitting anybody. But they were shooting at angles from both sides and these kids had no chance there. But you know everyone that you know, And then it was just at you could see where the United States was like we're bringing in, we're bringing in some heavy artillery and you're out there on one of the beaches and the setup of what they had like this little city on water and they're bringing in they're bringing in the guns man, they're get very very powerful, and how they outsmarted the Germans as well, and you get to see this map and you know how they diagram where they were going to be, and they gave hints they were going to be someplace else. It was just a really really powerful, powerful moment. Yeah, Dyl, I think we solved your birthday gift issue.

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Speaker 4: Dan, if you remember, I have a piece of D Day barbed wire as you did this here and that Paul, and I think that would be a perfect gift for you.

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Speaker 2: Well that's nice, but Paul didn't really have anything to do with it. And it feels like it's a regift. Is it a regift? I actually, by definition I think and it's but it's a good regift. Gino in Virginia, Hi, Gino, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 10: Hey? Hey, Dan and Denni's happy birthday, Dan, Yeah, four years older than me. I'm just getting no younger. Anyways, you can't complain about Father's Day. Happy Birthday, yes, no problem, get gifts, but Father's Day, we don't get that. You can't cry about that and you're doing. Are you guys going to ever have a German meet Friday such as Brock worst Sower, krowt, Dogs, Jaegerschnisa, Palm, Fritz, Oh, I think.

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Speaker 2: We've done that before. Gino, I love Sauer Kraut. I'm I'm fine with that. Yeah, deal brings that up right after the D Day. Second timing wasn't great. Yeah, yeah. I told the story that I'm there with my wife and there's probably one hundred people around the flag as it's being brought down in the US cemetery. By the way, the cemetery is meticulous in Normandy, and they're bringing down the flag, playing taps. It's as emotional as you could possibly imagine. I get somebody who taps me on the back and then taps me again. He goes, hey, I'm friends with McLevin. It'd be great to get a picture.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: And I was. I was ready to do a Wembin Yama and just I don't owe him, and he apologized. I said, dude, I'm crying. They're playing taps, they're bringing down the American flag. We're at D Day, or we're in this cemetery, all of these you know, men who lost their goes. I know, I know, I'm sorry. Could I still get a picture? Said? Yeah, I guess still get a picture.

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Speaker 12: Yes, marm Selly in Vegas, Yes, Oh.

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Speaker 6: No, it wasn't Selly, Yes, it was.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 12: He called into the show. I was answering phones at the time, and he's telling the story.

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Speaker 2: Then he called in, but I'm taking a video of this, like I want to capture this, and you you know, I'm like the camera is it's like jolted a little bit as he's tapping me on the shoulder because he wants to get a picture. Yeah, Paul, it's a curb.

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Speaker 9: Your enthusiasm moment. Yeah, it's something from that show. Yes, and it would have gone more haywire. Oh yes, Todd, it's taps.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't mean you want to get tapped on the shoulder.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, all right, put a ball on it more.

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Speaker 7: By the way, Dad, how's my packers? What do you think of my packers this year? He should have thrown that in. Also, yeah, you're counda just be totally inappropriate to the moment.

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Speaker 9: Yes, Paul, I just heard from Selly. Still sorry, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean nice, but man, not that, I mean time and place. Yes, Dylan, Yeah, is that the.

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Speaker 4: Worst possible place for that to happen?

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Speaker 2: Or it's pretty close? Yeah, pretty close. Cemetery taps taps gets me flag cemetery.

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Speaker 6: Hey, hey, can I get a a.

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Speaker 2: He stop crying?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 2: I loved you on Sports Center. Let's take a break. You're just sobbing in the picture. Yeah yeah, yeah, Why Why is Dan Patrick crying in this picture with you? All right, we'll take a break. Albert Breer will join us Monday morning Quarterback, talk about schedule, release a few of their items for him and uh Scott Van Pelt top of the hour, Rich Eiesen an hour from now as well in studio. We're back after this on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Albert Breer is the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter, and he joins this now, Albert, I was curious about when the NFL is building its schedule, how long is this process and how do you start how do you finish?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 11: First of all, happy for you birthday, Dan, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it actually starts like the minute the regular season ends, because at that point of course we know who's playing who.

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Speaker 11: And uh, you know this has changed over the years.

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Speaker 8: I remember when I first started doing this story, and you know, Peter King did it at such a high level for so many years and covering all of this, but it almost seemed like at first it was like, you know, when I first started doing this, it was sort of like a tournament almost the way that they would narrow it and narrow it and narrow it. And it's not really that way anymore. They run like a hard to calculate number of combinations through their computers and through you know what they do with aws, and you know, I what they wind up what they spit out about six thousand what they would call playable schedules right, like based on.

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Speaker 11: All the filters they have and everything else.

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Speaker 8: And then you know, from those six thousand they narrow that down and they find what they call the leader, and then over the last couple of weeks, you know, the leader is pitted against other schedules where they actually go through it like by hand and compare one to the next, and can you beat the leader? And the leader usually gets the leader, might get knocked off, and then another schedule becomes the leader, and now you try to beat that one until you come up with what you you end up with, which was you know, Tuesday afternoon, I believe it was they had the final final edition that they had.

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Speaker 2: But how do you keep score of you got a leader in the clubhouse and then a how does another schedule get better than the one that you think is going to be the leader?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think it's like you know, you you go through it and then you troubleshoot, like, okay, like here are five issues because none of us gonna be perfect, right, so here are five issues that we have with this schedule and is there one that could solve those issues? And then you know it's like, all right, well those five issues are solid, but now there are seven issues over here, you know, So I think they try to get it to the point where there are enough, where there are there there there is perfect enough, I guess is the way to put it. And look like I think the huge part of this, as you know, is like how they've you know, like how many demands they have from their partners now from the networks, from the streaming partners. Like I try to explain this to people, you know, I think if you go back fifteen or twenty years, there were tiers to how much these were these costs the networks, right, so in other words, like ESPN was paying x amount less for Monday Night Football than what you know, NBC was playing paying for Sunday Night Football. So it was very easy for the NFL to go to ESPN say, well, you know, NBC is paying this much more than you are, so you know tough, you know, like you're going to get a worse schedule now, I'd say, you know, especially with the latest rounds of negotiations, those numbers are closer, and everybody's paying an astronomical amount to broadcast these games, and you want them to keep paying that amount. So like they're trying to keep everybody happy, and there's more equity I think across the board, which is why they've turned every game into a free agent, which is why they're more you know that they put like a higher level of demands on teams, Like I don't know if you saw the Rams schedule, but it is a gauntlet when it comes to travel in short weeks and all that different stuff. You know, it's why, like if you look at it now, and this is I mean, remember there was a time game when everybody played at least one primetime game. Well now there are more primetime games, but there are more teams maxing out too. There are eight teams and I can name Mike can pull them up here. There are eight teams that Matt they're playing either six or seven primetime games. I guess these would be the marquee teams, right, And those eight are the Cowboys, Eagles, Bears, Packers, Seahawks, Bills, Chiefs, and Rams. Meanwhile, there are five teams the Jets, Titans, Raiders, Cardinals, and Dolphins that aren't playing any primetime games as well. So like the rules of engagement here have changed. And you know, I think as.

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Speaker 2: If March Manning is with the Raiders. Yeah, this year, the Raiders have a primetime game. Oh yeah, yeah, but or Endo Mendoza is not going to get it. We don't know when he's going to play.

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Speaker 8: You don't know what he's gonna play, right like, so if you're going to put them in a primetime window, you might do it later in the year and you can always flex and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I.

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Speaker 11: Mean, it's it's, you know, one that's a huge.

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Speaker 8: Part of it, you know, you know, like I think it's just it's the curb appeal of each of these teams. And it's it's not like necessarily getting you or I because we're probably gonna be sitting there on the couch anyway watching the games. You know, it's it's how do you get like the casual face, the more casual fan engaged. And you know, a lot of times with the teams that are further down the line, that are worse teams, you know, like you have to have something that you can kind of wrap your arms around from a storyline perspective, and you know, those five teams like I, you know, you can see where the storylines are sort of lacking.

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Speaker 2: With those would you have opened up with Seattle facing New England in a Super Bowl remach.

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Speaker 11: This is an interesting question because I think you do.

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Speaker 8: Like I've gotten a lot of questions over the last twenty four hours on like how much the Vrabel storyline has to do with this.

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Speaker 11: I actually think it might now.

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Speaker 8: I asked Hans Schroeder, who's you know, the head of broadcasting in the NFL, about this yesterday and he said it didn't But if you want to be a cynic about.

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Speaker 2: That, yeah, I don't think they would be honest with you on that, Albert, Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I mean I don't need and if you want to be a cynic about it, like.

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Speaker 11: Like it's like the same thing with the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 8: You know, you got everybody bitching and moaning out who the halftime show is every year.

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Speaker 11: Again, that's not about like the football fan. That's about pulling in the casual viewer.

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Speaker 8: And I think you know, if you put Mike Vrabel in the the the in that Wednesday night slot, there might be some curiosity from people like that don't really follow the league like you or I do, that are like, oh yeah, like I remember that story back in May and June.

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Speaker 11: Maybe I won't go out for that hike.

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Speaker 8: You know, this afternoon, maybe I will sit down and watch football this afternoon because I want see, I want like an update on where things are with that guy that I was paying so much attention to, and my social media was plastered with through you know, April and May.

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Speaker 11: If you want to be a.

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Speaker 8: Cynic, you can look at it that way, where you could say, okay, but it was the Patriots or the Bears, like the Patriots might have more appeal to the casual fan because of the tabloid nature of the story that we've all been you know, like it seems like America has been locked in on over the last month or so. You know, I personally think from a football perspective, the Bears might have been the more interesting team.

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Speaker 11: It's a bigger market, you know, And I agree with Caleb.

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Speaker 8: There's like more curiosity with Caleb Williams that the Super Bowl wasn't very competitive.

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Speaker 11: So do you want to see that again?

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Speaker 8: You know, I think from a pure football perspective, Chicago might have actually made more sense.

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Speaker 11: But as we all know, it's it's bigger than just that.

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Speaker 2: I am curious about football night in America. Somebody is going to do a sit down with Mike Grabel. I'm against getting ready to show you that game. I'm curious how much of this off the field that Diana Russini portion of this Mike Brabel's story can come up in an interview that is maybe not football related, it's almost football adjacent. So can you if you send Jason Garrett to do a sit down, you know, one on one, Yeah, what can you ask that would be pertinent to the actual game itself while also acknowledging that this has to have been a distraction this right, you know, he left the last day of the draft to go to counseling. So how do you make it a sports story if I.

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Speaker 8: Was on the other end, if I was sitting across from him in that setting, and I'm Jason Garrett or I'm Rodney Harrison or whoever else. First of all, I think part of it is relative to whether or not he's done the whatever you want.

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Speaker 11: To call it, the.

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Speaker 8: Today Show interview between now and then, right, because if he has actually sat down and addressed it in full, it'd.

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Speaker 11: Be easier for you, if you're.

00:27:15
Speaker 8: NBC, to just say, well, we've all moved on from that, he's addressed it. If he hasn't addressed it by then, then I think it becomes the elephant in the room if you don't address it right like, because if it's still sitting out there is something that hasn't been you know, fully vetted or gone through in that sort of setting, and you're the first one to get in one on one since has happened, then I think it becomes the elephant in the room if you don't address it.

00:27:39
Speaker 7: You know.

00:27:39
Speaker 8: So I think like just from you know, having been in those sorts of seats before and you know, interviewing people in these sorts of settings, it does part of it does ride on how much of the subject matter has already been covered.

00:27:56
Speaker 3: You know.

00:27:56
Speaker 11: And then I think the other piece of it is just kind of like you.

00:27:59
Speaker 8: Know, you you if you want to keep it in the football context, like the football context of it is relatively easy, like how did does this affect, you know, the way that you did your job in April and May and June, and how did it affect your relationship with your players? And you've preached about, you know, about family and welcome so many people's you know, spouses and children into the building and you've made it that environment, Like, has this in any way affected your ability to do that?

00:28:24
Speaker 11: Like, I think that.

00:28:25
Speaker 8: There are there are fair questions, and look like Mike's a logical guy. Mike's a really smart guy. I think Mike deep down is a really good, really good guy. You know, I really believe that I've known him since he was a player, Like I I think, I guess he's a really good human being, you know, Like at his core, I think he understands that this sort of question is going to come, you know, and I think.

00:28:50
Speaker 11: He's smart enough to navigate it.

00:28:51
Speaker 8: And you know, if we could all be grown ups about it, Like I think he would answer questions on it. Now that's just me talking, but like, you know, I think as long as it wouldn't adversely affect the other people in his life, which is the wild card and all this.

00:29:05
Speaker 11: How does this affect his wife? How does this affect his sons?

00:29:08
Speaker 8: I think you know, he would be I like, I like, I'd imagine like.

00:29:12
Speaker 11: You know, he would, he would, he would take.

00:29:15
Speaker 8: The questions, and I don't like it. I think he understands the way all this works. He's again, like he's been in the public eye for so long, for more than half of his life. I think he kind of he kind of gets the rules of engagement here talking.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: To Albert Brier the Monday Morning quarterback. How close are we too? Every team will have an international game?

00:29:37
Speaker 11: You mean every year?

00:29:37
Speaker 8: Yeah, as soon as we get eighteen games, I think it happens.

00:29:40
Speaker 2: Okay, And when is eighteen games happening? Well?

00:29:44
Speaker 8: I mean like there's still that thing hanging out there that there's no date for the super Bowl after the twenty twenty seven season in Atlanta, you know, Like so I like that to me has been sort of the smoking gun on what their plans are for a long time.

00:29:57
Speaker 6: Now.

00:29:58
Speaker 8: You know, the NFLPA has newly leadership, JC Tretterers and is the executive director.

00:30:03
Speaker 11: What's his stance on eighteen games?

00:30:05
Speaker 8: They haven't been that public about it yet, They let their let their feelings have been known on other subjects like the grass versus turf debate and all of that. So you got to figure all of that out.

00:30:17
Speaker 3: You know, I did.

00:30:17
Speaker 8: I did ask Peter O'Reilly, who's the head of events for the NFL a month or two ago, like when you actually have to set the date for that Atlanta super Bowl? And he said, you would have to set it like before the start of the season, before that Super Bowl year, so that will be the start of this season. So you can you can you can you move fast enough now to get something in place and agreement in place for the twenty seven season. I think we're that close of where the owners want to do it. Whether or not they can pull it off that fast. They can't make that decision unilaterally, so it's going to a lot of it's going to come down to the players of cooperation. But I will say this, like I think when they go to eighteen games, I think we're talking about a sixteen game schedule of international and I think then the rhythm becomes for teams that you play internationally once a year and one year that means nine home games, eight road games, and a neutral site, and then the following year eight home games, nine road games and a neutral site.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: Are there any more live windows for the NFL to go after.

00:31:28
Speaker 11: That's a good question. I mean, I I.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: Mean, Friday night's off limits because of high school football.

00:31:35
Speaker 8: As a high school football right, and then Saturday is off limits because of college football and the rules there, and I think they should respect those.

00:31:42
Speaker 11: By the way, you.

00:31:44
Speaker 8: Know, I mean like Netflix has kind of like created this like events package almost, I think is what they would refer to it as, where they have a week one game, a week eighteen game, two on Christmas and one on Thanksgiving Eve. I just don't know the holiday would be outside of what they've already covered, you.

00:32:02
Speaker 11: Know what I mean.

00:32:04
Speaker 8: And I think you see like the breaking point where they need more inventory. I had a look at the master schedule yesterday morning, and so I'm going through it trying to digest as much as I can. And what was really jarring to me Dan was looking at week sixteen, and in week sixteen, which is the Christmas week, they have a Christmas EVE game, three Christmas Day games, two Saturday games, a Monday game, a Sunday night game, and so that Sunday afternoon window. CBS had two games in the early window. Fox had two games in the early window, and then they had one a piece in the late window, and that was it. And two games are going to fall out from the Saturday cluster, so it'll be a little more than that.

00:32:46
Speaker 11: But this, I think it shows why.

00:32:48
Speaker 8: They want eighteen games, because they want more inventory. But it also shows there may be a little bit of a breaking point as far as like do we still respect Sunday as like what you and I grew up watching was like this is like massive buffet of football, you know, on Sunday at one o'clock, at four o'clock.

00:33:08
Speaker 11: I love that, you know what I mean? So I'd hate to see that go away.

00:33:12
Speaker 8: So it's just gonna be interesting to see the way that that that that that's handled. I just don't know where the extra windows would be. Maybe it's Labor Day and they they they they go in on Labor Day and try to turn that into a big kickoff weekend. If they don't want to move the super Bowl even further back, and they do want to end the second they do want to have the second bye week, that would.

00:33:33
Speaker 11: Be one one one area. I just could see them going in.

00:33:36
Speaker 8: I'm not sure where the next broadcast one no is, but if it's out there, I guarantee you that they're.

00:33:40
Speaker 11: Gonna find it.

00:33:41
Speaker 2: Thank you, Albert, have a great weekend, awesome thanks DP. Happy birthday, Albert Breer. They like to call him Bert. The Monday morning quarterback will take a break. We'll have Scott Van Pelt Top of the Hour, Rich isisen, will stop by the man cave. Your phone calls in the on deck circle after this.

00:33:57
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00:34:08
Speaker 2: We are outside in the grilling area, the Rectech grilling area. Chef Greg came in. I don't know what he's making, but it looks fabulous. It's a meat cake that I've never seen or heard of before, but boy does it look good. Yes, Dylan, he.

00:34:24
Speaker 4: Showed me a picture of a previously made meat cake and it is exactly looks exactly what it sounds like.

00:34:31
Speaker 2: It is a cake made out of meat. Yeah. That was my nickname in high school, the meat cake meat cake. Oh no, it was beefcake. Yes, yes, Marvin, who called you that one? Okay?

00:34:43
Speaker 11: No, one, No.

00:34:45
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00:35:02
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00:35:04
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00:35:19
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00:35:23
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00:35:26
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00:35:44
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00:35:52
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00:36:24
Speaker 5: Dan just want to reach out and say happy. Birthday today is also my son's first birthday and his name Is Maverick. Patrick last year we called in about three days after he was.

00:36:35
Speaker 2: Born in the midst of him being, born didn't realized it was your. Birthday so you're.

00:36:41
Speaker 5: Late in saying that it's crazy with it being his first. Birthday how something like so happy can also be so. Sad you look at it, like, yeah how'd we get here a?

00:36:52
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00:37:20
Speaker 10: Birthday?

00:37:20
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00:37:30
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00:37:50
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00:37:52
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00:38:14
Speaker 3: Hey what's?

00:38:15
Speaker 1: Up Dand i'm on my way To, Bishop california going fishing with my.

00:38:20
Speaker 5: Dog, hey happy, Birthday.

00:38:23
Speaker 2: Thank, you Reg thank. You i'm going to do some fishing next. WEEK i think do a little, uh a little trout, fishing do a little. Golfing, Yes dil when are we going to go fishing?

00:38:36
Speaker 11: Together dan m?

00:38:38
Speaker 2: Oh how about In. Tahoe all, right we could go To trucky and you, know famous for fly fishing. There maybe That saturday Or sunday before we go To, tahoe we'll be out there for the big celebrity golf. Event maybe a little fly fishing golf combo. Day it's not push, it, okay you, know let's see how fly fishing. Goes well's stick to one for. Now, yeah because there's some, serenity some quiet when you go fly. Fishing, yeah it's just, you your fly rod and the fish and the. Trees, sometimes well you got to be careful of the. Trees that's what people don't. Understand it's like you go ten and you go. Two it's like.

00:39:27
Speaker 1: Or just roll.

00:39:28
Speaker 2: Cast, yeah that's what my wife. Did she wanted to learn how to fly fish when we were on, vacation and the fishing guide, said why don't you just roll it? Over you don't try to pull out the more line and throw it out there thirty or forty. Feet, yeah it looks a whole lot easier than it. Is but everybody wants to fly. Fish and then you do it once and you go, Okay i'm, Done i'm. DONE i love there there's a rhythm to. It and AND i like working for catching the. FISH i don't like to just throw it out, there put a little bobber on, it put a worm on, it and then just let it sit and then you grab a. BEER i like, working, uh working the fish a little bit little strategy, There, yes Doing and you can still drink while you're five.

00:40:16
Speaker 6: Fishing you.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: Can it's a little tougher, though because you're using both. Hands. Yeah, yeah MAYBE i could bring you and then you could be holding a beer and then like you, know pouring it down my. Throat caddy for you hour? Fishing. Uh poll results from the second, hour there's we're already two hours. In damn like a one more hour on my? Birthday, yeah well you have more than an hour of your. Birthday what are you?

00:40:44
Speaker 11: Doing are you doing anything?

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Tonight going to? Dinner kids are coming in and, hey eating at five. O'clock, yes that means, cigar maybe some. Tequila, uh maybe tuck the grandkids in and then go to bed soon after they, do and then watch a little bit of basketball as. Well all, right two hours in the, books one more to. Go scott Van pelt will join. Us Van peasey and we will also talk To Riche. EISEN i think he's joining us here in the Man cave on a Meet. Friday Fritzy, Dylan Marv, Paulie i'm going to be in the confessional coming. Up if you're watching On peacock