Albert Breer

So I'm starting to see that there's a through line.

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I'm down to talk about crack all day, but just so y'all know.

I mean, at this point, Mark, this is the second episode where we've discussed crack.

So I'm starting to see that there's a through line.

This goes back like seven months for them.

And I think, you know, the mistake people make is thinking this was like a coronation.

The Raiders just worked really far ahead on him.

And I can tell you, like, you know, you get to right around New Year's Day and they were basically down to, OK, it's going to be

Fernando Mendoza or Dante Moore.

And then Dante Moore makes the decision to go back to school.

And I think that sort of made it academic for them.

But they had gone out, looked at all these guys live.

They were at, you know, the GM, John Spitek, was at Purdue on a really cold night when I think Mendoza probably had his worst game of the year.

And he had actually the night before gone to see Brendan Sorsby at Cincinnati, who's another guy who wound up, you know, back in school.

So they had spent the entire fall kind of canvassing and going and seeing a lot of these guys live and doing all the homework.