It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Happy Thursday to you. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well. I hope you are amazing. This is when the show gets started every weekday, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm in Atlanta. Thank you to our super producer and host, Ryan Hickey.
He is in New York City. What a Thursday, right? You know what this means. We're exactly a week away from the NFL Draft. I mean, we've been talking about it, waiting for it, and we only have one more week to go before we figure out where Cam Ward goes and what happens with Chador, what happens with Travis Hunter.
By the way, everybody is kissing Travis on his backside, okay? New York Giants have great things to say about him. Number one, the Browns who select before them.
And number two, the Browns have amazing things to say about Travis Hunter. We'll talk about that in a bit. And then we'll get into some other things.
How about this? The moment you've been waiting for, Aaron Rodgers, he spoke today. We'll get into that in a second. What did he say? He didn't give you anything really.
He just listened to himself speak and now he doesn't understand why people say that he just loves the attention. He doesn't get it. Anyway, we ain't got no basketball today. NHL regular season is ending tonight. NBA play-in games take place tomorrow. We got some pathetic teams. I mean, only ones that maybe matter, Memphis, maybe the Miami Heat, the other squads, the Hawks, oh, the Mavs, forget about it. Speaking of miserable teams, Sacramento Kings, their season is done.
They waited all of like 90 minutes to get rid of their general manager. Looks like the Pelicans have a new boss in Joe Dumars. Whether or not Zion is around, we'll figure it out. Zion never healthy. Maybe Damian Lillard is on his way to being healthy. Matt Ishby of the Phoenix Suns, an unhealthy relationship with every single one of his coaches. This guy goes through coaches like people go through their underwear, hopefully a pair or so a day.
Okay. Nico Iemaliava. It looks like he may be going out west. I think we know that already. It may or may not be UCLA.
That ridiculous nonsense continues on. Hey, back on the basketball side in a couple of hours, we're going to be joined by a former head coach in the NBA, someone who won an NBA championship. I'm not going to call this guy this name, but he was called the little general. We're going to be joined by Avery Johnson. He's going to come through to talk some NBA in a little while. How about this?
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I am at JR sport brief all over the damn place. Before we get into Aaron Rogers, who a lot of times is all over the place. I want to ask this man how he's doing. Ryan Hickey, how are you feeling on this Thursday? You good?
I'm good. I'm feeling in place. If Aaron Rogers is all over the place, you're feeling I like Hickey, you a poet. You ever done poetry? No, but some have said that I'm a poet.
I just didn't even know it. I'm supposed to give you some snaps right now. You like that? That's all I got.
I have nothing left in the tank. I just completely emptied it in those last two sentences. Were the snaps audible through the airwaves? Did you hear the snaps? I heard the snaps. Okay.
All right. There we go. A little poetry slam.
I thought poetry slams always on Friday, but we got a little poetry slam here on a Thursday. Thank you so much to Ryan Hickey. Ryan Hickey always in place. Aaron Rogers out of place and snap, snap, snap, snap.
Yeah. And it's April 17th. I said, we're a week away from the draft. And when I found out Aaron Rogers spoke today on Pat McAfee, I said to myself, what did he say?
Probably a lot of nothing. And that's exactly what the hell he did. Aaron Rogers had an opportunity last week, I believe it was. Pat McAfee had that event in the arena, downtown Pittsburgh, PP&G, Paints Arena, whatever the heck it's called.
A bunch of guys just standing around. But that's, that's too normal for Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers can't make an announcement amongst Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa and Sidney Crosby. Aaron Rogers has to stand alone when he makes his decision. Like maybe next week in the afternoon when he says he's going to be joining the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But not, not in, not in public, not like that. And so Aaron Rogers sat down with Pat McAfee and there's so many questions. Is Aaron Rogers, you think about playing for the Steelers?
What do you think about the Vikings? Are you still going to retire? Are you going to quit? What did you eat for breakfast? What have you been up to?
And there's so many questions. He sat down with this dude for about 45 minutes. We are not doing that here. We are not listening. It's Aaron Rogers for 45 minutes. But we will play a couple of clips.
The most important one. Hey, we got these teams out there, specifically the Steelers. They felt that they're close to acquiring your 41 year old services. Is that where you're going Aaron Rogers? Or are you going to retire and quit?
Is that an option? I wasn't, you know, stringing anybody along. I wasn't holding anybody hostage. I was honest from the jump about where I was at mentally. And so I was going to be honest from the jump about where I was at mentally. And some of the constraints that I have in my life right now that have to warrant my attention. So yeah, you know, I'm open to anything and attached to nothing.
So yeah, retirement still could be a possibility. But right now, my focus has been and has been and will continue to be on my personal life. Okay, we can tell. We can tell. He says, unfortunately, someone in his inner circle is dealing with something very serious. What the hell that means? I don't know.
You can draw your conclusions. Aaron Rogers has to speak like the Riddler. He can't talk like us normal everyday folks. He just can't say, hey, I got a personal issue.
Somebody has to be his inner circle. Hickey, when did he learn that? You think he was 20, 25 or 30? He wasn't.
He didn't have an inner circle when he was 18 years old, right? No, probably not. Right.
I don't think so. Yeah, I've never heard. I've never heard somebody in kindergarten or in high school say, hey, you know what? What are you doing?
Well, I got to get together with my inner circle. We have to got to eat crayons. I didn't hear that, you know, the inner circle at boot university or was it boot college?
I think it was the junior college. No, no, no. He just got so advanced. You know, his brain is so past us. He can't have he can't have friends and family.
He has to have an inner circle. Okay. All right. Well, what a guy.
18 years old. Hey, guys, you want to get together and have a beer? Well, who are you going with? I'm just going with my inner circle. I know who says that, man.
Nobody. Anyway, whatever the hell is going on with his life, I wish him nothing but the best. But what about the football stuff? So he's open to anything.
I'm trying to. What do you say? He's open to anything down for whatever.
What is that? I said that. Okay. He's up. He's down. He's all around.
He is. He said something of the sort somewhere around. But we asked about the Steelers or Pat McAfee asked about the Steelers because we heard their owner, Art Rooney, was just like, we feel good that we're on the way to acquiring his services. Well, man, that was like three weeks ago. Aaron Rodgers is still sitting around in a wholesome way, hanging out with his inner circle. And Aaron Rodgers says, do I have a deadline?
What? Listen to this. This entire time, I haven't felt like I owed anybody some sort of decision at any point.
This is my life. And I've been up front with them about that and said, listen, if you need to move on, if you need to do something, by all means, by all means, like nothing but love and respect, if that's a decision that needs to be made. But there's been no deadline. And yeah, I've talked to I've talked to Mike T many times. He talked to Mike. Mike T. Hickey, did you hear the part where he even detailed how he got to the facility? Nobody was supposed to know. Did you hear that story? Yeah. Like, was it a rented Malibu?
I think it was. And he went through a side entrance and some fan found the photo, found the car, upset about it. Yeah, he didn't even fly into into Pittsburgh's airport. He just flew into somewhere else and then just took a Chevy Malibu because I guess Aaron Rodgers getting out of an Escalade would be, hey, that's Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers wouldn't get out of a Malibu.
No, he wouldn't. What a guy. Hickey, his book is going to be amazing. Okay.
When he writes a book, it's going to be amazing. You think? Yeah, I'm going to give it to you for the holidays.
Yeah. No, please don't. Save money. I'd rather have no gift than that. You could put it right on your living room table. People come over and they go, hey, what you're reading?
Hickey, you just go that? Look at it. How long would it be? That feels like a thousand page book. He has a lot to say. Would he write his own Bible? That's what it might sound like, that guy. No, that'll be some good firewood, that's for sure.
The Gospel of Aaron Rodgers. Wouldn't be surprised at all. That's what it'd be. You know, I always joke about listening to superstar players and what their retirement, you know, speeches might sound like Kawhi Leonard's retirement speech will be hilarious. Nicola Jokic, his retirement will be crazy. Wes Brooks will be interesting.
But then Aaron Rodgers, whoa, what is that going to be? What is, is he going to go the Michael Jordan, I still hate everybody route? Is he going to be self-righteous? Is he going to give us like 60 seconds and sit down?
Is he going to just disappear off the face of the earth? I mean, well, no, he can't. This guy does so much talking. He would not turn down an opportunity to have a bunch of microphones in front of him. Now, having said that, he was asked more questions.
Okay, you're dealing with something in your inner circle. Well, if you got offered a ton of money, would you come back? And we know you're rich, you're wealthy. You was complaining about the money you had to spend on your jet for the New York Jets meeting.
We'll get to that in a second. Do you want some money back, Aaron? There's been a lot of people assuming they have information about me. That's just not true. I've been straight up with these teams from the start about where I was at, you know, starting with the money thing. You know, I told every single one of the teams I talked to, they ain't about the money. I'll play for 10 M's.
You know, I don't care. I never once said I need a multi-year deal. Thirty, forty million dollars is absolute bullshit. I said play for 10. Damn, why is it, Hickey, it's still about the money then. Like, I don't think that's the veteran's minimum.
He could show up for the minimum, huh? Like, what's the difference? I mean, I get it.
This is rich people talking. It's not like Aaron Rodgers is saying I need that Dak Prescott money. Give me 60. It's not like he's saying give me 40, give me 30. And 10 is still something. He could show up and play for two if it's not about the money.
Whatever the vet minimum is for his age, probably about three or four, maybe. Yeah, but also at that point, once I think you're under 30, isn't it all the same? Like, aren't you, it's more about setting the tone and the precedent than the actual dollar figure, right? Yeah, but why say it then it's not about the money. Like, if it's not about the money, just flat take the minimum and shut up. That's what I'm, from his perspective, yeah. But from the team's perspective, why can't you use that?
I don't know. Seven, eight million dollars to do something else with if it's not about the money. Come on. I'll give him credit in the sense of he has put his money where his mouth is. You know, I gave the, what was it, 30 million dollars back to the Jets two years ago. Like, at least in terms of the money aspect, he has made it clear, I think, to be fair to him, has followed through for the most part about trying to help the team out financially, not just taking the biggest piece of the pie, you know, money-wise to...
I agree. But if we're talking about now, just shut up and take less. If it's not about the money, forget 10, okay? You're driving a hard bargain. No, but I'm saying if you're telling me it's not about the money and you're coming back, obviously, you're old ass, you're 41 years old, you want to win a championship. If it's not about the money, take the minimum and shut up. I don't care how much money you left on the table with the New York Jets. I don't care how much you save.
Who cares? If I'm the Pittsburgh Steelers and I say, hey, bruh, you know, we get a wide receiver off the scrap heap. We can, you know, save this money for the guys that we got to sign out of the draft. We can save some cash if we just give you the minimum.
Are you taking a minimum? Like, that's the part I want to know. Would he say yes to that or is he just like, no, it has to be 10. Come on now. I'm not playing for free.
Shut up and go home then. And you talk about the money that he gave up with the New York Jets. He did give up about 30 plus million dollars at the end of his deal. Aaron Rodgers talked about his, I don't want to say his release, his time with the Jets, with the new regime led by head coach Aaron Glenn. Let's just say that Aaron Rodgers was not enamored with their meeting.
Apparently he met with them. We know what happened. The Jets told him, no, thank you.
We don't want you. And Aaron Rodgers wasn't happy with how it went down. Welcome to the New York Jets.
Aaron Rodgers, misery loves company. So we sit down in the office. I think we're going to have this long conversation. I've flown across the country and 20 seconds in he goes, I mean, literally I'm talking to the GM about something and he leans to the edge of his sheet and goes, should you want to play football? And I was like, yeah, I'm interested. And he said, we're going a different direction than quarterback.
And I was kind of shocked now, not shocked because I didn't think that was a possibility, but shocked because I just flew across country. You could have told me this on the phone and this is verbatim exactly how it happened. So I said, huh? And he goes, we just want to know how you want it released the messaging. And I said, I don't give a about the message. And I said, why? And then he said, I don't want to be up in front of the room saying something and have guys looking back at you. And I said, what does that even mean? Are you assuming that I would be in the back of the room during the team meeting, undermining what you're saying? I said, you don't know me. And he said, you don't know me. And then I said, exactly. Which is why I flew across the country to have a face-to-face meeting with you to talk about my experience with the jets.
What I thought was going to be a couple hour meeting turned into like a 15 minute meeting. Oh my, Hickey, I would pay to see that. Even how he described it, you know, it's true. I could see it.
I could see it with my own eyes between him and Aaron Glenn. Hilarious. Hilarious.
That Hickey, that should be in a clip hall of fame. That was funny as hell, man. Sounds like a lunch conversation between like two seventh graders. You don't know me.
Well, you don't know me. But it's crazy because there's so much truth in it. And I've been saying this. One of the reasons that Rob Salah kept getting his ass handed to him in the court of public opinion is because Aaron Rogers was undermining him. Like it's the ego on Aaron Rogers not to understand that he undermines the coach just by sitting down with Pat McAfee.
Like that's beyond him. Like this is the same Aaron Rogers, what, a year ago before he got the boot. He basically said the New York Jets need less distractions. Not realizing that he's the biggest distraction by not by not fitting in and ensure you can fit in in the locker room. But man, everybody ain't sitting around doing 45 minute media appearances on the biggest sports show on ESPN or talk show or what have you.
Like, what are we doing? Like, I still think he's going to come back. I don't know what his personal issue is in his inner circle. All the best to him and whatever the heck he's going through and whatever he's dealing with and his family, friend, whatever. I wish him nothing but the best in that regard, unless something is really going to eat him up, unless something is really going to tear him down. I find it hard to believe that we've seen the last of Aaron Rogers on a football field. I really do.
I don't know his personal life and neither do you unless you're in his inner circle. But outside of that, all things considered, if things are OK, which I hope they are, I think he's going to be throwing that rock for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I really do. It's a match and it's necessary. And I think we'll find out. Hickey, I'm not saying it'll be Aaron Rodgers next week.
Next Thursday. We're getting something. I don't know if it'll be Aaron Rodgers.
I don't know if it'll be Brock Purdie's contract. We are getting some type of piece of news next Thursday before the draft. You think so?
Yeah, yes, I would agree. Yes, something. Somebody is going to give us something. Somebody is going to find this to be the opportune time to just say. It's my time now you gotta remember me on this day too. Let's see if it's Rodgers or maybe he'll wait for Wednesday.
Try to get ahead of the draft. I don't know. We'll find out. Aaron Rodgers has spoken.
Haven't heard from this guy in about four months. Here we go. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We are not going anywhere. You know exactly where to find us on the other side of the break. I love it. Aaron Rodgers talking about the New York Jets like they're dysfunctional. Pretty hilarious. When we come back on the other side of the break, we'll talk real dysfunction. The Dallas Mavericks are still playing basketball.
That's hilarious. And the Sacramento Kings. Yeah, people are just used to them being goofy and dysfunctional at this point. We'll get into them on the other side of the break. We'll talk about Travis Hunter.
He needs a sitcom. Everybody loves Travis. Hey, you know what? We just talked about the Steelers a little bit. Let's also talk about the Vikings because are they not still in the mix for Aaron Rodgers? We'll discuss that. Damian Lillard looks like he might be in the mix to return in the first, I don't know, first round playoff series. We'll find out.
We'll get into Nico Iamaliaba. I told you former NBA champion current CBS Sports analyst Avery Johnson is going to join us. So we got a lot to get into. We're throwing the ball. We're kicking the ball. We're shooting the ball. We're hitting the ball.
We're doing it all. It's the JR sport re-show Coast to Coast on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network.
We opened up the show by hearing from someone we haven't heard from in four months. He's back. He's Aaron Rodgers saying a lot of nothing. He might retire. He might play. He might play. He might retire.
He doesn't like how the judge treated him at the end. Y'all deserve each other. Good.
Congratulations. Dysfunction meets dysfunction. And speaking of dysfunction, the NBA has a night off. We're going to figure out who is the eighth seed in both the East and the Western conferences tomorrow night. And then those winners will then play on Sunday. We know who's going to take on the, well, we don't. That's why these guys are losers. We know who's going to take on the number two seeds.
Okay. On one end, we have the Golden State Warriors who are now going to take on the Rockets. And then on the other end, on the East side, we have the Boston Celtics, the number two seed. They're going to take on the Orlando Magic. And so what we have tomorrow is a bunch of losers trying to get into eighth place to take on the Cleveland Cavaliers, who happened to be number one in the East. And then also the Oklahoma City Thunder, who happened to be number one in the West. And so in the East, we have Miami at Atlanta. That's tomorrow.
And then how about this one? We got Dallas at Memphis. These should actually be two decent games. I think I'd take Miami over Atlanta here in Atlanta, but being here in Atlanta, some of the role plays might step up.
I wouldn't be shocked if the Hawks won, but I'd give the edge to Miami. And in Dallas at Memphis, how about this? We recently learned a few minutes ago that John Morant, who sprained his ankle in that game, I believe it was Tuesday night against Golden State. And, you know, it looked like he was on his way to putting Golden State down. He's a game time decision tomorrow.
And how about this? Nico Harrison might be patting himself on the back. I guess every small victory for Nico Harrison with the Dallas Mavericks is a good one. And so we'll see what happens between Dallas and Memphis tomorrow.
But let's get the dysfunction part out the way. We had a team who lost last night. The Sacramento Kings, they lost to the Dallas Mavericks 120 to 106. These kings, they suck. They don't play no defense. It doesn't matter who's coaching the team.
Doug Christie, Mike Brown, all a complete waste of time. They added Zach LaVine to do what? They got DeMar DeRozan. We know what he does. Just mid range jumpers and turnarounds.
He's lethal. They got DeMonte Sabonis. Like the Kings are just a, they're whatever team. And so apparently they're getting ready to make Scott Perry their new GM. Used to work with the Pistons, used to work with the New York Knicks. Because right after the game ended, the Sacramento Kings fired their GM, Monty McNair. This is like Vivek Ranadive, who's basically owned the Sacramento Kings since almost 2013.
That's more than 10 years now, 12 years. This guy just, he's ridiculous. I mean, there were jokes about him making the, the draft selections on draft night. There are jokes about this man, you know, trying to implement his own offense that he runs for his, you know, five-year-old's basketball games. Sacramento Kings are nuts. At least Monty McNair helped get them out of the toilet. There was 16 years, 16 years for the Kings between playoff appearances. And so now they start again. A new coach, Doug Christie, God only knows if he's going to stick around.
They are just an embarrassment. How about this, DeMonte Sabonis, a man of very few words. Today, he was asked what the Kings need to do in the off season.
And I don't know if his answer is trade me, but listen to what he said. The biggest thing is we need a point guard. That's for sure. Oh damn. Wow. Hickey, remind me what they did with their all-star point guard. What did they do with him?
Oh, 1D Iron Fox traded him. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. What a world.
What a, what a world. Yeah, he's going to be throwing lobs up to Victor Winbanyama when Winbanyama gets his, gets his arm together or his clotting together. Well, the clot goes away.
And speaking of clots, Damian Lillard, we'll talk about his clot. I think it, I think it's gone. I think it's gone.
They said it's gone. They said he's no longer on blood thinning medication. Good for him.
Good stuff. You know, somebody else who thinks the Kings are nuts besides everybody, Brian Winhorse. Hickey, I only thought he carried LeBron's bags. That's not true. Not after this clip, not true at all.
Oh, that's right. He, LeBron says he's not his friend. He doesn't know him like that.
Okay. He's weird apparently. Ah, LeBron said he's, that's not a nice thing. Why would LeBron say that? That's not a nice thing to say about another man.
Weird. Why Brian, Brian Winhorse should have came back and called him weird. What would LeBron do then? Nothing. He got to shut up. That's true. He'd be bullying.
It'd be bullying at that point, right? Well, how about your weird LeBron for calling me weird. Anyway, Brian Winhorse, not weird. He said something that made plenty of sense. He said the Sacramento Kings, they suck.
He said this on ESPN. How many coaches did they go through in Sacramento over the last 17 years? They finally found a coach who put them on the right path. And Mike Brown, they liked him so much. They gave him a contact extension last summer and they fired him two months into the season.
This is the definition of why they have been a baggage organization for decades. You know, it's bad. Michael Malone just got fired from the Denver Nuggets and Michael Malone, when they fired Mike Brown, Michael Malone said that guy over there, Vivek and Adeve, he said that they are bad organization to ultimately be fired by his own as well. Hey, let's go through these, these head coaches on the Sacramento Kings. If you can name all of these dudes, then just, I don't even know. What do you, Hickey, what did they get? Nothing, right?
You get the satisfaction of being a miserable Kings fan? You need some sort of prize if you can name them all, cause that's impressive. Yeah, here we go. It's a long list. You got, and I'm, some of these I forgot about, wow. What, who the hell is this?
You got, well, I'm like, what is this? You got Mike Brown, Doug Christie, Luke Walton, yeah, he was there. Alvin Gentry, Dave Yeager. Remember him? And then he coached Memphis. Where the hell did he, where is he right now? He's on the bench somewhere being an assistant. Oh, wow.
Assistant in Milwaukee. Wow. What a world. Okay. You got the guy, oh, George Carr was, wow, George Carr with the Kings. Yep. You have Michael Malone, Tyrone Corbin.
You have Keith Smart, Paul Westfall. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
These, and this is just over the past about 12 years. Wow. The Sacramento Kings. They, they are the New York Jets of the West coast.
That's just, just what it is. Go through everybody. Everybody gets a chance.
Everybody gets a turn. The Kings are nuts. In basketball, we should at least graduate and move to a place.
And it's not possible. It's not a free world, commerce space, but imagine if we were able to, if the fans were able to vote owners out. Imagine if the fans had to say so like, hey, after, you know, I don't know, 10 years, I, Hickey, is that too long? Like eight to 10 years, if a team doesn't hit a certain benchmark, then you could be voted off as the owner and somebody else could buy the team.
Is that doing too much? No, I think 10 years is fine because at that point, especially depending on the situation, you know, you want to implement your own style and people, probably we could even lower to five realistically, but 10 is fair. I'm thinking if you're the owner, you get, you maybe get two, maybe three different people to come in and run the organization.
And at that point, if you suck, then there's just out with you and in with out with you and in with somebody else. I look at the Boston Celtics who are currently in the process of switching ownership and ownership approval. Like is a new guy going to come in with his group? Is he going to decide to save money?
I would think so. I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, Tatum and Brown or primarily Brown, I don't, everybody knows Tatum's a better player. Who cares who won the NBA finals MVP? I expect Brown to end up somewhere else.
I'd be shocked if they finished their careers together. I mean, we got A-Rod and his guy. Hickey, Laurie, is that his name? Yeah.
Mark Laurie. Yeah. I'd be, I'd be, they already started cutting salary. If they could get Rudy Gobert and send him back to France, I bet you they'd do that too, but they can't. They can't. Well, maybe they can. The way the world is going now.
I was just going to say, it's a lot easier than you think right now. Yeah. Maybe they can send Rudy. Hickey, if he coughs the wrong direction, he putting him on a plane.
Okay. He sent him down to South America too. He's like, I've never been. He's like, we don't care right now.
It doesn't matter. Yeah, but everybody's trying to cut money, cut salary. So we'll see what happens. I just feel bad for the Kings fans. They had that one spurt, 2023.
Monty McNair was executive of the year. Everybody was real hyped about lighting up that stupid giant purple flashlight they had outside, light the beam. And now people realize that, man, we are back to the toilet. Pretty embarrassing for these Sacramento Kings. What a world.
It's the JR Sport Breeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I still can't believe the Mavericks may get into the postseason. That would be hilarious. Maybe there'll be some vindication for Nico Harrison, but you know what? When we come back, we're going to hear from some GMs on the NFL side because he had the draft is a week away. We have some general managers. Well, they're going to try to make some moves that make them look good. And as a result right now, everybody is kissing the backside of Travis Hunter.
Sounds like a good idea. If you're a GM, it's the JR Sport Breeze Show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Breeze.
It is the JR Sport Breeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We talked some NBA basketball, got these playing games tomorrow. We got the Kings firing, GM firing the coach, the owner can't go out there and fire himself. And sports has become so volatile if you're an executive, like it doesn't matter who you are, what job you have. The players have the best job security. And all these contracts are guaranteed. You're a GM, you get fired, you still get paid.
You're a player. We know they're still getting paid. Coaches getting fired. They are still getting paid. And the owners are making billions of dollars.
So I guess maybe they do not care if I got to pay 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 million dollars for a guy to just go away. And being a general manager is tough, right? Fans always criticizing you.
Your owner is criticizing you. You got to massage the players' egos. You got to get along with the coach, maybe.
Otherwise, you get fired too. Like Calvin Booth and Michael Malone out in Denver with the Nuggets. Being a GM is tough. You know, you get your shot, you get your couple of picks.
If it doesn't work in a year or two, you get fired. And so in the case of the NFL, I told you the draft is next week. We got a bunch of GMs who are going to run around and make picks. The picks don't work out in a year or two or three, or maybe they haven't worked out already or prior picks.
The GM can get fired sooner than later. And so in the case of the New York Giants, they have their GM, Joe Shane. Why people gave him a tough time last year about Saquon Barkley moving on, I have no idea. What did Saquon do? He won a Super Bowl with the Eagles. What was Saquon going to do with the New York Giants? It'd be the best player on a bum-ass team that went nowhere. And then the Giants have to pay him. Give him a break.
But Joe Shane, people are looking at him like he selected Daniel Jones. He had to give him a contract extension because he won. It was the worst thing ever.
You had to give him both money. It's terrible. But Joe Shane is on thin ice with the New York Giants. And you think about a team like the Browns. I mean, you want to talk about dumb owners. You got the Haslam family who decided that giving Deshaun Watson $230 million guaranteed was a good idea.
The guy can't play. Miles Garrett wanted a trade. They had to pay him just so he could stick around. And so Andrew Berry is the GM of the Browns.
And we know that bringing into Deshaun Watson, I would say ultimately wasn't his decision. It was one of those recommendations. And what do you do? Say no? Just go, yes, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss.
Just let my check keep on coming. And so both of these men, Andrew Berry and Joe Shane, they're letting everybody know how they feel about one player in particular, because ultimately there's a fascination. I don't think any fan base is going to be upset if either one of these teams drafts Travis Hunter, specifically when it comes down to the Browns, they have the number two overall selection in the draft. They'll be right there behind the Tennessee Titans, who, if they were any type of smart, we know they're not.
They're pretty stupid. They fired Mike Brabel. We know that they would just take Cam Ward, develop him and tell Will Leviss to go do commercials somewhere. So Andrew Berry spoke to the media and he basically said what we already know about Travis Hunter, except he put a little bit of sauce on it.
Listen to this. What he would attempt to do has not been really done in our league, but we wouldn't necessarily put a cap or a governor in terms of what he could do. We would want to be smart in terms of how we started him out. I think I've mentioned before, we would see his first home as receiver and a second home on the defense side of the ball. He has to play on both sides to be worth that number two pick, that number two pick, because that's kind of how he's viewed as a guy that can do both versus just one side or the other. No, I don't see it that way.
I think it's, and I'm going to use a cross board now, it's a little bit like Otani, right? Where when he's playing one side, he's an outstanding player. If he's a pitcher, he's a hitter, he's an outstanding player.
You obviously get a unicorn if you use them both ways. Oh man. I get it. The Browns need everything. I don't know if you primarily want to play him at wide receiver.
And so it was nice to see Jerry Judy actually, I don't want to say live up to what everybody expected him to do when he was a Denver Bronco. Like they could use wide receiver help. They could certainly use help on the cornerback side. You need wide receiver help more.
I don't know. Maybe that's why, you know, Andrew Berry is saying this, but I don't want my guy getting hit. Like I want him to get bigger. Like I think you got a better chance as a long, well-conditioned cornerback, athletically gifted. I think you got a better chance to play the majority of snaps on defense. And yeah, you may, you get burned here. There's just part of being a corner and then have some plays on offense. I get it. The NFL is touch and go right now.
It's not a brutal destroy you, kill you sport like it was decades and decades ago. I don't know if I want him primarily playing wide out and then throw him in there. I don't know. Hey, we on nickel right now. We on dime. Go out there and play corner. I don't, I don't know if that's the best use. I would want him to get bigger before I want people trying to drag him to the ground.
Hickey, what do you think? Would you primarily play him on offensive defense? I would go defense. I think it's harder to find a good DB than it is receiver. And plus if you plan on playing him both, like let's just say one predominantly and one sparingly, I think it's much harder to play, you know, 50 snaps at receiver and then be dropped in for five or 10 steps on defense versus the other way around. I think you're going to get more value.
It's I think corners are more premium position because it's harder to find. I think it's easier to play that corner and drop them in on the offense versus the other way around. I think the Browns are looking at it from a need perspective, but even in that space, if he's such a unicorn, don't you want to have special rules? Don't you want to treat him differently? Like I look at Shohei Ohtani. That was the comparison that Andrew Berry made Shohei Ohtani. I look at him primarily as a hitter first and then I go and then he's a pitcher. That's the way I look at him.
And I think even in this case, you still have to balance out exactly what you want to do. I think he's going to be to Hickey's point. I mean, you can get a wide receiver in a lot of places, but if you're the Browns, like take him on defense, I'm worried about developing him physically and just slide him out there on offense every now and then, you know, but he doesn't have to get the ball every time people are going to look at him. They're going to take a look at Jerry Judy and Joko is still out there too.
Like, I think I think they'll be fine. Wide receiver. OK. And I don't know what's a good year for him as a wide out.
Would you go 600, 700 yards, five, six touchdowns? You're saying he's full time. Well, is he going to be a full time wide out?
Can you even do that? I mean, it sounds like that's what the Browns are going to try to do. At least they said they view him as a receiver first, DB second. So if you're going to I mean, even playing 80 percent of the snaps, let's say at receiver.
So mostly full time, but not full, full, full time. For year one, I mean, 700 yards, I think is pretty good. Yeah, year one, you never know what the touchdown side of things. I don't we'll see. I just know that it doesn't matter.
Actually, this is a separate argument. Doesn't matter how they kind of weigh and measure out offense versus defense. He ain't playing both all the time. The guy is small.
OK, like that's just what it is. Now, how big he's gotten between the end of the season and what he'll look like come September. I have no idea. He's going to have to be bigger, but he was injured in college getting knocked around. He got popped in the chest. Dirty hit.
No hit. Fall here and he can he can get banged up. The NFL ain't no game for the me. He knows he has to get bigger. Everybody knows he has to get bigger.
It's just a matter of when it happens and how naturally it happens. We'll see if the Browns. I expect the Browns to take him. I hope the Browns do not ruin him. We don't even know who's going to throw the ball for the Browns. We don't.
I don't know. Hey, you missing Mr. Joe Flacco. Mr. Joe Flacco. No, no, I'm not. All right, you're not excited for the quarterback competition. Daniel Jones not doing it for you? No. Are you surprised? Are you like me like last year where I was rooting for my team to lose just so we can get it over with? Partially. OK, if it's Daniel Jones playing for the Colts, I will root for them to lose every game.
It's Anthony Richardson. I'm still hopeful or at least you want to see progress. I just want to see him succeed. I will not root against him if he stinks.
OK, fine. He stinks. But Daniel Jones.
No, there's no good that can come out of him playing well at all in twenty twenty five. That's funny. You know, we mentioned Joe Shane. Let's listen to the one. Daniel Jones, obviously the former quarterback for the Giants, had to carry bags in Minnesota. Now he's the the competition for Anthony Richardson with the Colts. Joe Shane said we, the New York Giants, we may not draft the QB.
I don't know if Travis is there. Maybe we get him with the signing of those two players. I think we put our position, ourself in a position where, you know, I don't think that's mandatory or something that we're our feet of the fire and we have to do. You know, I think the two guys we signed have played a lot of ball. They've got a lot of skins on the wall. And I do think we've upgraded that room, you know, compared to where it was a year ago. I like the two guys that we have. And, you know, Tommy's still in there and he's won games for us, too. And he's still developing. So we're happy with the makeup of the room right now.
Yuck. He's talking about his QB's. He's talking about everybody's favorite goofball, Jameis Winston. And I guess this guy's a goofball, too. And Russell Wilson, that is a goofy ass quarterback room.
And then you got Tommy DeVito. The quarterback room is going to be better. Hey, I think it'll be awesome if he brings he walks into the quarterback room with homemade food for mom that his mom made. Wouldn't that be cool?
That'd be very cool. Some nice chicken parm, you know, warm the spirits of the QB's as they're competing against each other. Bring everyone together. Yeah.
What is the fourth, fifth string quarterback? What else is he going to do besides bring food for mom? Nothing. Some water, maybe get some get some water, bring some pasta, bring some bread.
Yeah, that's a good idea. Tommy DeVito, interesting fellow. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back on the other side, now that Aaron Rodgers, we don't know what he's going to do. What are the Steelers going to do? And then what are the Minnesota Vikings going to do? Aaron Rodgers didn't even talk about them. We'll get into it. The J.R. Sportbree show.
