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We got the Dodgers trying to get the Brewers the hell up on out of here. That'll be in a few hours. And so we got a lot to discuss. We got a lot to get into. First of all, we got Will Graves joining us.
He covers all things: Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers. We're going to talk about that. I see hot bowl from last night. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers wasn't happy with some of his teammates. I know he was not happy with the results.
And so we'll get into that later on in the show as well. We got some big college football matchups as well. We got a bunch of top 25 teams that are going to get after it. We got Jerry Palm joining us. From palm brackets.
Dot com. Nothing positive to say about Bill Belichick.
Now it looks like he's trying to get money from a foreign country. What else is new, apparently? We got somebody big time, used to work in the NBA. He's leaving ESPN. His name is Bob Myers.
We got Trayvon Diggs. This man is in concussion protocol. For something that took place in his house What? We got Carson Wentz getting another start.
Well, that stinks. There's no J.J. McCarthy. That's not good. Alvin Kamara doesn't want to leave Louisiana.
I can't blame him. He's the anti-Zion, I guess.
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Botcher, you ready for?
Well, I mean, we got baseball starting in a few minutes. Are you ready for the baseball and the college football and the NFL? Are you ready for it all? I'm ready for most of it. I'm kind of over the Brewers' game versus the Dodgers.
Just because I think we all know what's going to happen in that series. But everything else is excited. Either to day or to morrow it's curtains for the brewers, right? Gotta be. There's very little.
Belief in my mind. I think the players have quit too. Oh, damn, ouch. I don't want to be Ruba, like. Ah, you're down 3-0 against Reigning champs, you're in LA.
You have to start to think to yourself, like, what are we doing here? You you get ready for you start planning a vacation on the side, right? Yeah, not physically, but mentally. Oh well, I mean, maybe not physi you mean to tell me? out of every single person in that locker room.
There's not one guy at the end of the bench. who's sitting around textin' back and forth with his wife before the game. And they going, Hey, hey, honey, Okay, just just in case. You know, go book book the flight for Monday for us to leave. You think there's not one guy who's doing that?
If they got caught doing that, they would probably be. Banished from the team? Come on. I think so. But that'd be disrespectful.
How would you be?
So it'd be disrespectful to sit in a locker room and plot your exit? Yes, I think so. Until you're you're not dead till you're dead. Ow. But there's em there's like emotional dead.
But you think these conversations don't happen with the wives and girlfriends and their their their husbands, boyfriends? You think this doesn't happen? Oh, I think it happens, but not in the locker room. It'll happen like after. Like, hey, tough game tonight.
So where do we want to go? Maybe like in private. But I would never expect them to be texting each other, Hey, book the flight.
Okay, with significant other, why not? I don't know.
Okay. Maybe. Maybe people are that good. Maybe they have that good of hearts. It wouldn't surprise me.
Oh, okay, how about this? Would you be shocked? And this is a different aspect. Would you be surprised if there was a guy sitting in the locker room with his team? Just kind of betting or gambling.
On his team? or against them. I would say no. But I think there is ha there has to be at least one person. And if it hasn't happened, it'll eventually happen, or maybe.
one of these dudes will get caught. It hasn't happened up until now, as far as we know. We have had athletes who have been on other teams and they've been away from the facility. Jameson Williams famously was making bets. you know, at the the Lions facility that had nothing to do with the Lions, and he got in trouble for that.
And so maybe there is some goodness. Maybe the players understand enough that, hey, w maybe there's a few things we shouldn't do in the locker room. Um Yeah, automatically Gobit Arenas comes to mind, but That's a a whole nother story. Yeah, don't don't bring guns. to the locker room.
That's a bad, bad idea. But anyway, it seems that the other Dodgers have brought a gun to a knife fight. They're trying to get the Milwaukee Brewers to help one out of here. That game is not going to start for another two and a half hours. We're minutes away from the start between Toronto and Seattle.
You know, we'll get into that in a little while. Let's get these old guys. the hell up on outta here. Because as we sat here in the studio yesterday, Pretty cool. That's the cool thing.
We can watch uh pretty much all of the games that take place in the evening time. Thursday night football in Cincinnati The old guys did not disappoint. They actually gave us an entertaining football game. A little bit of a back and forth, a lot of offense. They scored more than 60 points combined.
The Bengals came out on top over the Steelers last night, 33. To 31.
Okay, the Bengals were lighting them up.
Okay, the defense for the Steelers, I mean, in the second half, it's like every time Cincinnati got the ball. They were killing him. I was like, damn it, Joe Flacco got moved from Cleveland to Cincinnati, and they gave him Jamar Chase and T. Higgins, and he is head. over heels.
He went from the Outhouse. To the inn house. He went from the ugly girl at Prom To the pretty girls. I mean, that we heard Mike Tomlin earlier this week. He's like, Man, I don't know why the hell the the the Cleveland Browns decided to move him.
To Cincinnati.
Now we gotta deal with him. You know, Mike Tomlin was like, Please give me Jake Browning. We can beat him. We gotta face up Flacco. It paid off yesterday.
Joe Flacco, three hundred and forty two yards passing. Three touchdowns. Jamar Chase was in his element. He had like 15, 16 catches, 161 yards and a touchdown. Every time Joe Flacco stepped back and dropped back to pass, I just went, Jamar Chase is open again.
T. Higgins had ninety six yards receiving and a touchdown. I'm just like, man, I could go out there and play with those two wide receivers, and Joe Flacco feels the same damn way. He hit the jackpot. With these two dudes.
Listen to what this old man had to say about these young, talented wide receivers. Today, I think I got to see just the problems they create in general. Uh Last week, I said it earlier this week, last week we didn't do anything crazy, but you could see. Those guys are different. Um and it's it's pretty cool to be able to throw it on.
Those guys ere they're different? They're the best wide receiver duo in the entire NFL. I mean, ki Waddle and who? Hill?
Well, w we know where Hill is at. Jefferson Addison? Eh no. Bacha, am I wrong? They're top of the heap, right?
It's them. Or Puka and Devante. Depends on how you rank Devontae Adams. A ewah. Yeah, but you got two guys right now that are in their prime.
Like, would you take another duo over these two? No, for the next five years now. Oh, yeah, come on now, no.
Well, I don't know about five years, but for right now, hell yeah. Ain't nobody care. Joe Flacco jumped into, or they traded him to, an ideal. situation. It's amazing.
And head coach Zach Taylor, He's like I hit the jackpot with this tray. He's like, Joe Flacco doesn't run around. He did have a nice run yesterday. I was like, damn, he could run. No, he can't, but he did.
Zach Taylor is like, all my guy got to do is throw back or fall back and throw the ball. He's great, he loves him. Outstanding. Yeah, Joe, I mean, it was outstanding, really. I mean, we're...
I mean we we how many drives we scored on what like six of the last seven drives maybe seven of the last eight what what seven of eight okay so um and really early on we had some some drops and some quirky stuff happen That prevented a score there.
So just thought his performance was outstanding. Very, very calm, collected. Led us in a two-minute drive to go win the game with a huge go ball to tee, gave those guys a chance to go make some plays and Impressive performance. Yeah, impressive. Like if you now, we talked about how miserable Joe Burrow looked on the sidelines yesterday.
If you're the Cincinnati Bengals, You must be having deja vu to last year. Except for Joe Burrow is out, The Bengals have improved their record to three and four. Their next game and watch them lose this one and hilarious. Watch them lose. They're going to take on the New York Jets.
You mean to tell me? These if the Cincinnati Bengals do not even up their record at four and four. They don't deserve, well, they don't deserve Joe Burrow as it is. They really don't deserve Joe Burrow. for the rest of the season.
Go ahead and pack it up for next year. Just send Joe Burrow on a vacation. We're talking about vacation. Send Joe Burrow. To wherever the Milwaukee Brewers are going to go out there and vacation, send them that way.
Like, you do not need to see Joe Burrow if you can't beat the New York Jets. But if they do beat the Jets, Man, what a great sign of life that would be not because they beat the Jets, because Joe Burrow has been out with damn Turftoe. They had to cut this guy's foot open and fix it. That doesn't sound like fun now, does it? But they did.
They had to deal with Jake Browning. throwing interceptions? They bring in and trade for Joe Flacco, and how they still show life. The Bengals just look into every positive situation. Jamar Chase even loves Joe Flacco.
Honestly, good having him here for us, you know what I'm saying? Organization made a big jump on him, we believed in him. We got him, so um He came in doing his thing and showing off us. Yeah, he's like, listen, I don't care. I like Joe Burrow.
That's my old teammate. Yeah, but. Yeah, you want to just tell me a guy's just going to throw? Yeah, give me Joe Flacco. Why not?
All he's going to do is throw. There's going to be minimal running out there. I mean, there was the time that he ran, and it was like, oh, well, he's not going to run again. And then there were times where Joe Flacco even admitted after the game, he's like, listen, y'all. I'm still learning the playbook.
I don't know what's going on. I see Higgins. I see Chase. I'm just like, yeah, let me get the ball to one of those guys. Can you walk us through the play where somehow you did a little zone read, pulled it, ran for 10 in the first down?
So listen, there was a handful of plays today that I was like, what is hit? Say it. We have these formations that end in F, and I was not getting it. That one, I read off my wristband. It was correct.
Jamar lined up on the ball. Noah lined up off. He was supposed to be, Jamar was supposed to be off the ball. He was supposed to counter-motion and bluff that end. And when he was on the ball and the playcock was running down, I was like, ah, screw it.
I was just going to hand it off, but he came off the edge so damn quick. I was like, all right. I haven't done this since my probably first or second year, but I'll do it now. Man, what a world And Bacha, did you hear what the fans were chanting in the back? Who who they?
No, who that. No, no. Thank you, Cleveland. Oh wow. Thank you, Cle the Bengals fans.
were chanting. Thank you, Cleveland. Yeah. Say again. It brings you anything to their team joy.
Yeah, but if you're a fan of the Cleveland Browns. Like you just every couple of years, you feel like you get punched in the gut. Like, there's the short term, which is just a couple of weeks, not even two weeks, I guess, two weeks now. With Is it a bit of a week? When did Flacco get last week?
It hasn't even been two full weeks yet. You get punched in the gut. When Joe Flacco gets traded to your your interstate rival. And then he goes out there and beats the Steelers. And now you got the fans in Cincinnati.
Kind of taunting you in Cleveland. Thank you for the bum quarterback that you didn't want. He's helping us win right now. We still have a chance and opportunity to go to the postseason. That's the short term.
And then you have the long term with the Cleveland Browns. Just go ahead and take a look at Baker Mayfield. This man is in M V P consideration. Early. People are talking about him as M V P The Buccaneers are five and one.
They've lived through a bunch of injuries. Mean, you got Baker Mayfield going on runs looking like a juggernaut. And it's just Amazing And the Cleveland Brown fans are like, What are we left with? What do we have? Oh, Deshaun Watson, who we don't want Where's our quar Dylan Gabriel?
Are we gonna get lucky with Shador? It's just so bad for everybody in Cleveland, man. Ugh. The fans are chanting a Thank you, Cleveland. And then you got the Steelers.
I mean, they should have won yesterday. Should have, right? Mike Tomlin ain't no idiot. He's like, oh, why did we? I would love Jake Browning over Flacco, but what are you going to do?
Mike Tomlin, especially looking at that defense, they got carved the hell up yesterday. Like Joe Flacco just walked off the street. and is delivering a ball downfield, Mike Tomlin says flat, man, we suck. I certainly appreciate the fight. But man, we got to be cleaner.
We got to be better. And we weren't tonight. And that's that's life in this business. We certainly got to learn from it, man, and keep pushing. Uh but I'd be remiss if I didn't compliment them, man.
They fought their tails off, man. They won the game. and they're certainly deserving. Yeah. Come Mike Tomlin wasn't gonna say they suck.
This is not a Cam Ward here referring to his team as ass. By the way, I heard Warren Moon. Shoutouts to Warren Moon. We've had Warren Moon here on the show a bunch. I heard Warren Moon called Cam Ward and said, brah.
You can't be the starting quarterback just saying that your team is playing like ass. You can't say that. Come on. Cam Ward will eventually get it. I've God bless him for being honest.
They are playing like backside. or whatever you want to call it, booty. Uh Let me be careful here. The fact is, you've got to be careful what you say as a starting quarterback. And someone who I don't know if he's ever realized that.
He understands that he doesn't care. Is Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers always watches his words. We saw him yell at one of his teammates yesterday, Warren. Over a failed flea flicker, apparently Aaron Rogers.
didn't know a flea flicker was coming. He immediately had to flick the ball. you know, right into the dirt to save the play. And then Broderick Jones tried to tackle him after he threw that long touchdown pass to Frymouth. And, well, he was mad at him for that.
Yeah, bad idea. Don't tackle The forty one year old quarterback in excitement. The guy that blew out his Achilles, and Aaron Rodgers wasn't happy about that. And then after the game. Uh I guess Aaron Rodgers wasn't happy as well.
I mean, yeah, they did lose. He says quite frankly. Come on, you're not going to win every game. Listen, we want to win every game. Uh there there needs to be an expectation of winning, but Uh this is a short week, division opponent, anything can happen.
Uh obviously Joe played really well for them. And uh and Chase and T got going for him. Yeah, well Better luck next game. Maybe not. The Steelers are going to take on The Green Bay Packers.
And I know Michael Parsons is not happy. He did some complaining about the refs. He's done some complaining about holding. And he may get a few extra calls. He may get his hands on Aaron Rodgers.
That's not going to be. a good thing. The Bengals are alive, which is crazy to think. If they beat the Jets, they should beat the Jets. The Bengals are gonna go.
four and four In Joe Burrow? Oh yeah, you can bet your ass that guy will be back. If they reach 500. Let's see how things roll. And Joe Flacco certainly did his part last night in beating the Steelers.
Old guys can still do it, that's right. Forty and forty one years old. Hey, Bacha, when we come back on the other side, speaking of old guys. I was sitting down last night. I was watching the the end of the football game.
I was watching the baseball game the Dodgers, And I saw one old guy commercial, and I'm just like, you can still run these things this early in the day. I'm going to tell you what I saw on the other side of the break. We got Toronto and Seattle. They are just underway. We got this series now tied up.
At two games apiece, which is crazy. The Mariners led 2-0. The Blue Jays won the last two games. Obviously, the victor here gets one game closer to the World Series by picking up a third win.
So, we'll get into that on the other side of the break. I'll give you an update on Toronto and Seattle. Hey, I told you, we got Will Graves joining us next hour to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Later on in the show, we'll get into some college football with Jerry Palm from palmbrackets.com. If you want to call up, you can do that too on this beautiful Friday.
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You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you, coast to coast, on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, we talked about those old guys getting after it last night, Thursday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers, and then Joe Flacco. Right now, we got the young guys getting into it right now. We got the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners.
It's game number four. Yeah. Here In the American League Championship Series. It's disappointing, maybe not if you're a fan of Toronto, but it's disappointing if you're a fan of the Mariners because you went into Toronto. And you got yourself a 2-0 series lead.
to go right the hell back on home. and then lose two games. TO THE BLUE JAYS AT HOME It's disappointing. It's bad. And I mean last night.
Speaking of old guys and and Flacco, and then also Rogers. Mac Scherzer Botcher, we talked about it last night. Max Scherzer was either going to have a good game Well, he was going to have his ass whooped. And even though this was no long, you know, stretch of a game, he almost went six innings, which was surprising. Five and two-thirds.
He got pulled. A matter of fact, he wasn't even supposed to be out there into the sixth. he had to basically curse out his his manager. John Schneider and tell him, Listen, dude, I want to go back out there. Let me go out there and pitch.
And so he had five and two-thirds innings, five strikeouts. The bullpen gave up nothing in the final four frames. And last night, the Mariners won. over these Blue Jays or excuse me, the Blue Jays won over the Mariners, the final score was eight to two. Yes, it was a bludgeoning.
It was a beat down. Castillo went two and a third. He gave up three runs and they just they just they beat the Mariners up again. for the second consecutive game, I mean, the game prior to that, it was 13-4. Last night, it was 8-2.
Right now, still the first inning. There are no runs that have crossed the plate yet. But Max Scherzer went out there and had a throwback. I'm like this old dude is good for something. and then the fact that he fought his manager to give them another inning, I guess he can be intimidating.
You got one brown eye. Botcha, what's the other one? Green? Blue. Think of the blue.
Blue and brown? Think so. if a blue and brown eyed guy stared at you in the face and just just kind of And stared deeply into your soul, that'd be horrifying, right? I feel like they were looking for attention if they stared at me that long. Oh.
Would you give it to him? No, I'd be like I would kinda do like the side eye, like, okay. And then they go rumble.
Okay. Okay. Hopefully it would work. John Schneider talked about his uh interaction with Max Scherzer They call this guy Mad Max.
Okay, just listen to this. Yeah, it was awesome. I thought he was going to kill me. It was great. You know, he locked eyes with me, you know, both colors as I walked out.
And I It's not fake. That's the thing. It's not fake. You know, he has this Mad Max persona, but. He backed it up tonight.
Yeah he's old enough to be crazy. He's old enough to be nutty. He's old enough to have lost his damn mind. I mean, he is still out here pitching after all his injuries. And who knows, maybe he wins another World Series.
Wouldn't that be crazy? They asked Max Scherzer, Why the hell were you yelling at your manager to stay in the game? I mean, we know why. I would have left him in the game. But listen to Mad Max, the calmer version after the game.
That was a big moment in the game right there. I mean the It was just a situation. I was going through it in my head. I understood where the game state was, knew how I wanted to attack, and then all of a sudden I saw Schneides coming out, and I kind of went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like, I'm not coming out of this ball game.
Like, I feel too good. Uh, and so uh, we had a little conversation uh that basically I wanted to stay in the ball game, but just with some other words involved, but um. You know, I just knew I was strong. I knew I wanted the ball. I knew I could get outs in this situation.
And I just wanted to stay in. I wanted it. He talks like a crazy person. He sounds manic. He sounds like the world is crushing and falling apart around him while he has to figure things out.
Oh yeah, and by the way, this was one of the main representatives with the Players' Association. I don't know if he still holds that role. Imagine negotiating with that guy in a room.
Okay, I mean he ain't goin' run around screaming at a bunch of old ass billionaires, but uh maybe he would. Maybe that's why they had him in that role. But he certainly He he handled his role yesterday. Cy Young winner, future Hall of Famer, World Series champ all of those things and last night he showed up big time. He says it feels good to still show up, because most of the time he's been heard he's old.
You're in the biggest moment of the season right now. These games are must-win, every single one of them. And when you get success, it's great. This is what you play for. You work so hard the whole year, make all the sacrifices, put on all the work to get to this moment to have these type of moments, to be able to win in this post in the postseason.
Yeah, well, all right. They fought their way back. Right now the score is nothing nothing. We got Kevin Gossman on the mound against Bryce Miller. Last time we saw Bryce Miller, actually, both of them on the mound.
I was to open up this series. Bryce Miller, six innings pitched, one earned run, and a victory, of course. And then Kevin Gossman, he went out there and he pitched five and two-thirds and gave up two earned runs.
So let's see if. We get a little deja vu from what we got. In game number one, Where the Mariners came out top. The manager of the managers, the manager of the managers. The manager of the Mariners, Dan Wilson.
We know his guys well. They got their ass kicked the past two games. They won the first two games. And God only knows, I guess they might as well flip a coin today because now it's best two out of three to finish this series. Hey, Dan.
Are you guys just a little too eager? Are they thinking ahead? Are they pressing? We had opportunities, just weren't able to cash in tonight. And, you know, I think that this is a team, you know, we've talked about.
you know, bouncing back. You know, the series tied up now at this point, and this is an opportunity really for us to bounce back and get back on it. And tomorrow we come out and do that. Oh my goodness. Hey, Boncha, what is that?
A cat in the locker? What was that? I heard that too. I was thinking maybe it was one of the player's kids. Had to be.
Or it was just uh I don't know, a ghost. Oh. A go a what, the ghost of winning past? Yeah, there's a lot of. demons and spirits in the Mariners ballpark.
Okay. I'm not going to ask any quest. Is this something that you're making up, or am I on? I'm making it up. I'm like the ghosts of the failed.
Playoff runs. Oh, possibly. Like Edgar Martinez is still alive. What, the ghost of Edgar Martinez is back there somewhere? Yeah, Griffey, Ichiro, they're all there.
Okay. Yeah, when I hear ghosts, I think about the there's some hotel in Oklahoma City they say it has ghosts, so I don't know. Anyway. Hey, Bach, do you believe in ghosts? Do you like 'em?
I believe in spirits. Ghosts that attack people, no. But I believe in spirits. You ever seen one before? No.
They're invisible. Come on. Ghosts? Yeah, you can't they're invisible. You never seen Slimer from Ghostbusters?
He don't count, right? Nah, it's Slimer. That's like. It was a like. That's a that's a movie.
Real life pulse are invisible. Oh, he's green. He goes through walls. Like, he how's he not a ghost?
Well, yeah, he's a ghost in the story, but I'm saying like IRL ghosts, you can't really see him. In real IRL, my God. Yeah. In real life? Yeah.
In real life. You can't. Forgive me. I'm cool now. I knew what IRL is.
But we were talking about ghosts in person. I think most of them are just invisible and they They either possess things Or they just, you know. touch things.
Okay. I wish a ghost would come by and help me move my furniture. Outside of that, I know the ghosts that need to show up. The Mariners, all of their players. Where's this guy who led the world in home runs this year?
Cal Raleigh. Where's your bat at, man? This team has lost two straight. What's going on with you? Tell me.
We knew it wasn't gonna be easy, so it's just about you know keeping a level head, understanding you know, don't get too high, don't get too low, and and uh understand now it's uh it's a best of three.
So, um you know, go out tomorrow, forget it, flush it, and And come back ready to go. Oh, listen okay, all right. They we went from ghosts in in one the manager's room to Tupac. In the the Mariner's locker room.
Okay. Maybe they'll be inspired by Tupac and Scarface.
Alright, anyway, right now, well. Uh you know what? I'm going to let Rich Ackerman come through and give you an update. And when we come back on the other side, speaking of ghosts. We're going to go to New Orleans.
Alvin Kamara. Doesn't want to be a ghost in Louisiana. We'll get into that. We'll talk about some of the best NFL games coming up this weekend. We got a lot to get into.
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That's 888-710-4. 4ISN. You know, we talked about the old guys and the icy hot bowl. uh Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers. We talked about another guy.
Pretty sure he was bathing in the icy hot last night, or maybe not. He maybe he likes the pain. Uh that's Mac Scherzer. And then in a second. I'm going to tell you about someone who's also been in pain.
That's Micah Parsons. He's like, Man, I'm getting fouled and hurt and held and poked in the eye. There's no penalties called against the opposition. Uh I'll get into that in a second. And then we got uh We got Alvin Kamara.
Who is um trade deadlines coming up and apparently he doesn't want to go anywhere. But I I didn't forget to tell you all this. Bacher, when we left the studio yesterday I say it like we were, you know, sitting in the studio together. But when we finished the show yesterday, and you went your way and I went mine. I went and I sat down.
at a bar here, near the studio. Because I wanted to see the games.
Okay, I just immediately wanted to sit down. And watch the rest of the games. We got this Thursday night football game that was going on, that was a good one. And then we also had obviously the Dodgers beating up on the Brewers.
Okay, so I wanted to see it. And I'm sitting there watching a baseball game, and in my phone, I'm watching the NFL game, and I'm just minding my business. And I see an ad that pops up on the screen on the baseball side, and I'm like, what is this? Box, I didn't well, I I guess you could. It was for it was like a bootleg advertisement for the little blue pill.
Oh, is it is it the brand name Blue Blank? Uh no, but it was just like It was like get seven it was like get seven pills for six dollars and I'm like what? It was like, here's some generic Viagra. Get seven pills for $6. I'm like, what?
Hey, that might be a discount for some people. I don't know.
They know that they know the average audience of MOB is a little older, you know? Botcher, you wanna know do you know the average age? To watch MOB? Yeah, do you know? It's gotta be like 50, right?
It is. It is. Wow, that's great. It is. That's maddening.
The last time I checked, I think it was in that 50 to 54 range. It was alongside golf. Yeah, see, that's good advertisement, then. You're hitting the age group perfectly. Hitting the age group of people that would buy uh.
What? What? Seven pills for $6? Yeah, gas station stuff, all that stuff. Bruh, I didn't know it was to be.
Thank God I've never needed it. I hope I don't need it. If you need it, then good for you. I hope it works. And if you don't need it and you still use it, good for you too.
I I didn't know how much any of that stuff was. How much well I remember when it first came out. If this was like a big, big deal. It was like, oh my god, they got a pill for this? It was bananas.
I don't know how like how much is a pill supposed to be worth? I have no idea. I would not even try to assume that, but there's different types of. Enhancements now. But there's only one blue pill.
And now they were selling generic versions during the National League Championship Series? I would argue the most famous one now is like. It's It's like there's ads for it during regular Regular season games I see all the time. It's like a chewable. It's only myself.
Oh, I've done reads here for some of these products. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Gets gets the they're smart with their money. Yeah they are.
But this one was for generic stuff. Seven pills for six dollars.
Okay, whatever. Yeah, congratulations, Major League Baseball. I didn't expect to see that ad, but there it was. Anyway, Here's one. I need you to think O'Reilly Auto Parts.
What a transition. Think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs. Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Uh speaking of pain. I don't know if that's pain.
It may be the other P, pleasure. Michael Parsons, he's been feeling. Bang. All right, and it looks like he's uh this week he wanted to take his pain. Out on the officiating, out on the officials.
Look, the Packers are three and one. They got that stupid tie that they got against the Dallas Cowboys on that Sunday night football game. And uh They just beat the Bengals, twenty seven to eighteen. They got the Cardinals up next, so they should be going 4-1-1. But Michael Parsons wanted to take some time out.
'Cause he got poked in the eye. He's feeling pain. He's getting held all over the damn place. Michael Parsons took some time this week. To beat up on the rafts, He's not a fan of the tush push.
He's just not a fan of holding. He's just mad at everything. Listen to this guy. If you ask the Eagles offensive player, that's probably say that's the best thing we're doing on offense right now. It's the most consistent thing they got.
But, you know, that might come and bite me one day. But it is what it is. Like, I hate that play. Like, the whole league hates that play. Like, I don't think you'll find one defensive player in the league that's like, oh, yeah, go tush push.
Like, we got to learn how to stop it. Can't stop if they're leaving early, like It's impossible, it's an unfair advantage. You got 320 pound momentum coming early. On the play. Right, whatever.
But Gotta find a way. Yeah, I don't think I don't think Michael Parsons' opinions are gonna change anything as as relates to the Tush push. He certainly also wasn't happy with him being held or being poked in the eye. He's probably going to get a nice fine from the NFL. Not for those comments, but for his comments about the officiating.
He's like, man, I I don't care. I don't care. And I guess if he's getting paid the amount of money that he's now getting paid, you know, maybe I would not care to. I mean, Michael Parsons so far he's he's good. He's been well, the Packers have wanted, he only has two and a half sacks, but he leads the NFL in pressures per game.
And so he's getting there to the quarterback. He's disrupting the quarterback. He's doing his job. The sack numbers haven't come up yet. But let's be real, Michael Parsons will wake up in one particular game and he's going to make one particular guy mincemeat.
It might be Jacoby Brissette. this upcoming Sunday because oh yeah, by the way, Kyler Murray's still not playing. With that busted up. Yeah. Come on a list, Frank It's not what you want to hear.
That's like the middle portion of your foot. I know they got turf toe where your toe goes the wrong damn way. But list, Frank. like that that center portion of your foot. Yeah, no thanks.
Uh right there. Uh not at all, not at all. Uh by the way, speaking of pain, I don't know Alvin Kamara, he's made a lot of money in his career. Norland Saints aren't going anywhere. They're one in five.
They got the Bears up next. Spencer Rattler versus his old teammate Caleb Williams. Alvin Kamara having a solid season. Three hundred and fourteen yards rushing. One touchdown, 122 yards receiving.
He's 30 years old, which is crazy to believe. In his peak, You know, he would, you know, catch 700 yards, 500 yards. He's rushed for another 800, 900. He's never received or rushed for a thousand yards. He's just a dual threat all over the place.
been a five-time Pro Bowler. Has a contract that runs till the end of next season, and so with the Saints going nowhere. Alva Camara just here There been a lot of reports about him being moved, especially with the trade deadline coming up, on november fourth. You hear about teams like the Kansas City Chiefs. I think he'd be amazing there, especially to have the field open up for him.
But Alva Kamara spoke to the media and said Man, if I get traded. I may just quit. I've been vocal enough That, you know, that I don't know where that came from, but. I don't want to go anywhere. You know, and I've said it countless times.
Y'all know that. I think everybody knows that. The fan base knows that. And At the end of the day, it's business, you know, so. You know, I don't I don't go upstairs and I don't have an office upstairs.
I uh I I got an office in Charlotte at NASCAR, but I don't got an office upstairs, so I don't really sit in those meetings and I don't I don't really know what happens up there. I just gotta, you know, keep my head down and You know I don't know. If I was a GM, I guess I would go to the player and be like, hey, we're trading you, just so you know.
So if Nick can come downstairs and say that, then Uh I'm gonna go drink a pina colada somewhere. Oh, he's not really lead. He ain't gonna quit. He got $12 million coming this year. He got $12 million coming next year.
You mean to tell me at 30 years old he's just going to leave that on the table? This is the same Alva Camara a couple of years ago was hanging out in Vegas. Shoutouts to all the wonderful people in Vegas who go to Treasus nightclub. He punched and stomped the guy out there. I know he sounds all happy and I I'm gonna have a pina colada yeah, maybe on the rooftop of Dreas if he's not banned.
Okay, but besides that If he gets moved, On november fourth, before november fourth, He ain't goin' Nowhere.
Okay. He's not going nowhere. He's gonna botch. Do you do you believe him that he's gonna retire if he gets traded? Uh Honestly, no, 'cause you'll probably play out your contract, get the money.
But I think his passion for the game will be gone, even though it's probably already gone with the Saints. If you go ahead and play for with Patrick Mahomes? I feel like you have you've lived so long. with the saints in your life. That if you have to leave for one year and a half, you're already pushing it up there in age.
You know you're declining. Maybe you finished But you don't want to come back next year. Yeah, so finish out the rest of the twelve million dollars. It's a lie. Barcher.
He's thirty years old now. He's going to be thirty one next summer. It is highly unlikely at any other point. I know he's into NASCAR, but it's highly unlikely, and let's put it this way. there's not going to be another point in his life.
where you absolutely know. You're just gonna wake up one year. and get $12 million. Yeah. So you're you're yeah.
So I don't know. Maybe he... I can't even say I just play out your contract then. Just deal with it, I would say. Yeah, just go play with Patrick Mahomes.
It's not that hard, man. Come on. What is he go? I could I could think about a few things that he'll miss in Louisiana, okay? I can think about it.
He can talk to Zion about that. I understand those things.
Some of those things are not in. Kansas City. I don't care if you're in Kansas City, Kansas, or Kansas City, Missouri. Things in New Orleans are very special. Thank you, New Orleans.
Shoutouts to Louisiana. I get it, man. But if you get traded to Patrick Mahomes, you just can't quit. You gotta show up. Play with Rashi Rice.
Try to compete for a Super Bowl. Alvin Kamara don't know what a Super Bowl is. Come on, man. Get out of here. If I get traded I may quit.
Stop the line, brah. stop the lying. Anyway, The Saints and Bears this Sunday. not a game that people are uh going to be rushing to go out there and see. It's J.R.
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