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Okay, we've discussed a lot. We've had the release of the college football playoff rankings. Not too many changes at the top there. As it stands today, Tulane would end up in the 12th and final college football playoff spot. That's nice.
We've had some guests to come through, talk about a lot of the NFL action that we've seen, what we could see on Thanksgiving. Thank you so much to Lindsey Rhodes. from the Sumer Sports Show. Thank you as well to Ted Wynn for joining us from the Athletic Senior NFL. writer.
Took a look into that crap Monday night football game from yesterday. Yeah, look, Brock Purdy's getting paid $53 million. He ain't going nowhere.
Well, this guy ain't going nowhere either. Doesn't look like he's going to be a part of an NFL team. Justin Tucker. Yeah, the Saints tried them out yesterday. You wanna know who offered them a job?
Not the Saints. They said, uh no, thank you. We just wanted to see if you were great. They ended up uh signing Cade York who used to kick for L S U, Joe Burrows says, I'm not afraid to play football. Yeah, the bangles suck, but I'm going to be back on Thanksgiving.
Against The Ravens Brian Kelly, speaking of LSU and Joe Burrow, Brian Kelly says, run me my money. But and I don't know how about this today as well. College Football playoff rankings review Yes, we know. The Pro Football Hall of Fame also revealed The semifinalists For next year's Hall of Fame.
Okay, so we've discussed a lot at the end of the show. Of course, we'll get into a few things that took place this day in sports history. It has been November 25th, all day long.
So we got a lot. to do. Looking forward to well, I I always like to eat. I love food. Like to eat, like to exercise.
Yeah, if I'm not here, that's pretty much what I'm doing. And then working some more, damn it. Why not? I'm trying out here, but uh Joe Burrow, he says, I'm gonna work. On Thanksgiving.
Look, the Cincinnati Bengals are three and eight. Jamar Chase is returning following his suspension for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. And Joe Burrows coming back from surgery for turftoe. And the Bengals are going to take on the Ravens. The Ravens have won five straight.
Feels like every other day Lamar Jackson is dealing with some type of injury to his foot, but he's still out there practicing. He just doesn't. Look the same prior to the injury. He's playing like an MVP, the guy that we've seen over the past few years. But that that's going to be a good matchup.
That's actually going to be the night game. on Thursday night.
Okay, we're going to have Baltimore The Ravens are taking on the Bengals. And Joe Burrow, he spoke to the media today. and he was asked a simple question. Hey, you've been getting your ass kicked. Over the past couple of years playing for the Bengal.
The offensive line sucks. The team is going nowhere. Joe Burrow, you're an MVP candidate when you're healthy. Why the heck are you playing the rest of the season? Listen to what he said.
Yes, I understand why people feel that way but You look at it from My perspective, I'm a football player and If I get hurt, I'm gonna go through the rehab process and then I'm gonna let everybody know when I feel like I can go out there and play. Um I don't really know what else to say about that. Uh I'm not gonna ever go to somebody and say Yeah, I'm healthy, but I don't think I should go out there and play it. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm not gonna.
live my life and play this game. Scared of something happening. Like, yeah, something's gonna happen. It's football. Guys are gonna get hurt, guys are gonna get concussions, you're gonna break bones, tear ligaments, it's a physical intense game that's That's part of this.
And yeah, I've had injuries. Um There's not a lot I can do about that. I work really hard to have that not happen, but what I can do is when it does happen, I can control how I'm Attacking my rehab and attacking practice and doing everything in my power to get back as quickly as possible. Uh that's what I did. Yeah, he's a he's a football player.
He ain't no punk. Like there are hazards to the game. It's not surprising to hear him say that. What did you think he was going to say? Oh, the team sucks.
The Bengals are going nowhere. I'm just going to pack up my bags, hang out with my supermodel girlfriend, and I'm going to go on vacation. The guy's healthy. He's going to go out there and play. I mean, if he if he didn't get hurt in the first place, they'd have a better record.
I mean, are things going to change? No. But what does anybody expect? Is Zach Taylor supposed to go, ah, we got to put him in mothballs? There's, what, six more games left in a season?
Like what are you what are you gonna do? Botcher, naturally, it makes sense. Hey, Joe Burrows, sit down. We ain't playing for nothing. But let the guy go out there and earn his money is it's no big deal.
On top of that, there's a lot of incentives too built into the contracts too.
So if he wants to build a legacy like counting stats. like a bunch of other things, why not? It's just I understand, hey, If I don't play, we can get a top five pick. And in hindsight, that looks good for the Bengals, but you try convincing a player in a locker room. that you're not going to bring back.
and arguably a top five, top ten quarterback in the league. when he's healthy.
So you w you want him to be selfish and get stats.
Well not just that, it's just He provides a better chance to win than Joe Flacco, right? Sure does. And when you just, it's just more than that. It's just, imagine trying to say to your team: Yeah, I'm healthy, but I don't want to play because the team wants us to lose. It's just it doesn't come off well.
Oh yeah, you can't say that publicly. Those are the type of things you you keep private and just say, hey, he never healed up. But that's also something that's bad for management. When you've got to start running around, it's not like there's one game left. It's bad to hear from management.
Hey, bruh. We need you. to sit out. Don't Play. Like five games left in the season, six games left?
You can't. You can't do that. That's uh It's not good.
So we'll see Joe Burrow playing on Thanksgiving against the Ravens. This is what Joe Burrow had to say. These are his Thanksgiving memories. They don't go back too far. I think just like a lot of kids, you you grow up Going through Thanksgiving, you have Your meals with your family, and then you go and sit on the couch.
Typically there's not a lot on. Except Football back in the day it was Lions and Somebody. You go watch Matthew Stafford throw for Three hundred, four hundred some yards with Calvin Johnson and probably lose the game. But it was fun to watch. You know, those are memories that you have, and so I kind of always wanted to be the person.
Out there. Yeah, not good memories if you are a Lions fan. And this is going to be a great opening game. I mean, it was just so many years. That the Lions would play on Thanksgiving, and you'd look at the stadium and you just go, Are people even going to show up?
Who cares? But we got a good one. We got Green Bay at Detroit. This is a game that is going to have playoff implications, and it's the first game that we're going to see and witness on Thursday. Then we got Kansas City and Dallas.
And then, of course, I told you about Cincinnati visiting Baltimore. Let me tell you something else. A good point that Joe Burrow brings up. What the hell else is going on while these football games are happening? You couldn't tell me.
I think by accident, you know, every time I may switch the channel or somebody changes it, and you just go, what is that? Like I think Detroit's Their parade, I think, is broadcast nationally, like the Macy's parade in New York City. I have no idea. Is there any other specialty programming? Bacha, do you know what else is going on when the Cowboys and the Lions are playing?
The dog show? Is that a thing? I thought that was before. Would they replay it? It's from the end of Macy's.
It goes the At the end of Macy's The Dog Show comes on right after. Yes.
So I think they I think they play it, so I think it's a couple hours long. And so when the Lions are playing, the dog show is on. Yes.
And nobody watches the dog show. But I think they replay it. How can you say nobody watches the dog show? It's been on forever. Bull on.
In comparison to football, I think the dog show is a little different. Why are we comparing the ratings? That's not nice.
Well, I don't know, get cuter dogs. And maybe we'll. Those dogs are beautiful. You see what they do to those dogs? They make them look like.
Puffs and these are the most exquisite dogs in America. Yeah, and some of them are ugly. Let's be real. A lot of dogs are ugly, man. But I've seen some owners.
Uh yeah, I've I've just My issue is It's just. It's too long. The dogs are there ready. What's just look 'em out. Like, which dog's cuter, one or two?
And you just move on. You make it s for someone who says nobody watches, you know a lot about the dog shop.
Well, yeah, because I've seen it before. My mom likes it every now and then. You called your mother a nobody, okay. Yes.
Okay. Nobody likes the dog show except for my mom. All right, yeah. Yeah, I couldn't tell you anything else this long. I was going to say I'll make it my business to try to find out, but I'm not.
I don't care.
Okay, we got okay, the the the Lions and the Packers are playing on Fox. And so that means the dog show will be on NBC, right? NBC following the parade. And then on CBS, this is kind of weird now that I think it knows this is not weird. Hmm.
The Cowboys, well well. I guess they alternate games.
So, this is interest. I'm looking at the schedule now. The Lions are going to play on Fox, which makes sense because it's Green Bay, it's Detroit, it's two NFC teams. And I guess in that second slot, CBS is going to have the Dallas Cowboys. And the Kansas City Chiefs.
And of course. of a night gang is gonna be on NBC.
So NFL is just They're snatching all these games. What have they been doing Thanksgiving for, like now? 10 years, I feel like, maybe longer? It's got to be more than that. It feels Thanksgiving.
NFL's always been there. No, not at night. No. At night? It was only two games.
I remember the most, I guess, the furthest back I can remember. It's Mark Sanchez in the the butt fumble. And that was what 2010 and 11? That's going to be 2012, right? 2011.
The la the year they didn't make the playoffs.
So that's at least fourteen years ago.
Okay, okay, 10, 14 years, but it's not that much for it only used to be two games. Yeah, I I mean it was the it was the Lions and the Cowboys, right? Just noon or one. Yeah, you got two games and after the Cowboys you got to look at your family or watch, I don't know, some stupid movie that came on. Yeah, I'm at the point where it's like my.
If it's I only remember night games when I was a kid, which is Yeah. Here we're going to figure this out right now, okay? Went to the NFL. In 2020, okay, we don't care about John Madden. Classic six.
2006, they started. Third NFL game on Thanksgiving has been played in prime time. Since two thousand six? Yeah, and it was mo it was on NFL Network. Until twenty eleven, then it went to NBC.
That's right. That's right. They had a crap game that they put on and now they put it on NBC.
So two thousand six, that's just about twenty years. Yeah. You want to know something about your? And I say this all the time. I didn't I get it.
The NFL is money, money, money, money, money. More games and seventeen games. And we need a we need a Thursday night game and we need a Friday game. And we need Christmas games. I was perfectly fine when they only did.
Two games on Thanksgiving. I was good on that. Because at that point in time, Bach, you know what everybody did, they went home.
Okay, Dallas Cowboys game finished and then uh the people went home.
Now, you just can't get people out of your damn house. You got three NFL games, they don't want to leave. I don't mind. You said you're used to it. I don't.
Listen, I'm fine with just two games. We don't need a third one. I'm fine, it gives me something to watch at night. I feel like one of those religious movies used to come on after. I don't know, Moses or something, but maybe that's Christmas.
I don't know. But You don't think there's too much NFL? The point is, I I eat my turkey during the first game.
So I kind of Theoretically, miss half of the second game because I just pass out most of the time. And then the night game, it's kinda like, okay, everybody's starting to Get out. For my family? And then, yeah, I just watched the end of the football game.
So it's kinda I kind of Watched the first half of the football game, the first game, the Lions. And the Cowboys I kind of forget about to the end. And then I watched the night game. Yeah, by the time the Ravens come on, yeah, I I may be falling asleep at that point. Yeah, I have no idea.
You see, here's the thing about Thanksgiving, it's twofold. I don't want to put on clothes if people are coming to my damn house, okay? And at the same time, I don't want to put on clothes to leave to go to anybody else's house.
So I'm just. It's kind of stuck in the middle. Oh, yeah. We we got a good slate of games. Green bad Detroit at one o'clock.
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Mason. It's calling from San Diego. You on the J.R. Sport Breeze show us up, Mason.
Well, what's up, JR? First of all, I love you, brother, and love what you do. But I've told you that many, many times.
Well, thanks. What's up? Oh man, you guys, I've been planning on calling in because I just love listening to you. And I call Once in a Blue Moon about the Raiders, which I will talk about later. Oh, yeah.
But. Hey, but the Westm the Westminster Dog Show is actually a cool thing. It's cool. I've watched it before. Hey, the dog, it's not about looking cute.
It's like, because you got to strut right and stuff like that. And they do little tricks and stuff like that. The grooming is all involved. They make the dog jump over something and run through a hole. Yeah, they try to do little hoops and stuff like that.
And then they got a pose. It's the cute. It's like Mrs., not Mrs. What's that thing that they just ran where the lady fell off the stage? Miss Jamaica fell off the stage.
Miss Universe. You see that? Yeah, I've never seen a dog do that. I've never seen a dog do that. They kind of tight on what they do.
I think it's a bad idea. I'm going to get in trouble again. Here we go. Yeah. I wasn't even thinking about it.
Oh, my God. I'm killing that fly, brother. Not cool. Yeah, the fruit fly. Yeah, I'm going to get destroyed by fruit flies, and I just.
compared Miss Universe to the dog show by accident. I'm uh that's just Hey, Bacha, save me, Bacha, save me, help me. No, hey, hey, it's We're all Together as a species, not a species, but we're all together as a planet.
Okay. Have brains. I didn't know about that jellyfish thing, though. That was kind of new to me. Nah, okay.
Thank you for deflecting. Because I was looking, I was I was like, the the dog show is like it's Miss Universe for Dogs, but it came out the wrong way, you know. Yeah, hey, some of those dogs are cool. Yeah, like the way they had the ears pointed up and stuff like that.
Sometimes it's interesting. Yeah, so it yeah, I think it's a morning football game on it over there. I'd rather eat. I'd rather eat than look at the dogs. Or Riley R.
Hey, real quick before I hang up, though, because I gotta get my little Raider thing in. But before I do that, Man, uh And you are an awesome host and a patient dude. Hey, man, those Philly fans that called in for Philadelphia complaining about the Eagles, I'm like, man, didn't you guys win the Super Bowl last year? And you also have first place. I'm a Raider fan, man.
And we would not be talking about our team like the way that guy was. It's like, nah, you guys eat your own. We don't. If we won a Super Bowl, man, we still live off of them 1983 and 86 Super Bowls.
Well, listen, man, they're spoiled. I mean, you got certain teams that are used to winning, and so the expectations get. A little bit higher. Like, there's it seems like there's a couple of levels to sports fandom. They're the fans that are spoiled.
Even though, like, the Yankee fans. Are Yankee fans spoiled? I think a certain generation is, if you remember, 25 years ago. Yeah, yeah. I spent a lot of them games because I lived in Oakland and I remember the A's when they were really good, when they had Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada and the Chiefs.
They had to have victory and they could never pass the Yankees, though. And the Yankees, that's when they were super spoiled. Yeah. They're winning everything. Yankee fans are spoiled.
Laker fans are spoiled. Dodger fans are spoiled. I think as an overall, if you've been a a New England sports fan over the past twenty five years, your ass is spoiled. And then you got teams that don't win nothing. Like, nobody's going to say Jet fans are spoiled.
Or Sacramento King fans are spoiled. Or, I don't know, Sabres fans are spoiled. They're just it's not. That's not the case. But hey, if you're at the top, then you can raise your expectations.
So I'm not mad at him. They are, but the Eagles, the Eagles never won nothing. And then they win that one year when Carson Wentz was the quarterback. Remember? And they think that they were right.
Yeah, and you would think they were right off that. And then they win last year. Carson Munch got hurt. We had Nick Foles came through. But times change, eras change.
Golden State warriors used to be a joke. I mean, are they having and maybe in about three years there'll probably be a super joke again, but. Come on, there's ebbs and there's flows.
Now, the way that I'm going to be. When I lived in the Bay, I remember the highlight of when I lived up there was Antoine Jameson's score of 50 on the Lakers. That's how bad they were for. Monte Ellis and all, yeah, days are long gone. And now they're one of the most successful teams in NBA history.
So, what are you going to do? Hey, there's ups and downs.
So, some teams have a whole lot more downs and ups, unfortunately. Hey, Mason, I got to hit the break. I appreciate you. You have to go out there. I appreciate you, brother.
Thank you. You too. You too. Happy Thanksgiving. Shout outs to Mason.
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It is the JR Sport Brief Show. on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, amongst everything going on in the world is sports. Yeah. Some of the candidates For the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Okay, we got Finalists, semifinalists here. That have been announced. We got 26 modern era candidates. who advanced to this stage, And they were voted on by the 50-member selection committee.
Okay, the next time that this list gets chopped down. It'll be down to 15 finalists who will be voted on before the Super Bowl. In February.
Okay, so we got four players guaranteed spots in the semifinal stage. We got Willie Anderson, Tori Holt, Luke Keekly, Adam Vinitari.
Now Adam Venanzari, do I think he's going to go into the Hall of Fame? Yes.
I don't know if Luke Keekly played long enough. I don't know if Tori Hope... Was out there long enough. We know about the greatest show on turf. I think Willie Anderson, I think he's likely to get in as a lineman.
And you think about some of these other players. who are in their first year of eligibility. I have gone through this. We have had many chats about it on this show. Philip Rivers.
is eligible. He he wasn't in that that upper tier. in his own era. He was not He was not with the Tom Brady. Who's Tom Brady?
Nobody, but he wasn't in that upper echelon. We're just like, oh my God, is he going to go out there and kill me? He played a long time, accumulated a lot of stats, a lot of numbers. Philip Rivers isn't in that space. He's not.
I I take Ben Roffel's burger. Over Phillip Rivers, okay? He's not in that Roffelisberger. I take Eli Manning. I'm sorry, I know.
Okay, well I'm looking at the whole career and the accolades. And Elon Manning is not in that Tom Brady upper echelon, but for career accolades over the past 25 years, yeah, he's had one of the best careers. But Philip Rivers. To me. And I've said this plenty of times, I'll say it again.
I don't think he's a Hall of Famer.
Now, somebody that also is a first-year guy. It's Drew Brees. Drew Breeze, without a shadow of a doubt, Is going into the Hall of Fame. We know that there is no debate. Man, they probably already got his gold jacket all tailored.
for that guy to get in. A matter of fact, his old teammate, Cam Jordan, still playing, by the way, sometimes, most of the time. He said, Drew Brees. He said, Absolutely. He should be, matter of fact, like one of the greatest QBs of all time.
Drew Brees would be, of course, number one, but like, yeah, what's with Drew? Yeah, that's the, I mean, that's the best quarterback of all time. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What'd you say? He heard what I said.
There was only one greatest of all time. That's Tom Brady. No, he's the greatest winner of all time. Yeah. He's the greatest player of all time.
There's nobody who has the completion percentage that Drew has. There's nobody who has the most 5,000-yard seasons that Drew has. It took Tom Brady an extra two years to break Drew Brees. The man has seven rings. That's what I just said, so we're agreeing.
If you're talking about accomplishments, yes, Tom Brady. If you want to look at stats, Pad your stats, because Drew's got that. When he left, there were so many records that he owned.
Now, after he retired, Tom Brady played another two years and broke all of them, I believe. Don't get me wrong, Drew Bees is a great player. Yeah. Tom Betty is a goaded. You're going Yeah, we know Tom Brady's the most accomplished football player of all time.
But then you know, then it comes down to errors. People will go, Oh my God, Otto Graham. And it's just like, hey, there's there's different errors. And I don't think anybody could take away he's the most accomplished. And I think for when they both play, I think most people would say, I want Tom Brady.
If you had to line up two QBs, they'd take Tom Brady over Drew Brees. But it's only one Tom Brady, huh? Drew Brees is still getting into the Hall of Fame. Go ahead and book him next year for Canton.
Somebody else that I think is definitely getting in. is is Frank Gore. Like it's kind of nuts. He played for so damn long. Frank Gord, Frank Gore is third all time.
in career rushing yards. And he was out there balling out for every AFC East team imaginable. He's like, I don't care. Where am I going? Miami?
Fine.
Okay, I'm playing for the Jets now? Sure, I'll do that too. Buffalo Bills, of course. Like San Francisco, sign me up. Frank Gore was everywhere.
That man played a long time.
Now we got his son out here playing, which is just unbelievable. To me. And then, how about this one? This is a no-doubter. It's kinda crazy.
Did he even ever formally retire? LARRY FITSGERALD Go ahead and put him. in the Hall of Fame. Let's do it. Tomorrow.
and Larry Fitzgerald, This guy is only behind Jerry Rice. When it comes to career receiving yards, this dude was big, fast, and strong. He was a truck. He made no damn sense. I I think the only guy in the the past maybe 25 years who who could match him physically, he was taller than him.
Was Calvin Johnson?
So, ooh, you talk about. Larry Fitzgerald? Imagine if he Just had, I don't know, Kurt Warner in his prime. Imagine he had Carson Palm out there. Imagine if he had one consistent QB.
Imagine with those numbers. Would look like. It's kind of nuts. Listen, here's Andy Reid and Tom Brady. by talking about how they all wanted Larry Fitzgerald on their team.
I've tried to hire Larry fifteen different times, man. I begged him even when he was out a year to come back, man. Just come on. That makes two of us. I tried to recruit Larry many times, and he kept shooting me down.
I'm like, nobody has, you know, most guys get excited fits. He's like, no, I'm pretty good here. And I said, wait a minute, hold on. You got to get, you know, we got to get you into some big, big games. Got to get you at least on, you know.
And he said, no, I'm pretty happy with the right amount. I think he made a good decision. He's the mayor there, man. I mean, he owns the place. I mean, come on.
Yeah, Arizona in the wintertime, not so bad. I mean, come on. He's like, hey, you want to win a championship playing out here in the cold? you wanna play inside and uh and then go hang out in beautiful Arizona. And then we even got Ryan Clark.
He's just like, Listen, man, You played against Lifefits, y'all. That dude was a beast. He said, I need that dude jumping over me. That moment to where, like, when we walk off the field, it was us not taking anything away from the offense, but we wanted to be the reason you wanted to dominate. And Coach Tomlin had to give us a pep talk before the last play because I was ready to quit.
Now, you put somebody else out here, Coach. I don't think I'm gonna do it. And it's so funny after Lamar knocks the ball out of Curry Warner's hand, me and Troy are laughing. He's like, Bro, I was so scared that Larry Fitzgerald was gonna moss us. And so was I.
We're sitting there, and it's just us and him. I'm 5'11. I'm taller than Troy. What if Fitzgerald came up and boom and win the game, which was very possible at that time? And so Lamar saved us, bro, and we never had to deal with it.
And we have a parade after that. Yeah. You know the thing about Larry Fitzgerald He he played He played on the Cardinals team for the majority of his career. I know about the the Super Bowl roll. that they were just they were uninspiring.
And then you think about a lot of the wide receivers, they always get slapped with this diva label and me, me, me, I want the ball, complain this. He was he was before we really got in the depths of the the toxicity of the social media era. But Larry Fitzgerald, you know what he did? And and b Letty, this is what I appreciate about him. He just showed up and he played.
He just bust ass. He went home. He never said anything. He never made noise. Shout outs to the gophers and everybody in Minnesota.
Maybe that's a reason why. I don't know. Everybody is nice out there. He just played. There was never any controversy with this dude.
No, and it's unfortunate that he gets overshadowed. I mean, you're talking about a surefire. Automatic Hall of Famer, one of the best to ever do it. And it is a shame. He winds up being, and he's going to go in the Hall of Fame same way, quietly.
It's just the way he went about it. And it's a shame that we didn't get to see him in more games other than that one Super Bowl run, like you talked about. He was one of the best to ever do this. And he's going to walk in as. Probably second fiddle to Drew Brees into the Hall of Fame.
It's wild. It's wild how much we took for granted how good he was. Yeah, he went out there and uh Well, I mean, with that Super Bowl run, they took on the Steelers. And they lost that one. Life Fitzgerald played for From two thousand four.
To twenty Yeah. He was out there bawling, man. He was out there. Baller. And let's not forget that run to the Super Bowl.
It's not like, well. That team had no business being in the Super Bowl, and they were two plays away from winning that game. No business being in the game. A lot of that was Larry Fitzgerald. Not taking it away from Kurt Warner, and they had some good play.
That was a 1-2 punch with Warner finding Fitzgerald because the rest of their offense, minus a little Anquan Bolden, went a whole lot there. Yeah. They had no business being there. People forget that. It's one of those situations where you look at it and you go, you know what?
If he would have won a championship. Would we have seen more live Fritz Gerald? I feel like over the years he pops up in a commercial here or there, but most people don't know what he sounds like. He'll pop up in an interview here or there. He's not one of these dudes sitting around, you know, on everybody's podcast yelling and.
He he's kind of He's kind of out of the limelight. I want to say, similar to Calvin Johnson, you don't really hear much out of him. And you could say, over the past 25 years, Am I missing somebody? Would those not be the two best wide receivers in the last quarter century? Yeah.
I mean, again, unless something else is jumping out, I mean, you could say the Randy Mollis, but it's a little before that.
So, no, I don't. Probably the two best, and it's unfortunate. And this is, I don't know, a reflection, I guess, on all of us. If you're loud, we pay attention more. And if you're quiet.
You know, even if you're better, it winds up being where we forget, and it's a damn shame because that's on us. Because we watched greatness for a long time and we took it for granted. And I hope Cardinal fans didn't because they got to watch it a lot closer than the rest of us did, you know, nationwide. But we did. We took that for granted.
And the Lions had a couple of them that were quiet, that were great. We remember Barry Sanders, we forget Calvin Johnson. It's a shame. Yeah, Megatron. The shot of Megatron is already in there.
Well, Larry Fitzgerald, he will. He'll be next. Shoutouts to the quiet wide receivers that's going out there. Getting a job done. Could you imagine a Larry Fitzgerald fleeing to Dubai to run away from an arrest warrant?
No, right? What's more surprising? That or Luca being traded? I don't know. I think that would probably be a bit more, just a little bit more.
I'd be a little bit more surprised. Could you imagine what type of career that guy, that guy being what's his name again, that guy? Antonio Brown? Yeah, could you imagine if he actually just played football?
Well, he obviously has mental health issues, which is that's the unfortunate part. But he has got to be one of the biggest what-ifs. Because he had no business being drafted where he was drafted based off his talent. It's his people evaluated him and said, Oh, no, thanks. And then he kind of busts out and it's just like, Who the hell is this guy?
Oh my God. Oh, why didn't he get drafted? Oh, now we know. And it's um It's unfortunate, but he was absolutely freakish himself. And we just never know.
It's like we did know, but we won't know what it would have looked like. Yeah, no, I mean, we got the flare-up, though. We saw what it was. I mean, that offense, him, L'Avion Bell, Rothesberg, I mean, they were putting up points left and right all over the place. And then the second he left Pittsburgh, and it was falling apart at Pittsburgh, don't get me wrong, but the second he left there, I mean, it went from a smoldering pile of.
Flames to, I mean, just a volcano. It was a disaster. From the second he got to the Raiders, he never even played a game for them, right? Like, it was just burned his feet and beefing with the GM. It was Mayok.
I think it was Mayoc he was beefing with at the time. It was him and was it Gruden? He was calling him racist, right? I think. Again, it was so fast that it was like, what the hell is going on?
Like, can we just get to a game? And we just never got there. I mean, off a cliff in two seconds. It was falling apart, but we didn't realize that it was held together by popsicles and rubber bands. We didn't realize how bad it was until the second he got to the Raiders.
Yeah, he wow. Yeah, he h he was on his way. Yeah, he was nuts. Yeah, one way to get fired, to call your bosses racist, so yeah, now he got bigger problems, so. Anyway, hey, sh go ahead, Belletty.
Although what? Although why? What I say, what? No, I'm just saying there's some emails. You know.
Emails.
Well, you don't know. I mean, oh, oh, Gruden. Oh, yeah, Gruden who called uh the D DeMorris Smith. He said he had big old lips like Tyus. I'm just I'm just, you know, little.
Antonio Brown was right about one thing. I, you know, I don't know. Don't worry, Biletti. Let Gruden sue me. Don't worry about it.
Let him sue me. I never said nothing. I just said, you know what I'm saying? You didn't say it. I did.
His emails were racist, so we can assume he was racist, or maybe that day he forgot. I said it. It's okay, Biletti. You don't have to say nothing. My man.
It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you, coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, I think we'll talk about more pleasant things. We're going to get into a few things that took place this day in sports history. And thanks for the reminder. No, I remember myself.
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You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show. on the Infinity Sports Network. It's the end of the show. Man, it's it's my last show for this week before the holiday.
I won't be back here until Monday.
So this also means that this is the last this day in sports history For the week, let's go. Side back. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history.
See, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It's November 25th. The year is 2025.
How about this? A couple days away from Thanksgiving, but in 1979, Pat Sommerall and John Madden. They broadcast their very first game together. They were together for 22 years. And they were a classic.
They were a classic on Fox. They were a classic on Thanksgiving. Let's take a listen to this montage, courtesy of the NFL. Happy Thanksgiving to you and happy Thanksgiving to you. There is the big turkey.
Yeah, and that turkey is so big and so many legs that that's a two-man job. Look at the size of this turkey.
Now there is a turkey. Yo, we got some legs on there. I mean, here's a leg, here's a leg. Then we got three here. We got three here.
Okay, now we have the award. And what we do is every Thanksgiving to the outstanding player, we give the turkey leg award.
So, Eric, you get the turkey leg, and Jerry, you get the whole turkey. You get the whole bird. I knew you were saying the whole thing, John. I want to talk to John Man Pat Somero. That's what I love.
You got it. Hey, yo, what's up, Tom Fellas? You're up on top when you make catches like that. Hey, y'all know I'll put on the show for y'all two old heads. We have the biggest thing, the tradition of Thanksgiving and football.
Some things just go together greatly. Yeah, man. You heard that Randy Moss at the end. I remember that Thanksgiving game. Oh my God.
Three catches, three touchdowns, 163 yards. That is still one of the wildest stat lines I've ever seen in a game. He was working that day. That was. That was maybe Randy Moss's highlight game of his career playing for the Vikings.
Okay, November 25th. 1980, you want to know what happened that day? No mas, no mas, I'm done. Roberto Durant said, No mas. He got cramps in his stomach and his body and the upper body and then his arms and he got weaker so that's why he stopped fighting he quit the bout.
Does this mean the end of boxing for Roberto? Yes, I'm not fighting anymore. This is final, permanent retirement. Definitivo. Yeah, definitivo.
Definitely, I'm not fighting anymore. Yeah, Sugar Ray Leonard beat the hell out of him, okay? It was 16 seconds to go in the eighth round. No mas, no mas, no more. I don't want no more.
I'm done. I'm finished. That was Roberto Duran, who you heard right there. November 25th. Let's keep things moving.
Oh, we just talked about this guy. In 2018, Phillip Rivers, who I don't think is a Hall of Famer, he set an NFL single-game record. He completed 25 straight passes. As his team the Chargers beat the Cardinals forty five. To 10.
Listen to Philip Rivers just pass and pass and pass and pass and pass some more. Rivers. With time. Hands on. Completion of the touchdown.
Keenan Allen on the receiving end of a record tying completion from Phillip Rivers. Yeah, he's still out here playing, not Phillip Rivers. If Philip Rivers can still come back and play wood, Be like, how come Joe Flacco gets to come back in night?
Okay. And there you have it, folks, a few things that took place this day. in sports history. It's November 25th. In two days from Thanksgiving, 888-710-4ISN.
It's 888-710-4ISN. Ross is here from St. Petersburg. You're on the J.R. Sport Ree Show.
What's up? Hey, Easy R, thanks for taking my call. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. To uh quote Thank you. To quote the sopranos, I'm going to tell you a couple of three things, but they segue.
First, your quarterback discussion by Hall of Famers, it's funny. You got Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, and Eli Manning, and they're all going to be linked because if. You know, the Manning family hadn't told the Chargers that they weren't, Eli wouldn't play for them. You know, all their careers could be different. I think, you know, obviously, Drew Brees does go somewhere.
Pivoting into was Drew Brees the best quarterback of his generation. I mean, I'm going to have to go with Brady just because the competition he had in the AFC. You had Rothelsberger, you had Rivers, you had Flacco for a time. I mean, the NFC was weak. Ross, I think I'm just trying to, towards the end of the show, I think most people would agree that Tom Brady is better than Brees.
What's your last point?
Well, I'm just saying, Breeze played in the trash division in the South, which as a Bucks fan, I can acknowledge this, and I just hope that the Bucks don't make the playoffs, so I can finally have him to stop see Todd Bulls with his grimace face on the sidelines. These last three games have been abysmal. 1,000 yards, 100 points, it just can't go on. Wow. And then, last, last question.
I think for your point, I think with all the injuries the Buccaneers have suffered, yeah, I wouldn't be excited about anything. Go ahead, quick. We're at the end. And I'll squeeze it in.
So, you know, when you talk about quiet wide receivers, and obviously Larry Fitz, Megatron, and another guy in that generation, Mike Evans, but I wouldn't put him ahead of those guys. But I will say, just because you're quiet doesn't mean you can't be dangerous. Ask the two guys outside Marvin Harrison Sr.'s garage. With that, I'll let you go, JR. Have a good night.
Bye.
Okay, he wanted to make a joke about Marvin Harrison shooting people. Oh, thanks.
Okay, what a great way to head into Thanksgiving. Thank you. All right, listen folks, thank you so much for hanging out. If you missed a minute or a second of the show, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We want to give a big old thank you to Ted Wynn for joining us from The Athletic.
We want to say thank you to Lindsey Rhodes from Sumer Sports. If you missed a minute, you can find me online at JR Sport Brief, and you can hit Rewind. On the free Odyssey app. Thank you so much to Kevin. Thank you to Ryan Botch for holding things down.
Please, I'll be back on Monday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.
But hey, stick around here on the Infinity Sports Network. There's more football, more hosts. Matter of fact, don't move now. Bart Winkler is coming up next. Catch you on Monday.
Have a wonderful holiday. Happy Thanksgiving. JR's out. Peace. No.
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