10.6.23 JR Sport Brief Hour 4

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Me, I'm joining you live from Atlanta, Georgia. And we've had a busy, busy night. We've talked about some of the best teams in the NFL. Can't wait to see the Cowboys and the Niners on Sunday night. We talked about all the baseball games that are going to take place on Saturday. Yeah, we've moved away from that stupid two out of three wildcard. We actually have some legitimate games with some legitimate teams on Saturday. Can't wait to see the Phillies and the Braves. Can't wait to see the Orioles, what they do against Texas.

It's going to be fun, man. And thank you as well to Charlie Rocket for joining us last hour. If you missed the interview with Charlie Rocket, he is someone who was very successful as a music manager, made tons of money, had a tumor removed from his brain, decided to change his life around both physically and mentally, and decided to give back to others. Instead of making millions of dollars, he wants to and has decided to hand out millions of dreams and opportunities.

He's actually going to surprise someone tomorrow at the Braves game with throwing out the first pitch. So just it's nice when you can take what you have and share it with others. I mean, there's no need. Life can be tough. Life can be rough. I think most of us can understand or empathize with that on different levels.

And if you got something that can make somebody's life just a little bit easier, put a smile on somebody's face, I think it's an amazing thing if you're able to go ahead and do that. So we've talked about a lot tonight, even the Red River rivalry, Texas and Oklahoma. And as we continue on with the show, I'm going to pick up the phones.

That's 855-2124 CBS. And then also, before we went to break, we talked about the potential return of Von Miller. Von Miller says he is ninety four point five percent certain that he's going to return. I don't know why it's not ninety five percent.

I don't know why it's not ninety nine point nine. But he says ninety four point five percent certain that he's going to be back for the Buffalo Bills against the Jaguars. They're playing that game out in London. And so we even talked about injuries. And then we talked about how disappointing the Jags have been this season.

And it's from the inside out. The offensive line, the defensive line, the receivers have have stunk in that regard. Trevor Lawrence isn't getting the support that he should have. And the Jags aren't the only disappointing team this season. We got plenty of teams that are just completely in the toilet. And so after we've we've highlighted some of the better teams earlier on in the show, I do want to talk about some of the teams that have just been disappointing. I'm going to get there.

We'll talk about some of those teams momentarily. 855-2124 CBS. We got Sean on the line.

He is calling for Michigan. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Sean? Good evening, JR. Hey, man, I love your show. I listen to you a lot. I sit up and I watch sports and I keep the volume down so I can listen to you.

And I enjoy your show. I want to give a shout out, first of all, to all the roofers, the loggers, the carpenters who go to work every single day until they're 60 years old, who deal with injury, tendonitis, knee injuries, surgeries, shoulders. I want to give it a shout out to all those people because listening to commentary about a 22 year old kid that had a surgery for the second time doesn't doesn't move the needle for a lot of us workers. So, you know, the injury thing to me is we live in a real world and we just have to live with it and we have to fight through. I can understand that, but sports is entertainment. You know, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. It is. It's entertainment for sure. Yeah. So for me, it doesn't matter if somebody I mean, if we think about it from a financial space, yes, it is it is night and day from what a blue collar everyday worker makes and earns versus someone who's an entertainer. But I still look at the athletes as human beings. It ain't easy for anybody to be cut open. Is it easier to get cut open and know that you're going to have 10 million dollars on the other side of it?

Yes. But if I think about it from an entertainment perspective, I don't want to see Shohei Ohtani missing games. I don't want to I don't want St. Brown to not play on Sunday. You're right.

As a Lions fan, St. Brown ain't playing on Sunday. I'm bummed about it. He's not having surgery or nothing. He's just out of game.

I don't want to see it. Yeah, but we're not talking about someone missing a game. My point is it is it is always easy, easy, easy to compare what the quote unquote regular person goes through and say, well, I'm the athletes are making the money. So kind of so what you know that I don't think that's always fair to them. They're human beings too. It's not fair to their psyche. But it's fair to reality for what we do. So so the everyday fan looks at it and says, right, right.

I want I want my entertainment there. Right. But but when too many people start feeling a little too bad about it, I mean, I haven't been able to feel my in my pinky finger for seven years. So, you know, it's like, okay, I can I can only absorb so much of a feeling of feeling.

I have I have a great amount of empathy in my in my soul. But not for the athletes because they make too much money. No, no, not too much. I'm not saying too much. No, they make what they make because because that's what they're because I don't watch the athlete because you watch I watch.

That's why they make money. That's right. Yeah, that's right. I agree 100%. But as far as, hey, there's another level of life.

You know, you can do something you have other options when you're when you're a roofer and your elbows fail you, you don't have other options. So there's a different level of life. Well, I understand that. I mean, we can continue going up and down the social or socio economic ladder. I mean, you may say you've never felt your pinky. I can tell you about someone in India who doesn't have a hand.

Okay, so we can do that. And so if I'm sitting here and we're having a conversation about injuries amongst professional athletes, and your response is, well, there are plenty of other quote unquote, regular people living in reality. It's just like, well, yeah, man, we know we don't live in a world where everybody is making the same amount of money. If every roofer and logger was out here making $10 million every log that they chop. I don't think it'd be a conversation.

We know that's the case. It's just kind of about it's it's not it's it's about the empathy side of it. It's about okay.

Okay, so this is this is what this this is tough because I don't say this a lot of times, but I, I expect my entertainers to entertain. I don't like the rules being passed that protects people. I don't like the protection rules in sports. I don't like the fact that everything's about safety in the NFL. Now, I don't care that people do steroids. I don't care if you hit the ball 500 feet and you do steroids. I don't hold it against anything because it's about my entertainment. So that can go both ways. So so no, but which which one is so which one is it?

Do you you not care? There's a difference between someone just intentionally harming their body. Let me start here. Regardless of whether you play football, which we know is an extreme or basketball or baseball or you're an MMA fighter or a boxer.

There are different levels of utilizing your body as a tool to earn and make a living and you know what you get into and what you will have to deal with later in life. Anyone who has seen I want hold on. Okay, I will thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone who has seen and you don't see it a lot and it's odd to talk about because I just saw him a few weeks ago but anyone who sees Charles Barkley walk it is not a pretty sight last night. I sat here on air and we talked about the passing of Dick Butkus and I talked about some of the legends that I've been fortunate enough to meet and I met Jim Brown later in life. It is not a pretty sight when you see Jim Brown and you think about him as a big hulking individual. Of course, not later in life but in his prime years and now he is just confined to a chair and can't walk and can't move that way and so athletes know what they're getting into. That doesn't mean that they are are subhuman. So my question to you is there are things that they get into. Taking steroids and drugs is a different conversation. So what are you saying? You want the athletes to just go out there and and treat this like they're in Rome?

What's going on? No, what I'm saying is if you make the decision that that's how you're going to get there then you have sold yourself for whatever your goal is. The reason I don't think steroids should be illegal is because... No, no, forget steroids. I'm asking you forget what the athletes have chosen and what they believe. No, but that's the whole thing. Hold on, I'm trying to clarify your thought.

Just it's very simple, yes or no. Do you not care about the health and the well-being of the athletes that you watch on television or in person? Only if they do. It's their decision, it's not mine.

That's what you're missing. I assume because they're human beings they care and so I don't think I'm getting a clear answer out of you. I mean hold on a second, hold on. Just to talk about the NFL which was the the kind of start for this conversation. What am I going to say or what are you going to say? I don't care what happens to DeMar Hamlin because he's the one who's deciding to play football.

Is that your thought process? Well, DeMar Hamlin, well okay that's a bad example because I don't think DeMar Hamlin was a football injury. I think it was a it was a hurt issue and it was a he got hit in the chest and it caused him to go down. That happened on a football field.

He wasn't playing a lot of people. I think it was more a genetic something. I don't think it was caused by football.

I think it was the result of him playing football. Sean, Sean, stop. Yeah, okay.

Stop. Let's not play two sides or whatever you think the case would be. Okay, what I'm saying is is if you make the decision that you are going to do whatever it is whether it be again steroids if you're gonna if you're gonna train your body if you're gonna go into that sport and you know it's a violent sport then I have I do have empathy but at the same time you are you are accepting the risk to make the money you make. So I could right now I could go in my area I could go work down at the lumber yard for $15 an hour or or I could go repair wind turbines for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. I'm not going to assume the risk of climbing and repairing wind turbines because I value my life so I'm going to stay on the ground and I'm going to go work for far lesser money.

They have the same options. This is all I'm saying. Yeah so but they're assuming the risk. Yeah I think I think we all know that but it sounds like you're you're kind of hedging on what you said the first time. That's because it's my entertainment. Yes and my entertainment if you decide that you're gonna if you're willing to sacrifice your body and you're willing to sacrifice certain things I don't think that the entertainment world who's watching you it should have to be the one deciding what's best for you. Well that that wasn't the conversation that we were having and and I want to thank you so much for calling up from Michigan. It's not about deciding anything. I feel shawned in the conversation that we were having and he he went he went in a few directions here. It started off with like I don't care I don't feel bad kind of uh you know if you get hurt this is what you signed up for I don't care too much and then it was well I have empathy for them and then it's like well yeah yeah we should care but then they decide yeah of course they're deciding to do it but why why does everything have to be a comparison?

It's real simple. Von Miller tore his ACL and is coming back okay. Sandy Alcantara this man tore a ligament in his elbow he's having Tommy John. I sat here on the radio and I said it's unfortunate and I feel bad for these athletes who go out and they're bigger they're fast they're stronger they get hurt seemingly at a higher rate because you can't strengthen up a ligament the same way that you can go out there and strengthen up a muscle it doesn't work that way and so his response to that was well it's hard for me to feel sorry for the athletes when uh you know I'm busting my ass every day. Well for all of that then don't watch. I mean for the same reason in the same way that you say no one is forcing the athletes to assume the physical risk of their profession no one is forcing you to watch the game nobody's also making you quote unquote feel bad for them hey me I'm gonna feel a little bit of anything for anybody going through a tough time look I don't play professional sports but I certainly sat here and told you hey my left knee ain't the best I work with it I can move around I can run I can do more things than some other people can do more things than some other people can do my knee don't feel bad when I have to sit here on the radio my back starts acting up and it acts up in the morning hey everybody got something that hurts that's that's a part of life I mean that's why professional athletes for the most part are young they're playing older that's why sports we don't we don't see a professional football league with 60 year olds that's why the NBA doesn't have 50 year olds running around the older you get father time catches up with everybody and so if you happen to be of a certain age or you happen to be someone who utilizes their body as a tool whether you are ripping up floors or whether you are ripping down touchdowns you gonna feel it as you get older man father time catches up to everybody that's just what it is and it don't matter if you are Von Miller or you're the next door neighbor or you're somebody in a car accident it don't matter if you're in the neighborhood or whether you're watching the neighborhood on tv like the fact is man people are people and it sucks for anybody to get hurt okay it don't matter what the choices are that's it I'm in a studio right now I can sit down I can stand up I can walk around a little bit in the radius of the microphone man my feet may hurt tomorrow my back may hurt from sitting down who cares everybody has something that they have to deal with and I'm not gonna look at a professional athlete and go well that's what they chose and they make tons of money and so I don't feel bad everybody hurts man they hurt on a different level to make money you don't like it just don't watch we all got options we all got choices just like you said it's the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio 8 5 5 2 1 2 for CBS that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 for CBS Von Miller 94.5 certain he says that he's going to return at least he's going to return for a good team I'm going to take a break when we come back I'm going to tell you about some teams that damn it you may not even want to bother watching I'll tell you here on CBS Sports Radio don't move oh such a clutch off-season pickup Dave I know right I was worried we'd bring back the same team oh no I meant those blackout motorized shades MVP of the room lines.com made it crazy affordable to replace our old blinds hard to install no it's easy even you could do it nice I installed these and then got some for my mom too you fly across the country to do the install nope blinds.com can do it all all she 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is huge for you I'm sure you know that but I want to switch gears even though I'm down here in college station with a big football game coming my way I want to talk about something that's coming everybody's way the Minnesota Twins all I heard all year last month last week last second was their one and done from everybody and I hear it from these people that get paid less than you to talk on the radio and then they come in they step in they win and there's no accountability we just switch it's like the weather we say it's going to be cold then it's hot and then we switch there's no accountability JR sports talk radio your thoughts well I think from the Minnesota Twins perspective what were the expectations for them this season I mean they didn't win 90 games they're going to go ahead and and take on I don't want to call it a buzzsaw but this is a team that has experience I mean the Houston Astros have have been here the Houston Astros have done that whether people like them hate them appreciate them they're the ones with the experience I mean to be able to wake up tomorrow afternoon and say we have Justin Verlander on the mound is is a benefit that that the Minnesota Twins don't necessarily have I don't know what the case is going to be with their offense certainly they have Carlos Correa and it was nice to hear him talk about Dusty Baker and their relationship is Royce Lewis going to be able to go ahead and just smack more home runs all over the place all things considered and you would think based on history experience that that Houston would win this if Minnesota wins it then god bless them I mean look everybody's entitled to their opinion I can't speak for what someone says or doesn't say or a prediction comes true or it doesn't but the fact is what what have the twins won and you can't look at one season and apply the past 20 years to it but their new hat around here Houston has been here and done that Justin Verlander just helped the Houston Astros win a world series last season he took a little vacation at the beginning of the year and played for the New York Mets or more specifically he was hurt with the New York Mets he was technically still on vacation and now he's he's gonna be starting on the mound tomorrow and then they're gonna throw uh Valdez out there so why wouldn't anybody in their right minds pick Houston I mean if you got Minnesota for the upset great but I I've always been confused and maybe it's just having to defend your favorite team why do people care so much what other people care about their teams like why like what is it what does it matter to you I mean for instance somebody asked and it's a little bit different of a question somebody said hey JR why don't you talk about the NBA preseason or NHL who cares right now there's more important games going on I mean he just called me from College Station and he's asking me about the twins and he's not asking me about Texas or Oklahoma he's asking about the twins like why do people care so much I have no idea like if your team sucks your team sucks if your team is good your team's good if people don't believe in your squad who cares what difference does it make to go back to our last caller it's it's just entertainment what's the what's the big deal hey Kevin what what do you think why are people so so defensive it's like hey my team is good I need a million people to talk about it who cares you know JR I've been there done that you know I rode the two Super Bowls for 10 years why not talk about my team we beat the goat and Tom Brady we talking about the Giants I am and you know I'm using that as you know a an expression but once it's gone you know you're desperate for attention and I think that's what it is at the end of the day ah man and it come but here's the thing it comes in in in different ways right so right so even even sitting here in this spot having the ability I could sit here and talk about whatever the hell I want to but I'm going to talk about what what would probably capture the majority it's like casting a wide net and so on one hand you'll have folks who will say well nobody's talking about the Minnesota Twins why don't we talk about the Minnesota Twins the thing with the Minnesota Twins they haven't won anything in 35 years they haven't won the playoff series and god knows how long I think George W Bush was president if not even earlier I mean no one's gonna talk about it yeah but my point is it runs the gamut it'll be from the Minnesota Twins and then it will be well that you need to talk more about the the Buffalo Bills or the Chiefs and it's just like excuse me what and so yeah it's a matter of you can't please everybody all the time but the fact is if your team is winning why do you especially if your team is because they're desperate for attention and I get it Twins fans they never got attention for a whole generation I understand that and now they finally want it because they felt like because now they won a playoff series and all that but just pump the brakes you know let's see what happens moving forward because that's the real test that's the real test at the end of the day but I'm I'm I'm I'm finished I'm talking about people who go well this team is getting attention I'm talking about winning teams it's just like well oh what do you want me to say the Kansas City Chiefs they beat everybody what do you want me to say that's great they're a dynasty Dolphins look great we'll see what happens down the road Buffalo Bills they haven't won no no Super Bowl recently we know that for sure but they're winning and so it's I understand if you are winning if your team is winning I understand it more so if your team is losing or has been losers I mean I could think about the Orioles for the past several months with good reason there have been plenty of Orioles fans who want to hear more about the Orioles and their and you know what they deserve it right now they really do they they definitely deserve it but like when it comes to like you said the Chiefs the Bills we gave you enough time you know and when you have the new people like I know for MLB Baltimore but if you think NFL it's still early in the season let just pump the brakes we'll get to you but not right now yeah it's a it's a matter of uh I don't know people people have a thought and an idea of uh just just really expectation and so when you have a team like the Orioles not expected to do anything when they do something you show them love but then there comes a point in time where you go okay they have to keep going but for the teams that are accustomed to to moving forward and having success you can't just beat the drum every day it's like having a a child who is just an a plus student every day when they come in and and have an a yeah you're gonna tell them great great job congratulations but man you you ain't gonna throw the parade every single day for something that they are consistently doing I mean that's where you know unfortunately I hate to do it but I give Jerry Jones credit he said the 49ers are great they could definitely be the team that won the NFC East but they're gonna have to beat us twice you know to get to where they are you know I like the confidence yeah well the Dallas Cowboys are another team they they get talked about uh ad nauseum and so it's just a matter of the expectations when you have certain teams where the expectation is already there there's no need to just just beat it down into the ground it's the JR sport brie show here on CBS sports radio 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS that is the number to give me a holler before we roll out we talked about some of the games some of the great games that you probably want to see over the weekend obviously we got Texas we got Oklahoma on the NFL side uh Sunday night football we're gonna have the Dallas Cowboys taking on the San Francisco 49ers uh yeah it's a battle of two teams that are one and three but the New York Jets and the Denver Broncos should be interesting Sean Payton opening up his yap uh when it comes down to the former coach Nathaniel Hackett currently the offensive coordinator for the New York Jets so we got a lot to see we talked about the baseball I gotta be honest though there are still some teams now in the NFL four weeks in now looking into five weeks there's some games and some teams man that are just they just stink how about this it's pretty terrible it's pretty bad the Carolina Panthers are still running around without a victory they are going to be in Detroit taking on those aggressive lions uh if I were Bryce Young I would uh I don't know maybe put on some extra padding Dan Campbell's team is one of the most aggressive in the league he's gonna have to run from Aiden Hutchinson that is not going to be a beautiful thing and so Bryce Young just talking about his transition from college to the pros he talked about what has been so difficult outside of that ankle injury this is what Bryce had to say about the transition you know obviously the challenges of just how how consistent um you know you have to be to have success um there's a lot of consistency from um you know everyone everyone's a good player everyone's consistent um a lot of you know all these games are coming down to a couple of plays um a couple one drive um a couple key plays um and you know that's from what everyone's saying that that's majority of the NFL um and you know I've been able to experience it so just being able to value um each rep um understanding that you know you you're never gonna be perfect but you got to do everything you can to try to take advantage of all opportunities you get because they can be limited yeah take advantage of every opportunity that you get hopefully he's not laying on his back for the majority of the game I told you that the Jets and the Broncos two one and three teams going at it this is another matchup of two one and three teams and well one is shocking and maybe not so much due to injury the other one you expected them to be bad but they've still been competitive it's the Cincinnati Bengals and the Arizona Cardinals they have the same exact record Cincinnati we know why they're not good it's because Joe Burrow has been running around on one damn leg and Arizona even though they're one and three one and three they have played harder I believe than than I would have expected or thought and their head coach new head coach Jonathan Gannon he was asked about this this Bengals squad and if he thinks that you know you look at the the Bengals and you go well yeah we can beat them and he goes no not at all we gotta we gotta show them some respect listen no they're I know their records the same as ours but it's a good football team like I told our team you know this team's in the championship game two years in a row went to the Super Bowl two years ago and I know it seems like a long time ago but this is a well coached good football team with good players they play extremely smart very fundamentally sound it's good crew coming in here yeah good crew look if one-legged Joe Burrow beats the cards man they need to just pack it in I know the cards got all types of problems they got issues they didn't have the damn quarterback Josh Dobbs they didn't even sell this guy's jersey in the team store he went in there to try to print one out they're like uh-uh we don't have it it's just uh it's just nuts the Bengals should go win by the way they should just because it's the Arizona Cardinals I think their fans probably want them to lose anyway eight five five two one two four CVS that's eight five five two one two four CVS we got Matt calling from Chicago you're on the JR Sport Brief show what's up Matt oh sorry JR I'm actually from Detroit but we love yourself when we're driving back from our our beerly hockey game and we wanted to call in and talk Detroit Lions because and while I was told like I can't say the a-word but I got a bull butt prediction I think the Lions are gonna win 35-14 and like you said I think Aiden Hutchinson's gonna be swinging around Bryce Young's head and doing the stanky leg all over them Carolina Panthers and many call him Jared Goof but I like to call him Jared Goff he's going to throw for 350 three touchdowns and 200 yards and two touchdowns of those are going to be the JMO in his return to Detroit and man Detroit is alive we're winning the north and we are fired up in Detroit baby I can tell well good luck good luck Matt in Detroit I hope he has some money on that I mean he pulled out some uh some bold numbers and some expectations I don't know about the score uh the Lions it it'd be a huge disappointment if the Carolina Panthers ran up into Detroit and beat the Lions Dan Campbell should personally go through the locker room and punch each one of the players I know that sounds pretty aggressive and outside the box but he got good reason to beat up the players if they get beat by the Panthers come on now Carolina Panthers should be looking at another hot pick go ahead and get this man Bryce Young some help eight five five two one two four CBS Luke he's calling from Alabama you're on the JR Sport Reshow what's up Luke hey JR man I love listening to your show I always listen to it on the way home um this is my first time calling I'm just curious to see uh what you think your predictions are for the AFC and the NFC championship I know it's very early on in the season but I'm curious to see your standpoint man I'm I'm looking at I'll just put it to you this way the two teams that I find to be the best in the NFC are Philadelphia and San Francisco I know things didn't end nice for San Francisco last year given the fact that Brock Purdy was knocked out of the game by Reddick but I look at Philly and San Francisco and then when it comes to the the AFC it's it's a little bit more open man I I guess it's easy to say Kansas City I would go Kansas City and Buffalo but I wouldn't be shocked if if Baltimore made it in or Miami um outside of them outside of that four I don't see another team in the AFC that makes me go oh my god they're they're gonna go to the Super Bowl I think it's gonna be one of those four teams right I definitely uh think it would be pretty exciting to see Josh Allen finally knock off my homes and make it to the Super Bowl like he's been making it so close and the NFC man Christian McCaffrey's just been playing out of his mind yeah no I mean look I said this earlier on in the show ain't nobody winning no MVP just out of the gate in the first couple of weeks the first four weeks but what Christian McCaffrey has been able to do if if he can scale this out throughout the rest of the season yeah he he is in an MVP type conversation Christian McCaffrey is he's a beast man I don't know if he's going for a thousand yards in the air or thousand yards on the ground again especially with all of those weapons but he is he's the engine they're getting their money's worth from the trade from last year man no most definitely well we all know that the MVP's a quarterback award yeah well typically it has been there's gonna come a point in time where we're gonna we're gonna have another running back who runs away with it the last time we saw that was was Adrian Peterson and look man we we might be due so let's see yes sir thank you for taking my call no no doubt about it thank you so much Luke for calling from Alabama yeah yeah I like to see something different every now and then it's it's like in in baseball the MVP award will typically go to someone who is not a pitcher you got to think about guys like Justin Verlander most recently picking up Cy Young awards and the MVP in the same year it's it's pretty much cookie cutter and it's pretty much I should say not cookie cutter but boilerplate as to how you give away some of these awards and yeah MVP goes to the quarterback offensive player of the year will will go to the running back of the wide receiver and we've certainly seen some ridiculous numbers so far to start here early in the season I told you about the return of of Cooper Cup looks like he's going to get an opportunity to to go out there and play against those eagles on Sunday not going to be easy but we have someone who has never caught a pass in the NFL before Puka Nakua this man is already at 500 yards receiving and 39 catches this is the most that anybody's had in the first four games of a season ever okay we can go ahead and think about CJ Stroud the numbers that he has as a rookie QB six touchdowns to zero interceptions that's the best start of a rookie quarterback ever the Minnesota Vikings I didn't mention them but they happen to be another team not worth a damn one win three losses but you look at Justin Jefferson he is certainly on pace to being the first wide receiver in NFL history to go over 2,000 yards receiving he has 543 yards and you know what when you suck like the Minnesota Vikings when you probably have to get into a shootout in every single game and you're playing from behind man Kirk Cousins is going to be throwing that ball around 30 times 40 times 50 times that's just the facts and oh yeah this weekend the Minnesota Vikings they're going to take on the Kansas City Chiefs and so Justin Jefferson man I don't know if you want to put him in a DJ Moore 230 yard receiving category but Justin Jefferson should have his chance and his opportunity to be on the receiving end of some passes and garner some yards Minnesota stinks stay away from them too Kirk Cousins moving into his final season as a Viking I think it's likely yeah stay away from them that's that might be a bloodbath listen folks it's been great hanging out here with you for another week another night the JR sport brief show is about to be over I'm gonna have to shut up and get the hell up on out of here I'm gonna be back on Monday at 10 p.m eastern 7 pacific I hope you have a great 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