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Lots. College football playoff rankings have an update. Washington in the top four.

Florida stayed out. Tom Brady kind of put in the mix of everything that we discussed last night after the Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs, but Tom Brady had some comments as well. He said the current NFL is mediocre.

The players aren't developed, they're not developed coming out of college. He said that the players mediocre. We're going to get into those comments by Tom Brady. Aaron Rodgers has some comments.

We got an Aaron Rodgers update. He's getting ready to practice. He is trying to practice in a couple of weeks. This is a man who reportedly tore his damn ACL and he's ready to practice.

Yeah, like Allen Iverson said. Thanksgiving game is upcoming. Andy Reid still lamenting the loss last night and all of the turnovers. The NBA, the playing tournament still goes on tonight because it's Tuesday, Tuesday and Friday until the final, which I believe is the ninth.

I just left one of these playing games. Atlanta Hawks don't know what defense is. Pacers just beat them 157 to 152. I left the game at halftime. The Hawks scored a franchise record, I think 83 points, 83, 86 points.

It's like 86 to 73. And I walked out of the arena on the way to the studio and I said, the Hawks are going to blow this game because it's what the Hawks do and they did. They lost. Tyrese Halliburton, 37 points, 16 assists. Where the hell do they do that at? Trey Young had 38 points.

This was optional in this game. So we'll talk about the playing tournament. LeBron James, how about this? Aiming to become the first player in NBA history to score 39,000 points.

LeBron is only five points away from that. And then we had some big news earlier today as Mike Tomlin, I don't want to say he read the tea leaves, but he also had enough of Matt Canada and he gave, he gave him the boot as the offensive coordinator of the Steelers. And if you've watched the Steelers lately, that offense has been pretty pathetic. And so you can't necessarily go out there and blame, you know, Matt Canada. Well, you can't blame Mike Tomlin for giving Matt Canada the boot.

And so we got a lot to discuss. 855-212-4CBS is the number. That's 855-212-4CBS. Super producer and host, Dave Sheppard. How you doing, man? You good? I'm doing really well, JR.

Thank you for asking, my friend. You know, Pat Bev, getting it done at age 35, JR. You watching this instant classic right now? This is what, between Cleveland and Philadelphia? This is, man, this end-season tournament, JR, I know you're going to hit on it tonight.

This is a massive success. Yeah, it is. I see little Pat Beverley with the floater. Yeah, he's not playing too much, you know, or hasn't played a whole lot this season. He's in here closing this game out.

I saw the Sixers play here in Atlanta, I want to say, on Friday, and he ain't played too much now either. He does a, I don't know, I'm not a fan of Patrick Beverley. Like he does a lot of talking and he don't do nothing, you know what I'm saying? He does, and I'll give you that, JR. Two things I'll say to that. One, he abides by something that you preach, which is defense is not optional.

So I know you like him in that regard. And the second thing is, when you look at what this guy had to do just to start playing in the NBA. The fact that he was overlooked for the first two years coming out of college. Laid overseas, everything.

Yeah, yeah. And so the fact that basically you knew this guy would literally swim across the Pacific just to get one shot at the NBA. The fact that he has turned that into a 12-year NBA stint is remarkable. And he's an undersized 6-foot-1. So I hear everything you're saying, he talks an awful lot. But how many guys talk a lot and can't hold a candle to what Pat Bett has done, at least at the highest level at a generous 6-foot-1? Yeah, good for him for having a hard knock life into the NBA. Exactly. But he's also one of the most irritating players in the NBA.

Like his talent doesn't match his mouth. You love him if he's on your team though, JR. Who does? I'm saying if Pat Bev is on your team, you love the guy. You hate him because of what he does to the opposition. Yeah, I don't know about that.

All right. Yeah, it's like, he's an irritant. To be honest, I can't wait until he's no longer in the NBA.

Might be soon. And then, you know, he can just sit around and do his podcast all day. Well, something tells me TNT likes going after jackasses, Tramont Green, anybody.

So they might employ him next. Yeah, I know Patrick Beverley does a lot of talk. Has he choked anybody yet? No, no, he hasn't. He hasn't sucker punched a teammate. Maybe that's coming. Possibly. There's still plenty of time here for Patrick Beverley to, I don't know, choke somebody, punch him in the face.

But he certainly doesn't know how to shut up. Yeah, this is a good game between Cleveland and Philadelphia. No, the NBA playing tournament has been damn good. And we'll see. We're going to blink and it's going to be done. It's crazy.

The finals are December 9th, I believe. Sounds about right. How you doing by the way, JR? Me? I'm fine. I'm okay. Good, man.

Just left that game. Just same old, same old. The Pacers are an interesting team, man. A bunch of young guys slapped together, just running up and down the court. It's like, you know, no distinction as to what the team is. They got a Hall of Fame coach. People sleep on that guy. I mean, he's the winningest active, sorry, besides Popovich, he's the winningest active NBA head coach.

What is that? What's the coach name? Rick Carlisle.

Oh, yeah, from Dallas as well. Never gets his due, ever. Yeah, because he doesn't talk. I mean, he gets his due internally. He's the head of the players' association, well, he's the head of the coaches' association.

So I want to say that counts for something. He's the head coach in charge and trying to get them their just due. Not that the coaches need it, but I mean, when you get hired and fired, why not? I mean, these dudes, the coaches get paid a lot of money. I mean, what's Monty Williams on the Pistons?

I think they're 2 and 11, and Monty Williams is making, I don't even know how much money a year he is. Yeah, things are so bad there, JR. He's actually missing DeAndre Ayton right now. Oh, up in Detroit? Yeah, and we know how merrily they got along last year.

Oh, what are you talking about? Drummond? Oh, you're talking about Ayton from Phoenix. I mean, that's why he's not there anymore.

Yeah, wow. Because he just could not get along with their franchise center. Ultimately, DeAndre Ayton and the Suns decided to part ways, and they realized Ayton was part of the problem too. But it's that bad right now in Detroit that literally he would want to coach DeAndre Ayton.

It's that bad. Them checks are going to still cash though, so congratulations to him and all these other coaches making tons of money. Speaking of coaches making money, Bill Belichick's still in the news because he has not found or identified or he does not want to announce his quarterback until Sunday.

But we're going to get into him. Speaking of coaches, I told you there's a coach who no longer has his job. He happens to play or not play. He coached in the NFL, now he has to wait for another job opening, I assume, in the off season. His name is Matt Canada, and I know all my folks out in Pittsburgh, they are all rejoicing. These fans were chanting Fire Canada at Penguins games. Yeah, I get it, it's the city of Pittsburgh, but what does Matt Canada have to do with a Penguins game?

Absolutely nothing. You know it's bad when the fans are at a different sporting event, at a different arena, chanting for you to get the boot. He got fired after three years, he took over for Randy Finkter, and the offense has basically stunk in 45 games. Pittsburgh Steelers, no more, ever, never more than 400 yards of offense. This team just lost to the Browns, 13-10, and as a football fan, I click around and I watch all of the games. I don't key in on one, maybe if it's a good one I leave it on, but I'm skipping around. The Steelers are one of those teams where I'm like, I'm not watching this game, because I know they're not doing the damn thing.

And it's not just a figment of my imagination. The Steelers offense, it stinks man. I mean Najee Harris was sitting at his locker the other day talking about, oh man we're bad and we can't do anything, and he's factually correct. I mean this season, the Steelers are 6-4, even with a winning record. The Pittsburgh Steelers, they have been out gained in every game. The other team has gotten more yards than them in every game. They are 28th in points. They are only scoring 16 points a damn game. They are 31st in passing yards. The only NFL team worse than the Steelers this year is the Giants. The team collectively, think about this, they've played 10 games. The Steelers only have 16 touchdowns. And so after they just lost to the Browns 13-10, Mike Tomlin said, enough is enough, I got to get this guy the hell up on out of here. Listen to what Mike Tomlin had to say about the decision to get Matt Canada gone.

This is a result oriented business and to be short, the improvements were not rapid enough or consistent enough for us to proceed. You got to score touchdowns in this business, you got to win games in this business, and just the totality of it has us where we are today. I just want to see points.

I want to engineer victory more fluidly and points do that. Yeah, who you telling, man? It's painful watching them try to score. Unfortunately the Pittsburgh Steelers, I know they're known for defense and hard-nosed football, so you don't necessarily think about them being the greatest show on turf. But at least by the time Ben Roethlisberger got into his latter years, I know, yeah, he was falling apart. They were slinging a rock around. I mean, Ben Roethlisberger was standing around taking all these, this punishment, taking all of these hits, standing there while he aired the ball out down the field.

And yeah, some of those dudes were kind of, they were interesting personalities. Let's just say that. It's Antonio Holmes of the world, the Plaxico Burris of the world. We haven't heard about Antonio Brown in a while.

I assume he's on his meds. This current team? Pickett can't get the ball to Pickens. Pickett can't even get the ball to Johnson, Deontay Johnson. This man has scored one touchdown since Ben Roethlisberger retired. Ben Roethlisberger is sitting in his basement right now doing podcasts.

I'm not exaggerating. That's what Ben Roethlisberger is doing with himself. So the Steelers, oh yeah, they needed this. But I hate to tell you, it's not just Matt Canada, like Kenny Pickett still needs to be better. I still think about Kenny Pickett and I say to myself, what a boring ass QB.

Like Mike Tomlin can't run around for the next bunch of years and just go, well, look at Kenny Pickett. Look at what he does in the fourth quarter. Look how efficient he is.

Well, man, efficient at doing what? Not getting the ball into the end zone, we know that much. Kenny Pickett, only six touchdown passes this year. I mean, we just saw a dude on the New York Giants and Tommy DeVito. I think he has six in what, the two games that he's played? Like this is pathetic for the Steelers.

Their fans deserve better. And sure, maybe Kenny Pickett can't run the ball, but can you get Najee Harris going? And so the Steelers, they got the Bengals up next and maybe for the benefit of them, yeah, they'll, they'll go out there and take on, what's that dude's name? Jake Browning? I think his name is. If I got to think about the quarterback's name, yeah, uh, I'm not all that positive.

I don't think, by the way, shut that's his name is his name. Yes. Jake Browning. Okay.

Yes. If Jake Browning walked, he could walk right by me right now in the studio. I don't know who the hell this guy is. You know, Jake plumber before, you know, Jake Browning, there's Jake plumber. He got long hair, short hair now. I see.

That's what I'm saying. At least you knew when he played for the Cardinals and he was Jake, the snake, he had long hair. Yeah.

Well, he went to, he went from a crew cut the long hair. Yeah. I would know Jake plumber.

Right. Don't know Jake Browning. Uh, maybe only his family knows who he is. I think there's a lot of, uh, fans in Cincinnati.

Don't know what he looks like either, but congratulations. Good luck to the bangles and good luck to the Steelers. Still an opportunity to make the post season. Maybe they can put some points up on the board and just maybe, maybe they cannot improve from being 31st and passing 28th and points. Maybe they can actually win a game where they, uh, have more yards. Maybe Kenny picket can produce more than six touchdowns the rest of the season.

And just maybe, I don't know. Maybe the Steelers, their offense can be entertaining the watch because they are crap. Matt Canada, not a head coach, but he's certainly someone who got the boot. It's the JR sport re show here with you on CBS sports radio.

The phone lines are open. It's eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS.

Matt Canada. He got the boot. I'm going to tell you about someone who got the boots from the college football playoff.

We got so much to do, so much to get into LeBron going for 39,000 points. We're going to hear from Tom Brady. He says the NFL is mediocre.

Oh man, speaking of mediocre, the owner of the New York Knicks, he has more drama. It's just a lot going on. Just getting warmed up. It's the JR sport reef show on CBS sports radio. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS sports radio. JR wants to hear from you. Call him now at eight five five two one two four CBS.

That's eight five five two one two four two two seven. It's the JR sport brief show here with you on CBS sports radio. We're going to get into Aaron Rogers comments about his potential return, his attempt. We're going to hear from Tom Brady. He thinks the NFL is mediocre. We're going to talk some basketball with this plan.

LeBron James going for 39,000 points would be the first player in NBA history to do so. But before we went to break, I told you that the Steelers that Mike Tomlin finally pulled the trigger and he got Matt Canada the hell up out of there. He is no longer the offensive coordinator and they have given him the boot. Okay, I'm going to tell you in a few minutes as well about the college football team that got the boot from the top four of the college football playoff.

I'll tell you that momentarily. Let's hit the phones. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. Let's go to Western New York and talk to Lou. You're on CBS sports radio. What's up, Lou? Yeah.

How are you? Listen, I'm not really a fan of the move by Tomlin because it came too late. The evidence was all there last year and now they still have a winning record, but it was obvious he had to make that move and he went to the same college as Sean McDermott and I'm not really a fan of McDermott either as you can maybe understand. They're both like run centric type coaches and it wasn't working for Tomlin with Canada.

Obviously Canada was just kind of a run orientated guy. He got rid of him last year, but he didn't and McDermott meddled with Dorsey with the run game and he needed a way out with Brady and he's lucky that Brady seems to have some ability to actually use the talent offensively on the build. Well I'm not too upset and thank you Lou for calling from Rochester. I'm not too upset or thinking that Mike Tomlin waited too long or waited a year too late and it's called continuity. When you have Kenny Pickett and you're trying to establish a system with him, the last thing you want to do is just start switching things up all willy-nilly out of the gate. Kenny Pickett has looked average. I know people are looking for the hometown hero to be the next quarterback for the team.

Even before he got drafted by the Steelers we heard the comments and questions about the size of his hands. Right now they just look like they're running in quicksand. And so maybe this will provide a spark but I'm not someone who says oh my god they automatically they should have pulled the trigger after one season. I mean let Kenny Pickett develop it and learn something. Let him pick up on the system. I mean if you want to say that oh yeah they should have fired him earlier in the season.

Well damn it how much earlier? I mean that's what fans say. You know fans think about the product on the field which they're fans they're watching it. But the fans think so much about the implications and the ramifications for the locker room.

I mean for the actual players to actually learn. And I know Najee Harris sat at his locker. He wasn't happy you know with the offense and how they were performing. But man sometimes you don't just coach for one player you have to coach for the entire team.

And they got him the hell up on out of there. 8-5-5 2-1-2 for CBS 8-5-5 2-1-2 for CBS. Speaking of someone getting the hell up on out of there the college football playoff rankings they were announced a little more than an hour ago.

And pretty much things at the top they haven't changed. I mean we can still go ahead and take a look at Georgia. We can still go ahead and look at Ohio State.

We can look at Michigan. But then number four is no longer Florida State. We know Jordan Travis went down with that leg injury. His college career is over.

He's going to go down as one of the most decorated quarterbacks that Florida State and the Seminoles have ever seen. And I said this last night. We can basically expect for them to get the boot. Okay and they got the boot I don't want to say sooner than I expected. But Washington after they beat a ranked Oregon State 22-20 they jump ahead. I mean Washington is undefeated.

Michael Pennix Jr. is lighting it up. This is 18 straight wins. And so now they are finally rewarded for such. And so if you want to talk about a boot Washington the last time they went to the college football playoff was 2016. And they're trying to be the first Pac-12 team to do it since they did it in 2016. So the college football playoff rankings this is the fourth week of it. Georgia won. Ohio State two. Michigan three.

Ohio State and Michigan they might cannibalize each other depending on what they do this Saturday. And Washington jumps in front of the Seminoles into that fourth spot. At Oregon or excuse me at number six you have Oregon.

And then you start getting into the one loss teams. You have the Longhorns. You have Alabama.

You have Missouri. And then you have Louisville sitting there at number 10. I don't think we got to worry about any of those teams really, really past Oregon. I think the college football playoff as it currently stands I believe it will stick around that way. What happens between Ohio State and Michigan is probably going to have the largest ramifications. I think it's going to be tough for any of these teams to get back in it.

And the fact that Washington they probably going to beat the brakes off of Washington State and that they just beat a ranked Oregon State I think Washington might be sticking around. That's 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. Dale is calling up from Birmingham, Alabama on the J.R. Sportbree show. Hey, J.R. Yes, you're live on the radio.

Go ahead. Hey, J.R. Luke. Alabama's going to win now. They beat Georgia. How is it not we get in the playoffs? I'm sorry?

What did you say, Dale? No, I said if Alabama wins out, beats Georgia, how can we not get in the playoffs? Well, they got two more games in front of them. I think the fact is they have to go out there and do it and they have to do it in a decisive way. Okay? Well, Alabama playing Auburn is like playing your baby brothers.

They might be a little sorry, but they going to give you all they got, so that's a tricky little game. But it's not so much, Dale, it's not so much about Alabama. There are teams that are in front of Alabama.

That's the point. So I don't think you can just look at it and go, well, if Alabama beats Georgia, how could we not be in the playoff? It really depends on the other matchups and the other games, in particular, what takes place between Ohio State and Michigan. That's really going to have bearing as to who else might actually make it into the college football playoff. That's reality. I know it's real easy to just look at your favorite team and go, if we do this, we deserve to be there.

Nah, man, it ain't that easy. I know it's a stupid system to begin with, but teams have to go out there and do a hell of a lot more than that. 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS, that's 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS. I told you I just left this Atlanta Hawks game.

No defense. Pacers beat them 157 to 152. I think the Hawks had 86 points at halftime. Well, we just had an amazing feat go down in the NBA.

And Shep, what happened? LeBron did what now? And JR, man, you hit it at the top. He said he was going to become the first player sooner than later, score 39,000 points the way he's playing and the fact that he's playing the Utah Jazz, he did that early in the first quarter. And JR, he's going to be the first to score 40,000. He may be the first to ever score 50,000 the way he has been looking in year 21, JR. I don't know if you put that out of the realm of possibility. I ain't think about that, bruh.

Okay, fair enough. Man, I start thinking about 50,000, man, I'm thinking about sprained knees and ankles. 40, if he's healthy this season, he'll get to 40 with no problem. Right now, the Los Angeles Lakers beating the Utah Jazz 29 to 12. LeBron James needed five points to go ahead and get into that 39,000 point range. LeBron James already with seven points here in the first quarter to go along with four rebounds. LeBron James, the first player in NBA history to score 39,000 points. He continues to be in rarefied air as he assaults the record books. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio, 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. We know no one assaulted the record books like Tom Brady. Tom Brady not a fan of the current NFL product. We'll get to Tom Brady at the top of the hour. But if you want to talk about somebody else trying to defy father time, it's Aaron Rodgers. And Aaron Rodgers spoke to his best friend today, his media best friend who pays him money, Pat McAfee. And Aaron Rodgers gave a timeline to when he'd like to return.

And damn it, it might be even sooner than you heard, sooner than you think. We're going to hear it from its own mouth on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. I'm going to get some more of your calls, we talked about the college football rankings. I'm going to tell you about Aaron Rodgers and his attempted return momentarily. Let's talk to Sean, he's calling from Maryland, you're on CBS Sports Radio.

Go ahead, Sean. Hey, JR. You had the guy call in talking about why can't Alabama be this and that. It's simple. They just need to make it. I don't know where you're going to get a sixth conference, but you take the conference champions, you put them in the playoffs, and that's it. You either win your conference or you don't get in.

I know everybody complain about the little guy will get beat up, but there's always that little guy who once in a while makes it through. So why not? So you want to make up, instead of having a power five, you want to have a power six? Sure.

Why not? How many conferences did we have before? I mean, instead of putting them all in the SEC, all in the Big Ten. Well, that's difficult when we already have a realignment. We got schools joining the Big Ten who operate out of the West Coast. This is the difficult part about any type of college football playoff. Thank you, Sean, for calling from Maryland. They're just too many schools, man.

That's it. They're too many schools. I mean, until we have more conference realignment, I don't know, are they eventually going to break it down into quadrants? Are we looking at the Northeast? Are we looking at the Southeast?

Are we looking at the, I don't know, the Midwest, the West? I mean, what do you do? There's no simple solution. I mean, the fact of the matter is, realistically, the college football playoff committee is not doing a damn thing but looking at BCS rankings anyway, except for they're not calling it the BCS. It's ridiculous. And so even as we get into the expansion, people are going to say, well, what are these teams going to be here for? Well, we got so many teams now.

Oh, it's a handout. We're just going to have more ass-flippings in a college football playoff. It's not even something exclusive, just a college sports. I mean, if we start looking at professional sports, it's like half of a league gets into the playoffs right now, just to keep fan interests going, just to keep teams feeling like they're in the loop and in the mix. And sure, yeah, look at what we just got in Major League Baseball. You got the Arizona Diamondbacks, you have the Texas Rangers, they both make the World Series and people are going, who the hell are these guys? Oh, yeah, and then the World Series ends up being one of the least watched World Series, if not the least watched World Series ever. And so, yeah, sure, let everybody and their mother end.

Let some team get hot on the way as the season closes down. Is that really a benefit at the end? Maybe it is. I'm not doing the math.

Maybe the gate is so amazing, people showing up. Maybe the viewership and the streaming is so amazing that it doesn't really matter what the actual interest is. So I think college football is going to be no different. Yeah, let's let 12 teams into the playoff.

What are we going to do? Just see a bunch of teams get their asses whooped to start things off? It's unfortunate. Speaking of unfortunate, I don't know if this is a good thing.

I don't know if it's a bad thing. Aaron Rodgers kept talking. That's what he does, right? He sits down with Pat McAfee twice a week. He gives his state of the Jets address. He gives the state of Aaron Rodgers address. And now there's conversations about the season. Now, Aaron Rodgers sitting down with Pat McAfee. One of the first things he said is he feels bad for Zach Wilson. We need a spark. And obviously this was the season that was made up feel for Zach. I love Zach.

He's such a great kid, and I do think he still has a bright future in the league. This has been a tough go for all of us. A lot of times in these situations, there's certain guys that got a scapegoat. And I think there's enough blame to go around in a number of different positions.

Oh, okay. Yeah, but regardless of what any of the other positions are doing, I think if you've seen Zach Wilson throw a football, you know he sucks. Aaron Rodgers continued on. And so if there's a lot of blame to get passed around Aaron Rodgers, who else do you blame? So obviously it's disappointing I have some, you know, personal guilt around the whole thing.

I mean, I'm pissed I wasn't able to play and frustrated that, you know, if I was out there and I feel like I'd be playing well, there would be obviously different narratives around our team. Man, you turn 40 in a couple of weeks, man. You're going to blame yourself.

You turn 40. You can't protect yourself on the offensive line and throw the ball down the field too, man. Come on. What are you going to do, end up being on the receiving end too?

You can't do this. Aaron Rodgers, you can't blame yourself. Just trying to sound like a good teammate.

And this is the doozy right here. Aaron Rodgers, this man popped his Achilles, first series of the game, four plays in. Aaron Rodgers was asked about his future as it pertains to this season, and here, take a listen. There was a team in 2009 in the Big Apple, well, jersey, that was four and six, finished nine and seven, went to the AFC Championship game. So listen, the season is definitely not over. It's not dead. There's a lot left to play for.

I'm excited about where I'm at in my rehab. Aaron Rodgers then continued on and said, give me a couple of weeks, I'm trying to get back to practice. What?

What? Like, I ain't no doctor, man. Did this man have a full Achilles tear?

And I know that brand new year, it's 2023, I mean, you can cut somebody open and throw a robot in there to stitch them up and the world continues on, right? Who the hell stitched up Aaron Rodgers? Did they throw some magic dust on this dude? How in the hell is he coming back from a blown out Achilles on September 11th? Man, that sucka ain't roll up his leg. Anyway, if he comes back this season, I don't know, Aaron Rodgers might be the Terminator, or maybe he's that drugged up where maybe he doesn't feel the pain.

I have no idea. And I know Aaron Rodgers says he feels bad for Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson spoke today about his benching. Zach Wilson was also clear, yeah, I got the boot and I can't argue with it.

Listen to Zach. You can sit there and be happy with the progress I feel like I've made personally, but it doesn't matter if you can't score. And I truly understand that and it starts with the quarterback and it's finding a way to get it done and we're not doing that.

And so if you keep doing the same thing, nothing's going to change. So I understand. Yeah, yeah, he got the warning from Coach Salah more than a week ago. They got to take on the Miami Dolphins on Friday. On the Black Friday game presented by Amazon. I don't give a damn who the New York Jets throw out their quarterback. They ain't matching or keeping up with the Miami Dolphins offense.

The only thing that might save them and or keep them alive is the Jets defense and even they unfortunately can't go out there and just score and run up a bunch of points. Highly unlikely. 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. Let's go ahead and talk to Rolando. He's calling from San Diego. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up Rolando? How you doing JR? Happy Holidays. To you as well, man.

What's going on? Today the San Diego Padres signed a new manager, Mike Schultz. Yeah, he was already on the team, wasn't he? Yeah, well they promoted him, the manager. So he coached the Cardinals before and they made it to the playoffs but then they lost to the Padres in 2021 in the wildcard. I'm willing to give him a chance, you know. We'll see how it goes but you have to question why the Cardinals let him go even after they made it to the playoffs.

Was he really a leader of men? Was he a good coach? Why did they let him go?

So we'll see how it goes. And if the Padres don't make it to the playoffs, then I think that Preller has to go, man. Because he's been around since like 2014 and what have they really done? What is this, his fifth manager or something like that? Yeah, he's going through him. And I know you're concerned about the manager and the manager is the one who has to go out there and massage all of the egos.

Man, I think there are larger issues at hand. I don't know if the egos in the room, if everybody even fits together. From Machado to Tatis, I know it's very likely that Soto is already done with the Padres.

So how does everybody fit together and what is the talent? And actually what's going on with the pitching? I think that's going to have a whole lot more bearing for the team improving and actually making their money's worth or living up to that payroll, that salary structure than anything that Mike Schilt goes out there and does, man.

I'd say he's secondary. I mean, you're right. There's a lot going on in the Padre land, you know, and they're going to have to figure it out, man. Well, let me know if you got a couple of billion, I'll chip in and buy the team with you, okay? Exactly.

I mean, these are stars that we got on our team and if the stars align and they produced and you never know, Padres could be the World Series champions. But Friar Faithful's hoping for the best in 2024, but we'll see how it goes. Good luck, brother. Have a good holiday, okay? You too. Happy holidays.

As well. Don is calling from Birmingham. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

Thank you. How about, I want to talk to you about it, Aaron Rodgers and his operation. Birmingham has a couple of big clinics that work on sports injuries.

Yes, Dr. James Andrews at the top of the heap, yes. Okay. They got, I got a friend that works in there, he was telling me, probably what they did was they cut a muscle out of your thigh, those are the strongest muscles you got in your body, and instead of stitching up the hole and trying to patch it together, they just take it out completely. And it's just standing in there and then they use some stem cells to stimulate the growth that'll attach itself to the bone.

Okay. I haven't heard, I haven't heard anything of that nature as it relates to Aaron Rodgers. What has been bandied and talked about, and thank you, Don, for calling from Birmingham. One of the procedures that they've talked about is a new procedure, which is like some zip procedure. I ain't going to sit here and get on medical, but they said that they've utilized a different procedure. I don't believe that they went into Aaron Rodgers' thigh and plugged something from his thigh into his leg. The last time I heard any such a thing, it was for a quarterback who almost lost his leg completely, and that was Alex Smith. They carved out a part of that dude's leg and they actually recreated his calf. I don't think for Aaron Rodgers' Achilles that they pretty much did the same thing, but I ain't no doctor, but I don't think that's the case. I think if they went into his calf or, excuse me, his quad, I think we would have heard about it. Maybe.

I could be wrong. Aaron Rodgers is jogging. He's trying to make it back to practice in two weeks. Yeah, it doesn't sound like a guy who had his leg cut open, or at least from his thigh.

Wild stuff. This is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. Aaron Rodgers is about to be 40 on December 2nd, three months after his Achilles surgery. He's trying to come back and play. Meanwhile, there's a 40, almost 50-year-old quarterback who won seven Super Bowls, and he ain't coming back to play, but he's pretty much told everybody, hey, this product that you got on the field right now, oh, it sucks. It's Tom Brady, Tom Brady calling the NFL, the quality of play, mediocre. We're going to hear it out of his own mouth, we're going to get to more of your calls, we'll talk more football, and basketball, and baseball, and whatever the hell you want to talk about.

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