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The Ring of Comfort. Coming soon to a Super Bowl new you. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. Man, what a day. Like, I feel like we're in, uh, like detox. Like, this is NFL detox.

We only have one game in the season. It's the Super Bowl. It's the San Francisco 49ers.

It's the Kansas City Chiefs. Ravens are going home. Well, they already were home. And then the Lions. They had to travel home. They had to travel home after their coach said, I ain't kicking nothing. Just fourth down, I'm going for it.

Fourth down again, I'm going for it. And then he went home. Anyway, it is the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. Happy and thrilled to be coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you so much to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey. He's holding it down for us on the boards in New York City. This show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific.

So if you're on the ride home from work or to work or you're at work or you're at home or you're somewhere else. Thank you for listening. We've had a full show. Thank you so much to Coach Herman Edwards for joining us. Yeah, Herm. Coach Herm joined us.

Yeah, he came through. He's an analyst on ESPN now and he coached the Jets, he coached the Chiefs and coached at Arizona State. And he came through and provided us with some perspective just on everything. I asked him about Dan Campbell.

He's just like, well, he just did what he's done all year long. I asked him about Brock Purdy. He said, man, when I was in college coaching, I tried to get Brock Purdy to be my quarterback at Arizona State.

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First of all, how about this? I see Doc Rivers is getting ready to make his debut with the Nuggets. I'm the New York Knicks.

I got him on one screen. They have no Julius Randall. They're smacking Charlotte one on one at 83. Joel Embiid, I guess that knee injury wasn't just a joke out in Denver.

Joel Embiid is not playing tonight in Portland. So just some some quick NBA updates. But let's go back a few days and I'm going to get to the phones in a second, but let's go back a few days to Friday.

Yeah, the last day I was here. OK, we had a whole conversation about quarterbacks facing and feeling the most pressure. And I said, Patrick Mahomes meant not even in the conversation. Patrick Mahomes is like the boogeyman.

No pressure. This is what he does. And I mean, at this stage, Patrick Mahomes is going back to another Super Bowl. It's like a birthright for a dude who said he's not even I don't think he's 28 years old yet.

This is just brand new territory for everybody else just trying to get over the hump. We've had Tom Brady. We have exited the Brady era when the era of Patrick Mahomes didn't feel no pressure. And the guy I said who would feel the most pressure would have the most to prove. His guy, his whole team just flopped because Patrick Mahomes took his lunch money early and he couldn't get it back. That's Lamar Jackson.

Yes, golf. You know, he didn't get the job done. We know about Purdy. I said he felt a lot of pressure. He did get the job done. And from the case of Lamar Jackson, you know, following their loss to the big bad Patrick Mahomes, Lamar spoke after the game and he basically said, yeah, we made too many mistakes to go out there and win.

Listen to Lamar Jackson. He turned the ball over, you know, farm boy interception, stuff like that. He gave him the opportunity to, you know, put points on the bar and win the game. We get in that red zone. It's been our touchdown all season. You know, we just got to finish and we didn't do a good job on finish.

Yeah, they didn't finish. I mean, we saw drop passes. We saw fumbles. We saw taunting. We saw a ball going to triple coverage. I mean, I thought I was drunk.

I wasn't. But I'm like, how many defenders are there? Is it one or am I seeing three?

Oh, no, there's actually three there. Lamar Jackson got a lot of thinking to do throughout the offseason, the offense. And Todd Munkin has a lot of thinking to do this offseason as Lamar Jackson now has a postseason record of two and four, even though he likely has another MVP coming his way. Somebody else not getting his second shot at a Super Bowl is Jared Goff.

All right. Jared Goff and the Lions, they were able to take a lead early. And then their coach, he got a little too aggressive late. Dan Campbell doesn't know what a scalpel is.

He only knows how to use a chainsaw. And so we talked about this earlier in the show, about his aggressiveness and not kicking the field goals and just going for it. But then Jared Goff spoke after the game and Jared Goff talked about just falling short. I think running through my head this whole postseason and certainly this week was, you know, how rare these opportunities are. I've been so fortunate to have two of them, but a lot of guys go along, you know, long careers without without being in these spots. So I was very aware of how hard it is and didn't take it for granted.

Can't take it for granted. It's like what what his coach said. You know, Dan Campbell after the game, Dan Campbell just like, yeah, I don't I don't I don't know if we'll be back here.

It's it's tough to get back here. That came out of Dan Campbell's mouth for Jared Goff. I don't want to say he was on a revenge tour, but he certainly wanted to prove his worth as a Super Bowl caliber quarterback and not too shabby to go to an championship game, another NFC championship game if you're Jared Goff, because it's not easy. There is a guy that that does make it look easy.

There is a dude who just shows up and goes to work and lights everybody up. There is a guy whose numbers in the postseason look ridiculous because he's playing against some of the top talent in the NFL. And that's Patrick Mahomes.

The numbers make no sense whatsoever. Let me tell you this. Yeah.

OK, sure. The the Chiefs score the first two times. They end up beating the Ravens 17 to 10.

Listen to these numbers. For Patrick Mahomes, he has played the equivalent of a season. He has 17 playoff games on his resume. These are playoff games.

This is the best of the best of the best. He has a record of 14 and three. He has passed for forty eight hundred yards and against the best of the best of the best in 17 games in the postseason. Patrick Mahomes has thrown 39 touchdowns to only seven interceptions.

That is ridiculous. That is a that is an MVP super MVP ratio against the best. That's that's an MVP in the regular season.

This is what he's doing against playoff competition. Thirty nine touchdowns to seven interceptions. And Patrick Mahomes, he spoke and said, man, even going to another Super Bowl, my fourth and fifth years or fourth and five years, excuse me. He's like, yeah, I don't take it for granted. You never know how many you're going to get to or if you're going to get to any. And so it truly is special just to do it with these guys after what we've been through all season long.

Guys coming together. It really is special. But I told him, I mean, job's not done. I mean, our job now is to prepare ourselves to play a good football team in the Super Bowl and try to get that ring. Oh, yeah.

That good team is going to be the forty niners. And what a difference the other quarterback is is coming from. What a difference.

What a difference in background. The other dude is coming from. And that's that's Brock Purdy. Not expected to be here, not expected to be in the NFL. But here he is still not necessarily getting the full credit for what he's been able to accomplish. People still looking at what he's done, thinking that he's just replaceable, that you, me and Sam Donald could wake up and and play a team to two consecutive NFC championship games. They basically got this guy off of the street.

Doesn't even make one million dollars a year. Helped win the game yesterday by scrambling, making making people go, oh, crap. I didn't know Brock Purdy can run like that.

And now where's he running to the Super Bowl? Brock Purdy said after the game, he's like, listen, y'all, all my life I've had to fight. Listen, I've never been the biggest, the fastest, the strongest or any of that. I feel like I've always sort of had to fight for what I get and work for what I get. But God's always giving me an opportunity, whether that was in high school, college, and then obviously in the NFL, getting drafted last, people, you know, over lucky and all that kind of stuff.

And then all you need is an opportunity. And when watching, see what he does, you know, I put my faith and trust in him and he's gotten me where I'm at. So when I'm down 17 at half, honestly, I'm just like thinking, all right, God, you've taken me here.

Win or lose, I'm going to glorify you. And and that's my piece. That's the joy. That's the steadfastness. That's where I get it from.

And that's the honest truth. So I leaned into that and sure enough, we were able to come back. The guy got faith. The guy got confidence. The guy got legs. The guy got wheels.

And listen, whatever, whatever keeps you even, right? His teammates, they got his back, too. His teammates are like he deserves respect. I saw Nick Bosa. He was talking after the game. He was on the field with CBS, with JoSina Anderson. And he's just like, man, what are people still saying about this guy? Listen, I don't pay attention to the media much, but whoever's talking about Brock Purdy.

What do you have now? Oh, OK. Well, listen. And what message do you feel like Mark already sent with this type of game? He's the best game manager in the league.

Oh, nice sarcasm there. I like that. Let's hear from another dude.

I think less profanity. This happens to be Christian McCaffrey, someone else who, by the way, happens to be an official MVP finalist along with guess who? Brock Purdy. This is what Christian McCaffrey had to say about his teammate Brock. I don't have enough good things to say about Brock. You know, he's all he's done since he's been here is play at an elite level and everything starts with him. And I'm just really we're lucky he's our quarterback. I mean, he takes a lot of heat for absolutely no reason. You know, all he's done has been a great leader, been a great player.

And I'm so proud of him and pumped up that I get another one with him this year. Yeah, people just got to say something, right? Can't leave well enough alone.

Got to say something. Well, anybody could do it. Well, look at all the guys he's playing with. I mean, just are you smart enough to evaluate him for him?

Like for what he's doing? Do you think outside the box? You sure you want to throw anybody else out there and they're going to have the same exact results? You want to tell me if I take, I don't know, a Teddy Bridgewater or Gardner Minshew, they're going to they're going to throw 31 touchdowns to 11 interceptions? I don't think so.

Easier said than done. Yes, the 49ers are a stacked team. They also happen to have a damn good quarterback who's in the MVP race.

I don't think you just wake up and do that because you are an amazing game manager. And so as we talked about and discuss pressure, Patrick Mahomes, he don't feel no pressure. He's the boogeyman. He's the guy underneath the bed. He's the dude in the closet that you do not want to see as a child. Josh Allen don't want to see him. Lamar Jackson doesn't want to see him.

And on the other hand, you've got a guy in Brock Purdy. It sounds like he ain't worried about nothing. Like French Montana say, he ain't worried about nothing. How about that? 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. Ed is calling from Pennsylvania. You're on the J.R. sport re-show. What's up, Ed? Hey, what's up, my brother?

How you doing? You know, one thing about Purdy that San Francisco, they ain't got to pay him for a long time. Yeah, he's not eligible until next year for a contract extension, correct? Right.

Yeah. So, you know, they can spread that wealth out to other players. And he's the kind of player, too, it depends how it goes.

He ain't going to want all that kind of money. Because he knows for a fact is what makes a team, you know? I mean, my wife was sitting in the kitchen yesterday, and I don't know, you know, everybody has a name for Purdy, you know, how it goes. My wife came up with one, and I said, you know, that's amazing.

I really haven't seen that one out there yet, you know, or people, what they signed and stuff. She said he was talking in the press conference. You know what she said is?

He's so Purdy. I said, what'd you say? That's what she came up with. Oh, no.

Oh, Ed, you didn't have to share that one. That's corny, but thank you. I know, that's what you said, though. Yeah, it's all right. I know, but it's great. What else you got?

Anything else? Yeah, so listen. Yeah, you know, like with Mahomes, he doesn't throw interceptions. He's smart with the ball. He gets rid of the ball, you know? And he's in a lot of people. He's like Magic or Michael or Bird. He's in a lot of players' heads.

You know, you have to, I don't know if you got a good game plan, you know what I'm saying, with him. And I like the way Kansas City V was. They spied, they put a spy on Jackson. People didn't really realize it. If you looked at their defense, every time he was about to break, they had a spy right there waiting on him. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, he had to throw the ball 37 times, which is certainly not the game plan.

But also too is, right, but they're a good offensive running team. Why do you get yourself out the game like that? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we discussed that earlier in the show with Coach Herman Edwards, and he pretty much said the same exact thing.

And I think it is really this simple, and thank you, Ed, for calling from PA. It just boils down to the fact that, hey, Baltimore was down. They looked across the field at the boogeyman. And they felt that the only way that they were going to stay competitive into the game was to start throwing it around. And that's not out of the ordinary.

That is not unusual. When you're down, in order to catch up, a lot of times you just got to go out there and throw that rock. 855-212-4, CBS Madison here from Arkansas. You're on the JR Sport Reshore. Hey, JR. How are you doing, bud? I'm excellent, Matt. Please, go on ahead.

I also have been with them for a long time, and so I got to change up what I need to talk about. But going back to Brock Purdy, Patrick Mahomes, one of your other callers is like, hey, Lamar Jackson isn't like caliber Patrick Mahomes. I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan through and through. But, man, Lamar Jackson is an amazing, amazing quarterback. And I think he's like now the most highly paid quarterback now.

Wait. You're saying Patrick Mahomes is the highest paid? No, he's not. No, no, no. I didn't say Patrick Mahomes.

I think Lamar Jackson and then Joe Burrow. Yeah, these guys are making 52 and 53, and one makes a half million dollars more than the other, yes. Yeah. And so Brock Purdy got to love this cat. Yes, he makes less than a mil, yes. I know. And Wally makes more than I do.

But got to give love to Brock Purdy. So when the NFC and the AFC Championship was coming up, all the predictions was 49ers, Ravens, Super Bowl. Forty-niners are going to beat the Ravens. Hey, Matt, are you OK? What the heck you been doing? Nothing.

Are you sure? Hey, do me a favor. Who's going to win the game? Who's going to win the Super Bowl?

Give me an answer. Chiefs. All right. Thank you, Matt. Call me back next week. Let's dive into it a little bit more, OK? See you, buddy.

All right. Thank you, Matt, for calling from Arkansas. A perfect answer. Hey, Matt, what are you doing? Nothing. I know you're doing nothing.

And that's the problem. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. Oh, by the way, if you're so interested in the quarterback salaries, Joe Burrow is making fifty five per. Justin Herbert is making fifty two and a half.

Lamar Jackson is making a flat fifty two. Yeah, all the quarterbacks are going broke. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. I'm going to get to your calls on the other side of the break.

I do want to update you. Speaking of money with quarterbacks, there is a quarterback who is he's pretty much let everybody know what type of money he's looking for. I'll explain.

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He was leading the NFL in touchdowns at the time. It's Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins is in the news because we got a little bit of a report here that Kirk Cousins is looking for some major money and some major cash in free agency.

If you did not know. Yes, Kirk Cousins is going to be a free agent. And it was reported by Charles Walters of the St. Paul Pioneer Press of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minneapolis, that Kirk Cousins is looking for at minimum a two year contract guaranteed 90 million dollars.

What does that mean? Kirk Cousins is looking for simple math here. Forty five million dollars a season. And we know more recently, as I just discussed prior to the break, Joe Burrow right now, this minute is at the top of the heap. He is making fifty five million per.

And then you start moving into Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts. They're making fifty two and fifty one mil. So not out of the realm of possibility to look at Kirk Cousins and say, hey, for my quality of play and what I've been able to do. Yeah, you're not going to pay me fifty. But go ahead and give me forty five.

A couple of things to keep in mind. Kirk Cousins just tore his Achilles. Also, by the time next season starts and I know quarterbacks are now playing until they are forty five years old. Kirk Cousins is going to be thirty six at the start of next season. So not all that cost prohibitive, I think, to bring him on if he is fully healthy and pay him forty five million per. Now, is that pricing out the Minnesota Vikings?

I would think so. Justin Jefferson arguably sands any type of his own injuries. He's probably the best, if not one of the best. We know he is wide receivers in the entire NFL. They're eventually going to have to pay Justin Jefferson. And so Kirk Cousins, his days in Minnesota might be done unless you take him at his word. And maybe he considers forty five per to be a discount. When he spoke to the media final press conference, regular season torn Achilles, I'm rehabbing. By the way, he's supposed to be ahead of schedule. Kirk Cousins was talking a little bit about a discount.

Listen to this. I think that God has blessed me financially beyond my wildest dreams. So at this stage in my career, the dollars are really not what it's about. I had a coach who I was with who was a younger coach at the time. This was back eight, nine years ago.

And I was before my first franchise tag. And we were talking about the situation and he made a great comment. And he said, Kirk, it's it's not about the dollars, but it is about what the dollars represent. And I thought that was an interesting comment that he made. So there will always be some of that.

But to Dave's point, structure is probably more important. OK. All right. We're going to find out soon enough. We're going to figure out what a discount means for Kirk Cousins, who apparently is going to be able to start throwing in about a month.

Good for him. I mean, there could be. Well, there are teams all over the NFL that are just, quote unquote, a quarterback away. I mean, if I got to take a look at the Falcons, I mean, is Kirk Cousins an option for them?

I mean, they got all this talent in the world. They need somebody to throw the ball or are they looking at Justin Fields? So half the damn NFL needs a quarterback. And Kirk Cousins is he going to be available? Who knows? He might stick around with the Vikings.

We'll find out sooner than later. Eight, five, five, two, one, two, four. CBS is eight, five, five, two, one, two, four. CBS Hunter is calling from Tampa on CBS Sports Radio. The J.R. sport ratio. What's up, Hunter?

What's up, J.R.? Just had a question. Yes. Brock Purdie's contract's coming up. Is John Lynch going to make him the highest paid quarterback in the league? And does his performance at the Super Bowl affect that contract? What are your thoughts on that? Oh, yes, and absolutely, Hunter.

Thank you for calling from Tampa. What brought there's going to be a difference between Brock Purdie going to the Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl Super Bowl versus losing the Super Bowl versus going to the Super Bowl and getting annihilated versus going to the Super Bowl and winning it all and winning it big. But but here's something else to consider. Brock Purdie is under contract for this season, this one coming up later this year, 2024. Brock Purdie is also under contract next season for, quote unquote, only a million dollars. And so, yeah, Brock Purdie making a mill. Patrick Mahomes on a discount, making 40, 45. And then Joe Burrow, who's been to a Super Bowl and who knows, Brock Purdie is only making around a million dollars a season. Joe Burrows making fifty five and Brock Purdie might beat him to the punch in regards to winning.

But this is this is difficult to say. They don't have to tender him a contract extension until next year. And we all know injuries are part of things.

He could wake up and and be completely gone. You have no idea. We are so far away, but we do know Brock Purdie has to finish out this contract like there's no alterations.

There are no adjustments. This is flat period straight to the point when you're drafted. You know how much you get. And this is where Brock Purdie is. And of course, the Super Bowl will have bearing. But I think the beginning of next season and how the year starts off will have bearing as well. He may go to the Super Bowl and throw three interceptions and all of a sudden, quote unquote, he's lost it. There's so much that could happen between now and then. But of course, it's playing the Super Bowl. It's going to have some say as to what his deal looks like. But if he's healthy, I don't think he's going to be making one meal anymore.

I think we can go ahead and boost and up that number without a shadow of a doubt. 855-212-4CBS is 855-212-4CBS. Hey, matter of fact, I'll tell you this right now, because this is the NFL and we will see Brock Purdie play in about two weeks. You can stream the NFL on Westwood One for free, sponsored by AutoZone. All season long, you can listen to every Westwood One broadcast of the NFL live on the NFL app by asking Alexa to open Westwood One Sports or on the Odyssey app. Get in the zone, AutoZone. AutoZone's free battery testing and charging is available for free at your local AutoZone. Get in the zone, AutoZone.

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A busy night. Man, AFC Championship Game, NFC Championship Game. We got basically two weeks to talk about the Super Bowl. Talked about Kirk Cousins before we went to the break. Coach Herman Edwards came through on the show and he joined us to talk about some of these decisions by Dan Campbell with the fourth downs and going for it all the damn time and talked about Purdy and Lamar Jackson. And these will be conversations that will be had over the next, you know, several weeks and the boogeyman Patrick Mahomes, Jared Goff, you know, not not going to get a lot of attention. I think you could thank Dan Campbell for that one, as we know, coaches are important.

And speaking of coaches, you know, I mentioned this, Marco Belletti mentioned it as well. Doc Rivers is making his debut right now. He's standing on the sidelines. I'm watching it here in the studio. I mean, Ray Allen and Bill Walton are on the broadcast. I'm watching. I wish I could turn them off. I probably can.

Denver leads Milwaukee 32 to 30. Doc Rivers met with the media for the first time over the weekend on Saturday, actually, and he dropped some knowledge on receiving this job. And you decide how honest he is or not. I don't know why he would be lying. But he says, I don't wish this experience on anybody being hired fired.

Listen to Doc. Listen, I've never done this. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I can tell you that just from the day and a half. But it's going to be a challenge. It's a challenge that that I'm running towards. Got to get organized quickly. You know, can't try to do too much too soon.

We're in the middle of a season, so we got to try to keep our rhythm. Oh, damn. He doesn't wish this experience on anybody. I mean. What about the guy who just got fired? What's worse, getting this job or the guy who lost this job in Adrian Griffin? A little bit of perspective, Doc.

Come on, man, please. And then he went about talking about how he procured the job. When did you find out that you received it?

What was the process, Doc? Fill us in. For me, it was just a strange day because I was flying to Dallas. I was going to do the ESPN game on that Wednesday and I flew up early because I wanted to spend time with my daughter who lives there.

And Seth, my son in law, plays for the Mavs. And I'm terrible with my phone. You'll find that out. I have a phone off and I walk in my daughter's house and she asks me about the news. I'm thinking that some political news happened, you know, and then she told me and then I turned my phone on to a lot of messages, urgent messages that I had answered.

So it was a strange day. Oh, Doc Rivers, he turns his phone off. That's nice. Hey, Hickey, do you turn your phone off? Only when it's like overheating and you got to reset it.

Otherwise, no, sir. Ah, like last week, my phone was almost exploded here in the studio. That's right.

That's right. And you turned it off for what? The first time in how long? Oh, my God. Off off? Yeah, off off. I guess the only other time I turned it off, I guess was to avert disaster. You're probably right. Maybe, I don't know, months ago, probably.

Wow. I mean, Doc does it on the right, I guess. Do not disturb does exist. Does Doc know that?

Oh, I love do not disturb. Yeah, Doc, somebody needs to fill Doc Rivers in on that. It goes. Well, anyway, I don't know. You think he got an Android or what is Doc Rivers got? Oh, he's deaf. If you text him, the green dot shows up for sure. Oh, OK. He might have a ladybug phone.

I don't know. Anyway, good luck to Doc Rivers. Let's see what the Milwaukee Bucks do throughout the course of the season. Eight five five two one two four CBS. Now, this is my favorite part. When the phone lines are full. And I got all these people on the phone listening to me and I just tell them I want to get on as many people as possible.

And someone will go. Hey, J.R., how are you doing? I'm fine. You go, I'm happy that you're fine, J.R. And I go, well, what do you want to talk about? Well, J.R., I want to talk about what you've been talking about. Listen, folks. I want to get on everybody.

I don't want to leave anybody out. So if you make your point very quickly, I can get everybody on and it doesn't have to feel rushed. So everybody gets, let's say, 30 seconds. That means you got to hit the point. Let's talk.

And then I can go to the next caller to try to be respectful of everybody's time. Hickey, do you think we'll be successful? Probably not. I hope so.

But I doubt it. Let's see what caller screws it up. You ready? Let's do it. Eight five five two one two four CBS. Matt is calling from California. You're on CBS Sports Radio, Matt. What's up? Not going to screw it up.

I promise. The Niners are 0 and 30 with any other quarterback under Kyle Shanahan when losing by more than five points in the fourth quarter. Brock Purdy is now 2 and 0 in the playoffs against two playoff caliber teams.

And he just annihilated the second half. So I just want to let everybody know that he he deserves some respect. Oh, well, thank you. So, Matt, that was actually an excellent call. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. That's good. Yeah, we got one down.

That was an excellent call. And yeah, I mean, how much credit? How much more credit can you give Brock Purdy?

The guy's helped leading or he helped lead two game winning comebacks in two consecutive weeks in the postseason. Not too shabby. Tony is here from Maryland. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

Hey, they are real quick. I've been listening to all the national media about, you know, the greatness of the Kansas City Chiefs and all of that. And listen, congratulations. They won. But I still watch the game over the day. And what I looked at was we were a couple of bad calls and a drop. Well, a drop. Pasadena zone away from probably the game either going into overtime or the Ravens winning the game outright. So, you know, the game is a game of inches.

Anything can happen at any time. And I feel like all we got to do is reset. I'm back next year. All right.

Well, thank you, Tony, for calling from Maryland. That's that's all easier said than done. I mean, if we played the coulda woulda shoulda game, it wasn't just a game of inches.

I don't care about a drop. When you take a look at the accumulation of everything that went wrong, in particular, their strategy. I wish I could be so optimistic. How many more times can we look at the Baltimore Ravens go? I don't know.

13 and four win 13 games, win 14. Like, who cares? There's a reason why throughout the course of the year we don't talk about the Ravens. And it's not so much because they're not exciting or they're not winning, because you reach a point in time where, hey, there's an expectation and you're supposed to get over it. It's sort of like when people, you know, talk about how well they take care of their kids.

And I know some people take care of kids like crap. But when people kind of pat themselves on the back for things they're supposed to do, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But y'all are good. Y'all have been good. We expect y'all to win games. We expect y'all to be good. But I got to wait until January to see what you're really going to do. I wouldn't be so optimistic.

Yeah, if he's healthy, they'll win another bunch of games next year. Who cares what you're going to do? My apologies, Hulk Hogan. I stole it.

But what are you going to do when you get to January? 855-212-4CBS. Tim is here from Alabama. JR. Yes, go ahead, Sim. I think we found our guy. Go ahead, Sim. Quickly. Hey, man, I'm over here on the rugby, brother.

Hey, sounds like Doc Rivers don't really want that job. You, on the other hand, you're the best boy talk radio star host in the nation. When are you going to boost up to your next damn level? Also, what is your prediction on a Super Bowl? Well, thank you, Tim, for calling from Alabama.

Well, listen, man, I'm already boosted up. Second of all, my prediction for the Super Bowl, I like Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. I got two weeks to explain. And what is it? He said something about his phone the first time. He got a rugby. He called me from a rugby farm. Great.

I'm glad that it works. 855-212-4CBS. Chelsea calling from California. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show.

What's up, Chelsea? Hey, just to all due respect to Kirk Cousins, but only one quarterback has played to 45, and that was Tom Brady. The second oldest currently is Aaron Rodgers, who's only paid $75 million, who's a four-time MVP, one-time Super Bowl MVP, and was only paid $75 million for two years. Are we really going to pay Kirk Cousins that much for two years?

Who is we? The Vikings, any kind of team that are interested in winning a Super Bowl. If we look at the other quarterbacks, we've got 35-year-old Russell Wilson, who's on his way out of Denver. We've got 35-year-old Geno Smith, who just lost his head coach. At what point do we say a quarterback is a young man's game? Well, I think we're very much aware that a quarterback is a young man's game. And my point about Tom Brady being 45, that was said in jest. I'm not expecting every quarterback to go to 45 years old the same way I'm not expecting every All-Star and future Hall of Famer in the NBA to stick around and hold all the records like LeBron James is doing at age 20.

But having said that, the players and athletes are playing longer. And in a sport like the NFL, where we certainly have had an adjustment in the rules and the protection of quarterbacks, I think it's quite reasonable to think that in this current day and age, in this era, that we do see quarterbacks stick around and play closer to 40. And yeah, do I think Russell Wilson is going to fall off the face of the earth? No. Do I think he'll get his chance and opportunity as a veteran?

Yeah. And so Kirk Cousins? Hey, I wouldn't be shocked. I expect him. Yeah, if he wants to shoot for $45 million per year. We talked about the Minnesota Vikings and him saying that he might give him a hometown discount. I don't see any reason why he wouldn't fall in that 40 to 45 range, especially coming out of 37 million. Knowing that somebody like Dak Prescott is sitting at 40. It seems reasonable.

I mean, if your team right on the edge and you think giving him money will win, look, teams have done stupider things like the Titans firing Mike Vrabel. Chelsea, thank you for calling from Cali. Thank you.

No doubt about it. Dale is here from Birmingham. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

Quickly, Dale. They talk more about a lot of talk. So talk radio show saying that Detroit choked. I think it was more nerves in the second half than anything else. And if he had if he hadn't went for some of them dumb plays and kicked the field goal, that would have kept him with some. But it was just up the competition. Yeah. Well, they they lost by, you know, three points and they decided to, you know, just kick away six or not even kick six.

Right. And one more point, J.R. with Ravens. They should have changed their game plan. I know he missed some passes, but if the coach had made a better game plan for the Ravens running James a little bit more, I think they would have had a better chance of winning because they were now the game.

Yeah, I think they got spooked by the boogeyman and Patrick Mahomes and thought that they needed to throw the rock. Hey, Dale, thank you for calling from Birmingham. Appreciate you. No doubt about it. Oh, my God.

Hickey. We did it. I'm shocked. We got by the odds was that every caller on the line who was waiting through the break, we got everybody on with a minute to spare to listen. They were good.

I got to give them credit. I mean, I was waiting on somebody to just, hey, J.R., how you doing, man? Well, we talked about this last week.

Did you watch the game yesterday? I was waiting on somebody to do it and nobody did it anyway. I'll be back tomorrow because that's what I do. They want me to come here and talk and I do it.

It's easy. I'll be back tomorrow. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.

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