2.8.24 - JR SportBrief Hour 1

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Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll. The Ring of Comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you.

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2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. It is the JR Sportbreef show here on CBS Sports Radio. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. producer and host Ryan Hickey. He's holding it down for us in New York City.

And you, you could be anywhere. You could be tuned in and locked in on the free Odyssey app. You could be listening on your local CBS Sports Radio affiliate. Sirius XM Channel 158.

And if you got a smart speaker, all you got to do is ask it to play CBS Sports Radio. I hope you have had a tremendous Thursday. Hopefully you did not get traded this Thursday. NBA trade deadline came and went at 3 p.m. Eastern. Lakers didn't make a move. The Knicks made a good move to get some depth.

There were no big name superstars that moved around, but plenty of, plenty of support. Let's just say that. Anyway, speaking of support, I'm here to support you over the next four hours. This is when I get started 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.

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That's 855-212-4CBS. NBA trade deadline. I'm going to fill you in on all the big trades momentarily. We got some guys that need to make up with each other because we've had some enemies who are now teammates.

I'll fill you in shortly. And about 20 minutes from now, the Super Bowl is now only, let's see, three days away. We don't have that much longer to wait. We're going to be joined by Chad Brown. This man used to knock people silly for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we're going to get his perspective on what's going on out in Vegas, what he believes is going to happen. He's doing a whole lot of media right now, a lot of radio work in general. And let's get his perspective.

Also played for the Seattle Seahawks, was also with the New England Patriots. And so there's a lot to discuss with Chad Brown. Someone who I am very familiar with, wide receiver in the NFL, most recently for the Atlanta Falcons, is going to come through and join us. His name is Mack Hollins. Mack is going to come through next hour. He sent me some food, which I'm very appreciative of. And so we'll talk about what he's up to, you know, how he's feeling. I want to get into some of the offense in the NFL. He's certainly an interesting fellow, always into many things, many ideas, always picking up new things. So we'll check in with Mack Hollins next hour.

Also, tonight, and a good majority of it is likely going to have to wait until I am off the air. But the NFL Honors is taking place tonight in Las Vegas. What is the NFL Honors? They're going to give away their biggest awards.

Offensive Player of the Year, Coordinator of the Year, This and That of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year. And then we're going to find out who's going to walk away with the MVP. I think we're all pretty much aware of who it's going to be right now. It's likely going to be Lamar Jackson.

So in a few hours, that is likely to be official, without a shadow of a doubt. Hey, Hickey, none of us got traded, man. We're back. We're still here.

That's right. I'm happy that my key card still worked today when I walked in. Your key card worked.

I was able to get into the building here in Atlanta. So yeah, every everything worked out. And I think we're all pretty much aware of everything worked out. No big names in the NBA trade deadline. No De'Jaunte Murray moving.

I guess he would have been the biggest name. And that's about it. No DeMar DeRozan moving. I don't know what the hell the Chicago Bulls are doing.

I think they're a bunch of idiots. But we did see a bunch of role players move around. We did see some familiar names move around.

How about we start off with this one? The Bucks have certainly been in the news a whole of a hell of a lot recently. Getting ready to head coach Adrian Griffin, bringing in Doc Rivers, being one of the worst defensive teams in the league, trying to figure out how things fit with Giannis Atetokounmpo and Damian Lillard. And so the Bucks say, our defense sucks. Let's bring in a guy that plays defense.

Let's bring in a guy who's a complete pain in the ass. The Milwaukee Bucks have added Patrick Beverly to their team. Sending to the 76ers in return is Cameron Payne and a 20-27 second round pick. So Patrick Beverly, if you can't stand the guy, too bad. You're going to see him playing alongside Giannis Atetokounmpo. You'll see him alongside Damian Lillard. And I must remind you, Damian Lillard and Patrick Beverly, they've had some beefs over the years. I mean, it was only in 2020 in the bubble when Patrick Beverly played for the Clippers that Damian Lillard, who's one of the most clutch players the NBA has ever seen, he missed some crucial free throws at the end of a game. And Patrick Beverly was sitting on the sidelines. He was having the time of his life. He was falling out, laughing. He's making fun of Damian Lillard and his clutchness.

Take a listen to this. It's from the NBA on TNT back in 2020. Those are the day and Beverly reacted. Asking me about Patrick Beverly, who I sent him home before at the end of a game. Paul George has got sent home by me last year in the playoffs.

So they know. Oh, said that Damian Lillard's sending people home. I mean, what can they do?

But I guess stand around and laugh. I mean, it goes beyond that. Last year, the Lakers and the Blazers. Yeah, if you haven't noticed Patrick Beverly, he gets around a lot.

Not that way, at least on basketball teams. Patrick Beverly, he was on the Lakers last season before he got traded from there. And after the game, he talked about Damian Lillard and just locking them up.

Listen to this. It did seem like you had a kind of a constant dialogue with Dame throughout. You end up tonight being the plus 27. Dame has a slow shooting night.

What were you looking at match-up wise? He would have cooked me. You would have said he had a, I couldn't guard him.

Now, he missed a couple of shots as a slow shooting night. Well, I said you were plus 27, right? That doesn't sound better. Well, I was going to ask the question, let you answer it. I just answered it. Any more on just the match-up? No, always good to see Dame. A hell of a point guard in this league. His ability to shoot it from the logo puts pressure on your defense. I think it was a team effort tonight.

It wasn't one minute. Oh, okay. Oh, nice. He gave him compliments. He's going to have to get used to it.

He's going to have to offer up a whole hell of a lot more compliments now at this point. And then they continued on. I mean, even last season in another game, they just went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. This is on the root sports. This is a long standing feud. They had an online beef back in May. Chris Paul was in the middle of that beef with Dame defending CP3. And of course, Pat Bev was going after both of them at the same time.

And it's one of the reasons, this is not unexpected folks. Yeah, they, they hate each other if you can't tell. And now they got to get along. This is like before the season started when the Golden State Warriors added Chris Paul and we know Chris Paul and Draymond Green, they can't stand each other. I guess now they don't have to worry about it because Chris Paul is not healthy. Another busted up broken hand, Draymond dealing with a suspension. But I would think Damian Lillard and Patrick Beverley are going to have to get along and they're going to have to play together.

A matter of fact, Patrick Beverley, he was doing a live show, a live podcast right before the trade deadline. And he was chatting it up with Malik Beasley finding out that, yeah, not only are we teammates, I'm going to have to figure out how to get along with this guy. Hey, yeah, I'm looking for you, buddy. What's up buddy?

Hey, Doc, go let me do my thang over there. I know. Hey, so who else on the team? That you **** with? No, no, no, no.

It's Dang, Giannis, Bobby, you, Jay Crowder? Yeah. Okay, nah, nah, that's my man. From New Year's.

What's New Year's? When we saw Dang. Oh yeah, I pressed Dang, yeah. No, I gotta get my relationship right with Dang. You gotta get my relationship right with Dang man. Time for the championship back. Oh, okay.

All right. Patrick Beverley sounds like he's, I don't know, talking to somebody at 4 a.m. I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Anyway, he said he needs to get his relationship right with Damian Lillard. And we're going to find out soon enough whether the Milwaukee Bucks can play enough defense, whether or not they can get their rotations together enough to go ahead and compete for a championship. And I got to tell you some of the other moves that took place today before the trade deadline, the Phoenix Suns were able to add Royce O'Neal from the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets were still moving and shaking. The Nets sending Spencer Dinwiddie to Toronto. The Toronto Raptors sending Dennis Schroeder to the Brooklyn Nets. The Pistons, the New York Knicks at it. And this is the move, really, that I looked at today and I just had to go, damn. I had to say to myself, the New York Knicks, they're good.

And unfortunately, I hate to share the news with you, Oji Ananobi is undergoing elbow surgery. The New York Knicks just acquired him. He's been excellent for the Knicks when he's played.

Knocking down shots, excellent defense. The Knicks today receive Alec Burks, Boyan Bogdanovich, two shooters, two veterans, a veteran point guard, a veteran forward who know their roles, are not going to complain, do their job. Alec Burks has already been a member of the New York Knicks and all the Knicks had to give up was the expiring contract and the rotting basketball corpse of Evan Fournier, Quinton Grimes, who was whining that he was no longer at one point in time in the rotation. And then second round picks, the Knicks kept their future first round picks. The New York Knicks still have Jalen Brunson, the New York Knicks. They still have Julius Randle, although he's dealing with a shoulder issue and they might get back Mitchell Robinson. The New York Knicks added vets. The New York Knicks added shooting. The New York Knicks have depth. I don't know what coach Thibodeau is going to do because this man likes to pick five, six guys and run them into the ground and make them play forever.

Now he has options. I hope he uses them. I hope he utilizes all the shooting off the bench. More importantly, I hope the Knicks are healthy. The Knicks have not been, or at least let me put it this way. I haven't felt this confident in the Knicks and their ability to do anything substantial.

I'd say 25 plus years, maybe 30 years. It's been a long time that the Knicks have been good. It's a shame I got to go back to the damn eighties. Somebody else who likes what the New York Knicks did is Zach Lowe.

He was on the NBA on ESPN, nothing but positive words. I'm a little bit scared guys. I'm a little bit nervous because suddenly the New York Knicks are operating like the single smartest franchise in the entire NBA. And my brain doesn't know how to deal with that reality after 20 years of let's just say other stuff.

You just went through all the transactions. This team has upgraded at every single position over the course of two years, piece by piece by piece. And rarely do we see a team straight away for covenant young players quickly bear it and others that have gone out the door Grimes today and still come away with a team that's young, exciting, youngish anyway, loaded with assets, loaded with picks to trade for a star. And I'm telling you right now, we can sit here and talk about, well, every championship team needs a top five, top 10 player, this and that. There are multiple ways to build a contender. There are multiple paths to the conference finals and even the finals and the Knicks right now with Joel Embiid hurt, Milwaukee trying to figure itself out. They're in as good a position as anybody outside Boston and maybe Cleveland to make a run at the finals. This team is deep and nasty and they've suddenly got shooting and they have done a fantastic job over multiple years of reorienting this team for the present and the future.

Just unbelievable work. He said it all. Knicks haven't been this good.

Let me not say I haven't been this good. The Knicks at one point in time had a squad with Carmelo Anthony and Amari Stoudemire and a veteran aging Jason Kidd. I mean, they had weapons. Rashid Wallace.

Unfortunately, these dudes were a little older. I'm not even going to count that. I'm talking real contention. The New York Knicks look damn good. So no huge names moving. Gordon Hayward goes from Charlotte to OKC. PJ Washington goes from Charlotte down to the Dallas Mavericks. Nuggets didn't make a move. Lakers did not make a move.

And so things kind of stay status quo. Some of the teams that are competing, our contenders added some bit pieces like the Pacers moving Buddy Heel to the Sixers. I guess it'll be nice if Joel Embiid can come back and actually pass him the ball.

It's the JR Sportbreeze show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. NFL honors this tonight. We're going to find out who gets the MVP award. Man, we got Kobe Bryant. His statue is going to be unveiled tonight in Los Angeles.

There's so much to get into. Antonio Daniels, a former NBA player, is going to come through later on in the show to talk trade deadline. Mack Holland's NFL wide receiver is going to come through. But in a few minutes on the other side of the break, we're going to talk to Chad Brown from the Blitz Bird Steelers. We're going to get his thought on this Sunday's upcoming game. Get his thoughts on MVP.

There's a lot to do. Chad Brown coming up next. Happy Thursday to you.

It's the JR Sportbreeze show. Glad I didn't get traded. Here with you on CBS Sports Radio. A ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll. The Ring of Comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you.

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2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. I'm Tony and this is the Tony Kornheiser show. Well, that makes it sound a bit more serious than it really is. So what exactly is the show about? Been almost 30 years and I still don't know. Right now we have some of the best voices in football come on to explain to us what we need to know in the college and pro world, and we get weekly picks from a monkey.

Do you really need more than that? I might just tell you about my bunker game and the latest failed entry in my quest to find the best coffee ice cream. No schmutz please. Listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. The JR Sport Brief show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Chad Brown, former Pittsburgh Steeler. I guess he's gambling out somewhere in Vegas. We're going to track him down and see where the hell he's at and then we'll continue on from there. Mac Hollins will join us next hour later on in the show to continue on this chat about the NBA trade deadline. We're going to talk to Antonio Daniels, a former point guard in the league and now a co-host on Sirius XM. Midday's will join us and he's also a television analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans.

So quite busy and then also has an opportunity to see you know all of these teams in the league. The Pelicans, speaking of his squad, relatively quiet. I'd mentioned the Los Angeles Lakers not doing a damn thing here at the trade deadline and part of that includes someone that they did not add and that's De'Jaunte Murray from the Atlanta Hawks. Right here in Georgia, a couple blocks down from me in the middle of the city, there were conversations over the past months about De'Jaunte Murray and whether or not he was going to move on.

Well, he's still a Hawk and the Lakers have done nothing. 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS. It looks like we have got Chad here on the line with us hanging out in Vegas. Chad, how are you man? You're on the JR Sport Breeze show. I am fantastic and yes, I'm looking on my hotel room window at the Las Vegas strip.

Hey, that's a safe place to be indoors and not on a casino floor, isn't it? I think it's a much wiser choice for my wallet, no doubt about that. And no doubt about it. Chad Brown here, former stealer, knocking everybody, he's senseless now into all types of media here with us on CBS Sports Radio. When we actually get to the game this coming Sunday, what are your thoughts on what we can expect to see?

I expect to see a good game. Obviously, we've got two of the best play callers and play designers in the game with Kyle Shanahan and Andy Reid. We've got two quarterbacks more than capable of directing their team to a victory.

Obviously, Patrick Mahomes has done this before. In my mind, the best quarterback in the game. While Block Purdy is not at that kind of level, I've been calling his game since he was at Iowa State. I thought he was one of the better processors of information, one of the best progression guys in all of college football.

Didn't wow you with his athleticism, didn't wow you with his arm strength. But I thought in the right situation in the NFL, he would be a very good player. And he goes to San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan and all those weapons.

And he's playing at an incredibly high level. But in the end, I think it's probably going to be determined by the defenses who actually wins this game. So the 49ers need to find a way to play as they played earlier this season. And then Kansas City is going to have to find a way to limit those explosive plays from all those great talented playmakers on the 49ers offense. Well, Chad, we know you made your bones on the defense. When you take a look at both of these teams and how they perform this season, who are some of the key players that we really need to watch?

We know the big names, the Jones, the Boleses of the world. Is there anybody else that you think is going to be a key contributor to Sunday? Well, I think Fred Warner, not that he's an unknown guy, and Dre Greenlaw, not that he's an unknown guy, their ability to deal with Travis Kelce in the passing game is going to be critical for the 49ers defense. Because if those guys are able to limit Travis Kelce, then Steve Wilkes, the defensive coordinator for San Francisco, can keep his base defense on the field. And that way Andy Reid can't alternate between running powerball with Isaiah Pacheco once you go with a safety and a subdefense on the field, and then having Travis Kelce take advantage of inside linebackers on first and second down.

So, if they can handle him, that's going to allow Steve Wilkes to be a lot more confident as a play caller. And on the other side of the field, for the Kansas City Chiefs, the physical 49ers offensively, they run the most tight formations of any team in the league. What I mean by tight formations, we always think about NFL and football now as a spread formation game, where receivers are outside the numbers. The 49ers, they actually do it the opposite. They bring those receivers in tight and close. They want to bunch the defense up and then try to run outside. And that's how Kristin McCaffrey is able to run for two yards, run for three yards, and break his 30 or 40 yarder, because he gets a one-on-one situation with a cornerback with a lot of space because they went with that very tight, compact formation. And let's face it, I played defense in the NFL for 15 years. I have yet to be on a football team where the cornerbacks weren't the worst tacklers on those football teams.

So, once again, a demonstration of Kyle Shanahan's offensive genius to lead the league in those tight formations to give its playmakers a chance to make explosive plays on the outside against the worst tacklers of any defense. Former NFL All-Pro and Pro Bowl linebacker Chad Brown is here with us on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, Chad, it sounds like you got the 49ers winning this one. Am I wrong on that?

Chad Brown I think you are wrong. I've got tremendous respect for both these teams. I actually did a coaching internship out there in San Francisco a couple of all seasons ago. I was out there for the entire offseason program.

So, I got a lot of respect for Kyle Shanahan and that organization that they built out there with John Lynch. But I think Kansas City, because of how they played these playoff games, Kansas City during the regular season certainly left a lot to be desired. The wide receiver room, in some cases, cost them games.

Travis Kelce disappeared for a pretty major stretch. But the rare thing is for a team to play like that and then be able to flip the switch in the playoffs, well, Kansas City has been able to do that. Whereas San Francisco, they left a little something to be desired the last couple of games in the regular season. And then in the playoff games, that defense didn't really show up. They were only able to play one half of really good football versus one half of uneven football. So, in a game that I expect to be incredibly close, I think that more even play from Kansas City certainly lends them the better chance for success. And I got them winning a close game by like somewhere three or five points, something like that. I certainly hope it's a close game.

I think it will be as well. Chad, you've played on a variety of teams with multiple coaches. And I know Pittsburgh is a special town, special city. As big or small as it is, every game feels like you're amongst your neighbors. And the vibe of the city goes with the team. What are your thoughts on the job that Mike Tomlin has done with these Steelers and then his interactions with the city? Because when I'm in Pittsburgh, I can't get an Uber, a car. People are like, hey, JR, we need a fire. We need to get rid of them. I don't think they really appreciate them.

What do you think? Well, obviously, in Pittsburgh, the standard is incredibly high. So for a guy, Mike Tomlin, who coined the phrase the standard is the standard, now the standard is he has been upheld to or asked to be an uphold.

I think it's a bit unfair. You have losing season in over a decade and a half in the NFL. That's an amazing track record of success. But unfortunately for Pittsburgh, it's not about when you're losing seasons. It's about hoisting Lombardi trophies. That's the standard out there in Pittsburgh. So, yeah, I've been back to Pittsburgh a couple of times and that same conversation has been thrown my way.

And I always push back and who are you going to get who's better? Who are you going to get who's going to be able to ship when you're moving on from a franchise quarterback, a guy like Ben Roethlisberger, and still produce winning records and still produce teams that get in the playoffs? Maybe they don't win playoff games, but they're in the playoffs. Now, they've got to find a way to, you know, to get a quarterback who can give the fan base in that franchise confidence that they can only have winning seasons but have deep playoff runs.

So I'm not sure if Kenny Pickett could ever be that guy. It sounds like he may get an opportunity again next year. But they've got some figuring out to do. But I think Mike Tomlin has proven himself as a very, very good head coach. And the folks in Pittsburgh maybe need to look around at the rest of the league and see some of these franchises when they go through bad times, they still don't produce winning records. They got four or five wins, not nine or 10.

So sometimes you got to be happy that the process is still ongoing. It's not a total redo from a front office standpoint. The former All-Pro linebacker Chad Brown to see it with CBS Sports Radio, the JR Sport Reshow. Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh, I should say, isn't the only city you had experience with. You were there and had experience with Belichick as well with the New England Patriots. Now, when you look at this man not having a job, are you surprised? Are you shocked?

How do you see that? If I were an owner, I would definitely have coached Belichick. But I can understand why these owners weren't eager to have Coach Belichick. Some of the personnel decisions over the last couple of years have left something to be desired. Heck, I was there in 2005 and 2007, and some of those draft picks came in and I was like, well, that dude can't play. I respect this man as a football genius, but he's bringing players who don't have a shot. Now, in free agency, he typically did a really good job.

But for whatever reason, the college players, particularly wide receivers, seem to be very difficult for Bill to find the right guy. So I think some of the personnel moves, some of the coaching moves, having Joe Judge and Matt Patricia be offensive coordinators and call plays. Well, Joe Judge is a special teams guy. Matt Patricia is a defensive coordinator.

So sometimes the hubris that we feel better than everyone else and it doesn't pay out so well for the Patriots, I think that also strikes owners wrong. So could Bill Belichick dial up a defensive game plan to shut down or limit most offenses today? Absolutely, he could. Could he connect to most players in the room if they're dedicated to winning?

Absolutely, he could. But I think his list of demands coming in from an ownership perspective about having control over personnel and those kinds of things, that may have been a step too far for most of those owners this offseason. And maybe a season away from the game will humble Bill a bit and he can recognize, I can give some of the personnel responsibility to somebody else and I can get back in there and continue my pursuit for the all-time win record and beat you up. Well, Chad, when you talk about the changes in the game and whether it be offense or being humbled, I mean, you played in the 90s into the 2000s where it was still big pass, smash you in the mouth. And how do you feel about how the game has evolved? Everything changes. Are you a fan?

Are you accepting of kind of what we have and where the product is going? I've tried my best to wrap my mind around it. You know, I'm obviously here at the Super Bowl and I'm going to parties and I'm seeing Hall of Fame guys and Hall of Fame teammates who I played with. And the conversation always and everly goes to the game today and how soft it is and how easy these guys have it. And, you know, only 14 padded practices of the year and I did 14 padded practices in the first week and a half of training camp.

These guys are so soft. At the same time, we have to recognize that football was on a path to where there probably wouldn't be much football. If little Timmy's mom is not comfortable with little Timmy playing the game and not being brain damaged and not needing a walker after he's done playing, then she's not going to let little Timmy play. So in attempts to keep the game going and keep little Timmy's mom comfortable, the NFL has made changes.

I think some of those may be to actually be detriment physically of some players, but it wins a press release or a PR battle kind of thing. So I understand why these changes had to happen. And I understand that, hey, I paid an incredible physical price and players today, they actually benefit from not paying the same physical price that I did. So I'm not mad at these guys. It's not their fault. This is the situation that has unveiled itself in front of them. They get a chance to make a ton of money.

Don't have to do a lot physically good for them. And, you know, and back in my era, when I played four preseason games, the era that, you know, was ahead of me, they played six preseason games. We continue to try to make the game safer in an attempt to make sure the game has long-term sustainable success. I still want to be watching football 25 years from now.

And I think with the concussions and the way we were playing and using our helmets, that probably wouldn't have been. So these changes in some way had to happen. Well, Chad, you are certainly one of many athletes to go from on the field and to utilizing your voice, whether it be your media, online or radio, what have you. And now we know that media has evolved more into digital and social media. What are your thoughts on how that's changed where the athletes now, even active athletes, have more of a voice than it was even possible to have due to technology back in when you played like the 90s or 2000? On one hand, I love it that I was able to walk around and people weren't taking pictures of me and everything I did was not part of, you know, the social media world. On the other hand, these guys have an incredible platform and have an incredible opportunity to capitalize on their popularity and grow a brand while they're still playing from a media perspective. That was really difficult to do back in my day if you weren't a quarterback. So for Parsons down in Dallas, he just gets a chance to do his podcast.

Now, is there a double-edged sword with that? Yeah, because you're talking about the league while you're playing and you're going to talk about teams that you just played, teams that you're going to play, maybe your teammate gets traded and you feel like you've got to talk about that topic, I think it opens you up for some hurt locker room feelings, for some conversations that maybe shouldn't be had as a current player still playing in mid-season kind of thing. But I think from a fan engagement standpoint, you can't deny the impact of having a direct conduit to players through social media, to hear their thoughts, to be able to ask them questions, to hear their podcasts, all those kinds of things brings fans closer and closer inside the game, which fans greatly desire. So the pool of money that the NFL has accumulated over the years, you know, sure some of that is gambling, but I think social media needs to begin the tip of the cap as well because they have brought more fans in and made fans more connected from a, not just a monthly or weekly base, from a daily basis fans want to consume content produced by football players and has brought them in more and to help that pool of revenue grow.

Yeah, we know one thing the NFL is not screwing up right now is the money as they move towards 20 billion dollars in revenue a season. Hey Chad, I appreciate you taking the time to hop on. Where can people follow you and your work in the media space? You can always find me on Twitter at Chad Brown 94.

You can also find the Kill You With Truth podcast on YouTube as well. I don't want to give a shout out to some of the, some of your competitors who I work with, so I'll leave it there. Oh, that's, that's fine. Listen, man, I wake up and do what I do, but I appreciate you, Chad. Thank you, man. Right on. Well, thanks for having me on.

I certainly appreciate it. No doubt about it. That Chad Brown, multiple time Pro Bowler, All Pro, knocking people silly back with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

They called them Blitz-berg. And Chad, as you heard, now participating in the media space. And if you listen to him, you can absolutely tell why and engaging and very thoughtful in every answer and every response. So thank you again to Chad Brown for joining us. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. As I stand here in this studio in Atlanta, I'm anxiously waiting for the unveiling of Kobe Bryant's statue in Los Angeles. It's something that is due.

And I want to know what it looks like. I can't wait to talk to you all about it. We're going to spend some more time with the trade deadline. We have much more guests coming up in the show as it relates to the NFL and the Super Bowl. NFL wide receiver Mac Hollins, he's going to join us next hour, but we're going to keep the ship moving. It's the JR Sportbree Show on CBS Sports Radio.

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He does. Speaking of winning, the Los Angeles Lakers are getting ready to unveil Kobe Bryant's statue outside of this. I want to call it Staples Center so bad, even though Staples is another corporate company. Sounds so much better than Crypto.com Arena.

It's probably not going to exist in five years. But anyway, Los Angeles, the Lakers right outside the arena. And my apologies for the Clippers. They're going to be moving next year. They they got this walk of fame. I don't know what they officially call it.

Starwalk. You got, you know, Shaquille O'Neal has a statue out there, Magic, etc. And right now, Derek Fisher, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, God bless him, especially the fact that I know he suffered a hip injury a couple of months ago. Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant's wife, Natalia, they are all on stage. Jeannie Buss is kind of leading this conversation right now as they get ready to kind of unveil Kobe Bryant's statue.

Hickey, I got a question for you, man. Palgasol, Adam Silver, they are all in attendance. What is the statue going to be like? There's so many like images that I think about with Kobe Bryant. Is it him hitting a fadeaway jump shot? Is it the scowl? Is it holding that that fist up with the scowl? What do you think this statue might look like? Oh, that's really tough because you're right.

There are a ton of moments. I would say maybe like a jumper. I feel like that's maybe one of the iconic, like the Kobe sort of fadeaway jumper kind of one knee up sort of look. That's what I'll go with.

One knee up, so a fadeaway jump shot? Yes. Okay.

All right. I think so. I think it's going to be the jump shot or it's going to be that stand up fist. I don't know.

You know what I'm talking about? There was that one shot. I don't remember when he hit it, but he kind of had his fist raised and he had that scowl. He was shaking his fist. I could see that, but that's probably angry. You don't want to envision him being angry. So yeah, it'll probably be a basketball move, maybe a fadeaway with a bunch of hands in his face because we knew that Kobe Bryant was going to go out there and take that shot.

As of right now, they're going through all of the drawing out process of having everybody speak and say some words. I mean, after listening to his wife and maybe, you know, Kareem, I don't, why do I need to hear Derek Fisher? We got to hear from a former teammate.

It has to be him. Let's just get the show over with. I want to see what Kobe's statute looks like. Unfortunately, for the Los Angeles Lakers, they will be in action tonight.

I don't know if that's a bad thing. I know they're going to be happy to be back at home after their East Coast swing. Despite the trade deadline coming and going at 3 p.m. Eastern, the Los Angeles Lakers, they did not make a move. And it feels like this is going to be a wasted season for LeBron James. We discussed this last year and somehow, some way the Los Angeles Lakers with a similar roster basically went to the NBA finals, excuse me, the Western Conference finals, and then they got waxed by the Denver Nuggets. It doesn't matter how close the games were, what they were going to look like.

And tonight they're going to host the same Denver Nuggets, where they are probably likely going to get waxed again. And so I don't know if I should feel bad for LeBron James. I don't know what players they would have had available, to be honest, over the course of his career. And more recently, LeBron James obviously does have input into the roster.

He did try to swing with Russell Westbrook and then they moved him. And so he's not without fault here. And LeBron has spent a lot of time over the past several weeks saying, I have nothing to do with the roster construction. LeBron James has spent plenty of time saying, I have no message to my teammates. Do your job. He has talked about loving the guys in the locker room.

Well, let's be real. He can't back up the bus and run these dudes over and say they suck. He can't do that. I mean, the best that the Lakers can do right now is see who gets cut over the next couple of days, you know, see who they can add, you know, over the waiver wire, because there's not a superstar. And in my opinion, even to take a look at somebody like De'Jaunte Murray, he would not have moved the needle for the Lakers.

And what would he have done? I mean, he needs the ball in his hands. He is a point guard. I mean, right now he's playing off of Trae Young.

But this guy, he wants to run an offense. Was he going to stand around and watch LeBron? He's going to be relief for LeBron James. LeBron James is 39 years old. He's going to be 40 years old in December next season.

And I think we all can assume LeBron is going to play. He's going to be 40. I guess they're going to have to make moves in the offseason. It just sucks here for as many years he has left. It could be two, three.

It could be none. This is how LeBron James is going to go out with a wasted year. And that part as a basketball fan sucks. You want to see LeBron competing for a championship.

You want to see how far he can push it before he has to walk out of the door. I think it's as simple and as clear as that. The Lakers, they're not the only team that that didn't make a move. The Denver Nuggets didn't do anything. I know there were rumors about, oh, my God, can they go out there and reacquire Bruce Brown? If you want to say the Milwaukee Bucks did something by adding Patrick Beverley, I guess you certainly can. This just it's the world that we live in.

I had this conversation with someone when I walked into the studio. It's tough to make these these big trades and these big moves, because the players, the stars, they make so much money. It's difficult to start flipping around dudes who are making, you know, 50, 52, 53, 55 plus million dollars a season.

We're going to have less of that. That's why the Buddy Heels got moved. The Boyung Badanovic got moved.

Players who are role players moved along. And then even someone like Miles Bridges, a young player in the NBA. We know about his domestic violence issues. He is only 25 years old.

He's about to be 26. He didn't want to leave the Hornets. He's going to be a free agent. He wants to stick around and showcase his talent on a bad team as opposed to going to a good one, fitting in and competing for a championship. Yeah, folks, money talks. And I guess by playing on a 10 win team, he feels that he can showcase his talents and his abilities rather than playing, I don't know, third, fourth fiddle on the Phoenix Suns. All about money, folks. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on CBS Sports Radio, 855-212-4CBS.

It's 855-212-4CBS. Next hour, we're going to be joined by Mack Hollins, wide receiver in the NFL most recently for the Atlanta Falcons. We're going to talk about the team that I thought did the best job here at the NBA trade deadline. And then we talked about Bill Belichick with Chad Brown. Tom Brady talked about Belichick. We got NFL. We got NBA. We got Super Bowl trade deadline here on CBS Sports Radio, the JR Sport Reshow.

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