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Available with complimentary class leading Blue Link Plus. Now it's easy to use your phone to control your Tucson. A lot to get into. In a few minutes I'm going to talk about a quarterback in the NFL who might be facing a change. The Phoenix Suns say they don't have to make big changes to stay in championship contention. I didn't know that they were in championship contention given what we just saw from them.
Getting swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Ezekiel Elliott speaks and appears to be very happy to be a Dallas Cowboy again. Says he's going to throw it back into the time machine. I will believe it when I see it.
Philadelphia 76ers, the organization is buying tickets, has bought tickets to give away to fans to try to ensure that Knicks fans do not take over the Sixers home, the Wells Fargo Center. We'll get into that next hour. There's a lot to discuss, a lot to get into. If you want to participate in the show, the phone number is 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. You can find me online.
You use the internet. I am at JR Sport Brief. That's at JR Sport Brief everywhere. Right before we went to break, we talked about like changes in the NBA. We looked at people and teams that need to do something different to get a different outcome. And some teams, quite frankly, they just look screwed. Clippers to me, screwed.
An aging old roster, Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and James Harden. Yuck. Bring out the canes. What else? What else can we give them, Hickey?
They need they need canes and walkers, walk, icy hot, icy hot. Yep. Extra strength glasses, extra strength. Like the ones with eyeballs are blurry, right? Exactly right.
Make sure you know you can see properly. Yeah, that's important. They need all of that. You've got the Suns. We'll get into them because I think their owner is delusional.
He spoke to the media and it was just hilarious. And these teams are stuck. And I'm going to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers right now, because this is a team that you could have considered to have been stuck at the end of last season. Somehow, someway, they still win, right?
People want to fire Mike Tomlin. The Steelers go 10 and seven. They get Kenny the picket the hell up on out of there. He gets traded out to Philadelphia. They bring in Russell Wilson.
Don't got to pay him nothing but a couple million dollars just to offset his former contract with the Broncos. Russell Wilson is going to be a free agent at the end of the season. And then they bring in Justin Fields for only a sixth round pick.
It only moves to a fourth rounder if he plays. And Justin Fields is also on an expiring contract. And so why the hell am I talking about change with the Steelers? Yeah, they brought in two starting quarterbacks from last season. Only one guy can play quarterback at a time. But the big change might come with Justin Fields. Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has made it very clear that Russell Wilson, given his experience, given his resume, given his championship, I can't say championships, his championship experience, that he's gonna get the first crack at losing the job. Do I think Russell Wilson is just gonna lose this job to Justin Fields?
No, I don't. I always thought that if we saw Justin Fields, it would be a little bit of smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors, deception, deception, smoke, mirrors, jump, flashlights. It'd be a whole lot of shenanigans to try to screw up the opposing team's defense.
And every now and then, maybe they put them out there behind center and shotgun to just scare people a little bit, right? Oh my God, Justin's on the field. Is he gonna run?
Is he gonna pass? Oh no. We got an additional wrinkle about Justin Fields and his role during what else? A podcast. Hickey, did you know Cam Hayward had a podcast? I did not.
No, I do. I did too. And we can go ahead and thank, well, one of his teammates, Jalen Warren, on the Steelers, okay? Because he was on his teammates, Cam Hayward's podcast. And he was asked, Jalen, about whether or not he wanted to return kicks. And keep in mind folks, this upcoming NFL season, we have new rules when it comes to the kickoff, okay? The kicker is a kick from the 35 yard line. And instead of all the other players like lining up alongside the kicker, the other 10 players are gonna be down the field.
This is almost gonna be like a little bit of a scrum. The kickoff team is gonna be closer to the receiving team. And they wanna take away some of the collisions by pretty much having them closer together. And as a part of this new rule, you're gonna have, or you're gonna have the ability to have at least, quote unquote, two players who were designated to return to football. So behind that line for the returning team, you have two guys that you can say, oh, they're eligible to go out there and return the football. And so the NFL is looking for a little bit more action when it comes to the kickoff instead of these like, oh, let it ball out the end zone.
Let's just go ahead and line up. And they wanna have a safer game. And so Jalen Warren was asked about being one of these return guys. And listen to this conversation between him and Cam Hayward.
I mean, I would, I think it's pretty cool. As soon as you touch the ball, that's when everything, you know, starts to happen. Our offensive or our special teams coordinator was talking about Justin Fields being back there. We're like, hold on, hold on.
Whoa, whoa, breaking news already? We looked at him like, Justin Fields gotta beat that back there. And, you know, it's, I don't know. I think it's, I think it's cool.
What? He thinks it's cool to have Justin Fields back there? Does Justin Fields think that it's cool? The quarterback is now kind of relegated to being the return guy.
Is that cool? And let me, let me remind you about this. When the rule changed, when the rule passed, I should say, the first thing the Pittsburgh Steelers did is give Cordell Patterson a new contract. Well, they signed him, played here in Atlanta for the Falcons. He has more kickoff return touchdowns than anybody in NFL history.
Nine, nine. The Steelers signed him to hopefully go out there and change the world and get him a return touchdown. That's why they brought him in. And the other guy could potentially be Justin Fields or a kickoff returner? Like what a way to fall off as a quarterback. I mean, look, if Russell Wilson is going to have the job, then if Justin Fields wants to go out there and play, then he might have to settle with being a returner.
But doesn't that chop him off at the legs from making some money? I mean, people know you for what the hell you are. And if you're going to be out there and you don't throw the football, if you're not a quarterback and people start to recognize you as a quote unquote return guy, your value is going to plummet in the NFL. I mean, it's enough that you got players that come into the league almost on a consistent basis and people go, oh, he's a super athlete. He's a quarterback. Can we make him a wide receiver? Can we make him a running back? I mean, we've heard this, we've heard this before, right? Lamar Jackson. Man, MVP, MVP. There's people who still say to this man, hey, he'd be better off as a running back wide receiver like kill that noise.
It's done. I mean, we got a guy in Taysom Hill. What does he do? Hickey, what does he do? Does he out of position? He just shows up, right? He just shows up and finds his way on the field.
It's whatever he needs to do. I mean, I remember at one point in time, remember, Terrell prior out of Ohio State, this man? Yeah, he started off as a quarterback and I think it was with the Jets. He became a wide receiver.
Remember that? Yes, it's you got to do what you got to do. Reinvent yourself. If you can't play one position, he's athletic enough to at least try. If you're Justin Fields and you're trying to be a quarterback and you know the salaries that a quarterback makes, and even if you have to sit down a year, do you want to be a return? Because I mean, at that point, you're like, hey, look at this glorified special teams dude over here.
And that would be like a career. I don't want to say a death now, but I don't think anybody would look at him and go, hey, let's bring this quarterback in here. He'd be kind of tossed around like. Yes, yes, he just kind of be tossed around.
What do you think about that, Hickey? No, you're right. Like you said, if the Steelers bring him in and they don't even really give him a fair shake, I guess even if they do, if he can't beat out Russell Wilson this year and they say, okay, well, you're not better than Russ. We don't really trust his backup, so we're just going to put you on the field as basically a weapon. And in this new kickoff, we're going to put you back there so we can get maybe one or two big returns a game.
I'm with you. That puts a significant dent on his chance to play quarterback again. Like how can you be another team after the season? Like, yeah, we want to bring him in as our quarterback, even though last year the Steelers didn't trust him and they just put him on special teams. Yeah, he's he's behind the eight ball. And so Justin Fields and we know about how great of an athlete he is. It's also been said that he is the fastest player on the Steelers right now. OK, whether or not that's true, we don't know. We ain't clocking anybody's 40.
We have no idea. We do know he is fast as hell. Justin Fields is twenty five years old. OK, he just turned twenty five in March. He's twenty five years old later on this year. This is going to be his only age, twenty five football season. And he is going to be competing with Russell Wilson, hoping that he throws a football. And the only way maybe we see him start is if Russell Wilson goes down. And so let's think about this.
I hate to hit the fast forward button. And so this year is done. Justin Fields is a free agent. We don't know the circumstances. And now he's he's a free agent. He didn't play too much. And I don't know, maybe he returned the ball and now he's out here floating around. Twenty six years old, which is going to sign a free agent quarterback who didn't throw a ball in a year.
Like it's it's nonsense. And when you think about the quarterback pool, it gets bigger and bigger every draft. Justin Fields, even right now at twenty five years old. Sorry, Michael Pennix. Even at twenty five years old right now for Justin Fields, he'd be an old guy.
I mean, look at the quarterbacks that were just drafted into the NFL. Hickey was that last week? This time last week, right? One week ago. Does it feel like two or three weeks or is it just me? Oh, it feels like a month ago, to be honest.
Time flies. We got we got Bo Nix and Drake May and Pennix. We got Caleb Williams. Hickey, who am I missing?
It was six of them. JJ McCarthy. JJ McCarthy to the Vikings. Yeah, we got these these new quarterbacks who have just come into the league. And Justin Fields, when we've seen play in the NFL, is supposed to get a new shot.
Like, come on. This would be I don't want to say career suicide. If I were Justin Fields, I would be upset that this was even shared publicly by Jalen Warren. If I were Justin Fields, even putting this thought into the atmosphere for public consumption and criticism, I would want nothing to do with it. Justin Fields, whoever the hell his agent is, has to be upset that this has been proposed and said publicly. And I know they laughed and ha ha ha. And he he he'd about what the coach thought.
Keep it to yourself. You're screwing up Justin Fields money. It's enough that the Steelers don't want to pick up his contract option for next year. And it's another thing to even insinuate that he would be doing anything else besides playing quarterback next year. If I'm Justin Fields, I'm calling up Jalen Warren and I'm saying, bruh, shut up.
You're messing up my money. You don't go from quarterback to being a return guy and just do backflips because it's the best career change. Most people want to play QB, not take a demotion, especially for Justin Fields, who, quite frankly, in the NFL, he's already been demoted.
And now there are younger players that are on the board that people are going to give a damn about. How long is it going to take for people in Chicago to forget about Fields if Caleb Williams is leading in the victories? People wanted, oh, let's keep Fields. Let's keep Justin Fields. We don't need Caleb Williams. Man, people will stop that noise real quick, real fast. If they're winning, you won't see a Justin Fields jersey. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.
We're going to take a break. And speaking of being demoted, I don't know what the hell these folks are doing. The Dallas Cowboys have brought back Ezekiel Elliott. And then we got a coach here in Georgia. He ain't get demoted. They gave this man a raise.
It's Kirby Smart. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler. It's 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Justin Fields, the return man.
Good idea or bad idea? Justin Fields should run away from this one. We'll talk about this and more on the other side here on the Infinity Sports Network, the JR Sport Reshow. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief.
The JR Sport Reshow here on the Infinity Sports Network. Oh, bad and bougie. Okay. Anyway, I'm trying to think. Is somebody bad and bougie in the sports world?
No, not really. Ain't nobody bad and bougie. Anyway, right before we went to break, we talk about Justin Fields, one of his own teammates. Jalen Warren basically said, Oh, yeah, we're thinking about using Justin as a return guy.
I'm like, Bruh. You know, I said Justin Fields and his agent should be ticked off about that. Mike Tomlin should be pissed about that. Like, I'm sure he got a call from Mike Tomlin and he's just like, Hey, why are you giving away state secrets? I mean, what if we wanted to do that in the first game of the regular season and just poof right there on the field on a kickoff is Cordell Patterson and Justin Fields.
Hickey, am I wrong? Like everybody at the team and maybe Justin Fields the most, but everybody got to be pissed off at him for saying that. That's a good point. And like, if they were actually thinking about it, you're right. It would be no one is ever preparing for that. So whenever you do see it debuted week one, week four, week 10, whenever it's like, Oh, Mike, oh, there's Justin Fields back there.
Oh, wow. This is, this has a chance to, you know, break one year right now. I mean, I'm not sure how many teams are going to take that seriously, but now at least it's on the radar right now. It's something you think about.
Well, let me ask you this. If we're going throughout the course of the season and the Steelers are doing good, I think they'll be okay. Probably compete for another wild card. Russell Wilson is a QB.
Fields is barely rarely used. Do we not reach a point where he's kind of maybe, you know what I'm thinking out loud while I say this, like what did he, would he not accept this just to get on onto the football field? But then I think it's, it's the bigger picture. There is no way in hell that I need to be looked upon as anything but a quarterback. Even if it's a backup somewhere else, I can't be looked upon as anything else.
I think you're right. Cause it's like one of the things we want you to take the toothpaste out and just even if it's just one return and he doesn't even get the ball, it's tough to put the toothpaste then back in the tube. But to your point, like if you're the Steelers, he's on a one-year deal. If he loses the starting job and Russ is playing well, so now it's like you said, week 13, you're in contention and you need a weapon. Like, is it like from their perspective, it's, you have nothing to lose. If he gets hurt, okay, well, he's not under contract and you know, he's not our quarterback of the future. So it's unfortunate, but it's not like your future's, you know, at risk. It's an interesting thought from the, like from Pittsburgh's perspective of why they'd want to do it. I get that.
Well, yeah, it's sure from his perspective, crap. And let's, let's look at the salaries here. Cordell Patterson, he signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Steelers. Okay. That is $3 million a season.
Okay. The best quarterback in the league right now is making 55. An average quarterback in the NFL is going to make about 40 to 45.
And that's for someone who's just good. A backup quarterback, Joe Flacco, signed with the Colts, Hickey for what, $8 million bucks? $8 million. That's a, that's a legitimate backup that he's expected to play. And so if, if you are Justin Fields and you think about, man, I could make myself $3 million a year, or I could make myself even as a backup, $10 million a year, or eight or seven or whatever, that's, that's a drop off right there. And I get it. You think about Fields and his contracts and what he's made already in the NFL, all things considered, he's made about $20 million. Okay. Just from being drafted into the NFL.
I think he'll be okay. But there's a difference between making that over four years and now making 50 plus every year or making 10 every year. I am running away. You talk about being a returner. I am running away from that job. I'd rather be looked upon as a backup. Maybe I can boost my value at some point over the next several years. I mean, look, Geno Smith, all these seasons that he was a backup, had himself a good season and he was rewarded by the Seahawks with that new deal.
He, this upcoming season, Geno Smith, you're getting $27 million. Okay. Run away from the return job. Stay away. Refuse to do it, damn it. And I guess you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't, because if Mike Tomlin says, Hey man, we want to trust you back there.
Do you want to do it or not? Who knows if that comes back to bite him? Oh, we wanted to give him a chance to play. He didn't want to play. He's screwed. He's screwed.
You are right. Because it's almost like a little bit like the Jets, Zach Wilson situation where remember they wanted to have him start again. And he was basically hesitant before basically, you know, publicly forced to go back into the starting spot late in the year. If that comes out, Hey, the Steelers would love to put him on the field. They want to give him an opportunity to showcase his skill and he's not going to do it as a backup quarterback. So we're going to put them in there as a returner. But he said, no, you know, he's being selfish.
That label does get on you or does get thrown on you pretty fast. He doesn't have the heart to play. He doesn't have the intensity. He gave, he gave him a chance and he didn't want it. It's hard knocks, man.
Well, this is what happens. He, look, I know the Bears didn't have the best roster. He wasn't the best quarterback. And so now he has to live with it. I mean, at least he had, he got options, right?
It's cold world. Speaking of options, Ezekiel Elliott had options and he decided to return to the Dallas Cowboys and they decided to bring him back with Pollard. Now out of the picture. Now, Ezekiel Elliott, his rushing yards per game has basically decreased every single season. It's yards per carry is decreased. And they gave him a deal. His base is like a mill and a half. He could make three mil and everybody's screaming from the mountain tops like this is something excellent. Like is a running back supposed to get better as he gets older?
I think not. But the Dallas Cowboys, I guess they were in full spin mode. They want everybody to believe that bringing back Ezekiel Elliott is, is so awesome. A matter of fact, let's listen to his main man, Dak, their best of buddies. Dak Prescott said, Oh man, I'm so happy to have Ezekiel back in the building.
Yeah, super excited. Just obviously knowing our history, my experience with him as a brother, but in this case as a teammate, understanding what he brings to the team, just the locker room alone, the culture he sets, a guy that does everything the right way from, from the locker room to the field. He's a great guy that, that with us having a young team, bringing guys in, people can follow and watch. Excited, excited for him to be back, know the thread that he's going to provide. Big time playmaker, obviously. I'm excited. Oh, thank you.
What would add a summer camp? All I heard was blast off. They're at a home run Derby event in Frisco, Texas.
Home run Derby, home run Derby. Zeke was there getting his hacks in as well. Probably is.
I'm not even sure if the ink was drawing the contract, just right out there. Okay. Nothing wrong with a running back, you know, swinging a bat. Not too bad. Well, Ezekiel Elliott, he was asked about his return and he had a short, sweet answer. Like what you getting ready to do this year, man? What's up? What the hell did he say? Hickey? What?
I know my apologies there. He mumbles. It was unfinished business and he's here to chase a ring. That's the question. Or that's the answer to what are you here to prove this year? A ring?
Chase a ring. Verbatim from Zeke. You've seen the commercial, I think, is it Geico? Where I guess the evil guy has like a dollar bill on a fishing rod. And he's like, you got to be quicker than that. Isn't that Geico? You got to be quicker than that. You got to work for it.
Yes. Like that's the Dallas Cowboys trying to win a championship. Like if Ezekiel Elliott is out here chasing a ring and chasing a championship, he's chasing something that is, that's unattainable. You know, tell me how much water, wait, how much water is in the ocean? He can't do it.
Hey, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? He cannot do it. How many stars are in the sky, Ezekiel Elliott?
He cannot tell you. He can't he can't do it. Now, I think winning a championship in the NFL is probably easier than anything that I just said. But for the Cowboys? They're a damn team running in place. They're going nowhere.
You got to figure out how much money you want to pay. Dak Prescott kind of stuck in cement with him. He's probably going to throw 37 touchdowns and and I don't know, 11 interceptions and they'll go to the playoffs and play around and then get beat by, I don't know, J.J. McCarthy and the Minnesota Vikings. Like this is what's in store for the Cowboys. I could see Ezekiel Elliott right now standing on the sideline, hands on his hips, looking miserable.
Good luck. I could see Jerry Jones eyes about to pop out of his head as he threatens everybody on a week to week basis. Mike McCarthy is going to go and we'll take care of Dak. He's just he's like an evil cartoon character. Nick, you ever seen him in South Park, Jerry Jones?
No. Yeah, they had him and they had they created Jerry Jones in South Park. How is the show? The accent was spot on. I don't know if he spoke. Oh, he's just there. He was just there in the his suite. Yeah, I'll send you a picture, OK? All right.
I'll send you I'll send you a photo. He's just in the suite with with company. And let's put it that way. Is he like does he have a shocked or like sad face? Because any time they go to the suit when they're losing, he's kind of like he can't believe what he's seeing every time. He has no expression on his face, expressionless.
His eyeballs are blinking. And hey, knock yourselves out for Google. Jerry Jones in South Park and accurate description, I guess accurate. It's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I told you about Ezekiel Elliott. Happy to be back with the Cowboys. I told you about Justin Fields. Probably not happy that, you know, word is now circulating that he might be utilized as a return guy.
You're a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. You may not be happy with what's going to happen with Rashid Rice or maybe better than you expect. We'll talk about it on the other side. We got to get into this ticket situation in Philadelphia. Kaitlin Clark is also moving tickets all over the country.
So we have a lot to do. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief, the J.R. sport show on the Infinity Sports Network. OK, little Isley brothers, OK. Notorious B.I.G. went to town on this, too. I love them all. Isley's biggie. They were amazing.
I love it when they call me Big Papa. Anyway, we talked about Ezekiel Elliott. Got himself a new contract with the Cowboys.
He said one of the most hilarious things ever that he is here to chase the ring and chase the ring is what he will do because there's a good chance that he will not catch it. We talked about Justin Fields. It's been insinuated in the public via his teammate Jalen Warren that he might be returning kicks this upcoming season.
Wow. That would certainly push Justin Fields and his salary down because, as we all know, the Steelers said no thanks to picking up his fifth year option. And Justin Fields is going to be a free agent at the end of the year, along with Russell Wilson, somebody who doesn't have to worry about a contract until twenty thirty three. He's a coach. He's a coach here in Georgia. He's a football coach.
He won back to back national championships. It's Kirby Smart. Kirby Smart today agreed to a raise instead of making a 10 million dollars a year. Kirby Smart will now make 13 million dollars a year over the next 10 years. If you can do math, that is one hundred and thirty million dollars. Kirby Smart not going anywhere for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Pretty wild stuff. I mean, Nick Saban is gone. And let's also be let's be real here. Ain't no guarantee that he's going to stick around, you know, for the next 10 years. But given Kirby Smart and his age, he is not elderly. Kirby Smart is only let me say this again.
He is only 48 years old. It is a reality that that he could stick around for the duration of this contract. And if the Georgia Bulldogs can keep on winning like they have done over the past few years, especially with Alabama and a little bit of a reset with Kellen DeBoer, there's a good chance that, hey, you know, Georgia might pick up another national championship or two. They were certainly upset by Alabama this past season. Don't remind me.
Couldn't even get into the college football playoff. But Kirby Smart getting rewarded. He's the guy on the senior circuit right now. He is the flavor du jour.
Hickey, am I missing anything? He is now he's the head honcho. I don't think there is another coach that's active that everybody had to kiss Nick Saban's ring. But am I missing something like Kirby Smart is now the dude at the top of the heap? Absolutely. Absolutely. Face of the sport.
I think you're 100 percent right now. There are guys clawing at him like Saban was a face of the sport really since Alabama when they won their first title was at 0 9. Right. He's kind of he was on his own perch. Everyone else was below him.
I think there's a chance you could see guys like Dan Lanning, maybe Kellen DeBoer, maybe Ryan Day get up on the same perch, the same mantle, if you will, as Kirby Smart someday. But right now it's Kirby and he is all alone. Yeah, he's he's by himself. And I don't he's just I mean, even here in Georgia, nobody nobody has a bad word to say about him. He stays out of controversy. I can't tell you anything that I can ever remember that he said that is just, you know, wild and outrageous. I mean, Nick Saban was a lightning rod. It didn't matter whether or not he was in a press conference or whether he was on the field after a game where he told you, I'm not going to answer any of your damn questions like we we've seen that from Nick Saban. Hickey, what the hell is Kirby Smart ever said in his life? The only thing I remember, which I loved, was the fact that after they won the second national title and back to back, he said, well, this is actually a bad thing because now this is going to breed complacency.
Ah, yeah. And he was he telling was he telling a lie? Was he telling a lie? To say that literally minutes after winning your second national title in a row, definitely didn't expect that. But outside of that one quote more because it's just funny. Ah, no, I couldn't tell you one other thing that Kirby Smart said. That's nothing anywhere near memorable.
And how about this? There was another guy in Dabo Sweeney. He also has two national championships. But he's not I don't know. He's not he's not looked upon the same type of way. You know, why do you think that is? Um, because he's a jerk. I was just going to say, I think Parvis's personality that he's very defiant, abrasive. Yes. And willing to double down on his beliefs, even though things may suggest what you're doing is wrong.
And then you have the viral rant against the the caller. I think it was Tyler from Spartanburg. Oh, my God, that produced a 10 minute basically reading of Dabo's resume for any of the doubters there. Yeah, he is a lightning rod. And I think also you kind of seeing Clemson the time pass them by. I think it's also part of the reason why even though they are the same terms of national title wins, obviously, Kirby right now won them more recently.
Flavor of the month. Yeah, he Dabo needs Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson to come back. That's what he needs. That's what he needs.
Do they have any extra eligibility? I mean, Deshaun Watson probably right now could use it. Do you want to send Deshaun Watson back to a college campus? When you put it that way, probably not.
Probably not. Hell no. Hell no.
Hell no. You don't you don't want that. And Trevor Lawrence, he's he's in Jacksonville. He has Mack.
What a life. I just told you about Justin Fields. Justin Fields is now back in not back. He's in Pittsburgh. He might be relegated to returning kicks.
Maybe, maybe not. And here you got a guy in Mack Jones, gets drafted, comes out of Alabama, goes and plays in New England. I feel like Bill Belichick had him locked in the basement.
Maybe threw him some water and some bread every now and then. And Mack Jones is originally from Jacksonville, Florida. And so now he is back in Jacksonville as a backup quarterback at home carrying bags for Trevor Lawrence. You want to talk about a guy that won't get a shot or a chance unless Trevor Lawrence is split in half? Mack Jones.
Hickey, that that got a sting, right? Like Mack Jones has to be taken the approach of. And this is all these these quarterbacks who've been drafted. They get hit. They get knocked down or wrong. They don't make it to their second contract.
They're already another team. We we got to we got to think about how miserable he has to be. He has to be hoping for the season just to go along and just know it's tough to get your next shot.
It may not come for years. You're 100 percent right, which is why if I'm Mack Jones, the first person I'm calling is Mitch Trubisky. Remember Mitch Trubisky went to Buffalo and like was like, you ask anyone Buffalo is the greatest backup ever. And somehow the Steelers were suckered into giving him a contract to make him the starter before they drive to Kenny Pickett.
I don't know who his PR rep was when he was that year in Buffalo, but that's a Mack Jones leads because otherwise he's in big trouble in terms of getting another starting spot ever again. Yeah, it's tough, man. What is it's not Kermit the Frog said it ain't easy being green.
It's it's not easy being a quarter. Well, if you don't if you fail, even for the quarterbacks, the churn machine is wild. Come on. We got Sam Donald to just got a 10 million dollar contract to play for the Minnesota Vikings. They immediate and he knows this ain't his job. They immediately draft the quarterback in J.J. McCarthy, who they're going to be invested in for the next four years at minimum.
And Sam Donald is just like, how the hell do I do this? Like, they don't want me here. They want him. And it's your back is up against the wall as a QB.
I don't even know. There has to be only what, seven quarterbacks, eight, maybe, maybe more than that, 10 that legitimately have job security. Like, for real, Patrick Mahomes is going nowhere. Lamar Jackson going nowhere, Herbert going nowhere. We know who's not moving. Josh Allen is not moving the damn place. Everybody else behind them is not everybody. But you get my drift. The majority of the quarterbacks is just it's a shell game.
It really is. And speaking of the Kansas City Chiefs, not the greatest of news about Rishi Rice. We all know about the car crash and investigation and the charges. And God only knows if he's going to be, you know, I don't want to say behind bars. We have no idea. But we haven't heard anything from the NFL or the Chiefs about a potential suspension. I guess they want the legal system to go ahead and and play out. But James Palmer was on the Agent 89 show and he gave an inkling as to what might await Rishi Rice when it comes down to his NFL career.
Rishi Rice has got his legal stuff going on. How do you see- He's going to be suspended. Let's just put it out there. Yeah, I was going to leave it at that. Half the season at least. Yeah. So Rishi Rice is probably not going to be a part of this offense for a significant amount of time.
Well, damn. A suspension. Half the season.
Not too shabby, right? I mean, this is a man who in his rookie season became a key contributor to the Kansas City Chiefs. The man to hold in 938 yards to go along with seven touchdowns. Sign me up for that as a rookie quarterback. You're playing with Patrick Mahomes.
You're moving into your second year. The numbers are going to go up. The money is going to go up. But he made a dumb decision to go out there and decide to ride around in a Lamborghini racing his buddy on a Dallas Street on a Sunday afternoon.
What a genius he is. I mean, they bring in Xavier Worthy. They also bring in Marquise Brown, also known as Hollywood. And so the Chiefs got some depth. Do I think they're going to miss Rishi Rice?
Grand scheme of things are going to matter. They won the championship with Travis Kelce looking a little bit older, a little bit slower. They just draft the fastest guy in the combine at 4-2.
That happens to be Xavier Worthy. They're not worried about Travis Kelce. They extended him for the next several seasons with a new contract. Rishi Rice, he messed himself up more than the Kansas City Chiefs are going to be screwed. It's just the facts.
The Chiefs just win, win, win, win, win. And Hickey, I don't know if we mentioned this. I think we did. Patrick Mahomes, he was at Monday Night Raw the other day. You see that with Logan Paul?
That's right. You were talking about it. He's a bad guy in wrestling. He had his Super Bowl rings on. Come on now.
Sure. He's just walking around with three rings. He gave them the Jake Paul to punch a guy in the face with.
Hmm. Yeah, he's using his Super Bowl rings as weapons. Well, that's going to be, it's going to leave a mark. Those things are rocks. Yeah, they're bricks.
Probably are replicas. No way in hell he's taking them out the house. I hope not. You don't even know where they're being held at. I'm sure he doesn't know. Maybe he does. Got to bust them out every now and then, I guess. Hey, look, it's Jolin Beach showing up to work.
He can walk. New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers play in an hour. I'll give you an update on what the hell is going on between the Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks.
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