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That's at J.R. Sport Brief everywhere. What a day. I guess I guess it's been about do. I guess it's been about time. Michigan, the Wolverines, the football team, the one that just won a national championship, the one that won a national championship by smacking up Washington and the championship game, allowing Jim Harbaugh to walk away as I don't want to call him a saint, but he basically got a red carpet back to the NFL to coach the Chargers. The man has been flirting with the NFL for the past several seasons and by winning a national championship and then also beaten up Ohio State again. It was only a few years ago. People are looking at Jim Harbaugh going, when are you going to beat Ohio State? And when are you going to win a national championship? Well, he did both. But not without controversy. I mean, do you do you recall?

Of course you do. Probably at the end of last season. As Michigan was trying to keep on rolling as an undefeated team. That Michigan's head coach, Jim Harbaugh, was suspended. This man was preparing a lawsuit to go out there and coach his own team. Do you remember the whole fiasco about Jim Harbaugh being on a plane?

Two Penn State and Happy Valley and all of a sudden. Can't coach. Because one of it, Hickey, minion is not a nice word. Don't call anybody a minion.

Not good, right? Gopher, Gopher, lowly assistant, lowly assistant, helper, assistant, aid, staffer, staffer. Well, the minions staffer.

There you go, staffer. Well, when I think minions now, I don't think about the evil minion. I think about the little yellow guys with the eyes. Yeah. Who's having a fourth movie come out or did come out. They got another they got another minions movie. Yeah. For milking the crap out of this bad, bad friend, I guess it's a bad boy, but a franchise really at this point. I've never in Despicable Me.

I think it is right. Well, do they have their own thing? You know, they have their own thing. They've broken away from Despicable Me.

Now they are the stars of the show. I've never seen any of those things. I just know little yellow guys with the eyeballs. I don't know. Well, God bless the minions.

So in that case, because they're cute, yellow and cuddly, we can call a human being a minion. So, yeah, kind of stallions who worked at Michigan. Key word worked at Michigan. This was the dude who and this is still under investigation. He reportedly went to all of these games and bought tickets and scouted the opposition when he wasn't supposed to. And he was recording signals like all these ridiculous Scooby Doo signs, all this other nonsense. Now that we don't need this because now the quarterbacks can have, you know, communications in their helmets. And so, of course, this is a no no.

You're not supposed to do it. And so we probably got one of the most dramatic moments last season in college football. When Sharon Moore had to take over for Jim Harbaugh and they beat they being Michigan beat Penn State 24 to 15. Sharon Moore broke down in tears after the game and he was crying after the win on Fox. He was big enough. Harbaugh.

It was just real sappy. Listen to this. I want to thank the Lord. I thank Coach Harbaugh. I love you, man. I love you, man. This is for you. For this university, the president, our AD.

We've got the best players, best university, best alumni in the country. Love you guys. These guys right here, man. These guys did it. These guys did it, man. Talk to him, man.

Oh, he makes me want to cry, man. Not really. Not really. Anyway, you hit the fast forward button. That was in November. They ended up winning the national championship, smacking around Washington. Harbaugh leaves to go to Los Angeles to coach the Chargers. He's like it's like being born again. Literally, that came out of his mouth.

That's what he said. And now over the weekend, Sharon Moore is a new head coach. The NCAA is still investigating. And we got this news. Take a listen to this from CBS Sports HQ. For allegedly deleting a thread of fifty two text messages with former U.M.

staffer Connor Stallions. Stallions resigned from his role back in November after he was found to be in the center of the NCAA's investigation into sign stealing and illegal off campus scouting at Michigan. Oh, oh, oh, I mean, it's not a big the NCAA takes like 20 million years. Exaggeration, gross exaggeration.

They take forever to try to punish anybody. That's why it was no shock earlier this year when Jim Harbaugh said, I'm out like I'm leaving. Like, what do you want? There's nothing else for me to do here.

I've reached the mountaintop and there's nowhere to go but down. And we this is this is what this is like one of those see your will create your own adventure books. Maybe maybe you had him as a kid. Maybe one of your kids has these books right the hell now. If your kid actually reads. I don't know what kids do.

They playing in games. You flip through the book. It's just like pick this one or that one. And then you skip to this chapter and skip to that chapter.

It's it's nutty. Everybody saw this coming. Jim Harbaugh left. And they were going to be some punishments that were handed down. And so there is like a draft that's being written and potentially sent to them.

We want to impose this and that. Nothing formal yet. Sharon Moore deleted a 52 text messages to kind of stallions the same day that the reports came out that he was quote unquote stealing sides. Hickey that that sounds suspicious now doesn't it. Quite the coincidence. Caught red handed huh.

Some could say. Damn. If you got a delete allegedly 52 text messages to someone. There are obviously some things that you don't want to be seen. Hickey could you imagine. I don't know a significant other just making things disappear at 52 text messages you think something funny is going on right.

Yeah I don't think you're deleting 52 messages that are innocent that are just you know run of the mill average conversations that are not incriminating. Yeah. Hilarious. Michigan was going to. Let's be real. They weren't going to win a national championship this upcoming season.

Come on now. Everybody knows that everything here is predictable. They were undefeated last year. Not happening this year. They had 15 guys going to the NFL including their quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Who's trying to make the adjustment to actually throw him the ball out in Minnesota.

And then Blake Corum who now God bless him he's a member of the Los Angeles Rams the other L.A. team. They were going to take a step back. Ohio State was supposed to step forward should step forward. I still expect that to happen. And if Sharron Moore is going to be punished what are we looking at.

Hickey they might as well get it done at the end of the year suspend him three games four games at the end of the year so he can waste this season and come back next year. Right. If you're Michigan right that's what you're hoping for.

And so ready for 2025 ready to go. Yeah it's a lost season. Nobody cares. Well people care. Michigan know that Michigan they just won the championship.

Like what good is it punishing anybody. If it's going to take you I don't know two three seasons to punish any every there's so much change in college football by the time you really punish anybody everything is fine. Like even Jim Harbaugh. You think he cares about the I'm sure he does. But in the big picture the games that he missed last year what does it matter.

It doesn't man's back in the NFL won a championship. He's Teflon right now right. He's popping his collar.

I don't know if he's smoking a cigar. I don't know what Jim Harbaugh does for fun. I don't think I want to know but I do know he spoke to the media today.

This is the last thing that Jim Harbaugh wants to do at Los Angeles Chargers practice. He spoke to the media and for a guy who loves to talk talk about being born compared to the start of life and the football season. He read off of a statement this afternoon. Not off the cuff. Not off the top of his head. Jim Harbaugh wanted to be very clear. I'm sure this was nicely written by a lawyer or him and vetted.

Listen to what he had to say about these allegations towards him and Michigan. Never lie. Never cheat.

Never steal. I was raised with that lesson. I have raised my family on that lesson. I have preached that lesson to the teams that I've coached.

No one's perfect. If you stumble, you apologize and you make it right. Today, I do not apologize.

I did not participate, was not aware nor complicit in those said allegations. So for me, it's back to work and attacking with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. Oh, man. Hey, did he say enthusiasm unknown to mankind? Oh, yeah, that's his big. I mean, he has a lot of mannerisms and sayings, Jim isms.

I guess you can call them harbors and that's one of them. And so he has him unknown to mankind. So what does he especially is more of a special human than me or you or anybody? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Enthusiasm that we have never seen on Earth before.

That's correct. How many human beings do you think have just graced the face of this Earth? Great.

Oh, my God. Probably at this point, a billion, right? More than that. Yeah, you're probably right.

I think there's none. I think there's none billion people on Earth now today. Oh, yeah. A hundred. No, I mean, a hundred. I don't know. Let's just say 50.

Fifty billion people in history, in history, because the population continues to grow. Right. Yeah. And none of them before never have matched the enthusiasm that Jim Harbaugh brings on daily basis ever. Not one human, not not one human being in the history of humans has had his enthusiasm.

Never. Incredible. Impressive, really.

What is so difficult? And I get it. He's protecting Michigan's ass. So he's not going to say anything. Not that he can't, but he's not.

If you're gone. Is it so difficult? And he has said this, OK? He said this plenty of times before. Maybe today he didn't want to say it.

Is anything wrong with saying that I was not aware in that? Isn't that like the that's too much of a possible admission? You can't even say that, right? Yeah, I think he's got I mean, as you just heard, I think he's going to say anything that or is going to say nothing.

I should say that even gives a doubt that anything bad happened in Michigan. He's not selling anybody out. And I think he's just going to claim ignorance until the cows come home.

Yeah, because if there's one guy now. Now, if he wanted to say I'm untouchable, he could say that. But to sit up there and just go, I don't lie, I don't cheat, I don't steal, I don't. OK, that doesn't mean the people working for you weren't. That doesn't mean that you didn't turn a blind eye. Oh, by the way, Hickey Sharon Moore deleted 52 text messages from his phone. Allegedly. Jim Harbaugh didn't even want to give up his phone.

And if he were to ever go back to college, which I don't think he'll do, he could be facing ramifications and suspensions if he returned. So, like, if there's nothing wrong, if this is a situation of it, there's nothing to see here. Why don't you just show what you got? I don't know.

Like, what is everybody hiding so much? What a world that we live in. Here's the deal. Jim Harbaugh will go along with his happy life in Los Angeles with his his quarterback, unfortunately, in a boot.

It sucks. Justin Herbert. And he's going to go about his life building up the charges for the next, I don't know, four or five, six years. Who knows?

Sharon Moore. Well, he'll get punished eventually. He'll get he'll get suspended for a few games. And everybody in Michigan is hoping that they are inconsequential when it comes back to their their rebuild, quote unquote. No one will admit that there is a rebuild because they don't want to say, hey, Ohio State has this. But as long as Sharon Moore can get back into being competitive over the next two seasons, everybody will be fine. And if he can't, nobody will give a damn about an investigation.

It just sucks when it comes down to the NCAA. Nothing to see here. Our investigations take forever. And by the way, if you want more information. Netflix has an entire documentary coming out about this. Picking Netflix will make anything about anything, anything.

Sure. Conestallians is getting a nice, pretty paycheck from Netflix to I'm sure utter similar words, as Jim Harbaugh just said. You think you think Conestallians is he's not going to drop the dime on nobody? He's going to keep his lips zip. Zero chance he rats anybody out. He seems like a loyal guy. He's going down with the ship and he will gladly pocket. I mean, Netflix has cost a million dollars to him.

I didn't get out of there. A couple hundred, maybe. OK, maybe. So he's going to he's going to take the fall for everybody, right?

He's going to take the fall, get the check from Netflix and keep it moving. I think so. Yes. Why not? Yeah.

It's better than Shohei Ohtani's interpreter. I'll tell you that much. Yes. He didn't get paid. He got paid his life, if anything. Yeah. Oh, my God.

That is not a good trade. That guy lost money. That guy lost money. Lost his job. Lost his life.

He did. If you want to be a if you want to be a cheat, be Conestallians. Don't be Ipe Mizuhara.

That that that one doesn't work out. Good luck to Michigan and Ohio State. You better get it together.

It's no better time than now. Matter of fact, we're going to get into some of the coaches rankings, the preseason polls before we get out of this hour. We got a lot to do. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

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That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven right before we went to break. We heard from head coach of the Chargers, new head coach of the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh, responding to the latest NCAA allegations against him in Michigan. Still related to the sign stealing scandal.

Apparently there is a draft that is being written up right now. That's not formally gone out to anyone. But there are particular violations of people like Jim Harbaugh, Sharon Moore deleting or not sharing evidence when it comes to the sign stealing scandal. What does this mean for Sharon Moore? Well, he might miss some games this upcoming season or maybe next. What does this mean for Jim Harbaugh? Nothing, because he's gone. This man is making millions in the NFL after winning a national championship. And dare I say, I don't think the NCAA is going to take anything away. Any of the W's, not the championship, nothing.

Not taking anything away from Michigan. I doubt it. Highly doubt it. So Jim Harbaugh gave us an interesting, well, the statement. Said he's never lied, hasn't cheated, didn't do anything wrong. He's just going to continue being one of the most enthusiastic human beings on planet Earth. OK, fine.

Well, I told you there's another human being who is not necessarily enthusiastic. And can you blame him? This man is currently trying to figure out whether Bo Nix. I guess how long Bo Nix is going to take to be his quarterback. He has to look at Jared Stidham. He put Zach Wilson in the back of the line. This man's name is Sean Payton. Sean Payton is now the new head coach of the Denver Broncos. At least started last year. Got Russell Wilson the hell up on out of there. He's trying to put his own stamp on the team. And forget that.

The man actually just sat down and did an interview with the Denver Post. And as a part of that, and we got something new in the NFL last week on Thursday. If you if you watch, maybe you didn't. We had the Hall of Fame game. It was rainy. It was wet. It was ugly. It was a waste of time, except for the Hall of Fame.

All right. We had the Chicago Bears out there with the Texans. And so for the first time ever, we saw this new NFL kickoff. Where the kicker is by himself and he kicks off and the kicking teams, the other 10 guys, are about 10, 15 yards away from the receiving team. And the NFL is trying to, A, eliminate injuries from humans going a million miles per hour at each other. And the NFL is also trying to get to a space where there are no more touchbacks, where you actually have guys returning the ball instead of just, hey, touchback. Let's down the ball and keep it moving. Well. It's Sean Payton.

He has to be upset about something, right? I want you to listen to this. These are the new rules. Try to visualize this in your head. The kicker is going to kick off from the 35 yard line. The other guys on the kicking team. They're going to be at about the 40 yard line, right? The return team is going to be at the 35 to 30 yard line and they're going to have two return guys behind them.

It's like a box where you got two guys who can receive the ball. Touchbacks, if the ball should go out of the end zone. Or get down, is going to end up at the 30 yard line.

Sean Payton doesn't like this because it's Sean Payton. He can't worry about his own quarterbacks right now. He says, if the analytics tell me that the average drive start or the average return is past the 30, what do you think is going to happen? We're going to end up right back where we were. And that's the last thing we want.

We've got to pay attention to that. Instead, he wants touchbacks to go out to the 35 yard line instead of starting at the 30. He says, I'm not going to be comfortable with saying, hey, kick a touchback and give them the ball at the 35. Because five yards are absolutely important. Is he just complaining about nothing? I get it, but I'm surprised he even offered this up. I'm with you. That seems like a strategy that he clearly recognizes that maybe some other coaches wouldn't. I'm surprised he was very upfront about that, where he could have had an advantage.

But I also think he's right. If you think about it, if these returns are supposed to be as exciting as the NFL is trying to hype them up to be, why, if you're the kicker, would you ever even want to give the returner an opportunity? Just kick it in the end zone. Don't have them return it.

And give your defense a chance and force them to go the length of the field instead of basically breaking one tackle. And it could be gone or you could be deep in your own end. If we're doing all of this with this new return, which, by the way, I watched it. I saw it once. The opening sequence of last week. That's it.

I didn't see it again. Why don't we just get a punter? I mean, if we got a, quote unquote, it's a drop zone, wouldn't you say so?

Like, you want the ball to land in that 20 yard space, almost the red zone where the two return guys are going to be, and behind the other guys who are kind of blocked for the returners. Why don't somebody just put a punter out there and say, hey, man, pump the ball and call it a day? Isn't that easier?

Yes, I don't. I guess they can't do that, but you're not wrong. I mean, spotting it's more important than bombing it, I guess, in theory, potentially. Yeah, well, he wants to punish the the touchback element of it. He's like, hey, if they're going to get it at thirty five, then oh, you know, and I don't think people will be out there looking for, you know, the ball going past or kicking it past the end zone.

I don't know. It's just the fact that he's saying the analytics are telling me this. Sean Payton got more information than I do.

All right. I'm just like, worry about your quarterbacks. Like, how about that?

Your quarterbacks are going to suck. Like, stop worrying about that. Maybe that's why he's worried about it. He's like, man, my quarterbacks suck.

I don't worry about the kick. Marco, what do you think about what Sean Payton says is I'm surprised he's talking about this publicly. I'm surprised that he's mentioning it. Look, every coach is doing this, though, right now and every analytic department, they're going to do this through the whole preseason. And I've been saying this through the offseason.

They only had, I think it was, what, one year with the UFL or USFL, wherever the hell they got the idea from. And there's not a lot of numbers to back it up. But everybody keeps saying is basically one cut and you could be gone. This will take two weeks tops for the NFL to do the numbers fast and realize, is it better to just kick it in the end zone to take it at the 30? Because it's already a punishment from last year. It was at the 25.

Now it's the 30. So I think Payton's trying to say, well, you've got to really make it a punishment 35, maybe even the 40, before anybody actually kicks off. Because if the numbers in the first two weeks, if you see two kick returns for a touchdown or you see two or three big returns and the average is putting a team at the 42, no one's kicking into that drop zone right through the end zone. Let me tell you, man, the NFL will probably adjust these rules quick as hell.

I found it hilarious. Was it last week or two weeks ago? The NFL said, hey, kickers, you actually have to you have to place the ball vertically on the tee.

You can't place it horizontally on the. Did you see that? I glanced at it because what are we doing? Wasn't that?

I don't know. I mean, I think they're trying for all these different ways to try to get you to not kick the ball into the end zone to make it a return. But you can't do anything other than really penalize the receiving team to truly make it to the point where it's like, you know what? I'd rather kick to you because if you're going to get the ball to 45, I'm not taking that shot. But if you're a team that's winning, if you're up, let's say, and you're going to know there's going to be strategies, if you all of a sudden got Tyreek Hill back there and you're up by 10 in the middle of the third quarter of the fourth quarter, you kicking him the ball if it's going to be one cut and gone.

No. So as much as you want it to be a big, fun play, you either have to make it where there's no touchback or you got to make it a real deterrent because teams are just going to be like, you know what? I'm not doing this. Plus, didn't they say like 40% of the tackles were made by kickers? Nobody wants that either.

No teams like, you know what? It's not worth it. I may need you to kick a 50 yarder. The hell with it. Just kick it out of the end zone.

It's fine. Then Justin, was it Justin Tucker said he'd been in the gym, right? He's ready to whoop some ass. And that's what the Ravens want. They want Justin Tucker in the weight room to try to make a tackle in the second quarter.

Like, no, you don't. So I lose my kicker for the year because he's got to stop a guy at the 48 yard line? You know what?

The hell with it. If we're going to get imagery where Antonio, was it a punter he ran over? It was a punter, right? Yes. Antonio Brown, he put foot, was it into head, chest or his head?

What did he do? He's stumbling the guy's chest, right? Wasn't it right in his chest? But, Hickey, was that a punter? Was that a punt return? I think it was Antonio Brown back with the Steelers, but he did like the leg kick and into his chest.

I just don't remember who it was. Look, if we're going to get more of that, sign me up. I'm here for it.

Yeah, you see it once, maybe twice. And that's it. I need the kickers to be more involved. That's what I'm saying. If you have a chair, if you've got the kickers involved, if you've got big returns, if you've got average field position near the midfield, no team is going to do this. All it takes is a couple of weeks. Right now, there's very little data.

You know they love their analytics and their data. Once somebody comes in, Hey, Sean, the average starting position is going to be the 44-yard line. They kick it through the end zone.

What are we doing? We need less nerds and football, man. We need less nerds and we need more, not Antonio Browns, we do not need more of that guy. We need more kickers getting stepped on. No, sign me up. I need kickers to get stepped on.

I need to see the returns. I'm confident that the NFL will adjust the rules. That's it. Not that difficult, right? Not that tough. You're confident in the NFL getting it right?

Let them fail first. They'll change it. Come on. It was a couple of seasons ago where they switched up on the pass interference and whether or not that was going to be reviewed because of the NFC championship game.

And then what did they do? That rule lasted for like a season and they were just like, this is a complete waste of time and they got rid of it. And so the NFL, all these sports are just going to change and change and change and change over time. They'll be fine. Let's put it this way.

It can't be no damn worse than what we got last year, can it? I thought that I thought I thought that we were going towards a space where the NFL was going to completely eliminate the kickoff. And I was just like, what are we doing? This is exactly where it's why they even bothering to kick the ball. They might as well just spot the ball and just play from there without bothering, wasting everybody's time to kick it. Well, the fact that they that we have something that they're actually going to work with. I consider that to be a positive, even if it has to go through different iterations and adjustments. I get it.

And we'll see if that actually leads to what it's supposed to lead to, which is the returns, because if it's not, we're going to get closer to what you're talking about. And there's no kickoff. And they just put the ball at the 35 yard line and that's it.

Rome, Rome was not built in a day. Everything will be fine. You going to go kick the ball? No. Picky, you going to go kick the ball? I'll try to kick. I'm not not tackling. That's for sure. You might see some safeties kicking off if you're going to see a kicker to go down in the first few weeks. Yes.

Yeah. From the Chiefs, right? Sign me up.

Sign me up. If you've got to kick it off and you don't want your kicker to get hurt at some point, you can't send your punter out there because you need him to at some point. Who is the as I remember a high school coach that I used to cover. Where's the fat guy with the shoe? Get him out there and see if he can kick it off.

And then you do it that way and you can actually tackle. I heard that Warren Sapp at one point in time, he was a backup. And did he ever get a real kick off any any time? Didn't Warren Sapp kick something?

I'm making that up. I don't remember Warren Sapp kicking anything. Chad Ochocinco kicked an extra point in a preseason game. Remember that. Doug Flutie with a drop kick.

I remember that with the Patriots. Come on. There's got to be somebody that can tackle and kick.

I don't remember any other kicks. No. Sign. Sign me up. Got to be the fat guy with a shoe.

Got to be somewhere. If we can look at like baseball games and watch some middle infielder come through and throw a garbage pitch, you know, just because like I can see, you know, the safety going out there kicking. Like he could be the Otani of the world.

Wouldn't he be the NFL version of Otani? How about that? Sign me up. No, no, no.

Seven hundred million. Probably not. Not not happen anyway. We'll see what happens with this kick. I'm sure after just week one, we'll know exactly what this new rule is going to look like. Hey, shout outs to Sean Payton for worrying about something besides his his quarterback situation. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

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That's 855-212-4227. There have been some interesting polls that have been shared over the past several days, a couple of weeks. The NFL has been counting down its top 100. And then we've also recently got the coaches poll for the top 25 in college football.

Who are the best teams according to the coaches? I'm going to share some of these responses with you. We'll do that at the top of the hour. But let's get to the phone lines. I'll say the number again.

855-212-4227. Jeff, he's calling up from Indianapolis. Jeff, you're on the J.R. Sport Brief show. What's up? Hey, J.R. Yeah. Thanks for taking my call.

Yeah, I love your show. I'm not the sharpest guy in the world and I haven't seen this thing in action yet because I didn't watch the Hall of Fame game. Because let's face it, it's a Hall of Fame game. But why couldn't they just line everybody up like they are now, have the kicker kick off in the 25 and he's far enough back that he can't clear the end zone? And wouldn't that kind of solve the problem of not kicking the ball out of the end zone? Well, it's not just, yes, that is part of it, but it's not just the end zone. It's also a matter of safety. The NFL wants to eliminate ten, nine guys just running at each other at 60 miles per hour.

They want to get rid of that part too, Jeff. Well, I mean, they're still lining all these guys up close to each other where they already are, but just moving the kicker back. I thought you were referring to the old rules. Well, the new rules are just moving the kicker back to clear the end zone. I guess, I don't want to say the physical capabilities of somebody kicking a ball, but I would think that they want to punish a team in regards to a ball placement as opposed to, hey, you know, we got some Sebastian Janikowski guy out there who's going to be able to kick the ball 100 yards.

I mean, if that gets to the case, then that's a moot point now, isn't it? Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I was just trying to think of a way.

I thought the idea was they wanted to keep the ball in play and create more returns. Yeah. I don't know. Just a thought. Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it. All right. Thanks. Thanks a lot. No doubt about it.

Jeff from Indianapolis. That's my interpretation. What do you think about what he said? Because, yeah, if you move the kicker back, that's not to say that there's not some iron-footed kicker who's just going to be able to still drive it through. No?

No? There could be. I mean, definitely right.

We've seen, you know, there's always like an anomaly in terms of physical capabilities of one athlete compared to others. But like, I think the overall, right, the overall idea that Jeff made, I think is a good one. Like, Jeff, push him back 10. Just move the kicker back.

15 yards and basically eliminate any chance of kicking out of the end zone. Maybe again, one guy. Okay, fine.

Bombs it. I guess good for that team or good for that guy. But just try to make it almost impossible for the touchback to be realistic and then you eliminate one less headache. Touché. Well, listen, maybe the NFL needs to hire him.

Maybe. I'm thinking for all the touchbacks that we see, because it's not like we're just seeing the ball getting dropped into the end zone and it's just barely getting there. We got guys kicking a ball through the end zone. It's like that's another and the ball doesn't look like it's stopping, you know, five and 10 yards. The ball is it looks like it's moving, moving. So I don't that's why I don't know of moving the ball. We haven't seen it, but I don't know if moving the ball back to the 25 is going to stop.

Maybe it does, because you have less. I would I would assume you have less room to get a running start to do anything. So we'll see. You know, I'm trying to think. What about that right there? What you just said lastly?

What running start? What if you take that away? Oh, come on. That's like two steps. Where's the ball going?

Is that enough power? I mean, you can make it, you know, again, the NFL can test this. How you know, what's the average length of a kicker? It's like a field goal attempt, right? In a way, like, well, even they get a little bit of a start. So why don't you just mimic that? Like, you know, you get two steps or three steps.

That's it. And maybe, you know, you have to push it back then. Maybe you just keep it where it is and you get the ball in play and not in the end zone. Hickey, we got we got to find a kicker. I feel like I've spoken to a kicker before. Well, I have. We got what?

What? Sounded very anti kicker. You would believe I spoke to one of them once that weird species out there. I spoke to a kicker. How many people are talking to a kick on air?

Sure. Not many. We need to find a kicker. We need to find a kicker that has kicked in the NFL. And we need to talk to said kicker and get his thoughts on. I haven't heard nothing from a kicker.

I have it to point. Let's talk to a kicker because I kick a ball. You ain't kick a ball. Marco hasn't kicked the ball. Jeff from Indianapolis has never kicked the ball. Like how far could the average guy, the average kicker, kick a ball? And Sean Payton, is he right? Should they just, you know, move where they down the ball at? So we'll find a kicker. They exist and we'll get some insight as to what they're going to do. Oh, my goodness.

Sitting here in the studio. Man, the White Sox, if they lose tonight, twenty one straight games. Now, those are some losers.

They need to get kicked in the ass. You know, I want to talk to you about that on the other side. We're going to get into some of these polls. And then we got to guess Paul Kucharski is going to come through to talk with us about the Titans. We got a full show. The J.R. Sportbreeze show.

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