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This show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. We've had fun already. Well. I don't I don't know what's fun about the Chicago White Sox. Not a lot. Twenty one game losing streak tying an American League record.

That's the type of record you don't want. We talked about Brandon. Is he staying with the forty niners or is he being traded to the Browns? Well, the Patriots. Well, the Steelers. And then we talked about Team USA Basketball, the United States of America, the men. They beat up on Brazil. I can't even say beat them. They beat them up. They beat them down. They beat them round and round. The final score.

One twenty two to eighty seven. They smashed them. Team USA Basketball. The men will take on Serbia, led by the two time NBA MVP and former NBA champion Nikola Jokic. In Serbia, that game is on Thursday. If the United States of America wins, they advance to the championship game to compete for a gold medal against either France or Germany. And if Team USA Basketball loses, well, they could walk away with nothing or they could head into the consolation game, which nobody would care about. Would they walk away with a silver or bronze?

Hickey, that sounds dirty to even say. Could you see LeBron James accepting a bronze medal? Yeah, that'd be tough. Could you go ahead? Finish? No, no.

That's that's not a site that I can imagine. That'd be an awkward one for sure. I could see Joel Embiid accepting a bronze. Go right on the center of his mantle that I that I could see.

He'd be like, hey, I don't got to go to no Eastern Conference. Nothing. Now I got a bronze medal. Yeah.

Who says I can't get a second round? Look at me. Oh, my God.

Look at that. Could you could you could you imagine if France and they're still alive, they're going to take on Germany. Could you imagine if France goes further than he does? You feel like a real loser then, wouldn't he? He will not hear the end of it. Those French fans, I'm sure if they lose on Thursday, I think everybody in that building for Saturday's bronze medal game, if that's what the U.S. is in, if they lose. I think everybody French France was a buy ticket just to boo him and laugh at him. I don't know what the no, no, no, no. Hey, I don't know what that is.

And France, it could be the same exact thing. They should just they should just yell at to him the whole game with his name. So even if he's on the bench, he knows it's for him. That guy is he's an interesting fellow, right? Like he's not a bad guy. He doesn't bother anybody, doesn't say anything.

But he says some quirky things here or there that doesn't help his cause. He's always hurt. He's always injured. And yet when he can actually play, he's one of the best basketball players on earth. A dominant basketball player. He is just he's like the Riddler for basketball.

You have no idea what you're going to get from the guy at any given time. So we'll see what the U.S. does against Serbia this upcoming Thursday. I cannot wait for that. And Hickey before that game started just by happenstance, because to be honest, trying to keep up with all of the Olympic events, sometimes it's just it's it's so much. Remember, there used to be a point in time where it was only on television. And if it wasn't on TV, you missed it.

Like live, you're saying? Yeah, like it was only NBC and NBC was not broadcasting whatever the hell it is. That what is.

That's it. But now with with Peacock and all the the channels and Olympics is on USA. It's on E. It's on every station in the family. Like every event is televised. It's it's like sensory overload. Sometimes I can't I had to scroll a million times to find USA versus Brazil, man. So there's just so much going on. You're right. Yeah, it is a lot to keep track of. Have you watched like the quad box at all?

The who? The quad box on Peacock for, you know, four events of the same. It's actually pretty cool. It's like different events like wrestling in one corner, track and field in another basketball shooting like four different things on one screen. You know what I had today? Table tennis. Oh, my God. There was the Serbia Australia game in one box.

There was, I think, beach volleyball. That must that must have been at eight o'clock this morning. It was it was early. Oh, my God. No, I couldn't do that. No, not for you.

Not that not that much sensory overload that morning for you. I barely want to watch four NFL games at one time. It's like, what am I doing? What's that? What is that thing called on on on YouTube now? This is a Sunday ticket.

Yes. I go, I go, OK, I got one game on the big screen and I got another game, two games on my tablet. And I'm going, now, which one of these games is a complete waste of my time? And then I leave. And then I go, now I'm watching two games every now and then I'll check the scores and I go, OK, now I could switch around. Like, I don't want to watch four football games at one time.

How? Unless I'm gambling. Is that not the only justification? Unless you are making money. Unless you're making money.

Why am I watch? I want to watch one game be intently involved in it. And that's it. I would agree. And even like from the gambling aspect, like you can have money on four games. It's almost impossible to pay attention for every snap and kind of know where your bet is going, good or bad, when four games run at once, maybe got another player in a fifth game that you don't have on the screen.

I would agree. Like the one o'clock NFL Sunday slate. It's great. Don't get me wrong.

Not complaining. But it is almost it feels like so much that it's almost impossible to actually know what you're watching or process it. Where it's almost like you need a day to be like, oh, yeah, that happened. Oh, wow. That's like it's just so hard to keep track of everything going on in that seven, eight game stretch that, you know, is going on the same time.

It's crazy. We need an expert opinion. We need the fun is Ipe. Does Ipe Mizuhara? Can he take can can he take phone call? He's locked up. Was he free right now? I think locked up. But I mean, I'm sure his phone time.

We need to ask, hey, man. No, but he didn't bet on. Did he bet on NFL or just Major League Baseball? No, basketball.

Right. He apparently bet on everything but baseball. But he also bet on everything poorly because he lost so much money.

So I'm like, I'm not even sure if he's the one we want to talk to because he clearly whatever he was doing was the wrong strategy. So Ipe, what were you doing on Sundays? Did you did you have Sunday ticket?

Were you watching two games or three or four? Like what was your strategy as you laid down all this money with the illegal bookie? And Ipe, we got to read the court papers. That's what we have to do.

I'm going to make that homework for the weekend when I'm bored. So we'll look into that. But one thing I will say I saw earlier today. What's this guy's name? Is it Hoker? That guy? Yes. The American dude with the long blonde hair? Yes, Hoker. The fifteen hundred millimeter race.

I think it's like four laps around the track. It's like one guy from the Netherlands that was destroying everybody. And I think it was a Brit came behind him and then the American guy came out of nowhere.

This guy, Hoker. And he smoked them. And I'm like, well, damn, it was that was actually a very good race. Did you see that? Yeah, actually, right before I left my apartment to come here, I watched it because I watched the prelims the other day.

Oh, I know some of these people, these from just watching the other day. Let's watch it. And yeah, like the race was great, but it's I almost felt like the announcers like missed it because like it wasn't until the last second, like, oh, here he comes.

Like he was kind of there making his way up at one point, like on the inside. And they just talked about the two main guys and all of a sudden, boom, kicks in overdrive. That was that was a lot of fun. Yeah, that was that was fun. We got away two more days for a Noah Lyles to go at the 200 meter. It is. Oh, well, we're running out towards the end.

I can't believe it. The Olympics, I think the closing ceremonies. Yeah, it's Sunday. Damn, that was fast. We like basketball is on the last day. The championship is Saturday.

And then we blink like Joker. Did you watch Djokovic went on Sunday? I watched that. Did you see that? No, I missed that one.

I see him. He beat Alcaraz. He was crying. He was shaken.

You know, for a guy who talks so much crap, I guess he is human. He won the gold. He's never won a gold medal. We don't know how many more years he's going to compete by the time the next Olympics comes around in L.A. Djokovic should probably be done.

He's 37 years old. He was out there shaking. And, you know, speaking of shaking, another competition in the Sun River is done. OK, it is that dirty ass water that they spent, I think, a billion and a half to clean up. Olympic marathon swim test run is canceled over water quality concerns for the Sun River.

Uh huh. World Aquatics made the decision to cancel the exercise at an early morning meeting. This is bad. There's no good news coming out of this. Belgian triathlete gets sick after competing in the Sun River. Sun River appears to claim another Olympian, a Swiss triathlete, has stomach infection. Oh, my God.

What are we doing here? Adrian Briffard of Switzerland suffered a stomach infection following the men's event that took place last Wednesday. Officials confirmed the sickness. Hickey, they said it was impossible to say if the Sun River was to blame.

Yeah, there's just no way knowing, right? I mean, maybe it was some of that. Maybe it was some of that food in the the Olympic village. Was it the baguette?

I think that might be the safest thing to eat. Right. Come on. I don't know. I guess technically they have to say that. But I mean, wow.

What are we doing? Imagine being an athlete, train all this time. Olympics come and you can't compete because of the water quality.

He's so pissed. I need to look this up. But when they have the Olympics in Los Angeles, I mean, the L.A. River doesn't even exist.

Just like a trickles like three drops through the city. I guess I guess they're going to be in the ocean. I don't know.

I guess you can do that. Right. People swimming in that ocean water all the time. The Pacific is better, right? This is the river. We don't put trash in the Pacific.

Only drugs flow up there, I think. I think. Yeah.

No, I think you're right about that. Yeah. I guess you don't have to be in the river. You could be in the ocean. Yeah. I think it's safe to say the twenty twenty eight Olympics will have open water swimming. I don't know if Los Angeles still has water by twenty twenty eight. That's true.

It's the Colorado River. Maybe it's another. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what? You know, they're doing softball in Oklahoma City.

I might as well just outsource the swimming, too. I didn't. Excuse me. Say this again.

What? Oh, do you see where softball is being held? Oklahoma City, which is a little closer than the surfing competition that was just going on in Tahiti.

Twenty one hours away. So at least the Olympians for softball will be in the same country as the Olympics. Could you imagine? I mean, who's playing softball?

I mean, what? South Korea, Japan, right? Japan, Japan, right? Japan, you would assume Korea, right? The South Korea, South Korea.

Thank you. Then if they screw up, then I think they screwed up the national anthem between North and South. No, really? I think they did. They played the wrong one?

I think they did. How do you even have that one in the system? Somebody used Google. Oh, geez. That person's getting fired.

My goodness. Could you imagine coming over from Japan to participate in the twenty twenty eight Olympics in Los Angeles? And you're just like, oh, my God, oh, my God, we're going to go to L.A. and be in America.

So they dump you. Nothing wrong in Oklahoma City, but it ain't L.A. It's damn. Make them stay at that haunted hotel that they got out there.

And that's that's rough. I can imagine they would utilize, you know, maybe Lake Tahoe has to get used for something, right? That's not that far. True. That's very scenic. Beautiful. Maybe they're doing.

Yeah, that would be absolutely amazing. I'm going to look that up. Look that up, because the Sun River is given yet. Well, Sun River is given a Paris a bad name.

I thought the Hudson River in New York had a bad name, but the sun has just it's taken it a step further. Let's see if any of these athletes turn into mutants between now and twenty twenty eight. Good luck to the J.R. sport. We show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

We're going to take a break when we come back. No more mutants when I talk about quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson, maybe he's a mutant.

That guy's a freakish athlete. We're going to get into the AFC North, because when you think about it, there's so many quarterbacks in the division with something to prove. And they've even undergone some changes. Lamar Jackson has lost some weight. The Steelers got two quarterbacks. You think about Burrow coming off of an injury. You think about Watson coming off of an injury. And these two teams or these four teams are just going to bust each other's heads in.

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I'll let you hold on to that one. Either way, Deshaun Watson is back, along with his busted up, broken shoulder from last year, which is hopefully healed, that he can add a little bit more oomph to everything that the Browns are going to do this upcoming season. And so there's been a lot of news coming out of the AFC North as it relates to their quarterbacks.

Let's really think about this. You got Deshaun Watson, who, thank God, people aren't talking about, well, not thank God, but we don't hear about his past with the massage women, masseuses, we don't hear about that anymore, which I guess is a good thing, at least if you're Deshaun Watson, it's a good thing. You're not hearing about his shoulder. You're not hearing concerns about whether or not he's able to go.

The man is hoping that the last past several years are just behind him. The Browns are hoping that he can lead them into the postseason. That's, that's just the Browns, even though right now there's conversations about whether or not the Browns are going to end up with Brandon Iyuk and whether or not Amari Cooper is going to be ending or finding his way out in San Francisco. A lot going on with the Browns.

Let's also now go to another team. Speaking of injuries, if this guy's not going to a Super Bowl, if he's not ending up as like an MVP candidate, this guy, he's hurt. His name is Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow recently sat down and did an interview on Up and Adams where he talked about not his injuries. I mean, the guy had a busted up wrist to end last season. He had a calf issue to start last season. His rookie year, he blew out his ACL. The other year, he was actually healthy. The guy helped this team, you know, go to a Super Bowl where they beat the Chiefs to get there. He has a three and one record against the Kansas City Chiefs.

And so Joe Burrow, who's now walking around with a blonde buzz cut, I guess he's bored. He was on Up and Adams and he explained why he plays so well against Patrick Mahomes. I think you got to go out and not be scared to make mistakes. You got to go out and make plays because, you know, he's going to go out and make plays. And that brings out the best in me. It's always an exciting challenge when we go against each other. It's an opportunity every time you go against him, too, because, you know, all the eyes are going to be on it. Now, Hickey, I know I know he's supremely confident. This is a guy who threw what, like 71 touchdowns to win a national championship. Like this guy is serious business and he he's a good player, but he doesn't sound all that confident. Like he didn't want to answer the question or he didn't want to gloat too much, I guess, because he didn't win a Super Bowl.

It just his answer was just why am I answering this right now? I think, though, if you're a Bengals fan, maybe an NFL fan in general, that's like the answer you want, where it's almost quiet confidence. It's like I don't have to tell you how good I am or tell you how well I'll play against Patrick Holmes.

I'll just do it. You know, we've seen a lot of people, you know, the Raiders being the latest example of mocking, talking crap, maybe trying to talk down Patrick Mahomes a little bit. And so far up to this point, that's not gone very well for anybody trying to, you know, talk crap against Patrick Mahomes. Joe Burrow looked a record, like you said, proved it. He's beaten him to go to a Super Bowl before.

I think if you're Joe, you let your play do the talking. That's how more I took it than, let's say, uneasiness about his ability to beat Mahomes later this year and then maybe if they meet again the playoffs. Well, I mean, even in that AFC Championship game, Patrick Mahomes was running around on a bad leg behind a crap line at the time. And he still threw two touchdowns in that game. And Joe Burrow, this guy went out there and threw two interceptions. And, I mean, this goes back to what we discussed yesterday about the NFL Top 100 list, as voted on by the players. They had Tyreek Hill at number one. They had Lamar Jackson behind him at number two. Christian McCaffrey was three. And Patrick Mahomes was four.

And at least in the case of Joe Burrow, maybe he's smart enough to go. Man, I haven't won a damn thing. I mean, in the time that I beat Patrick Mahomes, he actually outplayed me on a bum leg and I still didn't win.

That was the Super Bowl where the Bengals went out there and lost to the Rams. Like, the Super Bowls do all the talking. There's a reason why Tom Brady, he doesn't have to say anything to anybody. He just lifts up his hand.

He has to lift up two hands. Them big old gigantic rings, they do all of the talking for him. And we had a caller, I think it was, yeah, Rand from Hawaii. He was asking me about some of the top competitors and teams in the AFC that could maybe move the Chiefs the hell up on out the way. You can't ignore the Ravens, right? They were right there in the AFC Championship game against Patrick Mahomes. And all of a sudden, Lamar Jackson, everybody's trying to figure out, why the hell is this guy throwing the ball? Like, at what point did Lamar Jackson become Dan Marino? Like, why is he out there trying to let a rip against Patrick Mahomes and they lost? And Lamar Jackson was actually healthy. And Lamar Jackson, thick at the beginning of training camp, nobody knows why, again. And here he is. He's lost weight. And so he got that question because there's nothing else for the Ravens to do but go to the Super Bowl and win. And so Lamar Jackson was chatting it up with CBS and they were like, bro, why did you decide to lose all of that weight?

Listen to this. You slimmed down two years ago. I was fat, to me. I felt like I was fat. I just saw a video from two years ago of the Browns and I looked at it, like, out of shape.

Yeah. But I was in shape. You watch and you run. Like, did you feel slower? Did you think that you looked slower? My eyes might be deceiving me, but I believe I looked a little slower to me.

But not now. Why did you decide to slim down? Was it simply for the speed element? Just so I could move around without getting fatigued. That's all. I don't know if I was getting fatigued last year.

Probably if I could get a first down. But I don't like getting caught if I do decide to run. So, yeah, that's part of it. You know, we get a little slower as we age. You don't think it has anything to do with age?

No, not at all. No, I'm only 27. I'm still young.

Definitely don't have anything to do with age. Okay. All right.

That's nice. I'll give him a few more years. I'll give him about four more or three more years. Three more years. That's going to catch up to him eventually.

I like it. A funny conversation. He's a funny guy. Well, you would think with the running back helping him in the backfield now, Derrick Henry, he might be able to add a few more years or a season or a couple more plays just onto his body for a season.

Maybe it'll help him stay healthy. Derrick Henry, the new running back for the Baltimore Ravens. He talked about Lamar Jackson and he couldn't stop talking about what this guy can do, not just running the football, but throwing it as well.

He also talked to CBS. This is the type of leader he is and what he commands out of guys, the way he works and how you see it in games because he does it out here constantly. It's just a very cool thing to see the dynamic player he is, but his arm talent is through the roof. I was just blown away some of the throws he's made out here through camp and OTAs. His arm talent is with the best of them for sure.

And he's certainly gotten better as a passer over the past few years. I mean, Lamar Jackson got drafted and people are screaming, Oh my God, he needs to go out there. He needs to be a running back. Oh my God, he needs to go out there and needs to not throw. They need to make him switch positions.

And it's just like, can we relax for a minute here? The guy has two MVP awards. He could potentially win another one. Would anybody be shocked if he picked up another MVP over the next few seasons?

The answer is no. And he's a ridiculously dynamic athlete, which makes it even laughable. I'm being a joke and being a little facetious. It's hilarious to hear him go, Oh no, people, I don't need people catching me when I'm out there on the field.

I didn't like people catching me. Like how much faster are you trying to be out here? You already get the ball.

This man makes strides and cuts effortlessly. It's like watching a video game with Lamar Jackson out on the field. And you know, that reminds me of another team in the AFC North. Let's go to the Steelers. They bring in two quarterbacks with something to prove. You got Russell Wilson and you also got Justin Fields.

They got over from Chicago. Justin Fields, his whole existence now in the Steelers is to utilize his athleticism to help him score the ball. He has to, I don't even want to say share the wealth with Russell Wilson, but his job is, hey, you got the ball, do something fancy with it.

And that's the expectation there. Arthur Smith, the new offensive coordinator for the Steelers, former head coach, terrible head coach for the Atlanta Falcons. He spoke to the media last week and he said, yeah, Justin Fields, the ball in his hands, magic happens.

I think Justin's done a fantastic job. You know, he's a dangerous football player with the ball in his hands. And so it allows you to get creative and, you know, maybe you change up a little bit of the defensive game plan and he's done a good job. Of all our players, wideout, quarterback, tight end fullback, whatever, H, we need to play their strengths.

And certainly he has a different element. Man, the AFC North is so difficult to call. There are so many just interesting qualities about the quarterbacks. The Ravens and the Bengals have the best QBs, right? Deshaun Watson, you would hope that if he's healthy, he can step into being one of the best quarterbacks. The Browns defense held it down last year. Myles Garrett ended up with the Defensive Player of the Year award, whether you thought he deserved it or whether T.J. Watt deserved it.

I thought T.J. Watt was going to get it. And then the Steelers, they got two quarterbacks, which would lead you to believe that they're probably going to be the worst team here in the AFC North. But Mike Tomlin doesn't know what a losing season is. This might be the first time that he faces one. The Bengals are the Bengals.

Am I supposed to trust them? I would say the Ravens end up number one in the division. The Browns end up number two. The Bengals and Steelers fight it out for three.

Hickey, what are your thoughts on what this division is going to look like? I still like Joe Burrow and this Bengals team a lot. When he's healthy, they win. So as long as he's healthy, I think the Bengals do win this division.

Whoa, over the Ravens. Yes. Damn.

Yes. Lamar's going to pull a fingernail or something? I mean, I just think he'll be fine.

I mean, I hope not. But he does, kind of with Joe Burrow, have a track record of not being able to stay healthy. The tricky part is I like the Browns a lot. Their roster is so good. And obviously the biggest question mark is Deshaun Watson.

Can he get back to the level he played in 2020? I mean, that's getting further and further away now from that time. But it's like if they could stay healthy, this is a team that they truly can win the division.

I'll go Bengals, Ravens, Browns within like two games of each other, and then the Steelers are a clear four. Damn. It's tough. We're going to get a lot of funny Mike Tomlin quotes then, aren't we? Oh, I think we will.

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So many question marks. Will the Ravens get back to an AFC championship game? Will they advance past that? Is Joe Burrow going to make it through a season to go back to a Super Bowl with the Bengals? What the hell is going on with the Steelers and their quarterbacks? Two of them, Russell Wilson and Justin Fields.

And if you take a look at the Browns, Deshaun Watson, how's that shoulder going? Or are we going to see Jamis Winston sign me up? I need Jamis. I need celebrations.

I need funny. I need funny commentary. I need to hear Jamis Winston. And the only way we'll hear him is maybe at the end of the season, if the Browns are just beaten up on teams and Deshaun Watson gets a rest. Or if he gets hurt. Either way, we need to hear Jamis.

He's absolutely hilarious. It wasn't a funny matter today. Not in East Rutherford, New Jersey, home of the New York Giants. As the Giants and Lions continued on with their joint practices ahead of Thursday's game, preseason game in New Jersey. Now, we know the Lions are trying to go to a Super Bowl. The New York Giants are trying to prove that they're not just some pushover joke of an NFL franchise. And so this is a good measuring stick for the New York Giants to actually go out there and prove that they're not just a bunch of bums.

Especially with their newly drafted wide receiver and Malik neighbors. Everything that you are seeing, everything that you are hearing, everything that you are reading. And I've seen some of the video. You saw the video in college, but now you're seeing it against pros in practice. He's lighting people up. He's jumping over folks. He's diving through people. He's running past them.

And then he's slapping people in their heads and he's starting fights. You got to like this. Hickey, I think I think he might be the most popular receiver in New York right now. He hasn't even caught a pass in a regular season.

You know what? You're not wrong. I mean, the bar is outside of Garrett Wilson. The bar is very low, but he right now is making the most of it. Ironically enough, after getting drafted, everyone thought, oh, he looks miserable.

He doesn't want to even be there. Now he already is, I guess you could say, making bonds with his new teammates. He has an opportunity to own New York as the biggest wide receiver. Look, Garrett Wilson, what he does with Aaron Rodgers, we have no idea. But but Garrett Wilson is not as physically imposing as Malik neighbors. Malik neighbors looks like he will go out there and abuse the opposition. And so he got into a fight with Kirby Joseph from the Lions. And then afterwards, after everybody was pushing and shoving and everybody spoke to the media, Malik neighbors.

He spoke to the folks, the media, and he just explained what happened. Listen, it's hot. We're competing. So like that's going to happen. It's football at the end of the day. He did. But I'm not going to repeat it.

The competitive me or me or honor. You know, we talk we talk almost every day about just competing, how good we want to be. So there's nothing against him. You know, he's my brother. So I'm going to give him the work he needs. He's going to give me the work I need. But it was just I was tapping on him on a good play. That's all it was.

And then, you know, somebody comes up running up to me, said a few words. And this is this is that he's talking about Terry on Arnold, who was also a newcomer now into the league. The Lions selected him in the draft this year out of Alabama. And these two are familiar with each other because, quite frankly, they both came out of the best football conference in the land.

The SEC. We'll see what Malik neighbors continues to do here in practice. Can't wait to see what he does in the regular season. Maybe he, like Saquon Barkley, will save the ass of Daniel Jones in the regular season.

Daniel Jones can show up and stay healthy enough to go out there and compete. Malik neighbors was also asked, man, you've been given these defensive backs to work. Are you proud of what you're doing? You got these guys frustrated. Are you proud of that?

Listen to what he said. No, at the end of the day, it's all about me. Really, it's not even about them. It's about what I do when the ball is in the air and what I do about, you know, having that mindset of catching the ball, getting as many yards as I can, helping my team win. So with the defense guy going on, it doesn't doesn't look at me. I love it. I love it. I love it.

I love it. Someone who you pay attention. But you don't you don't care about what somebody else is doing. You do what you need to do. And everything else falls into place.

We got too many people running around worried about what people are doing to try to stop them and slow them down. If you're doing what you need to do, everything falls in place. Somebody who wasn't happy with all of this fighting. Is the man who you thought would absolutely love it. It's Dan Campbell. He spoke yesterday after the first fight with Daniel Jones. Dan Campbell actually told everybody, he's like, man, there's too many of these fights. What? I mean, certainly too much.

You know, we have to stop practice that many times to reset the drill and load. It's just a waste. It's a waste of everybody's time, you know. And look, I don't want those. That's not what it's about.

And I know Dave's doesn't want it. We've talked about it. You know, address it with the players. And, you know, that's that's part of the that's part of the balances, man.

How do you really, really push yourself to compete at the highest level? But you got to keep your composure. Oh, come on. You know what's stupid to me? The fact that NFL players will still throw punches. While they're wearing helmets.

Like, what are we doing here? And I know even they're wearing these guardian caps now. Like what if you're going to punch somebody, Hickey, am I wrong? Body shot, right? Punch them in the ribs. Well, now those guardian caps can protect your your fist. Oh, you're going to do even less damage to the head than you would with a helmet on. But at least you're not breaking your hand like you would otherwise throw a kick. You just fight dirty kick to the groin. It looks so ridiculous to see them throwing punches.

They got on face guards, helmets and guardian caps. What are we doing? They might as well go out there. Hey, I got a beef with you. Let's play Rock'em Sock'em Robots. You know, like, what are we doing?

Put on hulk hands, too. Yeah, why not? Why not?

This is stupid. Dan Campbell, I'm just a little shocked that Dan Campbell is he's the one he's just like, man, I'm trying to practice. We're not not for fighting. This is the same man who had his introductory press conference was telling everybody about biting off kneecaps and choking people out. Listen to what he said in his introductory press conference.

What happened to this guy? This team's going to be built on. We're going to kick you in the teeth. All right. And when you punch us back, we're going to smile at you. And when you knock us down, we're going to get up. And on the way up, we're going to bite a kneecap off. All right. And we're going to stand up and then it's going to take two more shots to knock us down.

All right. And on the way up, we're going to take your other kneecap and we're going to get up and then it's going to take three shots to get us down. And when we do, we're going to take another hunk out of you before before long.

We're going to be the last one standing. Oh, come on. What happened, Hickey, what happened to that guy? He had a little bit of success and now all that is gone. I guess so. Yeah, I was on.

I'm shocked to hear that he was not for the fights. Come on, Mr. Bite some kneecaps off. Like what? Oh, come on, man. I guess he's more of a he's more of a game, less of a violent Dan and more of a gambling one. All right.

Let's see how this works out for the Lions as the season continues on. Eight, five, five to one. Oh, my goodness. Is this guy Hickey? Did this guy he got raised? Did he get abducted by aliens and get dropped off this guy from Texas? Simeon? I think so. I think the aliens have brought him back and I think he should be there ready to go this time. No alien invasion. Let's see.

Simeon from Texas. You're on the J.R. sport. Are you here? Yeah, I'm here.

I had mute on. What? OK.

I know the aliens didn't take you because you would probably ask for candy and stuff. What's on your mind, Simeon? I was wondering what you think about the Texans, what they need to become a Super Bowl caliber team.

Nothing but experience, Simeon. They picked up some last year unexpectedly. Let's see if they have the same success running into a sophomore season. They have tons of talent. They brought in the Stefan Diggs. C.J. Stroud is moving into a second year.

D'Amico Ryan is moving into a second year. Not a lot of people pay attention to Will Anderson. I mean, we've talked about the Texans quite a bit. The only thing stopping and slowing them down is the competition. And sometimes you have to go against the competition that's been around longer than you. It seems like the Ravens that eliminated them, you know, teams like the Bills, the Chiefs. Sometimes you got to go through the fire before you can walk through and win. So the only thing stopping them is the opposition.

They just got to keep on growing. And in week 11, we're playing the Cowboys. Who's winning? Oh, Simeon, I don't want to think about week 11.

OK, just flip a coin and call me back in November, OK? Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Simeon. Appreciate you. Take solace in the fact that the Texans are expected to be better than the Cowboys. All right.

Who's winning? I can't answer that right now, Simeon. Just glad that his phone work and Hickey, I know the aliens wouldn't take him because he's he's a younger guy. He's going to ask what a younger people ask for.

He's going to want to go to McDonald's or something. That or candy. Speaking of which, did you see what the Cardinals rolled out today?

Which ones? The Arizona Cardinals? They did what? They rolled out a candy burrito. It is a cotton candy. We'll say flour tortilla is as we wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Candy shoved in there. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Tell me about this monstrosity. This sounds like a dentist's dream. We'll get into this on the other side. Speaking of a dream, Charles Barkley is coming back. He's not retiring. And then we'll talk to Adam Rittenberg from ESPN.

We'll talk some college football and this contraption that he's talking about. A burrito with candy. What? Here's why April chose to vaccinate her child. I think actually meeting someone who was not vaccinated and now has a lifelong struggle with a childhood disease really cemented for me that it's super important that we as parents continue to vaccinate our children.

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