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His name is Ryan Hickey. We're going to be rolling out with you, hanging out with you for the next four hours. This is when the show gets started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. It is a Friday. We have a lot going on. More NFL preseason action, depending on whether or not people play. Brandon Aiyuk is still a 49er.

Looks like the 49ers are still trying to sign this guy to a contract and not trade him. More Olympics action. USA women's walking away with some gold in the relay. We have breakdancing in the Olympics today.

A lot of people had some opinions about that. Kevin Durant woke up this morning in Paris and decided to hit everybody up back home on Twitter. What else is new? USA women's basketball. What else is new? They're going to play for a gold medal on Sunday, which they'll probably win. They've won 60 straight games.

Ridiculous. We got some amazing guests who are going to come through. Lionel Willingham, who you can hear here on the Infinity Sports Network. He covers all things, well, all things DC, DMV sports on the fan in DC. He's going to come through later on in the show and talk to us about the commanders. Commanders are getting ready to take on the New York Jets.

There's a lot of positive comments right now coming out about Jaden Daniels. So I want to ask Lionel because he's been witnessing some of their practices, especially as they get ready to take on the New York Jets. And then also later on in the show, we're going to have a conversation with Mike Leslie, who covers the Dallas Cowboys, who unfortunately are in the news again. What else is new?

And not for good reasons, just just silly reasons. I mean, damn, Dallas Cowboys are always. You know what? We'll tell you about the Dallas Cowboys in a second. C.D.

Lambs contract, Dak Prescott's ankle, you just can't make some of this stuff up at all on this beautiful Friday. Thank you to everybody listening on the free Odyssey app. People listening all over North America on their local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. Sirius XM Channel 158. And if you have yourself a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network.

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Sport Brief, where I have formally shared a show rundown. If you happen to be someone who was on X or Twitter or tweeting or whatever the hell they call it now. I'm there. Picky, how you doing, man? You good?

I'm good. It's Friday. We're getting close to some football action coming up here.

It's feeling good today. I mean, you don't care about the football. Stop it, man. Well, I meant more. Sorry, I meant regular season.

No, you're right. I hate the preseason. I don't care. But, you know, we are one step closer. What are we, like four weeks from the NFL? Three weeks from college? We are creeping very close. Yeah, like two, two and a half weeks from college. We got a what about a month away from the NFL? A little less than that. And so, yeah.

And then, you know what? We'll get into this as well, because for all these quarterbacks who are not participating in the preseason, I see your guy, Anthony Richardson, is going to go out there. They're going to let that man touch a football? How about that? Any doubt to him being healthy?

Throw those out the window. This guy's ready to play. I need to see eight backflips in the touchdown, OK? How about zero?

We'll call it even. No backflips. One day he's going to backflip in the NFL and I will rejoice.

I'm waiting on it. But we'll get into Anthony Richardson in a little while. That's a quarterback who's trying to make his, you know, he's trying to earn his keep right now in the NFL. Busted up all of last year. And speaking of busted up, let's just get this the hell up on out the way before we have Mike Leslie join us later on in the show.

You know, it was absolutely hilarious. We're sitting here yesterday and, Hickey, we have such a good time. I don't know what the hell we'd be talking about. The quarterbacks who don't play. We looked at the power rankings and talked about the USA beating Serbia. And then we got all this news because Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, one of the greatest marketers, I would say in America.

Just flat period. I mean, what he's been able to do with the Dallas Cowboys since taking over back in 1989 is amazing. I mean, they won championships early and they haven't won a damn thing since 95, 96. But yeah, he knows how to make money. Let's just put it that way. I don't know if he knows how to construct and win with a football team.

I don't believe so. I mean, if I have to think about Jerry Jones and current iteration at this stage of his life. You don't know how to get the hell out the way. And I don't care if it's his son making the decisions or, you know, Jerry is in charge of five superstars on the team and five other guys handle the other 50 guys on the roster, 45, whatever it is. Jerry Jones is the Dallas Cowboys worst enemy. And we know this already.

And so what's the latest dilemma? First of all, we know there are three superstars that the most important guys on the team. The quarterback.

The defensive end, edge rusher, whatever the hell you want to call him in the wide receiver are all looking for money. That's Dak Prescott, Michael Parsons in CD lab. Dak Prescott is running around on sore ankles right now. I'm not joking. The same Dak Prescott, who about a month ago, a month and a half ago, was on vacation with his leg in a boot and told everybody, yeah, yeah, yeah, I worked out too hard.

And, you know, just this precautionary just just on vacation. My foot in the boot. Everything is fine. And here he is.

Ankle soreness. Anybody shocked? No, I'm not shocked. The guy had his leg, his ankle snap like a twig a couple of seasons ago, and he wants 60 million dollars a year.

He didn't say that, but I believe he does. Why not? CD lamb is not even at practice right now. Not in training camp because he wants a new contract. This guy almost had 18000 excuse me. That'd be a lot of yardage. Damn it.

Being Korea's work. He had 1800 yards receiving last year to go along with 12 touchdowns. This man is looking for the money. And this is hilarious because Jerry Jones, while we were on air yesterday, Jerry Jones had his assembly with the media and he was asked about CD Lamb's contract. And Jerry Jones said that he was in no rush.

Do you remember this? Are you saying there's a sense of urgency as you begin the preseason to get CD done? No, no. Why do you say that? I'm just I just I went to high school.

I went to college. I don't know why I said it, but I'm just saying I don't know. I don't have a sense of urgency about getting it done. Any reason you want no boo two days.

I'm in no rush to sign him and then a bunch of other stuff. Just people laughing at the old guy. It happens. It happens. Hickey, I don't want to be the old guy that people, you know, you laugh and now people laugh with you because he uncomfortable.

I don't want to get there in life. I was going to ask you, did it sound like to you they're laughing with him or at him? They were laughing with him to avoid laughing at him like Jerry. Jerry told the joke and he's chuckling. So instead of making things awkward, let's just let's just make some belly laughs with him.

It's one of those, right? Yeah, I guess you're right to avoid some awkward confrontation because I'd be sitting there saying, what the hell is this guy saying? Jerry comes across as an awkward guy. Let's put it that way. You can read up on some of his lawsuits and see how awkward he is.

Anyway, this is the same guy who runs his organization. I always say like Hunger Games. And so Jerry Jones says he is in no rush to extend CD Lamb CD Lamb goes right online and responds with lol directly to the comment.

Like, what are we in the Twilight Zone? The owner says one thing about one of his star players. I'm in no rush to give this guy a contract.

And the player responds with lol. Laugh out loud because CD Lamb know he's going to get paid. He's going to get his thirty four, thirty five million dollars. He's going to sit right there with Justin Jefferson. And the Dallas Cowboys are the team that they just look like a joke.

Just get the deals done already. And so his son, Jerry's son, Jerry's son. Pick yes or Jerry's son.

What's wrong? Too much Jerry's son. Jerry's son, Stephen Jones. He sat down with the Doomsday podcast and they asked him questions, of course, about CD Lamb, like whether or not they would think about trading the man because they haven't come to an agreement on a contract extension. Listen, zero, zero thought process, not having CD be a doubt.

And that despite, by the way, CD can't go play anywhere. You know, he's he's under contract. And then, you know, we have franchise tags available. So, you know, CD is not going to be playing anywhere but Dallas. Oh, OK. All right. Well, we got one more year, but he wants a contract extension.

Just give him one. What are you waiting for? What's the hold up? Maybe I'm stupid. I'm not sitting in the front office.

Just a little bit of common sense if you ask me. And so when it comes down to his deal, Stephen Jones just asked, but when the hell are you going to do it? Like next year, what's taking you so long?

Don't you want to do it now? You know, our negotiation with CD, we just knew we had that roster spot. And when he reports, which we certainly believe he will at some point and hopefully with a new contract. But, you know, we continue to make progress. Things are very cordial with both players. You know, we've got a challenging situation. It's a great situation to have, but it's challenging. When you have one of the top quarterbacks in the league and then you've got two of the best non-quarterback players in the league.

Like a pass rusher, Micah Parsons and CD Lamb. And, you know, we believe that as well, that they're two of the top nine quarterback players in this league. So, you know, it's a negotiation that we're obviously, you know, having to work hard at it. Because you also, you know, at the end of the day want to be able to put some other players.

Those three guys can't go out and play the game by themselves. So we've just got to continue to work at it. I feel good about it.

And we'll continue, you know, to work with Dak and his representatives and CD and his representatives. Man. Hickey, I felt, listening to Jerison. That's like listening to the teacher from Snoopy.

Like Peanuts. The teacher and wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That's what he sounds like, man.

Justin, one ear and out the other for you? Yeah. A whole lot of nonsense. This is like a horn.

This is like just saying nothing. We got to pay other people. Man, the cap keeps going up. Pay them. We know what the market looks like. So if the, if the, if you got to pay other players, are you not going to pay him 34, 35 mil? Am I missing something here? Like what, what effect is that going to have on the rest of the roster?

For all of that, you might as well trade them and move them. You want to know somebody who's not happy with what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys? You want to know someone who is like just in a whole nother world trying to figure out what the hell they're doing? He's one of the most accomplished players ever. He is a three-time Super Bowl champion. He is a former NFL MVP. He's a former Super Bowl MVP. He was on the damn team the last time they won a championship.

A matter of fact, all of them. He's in the Hall of Fame, every one of them. His name is Emmitt Smith. Emmitt Smith was chatting with blogging with the boys and Emmitt Smith could not understand why C.D. Lamb doesn't have a contract extension yet.

With C.D. and the Dallas Cowboys today, let's make this very clear. He is a very, very valuable asset to the Dallas Cowboys. He is a very, very valuable asset to Dak Prescott. Without him on the football field, they putting all the pressure on Dak Prescott now. And that is unacceptable because every quarterback of his caliber should have quality people to throw the ball to. Not no plan B or no plan C and no plan D guy. He should be in a position as your franchise quarterback.

He should be in a position to be successful. And right now, you're putting him behind the eight ball. And that is not right. Oh, my goodness. That's that's Jerry Jones.

That's. The Dallas and the Dallas Cowboys have a nice facility in Frisco. They have this gigantic I'll call it a monstrosity. I got a tour of it years ago when he opened it. But it's a nice monstrosity and AT&T Stadium.

They have great food at the place. Jerry Jones is just he has his tentacles everywhere. All he's doing is making money. People want to see a winner, not a circus. If I want a circus, I'm going to the universal circus. If I want a circus, I don't know. Does Ringling Hickey, does Ringling brothers still exist?

No, they can't. I thought they they doing it with no elephants, right? No.

I thought it's Cirque du Soleil or Cirque du Soleil put him out of business now. Oh, no, it's the Ella. You can't. You got to treat the elephants nice, man. Yes, you do.

You do. And the Tigers. If I want a circus Cirque du Soleil. OK, but the Dallas Cowboys give everybody the NFL's biggest circus. They can't just be normal. They can't just operate.

They can't just be about football. You got to string everybody along. They got to play hardball because that's what Jerry Jones does. But what happens when you start alienating the fan base? What happens when your star quarterback, who, by the way, lit it up last year?

I get it. He's two and five in the postseason. The man threw for forty five hundred yards and thirty six touchdowns in the regular season. You just gonna let him walk out the door? Why are you playing games with the dude? It's like Jerry Jones is some snot nosed kid sitting in the backyard like like being destructive to slugs.

Like looking at all the little animals and the ants in the back and he's just just just being a little evil. You know what? It's like stop playing around. Go go inside and be constructive.

Just in the way all the damn time. You know, yesterday I made the comment about how even Dallas Cowboy fans, they haven't showed up to training camp like they have in the past, that they've stayed away from Oxnard, that the grounds are not bursting at the seams with enthusiastic fans because they're sick and tired of going twelve and five, twelve and five, twelve and five, twelve and five, twelve and five. And they're getting smacked out of the playoffs by, I don't know, the Packers or the Niners is sick of it. Emmitt Smith is sick of it and he understands the fans plight and why the hell they're not showing up because he had three ring circus. I said that, not Emmitt.

Listen to what Emmitt said. Over the last 20 some odd years, watching our team get to the playoff time and time again, be told that we're going to do better. We're going to be in it.

We're going. This is going to be a Super Bowl year for us. And we just get completely let down. It's like fan fatigue now. I mean, it's all of that going on right now. And and and people are sick and tired of watching it.

And they want to see something different. And and we have to try. And as an organization, we have to go and do a complete assessment in terms of the organization itself. What is our mission and how does our mission aligns with the football team? On the surface, we would think everything is is is is in alignment.

But to me, I think there's there's a little disconnect there. And and we need to resolve that fairly quickly because 20 some odd years, man, that's a long time. Listen, the only thing that resolves that is if Jerry Jones moves out the way and shuts up. And we all know that that ain't happening.

Not under his own free will. It is not happening. The Dallas Cowboys are going to head into this season. I don't know.

Is C.D. Lamb going to get a deal? Probably right before camp starts. That Prescott going to be twisting in the wind all season?

Probably. Mike McCarthy will probably get the boot. The Dallas Cowboys will probably get to the postseason and lose again. And we'll have another circus next year. At least the price of admission to listen to this nonsense and watch it, at least on free television, free TV.

Don't cost you a dime. You can stay in your house and watch. Just like a lot of the Dallas Cowboys fans have decided to do, going out to check them and training camp is not worth their time. Hey, let's see what Jerry's world looks like when the regular season starts. People want football, man.

They don't want no damn circus. You built a team up enough. You've built the brand up enough. Now, when? When? And shut up while you're at it.

Stop putting salt on those Egg McMuffins. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Friday.

I'm just getting started. Believe me, we're going to have a whole lot more fun than talking about Jared Jones. OK, we'll get back into him later on in the show as one of our guests, Mike Leslie, will come through and join us.

Lionel Willingham, he's going to come through and join us to talk about the commanders and Jayden Daniels and what he's doing. It appears that Jim Harbaugh is going to be back at Michigan sooner than later. Looks like they're trying to throw a little bit of assault into the eyes of the NCAA. The Olympics.

I can't believe it. Closing ceremonies are on Sunday. Team USA basketball plays for gold tomorrow. We got breakdancing in the Olympics.

The women's basketball team is killing it. Anthony Richardson, he's expecting to play. Joel Embiid might be playing for Cameroon.

Hey, we did have some preseason football yesterday. And you know what? Speaking of the Olympics, Kevin Durant, even in Paris, he can't put his phone down. I'm going to tell you what Kevin Durant had to say to quite a few fans earlier today. Let's just say they weren't nice things. Me?

I got nothing but nice things to say here with you. You're locked in. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show.

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It's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we talked about the circus that is the Dallas Cowboys. As Jerry Jones made it very clear, he's in no rush to hand a contract over to C.D.

Lamb. Dak Prescott is now nursing sore ankles. Michael Parsons is heading into the final year of his deal. He wants a contract as well. He's just like, everybody's getting paid.

I want some money too. And that's just taking place between Dallas and Oxnard, California. But if we go miles and thousands and thousands and thousands of miles away, if we go to Paris, the site of the current 2020-20, that's a lot of 20s, 2024 Summer Olympics, there's somebody who you think would be happy that is participating in online negativity. Am I telling you that it's Kevin Durant?

I am. It's Kevin Durant. You would think after beating Serbia, 95-91. And what out of Kevin Durant, out of his own mouth, he said this was one of the best experiences, basketball experiences, I think me and any of my teammates will ever have. Kevin Durant went online and then just decided to talk to random people.

He decided to go out there and in his own words, just be a troll. Before we get to Kevin Durant, the negative, let's listen to the positive. Because after that win, where he looked amazing and Steph Curry looked amazing with 36 points, Kevin Durant told everybody, he was like, yeah, that was one of the best games I've ever been a part of. Yeah, that was at the top.

That was at the top. One of the best games I've ever been a part of. For the simple fact that we dug deep down 15 that late in the game. I think we were down, what, 15 with like 11 seconds to go in the third. And the fourth quarter dominance that we showed, I think we went with 34 to 15 or 14. And by our defense and getting out and running, transitioning, we barely called plays. We just played off of each other well. You know, it was a lot of nonverbal, you know, actions out there.

Guys just knew each other were going to be on both ends of the floor. It was special, special to be a part of. Uh huh. Special to be a part of.

That's the most positive that you'll hear. Kevin Durant sound like. And I guess he went to sleep in Paris. Hours ahead of us, depending on where you live.

It could be anywhere from six hours to nine hours, maybe more depending on where you live. It was around lunchtime that Kevin Durant decided to just drop bombs on people back here in the States. Kevin Durant responding to fans online. Who were praising Jokic and saying the USA barely beat Serbia and Kevin Durant going at fans who wanted to root for Team USA to lose. Kevin Durant went on quite a little bit of a spree here. Quote, in some of these words, I cannot say for all you Nuggets fans, nobody gives a what? Who you all believe is the best player in the league? Players have major respect for Jokic.

We don't worship him like you all do, but most are in awe of his brilliance and trolling you cornballs for rooting against us is a part of the game. And then he continued on, went into fan culture and a lot of people who do the talking can't play, you know, typical things that a big time professional athlete would say to someone who doesn't play professionally. And then he closed off one of his tweets by saying. It's a problem, a lot of you social media got you clowns walking around with your chest out like you mean something you don't your takes don't matter, OK?

I don't I don't. What is he picky? Is he trolling? Does he really care? He cares, right? He wouldn't be sitting around tweeting this at lunchtime if you didn't care.

That's the thing. He almost basically contradicts himself because he's saying, oh, what you said is a matter, but he's taking time to respond to what they're saying, because in his mind it does matter because it warrants a response room. So he's only really, if anything, validating the people that he's taught the cornballs that he's calling out for what they say on social media. Is he bored? While he was doing this, Bam Adebayo was going to breakdancing, OK? Like he was.

He was. I saw Bam Adebayo sitting down with Snoop Dogg while they were while they were looking at breakdancing. And I'm like, wait a minute. Like Kevin Durant tweeted 30 minutes before this, Bam Adebayo's at breakdancing. Kevin Durant is just out here being angry, man. And I don't think he's angry. I just. Is he trolling? Yes, he said he was trolling, but there's a part he cares, right?

He does. Put the phone down. Why not?

Like, why wouldn't you just bask in what you what you did yesterday? And get ready for tomorrow. And by the way, Hickey, he's he's starting again tomorrow, right? He has been inserted, according to Shams, into the starting lineup tomorrow. So good for Katie coming off the bench now, finally.

No, it makes makes sense. So Drew Holliday is going to be coming off the bench. Kevin Durant is going to start. Kevin Durant has been dropping about 14 points here in the Olympics.

He's been he's been dropping 14 points in 20 minutes a game. I mean, that's crazy. I mean, that means a man gets the ball and he shoots it and he scores. And this lets you know that the three point line in the Olympics is different. Kevin Durant is shooting 61 percent from three point land. Did you imagine if they moved that three point line up in the NBA, the scores, you thought the scores are crazy now.

The scores would be out of this world. And so I assume that Kevin Durant is going to get the start because, well, they want his length out there against that seven foot four. Hickey, I was about to call him a freak, but I learned how to not do that. OK, that's that. Yeah, I learned my I learned my lesson. I learned I am that seven foot four giant and Victor when Benyama like, why wouldn't you want another seven foot out there?

Even though Kevin Durant refuses to tell everybody seven feet tall, they want his length. And I don't I don't blame them. I don't think I've said this.

I said it yesterday. I think in all intents and purposes, I got Team USA. I got them winning tomorrow against France. Unless Victor when Benyama loses his mind and then get some help from Evan Fournier and Evan Fournier. I mean, against NBA competition, all of them. I assume he's going to feel like he's back in the NBA and then he'll suck.

Good luck to Team USA against France tomorrow, hopefully between now and then. Kevin Durant doesn't pick up his phone. But if they win a gold medal. Hickey's Kevin Durant going on on X after they win if they won gold. Oh, definitely.

Yes. Maybe like life on the podium, like they're playing the national anthem. You see everyone hand over their chest looking up at the flag being raised. There's Kevin Durant's head just down. See a little light from his phone emanating, typing away.

He's picking he's picking a phone. I can see that. Oh, man. That'll be fun.

Let's see what Victor when Benyama could do. Oh, yeah. Hickey, by the way, today on the way into the studio. I saw a seven foot three guy. From the Phoenix Suns on the way into the studio.

Really? I saw a bowl bowl. Wow.

That's pretty cool. I saw a bowl bowl, man. I saw him from I was going to say I saw him from a mile away. I saw him from a room. You can't miss him, man. I'm sure you cannot miss this guy.

I'm looking. And, you know, I'm used to seeing gigantic humans like all the time. I just I'm around basketball plays a lot. This guy is seven, three, seven, four, two, man. Like I'm looking at him, I walk right by him, I'm looking and I'm like, damn, like that is Hickey, that's too tall, man. That's too tall. He just he looked like a tree.

He did. He looked like a tree. Big ass redwood with legs.

Yes. And it's just like this. This body type is unimaginable because it's just he was he was shaped like a normal person, but just stretched out into infinity. It's like you can't be that tall.

Hickey has a normal sized head, but his body, his legs and his arms just kept going and going and going. And I'm like, damn, at what point in time is this uncomfortable every day, all day? I don't know. Probably every day. Right.

Especially once he retires. Forget it. Well, listen, Hickey, this this man walked. He was in a place for, quote unquote, normal sized people. Let me just put it that way.

And so where he was going, where he was going to feel comfortable, I have no idea. But yeah, I wouldn't want to be seven foot three unless I was I would have to make more money than bowl bowlers, man. I would. Is he too big and too tall for big and tall?

Yes. You want to know what even taller Hickey he had on. He had a biggest and tallest Hickey. He had on slip on shoes. He's stylish.

OK. OK. Not for me, but for him. Right. He had on slip on shoes. He had on they were they were shorts, but they were they were like they were like giant capris for men. And so they went past his calf. But they didn't go to his ankles and they were big. They were they were wide, like like capris, but baggy.

OK. Does that make sense? It makes sense. And he had on a big like T-shirt. I think it had long sleeves, even though it's 95 degrees here in Georgia. And I think he had something around his neck, I think. I don't know. Hmm.

Fashion. You couldn't miss him. People were walking by this guy and everybody was just nobody bothered him.

But people were walking by like. Damn. Damn.

He's a walking tree. Anyway, it's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm going to get to the phones on the other side of the break if you want to holler at me. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Outside of Kevin Durant being negative on social media earlier today after winning yesterday. We did have some positivity yesterday. We had two NFL preseason games and some people look good. Some people look bad. I'm going to tell you about who look good, who look bad. And I'm going to tell you about an unfortunate incident that took place when the Carolina Panthers landed.

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That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Go ahead and get to the phone lines. We'll talk some NFL football.

We got a lot of games that are taking place tonight as well as over the weekend. You may not see a lot of the faces that you would like to see when it comes down to superstars, but there is football. At least enjoy that. And then you know what? Forget that. Let's think about some of the things that took place yesterday.

Let's just say the NFL preseason, especially for the Panthers, was off to an interesting start. Well, I'll tell you in a second. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Rand is here from Hawaii. You're on the J.R. sport brief show. I'm in Atlanta. You're in Hawaii. What's up, Rand? It's pretty hot in Atlanta, but it's cool in Hawaii.

Anyway, just wanted to say enjoy your show, sir. And talk about NFL football. I know this is preseason and a lot of us fans. We just can't wait for the season to start with parity and everything coming up. And if the Chiefs can repeat, what's your final four? Maybe the four best in the American Football League AFC and four in the NFC come towards play on time after December. You want me to name eight teams?

Did I hear that correctly? Can you do eight or is that hard? No, it's not. It's not too hard, but I'm not going to do that. And I'm not going to do that in August. A matter of fact, I'm never going to do eight when we get closer to the season. I'll give you a top six list of my my top teams heading into the year. But I'll tell you this. This shouldn't be a shock or surprise to anybody.

The Kansas City Chiefs. Well, Rand, wait a minute. You listen to the show, don't you? Yes, sir.

Well, thank you. You're you're a diehard listener. I think you already know the teams that that I kind of favor. You name them. Give me give me a couple of teams that you if you listen so damn much. You know, the teams that I believe in.

Go ahead. Name them. Name them.

Well, I would say at least Baltimore on the AFC side. You know, because I'm from Hawaii. Oh, no, no, no, no. Red, red, red. I'm going to teach you how to do radio. You ready?

You're going to you're going to get an education or you got to do is follow the directions. Name me. Name me the teams. I don't need the explanations. Name me the team.

Since you listen to the show so much. Name the teams that you know I'm high on to potentially win a championship this year. Name them. I like Casey, Baltimore. I mean, yeah, the Ravens. And then on the other side, we've got the forty niners and I'm throwing in.

The Minnesota Vikings. OK, you didn't sleep. All right. We ran when you call me when you call me next week, we got to do better, OK? You're the best.

But OK, we're we're too far away from Miami or Atlanta and you know what's happening back there more. OK. All right. Thank you, Rand.

Appreciate you, man. Aloha. Aloha. Yeah. OK. Picky's he doesn't need to be if he listens to me, he knows the answers already. Right. But he doesn't.

I don't. That was confusing. That was confusing. I think part of the issue was, like you just said, if Rand listened, he would have known the prompt to begin with and also would have known the teams that you are hinting at or asking him to name. He wanted me to name four teams in the AFC and four teams that that could just the top teams.

I feel like it's a lot. We did a whole 20 minute segment yesterday on the NFL power rankings. Me and you discussed the whole list.

We went through the whole damn list. The Vikings, what? Hey, Renton of Rand, I got to tell you something. The Vikings have a rookie quarterback that they hope they hope is the guy. Don't don't don't. The Minnesota Vikings ain't winning the damn thing. OK. JJ McCarthy won one championship a couple of months ago. I think that'll I think that'll be it for him for quite some time.

OK, let's just leave it there. The Chiefs are the team to beat. In the NFC, I think we already know we might get a rematch of the NFC title game we got last year. Maybe the Lions don't choke. Forty Niners will be right there.

You can probably expect for the Eagles, maybe, possibly they turn things around and then you have a few other teams in the NFC that might be, you know, wildcards. Dallas Cowboys, are they going to shock the living hell out of everybody? I don't think so. I doubt it. Are the Packers going to continue to climb?

Maybe. And then when you think about the AFC, I told you, you got the Chiefs, the Ravens. Buffalo Bills have certainly taken a step back, but they'll be in the mix. The Jets will be in the mix. The Browns will be in the mix.

That's where we're at. I'm not going to name you eight teams, man. I can tell you the good team. We all know the good teams.

Hickey, think fast. Name an ass team. What's a bad team? Name one.

Carolina Panthers. Damn, that was fast. That was fast. That was real fast. You know what's bad? Oh, my God. I can't.

Hickey, this is terrible. And I know the weather. Is it still raining in New York? Is it done yet?

Oh, no. We got the remnants of the hurricane. Debbie is still. She's bringing the doom. She is like that, like the softball pitcher, right? Debbie Doom. Debbie Doom throwing those those those perfect games.

This is bad. So the Carolina Panthers yesterday, they were up in New England and they played and then they turned around. They lost.

The Pats beat them 17 to three. And then when they got back to North Carolina, the worst thing happened. Listen to this report from WCNC about the Panthers plane touching back down in the Carolinas. Let's turn now to that breaking news at Charlotte Douglas Airport. While you were sleeping, a Delta Airlines flight went off the runway after landing and got stuck in the mud. And we are now learning that plane was carrying players from the Carolina Panthers. WCNC Charlotte Richard Vay now live at the airport with the latest. Richard.

Yeah. Good morning to you. Good Friday morning, everyone.

The first the most important thing is to say that everybody is OK. I'm standing here at Wilson Air. This is the charter portion of Wilson Air where the Panthers players all gathered before they went off to take their preseason game with the New England Patriots. When they returned, they had a bumpy landing.

Now, let's take a look at some video. Their flight, which is Delta Flight 8860, was landing. It actually landed and it went off the taxiway into some mud. And that's when you see all those emergency vehicles around the plane. No one injured, according to Delta.

Those players, the team members of the Panthers, were able to then get on charter buses to come back over here to Wilson Air. Come on. Yeah, I'm no I'm no meteorologist. I don't know a damn thing about a plane, but how to take one. Man, that weather is just Debbie been sitting in the east for like a week, just ripping things apart, man. The rain, the wind. Yeah, I could not imagine a worse combo trying to land a plane safely.

That's got to be very tough. And thankfully, at least when it did, you know, something did go wrong. At least it wasn't catastrophic. I know, man. You know, we don't need no tragedies, man.

We don't need that. Debbie, Debbie, Doom, Debbie, whatever the hell her name, Hurricane Debbie, Tropical Storm Debbie, this Debbie, that one, that Debbie can go to hell. I'm sick of that Debbie. All that rain and storms and destruction and Debbie go away. I know it's that time of year to heading into the hurricane season, but I mean, damn, nice to know the Carolina Panthers are OK. Has to be a jarring experience for everybody who was there. You went all the way up to New England, lost the game preseason game.

Who cares? But then you got to come home to that. You know what I'm big at? You know, the big guys were sleeping, too, on that plane. I know they weren't big ass guys. God bless them for getting touching down safe.

Need a good story every now and then. Right. The J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. You know what?

We'll take a break when we come back on the other side. I want to I'm going to tell you something else positive that happened in New England. No, it wasn't it wasn't Drake May. It was actually his backup. His backup did well. We're going to get into Joel Embiid. It looks like he's trying to go back to Cameroon. What? And then speaking of breaking, we had breakdancing at the Olympics. A lot going on.

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