Packers Overlooked In 2024? (Hour 4)

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And if you have a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. We've had a busy show. We talked about Anthony Richardson, his performance last night.

The good, the bad, and the ugly. Yes, I know it's a preseason game. And thank you to George Bremer from the Herald Bulletin for joining us as we talked about the Colts.

Thank you also oh so much. College football is tomorrow. We got Georgia Tech FSU playing the opening game of the college football season in Dublin, Ireland. Thank you to Dustin Lewis from Sports Illustrated. Covers all things Seminoles for coming through and getting us all ready.

We got into Sauce Gardner basically saying Daniel Jones is a good quarterback and felt like he struggled to say that. Bill Belichick. Coaches don't have to wait five years, five seasons to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame anymore.

They only have to be gone for one year. This means that Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll, they might get in in 2026. It'd be interesting if they well Pete Carroll, I don't think he's coaching in the NFL again.

Belichick, I think he's just waiting on somebody to get fired from a good team like the Eagles. We talked about Max Scherzer, he's going into the Hall of Fame. He should probably hang it up. This man had to get scratched from a rehab start because of body soreness, just general soreness. This man had back surgery in the off season, arm can't feel his arm, all of this. He's just trying to play baseball. Man, you're making 44 million dollars. You've made more than what, 300 million in your career?

Just sit your ass down, stay at home. Talked about Keon Coleman with the Buffalo Bills. This man is not just a joke. He's out there to prove to people he's out there playing football. So we've had a busy, busy show.

We got more to do as the hour continues on. We talked about Pete Carroll. He said that he's going to be at USC, going to be teaching, helping out. Lincoln Riley is going to welcome him in with open arms. And then we have a very interesting story involving Colorado. Could you imagine if the Saudis, the Saudi investment fund, the public investment fund, could you imagine if they started like a collective to help out Dion?

They'd be buying everybody. It didn't happen. Not yet, but we'll get into that as well. And of course, at the end of the show, I'll share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. We have quite a few callers who are here now. I don't know what the hell they want, but we're going to find out. The phone number is 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Let's go to who's this? Who the hell is it? Donald Donald's calling from Wisconsin. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Donald? Hey. Hey, how are you? Oh, I'm pretty good.

Just getting done with work. And I turned you on after work because I'm listening to you and I've been watching the draft and listening to the draft and watching all the teams play. I think Chicago, yeah, they got a great quarterback, hopefully. But I think, I think you're going to estimate the Packers a little bit. That's okay because that way we can flip underneath the wire. But, so to say. But I'm Wait, wait, wait.

Hold on, Donald. What did I say that's underestimating the Packers? I didn't, I didn't give any predictions. Nope. You did. You did. You did.

Absolutely not. But you, this is why I'm asking, what did I say that's underestimating them? Well, that's, that's why, that's why I think that's why you're here today because you never mentioned them. I freaked out today that you mentioned it.

Yeah. I actually freaked out that you didn't mention them today. I didn't listen to your podcast all the time.

I never used to say anything. I used to talk about the Rams. I used to talk about the Rams. I hear the 49ers all the time. And, but last year we only lost by three points against the 49ers. And we spanked the Dallas Cowboys ass.

And yep. Well, I agree they could be in the mix, but they didn't take no steps back, which. So Donald, that, that is, that is wholly reasonable because the teams, the teams that I mentioned, they have a, they have a track record. The Green Bay Packers don't have a track record because their starting quarterback has only played for one season. He had a half a year.

He had a half of a good year. And I'm often flooded with wide receivers, talented wide receivers, and they got a new defensive coordinator. So I think, you know, I could, I don't know, maybe my hope is higher than my, my, my reasoning. No, you just, Donald, you just have to watch the games, enjoy them and see what they do. But are you telling me, are you telling me you're 100% certain that they're going to just go back into the playoffs and, and win a round and then win another one? And are you certain of that?

No, hell, I'm maybe 82%, maybe 85, pretty damn high down. Okay. No, I do have to go ahead and then I have to go on. Okay. Just, just, just enjoy the season, Donald. Call me back like halfway, call me back quarter way and let's talk about it.

Philly and the Packers first week, next week, not next week, a week after that. Brazil. Yeah. All right, man. Thank you, buddy. Thank you, dude.

Take care, Donald. Yeah. What is the, we're not talking about the Packers because first of all, and this should be good.

This is actually good. There's no controversy. Like what is there to discuss right now from a national perspective when it boils down to the Packers? I just said it. The only question, what are they going to do this season?

Okay. Oh, you can have a conversation about, well, who's the next best wide receiver on the team. What else is there to do? We got to see them play. It's like the Texans.

What am I going to say? We're going to talk about the Texans. They got to go out there and play again. It's easy to talk about the Cowboys because we've seen what they've done year after year. The same thing with the 49ers, year after year. Okay. Green Bay.

Yeah. They had a great season, shocked the hell out of everybody. Same thing with the Texans, shocked the hell out of everybody. I hope for their benefit and the benefit of their fans that they keep it up. They no guarantee that they will.

We just got to wait and see. I think it's nice to not, and sometimes it's good not to have to talk about somebody. Because most times you talk about somebody, it's for something that's not good. Why have we talked about the 49ers?

Because Brandon, IU still doesn't have a contract. I feel like every three days, Hickey, we didn't talk Cowboys. Did we talk Cowboys this week? I don't think at all, right? No. There's been no news out of Dallas.

Nothing. I think maybe C.D. Lamb might have mentioned him once. Maybe.

Sometimes it is good to go under the radar because that means you drama-free. 855-212-4227. Rashawn is here from Baltimore. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Rashawn? Hey, what's going on? Thanks for taking my phone call.

Sure. Hey, man, I just want to ask you something, man. As a Ravens fan living in Baltimore, that's also a Cowboys fan, you know, growing up.

That was my childhood teen that I never let go. I always dreamed to see them in the Super Bowl, facing each other, but don't look like that's going to happen on the Cowboy end, though. So what is your take on, if you're the GM for the Cowboys, right?

And you got the C.D. Lamb that won all this money. He wanted to be the highest paid receiver. You got to decide what you're going to do with Dak. You got to pay him about $60 million a year.

And also Michael Parsons is going to be the highest paid sentiment. Would you consider trading if we can work out something with C.D. Lamb, if a team is willing to give us a couple of first round picks? No, I don't think so.

No, no, no, I don't think so, because the the capital that that you'd have to give up. Like, who's I don't even know what the precedent would be. It'd have to be it'd have to be multiple first round picks. Like, it's not even so much from a Cowboys perspective of, oh, well, we can we can certainly go ahead and find a wide receiver.

I just told you about the Packers for all of the success that they had last year. And it might be Christian Watson. People are saying, well, who's the guy? You know, is it right? Coach LaFleur is like, I'm sick of talking about, you know, who all of our wide receivers are good. But let's be real.

And in most cases, you got to have at least I guess one killer. That's a wide receiver on your team to help get you to the Super Bowl, even if he's not a typical wide receiver, a pass catcher, OK? Is it Travis Kelce? I mean, is it Jerry Rice? I mean, we can go on down the list, especially in the NFL we live in right now.

Who's jumping up to get that ball in the end zone? Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. So in that case, you're saying you would keep C.D. Lamb and pay him. I think you keep all three. The Dallas Cowboys.

The Dallas Cowboys are I don't want to say they're up against the wall, but when you start like lopping people off, you really move into the great unknown. OK, you have you have to keep Dak Prescott. That goes without saying you got to keep him. All right.

C.D. Lamb, you got to score points. This is the NFL.

You got to throw the rock around. You keep him. Michael Parsons is not due right now. The NFL salary cap continues to go up and up and up. The Dallas Cowboys are the highest valued sports franchise on planet Earth. They've exceeded now 10 billion dollars. By the time we really start looking at this, come on, that got a contract four years ago. And it's like, hey, here's 40 mil. He was making a second suit to Patrick Mahomes at forty five per.

And everybody's like, whoa, this makes no sense. We got to come to reality for today in 2024. Giving Dak Prescott sixty. Everybody else is sitting at fifty and fifty three and fifty five. We're going to blink. And in two or three years, these guys playing now give give Caleb Williams time.

He's going to be out there saying, you know what? I want seventy. I want seventy. You think about it that way. See, I just don't see a feasible us winning, winning it all when you got three of your players taking up what, guess what, 50, 60 percent of your cap, whatever that would be like. It just I don't see the Patriots winning the Super Bowl like that back in the day with three players the highest pay to their position. You just don't win Super Bowls like that. And so the Dallas Cowboys have painted and put themselves in this position because these are contracts in the past that they even now they could have taken care of Dak Prescott already. What was getting ran up because they're running it to the end of the line. All these other quarterbacks have gotten paid.

It's the same thing with C.D. Lamb. Why are you running him to the end of the line?

Justin, it's not like Justin Jefferson. You know, he got paid yesterday and C.D. Lamb is just like, oh, now you got paid months ago. They could have taken care of this. But they wait, they wait and they wait and they wait some more. And the price goes up. The price went up the last time they paid Dak and they had and I had to give him 40 right behind my homes. They got no cheaper. They don't they don't have anybody to blame but themselves.

I agree with you. But there's only two options here with the Dallas Cowboys. You continue on with the route and the hole that you've dug. You got to keep digging that hole or you just say, I'm done with this one. I got to start from scratch and start digging somewhere else. That's it. That's what I would do, man. Well, when the owner when the owner is old as dirt, when the owner is the face of the organization, when the owner can't get out of his own way, this is what you get.

That might be the most feasible thing. The Dallas Cowboys might continue on and I don't know, maybe not twelve and five this year. They may win 10 games and go to the playoffs and be eliminated. They may have to fall flat on their faces. This might have to explode. This might have to hit the you know what before there's any type of changes with the team.

I wish I could tell you something different. But the Dallas Cowboys are just like a ticking time bomb. They're ticking and ticking and ticking. It's exciting.

You're looking at it. It's like, oh, it's sparkly. Oh, it's sparkly.

Sparkles are nice. We're going to get fireworks and instead of getting fireworks, you get explosive in your face. It's terrible. Sorry for the stupid analogy, but you get what the hell I'm saying. It's not going to end well.

I'm sorry. I don't. What did the Cowboys do that's different?

What? Ezekiel Elliott? I mean, I don't think he'd be good at this stage as a situation runner. If you take a look at all the stats and look at all the numbers, yards per carry has decreased.

This man has been or at least at the beginning of his career was a workhorse. I don't know about these Cowboys. Offensive line is different. I don't know about these Cowboys. I don't know about these Cowboys. Good enough to get this post season. Uh, yeah.

To do something when they get there. Uh, no, no, not at all. It'd be another disaster season. It's the JR sport brief show here with you on the infinity sports network.

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 is the number and it's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. We'll take a break. When we come back on the other side, I had mentioned to you about Pete Carroll. This man wants to teach the head coach of USC says I will bring him in with open arms and then in Colorado is Deion Sanders going to get his hands on some of that money from Saudi Arabia.

Could you imagine are the Saudis getting ready to take over everything? We'll talk about it. I'll get to your calls here on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport brief show here with you on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

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Get your free quote at check ethos.com. Not available in all states. No, let's let's hop. Let's hop to one state in particular. Let's hop to California because now that Pete Carroll doesn't have a damn job, we already heard Pete Carroll say that he's going to teach at USC and we didn't get too much insight into what the hell that meant. He said he's going to provide details later, but maybe he doesn't have the details.

Maybe that's the issue. And Hickey, you made a point that maybe Lincoln Riley doesn't even want this guy around. You know, does he want him in his space?

Does he want him over his shoulder? Pete Carroll is a legend. This guy won a championship that is, uh, kind of, kind of interestingly marked in the record books. But anyway, Lincoln Riley spoke to the media and he actually said he'd be excited. He'd be elated. He'd be thrilled if Pete Carroll was sticking around somewhere on the staff. Coach has been great to me. We've had a chance to catch up pretty often, uh, check in with each other. Uh, he's been a great resource and, uh, you know, a great person to be able to pick his brain and he's been very good to me.

So yeah, shoot, I'm excited. He's going to be here more and we'd be crazy to not take advantage of having him around. So whether it's in an official role or not, um, you know, he's made it very clear that, you know, we've got a good open line of communication. It's one that I appreciate and respect very much and we'll always, uh, never hesitate to pick up the phone and call him or to reach out to him. Um, you know, because of obviously how successful he was as a coach and he's also got a great knowledge of this place.

Um, so now I've been appreciative of his, his help and his friendship and be glad to have him around a lot more. Come on hickey politically correct answer. He don't want that man around.

Yeah. All it does is bring attention toward his job and you see that USC schedule LSU week one at Michigan week three, you lose both of those games. Hey, Pete's on the staff already. Pretty much coach again. Oh, I mean, that's not going to happen, but it will generate unwanted attention.

It will generate a controversy. And in a lot of cases, the coach prior or the legendary coach, they typically know to like stay the hell out the way. I mean, if we go out to new England, we've heard Jaron Mayo say, uh, yeah, I haven't heard squat from Bill Belichick and why would he Bill Belichick just got fired.

Like coaches stay out of guys ways just to, to pretty much avoid that situation. Lincoln Riley has been there for two years now. This is going to be his first season without Caleb Williams at the helm. He now has a Moss who's going to be running the situation and you think about Lincoln Riley, you just go through the quarterbacks that he's, he's worked with, whether it's a Kyler Murray or Baker Mayfield, obviously Caleb Williams is Miller Ross going to kind of fall in line there.

I have no idea. None, none whatsoever, but having Pete Carroll sticking around, no, just stay home. If Pete Carroll wants to pop up here and there, then sure. Hickey, I told you he's not even going to work with the football team. He's going to teach philosophy. That's it. I was about to ask, what do you think he's going to teach?

You think it is like philosophy, deeper thinking? He seems like such a positive guy. Like, did he ever really ever come across as a football?

I'm not, I'm never sad at a practice. I'm not at one of his players. Has he ever come across as a football coach to you? If you put these guys in the lineup, every coach at any point in time, and you walk by Pete Carroll, more so as he's gotten older, he'd probably be the guy in the line, like least likely to be the coach of a football team, no? Yeah. I mean, based on looks, I would, I would have probably agree with that. Cliff Kingsbury maybe. He's chewing gum, wearing khakis and grandpa's shoes.

Well, I mean, when you are 70, what, 72, 73? Yeah. I mean, that's, he's wearing the style that's appropriate for him. Excuse me, there's an appropriate style?

Yeah, of course. So Pete Carroll could not wear, you couldn't see him in a, I don't know. The only difference between him and a real grandpa is that his white sneakers are Nike. Most of them are, you know, New Balance. So he's a little bit, you know, I guess we'll say on the cooler trend, no disrespect. I thought New Balance was, I thought young people wear New Balance now. That's the thing.

It's making a comeback. I think old and young, I think in the middle generation is where the gap is. Oh, okay. That would be me, I guess. All right. Okay. All right. I have one. I got on Nike right now. I got on Nike shoes.

Yeah, but they're not Air Monarchs though. I don't know. I'm probably out of style.

But you, 30 years from now, I bet you'd be wearing similar shoes to a Pete Carroll eyes. 30 years? You think? No.

Air Monarchs? 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a hoverboard. I won't even have to walk. Okay.

You're probably right. I ain't walking. Nowhere. Nowhere. I don't even need shoes. I'll have robot feet. I don't know.

We'll see what happens. You know what? 30 years from now, I ain't all that far away, hickey, you know? It's 2054?

Yeah. I'm not going to have to open the door with keys. I'll just wave my hand in front of it because I have a chip in my hand.

My eyeballs will open doors. You know, come on. We got facial recognition.

When I open up my bank app, I don't even have to type anything. It reads my face. Like how, how, how wild is that, man?

Come on. It's a lot of surgery though for this. Wave your, use a chip in the hand, eyeballs opening up doors. Like we're going to be half robot, half human. Ooh, I don't like that. Cyborg. Yeah.

RoboCop and Terminator. Something like that. You like that idea?

No, I don't. Guess it'd help us live longer. I told you a couple of weeks ago, I didn't like the idea of Dolly the sheep. Here we are. There's somebody sitting around trying to clone somebody. So what, what can I say? Modern technologists.

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Brandon is calling from Boise, Boise, Idaho. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Brandon? Hey, Brandon, you're live on the radio.

What's up? Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh, piggy. Well, did that guy have an agenda? What was he waiting? He's he was waiting on stuff.

What was his problem? Maybe there's a delay out in Boise. A delay? Yeah. You're down in like the lower corner Atlanta.

He's in the upper corner in Boise. Like maybe there's just a little delay getting there. And speaking to him or his brain, which one?

Uh, speaking, you know, the words take a long time to travel that far. All right. All right.

Let's try them again. Brandon from Boise. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's on your mind.

Hey, what's going on? Um, while we're talking about robots, uh, can we give Drew Brees a robot arm again? So he can win us another super bowl. I was trying to find out what, uh, you think the saints are going to do in the NFC south this year. Be awful. I'm sorry, Brandon.

Like, come on. They're gonna, there's gonna be, it's going to be the Falcons. It's going to be the Buccaneers. You'll have the saints. And I think the saints there'll be at or around 500 and then everybody will just beat up on the Panthers. Look, I know the saints ended last year on a little bit of a high note, but I, there's nothing that, that I find enthusiastic about them. And I find Derek Carr to be the most good, but average quarterback in the game. Like he's good enough to put up numbers, but he's not good enough to take you over a hump. I wish the saints weren't in a space where they're just, they're kind of just treading water. Like, what do you expect from them? I expected an average football team. I expect this new offensive coordinator to install that new system and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, change what we needed because we had Peyton's old system, even though he was gone, we got rid of Carmichael. And we brought in this guy from San Francisco. He won a Super Bowl, you know? Yeah, yeah, Kubeak, Clint, Clint Kubeak. So I think they're going to do something, if that offense can maintain it mid-way.

What is something, what is something? If the offense can score two touchdowns a game and that defense can play like it did last year with Chase Young at it, I think, I think we can make some noise. Yeah, good for Chase Young. He's on a contract year coming off of another surgery. He's being on the Redskins. Oh, he was more than that. He was hurt all over the place. He went out to San Francisco.

He didn't necessarily perform all that great on the opposite side of Bosa. Here's my question that you haven't answered. You said, make noise, do something.

What is that? What do you expect from them? Give me a number. With this offense, if it can pass, what, if it can do what I think it can do. We're having a home game, home game in New Orleans.

Play a home game in New Orleans. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, that would be, and thank you, Brandon, for calling from Boise.

That would be best case. But you want to know something that doesn't do anything. Like the Saints are just a team that's good enough to be good or bad because they can go one way or the other. And they're just treading water. They're not winning a championship with Derek Carr as the quarterback. It's not happening. I'm just, I'm just telling you the truth so they can continue to, to kind of tread and tread and tread and tread and tread. But eventually they don't have to start over and find the next guy.

This is just, just what it is. You wish Drew Brees had a new robot arm. Yeah, they did. They gave him a robot arm when he left San Diego and went to New Orleans. He had a lot of success with that robot arm, the Superbowl. It's the JR sport reshow here with you on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

It's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Speaking of a robot arm, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about a football team that might be able to afford a robot arm, an Island, a lot because one of their former employees tried to get money from Saudi Arabia.

I'm talking about Dion's team. We'll talk about that on the other side of the break. I'll share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport brief show here on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. This is the last segment of the week. And then we'll be back on Monday at 6 PM Eastern three Pacific. We talked about a lot today, getting you ready for the college football that starts tomorrow with tech and the Seminoles.

Talk some NFL football. I mean, we got a week of nothingness really. Once we get past this weekend's preseason games and no preseason games next week before the start of the NFL regular season. And it is crazy to think that we are staring at Labor Day and that's that's it. It's not the calendar end of summer, but it is. It's just about and we got kids all over the country who have gone back to school. Once we get to Labor Day, we got more kids who are going back to school and that's it. Back to normal. Picky, nothing changes for us except for we got football. We got sports to talk about.

That's it. It's go time for us. It's it is funny that you said going back to school and like there was a little bit like like the chills come, even though now that's not happened, you know, almost a decade now for me, but still that phrase I think no matter how old you are, you still get those flashbacks. Going back to school. It sucks. Remember those ads in like August?

You know, every like supermarket or store would be like, going back to school, get your backpacks, you know, half off. Get out of my face. It's the worst. You know what I hated? I hated having a break like for Christmas or Thanksgiving. What's the other one around Easter? What are the Easter break?

Easter break, spring break. Yeah, whatever they call this stuff. I used to hate it and they used to give us packets of work. Oh, that's cruel. What are you what are you doing?

Like this this much work? Even as a child? Oh my God. Now you talk about flashbacks. Like I'm a kid. I get it. You don't want me to, you know, go away and, you know, all of a sudden I'm stupid.

I come back and don't remember anything. You know, I know education has changed so much over the years and now it's technology. We got I got paper packets and that the work would be just ridiculous. It's like I can understand if you say, hey, you know, here's some work for every other day. You know, Tom's table is this. Write a sentence here.

But I feel like we would get booklets that were so thick it'd be impossible to do. It's like it felt like a punishment. Like I'm a child.

Can I live a little too? Sorry, I can't open the gifts. I got homework to do. Hated that. Hickey, I think I might remember three of my elementary teachers, right?

I wish I remembered some of the others. I'm angry now. I'm ending my Friday angry. Write some strongly worded emails to probably email addresses that are long outdated because I'm sure they're long gone. Hickey, when I wasn't there were no email addresses. There's no there's no email. Teachers had it easier back then. Teachers had no email? One less, you know, way to reach out.

Off the grid. Who? The parents or what?

Well, that too. Parents complain. You don't have to worry about it. You had to you had to get a call.

There was no email. You had to get a call that your parent had to go to the school or the teacher would call or that the teacher would put a note in your bag. Now, those you talk about some bad memories. Those are bad memories. Oh, you got some of those?

Oh, boy. You got a note in your bag? Notes. Oh, not call. I don't think our school calls, but I got notes and I'm like, oh, oh, my God.

That like ride home was the worst field of dread. I got one call from the weirdest teacher ever. You know, I don't know. I'm not going to say his name. No, I'm not going to say his name, but he just he was the weird.

He was a science teacher. The phone rang. My mother looked at me like, what is this man calling for? I'm like, I don't know. He's a weird dude. I don't I don't even know what he wanted. Just something. I don't know. Probably nothing good.

The teachers are not calling your home. Just to say, oh, J.R. is doing a great job in science. He was. Oh, it wasn't anything positive.

He was just he was a weird guy. I've never gotten a call. I never got a call. I never got a note. And so when that when that guy called the house, I don't know.

It's like, hey, you know, he's J.R. is not doing this or this or that. And I'm like, Ma, it's just I got it. I got it. There's nobody ever called parent teacher conferences. You have those.

Oh, yeah, we had those. No problems. None. Oh, good for you. Model student over here, Hickey.

And so I got older and realized it was all a sham to realize, yeah, I don't need to do this. A former Colorado coach just admitted that he almost got NIL money from Saudi Arabia. Former special teams coordinator Trevor Riley said that he spent the holidays in Saudi Arabia discussing NIL funding with the country's public investment fund. And Trevor did mention that he was just trying to help Colorado the best way he knew how. And even though pursuing business with the Saudis isn't really a first timer in sports, there are a ton of issues in getting money from Saudi Arabia. Human rights issues have surfaced in Saudi Arabia, and they've been accused of using sports investments to improve their public image. Now, Colorado has already been criticized in the past for focusing on their big social media presence and not really worrying about what's happening on the field.

And given that they already had a foreign eight record and coach Prime's first season, now might not really be the time to bring more attention to a team that needs a big season. That guy don't work there no more. How about that?

Visit. And Hickey, what's wrong with using sports to bolster your image? It's what I do every day.

At least I try. But unlike the Saudis. Oh, okay.

We don't have to list. Your reputation is sterling. That's how we'll say. Is it? Almost.

Almost. Well, nobody's perfect, but. And I don't have no human rights violations. Right. Your transgressions versus their transgressions. I think you come out on top.

I haven't abused a journalist. I mean, let's not go down the list. Yeah. There is, there are some concerns.

They're going to there's going to Hickey. This is what I believe eventually. And this is maybe this is why this deal between the live and the PGA hasn't completed. There's eventually going to be some type of government intervention, don't you think? Before we get into a space where the Saudis are investing in leagues and teams here, wouldn't you think the government of the United States of America, the Congress, the House of Representatives, don't you think they'd get involved?

I would hope so, because if not, it does feel like it could be just a domino effect, right? Like if they invested, let's say with Colorado and things go well, there's a lot of money coming and all of a sudden Colorado gets all these players. Well, I mean, there's been rumors that they're trying to buy an NFL team. If you are, I don't know, MLS, any other sports team looking to sell. And all of a sudden now, if you're the other owners and oh, we could sell to the PIF and they'll bring all this money in, it could, you know, all of a sudden be a domino effect where they are just now everywhere before you know it, because they're willing to just throw money around.

I would hope the government would intervene before it gets to that point. And look, we they've already invested in the Saudis, I should say, have already invested, not specifically the fund. You look at football, international football, some of the big football teams, they already have Saudi money. And there are a lot of fans who aren't necessarily happy with how the teams are ran.

Yeah, you can spend money to buy a lot of the players. But the consistency and the management, it becomes real, real messy real soon. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. As we roll out and call it a week, it's time to go back in time to a few things that took place this day in sports history. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. See, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Reshow.

I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It is August 23rd, 2024. Let's go back to August 23rd, 1989, because this was a first in Major League Baseball history. A mascot was ejected. You could think the great late great Tommy Lasorda. The Dodgers won one to nothing. The baseball game took 22 innings. And let's just say even the mascot got restless so much. He put out a pillow and lay down and was banging on the dugout and Tommy Lasorda said enough. Buck is sitting down here comes Davidson running over and Buck's gonna make Davidson come over and say what do you know they're calling somebody from security over call security and remove him from the ballpark wow we've seen it all now huh yuppie's been thrown out of the game off the Dodgers dugout this is a first yuppie's been thrown out of the ballgame yeah the mascot he threw the mascot out the game tommy lasorda was mad and the umpire said yeah you gotta go the mascot was just trying to take a nap anyway also this day august 23rd 2008 the team usa women's basketball team they won gold in beijing they beat australia 92 to 65 listen to this courtesy the olympics so this one will be dribbled out by lawson candace parker thought about going for the dunk but there it is at the end of four quarters of play lisa leslie has secured her fourth olympic title candace parker her first because the usa are once again the gold medalist in the olympic games yeah what else is new this is what we do right hickey you want to know who else was on that team sure diana tarasi had you want to know who's going to be on the team in 2028 kaitlyn clark of diana tarasi kaitlyn clark and diana tarasi kaitlyn clark will have broken every record by then and diana tarasi will still be like hey hey lady carry my bags carry them anyway it's been a fun week hickey thank you it has been a fun week flew by yeah time flies when you're having fun thank you so much to our guests today we always have guests on the show what am i talking i lost my train of thought i'm trying to leave and hey thank you george bremer appreciate you thank you to dustin lewis covers all things seminars we'll be back on monday 6 p.m eastern 3 pacific looking forward to college football tomorrow i know as hickey is as well y'all be safe be well be cool hickey where can people listen to you man sunday night 10 p.m eastern 7 pacific right here on the infinity sports network yeah make sure you listen to hickey i'll be back on monday the jr sport b show is done don't move on the infinity sports network bart winkler's coming up next y'all have a good weekend thank you hickey