Nick Sirianni Isn't To Blame For Eagles Loss (Hour 1)

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How about this? Last night, Monday Night Football. Kirk Cousins showed up at the end. So Kirk Cousins saved himself a verbal lashing at the hands of Falcons fans. A 70 yard drive to ultimately help the Falcons knock off the Eagles 22 to 21.

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That's at JR Sport Brief all over the damn place. Hickey, how are you, man? You doing good on this?

What's today, Tuesday? You OK? I am.

Unfortunately, I hate to say it, but I'm doing a lot better than my guy Saquon Barkley. That's for sure. Oh, he just he was so good the whole game. He just dropped the ball. One drop.

That's it. One drop just changed everything. I can't believe so many of the questions last night. I guess we got a beat up on Nick Sirianni somehow.

There's so many questions. Well, why didn't you you run the ball? Why didn't you kill more of the clock? I like that playing football like the plant. The man dropped the ball. Saquon Barkley admitted it was his fault. Like we always got a second guess. So what happens if he runs the ball and then, yeah, they kill the clock a little bit and then kick the field goal. And so there's no guarantee that Kirk Cousins still doesn't go down the field. So what is he doing? And instead of 70 seconds, he does it in 60, like 50 seconds. What are we doing here? Yes.

Time is your friend in that regard. But Saquon Barkley dropped the ball. It's his job to catch it. If he catches the ball, the game is over. Everybody goes home and it's done. Sheesh. Kicking Nick Sirianni's ass.

You got me going already, man. Let's listen to Nick Sirianni, because he said the decision, as we all saw, to throw the ball didn't work out. They were running a certain defense and they were junking it up in the middle.

So we're trying to go on around the outside and, you know, it didn't work. The decision to to pass it there again, like I said, you know, they were junking it up inside with it being fourth and three to go for it. I thought, you know, with them not having any timeouts, I wanted to be down a touchdown and see if they could drive the field. And then they did.

Hats off to them. Yeah, not the worst decision in the world. If the guy just caught the ball. And Saquon Barkley continued on.

He told everybody, yeah, I sucked. I dropped the ball. Drop the ball.

I let my team down today. Shouldn't have put the defense in that position. Made that catch game over. Were you surprised with the play call? Did you expect a running play?

No. Once I knew it, I thought it was a great play call. I just got to make the catch. I could sit here and, you know, complain, be upset about it.

Or I could be a professional athlete and go back to the drawing board and take the lick and move on and get better from it. I played multiple times. I missed that play before, too. Meaning the situation. That happens part of the game. And I just got to be better. I let my team down. I got a man up to it.

I got on it, which I'm doing. And I can promise those guys in that locker room that I'll be better from it. Yeah, what a catastrophe that one of the best players in the NFL just dropped the football.

And now everybody all over America on radio and television has to have a whole dissertation as to whether or not Nick Suriani did the right thing. He threw the ball to one of the best dual threats in the entire NFL. And he just simply dropped the ball. It ain't that damn complicated. We don't have to overanalyze whether or not they should have run the football and killed clock. That's all moot. I mean, the media even had jail and hurts answering questions as to whether or not we still believe in Saquon.

Listen to this. Just to make the play in that moment. And I trust him in every moment. He's a hell of a player. He gave us a big spark in those moments. And, you know, it just wasn't it just wasn't for us tonight.

That you read heavily in practice. Yes. Yeah. Can't believe he just dropped the ball.

We've got to make it so complicated. Nick Suriani was even asked by a member of the media, hey, your new offensive coordinator. Did he say to throw the ball? Listen to the question.

Listen to the answer. To clarify on the calls, though, Kellen's making, you know, that the offense coordinator makes Kellen's offense coordinator makes the calls. Yeah. If you're trying to stir that up. Easy, Nick Suriani.

Easy. Leave the angry coach to Brian Deball. At least the Eagles have a future for this season. Unlike the New York Giants.

The Eagles stuck here. OK. At the end of the game, they blew it. It happens. It's football. It doesn't mean Saquon Barkley sucks. It doesn't mean that Nick Suriani needs to get the boot, doesn't need that he needs to get fired. I mean, I'm sure if you're an Eagles fan and you're breathing and you're living this every single day, you certainly feel and understand the rancor and the stench of the defeat last year when you went down into Tampa and you lost, especially coming off of a Super Bowl.

I can certainly understand all of it. The Eagles. They got New Orleans on Sunday. That'd be a bounce back, right? Of course. Right, right, right.

I think. I know New Orleans is running around with a two and O record now, but we have a little bit of a bounce back. And for the Falcons.

Oh, my God. The Falcons need to be thankful that they did not fall. It's a 0 and 2 because here in Atlanta, people would have been losing their minds. The calls from Michael Pennix Jr. would have been through the roof all day. What did we bring this bum ass Kirk Cousins in here for with his one legged ass and the Achilles?

Why did we do it all day long? Kirk Cousins bought himself some time with that drive to finish off the game. Seventy yards, seven yard touchdown to Drake London, even Darius Slay on the Eagles. He's like, listen, folks, I messed up. I let him score.

I screwed up. Kirk Cousins, I was like, damn, there's gonna be a rough day in Atlanta all week. They had that game winning drive five for six and 70 yards.

Found Mooney for those big old chunks, 20, 25, 26, just going down the field like nobody's business in scoring. And then we saw what happened at the end. You know, the Eagles got the ball back and Jesse Bates decide to snatch it out the air and the game.

Nothing else to see here. Kirk Cousins, he spoke to the media and he said, a win like last night. It's like a it's like a spark. It's like a fire can get you going.

We can find those inches. It can really change the tale of the season. So we're going to have more of those up ahead and we're going to have to keep, you know, as a whole team, finding ways to to make the plays to get it done. And it wasn't just it's cool making the long extra point. It's it's our defense standing up at the end, too. And I've been a part of games where you go down and score and then you walk out of here with a loss because you miss that extra point and you go to overtime or you don't get the stop at the end. So it really does take everybody to to find a way to come out here with a win. Yeah, everybody.

Teamwork makes the dream work. That penalty at the end by Drake London, a little too much. Hickey, did you see that celebration when he pulled out the hit? I don't even know what that is.

I was going to say that was not a handgun. The A.R., what was he doing? I don't know.

That's a great question. I thought we saw that celebration over the weekend. I forget if it was college or the NFL, but somebody did something similar. Maybe it was last week and got the flag. That definitely happened for sure within the first two weeks. And the same result happened.

I don't know what you're thinking. Almost could have cost the Falcons the game there. Thankfully for them, it didn't. But my goodness, that was a poorly timed celebration. I don't want to be a lame and I don't think I am. Can we eliminate all the gun celebrations? Like, can we stop that? Am I being an ass if I say let's get rid of all the gun celebrations?

A little too much. I'm asking you, what do you think? Oh, no, I'm with you. Sorry, I'm with you 100 percent. It's unnecessary.

It doesn't really try to look cool. Maybe. I don't know. Well, now these guys are doing dances and stuff that they say. It's all this stupid dances here in Atlanta. The Atlanta Falcons just hosted the school and the football team because unfortunately, one of the school shootings that took place a couple of weeks ago, I'm sure there's been others between now and then.

There's so so many now you can't keep up. But we had a huge school shooting here like two weeks ago. A young man went into a school and killed, I believe, unfortunately, four people and injured many more. That was like 45 minutes from the Falcons facility.

And the Atlanta Falcons did an amazing job in being hospitable to the team, to the school, to the community, letting them know that, hey, we're all in this together. We feel that. And I get it. In the heat of the moment, is Drake London thinking about a school shooting?

No, he's not. But he's all of a sudden just blasting off an AR-15 into the air. And it's like, bruh, slow down.

We don't need that. I'm glad he got the penalty. And then so a young way had to go out there and kick a 46 yard extra point because Drake London couldn't just celebrate. He had to pull out a gun and just pop it off into the air a million times while he was in a music video.

But anyway, I digress. The Falcons got the win and the city is calm for now. Kirk Cousins eventually is going to have to do a whole lot more of this to keep people at ease, because after that first loss to the Steelers, where the Steelers basically field-golded them to death. Well, people are like, we're giving you one hundred and eighty mil.

Dude, show up, please show up. And so Rahi Morris got his first win as head coach of the Falcons. Nice comeback win. The GM Terry Fontenot was on the sidelines losing his mind. Arthur Blank, who looks like a super villain out of Bullwinkle. He was losing his mind. Real happy. Arthur Blank, a great human being, by the way.

Rahi Morris. He's like, yeah, I got my first win, but it ain't about me. You know, I'm pretty easy going.

I'm pretty steady. And I didn't come here to get beat the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, I was brought here to go out here and try to put us in a tough position to win championships. And that's what we want to do.

Yeah. And for a while there, it didn't look like it was going to happen. Saquon Barkley dropped the football. And then Kirk Cousins was able to capitalize on his arm and his experience to lead the Falcons to a victory. That is something that we would not have seen last year from Taylor Heineke. We will not have seen that from Desmond. He would have he would have thrown a damn interception. People would have been walking out.

Go, what do we know? That's what happens when you got a vet in there. Kirk Cousins helped them win a game. And I know the Eagles were not with A.J.

Brown. Speaking of injuries, he's probably going to be out for a few weeks with his leg injury. Saquon dropped the ball. In a veteran quarterback in the NFL, took advantage and won. Something that he's done many times here throughout his career. So for one night, the money that the Falcons paid Kirk Cousins, it paid off with a win. It paid off with a victory.

And for one day or a week. People here in Atlanta can relax and people in Philadelphia can hate Nick Sirianni. It's kind of crazy how one team named after a bird can have a good week.

And another team can have an awful one. Welcome to the NFL. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

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The phone lines open if you want to call me. But I'll tell you this. The Falcons avoided an 0-2 start. There are nine teams that have started 0-2. I'm going to tell you what teams you can ignore for the rest of the year because they're trash.

And then we got a few that can actually turn things around. Happy Tuesday. I'm here with you as the J.R. Sportbree show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbree.

The J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. The Falcons avoid an 0-2 hole.

Good for them. Kirk Cousins takes them down the field. Seventy yards. Touchdown to Drake London. After Saquon Barkley drops a ball, which would have pretty much ended the game, run out the clock, giving them more chances to kill the game. And the Eagles blew it. And the Falcons took advantage. This is why they're paying Kirk Cousins one hundred and eighty million dollars. Well, he signed them to the contract.

Life will go on. The Falcons avoid an 0-2 hole. Since 2007, we've had one hundred and forty teams start the season 0-2. Only 14 teams out of that one hundred and forty have made the playoffs.

I'm going to spare you some time right now. We got none of those teams right now. Currently in the NFL who sit at 0-2. Some teams that you can just erase off the face of the earth. Hickey, you ready for these teams?

Tell me if any of these shock you. The Panthers, they're 0-2. Are they going to do anything? They're making the playoffs? I'm shocked right now. You're writing them off.

I thought for sure they'd be in the mix. Yeah, they're cooked. Yeah.

Hate to tell everybody. Panthers suck garbage. The New York Giants are 0-2. Do you think they have a turnaround, Hickey? No.

Okay, let's continue on that. The Broncos. What do you think about the Broncos? Cooked? Cooked.

Oh my God. You don't have faith in Bo Nix? I like Bo Nix. Do I have faith that they will go from 0-2 to a playoff team or be in contention? No, I do not. Yeah, they suck. Yeah, they suck.

They do. The Steelers beat them 13-6. I mean, the Steelers just, they beat everybody ugly. It's like they're ugly, but they get the job done.

The Steelers are like a ugly person that attracts whatever they want. Let's just put it that way. Anyway, Bo Nix says he thinks this past week they took a step in the right direction.

What? Well, I don't know if that's necessarily the case. I think when you go back and watch the film, I think I took a good step. Sometimes good steps don't turn into wins, though. So it's a long process. You know, it's a tough league for a reason. And, you know, I just, we just got to continue to, as a crew, as a group, you know, find ways to get better and build in and taking steps.

And, you know, I got to do the same. Those teams that I mentioned, they ain't going anywhere. They're cooked. Panthers are done. Giants are done. Broncos are done. Let's talk about a team that, they may not be done. They got one of the best quarterbacks in the game, right? Let's take a look at the Cincinnati Bengals.

Losing at the last second, the foot of Harrison Butker. They fall to the Kansas City Chiefs 26 to 25. Typically, they're not afraid of the Chiefs, but past couple of games, the Chiefs have taken care of them.

They got Washington up next. Like, they should take care of them, right? This is, the Bengals are not done for this year. No, they're alive. They are alive.

A little bit. Not no championship alive. Hickey, would you say that their championship alive? They like barely make the playoffs a lot, but I don't feel good about them.

I would say championship alive. Oh, no. After what they showed on Sunday, I think they're the only team that could beat the Chiefs in the AFC.

Oh, come on. No, T. Higgins, so you assume if they match again in the playoffs, he'll be back. Jamar Chase, I mean, will he get shut down again the way he did on Sunday?

I would probably say no. And so you add that, two best receivers were either invisible or out, and you were one pass interference call away from a rookie DB from winning the game. It's early. It's early. Yeah, they're alive to make the postseason. And of course, you get into the postseason at that point, anybody could go on a run.

I just don't like the vibe. And it's still early, so you could be right. Right now, this minute, this second, I don't feel good. Speaking of the Kansas City Chiefs, they signed Kareem Hunt to the practice squad today, and he's expected to make the 53 man roster. You might remember this man is a former Pro Bowler with the Kansas City Chiefs, but I digress.

Cincinnati Bengals, they just they just don't give me they don't give me champion right now. Like Joe Burrow, the past couple of seasons, somehow, some way, unfortunately, he's been hurt. You think about Jamar Chase. I mean, he exploded on that referee the other day. He threw and blew a complete gasket. T. Higgins, people are questioning whether or not he actually wants to play football.

Is he faking his injury? They're just not good. They have an opportunity to turn things around. The next couple of games I mentioned to you, Washington, if you don't beat Washington, man, then you'll need to just sit out the rest of the year. And then right after that, they play the Carolina Panthers. And so the Cincinnati Bengals have an opportunity and a chance to even things up right away.

I'm just not confident. And then Jamar Chase. Yeah, he wants his money, but he's just he feels misled by the organization when it came down to his money. And so the Bengals are still alive. And Hickey, the Ravens are still alive, too, right?

They are still alive. I would flip. Well, I don't know how you feel about the Ravens, but I would say in terms of like you don't feel championship level with the Bengals. That's how I feel about the Ravens. I don't feel championship about them, but I think they are like a fringe playoff team. Yeah.

French play. I got them in the same damn boat. I really do. But I would take I would take the Ravens more than I'll take the Bengals. But they're both in the same boat trying to beat the Kansas City Chiefs when it actually matters. That's that's where they're at. And so the Ravens are 0 and 2 as well. They just lost. It's like they were on cruise control thinking that they just had it in the bag against Las Vegas, against the Raiders until they bounced back. And then they lost. They lost to Kansas City to open up the season. Remember Thursday Night Football. They ended up losing last week or this past Sunday to Las Vegas. And now they got Dallas on deck and Dallas is going to try to bounce back after they got their asses whooped, annihilated by the Saints.

And so this is going to be a big time game. Baltimore going down to Dallas. Whoever loses this game is going to come out worse for wear because they are going to get dragged through the mud of public opinion. And if Baltimore can't win this game against Dallas. People are going to start writing them off and understandably so.

You better go out there and win this game. This is a bad one. At least a loss from both the Cowboys and the Ravens. They were bad ones. Real bad.

You know what? Two teams competing. AFC North. Somehow the Steelers are just winning ugly and beating up on everybody. Hickey believes in the Bengals. I believe in the Ravens a little bit more.

Bengals head coach Zach Taylor. He says, Yeah, we're 0-2. But we're not worried about nothing.

Nothing. Yeah, we've been here before, unfortunately. And so we know what this feels like. We know it's a long season. We know we can get ourselves out of it. Stick together. Get our emotions in check with an extra day this week. Come back ready to play a great game in front of our crowd.

I expect to be a great crowd. OK. All right. I think we've run the gamut there. The Ravens and Bengals have a little bit more. Well, I got a whole lot more life than the team like the Panthers, the Giants, the Broncos. Now, we got some teams that are just kind of kind of in the middle. Well, maybe not. The Rams. Hickey, did they find me wide receivers on the street yet?

Not that I've seen. Ouch. Pukanukua got the knee. You got Cooper Cup dealing with the ankle. 0-2. You got Aaron Donald.

He can't help anybody because he's hanging out on the beach somewhere in retirement, waiting for his gold jacket. The Rams are cooked. You think the Rams are cooked?

I'm going to say no. Damn optimism. I trust Sean McVeigh is a really good head coach. Matthew Stafford is a good quarterback. I mean, these injuries, they're piling up very quickly. But they're also, for the most part, not long-term in the sense of season ending. Cooper Cup has been hurt, it seems like, since they went to the Super Bowl.

Well, yes. That you're not wrong about. And Pukanukua, re-aggravating an injury from training camps, not great. Offensive line injuries everywhere, not great. But I'll hold out hope that they can come back better, middle of the year, healthier, turn it around, go on a run. I'm not writing them off just yet. I like your optimism.

Sean McVeigh sounds sad, though. Listen to this. And this is one of those moments that you get that pit in your gut and you got a choice. You want to attack it or do you want to fold? And I'm betting on a lot of the guys that they're going to be the kind of guys that are going to raise their head high.

They're going to go back to work. These are humbling moments. These aren't moments that you love to be able to have. But if you got the right growth mindset, then you take it in stride. You handle it like a man. And that's exactly what I expect our coaches, players to do.

And that's what I expect of myself as well. Hickey, did he smoke a pack of cigarettes before he did that? The whole pack? Very scratchy. Very scratchy. Maybe he drank some scotch, too. They need to give him some tea, man. That is awful. When you're calling out names of reserves to go in because everyone's getting hurt, your voice is going to go. No, he's too young to have a voice like that, man.

He's going to end up like Doc Rivers before we know it. Oh, boy. You don't want them problems.

No, not want them. Hey, there's another 0-2 team. Disappointing. And if they don't turn it around, man, we need to just do something with Trevor Lawrence. The Jacksonville Jaguars are 0-2 as well. We know Trevor Lawrence, he just got that brand new contract.

There were some expectations that they'd be better, of course. Trevor Lawrence has thrown, count them, one touchdown. Can't even say count them. He's thrown one. It's not more than one.

It's only one. Lost to the Browns. Lost to the Dolphins. They got the Bills up next in Buffalo.

The Buffalo Bills are probably going to whoop that ass. It's bad for Jacksonville. Ugly start. Trevor Lawrence says we got to figure it out quickly. We can't hit the panic button, but we got to have some real conversations and we got too good of a team to come out here and perform two weeks in a row like this. This is I mean, they're all these games are precious and you don't get them back and we're 0-2 to start the year and it's not going to get any easier. We got a lot of good teams on our schedule. So coming up one coming up this week. So we better fix it quick. Uh-huh.

Yeah, whatever. Jacksonville Jaguars ain't doing nothing this year either. Go to the postseason and lose. Hickey, we forgot a team.

The Indianapolis Colts. Any expectations from them? No. Okay. I will not be as optimistic.

You're optimistic about a lot of other teams except for them. Okay. A lot of problems to fix. A lot. Anthony Richardson, more interceptions than touchdowns? Thrown? I will say no. I think that rights itself eventually. Okay. Eventually. Alright.

Okay. Good luck to all the Indianapolis Colts fans out there. This is going to be a rough one.

A rough one. 855-212-4227. Vlad is calling from Chicago. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Vlad? What's up, Mr.

Spark? Pretty long time no here, brother. Thank you. What's up? Hey, man. I just want to talk about Caleb, man. I'm being real patient with him. I still think he's the future. I think he is the future of the Bears.

It's all I need to get fixed, man. I know that Coleman Shelton guy we got was a free agent and everything. He's not a top tier All-Pro, but you get what you get, man. You can't just blame the quarterback all the time. You got to blame the people that are holding them up front.

I'm just I'm just asking JR, like, should I be able to be patient and just wait it out? Or like, are we all in the race for freaking out? Oh, come on.

No, nobody wants them back. And thank you, Vlad. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised.

One out of every 10 people. Come on, Vlad. Yeah, I know.

I don't want them back either, but I'm ready to chase Graydon as JR. And that's all I want, man. I want to win. No problem.

Thank you so much, Vlad. It's it's two games. It's two games.

That's it. Why? Who's worried about what Caleb Williams after two games?

I get it. We've seen one touchdown. People are bringing up the fact that he told the punter you won't be putting too much because we'll be scoring. The punter has already punted 12 times over the past two games.

Just chill out. It's early. At least Caleb Williams. He shows the ability to throw the ball. He's not afraid to get smacked around. He got hit seven times this past Sunday.

Sacked seven times, I should say. He'll be fine. He's played two weeks NFL football.

Give it some time. Let's see how he develops. The Chicago Bears next game is against. The Indianapolis Colts. One of these quarterbacks got to show up, right? Anthony Richardson or Caleb Williams?

I think Anthony Richardson at home. I would think that. They would get the W. Hickey, you picking the Colts over the Bears?

I don't know. I really without that run defenses to force Buckner. The stalwart in the middle is out. Vlad was worried about the run run game for Chicago. You don't have to worry about it too much this week. Oh, boy.

I'll be back. Everybody getting some yards. Oh, yeah. Just hand the ball off on the other side to Jonathan Taylor.

That way, Anthony Richardson doesn't have to throw the ball to, I don't know, Simone Biles' husband, right? That guy's name. Jonathan Owens. That's his name. He's got a touchdown this year.

He's got more touchdowns than Caleb Williams. Oh, damn. Is it bad that when I think about him, I think about Simone Biles first? Is that rude or disrespectful? It is, right? No, I think that's just the reality of how people, you know, when you're the lesser, if you will, ouch, of the relationship, that's you kind of take a backseat.

It happens in every relationship, guy or girl. Jonathan Owens will never join us here. Ever. We had DeMar Hamlin on. We had that.

We had a lot of people. DeMar Hamlin was here. We had no problem with him. We didn't say anything bad about him.

Well, he's not. Well, anyway, I like Simone. I like Simone Biles. Yeah, she's great.

Yeah, she's great. Lots of gold medals. Champion. Jonathan Owens journeyman. That's good. Nice, nice, nice interceptions, though. Hey, it's the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break.

We come back on the other side. Caleb Williams is a rookie. Was able to make a couple of dollars before making the NFL at USC. College football is changing so damn much the players are making more money. We got a school like Tennessee trying to make more money off of the fans to pay the players. And we even got Ohio State. What a fun promotion they have. Feeding their student athletes.

I will explain on the other side. It's the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. At the top of the hour, we're going to talk about Justin Fields. It appears that he is not going anywhere as starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

It looks like it's going to be his job to keep. We'll get into that at the top of the hour. We've already talked about what took place last night between the Falcons and the Eagles. Falcons come out on top.

Avoid an 0-2 hole. We just talked about a bunch of teams in the NFL that are currently 0-2. Some of them have a little bit of a chance. Some of these teams have no chance in hell. Hello to the Carolina Panthers and the New York Giants and the Broncos. Y'all got no chance in hell. And then we had a call.

Thank you for calling from Chicago. My main man Vlad. He asked about Caleb Williams. There's nothing to worry about with Caleb Williams. Just chill out and relax right now. Just judge him on the whole season. That's what it was always going to be anyway.

I know there are expectations for the Bears to potentially go on a little bit of a run to the postseason. Give it time. This man just came out of college.

Caleb Williams was already a celebrity when he was in school. And we know things are a little bit different now. And even today, over the past several days, over the past several weeks, we've learned so much more about NIL and some of the changes that will be happening in the future. And it looks like we have quite a few universities and even some states who are taking some preemptive and being proactive in trying to make sure that they're ready for the changes. And what's this change? Forget NIL. Forget marketing deals. We're going to have a day where the schools are going to have to pay the student athletes.

How about today? Here in Georgia, the governor, Brian Kemp, he signed an executive order allowing state schools to pay athletes. You want to know the two biggest football schools here in Georgia?

One is called Georgia and the other one, well, it's right down the block from me, a couple of blocks from here. It's Georgia Tech. Now, these two schools basically said we have no comment about this, but we appreciate what the governor has done. Because they ain't trying to pay no student athletes today.

They're going to wait until somebody else jumps first. How about in Tennessee? If you're a fan showing up after Tennessee has had success last year, having success this year, they're upping ticket, excuse me, they are upping ticket prices. It sounds so bad.

I don't even want to even want to say it. Tennessee is adding a 10% premium charge to tickets. This money will go directly to athletes starting with 2025 season tickets.

Now, there's not a lot of clarity there. My understanding is they are hoarding this money for the eventual day that they do have to pay the student athletes. A matter of fact, take a listen to Tennessee Athletic Director Danny White. He spoke today and he explained why NIL funding is going to come from ticket revenue. We've talked about being transparent, communicate early and often with them. And so we knew that as we look at roster limits and scholarship limits going away, and certainly the new $22 million revenue share coming into the athletics department, we knew we'd need their help. And so how do we communicate that and make sure that we're generating as much revenue as we can off of our stadium, off of our arena?

At some point, there was a light bulb moment where somebody in our creative team just said, you know what, let's just be transparent with them and call it what it is. It's a talent feat and it's going directly to the talent. It's going to our student athletes as part of this new world order in college sports. So I know our fans will embrace it. They've supported us every step along the way and I expect the same will happen here. OK. All right.

All right. Somebody has to pay up, right? Money is not coming out of thin air. Somebody has to write the check.

Might as well take it from the fans. It's like buying tickets to a concert. What is a service fee? You know, what is the the seat fee?

What are the what are all these fees? Piggy, that's why I don't buy tickets, man. I just just hustle them from somebody.

I'm not buying this stuff. That's smart. Avoid the old PSL acronym that I think every fan should hate. Oh, man. Like they like they're going through in Buffalo.

We spoke to Mike Danger last week in Rochester and he told us about the PSL. Let me put a thousand dollars down on a seat that I own and I rent it and I got to pay for it in perpetuity. And then if I want to give it to somebody, then I have to sell it to. It's just it's nuts. The business of sports. Look, being a sports fan is being a customer and find a way to take the money out of your pocket any way they can.

You are just a number. You're a fan, but you're fan number one million two oh four or whatever it is. They're going to find a way to get that money. Georgia clearing the way for the schools to pay the players. Tennessee telling the fans, we're going to up your ticket prices so we can pay the players. And then meanwhile, out of Ohio State, I find this one to be absolutely hilarious. Ohio State, they're like, you know what, let's just feed our athletes, because remember, there was a point in time you couldn't feed them.

Listen to this from WLWT. Chipotle partnering with Ohio State to give student athletes free food. Every scholarship or walk on student athlete at the school will get approximately or which, by the way, is about a thousand students, will get a custom card from Chipotle giving them a free entree once a week for 15 weeks. Chipotle's nonprofit will also introduce a new scholarship for a student in Ohio State's College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

Is that a gift or is that a punishment? Picky, I haven't had Chipotle since last year. You want to know what I ate last night when I got off air? Sure.

Let's hear it. Chipotle. And? You want to know what what I ate, you know, five minutes after I bought it? Chipotle?

Yeah. I had to think about whether or not the food was supposed to be hot or cold. Oh, I got a burrito.

Why? It had no heat. It was not. I'm not talking about in regards to spice.

I'm talking temperature. The burrito was just I was like that they was this food sitting in the freezer. They made it right in front of me. Well, they claim the commercials, no freezers. Is that what they say? That's what they say. It was just room temperature. It wasn't even hot. Them Ohio State students are getting robbed of free Chipotle meal a week. Giving these students cold ass food. It's the JR Sport re-show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I'll get to your calls and then we'll talk about Justin Fields on the other side. Don't move.