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I know America can't wait for this. The crap New England Patriots. And the New York Jets and their geriatric quarterback who they hope, you know, leads them to a Super Bowl one day. We'll talk about Aaron Rodgers, the Jets and the Patriots. We got that.
How about this? We got a baseball game going on right now. Los Angeles Dodgers down in Miami. And Shohei Ohtani's like, listen, I don't care about no stinking records, man.
I'm just gonna steal bases and I'll hit home runs soon. I'll fill you in on what Shohei Ohtani has done. Jordan Love looks like he's coming back, maybe. T Higgins looks like he's coming back, maybe. Someone who I know will play, his name is Arch Manning.
Arch Manning is getting the start this weekend. We'll talk about that. A matter of fact, we're going to be joined by Anwar Richardson from the Orange Bloods, all about Texas. He's going to join us in about two hours from now.
How about this? Next hour, we're going to have a chat with Kyle Goon, who covers all things Baltimore Ravens. He's from the Baltimore Banner.
Need to get his insight as the Ravens realistically could fall to 0-3 against the Dallas Cowboys this upcoming Sunday. The WNBA season, it's a wrap. It's over. Today is the last day of the WNBA season.
What does that mean? Kaitlyn Clark in the playoffs time. I know everybody can't wait for that.
We got so much more to get into some unfortunate stories. Learned earlier today that Dan Campbell had to move out of his house because wild-ass fans in Detroit found out where he lives. And in odd and shocking news, I think I heard this earlier this year, but we got an official announcement today. The Brooklyn Nets are going to retire the number of Vince Carter. Hickey, when are the Nets going to retire your number? You did as much as Vince Carter.
That's right. Hopefully soon. My number's three, at least in high school. So you want to put that at the Raptors next to five and 15.
Just tell me the date. I'll be there. Okay.
That sounds like a good deal. Just wow. So I looked at that. I had to go, what did Vince Carter do in New Jersey?
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I'm just trying to understand right now. We got this Dodgers game. Yes, I call it a Dodgers game. Who's going to call it the Marlins game?
They suck. The Dodgers are beating the Marlins right now, seven to one. It's the top of the fifth inning.
And we know the Marlins basically exists to get smacked around by every other team in Major League Baseball. And I just told you, Shohei Ohtani wasted no time today by stealing a base. And then Shohei Ohtani went out there and you know what he did? He stole another base. A matter of fact, the first base that Shohei Ohtani stole, not only was it his 50th base of the season, he stole third. Like on his first time on the bases. I'm like, brother, what are we doing here? Like Shohei Ohtani, and I'm not saying this in a bad way.
Some idiot out there will interpret it as such. Shohei Ohtani is so good. He's just like a baseball jerk. Gets on the base paths and just like, eh, I'm going to steal second.
Nah, I don't give a damn what's going on. I'm just going to steal third. The only thing more disrespectful from a baseball standpoint is if Shohei Ohtani said, you know what, screw all of this. I'm just going to steal home. Hickey, the next thing you know, Shohei Ohtani to hit his next home run, which would be number forty-nine, you know what he's going to do? What's that? A disrespectful inside the park home run.
Oh, totally unnecessary, too. He's going to push it. That would be a hell of a way to cap the 50-50 season.
I would like it. I'm here for all types of sporting disrespect in a positive way, though. Shohei Ohtani so far, three for three. Three RBIs now has 113 on the season and two stolen bases. After this, the Los Angeles Dodgers, they head back to Los Angeles.
Not to say that this game is over. He's going to get that. He's going to get that 50 in California. He's going to do it in front of the Dodger Faithful at Chavez Marine.
He's going to go out there and put on a show. Miami, does Miami deserve to see Shohei Ohtani? I'm pretty sure the only reason why they have fans in the stadium tonight, that big metal trash can, is pretty much because Shohei Ohtani showed up. Otherwise, there would be nobody there.
Nobody. Marlins sell off everybody and Shohei Ohtani is the only show in town. If Shohei Ohtani should hit another home run, we'll fill you in.
We'll let you know. But as of right now, he now has 51 stolen bases on the season. Shohei Ohtani trying to become the first baseball player in history. That's saying a lot. Not a human being listening to the sound of my voice remembers the first day of baseball.
It's been around so damn long. There has never been a 50-50 player. We have had guys go 40-40. And in the history of the league, we've only had six of those dudes. And so when you do the math and you think about it, everything with Shohei Ohtani is so exclusive, so exclusive.
He's like, I'm better than 40-40. I'm going 50-50. The only thing would have been more impressive, and I don't think this would have been the case, is if he was pitching.
That's it. And they haven't necessarily closed the door on Shohei Ohtani pitching in the postseason. Do I think it's going to happen? I think it's a little too risky. Man hasn't pitched all year. I know he's throwing bullpens and getting warmed up, but are you going to throw Shohei Ohtani out there in the postseason?
High leverage situation? It's a matter of gamesmanship right now. They can't let this man pitch. Hickey, could you have imagined if Shohei Ohtani was pitching this year and went 50-50? I don't want to say it's impossible, but it is ridiculously unlikely that he would get, I don't know, 25-plus starts and then hit 50 home runs and have 50 stolen bases. He would be like baseball god at that point. I mean, this is obvious, but it would easily, by far and away, be the greatest season we've ever seen in history. It feels like it would be impossible no matter how good somebody was, no matter how historic they were.
There's no topping that. 25 starts, 50 homers, 50 stolen bases, over 100 RBIs. You're never beating that in one year ever. This is like what Travis Hunter wants to be him for football. But in football, you get the living hell beat out of you. Shohei Ohtani is literally doing everything on the baseball field. And he ain't playing defense because damn it, he's a pitcher, okay? You don't need his arm out there. You don't want him throwing nothing. You stand on the mound and throw the ball and let everybody else catch it.
This is amazing. I don't know how many more years we got of this guy. I'm not telling no what his contract looks like.
Please believe me, I know 700 million 10 years after deferred after the first 10. It makes no sense. $2 million a season because he's Shohei Ohtani. Yeah, he got robbed by his interpreter, but does he really need cash?
The answer is no. This guy's just, he's a baseball freak. Like he was created.
He was put on this earth. He was birthed to play baseball. If Shohei Ohtani wasn't playing baseball, what would he be right now?
I don't know. He'd be a trash collector. Would he be doing taxes? Would he be a police officer in Japan? I don't know what this guy would be doing. This man is made for baseball until his arm gives out.
I'm not saying I'm just, I'm being realistic. Let's be real. The man has already had two Tommy John surgeries. He's now on the other side of 30. They gave him a 10-year contract.
I'm sorry. LeBron James didn't have no catastrophic injury, hasn't. It's amazing what he's done. Running up and down that court, running up and down that hardwood.
Oh my God, it's amazing that he can walk. Tom Brady, we know he blew out his ACL early. Simple. Reconstruct it. You keep it moving.
Tom Brady, outside of that, the man was relative, relatively unscathed. Pitching is one of the most violent things that you can do as an athlete. Like your body and your arm is not built to throw a little ball, 100 miles per hour.
It's not what it's made for. And you do that continuously. You do that enough and you'd grip it and turn it and squeeze it and all this other stuff.
Grab the seams and you rip stuff. This might be peak to Shohei Ohtani what we got right now. And I'm sure maybe one day over the next 10 years, the Dodgers will win another World Series and then we can call that his peak. But between what we've seen over the past couple of seasons and now and whatever the hell he does next year, maybe the two more seasons when he gets back out onto the mound next year, like we're witnessing and watching history.
Soak it up because nothing lasts forever. Go ask Mike Trout standing in front of the media this week, telling everybody, oh, yeah, by the way, I understand. I always knew I'm going to probably have to change positions to a corner outfield spot.
And man, your body can't even jog to center field without ripping up your knee. Come on. How much more juice do you think he has left in that body?
It's tough. Good luck to Ohtani. Be a massive disappointment if he doesn't hit the two more home runs, he better do it. Hickey, if he doesn't hit two more home runs, I'm writing a letter. Who, who? I don't know yet, but I'm going to write one.
Somebody? Yeah, I'm going to write it. Like, who do I write? Do I write it to him?
I need to make sure that he gets it and sees it. I, J.R. Jackson, am personally sad that you did not hit these two home runs. Do better next year. That or you write a letter to the pitcher, pitchers that maybe got him out, especially if he's sitting at forty nine and say, why don't you throw in down the middle? What's wrong with you? Well, those pitchers suck.
Who cares what they think? Good luck to Shohei Ohtani. I see what he does. Anyways, speaking of letters, Hickey, you were not here yesterday, unfortunately. In the later portion, latter portion of the show, I should say, we had a caller. I think it was one of our buddies from Chicago.
Shout out to everybody listening in Illinois. And he said something about, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hickey, I can tie it together. Remember the guy that wanted to be on the show? He said, yeah, I can tie it together.
Remember the guy that wanted to send me into a wheelbarrow with him into the Niagara Falls? Oh, yeah. Right. That was two days ago.
Get ready for the continuity. There's a guy who called last night instead, a friend from Chicago. He said, J.R., that is from a Woody Woodpecker cartoon. And I said, OK, great. All right, fine. That sounds OK. Fine. And then I had him make the Woody Woodpecker noise, which was interesting.
Thank you very much. And then we went about our lives. And then it made me think of the time that I was home a couple of years ago and there was a woodpecker on the side of my house. And Marco Belletti was right here with me. And I said to Marco, did you ever have a he says yes. And then we got into a talk about animals, woodpeckers and raccoons and all this other stuff. And and me and Marco said, yeah, you got to leave the animals alone, even though they're a pain in the ass and all of that stuff. And I mentioned.
I don't know if I want to say the word right now, Hickey or the organization. I mentioned the ones with animals. Oh, OK.
I mentioned. Peter. Hickey, do you know Peter emailed me and Marco Belletti? No way.
No way. Peter emailed us. They did.
Saying what? Peter was just like, listen, we were listening. I was like, whoa, OK, they're looking to they want to throw like paint on my fur coat now on my leather coat. Like I got to find me and they're going to get me.
But no, they wrote they wrote a note and it was something like we heard the show. Yes, the animals are here. We keep taking away all their land. So leave the woodpeckers alone. We're glad that you guys were joking about the animals and you leave them alone.
And they said if they can ever help us out on animal issues, don't hesitate to get in touch with them. That's what Peter said. It could have been worse. Could have been worse that I was about to say, that's probably the nicest letter Peter has ever written.
Anybody? I didn't know that they actually reached out positive. I thought they only reached out when, you know, someone says something about chickens and all of a sudden they're on it. Don't you dare eat the chicken.
Don't you dare eat, you know, a cow. There are people, too, or they're humans or they're living things, too. Yeah. Wow.
How about that? The people at PETA are also people. They're real people.
And I guess they write emails and just don't like throw paint on us. So that's good. Always listening.
Good to know. Shout outs to all the people listening at PETA. I love the animals. I love the earth. I love the grass. I love the humans. I love sports. I love all the sports team animal. I love the bears and and the Longhorns and the bulldogs and the horn frogs.
What's your take on mascots, animals for mascots? Hey, we should have no less. So no, by the way, I've said this before because I go down to Louisiana. Shout out to all my folks in Baton Rouge. We're going to talk about Louisiana, Monroe.
I go down that way. I can't stand the fact that Mike, the tiger and I don't know what number this is. It doesn't matter to me. But the first time have you ever been over there, Hickey? No, I don't. But not yet.
Yeah. Go go inside. Forget the tiger. The first I'm going to tell you it is just very odd to be in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and be outside of a football stadium and then just see a tiger in a cage. And he's not just in a cage. He has a place. OK, he got a place.
All right. I don't know how I don't know how to describe how big it is the size of a small house. He got a pool. He got something to run and jump and somewhere to hide and all this other stuff. Everything that I guess a tiger would need. I don't know where is there another tiger in Louisiana? I'm sure they I know they got zoos. They got Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.
This tiger is sitting in Louisiana. He's sitting in Baton Rouge by himself. No partner? He's by Hickey. He's by himself.
You got to put a partner in there outside the football stadium. And I get it. I don't know what they're doing. They taking care of him.
They save it. I don't know what they're doing. That that has always been very odd. Now, I don't give a. Well, let me let me be careful.
Peter, come after me. Now I got to watch it. That instance is just very odd to me.
And it was odd from day one when I first saw him for the first time, I don't know, whatever version it was 10 plus years ago. And since every time I go, I'm just like up. There's that tiger cage in the middle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana by himself. Great. It could be eight o'clock, nine o'clock in the morning, Hickey, the Tigers out there just just doing what? In a cage, tiger, tiger stuff. I mean, he's eating meat in the shape of the team's opponent that week. That's that's kind of cake in the wild. Come on. That's pretty cool.
Oh, my. Do you think he cares? No, probably not. The first thing you ask me is if he has a friend, a companion. No, that said, you got to get Mike, the tiger, a gal pal like Mr. Met has Mrs. Matt. Exactly right.
OK, does UGA. Well, I guess it's dogs a little bit different. Dogs everywhere. When's the last time you saw a tiger walking down the street? Not not recently.
Thankfully, I saw about 20 dogs on my way to work today. Come on. I ain't seen no tigers. Just like Bevo to the Longhorn. Maybe get him a gal Bevo so he can have some friends. It's called a cow, right?
Get him a cow. We don't. Well, don't they do something? Well, that's what the let me get out of this real fast.
Apologies for leading you down this rabbit hole here, this trap, if you will. No, listen, I'm just saying I'm not I love LSU. I do. I do. I do.
I know. Don't get me into the Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tiger stuff as a school like I love LSU. I love Baton Rouge. I love charms. I love the restaurants.
I could tell you stories that I can't tell you. I love it. I can't stand that tiger being in that cage. It's just me. Imagine you being in a cage all day by yourself. Maybe you are right now.
Maybe you are. I don't know your circumstances. It's the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
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He'll be old in another 10 years. We'll talk about Aaron Rodgers making his home debut again, I guess, for the New York Jets. We'll get into that.
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That's 855-212-4227. We talked about Shohei Ohtani. The Dodgers are currently leading Miami 7-3. Shohei Ohtani has already stolen two bases. He has 51 stolen bases on the season. He is looking for two more home runs and he will become the first player in Major League Baseball history to have a 50-50 season.
Everything with Shohei Ohtani, of course, is a big deal. He's already three for three on the night or the afternoon. And we'll see if he leaves Florida with a home run. I said, I don't know how much longer this guy's going to last. He got a 10-year contract. How the hell much longer is he going to, they already operated on his arm twice? Come on now. You never know. Speaking of guys lasting, Aaron Rodgers is going to play.
About 90 minutes from now, the New York Jets are going to have their season opener against the New England Patriots, who historically have just destroyed them. It wasn't until, and speak of the, how to, Hickey, this is not fair, bro. This is not, Shohei Ohtani just launched a home run into the upper deck. He did.
Oh my. The upper deck, a two-run home run. If I can do math, I think, what is this, five RBIs for the guy? Two stolen bases, five RBIs and a home run. What is he doing?
Wow. This is, what is this? What is this? He now has 49 home runs and 51 stolen bases.
Who does this? What do you think is it? You said the sixth? Top of the sixth. Is he got another at bat? You better cool it. You may be too hot this game. You may blast another one here in the eighth.
This makes no sense. He now also ties Sean Green with the most home runs in a single season by a Dodger at 49. What is he doing? All he needs to do is hit one more home run. This is not fair.
This is, I know this sounds crazy. He makes baseball look easy. Like Michael Jordan made basketball look easy.
Like this is not supposed to be easy. Crazy. Nine to three, the Dodgers. Hickey, I was watching him come up to the plate and I said, let me not say anything, right?
Cause either he gonna strike out or whatever and then I could tell everybody after. He launches one. Hickey did like only like eight more rows from the top. That's where he sent the ball. How many people were there to retrieve that home run ball? I know it's not historic, but.
They weren't more than, I don't know, 15, 20 people in the vicinity. Good for those Marlins fans. One guy got it. Yeah. He launched that ball. I've never seen a ball hit up there. Damn.
Also look at your skills, by the way. Remember when you called Aaron Judge and you're like, oh, Aaron Judge, I want to see you go off. Like, what was that about a month ago? Then he went on that streak where he basically home run it. It felt like every at bat for like two weeks, but then he stopped for like two weeks. Right. But Hey, you called for it and almost immediately Aaron Judge delivered.
Now you're talking about the show. I owe a tiny two home runs away. What does he do next? Bat immediately. Boom. Come through the home run. You got some sort of power here when it comes to these star players hitting homers, just common sense. Hey, don't, don't forget about it.
Don't forget about, uh, I nailed Dak Prescott getting his contract like hours before the game. I said that too. That's true. You're right about that.
Literally almost to a T it's just common sense. Four for four, two doubles, a home run, five RBIs, two runs and two stolen bases for Shohei Ohtani. Not bad.
I'd be, I'd be done after ending one. Where are you getting all this energy from, man? He just drank something out of a, whatever he drank was wrapped in a towel. Hmm. I don't know.
There's some special concoction. He doesn't want the world to know. He is very secretive. That makes sense. Was it dog's name?
Rover bingo, decoy decoy. We didn't find out as do we know as we find out who his wife is after the fact basketball player, right? I don't know. I think so. If you're Shohei Ohtani, where do you take out on a date at your house? Yes. So you got a house big enough where you can go to like two or three different locations in it. Right. You meet me at the West wing of my home.
He's like, you want me to come to your house for our first date? Yes. I can't go outside. I can't, I can't.
A paparazzi, TMZ, no TMZ. You can't do that. Wow. What a guy. I can't believe. Hickey, I'm, I'm, I can't say I'm at a loss for words, but damn. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Chris is calling from California. You're on the JR sport preshow. What's on your mind, Chris? Hey, JR. How are you, sir? I'm very well. And what's on your mind?
Oh, Oh, Tony, I was on the train. I just got off here at Universal Studios and I was listening to your Ohtani stuff. And then again right now, and you know, this guy is just amazing. A lot of people think I just like basketball. Baseball was my first love. And I'll tell you what, I was having lunch in Thai town in Hollywood yesterday and the hostess or the server, the waitress, she had an Ohtani jersey on. And she's like, and I was reading the sports, New York post-sports section, ironically. And she said, Hey, what do you think about Ohtani?
And I go, you know what? The first time I looked at the guy, I just knew that he could play any sport he wanted to. He looks more like a basketball player. If you look at his body, this guy is like, was he like six, six, will trim about, I don't know, two 20 or something.
And then like you mentioned his wife, where she was a basketball star in China. I mean, this guy's the goat and it's, it's unbelievable. And I, you know, I go back to the Mets and I think the Mets are going to give the Dodgers a little problems in the playoffs this year, JR, like they did in 15. But who knows if it's a Yankee Dodger World Series, I'll take it. Cause you got Giancarlo Stanton. Anyway, he's a local guy.
Man, we don't, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. Don't, don't say anything. Thank you. No, no, no, no. Don't, don't say anything. No.
Walking down the street. No, I get it. You're in California. I know he's from LA. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's you can't talk about a Yankees and Dodgers potential World Series. And the first Yankee name you say is Stanton. He may stub his toe on the way to the World Series. That's no it's judge. If you have a Yankees Dodgers World Series, there's only two guys to look at Ohtani and judge.
That's it. If major league baseball should only be so lucky, but they're not luckily lucky. We'll end up with a Diamondbacks Brewers World Series and everybody will take a nap. I love you, JR. Take it easy, man. No doubt.
Chris, thank you for calling from California. Can't say Stanton. And I'm hickey. I know you'd love to see the Mets out there.
Hickey Subway series, right? Sign me up. I like what Chris in California was saying. America.
America wouldn't care about a Subway series, but that's sorry, America. My apologies. Damn. He said, Stan. I'm like, nobody cares about no John Carlos Stanton. Every time I see him play baseball, it's like, Oh, we found Bigfoot. He's actually out there.
He's walking around. He's real and he's alive. Sign me up. Those are the two. Those are the two best players in baseball. Those are the two most exciting plays in baseball. When they are hot, they are hot. Unlike anybody else in baseball.
Yeah. Give me a Dodgers Yankees World Series coast to coast. Judge Ohtani. That's the type of shot in the arm kicking the backside that baseball needs. If there's ever a time to screw with the game and I'm joking kind of, if there's ever a time to screw with the game and kind of manipulate things, do it that way.
Manipulate that. Give us a game with the stars. Let's be real. Watching the Diamondbacks last year. Oh, the casual baseball fan.
They know who the hell these guys, you know, Corbin Cal from, from his next door neighbor. Come on. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Shaw Hale Ohtani makes me wish I could play baseball. So I have to watch him instead. When we come back on the other side, I'll talk about the decrepit Aaron Rogers. We'll talk about some other NFL players that might be returning from injury.
We got a lot to do. It's the JR sport brief show on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. Well, damn it. You're beautiful for thinking it's beautiful. Yeah. Thank you.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 is 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 show. I can't even say his name. Shaw Hale Ohtani one home run away from being the first dude in history to have a 50 50 season. He's probably going to have one or maybe two more at best the way this game is going. A Dodgers lead Miami nine to three top of the seventh. It is Thursday night. We're getting ready to start week three of the NFL season. It's going to get going in New York. Thank God it's not the Giants. It's the other New York team. The New York Jets are going to be in action. They are hosting the New England Patriots. Now, historically, we could all think Tom Brady and Belichick for this until last year, the end of last year. The Patriots beat the Jets 15 straight games, 15 straight games.
How do you not win by accident? Well, now the New York Jets have a quarterback, although he's 40 years old and Aaron Rodgers, the New England Patriots, they drafted a quarterback in Drake May. They don't want him to play. Jacoby Percet is out there basically handing the ball off to remind Ray Stevenson and Antonio Gibson. And the best thing that they can do is just classic normal football, trying to stay alive. We're going to run the football. We're going to play defense, even though one of their best players, the linebacker, Juwan Bentley is guys out with a shoulder. And so there should be no reason that the New York Jets don't beat up on the Patriots outside of the fact that it's it's the Jets.
If I had to put money on this game, money on this game, I would reluctantly put it on the Jets. Aaron Rodgers is back in the same place where he ripped up his his leg last year, tore that Achilles. But he said he is excited to be back at MetLife Stadium. I feel good about it. Been a long time since I took the field at JetLife, so a lot of emotions for sure. But we're thankfully already into the third game of the season.
We played two full games. Probably feels good. Oh, that's cute. He called it JetLife Stadium. Oh, it's basically a concrete metal trash can that the Jets and Giants split. You flip a light and one day it's green. You flip another light. The other day it's blue.
Whoop-de-doo at JetLife. Aaron Rodgers said he might cry. There's always emotion. If you love the game, there's always emotion. So there'll be emotion this week as there always is during the anthem and seeing our crowd and night games and the excitement driving up to the stadium and seeing the tailgate happening. So it's always fun. So maybe he didn't exactly say that he was going to cry, but yeah, he said he might get emotional.
Of course it's going to be emotional. What about from the Patriots perspective? They're just trying to stay alive. They surprisingly beat Cincinnati 16 to 10. They lost to Seattle 23 to 20. Jacoby Brissett, God bless him. No turnovers by New England.
None. They just run the football. Do they throw it? No, they just run the football and they just try to stay alive. That's, that's not going to help them win this game.
It's not. You would think enough. Aaron Rodgers has already thrown three touchdowns and one interception. That is a crazy touchdown to interception ratio for a New York Jet.
Typically, if you throw three touchdowns, you've thrown four or five interceptions by now. Jacoby Brissett, the man who's holding down the fort for the New England Patriots, he said, our offense, well, we still got work to do. From week one to week two, you know, they, they did a lot of things to try to stop the run and we still were able to execute that. Uh, you know, Hunter obviously had a big day, uh, Sunday and, but obviously we're, we're still trying to learn our identity, still trying to get better and, and get more guys involved for sure.
And, uh, you know, I think we're excited about this opportunity to do that. Bruh, stop it. The New England Patriots are running the offense on a treadmill.
The New England Patriots, they are, they're running the offense. Nikki, what's that thing? You ever been to the skating rink before?
I have. You know the thing that you give the kids, the ones that can't skate so they don't bust their ass? Oh, not a traffic cone, like a chair. Those little walker things you put in front of them. Yeah.
Yeah, that's, that's the New England Patriots offense. Training wheels? Yeah, it's on training wheels right now.
It doesn't matter if you're on a bike or on skates. They're in the car. And I've seen this before. I learned how to drive in a regular, I don't know how to, a regular car. You ever been in one of those cars where they teach you how to drive, Hickey?
And in the guy in the passenger seat or woman in the passenger seat, they can also hit the brakes if you suck real bad. Are you getting ready to crash? Yes, I've been in, I hope everyone who has a driver's license has been in a car like that.
No, I've never been in one like that. No. You didn't take any driver's ed? Nope.
Wow. Took the class. No, learned, learned in a, my, my cousin taught me how to drive, learned in his car, Nissan Altima.
And when it was time to take the test, I took the test. That's it. Oh, good for you.
All right. So you haven't, yes, I have experienced that where the, the, the teacher has the ability to brake as well, which is a smart feature. Wow.
That's crazy. Why isn't there a steering wheel on that side? Could you imagine? That's actually a good idea as well. You suck so bad. I'm taking over right now. I don't even have to get out the car.
I'm going to hit the brakes so you don't hit a pedestrian. I'm going to take over. But that's basically what this Patriots offense is right now. Like Jacoby Brissett is sitting around in press conferences telling everybody the offense is still evolving. No, the quarterback that they drafted Drake may, he is still learning. This offense will not evolve until they sit your behind on the bench. That's really that simple.
There's nothing left to evolve here or nothing. And so that's why Gerard Mayo is rushing the football every chance that he could get. Ramondrae Stevenson already has 200 yards rushing. Antonio Gibson already has 115 yards rushing. Jacoby Brissett has thrown for 270 yards. Come on, this is as balanced as an offense could get. And that's a lot of rushing between two guys.
Gerard Mayo, new head coach, first year head coach of the Patriots, he says, my guys are tough and I love them. The run game, we talked about being tough and physical up front. I think we've shown that in preseason and through these first couple of weeks of the regular season. In the pass game, we, you know, I would say there were spurts of clean pockets, but it needs to be more consistent.
There is no pass game. If the new England Patriots end up in a deficit tonight, if the new England Patriots are down anything more than three points, it's going to be tough. They better hope and pray that there's some type of special teams highlight action that can go out there and get them a score.
Otherwise they're screwed, man. Come on. And tonight is what you can call a classic Thursday night football matchup. You know, we get the hot matchups to start the seasons.
Oh, here we go. We got the defending champs, a rematch AFC championship game. We got the Ravens.
And then two weeks later, boom, what do you get? You get the new England Patriots and the Jets. This is just an Aaron Rogers game. Everybody show up, behold, Aaron Rogers, the 40 year old quarterback who tomorrow will say something crazy. That's it. Now in Rogers and Rob Salah, they're not stupid.
Rob Salah. Well, you know, he has to carry Aaron Rogers bags and he has to answer the questions. He said the Patriots are going to be tough. Of course they are. They're doing a really nice job. They're running the heck out of the football. They're playing a physical brand of football. Percets doing a great job getting rid of the ball. And they're, they're moving it.
They're, they're playing well. Yeah. Aaron Rogers is getting rid of the ball faster than anybody right now. About two and a half seconds. That man takes the process and throw the ball.
Damn it. He has processed everything before he's even thrown it. I guess after you rip your Achilles, you ain't trying to hold onto that rock at all. I guess I'm a genius because Aaron Rogers also said, yeah, we need to score early. If we want to win this game, we got to change a couple of things. We got to be a little sharper. Just, you know, we got to start faster. We've been starting really slow the first two weeks. So we got to start faster, put something together in the first 15 and give our defense a chance to play with the lead. If there was ever a team to start fast against, come on, you have to, you have to beat them up.
Jet fans haven't seen a team that just scores and annihilates and scores and annihilates and scores and scores. Do it tonight, please. That's it. Hickey, you got the Jets over the Patriots, right? I do. Yes.
And nothing crazy here. Speaking of which, do you know the last time the Jets were favored in a game against the Patriots? Oh, it has to be maybe late 90s, 98.
No, come on. No, 98. I thought you were going to say like four years ago, five years ago. Oh, 1998. I was going to go, you know, Curtis Martin years. I mean, 2020, they had Cam Newton. That was a disastrous year.
They weren't much better in 2022, 2023. Oh, you mean in a single, a single, oh, well, you're right. Oh, sorry. Sorry. In a single game.
Okay. The last time the Jets and the Patriots squirt off in which the Jets were the favorite. 2020? 2011.
Oh, wow. 24 games. Coming off of the AFC, you know, game, I guess, appearance. I'm assuming maybe that was the Eric Decker overtime game.
Eric Decker, Braylon Edwards was out there. Yeah. Wow.
That's a long time. What, what are they, what is it? They supposed to beat them by what, six or seven tonight? I think they spread a six, six and a half. Yeah.
So basically a touchdown. Wow. You feel good about that? Yeah.
Come on, bro. They have to. I know it's the Jets.
They're at home. Like you, sometimes you have to erase, this is like experiencing a traumatic experience. If bad things continue to happen to you, you just expect bad things to happen. Good things have to happen. Like every now and then a good thing has to happen to the Jets. The New York Jets will finish tonight with a record of two and one.
They will beat New England by, I don't know, about 10 points and everybody will go home happy. And speaking of good things, Shohei Ohtani is back at the plate. This man needs one home run to be the first player in major league baseball history to have a 50-50 season. He is already four for four with a home run and five RBIs tonight in addition to two stolen bases. Everybody is standing up looking, even everybody in a Marlins dugout is looking at Ohtani waiting to see what the hell he, they just need to throw him a meatball and everybody can go home happy.
That would be the thing. It's baseball freak Shohei Ohtani. I say that with all respect. He's amazing. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. When we come back, I'll give you an update on Shohei Ohtani. Did he go 50-50?
You'll know in a few minutes. We'll also talk about another quarterback who might be returning. His name is Jordan Love, a wide receiver too. It's Jordan too. It's T Higgins. A Shohei Ohtani update coming up, the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network.
