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Damn it, we've talked about a lot. The UNLV player, Matt Saluca, he said, UNLV didn't pay me my money. I'm quitting. He quit last night. Says he owes them $100,000. He left.
He's a starting quarterback, by the way. They're 3-0, by the way. Speaking of leaving, tomorrow is the last day of the Oakland Athletics in Oakland.
What a sad, sad story. Oakland is not going to have any big-time professional sports. Warriors went to San Francisco. Raiders went to Vegas. Now the A's are going to hang out in Sacramento until they get a deal in Vegas.
Bunch of dumbasses. Have a plan before you move. The lease expired.
My bad. Anyway, White Sox, they suck. Season can't end soon enough. About to set a modern record for losses.
And when I say modern, I'm talking about 124 years. How? How? How are you that bad of a loser? You're breaking a record in futility that is 124 years old. Hickey, do you tell anybody you were on this team? Like when you're done and retired playing baseball and they go, hey, yo, grandpa, what did you do? I played baseball. You say I was on the White Sox. You know, people say I won a championship, but they do this. You just act like it didn't exist. I would leave that detail out until I was called out on it. Yeah, I played for the White Sox, the Twins, the Phillies.
What year were you on the Sox? Do you have any photos? Yeah, yeah, just lots of stuff exists. Just Google it. It's crazy.
One day. Well, now a grandparent can tell their grandchild to Google something. Hickey, I could not. I could have never asked my grandparents could have never told me to Google a damn thing because it didn't exist. Hickey, if it wasn't in the library or they didn't tell me it didn't exist. What a world we live in.
You can Google anything. Hickey, this is great now that I think about it. One day, my great, great grandkids, unless we've blown each other to bits, one day they'll be able to pull up and say, hey, what did your great, great granddaddy do?
Well, he was a schmuck on the radio just telling jokes and talking about sports. And they go, oh, that's him over there. I see him. I found him. Two seconds. What a world.
Very cool, right? Now it does work the opposite way. If you have any tall tales or maybe, like you said, you want to exaggerate. Not saying grandparents do, but you know, OK, the war stories back in the day, there's no fact checking. Now you can't do that as much. Oh, you're right.
It's good and bad. And there've been a few people that say they have served in the military, right? Wasn't even thinking about that, but sure, that that falls into no real way of knowing.
Oh, man, you talk about some tall tales. Ain't no hiding nothing in 2024. Not even the White Sox. How do you you can't hide all this losing? What a pathetic record. It hurt.
Hickey, I hurt thinking about it. Let me read it again. I got to make sure every time I look at it, I go, this can't be right.
But it is. Thirty seven wins. One hundred and twenty losses. This man. What is Rob Manfred sitting around doing when he sees this? Does he care? No, he does not. He should. Oh, my God.
But doesn't. Do you are you making a call to Jerry? Hey, Jerry, what the hell are you doing, bro? What is this crap?
WTF, Jerry? Yeah, you're worse. You're worse than the pirates. How are you worse than the pirates? How the Oakland A's better than better than them this year? The Oakland Athletics heading into today, they got a record of 68 and 89. They have tried to bleed the team dry for the past several seasons before they leave.
Let me say this again. Oakland has 68 wins. They're leaving town. The White Sox have 37 wins.
They're not going anywhere. What a disaster. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven in about 40 minutes.
Thirty five minutes or so. We're going to have a conversation with Andrew Brandt, a former NFL agent and media personality, understands the business of sports all the which way and through and around. I'm going to ask him about the situation up at UNLV.
As Matt Sluka just quit on the team, said he didn't get his money. Whose fault is it? Where are the parameters?
How do we get the parameters? How can we fix college football? Is there a way to fix college football?
I think the answer is no. We'll talk about that with Andrew Brandt at the end of the of the hour. But, you know, speaking of.
Things ending, right? The Oakland A's in Oakland. What are they even going to be? Do they even got a name in Sacramento?
Oh, I didn't think about that. The A's, the future, the future A's of Vegas. Like, what are they calling them? Just the A's? Just the A's.
The A's. I saw a hat. Did you see the hat? I don't know if it's a joke online. It spells out.
They have different variations of the A's logo and it spells out ass. No, I did not see that. That's funny, though.
No, I'll find it and send it to you. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's just appropriate. No name, no Oakland, just A's.
And it looked like ass. A sad situation. White Sox about to be finished. And then for the year 2024, there's something else that might end tonight.
And some people will probably be very happy that this ends. If it does, Kaitlyn Clark could be playing her final game of the 2024 season. She's in the playoffs right now with the fever. They're down 0-1 against the Connecticut Sun. In the women's game in the playoffs, you ain't playing three out of five. You win two games, you move forward.
That's it. But they lost on Sunday. The fever did. And they didn't just lose.
They got annihilated. They lost to the Connecticut Sun 93 to 69. And Kaitlyn Clark had a crap game. Quite unusual, because in the month of September, she was killing it. She only had 11 points, eight assists on four of 17 shooting. Unusual.
And yes, it's the playoffs. But in the month of September, she averaged about 25 points, nine assists, almost six rebounds in a steal a game. Yeah, that's way off from what she did. But if you didn't see or hear about this, early in the game, Kaitlyn Clark got poked in the eye. She had a little bit of a shiner under her eye.
De'Janae Carrington went to block a shot. And according to the video, well, not according to the video, she did get poked in the eye. And, you know, people are arguing about whether or not she did it on purpose. I look at it and say I think she meant to hit her in the face on purpose or hit her. Maybe not the eye.
And De'Janae Carrington was actually asked about this. Did you mean to poke the golden goose in the eye? This is what she said. I don't even know why I would intend to hit anybody in the eye. That doesn't even make sense to me.
But no, I didn't. I didn't know I hit her, actually. I was trying to make a play on the ball and I guess I followed through and I hit her. So obviously it's never intentional. That's not even like the type of player that I am. OK, I'm not going to go as far, you know, she, her hand was open to block the shot and then her hand closed and then it kind of got her in the eye.
Easy to look at something in slow motion and draw a conclusion. But I don't think she minded hitting her. I think she hit her. I mean, later in the game, Kaitlyn Clark kind of swung and hit her back and nobody got ejected.
It was no big to do about this. Kaitlyn Clark just had a crap shooting game against a team that, you know, has been a better team now for years. Kaitlyn Clark just got here. Hickey, do you think she hit her in the eyeball on purpose? I don't think so. I think she was going for the block, didn't get it.
Hand came down. We've seen I think it's a basketball player. We've seen that before.
I don't think there's anything malicious or intentional. OK, I think she meant to hit her, not in the eyeball. That's tough to do in like real time, like anybody play basketball.
Yeah, you can have enough body control but enough body control while you're in the air to close your hand and poke somebody in the eye. De'Janae Carrington would have to be an X man or an X woman to go ahead and do that. She might as well be a Marvel character. You want to know who else didn't think it was intentional? Kaitlyn Clark.
She didn't want to even answer this question. What would you say to the crowd of people that think a hit like that was intentional and maybe even once a system? It wasn't intentional by any means. You just watch the play.
It wasn't intentional. OK, and that's that was pretty much it. Nothing else, nothing to see here.
Scurry along. And they've been having beef. I mean, De'Janae Carrington has been online talking about Kaitlyn Clark and earlier in the year, they've had some physical battles throughout the course of the season. Of course, everybody's trying to give Kaitlyn Clark their best shot.
She might be the golden goose, but everybody is trying to kind of kind of knock it down a peg. And to Kaitlyn Clark's credit, she had been knocked down nowhere. This is what she's doing in her rookie season or this is what she did in her rookie season. As a rookie, she led the WNBA in assists. She led all rookies in points, assists, steals, field goals made, three pointers made, free throw percentage, shooting percentage. She's the truth. If anybody was doubting what Kaitlyn Clark did. She proved people wrong.
It wasn't looking good early on, right? She's basically saying, hey, I'm going to give you a triple double with turnovers, not what you want. And by the end of the season, she's obviously without a shadow of a doubt, one of the league's best players. And if she continues to ascend, I don't know, like get stronger, get better teammates. You want to tell me that she's not going to improve? Kaitlyn Clark is a problem. And what would be sad and what is a reality, tonight, be her last night and said no more Kaitlyn.
Hickey, what happens if Kaitlyn Clark is eliminated after this? I don't want to say that people stop caring about the WNBA, but a large part of the audience will call it a season. Yeah, like me. Yeah, like me.
No, I'm being honest. I'm going to watch the New York. I've been, I've been waiting for the New York Liberty to win a championship for, I don't know, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, eight years, something like that now. I just want to see if the Liberty can win a title. That's it. And you see who they're playing in the next round?
Yeah, Vegas. Be a good series. Very exciting.
It will be. They played in the finals last year. That was my, was it my first? I think that last year was my first WNBA game. I feel honored. I feel like I should get a badge.
I watched a New York Liberty game before Kaitlyn Clark got into the league. Do I get like a pat on the back for that or something? You were a ground level fan. Yes, I am. I'm not a Kaitlyn Clark hanger on. That's right. Bandwagon. I was here before she got there.
I feel honored now. Yeah, no, I'm going to watch. I mean, this is why they need more teams. Why the hell are we getting the championship match up in the second round? Oh, anyway, I will be watching just to see what the Liberty do.
And if the Liberty lose, I want to see what Vegas does. Is somebody going to knock off Asia Wilson? So, yeah, I'm being a jerk. I'm going to watch.
I am. But not to the same extent. And I know this for a fact without me having to tell a joke or anything. There's going to be a lot of people in America who don't watch because Kaitlyn Clark is no longer there. This past Sunday, while they were up against football, a WNBA game smashed in between two football games averaged more than one million viewers.
That ain't no happenstance. That's the Kaitlyn Clark effect. I mean, the most every all the most watched games from this past season. Featured Kaitlyn Clark. All the arenas, Kaitlyn Clark games. MCI Center, Verizon or whatever the hell they call it in D.C., Kaitlyn Clark game.
Come here to Atlanta two times, go to the arena, State Farm Arena, go to Los Angeles. Oh, crypto man, Kaitlyn Clark effect. If the WNBA, I know stupid Team USA basketball didn't want it, they're dumb.
You don't think the television people want her? Hickey, we should have the referees in to swallow the whistle and just give her a victory tonight. Throw integrity out the window. Wow. Throw it in, huh?
That's it. Well, fix the game, fix the league. Where's Tim Donaghy?
Is he around? I don't know where he's probably gambling somewhere. You know, maybe not. WNBA is not smart enough to do that. I mean, their commissioner was the commissioner the other day that said, oh, the controversy, we don't care, you know? And then she had to apologize to own players. Oh, well, we'll see what happens. Kaitlyn Clark did continue to speak. What the hell is going to happen between Game 1 and Game 2 that's going to stop elimination?
Kaitlyn, tell me one last time. We have a question for you. We have good schemes. We weren't always executing them, so it just comes down to execution and really being detail-oriented. And I think, you know, at times they almost kind of beat us at our own game. I felt like their pace was really good, pushing in transition.
And I didn't feel like we really got out in transition and ran as much as we probably could have. OK, all right, whatever. I need her to go out there and knock down threes. I need her to lose her mind. I need her to get out. I need her to lose her mind. And I need a Game 3. That's it. I need a Game 3.
And the way the system is set up, they play two home games, so I need them to go back to Indiana. I need another game. I hope Kaitlyn Clark wins. I love drama. I need the story. I need to see the threes. They're supposed to kick things off. Well, they don't kick. They tip in basketball. They tip things off in another 25 minutes or so. Not even.
18 minutes. I need more Kaitlyn Clark. Don't run the faucet dry. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Daniel is calling from Hawaii. You're on the JR Sport re-show. What's up, Daniel?
Yes. Good morning. Well, it's morning for me. I'm sorry. Hey, I'm just calling about the Kaitlyn Clark and the Sun game. I'm actually originally from Connecticut, but that's not why I was calling.
I was a military police, 23 years combat vet. I'm sorry. I'm going to go with what Jason Whitlock said, that Kaitlyn was assaulted. I looked at everything that other person did. She literally closed her hand on purpose, closed the cuff in her hand. I've seen MMA fighters all the time getting poked in the eye.
Those aren't on purpose. So you're going to go against statement Whitlock. What's his name? Are you OK? You OK? You out of breath? No, I'm not.
I'm fine. I'm just pissed off about all this racist stuff. And she assaulted her. OK, help me out here. There's certainly a racial element when it comes to the entire story.
The story of Kaitlyn Clark. But what what what part does that have to hold on? Daniel, let's slow down. Oh, don't be so mad.
Slow down. What what what part about her going for a block brought in the racist element of it? What part about there? OK, no, I'm not I'm not saying that. OK, well, the whole NBA is saying that I'm not saying that. I got you. You brought it up. Huh? You brought it up. I'm talking about let's Daniel. Well, hold on. Hold on.
I'm talking specifically about a basketball play. Listen, Daniel, as a black as a black person in America, I can have an entire dissertation with you about racism, racism in America that goes back hundreds. Well, hold on. That goes back hundreds of years that we cannot pack into this conversation.
So let's go let's go back for a second. If you believe that she intentionally popped her in the eye, then that's fine. I believe she meant to hit her. I'm not going to go as far as to tell you that this is assault.
I got to tell you this as well. If you watch professional sports, which I'm sure you do, not just WNBA, we got we got people assaulting and whooping each other's asses all the time. I mean, what's the difference here that these are that these are now women, that these are women? I've seen guys swinging like you. I've seen guys swing and punch and kick and stomp. Yes. And there's never, ever, ever the amount of, oh, my God. Oh, it's assault. Oh, my God. It's awful.
It is. It's sports. And if we are going to take the approach of, well, we want more people to watch women's sports and women need to be OK at the same level as men, then sometimes you got to chalk it up. If she hit in the face, she hit her in the face. They will solve it on the basketball court.
And I think they'll do so tonight. No. OK, I'd rather say one more thing.
I forgive me about all the racist stuff, but that's part of it. But the deal is I literally watched her hand close. Daniel, you know, I get it. No, listen to me.
Blocking the ball. Daniel, I'm telling you. No, I do get it. I've had a chance.
Today is Wednesday. I've seen it over and over again since Sunday. I saw what she did. I have seen Ron Artest elbow James Harden intentionally in the head. I have seen Draymond Green intentionally step on the opposition's chest. I've seen football players intentionally hit people in the nuts. I have seen sports enough to see people intentionally harm other folks. What I've never heard was, oh, my God, oh, my God, it's assault. Throw them in jail.
Put them away. If we want to be even here, if we want to look at women's sports the same way we look at men's sports, if women want the same treatment as the men that they get here, then everybody needs to stop screaming and yelling and going over the ledge because, well, she intentionally did it. I see people whoop each other all the time on the field. And I see baseball players throwing at guys all the time. Well, do you throw them on purpose? Do you throw his head? He should have thrown his ass. He hit him in the ribs.
What do they do? They go to the mound and they beat the hell out of each other. Assault, assault, assault. I saw Robin Ventura get his ass assaulted by Nolan Ryan.
Call the cops. He punched him in the head on purpose. I think she hit her in the face on purpose. That's what I think.
Is it true or not? I don't know. I think she meant to hit her. It doesn't matter what I mean. They're going to figure it out on the basketball court.
And if I want to give them two credit, both Kaitlyn Clark, who has kind of always said the right thing, and Dijonay, they're not throwing each other under the bus in the media. People on social media doing this. Oh, my God, it's assault. Call the cops.
I'm an officer. Call the cops. They're going to play it out on the field because they're athletes on the court. Let them do it. Man, if I got elbowed in the ribs on the basketball court when I was in middle school, I elbowed you back.
We didn't call the cops. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back on the other side, there is a guy. He had an apology for something that he did.
He didn't punch anybody or jab anybody in the eye. I'll tell you who it is on the other side of the break. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief.
It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network with all the money talk going around. Matt Sluka leaving UNLV. Oakland A's leaving Oakland.
White Sox sucking and stealing the life and money out of the fans of the White Sox. We're going to have a chat with Andrew Brant. He's going to come through and join us in about 10 or 15 minutes. We'll talk about everything going on and what's wrong with college and how they can get it together and what's the deal with these contracts and NIL.
So we'll have that conversation in a little more than 10 minutes. Speaking of contracts in the NFL, we do have a player. We actually have a player in the NFL who has a big contract who admitted that he was wrong, that he needs to do better. And he's a wide receiver.
What are the odds that this is the case? I'm talking to you about C.D. Lamb. We saw what happened, what has taken place here with the Dallas Cowboys. They just lost to the Ravens.
C.D. Lamb had a fumble. He dropped the pass, only had 67 yards. He's yelling at Dak Prescott on the sideline. His body language looks absolutely terrible. It's like, oh, well, this is another element to kind of mix up the pot with the Dallas Cowboys.
And ultimately, C.D. Lamb, he spoke to the media and he said he's sorry. Man, he's been a professional, been a professional about this whole situation, understanding it's a long game. But as for me and my performance, I expect a lot out of myself, more than anyone could put on me. And quite honestly, I felt myself and obviously I felt the team just as far as producing and being that game breaker player for the team and obviously the guy that they can lean on. And, yeah, I kind of let it let the game get to my head a little bit. But in the same sense, I knew what I could do. I knew what I bring to the table and I know what I can do on that field. So with that being said, going forward, there shall be a difference.
Oh, there shall be. Well, they play the New York Giants tomorrow. I know the New York Giants are feeling happy. Malik neighbors catching two touchdowns this past weekend. He looks like a godsend, but I still don't trust Daniel Jones.
Dallas cop. Come on. You're going to lose three in a row. You're going to lose to the New York Giants. Now I got the Dallas Cowboys tomorrow.
Come on. Do I got the Dallas Cowboys winning much of anything at the end of the year? No, same old Dallas Cowboys. But tomorrow against the Giants, I get an NFC East matchup. Everybody, you know, battle it out to the end.
I'm going to take the Cowboys over the Giants. And I'll say that CD Lamb has one less one less tantrum to throw. You know what? When he threw that tantrum, CD Lamb was also asked, were you mad at Dak or were you mad at yourself? Absolutely myself. And then like my ability to contribute to the office, knowing what I can do, you know, so, um, and I played a huge part and once again, can't blame nobody.
You got to start with the man in the mirror and I'm a huge believer in that. And, um, watching that game kind of pissed me off, but I did that. You know what I'm saying? I can't get mad at nobody else. So with that being said, I've learned. Oh, nice. I don't know if he's old enough to remember Michael Jackson, but, uh, or listen to him, but he knows the song.
You got to start with the man in the mirror. Dallas Cowboys, their defense needs some work. Russian attack needs some work. They need a new owner too, but he ain't going anywhere. I still think they'll beat the giants tomorrow. And if they don't, we'll have a lot to talk about on Friday.
That will be absolutely hilarious. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, we're going to have a conversation with someone who is an NFL contracts expert. This man used to run operations for the legal side for the Green Bay Packers. We're going to talk with a legal analyst, Andrew Brandt.
I want to get his thoughts. What's going on with NIL in college. Why aren't there deals?
How can we put this together? And are we going to have more players who are saying pay me or I leave? We'll have that conversation on the other side. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport re-show coast to coast here on the infinity sports network. What a day, what a day, especially in college football. We talked about the player, former player from UNLV, Matthew Sluka, who said, I didn't get my money. I'm gone. Decided to bail on the team.
He said he was owed $100,000. College football and athletics continues to be a mess when it comes down to NIL and parameters and just any sort of guidelines and rules. Everybody has a free for all right now to talk about what took place last night into today. What might continue to take place with the NCAA and NIL and teams and players. It's time to have a conversation with someone who's very familiar with negotiating contracts. He's a former VP with the Packers, a sports business and legal analyst. His name is Andrew Brant. Andrew, thank you for taking the time to join us.
Yeah, happy to be with you. I've been saying for now two years that college sports is really pro sports now. It just has a lot less labor costs. The labor costs keep going up.
They're not the millions and millions that pro athletes make, but it's certainly getting that way. And this is another example of it. Is this kind of and we've seen, quote unquote, a series of shoes that have dropped over the past few years, obviously, with the advent of NIL in 2021. But today is the first time we had a player in an active season say, I'm gone, I'm leaving the starting quarterback. And we saw another one of their players leave.
He said it was a lack of playing time. Are we should or should we expect more of this into the future since there are no clear parameters? Yeah, my first reaction to this was I'm not sure what you just said is true. I'm not sure that players have made the play for either getting their money or getting more money or they're bolting. And donors, collective schools have stepped up and done it.
And if it hasn't, I just think you're right. This is going to be a trend because I don't know if all these NIL commitments are real. And sometimes, and I think this is what happened at UNLV, you'll hear something from a coach, even an assistant coach, and you'll take it to the bank and the people responsible for paying it are like, wait a minute, we didn't agree to that. But I could see this in a much bigger stakes game. In other words, a big-time college football player deciding not to play against a big rival or a bowl game or a playoff game or a basketball player, an NCAA tournament game, saying, you know what, unless you pay up, I'm not playing because this is not the NFL or the NBA or hockey or baseball where they have rules about that. Like you can be suspended, your whole contract could be at risk, you could be fined, you're disciplined. There are no rules right now. So it's certainly right for anything that could happen right now because it's truly a mess.
Former NFL exec Andrew Brant is joining us here at the JR Sportbreeze Show Coast to Coast. We know the NCAA pretty much said, hey, everybody, every man for himself, y'all figure it out. But what's next to create some parameters? We've seen some governments try to create some type of guidance. Do we need the players to unionize?
Who steps up to pull this together in a functional way for everyone? Well, let's take it back. I'm a lawyer. I teach sports law.
I teach all about this. Where back in the day, NCAA players, as well as pro players, by the way, had no rights. And that really continued up until about 15 years ago, a guy named Ed O'Bannon challenging the rules and seeing himself on a video game. And some things came in, such as cost of attendance, such as stipends, such as the genesis of name image likeness, which really hit a lot of people's minds of name image likeness, which really hit home in 2020, 2021, where players could. But that was NIL when it was innocent, right?
Just four years ago it was innocent. It was like McDonald's would pay you for ads or Nike or Reebok or signing autographs. Now it's become sinister because it's the arms race to get the best players. And because of lawsuits, judges have allowed schools to operate without restriction. There's a case that basically said you can't enforce any rules on NIL, which means that they don't have to show up and sign autographs.
They're just paid to play football. So with this lack of rules, we now have a potential settlement of the big cases that could put in a new system, but the judge is weighing that. May take weeks, months, years.
So I don't know the answer. That's really the point. The thing is, Charlie Baker's the new president of the NCA. He's inherited a mess. It's not his fault. We had Mark Eimert's guidance for so many years and he put his head in the sand.
Like no pay, no way, amateurs. And it's now come back to bite the NCA big time. Well, we know that Charlie Baker, a former politician, I'm sure that he plans on using some of his relationships to potentially have some overall larger federal guidelines. I know every state is kind of every state for itself right now. Doesn't his current or his past kind of lead towards a better future, maybe? I think that's why it was picked. I mean, he's a governor of Massachusetts.
He was a Republican governor in a Democratic state and absolutely why he was picked to go up there Capitol Hill, get some federal governance over this mess. And I think what that would have is really some fair market value guidelines for these deals. So sure, if you want to pay a quarterback $2 million, you can, but he's got to do something to get it. It's not pay for play.
It's not pro. So these are the things they're trying to put in place. And as you said, uniformity. So Georgia is the same in Alabama, the same as California and Texas. So there's some kind of level playing field. And so ultimately, we're going to be screwed for a few more years until somebody steps up.
Is that accurate? Well, as I said, it gets technical, but we have a lawsuit pending settlement. A judge in California is reviewing it now. That would provide a revenue sharing cap, if you will, where the big time schools can pay up to $20 million for all their athletes. And it would provide some kind of clearinghouse for NIL where an oversight office would say, that's a fair deal. We approve that. That's not a fair deal. We don't approve that.
Again, this has to be approved by a judge, hopefully within months, if not a year. Andrew Brand is joining us here, the JR Sport Brief Show. Back on the NFL side, you helped negotiate contracts, tons and tons and tons of them with the Green Bay Packers. We have seen the salary cap explode. We have seen some of these quarterback salaries explode when it comes to the results on the field, at least early on. And I think for quite some time, we won't see the salary maybe match up to the results and wins. What are your thoughts on the explosion of revenue? It has to get split somewhere, but maybe you would want to win with it?
I don't know. Yeah, I mean, listen, the quarterback market is one of those where you're either in or out. I mean, I thought about this with Tua.
I thought about this with Dak, with Daniel Jones. It's like if you're a team that's going to do a deal, you're going to pay the market. And the market has gone from 40 to 50 to 55 to 60 over the last couple of years. If you don't want to play in the market, fine. But if you do, I just don't think we're getting any quarterback saying, hey, I'll take a $25 million a year deal.
It's just not going to happen. So, yeah, I thought the Giants would hold off. I thought the Dolphins would hold off. I thought the Cowboys would hold off. But I guess it's just that fear of not being with a high-level quarterback.
And I don't know. I mean, if you're jumping in, you're going to pay it. I do push back about this theory that it's gone crazy and how are they going to afford the rest of the team. Listen, as someone who managed the NFL cap for 10 years, it's not that hard. You know, you have half your team, some places 60% of your team, 70% of your team that's on rookie contracts.
So they're cheap. You just have to figure out a way to pay 15 players. And I just don't, I think too much is made of that. You don't get in trouble paying a quarterback $50 million. You get in trouble when you miss on $10 million players or you buy free agents that don't work out, those kinds of things. So I think too much is made about the quarterback pay. Yeah, I agree.
I can't tell you how many people call up and, hey, he needs to take the discount that Tom Brady took. I'm like, whoa, whoa, just relax here. Okay.
Just slow down. Hey, final question as we approach the break, Andrew. In a general sense, when you look at a contracts like Otani or what a Victor Wenbanyama might make, are we approaching a sports bubble? We know the importance of sports in regards to entertainment, live entertainment, its value to streaming companies, but are we ever going to get anybody who just says, this is nuts. Are we approaching a sports bubble with maybe the interest in something like baseball or are we just going to see the money continue to go up and up and up and up and up? Yeah, I think two distinct things and we can debate why, but the media rights are going up and up and up. The contracts are going up and up and up, but I don't think there's a ton more people watching.
So I'm not sure what that means. Like the NBA just went from 25 billion over 10 years in media to 75 billion, 3x. But the number of people watching the NBA has not really changed.
It's gone up a little bit, tiny bit, in the last 10 years. So I don't know what that means. I just think if we're having a media discussion, networks just can't get anything better. There's nothing better than live sports.
Unless you're talking about the Oscars or presidential debates, that's it. So they're paying and paying and paying. And if you're talking about contracts, it's a two-tier system. The stars are going to get paid. And as I said just now, you've got a ton of players on low contracts.
They're not poor, but they're not making millions. So yeah, I think we're going to see more 50, 60, 70 million dollar a year players, but the majority of the players are making a million dollars or less. So that's going to be the system. It's one hell of a system and it certainly has changed.
You talk about free agency and Ed O'Bannon, there's a lot that has changed from Kurt Flood all the way to Ed O'Bannon up until now. Andrew, where can people follow you, your work, your writings, and everything that you do? Yeah, I got a lot of fuss that's running, but I do a podcast, The Business of Sports, The Business of Sports, wherever you hear podcasts. I do a newsletter on Sundays. It's called MySunday7.
MySunday7.com is where you sign up. I do reels, instructional reels on Instagram, Andrew Brant 2, and my column every week on Sports Illustrated as well. Andrew, I appreciate the time and your expertise and we'll see how things continue to roll. Every day we got a new piece of news, so I know it keeps you busy. Indeed. Take care.
Thank you so much. That Andrew Brant, a former VP, handled contracts with the Green Bay Packers, sports media executive, keeps up with everything. And one thing that we do know, money makes the world go round and there's so much value in sports.
That's why everybody is trying to go out there and get their piece of the pie. Whether you happen to be a quarterback at UNLV or you happen to be a pitching and hitting 50-50 member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, like Shohei Ohtani. Thank you again to Andrew Brant for joining us and having that conversation. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network, Coast to Coast. We're going to take a break.
When we come back on the other side, it's time to have a conversation. It's time to give you a new top six list. It's time to talk about, since we're talking about money, I'm going to talk about the top six crooks in sports. Yeah, these guys are stealing money.
They're not worried about not getting their cash. They are taking it. We'll have that top six list for you on the other side of the break. Before we do that, I want to remind you that this portion of the show is brought to you by O'Reilly Auto Parts. Think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.
Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Thank you again to Andrew Brant. We're going to take this break and we come back. I'm going to break down some of the biggest thieves, crooks, people taking that money that they didn't earn or maybe they don't deserve. It's Wednesday.
It's time for a new top six list. Crooks in sports. Oh, they stealing. I'm going to tell you who they are on the other side of the break. It's the J.R. Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network.
