USC Player Leaves Team (Hour 2)

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I watched it here in the studio. It was a funeral in Oakland as the Oakland A's have played their final game. The Chicago White Sox, they avoid history. Still tied with the New York Mets with 120 losses, tied for a major league record. They got three games. If they lose any of the three games left against Detroit, the White Sox are going to be the worst team in modern major league baseball history. That sounds crazy to say, but anyway, speaking of the worst tonight, Thursday night football, we got the Cowboys and the Giants and nobody expects anything from the Giants.

So I mean, come on. I mean, not to say they can't win the game, but I'm talking about for the whole season, right? If, if the Giants lose is just like, oh, just another game. Giants suck. Daniel Jones is on borrowed time. If the Dallas Cowboys lose, oh my goodness. Dallas Cowboys would fall to one and three. Jerry Jones. How many interviews could he do to talk about it? He'd be blaming himself and firing Mike McCarthy.

Oh man. It just, it could be disastrous if the Cowboys lose tonight. We'll talk about that in a second. We're getting ready for this big game between Alabama and Georgia. Got some SCC play. Finally, these two teams are going to take on each other and not some powder puffs that they can beat up. Even though Georgia, I mean, they took on Kentucky. I don't know what the hell they were doing. They were, they falling asleep at the wheel and all them Georgia players like to speed on the highway and stuff.

But by the time they played that game, it's like everybody was just fast asleep. And so we'll be joined by Kennington by Kennington Smith. He's going to join us next hour from the athletic to talk about Georgia and Alabama.

And of course there's so much more that I want to get into. Texas is still trying to figure out their quarterback situation as Quinn Ewer is going to be ready to go. Deshaun Watson. We talked about him yesterday. He doesn't want to run.

Mike McDaniel doesn't know what he's doing for Monday night football. Just, we got a lot to get into. If you want to participate in the show, you can. The phone number is 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. You can also find me online.

I am at JR Sport Brief. So we've talked about the A's, talked about the White Sox. Unfortunately, and I guess this is good.

Derrick Rose had a good career, all things considered. It's time to talk about the two teams that I mentioned playing in Thursday Night Football. About an hour from now, they're going to kick off in New Jersey on Amazon Prime. Hickey, the weather in New York is good, right? There's no rain, no clouds.

It's okay? It was raining earlier today for game time should be good. Actually a little humid today.

Oh wow. 70s and humidity. How about that? Maybe you're getting some of this warm air and weather kicked up your way. Mark, I'll take the warm air for sure. Keep the rain down by you, but I'll take the warm air. It has been raining basically since I stepped on air last night. It's been raining.

Oh yeah. Is this why? Are you right now in the middle of it? I don't think I'm in the middle of it. I think it's going to get worse between like now and probably 10 a.m.

I don't think the rain is supposed to stop until maybe, I don't know, mid, late morning tomorrow, lunch time. That'll be the end of it I guess. Now the big question from yesterday. Yes.

The Mets? No, no, no. Okay. Do you have your umbrella? Oh yeah. Back from the valet? Is it, I mean it sounds like you're gonna need it big time after the show tonight. Oh my god, yes.

Yes I do. I have my umbrella. My guy Eddie had my umbrella for me.

He did. For a minute there I went downstairs and you know that's the first thing I was looking for. The other valets, you know the ones who didn't know who the hell I am, they're like what is this guy looking for? And I saw an umbrella there Hickey and I said come on now. Not mine, but I saw another umbrella and I said this is a replacement umbrella.

I said you gotta be kidding me. I said the man really lost my umbrella and now he's holding here a replacement. And so then I, not a valet, went to look under the valet's desk and you know what was there? Your umbrella? My umbrella, that's right.

Wow. And I saw my guy Eddie and I gave him a big hug and I said thank you. He's like of course man, of course so.

Like I don't know. Like now in my brain I'm going I'm not obligated to buy him a drink in the future. Like he has to buy me a drink. Right, you did him the favor. You lent him your umbrella. His goal was just not to lose it. Yeah and if he lost it he would have got me, I would have had him give me a drink or an umbrella, one of the two. I just gave him a thanks. Thank you Eddie. I got my umbrella Hickey, I'm very happy.

Faith in humanity has been restored. It is. Umbrella for the first time ever. You left an umbrella somewhere, didn't get lost or stolen.

It's a first. It's like a, I don't know, what just, umbrellas, who buys umbrellas where you just steal them from somebody and left it behind, right? I never in my life could remember buying an umbrella, just there. You just, so you're the guy who just picks up the umbrella that somebody else left behind. No, I'm no thief. I'm no thief, come on.

They just, I don't know, they just, they just appear. You know how many umbrellas I've left in offices, bags, corners, restaurants, that I get home and I'm just like, oh crap, and I'm done. What are you going to do? Nothing. Can't call it in, that's gone. It's gone. Hey the black umbrella, did anyone see that? Nope. Yeah. Didn't see it. Nope.

Yeah. Well, what gets stole the most in America? Is the umbrellas or wallets? People don't even have wallets anymore.

Really? New generation will have, you have a wallet? I do. Oh, wow. Do you, you don't? I haven't had a wallet in about, I don't know.

I quit wallets in about 10 years ago. Yeah. Whoa. Whoa.

Ahead of the trend. So how do you carry an ID? I'm assuming so. I have an ID. Yeah, I have everything on me.

Yeah, of course. And what is one of those like sleek pouches? Like that's like the size of like a, like a business card. I sound like a vagrant. This may not be appropriate to say. I carry everything loose. Oh. Just loose. It's in my pocket.

Just hanging, hanging out. Yeah. Just in my pocket.

Everything I need is in my pocket is, or maybe in my phone. Now I'm going to be a target for thieves. Yikes. Yeah. Well, things could be worse.

Anyway, speaking of thieves, let's talk about some of these people stealing money, not a top six list from yesterday. Let's talk about the Dallas Cowboys one and two record in the New York football giants. One and two record. At least we got a little bit of a rivalry game on Thursday night football. None of this crap that they just try to sell us every Thursday. These garbage games, Jetson and Patriots of rivalry game. Not, not, not quite not now. And we know the Dallas Cowboys are scuffling right now. They just lost to the Ravens CD lamb through a fit. They just lost to the saints.

They got blown out. The running game sucks. They can't sack anybody. They can't sack anybody because teams are just running against them. You can't sack a guy. If he's not throwing the ball, the Dallas Cowboys are a mess. Mike McCarthy knows they're a mess because Mike McCarthy watched the New York giants also sack Deshaun Watson eight times. Do I think Dak is getting sacked eight times tonight?

I think not. But Mike McCarthy says we got to watch out for that defense. They're a little bit unpredictable as far as what they're doing on the edges. And Lawrence is just, he's just a dominant, dominant player inside. So I was really, really impressed, impressed, particularly the Cleveland game. You know, they, they really turned up the pressure in that game.

And, and, and, and obviously the sack numbers and the hits speak for themselves. Yeah, they made Deshaun Watson go, I'm not running anywhere. I'm not running past the line of scrimmage. I don't want to run behind the line of scrimmage. I don't want to run left.

I don't want to run right. It's funny to hear from Mike McCarthy. Typically when anybody talks from the Dallas Cowboys, it's Jerry Jones.

I guess they have to ask him permission, whether or not they can talk. C.D. Lamb is getting a big bucks. He can talk, even though he was just complaining about his performance and his behavior and his body language and at the feet against the Ravens.

C.D. Lamb says, ah, forget a coach. It's about us, the players actually going out there and getting the job done. We got to take it upon ourselves. The coaches are going to, they, they, they've done a job of preparing us for the situation and it's on us to execute. Um, obviously the thing they can do is game plan for us, put us in position, line us up, tell us where to go, what gaps to fill, what routes to run, to be physical, all these other things.

But at the end of the day, when we get between those lines, it's on us. Okay. We'll see what he can do. Let's see who has the better wide receiver game.

Let's see who has the better game between C.D. Lamb and Malik neighbors. Malik neighbors has already lightened it up. And of course he was going to be the, uh, the number one option for Daniel Jones. Here you got Devin Singletary, by the way, he is no Saquon Barkley. He's trying to figure out how to not fumble the football away. Malik neighbors already through three games already has 271 yards receiving to go along with three touchdowns. He's the first man in NFL history with 20 plus receptions and three touchdowns in his first three games. He was snagging two touchdowns right out of the gate last week for the New York Giants as they beat up on those Browns. And so Daniel Jones, even Malik neighbors and the other guys, he's just like, oh, come on, we got enough on offense.

This is Daniel Jones speaking. I think I'll continue to see what the defense is doing and read out the play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go. So if that's Malik, I'll continue to do that.

If it's other people, then I'll do that too. So I have confidence in all our guys and Malik's played well, but we got a lot of, a lot of good receivers. Malik is the number one option.

Come on now. You got a guy on the team, Jalen Hyatt out of Tennessee. He's still trying to figure out how, when they're going to throw him the football. Stop it. He's going to throw him the football. Stop it. Everybody knows where you want to throw the ball.

Option number one, two, three, and four is Malik neighbors. Brian Deball is no idiot. He knows this is what he needs to do in order to win the football game. And Brian Deball is week to week. There's no guarantees that he's going to be back next season.

If these New York giants really stink to join up, nobody expects anything out of Daniel Jones. Anything that he does this season is going to be a plus, but Brian Deball talking about the fans, Brian Deball says, yeah, we want to beat the Cowboys, but in the giant swamp air conditioner in New Jersey named MetLife, Brian Deball says, we got to win it for our people. The last two games on the road to been outstanding support on the road at Washington. It was, it was outstanding at Cleveland. There was a lot of people. So, um, you know, again, our job is to go out there and play and perform well and, you know, love our fans and hopefully give them something that you're about.

I got this hickey. This is going to be a close game. I'm going to give it to the Dallas Cowboys. I think that a better team. They are definitely the better team. They're the more desperate team as well coming off that ass beating. They took against the Ravens. I think they went by double digits, double digits.

Oh, I think it'll be close. Here's the problem with the Dallas Cowboys. They cannot run the football right now and they can't stop the run right now. And I understand who's running on the New York giants. Like there ain't no Saquon back there. It's not Lamar Jackson. You don't got no Derrick Henry.

They don't, they don't have that problem. Alvin Camaro isn't going to run wild, you know, against the Dallas Cowboys. The giants don't have that, that, that, that type of it.

And we've certainly seen over the summer, even up until now, the little back and forth between Trayvon digs and then also Malik neighbors. And so we know that they're going to, they're going to be a little chippy. I'm not going to say the game is going to come down to those two guys, but the giants are not going to run the football against the Dallas Cowboys. Like the past two teams that they went up against. And the giants, I don't, it's today, the day that Daniel Jones becomes the bad version of Daniel Jones.

It might be, how about this is rather interesting. Demarcus Lawrence, eight of his career sacks. He has 60 sacks. Eight of them have come against Daniel Jones.

And so basically Demarcus Lawrence knows Daniel Jones blood type, and we'll be chasing him down tonight. A matter of fact, if we go a little bit further, not just looking at the defense, but at these two teams overall, Dak Prescott has won his past 12 starts against the New York giants. I feel well, I'm happy. The giant fans at least have some type of optimism, you know, coming off of a victory, I guess. But tonight in New Jersey, the giants are going to probably have a loss as crazy as it would be for the Dallas Cowboys to fall one and three, as much as people would continue to say, Oh, the sky isn't falling, but it is just, it's fallen already. I think the Cowboys will get the job done. It seems more appropriate for the Dallas Cowboys to be two and two and the New York giants to be one and three because the Cowboys they'll, they'll kind of leave around and maybe make the playoffs with all of their warts and the New York giants, their award. And so is their quarterback.

And you just got to deal with them the rest of the season. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. You could also find me online at JR sport brief. Dak Prescott currently warming up. Dallas Cowboys, New York giants get at it in about an hour from now. We are going to take a break when we come back on the other side. You know, we talked about Matt Sluka from UNLV quitting yesterday. You know, speaking of people's seasons being over, this guy just quit on the running rebels. He just called it a wrap. We had another player who decided to quit as well and his had nothing to do with money. I'm going to tell you the USC player who rightfully or wrongly is just quitting on the year in September.

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8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Yeah, you could talk about whatever game you want to. That's what I'm here for. Waiting for that Monday night football game to kick off in about an hour's time in New Jersey between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. At least they will be playing football. Unlike Matthew Sluka from UNLV, formerly of UNLV. Yeah, that's the quarterback who quit on the team yesterday, two days ago, because he said the team was not paying him his $100,000.

So he just stopped. I've never heard that before in football, not in college football. We know about players holding out. I mean, come on now, Hassan Redick has a contract with the New York Jets. Hassan Redick is looking for a new deal. Hassan Redick is still not at work.

This is the pros. They got a union. They have a contract and he is being fined for not showing up to work. Let's see how long that lasts.

But with all the new NIL rules and eligibility requirements and transfer portal, college athletes have more power than ever. So Matthew Sluka can say I'm gone. The starting quarterback just leaves up and walks out like he's Antonio Brown.

Right. Remember, Antonio Brown just ripped off his shirt and left Hickey. If Sluka wanted to make a better statement, he should have just left in the middle of the game against Fresno State. That would have been cool. Oh, I mean, he probably wouldn't have gotten signed by any other team after that.

But you talk about leaving a lasting legacy. That would have been pretty cool. He's like, I'm gone. Like at halftime, like, no, with a lead in the middle of a play, he just takes his helmet off, leaves it on the dirt and just walks out.

Remember, what was it? Vonte Davis, God rest his soul. He left the team at halftime, right?

He retired at halftime. Yep. Said, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not doing this anymore.

I'm not doing this. He said, I'm not doing this anymore. We saw what Antonio Brown did. He just, well, he got kicked out of the game and he decided to leave off the field. Bear Alexander is the latest college athlete to do this. A defensive lineman originally played here for the Georgia Bulldogs, recently moved over to USC, just played in the game against Michigan, played almost half their snaps, 21 snaps.

Okay. He played. His dad shared that he's leaving, that he's done, but then he's still going to practice with the team. And the reason why is his dad says his goal is to be a full-time starter and leader on defense. And if they're not going to do that, then he'll find that elsewhere.

They know what elsewhere. They know what the plan is. I'm like, ouch, that doesn't, that doesn't sound like a good plan to me. That sounds like you're going to, you're a quitter.

And so Bear Alexander is going to pick up two more seasons of eligibility to play because he hasn't played four games yet. Now this, this sounds like if I don't get what I want, I'm going to quit. And his dad said that this was a family decision and I'm not in their family. I'm not at their dining or dining room table. I'm not sitting down with them at dinner. I don't know the family.

I don't know them, but just from the outside, looking in without knowing the particulars and knowing the details, and it ain't none of my business, but this just sounds like, like I'm quitting. They basically admitted my son isn't getting enough playing time. So we're just going to stop playing.

What message that Hickey just mentioned this with, with Saluka, what message does it say to just quit in the middle of the game? And yeah, it's not the middle of the game, but his dad also said he's going to stay with USC and just practice. Why would Lincoln Riley even want the guy on the squad? If he's not going to play, if he's upset with playing time, this is just pathetic.

This is the epitome of I'm taking my ball and going home. Lincoln Riley, before the story even came out, he was talking about Bear Alexander and he heard the rumors and everything. Lincoln Riley told everybody bear. Alexander is fine. Listen to this from yesterday.

He played over a third of the game, you know, so many people want to act like a guy's not playing steps. He's doing a good job for us out here. He's getting better. There's, there's no story there. And I know you guys are looking for one.

Like there's, there's no story there. I was out here working hard. He's improving. He's in a new system with a new coach. He's, he's, he's getting better.

I think he's going to continue to get better. It should be hard to play D-line at USC. Like it ought to be kind of hard. Like if it's not, it wasn't hard last year, you know? And that's, that's why we weren't very good up there. You know what? We're pretty decent up there and it's hard and the margins are thin. So sometimes it's not what somebody's not doing.

It's competitive and there's tough decisions to make every week. I know somebody hitting that jackhammer in the back. Sheesh. Icky, what the heck could they be jackhammering? That's, I'd have no idea.

My goodness. I know lots of construction in Los Angeles, but damn. Could this get quiet for 10 minutes for coach to speak, please? What are they building out there at USC? I don't know. Building Reggie Bush's statue. What are they doing?

Oh, long overdue. Good call. Who's he suing?

Is he suing them? No, he's not. Right? No, no, no. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They're the enemy.

Everybody needs their back pay. Even Reggie Bush. Wow. It's kind of crazy that Lincoln Raleigh basically said, we have competition now.

He played over a third of the snaps. Like get over it, man. Come on.

And then the news came out from his dad that no, we need to play the whole game. And then Lincoln Raleigh was asked earlier today, this morning, you got an update on what you told us yesterday. You said this was, there was nothing going on.

Obviously there is. Listen to this. Good morning, everybody. I know you all saw the surprising news from yesterday. Not going to be taking any of those internal matters and discussing, not going to take any questions on the subject. We're fired up for the guys that we have that are playing. Oh my goodness.

We got a problem here, man. And this is just awful because my thought processes, aren't you more attractive if you play, aren't you more attractive if you actually show what you can do? My, my thought process is why do I want to bring a quitter into my program?

Somebody who, if they face somebody who's better than them, they take the approach of, I'm just going to take my ball and go home. Like he played at Georgia. Why'd you leave here? You went to USC. Well, why did you go there? You heard it.

Lincoln Raleigh said, we needed help on the defensive line. And now obviously you have too much competition. Now you want to quit.

You want to quit. That's not endearing. You want to have somebody who's been through the fire. Somebody who's going to respond. Someone who's going to, no, I don't know. Let's say I got to wash my words. I have some gumption. Someone who's not just going to go, oh, they didn't give me my minutes. So I'm going to go home.

Come on now. You ever played ball with that kid before? Kid shows up to the park. It's his ball. There's other people playing with his ball out there. He's playing too, but he sucks. So he doesn't play as much and he can do whatever he wants with his ball. He don't got nothing to do at home, but he now wants to take his ball and go home because he sucks. You ever seen a kid like that before?

Yes. Thankfully it was not me. I was bad, but never that bad where I got to take the ball and go home because I'm not playing. Oh, come on. I'm not an advocate for violence, but that's one of the first things you learn as a kid. Regardless of who or what you do, a lot of times there's going to be somebody better than you.

That's it. And just because they are doesn't mean that you should just quit. I can't believe they're doing this and it's not about money. Matt's Luca decided to leave because they, oh, he said his agent said they didn't pay me my money. Bear Alexander is saying I'm leaving. I'm quitting, but I'm going to still practice. Okay.

Because I'm not getting enough plan time. Now Nick Saban was getting a lot of money. Nick Saban had a lot of money coming his way. Reading and looking at some of these stories now that are coming out, I can understand why Nick Saban said, all right, I'm done.

I'm not doing this crap. Nick Saban. Oh man, come on. Nobody would say this to an eventually some idiot would, Hey Nick, I need my plan time. What? Hey Nick, how much money am I getting? What?

Not going to fly. Now we're really finding out why all these coaches said I'm done. Coach K said, I'm done. Coach K said, I'm finished. Nick Saban said, I'm out of here and all we're going to do.

And it's really, this is the part that stinks. It used to be a quiet time and this is all because there are no parameters. I blame the NCAA, not the student athletes. It used to be a time where the college athletes, at least they just played. You know, I can deal with the divas making the millions of dollars and the holdouts and all. I can deal with that in the professional side of sports. But now we got open whiners, complainers and quarters in college too? I'm not ready for all of this.

We had an Andrew Brandt on yesterday, a former VP from the Packers. Nobody has an answer as to where college athletics is going to go. How all of this gets sorted out. You're probably going to need a massive push from the federal government to try to at least have some type of guidelines in place where the players can make money.

The schools are protected and everybody can at least be some type of happy. But right now the players are pulling the, they're pulling the card. Yeah, jerks too. Not you, Bear Alexander. I don't know you personally, but what you're doing, you just sound like a quitter. That's what you are. Go compete. That's what you want a team for.

All these college athletes. I didn't get my way. I go somewhere else.

Well, well, well, well, well quit transfer portal. We're raising a bunch of punks. People that are ready to just quit the first time things don't go their way. Where's mommy. Where's my bottle. Let me suck my thumb. We got a bunch of punks out here.

Grow up, face some adversity and become better for it. It's the JR sport. We show here with you on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. So many punks running away from adversity, not willing to go through the fire to get to the other end. We come back on the other side of the break. When I have a conversation about somebody else, it seems like he's screwed. He plays in the NFL.

There's a few things that he's not willing to do now that he's secured all of his money. And then we'll talk about a college quarterback or two. What's going on at Texas.

Matter of fact, we'll talk about Deshaun Watson and Texas, the Longhorns. You're listening to the JR sport brief. Now that's some high praise.

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That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. This portion of the show is sponsored by the new 2025 Hyundai Tucson hybrid that has class leading advanced safety features like the available blind spot view monitor to make your ride more enjoyable. It's sexy, right? Of course it is. And speaking of sexy, when you're sexy, you have options, right? And that what they say about people?

I think I think sexy people have more options. I think anyway, down in Texas, they got options. They think they got two quarterbacks. They know one is expected to go in the NFL draft if he can ever stay healthy. And other guys, last name is Manning.

I think that says enough. Talking about them, Texas Longhorns. Quinn, you has been gone for the past game and a half. Arch Manning played out of his mind as a replacement five touchdowns last week.

Not so much. There's two touchdowns, two interceptions interception right out of the gate. And he's still got some learning to do.

And they still smacked up Louisiana Monroe 51 or three. It's crazy as a ass woman. But what is Quinn? You is going to come back.

Why are we still even worried about this? They're going to take on Mississippi State. Come on now. Mississippi State is going to get abused, regardless of who's out there. I mean, Florida just took their lunch. The Gators actually won a game against them, 45 to 28. They lost to Toledo 41 to 17. Arizona State beat them 30 to 23.

Sex is going to win, regardless of who's out there. But people want to know what the deal is with Quinn Ewers. Has that abdominal injury. Is he going to play? Is he going to come back? Well, his head coach, Steve Sarkeesian, he had an answer as to whether or not Arch Manning was going to start or whether or not we're going to see Quinn Ewers back out there.

Listen to Sarc. You know, we're going to decide on the quarterback thing tomorrow. And again, it won't be a secret.

We're not trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes. We just want to give Quinn every opportunity to see if he's ready to play and what he looks like. But I'd say he's improved every day. I think Arch has had a very good week. And I would say this, Trey Owens probably had his best practice as a Longhorn today.

So that was really encouraging as well. Yeah, whatever. Come on. I don't care about none of this. They're going to beat Mississippi State period, regardless of what happens.

And here's the bigger question. Here's a statement. I'm sick of Quinn Ewers. I'm sick of them. I'm sick of hearing about his draft stock. I'm sick of him getting hurt and coming back.

I'm tired of him. If you're going to play football, just be healthy. Otherwise he'd be in the NFL by now, but he can't be in the NFL. He can't be in the NFL. He can't be in the NFL. He can't be in the NFL by now, but he can't. He went back to college to try to make it through a full year to show that he is a viable prospect, but he's not healthy. Come on.

I'm sick of him. They're going to be in a college football playoff, we know. Are they going to be number one?

We don't know that, but they'll be in the playoff. But then the larger thing is just get him out of here. He's going to back up in the NFL anyway. Come on. Hickey, what do you think about Quinn Ewers?

Am I too harsh? I'm sick of the guy. I like Quinn Ewers. Oh no. I think he's really good. Now the injury concerns are, well, to use a repetitive word, very concerning. I mean, he's hurt every year. That is not, like that would give me major pause if I was a team thinking about drafting him, but when he's out there, he is one of the best quarterbacks in all of college football.

I would argue this year, the best quarterback in college football. But the problem is you can't stay healthy. Yeah, that's what I said. Back up NFL QB.

Can't get hurt holding the clipboard, you would think. Well, yeah. So that's why he's going to be a backup. Would you take him as a first round pick in 2025? That is, oh my gosh. No, hell no.

You can't. You can't trust he's going to stay healthy. No.

Nope. The only good news is he hasn't been like, maybe that jammed shoulder two years ago, it's Alabama where he missed a few games, but otherwise it's been like a game here, two games there. At least he's not getting hurt and is out for the season.

Oh, close enough. But missing two or three games every single year is not what you want from a first round pick, let alone a number one overall pick. And you're playing in college. Let's keep that in mind. This is college.

What happens when like a real ass grown man falls on you? And I get it. You're playing now in the SEC or whatever. Now you're going to face bigger guys that are going to be in the NFL. But I'm talking about guys who are seasoned in the NFL, guys who've been lifting, I don't know, 500 pounds for five and six years. And this is what they do. You're supposed to last.

And I get it. I'm not, I don't want to put Quinn Ewers in the same category of Tuatanga Veloa, who ended up ripping his hip on his way out of Alabama. But there were legitimate concerns about how he was going to operate given his size in the league. And sure, Tuatanga Veloa, you know, he hasn't had his hip ripped up and his arm and his shoulder, but he's getting knocked around like a rag doll. And so whether it's a head injury or to your head, shoulders, knees or toes, like I would not trust Quinn Ewers in the NFL just because of the durability questions.

I am out. Hickey, if I had it my way, we'd be riding in the Arch Manning train all the way to the college football playoff. I know it's not going to happen unless Quinn Ewers gets hurt again, gets hurt again.

But that's what I would like. You know who the conductor is? Peyton? Oh, you?

No, no, I thought it'd be Peyton and Eli. I think, I mean, you've been a bigger fan of his. I feel like talking about more than they even are. They're humble.

I've been trying to follow along with this guy since he was in high school in New Orleans. So you have to be the conductor. They can take a backseat.

No, no, no. I ain't driving no train. Do you drive a train? What do you do to a train?

It doesn't drive, does it? Conduct. You will conduct the train. Now you got to drive the train. No, but the conductor's in the middle of the train, right? That's the conductor. Who's in the... Uh-oh.

Who's on first? I don't know. It shows how much me and you know about trains. I thought the conductor was like the driver of the train. Aren't there two of them?

Are they both... You know what I mean, right? There are two conductors? The one in the back at the caboose? No, not one in the ass of the train. The ticket collector? Yeah.

Doesn't he do stuff with the doors? Yes. So the conductor operates the train. Are they both conductors?

No. Hmm. Now you have me thinking, maybe you're right. Maybe the conductor and the driver are two different people. You want to know something? One thing I know for sure, there's not a conductor, an active conductor listening to the show right now because Amtrak in America sucks. Well, that is true.

That much I know. There's no con... We got lots of truck drivers listening and people and airports and stuff and workers listening to the show right now. There are no conductors listening to the show because while that train moves, train sucks, okay? Why do our train system... How old is it? Is it 800 years old? It's older than the country, huh?

They decided not to upgrade it for whatever reason. Oh my God. We got the... We... Are we a developed country? We're supposed to be, right?

Supposed to be is the key word. America has the worst train system on earth. How do we... And I'm going off on a tangent now. How do we have both commercial and then also... What would you call it?

Business. How do you have it on the same rail lines? That's a great question. How do you not have more rail lines? Where we put... Where we put more rail lines? Everywhere. You ever see a map of the railroads here? They go nowhere. More railroads. That's what we need. Now, okay. So they have room for rail...

I guess you can... The railroads that exist right now, they need to be used for passenger usage because they go in and out the cities. You get what I'm saying?

Yes. These same train tracks are utilized for commercial purposes. They're moving barrels and cars and products and goods and they're moving everything but people. We move more goods, I swear, than people with our rail lines. Like, Hickey, if I wanted to get a train right now from Atlanta to New York, it should... You would think using technology is good. I don't know. I can use my face to open up my phone, okay? You would think that I could get on the train and I could get there safe and fast and I don't know, it's six hours or less?

Does that sound reasonable? Very. Why does a train from Atlanta to New York take like, I don't know, 12 to 18 hours?

With a guaranteed derailment and or delay. What is that? What is that? What is this?

What is this? It cost you an arm and a leg too to get it. Oh my God. Some of the train tickets cost more than the airplane. Come on. Crazy. Bad business.

That's what that is. I wish I could have my own train service. I can't though. I can't. Why not?

How? The JR Express. Now, I don't know where you're going to get the infrastructure and the money but it's a good idea.

I would invest or at least I would be a passenger. I'm going to buy from the... What am I going to buy? Tracks from the government? Where am I laying down tracks?

Middle of the city. What am I going to... Eminent domain?

How can I do that? Hey, we got a guy who's just... He told me I have to move out of my house so he could build a train track. He started digging himself.

He said it's eminent domain. Come on. This sucks. Why am I... We did all this because of Arch Manning? Because you're the conductor of the Arch Manning train. We're still figuring out who the actual conductor is. Yeah. Who drives the train. Hooper.

Hooper. That's true. Here's the deal though. If you are the Mannings, do you want him starting in the middle of the year though? Do you want that on him? Wouldn't you want him to have one more off season to just kind of freshen up and get ready? You don't want this on him now. You don't want to put any potential stink on the Arch Manning name.

You don't. You want him going into next season where he knows he's the guy. He can build some camaraderie.

It may not be the best scenario just to dump him in because Quinn Ewers can't stay healthy. I'd love to see Arch. I've been waiting years to see this guy.

This may not be the best scenario. I can wait. I liked Eli.

I'm ready for Arch. Let him be the New York Jets... Hickey, if he was the Jets' next quarterback. Oh my goodness.

I would love that. Oh. Would you be happier than you are right now with your current quarterback? I don't like Aaron Rodgers. Okay. So the answer is yes. All right.

Let's go. If Aaron Rodgers wins the New York Jets a Super Bowl, I still won't like him. I'm just saying. That's dedication to hatred. I love it. I'm not a hater.

I'm a lover. It's the JR Sportbree Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, we're going to talk about another quarterback on the other side. Plus Alabama and then Georgia. Don't move.