Florida State Faltering (Hour 2)

It is the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Wednesday to you. It's the middle of the week. Today is hump day. I'm gonna try my best to get you over the damn hump. Okay, I'll be hanging out with you for the next three hours.

But this is a four hour show. I get started every single weekday at 6pm Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Nicky holding it down for us in New York City. Hey, thank you to Connor. Connor's helping out too.

There's people hanging out, doing a radio show. Good for us. For you. Because without you, there ain't no damn show. Thank you.

Anyway, you've already talked about a lot. Where you been? We showed some love to the Detroit Tigers. Advancing to the divisional round of the American League playoffs. Knocking off everybody's favorite team, the Houston Astros. They beat them.

Five to two. They got Cleveland up next. We got some other games that are currently in action right now. This minute, the second Kansas City. They lead Baltimore two to one in the bottom of the seventh. The New York Mets have a chance to eliminate the Milwaukee Brewers. That game is about 40 minutes away. And then tonight, San Diego has a chance to get rid of Atlanta. San Diego leads their series one to nothing.

Here on this show, we're going to keep things rolling. We talked about the Tigers. We got into Devante Adams and his trade situation. Antonio Pierce is the new Bill Belichick without the accolades.

He doesn't know anything about nothing. Antonio, how old are you? I don't know. I'm thinking about Denver. Antonio, did you talk to the Devante today?

I talk to him all the time. Well, today I'm thinking about Denver. Obviously, he is only thinking about the Denver Broncos and nothing else. Devante Adams? Well, he still isn't playing with his hamstring issue. And a matter of fact, Antonio Pierce, he didn't even have an answer for that.

It's like, hey, I'm not asking you about your Instagram usage. Antonio Pierce, did you talk to Devante Adams today? Give me an answer. Listen to what Antonio Pierce had to say for that. He's supposed to be. Is he in the building?

Antonio Pierce could go into politics. You don't answer no questions. Is the sky blue? Well, let me tell you about my background first, OK? No, is the sky blue?

Well, I've been doing this for years. Oh, man. Antonio Pierce for president. What year are we in? Twenty, twenty eight.

Yeah, put him in there. Can't tell the truth for nothing. Anyway, speaking of telling the truth. Robert Sala and this guy's name, Aaron Rodgers, they can send you to a lot of the public about their relationship. You would think they'd go apple picking, go into the pumpkin patch up in New Jersey somewhere right now. But no, they're just trying to win games for the New York Jets, telling everybody that they get along. They don't. Aaron Rodgers saying that they get along.

I'm sure that's not true. Sure. Aaron Rodgers can't stand him. Hickey, who does Aaron Rodgers talk to him about behind his back? Who's he calling?

Definitely Randall Cobb. I think he's pretty tight with him. OK, you found a friend. OK. Did he? I mean, he's tight with Allen Lazard. You think they, you know, teammates he'll talk about?

Probably, right? So you can relate like, you know, Robert, remember what he said in the meeting today? What an idiot. Oh, he's worse than Mike. This guy's worse. Where did they get this guy from?

San Francisco? Oh, he's worse than Mike McCarthy. What are we doing here? Remember when Mike was skipping meetings for Massages? Boy, we thought that was bad. Yeah, Robert Salas. We wish he would skip this meeting.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I don't know anybody else who Aaron Rodgers would talk to. But yeah, you found two guys. David Bakhtiari right there was pretty tight. He's in rehab on his knee. Is he retired? Where is he? Is he playing?

I don't think he's playing. Man, injuries suck. That's why I just talk, Hickey. My body hurts and I don't do anything.

That's true. Stand here and talk. Hard knock life.

Anyway, 855-212-4227. Speaking of a hard knock life and injuries, Christian McCaffrey is like, I'm gonna call him a term. And by the way, Vincent Bonsignore is going to join us in about 15 minutes. We're going to have a whole chat about the Raiders. He helped break the story. He broke the story that Devontae Adams was open and looking for and seeking and fine with a trade. And so we'll have that chat with Vincent Bonsignore in about 15 minutes.

He's going to come through and join us from the Las Vegas Review Journal. But before we get there, let's talk about Christian McCaffrey, the man who has yet to be seen for the San Francisco 49ers, a place where Rob Salah used to be the defensive coordinator. The 49ers are two and two. Throughout the course of the season, they've had to deal with a multitude of injuries on their offense, like almost every star player. Whether it's Kittle or Purdy or Deebo. Obviously McCaffrey.

Everybody's been knocked around, except for Iyuk. And it appears that last week, this man had a whole fit about changing his pants and his shorts at practice. The 49ers look vulnerable this year, right? Especially if they don't have no Christian McCaffrey. This guy's a future Hall of Famer. He's one of the few running backs to have a season where he hauled in more than 1000 yards receiving and 1000 yards on the ground.

He was the offensive player of the year. He's done it all except for Hoist, the Vince Lombardi trophy, and he comes from a long line. The McCaffrey's you think you're you think you got an athletic family? You think you sit around at Thanksgiving and talk about grandpa throwing a football and your brother what he did at the high school team? There's nobody I know like the McCaffrey's.

Man, LeBron James has some work to do before he even gets to this level. We all know about Ed McCaffrey. Ed McCaffrey winning them championships with the Broncos and out there with Terrell Davis and John Elway throwing him the ball a million times. Even got a Super Bowl championship with the 49ers for standing around and pushing people. Picky, do you have genes like Ed?

I mean, you got to wait to have kids first, but. Ed McCaffrey has Christian. He got the kid who's playing for Washington right now that got Luke. He got another son who played wide receiver Max, who's now coaching the Dolphins. He had a son, Dylan, who was like the number two ranked quarterback in the country, went to Michigan. Ed is a Super Bowl champ.

Christian McCaffrey is one of the best running backs ever. Like, like, this is just on the dad's side. What the hell is this? What are they feeding them? I have that. I would love to know. And I can answer your question. Guarantee I do not have those genes.

OK, no siree. And Ed, Ed McCaffrey himself. He has four siblings. OK, he has a sister who played college basketball at Georgetown. He has a brother who played college basketball at Duke. His wife.

Ed McCaffrey's wife, the Christian and the boys, the mother, Lisa, she is the daughter of an Olympic sprinter. This is hickey. Come on, man. Did they do this on purpose? No, not right. Like athletes typically want to be with athletes, but like this is an extreme here.

That is that feels like a cheat code. That's how we got, I don't know, Shohei Ohtani. What did his parents do? Did they play baseball?

That's a great question. Has to be. Come on. That's like Victor and Benyama. I know Victor went both his parents and they play basketball.

I mean, that's how you get to seven, four and growing. Oh, man. Wow.

Yeah, I don't think Victor and Benyama's mother was a jockey. She plays basketball. I think she's a coach now.

This is crazy. And so who better to talk to about Christian McCaffrey than his dad? I don't know.

I think everybody in a family, they wake up and they put creatine in their coffee. That's what I think. Christian McCaffrey has been gone. They say he has Achilles tendonitis. His father's calf is bothering him.

He's on injured reserve. They said it's not just one leg. Now it's both legs, because most people know if you injure one part of your body, then the other part overcompensates. And now both of his legs hurt. Makes me hurt thinking about it.

And so what gives? This man is making all this money. A matter of fact, he's 27 years old. The 49ers just gave him a contract extension. He got two years and 38, almost 40 million dollars added to his deal. He's around until 2027, at least on paper.

He's in his prime. What the hell is going on with him? Well, his dad, Ed. He sat down on the Ross Tucker podcast and he basically told everybody, well, my son, Christian, he works too hard. Listen to this. Tendonitis is an overtraining injury, meaning you're training too hard or doing too much. And it turns into tendonitis.

And if I would say Christian has a weakness, it's that he sometimes has to protect himself from himself in terms of training too much and doing too much. And so we've already had that discussion. Next offseason, we need to reevaluate what you're doing.

But it's hard. You just came off an offensive player of the year, record-setting historic performance, and you've been doing what you've been doing. Right. But maybe going all the way to the Super Bowl, losing another month of football because of the extra games and and, you know, having that burning desire to get back to a Super Bowl and win it. Right. You know how that motivates you in the offseason. Maybe, you know, you do have to dial it back, but it's so hard to tell him to dial it back. I get it.

Hickey, I understand what happened. He needs to go back to the Carolina Panthers. That's it. Have all that motivation just wiped away. All the motivation is wiped away. He doesn't have to worry about the extra, I don't know, two or three, four football games. He gets to know that his season ends like maybe right after New Year's. He knows he doesn't have to play any more football.

He's golden. Like, that's the problem. They sent Christian McCaffrey to a good football team that's worth a damn. And now he's working too hard. If he goes back to the Panthers, he even gets less football like this.

That's the problem. And we know these these guys, he makes a lot of money. You know, Ed McCaffrey, Ed McCaffrey looked like he was no no giant human being. He was tall, thin and very strong. He was jacked to the gills given his size. He wasn't some incredible Hulk looking wide receiver until you looked at his muscles.

You make a lot of money. You can rest. I thought rest.

Everybody knew you got to rest. I mean, I expect we can see him back at the end of the season if all it is is an overuse injury. But damn, the 49ers need him. They got the Cardinals next. They should beat them. Cardinals are just they're up there down here.

But damn. Christian McCaffrey, get it together. LeBron James, all these stories about how he goes to dinner and Norma Tech boots. It's the best of food. And Tom Brady lasted forever by not eating nightshades. No potatoes and no tomatoes. I don't know what a weird guy that guy is.

Thank you. Why are they paying him so much money? Because it's Tom Brady.

Because I guess they bought some that weirdness. Does it make a difference, though? Are the ratings going to change because of him? No, no. Although he made some news this week with the whole Baker feud and hey, I almost played for the Bears sort of thing.

So something ish. No, no, no. I haven't had him. I haven't listened to him yet.

Every game has been on mute or been a blowout. No need to watch Tom Brady yet. Ask me when the Super Bowl comes or who has a Super Bowl this year. Do you know? Doesn't matter if you don't. Who knows?

I don't. I feel like it is Fox, though. I think it is Fox. When he does have a Super Bowl mate. That's when it's going to matter, because the next day people are going to make fun of him either way. It'll be like, hey, that guy Tom Brady on the Super Bowl. He sucked last night. Isn't that the guy who used to throw the ball? He calls the games now. He's not very good.

Random people in America will say that anyway. Good luck to Christian McCaffrey. It's in his jeans. It's in this guy's jeans. He probably has Wolverine jeans.

I go sit him in the bathtub for a few hours, let him soak and take him out. Have legs like brand new in the forty nine is they'll they'll be fine. Christian McCaffrey will be fine as well. And thank you, Ed McCaffrey.

I haven't heard this man speaking about, I don't know, 20 years. Thank you for telling us about how much your son works. It's what a good father does.

Now he needs to get some money from his kid. It's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. Vincent Bonsignore is going to join us from the Las Vegas Review Journal. He'll break the news about Davante Adams and his future. The fact that he is ready to move on. What does this mean for Davante? Where is his likeliest landing spot?

And then for the Raiders, where the hell are they going to land? Besides the bottom, we'll talk to Vincent Bonsignore about this on the other side of the break. It's the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

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Everything the Internet, the television, the radio over the past two, three days. It's the situation going on in Vegas right now involving Devante Adams and someone who helped break the story and get the word out about this trade and what the future might hold is Vincent Bonsignor from the Las Vegas Review Journal. He's joining us right now to give us some insight as to how we got to this point and where we possibly might go after this. Vincent, thank you for taking the time to join us.

You got it. Thank you for having me. Now, we saw this just kind of pop up and it feels like the writing has been on the wall, even dating back to training camp, where there were rumors of Devante moving. And it was always, no, he's not going.

Oh, I'm not going anywhere. How did we get to this point? Are you surprised?

No, I'm not surprised. You're going all the way back to when Derek Carr, one of the principal reasons why Devante Adams came to Las Vegas, to play for the Raiders and to play for the Raiders team that he grew up rooting for and be closer to his Northern California base, where his family was able to come down and watch games every time they played in Las Vegas. It was also to play with Derek Carr, his good friend and former Fresno State teammate. But going back to when Derek Carr was ultimately moved on from the Raiders, that obviously removed one of the components that even brought Devante here to the Raiders. Pretty much from that moment on, while Devante was always on board, wanted it to work, was determined to be part of the reason why the Raiders got turned around. You know, his childhood team, all of those reasons, he was willing to give it time and to see if this was going to work, you know.

But at the same time, there was always an underlying sense of, but I'll give it time, just in my reporting anyway. But at some point, it could get to a point where, you know what, this just isn't working. And he always reserved the right to change his mind and say, look, you know, it's just not working. And I only have X number of years left in my career. I want to maximize those remaining years that I have left to play. And doing that means competing for championships and playing in important games and being on teams where I could help get to the playoffs. And that's not happened here with the Raiders and it's dubious that it's going to happen this year, which would be a third wasted year at the tail end of his career.

So he always reserved the right to say, you know what, it's not working. And even in my reporting, and I wrote this literally the day after Carr got moved on from or benched. And I think at that, my reporting said if he ever made that call to the Raiders, there's good enough will between the team and the Raiders where they would accommodate him. And so it's taken a little time and that represents the, you know, the heart that Devante has had in this and trying to get this turned around. But it kind of came to a point, I think where maybe some other issues play into it, but primarily Devante looked at the future with the Raiders here this year. And it doesn't look like, you know, what he wanted to look like in terms of, look, we're going to be playing in the playoffs.

We're going to be going, knocking on the door of the Super Bowl. We're one of those teams. It's just not happening.

And for those reasons, I think he's kind of gotten to the point where, you know, it's time to move on. So it's not really a surprise. I wouldn't say that it was inevitable that it would get to this point, but certain things didn't happen in terms of the quarterbacks of the Raiders would have loved to have had in here, i.e. a Jayden Daniels, maybe a Tom Brady, you know, that year after moving on from Derek Carr. Things haven't worked out at quarterback and that's a big reason why they haven't had the success that they have wanted. And so, yeah, Devante has gotten to that point, which was always a possibility.

Vincent Bonsignor is joining us from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Why this week and this time specifically? I think anybody could have looked at their quarterback situation over the summer. People could have looked at the rumors. Why this week, why these past few days after a victory against the Browns? Is it something to do with the injury?

Why now? You know, that's a great question. And, you know, based on my reporting, the relationship between Antonio and Devante hasn't been going so well. I'll just, you know, kind of leave it at that. So I think that that's played something, you know, into it. And, you know, there's been some peculiarities, I would say, going all the way back to training camp when Devante, you know, was out for two weeks.

For a great reason. It was the birth of his son. But that seemed unusually long for that. Then, you know, they were at odds on whether he would play in the last preseason game. You know, Antonio Pierce said, well, if you're healthy, you're going to play. And at that point, Devante was healthy.

And literally the next day, he's out of practice with some sort of a leg issue and didn't play. And so there was, you could tell that there was a little bit of a tug of war going on right there between the player and the coach. And I also wouldn't rule out, you know, some of the recent comments that Antonio has made.

Specifically the business decisions being made on the field against the Panthers a couple of weeks ago. That may have rubbed Devante the wrong way. And so I do think that the deterioration of their relationship has also kind of contributed, maybe expedited the whole thing.

But I wouldn't say that would be the sole reason. I think it was kind of the way the team has been constructed. The way they kind of struck out on going and they tried to trade to go get Jayden Daniels. That was the guy that the Raiders really wanted.

But it was really hard and really, to not even put it hard, it was impossible to move from 13 to number 2, which is where the Washington commanders were. There was no way that they were going to trade that far down. They loved Jayden just as much as the Raiders did. So when certain things didn't work out on the quarterback front, now you have this deteriorating relationship between Antonio and Devante. That may have been, you throw all of that together and it may have gotten to a point where why are we even wasting our time?

I would say this too. This isn't just a Devante thing. I think that there's mutual interest in moving on.

And so whether it was Devante came to them first and said that you referred to a trade, or as I reported early yesterday, the Raiders being more open to trading Devante Adams and already starting to make some calls to gauge interest around him in the league, it felt kind of like they arrived at the same exact place at the same exact time. Wow. Hey Vincent, I love a good beef. Thank you for breaking it down. I appreciate that.

I love that. Now speaking of Antonio Pierce, we heard him today play the I don't know nothing, we're on to Denver, I don't know social media nothing, I'm on for Denver. Is he rehabbing here in the building? He's supposed to be, we're on to Denver.

How is he being received? A, by the fan base, and then also the locker room right now. This is early to have a beef when you just became a head coach full time.

Yeah, no doubt about it. I think today, the way he handled everything today, while it was probably frustrating for the fans who want all those juicy little details, and for people like ourselves that appreciate the honesty that he's had, and the frankness that he speaks with. But I actually think, looking at this logically and honestly, and putting myself in the shoes of others, I thought the way he handled today, which was to basically say, I'm not answering your questions, I'm on to the Denver Broncos and that's what we're going to talk about today. I'm not going to talk about Devonta Adams or the social media posts or anything like that, we're moving on to Denver.

I thought it was some growth on the part of Antonio Pierce. It's great that he spoke with brutal honesty sometimes, but I think that he needed to understand that you can't always say whatever pops into your head as the CEO of a team, and you're responsible for 53 men in a locker room, and depending on what you're saying out there at the podium, might be construed a certain way or taken a certain way or received in a certain way of, okay, you could have just told me that. You didn't have to announce it to the entire world, right? And I think he's learned that lesson a little bit. And look, in Antonio's defense, he's been completely honest about the fact since the day he got this job, I don't have all the answers, I'm new to this, there's going to be a learning curve, I'm going to try to get better as we go along here.

But I don't have all the answers right now. This is all new to him, being the head coach. He was a linebackers coach for one and a half years in the NFL before he got the head coaching job. So for anyone to not think that there was going to be a little bit of a learning curve, that was naive on their part, and nobody really that covered the team thought that there aren't going to be some missteps along the way. And so, frankly, I've seen some growth, even as the week went on last week, as he sort of dealt with the aftermath of the business decisions questions, by the end of the week, everything was, look, that's between my team and myself. And then even on Sunday after the game, he apologized for even starting the firestorm. That was kind of self-inflicted by even mentioning that publicly, that there were some players that were making some business decisions, right? So within a week's time, I think he kind of came to the realization, like, I can't just say whatever popped into my head. So as frustrating as it might be for the band-aids and for media members, I thought what he did today and the way he handled it today was a sign of growth on his part. Now, Vincent, is he going to delete Instagram off his phone, or is he going to use Instagram in the future? He should, probably.

That's probably your best bet. And look, I don't know what happened with that whole social media post. It seems like you liked it. I'll say that.

But look, plenty of us have been scrolling on Twitter, let's just say, and I know that I've liked things that I wasn't trying to – my thumb was pushing that thing as fast as I could, right? And so let's be honest. I know you've done it too.

You'd probably be lying if you said you didn't. No, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I've said some things.

Not yet. And it is an honest mistake. Now, I'm not saying that that's what happened, but I'm also not saying I know definitively that he meant to do that. You know what I'm saying? But the best way to protect yourself against that happening is just don't even bother doing it.

Don't bother looking at things on social media, whether it's IG or X or whatever the case might be. Just focus on what you have to do, and that's coaching your football team. And Vincent Bonson, you're joining us from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Eventually, Devante is going to move. Is it going to be another month until the trade deadline?

What do they get in return? We don't know. What do you believe the rest of this season is going to look like for the Raiders? This is Brock Bowers' time now, isn't it?

Yeah. Well, here's the other part of it that we haven't even gotten into. The Raiders got an up-close view of life without Devante on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns, and it wasn't all that bad. What's interesting about this is if you go all the way back to when Devante joined the Raiders, their offense actually digressed, and I'm not putting that on Devante at all. The quarterback play has been the primary culprit there. But even Derek struggled at times with the spectrum of such a huge focal point to your offense. Between the money that Devante Adams makes, his stature in an offense, every week you go into a game as a coaching staff and really as a quarterback, and it's impossible to get this out of your head in real time when you're playing. You've got to get, let's say, 15 targets a game, 10 to 15 targets a game. That's like priority number one.

Whether they want to admit it or not, that is the case. There were times where it just felt forced. Sometimes you feel obligated, you've got to get Devante involved in this game ASAP. And for various reasons, he's Devante Adams. He's great.

He makes a lot of money. If he's not getting touches, you're probably going to hear about that a little bit. And so that's just a thought that goes into every game. Well, that thought was no longer there, present on Sunday.

And guess what? A whole bunch of dudes touched the ball. It looked fluid in a lot of ways.

You need to clean up without question. But you can sense and you can feel that the Raiders were playing with a little bit more of a freedom to just be able to spread the ball around organically as it came, who had the hot hand, what players were working, rather than doing that, and then also understanding how to get the ball to number 17. So they saw that up close and personal, and it really didn't look bad. And so I think that gives them a little bit of confidence moving forward. Not to say that they're a better team without Devante, but it could be different.

And in some ways, it could be a little bit better without that burden. And there is talent on this team. Brock Bowers is a stud. Jay Tucker is a heck of a football player. Jacoby Myers was the Patriots' leading receiver the two years prior to him joining the Raiders. We talked to him today. He's like, I'm used to being the guy.

I know that the ball got spread around a lot in New England when he was there, but he was their number one receiver for a couple of years. So he's played that role before. Michael Mayer will eventually come back, and he's another piece to that puzzle. So I think they understand that we could probably survive without Devante, get something for him, and this season doesn't have to be. This isn't a situation where you're just throwing in the talent. They feel like they can compete and win games with or without Devante Adams, and that's a whole other issue. It means them playing not near perfect football, but checking off all the necessary boxes, all the necessary boxes that a team that's at this talent level across the board and with that quarterback, they're just necessary boxes that you have to check off. They do that against the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Raiders in one.

They didn't against the Carolina Panthers at all in any phase, and they got the roof blown off of them. And so they know that what it could look like if they don't check off those boxes and what it looks like when they do check off those boxes. So this doesn't have to be dire strikes.

It will be more of a challenge for sure, but it doesn't have to be dire strikes. And I don't think that it's going to take that long to make a deal. I don't think the Raiders want this to linger. I don't think Devante wants this to linger, and I think there's teams out there that are motivated to get him on their team as quickly as possible. What do you think he ends up, Vince? Last question.

That's a great question. Part of me says if you're in the New York Jets and you're Aaron Rodgers and you're Joe Douglas and Robert Sala and Sala and Joe Douglas, if they don't win, they're probably going to be out of a job. And you know that the star quarterback wants them, and you know Devante probably would love to be there. How can you, as the Jets, and I'm sure their fan base right now is pretty fired up about the possibility of getting Devante, and he would make a difference on that team. And this is a wide open AFC maybe outside of the Kansas City Chiefs.

There's a lot of teams that are bunched up and probably on par with one another in terms of talent. If you're the Jets, how can you let him get traded someplace else, right? I mean, I'm not saying overpay for him, but don't you have to probably put the best offer out there for him or top whatever the offer is, even by a little bit, to make sure that you keep him or get him to New York and keep him out of the hands of the Buffalo Bills who are also interested. There's a few other teams in the AFC that are, so I'd have to say the Jets are the favorites only because there's so much motivation for them to improve on any offer in order to make sure that he goes there to New York where he probably wants to, or one of the places that he wants to be in a ready-made situation with Aaron Rodgers.

But if not there, I could see the Buffalo Bills, I could see the Pittsburgh Steelers, I could see the New Orleans Saints jumping in there. So I don't think there's going to be a lack of teams that are interested, and it will be tricky. You know, you're talking about teams that have to have $13 million under this cap to be able to fit his current deal in there. Plus, you know, there's teams in October that just don't have money in the budget to be able to find $13 million to pay him. So somebody is probably going to have to have a conversation with their owner to say, hey, what do you think about Devante Adams? I love him, great.

What do you think about us trading for him? That would be great. Just so you know, we'd have to find another, I need another $13 million in the budget. What?

You didn't mention that part. You know, you're going to have to have that conversation with the owner, and there's probably some that would be all right for Devante Adams. I'll give you that $13 million, but there's probably some others that are like, no, we don't have the money. Now the Raiders can help appease a deal if they agree to pay down some of that salary. Think about the Denver Broncos a couple of years ago with Los Angeles Rams. The Rams were at that point out of cash and up against it on the salary cap, but they told the Denver Broncos, look, if you pay the salary down, we'll give you a second and a third round pick for a 32-year-old Von Miller who was just a rental for the Los Angeles Rams, and they won the Super Bowl that year.

So that's one way that the Raiders, if Mark Davis and ownership is willing to pay down some of that salary, they could probably help create an even bigger market and maybe create more of a return for themselves as well. Well, let's see how creative Mark Davis and Enzo Lesko can be. Hey, Vincent, where can people follow you in all of your work, man? Fill us in.

Yeah. VegasNation.com is where all my written work can be found. It's a Las Vegas Review Journal. We call it VegasNation.com. I'm also on Raider Nation Radio, 920 a.m. locally, or LVSportsNetwork.com, 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

I co-host the radio show, The Morning Tailgate Show, out on Raider Nation Radio, so that would be where you could find me. Hey, Vincent, I appreciate the time. I know the Raiders are going to keep you busy, okay? Yeah, always.

Thank you very much. No doubt about it. That Vincent Bonsignor, Raiders Nation, Las Vegas Review Journal.

Go ahead and check it out. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. You know, speaking of all these coaches, whether it's Rob Salah or Antonio Pearson, and some of the issues that they're currently handling, there's a coach in Tallahassee. He has a major issue on his hands. We'll talk about that.

I'll give you a top six list at the top of the hour. We're going to go through some of the most dysfunctional teams in sports right now. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze. It is the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I need you to think, you heard me, I need you to 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 so much to Vincent Bonsignor for joining us in the last break to talk all things Raiders, especially the trade involving Davante Adams. We don't know where he's going.

We don't know what he's going to do. And shout outs to Vincent as well. I give him credit. He showed love to Antonio Pierce for how he's been handling, you know, being the head coach of the Raiders up until now, except for the, you know, the Instagram thing. Put the Instagram down if you're a head coach. Come on, do better than that.

At least stand by it. But he kind of just killed the whole situation. Didn't answer anything about anything, really. And so we'll see what happens with Davante Adams. Yeah, I think there's a I think there's a good and strong reason for him to end up with the New York Jets, something that was pretty much predicted months ago in the summertime.

Wild, wild stuff. And what all these coaches that we've discussed. Rob Salah will probably have to pick up Davante Adams from the airport.

I can probably expect that if the trade goes down, Aaron Rodgers is going to go telling to pick him up. Oh, how about this? Good. Baltimore Orioles eliminated from the postseason as well.

Kansas City knocks them off to one the final. Shout outs to everybody in Baltimore who's probably mad at me right now. But anyway, speaking of coaches, you don't have to go too far from here in Georgia. I can go right on the Tallahassee.

Shout outs to everybody down there who had to deal with that awful storm last week. Mike Norvell is another coach. They're going to they're going to give this man the boot.

It's just a matter of when. D.J. Ouyangale has now been told to go ahead and and have a seat. This man has a 53 percent completion rating, four touchdowns to six interceptions. He's dealing with a busted up finger.

A Brock Glenn is going to go out there and get the start. They just lost to SMU. It's just bad all the way around. Who would have thought that a team that in the preseason was ranked number 10 in the AP polling? Just lost to SMU, not even ranked.

They have a record of one in four. People are looking at this man, Mike Norvell, and they want to give him the boot. Hickey, they lost another recruit.

Another one. Can you blame them? Yeah, people are dropping like flies. Malik Clark, the wide receiver, said, I ain't going.

I'm leaving. This is the third four star recruit to say, I ain't going to the Knowles since the season started. And FSU, you thought it was bad when Jordan Travis got hurt yesterday. Everything when not yesterday, but last year, everything just continued to fall from there. They fell out of postseason playoff contention.

They have now fallen into the toilet. And Mike Norvell is having to answer questions now about his quarterback. Like, hey, would Ouyangile, would he have still played if he didn't have a busted up hand? Listen to what Mike Norvell said. I was going to, I mean, when we had the pick six, I mean, that was going to be an opportunity for Brock to go in there. And it was, I think, 13 minutes or something in the fourth quarter, I believe. And I was making the change at that point.

And I'll say this. It was, you know, there's a lot of things that we go back and look at in the game and, you know, D.J. did make a lot of good throws that, you know, throughout the course of the game, some good decisions. He made some poor decisions and a couple bad throws that, you know, it's but, you know, you got to surround and you got to help the quarterback position. And, you know, I don't think we've done a good job of that consistently. Come on, man, the whole team sucked, OK?

Can we just leave it there? The whole team sucked. And we are going to lay sucks, too. We got a bunch of people in the Pacific Northwest who know that. We got a bunch of people in the south who know that guy sucks.

And this is what you're stuck with. Jordan Travis is hopefully the heir parents to Aaron Rodgers. And then you got to look at D.G., D.J., we are going to lay and nobody want this guy. Mike Norvell is going to be shown the door. It's pretty hilarious.

Brock Glenn, he spoke and he says, you know what? We're rallying together. Yeah, I'm sure. It's been a great week of prep. The team's coming together, cleaning up some details. I think we're looking really good, real confident.

Obviously, film room as well, just prepping with the guys, the receivers, et cetera. So it's been good. Ironically, Clemson is up next. Could we have more of a joke here? They need to throw D.J.

Uyengla lay out there just for giggles. Mike Norvell, this man, they're going to show him the door. And at that point, that's that's not going to be a joke, especially the fact that this contract doesn't end until 2031. And firing him would cost them sixty five million dollars. They're going to figure something out and not letting this guy coach the team next year.

Not at all. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Maybe Rob Salah can pick him up from the airport. Maybe they can ride off into the sunset together. I don't know where they go. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. It's time for a new top six list. It's time to take a look at some of the most dysfunctional teams in the world of sports right now. I know you have some ideas and I got answers. Top six dysfunctional teams is the J.R. sport we show on the Infinity Sports Network.