Picking up their spouse, my people working, my people relaxing, my people protecting, helping, saving, chilling, relaxing, making that money.
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If you got a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. We've already had a busy show. Thank you so much to David Sampson for joining us, former Marlins executive, host of Nothing Personal with David Sampson. He came through to talk to us about the Major League Baseball postseason. And speaking of the postseason, we got one spot left for advancement. The Mets and the Brewers are getting ready to get it on right now in Milwaukee. Pick, you said you hate them towels, right?
Well, they're spinning them suckers around right now. That's fine. Anything I'm worried about? Do you think I'm nervous about a towel?
No, sir. But you said you hated the flags here in Georgia. Hey, I think it's just stupid. What's the difference between what they're doing right now?
What's here in Atlanta? All these rally towels, I guess they're more common. It looks somewhat cool and they're all in unison. The flat like waving the flag. If you think about the motion, it's so dumb.
Like how I mean, you talk about just no intimidation whatsoever. Well, you're waving the flag and I figure I'm shaking my boots. I'm going to get you a flag with your face on it. Well, I hate to say it's gone right in the garbage. Oh, ouch. Jeez. Damn. You wouldn't want to like, I don't want to hang it up in your house.
What are you doing? No, I appreciate the thought. But if it's one of those handheld like ones that they give away at Falcons games, I'm going to keep my protest strong, even if it has my face on it. I'm talking about like a real flag. Oh, like a big ass flag, like a real flag.
Different. You can go out, you can go outside and you can march down 6th Avenue with, you know, a flag and put your face on it. Just, just flapping in the wind. Although I don't think anybody on this planet needs a three foot flag of my face on it. That's for sure.
So that may be in the garbage anyway, whether it's my doing, someone else's doing. No, you'll make it to the news in New York. So that'd be fun.
That'd be cool. Good publicity stunt. What are you waiting for? Maybe I'll take my pants off too and run down the street. Now we'll get some real publicity. Go down to Brooklyn Bridge while you do it.
Stand next to the naked cowboy in Times Square. Does that, does he still exist? Oh, he does. Oh yeah.
Oh my God. You saw him out there recently? I mean, I avoid Times Square like the plague, so I've not been there in a long time, but I feel like, yeah, I don't think he's, why'd he give up his shtick?
There's tourists there all the time. I haven't, you, like you, I try to avoid that place even when I'm back in New York. I have not seen the naked cowboy in approximately, I don't know, maybe five, six, seven years. You're getting old, man. You're getting older.
True. You gotta be in his, I don't even know. Is he in his 50s kissing 60 right now? I don't know. And maybe, I don't know if, you know, the, the life-size Elmo and Darth Vader have kind of pushed him out, the characters. Cause that's, I mean, that's a whole other thing. He's not that old.
He's, he's 53. Did you Google that? Yeah, I did. Yeah.
Google has an age for the naked cowboy. Wow. Yeah.
He's originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. It's impressive. Yep. He's made it. Good for him.
It made it to what? Well, I mean, the fact that I feel like if you can Google someone's age and it shows up, you've made it, you are famous enough. Okay. Right. Would you say?
I guess, I don't know. Yeah. Well, if you Googled yourself and said, Jerris, poor, brief age, and it said your age, wouldn't you think that's pretty cool or no?
Well, a guy did call up last week and said I was 27, 28 years old. So I'll take it. That's right. Why not? I'll take it.
Why not? I guess that's true. So if I'm not standing out in Times Square and in my underwear with a, is that a banjo? Yeah, a guitar and a cowboy hat.
A guitar singing, singing and serenading the ladies. Well, why didn't nobody make a video game where everybody in Times Square fights each other? Oh, right. Like Elmo versus naked cowboy, naked cowboy versus the street dancers, Mickey Mouse versus, I don't know, Batman crackhead. Like, why don't we have that game?
I like that kind of, yeah, I like it a lot. We should create it. Disney will sue and Warner Brothers will sue, the naked cowboy will sue.
Just somebody needs to put it together on a dark web. That'd be, that'd be fun. Uh, anyway, eight five five two one two 42 27 is eight five five two one two 42 27 a big Monday night football. Today's not Monday, a big Thursday night football game. We got the Falcons and then we also have the Buccaneers.
All my people here in Atlanta, they're literally a couple of blocks from me having a time of their lives. They're tailgating and I'm hanging out here talking about Caitlin Clark. Yeah, we talked about Antonio Pierce. We talked about the playoffs.
We'll definitely keep you updated. We're going to get into Thursday night football. A game is about an hour. We'll talk about the Falcons who cannot score to save their lives. But right now, let's get this out the way. This woman can score. This woman, Caitlin Clark officially became rookie of the year today. And we told you last week that she was rookie of the year. It was really no shock.
Now here's the deal. There were 67 total votes. There are 67 individuals who have a vote for rookie of the year. Caitlin Clark got 66 out of 67 votes. Somebody somewhere decided to vote for Angel Reese. Now, look, there's nothing wrong with her and her double doubles. OK, 14 points, 13 rebounds.
But and I'm not going to call the person who voted for Angel Reese stupid because I don't know him, but it was certainly a stupid ass decision that they made to vote for Angel Reese based on and based off of what? Caitlin Clark lit it up. She lit up the WNBA this year. 20 points a game, eight and a half assists, five and a half rebounds, more than a steal a game. And she led the league and assists that ain't a rookie stat. She led the entire league and assists. She led all rookies and points, assists, steals, field goals, made three pointers, made free throw percentage, true shooting percentage. She basically led all rookies and everything except for, I don't know, the rebounds that Angel Reese got.
What are we doing today? The Indiana Fever. They put out an old ass video when Caitlin Clark found out at practice that she was Rookie of the Year. This is courtesy of the Indiana Fever social media. Full of outstanding performances, and I know all of you had hard work and dedication and it's paid off with your playoffs, et cetera.
And I know the best is yet to come. So congratulations, Caitlin. You are the twenty twenty four Kia WNBA rookie. Oh, I don't fit in. I don't fit in.
I don't fit in anyway. Yeah, she's Rookie of the Year and it was only months. And, you know, I gave her entire season numbers in September. She dropped twenty five points, nine assists, six rebounds and a steal. So she upped the numbers as the season went on. And of course, she garnered that experience.
Now, let's not forget, early in the season before she got started, her number one hater who started to change her tune, Diana Taurasi, back in April, you know, she was sitting down and she was on ESPN and she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's going to have to get used to the women like we're women. We're not kids.
We're not 18 year olds in college. Caitlin Clark and all the rookies are going to have to get used to this adjustment. Listen to what Diana Taurasi said earlier this year. Look, SVP, reality is coming. OK, you know, there's levels to this thing and that's just life.
We all went through it. Of course. And you see it on the NBA side and you're going to see on this side where, you know, you look superhuman playing against 18 year olds, but you're going to come with some grown women that have been playing professional basketball for a long time. Not saying that's not going to translate because when you're great at what you do, you're just going to get better. But there is going to be a transition period where you're going to have to give yourself some grace as a rookie. And, you know, it might take a little bit longer for some people. Yeah, it didn't take that long. It did not take Caitlin Clark long. It's the best point guard in the WNBA. I said it. I said it, I said it, I got no problem.
Ain't nobody going to come yell at me. No disrespect to Sabrina Unesco. She's probably going to win a championship. But Caitlin Clark for playing one year with a break, she came back after that break with a vengeance. And it was only a few months ago just to kind of get people riled up even more.
Not that it needs it. Hey, you remember we had this conversation? I was hoping that somehow some way that there would be enough of a performance from both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark that we could have a coach rookie of the year. There was even there was no justification. Angel Reese blew out her wrist. The team fell into the toilet.
Caitlin Clark got better. But is this do you think this person is going to share why they voted for Angel Reese? Are they going to run and hide? Probably run and hide like most of those voters who always have the one outlier do probably will get shamed.
I mean, look, with the Internet these days, right? It's someone's always finds out who was the one voter. They'll probably get outed. They have to give a cocky explanation as to why they did it. And here are certain numbers.
And she didn't get the respect. And I wanted to highlight that. It's not going to make any sense. And we're all going to move on after that.
That's probably I bet how it goes. Like what is I'm trying to understand. You would think that someone who covers the league would have an understanding of the league and the impact of of Caitlin Clark.
How what is the I'm really trying to understand how the double doubles like this. Does this the other voter not realize that Caitlin Clark exists? Like, yeah, if there was no Caitlin Clark, sure.
Yeah. Give Angel Reese Rookie of the Year. But this woman just lit up the whole league. My bet would be that it's a local Chicago reporter who put the one vote in. Maybe, like you said, it is the double doubles. Maybe it's all you know, her team was was also not very good.
And like how close they got. I mean, I can't explain it, but I would. That's what I would assume, because like you said, if it's a national reporter or someone who covers a different team and you're not biased objectively, there's like there's no discussion. It's clear and obvious. And so outside of just being a Chicago homer and trying to or or just trying to upset people and have this be a discussion, that's it. I don't know what the what the rationale can be. There's no other reason than just to go out here and upset people like this. There's nothing else.
And you know what? Caitlin Clark still got the award. She's still rolling in the door, rolling in the money. She actually put a post up on Instagram thanking everybody. And let's be real, she's going to come back next year.
And I know this sounds wild. She's going to be better. You know, I would venture to assume she's going to be stronger. We heard the story Victor Wimber and Yama has gained.
I don't know. He was twenty five pounds. They said he gained a muscle, obviously. Wow. Wow.
Wow. Good for Victor Wimber and Yama. I don't know if Caitlin Clark is going to put on weight, but I'm sure she's going to get stronger. I know she has more experience. I'm going to assume that she gets better logo threes better.
Pat, I don't know. But forget it. Forget all that Rookie of the Year stuff. Caitlin Clark's going to be staring at MVPs sooner than later.
And Diana Taras, you'll be sitting at home watching on a couch. Oh, it's good to see what she did this year. Never complained.
Never shot back at anybody. Just did all of her talking on the court. And if you remember back in college, is one point in time she did so much complaining to the refs. The dad looked at her from the stands and told her to shut up. Stop with all that complaining, at least here in the pros. And she don't complain about nothing. She shows up and goes to work. Everybody else complains about her. They need to get over it. And congratulations to Caitlin Clark.
Your 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year is the first time a lot of people cared about it. Welcome to the Caitlin Clark Hour. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, the Mets and the Brewers are underway.
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Oh, made me think about another. The other New York Jets quarterback is doing okay. Sam Donald is doing okay. Mark Sanchez, I think he's on TV, right?
On television. Good for him. Anyway, it is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Mark Sanchez, nice guy. Very nice guy. Good quarterback. Not so much in the pros, but nice guy. You know how to hand the ball off. Smart man.
Smart man. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. The Brewers and Mets are underway. We got a nothing score here in the first inning. There you go.
There's your update. Now anyway, when we get to 40 minutes from now, give or take, these games never start on time. Hickey, what time do you think they're going to kick? 815, 810, Eastern time? What are you thinking? I believe it is 820, I think is what they say.
Maybe 815. And they're going to do what for 20 minutes? In the stadium, they're going to waste everybody's time. But on TV, they're going to do what?
Probably go around the desk with the hundred analysts they have and give predictions, maybe? Oh, that's right. This is Amazon. That's right.
So Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Richard Sherman. Is Kelsey there? Am I mixing people up? I don't know. He is actually, that's probably the one broadcast he's not on. He's on ESPN. Fair to assume, right? He's everywhere.
But this is the one at least broadcast for Amazon. I don't think he'll be there. Oh my God. Whitworth, Andrew Whitworth?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I saw Whitworth on Monday night and I said, oh, there's the boring offensive lineman and nobody knows now. Geez.
And I did. I looked at Whitworth and I said, he's not Jason Kelsey. That's a cane to my head. I'm like, damn. You have Kelsey fatigue yet? Me? For one or both of them?
Uh, for Jason. No, cause I don't, I don't watch. I don't listen. Don't care. I don't. Are you sick of him? Uh, I am.
Yes. Oh wow. Why?
I think he's a nice, he's everywhere. It's too much. Look, he's a funny guy. Don't get me wrong here.
But between TV appearances, between commercials, he's just shoved down our throats and I've had enough to be honest with you. There were people who were upset after that game a few weeks ago. What was that? Monday night? Yeah. Monday was that Monday night?
Yeah. The Falcons, Falcons Eagles. Falcons came back against the Eagles and everybody was just like, there was too much Kelsey. It was, there was too much. They're like, what are we doing? We came here for the football game.
Not to watch the, the other team's legend, like spare us. I think he has been apologized for that or someone did. Someone did. ESPN sent an apology.
Come on now. Maybe Jason Kelsey on his podcast apologized. Like someone, I think he, he, he referenced it. He said he understood. He got it. I don't, I don't know if I call it an apology, right? Yeah, I guess you're right. No, they should offer an apology for that love fest, but I've never listened to the man.
I don't even think in excess of two minutes, if that the most I've ever heard of him is here on our show when we play a clip, you know, you're doing something right. Jr. What's that? You're living in your own world. I try. And it's a good thing.
I'm saying it's a good thing. I don't want to live in anybody else's world. It's impossible as much that, that, that gets produced in the sports space. It's impossible to listen to everything.
I scan and skim and read and go through a lot, probably everything, but to actually listen to everything, impossible, impossible. Hickey, Kyle, Kyle van Noy and Gerald McCoy. Did you know they have a podcast? Nope. No idea. Nope. No idea.
It's it's like McCoy and van Noy. What? It's impossible.
Impossible. Yeah, that's, there's definitely a over, what's the word I'm looking for here? Over saturation, without a doubt. Of podcasts? Of just content, general. Jeff Teague has a, he's funny. The clips I've seen. He has a podcast. Jeff Teague. We got role players in the NBA. These guys got podcasts.
Come on. Ben Roethlisberger has a podcast, footballing. Oh man, who else has a podcast? I saw Eric Armstead, I think has a podcast. The former 49ers defensive lineman. I think he's in Jacksonville now. He's talking about Trevor Lawrence.
I saw, oh my God. Is this Eric Armstead? Yep.
It is. Talking to his own teammate. Okay. This is what, this is what the guys want to do on their downtime. Just, you know what I have to do? A podcast.
Well, I see you got in trouble this week because of a podcast. Oh my God. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it a man or a woman?
It is a man. Okay. Trey Young has a podcast too, by the way. No, what happened?
Who got in trouble? It is Darius Slay. Did you see a podcast he went on? He has his own podcast, right? But he was on someone else's podcast.
Micah Parsons' podcast. He was on Micah. I thought he was on Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel has a podcast too. I thought he was there.
See, I can't even keep up. He may have been there at one point, but this week he was on Micah Parsons and you know what they were doing? What? Making fun of CJ Gardner Johnson. Darius Slay's teammate getting toasted in their last game. And now he's getting roasted by, rightfully so, Eagles fans for making fun of his own teammate on a rivals podcast. Oh my God.
Get you in trouble. It's like gang warfare. The Philadelphia Eagle can't go on a Dallas Cowboys podcast.
They're going to start creating lines in the sand. This is crazy. Shaq has a podcast.
Oh my. Is there a quarterback? Tell me. There's not a quarterback who has a podcast, right?
Not. There's not an active QB who has a, could you imagine? You knew who has a vlog though that I've stumbled upon recently. Kyler Murray. He's vlogging about what?
Video games? The one I saw was a day in the life of a quarterback on a game day. That was his That's not bad.
It was not great though. Is he being followed around or is he filming it with his phone? He was being followed around. Okay. All right. Minimal work on his part. Yes.
And minimal produce, I will say. Okay. Well, that's, that's good.
It feels raw and authentic. Oh my God. I was going to say, do any of the Knicks have a podcast? I answered that question. Yep.
Half the team. Yeah. Well, the Knicks have a podcast. I'm trying to think, does one guy on every team have a podcast? The Orlando Magic? I don't know. Boston Celtics? I don't think so. Minnesota?
No. Oh yeah. Does anybody in the Lakers have a podcast? LeBron James has TV shows, bruh. Yeah, I guess you're right. Although he's talking about everything but basketball, but you're right. He's like, I got the shot folks.
Okay. Although I guess him and JJ Redick, are they going to, well, I guess they're not going to continue their show. The coach of the Lakers quit his podcast.
Only in the NBA could a podcaster get hired and have to quit the podcast. Oh my God. Oh man. Anyway, it's too many of these things and they don't, they don't talk about every, you get a funny joke every now and then, but there's nothing, nothing out of them.
Anyway, 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. I don't know anybody. Well, I just told you about Gerald McCoy. I think he's done. Is he retired? What's his deal?
Right? He has to be like 40 years old. He got hurt or something. He tried with the Cowboys and it didn't work out. So now he's podcasting, I guess.
So anyway, he'll be watching Thursday night football like the rest of us. Oh no, he's only 36 only. Hmm. Oh damn. He hasn't played since 2021.
Oh my God. Damn. He hasn't played really since 2019.
That's how hurt he's been. Damn. Wow. He played 16 games in 2019.
He played one game for the Raiders in 2021 and that was it. Wow. Tom, Tom flies. Anyway. Damn. It's the JR sport reshow 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. You know, there's, there's one guy. I'm surprised he doesn't have a podcast and I, I, I feel like it's going to come soon. Tyree kill Miami dolphins. I'm shocked. He doesn't have a show. Surprise.
Shocked. The biggest story for Tyree kill this year is getting tackled by the police on the way to the stadium. Cause there's no action on the field. This man hasn't had a touchdown since week one. And we know his quarterback to a tongue of Aloha has gone down and so far for the year 2024 Tyree killed likes to do a lot of chatting and talking. He only has that one touchdown 217 yards.
And let me tell you something. Things are not going to get better with Huntley trying to throw him the ball or Thompson trying to throw him the ball. If there's anybody waiting for week eight and in a return for two a tongue of Aloha, it's Tyree kill.
And he didn't have to sit around on the podcast and tell us this because he doesn't have one, but he did stand in front of the media. And as bad as things are in Miami right now, as bad as it is for him to try to be on the receiving end of a catch and as bad and as desperate as the chiefs are in getting their hands on a wide receiver, Tyree kill says, I'm not trying to leave. I don't want to go back to Kansas city.
I want to stay here in Miami. I want you to listen to this. I'm just focused on right here and right now. Like we got a beautiful team here. Um, and I want to be a part of it. You know, um, we've got a great situation here. Um, my, my, my family loves it. I enjoy it.
The web is great. The fans are great. Um, so we got a beautiful situation here, man. Um, obviously, you know, my, my parents always taught me, you know, control the controllable and I only can control so much. You know what I'm saying?
So with that being said, we all know the NFL, it would be whatever happens, happens. You know what I'm saying? So moving forward, I would love to be here.
I love being here. You know, I love the guys. I love my locker mate, Devon Hollis. He's, he's a maniac. He's a, he's a guy, you know what I'm saying? He brings me nice snacks. Uh, snacks are good. I mean, got something in common. Him and Rex Ryan, they both love snacks.
Anyway, he ain't going, I don't think he's going anywhere for what? I know someone else who's actually going to be around Odell Beckham Jr. who turns 32 in November is finally starting to practice with the Miami dolphins. It is October. This is October. This is October.
This is October. This man had a knee procedure, another one, and he's finally rolling. Listen to Odell explain why it has taken him so long, but now he has nobody to throw him the ball. Listen to this. I think a lot of people don't know, um, exactly what I was going through. You know, just like everybody in here, we're all humans. We all go through life. Um, and ending the season, it was a lot going on in my life, personal life, you know, businesses, all of that. Um, they just kind of had me in a place where football wasn't exactly a priority.
You know, I have a son, he's two years old, you know, I didn't get much time to spend with him. I feel like he's going up fast and I'm not having that much time. So football wasn't exactly first and foremost thing on my mind. Then I had to have a small cleanup, like up the knee and, um, just kind of going through that free agency process. You know, my agent and I went back and forth, whether we do it right after the season or, you know, we wait until a free agency happens.
And I just feel like I waited too late. Didn't know what was going on, you know, deep down the side of my plan a long time ago was where the free agency went. I was probably going to join the team during the season, you know, so I had more time. It wasn't going to be the pressure to be back for training and all that.
So, you know, just talking with Mike as, um, just figuring out where I wanted to go and the conversations I had with him and, uh, along with some of the brothers that I have down here, he was one of the main reasons I came here. And, uh, we kind of had an understanding of probably not going to be ready. Yeah.
Well, whatever. Who's going to throw him the ball now? Is he going to come back before or after tour? He's going to have another knee procedure and just, I don't know, go and eye off for the year and see what check he can collect. Come on now. Odell Beckham, if you think that just don't play football no more, man, if your knees hurt, you want to hang out at home with your boy.
I mean, you don't got to play the note. 855-212-4227. Walker is calling from South Carolina. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Hey JR, uh, first of all, thanks for having me on. I'm a big fan of the show. Thank you. What's up?
Uh, so first, uh, I got two things. One, I wanted to make a comment on, uh, the whole podcast space being flooded by athletes now. Um, I'm a Minnesota Vikings fan, even though I'm all the way in South Carolina. And, uh, I remember when Patrick Peterson came over to the Vikings and, um, I would always hear comments come out from this podcast and all kinds of cryptic, cryptic things on social media about, about the team. And that was when Mike Zimmer was on the hot seat.
And I just, I hated everything about that hearing all the drama come out of us. All things covered with Brian McFadden, yes, his cousin. Yep.
Yep. And, uh, and then I had, I had one more thing being a Vikings fan, uh, not expecting this 4-0 start at all. And Sam Darnold playing at the level that he is and Brian Flores defense, uh, popping off like they are.
I, I just wanted to, uh, get your, get your thoughts on it. You know what, Walker, I'm going to get into that at the top of the hour because Sam Darnold, I'm sure, you know, he got a, he got an award from the NFL. Then I'm like, wow, then I'm like, wow, Sam Darnold got an award. So we're going to take a break, Walker. At the top of the hour, I'm going to talk about Sam Darnold and the Minnesota Vikings. And then before we get to that, on the other side of this break, I'm going to talk about everything with the Falcons and the Bucks tonight.
Is that a good deal, Walker? That sounds great, man. I appreciate it. I appreciate you.
Thank you so much for hanging in there. It's the JR Sportbreeze show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. You just heard what we're going to do. I'm going to preview Thursday Night Football in a few minutes. Then we're going to talk about Sam Darnold and the award that he won.
We got so much more to do. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze. The JR Sportbreeze show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.
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. Man, we got some Thursday Night Football coming your way in about 40 minutes should have to kick off here in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Atlanta Falcons. Now I'm here in Atlanta, Georgia. I hear about the Falcons and see the Falcons. My friends go to the game. I go to the game.
I see what's going on. The Falcons are two and two. They have Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins on the year has been mediocre.
His man can't move. Has four touchdowns, four interceptions. Offense has been slow. I mean, after what we saw last year. Oh, I just shudder thinking about what we saw last year. Oh my God. Ritter and Heinecke.
It was pathetic. Everybody looked at the team and said, oh man, look at all the weapons we have. Drake London, Kyle Pitts, Bijan Robinson, Tyler Algea. Look at all these weapons we have. If only we had a quarterback. Well, the quarterback that they have is coming off of an Achilles.
Michael Pennix Jr. is standing around on the sidelines and the offense is a snore. They lost to Pittsburgh the opening season. Only scored 10 points. They barely beat the Philadelphia Eagles scoring 22 points. Barely beat them. They lost to Kansas City.
What a shock. Only 17 points. It took a field goal this past weekend. This past Sunday to beat New Orleans.
26 points. Kirk Cousins can't find the end zone. And forget Kirk Cousins.
Kyle Pitts, man. This guy's a basketball playing tight end and he sucks. Arms are longer than everybody's. Legs are longer than everybody's. Stride is longer than everybody's. I guess he just doesn't want to run.
Doesn't want to run around and use it. He only has 100 yards receiving on a season. This is a giant tight end. It's early in the season. But the Falcons, this offense sucks. And tonight, Kirk Cousins. He said, tonight is a night that we could turn the season around and really make a statement for how good we are.
Okay, Kirk, whatever. We understand the opportunity we have at home against a good football team, division champs the last few years. Have a lot of respect for the players in that team, the success they've had, the scheme we're going against, head coach. So a great challenge for us. Great opportunity for us. And looking forward to it.
Okay, all right. Now, Todd Bowles, not known for his enthusiasm, is coaching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They have a three and one record. Now, they're throwing a football around, okay? Baker Mayfield already has almost 1,000 yards passing. He has eight touchdowns and only two interceptions. Baker Mayfield, do you think he misses Cleveland? Hell, no.
No, he doesn't. Happy in Tampa. Gets to throw the ball to Evans and Godwin. He's living the life. And Todd Bowles, looking at the opposing team quarterback, because all coaches have to do, they have to throw the team, the other team.
You have to throw them, compliments. You don't want to give fuel to the fire. So Todd Bowles says Kirk Cousins is still a great QB. He's a good football player. We played him last year in Minnesota. I mean, we've had our chances to play him a few times, but he's in a different offense this time. He's got a lot more weapons than he had than just Jefferson and a couple of guys in Minnesota. And he knows how to play the game. He runs the offense well. He knows where to go with the ball and how to get rid of the ball. So he presents a great challenge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does. So why they not winning? They all getting used to each other? Yeah, that's what Kirk Cousins used to do. We're waiting on it now.
How long does it have to take? What, a lack of preseason? Is this still the preseason?
Is tonight the breakout for the Falcons? Since we're throwing around compliments. Baker Mayfield has some words for the Falcons new head coach, or at least now he's a full-time head coach in Raheem Morris. Listen to Baker Mayfield. He brings the energy every single day. And he tries to instill the confidence within his own guys and to allow them to be the best they can be. And so he's a fun guy to play for and be around.
And yeah, I understand why these guys enjoy playing for him. You can see it on tape. Okay.
All right. Let me, let me get down to it. The Falcons are so unpredictable. They're so unpredictable. You, you would think tonight, based on what we've seen this season, you would expect Tampa Bay to step out onto the Falcons field and just light them up. The Falcons, even right now with Judon, you know, they haven't knocked around the opposing quarterback. Baker Mayfield has been able to stand up, right?
I don't think he's been sacked more than a couple of times this year. You would think playing on the turf at Mercedes-Benz Stadium here in Atlanta, that they would just go out there and light them up. But the Falcons are so unpredictable. Today might be that breakout game. Because the Falcons have an opportunity to say, hey, we're at the top of the NFC South tonight. They have a chance to do that. Otherwise they fall to two and three. If they fall to two and three, Hickey, let me tell you, the phone lines will be blowing up off the hook tomorrow. In Atlanta, people will be asking for Penix Junior. Already, if they fall tonight, people are going to be calling for the next quarterback.
And you know what, like you said, rightfully so. When you get off to a slow start, this was going to be a short relationship anyway when you drafted Penix. So you needed to get off to a hot start.
Brings the question of why didn't you play in the preseason back up to begin with now as you're still trying to figure out the offense. I'm with you, at home, divisional opponent. You got to win. Got to win this one. They have to.
I don't know. This game is either going to go one or two ways. The Bucks are going to light them up and the Falcons aren't going to be able to keep up. The Falcons offense explodes tonight. Or I give a third option, or the Falcons come from behind again and win by the skin of their teeth. I don't think one thing I don't expect. I'd be shocked if the Falcons just ran all over them tonight. I think the Bucks are going to put up points. And Kirk Cousins, he talked about facing off against this Todd Bowles team in defense.
And listen to what Kirk Cousins said. You're going to see different fronts. You're going to see different coverages. You're going to see different pressures. And you're going to see good disguises. And, you know, it's going to be a lot to prepare for. Yeah, well, we're going to see what's going to happen. The game is set and scheduled to be underway in about 30 minutes from now. The Falcons are just a massive disappointment.
And I got to be honest and real here, too. Not a lot of people talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because there's nothing sexy about them. It doesn't matter what Baker Mayfield has done since he's come over to, quote, unquote, replace Tom Brady. None of that matters because Baker Mayfield is not Tom Brady.
All right. Evans is not getting any younger. Godwin is not getting any younger. If I look at Todd Bowles, I'm surprised.
Well, I'm not surprised given the results, but it is slightly surprising that he's still here. You would have thought that he would have got the boot like almost immediately, especially knowing that Tom Brady moved on. The Buccaneers are good enough to go to the postseason. Are they good enough to win a Super Bowl?
I don't think so. Is Baker made? It's difficult for me to even close my eyes and envision Baker Mayfield as a Super Bowl champion. I don't know. Maybe Baker Mayfield will shock us, but the Buccaneers are good enough to be a. A tier two team in the NFC and not the Lions.
I know right now. Look at the forty nine is all busted up and hurt, specifically Christian McCown. I don't know.
I don't know. And hurt specifically Christian McCaffrey. They're not there either. But let's see if they keep on scoring. I got the Buccaneers tonight.
I do. Even here at home, it's tricky because the Falcons, you never know what you're going to get. They're not good. They're not bad.
They're just average. But I'm going to go with the Bucks on the road. I think the Bucks are going to go four and one. And if Atlanta wins. Barely, unless the defense is ridiculously active, that's the only thing Hickey, who do you got in this game? I'm with you.
I like the Bucks here. Baker Mayfield. I mean, Baker so far this season specifically is play like a top five quarterback.
He's been tremendous. That offense is jelling. And like you said, just with Atlanta, there's still too much.
It still feels like they're trying to go through the motions here. And defensively, Tampa's really good offensively. They're in sync right now. I think the Bucks, just with the way they're rolling in Atlanta, still trying to figure it out. I think Tampa Bay wins. Yeah. Well, we're going to find out what happens in a few hours.
I know everybody a few blocks from here, downtown Atlanta. I know they're all getting hyped and swagging and surfing. And I don't know what the hell they're doing. Flag waving, probably flag waving. And Hickey, you really must not like Jamal Anderson.
He's in there doing the Dirty Birds somewhere right now. That's a great dance move. I like that. OK, that's good.
You like that, but not the flags. Correct. OK. All right. All right. When you come, I'll leave you outside. No, no taking.
When you visit, I'll leave you outside. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Speaking of quarterbacks, we have two quarterbacks that were just named AFC and NFC Player of the Month. One of them is the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. He won an award. We're going to talk about Sam Donald on the other side of the break. We will. More NFL action, the JR Sportbree show, the Infinity Sports Network.
