Is Alabama Still A National Title Contender? (Hour 2)

It is the JR Sportbrief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. I'm being joined by super producer and host Ryan Hickey in New York City. I hope you have had a tremendous Monday.

I hope you had a great weekend. We're underway in a week. We got Major League Baseball playoff action. We got Monday Night Football in Kansas City. The Saints in Kansas City trying to pick up a W. We'll get into all of that. We have so much more to do.

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Ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. Shout out to everybody out there on the road. People at home, people at work, whatever the hell you're doing. Thank you for being here. Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers. They just beat the Cleveland Guardians. The final score three to nothing.

And with that three run bomb. These Detroit Tigers, they have evened up this series one one as they travel tomorrow and play game three in Detroit. I know this is something just in general, the playoffs, this is the first time the Tigers have been there since 2013. We had a three run bomb by Kerry Carpenter off of the best reliever in baseball class says ERA for twenty twenty four is ridiculous. Makes no sense.

It's difficult to believe. He had a six one era point six one. He pitched seventy four innings and gave up five runs. That is nuts.

It makes no sense. Scubel, of course, he kept the Tigers in a whole game from the get go mowing people down at one inning. He got out of it only through, I think, eight pitches, seven innings total, eight strikeouts. And then when we got to the got going, Kerry Carpenter, he put them away. This is the three run bomb, the ninth to give the Tigers a 3 0 lead, which they would ultimately win on. This is courtesy of the Tigers radio network to two. Sweeney takes off fly ball right field. This one's deep.

Going back is Ben and he's looking up and it's. Oh, man, Kerry Carpenter with two outs in the night, a three run bomb and the Tigers take the lead three nothing. And Cleveland had no answer. And so now the series is tied at one all. I mean, just this past Saturday, the Guardians beat them down seven to nothing. And that would be the concern as we march towards game three on Wednesday.

You know, outside of Scubel, you got to hope and pray that you can be kept in the game before you just get slapped around. But you got to figure the fans in Detroit, they're going to be juiced. They're going to be ready for this. Like they legitimately have a chance to go on to the American League Championship series. Even saying that about the Tigers seems seems out of place. Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers going back off of a victory. That next game will take place on Wednesday, game three out in Detroit. They're all tied up, one all between the Tigers and the Guardians. Meanwhile, in about 30 minutes or so, the New York Yankees are going to try to take a two series lead against the Kansas City Royals.

So that game will start in a little more than than 30 minutes from now. New York Yankees. Oh, my God. Hey, I know the Mets giving you a heart attack back and forth that that Yankees game and they just went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. And back and forth.

They was giving me indigestion, man. That was a wild game. That was fun. Playoff baseball so far with the Wild Card series and now the first few games of these DS series in both the AL and NL. They've been a lot of fun. They've been a lot of fun.

They have. I mean, even the way this game ended, I was like, OK, we got a little bit of a pitcher's duel here. And then it ended.

It took one swing of the bat for them to put up those three runs. Now that I've said all of that, can I make my complaint? You ready for this? Oh, let's hear it. I'm sick and tired of trying to think where the game is. I don't want to spend five minutes trying to identify the game. Hickey, I'm like, is the game on ESPN or is that only the wild card round? And if it's not on ESPN, do I got to go to a Turner property?

And then I'm like, hey, I haven't watched anything Turner since basketball in the summertime. So now I got to log into HBO Max because the stupid app was a stupid thing called. I don't even know what the app is called. Max.

Yeah, well, Max is fine. But then the TBS app is one of the worst apps on earth. So I just want to watch the baseball. This is like a regular season game, like the only thing they haven't done. I'm sure it's not the case. Could you imagine if they put one of these games on on Apple TV? Look, don't put it past them to not put it past and it's probably coming soon.

World Series Game one, Apple TV. Figure it out. I don't I don't I have it. Do I have it? Am I paying for it? Are they taking money? Is it a subscription? Is it a free trial? Do they take the money already? Hickey, do you have Apple TV?

I do not. Oh, man. Why don't they do World Series Game one Sunday morning on Peacock at 11 a.m. game. Major League Baseball just always.

I got to watch my words. If a guy rolled up to Rob Manfred on the street and just wrote him a blank check, here's ten million dollars. We want to do one baseball game. He's like, what is it going to broadcast on? He's like, I don't know. Rob Manfred would just take the check.

Like, we'll take the money and figure it out later. That's my one complaint. What about game times? Oh, my God.

Don't get me started. So they say first pitch for tonight at Yankee Stadium is what? Seven thirty eight local time. Yes. They're going to throw that ball. Is Ro Don going to throw the ball at seven thirty eight?

I would think so. I think they're pretty on time. So you can calm the people and tell them to tune in at seven thirty and he can throw the first pitch eight minutes after that with the timer in the background.

I'm sure to sponsored by someone. They do it. You know, I give them credit.

They do a good job, you know, because they got the producer there yelling at the umpire telling, hey, tell the guy to throw the ball, you know, so they do good. Here's another complaint. You ready?

Sure. I hate that blue screen, that blue green screen behind the backstop. And so the pitcher, when he's winding up, I see the fuzziness like we're not that technologically advanced yet. Like, I feel like I'm watching a movie while the pitcher's winding up. You know what I'm talking about? I do.

And I feel like we should be, though, technologically advanced. We should be there where the green screen looks seamless. And you can't tell that. Like you said, it's just one screen that is constantly changing because you're right. Every time they wind up, it's it is distracting. Sometimes like for a while you watch the NBA game, you go, oh, they got a logo on the court. All of those logos are not there, you know, like they're not there, but they're not. I guess we've gotten to the point where they're not all that distracting.

But I don't want to be the old man telling these places not to make money. I can't understand for the life of me. I believe it's a German hardware brand that everybody has to wear on their helmet right now. Like, why? Why? What's the point of that?

And why are you waiting now? Why could this happen in the regular season? Not that I want it to happen, but doesn't it seem a little it seems worse. I think that you throw this on the helmets as soon as, let's say, more people start watching games than otherwise would in the regular season. Yeah, I guess that's what they had to sell them on. I don't what is what is Strauss? What is it? It's like it's a German company. What do they sell?

Struts or helmets? What are they doing? You know, more than I do. I had I mean, I have no reason to look it up. I don't care. So you already, just by saying German and maybe some parts, know more than I do. So I want to know who at the company got bamboozled. Congratulations. Whoever sold this at Major League Baseball is a genius.

They're a genius because you conned a German company into slapping a logo onto helmets like who the hell in America is intro. Nobody knows. See what this is.

I mean, not hickey. I need to know. I feel like it's oh, is it working?

No. Is what working? What's the marketing? What for me to talk about it on the air? You're talking about on the air.

You're about to look it up right now, which is going to get on your phone, going to get your algorithm. Also, now you're going to see start seeing Strauss advertisements anytime you open up social media. Strauss is a German based apparel company.

Oh, apparel. Major League Baseball announced a multiyear partnership with them that will run through twenty twenty seven. We're proud that Strauss selected baseball as the marketing platform to introduce its brand to the U.S. market. So they got a lot of money and they're testing stuff. OK, how much did Strauss pay for this?

According to reporting from The Athletic, the league average for advertisers to pay for patches is seven to eight. And so that gives you a roundabout. Now, was that for the whole year? I don't know.

Anyway, here we go. Strauss, what are they selling? I don't know.

Nikki, this is dumb. Any apparel that looks good that maybe also needs some new joggers, the new sweatshirt? It looks like a German guy smiling. You go to Strauss dot com. They got a store in Venice in California.

So I guess they on the beach. I don't know what am I buying from these people? Products.

Here we go. Men. So men, women work pants, shorts. OK, a T-shirt. What is this T-shirt? How much are you charging for a T-shirt? Hickey, it's a white T-shirt for twenty dollars available in four colors. I don't know. Maybe this is tactical wear. I don't know. Huh? I don't know. Hickey just looks like regular ass clothes to me.

OK. The Germans are trying to bamboozle us by selling us normal clothing. It's a black. It's an all black hoodie that costs sixty five dollars.

No thanks, man. What are these shorts? It's just shorts. Tactical. Oh my God.

Concrete light. Eighty bucks. Yeah, these are working man clothes.

Hickey, I don't know. We got a lot of working men listening, working men and women. So maybe they know Strauss better than I do. It just seems ridiculous for Major League Baseball to have this stupid patch on their helmets.

Anyway, they didn't. How many shirts you think they've sold? Do you think they've sold 100 hoodies off of all this advertising? I honestly would be shocked if they even sold one, because how many people are actually looking it up?

I would have never looked it up if you just didn't do it. The millions of people sitting around watching baseball in the country, all of the games, they've been on helmets, every single helmet. Yeah, OK, maybe. Right. Yes. The people are doing what I do.

I'm sitting on the couch, I'm laying upside down and I'm going, Strauss, what is this? Not that you're buying anything. You got to Google it first and then you got to go, oh, yes, sure. I'm just going to buy it because I saw it on the side of a helmet.

I don't know if you get that conversion rate, you know, a normal t shirt I could get literally anywhere online on Amazon in the store by me. But I'm going to buy it from here because I see it in front of me. I'm with you. I don't think that's actually you're not you're right. You're probably right. People are definitely looking it up out of curiosity.

Is that going to equal sales? I highly doubt it. Well, the German guy on the front of the page looks happy, so there's one guy. He has a big old smile in his Strauss way. I assume he's a German guy. I don't know. What do I know?

Anyway, congratulations to the Detroit Tigers going back to Detroit with a victory. Three to nothing. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I can tell you, hey, Hickey, I know one company that won't be advertising here on the general sport reshow.

I think I know that one. Well, if anything, maybe you sold them on. Hey, let's get more creative. You can do that in radio. Maybe we can sell your product better than just slapping a logo on a helmet and expecting that to improve sales unless somebody else in the country complained about the helmets as well.

I'm sure someone did. They got a lot of attention from us. Congratulations, Strauss. Hey, speaking of congratulations. Congratulations to Vanderbilt. Thank you so much for beating Alabama. I appreciate you as a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs after what they did, smacking us forty one to thirty four last week, but then almost giving up the lead.

Thank you, Vanderbilt, for getting the job done. Alabama has now fallen to four and one. They have fallen out of the number one spot in the AP rankings and now sit at number seven.

They dropped six spots after taking this beat down or whooping. This is Vanderbilt's first win over a number one team ever. Alabama, the Crimson Tide, they were almost twenty three point favorites against Vanderbilt. They haven't beaten Alabama in about 40 years. This was a twenty three game losing streak. Congratulations and thank you to Vanderbilt.

You have proven and shown right now. Alabama's defense. It sucks. Thank you. I love it. And then after the victory, not only did they rip down the goalposts of which they've now been charged one hundred thousand dollars for because the fans took the goalpost and they dumped it in the river. And that one hundred thousand dollars is the part that sucks.

It goes to Alabama. Thank God nobody. Hickey, did you hear about an injury? Anybody get hurt?

Surprisingly, no, I did not. Wow. Good. Now I get scared about that.

Maybe maybe I'm no longer a fun guy. Never was. I always thought that was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Ripping down a goalpost, I feel like like you can seriously get injured or hurt doing that. Well, there's going to be one school and I guess one student body that would do that smartly and safely.

Wouldn't it be Vanderbilt? I'm sure they had some sort of technology. They cut him down. Maybe they just knew, OK, A squared plus B squared equals C squared. So if we get this much pressure here, they'll come down slowly. Everyone get out of the way. I would imagine there's one student body that could smartly, safely take down the goalposts easily without getting hurt.

It would be them. Well, they took it two miles and dumped it in the river. That's crazy. And now the two miles taking a goal. How do you carry?

I'd be tired after one with the police escort to I was pretty cool. I guess they had all I guess if you're juiced up on alcohol, you can carry anything. Two miles, right? Two miles is a long way. Imagine two with your arms up over your head because you're holding this thing up.

How many p is a crap ton of people just alcohol to make you do anything? Let's put it that way. You are right about that. Yeah. The quarterback, Diego Pavia, he went out there, had himself a game, 252 yards passing, two touchdowns. And as you can imagine on the SEC network, he was a, he's pretty elated. Look at this.

Diego, what were you saying to your team to finish this game? Games like this change your life. You know what I mean? It's all about Mike nowadays.

And I don't like it like that, but it's a reality of NAL and all that stuff. But no, I just stay grounded. Be where my feet are. And every single day tomorrow, I got to work on Kentucky. You had 70 family members here.

What did it mean to do this in front of them? Yeah. Yeah. Hickey, you heard that music in the background? Oh, oh yeah. How could they not be hyped up?

Like I'd carry anything two miles if that was blasting. Come on now. Does your domination gets you fired up?

Yeah. That's, that's, that's some, uh, bust some people up music. Well, they bust up Alabama.

Thank you so much. Not that anybody's going to expect anything from Vanderbilt, the rest of the way. They have a record now of three and two. And they did what they did the Lord's work.

Thank you for going out there and beating Alabama and Alabama. They were quite upset. Malachi Moore had to go out and put out an apology. He was pushing around Pavia. He was throwing his mouthpiece. He was getting penalized.

He was acting like a concrete, a complete crazy person because the loss was on the horizon. And so today the head coach Kalen DeBoer, yeah, everybody was kissing his behind. Everything looks good.

Everything looks great. We haven't lost the step, you know, without having Nick Saban here, uh, Kalen DeBoer had to explain the behavior of Malachi Moore and then had to explain why he's not going to expend or excuse me, suspend one of his best players. I think the thing I want to make sure Bama fans know is that this guy has been rock solid and been in a critical, critical piece along with others. There are some others as well of keeping this thing together since January.

Okay. When a lot of people chose, guys chose to leave, this guy stood firm. This guy loves Alabama football. He works relentlessly out there every single day on the football field.

It's the passion that I hope, I mean, you know, questions asked about me and the passion and frustration. I mean, that's what you saw from him. And so, yeah, it was, there are some things that, you know, he regrets and wishes probably didn't do. Yeah, but he's, he's owned up to it and, uh, we've handled it internally. That's what they do, right?

Handle things internally. Think about some of these, these scores that Alabama has given up. They had a big old lead against the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs almost fought back into that game, put up almost 34 points getting smashed. All of these things put up 40 points getting smashed, almost lost. And now they lose to Vanderbilt? Allow them to put up 40 points? Got to start thinking about that defense, right?

You have to think about the mindset of one of your key defenders in Malachi Moore and someone who did have some words for both Malachi and the new head coach, Kellen DeBoer is Damian Harris, who used to run the ball for him. And nobody told the athletic. But what you did last night on that football field was complete and utter bull. Like I'm bigger than the game. I'm bigger than the team.

I'm bigger than this moment. Hey, everybody look at me. Look at how pissed off I am.

Look at my, look at what I got to say about it. Let me pick up a ridiculous 15 yard penalty for no, literally no apparent reason. And you, you call yourself a two time captain. I can tell y'all what would have happened in the first day. We would have tried to rip the seat off of his, off of his Jersey. We would have lit him up, but I'm gonna tell y'all exactly why he feels like he can't act like that is you go and you look at what Kellen DeBoer said in his post game press conference about Malachi Moore. Oh, well, you know, he's one of our guys and he's one of our leaders and yeah, we, we expect him to use this and only bring positivity for the rest of the season. Man, damn that.

What's up with that? Nick Saban would have said that. No, that does not help you control the talent and the level of guys that you've never coached before guys that you've never had experience with at a program that you don't have. You don't know what it takes to win these kinds of games. And you just come in here trying to be everybody's buddy, buddy. You try to be everybody's friend. Well, what does that get you? That gets you beat against bandy on the road. Oh wow.

He called them soft without calling them soft. Anyway, Hickey, I told you Alabama. Well, last week I said, Georgia, Georgia, no national championship.

Hickey, Alabama, no national title. Wow. Cross off the list. Both of them. Wow. So you know what this means by the way, no Georgia, no Alabama.

You know, who's then slowly rising up the ranks. You're going to tell me about Penn State. Penn State.

No, no, no, no, no. They beat you. They beat UCLA. They got, well, they can play USC, the other California school next, right? That's right.

You got to go across the country now. So they'll win. Look, man, Penn State is going to sit in this four-ish spot for the rest of the year. They're going to be around five, five-ish.

Okay. You think they win a national championship? Well, I hope they beat Ohio State first in a month and then we'll go from there. Then we'll get nuts. Yeah.

Good, good, good luck. Look, I wouldn't be surprised if we got Texas or Ohio State, but here's the thing. Alabama can't stop anybody from scoring right now. The Georgia Bulldogs can't go out there and score worth a damn. They beat Auburn 31 to 13.

Good. They take on Mississippi State next. So hopefully they could get the offense revved up against those losers.

I got sexist. If they're quarterback, Ewers can stay healthy and he's supposed to be back when they take on the Sooners next. I'm just, look, if the Bulldogs ain't going to win, I don't need Alabama win another.

And they're not. I said it. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. I'm going to tell you about an NFL team and a quarterback. After watching them yesterday, they definitely not winning.

And their quarterback said, we're not even a championship contender. You can follow him and him or me or both of us. It's the truth. I'll tell you what team it is on the other side. It's the JR Sport Reshow. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, I told you about Alabama losing to Vanderbilt. Can't forget about Tennessee also going out there, losing to Arkansas.

And this was supposed to be the light version. This was supposed to be a light weekend in the college football world. And we got two massive disappointments.

We did. In a few minutes, I'm going to tell you about another disappointment. This team is in the NFL. Their star quarterback is saying we're not a championship team.

And this is like, yeah, we know. I'll tell you who that is in a second. But we got some folks here on the line that want to say some things. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Thomas is calling from Wisconsin. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Thomas? Hello, JR.

I just got some reaction to the Packers-Rams game as a Packers fan. So I'm going to hit you with my game notes. Oh, my God. Are you really? You have notes? Oh, absolutely.

I was taking notes during the game, literally. OK, can you? I told you on your show, I'm looking to go on the sports broadcast in your journalism. Terrific. Good. What's up?

So, number one, Jordan Love. If I were to give him a grade from A to F, I gave him right kind of down the middle a solid B class. I saw some good. I saw some bad.

And I saw some places where you need improvement. Number two. Wait, how many notes do you have? How many points? Three. OK, hurry up.

Yep. Number two, Jaden Reed. I was really impressed by what I saw from him, obviously, without being out. I'm not really going to talk about that, nor hereto. And number three, the defense and penalties. The penalties were definitely a little bit lower than last week, but the defense, the run defense needs to improve. Not something, even me, being as young as I am.

I'm 21, by the way, going to be 22 in March of 25. But even for the longest of times, the defense has always been a struggle for as long as I've been a Packers fan. And I love what I'm seeing from Jeff Haffley, but that's inconsistent.

And I want more consistency on the defense, especially defending. Thomas, they're going to be in shootouts all year long. And I mean, they got another one coming up against Arizona, because that's all they do is the Kyler Murray show. Is he going to run around for 50 or 80 yards? Is he going to throw for 150? Is he throwing for 300? Arizona Cardinals are very unpredictable.

I can expect a shootout on that one. I'll tell you this, though. If Jordan Love is healthy, I wouldn't worry about too much else. I wouldn't worry about it. OK, good point. Good point.

But if I look at their next four games, and I'll end with this, J.R., before the five week Arizona Houston at Jacksonville and at bowling against Detroit, I could potentially see him. I'm being very optimistic here going either two and two or three and one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know best in the scenario.

Yeah, I would. I mean, they're going to lose. Maybe they don't lose to Detroit or maybe they should beat Arizona, Houston or Jacksonville.

Maybe they'll beat Houston or Detroit. They want to go two and two. You're right. Let's see.

Yeah. Well, J.R., that's all I got for you. I know you got folks on the hotline. So I appreciate you taking the call. Love the show. Much love from all the way out here on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin from La Crosse. Appreciate it, J.R. Well, damn. Thank you, Thomas. Appreciate you.

Take it easy, bro. And nice call. Hickey, did you like his points?

His three points were good. Good note taking. I heard him flipping a paper. I said, wait, he really has notes here. Good. A lot of people call up and they don't know what the hell they're saying.

Thank you so much. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Damon is calling from Virginia. You're on the J.R. sport re-show. What's up, Damon? How are you doing, J.R.? I'm doing my little research for my mental and I was calling to see about how do you feel about Cam Ward winning the Heisman, the tremendous comeback that they had and just also just your perspective on how do you think that the Phillies Mets series is going to go? OK, so which one do you want me to answer first?

It's up to you, sir. OK, well, to the dismay of Hickey, unless he's going to go out there and throw the ball, I have the Phillies ultimately winning against the Mets. OK, I think their pitching is better.

I think they got a deeper lineup. I appreciate that. And he, I ain't going to say he was, but he probably wouldn't hang up on me when I bought that subject.

We don't we don't we don't do that around here. Yeah, I said he was, but he was OK. Your other question, your other question.

Well, he's busy. Your other question about you asked me about Miami. Yeah, Miami has actually been my favorite college team since, like, Kelly Cozart, Testa Verde days.

Oh, my God. I mean, I rep them. Well, let me tell you something. I don't I don't care where they rank right now. They currently sit at number six. Does every game have to be a comeback story? And then the teams that they're beaten up on in the ACC, like, whoa, come on. They got they got FSU ahead of them. And what was supposed to have been a great game.

What do you expect that FSU for them to smash them? So you look at the schedule and you look at just even the past two games, they had the comeback against Cal over the weekend. Was that the Friday night?

Yeah, I was here at the studio. That was a Friday night game. No, that was the Virginia Tech game because I'm in Virginia and they I'm talking about the game. Look at the first four games before that. Damon, I'm talking about the game that just took place a few days ago.

Yes. The late night game. They had the comeback against both of them. So you want to tell me about the first four games that we live in a what have you done for me lately world. And you when you talk about look at what they did against the first four. Look at the teams that they played. When you look at the teams that they had beaten up and playing and then you're looking at I mean, they went out to Alabama to lose to Vanderbilt. No.

What the hell does that have to do with what I just said about Miami? I was I was just calling in about them getting into the playoffs and Cam Ward. Yes. They will get or probably one of the they'll get in. They'll get into the playoff because they'll probably be the top team in the ACC unless the Boise State running back and seems to run out of his mind unless he slows down. Yeah. Cam Ward will have a chance.

Oh, that boy bad. Yeah. But when I think about like the I don't to be honest, I could start thinking about 12 teams, but I'm really thinking about teams that are going to win. Like, I don't care. Miami's not winning the championship, right? Not right now. I real quick and I'm gonna let you go after this besides really Ohio State in Texas. I think Miami is right there.

Well, well, they're going to have to prove it when the playoff comes because the teams that they have in front of them right now that they're powder puffs. We'll see. We'll see date. All right, have a good one, bro.

You as well. Thank you for calling from Virginia. Yeah, like who's Miami beaten? Like, where's the stiffest competition? Like they're taking on Virginia Tech. They're taking on Cal late at night going all the way out to California. I saw how far the bus had to travel, not the players, but the equipment truck had to leave days earlier just to get out there.

Come on, man. Let me know when they beat somebody that's worth a damn. They won't face anybody worth a damn until they get into the playoff.

They'll be looking at Clemson and and look, let's get to that game. But every other game that they have here and that's assuming that we have an ACC championship that Miami is a part of. I don't see any reason why not playoff. I hate to hit you with the morrow, but playoffs. Yeah, they'll get in. But winning it?

No, no. You got Miami winning the championship? No, I think they can win the ACC still.

Make some noise in the play. I think they can win a playoff game or two depending on the matchup, but no national title. I'm with you. Yeah, I mean, they beat they beat FAMU. Come on. Shout out to the Tallahassee.

Shout out to everybody in Florida, too. I think you saw that Milton. That's the name of the storm. I think it's a five cat five now. Yes, I hate him.

I don't know him, but I hate him. I have to call my family. Hickey, I call my family batting down the hatches. This is the time. Yeah, it is.

I could say some worse words for Milton, but keep it clean. It's the JR Sport re show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back in on the other side. I'm going to talk to you about the Bengals. Yeah, I told you Miami not all that optimistic about what they do in the playoffs.

Well, damn it. The Cincinnati Bengals, they may not even smell the playoffs this year. We'll get into Joe Burrell, some of his words after that back and forth game versus the Ravens yesterday. You're locked into the JR Sport re show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport brief. It's the JR Sport re show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Shout outs to the game. Yeah, straight West Coast, and we're going to get into the West Coast.

Hickey, isn't that ironic? What was it like two, three weeks ago we were talking about the fights that always happen in California? I feel like there's more fights that happen in sporting events in California than any other place.

I would agree. I mean, Conant got that proven true last night. Yeah, we're going to get into what happened with the Padres. The Padres were laying the smack down on the Dodgers, and the Dodger fans tried to lay the smack down physically on the Padres. A lot of beef. There's a series to watch.

Hickey, you know what really turned things up? Somebody hits you know who? Oh. International incident. But you can't do that, right? Because you'll steal a base.

International incident. Yeah, and then you'll hit a home run afterwards. You know you would. That's funny, and you're probably right about that. He'll steal second, third, and home just to make a point, and then hit one out of the ballpark.

Yeah, and for anyone not familiar, we're talking about Shohei Ohtani. But wouldn't that be cool though? Hickey, could you imagine? Could you imagine if somebody hits the Golden Goose? And imagine he charges the mound? No, he won't.

No. Just imagine. So much discipline. I don't even, has he even ever glared at somebody? He had a bat flip in game one. That was some of the most emotion I've ever seen from him.

So I'm not even sure if we've ever even gotten a glare to kind of get him fired up. Well, he's not, Shohei Ohtani, he's not human, you know? I mean, if he didn't have a wife, if he didn't have a dog, I'd be like, this guy's not even a human being. He just, they put him in the back, they connect him to the wall charger, and they just bring him back out for the next game. Like, he doesn't have a house, he doesn't do anything, he just has this dog and his wife that nobody's ever heard of until now, and they're like, okay.

Anyway, good for him. I think the Dodgers are going to win that series though, unfortunately. And how about this, the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals, they are underway. New York Yankees have that 1-0 series lead, and they started one minute after the stated start time of 738 local time. So let's see what the New York Yankees can do and what the Kansas City Royals can do. I know Aaron Judge didn't have the greatest of games in the last go-around, four strikeouts, or excuse me, oh, for four or three strikeouts.

And then Bobby Witt Jr., he didn't get on base with a hit as well. So let's see if the Stars decide to show up tonight in the Bronx, New York. Speaking of Stars showing up, no greater Star, or specifically if you want to ask Derrick Henry, no greater Star in the NFL than Lamar Jackson. This was one back and forth of a game, you thought the Yankees and the Royals had one back and forth over the weekend. The Ravens beat the Bengals yesterday, 41-38 in overtime. I was watching this game going, here we go. Bengals are going to try to show some signs of life, and then the Ravens answered back. And then it looked like the Ravens were going to give the ball away. Lamar Jackson mishandling fumbles, and then he's stiff-arming guys into the ground, and he's throwing touchdowns, and they ultimately went to overtime and won. Justin Tucker had a 24 yard field goal.

Derrick Henry went on what, a 50 yard run to basically set him up in overtime, and that was all she wrote. These Bengals had so many damn chances, and right now the Bengals, they're cooked. You know, we talked about 0-2 and being bad, well now they're 1-4. They're just going to go on a 10 game winning streak? Who the hell are they going to beat giving up this many points?

And I get it, it's the Baltimore Ravens, but the Bengals, they haven't been able to stop anybody. And so Lamar Jackson in a back and forth thriller, a comeback game, 348 yards passing, 4 touchdowns. Derrick Henry had 92 yards in the TD, and then after the game, Derrick Henry, as I told you, was not shy in letting everybody know that Lamar Jackson is the best player.

Forget quarterback, he's the best damn guy in the whole league. That was like a third MVP level for him. That was like one of the kind of games he played in the game. Especially the one where he was getting sacked, got out of the pocket, kept running down, almost out of bounds, threw that ball back to Zay. That's why Lamar is who Lamar is, and the best player in the league. He's a GOAT for a reason.

I hope people remember that, well not Derrick Henry's words, but his performance yesterday. Hickey, he's just, did you see, I know you did, he's stiff-arming guys and throwing touchdowns and running away. You're like, oh my god, negative yardage, and he just turns it around. He's a freak. It's so funny too, because he had trouble catching the ball, which is like the simplest thing a quarterback can do. Like, oh look at this guy, he's so uncoordinated. Then he picks it up after fumbling it around, shoves Sam Hubbard to the ground, which if you're, by the way, his teammates probably laughing at him now, and stiff-armed by a quarterback, and then just off-balance, falling into the sideline, throwing it up for, that was incredible.

It was. I mean, you look at that and go, who the hell else can do that? I don't think anybody else in the league, like for what he can do, what Patrick Mahomes can do, Mahomes is getting ready to play against the Chiefs in another 20 minutes or so.

Like, they have different skill sets, but they are so unique, it makes it fun. Watching Mahomes, watching Josh Allen, watching Lamar, and we know, you look at the other guy, he is a winner. I say the other guy, it's Joe Burrow.

He had five touchdowns yesterday, 392 yards passing, still in a loss. And Joe Burrow wasn't shy in saying, we suck. We're not a championship level team right now. We're not. You know, I like to think that, you know, we'll come back and improve throughout the season to get to that point. But right now we are not, and we have to get better.

Yeah, I don't know. Do something with the defense, bro. Oh, he can't. They have the New York Giants next. It took the New York Giants blocking a kick, returning it to help win the game against the Seahawks. Nobody saw that coming. Daniel Jones has looked good. I guess for a week or two, people can, and some of the people in New York can drink the Daniel Jones Kool-Aid.

I ain't drinking it. New York Giants now have a record of two and three. Bengals have a record of one and four.

Hickey, I'm going to laugh. Like somebody has to win the game. If the, could you imagine if the Giants win this game against the Bengals, they're going to be Giants fans who are just going to, they're going to be overly optimistic. They may give Daniel Jones another contract extension just by winning that game.

And I think Joe Shane got the message from his kid. Like, nah, we, we should have had the other guy, but we couldn't get him. Yeah, but the Bengals are done. Ain't no winning streak going to save them. Not them giving up this many points on a week to week basis. Defense stinks and the Ravens good for them. They now have a record of three and two, and this is going to be a lot of fun.

This is going to be a real fun one. They have Washington up next and Washington just beat the Browns. And if you go ahead and think about Jayden Daniels, he didn't have the greatest game in the world.

He did rush for 82 yards. Deshaun Watson, this man was sacked seven times. This is a quarterback who's been sacked the most in the entire NFL. And it's just, it's starting to get real ugly for a few teams. It's real ugly for the Cincinnati Bengals. Let me tell you, it is real, real ugly for the Browns. And then I told you the game that started it all yesterday in London for the New York Jets. It was poor fans who have to pay for that.

I mean, you saw Aaron Rodgers screaming in pain. It is real bad for the Jets, the Browns and the Bengals. Well, two of those teams are one and four and the Jets, they just got an old quarterback. We're going to talk about all three of these loser teams on the other side of the break. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

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