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Game two of the American League Championship Series. Buffalo Bills. They trade for Amari Cooper. They save him from the Browns. If you didn't know the Browns were in the toilet, where the hell is the rest of the season going?
Oh my God. New York Jets season has been in the toilet. Now a record of two and four. Aaron Rodgers has never had a two and four start. And now he has Devante Adams. Good for him.
You know what? In about 20 minutes from now, we're going to have a conversation with Zach Rosenblatt from the Athletic. He covers all things New York Jets. So he's very familiar with disasters and we'll get his thoughts on this edition of Devante Adams, where the team can go, whether they can kick the kicker to the curb after he just missed two field. How you miss two? Not that I can kick the ball any better.
That's not my job. But damn, how you miss two field goals? Buffalo Bills have their own issues as well, but at least they won the football game. Damn. Talk some baseball. And man, we got back. Hickey, Joel Embiid and Paul George already have issues, both of them now? I was dying after the show when you're talking about Embiid, killing him for the injuries, and then all of a sudden I get the alert about Paul George. I'm like, this is unbelievable.
We knew. How old is Paul? Is he thirty four years old?
Sounds right. Everybody is not LeBron James. Oh, my God. Yeah, we'll talk about the Sixers later on.
And Joel Embiid may not play back to backs. And how do you sell season tickets on that? I don't know. Ask Jerry Jones. I guess he has a solution on being asked and still making money.
I I don't know. Anyway, Zach Rosenblatt coming up in about 20 minutes from now to talk about these New York Jets. And then right before we went to break, we talked about Tom Brady. This man is now officially a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. He has himself a five percent stake.
Not a big deal. When you got Tom Brady in the building, you want to tell me that there's not a guy who's going to have more influence? Outside of Mark Davis, I guess, right? Come on now. Let's see if it makes a difference or whether or not Tom Brady sticks around for a few years and goes, all right, I'm out. I'm selling.
I'm not doing this crap. Maybe Mark Davis would be the guy to kind of push him towards that. I guess if there would be an owner, it would be Mark Davis. He better utilize the football genius of Tom Brady and see if it makes any sense. See if Tom Brady can help find out sooner than later. Anyway, speaking of a genius, I'd be remiss not to mention this.
We talked about it yesterday. Ben Hartstock was here with us and talked about the disaster that was the Ohio State University going up against the Ducks. People are calling Dan Lanning a genius, not comparing him to the genius of Tom Brady. But Dan Lanning, who took over for Mario Crystal Ball a few years ago, who's now down in Miami trying to be a genius. Dan Lanning has a 28 and five record with the Ducks.
Three of those losses are against Washington. I don't think he has to worry about that right now. But the fact of the matter is, after he laid the smackdown on Ohio State, one of his plays at the end of the game, 12 men on the field to eat up some additional clock. People are saying that this man is a genius. And we've seen this in different scenarios like Mike Vrabel used to utilize penalties to go in his favor.
You actually have to know the rules. And this was a genius thing that he did to pretty much ensure the victory as Ohio State was running out of yards and needed to go far down the field. I think they needed to go like 30 something yards.
He's like, screw that. They can't go 30 yards. We're just going to eat the clock. And so he was asked, did you get a penalty on purpose?
Did you try to manipulate the clock? Listen to what Dan Lanning said. Much of the commentary world has decided and struck you as a genius, Dan, for the 12 man penalty and declared that it was intentional. Was it indeed intentional to induce the throw one on one against Jabbar in that spot? He wasn't one on one. We actually had a safety on top.
So there was a, so it's called dog. It's when you play, but he wasn't an extremely tight coverage, but he was in dog coverage where he had safety on top of him. And yeah, there was a timeout before that. We spent an inordinate amount of time on situations. There are some situations that don't show up very often in college football, but this is one that obviously was something that we have worked on.
So you could see the result. You can't do that in the NFL. Now we got to report that in college football, they're gonna try to close that loophole. Why not? Right? Who cares?
How often do you think something like this is going to happen? You know, how about this? If they want to worry about clock manipulation and time manipulation, is there a way that they can stop half the damn athletes from hitting the deck feigning and faking injuries to buy time? Like, can we stop that?
There's no way to do so. Right? If I say my back hurts, then my back hurts.
Like, Hickey, which is a bigger problem? Clock manipulation or these players dropping like flies? Acting?
Definitely the acting a hundred percent. Cause it's so rampant. Like this is what Dan Lening did is one in a million, like truly, right? Like situation calls for it. The score calls for it. The time clock calls for it. It's very rare that you execute it and execute it well. I mean, every game, every week, as soon as there's one play and no huddle, boom, someone's fallen. No other person has fallen.
It's a major problem. You know what? It's worse when you see the coach on the sideline and some guy is, he's running towards the huddle and the coach goes, no, no drop. It's like, stop, stop, drop and roll. They teach you that in what? Kindergarten. So in case, well, that sounds terrible.
You're not awful. I guess you need to learn it when you're a kid, right? If you're on fire to how to get it off you? I just, in my brain, I'm like, they taught us how to, Hey, you five-year-old, if you ever light up on flames, just remember you need to stop, drop and roll. Is a kid going to remember that? Or you have to be told that probably be told.
Yeah. I don't never want to. Well, thank God.
I didn't have to experience that as a five-year-old. Uh, but anyway, this is what it seems like. These guys are running to the sideline and the next thing you know, the coach is like, no, no, no, stop, drop down. And everybody sees it. The camera sees it. Everything is caught and nothing happens. Like in the guys rolling around on the ground, like he's been hit by a Mack truck. It's like, what can we do about this?
And it doesn't appear to be anything like you can't, what are you going to do? Find the teams after the game? Like you have to penalize them there in that minute or you're screwed.
There's no, no repercussions in that moment. And so if they want to figure something out and do that and trying to close loopholes on, on clock management, let, let the good coaches manipulate the rules. Simple as that, because some of these coaches don't even know how to use the clock. They got five guys trying to help them.
Just go ahead and get things together. Pretty, pretty sad. And speaking of injuries, do you think Mike Williams was really hurt last night? No, no, man missed the ball and like a guy just kind of grazed past his head. And the next thing you know, he's just holding the crown of his head.
Like, I don't know. He's concussed. And then we didn't hear anything after the game. I heard, I heard Aaron Rogers throw him under the bus and I'm just like, damn faking injuries because you, you screwed up. You ticked off Aaron Rogers. You, you made him mad. Aaron Rogers was mad at everybody. He's mad at the officials. He was mad at himself. He was mad at Mike Williams.
He's just, just an angry fellow. Until he was on Pat McAfee earlier today, hanging out with Devontae Adams. Listen to Aaron Rogers. He says that we need to do better in the red zone. I remember Breece Hall dropped a pass and Aaron Rogers rolled his eyes at that too.
Listen to this. Tonight we had chances. We had a walk-in to Sam and Braylon. Then we had a phantom holding call. Had a chance with G twice.
Um, that's how we had our chances. Oh man. Just angry, angry, man. Like the body language. And I get it. Every, Hickey, is it just me or does his body language and pushing Rob Salah doesn't help, but for years he has crossed over into like Jake Cutler territory of being miserable on the field.
Absolutely. His body language is awful. And that's why, honestly, part of that, I can't blame Mike Williams for rolling around on the ground. Because all you're trying to do at that point is avoid seeing Rogers. Avoid seeing his eyes, avoid seeing his body language, avoid probably trying to get cursed out on the sidelines.
If you go into the blue tent, unless Rogers follows you in there, maybe you avoid him for the rest of the night. Um, and you, I heard him on McAfee today and his, his justification kind of was, well, I call myself out too. And we all need to call each other. And I'm like, but nobody talks, but you, that's you, you don't shut up. You're the only guy on the New York jets getting paid a million dollars to talk.
How about this? And he's not, he's not saying anything. He's being a distraction for a guy who last year said the New York jets need to eliminate distractions. He's, he's adding to it. And that's why when you look at the trade today, the Vontae Adams to the New York jets, Amari Cooper to the Buffalo Bills, the jets can go on a winning streak.
Come on. We know that we know we do. Buffalo bills were already coming off of two straight losses. They, they got a heads up now on the jets. And I think because of that, the Buffalo Bills will win the division unless they, they hit the skids, which is possible. I think the jets will still make the I think the jets will still make the post-season as a wild card. Maybe they went in, or maybe they go in by winning the AFC East, but I'll tell you this.
The moment that they implode is going to be very interesting. You know, having the Vontae Adams in the building is a good look. He's wide receiver one. He might help out Garrett Wilson.
You know, I don't know. We'll see. The new head coach, Jeff Ulbrich, pretty much said the Vontae. Yeah, it'll be great to have Garrett around him all the time.
I was fortunate enough in San Francisco to be around Terrell Owens and Jerry Rice and to see firsthand all that Jerry taught to, you know, Jerry at the time was in his 18th year, whatever it was, but so established and understand the game at the highest level. I think Devante is going to provide that same thing for Garrett and for all of our receivers. Okay. All right.
All right. Well, I hope Tio and his prom shows up with, you know, Jerry Rice, I hope and that much of a difference. I don't know.
A little bit, probably. This is what Aaron wants. This is how Aaron likes it. If you don't do it this way, Aaron won't give you the ball. It's probably all Garrett Wilson needs to hear from Devante Adams.
Obviously a little bit more, more intricacies involved, but I'm just waiting on the moment. Devante Adams doesn't have any guaranteed money past this season. If Aaron Rogers decides to quit at the end of the year, he's gone. New York Jets will be looking for a QB. If Devante Adams says, I don't want to be here either. The New York Jets can cut bait without owing him the $36 million each for the next two years.
Why the hell you want to pay that guy? You're going to be 33, 34 years old, Devante Adams. And Aaron Rogers might be on the beach by then saying, screw this. I'm not winning nothing with the Jets.
I'm out of here. Last night against the Buffalo Bills, it was the same old Jets. I'm starting to think that, well, I've thought this for years.
I don't know. Maybe something is buried underneath that field. Something is buried in the Meadowlands. Like something is going on at this team. They, they can't escape the, the Farves and the, the Rogers and Chad Pennington's arm and the Testa Verdes and the Sanchez. They, they can't, they can't get past any of the Kotites.
They cannot get past any of it. Somebody got a voodoo doll with the Jets. 855-212-4227. Chuck is here from Michigan. JR. That would be me, Chuck. Go ahead. You're slipping, man.
You know you're slipping, right? Let me tell you what's happening. Go ahead, Chuck. Go ahead. I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. You're my voice. Well, I don't have, no, I just want you to make the point. I have to go to a guess.
Go ahead. Jets ain't gonna never be better until their new quarterback who ain't been born yet. Their new owner who ain't been born yet.
That's when the Jets are going to get better. Okay. Well, thank you, Chuck.
Appreciate you for calling from Michigan. Yeah, we could have got to that right away. The Johnson family owns the Jets. The Q-Tip people, the Band-Aid people have a feeling that they are not going to, I don't think the Band-Aid people are ever going to let the Jets out of the family. Ever.
Good luck on that one. Jets new owner, good luck. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief.
It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. A busy day in the NFL. Browns end up sending Amari Cooper to the Buffalo Bills. And before that, well, after a loss last night to the Bills, New York Jets, they finally bring in Davante Adams. Reunited with Aaron Rodgers and I guess it'll feel so good to talk about the soap opera that is the New York Jets.
And this is still, I guess, the early goings of it is someone who covers the team for the athletic. Joining us right now is Zach Rosenblatt. Zach, how are you, man? I'm good. I'm tired. Been a long, long week, I would say.
I would say. Now, what is, Davante Adams being a New York Jet, not so surprising. What is the most surprising thing that has taken place so far with the Jets this year? It has to be the firing that got going last week of Salah, right?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Especially because of the timing of it and, you know, for it to happen after five games when they could have done it in the offseason and just all the factors that went into it. And then when you take that and you juxtapose it with the fact that they just made a blockbuster trade a week later, that's not usually the typical behavior for a team that just fired their coach. This is a team that weirdly fired its coach because they're all in, at least in the mind of owner Woody Johnson. So it's been a very interesting week because there's so much chaos going on around this team. They've lost three games in a row. They just made this all in move. And right now they don't they don't really look like Super Bowl contenders.
They look more like a team that's fighting to make the playoffs more than anything. Well, Zach, before we get into the trade that took place today, sticking to last week, Aaron Rodgers made it very clear, tried to make it very clear. I don't have as much power as people think and think about the humanity of Salah and his family and what have you. Correct me if I'm wrong. This man has more power and influence than anybody in the organization right now, not named Woody.
Am I crazy? No, I mean, he definitely has significant influence, but I don't think he is the reason why Robert Salah got fired. You know, I think that the part that people leave out is that I think Robert Salah getting fired when that happened, everybody would have thought that Aaron Rodgers was the one that pulled the strings, especially with all the hacking stuff. And I think Rodgers is smart enough to know that he doesn't want everybody thinking that he's running a thing. So that's a big reason why I think it was really Woody Johnson woke up Tuesday morning or went to bed on Monday night and decided he wanted to make a change.
And I think that's what happened. And I think Rodgers was kind of surprised by it and then had to got demoted anyway. So at the end of the day, you know, the thing that Rodgers probably didn't want happened.
So I think he definitely has influence like Devante Adams isn't here if they don't have that friendship probably. But, you know, ultimately, I don't think he fired Robert Salah. Oh, if he wanted him to stay, wouldn't he be able to maybe keep him around? Was Woody that unhinged? I think it was entirely Woody's call. Yeah, I don't know that Rodgers could have swung his opinion. I mean, I don't know if he gave Aaron a chance to or not. Like that's something that only Aaron and Woody know and they're probably not going to reveal.
But I don't get the sense that he could have changed his mind. Zach Rosenblatt is joining us from the Athletic Joins All Things Covers All Things New York Jets. You talk about the trade of Devante Adams. Obviously, you got him, Garrett, Allen Lazard.
He has weapons. Cobb was here last year, but obviously Aaron Rodgers was hurt. What does this mean for this offense moving forward? Yeah, you know, this is an offense that had a lot of the same questions that they had the last couple of years. They've had a hard time finishing in the red zone. And they've had some difficulty with creativity when the Hackett was still calling the plays.
Now that Downing's in there, they got a little more creative in this last game. So ultimately, you know, hypothetically, this should make this a higher scoring offense. It should make it so they close out those drives in the red zone. And for the sake of Garrett Wilson, it should open things up for him. You know, he's gone against the number one corner every week. Teams have doubled him and you're not gonna really be able to do that when you have Devante Adams on the opposite side of the field. What does this mean when it comes down to the New York Jets? This is the worst start that Aaron Rodgers has ever had in his career. He's never been worse than three and three.
Now he's two and four. Do you think they'll be able to catch up to the Buffalo Bills? You know, until they prove they have the ability to do that, I don't believe they will. But, you know, they have their talent on this roster. But just over and over again, it's the same mistake, shooting themselves in the foot. A lot of these penalties, a lot of these drops, a lot of these miscommunications that just happen over and over again.
And they've happened throughout the solid era. And, you know, I think this game against the Steelers is gonna be kind of like a game to save their season or to make it where it could be a long winding road the rest of the way. So I think a lot is on the line on Sunday night.
Oh, no, no, no doubt about that. There was a lot on the line last night. Do you think the loss sped up the trade or was this already in the works? Oh, we know it was in the works.
Devante was already at the facility this morning. What are your thoughts on the timeline of it? Yeah, you know, from what I heard before the game yesterday, they were pretty much in agreement already. And I think they're probably just sorting some things out. And I always thought that the wildcard would have been if Woody just decided he didn't want to make the trade because of a loss or something. But ultimately, that's not what transpired. And, you know, this was Woody just deciding he wanted to be all in on trying to win this year. And so he went and got the guy and they're gonna pay him.
They're paying the full deal. And that's kind of how it played out. You know, it's very interesting timing, obviously, because of the loss.
But I think ultimately, this was gonna happen. We saw last night after the loss, Aaron Rodgers had no problem sharing with the world that Mike Williams was out there running the wrong route. What does this mean for Mike Williams? He's making $10 million a year. Is he gonna stick around as wide receiver number 10? Or is he gonna get moved? Does anybody want him?
Yeah, I mean, I think that the latter part of the question is the interesting part. I know a lot of people have mentioned him being floated in trades. I think when he's completely healthy, he has a talented receiver.
He hasn't looked quite like himself coming off an ACL. But, you know, if there's a team that needs a wide receiver out there, I could see it happening. But ultimately, you know, they're paying him the money he said, and he's on the roster, and they've had some injury bad luck over the years. And I don't think it's the worst thing to keep him around if they feel like he can contribute. But yeah, you know, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he wound up getting traded at some point between now and the deadline.
I can't get a good read on if he has a market, but I do think that is something that could happen. What do you think is the most likeliest of scenarios with this New York Jets team as we move towards January? Most likely, you know, I think this is a team that can stay competitive through the end of the year. And it's gonna come down to maybe the last few weeks of the season and some of these losses they've had early could come back to bite them. And so I, you know, I see this as a team that's fighting to win nine games to sneak into the playoffs.
And you could totally see them winning eight games too. But if Devontae comes in and the offense starts going off, then maybe their ceiling's higher. We know everything is kind of year to year when it comes down to Aaron Rodgers. For the time that you've now covered him from arrival to the rehab and even being on TV and radio and getting paid to talk and telling everybody else things a distraction. If they don't win the big one, do you think he's going to come back next year to try to prove folks?
Is he going to go back into a mountain and try to figure it out? What happens at the end of the year if they don't win a championship? I mean, I think Super Bowl or bus was never a realistic like expectation. But I do think if they miss the playoffs, I think a lot of people are not going to be here anymore.
And that might include him. But if they make the playoffs and they're competitive, I absolutely think he'll come back. I think the intention for him has always been to come back next year. But you know, he's getting beat up pretty good.
He is 40. He's coming off an injury dealing with an ankle thing. So I think how this the rest of the season plays out is probably going to dictate what happened next year. So there's a there's a real possibility the New York Jets kind of kind of slipped very quickly back into purgatory, you know? Yeah, I mean, they've lived there for a long time.
So it's familiar territory. But yeah, it's they're in a weird spot because it whether it's Rodgers there or not, they don't have a lot of flexibility going into the next offseason. So it's going to be an interesting offseason. Any thoughts on on what might take place with the head coaching position? Jeff Olbrich, he got the job right now? Or are they gonna kind of just see what happens the rest of this year? Is there outside consideration?
We are Bill Belichick killing the owner for killing the coach. Yeah, I mean, I think they're gonna give Olbrich every chance to win this job if he gets into the playoffs, which the Jets haven't done in 13 years. I think he'll get the job but if they don't, then he'll get a shot at it. But I think there's a lot of candidates out there that will intrigue Woody Johnson, you have big names like, you know, Mike Fable, you have like the young up and coming guys like a Ben Johnson, like I, there are options out there.
I don't know how appealing this job would necessarily be to those candidates. But I think ultimately, Olbrich will get the job if they get to the playoffs. Okay, so many questions with the New York Jets. When you write the articles, are you writing them as information? Are you putting together like a novel because this is what the Jets feed you every day? I mean, I definitely keep track of everything going on. In case I do write a novel down the line because there's a lot of chaos, that's for sure.
There's so much so much drama and it is only October 15. Hey, Zach Rosenblatt is here with us. Where can people follow you, keep up with your work, the news, everything that you do with The Athletic? Yeah, you can find me at The Athletic. All my stuff will be on the Jets page and I'm on Twitter at ZachBlatt, Z-A-C-K-B-L-A-T-T. Hey, Zach, as the world turns and that's the world of the New York Jets, thank you for the time, man.
Yeah, no problem. Thanks for having me. No doubt about it. Go ahead and check out Zach and all of his work covering the New York Jets. It's, it's a drama. It's a comedy. It's a tragedy. Marco, am I, am I missing anything? Any other descriptive words I could use for the Jets that are just, let's tie it into theater.
Let's be, I don't know, let's be sophisticated here. I mean, tragedy was the one. I thought you were gonna forget that one because that's definitely in there. Is there a theater word for horrific? Is it like a horror show?
Rocky Horror Picture Show? Yeah, yeah, that's definitely, that's part of it too. Joe Namath will bring the tights.
Hmm, yeah. And I think the Jets bring the agita? Is that basically the indigestion? That comes from the Jets, right?
That's, that's a weekly thing? Comes from Woody. He'll also bring the, does Johnson & Johnson, they don't do medicine, right? No? Uh, I don't know. Do they, I mean, they, they definitely got to help out with some sort of like, you know, Pepto-Bismol type of situation because the Jets need that. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. They just do products, right?
Um, they do ineptitude. Is that, is that in a bottle? Oh wait. Oh my God. Johnson & Johnson manufactures Tylenol? Motrin? They got every, well, they got everything. Wow. You know what? Maybe that's why.
Because if you can watch a Jet game and not reach for some, some sort of Motrin, Tylenol or, or Advil, good for you. Good for you. Wow. They, wow. Whoa, wow. Damn.
That Woody, that Woody Johnson guy, he was born into the right family. How about that? Hey, Ambassador Johnson to you. Oh, excuse me.
What? From, do I have to be, don't I gotta be a UK citizen to call him that or American call him that? Uh, you know, it was on the press release that he's Ambassador Johnson. So I don't know who actually calls him that, but apparently calls himself that. Not anybody, not anymore. He's not Ambassador anymore.
No, no, no, no, no. When they fired Robert Sala, the official press release that had Ambassador Johnson, not owner Woody Johnson, it said Ambassador Johnson. This man is walking around with Sauce Gardner's chain.
Okay. He's walking around in Sauce Gardner's chain and he's calling himself Ambassador. Did he exchange that one for the big ticket for the MacKaye Becton?
Did he have that one too or no? I don't know. I don't know. Oh my God. Ambassador? Did they say Ambassador to the United Kingdom or just Ambassador? No, no, no, no, no, no.
Just Ambassador Johnson. Oh no. If you're going to do it, you gotta go all in, right?
Yeah. He's definitely leaning as far as he can, but again, they can't, they don't know how to go full in because I don't think the Jets know how to go full in on anything other than dumpster fire. So it just feels like there's always kind of like that half-assed element, even when they try. You know, it's almost like the line from the Simpsons when Bart says, Homer, I liked it better when you were, you know, more of a half-assed over-parenting. He's like, I was using my whole ass.
That's where it feels the Jets are. They're trying to use their whole ass and they still half-assed it. We were trying to use theater terms.
How'd you get here? Simpsons? Can't use half-assed on theater terms? That's lowbrow?
Sorry. The Simpsons have been on air for almost 40 years now. How come the Simpsons have never been on Broadway? Think about it.
You know, that's a good call. We've had Cats on Broadway. The Phantom of the Opera's on Broadway. They had a show with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on Broadway.
They did. So what would you do for the Simpsons though? Is it like almost like Muppets? Paint people yellow? I don't know. I don't think that would go over real well.
I feel it would almost be like the puppet show at the end of Forgetting Sarah Marshall with like the Dracula puppets. I feel like you'd have to go that way. No.
No? Hickey, how would you put the Simpsons on Broadway? I'm with Marco. You gotta go puppets. Your idea, JR, sounds borderline racist. I don't think that would go over very well. To paint people yellow.
That is a lawsuit and a cancellation waiting to happen. There are no there are no human beings on Earth that yellow. None. None. Why are they that yellow?
Why? Because the they all live near that what's that thing that Homer works at? The nuclear plant?
Yeah, they live near the nuclear power plant. That's why they're all yellow. Come on, that makes no sense. Is that the reason actually? I never knew the reason. I don't know. I'm pretty sure just because they're a cartoon. Just just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's it. Are there but there is every white person on The Simpsons. They're all yellow.
All of them. Every white person on The Simpsons is yellow. I know they got a black guy. He's brown. But everybody else is yellow. Apu is brown. Yeah, I yeah, I think so. I mean, they're all yellowish.
Moe is yellowish. No, Lenny. He owns the bar, right?
Right. He's white. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is groundskeeper Willie yellow? You know, I should know all this because I watched it religiously for a long time, but I haven't seen it in so long.
I stopped 20 years ago. Yeah, that's what I mean. But yeah, I feel like they're all yellow. I feel like groundskeeper Willie is yellow. Maybe because I feel like maybe because was he Irish?
I thought that maybe he would be a little paler. I don't know. I want to say Scottish. Yeah, I think it's groundskeeper Willie.
Yeah, he wore kilts. You're right. Right. Wow.
Oh, even he's yellow. Yeah. Okay.
Right. Lenny. Lenny, the drunk from the bar. Lenny. That's Barney. Oh, Barney, the drunk. Yeah.
Lenny is buddies with Carl. I have work to do while we go into this break. I'm going to try to identify the one white person from The Simpsons. I'm going to try.
I'm going to find one. Mr. Burns was yellow. Smithers. Chief Wiggum. Chief Wiggum was yellow.
All right. Well, one day The Simpsons ain't going to be on TV. They got to figure it out.
Put it on Broadway. They have to stay alive. I'll figure it out. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We're going to take a break. We come back on the other side.
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It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Dan, who's at the end of it? Who's at the end of the road? The Jets, the Browns, and somebody else cooked, at least those two or the above, the Cowboys.
Oh, boy. Yeah, they're cooked. This is a this is a day here for those at the end of the road in the NFL, at least if you're a Browns fan.
What do you what do you what are you thinking today? Like what do you think? Seasons like do you even watch the I guess do you talk? I mean, the Browns fans are used to are you torturing yourself and just watching the rest of the year. Hey, Chubb is going to come back. Let me see what he does. Like what else is there to watch?
I would say no. Like you said, they've I mean, they had a winless season was at five, six years ago. Like it's they've seen some bad things. They're used to this.
This is an improvement. But this almost feels like no hope because he's there for another two years. Oh, my God.
Like no matter what, he's not going anywhere. Oh, man. So why would you subject yourself to bad football for another two and a half years?
Oh, that stinks, man. Are the Jets the most interesting story or is it the Jets had got to be the Jets over the Cowboys, right? In the whole entire NFL. The Jets have the biggest soap opera out of everybody, right? Absolutely. I don't know about you. The Cowboys feel tired at this point.
Yeah, it's the same story lines. Now, this is new from Jerry Jones, kind of freaking out for maybe the first time, at least publicly. But like, I mean, everything else, we know he's running the team. We know he's not putting the best team out there. The same thing happens to the Cowboys every year. The Jets. I mean, this is I mean, we are now seeing in real life Aaron Rodgers taking over.
You run you ran the wrong route. Oh, well, you know, now I'm going to trade you and Mike Williams. This is incredible.
You know, if that dude gets traded, I don't want to laugh, but he destroyed him so bad last night. Oh, I can't remember the last time. I don't remember the last time I heard a quarterback say that about his receiver. Like publicly. What are you doing? It's crazy.
Anyway, 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 is 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. As I stand here in the studio of the New York Yankees, they're in action right now trying to take a 2 0 series lead against the Cleveland Guardians. At least the wonderful people of Cleveland, Ohio.
They can look at the Guardians and have a little bit of hope. We did hear that Alex Cobb is out for the year with a back issue so we won't see him. He only made, I think, about four starts of the entire year, including last night. Tanner Bybee is on the mound right now for the Cleveland Guardians and Garrett Cole is opposing him for the New York Yankees. So it's the bottom of the first. The Yankees are at bat and Aaron Judge, when is this guy going to wake up?
I'm trying to figure it out. Giancarlo Stanton, who is a pinata for Yankee fans. They want to trade him. He can't stay healthy. He can never run, which is true. Can't run anywhere.
I mean, am I imagining things? Did he not steal a base last week? He stole a base and then last night scored on a pass ball. So he's been using the legs a lot recently. I guess he's like, look, there's no more than two more weeks left in the season. Might as well go all out right now.
That or he sandbagged us for 162. I don't know. Oh my God. He's like, my calf is hurt. His calves are probably huge.
They have to be. But damn, bro, like calf, he has muscles in places that I don't have places. But damn, not right now. He is lighting it up for the New York Yankees. Giancarlo Stanton, this postseason, he is batting 368 in the postseason play period. He has 29 RBIs and 32 playoff games. Last night was his 13th career playoff home run and 115 at bats. Giancarlo Stanton gets the job done. Meanwhile, Aaron Judge, he is a 2 0 4 hitter in 49 playoff games. And OK, yes, sure, you know, the things get tense and tight in the postseason facing against the best or facing off against the best pitchers.
It's going to be tougher. But we've seen players that elevate and just raise their games in the postseason. Guys like like Big Papi and Derek Jeter, they became gods in the postseason because how they perform, they didn't wither away.
So it's possible. And so Giancarlo Stanton said, I'm locked in for these games. I understand how important each pitch, each moment is.
I understand that you're not always going to be successful in those moments, but anything I can do, any bit of information or video or swings, anything I can do to be in my best spot during this moment. Maybe Giancarlo Stanton just looking for a new girlfriend. This guy, they put all his girlfriend, I don't know how they find out, but they put all his girlfriends in the newspaper.
So maybe he's looking for a new one. Hickey, it's that's time of year. You know, things get cold. You're not outside.
You find somebody, you lock them in the house. They call it cuffing season. They do.
They do. Did you see Giancarlo last night at the postgame press conference? Oh, no. What was he doing?
Had just the tank on. His muscles were muscling. He's looking for somebody.
He's like, the season ends in two weeks. I'm getting ready to go down to Florida for it and travel the world. I need a, I need a companion. I need a companion.
I need a companion. Yankees got two hits already. How about that? Let's see what Aaron Judge does. Anyway, Juan Soto, who just got a hit, has no problem getting on base. Juan Soto, because I guess he knows Aaron Judge better than anybody. How? I don't know. He says that Judge isn't feeling the pressure.
Listen. I don't think he has any pressure. We definitely, like I say, it's a team effort at the end of the day. It's going to take every single guy in that lineup. We can all lean on only him. So we all got to come through one time.
Yeah, that doesn't have anything to do with nothing, bro. We know it's a team game. We know nobody's expecting Aaron Judge to go out there and get the job done. Aaron Judge is at the plate right now.
He has two guys on, a guy on first, a guy on third. There are no outs. This is when you got to drive or run home. Hit the ball hard. Hit a home run. Hit it and do something. Walk. Take a walk.
Don't strike out. This is what people expect and want. Not for him to solve the world's problems. The man, let me say it again. He has a.204 batting average in the playoffs. This is someone who's a multiple time MVP. He just popped up. Oh my God. Hickey, he popped up to the shortstop.
That would not help. And he dropped. No.
Oh, you're ahead of me. Oh, shortstop dropped the ball. Aaron Judge got on base via an error. And a run scores. Oh my God.
What are they doing out there? Aaron Judge is like, I'm a lucky you know what? The guy popped up to the shortstop who couldn't catch the ball. Oh my God. Is that, what was the, what was the Mets shortstop? That's that guy. What's his name?
Oh, you want to go down that road, huh? Luis Castillo. Oh no, no, no. This guy. Rocchio.
What was that? I've never seen this guy in my life. Rocchio.
Who's this? Oh yeah. He's nothing. He's batting ninth in the lineup.
I know I never heard this guy. Yikes. Yeah. 206 average eight home runs, 36 RBI. Oh, he's 23 years old. Oh yeah. I don't know this guy.
Well, you know him now and not for the right reason. No, because he dropped the, Hey, look, Aaron Judge, even Aaron Judge is getting a little bit of a break. Congratulations. The New York Yankees now lead one to nothing. Not because Aaron Judge did good, but because of the shortstop for the Cleveland Guardians, he did, he did bad.
Aaron Judge, get it together. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. Oh my goodness. The steel has got some news. It looks like Russell Wilson is going to get a chance to start. We'll talk about that. Ray Fittipaldo is going to join us on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. We're going to talk about some NFL coaches on a hot seat and we'll update you on the Yankees and the guardians don't move.
