It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. The NFL season is underway. The World Series is underway. Basketball is underway.
Everything is underway. But we're at about the midway point through the NFL season and we're being joined right now by an NFL legend. Used to rock heads for the Chargers. Used to get them for the Bills. He's working on some cool concepts.
Lights out TV. You might know the man. He goes by the name of Lights Out.
It's Sean Merriman. Sean, how you doing, man? I'm doing well, man. How are you?
I'm excellent. Thank you for taking the time to join us. I want to get into everything you got going on with Lights Out TV, the Ultimate Fan Zone. We're going to get into that. I got to ask you this. People been talking about it for days. We had an NFL quarterback who said he was tired and now he's been benched. Yeah.
What are you? You used to chase quarterbacks for a living. What are your thoughts on Richardson getting the seat and Flacco being elevated?
Yeah, I think me personally, man, I hope this doesn't linger for him over his head for his career because he's young and when you're young as he is and talented, he's talented. You got to learn how to be a leader, right? You just have to. You got too many eyeballs on you like you're the face of the franchise. So the signal that you send is going to resonate throughout the locker room. And that's why they had to send a message, right? Because that was a locker room call.
That was a, you know, guys going to the coach and saying, hey, you know, we've seen what happened. We don't appreciate it. You tapped out. We are tired.
We all get tired, right? You're not a running back. You're not a wide receiver didn't come out for a couple of plays. You're the starting quarterback of a franchise.
And if you're not in shape, if you're not in shape, that's on you, right? I know you just came off of the injury, but look, you the leader of the franchise and they had to send a message. I just hope for his sake.
It doesn't linger on. He get known for that for that situation that he's that type of guy. He's that type of player because he's young man.
He has a lot to learn. Former Terrapin, Maryland, former NFL legend, Sean Merriman here with us. When you think about how quarterbacks have changed in the league right now, we get a lot of young guys come in, have immediate success. You see Jayden Daniels having success. We see Bryce Young not having a success. What has changed since you've been out of the game when it comes to the QB position?
Development. We've heard that over and over again. And I'll give a prime example, man. When I came in, Drew Brees was actually the starter in 2005. And Phillip was his backup. Now, Phillip didn't get on the field until Drew got hurt. But, you know, Phillip was a first round draft pick backing up and gave him time to develop. I'm totally against these franchises and organizations throwing young guys on the field and not ready. And sometimes throwing a guy on the field, he's not ready on a bad team, right?
So, this is your guy for 7, 10 plus years going forward. Why put him in position to get hurt? And it happened, Joe Barrow. Joe Barrow, when he first came in, people don't realize when he got hurt, I mean, he was running for his life. He was running for his life. He had no offensive line. And he was running for his life.
Ultimately, it got him hurt. And so, I don't understand the point as an investment, right? And all these guys, this was so crazy about it is that they're all about the money.
They're all about, you know, bringing in revenue, all about forecasting and planning and growing for years to come. That's what the NFL has always been known for. So, if your quarterback is your future investment, why put him in that situation to be on the field and he's not ready?
Or if he is ready, make sure he has pieces around him that's going to support him to go out there and play well. Former defensive rookie of the year, Sean Merriman is here with us. On the other end of the scope, we talked about Flacco being elevated in place of Richardson.
We have another 40-year-old quarterback in Aaron Rodgers. The Jets are just sinking, man. What do you think the biggest issue has been with the Jets? They've just kind of tried to check every box to get things together and it hasn't worked.
Culture. I just think they've created a culture there where there's not a lot of stability anywhere. We all see now that Coach Robert Solano, he's not the problem.
He wasn't a problem. And it goes deeper than to just add one or two players to Vontay Adams. You can add a couple players, but if your culture in that locker room in that building is not good, it's going to resonate all the way down.
And I use the Chargers, for example. They had a bad culture when Brandon Stilly was there. I like Brandon Stilly personally, but he wasn't a great leader.
He wasn't a great culture builder. And it resonated all throughout the locker room and through the staff and everywhere else. And now you see Harbaugh coming in and his coordinators believe in him. The players believe in him. They look like a completely different team than they did last year in one year.
So this was the culture switch to change that came in there. I think the Jets culture, man, has to change because they got guys. They got players. It's not like they're a bad team. So they got guys who can perform well, but when you got a bad culture, man, it doesn't matter. Well, Sean, talking about your former team with those bolts, how long do you think it'll take for Harbaugh to help turn things around? You have the franchise QB.
He's setting things up at the line of scrimmage. How long is it going to take for them to take another step? I think they've taken a big step already. I think that they still got an opportunity to be a playoff team this year. What you would like to see is more points put on the ball, right? Because they're running the ball extremely well.
They're playing great defense. And so those two things, you're always going to be competitive. You can run the ball well and play great defense.
You're always going to be in the game no matter what. This mentality, again, we talk about culture and establishing identity of who you guys are. We had a hard-nosed team. He went to draft Joe Ault, right? You had Malik Nabors there, who was this great wide receiver, but you're establishing a culture.
You're establishing an identity, which they were missing. And they came in and done just that. Both of those tackles, Rashawn Slater and Joe Ault, are leading right now as far as pressures in the NFL. Joe, Justin Herbert hasn't been touched. And that was a culture that's established.
And so I think he's already made leaps and bounds, but I think it'll be another year before they are in the dominant position, possibly to take over the division from KC. Sean Merriman is here with us. The JR sport ratio coast to coast. I want to get into the bills and what you got going on with Lights Out Sports TV, but you talk about culture. How much more difficult is it to establish culture in a locker room when we have a Trayvon Diggs and social media and everybody is all about who's saying this? It seems like you would think with all the money they make, it'd be pushed out, but that's not the case. Yeah, money doesn't change culture, man. In fact, it enhances the bad culture sometime, especially when you're not winning.
Because guys have a sense of entitlement. I'm not saying that Diggs was wrong. I think he should handle it differently when it comes to that reporter. I mean, the reporter is doing a job, even though you don't like it.
Trust me, I've been in situations where I got to ask some ridiculous questions that I didn't want to answer. And you can't just fire back off at these guys because they're there to do a job. So what it really comes down to, man, is that you send a message, because Diggs, he's a bigger name guy on that team.
He's a vet. And so when you start firing off back like that, you really send a bad message through the locker room. So I wish you didn't say that. I wish you didn't go back and handle it in a different way.
I've been there before. Trust me, I wanted to lash out at a few reporters for asking me something ridiculous or even borderline disrespectful. And you got to overlook that stuff, man, and just kind of walk away from it.
It'll just be very vague, man, and get through it and get away from it. Because the last thing you want to do is give them bullet to bullet material where they go in and cut these clips up and send it out through social media. Sean Merriman is here with us on the JR Sport Brief Show. You talk about culture. It seems like the Buffalo Bills have a good one, perennial Super Bowl consensus. We've been waiting for them to take that next step. They're six and two, which is a good thing because it's a quiet six and two. Right. What are your thoughts on what they've been able to do or do we just have to wait until the postseason? How do they get over that Mahomes hump? It's the postseason, right? Because with them, they've been good for quite a while, right? And you always going to have a shot when you got Josh Allen there.
I think the difference is with them now, if he's spreading the ball around so much, getting the ball to so many different wide receivers, they're getting after the quarterback up front, they're able to run the ball. So he's got a little help. He doesn't have to.
And I love my boy, Stefan Diggs, a Deaf former Terp, you know, I got wearing my Maryland shirt today. But, you know, he requires the football, right? When you got a superstar on your team like that, you got to get them targets. I don't think Josh Allen was under that pressure this year to find his one guy and he has to give him the ball because it's it's a lot of pressure. You know, when you got a bigger name guy to come in and you got to get him the football. Now, they're just spreading the football, keeping defenses off balance and able to, you know, kind of dish the ball around to several different guys.
That is that's the biggest difference in them this year and why they wanted so many games. And then the funny thing, which you just said, is winning quietly. That is those are the best wins, man, where people are not talking about you as much.
You're going out there collecting wins. You're winning some tough games and you're still not talked about enough. You know, before you know you're going to become that sleeper when it comes late in the season, early on in the playoffs that people are really going to start paying attention to the domination because they've been dominating in some of these games this year. When you take a look at the AFC, the NFC things are still kind of rounding out. Who do you favor out of both conferences? It seems like the usual suspects every year and it's just like, oh, who's going to knock the Chiefs off?
Right. Well, look, somebody, the Chiefs, man. You know, I want to say I want to compare them to the Patriots when they had their run. They're on that type of run right now where I thought even some of those teams we have the Chargers in the mid-2000s were better than the Patriots. We were a better team. They just knew how to win and that's what the Chiefs are doing right now.
I mean, some of these games, they're just kind of fighting, finding ways to win. You're like, no way, there's no way in hell that they got an opportunity to win this game and they just go and they punch the ball in. They get the ball back when they need to. They're playing just great team football and those sometimes it's the hardest teams to beat now, just adding DeAndre Hopkins into the mix there. It's like, man, come on.
What else do you guys need? Right? I mean, you're already, you know, winning a lot of football games, but I used them and I think that you and I love my charges, man, but until somebody knock off the Chiefs, you can't go against the champs. It's just somebody knock them off. On the NFC side, man, I've never seen it this wide open. I mean, it's like you don't know, you know, who can come out of that division. And by the way, they don't have to be, you know, 11 and six, right?
Or they don't, you know, they don't have those seven, whatever the games are. They don't have to have that big record. You can be a above average team and still get in the playoffs and NFC right now.
That's the way of shaping up. NFL legend, Sean Merriman is here with us. We know the Buffalo Bills are a part of that conversation. I think we've all seen the clips, whether you've seen it or you experienced it live, there's nothing like a Buffalo Bills tailgate. And I know you've gotten very involved on the media side of things. How are you tying together the tailgate with Lights Out TV?
Phyllis, what's that about, Sean? Yeah, so I launched my free ad supported all sports platform called Lights Out Sports TV. It's available on every smart TV, CTV device you guys got out there. So you got Roku, Apple TV, Amazon, Vizio, TCL, Phillips, you name it.
We're on every one of those platforms, iOS, Android. We got a ton of really cool sports, combat sports. We got wrestling there and chess and outdoor fishing, hunting, you name it.
300 sports movies and documentaries is there. We got 16 concurrent live sports is ongoing. And we just launched the ultimate fan zone, which is like the I mean, this has been kind of cool because no one's ever done a tailgate live.
Right. And so we do a 60 minute live tailgate show two hours before kickoff. We're in SoFi Stadium at some of the Chargers games. And this Sunday we got the Buffalo Bills, November 3rd, the Buffalo Bills in the tailgate, which is going to be really cool because we got a couple of former players as hosts.
So bringing back some of the guys that did not play with or played against or played after me. And also too, man, it'll be live. It'll be live on Lights Out Sports TV exclusively.
And just a super cool, fun show, man. It's like everybody get a chance to watch the games, but not not very many people get a chance to watch the tailgates. Right. Because the tailgates are the one you really got the FOMO. If you don't if you don't go, you're like, OK, if I missed the game, I would just watch it on TV.
Right. But you can't watch the tailgate. So we wanted to make sure that all fans and nobody does it like Buffalo, man. I mean, that I tell people all the time, I say, you see things on social media, you see certain things on the Internet. It is different when you go there, when you're there and you see those fans and how passionate they are, man.
They are they are something else, man. So I I wanted to bring, you know, get a chance for everybody to see it, you know, see that tailgate live and what goes on and not just a 30 second or a minute clip. You get a chance to see a full live tailgate experience out there with the Bills Mafia, man. So I can't wait this out this Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Eastern will be live at the tailgate. And this thing is going to be next level.
So I get a chance to go live in the parking lot, man, which is going to be cool. Sean Merriman, I know people are going to love that. You got you got the red, white and blue super pants ready. You got the pants ready. I get well, look, I got my I got my bills jersey right here ready to go. And I'm doing a giveaway today with also a signed Josh Allen jersey giveaway for people to download lights out sports TV and getting ready for the Buffalo Bills tailgate.
But this is going to be next level, man. I see the repost and stuff on social media. Other people know I'm coming out there. And that's just how this is how the Bills fans do it, man. It's so much love there. And I, I can't stop talking about it because I tell people all the time, I said, dude, that was probably one of the best things that happened in my career.
Getting a chance to go out there, play for the Bills and play for those fans, man, because there's some there's something else. No, we see it. Sean, where can people follow you for this upcoming weekend and beyond? Yep, yep. They can follow me at Sean Merriman on on X and IG and then follow also at Lights Out Sports TV. So go to LightsOutSportsTV.com, download it anywhere that you got a smart TV with their iOS, Android. Check us out. But this Sunday, Bills Mafia cannot wait to get out there. This is going to be next level.
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