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I hope you are good. Thank you to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey in New York City, holding it down on the boards. We're going to be here with you for one more hour.

This show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. It's Monday, you know what that means. We got Monday Night Football. And right now, this minute, this second, as we conclude week nine of the NFL season, the Buccaneers lead the Chiefs 7 to 3. A little less than nine minutes to go here in the first half of the game. It was only a few minutes ago that Tampa Bay got on the board. Rashad White, a seven yard rush. Tampa Bay leads 7 to 3. The Kansas City Chiefs still trying to get things rolling. DeAndre Hopkins in his second game here as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Hopefully he can help them make another run to another Super Bowl.

This would be Super Bowl number three. So much to do. And we've done a lot here.

How about this? In about 20 minutes from now, we've talked about some college football earlier on in the show. We're going to be joined by Pete Futak, collegefootballnews.com. He's going to come through and chat it up with us about some of these upsets, some of these undefeated teams, some of the ups, some of the downs, some of the highs, some of the lows. We got a lot of teams that hit lows.

Okay. Texas A&M hit a low. Penn State hit a low. Clemson, Kansas. We got a lot to get into.

We'll have that chat with Pete Futak in about 20 minutes from now. And speaking of lows, low for a lot of people in teams today. Let's start off with the Dallas Cowboys. Unfortunately, it wasn't just low for them to lose to the Falcons yesterday, 27 to 21. We learned earlier today that Dak Prescott, he is feeling real low. The Cowboys are feeling real low because not only are they a bad team at three and five, Dak is going to be out. Who knows how long with a hamstring issue. Listen to this when the news broke from CBS Sports HQ.

Breaking news, when it rains, it pours. And for the Dallas Cowboys, that continues to be the case. Quarterback Dak Prescott is expected to miss multiple weeks with a hamstring injury, according to multiple reports. Prescott left Sunday's loss to the Falcons after injuring the hamstring on a scramble in the third quarter.

He was also dealing with a hand injury as well. So this means it'll be Cooper Rush for the Cowboys. They are three and five this season in the middle of a tough stretch of their schedule. Rush going to get his first start of the season, ironically against the Eagles, something he did a couple of seasons ago as well. Dallas Cowboys are cooked for the year. They're done officially. Cooper Rush just put Trey Lance out there.

Why waste any bit of time? This sucks for the Cowboys. Meanwhile, the Saints, they fired Dennis Allen. They lose to the Panthers yesterday, 23 to 22. Cam Jordan goes online and says, damn it, we lost to the Panthers. The Saints fans deserve better than this crap. And the next thing you know, Dennis Allen, he gets the boot after seven straight losses. The interim head coach handled special teams and now he has to handle the whole team.

Darren Rizzi takes over and he has a message to all those wonderful fans of the Saints. They should be pissed off. I'm pissed off. The fans should be pissed off. The people of New Orleans, the people of Louisiana, no one should be happy. And I think this city deserves a winner.

They know what winning football looks like. And it's our job to bring that back. And my message is this. I can't promise a lot. I can promise passion. I can promise fight. And I can tell you that that team's going to go out there every Sunday. And that's going to be clear that we're going to have a team that's full of passion and a team that's full of fighters. That I can promise you. Now the football's got to get better. The execution's got to get better. But we're not going to lack those two things. We're not going to be boring to watch.

That I can promise you. Hickey, why is he saying that? Why is he setting himself up? Why is he lying to the people? He doesn't know that. The team stinks. Because what else are you going to say?

They're two and seven. I promise you. He's trying to make a case to be the full-time coach. You saw what Antonio Pierce did. Brought some energy. Fooled the fan base and the coaching staff. Or should I say fooled the front office into hiring him full-time.

Maybe he's trying to do the similar playbook. Coming with a lot of energy. We're going to be explosive. We're going to be fun.

I guarantee it. What else are you going to say? Hey, we're two and seven. Hopefully we win one game.

Hey, no. We need to turn. You just be honest with the people. We need to turn things around. I'm going to try my best to make sure that we do so. We need to improve on offense. We need to improve on defense. We have players here. We need to work. We need to move forward. Don't stand there and guarantee and make promises.

That just sounds stupid. Go ahead. I don't mean to cut you off.

I apologize. I was going to say, you know how he can make good on that guarantee of at least being an exciting football team, not boring? How? Signing one player. Michael Thomas. Oh my God. So he can punch Derek Carr in the face? Just to see what that looks like on a week in, week out basis. Oh my goodness. That, you know what? That would not be a boring football team.

Now let me ask you this. How does Mike Thomas expect, and maybe somebody will, or maybe he would have had a job by now. How the hell do you get a job in the NFL as a 31 year old wide receiver? You spent the past few seasons just being ripped to shreds with leg and ankle injuries. And now you're talking crap about a quarterback. What NFL team is going to add you knowing that this is what you do when you've left town?

None. And maybe that's why he's doing it because he accepts that he knows he's finished, right? I mean, what was the last time he was in the league two years ago, right?

2022. I think he was in the league last year. Just don't think he was healthy.

I think he got hurt again. Maybe he knows the end is it's crazy that he's only 31. It wasn't that far. You know, it wasn't that long ago. He was hauling in 150 passes a year, but maybe he knows that he's done.

No one's interested. And so now he's just going to use his time to, I guess, project his anger at Derek Carr. They called this man the slant king.

It was easy out there. Kansas City Chiefs touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins, first touchdown of the season as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. One yard touchdown reception. Kansas City now has a 7-9 lead until Harrison Butker comes through and gives them an extra point. There you have it. Hickey, watch Hopkins haul in like the game-winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. It's like bound to happen, right?

I think you're right about that. I'm trying to think of some of the names that have caught some big-time touchdown passes. I mean, you had Kadarius Toney and Sky Moore two or three years ago now, right? In that Eagles Super Bowl.

Last year was me, Cole Hardman. Maybe DeAndre Hopkins is too good. Maybe he's too good to catch the game-winning touchdown. He has to be like the third or fourth receiver.

Right. Well, at this point for this team, he might be. And he's damn good.

Kansas City gets the extra point 10 to 7. And he's the biggest name to move at the trade deadline. We heard and we talked about DeAndre Johnson, now a member of the Baltimore Ravens. There's some other receivers who are sitting out there like like what's so exciting about Mike Williams and Adam Thielen. I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers are still looking for somebody to add to their team. A matter of fact, let's take a listen to this because earlier today on Rich Ozen show Tom Pelosaro, he talked about some of the other receivers that could be moving. Maybe, maybe the Rams move Cooper Cup, but now they're four and four.

I don't know. Listen, I would say the two key spots to watch are going to be wide receiver and edge rusher. There are a lot of wide receivers who potentially are available. Mike Williams, even though the Jets won last week, that's certainly a name that's going to come up in trade talks here. Do people make another run at guys like Corlin Sutton from the Broncos who, you know, they certainly have had offers really over the last couple of years here for him. How does Sean Payton feel about that roster at this point?

That one would not be cheap, but that's certainly a name to keep in mind. Darius Slayton, who we talked about yesterday on game day morning. He got banged up in the game yesterday.

I think he got a concussion check, but that's a name that was potentially going to be moving. Man, this trade deadline. Hickey, what time is it? 4 p.m. Eastern? Yes, sir. On Tuesday, this is going to be, this is going to suck.

Like what's, what's the most exciting thing about the trait? There's nothing here. Not a damn thing.

You are unfortunately correct. Can I throw an idea by you? That'd be very spicy, very interesting. And I don't think it's the craziest thing that I don't think will happen, but I don't think this trade happening is really that bad.

Go for it. What's up? What if the Dolphins trade Tyra Kill? Oh, the super quit. Oh my God.

Where do, where do they send them? And what do you have to give up? Does somebody want to give up or do you have to get a second rounder for him? What if you're the Steelers? Do you give up a first round pick?

Oh no. Put him catching those moon balls from Russell Wilson as you're sitting here at six and two getting ready for a gauntlet of a second half schedule that, you know, you face every division opponent twice. Is he the type of dude that would fit with, with the bombs away? I think about Tyree killers.

I'm going to give you the ball in short yardage and have you do the work. Not that that would make a difference because it's certainly a, you know, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I mean, I think you would enjoy catching some, some deep bombs from, from Russ. We know he still has it right. That part of his game, you know, you kind of reduce George Pickens role or at least reduce the reliance you have on him, which he's proven to be a talented player, but also a little bit of a headache as well and unreliable at times. That just, I don't know if he fits in with how many more big personalities wide receivers would the Steelers want to bring in, right?

It's enough dealing with Pickens. Now you got to bring Hill in. And I understand this is something that Mike Tomlin is used to.

I just don't. And then they got to pay him too. He still wants that money. What is he making 30 mill a year? And he, he wants to put another couple mill on top of that.

I don't know. Which is why I could feel the dolphins. I mean, you had the chance to pay him last off season. You didn't, you're two and six. Now he's going to be 31 years old. By the time next season starts, you want to pay 30 plus million dollars a year to a 31 year old receiver.

When you're already paying to a you paid waddle. I, I wonder, I mean, if you're the Steelers, right? Think about it. This, if you want to, if you have to pay Tyreek, even if Russ plays well, I mean, is he, he's not getting the same money that two is. Oh no, hell no.

Right? So like, if anything, you're still going to have flexibility where you can give Tyreek Hill a good amount of money. Yet at the same time, you don't have to, you know, you won't be hamstrung because you're not going to be paying a quarterback. Even if it is Russ next year, you're not paying them $55 million a year.

You still probably get them on a 30 million dollar range somewhere there. So you think, you think Tyreek Hill is going to get moved tomorrow? I do not. Okay. This is just a thought of if you're the Steelers and it's like, you know what, a first round pick gets this deal done. I think you go for it.

I don't think it's realistic. I think if you're the dolphins and you get a first round pick back, you're more likely to listen. But I think it's interesting just from the sense of, you know, some big names being traded here.

I think it's a trade that could make sense on both sides. I'm still waiting to say, I thought Cooper cup, Cooper cup was going to move. I say Cooper cup and Cooper flag pops up right on the screen in front of me. And I'm like, I'm about, I'm about, I'm getting Cooper out over here.

Oh my goodness. Popular name now, Cooper Cooper, if you want an athletic male, the name, what are these? These guys gotta be what? Not 20 years apart, 15 years apart.

And probably also 15 inches apart too. Yeah. Cooper cup and Cooper flag. Yeah.

Well, we'll see Cooper flag flied in for a dunk against Maine. I wonder how much money Maine got paid to get the asses whooped by Duke. Not enough. Yeah.

Maybe it paid for some new uniforms. Maybe. Okay. Yeah.

That's not true. That's not bad. We'll see. Yeah. I was, I was hoping Cooper cup was going to get moved, but, uh, I don't know if that's still going to be the case knowing that they're now four and four and there's so many things open in the NFC West. Well, we'll see.

8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Greg is here from Michigan. You're on the JR sport re-show.

JR, Mr. Potter, thanks for taking my call. It seems like a lot of football, NFL football teams are in turmoil, but the Lions aren't. I think what we just saw with, uh, my Lions, uh, beating up, uh, Green Bay Packers, um, that, um, Jared Goff can play in, uh, elements that supposedly he couldn't.

Um, I'm very proud of them. Uh, they are going to the Superbowl, my friend. And if we get the Daria Smith, what do you think that will do? Will that just put the icing on the cake chair? Well, I don't know if it'll put the icing on a cake, but it'll certainly be an upgrade versus what they have right now. There's nobody that's Aiden Hutchinson, but of course I think what Zadarius has five and a half sacks.

We've seen him go seasons and have double digits. So yeah, it would certainly be a help. Let's see if they let's see if they get them tomorrow.

I don't know if that'd be the case. Oh my God. I hope it is chair. Hey, love you everybody.

Go for your dreams. Thanks chair. Thank you so much, Greg, for calling from Michigan. It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.

We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, it's time to have a chat with Pete few tech. We, we talked earlier in the show about some of the teams that rose some of the teams that fell in the AP top 25 rankings for college football, some huge upsets over the weekend, and we still have some teams and even some big names and small names, small error names that still remain undefeated.

We're going to talk to Pete few tech about it all. It's the JR sport ratio here with you on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport ratio here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.

There's so much went on over the weekend, man. We're moving down into the stretch of the college football season. We have teams that have risen up the rankings, teams that have fallen down the rankings and got teams that were undefeated, that were cooked. We have some big upsets. We got 12 teams that are going to make the playoff for the first time ever joining us to talk about it all is someone who covers all things college football, college football news.com.

It's Pete few tech. Pete, how are you, man? I'm fine. Kind of mentioned the crazy part about all this is part of it feels like we just got started, but like, yeah, the NBA last year, honestly, you really don't have to watch, for example, baseball. I watched every picture of the playoff. I didn't watch any of regular season because you don't need to really need to watch the NBA until what? May, you know, those are eight months sports. This is over in a hiccup. I mean, college football, you got what, three months?

And then, you know, it's pretty much the gist of it. So this thing goes by way fast. Well, it goes by fast. And we got teams that have nine and old records.

That's how fast things have pretty much gone. Oregon is not weird. Oregon, Miami, Indiana, BYU.

And then we got army, man. Obviously, Oregon is number one at the top of the heap in the rankings and just period in the country. But what are your thoughts about the other nine and old teams, specifically Miami and Indiana? Well, the step one is you got to look at their schedule. Like, who do you beat? Did you play anyone good? And I know everyone's like, well, nobody plays anybody.

And there's that kind of thing. But did you play like in Ohio State yet? You know, did you beat an Oregon? Did you beat a Texas? Did you beat a Georgia or an Alabama or, you know, one of the real true powerhouses of the bunch? Or have you beaten nobody, which is basically army? Like, look, your army, it's great.

It's a great story. I hope they keep when you look at their schedule. Not a lot of meat on that bone outside of Notre Dame. Now, if they but they're in a position if they beat Notre Dame, then this whole thing changes. Indiana has never had a 10 and 0 season in a 10 win season in history. So who cares? Like if your schedule's not great, you're 9 and 0.

This is awesome. This is such a big deal for Indiana fans because there's just no football culture there. And now in one year under Kurt Cignetti, all right, their biggest wins, what, Michigan State?

Okay, great, whatever. But they got Michigan coming up. They got Ohio State coming up. They just have to prove themselves.

That's a whole lot of fun. But are they really going to challenge for the national title? No. Miami's kind of the wild card here a little bit because there's a whole lot of flaws. They should have lost the Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech got hosed on the Hail Mary call. They need a little bit to get past Cal.

They need a big call wait to get through that. But they kind of keep on winning and that offense keeps on playing well. So now it's looking like they're going to probably be the best team out of the ACC. And let's see what they can do. But at the end of all this, really, honestly, it's Georgia and Ohio State. And those are the two best teams. And they're just not playing like it. But once they get there in the playoff and you get playoff Georgia, then look out. Pete Feutech is joining us from collegefootballnews.com. When you take a look at the Bulldogs and some of their victories, even most recently, they're having to fight and claw and scrub, scratch back.

People were talking about Carson Beck potentially being in the Heisman from even before the season started. What do they need to do to turn things on? Because obviously they don't have the same talent that they've had over the past few years. And they're having a fight a little bit harder here. They need January. They do have the talent.

That's the weird part about this. They got the talent. They have the depth. They've got the coaching. It's almost like they're one of those NBA teams who you know is really good. It's like the Warriors a few years ago where they know they're good. They're getting through the season and it's mid-December and they're just sort of going through the motions.

And they just want to get it. Fine, they'll get in the playoffs as a five seed or something. And then it's game on. That seems kind of like what it is with Georgia. Now the problem with that is if they lose again, it gets a little dicey for them. But for Georgia, they've got... I mean, you see what happens when, like you said, they had to scratch and call because Florida is actually pretty good rivalry game.

Every given Saturday, all that kind of stuff. But the thing is when they had to turn it up a notch and they had to fully focus, then you see, okay, there it is. That's Georgia. Like the second half against Alabama. It's kind of like, okay, they need to be more consistent. They have to kind of relax a little more. They were playing really tight as is Ohio State.

They're just got to play a little bit looser and just kind of like put together a good solid 60 minutes and start being that dominant team because we know once the lights are really on, we're going to see what this team can do. Well, Pete, we talk about, or you mentioned Ohio State. We know their only loss is to Oregon. What did you see over the weekend against Penn State or just the whole season that makes you say, hey, these are the two teams that we're going to probably see here at the end?

Oh, they're so good. I mean, the talent is so ridiculous. I mean, they just, they're hurt on the offensive line, but then they, their next man up for Ohio State is still pretty good. And that offensive line starts to bash away on the Penn State defensive front. Now the offense needs to be a little smoother. The passing game could stand to be a little bit dastier, but look, the stats still hold ever since they lost that, you know, classic college football playoff semifinal a couple of years ago at the end of 2022, that team has given up more than 17 points twice in the last year and a half of football since the beginning of 2023. If you have 17 points twice, once was the national championship, Michigan, and even then they almost won that game. And the other time was to Oregon this year and they almost won that game. So this defense has just been a killer. They only gave up six to Penn State who didn't show a whole lot of punch, but Penn State's really good. And they just kind of turned it, again, when they had to, that defense turned it on with a pick at the goal line and a stand at the goal line.

And they just seem to have the type of defense that can pretty much stuff just about everybody. Pete, a few seconds joining us from collegefootballnews.com. When you think about some of the teams that would typically be here at the top of the rankings and the standings dealing with some, some coaching transitions like Alabama and Michigan, with the current state of college football and the transfer portal and NIL and what have you, how difficult is it going to be for these teams to kind of get back into the loop? Is it just, hey, we got a quarterback and everybody else follows suit? Or is this going to take multiple years for them to kind of get back to being on top? Yeah, you always have to give a year of transition to let the new coach kind of settle in. But it also kind of goes to show in this world of, you know, what they're in screaming this week of Penn State, oh, James Franklin can't beat the big, big time teams. Well, okay, but the guy is one of like five coaches who has been in his current spot since at least 2021, who wins 70% of his games. Okay, so you know, we can't beat the top five teams, but he's beating everyone else.

And that's not good enough for everyone. Everyone wants national championships, but it just goes to show how hard it is to win college football games because you can't lose in college football. It's not like, you know, the NFL, you have a bad week, you know, big deal. By Wednesday it's over and you're on to Cincinnati. You've got to just kind of win everything and be perfect doing it every single week if you're one of these, you know, superpower programs.

And it's hard. Florida is a superpower program. They're not going to go to a bowl game this year. Nebraska used to be a superpower program. Texas is a superpower program.

It's just sort of getting back into it. It's really, really hard. So if you've got a coach who keeps winning, you stay with them because look, you know, sometimes these guys are just that good. Nick Saban, he was Nick Saban for a reason. Jim Harbaugh, he's Jim Harbaugh for a reason.

The guys who are the elite of the elite, hard to kind of keep that whole thing going. Well, let me ask you about another team that that's kind of fallen off. They fell off big this week in the rankings and that's Clemson led by Dabo Swinney. He's been slow to kind of quote unquote, pay for players.

And now he might be paying for it. They just lost to Louisville. How do they turn things around? Yeah, that's a rough one. Well, that again, that goes to who'd you play? And they were throttling everyone after they got destroyed by Georgia to open the season. But they've only beaten one team so far that might go bowling. And that's an NC State team that's really struggling.

That's going to have to fight to get to six and six. You know, so they didn't actually play a great schedule. They beat up a bunch of bad teams, but not a bad thing necessarily because one, if you've got a bad schedule, then all right, rip those teams up. And Clemson did that.

And it lets you tune everything up. And they were supposed to do that. And then they get exposed by Louisville. So you're right. I mean, it's an adapt or die thing where there's something to be said for the way that Dabo does this and say, hey, look, you know, come here, play for us. You don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

You're part of the family. Don't keep worrying about your job. We're going to do our job to work you through your problems and train you.

There's something there's something to that that should in theory work. There's also something the fact that that team has been a deep threat receiver and, you know, shut one extra shutdown corner away from being college football playoff worthy over the last couple of years. And they just don't go out and do that.

So, you know, if you're not going to play ball like that, well, then you're going to be struggling with the also ranch. But they're still really good. They're just not going to be the elite because they just aren't the guys that these other teams are.

Well, Pete, let me ask you this. We know the teams that sit at top of the rankings. We know the teams that are likely to be sitting at the top of the top 12. What team do you think doesn't get the attention that is a legitimate contender to knock off a Georgia or the Ohio State? Like who really has the next chance?

What's that next tier look like? Unless there's a unless there's like a real outlier where the Georgia or Ohio State loses or Oregon to for that matter. They're really good. It's going to take, you know, just a complete meltdown for one of them to biff.

I have like a piece you sort of thing. I don't know if everyone's sleeping on Notre Dame, but they're good. They're not deep, which is the problem. They're all banged up on the line and secondary. But that is just a very, very strong team that can get in and do some damage where if they got at least to the national championship game, it wouldn't be that much of a shock. I still think Alabama's got something there.

It's that's you brought them up. And I obviously there's something a little bit missing there compared to, you know, they're a little more like they were a couple of years ago than last year. But the talent still there.

Kaylin DeBoer is still an amazing head coach. I know he's getting knocked because they're not, you know, you don't lose to Vanderbilt and everything's going well if you're Alabama. But that's one of those teams I think has been completely blown off. But that's also one of those teams that you do not want to see in the playoffs because they've got the talent that just kind of has to all click for them.

And, you know, like we talked about at the very beginning, you know, the end of the season's coming up fast in that rearview mirror. You've got to you've got to kind of speed it up a little bit, but they've got the talent to be really good to. OK, well, you made a couple of folks in Tuscaloosa happy.

We'll see what happens. I can't make them better. I wish I could. You know, I like the Red Elephants Club down there.

They're fun. But if I had that power, I would love to harness it. OK, Pete, where can people follow you and all of your work following all the college all across the country? Here we go. You know, in the worst timed thing ever is the first college football playoff rankings come out tomorrow night. It's not like focus. There won't be anything else. But that's what it's all about now. It's all about the college football playoff rankings. And now it's surreal. Now we get to really see how this is all starting to shape up and it's finishing kick.

And we're all college football playoff all the time on our college football news. Oh, thank you so much, Pete. We'll catch you on down the line. OK. Any time.

You have a good night. No doubt about it. That Pete Feutz back from college football news dot com. You heard it.

We got the first rankings tomorrow when it comes down to the playoff. And yeah, we all know the usual suspects are sitting there. I'll tell you this much. I don't want to see Alabama. I'm done. I'm done. Hickey, if I never saw Alabama win another national championship, I'll be cool with that. I'm OK. Hey, they've won enough. Let's, you know, spread out the wealth here. I agree with that.

Yeah, that's how I guess. But I was going to say, I guess that's how people feel about the Yankees, but that's not even a case for the Yankees anymore. Right now. It's been a long time. It's been losers.

Yeah. It's been a long time. The most winningest losers period, I guess, right now, recent past 15 years.

Yankees, I think. Marco Belletti, is that accurate? Would you say? Unfortunately, I believe you're right. I believe you're right.

I can't think of anybody else that's been close, but hasn't won most winningest losers. Hmm. Hmm.

Yeah. Not a title you want. Why not the Colts?

Because if you were, you would've hung that banner. Oh, winningest losers? Put that out of Monument Park. The Colts? Well, you know, Colts hang the semi-final banner, so I'm saying at least the Yankees aren't like the Colts. Otherwise you'd see in Monument Park winningest losers since 2017. Players actually quit the Colts before they do anything, though. That's also true.

So, well, I'm sure some Yankee fans would want Aaron Judge to quit tomorrow. But... Oh, no, no. What? See, they got too far.

Alcohol-induced? I mean, come on, though. It's a joke. People overreact.

There were calls to the radio about Aaron Judge just disgracing the Yankee uniform. People are upset. It's a vocal, small, small, small minority. Those people exist.

Maybe they don't exist now, but a week ago they did. Yeah. All right.

How many drinks do you need before you make that call? I mean, for some, zero. Oh, yeah. You're right about that problem. Unfortunately, I think you're right about that.

They're idiots at every fan base. Yeah. Well, I see Gary Cole is going to be back. Good for him, right? And got nothing.

This took a long time to do nothing. The same deal? Not even, I mean, it was like he didn't opt out. I opt out.

You're going to add the extra year for the $36 million? Nah. So I just come back for the same thing?

Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah. Well, I always looked at it and said to myself, who the hell was going to give him what he was sitting there anyway?

I'm like, I don't know who's giving him that. And it was almost like, did you guys have a half a conversation before you decided to opt out? Like, if you know you didn't want to leave, you knew you didn't want to be a free agent, and you knew the Yankees weren't going to do this. You almost put them in a corner knowing that they weren't going to.

And then you were like, okay, I'm cool with getting absolutely nothing. It makes no sense. Well, maybe he thought that somebody would be, I don't know. That was just odd.

I don't know. Well, I got to be fair. And as great as he is, Scott Boris has lost a little off the fastball in the last few years.

Am I the only one here? Every one of his clients, it seems like he tries to pin everybody up against the wall to get a couple extra bucks and he's whiffing left and right. I hope that's the case with Soto. I hope. Wow. See, I don't even think he could screw that up.

Okay. What, New York Mets? We'll find out, but I don't think it's, wherever Soto winds up going, it's not going to be, well, he's going to get a shorter deal. He's going to get less money than he wanted. He's going to get his check. It's just a question of who's giving it to him. He may not get it from the team he wants, but he's going to get the check he wants. He says he wants to win. Well, he wants to get paid.

We'll find out. Cog of White Sox could do the funniest thing ever. Jerry Rinesdorf really saved his reputation here. Are they still the only ones that don't have a, what was it, like 150 million dollar guy? It was something ridiculous where I was like, wow, really?

Is that, is that even possible? The White Sox have never spent money on a big free agent ever, which is wild. Yeah. Yeah.

Trying to think back as far back as I think he ever got 150 million dollars. They don't, I didn't realize it. They don't have anybody. Yeah. Typically people who are on the Sox end up leaving. Right. And some of the guys they kept, but that doesn't really count.

Abreu? No, no. Well, that's right.

He was there already. And plus, I mean, that was, when they got him, he was free agent from, yeah, from, and that wasn't monster deal. Yeah. The Cuba.

I don't think that was a monster deal to get him from Cuba to begin with, to be honest. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, I got to look that up now. No, no, no.

It's a hustling ass system. Let me just get my, my players cheap from Cuba. Don't have to pay them in America.

Well, then you lose 121 games. Yeah. I guess you say you save money. I don't know. Uh, I guess that's just the, uh, oh, nevermind. It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network, big day tomorrow, NFL trade deadline. And I heard something else is going to happen as well. When we come back, we're going to wrap things up, talk to you about a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR sport brief.

Yeah. And we know what happens to trash. Well, Dennis Allen knows they treated him like trash. They gave him the boot.

Antonio Pierce firing his offensive coordinator. Luke gets, he gave him the boot, treated him like, I just took them out to the curb. Hard knock life out. It is a hard knock life. Instead of treated, we get tricked instead of kisses.

We get kicked. It's a hard knock life. Pick you ever see a little orphan Annie.

I have not. And if that's what that's from, I was very impressed with the rhymes. I like that. Yeah. A little orphan Annie. Yeah. Daddy Warbucks. Yeah.

I saw Annie on a radio city music hall a long time ago. Long time. It's been a long time.

Very nice. That's where daddy Warbucks comes from too, huh? Oh yeah. Yeah. Daddy Warbucks. Yeah.

That's from little, he was the rich dad from a little orphan Annie, little redhead girl. Yup. Hmm.

Got a lot of famous red. Well, only her and the girl from Wendy's is a redhead, right? She is. Yeah.

What's her name? Wendy. Yeah.

Wendy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Emma Stone's a redhead. She's famous. Who? Emma Stone actress. Actress.

Okay. I've heard her. I think the Wendy's girl is more famous than her, right? I would think so.

I mean, she's got a bunch of stories named after Emma Stone does not have one, I believe. Am I old that I remember Dave? No, I remember Dave.

From Wendy's? Yeah. Well, that's Dave Thomas, right?

Yeah. He named it after Wendy. That was his daughter, right?

That I do not know. I think it was his daughter. That's he named Wendy's after his daughter, Wendy. Yeah.

Good for him and good for her. Slap your kid's face on stuff and just sell burgers, right? Good. You know what? Maybe a good idea.

Maybe I'll start doing that as well. Have a daughter. You're going to have a daughter and slap her name on food? I so far it works, right? Very successful. So what? I don't know.

It's a good quote. Maybe peanut butter and jelly. No one else does that. I'll do that. PB and J to go. Okay. Well, they do that.

I haven't had an encrustable, but I learned what it is. Oh, they're so good. But you can only get those in certain stores. I'd have it, you know, to where just like Wendy's, everywhere you're driving, I'm there. You're going to, you're going to turn hickeys, you're going to turn peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into fast food, into a profit. You know it.

How can we grow them, fry them? Why haven't we had that yet? I don't know.

People are idiots. Peanut butter and jelly. Nobody else listening steal this idea.

I'm trademarking, I'm verbal trademarking it right now. So you just rolling down the highway. You got, I don't know, there's Olive Garden and Wendy's and McDonald's and Burger King and, and all pizza places. And then I'm going to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

That's it. Different breads, different jellies, different peanut butters. Maybe we'll expand, you know, we'll figure out what else we could put peanut butter and jelly on. Oh, okay.

A lot of different options here. Okay. I don't know if I got an option between Panda express and a peanut butter and jelly place.

I think I'm going with Panda express. Okay. Well, I guess you're not my clientele. Oh, maybe not.

I don't know. I feel like I can, I can make that and pack it. You definitely could. You definitely could.

And do it in record time. I don't know if I'd be able to do that with, you know, Chinese food. Why are you trying to take my, you're just trying to knock my idea down. That's it. You're just trying to kill it on the ground floor.

Nah, I'm just saying. You could grill a burger too. That didn't stop Dave Thomas from opening a million Wendy's. Hickey, how long does it take to make a PB and J five minutes? Just takes five to grill a burger.

Doesn't it? Nah, you got to get the bread and the cheese and you got to make sure the meat is, is cooked properly. Otherwise you die. Come on. You get one of those thin burgers. It doesn't take that long to cook five, 10 minutes. Oh, come on. You can make a PB and J and a minute depending on how quick you are. Right.

Two slices of bread, peanut butter, jelly done. That's the future, I guess. Anyway, let's think about the past. Let's go back in time to a few things that took place this day in sports history. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. See, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show.

I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Oh boy, I remember this. What a setup. November 4th, 2001, Luis Gonzalez reminded everybody that Mariano Rivera is a human being. This was a walk off single to win the World Series.

This was in Arizona, 2001. The change of a lifetime for Luis Gonzalez. 2-2, bottom of the 9th. Game 7 of the World Series. Bases loaded. Florida, center fielder, the Diamondbacks, the world champions.

Oh man, yeah, that was like the weakest little game winning hit I've ever seen in my life. Mariano Rivera was still the greatest. How about this? The Yankees giveth or they loseth and this time they winneth.

You know what the hell I mean. 2009, November 4th, the Yankees, they beat the Phillies to win their last World Series title. Hey, how about this? This lets you know how long ago it was. Andy Pettitte beat Pedro Martinez. Game 6. To the second baseman, Cano. The Yankees are back on top. World champions for the 27th time.

How exciting. Thank you, Joe Buck from Fox. Peaky, who gave him advice on that?

Bob Costas? He's like, yeah, Yankees win again. OK, whatever. And then there was two minutes.

I listened to the whole club. Two minutes of silence. He didn't say anything.

Did not say anything. He's here some players screaming, the crowd, nothing. Oh, now if that was the St. Louis Cardinals, he had been all over that, wouldn't he? He would be on the field, I think.

Oh, my goodness. He'd have been in a champagne bath with those guys. Bob Costas retiring, by the way. He said no more.

Maybe he saw all of the press clippings. Hey, Kate Otten came through with a touchdown. Tampa Bay now leads 14 to 10 against the Kansas City Chiefs. Of course, we'll get you up to date on everything that goes on tomorrow as we approach the NFL trade deadline at 4 p.m. Eastern. We'll keep you up to date on that. Thank you so much to Pete Futek for joining us from collegefootballnews.com to take a look at the new AP Top 25 rankings. And then also, as we wait for tomorrow to see what those rankings look like for the college football playoff as well.

You can always hit rewind on the free Odyssey app if you've missed a minute or a second of the show. We'll be back with you tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Hickey, where can they find you, man? Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three on Twitter. You can find me online everywhere at J.R. Sportbrief.

14 to 10. Tampa Bay leads Kansas City about 11 minutes to go here in a third. The J.R. Sportbrief show is over. Don't move here on the Infinity Sports Network.

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