How Legit Are The Commanders? (Hour 3)

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Genius. I haven't seen this guy really play since he was in in college. And speaking of college, we just talked about it on the other side of the break. The first edition of the college football playoff rankings have been released.

We got a ways to go here. We know there are 12 teams that make it in. Oregon the Ducks are ranked one. The Ohio State University, they are two.

The Bulldogs are three. The U Miami at number four. Texas at five. Penn State at six. And Tennessee at seven. Indiana, I still cannot believe they're even good.

Indiana is eight. BYU is ninth. Notre Dame is 10th. Alabama is 11th. And Boise State is 12th. Only one reason to watch Boise State even with their 7-1 record.

That's to see what Ashton Gente just continues to roll along and mow along doing. And so we'll see what happens. There's still plenty of time to continue and move on when it comes down to these these college football rankings. Right now that the rankings are over, ESPN is blessing us with Miami of Ohio and Ball State. Yeah, just the Tuesday matchup that everybody wanted to see.

Itching. There is no NBA today because it's election day. And people want folks out there voting, or at least the NBA does. And so we got some good matchups that are coming up as a result. Well, not this game. But we have some good matchups and we have some good games that are going to be coming up this upcoming Saturday.

I can't wait to see what the Bulldogs do against Ole Miss, and the world will continue to roll on. If you want to be a part of the show, it's simple. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. I can almost, well, not almost. And this guy, he just spoke. Oh my God. Lincoln, Hickey Lincoln-Reilly just spoke? Literally just spoke.

Wow. No, they're not even going to make it to a damn bowl game. That's, that is not happening.

And they just had some, some news. Jaden Maieva is taking over for Miller Moss. If you haven't heard earlier today, he's getting a boot. Miller Moss says, because he can't stop throwing the football to the other team. You talk about a bowl game. This guy basically has this job right now because of his performance last year in a bowl game, where he decided to light it up and throw six touchdowns in a game. And then as we went through the off season and got closer to the start of the season, Lincoln-Reilly swore up and down and told everybody who would even listen that this was like a quarterback competition until it wasn't. And then Miller Moss took over and then he had a big performance against LSU. But now USC has lost four out of their last five games. This man, Miller Moss, has seven interceptions in his last three games. Damn it, he threw three against the Huskies.

And so now they're telling him to have a seat. It doesn't matter what the offensive line looks like. The offensive line can stink and so can he.

He looks shell-shocked. And if there's one thing we know about Jaden Maieva coming over from UNLV, at least this guy can run just a little bit. I don't know if Lincoln-Reilly is trying to save his own ass by putting in a new quarterback who can actually move behind a busted offensive line, but that looks to the point where he's looking to be the case. Lincoln-Reilly, yeah, ain't no college football playoff here.

Not, not at all. Matter of fact, this past Saturday, Lincoln-Reilly was asked, you gonna sit down, Miller Moss? You gonna play Jaden Maieva and listen to what Lincoln-Reilly said on Saturday? I wouldn't say that right now. No, I mean, for us, it's for us right now, what we're looking at is what is each, the best lineup, the best people to help us win each and every week. And we're going to keep our focus there. Okay. All right.

We can only do the best that we can do. That was from Saturday. I just told you Lincoln-Reilly, he just spoke. And after news broke earlier today that Miller Moss has been benched, Lincoln-Reilly minutes ago after practice, he told everybody why he made a move. I said I was going to make decisions based on what was best for the team to win.

And nothing's changed. We go back and evaluate like we do every single game. We have two good players in the room. And when we went back and looked at it, we felt like it was in the best interest of the team to give Jaden a chance here.

And it's, it's that simple. I know, listen, I've been through enough of these with QBs. I know the QBs in any program, especially one like this or a lightning rod, we've made a lot of other changes at other positions throughout this, trying to find our best lineups and are the best possible lineup to help us go win that, that aren't going to get the attention and publicity.

And I get it. It's just, it's part of football, but there was nothing more to this decision than that. And I want to say like, listen, Miller Moss has done a really good job for us. Like we, you could not, you could literally not change one thing that Miller's done and we could be sitting here with a really, really good record right now. Miller has done a very good job. He's been a really good leader for this team. He's been loyal to this program. He has worked hard and he has done a lot of really good things on the football field. So this is not, this is not a reflection of anything more than we have another good player in the room and we feel like it gives us a good opportunity. And we felt like that this was the, when we went back and evaluated that this was the best thing for the team.

And it's, it's really, it's really that's something. Hickey, besides the band practicing in the back, trying to make some noise for a bunch of losers, was that garbage truck for Lincoln Riley? Sounds like him. I think a lot of USC fans wish he takes his stuff, took his stuff and threw it right there.

That's crazy. You know, I like how he talked about, he's like, yeah, I done been through these things with a bunch of other quarterbacks before. And this is why the hell they brought him in there. Like why, this is why Lincoln Riley is there. And not everybody could just wake up and just say, hey, here's Caleb Williams. And if you think back to Lincoln Riley, his time, this guy's worked with everybody from Kyler Murray to Baker Mayfield, like he works with QBs.

And I don't know if he could do anything about the offensive line and I guess the physical limitations of a set QB, but I don't find it. Let's just say it's interesting timing. You got Nebraska coming up next. Nebraska cannot score to save their damn lives right now. They are on a three game losing streak. They just lost to the other California team. UCLA beat them 27 to 20.

You don't have confidence that Miller Moss can go out there and beat Nebraska? Come on. Lincoln Riley continued on and he said, yeah, of course, telling him, breaking the news to him that you got to have a seat. It wasn't easy. It was tough. It was tough.

I've been a part of a few of these. It's, it's never easy. There's nothing, there's nothing easy about it, especially when you got a guy that's, that's worked hard and has done a lot of really good things. I mean, honestly, there's, I've been at times where it's easier where the guy's just not playing very good at all. And the team's getting, you know, this is getting blown out. And like, there's, it's, it's like painfully obvious, right? Like anybody could do it. One's like these where it's a tough call or it's, it's tough.

I mean, I was a part of one of a few years ago where, you know, we were, we were undefeated at the time. I mean, like it's, it's, and so you never know a hundred percent, nobody's got a crystal ball. But you know, we just come in here like a play call, like decisions we make, we make the best decisions we can, that we feel like are in the best interest for this program. And it's, you know, it's, it's my job to take the emotion out of it because, you know, you have a loyalty to all these guys individually, but you got to have a bigger loyalty to the team and program. And it's always got to say that way.

Oh boy. They lost to Maryland. No disrespect to Maryland, but I get it. New, new big 10, everybody cross country, this cross country. It's Maryland. Like they, I don't, I, I don't got no lacrosse jokes, but it's, it's, it's Maryland. Lincoln Riley should go out there and just pack up his bags.

And I don't know if that's a forklift or garbage truck. You know, we had this playoff ranking come out tonight officially. Let's be real here. Like USC, that you got Lincoln Riley, you're expecting to compete in this, not even like miss out on a bowl game. You're supposed to be the quarterback whisperer. I don't know what the next best option is here for, for USC. If Lincoln Riley is to get the boot, I don't think they're going to give him the boot.

Well, they, well, let me, let me fix that. Hickey, if they lose to Nebraska, does that kind of put a stake into the ground that he might get the boot at the end of the year? Uh, it better.

It has to, because you got to ask yourself now, if you're USC, where's the bright spot in turning this thing around? Oh yeah, none. Exactly right. And it's not, it's not, well, the season is, it's a dub. It's, it's over, it's cooked. They've been cooked.

Done. And now you got to finish the year against Notre Dame like this. He basically is putting my Ava in there to save his ass because who knows, I don't know what the hell that's going to happen.

I think between them and UCLA is going to be a toss up, but Nebraska, he doesn't believe in Miller-Mars. He has to put it in my Ava out there just to have some hope. That's, that's scary, man. I don't know. Lincoln Riley is cooked. He has to go find another quarterback to babysit next year.

It's got a lot of fun. A lot of things right now. He's, I mean, that's also like, I mean, even go back to last year that Caleb Williams, what do they do Jr? Seven and five. Yeah.

And now you, you sitting at a five and seven season with, I mean, good luck. Big 10's not getting any easier. Don't you think, not that I, not that I want to defend him. With all the changes in the transfer portal and the fact that the players can get up and move at their own whim and the players, not the players, but the coaches have less power. Isn't it more, isn't it more difficult, not just for Lincoln Riley, but anybody to go out and coach and to keep talent? Sure. Yes. Right. Cause then now you have to re-recruit your players in a, for the first time really ever when that wasn't for the most part a problem, but you can also flip it on the other side. You can turn your program, like just like Indiana's doing in the span of one off season, you know, get a great transfer portal class and all of a sudden you're, you know, you can go from now to the outhouse to the penthouse.

Is that not an anomaly though? I mean, this might be the new normal moving forward. So to be Indiana and suck for a bunch of years, you get a new coach in and then boom, no, you switched everything up. This is, I don't want to call it like the pros, which we know it is kind of professional.

If your name is Lincoln Riley and you are in California, you're in Southern California. Why the downturn so fast? And, and maybe, maybe there should be some optimism that he can turn things around quickly next year.

No. I mean, his track record would say right. There's reason to believe, but I mean, also look like he's like, you look at in recent time here, he's six and 10 in his last 16, 12 and 12 in his last 24, like he's now starting to become pretty far removed from the time at Oklahoma when he was going to the platform, felt like every single year, even though one year they went to the platform or just missed out on the platform, should say USC a few years ago with Caleb Williams in 2022, like those days, man, they're starting to go by pretty fast and they are starting to hit the rear view mirror. And it's just like, I mean, it's not the offense, it's the defense. If it's not the quarterback, it's the running. Like these have so many problems and he's part of that.

His coaching is directly part of it. And here's the thing. He's a young guy. Like he's not an old dude. Lincoln Ryan. Well, all things he's 40.

He's got to be in his early forties. We have dudes who are much older than him, like 20 years, a senior who have decided to just step away and walk away because they're just like, I don't want to deal with this NIL. I can't deal with the up and down. I can't deal with the checks. I can't deal with the salary.

I can't deal with the money. We got guys like dabbled Sweeney's just like, I don't want to pay for no players. And then he just gets his ass whooped. Like the power's gone. You got to play the game or just get out of it. Lincoln Riley might be forced out. This is really a last ditch stand.

And then, you know what? Not today. He actually said his team USC, they have been unlucky. We've kind of had the anomaly of a year. You know, normally, you know, these things end up over time going about 50, 50 on these games that come down to one play. And we've happened to have the year that, that, you know, not too many of them have went our way. We've been a good enough team to win every game. We've been enough, a good enough team to put ourselves in position to win, but we haven't separated consistently. And we've consistently been in these games that come down to one play and, and we just have not done a good enough job making those plays. Uh huh.

Yeah. You lost to Maryland. You just benched your starting quarterback because he's just given a ball to the other team. You're supposed to be the quarterback whisper. You're throwing out a transfer from UNLV who can move.

He can run around just to try to save your ass. You would think USC would have been in and talks to be in the college football playoff. They are not even in competition to get to a damn bowl game with a four and five record. Let's see how they finish off. Right. Okay. They got Notre Dame to finish off the year. Good luck with that one. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 top 12 teams in the college football playoff, Oregon, Ohio state, Georgia, Miami, Texas, Penn state, Tennessee, Indiana, BYU, Notre Dame, Alabama, and Boise state USC. Uh, yeah, just, just a far off ways away. It's tough. Caleb Williams.

This man was crying in the stands last year. Come on. It's the JR sport.

We show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Hey, being a quarterback is tough unless you're Jayden Daniels. This guy makes it look real damn easy. We're going to talk about how great these commanders look.

Yeah. It's you can turn things around. One player, one player, one owner, one staff, one coach. The commanders are a great example. Maybe there's hope for everybody else on the NFL side. We'll get into the commanders on the other side of the break.

A big trade today, deciding to bring in Marshawn Lattimore from the saints. We'll give you an update on that. It's the JR sport reshow on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. Oh, there we have a new slogan.

Bringing sense to the nonsense. I would put that on a hoodie, but I'm too lazy. I don't feel like it. Hoodie season. Weather was actually warm here today. It's like 80 degrees here in Georgia.

Hickey. What's that weather feel like up in New York? Is it, was it 80 today?

Not 80, 70, not bad today. Wow. I know. 50 degrees tomorrow then, huh? Oh yeah.

And then it's gonna be like 30 by the weekend and then probably have snow or sleet, like next Monday. Oh yeah. That's the New York fall for you.

Wow. What? Friday is going to be the, I can't count. Is Friday going to be the eighth or the ninth or something like that?

Friday is going to be the eighth of November. Oh my God. I want to just, nah, that wouldn't make no sense. I just want to step into, I can't freeze time. Can I? I can't do that.

I don't know. I can't freeze time. Can I? I can't do that. I'd love to. I'd love for you to do that.

I think a lot of people would love for you to do that. Go around kicking people in the shins. That's what you would do. You wouldn't like rob a store or like whatever.

You would go kick people in the shins when they're frozen. You took me from one crime to another. Rob a store? Whose store? Whose store is it? Well, the bank.

Please. I love small business. You know, I'm pro small business here.

Just, just go take from the bank, make yourself rich. And I guess, right, because time's frozen, the cameras will be frozen so no one will know. I have a question. Okay.

Even if, even if everybody just stopped and froze, right? How am I getting, I got to go into the vault? Like where am I getting money? I got to like steal every cashier. I got to steal money out the hands. Do people still go to the bank and move cash around?

I did not think about it. Yes. And that, I mean, that's a bad crime. You steal from old folks. No, but I mean, if the, if the old person is passing the, passing the money to the cashier through the little hole, then you know, who cares? True. True. So I guess you have the power just like click, right?

To stop time. Maybe that's what you would do. Is that what you would do? You just go kick people in the shins? I don't know. They stealing money better. You're probably better off going into people's houses, right? No. Why the hell not?

Sure. Who has cash in the house? I don't know. Who has cash anywhere, I guess.

I'm saying it's true. It's kind of, I got to, I got to do like Kirk Cousins says, right? Go in the trap, take over the trap.

Yes. I got to find drug dealer houses. Oh yeah. You better make sure you don't unpause time, by the way, when you're in there. Look, end up looking at El Chapo by mistake. And if he, oh boy, if he finds out you're in there, you're in big trouble. He's in a supermax, right? He's in Colorado. So allegedly guy finds his way out of every place.

He got two, he got like three pillows underneath his bed right now under the covers. He's out living a life somewhere in Mexico. I was going to say shout outs to El Chapo, but not a, not a good thing. No, no, no, no.

Shout out to El Chapo. Anyway. No, just the time flies, man. November 5th. We, we really have skipped from Halloween to Christmas time. We'd have, all I see are advertisements for tree lightings and I hear Christmas music. I hear the sleigh bells. Have you heard any of that too? Or is it just me?

I think we have not. I love Christmas, but it's sickening how early they start pushing it. But so far as the city are November 5th, I've yet to see a decoration, a tree, or even an advertisement. Here in the studio and not, not our studio, but in the building, in the vicinity of here, they're advertising the tree lighting.

I'm listening to, you know, the radio and is I hear the, I hear the sleigh bells already. I'm like, it was just Halloween on, on Thursday. Wasn't it Thursday, Halloween?

Thursday. There were still Halloween parties. I still saw Halloween parties taking place on Saturday.

People walking around still in as firefighters and nurse freaks and all of this stuff. And I'm just like, we just immediately just moved to Christmas. I'm like, I can't do this. Yeah.

Poor Thanksgiving. Yeah. It's just, it's done. It's invisible. Forget about afterthought.

It's just totally invisible. Yeah. You go, you go, literally you go from Halloween straight to Christmas, not me.

I'm going to try to enjoy it. Now, Hickey in Germany, all of December, the whole month, they celebrate Christmas for the whole month. Really? Yeah.

And I mean, it's no different than, I guess, Hickey shop early holiday deals now. Amazon. Oh, they're listening. I'm no, I'm looking at it. I got it. I got ESPN on one TV, CBS on another. That's CBS. Wow. Amazon is trying to make me go shopping already. I guess.

Right. You got to get gifts early, whatever. Well, Black Friday is coming up sooner than you think. You think that Japanese guy we talked about yesterday, you think he's going to be out for Black Friday? Probably telling a few ladies that he was dating that his birthday's on Black Friday. The guy got arrested for having 30 girlfriends and lying to him just for the gifts. Good for him.

Good for people that can get away with. No, I mean, I say that anyway. 855-212-4227.

It's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we talked about the college football playoff rankings. We talked about a team that you won't see in them damn rankings. You will not see USC. They just decided to bench their starting quarterback, Miller Moss, after he kept throwing the ball to the wrong damn team.

Jaden Maieva is going to go ahead and get the start against Nebraska. And we talked about how fast you could just you change things up. And that's on a college level.

If you think about the transfer portal, I got to tell you, it's crazy. Today we saw Marshawn Lattimore go from the Saints to the commanders right before the trade deadline. And Washington has been a joke for the absolute longest time. Dan Snyder basically owned the team for the better part of 25 years, and they've given away some of the worst contracts that we've ever seen in sports.

Take a look at Albert Haynsworth. They've been more than than pathetic. They've been beyond pathetic. And all of a sudden they get Josh Harrison. They're able to go ahead and draft Jaden Daniels.

And this is a team right now. I can't believe if you would have told me they would have been OK. They've been average. I've been like, yeah, fine. Not that they'd be in competition with the Eagles right now to legitimately win the NFC East.

They are 7 and 2. I can't. I can't wrap my brain around that. Dan Quinn, everybody loves Dan Quinn. People loved him here in Atlanta until he started to lose and then choke in the Super Bowl. This is a team that hasn't had a winning season since 2016. Jaden Daniels is on his way to being offensive rookie of the year, 2000 yards passing, nine touchdowns. Always impressive to me when the players don't turn the ball over. Only two interceptions. Four hundred sixty yards passing, four rushing touchdowns. He showed he has shown that he's tough as nails.

And I guess why wouldn't we expect this to translate over from college? The guy went to Heisman. We talked about him being too slight. We saw him make big throws, getting hit. Guy had busted ribs a couple of weeks ago, still went out there, competed. He's somebody easy to root for.

And you want to talk about how fast the tide can pretty much change. Adam Peters becomes GM in January, comes over from the 49ers. Josh Harris takes over. I guess one of his teams has to actually work the Philadelphia 76ers or not.

We'll get into them in a bit. But it's just good to see new blood, new players, new exciting players. It's nice to know that Washington. They got a QB and they got a guy that they can look at for the next decade. It's pretty awesome.

Jaden Daniels this past Sunday after knocking off the New York Giants. He says, yeah, man, wow, we haven't been this good in how long? 45 years?

More than double the amount of time I've been alive. Got to live in the moment. Hey, you know, this could be all good. You know, we got a game next week.

But I mean, it's just I'm just happy for the fan base that they could be something proud of in the product that we're putting on the field. Okay. All right. He doesn't care.

He's like, do my check cash. Okay. That's all that matters to me. Dan Quinn understands. Speaking of their next game, they got Pittsburgh on Sunday. Another team that's going ahead and made some some trades, picking up Mike Williams on the offense, Preston Smith on the defense.

Dan Quinn, despite the youth of his team and his young quarterback, Dan Quinn is like, man, my guys, they're adults. I thought the guys did a good job of, you know, filling the tanks back up. We acknowledged it like this was a like a historic win for us.

And last week I'm talking about at home with in the fashion it went and how do you recognize it? But then also fill the tanks back up knowing you're heading back into a division game. And I thought it showed a lot of maturity from the team. Not good. I'm happy for them.

I don't know if they eat. Listen, I wouldn't be surprised if the Eagles caught them, but it's good to know the commanders are still going to go to the postseason. And I think they're like a lot of other teams, no different than Houston last year. When you get that, that, that first taste of the postseason, you get punched in the mouth, right? Now you, you gotta, you gotta trial by fire.

You gotta walk through the fire before you can actually get to some type of success. That's what it is. And I think that's, that'll be the case here for Washington. I think every experience from what they've done up until now, what they will do if they get to the post season, I think they will. And what happens when they get there, I think is great. And I think if you're Washington, you got a new owner, you got a new quarterback, you got a new GM, you got a new coach, you got new players. You can't ask for anything more.

I'm excited for Washington. And they went through the name change too. The commanders, I still call them the Washington football team. They could have done better. Hickey, what, what was some of the last names? Didn't they have better things than this?

Like fighter pilots and stuff like that. I don't know. Yeah, they did. The Hogs, they had, they had a lot better options than the one they picked. Could you, you got an NFL, the Washington Hogs, that would have been. No, you don't like that one?

No, not at all. Kind of hokey. What, what's the worst NFL team name? Let's think about that for a minute. The least intimidated, the Browns is probably the dumbest name, right? After a color, I agree. Name yourself the big bad Browns. We'll watch out.

The Brown, dog pound Browns named, yeah, they named, didn't they name after Paul, the boss? Yes. But yeah, it's stupid. Dumb.

Yeah, not intimidating. Come on. Yeah. I mean, let's name the Seattle greens. Is that what we get next?

I don't know. Oh man, it's Seahawks chargers. Yeah. Let's look at the NFL standing. Jets are not that intimidating. Oh, here comes the planes guys.

Watch out. I know you jet across the field. Dolphins, dolphins. Raven. Raven's not scaring anybody.

Ravens is like horror movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You look at a Raven on the street.

No one's being intimidated by that. Yeah. But it's about the atmosphere that Ravens. Nevermore. Raven. Nevermore. Come on.

Hickey. Edgar Allen Poe. Scary. He was not, they were not named after Edgar Allen Poe. Yeah. That's he's, he's from Baltimore.

He's from the Bronx, but I think he was born. He's, he's his crypt. It's too much. There's a lot of spooky stuff.

Edgar Allen Poe was tied into the, he's the Ravens are inspired by him and true. It is. Okay. Fine.

I can see that. The Raven. Nevermore. That's, that's, you didn't know that?

I did not know that actually. Yeah. The Ravens.

Edgar Allen Poe. Okay. Okay. Fine.

Fine. Maybe we'll, I'll take it back. I take it back. They are the most Halloween-esque football team. The Ravens.

Broncos. Raiders are bad-ass. Raiders are great.

Very. Steelers are good. Bengals are good. Browns suck. Texans are whatever. Cults and Titans. Just for history purposes, it'd probably be the Dolphins. They probably got the worst football name. Packers?

What are they named after? People packing stuff up. Yeah. Cheese. Are you worried about that? Worried about a bunch of cheese packers?

No, no. You think it's between the Dolphins and the Packers? Well, if we're taking the Browns out of it, cause I guess that is named after, you know, Paul Brown, but still it's, yeah.

Right? I think it's the Dolphins. I think it's the Dolphins. Soft animal.

Yeah. Miami Dolphins. What else could you name? What else would you name the football team after?

I guess here's maybe the real answer. What? The Saints. New Orleans Saints.

Oh no. Saints are nice people. No, come on. We got Padres too. Like, I mean, on San Diego baseball side.

You worried about a bunch of fathers coming after you? No. Well, I remember that at one point in time, they didn't give him a bat. Yes. Yes. That was a good logo.

He had a bat one time. No. No. It's the Dolphins, man. They're supposed to be smart. I don't know. They got a cool look. I can't even say the mascot is cool looking.

His helmet sits on his head. I don't know. It's weird. The old school logo is cool. The new one can, you know, The old Dolphins logo?

Yeah. You know, they were the throwbacks. That logo is like, it's, it's like a retro. The new one here is like streamlined. It looks like it's clip art.

The Dolphins logo always looks stupid. I agree. I wait. Old one or the new one? You talking about both of them. What's the difference? The old one is just better. It's cleaner. The Dolphins like an actual, you know, jumping shape. I don't know about that.

I don't know. Dolphins. The helmet fits better on the head. Yeah, I know. Right. They need to do that with the mascot now.

Rich Ackerman is here with us. Are the Dolphins not the dumbest football name of a team? I don't know about that. I always liked the old logo, the original logo jumping through the hoop. Forget the logo, the team name, the name. No, I'm okay with it.

I don't really, you know, I don't really have any problem with any, any of the teams. None of them, none of the names sound, the Washington commanders. They, they recently rebranded everything. They want, they want a new nickname though.

What's that? The winners? I'm not sure, but well, new, new ownership. You think they're going to change the name again? Yeah. No, I don't think so. We shall see.

Okay. Yeah, we will. I would have kept it as the Washington football team. I think that's much more bad-ass. We are so bad-ass. We don't even need a name.

It's going to run through everybody. The Washington football team. It sounded like a bunch of IRS accountants coming to just beat you up and it's better than the commanders. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Right before we went to break, I did share with you how just quickly things have been able to change out in Washington, DC. Josh Harris is the new owner of the Washington commanders. They have a new owner, a new general manager. They have a new quarterback, Jayden Daniels, and they're moving in a positive direction.

You know, earlier today they traded for Marshawn Lattimore from the New Orleans saints and this team Washington, they are on the up and up. Meanwhile, another team that Josh Harris is a part of, the owner of a team is the Philadelphia 76ers starting the year one and four. Not a good look for these Sixers. We learned earlier today that Joel Embiid suspended three games. He's going to miss three game checks whenever the hell he's going to be available to play. This is going to course cost him about more than a million bucks for putting his hands on a reporter, a columnist who decided to invoke the name of his deceased brother and his son in regards to Joel Embiid talking about how these are individuals who have inspired him to play.

Oh, ouch. Does this really matter to Joel Embiid? Probably not. A million bucks?

I think Joel Embiid with his current contract extension, I think his career earnings, uh, I don't think missing a million bucks is going to matter to Joel Embiid too much. Uh, Hickey, do you think he got punished? Not at all, right? Nothing. Not at all.

No, sorry. No punishment. Well, what, what can you do here? Joel Embiid, as of right now, contract runs through 2028, almost $200 million, like whoopty freaking do. And that is his, that is his contract extension. That doesn't take into account every dollar and cent that he's made so far in the NBA, which is probably going to push him into a half billion dollar range. His career earnings, half a billion dollars with the new agreement, fourth highest in NBA history for a guy who never plays. Joel Embiid missing out on a million bucks.

Come on now. And they can't, Hickey, how can they punish him more, right? They can't. I did see a tweet that said, you want to punish him, make him play. Make him play three games in a row. Make him play on that bad knee that they say, well, we know his body is bad. It's just a matter of how much he wants to play. And they're like, oh, well, whenever he's eligible to play, well, we're not going to let him. You got to be, okay, whatever. You can't punish guys who make this much money.

It's just the reality of it, unfortunately. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27, 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Andrew's calling from Michigan. You're on the JR sport brief show. What's up, Andrew. Hey, how are you? I'm very well.

What's up? Hey, just calling to see what you think about that. So Darius Smith traded for the lions. And then my other question was about the Brian branch ejection.

Well, let me, let me answer the first question first. Of course, I think this is a good move. There's no replacing Aiden Hutchinson. We talked about this with Lomas Brown earlier on in the show.

If you missed it, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. It's a good look. I mean, the guy got five sacks. He's familiar with the division. Yeah, it's been a few years.

But when he was running around with the Packers, the guy had like, like 13 sacks. So am I expecting him to wake up and give you eight the rest of the way? No. But he is certainly an improvement than what you had when it comes to Brian brands.

What's your question? Well, it's just, yeah, I get the NFL has to do what they have to do. Like I get it rules and rules. But with eight, eight or eight weeks, they had two ejections Puca and Brian.

I mean, it's just weird, I guess to me. I mean, Miami had Puca is not he punched a guy. What do you want from him? He punched the guy? Oh, I, I just seen that he was ejected. And I guess I didn't watch the video.

Yeah, for punching the guy. Yeah. Oh, I can see that. Can't do that. Can't do that.

No, no, you can't do that. But I mean, the Brian branch, I mean, I don't it looked like he was intentionally trying to do it. I mean, obviously, when I in his head, you know, he doesn't want to get ejected as well. So I mean, it just seems Brian branch hit, he hit a guy, it looked like he had time to kind of slow down or move.

And let me not say slow down. The ball was not near the receiver anymore. And he still lowered the boom. And it's football, it happens. Am I going to go as far to call it a cheap shot?

No, it's a physical game. But he certainly could have let up just a little bit. And it looked like he knew what the hell was going on. And he said, Hey, I got a clean shot. Let me make somebody feel it.

So he paid for it. If I'm a Lions fan, I'm not sweating too much. This is a team that's seven and one. They're rolling. They're the best team in the NFC.

They're looking at a Super Bowl. Let's see if coach Campbell doesn't screw them over being too aggressive on the way there. Okay.

I agree. Thank you, chair. Thank you, Andrew, for calling for Michigan. Yeah, look, the Detroit Lions, the Detroit Lions are gonna face like a fourth and 10.

Like the final minute. Dan Campbell, instead of kicking a field goal to win the game, he's gonna go for a touchdown. That's how he rolls, man.

That's how he does it. Sorry. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network.

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