Are The Sixers Cursed? (Hour 1)

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We got a lot to get into. I don't know, everybody in their hamstring hurts. Tyrese Maxey hamstring done. Dak Prescott hamstring done. We got Thursday Night Football.

We got a good one. The Bengals and the Ravens. Ravens trying to exert dominance. The Cincinnati Bengals trying to let everybody know that they're still alive.

We'll get into that. Hey, we got Derek Bottner joining us from PHLY Sports. It stands for Philly. Got some young quarterbacks getting ready to go at it. Drake May, Caleb Williams. Speaking of a young quarterback, Matt Leinart has a son old enough to play. We got an old quarterback here in Atlanta. He's just growing in popularity and Kirk Cousins. Speaking of popularity, Paul George, no longer popular in L.A., getting booed by his hometown fans in California now that he's a member of the Sixers. Steve Kerr got booed last night.

Didn't change anything. How about that? Jason Tatum not coming through the game winning ridiculous performance as the Golden State Warriors won in Boston last night. J.J. Reddick is already mad. Bronny James already sent to the G League. Trevor Lawrence might be missing some time. Baker Mayfield is busted up. Billy Napier.

He looks like he's still going to have a job. So we got a lot to talk about. Look, if you want to call up, you want to participate in the show, you can. 855-212-4227.

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Sport Brief. What a day. I feel like, damn it, I've been up all day. And here I am now. Hey, Hickey, how you doing? You good? I'm doing well, J.R. Yeah, I've been up for a while as well. Woke up early this morning, so I'm with you. Long day, but a good day.

That's a good thing. New York is nice. The weather's nice. Were you outside doing stuff?

This it actually is really nice. And I'm starting to get used to it, which is a dangerous game to play because it's going to be cold quick. But man, I see how you live now in Atlanta, how a lot of folks listening live down in maybe SoCal in the south, having a warm fall, warm winter. Not bad.

Not bad at all. Listen, man. Yeah, you said it. Wait until it's like 30 degrees next week, right? That's a thing. It's going to drop and it's going to drop quickly.

Have fun. Is the light gone? There's no sun outside right now. It's pitch black.

What's the benefit of working here? No, no windows. I don't know, but I'm sure it is. It's six. Oh, yeah, definitely at six o'clock.

Absolutely. I'm probably going to start at like four thirty. Closest window is what, like 20 yards away and a few doors, a few doors away and a few locks away as well. Few corners, few locks in. You're not in the basement, right? You're on the ninth, tenth floor, something like that. Tenth floor. We are high up. We actually got in some corners like a nice view of the river.

It's actually scenic. I mean, you know, you got to really work to get there. But oh, yeah, the lunchroom, right?

The cafe. Look at you. You know, you've been. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have a couple of times a year. Yep. Mm hmm. Just saw you what, two months ago. Yeah, that's right. Don't be a stranger. Well, welcome you back here.

Am I due to come back to that that windowless dungeon? You put it that way. Yeah. Geez.

You want to stay in Atlanta and with good sights, you get a window close to you. Yeah. Warm weather.

They do yoga on Wednesdays, but it's over now. Oh, so now you got nothing to look at. So things come up here and the windows won't bother you. It's going to be a big Christmas tree outside.

It'll be plenty of look. Oh, wow. Last week, Halloween freaks, you know, it's just always something to look at, you know, outside of my one, two, three, four or five, about six windows here. And where you perched up at? 20th floor?

Not 20. I don't know where. Where am I?

Eighth floor, ninth floor. OK, so you got a good view. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, good.

Set high atop of the ATL. Yeah, a little bit. I can see a couple of buildings.

I see some things, see some things. But I'm happy that you're feeling good. I'm feeling good as well. How's your hamstring? Hamstring? Good. Didn't pull it?

No, yeah, thankfully did not pull it. So healthy and ready to go. So, hey, Cowboys are calling.

I'm ready. Oh, my God. What are the odds that two of the top players in professional sports right now, both of these guys are out with hamstring injuries? Well, first of one of them, we already knew about Dak Prescott. You thought that him pulling his hamstring this past week was that was just it.

We got a whole damn report. That Dak Prescott and this sounds crazy, like a part of his hamstring tore off the bone. And I'm like, oh, my God, what does this remind me of? You know, that meme where the it's a terrible meme. Anytime somebody gets hurt on X on Twitter, you got that that slab of meat and the meat just is so tender and so juicy, it just falls right off the bone.

Yes. Yeah, that is funny. And that's what do you think Dak's hamstring looks like right now? The first time I was like, hey, it's off the bone.

That meme automatically popped into my head. It made me recognize that once again, the Dallas Cowboys are cooked and done. And if you thought Dak Prescott, as we heard a couple of days ago from Jerry Jones, if you thought Dak Prescott was just, I don't know, going to end up on I.R. and come back in four weeks, then we might not see this guy again for the rest of the season. I don't even want to know what a hamstring off of the bone partially tore off. I don't even want to know what that feels like.

This just sounds awful. Head coach Mike McCarthy. He says, we're still trying to figure out how much off the bone it is. Listen to this. He's still going through the process. Visited him again this morning on it. So still collecting information, different opinions. I think it'll continue through next week. So.

But he's here every day doing everything that he can. It's just I mean, one of the things on the board is whether or not he's able to return this season, given the options that he's looking at to address this injury. Yeah, definitely.

I think it would be the goal. I know. I know. I know he wants to keep playing, but I think it's important to go through the you know, the process of gathering all the information. It's obviously a serious injury. I'm in that coach walking. That's a coach who knows that his time is about to be done. Mike McCarthy is is cooked. He doesn't even have the benefit of, you know, looking at Dak throw the game away. He has to wait for Cooper Rush to throw the game away. I mean, damn it.

I'm asking for Trey Lance. You traded for the guy. The season is going nowhere.

You might as well see what you have in that regard. And so everybody with the Cowboys, they're just miserable. Jerry Jones loses another year of potentially watching them, I don't know, suffer in the playoffs because they won't go. And Dak, well, at least he's getting 60 million dollars is not the worst thing in the world.

What a miserable organization that is. How often do you hear you tore his hamstring off of the bone? Oh, picky mate. I don't this. This sounds very weird. But it's making me think of the ribs and wings like I'm getting hungry. I was just about to say, geez, almost sounds like one of those Uber Eats commercials now.

What is Dak Prescott's hamstring right off the bone? That's it. You ever see those with Matthew McConaughey, Christian McCaffrey? Uh, not no. I forgot you don't watch TV. They play that during a football match, huh?

They do. Yeah. Talking about, you know, pancake blocks and feed me more. It's like, you know, a joke about how football just really, you know, talks about food.

And now here you are is falling off the bone and you're doing it to yourself. Is Christian McCaffrey, is he dressed up like a normal person or is he wearing some weird outfit? He is dressed up like a normal person sitting down, which is huge.

She was not stressing that Achilles as he's getting healthier sitting down on the couch, presumably watching football. Okay. Yeah. I've seen this commercial. I've seen it and I've seen it. I didn't know what the hell it was for, but I've seen it the same way that we see the commercial of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. And you know, now that we've seen it enough and I know it's next Friday, it took some time and see if Mike Tyson's hamstring comes off of the bone. Hopefully not.

Hopefully no more ulcers for Mike Tyson as well. Hey, unfortunately I told you we had two superstars in the world of sports. This next guy is not widely known as Dak Prescott, but this guy's a superstar in the NBA and his name is Tyrese Maxey.

Yeah. Point guard, shooting guard, guard, scorer, whatever the hell you want to call him for the Philadelphia 76ers. Last night against the Clippers. This man, he's now battling soreness in his hamstring. He's going to miss some time.

He's going to miss at minimum two weeks right now. Let me remind you, this is the Philadelphia 76ers. Joel Embiid has yet to play a game. Paul George just played his second game yesterday and now you're actually going to miss the guy in Tyrese Maxey who is leading the NBA in minutes per game at almost 40. He's carrying a ridiculous load at 27 points per game. Last night the Sixers lost again 110 to 98 to the Clippers.

Let me say that again. The Sixers now have a record of one and six. They are tied, this sounds crazy, they are tied with the Milwaukee Bucks. They had a team with Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

They're tied with the Bucks for the worst record in the league. And Sham Sharani, he was on ESPN and he's just like, yeah, Tyrese Maxey, he going to miss some time. Tyrese Maxey will have a full evaluation later today, but the sides are bracing for him to miss about a couple of weeks with this hamstring injury. He's a guy that obviously wants to play through everything, but he will need to take his time.

This is a soft tissue injury. The Sixers are going to take it very, very seriously. I've spoken to his agent, Rich Paul at Clutch Sports, and they will make sure that he's going to be 100% when he comes back to the floor. This Sixers team obviously has been battling injury, one and six so far this year. Joel Embiid has yet to play. He's going to make his debut on Tuesday. Paul George just got back in the lineup this week and now Tyrese Maxey will be out a period of time. He's someone that wants to play basketball desperately bad, but this hamstring injury, it's a soft tissue injury.

The Sixers will be taking this very, very seriously. Oh my goodness. Did he say, of course they're dealing with it? Yeah. What else is new? You know, I messaged this out to the world earlier today. I said, who is putting a hex on the Philadelphia 76ers?

Like who's doing this? And it's not just now and Joel Embiid. I mean, the guy came into the NBA, missed two full seasons because of his feet.

It's amazing that he's still able to go right now at 31 or maybe not. He's not able to go. The latest report is that we might see Joel Embiid make his debut next week.

Okay. I guess he'll play a game or two and then he'll get hurt. What else is new? This is what the Sixers are used to. They just brought on Paul George. Just sign this man over from the Los Angeles Clippers. He missed the beginning of the season with a hyperextended knee. Paul George ain't no spring chicken. You think he's going to last throughout the course of the year? And now you have one of the more durable players in the NBA and Tyrese Maxey. Now he's going down with a hamstring. I don't know.

Is there enough yoga in the world? Is there enough stretching going on for all these damn guys to go down and drop like flies? But when it comes to the Sixers, I don't know what's in the water in Philly.

I don't know what's in the water in New Jersey. That Sixers players just drop. And we can go back a little bit further. Recent memory. Markelle Foltz.

A lot of people don't even remember this. Markelle Foltz was taken number one overall by the Sixers. This guy came in, couldn't shoot the basketball, forgot how to shoot. He set his shoulder.

Something was broken. And I don't even think he's in the NBA right now. Michael Carter Williams. When is the last time you heard that name? This dude ultimately dealing with injuries as well. Ben Simmons.

Is there a better example? Is it just, I don't know, bruised ego? Is it lack of confidence? Oh yeah, his back. He's needed plenty of back surgeries. Jalil Okafor.

This man all of a sudden was supposed to be one of the top big men in the league until he was just too big and slow to play in the NBA. What is going on with this team that just about every human being that they draft, that they select, can't stay healthy? There has to be some type of curse, some type of hex that prevents this team from actually moving forward and having a player who can show up to work. Hickey, is it something in the water? Has to be, right?

Has to be. Everybody on the Sixers hurt? Everybody? They can't even start over from the beginning. This screw, they panned Joel Embiid who's going to be 31 years old in March. Just told he can't play every day. You got to pay this man through at least 2027, 2028. What are we doing? Good luck to the Sixers.

This is going to crash. Hickey, you want to trade for Joel Embiid? Anybody want him? I'm okay.

Thank you. I'll take a healthy Knicks team over someone who will be on the bench more times than not. Tyrese Maxey is just going to be on this team by himself, swimming in mediocrity forever. I can't even see a situation.

Now, maybe, I don't know, maybe Rich Paul says, hey, we got to move this guy. There's something about hamstrings today. Last night, this week, I'm just glad my hamstring, it works perfectly fine.

Walked up the steps, walked up the hill with no problem. Hey, good luck to Dak Prescott. You don't want to hear about anybody's damn hamstring falling off the bone or detaching from the bone. And good luck to Tyrese Maxey because the Sixers fans, they deserve better. They deserve a star who actually shows up to work and balls out. Now that guy is out.

Good luck. And Tyrese Maxey out. Dak Prescott out. What a way to start the week, well, end the week. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

There's so much more to get into. We'll talk about these terrible Sixers. Derek Bodnar is going to join us from PHLY Sports, Philly Sports, and he's going to come through. We'll talk about the Bengals and the Ravens. Thank God we got a good Thursday night football matchup. Speaking of injuries, we got Trevor Lawrence. He's kind of banged up. Baker Mayfield banged up as well. We have so much to get into.

The phone number here is 855-212-4227. When we come back, we're going to talk about a guy. He's not out. He's in. There's a college football coach who got word.

He will not get the boot. I'll tell you who it is on the other side of the break. Happy Thursday. You're locked into the JR Sportbreeze Show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the JR Sportbreeze.

It is the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, we open up the show talking about a pair of hamstrings that are just ravaged. Dak Prescott. They're evaluating whether or not his hamstring is worse than what they thought. Partially torn off the bone. Ouch.

We talked about Tyrese Maxey, Philadelphia 76ers. Like this team is already hurt. Everybody's hurt. Julian Beed is hurt. Paul George just came back from being hurt. I'm sure he'll be hurt again soon.

Maxey plays all the damn time, leading the NBA in minutes. And now his hamstring hurts. And now I'm like, damn, there's another guy with a busted up hamstring on a college. Like I'm thinking about this. I'm like, yeah, that's right.

This stinks. D.J. Lagway from the Gators.

This guy got a busted up hamstring as well. Hickey, we hit the trifecta. You got to play the lotto or something. I don't know. Right.

That's how it works. You get three hamstring injuries in three different sports of three big names and boom, now you're destined to win the Powerball. I like it.

Let's sum you up. You ever play Mario? I don't know what game it is, but there's like Mario is playing like spin the wheel, like the roulette thing.

You try to like match up the mushroom or the star like the wheel. You know what I'm talking about? Yes. And now everything aligns. Yeah, exactly.

And we got three of a kind here, right? I don't know how we do. Let's cash it in. Tyrese Maxey, hamstring, Dak Prescott, hamstring, D.J.

Lagway. We don't know if he's going to play against Texas. We have no idea.

How do you treat a hamstring? I don't know. Just heat, right? I don't know. Heat.

I don't know what you do. Ice heat. Maybe not ice. It tightens up. Pull my hamstring about two months ago and it just went away in three days. I'm not a professional athlete. But but anyway, we don't know if D.J.

Lagway is in against Texas. But I'll tell you this. We learned earlier today from Scott Strickland, the athletic director for the Florida Gators. He told everybody gator fans, people in Florida, people on the college football scene. He basically let everybody know. Hey, come here. I got a secret for you.

Yeah, come here. Billy Napier is not going anywhere. He's not going anywhere. And so if you call me once a week or twice a week and you ask me about Billy Napier getting fired and replaced down in Gainesville, it ain't happening. Scott Strickland has basically said give him time. He emphasizes having a disciplined and stable approach. He says he is continuing to stand behind Billy and his dedicated team while we work together to build a championship program.

And I say this quite frequently. I also think the twenty six million dollars that he'd be owed, I think it has something to do with it. Reportedly, if they give him the boot, they'd have to pay out approximately 40 million dollars, not just a Billy Napier, but that other 14 mil is to his staff.

You want to pay that much money to give a guy the boot? He's been here for three years already. He has a record of 15 and 18. And based on what he did earlier this year, you might go, oh, yeah, this guy has to go. But more recently and playing and losses still competitive against Georgia this past weekend.

Unfortunately, this is when D.J. Lagway damaged his hamstring and also playing close with Tennessee. It has kept them well, not them.

It has kept him alive. And so as we take a look at college football coaches who could potentially get the boot, some of the biggest names, Lincoln, Riley, look at Norval, you can look at Napier. At least we know now Napier is not going anywhere.

Reportedly, D.J. Lagway and he's one of the big reasons that that that he's there. Napier is one of the big reasons that he's there. They don't want to lose him.

They don't want to lose other folks. So Billy Napier is going nowhere. It was only right before the season started that Billy Napier was telling everybody, hey, I don't give a damn what anybody thinks. I'm optimistic about what we are building here in Gainesville. Yeah, we've worked extremely hard. You know, I think we've there's there's been a ton of progress made. I think my frustrations are with how we've played two out of the last three weeks.

That's where my frustration is. I think we've done a lot of good in terms of behind the walls and just the organization as a whole. I truly believe that. And I think most people that have familiarity with our program would say that. So we're not getting the result on the field right now that we want. But ultimately, that's the. That's how you're judged to some degree in this arena.

So it comes with the territory. We we all understand that as coaches. So we have to play more competitive football. We have to play better quality football. Damn, did somebody give him a tranquilizer dart before his press conference?

I guess that's what losing early on in the season does to you. There's two out of three. Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my God. Hope it doesn't talk that way to the team and put you to sleep. Do you think? No, it doesn't. Right.

Can't. He seems like the type of guy who's overly caffeinated all day long. Maybe he was on the back end of the coffee.

Maybe right where it starts to wear off before you get to get a new one. That could be it. That two o'clock feeling. Well, you addicted to caffeine. You know something about that. No, no.

I got two cups of coffee or two cups of caffeine a day. That's it. You are. Yeah. You drink in the morning tea at night or tea now, I should say.

Oh, your throat is OK. You feel good. Yeah. I just can't have too much coffee. Messes my stomach. So tea is a nice way to get some caffeine and it's easier to drink. No. Good for you. And it's good for your voice, too.

That's right. Better than my dumb ass. I refuse. I drink cold water. OK. The opposite of what I should have.

But I drink it. And something's better than nothing. You know what also saved Billy Napier. And this is what makes a lot of coaches want to disappear.

NIL saved them. That's it. That's it. And also the fact that Scott Strickland, they didn't want to look like dumbasses for giving him the boot. It's like, hey, we brought him in. What does that mean to us?

You know, when we getting rid of him. That's not a good indicator of us and our performance and what we're doing. And when you do have the transfer portal and players could bounce and they can leave, the Gators can go.

Well, first of all, they're not completely in the toilet right now. They have a record of foreign for they've been more competitive recently. And I guess they don't want to tank the entire season and Billy Napier. Maybe they can expect some a little bit of a bounce back next year. His overall record in 15 and 18. He took over in 2022. It's only 2024 him a little bit more of a stretch.

If he was getting his ass whooped again, getting smacked around like they are smacked around by Miami earlier in the year, then I think you got a little bit more ground to stand on. But hey, I've always said it. Paying $26 million for a guy to disappear.

They're cheaper ways to make people disappear. Let me just put it that way and keep Billy Napier around. How about that? It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Lincoln, Raleigh. I don't I don't know how much longer he'll be around eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Speaking of not around, Bronny James has already been given the boot. It's sending Bronny James down to the G League where he presumably belongs.

I guess that's like right where he would be. We'll talk about that on the other side of the break. And then there's another injury. This time, no hamstring. This guy, his arm hurts. I'm going to tell you what Florida quarterback this is. He plays in the pros. It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We got so much more to get into the top of the hour.

We'll talk about the Bengals and the Ravens. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We know injuries are a part of of professional sports. We know our bodies are brittle. They break. They crack.

They tear. Unfortunately, we talked about Tyrese Maxey going down with a hamstring issue. Dak Prescott going down with a hamstring issue. In a few minutes, I'm going to tell you about another NFL quarterback in Florida who is he's dealing with a shoulder issue.

Right before we went to break, we also talked about Billy Napier. He ain't going anywhere. Athletic director Scott Strickland said, oh, yeah, he's sticking around. We're not firing him.

Get that get that thought out of your brain. But if we stay in northern Florida. We talk about another Florida football team, move on to the pros.

If we go to Jacksonville. There's a quarterback who dammit over the past two seasons, he's been busted up. Looks like he belongs in a shampoo commercial. Trevor Lawrence is hurting. It's not his hamstring, thank God.

That'd be a fourfer. We'd have fourth guy fourth busted up hamstring. Trevor Lawrence is dealing with a shoulder issue.

They don't know what the hell it is. And I'm telling us right now at this point, they're saying that he might need shoulder surgery. And if you play for the Jacksonville Jack, he got hurt in the Eagles game, by the way.

And this is his non throwing shoulder. If you're playing for the Jags, and you have a record of two and seven, and your shoulder hurts, and it hurts enough for you to have a conversation about whether or not you're going to play. Why bother? Why bother? This is a Trevor Lawrence who this past offseason signed a $55 million contract extension. If everybody else in professional sports can just get paid to rehab, why can't you like it? You already have to discuss surgery.

Is it worth pushing it that much? Jacksonville Jaguars have lost two out of three games. They got a record of two and seven on the year.

Philly just beat them 28 to 23. That's where Trevor Lawrence hurt his shoulder. And on the season, nothing too spectacular.

2000 yards passing, 11 touchdowns, six interceptions. The Jaguars are not even worth watching. They don't stop anybody on defense.

They can barely score. And you think about Trevor Lawrence. This was a guy drafted out of Clemson who was expected to take the team to new heights. Not the easiest thing to do when Urban Meyer is your head coach. Not easy to do when you're shuffling through offensive coordinators like, like people shuffle through underwear.

But the fact is Trevor Lawrence has been a disappointment coming out of Clemson. And this past Sunday after he hurt his shoulder, he said, you know what? I'm a football player. You damn right. I'm going to go out there and try to play. That's the goal. I'm doing everything I can to be out there. Um, you know, like it's in the past and I've gotten banged up in the past.

I just try to do everything I can during the week to prepare myself to play Sunday and just put as much time as possible into that and getting healthy. So that's, that's the way my, my mind is right now. We know man had that ankle injury last year. It's this, uh, it seems like it's always something right now with Trevor Lawrence, but you know what this means? If Trevor Lawrence goes down, the starting quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars is a Bill Belichick favorite. It's Mac Jones.

Yeah. Mac Jones, who was originally from Jacksonville, Florida, the man who played out in Alabama, the man who drove Bill Belichick crazy with his turnovers. Mac Jones is going to get that started.

You know, he's going to look at this as an, as an audition. Mac Jones just last year, final year with the new England Patriots, 10 touchdowns to 12 interceptions. Now I know damn well Bill Belichick is probably still mad at Nick Saban and if there were a return label for Mac Jones, he would have sent his ass back. And so now Mac Jones gets an opportunity to, to let the NFL know, Hey, I'm one of these guys. I'm, I'm in the mix. I should be in the mix to be a starter. They're taking on the Minnesota Vikings.

And I mean, what better example of, Hey, look at me. I need to be a starter than the current starter for the Minnesota Vikings and, and Sam Darnold. Like we got a lot of backup quarterbacks, guys who got to take a seat, who got to get a chance. They eventually get a chance. And Geno Smith getting a chance. They told him to sit his ass down. Jameis Winston, he's getting a chance. I don't know if they ever told him to sit out.

He just turned the ball over a lot. And then you got Sam Darnold and who knows if JJ McCarthy was healthy, would Sam Darnold still be leading the charge now? Would he have ceded the job to JJ McCarthy by now? We'll find out.

We'll find out and we will see soon enough. Mac Jones, Jacksonville's finest. I'm sure Jacksonville Jaguar fans, all five of them are excited to see this Mac Jones yesterday. He said, you know what?

If they call me, I'll be ready. Yeah. I think that's part of your job as an NFL quarterback. And, um, fortunately we learned from a lot of different ways and some of that's getting reps. Some of that's just in the film room and I've been fortunate to watch from the side for the past, you know, eight, nine games. So it's been good for me. I've learned a lot. I've learned, you know, how the receivers move, how the office lines blocking our scheme, you know, how Trevor is distributing the ball.

So it's been a good learning experience for me and I think it'll help me down the road. Wow. Hickey, I gotta say, not that he sounds over the moon, not that he is overly optimistic. He sounds like Bill Belichick isn't breathing down his neck as he speaks, which has to be a nice luxury, right? When you can speak, I mean, I don't say freely, right? He's not speaking freely there, but speak less afraid. We'll say the way that Mac Jones spoke with the New England Patriots, it was as if Bill Belichick was on the other side of a camera or the other side of the room and had like a paddle or belt. And if he said the wrong thing that he's just going to beat him. He sounds like a normal human being.

I know he's going to sound miserable, likely after the Minnesota Vikings light him up. Uh, Hickey, you're going to take Mac Jones on Sunday and like fantasy, maybe you should take him on prize picks. Try to make me lose money? I thought we were friends. Oh, you don't believe in Mac Jones? Hell no.

Do you? Nah, I'm with Belichick. Nick Saban, did Belichick owe him money or something? Why he send that guy up to him for?

Speaking of, speaking of afraid, I mean, imagine going from Saban to Belichick, talk about, you know, always feeling like someone's looking at you, making sure you're saying the right thing. Ratport, two guys who hate the media and now they hate the media so damn much they're in the media and doing good at it. Well, I might add, are they hypocrites? Some people are saying, are they hypocrites? Do you do all that? That chatting against the media and this and that.

And then you just take the check. Hypocrites. Do you think if Bill Belichick returns to coaching next year, a media member calls him out. Bill, you're so loquacious. You know, when you talk about the game last year, why now are you so angry again? On to Cincinnati.

But Bill, you gave more in-depth explanations last year. Where is that this year? On to Cincinnati. That's it. That's all he's going to say. Either that or he's just going to go. Just grumble and make some noise.

Inaudible mumbling. I can't wait. Can you imagine if he doesn't end up with a team? If he doesn't end up on a team next year, he ain't he ain't coaching them days over.

And he's not far away from Shula either. But I mean, can you imagine being out of the league for two years and some dumbass team just saying, well, I guess maybe not. If he doesn't coach next year, somebody will still give him a job. Right. At that point, he'll be what, 75 years old. He'll still get a job. I mean, I got you guys like the Panthers at some point are going to give him a run.

Right. Five years from now. Would he? I think there's like no more than three or four teams he'd show up to coach. You think he'd go to Carolina? No, I don't think so.

I'm with you. No, I don't. He's here talking to the Falcons. Where else could he go? New York Giants, maybe. I don't know. But they don't have a quarterback.

Dallas Cowboys. Does he want to punish himself? I don't know. Pickens is slim for Bill. We'll see what he does and what his next stop is once he finishes on TV.

Speaking of a next stop, I know where this guy's next stop is. His name is Bronny James. Let me look this up.

I think I know the answer. See how many points Bronny is averaging on the season. Let's go. Bronny James, probably a whopping 0.2. Let's see. Oh, he's averaging one point a game.

How about that? I mean, better honestly than I thought he would be at this point. I thought there'd be a goose egg in that column. Sixteen percent shooting.

Ouch. Sixteen percent shooting. He's only played in three games. Maximum minutes he got in a game last night.

Five minutes, 0 for 2. All his shots came from three point land. He has yet to make a three in the NBA. He completed two free throws yesterday.

Congratulations. The first two free throws of his career. Better than his father from the line. Ouch.

Ouch. He had 39 points last night. Give LeBron a break right now. Hey, he hustles. According to J.J. Rennick, he's the only one who's hustling. J.J. Rennick was mad last night. I'm like, damn brother, the year just started. It's four and four. He's already angry. Bronny's played in three games.

Has a grand total of four points. Well, we found out today Bronny is gone. He's not going to be with the Lakers right now. He's, I guess, being demoted, being transferred.

No, transferred is a nice way. He's being transferred to the Lakers G-League team. Their head coach, Zach Guthrie, he spoke and he says, you know what? Bronny James being here.

He's just like everybody else. Okay. Yeah, right. The conversations with Bronny are just like the conversations with Maxwell and with Jalen, with Quincy, with Armel and with Christian. Right.

It's the same thing. We're a process oriented group. All right. So whenever whenever that time comes for Bronny to be on the team, just like it is with Maxwell and, you know, Jalen, we want to be process oriented and really focus on don't worry about the results. Don't worry about what happens.

Can you do the things that I was just talking about Jalen and Maxwell doing? Right. You have the institutional knowledge.

You've been here all summer. You've been working your tail off. So let's just lead. Be a leader by example. Play hard. You know, play within the system and do what you've done your whole career.

Right. Just have fun and play basketball. That's what all these guys are doing.

Embrace the process and enjoy the bigger opportunity you'll have. Man, Bronny, Bronny James is not like, why are we going to act like that? Is everything with Bronny James going to come across as a sham? Like the last thing anybody needs to tell anyone is that Bronny James is just going to be treated and coached like everybody. He's not. I don't think other people's daddies are playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't think anybody else has the wherewithal to make a call and go, hey, it's time to bring him back.

Like that's that's not the case. I'm pretty sure Bronny is going to fit in and just quote unquote be one of the guys. But LeBron James is his dad. And we knew that this was pretty much the story and the formula from the Lakers to begin with. They threw Bronny on the court. They got it over with. Unfortunately, right now, today, he's not an NBA player. They just finish up their road trip where last night they lost to the Memphis Grizzlies 131 to 114.

And now they head back home tomorrow and taking on Philadelphia. It's time for Bronny to, I don't know, fall out the nest and spread those wings and just fly and see how good he can get. I don't know when the hell he's coming back. Hickey, when do we see Bronny back on the Lakers? You think we see him back for the holidays?

They got to have him out there for like a Christmas game or something, right? Please. Why? For what?

I don't know. Families to watch, Bronny and LeBron? Families. Family conversation, right? Good conversation. Realistically assuming, right, no injuries or catastrophic injuries, but they just need bodies. I would say, I mean, realistically, never. Crap.

Damn, bro. You got to have Bronny back for the Christmas game. The Lakers are going to, this should be a good one. If Anthony Davis is healthy, if LeBron is healthy, uh, it's a, they take on the warriors.

That'd be a good one. Lakers at warriors Christmas. I watched that. I mean, I guess if the war is up by 40, someone's got to play right in the fourth quarter. You know what? I might be sleep by that game.

To be honest. Is that the late game? No, it's probably like a five o'clock game. Eight PM Eastern, bro. Okay.

Yeah. Five o'clock on the West coast. I'll be sleep by that.

And Hickey, I will have probably eaten everything imaginable up until that point. You an eggnog kind of guy? Will you get into that around the holidays? Coquito. No.

Oh, I've never heard of that, but it sounds, it sounds interesting. Take you to a Puerto Rican's house. We'll have some coquito. I'll bring you some. All right. I'm in.

I'm in. It's good. It's rum, man. We'll get you some. Oh, that sounds like can keep you up for a while or not. You drink enough. You want to go to sleep?

Nope. Got to get some coquito. I get at my, my brother Ray gets some coquito. I'll make sure you get some Hickey. I'll find some for you. Okay.

That's why you're a good guy, Jr. You're good in my book. Yeah. Well we got to get you some, uh, ox tail.

Remember? Not at the same time though. I don't know.

Ox tail and uh, and coquito. They don't, they don't go together. That sounds like a dangerous combo. Yeah. It's not, not good. It's separate days.

Separate days. It's the Jr sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Uh, good luck to Bronny James and the G League. I hope that he, uh, I hope that he performs well.

Good luck to him and good luck to Trevor Lawrence as they evaluate his shoulder and trying to see if they want to cut them open and fix them. We'll find out sooner than later. It's the Jr sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. When we come back from break, it's Thursday, Thursday night football. We got the Bengals and we got the Ravens. This is going to be a good one. We'll talk about it. Don't move.