Is The Bengals Season Over? (Hour 1)

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You told the machine to play the Infinity Sports Network. What a day, what a day, what a day. We're going to get into it. Dacta IR, Ole Miss trying to stay alive for the playoff.

There's even talk about Giannis instead of Kumpo moving on. Man, we got some good games. We got a good game this weekend in the NFL.

I'm waiting for this. The Steelers in Washington. Come on. The Steelers know what the hell they doing with the football, right?

Punch you in the mouth. Washington, one of the top scoring teams in the league led by a rookie quarterback. We got a rookie versus Russell. How about that?

So much to get into. Christian McCaffrey coming back this weekend. I told you about Ole Miss and the Bulldogs. Carson Beck going to try to throw the ball to the right team. Yeah, let's see what he does. Aaron Boone is going to be back in New York and we'll get to that. And then man, what a game last night.

The Bengals and the Ravens, they know how to have a good game. They do it all the damn time. We'll get into that in a second. Yeah, let's, let's wrap up what took place last night and then let's look forward to what we have going on over the weekend here.

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Now before I say another word, make another point. I have to ask the great super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Hickey, how you doing on this Friday, man? You good? I'm doing well, JR.

I'm ready to get disappointed about my teams yet again. So let's go. Let's have a Friday.

Which ones? Go ahead. Explain. Well, cultural is under the bills, so there's not much hope slash excitement there. Slow down. You got, you got hope with Flaco, right? Will Flaco get benched for Richardson for no reason? Oh boy.

Okay. Hey, watch. This is actually the game Joe Flaco plays well in. Probably tortures the Bills defense and actually wins. But it's like one of those, like, who cares? They win the game, who cares?

What's it going to do for their future? Nothing. You've quit on the season already?

I've quit on the season. Oh, okay. Smart man. I like it.

Smart man. Now, now what about you going to say something out of Penn State? No, right? I mean, they got Washington.

Come on, bro. Washington's a tricky team. You know, it's one of those classics like, oh, like, you know, they lost Ohio State. Hangover still there.

Air is let out of the balloon. Tough team with a record that is not, I think, indicative of how good they are. Maybe take it lightly. All of a sudden, now you're in the fourth quarter sweating a game that I'm watching on Peacock. I got, you know, people trashing this team on social media that I got to deal with. So, Penn State loses to one of the best teams in the country and now you're just off on them.

Done. No, not off. I'm just, I'm just, you know, I usually always get ahead of myself and that leads to a lot of disappointment. So, now I'm trying to maybe reverse that this week and be down going into the weekend and maybe my teams will surprise me. We'll see. We, we, we going temper, we going, we going to temper your expectations in the future. Try, that's, I need to, yeah. It's a problem I have. At least you're being realistic.

I appreciate that. And it's crazy, you know, as I said, let's wrap things up from last night. You know, once we got out of the studio and here you had these Cincinnati Bengals and I didn't think they were in control.

Now, not at all. I mean, the Ravens were losing 21 to seven and then Lamar Jackson woke up and said, bong, he had three touchdowns in the fourth. He went on that crazy run. This is why this guy's the MVP and the Cincinnati Bengals.

You want to talk about being over at Penn State. It's not done. Cults are definitely done. The Bengals are now four and six. How many more miracles do they have? I guess the Bengals are going to have to go on some type of a spectacular run. They're in the AFC North. Come on now. I told you about the Steelers. We'll get to them. It's six and two. The Ravens just beat them.

Again, twice. What are we doing here? Luckily for them, the Browns exist.

No big whoopty-doo there. So it came all the way down to the wire. Bengals now have a chance to answer back and win the game. Touchdown on the two-point conversion.

Sales open and then they lose. There was a holding penalty. Didn't get called. Joe Burrow got popped in the face.

Should have been a face mask. It did not get called. But we can't blame the results of the game on two missed calls. Let's be real.

They're playing 60 minutes. Y'all blew a 21-7 lead. Lamar Jackson did Lamar Jackson things. And by the way, Joe Burrow went off himself. He got to chase three touchdowns.

It's not too shabby. It's just a different situation. And even Joe Burrow, at the end of the game, he's just like, oh yeah, I got punched in the face. It was holding. Nobody cares about the Bengals.

Listen to what Joe Burrow said. Yeah, you're not getting those calls in that situation for the most part. You know, I feel like I've never really gotten those calls, so I don't really expect that.

Um, I felt like there were a couple that were close, but again, I don't expect those. Uh, yeah, well, when, when the damn game born, you put it on your own. It's always so easy to look at the officials, look at the referees at the end of the game. The referees cost us the game. We lost as a result of the referee. No man, you lost. The referees didn't give up a 21 to seven lead.

You did. The defense did. He answered back, but you can't play defense. Joe Burrow. Hickey of Joe Burrow played defense. What position would he be? Ooh, I would say like a ball hawking safety. Oh, okay.

I would say traffic cone. Okay. Not defending anybody.

Nobody. I wonder what he did play. You know, maybe he played, you think he played defense and peewee? Like he had to play something, right?

I think he probably played something until they realized how good he is a quarterback. And it's like, okay, this guy hurt. We're just going to keep on the offense. Good, good idea.

I like the fact that he didn't fully destroy the officials, but he kind of alluded to it. Good man. Don't complain. Not all the way. And I told you they blew the lead.

The bangles did. This is what Lamar Jackson had to say about what clicked to come back from being down 21 seven to throw three touchdowns in the fourth and ultimately win the game. When we get back out there, just score. Um, cause that, that defined the game really, you know, we just sitting out there putting our defense back out there and we're not contributing, you know, putting points on the board.

It went the other way, you know, the way we didn't, we really didn't want it to go, you know, so that's just us keeping our poise on points on the board and different delivery stops. Lamar Jackson, 290 yards passing four touchdowns, three of these touchdowns in the fourth had that ridiculous runway. He looked like he was going to lose yards and somehow some way he made his way all the way down into the end zone. The guy's a magician. The guy's a freak.

The guy has improved as a passer. He is a nuclear weapon on a football field, which is why I just want to see what the Ravens do in the post season. He said, coach John Harbaugh, this is like his chief cheerleader. I'm starting to think that John Harbaugh is getting a commission off of his salary because Harbaugh is just like, Oh man, that guy is amazing. He's the best.

What can you say? I mean, it's like, we have seen it before, you know, and uh, I just think he took that, uh, the game on his shoulders, you know, like he does. And I appreciate the other guys, you know, with him, you know, you know, look at the Tylan Wallace, you know, look at bait, bait, what he did, uh, Mark Andrews, the catches that he made in there, uh, Zay, you know, the catches he made the offensive line, I thought in the second half, the offensive line really did a great job in protection. It was really a group effort. I mean, um, you know, uh, Derek, the runs he made, those are tough, hard runs, tough yards, you know, and they're in justice as well.

Justice had the screen pass that got us going there and inside screen early. So, uh, it was definitely a group effort by Lamar. Lamar was the leader. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Follow the leader, leader, leader, follow the leader. The Ravens are going places. Good for them. If you're a Ravens fan, if you're in Baltimore, shout outs to you. You got hopes maybe that everybody could stay healthy and that they knock off the chiefs and go to the super bowl, right? Knock off the bills, knock off the Texans, knock off the chiefs, knock off whoever.

That's what you hope for. And if you're a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and shout outs to Kenny, the jet Smith, we just had Kenny on here. Picky was here two weeks ago, right? Yeah.

Two weeks ago. Remember at the, uh, oh no, that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Vince Carter won the dunk contest and Kenny Smith, he just said it's over. It's over, ladies and gentlemen. Remember that it's over.

I do. It's over for the bangles. They're done. They got Pittsburgh up next. Defense can't hold water. Offense could light it up. This is a crazy game.

Jamal chase had 264 yards receiving to go along with three touchdowns. He had basically what would have been the game tying touchdown, but they said, let's go for two and win it. They said, screw the approach of Todd bolts from earlier in the week.

He said, nah, no, no. We going for the win, not for the tie for the win. They didn't get it. And yeah, you can talk about penalties.

Yeah. You can talk about a ball and over the tight ends head. Oh no, they, they missed it.

Sorry. Jamar chase asked a question. Answer the question, man. You just scored the potentially game tying touchdown. Well, why didn't they throw the ball to you on the conversion? Were you upset?

What's up? Listen to the question and the answer. Do you feel like the ball should have gone to you on that final play? Uh, yeah, I mean, I always feel like that as a receiver, you should want the ball.

Yes. But you know, sometimes Joe don't see it and Joe can't see everything, right? You got two eyes, evaluate the defense alignment before he throws the ball. He has an idea. You can't throw one ball of four different guys and go, Hey, one of y'all make it happen. It don't work that way.

That'd be some serious magic. I would tell you, I feel bad for the Bengals, but I don't. I don't.

Not at all. Mainly because of the owner. He's a cheapskate. Mainly because of some of the awful horrific stories that we've heard about the Cincinnati Bengals. And it's not like I'm a part of the organization, but it's sharing jockstraps, paying for lunch.

These are professional athletes. You've got to fuel them up. You're making them pay for lunch. Hickey, did you know if you go to ice teas house, ice tea, Oh, if you want food, if you want a snack, Hickey, he has vending machines in his house. Really? Yeah.

Like, well, the ones you have to pay for Hickey, if you're an ice Hickey, if you go to ice teas house, Hey ice, you know, Hey, it took me three hours to drive over to your house. You know, um, do you, you got any chips? Yeah, bro.

Right over there down the hallway. Yeah. You can tap the pay on the side. Yep. Oh my usually right. It's the richest people that are also the cheapest. Oh, is that cheap or just inconsiderate? Right? Both.

Both. That's cheap. You have so much money. Hey, ice tea. Can I get a glass of water?

I just got here. I'm a little parched. You know, it's a hundred degrees outside. Uh, you, can I have a glass of water? Hey, we got the sunny right down the hallway. Okay. We got the sun.

I don't want to pay for it. Can I, I don't drink the faucet water. I don't care. No, the sunny down the hallway. Ice tea is like the Cincinnati bangles. You want lunch?

Yeah. I'm paying you $50 million a year, but you got to pay for your damn lunch. You can afford it. Hey, you need a jock strap. Who cares about your jock area?

Use the old one from three years ago. It's easy for me to root against the bangles. I don't care about them. Good luck to Joe burrow for being slapped and stuck together with a crap franchise. He went to the super bowl. Damn it. I guess just because of Joe burrow, the guy was completing 70% of his passes.

He's amazing. I guess because of him one day they'll get back. But for this year, the bangles are cooked four and six. I don't know about no turnaround this year. Listen to the great Joe burrow pretty much respond to being sub 500 and moving further away from the halfway mark. Listen. Yeah.

This one has been frustrating. It's high for him, but the lead he's playing so well. It's been your plan so well. You have the record. Yeah. I mean, if you look at how, how we're playing and then, you know, you look at Trey Hendrickson, how he's playing. Yeah. It's tough pill to swallow, but we've, we've had our opportunities. Yeah.

It blew it. And Raven's still got to get that defense together. Come on out on the back end. I know it's Jamar chase, but 264 yards there. Y'all better get that together. Y'all better be thankful that Kyle Hamilton has an ankle injury.

That's not going to keep him out forever. Good luck to the Ravens and good luck to the bangles. It's just not this year. This year is done. I'm sorry. It's the Jr sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.

Yeah. The Ravens and the bangles. They got us all started last night. I was going to say they got us all hot and bothered last night, but that's, that's the wrong saying. Don't worry about it.

Either way. We got more football and tonight tomorrow with college tonight with college and Sunday with the NFL and Monday with the NFL, the NBA is going there's so much going on and we're going to talk about it all and tell you about the game and matchup that I'm looking forward to the most Steelers and the Washington commanders. I'm looking forward to that one. Hey, we got some college football games. I'm looking forward to right Athens, Georgia is right down the road for me. Yeah. That's where the Bulldogs play, but they're going to be playing against Ole miss tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to that one. BYU trying to make some noise against Utah, trying to show everybody, Hey, your stupid college football playoff rankings are absolutely stupid. Dak Prescott wants to play again this year.

It doesn't give a damn about that. That hamstring that's falling apart off of the bone in his leg. We got a bunch of NFL teams that suck. You knew this already, but we have more this year than ever. Why there's so many to win teams?

I thought the NFL was all about parody. Giannis at that a Kumpo is not going anywhere for now. I guess we'll get into that. There's just so much going on and speaking of not going anywhere, major league baseball off season is here. And then we have some words on somebody who's a big old loser. He just found out he's not going anywhere. No, it's not Billy Napier. It's a, another coach and another sport.

I'm going to tell you who it is on the other side of the break. More football and baseball and basketball. We're moving towards the holidays.

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It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. No, we got some more NFL action. We're going to talk about the return of Christian McCaffrey. Oh yeah.

He's back. Must suck. Having two busted up Achilles and calves. Oh my God. All the money he makes. He can't just massage it out real good.

Let the more money things are easier. Anyway, we'll get to Christian McCaffrey in a bit. Talk about the Steelers in Washington and give you a college football preview of the games.

I'm really anxious to check out and watch, but I got to get this out the way right before we went to break. I said the bangles are done. They cooked this over four and six. They could turn things around, but who cares? Even if they make the post season, they'll get the boots waste of a season. We'll talk about some loser teams that are worse than them in a bit. I can't believe it. Whatever happened to parody in the NFL? Everybody can't wake up and just compete for a championship because I think we all know this.

This is not something that we don't know what to understand. Maybe you don't. In life, there are winners and there are losers. Can't win all the time. You got to find some success and failure. You got to pick yourself up and try again. Thank you, Aliyah. You got to keep going.

Keep on keeping on. I mean, I got a lot of song analogies, but I'll stop there. And speaking of losers, there's a team that just state they lost horrific fashion in the World Series. There are a lot of people hate them. It's the New York Yankees. Come on. And people hate the Dodgers and the Yankees. It's amazing, I guess, because of the markets.

Yes, of course. So many people watch this World Series and the Yankees fell on their face. Aaron Judge couldn't hit a baseball. Aaron Judge couldn't catch a baseball. And Garrett Cole forgot how to run to a base. This is ugly around Aaron Boone. He wanted to pitch a guy who hasn't pitched in, I don't know, almost, let's just say eight months for emphasis. Sorry, Nestor.

And they lost the Dodgers beat him with a Shohei Ohtani who also sucked because his shoulder came out of his socket. And so all of this to say this was two weeks ago. Hickey, was it two weeks or last week? I'm trying to make the pain go away. It was.

Wow. It was only last week. Get out of last Wednesday, right? Was it Wednesday? Yeah.

Wednesday night, the 30th, right before Halloween to catch in the spirit. Oh, my God. That's good. I got it out my system.

That's good. That is a long week. I mean, it's a little bit more, but that's that feels like it was like a month ago.

There's a lot of stuff that. So do we have an election? Was an election this week? The election was three days ago. Doesn't it feel like the election? I don't know.

It feels like the election was three months long. How about that? It does. I agree. Any more text messages? Anybody text you for money yet? Yes. Get out of here.

Now, the frequency has slowed down, but I've got like one a day the last two or three days. Like, well, this is not what we signed up for. It's over. There's no point.

What's the point of donating it? There's nothing else I could do. Oh, my God. I didn't get I got one after this.

The election is over now. You know, now it's time to I'm like, do what? I did what I was supposed to do. What?

You need more money for what? I don't know. I'm just glad. Did you ever get one with you? Yeah, I got plenty with my name on it. Not good.

They're all generic for me. Oh, no, I got my name on it, bro. Taking me for a ride. That's scary. Tom, Tom Floz.

Yeah, it's a lot of things. Scary Tom Floz, man. World Series ended last week. Election was only two days ago, three days ago. Tom Floz.

Well, let me tell you something. All the Yankee fans that were hoping that Aaron Boone would get the boot, that he would be removed as manager of the New York Yankees. Tough. He's not he's not going anywhere. They are keeping Aaron Boone. They are exercising his contractual option to bring him back to the New York Yankees for next year.

The New York Yankees. Let's keep in mind, because everybody always wants to fire somebody when they don't win the big one. And if you're the New York Yankees, ah, we went to the big one, but still fire the guy because he sucked in that Friday night game.

Oh, man, that was a bad decision. I give him crap for that. But I like Aaron Boone. The players respect Aaron Boone. The man has averaged 95 wins a year. And of course, yes, sure, anybody can do that with the New York Yankees. Anybody can go out there and do some damage with the New York Yankees salary and budget.

But come on, not everybody can. It's the managers that really, really suck. He's not one of them.

If you have a manager, one of the things that you want is for the players to appreciate the manager. People respect Boone. They like the guy. They're cool with him.

They're fine. Come on. He's going to be back for his eighth season.

Good. This man has gone to the playoffs in six out of his last seven seasons. So you can always second guess any manager. You've got to fire this guy. I always get a kick out of people say, oh, you've got to fire him. You've got to move on from this guy or this coach. What do you want next?

Oh, I'm Buck Showalter. You sure you want that? Did you see how things went with the media and stuff with the men? Nobody wants that. He's bringing a veteran, bringing Tony La Russa.

Did you see that man fall asleep on the bench? You want these things. Aaron Boone, yeah, this is what happens when you work for a good employer.

You get good results. This man has almost a fifty nine percent winning percentage. You can't ask for nothing else. How about this? GM meetings this week, Brian Cashman, Yankee fans also want to fire.

They told him or he told everybody he said, hey, stop the nonsense here. Aaron Boone is not the reason the New York Yankees lost to the Dodgers in the World Series. Listen to Brian Cashman tell you the manager job is so impossible. So you can play the game of second guessing because you're either going to make a move and it'll be right.

You make a move and it'll be wrong and then and then have at it. Right. So as I said, I think he's a really, really good manager.

I think we're lucky to have him. He's done a great job. Mm hmm.

Yeah, he did. You do a good job. You got to manage personality. You don't just manage the game. Got to manage expectations.

It's not just the X's and everybody's up for criticism. Come on. How about Garrett Cole, the guy who won the Cy Young last year? Unfortunately, he was hurt this year. Garrett Cole after game five, after the L, after the World Series completed. Garrett Cole, one of the best pitchers in the game, despite what we saw this year. He was good in the postseason until he forgot how to run to first base to cover it.

Garrett Cole said Aaron Boone. I respect that guy. Keel, you know, brings a presence. He's been there before.

And, you know, it brings a presence. He backs up his players, take care of his, takes care of his players. And so, you know, that's what you want to play for a manager. Yeah, well, he he'll be fine. Aaron Boone will be back. Everybody will be around. Let's see what the New York Yankees do.

I think more important than that. Y'all bringing back Soto? Hey, Hickey, you excited about that, huh? Steve Cohen going to get on the private jet. You think Steve Cohen charges guests for water or gives it to him for free?

I'm going to say for free. OK. You excited for that? You want Juan Soto? Oh, very much so. Very much so. He would look great in those blue and orange pinstripes.

Oh, boy. OK. You think this contract looks like, huh? What do I think it looks like? What do you think it will look like for this man?

I think it starts with a seven. Wow. How many years you got to pay a guy seven hundred million dollars for how many years? I mean. He's 26, 13 years. You don't give him 14 years, so he's 40 years old. I'm more than OK with that.

Oh, my God. He's with his eye ability to get on base just with walks. He's going to age well. He's going to age well.

Very well. That bat will not slow down for a while. And you're going to get a lot of good years out of him.

Oh, yeah, I think so. Hey, good luck to whoever gets him. We're going to find out if the Yankees are still the Yankees in regards to where Juan Soto goes. What's the number where you say, hey, we can't let this guy walk away? And if you do, how are you reallocating those funds to other talents, multiple talents?

Are you just giving that money to one guy or you spread that money out? One thing we know for sure at this point. Aaron Boone, he's going to be the manager for the New York Yankees next year. Good.

They need roster adjustments more than they need to get rid of the manager. Yeah, as simple as that. It's the J.R. 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're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to have a conversation about someone who is well, he's been gone and now he's coming back.

His name. I'll tell you on the other side of the break. It's the J.R. sport we show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. The J.R. sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Right before we went to break, talked about another amazing Thursday Night Football game between the Bengals, not amazing for them, and the Ravens. And then I told you in the last break that Aaron Boone is going to be returning as manager of the New York Yankees in twenty twenty five. You got to wait until spring for that.

If you're a Yankees fan, you don't have to wait much longer to see Christian McCaffrey make his season debut for the San Francisco 49ers against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Sunday. You do not have to wait but two days now less than two days to see this go down after dealing with an Achilles issue and his calf is hurting. And I got a fly to Germany to get, you know, treatments. I don't think what you think they did, like put electro shocks into his body. Something clearly not legal here.

You can't do it here. And legal enough to not get suspended by the NFL. No drugs. Hickey, Christian McCaffrey. Well, his family lineage. OK, if your last name is McCaffrey, if you don't look like a bodybuilder, then you you missed.

OK, you missed. You think this guy drinks coffee? He looks like I don't know. What does he do?

Definitely not. I think he just wakes up with energy. All natural. What is he doing? His dad, he had him probably lifting weights when he was three years old. Hickey, I bet he did.

Just like Mr. St. Brown. Oh, Amman Ra. Yeah. And Equinimious, his brother. Yeah. His dad was a full on bodybuilder. Yeah. And they talked about lifting weights very early on in their childhood.

They're out there on the bench. Oh, my God. Training.

You think about your dad playing in the NFL and he's just he has a kid. Hey, hit the weights, kid. Nope. No Super Nintendo for you. That control is not heavy enough. Nope. Go pick up the 15 pounders right now.

OK, one on each arm. Got Chris McCaffrey is a freak. Forty nine is a happy to have him back. They've improved their record to four and four. NFC West just looks like a gigantic crapshoot to me.

Well, not to me. I don't believe in no Seattle. No, I don't believe in no Rams. I sure don't believe in no Arizona Cardinals. They are ready for a shootout every single game.

I'm not counting on them. The forty nine is that they have what you call a pedigree. And I know if you look at some of the past results of Shanahan, it's like, hey, man, you go to the big dance and you lose.

Go to the playoffs and you lose. Forty nine have been busted up all year long. It's like, hey, you can't have one guy without missing another. Now, Brandon, are you out?

Come on, Christian McCaffrey. We could thank Kyle Shanahan for the news. This is what he said yesterday on Can Br. He will be back. I do feel good one way or another. It's been two good days. And I mean, I'm not trying to I mean, I'm just kind of messing around, but he's been awesome these last two days. So hopefully that continues to go and go well and, you know, expect to get to get him out there. And, you know, you never know for a setback or anything.

But these two days have been great and expect to see him out there. Hey, I think they about to go on a run, man. I still think that these San Francisco forty nine is despite all of the injuries that this team, that this squad, they're going to win a division. They got the pedigree, Hickey. They got it. I.T.

Big I.T. Could not agree more. I'm with you a million percent. And I know you just mentioned Ayuk. Outside of him, they are getting healthier at the right time, which you want.

Is this what the 76 is a planet? Right. Is this what they hope to have with Embiid and Maxie and Paul George? That's I'm sure what they envision. I think the 49ers have proved in a lot more. I think there's questions about these Sixers, even when healthy, their ability right to come through and make the clutch play.

But I think that's exactly what they're envisioning. Yeah, I believe in the San Francisco 49ers. We're getting ready to hit that stretch run. And if you think about their next slate of games, not only directly on Sunday, are they going to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who you want to talk about injuries?

Baker Mayfield has been lighting it up. Now he has to give the ball to Kate Otten because, well, there's no Mike Evans. At least his hamstring didn't fall off of the bone. And sorry, Dak. We'll get into Dak and his hamstring later on.

You also think about Chris Godwin, that guy. Oh, my God, his ankle. Hickey, is it back? They put it back together with glue, right? Glue, screws, whatever it takes. Oh, my God. When they put the screws in, eventually they are going to take them out, right? That's what they do.

I think you're right about that, which sounds awful. Think about a power. We talked about that guy, Operation Man. He's wide awake, right? He is.

Those eyes are open. Imagine getting screws put into your ankle while you're awake. Oh, my God. Oh, I mean, the doctor doing it, the power tools that the doctor into a bone.

Can you imagine? I mean, hey, people got professions, right? Can't be squeamish doing that job. People got jobs. They got to do their job.

You don't think there's an undertaker listening to us right now? Look, there's a there's a purpose for everybody, right? There's a need for everyone. Some jobs are, as Mike Rowe would say, dirty. Oh, you like dirty jobs? I did back in the day. It was a fun show.

I did, too. What's he doing now? Do we know? Great question.

I have no idea. Is he doing clean jobs right now? Time for a spinoff.

Totally pivoted. Hey, we did too many dirty jobs. Now it's time to switch over to clean jobs, OK? I guess he could be like in the doctor room before they go on the surgery. They got to scrub down. Maybe he's in there talking to people who scrub the docs down. Modern technology is crazy, right? It is somebody on the table, cut them open and saw them back together.

What a world unreal. It's good. Hey, it's good stuff, I guess.

Unless it's on the black market, then it's terrible. Good luck to Christian McCaffrey. I know he didn't have any of this stuff.

He has the best of care. They have Tampa Bay next. Then you have Gino. Give the ball away. Smith and the Seahawks. You have the Packers and you talk about giving the ball away. That's a recent issue for Jordan Smith.

The Bills will always cause a problem for anybody. That should be a good game. The Bears. The 49ers should be in there with the Bears. They should beat them. The Rams should knock them off. The Dolphins. I hope two is playing by then.

Are we not knocked out again? The Lions. That'll be a good one. Might be an NFC Championship preview part two. And then you got the Arizona Cardinals. Just knock them off to finish the season. Eliminate the Arizona Cardinals.

Get Kyler Murray the hell up on out of there to end the season. I believe in these 49ers. They'll be in the postseason, folks. That NFC West is nothing to scream home about. It's just nice to have one of the more dynamic players back in the game. Nobody wants to see the best of the best out. I mean, come on. The other great running back.

Let's see. You have Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley. I think between these three, if these guys are healthy, they are the top three running backs in the entire game. We saw Saquon Barkley go ahead and like reverse spin and hurdle a guy backwards this past Sunday. Christian McCaffrey. This man is in the elusive club for being on the end of 1000 yards receiving and 1000 yards rushing in one year.

Marshall Faulk, Roger Craig. He's getting the job done. And then Derrick Henry, he's the last of the whatever. The bulldozers. This guy running everybody over.

It's fun. Future Hall of Famer. Derrick Henry.

Hickey, did I miss? I mean, we got the mixins of the world. But I think they are on the next tier. Like Christian McCaffrey, Henry.

I think they're in exclusive territory. Saquon too. Absolutely. Because not only are they dynamic, but also consistent. That's the biggest thing. That's why Saquon too, you can look at him and say he lacks I think the consistency especially of CMC and Henry. But as we saw like you said last week, just the playmaking explosiveness ability to make anybody miss an open field. He's up there. But like those three guys and everybody else, like you said, it's either you lack that big playmaking ability or you just can't do it on a consistent enough basis.

No, you can't. Those guys are exciting. Hey, good luck. I hope that Christian McCaffrey doesn't return to have a setback. Nobody wants to see that. I want to watch the best of the best. I don't want to watch the next best. And the 49ers have hit enough of a jackpot here with Jordan Mason pretty much showcasing that.

Hey, I can come through and I can drop my shoulder and I can beat people up and I can move folk on out the way. I like that. And yeah, they don't have IU. They still have Kittle. They still have Deebo. And could you imagine a world where Ricky Piersol, just the idea in fact of him being insurance works out for a different way. They basically drafted this man in case they had to move on from Brandon Iuke because all that whining and complaining and social media boo hooing that he was doing. And now he has to replace him due to injury. Wouldn't it be something if Ricky Piersol, a guy who got shot Hickey August 31st, I think got shot in the chest. Imagine if he wakes up and he becomes a big asset for Brock Purdy. The 49ers, they're going to be rolling.

I think we might see the 49ers and the Lions again in the NFC, the championship game. It would not shock me any stretch of the imagination. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. And Hickey, you know, speaking of updates, we talked about this at the end of the show last night. Do you know those monkeys, those 43 monkeys in South Carolina, do you know that they are still loose? They have not caught those monkeys. Least surprising news ever.

I bet you by I bet you by Christmas there'll be at least one or two still around. No. Who's who's picking off monkeys, brah? Just owls? Will a monkey fight an owl? I don't know. Maybe.

I mean, there may be a few that do pass away, but like if you're trying to catch them all, like 43 monkeys all spread out now? Nah, come on. You think they left each other? Come on. Did I tell you a story about the bull that was loose on Long Island like two summers ago?

Excuse me? There was a bull where I grew up on Long Island, like a few towns away, who got loose. It took, I'm not kidding, one bull.

It took them three months to track this thing down and finally get him. The thing was on the loose, just running around. No one could find him.

No one, when they did find him, couldn't corral him. A bull? What was he eating? Where was he eating? How did he get a bull? I think they just eat grass, right?

I believe. Yeah, but it's a bull. It's not a, not a monkey.

Exactly, but that's my point. It took three months and maybe this is just a poor reflection on the people that live in my town here and around it, but it took them three months to get one bull. You're telling me 43 monkeys that are smaller, harder to find, more elusive, that could be up in trees, smarter, great call. They're not corralling 43 monkeys anytime soon?

Yeah, this is the latest at 12 o'clock. As of noon today, we would like to provide an update regarding the escaped primates. They have not yet been recaptured and returned to their enclosures. Current observations show the primates playfully exploring the perimeter fence of the facility. I guess they're trying to get back in.

I don't know. Engaging with those still inside by cooing to them. Alpha Genesis, the research place, I guess was doing the monkeys or whatever they were doing to him, is keeping a close watch on the situation while maintaining a safe distance at this time. The primates are exhibiting calm and playful behavior, which is a positive indication.

We kindly urge the public to stay clear of this area as they work diligently to recover these animals and return them to their habitats unharmed. Oh, wait, wait, wait. There's more. Okay.

A 550 update. Oh, what was it? As of this time, the primates have not yet been captured.

They are believed to be in the wooded region surrounding the facility. Damn, bro. Come on. They can't throw their food out there and bring them back.

Come on. The monkeys are smart, man. They're not dumb, bro.

They're not stupid. Do you think they've gotten one out of the 43? Bro, they said ain't capture no monkeys. I mean, none. I think if you capturing one, you got to get two.

You got to get like 10. Okay. I think they run it together, man. That's just sad.

I feel Hickey. I'm gonna get an email from Peter again. They're going to email me and Jr. Thank you for caring about the monkeys. You're damn right. I care about the monkeys.

I'm still worried about somebody opening up their back patio and he's just sitting back there having a cigar. The monkey back there. What's this? I like this. Ain't got that monkey on to back.

Okay. It's the JR sport. We show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Christian McCaffrey is coming back. When we come back, I'm going to tell you about the NFL game that I think this is the game of the week. It's the JR sport. We show so much more on the infinity sports network. Don't move. Don't stay away from the monkeys.