Dallas Drama Continues (Hour 3)

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Mike Tyson, Jake Paul, this Friday, November 15th, sometime around, I don't know, 10, 11 p.m. Eastern time. Okay. I found out what it is.

I know this is drilled into my brain. Even though that is perfectly timed with the end of our show. Yes. I have no interest. Oh, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to watch. Do you have a rooting interest? Like, do you want to see one side win over the other?

Yeah. I want to see Mike Tyson beat the hell out of this fake boxer unless Mike Tyson is going to take a dive or Mike Tyson is too old. You know, I am with you. Hope he wins. I'm a little worried.

Like, that's, I guess, maybe what it is. Like, I don't want to see Jake Paul win because I don't want to have him now walk around thinking he's this big, tough boxer. I beat Mike Tyson.

Look at me. Part of him probably would, right? Little, not even a little ego. He, he's a showman. He's an entertainer. I mean, Mike Tyson is 58 years old.

With ulcers, amongst other health issues. He looks good physically. You know, I don't think you lose that muscle memory.

And so he looks good in the snippets that you see. But I read, I read up about the fight. This is going to be eight rounds.

I think it's two minutes each round. No headgear. And this Jake Paul is a pretty big dude. Not to say he's going to take a beating from Mike Tyson, but you know, what can he, I mean, can he stand there and is Mike Tyson going to tie himself out? This is, this is a slapstick, you know, what show.

And so it could really do, do anything. I don't know, man. This is, how do you think this ends and some type of stupid controversy, right? I would assume yes. Maybe no clear winner.

I mean, I hope it ends in a Mike Tyson victory or a knockout, but I'm afraid it may go the other way. This is on Netflix. I didn't, Netflix is trying to get involved in sports. Is this what they want?

They want to have slapstick stuff on? I don't know. I guess. Right.

They didn't, they don't have NBA rights. Wait, wait a minute. Do we got an NFL game coming up on Netflix or am I bugging? Yes.

All I was trying to remember was it? Yeah, no, it's this year, right? Yeah. They got, no, no, we got Amazon. How to watch the NFL on Netflix, Christmas day, 2024.

Wow. They'll be a player soon. They got a lot of money. It's the chiefs and the Steelers. They got a game.

Makes sense. Two big fan bases. They got another game.

They got Baltimore in Texas, the Texans. I should say. Wow.

Oh, is it a double header? Yeah. Wow.

Wow. Do you even know who the hell are calling these games? Do we know? No. Remember they tried to get, was it Tom Brady? Right.

I believe for these games. And I think Fox said, uh, yeah, no, they wanted to rent Tom. Hey, we got Tom in the booth here.

Quick game. Now that, now that we've heard Tom Brady, is there anything worth a damn of us listening to? No. I feel like every game that Tom Brady calls is a blowout. Is that true? He calls a lot of Cowboys games.

Oh my God. Was he on? Not been very competitive. Was he on that call yesterday for the Eagles and Cowboys?

He was not, you know, he actually had a good game yesterday. What did he call? Buccaneers, uh, 49ers.

Ah, okay. Deebo Samuel smacked my own team game, huh? The only thing I saw come out of that from Tom Brady was him breaking down one of the sideline guys that was holding the shade.

Excuse me? Game is in Tampa, hot, sunny, right? So both teams on both sidelines, I guess by NFL rules, you can't build like basically a shelter. You can't build like a little hut to keep your players in the shade. So you have to have like, you know, basically ball boys or water boys hold like a shade.

You hold it. So Tom Brady was basically breaking that down in the broadcast of, you know, these are the guys that hold the shade. And then when the offense on the field, they hear defense on the field, they're there. That was the only thing I saw from Tommy. He hasn't had a signature moment at all yet, huh?

No. And it's a little surprising considering, again, all the experience he's had, right? He's basically lived every situation.

Tom, people would love to hear, Hey, what would you do in this situation? Nothing. Maybe it's because the games he calls sucks. The Cowboys. I mean, maybe that's why.

Maybe. I know he was happy. He wasn't on that garbage game that we saw with the Eagles and the Cowboys. I had that game on in the background.

Every time I looked up, something disastrous was happening, happening. I saw the replays, a CD lamb losing the ball in the sun and CD lamb is saying after the game, yeah, I'd like a shade. It'd be nice if we had a shade and Jerry Jones is, you know, I don't even know what to call him. He's being cantankerous. Yeah. Let's rip the whole stadium down and build some blondes. It's just, the Cowboys are stupid.

They're the worst soap opera, just knowing the man. Listen, this is CD lamb saying, yeah, I ain't see the ball because the sun was in my eyes. Couldn't see the ball.

Couldn't see the ball at all. Yes. 1000%. I mean, y'all doing my job right now. He said, yeah, yo, yo, he knows about it. Yeah.

I'd like some curtains. Oh my goodness. Jerry Jones is just like, blame the head coach.

He says, everybody knows the hickey. Was that not the most, uh, that's the most, the coach is a dumb ass thing ever. When Jerry Jones said, Hey, everybody knows the conditions.

Jerry Jones is being a jerk without being a jerk. Absolutely. And he is willing to make any excuse possible to leave that window open for, I mean, it's not a long period of time.

What is it? 25 minutes. Right.

The sun is blinding. Yeah. And for, so he'd rather have the window open for 25 minutes and literally cross his team and blame the coach for not taking the right side of the field instead of just literally having a quick fix of just dropped the curtain or pulled the curtain over again. It just highlights the latest example on a laundry list of examples of him not truly caring about winning.

This is just the latest one. Sure. But isn't it, doesn't it make more sense to just blame the coach, like use the sun to your advantage for the other team, right? Like advantage. You got an advantage.

Use it. Sure. But you can't control it every time.

You know, if you lose the coin toss, you know, if you could control the side of the field, you're going on every time, different story. Right. Correct. You're right. Good point.

Touche, touche. I mean, that's just, it's, well, we, we knew he saw what happened. His own player lost to the sun. He goes, yeah, not my problem. No, he, he wanted to be a jerk and say, well, we're not going to rip the stadium down and rebuild it. Okay. Whatever.

Oh man. What a dumpster fight it is. And then they asked Michael Parsons who just returned, uh, Michael Parsons was standing in the locker room and he was just asked about the, the coaching and faith in the coaching. And he took it as an opportunity to just say, look, I don't know if Mike McCarthy's going to be here next year. Uh, I'm not worried about him.

I'm worried about our players who have played and do a whole lot more than him. It was just, he went to the buffet and just put a whole lot of stuff on there that he didn't need. He was dishing things out that were unnecessary. Let me put it that way. Listen to Michael Parsons. You know, that's above my pay grade about if Mike is coaching again next year, but you know, all coaching side coaching, you know, Mike can leave and go wherever he wants, but guys, I, you know, I kind of feel bad for this guy was like Zach Martin and guys who might be on their last show on our way out, you know, cause that's what I wanted to hold a trophy for. Yeah. You want to win games and do great things with those types of legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. So those are the kinds of guys that I have so much sympathy and hurt for.

Damn. We got to put the coach and the players in the same category as to what they do. Obviously the players out there busting their ass, but why are you, why you got to throw some more dirt on Mike McCarthy while his coaching tenure here with the Dallas Cowboys is still alive. I think we all knew heading into this season, it was on life support. I think we all knew that Mike McCarthy, well, he is a lame duck.

He was going to be a lame duck. And the fact that they're not having success by the way, isn't all his fault. You think about the guy who's out there selecting the players for the Dallas Cowboys. It ain't Mike McCarthy. It's Jerry Jones. It's Jerry Jones and his, his lack of spending here for the Dallas Cowboys. This is, this is bad, man.

It's like, they've all quit. Dak Prescott is more than likely out for the remainder of the season. You got the star wide receiver who you just gave a crap ton of money to wide receiver. CD lamb is just like, Oh yeah, the sun is blonde.

It'd be nice if we had a shade. I dropped the touchdown because of the stupid sun. You got Jerry Jones. This is like, Hey, y'all are all blaming each other. I ain't got nothing to do with this.

Jerry Jones is saying we shouldn't have spent money like this is Hickey. Why don't they just all quit tomorrow? You know, kind of makes sense at this point. Just, just burn it all down at this point. Like, start over. Take Jerry Jones advice to heart, rip the stadium down, fire everybody, and just restart the entire franchise. That's what they need.

They needed an entire reset. Yeah. Wow. Oh my God. They're going to be like, and I'm not, not hoping or wishing not at all, but whenever Jerry is gone, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, a hundred years, whenever he's gone, I don't know. They're going to be like the Raiders Hickey. That's how bad they're going to be.

They already bad, but can you, or maybe, I don't know, maybe Steven Jones will be smart enough to say, Hey, you know what? I'm going to bring somebody else in to help run the team. What do you think?

No chance. You think he has the ego to do it? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. He has the ego of his father. I don't know about the ego. I think he thinks he can do a better job. He's going to try.

And I think he does have, there are some things you can look at what, with what he's done, his track record to believe. Okay. Yes. He's better than his father.

Maybe hopefully less delusional first and foremost has to be, can he be worse than his dad? What do you think? No. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah.

I agree. And maybe, maybe right. Cause what Jerry it's so obvious and over the top, maybe because he's seen his entire life, he gets sick of it and is vowed to himself.

I will never be like my dad playing people like that. And that could be maybe a positive here for Cowboys fans going forward. I mean, not seemingly and hopefully again, not wishing death on anybody anytime soon, but you know, at some point you saying this guy's waking up saying, I don't want to be as bad as my dad. I mean, if he's in the business, if Steven is truly in the business of winning, then yes. I'm sure he wakes up every day with that thought.

Right. I mean, can you not? I don't, I don't know. I mean, what is he the voice of reason that can't, well, I think a lot of people can relate whether it's a spouse, a parent, can you always be honest?

Cause you don't want to hurt their feelings. You think, you think his son knows that this is bad and it's dad's fault, but he can't go tell dad. He can't do that. Right. Yes.

Kiss his dad's ass. So he can get the Cowboys. Even if he told him, do you think Jerry's listening? No, I agree.

No. Jerry listens to one man himself. Nobody, not even himself.

Well, you got three or four different voices going on back there. I don't want to know what Jerry Jones thinks of. What does this man think about? I don't know.

What is it? Seven o'clock local time. He's probably eating dinner somewhere right now.

Huh? Getting fed grapes. No, he's getting ready. He's getting ready. He might be in Los Angeles. I know that's his favorite. He helped put the team there. I don't know.

Maybe he's in LA, whatever. Dallas Cowboys are awful. And it just, it stinks that there is a, there's, there's no hope. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. You want to talk about no hope. Things are so bad right now in Chicago that people are looking at Eber flus and they were yelling at him to be fired yesterday after the Chicago Bears couldn't score a touchdown to save their lives.

You want to talk about ruin? Kayla Williams is supposed to be the future. And man, they may have to start over next year, not with Kayla Williams gone, but with a new head coach, a new offensive coordinator.

And what a way to set them up for failure right out of the gate. We're going to talk about the Chicago Bears on the other side of the break. We're going to get into some of these teams and what their NFL chances, what their NFL chances are.

We're going to talk about what their NFL draft chances might look like to end up with the first overall pick. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Well, Monday night football, it just started. We already have a score on the board. Malik Washington with an 18 yard rush for the dolphins. Extra point is good. The Miami dolphins now lead the Rams seven to nothing. Five plays, 70 yard drive. Only three minutes have gone by.

There's still plenty of time. We'll keep you up to date on Monday night football as it continues on the dolphins already off to a seven to nothing lead. We're getting ready to talk about another bad team in the Chicago bears. We just talked about the Dallas Cowboys. We got players complaining about the sun. We got Michael Parsons making comments about Mike McCarthy and then Hickey, you got to be kidding me. You showed me this photo in the break. They made a joke at Mike McCarthy's press conference today about the sun.

Oh, they oh they did. They can't afford to put curtains or maybe not for don't want to put curtains in the stadium despite their players literally begging for it and being blinded by the sun. But for Mike McCarthy's press conference at the star right there headquarters for the Cowboys, they have a sun blocker. I know what you would call like a little like thing or partition that comes up and blocks the sun when Mike McCarthy does his press conferences. Oh my God.

Yes, or it went viral today. He didn't he make a joke about it. He said, what is this to protect me?

Shade me from the sun. At least he's having fun on the way out the door, right? I was about to say like, yes, but if I was like, does not just make it like you're like, he's the one directly impacted. He's going to get fired in part because they got blown out by the Eagles.

I don't think they win that game yesterday anyway, but if see that makes that touchdown catch. Maybe it's a little closer. Maybe a little bit more respectability, but he we knew he was going to get fired before the season even got started. And I think I think all things considered he has not. He's been even, but he doesn't say some of these stupid things that we hear from other coaches like Nick Sirianni.

He's not panicking for as bad as they are. He has stayed so even like he can add to the the clown show. He could go out there and start juggling.

He could ride a motorcycle, you know, a tiny motorcycle. He can do a lot to add to this bleep show that is the Dallas Cowboys, but. He is actually probably the most stable thing in the entire organization, don't you think? Yes, yes, he does have a good voice.

You're not wrong. He doesn't put you know his foot in his mouth and say things that get people upset. Does he elevate the team? I would argue no, he doesn't detract from it, at least publicly in terms of you know what he says. But yeah, that's that's also probably I think why he's been around for so long.

I think we've had other. I think there are other coaches who could potentially just tank this and make it worse than what it is. And that's what makes it crazy what we heard from Michael Parsons yesterday. You know, he was asked about the job security of Mike McCarthy, and he started off by saying, hey, this is above my pay grade. And then he went on to comparing him to a player and Zach Martin on the offensive line closer to the end, much closer to the end than the beginning of his career.

This would probably be the end of his career. And he's just like, oh, I'm working. And he's like, hey, it's above my pay grade. But then he continues to comment on it. It's above my pay grade to address Mike McCarthy's future. Then he says he can go wherever he wants.

I think he would be fired or let go. And then he punctuates the statement at the end by pretty much saying, hey, Zach Martin, who plays, has done more than Mike McCarthy ever could. Why are we putting him in the same boat, one as a coach and one as a player? If you want to be clear, say, hey, I'm in the locker room battling with someone like Zach Martin. So he should have just left him out there completely, like the stand on the first part of your statement. And it wouldn't be, quote unquote, I think, as he said, misinterpreted or misstated.

What are your thoughts, Hickey? I'm with you in the sense of don't like why taking the bait? You know, they're asking him about the job security of Mike McCarthy until half the season ago in order for him to say something like that. And like you said, he started off the answer fine above my pay grade. OK. Or you're not worried.

Like there's so many stock answers. I'm not worried about that. We're trying to get better every day. We're trying to get, you know, improve.

We just got blown out. Not my job. Right. And then to say, I mean, the end. Look, I don't care because I've seen some people try to defend on Mike, a person said the end is the most damning thing.

You know, they've put in some of the players more work than Mike McCarthy ever has. Period. Stop if you respect the coach, if you like the coach, if you still play for the coach. Again, you're not answering that question first and foremost, but you are definitely not going as far as you did in answering that question and saying what you did the way Mike said it. There's no doubt about his feelings and really the lack of respect he has for his head coach.

Yeah, it wasn't fun. And then he decided to do what I guess every player does now. Go on his podcast to defend himself. Take a listen. This is Michael Parsons on his Bleacher Report podcast saying, Oh, my words were twisted and all this.

Listen to Michael Parsons. I never once threw or even intended to throw Mike McCarthy under the bus. Like I say, he's one of the most winningest coach. He is a super bowl champ.

I never once brung up his past. I'm in a question that was asked was about here and that's Cowboys. Did I see Mike McCarthy in our future?

And I said, that's above my pay grade. So never once did I ever intended or wanted to reflect on Mike McCarthy's career because I always knew it was a good one. I've always had a great relationship with Mike McCarthy and I never even put that in question. And for a guy like Rex Ryan, I just know he wanted to coach the Cowboys. Like, I'm perfectly happy that we have Zimmerman because if we have a guy that's willing to go on TV and provide this type of nonsense, imagine what he could do to a locker room.

Like, that's just honestly just outrageous to me at the end of the day. Like I said, man, when you play football, all coaching aside, and you can look at college, you can look at even the pros, coaches are, you know, their careers are way longer. You know, they can decide to take a better job. They can move on. You kind of see that a lot from DCs, OCs, head coaching positions, sometimes better job openings just open up. And you truly never know.

You never know how the dice is going to roll with coaches. But when you talk about guys you consistently going to war with, man, like guys that I seen, I seen Tyron and Zach barely can walk throughout the week, take a tour to all go out there and play. Yeah, but he's, it's your fault. You pretty much explained that you conflated the two. You mixed them up. Yeah, you were asked about Mike McCarthy and his job security. But you were the one who just started mixing up all the ingredients.

Why are you mixing everything up? Like, I hope he takes this as a learning experience. I mean, you know, what Rex Ryan says, Rex Ryan says, I heard him say that, hey, Deion Sanders needs to come and coach the the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, in the general consensus, the question what was said in the locker room, there was nothing made or presented indicative, asked about Mike McCarthy and his, his resume.

Ain't nobody asking about what he did with the Green Bay Packers. People are talking about right now. And just his response was just, you put it out there. As he said, you took the bait, like learn from it. And Hickey, I don't think there will be any learning from it because they would always it will always be easy to just sit down on your podcast for I don't know, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, and just say what you want instead of learning how to, you know, have that that discourse, you know, with with with a member of the media or anybody who's going to challenge you.

Nobody wants to have a conversation. People just want to run into their whole, I don't know, I sound like grumpy old man, but this is this is like social media stuff, you know. And this is almost like kind of even a bigger, you know, glance at just kind of life, like you said, people want to hear they want to hear whether it's true or not. People want to believe what they want to believe. And in the case of Micah Parsons, he wants to believe that he said nothing wrong. So he'll use his platform to defend himself. Even though again, I think we all heard what we heard yesterday, there's no real defending what he said, or no ambiguity in those words. And I'm with you, I don't think there will be a lesson learned, you know, him and Mike McCarthy apparently cleared the air.

Also, what leg does Mike McCarthy have to stand on? What is he actually going to say that that can command the respect of Micah Parsons? I don't think much, if anything.

So that just sounds like more just PR BS to just kind of put the story away. He's out the door. Here's a better question. When do we get the podcast that we've all been waiting for? When do we get Micah Parsons and Draymond Green? When do they do a show together?

Oh, boy. Well, Draymond is doing football content now, right? With his new podcast. I can't keep up. I thought Baron Davis has now joined him on his own Draymond Green show. I think he has. Then Draymond added, I believe, a football talking podcast as well, because he's so well versed in football and I guess has so much time to just be now doing two podcasts along with, you know, playing a season.

Warriors of Thanksgiving? Eight and two, I guess. They're playing well.

I mean, such playing well. Has this football podcast started already? I do not know. I remember they announced it recently. I don't know when it's starting. I'm assuming, I mean, if you're going to do a football podcast. They can do it now, right? We can't wait until February. Yeah. Well, the fact that we don't know, I don't, that's either good or bad.

The podcast is so bad. We never heard anything about it. Well, I don't know what the good is. I guess you haven't said something stupid yet, like. You would think, ah, LeBron James should go play tight end.

You know, Kelsey Stinks, LeBron should go take over. I don't know. We haven't heard nothing like that. So I guess it's good.

And it gives me something to take a look at in the break. Maybe Draymond will go play tight end, you know, on the opposite side for the, the Bears. I don't know. I have no idea. It's so many podcasts, man. Oh, I haven't heard anything about angel Reese podcast lately.

I guess we got to wait a few weeks, huh? Is she still doing it in the off season or is that on hiatus? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I saw Caitlin Clark at the Knicks game yesterday with the Pacers. That was us. Oh yeah. Yeah. She was at the Indiana. Yep.

Good for her staying there in the off season. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, she doesn't take me as a type to, uh, I don't know, start a podcast and just talk about herself, you know? No. Yeah. I don't know what she even would talk about. Yeah. She does not seem like that kind of good. That kind of person. Good. Need more people like that.

Just show up and do the work and not get into crap about the talk. And she's making so much money just playing good for her. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. We're just going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to get into the Chicago bears and the disaster that they're in. I'm going to give you an update on some other NFL disasters. This teams are pretty much ending up in position to have the number one overall pick. Yeah.

I don't know if it's something that you go for, if it just happens because you stink in tanking secretly tanking. We'll talk about that some more as we continue on. 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. I need you to think.

Yes. Think O'Reilly auto parts for all of your car care needs get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly auto parts. It is the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Monday night football continues on still a seven to nothing score in Los Angeles as Miami has a lead here halfway through the first about six minutes to go here in the first Miami up seven to nothing against the Rams Miami with the ball looking to do some more damage right before we went to break. Unfortunately, we talked about the Dallas Cowboys would not surprising anybody week after week after week. There's a new disaster. There's a new controversy. Now we got to talk about the shades and the sun that comes in the stadium blinding the Cowboys players.

It's just it's a mess. Meanwhile, there's a team in Chicago and we were asked about this earlier on in the show. I'm specifically referring to the Chicago Bears. Chicago Bears that at one point about a month ago, they had a record of four and two. The Bears have now lost three games in a row. They now fall to four and five and how ugly could it be?

It can't get worse than this, right? They lost yesterday to the New England Patriots the final score 19 to 3. They have not scored a touchdown in 23 straight offensive drives. Caleb Williams was sacked nine times yesterday. That is not what you want for your rookie quarterback.

This man was basically fed to the wolves. The New England Patriots ate him alive. Let me remind you if you weren't aware, the Patriots also suck. They're worse than the Chicago Bears or maybe they're not. Drake made it do much enough and only passed for 184 yards at a touchdown and a turnover and interception. But the Chicago Bears at four and two, they were people who had high hopes for them this season. And look, they still might end up at or around 500.

But let's be real. This was always going to be a difficult just pathway for them to get into the postseason knowing that they were already playing in a ridiculously competitive division. The NFC North has the Super Bowl contending Detroit Lions. It has the Minnesota Vikings. I know even whether they win ugly or Sam Donald's throwing the ball away.

It ain't easy. Green Bay is six and three. In Chicago, let's be real, they have the lowest team on the totem pole, four and five. They ain't making no postseason. Not at all. And so yesterday, after Caleb Williams was turned amends me, after he was destroyed, teammates looking at him just on the ground, on the floor, the fans in Chicago were chanting for Matt Eberfluss to be fired.

It's Shane Waldron. It basically took away the play calling for this man into the future. And nobody in Chicago has no idea why they cannot score a point. And so head coach Matt Eberfluss, he was asked, hey, your quarterback is getting beat to hell. Are you concerned with that?

Yes or no? Caleb's strong. He's strong inside. He's strong outside. He's a strong individual. And he's been through adversity. And he knows how to do this. He knows how to get through adversity by pulling together. And, you know, he's got to pull, we got to pull together with everybody else, you know, too, you know, so it's important that we get that done moving forward.

Oh, my God. Hickey, why isn't the answer just yes? Why can't whether you're an NFL cultural player, what is so difficult to do? Maybe, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's because I talk for a living. You talk for a living. Maybe, maybe that's why I'm not a football coach.

But when it comes to some of the answers that they give, whether it's Michael Parsons on Mike McCarthy or you have a head coach, hey, your quarterback got sacked nine times. Are you worried about it? No, he's strong.

Like, what are we doing here? Why can't that the correct answer is yes, I'm concerned. He shouldn't be knocked around nine times. He is the future of the franchise. We need to protect him. He also needs to make better decisions. We all need to do better.

Cut and scene. That's it. I think the problem is, if he says yes to that question, he's fired immediately. Do you feel like you're ruining Caleb Williams with the amount of times he's gotten sacked? You say yes, you're out of a job. That's not what they asked him. They didn't say, is it your fault he's getting wrecked? No. No, but they're saying, are you ruining him?

Like, are the Bears, the offense, the organization overall, are they ruining Caleb Williams with how much he's gotten hit? He's fired on the spot if he says yes. Now he's probably going to get fired anyway, but what's a few more games? Here, now this is a better call. He's in protect his ass mode.

His fans are chanting to fire him. Matt Eberfluss was asked, how would you defend yourself? And listen to this answer. We have the men in the room and we have evidence of doing it. We've played some good complementary games in terms of offense, defense, and kicking.

And we've scored points a few games in a row, you know, and, uh, done a good job of that, you know, so we have to find the winning way and our winning formula to get that done. Yep. That's a guy that's going to get fired. I think you ever see in those sitcoms, the show starts off, I don't know, some kid is getting pummeled on the ground and then it's a freeze frame and then you hear the voiceover in the back. Yep.

So you're probably wondering how I got here. Yes. Yeah. That sounds like him. Like they could have froze the press conference right there at that moment. At the second, at that second, they pretty, you could have brought up a voiceover from like two months from now from Matt Eberfluss. Yep.

So you're wondering how I got here. You just do a quick rewind on what happened this entire season, all the way up until the moment that he, he gets fired. And there was so much optimism, so much hope about the Chicago Bears and what they could do this season. Uh, DJ Moore, DeAndre Smith bringing in Keenan Allen, Roma Dunze, Cole Komet is there, but you have no offensive line. And Caleb Williams is still adjusting to the NFL. This guy is probably holding onto the ball for too long.

And this is just a terrible elixir. You know, Caleb Williams has been tasked with going out there and just saving the world. You know, he didn't end up on, on, on Washington.

I don't know if things would have been better, but he did it. He had running around like that either. And so DJ Moore, a wide receiver in the NFL, who's capable of hauling in a thousand yards every single season, DJ Moore was asked why the offense stinks, why there have been no touchdowns in 23 straight offensive drives, why you can only muster three points of field goal against the Patriots. This is what DJ Moore said. I don't know, just the details of the game.

You gotta go back, see what was working back then and bring it forth now and run with that. So we have to be real with your size. What is real right now? Uh, we ain't moving the ball. Three and outs are happening too, too many times. And we get in third and long. Oh boy. Miami with an interception on Matthew Stafford.

Okay. Matthew Stafford trying to go down the field and boom, snatch the ball away. Miami dolphins have the ball a minute left to go here in the first quarter and seven and oh, they want to extend the lead, extend the game. Well, extend the, yeah, extend the lead.

You know, we'll keep you up to date on that one. Hickey, this is that time of the year. A lot of these NFL teams are just, they're just done, man. Cowboys are done. Bears ain't no bounce back in the NFC North. They're finished. Last week we talked about all the two win teams in the NFL and the Chicago bears just got beat by one of them.

Now these new England Patriots are running around with three victories. Um, I, I'm just, I'm a little concerned and maybe it's good for Caleb Williams. Uh, how do I say this? Better, better sooner than later, right?

Like don't hold on to Eber flus. And, and, and if you're going to switch things, just do it in the second year. But then it's going to be like another rookie year where he's hoping that he's not running for his life.

And look, that's why I think when you look back to the end of last year, I don't think it's unfair. And I don't think we're just using hindsight to say he should've been fired at the end of last year, but there were questions of, all right, you're making this move. Are you making this transitional switch from Justin Fields now to Caleb Williams is having a defensive minded head coach who by the way had to just fire his offensive coordinator, Luke Getze, who's so bad, by the way, the Raiders fired halfway through the year. Now you're going to trust them to hire another offensive coordinator and, and trusting him to develop a rookie. That is, I mean, Caleb, just by, you know, the hype and everything you could argue, he's the most talented quarterback the Bears have ever had already.

Like this is a big undertaking here and a lot of pressure. I think it's fair to question the judgment of, are you really sure that bringing Eber flus black this season was the best decision, you know, once 2023 ended? And I think we're seeing the answer right away is clearly no.

So I think you're right. Look better late than never, right? Don't, don't wait two years, don't wait three years, get it over with. I would've, I would've gotten over with yesterday, honestly, fire them right there on the spot after that game, same with the offense coordinator. But if you fire after the end of the season, it's still better, especially if you get it right, compared to waiting and kicking the can down the road. Yeah, I think they want, I think they want to maintain just some continuity for Caleb Williams sake just to get through this season. And so even I wouldn't fire Eber flus right now.

I mean, this has already burned. You got a bunch of months until you get to next year. There is no bounce back for the Chicago bears. The rest of the season they're over, they're done.

All you can do is just try to go out there and be competitive and hope that you can keep this dude upright unless things completely hit the skids. There's still a lot of the season left here. They have Green Bay next, not easy, Minnesota, not easy, Detroit, not easy, San Francisco, not easy, Minnesota, Detroit, Seattle, Green Bay. This schedule is one of the toughest schedules that we have left here in the league. And I don't know if just hitting the switch and getting rid of Eber flus right now is going to change things because they ain't turning their season around. You got to tough this one out and just keep Caleb Williams upright.

And do you want to rock the boat like this in this first season? I think it would even show you how dysfunctional the bears are. Uh, not a good look. I think a lot of people were drinking a Kool-Aid when this was four and two for the bears. They were not no damn four and two team. And now they're going through this stretch run. Look at the teams. They lost to Washington. Okay, fine. Arizona's beating up on people.

They get you into a shootout. I will still never trust them, but losing to New England. Pathetic. It's the JR sport. We show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll give you an update on Monday night football have the dolphins extended their lead. We'll tell you what NFL teams are in lead for the number one draft pick. We have so much more to do the JR sport reshow here on the infinity sports network. Don't move.