It is! The JR Sportbrief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Happy Thursday! I hope you're amazing. Shoutouts to my Uber drivers, my Lyft drivers, my Door Dashes, my Uber Eats This, my Dominoes That, my Papa John's, my Chinese food delivery drivers.
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He is in New York City and here we will be for the next four hours. This is when we start, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can always listen on the free Odyssey app. You can tune in on your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. If you've got Sirius XM, it's channel 158.
And if you've got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. It's Thursday, you know what that means. It's Thursday Night Football. We've got two teams in the NFC East trying to get a stranglehold on first place. We got the Washington commanders taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. This past Sunday, the commanders couldn't get by, the Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles were whooping up on the Cowboys.
And so we're going to get into that. And speaking of the Cowboys, let's talk about a former Cowboy. Next hour, we're going to be joined by Brian Howell. He covers Deion Sanders, former Cowboy, and the Colorado Buffaloes for the Boulder Daily Camera. There are a lot of rumors about what Deion Sanders might do after this season. Is he going back to the NFL as a coach?
Is he following his son? We don't know. I don't know.
You don't know. They probably don't know exactly right now, but we'll get Brian Howell's thoughts and we'll do that next hour. Last night, as I left the studio, oh my goodness, there was so many NBA players losing their minds. Giannis Atetokounmpo had 59 points against the Pistons. Victor Wenbanyama hit what, eight, nine, three pointers? He had 50 points? Man, these tall, gigantic freaks of nature just balling out of control.
We'll get into that. LeBron James too. He's the opposite of young. He old. Dude is like 40 years old, about to be 40 next month. And he's still just triple doubles all over the place. Speaking of old, we are about a day away from an old ass Mike Tyson fighting a Jake Paul, who I think is 25 years younger than him.
I don't know, 25, maybe 30. I don't know. Oh, Mike Tyson doesn't embarrass himself tomorrow against a YouTube boxer. I just hope that is not the case. Florida State is out here losing recruits left and right. Guys are showing up and saying, I don't want to be a part of this in Tallahassee.
You can keep it. We're going to get into that. Michigan is throwing a lot of money at a high school student hoping that they could sign him, get a new commit in. Dan Lanning, is he committed to Oregon or is he committed to maybe leaving and going to the NFL? There's rumors that there's some teams that want to bring him in. Speaking of being brought in, I don't know, maybe we spoke this into existence. John Gruden has a job, not as an NFL coach.
John Gruden is working with Barstool. Okay. All right then.
Okay. The Rays, Tampa Bay Rays have a new temporary home. Now that traffic in the field has been ripped to shreds. And then right before we basically came on air a little while ago, we learned that one of the best kickers in the NFL, he going to be at home with his wife. I don't know if he likes that.
I'm talking about Harrison Buck or we'll get into that in a little while. We have so much to do. We just talked about a little bit of you got a little preview. You got a little taste. It's like when grandma's cooking up that Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, you can't have the whole meal.
You just get a taste before it's done. That's what you got. If you want to be a part of the show, it's simple. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. You can find me online. I'm on the internet. I'm everywhere at JR Sport Brief, this despicable place that gets worse every single year, every day, every hour it gets worse. But I'm there.
Yeah, I'm there. And so is Hickey. Hickey, where are you on the internet? Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three on that despicable app that I will never quit, to be honest with you. I will never quit. You're never going to quit X or Twitter? There's too much funny stuff that is shared that I would miss out on if I did leave. My life would be the same if I never used it.
Not now. It helped me build up what I do for life now. But in addition to YouTube and Facebook and all this stuff. But if I never used that app again, Hickey, I'd be perfectly fine with it. Don't don't don't miss the memes, though. You know, the funny jokes like I will say there's some there's some funny people on that app that say things that you otherwise probably wouldn't be able to say.
That is that is funny. No, my my life would continue on perfectly fine. It'd be OK. All right. Well, why don't you why don't you start one? Start a competitor so I can use whatever the hell you build. Sure, I let you got it. Just give me like how about this? You lend me how much? I don't got it to bill two billion.
That should do it. You know, you better talk to Elon Musk. Go talk to that man.
Well, he bought it for 44. I don't need that much. I just need give me two billion. I'll get some smart people on it. The app will be even better, more user friendly. Probably the hate will still be there. Can't control that.
But other than that, just yeah, you like it a lot more. You're going to create an app for hating. Is that what you said? No. Well, you can't get rid of the hate to get rid of the hate.
No one's going to be on there. No. So you're going to create a hate app. OK. No, not directly. But just if that's, you know, that's what happens and that's what happens.
What can you know? Sometimes you got to sacrifice something if there's going to be a lot of humor on there. Well, sometimes you got to deal with the hate as well. If you create the hate app, I'm going to create the happy app. Oh, that's an idea. That is absolutely an idea. I think I have an idea what to do with the happy app.
I think I do. Don't share it publicly so someone could steal it. Just keep it private.
Let's not. Let's just say it will be for adults and no children. Oh, I just the happy app.
I have to have the right of folks. I could download that very fast. I have to round out what it would be on the happy app. But I'm going to do I'm going to do Twitter. But for adults, there you go.
Adults. Hmm. So you just tweet out. I don't know. Let's just leave it there.
It's a concept, concept of a plan right now. Yeah. Isn't that what? Yeah, I think I heard that. I like that one. I think I think I've heard that one before. I think I know where I'm trying to remember where I heard it. Uh huh. Yeah. I have a plan. I heard it. By the way, that's in the office, too.
But what in that line is literally they're doing a job interview and they go, all right, so what would you do? Well, I can't take my plan. I'll give you part one of the three parts of the plan here.
He had no plan. Spoiler, there's no plan. So I didn't just hear that for the first time, you know, two months ago at a debate.
Correct. I think someone got it from that show, which is why I think you should watch. It's funny. The next show that I do, I'm going to start off by saying, listen, folks, I'm going to be here for the next four hours. I got a show for you. Concept of a show. We will be developing this show as we continue on.
You learn more and more every day. But forget all that. I'm going to work on my happy app. Picky, everybody likes to be happy, OK? Everybody all over the world likes to be happy. I think I have a big market. Everyone, the world. Who's your target audience? The entire world. Adults. OK, that's right. Twenty one and over. Is that it? Is that the age? Yeah, why not?
Well, I mean, I guess you can lower it if you want to. I don't know about that. Not Puff Daddy. OK, not Puff Daddy. A good idea. Twenty one and over.
And some countries do all types of stuff, but got nothing to do with nothing over here anyway. Speaking of happy, someone who is not happy right now. You got three to four weeks to get happy is Harrison Butger of the Kansas City Chiefs, and we're going to get into the football matchup tonight. Philadelphia Eagles in Washington, that's going to be a good one. But if you really want to think about what might be the game so far of the season on Sunday, we have the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Buffalo Bills.
Now, this is a matchup that you see in the postseason. And typically what happens is the Buffalo Bills play the Chiefs close and then the Chiefs end up whooping that ass. I mean, three out of the last four times that the Buffalo Bills have been shown the door, it's been against the Kansas City Chiefs. Everybody tries to get over that hump.
Everybody tries to get over that mountain. Buffalo Bills are going to have to try to do it on Sunday without Harrison Butger. Yeah, he's been one of the best kickers in the NFL.
You can consider this man to be a secret weapon for the Kansas City Chiefs. It allows their head coach Andy Reid to be a little bit more aggressive as the game goes on. He's just like, wow, I want to punt the ball when I got this guy to kick it. You know, hey, well, I'm in a position to kick the ball. I trust this guy to kick it. Well, without Harrison Butger, who now has a knee injury to his plant leg, happens to be his left leg.
Kansas City Chiefs had to take the practice squad kicker off of the New York Jets. Now, I don't know if this is a bad omen. I don't know if you believe in Juju. I don't know what the hell you believe.
He ain't Harrison Butger. And so when you think about a game that could typically end via a field goal one way or the other, whether it's an overtime to win the game. And let's be real, the Kansas City Chiefs have been winning a lot of games by the skin of their teeth. They're blocking field goals. There's a lot of miraculous things that are happening with the Chiefs. So let me not call them miraculous.
These guys are working their ass off, asses off to make these things happen. But when you don't have Harrison Butger out there, you're going to play, you know, some of these some of these tight decisions, you're going to play them different. This man just this year has made 18 of 20 field goals. A couple of that he missed. His field goals are like 50 plus yards. Can't blame him, right?
Come on now. So he's going to be out at minimum of three to four weeks. Now, the question begs, he's sitting at home with his wife. That wife who he says her greatest joy is is being at home. He didn't say in the kitchen, did he? He didn't say that, did he? No, no, no.
He did not go that far. OK. All right. Being at home, having kids, is that what he said? Yes.
Bringing children into the world. Oh, my God. OK. All right. Well, good for him. He didn't back down on it. And so now he'll be at home with his wife and his kids.
Or maybe he'll still be at the Chiefs facility rehabbing. Hickey, when he gets home, is he like telling his wife, hey, come come rub my leg, get out the kitchen? Is he saying get the heat packs ready?
Does she already have the heat packs ready? Does he say a word to his wife? Does does he talk to her? Do they speak?
I would think they speak. I would assume, though, that she already knows by the time she got by the time he gets home, everything is ready to go. No questions, no demands.
It's set in stone, ready to go. She got a vacuum cleaner in one hand. She got a spatula in the other.
She got a baby on her hip. She got a she got a apron on, right? Of course, casserole cooking in the oven. Oh, they don't like casserole like that.
Never sound like it sounds so good. Casserole. Casserole. Do you don't like casseroles or the word? Both, honestly, like that's that word is so unappeasing and that's like, oh, yeah, casserole.
No, thanks. Have you ever had casserole? Yeah, I've had casserole. Yeah.
You like it? I mean, it's just it's a bunch of big stuff, right? That's it. You make whatever you want in a casserole. Yeah, I guess baked stuff. It can be good. Oh, my God.
It could be good. They make so many casseroles. You ever had a chicken pot pie? Not my family. No, I'm not. You've had apple pie, right? Not really. You've never tried it.
Yes, I've tried it. Wait, wait, wait. Are we going to have to revoke your American card? Here's a hot take for you, JR. Oh, here we go. Never had a hot dog either.
I have had a hot dog. OK, still American. OK, go ahead. Hamburger?
Oh, I love burgers. OK, all right. Go ahead. Go ahead about apple pie.
Go ahead. The crust is too tart. It's too like apple pie. There's no sweetness to it. The apples are tart. The crust itself is very bland.
No, thank you. OK, is there any type of pie that you like? No, no, I mean pumpkin a little bit. Maybe like no, there's no pie I'm dying to have. That's like a traditional fruit pie.
It doesn't. Well, my point is chicken pot pie, nothing different. Instead of instead of fruit, you put meat and vegetables, right?
Which is why I'm not a big fan of it. Well, you could cook up anything, you know, just like a casserole. You could have a you could have bean casserole. You can make a casserole with meat. You eat pasta.
I do. And what's the difference? Pasta tastes good. There's a taste to it. You throw a bunch of stuff in a in a pan and you put it in the oven.
Boom. What's the difference? One is one is wheat or bread and carbs. What's the difference? One is food.
The crust is the difference. Not good. What?
You can have a pie without crust. You know, if you remove it. Right. I did not know that. How?
No, that's not true. It is. And then you're changing the complexion and it's not a pie. Then it's like a you mean the edges are like the whole thing. Whole thing. Bottom. Yeah. Bottom edges on top. Sometimes you could take the edges off and you could scoop out what's on the inside. Come on, man.
What are you doing? I'm a picky eater, if you couldn't tell. And I'm a little stubborn. So I'm hesitant to try new things. And once one thing does not go well, I usually really don't circle back. Picky, I'm not I don't know everything.
But as far as I know, you live once. So what's the problem? You got to try stuff. I'm a creature of habit.
You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's why I have the same breakfast, same lunch. And depending on dinner is a little different because I'm here. But man, I already told you, we got to get you some oxtails, man. Delicious. I will try it. I'm open to trying it. Yeah, it's the oxtails delicious.
It gives you some goat, some curry goat. Yeah, man, come on. Off my stomach would like that, but I'll try it. See what happens. Yeah, you'll try it. You'll be fine.
It'll be OK. Sometimes, you know, I don't think Harrison Buck has ever had no curry goat either. I don't think so. I think his wife is making curry goat.
No, no, no. She's back there making apple pie, hamburgers. I don't know. They eating fried chicken in Harrison Buck's house. I don't think so. He doesn't seem like the fried chicken kind of got to me. I don't know.
Probably a chicken and the blandest meal you can have, like chicken and rice every day. Well, because he's a football player. He's a kicker. He just seems kind of bland.
He's a kicker. She's not putting no seasoning on his food. Nothing. Yeah.
Children are just drinking milk every day and broccoli. Nothing good. Don't go to Harrison Buck's house. Hey, good luck to him in that recovery, though. It sucks to be a kicker and your knees hurt.
That's that's real bad. He's going to be out three to four weeks. It's going to be real bad for the Kansas City Chiefs and for people running around actually going, what is this going to mean for the Kansas City Chiefs?
Are the Kansas City Chiefs still going to go undefeated? Come on. What? I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. Come on. Have you seen how they won a lot of these games? Like they're going to lose a game eventually.
And come on. Who's worrying about being undefeated? They don't get no damn bonus for being undefeated. They are eventually going to lose a game, one game, and the world will continue on. As long as Harrison Buck can kick a ball come January, I wouldn't be all that damn concerned. OK, the Buffalo Bills might win this game on Sunday afternoon because Harrison Buck is sitting at home with his wife and his kids, and they're all miserable looking at each other.
And good luck to the Kansas City Chiefs against the Bills. We're going to dive a little bit deeper into that game later on in the show. We're going to talk about the game that's going to take place tonight between the Washington commanders and the Philadelphia Eagles. Next hour, we're going to talk about someone who could be making a coaching jump or change from the Colorado Buffaloes to the NFL. Brian Howell is going to join us from the Boulder Daily camera to talk about Deion Sanders.
We've got a lot to do. 855-212-4227. It's the JR Sport Reshow here on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back on the other side of the break, I'm going to tell you where Jon Gruden is going next. It's not an NFL team.
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That's 855-212-4227. Just gave you an update that Harrison Butler is not going to be available for the Kansas City Chiefs at minimum over the next three to four weeks. He has a left leg injury to his knee.
I mean, depending on how long he's out, you think about four weeks, he could go on injured reserve. And you think about the Kansas City Chiefs, man, the reason why they're one of the best teams in the league isn't just because of Patrick Mahomes. They have a kicker that they can trust. You know, someone that they can say, man, you know, do we want to go for it on two or do we trust our kicker? You know, do we want to go for a punt? Do we trust our kicker?
They trust this guy. And now they have to snatch a man off of the Jets practice squad to now deliver kicks. And so we'll see if this has an effect as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Buffalo Bills. And, you know, maybe if the Buffalo Bills win, this is a little bit of a psychological thing. Maybe the Buffalo Bills take the approach, maybe if they win, oh, yeah, we did it without Harrison Butler.
I get it. He's just a kicker. But we all know when you got two heavyweight teams just going at each other, a lot of times it can boil down to a field goal and whether or not that kicker is used to it. Come on now, Harrison, but this is someone is three Super Bowl championships to his name. He's he's been here.
This man is he's he's been through it all. And we'll we'll talk more about the Chiefs and the Bills as the show continues on. I have to talk about something that that we we brought up yesterday. We played a clip from a former NFL player, Boomer Esiason, who's now the morning show host on WFAN in New York City. And Boomer Esiason made a point about John Gruden. You might recall John Gruden had to step down from the Raiders a couple of years ago because some of his past emails when he wasn't employed as a coach, just an analyst, they were revealed in an investigation that the NFL was doing with the Washington commanders. And people saw these emails and his emails became public because anything that you do digitally is not private. And some of these things were extremely nasty.
You can categorize them in regards to being a sexual in nature, racist in nature, misogynistic and racist in nature. He went all over the place. And so he lost his job.
He left, ended up suing the NFL. Y'all released my emails. I'm a good man. I go to church.
That's what he said. OK, all right. I didn't know going to church automatically makes you a good person. But either way, it was reported by Boomer Esiason that there are a lot of NFL teams that are looking at Mr. Gruden and saying we want to bring him back because without a shadow of a doubt, he is and was and has been a good football coach. We saw what he did with the Raiders. We saw what he did with Tampa Bay and beating his former team to win a championship. We saw what he was doing with the Raiders. Again, I'm pretty sure if he was still there, maybe they wouldn't be an ass team. But the fact is, in the interim, he started a YouTube show. He's sitting in the basement. He's talking about football stuff, because that's all he does is football.
That scowl that he has permanently entrenched on his face, etched on his face, etched on his face. He just is a football guy. What else is he going to do? And so, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. I said this yesterday, I would not be shocked if anybody hired him to be their head coach. Me, I wouldn't want to be in the room with him as a human being.
Now, having said that, in less than 24 hours, we got some words today. And I guess this would be appropriate for him. John Gruden is back with Barstool Sports. Yeah, he took the job, I guess. Bill Belichick didn't take the job, but he took it. I guess Bill Belichick is like, man, I'm back in the NFL next year. I don't need to hang out with these guys.
Gruden, he took the gig. And today, for whatever reason, he said he is nervous about getting together with Barstool. Okay. I got to be honest with you, I'm pretty nervous. Why?
Well, I don't know anybody. I just get to know you guys. I don't know what I'm doing, but I love it. I'm freaking, I feel the, it's like a man cave on steroids.
It's the weirdest place I've ever been. Golf simulator over there, full court basketball. Everybody loves sports. Yes. And that's what I love, man.
I love being around people that have a like-minded mentality. Some strange birds, man. Oh, okay. Hickey, when I create my happy app, there will be no man cave on steroids. No, none of that on a happy app. Okay. No, not appealing to you? No, not for me. No, not at all. No.
I guess. What is he going to do? He's going to hang out with these guys, these bars.
I don't, I don't know. What is he going to do his own show? Is he just going to pop up like Belichick? This is like a cheap version of Belichick.
Essentially. And I think he's trying to get back, you know, in the mainstream media to eventually get back on the sideline. His YouTube wasn't popping. That wasn't enough of a resume. I guess it was to end up on Barstool, right?
I mean, there's a lot of, a lot of clips that saw people, you know, taking it from what he was doing on YouTube. So I don't know if he thought that this is really going to, you know, kind of serve as a launching pad. I don't know. He's going to, he got a check. You can be assured of that. So he got a check. He will be taking job interviews.
I'm certain of that. And if he gets an NFL job, he will continue on. Well, he'll move to the NFL. And if he doesn't, he'll continue to get another check hanging out with the Barstool guys. So no, no loss for him.
I mean, what's the real big difference between John Gruden sitting around on his own YouTube channel or sitting down with Barstool outside of the exposure and exposure doesn't hurt anybody. So, Hey, I'm sure we'll hear some of his clips here or there. I haven't heard anything since he started his YouTube channel and good luck to him. I think so. Do you think he'll get a job?
I think he will. Coaching job. I don't know. No, it's too nasty.
Forget even just the emails for a second. You talked about it yesterday. You know, the NFL is not the morality police.
Yes. But like he wasn't good in his second stint. Like that offense was not really moving.
There was not a lot of like the prevailing thought when he came back to the Raiders was this offense is outdated. You know, he had a losing record. I think it was like 18 and 22.
I think it was from not mistaken was his record in his second stint like 500 in that in that break coming back. He was eight and eight in that last year than 2020. I just I mean, you look at his last platform was a Super Bowl victory back in 2002. Like he's dated. I think so. I mean, yes, I do. I thought he's outdated when he came back and was at 2018. And now I think he's even more outdated now is looking at it in 2025 2026. Yeah. You know, it's pretty it's pretty bad and sad.
I think I think he would have been able to turn things around with the Raiders. What is sad? The reason why he got the job and this is pathetic. And I can't I can't tell you what anybody said in the back room or, you know, maybe there's an affinity. And of course, there's an affinity for Gruden based on his old relationship with Mark Davis's dad, Al. Mark Davis is sitting around looking at him on TV every day and hired him.
Like here we have and this is just I don't want to call it incompetence because what are you going to tell somebody to do with their money? You know, what do I know? What do I know? You got Mark Davis was sitting around. Hickey, he hired Mike Mayock off of television to run his football team because he was on TV. And then he hired John Gruden to be his head coach of his football program because John Gruden was on TV.
Like, in what world does this make any type of sense? You know what it's equivalent to is Jerry Reinsdorf hiring Tony La Russa for the White Sox. Now, he wasn't as bad and he wasn't falling asleep on the sideline like Tony was on the bench.
But right, like it's incompetence where you're looking at it. You're thinking you're in, you know, in the case of Mark Davis, you think you're in like 2002. Oh yeah, he's going to bring, he's going to come right in here. We're going to bring back the glory days like he never left.
We're going to have success. Just like Jerry Reinsdorf thought it was like 1988 when he hired Tony La Russa and thought it was going to be immediate success. And that's what like a team hires Gruden.
I think you're going to have somewhat of an equivalent. That's great. Yeah, Gruden was on a 10-year break. He was on television for 10 years, 10 years. And Mark Davis decided to hire him as the head coach and didn't just hire him.
This is one of those deals. This is like what Monty Williams got with the Detroit Pistons. The poor guy, his wife passed away. He didn't want to coach anymore. They saw what he did with the Phoenix Suns. And they basically said, oh, you don't want to coach anymore?
You don't? What if we give you $72 million? Fine, I'll get up and coach again. He going to get that money regardless, win or lose. And the players basically responded to him as such. Here in the case of John Gruden, this man was on a 10-year television break, a 10-year gap between coaching.
And Mark Davis gave him a 10-year $100 million contract. Yeah, I know you haven't done this in a long time. You haven't done this in 10 years. So commit the next 10 years of your life. I'm going to give you $100 million. Just take it. Take the job.
The people are dumb. It's a coach, man. It's not Shohei Ohtani. Not what you get in here. You're not getting a player. You're getting a coach. Is any coach worth that much? You got to give a coach a 10-year deal? Players matter.
You need somebody to round them out after that. Look, the Raiders are where they are because, well, they're dumb. Let's see how much Tom Brady is able to turn things around, add some common sense into the building.
Just, just wow. Hey, good luck to John Gruden with Barstool. I'm sure there will be many jokes. I don't think I'll be seeing many of them unless they go viral.
And even then, I just probably read about it. I ain't watching that. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Speaking of coaches, this man, if he gets a job at the NFL, this will be the first time. His name is Dan Lanning, the head coach of the Oregon Ducks, someone who used to coach here in Georgia with the Bulldogs. It's Dan Lanning.
Does he have enough success in Oregon that he's ready to take an NFL leap? That might be the case. We'll talk about that on the other side. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We talked about Harrison Butger being out for the next three to four weeks for the Kansas City Chiefs. Has a knee injury.
Doesn't bode well for the Kansas City Chiefs as they get ready to take on the Buffalo Bills. Hey, John Gruden. He has a new job with Barstool. John Gruden, someone who's been rumored to be heading back to the NFL as a head coach as early as next season. In the interim, John Gruden is going to be lending his talent and his skills to the media company Barstool. In a few minutes, I want to tell you about a college coach over the next two to three months. Well, next two months, he wants to win a national championship.
And then if he wins a national championship, he might be moving into the NFL. And I'll tell you who that coach is in a second. The phone lines are open. That's 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Francois, let's call it from Dallas, Texas. You're on the JR Sport Brie. Show us up, Francois. Hey, what's up, JR? Thank you so much for taking my call.
And if you'll give me reprieve for a second, I'd appreciate it. Now, I called you to make the case. And first of all, I don't choke on the blue Kool-Aid. Cowboy fans are delusional. I don't like that. But I'm going to make the case for why Mike McCarthy should not be fired along with the staff.
Now, here's what I look at. They open up in Cleveland. They win. They come back against New Orleans and get blown out at home. But after that game, this team has been absolutely decimated with injuries. They've lost four defensive ends. There goes your edge.
No bland, no bland, all pro. You got Diggs coming off a torn ACL. Your backup swing tackle has been gone all year.
Right? And we can, Francois, we can go down the list. Michael Parsons, DeMar, we can go down a list of people that have been hurt.
Well, let me ask you this. Before the season even started, forget what the hell they did to the Cleveland Browns. Right. Did you have some type of optimism or hope that these Dallas Cowboys were going to make some type of impact this season? I was optimistic that they would be a playoff team because I'm from Dallas.
I was born and bred. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So, okay. So the last three consecutive years, they went 12 and 5. 12 and 5 playoffs and got the ass kicked out.
Yes. They got beat. And it seems like, and it seems, and it seems like they've lost talent from last year to this year, which is, which led me to ask you, you know, what did you expect this season? Look, here's what it is, Francois. Forget the playoffs.
Let me just get the brass stacks. Nobody cares about 12 and 5. Nobody cares if the Dallas Cowboys just get to the playoffs. I mean, at minimum, at minimum, can the Dallas Cowboys go to an NFC championship game and be competitive enough to go, man, it looks like they might go to the Super Bowl.
And the answer is no. Wouldn't you say heading into this year, the answer would be no? That they were going to get to the NFC championship game? Did you look at the Dallas, this is very simple. Did you look at the Dallas Cowboys this year as a championship contender? No, I looked at them as a playoff team though.
Okay. So whatever, who cares? They've been a playoff team the past, the past bunch of years, and a delusional ass owner is running around telling everybody that he believes the Dallas Cowboys are in the same pack as the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, where did they lose talent? Where did they lose talent, JR?
Oh my God. Have you seen, you see the fact that at least a serviceable running back in Pollard is gone. You bring it in a retread who's basically done in Ezekiel Elliott. They have to pull Dalvin Cook out of the cobwebs of the NFL running back room. Where have they added talent?
Where did they do that? Well, they're playing a rookie center, and they're playing a first round draft pick. Francois, that doesn't matter.
It don't matter, man. The fact is that their level of talent coming into this year was pretty pathetic. I mean, if you looked at the team and said, then it's just a playoff team and that's where you thought they could be.
So what? Like that's where they've been. And so what is your point when it comes to Mike McCarthy that, you know, he should get a mulligan an additional year because this team has been hurt. The team has been doing the same thing. The owner heading into this season has basically set him up to be a lame duck. He set him up to be a lame duck by kind of leading him along last year, letting him twist in the wind before he's going to come back. He set him up by not really doing a damn thing in free agency. He set him up by not having depth. But now you're talking about a bunch of guys who are hurt.
Who the hell is there to replace him? And he's basically crapped on his own head coach for more than an entire year. Mike McCarthy knows that nobody is the Dallas Cowboys head coach forever.
My head coach, the last head coach knew the direction of where the sun was going to be. Like, he's whooped this guy's ass in public forever. But they are. Let me say this. Let me say this hours ago. You show me one Super Bowl contender or a team that supposedly is a Super Bowl contender and let them be decimated with injury.
You tell me where they'd be right now. It's not about the injuries. It's not. The injuries have unfortunately hit the fast forward button on how bad they are. The larger issue isn't Mike McCarthy.
I will agree with you on that. The issue is the owner. And it doesn't matter whether Mike McCarthy should go or not.
The guy who hired him is a jackass who can't get out of the way. That's the issue. So getting down into the minutia of, well, the team is hurt.
It's not his foot. None of that matters. That doesn't matter. They were going to suck out of the way. Whether or not the Dallas Cowboys were going to be three and six and finish the year, I don't know, with five wins and 12 losses and missed the playoffs or whether or not they were going to get in barely.
None of it matters. The head coach was going to get blamed. He was going to get the boot. And the owner basically set him up this entire way. Because maybe if I put the pressure on his ass, then the team will perform.
No, you got to put players out there. And so forget the injuries. Forget Mike McCarthy.
None of that matters. You want to blame anybody? Blame the guy from Arkansas, OK? Yeah, I'd rather you get too much blame when you lose and you get too much credit when you win. Hey, story of life for a coach. This is how it is. So forget the coach.
Forget the injuries. Look at the owner. He's a jackass. Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, Francois, for calling from Dallas. Yeah, well, the injuries, we got to walk through every injury to go, hey, it's not Mike McCarthy's fault? Come on, who cares? This team wasn't going.
What's the, everybody been saying this? What's the owner of the team was offended when he was asked on the radio? Hey, bro, don't you think the team is bad right now because you didn't do anything in free agency? You didn't look at Derrick Henry. You gave C.D. Lamb a deal. You gave Dak a deal.
You brought back Ezekiel Elliott. What year is it? Oh, it's 2024.
OK. How much how much gas he got left in that tank? Oh, yuck. Biggest soap opera. Hickey, what's a bigger disaster, the Cowboys or the Jets?
Oh, wow. I would say the Jets because they're so like they are actually trying to win. I think Jerry Jones, first and foremost, is trying to get attention and make the Cowboys relevant.
So the Jets are trying and failing in the worst way possible each and every year. OK. Yeah. They both bet. Why don't they just combine?
I don't know. Is that possible? Not possible. Why don't we just get rid of them? Cut the NFL down to 30 teams. Get rid of both of those teams? Get rid of them.
The most valuable team in the NFL. Just get rid of them. OK. Do Cowboys fans a favor.
Pick a new team. This is when you really think about it, it's sad like this to me. And I wasn't trying to be mean to France, so I don't think I was. I don't think he took it that way. But all everything else does not matter.
It doesn't like this. Who cares about the injuries like he's the dude who put the team together. He's writing the checks. He's the one who's in the way. Got to sit down and do multiple radio interviews in the week when he undermines his coach.
Why are you talking after the game? Why are you talking like one voice? That's that's what that's what leadership is called. You know how to make money, but you don't know how to get up on out the way and win.
I always tell you, somebody who's in the room and thinks they're the smartest. And he said it. And nobody can run the Dallas Cowboys like me. Where have you run them nowhere, man? And when you did have success, well, you ran that guy out of town.
Come on now. Jimmy wasn't rocking with you. Did you know how to get the hell up on out the way? And here you are. Nice in his 80s, still don't know how to move out the way. And if you like this at this age, not like you getting any younger. Not like he's going to become any more lucid.
I don't think they'll be pushing Jerry Jones around in a wheelchair at one on one and he's just going to be, you know, the swiftest dude out there about running a football team. Come on. It's sad. It really is.
It's sad when I don't give a damn who it is. When you don't know how to move out the way, when you don't know how to get help, when you don't know how to read the room, understand the environment, he knows how to make money. There's no doubt about that. He's an excellent marketer. He knows how to sell. He's an excellent salesman. He's an excellent businessman. But when it comes to running the team, it's ego move, get out the way.
I have some other things to say, but I can't just look up ludicrous. It's the JR sport reshow here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. When we come back, I'm going to tell you about the college coach who could be moving on to the NFL. We're going to have a chat with Brian Howell from the Boulder daily camera. Oh yeah. It's not just Dion. There's another coach who might be going to the league. I'll tell you it's the JR sport reshow, the infinity sports network.
