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He's in New York City. This is halftime of the show. And no, we don't choke in the second half. We finish the game strong, okay?
And we talked about a lot so far in the first half. College football playoff rankings have been announced. BYU takes a tumble, takes a fall. The Georgia Bulldogs, they don't rise up as much as you thought they would.
Thank you so much to Trey Wallace from Outkick for sharing his insights and what the college football playoff rankings might look like. We talked about the New York Jets getting rid of their general manager and Joe Douglas. We talked about the Dallas Cowboys taking an L. And as we continue on with the show, we'll talk more football, college, the pros. How about this, the Boston Celtics and the Cavaliers are playing right now. The Celtics lead 65 to 48. Yeah, the Cavaliers undefeated.
Now they've taken on the champions, do something, beat them. He cares about them being undefeated. Who cares? Hey, speaking of college, how about how about Oregon's old quarterback doing some damage in the NFL right now? I'm talking about Bo Nix. I think this is the first week that people are taking a look at Bo Nix and going, hey, look at this guy, MVP, Rookie of the Year. Hickey, did you hear that? I don't know who it was. One of the did you hear one of the Broncos say, forget Rookie of the Year, he needs to win MVP. Did you hear that? No, I did not hear that.
Someone actually said that for real? One of the Denver Broncos. I didn't see who he was because he had on sunglasses in the postgame and he was standing by his locker. I had no idea who he was, but he was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Forget Rookie of the Year, MVP. Was he trying to hide his identity and that's why he was wearing the sunglasses as you're saying that? I don't know.
You know, just everybody's a superstar. He had to put on his shades. You know, I get it. If you got punched in the eye during the game, eye is red, stuff is coming out of it. Maybe the eye is closed and put on shades. Why are you wearing shades at your locker at the postgame? Is he that cool? I don't know.
Last week after the Thursday night game, I was watching ESPN with Scott Van Pelt and he was interviewing Jalen Hurts. After the game in the Eagles tunnel at midnight, what was Jalen Hurts wearing? Shades. Shades.
It's part of the look, right? If the Terminator could wear shades at night, then everybody could wear shades at night, right? I guess you can see well enough. That'd be my concern.
I don't know. Guess you got to get bad sunglasses in order to see at night. We're not cool enough, Iggy. That's the problem.
And you know what? I'm glad. That's one of those things where if being cool is wearing sunglasses indoors at night, you know what? Okay, fine. I'm not cool.
No problem. Okay. You don't want to wear shades while you do the show? No, I do not.
Do you? Are you wearing shades right now? I have nothing on my eyes, no.
Nope. The eyes are naked. Yeah, just whatever. Just my eyes. I'm not wearing any glasses, no shades, no nothing.
Maybe it'd be better all this. What is this stuff called? Blue light? Blue light, yep. All this stupid blue light shining in my face.
Says not good for you. Maybe I need that, right? Get those blue light glasses. I used to have some. Do they work? I don't know. Did you have less or more headaches?
I mean, come on. I never really had headaches before. I definitely didn't have them when I was wearing them and then they broke and I have not noticed a huge difference, I will say, post. So I may have gotten duped, but they're like 10 bucks. So what are you going to do? I'm going to come up with something to sell people, okay? You know, blue light, nobody knew what blue light was, but somebody said that it wasn't good for you and now you can sell blue light shades and laptop this and phone this to protect your eyes from the blue light.
This is almost like copper fit, right? What did copper fit do for your ankles and knees? Did it do anything?
Nothing. That's a great point. Is that why Brett Favre was helping to sell it? Is that why?
Hey, anyone that's willing to give a check, sounds like you could use it. Allegedly, of course. Allegedly what? I said he could use the money. Then I said allegedly, of course.
He keeps trying to sue Shannon Sharpe, so I don't know. Well, he's got to allegedly pay some money back. Allegedly.
No, no, that's not allegedly. You got to get him somewhere. He owes that money. It's just a matter of, you know, why he happens to be in debt in the first place. That's a that's a different question.
Maybe I need to come up with a scam and present it to Brett Favre. You know what? You should tell people that oxygen is killing you. Why not? They need to put on masks?
Is that what it is? Sell some sort of mask that helps, you know, dissipate the oxygen and have you live longer. I mean, think about it. Everybody that has breathed oxygen in their life, has died. Wow.
Is what's keeping us alive also killing us? Makes you wonder. I don't know. Good. Hey, good point.
There's someone out there that I bet you they would buy it and you sell like oxygen. Do you, me and everybody associated with you a favor? Do not post that question on X, OK?
Question that out of the JR support for your show. A subtle debate for us. Is oxygen killing you? Is it good or bad for you?
Would you say no? I have a feeling if you put that on X, that will live for like five years. It'll end up on the dark web. This will you will hear this addressed at like in a White House media briefing in like three months. Do not put that on the Internet. Stay away from that one.
OK. Is oxygen a conspiracy by the government for population control? Take your calls next. It sounds like it sounds like you've been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers. OK, he's going to have plenty of time to ponder all these things when Aaron Rodgers gets the boot.
So let me ask you this one. And we talked about the New York Jets, but. Who quits who first? Aaron Rodgers still has money coming on the books. The Jets are going to cut him regardless and they'll save money. Does Aaron Rodgers say I am leaving willingly because I want to go?
Or does he wait for the New York Jets to pull the plug so he gets his money? Oh, I would say he is going to say I'm out of here because the writing's on the wall. They don't want him back. And he is too prideful to say, hey, they broke up with me.
I have to win this story. I'm going to say I broke up with them. I want out kind of like we did with the Packers. And they're going to Jordan love. And he dressed up as you know, I'm out of here. I'm leaving and I'm going to the Jets.
Screw you guys. I think we kind of see a similar situation in this offseason where he's going to say you. But you break up with me.
No, no, I'm breaking up with you. So I posed this earlier. If you're Aaron Rodgers, he was asked earlier this week after losing to the Colts, where do you find the motivation to win?
Where do you find the wherewithal to keep going for an organization that we all know is is going absolutely nowhere right now? I'm a professional. You've got to find the love for the game that you had when you were a kid.
Are you about to be 41 years old? Do me a favor. Where's this love? When you tore your Achilles last year, where's the love for a team that's not winning anything and that's getting ready to dump you? And the people who helped recruit you are now gone. Where's that love at?
How are you going to generate that? And matter of fact, listen to Aaron Rodgers this past week. Let's talk about the love and the motivation and how he finds the will to keep on going. Listen to this guy. I'm in my 20th year, so I figured out a way to do this for a long time.
So I just got to remember why you fell in love with this game. This would be definitely a week to clear all of our heads and come back and stick together. Yeah, they want to buy you. I would not be surprised. I don't expect it, but I would not be surprised if he retired. But he's not. He's not going to.
You know, let me change that. He doesn't want to be looked at as a quitter. I think if Aaron Rodgers could walk away right now and just be like, I'm done, I think he would. But I think to your point, just the same reason and reason why he wouldn't want to be, quote unquote, fired, released, let go, let out of his contract, cut.
He wants to get it first. I don't think he has too much pride to be looked at like a quitter at the end of the year. But I think he's I think he's going to take a hike at the end of the season and just call it a wrap. Do you think, though, he would be perceived as a quitter if he retires? I think a lot of people decide, you know what, that's like fair right now. Like like this week, like during the by where you're saying retire in the season or after. I'm talking about like this week.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's different. He would quit. You're going to get called a quitter. But if you retire at the end of the season, I think people say, OK, you know, that's fair. Time's up. Good career. Right.
Right. But I think he's I think he's making that decision now. And I don't know. I don't know what the reality is. Who the hell would want to pick him up next year?
Anybody? Like, think about who would want him. Every team is either like the Jets were a last ditch because they just they had a full roster, apparently at the time. They didn't have a quarterback.
And they said, hey, let's get this guy in here. I think every other NFL team at this point in time, they either, A, have their young quarterback, B, have their veteran quarterback, C, are looking to completely restart. Am I missing a franchise that's, quote unquote, looking to temporarily plug the hole? I don't I don't see no teams out there.
I guess the only team that could fit that bill, I don't know if they would do it, would be the Browns. No. See, and the answer is no.
Right. Like the answer is no. They just went through this whole disaster with Deshaun Watson. They're just going to bring in Aaron Rodgers now. I don't even think the Cleveland fan base would go, let's do that.
Like, I think they are scarred from what just took place with Deshaun. There's no team. None. Let's let's really think about every team in the NFL. Bills don't need a quarterback. Dolphins don't need one.
Patriots don't need one. Chiefs? No. Chargers? No. Broncos?
Hell no. The Raiders. Raiders need a QB, but they're not bringing in Aaron Rodgers because Tom Brady is now, even as a minority owner, like that, that's not happening.
There's no reason for them to bring him in. Steelers don't need a QB. Ravens don't need one. Bengals? No. Browns?
Yes. But I don't think they're coming off of one disaster. Texans don't need a QB. Colts are not testing. Rodgers. Titans? No. They need a complete rebuild.
Jaguars are paying Trevor Lawrence. Eagles? No.
Commanders? No. Cowboys? No. Giants? Hell no.
Aaron Rodgers not going there. Cardinals? No. Rams? No. Seahawks? No.
49ers? No. Lions? No.
Vikings? No. Packers? No.
Bears? No. Falcons? No. Buccaneers? No. The Saints? Panthers?
No. Like, where could he go besides the Saints and the Browns? And I don't think either one would do it. If you're Aaron Rodgers, those are your options.
Saints or Browns. Are you picking that or retiring? I'm quitting.
I agree. Go to TV. Or whatever the hell you want to do. He's going to office.
Yeah, you heard my thoughts exactly. Get a nice job in Washington with Kennedy? RFK? Isn't that who he is?
RFK Jr. He's going to work in the medical branch of the government? I don't know.
He's named some sort of director, right? Something like that? Yeah. I mean, the timing's perfect for Rodgers.
Retire and go right there. Yeah. What the hell? Is that Shay Gilgus Alexander? Hickey, do you see what this man is wearing?
I just missed it if you're talking. Oh, no. Oh, wow. He is wearing shades.
Wow. Silver pants and a t-shirt. That t-shirt looks like a biker jersey that you'd wear for cycling.
Oh, my God. And those pants look like a disco ball. Like if you just took off the glitter from the disco ball and put it on pants. That's why he needs the shades. His pants are so bright, they're blinding his own eyes.
Yeah, wearing his shades as he walks in. Fashion plate skims. What do you call it? Skims ambassador or something like that? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Ambassador, I think is the perfect word for it. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him. At least he's a good basketball player. A sigh.
Well, a terrible not terrible. Anyway, Aaron Rodgers, I think we're looking at the end of his career and he has to get settled with how it ends, how it is ending, because we just ran through every team and I don't think they're going to be suitors. And if you're Aaron Rodgers, I don't think there's a team that that you want to join. Good luck on that one.
Good luck. It's the J.R. sport show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. We're going to talk about Bo Nix.
I forget about him. We're going to talk more about the college football playoff. But now that we've run through all of these teams, the New York Jets are just the worst of the worst.
Right. Then you have the Cowboys. And then we had mentioned the Browns like what NFL team is in the worst possible position moving forward.
We're going to get into that on the other side. You're locked in to the J.R. sport show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief, the J.R. sport show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Before we do anything, we're going to talk about some loser NFL teams. Because you thought the Jets were bad, you thought the Cowboys were bad, the Panthers, the Browns, there's a lot of teams that got it bad. And speaking of bad, Hickey alerted me that Joey Galloway, former receiver in the NFL, Seahawks, former receiver for the Ohio State University. He had one of the more ridiculous takes that I've ever heard in my life.
Hickey, you think maybe all the hits have started to accumulate? He's a little older now. I guess maybe because I have no other explanation otherwise as to what he was thinking when he said this. He has some advice for Indiana as they get ready to take on Ohio State. And maybe it's biased. I don't know.
But we'll get into that in a bit. I need to let you know that the Defensive Player of the Week is sponsored by the Navy Federal Credit Union, who proudly serves the armed forces, DOD, veterans and their families. Their members are the mission.
You can learn more at NavyFederal.org. Steeler's linebacker. This man had a field day against his former team.
We're talking about Patrick Queen. He led Pittsburgh in tackles with 10, recovered a fumble as the Steelers beat the Ravens 18 to 16 on Sunday. This man helped out a defense that has the second best turnover margin in the league. And it is top 10 in points and yards. The Steelers, they don't have no problems.
They don't have no issues like some of the teams that we're about to discuss. We just ran through some squads that would not want Aaron Rodgers. We just ran through some squads where Aaron Rodgers would not want to go. And it really boils down to the Browns and the Saints.
Yuck. They don't want him and I'm sure he doesn't want them. If Aaron Rodgers had a choice, he'd probably want to end up in a cave. But if you think about all these teams that are just oh so bad this season. How about the other team that's been in the crap news, right? They lost last night to the Texans, the Dallas Cowboys.
I guess they're not in the worst position moving forward. They have a quarterback in Dak Prescott. They do have a wide receiver in C.D.
Lamb. They just seem kind of dry in every of the aspects. Offensively, the line stinks. They need a running back. The defense, every layer is filled with guys who are always getting hurt.
You got to eventually pay Michael Parsons. And I guess the worst thing about the Cowboys is, is their owner in C.D. Lamb. Yesterday, after another loss at home, they are 0 and 5 this season at home. The Cowboys are. Doesn't include the sheet metal falling out of the sky.
C.D. Lamb talked about how he deals with losing. Listen, maybe you'll learn something.
It sucks, to be honest. I mean, there's not so much coping is moving on to the next one. I mean, you can't dwell on it. I mean, what happened in the past is now in the past. And, you know, go look at this film, correct what we need to. And we've got to go out there and play better.
We get in the end zone. We have a whole different conversation. Oh, OK. He said it sucks. That's what he said.
OK. I was hoping that he had some better advice, but none. He just said losing sucks. I think we all know that.
Like a five year old could tell him that losing sucks. Hey, what about that other team that we mentioned that that could potentially bring on Aaron Rodgers? What about them? What about the Browns, right?
They gave they gave Deshaun Watson two hundred and thirty plus million dollars, all guaranteed. The guy is hurt. Man just blew out his Achilles and suspensions and it looks just just out of sorts. Looks rusty. Doesn't want to run.
Is collecting his money. And I guess human nature is taking over. Browns think they just lost to the Saints.
Thirty five to fourteen. They got no future. And congratulations, America. We have the Browns and Steelers on Thursday night football.
The Baltimore Ravens are going to take out their frustrations on these Browns on Thursday. And people are even looking at Kevin Stefanski, a two time coach of the year. People are looking at him and saying, man, he needs to go.
Kevin Stefanski is just like, man, I think about that. I think probably because I grew up listening to that, I'm smart enough to not worry about outside noise. I get that's part of this gig. That's life in the big city. My sole focus is getting this team ready to get a win on Thursday night. That's it.
Oh, boy. Hickey, why do I have a feeling the Browns are going to make this? It's either going to be a blowout or competitive. Yeah. Yeah.
There's no Jamis magic for you to pull off the win. You you taking them? You taking them to win?
I am not. I'm saying to potentially be competitive. But I think the Ravens are going to whoop that ass. I do think we can get a competitive. I think we can get a good Jamis Winston.
Yeah, I agree. I want you to make this game close. Short week division rival. I believe it's in Pittsburgh. Right from not mistaken. Yeah, I hope for a Thursday night game.
I hope. Well, Kevin Stefanski isn't going if he goes anywhere because he wants to. Everybody knows who and what the problem is. It ain't him. It's the Haslams. The owner.
Have you noticed anything? All the NFL teams that stink. It's the owners, right? Jerry Jones, the Haslams, the Johnsons go on and on. Well, how about this team?
They got a crap on it, too. He just showed up. He's pretty new to the party. David Tepper and the Panthers like they got some hope. They have Bryce Young. I mean, at least he's two and one over the past couple of weeks. He has more touchdowns than interceptions.
He got four of them to three. They beat the Giants in Germany. That counts for something. I know it's the Giants.
And yes, I'll say it again. Maybe Bryce Young turns out to be something. Let's remember he's playing with a roster that they basically stripped. Dave Canales. He doesn't have to worry about being fired. He hasn't been a disaster. The new head coach of the Carolina Panthers. He tells us what we all want to hear. Bryce Young is going to start again. Bryce will play this week again. You know, this is about the continued progress is about Bryce, you know, looking more and more confident, you know, as he's out there in Germany, just felt a real confidence and and just, you know, an aggressiveness to his play and all those things.
And and of course, the result, the end result winning, you know, so he continues to do things that put us in a position to put him back out there and continue to build on that. Maybe they should just they should have left them in Germany. Maybe they should move to Germany full time.
I don't know. Good for them. No, this is not good for them at all. The Panthers next game is against. The Kansas City Chiefs. I have a feeling that's not going to end well. Not at all.
Especially given what the Chiefs just went through with the Buffalo Bills this past Sunday. Not not that good. Pretty bad.
How about this? This team is bad. They don't have a quarterback. The GM might get fired. I'm not so sure the coach might get fired.
I'm not sure. Can't have two New York teams firing the coach and GM in the same cycle. But hey, I'm talking about the Giants.
Two and eight. Daniel Jones just got benched. They're throwing out Tommy DeVito to be the I don't know, the sideshow and distraction for the rest of the year. And Brian DeBolt told everybody Daniel Jones having a seat. We needed to do it.
Obviously not playing the way any of us want to play and that's on all of us, but felt like this was a decision that we needed to make here and try to spark things, change things up. Oh, boy. Hickey, you were right, too. What's the agent's name? Does he have a name? Do you know it?
I do. It's like Stiletto. Something like that. Stiletto? Sean Stallone?
No, it's something. It doesn't matter. Forget his name. Does not matter. Stiletto. Maybe it is name. I don't know.
Stilettos or shoes. Maybe it's his name. He was on TV this morning already.
All righty, JR. What was that? Twenty four hours about, roughly, since he was named the starter. Already doing interviews. He has to hype up his guy, right? Can't let the play do the talking. Got to hype him up. I can't believe you thought he was just going to lay low and not soak in the 15 minutes of fame. Am I too much of an optimist? And this, you know what?
Especially if the Giants draft a quarterback, which looks like they will and should this upcoming year. And this could be it for him in terms of, you know, 15 minutes. This could be up. That's it. Tommy DeVito or the agent? Both.
Both. Because guess what? If Tommy's not relevant, the agent for sure is not relevant. Come on. So he'll be a third string backup QB somewhere else. Come on. And guess what? In most most organizations, third string guys don't play.
Yeah. And by the way, who wanted him in the off season? Anybody?
Nobody. He had the option of, you know, signing with another team. I guess he couldn't bring his mom to wash his underwear, I guess. She don't want to move, huh? She don't want to leave New Jersey.
It's like, Mom, I'm going to stay here and find anybody else to do my laundry and cook me. What does he eat? Chicken cutlets. Come on.
Proto-pro quintessential Italian man right there. He couldn't find good chicken cutlets. And I don't know. L.A., I guess not. Cleveland, Ohio, didn't have some good colors for I was going to say Minneapolis, Minnesota. And I didn't want to say Cleveland, not the Italian food capital of the world.
Cleveland, Cleveland. Somebody else said something wild about what was it? The same idiot that got in trouble the other day. The ball, the ball kid.
Which one is it? LaMelo. Oh, yeah. Yes. He said, oh, yeah. The next game, it's you got to go to Cleveland. She said, oh, we got to go to Cleveland. Oh, now we have to go to Cleveland.
Mike, you have to take a deep sigh and breath. I don't. Did Joe Kim Noah start this? Why do people dislike Cleveland? What did Cleveland do to anybody? I guess it's not cool for whatever reason.
You know, Melo's, quote unquote, cool guy or try to be at least. Poor Cleveland. Yeah, they got they got the problems when it comes to their football team, all all self-inflicted.
Wow. Oh, and it's speaking of bad teams. How about this is definitely a bad one. They're going to get rid of their coach.
This man already knows he's getting fired. The Jacksonville Jaguars are crap. They might end up with the number one overall pick. They have to figure out whether or not they want to get like Travis Hunter or they want five different players. They need like 10 different players. Doug Peterson spoke yesterday. He was asked whether or not his team quit on him after they were destroyed by the Lions 52 to six. I don't believe they're letting go of the rope.
I don't. It is a good football team. They are good. And they're going to play for a long time. I think this year, you know, I mean, that's that's just without without question in the NFC. I look at it and even visiting with guys today and seeing the guys today, you know, they are there. They're tired.
He's referring to the Lions as a good football team. Hickey, he can't wait for the season to be over. You think he's planned his vacation out for January? Oh, easily.
That second half of January is already booked. Oh, my goodness. This is crazy. When you think about which team is positioned the worst moving forward. No, man, we didn't even talk about the Raiders.
Forget them. Bunch of bums. It's got to be. It's got to be the Browns, right? Is it the Browns? Has to be because all these other teams are talking about, they can move off of their quarterback for the most part.
I've looked at the or Lawrence or they have one. You know, Lawrence isn't going anywhere. Right.
Right. But like the Jets can move off of Rogers easily. The Giants can move off of Daniel Jones easily. The Browns are stuck with our guy.
He stinks. And they got to they got to pay him. Well, you know, the Browns got it worse.
This is what you get for being greedy, man. They were overly aggressive. They threw all their more. Well, I can't say they threw all of their morals out of the window.
The Haslams conveniently ignored all of the issues surrounding Deshaun Watson. And they said, screw it. We just going to go ahead and bring this guy in. And that's why sometimes it's not good. Sometimes you need to leave well enough.
Alone. Don't push it. They pushed it. And now they're punishing their fan base. I mean, even Baker Mayfield for in Tampa Bay is going nowhere.
They're an average team, especially now that they've they've been missing their top wide receivers due to injury. One is out for the year. One is dealing with a hammy.
You've been dealing with that hammy all year long. That's Mike Evans. Like Baker Mayfield left the Browns and ended up in a better position with the contract.
No, he didn't get one of these massive 50, 60 million dollar deals. But the guy is a starting quarterback in the NFL and the Browns are just. They're going to have some middle of the road, middle of the pack guy coaching, it's not coaching, but playing QB for the team next year. The Browns and the dog pound, they are going straight back to hell. With the bags over their heads and the dog masks, it's now they're trying to figure out about moving the stadium. It's just it's just bad in Cleveland and not because LaMelo Ball or Joakim Noah said so.
You know what else is a good, bad indicator? Well, LeBron left Cleveland. He said, I don't even want to be here. It's like, man, I'm going to Miami.
What am I doing here for what? Left twice. He said, I'm from here. I said, I'm not sticking around in this place. Men said I am going to Miami and I'm going to Los Angeles.
Screw y'all. What a guy, LeBron. They're going to build a statue of him. And when they build that statue, how many times do you think he going to visit? Well, I don't know.
I was going to say, I think he sells a house in Akron. I guess probably not. I don't know. You got to have got to have one there just in case. Right. True.
I mean, you got to think you got to go back for LeBron once a year. Not too much to ask. Is the school still open? Yeah. Right. Visit the school.
Make sure the pain isn't falling off the walls. I don't know. He seems very comfortable in the the warmer climates. Good for him. He's played his way to having all this money. The guy's a billionaire. Look, how about the guy who owns the Cavs is he's from Detroit. He owns the team there.
He doesn't care. Anyway, it's the J.R. sport brie 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 are going to take a break. We come back on the other side. We are going to examine now that we have the college football player of rankings out, we're going to acknowledge one of the most ridiculous statements that I've ever heard about how one team should help protect itself.
And the college football playoff by by benching a player. I'm going to tell you what Joey Galloway said on the other side of the break about Indiana as they get ready to take on Ohio State. This is way out there. It's the J.R. sport brie show on the Infinity Sports Network. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief.
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How about this? The Cavaliers were getting their asses whooped. They were almost down by like 20 points. Cavaliers have fought back against the Boston Celtics the end of the third quarter in Boston. The Celtics lead ninety three to eighty eight. The Cavaliers.
Yeah, they're good. It's still not the Celtics. Sorry if they were in a seven game series. And I understand it's still early. We got a long way to get until, I don't know, April, May and June. But the Celtics, I'm going to favor them every time over everybody in the East, unless there's an injury.
I got reason to feel otherwise. They showed Kristaps Porzingis warming up. What else is new? Every every game, Kristaps is warming up. Kristaps Porzingis is warming up. We'll see when he plays. Hickey, who plays more games, Porzingis or Embiid? Wow. I mean, Embiid has the huge head start.
I will go Kristaps. It's crazy. They called Embiid lazy. Well, no, no, no, no. Nobody called him lazy.
Tyrese Maxey wishes that he would show up on time because he's late for everything. Oh, my. What a disaster. We'll talk about that in a bit. Speaking of a disaster. Hickey, you shared this with me. We talked about the college football playoff rankings that came out last hour.
No, nothing big, nothing crazy. You know, at the top, most certainly. Oregon one, Ohio State two, Texas three, Penn State four, Indiana still at five. Ten and O record. You can look up and down at who Indiana has played and you go, oh, well, they just beat Michigan. Well, it's not the Michigan that won a championship. Oh, well, they they just beat Washington. This is not the Washington that Michigan just beat in the championship. And you just.
You got to scratch your head. They're undefeated. But they got Ohio State coming up. And there is a whole lot of are they going to get their asses destroyed? They're going to get whooped or are the Hoosiers going to make this a competitive game? And if they make it a competitive game, you know, are they going to stay in that that five spot? Are they just going to fall? I think they're going to stay in the college football playoff. Right. Yeah. Just don't get beat up by the Buckeyes. Just don't get blown out.
Make it competitive now. There's a former receiver who played for the Ohio State University, Joey Galloway. Now, broadcaster, you could see him listen to him on ESPN and all of this.
Now, Hickey, what the hell did he say? He advocated for Indiana. Well, you know, I'll let you hear it for yourself.
OK. If we believe in what our metrics are saying, if I'm Indiana, I don't know if I'm playing work against Ohio State. We see what happened to Florida State last year.
Jordan Travis. What could keep Indiana out of this? Getting their quarterback hurt. We've seen it happen to Florida State last year. Having not played anybody. If you look at three, four and five, Texas, Penn State and Indiana, they literally have played nobody between all three teams. The toughest team in that is Vandy. So a lot of this that we're looking at is I test because book when you look at the resumes of three, four and five, it brings back the idea of let me not play anybody and be undefeated. Yeah. And be in a good position. I agree with that.
I test is going to matter because three, four or five have played nobody. That includes Indiana. What? What? What?
Hickey, he wants to sit work because of what? In case he might get hurt or just what is he advocating here? He is advocating for Indiana to bench their starting quarterback in case he gets hurt. Siding Florida State going undefeated last year with Jordan Travis.
Right. And them getting left out of a four-team playoff. Remember, we're in a 12-team playoff this year.
And they are 10-0. And he's advocating, well, Indiana, by the way, is one of the worst strength of schedules. He's advocating for them to take their quarterback out. And as they heard Booger say, yeah, maybe hurting their, you know, having their quarterback get hurt could not help their case. But if they get boat raced 45-10 because their quarterback's not playing, that'll do just enough damage too, right? So what does the 13-member committee is supposed to look at that and feel good and go, oh, well, let's feel bad for him and just keep him in?
Like, what are we doing? He wants them to tank on purpose and what, get in via pity? So he's not injured like this? That just doesn't make any sense. What type of loser's mentality is that? Is that because he went to Ohio State? Is that what they're teaching him there in Columbus? Sounds like someone's scared. You think he's scared of Indiana?
I mean, listen to this. He's not advocating for Oregon. He said their quarterback. I didn't hear him say Dylan Gabriel said. I didn't hear him tell Jalen Milro, who runs the ball, by the way, a ton, to sit down. I didn't hear him say even Will Howard take a seat.
Wow. Why is he only advocating for one team to sit down? Makes you wonder.
I don't think he's scared. I think he's just this dumb logic. But I don't know what's worse, by the way. Yeah, it's correct.
I don't know. Even if you look at either end of his scenario, both of them are bad. So you sit down, Rourke. And then you lose.
You still you, Indiana, get looked at as you get looked at as quitters. Like if if everybody is looking at at their schedule and we heard Ward, man, you earlier talk about the strength of schedule and like what message does it send to them that you're trying to manipulate the system by sitting him? What? He was he drinking on the set?
They have a coffee cup in front of them. It does make you wonder, like, what is this is really the breakdown we're having right now. And this is the discussion we're having instead of this guy needs to go play the game of his life. Sit him down so he doesn't get hurt. And so that the team doesn't get looked at like their Florida state from last year. What?
Sit him down so people go. You all are ducking them, and so you can avoid a legitimate outcome. What? I don't know. Hickey, whatever happened to just go out there and give it all you got? Whatever happened to that?
Does that exist anymore? I mean, I don't think Indiana is planning on listening to Joey, so I think they still have that. Thankfully, he's not the head coach, but it's like, you know, that's a great point.
If they just announced tomorrow. Yeah, Curtis is not playing. I mean, if you're the committees are your loss, like you're out of the playoff. Yeah, we don't. What do we need you out there?
A bunch of quitters. Right. Why are you ducking the best opponent? You're afraid, you're scared, you're afraid. So by the time when the ass whooping comes, you could just go, well, we didn't have our starting quarterback out there, so it doesn't count. So just ignore it. I don't know, man. I thought the analysts were supposed to be insightful. I don't know.
I'm trying over here. I'm really trying to find a justification. I can't find that. Now we know why Booger isn't on Monday Night Football anymore. Well, he had his head on straight a little bit. He was advocating at least, you know, hey, look, you lose by 30.
You're probably out as well. I mean, everyone seemed to disagree in some. I think it was Greg McElroy couldn't tell the one voice. I was like, all right, all right, like someone tried early on that I'm sure you guys in the green room before these rankings.
Guys, you got a great point. I'm going to get ready for it until Indiana sit their quarterback. We need to put Joey Galloway on that moving camera that Booger McFarland used to sit on. OK, and just roll it out like just in the middle of the streets. Keep it rolling.
Yeah, just just put them on that and roll them out. I don't know. Maybe all them hits in the NFL have caught up to the guy. I hope not. I'm talking about Joey Galloway. That is a that's a punking out move. And I don't know, maybe he was joking, but it sure as hell didn't sound like it.
Thought with the expanded college football playoff as Hickey just pretty much shared that with an expanded expanded playoff, we wouldn't get the same situation as an FSU last year. So I don't know. Hey, everybody's entitled to have a mistake. Nobody's perfect.
I'm here four hours a day. You know, I make mistakes. Ain't nobody perfect. So I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Although that sounds like something that he thought thought through and thought it was a good idea.
No, that was that was a bad one. I think any professional team, even though college is not pros, might as well be. And he was a pro having a thought process of quitting.
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