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Of course, and I'll do this minutes from now. I gotta wrap up. What was a crazy ending to week 13 of the NFL season? We had Jameis Winston go out to the NFL.
There and be, you know, two people, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde. He's lighting it up. He's good. He's bad.
He's everything in between. One of the more entertaining players at the NFL has seen recently. I'd say, OK, people think LeBron James is washed up. Houston, Texas, they're riding with their guy.
They're like, hey, man, this is not fair what they did to him. Three games. Wow. And then two hours from now, we're going to get the latest rankings in the college football playoff. And then also a couple hours from now, we're going to be joined by Jared Dubin, NFL writer for CBS Sports.
So we got a lot to get into. I do want to show love not to the losers from last night. That being the Cleveland Browns, unfortunately, something that they're used to. I'm also going to show some love to Bo Nix and then maybe Sean Payton. You know, Sean Payton likes to throw some of the nastiest, meanest things at people. He's petty. You would think he's a high schooler.
I was going to say something else, but I don't want to get in trouble anymore. And so we're going to get into Sean Payton and the Broncos. We'll talk about Bo Nix.
Is he now the leader for Rookie of the Year? We'll find out. We'll talk about that as the show continues on. If you want to be a part of the show, it's simple. The phone number here is eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
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All the wild things happen. I am at J.R. Sport Brief. Super producer and host Ryan Hickey. How are you on this Tuesday? You do you doing good? I am. I am J.R. My prediction yesterday really turned out well. I said the Broncos would win. We're just going to forget the score of twenty to thirteen because that defensive struggle that we thought would happen absolutely was not the case whatsoever. You said that you named the score. What did you say the score was?
Twenty to thirteen. OK, which I think they surpassed like midway through the second quarter. I think that was the score. So it was a shootout. Yeah. Yeah. All of it out.
No, no biggie. It was it was pretty predictable that we got the other end of it. I mean, we saw Jamis be good.
We saw Jamis be bad. That was predictable, wasn't it? You predicted Jamis's pregame speech yesterday. And I think I said something sarcastic, not out of the realm of me. Didn't I say he needed a speech for himself or did I tweet that? Did I say that on the air?
I don't remember. I think you may have saved that for Twitter, I believe. OK. Twitter only.
Twitter exclusive, which is why I got to follow JR Sportbrief. Well, damn it. I don't think I think I said this as well before. I said his inspirational speech will probably lead to a loss. And it did. And he stood around and he blamed himself, as he should, because this is what we get with Jamis Winston. Like, if you think about his calendar year in twenty nineteen, the guy had fifty one hundred yards passing, was second in the NFL in touchdowns thrown with thirty three. But then also how you got thirty three touchdowns and then also thirty interceptions. This is what he did in twenty nineteen when he was still suiting it up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And last night was a microcosm of what his career has been in a loss of forty one to thirty two. Jamis threw for four hundred and ninety seven yards, two hundred and thirty five, which went to Jerry Judy, a career high as he returned back to Denver. But then Jamis had four touchdowns. And then he threw three interceptions. Two of those damn interceptions.
Went to the wrong team and went to the Broncos. He threw two pick sixes. And so because Jamis is going to be Jamis, he's going to be hilarious before and after and during the game. Jamis actually stood on the podium and he said, and this is courtesy ESPN, he's like, listen, I need the Lord to deliver me from throwing interceptions, specifically interceptions that go to the other team and go for a touchdown. I know I'm better than this.
I know. I'm like, I'm just praying for the Lord to deliver me from pick sixes. Like, that's just that's not me.
Like, phenomenal game. Offense do some great things, but I mess it up. Oh, come on. But at what point is it not you? This this is you. We can we can ask for deliverance.
We can ask for whatever we want. Jamis Winston has been doing this since he got into the league. Since he got into the league coming out of FSU in 2015. Jamis Winston has thrown the most interceptions in the NFL.
Damn it, folks, this is almost. Ten years. What is he talking about? He's better. He's been saying this for a long time. I just need to eliminate the mistakes.
I just need to eliminate the mistakes. Well, damn it. He has one hundred and six interceptions since 2015. Kirk Cousins has one hundred and four. Matthew Stafford has one or two. At least he has a championship. Derek Carr has ninety nine.
Who cares? Matt Ryan has ninety two retired. Jared Goff has ninety one. We know that he's hoping to win a championship this year. Philip Rivers has eighty seven.
He's long retired, sitting at home with his kids. And then you got Baker Mayfield at eighty five. Andy Dalton at eighty four. And Josh Allen before he learned to hold on to the ball, who had eighty three.
Let me say this again. You just heard Jamis Winston tell you that giving the ball away is not who he is and that he can be better. That he is better.
He's been doing the same damn thing since 2015. There's a reason why he was benched. There's a reason why they said we want Tom Brady. Well, not the fact that too many people wouldn't take Tom Brady, even as old as he was. There's a reason why Jamis Winston had to restart his career in New Orleans. There's a reason why he was backing up Deshaun Watson before he got popped and finished for the season. So I'm sorry, Jamis.
This is who you are. I think his head coach, Kevin Stefanski, by the way, some of his expressions on the sidelines. Pickey, they rival Harbaugh. Harbaugh watching Justin Tucker missed kicks. Kevin Stefanski, the expression on his face every time Jamis Winston threw an interception. We need to do a split screen between both coaches. I like that idea.
I would watch it. And for both coaches, we'd see that face very often with how their quarterback and kicker are making mistakes. Let's listen to Kevin Stefanski describe. Forget the whole team. He's talking about Jamis Winston, OK? You have to win that turnover margin. That's the first key to these games. And it's hard to go on the road and beat a good football team if you turn the ball over like we did. And that's just the truth.
His expression on the sideline said a whole hell of a lot more than he did there. And he might as well go ahead. Slap Jamis Winston name on that.
Go for it. We all know you talk about him. It's what he's been doing for almost a decade now. We know who he is.
We know who he's not. Browns now have a record of three and nine. They get a bye. They face off against Pittsburgh. I'm sure that Steelers defense is going to drive Jamis into the ground. He's going to be forced to throw the ball a million times. And I'm sure the Steelers will win. And they'll go through the rest of the season. And let's be real. The biggest story the rest of the year for the Browns is Jamis Winston. You know, nobody think about anything else because he's entertaining because he's going to say funny things.
But what they need to focus in on and when they will become relevant again is what the hell you do with Deshaun Watson. Like, I don't know. Hickey, is he in rehab right now? I hope not. I was going to say I hope so. I hope so, too.
I hope he's behaving in rehab. Let me say it that better. Does that make more sense? Yes. Yes.
Yes, it does. He's got a lot of free time in his hands. Hopefully spending it getting his body right and getting his mind right as well. His body. OK, his legs. Be specific, his legs. Yes.
Yes. He needs a lot of rehab. He needs rehab on his legs. On his legs. Good luck to him.
There's no rehabilitating his image. And the Browns are going to Brown. It's just so crazy. You think about two teams in the NFL who just decided to go for it because basically we are so down in the dumps. We have had to kind of walk through our hot coals.
We are so desperate. The Cleveland Browns said, screw this. Screw his his history, his legal history, his sexual assault allegations.
Screw all of that. We're going to bring in. This man, Deshaun Watson, the New York Jets. They said, man, we haven't been to the playoffs since what, 2010, 2011? Longest North American professional franchise who hasn't been to the playoffs. The New York Jets said, screw this crap. We're going to bring in Aaron Rodgers.
Even though the man is dancing around retirement, says he's thinking about quitting, wants to go year to year, has become the biggest curmudgeon. Misery loves company. This is what happens when you get too damn desperate.
You just go out there just doing wild things. The Browns. They went ahead and pushed the emergency button for the wrong reasons with Deshaun Watson, ended up giving him a guaranteed contract for a quarterback who's hurt and has some other issues. The New York Jets basically mortgaged their entire future to let Aaron Rodgers come in and run the team.
And now they are ready to run him out of town. Here's a life lesson. Here's some Gerald wisdom. When your ass is desperate, take it easy, OK?
Because you could be setting yourself back way, way, way back. My jump in the gun. Now, anyway, enough about the losers. OK, enough about the Browns. Enough about the Jets. Congratulations to the Denver Broncos.
I said this before I left the air last night. You got Bo Nix. This man is a rookie QB. He spent about 25 years in college. He got a master's degree. Is he a doctor? Is he a doctor yet? We should be calling him Dr. Nix.
I think you're right about that. Dr. Dr. Nix sounds like some doctor from The Simpsons, you know, like a fake doctor. Now we're going to get a call from Dr. Nix. Wait, Dr. Nix. Well, he's going to send me an email because those doctors, they love the email. Trust me. We are not disparaging any Dr. Nix is out there.
That's not what we were doing. Do not sue J.R., please. No, doctor, you're not going to sue me.
They're going to send emails. Doctors, professors, they got nothing better to do. If you trust me, I said something funny about a professor one day.
I said, damn it, I pay your salary. Professor wrote me a book. Hickey, did I read it? You mentioned I don't think you've ever read on the air with the email said, oh, I didn't. I didn't read it privately. I did not read that email. That would be a good time, though, one day just to go back and read what he said.
Great conversation. How long how long does your email sit in the delete box before it's gone? Hmm. Three months, at least I was going to say 30 days. Oh, man.
Yeah, I think. Well, if it's 30 days, it's already gone. There's no recovering that one. Well, I mean, sorry. Sorry. Sorry to that guy. Don't waste your time next time. Come on. Just call me up eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
Don't raise your email time unless you're sending me money. Anyway, somebody who doesn't have to worry about any of that. Is Bo Nix. This man is now. Well, he has been in the conversation for Rookie of the Year, along with Jayden Daniels. Washington was able to turn things around this past Sunday. Bo Nix, although he did go out there and throw two interceptions yesterday.
Good for him. He didn't run him back or didn't have him run back for six like Jamis. Bo Nix says, man, it wasn't just me. Wasn't the offense. Wasn't the defense wasn't the special teams.
It was all of us. But it was just a complete team win. You know, we we made our plays, got a lot to grow from. And then they made their plays. They got a lot to grow from. So it's good to have a bye week this week.
And then, you know, we're going to come back and grow from it. Yeah. Hey, you shaking in your boots. They got the Indianapolis Colts coming up next. You concerned?
You worry? Oh, I am out of the horses, though. And they read some playing good. I think he'll he'll show everybody who the real horse logo in the NFL is. You got to admit the Indianapolis Colts, their horse situation is kind of goofy, right? Wait, what? That what? What's that horse?
The white horse with the blue hair that twirls his hips around. Oh, blue, blue. Yeah, right. Yeah.
Yeah. He's no no real horses with the Colts. Well, the Broncos got a real horse. No, the Broncos got a real horse.
He was running across the field yesterday or she sort of horse. Sure. Don't assume. OK. Right. Yeah. OK, sure.
I'll give them that. They have a real animal. Is it a I don't think horses do what do what the humans do. You know, it's just a horse. It's just a horse. It's a male or female.
I don't know. A horse, a horse. And it's a cool horse and it's a cool tradition. But I mean, when you have blue, you know, hitting his hips and thrusting is, you know what, in your face, I'd rather have that than a real horse running on the field pregame. OK. That's more intimidating. I've also I've also seen the Indianapolis Colts horse assault children in games of flag football. I mean, assault. I you know, that seems a little strong.
I would say entertain the masses by stiff arming seventh graders. But, you know, how how big is that mascot? That mascot got to be, what, seven feet tall? He's pretty big. There's a lot of air in there, but he's pretty big himself. And knocking. So there's a grown man in there, I assume. Right. Grown man, I assume.
You just told me don't assume, but I will assume. Knocking over middle schoolers. Like in what world are we letting grown adults, adults knock over children? Where's that allowed? Only in the NFL? Only in the NFL at halftime. To be fair, he's not the only one. You know, there's a bunch of mascots on the field doing the same thing.
Get together and assault kids. OK. Right. And we as Americans love it. No one said boo so far.
Not me. I'm saying boo. Wait until one of them kids gets hurt. Then everybody's going to have a fit. They're in pads. You're acting like they're out here just, you know, walking down the street and all of a sudden there's a mascot assaulting them, tackling them. One day a kid is going to go down. Let's just be clear that the kids do go down.
One day a kid is going to go down with an injury. Watch that. That gopher from Minnesota looks pretty aggressive.
I think that's the one you should be worried about. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's out there with some bad intentions. It looks like he's been hitting the gym to a gopher. Oh, my God.
What a world that we live in. Anyway, congratulations to the Denver Broncos. We're going to talk about more about Bo Nix, I should say, later on in the show. Show some love to the Denver Broncos. Good luck to Jamis Winston the rest of the way. If a guy has to tell you he is trying to pray away his picks.
Is that what he said? He was he trying to pray him away or he needs to be delivered from the pick sixes. If he needs to be delivered from the pick sixes. I am rooting for that guy. Good luck to Jamis Winston. I hope he gets the starting job next year for the Browns.
It's still not a good situation if that is the case. And speaking of unfortunate just injuries and abuse, we found out what is taking place with Aziz Al-Sha'ir. Who the hell is that?
That is the man who knocked Trevor Lawrence unconscious this past Sunday. I'm going to tell you what his suspension is, what his punishment is on the other side of the break. Speaking of ridiculous things, not mascots destroying children, I want to tell you the latest rule. That Major League Baseball is potentially considering it gets weirder.
LeBron James, does he need to consider sitting on the bench some more because he has been garbage over the past few games? We're going to obviously talk about the reveal of the latest college football playoff rankings. Jared Dubin is going to join us from CBS Sports. He writes and covers all things NFL. And we're going to talk about the Bears gig. We got a lot to discuss.
We're just getting started. It's the J.R. sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport brief 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. Hey, a few minutes ago, we just talked about Jamis Winston throwing interceptions and throwing touchdowns and throwing pick sixes.
That's that's what he does. We talked about the Broncos. The Broncos win. They now have a record of eight and five. They're firmly at this point seventh.
And then last spot in the AFC playoff race is a wild card. The ESPN stats and numbers is always funny. The predictions are hilarious.
It says they have a seventy six percent chance of making it to the postseason. And Hickey brought up an excellent point. He said, look, Denver Broncos are going to take on the Indianapolis Colts when the Broncos finish up on their back. And then we talked about the horses, the mascots. The Broncos got a mascot, a real horse. Indianapolis Colts have a mascot. It's a fake horse. And this fake horse beats up on kids.
It does join a football games halftime. You send, you know, Hickey, what do you call them? Pee Wee? Pee Wee?
I don't know what they call them. Pop Warner, Pop Warner kids, players. Yeah, they send Pop Warner kids to play with the mascots for all of our entertainment purposes.
And the mascot beats the living hell out of the kids. And I said one day one of these kids, unfortunately, is going to go down, unfortunately, because it's life. It happens. You play something physical, something's going to happen. And this past Sunday, we saw the NFL.
This is what happens. Unfortunately, we saw a major injury when Trevor Lawrence went down against the Texans. He was concussed. He was on the field in that fencing position. And the guy who laid him out, Aziz Al-Sha'ir, Demika Ryans, defended him, the head coach of the Houston Texans. Aziz went on and defended himself online. He wrote a full apology, public apology, to Trevor Lawrence, told everybody that he is not dirty, that people can look at his past, his character and who he is.
And it was left at that. And then we had to wait for the NFL to come down with some type of suspension. Well, as of earlier today, we know what that suspension is. Listen to the news when it broke, courtesy of CBS Sports HQ. We got some breaking news from the NFL where the league has suspended Houston Texans linebacker Aziz Al-Sha'ir. There are three games for the hit we saw on Sunday.
Take a look at that at Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence, of course, left the game and did not return. He remains a concussion protocol until this day. But John Ryan, the NFL's president of football operations, released a statement this morning saying, quote, your lack of sportsmanship and respect for the game of football and those who play coach and enjoy watching it is troubling and does not reflect the core values of the NFL. No word yet on if Al-Sha'ir were there will appeal the three games that we just saw there. Now, the latest is that he will appeal the suspension. And if he misses three games, he won't be able to return until the Texans take on the Tennessee Titans, his former team, in week 18. And you heard the statement by John Runyon, who, by the way, used to move people the hell up on out the way for the Eagles in the NFL.
He's now the NFL vice president of football operations. Why didn't you get that job? Because I guess I wasn't moving people out of the way in my heyday. All right. All right. Fair. Fair enough. I don't think John Runyon could do your job as great as you do it.
So I guess that's accurate. Take that, John. Yeah. Forget John Runyon and his son to his son on the Giants, right? Yeah.
John Runyon Jr. Take that, buddy. And forget both up. Can't push buttons like I do.
You do. Excellent host as well. What are you talking about?
Put things there. You're very kind. You're in a good mood today, I see.
Am I? Well, it's every day. Let's see. Let's see. I'm going down everything we have to discuss again. Let's see.
Yeah, I'll be fine. Yeah. Or you talked about Jamis. So I guess why not? Anyway, Aziz Al Shaheer. John Runyon.
Why? Why is he saying that this guy lacks sportsmanship? Well, earlier in the season, he knocked the living hell out of Caleb Williams while he was at the sideline.
Hey, just last week, he was fine for a late hit on Tony Pollard. And so you can say that, hey, you're not dirty. Man, you this is the third time, at least on record, certainly the most notable time that you have laid somebody completely out.
And we heard from D'Amico Ryan's. He said right after he's trying to, you know, soften the blow and what the punishment would be said. He's not a dirty guy. He's not trying to harm or hurt anybody. Let me tell you, someone who did have a fit. The man who runs the team, Nick Casario, he gave the NFL an earful about how Aziz Al Shaheer has been portrayed.
Like he's running around with, I don't know, some some barbarian tools that he would beat up somebody in Rome. Take a listen to this. Well, we take umbrages is just the paint the picture that's been painted about Aziz, his intentions, who he is as a person. I mean, it's quite frankly, it's and it's unfair to the individual. It's unfair to the organization. And I appreciate them going to bat for him.
He did pick. He punched the guy in the head as well. How about that? Yeah, that's not great. Like you said, it's not just the accident or the the incident is really the better term to say it on Sunday. It's a culmination. Yeah, it's just I'm not mad at the three games now.
I will admit this. When it comes to suspensions, the NFL typically does what the hell it wants. We unfortunately don't have to look any further than what took place with with Ray Rice. I mean, we had a commissioner who basically said, oh, yeah, whatever. And then he had to go, oh, I screwed up. I got I got to hit this guy with a suspension.
And then after that, nobody wanted to touch the guy. And we can go down the line. That might be an extreme example. But the NFL and the Players Association has basically set up and allowed a system where it is, quote unquote, judge, jury and executioner.
Now, I will say this. The NFL has changed the rules. So Roger Goodell isn't just the guy who is hearing, viewing, listening, interpreting what is taking place and then doling out the suspension. You now have an intermediary like John Runyon.
But let me be very clear here. When it comes to doling out punishments and suspensions, if it gets appealed, if there's a concern, if there's a thought, you want to know whose desk it ends up on. Not some third party person who's going to take it through arbitration, not someone who is just totally out of the loop.
It ends up on the desk or Roger Goodell. You know, you might as well consider this to be like school. Yeah, you can get punished by your teacher, but the principal can still overrule whatever the hell is going on. And so the NFL can shuffle around the pieces and who doles out the punishment and who gets a fine and who sits out a game and who loses money.
But there's ultimately one guy that you can still point at to say, oh, this is still up to you. And that's Roger Goodell. And so I'm not mad at the suspension.
Three games, fine. You knock the living hell out of Trevor Lawrence. You're punching guys in the head. You're hitting running backs late. You already hit another quarterback early in the year.
And rookie from the Chicago Bears, Caleb Williams, three games. Hey, you may not be a dirty player. Why are you hitting people late? Is that not dirty? He said in his own statement, Aziz said in his own statement, it is my job to hit you as hard as I can and then just pray that you get up after.
Oh, that's fine. Do it in between the lines, man. Forget the lines.
Do it in between the lines and do it in between the whistles. It said we don't need nothing else. So look, if he has to sit down for three games, I'm not angry.
But there is a point. Nick Casario, the GM of the Texans, is making very clear here. The NFL just does what it wants. And so let's see if this three game suspension goes down to a two game suspension or whether or not Roger Goodell has already gone Christmas shopping.
I have no idea. A matter of fact, there is one guy who feels a way about this. His name is Tom Brady. Is Tom Brady taking the approach of. You've got to protect the quarterbacks. Was Tom Brady thinking, dammit, these quarterbacks and maybe the offensive linemen need to protect them. We're going to take a break.
We come back. What does Tom Brady think about this? We got every quarterback to some degree mobile.
They can move around a little bit, some better than others. What is Tom Brady's thoughts for a guy who basically never wanted to move out of that pocket? We'll hear from Tom Brady on the other side. And speaking of bright ideas and commissioners.
Oh, my goodness. Rob Manfred. I don't even want to call this a genius idea. He has an idea.
That the owners may want to incorporate. In Major League Baseball, if you thought ghost runners and speeding up the game with pitch clocks, if that was too advanced for you. Wait until I tell you this rule. I'll tell you this rule on the other side of the brake potential rule change. I'll also tell you how Tom Brady feels about these quarterbacks getting a daylights beat out of them. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport 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. Right before we went to break, we got an update. Thank you so much to Rich Ackerman. I also talked to you about how Aziz Al Shaheer has been suspended by the NFL for three games for that crazy hit that knocked out Trevor Lawrence. And I made a point yesterday that if you are the Jacksonville Jaguars and you are on a quick road to nowhere for the rest of the year. And you're already got a quarterback in Trevor Lawrence who's been dealing with a shoulder issue. You sit him out. There's no reason to put him back out there to finish out the rest of the year. Let Mac Jones take the punishment.
Let him take the abuse. And, you know, see if you want to bring him back as a backup. See if Mac Jones could make enough noise where he can end up on another team next year.
That's just my two cents. You've invested so much money into Trevor Lawrence. You might as well just just call this year over because that's what it's been for a long time.
Doug Peterson unlikely to return as well. So it's it's time to move on. I did mention to you a crazy rule that Major League Baseball is thinking about. I want to share that with you momentarily. I also mentioned that Tom Brady has some thoughts about quarterbacks and how they protect themselves and what they don't do. And so let's take a listen to Tom Brady. Let's let's get his thoughts, because this is courtesy of the herd via Fox and Tom Brady. He's like, you know what? I'm actually standing up for the defensive players and not the QBs.
Listen to this. Defensive players have to be aggressive. That's their nature. I was trying to be aggressive on offense.
We tried to block aggressively. And at the same time, the defense tries to tackle aggressively. So there's an aspect to me that I think the quarterbacks and the certainly the quarterbacks need to take better care of themselves. I've seen Josh Allen run a lot. I see Lamar Jackson run a lot. And it's a great skill set to have. A lot of times I wish I had that skill set. And at the same time, when you run, you put yourself. Oh, yeah.
In a lot of danger. And when you do that, I don't think the onus of protecting an offensive quarterback who's running should be on a defensive player. I don't think that's really fair to the defense. The aspect, again, for a play caller, there's more design runs for quarterbacks ever now than in the history of the NFL. So are we really trying to protect quarterbacks? Because if you are trying to do it through the rules, then why are the offensive coordinators not protecting their quarterbacks?
I mean, in a simpler form, I'm going to put it in my own damn way. And this is similar to the kid who's playing against a mascot at halftime of a game. People are going to get hurt.
That's just what it is. If you're a football player, you are going to get hurt. If you're a quarterback and you go out there running.
Yeah, you can slide and get the hell up on out the way, but you're going to get hurt. We can ask Anthony Richardson, speaking of the Colts, I guess he finally learned to get the hell up on out the way. Let's go ahead and ask Josh Allen. I mean, over the past several years with the Buffalo Bills, it doesn't seem like he's necessarily taking or trying to dole out the same amount of punishment when he came out of college.
Like this is learning that goes on here. And as Tom Brady said, we know he was not fleet of foot. And Tom Brady was not getting away from nobody.
He had to be very confident that there was nothing there. But but air and opportunity for him to run very slowly and slide and get the hell up on out the way. When Tom Brady did get rocked, a lot of times it was behind the line of scrimmage in the pocket. No different than when he got his knee torn up. The fact is, the players are going to get hurt.
And if you are a quarterback and you go out there, you're opening yourself up. Now, I'm not going to say Aziz should not be suspended. I'm fine with him being suspended. I'm cool with it.
But if you're Trevor Lawrence, you open yourself up. It's true that we're going to see it again. We'll see a guy get hurt like this next year. We'll have the same conversation, whether it's his knees or whether it's his head. It's going to happen. Why? We can all say it at the same time.
One, two, three. Because it's football. It's going to happen. This is the nature of the game. It's violent. People are going to get wrecked unless you want to watch NFL football. Forget flag football. Unless you want to watch these these men run around with those those bubbles around them, just bouncing off each other.
You throw it, throw it out the window. Guys are going to get hurt. These are the conversations that we're going to have. It's it's not it's not going to change.
Go ask to a tongue of a law. Worst case scenario. Go go talk to him. He can stand around all day. Somebody knock him out.
He be on the floor. OK. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Speaking of change. I told you about this.
Let me give you some more details here. Major League Baseball, like everything else, is ever changing. And I know what's a big Major League Baseball story. We don't know where Soto is going. We saw Blake Snell now take money from the Dodgers. The Dodgers given everybody a contract, except for me and Hickey. But we we got a story that was highlighted by Jason Stark and kind of brought up some words by Rob Manfredi. You know, this is a time of year. Owners sit around and they eat grapes together and steak. I don't know. And general managers sit around and think about how they construct their teams, the free agents, and trying to make their agents get to work.
I'll want Soto. But then we get news like this from Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, who back in October basically brought up a rule with the varsity that there might be some highlighted interest, some some higher interest in making a big change in baseball. Listen to this. There are a variety of things that are being talked about out there. One of them, there was a little buzz around at an owner's meeting, was the idea of a golden at bat. That is, you know, putting your best player out there, out of order at a particular point in the game.
That rule and things like that are in the conversation only stage right now. No, I know they've done the pitch clock. They're looking at the automatic strike zone, utilizing some type of a robot technology, VAR, VAR, excuse me, to try to evaluate whether or not a pitch is a strike or a ball. They got the pitch clock now.
They got the ghost runner. I understand all of this. I'm not a fan. I was perfectly fine with baseball the way it was.
I did not care. But if you want to have the next generation of baseball, it's it's not just about me. It's about my kids.
It's about my kids' kids. And we've already seen how baseball has changed in America and where it stands in America over the past several decades, multiple decades. It ain't America's pastime anymore. And the fact that it was America's pastime probably didn't do it any good.
Here's where it stands now. You trying to make baseball a joke? Is baseball trying to be a video game? It sounds cool if I'm playing MLB the show.
It sounds good here in real life, too. Imagine at the end of a game, we all look at the game and we go, oh, man, it's this guy has to get on base because this guy, I'm maybe not Aaron Judge because we see he stinks in the clutch of Freddie Freeman. We need Freddie Freeman to get on base in the bottom of the frame where we need one of the bums in front of Freddie Freeman, one of the eight, nine hitters to get on so we could see Freddie Freeman try to win the game.
Now, imagine being able to just say, screw all of that. I'm going to use my golden ticket. I'm going to use my ticket like I'm like Willy Wonka at the Chocolate Factory. I'm going to use my golden ticket and I'm going to tell this guy to sit his ass down and I'm going to go with Freddie Freeman. And we know you can traditionally do that in baseball is pull a guy off the bench and you say, hey, I got a pinch hitter.
I'm picking him. But imagine just getting a guy out of the lineup. And I'm just saying, hey, no, we got Freddie. I don't like that.
Like that's that's too much tinkering with baseball. That's kind of what we get in the NBA. A guy gets a technical foul and then you get to choose who you want to put out there. Hey, Shaq, sit down. We don't need you right now. We got Ray Allen. Hey, Ray, go ahead and shoot the free throw. Not that they were ever on the same team, but hey, Ray, go shoot the free throw.
It's real simple. You want your best person doing what they do best. Baseball does not need to do that. I don't think baseball is that deep into a hole where they need to be dragged out by just letting everybody pick and choose when they want to. Does it add intrigue to the game?
Yes. It's too gimmicky. And I don't think that gimmick is going to change things in baseball.
Picky, what are your thoughts on this? This golden at bat, golden ticket, Willy Wonka stuff? Hate it.
I don't think it'll be implemented. But I will I will say to at least Rob Manfred's credit, I like the creativity. Now, this is a big swing and a miss, I think, and we won't actually see it happen and it is going too far. But this creativity in other areas is what has allowed, I think, baseball to to be exciting again. The pitch clock.
Right. Which was, I mean, thought of as blasphemous in baseball. I think it's worked out well as speed up the game and makes it more intriguing to watch. No banning the shift. There's been some areas where Rob Manfred is tinkered with the game that were initially. There's a lot of backlash initially that I think has worked out well. That or this idea is not in that category.
This is too far. I don't think it would ever I don't think it would work. I don't think it would make the game better. I just this to me, it's I think there's I do think there's actually a chance we will see this implemented. We've seen all the crazy ideas implemented. What are they going to try it out in the minors? Oh, that's a testing ground. Now we can single a baseball. Let's see how it works.
This is I don't even think this exists. Well, they just let anybody on. On TV now, Hickey, man. Damn, I'm in the studio.
Nobody could see me, but damn. Wow. Are you watching ESPN? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. OK. Not going to say no.
Just watching TV, watching a million screens. But the fact is, man, we don't even have this, I think, in a video game. Do we really have to bastardize Major League Baseball that much? You get to pick, you know, Hickey. Imagine that. Imagine having imagine having Garrett Cole.
Hey, Garrett. And no, you don't want to do it because of injury. We know you just pitched six innings and we know we just sat you down.
But it's a real big spot. We don't trust any of our guys in the bullpen. So can you just warm up? We want to pull you off the bench one more time just to go ahead and strike this guy out. I guess just it's janky. Like, I think it starts to chop away at some of the strategy in the game. And baseball has already done away with some of that strategy or tried to speed the game up with the amount of pitching changes and amount of times a guy can throw over. Like, leave the game alone. And I get it. It's not for me.
Well, the changes are for me, but just stop golden tickets. Save it for MLB the show, PlayStation, Xbox, whatever system Nintendo makes. But real life and Hickey, by the way, do you really think Rob Manfred came up with this idea? No, I don't think he's come up with any of the ideas. Yeah. You know, when Homer Simpson is at the nuclear power plant. And he's sitting there thinking and they zoom in on his brain and just the monkey. It's just a monkey. Let's let's not give him credit. It's a chimp.
I don't know the difference, but it's a chimp. And he's banging on symbols. Yes. I think that's Rob Manfred most of the time. It's going to get annoying.
Give you a headache, I'm sure. It seems like he has one all the time. Not a constructive idea coming out of his brain. It's the J.R.
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