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All real easy. Anyway, last hour. Unfortunately, we did talk about Joe Burrow. House robbed back home in Ohio while he's playing in Texas for Monday Night Football. Bengals ended up beating the Dallas Cowboys, but he got robbed while he was playing. Terrible.
Awful. We discussed Mike McCarthy and his job security. Who knows, right? Come on now. It's Jerry Jones. And then we talked about Bill Belichick. Whether or not Belichick is on his way to coach at the University of North Carolina, they asked the same Bill Belichick. Who we all thought was just going to try to get back into the NFL.
And maybe coach, I don't know, anybody. Atlanta Falcons said hell no to Bill Belichick last offseason. And before we even get to this upcoming offseason, before we get to the playoffs, Bill Belichick is already looking at an alternative in coaching at the University of North Carolina.
So, so much to figure out. And it's been reported that as of today, Bill Belichick has agreed to coach North Carolina. But they don't have a deal or a deal involving a contract, which means that North Carolina either haven't presented him with a monetary deal.
He hasn't agreed to one. But apparently this is in North Carolina's hands right now. You know what? A matter of fact, in about 20 minutes from now, we're going to be joined by Jason Staples of Inside Carolina. Covers all things Tar Heels.
We're going to find out what the latest is. Is Belichick going? Is he not going? Is this another bad look for Bill Belichick?
We'll find out. It didn't look good for him when the only team that really interviewed him multiple times last offseason was the Atlanta Falcons. And then the Falcons, which we know they could use a quarterback. Sorry, Kirk Cousins.
They could use a coach. No disrespect to Raheem Morris. Even a Falcon said no to Belichick. He beat him in a Super Bowl, unfortunately. Let's not remember that.
But that's what took place. A matter of fact, this is Andy Reid from yesterday. You know, yeah, he's a contemporary.
Damn it. He might pass Bill Belichick in all time coaching wins by the time he hangs it up. He was on the Let's Go podcast.
And Andy Reid, this is what he had to say about reports of Belichick even thinking about coaching in college. I've said it before, he's the greatest in whatever he chooses. He can go to high school, wherever he wants to go.
He deserves a right. Whatever makes him happy. I think the NFL, though, would be missing a great part if he decides he wants to come back. He might, listen, he might be enjoying this retirement. I mean, he's done this a long time.
And is Andy Reid, what is wrong with him? Why did he say that? Why did he call it a retirement? Because, well, it's better than saying he got fired and wasn't hired again. Right?
No, that's not. Bill Belichick was 40. Would he call it a retirement? If he was 50, would he call it a retirement? If he was 60, would he call it a retirement? No. That's tough, man.
What would you call it? He's on a hiatus. Nothing. He's just not coaching this year. It's not a retirement. He has stopped working.
No, he did. He's working his ass off trying to get another job. He has stopped coaching.
Temporarily is his hope. You know, I don't want to call it. Hickey, if I were Bill Belichick, I'd be mad.
I'd be like, listen, bro, don't, don't put it out there that I'm retired from coaching. Don't say that. It's inaccurate.
It's intellectually dishonest. Don't, don't say that. Bill Belichick wants to coach in the NFL. NFL just may not, may not want him. We'll see what happens with Bill Belichick.
We'll be having that conversation with Staples in about, you know, 15 minutes from now. And that's not the only potential issue, if I want to call it one, going on in the world of football right now. While the Eagles got beef and they got to explain away all this nonsense, they have proven to be one of the top teams in the NFC. We might see an NFC championship game featuring both the Lions and the Eagles. The Eagles just beat Carolina 22 to 16. Non-game winning streak, Eagles have a record of 11 and 2. And all anybody is talking about right now is the fact that Jalen Hurts in the passing game, it stinks right now because they're running the hell out of the ball. That they are the one NFL team that right now is, is running the ball more than they are throwing it. But they are 11 and 2.
Now I get it. If you want to have concerns about, hey, what happens down the line when Jalen Hurts needs to throw the ball and nobody's going to confuse, you know, Jalen Hurts out there would be in, you know, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes. Nobody is. A big part of his game is his ability to go ahead and run and scramble. And who cares if he goes a, you know, a 12 of 17 passing and, and has 200 yards and only throws two touchdowns and runs for another two.
Who cares as long as they win it? Well, obviously you got the wide receivers who want the rock. A.J. Brown, only 43 yards receiving in a victory on Sunday.
Devante Smith, 37 yards in the victory this past Sunday. And we know one thing about wide receivers. They want the ball. I want my targets. Give me 10, give me 15, give me an opportunity to come away, walk away with 10 catches. Give me some targets. And yeah, you can shut up because when you're winning, who's going to complain?
Nobody. But A.J. Brown was asked about this and he said, yeah, if there's one place that we can improve, it's the offense.
I didn't even get a target until about halftime. Come on. And so that's where things should have stopped with A.J. Brown, with Hertz having to respond, with Nick Sirianni having to respond. But dammit, a guy who's not even playing on the team right now, the most senior guy on the team who's out for the season, who might be done, his career might be over. Brandon Graham, who can't play, let me remind you, he cannot play. He tore his triceps last month, 15 years with the Philadelphia Eagles, may never play again. He's sitting around on the radio, W.I.P. in Philadelphia, and he spilled beans that did not need to be spilled. He said that Jalen hurts the quarterback and A.J.
Brown, the wide receiver. He said that they got some type of personal beef. Listen to this. The person that's complaining needs to be accountable. And I'm just being honest, you know what I'm saying? Like he noticed, you know, I don't know the whole story, but I know that one is trying.
And I mean, 11 could be a little better with how he responds to things. And they were friends before this. It's like, man, but things have changed. And I understand that because life happens. But it's the business side that we have to make sure that we don't let the personal get in the way of the business. And that's what we got to do better. Man, we don't know what the hell you're talking about.
The personal side and getting away with the bit. We don't know what you're talking about. And since that piece of information came out, everybody pretty much learned that I guess that the godparents, somebody's godparent hurts the Brown, Brown. I guess Brown has kids. I don't think hurts has children. So, but anyway, they're close. Making me the godfather of my kid. Okay, whatever.
But it counts for something. What's the beef? What's the issue? That was vague. Brandon Graham said the relationship has changed. Why are you telling people's personal business on the radio? We just talking about football.
What are you talking about personally? And so you want to know what happened? Brandon Graham realized Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Listen to what he said.
Afterwards, I want to start off by just, you know, apologizing to my guys, you know, I was gonna see him today anyway. But I want to start here first publicly since we all was here because I didn't want to make this I made the assumption. I didn't know all the details. And I still don't. And I was just like, dang, like, you know, I really just saw everything that y'all saw with the video. And I just was reacting to that. And I should have used a little more logic on it right now. I don't think it's that bad. I think it's a great thing because pressure makes diamonds, you know, I'm saying so I feel like this about to be something that we won't bounce back from really good. And, you know, we all make mistakes.
And you know, this was one of my mistakes. Oh, boy, this is why we don't need athlete. And it's I think on on WIP.
I think it's his own show, the Brandon Graham show podcast. You're not even playing right now. Like the guys in the locker room are gonna have to answer questions about you and your comments. And you can't even suit up and beat up on the quarterback anymore.
It's not what anybody needs. And of course, the head coach, he spoke today, he was on WIP. And he had to respond to just the beef between Hertz and Brown, the one that we didn't know that existed. Listen to this. There's going to be speculation of what things look like. Because you guys don't have all the let's be honest, you guys don't have all the information. You don't get to see it on a daily basis.
All I can judge things on is what I see on a daily basis. When I see, you know, AJ and Jaylin communicating about the game plan, eating lunch together every single day, praying with each other before the game, like, and so like, there's going to be speculation and I get it. You know, I get it rightfully so based on what's happened the last couple days, but we can say, Hey, there's based off what happened the last couple days. Hey, oh, man, there's a little cut in 2023.
But I see a lot of 2022 vibes. You can look at what you see in one week, but I'm looking at the big picture. The big picture is you need to tell your players to shut up. He said, okay, AJ Brown says you need to do a better job passing the ball. Okay. Understandable. Fine.
Nothing unusual. Why is the defensive tackle who can't play? Why is the lineman who can't play? Why is he spilling partial secrets from the team?
You don't need to get involved. There's none of his business. What is he so far removed from the team? Is he already in like retirement mode that he's like, Oh, let me just say whatever comes to my mind. No, man, be quiet.
You want to know another Eagle? Oh, he is retired. So now you can say whatever the hell he wants. LaShawn McCoy. He looked at his former teammate, Brandon Graham.
He was on Fox sports one and he said, man, he should have shut the hell up. Why are you stirring this up for? BG is my brother though. Mind your business. Mind your business. The first he said was, I don't know everything was going on, but here's how, you know, and I'm cool with BG in the locker room, but it's a thing though.
Office of defense though. We even might be cool. Like I was cool.
I chose my man, but like, I'm not running him. My business was going on the office and I know, I know one trying cause he, well, you know, we're trying, how you know, I'll just say this, man, as a brotherhood in the locker room, we keep everything in house. We're not going to media and rapping about this, about that.
Everybody got a podcast. Now is this going to tank the Philadelphia Eagles? I don't think so. And to Brandon Graham's credit, this might actually be something that, that pulls them together, puts an emphasis on the offense. Well, not just the fact that we have Saquon Barkley, of course, let's run the ball, but let's try to balance things out a little bit more. Are the wheels going to fall off of Saquon Barkley as we move a little bit deeper and closer to the postseason? We know AJ Brown can, can break open a game. We know Devante Smith can break open a game, but when we know it gets cold and it gets nasty and you're not playing bums anymore, sorry, Carolina, and you're playing good teams in the NFC in the postseason, I think a little bit of balance would help, right?
You know, the most dynamic offensive weapon is Saquon Barkley, but I'll switch things up. Is Jalen Hurts going to be prepared for that? Is he going to be skittish? Is he going to hold the ball? Is he going to scramble? Is he going to take sacks?
Is he going to be ready? We're going to find out and maybe this does help, but still to LaShawn McCoy's point, you got to keep some things in house. And if you don't know what the hell you're talking about, just don't say nothing. You can't run around with partial stories. You can't run around with half story.
You can't do that. You want to know who's going to have to answer to this and for this over the next couple of days, the next couple of weeks, Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown. They might ask Devante Smith, hey, what do you think about it? Like nobody wants to sit around and talk about their personal business. I don't care if they're praying together before games or sitting down and having lunch or have God daughters or brothers or sisters. I don't care how they feel about each other. That's their business. And you got a guy who's not even playing football right now, bringing it to the forefront, making it a distraction for the team, a team that's won nine straight games and is 11 and two. Maybe this is a bump in the road that they can elevate after they've hit the bump.
Or maybe this is a bump in a road that derails them. I have no idea. We're going to find out.
I'll tell you this much. When it comes to taking on the Detroit Lions, if that should be the case in the post-season, I'm going with the team that can run and throw the ball. That's the Lions. That's not the Eagles. Maybe they do want to try to work on that passing game and diversify things a little bit. That defense is looking damn good for the Eagles right now.
It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Let me tell you this, by the way, if Nick Sirianni, if he doesn't work out in Philadelphia, maybe Bill Belichick will come through and help them out. That's if he is not at North Carolina. You know what?
We're going to take a break. I told you this to get a little bit more details as to what's going on at Chapel Hill. Is Bill Belichick received an offer? Does he have an offer? Has he accepted something? Is he waiting on money? Is he going to college?
I have no idea. We're going to have a chat with Jason Staples from inside Carolina. He's going to join us in a few minutes. We'll see if Bill Belichick is done with the NFL. If he's going to college, Jason is going to come through and give us that info on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR sport brief.
It is the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Man is so much in the news over the weekend heading into today about Bill Belichick, his future. Is he leaving the NFL? Is he leaving media? Is he going to coach at North Carolina to give us some insight as to what might be going on?
What might happen? What has already taken place is someone who is coached. And at this point in time, you can go ahead and find him as an analyst on inside Carolina. It's Jason Staples. Jason, how are you? I'm doing just fine. How are you?
I'm very well. Thank you for taking the time to join us. There's so much that's happening and it seems like every few hours there's new information. What's the latest? Is Bill Belichick accepted an offer? Has an offer been levied out from Chapel Hill?
What's going on? Yeah, so as far as I have information, he has not yet accepted an offer. There is continued negotiation between UNC and Belichick. And at this point, if it doesn't wind up going through, it's going to be a lot of egg on a lot of faces in Chapel Hill because of the public nature of what's been happening. But it's pretty clear that there's been significant back and forth and negotiation. Belichick is asking for specific things in terms of how the program will be run and a lot of compensation issues and NIL and all the sorts of things that he thinks are necessary in order to run a successful and nationally competitive program. And Carolina has never done the right thing in the last year.
He's never done those things before. So there's a lot of I's to be dotted and T's to be crossed for everything to work out for these sides to come closer. But as of right now, we're still expecting that to happen. You're expecting what to happen, Jason?
I'm sorry. We're still expecting for him to actually, for them to come together and for them to wind up getting an accepted offer that Bill Belichick is the most likely next head coach in Chapel Hill, which I think would have sounded silly to pretty much any of us about two weeks ago. Football analyst Jason Staples is joining us from Inside Carolina. How did this come together? Was there an approach? Obviously, North Carolina reached out. Has Bill Belichick been putting feelers out there? What is your understanding? So as I understand it, Belichick actually reached out to North Carolina and said, hey, I'm interested.
Would you like to talk? And, well, I mean, if you're if you're North Carolina in that situation and one of the one of the greatest coaches in the history of the game gives you a holler and says, I'm interested, you at least hear him out. And there's a video conversation and with him and several of the power brokers making these decisions. And, you know, it's Bill Belichick. He he kind of blew him away in that interview and they realized that he was actually serious. And, you know, there were other candidates that they were that they were also vetting and interested in and trying to negotiate with as these things go.
I mean, in college football, no one's ever actually offered the job until they've agreed to take the job. Right. That's the way this works.
Right. There's all this plausible deniability. But, you know, there were other there were other candidates that were being vetted, other candidates that were that had, you know, essentially opportunities. And, you know, Belichick was within the mix the whole time. And ultimately the focus, as I understand it, the focus just came to be Belichick. And now it's just a matter of getting that done. And, yeah, I mean, he's he's put together a very clear plan of what he wants.
And that's essentially what what they're working out right now. Well, Jason, you're a former coach. We know Belichick. We heard from some of his players, maybe playfully or not. They were just like, can you imagine him with younger students, younger young men? What are your thoughts on the transition? Some people say this would be great for Belichick because he's used to understanding the free agent structure slash NIL or he's not going to work well with younger people.
What do you think? I you know, I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who played years in the NFL about this and we were both going, you know, I just don't see how that's going to work with him, with, you know, with parents like see, here's the thing in the pros, you're dealing with grown men who are who are on your payroll. They're making a paycheck.
You can cut them. There's a variety of things that work out this way. In college, he's going to have to walk into a living room and deal with parents. And that part of that part of things, I mean, I don't know. I mean, look, the guy is one of the greatest coaches to ever to ever coach, if not the best NFL coach ever coach.
Yeah, he's certainly in the discussion. So I'm not going to call into question the, you know, the idea that he, you know, I'm not going to say it's not possible that he could succeed. But I do think that this is one of those things that would require him to to do things differently in terms of just how he handles people within the program, specifically players and players, coach and players, families that are that are just different than how you have to do it in the NFL.
So I have a healthy dose of skepticism of exactly how that might work. But on the flip side, if you're a college coach, if you're a coordinator or a position coach, and you get a phone call from Bill Belichick that says, hey, do you want to join my staff at North Carolina? How many guys are turning that down?
Yeah, no, no. And if you're if you're a transfer, and you actually want to play in the NFL, but you're just not quite there, you're moving up a little bit from maybe a smaller school or a variety of different things. And Bill Belichick calls and says, hey, you know, you know, if you're a college coach, I'm not sure if you're good enough. In fact, I'm pretty sure you're not good enough to play for us. But, you know, we've got an extra spot.
You want it? You know, there's going to be a lot of players that are going to go, yeah, that guy probably knows what he's doing. I've got the best chance of making the NFL if I play for him. So, you know, you've got to think that he's going to be able to put together a reasonable staff, which may minimize how much he has to deal with players and coaches to that degree.
I mean, at that point, is he just managing the staff and making sure that everything runs as a CEO should and then, you know, inputs what he wants schematically and all of that? That's entirely possible. And then at that point, you start to look at it from that angle and you say, well, geez, that that actually could work because now you're getting an influx of talent and you're getting top quality coaches and you're headed up by somebody who knows what he's doing as a CEO. So, yeah, I mean, that could work.
So I'm a little bit of two minds. I mean, I think it would take Belichick sort of reinventing himself in terms of how he deals with people and particularly like parents and family of players and how he acclimates to the, you know, to that kind of environment with younger players and all that. It would require him to reinvent himself. But at the same point, I have to think he's going to have a lot of opportunities to bring top quality talent to surround himself with top quality talent at the player and coaching level. And, you know, talent is what matters in college football. If you can collect talent, if you can get players who are, you know, I played for Bobby Bowden.
Bobby Bowden used to say the secret to being a better coach, the secret to being a successful coach is having better players than the guy across from you. And you got to think, I mean, Belichick's brand name on its own might have some say there. I mean, we've seen kind of how that's worked out with another guy that doesn't recruit, that doesn't, you know, Deion Sanders has only visited like four living rooms as a head coach.
He doesn't really recruit. But if you look at what's happened at Colorado, they did attract some talent just based on Deion's brand name. And I suspect that that's part of what Belichick has looked at here is Belichick's brand name is a lot bigger than Deion's.
So, you know, that's the part where I can find myself talking myself into this pretty easily, just based on that. Jason Staples is here with us, a former coach, player, current football analyst and more inside Carolina covering all things North Carolina sports. When you think about what the future might be, Belichick, 72, 73 years old, coming on, we've heard reports that he may bring on his family.
No shock or surprise there. Is this one of the reasons that North Carolina might be hesitant? They just got rid of someone a similar age and Mac Brown is not going to require the same amount of power of Belichick? I'm sure that there has to be some type of understanding that Belichick is not going to be doing this for the next, you know, 10 or 15 years.
What are your thoughts on on a holdup? Is it strictly financial and compensation or do you think there might be some type of succession issues as well? You know, I'm not privy to those to those discussions, so I don't know for sure. But, you know, putting my speculation cap on, I'm guessing, I mean, the stuff that I heard initially was that succession was an issue, was something that that the Carolina powers that we were concerned about, that, you know, you're looking at somebody who's 73 years old, like you said.
I think at this point they're, you know, kind of settled that that's going to be most likely the direction that they go. But I do suspect that if that's the decision you're going to make, then you do have to start to think about how succession is going to work and how are you going to put that together. And there, you know, there have been reports and again, I've not been able to verify those specific reports of, you know, obviously the report was that he would want his son Steve Belichick to be the head coach in waiting, essentially, for after him. I doubt that that is formally agreed to. And one of the reasons that I doubt that's formally agreed to is simply because of the major restrictions that are placed on head coach in waiting titles. But you might have, you know, other ways of kind of setting up that kind of succession and these sorts of things. And, you know, if you're North Carolina, yeah, you're trying to make this higher for more than the next three or four years. And, you know, that's complicated and it does require dealing with some of the succession stuff.
Thing is, I'm not sure that in this, you saw on the flip side of this, and again, you know, today's college football, you have to be of like three minds on everything. But on the flip side, if you're a major university at this point, I'm not sure that it makes a lot of sense to try to hire someone with 10 years in mind. I mean, these are, these are short, they seem to be short term positions for the most part now. So you need to hire someone who's going to put you in the best possible position three years from now, four years from now, and then kind of figure out from there.
But, you know, I do think that the bigger thing, and this has been reported, and I think it's pretty reliable. The bigger thing that's holding up how this is going is Bellachik wants big boy, you know, major program commitment when it comes to all of the other stuff surrounding the coach. I don't think it's a matter of coach compensation. I think it's a matter of how much are you willing to commit to NIL? How much are you willing to commit to, how much are you willing to commit to staff hiring?
How much are you willing to put into the back office and recruiting operations and all of these things? You're talking about enormous amounts of money. And North Carolina has never put that kind of money on the table for football, especially. And, you know, they've got to figure out how they would do that in order to make that work, because Bellachik is convinced that if you have all of that stuff surrounding him, he's going to be successful, but he doesn't want to take the job unless he thinks he can win. And so he wants all that stuff in place in order to put himself in the position where he's going to have advantages over all the other programs that he plays. And that's what North Carolina has to figure out.
I'm sorry, Jason. And just to reiterate, you believe that this is ultimately going to happen? I do think at this point, North Carolina is in a position where they, I think the powers that be recognize that if it doesn't happen, it's going to look really bad. And, you know, there's very little in this world that makes people, that motivates people to do certain things more than the fear of looking really, really, really bad in public. And I suspect that that's going to be a part of the calculus here.
Nobody wants to walk around with an egg on their face. You know, in closing in finality here, Jason, we have seen coaches decide to exit college programs, whether it's Saban in the football space, or whether we look at Coach K in the basketball space, because they didn't want to deal with this changing landscape. Do you see Bill Belichick potentially ending up at North Carolina as something that has a ripple effect on what the ranks look like? Because we know college is changing a whole hell of a lot.
People are exiting. And he's saying, yeah, I'm not in the NFL right now, but I may come on in. Yeah, I think the biggest thing is there's going to be a lot of people in the industry that are looking at what Belichick sets up in terms of the infrastructure and the apparatus to be successful. I mean, Nick Saban, the thing that made Nick Saban what he was at Alabama is he set up a system, a program that essentially was on autopilot, where Alabama had advantages over everybody else in terms of talent acquisition and maintaining talent within that program for the time period that Saban was there. And that was because of how Saban got everything set up.
That setup lasted really well. Now, NIL sort of blew that up to some degree. And that's one of the reasons why Saban walked away, is this setup, this program that he had put together that gave them such a huge advantage over their peers in the NIL era didn't give them enormous advantages over, say, Ole Miss or any number of other programs that's willing to pony up the money for other things. Well, now, what you have is Belichick, who seems to think that he's identified some specific ways to give himself advantages in a similar way. And again, Belichick and Saban are a lot alike.
They're friends and go back many, many years. Belichick is coming in and seems to think that he can do the same thing. And I can tell you that if Belichick does come and do all of this at North Carolina, you're going to see a lot of people studying what North Carolina is doing to see if they can implement a lot of the same sorts of things to try to find a competitive edge in their own environment. So, yeah, I do think if this happens, Carolina is going to be sort of a test case and and an example for a lot of other programs that are going to end up trying to imitate what they're doing. Yeah, monkey see, monkey do. We'll see what things or what takes place with Bill Belichick in North Carolina.
This is certainly seems like we're down to the wire here. Jason, thank you so much for the insight, for what you know and sharing your wealth and breadth of knowledge. Where can people follow and keep up with you? Well, as always, my stuff and all sorts of other stuff pertaining to UNC is an inside Carolina dot com. I do other sports commentary and all sorts of stuff on Twitter or X if you prefer. I think Twitter is better, but I'm at Doc Staples there at Doc Staples.
Otherwise, I'm pretty easy to find. Thanks. Thanks again for the chance to chat. It's fun. Well, thank you so much, Jason.
You have a good evening, OK? You guys too. No doubt about it that Jason Staples, former coach football analyst inside Carolina dot com.
You can also search them at inside Carolina. He brings up an excellent point. You think about UNC. It's been reported that they wanted to have a coach in place by the time we we got to the opening of the transfer portal, which, by the way, is open in an odd time being that we're still in season. Technically, just just wild stuff in the college football space.
And yeah, worst things have happened. Would it be a disaster if North Carolina and Belichick didn't get together? I would say so. Would I be shocked if they decided to both kind of walk away or Belichick said, screw this? I would be shocked at any of it.
This is all just kind of popped up out of nowhere. By the way, Bill Belichick is still lying. He would love to be a coach in the NFL. Let's just be clear on that. He'd love to break Schuler's record.
He's not going to sit and whine and cry publicly about that. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.
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It is the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you so much to Jason Staples from insidecarolina.com, former coach, former player, insider, Tar Heels, sports.
Thank you for coming through. He told us it's his understanding that Belichick reached out to the Tar Heels. It's also Jason's understanding that at this point he believes a deal will get done because they are so far down the line and that this would this would be embarrassing for North Carolina.
Mack Brown was gone what now two weeks ago they gave him the boot after he said he wanted to stay. And after walking this down the line with Belichick over the past several days, Jason believes that they will they will get a deal done with Bill Belichick. And I assume we are we're going to hear about this sooner than later. There's going to be some type of conclusion I would believe at minimum over the next two days before this week is up. I mean, the longer it goes something has to give. Somebody has to go.
We doing this or not? Wild stuff. If you want to listen or you missed the conversation with Jason Staples, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app.
A U D A C Y. Phone lines are open at eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Belichick might be moving to a different space. I did mention to you that there might be an NBA player who's going to be doing the same at some point over the next two months. And this man's name is Jimmy Butler. We'll get into that in a bit.
May have to take it to the other side of the break. We have more to get into. I do want to talk about some of the positive aspects surrounding the Cincinnati Bengals that don't involve Joe Burrow getting robbed. And we learned that Kaitlyn Clark is now the time athlete of the year. And so we have a whole lot more to do as this show continues on. I want to get into Sam Donald some more, too. So we got a lot to do. The phone lines open if you want to give me a holler.
Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Let's go ahead and talk to Connor. Connor is here from Ohio. You're on the J.R. sport.
We show us up. Connor. Connie, you're live on the radio.
Connor got abducted by aliens. Pat from Massachusetts. Excuse me. You're on the J.R. sport. We show us up, Pat. Hi, J.R.
I haven't called you in a while, but I wanted to thank you for announcing that Kaitlyn Clark was Time Magazine's athlete of the year. Oh, yeah, well, it's a fact, so I'm going to try to get the copy of that magazine. Now, the other thing that occurred to me while I was listening to you talk about football, I'm not a football fan, but Tom Brady's oldest son is a very good football player. And I wonder if there isn't something going on between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and North Carolina. Yeah, I don't I don't think so.
I think if anything, Tom Brady probably wants to keep his kid away from Bill Belichick. Oh, really? Well, it's just a thought. And if anything comes of this, I'll call you back on it. All right. Hey, I appreciate it.
You know where to find me. OK, thank you. Thank you so much. Pat from Massachusetts. Appreciate you. Good evening.
Oh, yeah, I don't think that. Come on now. Bill Belichick wanted to get rid of Tom Brady. He wanted to get rid of Tom Brady so much that Tom Brady said, I need to get out of here.
And Tom Brady left. I don't think Tom Brady wants his kid dealing anything with Bill Belichick. And I don't know what Tom Brady's oldest kid. I'm not keeping track of his kids.
Not Bronny James. Hickey, what is his oldest kid? He got to be just in high school.
Probably right. I don't know. Is he is he looking at colleges? I don't know. Does he play football? I think he does. I know that the oldest kid is tall, isn't he? Or is he short?
I don't know. I guess I don't know anything about Tom Brady's kids. Outside of that, he has what, three?
That's all I really know. He has one from Bridget Moynihan. Yeah, that's the oldest child. Right.
And then there are two more, three more with the model, whatever her name is, the rich one. Wow. Out of sight, out of mind for you. Don't say it. Don't say it.
Don't say it. Gisele Bündchen. There you go. Yeah.
Listen, I could only talk about one model of show. We talked about Joe Burrows model girlfriend. I don't even remember her name. Boynton?
Boynton? Something like that. I don't know. I don't know. Doesn't matter to me. She's not your girlfriend. And she's not my girlfriend.
Not rolling up until my house broke into. Nope. Don't, don't know who she is. Yeah. But do you think there's any way in hell Brady would want anything to do with Belichick?
No, no. Yeah. I think he would send us like NC State to like, you know, in that rivalry game, get revenge on Bill. If anything, I don't think he sent him to help Bill out again. Yeah.
And forget helping him out. I don't think he wants to communicate with Belichick more than he needs to. He's like, yeah, it's one thing to sit down and reminisce and do a roast and pop bottles and have fun.
Oh, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. The good old days. I think it's another thing to have a conversation with Bill Belichick about your son, his development, his playing time. I think Tom Brady has passed that. I think he's trying to develop people for the Oakland Raiders. Excuse me, the Las Vegas Raiders. That at some point I also assume that Antonio Pierce will no longer be a member of because Tom Brady is technically going to be running the team.
A lot of information in the last 40 seconds. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to talk about the positives surrounding the Bengals. I am going to give you an update on Jimmy Butler. Is he going to be sticking around with the Miami Heat? What's going on with Kaitlyn Clark?
Well, you just heard me. She is the time athlete of the year. I'm getting ready to find out who might win the Heisman.
We got a lot to do. It's the JR Sport Reshow Coast to Coast. The Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
