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If not too bad, that sucks. Let me try to help you out. I'm going to be hanging out with you for the next four hours. This is when the show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. We got a lot to discuss on this hump day. The Atlanta Falcons explain why they decided to bench Kirk Cousins for Michael Penix Jr. Last night, the NBA handed out its second edition, the second trophy, the second NBA cup. Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks.
It looks like the NBA is also trying to tinker with its All-Star game. We'll talk about that. Matt Verderam is going to join us from Sports Illustrated. I'm going to talk some NFL football. I'm going to ask him everything from what the hell is going on with the Falcons, why they bench Cousins now. We're going to get into, you know, some other quarterbacks.
Patrick Mahomes is, looks like he's hell bent on playing this Saturday against the Texans. And of course it is Wednesday. In matter of fact, this is going to be the last Wednesday that I am here for the year 2024. And so today, ahead of the holiday, ahead of Christmas, ahead of New Year's to kind of wrap things up in two hours from now, I'm going to share with you a top six list.
My top six athletes in the year 2024. Yeah, we'll do that two hours from now. We got a lot to discuss. Mike Vick got his job now, Norfolk State, Trevor Lawrence done for the year. We knew that.
Nick Chubb done for the year. Unfortunately, we got a lot to discuss. So whether you happen to be in California, Norfolk, you're here in Atlanta with me, you're in New York with super producer and host Ryan Hickey, welcome. You can listen to every minute, every second of the show on the free Odyssey app. You can tune in on your local infinity sports network affiliate. I don't know the radio station where you live.
That's why Google exists. You can also punch in 158 if you have Sirius XM. And if you have a smart speaker, ask the smart speaker to play the infinity sports network. What a day, what a day, what a day. We're going to talk about Kirk Cousins and Raheem Morris and Pennix in a second. Raheem Morris spoke earlier today and Kirk Cousins spoke a few minutes ago.
Kirk Cousins, hilarious. He said, listen, people, I did not wake up and forget how to play quarterback. You didn't say nothing about the waking up part. We know he woke up. He said, I didn't forget how to play quarterback.
He said there are no physical limitations. So we'll talk about the Falcons in a second. Hickey, how are you on this Wednesday, December 18th?
I guess better than Kirk Cousins. Oh, I have a job. Oh, Hickey. Well, you know what? Actually, I take that back. He's probably winning. He's definitely winning. He's guaranteed like 90 million dollars for the next two years.
This year, next year, 90 mil. And now he doesn't have to take any hits from 300 pound lineman or throw interceptions and get criticized. You know what? I take it back. He's actually the real winner.
He's he's living. Well, would you take the money and the ridicule that comes with it, though? I understand. Very easy for me to say from, you know, from where I am saying, of course. And I get athletes want to compete. Yeah.
But yeah, you're telling me 90 million dollars to deal with what, a few tweets for a few days that I'm not even wouldn't even be on Twitter at that point. A few radio talk show hosts, you know, yelling at me. Yeah, not too bad.
Not too bad. I'll take it. And let's be real. Kirk Cousins knows he sucks. He does. He said it for the past few weeks.
I mean, today he talked about the turnovers. It's not like, you know, somebody stole his dog. It's not like somebody reached into his house and stole his Christmas tree.
Like, you know, it's not like somebody stole his Christmas tree. Like, he sucks. He stinks. And so they took the job away from him. And now they're giving it to a rookie. Now, you said this is something they should have done weeks ago.
I felt that they should have stuck with him at least to try to get through these next miserable games. The New York Giants are next. They'll be here in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday.
And last night, we were able to break the news here, amongst other people. They're telling Kirk Cousins, have a seat. We don't want you anymore.
You're not good enough. This man, Kirk Cousins, blew out his Achilles last October for the Minnesota Vikings. He was a free agent. The Atlanta Falcons decided to sign him to a four year one hundred and eighty million dollar contract. And then a few weeks after that, they said, well, still going to draft the quarterback.
And they drafted Michael Pennix Jr. at number eight, which confused a lot of people. I'm like, really believe in Kirk Cousins. You're going to get him some help. You're going to get him offensive help. Maybe you get another weapon. Maybe you get another wide out. Maybe you fortify the offensive line. They said, no, we're getting a quarterback.
Well, now it's paid off. Because Kirk Cousins has stunk over the last five games of which they just broke a four game losing streak. Kirk Cousins has thrown for one touchdown, nine interceptions in 11 sacks.
Damn. You and by the way, Will Levis was also benched by the Tennessee Titans. Will Levis says, yeah, yeah, I still believe I could be a franchise back. Somebody tell Will Levis to call Kirk Cousins. Maybe Kirk Cousins can give him some advice. Kirk Cousins, by the way, said he called Michael Pennix Jr. said he's going to do everything he can to help him because he likes shooting down elephants in the room. Good.
Now that's a pro's pro. Now his head coach, Raheem Morse, had a press conference earlier today and explained to the world why they finally pulled the plug on Kirk Cousins. And he he was asked, hey, how did you come to this decision? Raheem, tell me.
Obviously, you go in, you evaluate, you talk, you look at the tape, you go through all the process, you go through your next preparation and your daily things that you got to do. Obviously, you know, we got to play better at the position. We want to play better at this position.
And that's what we made the decision to do that last night. Well, the head coach made the decision, along with the general manager and likely the owner. How does Kirk Cousins feel about all of this? Well, Kirk Cousins spoke not too long ago, and this is what he said. This is disappointing. It's disappointing, but it's pro football and there's no entitlement. And and so, you know, you got to go out and earn it every single day. And I think I've said that really since I got here. You got to earn it every single day.
And if you if you don't, you know, then then there's always going to be you know, there's always going to be, you know, you're always going to be competing and change can happen. Don't feel bad for Kirk Cousins. This man has clocked career earnings.
Over two hundred million dollars. OK, don't feel bad for Kirk Cousins. This is someone who's been a four time Pro Bowler. He was in Minnesota dating back to 2018. He was just shaking the money tree in Washington, just going, hey, you know, franchise me.
Yeah, he was just shaking that money tree all the way through. Now, unfortunately for Kirk Cousins, as I mentioned, he tore his Achilles last year and he is one and four in his playoff career. And it is more than likely right now that Kirk Cousins is going to get the boot.
I told you about all this guaranteed money he has coming his way. And the Falcons got two options. They could either release him or which they're still going to owe him the same amount of money is still going to cost them. Or they can trade him.
And if you trade him, yeah, you're going to save a few dollars, but you're basically moving on from him for pittance. What what are you trading Kirk Cousins for? A third rounder? Hickey, what, a fourth rounder? At worst, a third rounder, right?
Maybe. Probably, yeah, somewhere in that range. I feel like the third maybe be a little rich, depending on how much money will be taken. Like, I guess it depends on the money. If the Falcons eat most of the money, you could probably get a third. If the team trading for Kirk is going to take on most of that contract, you're talking five, probably.
Some miserable ass team will probably pick up Kirk Cousins. And this is just, I don't want to call it sad. He just he can't move. He said today, he said there are no physical limitations. It's all about his decision making. But if you if you watch the games, it seems like he's he's not moving. He's not throwing the ball.
He's not into it. He's trying to get every he doesn't move. I told you the man has been sacked 11 times. His decision making is awful. Maybe his decision making is awful because he can't move.
We'll find out soon enough. Now, his replacement, by the way, he's not known as a mobile quarterback. Nobody's looking at Michael Pennock Jr. and thinking, you know, he's going to move. Somebody told me today, hey, he's another left handed quarterback.
The last time we had a left handed quarterback, it was Michael Vick. We're going all the way to the Super Bowl. I said, come on now. Let's be real.
Somebody today said I was a hater. I'm like, I don't care either way. I root for the Falcons, but I'm a realist. I'm not going to look at a rookie quarterback taking over for the team and thinking that he's going to drive them to the Super Bowl because I highly doubt it. I put money on it.
I put everything I have on the fact that they ain't winning no Super Bowl. I mean, we talked about Kirk Cousins and his Achilles. Well, yeah, Kirk Cousins is 36 years old. Michael Pennock Jr. is 24. We know we got all the old jokes when he was drafted into the league and we know he's going to be 25 in the springtime.
Yeah, he's old for rookie QB. And the reason why he is old is because he got so many exemptions in college because he kept getting hurt. This man tore his ACL twice. He needed his non throwing shoulder reconnected because it was dislocated.
OK, this guy has been through some things. We heard all about it as he helped take Washington to a national championship game last year, unfortunately, of which they did not win. And so Pennock's is not going to wake up and all of a sudden just move around. But he's more mobile than this guy. He is much more mobile than Kirk Cousins. And I'm not mad at the fact that they're giving him the chance.
I'm just surprised that they're pulling the plug right now. Rahim Morris talked about what he expects from Michael Pennock's on Sunday against the Giants. It's real simple. Obviously, just the best version of himself. He's been doing a great job in his preparation and what he's been doing, how he's been getting to the spot. We're really fired up to go watch him play, get him through the practice week and obviously focus on trying to get one versus the Giants. Yeah, you can get him ready throughout the rest of the week.
You can do that. But let's be real, Kirk Cousins has been getting all the first team reps. He's throwing to Mooney and Ray Ray and Pitts and London. He's working with those guys. How often has Pennock's been airing it out to them? Rahim Morris just talked about things.
Forget the physical side. How is he prepared to step in and quarterback a team that is still in the playoff race? Michael's been the number two, you know, one snap away all year and he's been in the preparation in the lab ready to go. He's been grinding away, learning from Kirk, being around his coaches, being ready to go, knowing that every play could be the last snap for anybody. So, you know, he's been doing all the normal preparation that you have to do in order to start a game. So he's ready to go. As far as that's a mental standpoint, now he's got to go out there and do it physically within the practice format and how we want to do it. Good luck to Pennock's.
Good luck. At least it's the New York Giants, right? They weren't going to throw him out there again.
I don't know. The Kansas City Chiefs, even though they've been barely getting by. Not going to throw him out there. Hey, man, we need you to go beat the Lions. This is the New York Giants.
At home, here in Atlanta, Pennock's should do something, right? I think the threat of a quarterback back there who can actually move from left to right, who can move laterally is going to help out the team, is going to help out the offense. The Atlanta Falcons have made their choice.
And let's be real, there's no going back. And Ronnie Morris, the head coach of the Falcons, he was asked about this. He was asked, you know, are you are you moving back at some point or would you put Kirk would you put Kirk Cousins back out there? He's like, listen, man, there's not a damn thing, not a damn thing that's certain in the NFL, but uncertainty.
That's it. Let's listen to Rahi Morris. He made it very clear how Kirk Cousins has handled being told you ain't playing.
Any time you take a step down in the motion or whatever the case may be, it's not going to be met with great, you know, appreciation and all those things. But Kirk was a professional. He's a pro. He's a man. He's a great human. He's a great father. He's a great football player. He's done a lot of great things for us this year. He handled the class. He's an absolute professional.
I can't say enough good things about who the man is and how he is and what it is. But, you know, obviously, they've come to some disappointment when you do your job. He'll be on some loser ass team next year. Kirk Cousins will be on the, I don't know, you heard Will Levis.
He's like, I got benched too, but I'm gonna get my job back. Well, they may bring in Kirk Cousins to teach you something or replace you. The New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers said recently, he's like, listen, folks, I'm going to take some time at the end of the season once again to decide if I want to keep playing.
Thank you. Thank you, Aaron Rodgers. Would anybody be shocked if the New York Jets said Kirk Cousins is our our bridge QB? Would the New York Giants bring on Kirk Cousins? I mean, the Raiders, the team that he performed poorly against, the last team he performed poorly against, one interception, couldn't do anything else, only let him throw the ball 17 times. The team didn't believe in him. Kirk Cousins could be the Raiders QB next year.
Kirk Cousins basically told everybody he did not forget how to play this damn game. Well, he's going to have to play for a loser next year. He's going to have to play for a team presumably worse than the Falcons.
The team that he was supposed to come to helped take them to the playoffs and just roll the dice. Maybe they're better than that. Maybe they can contend and compete for a Super Bowl with all their offensive weapons. But their offense has been pathetic.
Let me say it again. In the last five games, Kirk Cousins has thrown one touchdown, nine interceptions, and has been sacked 11 times. The Falcons have been one and four.
That's not a formula to win anything. And Kirk Cousins, well, he was asked, are you hurt? Are you old? Is your achilles busted up? Why can't you move? Can you not move? Is that why you're turning the ball over? Well, what's going on, Kirk?
What's up with your body? No, I think, you know, going back to the turnovers, I think, you know, that's more probably decision making than anything. And, you know, that wouldn't have anything to do with any physical physical limitations. So I wouldn't say so. And mobility, the Achilles was not. No, I think when you look at it, you know, there was a lot of production.
We were six and three, you know, nine games in and had done a lot of good things. And and so I don't think there are any real limitations from that standpoint. Okay. His body isn't hurting. His body was broken last year. And this year it's his brain. Okay, I get it. All right. Blown achilles last year is his brain is blown out this year.
I get it. Well, he's going to fit in just fine. He's going to fit in perfectly fine on whatever loser ass NFL team decides to bring in Kirk Cousins next year. It appears that we have probably seen the best of Kirk Cousins.
And if you look at Kirk Cousins bank account, over the years, whether it be from Washington to Minnesota, now here to Atlanta, Kirk Cousins is now sitting on the pine. He'll be fine. He'll be okay. This is how he started his career right there with RG three.
What goes around comes around, I guess. And now he's just old and busted. But at least his body isn't.
He says it's it's his brain. Good luck on the Jets next year. Taking over for Aaron Rogers.
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That's 855-212-4227. Is Kirk Cousins done? Does Kirk Cousins need to go to another team? What is the best team for Kirk Cousins? Send him to New York to go ahead and get him. He's going to be for Kirk Cousins. Send him to New York to go ahead and I don't know, just mentor whoever the hell they're going to end up with. The New York Jets are a crap show. Yeah, send him to the Jets or the Giants. Why not? He's a bridge quarterback. We have so much more to get into as the show continues on.
It's Wednesday. Of course, I'm going to give you a top six list. We're going to talk about my top six athletes in the year 2024. We're going to talk about some other QBs. What the hell is going on with Patrick Mahomes and his ankle?
What's going on with Trevor Lawrence and his shoulder? Man, we got running backs who are done and out for the year. There's so much that we need to discuss. Listen, being a coach in the NFL is tough.
That's why they got to make the difficult decisions. I'm going to get to your calls and then I'm going to tell you about a brand new head coach in college. It's not Belichick. Congratulations. This is the beginning.
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I got to show love to somebody who is, I guess, probably a happy guy. We learned via him himself. Speaking of Atlanta quarterbacks, congratulations to Mike Vick.
We mentioned it yesterday. He is now the head coach of Norfolk State. We know he went to VT. Maybe that's a goal of his to kind of work his way up, but he's going to be coaching at an HBCU in the MEAC. And let's see what Mike Vick can do. Eddie George is at Tennessee State. Old Titans running back.
Eddie George has finally went over 500 to conclude his season. He's been there for like four years already. And we've seen his success of Deion Sanders going from Jackson State now to Colorado. And so maybe Mike Vick will do something cool.
I mean, since he retired in 2017 and is sitting around on Fox and giving everybody his thoughts and his opinions. And I want you to listen to this. This is from WTKR News 3, Mike Vick's old high school coach. He said Mike will be a great head coach. Listen to this. I've had 11 coaches call me in the last 72 hours.
11. And they all want a job and or they don't want to play Norfolk State. That's nice because of Michael Vick. Michael sit right over there about 10 days ago and we talked about coaching and we knew nothing about this.
He's going to be a great one. OK. Because he's been around good teaching. OK.
He's been around good. Well, yeah. Sitting around Andy Reid for a little while would certainly help him out as well at the end.
Yeah. OK. Give him credit there. So, yeah, things have worked out at least for one Falcons quarterback, at least a former one, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
I wish Michael Vick nothing but the best of success there. Marcus calling from Nova Scotia. You on the JR sport ratio. Mark, what's up?
Oh, thanks for taking my call, JR. I was a commanders fan. I just this is a sad day for me, for Kirk Cousins. I'm not saying that they shouldn't bench him or anything like that. But I still don't understand why they drafted Pennax. I'll still never accept that you signed cousins to this huge contract. You draft a guy who's really injury prone.
I wish the best for Michael Pennax. But I mean, it's just a slap in the face. And then you don't get Kirk Cousins any protection when he has protection.
He at least he was a good quarterback. So it just really makes no sense. The Falcons, I think, are really I don't know if I want to say dumpster fire, but they're certainly on the brink of it. I think it's I think they just completely mishandled it. You said is it is it. Can you still say that's a day after how bad he's been?
I live here. I wouldn't necessarily pin it on the offensive line like he can't move. And at one point at one point in time, this was a team that was that was looking good. That was six and three. And he was he was swag surfing and everybody was having fun.
And then he hit the dump. So what happened all of a sudden? That's not anybody else's fault.
That's his. Well, OK, like I said, maybe maybe, you know, now is the time to mention. But at the end of the day, it never made sense yet. President Kenzie, you got to deal with what happened in the present. But if I was a Falcons fan, I would still be I'm upset already. I'm not a Falcons fan. I am a Kirk Cousins fan.
He seems like a great guy. I but you know what? I'm not going to feel too sorry.
Like you told Hickey his paycheck is a lot bigger than mine. So there you go. All right.
Thank you so much, Mark, for calling from Nova Scotia. And I was wrong. I said that Kirk Cousins has made approximately, you know, north of 200. He's he's made almost about 300 million.
OK, I think that dude is fine. IRS takes about half. Agent takes about.
I think NFL agents take about three percent. I think he's doing fine. I think he is a O K. And to be honest, is now is today the day to say that the Falcons bungled this? Is today the day to say that the Falcons screwed this up?
Like it appears that their plan were fine. I thought it was dumb from a financial perspective because, oh, man, well, you would think at minimum you get two years out of Kirk Cousins. You got this guy on the bench. You don't know what he's doing. He's eating up cap space.
Well, it looks like Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot. This man's been selling wood his whole life. He don't give a damn.
Hickey, this man has sold so much wood. He does not care about no Kirk Cousins debt cap, nothing. He doesn't care. I don't know why.
Just the way you phrased that cracked me up. This guy sold so much wood. Yeah, he did. He sold a lot of wood.
How come? You know, yesterday we were saying, let's sell it. Look, listen to these billionaires. They got the owner of the Jets. What did he sell? Nothing. He was born into a family that sold Q-tips and Band-Aids. Nice. Now they sell medicine.
Good. You got the guy in Jacksonville. He's selling mufflers. He sold mufflers to get rich. Now we got this guy. Arthur Blank is a co-founder of Home Depot.
He's selling wood. Come on. You know, it's a simple, I go back to what I think can dare. I think it has a market. Yeah, we'll do.
We'll get there. Look at these bills. What did Robert Kraft sell? Paper? He sold paper, right? He sold paper. He was a paper salesman?
Yeah, just like regular ass paper. Yep. Trees, wood.
Wow. I need to go into the woods with a, what are they using? Axe? A saw?
I was going to say it's 2024. Get yourself a chainsaw, all right, please? A chainsaw.
I don't think some dangerous. You know, there's some woodsmen listening to us right now. Hickey, you ever use a chainsaw?
No. I've seen people use a chainsaw. I have used hedge clippers, electric ones. The big, it could take my arm off and do some damage, but I've never used no damn chainsaw. Come on, man. It could get dangerous. There's definitely some woodsmen listening that have like three whacks with an axe and like, you know, timber, any tree.
It is done. Not me. Yeah, not me. No.
Last time I saw a chainsaw, I was in the movies. Okay. Oh.
Yeah, there's some movies. What are they, Freddy? Jason? Who's the one with the chain? The guy from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What was his name? Oh, I never saw that. Did he have a name?
I would never sleep again if I saw that movie. Leatherface. There you are. Mark, see, I was going to ask. There you go.
Right man to ask. He had a name. He lived in somebody's basement, right? Well, he was kind of like in his basement.
It was the family. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's not a house you want to go to. I don't want to go to anybody's house with someone that's stuck in a basement.
No thanks. Did he have a face? He had no face, right? Leatherface. He had, see, I haven't seen that movie in forever, but I do love it.
It was kind of like a mask-ish slash like skin-ish thing. I've seen that movie one time and that was enough. Oh no, good movie. How many, how many, how many movies can you make where somebody's just chasing around teenagers? Oh, you can make a lot. They made a lot of Friday the 13th.
What did they make? Like 13 of those? All I got to do is give killer X a weapon of choice and a mask and then we're going to town. That's it. Pretty much. I mean, you, whether they're in your nightmares, whether they're, you know, there's like some paranormal phenomenon there involved with Jason. Like you can go a lot of different avenues.
You can get real goofy. He drowned in a pond, didn't he? Right. Yeah. In the lake.
In the lake. Okay. All right. Yeah. See, the funny thing is he's actually not even really in the first one.
It's more about his mother and then it just kind of took on a life of its own after that. Oh, you, you like watching these people get chased around. I dig these movies. I dig these movies. I just, I haven't seen a lot of them recently, but yes, I do dig them. And Friday, Nightmare on Elm Street, also a good movie in the beginning, a little goofy at the end, but also a good movie in the beginning.
And then like as anything goes, we go five, six, seven parts down the road, gets more and more goofy. Great movies for Christmas time. Yeah. I like to show my children. Yes.
Why not? Nightmare before Christmas. Great combination of Christmas and Halloween. You know that one I actually have to watch that one slipped through the cracks for me. I haven't seen that one.
You show your kids these movies? I'm joking. No, I'm not going to put Leatherface on for my kids. Come on now. I don't know.
I don't know. Now I did joke that I did watch Full Metal Jacket when my, you know, my oldest was like a year old, but he didn't know what was going on. That right. Now I'm not going to put him on for him now when he's 10.
I can't do that. I was watching Chucky. Come on. I was watching Chucky. I watched all that stuff. There you go. See, that was a good, same thing. Goofy, but pretty good.
And then as you went on, it got worse. Is it child abuse if I put Chucky on for my kid? Is that abuse? Probably. Yes. Yes. I think it qualifies.
Yes. My kid will be crawling from the ceiling in the middle of the night. Now, I think I turned out somewhat okay. I remember my uncle laughing at me hysterically because I was, I mean, I almost soiled myself at four or five years old watching The Shining. Oh my God.
Here's Johnny. Oh my God. When the old lady comes out of the bathtub, I honestly, I was so petrified. I think I was shaking and I remember him laughing at me, pointing his finger in my face and saying a lot of things in Italian. And he was, I could not stop laughing.
He was so happy with himself that he made me watch this movie. Well, now everybody knows why we turned out to be the adults that we are. Yeah, see? So if I'm sick and twisted, there you go.
There's the root of the problem. Yeah. Easy. Good stuff. Great holiday movies, by the way. Watch them all. Nightmare on Elm Street. Watch them all.
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That's 855-212-4227. You know, the Falcons aren't the only sad story. At least they're looking for a happy ending here, but they're not the only sad story in the NFL right now. Unfortunately, we this is a time of year where guys get hurt as they do at any other point in the season, but they get hurt and they don't come back.
Not enough games. Time is up. Today is December 18th.
Damn. Hickey, remember when December 18th used to feel like something? Is it just me? Used to be excited. Couldn't wait for Christmas.
Hickey, I hope the days go by slow every day. I agree. It does not feel like the Christmas spirit either. Maybe that's partially weather related. And now, like you said, maybe you're not like in school and there's not themes as much.
But I would agree. Yeah, it stinks. I would be as a kid, I'd be waiting for for winter break and couldn't wait for winter break. I'm sitting in school. I'm itching. I'm waiting. Hickey, I don't I don't get nothing for Christmas. I don't care. I do not care. No, Santa doesn't come through.
No, I get I get socks in the car. Hey, you know, way to be great. Like, thanks. You know, like thanks a whole lot.
I don't get nothing. That's someone that's how they show you. They love you. Here's a pair of socks.
You're so great. You earned socks for the holiday. I get socks.
It's like whoopty freakin do nothing. Now, I got to wait till Christmas is less than eight. Christmas is a week away. Crazy.
Hickey, this is what happens when you're an adult. I wish I was excited. I do not care.
I do not. I need more time. I got nothing done.
What do you mean? Nothing done when? Like I got gifts. I've got my girlfriend. Nothing so far. Oh, my God.
I don't know what I'm going to get her. Oh, that's terrible. I know. I need more time.
Oh, my God. You got a week. I know I'm screwed. You better chill because I mean, once this is the worst weekend, the weekend before, if you decide to do something over the weekend, you just, oh, it's going to be treacherous out in the malls, the streets, every place. You better rob somebody quick. And the shit thing I'm going to get banged for. Oh, my goodness. I'm in big trouble here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What you do is I don't I don't know what you do.
I have no idea. A dinner wouldn't cut it. No, you can't do. They have to give a physical gift, right? My girlfriend does like more experiences than like gifts. So that at least helps. Take it to Penn State. Oh, no, no. A big football game coming up now. I wish I could entice her and say, here's our Christmas gift. We're going to go to Penn State this weekend.
Yes. We're going to watch them play SMU and we're going to tailgate and then sit in the stadium in about mid 20 degree weather with no sun. And you're going to like it. Go to the Poconos. Have you been to the Poconos? We have. We like to be in the Poconos.
Oh, boy. Come here. Come to Georgia. I'll hook you up.
OK, now we're talking. Bring it to Georgia. Easy.
Merry Christmas. We're going to go visit J.R. No, you don't say that. When she goes, why Atlanta? You just go, I don't know. I just thought you'd love it. Yeah.
Transit hub of the U.S. Yeah. The weather is nice, you know, and just some suggestions. Just some suggestions. But yeah, this time of the year is just like, yeah. When I was a kid, I used to be excited. Now I feel nothing. That is depressing. She is.
Oh, my. You feel nothing. I feel nothing. I just hope. Hey, by the time I get the next week, I hope every day goes by. I hope every day goes by slow.
That's it. That's what I hope for. That's what I want for the holidays every day to inch by slow. So much so that I'm I'm just like, man, I can't wait for January 6th. Wait, you said just before two minutes ago that, you know, when you were a kid in elementary school and you get excited for winter break, your last day is a Monday. Yeah. So I'm here tomorrow and Monday.
Yeah. And then you're off until that following month. So what is like a week and a half, two weeks?
I think it's more than that. I'll be back on the 6th. That is. That's basically a college break.
How long is that? You're not looking forward to that? Is that two weeks? I guess what? It's Tuesday to the month. Yeah. Basically two weeks. Let's just call it two weeks. Wow.
I'll be going for two weeks. No, I'm not. Whoa. Wow. Yeah. Whoa. Wow. Hickey, those two weeks are going to feel like, you know, how fast it's going to go by. Oh, I know. Trust me. Too, way too fast.
Number one. But that's going to feel like. Yeah, I'm excited to get there.
But then when I get there, I hope it goes by slow. But you said before, I get nothing forward to. It's December 18th.
Usually that means something. I'm talking about Christmas. I don't care about Christmas, bro.
I care about the break. That's what I'm saying. You have something.
You are two work days away from kicking your feet up for two weeks and doing whatever the hell you want to do. Nothing. Nothing. Yeah. I thought I'd have a little bit more excitement from you, a little more juice. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, that's my Christmas present. Sit around and do nothing.
That's what I'm hoping for. At least open a box. What's in there? Nothing. Just what I wanted. Yeah. A whole lot of no speed.
Which what happened? Maybe you can box a bear Christmas gift. That's not nothing.
Box a bear. That's air right there. You're air. Oh, I got plenty of time to think about selling air.
I got you and air boxed air. Yeah, we'll do that. Nobody steal this idea. Okay. This is trademarked. No, nobody's dumb enough to steal our dumb ideas.
No, it was just doing that. Who would have thought mufflers would have had, you know, rich enough to buy an NFL team, but it's shot con smart. He got robbed by his own employees. Come on. Well, he's smart enough to make at least billions of dollars and then dumb enough to get robbed.
Yeah. Hey, let me get robbed by my own employees for about, I don't know, 20 mil. What a genius. Don't have to hire urban Meyer. Throw that money down the drain. It's pretty dumb.
Well, I don't know if this is dumb. He gave Trevor Lawrence $275 million and our Trevor Lawrence's, we knew this was coming. He is officially out with a shoulder injury. This is a Jaguar scene.
What are they like three and 11 right now? And Doug Peterson is on borrowed time. He's probably going to get wiped out.
A Trevor Lawrence is only dude. That's going to be sticking around. The poor guy was concussed and now he needs a shoulder surgery. It's just bad for the former Clemson quarterback. And let's be real. He was, he's been in a bad situation.
Listen to Doug Peterson, who is a coach who is likely to be fired in a few weeks. This is what he had to say about Trevor Lawrence. He passed the protocol actually Sunday morning this past week. So he's, he's cleared, uh, he's cleared on that. And then, um, he actually had surgery yesterday. Um, and, and it was successful. So he's now on the road to recovery in both cases. They're not long-term lengthy type surgeries recovery time.
So, um, at some point this spring, they'll be, they'll be ready to go. At least he's not the other Clemson QB. At least he is not the Sean Watson. I'm sure that's not a name that Trevor Lawrence even wants to be associated with, but there you have it. Two guys out of Clemson that realistically, they haven't lived up to expectations. Now the Sean Watson, everything is his own doing Trevor Lawrence. I want to give him a little bit of a break. He deserves some of, not the pain, not the physical pain, but he deserves some of the blame for what the Jags have been, but he's been put in a crap situation.
We had one of our callers earlier in this hour, Mark from Nova Scotia. He's just like, look at the, the dumpster fire that the Atlanta Falcons have put both Michael Pennix and Kirk Cousins in. I'm like, it's not that bad. As Hickey just said, Jaguar said, Urban Maya here on the team. Then you got shot con running around telling everybody this is the best roster that they've ever put together. And they have just been pathetic. Good luck to the Jaguars. They got a whole off season ahead of them. And also good luck to Nick Chubb. Unfortunately, Nick Chubb, oh man, this guy tore his leg from every which direction, tore every ligament possible last season, comes back this year, only plays eight games, only has 3.3 yards of carry. He turns 29 next week.
Actually his birthday is right after Christmas on December 27th. And he's going to be a free agent. And so after you tear your ACL again and your MCL, your PCL, your LCL, everything that ends in CL, he tore it. He's going to be a free agent. Now, but Tonio, the offensive lineman up in Cleveland, he's like, oh yeah, if he wants to be back, of course, they're going to have him back. Of course, we're going to have him, but bruh, don't, don't be so sure. Nick Chubb, it might be done for this guy.
Okay. And I know he's beloved in Cleveland. He wrote a love letter, but he had, now he has a broken foot. This guy's breaking his foot. He's tearing up his knee. Ain't nobody out here invincible. And speaking of invincible, Patrick Mahomes is still swearing up and down that he is going to play on Saturday against the Texans.
I don't know if he has Wolverine healing powers or what his deal is. Patrick Mahomes spoke today and gave a little bit of a description about how he is healing up after his leg got bent in the wrong damn direction. Well, first we, we did a little bit when we got back, I mean, just get back a little bit earlier with the noon game and kind of got ourselves ready, even on the plane. And then what happened there? I wasn't doing high knees or anything like that. No, it was, it was, no, I, I, we, we did some movement stuff and some icing, some STEM and stuff like that, but we, we kept it moving.
We don't want to just sit there and get, and get too stiff. Hickey, did he say STEM as in like STEM cells? STEM? Am I missing something? I think he meant STEM, like stimulation. Oh, stimulation.
Oh, I heard STEM. Like they're not shooting this guy up around. No, they're shooting them up with something.
No, they're going to wait to shoot them up on Saturday probably. Right. Right. Okay.
Right. Is it, am I wrong? Is it Toradol? No. Is that a steroid?
No, he doesn't. No. Well, I don't know if they still use it. That's what a lot of older players used. I know there's a lot of bad side effects with that.
So I'm not sure if there's been an updated version, but that's the, that's the, what everyone's talking about. Wow. Good luck to that guy. He's, let's just say he got a lot of money and the chiefs have a lot of incentives to get him on the field. Well, I would sit him, but what do I know? I'm not a doctor. I don't, I don't stimulate Patrick Mahomes legs. That's not what I do.
Good luck. I hope he doesn't get hurt. He's Hickey. By the time Saturday comes, he's going to be walking around fine. Like nothing's wrong with him.
He's gonna have a 20 yard scramble and probably break the highest speed he's ever run. Yeah. Whatever he has for his high ankle.
I need from my back. Okay. It's the JR sport brief show. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about the bucks. They broke somebody's back last night. I'll tell you who.
