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I hope you're having a tremendous Friday. I'm only gonna be here for one more hour, so we gotta talk about all this football. We gotta talk about these games. The AFC Championship game.
The NFC Championship game. We gotta talk about the new Raiders head coach. We have to talk about the Jaguars new coach. And then a few minutes ago, we talked about Shaq.
What's wrong with Shaq? I'm gonna throw a brick at him. I am. Anyway, we have so much more to do this hour, including at the end, I gotta share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. That's what we do at the end of every show. You gotta come to the JR Sport Brief Show and learn something.
It's not all just jokes, terrible jokes and sarcasm. And then we just had a funny guy who just called us. I said he was a repo man. He said he's not a repo man. He called back.
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If you got a smart speaker, one of these Alexa, Google, whatever the hell it is, ask it to play the infinity sports network. Pops right on up. Good. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, where it has a thought out. Thank God. Still cold at night, I think.
I don't know. Temperature don't bother me. I don't care. As long as I will not freeze to death, I do not care how cold it is outside.
I do not care. Hickey is still cold in New York. Yes, but less cold than it was earlier this week.
So what does that mean? Is 33 degrees? Yeah, like 30. And the sun was out, so it helped a little bit compared to what it was like. It was like one of those like it hurts to be outside.
Yeah. Walk in a park today, then today was a sunny day. Beautiful day. Beautiful summer day. Basically, beautiful summer day.
I'm happy for you. Any beautiful summer playing weekends over the weekend? Yes, actually, one of my friends from college is visiting and we're going to this place called the Lawn Club, which is basically is a gigantic warehouse that has like many backyards, if you will, set up across.
You can rent, quote unquote, a lawn and play like yard games, cornhole, can jam. Where is this? In Long Island somewhere in New Jersey? This is in the seaport.
Get the hell out of here. This is in Manhattan? That's right. Somebody said because we can't have backyards in Manhattan unless you're super wealthy. We're going to we're going to rent out backyards on the on the on the river. That's right. And because it's so cold for most of the year, we're going to put it indoors. So that way, 24-7, 365, it is available.
What is this? South Street Seaport? You know it. Oh, so over by the bridge, right?
Yeah, all the way down there. Oh, it's going to be cold over there, bro. Oh, you ain't can have fun.
Thank you. Sounds like degenerate fun. They got beer.
They got beer. Oh, yes. Have some for me, please.
Jr. I will have a double for you. Oh, well, thank you, please.
Please, please, please. I'm trying to cut back if you try it. Well, it sounds like Sunday be a good day for you.
Have a few pops. If you don't drink tonight, if you don't drink tomorrow, then Sunday, you can double up and still be good and quadruple up. I got to make up for two days of trying to cut down, you know. Oh, you're right. You might as well do it all at once. That's also true, you know.
Well, in moderation, I guess, right? What's the difference between three birds today, three birds tomorrow, three birds Sunday? We just have nine on Sunday. There you go.
All day. Wake up, have a beer, have a beer for lunch, two for lunch. That's three right there. At least two for each game. Two for each three. There we go. One for each quarter. I like it. That's too much bathroom breaks. I got time for that. Well, thankfully, there's no line.
At home. Yeah, straight beeline. You're right. You are correct. Oh, you know what? Tomorrow, I'm going to the basketball game.
I forgot about that. Hawks. The Hawks are playing the Toronto Raptors. Weather permitting, of course. Oh, it's not going to snow here. Come on. Yeah. I mean, what is there one game canceled too so far this year?
How many? I was afraid this week's game was going to be canceled. It was not OK. There was a game canceled two weeks ago that I was going to and got canceled ice.
Can't drive on the ice. He's dangerous. No, very, very. So I'm glad. So a knock on wood. So far, it seems like you'll be at the basketball game tomorrow. I'll be watching the Raptors. Scottie Barnes. Let's see. Let me let me name all the Raptors that I know. R.J. Barrett, Scottie Barnes, Grady Dick. What?
I don't think anybody could say that name and have it be taken seriously. As long as they don't. As long as as long as him and Trey Young don't do a jersey exchange, I think we'll be OK.
I think you have to. They got he got he gets in trouble for that. Remember, he did a jersey exchange with that. Was it Tariq Black?
What a spell out. Well, if he does a jersey exchange with Trey Young, what is that going to spell out? Go ahead. Well, I'll just say this. I'm sure Drake will catch a stray or two if that's oh, that's more ammo for Kendrick Lamar. Oh, my goodness.
Hey, Grady Dick, what do you think those emails look like? Who pulled him to the side and said, hey, come here, come here. You you cannot do a jersey exchange with nobody. Anybody.
OK. All right. Not to read black, not Trey Young. Do we got a is there a guy named White in the NBA?
Is anyone on the Celtics? Devon Wright. Is that his name? No, no.
Derek White. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
No. Derek White jersey exchange. Who else is no sports crossover? So no Jalen Hurts. Well, there's no hurts in the NBA.
So I'm saying no, no, no sport crossover. You know, you can't have Jalen Hurts on the court side for whatever reason in Toronto. I I think I think that's all the players in the league. I think that might be it.
Like I think Grady Dick could do a jersey exchange with everybody except for the guy. I think we named him. That's it.
Black, young and white. That's it. There's nobody else. Do you miss a name? No. Right. Now, you're probably in there are creative ways to make jokes about that that I'm trying to think of, like.
But nothing comes off the top of my head. I'm going to search the NBA player archives in a bit, but yeah, I'll be watching. I don't know who else is on the team, but I'll see them tomorrow. Someone said to me, you know, and I'm even not so people would say to me, somebody said, Jay, are you going to all these guys say, yeah, if I can, I do. And they see the jokes that I make while the players are warming up.
They go, yeah, I just, yeah, I'm just walking and just mind my business. Do what I got to do. Court's out again tomorrow. Not tomorrow.
But look a little high up a little higher. Does that mean sweet? Just something like that? Yeah. Nice.
Yeah. Eat and drink, you know, hanging out. Common man.
Just common man. Just mingling with the people, the common folk. He's just one of the one of the Hawks fans drinking beers, talking to the people. What's the section they have there? They have a section, the one where we insult the fans. I mean, the players are the Hawks.
I don't know. They yell at guys like when the Lakers come, they yell at a guy, they go, LeBron is going to trade you. Yeah.
They mean, Oh, they're mean as hell. Yeah. The guys are right.
And they're right there at the bench and the guys have to listen to it. That's my favorite. You're going to find your way in there tomorrow or no? No, I don't stand over there now. Too common.
No, not too common. It's just standing there, yelling. I want to sit down and drink. It's got time for this cheering stuff.
Where's the alcohol? It's Saturday. Come on now. I got to do. Yeah. Next time you got to come and take it to the Hawks game. Easy.
I'm in. I walked by the arena. It looked kind of cool. Oh, the arena is amazing, bro.
Inside best. It's not, it's built for entertainment. It's not built like a Roman Coliseum.
It's not, it's built to entertain. Whatever you want is there. We got a bar. We got a bar area and a club area court side.
That's pretty cool. We got a club behind the basket, man. What are we doing? Not yelling, not distracting free throw shooters. That's for sure. Well, let me tell you some of them things court side. Yeah.
They, they distracted everything. Okay. Oh, put you to that. There was a woman who told the joke and I'm going to get out of here on this one. She's a comedian. She said that the women that go to the Hawks games are, uh, they're soliciting. That's what she said.
And she didn't say that, but that's what she said. So they are soliciting me. I'm not buying, I'm just watching, just watching basketball, just looking, looking free, just watching the game. I'm watching basketball tomorrow. I will watch RJ Barrett and Grady Dick, and then I will, uh, watch basketball.
And then on Sunday, I'm watching football all day, at least from in the afternoon. What I do before that hickey, I have no idea what the hell am I supposed to do between waking up and no, no three o'clock, three 30 Eastern. I don't know.
Go for a walk. Okay. All right. I will tell you when I'm walking hickey, I'm walking, drink some beers and drink some beers. Okay. I have beer for breakfast.
There you go. Trying to rip my liver to shreds. Uh, eight five five two one two 42 27.
That's eight five five two one two 42 27. Brad is here from Buffalo on the Gerald sport re-show. Brad, what's up?
What's going on there? How are you doing? You good?
Oh, I'm great. Buffalo is buzzing. I bet. I bet. I've called a few times before when people were hating on the bills, but I think it's honestly, it's our time. And I think we're going to take it.
What do you, how are you feeling? Oh, damn. I gave my prediction earlier. Hickey gave his prediction earlier. We're going with the chiefs. We're going with the chiefs. And so until the Buffalo bills beat them, that's it. Come on.
Well, you got to beat them. Ric Flair said it. You know what Ric Flair says. Come on now.
You know, Brad, right? Go ahead. Say it. Go say it. Say it. I'm not saying anything.
You know what Ric Flair says. Go ahead. No, sir.
Oh, okay. I need, I need, I need a little bit of Allen support out of you. You need what for me? Support Allen.
Oh, you need me. I support that. I want him to win.
Like I don't know. He's the savior of Buffalo. Uh, look, I don't care who wins because I don't, I don't care. I want everybody to win and that's not going to happen. I want Lamar Jackson to win. He eliminated. I want Josh Allen to win.
There's no guarantee. I want Patrick Mahomes to win. Only one of them could win. I want Hertz to win. I want a rookie quarterback to win.
I just want good games. I don't give a damn who wins. Yeah, I feel that. But are you sick of seeing my homes in it? No, because I think, no, because he's not annoying. Like Tom Brady was annoying. Like really annoying. No, his brother is annoying. Uh, his wife is semi annoying. You know, hearing about Travis Kelsey and his girlfriend, that can be annoying.
Patrick Mahomes doesn't, what does he say? What does he do? That's annoying. His voice is annoying.
Sounds like Kermit the Frog. Okay. Okay. Forget it. What do you think you sound like? I don't know.
Not Kermit. Okay. Well we don't, nobody has to listen to you, but forget that. What else? What else? I'm just sick of them winning. I'm sick of them winning. All right. I don't care yet. I'm not, I'm not there yet.
I would love to see him three-peat. You know, I just don't care. I don't care. I'm picking it. I think we go in and we take care of business.
I think we go into the ship. They can, they can certainly do so. Buffalo Bills could win the championship.
I mean, I told everybody this earlier. If you think about the losses that Josh Allen has against the Kansas City Chiefs, the man has seven touchdowns and one interception in the postseason against the Chiefs, but he has three losses. Like, and what world does that happen? Well, when you take on the Chiefs and the Chiefs can't win every year. So if I was a Buffalo Bills fan, I wouldn't, I wouldn't feel all that intimidated. Yeah, you're the underdog, but you're fully capable of beating them. You've done it.
You just haven't done it in the postseason. So it's a toss up game, but you don't want to say it. And I'll say it again. To be the man, you got to beat the man and let's see him.
I agree. I was a lot more scared of Lamar, to be honest with you. I thought that was going to be the number of the two match up. Well, now he's, he's three and five. So, Hey, good luck on, on Sunday, Brad, how many inches of snow up there in Buffalo? Oh, we got about nine right now. It's about 15 degrees.
There's nine inches just sitting on the ground, not snowing, but just sitting on the ground. No, that's just hangs out for the next three months, brother. Yeah, I know Brad. All right. Drive safe, man. Have a good time on Sunday. Okay. Hey, I appreciate you.
Go bills. Of course. Of course. Yeah. Yep. Just nine inches of snow just on the ground. And that's a little bit.
We haven't even reached the foot. Ooh, I miss it up there. I don't, there's something wrong with me. I need to make a trip. I may have to look that up. I may go to, no, I'm not going to Buffalo.
Who am I kidding? 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. If I didn't have stuff to do, I'd be up in Buffalo.
I would not wouldn't not like your own bed. Kevin is calling from Missouri. You're on the JR sport.
We show us up, Kevin. Yes. Hi.
I have a prediction like scores for the chiefs versus bills game and the commanders versus the Eagles game. I hope you got me on speakerphone. No, I'm on, I'm on my own phone, like not speakerphone, but not on speakerphone. Oh, okay. Go ahead.
Go ahead. My chiefs score for the chiefs and bills game is 28 to 31 chiefs. And then the Eagles game I got 24 to 28 commanders. You got the commanders winning too, huh?
Yes, I do. Cause they're the underdog. And I think they're going to prove us wrong. You putting some real money on this, Kevin, I'm not betting. You are, you are. You put money on this.
Yes. Are you a good gambler? You're a bad one. I'm okay.
Gambler. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Well, thank you.
No problem. Kevin, take it easy. Call it from Missouri. Picky.
How about that? Are you going commanders? Are you going Eagles? I'm going with the Eagles.
I think they get it done at home. You said it. I agree.
I think they're the better team. I'm a little nervous, but the injuries for the Eagles like hurts. His knee is concerning with how bad he looked.
If he gets popped one time and he has to leave the, you know, remember, I hope this is not, and this is kind of a reverse. Remember that game where they just destroyed Brock Purdy's elbow. And then we basically had to sit down for three hours, knowing that the Eagles were going to go to the super bowl.
Yes. I hope that's not what we get here because that game wasn't even competitive because Brock Purdy got hurt and it was a foregone conclusion. The whole game was done. Like I hope that jail and hurts doesn't go down and now we got to go to the bench.
And I mean, nobody wants to look at Kenny picket. Oh, Oh my God. That would be a, that'd be a Steelers fan's nightmare. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Everybody that's called up. I mean, the couple of folks so far, they're like, Oh yeah, I'm going with the underdog. I'm, I'm going with the commanders.
Okay. Let's listen to, uh, to Dan Quinn, Dan Quinn. This is what he had to say about being labeled the underdogs. Internally, we've got a lot of expectations about how we can play and what we do, but we never, you know, went too far outside of things. Did we feel dismissed or put off?
Yeah, of course some, I think that happened in the opening game. I felt dismissive. Hey man, hang in there.
It's going to be a long time. I was like, Hey, F you, you know, like that's not how it's going to go down. Well, Hickey, that was the most polite F you I've ever heard in my life.
It's like, Hey, you don't like me. Okay, buddy. F you. I'm like, okay.
Probably a nice little slap on the back too. All right, buddy. F you. So polite. What a world.
What a world. Who's this? Hey, Wayne is calling from Albuquerque, which because I know a geography, I know Albuquerque is in New Mexico. Hey, Wayne, you're on the JR sport re-show.
What's up? Well, I'm drinking bad. Yeah, I think taking my call as a cowboy fan, I'm definitely sad that Dan Quinn left, but my take is mostly on the chiefs because what I told the producer too, is I hope that you blow the crap, blow the doors off of the bills because there's so many scrutiny about how they win games and the close game that they're, I mean, ref's always messed up on, but, but the way their, their dynasty has grown over the years is a lot of questionable calls that have led to wins. And I think that's kind of what the disdain is from the chief.
So the chief win, I hope it is decisively because then it gets away from the conspiracy theories and the questionable calls and the last minute thing and Patrick Owens being the NFL savior. I think that's, that's what's, what's a big disdain for, for being an NFL fan and watching the Holmes and them play. I think that's how my take is on that. I get it. No, that's, that's reasonable, Wayne. Thank you for calling from Albuquerque.
I understand that. Wayne is just like, man, y'all keep saying this team sucks and they, you know, they need the referees. He wants the chiefs to beat them up and leave without a shadow of a doubt that they don't need no refs wants to blow out. That'd be crazy. I'm not expecting the chiefs to blow out the Buffalo bills, but that would be nuts if they did.
So that'd be crazy. It's the JR sport pre-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side and speaking of crazy, we're going to talk about the Raiders and their new head coach. We're going to talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah, they got a new head coach.
Somebody actually took that job. And I didn't forget. Shaq said something crazy last night.
Okay. It's Friday. A lot of crazy things happen, including here, the JR sport reshow, the infinity sports network. Don't move. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport reshow here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network.
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Pete Carroll is going to be the new head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. He's a stop gap. He's a bridge.
He's a plug. He's just, he's that guy. You say, Hey man, pick, you ever walk into a store, maybe, maybe not so recently, because people will steal stuff. You ever walk into a place and you trusted the person outside and say, Hey, can you just watch this for me real fast?
Not on the store. I've done on a train a bunch. The what? Yeah. If I'm going to the bathroom, the train. Yeah. Like the long Island railroad. Yeah. Sorry. Not the subway, but like a proper like train.
No subway. Never. You never, you trust someone to watch a bag more than I would like outside of a store.
Like if I'm walking in, absolutely be like as a kid, I feel like, Hey man, in a, in a neighborhood, like I'm going, can you watch my bike real fast? Yeah, no, that's yeah, that's happened. Absolutely.
And thankfully every time for the most part, it's always been there when I've come back. Right. Well that's what the Raiders are doing. The Raiders, the Raiders looked at Pete Carroll outside of the store and say, Hey man, they're the owner of the store.
You would have, you ever had that? The owner of a mom and pop leaves and he puts the thing in front of you. They're like, I just got to go across the street.
I'll be right back. Can you watch the store for me? You're like, what? The Raiders are asking Pete Carroll just to watch the store. And then when they come back, they're going to say, all right, bye leaf. Like Pete Carroll is not going to be the coach for a long period of time. I mean, even Richard Sherman, he spoke about this earlier today.
He was on the volume and he's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like Pete Carroll, but uh, this was more comedy to me. I don't love it.
I don't love it. Pete wants to coach. This is probably his best opportunity that he's going to get.
Yeah. I want him to take it. I want him to take it. I think he will find a quarterback.
You know what I mean? He's shown he could do it with a young quarterback. Yeah. I think he could get them in and having him back in the same division as Jim Harbaugh would just be a little bit of hilariousness for me. And I need a little bit of hilariousness in my life. Nothing like a good laugh.
Yeah. He's not going to share his real thoughts because he doesn't want to beat up on Pete cow. And then meanwhile you got Russell Wilson.
He ain't doing nothing, but he's kissing ass. Russell Wilson was on Pat McAfee show and he's just, well, this is before, uh, uh, Pete Carroll got the job. Russell Wilson is just like, yeah, I love him.
And we made up and we kissed and all of this other stuff. Listen, I think Pete's an amazing football coach. I think he's an amazing individual. Um, you know, there's, I I've been fortunate to play for two really special coaches in terms of men and how they think and how they process the game, obviously in coach Pete Carroll and then obviously coach Mike Tomlin are really unique individuals and how they lead and motivate.
I think they're the culture builders. Um, and so, you know, I, you know, I think people, you know, do a great job wherever he goes. I'm not sure exactly where he's looking or whatever, but if he gets the opportunity, I know he'll do a great job. And, you know, we've always stayed in touch. I wanted to see him, uh, in a lot of the other guys, you know, Bobby and the guys like Doug Baldwin and DK Metcalf, all that is Sherman, all those guys. When, when coach Carroll, um, got let go from Seattle, you know, we, we spent a lot of time there and we flew back in and just spent a lot of time with them and just, we have, you know, memories, man. He just trying to keep his options open.
That's it. Reportedly Russell Wilson and the Steelers have a started contract negotiations and it's early. It's still early, but why not kick the tire somewhere else?
Someone you're familiar with. Let's keep in mind though, the last time that Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll were together, Pete Carroll didn't want him to throw the ball, not 50 times a game. He wanted to run the ball. So maybe at this point of his career, Russell Wilson just like, man, I gotta do whatever the hell I gotta do to keep a starting job. I wouldn't be shocked if he was with the Raiders. I wouldn't be shocked if he was back with the Steelers. Let's see what happens with Justin Fields.
And then also, how about this? The Jacksonville Jaguars have added Liam Cohen to be their head coach. Yeah, the same guy who a couple of days ago said, I am not leaving Tampa to coach Jacksonville.
You can remove my name from being a candidate. The Jacksonville Jaguars then fired Trent Balkey as the general manager. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers said, oh, you want to stay with us. Here's a guaranteed contract that makes you the highest paid offensive quarterback in the entire, offensive coordinator in the entire NFL. He was a miracle worker this past year.
There's no Chris Godwin. You got Mike Evans running around on half a hamstring and Baker Mayfield can still wake up and throw the ball around and be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, which is surprising. They went to the post season.
People don't remember that. And for whatever reason, he felt that the Buccaneers tried to strong arm him. He went to go talk to Jacksonville after they fired Trent Balkey and the Buccaneers were like, we can't even find this guy to sign his contract. And so now he's going to be the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars after he originally told them, I don't want to be here. This guy sounds shady to me. I'm not trusting him when times get rough to me, just sounds like he's going to run away. Listen to Adam Schefter, explain what happened on Pat McAfee.
I think there's two different sides of this. Liam Cohen would tell you that he feels like this was his right. And by the way, in the NFL with contracts, even if there's a signed contract as a coordinator, it is within your rights to go take a head coaching job anywhere else you want. I think that he felt like the Buccaneers right or wrong, I'm just telling you what he felt like that Buccaneers strong argument to this deal. And he signed the deal and the Buccaneers would say we made him the highest paid coordinator in NFL history. And then when we tried to figure out where he was, we could not find him throughout the course of the day on Thursday to get him to sign that contract.
And they say that they reached out multiple times. He says he was in touch with Todd Bowles and informed him of his decision to interview with the Jacksonville Jaguars. I don't remember the last time I heard one team this hot and bothered about a coach taking another deal.
No, my God. Sounds like high school was sounds like high school. People leaving each other can't trust nobody. I'm sure there was this this just sounds like a normal miscommunication.
Is it? But I'll tell you, for where he is going right now, he's with the Jaguars. If I'm the Jaguars, I don't know if I don't know if I want to trust the guy. Like if he did this with the team, how do I know that he's not going to do this to me? Like he left them high and dry. Did he agree to a contract with them? And now they got rid of the guy and now you want to leave? If I were the Bucks, I'd feel ticked off, too. Like first, you said you're going to stay and you rejected the job and then we offer you money and then they fired the guy and now you want to leave? And then if I'm the Jaguars, I feel like you've doubled back.
Like, why are you spinning the block? Why are you coming back to me? I had the fight as God for you to change your mind. They deserve each other. Picky, am I wrong to hope that the Jaguars just are a disaster?
Am I wrong? I mean, in this situation, I really don't like I don't know what Liam Cohen did wrong. He said no because of Trent Baalke being there. The Jaguars finally realized, well, maybe this guy is actually, you know, not good, but actually a bad GM.
Let's get rid of them. OK, now things change. Are you interested now? Of course, he'd be interested. Like he, by all reports, rejected the job because of Trent Baalke. If he's now no longer there, then things change. I guess I just don't understand why he's getting crucified. He's getting a promotion.
He's getting more money. He's wishy washy. You know, if you're going to say, if you say no, you say no. Is that if I offer you, if I offer you pepperoni pizza, right?
This might be a terrible analogy. If I walk in and I got pepperoni pizza and I say, hey, you want some of this pizza? You go, hey, J.R., what's on it? I go pepperoni. You go, no, no, no.
And I go, OK, right. And then Hickey, I'm standing there and I'm eating all the pizza. I've eaten half the pizza. I've eaten three quarters of the pizza. I'm making the pizza disappear.
And have you seen me eat it for 30 minutes? And then you go. J.R., can I have some pizza? And I go, Hickey, I thought you said you didn't want any. And then I give you the pizza and you start ripping a pepperoni off.
And I go, what are you doing? I thought you didn't want none. And now you're going to rip the pepperoni off the pizza.
Is that a that's a bad analogy, isn't it? I would phrase it like this. You offer me pepperoni pizza. I say I don't like pepperoni. No, thank you.
You counter with, OK, fine. Actually, I'm going to order a plain pizza. Are you interested now?
I say yes. Things changed. I don't want the pepperoni pizza. But now you're telling me there's another option.
Now I'm also interested because things changed. No, no. Here's a better analogy. You go out to eat with your girlfriend, your girlfriend, your girlfriend, not mine. OK, my girlfriend. Yes. Yeah, your girlfriend.
Right. And you ask her, hey, do you want something to eat? Hey, I'm getting a burger. You want some french fries? She goes, no, I don't want no french fries. You go, sure. I can get you a side of fries.
And then your fries coming out, she's eating your french fries. That's a better analogy. But that's not what happened here, though. It's like something changed. The job was presented to him first with the GM in place in Trent bulky.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He removed himself from consideration for the job because of the GM presence. But they didn't even offer him the job. He said, leave me alone.
That's what he said. He said, leave me alone. This is like I'm trying to find the right analogy. All my analogies and relationships change. It's not like one thing where he said no, then all of a sudden nothing changed.
No one got fired. And all of a sudden he goes, you know, actually, I take it back. Hickey, this is like, this is like a couple, right? They're having, we're going to find the right one. They're having marital issues and trouble, right? And you know it because you hear them. They're your next door neighbors.
You hear them, right? And then one day you hear them every day arguing and screaming at each other. And then one day, one day the man leaves and you see him, the bags are packed, they're all in the car and he drives off, right?
And then the next day you're in the house with the lady. Like that's what he did. That's what he did. That's what he did. He waited. He waited for the guy to leave before he went back.
And so he left his own family to not be with this lady because the guy left. You can't do that. That's scummy.
Scummy. He said to the woman next door, I will not be with you until your husband leaves. Right.
Right. And all of a sudden husband, like things change. I think you have the right to change your mind and things change. If you say, I don't want to work with Trent Balke, I'm out of here. And all of a sudden they say, okay, well how about this?
Trent's gone. What do you say now? Marco, Marco Balletti, do you believe this? Do you hear this?
The guy's scummy. You know what? I'm with Hickey and I think you can't do that. I think you just, you just hit it right. This was, do you want to have a relationship?
Not while you're married. He's here. I'm out. He's gone.
Oh, you know what? He's just going to roll in there. Marco's in. Oh my goodness. I told you he's got to be gone. He's gone.
I'm all right. Oh my goodness. Cause I look, for me, the way this whole thing got set up, I do think, I think that the interview that they had was, do you want the job? And he probably looked at him and said, with Balke here?
No, absolutely not. I'm not doing that. I'm not working with this guy. They, for some reason, didn't just fire him on the spot, but they thought about it.
They're like, you know what? We really want Liam Cohen. Trent, you're the hell out of here. Cause nobody wants you here. Every interview we have, they don't want you.
So you're gone. And I didn't really want to keep you anyway, because even during the interview, it was like, eh, I don't really, really want Trent Balke that much. When they went back to Cohen, do you want power? And the GM spot is gone. How do you say no to that? I think he wanted the job.
He just didn't want Balke. Listen, I'm disappointed in the two of y'all. Maybe I'm scummy. Can I tell you? No morals, no morals. Just waiting for the guy to leave the house.
You're right in there right after. Okay, guys. Well, you know what? He didn't drive him to the airport. He didn't take him out at the knees.
He just waited from the leave. I see nothing wrong. Excuse me. I'm going to go to break and I am going to go. I don't know.
I'm going to find my favorite Bible passage. Okay. You guys, you guys can go do what you need to do moralist guys. And I'm going to be here prepared to conclude the show. Okay. Can you speak louder? I can't hear you from your high horse. I'm just saying I'm not rolling into the guy's house. That's it. I'll sleep fine tonight. You do what you need to do.
It's the JR sport. We show here with you. Listen, I know better. I got stories.
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And then take a walk down memory lane. A few things that took place this day in sports history. You are listening to the JR sport brief, the JR sport brief show here with you on the infinity sports network. We have some breaking news that just came down the pipe. The Dallas Cowboys are officially hiring Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach.
Nope. It's not Deion Sanders. No, it's not Ben Johnson where he has a job now with the Chicago Bears. The Dallas Cowboys found a head coach that is their current offensive coordinator. The Dallas Cowboys found a head coach who will carry Jerry Jones bags.
He will pick up his laundry. He will go get McDonald's before they start practice. The Dallas Cowboys are doing the same old same old. Being run by a crazy old man in Jerry Jones, they're going to have the same old same old and look, Schottenheimer could be a great head coach. He could.
But they ain't nothing sexy about this. This is just Jerry Jones being Jerry. Hiring another guy that he could just boss around until he's sick and tired of him and he wants to make him twist in the wind. I know what the Dallas Cowboys really need. They need talent to play on the football field. Good luck to Brian Schottenheimer and good luck to the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. The fans are really going to be the ones who suffer.
Good luck. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the infinity sports network. It's time to take a look at a few things that took place this day in sports history, because my time is almost done. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything.
It was primitive and lousy and we liked it. The JR Sportbree show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Today is January 24th, 2025. If we go back to January 24th in the year 2010, the Saints, they advanced to their first Super Bowl by beating the Vikings 31 to 28 in overtime.
I want you to take a listen to this. What is it? It's a kick by Garrett Hartley. It won them the game in overtime. Listen, And man, those Saints ultimately went to the Super Bowl and they beat the Indianapolis Colts 31 to 17.
January 24th in the year 2016. You might remember this, the Denver Broncos, they pick off Tom Brady, two point conversion. They beat the Patriots 2018 to advance to the Super Bowl.
I want you to listen to this. 12 seconds left in the game, NFL on CBS. He lost the football back at the 20, but it doesn't matter. It was ticked by to leave and the Denver defense saves it at the end.
Ultimately, we know what happened. Denver Broncos went to the Super Bowl. They beat the Panthers in San Francisco, 24 to 10. That was Super Bowl 50. I remember that.
That was in the Bay. I remember because I was there. Good times. Damn, that was almost 10 years ago. Oh my God.
Time flies. Anyway, we had a fun show. Oh yeah, by the way, we didn't get a chance to play the dumb stuff that Shaq said. He basically agreed with Jimmy Butler. He's like, Hey, they don't want to pay me.
If you don't want me here, I want to leave. And it's just like, man, they're paying him for this year and next year. That's the short of it.
And Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley, they were like, Shaq, what are you talking about? They're paying the guy and he just doesn't want to show up to work. And he's 35 years old. So I don't know. Wild stuff. Even wild is the Cowboys. Hickey, same old, same old with these guys, right? Least shocking news ever.
The name maybe itself is a surprise, but like the fact it's a nameless faceless. Yes, man. Like you said, bag carrier for Jerry. That's going to sit there, take orders and allow Jerry to play fantasy football with the roster yet again. That's all he wanted.
That's what he's got. The Dallas Cowboys said that they will have an introductory press conference Monday at 11 AM central time. Okay. People can't wait for that one.
I'm sure we'll be talking about the championship games and then the Cowboys. Okay. All right. Anyway, you can find me online at JR sport brief. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you to everybody who watched the stream live on YouTube. You can hit rewind there.
You can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. You can find me online at JR sport brief. Hickey, where can they find you online and listen to you over the weekend? Ryan underscore Hickey in number three on Twitter. Check me out. Hick at night night spelled N I T E right here on the infinity sports network. 10 PM Eastern seven Pacific Sunday night.
Yes. Thank you to Matt Perino for joining us from syracuse.com. David Harrison for joining us covers all things commanders. You can find me online at JR sport brief. Listen, enjoy all of the football. I'll be talking about it online. And of course, we'll be back with you together again on Monday, 6 PM Eastern three Pacific be safe, be well, be cool, be smooth, except for the Dallas Cowboys because they're stupid. Don't move. Bart Winkler coming up next. You're locked into the infinity sports network. Thank you for listening and thank you Hickey.
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