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He's holding it down on the boards for us in New York City. We appreciate you for being here. Man, we've been hanging out for two hours. We got two more to go.
This show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. We talked about the NFL combine. We've had a lot of coaches and GMs talking this week about Myles Garrett. Browns say we're still not gonna move him. We've heard from the Falcons. They said, hey, Kirk Cousins is gonna be our backup quarterback.
Yeah, almost $30 million backup QB. Right. We all believe you. And thank you so much to Yahoo Sports' Frank Schwab for joining us last hour to break down a lot of the comments made today by all of the executives in Indianapolis, including Nick Sirianni, coach of the Eagles, who said, man, if y'all ban the tush push, it's not gonna be fair to us Eagles. Like we actually work at that.
And we have so much more to get into. Browns saying crazy things. What else is new outside of Myles Garrett?
New York Giants fans upset at their general manager, Joe Shane, congratulating Saquon for winning the championship. OK. And then I can't wait for this one. I cannot wait. We are two hours away from the Los Angeles Lakers hosting the Dallas Mavericks.
What does this mean? Luca Doncic gets a little bit of a revenge or gets a little bit of revenge against the Dallas Mavericks. I can't wait until he goes to Dallas in April. But tonight, I will settle for that. Most definitely. You want to be a part of the show? You can. You can call up eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
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Thank you to everybody at work, at home, on the road, people delivering, making deliveries, making money. Shout outs to you and shout outs to that guy who calls from I think he calls from South Carolina. Hickey, the guy who deals with the fluids. He's in South Carolina. It's him, right? Oh, I think you're right. Yes. Joe, right? I don't know.
I think so. I called him. I called him a repo man and he said, no, I'm not a repo man. I I fixed car fluids. I said, oh, no, he's metals or metals.
No, no fluids for him. OK, got it. OK, that's good.
Dry metals. Good for him. Yeah.
He said he'd give me a car. Oh, no, he's in Alabama, right? He's in Alabama. Yeah. Because he's he's he's he's in Birmingham.
Good for him. Yes, that Joe in Birmingham, I think. Shout outs to all of our listeners in Birmingham, Alabama. You are not that far from me here in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you have something that, you know, I could sneak back over the border, by all means, let me know. OK, I'm here for that. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
I'm going to get into those Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks in a minute. But let's talk to Dan. Dan is calling from Wisconsin. I have a feeling where this call may go. Hey, Dan, you're on the JR Sportbree show.
What's up? Hey, thank you, JR. Of course, you know, to me, that touch push, I think it was a genius how they run it. But I want to know how the NFL lets this rule that's wishy-washy rule get away. This morning, Chris Canny, he read the rules and said in the rule book, you cannot aid, push, pull or wrap your arms around a runner to gain yardage.
Now, I want to know why this has gotten to this point where is it a rule or isn't it? Well, my my my understanding and their particulars in the rule, you can't do that. There has to be resistance to the person with the ball. So you can't gimmick a situation, whereas a runner and it could be the quarterback or running back or wide receiver has the ball and they are now pushed in the back or thrown forward without having resistance from a defender.
I believe that's one of the moments where you can't just push a guy. I think second of all, and I think this is a little bit more obvious, you can't drag a guy, you know, after play has been whistled dead. And so this is not an illegal play. This is not a situation that the Eagles have exploited and the NFL is turning a blind eye. They're operating within the rules. And a matter of fact, I want to say a couple of years ago, the NFL actually adjusted the rule to say that, hey, if somebody is going to come behind the quarterback, you have to start more than a yard. I think it is exactly a yard behind the quarterback to not get any additional leverage. So, yeah, you can't you can't gimmick up throwing guys forward and pushing them forward.
But there are some intricacies to the rule there. OK, my question to you is, do you think they'll roll up at you? Think they'll leave it legal? I think they'll leave it alone. Look, the the NFL owners are the ones who have to vote to change the tush push. The last time I checked my count, I heard Mark Murphy complain about it the same way that you have. And I heard Rahim Morris of the Falcons, the head coach, making not an offhand comment. He was asked about it and he kind of just like, hey, it should be illegal.
And he doesn't give a damn. And so unless you're going to have more owners who are waking up and saying this is dangerous, we need to get rid of it, man, this rule isn't going anywhere because the owners got to be the ones to change it. All right. Hey, Dan, Dan, you're on Wisconsin, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I know you like pizza, right? Yeah, it's OK.
Excuse me. Yeah, that's good. Well, OK. All right. What how would you feel if some idiot walked around and said, I want to I want to ban pizza? Wouldn't that be something stupid?
Because one person? Well, I mean, no, I'm not saying that. I just say it. My question is, they are the rules.
Well, it's it's interpreted. And now I see many times and you look at somebody's running, running plate, running back. They get put down. The pile gets moved and they're pushing and pushing them. Yeah. They don't call that anymore.
I want to know why the NFL is so wicked with the rules. I gave you an explanation. You understand my explanation. I gave you, right? Yes, I understood that. OK, OK, well, that's it.
We good then. And next time somebody asks you about pizza, don't say it's OK. You sound very you don't sound normal. Everybody likes it. To me personally, I can live without it. Doesn't matter to me.
They are. Oh, my God. What do you like to eat, Dan? What do you eat? Well, I like I like meat potatoes. That's it every day.
Meat and potatoes. And you have a you have a glass of milk with it? Well, once in a while, yes. Yeah. OK, I know.
All right. Well, thank you, Dan. Appreciate you.
Yeah. Thank you, Jay. I love your show, man.
I love you too, Dan. Thank you. Oh, man. Hickey, you eat the same thing every day. I do. I'm a man of regimen, peanut butter and jelly for lunch, some sort of pasta for the most part for dinner, smoothie in the morning.
Uh huh. Why don't you try his try his diet? Just meat and potatoes every day. Heavy on the starch. I mean, no too many potatoes every day. I don't I don't hate it. I think it's a tasty way to to live life. You know, a nice little steak, little potatoes could be a lot worse and have some milk with it every day.
Hickey, do it for a week. Something Jim Harbaugh, something he would do. Milk and steak. I'm good on that. Well, it's the potatoes. That's I mean, that's part of it, too. True. True. Yeah. That's that's like a good call. Does that sound like a good milk?
Milk, a glass of milk with potatoes and steak. Yeah. Easy shout outs to Dan for calling from Wisconsin. Hickey, I'm offended that he doesn't like who doesn't like pizza. Have you ever heard of a human being who says I don't like pizza? Everybody all over the world likes pizza when they eat it. People love it. It's universal, right?
It's it's one of the few things we can all rally together for or almost all of us. I guess Dan's kind of on the outs there. But yeah, I didn't think that was possible. Yeah. Let me take some bread, throw some sauce and some cheese on it and boom. So, Hickey, I may get a pizza on the way out of here.
Put some meat on top of it and maybe put some veggies if you want like that. Pizza is catered to to basically anything anyone's wants. Yeah. I mean, I'm just wondering right now.
Let's be real. Everybody. But bread is universal. Everybody eats bread all over the world. Right. People eat bread for the most part.
Plenty of people, you know, some people who don't. Yeah. There's some, you know, variations of bread, but keto, keto.
Oh, that that's right. You know, a fancy American thing that they made up. I mean, I think a lot of those fads are, you know, only this, this and this and you'll be ripped in no time. OK. Where was gluten in 1989? I never heard of gluten until, I don't know, 15 years ago. I don't know about no gluten. And how half the people in this country are allergic to it.
I don't know. Is that what it is? Half the half the population is allergic to gluten.
No, it's not that high, but it does. I mean, does not feel like now every GF, GF, there's more gluten free options. People now are more allergic to somehow like if I was allergic to gluten jar, honestly, take me off earth. Yeah, because it's in pasta, right? Oh, it's pasta bread.
It's it's in everything good that you want to eat gluten. What's the point that at that point, Hickey, I had a camera guy one time I was working with this guy. He was I'm a I'm a jerk.
Who cares? He was from Colorado, right? And so he came to New York and he was my camera guy working with him. And he was he couldn't do gluten. And so, you know, we're shooting or whatever. I'm like, hey, man, let me get your son to eat.
Hickey, this guy couldn't eat anywhere. I'm like, what? Like, what good are you like? OK, you shoot. But yeah, like I'm eating here, you know, shooting in Manhattan. What's that place? It's like a bakery with the sandwiches and stuff, sandwiches and salads, like Pret a manger. Yeah.
And Audubon and all this other stuff. Yeah. Like typical lunch. It's like I can't eat there.
All right, buddy, enjoy your grass over there. I'm going to go get myself a sandwich, OK? Yeah, I'm gonna have a sandwich. I'm gonna have a soup and, you know, rocks of pizza.
I think those rocks on the corner don't have any gluten in them. It should be good. Yeah.
Some concrete for free. Yeah. Shout out. Hey, if you are is it allergic? Is that is that appropriate? Hickey, is that what it is?
Allergic to gluten? I think so. That's the way to phrase it. I doubt we get a call here.
I really do. I doubt this one. If you are allergic to gluten.
Can you call up and explain what the issue is? When did you become allergic to eating bread and glue like explain to me when the hell gluten came into the wide public conscious? Gluten free, what a what a hustle. I'm going to come up with a fad to scare and hustle people to start my own thing. I'll figure out what it is later. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
Now say five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Outside of that, we're going to take a break. And when we come back on the other side, I'm taking a dive. I'm going to Los Angeles. I'm taking a look at the Los Angeles Lakers. I mean, Luka Doncic has a whole commercial basically kicking the Mavericks in the ass. It's a very funny commercial.
And I look forward to watching Luka kick them in the ass tonight. You're locked into the J.R. Sportbrief show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network, i.e. gluten. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbrief. It's the J.R. Sportbrief show on the Infinity Sports Network. Nobody hit me up about the gluten. I'll figure it out.
Gluten. Anyway, it's time to talk about Luka Doncic. It's time to talk about the Dallas Mavericks.
It's time to talk about the Los Angeles Lakers and one of the more ridiculous trades that we have ever seen in the world of sports, especially recent memory. On a Saturday night, Luka Doncic was moved from the Dallas Mavericks after taking them to an NBA Finals last year. They moved him to the Lakers. He turns 26. He turns 26 years old on Friday. Luka Doncic was 25 years old. They moved him for Anthony Davis, 32 years old, was hurt during the trade. Played one game, played out of his mind and then got hurt again.
By stepping into the paint, he pulled his groin, he reached for his crotch and the next thing you know, he's on the floor. Sounds like Anthony Davis career. He'd be a Hall of Famer. And when he goes into the Hall of Fame, he'll be an older gentleman, likely in his 40s.
I wonder if he's going to need crutches to get up there, but I digress. Anthony Davis is still out. And so tonight, today, and about two hours from now, a little less than two hours, the Dallas Mavericks are in Los Angeles. Luka Doncic has an opportunity.
No, not just an opportunity. Luka Doncic is going to take on his former team, except for this time, the first time we'll be in LA. We got to wait until April 9th for Luka Doncic to make his return to Dallas.
I think that one will be a little bit more interesting than tonight. And we all heard the reasons as to why GM Nikko Harrison decided to move Luka Doncic. His commitment to defense, his commitment to the team, his commitment to health, his commitment to his own body. We got rumors that this guy is maybe having a few too many beers.
Maybe he's smoking too much hookah. They decided to move him. I personally feel that Nikko Harrison understands that he's not, he's not long for the job, that he's here today and he'll be gone tomorrow. He's not a lifer on the management side of a basketball team. He didn't come from the film room and become GM. This guy played basketball and ended up as an executive with Nike. If he lost his job tomorrow running the Dallas Mavericks, I have a feeling he would be perfectly okay with his present and his future.
So he pulled the trigger and he made the deal albeit a stupid one. And so Luka Doncic, tonight you can expect for him to light the Mavericks up. I don't know if he's going for 25 and a triple double.
I don't know if he's going for 40, but they're going to make sure that Luka gets as many shots as he wants. And let's be real, Dallas Mavericks are banged up. Anthony Davis returned today and he returned to Dallas. And he returned to shoot around like after practice. He is going to be reevaluated in another 10 days.
And so that means that we won't see him for another, I don't know, three weeks. And then when he comes back, it'll probably take him another game before he gets hurt again, which is why this is one of the dumbest trades I've ever seen in my life. The Los Angeles Lakers have basically paired up Luka Doncic with LeBron James. And they're not a perfect team themselves.
I mean, they did just beat up on Denver 123 to 100. Luka and LeBron combined for like 57, 58 points. And I think tonight things will lean a little bit more in favor of Luka getting all the buckets. LeBron James over the weekend was asked about it. How do you feel about this combination working with Luka Doncic?
LeBron says, are you stupid? This is a match made in heaven. I'm a natural born wide receiver and he's a natural born quarterback.
So it fits perfect. I've been running the floor and running lanes like, you know, pretty much my whole life. And he's been throwing great passes pretty much his whole life. So it's not, it's not hard to get a rhythm when it comes to that. You know, it's just all about, you know, eye contact and, you know, him being a great quarterback like he is, me being a recipient of it. Okay.
All right. LeBron James has to go the, the football analogy route to describe playing with Luka. Look, LeBron James is still absolutely amazing at 40 years old. Luka Doncic isn't getting ready to turn 26 years old.
We've all had the conversation. LeBron James is going to rub off on Luka. LeBron James is going to help out Luka.
And I agree. I mean, this entire experience, this entire trade has put a battery in the back of Luka Doncic. Let's also be real. He is likely, Luka is, to be much more successful playing on the Los Angeles Lakers, which is just a destination for everybody in the NBA. More so than he would have been a legend if it's, if he spent his entire career in Dallas. We saw what he did last year with Kyrie and those giant bigs.
They, they went to the finals, then they lost. Cause after a while, it's just like, Hey, we can key in on Luka and Kyrie and everybody else is just meh, whatever. The Lakers are always going to be able to attract stars and Luka, eh, he could love this time in Dallas. He bought a big old house.
He could have loved it. I have a feeling his career is going to be much more fruitful in LA, especially for an organization that just proved how stupid they are by trading away a transcendent talent. Could you imagine the Chicago Bulls trading away Michael Jordan?
And let me, let me re let me make this clear. We have plenty of instances where star players say, I want out. We don't have too many instances where a team says, I don't want my star player.
This is nutty. The bulls to trade Michael Jordan, the magic. Yeah. Shaq said, I want out Shaq left. Did you imagine if the magic said, we're going to give you the boot before then? Did you imagine Houston saying we don't want Hakeem Olajuwon? The Mavericks got rid of someone who, who could be one of the greatest players ever.
It's sad. The Jordan brand, which has done an amazing job, an amazing job, just marketing their athletes over the past several weeks. Jalen Hurts is a Jordan athlete, went through the entire parade and wore a Love Hurts sweatshirt that is not even on sale yet. As far as I know, I think the fans got to wait another couple of weeks until they can get themselves a Love Hurts sweatshirt. Those things are going to be flying off the shelves everywhere from Texas, where he's from all the way to Philly.
Love Hurts, great, great marketing, great sales job. Today, ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers, hosting the Mavericks, the Jordan brand dropped the commercial. It's someone dressed as Luca changing his license plate. It's a yellow and purple and gold luxury car. And he literally goes to the back, takes off the Texas plates, puts on the Los Angeles plates, the song, all my exes live in Texas is playing in the background.
And then the final scene that the Jordan brand puts on the screen says full tank, no mercy. Now I just hope that Luca lives up to that by whooping that ass tonight. I want to show that ass tonight. I want to show, I can't tell you what basketball game I've looked forward to this entire season besides this one tonight. No, not Clay Thompson going back to the bay.
That was nice. Everybody wearing captain's hats, whatever. There's not a game more highly anticipated than this one tonight. Hickey, has it been a game that you've really wanted to see this year? This year? No, I'm very excited.
This has a lot of juice. And again, this is fun and this is still Luca being at home. The Dallas return is still six weeks away and that's going to be just a totally different scene when that actually comes down to fruition. But no, I think this is by far the game of the year so far in terms of excitement and built up for it.
Yeah, there's nothing else. All right, let's see what Kyrie does. He's going to try to steal some attention. I expect him to have a big game against LeBron and Luca. I mean, I think Kyrie has no choice. Let's also keep in mind Max Christie, who's a rookie. He's been having a great season. No expectations for him to do anything. Let's see what he does, but all eyes are going to be on Luca. And a matter of fact, head coach of the Lakers, JJ Reddick, he just spoke to the media prior to the game. He just spoke and this is what he said he expects from Luca tonight.
With him, he's at his best when he has that balance of joy and playfulness and that killer mentality, just perfectly living in the moment of competition. You know, he'll find out tonight. What?
Hickey, what do you say? The joy and playfulness and killer mentality? What? I think the guy's going to be going for the jugular tonight. I don't know how much love there's going to be. Yeah, I think he was trying to basically say that he's going to strike a balance of looseness, but also, like you said, have that killer mentality of if you give me the opportunity, I'm going to drop 50 if I can without trying to drop 50, you know, like without having that pressure on him.
That's what I could garner. It's going to be real interesting to see what Luca's what Luca's line looks like, because basketball is such. You can't be perfect, you know, like he can go out there and let the game come to him and he could have 50 or he could have 20 and just 10 and 10. And the Lakers could win by 20 points or, you know, he could just put up all the points in the world. He could be on fire. He could be shooting the air out of the ball and missing a lot.
We have no idea. That's why people want to tune in. But when you think about the NBA, you think about scoring. This is a guy who led the league in scoring last year. This is a guy who took his team to the finals alongside Kyrie Irving. I think Luca, he is he is a killer. The NBA doesn't have a whole hell of a lot of those left guys who can just go out there and get it.
We may have players who have that mentality or think that they can. You know, Anthony Edwards, he's a killer. Luca Doncic is a killer. Giannis is a killer. Damian Lillard is a killer. Jimmy Butler, when he decides to play as a killer, a Steph Curry, go out there, get it killer. There are very few guys. There's a handful of them in the NBA that that when a going gets tough and you just need a bucket, you need somebody with no fear. You need somebody who needs the shot.
The league doesn't have a lot of those. Luca is one. The image of him with the step back three over Rudy Gobert, that is implanted in my brain. Like I see it. I see Luca hitting them with the moves. I see the defensive player of the year going for the block. I see Luca knocking down the shot and I see Luca yelling at this man, yelling at this guy. I felt bad for Rudy Gobert, the way Luca just cooked him.
Man, if we can get one or two or three or four of those tonight, sign me up. I want to see Luca Doncic yelling at everybody. This is like, this is like getting fired from work.
This is like getting fired from work and passing your old coworkers and passing your old boss and letting them know you made a mistake and I'm doing better and you're just ass. It's that I want to see Luca annihilate the Mavericks tonight. It'd be something good to watch. It's nice to actually see some NBA players playing. Well, not Anthony Davis.
He's never healthy. Doesn't matter where he's playing. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. What do you think Luca is going to do tonight? Is he putting up 20? Is he putting up 30? Is he going for 40? Does he have a triple double? Is LeBron passing him the ball every single time? What is Luca going to do against these Dallas Mavericks?
That still sounds crazy to say. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler. That's 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Just to be clear, the Lakers are going to be competitive in the postseason. I don't think they have enough depth.
I think we know this. I don't think they have enough size to win a championship. Hey, crazier things have happened. But if we see them even advance past the West, I think their size will be to their detriment.
The phone lines are open if you want to give me a call. And you know what? Speaking of a championship, we saw what the Eagles did. I just told you about love hurts. The New York Giants, well, at least their general manager, he says that he doesn't hurt after moving on from Saquon Barkley. We're going to hear from Joe Shane on the other side of the break.
The phone lines are open. They got some word on the Browns as well. There's just a lot going on. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief. It is the J.R. Sport Brief show on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we talked about Luca Doncic in Los Angeles tonight playing for the Lakers against his former team, the Dallas Mavericks. We'll see what Luca Doncic does tonight. I know he has revenge on his mind. And tonight is a little like the appetizer. The main course is when he returns to Dallas on April 9th when the Lakers head back to Texas. That should be a fun one, both from the atmosphere, the reception that Luca will receive, which will be overwhelmingly positive.
And then Luca will have an opportunity to potentially stick it to the executives. I mean, damn it. We didn't get into it a few minutes ago. It was. Was Jason Kidd in favor of him moving? Is Luca going to be glancing over at the bench the entire game after every bucket?
We'll see. I think the last time I can remember a return that was, I want to say violent, but was kind of vicious. Latrell Sprewell was with the New York Knicks. He thought he was going to get a contract from the Knicks.
I was upset that he didn't get the money he thought he deserved. He ended up with the Minnesota Timberwolves. James Dolan, the New York Knicks owner, has been out of the news recently because he hasn't sued anybody or kicked Charles Oakley out of Madison Square Garden. Latrell Sprewell returned as a member of the Timberwolves and James Dolan. I don't know if this was smart of him.
Maybe you didn't see it coming. He sat baseline behind the basket as he typically does. He was cursed out every single time Latrell Sprewell went down the court. Latrell Sprewell would hit a bucket and he would be yelling and screaming at James Dolan. Now, let's keep in mind, Latrell Sprewell, as we all know, he's the guy who decided to choke PJ Carlissimo out of practice. So I don't think we'll see Luca choking anybody or maybe cursing anybody out every single time he gets down the court.
But I think there might be some words exchanged at some point. Let's see what Luca does. This is going to be one to watch. I don't know how long it's going to take, but ultimately the Dallas Mavericks, they should be, they should be regretting this.
Let's see how long it takes. And speaking of regret, oh boy, I got to get into these two stories. One involves the Baltimore Ravens. Sorry, Justin Tucker. We'll get there in a second. And the other one involves Saquon Barkley.
I don't have to tell you, but I will. Saquon Barkley left the New York giants. Saquon Barkley became a Super Bowl champion. Saquon Barkley just had one of the best seasons that a running back has ever had in NFL history.
That is not an exaggeration. Even with 17 games now, including the post-season, Saquon rushed for more yards than any running back ever. The New York giants didn't want to give him a deal. He found that deal with the Eagles and it worked out for them. Meanwhile, the New York giants in his first year post or their first year past Saquon, the giants went three and 14 and they suck. The New York giants are staring at selecting another quarterback in the draft.
Daniel Jones is gone. They got to think about their future while they're a star player that they never wanted to leave, or at least their owner. Well, they saw him win the title. And so today was the first day that general manager, Joe Shane spoke to the media before he could even say hello. The first question posed to him wasn't about the Giants. It wasn't about their draft pick. That wasn't about a quarterback. It was about Saquon Barkley and whether or not he regrets not re-signing him.
Listen to this. Yeah, I'm happy for Saquon. Obviously he went on to win the Super Bowl and we're wishing nothing but the best. Always gonna evaluate all the decisions you make. And we were at a different place in our build and again, call Saquon and wish him nothing but the best.
Wow. Hickey, there were a lot of people that were upset about his response. What the hell is he supposed to say? Like, what is he supposed to say? I hate Saquon.
I'm mad that he like, like, what is he, what is he supposed to say? JR, I am so sick of this storyline because it's just, it's so, people just have convenient memories and I think forget the fact that we would be crushing the Giants and calling it bad business if they gave Saquon Barkley with no quarterback or no offensive line with not a great team around him a massive deal to run into an offensive line right that stunk and to rush for a thousand yards on a four win team. Like, why does no one just remember that as, oh man, I can't believe you let Saquon walk. You're winning four games if you had Saquon Barkley.
What's the difference? Yeah, running backs are worth a damn if you're, if you're a team like the Eagles. If you're close to a Super Bowl and you're close to winning, then you get a Saquon to get you over the hump, which is what they did.
It made no sense. And yeah, maybe this is all kind of pushed because Marrow was just like, oh, the owner of the Giants. Oh, well, I'd hate to see him leave. Oh, I hate to see him leave. Well, yeah, but it was necessary.
What the hell? The Eagles gave him a three year contract, $37 million. Why are you going to pay a running back that much to lose when the rest of the team stinks? The Eagles already had an amazing offensive line. The Eagles had a team that went to the Super Bowl two years ago, but the Eagles didn't have was a Saquon. Meanwhile, the New York Giants, well, they need everything.
They need everything. Saquon would have rotted away. The New York Giants could have kept them to, you know, placate the fans and keep them happy, feel like they got a player for the next forever. It wasn't to be.
Give Joe Shane a break. Stop asking this guy about Saquon. And why should he regret it? Was he going to overpay for a running back on a losing team? For what? So the fans could, were they Saquon jerseys like at this point?
Get over it. The Giants have the number three selection in the draft. And Joe Shane, not that he was going to give you an answer or me an answer or the media an answer. Joe Shane gave his thoughts on what he will do with the number three pick. We've got a lot of work to do on, you know, the number three pick. We've done a lot of work throughout the fall and the college prospects, but this phase of the calendar is, you know, getting to know who they are as people, what the fit's going to be.
And then obviously free agencies before the draft. So two weeks from now, the roster will look different. So we know we have an idea of, you know, three to five players, six players set, whatever it may be and move back scenarios.
You can do that. We'll also look at, you know, moving up if that's a possibility. So it's exciting time for, you know, a year for us and, you know, a chance to make some change on the roster.
And so we'll look at all different scenarios. It's kind of wild when you look at this time of the year, all these coaches and executives at the combine, nobody's going to give you an answer. Nobody's going to, Hey, what you doing with the number three pick?
What is Joe Hickey? Why doesn't somebody give a real answer? Like I'm not, why can't we get a coach, a GM who just says for obvious reasons, I'm not answering that and just leave it at that. We need a Marshawn Lynch type performance by one of these execs. I would welcome it. I think it'd be fun.
Maybe they're just too nice. They want to play the game on a talk in circles for 10 minutes about what they will or will not do. Yeah. Nobody said anything, you know? Oh, oh, oh, oh, Hickey, you know, who's at the game tonight. Oh boy. I, if you have TNT, I think I just saw who you saw Nico Harris.
Wait, what is this? A sign is now up for free parking at tonight's game, courtesy of Luca and Jumpman. I've never seen a player purchase an entire parking lot for fans, parking located across the street from the arena. He should do that when he's in Dallas. What does he do that in LA for? Good question. I mean, it's, it's unique.
It's different. I think the Lakers fans that probably will save what, 60 bucks tonight are appreciative, but yeah, that would have been bad ass if he just bought out. I don't know exactly how American airlines center works, but if he buys out the parking lot before that game, that's bad ass.
Well, somebody who's being real smart, whatever promo they got for Dallas, I hope they figure it out. Nico Harrison is, you know, on the arena floor, giving out the, the hugs and the handshakes and the hellos to everybody. And in Los Angeles, they should be throwing this guy roses right now.
They should be welcoming him in with open arms. Where he sits is going to be very interesting. I will encourage him to sit in a suite somewhere unidentifiable to Luca, which I think is pretty much impossible.
If you're Luca Doncic, you can pretty much find him. Just don't be hidden. Don't stay anywhere near the court either. Anyway, we just told you about the giants making a dumb, regrettable decision.
Not really. And Saquon didn't need to be there. The Ravens have a decision to make. We know Justin Tucker has been accused by now 16 women of inappropriate behavior at these massage therapy places.
He's doing stuff with his body part that he shouldn't be doing allegedly. And he Ravens haven't said anything. They put out an initial statement and then we got more women who came out and then it's been silence until today. We heard from John Harbaugh, who says that he's spoken to Justin Tucker.
He made it very clear. They're waiting for the process and the NFL's investigation to bear out. And well, the GM, Eric DeCosta, he says that Justin Tucker, we can't do anything. We won't do anything until the NFL investigates.
Listen to this. The allegations are serious concerning. The amount of allegations are serious and concerning. I think we're fortunate that the league is doing an investigation. We'll wait as patiently as we can for as much information as we can. And we'll make our decisions based on that. Okay.
All right. I mean, they kind of wiping their hands of this one. The Baltimore Ravens have been very clear, especially as it relates to Ray Rice.
They got zero tolerance when it comes to things like this. I guess they want to soften the blow instead of taking a major punch to just give him the boot. They want the NFL to do it and they'll piggyback off of that. What John Harbaugh also said today when asked, he's like, listen, folks, we're going to be looking at kickers in the draft. I mean, Justin Tucker is coming off probably the worst season of his career.
His accuracy plummeted. He was able to pick up the slack at the end of the year, but he was not the hall of fame, automatic, one of the best kickers ever that the Ravens fans are used to. And so the Baltimore Ravens, they got a decision to make. I think ultimately Justin Tucker knows the decision that's going to be made.
This is all a matter of semantics. Justin Tucker is going to be gone from the Baltimore Ravens. It's just a matter of when the Ravens don't need to wait for the NFL's investigation. The Ravens don't need to, you know, wait for a criminal charge or a settlement. They don't need to wait on any of it. This is all about playing a game. And I wouldn't be surprised if Justin Tucker, Hickey, is it a stretch to say his career might be over?
Not at all. If he was in the prime of his career, as you saw with Deshaun Watson, I think a team would take a chance. But these allegations on top of a declining player, I think he's done. Justin Tucker, he's going to be 36 in November later on this year.
He'll be 36, just had his worst season. He has 16 cases of sexual assault allegations kind of levied upon him. Who wants to sign him? He ain't no quarterback.
He's the kicker. And who knows the way the NFL investigates? They've spoken to a couple of the women in Baltimore.
I don't know. The NFL typically moves slow. They don't move at an NCAA pace, but they move slow. Justin Tucker, his days are numbered. His days are numbered in Baltimore, probably numbered in the NFL, probably in his best interest to disappear.
It's the JR Sportbreeze show on the Infinity Sports Network. We're not disappearing. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to take a look at a few more things that took place today at the NFL combine. And you know what? Let's stick to the AFC North. What else is going on? I'll tell you, don't move.
