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At least they were non-violent. Ian Rappaport and Jordan Schultz getting into it about a report surrounding Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford having a meeting. Anyway, we can be civil here on the JR Sport Brief show.
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It's a little less than eight minutes to go. Golden State leads 99 to 91. Steph Curry entered, or he entered the fourth quarter with nine threes.
He is nine of 13 from downtown. The NBA record for threes in a game is 14 by his former teammate, Clay Thompson. Steph Curry also has 43 points. Must be nice to shoot a basketball that good. If I could shoot the basketball like him, damn it, I'd be in the NBA too. I guess a lot of us would be. Damn it, guys in the NBA who cannot shoot like him. None of them.
None of them. But we've had a busy day. We've talked about a lot. You know, of course, at the end of the show, we'll discuss a few things that took place this day in sports history. We talked about the return of Travis Kelce letting everybody know that he will return for his 13th NFL season. And then before we went to break, you know, we heard from, well, didn't hear from him, but Greg Popovich said that he hopes to be back next season. And it is a lot going on. So you know what?
Let's go through a quick recap on a lot of the things that we discussed. I mentioned cap space in the NFL. The NFL cap is going up. It's going to be some teams with a lot of money to spend.
And then there's going to be some broke ass teams like the Browns. Anyway, Travis Hunter, one of the top prospects in the NFL draft in April. He's in Indianapolis. He's at the NFL combine, but Travis Hunter is not working out.
He's just there for meetings. He'll work out at the pro day in Colorado. And when you are the top prospect, or one of the top prospects, there's nowhere to go. You can't go higher.
You can only fall. And of course, Travis Hunter was asked like what he wants to do. You want to be a cornerback? You want to be a wide receiver?
What do you want to do? Tell me. This is what he told CBS Sports. Do they keep asking you if you're going to be a corner or wide receiver? Yeah, they asked me that.
Are you paying attention to how teams say they see you? Yeah. I mean, my first meeting was at receiver. So yeah, definitely. The first meeting was at receiver. And you've never felt strongly about which one you prefer?
No, never. Listen, receivers get paid more money. Take receiver money and then get cornerback money too. We know he ain't gonna play every snap in the NFL, but get as much cash as you can. And try to win.
Good luck. I hope he ends up on the New England Patriots. Also, another big time prospect, Abdul Carter from the Penn State Nittany Lions. We found out yesterday after he proclaimed that he should be the number one pick, that he has a stress reaction in his foot. Not a stress fracture. It's not broken yet. He has an issue in his foot.
They found it. He doesn't even feel it. How thick are this guy's feet?
I want you to listen to this report. This is Ian Rappaport when he's not, you know, I guess fighting with Jordan Schultz. Ian Rappaport saying that he doesn't even need to have surgery from the NFL network. During medical testing here at a stress reaction discovered in his foot. My understanding, it is a very small spot, something that is not given in pain. And when he's talked to doctors, he has told them that this is not something that hurts me. Surgery was considered to be a possibility. But Agent Rosenhouse, who represents the players, said that they are not opting for surgery.
Believe it is not necessary. He is going to perform at his pro day and believes he will have no issues going forward. Man, I'm jealous. I'm jealous. Like, there's nothing wrong with my body and my body hurts. There's something physically wrong with this man. There's something wrong with him. His foot could break and he feels nothing.
I'm jealous. Maybe I need NFL doctors. Maybe. Anyway, someone called and said Abdul Carter, this is all a lie. This is all a ploy. So he could probably do a call to this is all a lie. This is all a ploy. So he could fall and get drafted by the Patriots.
Man, how much is a fall of four day? Nothing. Come on now. You lying about an injury?
No, stop it. This man hasn't even started his career. He just wants the money right now. Who is going to pay him the most money? Speaking of getting paid more money, we learned earlier today that Travis Kelce will be back. No shock. No surprise.
None of it here. Because why the hell would he want to exit? Why the hell would he want to have the last game of his NFL career? Be as a loser hauling in 39 yards worth of passes. Why the hell would he do that? And matter of fact, take a listen.
Pat McAfee is the one who broke it. He got a text message directly from Travis Kelce himself. Says I'm coming back for sure. Going to try and get to the best shape I've been this off season and get back to the mountaintop. Got a real bad taste in my mouth with how I played in that last game and how I got the guys ready for battle. I can't go out like that. Yeah, not like a loser. You can't go down like that. No.
Maybe spend less time on the road with his girlfriend and more time in the gym. I don't know. I mean, look at these guys make so much money. They were entitled to a life outside of what they do. But you you you get out of something what you put in, right? That's life.
You don't got to be a football player. Everybody got options. You got choices.
Life is all about balance, but you still get out what you put in. He's been busy doing other things. Travis, lose some weight. Get away from that Luca Doncic diet, according to the Dallas Mavericks.
Not me. I don't know. Never smoked hookah or had a beer with Luca. Oh, yeah. Hickey, by the way, have you seen the photos Doncic? I think he's settled in Los Angeles. Did you see the photos from him and his wife or fiance?
No. Oh, they're sitting out at some beach front property taking photos together. I don't know how luxurious this is.
I was just there a couple months ago. Nothing luxurious about it. They're walking down Venice Beach with the baby and stuff. They love in L.A.
They love it. Wow. So that just a little sunshine and beach for Luca.
And now he's at home. Yeah, he's got all about Dallas. Yeah. I mean, nothing against Dallas, but nothing against Dallas. But after he stays in L.A. for a while, you think he's one you think he's going to be missing Texas?
I don't think so, especially that heat in the summertime, I don't think so. Oh, my God. That heat. Oh, my God. Does he stay? I guess he goes home, right? I feel like he's always playing basketball somewhere. He's real fat and stuff, but he just plays basketball all year round. What? No, I just like that he's fat, but he plays. He always is playing. Go figure.
I figure that's like an oxymoron, but maybe he should stop. I don't know. We'll see. LeBron James will give him his secret.
I don't know what it is, but LeBron James will give it to him. And good, good, good on him. Enjoying that beautiful, beautiful weather. Anyway, back to a supreme athlete. This guy's name is Miles Garrett.
We heard from him about, well, them and not a hickey man. It's already about to be March. How the hell do we get here? February, the dreariest month of the year is one day away from being over. Thank goodness. Yeah, this is crazy. We are literally getting ready to jump from February 27th to March 1st. What type of crap is that?
You sound upset about that. No, I'm not upset, but how the hell does the year, how does a month end on 27, 28 days? Like, what is that? When do we get 29? Is that, when does that come? Every four years or something like that?
Once every four years leap year. Who thought of why? That's questions I'd love answers to. What? Why is February the only month with 28 days and why once every four years do we have a leap day? Well, what's the point of that? I don't, you got to talk to, what was it, some Roman guy who did the Julian calendar? I don't know. Couldn't change it after a while of modern eyes of the times? Well, who figured this out?
Some, some guy looking up at the stars 3,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, I don't know. I guess, yeah. Is that right?
How it was formed in the first place? I guess so. Look, I'm still trying to figure out why they want to move back Daylight Savings Time, man.
Come on. When they get dark, the sun would come up earlier, right? And then it would get dark earlier as well, wouldn't it? I think the opposite. I think the sun would rise later, but it would also be a lighter out longer.
Are you telling me here in the South at 10 o'clock at night, the sun would still be setting? Like, what are we doing? I don't need that. That tripped me out. No, no.
I think it's like, no, like, okay. So in the winter time, when you, when they make the fallbacks, when you put the clocks back an hour, so the sun rises earlier and you're not basically leaving for work in the darkness, it's still going to be, you know, dark by 5 36 o'clock, but it's not going to be dark at like four o'clock. Like it is in November, December, bro.
In a New York winter, the sun comes up at seven 30 and that sun is gone at four 30. Okay. Come on now.
That sucks. His son is gone. Oh, it's here. And then it's gone here, here.
Like, you know, like, and there's something about the summertime, as long as we got sunshine all damn good. I don't care. Anyway, you think he figured, figure out the calendar, you suggest something. Okay. I will talk to the higher ups that be and, and give them my plea to change this.
Who was that? The government or God, which one is probably God. Honestly, I don't even think the government's able to change this thing right. They doing daylight saving stuff. I guess. I don't know.
Well, they always feel like I always talk about it. Nothing ever happens. Get rid of it.
I don't, I don't know about that. Keep things the way they are. How about that? Is that like changing clocks twice a year and getting all confused? Come on. It's 20 clocks in your house.
That's annoying. Hickey. It's 2025. What clock needs to get changed in the house besides the oven and the microwave? Come on. The car. Cars don't have clocks no more either.
It's hooked up to the computers and stuff. Come on. Okay. Maybe not the car. Fine. But still the oven and the microwave itself is enough of a nuisance to make. Screw it. Get rid of this.
And one always runs faster than the other. And I always feel like it takes longer to like, I'll go a few days before changing it. I'm like, I'll fool myself at one point. What time is it? Daylight savings? Or either one. Oh, the clock. Yes.
Either one. Falling back or springing ahead. I'm very lazy. So there's always, you know, at least once a year, I'll be slow on changing the clocks for a few days and I'll confuse myself. Now when I get up, I'm changing it. Okay. Immediately. Yeah. Whenever I wake up, I'm changing it because I can't look at my phone and whatever else is hooked up to the internet in the house and it's telling me one time. And now I'm in the kitchen all tripped out. I can't do that.
I can't do that, man. I'll get ready. What, a week and a half or so? Already? Yeah.
What's the spring forward? I think it's the eighth of, I got a double checker. No. Yeah, it's coming. It's not this Sunday, but I believe it's the next one. Didn't we just do new years? Come on. We did it back in November.
I was just sitting in a bowl of Cheez-Its for new years and it's already, what is this now? Already March? Let's see.
Yeah. March 9th. So not this upcoming Sunday, next Sunday.
What? A week? A week?
Why do you sound so upset about those? The sun's coming out for longer. Spring forward in a week? Yeah.
A week and about 10 days or so. In a week it's going to be March 9th? Oh my God. How?
Again, the fact that you sound upset about this is, my mind is blown. When is Easter this year? I don't even know. Late. April, April 20th. Okay. Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday. Oh, that's April. Okay.
We got another month. That's right. Yeah.
Ash Wednesday. Damn, man. Wow. Picky, I need a clone. I can't do this, man.
I can't do this. There's too much going on. A clone for just to what? Remind you everything going on or you could take a day just to reorganize yourself? Yeah. Let the clone do the work and I'll just live life. Okay.
That I'd be here for. It goes by too fast. That's fair. You know what? Why don't twins do something like this, right? No.
There's a movie or two about that. Well, we were somehow, one twin does the work, could you imagine just having twins and then one twin, like they alternate work months? Well, they alternate weeks. What makes more sense? I think weeks, so that way you're still like, you're not learning something new and it's obvious. I think it's obvious. You take three months off, come back and all of a sudden you're like, oh yeah, remember what last week we talked about?
Talk about what? A lot of people, I guess it doesn't matter if you do remote work, I guess, but go into an office. Yeah, it should be easy. It's a good little hack. Now sucks that you're getting one paycheck for two people, but again. Oh, you're right about that. You're right. Fantasy world. We can just try to make that, you know, pretend that doesn't happen.
Just say, okay, you're going to live a life, work half the time and still make your money. Now I know why people do illegal things. I know now. I know now. I know now. Maybe I need to ask Miles Garrett for money.
That's what I'll do. Well, right now he's, he's a man who hates money. Doesn't want it. He doesn't want his money. Yeah, he doesn't. Well, it's the Browns.
Why would you take money from them? Unless you're Deshaun Watson, you know, guy got $230 million coming his way. Hickey brings up an excellent point. We know Miles Garrett wants out from Cleveland. He doesn't want to be a part of the Browns. The Browns have said that we want to keep him around. We want to keep him around. The two days ago, Andrew Berry, the GM of the Browns was chatted up with ESPN and he was saying how much that, yeah, we know he wants to leave, but we want to keep him.
This sounds like a dysfunctional relationship. Listen to this. For us, um, you know, Miles is under contract. Uh, we love him. Uh, he's a good player.
Um, so for us, it's really as simple as that. You know, we, um, don't envision a scenario where he's no longer a member of the Cleveland Browns. He's, you know, he's a franchise player for us. So, um, we're going to keep him in Cleveland. Unmovable.
He says that now, man, there's nothing more dysfunctional than staying in a relationship with somebody who doesn't want you. And now Miles Garrett is saying it doesn't matter how much money there is no amount of money. There is no contract that would keep me from being a part of the community. That would keep me in Cleveland. And shout outs to our guy, Rob from Connecticut. He's just like, man, send them to the bills.
We don't want Von Miller and nobody wants Von Miller busted up Achilles old is a lot of other issues. Anyway, eight five five two one two 42 27. That's eight five five two one two 42 27. We are going to take a break. When we come back on the other side of the break, we're going to talk about speaking of money. We're going to talk about some NFL teams, man. Some of them got money and some of them don't like the Browns. They, they got, they got no money. I wonder why it's the JR sport show on the infinity sports network.
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That's eight five five two one two 42 27. And we talked about all these NFL players, guys who want to be moved. Dudes who want contracts. Miles Garrett wants a deal. Matthew Stafford wants a deal. We have prospects who've never even played a snap in the NFL.
You know, they don't want to work out, but they want deals. Travis Hunter. He's just like, man, I want to play cornerback. I want to play wide receiver. We've got Abdul Carter. It was just like, man, I got a busted up foot, but I don't feel it.
I'm fine. I just want to be selected number one overall, but we all can't get everything that we want. And we know that for instance, miles Garrett wants to be traded. The Browns are like, we're not moving you to the shock and surprise of, well, nobody. The Cleveland Browns, they don't even have any cap money to spend like that. Then in the negative right now, you can go ahead and thank that gigantic contract that they gave to Deshaun Watson. But ultimately, as the NFL continues to make more and more money hand over fist. The salary cap has been set for 2025.
It has gone up. Well, because the NFL makes more money. It is $279 million.
I love it. I mean, for years, people complained about the salaries of the quarterbacks and why don't we give some money up and we need more money. And this is not fair. And how are teams going to win when yeah, sure, fine, whatever you got $280 million to play with. And the quarterback is getting 50 to 55 fill out the rest of the roster.
It sounds like everything else. You got your high price dudes who are worth the money. You just fill out the rest of the roster.
Come on. Quarterbacks aren't squeezing the cap. There's enough money for everybody, especially the stars, unless you're the bangles in your cheek. But outside of that, we got five teams who got a lot of cap space.
We got five teams who can actually go ahead and do some damage. And for everybody that was sick and tired of watching the New England Patriots, I got bad news for you. The New England Patriots have more money to spend than any one team this NFL offseason.
The New England Patriots with their new head coach, Mike Vrabel, and their established young quarterback, run quarterback in Drake May. They have $125 million to spend. Can they get him some wide receiver help? We already know that they have the fourth selection in the NFL draft. Maybe they can get defense and offense by drafting Travis Hunter. There's a lot that the Patriots can do.
They sure got a lot of money. Their VP in charge of personal football decisions, personnel decisions. Okay. This man's name is Elliott Wolf. And he says, you know what? Me and Mike Vrabel. Well, I got final decision-making.
That's what he said. He says, we're going to make the Patriots better. Last season, ultimately the roster was on me.
We were four and 13. Um, just, just didn't get enough done. Um, certainly the free agency class didn't live up to our expectations. Um, you know, the draft class, you know, it's, it's too soon to tell, but we were expecting a bigger impact from some of those guys. And we're still hopeful that they'll get to that point.
Um, we're excited about Drake May. We're excited about working with coach Rabel and, you know, everything that we're doing is to improve this football team. Man, make Robert Kraft happy. Make that guy happy. That guy's been complaining about Bill Belichick for so many years.
He's been gone already. Talking about spending money, how we spend money and haven't spent money the right way. Spend money. You got $125 million. These new England Patriots, man, they may bounce back bounce back faster than well, well, they've sucked for what, like five years now since Tom Brady left, I guess, decent turnaround for normal team. The Raiders have the second amount of cap space available. $92 million. They got Tom Brady in the team.
Now they got $92 million of spend. They're looking for a quarterback. They want Matthew Stafford.
They got a new GM. This guy has to carry Tom Brady's bags. He worked with Tom Brady down in Tampa Bay. His name is John spy tech.
And this is hilarious. This John told us to CBS. He might as well be speaking for Tom Brady who works for Fox. Uh, John spy tech talked about what he looks for in a quarterback wink, wink, the ability to lead.
No, Tom always talked about lead, learn, um, think throw, you know, some combination of those things. And to me, like really the processing, how fast they can think, how passionate they are, how committed they are. I mean, I remember seeing Peyton Manning do just, um, crazy things to be prepared, you know, things that people wouldn't even think to do. And it's like, that's what took him to the next level.
Sure. They gotta be able to throw a football. It's great if they can run fast, but really to me, it's the mental side of it. It's how can they think it?
How can they process it? How committed to the, or they are, how much film will they watch? Like to me, those are the things that stand out. I love it. One of the first things that came out of his mouth was Tom says, I know he thinks that every time he has to speak publicly, what would Tom Brady want me to say? What can I say that will keep me in the good graces of Tom Brady? Damn it. When he took the job, Tom Brady proudly stuffed them in the basement, had them sit there and just listen to him for hours on end, man, your job is to do whatever Tom Brady says, what do you want in a quarterback?
Damn it. Whatever Tom Brady wants. And apparently he was sitting down with Matthew Stafford on a ski trip, depending on who you ask the third team with the biggest amount of cap space, a team that had a chance and an opportunity to go to the Superbowl with a rookie quarterback, the Washington commanders have $79 million available to go out there and spend a due term McLaurin a favor. Can you get this man a wide receiver? Can you get some defensive help? I know you're getting ready to trade some dudes, but can, can you go out there and continue building out this team so they don't fall into the toilet in the second year? Adam Peters runs that team. And he told them, he talked about the goals that the command is having free agency. We just have a lot of free agents and we still have a lot of holes to fill on the roster. We have, I think the second least amount of players on our roster in the league right now. So we'll be busy, but we want to spend, you know, on commanders and spend the right way.
So that's, that's how we're going to look at it. We're talking with a lot of those guys right now. It just depends on what they want to do.
And, and if they want to, if we can come to an agreement before free agency, some guys want to hit free agency and see what their market is. Some guys want to get stuff done right away. The great thing is that the culture that DQ created, there's a lot of guys that want to come back.
Yeah. People love Dan Quinn. People love him. Adam Peters sounds like a real relaxed guy. He's not rushed. He's not in a hurry. He's not in the mood to shout at you.
All these football guys, everybody wants to shout at you. Now about this, the team with the fourth largest amount of cap space, the bears, the Chicago bears will have about $79 million to spend as well. Get Williams an offensive line, please. I mean, yeah, he has to learn to stop running around like a nut. Get him an offensive line. Ben Johnson is the new head coach. I know there's still a lot of people in Detroit who are not happy that he left, but he did get over it. Ben Johnson talked about how he plans on turning the bears around.
What? When you talk about last year, you know, what was lacking, the accountability, that's the word that's probably come up more than anything. And so that's something that we're going to address. You know, we, I can't help myself.
I'm going to be very blunt and very honest and how my version of the truth, I guess you could say going forward. And, and, uh, so is the coaching staff. They, they know what the task at hand, but beyond that though, I think we've got a lot of really talented pieces already in that locker room. Yeah, you do just please help help the quarterback.
Can, can you do that, please? He needs help. And then we got teams that have no cap space. Saints, none. Browns, none. Bills, none. The Seahawks, none. Falcons, none. They got work to do.
They got some, they got some, uh, they got some fat to cut. And for the saints, welcome to purgatory. Another year of Derek Carr quarterback.
Sounds fun. And for the Browns, at least y'all pick number two, right? Is it, Nikki, is that the bright side? That that's, that's optimism, right? Correct.
Hard to miss as well. So at least you should get some impact player. Should, should. Marco, Marco, your turn. Say something positive about the Browns.
Go for it. You have the second pick and you won 11 games two years ago. Make you feel better? Two years ago. Oh my God. It's not 25 years ago.
It was two years ago. I'm trying to give you some bright side. You got some problems. You got a quarterback who can't throw when he can't get healthy. He's a disaster and you still got a lot of money plucked into him. I mean, you got problems.
You got to fix things, but the bright side is a couple of years ago you weren't a train wreck. That's a good thing. Okay. All right.
Okay. There's some positivity. Shout outs to all the Cleveland Brown fan. Every time I see Brown's fans or they show them on television, they always got bags over their heads. Most times they're wearing them, them dog pound masks or they got bags.
Which one is more expensive? Well, I hope not the bag. I mean, where are you getting your Brown bags from?
If you're spending more than 10 cents on them, could you imagine, could you imagine going to a sporting event knowing that you got to put up a Brown paper bag over your head? Could you imagine? No, I could not. I could not go. Why go for what? Why are you going? Usually it's cold to it cause it's end of the year.
So they stink out there in the cold elements, probably like raining, snowing in Cleveland. Oh, no thanks. So is it, you want to send a message or is it because you're embarrassed?
Which one is it? Or more of? Both. More embarrassment. See, I always thought he just wanted to get out of your house. This is better than being home. With what?
With like a wife and kids? Hey, you said that. You said that.
I did. You said that. JR said it, not Marco.
Marco didn't say it. You said that. I'm asking. I'm asking. I didn't, of course I said it.
I think my voice is quite distinguishable. Of course I said it. I'm asking. You're not answering. I'm just saying, I think that that's got a lot to do with it.
I think the bag on the head in 12 degree weather in December, watching a team that's got three wins, there's gotta be a plus side and it's gotta be at least I ain't home. It's better than being at home on Sunday with your wife and your kids. You're right. Again, you said that part. I'm just saying that home. Okay. So it's not right for me to say I agree. No, I think we all agree. Okay.
The touche. I said, I said what I said is somebody say something to me. Somebody say something. You're damn right.
Nothing. I know I'm right because I know that Hickey. Remember that old lady who says she calls and listens here instead of her husband. Come on.
That's true. Who wants to sit at home with their spouse all day? Nobody. Nobody. Come on Marco. Chime in Marco.
What are your thoughts? Hey man. I already let you know.
Bag on the head, 20 degree weather, three wins. All right. Sign me up.
That tells you a lot. Listen, we can get some tickets. Let's go. You want to go watch a Cleveland Browns game? I might.
I might. Okay. All right. Same thing. That's true.
Yeah. Why the hell I got to go to Cleveland? What'd you say? Hickey, what'd you say? He's got the Giants right in his backyard.
He's right. I can't argue that. Why the hell I got to go to Cleveland? I can go to the air conditioner in MetLife. Little cold out in Cleveland. Little colder. I guess.
Little bit. But it's hard to probably get to giant or MetLife stadium than it is to get to Cleveland with how the roads are. Why don't you want to do a road trip? Why don't you want to do a road trip?
Maybe. I mean, why would I want to pass up the opportunity to go to a swamp though? And you know, not only the bag, at least maybe I don't have to smell the metal lands if I put the bag on my head. Does the, does the, does the turnpike still stink? The turnpike is always going to stink. You think that's going to go away? That's never going to go away. I don't know.
It's been, it's been, it's been a while since I had to really drive on it. So I don't know. Yeah. That's always going to stay. Why does it, is it the chemical plant that's there? I think so.
There's some reason as to why it has that distinct odor to it, but I don't remember exactly what it is. And it's safe. Everybody says it's safe. I'm sure it is.
It's like, Hey, I've been driving for 40 minutes now and it stinks for 40 miles. So a bunch of blinkies in the, in the rivers around there too. Okay. I think there's a lot of things in those rivers in New Jersey. Okay.
A lot of things. Anyway. Hey, what happened to that David Ortiz Jersey? Is that still in the metal lands? They dug it up, right? That was Yankee stadium. They dug that up from the new stadium. Apparently the whole story was there was a construction guy when they built the new Yankee stadium and whatever. Oh, eight Oh nine.
That supposedly was a Red Sox fan that put the Ortiz Jersey to try to be a curse, but they supposedly found it and dug it up. Okay. That's right.
Jimmy Hoffa is buried under the old metal, old metal lands. Yeah. In the end zone. Yeah.
In the end zone. Yeah. Of course.
What else would he go? Not the 50, of course it's the end zone. Of course. Okay.
And they left in there when they, you know, with the parking lot, they left it still there. I would assume. Yeah. Yeah. I figured, you know, do you all these years pay their respects as you go into the stadium?
I never met Jimmy Hoffa. So for me, no, but I, you know, maybe some walk to the spot where you think the old metal lands end zone used to be just kind of a little tap on the ground. Now I've been on the field with the old metal lands in the end zone.
So it's possible. Maybe I did. I maybe I walked over it. I don't know. Maybe corner of the ends. I was like, oh, listen, how about a little higher? No, I think that was just a bad turf.
Dinosaurs are buried everywhere. Okay. How about that?
Yeah. Bright side. See, it all comes back to bright side with the brands. We gave you all kinds of stuff that are bright side. Now see dinosaurs are buried everywhere. Well, how's that a bright side?
I don't know. It makes you feel better. They got, well, anyway, this dirt, dirt is everywhere. It's been on earth forever. Anyway. It's like a stink on the, Oh, sorry.
The snake, the stink on the turnpike. Oh, it's been there forever. Has it really? Ah, as long as I've known, it's probably a 50, 60 year old thing.
He can't have, couldn't have been there forever. I'm 46. I'll tell you every time I've been past it. Yeah. Well, I mean, there wasn't always pollution in New Jersey now, was it?
You sure? Come on. It was fertile lands and swamp and farm. Come on. Mm. Swamp.
Humans, humans brought, there's lots of farms in New Jersey. Cut it out, man. You're right.
You're right. There's tons of it. Ain't nothing but green. Jersey fresh. Is that what you want? All your produce from New Jersey?
No, I'm serious. That's when the summertime fruit that you get the Jersey fresh fruit. That's what they, it's Jersey fresh. What is, what is a Jersey fruit? Oh, you can get blueberries. You can get peaches. There's all kinds of stuff that come from Germany, man. And don't nobody want no fruit from New Jersey tomatoes. That's a big thing. Jersey tomatoes.
Nobody wants fruit from New Jersey. No, you'd be surprised. People flock in. Hmm.
Not getting out. No, bro. And they come, they leave green. Nobody wants that, bro.
I'm not kidding you. You're going to tell me next, man. I'm telling you, you're going to tell me next that, you know, we should get our oranges from New Jersey.
No, thank you. Nah, get oranges. No, it's Florida, California. And nobody wants nothing from New Jersey. Nothing, nothing.
Sorry. New Jersey is nothing but a split between Pennsylvania and New York. It might as well not even exist. It's a passageway.
That's the turnpike. There you have it. Deal? Damn. I'm just saying. I feel worse. You on the New York side, you should be okay with that.
Okay. Marco's in flyover country now. Only when I come here, I got to go back to Jersey to go home.
Consider yourself lucky. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, what a day, what a week, what a show. Yeah, I won't be here tomorrow. I'll be back on Monday. Hickey, you holding it down tomorrow, right? You know it. That's tomorrow. This is now.
Oh yeah, by the way, it's the end of the show. It's time to take a look at a few things that took place this day in sports history. It's time for this day in sports history. Today is February 27th. The year is 2025.
February 27, 2010. Team USA. Yeah. The United States of America, the four man bobsled. They won gold at the Olympics for the first time in 62 years. Listen to this courtesy of Team USA. Steve Holcomb is about 51 seconds away from a racing 62 years of frustration for USA Bobsled. The secret is the speed of the top left. This is where the USA has been beating everybody. He got through 50-50 clean.
93 miles per hour. Steve Holcomb has raced for gold. And let the record show, after 62 years, it's Holcomb, Holshick, Messler, and Thomas Evans that are golden for USA Bobsled. Yeah, when I think America, I think bobsled.
Absolutely. Good for them in 2010. Hey, February 27th, 2015. NASCAR driver Travis Carraple. This man had to withdraw from the Sprint Cup because somebody stole his NASCAR from the parking lot of the hotel the day before the race. They had to have taken it off a truck.
Listen to Carraple talk about it with the Associated Press. They worked on the car all day Thursday, got it finished up, loaded it up in the little trailer, drove down to the hotel last night. They arrived about 1130. Got checked in, went to bed, and 5.40 a.m. they went out to warm the truck up and it was gone. So video surveillance from the hotel shows it actually pulling out of the parking lot about 5.35. So matter of minutes, the guy just missed watching it drive away.
Oh, Micah, yeah. Those things are like miniature spaceships. There's so much technology in a NASCAR.
These things are worth millions of dollars. I just maybe it was the opposition. I don't know. It's stealing a NASCAR. It's like stealing a spaceship.
I don't know how you do that. Anyway, yeah, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. And, you know, also earlier today, you probably woke up and learned that Gene Hackman had passed away, him and his wife.
They found a dog. We don't know the details. We know all the movies. I'm not a big movie buff, but I remember Gene Hackman in Hoosiers and who can forget the halftime speech, the scene, the clap and just listen to this. There's a tradition in tournament play, not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you. I'm sure going to the state finals is beyond your wildest dreams. So let's just keep it right there.
Forget about the crowds, the size of the school, their fancy uniforms. And remember what got you here. Focus on the fundamentals that we've gone over time and time again. And most important, don't get caught up thinking about winning or losing this game.
If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be. I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners. Yeah, you got to love a winner. Thank you. You're a winner. You're a great winner. So are you?
You're a winner. I try my best. I try my best. Well, we've had another great show. Thank you for everybody.
Well, thank you to everybody for tuning in. Thank you to our guests who joined us live from the NFL combine. Sam Brookhouse coming through from Sumer Sports. We talked about the prospects. We talked about the returning players like Kelsey, guys who want to move like Garrett, guys who didn't want to move like Durant. We talked about Steph Curry losing his mind tonight down in Orlando. Talked about Greg Popovich and his future.
We just went into a lot. If you missed a minute or a second of the show, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. I will be back with you with Hickey on Monday, 6 p.m. Eastern three Pacific. Hickey is holding it down tomorrow. Hickey, where can they follow you and listen to you tomorrow and Sunday and all the good stuff right here in the infinity Sports Network?
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