Best Fit For Cooper Kupp? (Hour 1)

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I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey holding it down in New York City. This is the beginning of the show.

You can always listen on the free Odyssey app, your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate, Sirius XM Jail 375, and a smart speaker if you got one, just ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. It is Wednesday. It is officially the start of the 2025 NFL league year. That means these trades, these signings, the free agency, the moves, the cuts, they're all official.

Congratulations. It's a new day in the NFL and we got a lot to talk about. Of course, last night as we were here on the air, the Buffalo Bills added Joey Bosa. Good luck to him being healthy. DeAndre Hopkins was added to the Baltimore Ravens.

And then how about this? We even got a report about an hour ago that Russell Wilson is going to Cleveland to meet with the Browns and then he's going to New York to visit with the Giants. Okay, Russell Wilson. So what does this mean for Aaron Rodgers?

We will go ahead and figure it out. We got more names that are moving all over the place. Demarcus Lawrence is, he's moving on. He's now a member of the Seahawks.

Is he going to be healthy enough to even play for the Seattle Seahawks? So, well, we'll find out. And of course it is Wednesday. Every single Wednesday I bring you a new top six list. Today will be no different. Two hours from now, we're going to take a look at some of the biggest cry babies in sports. Yeah, there's a lot of cry babies.

And let me just say they are not all on the field of play. You want to be a part of the show? You can. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. You can find me on the internet. I'm at JR sport brief.

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I don't know if it, if it passed, if it's coming soon, but it's somewhere around here. Damn it. Maybe it was yesterday. I don't know. I'll go ahead and look that up. And now it's been about, I don't know, five years since I've been here on the infinity sports network. Tom flies. When you're having fun, at least that's what they tell you. Speaking about fun, let's talk to a fun guy.

His name is not Kawhi Leonard is super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Ryan, how are you, man? You good?

I am good for now. Oh, what's the problem? What's the problem? Crybabies in sports and that it's not all just athletes. I hope I'm not on the list.

I'm a little nervous. Why the hell would you be on the top six list for being a cry baby? You a cry baby? You think you are? I like to think not, but I don't know how you see it.

I don't, I don't hear Ryan Hickey and think cry baby. So you're saying I'm safe. I'm good. You ain't on. Okay. Spoiler alert. Okay.

Wipe the sweat off. I'm good to go. Let's have a good show then. Let's go.

Yeah, no problem. Oh yeah. By the way, speaking of, uh, you know, Russell Wilson taking meetings with the Browns and the giants, how pathetic that is. Darrius sleigh. He's going to the place where Russell Wilson doesn't appear to be going. Darrius sleigh is on his way to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good fan.

Then I have to move too far. Evan Ingram is on his way to the Broncos. I still can't believe at one point in time, this man was a pro bowler.

And those are just a few of the moves that have taken place. And then also Cooper cup has been given of the boot by the Los Angeles Rams. They bring in Devante Adams. They look at Cooper cup. They tell him, Hey man, you can never stay healthy. And so go take a hike, go find a job somewhere else. Thank you for the super bowl.

And so we got a lot to discuss and we'll, we'll get to this as well. The 49ers stripped down to the studs. Have they been stripped down so much that they need or should move Christian McCaffrey. Brock Purdy still doesn't have a gig. He doesn't have a contract. He doesn't have a, well, it doesn't have a contract. He certainly has a gig. We don't know how much money he's making. We know the 49ers look like they're doing a little bit of a reset.

Should they do a full reset with Christian McCaffrey? We'll get into that next hour. It's just a lot to do. And as I mentioned, the top six list of cry babies.

Anyway, to continue on or to open things up, I want to just put up a nice bow. I want to put a stamp on a lot of the conversations that we were having last night as it relates to this upcoming season, you know, September, October, November, December, December, January, February, we got quite a few callers who before the league year even got started, they were concerned about their teams. And these weren't bum teams that nobody cares about. These are good teams, people looking and worried about the Washington commanders. This team was one step away from going to the Super Bowl with a rookie quarterback, Jayden Daniels. And we had a guy who called up and he's just like, oh, my God, Jr. We got Laramie Tunsil now. Yeah. Now we're right there directly behind the Philadelphia Eagles.

It's just like, well, that's where you were already and you got smashed. OK, don't don't don't make it such a big deal that you got tonsil probably having a smoke somewhere right now with that gas mask that he made famous. OK, we had Eagles fans call up like, oh, my God, we don't have C.J. Gardner Johnson. We traded him to Houston. Oh, my God, what are we going to do? My man, but you you got a rookie quarterback who just excuse me, two rookie cornerbacks who just helped you win a Super Bowl.

I'm going to think that they're going to get better and that in time you are not going to think about the C.J. Gardner Johnson. And that's just in the NFC.

And then you take a look at the AFC. And before we got out of here yesterday, somebody called up from Buffalo and he's just like, oh, what do we do? We got Joey Bosa now.

Oh, what's the big deal? And we had a caller who called from Houston, Texas. He was originally from Baltimore. He said, yo, we got we got DeAndre Hopkins.

And what are we doing here? Yeah, I'm just everybody is worried and concerned about the team, even the team that just won the Super Bowl. People like, oh, man, we're too naked. There's no such thing as being too naked. Never picky, right? Am I right about that? You are very right about that for sure. Nothing wrong.

Nothing wrong. That Eagles fans even complain and the team will be fine. But there are two teams in the AFC that are in the same spot. And there's nothing that's going to change them being in a different spot on March 12th, the start of the league year.

That is the Buffalo Bills in the Ravens. Like, give me a break. I got to be wholly honest, unless something disastrous happens in training camp, unless something catastrophic takes place in the offseason. I don't know.

I'm not wishing this on anybody like like yesterday, for instance, or maybe two days ago. I don't know when he happened or when it happened. Tiger Woods, who's basically golf ancient at this point in time.

This man is training in his house for the Masters. And he blew out his Achilles. Come on. And I get it. Tiger Woods is golf old.

What do you got to be, 49 years old now at this point in time? Unless we get a catastrophe like that with the Buffalo Bills or the Ravens, I'm not concerned. I don't care, because every single year, every single season, it's the same song and dance with both of these teams. You know, less catastrophic than, I don't know, tearing an Achilles. I don't know. There was some guy in baseball. I don't remember who it was.

Somebody sliced their hand, cutting up an apple. Jeff Kent told everybody that he hurt himself washing his motorcycle. I'll never forget. Glenn Allen Hill had a nightmare about spiders and got hurt falling into a glass table. And so, yeah, there are a variety of injuries. But unless something stupid happens like that.

Wake me up in January. OK. The Buffalo Bills added Joey Bosa.

Whoop the freakin do. Is he younger than Von Miller? Yes. Von Miller now gone from the Buffalo Bills. Did Von Miller serve his purpose?

No. Von Miller had legal issues. Von Miller was hurt. And Joey Bosa, well, he is the king of being hurt.

Joey Bosa is 29 years old. He's played the entirety of his career in Southern California. And now he's going to go to Western New York.

Does he know what lake effect snow is? He's originally from Orlando, Florida. How is he going to hold up? He's going to be the first dude standing next to a heater in January when it's his job to go out there onto the field and I don't know, chase after Lamar Jackson in the divisional round of the playoffs or the AFC championship if the Chiefs don't get there.

I like Joey Bosa just needs to stay healthy. He's a five time Pro Bowler. How he was a Pro Bowler this past season, I have no idea. Last year, the man only started nine games. Okay. Guy had five sacks, signed into a one year $12 million contract.

Good luck. Somebody who knows a little bit of something about knocking the living hell out of a quarterback. It's JJ Watt. And JJ Watt was on the Pat McAfee show. And I don't know if JJ Watt has, I don't know what you call a body telepathy. I don't know if he's living vicariously or physically through Joey Bosa, but JJ Watt says Joey Bosa is not cooked. I believe he is still very effective as a situational pass rusher. I think that he probably prefers some of those less snaps as well.

Just as the body goes, you want to still rush the password, password a high level, but not have a high level of a high level, but not have to do some of those grinder things down there in a six technique. So still plenty left for him. Oh, I feel like a genius. I didn't know what the hell he said until today. I said this last night, man, they going to treat Joey Bosa with kid gloves. This man's job is going to be strictly go get the quarterback.

That's it. If you got to get a running back in the backfield, you go ahead and do that. But we don't need you out here for three downs, man. Just get to the quarterback. You know, can you give us eight to 10 sacks?

I think that would be a success for Joey Bosa. Can you play in all 17 games? Oh, you're going to miss a game with a hamstring issue. Oh yeah. Well, we expect that you're Joey Bosa.

Are you going to get cold and freeze? Yeah, we expect that you're Joey Bosa. And by the way, I'm not mad at the Buffalo Bills for making this deal because it's an inexpensive deal. $12 million. Trey Hendrickson would have demanded what, 30 or 35?

Is he going to get that? He's on the other side of 30, but this guy Trey Hendrickson, he had 17 and a half sacks the past two seasons. The Buffalo Bills picking up Joey Bosa is a good bargain.

They got him on a discount. And he's like that animal that you bring home to your kids. I don't know, a dog, a cat.

You got to teach your kids. It's a pet. It's fragile. You can't grab the cat. You can't hug the dog. You got to be gentle. You can hug it, but you can't choke it. You can't squeeze it.

It has bones and organ. You got to take it easy. And Joey Bosa ain't nothing but a wounded animal that they picked up from Southern California. They got to treat him appropriately. I like the move for the Buffalo Bills until he gets hurt.

Hopefully he doesn't. They are not going to run that man into the ground at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they told him, Hey man, sit down a little while in training camp. They need Joey Bosa to chase after Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. And they don't need him doing that in September or October.

They need him to do that in January. And speaking of the Baltimore Ravens, might as well be the twin damn brother of the Buffalo Bills. These two teams, Hickey, the, the callers actually kill me because when we get into the season, I feel like every other week, the fans in Buffalo are tearing down the fans in Baltimore.

The fans in Baltimore are taking a crap on the fans in Buffalo. And I'm just like, y'all are both coming up in second place every year. Why are y'all beefing about second place? It kills me.

There's a lot of pride in being what you would call the first loser. Oh my God. Who's going to fight for the right to lose to the cheese in the ANSI title game? It's going to be us this year. Yeah.

I love it. It's like my quarterback is better. Oh, my quarterback's the MVP.

Well, none of y'all are winning the Super Bowl. What are we, what are we fighting over? I don't know. Does that happen in people's households? Does that happen? I don't know. Like somebody fights to be the second favorite child.

Does that even happen in a home? I don't think so. No, one's fighting for number two. Nobody wants to be number two.

It wants to be two. Somehow between the Ravens and the Buffalo Bills, their fans just love arguing over who's number two. And ultimately, and we discussed this last night, DeAndre Hopkins is now a member of the Baltimore Ravens. Good for him. Hands are still good.

Speed is probably not all that good. He's had to deal with hamstring and knee injuries the past several seasons. So I think it's a fair guess to say he ain't what he used to be. But for the Baltimore Ravens, at least he'll be connecting with his former Tennessee Titans teammate in Derrick Henry.

Good for them, having cross paths. And he's going to take some attention away, helping things out for Zay Flowers. He's a good option. He's a good option. He's a veteran option.

Nobody's asking him to be a world changer or a game changer. This is not Jamar Chase. This is not Justin Jefferson ending up on the Vikings or excuse me, the Ravens. This is a guy who's, who's passed his prime.

He'll be 33 in the summer, but I think it's a good move. Matter of fact, let's listen to someone who is very familiar with all these wide receivers. It's Emory Hunt, who joins us here occasionally on the Infinity Sports Network. And he was on CBS Sports HQ. And he talked about the good and the bad, if there is any, about bringing in DeAndre Hopkins.

Listen to this. DeAndre Hopkins is a great receiver, future hall of famer, elite level hands. And when we're talking about hands, I'm talking about someone that can literally catch anything thrown his way. Now, with that being said, I feel like Lebron James is going to be after the guy was a pro. He had Michael Crabtree when he wasn't Michael Crabtree anymore. He had Dez Bryant when he wasn't Dez Bryant anymore. Let's hope what we saw from DeAndre Hopkins in the Super Bowl was an anomaly and he still has a lot more left to give out there on the field. But for the positive side of things, what that does, it does give Baltimore a legitimate option at receivers to where folks have to focus on. You have to still count Dez Bryant or DeAndre Hopkins, which opens things up for Zay Flowers, which opens things up for Rashad Babin and opens things up for those tight ends. So if Hopkins can be half of what he has been in his career, this is a net positive for Lamar Jackson and that Ravens passing. But I just hope this is not a Julio Jones in Philadelphia situation.

Oh my God, what a hard show that. Julio Jones anyway, Tennessee barely remember. I mean, he's a great receiver. I mean, he's knowns anywhere. Tennessee barely remember him playing at any of these places.

Damn, nobody wants that. DeAndre Hopkins and Emory said it right. If he's half the player that he was, he'll still be a positive for the Baltimore Ravens. But for right now, and I know people are concerned about the Kansas City Chiefs and who my homes are going to throw the ball to and who's going to protect him, I get all of that.

The Buffalo Bills and the Ravens are still number two and so they prove otherwise. It's just the facts. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

So much to get into. Russell Wilson is out here taking meetings. What a sad, sad world. The guy has to go talk to the Browns. What a world and the Giants, how pathetic Aaron Rodgers is a free agent for the first time in his career. Cooper Cup. He's a free agent, too, because the Rams just decided to give him the boot. You know, we'll talk about Cooper Cup and Russell Wilson on the other side of the break.

It is Wednesday. I'll share with you a new top six list in about an hour and forty five minutes. We'll take a look at some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports right now. The top six crybabies in sports right now. Hey, we got a big game in the NBA, a potential finals preview, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Boston Celtics.

We got a lot to do, a lot to discuss. We'll get into the 49ers and talk about the Bears and and even Brett Favre. Yeah, he didn't get in trouble. No, he's not stealing from people.

No, he's not suing anybody. But Brett Favre has advice for Aaron Rodgers. And no, it's not telling him to go to hell or anything like that. I'll tell you what he said. It's the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to talk about Cooper Cup and Russell Wilson on the other side.

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That's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we opened up the show. I wanted to put all the fans in Buffalo, all the fans in Baltimore at ease. Thinking about the signing of Joey Bosa, thinking about the signing of DeAndre Hopkins. Let them play through the season, OK? Like, aren't you all tired of it? Like the 10 win, 11 win, 13 win, 14 win.

Aren't you tired of it? Who cares about what happens in March? Let's see what they do in January. Let's see them get to January 1st. Not the 1st of January, but get to January before everybody just has a big hubbub.

Anyway, there is a team that did have a successful season last year. Surprised they're living the hell out of me. I'm like, where's Aaron Donald at? Where's he at? He's sitting at home on the beach somewhere. Well, he's from Pittsburgh, so maybe he's not on the beach.

Maybe at the lake or something. I don't know. But the Rams had a good year. Went to the playoffs. Looked like they were trying to come back to beat the Eagles.

Did not happen. But with a 10 and seven record, not too shabby. Bringing back Matthew Stafford, he gets a pay boost, but not breaking the bank. We still don't know exactly what that number is. We'll figure it out. But one guy who's not going to be a part of the Los Angeles Rams moving forward is Cooper Cupp.

We have heard this for the better part, I want to say about three weeks to a month. When Cooper Cupp himself went online, he went on social media. And he did the reverse.

Myles Garrett. Cooper Cupp basically said they don't want me anymore. I got to leave. Cooper Cupp basically said they're going to cut me. And we heard the same thing from his head coach and Sean McVeigh about how much we love Cooper Cupp. But it's time to let things go from Cooper Cupp.

And so today, Cooper Cupp officially was cut from the Los Angeles Rams. A man who helped them secure a Super Bowl two seasons ago against the Cincinnati Bengals and didn't just help him. He won Super Bowl MVP. Me personally, I would have given it to Aaron Donald. I don't know how Cooper Cupp can live with himself, but either way, he has the award.

He has the hardware. And now Cooper Cupp is going to be looking for a new job. He decided to post this officially a few hours ago, and of course, there's a fancy one minute video accompanying it. Cooper Cupp says, and Hickey, tell me how dramatic this might be.

OK, you ready for this? Very. Eight years of incredible memories. We talked often about the Rams being back in Los Angeles and how we would grow to be something special here. And there was frustration early on about getting the buy in from the people of L.A.. But we knew at the end of the day, it's about providing moments, shared experiences, the things that parents and their children will talk about and remember for ever.

This is what makes the ending of these last eight years so difficult. It's the ending of something we have enjoyed building with you. Thank you for these shared moments.

Thank you, L.A., for welcoming my family with open arms and allowing us to grow here. The next chapter starts now. The best is yet to come. Hickey, is he is he is he want to write in Hollywood? Who wrote that for him? Like, what's this about?

I would agree. Someone probably wrote that someone who is an expertise in PR. But I like that. And I like a kind of heartfelt like because, like, you're almost breaking the fourth wall, I guess, in a way of like when you talk to the fans, because he is like you are still a part of the community. It's easy to be like, oh, he's athlete.

He's fans. Kind of. There's this wall here dividing us. I kind of like a heartfelt message that just like, yeah, you we had great moments. That's what we're here to do. You made our family feel welcome in the community. I think it was really nice. I think it's funny that one of the first things you said is, hey, when we got here, we thought the fans sucked.

They're just brutal honesty. That's it. Yeah. We're trying to figure out how the hell we're going to get people to show up here when they could just hang out at the beach at their friend's house or have a salad while sipping a smoothie. That's what they do in L.A., right? How are we going to get them to watch the Rams? That's what he should have wrote all this crap about.

What did he say? Frustration early on about getting the buy in from the people of L.A. OK, yeah, whatever. Anyway, yeah, they won the Super Bowl, so I guess that's good enough.

That helps. L.A. does like winners. L.A. likes winners. And when they're an average as team again, that place will be empty and full of the opposing fans of which it kind of always is anyway. It's like if if the if the Rams are hosting the forty niners, I'm expecting more red than I'm expecting blue and yellow. That's just brass tacks. But congratulations to Cooper Cup. He says the best is yet to come. And a lot like Joey Bosa, a guy who played on the other L.A. team and was really healthy.

Cooper Cup ain't no different. Last year, dealing with more ankle issues. He only played in 12 games at 700 yards receiving to go along with six touchdowns. If he was able to stay healthy, he would exceed a thousand yards and maybe even push that somewhere close to 10, possibly. But over the past several years, he just he needs new ankles.

He does. You just can't go buy new ankles at the hardware store. Cooper Cup's legs are cooked and is great of a of a route runner that he is. Man, and it's man, I think you played wide receiver in high school. Did you ever have to do any of those agility and ladder drills and stuff like that? I mean, a little bit, but we were not exactly, you know, a high school football factor here. We got all these workouts going on. So like a little bit, but nothing to the extreme. Hickey, when you see some of these pros, their footwork, the wide receivers, the corners, when you see their footwork, I go, man, my brain and body is so low.

I'm like, I'm like, man, if I was 18 years old, I couldn't be able to go out there and do that stuff, man. It's incredible, right? It just gives you an appreciation for how talented they are when you see they're like, you know, like those like blades that turn so, so, so fast. It almost looks like they're like kind of frozen in time because you stick to three blades there. But it's like it's moving the speed of light. Talking about a fan.

Yeah. Well, like I saw this video on social media recently, like a fan, like a blade. That's like a three, three blade blade. It's like a three, three blade, whatever you want to call it. It's like spinning so fast, but it looks like, like, um, the blades almost kind of stuck because it's spinning so fast.

Okay. Um, like wheels, I guess too. If you have like wheels that spin so fast, it's almost look like the wheels like stuck in place. No, I'm describing this terribly. Anyway, the point I was trying to make was the feet move so fast. Like you're almost in amazement where it's like you blink and it's like, like, it's just a blur of how fast they're moving. Here we go. That's what I wanted to say.

This is, this is something that most people would understand. Like things that move fast. Uh, the what's that idiot that always is running through the desert at Bugs Bunny, the roadrunner, right? The road runner.

Meet me. Yeah. His feet start to move and he's gone. Right. Uh, what's another fast cartoon. The speedy Gonzalez was fast cars. They were fast.

They drive fast cars in the movie. Oh, the Disney movie. Yeah. I've never seen that movie.

Oh, we did talk about this. That's right. It's for children. What's that guy?

Lightning McQueen. Is that the right thing? Yeah. You know? Uh, yeah.

Because you told me about it. That's right. But that's one where the cars drive very fast. Lightning McQueen sounds, doesn't sound like something from a children's movie. Doesn't not to me. Sounds like a McFlurry.

Uh, sounds like something else. Um, Fred Flintstone, he didn't move. I feel like every now and then Fred Flintstone would move fast them bare feet. I think he was moving barefoot in his car.

How about that? These NFL wide receivers, their feet are like lethal weapons. And so, uh, Cooper cup with all these ankle injuries that he suffered over the past few years, he still got something left in the tank, you know, but he's going to be okay. And where's okay. Is he going to be on the Buffalo bills?

I don't know. Is he going to the Kansas city chief is, is, is Cooper cup going to make his way to the Raiders? Do they even want him? They just gave DK Metcalf, you know, all of this money. Uh, but if you take a listen to someone who's in the know, Ian Rappaport, he says that there's going to be a lot of teams trying to bring in the busted ankles and Achilles of a Cooper cup should have a really strong market. And you look at the receivers who out there, there aren't a ton left. You still have Stefan Diggs. Of course he's recovering from a torn ACL. Sounds like he's doing fine, but still something that happened during the season.

So obviously some questions there Cooper cup is an attractive option. I do expect him to land quickly. Yeah. Well, he's been cut for a few hours now.

Not fast enough for me. Let's see where the hell he ends up. Nobody knows he's going to be on a contender, right? No way. Cooper cup going to one of these loser teams. I mean, last week, somebody told me, Hey JR, watch out. The Cooper cup is going to be on the Jacksonville Jaguars.

What a downgrade that is. Okay. With a rookie head coach, he's gone from one of the best head coaches to a rookie head coach. And I mean him and Trevor Lawrence could share stories about he being injured. I guess. I don't know if Cooper cup doesn't end up with a contender. That's going to be a shame. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. You know, we don't know where Cooper cup is going to end up. We don't know where Russell Wilson is going to end up. We don't know where Aaron Rogers is going to end up.

We have no idea. And apparently earlier today, it went viral that Shaquille O'Neal who covers the NBA, he doesn't even know where, well, let's just say he's, he's not in the know. I'll explain on the other side of the break. The phone number if you want to call is 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. You're listening to the JR sport brief.

It is the JR sport brief show on the infinity sports network. We certified gangsters. Not really, but that's the song rolling down the street in my six four. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Hey, we just talked about a guy from LA. He's not from LA anymore because his team cut him.

That's Cooper cup. He's been given the boot from the Los Angeles Rams. We have no idea where Cooper cup is going to end up. I assume he's going to end up with a team that's competitive. Not the Ravens. They got DeAndre Hopkins. I don't know. You go into the Raiders, catch passes from Gino Smith. Cooper cup is going to end up somewhere where he could win.

Okay. And maybe that's less desirable. I mean, everybody wants to win.

Who wants to just be on a loser, but it's not like he's going to necessarily be out here chasing a title. This guy won a super bowl. He has a super bowl MVP.

How many people have that? He'll go somewhere where he can play, contribute and win and stay healthy. Hopefully 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.

That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. And then also, as we heard in the break, and as I mentioned, Russell Wilson is a free man out here. He's a free agent, obviously not wanted back by the Steelers. And this could be a move by Russell Wilson to put the kind of the screws to the Steelers to go, Oh, you want Aaron Rogers? Oh, well you don't want me back. Well, watch me go flirt with somebody else. And I guess maybe Russell Wilson wants to take the approach of, if I go talk to a few other women in the room, then maybe, uh, the girl I used to date will be jealous. That's, that's the approach that Russell Wilson has right now, except I don't know if the ex wants him at all anymore.

Okay. Like you got to go talk to the Browns. You got to go talk to the New York giants. If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, of course you got to wait for Aaron Rogers and see what happens there. But are you moved that much? You're going to go talk to the Browns.

Oh, really good luck. Would you rather be here or be in Cleveland? Uh huh. And then Kirk cousins is sitting here in Atlanta going, man, well, they just let me go. It's so much movement going on.

What a, what a day, what a day. Anyway, last night, speaking of movement, Shaquille O'Neal just got a new contract with, uh, with Turner. They're not paying him. That's Steven A. Smith money. I think he's making, I don't know, only 10 to $15 million a year to talk about basketball, but apparently Shaquille O'Neal doesn't watch or cover or keep up with as much basketball as you think there'd be no way in hell.

He'd be able to keep up with the NFL with all of these moves that are going on. But last night during the NBA on TNT or whatever the hell they call it on one Tuesday, it's not the main show with Barkley and Kenny. There was a segment where they were talking about the Detroit Pistons. And if you know anything about the Pistons last year, they were absolutely terrible historically bad. I mean, having the worst winning streak ever in NBA history, they finished with a team record of 14 and 68. They were coached by a man in Monty Williams who didn't even want to be there.

And ultimately they just flipped the switch in a matter of a year. The players have gotten older. Kate Cunningham is an all star.

He's absolutely amazing. By the way, I saw him in person a few weeks ago, the Pistons are sixth in the East. There's not all that much of a difference when it comes to their roster or Tobias Harris showed up. Well, they did replace Monty Williams with JB Bickerstaff who was let go by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

And so there is a difference. The Pistons are now 37 and 29. And if the playoffs were starting today, they'd be in the sixth spot.

They wouldn't even need to go to a plan. But Shaquille O'Neal, when having a conversation with Candace Parker and Vince Carter and Adam Lefkoe, Shaq apparently didn't even know who the coach was for the Detroit Pistons. Shaquille O'Neal thought their coach was the last point guard to lead them to a championship like 21 years ago. This is Shaq from last night, the NBA on TNT, saying that Chauncey Billups is the reason that these Pistons have been able to turn things around. Listen to this.

You said something very interesting about Kate Cunningham. Great player now at this stage. He plays at his own pace. Anybody that can consistently play at their own place and put up numbers is a great player. I like the way he's playing. I like what Chauncey is doing. Those guys play hard. My favorite player on that team is Isaiah Stewart. Big body, hard guy. I can knock people out.

I can't let this go. Who's doing it? You said Chauncey? Chauncey is the coach, right? OK. Portland. No. That's what I mean. You know, first of all, I don't watch Detroit.

How about that? Boo boo. I just couldn't let that go. I made a mistake. Oh, man, that's not good.

And Shaq was on Pat McAfee earlier today. He pretty much said, you know what? I'm not above criticism. And sometimes there's truth in it.

So at least he understands like, bro, you got to do better. And the fact that it's been called out, I thought it initially it was an exaggeration. Oh, there's so many big names and the big names in the NBA take a dump on the teams, the leagues and the players.

But we have gone past the point of like, OK, this is this is too much. Like at least understand and know what's going on in the league. And I get it. Shaq is a businessman.

He's a big personality. That's why they're paying in millions and millions of dollars. But you can do work. You can still work. You can still keep up with what's going on.

That was not exactly like the guy calling me from Arkansas last week going, hey, J.R., what do you think about the guy? I'm like, man, you see how much I got to keep up with? Like, damn, you only have to think about basketball. You played basketball.

You're getting paid to sit on TV and talk about it. Chauncey Billups is coaching the Portland Trailblazers and he's doing a he's doing a good job with them as well. Given how crappy and young that team is, they're doing better than I ever thought they were. And like even Shaquille O'Neal, it was just last week. Matter of fact, earlier this week before the mistake from last night, Shaq is just like, yeah, man, the Pistons, who cares? When I hear people say, oh, the NBA is boring.

I go, you're watching the same teams because if you put on the Detroit Pistons right now, I'll stop it. They're boring to go four games under five hundred. They've won seven in a row.

Whoopee freaking do. And I don't think they're four games out of five. What are they?

I'm gonna look it up right now. And if you're right, I'm gonna be pissed. They're six games over five hundred. They've won seven in a row. He Cunningham is balling. You want to brag about a team that's thirty two and twenty six. You see how he moved the goalposts? Stop it. They were ten games better than he thought. That's not success. They need to be seventy and four.

Forty, twenty. You talk about it. So we can only talk about three teams. Bro, Detroit Pistons ain't winning no championship. Stop it.

Oh, my goodness. Well, we get that. But it's about how bad they were last year and how good they are this year. He didn't know their record. He didn't know if they were good enough. They were bad. Didn't know who the hell their head coach was like. It was all fun and games when they would play the game of who he played for. And that's Charles Barkley.

I get it. You're asking about the 15th guy on a bench and Garrett Temple. Hickey, where's Garrett Temple play right now?

The Hornets? I don't know. I don't know.

Nobody knows. Which makes that funny. But when you're talking about a team that's a young squad with a growing All-Star and on a run right now, like that's that's just something you should know. And so I think like the gag is played out. It's old. It's not a joke anymore. It's not funny.

Like have a cursory understanding of what the biggest storylines are in the league. And I get it. Shaq got a Krispy Kreme. You know, what are they? Is it called a restaurant? I don't know what it is. What do you call a place that sells donuts? Is a bakery?

I don't know. Krispy Kreme is not really a bakery because they do one thing. I think I would say restaurant. A Krispy Kreme restaurant.

How about here's a simple way out of this fancy. He has a Krispy Kreme location. Hickey, I can run and I can get in my forget run. I can get in my car. I can drive to Shaq's Krispy Kreme location. I can drive to his Papa John's and I can go past the studio and just make a circle in like five minutes.

Wow. This guy is DJing. He's opening up chicken restaurants and selling pizza and he's selling car insurance. The General. Yeah, the General.

He's selling insurance. Nicely hot. Not available in all states though, Hickey. Okay, remember that. Oh, I forgot. It's a shame on me.

The General, yeah. It's like three states where they will not sell you insurance. I wonder why. Interesting. She named them or no?

Maybe. I'll look it up and provide that information. Hey, I'll help sell the insurance. I'll tell people on the other side of the break where you cannot get it. I got a lot of people listening in their vehicles right now.

Icy Hot. Doesn't he sell printers too? I haven't seen any printer commercials, so I don't know about that one. People don't use printers anymore, right?

Also true, so maybe not. Or maybe he used to, I should say. Used to sell printers. Oh, he has candy in Tom Square. I saw him selling candy in Tom Square.

Candy? Yep. He really is a yes man, huh? He is. They got his face on like Airheads or something.

Hmm. Oh, he's creative this or that for Reebok or something, right? He got steak in Reebok now. I mean, authentic. Probably better off what he doesn't do at this point, right?

Authentic brands. He deejays. Hickey, this past Saturday he was here in Atlanta. He's a sheriff in one of the outskirts counties. But is that like one of those like pretend sheriffs or is he actually on duty strolling around? You saying he's like that 13 year old kid who's a member of the secret service now?

I'm just, I'm not, I'm not stating that. I'm more asking a question of the legitimacy of the sheriff badge. How did he get it? Wasn't he a sheriff in like Florida? Yes, if you're a sheriff in one place, can you be a sheriff everywhere?

I don't know. I mean, if you're, it's like that five year, it's like any five year old kid. If you put a cowboy hat on a badge on him, he's the sheriff now, right?

I guess that's what it sounds like. The adult version of that. The seven foot one version of a sheriff.

Anywhere he has a badge on that hat, he's the sheriff. I'll ask Hickey. I'll look into that. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

This is, thank you. This is, this is why he doesn't know that Chauncey Billups isn't coaching the Pistons. This is why he doesn't know he's busy. It's Shaquille O'Neal out here fighting crime, saving the day with his little cowboy hat and badge. Good for him.

It's the JR sport brief show on the infinity sports network. I'll get to your calls on the other side of the break. I'm going to find out where the general doesn't sell insurance. And then I'm going to tell you about a, a forty-niner who might be leaving. Everybody else is leaving. We'll get into it.