Latest On Cooper Flagg Injury (Hour 1)

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I appreciate you. We got a lot to do. NCAA March Madness is upon us. We got conference tournaments.

We got the biggest name in college basketball. He is hurt. It stinks. It's bad.

It's terrible. Last night, the Oklahoma City Thunder walked away with a victory in Boston. Could be an NBA Finals matchup and then the Thunder wanted to rub it in their face a little bit. At least Shay Gilgus Alexander did. Aaron Rodgers still doesn't have a job. Apparently, Aaron Rodgers might retire.

We always knew that this was a possibility. Apparently, the coach of the New York Knicks is pushing his players to an early retirement with the amount of minutes that he's playing them. Bill Belichick is figuring out email. We have no idea when LeBron is coming back.

We don't know if the Tampa Bay Rays are going to stay in Florida. There's just a lot going down. And Kenny Pickett is delusional. Yeah, Kenny Pickett spoke. He did. They let him speak.

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I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you so much to our super producer and host, Ryan Hickey. Thank you so much to Sophia holding it down on the boards. Hickey, how you doing? You good? I am good, J.R. Yeah.

Ready to have ourselves a Thursday. How about that? Sophia, you good too?

You good? Bad news. She's not here yet. Oh, crap. What a world. I know.

Sorry to burst your bubble. What a world. Damn. Hickey, I want to leave too, damn it. I want to leave.

I want to go. I guess there's no I mean, I can't physically stop you. So if you walk out of the studio and what happens if I walk out the studio, you just take over.

Is that what happened? I mean, someone has to. You're going to play. What are you going to do? You're just going to talk about. Oh, man. Cooper Cup just said a word I can't repeat on TV. Damn. Wow. Anyway, speaking of words, I'm not going anywhere.

So don't worry about that. People Cooper Cup sprained his ankle today. What am I Hickey?

What am I doing? How many are the only two Coopers out of worth a damn year? Yes. Yes.

And you highlighted the same one twice. Damn. Cooper Cup doesn't have a job. That's a hard way to put it.

I'm sad. Well, he's made millions of dollars. He's currently unemployed.

Get on the list. It's Super Bowl MVP. He's unemployed. Cooper Flag is employed. What a world that we live in.

You could talk about a college basketball player being employed. Cooper Flag is employed. I'm going to have to get used to having Hickey. There's never been I've never said Cooper's name in sports ever in a million years. And now we got two of them. What is this? I guess it's the explosion now.

Cooper in sports is now the new hot thing. They're like, I don't know, twelve, thirteen years apart. Yeah, it's probably right. Eighteen to. Yeah. Thirty one.

Thirty two. Yes. A wide range is not like it's the hot new name is a wide disparity. One is in college and one is trying to hold on to his NFL career or at least look for the next stop. But enough about a Cooper Cup. Cooper Flag is the next big thing in basketball like name. Nobody hyping him up like his name is Victor when Benyama. But he is in that space of the next big thing. Is he quite Zion Williamson?

We don't got the spectacular dunks. He seems like a more well-rounded player than Zion was. Is Cooper Flag LeBron James? No, he's not. He's six foot nine. He's 18 years old. He's long. He's athletic. Who would be shocked if he grew out? Oh, no.

Six, ten, six, eleven. I think nobody would. He was just named the ACC player of the year. He's the guy who has helped lead Duke to a twenty nine and three record this year and the number one seed in the AP polls. If there is one college basketball player that, you know, it should be Cooper Flag.

That's it. You want to know how big a deal Cooper Flag is? He was on the Team USA select squad last year. You know, as Team USA prepares for the Olympics, of which they went out in Paris and they won gold. God bless him.

Thank God. Otherwise, that had been a catastrophe. Joel Embiid would be a super loser.

He'd be the biggest loser. But as they're preparing to go out to Paris. Team USA plays against I don't want to say less a competition, but they play against the next best squad. They play against, you know, presumptive future Olympians. Cooper Flag is 18 years old. Cooper Flag was out there playing against Kevin Durant and LeBron and Steph Curry.

I can go on and on an 18 year old. It was widely reported that during one of their scrimmages that Cooper Flag had a stretch where he took over. Now, imagine being 18 years old and you're out there on the same court and floor as LeBron James and Steph Curry. And at one point in time, just one point in time, you were the most dominant player.

You held your own on offense and defense. If you've ever seen Cooper Flag play, this guy is intense. To me, he's like white Kevin Garnett.

This guy is screaming and cursing and dunking and flying all over the place. Ridiculously athletic. He's a beast. NBA draft in June, if Cooper Flag decides to come out, he will be the presumptive number one overall pick.

And then today, things hit a little bit of a speed bump. Not his draft prospects, but his ability to showcase his talent during March Madness. This is when more people watch the college basketball games, including myself. This is when we got players who we've never heard of make a name for themselves. But Cooper Flag is the biggest name in college basketball outside of Juju Watkins, USC talent. Cooper Flag sprained his ankle bad today in the ACC tournament, the first round of the ACC tournament, Duke best team in the country. They still held on and went out there and they beat Georgia Tech. Not that difficult. Georgia Tech is down the block for me. I don't watch them play.

Don't care. And they still beat him. But this man sprained his ankle. But about two and a half minutes left in the first half, he came down and he wasn't able to walk off. They had to put Cooper Flag in a wheelchair.

Last time I saw a basketball player in a wheelchair, it was Paul Pierce. That didn't end all that well for Paul. He came back. Uh, Cooper Flag, there's a good chance that we do not see him the rest of the ACC tournament. We don't know if we'll see him next week during the start of March Madness. We have no idea.

But his head coach, John Shire, he spoke after the game and he gave us an update on the biggest name in men's college basketball. What's up with Cooper Flag's leg? He just came down, sprained his ankle.

X-rays were negative, which is great. We just have to understand there's gonna be swelling and to see how he recovers and how we go and how we go from there. It's an ankle. That's it. It's an ankle.

You'll be fine. I think I've sprained my ankle once. I think. I think I sprained it once. It hurt. But damn it, I think I sprained it high. It hurt for like a month. And now I think about it. It hurt for so long. I was two steps away from going to the doctor. But anyway, I did it. I'm tough. And Cooper Flag, he's getting better treatment than me. I got no treatment.

I got up and live my life. Cooper Flag is probably getting electroshock therapy, keeping the swelling out of his leg and somebody's feeding him grapes and his mother is calling his parents or his grandparents and he's getting some good care. Cooper Flag is going to be OK. And matter of fact, like I said, we may not see him for a few weeks. We won't see him for the rest of this tournament. I don't think John Shire also said, man, the rest of this ACC tournament, I think they play North Carolina next. John Shire said, look, don't don't expect to see him for what? It's not about being ready to go tomorrow.

That's not the most important thing for us. We got to see if we can get him right for this run that we can make in the tournament. But I would have to be really convinced that we should even consider seeing if he can go tomorrow. He may not be able to go anyway. He probably won't be able to go anyway.

But I think it's a real long shot, a real long shot. Yeah, they got North Carolina tomorrow. North Carolina is barely in this tournament. Damn it, if North Carolina lost today, we wouldn't even hear about them until next year. Yeah, Hubert Davis would hear about it, even though somehow, some way they gave this guy a contract extension. I mean, there's no point in Cooper Flagg playing tomorrow. Like, let Duke, hey, let the other guy step up. And they got a bunch of, I don't want to call them sub stars, but they ain't got no no bums on the team.

They got a record of twenty nine and three. Let's see what everybody else can do without Cooper Flagg. Let's just wait for this guy to get healthy.

There's no point in throwing him out there on a bum leg until he's ready to give him a week off. They said, what is Duke playing in the ACC tournament for? They don't need no damn automatic buy. They don't need to win this thing. All they got to do is get the next week and just try to win it all. It was sitting at the top of the AP poll rankings right now.

And what else is there to see? Nothing, nothing at all. Unfortunately, Cooper Cup, the biggest prospect in basketball. We got NBA teams that are tanking, stinking and join up, hoping that they add him. The Washington Wizards off our Cooper Cup that I would stay in college if I knew they had to pick. Hickey, what are some other terrible teams in the NBA? How about the team who plays in the arena where he just got hurt? Oh, my God, Charlotte. Oh, my God.

A lot of jokes about that today. Fitting that, you know, first game in the arena that he's probably going to play next year gets hurt, just like the whole Hornets team. So are we supposed to think that which ball is this? LaMelo?

LaMelo is I'm supposed to think LaMelo ball is going to throw an alley-oop to him. I'm supposed to think that. I mean, theory, right?

The other future. I mean. On paper, that's the goal. I don't know how much we'll see that in reality. Man, I see LaMelo ball. All I see is dribble, crossover dribble as step back, step back, step back, three miss. Every game, like every game, he does play like it's like one on one out there, huh? Like one on five. Does he know he has teammates?

I know Brandon Miller's been hurt all year and Miles Bridges. I don't know what the hell he's doing, but I mean, damn. LaMelo plays like he's like at the YMCA and like my teammates are bums. I'm taking every shot.

Hey, good luck to a Cooper flag. There's no point in him playing. Take a week off. Do like LeBron James is doing. Apparently, LeBron James with his busted up groin.

And now he has no timetable for his return. We'll get into that later. Do like LeBron. The best of the best. Get a little bit of a break. The best of the best can take a little bit of a vacation.

The best of the best. I mean, if I'm Cooper flag, I drag y'all here. Give me give me a break. Nobody wants to sprain their ankle in the process, but maybe this is this is needed. You think that they're not going to play him?

Shia basically said it. We won't see him until next week. I agree. And now here's a question for you. Do you bother playing him next week?

You got a plan? If he can if he's healthy, you got to play him in the tournament. Well, I guess that's a question like right. We don't know the severity of the ankle sprain, but right. We've seen this is not just a three day injury.

Now you're back ready to go. This is, you know, usually right two or three weeks. We don't know that. We don't know that if it's a two or three week injury, let's just say you look pretty nasty.

I mean, I think there's a real discussion of hey, like, you know, he had to 16 seed. Is it better to keep Cooper flag on the bench? Maybe bring him back for round two, especially when it's quick turnaround, right? It's like either Thursday, Saturday or Friday, Sunday.

That's a fascinating. I'm with you. It's easy for the ACC tournament the rest of the way. Sit him next week because we're a week away. If you don't think plan Thursday, we're talking about a quick turnaround here Thursday, Sunday.

That is to me where it gets really fascinating how you manage that. We don't know. So we got to see the severity of the ankle sprain, right? They said there was no structural damage, which typically means there's nothing wrong with a tendon and he didn't break a bone.

But we don't know. It could be a high ankle sprain could be a low one. He could be ready to play basketball on Saturday.

Well, it's too close. Saturday's two days away now at this point, I guess, or maybe a day and a half. Like next, my point is, if it is a quote unquote regular ankle sprain, he'll be fine next week. Be fine.

You spit on it, you rub some dirt on it, you wrap it up and go play. Now, if it's a high ankle sprain, he can ask the other Cooper about it. Cooper Cooper cup has dealt with those and he sucks now. Okay. There's a reason.

No, it's the it's not he doesn't suck, but there's a reason why he doesn't have a job. Like how many high ankle sprains are you going to have? You ever had one of those? Thankfully, no. Oh, my God. It is a different type of pain, man, because you feel it further up your your ankle and like your shin. You can feel it when you walk.

Oh, my God. It is just it's annoying. It's not unbearable, but it is just annoying. It's like those little things that you take for granted, like waking up one day and going, my back hurts. And then you realize all them days that your back felt great or waking up one day and going, man, I can't turn my neck.

You ever had one of those where you couldn't turn your neck? Yes. Oh, my God.

It is awful. You talk about taking things for granted, just being able to look to your left and right pain free. You quickly realize, wow, that is a that is a reward. Yeah.

Being able to look left and look right until you cannot do it. Oh, my God. Oh, it is. It's terrible. And Cooper Flagg, good luck with your with your ankle sprain. I hope he's healthy. Like this is the time I didn't I mean, you pop in and watch Duke and I watch the highlights and he's flying up and down and blocking shots and screaming and yelling and cursing.

That's fine. But in a changing landscape for college basketball, you know, we don't we don't get guys who stick around. We don't get name brands that are just, oh, I'm going to be the star of this program. Like guys don't do that. They pop in, they pop out, they make their money, they go to the NBA.

They do not care. I can't remember the last time we had a prospect like Cooper Flagg in college basketball. And the biggest time for him to shine is now it's March.

It's during the tournaments. It's going into the big tournament, the big dance. I hope he's healthy enough to do so. If not, we're just going to have to wait to see Cooper Flagg in October on an NBA roster. Let me tell you, I'd be shocked unless the Wizards have the number one pick again. I'd be shocked if this man goes back to Duke. I hope he's healthy. Good luck to him. It's the JR Sport Free Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. And by the way, even if this injury is severe or not, this man is still going to be taken number one overall. There ain't no doubt about that.

We have so much to get into as the show continues on. Aaron Rodgers is almost he's more than twice the age of Cooper Flagg and Aaron Rodgers doesn't know whether he wants to retire or play. The Oklahoma City Thunder speaking of young basketball, this young basketball team, are they being taken lightly? Is anybody paying attention to the Thunder? They just beat the defending champion Celtics last night. Josh Allen is reminding everybody that as an NFL player, as an athlete, you don't need to take every single dollar and every penny that's offered to you. Coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks is being criticized for running the Knicks into the ground. Bill Belichick, I don't know, he's being laughed at for having his girlfriend help him with his emails. The Tampa Bay Rays, well, I don't know how long they're going to be the Tampa Bay Rays.

I don't know how long or where they're going to play. So we have a lot to get into. We have a lot to discuss.

855-212-4227. You can find me online everywhere at JR Sport Brief. We are going to take a break and we come back. Speaking of young, well, I don't know if Kenny Pickett still counts as young. Kenny Pickett has some words. Yeah, he spoke. He was asked about his new job with the Cleveland Browns. I'll tell you what Kenny Pickett said on the other side. We'll hear from Josh Allen.

We'll talk about the Thunder. We got a lot to do. Just getting started. It's the JR Sport Brief Show, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. We open up the show by talking about Cooper. Not Cup, but Flag. Cooper Cup still doesn't have a job in the NFL. He's a free agent. Rams cut him.

Cooper Flag, biggest name in college basketball. This man sprained his ankle today. There's some other big names that are currently unemployed. Russell Wilson doesn't have a job. Aaron Rodgers doesn't have a job. Apparently, this is weird, but this tells you how bad his career has gone. Russell Wilson sat down with the Browns today. And Aaron Rodgers, well, we don't know what the hell is going on with Aaron Rodgers, but there is another quarterback who is currently on the Browns who says that, well, he's prepared to be quarterback number one.

This sounds rather ominous. It sounds bad to think about somebody being quarterback number one when in their career they have 13 touchdowns, 13 interceptions. They are mediocre. They are a game manager.

They can't move the chains. It's Kenny Pickett. Yeah, Kenny Pickett. Just a couple of days ago, this man was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles where he just won a Super Bowl as a backup to Jalen Hurts. He was traded to the Browns for Dorian Thompson Robinson. And so at least the Steelers, they do have a quarterback. They also went ahead and signed Mason Rudolph.

Nice little reunion there after Mason Rudolph had to stand around in Tennessee or maybe jump out onto the field when that Bumwill Levis wasn't throwing interceptions, which is throwing a ball away, giving a ball away to the other team. And so for some reason, Kenny Pickett spoke today. Like, think about that. I don't know. The last time I haven't heard Kenny Pickett speak in two years. And this is when you know things about I remember being in Pittsburgh like three or four years ago, I was talking to students in Pittsburgh and they were asking me about Kenny Pickett. And I'm like, you think he's going to do something in the NFL?

They're like, yeah, wouldn't it be great if the Steelers got him? I don't know. I don't know about that. And it didn't work out. Let's put it that way. And so the mediocre Kenny Pickett, the backup Kenny Pickett on a team right now with Deshaun Watson. Deshaun is still there, but he ain't playing. Kenny Pickett says, I plan on being the starter.

Listen to this. Yeah, I do. I do view myself as a starter. You know, I'm sure they're going to bring in another veteran and who knows what else. But, you know, I'm just excited to be here and compete with whoever, you know, all the quarterback rooms I've been in each year has been really tight. We all pull for each other. And, you know, that's really what it's all about, you know, getting better together and making the team better. So, you know, definitely prepared for whatever situation that, you know, may present itself. Who knows what else?

What type of vague crap is that? The Cleveland Browns have the number two pick in the entire draft. It's not a veteran quarterback and whoever else. I mean, all things considered, Kenny Pickett. I get it. Kenny Pickett got to be, what, 27, 28 years old at this point in time? He's 26. You're supposed to be the veteran quarterback. Kind of, sort of. You're damn right.

They probably don't trust you enough. I mean, they met with Russell Wilson today. What a world. Imagine Russell Wilson signs with the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland Browns end up selecting a quarterback with the number two overall pick. That'll make Russell Wilson real sad.

Well, he already knows that. What a sad world. I want to feel bad for Russell Wilson, but I can't.

I don't. Hickey, isn't that kind of sad for Russell? A sad end to his career? He's not done, but the guy is meeting with the Cleveland Browns knowing that they have the number two overall pick. Knowing that they are likely going to take a QB.

And if they do, that Russell Wilson is basically on borrowed time. That has to sting a little bit for a guy who, like a couple of years ago, was like, oh, if he continues elevating, da da da, he's going to go to the Hall of Fame. Now he's not. I don't think so.

His career has fallen off probably as steep of a cliff, right, as you could imagine. Yeah. The Hall of Fame talk was what, three years ago? Yeah. If that like right when he got to Denver. That's right.

Right before Denver. It's like, man, if he can string together three, four good more years. Hall of Fame. No. Not like you said. Now he's just hoping to be a basically a benchwarmer for a rookie quarterback getting drafted.

That's it. Russell Wilson's career is what a lot of people hope for LeBron 10 years ago. I'm just saying it hasn't it hasn't happened. Maybe Russell Wilson needs to give LeBron James a call.

But it's just it's bad. Like he's currently playing. He's playing old man.

This is what old guys do at the end of their careers. This man went from the Seattle Seahawks, went to Denver, went to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh didn't want him anymore.

Now he's going to the Browns. I mean, this is like when Shaquille O'Neal was at the end of his career. And I couldn't even tell you how many jerseys he put on.

Let me see if I could do this in order. He went from or Hickey stopped me if I'm wrong here somewhere. OK, I'm going to do Shaquille O'Neal in order. Shaq, of course, was drafted by Orlando, signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, was moved to the Miami Heat. Shaq then went from the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns. Shaq went from the Phoenix Suns.

Now, this is where it gets tricky. Shaq went from Phoenix. To Cleveland.

And then he finished in Boston, is that accurate? Perfecto. Nice job. Yeah, yeah.

I know something. I had to go, yeah. Because when he was wearing that Celtics green, man, it's just like, oh, my God, you got to be kidding me. Shaq was ring chasing. I remember he was trying to get what I can't believe. Hickey, I saw him in a game at Madison Square Garden in that uniform. That's just one of the most bizarre sights of any athlete. And it was in that it was the ugly Cleveland Cavaliers uniform, too.

It was that that brown burgundy ish with the yellow and burgundy piping on the I think on the neck of the arms. You know what I'm talking about? Yes. Yeah. It was not flattering.

Yeah. And he was fat in that one. Fat. No, he did not look good in that. And then by the time he got to the Celtics, he was even fatter. He looked like a like a tree.

He just didn't look good for Shaq out there ring chasing. Oh, what a world. Now, Russell Wilson goes from the Seahawks to the Broncos to the Steelers to God knows where. And we still have no idea where this other guy goes. Aaron Aaron Rodgers. Anyway, Hickey, the New York Giants, they still don't have an idea what the hell is going on, right? No, no idea of quarterback.

They are sitting and waiting. And they are the next team with a top three pick looking to draft a rookie quarterback that's going to meet with Russell Wilson tomorrow. Russell Wilson is meeting with the Giants tomorrow. Tomorrow.

Yeah. Aaron Rodgers, we still don't know. Is there any other quarterback? There's no other quarterback sitting around, is it? Well, the Giants did interview and talk with the quarterback today. You're kidding.

There's way, way, way away. There's no other quarterbacks worth it. Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson. There's there's no other quarterbacks worth a damn. Would you say Joe Flacco is worth a damn? Oh, the New York Giants met with Joe Flacco.

They hosted free agent quarterback Joe Flacco today, according to Field Yates of ESPN. Oh, my God. I don't know this off the top. I might be right. I might be right.

I might be wrong. Didn't he go two and four as the starter last year for the Colts? I have to look it up to get exactly the number, but I know he got benched once Anthony Richardson, you know, once he was benched, Joe Flacco got benched for poor play as well. So he was not exactly killing it. He won. He went two and four as the Colts started last year and he did throw 12 touchdowns to seven interceptions.

He also had four fumbles. So you watch all of their games. You trust Joe Flacco to be a full time quarterback for somebody?

No, I do not. Well, I mean, I guess the question should be asked as well. What are the Giants trying to accomplish? Hope Aaron Rodgers joins them, right?

I get I mean, if you're trying to win games or I guess you're trying to lose games is probably the better way to phrase it. If you're trying to tank me for twenty twenty six, maybe get arch and have the next man from Eli to arch in twenty twenty six and beyond. Maybe Joe Flacco is a pretty good option for you.

So this is this is funny. Let's think about this for a second, folks. The quarterbacks that I know are currently under contract with the New York Giants. Tommy DeVito, whose parents live 10 minutes away from the football stadium, they got him under contract.

And that's it. And maybe they add Joe Flacco, what? A New York Giants are going to be pathetic again this year and then they're waiting on Aaron Rodgers.

Good luck with that one. Go call up the Jets. You go drive to the Jets. They're like 20 minutes away on a highway.

Fifteen minutes. Go ask the New York Jets how Aaron Rodgers worked out and just listen to the radio in New York and figure out how Aaron Rodgers worked out and pretty bad. Pretty sad. Good luck to Joe Flacco, though. I hope he gets the job.

I'm here for everybody's misery. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Can he pick it a little delusional? It's like, hey, I plan on being the starter here in Cleveland. That shouldn't be a tough job, buddy. It should not be a tough job. Matter of fact, we come back from break. Hey, there's somebody else that spoke today.

I think his job is a little easier. Joey Bosa talked about signing with the Buffalo Bills and then speaking of New England, Boston, at least. The Thunder were up in Boston last night and they beat the Celtics. And we got people who are head over heels about the Oklahoma City Thunder. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We hear from Joey Bosa. We'll talk about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

We got a lot to do. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief. It is the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Right before the break, we heard from Kenny Pickett. Said he's prepared to be quarterback one of the Cleveland Browns, preparing to be the starter. What else is he supposed to say? He's preparing to be the loser?

What type of mentality is that for any athlete? Not a good one. Kenny Pickett's not a good one, but he can't say that. Talked about Cooper Flagg going down.

This man sprained his ankle. Oh, that's not you know, if back to football, that's not the only guy that we heard from today. Joey Bosa spoke.

This man was introduced today. As a new edge rusher for the Buffalo Bills. We know he's replaced replacing Von Miller. Joey Bosa, there's a big hope that he stays healthy.

He did not join the 49ers to play with his brother, Nick. This man moved across the country to try to win a championship with the Buffalo Bills. Take a listen to Joey Bosa on why he didn't go anywhere else, but ended up in Buffalo. Coming to a team back like, you know, the Ohio State days, where you're really living in a football town with an unbelievable fan base. It's really got me excited and you know, just something different. It's been nine years, which I'm really thankful for my career and how it's played out, but I'm ready to experience something different. I'm getting old and I'm ready to win.

And I think this team is primed to do that. He talks about being excited. He doesn't ever sound excited about anything. I'm excited to be in Buffalo. It's a real football town.

The fans are passionate. Just you don't have to sound excited. Just go get the quarterback. Can you do that at a minimum? Can you just go out there and get the QB? Can you stay healthy enough to do it?

Are you going to freeze on Buffalo? You're going to get hurt? Are you going to have calf tightness? Look, this guy's injuries were to his groin and his foot. How's he going to do out in that snow in the cold? How's his groin going to hold up?

I don't know. Not my groin. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Apparently, the speaking of a, well, this is not a groin. The finger has nothing to do with a groin. Hickey, what happened to D'Aaron Fox? He's finally gone? Unfortunately, he suffered a finger injury that now will require surgery. And according to Sham Sharani of ESPN, the Spurs guard out for the year. Oh, the Spurs got nothing. Well, the Spurs had nothing to play for since Victor Winbenyama went down with that blood clot issue. But now, D'Aaron Fox, who they just traded for, well, he's done too.

So the Spurs can continue to, they can tank. This is just another lost season for, what's that complaining ass guy's name? Chris Paul. Just lost season for him.

Hickey, what does he, nobody talks about, nobody talks about him anymore. He got to be just as old as LeBron if not older, right? Yeah, he's like 39.

He may be 40 as well. No, bro. Nah, you're not. Oh my God. Wow. He's younger than LeBron?

Crap. He turns 40 May 6th. His season will be over by then. Well, I mean, that's what, six months of a difference? Lebron's, I think, birthdays in December? Yeah.

They're basically the same. New Year's. Yeah, wow. I thought he was older than Lebron. Then they come in in the same year? I don't remember. I think he came in, Chris Paul came in in 03.

Are you sure? Wow. He came in, oh my God. Lebron is old, bro. He came in after Lebron James. Chris Paul was drafted in 2005.

Wow. That's that time he had at Wake Forest. I was just gonna say, I mean, he couldn't have come in the same time LeBron. Just, it was two years at Wake Forest then? Did he do two? I don't know.

You're a little short guard. I don't know. Wow. Damn.

Chris Paul is old and Lebron James makes him ancient. Damn. There's a lot there. Hey, good luck to the San Antonio Spurs. Good luck to everybody we're covering. I know De'Aaron Fox has been dealing with this finger issue for a while.

Now they're gonna, they're gonna fix it surgically. And good luck to Victor Webinama dealing with his own blood clotting issues. We haven't heard anything, which I presume is a good thing. And then we also heard that Greg Popovich is, well, Greg Popovich is trying to heal up from a minor stroke and apparently Greg Popovich isn't hanging it up. I would think at 73, about to be 74, Greg Popovich would be running away from basketball.

Not the case. We'll find out soon enough. All the best of the Spurs. Knowing how the NBA goes, they'll end up with Cooper Flagg. Okay.

We'll see. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Sean is here from Michigan. You're on the JR sport re-show.

What's up, Sean? Well, I'll tell you what, you want to talk about pain. I got up out of my, I have to sleep in a La-Z-Boy because I don't have a very good back.

So I kind of sleep like in a neutral position on my side. I woke up one morning and I went to throw my leg around to crack my back. Oh, wow. And I caught the edge of my chair and I broke my pinky toe. You want to talk about pain. Oh, you, wait, wait, wait. Break your pinky toe.

You'll never pain like that. Hold on. I'm the first person Sean spoke to all day. Sean, you said you swung your leg around. Yeah. Kind of cracked my back.

I heard that. And then I caught the edge of my chair with my pinky toe and I bent it completely backwards. Okay.

Okay. Since you're so detail oriented, what happened after that? Oh, you can't walk. Well, I assume, but what did you do? You don't get them little pinky toes do anything. They're your complete balance in life.

Well, that's not what I'm asking you. Did someone pick you up? Did you call somebody to come get you? Oh, no, no.

I'm a single guy. I just, it busts so bad. I started to cry. I did. I cried. Did you drive yourself to the hospital?

No. Well, there's nothing you can do with the pinky toe. So all you can do with it is you have to tape it back to your, uh, like your ring finger. So you did this yourself. You just taped your toe to the other time.

Yeah. And then you went, you went around for about five weeks looking like an idiot. You don't do anything. How do you know you broke it if no one checked it? Well, it was, well, I don't know if I broke it or not, but it was so, it was so bad off. It was purple. Okay. Okay. All right.

And so I basically taped it back to my next toe. Okay. Okay. You, you had a modern day Jordan flu game. God bless you. You sound like you're like my man, Ronnie Lott. You took that finger off so you could keep on playing. How about you?

Right? Well, I had to keep going, man. I had to keep going. I got to go to work. And so I was limping and I slapped and I got up and I cracked my back and I swung my, I swung my leg around and caught the edge of my lazy boy. You're a tough guy.

I'm going to call Ronnie Lott and tell him about you. How tough you are. Okay.

I'll let you know what he does. There's only one other worst pain is if you ever break a rib and you have a cough. Okay. Thanks Sean. That's a rough one. That's a rough one. Sean has been through some, been through some things. Hey Sean, you, you take it easy.

Buy yourself a bubble. Okay. I always, I try to keep myself up. Okay. Love you dear.

I love you too Sean. Stay, stay healthy. You hear that hickey? Don't break your pinky toe and don't break a rib. Thankfully I never tried to.

It's never a gold mine when I wake up in the morning. So I will now take that to heart. Yeah. Don't get, don't step into the boxing ring with, I don't know. It's that little short guy from Baltimore. I should know who he is.

Javonte Davis. Don't step in the ring with him and don't kick the side of your bed. Don't. Noted. Good thing. I was trying to fight him.

So thankfully, you know. Oh, Javonte? Yeah. Sean talked me out of it.

He apparently lost his last fight. So. Oh. See the one who took a knee? Hey be careful now. Okay.

You gotta be careful. They say, they say he took a knee, but for whatever reason, a referee didn't see him take a knee. So I don't know. No, no knockdown. So technically it was a draw.

Technically. Boxing is such a sham. Did you see Dana White and the Saudis are starting their own, they started their own boxing league. You saw that? I did see the, I didn't see what it was. You saw the partnership. Now, now it makes sense.

Okay. They're going to try to just have the best versus the best. They're going to try to, they're going to try to, basically, Hickey, what they're trying to do, they're going to try to do what Vince McMahon did to wrestling like 40 years ago.

Put everybody else out of business and put everything under one umbrella. Good luck to him. I mean, if it produces the best fights, I guess that's a win for us, right? It is. It is. You know what?

Not so far for UFC. I'm going to stay away from that. I had a reference for Dana White. Oh boy. Hickey, I will never talk to that man ever again. I won't. I will not.

Is that because he won't talk to you or you are self-protesting it and you don't want to talk to him? I don't want to talk to anybody who's ever put their hands on their wives. Good for you.

That's a great policy to have. That's it. I don't care who it is.

Football, I don't care. I don't want to talk to Dana. I've met him. Nice guy, but I never want to talk to him. It's the JR Sportbreeze show. Talk about more positive things on the other side. Don't move.