It is the JR Sport Brief show on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in, locked in all over North America. I hope you're amazing. I hope you've had a great Friday. I'll be hanging out with you for the next two hours. This show gets started every weekday, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey holding down for us in New York City. Thank you as well. Helping us out on a Friday because everybody can use a little bit of help.
Thank you so much to Evan for coming through and helping us out as well. The Sweet Six team continues on in March Madness. How about this? Michigan just got hot. Ole Miss leads Michigan 33 to 31. Michigan State going on a run here to end the first half.
And then meanwhile, Tennessee leads Kentucky 21 to 11, about halfway through the first half of their game. We're going to keep you up to date with all of the action as I'm live here on the air. We got two other games that are going to get started.
We won't be able to give you a finish on those games because my ass will beat the hell up on out of here. But we'll keep you up to date the best way possible. And we've already had one hell of a show. Thank you oh so much to Brian Howell for joining us.
He covers all things Colorado Buffaloes. He broke the news earlier today that Deion Sanders got himself a five-year, $54 million extension right before we got on air, minutes before we got on air. The Ravens, they gave John Harbaugh a three-year contract extension. So he's not going anywhere for the Ravens. And then earlier today, we learned Taylor Jenkins is now the former head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. Despite having a winning record, despite being a couple of weeks away from the playoffs, despite at one point being the number two seed in the West, they fired him at the end of the season. What's the point?
Well, the Memphis Grizzlies going to go out here and win and compete for a championship? Did him and a general manager, did they hate each other's guts? Weird stuff, man.
Weird stuff all the way around. Hey, outside of the two games that we have already here in the Sweet 16, later on in Atlanta, when this first game finishes between Ole Miss and MSU, we're going to have Michigan taking on Auburn. That's a good one. I can't wait for that one.
What is Dusty May going to do out here against Bruce Pearl? These are two name brand coaches. What a shock. We got name brand coaches all the way around. And then later tonight in Indianapolis, we're going to have Purdue versus Houston. I feel like Kelvin Sampson, he's just here every year. And he, to me, he's just like a sweet old man. It's like, this guy's a coach. Like he, he's seen, he reminds me of, oh man.
Oh man. What's he's on TV now. Old Buccaneers head coach. Tony Dungy. Yeah. He's too, like too nice to be a coach, right?
He's too nice. Kelvin Sampson? No. Turn the TV on, he's yelling at somebody.
Nah. And when he talks to the media, he's just a sweet old man. Well, sweet old man in the media. Then all of a sudden he gets to game day and he's a different, different person. Ah, he's just sweet.
I don't know. You think he's mean? You think he's a mean guy?
I mean, I don't, I don't think mean. I think he's a very intense and I think he's not Danny Hurley, but he's also not that far removed. I think Danny Hurley. Who is the, wow. Top tier, right?
I think like two tiers down. You can put Kelvin Sampson there. Really? I think he's intense. Watch tonight. He is demonstrative. He is riding the officials.
He is yelling for 40 minutes. I see a sweet old, well, you know what here, let's take a listen to Kelvin Sampson. This is earlier, you know, he's having a chat with the media and he says that I, my team, we shoot threes. We play defense. I think his team is boring. You, you decide for yourself. Is he a sweet old man or is he a hard ass?
Listen to this. This team has really good player leadership. Um, very competitive, uh, hard-nosed kids that, um, play the game the right way. I think he sounds like a hard ass. Yeah.
I mean, he's in every year. I feel like the, what are they tough? Physical. Get that from the head coach. Okay. What is he going to punch one?
Well, he's not Bobby Knight. No, what do you hate? Yeah. Oh, chop the guy on the sideline and punch him. Basketball than football, but yeah.
Oh my God. Could you imagine if a coach punched a player in basketball? I mean, it's one thing to punch a guy who has a helmet on.
It's another thing to punch a guy with nothing. Damn dives into the bench. This is getting out of there.
There's Kelvin just boom chops like the side. Get out of here. That is, that's rough.
You know, let, you know what, let's, let's play a game. The guy opposing him on the sidelines is Matt painter. Purdue beat high point. Big deal, right? Who cares? Then they beat McNeice ended that story, sent that kid a mirror or a con, send him packing up to North Carolina. Good for him. Matt painter is this guy a Saint or is he a hard ass? Let's, let's, let's listen to Matt painter, you know, continue on.
He's like, man, we got to make Houston. We got to make them work out here. When you don't take them, you can end up with shot clock violations.
You can end up with just pick six turnovers. Like they're, they're so active and they do such a good job disrupting the basketball, whether that's their post defense and their doubles, or it's their aggressive ball screen defense, or just this playing passing lanes and just their overall, you know, pressure. Yeah. That man been screaming.
He'd been stressed a hard ass right there. He has no voice. None. Not to put you on the spot, but could you name like a sweet head coach in college basketball? That's like, Oh, that's just like a good old man. A good one. A good one. Yes. Yes. He just quit Jim Lara Nega. Okay.
You can get after you, but that's a, that's a fair one. He quit. So I'm not doing this. He quit late in the season. I'm not doing this crap.
That was interesting. And he's like, man, I'm just going to hang out on the beach. Forget this basketball stuff, man. Hurricane. What I go to the beach. I got time for this crap.
Did what I needed to do. Jim Lara. Do you still think he's on a beach right now? Probably sunbathing. I don't think you ever left since the day he quit him and Tony Bennett. Oh my God. Both hanging out on the Tony Benny thing.
He's on the beach too. I think he called up Jim Lara Nega. Probably convinced him to quit early. Jim. I did it. What are you waiting for?
Why wait another day? You know, a few games. I don't blame any of the older guys. I'm still a little surprised that Jay Wright decided to quit. But he's on TV. He's doing less work for.
I mean, it's not the same amount of money, but how much more money does a guy need? You think you'll get back into coaching one day? I don't think so. I think he's done. Yeah.
Do you? I don't know. He's not. How old is he? Is he even 60 yet? Let's see. Jay Wright age. Let's see.
Oh my God. He's 63. Wow.
Birthday on Christmas Eve. Hmm. He must have quit. He must have.
What did he? He must have quit right before he turned 60, right? No, no. Yeah. Probably right around there. Right at 60. Yeah.
Con Neptune is there for what? Two years? Three years? Oh my God. You should have stayed at Fordham, right?
That returned back, if you will. Did not treat him well. Yeah. Let's talk to someone who's very familiar with Fordham. The guy helping out tonight. Evan, how are you, man? You good?
I'm doing good. You went to Fordham University, right? Yes, I did.
So what's the deal with Kyle Neptune? He just took the money to leave? Is that what happened? I think that's exactly what happened. That's at least what the Fordham community thinks would happen.
Well, I think that's exactly what happened. So what's going on with Fordham basketball right now? What's the deal? I heard the athletic director's gone. What's going on at Fordham?
Yeah, it's all a mess right now. Athletic director's gone. Looking for a new head coach.
Just got rid of Keith Urgo, old head coach. Right, right. Man, this is musical chairs, man.
What is this? Hickey, this stuff sucks, man. Like, this is the...
Didn't we have... I had this conversation earlier on in the show with Matt Muhlbach. Like, this sucks. Like, who's keeping up with this crap? I think the head coach is carousel is interesting because at least a lot of the names we are at least familiar with, the portal. Right, bro. When you mix it together with the players, when you have the coaches and the players who are all leaving, what am I looking at? Like, what is this?
Why do I want to be invested? Come on. It is tough because every year it feels like you're watching a brand new team from last... I think it's also part of it, right? Like, you used to have, like, why people hated Duke because those guys were there for three or four years, so you built a rivalry and a hatred because you watched them every year. I mean, that obviously went away with the one in Dunro and a lot of the best college basketball players left after one year anyway, but now at the portal, like, when your team turns over every year, I feel like, sure, you still have, like, historical rivalries of schools, but it almost gets taken down a notch because these guys are there for one year and gone, so you can't even, like, build any sort of storyline because it's just one year here, one year there, and you're gone.
That sucks. I mean, even if you just think about where you guys are, right? I feel like over the past three years, the coaches have just, they've played a game of musical chairs between, I don't know, Iona out to New Jersey, New Jersey to the Bronx, the Bronx, to Philadelphia, the Philadelphia to Long Island to New York. It's just, it's, it's, it's, it's crazy. Like, how do you keep up if just what, who coaches anything for this amount of time and just leaves and just follows the next, hey, that guy was better, so we're gonna pay him more money because we have more of a budget. Like, that sucks.
That sucks. I mean, as much as everybody likes to say right now, hey, college athletics, it's mirroring the pros, and from the players perspective, we hear this a lot. Oh, it's free agency. Oh, the players can now move. It's free agency. Now they can sign and do this, and there's no, there's no contracts, though, and then you got the coaches moving around like this. It's just, ugh, hickey, I gotta put a board in front of me just to kind of keep up the measurements of where coaches are going and where they left and, and what's next. It's just, it's sad, man. I don't want to say, I, I don't expect every coach to be with his team for, you know, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, but two years and gone is just, do something better than this, please.
I can't keep up. Anyway, oh, this is pretty cool. Oh, this is the women's basketball side, so it's still pretty cool, by the way. LSU, North Carolina, they're all tied up at, well, not North Carolina, North Carolina, hickey, what, what's the other, the wolf pack? NC State.
Yeah, NC State, up in Raleigh. Right, where now Mr. R is going to be. What is he going to do, get a red and black boombox with a wolf on it?
I think you just answered your own question. They're going to make him dress as a wolf? Nah, now we're talking.
He's going to, they're going to make him be the wolf. Like how much training, do the mascots get training in college? Oh yeah, you see some of the acrobatic flips and moves they do. Oh yeah. Wow.
It's a full-contact sport. Penn State don't got no mascot, right? What?
I mean, it's, it's ugly and ragged. You got the Nittany Lion. JR, you never seen the Nittany Lion on the sideline?
He's athletic as hell. No, bro. Where's the little scarf? I mean, again, the uniform is, the costume is not great.
They invest, they send all the money to the students. That's it. Costume budget's low.
Costume budget, costumes cost a lot of money. Hickey. He's iconic. Oh, this is why I don't know who the hell is. I didn't know he was official. Oh, as official as official could be.
There's two, three lines that rotate around campus. This is the worst mascot in America. It's like they got the outfit from the dollar store.
Like I said, a secondhand store. At least the dollar store is new. Oh, they got this. This is why I didn't know they had a mascot. What is this? It's the Nittany Lion. Have you ever, this looks like crack, you know how you got crackhead Mickey Mouse in Times Square, hustling people for photos. Like you walk by him, you go, that's not Mickey Mouse. Like that's, that's like low budget, low rent Mickey.
Like this is, this is low budget, man. You take the Detroit Lions mascot and they have a pretty good like lion mascot and Penn State's mascot. I could see where you're coming from. Yeah, let me, Lions, man. I don't know what their mascot looks like. What does he look? Oh yeah, him? He needs a haircut.
Well, fair. The Detroit Lions mascot has the same haircut as Mark Davis. They got the same. Go to the same barber?
They got the same haircut. Yeah, give me the mark. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah.
Y'all mascot is terrible, bro. And it's intentional, right? How, how cheesy and terrible it is? Um, I don't know about intentional or just a nostalgia where they made it and they said, ah, this is just, we're just gonna keep it like this. Yeah. Yeah. It's nostalgic.
It's low budget and nostalgic. So we're just going to keep it. Sorry. I know roided out Georgia bulldog that, you know, should be tested. Oh yeah. Well, he got a dog collar.
Of course he's going to be roided out. Come on. Michigan state Spartan.
Same thing. I mean, we just said, we're just going to now just we're okay with juicing our, our, our mascots here. We're just going to juice up the dogs. Well, I can tell you, I can tell you one mascot who ain't going to be knocking no kids over. That's the Nittany lion.
Okay. He's saying it in that like peewee scrimmage game with the mascots that the little kids are going to get their revenge on the Penn State Nittany lion. Them kids will be wearing him out, bro.
Kids will be wearing this Nittany lion. He's quick. I'm embarrassed for you.
Okay. He does push ups for every point they score. He's pretty jacked. No, this mascot is embarrassing. There's a reason you go, JR, you don't know the mascot. I'm like, no. Oh, him. I thought if you told me, Hey, I'd be like, that's not a fan just in the stands.
Like, I don't know. That is official as official could be. That's sad. That's sad.
That's very sad. Anyway, there's more basketball going on and more angry head coaches. Tennessee is leading Kentucky 29 to 17.
There's about seven minutes to go here in the first half of this game. I'm going to talk about coaches moving around. Mark Pope, I'm still used to him not being at BYU. Here he is at Kentucky where he used to play.
You got Rick Barnes, Rick Barnes of Tennessee. He's been here since forever. Yeah, this is a, this is, this is a good one that we got going on right now.
Hey, let's listen to Mark Pope because he says, you know what? Yeah, I'm here. This is, I'm back at Kentucky. I'm not at BYU, but here I tell my guys it's all about having fun. I think joy in the gym is a principle that's really, really important to us. Um, I think we play better, uh, when we, when we work hard to find joy in, in the process, because this can be a grind also.
Like it can be mentally and emotionally taxing and exhausting. Oh, he's a young guy. He's, he's happy, right? Mark Pope, happy talking about bringing joy to the game.
There we go. Yeah, he's happy. Rick Barnes is old. He's not happy. He's 70 years old, yelling at teenagers, or maybe some of these guys are old enough to buy a drink.
I'm old enough to buy a drink. Been at Tennessee for the past decade, give or take kind of angry, I guess, huh? You know, in Tennessee, by the way, they lost to this Kentucky team earlier this year.
And so at Tennessee looking for a little bit of a, of a get back. Their head coach, Rick Barnes, he says, yeah, they're, they're not easy, but they're winning right now. Obviously we've played Kentucky twice and they've, uh, played great against us.
Uh, I think both games made 12 threes in each game and Mark has done a great job. Yeah. Okay. It is.
I just can't keep up where everybody goes. What a world college hickey. The football coaches don't move around like this, man.
No, at least they, for the most part are institutions for the most part. I'm going to be a college basketball coach. Okay. And do what? Bounce around?
No, no, I'm a bounce into a place. And Hey, listen, what's that? Uh, what's that guy who did a job? He's he's on the radio and he he's coaching his team sucks. Doug Gottlieb. Yeah.
If Doug Gottlieb can coach a basketball team, I could coach one too. Okay. That's true.
Would you do the show still? Oh yeah. Uh huh. Successfully during the game because we're on right there.
That'd be great. Look, Georgia state is right down the road here. That's true.
Yeah. Georgia state is literally right here. I can drive to Georgia state in five minutes. I will coach remotely.
This, you get a good assistant hickey. That's it. Coaching. You'll be set.
Ready to go. Yeah. Coaching the daytime, let somebody else do the job. Okay. The actual work will show up as needed and keep it moving. You just show up and yell at the kids.
That's all you got to do. Yeah. What was his record anyway? Let's see. What school did he coach?
I had a funny name, didn't it? Uh, green bay. I think it was green bay something. Let's see.
UW green bay. Maybe. Yeah. Here we go.
Doug Gottlieb coaching record. Okay. Ouch.
Oh, year one, four and 28. Oh, wow. That's a winning percentage of 12. 12. Oh my. Yeah.
12%. Yeah. Yeah.
Four wins, 28 losses. I think you could do that. I think I can too. I think I can win five games by accident here in a sunbelt. Oh my God.
Hey, you could do anything if you put your mind to it, folks. Just uh, keep that in mind. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network, Tennessee got a hold on Kentucky 33 to 20. They lead here five minutes to go in the first half.
We are going to take a break. Speaking of moving around and just so much moving around the Browns. We don't know who the hell they moving into that number two spot. They're going to draft your door.
Is it Abdul Carter? They're going to trade somebody trade for somebody. And then what the hell is going on with Kirk cousins, Kirk cousins. He's posting photos and responding to photos of him hanging out in Cleveland, Kirk cousins, trying to send a message that I don't want nothing to do with Atlanta. I didn't know Kirk cousins could be so petty. We'll get into him on the other side of the break.
We'll talk about the Cleveland Browns. It's the JR sport re-show the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport re-show on the infinity sports network. 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN.
That's 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN. Ole Miss and Michigan state just came out at halftime. Ole Miss leads a 37 to 35. Michigan state went on quite a bit of a run, knocking down four out of five field goals in the first half to kind of catch up. And now we're in for a tight one.
Also, meanwhile that, well, that's, this is taking place in here in Atlanta, Georgia in Indianapolis, Indiana. This minute, this second Tennessee leads Kentucky. They've beaten them up 39 to 20, a little less than three minutes to go in the first half. We'll keep you all up to date. As these two games continue on, it'll be about an hour, a little more than an hour before we get Auburn and Michigan. Shout out to Matt Muehlbach.
He joined us earlier on in the show. He said that this game and this matchup right now between Ole Miss and Michigan state, this would be the game of the night. And so far it looks like it as the Spartans have tied things up at 37 all. We'll keep you up to date.
If you want to follow me online, you can do so at JR sport brief. There's so much going on in college basketball, on the basketball side and Taylor Jenkins and football. And there's so much talk. Even when we had our, our chat last hour with Brian Howell, who covers the Colorado buffaloes, there's so much talk about what happens with Chador and Cam Ward and Travis Hunter. There's not a lot of talk about somebody else who went to Penn state, Abdul Carter. And I don't know, maybe it's the shoulder issue that he had from, from the bowl games or even the ball game, the playoffs, and maybe it's not working out.
Allegedly, he's going to work out for individual teams next month. He still can't work out. Hickey, what can this guy do besides all he can do is run right now. He can't do nothing. Can't do nothing. And why do something?
You don't want to pull nothing, right? Exactly right. I mean, at this point, he's going to be at what? Where's the top four pick top five pick.
Why, why run and risk injury? Somebody's going to select the pass rusher just because he's the safest pick, I guess. Right. I mean, impacts the game.
It's one of the premier positions. If you can't have a quarterback, you got to get after the quarterback. Let's just draft the guy and hope that at minimum he can get eight sacks a year and then nobody will question you. I think that's how that goes. That's fair. Right.
Well, okay. We'll see. The Cleveland Browns select the number two overall. We know the Cleveland Browns need a QB. Tennessee Titans need a QB.
So what happens at spot number two? Do the Browns just take the quarterback who's not selected number one, probably Shador Sanders, or do they do something else? Jake Trotter, he was on ESPN Cleveland, and he says the Browns are just going to, they're going to go the safe route?
Listen to this. I'm hearing Abdul Carter's the pick. Because guess what, Chris? I don't care if you have a quarterback or not, you ain't going anywhere next year anyway. It's cause they don't have a quarterback.
No, they have massive holes everywhere else. Oh, man. Yeah. So might as well get a defender. And you see, this is the, this is, it's so tough in the NFL. Like the Tennessee Titans ended up with Will Levitz.
And we know this guy had to sit around for a while. If you don't select the QB and he has success elsewhere, it could be a ticket out of town. But then if you do select the QB and he doesn't work, then in a lot of cases, depending on what number QB you're on, you might get another chance.
You might get another opportunity. If I'm the Cleveland Browns, you got to take a QB. Even if it's a quarterback that you want to develop, you have to take a quarterback. Is it Chidor?
Is that who's left? Then take Chidor Sanders. Or maybe Chidor doesn't want to be on the team.
I don't know. Like, Hickey, if Chidor Sanders goes to the Browns, Chidor and the Browns are going to suck for a long time. So then why take them? I don't think they will. I don't think they want to be in the business of Deion Sanders. As bad as that sounds, I don't think they want to be in that business.
So they might take Abdul Carter, as he just said. And the Browns are going to suck for a long time. But there does come a point in time where you have to get a quarterback. No?
Am I bugging? Like, they need one. No, you're right. But don't you have to take the right one that you think it like? You can't just take a quarterback. You can't sit there for the Browns or two and say, we got to take Chidor. We don't love him, but hell, we need a quarterback that's going to get some heat off our seat here. We got to draft him because we need one. No. If you don't think he's good enough, if you don't think he can be your franchise guy, then take Abdul Carter, maybe trade for Kirk Cousins, find a Band-Aid for a year, and then reassess where you are this time next year.
And who knows where you are? The commanders just showed you, you can go from the number two overall pick to the NFC title game in the same season if you get it right. The Browns build up the rest of the roster this draft. Get Abdul Carter, fill a few other holes, even if they still stink because they don't have a quarterback, maybe you're sitting there two or three next year with a better option. How long do you want to be bad before you keep ignoring quarterbacks and then one passes you by? I don't know if I would use the word, like, I wouldn't say you ignore, but I think you just don't take a guy that you don't believe in.
Okay. And so, like, you're not going to, like, they're not lottery tickets in the sense of, oh, I hope we scratch off and hope we win, like, you can't base your thing on hope. But then you get fired if he has success somewhere else.
Well, you got to be right, like, you got to be right. And that's obviously half the battle, but if you truly think, like, if you look at this quarterback draft class this year and you say, outside of, maybe even say Kim Ward included, none of these guys are sticking out to me. I don't think anyone's going to be a franchise guy. We're not going to take anyone. And you're not going to be a franchise guy. We're not going to take anyone.
And you better be right on that. But if you are right on that, you at least are going to prolong your job security versus let's just take Chidor because hell, we got to take one and now, you know, try to save us. And all of a sudden you're sitting there at a two and 15 season, Chidor stinks. And all of a sudden they're like, oh, bring Deion in and now you're out. Everybody gets fired.
Right. That's, it's a tough job. So these guys, those guys get fired.
They get moved around a lot, but they get, they get fired. And you're speaking of Chidor. Deion, he spoke this week.
I want you to listen to this. Deion was on the Skip Baylor show. I've never heard his show in my life.
That's another conversation. He is trying so hard to still be relevant. It's not like he's going to get a new show somewhere, right?
Like what's he doing? I would agree. I was shocked that Deion said yes to this.
That's for sure. I saw Deion spoke and I said, wait, I'm sorry. He spoke where? Skip Baylor. Okay. Yeah.
That's the first time I heard that podcast. It's like, I saw Skip Baylor saying something about LeBron and I'm like, did you see the jokes about it? People are like, Skip Baylor has been trashing his guy for 20 years and he never got a response on LeBron. He must be so mad. Yeah. You gotta be mad. And you know, he is too. Cause he put out, he's putting out these videos and I don't, I see his face pop up. I keep on scrolling up like, no thanks. Like this guy's trying so hard.
It's like your time is up, bro. Just go, go count the stars or something like that. I don't know. Anyway, Deion spoke with him and talking about Chidor and where he'll go and not go. I wouldn't want to play for Cleveland, but Deion said Chidor will go any place that wants him. Chidor has told me, he's talked to me, um, intently about all the business he's had with all the teams. So I know where his heart is. I know where he wants to go. Um, if it's New York, it's New York. If it's Tennessee, if it's Cleveland, if it's still the Raiders, if it's New Orleans, if it's any of those teams that are seeking a quarterback, I'm, I'm happy with it, man. Because I know what he's going to do to the organization. I know what he's going to do. New Orleans up New Orleans.
I thought they were so happy with a car. New Orleans. That's a new one.
Okay. He ain't going to New Orleans. I'd be surprised. That'd be a nice match.
Get to play inside on that turf, throw it around. But I think New Orleans is just buying time. I think they're ready to tank for Arch Manning. That'll be fun. They don't need Chidor.
Wait until they get their hands on, uh, on arch. That'd be a fun one. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. When we come back, I want to tell you about someone who wants to be in Cleveland. He is an Atlanta Falcon. He plays for the Falcons, but he wants out and he's being petty about making his intentions known.
I'm going to tell you what fun loving Cole shopping quarterback is being a petty jerk. It's the JR sport re-show on the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief.
It is the JR sport re-show on the infinity sports network hanging out on a Friday. Anyway, it's halftime. The Tennessee is beaten up on Kentucky 43 to 28. Meanwhile, Michigan, they went on that run to get back into the game, ultimately tie things up at 37. But right now, Ole Miss hitting back strong in the second half, Ole Miss leading Michigan 48 to 41.
Still plenty of time here, about 10 minutes to go, 11 minutes to go here in the second half. We'll keep you up to date as both games continue on. Right before we went to break, we talked about the Cleveland Browns and what they do at the quarterback position, what they do with the number two overall pick. Do they go safe and grab a pass rusher like Abdul Carter out of Penn State? Do they bring in Chador?
Deion Sanders said Chador would be happy to play with whatever team wants him out there. And then meanwhile, yesterday, Kirk Cousins basically went on a little bit of an internet tour. Let me not even say internet tour. He went on a restaurant tour. He's got people posting photos of him. He's stopping by restaurants and taking photos with fans.
He's responding to photos that he's not even tagged in. He went to a barbecue restaurant at one point in the day and then went to another restaurant late in the day. And they were all in Cleveland. He's an Atlanta Falcon.
I understand. I didn't know Kirk Cousins could be a jerk. Well, I guess he could. He lied about his injury. He lied about being hurt. He then tried to throw the Falcons under the bus. He tried to politely force a trade out of Atlanta. Atlanta said, we don't care.
We're going to still pay you your bonus. We'll trade you when we feel like it. And now, Hickey, this is the most polite way to force a trade I've ever witnessed in my life. We've seen players post pictures of other teams like Brandon Aiyuk trying to get traded.
Posting pictures or making demands in the media. Is this not the most Kirk Cousins way ever? Most passive aggressive, here I am in Northern Ohio out of Chipotle. Oh man, I just got caught here in Northern Ohio. What a coincidence. It's two restaurants. Two?
Yeah, you're right. Chipotle and a barbecue place. He's getting a taste of the town.
He did everything and stuff. What was it? Stadium First Energy? Is that what that thing is called? I have no idea. Yeah. Switched around.
What was the old one? I forget. No, that's in Cincinnati. Huntington Bank? Huntington Bank it may be. Let's see. Oh, I'm going to pat myself on the back. You got it?
Look at me. Yeah, now it's Huntington Bank. Yes, stupid name.
What is that? A bank? Of course, it's a bank. Huntington Bank, what do they do?
They sell concrete, right? I don't know. Oh my god. What was the original name?
First Energy. Oh, until two years ago. Yeah, you're right, Hickey. Look at you.
You need to paddle. So we're both right? Nah, nah, nah. You got the old spots? I mean, it's not like it changed 20 years ago, 10 years ago.
Huntington Bank. Man, some of these arena names and stadiums, I feel like they change their name every year. It's kind of crazy. But anyway, Kirk Cousins, the only thing that the last thing for him to do is just to take a photo in front of the stadium, just randomly. Just randomly take a photo and post it online. No caption or nothing, just in Cleveland. I don't know. Next thing you know, he's going to sit first row at a Cavs game.
I just. Mr. Nice Guy, I guess if you call him that. It's crazy how the quarterbacks in the NFL, little goody two shoe ass quarterbacks are passive aggressive. Russell Wilson's agent put out a list of teams that he would be traded to if he wanted to be traded, but then ultimately he didn't want to be traded. Kirk Cousins is taking photos at Chipotle and barbecue restaurants in the city that he wants to go to. And let's be real, where the hell else is Kirk Cousins going? Minnesota doesn't want this guy back. What is Pittsburgh going to take on? I guess Pittsburgh will have to take on Kirk Cousins if Aaron Rodgers decides to stay in the mountains or go up, you know, to Minnesota. I just. This is sad for Kirk Cousins and this is what he deserves. Good for him. Anyway, somebody who thinks that he might go to Cleveland is Jeremy Fowler, because last week here on the Infinity Sports Network on the Rich Ozzin show, Jeremy Fowler said the Browns, they they like Kirk Cousins.
Now I do. Cleveland to me, it still looms large here because. I do believe based on what I've gathered that when he got benched that Cousins was firmly on their radar, they were going to look at all the quarterbacks with starting potential, but that Cousins make sense for Kevin Stefanski like they looked at that as a realistic option for them potentially. But right now he's just simply not available until Atlanta changes their mind or becomes a little more flexible or aggressive here, but they haven't yet. So until then, Cousins is sort of locked into Georgia.
OK, all right. Yeah, you see, they don't want him here. We don't want him here. He doesn't want to be here. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he sold his house already.
Remember when Tom Brady was rumored to be leaving the Patriots before this is even a thought? And the first thing people pointed to is up at his house, up for sale. All right. That's what he should do. Take a picture outside of his house of the real tour. Great working with so and so. Our house is on the market.
If you're interested, please hug us up. Yeah. Well, Kirk Cousins, I'm sure he rented a house down here. The guy didn't even live here a year. You think even I think his family's been around. I don't know. But they also I mean, right. His wife's family, right, is from the area, which is part of his wife went.
That's right. But he's from the four year deal, but he's from the Midwest. What does he live? What does he live in? I don't know. He live in Michigan, Chicago.
What do you want to live there in the off season? I guess it's warm. So I don't know. He was in Minnesota for a decent amount. I think he bought it. I mean, but he also signed a bunch of one year contracts.
Do you think you think you bought a house? I don't know. This guy's also made more money than God. Right. And all in guarantees, baby.
Oh, my. How much? Let's see. Three hundred higher or lower. Oh, I would say higher. Three thirty.
A little bit high. I would say three forty five. OK. You're saying that Kirk Cousins has made three hundred and forty five million in career earnings. Well, I think he's made three hundred forty five million in career earnings. OK. All right.
Well, Dan, lower, lower. OK. OK, as of September, Kirk Cousins career earnings, he's made two hundred and ninety four. Only two ninety four.
Only three hundred. Yeah. Well, what was that? But he's got a ten million dollar bonus, right?
For being on the roster. Oh, damn. Let's.
OK, so let's put it. I mean, we need to add another 50 to that 40 or something like that. I think it's only ten million dollars.
I think it was a small one. I think he we can at least say he comfortably has passed a three hundred million dollar career earning threshold. Yeah, he's over three hundred. I think it's about it's about three. It's about three thirty. So he's made more than Tom Brady did in his entire career.
A plus agent. And Kirk Cousins is one what he got a playoff record of two and four. His stats in the playoffs are honestly not that bad. It's just that like a lot of QBs, I think they get to the postseason and they become less aggressive. And so they're not necessarily going out there trying to air the ball out. They're trying to not turn it over and be the reason that they lose. I think Aaron Rodgers is pretty much in the same space as great of a quarterback as Aaron Rodgers is and has been in regular seasons.
It's just, yeah, you're playing against top notch defenses and then you're also trying not to be the reason your team loses. So Kirk Cousins, what a what a deal. What a deal. Hey, I'm gonna try to be his friend. I'm going to stop talking crap about him, OK? Try to be his guy. He may be your neighbor, so you might as well know he's not he don't live in my neighborhood, OK? No, no, he doesn't.
We have a I got a bunch of young people who live in my area, the city dwellers. He ain't he's not one of us. And he's a country guy. He lives in the burbs.
I know what he I know. I kind of know what area he lives in. He's like 30 minutes, 40 minutes away from me in the burbs. Come on. All right. So maybe just drive around his neighborhood once in a while.
See if you see him on the street. Hey, Kirk, you know, you're getting screwed. I love you.
No, no, thanks. See what happens. No, I'd be arrested. For being one of his few supporters. Who else in Atlanta is getting him positive, positive? Nobody.
Exactly. Well, have you arrested? He ain't here either. Well, he wouldn't have to have me arrested.
He was the guy running around the neighborhood saying, you know, I love you, Kirk. You're going to arrest me. You put it that way. Do you live here? No. Leave. What are you doing? Man, what a world. And what's going on with your course? Speaking of the Midwest, what's going on with your quarterback situation?
Oh, dumb and dumber, worse and worst. Daniel Jones, did he move in yet? He probably hopefully he should rent. You get an apartment?
Don't buy. He don't have a family, does he? Just him? I think it's just him. Just him. Yeah. He seems like a guy that would be just him. He's just fine by himself. Just, just watching football. I don't know. He showed no, he's the, he's the one athlete in New York City that you've never, you never saw a personality out of the guy.
Nothing. And that's saying something with Eli. I mean, what Derek Jeter should say in New York. Well, we know Eli, well not Eli, Derek Jeter was hanging out with Tyra Banks, Mariah Carey. He was, he was having fun. He was going out to those, yeah, he was going out to them Puff Daddy parties. Oh, did you ask Derek some questions?
Yeah. He wasn't going out after the party. He was at the party. Oh, so the party was fine.
You're saying the after parties were a lot of the interesting. Yeah, the, how much baby oil did Puff Daddy, he went to Costco for baby oil, right? And I think they ran out when he went there. He's like, here comes Diddy. Oh boy. Call the backups right now. And we out of stock, Diddy.
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