Top 6 List: Jerry Jones Quotes (Hour 3)

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And if you've got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. But today is Wednesday. It's been that way all day. It's April 2nd.

It's been that way all day. No more April Fools. No more jokes. No hee-hees and ha-ha's. It's strictly business.

Except for right now, in a few minutes, in a few seconds, we're just going to have some jokes. Because yesterday, on April Fool's Day, Jerry Jones decided to make himself a fool again. I don't know if he wakes up, if he puts on the makeup. I don't know what he does.

He doesn't need to, a matter of fact. You put a microphone in front of Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is going to say something wild. Jerry Jones is going to say something crazy. Jerry Jones is going to say something out of this world.

And yesterday, on April Fool's Day, Jerry Jones did it again. He said something crazy. He said something nutty. He talked about his new, or the guy he's trying to sign right now and Michael Parsons. Jerry Jones went out on a limb. He said something disrespectful that we'll play for you in a minute. And this isn't the first time Jerry Jones has said something crazy.

And so today, as I do every Wednesday, I bring you a top six list. And today, thank you so much, Jerry Jones, for the inspiration. It's not that tough. It's not that hard. We're going to take a look at some of the wildest things that Jerry Jones has said as owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

This man has owned the Dallas Cowboys since 1989. And maybe as you get older and have less success, by the way, you say crazier things. That's what happens as we all get older, huh? It's all good when you're a kid.

Hickey, you could be you could be three years old. And you can insult an adult and everybody will look at you and just go, oh, he's a kid. He's a baby, right? He's a baby. He doesn't know any better. And then when you're an adult, people look at you and just go, man, you can't say that.

You're a jerk. And then there's a point in time where you're just old and you say crazy things and they just go, oh, you're old and crazy. Is that accurate? I feel like that's the timeline.

That is very accurate. That is a cycle of life. Yeah. I think both you and I are in a space of if any one of us say something not nice, we're jerks, right? Right. We are in the jerk phrase right now of our life.

Yeah. It's not cute if I say something crazy. I'm not old enough to be old and crazy.

I'm in the jerk category right now. Jerry Jones is old. And he says some wild things. And so, you know what? Here we go, folks. You know what? It's time for a new top six list, as I do every single Wednesday.

But today, thank you for the laughs. Jerry Jones, it's time to take a look at a few crazy things. Some of the craziest things, the top six crazy things that Jerry Jones has ever said.

Six, five, four, three, two, one. It's time to get J.R.'s latest top six list only on the J.R. Sport Brief.

It is the J.R. Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Jerry Jones says wild things and we're going to give you a top six list of wild things that have come out of this man's mouth. We're starting off with this number right here. Number six.

It's the inspiration for the entire list. It's the comments made by Jerry Jones yesterday. This man is trying to come to contract terms, come to an agreement with Michael Parsons on a deal that will keep him with the Dallas Cowboys for the foreseeable future for a high amount. Apparently, the Dallas Cowboys want to pay Michael Parsons, one of the premier edge rushers in the NFL, playing on the NBA's most excuse me, the NFL's most valuable team. They want to pay him more money than anybody who's not a quarterback, which means that they'd have to pay him more than 40 million dollars. We got Jamar Chase making forty point three million dollars. That means I don't know. Michael Parsons has got to make 41.

Does he got to make 40 and a half? Jerry Jones said, hey, Mike is one of the three people who have my cell phone number. He didn't disclose the other two people. I'm presuming one is his son, Stephen. The other person might be.

That's not a nice thing to say. He's read and he has horns. OK, there you have it.

That might be the other person who has his number. I don't know. But anyway, Jerry Jones insinuated that he doesn't need his agent to get a deal done. Jerry Jones took it a step further. He said, I don't even know the agent's name.

Why? Because I would be the one paying Michael Parsons and he would be playing for me. What the hell do I need to know an agent for? Jerry Jones said something rather dumb, rather stupid. That's what he said yesterday during the NFL's owners meetings. The agent is not a factor here or something to worry about.

And I don't know his name. And so my point is that I'm not trying to demean you in any way. But this isn't about an agent. The agent doesn't have one thing to do with what we're doing. When we get on the football field against the team, Micah does.

To the degree I'm involved, I do. The people that have something to do with what we do going forward relative to our fans and football are me and the player, not the agent. Listen, that agent, David Mulligetta, that man negotiated more than one billion dollars in contracts for star players last year. Jerry Jones is going to know his name before this summer is up because Michael Parsons and David Mulligetta, they are going to take him to town. That's one of the dumbest things to ever come out of Jerry Jones mouth. He likes to make people sweat.

He likes to take negotiations down to the wire. Jerry Jones, not the smartest guy when it comes to football decisions. I got that at number six on the list of some of the dumbest things Jerry Jones has ever said. That's number six. What number are we up to now? Number five.

We got to go back to 2019. Jerry Jones, as he is, I guess, contractually obligated to do is he's being paid by the great folks in Dallas. One of five seven, the fan Jerry Jones pops up, does his appearances and pretty much talks to the media because he needs to. He's like, hey, I'm Jerry Jones. People want to hear from me.

And I do because he's hilarious, not because he says anything smart. But in 2019, one of five three, the fan, the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Bears on Thursday Night Football. It was their third straight loss.

The Cowboys fell to six and seven. And Jerry Jones was asked a simple question playing in the crap NFC East in 2019. Hey, Jerry, are you currently embarrassed by what the team is doing right now? And Jerry Jones went nuclear.

Listen to this. What answer do you have for how this team is playing right now? We're not playing very well. Are you embarrassed? Are you embarrassed as an organization about how the team is playing your damn act together yourself? OK, I'm we're going to have a good visit this morning, but settle down just a little bit. I mean, as a Cowboys fan, Jerry, a lot to go over. We're not going with your question, but I'm going to give you the answers I want to give you this morning. And I like your attitude to come in.

I've been traveling all night and I'm not I don't have the patience to Jack with you today. Yes, they actually at one point in time, we couldn't play it. Jerry Jones was dropping some some profanity there. They had to drop Jerry Jones because some of his language was inappropriate for over the year.

This was in 2019. You need a reminder, the Dallas Cowboys that year they finished eight and eight and did not go to the playoffs. I wonder if he was embarrassed at the end of the year. And I think, you know, that wasn't the only time that Jerry Jones had a little bit of a little bit of a beef on the airwaves.

But we'll get to that. Jerry Jones just having a meltdown on the air. I got that at number five on my list, one of the wildest things that Jerry Jones has ever said. That's number five. What's next?

Number four. This is one of those cases of just being old and senile, just refusing to understand and accept that you're wrong. Refusing to accept that you can do things better. Just a couple of months ago in November, the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Eagles 34 to six. It was a beat down.

It was a spanking down in Dallas, Texas. And C.D. Lamb, the man that he's paying more than 30 million dollars a year to catch the football, missed a go ahead touchdown early in the game because of the sun. The sun peers into Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Here's the thing.

Dallas Cowboys Stadium has curtains. C.D. Lamb after the game was pretty much asked, hey, did you drop the ball because you didn't see it? His answer was yes. It was the sun. Would you be in favor of lowering the curtains at the stadium during the course of the game?

C.D. Lamb's answer was yes. Jerry Jones answer to whether or not he would drop curtains down was what are we supposed to do, build a new stadium? It's like, hey, but Jerry, your own guy said the sun is making him drop passes. The coaches know when the sun is. The good coaches know what time the sun falls and rises and goes around the earth.

And no, no. Jerry Jones doesn't give a damn. Blamed his head coach, Mike McCarthy, for not knowing which direction to go in. It's just real sad.

Very sad. Jerry Jones had a simple answer. Hey, Jerry, what do you think about putting curtains up to prevent the glare on the football team? That would help your own team. This is what Jerry said.

Listen to this. By the way, we know where the sun's going to be when we decide to flip the coin or not. So we do know where the damn sun's going to be in our own stadium.

We know where the sun is going to be in our own stadium. Man, you can't control it if you don't win the flip. You don't win the coin toss. You don't have too much control over any of that, man. Come on. And then you got to go both ways on the field anyway. Come on.

This is just the case of an old man. Just just want to be counter to what you say. That or someone who just despises curtains and would rather have a team lose and at least have the window open versus for whatever reason, closing the damn curtains that we know exist from the sham fight that we saw there. I forget who it was again.

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. There it is. You think you think Jerry Jones sleeps with his eyes open? It's creepy, right? Creepy even think about very well, just just because that just never closes his eyes that night. Just sleeps with his eyes open. Eyelids.

Eyelids never shut. They make him a vampire, right? Vampires, don't they close their eyes?

Yeah, I think so. They just don't like the light. So Jerry's like the opposite of a vampire. He loves the light. He wants more light. He wants it blinding. Yeah, you know, his own players.

What a genius that guy is. It's one of the dumbest things Jerry Jones ever said, and that's number four on the list. Let's keep things rolling.

Let's go to this number. Number three, dumbest things Jerry Jones has ever said. Oh, you mean to tell me it's another interaction with humans? It's something that Jerry Jones probably isn't used to. You mean to tell me that Jerry Jones was on the radio again? Do you mean to tell me the Cowboys lost another game?

A blowout 47-9 to the Lions? Just a couple of months ago in October on Jerry Jones' birthday. And Jerry Jones had an interview the following day. And he was asked about this beatdown and whether or not the Dallas Cowboys, whether they were a little too lax during the free agent period. The biggest signing for the Dallas Cowboys last offseason was bringing back Ezekiel Elliott.

Whoop-dee-doo. Meanwhile, Derrick Henry, the man ran wild, was the second best running back in the entire NFL behind Saquon Barkley last year for the Baltimore Ravens. And the Dallas Cowboys?

Well, Ezekiel Elliott didn't even make it through the entire year. This man, Jerry Jones, was asked about this on 105.3 The Fan, and he was a big, bad billionaire bully. Because Jerry Jones basically told the hosts, RJ and Shine, he's like, listen, man, I could make sure that you guys don't have a job to even talk to me.

Damn. This is not your job. Your job isn't to let me go over all the reasons that I did something and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job.

Well, my job is to ask why- You don't get a job or I'll get another, I'll get somebody else to ask these questions, man. Jerry, we're trying to figure out why the team is- I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. You're not going to figure out what the team is doing right or wrong. If you are, or any five or ten like you, you need to come to this meeting I'm going to today. There are 32 teams here.

You're geniuses. Do y'all really think you're going to sit here with a microphone and tell me all of the things that I've done wrong and without going over the right? The right? I mean, more recently, there have been more wrongs than rights.

What you want? Well, take a look at this season. In last season, the Dallas Cowboys finished 7-10. Dak Prescott was hurt at the end of the year. Ezekiel Elliott didn't make it through the year. Mike McCarthy was basically fired at the end of the year. No new contract. There's a lot that went wrong, Jerry.

And that was only in October. Come on, man. What are we doing? Somebody give Jerry Jones a hug.

He needs it. Hey, that's number three. We're talking about crazy things that Jerry Jones has said. What's the next number?

Number two. Man, the Cowboys didn't even play a game at this point. Back in 2012, after the Dallas Cowboys had another mediocre eight and eight season, Jerry Jones is sitting up there at the beginning of training camp. And he's asked about Jason Witten and Tony Romo. And he's like, oh, those guys, you know, they didn't have the success that the triplets had in the 90s.

Don't you want to strike it rich again? And Jerry Jones took the conversation to a very different place. I'm almost certain he was was referring to oil. Right.

He wanted to find oil in a hole. I think that's what he meant. I think that's part of leadership is to have some of the guys that have gone before that have been disappointed to share it with everybody involved. For me, it's a reminder to have been here 23 years. And it is a reminder. I've been here when it was glory hole days and I've been here when it was.

And so having said that, I want me some glory hole. OK. All right. Yeah. He wants to find that oil.

Yeah, that's what that that's what that means. Oil guy from Arkansas. OK. The J.R. sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. This is a top six list of crazy things that Jerry Jones has ever said.

I'm going to share with you the craziest thing that he said, because I think it really pinpoints his level of delusion. We'll get into that on the other side. You're locked into the J.R. sport we show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. Yeah. Dallas, we're talking about Dallas.

Well, specifically in Jerry Jones. Today, I'm giving you a top six list of some of the craziest things that this. This crazy man has said, and they are quite a few. I'm seconds away from sharing with you numero uno. You weren't here with us last break.

Where were you? Let me give you a quick recap on some of the things that he said. And number six yesterday, the inspiration for the entire list. Jerry Jones basically insulting the agent of Michael Parsons. David Mulligetta saying that I'm going to negotiate just straight with Michael Parsons.

The agent doesn't have anything to do with any of this. And ultimately, Michael Parsons on online, on X, on Twitter basically said, no, my agent is going to be a part of this. And now I believe that Jerry Jones screwed himself. And number five, crazy things that Jerry Jones has said.

A couple of seasons ago, he was on one of five three, the fan in Dallas. And he basically he needed to get dumped. They basically had to cut him off on the air because they asked him if he was embarrassed about a poor performance of his team getting smashed by the Chicago Bears. And Jerry Jones, you would have thought that he was some angry caller from Arlington. This guy was just cussing up a storm. They had to bleep him out and drop him.

But an angry man, not a professional, but an angry man. Number four, just this past season in November, C.D. Lamb, his high paid, highly paid wide receiver, dropped the football because the sun was directly in his eyes in Dallas Cowboy Stadium. The Cowboys have the ability to drop the curtains during the course of the game. Jerry Jones, despite his own players saying it was an issue. Jerry Jones pretty much blamed the coaching. They should know where the sun is.

You know, if that's a part of coaching, we can use it to our advantage. You want to put the curtains down. OK, Jerry.

And number three on the list this past season as well. Yeah, Jerry Jones has been busy in his old age. He wanted to threaten. The morning show hosts for asking him about free agency. He basically told these guys, you know what, I can get somebody else to ask me these questions on the radio.

I'm like, damn, bro, you're going to try to get these guys fired. Not the nicest thing in the world for a billionaire to beat up, quote unquote. On the little guy. It's number three on the list.

And number two. He had a reference to a glory hole, not glory days, but a glory hole. He wants to find them once again for the Dallas Cowboys. This was back in 2012 when the Dallas Cowboys didn't even play a game. They didn't even they didn't even have a practice yet.

This was at the start of training camp. I guess he's an oil man. Lots of glory holes in, I don't know, Oklahoma, something like that. Good, good for Jerry Jones.

Looking for the glory holes. That is the second craziest thing that he said. So if that's the second craziest thing, what could possibly be worse or crazier than that? Well, I have an answer for you.

Here it is. Number one. I think that this encompasses the delusion of Jerry Jones. I think that what you're about to hear pretty much lets you know where his head is that where it's been. And unfortunately. Where the Dallas Cowboys are going.

Which I don't think is in a positive direction. This really lets you know that Jerry Jones is nuts. OK. Because just in January. After the end of the season, the season is done. Jerry Jones being criticized for another season, seven and 10.

Poor results, injured players, just another mediocre season, no playoffs, just sad. Jerry Jones actually said. That we've been one of the best teams over the past 20 years. That that we're good. We're competing for championships and in order to compete for a championship, you've got to be good. We've been one of the best. And I feel like I think Jerry Jones is missing the point, which is why the Dallas Cowboys have been so bad and so mediocre. Listen to Jerry Jones.

This is number one. This is back in January saying that he loves the fact that the Cowboys have been one of the most competitive teams over the past two decades. I like to look at the fact that over the last 15, 20 years, with six winning this team in the NFL. I like that. I don't necessarily I get to count other things. We all know what I want to do is advance in the playoffs.

But that's not really what I want to do. What I want to do is get the Super Bowl. And so it really, for me, is a thought about, well, you can't win a Super Bowl until you advance in the playoff, but you can't win Super Bowls unless you're one of the winningest teams in the NFL. And we have been for the last 15, 20 years, not counting Super Bowl years.

Oh, my God. Well, y'all haven't been to the Super Bowl since 95. OK, let's let's be real. Jerry Jones is accurate. And this is one of those cases where stats and numbers can be deceiving, because, of course, Jerry Jones is right. If you take a look at the past 15 to 20 years, if you specifically look at the last 20 years, the Dallas Cowboys have a record of 186. In 138. Their playoff record, though, in that time.

Is four and nine. The Dallas Cowboys have basically run on a treadmill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can run the race and you could be one of the fastest, but you're going nowhere. Everybody else is running a marathon and you're just stuck in mediocrity.

You want to get off the treadmill and actually run somewhere where you got a goal, where you got a finish line. Jerry Jones is stuck in the fact that we're one of the winningest teams. But look at the results. Four and nine. Is their playoff record over the past 20 years and nine playoff appearances, they have never advanced past the divisional round.

And as I just said. The last time they advanced past that divisional round was in 1996, the 95 season when they last won the Super Bowl. Since then, oh, yeah, you can pick up victories in the regular season, the past couple of seasons outside of this recent one where they went seven and ten at three consecutive years.

They're just like twelve and five, twelve and five, twelve and five, twelve and five and nothing happens. Like the goal is to win a Super Bowl, but it seems like you are stuck. In mediocrity and stuck in delusion. It's the same Jerry Jones who said, yeah, we're in the same place, happened to be in the same place as the Kansas City Chiefs.

I don't need to hear any thing else. Old. And senile. I feel bad for Dallas Cowboys fans. Because their owner knows how to make money.

But when it comes to winning on the football field. He is absolutely. Delusional. And there you have it.

I just gave you a top six list. Some of the craziest things ever uttered and said out of the mouth of Jerry Jones. His son needs to help him, but his son can't. Somebody needs to help this guy. I don't think there's going to be any help in him. They're going to have to pry the Cowboys out of his cold hands.

Hopefully they're cold and he's alive. I hope it's the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN.

That's 888-710-4ISN. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to go from one delusional owner to another delusional owner. We're going to go up to Cincinnati, Ohio, because the Bengals have made some bold proclamations about their players and handing out contracts of their own. Joe Burrow has gotten paid. Jamar Chase has gotten paid. T. Higgins has gotten paid. But there's a key defender on one of the league's worst defenses who has yet to get paid. And he is not happy in the Bengals response to him.

Man, they might as well told this guy, Trey Hendrickson, to kick rocks. We'll get into that on the other side of the break. You're listening to the J.R. sport re-show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I need you to think you should bring think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.

Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. I just gave you a new top six list. We went through some of the crazy things that have come out of Jerry Jones mouth. And number one, we had the idea of not the idea. Jerry Jones actually said just a couple of months ago. Dallas Cowboys have just been one of the most successful teams over the last 20 years, and he'd rather, you know, have them be that because that can lead to a championship. But it it hasn't.

It hasn't led them out of the divisional round. It's just ridiculous. He's not. We know he's nuts. We know he's crazy. I don't want to call him crazy and deranged. It sounds fitting, but he's just he's out there now.

I did mention to you another organization. They're also out there. And I don't know, they might be wasting some of the best years of some of the most talented players that we have in the league. And somehow, some way they still went to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. This is the Cincinnati Bengals.

Yeah, they're owned by a. Well, I don't want to pick you that it's not nice to call him a nut. Now, he's just old, right?

Mike Brown. He's just old and cheap. Old and cheap. And he was young and cheap to it. Now he's just old and cheap. That's right. That's right.

This is bad all the way around. Mike Brown of the Bengals. He has to be the oldest owner in the NFL right now. Well, oldest owner who's running things.

This guy's 89 years old. And he's still kind of the end all be all with the organization. He got help.

Of course, everybody has help. Like the woman who helps lead the charge for the Cincinnati Bengals as they move forward. Executive Vice President Katie Blackburn. Last year, the Cincinnati Bengals had one of the worst defenses in the entire NFL. They had one of the best offenses. The Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. Man, you had Joe Burrow and MVP consideration. The Bengals dunk.

Couldn't stop anybody. And their best defensive player is entering into the final year of his contract. That's Trey Hendrickson. He's 30 years old. He had 17 and a half sacks last season.

He had 17 and a half sacks the season before that. And yet he's 30. He's looking to get paid. You think about the contracts and the deals that some of the best pass rushers have just received.

Got the Crosby's of the world, the Garrett's of the world. These guys are making thirty five plus million dollars a year. Now, Trey Hendrickson is older than these dudes.

He's 30. Is he demanded to be the highest paid edge rusher in the game? Is he trying to break the bank? Apparently, he says no. And we actually heard from Katie Blackburn, the VP of the Cincinnati Bengals. And she spoke to the media and said, no, we haven't come to an agreement yet and that it is on Trey Hendrickson to be happy at some point.

He should be happy at certain rates that maybe he doesn't think he'd be happy at. Well, Dan, she said that they might have to explore trading him. The Cincinnati Bengals have crowed throughout the entire offseason that we're going to keep Jamar Chase.

They did. They paid him. He's making more than 40 million a year.

Forty point three. They said that we're going to keep T. Higgins. They are. They're paying him twenty eight million dollars a year. And Trey Hendrickson, it doesn't appear that they're any type of close to paying him or getting him a contract.

This seems it seems par for the course when it comes down to the Cincinnati Bengals. And so Trey Hendrickson, he talked about it today. He was having a good old chat with Pat McAfee and he says what the Bengals have said and what they've done have not matched up. He says that the Cincinnati Bengals have been poor communicators when it comes to contract negotiations. Communication has been poor over the last couple of months.

You know, that's something that I hold in high regard. You know, they have not communicated with my agent directly. It's been something that's been a little bit frustrating.

But again, this is the business of it. Last year and the year before, I've been talking about long term contract, guaranteed money, things like that. You know, and it was discussed with me in a meeting, which I'm very fortunate to have had with my agent that we would get something done this year.

So that being said, last year, go out and play, play to the level you have. We'll get it done. That was communicated with me. So that basically, you know, this year is going to get worked on. They also reiterated that at the combine. So that just kind of clears the air on that. And moving forward, the happiness of my camp.

You know, they're more than welcome to call me. Man. The Bengals are not paying him like we all knew they were. There's no way in hell that they were going to pay Joe Burrow.

What is he in? Fifty five million dollars a year. And now you've got to pay Jamar Chase, his best friend, the wide receiver, number one weapon. They're going to pay him 40. They're going to pay another wide receiver, almost 30.

And now you've got to come through and pay. I don't know how much Trey Hendrickson is asking for. I assume he's looking for, you know, 25 to 30 flat. Maybe, maybe 30 flat.

Maybe a little bit more than that. They ain't paying all them guys that and their defense is going to suffer. They're going to have to trade the guy. They're going to have they're going to be the greatest show on turf with no defense. It's the Bengals way.

Who needs balance? To be honest, God bless the Higgins. I'm glad he got paid. He could have got paid somewhere else. They could have got another wide receiver, paid him less, use that money to try to balance out the defense. But you got to keep Joe Burrow happy, even though we're paying him fifty five million dollars a year. We got to keep Joe Burrow happy. I think he would have been OK. I think he would have understood.

I think if he were really would have had a choice between Higgins and Chase, I think we know which way he wanted to go. Bengals are just awful. So Trey Hendrickson, he continued on today.

He further explained about the terrible communication. When I say it's been poor, it's been like here and there, you know, and respect to Jamar and T. I don't want to take anything away from all the great things they've accomplished in their careers. They deserve everything that they've gotten.

And no doubt in my mind, they're going to excel in the National Football League. I have a tremendous respect for both of them. But when it comes to my situation, it would have been nice to know, you know, in some ways like, hey, we're going to put you in the queue. No problem with me. My wife and I try to be as humble as possible as Christ loving people. So we don't we don't have any desires of being highest paid or first in line.

We try to be as patient as possible. But when you have things like OTAs coming and guys like Sam Hubbard, who's in a tremendous captain for our team last year, that leaves a vacancy for that. And I'm excited to fill that. But how do we reach that before we get there? And those are the things that matter when you're talking about a Super Bowl.

It's in the little things in the little details. Man ain't going back to the Super Bowl. No time soon.

Ah, nope. This is what the this was a fear for the Cincinnati Bengals. That they peaked in going to the Super Bowl against the Rams. We saw the Rams end up winning. We saw the Bengals lose. And I'm not trying to put. Joe Burrow in the Dan Marino category. Got close to the mountaintop.

It never got back. But that might be the case because this isn't a franchise that's that's willing to spend historically. This isn't a team that people look at and go, oh, my God, what a great destination. This is the Bengals like that nickel and dime in one of their best defenders here on the team over the past 20 years. Defense is going to stink.

I tell you this. The Cincinnati Bengals based on who they have on the roster today. I don't give a damn what they do in the draft, who they trade for. They're going to be barely above or below 500 again. Maybe they'll make the postseason.

Maybe they won't. But the only thing that will keep them afloat is the arm of Joe Burrow. I think this team is destined. You don't want to talk about the Dallas Cowboys being mediocre.

I think the Cincinnati Bengals are in the same spot for the next bunch of years. Hope Joe Burrow got it. Oh, he didn't.

He got robbed. They robbed this house, right? They did a few months ago. I was going to say, oh, well, they didn't.

I hope he has a good ice machine for his arm. Right. They're not going to steal that. Just this jewelry. Just right. Just the jewelry.

That's it. Yeah. Damn, I feel bad for you a little bit on the football side, I feel bad for the guy.

I do. And I don't like why he takes so much money. It's his fault. Not even now. Like he was the one who just demanded that these two guys get paid.

And so he got his wish. So when you pay them all that money, you just don't have enough money for the rest of the team. But yeah, it's like it's going to be all offense, no defense, without a doubt. Yeah.

Man, you over here playing for the cheapskate. You're asking for your favorite toys to stick around. Well, he better get used to being out on that field because other teams are just going to run through that defense, just like they did last year.

I hope Trey Hendrickson ends up someplace where they're going to pay him and where he could actually do some winning. It's the J.R. Sportbri Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, I'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. We get started on the other side of the break. Don't move.