You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love and many thanks to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Happy Friday to you.
We've been hanging out for an hour. Get started. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can always listen on the Free Odyssey app, your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate, Sirius XM, Channel 375.
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We got to wait until tomorrow. We're going to chat all things Final Four in about 20 minutes with Deshaun Tate. I know him from 92-9 the game here in Atlanta, Georgia. I don't know anybody who's more into college basketball than Deshaun. We'll get his thoughts on Houston and Duke and Auburn and Florida. We'll talk about it all.
We've already done a lot. We discussed Cooper Flag winning National Player of the Year as a freshman, mind you. We talked about Travis Hunter just a few minutes ago on his way into the NFL. He ain't working out for nobody.
Okay. Didn't work out at Colorado's Pro Day. He didn't work out at the NFL Combine. He doesn't need it.
He's that damn good. We talked about John Moran. Can't stop throwing up fake guns and fake gun signs.
John Moran fined $75,000 by the NBA today. Knock it off, man. Just stop it. Stop the nonsense. We got more to get into as the show continues on.
You want to be a part of the show? You can. You can call up 888-710-4ISN. That number again 888-710-4ISN. What a day. I'm happy it's Friday.
Waiting on a basketball tomorrow. Told everybody out there that here in Atlanta, it's a 404 day. It's the area code, but people are celebrating the city. It's a celebration of the city all over Atlanta today. So it's a good day. Hopefully you're having a good day as well. You can hit me up.
I'm online. I guess that's part of life or digital life. I am at JR Sport Brief everywhere, just all over the internet. I am at JR Sport Brief. You know, right before we went to break, we talked about Travis Hunter not working out. He's out there catching passes and running routes for Shadore Sanders. I guess he wants to show him some love and get somebody reliable and top pass catcher, top receiver out there.
Not the worst thing in the world. I pretty much told everybody, if you're Travis Hunter, why do you need to work out? Just because something is for somebody else, if you're the best of the best of the best, sometimes you jump the line.
Everybody, one size doesn't fit all. So Travis Hunter doesn't lose anything by saying, screw this, I'm not working out for what? I can't do anything below my draft stock. Oh, you thought I was slower than what I am? Forget you.
You thought I'm lighter than what I am? Who cares? Turn on the tape.
It's really that simple. Let's see what Travis Hunter does. This man's trying to make it in the NFL.
And then literally, just minutes after we started this show, and a big thank you to Nick Theodoro, our producer holding it down for us in New York City. Minutes after we started this show, we have someone who officially decided to end his NFL career on 404 Day because he played right here in Atlanta, Georgia. After 13 seasons, Julio Jones said, I'm done, I'm finished. And there's no doubt, period, flat period, Julio Jones, this man is going into the Hall of Fame.
Okay. He was a part of the all decades team of the 2010s. Right? He was on the all rookie team in 2011. NFL top 100 player 13 times. He was ranked number three overall in 2017. He's a seven time Pro Bowler. He was a sixth pick in 2011. And two times he led the NFL in receiving yards. He is and was a bully. Unfortunately for Julio Jones, he wanted to get paid and he got paid.
Didn't necessarily have the cleanest break out of here in Atlanta because the injuries started to catch up. People started to look at him and just go, well, Julio, why don't you have more touchdowns? And he was just a consummate professional. You know, in an age where it's all about diva wide outs and guys running their lips and wanting the money and wanting the cash, he wanted his and he ended up taking it and leaving. He didn't want, he didn't complain. He didn't argue. He was like, man, I'm opening up spaces for my teammates just by being on the field.
Sometimes he was criticized. Hey, Julio, we need more touchdowns. One season, this man had 1400 yards receiving only three touchdowns. People said, no, he needs to score more. The next year, 1600 yards and eight touchdowns.
He needs to score more. It doesn't matter what Julio ever did. They wanted more touchdowns. 66 TDs in the course of his career.
That might be the only mark. He was a complete wide receiver. He was strong. He was fast. He ran his routes.
He blocked. After 13 years, without a shadow of a doubt, Julio Jones is going into the pro football hall of fame and he decided to make his announcement today on 404 day because today is like I said, a celebration of Atlanta. And he wanted to thank a lot of people here in the community. Let's take a listen. This is the message. And excuse me, if you never heard Julio speak, I understand it.
This is the message that he put online today. I'm announcing my retirement, um, started when I was eight years old, just a kid from Fola, Alabama. Um, it was amazing, right? I like to think my family, um, through this whole process was my support system without them, none of this could have been possible. Um, I want to thank my teammates, um, in high school.
I want to thank Tyler Watson, Joel Williams from converting me from running back to receiver. Wow. Yeah. Look, it's kind of crazy. Julio Jones is 36 years old and sure you think about wide receivers in the NFL.
That's, that's, that's ancient. The guy hasn't been active in the NFL over the past few years. You think about the injuries that he suffered towards the end of his career.
You got to go, okay, this makes plenty of sense. 36 years old. It's just the fact that that Julio never looked at. And when you think about some of his contemporary selected and the 2011 draft, man, a lot of these dudes are gone. Cam Newton selected number one overall. I remember I was in radio city when he was drafted.
I was right there in front of Cam Newton. Now he has a great cigar place here in Atlanta, but Cam Newton gone. Von Miller. He going to get picked up somewhere, but I think Von Miller is done.
Marcel Darius. He gots to be done. AJ Green has been done.
Shout out to the Georgia Bulldog. Patrick Peterson. He was selected in 2011. He's podcasting with his cousin now.
Come on now. Julio Jones selected a number six overall. Aldon Smith.
What a sad career he had. Jake Locker. Don't know where he is.
Tyron Smith, one foot out the door gone. Blaine Gabbert. Where is Blaine Gabbert?
Oh my God. Is Blaine Gabbert even on a team? Backup quarterbacks can last forever. Where's Blaine Gabbert? Probably retired a long time ago. Let's see.
Oh my God. He's a backup to Patrick Mahomes. Blaine Gabbert, 35 years old, still in the NFL.
Julio Jones, done. Right after Blaine Gabbert. J.J. Watt selected by Houston at number 11 overall. J.J. Watt, we know where he is.
He's on television calling games. Christian Ponder, been done. Mike Pouncey, done. Nate Solder.
These names, Prince of Mukamara, gone. Cam Jordan still playing. God bless him.
Not much he got left. Mark Ingram. Mo Wilkerson. He's been long gone from the New York Jets. Cam Hayward. Cam Hayward's still going. He's waiting on Aaron Rodgers to make a selection.
Those are some of the first rounders. Julio Jones is done. Now, I don't know if he's going to get into the Falcons, if they're a ring of honor. The Falcons do a lot of celebrating and they had a beef towards the end. And I think Julio wasn't happy with the fact that they didn't necessarily want to pay him. I mean, he ended his career like a lot of guys.
In a uniform that you just have to look at and go, oh, that's that's ugly. He was injured. Why would a Falcons is going to throw the bag at him to wrap up his career? Julio Jones was in Tennessee. Only four hundred and thirty four yards receiving said ten games. He played in Tampa Bay, twenty, twenty two, only three hundred yards receiving. He ended in Philly. Remember that?
Maybe you don't. He didn't get the ball. He had eleven receptions in Philly. Three touchdowns. At least that's good.
That's not a bad ratio. Like, it's always bad when you see the greats end in a uniform that you just go, man, that's not how I wanted to realize the end of a guy's career. And when it happens with the quarterbacks, the guys who always have the ball, it's even worse, which makes the situation with Aaron Rodgers just, I don't call it sickening, but pretty sad. You look at Russell Wilson and go, wow, man, just what are we doing here, Russell?
This is this is the end. This is a guy who was supposed to be in a Hall of Fame as well. So congratulations to Julio Jones as he enters into retirement.
Thirty six years old. What he does after this, I have no idea. This guy barely uttered a word. You don't really see him outside here in Atlanta, Georgia. He's not outside. Good for him.
Nothing's outside but trouble. And the Falcons, I'm sure will honor him. They already sent me an email and all the season ticket people and everybody who they like to harass. They already sent everybody an email about his retirement. So congratulations to to Julio. Think about some of these other wide receivers.
I want to say that they're hanging on by a thread. DeAndre Hopkins is only 32 years old. And he's just kind of figuring out his way. Amari Cooper isn't even on a team yet. He's still a free agent. Did he sign with anybody? Yeah. Amari Cooper is still free.
And so you start to think about this. Everybody likes to look at the running backs. When is a running back done? Well, he's going to turn 30. He's cooked.
So he's 27, 28 time to give him the heave-ho out the building. Man, he's wide outs now. No wonder they want to make 30 and 35 and 40 million dollars because when they pulled that rug from underneath you in the NFL, it's done. I mean, it sucks to be a wide receiver and you got you got leg issues. Every time I turn my head, Julio Jones, hamstring, hamstring, calf, hip. If you can't run and you're about good as me on my couch.
Simple as that. Let's see if DeAndre Hopkins can have a better ending to his career playing in Baltimore. Man, we got another guy. Where the hell is, I told you about Amari Cooper. He's 30 years old already bouncing around and nobody ever even says this guy's name anymore. Let me, let me ask our producer, Nick Deodoro. Nick, do you think Odell Beckham Jr. is done?
I would say so. You think somebody will give him a shot or you think we've seen him play his last snap? There might be a team that will give him a shot, but I think overall he's pretty much done.
Yeah, it's amazing. Odell Beckham Jr. came into the NFL as dynamic as he is and was coming out of LSU. Like his tenure with the New York Giants started with him missing games due to a hamstring issue. And that was nothing but a precursor for the rest of his career. ACLs, hamstrings.
The guy tore his ACL again in the Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams. Like he's bounced around. If I'm Odell Beckham, I'm just, I'm just going to be a model at this point.
Be a model, hang out with rich people, be fancy, act like I'm fancy, trying to get everything that I can out of it. What a world. Congratulations to Julio. Don't be surprised if you never, you probably never heard this man speak. Don't expect to ever hear from him. A matter of fact, we probably will never play audio from Julio Jones again.
Let's give him one more curtain call. This is Julio Jones on his own social media announcing his retirement. Today I'm announcing my retirement. Started when I was 8 years old.
Just a kid from Fola, Alabama. It was an amazing ride. I like to think my family through this whole process was my support system.
Without them none of this could have been possible. I want to thank my teammates in high school. I want to thank Ty Watson and Joel Williams for converting me from running back to receiver. Yeah, you will probably, well you know what, he's going to go into the Hall of Fame. You will probably never hear Julio Jones until he's inducted in the Hall of Fame.
That's it. Congratulations to him, Julio Jones. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We are going to take a break. And come Monday, we're going to have to congratulate somebody for winning a national championship down in San Antonio, Texas. The confetti will fall, the nets will be cut down, and they're going to play that horrible song that I absolutely hate, One Shining Moment. Somebody's going to celebrate a national championship. But before we get there, we have to complete the final four.
We have to figure out who's playing in the championship game. And so we're going to have a conversation on the other side of the break with someone who covers all things college basketball. His name is Dashaun Tate from Tate Talks Hoops.
We'll have that conversation with Dashaun on the other side. He is live in San Antonio, Texas. You're locked into the JR Sportbree Show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. It is the JR Sportbree Show here with you live coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We've already talked about a lot just last hour. Julio Jones said, I'm done.
He's retiring. We talked about John Marrant not knowing how to put those finger guns away. We talked about Cooper Flagg winning National Player of the Year. We got more to get into.
We'll talk about Alexander Ovechkin getting closer to passing Wayne Gretzky. We got a lot. But right now, let's dive a little bit deeper into the final four. You know what?
A matter of fact, let's go all the way down to San Antonio, Texas. It's time to have a chat with someone who covers college basketball, the ins, the outs, the ups, and the downs. His name is Dashaun Tate.
He's live from San Antonio and he is also the host of Tate Talks Hoops. Dashaun, how are you, man? Outstanding, JR. I thought that was a trick question there for a second. I'm only in my element.
We start out with 68 teams. It's down to four. You know what this is? It's almost as if you hear like, you know, when you start getting closer to Christmas time and you start hearing the Mariah Carey and all that.
It's Christmas Eve right now, dude. And I'm really excited. I don't think I need to tell you that we got all number one seeds here in San Antonio. And not only that, the last time, which was the only time, was 2008 that we had it, which ironically and coincidentally enough was here in San Antonio as well. So I'm really excited and looking forward to the highly anticipated final four semifinal on tomorrow night.
Absolutely. Dashaun Tate is here with us on the JR Sportbreeze show Coast to Coast. When you take a look at what's going on in San Antonio, what's the vibe like already?
I know everybody is real excited. Do you feel that there's one school represented a little bit more? Is it Duke? Is it Florida?
Like, what are we looking at now? Houston so close? Not really. I mean, Houston is very close. And listen, I mean, to be really transparent with you, I've been staying over at the Houston hotel, the Houston team hotel. So obviously, it's gonna feel like there's a little bit more, but people still making their way in people still flying into town and so forth.
So there's not really one way leaning more towards the other. All four teams have been, you know, represented high and all of them, I think most of the part with the exception of Houston within the southeast region of the United States, but which isn't particularly known for basketball, more so college football and all that other stuff, but not really one more than the other. But definitely, you know, you do definitely have, you know, you do who travels well, primarily because they are the one that's represented more so of the, you know, because of the program trustees and everything else. But, you know, there's some really cool storylines still here where you have Florida almost 20 years later from winning a national championship, going to a final four, I think last one's at 14. Houston is returning some players as well. People are really excited about it from that final four run that they had back in 2021 in Indy.
And then of course, you've got Auburn who was recently there back in 2019. So everyone's really excited and I think it's gonna be a great brand of basketball, a little bit of contrast of styles, a little bit some more defensively than others and older guys, some of them a little bit more offensively structured and some younger guys, talent and things like that, but it's still going to make for great basketball. Well, Deshaun, let's talk about the team that you're, I guess physically a little bit closer to staying in the hotel with the Houston folks. What are your thoughts on what we should expect and what we'll see tomorrow against Duke? Hard nosed basketball. They don't, you know, I asked this question to Juwan Roberts, who's probably playing, I guess, technically the center position for Houston at probably somewhere right around between six, seven and six, nine, maybe I feel most comfortable saying about six, eight, he's one of the taller guys on the team and they don't really have the size that Duke has, but they have the experience that Duke doesn't necessarily have. And if you go back and look at it, primarily the teams that win the national championships are not ones that are predicated based off of its one and done freshmen, right? And I promise I'll make this fast since Duke last did it with the Grayson Allens and the, you know, ties Jones and Okafor's and so forth Winslow.
There hasn't been a ton of one and done that have cut down the net and gone on to the NBA. If you think about it for a second, since they've done it like 15 and 16 Villanova didn't have any and 17 Tony Bradley was the only one that North Carolina had an 18 Villanova didn't have any 19 Virginia didn't have any 20 COVID didn't have any 21 Baylor didn't have any 22 Kansas did it 23 Yukon did it and the last year 24 with Yukon they had the one with Stefan Castle, two guys that were one and done off of winning national championships. Maybe that plays into a little bit of leverage for Houston.
They definitely want to play a very muck it up style type of game. We're gonna learn a whole lot about Duke who hadn't been defended by guys of such grown men that Houston has constructed on their roster. Do you think that Houston is gonna surprise people on Saturday you got Duke advancing to the championship on Monday night? I'm leaning closer and closer to Duke, I'm still gonna stay with what I had originally on my bracket, which was Houston to win the national championship. I think that, you know, when you start talking about coaches who was probably the more underrated underappreciated all the time he spent that Indiana and we know what happened there and you know the time he spent that Oklahoma all the fan coaches about time that we start having conversations about putting Kelvin Sampson in the conversation to be able to say he at least has one national championship, but it's not going to come easy because they're going up against a very much taller and offensively structured Duke team who I don't think I need to tell you is really really freaking good. And Deshaun Tate is joining us covers all things college basketball also the host of Tate Talks Hoops. When you take a look at the matchup that'll precede that we'll see an SEC matchup. We got Auburn, we got the Gators. What are your thoughts on what we'll see Janai Broome on one side and then we'll also see Clayton Jr. on the other?
Yeah, I think that one's going to be interesting because, you know, I went back and did a little bit of research. Auburn actually has a starting five that is older than a couple starting fives in the NBA, believe it or not. I think the youngest guy that they have starting is about 22 years old.
That goes all the way up until about age 26. That's one of the more younger teams, if you will. I think people really need to keep a very, very close eye, a very, very close eye on a couple a couple of different guys. I think one of the guys is Taha Peddleford, who does come off the bench as a point guard, but you would never know it by kind of paying attention to his game. He's based out of New Jersey and he plays like one of the New Jersey guards and he's really, really, he's really, really a tough, a tough, a tough cookie.
And, you know, wouldn't surprise me the least bit if he was able to, you know, go off to the NBA after this year. And then you got Janai Broom who I think still has some things to prove, especially after, you know, Cooper Flag ends up winning national player of the year. But, you know, they've got the, they've got, they've got size that the Florida Gators doesn't necessarily have. They're one of the best teams in the country actually second in terms of shot blocking, but the Florida Gators on the other side, especially with Alex Condon in the front court outside of the guards.
And we know that, uh, you know, that this time of the year is so known for, and that you have to have in order to be successful. Uh, when you start factoring in that the Florida Gators is one of the top teams in terms of rebounding. So it's definitely going to be a fight in the, in the front court, especially because, you know, it's so much harder sometimes for those guards to be able to make shots in an open dome setting more so than it is a typical traditional basketball arena. So Deshaun, here we are Monday night in San Antonio, Texas, they're cutting down nets. They're playing one shining moment. We got tears flying and falling all over the place. Who's going to be crying? Yeah, I, well, both teams I think are going to be crying, but I think probably going to be crying for different reasons. Uh, I am going to take Auburn to advance and play against Houston in the national championship game.
I'm going to roll with Houston on this one. I think it's about time. I think that they're old enough.
They're experienced enough. LJ Friar is a national championship, uh, uh, won a national championship in 2021. The last time Houston made it, but he was on that Baylor team. Uh, I really believe that Houston is going to be that team that'll be standing on the ladder with the scissors in hand here at the Alamo to win the national championship for 2025.
Deshaun Tate here with us coast to coast, the JR sport reshow on the infinity sports network. You talk about Calvin Sampson and we have Bruce Pearl. On the other hand, we have two younger coaches in Shire and also golden. We've seen a lot of the, the eldest statesmen on the coaching side decide to depart because of all the changes in college basketball. Do you think things have a possibility of, of evening and out some type of way over the next several years, whether it be with the NIL or the transfer portal, eventually there has to be some bumpers that come up to have some more stability, right?
At some point, you know what I mean? I think that there are some pros and cons to both things and IL and obviously, uh, for the transfer portal and so forth. I think the unfortunate part when it comes to the transfer portal for the players, cause you already know what it is for the, for the coaches who don't really know who they've got coming back sometimes and all that is that you're not really giving yourself as a player enough time to really get established and, you know, be able to develop a wall, uh, within your program long enough before you end up transferring out somewhere else. Now that I think the good thing about, you know, probably the NIL is you're given the opportunity for some of these kids to obviously get paid, uh, and that keeps them around long enough and college basketball so that we can learn who they are because that's been one of the bigger elephants in the room or the, you know, uh, you know, thumbs that stick out beyond others, uh, to where we can't really learn who they are and that type of deal.
So I think that, you know, that helps us out a little bit in terms of viewership, but not really helping us out a whole lot in terms of being able to keep up with where they're actually located because of the transfer portal. So I think at some point we'll start having conversations about contracts and, Hey, if you want to be able to keep this NIL that we're offering you, you have to be able to do X amount of years so that we can be able to hold you under this contract and all these different things that were still somewhat far away from. Uh, but I think that, you know, over time they'll kind of regulate some of those different things. And a lot of the kids will more so be talking about, Hey, remember back in 2025 when we used to be able to go wherever we wanted, we had pockets for the cash, do what we wanted. I think they're going to start eventually developing some kind of restrictions behind some of that. Yeah. Nothing wrong with a little bit of structure.
Well, Deshaun, thank you so much. I mean, outside of the basketball, I mean, we've got two games tomorrow. We got a game on, on, on Monday night. What the heck else are you doing in San Antonio? You hitting the river walk? What are we doing? Eating what's going on?
Yeah. Riverwalk, food, all that good stuff. It's going to be, it's, it's a lot of fun, you know, and I'm going to enjoy it for however long that it lasts and then eventually get back to some more of the NBA stuff over time, but enjoy this stuff while it lasts.
Obviously I only give my little three weeks to where people really care about some of this type of stuff. I joke about it facetiously, but definitely going to enjoy some good food. Maybe have a couple of cold beverages since I can't get Jr out there with me to enjoy some of those cold beverages. Whenever I come back around the way, man, we can kind of hang out a little bit. You don't, you don't want stories. I don't want to hang out with me.
This may not end, may not end good for you. Okay. Let's put it that way. Deshaun Tate here with us. Deshaun, tell everybody where they could find you, keep up with you, all that great stuff. Tell us.
No doubt. At Tate's Tate Poops. T A T E S T A K E H double O P S. Got some really interesting stuff coming down the pipeline.
I actually had a brother that passed away not long ago, about eight months ago. I promise to make it quick. And you know, he kind of dealt with some mental health issues or some different things. So kind of restructuring and rebranding the Tate's Tate, I guess, area a little bit, but yet still keeping it very basketball based, but yet going to start doing more interviews, conducting more of those and talking to some of these high school kids, some of these collegiate kids or some of these NBA players about how mental health has kind of impacted them during the duration of their careers. So I have more stuff that of such things at Tate's Tate Poops on Twitter and anywhere that you find your favorite podcast. Beautiful, man. I love what you're doing. Keep it up. Always a pleasure chatting with you, Deshaun. We'll catch on down the line.
Sounds good. Thank you, Jay. No doubt about it. That Deshaun Tate Tate Takes Hoops gets all his thoughts. I don't know anybody from the day I met him. I've known him. I don't even know how many years now. Six, seven years.
College basketball. Not freak. Knows it all. Can talk to you about it all. Can go back in time and get it all.
Thank you so much to Deshaun Tate for coming through and lending his expertise live from San Antonio, Texas. If I was in Texas right now. Oh, well, they Marco, what have you been down there? I've never been. You want to go? I'd love to go. Why would you want from down there? I don't know.
I'd love to see it. I feel like everything's big in Texas. Give me a steak. I'm curious. Very curious. A big taco, right?
I don't know, man. I'm willing to experience it all. I feel like if I have a beer out, I feel like a beer that I could drink out there. I can get anywhere.
I'm probably wrong. I mean, I wouldn't know because I'm not there, but that I feel like, yeah, you could probably get that anywhere. But I feel like, I mean, Texas is known for some pretty damn good food. So, yeah, the furthest I've been is where the hell I've been.
Have I been? Oh, I was in Austin. That's not far from I almost drove to San Antonio. And I said, why am I going out here? I turned around and turned around and went back to Austin. So what can I say?
What? You know, they I don't know who I was going to say they drove me. You know, now that I think about it, Mark, I don't remember who they are. See, see, that's where you know, you're important.
You went. You don't know who took you. You don't know who drove. You don't know how you got there.
I don't. I'm taking you all over the place by dinner. I think I know what trip it was. I think it was a circuit for the Americas. They got a racetrack out there in Austin for F1. And I think at some point they were just like, hey, let's take them to a winery and a winery was close to San Antonio. And then when we were done, I'm like, I want to go back to Austin. Take me back there. I'm good with a hotel is take me back.
So close. I was good. I ate some authentic stuff off the side of a road somewhere. It was delicious. See, that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah, that's what I want. Best food ever is always off the side of a highway. Damn right. You know, even though when I'm in New York, you know what? I don't want to eat. I don't want to eat food off the street. That's different. What's the difference between eating food on the off the street versus the highway?
What's the difference off the highway? There's still like a kitchen. There's still a place. The food that you're getting on the street, you're I don't even know what they're making it out because there's only enough room for basically their ass. I don't know where the food's coming from. And all of a sudden it's in front of you and it was hot.
How the hell did that happen? You know, what kills me when the bus goes down Fifth Avenue or Madison Avenue and every I don't know, it's twenty twenty five. You know, who's pushing black exhaust out of the car?
I don't know every now and then. But when the buses stop and then like the buses next to some guy and his hot dog stand and some lady selling fruit and then all I see is bus exhaust. It's shooting onto the food. And I'm like, some people are buying that and eating it. Yeah, see, that's not what you want, although I will say hot dogs are special category because that you can get sometimes. So you can get a hot dog if the hot dog is a special flavor, forgets the exhaust on it a little bit, because if you get a dirty water dog, then that's different than wherever they're making the fajita back there.
Like I'm a little concerned about that. OK, the taco, I'm concerned. Where the hell did you get this meat from? How long has it been there? But the dirty water dog, I mean, you put any you put a hot dog in boiling water, man, and that water has been there for a good six months. That's good eats. Is it? What else has been in that water? A turtle? You don't want to know.
OK. Some questions you don't want to know. I just remember watching Apu on The Simpsons. He had the cookie mark. He picked that hot dog up off the floor. It had a Band-Aid on it, a fly.
Do you remember that? I do. But see, that goes on the roller.
There's a big difference between the roller and in the dirty water. Big, big difference. Nick Theodoro, you you like a New York City hot dog? I haven't had one in a long time. Sometimes I get like halal food, but it's questionable depending where you go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Surprised these guys are still allowed to sell food on the street. They're still out there, huh? They got permits? Well, I don't think a permit is still out there. OK, well, the ones without the permits are sometimes better.
They move a lot, though. You got to find it. Yeah. That reminds me the lady used to sell alcohol in the park and she made it in her bathtub. OK, like let's let's park it here.
No, thank you. Show me a permit first. I need to know where your food came from. And you always got a guy for like halal food. You go to your one guy like, you know, your corner spot or wherever. And sometimes if they move or they find there's a shorter line, you feel like you're cheating on them if you go to the other guy. Well, those guys fight over those spots.
They fight. Yeah, it's crazy. I've seen knives come out and you need to move off my spot.
It's dangerous out here. You make me think I want to stop for a dirty water dog on the way home. I haven't had one of those in many, many, many years. There's no food carts downstairs. Yeah, there is.
No, there's not. Where? Downstairs?
From the building that I'm standing in right now? The guy on Houston Street. He's still there. One guy? I'm pretty sure. Yeah, there's one on Houston.
There's one by one guy. They used to be everywhere. Used to be everywhere.
Well, now this time of day, if you know, four hours ago we would have had this conversation. There's a bunch of people on Hudson. OK, but because they got the immigration office is real busy nowadays. Yeah, but now there's a lot of construction over there, so there's not as many. So they kind of go to different places.
So that's why it kind of thinned it out a little bit. There was that jerk chicken thing that was up about a block away. There was jerk chicken downstairs? Yeah, it was around the corner. There's no there's no food trucks here in Atlanta. I'm cooked. I mean, there's food trucks. There's no food carts. You can forget that.
I haven't seen a lady push ice season years. I'm due. I'm due. Maybe I need to go down to San Antonio. It's it's not too late.
Find me a good scalper. Get into the is it the Alamo Dome they have in the game at the Alamo? Still called that. I don't know. I never remember the names. Why wouldn't they call? It's been I feel like it's been vacant for years now. I don't know.
I don't know. I get lost in the names. When I was younger, the names used to stick for a long time. And you know, the Astrodome and all that stuff. But like now they change it every two seconds.
So I can't remember. There's no reason for them to have the final four down in San Antonio and not utilize. They don't got nothing else big enough. They got to put it in the arena. I would think. Yeah, they have to put it in that.
They don't do that. Twenty thousand seat stuff anymore. Yeah, that thing is old as dirt.
Probably dated. What is it? The who? What is it called now? I don't know.
The Spurs used to play. What's that they call? You have to look that up. You got to hit the Google on that one.
I can tell you about dirty water dogs. The name of the Alamo Dome, the Alamo Dome. Yeah. Is it still called that again? I don't know. Well, we know what it is. All that matters. Right.
Good for them. Shout out to everybody in San Antonio. Thank you again to Deshaun Tate for joining us. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back. We'll talk more about the changes in college basketball. We'll get more into the games that are going to take place tomorrow.
And then speaking of changes, Baltimore is trying to make some major changes when it comes to sports betting. It is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you so much again to Deshaun Tate from Tate Takes Hoops for joining us in the last break as we pretty much had a chat about everything going on in San Antonio, Texas. Man, I'm just waiting on the basketball tomorrow. We got the final four. We got Houston and Duke. We got Auburn. We got Florida with the Gators and me.
I just wait. And Deshaun did say that it's going to take some time to kind of round everything together so we don't have the transfers and the people moving around and the coaches moving, the players moving. It's kind of crazy right now. I mean, even Todd Golden, the head coach of the Florida Gators, he was asked yesterday about all of this movement, specifically the fact that the Florida Gators, another SEC school getting ready to take on Auburn, pretty much said, listen, at one point in time we even tried to bring Janai Broom into our system with the Gators. And of course he ended up out in Auburn.
Listen to Todd Golden tell you about it. When we were fortunate enough to get this opportunity, you know, one of the first things we did was take a look at guys from the state of Florida, you know, that were producing and doing well, you know, across the college landscape. And obviously he popped pretty quick, you know, for what he was able to do at Moorhead.
And, you know, he went to the portal and, you know, we were hoping that, you know, I'm pretty sure he's from Plant City. You know, we were excited at the opportunity to get him to be a Gator and obviously because of his success there was recruited by pretty much every, you know, big time program around and we were fortunate enough to get in the mix and to get in the final two. I think we did a good job in a short period of time of kind of explaining our vision and kind of introducing him to our staff and kind of what we had going on. But obviously Bruce had been in Auburn and had been solidified for a while and, you know, they do a great job as well. And, you know, he decided to go be a Tiger and obviously he's had a great career and been really impactful in terms of their success. And, you know, knock on wood for us, we've been able to do pretty well also, but we would have been happy to have him. And I'm happy for him in Auburn and the success that he's had. Yeah, Auburn, I mean, well, not Auburn, but you think about Gainesville, it ain't that far away from Plant City.
You just got to go further north and right outside of Tampa is where Plant City is. Hey, they still made it, right? And this is why when I take a look at the matchups that we have tomorrow, it's kind of like young coaches versus old coaches.
You got Pearl, you have Samson, you have Golden, you have Shire. And I'm just hoping that we get some more stability here in college basketball because it certainly sucks. You follow a team, you follow a bunch of players, you want to see their development. And right now it's just the wild, wild west. So the best part that I enjoy is the basketball.
But everything that comes with it, I am not a fan. These college guys are moving around more than the NBA players. Come on now. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. If somebody else is not a fan of this, he used to call the games for March Madness. I'm going to tell you who is not a fan of what's going on. We'll get into something taking place in Baltimore. We got a lot to get into. It's the JR Sport Reshow coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
