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Cowboys Beefing (Hour 1)

JR opened the show by reacting to DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons beefing on Twitter before previewing the NCAA Tournament with The Athletic college basketball reporter Jim Root. JR wrapped up the hour by reacting to Myles Garrett saying that he signed an extension with the Browns not because of the money, but because he believes Cleveland can win.

Duration:: 48m
Broadcast on:: 14 Mar 2025
Audio Format:: other

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You might be on your way to work. You might be. I don't know. You might be hanging out for the weekend, getting a head start. Thank you for being here. You can always listen to the show on the free Odyssey app, when your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate, SiriusXM channel three 75. If you got a smart speaker, ask that speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. We got a lot to do, right? Aaron Rodgers still doesn't have a job. Koopa Cup still doesn't have a job. Apparently they have some interesting suitors. Demarcus Lawrence, he found himself a job in Seattle. Michael Parsons called him a clown for leaving. They got into a Twitter beef or an ex beef. What a shock, what a surprise. It's official. There's no Koopa flag playing for Duke today. No, he's out with an ankle sprain. I think we all knew that yesterday. And to talk about everything going on with these conference tournaments, what we should expect next week when the big tournament starts, what we can expect on Sunday during selection Sunday. Jim Root is going to join us. Covers all things college basketball from the athletic. Matter of fact, he will be here in 20 minutes. Miles Garrett has spoken. And he shovels a whole lot of crap around about why he decided to rescind his trade request with the Cleveland Browns and take their money. Now he says it has to do with winning. What a shock. What a surprise. Speaking about trade request and rescinding anything, apparently Bradley Beale of the Phoenix Suns. Now that we, uh, well, at least the Suns, they're off season is going to start sooner than later. Bradley Beale says, yeah, I'm open and moving. Just didn't want to do it in the middle of the season. Okay. Sam Donald has spoken as well about moving teams from Minnesota to Seattle. He talks about what he learned from last year or last season when he's stuck at the end. Thank you. Thank you so much. Of course, it's Friday. I'm bringing you a new edition of the Friday funny and no NFL playoffs might as well make fun of a few people. Luca Donch's calf is hurting again. So maybe for, I don't know, 24 hours, Nico Harrison feels vindicated and moving on from Luca Donchich. I can't believe this. We got March Madness starting next week. We're already in the midst of March Madness. The major league baseball season is going to start next week. It gets going in Tokyo, Japan. Yeah. The Dodgers and the Cubs are going out to Tokyo to start the season. I can't believe it. Baseball season is starting up already. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll go through a few things that took place this day in sports history. If you want to be a part of the show on a Friday, Friday, March 14, 2025, you can't. The phone number here is 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. I'm on the internet. I am at JR Sportbrief, super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Happy Friday to you, man. How are you? What's up? Happy Friday to you as well, Jay. We're doing well today. It's sunny. It's a Friday. We got college basketball all day today. I mean, come on. This day can't get any better. No Duke, though, man. There's no Duke. Well, there's Duke. No Cooper Flag, right? That's right. That stinks. But do you know what? Small sacrifice, hopefully, fingers crossed. Small sacrifice today for what should be a big reward this time next week, right? Yeah, he'll be back. No big deal. We'll be back first. Cooper Flag of LeBron James. Oh, boy. Cooper Flag, come on. He's 18 years old. LeBron is 40 on vacation, okay? Just check. He's a 40-year-old billionaire. All right. Let's think about that. You put it that way. Well, I mean, he really got to like basketball, huh? Ain't no other reason to be playing basketball. He is a 40-year-old billionaire. LeBron James could quit tomorrow, and everything would be fun in his world. He's just playing because he likes basketball. And let's be real. I mean, outside of a terrible space jam movie. And, well, he's done a lot of nice things. So what else has he done? He's played basketball. Good for him. God bless you. Starting at school? That's right. Is the school still exist? Does it still running? I believe it does. I don't know. I promise. I checked at least. Yeah, he started the I promise school. That's great. Yeah, LeBron, you know, people like to beat up on LeBron. What do you want from the guy? He's 40 years old. He's been famous since he was, what? 16 years old? I give him a break. Like, if your silly ass was famous from 16, man, you being all types of trouble. That hasn't done anything to anybody. Give him a break. Anyway, we'll talk about the Los Angeles Lakers later in the show as not only LeBron James is dealing with a groin issue, Luca Donchich is dealing with that dreaded calf. No Luca Donchich tonight is the Los Angeles Lakers are in action against the Denver Nuggets. What a day. What a day. We got a lot to talk about. Let's get this on out the way. Because it's always funny how once once this show ends and we step out of the studio is always something new going on at night, right? Last night is a, you know, finish up and wrap up here. And we talked about it. We heard from him. Demarcus Lawrence left the Dallas Cowboys and he decided to sign with the Seattle Seahawks. No big deal, right? Past Russia, unfortunately for Demarcus Lawrence. Last year he was a pretty banked up. He only played four games. It said four games last year, a total of three sacks. I mean, the guy hasn't had double digit sacks since 2017 and 2018. So no big deal that he leaves the Dallas Cowboys, right? No big deal that he decides to leave Dallas and go play for Seattle alongside Leonard Williams. No big deal, right? Well, Michael Parsons found a big deal because Michael Parsons did not appreciate Demarcus Lawrence comments where he said this yesterday to a Hawks blogger about why he left the Cowboys to go to Seattle. Listen to this. You know, Dallas is my home. I made my home there. You know, my family lives there. You know, I'm forever going to be there. But you know, I know for sure I'm not going to win a Super Bowl there. Oh, that wasn't necessary, right? And let's be real. Does Demarcus Lawrence have a better chance of winning a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks? Does he have a better chance of winning a Super Bowl with the Seahawks than he does the Dallas Cowboys? The answer is hell no, no, no, they probably, and I didn't even look at the odds in Vegas. They probably got about the same chance in hell to win a Super Bowl. Let's just say in 2025 or 2026. And that's a snowballs chance in hell. Demarcus Lawrence didn't do none, but, but follow the money. And hopefully he's healthy enough to actually go out there and play for the Seattle Seahawks that that'd be nice if he was able to show up and play. But I told you, Micah Parsons did not appreciate this. The Dallas Cowboys star Ed Druscher awaiting his own big time contract bestowed upon him by Jared Jones. Micah Parsons, who's a podcast host, of course he is. What star athlete doesn't host a podcast. Micah Parsons went on, where else? X. He went on Twitter. What else would he do? And he said in response to what you just heard, this is what rejection and envy look like. This is some clown crap. And he did not use the word crap. And because this is Twitter, because this is X. Demarcus Lawrence responded. Demarcus Lawrence responded. Yeah, two teammates, two ex teammates getting after each other on social media. What a world. Demarcus Lawrence said, calling me a clown won't change the fact that I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn't have left. Damn. That's it. No response from Micah Parsons. That was it. What type of world is this man? What type of world are we living in? Is this the world that I want to be a part of? We got athletes yelling at each other on social media like they're in middle school. We got athletes beefing with each other like they're strangers on Facebook. Like, y'all don't got nothing better to do to just count money. Man, if I was making this NFL money, you wouldn't find me on social media beefing with anybody. Like what? What's the point? I like it though. It's fun. It gives me something to talk about. It's entertaining. The most difficult part or disappointing part I should say about all of this, they both play on the defense. Like there's no way in hell unless they decide to go beat the living hell out of each other prior to a game. There is no way in hell that will see Demarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons line up against each other. There will be no battle. There will be no chase. They play on the same damn unit, the defensive one. So the biggest battle will get is social media. And so for a few hours, they go back and forth. This is almost like the Spider-Man meme. Three, four, five Spider-Man standing in an alley and just this Spider-Man pointing at each other. Because between the Seattle Seahawks and the Dallas Cowboys, they're both losers. Nobody is winning a Super Bowl. And how about this? Chris Canty used to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Chris Canty, he was on Get Up. And he said that Demarcus Lawrence actually has a point. Listen to this. If you can't sell winning at the highest level, there's no way the player is going to take the discount. And for Tank Lawrence, this is a guy that's been in Dallas across multiple coaches, across multiple quarterbacks, across different cores of players and the results seem to be the same. And you know why the results are the same? It's because Jerry Jones in this ever elusive chase for credit post Jimmy Johnson has undermined the authority of the head coach at every single term within that franchise. And that has been an impediment to creating the kind of culture that it takes in order to have success at the highest levels. And gee, I should know, I had to leave the Dallas Cowboys to win my damn championship. See, I told you play for the Dallas Cowboys. It went on title though. Yeah, he's right. He is right. Why Michael Parsons would feel I don't want to say emboldened, but why even bother? He's your ex teammate. What do you miss some? You you were sad. You were sad ex. Your girlfriend left you and now you're mad. You got to go on social media and wine and cry about it. And what Chris Canty said is true. This is nothing new. And Jerry Jones undermined and hit coaches and their ability to win. He might as well be the coach. He's the de facto everything in Dallas, which is why they are a failure. It's so good luck to the Marcus Lawrence and good luck to Dak Prescott or not Dak, but Michael Parsons. Good luck to all of them. I guess it's going to be about three weeks before we see Dak walking around with his foot in a boot in the off season like last year. Although I did see Dak walk by a wedding. He walked by a wedding party of Eagles fans and they decided to to heckle him. Hickey. Did you see that? I did see that. Yes. Good for those girls. That can't have one off season where he's left alone. You know, it's a small price to pay for what he's getting paid in the fame he has. You've got to walk by one bachelor party and we're really like Bermuda, a ruba, something like that. Somewhere nice living a good life for him, right? That he is. If that's what you got to endure, listen, I'll take his paycheck. What's the next crazy thing that happens for the Cowboys? Is it like what what's next? It's only March. It's only March. The draft is about six weeks away. So that's maybe the next chance here for something kind of wild. Jerry already did the boat. Um, he drafts a kicker? I don't know. Maybe, right? Because remember the one that was the last year or two years ago, he revealed his entire draft board. He's done a lot of crazy things. Maybe that's it. First round pick, we're going kicker here. We're going to zig when everyone else is zacking. You want tackles and quarterbacks and receivers, D. N's. We're going kicker. I like where your head's at. Yeah. Where's where's Billy Kundef? Maybe we could re-trapped him. You know, I don't know what this guy is thinking about. I don't know if he thinks. I don't know if he delineates. I don't. I don't know. Good luck to the Dallas Cowboys. And maybe one day, maybe one day, Michael Parsons will learn from Paul George. If my team sucks, maybe I should focus less on the podcasting and more on just the football, like whatever happened to individuality, whatever happened to being unique, whatever happened to bucking the trend. Everybody is doing the same damn thing. Michael Parsons do some somebody do something different. I understand nobody's reinventing the wheel, but does every star player have to have a podcast? Is it necessary? We don't get crap out of a lot of these podcasts, but nonsense. I can tell you one newsworthy, like real newsworthy thing that Michael Parsons or any of these guys have ever said, just entertainment. Nothing substantial. Somebody gave me some stubsters. They gave me something that's more than just skin deep. I need some depth. This stupid athlete podcast. There's too many of them. It's the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We are just getting warmed up as we continue on with the show. Of course, we're going to talk about more football. In a few minutes, we're going to get into some college basketball. I told you, I can't believe it. But next week, the major league baseball season gets underway in Tokyo, Japan. We got pro basketball to get into as Luca Donchich is now dealing with a calf issue. That's not good. We got a lot to talk about. Matter of fact, I told you college basketball on the other side, we are going to have a chat in a conversation with Jim Root. Jim covers all things. College basketball for the athletic. I'm going to ask him about Cooper flag in North Carolina. I'm going to ask him about St. John's. We're going to get into Dan Hurley and Yukon. I'm going to get into the Florida Gators. Somebody called last night asking about the Gators. What do we need to look forward to as we continue on here with the conference championships? What can we expect on selection Sunday? 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Excited to be talking hoops in one of the best weeks of the year with even better basketball ahead of us. Absolutely. A lot of low productivity workplaces all across America next week, but a good time for basketball. Let's think about today. Let's think about tonight in about an hour or so. We're going to see Duke versus North Carolina with no Hooper flag. Of course, he's the biggest name in college basketball on the men's side this year. What does this mean for Duke not just for today? Are you confident that we'll see him ready to go next week? My best guess is that he'll sit out that opening round game. They're locked into a one seed. So against the 16 seed, I think they'll maybe give him that extra two days. Let him make sure that ankle is as right as it possibly can be. But I think they'll need him for the second round game against an 8-9 team. It was a pretty strong crop of those squads this year. Whether it's somebody like Two-Time Defending National Champion Yukon or a talented Baylor team that's got a future NBA lottery pick and Vijay Edgecoma. I think getting him back for that one will be really important. But tonight, you know, it's still going to be a really strong blue double squad. They've got a ton of size. They're one of the biggest teams in the entire country, even without flag. Really strong defensive team, the way they can switch with their man-to-man. And just the talent level, I mean, they're going to replace a lot of his minutes with a couple of freshmen, Darren Harris and Isaiah Evans, that more top 20 recruits themselves. You know, they're not going to be one and done freshmen and go straight through the draft. But they're really immensely talented. They can shoot it and they'll keep Duke pretty sharp there. I think the ceiling comes down a little bit without a guy, if he's caliber. But Duke is still going to be an extremely tough out both tonight and going forward, especially if he does have to sit. If he comes back and he's healthy even after one round off, would you favor Duke to win it all? At this point, I think I'd give them a slight edge above Auburn. Yeah. Auburn's just kind of ever since they clinked the SEC regular season title. Their last three games have left me a little bit concerned. You know, the first one I can protect the thing of, I didn't worry too much about it. Kind of a hangover game after that big championship clincher. But then Alabama game at home, they lose. And today, really slow game against Ole Miss. They didn't seem to have the same kind of fire and just extra gear that they exhibited all season. So I'm going to give Duke a nudge ahead. Their ceiling flag is healthy. And I do think he will be not ankle sprain, but the kind of thing that you ice it, you work on it constantly the way they're going to. I expect him to be fully healthy. So I would give Duke the narrow edge of the favor. Jim Rude is joining us courtesy of the athletic. You talked about Auburn and we see where they stand third in the AP polls, the rankings. We see this explosion in the SEC. We had a call last night who specifically asked about the Gators, Alabama, not too far behind them. We got Tennessee. We got Texas. Talk about all these teams. SEC is just dominating, not just in football, but now basketball as well. Yeah, they've done a really good job over the past few seasons of their coaching hires. It's not golden. That Florida has been terrific. And then even further down the line, the Dennis Gates at Missouri. He's got them back in contention. Mark Beington at Vanderbilt, the year one, he's got them as an NCAA tournament team after they've been on the outside booking in for a while. So just all the way down, they've really strengthened their coaches. I think they've got pretty strong NIL programs that have helped get the rosters up at a top level. And yeah, the depth of the league is incredible. They might get 14 teams of the tournament and the top of the league. You've got four of the top six or so teams in the country, probably going to have two one seeds and two two seeds out of this conference. It's really impressive. The one I'm kind of enamored with right now is Florida. I just think they're so strong across the board, back court, front court, interior. They've got shooting. They got a bunch of depth so they can play different kinds of lineups. We're not worried about a potential foul trouble because of the different options. Florida, I think is maybe the hiding in plain sight national title contender right now. Jim Rood is here with us on the JR sport ratio coast to coast. What other teams may not necessarily get the attention of a Duke or an Auburn, but you also feel strongly that they may go out there and win on that Monday night. A big one for me. And it's been this way since the preseason is Texas Tech out of the big 12. They've got a great coach, Grant McCaslin. He's one at all different level levels coming up through, you know, world major basketball, into mid majors and now into the big 12. And they've got just a greatly constructed roster where they've got size. They can play big. They can match teams that way. But they've also got a bunch of guards that can shoot so they can spread you out. It's just a different ways to play, different ways to win. That kind of flexibility and depth I think does matter a lot heading into the postseason. And then another one maybe a little bit further down the board is Memphis. They've kind of fallen out of the national picture just because they've been in the American athletic conference, not playing a bunch of ranked matchups. But back in the non-conference, when they played one of the toughest schedules in the country, they were terrific. And the talent level that they have, the way Penny has kind of matured as a coach. And I think he's really gotten them strong on both sides of the floor. I think Memphis will be a team that gets heard from in March. You know, they were a basket away from maybe making a run a couple of years ago against Florida Atlantic. So I think we see the Tigers make some noise. Well, let me ask you about some teams that aren't around right now, Jim. It's, well, tonight, I get it. We'll see. North Carolina, how the hell did Hubert Davis get a contract extension? Well, how the hell did that happen? I think that one might be one of those phony extensions where as long as the buyout didn't increase, it's more for optics, maybe for recruiting, where it looks like, oh, yes, you look, you commit to Hubert Davis, he'll be here for a while. But if the buyout doesn't increase much, I think he could still be on thin ice in the long term, especially if they don't win tonight and they end up outside of the NCAA tournament. That's two of his four years there. He doesn't make it. I think they would at least think long and hard about moving on this year. And it could end up being next offseason if they don't, you know, have a really strong bounce back with some increased NIL this summer. They're going to have to ask Michael Jordan, if he'll come by and coach, man, is looking bad out there. Rutgers, how the hell do they have all this great offensive talent, Bailey? And these guys are going to be like two, three, four in the draft, but Rutgers stinks they're done. What happened there? Yeah. Well, that's a great question. They did not play any defenses here. And sometimes it even looked like an effort thing on that end where they just, they didn't have the physicality or the want to to keep a guy in front. You know, it's an effort thing sometimes on that of the floor. And I think Bailey is more pro upside than he is current college winner. We'll see how that potential merits out when he gets to the pros. So that was a flaw. And they never supporting cast just did not do a great job of building, you know, the right kinds of shooting and they had no size in the paint. They got whooped on the glass, which is never a typical thing with with Steve Pico teams up there at Rutgers. So just a lot of mistakes in the roster around Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. And then even, I would say Bailey himself had some issues defensively and as a rebounder that really hurt the team. Jim Rood is here with us from the athletic. You talk about Bailey and we know we will not see Cooper flag maybe for the next week. Who are some other prospects? We know the kind of the landscape and pipeline to the pros has changed as so many players who come over from Europe. Who are some other prospects that we'll see here and learn about during the course of the tournament? Yeah, I kind of alluded to him earlier at Baylor Vijay Edgecombe is a fantastic prospect. He and his fellow classmate Rob Wright are a really nice dynamic freshman duo for the Bears. Wright actually played high school basketball with flag. One of the most loaded teams you'll ever see in high school ball because they also had Derrick Queen from Maryland, who's an all-conference guy from the Big Ten. Another top 20 team there for the Terps with Queen at the leader. And then Georgia is sneaking into the tournament this year and they've got a guy from that team, Asa Newell, who 6'11 left to eat a can shoot from Diet but also a pretty solid shot blocker and rebounder. Those guys are excellent. And you also mentioned the international pipeline. Illinois's point guard, Cass Bruce Yakochonas with the Iranian 19-year-old that is a 6'6 point guard, makes place for others but can hit really big shots late in games. He's got a great step back. And then Yegor Devin for BYU, a Russian freshman that dealt with some injuries but he's going to be on a big stage tonight against Houston, one of the best defenses in the country. And I think scouts are looking for him to make a big impact. He's a fantastic passer. It's like a 6'8, 6'9" kind of point forward. Wow. I mean, shoot. I guess Gilbert Arenas is going to be complaining about this any day now. We got more Europeans balling out on the college level now. I guess he can't wait to complain about that. Jim Root here with us on the JR Sport Brief Show. One name that we've only heard this year when he's complaining is Dan Hurley. Like there's no back to back to back to back for Yukon. That's not happening this year. Is he going to shut up next year? Like, what's next for them? No, no, I don't think that's his style. I think Dan Hurley wants the lights focused on Dan Hurley and he's going to make sure he can draw some headlines even if they're not winning. But yeah, this team's got some problems this year, unfortunately. They can't really defend. They follow like crazy. So teams get basically a parade to the free throw line. And they're really reliant on a freshman, Liam McNealy, who coincidentally was the fifth member of that high school team with flag and Newell and Wright. I mean, they were ridiculously loaded. But yeah, I don't think Yukon's going to be back in the final four. Maybe they're dangerous in the second round against the high feed. But I think they've got a somewhat limited ceiling just because they're not playing the kind of defense that they need to. And speaking of loud head coaches, I remember, well, St. John's is moving. Like, how about that? Like, who would have thought that they would have been here? They were getting ripped to shreds about a year ago getting called out. And here they are, one of the top teams in the country. Yeah, they are. They're a team I love watching. And you know, the big knock on them is that they can't really shoot. And I will not dispute that. Not a team loaded with perimeter marksmanship. But the way they defend the athleticism and physicality they play with. And it's just clearly imbued with the rick patino identity of just fighting for every inch. Not letting teams get easy baskets. They're currently number one in the country defensively and ten pom. So I think they're going to be heard from in March just because even without the shooting, they're good at everything else. The rebounding forcing turnovers, limiting easy baskets. It's a well coached team with that athleticism, with some big time veteran playmakers. I would expect to see St. John burn the headlines that they're likely to get this March. Yeah, well, I thought Rick patino was done more than a decade ago. Here he is competing for another national championship. Hey, Jim, I appreciate the time. Tell everybody where they can follow you and all of your work with the athletic. Yeah, thanks for having me on Twitter. My handle is at second chance points to end the chance points. Everything coming from there. And then yeah, writing for the athletic, a little bit for action network as well. Just and we have the three men we've college basketball podcast. People want to hear me ramble even more than I did here. But two of my good friends and I have that got there. So encourage people to check it out and I appreciate you giving me a chance to to plug all that. Absolutely, Jim. Enjoy all the madness. I know you got a busy next couple of weeks, man. So we'll catch you on down online. Catch you soon. Perfect. Sounds good. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. That Jim route covers all things college basketball from the app or from or for I should say for the athletic is the JR sport brief show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network from one Cooper to another. We learned that Cooper flag is not going to be an action here for the Duke Blue Devils. It's not going to take on North Carolina tonight. We may not see Cooper flag next week, but the other Cooper Cooper Cup. Apparently Cooper Cup has found a new home in the NFL. He's staying out west. We'll talk about it on the other side of the break. We'll get into Miles Garrett as well. You were listening to the JR sport brief. Well, thank you. And you're welcome. Hey, thank you to Jim route for joining us courtesy of the athletic came by gave us an update on everything that we need to know everything that we need to pay attention to as it relates to March madness. We got the conference tournaments going on. We got selection Sunday two days from now. And then we have the official start of the NCAA tournament. Well, damn it. It's Tuesday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We got the first four because having, well, having 64 teams isn't good enough. We have to have a competition for the last four spots, whatever. Anyway, 855 212 42 27. That's 855 212 42 27. We just learned minutes ago that Cooper Cup is on his way to Seattle. He's going to play for the Seahawks. There's no Buffalo Bills. There are no Baltimore Ravens. We saw what they did by picking up Hopkins. No, Cooper Cup is going to play in Washington. We'll talk more about Cooper Cup and his new deal in the Pacific Northwest. We'll do that at the top of the hour. It's being reported via Adam Schefter that Cooper Cup is signing with the Seahawks on a three year, 45 million dollar deal. So Cooper Cup is going to be opposite Jackson Smith and Jigba. And after so much talk about where he's going to play and where he's going to fit, he's going to be catching passes from Sam Donald for the Seahawks. So we'll get into that at the top of the hour. We also heard from Sam Donald as he was introduced as the newest member of the Seattle Seahawks. So we'll get into all of that at the top of the hour. I need to let you know that this portion of the show is brought to you by ethos life. The easy way to get life insurance in 10 minutes, up to two million dollars in coverage with no medical exam, just a few health questions. You can get your free quote at check ethos.com, not available in all states. We just heard from Jim Root. This man took us everywhere from St. John's to Duke and Texas Tech and Yukon told us about the Florida Gators said they got a chance to win the national championship. If you missed that with Jim, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. And before we get to Cooper Cup, I got to get this out the way because you want to talk about championships. We learned this week that Miles Garrett is going to stick around with the Cleveland Browns. And ultimately, Miles Garrett said the reason that he wanted to stick around with the Cleveland Browns is to lead. He wanted to lead. First of all, let's go back. He said he wanted to lead. He put out a whole book, not necessarily, but he put out a whole statement about how he wants to leave Cleveland because he doesn't just want to be a Hall of Famer. He wants to be known as a champion. He wants to win a Super Bowl. He wants to win a Vince Lombardi. And so he said he wanted to lead. And then there was the report exactly a week ago that he was denied a meeting with the owner of the Cleveland Browns and Jim Haslam. And then two days after that, we find out that Miles Garrett selects or accepts, I should say the biggest contract ever bestowed upon a defensive player in the NFL. Four years, $160 million, he is making $40 million per year. Miles Garrett was telling everybody this was not about the money, but apparently he took the money to stay in Cleveland. And so what exactly changed? Well, Miles Garrett actually spoke to the media today. Miles Garrett had some explaining to do. Now you tell me if his words match what he was saying earlier. Tell me if anything he's saying right now makes a damn better sense. Miles Garrett was asked about the deal. And he says the deal is about winning. It's it's still not about money. What? I think the fans will see that, you know, my heart's in the right place. It's never been about money. It's always been about winning. That's where my frustration lies. And, you know, I don't regret it. I mean, I feel like I went out and earned it by, you know, playing best brand of all that I know possible. And I plan to deliver a week in a week out during the season. It looks like the whole thing was a long game for you to get more money. So how do you tell fans no that's not? I don't tell fans anything. I go out there and prove it. If it's about the money, then I could just pack it in and not go out there and give my my best no effort. But I plan to be the best person possible in this locker room. Be the best leader possible dominating on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. So that really shows you know what it's all about. That really proves it to the fans. No, no matter where it's will. No, no, no, we ain't talk about when you play on Sunday in a couple of months. We're talking about right now. Like you took money. You took money. You said it's not about the money. You said you want to leave. You said you want out. You said you want to go. That's what you said. You said it's not about the money. And all of a sudden you were offered a new contract and you took the money and now you want to stay. And so help me out here. Maybe I'm smoking on a Friday. I'm not smoking on a Friday. I'm really not. I'm at work. But how in the hell are the Browns about winning? They have no quarterback. They got the second overall selection in the draft or excuse me. Kenny Pickett did say he's preparing to be quarterback number one. They're going to draft the quarterback for all consideration. Help me understand. Miles Garrett. How the hell are y'all a Super Bowl consenting team? Tell me, please. It's going to take everything and whatever it takes, I'm willing to give. I want to be I want to be a winner. I want to bring a championship back to Cleveland. And I'm whether that's, you know, going down recruiting, whether that's, you know, staying late. That's mentoring the young guys. No, just whatever it takes. I'm going to, I'm going to do it all because I don't want to come back here the same way we did after the last season. No, I don't want that feeling ever again. Oh, come on. This guy, Miles Garrett is doing nothing but out here. He's shoveling. You know what? That's what he's doing. Like who the hell actually believes a word that's coming out of his mouth telling everybody? Well, we'll do this as a team, man. Y'all suck. You knew y'all suck. You wrote a whole letter to the city of Cleveland saying you don't believe they can win. You need to go elsewhere to go out and do so. And so let me ask you this. After you wrote that letter, after you said you want to win a championship, after you said it's not about the money, after you made all of this public by putting it on social media, do you want to take back what you said, Miles Garrett? I don't regret what I said, but you know, it did, it did hurt because, you know, this has felt like a community. You know, they have received me with open arms from day one and I've given everything. So, you know, wanted to, you know, make my voice heard a loud and clear and, you know, fortunately enough, it was. And, you know, just like no family, sometimes you fight and then you have to go through things you have to don't build through adversity and we'll get through this and we'll come out right on the other side. Oh, it's adversity. Man, being a part of the Browns is that that's why you took the contract, man. That's why you signed. Well, that's why you wanted to leave. You only stayed because of the money. I don't care how much you know what you shovel. It's still, you know what, okay? And he's shoveling a lot of it right now. Unless you're going to throw that on a better rose as I can't see anything coming up golden, man. This is athletes telling lies. You took the money after you said it's not about the money and nothing wrong with that. You're entitled to do it, but you look kind of silly on the back end. This team sucks. I want to leave because we're not winning the championship. Well, now I'm going to stay, but it's not because they offer me money. It's because I think we can win. The fans will see that when how I play. Man, you shoveling crap. It's like a five year old standing in the kitchen about why they, did you take cookies out the cookie jar? No, crumbs on the floor, crumbs on the counter, crumbs on their face. No, I didn't take the cookies. I did it. Miles Garrett is just a giant crumb snatcher. 855-212-Lion. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Ed is here from Pennsylvania. You're on the JR support re-show. Ed, what's up? Hey, JR. Thanks for taking my call. I'm just one of the chime in here on Cooper Cup as a ram fan. I'm not mad about it. He was declining. I saw the deal. It looks like wide receiver one or maybe two money. It's a lot. What? No, it's not. $15 million a year. They got them on a discount, man. Okay. Yeah, per year. All right. When you break your time like that, what my thinking was, I think a lot of this has to do with him wanting to show the Rams that he's better than what they thought, and he can do it two times a year. I don't know how much of a market there really was, but I think if there was other teams not in the NFC West, he probably preferred an NFC West team just to show them. Yeah, I mean, you want to stick it through your employer. That'd be a good way to do so. I think you add for calling up from Pennsylvania. Yeah, we talked about contenders. You know, I thought Cooper Cup would end up on a team that that would help him win. I mean, earlier today, this is in a team that would help him win. It was rumored that Cooper Cup might have been on his way to the Dallas Cowboys is like, what? Why would he want to join that circus? But apparently he is going north. He's going back home. Cooper Cup has signed a three-year $45 million contract to be a member of the Seattle Seahawks. Cooper Cup. Yeah, he's going from one NFC West team to another after being cut by the Rams. Cooper Cup is a Seahawks. It's the JR 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 this deal. What this means for the Seahawks? What this means for Cooper Cup? And then we also heard from the newest quarterback for the Seahawks. Sam Donald spoke. We'll hear from him. We got a lot to do on the other side. It's the JR Sportbree show, the Infinity Sports Network. You've created a cool indoor retreat. Now let Allied heating and air provide the quiet and energy-efficient comfort you can depend on. With a range of innovative cooling solutions, like the Carrier Infinity Heat pump that delivers premium home heating and cooling performance, learn more at allied-heatingandair.com. 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