May 15, 2023 • 38 mins
NFL scheduling quirks include the Jets playing 10 games in their home stadium. Ja Morant doesn’t understand his platform and may lose it after brandishing a gun for the 2nd time this year. Plus, a recap the weekend with the weekly edition of the “FSR IR.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
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Dizzy Don't in the City and the down Stizzy and
the Cherry Red Yeah, uh huh h e e come
on eh.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I just it's like that when we first he did
the intro, LeVar was a fan of z own song.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right like two days in.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and then you've come full circle now on it.
I have a little bit of fun with it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is is everything still raging over there?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And House Rrington, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're still going to go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't even know. I don't know that there's going
to be school today. It's going to be under the weather,
slightly under the weather, for all the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is it just for Mother's Day or is there another just.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For Mother's Day? And I said, well, you know, the
twe's birthday is tomorrow, so so it's kind of one
of those dudes.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It makes some sense.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, it'll be sixteen. Man, it's crazy.
I watched my child in the middle of a party
do one hundred and fifty push ups and one hundred
and fifty sit ups. That's it, son. You are changing.
And you're not just changing physically, you are you are
something different. Like just didn't say nothing to nobody, nobody
(02:02):
was paying attention. He just, you know, in the back,
knocked out. You know, he gets his he gets.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
His repsits consecutive or did he stop in between?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, he's he didn't make it to one fifty consecutive. Yeah,
no he I think he's he's Jonas v Jonas one
fifty consecutively.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's you.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I wouldn't get to one fifty consecutively. I'd get
to two fifty consecutively. Oh truth, all right, than what
I'm talking about. We're raised different in Dublin, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I could do it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I to tell you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, but really sure who we we are?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
What do you mean? You and I Man?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know you know you and I Man. I'm talking
about you and I man.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Six one four.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Jonas you are, you are up those you and I Man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Just it's just the the level of lies that are
occasionally told on this show that maybe people skip out
on or miss. It is really really fun to do.
It's really fun to do.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
What did you talk about on the JKS Show this weekend? Man?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What didn't the JKS Show talk about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Dang, I mean, what was the biggest topic?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Listen to me. You want to check it out, you
gotta go to the podcast to Fox Radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I was just curious.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm sure you gotta find it curious. And then up
on Game. By the way, I didn't put two and
two together when you were talking earlier in the show
LeVar Arrington about you being a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I
didn't realize that in your draft the guy who was
taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers it was Plexigo, who all
(03:42):
these years later you and plex on up on Game.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, we were homies before we got drafted. We came
out of high school together too, so we known each
other for quite some time. So yeah, show up to
your cut man, you know That's what I was saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Cherry Red, Cherry Red.
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buying should be. So, the NFL schedule comes out last
(04:25):
Thursday night, and there's a lot of discussion being had about,
you know, what team got screwed, what teams you know,
got the benefit of the doubt, what team feels like
they're in an advantageous situation. And it does feel like
all the momentum is starting to swing in the direction
of the New York Jets. It feels like Aaron Rodgers
being there, Robert Sala, everybody's starting to look at this
(04:47):
team as a legitimate contender. Now, all of a sudden,
the New York Jets and that franchise is heading in
positive directions. And on top of it, there's a nice
little scheduling quirk that was pointed out by cbssports dot
Com but broke down some scheduling quirks amongst the schedule
that was released, and they like to point out that
(05:09):
for the second time in ninety three years, an NFL
team will play ten games at its home stadium, and
that is because the Jets, who already have nine home
games to begin with, are also going to be playing
the Giants as well too. In one of these games
it's going to be featured this year. So everything does
feel like it's sliding and sighting in the direction of
(05:32):
the New York Jets, one of the most talked about
teams in the offseason, one of the teams that everybody
expects big things from, and on top of that, they're
going to get a couple extra home games. So the
New York Jets, this fan base, the suffering fan base
that has been the Jets, it feels like, at least
on paper, everything coming up spades for the Jets and
that organization.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I mean, it could be that year. Is it the
year of destiny for the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Maybe you say that, and then I feel like every
time a team should be great and it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Does, Oh well, you say I'm the mush it's me.
I just I don't think it's you. I think it's
a It's a legitimate question to ask are they a
team of destiny? And generally speaking, when you have those
narratives this early leading into a year, when does that
team prove out to be a team of destiny? Question?
(06:27):
To me, my question is if they're not the team
of destiny that wins it all, how short do they come?
How how far do they they fall from from that
destination point? What's destiny?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What's an acceptable result? A non super Bowl acceptable result
where you say, you know what, they didn't win it,
but they made it or is it super Bowl or bust?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They made it?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, so they got to get to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know that's I mean for me, I mean,
if you have all those pieces and play you make
the blockbuster move to bring in the franchise quarterback, I mean,
why wouldn't it be super Bowl or bust? You know,
why wouldn't it be so if it's if it's possibly
(07:15):
super Bowl or bust. Then I would say you need
to make it to the super Bowl for the season
to have been the success that you would have projected
for what your your team personnel, you know, looks like
it would be able to accomplish. I mean, that's that's
just me though, I could you know, that's it's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of I was just
gonna say that we did mention this last week that
Tom Brady and seeing what he did in Tampa Bay,
does this sort of turn the screws on the Jets
to where you say, listen, Aaron Rodgers doesn't have excuses.
(07:57):
I mean tom Brady went to someplace year.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
One Matt staffer you know, can go through the list.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it just I don't know many daunting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I think the expectations in general are so skewed, and
and Mahomes is partially to blame Tom Brady, Matt's I
mean the movement, the way that's worked out. I think
it's created unrealistic expectations for teams, probably some quarterbacks, uh
(08:29):
probably for sure fans that you could just pick up move,
go somewhere else and have immediate success.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And there are other examples.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I mean Peyton when he became a free agent with
the Denver his first year, they were really good. The
next year they were record setting and got to a
super Bowl, didn't win it. But then two years later,
I believe what they're they're back there winning one, and
it just it goes to show you how different it
can be when you get that sort of first battle
Hall of Famer, one of the best ever.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But that doesn't mean that it's always going to work
out that way.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I mean, I remember when Joe Montana left and went
to the Kansasity Chiefs. They were good. They're a playoff team.
He was really good, they were competitive. That team was phenomenal.
That he was on in Kansas City did equate to
a super Bowl though, So it is really interesting that,
you know, we put so much weight into the quarterback position,
and yet I would be I'd be willing to say,
(09:27):
I mean, the quarterback position plays an impact, obviously more
so than any other player in football, but compared to basketball,
because the playoffs are going on right now, like, it's
not even close to the same unimpact a star basketball
player can have defensively offensively, How.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They impact the game in that way yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean if you think about like a pitcher in baseball,
a goalie in hockey, and you start kind of going
down the list of different players in various positions that
can help really impact the outcome. I mean, hockey's on
the ice more. He's going to play a way more
excuse me, intricate part of all that. You know, Obviously,
a star in the NBA, like Jason Tatum whoever else,
they're on the court for however many as thirty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, at least.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I mean, you start going through the list and your
expectation when you see a star go from one team
to the other, it's a little different.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, granted that pitch is only.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Gonna you know, pitch maybe once every five days, but
still he's gonna start twenty some games. He's gonna have
a huge impact in the outcome of that game while
he's out there. Obviously, I mean, it's created this thought
that we got one, we're gonna have a.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Chance of you know, we're gonna go win one.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You have a much chance to but you still have
to construct the roster around that quarterback position to be
able to do so. Like I think the thought used
to always be like, hey, you need a quarterback to
go win a super Bowl. I think in today's NFL
it's more of you have a quarterback that can get
you to the playoffs. You need a team then that
can help you go win a super Bowl. Like it's
just it's too hard with how good the competition is elsewhere,
(10:55):
with the quarterbacks they have and the roster construction around
those guys.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The Jets have finished last in their division seven of
the last nine years. Like, they haven't been to the playoffs.
They haven't been to the playoffs since twenty ten. But
the feeling is and and look, if they don't win
a super Bowl, you know where this is going to go.
Rogers is gonna get killed for it. Well, just like
in Green Bay he got the one, but you saw
what happened the past couple of years. Like he's going
(11:21):
to be the guy who takes all the blame. But
that's why I say, like it's his first year there.
If they get to the playoffs, considering where this organization
has been for over a decade, I would call that
a success. That's at least progress. And if he's going
to be back for another year health wise and all
that like I would say that's a success. That's why
I don't put it's got to be Super Bowl or
(11:43):
bust for Rogers. When it gets to the Jets, the
AFC's daunting. The organization's been a disaster for a long time.
I don't know that Rogers is just the fix, all cure,
all of everything that the Jets have a problem.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But their division isn't daunting, the acc the overall AFC
being I don't see where he's at being overwhelmingly daunting.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Because yeah, because you don't buy into Buffalo like last year.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't, Yeah, I don't. I think I'm not gonna
say they're going to be pedestrian. I just don't know
what we're going to get. They may they may come
out and be a team that it's like, man like,
they seem like they hit hit their ceiling. But now
they look to have improved, you know, and went in
a different direction going towards that winning the super Bowl
(12:31):
type of caliber team, or they might take steps back.
And if I were, if I were to me, if
I were to look at it from what it looked
like the way their season ended, I don't know that
they don't take steps back this year versus taking steps
towards being the Super Bowl team. They that that window
(12:53):
might have closed for this group in particular. I don't know,
but outside of them, Okay, we could look at the
but I just don't feel like it's daunting for the
Jets to be able to do what they need to
do during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Does this surprise you, guys, That the Dolphins and the
Jets have the same odds to win the division. That's
that's a little surprising to me. I would have thought
that it would have favored more in the direction of
the Jets. But right now on DraftKings, same odds plus
two to eighty to win the division, and I would
take either one of those odds to win the division,
just based on as we've talked about the Bills issues
(13:31):
and all that. But I think it's going to work
like the Jets plus one fifteen, so they're the favorite
to win the division.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Again, and maybe everybody isn't as.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Down on them as I and the Jets over under
win totals at nine and a half, like the I
love the over of that, but I don't know that
I'm looking at the Jets and going it's got to
be a super Bowl. I think they'll be improved. I
could see them winning the division, but I just I'm
curious to see what.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Okay, so if they don't win the division I have
to build end up being the team that they're supposed
to be, then this ends up being a wildcard team. Yeah,
so so how are we viewing.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That that's compared to where they were the past ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's a harder I think that's it's obviously a harder
road to hoe to get to the super Bowl as
a wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, we've seen it though. I mean we've seen teams
who you know, didn't win a division or team.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Is that an initial Is that an initial not good?
Is that an initial failure? And in the Aaron Rodgers project,
if they're a wildcard team versus winning the division.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A failure to me would be not making the playoffs.
If they make the playoffs, they're at least in the dance.
And then, you know, some things can fall in your favor,
some things can go your direction. You know, the year
they did win a Super Bowl, what were they the
six seed in the NFC? I think they were a
wildcard team. They had to go on the road every
single game, in the playoffs and then ended up winning
(14:56):
a super Bowl and beat the Steelers, like if they.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Was that the little last super Bowl, Yeah, Packers referring
to So are you talking about the j I don't
know how that just making the playoffs would be viewed,
because I think that is the expectation now and so
missing for sure would be a disappointment.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But I've said it before.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I think they've got to get it, get in and
they've got to win one, Like they've got to advance
to the If they're not winning the division, they have
to advance to the divisional round.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And I think in that, you know, set.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Some people up thinking okay, but if if they somehow
are able to win the division, host a playoff game,
win one or even better than that, it gonna buy
and be the number one overall seed. If they're entering
into the playoffs like that, that might feel like already
a win, at least in the mind. I think of
(15:50):
Woody Johnson for everything they've kind of put into this.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I'm sure Joe Douglas as well, for everything they've kind
of put into that.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But again, it's still needs me to sit there and
go there's you know, you don't want to settle sitting
there saying we're gonna win and we would get to
the playoffs. You know, that was good enough for us
because you've got such a short window of time. And honestly,
I think this as rosters built to win. It was
just a quarterback position around that that was the biggest concern.
(16:19):
It was everywhere, everywhere else is pretty much built up
around Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's just the quarterback spot.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And now he's even caught plenty of teammates to get
him up to speed with everyone else there, with Alan Lazard,
with Randall Cobb, with these pieces, and so I would
expect them not only make the playoffs, but make a
little noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
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Sports Radio. Let's talk about this incident that popped up
(17:33):
over the course of the weekend. Oh John Morant. He
has been suspended from all team activities for the Memphis
Grizzlies because, wait for it, he flashed a handcanon again
on his buddy social media account. This was after remember,
he had to go see treatment and get counseling. He
(17:56):
was seen spending fifty thousand dollars at a strip club
during the course of the season and getting lap dances.
He also had an altercation with like a seventeen year
old at his house over a pickup basketball game. He
threatened a security guard who apparently gave his mom some
attitude at a mall in Memphis. So there's a lot
going on with job Rant, but apparently the counseling sessions
(18:18):
did not go well because he just decided, you know what,
I'm gonna throw a piece up on my buddy social
media and see how that plays. So not an ideal situation.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What type of piece, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know what kind of kind of gun that is.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what caliber it was?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Didn't get a clear look. Huh yeah. All I know
is it's called a hand cannon.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Wow cannon.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But again, he's just immature, man. I mean, he's twenty
three years old.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
He's as talented as you can get, and he's just immature.
I hope, for his sake, for the organization, the fans
who are big job Morant fans, that he figures it
out so rather than later, because some of this stuff
may seem trivial to folks out there, but usually what
(19:07):
this leads to is sometimes a tragic event where someone
does something stupid or you know, something small like this
then escalates and becomes something bigger.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So look, again, he's twenty three.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Years old, he's he's smart enough and has been around
long enough to know the things he shouldn't be doing,
but for whatever reason, he just doesn't prioritize it or
doesn't feel like it's it's it's necessary. I don't know
when he's gonna get a wake up call. It's it's
sad to see someone who is so talented and so
(19:46):
good just not be able to understand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It and get it.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And I wish, I wish you could get you know, players,
and obviously, you know, a guy like Lebron is still
trying to play for a championship, so he doesn't give
a crap about which Morant's doing. But you know, you
wish there could be some older players who'd reach out.
And maybe they already have, right like, I don't know
what those private conversations are, but someone try to mentor
(20:12):
him and say, look, young man, you've got you know,
so much ahead of you. Don't waste it, you know,
hanging around with people who enable this sort of behavior.
And again it wasn't his own, you know, ig Live
if I'm not mistaken, it was his the guy he
was with ye and I said this the first time
(20:32):
we had to miss you is one of the hardest
things to do. And sometimes, you know, one of the
hardest things to do for the player is to look
around you and realize, you know, you can't bring everyone
with you to the dance. When you make it in
the professional league, there's some people you have to leave
behind because they're bad influences or they don't have your
(20:52):
best interest in mind.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You know, he's the one that's.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Made it, and he's trying to obviously, you know, still
have fun and being around people that I'm sure it's
been he's been around for a while, but those guys
also have to be responsible to not only for themselves,
but for him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like that's kind of part of the pact.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Like when when when when one of your boys makes it,
part of it is you will have to look out
for him now too, even when it's not in his
best interest.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's just an unwritten rule amongst.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Boys when you make it that far. And that's the
that's the upsetting thing to me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I just it's the old sand right, fool me once,
shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, you know,
and and and it's just kind of like the first
time should have been that should have been mortifying to
him to have him holding a firearm, playing around with
(21:55):
a firearm surface that should have been the real kind
of like, let me tighten up, because I don't I
don't want to sacrifice all my hard work, you know,
the things that I've been able to accomplish. I just
got the Kyrie deal. You know, they went away from
Kyrie Irving. They they go to you know, John Morant,
(22:18):
you gotta you gotta fully guaranteed, you know, contract with
your your your team. It's just for me to to
want to to embrace a lifestyle that's really truly built
off of survival, like what he's portraying in in these
(22:40):
in these videos, the people that he's around, you know,
that's not that's You're nowhere near that life. That's not
that's not your life. It's not your lifestyle. So it's
kind of like I just don't understand why it's so
important for a kid that never grew up that way
too to continue to bring that bring that type of
(23:05):
bring that type of attention his way. I just don't
I don't get it. Like you're in the car, y'all, y'ah, y'all,
you know, y'all doing what you're doing, and you start
you flash it like and it was quick, you know
what I mean? Like it was. It was definitely the
flash of it was quick. But my whole thing is,
(23:27):
you did it, y'all. It posted It was a live.
It's just so people know it was a live. But
if you if you on gang gang time like that,
and you banging gang and the people around you are
banging gang with you, you're calling your your cat, calling
(23:50):
that element to come your way. And while you may
not be about that life and your homies may be
more about that life, for still in that life and
still moving around in that life, you're going to find
yourself in a real situation and and you kind of
(24:12):
touched on it a little bit, Q, You're gonna find
yourself in one of these moments where you chilling at
the house and it's okay to be, you know, homies
with the homie that you grew up with, and y'all
still got y'all. You know, y'all, y'all's affiliations and in
how y'all y'all represent one another and keeping it real
like this isn't how I grew up, but these are
(24:34):
my homies over here. Somebody might run up in that house.
Somebody might run up on that car, somebody might run
up in that strip joint, somebody might run up in
that restaurant. Because when you when you live in by
those rules and you're living in that that environment, there's
no there's no telling when something that is going on
(24:57):
may pop off. That's street life. You are not a
street life person. But the more you continue to identify
with it, the more you you entertain it and you
you flash it and you put it out there, you're
putting your making the target on you even bigger. You're
(25:22):
making it even bigger on you. And so for me
and and just seeing it like they in the car
this time, so you're not in the strip club this time,
you're in the car and y'all, y'all, y'all banging to
your your music, and y'all doing what cats do on
their lives and on their tiktoks and all this their
(25:42):
social media videos on on gang, You're gonna have to, like,
at some point, you might have to be on gang.
And I just don't understand for the life of me,
and I've lost I've lost family members to gang violence
like this is I'm not just don't don't think for
two seconds I'm just talking like one of my favorite
(26:05):
cousins died cryp. My family are crips. I grew up
on crip That s ain't for fake and it ain't
a game. So if for any reason, for some strange reason,
being a two hundred million dollar man, you got some
weird obsession with trying to be a street dude. Man,
(26:28):
I just I don't I don't know what to do.
I don't know what's to be said to a kid
like that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know, it's so puzzling about the whole thing, the
lifestyle and the people he's trying to emulate, would do
anything to have what he has, and it's like he
doesn't even realize it. If you were to ask any
of those people he's trying to emulate, any of the
people on the street, like the bar the people you
talked about that you know that you've either grown up
with or in your family. If you said, hey, you
(26:56):
can have that, or you can have two hundred million
dollars in the bank, a half billion dollar career, and
go play basketball for a living. Oh and by the way,
you're one of the best in the world. They would
trade all of that to go have with John wanting
and he's sitting there flashing guns on ig Live in
the middle of the day because he wants to be
like you calling for that man, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You keep calling for the energy that you put out
there is the energy that's going to eventually it's going
to find you. It's going You're going to connect with it.
You're calling for that energy and and you know what,
you know what else, just real quick that that I
think what would be pretty interesting to just note you're
in a car, You're in a vehicle. How many people
(27:38):
you think are taking notice of the fact that he
flashed a gun in a vehicle. So now now it's
not only about about gang gang on gang. Now it's
about if you get stopped on a on a routine
traffic stop, maybe those those police officers saw this video. Okay,
maybe maybe this was something that was was observed because
(28:03):
it's a big ass story. And now you get pulled
over and you see that John Morant is sitting in
the in the passenger side of that seat. Are you
telling me if I if I didn't, if I saw
this article, I saw this story, that I'm not on
full alert knowing that this this there could be a
(28:23):
firearm in the car. So what happens next? And then
now all of a sudden, now we have this whole thing, right,
this thing starts to roll and turn into something a
whole nother thing. It builds in and morphs and evolves
into something entirely different based off of what So it's
(28:46):
not just the streets that could catch up to you
being this dude that he continues to pull his gun out,
and this time he wasn't holding it like he was
holding it in the strit Club. He was holding it differently.
This time he's holding that he's he's got, he's strapped
upholding it this time. So I just you know, to me,
(29:07):
it's it's wrong, and and and and furthermore, I'm not
even looking at it from his perspective. I'm looking at
it from the NBA's perspective, and I'm looking at it
from from his team organization's perspective. You could sit there
and tell Dylan Brooks that we're definitively moving on from you,
we don't want this in our organization anymore, and and
(29:30):
he will not be coming back. Well, what are you
going to do with John Morant? Because at some point
you got to prove that that being a good person.
Being a person that that's an employee of your company
matters more than their talent, their talent level on what
they bring to your organization. And the NBA needs to
think about it that way, and so do the Memphis Grizzly.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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Speaker 2 (31:42):
All right, who wants to go? Who's got what? Step
right up? Step right up?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, Jonas, tell us what's your job man? What are
you going on.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't want to be insulted by this, but I'm
a little bit weirded out by it. So my buddy's
getting married in July, and you know, kind of a
pretty quick wedding. They just got engaged, and you know,
one of my dear friends, and I'm not the best man,
but I was asked by his fiance to give the
(32:11):
speech at the wedding because the best man is too
nervous to do it. And so it feels like I'm
option B. But I'm I'm honored to be asked to
do it, and I'll gladly do it. But I just
feel like, wait, so the only reason I'm getting the
opportunity is because and I don't even know if I
(32:31):
was option B. I might be optioned C or D.
It hasn't been clearly defined yet. I didn't even know
if for sure I was going to be a groomsman
because everything came together so quick. It just I feel like,
is that an insult that should I look at it
that way?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's not any it's not it's not a compliment, though.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I don't know I'm supposed to feel about.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That, And in particular that the fiance asked you to
do it, and you were thinking you might be the
best man and you're not, and he didn't even ask
you to do it. It's it's it's I mean, if
it were me, i'd be like, like, f both of y'all.
In fact, I'm not even coming to your wedding. That
would just be me if that was what I thought
(33:17):
the level of our friendship was.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, I've still not heard from him about it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, so I would leave that alone. Maybe he's just
not really your friend though, Like, yeah, are you closer
with her than him?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
No? Not even a twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I mean maybe if you are, maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm going I'm going yeah, So I don't know how
to feel about it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm kind.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Can I ask you a question where you might have
to like self analyze with us here today on national radio?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Do you feel like you're best man material with him?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
I'm just sure, but in general, like, are you like, oh, yeah,
I'm that guy that someone reached out to and says, hey,
you're the best man.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I need a hell of a speech from you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Listen multiple full time best man here?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Really?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh yeah? Okay, yeah, at least twice that I can
think of. Now, there was one time I was asked
to be best man and I said no because I
got in an argument with his fiance and she kicked
me out of the wedding and then apologized like a
week later and said, you know, I just I was
drinking and I'm sorry, and you know, we just you know,
we weren't getting along. And I held to it and
(34:22):
I said, no, I'm not going to be in the wedding.
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, I said, I'm not. I'm not going to be
anybody's you know. And it was really immature of me
to handle it that way. So I really should be
best man three times over. But as of right now,
just two times.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I told my buddy who asked me to be his
best man, I said no, I think maybe twice to
him because I wanted him to pick one of his brothers.
And I think what he did was he picked me
because he didn't want to have to choose either one
of his brothers with me.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I think that was like the easier way out for it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, that's I mean, were you insulted by that?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I was more insulted by the fact that, like it
was kind of a shotgun wedding.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I want to say kind of. I mean, it for
sure was.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
And I ended up getting the invitation in the mail
like two weeks after the wedding already occurred.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So oh wow, So how soon before you knew the
wedding was happening before the wedding actually happened.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Weeks weeks?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Okay, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Disappointing, LaVar.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
You've got to have an IRIS story this weekend, because
I mean, the area we're.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Still going, man, like, we're still going. It's four fifty one.
It's kind of the wrap up. The wrap up is on.
The wrap up is definitely taking place. So I thought
that I might still be able to rejoin the party
once the show was over, but the wrap up is
definitely taking place. I don't know that I have an
(35:46):
I are per se other than just the consistency of
just tearing yourself up again. I told you I don't
drink during the week, but I definitely get after it,
you know, in uh on weekends. So it was, you know,
I don't know, I don't even know. I don't even
(36:07):
even know when I stopped. You know, you guys saw
what my my my LeVar Island hydro flash looked like
like it was not a normal size cup and it
was not one or two cups that that that went down.
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I do like your grilling outfit, though, did you like that?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You and something happened in Wyoming it changed you.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Well, I've always been a cowboy man. I've always had
cowboy I've had I've always had country tendencies because of
my my my granddad is he's from Alabama. He's very
he's very, very country, and I grew up watching Western
Clint Eastwood, western flicks with my entire childhood. So it's
kind of my thing. People don't know it, but it's
(36:53):
kind of my thing. Like I wear I wear cowboy
hats all the time. I wear hats all the time,
like you know, hat hats, not like baseball caps. I
wear hats. So that's that's kind of my thing. I
have cowboy boots. I have boots, you know what I mean,
Like I'm I'm that guy. I listen to country music.
Oh yeah, you know, not always, but but this one
(37:14):
this weekend was country music one, which, by the way,
the whole Cooper thing, well, who's the who's the actor
Bradley Cooper? Yeah, blows me away. That this mother suckered
like saying that song with with Lady Gaga. I just
figured that out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's a song the Shallows.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, no way, that's a good song. No way, bro,
that song is freaking fire, fire song.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
The Jony Awards gave it the worst Song.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Of the Year. Well, they're haters. They're haters to be
a hater, their hater shallows to be shallows. It's fire,
It's entire life.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Parties.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Cherry Red one fifty Yeah, this Dizzey Lock and this
Dizzy Don't in the City and the down Stizzy and
the Cherry Red Yeah, uh huh h e e come
on eh.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I just it's like that when we first he did
the intro, LeVar was a fan of z own song.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right like two days in.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and then you've come full circle now on it.
I have a little bit of fun with it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is is everything still raging over there?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And House Rrington, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're still going to go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't even know. I don't know that there's going
to be school today. It's going to be under the weather,
slightly under the weather, for all the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is it just for Mother's Day or is there another just.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For Mother's Day? And I said, well, you know, the
twe's birthday is tomorrow, so so it's kind of one
of those dudes.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It makes some sense.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, it'll be sixteen. Man, it's crazy.
I watched my child in the middle of a party
do one hundred and fifty push ups and one hundred
and fifty sit ups. That's it, son. You are changing.
And you're not just changing physically, you are you are
something different. Like just didn't say nothing to nobody, nobody
(02:02):
was paying attention. He just, you know, in the back,
knocked out. You know, he gets his he gets.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
His repsits consecutive or did he stop in between?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, he's he didn't make it to one fifty consecutive. Yeah,
no he I think he's he's Jonas v Jonas one
fifty consecutively.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's you.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I wouldn't get to one fifty consecutively. I'd get
to two fifty consecutively. Oh truth, all right, than what
I'm talking about. We're raised different in Dublin, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I could do it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I to tell you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, but really sure who we we are?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
What do you mean? You and I Man?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know you know you and I Man. I'm talking
about you and I man.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Six one four.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Jonas you are, you are up those you and I Man.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Just it's just the the level of lies that are
occasionally told on this show that maybe people skip out
on or miss. It is really really fun to do.
It's really fun to do.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
What did you talk about on the JKS Show this weekend? Man?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What didn't the JKS Show talk about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Dang, I mean, what was the biggest topic?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Listen to me. You want to check it out, you
gotta go to the podcast to Fox Radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I was just curious.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm sure you gotta find it curious. And then up
on Game. By the way, I didn't put two and
two together when you were talking earlier in the show
LeVar Arrington about you being a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I
didn't realize that in your draft the guy who was
taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers it was Plexigo, who all
(03:42):
these years later you and plex on up on Game.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, we were homies before we got drafted. We came
out of high school together too, so we known each
other for quite some time. So yeah, show up to
your cut man, you know That's what I was saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Cherry Red, Cherry Red.
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(04:25):
Thursday night, and there's a lot of discussion being had about,
you know, what team got screwed, what teams you know,
got the benefit of the doubt, what team feels like
they're in an advantageous situation. And it does feel like
all the momentum is starting to swing in the direction
of the New York Jets. It feels like Aaron Rodgers
being there, Robert Sala, everybody's starting to look at this
(04:47):
team as a legitimate contender. Now, all of a sudden,
the New York Jets and that franchise is heading in
positive directions. And on top of it, there's a nice
little scheduling quirk that was pointed out by cbssports dot
Com but broke down some scheduling quirks amongst the schedule
that was released, and they like to point out that
(05:09):
for the second time in ninety three years, an NFL
team will play ten games at its home stadium, and
that is because the Jets, who already have nine home
games to begin with, are also going to be playing
the Giants as well too. In one of these games
it's going to be featured this year. So everything does
feel like it's sliding and sighting in the direction of
(05:32):
the New York Jets, one of the most talked about
teams in the offseason, one of the teams that everybody
expects big things from, and on top of that, they're
going to get a couple extra home games. So the
New York Jets, this fan base, the suffering fan base
that has been the Jets, it feels like, at least
on paper, everything coming up spades for the Jets and
that organization.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I mean, it could be that year. Is it the
year of destiny for the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Maybe you say that, and then I feel like every
time a team should be great and it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Does, Oh well, you say I'm the mush it's me.
I just I don't think it's you. I think it's
a It's a legitimate question to ask are they a
team of destiny? And generally speaking, when you have those
narratives this early leading into a year, when does that
team prove out to be a team of destiny? Question?
(06:27):
To me, my question is if they're not the team
of destiny that wins it all, how short do they come?
How how far do they they fall from from that
destination point? What's destiny?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What's an acceptable result? A non super Bowl acceptable result
where you say, you know what, they didn't win it,
but they made it or is it super Bowl or bust?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They made it?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, so they got to get to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know that's I mean for me, I mean,
if you have all those pieces and play you make
the blockbuster move to bring in the franchise quarterback, I mean,
why wouldn't it be super Bowl or bust? You know,
why wouldn't it be so if it's if it's possibly
(07:15):
super Bowl or bust. Then I would say you need
to make it to the super Bowl for the season
to have been the success that you would have projected
for what your your team personnel, you know, looks like
it would be able to accomplish. I mean, that's that's
just me though, I could you know, that's it's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of I was just
gonna say that we did mention this last week that
Tom Brady and seeing what he did in Tampa Bay,
does this sort of turn the screws on the Jets
to where you say, listen, Aaron Rodgers doesn't have excuses.
(07:57):
I mean tom Brady went to someplace year.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
One Matt staffer you know, can go through the list.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it just I don't know many daunting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I think the expectations in general are so skewed, and
and Mahomes is partially to blame Tom Brady, Matt's I
mean the movement, the way that's worked out. I think
it's created unrealistic expectations for teams, probably some quarterbacks, uh
(08:29):
probably for sure fans that you could just pick up move,
go somewhere else and have immediate success.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And there are other examples.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I mean Peyton when he became a free agent with
the Denver his first year, they were really good. The
next year they were record setting and got to a
super Bowl, didn't win it. But then two years later,
I believe what they're they're back there winning one, and
it just it goes to show you how different it
can be when you get that sort of first battle
Hall of Famer, one of the best ever.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But that doesn't mean that it's always going to work
out that way.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I mean, I remember when Joe Montana left and went
to the Kansasity Chiefs. They were good. They're a playoff team.
He was really good, they were competitive. That team was phenomenal.
That he was on in Kansas City did equate to
a super Bowl though, So it is really interesting that,
you know, we put so much weight into the quarterback position,
and yet I would be I'd be willing to say,
(09:27):
I mean, the quarterback position plays an impact, obviously more
so than any other player in football, but compared to basketball,
because the playoffs are going on right now, like, it's
not even close to the same unimpact a star basketball
player can have defensively offensively, How.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They impact the game in that way yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean if you think about like a pitcher in baseball,
a goalie in hockey, and you start kind of going
down the list of different players in various positions that
can help really impact the outcome. I mean, hockey's on
the ice more. He's going to play a way more
excuse me, intricate part of all that. You know, Obviously,
a star in the NBA, like Jason Tatum whoever else,
they're on the court for however many as thirty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, at least.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I mean, you start going through the list and your
expectation when you see a star go from one team
to the other, it's a little different.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, granted that pitch is only.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Gonna you know, pitch maybe once every five days, but
still he's gonna start twenty some games. He's gonna have
a huge impact in the outcome of that game while
he's out there. Obviously, I mean, it's created this thought
that we got one, we're gonna have a.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Chance of you know, we're gonna go win one.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You have a much chance to but you still have
to construct the roster around that quarterback position to be
able to do so. Like I think the thought used
to always be like, hey, you need a quarterback to
go win a super Bowl. I think in today's NFL
it's more of you have a quarterback that can get
you to the playoffs. You need a team then that
can help you go win a super Bowl. Like it's
just it's too hard with how good the competition is elsewhere,
(10:55):
with the quarterbacks they have and the roster construction around
those guys.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The Jets have finished last in their division seven of
the last nine years. Like, they haven't been to the playoffs.
They haven't been to the playoffs since twenty ten. But
the feeling is and and look, if they don't win
a super Bowl, you know where this is going to go.
Rogers is gonna get killed for it. Well, just like
in Green Bay he got the one, but you saw
what happened the past couple of years. Like he's going
(11:21):
to be the guy who takes all the blame. But
that's why I say, like it's his first year there.
If they get to the playoffs, considering where this organization
has been for over a decade, I would call that
a success. That's at least progress. And if he's going
to be back for another year health wise and all
that like I would say that's a success. That's why
I don't put it's got to be Super Bowl or
(11:43):
bust for Rogers. When it gets to the Jets, the
AFC's daunting. The organization's been a disaster for a long time.
I don't know that Rogers is just the fix, all cure,
all of everything that the Jets have a problem.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But their division isn't daunting, the acc the overall AFC
being I don't see where he's at being overwhelmingly daunting.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Because yeah, because you don't buy into Buffalo like last year.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't, Yeah, I don't. I think I'm not gonna
say they're going to be pedestrian. I just don't know
what we're going to get. They may they may come
out and be a team that it's like, man like,
they seem like they hit hit their ceiling. But now
they look to have improved, you know, and went in
a different direction going towards that winning the super Bowl
(12:31):
type of caliber team, or they might take steps back.
And if I were, if I were to me, if
I were to look at it from what it looked
like the way their season ended, I don't know that
they don't take steps back this year versus taking steps
towards being the Super Bowl team. They that that window
(12:53):
might have closed for this group in particular. I don't know,
but outside of them, Okay, we could look at the
but I just don't feel like it's daunting for the
Jets to be able to do what they need to
do during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Does this surprise you, guys, That the Dolphins and the
Jets have the same odds to win the division. That's
that's a little surprising to me. I would have thought
that it would have favored more in the direction of
the Jets. But right now on DraftKings, same odds plus
two to eighty to win the division, and I would
take either one of those odds to win the division,
just based on as we've talked about the Bills issues
(13:31):
and all that. But I think it's going to work
like the Jets plus one fifteen, so they're the favorite
to win the division.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Again, and maybe everybody isn't as.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Down on them as I and the Jets over under
win totals at nine and a half, like the I
love the over of that, but I don't know that
I'm looking at the Jets and going it's got to
be a super Bowl. I think they'll be improved. I
could see them winning the division, but I just I'm
curious to see what.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Okay, so if they don't win the division I have
to build end up being the team that they're supposed
to be, then this ends up being a wildcard team. Yeah,
so so how are we viewing.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That that's compared to where they were the past ten years.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's a harder I think that's it's obviously a harder
road to hoe to get to the super Bowl as
a wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, we've seen it though. I mean we've seen teams
who you know, didn't win a division or team.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Is that an initial Is that an initial not good?
Is that an initial failure? And in the Aaron Rodgers project,
if they're a wildcard team versus winning the division.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A failure to me would be not making the playoffs.
If they make the playoffs, they're at least in the dance.
And then, you know, some things can fall in your favor,
some things can go your direction. You know, the year
they did win a Super Bowl, what were they the
six seed in the NFC? I think they were a
wildcard team. They had to go on the road every
single game, in the playoffs and then ended up winning
(14:56):
a super Bowl and beat the Steelers, like if they.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Was that the little last super Bowl, Yeah, Packers referring
to So are you talking about the j I don't
know how that just making the playoffs would be viewed,
because I think that is the expectation now and so
missing for sure would be a disappointment.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But I've said it before.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I think they've got to get it, get in and
they've got to win one, Like they've got to advance
to the If they're not winning the division, they have
to advance to the divisional round.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And I think in that, you know, set.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Some people up thinking okay, but if if they somehow
are able to win the division, host a playoff game,
win one or even better than that, it gonna buy
and be the number one overall seed. If they're entering
into the playoffs like that, that might feel like already
a win, at least in the mind. I think of
(15:50):
Woody Johnson for everything they've kind of put into this.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I'm sure Joe Douglas as well, for everything they've kind
of put into that.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But again, it's still needs me to sit there and
go there's you know, you don't want to settle sitting
there saying we're gonna win and we would get to
the playoffs. You know, that was good enough for us
because you've got such a short window of time. And honestly,
I think this as rosters built to win. It was
just a quarterback position around that that was the biggest concern.
(16:19):
It was everywhere, everywhere else is pretty much built up
around Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's just the quarterback spot.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And now he's even caught plenty of teammates to get
him up to speed with everyone else there, with Alan Lazard,
with Randall Cobb, with these pieces, and so I would
expect them not only make the playoffs, but make a
little noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
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Sports Radio. Let's talk about this incident that popped up
(17:33):
over the course of the weekend. Oh John Morant. He
has been suspended from all team activities for the Memphis
Grizzlies because, wait for it, he flashed a handcanon again
on his buddy social media account. This was after remember,
he had to go see treatment and get counseling. He
(17:56):
was seen spending fifty thousand dollars at a strip club
during the course of the season and getting lap dances.
He also had an altercation with like a seventeen year
old at his house over a pickup basketball game. He
threatened a security guard who apparently gave his mom some
attitude at a mall in Memphis. So there's a lot
going on with job Rant, but apparently the counseling sessions
(18:18):
did not go well because he just decided, you know what,
I'm gonna throw a piece up on my buddy social
media and see how that plays. So not an ideal situation.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What type of piece, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know what kind of kind of gun that is.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what caliber it was?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Didn't get a clear look. Huh yeah. All I know
is it's called a hand cannon.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Wow cannon.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But again, he's just immature, man. I mean, he's twenty
three years old.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
He's as talented as you can get, and he's just immature.
I hope, for his sake, for the organization, the fans
who are big job Morant fans, that he figures it
out so rather than later, because some of this stuff
may seem trivial to folks out there, but usually what
(19:07):
this leads to is sometimes a tragic event where someone
does something stupid or you know, something small like this
then escalates and becomes something bigger.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So look, again, he's twenty three.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Years old, he's he's smart enough and has been around
long enough to know the things he shouldn't be doing,
but for whatever reason, he just doesn't prioritize it or
doesn't feel like it's it's it's necessary. I don't know
when he's gonna get a wake up call. It's it's
sad to see someone who is so talented and so
(19:46):
good just not be able to understand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It and get it.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And I wish, I wish you could get you know, players,
and obviously, you know, a guy like Lebron is still
trying to play for a championship, so he doesn't give
a crap about which Morant's doing. But you know, you
wish there could be some older players who'd reach out.
And maybe they already have, right like, I don't know
what those private conversations are, but someone try to mentor
(20:12):
him and say, look, young man, you've got you know,
so much ahead of you. Don't waste it, you know,
hanging around with people who enable this sort of behavior.
And again it wasn't his own, you know, ig Live
if I'm not mistaken, it was his the guy he
was with ye and I said this the first time
(20:32):
we had to miss you is one of the hardest
things to do. And sometimes, you know, one of the
hardest things to do for the player is to look
around you and realize, you know, you can't bring everyone
with you to the dance. When you make it in
the professional league, there's some people you have to leave
behind because they're bad influences or they don't have your
(20:52):
best interest in mind.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You know, he's the one that's.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Made it, and he's trying to obviously, you know, still
have fun and being around people that I'm sure it's
been he's been around for a while, but those guys
also have to be responsible to not only for themselves,
but for him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like that's kind of part of the pact.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Like when when when when one of your boys makes it,
part of it is you will have to look out
for him now too, even when it's not in his
best interest.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's just an unwritten rule amongst.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Boys when you make it that far. And that's the
that's the upsetting thing to me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I just it's the old sand right, fool me once,
shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, you know,
and and and it's just kind of like the first
time should have been that should have been mortifying to
him to have him holding a firearm, playing around with
(21:55):
a firearm surface that should have been the real kind
of like, let me tighten up, because I don't I
don't want to sacrifice all my hard work, you know,
the things that I've been able to accomplish. I just
got the Kyrie deal. You know, they went away from
Kyrie Irving. They they go to you know, John Morant,
(22:18):
you gotta you gotta fully guaranteed, you know, contract with
your your your team. It's just for me to to
want to to embrace a lifestyle that's really truly built
off of survival, like what he's portraying in in these
(22:40):
in these videos, the people that he's around, you know,
that's not that's You're nowhere near that life. That's not
that's not your life. It's not your lifestyle. So it's
kind of like I just don't understand why it's so
important for a kid that never grew up that way
too to continue to bring that bring that type of
(23:05):
bring that type of attention his way. I just don't
I don't get it. Like you're in the car, y'all, y'ah, y'all,
you know, y'all doing what you're doing, and you start
you flash it like and it was quick, you know
what I mean? Like it was. It was definitely the
flash of it was quick. But my whole thing is,
(23:27):
you did it, y'all. It posted It was a live.
It's just so people know it was a live. But
if you if you on gang gang time like that,
and you banging gang and the people around you are
banging gang with you, you're calling your your cat, calling
(23:50):
that element to come your way. And while you may
not be about that life and your homies may be
more about that life, for still in that life and
still moving around in that life, you're going to find
yourself in a real situation and and you kind of
(24:12):
touched on it a little bit, Q, You're gonna find
yourself in one of these moments where you chilling at
the house and it's okay to be, you know, homies
with the homie that you grew up with, and y'all
still got y'all. You know, y'all, y'all's affiliations and in
how y'all y'all represent one another and keeping it real
like this isn't how I grew up, but these are
(24:34):
my homies over here. Somebody might run up in that house.
Somebody might run up on that car, somebody might run
up in that strip joint, somebody might run up in
that restaurant. Because when you when you live in by
those rules and you're living in that that environment, there's
no there's no telling when something that is going on
(24:57):
may pop off. That's street life. You are not a
street life person. But the more you continue to identify
with it, the more you you entertain it and you
you flash it and you put it out there, you're
putting your making the target on you even bigger. You're
(25:22):
making it even bigger on you. And so for me
and and just seeing it like they in the car
this time, so you're not in the strip club this time,
you're in the car and y'all, y'all, y'all banging to
your your music, and y'all doing what cats do on
their lives and on their tiktoks and all this their
(25:42):
social media videos on on gang, You're gonna have to, like,
at some point, you might have to be on gang.
And I just don't understand for the life of me,
and I've lost I've lost family members to gang violence
like this is I'm not just don't don't think for
two seconds I'm just talking like one of my favorite
(26:05):
cousins died cryp. My family are crips. I grew up
on crip That s ain't for fake and it ain't
a game. So if for any reason, for some strange reason,
being a two hundred million dollar man, you got some
weird obsession with trying to be a street dude. Man,
(26:28):
I just I don't I don't know what to do.
I don't know what's to be said to a kid
like that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know, it's so puzzling about the whole thing, the
lifestyle and the people he's trying to emulate, would do
anything to have what he has, and it's like he
doesn't even realize it. If you were to ask any
of those people he's trying to emulate, any of the
people on the street, like the bar the people you
talked about that you know that you've either grown up
with or in your family. If you said, hey, you
(26:56):
can have that, or you can have two hundred million
dollars in the bank, a half billion dollar career, and
go play basketball for a living. Oh and by the way,
you're one of the best in the world. They would
trade all of that to go have with John wanting
and he's sitting there flashing guns on ig Live in
the middle of the day because he wants to be
like you calling for that man, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You keep calling for the energy that you put out
there is the energy that's going to eventually it's going
to find you. It's going You're going to connect with it.
You're calling for that energy and and you know what,
you know what else, just real quick that that I
think what would be pretty interesting to just note you're
in a car, You're in a vehicle. How many people
(27:38):
you think are taking notice of the fact that he
flashed a gun in a vehicle. So now now it's
not only about about gang gang on gang. Now it's
about if you get stopped on a on a routine
traffic stop, maybe those those police officers saw this video. Okay,
maybe maybe this was something that was was observed because
(28:03):
it's a big ass story. And now you get pulled
over and you see that John Morant is sitting in
the in the passenger side of that seat. Are you
telling me if I if I didn't, if I saw
this article, I saw this story, that I'm not on
full alert knowing that this this there could be a
(28:23):
firearm in the car. So what happens next? And then
now all of a sudden, now we have this whole thing, right,
this thing starts to roll and turn into something a
whole nother thing. It builds in and morphs and evolves
into something entirely different based off of what So it's
(28:46):
not just the streets that could catch up to you
being this dude that he continues to pull his gun out,
and this time he wasn't holding it like he was
holding it in the strit Club. He was holding it differently.
This time he's holding that he's he's got, he's strapped
upholding it this time. So I just you know, to me,
(29:07):
it's it's wrong, and and and and furthermore, I'm not
even looking at it from his perspective. I'm looking at
it from the NBA's perspective, and I'm looking at it
from from his team organization's perspective. You could sit there
and tell Dylan Brooks that we're definitively moving on from you,
we don't want this in our organization anymore, and and
(29:30):
he will not be coming back. Well, what are you
going to do with John Morant? Because at some point
you got to prove that that being a good person.
Being a person that that's an employee of your company
matters more than their talent, their talent level on what
they bring to your organization. And the NBA needs to
think about it that way, and so do the Memphis Grizzly.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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right up? Step right up?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, Jonas, tell us what's your job man? What are
you going on.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't want to be insulted by this, but I'm
a little bit weirded out by it. So my buddy's
getting married in July, and you know, kind of a
pretty quick wedding. They just got engaged, and you know,
one of my dear friends, and I'm not the best man,
but I was asked by his fiance to give the
(32:11):
speech at the wedding because the best man is too
nervous to do it. And so it feels like I'm
option B. But I'm I'm honored to be asked to
do it, and I'll gladly do it. But I just
feel like, wait, so the only reason I'm getting the
opportunity is because and I don't even know if I
(32:31):
was option B. I might be optioned C or D.
It hasn't been clearly defined yet. I didn't even know
if for sure I was going to be a groomsman
because everything came together so quick. It just I feel like,
is that an insult that should I look at it
that way?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's not any it's not it's not a compliment, though.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I don't know I'm supposed to feel about.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That, And in particular that the fiance asked you to
do it, and you were thinking you might be the
best man and you're not, and he didn't even ask
you to do it. It's it's it's I mean, if
it were me, i'd be like, like, f both of y'all.
In fact, I'm not even coming to your wedding. That
would just be me if that was what I thought
(33:17):
the level of our friendship was.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, I've still not heard from him about it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, so I would leave that alone. Maybe he's just
not really your friend though, Like, yeah, are you closer
with her than him?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
No? Not even a twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I mean maybe if you are, maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm going I'm going yeah, So I don't know how
to feel about it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm kind.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Can I ask you a question where you might have
to like self analyze with us here today on national radio?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Do you feel like you're best man material with him?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
I'm just sure, but in general, like, are you like, oh, yeah,
I'm that guy that someone reached out to and says, hey,
you're the best man.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I need a hell of a speech from you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Listen multiple full time best man here?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Really?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh yeah? Okay, yeah, at least twice that I can
think of. Now, there was one time I was asked
to be best man and I said no because I
got in an argument with his fiance and she kicked
me out of the wedding and then apologized like a
week later and said, you know, I just I was
drinking and I'm sorry, and you know, we just you know,
we weren't getting along. And I held to it and
(34:22):
I said, no, I'm not going to be in the wedding.
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, I said, I'm not. I'm not going to be
anybody's you know. And it was really immature of me
to handle it that way. So I really should be
best man three times over. But as of right now,
just two times.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I told my buddy who asked me to be his
best man, I said no, I think maybe twice to
him because I wanted him to pick one of his brothers.
And I think what he did was he picked me
because he didn't want to have to choose either one
of his brothers with me.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I think that was like the easier way out for it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, that's I mean, were you insulted by that?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I was more insulted by the fact that, like it
was kind of a shotgun wedding.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I want to say kind of. I mean, it for
sure was.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
And I ended up getting the invitation in the mail
like two weeks after the wedding already occurred.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So oh wow, So how soon before you knew the
wedding was happening before the wedding actually happened.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Weeks weeks?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Okay, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Disappointing, LaVar.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
You've got to have an IRIS story this weekend, because
I mean, the area we're.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Still going, man, like, we're still going. It's four fifty one.
It's kind of the wrap up. The wrap up is on.
The wrap up is definitely taking place. So I thought
that I might still be able to rejoin the party
once the show was over, but the wrap up is
definitely taking place. I don't know that I have an
(35:46):
I are per se other than just the consistency of
just tearing yourself up again. I told you I don't
drink during the week, but I definitely get after it,
you know, in uh on weekends. So it was, you know,
I don't know, I don't even know. I don't even
(36:07):
even know when I stopped. You know, you guys saw
what my my my LeVar Island hydro flash looked like
like it was not a normal size cup and it
was not one or two cups that that that went down.
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I do like your grilling outfit, though, did you like that?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You and something happened in Wyoming it changed you.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Well, I've always been a cowboy man. I've always had
cowboy I've had I've always had country tendencies because of
my my my granddad is he's from Alabama. He's very
he's very, very country, and I grew up watching Western
Clint Eastwood, western flicks with my entire childhood. So it's
kind of my thing. People don't know it, but it's
(36:53):
kind of my thing. Like I wear I wear cowboy
hats all the time. I wear hats all the time,
like you know, hat hats, not like baseball caps. I
wear hats. So that's that's kind of my thing. I
have cowboy boots. I have boots, you know what I mean,
Like I'm I'm that guy. I listen to country music.
Oh yeah, you know, not always, but but this one
(37:14):
this weekend was country music one, which, by the way,
the whole Cooper thing, well, who's the who's the actor
Bradley Cooper? Yeah, blows me away. That this mother suckered
like saying that song with with Lady Gaga. I just
figured that out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's a song the Shallows.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, no way, that's a good song. No way, bro,
that song is freaking fire, fire song.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
The Jony Awards gave it the worst Song.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Of the Year. Well, they're haters. They're haters to be
a hater, their hater shallows to be shallows. It's fire,
It's entire life.
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