RJs Hot Takes

    People from St. Louis has been yearning for an NFL team to cheer for each season. Being from St. Louis, I have deep roots with this issue. Most people in STL don't really have a specific team they cheer for, they just cheer for specific players that are on their fantasy football teams. True football fans in STL also refuse to root for the Chiefs, as they were one of the driving forces that pushed the Rams out. Any fan of the Chiefs that are from St. Louis are fake football fans who can't name the QB that started before Mahomes (that guy is a very underrated QB by the way).     Fear not football fans in STL. We now have a team to go all in on. For those for those of you that have elite ball knowledge I'm sure you already know what team this is. The  Jacksonville Jaguars and their General Manger James Gladstone     For those of you that are not aware, the Jacksonville Jaguars are currently being built by one of the youngest GMs in the NFL and he's fr...

      There's something I have to get off my chest. I'm so tired of people hating on Thursday Night Football. Every year you hear the same complaints. "These games are boring." "The TNF games are the worst ones." "They put these two teams here for a reason."     Well I'm here to tell you that those people are wrong. The Thursday night games are arguably the best games. It is the one of the most fun games to watch. First, let me show you the schedule this year. Week 1 – Sept 4: Cowboys at Eagles (NBC) Week 2 – Sept 11: Commanders at Packers (Prime Video) Week 3 – Sept 18: Dolphins at Bills (Prime Video) Week 4 – Sept 25: Seahawks at Cardinals (Prime Video) Week 5 – Oct 2: 49ers at Rams (Prime Video) Week 6 – Oct 9: Eagles at Giants (Prime Video) Week 7 – Oct 16: Steelers at Bengals (Prime Video) Week 8 – Oct 23: Vikings at Chargers (Prime Video) Week 9 – Oct 30: Ravens at Dolphins (Prime Video) Week 10 – Nov 6: Raiders at Bron...

      As the fantasy football season approaches, I thought I would bring up some good fantasy football punishments that I've seen. I'm not putting in the ones that are over used. I'm so tired of the "24 hours in a Waffle House", doing TikTok's, or even having to take the ACT. Those are all been going on for too long and are very unoriginal. Hello Kitty Phone Case The loser has to wear a Hello Kitty phone case for the entire year. This one is a good one because it's not one that takes a lot of work to actually accomplish. Lemonade Stand The loser has to set up a lemonade stand like a child and they can't stop until they get a certain amount of money. Calendar Loser has to create a custom calendar with an embarrassing photo for each month. This has been used in my secondary league and I will say this was a lot harder to accomplish than you might think. 4th of July Hot Dogs The loser has to eat however many hot dogs the winner of the 4th of July hot dog e...

      With the NFL season almost upon us, I thought I would bring up one of my favorite hot takes that I will fight till my last breath. The noon games during the NFL season is better than the primetime games. While I'm on the subject, the new set of 8:00am Europe games are just as good and I would take those over prime time games too. Here's why: Better Grill Times      Now I'm not sure about everyone else, but I absolutely LOVE to grill. I can grill a mean hot dog and burger. There is nothing better on a Sunday the lighting up the grill for lunch and being able to watch the games at the same time. I would much rather grill at noon than at 7pm. Better Tailgating      Tailgating is a lot more fun when you get it going as soon as you wake up. Before someone says it, no that's not the old man in me. Even in college I had this take. There was nothing better than waking up at 11:30am, rolling downstairs to see what Chef Spencer (Shoutout Spencer ...

      Every year, there's a list of NFL players that have officially retired. Some of those people on that list always feel like they are super old and names you haven't heard of in a long time. Here is the list for this year: — LB CJ Mosleyffew — QB Derek Carr — WR Julio Jones — CB Patrick Peterson — G Zack Martin — C Frank Ragnow — OT Tyron Smith — OT Terron Armstead — OT Ryan Ramczyk — OT Jason Peters — DE Brandon Graham — DE Sam Hubbard — C David Andrews — S Micah Hyde — K Mason Crosby — C Mitch Morse — DT Michael Pierce — LB/S Keanu Neal — DE John Cominsky — QB Jordan Travis — WR Chris Conley     Let's start with obvious one, Julio Jones. If you would have told me that Julio retired 4 years ago, I would have believed you. Last I remember, he just signed with the Titans. That is where receivers go to die, but I had no clue he was still playing. Was he on the Titans the entire time?     Same argument goes for Mason Crosby. I thought Crosby got cut o...

      Recently, the famous Buss family sold the Lakers for $10 Billion. It is the biggest sale in USA history. That should be a good thing right? Wrong. TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE TEAM SALES IN U.S. HISTORY 1 LA LAKERS (2025) $10 BILLION 2 BOS CELTICS (2025) $6.1 BILLION 3 WSH COMMANDERS (2023) $6.05 BILLION 4 DEN BRONCOS (2022) $4.65 BILLION 5 PHX SUNS & MERC. (2023) $4.65 BILLION 6 DAL MAVERICKS (2023) $3.5 BILLION 7 CLT HORNETS (2023) $3 BILLION 8 NY METS (2020) $2.4 BILLION 9 BKN NETS (2019) $2.35 BILLION 10 CAR PANTHERS (2017) $2.275 BILLION     First off, I saw a tweet that said that the Buss family technically lost money on this deal, so that's the first big red flag to kick this off. Second, if you look at this top ten list, there's a lot of NBA teams that are on this list. The problem? Why are all these owners selling their teams? It's not just business people constantly trying to make a profit.      Michael Jordan sold his stake in the Ho...

      I have loved fantasy football for many years. I am a two time champion in my main league and consistently stay competitive. As I am doing my mock drafts this year (full PPR), I have noticed a sad issue this year. Fantasy is getting increasingly harder because RBs just don't seem to matter anymore.     Too many teams are using a multiple RB committee in today's football. Sure, it's great for teams and is proven to benefit them on the field as well as keeping more players healthy, but we need to talk about what really matters, the fantasy football players.     The RB committee issue continues to grow each year and this year it's even worse than ever. According to my calculations, there is only about 8 teams that aren't using a RB committee and that's just based on the depth chart and their usage last year. Here are the names I came up with for you fantasy football sickos like me: Saquon Bijan Jeanty CMC Josh Jacobs Kyren Williams James Cook   ...

      I hate to say it, but at the ripe age of 26 I would like to declare I am old. It all began around 3 years ago. As a matter of fact, it's about the same time I had a kid. One day, I woke up and me knee was in excruciating pain. I had no clue what I had did to it, I just assumed I slept in a weird position or something. The problem with that is my knee is that it didn't just go away in a day or two, it took MONTHS to recover. I was legit struggling to walk down stairs for a while there.  Then one day I just woke up and the pain was gone. I thought the war was over. I was wrong.     Now once and a while my knee will hurt for about a day and then just magically go away. For months I didn't know why, then I had a Eureka moment. I am officially old. I have discovered that my knee hurts when it rains/storms. I am officially old. It makes sense though, there has been other signs. When I here the new slang I think it's dumb, I now think waking up early is bett...

      Rumors have been swirling for years that the Dewitt family is planning on selling the Cardinals. That would be a valid reason why they refuse to spend money (but that's for another day). The rumor is they are going to sell when the great lockout of 2026 is over. I have compiled a list of people from St. Louis and Missouri that I think could buy the Cardinals. The Taylor Family - $19 Billion The Taylor family has the Enterprise Rent-A-Car fortune. The third generation of the family, Chrissy Taylor, is currently the CEO and is one of the owners of the MLS team in St. Louis. They have already shown interest in STL sports and they might have a chance to continue the Cardinal tradition. The Kemper Family - Unknown Everyone knows the Kemper family. Do you remember Erin from The Office? She is apart of that family. What you probably didn't know is that her family owns the Commerce Bank empire. I couldn't find an exact number of their net worth, but I assume it's an insan...

      News came out yesterday that yet another Dodgers pitcher has now made it to the injured list. "Roki Sasaki (shoulder) has stopped throwing and has no timeline for when he'll resume"     It's time we discuss the fact that the Dodgers continue to injure their pitchers somehow. According to ESPN, the Dodgers have had 17 pitchers injured this year. It's not just this year, it's bad trend that has continued without being noticed by most fans.     I personally blame the Dodgers' pitching coaches and not the trainers. The Dodgers pride themselves in taking pitching projects or older veterans and "saving them" and reviving their careers. Off of the top of my head, it worked with Shelby Miller and Lance Lynn, but those are the only two that I know of that had worked.      If you're trying to count the number of pitchers where it doesn't work and they get injured, there's too many to count. If you want to keep the trend of former Cardinal...

      Being from St. Louis, ever since the Rams have left any hint of a new team returning absolutely blows up. The 2 most popular ones I can remember was the Chiefs changing their name to the "Missouri Chiefs" and playing some games in St. Louis and the Chargers moving to St. Louis because the owners private jet was spotted in St. Louis one time. Well, there's a new rumor that has picked up steam in the St. Louis area. I would like to be the first to welcome Joe Burrow and the rest of the St. Louis Bengals. "The never ending story of the Bengals and Hamilton County as Paycor Stadium lease talks continue"     So to catch everyone up, the Bengals rent their stadium from the city of Cincinnati and their lease is expiring soon. The Bengals owner has already come out and said that if they don't get exactly what they want in the new lease, they are leaving. That immediately went VIRAL in the 314. Football fans in St. Louis are going through the first stages of ex...

      To start this off, I would first like to make a statement. A good friend of mine once said this and I think it applies here. "I'm not complaining, I'm just stating a fact."      To give a little backstory here, my wife and I are both fan people. We both get hot at night, so we always have the ceiling fan on every night no matter the temperature outside. We also sleep with an additional fan as well. One of those long fancy one that moves back and forth and has a remote     This fan and I have a lot of history. I have had this fan since somewhere around 2016, so close to 10 years. Well, the fan finally gave out and broke. He had a good life. Because if this, my wife went out and bought a new fan. It looks similar to the old one, but nicer. Fan technology has clearly improved since 2016.     Now I'll tell you what. I HATE this fan with a passion. It's like a jet engine every night. As I try to go asleep, I now have to bunker down like...

       I recently thought of a hot take that NEEDS to happen. The MLB now has an issue of teams that purposely rebuild in order to be really good later. To me, it doesn't matter whether this is good for baseball or not. What really matters is usually the first good player that comes out of a rebuild never really gets recognized. That player usually just misses the playoff window. It might be the most unfair thing in sports history. Because of this, I think teams should retire the jersey of that player. Here is my list of players that should have their jersey number retired for that teams most recent rebuild. Yankees For the Yankees, the answer here is the power hitting catcher Gary Sanchez. He was called up around the same time as Aaron Judge but was moved before they got really good. Blue Jays Jose Reyes is the guy for the Blue Jays. They brought him in for the first big push to go along with Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion. Unfortunately, he was injured and got...

      I recently saw a post that went viral on Twitter (I refuse to call it the new name) about an autographed sports card that looked terrible. Is this the autograph ever? You decide.     Personally, I've never seen anything like this before, but I disagree with what people are saying on twitter. I think this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. What's even funnier is that I found another Frank Gore Jr. card and he actually tried on that one.      Well, I went down the rabbit hole with this and I think I found the actual worst one of all time. Keep in mind this is real. BEHOLD!     I've never seen a better autograph in my life. My first thought is "I really want to buy this". But then it hit me, why don't I make my own? If you get it authenticate it what are they going to say? "Actually Cam Reddish's line is little more to the left."      Through my research, I also found that Cam signs his cards different each t...

      For those of you that don't know, the Orlando Magic revealed their new logo. Now I can't show you because of copyright issues, but you are not missing much. It's basically just a circle. If I was an NBA fan and enjoyed watching the Association and purchasing their jersey's, I would be concerned and here's why.     I dove deeper after this logo change that was not needed, and I found what I believe is going to ruin the NBA. Is this a conspiracy? Yes, but I will take full credit for this when it happens. For the past 5 years, the NBA teams that have revealed their "new" logos have been basically the same but just a circle. This is because the NBA is forcing them to. This is where the conspiracy gets good. The NBA (worst commissioner is all of the US major sports leagues by the way) is forcing teams to change their logos to a circle because they are going to push for a jersey change to create ad revenue.     I will now try and show you an examp...

      Baseball to some people is boring. I get it. Baseball isn't for everyone, it's for smart people. Its for people that like to use their brain. Baseball is all about strategy down to every pitch. We are getting close to the dog days of summer where the only sport on is baseball (the best time of the year in my opinion). For those of you that don't really follow baseball, I have a team for you to watch. Allow me to introduce the Colorado Rockies. Colorado Rockies 18-60 Last place in the National League West     Now I have never been to a Rockies game, but from what I've been told they are really fun to go to. They have a lot of fun stuff to do in the stadium and the food is very good. You're going to need all of that extra stuff because they are currently the worst team in baseball. They are actually on pace to be the worst team in baseball history.     The Rockies are currently 10-50 with a run differential of -183. There is not a single thing the ...