James Jones Beefs With Austin Rivers over NBA Players Playing in NFL Take | THE ODD COUPLE

THE ODD COUPLE – Chris Brousard & Rob Parker react to former NFL players James Jones and former NBA players Austin Rivers ripping each other apart over Rivers claiming that NBA players could transition better to the NFL than NFL players to the NBA.

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all right um Rob we were talking on shop talk about the beefs Shannon versus Shaq and Kendrick versus Drake and so on and so forth and I said there’s one out there that I’m we’re missing and this was it Austin re Rivers versus James Jones um and it really was kind of at least initially Austin Rivers versus the entire NFL but here’s what Austin said to get himself in I guess hot water we got to get you outside of that football Lane man where the guaranteed contracts are where the best athletes in the world are that’s us we I can take 30 players right now in the NBA and throw them in the NFL you cannot take 30 NFL players and put them in the NBA you five on the court let’s just let’s all relax you get a break every play all you gotta do is catch the ball and run north or south listen our it ain’t that it ain’t complex I mean look we we talked about this rout Austin overstated and and look they’re in a argument or you know just excited conversation he probably didn’t mean 30 literally but it’s probably more like between five and 10 Rob uh that could play in the NFL like now that you could take uh and put him in the NFL but um that sparked obviously NFL players didn’t like it and um Rob G take it from here because this it’s been back and forth with several guys but mostly James Jones our own FS1 Fox Sports uh colleague James Jones you the Packers Chris Long JJ Watt Jeff Schwarz the weekend got here all going George rer got in involved in it but the one who’s been the most vocal has been FS one’s James Jones former Packers wide receiver so he first took really offense to it when the the audio first came out and he was saying something to the effect of Austin needs to put more respect on our sport it’s not an easy game if you would have came out there you would have quit immediately because you would have got broke and talk about soft NBA players are Austin Rivers responded say he didn’t like that say I never heard of you talking about I barely made the NBA but I was a lottery pick like what are you saying then James Jones felt like he dropped the hammer because he suggested that Austin Rivers was a bust he did suggest well saying it Austin Rivers is a bust you average nine points a game two rebounds two assists only cuz your dad where you were taking in the lottery says I’m not going to go back and forth with you if I was 64 200 Maybe have tried football you might have had a better career and then Austin Rivers came over on the top rope and today he said I’m not talking about it anymore but if we want to talk numbers let’s talk about the 57 million I made in my career that and I then you made 17 and I made more than that in one season so it’s been going on all week I think this is the end of it but that’s the gist of it your thoughts what you think just I I I I feel bad for people that this is what I I mean I I just don’t understand like people people need I guess feel like they need something to be worked up about so what if he thinks that there’s and Chris you could have a conversation about it but now you get all personal I don’t understand that part of it you want to have a debate or have a conversation when you get into the name we we talk about it’s the lowest common denominator when you get into name calling and and all kinds of other situations that’s when I turn off like if you want to have a debate and and if and if I’m if if if uh Austin Rivers laid out Chris well let me name a couple players who play basketball and not Football in college and they wind up being uh Pro Football Hall of Famers or what you know whatever it is and then and then the other comeback is well what about so like like there could be an argument or a conversation but but to to go like Gutter and and and foul right away I that’s when I tune out I just I’m not interested in that stuff and I know a lot of people are into it I talked about it before lowest common denominator Chris and people are into that stuff I’m just not and maybe I’m just too old that stuff doesn’t do anything for me no people are into it um it’s entertaining for a lot of people and I agree like debates are fine back and forths are fine but even like I said with Kendrick and Drake I mean it just devolved into such just dark name called accusations founded they are right a pedophile like you better have receipts with that says himself he need receipts for it too like you know and so yeah I I agree um and this look I get why NFL players were offended um because it does I mean if if it if somebody said you know a lot of these NFL guys could go to the NBA and and play well NBA players would be offended you know that’s your profession man you’re one of only a handful that got to that level and you know how hard it is and you know how much harder the NFL is physically at least you know as far as the collisions the hits and stuff like that than the NBA um so I get why they’re upset but I think you make a good point that you know you want to just keep it on the on the credentials and and I mean James called him a but he just went he went at his credentials you know and I and I do think Robin fairness if somebody just said I mean you get upset with that a or with athletes that jump jump in the media because you’re like look I know what it took to get to where we’re at and be journalist I don’t have a I don’t have a problem I don’t have a problem with people being analyst I’m talking about when they prop them up and act like they’re reporters or that that’s my only similar my only is that’s really no different that’s my only issue an NFL player being upset cuz Austin River said man we we could take 30 of these cats but but at least at least he has some at least he has some examples I that’s all I’m saying is like his is not that Antonio Gates is probably who was the other player we talked about earlier Ro well the other ones played a little con Jimmy Graham peppers they most of them played in college both Sports football and basketball so but still I mean I I do think there are NBA guys that could play in the NFL I think you could take some and you gave them a training camp maybe a year to get ready and they would be able to do it but I also think from an for NFL players I don’t think you could just take I don’t know if you could take hardly any if any NFL players and they could play in the NBA like with a year of training or something like that but I do think there are NFL players that had they chosen basketball instead of football when they went to college that I think there might be something that could have made the NBA because Rob you know I mean Deion Sanders was a f fantastic basketball player as well as baseball and football in high school a lot of these dudes were high school basketball Stars Greg Jennings our own Greg Jennings on our show all the time Rob he got recruited by Michigan State to play basketball so like Greg was a great player in Michigan where they got hoopers e played basketball too EP played basketball in college so doesn’t mean that they were going to make it to the NBA a lot of guys but back then Chris a lot of good athletes play multiple Sports it doesn’t mean that they were going to be and and they for the most part people pick you know Sports because they know what they’re really best in it’s funny I told you that you know or or their size or whatever you could look at some play they think is easier to make it to the league you know um I I think I told the story before about David Justice went to college as on a basket to play basketball and they were they they ran them Chris they were doing the drills and all that he just he didn’t want to do them and he went and he saw the baseball team over there playing and just decided to go out for the team and drinking beer in The Dugout you know what I mean and and and but he made it to the major leagues cuz he the Scout was at a game where he hit two home runs out of the ballpark Chris and that was it that really is all he said that’s how he got they’re fantastic athletes and so um you know a lot of them could you know maybe play a different sport um but yeah it it’s it’s interesting because the beef is definitely in the air I don’t know what’s going on Rob I mean you and I have a show based on be be The Odd Couple based on debating and going at and we don’t go at it like these these dudes are like you know what I mean no I and it’s so personal I just like isn’t it Chris it just seemed like it’s real personal people I’m not gonna get on let’s not get we can get on a high horse maybe individually but look we see two of our two journalists one of our is a great friend of ours Stephen A and one another worked with him and Whitlock really yeah like that either I mean I’m be it got it got ugly I didn’t like that either yeah I agree cuz I don’t generally like I don’t see it as my place to I mean get in beefs with other reporters if you right if you have if you have an issue to me if you want to have a conversation privately or you want to yell at each other on the phone for five minutes uh you know what I mean but right the public part of it I guess is what I I I have an issue with because at the end of the day Rob you’re entertaining people you’re just entertaining the and I don’t mean like in a in a good way necessarily no right people love that stuff yeah yeah it’s like people are and sometimes people are laughing at you sometimes people think it’s ridiculous but it’s entertaining you know and so you know but I I think ultimately what I’m saying is I I do think there I think it would be easier for some of these NBA players players just a few to move to the NFL I think of Anthony Edwards um I think I I think LeBron Rob I think LeBron would have been a Hall of Fame football player had he chosen to go to the NFL because he was phenomenal in high school in Ohio well Ohio is a football Ohio is not a basketball state it’s amazing that LeBron came from Ohio because it’s not like one of the basketball hot beds um but it is a football state it is a hot bed football state top probably seven in the country uh as far as States and high school football and so for him to be dominant and I know the school he went to they were dominant football school and basketball but more so football and um he was great so I I think he when his speed his size he is one I think would have been a like Hall of Fame Titan end or something like that