George Pickens is getting rave review in Dallas but just give it time before he gets a hot head. The topic roundup includes minicamp stories and wild tattoos. Plus, NFL owners are cheapskates when it comes to players health.
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I don't think that's why you should ever really listen to what somebody else says about somebody. I think you should judge everyone for not judge, but find out for yourself who they are and allow them to reveal them. They're their character to you. The guy, he's been great, he's been phenomenal as the guy that loves football, loves his teammates. He's been excited every day that he's been here. He's been early, so no concerns on the personal matters of GP and anything about it, just super excited that he's on our team. He's he's one of us, and he's a brother, and he's about continuing to grow and make sure that we're putting the best out there. And that's his approach.
Why don't we give it a little time, you know, why don't we just give it, Give it just a little bit of time. Please, for the love of Christ, give it a little bit of time. George Pickens in Pittsburgh was fined, I believe a little over two hundred thousand dollars for varying degrees of not meeting team standards. Are this in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's got a pretty good track record of knowing when to turn the page on a disgruntled player or a disgruntled wide receiver. Pretty good track record. It seemingly always turns out well for Pittsburgh. It doesn't always turn out well for the other guy. So pretty good track record. Kept a lot of things quiet and decided we're good here. We got to move on from George Pickens. And that was in Pittsburgh, where they do a really good job also of keeping things behind closed doors. You're not gonna hear a whole lot about it. And that was in Pittsburgh where George Pickens wasn't in a contract year, so to speak. He's now gonna be in Dallas, which gets the most coverage maybe of any professional team in sports from a national landscape. It's hard to find anybody who gets more coverage in the Dallas Cowboys. He's now in Dallas, and he needs to play well and produce to get that big contract he wants. And it's June thirteenth, and we're saying, yeah, I don't believe any of the stuff you hear. Come on, man, like, you gotta let this thing play out a little bit, and you gotta let it play out a little bit, because when it has played out, we've seen the results. There was a story I don't know if this is true. I don't know if this is one hundred percent accurate, but there was a story that was throwing out there that George Pickens showed up. First of all, the one that he showed up late for the Christmas game. That's true, I'd like that, you know, we believe that that's true. There's also another story that he showed up like twenty minutes before kickoff. He walks onto the field, or he walks into the building and he's eating a Twizzlers and he says, my bad, there was traffic. Okay. Now I'm more of a red vine red rope guy myself. Twizzlers pretty overrated. Feels more like, feels a little bit too too gimmicky. If you ask me, like that's something you would get into, you know, it would be at the bottom of the Halloween bag when you get home. It's like that, or you know, the Whoppers, the three pack of Whoppers you got from some neighbor who's a cheap ass, who's had him sitting around since their aunt died four years ago. But the point is he's in Dallas.
Now.
You can't escape any of this stuff. It's going to be a story. Even people that don't have drama fall into drama in Dallas. You can't escape any of it. You got former Dallas players that are telling you, Yeah, it's kind of weird. We're trying to work out, trying to get a lift in, trying to hang out in the building, and they've got tours going on. We feel like zoo animals. There's people walking around. George Pickens can't get away with any of this stuff. It's a different environment altogether. So You've got a lot of evidence here to suggest that this is going to go really, really poorly. A. It's George Pickens. Nothing against the guy. He's phenomenal, he's fantastic, but a little bit of a wild card, I think we can say entertaining as hell, but a little bit of a wild card. So you've got that. You've also got the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted to move on, and they seem to make pretty good decisions when it comes to wanting to move on, as we've laid out before. And you've got the coverage of the Dallas Cowboys. None of it matters what's happening on June thirteenth at all, whatsoever. We're going to get to week four, Week five, Week six, Ceedee Lamb is still going to be the number one receiver. He's going to be the number one target. Jake Ferguson's there. You've got guys that have built a rapport with Dak Prescott. You mean to tell me George Pickens in a contract year, knowing what's on the line, generations of wealth potentially if he plays well and plays up to his potential, You mean to tell me that same George Pickens isn't going to have an outburst or two, isn't going to have an issue or too with not getting the ball enough, Like we really believe that, and Dak Prescott's do it as and he's laying it out as well. Listen, look, I mean, you know anything you hear, you can't really believe. I could tell you my son is the most well behaved guy in the world, Like he is the best man. He's the best right when he arrives to the park, he's the best, excited, energetic, happy, loves being there, great kid. An hour later, I want to call the SWAT team borderline violent, cranky, upset, hungry, tired, annoyed, sick of me. Just give it a little bit of time. It's not really about the arrival. It's about the departure. Okay, give it a little bit of time with George Pickens when you're covering the Cowboys. Give it a little bit of time before we start breaking down what Dack's stats are in training camp. And give it a little bit of time because it is Dallas, before we start just anointing everybody is a Hey, it's a drama free team. It's not. It never has been. And when you add all those factors in surrounding George Pickens, something tells me there's going to be a dust up sooner rather than later. Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas Knox with you here by the way. We are brought to you by the Home Deepot and at the Home Depot, it is about time for pros to source the whole job with one partner. Ask about all we can do for you at the pro Desk, the Home Depot. Pro It's about time, all right, it's coming up next here we are going to round things up. All right. This is a Friday tradition. Here on the show. We're going to round things up, and we've got it for you right here on FSR.
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Yeah, settle up, partners, tighten up their checks. It's the topic round up.
And away we go. Lead to lap Our, executive producer. What are we starting with here on this Football Friday?
Well, there, Jonas, we could go around the league, and how about we start here in Jacksonville, where Trevor Lawrence has been seen playing with, you know, an arm sleeve.
He had an opportunity to address that. Take a listen.
Yeah, to think about it. I hadn't thrown since before Otia, since December so or really yeah, December, So it was about four months of not throwing. And that's like I've never I don't know the last time. I couldn't tell you last time. I didn't throw up for four months, I guess four years ago when I got surgery. So I think just going from that through. I started throwing a couple weeks before we started the off season program, but then we jumped into practice in heavy volume, and I think just over time. You know, obviously you got adjustin, got to get in shape for that. So just a little bit of soreness. The compression helps just relieve some of that. But that's all it is, So nothing I'm concerned about.
Was there any thought that maybe he got injured jumping out of the painting in Ghostbusters? Too? Was there a thought that maybe that's how Trevor Lawrence got injured? Also, you know, for a division that has been ridiculed for being uninteresting, maybe the worst division in football, the AFC South, they're off to a hot start because now you've got Trevor Lawrence who's dealing with soreness. C. J. Stroud was dealing with general soreness, Anthony Richardson's dealing with something. Is any quarterback in that division healthy? Is this just like an AFC South thing? Like every quarterback in the AFC South dealing with some sort of a soreness? Then you got cam Ward, who's the number one pick in the draft and gets less coverage and less discussion than a fifth rounder in Shudor Sanders. Kind of a strange turn for the AFC South there.
You know Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters too. Rock's quite a nice little shoulder pad himself.
Yeah he did. He was wearing shoulder pads in that.
Yea.
Why the way is any a real historical figure? Is that made up for the movie?
You know, look at it. I think it's a real thing.
Well, no, I think it's fakeh They called him a sorcerer. Okay, I don't think sorcerers are real things.
I've heard varying reports on that as to whether or not it's it's real or fake. What else we got?
Well, and just you know, just while we're there in Jacksonville, mister Travis Hunter, he's practicing on both sides of the field yesterday for the first time. You know, the first two two days he was either on offense or defense. Yesterday he was doing both.
I mean, let's let's get this thing going. Like you're if you're the Jaguars and you're trying to sell your team. One of the more entertaining interesting things to watch this year is Travis Hunter in the NFL. If you're the Jaguars, figure out a way to get him out there as often as possible. If the guy could return kicks, get him out there to return kicks or punts. Just get him on the field, get the ball in his hand, and let people watch the talent that is Travis Hunter.
And his Madden rating is only seventy six, but that's kind of off, you know, typical for rookies.
But fans that are hoping for a.
Lot, can't you manipulate the Madden ratings?
Well maybe typically with video games these days, they can update as they go along, so his ratings might start shooting up.
I don't know about how much manipulate it.
I haven't gotten a Madden game in years, but I used to get him every year.
But yeah, listen, man, not my thing.
Yeah ever, uh, jonas going around the league. Let's keep it in the AFC South. How about this with the Colts.
We know Anthony Richards, he could he at least wait till Lrena, you know, spitz in her spatoon.
Yeah yeah, sorry Lreta, please there you go, thank you.
Yeah, we know obviously that Anthony Richardson is out indefinitely with his injury issues.
I believe it's his shoulder.
Well, Shane Stiken took an opportunity to back the current quarterback, Daniel Jones.
Take a listen.
Very pleased for what we got right now. He's been doing a hell of the job. Really smart football player. I learned the offense very quickly, making really good decisions out there through Ota, so obviously want to carry that over to training camp. But he's done a really good job, great command in the huddle, ultimate bro.
I mean, like, if you're Shane Steichen, you have to hit your wagon to ANDW Jones, because he tried hitching his wagon to Anthony Richardson and we've seen how that's turned out. Not great. He's either not on the field, or when he is on the field, he decides he doesn't want to be on the field, he takes a break. So, if you're Shane Steiken, if the Colts don't I mean, if they're not a playoff team, if there's not significant growth for the organization, I'm assuming that it's going to be the end of the road for Shane Steiken. And who knows if he ever gets an opportunity again. You know, Anthony Richardson had the issues early on, he tried to rely on Gardner Minshew. So now if you're Shane steike and you're looking at Daniel Jones going, dude, I'm just hoping I could depend on him, and maybe Daniel Jones an approve it. Year goes on a heater and all of a sudden, the Colts are a potential wildcard team in the AFC, and it saves his gig, but he doesn't really have much of a choice. He doesn't like it feels like they've kind of told you what they think of Anthony Richardson by going out and signing Daniel Jones. And then before you even get to training camp, Anthony Richardson pops up with an injury. And so now Shane Steikin's looking at Daniel Jones going, that's the guy that's gonna either save my job or that's the guy who is either is gonna potentially cost me a job because I can't depend on the quarterback we drafted in the top five. Seems pretty cut and dry for Shane Steikin.
From the South to the East, how about this, how about with the Jets. Jets quarterback Sauce Gardner became eligible for contract extension this offseason. Obviously, he was the defensive rookie of the Year in twenty twenty two. He made back to back all Pro teams. Had a little bit of a slip last season, but so did all the Jets. But he's looking for a new deal. He's hopeful that one gets done, but he said he just wanted to show up to Mini caamp to show my teammates and my coaches how much I want to win.
I want to be part of a change in this organization.
I mean, even the Jets can't screw this up. This feels this feels obvious. Get a deal done. They've never done a deal with a first round pick after three years. They've never you know, I just said, hey, listen, after three years, we're going to give you a contract extension. We'll give you the money you're looking for, and we're going to get and pay you like the top of the market. Stingley is the guy who reset the market at the cornerback position. Sauce Gardner has been fantastic. Another Joe Douglas draft pick that seemingly looked like a pretty good draft pick. But for some reason, Joe Douglas lost his job and was doing draft night coverage with US here and did a phenomenal job, and now he's with the Philadelphia Eagles. I just if you're the Jets, you need to build around your own guys and start to rid yourself of the narrative that surrounds your organization. The Jets are looked at as a team that is going to constantly screw it up. Woody Johnson's going to constantly get in the way. He's going to constantly do something to damage or hurt the potential of this team. You've got Sauce Gardner, He's shown he can play. He's a dependable guy, no drama, no issues off the field. To pay the guy, get it done and then move on and hope that you can build around him and some of these other young stars.
Keep it in the East.
From New York Jets to the Miami Dolphins. Did you know that the Dolphins have two Polynesian quarterbacks?
Really?
Yeah?
To attack Offy Law and Zach Wilson and Toua was just as surprised as you are. Yeah, if you might remember that in twenty twenty, Zach Wilson won the Polynesian College Football.
Player of the Year award.
You know he's from Hawaii, is Hawaiian ancestry. His dad is half Polynesian. Zach Wilson's Polynesian. Jack Wilson is Polynesian. Take a look at his dad and you'll see. But you can't see. I suppose.
So we don't need to wait for like twenty three and meter where you can spit in a tube and send it in the mail and have somebody come back and tell you like you're Lithuanian and you're like, what do you mean? I was born in Guadalajara, Like what are we talking about here? Zach Wilson's Polynesian.
Yep, Well, I guess a quarter Polynesian at least. Uh, yeah, that counts. Yeah, that does count. What do you try to say it.
Doesn't count quarter Polynesia.
I'd say it counts.
And so does the NCAA apparently, or at least b why. Yeah, well, you're right, he's in the he's in the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame.
And so Tua was surprised to we didn't know that.
Two we didn't know that.
Now they have a little something to you know talk about Apparently they do talk about him growing up in Hawaii, where's where they went to high school, where his dad went to high school, all that stuff.
They have a lot in common.
By the way, Zach Wilson. I don't know if she still does it, but Zach Wilson's mom used to have a a wild Instagram account where she would just uh, I think she went on a rant about hump Day and just how she felt about hump Day in general. And it was not u. I don't even know if it's suitable for us to play, but it wasn't. I mean, it was like she wasn't being raunchy. She just was simply pointing out, you know, what you shouldn't shouldn't do, And so I don't know if that's still a thing. But look, Zach Wilson, he got paid. He's going to be the backup to Tua Tagovailoa, and maybe he'll get his opportunity. And if you're the backup quarterback there, you got to be on call because you never know when Tua is going to go down with an injury. And maybe Zach Wilson will finally get his opportunity. In a somewhat serviceable organization to prove that he can still play.
Jonas.
How about this?
Matt Lafleur was asked about, you know, they're going to be playing versus the Steelers. I believe sometime in November week eight.
Yeah, we gate. I think October twenty fifth is when Rogers versus the Packers is going down.
I know, I was trying to circle a game.
I would be going to a Packers game this season out in Green Bay.
Unfortunately it will be in Pittsburgh.
But Matt Lafleur was asked about eventually playing against his former future Hall of Fame quarterback.
Take a listen me, so.
That it'll be a great challenge for us. We all know what type of player he is and how good he is, and I'm sure he'll be telling everybody all our signals. So we'll have to, you know, maybe play that mind game with him a little bit.
All right, So, did Matt Lafloor and Aaron Rodgers have a dicey relationship? Lead you're a Packers ball washer, do did Rogers and Lafleur have any sort of an issue. I don't recall them having any sort of dust up.
Or anything like that, right, Nothing, that was out of out of usual.
Sometimes they kind of make light of sometimes where they were yelling at each other for Matt Lafleur calling a timeout, not trusting Aaron Rodgers, stuff like that.
I mean, obviously Rogers was in the league.
For longer than I think Matt Lafleur even, but the typical kind of coach quarterback.
I seem to remember Rogers having more at least open or public dust ups with Mike McCarthy than he did Matt Lafleur, like it seems. And maybe that's because they were together longer, but it seems like the Matt Lafloor Aaron Rodgers dynamic. And I don't even think. I don't think Rogers is on bad terms with the Packers like this doesn't. This doesn't And I know he didn't go to Minnesota, but even if he went to Minnesota, this doesn't feel like when Brett Farv left. Like I just, I don't know that people look at Rogers with any sort of vitreo on Green Bay unless I'm just reading it wrong.
I wouldn't say vitriol.
No, Definitely, it seemed like he wanted to leave more than say, when Brett Farv wanted to leave.
Brett Farv did them dirty obviously.
By going to Minnesota and kind of created a lot of bad blood that way.
But he was forced out. He wasn't.
He didn't force his way out like Rogers seemingly did. I think he did a good job with the pr of making it seem like it was a mutual parting of the ways, but it kind of was the same thing. They were ready to move on from Rogers to go to Jordan Love, and I think the fan base understood that.
I mean, he did say he was open to the idea of retiring after a one day contract with the you know, so there is a there is that. I mean, if anybody's interested, Rogers is open to retiring as a packer with a one day contract, and look, he's going to go into the Packers Hall of Fame. Uh far I had to wait what like five years until after he retired to be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame. I think Rogers goes in a year two years after he's done, I don't think. I don't think it takes that long. And I think he's been pretty positive about how he feels about Green Bay and just the environment in the atmosphere there. And I think, and we've said it before this show, I think that's part of the appeal going to Pittsburgh is he realizes I was just I was just in a circus tent. There was a lot of chaos, there was all the dysfunction. I want to go to a place that's going to be more resembling of what I had in Green Bay. And that's why Pittsburgh makes all the sense in the world. I'm called it two years after Rogers walks away, he's going to be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame. Put that Knox loss.
Dud.
It's Jesus, is that a real spit? Soon? What else we got?
Jonas, take a look at your phone.
I'm not sure if I sent this to you yesterday or not, but Jason Kelsey big fan of an Eagles new tattoo where he is.
Posing, I should say.
With the nude in the nude, with this tattoo with the the Eagles head covering his his downstairs.
Bathroom or serving as yeah, serving as.
Look.
I'm not I'm not one to judge. Tatto. Is that his tattoo?
No, it's okay, but he says he's a big fan of it.
All right.
Look, I'm not one to judge tattoos. I've got two tattoos and that's three too many. They're terrible, But that seems less than ideal. That seems like one of those ones you're gonna look back on years from now and go, what the f man? If people are more open minded to tattoos. Back in the day, you used to if you worked at a restaurant, you would have to cover up your tattoo. If you had any visible tatto twos, it would have to like, you'd have to cover it all. Now people just walk around in you know, business casual attire. They've got a full sleeve. Nobody cares they've got tattoos on the neck. Nobody cares. Like it's just not a big deal anymore. It's not looked down upon. And I've said this before. Uh, you know, the Cowboys do have training camp and ox Stard right around the Oxnard area. There's this place called Portwine, Mesa, a small little town near near ox Stard, and there's a there used to be a tattoo parlor. There was called Jimmy's Tattoos, and it's where I got one of my tattoos done, and I also got a piercing or a two piercings done there Lebrett and a cartilage piercing. And I remember walking into the US There's nothing cool about that. They was still sort of terrible. It was terrible. But I remember walking into too Jimmy's Tattoos and just asking them like, hey, do you guys do any free tattoos? Because their tattoos are expensive, like I think an hour. It used to be like one hundred and twenty bucks an hour, and if you're there for five six hours, you're told like it's in upwards of a grand for even like a low end just basic tattoo, just depending on how long it takes. And I remember asking the guy Jimmy's Tattoos. I was like, hey, do you guys do any free tattoos? Like, yeah, the one over on the wall, and it was a picture of OJ's mug shot. So if you wanted a free tattoo, the only one they would offer for free was OJ's mug shot. And at that point nobody had done it yet. But now the guy's dead, maybe I people look at it and go, you know a little bit of a tribute to OJ. So I'll say this, I think I'd rather have the OJ mugshot than Jason Kelcey and the nude still with his elbow sleeves on, but a Philadelphia Eagle head covering his cranks. That seems a little.
Bizarre and more accurate. A quote from Jason Kelsey more flattered than offended. It's a generous bird with a good sized head.
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Two Pros and a Cup of Joe, Fox Sports Radio, Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up top of next hour about fifteen minutes from now. Gonna try and defend somebody who got a little bit of criticism over something that took place last night. Got a little bit of a little bit of blowback, if you will, harmless innocent joke, and you know, turned out poorly for somebody in the world of sports. So we will defend that individual. Coming up here a little over fifteen minutes from now on Fox Sports Radio. By the way, a reminder to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights from our shows. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. So there's a constant theme or story in the NFL that is just bizarre to me. I don't get it. I legitimately don't understand it, and I don't want to spend somebody else's money. Like I'm not trying to, you know, pocket watch anybody or get in and you know, try and criticize how anybody spent Like listen, man, however you want to spend your money, that's your business. Spend away. Like if you don't want to spend your money, that's fine. Listen. I get my balls broken all the time for my ability to not spend money. Right. I drive a truck that's almost twenty years old. It's got like three hundred and eighty five thousand miles on it. I mean, listen, I wear sweatpants. What do you want from me? Like, I don't know. It's just like, what are we doing here? It's four forty seven in the morning out where we're working, and I don't really you know, cars for me, it's like whatever, it's dependable, it's easy, I trust it. I'm good. I got a Tacoma, I'm good to go. We're fine. So I never try and get in anybody's pocket or spend their money. But then there's a level of cheapness that must be discussed, right, because a lot of people get criticized for how much they spend. Remember Vince Young, the quarterback. There was a report that he spent like five thousand dollars a week at cheesecake factory. Like I mean, first of all, very easy to do. There's seven thousand pages on the menu. Easy to do, all right, But his spending habits got him a lot of criticism. And then there's people that don't spend money that you go, I don't know, I feel like you could splurge a little bit from time to time, you know, maybe feel like you could splurge every once in a while. The NFL owners and their unwillingness to put in all grass fields in their stadiums is mind boggling to me. And that's all it's about is money. That's all this is. It's a cost. And this got brought back up over the past couple of days because there's the World Club Cup Group stage soccer event. It's taking place at MetLife Stadium this weekend, and the NFLPA, via their X account, noticed it in a tweet and responded, you know, in a pretty passive aggressive way. I mean, you know, why wouldn't you This is something you've been demanding, this is something you've been asking for for years and years and years, and they just put looks nice dot dot dot hashtag safer fields, and you can look at that and go, well, look, I mean you got other things to worry about. But no, no, no, just think about why this is not happening. All of your employees, all of the people that help make your league, the billions of dollars that it makes, they're all saying the same thing. Hey, we need safer fields. We need to all play on the same surface. It's got to be natural, like, this is what we want, natural grass, we don't want synthetics. And yet for some reason there's pushback. No, well it's you know, it's the cost of it all. You're not making enough money, but you're not making what would cost you more paying a player who goes down with an injury, or paying a player who increases his odds of maybe not getting injured because he's playing on a better surface. It doesn't make sense on any level whatsoever. And for some reason, Nah, listen, well, you know this is and if you're the NFLPA and you're some of these players, you're looking at it going so wait a second. You can roll in the good stuff for a soccer event, but we're the ones who play there eight to nine games a year and you go on the cheap It just it doesn't make sense. And you can say on the surface, no pun intended. Well, the amount of money it will cut. Dude, if you're a restaurant, If you run a restaurant and you have the opportunity to put in an oven or some appliance that's going to make your job more efficient and make your food better, wouldn't it behoove you to do that? Like, wouldn't it make sense for you to do that and want to do that, especially if it's going to increase production and get better results. Wouldn't you want to do that even if it costs you a little bit more. It's an invest you're reinvesting into your product. You're really It's why when it doesn't matter what job you have, whether you do construction, you do radio, whatever, you're gonna want to get some equipment to try and make your job better. If it's gonna make your job easier, it might cost you a little bit more upfront, but if it's gonna bring back returns and bring back results in the back end, why wouldn't you do it? And for some reason, the NFL owners are like Yeah, I don't know. Pretty expensive, pretty pricey stuff. No, what's expensive is a player's career going down the drain after you invested a certain amount of money in him because you didn't look after the field, especially MetLife, which has gotten a bad rap for years. Remember the good old days when the Giants and Jets played at a stadium and the only thing we were worried about is where Jimmy Hoffa's body was buried. Remember the good old days. Remember the meadowlands. Now they've got met Life and they can roll out the good stuff for the soccer event. But for the football teams that play there, yeah, it's pretty expensive. I just don't I can understand. Well, this is why they're billionaires. This is why they're millionaires because they're really good with their money. Okay, I get all that. And they're better with their money than we are, and that's why they're in the position that they are. And I understand, well, if you can, if you can save a buck here or there, but at a certain point, it's not about the money you're spending. It's about the money you're investing, and you investing back into your product to get better results and to get better results from your employees. Your employees are gonna be happier. I can remember working at at a desk job, a sales job, an over the phone sales job, and I swear to God this is a true story. I swear to God on this, and people that worked at that place with me know what I'm talking about. The air conditioner broke and instead of getting the air conditioner fixed in the building in the middle of summer when we are sweating our balls off, what they did was say, hey, here's a perk. Anybody that reaches five thousand dollars in sales before noon, you can wear shorts tomorrow. Like looking around and going wait, what, Like we're not gonna fix the ac that's not the problem. But if you reach five grand in sales before noon, you can come in in cargo shorts tomorrow. What just to save a buck? And guess what, it worked. Everybody sold their ass off. You had people walking in and like throwback Corduroller shorts, pe shorts from eighth grade.
It worked.
So look, maybe the NFL's onto something, But at some point it's okay to spend a little bit, especially if you know, I don't know, maybe the employees will be in a better mood or not tear their knees up.