DEBATE: Is Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair being unfairly punished for his illegal hit on Trevor Lawrence?



Last weekend, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence sustained a nasty concussion in the second quarter that forced him to sit the remainder of the game against the Houston Texans.

Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, who incapacitated Lawrence, was immediately ejected from the match and has since been suspended by the NFL for the next three games without pay.

Jason Whitlock and coach Jason Brown discuss the incident.

While Jason initially agreed with the NFL’s decision to suspend Al-Shaair, Brown may have convinced him to soften his stance.

“When are we going to start making quarterbacks part of the 22 players that wear pads on the football field? Last I checked is we all have pads and helmets on. Stop with the defenseless player thing. When the quarterback left the pocket, he's now a running back,” Brown argues, adding that the only reason these rules are in place is because quarterbacks are so expensive.

“This is not how you’re supposed to play the game that we all signed up for. Make the quarterback part of the game; take the slide out of football. You are in a no-win situation on defense,” he adds, noting that Lawrence chose not to run out of bounds and slid too late, and now Al-Shaair is being unfairly punished for just playing defense.

In retrospect, Jason agrees with Brown’s stance — mostly.

“I get the NFL is paying these quarterbacks 40, 50, 60 million a year, and they don't want their $50 million investment on the sideline, standing around in concussion protocol. I get it — but if the guy that's getting the most money is taking the least amount of risk, that's a bad, bad recipe that will create some disharmony in the locker room,” Jason says.

“You're 1,000% right — ‘Hey, we all signed up to play tackle football. One guy because of the position he plays will get paid 50 million while I'm a linebacker getting paid 10 million, and he has to take less risk than me,”’ he says, imagining what many of the players must be thinking. “It makes no sense.”

However, Jason also understands that Al-Shaair has a reputation for being unnecessarily violent. He plays a video montage of the linebacker’s most eyebrow-raising plays — some of which involve him punching another player in the head and hitting a player when he was already several steps out of bounds.

When it comes to banning the quarterback slide, Jason says Brown is on “rock solid ground,” but the punishment of Azeez Al-Shaair for his illegal hit on Trevor Lawrence is “a little deeper” than just one reckless play.

“This Azeez Al-Shaair is the new [Vontaze] Burfict,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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The end of woke sports? Washington Redskins urged to bring back original logo



In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, the Washington Redskins underwent an uptick in pressure from woke sponsors, investors, and the public to drop both their name and logo. Apparently, it was racist.

In 2022, the NFL team finally bent the knee and rebranded as the Washington Commanders.

However, it’s looking like Trump’s victory may have inspired a reversal.

“The Washington Redskins are going to be the Washington Redskins again,” says Jason Whitlock excitedly. “Twenty-two days after the election of Donald Trump, and we have the official end of the woke sports era."

Apparently, “The Blackfeet chief and the people in Montana,” who the logo was actually honoring, are “all in support of re-establishing the Redskins logo,” says Whitlock, adding that “there’s even talk that the Commanders may revert back to their name,” as well.

“Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’m going to be giving thanks to the end of this era” and to the “end-dians,” who have “ended wokeness in sports,” he says.

However, when you come to the end of an era, especially one that’s been overwhelmingly negative, it’s always good to reflect back on what went wrong.

And that’s exactly what Jason is doing by reviewing the top 12 most woke moments in sports.

To hear the list, watch the episode above.

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Whitlock made a bet with Deion Sanders — and so far, the odds are with the Buffaloes



Last week, Jason Whitlock made a bet that Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes will lose two of their last three games of the season. If he is proved wrong, however, Jason promised he would fly himself to a bowl game and cheer on Sanders’ team decked out in Buffaloes gear.

After the Buffaloes' 49-24 victory over the Utah Utes last weekend, it looks like Whitlock might be packing his bags soon.

“I'm being inundated over the weekend with people suggesting I owe Deion Sanders an apology,” he says.

While he’s willing to admit that he was “wrong about what their record would be this year,” Jason is not willing to apologize.

“I am going to be transparent and say I'm wrong, but I'm not apologizing,” he says.

“After they lost to Nebraska, after they should have lost to Baylor, I was real confident that the wheels were going to fall off, and the wheels did not fall off. This team has improved throughout the course of the season,” he admits. “Hats off to Deion; hats off to Colorado.”

However, Jason still doesn’t "respect the way Deion has gone about” running his football program and never has.

From the gold chains he wears and the rappers he brings into the locker room to the flagrant materialism he promotes and his lack of humility — “none of it's consistent with my values; none of it's consistent with Christian values,” says Whitlock.

He also doesn’t approve of the media’s celebration of Sanders when it’s not deserved.

“You went 4-8 last year, and Sports Illustrated named you Sportsman of the Year; you were in last place in the Pack 12 last year, and Sports Illustrated called you Sportsman of the Year; ‘60 Minutes’ did two features on you in a year’s span,” Jason criticizes.

On top of that, players like Travis Hunter begin to take on an “egomaniacal” demeanor under Deion’s leadership.

“Travis Hunter has started to mimic Deion's attitude and Deion's lack of humility,” says Jason.

Even still — if the Buffaloes win another game, Jason will keep true to his word and cheer on the Buffaloes at a bowl game this year. Next weekend when the team takes on the Kansas Jayhawks, Jason will know whether or not he’ll be ordering Colorado gear.

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Denzel Washington complains about 'Gladiator II' directors cutting his gay kissing scene — ‘They got chicken’



The highly anticipated “Gladiator II,” starring Denzel Washington in the role of Macrinus hits theaters this Friday.

One person who isn’t excited about the sequel, however, is Jason Whitlock.

His disappointment stems not from the movie itself but rather from what Washington decided to reveal about his role in the film.

“I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken. I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet. I killed him about five minutes later. It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of death,” he said.


Shemeka Michelle, who joins Jason on the program, expresses her confusion.

“Over the course of his career, he never did a sex scene or any type of strong kissing out of respect for his wife, … yet you go and kiss a man,” she says, adding that Washington could have easily given his “kiss of death” on the cheek.

“They have to pledge allegiance to the alphabet mafia. … In some form or fashion, they always have to let you know, ‘I don't hate the gays’ or ‘I don't hate the trans. I'm really a friend,’” she tells Jason.

“I think there is a right of passage in Hollywood and in the music and entertainment industry that you have to promote that lifestyle,” Jason agrees. “You can't reach that level of stardom in Hollywood without going through that right of passage.”

As for Washington’s profession of Christianity, Whitlock says he’s skeptical now.

“He's gone his whole career and had a pretty rock-solid reputation, had presented himself as some sort of Christian. I had always questioned it, and now I have the proof,” he says.

Washington could have said, “Hey, you know what? I know that's a big movie, but I'm good. I'm worth 200 million, 300 million, 400 million — whatever. I'm good. I've had enough. I'm not going to kiss a man,” Jason sighs.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Trump’s win HEATS UP battle of the sexes; exposes America’s Disney princess syndrome



Donald Trump’s landslide victory has inevitably resulted in a debate surrounding gender — and Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” is calling it what it really is.

“It’s a battle of the sexes. There are beta men who have jumped on the other side, but this has all been a program, and they program little kids. That’s why you see all these young people, they’ve been so immersed in this brainwashing process,” Whitlock explains.

“Kids' minds are impressionable, and why all these young people are melting down, they’ve been fed a steady diet of Disney movies, of Disney princesses, a steady diet indoctrinating them into ‘you don’t need a man,’” he continues.

While older Disney films like “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty” required that a man come and save the princesses, the films that have followed, like “Mulan,” show the woman saving herself.


“They save themselves now, the men are evil and incompetent, and they’re generally stories about the princess saving herself, saving humanity, start sending little kids that message over and over and over, ‘You don’t need a man, you can save yourself,’” Whitlock explains.

But as Whitlock notes, it’s not just the kid’s movies. Movies like “The Woman King” and “Wakanda,” which feature characters like the female Black Panther, have only added fuel to the gender war fire.

“And you wonder why these black women are delusional,” Whitlock says. “The government came in and offered these black women a check, a welfare check, and now they got entertainment on a 24/7 loop that tells these black women, 'Wakanda forever,' and you can save the planet and over in Africa a bunch of women warriors wiped out the colonizers.”

“Donald Trump represents toxic masculinity, and there’s a group of women and their emasculated allies who think, ‘Oh, the world would be so much better if we just had less masculinity and more femininity,’” he adds.

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Jason Whitlock makes HUGE bet with Deion Sanders: 'I’m going to fly myself to …'



Jason Whitlock hasn’t been quiet about his dislike for Deion Sanders and the program he’s built at the University of Colorado Boulder.

For starters, he doesn’t appreciate “Deion's approach to coaching because he packages it and wraps it and sells it in a Christian package, and there's nothing Christian about Deion's approach.”

From the “rappers in the locker room” and Deion’s “worship of his son” to his “treatment of the players” and “the radical materialism he promotes,” Whitlock sees only secularism in Coach Prime's personal conduct and his football program.

Before the season began, he predicted that Colorado would perform poorly. However, the Buffaloes are having an excellent season thus far. They’re currently 7-2.

Even so, Jason is confident that “people are gloating too soon.”

“I'm going to predict — and I mean this in all seriousness — they're going to lose two of their next three games and might lose all three … Utah, Kansas, and Oklahoma State,” he says.

In fact, Whitlock is so confident in his hypothesis that he’s willing to make a bet.

“If the Colorado Buffaloes finish better than 8-4 in the regular season, I'm going to fly myself to whatever bowl game they're playing, dress myself in Colorado gear, and sit in the stands, no matter where it is, and cheer on the Colorado Buffaloes. That's how confident I am,” he says.

That’s not to say Whitlock is incapable of giving credit where credit is due, however.

He acknowledges that Colorado, despite his predictions, has improved significantly since last season.

“This team has improved, and I was wrong about the level of improvement they would see in year two — dead wrong about that,” he admits, adding that Deion’s son, Shedeur, is also a “top-flight quarterback” who has “handled himself significantly better than he did a year ago.”

Even so, the Colorado Buffaloes “have not improved nearly as much as you think, and that will show up in these last three games,” Whitlock reiterates.

To hear the why behind Jason’s prediction, watch the clip above.

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Why Americans had to suffer before they could ‘Make America Great Again’



Over the past few years, Americans have gone through a mental and cultural revolution, and Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” believes it was a necessary one.

“Without the pain and suffering we went through the last four years, we wouldn’t be in position to make America great again,” Whitlock says.

“Everybody understands this. ... Those of us trying to lose weight, we know that every time we work out and exercise and push ourselves and go through that pain, that’s what benefits us. That’s what allows us to gain muscle and to improve ourselves,” he continues.

And through that improvement, Americans were able to stand up.


“It’s exactly what needed to happen in order for a lot of white men, black men, Hispanic men to say, ‘Hey, you can call me whatever you want, but I’m going to stand up for male leadership, I’m going to stand against these evil people that are forcing this transgenderism on kids, I’m going to stand up to the people that have made abortion the center of their entire political movement,” Whitlock says.

However, while what Americans have been through under a tyrannical Biden-Harris administration has been at times been brutal — for those imprisoned after January 6 or for protesting at abortion clinics, for those forced to vaccinate against their will or who lost their jobs for refusing it, and so much more — we’re not victims.

“None of us want to consider ourselves victims, because we’re not. We deserve the suffering that we went through because we’ve been so irresponsible that the left has been in position to do what they were doing because we were cowards,” Whitlock says.

“That suffering was necessary, and thank God, we got through it,” he continues, adding, “And now we’re on the other side, and we can receive the benefits for that suffering.”

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3 times America was great in the past



Greatness was achieved last night in the form of Donald Trump’s historical comeback to regain the Oval Office after being persecuted relentlessly by the left.

Trump’s re-election echoes other times in American history when our nation could be characterized as truly great.

Jason Whitlock reflects fondly on the past as he celebrates a Trump victory.

“When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant — tell me America wasn't great on that day,” says Whitlock, referencing the agreement that would end slavery that took place on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

“We needed to end slavery. It was an abomination that needed to be ended, and it was. Great day,” he adds.

Another great time in American history is dedicated to the Wright brothers, who invented the airplane.

“America used to be the birthplace of all this innovation. You tell me America wasn’t great when men were out creating and doing things that have benefited the rest of society?” he asks rhetorically.

And while he knows he’ll catch some flak for this one, Whitlock knows that America was also great when “black people were not obsessed with living in proximity to white people.”

“There was a time when black people weren't sitting around going, ‘Oh my God, I'm gonna make it to heaven as soon as I move into a white neighborhood; oh, all of my prayers will be answered as soon as I get to go to an all-white school.’ There was a time when that was not the priority of black people. That was a great time,” says Whitlock, adding, “That's not me calling for segregation; that's me calling for a return to sanity.”

“You know what the priority was then in the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and '50s for black people and for Americans?” he asks.

“Family. That was a great time. Your survival, your success in life was predicated on building a great family, sustaining a family, developing and nurturing your children. That was the priority, and that was a great time.”

To hear more of Whitlock’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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‘The wind is at our back’: Why Bezos non-endorsement is a sign that we are WINNING



The election isn’t even close to over, but as Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” says, “the wind is at our back.”

“Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, they’re all pivoting. That’s how much wind is at our back. The people in power with the most money in America,” Whitlock says after noting that Bezos refused to allow his paper, the Washington Post, to endorse Kamala Harris.

In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Bezos explained that trust in journalism and the media has annually “fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.”

“But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” Bezos wrote, continuing, “Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.”


“Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility,” he added.

Bezos went on to explain that a presidential endorsement from a biased newspaper that only those looking to confirm their biases read will “do nothing to tip the scales of an election.”

What a presidential endorsement does, he continued, is “create a perception of bias” and a “perception of non-independence.”

“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” he concluded.

Whitlock is thrilled with Bezos' explanation of his decision to refrain from endorsing a political candidate.

“If you start talking about the four richest people in America — Bezos, Elon, Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison — either they’re conservative or they’re moving our direction. We’re winning massively. Things are about to change,” he says.

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'MEN are coming back!’ – San Francisco 49ers lineman flashes MAGA hat during postgame set



When wokeness became the only acceptable ideology, the NFL fell in line, but that doesn’t mean all the players did.

On Sunday night, following a victory over the Dallas Cowboys, 49ers defensive lineman Nick Bosa flashed his MAGA hat during the postgame set.

According to Jason Whitlock, Bosa’s stunt was courageous — especially when you consider that he plays for the team that represents the most liberal city in the country.

When a reporter asked Bosa about his hat, his courage only continued.

“It would appear to be a political statement,” a reporter said curtly.

“I’m not gonna talk too much about it, but I think it’s an important time” is all the linebacker had to say back.

“That’s all that needed to be said because the hat says it all,” says Jason, who agrees with Bosa that we’re living in an incredibly important time.

“It's a time where men need to come out of the closet and stand 10 toes down on what they believe and what they stand for, and that's what I think we're seeing in the sports world,” he continues, pointing to Texas Tech kicker Reese Burkhardt pulling up his jersey to reveal a homemade pro-Trump T-shirt after scoring a touchdown.

Jason also points to “Harrison Butker, the Chiefs kicker out campaigning for Josh Hawley and expressing his Catholic faith.”

“Men are coming back and standing on what they believe,” he says.

To find out whom Jason says we should “thank for Nick Bosa’s courage,” watch the clip above.

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