Let's talk about Rashee Rice... again

"I'm tired of this, grandpa." "That's too damn bad!"

Believe it or not, I really try to be careful about piling on people in the public eye. Life is weird, circumstances are foggy, we rarely get the full picture and almost always have to react without knowing the full truth. It’s easy to be reactionary, but more useful to be thoughtful.

Well, we’ve now read several chapters of the Rashee Rice story, and it’s not going well for our protagonist.

In the most-generous-possible light: Man, this guy sure does have a lot of bad luck.

In the less-generous reading: This guy has consistently made some of the worst choices imaginable, at the expense of his team and his NFL career.

Be it unfortunate timing or gross incompetence, Rice currently sits in a Dallas jail with a knee that was surgically repaired approximately one week ago. In the best of circumstances, his recovery timeline would be enough to keep him off the field for the remainder of OTAs and mandatory minicamp. “While sitting in jail” does not seem to be the best of circumstances.

Will Rice’s timeline be lengthened by his inability to receive NFL-quality rehab for the next month? Will he heal up properly enough to be at his best during training camp and the 2026 season? Did he know he’d need surgery this offseason and put it off until mid-May? Did he plan to serve his 30 days at some point this offseason? If so, why didn’t that happen during any of the months when he wasn’t asked to report to his job?

I don’t know. I don’t know the answers, definitively, to any of those questions. So let’s ask two more:

Can the Chiefs trust him to lead their wide receiver room in 2026? Can any NFL team justify paying Rice next offseason?

I don’t know how they could. However, in the Chiefs’ case this season, I’m not sure they have any other choice.

Everything Else: AI podcasts and Tucker’s teeth

Speaking of stories that challenge your grip on reality: podcasts sure are fun. What if we removed the people from them? Spotify is one step ahead of you! I don’t think AI podcasts are going to make a particularly large impact because, like so many forced AI products, they miss the point of the thing itself.

Plus, Tucker has four fewer teeth than he did on Monday!

Unless something remarkably newsworthy happens this weekend (and considering how most late-May news goes, let’s hope we get a few quiet days), we’ll be off for Memorial Day on Monday and back for more Everything Else on Friday!

Everything Else with Joshua Brisco is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.