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LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress talk about the son of the Falcon's defensive coordinator being behind the Shedeur Sanders prank call, Bill Belichick's bizarre week with his very young girlfriend, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fox Sports Radio Radio. This is up on Game.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fock bye Hushbazada for the touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is the show for you, Var two with LeVar
aary Tet, TJ hush Benzada and Plaxico Burres.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
TJ.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I love the way you break the game down.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
La Man, you were jacking by my squad number two
overall and that's nine and plaques Man, you were at
seven five seven product. Ain't everybody who plaq was growing
up around her? Man?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Three of the best to ever do it on and
off the field. Now live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
here's pro bowlers LaVar airy Tet, TJ. Hushman Zanna and
Silver Bowl champion Plaxico Burress.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, welcome in. This is up on Game and
it is t J. Hushmanzada, it is Plex co Verson,
it is LeVar Arrington, and you know what, it's Fox
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(01:07):
on social media, so make sure you check us out there.
We got a lot to get you today. Yep, Lawrence Taylor,
Bill Simms, they're part of the show. I have dual Carter,
you know, put that map together. I'm curious to hear
what Plex has to say on that. And it's been
an interesting week for Bill Belichick. But first fellas, before
we get to the first topic of guys, Jeff Olbrich

(01:32):
and his son, how y'all feeling, man? And and TJ
just about the looks of outside. I gotta say, uh,
we don't we don't have t J. Yeah, okay, all right, Plex,
what what what do you have going on in New Jersey?
It's not funny here, my.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Guy, man, it is. It's apalling filled air.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Everywhere you go.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
All the cause of yellow I mean all the cause
are basically in the street trying to get their cars
washed as you can, since the allergies have gotten to
me also. But from a weather standpoint, it has to
be almost it has to be eighty plus degrees today.
Yesterday it was really warm at eighty Oh yeah, man,
we're smoking well, I mean we are back okay, the cherries,

(02:21):
the cherries have blossomed and the leaves are back on
the trees, so we're.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Good to go.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Man, we're looking forward to obviously mant a good summer
because last year it was just so hot on the
East Coast where we really didn't have a chance to
spend a lot of time outside in the backyard, and
you know that's our thing.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Alright, we do have TJJ. It looks rainy where I'm at.
Is it different where you're at, But where I'm at
it it looks very dreary. It looks very very damp.
You know. I feel like I'm in Washington, Seattle or
something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Just slight overcasts and out my way as well, a
little slight overcast. But I don't believe it, Tron rain
let me. Uh, I'm gonna have to look at this forecast.
I think it's just supposed to be cloudy, but no
rain like this. It was hot the last couple of days,
really hot. Yeah, it's supposed to be super cloudy.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Man, I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Today and tomorrow, actually today and tomorrow and then a
flex and then Wednesday, Wednesday through Monday eighty three and up.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
All right, man, just make it Wednesday. Everything.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
We gotta make it Wednesday. And speaking of making it, uh,
there was an NFL find that went out you know,
to the Falcons, and it was the defensive coordinator, Jeff Olbrick.
He uh, some way, somehow was was culpable for his
son getting a hold of Shador sanders burner phone for

(03:55):
the draft and they prank called. And listen, there's been
a prank calling. Apparently it's prevalent every year that prank
calls take place, but this one in particular is a
tad bit different because it came from an employee that
worked internally with the Falcons as the defensive coordinator still is.
The defense coordinator did not lose a job or anything.

(04:17):
But here's some sound from from Jeff Olbrick talking about
how he felt about the situation. And then after that,
I'm curious to get the opinions of you two on
what's this handled right? What's your take on it? Yeah,
I'm curious of that. But here's here's coach Jeff Olbrick

(04:39):
for the Atlanta Falcons, the defensive coordinator, talking about the situation.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
First of all, I like to publicly apologize to Shuder
and the Sanders family for what occurred. Second of all,
I want to publicly apologize to mister Blank, Terry Fautina,
Reean Morris and the entire Falcons organization. My actions, my
action of not protecting confidential data were inexcusable. My son's

(05:04):
actions were absolutely inexcusable, and for that we are both
deeply sorry. The NFL has taken action and I fully
respect the punishment. We take full responsibility my son and myself,
and we will not be appealing to find in any way.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now, he was fined one hundred thousand dollars, that's six figures,
that's that's a that's a lot of change. Do you
guys think that that was was the right punishment? How
do you How do you feel about this as a parent,
I mean, there's so many levels to this as a parent,
as an employee, you know, how do you guys? How

(05:42):
are you guys kind of you know, digesting this story?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Man to me, and it's not just Shadria Sanders. Now,
if you start reading articles and see what's coming out,
quite a few guys were called Tyler Warren Ashton. They
got a bunch of guys. But because your door slid
and that probably mess with his psyche. You you get excited,

(06:12):
then it's like, ah, but what I want to know
is he's a defensive coordinator.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
What would he have a need for any quarterback's number
for your defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You don't need.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
You shouldn't have or need a quarterback draft information on
any personal device. You shouldn't have it. And if you
do have it, it's on a work computer. So his
son would.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Have most likely they say a guy from his iPad, fine,
and that he was able to get into the iPad.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hey, do we all not know when you leave an
iPad or a computer or anything open, does it not
close itself out?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Sometimes sometimes it's in your settings. You can keep your
phone open and be the one that has to manually
do it, or you can have it on time. Because
I'm like, it could go either way.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
If it's a personnel system, you know it's cutting off.
So either he knew the password or he just gave
his son free rein. It's either or because it's a
password on there, we all know that it's a password
on there.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's going to be a word.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Either you gave your son.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
The passwords code or you just let him go through it,
not thinking he would do what he did.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't know what a fair.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Pun is, but why would you allow your kid to
go through your work, your work, the vice that, especially
knowing that you have sensitive information that twenty one.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
You don't, let's be honest, now do trying to.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Buy some time playing door to explore on on the
youth thought his son would want to do something like that.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
He never thought his son would do anything like that
to make him look the way he now looks publicly.
He wouldn't, He would never think his son would do
something like that, but he does.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
It does cross the line, right right, I mean it
crosses a line in terms of parenting if you ask
me and for you to like.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
That's the part that I'm having an issue with. I
don't really think it crosses the line as being a
parent because he just said in the on the interview
that he didn't do a good enough job of protecting
sensitive information or whatever the.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Case may be.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
You shouldn't have to, really, you shouldn't have to take
those measures under your own roof, especially from a kid
that's you know, twenty one years old and understands you
know what's right and what's wrong. I mean, why would
I think I needed one to protect some information on
my on my home computer from my son? Because I

(08:55):
think that he might get some information and make a
phone call. Nothing like that crosses your mind.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's a childish it's a childish. Yeah, it's petty, is
what it was at twenty one years old. Like what
it sounds like a spoiled ass brat to me, that's
that's what it sounds like. And he probably has been
allowed to do whatever he wants to do, you know, during.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Too, which is the crazy boy.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, well it was funny to them while they were
doing it until they got caught like and that to me,
that's always the one part that kind of gets me,
like ever got nobody?

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Nobody you're a defensive coordinator, what do you need a
quarterbacks information for? We're not talking to him, you're not
even sitting in the meetings.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
The only thing I can think of, the only thing
I could think of, TJ is is that you're you're
getting you have information.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Everybody is being sent the same information. That's basically what
it is.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's what I was.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Everybody is being sent that information. Yeah, that would be
how and that should not be That should not be
the case.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Because we all know, I don't know's.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
A coordinator has no type of reason to have anybody
on offenses number you're not interview on them, You're not.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
There might be, but look at it like this, TJ.
Just look at it like this as a as an organization,
they may have sent a memo out for draft. This
is just me assuming just in terms of like looking
at it from a business perspective, every coach of relevance,
it might have been every coach, to be honest, somebody's
going to send out an email and it's going to

(10:24):
have the information, you know, on the prospects, it's going
to have information on the draft day agenda, it's going
to have like they're sending out these things through emails
all the time, right, And that might not be a coach.
That's probably administrative person something maybe a secretary or something
to that effect. It may be somebody in a scouting department.

(10:44):
It could be any one person in any department that's
sending this information out. So I'm not really so much
focused in on why it was there. The biggest question
to me is why is your son If you know
you have sensitive and and this is your work device,
why is your son going through your device? Like why

(11:07):
is your signing.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
To That's something that a five or six year old
kid five or six years old exactly, not older.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
We can even go older, you know, you can go
older eight, nine, ten, But a twenty one year old,
a twenty one year old going through my work device,
like listen, like, what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know what he did, right? He told us. He
told his buddies at school, Hey, I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna go through my dad's stuff and we gonna
prank call him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gonna be funny.
Yeah yeah, yeah, Then let's do that. And that's what happened.
This was calculated, this was planned. This just wasn't just
oh let me get these numbers, ay man. They talked
about this and they thought it would be funny, and

(11:48):
so they did it.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
That's what happened today. He cast his dad a hundred
jeez man at the end of the day and could job.
It could have costed this job because off off the
blank another two hundred and fifty K. So if I'm
if I'm off the blank, the two hundred and fifty
k that I get fined from the league, I'm taking that.
Jeff Old bru during the season. So now you lose three,

(12:12):
you lose three fifty dang.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I thought it was a very very You know, there's
certain things like kids make mistakes all the time. I
get that being a parent there you're you're going to
look at things that your kids do from time to
time and you're going to scratch your head as to
why they did it. But at twenty one years old,
I'm just thinking about it from my perspective. If I

(12:36):
look my sons, I have two sons. I looked at it.
I got a twenty five year old son and I
have a seventeen year old son, And I can honestly
say that if I look them in their eyes, like
I see, I see a man at seventeen, Like, will
he make mistakes? Will he do dumb stuff? Yes? Will
the twenty five year old do it not? Maybe not

(12:58):
so much. He's not built like that. But I just
feel like this comes from how he was he was raised.
This is a this is a culpability of having a
brat that doesn't understand what consequences and and what rules,
what what those things and parameters what those represent? You know,
And I don't know what the conclusion of that is,
you know, for for Olbrick and his family, I just

(13:21):
know that when you have a son that that's loot
like to be that loose where he could cost you,
Like if that man had lost his job, how does
that how does that look for for Olbrick and his family?
You know what I mean? Like the kid just moves on.
The kid just moves on. Hey, I made a mistake,
sorry dad, But now this dude's got to try to
use left to try to figure it out how to

(13:42):
pick up all the pieces. And we all know it's
not easy finding work, it's not easy making money in
this world.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Hey tell me if you remember this. I'm at your
house in California. We're sitting outside in the backyard. I
go inside, I come out, I say, hey, man, you
want me to bring your phone? He said, And you
you flat out told me straight out. You was like, no,
it's good. Nobody messes my phone, everybody, nobody touched everybody
in the house. No better. And you said that too,
my phone. Yeah, and how was everybody then?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
They were young?

Speaker 3 (14:12):
They was still in high school.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah they were young. Yeah, that was three years ago.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
I remember you telling me that, And now we're talking
about a twenty one year old.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I mean, you set the tone for your household, man,
my kid, my pen is the baby. She's nine now,
she would have probably been like seven or six by then.
Back then, if you're if you're, if you set a
standard and you set a tone, the tone is a tone.
She used to touch my phone, I'd be like, that's
not a toy and it's not for you and your
your kid videos. That's daddy's phone. I work on that phone,

(14:45):
and that's my phone, So you don't touch daddy's phone.
And I set that tone for the rest of them.
Nobody touches my phone. Nobody touches my phone period. Like
if somebody, oh, my gosh, there's Jamie Fox in my phone.
Oh TJ. Hushman's I'm going to call Plexico, like, no,
you're not, No, you're not, because the information in my

(15:07):
phone is not for you to be accessing. And I
protect that. I protect my content, I protect my contacts,
I protect all of those things. So for me, for me,
that's that's something that I feel like kind of fell
on what the rules of your household is, understanding the
type of kid that you have, the type of kids

(15:29):
that you have, and the parenting style that you have,
because I just don't think I would ever have a child,
and you don't know until you know, honestly. But I
just don't think that I've raised the type of kid
that would would compromise us, let alone themselves, but compromise
all of us by doing something as outrageous like that's outrageous.

(15:50):
Like he's the biggest story in the draft and you
call him at the most like at the peak of
everybody paying attention to is this dude gonna get drafted?
Is he gonna get drafted? What did you think was
going to happen when you made that call? What did
you think was gonna happen? That's the most high profile
pick in the in the draft? What did you think
was gonna come from that? That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I think it's illegal to go through somebody's phone now.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I mean, I don't know. Somebody said that he didn't
break a law or anything like that. Don't be so
hard on I don't know that that there wasn't a
law broken. I don't I don't know what that what,
how that, what that entails, or how that played out?
I mean, but but could the organization could have looked
at it in a different way, in a different manner
as well? Though, you know what I mean, he's twenty one,

(16:35):
he's a grown ass man. I don't know how that
plays out, but I did think it was an interesting situation.
And granted one hundred grand I don't know, is that fear?
Is that not fear? I don't know, one way or
the other. It was a dumb act that costed his
dad a lot of money and probably a lot of
respect to on the flip side of all of it.
But anyways, we'll keep talking some football. We got Lawrence Taylor,

(16:57):
Phil Sims, they're both New York Giants. Plexico Burst great
for the New York Giants. Abdul Carter a new draft
pick for the New York Giants. I'm gonna tie all
those things together and show you how they work together.
On the other side of his break, you're listening to
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It's TJ. Huchman's Adam LeVar Arrington. We'll be right back.

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We'll be talking Bill Belichick. Man like Bill Belichick. Yeah,
he's in the news. It ain't winning on the field,
but he certainly would. Some would debate if he's winning

(18:15):
off of it or if he's not winning off of it.
But we're gonna talk about that. But I got it.
You know, the draft takes place, the jerseys are getting
assigned and jerseys are being sold, which interestingly enough, Shador Sanders,
by the way, is number one in rookie jersey sales,

(18:35):
which is hilarious because obviously you have a fifth round
draft pick. That man is, hey, look here, you could
try to hold somebody down, but if that person knows
that they can't be held down, then they might not
get held down. But that's another conversation in New York.
There's the idea of trying to figure out what number

(18:58):
Abdul Carter is going to wear. He did an interview
with Michael Parsons. Micah was like, I'm sure you're trying
to figure out eleven. Eleven's retired. Phil Simms, Great phil Simms,
his numbers retired. But Dual Carter didn't go with with
Micah on getting eleven. He said he had his eyes
on a different jersey number, and it was fifty six.

(19:20):
If you know the history of football, and you know
the history of the New York Giants, you know that
Lawrence Taylor LT is the owner of the number fifty six.
It's retired. LT is largely considered the most dominant defender
in the history of the game. Some would throw other
names in there, but more than often the first name

(19:41):
that comes to mind when you say most dominant the
fender in NFL history, people say Lawrence Taylor. Abdul said, hey, look,
I'm gonna ask for the number. I'm gonna take my shot.
You know you can't make a shot you never take.
He asked a question, and Lawrence Taylor said, I kni'd
go get your own number, Go build your own fame,
But he also had this to say, why would I

(20:01):
give up fifty six?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
That would be like a new exhibit company asking you
for the playbooks on how to build great trade shows?

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Would you do that?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Just like I thought, No, number fifty six is going nowhere.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
While I don't understand his explanation, I'm gonna just be honest.
I don't understand the explanation, so let me just be
clear and distance myself from the explanation. But what I
did understand is that's Lawrence Taylor and the number is
fifty six, and give it away. I don't think you're
giving it away. And I guess I have a unique

(20:40):
before I'm gonna give it to you on this one,
plex because you played in New York. But I would
just say, you know, Abdul Carter play that Penn State obviously,
so I have a unique perspective on it because I
actually give I award my number. Two players that I
want to see where my number, Whereas you know, I
never wanted my number retire, and I feel like if

(21:02):
they retire your number, then it gives people more of
an opportunity to forget about who you are. Now somebody
comes along and they want to actually represent the legacy
and build onto the story and the legacy of what
the number represents and the person or people who warrant
it before them. I really like that. I've really I
really really enjoy that. But being a New York Giant,

(21:24):
a Super Bowl winning New York Giant, plex, what's your
take on now you know LT pretty well, y'all golf
together and stuff like that, what's your take on it?

Speaker 5 (21:31):
I mean, basically, what he said on a nutshell was
hell no, get your own number. That's basically what he said.
And I just have a totally different take on.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
This.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
You know, Abdo Carder obviously, you know, we expect for
him to come into this league and do great things.
But I wouldn't even have the audacity to go up
to a lawnch tailer and ask him, could I wed
a great number?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Fifty six? I don't really.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
I don't think some of these young cats really understand
it true history of football in the game, this game
that they're playing, and that's that's the that's the what
I think about it. We're talking about Lawrence Taylor Man.
Some people consider him to be the greatest football player
they ever live. So I know in this part of
the world they do. And if we're talking about Lawrence

(22:19):
Taylor here, and I guess with the whole Phil Simms thing,
you know, I'm talking about Super Bowl what twenty one,
twenty for twenty five, Super Bowl MVP, three touchdowns, no interceptions,
and I just I wouldn't see myself, you know, playing
for Washington and coming into a situation.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
And be like.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Asking Art Monk could I wear his number eighty one?
Because he was my all time favorite wide receiver growing
up and that was the reason, one of the main
reasons why I fell into the game. Listen, you gotta
finish your breakfast. Do you research and understand and the
history of what you know, the organization is all the

(23:05):
greats that came before, you understand. And we were just
having this conversation I believe last week about you Micah
and Abdu called it all being together and how this
the new generation of you know, the fans they are,
they relate to obviously the guys that they can watch.
And it takes me back to a conversation that I

(23:27):
had with my son. I believe he was in like
the ninth grade. And so it's sitting there, we're watching TV,
and I said to myself, I say to my son,
I say, you know who that is?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
He said who? I said, Man, that's Peter Ward, you know,
he said to me.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
He said Ward?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
He said who is that? Paused TV and I looked
at him.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
I said, man, you mean to tell me that you
play wide receiver and you want to play big time
college football and you don't know who one of the
most dynamic players to ever played is playing your position.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
How could you not know who Peter Wark is?

Speaker 5 (24:04):
So when I think about that, having that conversation and
that interaction with my son, it brings me to this situation.
We're talking about Lawrence Taylor here. I just I wouldn't
have it in myself because I know I'm so proudful
of me.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
And going back to what LT just.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Said, if you think that you can be along the
lines of pure greatness as a Lawrence Taylor, go get
your own number and make you an.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
LT number type number.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
And I gotta agree with him on that, TJ.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Man, it just sucks because you know, you Penn Staters,
are you really good linebackers? As as LeVar would call it,
stick SETI number eleven, throw them up. He wonted. Fifty
six numbers are retired for a reason. It doesn't matter
that you coming in as a third pick and you

(25:04):
have the potential to be a great player. And if
that's the case, go create a legacy with your own number.
Because that's what Lawrence Taylor did, That's what Phil Simms did.
I mean, you can't wear number eleven because that's phil
Simms number. And so those players and Phil Silms was cool,

(25:24):
he was willing to do.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
He wouldn't, Yeah he did, he wouldn't and.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
His family said no, But his play on the field
got that number retired.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Let us stay that way. And I get it.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
If you're at dual quarter, you want to wear a
number that you're familiar with, specifically number eleven.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Those dudes work too hard, man, Lawrence Taylor, phil Simms hard.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
They worked too hard to be in a position to
have that number retired. And so for Abdul Carter, it's unfortunate.
You just got drafted the wrong franchise man with the
going to wear.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Bro Taylor up. So a lot of people don't know
this story.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
When I when I got drafted to the Pittsburgh Steelers
and I came in the door of the next day.
Do you know what number that he gave me? They
gave me they gave Nope, they gave me eighty eight. Yeah,
they gave me eighty eight. Rookie year, right, I was
eighty eight. And then I went to the equipment staff.
I told him, I said, listen, I don't want to

(26:27):
wear eighty eight. And it was like why not. I'm like, man,
it's Lynch Swan's number.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Bro, what am I gonna do with this? Yo?

Speaker 5 (26:36):
If you go back and look at all all rookie cars,
I was wearing eighty eighty eight and then we're eighty.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
No, I was wearing.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Eighty eight, and then when that season started, I switched
over to eighty because I'm.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Like, I get one of them cards? Can I get
one of them.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Trader card go for you? Can? You know that?

Speaker 5 (26:51):
But that was just me understanding knowing the history of
the guys that came before me. I'm like, man, this
is lyn Swan's number and it's and I was like,
why hasn't they retired? And they said that there's so
many numbers were tired from the Pittsburgh Still they don't
have enough.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, they wouldn't have enough numbers, you'd have to go
to a different number, numbers, scale or whatever.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
And that's what happened with the whole wide receivers. That
was it was in the eighties and now it was
in the teams.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Mande.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I had a team that were coming out, you know,
because all the eighties were taken up, and then when
guys got cut, I was like, oh, let me just stay.
I believe it was eighteen and that's what I had
worn in college. I'm like, let me just keep this number.
But back then they were not playing letting it.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, happened, and that's why I had to wear fifty six.
And a lot of people are like, because I was
getting compared to Lawrence Taylor coming out of college. People
was like, this is closest thing we've ever seen the
Lawrence Taylor died or die, this, that and the other.
I get fifty six in the league, and everybody thought
I took fifty six because of Lawrence Taylor. And I
did not take fifty six because of Lawrence Taylor. If

(27:55):
you know me, you know I love my mob like
I love Penn State at penstil is it for me,
Like I just I just love my school. I loved
my time, and I love my number. So I got
fifty six because five plus six equal to eleven. That
was why I got fifty six. I didn't like ninety two.
Thought it was an ugly number. Forty seven you couldn't do.

(28:15):
A linebacker couldn't wear forty seven unless all the fifty
numbers were being used by like linemen, offensive linemen and backers.
They weren't enough left. So I didn't want a forty seven.
I didn't want to number an ugly number. And fifty
six was, you know, I thought that was the best number.
You know, that represented equal in eleven, so just for

(28:37):
everybody out there, you know. And I told I Duel that,
I said I do. I didn't wear fifty six because
of Lawrence Taylor. I wore fifty six because it equal
to eleven. I was keeping it true to the root.
I would have wore eleven if I could have. In fact,
I wore eleven in practice. If somebody stole my practice jersey,
every time I wear eleven in practice, people are still
my jersey. But that was interesting then all in itself.
But I was an eleven. I was an eleven, so

(29:00):
know it'd be interesting. I played that I played in
New York, So I'll be interested to see does he
get mister Nichols, does he bring mister Nichols back to life,
and maybe take that further than what I did, even
though Kavika did a very good job of making people
forget about what I did. But you know, we'll see,
you know, we'll see what happens with that before we
get an update, uh trending from I Low. I gotta

(29:22):
throw this one out at you. Speaking of the New
York Giants. People may not remember that Bill Belichick coached
that defense and coached Lawrence Taylor. But he's not in
the headlines about Lawrence Taylor or coaching the New York
Giants or even the New England Patriots. He's in the
media because of his girlfriend. Now, there was an odd

(29:43):
exchange between him and CBS News, not CBS Sports, but
CBS News as they were asking him about his girlfriend
and how did they meet and this that and the other.
And I know we've talked about this. I know, I
know we've had the conversation. But Bill Belichick has since

(30:04):
come out and said that you know, they met on
a plane ride to Palm Beach or whatever to Florida.
They've been talking ever since. Listen, I don't you know,
I don't pretend to know all of the I don't
even want to know all the particulars. As long as
it ain't my daughters being that young dealing with a
dude that old, I'm okay with it. You know, if

(30:28):
it's one of y'all, I just just kind of talk
to y'all and be like, hey, you good with that?
You know, like how you feel about this? You know,
see if I could talk talk you out of it,
make you make them lead that person alone, because we
all have daughters. But I'm okay with it in the
sense that at least he's legitimizing her, like she works
with him, She's a part of what they got going on.

(30:52):
You know, he claims her as his girlfriend, he goes
to award shows with her. But is this the right move,
because it seems like it's starting to create a level
of confusion that maybe not you know, maybe not up
to snuff up the standard. You know, what we're gonna
do because it's not going to be enough time. I
need y'all to at least have a couple of minutes

(31:13):
to expand on this here's what we'll do. Let's get
the trending from from is low, and then I'm gonna
have y'all on the other side of the break, I'm
gonna have y'all kind of weigh in on it. But
I love if you'd like to take a quick shot
at it. I mean, are you in the market for
a twenty one year old, a twenty year old, a
twenty two year old, twenty three, maybe twenty four? I

(31:33):
don't know what you think.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
Why don't I ask my wife that question?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
I mean, she'd probably be like she was trying to
trade me in.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
No, no, no, she'd probably be like, ladies, he's all yours.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Have at it.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
Well, as I try to gracefully change the subject, and
hope my wife is not listening right now, because unfortunately
she usually.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Does, you can have it. I'm probably being.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
Completely accurate with that as I gracefully try to segue
into the news of the day, speaking of pain. Today
in Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox at outs
first baseman Tristan Cassis has been diagnosed with a ruptured
left pateller tendon sustained during last night's win over the Twins.
Also on Friday night, Ridley Green with the Detroit Tigers
became the first player in Major league history hit two

(32:26):
home runs in the ninth inning of a game, and
a nine to one win over the Angels' outburst part
of an eight run inning game was tied at one
going into the top of the night. In the NBA
Playoffs Friday night, the Houston Rockets won at Golden State
one fifteen to what was seven time the series at
three games seven on Sunday at Houston. Stanley Cup Playoffs
on Friday night at the Saint Louis Blues beat the
Winnipeg Jets five to two to tie that series at

(32:48):
three games apiece Game seven at Winnipeg on Sunday night. Finally,
you guys were talking about Plex's rookie card a moment ago.
All right, here we go between the three of you,
which of you presently has the rookie card worth the
most money? According to the collectible site colmsee dot com.

(33:09):
Which of the three of you is rookie card is
worth the most? Right now, I've got the answer.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Right, Plexico, I say, Plexico, TJ any other answers, man,
I would have no idea.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Wearing his number eighty eight. It is Plexico three hundred
and seven dollars and twenty five cents. Very nice back
to you guys.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
All right, wow, yeah, let me get one of them.
Plex You know I love my memory, Tilia. Uh look,
I'm fanning out on this show.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
You know I got you know, I got your coke.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, you know, I'm fanning out on the show. But
it is what it is. And this is Up on Game,
and this is Fox Sports Radio. That's t J. Huchman's,
that's Plexico Burst. We're gonna come back on the other
side of break and we're going finish this Bill Belichick
conversation before we wrapped the hour up. All right, we'll
be right back. Sit tight, all right, Hey, it's Up
on Game. All right, welcome back in Up on Game. TJ.

(33:59):
Huschman out as Plexa Coburs. I'm LeVar Arrington. Hour two.
We got cuffs of legend coming up. We're gonna talk
some NBA, but before we get to the next hour,
let's finish this one out. Listen. They had a call
with with Mike Lombardi, the GM for UNC football Bill Belichick.
This is what he had to say when he was
asked about Barstool hit him up. This is what he

(34:20):
had to say in reference to the whole relationship.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
Hello, Mike, it's Kirk Minahan from Barstool Sports. Mike, it's
Kirk minihean Barstool Sports.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
How are you. I'm good? Good, Kirk Live the team.
We have questions.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
We're trying to figure out all we've been talking about it.
We talked about portnoim and they go, can you explain
to us what this woman's role is in with you?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Un ce?

Speaker 3 (34:43):
We're just confused.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
Actually, I'm in a meeting right now going over recruiting,
so that's kind of what my focus is right now.
How significant role does she have with the recruiting at
this point? She is she the lead recruiter or no,
I'm in recruiting, Yeah, and I'm working on that.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
So that's about it.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Kirk.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
Thanks all right, Mike Hanyan, They're good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
How do you guys take it? Man? How do y'all
take it? We got a couple of minutes. How do
y'all take this? Man?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Like?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Should people be taking this? I feel like Bill Belichick's
done enough to take him seriously. If he's got her
doing something. There's a reason, and I'm gonna just leave
it at that. I don't know about all the rest
of it, But how y'all look at.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
It, man, the fact that Bill Belichick is in the
news for stuff that does not involve football. It's crazy
because all we've ever known Bill Belichick keep my private
life private.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Football is football.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
You guys know me as a football coaches press conferences,
we're pretty black and white, no gray, And it seemed
like that's what he wanted his players to be about.
And so now it's like the complete opposite. So just
to even talk about this, just to see this type
of stuff coming out is wild to me because this
seems like it goes against everything that Bill Belichick is

(36:06):
portrayed his entire coaching career.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
So what how what you mean? I don't understand. How
can this be private? There's no privacy in this. When
you're walking around with a twenty four year old girl,
there's no privacy in that.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
He's not hiding her either. You know, they're doing bandy cats,
little mermaid photo shoots, they doing yoga posers on the
beach and stuff like that, like you have.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
I can see having a you know, you know, a
girlfriend or significant other your age, and nobody knows about it,
you know, because they're the same age, and you know,
you get you know, pictures taking walking around. But when
you're walking around with a twenty four year old girl,
people are going to you know, beginning to ask their
eyebrows and ask a question, what the hell is going

(36:52):
on over there?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Right?

Speaker 5 (36:53):
So there is no hidingness or privacy outside of football.
That's because of the mere fact that this girl is
basically almost fifty years younger than he.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
I mean, wasn't Robert Kraft dating a younger, younger lady
as well at one point in time? I mean, I don't,
I don't, I mean, or even still now. Maybe I
don't know, like I think she's I mean, I guess
he married her. I married her. She's way younger than him, right,
she's way younger than him. I don't recall this being

(37:25):
I mean, he got into some sitting, some issues off
of you know, they call him Bob, we call him
Bobby orchids on on two pros because he went to
Orchards of Asia. But I mean, this situation here and
to your point, TJ, Listen, you've been down in Annapolis
with me before TJ down or plex downtown. It's a
college town and in Annapolis. You know, he's an Annapolis guy.

(37:47):
You'll see him walking around Annapolis. You haven't. I mean
I've seen We've seen pictures of him doing the Walk
of Shame and stuff like that. Like I wouldn't say
it's all been on field with Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick
has shown that he has personality and he does do
things outside of football. You know, he had to Taco meet.

(38:08):
I was watching, you know, early morning without a shirt
on head and back man.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
The Patriots.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
He's never shown, not in the not in the post interviews.
I one hundred percent agree with you there not in
the post interviews. But there have been moments where Bill
Belichick showed you like he gets it in. He will
get it in now. I'm just saying, no doubt. I
don't know how do you guys see it.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
So I was listening to what you were saying before
the break. So basically your take, your take on this
is you really don't have a problem with it because
it's not your daughter.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Is that what you.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Cool with it? But it just ain't gonna be my daughter.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I'm just saying she's she's of I legal age. I
think it's weird, like I think anybody that's an old
head like and culturally speaking, right, because you can go
to different places around the world and you can see
easily and clearly that older dudes like younger women like
I've heard that before. I've seen that before, don't. I
don't judge that because I don't know their culture. Culturally

(39:19):
speaking for me, I would not want my daughters to
day to do that is old enough to be their
granddad or even their dad, to be honest. So if
you're asking me, the only reason why I'll say I
could tolerate it plex is for the simple reason that
he actually does not hide her, like she's not an

(39:42):
OnlyFans model. She ain't out here collect trying to collect
though she's trying to build her resume. You know, that's
the only reason.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, she's not a bad looking young lady.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
But I gotta be honest, I think the most intriguing
thing about this whole relationship is what then the hell
did he say to her on his plane and howdy
get her into it?

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, she's growing, she's growing. She's got like an eight
million dollar uh uh you know, Wow, a portfolio of property.
So I think they've put together a strong partnership. I
will say, is what it sounds like to me. Plex
everybody tried to get ahead in life. Man.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Everybody wants something out of something. It's got to be transactional,
you know what I mean. Maybe sometimes transfer transformal, transformational too. Anyways,
we're gonna get to an hour or two coming up
next up on game Fox Sports Radio. Will be right
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