July 11, 2026 • 36 mins
LaVar Arrington talks about the looming threat of flag football, the Browns QB situation headed into the new season, and more!
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we got cups coming in an hour or two, but
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so it's just me and you one on one, and
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on to ig it's King of the Mammals. If you
want to hit me there, I already gave you my
ex But let's get into it, all right. I want
to talk about something that well, it hits close to
home for me for certain, and I'm sure it HiT's
close to home for most parents. Definitely, coaches, old heads
or anyone who's ever put a helmet on. And it's
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been the topic of flag football, and I want to
have a conversation. Is flag football the pivot that saves football?
Or is flag football the replacement? If you think about it,
flag football is now an Olympic sport. In twenty twenty eight,
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it will be done. Millions of kids are playing it.
And tackle football, well, it's a game that's fighting to
hold its ground while even trying to expand beyond the
borders of America, which is pretty interesting for this topic.
And I want to ask you guys this. This is
the topic. I want you guys to the two questions
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I want you guys to answer. I just asked you
is this the pivot or is it replacing? Is it
replacing tackle football? And would you allow your child to
play right now what you know today? Would you allow
your child to play tackle football at a young youth
level age? So here's where I'm gonna start, all right,
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here's where I start the conversation. High school football participation.
It's been dropping and it's dropped about seventeen percent since
two thousand and six. Now that's a large amount of time,
but for the trend, to be dropping down and to
be all the way at seventeen percent, that's pretty high
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and it's something that would most likely draw it would
draw in investigative work to figure out why is the
decline And I think we know why the declinent has
taken place. That is tops actually in boys sports in
this country, tops in the client. So it's been driven
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by the word safety, concussions CTE. Parents making choices now
because it's the responsible one, right And at the same time,
flag football has exploded. You got NFL Flag They've quadrupled
since twenty nineteen and now it's serving hundreds of thousands
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of kids across fifty states. In twenty twenty four, you've
roughly had seven point eight million Americans that played flag football.
That's a lot, y'all. That's more, in fact, than the
six point one million who played tackle. It's a lot.
It's a big gap. So let that one sit with
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you for a minute and understand that. You know, it's
not just boys, this is girls. Girls. Flag is blowing up.
It's one of the fastest growing high school sports in America.
Did you know that twenty states Now I'll sanction it
as a varsity sport. Girls are playing flat and I've
seen a few games they be balling too. They ain't
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playing out there. There's more coming. And you see now
the big one, the granddaddy of them all is Los
Angeles is well, they're hosting flag football in the Olympics, right,
NFL owners, this is so big and this makes me
wonder and I'm gonna get to it. I'm just setting
the stage for y'all. NFL owners voted to let their
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players compete. Now, I find out to be interesting because
what if somebody breaks a leg, breaks an arm, throws
their shoulder out, messes up there, they're throwing arm or something.
You know, something happens. A league owner is actually okay
with that liability taking place for this sports event. I
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think that's very critical to the conversation. They're trying to
legitimately turn the game into a global s and what
does flag football have the power and the ability to do? Hey?
Just that. So here's my take, y'all. Let me know
what y'all think. Y'all could call me crazy. It wouldn't
be the first time, but here's where I land on it.
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All right, at least to start, I think flag is
saving football. It's not killing it, saving it. And I'll
tell you why, because it's an on ramp, it's the floor,
it's the front door. I think it's brilliant if you
ask me, schematically speaking, for the NFL to boost up Flag,
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prop it up, make it important. A lot of these
families they're now getting away from fear being scared and
they're actually confident and happy to allow their kids to
participate in FLAG. And I don't blame them, right, they've
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read the stories, they've seen what happened to guys we love.
I mean, you see what's going on right now, the
latest stuff. You know, just I don't know if what
Chris is going to going through and shouts out to
Chris Johnson. I don't know if it's connected the football.
Probably may not be, but man, we see some of
the things, the effects and the impacts that it has
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on the people that we love and have made our heroes,
and they don't want their kids to go through that risk.
And I think Flag lets a kid fall in love
with the game. You know, you run the routes, it's competition,
it's competitive, and it teaches teamwork, right, catching the ball
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in traffic without mom and dad losing sleepover if you're
gonna get hit, and it's cheaper, like, let's keep it
there too. You don't need thousands of dollars a whole
bunch of pads, helmets. You just throw the belt on,
you throw the flags on, and you get the going.
So to me, it opens the door for kids who
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never touch the field otherwise they choose other things, They
be told to go other ways, go in different directions,
and it makes a ton of sense. This allows for young,
young kids and families to get exposure to the game,
and that also provides an opportunity for it to become
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a global game, which that's what the nfls are trying.
That's what the NFL is trying to do is grow
their audience into a global market safe intro to the game,
and it's the biggest stage being able to do it. Like,
think about this the NFL, And this goes back to
my point on the NFL owners. Well you look at
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the NFL owners voting to let their players play. Of
course you are, you know why, because that's one of
the biggest best platforms spectacles of sport. To be able
to prop up your game and not have the criticisms
of CTE or any type of other injury be a
part of the conversation, because you're not going to relate
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flag football to the NFL. You're just going to look
at these these people competing, these superior athletes of all
these different countries competing, and you're all going to be
thinking the same thing. Can they beat the Americans in
an American game? That's what you're going to be looking at,
and you're going to be intrigued, You're going to be interested,
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and you're going to watch, and it ultimately is going
to drive up participation. That's just what it is. If
you try to take tackle, well, we never seen tackle
at the Olympic level and we definitely haven't seen the
NFL jump to do it. So it's pretty interesting they're
betting on they're betting on flag football to be the case. Now,
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the next question, do you let your kids play? And
it's a it's a great it's a great question, but
I want I want to take this deeper, all right,
and I want you guys to, like, you know, kind
of stay with me on this, all right. I would
let my kids play, and I have let my kids play.
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In fact, my daughter played flag football and I coached
her team. She's really good. But let me take you
somewhere where I believe this is bigger than flag versus tackle.
I was raised in a game of football, and football
is the closest thing. I grew up in a military home.
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My father is military, and it's just something that he
kind of ingrained in us growing up. Was it's the
closest thing we have to the military. Then you start
breaking it down, it's like it's crazy. You take it
a step further. It's actually an entire micro Michael cosm
structure of our country. You got the president. Who's the president?
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You got the owner where you got to school. Who's
the general. It's your head coach. Who are your soldiers,
it's your players. You recruit the people. Sound familiar. Recruit
for the army, the military. You put together a team
that's the generals and the lieutenants and all of them.
They're putting together the team. You build out your units.
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You got offensive units, you got defensive units, and you
have special units. Sound familiar because it is all these
position groups. You study your opponent, You build a mission
and a plan. You train for it, you practice for it,
you prepare for it, and then you meet your opponent
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on the battlefield. On the football field, you have to
go on the offense from time to From time to time,
you got to go on the defense from time to time.
And the main objective is to win. We weren't just
out there playing a game. Football was teaching us how
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to be soldiers. It was teaching us how to be prepared.
I think it's crazy important that these points be raised.
And so I started asking myself the question, and it's
been sitting with me. If football is that important, if
it teaches all of us that, If you have the
NFL that's trying to expand beyond the American borders, and
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it's king right now, and it's generating so many so
much revenue and so much fund funding, shouldn't the best coaches.
Shouldn't that investment go into the best coaches, the best
teachers of the game, the greatest minds, even if they're
not full time coaching. These college coaches are making millions
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of dollars, These pro coaches are making millions of dollars
to coach at the highest levels. You want to justify
the contracts. Get them involved with youth athletics to a
much much larger degree where they're not only impacting the coaches,
they're impacting the kids need the greatest minds doing it
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when they're younger, not once they get older. So if
you're having that high quality at the beginning, to me,
that's what makes sense. I mean, would builders build something
and not have the foundation be built correctly, be built properly.
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Teaching out a young level is like, it's super important.
And it's interesting when you think about gym classes right now.
You remember gym class. It was the one thing that
you well, at least I think back in the day,
you had a whole bunch of fun doing it. But
it was lightweight, a version of the military, right, basic
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training almost. You had to do push up tests, you
had to do sit up tests, you had a time mile.
You had to earn it back then. And you know
what's happening now kids are failing gym class. You let
that one land with you, some of y'all, y'all got
them in your house right now. It just seems like
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our country used to make fitness and preparation and toughness
a standard, not an exception. And I think football played
a major, major part in that, And it's just what
we did be tough, be gritty, be prepared, and it
just it doesn't seem like it shows up. So now
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when I look at it, football has shown us dangers.
But I'm not going to sit here and pretend that
it hasn't shown us what life is really really about.
Life is dangerous, it's full adversity and having toughness and
resolved and grit. That's always been what's defined us, you know,
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as a country. That's what we prided ourselves on being,
is gritty and tough, being prepared. That's who we've been.
And it just seems like that commitment and and that
value system, well, let's turned to other things. And I
don't mind that the interests have grown. Technology has grown,
information has grown. Kids are building whole careers off of
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their phone. I get all of that, but I think
it's interesting when learning to work together under pressure, physically,
enduring fatigue, pushing when your body says to stop. I
think those lessons they carry so much more value than
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what anyone could could ever even imagine. And those things
get developed on a football field, They get developed in
a locker room, in a weight room, in a meeting room,
the training room. That's where you learn all of these
lessons when it's hard, you learn how to deal with
when it's hard, and I feel like that's the underlying
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thought process to this entire conversation. I like flag football.
I think it's great for the game. And yeah, we'll
continue to keep up with that conversation and see how
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up on the other side of the break. Yeah, there
was some trade rumors that were out there with the
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conversation in Cleveland connected to Shadora Sanders. I wanted to
dive into it a little bit, see how you felt
about it, see how I feel about it, and we're
going to do that next. You're listening to up on game,
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All right, welcome back into the show. It's Fox Sports Radio.
It's up on Game. I'm LeVar Arrington flying solo today. Well,
I got perfet and I got bow with me, so
I'm never alone. Don't get a twisted will pop out
on you. Uh, but TJ and Plex are in Vegas
for basketball phenom tournaments with their their kids, so shots
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out to them and good luck to them.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Some of your comments on the football topic boat life,
boat Life said if they want to Yes, not a
sport that you can push force onto a kid for
other sports for that matter. I believe it is the
ultimate team sport and you learn more from the tough
times than you do from the good time. Shots out
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the bolt Life. Appreciate you tuning in. My oldest son
he received received two major concussions his sophomore year and
it has had a major impact on his life, including
loss of scholarship offers now facing malt cognitive issues. Flag
football is a great opportunity for newcomers and young kids.
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Thoughts and prayers and well wishes to your son. I
hope that he, you know, is a able to pull it,
you know, put it in the right direction and and
get through it the best that he can. Shouts out
to you and your family. Appreciate you listening and chiming in.
Still D that's still JD JD still well, all right.
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Appreciate you listening and giving a very real, personal, you know,
assessment of it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
One more, I give one more, but I'll read a
couple more as we go throughout the show. The question is,
is flag replacing or helping tackle football? Would you let
your kids play angry bike lane? He says, no, but
kids are well, all right, I'm not doing yours. You're
kind of funny, snake eater. But I appreciate you listening.
(18:43):
Angry bike lane snake eater, he put not a kid.
Probably led a high schooler though, and that's what that
would be, all right. Appreciate you guys listening and appreciate
the input and what you guys got going on right now.
I teach you guys on the should Sanders conversation in Cleveland.
And it's interesting. I did this because, well, his name
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has been put in trade rumors and it seems like
it happens quite a bit this summer, so I think
it's I don't I don't understand why it makes sense
to approach it this way. But with that being said,
I want to break it down just kind of the
way I see it, you know how I see things.
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And well here's where I'll start. Browns have a crowded
quarterback room to begin with. Again, we don't even really
mention Dylan Gabriel's name. They got Deshaun Watson, who's finishing
up the fully guaranteed two hundred and thirty million dollar
deal and coming off of well not one but two
Achilles surgeries. Then you got your Door Sanders entering year two,
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you got Dylan Gabriel, and you drafted Tailing Green late
as a project? Is he a project? That's four quarterback?
Something's got to give, something always has got to give.
And the easiest name to move and the rumor mil
is always going to be the guy who moved the
draft that he was in and didn't even go until
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the fifth round. They helped a man out until the
fifth round, but wove the whole entire draft around his draft.
I mean maybe they made money off of him going
in the fifth round. Maybe maybe it was worth it.
Maybe he was a part of it. Anyways, that's topic
for another time. I'm just thinking out loud. But listen,
here's what the Browns have going on. They got a
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new head coach, Todd Monkin has come in. He's replaced
the Fanski and that always changes everything, right, you get
a new coach, you get a new idea how you're
going to do things, new idea of what you want
to do, and that could create different different opinions. I
was of the mindset, if Shador Sanders is your quarterback
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of the future, then he should be starting this year.
I don't even think it should be so much. There's
always competition, but he should be the first one. The
first name in the competition. Deshaun Watson, even with the
two hundred and thirty million dollar contract, in my estimation,
should have to compete to get the starting job, not
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not the other way around. But nonetheless, you got a
new head coach that the all deals are off. When
you got a new head coach, they're going to go
with what they feel is correctly. He's made it clear
that he's alternating them on reps between Watson and Shador,
And well, Watson's the favorite to start week one, and
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it's mostly because I guess he's a veteran, you know.
And do you think that Shador is too young? I
wouldn't say that, but you know, they said from James
Palmer says that Shador has closed the gap. And that's
the word that that matters, I guess is closing the gap.
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So I'm gonna give it to you straight. I think
I think Palmer's exact read and quote that don't have
any intention They do not have any intentions of trading him.
He put that out there, and Cleveland sees a player
who's improving, who's cheap, who they can control for years,
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and that's probably the key. And here's another one. He
has not caused any problems behind the scenes. All the
noise last year about his attitude, whether he'd be good
in a locker room, Palmer says, the kid has done
nothing but put his head down and work. And he
was in my eighth grade All Star game. I knew
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Shador when Shador was a baby, and one thing that
Prime had his baby's doing was working hard. He had
them while he was out there coaching and Orlando at
the Under Armour All American Game, and his kids were
always with him. And eventually when we did the eighth
grade All Star Game that's connected to the under Armour Game,
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he was one of the quarterbacks in that game and
actually won the MVP award in the game. He has
great work ethic and it is a really cool, unique
young man. Also, the belief of Watson and Shador being
on the roster starting the season, I mean, I think
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there's a conversation there. Why would you not have Shador
on the team. Here was my thought process on it,
and I could be wrong, but it's just where I
landed on it. I feel like if Shador, even with
Monkin being a new coach, if Monkin saw in Shador
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Sanders that he was the quarterback of the future, I
do not believe he would have Deshaun Watson starting ahead
of him or saying he's the front runner while they're competing.
I would have it, as I mentioned, the opposite direction.
But then I also thought to myself, it's easier to
bench Deshaun Watson and put in Shador Sanders versus bench
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Shador Sanders put into Shaun Watson. I think it's easier
to play the vet. You can justify with the money
it didn't work. Now we're putting Shador in. But I
think ultimately where we stand right now, with all of
the conversation and the speculation of what this next quarterback
class looks like, they may be preparing to draft a
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quarterback that they feel is their quarterback of the future
and may not be looking at any of these quarterbacks
as actually a long term answer to their quarterback needs. Now,
both Deshaun Watson, which I can't see Deshaun Watson getting
re signed to the Cleveland Browns if he were to
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have a stellar year. But I've seen crazier things happen.
Maybe they put him on a franchise tag and try
to ride it out. I think it would be crazy
to try to do any more business with Deshaun Watson.
But that's just personally me. And then what does that
mean for shad Door Sanders flips out of it? If
Shador Sanders ends up getting in and he plays really,
really well, I wonder, can he play himself into the
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permanent starting job and them not use a draft pick on,
you know, on getting a quarterback, which would ultimately mean,
you know, probably Shador Sanders ends up being a backup
or trying to compete with this new incoming starter, incoming
draft pick to the team. All of this, your boy,
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Dylan Gabriel lost in the shuffle, not even in the conversation,
but it was. It's an interesting conversation because if you
were to get rid of Shador Sanders, this will be
my last word on it. If Shador Sanders were to
get traded, now, what could be the logical reason of that?
And the only logic that I could come up with
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in surmise based off of just what I know, how
gms think, how NFL teams operate and how they work.
Is one. He's still on his rookie contract, but he
has value, and I just wonder with that value, it's
his value. Could his value be valued as high as
it is right now to be able to get something
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more out of the trade with him than what it
would be if we found out what that is this
upcoming season? Do you lose the value of what you
could do if you were to move on from Shador
Sanders knowing that if it doesn't go well, you're drafting
a quarterback. Not only that, but you gotta believe Shador
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Sanders is a fan favorite. And if they were to
indeed start Deshaun Watson, even leading up to the season,
through training camp, through preseason, do you not think that
they're going to do the same exact defans are going
to do the same exact things that they did last year.
They are going to pressure, they are going to make
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their voices known that they want Shador Sanders playing in
the game. How does that impact your two hundred and
thirty million dollars starter? It could impact them if he
makes a mistake, whatever it could be, it's going to
impact Deshaun Watson. Do you just take the brunt of it,
take the sting of it, and get rid of him? Now, yeah,
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I say get rid of because you're you're you're basically
if you're going to move on from him after this
season anyway, you're going to have to figure out what's
your exit strategy. Because I think he's a he's he
warrants that thought because he's a very popular player, look
at his jersey sales. Anyways, it's going to be an
interesting conversation, an interesting topic. I think that it's a
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new head coach that makes it more of a discussion.
If this was Stefanski, I think that you got to
believe that if they were starting to Shaun Watson, it's
because they don't believe in Shador Sanders. But since it's
a new head coach, it'll be interesting thing to see
if one of these two players can play themselves and
the Cleveland Browns into the type of year where it
opens the conversation to it not just being about getting
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a quarterback in this upcoming draft. Let's take a trending.
We'll keep the conversations going on on the other side,
or to break what you got, mister Isaac Loewing cron Yeah,
no offense to plaque and teacher.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
But I've really been enjoying listening to you, flying soulo
of art.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Good job.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I appreciate thanks, thanks, love, I appreciate that anytime.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I know you're going to get new on them in
hour two. But so I'll take your done trees and
your niceness right now. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Oh, well, I guess we can't.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Can't give a guy a compliment these days.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I liked it. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh anytime. Hey, We've got a really dramatic development right now.
In the Ladies singles final at Wimbledon, it's an all
chucky a matchup between Linda Noskova and Carolina Mukava. Now,
Noskova easily won the first set six to two, but
in the second set she was up five games to two.
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She was on championship point and had three championship points
where she could not close the deal. So Mukeva won
that game to make it five to three, and in
the next game, Noskova once again had a championship fault.
Championship point, but she double faulted on the serf. So
Noskova has had four championship points, has been unable to
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seal the deal each time, and it is now five
games to four Noskova over Mukava in the second set
in the Ladies singles final at Wimbledon. Today's World Cup
quarterfinal action kicks off at five pm Eastern from Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's going to be England against Norway. But the main.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Story here, LeVar, is the weather, because hard Rock Stadium
is going to be part of a National Weather Service
heat advisory. Current game time forecast ninety three degrees with
fifty eight percent humidity and a heat index of one
oh six. That means the temperature and humidity will make
it feel like one hundred and six degrees. I assume
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you've had to play in conditions similar to that in
terms of the heat and the humidity. Of course, these
guys won't be wearing full shoulder pads and pads all over.
But what was it like for you?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I liked heat. I liked it, and I, you know,
I just live in it, so but I always like
being butt naked when I'm overheating too, and when it's
hot outside too, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
good with both.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I have no problem with that. I just wish that
didn't translate to your radio career. Sofia, what I'm looking
for in the glass?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Through the glass?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want I would maybe
do a shirtless show maybe one day if you're in studio.
I'm in studio and the magic happens between the glass,
I might you know, that might be what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Like to self confidence on your part, LeVar most impressive.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
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couple minutes, a matter of ten minutes, we'll have Cuffs
the legends joining us to talk some basketball, all some NBA,
so that'll be fun to get to before we round
out and finish up this hour. We talked about Shakor
(32:08):
Stevens and the Sandy Shark conversation was a little bit
rush because we were up against it on the time,
kind of finished it off kind of quickly. But you know,
you got guys like Muhammad al Lei, you got guys
like Joe Frazier, you know, George Foreman, like the heavyweights,
the great heavyweights of the time. We've always loved a
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knockout artist. Just some guys just aren't going to be
that type of a boxer. So I get why the
excitement of somebody being able to put hands on somebody
to that degree is more exciting and more polarizing than
somebody who gets the job done in a very technical,
very very fundamentally sound way. Not to say that those
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knockout artists are not fundamentally sound, just saying that it's
a very different style. So while the opinion of being
boring is our an opinion, it still comes across as
well at tack bit ignorant to the beauty of watching
somebody who really can fight. And speaking of you know,
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we thought it was the end of Connor McGregor, and
well he's coming back. And how do I think it ends?
I don't know, And that's my fear. There's a fine
line between chasing one more magic moment and taking one
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that or being a part of someone else's magic moment.
And I just wonder, is Connor McGregor setting himself up
for a legendary fall? So many times when you're so great,
and you're so great for so long, the problem is
that you just don't know when. Sometimes you just don't
(33:55):
know when that when is enough when you say it
like this is the time for me to step away.
At least it's not gimmicky in my estimation, And maybe
some people may disagree with me, but I don't look
at this as being a gimmicky match. I really believe
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that Connor McGregor believes that he can get back in
there and handle handle his business. So he fights tonight,
and I just I'm curious, and you guys can hit
me up on Kingdom Mammals on ig or hit me
up on ex at LeVar Arrington. How do you feel
about the McGregor fight. Do you want to see it?
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Is it something that you're going to be a part
of it? Does it excite you? Or is it too
many comebacks? And is this that one comeback that maybe
works against him? Again my at least at least it
isn't a Paul fight. I'm sorry, I'm I like the idea,
(34:58):
the entertainment of the Paul fight. And listen, McGregor Floyd
Mayweather in an exhibition, even though I still thought that
was more of a fight, even though you know it's
probably I don't know, Well, that one's debatable, but I
think he's gonna have to fight in this this fight
this evening, and well, I don't know if it defines
(35:22):
his his career. It certainly doesn't define his career, but
does it hurt his career? Is what I would you know,
I would be interested to see he's fighting Max Holloway.
He's got nine losses. Uh, it's probably a doable fight
for him, but it's just be interesting. Yes, I will
(35:43):
be watching and it will be you know what I'm
doing this evening. Uh, we're gonna get the hour two.
We got Cups the Legend coming on. We're gonna talk NBA,
obviously Lebron a couple other things that we will get
to as well during the next hour. Hope you guys
stay locked in, tuned in. Hope you've enjoyed hour one
so far. Yeah, take a quick break. We'll reset the
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show and we'll do hour two and see what we
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we got cups coming in an hour or two, but
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on to ig it's King of the Mammals. If you
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ex But let's get into it, all right. I want
to talk about something that well, it hits close to
home for me for certain, and I'm sure it HiT's
close to home for most parents. Definitely, coaches, old heads
or anyone who's ever put a helmet on. And it's
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been the topic of flag football, and I want to
have a conversation. Is flag football the pivot that saves football?
Or is flag football the replacement? If you think about it,
flag football is now an Olympic sport. In twenty twenty eight,
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it will be done. Millions of kids are playing it.
And tackle football, well, it's a game that's fighting to
hold its ground while even trying to expand beyond the
borders of America, which is pretty interesting for this topic.
And I want to ask you guys this. This is
the topic. I want you guys to the two questions
(01:53):
I want you guys to answer. I just asked you
is this the pivot or is it replacing? Is it
replacing tackle football? And would you allow your child to
play right now what you know today? Would you allow
your child to play tackle football at a young youth
level age? So here's where I'm gonna start, all right,
(02:16):
here's where I start the conversation. High school football participation.
It's been dropping and it's dropped about seventeen percent since
two thousand and six. Now that's a large amount of time,
but for the trend, to be dropping down and to
be all the way at seventeen percent, that's pretty high
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and it's something that would most likely draw it would
draw in investigative work to figure out why is the
decline And I think we know why the declinent has
taken place. That is tops actually in boys sports in
this country, tops in the client. So it's been driven
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by the word safety, concussions CTE. Parents making choices now
because it's the responsible one, right And at the same time,
flag football has exploded. You got NFL Flag They've quadrupled
since twenty nineteen and now it's serving hundreds of thousands
(03:22):
of kids across fifty states. In twenty twenty four, you've
roughly had seven point eight million Americans that played flag football.
That's a lot, y'all. That's more, in fact, than the
six point one million who played tackle. It's a lot.
It's a big gap. So let that one sit with
(03:44):
you for a minute and understand that. You know, it's
not just boys, this is girls. Girls. Flag is blowing up.
It's one of the fastest growing high school sports in America.
Did you know that twenty states Now I'll sanction it
as a varsity sport. Girls are playing flat and I've
seen a few games they be balling too. They ain't
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playing out there. There's more coming. And you see now
the big one, the granddaddy of them all is Los
Angeles is well, they're hosting flag football in the Olympics, right,
NFL owners, this is so big and this makes me
wonder and I'm gonna get to it. I'm just setting
the stage for y'all. NFL owners voted to let their
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players compete. Now, I find out to be interesting because
what if somebody breaks a leg, breaks an arm, throws
their shoulder out, messes up there, they're throwing arm or something.
You know, something happens. A league owner is actually okay
with that liability taking place for this sports event. I
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think that's very critical to the conversation. They're trying to
legitimately turn the game into a global s and what
does flag football have the power and the ability to do? Hey?
Just that. So here's my take, y'all. Let me know
what y'all think. Y'all could call me crazy. It wouldn't
be the first time, but here's where I land on it.
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All right, at least to start, I think flag is
saving football. It's not killing it, saving it. And I'll
tell you why, because it's an on ramp, it's the floor,
it's the front door. I think it's brilliant if you
ask me, schematically speaking, for the NFL to boost up Flag,
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prop it up, make it important. A lot of these
families they're now getting away from fear being scared and
they're actually confident and happy to allow their kids to
participate in FLAG. And I don't blame them, right, they've
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read the stories, they've seen what happened to guys we love.
I mean, you see what's going on right now, the
latest stuff. You know, just I don't know if what
Chris is going to going through and shouts out to
Chris Johnson. I don't know if it's connected the football.
Probably may not be, but man, we see some of
the things, the effects and the impacts that it has
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on the people that we love and have made our heroes,
and they don't want their kids to go through that risk.
And I think Flag lets a kid fall in love
with the game. You know, you run the routes, it's competition,
it's competitive, and it teaches teamwork, right, catching the ball
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in traffic without mom and dad losing sleepover if you're
gonna get hit, and it's cheaper, like, let's keep it
there too. You don't need thousands of dollars a whole
bunch of pads, helmets. You just throw the belt on,
you throw the flags on, and you get the going.
So to me, it opens the door for kids who
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never touch the field otherwise they choose other things, They
be told to go other ways, go in different directions,
and it makes a ton of sense. This allows for young,
young kids and families to get exposure to the game,
and that also provides an opportunity for it to become
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a global game, which that's what the nfls are trying.
That's what the NFL is trying to do is grow
their audience into a global market safe intro to the game,
and it's the biggest stage being able to do it. Like,
think about this the NFL, And this goes back to
my point on the NFL owners. Well you look at
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the NFL owners voting to let their players play. Of
course you are, you know why, because that's one of
the biggest best platforms spectacles of sport. To be able
to prop up your game and not have the criticisms
of CTE or any type of other injury be a
part of the conversation, because you're not going to relate
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flag football to the NFL. You're just going to look
at these these people competing, these superior athletes of all
these different countries competing, and you're all going to be
thinking the same thing. Can they beat the Americans in
an American game? That's what you're going to be looking at,
and you're going to be intrigued, You're going to be interested,
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and you're going to watch, and it ultimately is going
to drive up participation. That's just what it is. If
you try to take tackle, well, we never seen tackle
at the Olympic level and we definitely haven't seen the
NFL jump to do it. So it's pretty interesting they're
betting on they're betting on flag football to be the case. Now,
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the next question, do you let your kids play? And
it's a it's a great it's a great question, but
I want I want to take this deeper, all right,
and I want you guys to, like, you know, kind
of stay with me on this, all right. I would
let my kids play, and I have let my kids play.
(09:11):
In fact, my daughter played flag football and I coached
her team. She's really good. But let me take you
somewhere where I believe this is bigger than flag versus tackle.
I was raised in a game of football, and football
is the closest thing. I grew up in a military home.
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My father is military, and it's just something that he
kind of ingrained in us growing up. Was it's the
closest thing we have to the military. Then you start
breaking it down, it's like it's crazy. You take it
a step further. It's actually an entire micro Michael cosm
structure of our country. You got the president. Who's the president?
(09:54):
You got the owner where you got to school. Who's
the general. It's your head coach. Who are your soldiers,
it's your players. You recruit the people. Sound familiar. Recruit
for the army, the military. You put together a team
that's the generals and the lieutenants and all of them.
They're putting together the team. You build out your units.
(10:18):
You got offensive units, you got defensive units, and you
have special units. Sound familiar because it is all these
position groups. You study your opponent, You build a mission
and a plan. You train for it, you practice for it,
you prepare for it, and then you meet your opponent
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on the battlefield. On the football field, you have to
go on the offense from time to From time to time,
you got to go on the defense from time to time.
And the main objective is to win. We weren't just
out there playing a game. Football was teaching us how
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to be soldiers. It was teaching us how to be prepared.
I think it's crazy important that these points be raised.
And so I started asking myself the question, and it's
been sitting with me. If football is that important, if
it teaches all of us that, If you have the
NFL that's trying to expand beyond the American borders, and
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it's king right now, and it's generating so many so
much revenue and so much fund funding, shouldn't the best coaches.
Shouldn't that investment go into the best coaches, the best
teachers of the game, the greatest minds, even if they're
not full time coaching. These college coaches are making millions
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of dollars, These pro coaches are making millions of dollars
to coach at the highest levels. You want to justify
the contracts. Get them involved with youth athletics to a
much much larger degree where they're not only impacting the coaches,
they're impacting the kids need the greatest minds doing it
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when they're younger, not once they get older. So if
you're having that high quality at the beginning, to me,
that's what makes sense. I mean, would builders build something
and not have the foundation be built correctly, be built properly.
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Teaching out a young level is like, it's super important.
And it's interesting when you think about gym classes right now.
You remember gym class. It was the one thing that
you well, at least I think back in the day,
you had a whole bunch of fun doing it. But
it was lightweight, a version of the military, right, basic
(12:44):
training almost. You had to do push up tests, you
had to do sit up tests, you had a time mile.
You had to earn it back then. And you know
what's happening now kids are failing gym class. You let
that one land with you, some of y'all, y'all got
them in your house right now. It just seems like
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our country used to make fitness and preparation and toughness
a standard, not an exception. And I think football played
a major, major part in that, And it's just what
we did be tough, be gritty, be prepared, and it
just it doesn't seem like it shows up. So now
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when I look at it, football has shown us dangers.
But I'm not going to sit here and pretend that
it hasn't shown us what life is really really about.
Life is dangerous, it's full adversity and having toughness and
resolved and grit. That's always been what's defined us, you know,
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as a country. That's what we prided ourselves on being,
is gritty and tough, being prepared. That's who we've been.
And it just seems like that commitment and and that
value system, well, let's turned to other things. And I
don't mind that the interests have grown. Technology has grown,
information has grown. Kids are building whole careers off of
(14:11):
their phone. I get all of that, but I think
it's interesting when learning to work together under pressure, physically,
enduring fatigue, pushing when your body says to stop. I
think those lessons they carry so much more value than
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what anyone could could ever even imagine. And those things
get developed on a football field, They get developed in
a locker room, in a weight room, in a meeting room,
the training room. That's where you learn all of these
lessons when it's hard, you learn how to deal with
when it's hard, and I feel like that's the underlying
(14:55):
thought process to this entire conversation. I like flag football.
I think it's great for the game. And yeah, we'll
continue to keep up with that conversation and see how
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(15:38):
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All right, welcome back into the show. It's Fox Sports Radio.
It's up on Game. I'm LeVar Arrington flying solo today. Well,
I got perfet and I got bow with me, so
I'm never alone. Don't get a twisted will pop out
on you. Uh, but TJ and Plex are in Vegas
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out to them and good luck to them.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Some of your comments on the football topic boat life,
boat Life said if they want to Yes, not a
sport that you can push force onto a kid for
other sports for that matter. I believe it is the
ultimate team sport and you learn more from the tough
times than you do from the good time. Shots out
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the bolt Life. Appreciate you tuning in. My oldest son
he received received two major concussions his sophomore year and
it has had a major impact on his life, including
loss of scholarship offers now facing malt cognitive issues. Flag
football is a great opportunity for newcomers and young kids.
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Thoughts and prayers and well wishes to your son. I
hope that he, you know, is a able to pull it,
you know, put it in the right direction and and
get through it the best that he can. Shouts out
to you and your family. Appreciate you listening and chiming in.
Still D that's still JD JD still well, all right.
(18:15):
Appreciate you listening and giving a very real, personal, you know,
assessment of it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
One more, I give one more, but I'll read a
couple more as we go throughout the show. The question is,
is flag replacing or helping tackle football? Would you let
your kids play angry bike lane? He says, no, but
kids are well, all right, I'm not doing yours. You're
kind of funny, snake eater. But I appreciate you listening.
(18:43):
Angry bike lane snake eater, he put not a kid.
Probably led a high schooler though, and that's what that
would be, all right. Appreciate you guys listening and appreciate
the input and what you guys got going on right now.
I teach you guys on the should Sanders conversation in Cleveland.
And it's interesting. I did this because, well, his name
(19:06):
has been put in trade rumors and it seems like
it happens quite a bit this summer, so I think
it's I don't I don't understand why it makes sense
to approach it this way. But with that being said,
I want to break it down just kind of the
way I see it, you know how I see things.
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And well here's where I'll start. Browns have a crowded
quarterback room to begin with. Again, we don't even really
mention Dylan Gabriel's name. They got Deshaun Watson, who's finishing
up the fully guaranteed two hundred and thirty million dollar
deal and coming off of well not one but two
Achilles surgeries. Then you got your Door Sanders entering year two,
(19:52):
you got Dylan Gabriel, and you drafted Tailing Green late
as a project? Is he a project? That's four quarterback?
Something's got to give, something always has got to give.
And the easiest name to move and the rumor mil
is always going to be the guy who moved the
draft that he was in and didn't even go until
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the fifth round. They helped a man out until the
fifth round, but wove the whole entire draft around his draft.
I mean maybe they made money off of him going
in the fifth round. Maybe maybe it was worth it.
Maybe he was a part of it. Anyways, that's topic
for another time. I'm just thinking out loud. But listen,
here's what the Browns have going on. They got a
(20:32):
new head coach, Todd Monkin has come in. He's replaced
the Fanski and that always changes everything, right, you get
a new coach, you get a new idea how you're
going to do things, new idea of what you want
to do, and that could create different different opinions. I
was of the mindset, if Shador Sanders is your quarterback
(20:53):
of the future, then he should be starting this year.
I don't even think it should be so much. There's
always competition, but he should be the first one. The
first name in the competition. Deshaun Watson, even with the
two hundred and thirty million dollar contract, in my estimation,
should have to compete to get the starting job, not
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not the other way around. But nonetheless, you got a
new head coach that the all deals are off. When
you got a new head coach, they're going to go
with what they feel is correctly. He's made it clear
that he's alternating them on reps between Watson and Shador,
And well, Watson's the favorite to start week one, and
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it's mostly because I guess he's a veteran, you know.
And do you think that Shador is too young? I
wouldn't say that, but you know, they said from James
Palmer says that Shador has closed the gap. And that's
the word that that matters, I guess is closing the gap.
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So I'm gonna give it to you straight. I think
I think Palmer's exact read and quote that don't have
any intention They do not have any intentions of trading him.
He put that out there, and Cleveland sees a player
who's improving, who's cheap, who they can control for years,
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and that's probably the key. And here's another one. He
has not caused any problems behind the scenes. All the
noise last year about his attitude, whether he'd be good
in a locker room, Palmer says, the kid has done
nothing but put his head down and work. And he
was in my eighth grade All Star game. I knew
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Shador when Shador was a baby, and one thing that
Prime had his baby's doing was working hard. He had
them while he was out there coaching and Orlando at
the Under Armour All American Game, and his kids were
always with him. And eventually when we did the eighth
grade All Star Game that's connected to the under Armour Game,
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he was one of the quarterbacks in that game and
actually won the MVP award in the game. He has
great work ethic and it is a really cool, unique
young man. Also, the belief of Watson and Shador being
on the roster starting the season, I mean, I think
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there's a conversation there. Why would you not have Shador
on the team. Here was my thought process on it,
and I could be wrong, but it's just where I
landed on it. I feel like if Shador, even with
Monkin being a new coach, if Monkin saw in Shador
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Sanders that he was the quarterback of the future, I
do not believe he would have Deshaun Watson starting ahead
of him or saying he's the front runner while they're competing.
I would have it, as I mentioned, the opposite direction.
But then I also thought to myself, it's easier to
bench Deshaun Watson and put in Shador Sanders versus bench
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Shador Sanders put into Shaun Watson. I think it's easier
to play the vet. You can justify with the money
it didn't work. Now we're putting Shador in. But I
think ultimately where we stand right now, with all of
the conversation and the speculation of what this next quarterback
class looks like, they may be preparing to draft a
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quarterback that they feel is their quarterback of the future
and may not be looking at any of these quarterbacks
as actually a long term answer to their quarterback needs. Now,
both Deshaun Watson, which I can't see Deshaun Watson getting
re signed to the Cleveland Browns if he were to
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have a stellar year. But I've seen crazier things happen.
Maybe they put him on a franchise tag and try
to ride it out. I think it would be crazy
to try to do any more business with Deshaun Watson.
But that's just personally me. And then what does that
mean for shad Door Sanders flips out of it? If
Shador Sanders ends up getting in and he plays really,
really well, I wonder, can he play himself into the
(25:11):
permanent starting job and them not use a draft pick on,
you know, on getting a quarterback, which would ultimately mean,
you know, probably Shador Sanders ends up being a backup
or trying to compete with this new incoming starter, incoming
draft pick to the team. All of this, your boy,
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Dylan Gabriel lost in the shuffle, not even in the conversation,
but it was. It's an interesting conversation because if you
were to get rid of Shador Sanders, this will be
my last word on it. If Shador Sanders were to
get traded, now, what could be the logical reason of that?
And the only logic that I could come up with
(25:56):
in surmise based off of just what I know, how
gms think, how NFL teams operate and how they work.
Is one. He's still on his rookie contract, but he
has value, and I just wonder with that value, it's
his value. Could his value be valued as high as
it is right now to be able to get something
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more out of the trade with him than what it
would be if we found out what that is this
upcoming season? Do you lose the value of what you
could do if you were to move on from Shador
Sanders knowing that if it doesn't go well, you're drafting
a quarterback. Not only that, but you gotta believe Shador
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Sanders is a fan favorite. And if they were to
indeed start Deshaun Watson, even leading up to the season,
through training camp, through preseason, do you not think that
they're going to do the same exact defans are going
to do the same exact things that they did last year.
They are going to pressure, they are going to make
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their voices known that they want Shador Sanders playing in
the game. How does that impact your two hundred and
thirty million dollars starter? It could impact them if he
makes a mistake, whatever it could be, it's going to
impact Deshaun Watson. Do you just take the brunt of it,
take the sting of it, and get rid of him? Now, yeah,
(27:25):
I say get rid of because you're you're you're basically
if you're going to move on from him after this
season anyway, you're going to have to figure out what's
your exit strategy. Because I think he's a he's he
warrants that thought because he's a very popular player, look
at his jersey sales. Anyways, it's going to be an
interesting conversation, an interesting topic. I think that it's a
(27:46):
new head coach that makes it more of a discussion.
If this was Stefanski, I think that you got to
believe that if they were starting to Shaun Watson, it's
because they don't believe in Shador Sanders. But since it's
a new head coach, it'll be interesting thing to see
if one of these two players can play themselves and
the Cleveland Browns into the type of year where it
opens the conversation to it not just being about getting
(28:09):
a quarterback in this upcoming draft. Let's take a trending.
We'll keep the conversations going on on the other side,
or to break what you got, mister Isaac Loewing cron Yeah,
no offense to plaque and teacher.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
But I've really been enjoying listening to you, flying soulo
of art.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Good job.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I appreciate thanks, thanks, love, I appreciate that anytime.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I know you're going to get new on them in
hour two. But so I'll take your done trees and
your niceness right now. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Oh, well, I guess we can't.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Can't give a guy a compliment these days.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I liked it. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh anytime. Hey, We've got a really dramatic development right now.
In the Ladies singles final at Wimbledon, it's an all
chucky a matchup between Linda Noskova and Carolina Mukava. Now,
Noskova easily won the first set six to two, but
in the second set she was up five games to two.
(29:00):
She was on championship point and had three championship points
where she could not close the deal. So Mukeva won
that game to make it five to three, and in
the next game, Noskova once again had a championship fault.
Championship point, but she double faulted on the serf. So
Noskova has had four championship points, has been unable to
(29:25):
seal the deal each time, and it is now five
games to four Noskova over Mukava in the second set
in the Ladies singles final at Wimbledon. Today's World Cup
quarterfinal action kicks off at five pm Eastern from Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's going to be England against Norway. But the main.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Story here, LeVar, is the weather, because hard Rock Stadium
is going to be part of a National Weather Service
heat advisory. Current game time forecast ninety three degrees with
fifty eight percent humidity and a heat index of one
oh six. That means the temperature and humidity will make
it feel like one hundred and six degrees. I assume
(30:08):
you've had to play in conditions similar to that in
terms of the heat and the humidity. Of course, these
guys won't be wearing full shoulder pads and pads all over.
But what was it like for you?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I liked heat. I liked it, and I, you know,
I just live in it, so but I always like
being butt naked when I'm overheating too, and when it's
hot outside too, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
good with both.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I have no problem with that. I just wish that
didn't translate to your radio career. Sofia, what I'm looking
for in the glass?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Through the glass?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, yeah, you know, we don't want I would maybe
do a shirtless show maybe one day if you're in studio.
I'm in studio and the magic happens between the glass,
I might you know, that might be what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Like to self confidence on your part, LeVar most impressive.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well look bad. I just don't look like I used to.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Well, when you're starting from that high baseline, you know,
it's not too much of a fall off anyway. One
Major League Baseball game going on right now, as I
try to desperately steer the train back out of the tracks,
the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Birds are tied to too.
In the top half of the second ending back to
you gorgeous all right.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I appreciate that, I lo And you know what I
also appreciate is all our subscribers. That's right. Make sure
you jump on the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Search
Fox Sports Radio on YouTube for the best videos from
all our shows, like it, comment on it, subscribe, do
all of that. All right, welcome back into the show.
(31:47):
This is up on game. I'm flying solo, but I
got Cuffs coming in and some relief duty and a
couple minutes, a matter of ten minutes, we'll have Cuffs
the legends joining us to talk some basketball, all some NBA,
so that'll be fun to get to before we round
out and finish up this hour. We talked about Shakor
(32:08):
Stevens and the Sandy Shark conversation was a little bit
rush because we were up against it on the time,
kind of finished it off kind of quickly. But you know,
you got guys like Muhammad al Lei, you got guys
like Joe Frazier, you know, George Foreman, like the heavyweights,
the great heavyweights of the time. We've always loved a
(32:28):
knockout artist. Just some guys just aren't going to be
that type of a boxer. So I get why the
excitement of somebody being able to put hands on somebody
to that degree is more exciting and more polarizing than
somebody who gets the job done in a very technical,
very very fundamentally sound way. Not to say that those
(32:50):
knockout artists are not fundamentally sound, just saying that it's
a very different style. So while the opinion of being
boring is our an opinion, it still comes across as
well at tack bit ignorant to the beauty of watching
somebody who really can fight. And speaking of you know,
(33:10):
we thought it was the end of Connor McGregor, and
well he's coming back. And how do I think it ends?
I don't know, And that's my fear. There's a fine
line between chasing one more magic moment and taking one
(33:31):
that or being a part of someone else's magic moment.
And I just wonder, is Connor McGregor setting himself up
for a legendary fall? So many times when you're so great,
and you're so great for so long, the problem is
that you just don't know when. Sometimes you just don't
(33:55):
know when that when is enough when you say it
like this is the time for me to step away.
At least it's not gimmicky in my estimation, And maybe
some people may disagree with me, but I don't look
at this as being a gimmicky match. I really believe
(34:17):
that Connor McGregor believes that he can get back in
there and handle handle his business. So he fights tonight,
and I just I'm curious, and you guys can hit
me up on Kingdom Mammals on ig or hit me
up on ex at LeVar Arrington. How do you feel
about the McGregor fight. Do you want to see it?
(34:37):
Is it something that you're going to be a part
of it? Does it excite you? Or is it too
many comebacks? And is this that one comeback that maybe
works against him? Again my at least at least it
isn't a Paul fight. I'm sorry, I'm I like the idea,
(34:58):
the entertainment of the Paul fight. And listen, McGregor Floyd
Mayweather in an exhibition, even though I still thought that
was more of a fight, even though you know it's
probably I don't know, Well, that one's debatable, but I
think he's gonna have to fight in this this fight
this evening, and well, I don't know if it defines
(35:22):
his his career. It certainly doesn't define his career, but
does it hurt his career? Is what I would you know,
I would be interested to see he's fighting Max Holloway.
He's got nine losses. Uh, it's probably a doable fight
for him, but it's just be interesting. Yes, I will
(35:43):
be watching and it will be you know what I'm
doing this evening. Uh, we're gonna get the hour two.
We got Cups the Legend coming on. We're gonna talk NBA,
obviously Lebron a couple other things that we will get
to as well during the next hour. Hope you guys
stay locked in, tuned in. Hope you've enjoyed hour one
so far. Yeah, take a quick break. We'll reset the
(36:06):
show and we'll do hour two and see what we
got going on. This is up on Game. I'm Leavar
Arrington and you're listening to
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