May 31, 2025 • 41 mins
LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress discuss whether or not the Bengals (and other teams) need to take the preseason more seriously after WR Ja’Marr Chase spoke about it earlier this week, their thoughts on Patriots WR Stefon Diggs appearing to pass out a substance on a boat and HC Mike Vrabel’s comments, Raiders OC Chip Kelly has high praise for new QB Geno Smith, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a game.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me pick out Dick County count Let me catch.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Out on the team.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You want NFL experience, and this is the show for you.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Third Law with LeVar Ary Tent as a defensive guy.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Houshman Zanna.
Speaker 5 (00:18):
I'm just bringing the viewers into how grown men in
the locker room, Like I don't playing with some dude
that you disrespect them anyway, it didn't matter who it
was they was putting hands on you.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
And Blaxico Burress, they are the same person, the same
exact quarterback.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a show with three of the best to ever
do it on and off the field, and no line
from the Fox Sports radio studios. Here's Pro bowlers LeVar
Earing Tent, TJ. Hushman Zanna, and Super Bowl champion Blaxico Burress.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
All right, welcome into the show, Happysider Data everybody out there.
Hope you're enjoying it. This is up on game, It's
spots Horse Radio, It's t J. Hushman's eyes plucking Coberst.
I'm Leavar Arrington got a lot of cool topics to
get to talk to.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Little Caleb Williams uh.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Chip Kelly had some interesting things to say, we'll we'll
talk about that. He's now in Las Vegas with the Raiders. Uh,
so we'll get to that as well. But first we're
gonna we're gonna start off with, uh some pre season
some preseason conversation came out of Cincinnati from Zach Taylor
(01:35):
and Jamar Chase. But before we get to that, got
to ask the fellas. Man, how y'all feeling, man, how
y'all doing everything good?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You good man? You know everything good out here?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's no, not a clear Scott, but it's if you know,
in between the weather bend.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know where you at, it's gloomy perfect.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
It's been gloomy though.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well it's not gloomy for where I'm at. You you
right on you you know, big money, you right on
the water. Wow, breeze is good. The breeze is.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Good where I'm at. I ain't gonna lie the breezing weather.
He's good.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
But but it's like kind of it's not it's not
sun tan weather.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Like I don't I'm notim suits in my backyard.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I don't love we don't need no tan on myself.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, no, no, no, I don't do the Tanning. I
assisted on myself to none of them.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Pla, yeah, the same complexion.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
You know you wanta cust me back there by the
pool was up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was a little sp seventy.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Looking like and I see you around the pool before anyway. Pause,
by the way, our families we were hanging out, speaking
of awkward moments, Awkward moments have been taking place in
NFL preseasons as of late, because well Vets aren't playing
much at all. Well, interesting thing about it is head
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coach Zach Taylor and Jamar Chase came out and admitted
that preseason may help avoid slow starts.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Here's what they had to say.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If it was up to me now, of course not
you asked, do I want to play? Not really, I
don't mind like a series, but that's your literally all
we do. You know, we get and that's not you
don't really feel mentally ready for a game like that.
For me, I don't think I do. I'm not gonna
speak for everybody else. I don't know. How do we
start my rookie year? Did we play in this preseason?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What about what about the next year? Did we play preseason?
About the following year? We played that preseason. Sound like
we need to play preseason.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, y'all found your own answer. I just asked
you a question. Y'all told me to answer. I can
say I wasn't mentally ready to.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Be on the field.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was in my own head.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I wanted to play, but I was in my own head.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I'm not sure. Do we have Zach Taylor talking about
it as well?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
All right, we don't have Zach, and listen, that's good
enough right there hearing from Jamar. But Zach Taylor also
had some interesting things to say about it. But fellas
I've often said this and so many people push back
on me, in terms of participating in the preseason, you
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can work out hard, and you know, obviously workout culture
is very different now than what it was when we played.
A lot of guys would play themselves into game shape
by the time they got too regular seasons in the
preseason and training camp. While you know, some guys they
came in and they're just always ready to go. But
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one thing that I always say, and we heard Jamar
Chase say, like the mental aspect of it, I just
feel like you got to get out there. You gotta play.
You gotta have real competitive reps in the game. Now
you ain't got to play a whole game. In fact,
when we played, I believe the third game was the
only preseason game that veterans really played hard, like this
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is the game. We're approaching like it is a regular game.
Our preparation during the week is like it's a regular game.
Our our practice habits are like it's a regular game.
And then we play the first half of the game
and maybe the first series, maybe the first series of
the third quarter, just to get your body acclimated to
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what it feels like coming out of halftime and playing
a series coming out of halftime, and then you're done,
and I feel like that's it's been fourth preseason games.
I always felt like that was a proper approach. You
play play the first few series played, Play the first
quarter in the first first preseason game, second preseason game,
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play the first quarter, part of the second quarter in
the in the second preseason game. But I really believe
some of the starts that some of these teams have had,
and including the Bengals, because they they ended up finishing
out strong. I think that preseason being changed and coaches
approaching it the way that they're approaching it and devinizing,
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devising however we want. It's not a word, but I'm
gonna try to play with it, you know, doing that
with the players, don't I don't think it's productive, fellas,
I really don't. Man.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I'll say this Number one, nobody wants to play the preseason.
Even when we were playing. I don't know about y'all too.
I didn't want to plan the preseason. Yeah, you can't
get up for that game because you know the game
doesn't matter, and so you going through the motions. But
for everybody, and at least for the old heads as
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they would call us, we'd play a series, maybe two.
In the first game, you'd play two to three series.
In a second game, you'd play into the third quarter.
The third game probably a series after halftime you wouldn't
play at all. The fourth game, where you may play
a series. May Maybe things are different now because we
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would go to training camp. Let me give you this analogy.
With a full tank of gas. We leave training camp
with three quarters of a tank, and the coaches wonder
why we ain't never get back to a full tank,
because you guys are killing us in training camp. I
mean my fourth day training camp, I could barely walk.
I'm like, how am I gonna How am I gonna run?
I can't even walk. They don't do that any longer.
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Those practices the way we used to have them, they
are no longer the same, and so the coaches back then,
I felt like we're doing too much, but that was
that's all they knew. Now science is telling them today
you don't have to do that, you shouldn't do that,
and so the coaches aren't doing it. But if you're
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the Bengals and Zach Taylor, you've gotten off to slow starts,
and the definition of insanity is keep doing the same
thing thinking you're gonna get a different rule. So you
gotta play in the preseason now because your slow starts
are costing you playoff appearances. You just look at it.
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New England probably had one of the worst rosters in
the league last year. Beat you in Game one, you
win that game, you're in the playoffs. And so just
for their psyche, they got to get out there in
the preseason, whether it's a series or two, just so
they can feel good about themselves going into the regular season.
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I don't believe it's going to help them physically, but
mentally it may.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think it's a different day and age.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
You know, I came up, you know, being drafted to
the Pittsburgh still is in the training camp, you know,
twenty five years ago, it was a lot different than
what it is now. Like you said, a lot of
these things are based off of analysis and science and
what works and what doesn't. I think a few years
ago Sean McVay started this whole thing. The guys weren't
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going to play in the training camps and end up
winning the Super Bowl. So everybody adopted his approach in
the preseason. But it's like TJ said, you get down two,
you know, in the first part of the season, and
those are those games that are knocking some of these
teams out of the playoffs. You gotta think about this,
some of these guys don't make the playoffs, so their
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season is over. What Christmas, first week of January. Then
you go through a mini camp of OTA and a
training camp, and you don't play in the preseason, and
you get out there on the first regular season game
the week after the Labor Day and you have not
tackled anybody in almost about ten months.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It doesn't work that way. Football is not.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
The kind of sport to where you can take nine
ten months off and walk on the football field and
expect to, you know, get back to the form that
you were last year. First of all, it didn't even
make the playoffs. So I don't know, I don't know
how you expect your team to be any better going
into the season if they don't get any reps. And
just like you know, the training count was different to
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the point to where, all right, guys, the first game
we're gonna play ten plays, second game, we're gonna play
one series. If you guys go three and out, you
guys out third game, you're going to play the first
half and half of the third. But if we would
were to go out on a you know, a three
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in out and that second game back out.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
You come back out, Yeah right, yeah, you're coming back
out and that and that and that week of hell
and that week.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Of practice is gonna be hell because you know what,
you guys been out on a three and out on
the first drive, work locked in and we nobody wanted
to play in the preseasons, like TJ.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Said, But man, once you got out there and.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You, and you and you snap that snap, snap, and.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Somebody ran up in your mouth. Oh you're gonna get
your mind right and ready to play football. You might
not want to play, but you're gonna get your mind right,
because if you don't, then somebody gonna knock you, knock
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He's out.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But I think stored out. I think Cordell stored out
in the preseason career. I was LaVar was one of
them dudes.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
LaVar wanted them dudes and everybody kind of chilling in
the preseason, and he trying to knock your head off.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I only had one speed. He didn't have one speed.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But the problem at that that Cordell ran into in
that situation in particular, was he thought he was still
slash and and he was getting a little older, and
and it was more it was more Cordell's stored than
it was slash and I I, for one, I didn't
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want necessarily to play in preseason games, like you guys
are saying, but I knew it was a necessary evil
and and and I also knew that if I was
going to be prepared to play the way that I
needed to play when the season came around, I really
needed to challenge myself to doing things the way I
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was going to do them in week one. Again, It's
like I wanted to hit the season with you know,
like touch the ground, running right, and I didn't want
to be tired.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Cause I don't know about y'all, but that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
First preseason game when I got out there, I used
to get anxiety attacks and I couldn't run like it
was it would be kind of for me.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
It would be hot. It would be like like I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sitting there and I'm looking at dudes and I'm like, dang,
there's there's Jerome Bettis or you know, there's Da Da Dad.
Like I'm a fan of the game, I ain't afraid
to admit it. So I would see dudes out there
and I'd be like, Damn, plex is over there. They're
go plex like they're gonna do ba bab bay, and
I start getting anxiety and I can't breathe.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
So I had to work.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Myself not only into game shape, I had to work
myself out of like getting there, seeing the different guys
and seeing my own teammates. I'm seeing different guys come out,
seeing a different color uniform come out, and I had
to get myself mentally prepared to be able to go
out there and start fast then as well. Like that
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was that was a challenge, and so to me, while
I didn't necessarily want it to play, I knew by
coming to the third game, third third preseason game. In
my mind, it's a game. This is a regular game.
This is a regular game to me, and I'm coming
out there like it's a regular game. But so I
like the idea of a new guy saying that go ahead.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Go yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I want to get back to the whole Jamar Chase
and Joe Burrow. I'm just I'm just, you know, using
myself as an example, I can't imagine from wide receiver standpoint,
the quarterback not being able to get some real live
reps and almost you know since December January, since you've
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been knocked out of the playoffs, so you didn't make
the playoffs, you show up on Sunday when everything counts,
and you haven't had any live action to really calibrate,
you know, what the quarterback is seeing. It's a totally
different speed from what it is when you guys are playing.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You can't replicate that.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
So then when you get out on a football field
for the first time in eight nine months. You know,
you guys aren't seeing the same thing. Balls are going
over the top of the head. You coming out of here,
you break through early, and all these things that accumulate,
they're costing you football games. So I just don't see
how you can get out on a football field without having,
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you know, being tackled or you know, trying to.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Execute at a high level.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
We went into the regular season prepared because when I
was in Pittsburgh, we was having live tackling periods everything.
Every Saturday. You knew that it was live tackling.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Hey, we had a period every day in practice. Once
we got in the full pads that was live. Yeah,
I mean tackling to the ground, and we wearing pads
at least every other day. The only person that didn't
get tackled to the ground was Carson was a quarterback.
Everybody else, uh, we full go and it was And
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that's probably what like eight to twelve place. You're like, man,
and that that was They're not doing that. Now they're
taking smoothie breaks, snacks, smoothie breaks, bring the smoothies out,
and so it's just a different break. It's a different
awareness and it's better. Man, Like you know how many
guys will like you just go to training camp feeling
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so good him. By the third or fourth day, you
feel like you know, man in five or six car accidents,
Man different era football, Man different ice.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Literally sit there, it will be live run with no
wide receivers. How do you what do you think Ryan
Clark and trot Poulomal and all these guys were filling
those holes with no wide receivers out there about and
they know it's live run. What kind of collisions you
think was taking place?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
And them dudes was hitting too, especially rc R with.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No wide receivers and it's live run and they got
their ears cutting back. Man, we should stand over there
with the wide receivers in the cornerbacks one on one
watching those dudes, like yo them.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Dude's crazy, man, because that's how physical Houston.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
It was a crazy defense back then y'all had, man.
But anyway, speaking of crazy, uh, we're gonna take a
quick break. And on the other side of the break,
Stefan's Diggs. He got caught on camera. We're gonna talk
about that a little bit. I ain't gonna say crazy,
but he crazy.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
He crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
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mentioned well Stefan Diggs before we went to the break,
and well, there was video that emerged and has been
discussed during the course of the week of a baggie.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Of We're not sure what it is, but it is.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Being tossed around and discussed that it could be substances
that are party substances.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I've heard the word two see come out.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I've heard a.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Few things discussed on that end, but we do not know.
It is not confirmed as to what it was that
Stephan Diggs was indeed showing us a few young ladies,
several or so young ladies on a yacht where he
was with his I guess reported his new boo in
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and Cardi B. Now Cardi B is now making her
rounds in the sportsphere. She's made it because now they've
talked about her being at Knicks games and now they're
talking about her being on a yacht with her man.
Reportedly her man Stephan Diggs. Hasn't been any official word
that has come from Stephan or from Cardi B. But
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here's what coach Mike Rabel of the New England Patriots
had to say about the situation.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Well, it's something that we're aware of and obviously we
want to make great decisions on and off the field,
and we're hoping that with our time here on the
field today and that when we don't have a script
and we're on the calling periods, that we're making great decisions.
So the message will be the same for all our
players that were trying to make great decisions, and any
conversations that I've had with Stefan or remain between him
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and I and the club.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Fellas take it. How you feel about this, what what's
your reaction to it? How how you think this should
play out?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Man, listen, man, let me say this. This is coming
from somebody, and I don't care what anybody else on
a free time, what they do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I've never I've never done a drug in my life.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
It's the way I grew up being around crackheads my
entire life. I've never done a drug. I've never smoked anything,
and damn my life. So but people doing a free
time things you've ever done in life? Bro Avocados is
the bigger, biggest one for me. I mean, I get
the drugs and all that, but man, avocados. And think
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you said yogurt, you don't need you eat yogurt. I
think you said you want, you don't. I've never liked coffee.
I've never had coffee.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Weird man.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, go ahead, I'll just say this.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
If you listen to what Rabel said, uh one, good
decision makers. He said that a couple of times, and
that wasn't good decision making.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Because if you if you're gonna make.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Bad decisions off the field, you damn sure gonna make
bad decisions on the field. If you're a bad decision
maker off the field, you're gonna be a bad decision
maker on the field. Adding it at the wrong time,
we need you to do this, you do that, it's
a bad decision. But you've shown us you're a bad
decision maker. And when I see the signs, I gotta
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follow them. Now. I guarantee the Patriots have thought about
cutting them. I guarantee they've talked about it. Probably should
we being discussed?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Should we?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Based off of the camera of you having something in
your hand and you give it to the young ladies
and they open it up and it's peak based off
of that. Whatever it is, it could be innocent. It
just doesn't look the way it should look. And when
you're in the National Football League, there's just so much
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you have to represent not only yourself, your team, but
the league the correct way. Now, if I'm the Patriots,
am I cutting Stefan Diggs. No, absolutely not. I see
them videos of how he looks working out and training.
I'm not cutting them because at the end of the day,
we gotta win games. We gotta win games, and it's
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all speculation to assume whatever you said that stuff was,
uh you said pussy tousy that neither. I'm googling it
right now and it says it's like I found out
about it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's like a party drug.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It's like pink cocaine and it's mixed with this of
this and it's I just googled it right now, ay, And.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
So drugs down with dope, up with hope.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I just feel like you gotta be smarter in your
decision making. And variable said it. They just don't like
the fact that he put himself in that position. What
camera's around with camera, Let's just be honest. Let's be honest,
you're going to do that confirmed, but exactly that's what
it was. I mean, who can confirm it other than
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the people that were on the yacht. Who other than
the people that were on the yacht can really confirm this?
You think they gonna say that's what it was? And
so everything has to be speculation at this point. I
just feel like he just has to be smarter. He
has to put himself in better situations, because when you don't, now,
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you open yourself up to whatever anybody or anyone may
think that is. And that's what everybody is saying. It
is whether it's right or wrong, that's the assumption, because
is he gonna what else can you come out and said?
Is I just feel bad? You know that he looks
so good in the videos of him training coming off man,
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he looked like he ain't never been hurt. And now
this is the talk now whether the Patriots release him
or not, they should talk about it. I'm sure they
have talked about it. But I wouldn't release him, you know.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Uh, you know, I played with Mike. I played with
very obviously, and I just like what he said at
the end was that, uh, you know, the conversations that
he is going to have or he has had with
Stefan dig with main between him and uh and and
and and Stephan. But to be honest with you, we've
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seen worse. And I think it's more of Stephan being
with Cardi B. How this story is being uh portrayed
and obviously uh, you know, it's we get scrutinized differently.
And if he's out on a boat with his girl
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and there's some girls and it's really a non story.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What's wrong with getting on the boat with the food
chicks taking a couple of laps around the river or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
The case may be.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But it's just happy to be he's with Cardi B
And and those are some of the things that come
with me. And I really believe at the end of
the day, we won't know the facts of what exactly
the substance is or what it was, or if he's
getting hired doing drugs or whatever the case may be.
But I just feel that, you know, we just get
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scrutinized differently based off of who we are, you know,
like playing in this league, because trust me, I've seen
a lot of works come from other players and it
wasn't even mentioned or talked about, you know, in the media.
But for him, you know, he's had some some incidences
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where you know, Minnesota and now Buffalo one hugheston. Now
he's on his fourth team and he's not being responsible
and all of those things.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I don't believe that Mike Rade was going to cut him.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
He's a former player, he understands, he's seen a.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Lot of himself. Now I think it's moving forward.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I don't think it was a bad situation until all
these you know, whatever, this.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Pink stuff is popped up.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
If that wasn't any story, I think it would still
be a story because it's step Fann and Cardi B.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Here's my thing, right, It's interesting how things play out.
And you're right, like, I'm a piggyback off of the
the Cardi B aspect of it. When you're when you're
dealing with somebody as high profile as Cardi B, you
are going to be instantly thrusted into a different category
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of being covered. I know Steph on Diggs since he
was back his days in Maryland and and being in
the area. I know him and and Steph is a
good dude. He's you know, he he's a funny guy,
great sense of humor. I think he's often misrepresented and sometimes,
you know, you get certain things that take place and
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then now it's like you're a misunderstood person, like he's
he's a diva, or you know, he's hard to get
along with, or whatever it may be. I never met
a receiver that didn't have the traits that a great
receiver I would say that didn't have the traits that
I've seen and experience with steph On Diggs. I immediately
thought to myself, it's all about perspective.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
In angles, right, because when you look.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
At how how it all played out, like why would
why would anybody? And he's fully aware where he's at,
like you watched the video. It's not like he doesn't
know where he's at. It's not like he's not a
aware of what he's got, what he's got going on,
And so to allow somebody to film you like that,
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I would need more context before I start drawing any judgments,
any any type of thoughts that would surround this, because
it's all about perspectives. If you if you're a void
of what the real context of what was taking place
is then you're left to trying to figure out and
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fill in the blanks because it's been presented to you
in a certain type of way.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
And that's how media works. That's how media works.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I don't know why Stefan Diggs allowed himself to be
filmed in that moment. I don't know who it was
that film Stefan Diggs in that moment. But what I
do know is is that I saw in the video
Stephan's eyes came up, like when the substance came out
or whatever it is that was in the baggie or whatever.
He looked around. His eyes came up, and it doesn't
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come across as he's inebriated, he's under any type of influence.
It doesn't look like that. Looks like there's a fun
exchange going on. In fact, one of the young ladies
in the video looks at the camera and it's talking
to the camera. I don't know what it is because
I don't have a close enough look. It could be balloons.
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They could be ready to blow up some party balloons
like here, Like he might be out there being a
magician making balloon animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We don't know what people's proclivities are in their own time.
All I know is I don't have enough context. And
like y'all said, y'all was today years old when y'all
found out what tucy is today, So if you didn't
know what it was, I didn't know what it was
when I first heard it.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I had to look it up, just like y'all did.
I feel like I.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Need more cunt text until we get more context. And
maybe we won't get any more context. Maybe that context
will only be connected to Mike Vrabel and the New
England Patriots. Maybe it will be connected to I don't know.
They haven't said if the NFL is investigating it or not.
I haven't seen that there's an official launch of an investigation.
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But I will say this, people are going to be tough,
touch sensitive in scenarios like this because of all of
these lawsuits that are hitting and it's all about optics.
This is the biggest mistake of the situation. If I'm
looking at Stefan Diggs, is you always have to be
aware of the optics and the fact that you are
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with Cardi b.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
People are already.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Thinking you're living a rock star lifestyle. By being able
to be with a young lady such as her, you
are going to be propped and put in a different
level of exposure and optics, make up. It may it
makes everything work, it makes everything fall apart. You can
use it like how Kelsey has used it with Swift
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and propel your career to a whole other level that
transcends the game. Or you can put yourself in a
situation where that type of lifestyle consumes you and it
leads to your undoing and your downfall. I just hope
that isn't the case with Stephan Diggs. That's what I
would say to it. So anyways, we'll see how it
all plays out. I don't know if it leads to
him losing his job or not. And again I don't
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know what the true details of it are. I hope
that the journalism of how it's being covered as we
move forward is more important than sensationalizing a story trying
to maybe villainize Stephan Diggs. So we'll see how it
all plays out. But I know this this man isn't
a villain. He's a superhero and when he comes on
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it gives us the updates. It's superhero work. What you
got I lowed with our update trending.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
I'm just in the midst of a nice little mid
morning snack here avocados in coffee.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I'm like us, I got a coffee coming to right.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That sounds like you go ahead a bubble guts from
a few minutes.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Actually, no, I will be having a very very healthy,
healthy snack. Avocados are literally a superfood.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I'm just a super food. It is a superfood.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Is perhaps I'm.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Just saying perhaps the avocados you've been served have either
been too ripe or not ripe enough.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
What it was?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
However, a World Series rematch on Friday night, as Los
Angeles Dodgers prevailed I know over the New York Yankees
eight to five, Aaron Judges nineteenth home run of the
season of the first sitting, but then at the bottom
of the first show Heyo Tani a home run is
twenty first. He would homer again in the bottom of
the sixth thitting. He now has twenty two home runs
to lead the Majors and the Dodgers eight to five win. However,
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off the field, Mookie Bets of the Dodgers out for
at least this weekend series after injuring a toe on
his left foot in an off field mishap that's not
expected to need to go on the injured lips One's
Also on Friday night, Minnesota Twins riley for a twelve
sixth victory at Seattle and ten innings, Twins trailed six
to three going on to the top of the ninth,
they tied it in Carlos Corea, the go I had
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two run home run in the top of the tenth.
Mike Trout return to the Angels lineup, going one for
five and a four to one win at Cleveland after
he had missed twenty six games due to a bone
bruise on his left knee. And of course, tonight at
eight pm Eastern, Game six of the NBA's Eastern Conference
Finals from Indianapolis, with the Pacers up three games to
two over the New York Next guys back to.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
You appreciate it, I Lo. We're gonna take a quick break.
We're gonna come back on the other side of it.
We're gonna talk about with Chip Kelly. He had praises
and we're going to talk about it. That's always a
nice thing, positive thing. You're listening to up on game.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
It's t J.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Huschmanzada its Plexico burst I am LeVar Arrington. Yeah, we'll
be right back s up on game. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
All right, welcome back in the up on game.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
T J.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Huschmanzada's Plexico burs is LeVar Arrington's Fox Sports. We got
cuffs the legend coming up next hour, we'll talk basketball
NBA playoffs. What's that looking like? But before we get
to that, let's take a visit out to Yeah, Las Vegas. Uh,
Chip Kelly, he's uh giving out high praises during the week.
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Votas quarterback Geno Smith has already made a strong impression,
so says Ryan McFadden of The Four Letter Word Network ESPN,
saying that you know, just ask Riot receivers Jakobe Myers,
whose face his face lit up when with excitement when
(35:43):
talking about his new teammate on Thursday. It's it's it's
really really an interesting thing to hear the excitement. Offensive
coordinator Chip Kelly called Smith a blessing quotes for coaches,
saying that Smith provides a wealth of experience due to
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playing for multiple coordinators throughout his eleven year career. Kelly
said that his picked Smith, He's picked Smith's brain, asking
him how his former Seattle offensive coordinators Shane Waldron and
Ryan Grubb would handle certain situations or calls. Kelly also
mentioned that Smith would call him in the evening after
(36:27):
practices to discuss what happened during the day. He says
that Geno, he's great. He's literally like a second coach.
Kelly said, who joined Las Vegas and and well he
was with Ohio State and he just got a national title,
then got up out of there. Fellas just super quickly
before you know, we get to the end of the hour.
(36:49):
I know you guys are were you in New York
with with Gino? You might have you guys might have
crossed pass right stretch y'all missed each other. Okay, but
you know, I know who Gino is. I don't know
him real well. I know his agent's shut off is
his agent. That's my guy, one of my brothers. I've
heard so many great things about him, and he was
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able to rejuvenate his career, resurrect his career in Seattle,
gets a great opportunity to go to Las Vegas. Now,
it's great to hear a positive story and a diagnosis
or prognosis on what they think and feel about Geno Smith.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
I like the fact that Chip Kelly is when you
have your coach openly supporting you like that, it just
it brings a smile to your face. As a player,
it makes you feel good. We all had that self confidence.
But when you have the people that are going to
determine your playing time. We know Geno is gonna start,
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but just that support publicly and to come out and
say those things, that just makes you feel good that
they appreciate the work that they see you putting in
and what they feel you can do in the future
and be productive. And so as a player, to me,
more coaches need to be this way. I believe Chip
Kelly has evolved as a coach. I believe Chip Kelly
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when he left Oregon, you go to the Eagles did
and said some things you release Uhdashawn Jackson, every betrayed,
shady you basically let go all the good players. He
learned from that. He learned from that, and so we're
seeing a evolved Chip Kelly as a person as a
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coach a.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Head coach either though, TJ.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I mean, you know it would be it would to
say that if he was, you know, I mean where
he's at now, But he's not the head coach.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
It doesn't matter if he's a head coach or not.
It doesn't matter if he plays. Oh that he couldn't
that he couldn't come to or to Las Vegas and
get rid of those players. Correct, But to me, it
seems as if he's evolved in it. And it's great
for himself as a coach and as a person. But
for your players to still that confidence in him, I
don't believe coaches realize when you publicly do this to
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your players, you're instill in so much confidence in these
dudes that they feel like they can go out there
and do whatever. That that type of stuff to me matters.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
I mean, I guess I got a kind of guy
to agree with you when you see he has a
vault as a coach, because we have not heard Chip
Kelly be too you know, favorable about his peak teammates,
you know, openly in the public. But you know, I
just want to see I don't want to see it.
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But if the Raiders aren't playing well and things aren't
going the way that you know they expect to, what
will be his tune? Then if the offense is not
performing well. And when he says that, you know, Geno
Smith is like having a second coach on the football
feeling in the meeting room. I mean, the guy's been
around for what eleven twelve seasons now forty three hundred
(39:59):
yard twenty one touchdowns. You just don't step on the
football feel and have that kind of success if you
do not understand the game of football and how to
play the position at a high level, you just don't
do it. So but just like you said at LeVar,
I think you know Gino went to Seattle resurrected his
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career under Pete Carroll. That was one of the reasons,
the main reason why when pet Carroll was named the
head coach, he said, you know what I got. I
got a guy who can be an elite quarterback if
I get him around the right players. Because I really
think that moving forward, they have a better offense in
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Las Vegas and they haven't having Seattle if he would
have remained the quarterback there. So I believe he's going
to have some success. Obviously, the AFC West is probably
the hardest division in football, so I expect for the
raid is to compete, but not, you know, get into
the playoffs in year one.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
I wish him well. I think it sets the stage
for Chip Kelly.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Like you mentioned TJ, it sets the stage for him
to take take the brunt and the blame if it
doesn't go well. But we'll see if it does go well.
And right now, it's kumba, y'all. They're off to a
great start, just like our show. It's off to a
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Speaker 4 (00:57):
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Hope you're enjoying it. This is up on game, It's
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I'm Leavar Arrington got a lot of cool topics to
get to talk to.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Little Caleb Williams uh.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Chip Kelly had some interesting things to say, we'll we'll
talk about that. He's now in Las Vegas with the Raiders. Uh,
so we'll get to that as well. But first we're
gonna we're gonna start off with, uh some pre season
some preseason conversation came out of Cincinnati from Zach Taylor
(01:35):
and Jamar Chase. But before we get to that, got
to ask the fellas. Man, how y'all feeling, man, how
y'all doing everything good?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You good man? You know everything good out here?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's no, not a clear Scott, but it's if you know,
in between the weather bend.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know where you at, it's gloomy perfect.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
It's been gloomy though.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well it's not gloomy for where I'm at. You you
right on you you know, big money, you right on
the water. Wow, breeze is good. The breeze is.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Good where I'm at. I ain't gonna lie the breezing weather.
He's good.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
But but it's like kind of it's not it's not
sun tan weather.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Like I don't I'm notim suits in my backyard.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I don't love we don't need no tan on myself.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, no, no, no, I don't do the Tanning. I
assisted on myself to none of them.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Pla, yeah, the same complexion.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
You know you wanta cust me back there by the
pool was up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was a little sp seventy.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Looking like and I see you around the pool before anyway. Pause,
by the way, our families we were hanging out, speaking
of awkward moments, Awkward moments have been taking place in
NFL preseasons as of late, because well Vets aren't playing
much at all. Well, interesting thing about it is head
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coach Zach Taylor and Jamar Chase came out and admitted
that preseason may help avoid slow starts.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Here's what they had to say.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If it was up to me now, of course not
you asked, do I want to play? Not really, I
don't mind like a series, but that's your literally all
we do. You know, we get and that's not you
don't really feel mentally ready for a game like that.
For me, I don't think I do. I'm not gonna
speak for everybody else. I don't know. How do we
start my rookie year? Did we play in this preseason?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What about what about the next year? Did we play preseason?
About the following year? We played that preseason. Sound like
we need to play preseason.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, y'all found your own answer. I just asked
you a question. Y'all told me to answer. I can
say I wasn't mentally ready to.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Be on the field.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was in my own head.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I wanted to play, but I was in my own head.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I'm not sure. Do we have Zach Taylor talking about
it as well?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
All right, we don't have Zach, and listen, that's good
enough right there hearing from Jamar. But Zach Taylor also
had some interesting things to say about it. But fellas
I've often said this and so many people push back
on me, in terms of participating in the preseason, you
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can work out hard, and you know, obviously workout culture
is very different now than what it was when we played.
A lot of guys would play themselves into game shape
by the time they got too regular seasons in the
preseason and training camp. While you know, some guys they
came in and they're just always ready to go. But
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one thing that I always say, and we heard Jamar
Chase say, like the mental aspect of it, I just
feel like you got to get out there. You gotta play.
You gotta have real competitive reps in the game. Now
you ain't got to play a whole game. In fact,
when we played, I believe the third game was the
only preseason game that veterans really played hard, like this
(05:01):
is the game. We're approaching like it is a regular game.
Our preparation during the week is like it's a regular game.
Our our practice habits are like it's a regular game.
And then we play the first half of the game
and maybe the first series, maybe the first series of
the third quarter, just to get your body acclimated to
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what it feels like coming out of halftime and playing
a series coming out of halftime, and then you're done,
and I feel like that's it's been fourth preseason games.
I always felt like that was a proper approach. You
play play the first few series played, Play the first
quarter in the first first preseason game, second preseason game,
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play the first quarter, part of the second quarter in
the in the second preseason game. But I really believe
some of the starts that some of these teams have had,
and including the Bengals, because they they ended up finishing
out strong. I think that preseason being changed and coaches
approaching it the way that they're approaching it and devinizing,
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devising however we want. It's not a word, but I'm
gonna try to play with it, you know, doing that
with the players, don't I don't think it's productive, fellas,
I really don't. Man.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I'll say this Number one, nobody wants to play the preseason.
Even when we were playing. I don't know about y'all too.
I didn't want to plan the preseason. Yeah, you can't
get up for that game because you know the game
doesn't matter, and so you going through the motions. But
for everybody, and at least for the old heads as
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they would call us, we'd play a series, maybe two.
In the first game, you'd play two to three series.
In a second game, you'd play into the third quarter.
The third game probably a series after halftime you wouldn't
play at all. The fourth game, where you may play
a series. May Maybe things are different now because we
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would go to training camp. Let me give you this analogy.
With a full tank of gas. We leave training camp
with three quarters of a tank, and the coaches wonder
why we ain't never get back to a full tank,
because you guys are killing us in training camp. I
mean my fourth day training camp, I could barely walk.
I'm like, how am I gonna How am I gonna run?
I can't even walk. They don't do that any longer.
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Those practices the way we used to have them, they
are no longer the same, and so the coaches back then,
I felt like we're doing too much, but that was
that's all they knew. Now science is telling them today
you don't have to do that, you shouldn't do that,
and so the coaches aren't doing it. But if you're
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the Bengals and Zach Taylor, you've gotten off to slow starts,
and the definition of insanity is keep doing the same
thing thinking you're gonna get a different rule. So you
gotta play in the preseason now because your slow starts
are costing you playoff appearances. You just look at it.
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New England probably had one of the worst rosters in
the league last year. Beat you in Game one, you
win that game, you're in the playoffs. And so just
for their psyche, they got to get out there in
the preseason, whether it's a series or two, just so
they can feel good about themselves going into the regular season.
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I don't believe it's going to help them physically, but
mentally it may.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think it's a different day and age.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
You know, I came up, you know, being drafted to
the Pittsburgh still is in the training camp, you know,
twenty five years ago, it was a lot different than
what it is now. Like you said, a lot of
these things are based off of analysis and science and
what works and what doesn't. I think a few years
ago Sean McVay started this whole thing. The guys weren't
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going to play in the training camps and end up
winning the Super Bowl. So everybody adopted his approach in
the preseason. But it's like TJ said, you get down two,
you know, in the first part of the season, and
those are those games that are knocking some of these
teams out of the playoffs. You gotta think about this,
some of these guys don't make the playoffs, so their
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season is over. What Christmas, first week of January. Then
you go through a mini camp of OTA and a
training camp, and you don't play in the preseason, and
you get out there on the first regular season game
the week after the Labor Day and you have not
tackled anybody in almost about ten months.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
It doesn't work that way. Football is not.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
The kind of sport to where you can take nine
ten months off and walk on the football field and
expect to, you know, get back to the form that
you were last year. First of all, it didn't even
make the playoffs. So I don't know, I don't know
how you expect your team to be any better going
into the season if they don't get any reps. And
just like you know, the training count was different to
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the point to where, all right, guys, the first game
we're gonna play ten plays, second game, we're gonna play
one series. If you guys go three and out, you
guys out third game, you're going to play the first
half and half of the third. But if we would
were to go out on a you know, a three
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in out and that second game back out.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
You come back out, Yeah right, yeah, you're coming back
out and that and that and that week of hell
and that week.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Of practice is gonna be hell because you know what,
you guys been out on a three and out on
the first drive, work locked in and we nobody wanted
to play in the preseasons, like TJ.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Said, But man, once you got out there and.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You, and you and you snap that snap, snap, and.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Somebody ran up in your mouth. Oh you're gonna get
your mind right and ready to play football. You might
not want to play, but you're gonna get your mind right,
because if you don't, then somebody gonna knock you, knock
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He's out.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But I think stored out. I think Cordell stored out
in the preseason career. I was LaVar was one of
them dudes.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
LaVar wanted them dudes and everybody kind of chilling in
the preseason, and he trying to knock your head off.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I only had one speed. He didn't have one speed.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But the problem at that that Cordell ran into in
that situation in particular, was he thought he was still
slash and and he was getting a little older, and
and it was more it was more Cordell's stored than
it was slash and I I, for one, I didn't
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want necessarily to play in preseason games, like you guys
are saying, but I knew it was a necessary evil
and and and I also knew that if I was
going to be prepared to play the way that I
needed to play when the season came around, I really
needed to challenge myself to doing things the way I
(12:11):
was going to do them in week one. Again, It's
like I wanted to hit the season with you know,
like touch the ground, running right, and I didn't want
to be tired.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Cause I don't know about y'all, but that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
First preseason game when I got out there, I used
to get anxiety attacks and I couldn't run like it
was it would be kind of for me.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
It would be hot. It would be like like I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sitting there and I'm looking at dudes and I'm like, dang,
there's there's Jerome Bettis or you know, there's Da Da Dad.
Like I'm a fan of the game, I ain't afraid
to admit it. So I would see dudes out there
and I'd be like, Damn, plex is over there. They're
go plex like they're gonna do ba bab bay, and
I start getting anxiety and I can't breathe.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
So I had to work.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Myself not only into game shape, I had to work
myself out of like getting there, seeing the different guys
and seeing my own teammates. I'm seeing different guys come out,
seeing a different color uniform come out, and I had
to get myself mentally prepared to be able to go
out there and start fast then as well. Like that
(13:17):
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Speaker 5 (13:37):
Go yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I want to get back to the whole Jamar Chase
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reps and almost you know since December January, since you've
(13:58):
been knocked out of the playoffs, so you didn't make
the playoffs, you show up on Sunday when everything counts,
and you haven't had any live action to really calibrate,
you know, what the quarterback is seeing. It's a totally
different speed from what it is when you guys are playing.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You can't replicate that.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
So then when you get out on a football field
for the first time in eight nine months. You know,
you guys aren't seeing the same thing. Balls are going
over the top of the head. You coming out of here,
you break through early, and all these things that accumulate,
they're costing you football games. So I just don't see
how you can get out on a football field without having,
(14:42):
you know, being tackled or you know, trying to.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Execute at a high level.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
We went into the regular season prepared because when I
was in Pittsburgh, we was having live tackling periods everything.
Every Saturday. You knew that it was live tackling.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Hey, we had a period every day in practice. Once
we got in the full pads that was live. Yeah,
I mean tackling to the ground, and we wearing pads
at least every other day. The only person that didn't
get tackled to the ground was Carson was a quarterback.
Everybody else, uh, we full go and it was And
(15:28):
that's probably what like eight to twelve place. You're like, man,
and that that was They're not doing that. Now they're
taking smoothie breaks, snacks, smoothie breaks, bring the smoothies out,
and so it's just a different break. It's a different
awareness and it's better. Man, Like you know how many
guys will like you just go to training camp feeling
(15:49):
so good him. By the third or fourth day, you
feel like you know, man in five or six car accidents,
Man different era football, Man different ice.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Literally sit there, it will be live run with no
wide receivers. How do you what do you think Ryan
Clark and trot Poulomal and all these guys were filling
those holes with no wide receivers out there about and
they know it's live run. What kind of collisions you
think was taking place?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
And them dudes was hitting too, especially rc R with.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No wide receivers and it's live run and they got
their ears cutting back. Man, we should stand over there
with the wide receivers in the cornerbacks one on one
watching those dudes, like yo them.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Dude's crazy, man, because that's how physical Houston.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
It was a crazy defense back then y'all had, man.
But anyway, speaking of crazy, uh, we're gonna take a
quick break. And on the other side of the break,
Stefan's Diggs. He got caught on camera. We're gonna talk
about that a little bit. I ain't gonna say crazy,
but he crazy.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
He crazy.
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(19:24):
mentioned well Stefan Diggs before we went to the break,
and well, there was video that emerged and has been
discussed during the course of the week of a baggie.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Of We're not sure what it is, but it is.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Being tossed around and discussed that it could be substances
that are party substances.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I've heard the word two see come out.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I've heard a.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Few things discussed on that end, but we do not know.
It is not confirmed as to what it was that
Stephan Diggs was indeed showing us a few young ladies,
several or so young ladies on a yacht where he
was with his I guess reported his new boo in
(20:18):
and Cardi B. Now Cardi B is now making her
rounds in the sportsphere. She's made it because now they've
talked about her being at Knicks games and now they're
talking about her being on a yacht with her man.
Reportedly her man Stephan Diggs. Hasn't been any official word
that has come from Stephan or from Cardi B. But
(20:41):
here's what coach Mike Rabel of the New England Patriots
had to say about the situation.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Well, it's something that we're aware of and obviously we
want to make great decisions on and off the field,
and we're hoping that with our time here on the
field today and that when we don't have a script
and we're on the calling periods, that we're making great decisions.
So the message will be the same for all our
players that were trying to make great decisions, and any
conversations that I've had with Stefan or remain between him
(21:08):
and I and the club.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Fellas take it. How you feel about this, what what's
your reaction to it? How how you think this should
play out?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Man, listen, man, let me say this. This is coming
from somebody, and I don't care what anybody else on
a free time, what they do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I've never I've never done a drug in my life.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
It's the way I grew up being around crackheads my
entire life. I've never done a drug. I've never smoked anything,
and damn my life. So but people doing a free
time things you've ever done in life? Bro Avocados is
the bigger, biggest one for me. I mean, I get
the drugs and all that, but man, avocados. And think
(21:51):
you said yogurt, you don't need you eat yogurt. I
think you said you want, you don't. I've never liked coffee.
I've never had coffee.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Weird man.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, go ahead, I'll just say this.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
If you listen to what Rabel said, uh one, good
decision makers. He said that a couple of times, and
that wasn't good decision making.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Because if you if you're gonna make.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Bad decisions off the field, you damn sure gonna make
bad decisions on the field. If you're a bad decision
maker off the field, you're gonna be a bad decision
maker on the field. Adding it at the wrong time,
we need you to do this, you do that, it's
a bad decision. But you've shown us you're a bad
decision maker. And when I see the signs, I gotta
(22:39):
follow them. Now. I guarantee the Patriots have thought about
cutting them. I guarantee they've talked about it. Probably should
we being discussed?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Should we?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Based off of the camera of you having something in
your hand and you give it to the young ladies
and they open it up and it's peak based off
of that. Whatever it is, it could be innocent. It
just doesn't look the way it should look. And when
you're in the National Football League, there's just so much
(23:13):
you have to represent not only yourself, your team, but
the league the correct way. Now, if I'm the Patriots,
am I cutting Stefan Diggs. No, absolutely not. I see
them videos of how he looks working out and training.
I'm not cutting them because at the end of the day,
we gotta win games. We gotta win games, and it's
(23:35):
all speculation to assume whatever you said that stuff was,
uh you said pussy tousy that neither. I'm googling it
right now and it says it's like I found out
about it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's like a party drug.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It's like pink cocaine and it's mixed with this of
this and it's I just googled it right now, ay, And.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
So drugs down with dope, up with hope.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I just feel like you gotta be smarter in your
decision making. And variable said it. They just don't like
the fact that he put himself in that position. What
camera's around with camera, Let's just be honest. Let's be honest,
you're going to do that confirmed, but exactly that's what
it was. I mean, who can confirm it other than
(24:26):
the people that were on the yacht. Who other than
the people that were on the yacht can really confirm this?
You think they gonna say that's what it was? And
so everything has to be speculation at this point. I
just feel like he just has to be smarter. He
has to put himself in better situations, because when you don't, now,
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you open yourself up to whatever anybody or anyone may
think that is. And that's what everybody is saying. It
is whether it's right or wrong, that's the assumption, because
is he gonna what else can you come out and said?
Is I just feel bad? You know that he looks
so good in the videos of him training coming off man,
(25:07):
he looked like he ain't never been hurt. And now
this is the talk now whether the Patriots release him
or not, they should talk about it. I'm sure they
have talked about it. But I wouldn't release him, you know.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Uh, you know, I played with Mike. I played with
very obviously, and I just like what he said at
the end was that, uh, you know, the conversations that
he is going to have or he has had with
Stefan dig with main between him and uh and and
and and Stephan. But to be honest with you, we've
(25:43):
seen worse. And I think it's more of Stephan being
with Cardi B. How this story is being uh portrayed
and obviously uh, you know, it's we get scrutinized differently.
And if he's out on a boat with his girl
(26:05):
and there's some girls and it's really a non story.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What's wrong with getting on the boat with the food
chicks taking a couple of laps around the river or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
The case may be.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But it's just happy to be he's with Cardi B
And and those are some of the things that come
with me. And I really believe at the end of
the day, we won't know the facts of what exactly
the substance is or what it was, or if he's
getting hired doing drugs or whatever the case may be.
But I just feel that, you know, we just get
(26:43):
scrutinized differently based off of who we are, you know,
like playing in this league, because trust me, I've seen
a lot of works come from other players and it
wasn't even mentioned or talked about, you know, in the media.
But for him, you know, he's had some some incidences
(27:04):
where you know, Minnesota and now Buffalo one hugheston. Now
he's on his fourth team and he's not being responsible
and all of those things.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I don't I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I don't believe that Mike Rade was going to cut him.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
He's a former player, he understands, he's seen a.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Lot of himself. Now I think it's moving forward.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I don't think it was a bad situation until all
these you know, whatever, this.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Pink stuff is popped up.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
If that wasn't any story, I think it would still
be a story because it's step Fann and Cardi B.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Here's my thing, right, It's interesting how things play out.
And you're right, like, I'm a piggyback off of the
the Cardi B aspect of it. When you're when you're
dealing with somebody as high profile as Cardi B, you
are going to be instantly thrusted into a different category
(28:00):
of being covered. I know Steph on Diggs since he
was back his days in Maryland and and being in
the area. I know him and and Steph is a
good dude. He's you know, he he's a funny guy,
great sense of humor. I think he's often misrepresented and sometimes,
you know, you get certain things that take place and
(28:22):
then now it's like you're a misunderstood person, like he's
he's a diva, or you know, he's hard to get
along with, or whatever it may be. I never met
a receiver that didn't have the traits that a great
receiver I would say that didn't have the traits that
I've seen and experience with steph On Diggs. I immediately
thought to myself, it's all about perspective.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
In angles, right, because when you look.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
At how how it all played out, like why would
why would anybody? And he's fully aware where he's at,
like you watched the video. It's not like he doesn't
know where he's at. It's not like he's not a
aware of what he's got, what he's got going on,
And so to allow somebody to film you like that,
(29:09):
I would need more context before I start drawing any judgments,
any any type of thoughts that would surround this, because
it's all about perspectives. If you if you're a void
of what the real context of what was taking place
is then you're left to trying to figure out and
(29:30):
fill in the blanks because it's been presented to you
in a certain type of way.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
And that's how media works. That's how media works.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I don't know why Stefan Diggs allowed himself to be
filmed in that moment. I don't know who it was
that film Stefan Diggs in that moment. But what I
do know is is that I saw in the video
Stephan's eyes came up, like when the substance came out
or whatever it is that was in the baggie or whatever.
He looked around. His eyes came up, and it doesn't
(30:03):
come across as he's inebriated, he's under any type of influence.
It doesn't look like that. Looks like there's a fun
exchange going on. In fact, one of the young ladies
in the video looks at the camera and it's talking
to the camera. I don't know what it is because
I don't have a close enough look. It could be balloons.
(30:26):
They could be ready to blow up some party balloons
like here, Like he might be out there being a
magician making balloon animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We don't know what people's proclivities are in their own time.
All I know is I don't have enough context. And
like y'all said, y'all was today years old when y'all
found out what tucy is today, So if you didn't
know what it was, I didn't know what it was
when I first heard it.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I had to look it up, just like y'all did.
I feel like I.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Need more cunt text until we get more context. And
maybe we won't get any more context. Maybe that context
will only be connected to Mike Vrabel and the New
England Patriots. Maybe it will be connected to I don't know.
They haven't said if the NFL is investigating it or not.
I haven't seen that there's an official launch of an investigation.
(31:20):
But I will say this, people are going to be tough,
touch sensitive in scenarios like this because of all of
these lawsuits that are hitting and it's all about optics.
This is the biggest mistake of the situation. If I'm
looking at Stefan Diggs, is you always have to be
aware of the optics and the fact that you are
(31:41):
with Cardi b.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
People are already.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Thinking you're living a rock star lifestyle. By being able
to be with a young lady such as her, you
are going to be propped and put in a different
level of exposure and optics, make up. It may it
makes everything work, it makes everything fall apart. You can
use it like how Kelsey has used it with Swift
(32:03):
and propel your career to a whole other level that
transcends the game. Or you can put yourself in a
situation where that type of lifestyle consumes you and it
leads to your undoing and your downfall. I just hope
that isn't the case with Stephan Diggs. That's what I
would say to it. So anyways, we'll see how it
all plays out. I don't know if it leads to
him losing his job or not. And again I don't
(32:26):
know what the true details of it are. I hope
that the journalism of how it's being covered as we
move forward is more important than sensationalizing a story trying
to maybe villainize Stephan Diggs. So we'll see how it
all plays out. But I know this this man isn't
a villain. He's a superhero and when he comes on
(32:47):
it gives us the updates. It's superhero work. What you
got I lowed with our update trending.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
I'm just in the midst of a nice little mid
morning snack here avocados in coffee.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I'm like us, I got a coffee coming to right.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That sounds like you go ahead a bubble guts from
a few minutes.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Actually, no, I will be having a very very healthy,
healthy snack. Avocados are literally a superfood.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I'm just a super food. It is a superfood.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Is perhaps I'm.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Just saying perhaps the avocados you've been served have either
been too ripe or not ripe enough.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
What it was?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
However, a World Series rematch on Friday night, as Los
Angeles Dodgers prevailed I know over the New York Yankees
eight to five, Aaron Judges nineteenth home run of the
season of the first sitting, but then at the bottom
of the first show Heyo Tani a home run is
twenty first. He would homer again in the bottom of
the sixth thitting. He now has twenty two home runs
to lead the Majors and the Dodgers eight to five win. However,
(33:48):
off the field, Mookie Bets of the Dodgers out for
at least this weekend series after injuring a toe on
his left foot in an off field mishap that's not
expected to need to go on the injured lips One's
Also on Friday night, Minnesota Twins riley for a twelve
sixth victory at Seattle and ten innings, Twins trailed six
to three going on to the top of the ninth,
they tied it in Carlos Corea, the go I had
(34:09):
two run home run in the top of the tenth.
Mike Trout return to the Angels lineup, going one for
five and a four to one win at Cleveland after
he had missed twenty six games due to a bone
bruise on his left knee. And of course, tonight at
eight pm Eastern, Game six of the NBA's Eastern Conference
Finals from Indianapolis, with the Pacers up three games to
two over the New York Next guys back to.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
You appreciate it, I Lo. We're gonna take a quick break.
We're gonna come back on the other side of it.
We're gonna talk about with Chip Kelly. He had praises
and we're going to talk about it. That's always a
nice thing, positive thing. You're listening to up on game.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
It's t J.
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Huschmanzada its Plexico burst I am LeVar Arrington. Yeah, we'll
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Speaker 7 (34:53):
All right, welcome back in the up on game.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
T J.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Huschmanzada's Plexico burs is LeVar Arrington's Fox Sports. We got
cuffs the legend coming up next hour, we'll talk basketball
NBA playoffs. What's that looking like? But before we get
to that, let's take a visit out to Yeah, Las Vegas. Uh,
Chip Kelly, he's uh giving out high praises during the week.
(35:22):
Votas quarterback Geno Smith has already made a strong impression,
so says Ryan McFadden of The Four Letter Word Network ESPN,
saying that you know, just ask Riot receivers Jakobe Myers,
whose face his face lit up when with excitement when
(35:43):
talking about his new teammate on Thursday. It's it's it's
really really an interesting thing to hear the excitement. Offensive
coordinator Chip Kelly called Smith a blessing quotes for coaches,
saying that Smith provides a wealth of experience due to
(36:03):
playing for multiple coordinators throughout his eleven year career. Kelly
said that his picked Smith, He's picked Smith's brain, asking
him how his former Seattle offensive coordinators Shane Waldron and
Ryan Grubb would handle certain situations or calls. Kelly also
mentioned that Smith would call him in the evening after
(36:27):
practices to discuss what happened during the day. He says
that Geno, he's great. He's literally like a second coach.
Kelly said, who joined Las Vegas and and well he
was with Ohio State and he just got a national title,
then got up out of there. Fellas just super quickly
before you know, we get to the end of the hour.
(36:49):
I know you guys are were you in New York
with with Gino? You might have you guys might have
crossed pass right stretch y'all missed each other. Okay, but
you know, I know who Gino is. I don't know
him real well. I know his agent's shut off is
his agent. That's my guy, one of my brothers. I've
heard so many great things about him, and he was
(37:11):
able to rejuvenate his career, resurrect his career in Seattle,
gets a great opportunity to go to Las Vegas. Now,
it's great to hear a positive story and a diagnosis
or prognosis on what they think and feel about Geno Smith.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
I like the fact that Chip Kelly is when you
have your coach openly supporting you like that, it just
it brings a smile to your face. As a player,
it makes you feel good. We all had that self confidence.
But when you have the people that are going to
determine your playing time. We know Geno is gonna start,
(37:49):
but just that support publicly and to come out and
say those things, that just makes you feel good that
they appreciate the work that they see you putting in
and what they feel you can do in the future
and be productive. And so as a player, to me,
more coaches need to be this way. I believe Chip
Kelly has evolved as a coach. I believe Chip Kelly
(38:12):
when he left Oregon, you go to the Eagles did
and said some things you release Uhdashawn Jackson, every betrayed,
shady you basically let go all the good players. He
learned from that. He learned from that, and so we're
seeing a evolved Chip Kelly as a person as a
(38:34):
coach a.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Head coach either though, TJ.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I mean, you know it would be it would to
say that if he was, you know, I mean where
he's at now, But he's not the head coach.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
It doesn't matter if he's a head coach or not.
It doesn't matter if he plays. Oh that he couldn't
that he couldn't come to or to Las Vegas and
get rid of those players. Correct, But to me, it
seems as if he's evolved in it. And it's great
for himself as a coach and as a person. But
for your players to still that confidence in him, I
don't believe coaches realize when you publicly do this to
(39:06):
your players, you're instill in so much confidence in these
dudes that they feel like they can go out there
and do whatever. That that type of stuff to me matters.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
I mean, I guess I got a kind of guy
to agree with you when you see he has a
vault as a coach, because we have not heard Chip
Kelly be too you know, favorable about his peak teammates,
you know, openly in the public. But you know, I
just want to see I don't want to see it.
(39:35):
But if the Raiders aren't playing well and things aren't
going the way that you know they expect to, what
will be his tune? Then if the offense is not
performing well. And when he says that, you know, Geno
Smith is like having a second coach on the football
feeling in the meeting room. I mean, the guy's been
around for what eleven twelve seasons now forty three hundred
(39:59):
yard twenty one touchdowns. You just don't step on the
football feel and have that kind of success if you
do not understand the game of football and how to
play the position at a high level, you just don't
do it. So but just like you said at LeVar,
I think you know Gino went to Seattle resurrected his
(40:22):
career under Pete Carroll. That was one of the reasons,
the main reason why when pet Carroll was named the
head coach, he said, you know what I got. I
got a guy who can be an elite quarterback if
I get him around the right players. Because I really
think that moving forward, they have a better offense in
(40:43):
Las Vegas and they haven't having Seattle if he would
have remained the quarterback there. So I believe he's going
to have some success. Obviously, the AFC West is probably
the hardest division in football, so I expect for the
raid is to compete, but not, you know, get into
the playoffs in year one.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
I wish him well. I think it sets the stage
for Chip Kelly.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Like you mentioned TJ, it sets the stage for him
to take take the brunt and the blame if it
doesn't go well. But we'll see if it does go well.
And right now, it's kumba, y'all. They're off to a
great start, just like our show. It's off to a
great start. Our one is down, our two is coming.
We got cuffs, the legend coming. We're on Talk NBA Roundball.
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