September 23, 2023 • 38 mins
LaVar & TJ talk about a Legendary Moment with Penn State coach James Franklin, Bart Scott’s comments on Trevon Diggs injury, how Micah Parsons can strengthen his case for MVP while Diggs is out, Up on Game / Down on Game, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (02:13):
TJ Hushman zat up.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
My man James Franklin has been kind enough to sit
down with me weekly and just had just chop it up.
Like you know, it's not very often you get an
opportunity to talk to a high profile Power five Division
one coach and get insight back in insight that maybe
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the general public doesn't get. But I've been granted the
opportunity by coach to sit down with him on a
weekly basis and just pick his brain and talk to
him about certain things that you know, I see going
on with the program. But it's ultimately appliable to you know,
other other college coaches. Like we're having the conversations about
(02:57):
coach Deon Sanders earlier in the show is well, we
talked about Ryan Day and others. But TJ, here's this
weekend's legendary moment. I'm curious to hear what your thoughts
are on what coach had to talk about as it
applies to the family component of college football.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Love game game, It presents conversations with a legend and
now this is your legendary moment.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You're a family guy, and anybody who knows you knows
how much you believe in family and how you love
family and how you brought that element to the locker room.
Where does coach Franklin get the idea of I include
my wife, I include my kids, I include my family,
Like it's kind of funny we see how everybody's loving
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on Dion saying coach prime for how he loves on
his players and that family environment and the things that
he does. And I'm sitting there like, we got a
guy in Stay College. I don't know, maybe it's quiet,
but you have been that guy long before there was
all this attention going into two volter, And I was.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Thinking to myself, like, why is that so important to you?
Frank Well, a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Like a lot of people, I wouldn't say I came
from the most traditional home situation.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
My dad wasn't around a whole.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Lot, uh, And coaches had a huge impact all my life. So,
you know, I was hoping one day, you know, whatever profession,
whatever career I got into, and then from a marriage
standpoint with my wife and kids, that I was going
to find a way to be the best father and
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version you know that I could possibly be. So, you know,
being a being a college football coach, that's one of
the concerns that's people's fear of getting into the profession
is you know, how are you going to be able
to find balance? Well, the reality is I don't have balance.
I'm I'm going to try to pretend and act like
I do, but a couple things. Being able to include
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my family in everything, Being able to include the coaching
staff's families in everything, I think allows you to kind
of get the best of both worlds. And then I
think living in a college town I think helps. I
know you're in LA, well, that's hard to pull off
with traffic, or when you used to live back in Maryland,
as you say Maryland, the traffic can make that tough.
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So being in a town like State College where I
could go have lunch with my daughters at their elementary
school or they could come over to practice. I just
think it allows you to have the best of both
worlds and have a great job that you appreciate and
work hard at, but you also have an opportunity to
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be the best father and husband that you can possibly
be as well and combine those things. And then I
think there's also an aspect of what we're doing as coaches,
because there's a lot of our young men in our
life locker room that maybe didn't have a father at home,
So them watching you and how you interact with your
wife and how you interact with your daughters, that's part
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of the entire educational process.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That's coach James Franklin of the Penn State Nittney Lines,
And of course I do have a personal connection and
a vested interest in it. I'm actually in State College
right now and will attend the white Out game. But
more importantly than that, TJ, it's more or less the
conversation is really about just understanding and learning certain things
that I believe going to possibly why a coach has success,
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you know, with what it is that they're doing. What's
your takeaway from that, Like do you subscribe to that
type of approach in terms of family?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Like what's your reaction to that? I mean, you touched
on something earlier? Very rarely when you are a top
ten program like Penn State is now consistently the coach
is not gonna grant these type of quote unquote interviews
because they're worried about, Oh, we got to make sure
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we're doing all the right we can't do. He understands,
especially with what Prime is doing, we got to get
out there as head coaches. We gotta show our personality
to these recruits. We got to be accessible. And so
him being accessible and he's exactly right, like being able
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to go have lunch with your kids, being able for
your kids to come have lunch with you, and just
doing those things because the coach and profession is a
tough one. It's a huge time commitment, and you miss
out on a lot of things with your family because
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you are so vested in recruiting and developing young men
that your family suffers. And so for him to make
time to do those type of thing things, a lot
of coaches would benefit if they were to adopt some
of the things that he said, because you miss out
on a ton and you looked up and you're like, Damn,
my baby's a teenager, Damn my babies graduating college, and
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you've missed it all.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah. I found it to be super encouraging. I found
it to be super intrigued. I've gotten to know James
Franklin as a as a person, and it's been such
a pleasure to get to know someone of such influence
at my alma mater, because I've always felt from the
players that I've talked to, you know, guys I've been around,
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they just really really respect and admire how coach Franklin
goes about handling his business. And one of the major
elements of it is the family aspect of it. I've
been telling people that have been trying to figure out
the phenomenon of Deon Sanders how important that component is.
Very understated in fact, if you ask me, in terms
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of how the approach to being a coach plays a
major part in the results that that you get.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, when I when I think about some of.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
The coaches that I've had, every coach that ever loved
me and cared about me got the best from me,
and I always felt like, for what it's worth, it's
a trust factor, right TJ. Like, and I know I
know your story, and we've talked a lot about you know,
things that you've you've you know, growing up, and how
you saw things and how things kind of played out
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for you. I know, for me, anyone who who I
felt and I knew without a doubt had my back
and supported me and cared about me and my well
being and my welfare wasn't just get out there and
play football. And if you're not doing what I need
you to do on football, it's like get out of
the way. We'll put somebody else in that's going to
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do it. You actually encourage me, Like we saw the
horn receiver horn. What was horn horn?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And he had that big drop in the game, and
everybody's like intrigued by how Dion is is addressing him, like, oh,
look at the way he's talking to him. Then he
embraces him at the end. These are like, but isn't
that how it should be? Isn't like tough love is
one thing, and I get that, and I and you've coached,
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we've coached together.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We're kind of the same type of person.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We're gonna give you tough coaching, but you also know
that that tough coaching comes from a place of If
you're getting tough coaching, that means it's just a part
of the tough love that's being exercised with you.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's not just tough.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Coaching, and it's void of the personal love and connection
and accountability. I just feel like you need to be
accountable for me if you're gonna guide me and you're
gonna teach me, and you're gonna tell me what I
need to do to be great. If you're telling me
what I need to do to have success, shouldn't I
have a level of trust and who you are to
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me as a person, Because that value carries something that
creates a level of accountability that very you know, very
few people really get the opportunity to experience in certain
aspects of their life.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Absolutely, but this is the key when you talk tough
coaching and things of that nature. You got to understand
your players. You got to understand personalities. You got to
understand what makes somebody click and go. And sometimes it's
getting on them and motivating them in a way that
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others may not understand. But there's other times where you
talk to them calmly, you give them a hug, I
got you, we gonna need you later in this game.
You know the players over will let it go. And
so it depends on the player and the personality. But
when they know you care, they good with either one.
They know there's no intent behind it, no malice behind it,
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because they trust you. They believe in you as a leader.
And so when you get to that level that you
can talk to your players both ways and they trust
either way, that's when you know they truly trust.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Because if you really get on a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In a demonstrative a demonstrative way and he doesn't like
it and he kind of responds back the same way,
he don't trust you, he don't believe in your leadership, and.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So that is just maybe he's testing that trust.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Are you gonna stand in there with me, I'm gonna
pop off on you and I'm gonna act out and
I need to see how are you gonna handle this?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You're gonna sell me out? Or do you? Or do
you really really believe.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
What you say when you say you you bang with
me and I love you like bri You like, all right,
let's give him you a hug, like have a good day, dad?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Do you really mean it?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Because there's going to be moments in time like what
you just said where they're gonna they're gonna test you.
They're gonna test I remember when we was out Long
Beach Poly and I was coaching JB Josh Joshua Ja.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You remember we made him run.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
We made these dudes run and he was lazy and
he was getting tired and I'm telling him, I'm urging
him to keep going and you need to step it up.
You're a leader. Da da da, And he was like,
he hit me with the F that F that like
in F you Now in that moment, if it's F
me that, it's F you. You know what I mean like,
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in the moment, if it's fight or flight, that's what
it could be. But in that moment, it's like, I'm
gonna keep pushing you. I'm gonna keep pushing you. And
then they finished up. We got to the end of practice.
I pulled him to the size and you know, you
can't be taking to.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Me like that, Doc.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You know I love you know, I love the s
out of you. Gave him a hug, got my arm around,
and we walking off. You know, I'm a by if
you hit me with the fugain. You know, we gotta
go ahead. You know, we got and.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He started laughing.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I was like, I mean, come on, man, you know,
I'm just trying to make you better. I'm just trying
to push you beyond that threshold of what your mind
says that you can't do. But I know you can
do it. And in that moment, I'll get You'll get
if you really really genuinely care about these kids and
these guys in those moments, then not trust is solidified,
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and now the accountability of that player and that person
which is more important than the player, that person's accountability
and their buying and their trust goes to an entirely
different place. My guys know that they could still call
me to this day. To this day, we still keep
up and connect with one another, and guys are having
babies and their adults now and stuff like that, moved
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on with their lives. That to me, is what separates
a guy that is able to connect with a guy
to get the results that they're seeking and searching for.
It's you so loosely like I'm a coach that cares
about my guys, okay, But when you're really in the trenches,
you start to really learn a lot about yourself by
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learning a lot about these young guys because they're coming
from different places, they come from different situations, and while
you may not be able to understand or relate to
every single thing that the guys you're guiding and you're
teaching and your coaching may come from, it's still your
duty and your responsibility to make yourself available and understanding
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and flexible to be able to reach them, like you said,
where they are where they are. As a coach, you
don't make them come to where you are. You have
to go meet them to where they are because they
just might not know exactly how I go about going
to getting to where you are, because I didn't come
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from a place where I know exact exactly how to
get to where you are.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You're great. You're trying to bring your greatness to me.
You want me to be great.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, sometimes you got to go meet them where they
are and lead them and be that light to them
and guide them down the path on their journey to greatness.
And then they figure it out, and then they find
somebody else, and then they start being a light to
somebody else and that exchange becomes something magical and amazing.
And anyways, that's how I be feeling about it. And
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you know, it's very gratifying when you have those opportunities TJ.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Anytime you get a chance to unpack young men, it
just feels good. You know you've helped them, and it
can be so small and you see them implement what
you were trying to help them, whether you smiled outwardly
inside you like ah, okay, there we go. You know
he's taking it and that's all you want.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Mmm. I know that's right. Hey, listen, shouts out the coach.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Franklin shouts out to all the coaches out there that
give life and give love and accountability to the ones
that don't do better, do better because they really depend
on you to be that person that you know, provides that.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
All right, this is up on Game. That's t J.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hushman is outa I am LeVar Arrington. We're gonna talk
a little Trayvon Diggs the NFL. Obviously he had a
season ending injury take place unfortunate. There's an interesting plot
twist to this. There's two. I want to give my
perspective on that, and it has something to do with
somebody that I have a personal connection with. But there
was also an interesting take on what took place with
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this injury. And well you'll want to hear it. It
involves that four letter word on the other side.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It starts with the E ends with the end. We
got some sound on that. I want to get some
reactions on that from TJ up on Game. This is
Fox Sports Radio. We'll be right back. All right, all right,
welcome back into the show. It's up on Game, of
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
From tyraq dot com Studios.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's t J. Hushman's out. I'm LeVar Arrington. Plexico is
off today talking about boys the men like when you
deal with an injury, a serious injury, it forces you
to become a man. You gotta you gotta address, you
gotta address the the serious in nature of what's taking
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place with an injury TJ and and there's nothing really joking.
You know, it shouldn't be taken in a jokingly manner
when a serious injury takes place, because obviously there's a
lot that is connected to a major injury that takes place.
Trayvon Diggs, as reported in Practice has has has had
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a season ending ligament tear and ACL tear that in
his season for it for this year, and well, there
were some interesting we'll say, an interesting take by an analyst,
and well, I think we have the sound on it,
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so I'm curious to get your take on it. Here's
what Bart Scott had to say about Trayvon Diggs's injury.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This is a major major blow for Dallas.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And like Steven A always says, just wait, something bad
always happens.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, don't start that, don't.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Start let me tell you no, no, no, no, no
no no. First of all, I wouldn't do that right
now in all seriousness. Oh, I see, this is a
season ending injury. So I'm certainly not gonna joke about
that with Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
What's your initial reaction to to Bart Scott saying just
give us some time, something bad will happen.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Can't wait?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Oh no, nah, I mean you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Can't when the god tears his acl like you you can't.
Really you can't. You shouldn't make a joke when somebody
has an injury of that nature. And the sad part
is you played the game, you know how it is,
like Bart, you played the game, and you really gonna
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say that on national television about a young man that's
out for the year. Just wait some back when Steven
as talking at he talking on the field, just wait
some bad gonna have, somebody gonna drop a ball, quarterback
gonna throw interception, or they gonna do not about a
guy getting hurt, like you just can't say those type
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of it comes off as very, very insensitive, and honestly
felt like he meant it really to be honest with you.
And then when they said what they said, they went
Ryan and Steven they said what they said.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Then it was oh, what did I just do? And say?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, because I don't think he meant it to Trayvon Diggs.
I think he meant it towards Dallas. My take on it,
when something is going something's going to go bad bad,
I just I think he I'm with you on what
you just said. The last part of it, like, oh,
I realized that it didn't. It did not go over
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the way that I thought in my mind when I
made the comment like give it some time, it's going
to go it's going to go wrong. I think he
was just talking about seasons fall apart for Dallas. That's
give it some time and it's going to go bad
for Dallas. To do it in that moment, the timing.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Was was bad.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was bad, and it's going to be received wrong
because incorrectly because you're talking about somebody's health.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But I didn't interpret it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As he was taking a personal like making a joke
of Trayvon Diggs and his injury. I think I think
what he was doing was he was going at basically
the fact that if something could go wrong for Dallas,
it will go wrong, just give it time. And I
think I think stephen A probably understood it that way
as well. But he was like that this isn't the
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time to do that. This isn't the time to make
light of the season falling apart, whatever way it would
fall apart for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Just give it some time.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Like it just it came across as insensitive, and it
came across as being unaware of the fact that this
young man just had a season ending career, well not career,
but season ending injury.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For this season. Anytime you you just the Cowboys first off,
that defense was looking.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Unreal. Yeah, and you lose.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Your second best defensive player in trey Von Diggs. That's
a blow to the team. And you can't. I just
I firmly believe you can never try to make a
joke of somebody being injured. It doesn't matter what team
it is, how the game is going. When you make
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those type of jokes, it has to be what you're
putting on the field to play the Again, receiver drops
the ball, you run a bag route, running back fumbles,
quarterback throws it, whatever it is, you give up a
big touchdown, that's the Cowboys. Cowboy And if you're gonna
make those type of jokes year long injury of acl
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come on, you can't do. And it's a former player,
you cannot do those type of things that I just
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It because there's some certain players they may feel a
certain type of way about it, so now when they
see you as a problem, it's all sight and you
never as an as a personality on the radio, on TV.
You never want to do that to where the player
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feels like, all right, when I seen we got to talk. Yeah,
you don't want to do that because it's almost as
if you're making it personal and it should never go
down that road, at least not in my opinion. I
try to not do those things because I know I
was an emotional well I was, I am an emotional person,
and so.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That would bother me.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, like, while you really making fun of me getting
injured and you was actually on the field doing the
same thing, I'm like, bro, what are you on? And
so I didn't like it. I don't think Bart probably
really thought about what he was saying before he said it.
And obviously you can't put the toothpaste back into tube, you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Know, say back at the two. I think he thought
about it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I just don't think he realized what he was more
focused on Dallas when he said it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Than he was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
The personal aspect of how it applied to Trayvon Diggs. Now,
let's let's transition to this TJ. Because you talked about
how the defense was doing well and was playing amazing
football at which they were. Michael Parsons he had some
things to say about it. Do we have the sound
on that bow?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So Michael Parsons was talking about, you know, just how
big of a blow it was to the to the
defense obviously, but my initial thought was, Okay, Micah is
up for not just defensive Player of the year, Michael
Parsons is up for player of the year. He's he's
in the running to be the MVP of the league.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's some LT.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Type esque stuff that's going on with Michael Parsons right now.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I know this.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
As a pass rusher, My best years pass rushing were
not because I was a super dope pass rusher, which
I was, but it was based upon the coverage. If
I got if I have Champ Bailey, I had Champ Bailey,
Fred Smooth, Darryl Green out there covering. I knew that
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I was going to have more than three seconds time
to get to the quarterback. So if I'm going to
take two steps upfield, and I'm going to run a
stunt with the defensive tackle, even the tackle and sometimes
even the noseguard.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You know you run ears.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Where you ears call is where you have a defensive tackle.
They go upfield, they push the offensive tackle out, the
noseguard goes upfield and hits that that opposite A gap.
The outside guy, which would be a Me or Michael Parsons.
We sell it upfield and then we come behind those
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two defensive linemen and we loop all the way to
the opposite A gap TJ all the way to the
opposite A.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That takes time.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And if I don't have somebody out there that's covering,
I don't get that time. By the time I get
to the A gap, that ball is gone. But if
I have somebody that's covering and and Trayvon has established
himself and this is super important. Like I had with
Champ Bailey or David Macklin when I was in college,
he's a.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Cover coach, he's a cover corner.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
When you have a cover corner, that means you have
literally put the best receiver on notice that you have
to win a one on one matchup just like the
defender has to win that one on one matchup, so
I can take away as a cover corner, and that's
what Trayvon has has has established.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Himself to be. If you can take away the.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Quarterbacks first read, you have now already added at least
one to two more seconds to the amount of time
that your defense has upfront to be able to get
to the quarterback. How important do you think that is
in this situation? Do you believe that dan Quinn can
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overcome the idea that you don't have your best corner
on the field, like you said, second best defensive player
on the field. Are you able in your opinion estimation
to come up with a defensive scheme that still gives
your defensive front and your pass rushers like of Michael
Parsons the opportunity to operate. Do you feel how do
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you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, he should be able to. I mean you got
to understand now they have Gilmour what should help? And
then last year Bland he led the team in interceptions.
He led the team in interceptions, so with five So
they got guys in the back end. Now they not
Trayvon Diggs, but the guys in the back end that
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are more than capable, good coaching, you will make up
for this in when you have that pass rush, specifically Parsons,
those guys ain't got to cover long. They don't have
to cover long because he's a menace up front. Like
when you watch Dallas play, if they get a lead
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on you, is over. Like if they got a two
touchdown lead and it's late in the game, it's over
because that pass rush is coming.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And so.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
They should be able to still be very very competitive. Now,
when you play the best of the best, your best players, Parsons,
DeMarcus Lawrence, they gonna really have to step up because
that's when the Trayvon Diggs will be missed. Is when
you play the forty nine ers and they got Deebo
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and Nyuk that that's where he will be missed. And
so it's a tough I never like seeing stuff like
this for guys because the cow Boys looked so good
and albeit they weren't playing or they have not played
a team where we felt could challenge them, but it
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does it just the National Football League, everybody can play.
The way Dallas was winning their games made me look
and say, WHOA Dallas looks really good now without Diggs.
One of the best players in the league. You gotta
have good players winning this league, and when you lose one,
that's a blow to your team. Good coaching can try
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to mask it, but you're not covering up for that.
That's why he is who he is as a player.
We can mask it, but we can't replace that. And
that's why he is who he is. And so I
still expect the Cowboys and have a really good season.
And when you play a team like the Niners that
got two receivers, like the Eagles that got two receivers,
and Eagles is divisional opponent, you're gonna play them twice.
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That's when not having digs may or may not affect
the team, especially if those guys up front aren't doing
what they've done thus far to start the season.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Truth that's T. J. Huschman's out of I am LeVar Arrington.
Let's get an update from eye level before we go
to the break.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What you got? I sick, low and grown?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Thank you love.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Fall.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
You know, I've just as an insurance policy, you come
up with a helpful memorization device if you will. Okay,
is if I should really need one. But you can't
say LeVar without love.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
That's very true. That's very true. And you can say
Lamar without man. I could say Lafar without love. What
y'all talking about? Because you do have an O instead
of an age. But I just wanted to go there
with them. I mean, I am lover. So it's just
you know, you got the L and the V in there,
but there is an A instead of an O. But
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that could be strike to TJ for for Ilo.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It could be. But what are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (32:10):
I thought I had strike three about three or four
years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I mean, that's fair enough to I guess we have
been doing this for.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
I know we've been doing it for a minute.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
We're starting in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He got lo. Let's strike strike.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I mean we must strike twenty eight, strike twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's true.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Let's be real around here.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
At one of these times you're going knock it out
of part.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
So we're just going, yeah, we're still waiting for that. Okay,
We'll start at the NFL where short Tabago. Cincinnati Bengals
head coach Zach Taylor said the quarterback Joe Burrow is
questionable for Monday's night's game against the Los Angeles Rams
because of a calf injury. NFL media reports the Bengals
are also signing A J. McCarran to their practice squad.
McCarran previously spent four seasons with the Bengals from twenty
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fourteen through twenty seventeen. The Indianapolis Colts today released run
back Dion Jackson and signed running back Tray Sermon to
their fifty three man roster from their practice squad. The
Colts will be at Baltimore tomorrow in College football Number two.
Michigan as a fourteen to seven halftime lead over Rutgers.
On the third play of the game, Rutgers quarterback Gavin
(33:18):
at wimsit through a sixty nine yard touchdown pass to
Christian Drammel, but Michigan came back Blake Koram a two
yard touchdown run, capping a ninety four yard drive, and
then Wolverine quarterback JJ McCarthy throw an eighteen yard touchdown
pass to Samaje Morgan. Clemson as a seventeen to fourteen
halftime lead over fourth ranked Florida State. Clemson quarterback Cade
(33:41):
club Nick and Florida State QB Jordan Travis each with
a touchdown pass and a touchdown run, and also at
halftime sixteenth th ranked Oklahoma up ten to three at Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Guys, back to.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You appreciate it. I low.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We're going to take a quick breaking. On the other
side of the break, Bo's going to walk us through
some up on game down on game as I continuously
dominate TJ on how I do my picks? Do you
have the results from from last week? By the way, Bo,
do we have those available? Okay, let's let's try to
have that count, you know, on the way back, because
I just want the world to know and see that
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I dominate TJ on these picks.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So up on game down, on game. On the other
side of the break, that's TJ.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Hitschman's out of LaVar Egton. We'll be right back Fox
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I'm LeVar Arrington coming up next. You want to stay
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coming to you live from South Caro A line up. Yeah,
he went back, he went back to where it all
started from for him doing radio there to check out
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the game Cocks and their game, their big game this weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
All right, make sure you stay tuned in for that.
But before we get up.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Out of here, we gotta do it here we go, bo,
let's get into it up on game down on game.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Done for some picks. Are you up on game?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Let's creak this up.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Let's break it up down on game.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
So last week's scores, we're just gonna say everybody won
because some technical difficulties happened and we do not have them.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So okay, we will have this week moving forward.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Got lucky, it's all good. TJ. Got lucky. That's all good.
TJ got lucky. All right, Well we got.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
To start today.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
We have a number fourteen Oregon State headed to Pullman
to take on number twenty one, watching the state in
the PAC two battle.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We know what that is to battle Oregon State.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Already the total in the game is fifty seven and
a half.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
TJ. Who you got here?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Come on? Who who do I have. I got the Beavers.
We're going in. We're gonna win the game.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And because we play real football, we're gonna play defense,
we're gonna run the ball, We're gonna uh, we're.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Gonna get it done. I'm gonna say Oregon State in
the under.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah. Now, I'm gonna take the over on the points.
And you said it was Washington favored by.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Two and a half.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Oregon State's favored by three.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Oh their favorite back three? Oh No, I'm taking. I'm
taking Washington l for you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
You're tal this is the Huskies, right, nah, Cougars, because
I totally.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Take that back. See I was what you mean. I
thought this was we don't we don't want you with us.
We don't want you with us.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
No, I taking Oregon State, and this one I'm taking.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take the O on the points though,
but I'm gonna take the Washington States. Alright, they'll cover,
they'll cover up next.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Week in Washington State. Okay, up next week.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
No Oregon State, Oregon State, Oregan State, Oregon State.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Number number twenty four. Iowa headed to Happy Valley. I
believe to take on number seven Penn State, Penn State
favored by fourteen points and the total in this game
is just thirty seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Iowa and over, Iowin Over. There we go, Iowin over.
Let's go, baby.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I'm gonna take the over on the points. I think
they'll score more than that. And Penn State, I mean,
Drew Aller is showing that he's improving every single week.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
He's he's a.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Heisman caliber type of guy. He's a future top ten
type of pick.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
First round.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
There's gonna he's gonna show out. And our defense is
freaking full of studs. Shots out to Iowa, but it
ain't gonna happen today. They cover a Sam I got you, baby,
They're gonna cover that.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
So I'm taking Penn State in this one.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
All right, last one here, real quick, eventful for the
Bears gets better. They get to the head to Kansas
City take on the Chiefs. Kansas City favored by twelve
and a half in this game with a total of
forty eight.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
TJ who you got, I'm taking over.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I hate giving up that many points in the National
Football League, man, that's what I'm taking. The points, but
I'm gonna take I'm gonna guess I gotta go with
the chiefs in the in the over.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I'm taking the over, and I'm laying the points on
this one. Kansas City all the way. Then I mean Bo.
Then I mean Bo.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Bo common common mistake.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No it's not common is Loo? Shut me up? Gosh darn,
I'm taking I'm taking that one. So anyway, shots out
to bow. It is Bo. And that's mister Purfet. I'm
LeVar Rington. That's t J.
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Speaker 1 (02:13):
TJ Hushman zat up.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
My man James Franklin has been kind enough to sit
down with me weekly and just had just chop it up.
Like you know, it's not very often you get an
opportunity to talk to a high profile Power five Division
one coach and get insight back in insight that maybe
(02:36):
the general public doesn't get. But I've been granted the
opportunity by coach to sit down with him on a
weekly basis and just pick his brain and talk to
him about certain things that you know, I see going
on with the program. But it's ultimately appliable to you know,
other other college coaches. Like we're having the conversations about
(02:57):
coach Deon Sanders earlier in the show is well, we
talked about Ryan Day and others. But TJ, here's this
weekend's legendary moment. I'm curious to hear what your thoughts
are on what coach had to talk about as it
applies to the family component of college football.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Love game game, It presents conversations with a legend and
now this is your legendary moment.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You're a family guy, and anybody who knows you knows
how much you believe in family and how you love
family and how you brought that element to the locker room.
Where does coach Franklin get the idea of I include
my wife, I include my kids, I include my family,
Like it's kind of funny we see how everybody's loving
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on Dion saying coach prime for how he loves on
his players and that family environment and the things that
he does. And I'm sitting there like, we got a
guy in Stay College. I don't know, maybe it's quiet,
but you have been that guy long before there was
all this attention going into two volter, And I was.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Thinking to myself, like, why is that so important to you?
Frank Well, a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Like a lot of people, I wouldn't say I came
from the most traditional home situation.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
My dad wasn't around a whole.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Lot, uh, And coaches had a huge impact all my life. So,
you know, I was hoping one day, you know, whatever profession,
whatever career I got into, and then from a marriage
standpoint with my wife and kids, that I was going
to find a way to be the best father and
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version you know that I could possibly be. So, you know,
being a being a college football coach, that's one of
the concerns that's people's fear of getting into the profession
is you know, how are you going to be able
to find balance? Well, the reality is I don't have balance.
I'm I'm going to try to pretend and act like
I do, but a couple things. Being able to include
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my family in everything, Being able to include the coaching
staff's families in everything, I think allows you to kind
of get the best of both worlds. And then I
think living in a college town I think helps. I
know you're in LA, well, that's hard to pull off
with traffic, or when you used to live back in Maryland,
as you say Maryland, the traffic can make that tough.
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So being in a town like State College where I
could go have lunch with my daughters at their elementary
school or they could come over to practice. I just
think it allows you to have the best of both
worlds and have a great job that you appreciate and
work hard at, but you also have an opportunity to
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be the best father and husband that you can possibly
be as well and combine those things. And then I
think there's also an aspect of what we're doing as coaches,
because there's a lot of our young men in our
life locker room that maybe didn't have a father at home,
So them watching you and how you interact with your
wife and how you interact with your daughters, that's part
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of the entire educational process.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That's coach James Franklin of the Penn State Nittney Lines,
And of course I do have a personal connection and
a vested interest in it. I'm actually in State College
right now and will attend the white Out game. But
more importantly than that, TJ, it's more or less the
conversation is really about just understanding and learning certain things
that I believe going to possibly why a coach has success,
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you know, with what it is that they're doing. What's
your takeaway from that, Like do you subscribe to that
type of approach in terms of family?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Like what's your reaction to that? I mean, you touched
on something earlier? Very rarely when you are a top
ten program like Penn State is now consistently the coach
is not gonna grant these type of quote unquote interviews
because they're worried about, Oh, we got to make sure
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we're doing all the right we can't do. He understands,
especially with what Prime is doing, we got to get
out there as head coaches. We gotta show our personality
to these recruits. We got to be accessible. And so
him being accessible and he's exactly right, like being able
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to go have lunch with your kids, being able for
your kids to come have lunch with you, and just
doing those things because the coach and profession is a
tough one. It's a huge time commitment, and you miss
out on a lot of things with your family because
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you are so vested in recruiting and developing young men
that your family suffers. And so for him to make
time to do those type of thing things, a lot
of coaches would benefit if they were to adopt some
of the things that he said, because you miss out
on a ton and you looked up and you're like, Damn,
my baby's a teenager, Damn my babies graduating college, and
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you've missed it all.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah. I found it to be super encouraging. I found
it to be super intrigued. I've gotten to know James
Franklin as a as a person, and it's been such
a pleasure to get to know someone of such influence
at my alma mater, because I've always felt from the
players that I've talked to, you know, guys I've been around,
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they just really really respect and admire how coach Franklin
goes about handling his business. And one of the major
elements of it is the family aspect of it. I've
been telling people that have been trying to figure out
the phenomenon of Deon Sanders how important that component is.
Very understated in fact, if you ask me, in terms
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of how the approach to being a coach plays a
major part in the results that that you get.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, when I when I think about some of.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
The coaches that I've had, every coach that ever loved
me and cared about me got the best from me,
and I always felt like, for what it's worth, it's
a trust factor, right TJ. Like, and I know I
know your story, and we've talked a lot about you know,
things that you've you've you know, growing up, and how
you saw things and how things kind of played out
(09:37):
for you. I know, for me, anyone who who I
felt and I knew without a doubt had my back
and supported me and cared about me and my well
being and my welfare wasn't just get out there and
play football. And if you're not doing what I need
you to do on football, it's like get out of
the way. We'll put somebody else in that's going to
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do it. You actually encourage me, Like we saw the
horn receiver horn. What was horn horn?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And he had that big drop in the game, and
everybody's like intrigued by how Dion is is addressing him, like, oh,
look at the way he's talking to him. Then he
embraces him at the end. These are like, but isn't
that how it should be? Isn't like tough love is
one thing, and I get that, and I and you've coached,
(10:28):
we've coached together.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We're kind of the same type of person.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We're gonna give you tough coaching, but you also know
that that tough coaching comes from a place of If
you're getting tough coaching, that means it's just a part
of the tough love that's being exercised with you.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's not just tough.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Coaching, and it's void of the personal love and connection
and accountability. I just feel like you need to be
accountable for me if you're gonna guide me and you're
gonna teach me, and you're gonna tell me what I
need to do to be great. If you're telling me
what I need to do to have success, shouldn't I
have a level of trust and who you are to
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me as a person, Because that value carries something that
creates a level of accountability that very you know, very
few people really get the opportunity to experience in certain
aspects of their life.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Absolutely, but this is the key when you talk tough
coaching and things of that nature. You got to understand
your players. You got to understand personalities. You got to
understand what makes somebody click and go. And sometimes it's
getting on them and motivating them in a way that
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others may not understand. But there's other times where you
talk to them calmly, you give them a hug, I
got you, we gonna need you later in this game.
You know the players over will let it go. And
so it depends on the player and the personality. But
when they know you care, they good with either one.
They know there's no intent behind it, no malice behind it,
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because they trust you. They believe in you as a leader.
And so when you get to that level that you
can talk to your players both ways and they trust
either way, that's when you know they truly trust.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Because if you really get on a guy.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In a demonstrative a demonstrative way and he doesn't like
it and he kind of responds back the same way,
he don't trust you, he don't believe in your leadership, and.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So that is just maybe he's testing that trust.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Are you gonna stand in there with me, I'm gonna
pop off on you and I'm gonna act out and
I need to see how are you gonna handle this?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You're gonna sell me out? Or do you? Or do
you really really believe.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
What you say when you say you you bang with
me and I love you like bri You like, all right,
let's give him you a hug, like have a good day, dad?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Do you really mean it?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Because there's going to be moments in time like what
you just said where they're gonna they're gonna test you.
They're gonna test I remember when we was out Long
Beach Poly and I was coaching JB Josh Joshua Ja.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You remember we made him run.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
We made these dudes run and he was lazy and
he was getting tired and I'm telling him, I'm urging
him to keep going and you need to step it up.
You're a leader. Da da da, And he was like,
he hit me with the F that F that like
in F you Now in that moment, if it's F
me that, it's F you. You know what I mean like,
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in the moment, if it's fight or flight, that's what
it could be. But in that moment, it's like, I'm
gonna keep pushing you. I'm gonna keep pushing you. And
then they finished up. We got to the end of practice.
I pulled him to the size and you know, you
can't be taking to.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Me like that, Doc.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You know I love you know, I love the s
out of you. Gave him a hug, got my arm around,
and we walking off. You know, I'm a by if
you hit me with the fugain. You know, we gotta
go ahead. You know, we got and.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He started laughing.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I was like, I mean, come on, man, you know,
I'm just trying to make you better. I'm just trying
to push you beyond that threshold of what your mind
says that you can't do. But I know you can
do it. And in that moment, I'll get You'll get
if you really really genuinely care about these kids and
these guys in those moments, then not trust is solidified,
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and now the accountability of that player and that person
which is more important than the player, that person's accountability
and their buying and their trust goes to an entirely
different place. My guys know that they could still call
me to this day. To this day, we still keep
up and connect with one another, and guys are having
babies and their adults now and stuff like that, moved
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on with their lives. That to me, is what separates
a guy that is able to connect with a guy
to get the results that they're seeking and searching for.
It's you so loosely like I'm a coach that cares
about my guys, okay, But when you're really in the trenches,
you start to really learn a lot about yourself by
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learning a lot about these young guys because they're coming
from different places, they come from different situations, and while
you may not be able to understand or relate to
every single thing that the guys you're guiding and you're
teaching and your coaching may come from, it's still your
duty and your responsibility to make yourself available and understanding
(15:36):
and flexible to be able to reach them, like you said,
where they are where they are. As a coach, you
don't make them come to where you are. You have
to go meet them to where they are because they
just might not know exactly how I go about going
to getting to where you are, because I didn't come
(15:58):
from a place where I know exact exactly how to
get to where you are.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You're great. You're trying to bring your greatness to me.
You want me to be great.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, sometimes you got to go meet them where they
are and lead them and be that light to them
and guide them down the path on their journey to greatness.
And then they figure it out, and then they find
somebody else, and then they start being a light to
somebody else and that exchange becomes something magical and amazing.
And anyways, that's how I be feeling about it. And
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you know, it's very gratifying when you have those opportunities TJ.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Anytime you get a chance to unpack young men, it
just feels good. You know you've helped them, and it
can be so small and you see them implement what
you were trying to help them, whether you smiled outwardly
inside you like ah, okay, there we go. You know
he's taking it and that's all you want.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Mmm. I know that's right. Hey, listen, shouts out the coach.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Franklin shouts out to all the coaches out there that
give life and give love and accountability to the ones
that don't do better, do better because they really depend
on you to be that person that you know, provides that.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
All right, this is up on Game. That's t J.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hushman is outa I am LeVar Arrington. We're gonna talk
a little Trayvon Diggs the NFL. Obviously he had a
season ending injury take place unfortunate. There's an interesting plot
twist to this. There's two. I want to give my
perspective on that, and it has something to do with
somebody that I have a personal connection with. But there
was also an interesting take on what took place with
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this injury. And well you'll want to hear it. It
involves that four letter word on the other side.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It starts with the E ends with the end. We
got some sound on that. I want to get some
reactions on that from TJ up on Game. This is
Fox Sports Radio. We'll be right back. All right, all right,
welcome back into the show. It's up on Game, of
course it is, and you know what we're coming to
your life.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
From tyraq dot com Studios.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's t J. Hushman's out. I'm LeVar Arrington. Plexico is
off today talking about boys the men like when you
deal with an injury, a serious injury, it forces you
to become a man. You gotta you gotta address, you
gotta address the the serious in nature of what's taking
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place with an injury TJ and and there's nothing really joking.
You know, it shouldn't be taken in a jokingly manner
when a serious injury takes place, because obviously there's a
lot that is connected to a major injury that takes place.
Trayvon Diggs, as reported in Practice has has has had
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a season ending ligament tear and ACL tear that in
his season for it for this year, and well, there
were some interesting we'll say, an interesting take by an analyst,
and well, I think we have the sound on it,
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so I'm curious to get your take on it. Here's
what Bart Scott had to say about Trayvon Diggs's injury.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
This is a major major blow for Dallas.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And like Steven A always says, just wait, something bad
always happens.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, don't start that, don't.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Start let me tell you no, no, no, no, no
no no. First of all, I wouldn't do that right
now in all seriousness. Oh, I see, this is a
season ending injury. So I'm certainly not gonna joke about
that with Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
What's your initial reaction to to Bart Scott saying just
give us some time, something bad will happen.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Can't wait?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Oh no, nah, I mean you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Can't when the god tears his acl like you you can't.
Really you can't. You shouldn't make a joke when somebody
has an injury of that nature. And the sad part
is you played the game, you know how it is,
like Bart, you played the game, and you really gonna
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say that on national television about a young man that's
out for the year. Just wait some back when Steven
as talking at he talking on the field, just wait
some bad gonna have, somebody gonna drop a ball, quarterback
gonna throw interception, or they gonna do not about a
guy getting hurt, like you just can't say those type
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of it comes off as very, very insensitive, and honestly
felt like he meant it really to be honest with you.
And then when they said what they said, they went
Ryan and Steven they said what they said.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Then it was oh, what did I just do? And say?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, because I don't think he meant it to Trayvon Diggs.
I think he meant it towards Dallas. My take on it,
when something is going something's going to go bad bad,
I just I think he I'm with you on what
you just said. The last part of it, like, oh,
I realized that it didn't. It did not go over
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the way that I thought in my mind when I
made the comment like give it some time, it's going
to go it's going to go wrong. I think he
was just talking about seasons fall apart for Dallas. That's
give it some time and it's going to go bad
for Dallas. To do it in that moment, the timing.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Was was bad.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was bad, and it's going to be received wrong
because incorrectly because you're talking about somebody's health.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But I didn't interpret it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As he was taking a personal like making a joke
of Trayvon Diggs and his injury. I think I think
what he was doing was he was going at basically
the fact that if something could go wrong for Dallas,
it will go wrong, just give it time. And I
think I think stephen A probably understood it that way
as well. But he was like that this isn't the
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time to do that. This isn't the time to make
light of the season falling apart, whatever way it would
fall apart for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Just give it some time.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Like it just it came across as insensitive, and it
came across as being unaware of the fact that this
young man just had a season ending career, well not career,
but season ending injury.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
For this season. Anytime you you just the Cowboys first off,
that defense was looking.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Unreal. Yeah, and you lose.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Your second best defensive player in trey Von Diggs. That's
a blow to the team. And you can't. I just
I firmly believe you can never try to make a
joke of somebody being injured. It doesn't matter what team
it is, how the game is going. When you make
(23:15):
those type of jokes, it has to be what you're
putting on the field to play the Again, receiver drops
the ball, you run a bag route, running back fumbles,
quarterback throws it, whatever it is, you give up a
big touchdown, that's the Cowboys. Cowboy And if you're gonna
make those type of jokes year long injury of acl
(23:36):
come on, you can't do. And it's a former player,
you cannot do those type of things that I just
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It because there's some certain players they may feel a
certain type of way about it, so now when they
see you as a problem, it's all sight and you
never as an as a personality on the radio, on TV.
You never want to do that to where the player
(24:05):
feels like, all right, when I seen we got to talk. Yeah,
you don't want to do that because it's almost as
if you're making it personal and it should never go
down that road, at least not in my opinion. I
try to not do those things because I know I
was an emotional well I was, I am an emotional person,
and so.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That would bother me.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, like, while you really making fun of me getting
injured and you was actually on the field doing the
same thing, I'm like, bro, what are you on? And
so I didn't like it. I don't think Bart probably
really thought about what he was saying before he said it.
And obviously you can't put the toothpaste back into tube, you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Know, say back at the two. I think he thought
about it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I just don't think he realized what he was more
focused on Dallas when he said it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Than he was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
The personal aspect of how it applied to Trayvon Diggs. Now,
let's let's transition to this TJ. Because you talked about
how the defense was doing well and was playing amazing
football at which they were. Michael Parsons he had some
things to say about it. Do we have the sound
on that bow?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So Michael Parsons was talking about, you know, just how
big of a blow it was to the to the
defense obviously, but my initial thought was, Okay, Micah is
up for not just defensive Player of the year, Michael
Parsons is up for player of the year. He's he's
in the running to be the MVP of the league.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That's some LT.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Type esque stuff that's going on with Michael Parsons right now.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I know this.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
As a pass rusher, My best years pass rushing were
not because I was a super dope pass rusher, which
I was, but it was based upon the coverage. If
I got if I have Champ Bailey, I had Champ Bailey,
Fred Smooth, Darryl Green out there covering. I knew that
(26:09):
I was going to have more than three seconds time
to get to the quarterback. So if I'm going to
take two steps upfield, and I'm going to run a
stunt with the defensive tackle, even the tackle and sometimes
even the noseguard.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You know you run ears.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Where you ears call is where you have a defensive tackle.
They go upfield, they push the offensive tackle out, the
noseguard goes upfield and hits that that opposite A gap.
The outside guy, which would be a Me or Michael Parsons.
We sell it upfield and then we come behind those
(26:48):
two defensive linemen and we loop all the way to
the opposite A gap TJ all the way to the
opposite A.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That takes time.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And if I don't have somebody out there that's covering,
I don't get that time. By the time I get
to the A gap, that ball is gone. But if
I have somebody that's covering and and Trayvon has established
himself and this is super important. Like I had with
Champ Bailey or David Macklin when I was in college,
he's a.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Cover coach, he's a cover corner.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
When you have a cover corner, that means you have
literally put the best receiver on notice that you have
to win a one on one matchup just like the
defender has to win that one on one matchup, so
I can take away as a cover corner, and that's
what Trayvon has has has established.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Himself to be. If you can take away the.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Quarterbacks first read, you have now already added at least
one to two more seconds to the amount of time
that your defense has upfront to be able to get
to the quarterback. How important do you think that is
in this situation? Do you believe that dan Quinn can
(28:07):
overcome the idea that you don't have your best corner
on the field, like you said, second best defensive player
on the field. Are you able in your opinion estimation
to come up with a defensive scheme that still gives
your defensive front and your pass rushers like of Michael
Parsons the opportunity to operate. Do you feel how do
(28:30):
you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, he should be able to. I mean you got
to understand now they have Gilmour what should help? And
then last year Bland he led the team in interceptions.
He led the team in interceptions, so with five So
they got guys in the back end. Now they not
Trayvon Diggs, but the guys in the back end that
(28:53):
are more than capable, good coaching, you will make up
for this in when you have that pass rush, specifically Parsons,
those guys ain't got to cover long. They don't have
to cover long because he's a menace up front. Like
when you watch Dallas play, if they get a lead
(29:15):
on you, is over. Like if they got a two
touchdown lead and it's late in the game, it's over
because that pass rush is coming.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And so.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
They should be able to still be very very competitive. Now,
when you play the best of the best, your best players, Parsons,
DeMarcus Lawrence, they gonna really have to step up because
that's when the Trayvon Diggs will be missed. Is when
you play the forty nine ers and they got Deebo
(29:47):
and Nyuk that that's where he will be missed. And
so it's a tough I never like seeing stuff like
this for guys because the cow Boys looked so good
and albeit they weren't playing or they have not played
a team where we felt could challenge them, but it
(30:10):
does it just the National Football League, everybody can play.
The way Dallas was winning their games made me look
and say, WHOA Dallas looks really good now without Diggs.
One of the best players in the league. You gotta
have good players winning this league, and when you lose one,
that's a blow to your team. Good coaching can try
(30:34):
to mask it, but you're not covering up for that.
That's why he is who he is as a player.
We can mask it, but we can't replace that. And
that's why he is who he is. And so I
still expect the Cowboys and have a really good season.
And when you play a team like the Niners that
got two receivers, like the Eagles that got two receivers,
and Eagles is divisional opponent, you're gonna play them twice.
(30:57):
That's when not having digs may or may not affect
the team, especially if those guys up front aren't doing
what they've done thus far to start the season.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Truth that's T. J. Huschman's out of I am LeVar Arrington.
Let's get an update from eye level before we go
to the break.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What you got? I sick, low and grown?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Thank you love.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Fall.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
You know, I've just as an insurance policy, you come
up with a helpful memorization device if you will. Okay,
is if I should really need one. But you can't
say LeVar without love.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
That's very true. That's very true. And you can say
Lamar without man. I could say Lafar without love. What
y'all talking about? Because you do have an O instead
of an age. But I just wanted to go there
with them. I mean, I am lover. So it's just
you know, you got the L and the V in there,
but there is an A instead of an O. But
(32:05):
that could be strike to TJ for for Ilo.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It could be. But what are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (32:10):
I thought I had strike three about three or four
years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I mean, that's fair enough to I guess we have
been doing this for.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
I know we've been doing it for a minute.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
We're starting in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He got lo. Let's strike strike.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I mean we must strike twenty eight, strike twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's true.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Let's be real around here.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
At one of these times you're going knock it out
of part.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
So we're just going, yeah, we're still waiting for that. Okay,
We'll start at the NFL where short Tabago. Cincinnati Bengals
head coach Zach Taylor said the quarterback Joe Burrow is
questionable for Monday's night's game against the Los Angeles Rams
because of a calf injury. NFL media reports the Bengals
are also signing A J. McCarran to their practice squad.
McCarran previously spent four seasons with the Bengals from twenty
(32:55):
fourteen through twenty seventeen. The Indianapolis Colts today released run
back Dion Jackson and signed running back Tray Sermon to
their fifty three man roster from their practice squad. The
Colts will be at Baltimore tomorrow in College football Number two.
Michigan as a fourteen to seven halftime lead over Rutgers.
On the third play of the game, Rutgers quarterback Gavin
(33:18):
at wimsit through a sixty nine yard touchdown pass to
Christian Drammel, but Michigan came back Blake Koram a two
yard touchdown run, capping a ninety four yard drive, and
then Wolverine quarterback JJ McCarthy throw an eighteen yard touchdown
pass to Samaje Morgan. Clemson as a seventeen to fourteen
halftime lead over fourth ranked Florida State. Clemson quarterback Cade
(33:41):
club Nick and Florida State QB Jordan Travis each with
a touchdown pass and a touchdown run, and also at
halftime sixteenth th ranked Oklahoma up ten to three at Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Guys, back to.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You appreciate it. I low.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We're going to take a quick breaking. On the other
side of the break, Bo's going to walk us through
some up on game down on game as I continuously
dominate TJ on how I do my picks? Do you
have the results from from last week? By the way, Bo,
do we have those available? Okay, let's let's try to
have that count, you know, on the way back, because
I just want the world to know and see that
(34:17):
I dominate TJ on these picks.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So up on game down, on game. On the other
side of the break, that's TJ.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Hitschman's out of LaVar Egton. We'll be right back Fox
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(34:45):
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the tyrack dot Com studio. It's TJ. Huschman is out.
I'm LeVar Arrington coming up next. You want to stay
locked in and dowed in. My man, Jonas Knox is
coming to you live from South Caro A line up. Yeah,
he went back, he went back to where it all
started from for him doing radio there to check out
(35:08):
the game Cocks and their game, their big game this weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
All right, make sure you stay tuned in for that.
But before we get up.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Out of here, we gotta do it here we go, bo,
let's get into it up on game down on game.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Done for some picks. Are you up on game?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Let's creak this up.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Let's break it up down on game.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
So last week's scores, we're just gonna say everybody won
because some technical difficulties happened and we do not have them.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So okay, we will have this week moving forward.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Got lucky, it's all good. TJ. Got lucky. That's all good.
TJ got lucky. All right, Well we got.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
To start today.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
We have a number fourteen Oregon State headed to Pullman
to take on number twenty one, watching the state in
the PAC two battle.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We know what that is to battle Oregon State.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Already the total in the game is fifty seven and
a half.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
TJ. Who you got here?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Come on? Who who do I have. I got the Beavers.
We're going in. We're gonna win the game.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And because we play real football, we're gonna play defense,
we're gonna run the ball, We're gonna uh, we're.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Gonna get it done. I'm gonna say Oregon State in
the under.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah. Now, I'm gonna take the over on the points.
And you said it was Washington favored by.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Two and a half.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
Oregon State's favored by three.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Oh their favorite back three? Oh No, I'm taking. I'm
taking Washington l for you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
You're tal this is the Huskies, right, nah, Cougars, because
I totally.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Take that back. See I was what you mean. I
thought this was we don't we don't want you with us.
We don't want you with us.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
No, I taking Oregon State, and this one I'm taking.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take the O on the points though,
but I'm gonna take the Washington States. Alright, they'll cover,
they'll cover up next.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Week in Washington State. Okay, up next week.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
No Oregon State, Oregon State, Oregan State, Oregon State.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Number number twenty four. Iowa headed to Happy Valley. I
believe to take on number seven Penn State, Penn State
favored by fourteen points and the total in this game
is just thirty seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Iowa and over, Iowin Over. There we go, Iowin over.
Let's go, baby.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I'm gonna take the over on the points. I think
they'll score more than that. And Penn State, I mean,
Drew Aller is showing that he's improving every single week.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
He's he's a.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Heisman caliber type of guy. He's a future top ten
type of pick.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
First round.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
There's gonna he's gonna show out. And our defense is
freaking full of studs. Shots out to Iowa, but it
ain't gonna happen today. They cover a Sam I got you, baby,
They're gonna cover that.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
So I'm taking Penn State in this one.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
All right, last one here, real quick, eventful for the
Bears gets better. They get to the head to Kansas
City take on the Chiefs. Kansas City favored by twelve
and a half in this game with a total of
forty eight.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
TJ who you got, I'm taking over.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I hate giving up that many points in the National
Football League, man, that's what I'm taking. The points, but
I'm gonna take I'm gonna guess I gotta go with
the chiefs in the in the over.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I'm taking the over, and I'm laying the points on
this one. Kansas City all the way. Then I mean Bo.
Then I mean Bo.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Bo common common mistake.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No it's not common is Loo? Shut me up? Gosh darn,
I'm taking I'm taking that one. So anyway, shots out
to bow. It is Bo. And that's mister Purfet. I'm
LeVar Rington. That's t J.
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