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September 20, 2025 43 mins

LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress talk about the Dolphins valiant effort against the Bills on Thursday night and if they bought Mike McDaniel more time, how the Bengals can stay afloat as Joe Burrow will mis extended time this season, and a big discussion on Tom Brady in the coaches booth!

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Speaker 1 (00:43):
How are you trying to go hunt?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Now? All right? All right, Happy Saturday to everybody. I
hope you're off to a great start today. As you
can see, I got my guy in on on the
ones in the twos. Yeah, it's gonna be a great
show today. A lot of football to talk about. Obviously

(01:07):
it is a football Saturday, but we're gonna talk what
happens on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. Well, yeah, we got
the whole crew here today too. We got. We got
mister Stretch and mister panteam Man fighting crimes in the
sports world. You know, the superheroes of the sports world.
How y'all feeling today, man? I mean we listen, We're

(01:28):
gonna get to this Bills Dolphins conversation in a moment.
Your your Cincinnati Bengals are well, they're they going under
the knife that the toe is on fire. I mean,
we got a lot to get to today. But you
know what, yeah, on fire. I hope that ain't the season.

(01:50):
But hey, uh, before we keep going, you'll know what
time it is. How y'all feeling, man, how's everybody doing far?

Speaker 6 (01:57):
You know how I'm feeling? Not a cloud out in
the sky, clear skies. I'm looking outside. I see palm trees,
I see clear skies and lavars. Hey, you got people
calling me pantee man in the streets.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Bro, I wanted to make some man.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
You got people calling me pantem man in the streets.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
They saw your hair, they saw you, and they thought
the same exactly. It bit better than hit and shoulder, man,
you know what I mean, Like that doesn't sound as good.
Pantee man. Absolute, you know what I mean. It's good.
You shoot, you killed them with the hair bright, It's
all good. Yeah, you got a healthy head of hair bright.
People are jealous of you, you know what I mean, absolutely,
you know what I mean. And your stretched armstrong and

(02:40):
it's because you're tall, and you know what, people probably
call you stretching in the streets too.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, yeah, man, you know, it's a beautiful, beautiful Saturday.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
I'm here in South ben Man and getting ready for
the three thirty game and in state rival reper Due
versus Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
So that's gonna be a good one. I haven't missed
the game, so anywhare going too. We gotta be able
to pull this without Dame man plex.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
They about to Beta Purdue.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, and you know the word is my man is
going to get a little action today. So everybody's exciting.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I've been watching them too.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, everybody's excited. Man.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
So I'm in South ben Man, beautiful day, and uh,
I'll be walking over to the stadium shortly after this show.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
That is wonderful. It sounds amazing and I hope you
guys enjoy it. Uh, speaking of walking over to the
game when it's over, Uh, I don't know. It's It's
it's an interesting segue, but it's a relevant segue. Where
where will Mike McDaniels be walking over to after the
next game if he don't get it together? Uh, the

(03:48):
Bills beat the Dolphins. Now they look competitive in the game.
I gotta say that they they didn't lay down and
just take it. They they they fought and and listen,
it was tight going in the half. Uh, they got
away from him a little bit. It got shut out
in the third quarter by the Bills defense. Bill's defense
didn't look that good in the first half. By the way,

(04:10):
tightened up in the third quarter. They were able to
put ten more points on the board, and well, they
were able to the Dolphins were able to put seven
on the board and they ended up losing by ten.
What what would y'all take away from Thursday night's game?
And and what does that look like for this Dolphins
team from Tua to to Hill to the coach McDaniels. What,

(04:33):
uh what? What?

Speaker 6 (04:35):
What do you guys see for this? I felt like
the Dolphins played a good football game. Obviously, we know
they didn't win. Buffalo is one of the best teams
in the league, running the ball at will like they
running the ball like just the early two thousands.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Like McDaniels.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
By the way, you know, James Cook is balling. But
you know what, you know what's kind of crazy to
me is the evolution of josh Allen came into the
league turning the ball over, throwing the ball down the field,
and his game has morphed into a I'm gonna throw

(05:12):
the ball short and intermediate. Now we're gonna play with
the run game and the short passes. I'm gonna get
out and run. I'm gonna just make the plays to win.
Because when he came into Leaves turning the ball over,
and since Joe Brady has become the offensive coordinator, they
went to a more of a run first offense, and
it was like a Nah, this ain't gonna work with

(05:34):
josh alyn Man, josh An want to throw this thing.
And it's worked for the Dolphins. I thought they played
a good football game. Treel Bernard made a hell of
a play on the pick at the end. But what
I want to talk about is that it was a
report that the Dolphins players are being late to meetings
and not coming to meetings, and this was last year

(05:57):
and maybe going on this year. Have a problem with that.
And because I met Mike McDaniels, had a long conversation
with him at the Combine this year. Anybody been to
the Combine, you know you start walking from the field
all the way back to the hotel. That is a
long ass walk. And so I had a nice conversation.

(06:18):
Found him engaging, a little different, He's a different dude,
but he was engaging and he was smart. I enjoy
talking to him. But he's a type of coach. It
seems like he's gonna let you be you. You got
to be a professional at all times. He not really
gonna get on you like that. That's up to you
to be a professional in your position coaches, he just
doesn't seem like that type of coach to really just

(06:41):
get on you. So when you played for Mike McDaniel,
you need to be a professional. So I say that
to say this, the leaders on that team, y'all got
to be professionals. I don't care who the best players is.
Who are the best players? I don't care. We know
that if my best players aren't coming to meetings, they
not showing up. And I consider myself a leader on

(07:01):
the team, I'm stepping to him, and I'm saying something
because now y'all got all this money, y'all messing with
my money.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Exactly, y'all messing with my money.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
And so when I'm a step to arm in a
respectful way, but the second and third time, it may
not be so respectful. And to me, I think that's
what needs to happen. The leaders on the team have
to make sure that everybody is doing what they're supposed
to do, because, yes, you have money that you straight
for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't. I'm trying to get where you're at and
you messing with that.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Man, Just looking at the game, I think everybody you
know saw what Josh Allen's what he was able to do. Man,
he completed with twenty two past nine different receivers. Josh
Allen right now, man is throwing the ball all over
all over the yard where he wants to, when he
wants to. And it just may be a change of
the god for Josh Allen becoming the best quarterback in

(07:53):
all of football. I mean, that's something that you can
debate right now when they're playing and to the just
going back to the whole Mike McDaniel thing, uh is
the players are being late. I remember, you know, them
having Mike McDaniel interview on him a couple of years ago,
and I just thought from a player from a coaching standpoint,

(08:16):
he was just way too friendly, like he's trying to
be one of the guys instead of you know, really
you know, being that coach that uh, you know, is
demanding of his players, you know, attending meetings, playing hard
or whatever the case may be. Is one of the
two things. Either the players don't have respect for him
and the leaders are not stepping up, just in the

(08:38):
in the form that you was talking about. Then the
miamc Dolphins have a problem and moving forward because they
have to be able to somehow be able to salvage
salvage this season and they've already started off on three
And it was just a couple of plays in that
game where I thought the Miami Dolphins could have won
this game. Obviously, it seems like Tua has these characteristic,

(09:03):
untimely turnovers when they need him to go out and
to you know, manage the football, drive the football down
the field, either get a touchdown or a field goal,
and then the Zach Siler rough and the punter the
Dolphins defense stopped them two times in a row. The
scores fourteen to fourteen. And then you go out, you

(09:24):
get a rough in the passer, they get the ball
back on their own thirty you know they do they
go ad and score a touchdown. And I think that
was one of the changing to of the changing points
of this game too, of having that turnover, which towards
Terrell Bernard said after the game, he said, the linebacker
coach told them when the Dolphins come out in this formation,

(09:46):
this is going to be the play. And he jumped
on that ball like he knew exactly what was coming
and he made the interception. So they just have to
be able to find a way for t of Man
to manage these football games better, having these turnovers at
times in the game and just just just the details
of the game and the discipline, uh, you know, rough

(10:06):
on the pun and things like that. Man, you can't
do that to Josh Allen, especially the way that he's
playing football right now.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
You know what else, I think LeVar real quick well
what Plaques was saying the comment to add on to that,
it's also like being a parent, like I felt like
I'm cool with my kids we can talk about anything
if you allow But I'm still a parent.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
But I'm still a parent to be cool. Yeah yeah, yeah,
you know what, I'm allowing me to be cool. Then
I got to be a parent.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
For I'm not a dictator when it I'm not a
dictator when it comes to my kids. You can tell me,
you can if I tell you to do something and
you really want, because I've always told my kids, if
somebody tell you do something and you don't really feel
like you should do it, ask hy and so I
can't tell you to ask why.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
And then when you ask me why because I told
you so.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
And so, and that might be the answer every once
in a while. Yeah, yeah, it may be you get
me that ice water. Oh no, that's not that's not
that's not a why. That that's a good. That's not debatable,
that's exactly.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
And so there's certain there's certain points where I want
and I want to cut bag where Mike mcdand she
has to be the parent and it's like we can
be cool, but now you guys are stepping over the line,
and now now I gotta discipline you like you can't
be afraid to discipline guys like you can't find if

(11:30):
the you late for a meeting.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's five thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Somebody that's making nine hundred to one point seven million
dollars a week, two million dollars a week, five thousand dollars,
ain't nothing of them.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
But TJ is it too late? Though you know he's
been there. I'm gonna say, is it too late? Yes,
it is too late. It is too late. But what
you can do. What you can do is start making
an example out of them. So now that the young guys,
because it's an evolution, bro, these young guys are they
doing is watching what the older guys are doing. And

(12:02):
if they become the man, if they got those characteristics
in them, then it's gonna repeat itself. Now that same
young guy that's watching this vet, that watched.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
That other vet. It's a it's a cycle. And so
you can nip it in the bud. But you gotta
you adventure, You gotta start somewhere. You you can't just
be a doormat that.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I feel like he did that by getting rid of
Jalen Ramsey, you know, because to me, I felt like
Jalen Ramsey maybe represented that that you know, that leadership
or that hart knows type of way, and maybe he
didn't want that, maybe he didn't want to feel that
intimidation factor. But dudes like that, they they lead the

(12:41):
locker room and they'll fall in line. And I felt
like instead of him accepting the challenge of making Jalen
Ramsey that that lead bull in the locker room, he
got rid of it. He got rid of a guy
that could actually round up the locker room, because you
know what, a coach is never gonna fully round up
a lot locker room. It takes you having that relationship

(13:03):
with They can't big dogs in the locker room for
that to happen.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
They can't. The coaches can't.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
They can't.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
It has to be the locker room and the players
that police themselves. The coach cannot control the locker room.
And if you try to control the locker room, Bro's
it's a few of the few of us on every team.
You come in this locker room too many times, Broke,
get your ass off this locker room. It ain't that's
what that's going to be said.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's going to be the players that do that too.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Bro.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
What are you doing, bro? We're trying to win. What
are you doing like that. That's what's gonna be said.
I know on the teams I was on, it was,
it was and we might and we probably didn't win
the way we should have. But it was like that
on every team and you may not win, but we
not just gonna have guys just doing whatever they want

(13:56):
to do and it's unheard of. Yeah, but the Dolphins,
it all starts with toy. You can't you can't turn up.
Was that a great play by Terre Bernard. Yes, but Toy,
you can't have that turnover in that moment. You can't
have that turnover, not when you've already started the season
off bat you can't have that turnover. And so yes,

(14:17):
it was a great play, but Toua, you gotta be
better there.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I don't think Mike McDaniel can survive a season of
Toua not having a good year. So I think both
of them, their their futures are connected to one another
by the hip and by the ankle, and Tooa's gonna
have to to pull out games. I gotta say, I don't.
I don't feel like he looks like the same player
that he has looked like in the past. I don't

(14:44):
see it. I don't know what it is just yet.
I don't know. Maybe there's enough sample size to to
maybe come up with why I feel it's different, But
just my observation of watching him from a defensive perspective,
you know, I don't feel like it's the same tour
that Mike McDaniel came in coaching when he first got there.

(15:06):
And and is that the difference, I don't know, but
I do know this. If he doesn't pitch some some
victories for this team, I'd assume he's on He's on
the hook. And I know he's got a big contract.
I don't know how that works out contractually speaking, but
I think he's on the hook. And Mike McDaniel is

(15:26):
on the hook because he was brought in to win
with Tua and that's not happening right now. So we'll
see how that all works out. And yeah, the Buffalo
Bills do look good. They found themselves in a divisional game,
but we're able to diminish the the Miami Dolphins and
and get the dub and continue what they're what they're doing.

(15:47):
The offensive line looked amazing. Cook ran very well, and
you know Ed Oliver was on the defense. He was
on the sideline. He wasn't on the defensive line, and
so you'd assume that they can get better on I
mean very much, a whole lot better at Oliver healthy
and in the game when that happens. So anyway, speaking
of health, we're going to take a quick break. On

(16:07):
the other side of the break, we're going to talk
about TJ's Cincinnati Bengals. They have some work ahead of them,
three months of work ahead of them, to be exact,
could be more, but we're going to get into that
with the Joe Burrow situation. On the other side of
the break. You're listening to up on game. It is TJ.
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(20:59):
that hear what Plex has to say. But this is
your team and it's early in the year. You got
a ton of talent on this team. But when you
talk about one of the most talented guys being out
in Joe Burrow, he gets the foot surgery, they're saying

(21:20):
three months, I would not be surprised if he's out
for the entire entire year. What's your take on on
this team moving forward? Knowing that that's you know, that's
kind of the engine in your car that that makes

(21:41):
it move. I know Jake Browning has had success and
maybe can can carry the load. What say you do
you think Jake Browning can do it? Is he the answer?
Is there enough talent around him for them to be
able to pull it together and move forward without without Burrow?
Or is this like a kiss of death knowing that

(22:02):
you don't have them? Man?

Speaker 6 (22:05):
Number one, it sucks that Joe is hurt, but at
some point, I mean this is this is a sixth season,
and three of those seasons is basically not all complete seasons,
but basically you missed the entire season in three of
the six so fifty percent you've missed literally fifty percent
of the games. And so when he's playing, obviously one

(22:29):
of the best players in the league. Is just freak
accidents injuries. It's unfortunate, But Jake Browning really has no
choice but to play five hundred football. Man, he got
to play at worst five hundred football because this is
the best of Bengals has started with Zach Taylor as
a head coach. To be two to zero. Go play

(22:51):
Minnesota Viking team that's missing their back. I mean they're
starting quarterbacks, so they're playing with a backup in Carson Wentz,
and so you have a great chance to be three.
And I believe Jake Brownie can do it because when
he had his opportunity a couple of years ago, he
played very well. He played very well, and so I
believe he won.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
He knows the offense inside out.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
I believe it will be slightly different with him at
the helm as opposed to Joe. But it's what you said,
let your playmakers make plays. If I'm gonna throw a
fifty to fifty ball up and it's gonna be an interception,
that ball gonna be going to t Higgins or Jamar Chase,
ain't nobody else getting the fifty fifty ball them two?

(23:35):
And if it's a pick, I live with it. But
everybody else, you gotta be wide open before I throw
to you. Then that's just what it is. Defensively, we
are going to have to be better, because, Bro, you
watch that Jags game. If Trevor Lawrence don't make though
that interception in the first half, it was just he

(23:59):
just threw it straight to us. But then Domie brown
he drops touchdown right in his hands, just dropped it,
and so the Jags had a lot of self inflicted wounds.
That's not gonna happen to everybody. The Jacks went up
and down the field. I felt against it. So we're
gonna have to be better defensively because we're gonna face
better offense than the Jacks. Brian Thomas ain't doing much

(24:21):
right now, Travis Hunter ain't doing much right now, and
the Jacks still went up and down the field against us,
And so defensively it concerns me. But offensively, I believe
Jake Browning can get it done.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yeah, I was saying coming into the season, man, just
based off of the season the prior season that you know,
Joe Burrow put together, I just thought he was ascending
to be in that conversation of obviously you know Josh
Allen and Patrick Mahomes and one two three, And it's
just like you said, TJ, it's just unfortunate for the

(24:55):
you know, three out of the last six seasons that
he's been into it. And you always say that, you know,
injuries like things that you can't control when you're out
there playing and you're giving one hundred percent. And for
the people that don't know, like turf toe is a
serious deal. I had it twice, and you just don't

(25:16):
understand how important your big toe is until you start running,
because I had and I had it bad. I remember
I got tackled in the house they game, and you
know your told get flexed or way back. It doesn't
hit you initially. It didn't hit me initially, but as
the game continued to go on, I could feel it
starting and stiffen up. I missed the whole week of practice,

(25:38):
and then we played in Indiana the next week, and
what they did to me was they gave me like
a local injection of cortisone to numb it, and they
take the insert out of your cleat and they put
a steel like a stell insert in the bottom of
your shoe and it from stop your ho from going back.

(26:01):
But I couldn't feel it for the first half. But
the second half, man, when all that stuff wore off,
you could see that I was visually, I mean visually
limping and I couldn't really run the way that I
wanted wanted to do. Man, turf toe has ended careers
in some instances. So I just hope that Joe Burrow

(26:21):
can get this thing back. They're not ruling him out
totally for the season. They said three months. And just
like you said, teacher, he has to play five hundred football.
But I don't think five hundred football gets you into
the playoffs in the AFC. You have to be at
the top. And just like I said, they came in,
they haven't started this well under Zach Taylor.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Ever, I attribute that to Joe Burrow.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
And to and Jamal Chase, those guys playing into the
playing in the preseason. So when they got into Game one,
they was ready to go. And I thought that it
would be Cincinnati and Baltimore fighting for the AFC North.
But with the Bengals with no Joe Burrow, I have

(27:06):
to think and assume and say that outright, you have
to sit in the Baltimore Ravens on control of this
division if Joe Burrow is no longer available to play
for the rest of the year.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
I don't disagree with that one bit. My question to
you guys would be why you will say the Ravens
would gain control or have gained control of being the
favorite in the a f C North. Where does that
put Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh just had a tough loss against Seattle. Uh,

(27:40):
But I gotta say they they look better than what
I thought they were gonna look. Uh, are you sure?
Maybe has more life?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Are you? Are you sure the Steelers look better?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
I mean I've been coming in too.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
No, no, no, I think everybody was a skeptic. Right,
but if you put it in the context, right, let's
put it in some context around this. They played the
Jets the first game, put up a ton of points,
defense look bad. Everybody said, whoa, the Steelers are good,
the Jets gonna be better than we thought. And then
the next week comes and the Jets and the Jets
get cooked. They got cooked. So it's like, wow, are

(28:21):
the Jets really good? Are the Jets really good? And
are the Steelers as good as we thought they were?
The Steelers loss and so one, and we thought the
Steelers are like, oh, it's gonna be okay. They all
right because they scored a ton of points against the
Jets team. But then that same Jets team did nothing

(28:42):
against The Jets are trash. And it's still as am
that much.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
I mean, it's it's early, it's early in the season.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I mean, it's not a safe assumption based off of
what the Jets market doing.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yes, it's early in the season. So that's why tomorrow
the Steelers have to go on Fox Bro. The Steelers
still they can't they can't run the ball, and our
offensive line isn't the best.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
And defensively, where they've.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
Been lights out for decades, is starting to show some cracks,
like are they really good on defense? And if their
defense can't carry them, they're done. We understand the hate, TJ. No,
this is not hate. This is my eye telling me
when I plex that defense from when you were there

(29:29):
terrible for our stepper. No, no, no, hey, ho hol up.
I'm talking to two Pittsburgh guys. By the way, y'all,
Sola looks. Think about what I'm think about what I'm saying.
That defense from when Plexico was there, from when LeVar
Arrington was in the area growing up in high school
and that Penn State to when I was playing to

(29:50):
when I left, that defense has been a constant. That
defense has never had a drop off. Different the first
two games this season, different rules. Listen to this, hey,
different rules. They had different rules last year. Still top
seven defense. Now you played justin fields and the Jets

(30:11):
went up and downfield on you. They played Sam Darnold
in the Seahawks went up and down the field on you.
Would anybody have thought those two teams would do that
to the Steelers defense? No, no, So what's gonna happen
when they go against teams that we think?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
What's gonna happen?

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Well, TJ, before you started this conversation, you said, think
about what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I already thought about it.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
All right, let me know what you think.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
I exactly, I know exactly what you're doing. The Pittsburgh Steelers,
I believe right now, are in the driver's seat for
themselves to get into the playoffs in the AFC North.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I really believe that with Joe Burrow being out, I.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
Believe that Aaron Rodgers will lead this team to more
victories than Jake Browning will with the weapons that even
still with the weapons that he has, and T Higgins
and Jamar Chase, the Pittsburgh Steelers will get it together
defensively going down a stretch.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
But if I have.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
To say who I think is a better overall quarterback
and leading a football team right now, between Jake Browning
and Aaron Rodgers, I think I'm gonna have to go
with Ann Rodgers. If he can go out and play
five hundred football. Just like you said. I believe they're

(31:35):
going to beat better than that. I really do, because
they are going to get it together defensively. Mike Tomin
is not going to stand for his defense to be
looking the way that they have looked for the past
two weeks. So I'm banking on the Pittsburgh Steelers moving
forward to sneak into the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I think they slide into that number two slot too myself.
Plex I'm not even gonna lie about it. Uh. And
that's just you know, just off of knowing the impact
that Joe Burrow would have. But hey, Browning has a
winning record as the starter. He's had to do it before,
so he's not a stranger to having to step up
when Burrow goes down, so you know, and he's got

(32:19):
a lot of motivation in his uh, in his suite
watching the games. From from what we can gather, he's
not doing bad in the department of decision making. So
good luck to mister Browning and to the Browns, I
mean to the Bengals. Uh. Let's let's uh, let's let's
talk about this Harlem globe trotter thing. Really quickly. Then

(32:40):
let's go take a break and then we're gonna come
back and and I gotta ask y'all really about what
what what's going on with Tom Brady. And we're gonna
talk about that on the other side of the break.
But let me tell y'all about it not just being
a game and being a once in a generation in
an event for for fans and people who are lovers

(33:02):
of the game of basketball. To Harlem Globe Trotters, well,
it's their one hundred year tour and you can come
be a part of the legacy that never stops. I mean,
it goes back to when I was a kid, you
know what I mean, And then all of us were
kids with Curly Mow and all of those guys they
were in what was Scooby Doo. I mean, they were
part of our childhoods man. This is the one hundred

(33:25):
year tour. It's amazing be there when history is made.
The Harlem Globetrotters one hundred Year Tour. Get your tickets
today at well Harlem Globetrotters dot com. That's right, make
sure you check them out. All right, we're gonna take
a quick break. Like I mentioned, We're gonna come back
and we're gonna talk about the big dog, the wolf himself,

(33:47):
Tom Brady. But before we go to a break, let's
get a trending from our guy, Isaac loehing kron Hey
is low. You know, I almost forgot about you. I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (33:56):
No, you're gonna watch you forgot about me in a moment.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
No, no way, no way.

Speaker 9 (34:00):
You know I love you. You know I love you.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
You're going to do something you want to know I
love you? Here comes all right, that's a setup.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
You know, I love you. We all make mistakes like this.
But just to clarify, yes, it's Curly.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Neil, Curly Neil, I say, Curly Mo.

Speaker 9 (34:16):
Curly Mo is the three.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Three, Curly Neil, Curly Larry and Moe, Curly and Curly Neil.
I'm sorry, I mean there's worse Meadow Lemon. There, I
keep going.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
Now, you're over compensating.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
All right, there we go.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
I'll tell you what though.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
They are all memorable, legendary entertainers.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Thank you for the correction though, because I wouldn't even know.
I shot it like I was all like I was there.

Speaker 9 (34:42):
No, I'm just trying to be a jerk.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
I'm just trying to still have I still have the
program from when I was a kid and my dad
took me and my brother to see them, to see
them at the Civic Arena. That is no longer even there. Oh.

Speaker 9 (34:57):
I love the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Oh with the the Ah, you know that had a retractable,
the Igloo, Yeah, that had a retract And I saw
the Harlem Globetrotters at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
How about that.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, we have strong, strong memories. One of the great
and sports entertainment acts ever. Sports entertainment going on right
now the college football grid iron Number seventeen Texas Tech
with a seven nothing lead at sixteenth ranked Utah, four
thirty six left to play in the first quarter, Texas
Tech scoring on a one yard touchdown run by Cameron Dickie.

Speaker 9 (35:32):
It looked like.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
Utah was going to tie the game moments ago Devin
dan Pierre a sixty nine yard touchdown pass to Jackson
Benny of Utah, but the touchdown nullified because of a
substitution infraction penalty on Utah. Arkansas seven to three lead
at Memphis late in the first quarter. Maryland up seven nothing,
at Wisconsin with two oh six left of the first

(35:55):
quarter on a one yard touchdown run by Malik Washington.
Sarrahcuse up ten nothing on the road at Clemson with
four to twelve left to play in the first quarter,
and Clemson fans not amused. The popular social media account
message board geniuses curating the following reactions by Clemson fans

(36:16):
so far today on their respective message boards. At Vanilla
Light posting quote, this is one hundred percent on Dabo.
Dabbo is washed.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
At Gotta Go, you gotta go?

Speaker 9 (36:29):
What have you done for me lately?

Speaker 4 (36:31):
At Tiger Nick zero four posting quote I'd rather forfeit
this season than trot this pathetic team out on Saturdays
to embarrass the university. And then at m Hunt zero
four to one comment and quote is this team purposely
playing like dog bleep uncles? And apparently the message board

(36:55):
vitriol has inspired Clemson because they have just scored a
thirty eight yard touchdown on a post from Cad Klubnik
to Bryant Westco. So clearly because of the excitement and
the inspiration of those message board losers, I mean fans,
is back in the game.

Speaker 9 (37:14):
Back to you guys.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Thank goodness and thank you mister Isaac Low and Crown.
As I mentioned, we're going to take a break and
on the other side of the break, we're gonna talk
Tom Brady. All right, this is up on game, This
is Fox Sports Radio. Will be right back. Yeah, speaking
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so it will always pop up at the top of
your screen. Fellas, before we get up out of this
segment to throw at y'all the Tom Brady situation. We
got two minutes. I feel like two minutes is enough time.
But if y'all want to keep going into the next
next hour, we could do that. But we got some
cool topics in the next hour too. Uh, Tom Brady,

(41:14):
is it a problem? Not a problem? Him being a
part owner and being in the booth.

Speaker 6 (41:19):
Listen, man, I don't care if it's a problem. If
it's not a problem, I just know Brady and the
Raiders should have an advantage. If I'm Tom Brady, I'm
gathering all information that I can. Why wouldn't you like,
come on, man, it makes Why wouldn't you You want
the Raiders to do as well as possible. So anything

(41:39):
that I see and Tom Brady, huh, integrity?

Speaker 3 (41:45):
What you want? I mean, because he's in he's in
the front, you got to at least appear that.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
He was ball.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
He's going to appear as if he's neutral. But his
eyes when he sees certain things, his brain and his
brain is very very bright. You don't think why Whitney,
come on, man, we're gonna say we're not gonna do it,
But come on, man, just like it said, if you're

(42:16):
gonna let me do it, I'm doing it simple.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
He sees things and he hears things.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
The last time I checked the media, the broadcasters who
are who are who are announcing the game? Don't they
hold production meetings with coaches and players.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
And they go to practice.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Why would you not relay that information in those conference
rooms from the coaches and the players to your football
team and your coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
If you are a minority to owner because you want
to win, you know, shout. We're gonna take this into
the next hour, man, you know what, because I just
feel like there's there's still some things to talk about
on this one. So listen, y'all stay tuned. We're gonna
go to a break. We're gonna continue this. Tom Brady
on that up at hour. This is up on game, Fox,
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