August 27, 2022 • 37 mins
LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress react to Jerry Jones reaffirming his faith in the Dallas Cowboys to make the playoffs despite losing Tyron Smith. TJ gives his thoughts on his Lakers acquiring. Plus, LaVar chats with Raptors G Fred VanVleet in this week's Legendary Moment!
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Shouts out to all of you, you know, our affiliates
out there. Okay, we're an hour two. It's t J.
Hushman's out of its Plexico birds. Here we go. Strum
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up the strum up that slow dram music that's going on,
because here comes the smooth, sensual voices of how they're doing.
Here we go, Uh, how y'all doing today? Man? The
same way we was doing about an hour and three
minutes ago. Great baby, we feel good, Hey man. T
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J bost some Uh, some of the biggest candy apples
I ever seen in my life. Last week it was
covered in chocolate, and how are the apples? They were good?
It was so good. The apples were good in your mouth? Ryan,
he was enjoying them. Apples in your mouth? What's the chocolate?
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And I passed him on the run many you know,
I try to bring him. I try to bring him
to y'all. Y'all. Ryan took him on and glad as
like this crazy sweet tooth like no and shout out
to McConnell's ice cream. They sent me some ice cream.
I was on the Dan Patrick Show and I was like, man,
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somebody brought it up. I'm like, send me some ice cream.
They damn me sent me a bunch of pints on
ice cream. I've been killing killing it king. Yeah, I
love ice cream, the wonderful thing. I don't know what's
going on. Twenty years going with twenty years before we
get to our legendary moment with with Van Vleek, who
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was a great, great interview, I mean, super humble dude,
you're enjoy this this clip. Um, I'm gonna tell y'all story.
We was in Vegas door door it speak for yourself.
For the Deon it was it Deontay Wilder fight. Yeah,
it was a Tyson Fjord Deontay Wilder fight. And TJ
got a whole lot of energy. Plex like, you know,
we he's got a ton of energy. So we finished
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the show. You know, I like to be lazy, Like
if I'm doing it and I'm sitting down, that's that's
the best case scenario for me. I'll be on that
chill type deal. T J is like, man, let's go
hit the strip. So we go. We go walking down
the strip and I ain't gonna lie like it's it's
pretty cool seeing like all the scenes and sights and
not so much always the smells, but you know, just
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taking in the city. I had never walked the strip,
but I was tired, like I was crazy tired. And
I was looking forward to leveraging the usage of of
an escalator to go up one of these steep deals.
And you had to use it to to go where
we were going because we were gonna circle back around
and and the escalator was off. It told really messed
up my my walk and and and moving around with
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t J. But the one thing that saved me while
I was like trying to breathe because I was I
was so tired, I was wounded, um because I was
you know, I was really overweighting stuff at that time.
But anyway, Uh, t J saw this big, big candy
sign for this candy shop and he looked at me
like like he was twelve years old, like I gotta
go in here, I gotta go get some candy. Got
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a big old bag he rolled out all your boy
when he was up in there for about five ten minutes. Yeah,
we looked out that man. When the hell you get
an ice cream cone. It was like, what was it?
Anybody that knows me? Candy and ice cream? That's what
I'm eating. Literally, there might be three or four more
things that t J has tried in his life. That's
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all that list as asking me something else? Avocado? If
you tried avocado? Never in my life? Have you here's
a god. Have you ever tried mustard? Yeah? I eat
mustard on my b Yeah. Yeah, all right, try one,
try to the legendary moment. Try something. Have you tried hummus? Hummus?
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I don't even know what hummas is? I don't even
know what that is. Have you ever had a new teller? Nah? Nope? Wow, nope?
Are you like serious? Are you joking? I swear, I
promise you. I don't even you don't even know what
hummas is. I don't even know what humus. That's really unfortunately, no,
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I don't even know what it looks like. Have you
ever touched a cigarette? Never? I've never smoked anything in
my life dbs. Yeah, yeah, man, I've never done no cigarettes, cigar, marijuana,
never in my life. It's weed, TJ weed nothing ever,
don't know anything about you know, we they always call
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it something else that I know about it. I just
wasn't right, no, never, but it was bad though. When
I was in college, all my cultures thought all I
did was get hot because of springtime, I had bad allergy,
so my eyes were always read. They swore up and
all you need to stop smoking. I'm like, I don't smoke.
They didn't believe me, never believe me. I'm like, I've
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never smoked in my life. But all right, So there
you go from from one legend of the mystery and
the history of t J. Hushman's Eye. Did you I
like that? That's that's I mean that that might be
a segment for you, bro the Mystery and the history
of t J. Hushman's Eye. There it is there, it
is the think what we got it? Right there? That's
that's an exclusive, Fred van Fleet, I'm gonna tell you
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there it is. There's another, uh exclusive for you. Here's
this week's legendary Moment presents conversations would a leg and
now this is your legendary moment. I try to tell
people like I had a great family too. You know,
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I had two parents at um my stepdad, I don't
call him my stepdad as my father. He raised me um,
he took me on my brother in so we were
very safe at home. We had a very safe environment.
Neither of our parents smoke, they didn't drink, they didn't fight.
All they did was go to work and take us
to basketball football practice. So I was very safe. Now
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as soon as I leave that house, I'm I'm in
the rest of the world. So going to and from
school was really like the most treacherous stuff I had
to try to maneuver as a young kid, because when
I get to this school, there's not really anybody else
in the school that has the situation. I got it
the best out of everybody, and we're not doing great,
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but we're probably doing better than most of my peers.
So I think I was able to create my own
world inside of what we were living in and allowed
me to stay focused. So my friends was was kind
of on what I was on, trying to do the
same thing. You don't You're all trying to do the
same thing. So we we used to look at the
other people and be like, damn, you know so and
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so man, Like there was a kid who he was
driving to school in sixth grade, you know what I mean, Like,
like he's got his he's got his little duffel back on.
It's nothing in there. But at three eight is no book,
there's no pencil. Get busy, it's a three eight in there.
This this teen years old. You know what I'm saying. Yea,
At the time, we thought it was normal. We didn't
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think none of it. We're just like, all right, we
know we don't want to do that. Yeah, we don't
want to do that. And then I'll never forget it
was like eighth grade, ninth going into high school. That
was one of our guys. He played on our basketball team.
His name was was Spider, and he ended up getting
killed that summer, and I think that was like a
shock to all of us, Like yo, real, you know
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what I mean. I had it as a five year old.
I didn't really understand it at the time. But at
thirteen fourteen going into high school, we know we want
to get to wherever we want to get to, Like, Okay,
this is what's gonna happen if we go down that path.
And we never blamed and we never judged nobody, but
we just knew like we gotta try to do something different.
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We gotta do something different than anybody from this city.
Has ever done. And um, you know, thank god we
was able to do it. Man. That was Fred van
Fleet van Bleek. Uh. Let me tell you something man,
that that he's a he's a pretty tremendous young dude. Man. Um.
I really enjoyed talking with them, A super humble dude.
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Um had some great perspective and and listen, man, we
all have a spider in our lives, right, some of
us have a few of them. Um. And and that's
one of those things. It's like you have a moment
in time where it's like a moment of truth. We
were just joking about what you don't do um in
your life t J. And I know if people understood
the complexities of why you don't do a lot of
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different things, they would understand, like, we gotta make choices.
And I think Fred made it very clear in that
moment that you make the choice where it's like you
do what people think is seemingly cool, like ah, you
pulling up with uh Mustang five point oh, like Kane
from Minister Society and in the sixth grade and you're
walking and they know what the duffel bag is about.
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That turned a lot of people on a lot of
people wanted to be that d boy. A lot of
people wanted to be that dude that oh look at
this car, like this down and the other like, oh
he's so young, but he's bawling this down and the the other. Um,
I mean, how you guys, you know, how did you
guys navigate that? I know we're up against it on
the break, but I mean, just real quick, how you
know what what was your take on that? Man? I'm
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go ahead, plex you got man. You just you know,
when you're growing up, you're just watching what's going on
around you, and it's you know, when you're growing up.
For me, it was a part of a you know,
our culture, neighborhood and our surroundings, and you have to
be strong willed to be able to you know, identify
and look yourself in the mirror and saying, you know what,
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I'm not doing that because you in the consequences of
of those actions and you know, there there's one moment
I believe in you know, every kid's life that you know,
you you you you witness a situation and you see
what becomes of it. And for me, I'm like, you know,
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you you you recognize that you have a gift, and
you have something special and your mindset and your heart
is built and and and you're looking for something different.
And my my avenue was like, you know what, I'm
not gonna be standing over there in my forties and
fifties trying to, you know, act like I'm eighteen nineteen
and I'm twenty years old, and and I didn't even
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really recognize to myself. It wasn't from my high school
football coach to kind of put me to the side
and and made me understand and recognize what I had.
I wouldn't have made it to college, let alone to
plan the NFL. And I'm forever grateful for him, you know,
making me understand and recognize what the future that I
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had in front of me. I mean, for me, it
was just so different. Uh. I didn't have I mean,
I grew up obviously in the project section eight. I mean,
I didn't have people murdered in my own house. And
so that's how I grew up. Never met my father.
Mom was on drugs growing up, and so that that's
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a big reason why I've never done a drug in
my life. I've never smoked anything and day in my
life because of seeing what it caused us growing up,
but but for me it was. And anytime you grew
up in that kind of environment, you're involved in it.
But the guys that make it out you just don't
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get involved more than you should. Like I've done things
that I shouldn't have done that I'm not proud of.
But it's a product of than environment you grew up
and you lived in. You just didn't do it, huh
as much as the other guys, and they couldn't. They
were sucked in and you were in somewhat at least
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in my experiences. And so just going to junior college, Um,
my junior college coach, he was like, you got a
chance to get a scholarship. And once he told me that,
I started going to school. You know, I don't have
a high school diploma, and so I didn't graduate from
high school because I was doing things that I shouldn't
have been doing. And once I got the juco he's
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you got a chance to get a scholarship. And once
he told me that, I just buckled down and ben
smooth selling ever since man free van van Fleetman you're
talking about, uh, you know, perseverance and that me against
the world mentality Now not being heavily recruited, undrafted coming
out of What's the Tall State, the Shockers, and now
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the Man as an NBA All Star. Not only that
he was undrafted, he signed the largest construct in NBA
history for an undrafted player, and he has the record
for most points in a playoff game as an undrafted player.
I mean, he's done some pretty significant things, uh at
at at the pro level and even in his life.
He's the epitome of believing in myself exactly what it
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is betting on I'm betting on me. Here the whole
entire interview. Make sure you go check it out. Conversations
with a legend on up on Game presents fee on
the I heart you know app uh some real good
stuff there. So this is up on Game. We're gonna
take a quick break and we'll be right back. Welcome back.
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Book for details. Yeah, he looked just like Drake. I mean,
you want to hear the hold conversation with Fred Van Vlee,
just make sure you go check it out on up
on Game Presents, Uh conversations with Legend. I mean he
it was a whole lot of cool stuff he had
to say. Um and speaking of interesting stuff, Uh, I
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do believe I said that I would not be surprised.
In fact, made a bold proclamation that this offensive line
for the Dallas Cowboys is not the one that made
them maybe so uh favorable to think they would not
only win the division, but they would be a competitor
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to get to the Super Bowl. Has now once again
lost Tyrant Smith to injury. Now Jerry Jones still expects
Dallas to make the playoffs. Do we have anything on
that Birst that that that that you could uh discuss?
Do we have the article or is there is there
a quote? Is there a south we have sounds from ESPN.
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This is Jerry Jones earlier the week on ESPN. He
was responding to a question about Tyren Smith's injury and
at the end he implies basically that the Cowboys will
be back in the playoffs. Here's the clip NFL season
there's two and a half college seasons long when it
comes to game. Yes, a guy that's wet behind the ear,
are the old upperclassmate that God cripple all of a
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sudden can be a different guy at the end of
the school year. That's why pro football is. And we'll
have him, and we'll have him at the right time.
We'll have him in that San Francisco game, the equivalent
of it that we had last year. And maybe we
won't fall short. Well, he says, maybe we won't fall short.
I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make paint
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him out to be so eric when he says maybe
we won't fall short, I believe he means fall short
in the playoffs, super Bowl or the playoffs. Taking the
playoffs too, how they lost, right, So that's not that's
not I mean, that's that's a that's a good way
of approach, And I'm not mad at him for having
that that take on it. I mean, it is a
tale of two seasons, and we all know the teams
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that win the Super Bowl are the teams that get
hot later on in the season. Problem is, you just
don't want to be too far out of the situation
of being competitive by the time you get to that
part of the year where you can you know, ultimately
get hot enough to win, you know, in the end
of the season and into the playoffs and generally carry
that into the Super Bowl. I mean, we saw that
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with your team last year, t J with Cincinnati. Man,
it's gonna be tough sledding for the Cowboys. People, and
I'm part of people thought the Eagles were the better
team and they're gonna and we'll win that division. And
I still believe that more strongly now than ever. But
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you're relying on Ceedee Lamb and who else. You're relying
on that offensive line to be able to open up
lanes in the running game. Now, you're one of your
better offensive linemen outside of Zack Martin is gone for
the year. We'll get them back when we make the playoffs.
I don't believe the Cowboys are gonna make the playoffs.
Dak Prescott is gonna have to play out of his mind.
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Um new head coach Mike McCarthy will be gone. It's
like everything that can go wrong for the Cowboys has
gone wrong for the Cowboys. And the season hasn't even
started yet, and So for for them, you just look
at the division, they're probably gonna be one team coming
out of the division that's gonna be the Eagles. The
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Cowboys went six and on the division last year. That's
not gonna happen this year. And so for the Cowboys, Uh,
you can right in the obituary now new head coach. Uh,
they won't be in the playoffs. And it kind of
sucks because they just have some bad luck with injuries
and Gallup what he'll be back what week five? Weeks six?
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They maybe out of it by then. They might be
out of it. Paul Mike McCarthy, he can't catch a break. Uh,
the Dallas Cowboys would not make the playoffs this year.
I mean, you lose La Collins, you're starting right tackle already,
to lose Tyron Smith to injury, he's not gonna be
back until so you got two new tackles. You lose
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Randy Gregory. On defense, you're losing Mark Cooper. I mean
those are five basically cornerstone players of your organization and
of that team. And when you lose a left tackle
like Tyron Smith from the quarterback position Dak Prescott, you
know that the pocket gets a little bit smaller. You know,
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you get happy feet, not used to having that time
that you're usually uh that you that you have to
throw the football. So so now you get a little raddy,
get a little skittish in the pocket, and you don't
have them Mark Cooper to throw to anymore. Who can
beat one on one covers consistently. And now you asking
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Cee Landing to go out and be that alpha male
at the wire. But see the position, which is not
easily easy to do. Who just got hurt? What's his name?
Tyrann Smith, Tyrand Smith, his cousin Tyler Smith, can go
ahead in the first round? Pick Tyler Smith. Well, you
know what, Hey, maybe hey, maybe maybe Dak when he's
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under center and shot or he's on the shotgun, he
sees Smith on the back of that jersey. Maybe he
thinks that's Tyrn Smith. Gives him peace of mind. And
it pains me to say this. The Philadelphia are the
best team in that division. Yeah, and is and that
is that all the facts what we're talking about playoffs zero,
Tyler Smith better be ready to go. We do something
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during the week. It's kind of fun and funny, and
I feel like this is relevant right here, Sammy, can
you queue up some game show music right now? Can
we drum it up? Because I want to I want
to play a kind of a game with you guys.
And it's called let's let's choose what game the Washington
excuse me, the Dallas Cowboys. Uh will win or lose?
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This is like, well the price is right here we go.
The game is right or the game is wrong? Week one,
the Buccaneers versus the Cowboys. Is it a win or
is it a loss? Win for the Bucks? M m yeah,
I got I gotta go with the Bucks with the
Cowboys with these injuries and the Bucks have injuries, but
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I'm I'm going with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season.
I'm gonna take the Bucks as well. All right, don't
let's not get ahad of each other. You hear the music.
You gotta win your way on and so you could
go after one of those grand prize uh packages that
they had Game number two. So right now they're at
and one, Game number two, the Bengals versus the Cowboys.
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Who wins? Who loses? Man, I'm going with the natty
yeah who? So? Okay, So they're off to an O
and to start all right. Here we go the Cowboys
versus the Giants, win or lose? Who got it? I'm
go on with the Cowboys. I like Brian Dable, but
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I don't know what I'm gonna be seeing based off
what I've been seeing this preseason from Daniel Jones. And
I shouldn't get my board. Martin wis in here. He's
the gambler. Really, I have to go against my own
team to New York. Jason say the Dallas Cowboys will
get the first win of the season. Okay, I think
I agree as well. So now we're at one and two,
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one and two, charging into Commanders versus the Cowboys. What what?
Where we? Where we at with this one? Wow, that's
a tough one. But I'll go Commanders. With that defense.
Uh Ron Rivera is a really good defensive coach that
got good defensive players. Carson Wentz, uh, we'll play better.
I'm going with the Commanders. It's Chase Young back healthy
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this year. Uh He's he's on the pup right here.
It's the first four games. Okay. So with that being said,
it's always been a great rivalry. Uh. I don't believe
in Carson Wentz at all. So I'll go with the
Cowboys to win that game. Also, I think I'm gonna
go with the Cowboys on this one too. So on
t JS, we got one in one in three, we
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got two and two with you and I plex co
all right. The next week they take on the l
a Roum. Not even close. Alright, alright, so now it's
one in four with t J. It's two and three
with me and you plex. The next game up, the
Cowboys versus the Eagles. Where they playing at? Who? Well,
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when they say the name first, isn't that mean Okay,
I'm going with the Eagles. Yeah, they're at there in Philly, Man,
I have to I'm going with the Eagles. Man. I
believe Jamaine Johnson is but probably gonna he's still in
the draft this year. Who I'm gonna go with the
Eagles as well? Yes they did, and they got some
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some free agents too, if you weren't paying attention. Okay,
So this puts it at to what what is this?
How many games are we into this? Let's see one too, three,
four or five? Five games in? We have them at
two wins. T J has them at one win. Uh.
The Cowboys versus the Eagles, we did that. The Cowboys
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versus the Lions. I'm actually gonna go to Detroit Lions.
I think they and we remember this now in Dallas.
I told y'all, I told you all the Detroit Lions
will not finish last in that division, and I'm standing
by that. I'm going with the Detroit Lions. They will
be better. That's one number two. Man, You're talking about
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two teams that are grandfather then for Thanksgiving that playing
in Dallas. If the Cowboys don't win this game, m
I think is is just gonna remind us of how
bad they've been over the past ten or fifteen years.
So I hope they win this game. So I'm gonna
go with the Cowboys. That's win number four for you,
and I'm going to take them to win win total
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number four for me as well. So t j's got
two wins, where at four wins rounding all, here we
go the last two games, Chicago Bears in Dallas. I
go with the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas. Yeah, I gotta
go with Dallas. Also, I don't believe that Chicago bell
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is going to be that good. That's four wins for
t J. That's five wins for Plexico and five wins
for me. All right, here we go in the last game,
which would represent the midway point of the season, the
Cowboys in Wisconsin playing the Packers. Who you got cheese heads? Yea,
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cow Boys are probably lose by three touchdowns. Cheez yeah,
I'm going with I'm going with Green Bay as well.
So one, two, three, four or five, six, seven, eight,
nine out of nine games, we're giving the Dallas Cowboys
four on one and three with t J so that
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would total six six losses, six losses, seven losses. It
was the seven excuse me, six losses and five losses
um for for Dallas going in the midway point, are
they still in position to win or get into a
wild card situation or possibly win their division with five
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or six wins? So if, if, if all holds true
in terms of our picks, they're out of playoff contention.
By the time some of these guys returned back to
play for this team, the Dallas Cowboys will be out
of the playoff hunt at the midway point of the season.
And it's unfortunate they had injuries. They needed their best
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players to be available. Uh, this game of football, you
just don't know unless Cede Loum and Dak Prescott can
play out of this world. It's gonna be tough for
the cow But you're talking about from a health standpoint.
They gave away three players. They did do that. Mhm, okay,
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so that's what they did. Hey, it's the young fault
who All right, well, I'll tell you what. It should
be interesting to see how that plays. A lot of
people are still bullish on the Cowboys. But you know
who knows what I do know is alright man, the
legendary Isaac low and Crown. He brings it every single time.
We don't have to worry about him being a competitor
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what you got out, especially when college football is going on,
including right now with a big ten match up in
that big tent hotbed of Dublin, Ireland. I wonder if
they'll be expanding there next By the way, where Nebraska
has a fourteen to ten lead over Northwestern five minutes
into the second quarter, Nebraska going up fourteen to three
on a touchdown pass at a touchdown run by Casey Thompson,
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but Northwestern getting back into the contest when Ryan Helinski
tosta forty three yard touchdown past to Raymond Nero elsewhere.
Western Kentucky up twenty one to ten over Austin P
twenty six seconds left to play in the second quarter.
Austin P right now has a second down and goal
inside of the Western Kentucky one yard line. NFL media
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just reported that Carolina Panthers number two quarterbacks Sam Donald
is expected to be out four to six weeks after
he suffered a high ankle sprain in Friday's preseason finale
against the Buffalo Bills. Late Friday night, the Seattle Seahawks
officially named Geno Smith their starting quarterback. Got a final
NFL item that you three, in particular fellows would have
(28:54):
a keen interest and awareness of former NFL receiver and
current Miami Dolphins receivers. Coach Wes Welker this morning tweeted
an image of a letter he received from the NFL
Player Benefits Disability Plan that said his request for a
line of duty disability benefits was being tabled because there
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were no records reflecting that his history of surgeries were
performed as a result of injuries that he sustained while
playing in the n f A. They did me the
same way, you got me the same way. What do
you think hide they did me the same way be
(29:44):
talking about benefits he fire to get him, he was
delivering newspapers and got al Hey, to get these benefits,
you gotta walk through the jungle with pork shop draws
on to get these benefits straight you ain't it? That
should be absolutely I'm telling you that man played twelve
(30:08):
years and had surgeries and they're just talking about none
of those injuries came from playing football. Damn shame crazy benefits.
But they did me the shame Hey, I give must
be the receivers. I guess we don't get hurt or something.
They did the same way. Him putting that on social
media just really put them on blast to the fact
that it is a straight up lie. I'm so ashamed
(30:30):
of us. Weler. It is a lie I got my boy,
they gave me and that I'm still in the process.
I'm like, bro, that you think my back just get
up and hurt for no reason. There's a whole lot
more benefits I'm eligible for to benefits. Injuries was so
sting from football? Are you kidding me? Shots out and
(30:54):
mad to the National Football League on how they've taken
care of LaVar Arrington since Yeah, unbelieve for you. Good
for you, Good for you. Hey, dear NFL, I don't
know why you're hating on t J. Hudsmon's out on
West Welker, but I sure I'm glad y'all didn't hate
all the the platt A route. I'll play around. I
(31:17):
hope they get that that resolved and rectified and worked
out with you and Wells Welker and obviously any other
player out there that's in need and deserving of their
line of duty. UH benefits. So anyway, you're listening to
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a nice little bow with this Lakers acquisition of Pat Beverley.
(31:39):
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guys are gonna enjoy this one because well, I know
you love hating on t J when he goes sunny
skies and palm trees, blue blue clear skies and all
that good stuff. Um, and talks about the Lakers. So
what are you thinking, t J? They bring in Pat Beverley?
(33:08):
What is I'm so interested to hear this one. What
does that mean for for Russell Wilson? Russell's what you said?
It's Uh, it's interesting. You know, they they have history
from when Pat Beverley was playing I believe with the
Rockets and he heard Russell Westbrooks knee think he has
(33:31):
surgery with his meniscus, and I think ever since then
they've had like an animosity towards each other. Whether that's
just basketball or as personal, I don't know, but I
don't I don't see how they can both be on
the same team if that animosity still exists, I just
I don't see it. Now. Is Pat Beverley coming off
(33:53):
the bench, if that's the case, Uh, he's not gonna
play many minutes. Uh. Is Russell Westbrook coming off the bench.
If that's the case, he's the Lakers. We are in
a tough position because nobody seems to want Russell Westbrook.
What's Westwick can still play. It's just when you play
with Lebron and you're used to having a ball in
(34:16):
your hands constantly. Russell Westbrook is used to having a ball.
Lebron wants the ball guard. Restbrook is not a spot
up shooter. He's a creator. He's a playmaker. And so
I don't know what we're doing. Uh, But if a
d stays healthy, it don't matter. We went every First
(34:37):
of all, I just need Anthony Davis to stay healthy.
You got too much not to let me tell you
how this thing is gonna gonna go. Lebron is gonna
name Patrick Beverley the starter, and he's a Lebron. Uh so,
so you just really just history. You're just disrespecting Darvin
Ham like he basically listen what I'm saying. Lebron James
(34:57):
is gonna name Patrick Beverley to start. He's not coming
to the Lakers to come off the bench. And secondly,
Patrick Beverley is a Lebron kind of guy because he's
one of those guys that he's going to go out
and compete and play hard every single night. So I
don't I don't know if him and What's the rest
brook are going to be able to coexist. Um, but
(35:18):
I do think Patrick Bellvey will him and What's the
West but will be starting on the floor to the other.
How it's going to happen, I don't know, but it's
gonna have a whole team in the paint. Maybe they
acquired Donovan Mitchell, who knows. I don't know what they're
giving up. Somebody has to go once out and they
(35:44):
and they already Danny Aange and you talk fleeced the
timber Woods with Rudy Gobert, so that I picked. They
think they can fleece everybody else man when he comes
down to winning, when it comes down to the business
of coexisting and playing together, I believe these young men
they will find a way to be able to work together.
Even with the past here that they both have had.
They're gonna have to be able to play together because
(36:09):
just like you said, nobody who wants west with Westbrook
He's not going anywhere. So these men Dolminham in the organization,
they're gonna have to these two guys in the room
and they're gonna have to sort it out. They can
play together. They can trade Westbrook for Buddy Hill, Miles Turner.
You get a shooter, you get a big that can
play good defense, rebound a space to floor. They can
(36:29):
do that as well. M They're gonna have to play.
They need to hire me in the front office. I'll
make that thing work. I'll make some shape, make it happen. Well,
It'll be interesting to see how all of that plays out.
I'll tell you that, because if there's anything that's mounting.
It's probably a little bit of pressure on Lebron James
(36:50):
to deliver um while he's with the Lakers at least
right now, and Kenny hold on long enough for Brownie
to get old enough to join the Lakers for them
to ab Gotta stay healthy, man, stay healthy. I mean,
the West is tough right now, so the Blakers maybe
make the playoffs this shield, which I think that wait
(37:10):
for sure, we don't have injuries, we end well, But
as far as them coming out of the West and
competing contending to win the championship, it's just not going
to help. My God, here he goes. Music comes on.
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Hushman's out of its Plexico birds. Here we go. Strum
(01:27):
up the strum up that slow dram music that's going on,
because here comes the smooth, sensual voices of how they're doing.
Here we go, Uh, how y'all doing today? Man? The
same way we was doing about an hour and three
minutes ago. Great baby, we feel good, Hey man. T
(01:48):
J bost some Uh, some of the biggest candy apples
I ever seen in my life. Last week it was
covered in chocolate, and how are the apples? They were good?
It was so good. The apples were good in your mouth? Ryan,
he was enjoying them. Apples in your mouth? What's the chocolate?
(02:13):
And I passed him on the run many you know,
I try to bring him. I try to bring him
to y'all. Y'all. Ryan took him on and glad as
like this crazy sweet tooth like no and shout out
to McConnell's ice cream. They sent me some ice cream.
I was on the Dan Patrick Show and I was like, man,
(02:35):
somebody brought it up. I'm like, send me some ice cream.
They damn me sent me a bunch of pints on
ice cream. I've been killing killing it king. Yeah, I
love ice cream, the wonderful thing. I don't know what's
going on. Twenty years going with twenty years before we
get to our legendary moment with with Van Vleek, who
(02:57):
was a great, great interview, I mean, super humble dude,
you're enjoy this this clip. Um, I'm gonna tell y'all story.
We was in Vegas door door it speak for yourself.
For the Deon it was it Deontay Wilder fight. Yeah,
it was a Tyson Fjord Deontay Wilder fight. And TJ
got a whole lot of energy. Plex like, you know,
we he's got a ton of energy. So we finished
(03:20):
the show. You know, I like to be lazy, Like
if I'm doing it and I'm sitting down, that's that's
the best case scenario for me. I'll be on that
chill type deal. T J is like, man, let's go
hit the strip. So we go. We go walking down
the strip and I ain't gonna lie like it's it's
pretty cool seeing like all the scenes and sights and
not so much always the smells, but you know, just
(03:41):
taking in the city. I had never walked the strip,
but I was tired, like I was crazy tired. And
I was looking forward to leveraging the usage of of
an escalator to go up one of these steep deals.
And you had to use it to to go where
we were going because we were gonna circle back around
and and the escalator was off. It told really messed
up my my walk and and and moving around with
(04:03):
t J. But the one thing that saved me while
I was like trying to breathe because I was I
was so tired, I was wounded, um because I was
you know, I was really overweighting stuff at that time.
But anyway, Uh, t J saw this big, big candy
sign for this candy shop and he looked at me
like like he was twelve years old, like I gotta
go in here, I gotta go get some candy. Got
(04:25):
a big old bag he rolled out all your boy
when he was up in there for about five ten minutes. Yeah,
we looked out that man. When the hell you get
an ice cream cone. It was like, what was it?
Anybody that knows me? Candy and ice cream? That's what
I'm eating. Literally, there might be three or four more
things that t J has tried in his life. That's
(04:48):
all that list as asking me something else? Avocado? If
you tried avocado? Never in my life? Have you here's
a god. Have you ever tried mustard? Yeah? I eat
mustard on my b Yeah. Yeah, all right, try one,
try to the legendary moment. Try something. Have you tried hummus? Hummus?
(05:09):
I don't even know what hummas is? I don't even
know what that is. Have you ever had a new teller? Nah? Nope? Wow, nope?
Are you like serious? Are you joking? I swear, I
promise you. I don't even you don't even know what
hummas is. I don't even know what humus. That's really unfortunately, no,
(05:32):
I don't even know what it looks like. Have you
ever touched a cigarette? Never? I've never smoked anything in
my life dbs. Yeah, yeah, man, I've never done no cigarettes, cigar, marijuana,
never in my life. It's weed, TJ weed nothing ever,
don't know anything about you know, we they always call
(05:54):
it something else that I know about it. I just
wasn't right, no, never, but it was bad though. When
I was in college, all my cultures thought all I
did was get hot because of springtime, I had bad allergy,
so my eyes were always read. They swore up and
all you need to stop smoking. I'm like, I don't smoke.
They didn't believe me, never believe me. I'm like, I've
(06:16):
never smoked in my life. But all right, So there
you go from from one legend of the mystery and
the history of t J. Hushman's Eye. Did you I
like that? That's that's I mean that that might be
a segment for you, bro the Mystery and the history
of t J. Hushman's Eye. There it is there, it
is the think what we got it? Right there? That's
that's an exclusive, Fred van Fleet, I'm gonna tell you
(06:38):
there it is. There's another, uh exclusive for you. Here's
this week's legendary Moment presents conversations would a leg and
now this is your legendary moment. I try to tell
people like I had a great family too. You know,
(06:58):
I had two parents at um my stepdad, I don't
call him my stepdad as my father. He raised me um,
he took me on my brother in so we were
very safe at home. We had a very safe environment.
Neither of our parents smoke, they didn't drink, they didn't fight.
All they did was go to work and take us
to basketball football practice. So I was very safe. Now
(07:20):
as soon as I leave that house, I'm I'm in
the rest of the world. So going to and from
school was really like the most treacherous stuff I had
to try to maneuver as a young kid, because when
I get to this school, there's not really anybody else
in the school that has the situation. I got it
the best out of everybody, and we're not doing great,
(07:42):
but we're probably doing better than most of my peers.
So I think I was able to create my own
world inside of what we were living in and allowed
me to stay focused. So my friends was was kind
of on what I was on, trying to do the
same thing. You don't You're all trying to do the
same thing. So we we used to look at the
other people and be like, damn, you know so and
(08:04):
so man, Like there was a kid who he was
driving to school in sixth grade, you know what I mean, Like,
like he's got his he's got his little duffel back on.
It's nothing in there. But at three eight is no book,
there's no pencil. Get busy, it's a three eight in there.
This this teen years old. You know what I'm saying. Yea,
At the time, we thought it was normal. We didn't
(08:26):
think none of it. We're just like, all right, we
know we don't want to do that. Yeah, we don't
want to do that. And then I'll never forget it
was like eighth grade, ninth going into high school. That
was one of our guys. He played on our basketball team.
His name was was Spider, and he ended up getting
killed that summer, and I think that was like a
shock to all of us, Like yo, real, you know
(08:47):
what I mean. I had it as a five year old.
I didn't really understand it at the time. But at
thirteen fourteen going into high school, we know we want
to get to wherever we want to get to, Like, Okay,
this is what's gonna happen if we go down that path.
And we never blamed and we never judged nobody, but
we just knew like we gotta try to do something different.
(09:07):
We gotta do something different than anybody from this city.
Has ever done. And um, you know, thank god we
was able to do it. Man. That was Fred van
Fleet van Bleek. Uh. Let me tell you something man,
that that he's a he's a pretty tremendous young dude. Man. Um.
I really enjoyed talking with them, A super humble dude.
(09:31):
Um had some great perspective and and listen, man, we
all have a spider in our lives, right, some of
us have a few of them. Um. And and that's
one of those things. It's like you have a moment
in time where it's like a moment of truth. We
were just joking about what you don't do um in
your life t J. And I know if people understood
the complexities of why you don't do a lot of
(09:53):
different things, they would understand, like, we gotta make choices.
And I think Fred made it very clear in that
moment that you make the choice where it's like you
do what people think is seemingly cool, like ah, you
pulling up with uh Mustang five point oh, like Kane
from Minister Society and in the sixth grade and you're
walking and they know what the duffel bag is about.
(10:14):
That turned a lot of people on a lot of
people wanted to be that d boy. A lot of
people wanted to be that dude that oh look at
this car, like this down and the other like, oh
he's so young, but he's bawling this down and the the other. Um,
I mean, how you guys, you know, how did you
guys navigate that? I know we're up against it on
the break, but I mean, just real quick, how you
know what what was your take on that? Man? I'm
(10:35):
go ahead, plex you got man. You just you know,
when you're growing up, you're just watching what's going on
around you, and it's you know, when you're growing up.
For me, it was a part of a you know,
our culture, neighborhood and our surroundings, and you have to
be strong willed to be able to you know, identify
and look yourself in the mirror and saying, you know what,
(10:58):
I'm not doing that because you in the consequences of
of those actions and you know, there there's one moment
I believe in you know, every kid's life that you know,
you you you you witness a situation and you see
what becomes of it. And for me, I'm like, you know,
(11:19):
you you you recognize that you have a gift, and
you have something special and your mindset and your heart
is built and and and you're looking for something different.
And my my avenue was like, you know what, I'm
not gonna be standing over there in my forties and
fifties trying to, you know, act like I'm eighteen nineteen
and I'm twenty years old, and and I didn't even
(11:42):
really recognize to myself. It wasn't from my high school
football coach to kind of put me to the side
and and made me understand and recognize what I had.
I wouldn't have made it to college, let alone to
plan the NFL. And I'm forever grateful for him, you know,
making me understand and recognize what the future that I
(12:04):
had in front of me. I mean, for me, it
was just so different. Uh. I didn't have I mean,
I grew up obviously in the project section eight. I mean,
I didn't have people murdered in my own house. And
so that's how I grew up. Never met my father.
Mom was on drugs growing up, and so that that's
(12:28):
a big reason why I've never done a drug in
my life. I've never smoked anything and day in my
life because of seeing what it caused us growing up,
but but for me it was. And anytime you grew
up in that kind of environment, you're involved in it.
But the guys that make it out you just don't
(12:50):
get involved more than you should. Like I've done things
that I shouldn't have done that I'm not proud of.
But it's a product of than environment you grew up
and you lived in. You just didn't do it, huh
as much as the other guys, and they couldn't. They
were sucked in and you were in somewhat at least
(13:12):
in my experiences. And so just going to junior college, Um,
my junior college coach, he was like, you got a
chance to get a scholarship. And once he told me that,
I started going to school. You know, I don't have
a high school diploma, and so I didn't graduate from
high school because I was doing things that I shouldn't
have been doing. And once I got the juco he's
(13:33):
you got a chance to get a scholarship. And once
he told me that, I just buckled down and ben
smooth selling ever since man free van van Fleetman you're
talking about, uh, you know, perseverance and that me against
the world mentality Now not being heavily recruited, undrafted coming
out of What's the Tall State, the Shockers, and now
(13:55):
the Man as an NBA All Star. Not only that
he was undrafted, he signed the largest construct in NBA
history for an undrafted player, and he has the record
for most points in a playoff game as an undrafted player.
I mean, he's done some pretty significant things, uh at
at at the pro level and even in his life.
He's the epitome of believing in myself exactly what it
(14:19):
is betting on I'm betting on me. Here the whole
entire interview. Make sure you go check it out. Conversations
with a legend on up on Game presents fee on
the I heart you know app uh some real good
stuff there. So this is up on Game. We're gonna
take a quick break and we'll be right back. Welcome back.
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Book for details. Yeah, he looked just like Drake. I mean,
you want to hear the hold conversation with Fred Van Vlee,
just make sure you go check it out on up
on Game Presents, Uh conversations with Legend. I mean he
it was a whole lot of cool stuff he had
to say. Um and speaking of interesting stuff, Uh, I
(15:24):
do believe I said that I would not be surprised.
In fact, made a bold proclamation that this offensive line
for the Dallas Cowboys is not the one that made
them maybe so uh favorable to think they would not
only win the division, but they would be a competitor
(15:46):
to get to the Super Bowl. Has now once again
lost Tyrant Smith to injury. Now Jerry Jones still expects
Dallas to make the playoffs. Do we have anything on
that Birst that that that that you could uh discuss?
Do we have the article or is there is there
a quote? Is there a south we have sounds from ESPN.
(16:07):
This is Jerry Jones earlier the week on ESPN. He
was responding to a question about Tyren Smith's injury and
at the end he implies basically that the Cowboys will
be back in the playoffs. Here's the clip NFL season
there's two and a half college seasons long when it
comes to game. Yes, a guy that's wet behind the ear,
are the old upperclassmate that God cripple all of a
(16:28):
sudden can be a different guy at the end of
the school year. That's why pro football is. And we'll
have him, and we'll have him at the right time.
We'll have him in that San Francisco game, the equivalent
of it that we had last year. And maybe we
won't fall short. Well, he says, maybe we won't fall short.
I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make paint
(16:50):
him out to be so eric when he says maybe
we won't fall short, I believe he means fall short
in the playoffs, super Bowl or the playoffs. Taking the
playoffs too, how they lost, right, So that's not that's
not I mean, that's that's a that's a good way
of approach, And I'm not mad at him for having
that that take on it. I mean, it is a
tale of two seasons, and we all know the teams
(17:11):
that win the Super Bowl are the teams that get
hot later on in the season. Problem is, you just
don't want to be too far out of the situation
of being competitive by the time you get to that
part of the year where you can you know, ultimately
get hot enough to win, you know, in the end
of the season and into the playoffs and generally carry
that into the Super Bowl. I mean, we saw that
(17:32):
with your team last year, t J with Cincinnati. Man,
it's gonna be tough sledding for the Cowboys. People, and
I'm part of people thought the Eagles were the better
team and they're gonna and we'll win that division. And
I still believe that more strongly now than ever. But
(17:54):
you're relying on Ceedee Lamb and who else. You're relying
on that offensive line to be able to open up
lanes in the running game. Now, you're one of your
better offensive linemen outside of Zack Martin is gone for
the year. We'll get them back when we make the playoffs.
I don't believe the Cowboys are gonna make the playoffs.
Dak Prescott is gonna have to play out of his mind.
(18:17):
Um new head coach Mike McCarthy will be gone. It's
like everything that can go wrong for the Cowboys has
gone wrong for the Cowboys. And the season hasn't even
started yet, and So for for them, you just look
at the division, they're probably gonna be one team coming
out of the division that's gonna be the Eagles. The
(18:38):
Cowboys went six and on the division last year. That's
not gonna happen this year. And so for the Cowboys, Uh,
you can right in the obituary now new head coach. Uh,
they won't be in the playoffs. And it kind of
sucks because they just have some bad luck with injuries
and Gallup what he'll be back what week five? Weeks six?
(18:59):
They maybe out of it by then. They might be
out of it. Paul Mike McCarthy, he can't catch a break. Uh,
the Dallas Cowboys would not make the playoffs this year.
I mean, you lose La Collins, you're starting right tackle already,
to lose Tyron Smith to injury, he's not gonna be
back until so you got two new tackles. You lose
(19:21):
Randy Gregory. On defense, you're losing Mark Cooper. I mean
those are five basically cornerstone players of your organization and
of that team. And when you lose a left tackle
like Tyron Smith from the quarterback position Dak Prescott, you
know that the pocket gets a little bit smaller. You know,
(19:42):
you get happy feet, not used to having that time
that you're usually uh that you that you have to
throw the football. So so now you get a little raddy,
get a little skittish in the pocket, and you don't
have them Mark Cooper to throw to anymore. Who can
beat one on one covers consistently. And now you asking
(20:04):
Cee Landing to go out and be that alpha male
at the wire. But see the position, which is not
easily easy to do. Who just got hurt? What's his name?
Tyrann Smith, Tyrand Smith, his cousin Tyler Smith, can go
ahead in the first round? Pick Tyler Smith. Well, you
know what, Hey, maybe hey, maybe maybe Dak when he's
(20:24):
under center and shot or he's on the shotgun, he
sees Smith on the back of that jersey. Maybe he
thinks that's Tyrn Smith. Gives him peace of mind. And
it pains me to say this. The Philadelphia are the
best team in that division. Yeah, and is and that
is that all the facts what we're talking about playoffs zero,
Tyler Smith better be ready to go. We do something
(20:48):
during the week. It's kind of fun and funny, and
I feel like this is relevant right here, Sammy, can
you queue up some game show music right now? Can
we drum it up? Because I want to I want
to play a kind of a game with you guys.
And it's called let's let's choose what game the Washington
excuse me, the Dallas Cowboys. Uh will win or lose?
(21:10):
This is like, well the price is right here we go.
The game is right or the game is wrong? Week one,
the Buccaneers versus the Cowboys. Is it a win or
is it a loss? Win for the Bucks? M m yeah,
I got I gotta go with the Bucks with the
Cowboys with these injuries and the Bucks have injuries, but
(21:30):
I'm I'm going with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season.
I'm gonna take the Bucks as well. All right, don't
let's not get ahad of each other. You hear the music.
You gotta win your way on and so you could
go after one of those grand prize uh packages that
they had Game number two. So right now they're at
and one, Game number two, the Bengals versus the Cowboys.
(21:53):
Who wins? Who loses? Man, I'm going with the natty
yeah who? So? Okay, So they're off to an O
and to start all right. Here we go the Cowboys
versus the Giants, win or lose? Who got it? I'm
go on with the Cowboys. I like Brian Dable, but
(22:17):
I don't know what I'm gonna be seeing based off
what I've been seeing this preseason from Daniel Jones. And
I shouldn't get my board. Martin wis in here. He's
the gambler. Really, I have to go against my own
team to New York. Jason say the Dallas Cowboys will
get the first win of the season. Okay, I think
I agree as well. So now we're at one and two,
(22:41):
one and two, charging into Commanders versus the Cowboys. What what?
Where we? Where we at with this one? Wow, that's
a tough one. But I'll go Commanders. With that defense.
Uh Ron Rivera is a really good defensive coach that
got good defensive players. Carson Wentz, uh, we'll play better.
I'm going with the Commanders. It's Chase Young back healthy
(23:03):
this year. Uh He's he's on the pup right here.
It's the first four games. Okay. So with that being said,
it's always been a great rivalry. Uh. I don't believe
in Carson Wentz at all. So I'll go with the
Cowboys to win that game. Also, I think I'm gonna
go with the Cowboys on this one too. So on
t JS, we got one in one in three, we
(23:23):
got two and two with you and I plex co
all right. The next week they take on the l
a Roum. Not even close. Alright, alright, so now it's
one in four with t J. It's two and three
with me and you plex. The next game up, the
Cowboys versus the Eagles. Where they playing at? Who? Well,
(23:48):
when they say the name first, isn't that mean Okay,
I'm going with the Eagles. Yeah, they're at there in Philly, Man,
I have to I'm going with the Eagles. Man. I
believe Jamaine Johnson is but probably gonna he's still in
the draft this year. Who I'm gonna go with the
Eagles as well? Yes they did, and they got some
(24:11):
some free agents too, if you weren't paying attention. Okay,
So this puts it at to what what is this?
How many games are we into this? Let's see one too, three,
four or five? Five games in? We have them at
two wins. T J has them at one win. Uh.
The Cowboys versus the Eagles, we did that. The Cowboys
(24:33):
versus the Lions. I'm actually gonna go to Detroit Lions.
I think they and we remember this now in Dallas.
I told y'all, I told you all the Detroit Lions
will not finish last in that division, and I'm standing
by that. I'm going with the Detroit Lions. They will
be better. That's one number two. Man, You're talking about
(24:53):
two teams that are grandfather then for Thanksgiving that playing
in Dallas. If the Cowboys don't win this game, m
I think is is just gonna remind us of how
bad they've been over the past ten or fifteen years.
So I hope they win this game. So I'm gonna
go with the Cowboys. That's win number four for you,
and I'm going to take them to win win total
(25:13):
number four for me as well. So t j's got
two wins, where at four wins rounding all, here we
go the last two games, Chicago Bears in Dallas. I
go with the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas. Yeah, I gotta
go with Dallas. Also, I don't believe that Chicago bell
(25:34):
is going to be that good. That's four wins for
t J. That's five wins for Plexico and five wins
for me. All right, here we go in the last game,
which would represent the midway point of the season, the
Cowboys in Wisconsin playing the Packers. Who you got cheese heads? Yea,
(25:56):
cow Boys are probably lose by three touchdowns. Cheez yeah,
I'm going with I'm going with Green Bay as well.
So one, two, three, four or five, six, seven, eight,
nine out of nine games, we're giving the Dallas Cowboys
four on one and three with t J so that
(26:19):
would total six six losses, six losses, seven losses. It
was the seven excuse me, six losses and five losses
um for for Dallas going in the midway point, are
they still in position to win or get into a
wild card situation or possibly win their division with five
(26:42):
or six wins? So if, if, if all holds true
in terms of our picks, they're out of playoff contention.
By the time some of these guys returned back to
play for this team, the Dallas Cowboys will be out
of the playoff hunt at the midway point of the season.
And it's unfortunate they had injuries. They needed their best
(27:03):
players to be available. Uh, this game of football, you
just don't know unless Cede Loum and Dak Prescott can
play out of this world. It's gonna be tough for
the cow But you're talking about from a health standpoint.
They gave away three players. They did do that. Mhm, okay,
(27:24):
so that's what they did. Hey, it's the young fault
who All right, well, I'll tell you what. It should
be interesting to see how that plays. A lot of
people are still bullish on the Cowboys. But you know
who knows what I do know is alright man, the
legendary Isaac low and Crown. He brings it every single time.
We don't have to worry about him being a competitor
(27:47):
what you got out, especially when college football is going on,
including right now with a big ten match up in
that big tent hotbed of Dublin, Ireland. I wonder if
they'll be expanding there next By the way, where Nebraska
has a fourteen to ten lead over Northwestern five minutes
into the second quarter, Nebraska going up fourteen to three
on a touchdown pass at a touchdown run by Casey Thompson,
(28:09):
but Northwestern getting back into the contest when Ryan Helinski
tosta forty three yard touchdown past to Raymond Nero elsewhere.
Western Kentucky up twenty one to ten over Austin P
twenty six seconds left to play in the second quarter.
Austin P right now has a second down and goal
inside of the Western Kentucky one yard line. NFL media
(28:31):
just reported that Carolina Panthers number two quarterbacks Sam Donald
is expected to be out four to six weeks after
he suffered a high ankle sprain in Friday's preseason finale
against the Buffalo Bills. Late Friday night, the Seattle Seahawks
officially named Geno Smith their starting quarterback. Got a final
NFL item that you three, in particular fellows would have
(28:54):
a keen interest and awareness of former NFL receiver and
current Miami Dolphins receivers. Coach Wes Welker this morning tweeted
an image of a letter he received from the NFL
Player Benefits Disability Plan that said his request for a
line of duty disability benefits was being tabled because there
(29:18):
were no records reflecting that his history of surgeries were
performed as a result of injuries that he sustained while
playing in the n f A. They did me the
same way, you got me the same way. What do
you think hide they did me the same way be
(29:44):
talking about benefits he fire to get him, he was
delivering newspapers and got al Hey, to get these benefits,
you gotta walk through the jungle with pork shop draws
on to get these benefits straight you ain't it? That
should be absolutely I'm telling you that man played twelve
(30:08):
years and had surgeries and they're just talking about none
of those injuries came from playing football. Damn shame crazy benefits.
But they did me the shame Hey, I give must
be the receivers. I guess we don't get hurt or something.
They did the same way. Him putting that on social
media just really put them on blast to the fact
that it is a straight up lie. I'm so ashamed
(30:30):
of us. Weler. It is a lie I got my boy,
they gave me and that I'm still in the process.
I'm like, bro, that you think my back just get
up and hurt for no reason. There's a whole lot
more benefits I'm eligible for to benefits. Injuries was so
sting from football? Are you kidding me? Shots out and
(30:54):
mad to the National Football League on how they've taken
care of LaVar Arrington since Yeah, unbelieve for you. Good
for you, Good for you. Hey, dear NFL, I don't
know why you're hating on t J. Hudsmon's out on
West Welker, but I sure I'm glad y'all didn't hate
all the the platt A route. I'll play around. I
(31:17):
hope they get that that resolved and rectified and worked
out with you and Wells Welker and obviously any other
player out there that's in need and deserving of their
line of duty. UH benefits. So anyway, you're listening to
uh up on Game, We're gonna come back and we're
gonna wrap the show up. We're gonna tie up with
a nice little bow with this Lakers acquisition of Pat Beverley.
(31:39):
I'm interested to hear the Laker fans take on it
and Plexico versus as well. You're listening to Up on Game.
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guys are gonna enjoy this one because well, I know
you love hating on t J when he goes sunny
skies and palm trees, blue blue clear skies and all
that good stuff. Um, and talks about the Lakers. So
what are you thinking, t J? They bring in Pat Beverley?
(33:08):
What is I'm so interested to hear this one. What
does that mean for for Russell Wilson? Russell's what you said?
It's Uh, it's interesting. You know, they they have history
from when Pat Beverley was playing I believe with the
Rockets and he heard Russell Westbrooks knee think he has
(33:31):
surgery with his meniscus, and I think ever since then
they've had like an animosity towards each other. Whether that's
just basketball or as personal, I don't know, but I
don't I don't see how they can both be on
the same team if that animosity still exists, I just
I don't see it. Now. Is Pat Beverley coming off
(33:53):
the bench, if that's the case, Uh, he's not gonna
play many minutes. Uh. Is Russell Westbrook coming off the bench.
If that's the case, he's the Lakers. We are in
a tough position because nobody seems to want Russell Westbrook.
What's Westwick can still play. It's just when you play
with Lebron and you're used to having a ball in
(34:16):
your hands constantly. Russell Westbrook is used to having a ball.
Lebron wants the ball guard. Restbrook is not a spot
up shooter. He's a creator. He's a playmaker. And so
I don't know what we're doing. Uh, But if a
d stays healthy, it don't matter. We went every First
(34:37):
of all, I just need Anthony Davis to stay healthy.
You got too much not to let me tell you
how this thing is gonna gonna go. Lebron is gonna
name Patrick Beverley the starter, and he's a Lebron. Uh so,
so you just really just history. You're just disrespecting Darvin
Ham like he basically listen what I'm saying. Lebron James
(34:57):
is gonna name Patrick Beverley to start. He's not coming
to the Lakers to come off the bench. And secondly,
Patrick Beverley is a Lebron kind of guy because he's
one of those guys that he's going to go out
and compete and play hard every single night. So I
don't I don't know if him and What's the rest
brook are going to be able to coexist. Um, but
(35:18):
I do think Patrick Bellvey will him and What's the
West but will be starting on the floor to the other.
How it's going to happen, I don't know, but it's
gonna have a whole team in the paint. Maybe they
acquired Donovan Mitchell, who knows. I don't know what they're
giving up. Somebody has to go once out and they
(35:44):
and they already Danny Aange and you talk fleeced the
timber Woods with Rudy Gobert, so that I picked. They
think they can fleece everybody else man when he comes
down to winning, when it comes down to the business
of coexisting and playing together, I believe these young men
they will find a way to be able to work together.
Even with the past here that they both have had.
They're gonna have to be able to play together because
(36:09):
just like you said, nobody who wants west with Westbrook
He's not going anywhere. So these men Dolminham in the organization,
they're gonna have to these two guys in the room
and they're gonna have to sort it out. They can
play together. They can trade Westbrook for Buddy Hill, Miles Turner.
You get a shooter, you get a big that can
play good defense, rebound a space to floor. They can
(36:29):
do that as well. M They're gonna have to play.
They need to hire me in the front office. I'll
make that thing work. I'll make some shape, make it happen. Well,
It'll be interesting to see how all of that plays out.
I'll tell you that, because if there's anything that's mounting.
It's probably a little bit of pressure on Lebron James
(36:50):
to deliver um while he's with the Lakers at least
right now, and Kenny hold on long enough for Brownie
to get old enough to join the Lakers for them
to ab Gotta stay healthy, man, stay healthy. I mean,
the West is tough right now, so the Blakers maybe
make the playoffs this shield, which I think that wait
(37:10):
for sure, we don't have injuries, we end well, But
as far as them coming out of the West and
competing contending to win the championship, it's just not going
to help. My God, here he goes. Music comes on.
That means that the show is a rap, So y'all
make sure like the song says, have a lovely day.
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