October 15, 2022 • 41 mins
LaVar Arrington and TJ Houshmandzadeh dive into the AFC Championship rematch between the Chiefs and Bills coming in Week 6. Rhett Butler of the Pritty Left Hook Podcast joins the guys to preview Deontay Wilder's return to the ring on Saturday night. The guys look back on how they changed personal expectations throughout their career as LaVar chats with 2x Super Bowl Champion Kevin Boothe in this week's Legendary Moment!
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And kickoffs involving ranked teams in college football. Number five
Michigan leads number ten Penn State six to nothing. The
Wolverines have driven inside the red zone twice and had
to settle for field goals. They're in time out now,
but Michigan has the ball inside the red zone yet again.
Ten minutes to play in the second quarter. End of
the first quarter in Oxford, Number nine Ole Miss leads
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Auburn fourteen to nothing. Back and forth game in Norman, Oklahoma,
leading number nineteen Kansas one to fourteen early stages of
the second quarter. Approaching the midway point of the second
quarter in Austin, Number twenty two Texas trails Iowa State
seven zip and number twenty four Illinois with a ten
seven lead on Minnesota midway through the second quarter. In
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the NFL, the Colts have ruled out running backs Jonathan
Taylor and Naim Hines against the Jaguars tomorrow. And in
the NBA, es Pen reports the Warriors in Jordan Pool
agreed to a four year, hundred forty million dollar extension.
I'm nick kof Alright, we got legendary moment coming up
this next segment. In fact, Kevin booth. You might not
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know the name, but you'll you'll hear what he has
to say. He's actually a two time Super Bowl champ
for the New York Super Giants. Was one of those
anchor linemen for that group that protected Eli Manning and
well helped Plexico win one of those those Super Bowls
as well. A FC matchups of a week you know,
builds in the chief. Can't wait to hear what t
(01:24):
J has to say about that. Daniel Snyder is back
in the news again and this time, Oh, he had
some things to say. Be interesting to hear what everybody
is thinking on this one. Even though we won't hear
what you gotta say, you won't hear what t J
has to say. And then there was up on Game,
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Deante Wilder has a fight tonight, so we'll we'll preview
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that one as well for all of you fight game lovers.
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in the world of sports, fashion, fitness, you name it.
Culture is just what we do all right now. Kevin Booth,
Let's let's get to Kevin Booth. You know he is
now working uh in the football offices at uh at
Park for for the NFL. Super super bright guy obviously
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went to an IVY League school, so he went to Cornell.
And if you know how football works, especially the National
Football League, if you can make it into the National
Football League from from one of those types of schools
and I V League school, you know, different smaller schools.
That means you are a straight baller, all right. He
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ended up getting drafted in the NFL Draft in two
thousand and six. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders
in the sixth round. Uh, ends up not finishing out
with them and gets let go, all right. He finished
the season in OH six. But then he ends up
in New York and OH seven. Right now, think about this.
He gets claimed by the New York Giants t J.
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And if you know the history of the game and
you heard the tease, the rest is history. He ends
up being a starter on that line of scrimmage. Yeah, big, big, thick,
thick bottom dude, right, and he's like he's lost like
fifty sixty pounds now he like he looks like, uh,
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I don't know, he looks small now, Like you know,
Lineman be doing that lose weight thing when when they're
they're not playing anymore. I don't know how they do it.
Big the bigger, right, Yeah, yeah, well, Kevin lost the weight.
Now he's wearing a dress, shirts that fit real well
and he looks real good. So shots out to him.
This week's legendary moment. Kevin Booth of the New York
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Giants game game, it presents conversations with a legend and
now this is your legendary moment. Let's let's take it
back a little bit. Let's let's let's go, let's go
early big booth. Was there a moment that you can
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think of a defining moment, something that took place where
it was like, this is what I'm gonna do? And
and then on top of that, you settle in Onlineman like,
is it is? It? Is there something? Was it a
person that influenced you? It was it a player on television?
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Was it was it apparent like was it somebody in
the community? What what is the memory in the moment
or or whatever however you wanted to define it, that
played the biggest part and you striving to be the
player that you ultimately became, making into the National Football
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League and becoming a super Bowl a two time Super
Bowl chant Uh, you know it's funny. I one of
my earliest memories watching the NFL. I grew up in
South Florida. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale. UM was
Super Bowl twenty three. It was the forty niner is
against the Cincinnati Bengals, and it was at the Old
Joe Robbie Stadium, and I became a big fan of
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Jerry Rice. And I thought I was gonna be a
wide receiver and I'm gonna be the best wide receiver
UM ever. And you know, as I started to grow
up a little bit, I realized, oh, I don't think uh,
wide receivers in my in the cards for me and uh,
I will say this though, I have one older brother.
He's ten years older than me. So when you're talking
about those formative years that six seven, eight years old,
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I got to watch my brother play high school football
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and then go on to East
Carolina University and play football there and actually be a
part of some pretty successful teams in school history there.
And we're talking about those early to mid nineties there
at e c U. And he ended up playing offensive line,
so and he wore number seventy seven, which was ultimately
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the number that I chose. So having him as a
football role model, I think kind of set me on
that path to to playing football. And obviously I got
a lot bigger as I grew and realized that I
wouldn't be wearing number eighty, but I'll be wearing something
in the seventies. So he was definitely a big influence
on me growing up. But it all started watching the
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NFL Super Bowls in town. And you know, I didn't
watch cartoons that day and must have decided to tune
in with everybody else who was watching the super Bowl,
and I became just like that, Well there you go. Uh,
I think that's pretty precky cool, you know, because to
go from a receiver to an offensive lineman, um, that's
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that's a dramatic change. If your body changes so much
that you got to stop being a receiver that you
go to hunt to old line, that's quite a change.
T J. Like what we want to take away from that,
If you think you're gonna be a receiver and you
go play old line, you had absolutely no chance of
playing receiver, zero chance. You just entirely too big of
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a human being. But to have the thoughts of playing
receiver means he had good feet for an officer, and
so that's probably why he was able to be successful
as he was in offensive lineman because just the thought
of playing receiver you have to have some type of
coordination and some good foot movement, and probably translated to
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him being a pretty good offensive lineman. Yeah, I thought
the same exact thing. Um, super intelligent dude. Man. I
really enjoyed um talking with him. He has so many
interesting points to make. You know, the one thing I
love about our show and ending the legendary moments is
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that there there are a lot of times where there
is so much negativity that surrounds the coverage of of
us as players. But yet we really don't we really
don't pay attention to all of the things that the
dope things that people in our football community do. They
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they fall on deaf airs. People don't pay attention to it.
Maybe it's not polarizing enough or you know, entertaining enough.
It seems like people get really excited when when athletes
and players fail, and and so there have been so
many great conversations that have been had. And you know,
(11:08):
I love the fact that that this is a a
full this is this is a full former player lead
and ran uh radio show. We do so many different things.
You do you have another podcast that you're gonna go ahead,
promote it, go ahead, pump it, go ahead, pump it. No,
it's airing it out me in Orlando, Scandrick Man. That's
(11:30):
I mean the things that the diversity that that is
brought to the table by dynamic guys. Yes we play ball,
yes we we uh you know, had our ways of
doing things could have been very very you know, confrontational
and and and hardcore and tough and physical. But we're thinkers,
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you know, we're thinkers. We we have opinions and we
actually know how to run shows. We know how to
put shows together with with our team shots out to burst. Uh,
we we know how to do really really good things.
And let me tell you something that dude is like
part of business development um with the NFL. He's done
it the right way. He's one of those guys. He's
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worked under Troy. He understands finance, so they come up
with like certain budgets and different things like that that's
connected to what they're going to ultimately do. He's working
his way up the ladder and and and that's you know,
commendable because the one thing that I always say t
J is we learned so many valuable skills in the
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game of football. But you have to be brave enough,
you have to be aware enough, and and and you
have to to want to take you got you gotta
as a parent, as as a worker, whatever it is
in your life, you have all of developed up tools
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to be able to apply what you need to apply
to winning life. So when I hear all the conversations
that are being had and guys are doing just that,
Kevin Booth is one of those guys. So shouts out
the UK Booth and keep doing what you're doing, my guy.
You're listening to up on Game. Uh, that's t J.
Hushman's out of Plexico is hosting. They better not get
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parked up. They better win this game. They got Mr
Burr's in the building. You know, I was thinking the
same exact thing, all right, but we're gonna take a
quick breaking on the other side of the break. This
is a very very big game on many many levels.
You got the bills at the Chiefs. Is this a
preview of the a f C Championship? All right? A
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rematch if you know? Is this is this turning into
the new Brady versus Manning? Oh my gosh, I don't know.
Let's talk about it, all right. This is up on Game,
that's t J. Hushman's out. I'm lavarian A Fox Sports
Radio will be right back on. Cousin Neagles in my cup.
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You know I love you. Yeah, I can see you
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New episodes drop every Monday at six pm Eastern Time,
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into it. A f C Championship rematch doesn't live up
(16:25):
to the hype, t J. Should we be looking at
this as oh, my homes in island and island and
my homes, and who's gonna be the better? And da
da da does this determine who the superpower is in
the a f C Division And probably ultimately is this
the power and the National Football league, even with the NFC.
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But you know, how are you looking at this? I mean,
obviously early season match up two of the best teams
in the league, and they're probably gonna be It's gonna
stay that way for the next would say, seven, eight, nine,
maybe ten years, if the quarterbacks can stay healthy. Um,
like you said, it's rematch the divisional round where I mean,
(17:09):
it was just an unbelievable game. But the Chiefs don't
have ten anymore. Number ten no longer will instill fear
in that coaching staff and the way they call and
play this game. And so just from that perspective, it's
going to be a different game. The Chiefs defense has
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been really outstanding this year against this high power Bills offense.
Can they maintain that level of play? I don't know.
I'm looking forward to it. But the Chiefs, the Bills,
the Ravens, the Bengals for the next however many years,
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those should be the teams that kind of who's gonna
go to super out FC. And and if DeShawn Watson
can get back to playing at the level he he's
played at early in his career, you you throw Cleveland
in there, and so yes, tomorrow Chiefs and Bills will
be a great game. It could quite possibly be a
preview of the a f C championship game. Um, but
(18:14):
I know the Bills looking forward to this one. The
way they blew that game last year the playoffs, they
have to be looking forward to this. If you're looking
at this from the perspective of who's who in in
the a f C, this is one of those moments.
It can be a statement game for both teams. I
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look at the Bills team and I say the addition
of Van Miller has impacted their their defensive front and
so much of a way that if you thought their
defense couldn't get any better, they did. Because now you
they're cranking, they're gigging up up top download you know,
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and in the trenches they gigging, and it's making all
the difference. It's making it harder for quarterbacks to feel comfortable.
It's making it harder for them to be able to
run the ball. And then the a f C. You know,
if you can run the ball better, if you can
stop them from running the ball, um, that's half the battle.
And and now you know, obviously their secondary they they've
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dealt with injuries early on but you know what, they
have shown that they can do what they need to
do to get the job done as well. So I
look at this this Bill's team is they have everything
to gain and so much to lose in this game
if they do not perform at the highest levels. It's
a statement game, it's a step up game. I look
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at Kansas City. Kansas City is finding ways to continue
to be an explosive office. I mean, you know that
his main target is Kelsey. You know that he had
to become Kelsey because you you lost to to rekill.
How is it that we're able to score as many
touchdowns with Travis Kelsey knowing that that is Patrick Mahomes
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main guy you talked about coaching earlier, t J. You
gotta believe that it's the coaching and the game planning
of how to to spread out that field, get Kelsey
lost in that defense and yet give Pat Mahomes enough
time to be able to let Kelsey clear all of
the little windows and defensive UH coverages to get open
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for Mahomes to deliver it. But I don't know that
we've ever seen a quarterback that can deliver the ball
in the passing game the way that Patrick Mahomes has
I mean, it is, it is something that it's hard
to explain and it's almost hard to comprehend. Mahomes especial
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and there's no way about it. But I have a
ton of respect for McDermott and as re Frasier defensive
coaches defense, I mean, head coach Devin's coordinated for the Bills.
They'll be prepared for this because they called a lot
of flak for that playoff game and in the way
they played though that last possession it was the twelve
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seconds I believe it was. They caught a lot of
flak for that. And so they're gonna come out and
they're gonna be ready to play. They're not gonna let
Travis Kelsey beat them. They're they're gonna make my Homes
throw the ball to somebody else. The Raiders tried that.
Travis Kelsey didn't have a ton of yards, but he
had four touchdowns. And so this game, if you're if
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you're a part of the Buffalo Bills last year, you
look forward to this, You're excited about this because of
what happened last year. Josh Holli knows in order to
get to the Super Bowl, he's gonna have to go
through my homes each and every year because they're in
the same conference. Uh. It's kind of odd that the
NFL didn't make this like a Sunday night game or
(21:57):
a Monday night game, knowing uh how good these teams
are gonna be yearing in, year out. But I'll be
tuned in. I'll be watching, uh looking forward to it.
Oh you know what, I will be tevoing it because
my son has a baseball game tomorrow, so yeah, I'll
be watching that on TVO. How's he doing, man, He's
actually doing really well. Man. He uh, every sport he plays,
(22:19):
that's his favorite sport at the time. So if you
ask him once his favorite sport, he gonna tell you
right now baseball until uh he goes and play something
else because he's a natural. We're gonna we're gonna do
it how I grew up and how we grew up, LeVar.
We're playing every sport, man, We're not specializing in nothing.
And if it hurts him, it hurts him. But we
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were gonna be uh, basketball, football, baseball, track, We're doing everything.
A little boxing here and there, just a case somebody
try to run up on him. And we're gonna be ready.
You know, all the things that people lauded me for
as a player, a lot of that came from me
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being a basketball player. You know. I used to leap
frog dudes. I used to dive in block field goals.
I used to like dive and make plays. It's funny.
I was a high jumper, high jump six five in
in high school. Um, I was a basketball player. I
had a forty two inch vertical and that's football. It's
probably more like sixty and basketball and basketball terms because
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you get steps, um and and those were the things
that translated into me playing the game. My past rush
moves was a crossover. I was just crossing people over
with the bands are receivers, man tackles or corners. It's
just a different you know, it's it's just a different dynamic,
bigger guys. It's the positions kind of marry each other.
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If you really look at it, it's I think it's
I think it's awesome that that he's doing multiple sports.
I'm a big fan of crew, so so when he
ends up as long as he continued to grow, I
don't know where it's coming from. Lavata Boy eight years old,
Man where a sus nine shoe bro, he's but bro,
my mom is five five. My dad is was on
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his best day, and which is funny because you know
he lost that part of a leg and and his
he lost his foot. So it's like kind of like
all right, we we we gotta figure out what his
height was, five ten when and everything. So I mean
he he yoked up. My dad was yoked up, but
he wasn't tall. My mom's not tall. And I got
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to six three six three two fifty five. My dad
on a on a good day probably weighed two hundred
and five v. So, you know, sometimes you just don't
know mine and and all y'all people out there saying
that you know, it was the milk man, chill out,
my granddad, my mom's dad, my mom's dad. You know,
(24:52):
people might not even understand that term in two but
my mind, they might know the the Amazon Prime guy
or whatever, um hardener, the gardener right right right. My
mom's dad was actually six five, So there might be
somebody in your family tree that that got a whole
lot of height and that that gene just it translated
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you know or your you know, your wife, it translated
into two crew so because you're you're not, I mean
Carrington's tall to Yeah, she's tall. So well there's that.
All right. Listen, let's get an update because we got
my man Rhett coming up to talk about this big fight.
So let's get to my man, Mr. Hope. What we
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got Nick? Nick? Excuse me? Cop? Why am I called?
Because I'm thinking of my ring Cope. That's why here
we go. All right, here we go, Nick Cope on trending.
What we got, my guy? Well, let's take a look
at all these college football games involving ranked teams. Penn
State was down thirteen to nothing. Michigan had to settle
(25:57):
a big run to set up their first touchdown, and
then they got to pick six on Michigan's next drive.
Wolverines got the ball though in the red zone yet again.
They got about a minute and a half to play
in the second quarter. Elsewhere, oh miss number nine rebels.
They led twenty one to nothing on Auburn. But now
it's now twenty one to fourteen, four minutes to play
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in the second Oklahoma starting to take it to number
nineteen Kansas. That was a fourteen fourteen game. After one.
Oklahoma now in front thirty five to fourteen. Couple of
minutes left in the second quarter, Texas with fourteen points
in the second quarter, they were trailing seven nothing. They
now lead a fourteen to seven at the break number
twenty two, long horns on top of the Cyclones, and
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then also at halftime number twenty four, Illinois leads Minnesota
thirteen to seven. In NFL news reports, St Dolphin's quarterback
to a tongue of Ilo has cleared concussion protocol. He
will be inactive tomorrow, but is expected to play next
weekend when Miami plays the Steelers. Reports also say Commander's
quarterback Carson Wentz fracture a finger on his throwing hand
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Thursday night against the Bears. He's going to see a
specialist to determine next steps and then new in the
last hour, the Coults have ruled out their top two
running backs, Jonathan Taylor and Naim Hines will not be
available against the Jaguars on Sunday. And news in the
NBA this morning, ESPN says the Warriors in Jordan Pool
have agreed to a four year, hundred forty million dollar extension.
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Back to you guys, alright, appreciate it, sir, let's get
to my man. I mean I want to talk about
this fight. Uh wow, there's a lot of It's a
lot of fights today, man, today, good boxing weekend. Well,
let's talk about it. We got Wilder versus hillenneous. But
but those other fights that you're speaking of. Who better
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to talk about it than the expert of experts are man,
Rhett Butler. Let's get to it. Knowledge is about to
be dropped on your head. I'm ready for the big stage.
Like an upper cut to the chick. Here's Reet Butler
from Pretty Laptook. Yea, yeah, yeah, welcome in to the show,
(28:11):
Rett Um obviously Ret Butler of Pretty Laptop up on
Game Presents. Anytime we got some some action going on
in the fight game, we bring in our resident experts
to talk about it and sad light on it first
and foremost. How are you feeling, my g I'm doing good,
tej Va. Its a great day for the fight baby,
(28:32):
Oh my god. Let's get it man. I mean it
is exciting. I mean, let's let's talk about it. I mean,
we got a slate of fights, as DJ said, but
none bigger than the Wilder hellenious fight that's going to
take place uh, let's preview, give us, give us your
what's your top fights of of the weekend, and and
then let's jump into the wilder absolutely so, first and foremost,
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we've got Devin Hainey versus George Campbosos Jr. Folks is
for it all. You know, Devin Haney obviously let the
world know he is the king at the lightweight division.
He is now undisputed, went to Australia, took it from
George camp Bostos in front of his crowd, and now
he's gonna do it again. This man is fearless and
we love what he's done for the game. That's gonna
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be happening today. Also, Clarissa Shields versus Savannah Marshall, also
for undisputed at middleweight. You know, Savannah Marshall is the
only person to ever be Clarissa Shields all those and
the amateurs, and Savannah's been talking a lot of trash
over the years saying she got her number. Of course,
Clarissa is the quote that's her self titled game and
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she feels like, you know what, let me let this
girl know for sure, I am the best And that
one amateur FAUPA was just that a mistake. M hm hm,
I bet she is going to whoop her. Hey, Red
what what what do you think about? Also U and
Alicia Obamba Gander, that's it's a good fight as well.
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Women's boxing is an actually lee putting on some good
fights and trying to get into the forefront of the the
mainstream media as far as boxing. That's another championship fight
that also should be pretty good. No, that's huge, you know,
and you made it such a great point to day.
I mean, women's boxing right now is here. Look at
what you know Amanda Toronto just did with Katie Taylor
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in the Garden. First women's fight to ever sell out
the whole Massion Square Garden, the big room, not the theater.
And women's boxing has been here of course Clarissa puts
it on her back, but there's so many in the
landscape and the ecosystem is vast. That's fight with bum
Garden is gonna be a great one as well. I mean,
I really just love what's going on in boxing right now.
People always want to compare it to m m A.
Stop it. Yes, we know boxing is your grandfather's sport.
(30:40):
For guests, it is here to stay and it is thriving,
shout out to all the women boxing, shot outs to
all the women boxers. And I gotta ask, rhet listen,
Tyson Fury. He arguably lost that first round. You know,
to to to do, He's going for it, let go.
(31:03):
But then but then Tyson came back and he took it,
and I mean he took it um with with Wilder
the next two times. I mean, why why should it
matter what Deontay Wilder does? And I'm just you know,
I just gotta I gotta ask, why should it matter
what he does if it's not beating Tyson Fury at
(31:27):
this point in his career. I'm so glad you asked
this question. This is the best question it comes to
Deonte Wilder. And the answer is he's American first and foremost.
That is our champion. That is not good. That is
not good that you know what saying, but not what
I'm saying that to say. Do you know the last
(31:48):
time Tyson Fury fort in America, Each time the crowd
was chanting theory and this is in America and TJ
was there for one of them. Hey, look here, we
had to have our dukes up as Americans because the
Gypsy King had all of his clan sitting there acting
like they could whoop everybody in the casino. After he
(32:10):
he beat Deonte Right, I was to Colo McGregor versus
Floyd and it was the same thing with the Irish. Look.
These guys love it. They treat every event like a
soccer match. They go around the world, they support their champions.
How come we didn't support Deyontay Wilder. You know what,
The biggest thing coming out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is Nick Saban.
We know that, but there's also Deontay Walder and damn it,
(32:32):
this man has a statue now and everything. Man, we're
gonna put some respect on my man's name. He got
a bronze medal in the Olympics for this country. This
man has only two new feats, and that is the
Tyson Fury. Yes, Deontay Wilder can never beat touch and fury.
That is stamped in stone. However, those are the only
two losses in his career. This man was never supposed
to be a boxer, by the way. He wanted to
(32:53):
be like you and Key J and be a football player.
It didn't work. His daughter got spina bifida. He started
boxing to pay for we meantable bills and look at
what he did with it. This is our guy. We
love this guy. He's the Energy Squad champion. Right hey,
let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
(33:14):
That last fight with Fury was brutal. I mean that,
that's a brutal fight. Deontez in his late thirties. He's
been out of boxing for about a year now. But
with that last fight being so brutal, one, how does
he react being off for a year? I believe he
weighed a career high against Fury. Now he's this fight,
(33:39):
he's back to about two fifteen. That's kind of where
he was fighting at. Losing all that weight and then
that brutality of that last fight. How does it bode
well for him being in his late thirties. That's a
j you know, it's a twofold answer. One we got
talking about his mentality. I think any fighter that's been
that um successful, undefeated, knocking cools out quickly the one
(34:02):
right hand, has a sense of seriarity over the whole division.
Tyson's theory we have to remover is game red, so
to speak. He comes from the Gypsy Fightings family. The
other boxers. This is all he was ever gonna do
money or no money terms supernatural every way, that's not huge.
He's tall, he can move like a lightweight. I mean
(34:23):
the god is a problem that what happened with Deontay
Wilder is he met his match. He met a guy
that is tougher than him, is more boxing skilled than him.
And at the end of the day, it showed me
on today that you have to get your boxes up,
you get your boxing actimen compared to for some like
theory now in terms of weight, yes, Deyontay thought that
(34:43):
he could try to match free with weight because he's
probably gonna bullied ropes. But that's not really where Deontay
needs to beat. He's a lighter anyway, He's just tall.
Unfortunately for him, this is a guy and he can't
solve that problem. Heiss is off the table for him,
going back down and um still leaving in Malik Scott
of his trainer bringing in Don House again as a
(35:04):
trainer shouts to Don House, good man, it was a
good move. I think that. You know, at the end
of the day, there's a lot in the heavyweight slapped
luster of ya people are if we're talking about money.
Dean is gonna get paid for the rest of his career. However,
along that is he ever back from Wait no, what
would affect him tonight? I don't think so. I think
he had enough time to train and get that off
(35:25):
and still back and fighting shape, but he can never
see Tyson serve that is not for him. M hm wow,
that's my man. Rep. Butler from Pretty Left Hook on
the up on Game Network. Anything you're promote and promoting
promote something what you got? What anything you got going on?
And I'm more just promoting good folks to pay somatics
(35:47):
short love to Game Network, Pretty Left Hook the building
on that work. Please follow all at Pretty Left the
podcast at White Boler of course at a game you
don't know what it is to both of y'all question. Yeah,
you ain't gonna see me in the ring, you know.
(36:07):
I'll train him though, I'll be the I'll be to
the former player trainer. I'll train them bad boy. I
trained like crazy. Uh and watch them now. T J
can take them through the training because he trains like
crazy training doing it. So we'll we'll team up and
be the cornerman and and get a boxer and and
getting ready for the fight. That's what we're gonna do, right,
(36:28):
all right, man, we appreciate you coming on. Man. That's Rep.
Butler pretty left hook up on Game Presents Network. I
wanted to get to Dan Snyder, but I guess that's
kind of a quick, uh, open and shut kind of conversation.
I think what's more important is that we come back
and we get some up on game down on game.
(36:50):
You're listening to up on games. T J. Hushman's out.
I'm LaVar Arrington Plex is out hosting out out of
Michigan State. Uh, you know game. So he's got the
weekend and to do that. We'll be back to wrap
up the show. All right, Fox Sports Radio. What do
you get when you combine a three time Manager of
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(37:11):
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is Tom Ferducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network and Sports
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to talk a little bit about manage real decisions, playoff games,
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(37:33):
we want to talk about. Listen to the Book of
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Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Guess who Bazack?
Oh yeah, come on, come on now, sl hug the block. Yeah, yeah,
(37:58):
welcome back into help on Game. T J. Hushman's out
of LaVar Rton plex is off. Uh. If you miss anything,
make sure you go to the podcast. Check out the podcast. Uh,
it's been a strong show, t J. And and let's
you know, let's finish out stronger with with me getting
an amazing performance over you and up on game Down
(38:19):
on game Bursch, Come on, let's do it stop not
for some picks. Are you up on game and let's
break this up. Let's back it up down on game
all right? First, tell him how how much better I
am than t J and plex on up on Game,
Down on game. What was our results from last week?
(38:41):
You guys all went one in three on your picks
last week. I do want to point out to remember
we had a little bit of controversy where t J
changed his pick from the Falcons plus tend to the
like I thought they did. But don't worry, t J.
I've I've got injury reports included in these game. No, no, no, no, no,
go go to the totals because I beat him in
(39:01):
the totals. I know I did uh two and three
for both of you in the totals. No that's not
no no no no no no no no no, no
no no no. A. J. Brown did not get uh
seventy three receiving yards. They both went over. I went under, Sam, Sam,
you'll remember all level I beat. You know, you can't
(39:24):
just say you got to right. I got to right.
What two did I get right? Uh? You know I
didn't mark which two they are? I just I just
tallied I got three right. I'd be marking Minka whatever. Whatever. No,
Ryan's the official book. We're not taking your work good.
We're not taking good. But okay, let's go, come on,
(39:46):
let's go, let's go. Let's go Bengals at Saints. Bengal's
favorite here minus three over under his forty three at
Tee Higgins a game time decision in this one. Andy
Dalton starting for the Saints. LaVar will start with you
is mine? This is what three? Three? Yeah, I'm gonna
take the points, but on on the over or on
(40:08):
the on the total, I'm gonna take the over. I'm
gonna take that three, but i'm gonna take the over
on on the well, I'm going to Bengals and I'm
going uh, I'll stay under, but I'm taking the Bengals alright.
Next up here, Jets at Packers Packers favorite minus seven
and a half over under is forty five. Christian Watson
(40:29):
out for the Packers. And this one Roshawn Gary questionable.
Uh t J will start with you. I'm gonna take
the Jets and I'll go over with this, but I'll
take the New York Football Jets. Green Bay looking shaky, man,
They're looking real shaky, but it is the Jets and
it's still the Jets. So I think the Packers will
(40:49):
cover on that and and I'm gonna take the over
on two points to alright. Uh. Ravens at Giants here
Ravens favorite minus six over under forty five and a
half for Shot Bateman out for the Ravens. Labar will
start with you. I'm gonna take the Ravens on them. Points.
I'm gonna take the under on the total just for
(41:13):
the sake of being different. I'm going to Giants and
I'm going to under. Mm hmm. I like what Table
is done with the New York Giants do too, and
my boy Quanti doing this thing. Man shouts out to
say Kwan and shouts out to all of you guys
out there. Love y'all, Man, we appreciate all the support.
Make sure you stay tuned and locked into my Man
(41:35):
Jonas Knocks coming up next. This is up on game
Fox Sports Radio.
And kickoffs involving ranked teams in college football. Number five
Michigan leads number ten Penn State six to nothing. The
Wolverines have driven inside the red zone twice and had
to settle for field goals. They're in time out now,
but Michigan has the ball inside the red zone yet again.
Ten minutes to play in the second quarter. End of
the first quarter in Oxford, Number nine Ole Miss leads
(00:20):
Auburn fourteen to nothing. Back and forth game in Norman, Oklahoma,
leading number nineteen Kansas one to fourteen early stages of
the second quarter. Approaching the midway point of the second
quarter in Austin, Number twenty two Texas trails Iowa State
seven zip and number twenty four Illinois with a ten
seven lead on Minnesota midway through the second quarter. In
(00:41):
the NFL, the Colts have ruled out running backs Jonathan
Taylor and Naim Hines against the Jaguars tomorrow. And in
the NBA, es Pen reports the Warriors in Jordan Pool
agreed to a four year, hundred forty million dollar extension.
I'm nick kof Alright, we got legendary moment coming up
this next segment. In fact, Kevin booth. You might not
(01:03):
know the name, but you'll you'll hear what he has
to say. He's actually a two time Super Bowl champ
for the New York Super Giants. Was one of those
anchor linemen for that group that protected Eli Manning and
well helped Plexico win one of those those Super Bowls
as well. A FC matchups of a week you know,
builds in the chief. Can't wait to hear what t
(01:24):
J has to say about that. Daniel Snyder is back
in the news again and this time, Oh, he had
some things to say. Be interesting to hear what everybody
is thinking on this one. Even though we won't hear
what you gotta say, you won't hear what t J
has to say. And then there was up on Game,
(01:45):
down on Game all right, our two up on game
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Are you trying to go home now? Sorry? Welcome in
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Butler from Pretty Left Hope he will be coming on. No,
Deante Wilder has a fight tonight, so we'll we'll preview
(02:54):
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(04:22):
in the world of sports, fashion, fitness, you name it.
Culture is just what we do all right now. Kevin Booth,
Let's let's get to Kevin Booth. You know he is
now working uh in the football offices at uh at
Park for for the NFL. Super super bright guy obviously
(04:45):
went to an IVY League school, so he went to Cornell.
And if you know how football works, especially the National
Football League, if you can make it into the National
Football League from from one of those types of schools
and I V League school, you know, different smaller schools.
That means you are a straight baller, all right. He
(05:07):
ended up getting drafted in the NFL Draft in two
thousand and six. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders
in the sixth round. Uh, ends up not finishing out
with them and gets let go, all right. He finished
the season in OH six. But then he ends up
in New York and OH seven. Right now, think about this.
He gets claimed by the New York Giants t J.
(05:31):
And if you know the history of the game and
you heard the tease, the rest is history. He ends
up being a starter on that line of scrimmage. Yeah, big, big, thick,
thick bottom dude, right, and he's like he's lost like
fifty sixty pounds now he like he looks like, uh,
(05:53):
I don't know, he looks small now, Like you know,
Lineman be doing that lose weight thing when when they're
they're not playing anymore. I don't know how they do it.
Big the bigger, right, Yeah, yeah, well, Kevin lost the weight.
Now he's wearing a dress, shirts that fit real well
and he looks real good. So shots out to him.
This week's legendary moment. Kevin Booth of the New York
(06:15):
Giants game game, it presents conversations with a legend and
now this is your legendary moment. Let's let's take it
back a little bit. Let's let's let's go, let's go
early big booth. Was there a moment that you can
(06:39):
think of a defining moment, something that took place where
it was like, this is what I'm gonna do? And
and then on top of that, you settle in Onlineman like,
is it is? It? Is there something? Was it a
person that influenced you? It was it a player on television?
(07:01):
Was it was it apparent like was it somebody in
the community? What what is the memory in the moment
or or whatever however you wanted to define it, that
played the biggest part and you striving to be the
player that you ultimately became, making into the National Football
(07:21):
League and becoming a super Bowl a two time Super
Bowl chant Uh, you know it's funny. I one of
my earliest memories watching the NFL. I grew up in
South Florida. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale. UM was
Super Bowl twenty three. It was the forty niner is
against the Cincinnati Bengals, and it was at the Old
Joe Robbie Stadium, and I became a big fan of
(07:46):
Jerry Rice. And I thought I was gonna be a
wide receiver and I'm gonna be the best wide receiver
UM ever. And you know, as I started to grow
up a little bit, I realized, oh, I don't think uh,
wide receivers in my in the cards for me and uh,
I will say this though, I have one older brother.
He's ten years older than me. So when you're talking
about those formative years that six seven, eight years old,
(08:09):
I got to watch my brother play high school football
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and then go on to East
Carolina University and play football there and actually be a
part of some pretty successful teams in school history there.
And we're talking about those early to mid nineties there
at e c U. And he ended up playing offensive line,
so and he wore number seventy seven, which was ultimately
(08:30):
the number that I chose. So having him as a
football role model, I think kind of set me on
that path to to playing football. And obviously I got
a lot bigger as I grew and realized that I
wouldn't be wearing number eighty, but I'll be wearing something
in the seventies. So he was definitely a big influence
on me growing up. But it all started watching the
(08:51):
NFL Super Bowls in town. And you know, I didn't
watch cartoons that day and must have decided to tune
in with everybody else who was watching the super Bowl,
and I became just like that, Well there you go. Uh,
I think that's pretty precky cool, you know, because to
go from a receiver to an offensive lineman, um, that's
(09:14):
that's a dramatic change. If your body changes so much
that you got to stop being a receiver that you
go to hunt to old line, that's quite a change.
T J. Like what we want to take away from that,
If you think you're gonna be a receiver and you
go play old line, you had absolutely no chance of
playing receiver, zero chance. You just entirely too big of
(09:38):
a human being. But to have the thoughts of playing
receiver means he had good feet for an officer, and
so that's probably why he was able to be successful
as he was in offensive lineman because just the thought
of playing receiver you have to have some type of
coordination and some good foot movement, and probably translated to
(10:01):
him being a pretty good offensive lineman. Yeah, I thought
the same exact thing. Um, super intelligent dude. Man. I
really enjoyed um talking with him. He has so many
interesting points to make. You know, the one thing I
love about our show and ending the legendary moments is
(10:23):
that there there are a lot of times where there
is so much negativity that surrounds the coverage of of
us as players. But yet we really don't we really
don't pay attention to all of the things that the
dope things that people in our football community do. They
(10:44):
they fall on deaf airs. People don't pay attention to it.
Maybe it's not polarizing enough or you know, entertaining enough.
It seems like people get really excited when when athletes
and players fail, and and so there have been so
many great conversations that have been had. And you know,
(11:08):
I love the fact that that this is a a
full this is this is a full former player lead
and ran uh radio show. We do so many different things.
You do you have another podcast that you're gonna go ahead,
promote it, go ahead, pump it, go ahead, pump it. No,
it's airing it out me in Orlando, Scandrick Man. That's
(11:30):
I mean the things that the diversity that that is
brought to the table by dynamic guys. Yes we play ball,
yes we we uh you know, had our ways of
doing things could have been very very you know, confrontational
and and and hardcore and tough and physical. But we're thinkers,
(11:54):
you know, we're thinkers. We we have opinions and we
actually know how to run shows. We know how to
put shows together with with our team shots out to burst. Uh,
we we know how to do really really good things.
And let me tell you something that dude is like
part of business development um with the NFL. He's done
it the right way. He's one of those guys. He's
(12:16):
worked under Troy. He understands finance, so they come up
with like certain budgets and different things like that that's
connected to what they're going to ultimately do. He's working
his way up the ladder and and and that's you know,
commendable because the one thing that I always say t
J is we learned so many valuable skills in the
(12:40):
game of football. But you have to be brave enough,
you have to be aware enough, and and and you
have to to want to take you got you gotta
as a parent, as as a worker, whatever it is
in your life, you have all of developed up tools
(13:00):
to be able to apply what you need to apply
to winning life. So when I hear all the conversations
that are being had and guys are doing just that,
Kevin Booth is one of those guys. So shouts out
the UK Booth and keep doing what you're doing, my guy.
You're listening to up on Game. Uh, that's t J.
Hushman's out of Plexico is hosting. They better not get
(13:24):
parked up. They better win this game. They got Mr
Burr's in the building. You know, I was thinking the
same exact thing, all right, but we're gonna take a
quick breaking on the other side of the break. This
is a very very big game on many many levels.
You got the bills at the Chiefs. Is this a
preview of the a f C Championship? All right? A
(13:45):
rematch if you know? Is this is this turning into
the new Brady versus Manning? Oh my gosh, I don't know.
Let's talk about it, all right. This is up on Game,
that's t J. Hushman's out. I'm lavarian A Fox Sports
Radio will be right back on. Cousin Neagles in my cup.
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(15:18):
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New episodes drop every Monday at six pm Eastern Time,
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music was pretty pretty fire. Uh all right, let's jump
into it. A f C Championship rematch doesn't live up
(16:25):
to the hype, t J. Should we be looking at
this as oh, my homes in island and island and
my homes, and who's gonna be the better? And da
da da does this determine who the superpower is in
the a f C Division And probably ultimately is this
the power and the National Football league, even with the NFC.
(16:46):
But you know, how are you looking at this? I mean,
obviously early season match up two of the best teams
in the league, and they're probably gonna be It's gonna
stay that way for the next would say, seven, eight, nine,
maybe ten years, if the quarterbacks can stay healthy. Um,
like you said, it's rematch the divisional round where I mean,
(17:09):
it was just an unbelievable game. But the Chiefs don't
have ten anymore. Number ten no longer will instill fear
in that coaching staff and the way they call and
play this game. And so just from that perspective, it's
going to be a different game. The Chiefs defense has
(17:30):
been really outstanding this year against this high power Bills offense.
Can they maintain that level of play? I don't know.
I'm looking forward to it. But the Chiefs, the Bills,
the Ravens, the Bengals for the next however many years,
(17:52):
those should be the teams that kind of who's gonna
go to super out FC. And and if DeShawn Watson
can get back to playing at the level he he's
played at early in his career, you you throw Cleveland
in there, and so yes, tomorrow Chiefs and Bills will
be a great game. It could quite possibly be a
preview of the a f C championship game. Um, but
(18:14):
I know the Bills looking forward to this one. The
way they blew that game last year the playoffs, they
have to be looking forward to this. If you're looking
at this from the perspective of who's who in in
the a f C, this is one of those moments.
It can be a statement game for both teams. I
(18:35):
look at the Bills team and I say the addition
of Van Miller has impacted their their defensive front and
so much of a way that if you thought their
defense couldn't get any better, they did. Because now you
they're cranking, they're gigging up up top download you know,
(18:58):
and in the trenches they gigging, and it's making all
the difference. It's making it harder for quarterbacks to feel comfortable.
It's making it harder for them to be able to
run the ball. And then the a f C. You know,
if you can run the ball better, if you can
stop them from running the ball, um, that's half the battle.
And and now you know, obviously their secondary they they've
(19:21):
dealt with injuries early on but you know what, they
have shown that they can do what they need to
do to get the job done as well. So I
look at this this Bill's team is they have everything
to gain and so much to lose in this game
if they do not perform at the highest levels. It's
a statement game, it's a step up game. I look
(19:43):
at Kansas City. Kansas City is finding ways to continue
to be an explosive office. I mean, you know that
his main target is Kelsey. You know that he had
to become Kelsey because you you lost to to rekill.
How is it that we're able to score as many
touchdowns with Travis Kelsey knowing that that is Patrick Mahomes
(20:08):
main guy you talked about coaching earlier, t J. You
gotta believe that it's the coaching and the game planning
of how to to spread out that field, get Kelsey
lost in that defense and yet give Pat Mahomes enough
time to be able to let Kelsey clear all of
the little windows and defensive UH coverages to get open
(20:33):
for Mahomes to deliver it. But I don't know that
we've ever seen a quarterback that can deliver the ball
in the passing game the way that Patrick Mahomes has
I mean, it is, it is something that it's hard
to explain and it's almost hard to comprehend. Mahomes especial
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and there's no way about it. But I have a
ton of respect for McDermott and as re Frasier defensive
coaches defense, I mean, head coach Devin's coordinated for the Bills.
They'll be prepared for this because they called a lot
of flak for that playoff game and in the way
they played though that last possession it was the twelve
(21:14):
seconds I believe it was. They caught a lot of
flak for that. And so they're gonna come out and
they're gonna be ready to play. They're not gonna let
Travis Kelsey beat them. They're they're gonna make my Homes
throw the ball to somebody else. The Raiders tried that.
Travis Kelsey didn't have a ton of yards, but he
had four touchdowns. And so this game, if you're if
(21:36):
you're a part of the Buffalo Bills last year, you
look forward to this, You're excited about this because of
what happened last year. Josh Holli knows in order to
get to the Super Bowl, he's gonna have to go
through my homes each and every year because they're in
the same conference. Uh. It's kind of odd that the
NFL didn't make this like a Sunday night game or
(21:57):
a Monday night game, knowing uh how good these teams
are gonna be yearing in, year out. But I'll be
tuned in. I'll be watching, uh looking forward to it.
Oh you know what, I will be tevoing it because
my son has a baseball game tomorrow, so yeah, I'll
be watching that on TVO. How's he doing, man, He's
actually doing really well. Man. He uh, every sport he plays,
(22:19):
that's his favorite sport at the time. So if you
ask him once his favorite sport, he gonna tell you
right now baseball until uh he goes and play something
else because he's a natural. We're gonna we're gonna do
it how I grew up and how we grew up, LeVar.
We're playing every sport, man, We're not specializing in nothing.
And if it hurts him, it hurts him. But we
(22:40):
were gonna be uh, basketball, football, baseball, track, We're doing everything.
A little boxing here and there, just a case somebody
try to run up on him. And we're gonna be ready.
You know, all the things that people lauded me for
as a player, a lot of that came from me
(23:00):
being a basketball player. You know. I used to leap
frog dudes. I used to dive in block field goals.
I used to like dive and make plays. It's funny.
I was a high jumper, high jump six five in
in high school. Um, I was a basketball player. I
had a forty two inch vertical and that's football. It's
probably more like sixty and basketball and basketball terms because
(23:25):
you get steps, um and and those were the things
that translated into me playing the game. My past rush
moves was a crossover. I was just crossing people over
with the bands are receivers, man tackles or corners. It's
just a different you know, it's it's just a different dynamic,
bigger guys. It's the positions kind of marry each other.
(23:46):
If you really look at it, it's I think it's
I think it's awesome that that he's doing multiple sports.
I'm a big fan of crew, so so when he
ends up as long as he continued to grow, I
don't know where it's coming from. Lavata Boy eight years old,
Man where a sus nine shoe bro, he's but bro,
my mom is five five. My dad is was on
(24:09):
his best day, and which is funny because you know
he lost that part of a leg and and his
he lost his foot. So it's like kind of like
all right, we we we gotta figure out what his
height was, five ten when and everything. So I mean
he he yoked up. My dad was yoked up, but
he wasn't tall. My mom's not tall. And I got
(24:31):
to six three six three two fifty five. My dad
on a on a good day probably weighed two hundred
and five v. So, you know, sometimes you just don't
know mine and and all y'all people out there saying
that you know, it was the milk man, chill out,
my granddad, my mom's dad, my mom's dad. You know,
(24:52):
people might not even understand that term in two but
my mind, they might know the the Amazon Prime guy
or whatever, um hardener, the gardener right right right. My
mom's dad was actually six five, So there might be
somebody in your family tree that that got a whole
lot of height and that that gene just it translated
(25:14):
you know or your you know, your wife, it translated
into two crew so because you're you're not, I mean
Carrington's tall to Yeah, she's tall. So well there's that.
All right. Listen, let's get an update because we got
my man Rhett coming up to talk about this big fight.
So let's get to my man, Mr. Hope. What we
(25:34):
got Nick? Nick? Excuse me? Cop? Why am I called?
Because I'm thinking of my ring Cope. That's why here
we go. All right, here we go, Nick Cope on trending.
What we got, my guy? Well, let's take a look
at all these college football games involving ranked teams. Penn
State was down thirteen to nothing. Michigan had to settle
(25:57):
a big run to set up their first touchdown, and
then they got to pick six on Michigan's next drive.
Wolverines got the ball though in the red zone yet again.
They got about a minute and a half to play
in the second quarter. Elsewhere, oh miss number nine rebels.
They led twenty one to nothing on Auburn. But now
it's now twenty one to fourteen, four minutes to play
(26:19):
in the second Oklahoma starting to take it to number
nineteen Kansas. That was a fourteen fourteen game. After one.
Oklahoma now in front thirty five to fourteen. Couple of
minutes left in the second quarter, Texas with fourteen points
in the second quarter, they were trailing seven nothing. They
now lead a fourteen to seven at the break number
twenty two, long horns on top of the Cyclones, and
(26:40):
then also at halftime number twenty four, Illinois leads Minnesota
thirteen to seven. In NFL news reports, St Dolphin's quarterback
to a tongue of Ilo has cleared concussion protocol. He
will be inactive tomorrow, but is expected to play next
weekend when Miami plays the Steelers. Reports also say Commander's
quarterback Carson Wentz fracture a finger on his throwing hand
(27:01):
Thursday night against the Bears. He's going to see a
specialist to determine next steps and then new in the
last hour, the Coults have ruled out their top two
running backs, Jonathan Taylor and Naim Hines will not be
available against the Jaguars on Sunday. And news in the
NBA this morning, ESPN says the Warriors in Jordan Pool
have agreed to a four year, hundred forty million dollar extension.
(27:22):
Back to you guys, alright, appreciate it, sir, let's get
to my man. I mean I want to talk about
this fight. Uh wow, there's a lot of It's a
lot of fights today, man, today, good boxing weekend. Well,
let's talk about it. We got Wilder versus hillenneous. But
but those other fights that you're speaking of. Who better
(27:43):
to talk about it than the expert of experts are man,
Rhett Butler. Let's get to it. Knowledge is about to
be dropped on your head. I'm ready for the big stage.
Like an upper cut to the chick. Here's Reet Butler
from Pretty Laptook. Yea, yeah, yeah, welcome in to the show,
(28:11):
Rett Um obviously Ret Butler of Pretty Laptop up on
Game Presents. Anytime we got some some action going on
in the fight game, we bring in our resident experts
to talk about it and sad light on it first
and foremost. How are you feeling, my g I'm doing good,
tej Va. Its a great day for the fight baby,
(28:32):
Oh my god. Let's get it man. I mean it
is exciting. I mean, let's let's talk about it. I mean,
we got a slate of fights, as DJ said, but
none bigger than the Wilder hellenious fight that's going to
take place uh, let's preview, give us, give us your
what's your top fights of of the weekend, and and
then let's jump into the wilder absolutely so, first and foremost,
(28:56):
we've got Devin Hainey versus George Campbosos Jr. Folks is
for it all. You know, Devin Haney obviously let the
world know he is the king at the lightweight division.
He is now undisputed, went to Australia, took it from
George camp Bostos in front of his crowd, and now
he's gonna do it again. This man is fearless and
we love what he's done for the game. That's gonna
(29:16):
be happening today. Also, Clarissa Shields versus Savannah Marshall, also
for undisputed at middleweight. You know, Savannah Marshall is the
only person to ever be Clarissa Shields all those and
the amateurs, and Savannah's been talking a lot of trash
over the years saying she got her number. Of course,
Clarissa is the quote that's her self titled game and
(29:37):
she feels like, you know what, let me let this
girl know for sure, I am the best And that
one amateur FAUPA was just that a mistake. M hm hm,
I bet she is going to whoop her. Hey, Red
what what what do you think about? Also U and
Alicia Obamba Gander, that's it's a good fight as well.
(29:58):
Women's boxing is an actually lee putting on some good
fights and trying to get into the forefront of the the
mainstream media as far as boxing. That's another championship fight
that also should be pretty good. No, that's huge, you know,
and you made it such a great point to day.
I mean, women's boxing right now is here. Look at
what you know Amanda Toronto just did with Katie Taylor
(30:18):
in the Garden. First women's fight to ever sell out
the whole Massion Square Garden, the big room, not the theater.
And women's boxing has been here of course Clarissa puts
it on her back, but there's so many in the
landscape and the ecosystem is vast. That's fight with bum
Garden is gonna be a great one as well. I mean,
I really just love what's going on in boxing right now.
People always want to compare it to m m A.
Stop it. Yes, we know boxing is your grandfather's sport.
(30:40):
For guests, it is here to stay and it is thriving,
shout out to all the women boxing, shot outs to
all the women boxers. And I gotta ask, rhet listen,
Tyson Fury. He arguably lost that first round. You know,
to to to do, He's going for it, let go.
(31:03):
But then but then Tyson came back and he took it,
and I mean he took it um with with Wilder
the next two times. I mean, why why should it
matter what Deontay Wilder does? And I'm just you know,
I just gotta I gotta ask, why should it matter
what he does if it's not beating Tyson Fury at
(31:27):
this point in his career. I'm so glad you asked
this question. This is the best question it comes to
Deonte Wilder. And the answer is he's American first and foremost.
That is our champion. That is not good. That is
not good that you know what saying, but not what
I'm saying that to say. Do you know the last
(31:48):
time Tyson Fury fort in America, Each time the crowd
was chanting theory and this is in America and TJ
was there for one of them. Hey, look here, we
had to have our dukes up as Americans because the
Gypsy King had all of his clan sitting there acting
like they could whoop everybody in the casino. After he
(32:10):
he beat Deonte Right, I was to Colo McGregor versus
Floyd and it was the same thing with the Irish. Look.
These guys love it. They treat every event like a
soccer match. They go around the world, they support their champions.
How come we didn't support Deyontay Wilder. You know what,
The biggest thing coming out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is Nick Saban.
We know that, but there's also Deontay Walder and damn it,
(32:32):
this man has a statue now and everything. Man, we're
gonna put some respect on my man's name. He got
a bronze medal in the Olympics for this country. This
man has only two new feats, and that is the
Tyson Fury. Yes, Deontay Wilder can never beat touch and fury.
That is stamped in stone. However, those are the only
two losses in his career. This man was never supposed
to be a boxer, by the way. He wanted to
(32:53):
be like you and Key J and be a football player.
It didn't work. His daughter got spina bifida. He started
boxing to pay for we meantable bills and look at
what he did with it. This is our guy. We
love this guy. He's the Energy Squad champion. Right hey,
let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
(33:14):
That last fight with Fury was brutal. I mean that,
that's a brutal fight. Deontez in his late thirties. He's
been out of boxing for about a year now. But
with that last fight being so brutal, one, how does
he react being off for a year? I believe he
weighed a career high against Fury. Now he's this fight,
(33:39):
he's back to about two fifteen. That's kind of where
he was fighting at. Losing all that weight and then
that brutality of that last fight. How does it bode
well for him being in his late thirties. That's a
j you know, it's a twofold answer. One we got
talking about his mentality. I think any fighter that's been
that um successful, undefeated, knocking cools out quickly the one
(34:02):
right hand, has a sense of seriarity over the whole division.
Tyson's theory we have to remover is game red, so
to speak. He comes from the Gypsy Fightings family. The
other boxers. This is all he was ever gonna do
money or no money terms supernatural every way, that's not huge.
He's tall, he can move like a lightweight. I mean
(34:23):
the god is a problem that what happened with Deontay
Wilder is he met his match. He met a guy
that is tougher than him, is more boxing skilled than him.
And at the end of the day, it showed me
on today that you have to get your boxes up,
you get your boxing actimen compared to for some like
theory now in terms of weight, yes, Deyontay thought that
(34:43):
he could try to match free with weight because he's
probably gonna bullied ropes. But that's not really where Deontay
needs to beat. He's a lighter anyway, He's just tall.
Unfortunately for him, this is a guy and he can't
solve that problem. Heiss is off the table for him,
going back down and um still leaving in Malik Scott
of his trainer bringing in Don House again as a
(35:04):
trainer shouts to Don House, good man, it was a
good move. I think that. You know, at the end
of the day, there's a lot in the heavyweight slapped
luster of ya people are if we're talking about money.
Dean is gonna get paid for the rest of his career. However,
along that is he ever back from Wait no, what
would affect him tonight? I don't think so. I think
he had enough time to train and get that off
(35:25):
and still back and fighting shape, but he can never
see Tyson serve that is not for him. M hm wow,
that's my man. Rep. Butler from Pretty Left Hook on
the up on Game Network. Anything you're promote and promoting
promote something what you got? What anything you got going on?
And I'm more just promoting good folks to pay somatics
(35:47):
short love to Game Network, Pretty Left Hook the building
on that work. Please follow all at Pretty Left the
podcast at White Boler of course at a game you
don't know what it is to both of y'all question. Yeah,
you ain't gonna see me in the ring, you know.
(36:07):
I'll train him though, I'll be the I'll be to
the former player trainer. I'll train them bad boy. I
trained like crazy. Uh and watch them now. T J
can take them through the training because he trains like
crazy training doing it. So we'll we'll team up and
be the cornerman and and get a boxer and and
getting ready for the fight. That's what we're gonna do, right,
(36:28):
all right, man, we appreciate you coming on. Man. That's Rep.
Butler pretty left hook up on Game Presents Network. I
wanted to get to Dan Snyder, but I guess that's
kind of a quick, uh, open and shut kind of conversation.
I think what's more important is that we come back
and we get some up on game down on game.
(36:50):
You're listening to up on games. T J. Hushman's out.
I'm LaVar Arrington Plex is out hosting out out of
Michigan State. Uh, you know game. So he's got the
weekend and to do that. We'll be back to wrap
up the show. All right, Fox Sports Radio. What do
you get when you combine a three time Manager of
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(37:11):
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(37:33):
we want to talk about. Listen to the Book of
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Oh yeah, come on, come on now, sl hug the block. Yeah, yeah,
(37:58):
welcome back into help on Game. T J. Hushman's out
of LaVar Rton plex is off. Uh. If you miss anything,
make sure you go to the podcast. Check out the podcast. Uh,
it's been a strong show, t J. And and let's
you know, let's finish out stronger with with me getting
an amazing performance over you and up on game Down
(38:19):
on game Bursch, Come on, let's do it stop not
for some picks. Are you up on game and let's
break this up. Let's back it up down on game
all right? First, tell him how how much better I
am than t J and plex on up on Game,
Down on game. What was our results from last week?
(38:41):
You guys all went one in three on your picks
last week. I do want to point out to remember
we had a little bit of controversy where t J
changed his pick from the Falcons plus tend to the
like I thought they did. But don't worry, t J.
I've I've got injury reports included in these game. No, no, no, no, no,
go go to the totals because I beat him in
(39:01):
the totals. I know I did uh two and three
for both of you in the totals. No that's not
no no no no no no no no no, no
no no no. A. J. Brown did not get uh
seventy three receiving yards. They both went over. I went under, Sam, Sam,
you'll remember all level I beat. You know, you can't
(39:24):
just say you got to right. I got to right.
What two did I get right? Uh? You know I
didn't mark which two they are? I just I just
tallied I got three right. I'd be marking Minka whatever. Whatever. No,
Ryan's the official book. We're not taking your work good.
We're not taking good. But okay, let's go, come on,
(39:46):
let's go, let's go. Let's go Bengals at Saints. Bengal's
favorite here minus three over under his forty three at
Tee Higgins a game time decision in this one. Andy
Dalton starting for the Saints. LaVar will start with you
is mine? This is what three? Three? Yeah, I'm gonna
take the points, but on on the over or on
(40:08):
the on the total, I'm gonna take the over. I'm
gonna take that three, but i'm gonna take the over
on on the well, I'm going to Bengals and I'm
going uh, I'll stay under, but I'm taking the Bengals alright.
Next up here, Jets at Packers Packers favorite minus seven
and a half over under is forty five. Christian Watson
(40:29):
out for the Packers. And this one Roshawn Gary questionable.
Uh t J will start with you. I'm gonna take
the Jets and I'll go over with this, but I'll
take the New York Football Jets. Green Bay looking shaky, man,
They're looking real shaky, but it is the Jets and
it's still the Jets. So I think the Packers will
(40:49):
cover on that and and I'm gonna take the over
on two points to alright. Uh. Ravens at Giants here
Ravens favorite minus six over under forty five and a
half for Shot Bateman out for the Ravens. Labar will
start with you. I'm gonna take the Ravens on them. Points.
I'm gonna take the under on the total just for
(41:13):
the sake of being different. I'm going to Giants and
I'm going to under. Mm hmm. I like what Table
is done with the New York Giants do too, and
my boy Quanti doing this thing. Man shouts out to
say Kwan and shouts out to all of you guys
out there. Love y'all, Man, we appreciate all the support.
Make sure you stay tuned and locked into my Man
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