February 18, 2023 • 40 mins
LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress look at how the changes in Cowboys’ personnel could be setting Dak Prescott up for failure. The guys examine the state of NFL officiating after the Super Bowl ended with controversy. Is Justin Fields ignoring the truth about his standing with the Chicago Bears? Aaron Rodgers is in the midst of his darkness retreat. Plus, LaVar chats with Emmitt Smith in this week’s Legendary Moment!
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All right. We got up on Game Presents, the legendary
moment and moments by the way with Emmett Smith. That'd
be pretty cool. We'll also continue the conversation on the
Dallas Cowboys. Is there a new scapegoat in town? Kellen Moore?
Is out interesting that we'll talk about that. State of
the NFL officiating one. T J. Hushman's I'd have had
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some sound. Yeah, again, he's just doing it every single
every week. Uh about deciding the Super Bowl, I don't know.
We'll talk about it up. Yeah. Buying idea that the
Bears may keep Justin Fields or trade him. We'll get
to that. And Aaron Rodgers, well, he's in the dark
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room right now with only candles. We'll talk about his
uh stay in the darkness. Coming up right now right here,
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get your podcast from. We're an hour two. We're going
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to get to t JS uh comments. In a moment,
we're gonna talk uh Dallas Cowboys with Mike McCarthy. Does
he have a new scape goat. That's in a matter
of moments, But first let's get to this week's Up
on Game Presents Legendary moment with a goat of goats uh,
Emmett Smith, take it Away, Game Game Presents Conversations with
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a leg and now this is your legendary moment. When
I say goats of goats, people say that sometimes and
it's like over in Bellish, you really are a goat
of goats. I had the honor and the privilege to
be a part of that career. I've played against you
at times, and I gotta tell you, when you're able
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to play against a legend, a living legend, it hits differently,
it hits different. How has how has life been for you?
Like you've done things the right way. I've tried to
do things the right way. I tried to do things
the way that I was raised through this village and
network of people that have poured into my life as
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you would have the same thing coaches, teachers, people in
your neighborhood, etcetera, e cetera, parents and so forth. I've
tried to do those things, try to take pieces and
pieces of what these good men and women have poured
into me and to utilize it as part of the
foundation which I stand up. And I don't want to
waver from these things, because these things have been great
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things and great life for lessons, and those are the
things that have helped shape me in terms of becoming
this person that I expired to become. I'm still trying
to get to the fullness of Emmin Smith. What does
that mean? That means getting beyond the game, helping my
kids understand what it's like to be who they are
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and to have taken the responsibility that they have to
grow up and become great men and women. You don't
have to be great than everybody else's eyes, but you
have to have a level of certainty that, hey, I
know who I am. I'm comfortable who I am, I
know what I'm capable of doing, and my job it's
the maximizing my ability, just like my father did. And
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that's what it's all about for me. And so legendary
and all that kind of stuff. I never grew up
wanting to be a legend. I grew up just wanted
to be the best version of myself. And I didn't
realize what that was until I started the process. And
then I saw that I had an opportunity and a
unique skill or that can carry me places. And that
skill has carried me places and have open doors for
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me and the arenas and areas that I never dreamt of.
And so as I go in do I go in
with a level of excellence. Yes, with the expectation of
doing great things. Yes, that was Emmett Smith for our
legendary moment this week. If you want to hear the
entire interview, which was an amazing, energetic, Uh, just a
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whole lot of of a great conversation. Uh, you could
go up on Game Presents wherever it is that you
download your podcast. Speaking of the the Dallas Cowboys, They've
had an interesting started the off season. They lose Kellen Moore,
their offensive coordinator. Uh, they did come up short in
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the playoffs. They only made it out of the first round.
They did make it out of the first round though,
and maybe that is a step forward, but it's it's
interesting to me. Um. I was we were doing to
show this week. I was talking with Jonas and which,
by the way, if you stay tuned after our show, uh,
you'll be able to hear the j K S Show,
otherwise known as Jonas Knox. He had some interesting things
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to say about the topic of of you know what's
going on in Dallas right now? Here's what he had
to say. So, Dak Prescott was talking with Jorry Epstein
of Yahoo who does a great job for Yahoo and
and she was having a discussion with him about just
the changing of play calling in Dallas and all of
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that stuff that comes along with it. And obviously Kellen
Moore is gone, and then you've got Mike McCarthy was
now going to be calling plays, and Dak Prescott says
he was told by Mike McCarthy there's going to be
about a twenty to thirty percent change in the offensive system,
and he talked about how he's excited because it's gonna,
you know, clear up and and fix some things that
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needed to be changed. And you and I were having
this discussion where Mike McCarthy's now calling plays. They come
up short in the playoffs again, Dak Prescott's back. The
assumption is they're going to try and figure out a
way to bring Zeke back. Jerry has already been vocal
about that. It feels like this is it, like they've
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got another another run, Like I don't even call it
a run, but they've got another spin of the chamber.
And if it ain't this year, it's over all right.
So let me frame this up for y'all. Stretching and
and and and t J. This sounds like to me
to say to thirty percent change to fix um In
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terms of for Mike McCarthy to start calling the place,
I think we can all assume and agree that Mike
McCarthy was brought in because of the job he did
in Green Bay, and specifically, in particular the job he
did with Aaron Rodgers, the development of Aaron Rodgers. That's
probably what he sold Jerry Jones on. That's probably what
they were sold on when they hired him to come in.
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And and now Kellen Moore leaves. Kellen Moore departs, he's gone.
You can fall on whatever side you want to fall
on in terms of what you thought Kelly Moore was
to this team and how valuable you may have thought
he was. But obviously Mike McCarthy, seemingly the Dallas Cowboys
possibly seemingly have made him the scapegoat of why they
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came up short this year. So now Mike McCarthy takes
over the play calling duties from Kelly Moore, even though
they'll hire another OC. My question to you guys, are
is this a set up now for Mike McCarthy to
give himself more time and to get from underneath losing
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his job if they do not win a Super Bowl.
I do not see this as a super Bowl winning team.
They're not a super Bowl caliber team. But if they
were to come up short. Is Dak Prescott now the
prime recipient of being the scapegoat for the Dallas Cowboys
or does it now specifically because Mike McCarthy takes over
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play calling fall on Mike McCarthy's head man. Listen, when
Mike McCarthy got that job, he was forced to keep
killing Moore. You know, he didn't want to keep killing more.
You know, he wanted to call plays. That's what he's
always done. He saw a little way to sliver itself
in there and say, let's get rid at him. I
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would have done X, Y and Z in the playoff game.
I would have done this and that, you know. And
so he basically convinced Jerry Jones to get rid of
Kelly Moore so that he can get back to calling
plays now because he had Aaron Rodgers and Aaron Aaron
Rodgers one of the greatest quarterbacks ever played. Mike McCarthy left,
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and Aaron Rodgers continue to play at a high level.
We'll discount this year, but he continued to play at
a high level. Dak Prescott is a good Quarterback's Dak
Prescott gonna be the quarterback that you say the game
is on your shoulders every single week, you gotta go
win it for us. No, he's not that guy, but
he's shown he can lead a team if everybody else
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around him is doing their job at a high level
as well. So, regardless is if McCarthy is calling plays
or not, the game is always gonna be on Dak
Prescott because if they lose, it's Dak Prescott is not
good enough. But if they win, it's gonna be. Wow.
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Mike McCarthy has done a really good job man calling
his play for Dark Prescott. And that's just what it is.
Just like you said, t J, Mike McCarthy got this
job because of the job that he did in Green
They but uh, the y Test has been telling me
and everybody else that. And Rodgers doesn't need a lot
of help as far as from a head coaching perspective.
If if Matt the Floyd goes somewhere else, uh, you
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think he's gonna have the same success in anywhere else
without and Rodgers absolutely not. And Mike McCarthy has one
on Kelly Moore under the bus basically with him him
moving on to he went to Denver to char Yeah,
Kelly more went to the charges and now he's going
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to be calling plays. The problem that I have with
this is Mirk McCarthy telling Dak Prescott that the office
is going to change on Guess what. That doesn't help
that in Prescott at all. So now he's going to
be having to uh digest parts of a new offense,
that offense that he already is isn't comfortable in. So
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he's gonna have to go through no reek nor new reads,
uh a new cause of the line of screaming, so
on and so forth. This does not help that Prescott's
progression as a quarterback to where he needs to be
to lead this team in this offense to be a
world championship. And with that being said, this will be
Mike McCarthy's last season. They are working out a way
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to bring Zeke back. That doesn't make your offense better.
We all know that Tony Pollitt is a is a
better option and a better starter at the running back.
Was justn't because he's more explosive, he has speed to
break break runs, so on and so forth. But as
far as Mike McCarthy taking over the play calling. We
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knew that was gonna happen anyway, because he's offensive style
coach and Kelly Moore was already instituted as the o
C when he came in. Just like you said, I
don't believe that the Kelly Moore uh still would have
been the offensive coordinative. Jered Jones would have gave Mike
McCarthy the opportunity to hire somebody else. So now he's
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in a situation to where I think I have one
more year to get this fixed, and he doesn't have
the team to do it. Because if you look at
the teams in the NFC moving before, I think the
Philadelphis are still going to be one of the best
teams in the NFC, and they just don't have what
it takes. I'm from a quarterback and Standport and Dak
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Prescott to get to where they want to be to
win the World Championship. I'll find it to be interesting.
He has positioned himself to blame it on Dak Prescott
if it if it goes bad. But we'll see how
that all plays out. That's your Dallas Cowboys, and yes,
we got some Dallas College that we got some Cowboys
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coverage in the show. Yeah, most evils a lebron and
and Dallas. You know, hey, that's what they say. But
this was actually a legit deal because we had the
conversation with him Smith and well, Mike McCarthy is going
to change the offense up to fix the offense for
this Dallas Cowboys team. You're listening to up on Game.
That's t J. Hudsmon's out of Plexico Birds. I'm LaVar Arrington.
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We're gonna take a quick break on the other side.
T J had some some hopes, some dreams, some wishes.
We caught it. We caught it on last week's show
before the play before the super Bowl played out. We'll
hear that and have some opinions on that. You're listening
to up on Game. We'll be right back Fox Sports Radio,
Welcome back. It's up on Game. We're lying from the
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tire rack dot Com studio Slavar Arrington alongside t J.
Husmazotta Plexico Burr's. We've got a lot of stuff going
on here. Um, you know, going uh to the Super
Bowl last week, we had a lot of conversations surrounding
the officials. Here's one thing that TJ had to say
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during the course of our show last week, I want
to see a really competitive game on both sides of
the ball. Uh, that's for me. Competitive game. Let the
players decide the game. Don't have everyone waking up Monday
saying why did they make this call? Why did they do?
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Just let the players play the game, that the players
decide the game. Everybody, Uh, come out of this game healthy.
But I just want a competitive, good game, Bro, that's
all I want to see. Everybody came out of the
game healthy. Do y'all feel like they came out of
the game. And the conversation on Monday was not about
a call that dictated the game. Man, did I not
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call it? Or what? Bro? It's unfortunate because yes, yes, yes,
save that cloup for later, thank you. I just felt
like the officials they established away they were going to
call the game. They were letting like every play that
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was it a hold? He said, it was a hold
that happens. I'm gonna say the majority of past plays
in NFL, throughout the entire season of playoffs, you get
tugged all the time, they're gonna call it at the time. Max.
The fact that the game, in essence was decided on
that because you know when you make that call, the
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game is over. I didn't want that to happen, obviously.
You just want to see the players aside the game
and they say, oh, the players did decide the game.
He held them, But that happens on every play. You
literally can call holding on offensive line pretty much every
play if you'd want to. You can call holding or
defensive past interference every almost every past play if you
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would like to. And so for it to be decided
that way, it kind of sucks. Uh Um, it's overwet,
But I just wish that the players would have decided
the game. And I'm tired all the little smart ass people.
The players did decide the game, No, they didn't. Shut up. Man. Listen.
First of all, this all this contact that JB had
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with Juju happened inside of five yards. If you want
to if you wanna make this, if you want to
make this call, then this call can be made every
single play and at a wide receiver is impressed man
and man coverage with defensive back, because that is when
all the contact happens inside of five yards, the ball
goes up on the air. The ball lands out of bounds.
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The ball is completely uncatchable. We know Juju is not
a speci, that he has zero acceleration. There's no way
he's going to get to that football. And and secondly,
the I've played in football games where I have been
held and the referee is sitting right there looking at it,
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and I've had my jersey pulling and tugged, and I
look at the ref and I'm yo, man, throw the
damn flag he's holding. And I've had ref safe in
me on countless occasions. Plex I saw him grab your jersey,
but he did not slow you down. He did not
impede the progress. But I'm I'm saying to the ref,
but a founds of foul. But what I'm talking about
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outside of five yards? If I'm Juju Smith Schuster in
that in that situation, in that route, I don't get
that call on the Super Bowl because of my size,
my stature, speed, or whatever you want to break it
down to, I do not get that call. And Juju
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gets that call because with his five eight, five nine.
I don't know what the case may be, but there
are certain players that do not get that call, and
I'm one of them. And I've had referees tell me
to my face, y'all saw him hold you, but he
did not restrict you or impede your progress making a
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run to the football. And that call, right there is
an absolute no call. And j B said it best, Uh,
it depends on who the referee is and nine out
attend of times they do not make that call. All right,
But did it decide the game? Sure? And Ice the
game decided the game? The game that was that was
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stirred down LaVar because down just under two minutes to
try to see what you can do, I said to myself,
and still gives Kansas City a chance to kick the
figure on to go up three. I'm saying to myself,
you know what, Kansas City, don't kick the ball, they're
gonna get to go up three. I wouldn't see what
Jalen Hursts is gonna do with this football and a
two minute driving a situation and super Bowl and I
think that's all what we were hoping for. But the
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referee didn't even give us an option to to to
that that happened with the call that he made. Let
me ask you all this because I tend to look
at it and say I on it to see the
ending of the game based upon Jalen Hurts getting the
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ball back. I was disappointed, yes, deflated, yes, but I
did not think that it dictated the game. It did
not dictate the outcome of the game. Here's why. Here's
what I'm gonna say. Here's what I'm gonna say. I
do believe it. Here's why I believe it. When you
look at the when you look at the course of
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events that took place leading up to that that final
drive of the game. What happened, What happened before, what happened,
what happened before they got the ball? What happened? They
were stopped the defense, the defense, The defense stopped the
Philadelphia Eagles. They stalled out their drift, they had to up.
Then they punned the ball. You know what happens When
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they punted the ball, there was a return all the
way into the rid zone that led to points to
that was that was where the game was determined and
where decided on that. He didn't he didn't return that
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he gave him. He put him in the red zone.
Oh man, I had great field positions all Super Bowl long,
but we want to go in touchdowns every time we
got down into the red. They only needed a field
goal to win the game. He has my opportunity, and
that wasn't that wasn't that the same drive. They scored
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a touchdown on that one, right, but it was okay,
So anyway they still scored and not to me, that
was that. That transaction, that course of action in the
course of the game, that was to me what determined
the game. You don't even have to be in the
situation that they were in at the end of the game. Happened.
And watch film the way the Chiefs carved up the
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Eagles in the run game in the second half. I
guarantee you go back and watch film, you can find
five holding calls. I haven't even watched. I guarantee you
can find five holding costs. Guarantee you can guarantee find
you could make a call. You can make a penalty
call on everything. And that's not doing about that. That's
my point. You don't call that unless it's egregious, like
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it was like, oh, my brother, that tug that happens
every single play. Impressed man in the National Football League, Man,
that happens all the time. I don't get that call. Hey,
and guess what and the ball hit the ground and
then he threw the flag. If you knew it was passing,
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the parents are holding, Why didn't you just throw the
flag right away? Why did you wait for the ball
to hit the ground and the ball came down five
or six ft out of mounds like like just I
just would have liked for the chief Steve fense to
be on the field against Jalen Hurts and at Eagles
offense and we get a finish where you say wow
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either way. That's what I guess what because sometimes in
a sua bowl all it takes is two minutes. I listen.
I think that Jalen Hurts gets it done. He found
a way to get him into the end zone and
tied up with a two point conversion. I I liked
where the game was going, But to be totally outraged
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at the fact that he didn't get that's to me,
I think that that's more of a spectator, that's more
of a fan approach to the game because in the end,
they had the the Eagles had an opportunity to be
able to sustain a drive, not give the Kansas City
Chiefs the opportunity to be able to to get the
points that they were able to get on off of
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that that punt return. That was the difference in the game.
That was the difference in the game to me. That
to me, But that's the difference in the game, not
that last play, the last play. We don't know how.
We don't. We do not know how the game turns out,
even exactly exactly because they made a call that they
knew would ended. We don't. We don't know. But you
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don't know what they're going to score. You don't know
if they're gonna tie it up. You don't know if
they're gonna win. We don't know what's gonna happen. I'm
would they have seen what would have happened. What we
are going to talk about the day is that up
on game down the game. I believe I want every
category for that game. They don't even have. Hey, hey,
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I think we might have. Uh, I got every category now,
I think we both said three and in every category
we have the results. With Kelsey, we said he wouldn't
get the yards because we thought I said he would
take him away, and Kelsey just destroyed him at first half.
All Right, here's what we're here's what we're gonna do.
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We're gonna get an update from Nick nick Cope, and
after the update we'll see if Ryan has the results. Uh,
but I'll say this, the game was decided on that
punt and that that series where they got stopped. That's
what I believe. That's what I believe. I think that
that whole course of events is what decided that Super Bowl.
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I'm sorry if I don't feel as bad as everybody
else that it got decided at the end of the game,
or at least everybody feels it was decided by a call.
But I digress. Hey, Nick, it's your time. Let's get
an updates time you guys are ever gonna come to
the resolut I don't think so even all right, it's
a big day in college basketball. Got four ranked teams
in action at the moment. Number seven Virginion tomp of
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Notre Dame fifty three forty eight, getting late in the
second half. There midway in the second half. Number fourteen
Indiana trails Illinois fifty to forty six, just under way
in the second half. Number twenty Yukon on top of
Seaton Hall thirty thirty four, and just under way in
Lexing ten. It's Kentucky leading number ten Tennessee nineteen to
ten in the n c Double A Tournament selection committee
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unveiled it's in season Top six teen teams selection Sunday,
three weeks away, but as it currently stands, the selection
committee as Alabama has the number one seed. The rest
of the number one seeds Houston Perdue in Kansas, and
then on the two line you've got Texas, Arizona, Baylor,
and u C l A. In the NBA, reports say
Kevin Love and the Cavaliers have completed a contract buy
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out the Miami Heater considered the favorites to sign Love,
but he's also going to talk with the seventies sixers
before he makes a decision. And the finalist for the
three Basketball Hall of Fame class have been announced. They
include Dwyane Wade, Turk Navitsky, Palla Gasol, and Gregg Popovich.
The inductees will be announced during Final four weekend in April.
Diana Tarrossi coming back for a nineteenth season with the
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Phoenix Mercury, and in golf Round three at Riviera in
Los Angeles, under Way Tiger Woods made the cut at
one over. Max Holma is the thirty six whole leader
at ten under He and much of the other leaders
are about to get under way here in the next
ten minutes or so. Let's get back to up on game.
LaVar Arrington, T. J. Houshman Zanna, and Plaxico Burrus appreciate
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that Mr Cope wearing entire rack dot Com studio UH
fellas curious conversation took place with uh the quarterback of
the Chicago Bears. He had this to say about what's
going on with him in Chicago, and I want to
get to our opinion on a question I had after
we hear what he had to say. I hope we
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just get a grass soldier field don't care for in
Arleanston Heights. I I hope we could have. Don't you
know it can be cold, it can be tin of greens.
With no win, you're fine. But with that fifteen my
prior win twenty from my probably win, I mean, you
can't fight it stuff. When it's that code, you have
to bundle up, like put a bunch of layers on
and stuff like that, and your body's coats and you're
not warmed up. So I feel like way slower in
that cold weather. It's hard to stay warm in that weather.
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I beg to ask the question, fellas, is his focus
on the wrong thing? Because to me, you're worrying about
out if your body is cold and and having a
dome in the weather that Soldier Field. I don't know
that you're even gonna be in Soldier Field as a
Chicago beer Now, I I gotta ask, I gotta ask.
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It led me to this thought process, and this was
the deductive reasoning involved with what's taking place. Chicago has
a number one overall draft pick. Some would say there
are two, maybe three prospects in this year's draft that
are bona fide short shot can't miss franchise quarterbacks in
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this season and and in the career so far that
Justin Fields has had for the Chicago Bears. Would you
consider him a franchise quarterback? And if so, is he
a franchise quarterback of the caliber where you have an
opportunity with the number one overall draft pick to get
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maybe someone that is legitimately going to be a franchise
quarterback in this league. And keep in mind the GM
nor the head coach have any type of emotional tie
or any type of real investment in Justin Fields. Because
this is not the regime that drafted Justin Fields. What
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say you guys to that. I mean, when when you
think Chicago, you think Wendy City to colde whether any
he can say that doesn't matter how cold it is. Man,
when it's time to play ball, You're gonna play ball,
at least I am. Whether whether it's cold or not,
I'm gonna playing. You're gonna play ball. But let's not
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sit him say that the elements don't affect your play play.
We played in Grand Rapids, he eats Lansing. That's what
I'm saying. You're gonna go out and play the best
possible game. But that can I would prefer I would
prefer to playing warm weather and no elements. Obviously every
football player would. But him saying that, I have no
(30:10):
problem with it now because it's true Justin Justine Fields,
whether he's right or wrong, is the focusing the wrong
places the Bears. The Bears need help. They need help
on offensive line, they need help with receiver. Chase Claypool
was a good receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He got
lost in Chicago, and so they need a lot of pieces.
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You can say, oh, there's two or three. Uh, sure
fire good quarterbacks in his draft? Are we sure that?
You're not sure that Justin Fields has shown he can
get it done in the National Football League. So if
I'm the Chicago Bears, I'm rolling with somebody that is
shown he can be successful. I'm not going with an unknown.
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I'm not taking that chance. Is he a franchise quarterback? Guys? Yes?
Or now? We don't know because he's not that what
you mean he's you look at that Look at that
offense right now. You tell me on that entire offensive
lineman skill guys, who's a starter on another team that's
(31:18):
a playoff team. Give me one starter. They're starting in
the National Football League. So they're starters out of all
the teams that made the playoffs with any of that,
those offensive lineman, running back, tight end, receivers start on
a playoff team, playoff calibert that that falls on the GM.
I mean that's the team they picked up there. They
need pieces around them, they need help. What Justin Fields
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has shown me is he's a starting quarterback in the
National Football Didn't Trevor Lawrence have the same type of
situation to deficit his rookie year? Yeah, I don't think you.
I don't think anybody was sitting there saying is he
a franchise quarterback or not? Oh it was some people
saying he wasn't. It's Trevor Lawrence. It was sometimes order back.
Absolutely absolutely. See how quickly you answered that because he
(32:03):
shown that this year. Had you asked me that last year,
I wouldn't said yes, But classical would have said coming
to the same dry class and that one listen, listen,
listen season Hey after after last year, Plexico would have
said that Trevor Lawrence wasn't. I would have said he was,
but now because he they got pieces around now and
(32:25):
he had better coaching, better coaching he is now. Is
that a fact or non fact? Hey? Well, if we're
gonna do that, then the first two years of a
Grey three hadn't watched. He was a franchise, the franchise.
He was on it, he was on his way. He
was the franchise. You said one season, he was the
franchise until hello, he not have knocked his knee off
of his body. Shouldn't have been playing, he was ald,
(32:46):
shouldn't have been playing, knocked his knee right off his body.
So you're saying Trevor Lawrence isn't one. Hey, you're saying
he isn't one. Mr Burns, he had one good season.
I didn't. Actually is he one? That's what Lai? Is
he one? No? Oh my god, that guy that's gonna
be a bad one right there, Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence
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isn't Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence the top five quarterback right now? Man?
If he's not, then god dang, justin fields on the
franchise guy is talking about the weather in Chicago. Yes,
he's get what he was talking about a first of
all weather. By the time they finished building the stadium
(33:28):
with dome on, you probably won't be there anyway. Let's
just say that I think what he said and plying
is that listen the numbers that he is putting up
and versus the quarterbacks that are playing and domes in
these nice weather Chicago is not that kind of environment.
He's a franchise quarterback for the Bears because his style
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of play fits Chicago and the weather and the elements.
He had six wins out of seven games that franchise.
That's franchise. But Bryce Young is not gonna come in
there and just flip the whole organization and they're gonna
be okay. Maybe he is before we go to break.
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Before we go to break, Ryan, do you have the
results from the Super Bowl, guy Plexic from up on Game,
down on Game for the results. Well, only one of
you picked the outcome of the game correctly, and that
was Plaxico. He did that by default because we picked
the Eagles and he gone first. He would have gone Eagles.
(34:33):
What about A J. Brown? Okay? Uh, well yeah, you
and t J both had a J's prop correct um plaques.
You got Travis Kelsey's prop correct. Uh, t J, you
got the game total correct. You also had the the
James Harden having more threees than MBS receptions. Of course,
we do have to mention that Plaxico's m v P
pick was Mark wes walda scantling who had zero. So
(35:00):
I got Kelsey, I got the game, and I got
a J. Brown. And I remember myself saying the Kansas
City Chiefs will win this game. Whoever win this game,
it will be by three points. And I said that
in the Kansas City Seats won by three man. This
is up on Game. Did not that stretched arms strong?
(35:20):
He delivered some hell of five picks on Up on Game,
Down on Game. T J has been consistent as well.
Apparently I just ain't nothing at all, and they these picks.
But you know, there's always next year, and I'm gonna
come back strong, bitch ass. And speaking of coming back strong,
we're gonna come back in the dark. And if you
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ain't know what coming back in the dark man, well
you're gonna have to sit tight and stay tuned to
find out what exactly that I meant by sitting in
the dark. For the last segment of I Know It,
I Know It. It is up on Game, that is
t J. Hutchmon's Ida, that is, It's Plexico. Burt Olaviarrington
will be right back Fox Sports Radio. Hi, this is
(36:01):
Jay Glazer. And you may know me for the world
of football or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers.
Well you don't know is for my entire life, I
have lived in something I refer to as the Great
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Welcome back into up on games, Lavarrington. It's t J.
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got Jonas Knocks coming up next, so make sure you
(37:08):
stay tuned in. But before we go, we gotta touch
on your boy, Aaron Rodgers. Was he going into the dark?
Was he not going into the dark? What type of
deal is this? His whole? Uh? You know what is this? Call? Ryan?
What is it? Let us know what it is and
what's the accuracy? We got some sound on it. But Ryan,
(37:30):
what what what's going on with this? Uh? Aaron and
his darkness retreat? Yes, oh it's a darkness retreat. I
mean is is that? Is that his dating preference or
is it I mean, what what? What? What does darkness
really mean? Right here? Right now? What does that mean?
I believe it's it is quite literally a dark room,
and that he will just sit in for four days,
(37:52):
for four days, yes, where they will bring him food
through a little slot and he'll he'll eat, but he
will mostly just be sitting there in darkness. Somebody's it
it sounded like being in jail and being in what
is it solitary confinement? Man, y'all heard what Aaron Rodgers
said about that, right, y'all heard what he say. Let's
listen to what he had to say. I have no
(38:13):
problem they didn't Rappaport schefter. I think they're really good
their jobs. When it comes to me, they don't know,
they really don't. They don't have people in my inner
circle who are sources. I can promise you that, and
anybody who would talk to them is not in my
inner circle. It's that simple. Uh. That's in regards to
him going into the retreat, the darkness retreat. I do
(38:36):
believe you get candles in this room. You just don't
have any electricity or anything like that. Why do you
guys think he's doing this? I mean, we got two minutes.
But why do you guys think Aaron Rodgers is doing this? Listen, man,
you heard what the packer said. They are disgusted with
Aaron Rodgers. They fed up. I guess to fill in
his mutual whether he's doing this or not. He said,
(38:56):
nobody knows in the media what he's one because his
inner circle on deal with the media. So we had
it for a divorce. It's just where will Aaron Rodgers land.
It's a it's done, it's a done. Deaf report has
come out. They said they're discussion, they're tired Aaron Rodgers.
He's good, it's gone, and now it's gonna lessen the
(39:17):
value of what they get back in return because they've
already put this out. So let's see where the Aaron
Rodgers sweep stakes take us and and Rodgers sweep stakes
are gonna take us to Las Vegas. I've been saying
that for quite some time. And Rogers says that uh
adam chef, nobody is speaking to him. They don't know
(39:39):
bleep about what's going on because they don't speak to
him in his inner circle. Aaron Rodgers is doing this
because he can get away with it, and it's Aaron Rodgers,
he's still going to be one of the elite quarterbacks
wherever he ends up next season. But um, his tenuon
Green Baby is over, and where he ends up, I
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don't anybody really knows. And wherever he goes, um, he's
still gonna be in Rodinson, but I believe that's going
to be Las Vegas. Well, Aaron, I know you can't
hear us because well, you're sitting in the darkness right now.
But whatever it is that you're seeking and you're searching
for in that dark room with your candles and your
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food coming through the whole, I hope that is productive.
I hope you find happiness and I hope you come
out with what you got. All Right, it's up on game.
We appreciate you'all. Stay tuned the Jinus knocks. We'll be
next week.
All right. We got up on Game Presents, the legendary
moment and moments by the way with Emmett Smith. That'd
be pretty cool. We'll also continue the conversation on the
Dallas Cowboys. Is there a new scapegoat in town? Kellen Moore?
Is out interesting that we'll talk about that. State of
the NFL officiating one. T J. Hushman's I'd have had
(00:22):
some sound. Yeah, again, he's just doing it every single
every week. Uh about deciding the Super Bowl, I don't know.
We'll talk about it up. Yeah. Buying idea that the
Bears may keep Justin Fields or trade him. We'll get
to that. And Aaron Rodgers, well, he's in the dark
(00:43):
room right now with only candles. We'll talk about his
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we're gonna talk uh Dallas Cowboys with Mike McCarthy. Does
he have a new scape goat. That's in a matter
of moments, But first let's get to this week's Up
on Game Presents Legendary moment with a goat of goats uh,
Emmett Smith, take it Away, Game Game Presents Conversations with
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a leg and now this is your legendary moment. When
I say goats of goats, people say that sometimes and
it's like over in Bellish, you really are a goat
of goats. I had the honor and the privilege to
be a part of that career. I've played against you
at times, and I gotta tell you, when you're able
(03:58):
to play against a legend, a living legend, it hits differently,
it hits different. How has how has life been for you?
Like you've done things the right way. I've tried to
do things the right way. I tried to do things
the way that I was raised through this village and
network of people that have poured into my life as
(04:19):
you would have the same thing coaches, teachers, people in
your neighborhood, etcetera, e cetera, parents and so forth. I've
tried to do those things, try to take pieces and
pieces of what these good men and women have poured
into me and to utilize it as part of the
foundation which I stand up. And I don't want to
waver from these things, because these things have been great
(04:40):
things and great life for lessons, and those are the
things that have helped shape me in terms of becoming
this person that I expired to become. I'm still trying
to get to the fullness of Emmin Smith. What does
that mean? That means getting beyond the game, helping my
kids understand what it's like to be who they are
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and to have taken the responsibility that they have to
grow up and become great men and women. You don't
have to be great than everybody else's eyes, but you
have to have a level of certainty that, hey, I
know who I am. I'm comfortable who I am, I
know what I'm capable of doing, and my job it's
the maximizing my ability, just like my father did. And
(05:22):
that's what it's all about for me. And so legendary
and all that kind of stuff. I never grew up
wanting to be a legend. I grew up just wanted
to be the best version of myself. And I didn't
realize what that was until I started the process. And
then I saw that I had an opportunity and a
unique skill or that can carry me places. And that
skill has carried me places and have open doors for
(05:44):
me and the arenas and areas that I never dreamt of.
And so as I go in do I go in
with a level of excellence. Yes, with the expectation of
doing great things. Yes, that was Emmett Smith for our
legendary moment this week. If you want to hear the
entire interview, which was an amazing, energetic, Uh, just a
(06:06):
whole lot of of a great conversation. Uh, you could
go up on Game Presents wherever it is that you
download your podcast. Speaking of the the Dallas Cowboys, They've
had an interesting started the off season. They lose Kellen Moore,
their offensive coordinator. Uh, they did come up short in
(06:27):
the playoffs. They only made it out of the first round.
They did make it out of the first round though,
and maybe that is a step forward, but it's it's
interesting to me. Um. I was we were doing to
show this week. I was talking with Jonas and which,
by the way, if you stay tuned after our show, uh,
you'll be able to hear the j K S Show,
otherwise known as Jonas Knox. He had some interesting things
(06:50):
to say about the topic of of you know what's
going on in Dallas right now? Here's what he had
to say. So, Dak Prescott was talking with Jorry Epstein
of Yahoo who does a great job for Yahoo and
and she was having a discussion with him about just
the changing of play calling in Dallas and all of
(07:10):
that stuff that comes along with it. And obviously Kellen
Moore is gone, and then you've got Mike McCarthy was
now going to be calling plays, and Dak Prescott says
he was told by Mike McCarthy there's going to be
about a twenty to thirty percent change in the offensive system,
and he talked about how he's excited because it's gonna,
you know, clear up and and fix some things that
(07:31):
needed to be changed. And you and I were having
this discussion where Mike McCarthy's now calling plays. They come
up short in the playoffs again, Dak Prescott's back. The
assumption is they're going to try and figure out a
way to bring Zeke back. Jerry has already been vocal
about that. It feels like this is it, like they've
(07:52):
got another another run, Like I don't even call it
a run, but they've got another spin of the chamber.
And if it ain't this year, it's over all right.
So let me frame this up for y'all. Stretching and
and and and t J. This sounds like to me
to say to thirty percent change to fix um In
(08:14):
terms of for Mike McCarthy to start calling the place,
I think we can all assume and agree that Mike
McCarthy was brought in because of the job he did
in Green Bay, and specifically, in particular the job he
did with Aaron Rodgers, the development of Aaron Rodgers. That's
probably what he sold Jerry Jones on. That's probably what
they were sold on when they hired him to come in.
(08:34):
And and now Kellen Moore leaves. Kellen Moore departs, he's gone.
You can fall on whatever side you want to fall
on in terms of what you thought Kelly Moore was
to this team and how valuable you may have thought
he was. But obviously Mike McCarthy, seemingly the Dallas Cowboys
possibly seemingly have made him the scapegoat of why they
(08:55):
came up short this year. So now Mike McCarthy takes
over the play calling duties from Kelly Moore, even though
they'll hire another OC. My question to you guys, are
is this a set up now for Mike McCarthy to
give himself more time and to get from underneath losing
(09:16):
his job if they do not win a Super Bowl.
I do not see this as a super Bowl winning team.
They're not a super Bowl caliber team. But if they
were to come up short. Is Dak Prescott now the
prime recipient of being the scapegoat for the Dallas Cowboys
or does it now specifically because Mike McCarthy takes over
(09:38):
play calling fall on Mike McCarthy's head man. Listen, when
Mike McCarthy got that job, he was forced to keep
killing Moore. You know, he didn't want to keep killing more.
You know, he wanted to call plays. That's what he's
always done. He saw a little way to sliver itself
in there and say, let's get rid at him. I
(10:02):
would have done X, Y and Z in the playoff game.
I would have done this and that, you know. And
so he basically convinced Jerry Jones to get rid of
Kelly Moore so that he can get back to calling
plays now because he had Aaron Rodgers and Aaron Aaron
Rodgers one of the greatest quarterbacks ever played. Mike McCarthy left,
(10:23):
and Aaron Rodgers continue to play at a high level.
We'll discount this year, but he continued to play at
a high level. Dak Prescott is a good Quarterback's Dak
Prescott gonna be the quarterback that you say the game
is on your shoulders every single week, you gotta go
win it for us. No, he's not that guy, but
he's shown he can lead a team if everybody else
(10:47):
around him is doing their job at a high level
as well. So, regardless is if McCarthy is calling plays
or not, the game is always gonna be on Dak
Prescott because if they lose, it's Dak Prescott is not
good enough. But if they win, it's gonna be. Wow.
(11:08):
Mike McCarthy has done a really good job man calling
his play for Dark Prescott. And that's just what it is.
Just like you said, t J, Mike McCarthy got this
job because of the job that he did in Green
They but uh, the y Test has been telling me
and everybody else that. And Rodgers doesn't need a lot
of help as far as from a head coaching perspective.
If if Matt the Floyd goes somewhere else, uh, you
(11:31):
think he's gonna have the same success in anywhere else
without and Rodgers absolutely not. And Mike McCarthy has one
on Kelly Moore under the bus basically with him him
moving on to he went to Denver to char Yeah,
Kelly more went to the charges and now he's going
(11:52):
to be calling plays. The problem that I have with
this is Mirk McCarthy telling Dak Prescott that the office
is going to change on Guess what. That doesn't help
that in Prescott at all. So now he's going to
be having to uh digest parts of a new offense,
that offense that he already is isn't comfortable in. So
(12:14):
he's gonna have to go through no reek nor new reads,
uh a new cause of the line of screaming, so
on and so forth. This does not help that Prescott's
progression as a quarterback to where he needs to be
to lead this team in this offense to be a
world championship. And with that being said, this will be
Mike McCarthy's last season. They are working out a way
(12:35):
to bring Zeke back. That doesn't make your offense better.
We all know that Tony Pollitt is a is a
better option and a better starter at the running back.
Was justn't because he's more explosive, he has speed to
break break runs, so on and so forth. But as
far as Mike McCarthy taking over the play calling. We
(12:55):
knew that was gonna happen anyway, because he's offensive style
coach and Kelly Moore was already instituted as the o
C when he came in. Just like you said, I
don't believe that the Kelly Moore uh still would have
been the offensive coordinative. Jered Jones would have gave Mike
McCarthy the opportunity to hire somebody else. So now he's
(13:16):
in a situation to where I think I have one
more year to get this fixed, and he doesn't have
the team to do it. Because if you look at
the teams in the NFC moving before, I think the
Philadelphis are still going to be one of the best
teams in the NFC, and they just don't have what
it takes. I'm from a quarterback and Standport and Dak
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Prescott to get to where they want to be to
win the World Championship. I'll find it to be interesting.
He has positioned himself to blame it on Dak Prescott
if it if it goes bad. But we'll see how
that all plays out. That's your Dallas Cowboys, and yes,
we got some Dallas College that we got some Cowboys
(13:58):
coverage in the show. Yeah, most evils a lebron and
and Dallas. You know, hey, that's what they say. But
this was actually a legit deal because we had the
conversation with him Smith and well, Mike McCarthy is going
to change the offense up to fix the offense for
this Dallas Cowboys team. You're listening to up on Game.
That's t J. Hudsmon's out of Plexico Birds. I'm LaVar Arrington.
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We're gonna take a quick break on the other side.
T J had some some hopes, some dreams, some wishes.
We caught it. We caught it on last week's show
before the play before the super Bowl played out. We'll
hear that and have some opinions on that. You're listening
to up on Game. We'll be right back Fox Sports Radio,
Welcome back. It's up on Game. We're lying from the
(14:42):
tire rack dot Com studio Slavar Arrington alongside t J.
Husmazotta Plexico Burr's. We've got a lot of stuff going
on here. Um, you know, going uh to the Super
Bowl last week, we had a lot of conversations surrounding
the officials. Here's one thing that TJ had to say
(15:03):
during the course of our show last week, I want
to see a really competitive game on both sides of
the ball. Uh, that's for me. Competitive game. Let the
players decide the game. Don't have everyone waking up Monday
saying why did they make this call? Why did they do?
(15:26):
Just let the players play the game, that the players
decide the game. Everybody, Uh, come out of this game healthy.
But I just want a competitive, good game, Bro, that's
all I want to see. Everybody came out of the
game healthy. Do y'all feel like they came out of
the game. And the conversation on Monday was not about
a call that dictated the game. Man, did I not
(15:49):
call it? Or what? Bro? It's unfortunate because yes, yes, yes,
save that cloup for later, thank you. I just felt
like the officials they established away they were going to
call the game. They were letting like every play that
(16:10):
was it a hold? He said, it was a hold
that happens. I'm gonna say the majority of past plays
in NFL, throughout the entire season of playoffs, you get
tugged all the time, they're gonna call it at the time. Max.
The fact that the game, in essence was decided on
that because you know when you make that call, the
(16:34):
game is over. I didn't want that to happen, obviously.
You just want to see the players aside the game
and they say, oh, the players did decide the game.
He held them, But that happens on every play. You
literally can call holding on offensive line pretty much every
play if you'd want to. You can call holding or
defensive past interference every almost every past play if you
(16:55):
would like to. And so for it to be decided
that way, it kind of sucks. Uh Um, it's overwet,
But I just wish that the players would have decided
the game. And I'm tired all the little smart ass people.
The players did decide the game, No, they didn't. Shut up. Man. Listen.
First of all, this all this contact that JB had
(17:15):
with Juju happened inside of five yards. If you want
to if you wanna make this, if you want to
make this call, then this call can be made every
single play and at a wide receiver is impressed man
and man coverage with defensive back, because that is when
all the contact happens inside of five yards, the ball
goes up on the air. The ball lands out of bounds.
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The ball is completely uncatchable. We know Juju is not
a speci, that he has zero acceleration. There's no way
he's going to get to that football. And and secondly,
the I've played in football games where I have been
held and the referee is sitting right there looking at it,
(18:00):
and I've had my jersey pulling and tugged, and I
look at the ref and I'm yo, man, throw the
damn flag he's holding. And I've had ref safe in
me on countless occasions. Plex I saw him grab your jersey,
but he did not slow you down. He did not
impede the progress. But I'm I'm saying to the ref,
but a founds of foul. But what I'm talking about
(18:22):
outside of five yards? If I'm Juju Smith Schuster in
that in that situation, in that route, I don't get
that call on the Super Bowl because of my size,
my stature, speed, or whatever you want to break it
down to, I do not get that call. And Juju
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gets that call because with his five eight, five nine.
I don't know what the case may be, but there
are certain players that do not get that call, and
I'm one of them. And I've had referees tell me
to my face, y'all saw him hold you, but he
did not restrict you or impede your progress making a
(19:05):
run to the football. And that call, right there is
an absolute no call. And j B said it best, Uh,
it depends on who the referee is and nine out
attend of times they do not make that call. All right,
But did it decide the game? Sure? And Ice the
game decided the game? The game that was that was
(19:25):
stirred down LaVar because down just under two minutes to
try to see what you can do, I said to myself,
and still gives Kansas City a chance to kick the
figure on to go up three. I'm saying to myself,
you know what, Kansas City, don't kick the ball, they're
gonna get to go up three. I wouldn't see what
Jalen Hursts is gonna do with this football and a
two minute driving a situation and super Bowl and I
think that's all what we were hoping for. But the
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referee didn't even give us an option to to to
that that happened with the call that he made. Let
me ask you all this because I tend to look
at it and say I on it to see the
ending of the game based upon Jalen Hurts getting the
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ball back. I was disappointed, yes, deflated, yes, but I
did not think that it dictated the game. It did
not dictate the outcome of the game. Here's why. Here's
what I'm gonna say. Here's what I'm gonna say. I
do believe it. Here's why I believe it. When you
look at the when you look at the course of
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events that took place leading up to that that final
drive of the game. What happened, What happened before, what happened,
what happened before they got the ball? What happened? They
were stopped the defense, the defense, The defense stopped the
Philadelphia Eagles. They stalled out their drift, they had to up.
Then they punned the ball. You know what happens When
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they punted the ball, there was a return all the
way into the rid zone that led to points to
that was that was where the game was determined and
where decided on that. He didn't he didn't return that
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he gave him. He put him in the red zone.
Oh man, I had great field positions all Super Bowl long,
but we want to go in touchdowns every time we
got down into the red. They only needed a field
goal to win the game. He has my opportunity, and
that wasn't that wasn't that the same drive. They scored
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a touchdown on that one, right, but it was okay,
So anyway they still scored and not to me, that
was that. That transaction, that course of action in the
course of the game, that was to me what determined
the game. You don't even have to be in the
situation that they were in at the end of the game. Happened.
And watch film the way the Chiefs carved up the
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Eagles in the run game in the second half. I
guarantee you go back and watch film, you can find
five holding calls. I haven't even watched. I guarantee you
can find five holding costs. Guarantee you can guarantee find
you could make a call. You can make a penalty
call on everything. And that's not doing about that. That's
my point. You don't call that unless it's egregious, like
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it was like, oh, my brother, that tug that happens
every single play. Impressed man in the National Football League, Man,
that happens all the time. I don't get that call. Hey,
and guess what and the ball hit the ground and
then he threw the flag. If you knew it was passing,
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the parents are holding, Why didn't you just throw the
flag right away? Why did you wait for the ball
to hit the ground and the ball came down five
or six ft out of mounds like like just I
just would have liked for the chief Steve fense to
be on the field against Jalen Hurts and at Eagles
offense and we get a finish where you say wow
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either way. That's what I guess what because sometimes in
a sua bowl all it takes is two minutes. I listen.
I think that Jalen Hurts gets it done. He found
a way to get him into the end zone and
tied up with a two point conversion. I I liked
where the game was going, But to be totally outraged
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at the fact that he didn't get that's to me,
I think that that's more of a spectator, that's more
of a fan approach to the game because in the end,
they had the the Eagles had an opportunity to be
able to sustain a drive, not give the Kansas City
Chiefs the opportunity to be able to to get the
points that they were able to get on off of
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that that punt return. That was the difference in the game.
That was the difference in the game to me. That
to me, But that's the difference in the game, not
that last play, the last play. We don't know how.
We don't. We do not know how the game turns out,
even exactly exactly because they made a call that they
knew would ended. We don't. We don't know. But you
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don't know what they're going to score. You don't know
if they're gonna tie it up. You don't know if
they're gonna win. We don't know what's gonna happen. I'm
would they have seen what would have happened. What we
are going to talk about the day is that up
on game down the game. I believe I want every
category for that game. They don't even have. Hey, hey,
(24:33):
I think we might have. Uh, I got every category now,
I think we both said three and in every category
we have the results. With Kelsey, we said he wouldn't
get the yards because we thought I said he would
take him away, and Kelsey just destroyed him at first half.
All Right, here's what we're here's what we're gonna do.
(24:55):
We're gonna get an update from Nick nick Cope, and
after the update we'll see if Ryan has the results. Uh,
but I'll say this, the game was decided on that
punt and that that series where they got stopped. That's
what I believe. That's what I believe. I think that
that whole course of events is what decided that Super Bowl.
(25:18):
I'm sorry if I don't feel as bad as everybody
else that it got decided at the end of the game,
or at least everybody feels it was decided by a call.
But I digress. Hey, Nick, it's your time. Let's get
an updates time you guys are ever gonna come to
the resolut I don't think so even all right, it's
a big day in college basketball. Got four ranked teams
in action at the moment. Number seven Virginion tomp of
(25:40):
Notre Dame fifty three forty eight, getting late in the
second half. There midway in the second half. Number fourteen
Indiana trails Illinois fifty to forty six, just under way
in the second half. Number twenty Yukon on top of
Seaton Hall thirty thirty four, and just under way in
Lexing ten. It's Kentucky leading number ten Tennessee nineteen to
ten in the n c Double A Tournament selection committee
(26:02):
unveiled it's in season Top six teen teams selection Sunday,
three weeks away, but as it currently stands, the selection
committee as Alabama has the number one seed. The rest
of the number one seeds Houston Perdue in Kansas, and
then on the two line you've got Texas, Arizona, Baylor,
and u C l A. In the NBA, reports say
Kevin Love and the Cavaliers have completed a contract buy
(26:24):
out the Miami Heater considered the favorites to sign Love,
but he's also going to talk with the seventies sixers
before he makes a decision. And the finalist for the
three Basketball Hall of Fame class have been announced. They
include Dwyane Wade, Turk Navitsky, Palla Gasol, and Gregg Popovich.
The inductees will be announced during Final four weekend in April.
Diana Tarrossi coming back for a nineteenth season with the
(26:46):
Phoenix Mercury, and in golf Round three at Riviera in
Los Angeles, under Way Tiger Woods made the cut at
one over. Max Holma is the thirty six whole leader
at ten under He and much of the other leaders
are about to get under way here in the next
ten minutes or so. Let's get back to up on game.
LaVar Arrington, T. J. Houshman Zanna, and Plaxico Burrus appreciate
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that Mr Cope wearing entire rack dot Com studio UH
fellas curious conversation took place with uh the quarterback of
the Chicago Bears. He had this to say about what's
going on with him in Chicago, and I want to
get to our opinion on a question I had after
we hear what he had to say. I hope we
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just get a grass soldier field don't care for in
Arleanston Heights. I I hope we could have. Don't you
know it can be cold, it can be tin of greens.
With no win, you're fine. But with that fifteen my
prior win twenty from my probably win, I mean, you
can't fight it stuff. When it's that code, you have
to bundle up, like put a bunch of layers on
and stuff like that, and your body's coats and you're
not warmed up. So I feel like way slower in
that cold weather. It's hard to stay warm in that weather.
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I beg to ask the question, fellas, is his focus
on the wrong thing? Because to me, you're worrying about
out if your body is cold and and having a
dome in the weather that Soldier Field. I don't know
that you're even gonna be in Soldier Field as a
Chicago beer Now, I I gotta ask, I gotta ask.
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It led me to this thought process, and this was
the deductive reasoning involved with what's taking place. Chicago has
a number one overall draft pick. Some would say there
are two, maybe three prospects in this year's draft that
are bona fide short shot can't miss franchise quarterbacks in
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this season and and in the career so far that
Justin Fields has had for the Chicago Bears. Would you
consider him a franchise quarterback? And if so, is he
a franchise quarterback of the caliber where you have an
opportunity with the number one overall draft pick to get
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maybe someone that is legitimately going to be a franchise
quarterback in this league. And keep in mind the GM
nor the head coach have any type of emotional tie
or any type of real investment in Justin Fields. Because
this is not the regime that drafted Justin Fields. What
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say you guys to that. I mean, when when you
think Chicago, you think Wendy City to colde whether any
he can say that doesn't matter how cold it is. Man,
when it's time to play ball, You're gonna play ball,
at least I am. Whether whether it's cold or not,
I'm gonna playing. You're gonna play ball. But let's not
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sit him say that the elements don't affect your play play.
We played in Grand Rapids, he eats Lansing. That's what
I'm saying. You're gonna go out and play the best
possible game. But that can I would prefer I would
prefer to playing warm weather and no elements. Obviously every
football player would. But him saying that, I have no
(30:10):
problem with it now because it's true Justin Justine Fields,
whether he's right or wrong, is the focusing the wrong
places the Bears. The Bears need help. They need help
on offensive line, they need help with receiver. Chase Claypool
was a good receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He got
lost in Chicago, and so they need a lot of pieces.
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You can say, oh, there's two or three. Uh, sure
fire good quarterbacks in his draft? Are we sure that?
You're not sure that Justin Fields has shown he can
get it done in the National Football League. So if
I'm the Chicago Bears, I'm rolling with somebody that is
shown he can be successful. I'm not going with an unknown.
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I'm not taking that chance. Is he a franchise quarterback? Guys? Yes?
Or now? We don't know because he's not that what
you mean he's you look at that Look at that
offense right now. You tell me on that entire offensive
lineman skill guys, who's a starter on another team that's
(31:18):
a playoff team. Give me one starter. They're starting in
the National Football League. So they're starters out of all
the teams that made the playoffs with any of that,
those offensive lineman, running back, tight end, receivers start on
a playoff team, playoff calibert that that falls on the GM.
I mean that's the team they picked up there. They
need pieces around them, they need help. What Justin Fields
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has shown me is he's a starting quarterback in the
National Football Didn't Trevor Lawrence have the same type of
situation to deficit his rookie year? Yeah, I don't think you.
I don't think anybody was sitting there saying is he
a franchise quarterback or not? Oh it was some people
saying he wasn't. It's Trevor Lawrence. It was sometimes order back.
Absolutely absolutely. See how quickly you answered that because he
(32:03):
shown that this year. Had you asked me that last year,
I wouldn't said yes, But classical would have said coming
to the same dry class and that one listen, listen,
listen season Hey after after last year, Plexico would have
said that Trevor Lawrence wasn't. I would have said he was,
but now because he they got pieces around now and
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he had better coaching, better coaching he is now. Is
that a fact or non fact? Hey? Well, if we're
gonna do that, then the first two years of a
Grey three hadn't watched. He was a franchise, the franchise.
He was on it, he was on his way. He
was the franchise. You said one season, he was the
franchise until hello, he not have knocked his knee off
of his body. Shouldn't have been playing, he was ald,
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shouldn't have been playing, knocked his knee right off his body.
So you're saying Trevor Lawrence isn't one. Hey, you're saying
he isn't one. Mr Burns, he had one good season.
I didn't. Actually is he one? That's what Lai? Is
he one? No? Oh my god, that guy that's gonna
be a bad one right there, Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence
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isn't Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence the top five quarterback right now? Man?
If he's not, then god dang, justin fields on the
franchise guy is talking about the weather in Chicago. Yes,
he's get what he was talking about a first of
all weather. By the time they finished building the stadium
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with dome on, you probably won't be there anyway. Let's
just say that I think what he said and plying
is that listen the numbers that he is putting up
and versus the quarterbacks that are playing and domes in
these nice weather Chicago is not that kind of environment.
He's a franchise quarterback for the Bears because his style
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of play fits Chicago and the weather and the elements.
He had six wins out of seven games that franchise.
That's franchise. But Bryce Young is not gonna come in
there and just flip the whole organization and they're gonna
be okay. Maybe he is before we go to break.
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Before we go to break, Ryan, do you have the
results from the Super Bowl, guy Plexic from up on Game,
down on Game for the results. Well, only one of
you picked the outcome of the game correctly, and that
was Plaxico. He did that by default because we picked
the Eagles and he gone first. He would have gone Eagles.
(34:33):
What about A J. Brown? Okay? Uh, well yeah, you
and t J both had a J's prop correct um plaques.
You got Travis Kelsey's prop correct. Uh, t J, you
got the game total correct. You also had the the
James Harden having more threees than MBS receptions. Of course,
we do have to mention that Plaxico's m v P
pick was Mark wes walda scantling who had zero. So
(35:00):
I got Kelsey, I got the game, and I got
a J. Brown. And I remember myself saying the Kansas
City Chiefs will win this game. Whoever win this game,
it will be by three points. And I said that
in the Kansas City Seats won by three man. This
is up on Game. Did not that stretched arms strong?
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He delivered some hell of five picks on Up on Game,
Down on Game. T J has been consistent as well.
Apparently I just ain't nothing at all, and they these picks.
But you know, there's always next year, and I'm gonna
come back strong, bitch ass. And speaking of coming back strong,
we're gonna come back in the dark. And if you
(35:41):
ain't know what coming back in the dark man, well
you're gonna have to sit tight and stay tuned to
find out what exactly that I meant by sitting in
the dark. For the last segment of I Know It,
I Know It. It is up on Game, that is
t J. Hutchmon's Ida, that is, It's Plexico. Burt Olaviarrington
will be right back Fox Sports Radio. Hi, this is
(36:01):
Jay Glazer. And you may know me for the world
of football or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers.
Well you don't know is for my entire life, I
have lived in something I refer to as the Great
depression anxiety. So now I'm coming out with a new podcast, Unbreakable,
a mental health podcast with Jay Glazer, where each week
when we talk about mental health, I hope to describe it,
(36:23):
give it words. Listen, to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer on
the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you
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Welcome back into up on games, Lavarrington. It's t J.
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(36:46):
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got Jonas Knocks coming up next, so make sure you
(37:08):
stay tuned in. But before we go, we gotta touch
on your boy, Aaron Rodgers. Was he going into the dark?
Was he not going into the dark? What type of
deal is this? His whole? Uh? You know what is this? Call? Ryan?
What is it? Let us know what it is and
what's the accuracy? We got some sound on it. But Ryan,
(37:30):
what what what's going on with this? Uh? Aaron and
his darkness retreat? Yes, oh it's a darkness retreat. I
mean is is that? Is that his dating preference or
is it I mean, what what? What? What does darkness
really mean? Right here? Right now? What does that mean?
I believe it's it is quite literally a dark room,
and that he will just sit in for four days,
(37:52):
for four days, yes, where they will bring him food
through a little slot and he'll he'll eat, but he
will mostly just be sitting there in darkness. Somebody's it
it sounded like being in jail and being in what
is it solitary confinement? Man, y'all heard what Aaron Rodgers
said about that, right, y'all heard what he say. Let's
listen to what he had to say. I have no
(38:13):
problem they didn't Rappaport schefter. I think they're really good
their jobs. When it comes to me, they don't know,
they really don't. They don't have people in my inner
circle who are sources. I can promise you that, and
anybody who would talk to them is not in my
inner circle. It's that simple. Uh. That's in regards to
him going into the retreat, the darkness retreat. I do
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believe you get candles in this room. You just don't
have any electricity or anything like that. Why do you
guys think he's doing this? I mean, we got two minutes.
But why do you guys think Aaron Rodgers is doing this? Listen, man,
you heard what the packer said. They are disgusted with
Aaron Rodgers. They fed up. I guess to fill in
his mutual whether he's doing this or not. He said,
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nobody knows in the media what he's one because his
inner circle on deal with the media. So we had
it for a divorce. It's just where will Aaron Rodgers land.
It's a it's done, it's a done. Deaf report has
come out. They said they're discussion, they're tired Aaron Rodgers.
He's good, it's gone, and now it's gonna lessen the
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value of what they get back in return because they've
already put this out. So let's see where the Aaron
Rodgers sweep stakes take us and and Rodgers sweep stakes
are gonna take us to Las Vegas. I've been saying
that for quite some time. And Rogers says that uh
adam chef, nobody is speaking to him. They don't know
(39:39):
bleep about what's going on because they don't speak to
him in his inner circle. Aaron Rodgers is doing this
because he can get away with it, and it's Aaron Rodgers,
he's still going to be one of the elite quarterbacks
wherever he ends up next season. But um, his tenuon
Green Baby is over, and where he ends up, I
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don't anybody really knows. And wherever he goes, um, he's
still gonna be in Rodinson, but I believe that's going
to be Las Vegas. Well, Aaron, I know you can't
hear us because well, you're sitting in the darkness right now.
But whatever it is that you're seeking and you're searching
for in that dark room with your candles and your
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food coming through the whole, I hope that is productive.
I hope you find happiness and I hope you come
out with what you got. All Right, it's up on game.
We appreciate you'all. Stay tuned the Jinus knocks. We'll be
next week.
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