December 14, 2024 • 39 mins
LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress talk about Bill Belichick accepting the job to be the next head coach at North Carolina, 49ers LB D’Vondre Campbell quitting on his team in the middle of a game and their thoughts on that, well wishes for NFL legend Randy Moss, and more!
#fsrweekends #2pros
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is up on game.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me putch on pick, let me putch out on
the team.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You want thatfl experience, and this is the show for you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Third Law with LeVar ary Tet as a defensive guy, TJ.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hushman Zana.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm just bringing the viewers into how grown men in
the locker room, like I don't play with some dude
that you disrespect them anyway, it didn't matter who it
was they was putting hands on you and Plaxico Burrows, they.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Are the same person, the same exact quarterback.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's a show with three.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm the best to ever do it on and off
the field. And now live from the tai iraq dot
com studios of Fox Sports Radio, here's pro bowlers LeVar
ary Te, TJ Hushman, Zanna, and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burres.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
All right, all right, all right, okay, Happy Saturday to
everybody out there.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It is up on game. It is TJ.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hushman's outa we got stretched. Plex will be joining us shortly.
We are broadcasting live from the tyrack dot com studios.
Tyrack dot com will help you get there an unmatched selection,
free road, free shipping, and free road hazard protection. And
over ten thousand recommended installers tyraq dot com. The way
(01:26):
tire buying should be. We got a lot to get
to today, some real interesting topics of conversation. We'll touch
on advice for guys out there that may find themselves
in the same situation as one successful Travis Hunter of
the Colorado Buffs. We'll touch on well to play or
(01:50):
not to play an improper context? Is this considered quitting?
What is it considered? I don't know, but we're gonna
talk about it. Yeah, that's called a tease. But before
we talk about this first topic, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
How you doing? DJ?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We ain't had it last weekend, so I know you
was handling business well better yet crew was handling business.
How did that? How did that end up turning out?
We went out the arena and Nevada. Man, we didn't
lose a game.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My son played us playing AU basketball, so it's to
made hoop circuit Nike. We went out there and went
to work. Bro Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Cruse obviously stilled like the catalysts of the team.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Is he still taller than everybody?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah? I mean you know what he Our team is
well balanced. I'm never gonna say my son is a catalyst.
Our team is well balanced. We got a lot of
good players on our team. We're true ten year olds. Man,
I did. What I don't like about the basketball thing
is you got some kids that's in the fifth grade
about to turn twelve years old, like you got kids
(02:58):
in the sixth grade. They older than everybody, but they burned.
Like to me, they need to just make it very simple.
If I choose to play my kid up, let me
play my kid up. But there should not be older
kids playing with younger kids because their parents are holding
them back at an early age. It's idiotic, man, it's idiotic.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
We have to have a segment on that bring some
guys on to really talk about that because it's not
fair and it's a disadvantage to the younger kid who
are actually their age.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Right and trying to develop.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yay, we're so I don't like. The best teams on
the West Coast are US Paul George Elite and Vegas Elite.
Those best teams on the West coast at least that
I've seen. And one of the teams they didn't have
a kid playing and he's normally a starter, but he
was sitting on the bench, and I'm like, why is
(03:57):
this dude not playing? No, no, no, no, he's always
he always plays with him. This kid I'm talking about
kind of find out man, this dude is about to
turn twelve years old. Man, my son teen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Uh so they yeah, you know my kids they do
that in football too. Dude, and the kid put one
on our kids. They had to take him on an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
LeVar.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
He was like turning sixteen forward.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
When you play when you play down at this level,
it's a huge difference. Yeah, you like when you get
to the I get it. When you get to the
eighth grade, you may have a fifteen year old playing
against a thirteen year old. But when you play down
in this third, four, fifth, sixth, seventh grade, it matters
(04:43):
so much, so much that one year year and a
half matters so much. But I want to touch on
this real quick to this way off subject. Andy. Do
y'all remember in September when this one guy that does
this show would have said that a PAC twelfth team
will win the ten. Not doing this today, Remember that
(05:06):
I said a PAC twelfth team would win the Big
ten and the Big twelve. Lo and behold what happened?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All I'm gonna say is all I'm gonna say is
Phil Knight. Oh okay, all right, we want Hey Phil Knight,
put put the kebash on on that big ten man.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Because I'm telling you what, there was.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Some really like there was like two big calls that
should have been called man that dictated that will come
of that game.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's all I'm gonna leave it at that. It was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It was a game.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It was a game.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Look, look, not a believe I'm gonna say this. I'm
gonna just say this, TJ. I watched the way they played.
It was a very simple game plan. We should have
adjusted a little bit better, quicker, quicker than what we did.
But once we adjusted, the game was a game. And
on fourth, fourth and five, TJ. You can't have a
(05:54):
dude run at the top of his break and push
the dude with both hands and then break inside to
get to get I'm gonna say Penn State played.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
About as good as they could play offensively. They can.
They can't play any better than.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
That defense we we adjusted to. It was too late.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Of a door. Carter. Oh my god, that dude was
a monster. Hey, what is it about the dudes that
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That broad Hey it is you know, you know, talent
for receivers and quarterbacks and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Okay, have I been wrong yet? Though?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Honestly, like about this, he's going up on the wall.
How many eleven since since I been part of helping
choose and select who wears that number?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You did make me aware of Micah and so I started.
You did do that. You made me aware of who
Michael Parsons was. I guess when he was nobody in college.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Nobody even knew, nobody was saying anything.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I will agree with you on that one.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He's on the All American wall, he's in the hall.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Way the way you would talk about him prior to
him becoming my of Parsons. I will give you that.
You did make me aware of him.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Okay, So now I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Pay attention to abdual Carter because the boy special man,
pay attention.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
To Abdul Carter.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then there's another sticks coming, there's another sticks in
the wings man. And I'm just telling you. I'm just
telling you, and this might be my finest moment of
mentorship and development of the one that wears that number.
I'm just I'm just saying, you know, hey, y'all gonna
hear about him too at some point. I mean, it's crazy,
y'all won't even recognize Hi. When y'all see him, y'all
(07:34):
won't even recognize him. It's a it's a rap on
on that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, he better better cut that here. That's the
only one. I ain't gonna recognize him, you.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Know, you know that's his thing, Like, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Dude, I'm gonna recognize him. Then.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, he's so so deaf man.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But hey, look, speaking of Big Ten Championship and all
that old other stuff, well there's a coach that landed
in the AC and he's taken over you and see.
And my biggest question here is with the hire of
Bill Belichick landing and you know in the University of
(08:12):
North Carolina Tar Hills Country.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Does this change?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is this now saying foreshadowing what's to come for college
football in this nil space? To me, bill Belichick accepting
a job to North Carolina fellas. I gotta say, there
ain't no way that man went in there to lose.
That's first and foremost. Secondly, if you think for two
seconds he didn't already have his funding lined up for
(08:41):
how he's gonna do and fund what he's doing at
the University of USC and they were aware of it
that you'd be crazy to think that he doesn't have
the companies and the advertisers lined up to follow him
there to turn them into a major player in the
NIL space.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is this where this is going?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Because there are a lot all the influential people out
there that could go to a college. Hell, if it
don't work out for p and Las Vegas man f
the NFL, I mean, and if NIL is going in
a direction where Bill Belichick is going to take a
job at the college ranks, then you'd have to assume
going to a major college, a college that can can
(09:21):
offer the real estate where you can bring in advertisers
and bring in major donors, bring in investors to buy
into that school.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why not look at college?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean, when you look at Bill Belichick, one nobody
goes in any situation feeling like I'm not going to
be successful. And when you look at Bill on Inside
the NFL with Ryan Clark, Chris Long and Chad and
you see him on a Pat McAfee show, the Bill Belichick,
(09:56):
that we the perception we had of And when he
was with New England and how the players that played
for him may have seen how he was as That's
not gonna work in college. Bro, that's not gonna work. Now.
Can he be the guy that we've seen on inside
the NFL, the guy that we've seen on the Pat
(10:19):
McAfee show. That guy works because now you're you're personable,
You're showing your personality. But the calling guys out meetings
and just seem like you're being mean to players. That's
not gonna work in today's college football with today's athlete,
and so I'm eager to see how that goes. They're
(10:41):
always going to have an advantage defensively. He is so
good of a defensive coach that I believe North Carolina
will always have an advantage from that perspective. But if
you don't have the players, it doesn't matter how much
of an advantage you have. Because he's shown us offensively
that he felt like he was smarter than everybody by
(11:03):
naming Matt Patrician Joe Judge off co offensive coordinators. We
see how that turned out, but I'm excited to see
how the greatest defensive coach we've ever seen, how he
will fare in the world of college football, how he
will fare in the world of college recruiting in il
(11:23):
because this is a personality type of I want to
be able to like you, I want to be able
to play for you. And he will get kids because
he's Bill Belichick. But he's also yes, because he's just
everybody's thinking NFL, NFL, NFL. But he may lose kids
also because he's Bill Belichick. In the perception of what
(11:45):
he was in New England? Is he going to be
that in North Carolina?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Tej I agree with you defensively because I believe that's
where his greatest advantage is going to be, because he
is a great defensive mine. But offensively, I think you're
looking at it completely wrong because what high school quarterback
coming out of high school would not want to be
(12:11):
coached by Bill Belichick. He he's going to bring in players,
I think athletically better than some.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Of the players that they had in New England.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
There are players coming out of high school right now
that are going to be better athletes and better quarterbacks
than Tom Brady was. And I think he sold it
the right way. He said, if I was to run
a college program, it is going to be a pipeline
for players to go to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He said, he sells it and it kind of.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Takes me to Calipari and what he did, what he
has done over his career at Memphis, at Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And if you're a player coming in.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Why but I do not want to be coached by
Bill Belichick And he is going to have a staff,
I would say that they are going to be NFL
players or coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're not going to be.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Coaches on his staff that are in college or whatever
the case may be. They're going to be the tie
Laws of the world or Richard Seymour to Teddy Bruski's.
These guys are going to be getting mentorship from an
NFL perspective. So if you're a player coming out of
high school and then he says that, oh man, Bill
(13:35):
Belichick is the coach that my favorite college that I
want to go to. You want to see, why would
you not want to go there and play for him?
And knowing that you are going to be taught the
game of football in the finest fashion. So I think
if you're a quarterback, if you're the best quarterback coming
out of college high school, you might not want to
(13:58):
go to Colorado, the more you might not want to
go to Georgia. You know what I am going to
learn under Bill Belichick, and everybody's talking about the Patriot way.
I think he understands that he is going to have
to tone his rhetoric down as a coach going to
the college level.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But man, if I'm an offensive player, who if Ty
Law is coaching.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Me or Lloyd Mallat, whoever he hires from from from
from a staff, these guys are going to be taught
the game of football from now.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What if he don't, what if there's not one former
player that played for him on staff? It does what
you're saying change how you feel? Man?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
How many how many players or coaches are not going
to answer the phone when Bill Pelichek picks up the
phone say, man, I want you to be my linebackers coach.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Who you think he's going to hire?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
He is going to hire great teachers and former players
and guys who are sitting at home who have coached.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
In the NFL.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
They are going to run at the opportunity for Bill
Belichick and the coaches football team.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I definitely think that he's done a lot to rehab
his image by being in the media, so we'll see
how that all plays out. It's a big conversation. I
wish we had more time to talk about it, but
we don't. Coming up next, this is up on Game
and we are live from the Tyraq dot com studios.
We're gonna talk to play or not to play. Something
(15:31):
happened in the forty nine ers game. Maybe you saw it,
maybe you didn't. Maybe you heard about it, maybe you didn't,
But we're gonna talk about it on the other side
of this break. All right, that is t J. Huschman's
out it. That is Plexico Burus. I am LeVar Arrington.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Here, come Santa Claus, Here, come Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Man. You sound like you fit right in on that
song or.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Did you say did you pick your boy?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow? Hey man?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Welcome back. It Up on a Game. We are live
from the tyrack dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Stee J.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Huchman's eyes, Plexico burst at LeVar Airy. We will get
to our boy. We heard uh We heard Plexico touch
on it last weekend, and we'll touch a little bit
more on it again. We'll talk about a legend and
and what you know, well what that has to do
with college football tonight being a big night in the
(16:44):
sport of college football. But first, let's talk a little
bit about this forty nine er situation payoff to tease.
They lost to the Rams on Thursday night. Football wasn't pretty.
It was a defensive struggle. At one point in the game.
Mid game, Uh, deve Andre Campbell was was asked to
go into the game a linebacker, a starter for most
(17:08):
of the year, based upon Dre Greenlaw not being available
yet from a season ending injury that, if people recall,
took place before he even really got to get going
in the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, he returns uh and and
Campbell was was basically now a backup. But I guess
(17:31):
he was having a little pain or whatever he needed
to come out. They wanted deve Andre uh to go in,
and he didn't go in. Not only did he not
go in, but then he left the sideline and and
that was that asked about it. Uh, you know, we
don't even need to use the sound but Basically, Shanahan
was asked about are you nervous about losing your players
(17:52):
and or any more players? His response basically was, I'm
not worried about or concerned about losing my locker room
or any of my players. We know how we feel
about that. This is just one guy that that quit
on his team when his team needed him.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
How do you guys view that? I mean, in.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Context, I can understand I can't really justify figure out
a way to justify it. In my mind, I would
never I would never take a personal feeling towards how
something played out when I knew what the scenario was
coming in when they brought me in Campbell. It should
be mentioned it's not a young guy. He's been in
(18:30):
for for He's a veteran. He's been in for a
while and and I think it was made very clear
to him when he came to the team why he
was being brought to the team, and that was to
get them through until Greenlaw got back. How how do
you guys, how'd you guys read this situation and how
it played.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Man, I'm gonna look at it from a player perspective,
from Campbell's perspective, Greenlaw goes down. Everybody know what happened
to him in the Super Bowl. He gets injured running
off the running on the field, coming off, he tests killers,
He comes in, he starts basically every game and he's
the second leading tackle only to Fred Ward or seventy
(19:07):
nine tackles. Green Law's healthy, He's able to come back. Hey, man,
you ain't starting to night were putting in green Law?
You know what, I'm not mad at him because everybody's
saying that he quit on the team between the team
quit on him because we've always known and said that
(19:27):
you shouldn't lose your you know, your position to injury.
But we're talking about twelve thirteen games into the season.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Season.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, and now I'm the second leading tackle on the team.
I signed a one year dial for five years, and
now I'm not good enough based off of where we
are as a football team. And now everybody's calling this
man selfish. Man, I put in this league for twelve years.
You're not just gonna treat me any kind of way
(19:55):
as a player and as a man. And everybody saying
are see Ryan included saying that it's a brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
We get it. We understand he should never play football. Again.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I get it, we understand, but I feel the samis
before the knowlers.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You have two decisions.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You can spend this suspend them without pay, or you
can release them. Cut him and he'll be arms the
free agent. Has any of those things happened yet.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We haven't heard anything of the sort, right, So I
would have thought he would have been I would you
than I need you.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You need me more than I need you.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And I'm not mad at him because I've seen things
happen in this business and these This is something from
from a personal player standpoint, like dog, you not just
gonna treat me like any kind of way.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Difference, that's the difference between today's athlete. Like the Ravens
suspended their receiver Deontay Johnson for basically the same exact thing.
He refused to enter the game Week thirteen lost to
the Eagles. They wanted Deontay to go into the game,
he refused to go in new game. I'm just adding
that to it. This is a different type of athlete.
This is a different type of era time where athletes
(21:13):
are more empowered and they're allowed to be more empowered.
We wouldn't have had these types of conversations. Back when
we played, it was a different type of It was
a different type of atmosphere and how things were perceived
and received that way.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Listen man, when he came Devondre Campbell, when he was
with the Green Bay Packers, he played his entire career
with the Packers before he goes to the Niners. He
was a captain. He was a captain of the Green
Bay Packers. As I saw the sea on his chest
when he played with the Packers. When he signs with
(21:52):
the San Francisco forty nine Ers, he knew what he
was signing up for. You're going to be the starter
until green Law comes back. The whole week of practice.
You think, what the whole the whole week of practice?
You don't think You don't think GREENLG got all the
starter reps. So he knew exactly what it was the
(22:15):
whole week of practice. So now why are you surprised
in the game come game time, because we all know
how it works. In practice, the one's gonna get You're
getting eighty five percent of the reps. So why now
during the game when we need you, the game was
in the balance, we needed you, and you do that
as a player. If he was on my team, I
(22:38):
would have been mad because the game is still there
to be won. We need you. Broh. I get it.
You can be upset, but now this is your opportunity
to show you should have been playing this whole game anyway.
But TJ, can you blame him? Though? Him? If I'm him,
(22:58):
you come from the earth that week I'm from. No, no, no,
that's what I'm saying. I don't I'm going in to
play me. But I will say this, I can't blame him.
But if I'm a teammate, I don't want him on
my team no more because we needed you, bro, and
that way we needed you and you weren't there like that.
(23:19):
To me, that's the worst part about it. It wasn't
like they just asked him going you was gonna play
the rest of the game. We had nobody else. Greenlaw
went back in because you wouldn't go in, and he
knew he was hurt. He went back in and he
knew he was.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Hurt and knew he was the reason why it happened too. Though.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's that's got to keep that he's the reason why
it happened. That's so weak, Bro, for you to because Ultimately,
football is an ultimate team game. But we also got
to think about me first.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
That that's that's a hard that's the hard reality out.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But if you're thinking about me first, he has to
be self aware. He has to know when he makes
his decision, his career might be over. So if you're
thinking about me first, me is about to be out
the league because if the Niners suspend him, you're not costly.
That's gonna because now they can come back and get
sign up on this money. So not only do you
(24:21):
not lose, you're not make the money you're supposed to
make the rest of the season. You paying back money now. Well,
he hasn't made any very clear that he it doesn't
matter to him. Okay, well that's fine, because it don't matter.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I don't want that. I don't want that type of
teammate either though.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I don't want him. I don't want him on my
team because it's.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
A hard that.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's a hard company, it's a hard it's a hard
subject to come to a conclusion on because if you've
been rocking out with him for for all this time
during the course of the season, and he has been
a positive contributor to the to the effect of being
second on the team in tackles. He he's been productive,
and so it's a hard that's a hard pill to swallow.
(25:05):
And maybe it didn't hit him emotionally how much it
bothered him that they turned away from him at that
point in if.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He was playing that great, he wouldn't have they wouldn't
have brought Grange Street lawn and made him a starter immediately.
If he was playing that great, green Law would have
come off the bench. So obviously we're talking about that
four and eight five and eight football. No, no, no, no,
that's not going to the playoffs. And he's second tackles
(25:34):
to Fred war. Being second tackles doesn't Being second in
tackles doesn't mean you're playing well. What that means you're
playing well. That was playing well.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Then it's a six one team there at the bottom
of of the the conference and the visions. But but
with that being said, there are only two games away
from the divisional leader in the in the Seahawks, So
in some type of weird ass way, they actually are
still in the They could still possibly.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I don't know if they could still possibly win it.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
If they're eliminated officially, but I mean it's still a
competitive division because there's not a super, super dominant team
in the division. So I would assume they're still playing
for an opportunity to make it to the playoffs. And
at green Law, green Law as a dog like I'm sorry, Look,
I know who you know. I've seen I've seen the
(26:30):
young man play like I've seen the and andre A
play like you mentioned while he was in Green Bay.
But I mean, I get if I get one of
my dogs back, when I have green Law and I
have Warner out there at the same time, there's no
way you can debate that this is a better team.
And if it's taking this long for him to get
back out there, I would assume they waited long enough
(26:52):
for him to feel as comfortable and as as ready
to go as he possibly could. I'm putting him back in.
You know how I'm putting back in.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You know how uncomfortable that would have been if it
was a road game, him getting on that plane. You
know how comfortable that would have been if they had
played on the road. I mean it would have been.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Imagine how it feels all weeks in the meeting room
knowing that this guy is coming back. I've been I've
been a started for thirteen weeks. Well, and that's what
I'm saying. You had a whole week.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You had a whole week to understand what was going on,
man like, you had a.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Whole internalized to digest it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah that you was getting man like, I just can't.
You can't do this, man, man that decision on Monday
to Wednesday. When he saw that game plan. They went
out there on Wednesday with short yardish and he like,
hold up, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Getting I got benched. Hey, listen, I got benched.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
For warck holeman, my my last year in Washington, and
I love WARP to death.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Like dope teammate, We're dope teammates.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I should have still been I should have been a
starter on the team at the time, Like not any debate.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I should have been starting.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I got benched for purposes outside of reasons, outside of
the game. But if I dressed, if I was ready
to play, I was going to play. I was going
to play. And I'll say this when I'm in a
moment of I'm putting on and maybe this is like
a different mentality, but you know it is what it is.
(28:24):
If you ask me when you are in a sport
where when you're putting on your uniform, I'm literally like
putting on my armor, Like I'm not putting on some pads.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'm putting on like warrior gear.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I'm a samurai getting I'm getting ready to go to
I'm going to battle. I'm going to get it in.
And I'm not an army. I am an army of one,
but I'm an army with my like I'm with an army.
Like we going out here and we're going together. And
I don't care if a coach is not going to
(29:02):
dictate me putting my best foot forward, they will never
And I'll say this out there to all the young
guys because sometimes things like this can be misconstrued and misinterpreted.
And what is what is being a kid that needs
to be hungry, stay hungry, stay ready, stay available, versus
being like catered to and being treated a certain type
(29:25):
of way. Hey, listen here, you put your best foot
forward every single time, because that's representation of who you are,
of what you do, of what you bring to the table.
And sometimes you don't have the best of circumstances that
are surrounding what you're doing. But Nonetheless, you put those
things to the side because that's what you represent. And
(29:48):
I'm not going to give somebody the opportunity to say
they took me out of character with what it is
that I represent.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Especially especially, I don't care if.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's just one person in that locker room that I'm
I have such an accountability for. I don't care if
it's one because something, the whole teammate thing can be missed,
it can like that can be misused. But if I
have one dude and not just one that I have
accountability for at the highest level, I'm going out there
and I'm going I'm gonna be ready because I know
(30:16):
what that represents to be be together and what that
you know to me, how I can look at him
and he can look at me and we feel good
about us being a team. I ain't never gonna turn
my back on you, no matter even if these dudes
are trying to come in between us. I'm not going
to turn my back on you if it's just one.
So to me, I kind of felt like it was
(30:37):
you know, to me, it was selfish. It was selfish,
and I don't I've tried to find ways to justify
it in my mind as.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
To why you would do it. I can't. I can't
seem to find a place to land on it.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So young dudes out there, whatever the circumstances are, you
signed up for it. And if it's not breaking the law,
if it's about team, if it's about team, you put
your best foot for man, make sure you put your
best foot forward. And speaking of putting your best foot forward,
let's get it update from Isaac Low and Crown.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
What you got my guy?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Well LaVar the Kansas City Chiefs putting their best foot
forward as the Super Bowl champions have activated place kicker
Harrison Butker off of injured reserve for tomorrow's game and Cleveland,
they therefore waved placekicker Matthew Wright.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Chiefs also get a chance to walk off.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I'm Davids the NFL Special Teams Player of the Week.
I mean, that's that's life. All you do is kick
the game winning field goal to win the division, then
go there and get wave. I'm man, high standards.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He ain't get it in. She got waved, he got way.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
He ain't get a chance to walk off the sideline.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Talk about high standards, you know, I mean he made
the field goal. But they're like, yeah, but you banked
it in off the upright, so you gotta go baby.
They also rolled out left tackle Dj Humphries for a
Sunday's game because of a hamstring injury. The Browns, meanwhile,
have just activated defensive tackle Mike Hall from injured reserve
and elevated placekicker Riley Patterson from the practice squad. Baseball,
multiple outlets report that the Aids are acquiring left handed
(31:58):
pitcher Jeffrey Springs from the Tampa Bay Raised College football
Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold has transferred to Auburn. Arnold started
nine games this past season for the Sooners. Cover it
up at three pm Eastern the Army Navy game from Landover,
Maryland with number twenty two Army at eleven and one
at Navy at eight and three. Then tonight at eight
(32:18):
pm Eastern, Heisman Trophy will be awarded the finalist Organs,
Dylan Gabriel, Colorados, Travis Hunter, Ashton genty of Boise State,
and Miami's Cam war That's what's trending. I'm Devondre Campbell.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Nice all right, sn dropped the Mike, Okay, I mean
there if any if anybody's supposed to do it.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It's supposed to be Isaac. Listen, we're gonna take a
quick break.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
On the other side of the break, you know, we're
gonna we're gonna touch on Heisman candidates, you know. And
one who was a Heisman candidate that Plex touched on
last week was Randy Moss. I don't know if we
have enough time to give it all the credit or
what it deserves, but we'll touch on that and we'll
talk Heisman. Maybe we'll take it in the hour two
as well. But you're listening to Up on Game. It
(33:07):
is Plex, Cooburst, it is t. J. Huschman's auDA, and
it's myself LeVar Arrington is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
All right, Welcome back into the show. This is Up
on Game is Fox Sports Radio. Shortly after the show,
our podcast will be going up, and if you missed
any of today show, well be sure to check it
out on the podcast. Just search up on Game wherever
it is you get your podcasts, and be sure to follow,
rate and review the podcast as well. Again, just search
up on Game wherever it is you get your podcast from,
(33:35):
and you'll see today's show post it right after we
get off of the air, all right. We had a
couple different things I wanted to touch on. We don't
have a whole lot of time, but obviously last week
you had alluded to and sent a prayer in a
shout out to Randy Moss. I just want to give you, guys.
Obviously it's since come out that he is he was
diagnosed with cancer and has been getting treatments on the
(33:57):
heels of the Heisman, the Heisman being awarded this evening.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I'll just start off super.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Quickly and get out of the way, but yet shots
out to you, love and prayers to you, Big Moss,
and listen, I appreciate when us as warriors really really
make ourselves vulnerable enough to tell people I know, I
just got a colonoscope, maybe like a couple months ago,
maybe three four months ago, and people are like, I
(34:25):
appreciate you being open enough to say you should go
get checked up. Listen, go get checked up, man, because
it could be the difference between you being here for
your loved ones or not. And it sounds as though
they detected what he had going on early enough to
give him the treatment. So I hope all is well
with him, and I hope that you have a speedy recovery,
(34:45):
my guy.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, man, it's it's unfortunate, but when you're in the battle,
you gotta fight. And so hopefully he'll get through this.
I don't understand, and I'll never understand, at least I
hope I won't what he's going through. But obviously prayers.
You know, he's gonna fight, He not just gonna give up,
(35:07):
and you just hope him and his family can get
through this. It just it's just so unfortunate. Man. Like
when you're younger and you feel anything, you like, I'm good.
But as you start, as we have, you start to
get older, you feel anything I know I do. I'm like, man,
I wonder what could this be? You just get it's
(35:30):
like a nervousness. It's just so weird and odd about
when things may bother you. When you're younger, you don't
think anything of it, though, I'm gonna be all right,
And as soon as you get older, man, at least
for me, just things start to cross your mind. Man.
I hope Moss pulls through with this. I believe he will.
(35:50):
I'm praying that he will, and him and his family,
you know, can get through this. Rough patch in his life. Yeah, man,
that's my dog.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
We go back a long time. Man.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Him coming out of West Virginia. I'm in Virginia, and
you know, we share the same you know, the passion
of fishing. Man that had the opportunity to fish with him,
you know, last spring, last summer, and you just never
know what anybody's going through.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Man.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
And if you were a wide receiver coming up in
the two thousands, if you played the position, you wanted
to be like Moss. I mean, it was just I've
never had the opportunity to, you know, watch Jerry Rice
in person. Everybody knows that he's the goat man, but
he was the finest, purest wide receiver man that you
(36:42):
ever wanted to see. And I was coming out of
high school and I was the one receiver in the country.
And Bob Prue was a coach at Marshall and I
had no idea who Randy was. They was like, oh, man,
this guy from West Virginia. Man, he's better than you.
I was like, man, there's nowhere in the hell there's
no way on playing it that's better than me. And
(37:04):
I go to uh get my visit to go to
Marshall and it starts snowing, so I don't take the
trip to Marshall. And we had the opportunity to actually
play on the same football field together. Uh you know,
coming out of high school, Man, it would you couldn't
(37:25):
imagine what that, what happened, what that would have been like.
It would have been sick. But but man, shout out
to Massie. Man, I love you to death. Man, and
you know your dogg Just keep fighting and uh, man,
I see you on the boat soon, hopefully in a
couple of months, you know, getting them stripers in them
blues out the leg out of the ocean. Whatever we
(37:46):
need to do, man, But prayers to him and his
family and marsh Man.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Just keep fighting, baby. Uh uh.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
You know we don't have enough time to talk Heisman
and Travis Hunter. I wanted to throw that get some
advice from you guys for a friend.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
We got to talk about on it.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna
set that one up for the top of the next hour.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
So there, y'all got absolutely we're.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Gonna talk Heisman, We're gonna talk Travis Hunter. You know
he's been blowing up the enter of you know, social media,
uh pages and and and trendings and and all that
good going viral for well relationships. And it's interesting because
he plays with one that has gone through a few
things in relationships and coach Prime and and so I
(38:32):
want to get TJ and in Plexico.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I want to get you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know what we're talking about this. I'm gonna
feel we're.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Gonna hit you in the chance after.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
The break, y'a this one. I'm like what they talking about?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Y'all ready to hear the get some of the smoke
per se. And this ain't Matt Barnes and my boy Stack.
But I tell you what we're gonna We're gonna have
a little smoke. We're gonna walk into the smoke on
this topic. And that's coming up in a matter of moments.
So make sure you stay locked in, tuned in. This
is up on game, that is TJ, that's plex Ave LeVar,
this is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Stay locked in.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We'll be right back
This is up on game.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let me putch on pick, let me putch out on
the team.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You want thatfl experience, and this is the show for you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Third Law with LeVar ary Tet as a defensive guy, TJ.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hushman Zana.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm just bringing the viewers into how grown men in
the locker room, like I don't play with some dude
that you disrespect them anyway, it didn't matter who it
was they was putting hands on you and Plaxico Burrows, they.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Are the same person, the same exact quarterback.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's a show with three.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm the best to ever do it on and off
the field. And now live from the tai iraq dot
com studios of Fox Sports Radio, here's pro bowlers LeVar
ary Te, TJ Hushman, Zanna, and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burres.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
All right, all right, all right, okay, Happy Saturday to
everybody out there.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It is up on game. It is TJ.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hushman's outa we got stretched. Plex will be joining us shortly.
We are broadcasting live from the tyrack dot com studios.
Tyrack dot com will help you get there an unmatched selection,
free road, free shipping, and free road hazard protection. And
over ten thousand recommended installers tyraq dot com. The way
(01:26):
tire buying should be. We got a lot to get
to today, some real interesting topics of conversation. We'll touch
on advice for guys out there that may find themselves
in the same situation as one successful Travis Hunter of
the Colorado Buffs. We'll touch on well to play or
(01:50):
not to play an improper context? Is this considered quitting?
What is it considered? I don't know, but we're gonna
talk about it. Yeah, that's called a tease. But before
we talk about this first topic, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
How you doing? DJ?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We ain't had it last weekend, so I know you
was handling business well better yet crew was handling business.
How did that? How did that end up turning out?
We went out the arena and Nevada. Man, we didn't
lose a game.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
My son played us playing AU basketball, so it's to
made hoop circuit Nike. We went out there and went
to work. Bro Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Cruse obviously stilled like the catalysts of the team.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Is he still taller than everybody?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah? I mean you know what he Our team is
well balanced. I'm never gonna say my son is a catalyst.
Our team is well balanced. We got a lot of
good players on our team. We're true ten year olds. Man,
I did. What I don't like about the basketball thing
is you got some kids that's in the fifth grade
about to turn twelve years old, like you got kids
(02:58):
in the sixth grade. They older than everybody, but they burned.
Like to me, they need to just make it very simple.
If I choose to play my kid up, let me
play my kid up. But there should not be older
kids playing with younger kids because their parents are holding
them back at an early age. It's idiotic, man, it's idiotic.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
We have to have a segment on that bring some
guys on to really talk about that because it's not
fair and it's a disadvantage to the younger kid who
are actually their age.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Right and trying to develop.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yay, we're so I don't like. The best teams on
the West Coast are US Paul George Elite and Vegas Elite.
Those best teams on the West coast at least that
I've seen. And one of the teams they didn't have
a kid playing and he's normally a starter, but he
was sitting on the bench, and I'm like, why is
(03:57):
this dude not playing? No, no, no, no, he's always
he always plays with him. This kid I'm talking about
kind of find out man, this dude is about to
turn twelve years old. Man, my son teen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Uh so they yeah, you know my kids they do
that in football too. Dude, and the kid put one
on our kids. They had to take him on an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
LeVar.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
He was like turning sixteen forward.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
When you play when you play down at this level,
it's a huge difference. Yeah, you like when you get
to the I get it. When you get to the
eighth grade, you may have a fifteen year old playing
against a thirteen year old. But when you play down
in this third, four, fifth, sixth, seventh grade, it matters
(04:43):
so much, so much that one year year and a
half matters so much. But I want to touch on
this real quick to this way off subject. Andy. Do
y'all remember in September when this one guy that does
this show would have said that a PAC twelfth team
will win the ten. Not doing this today, Remember that
(05:06):
I said a PAC twelfth team would win the Big
ten and the Big twelve. Lo and behold what happened?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All I'm gonna say is all I'm gonna say is
Phil Knight. Oh okay, all right, we want Hey Phil Knight,
put put the kebash on on that big ten man.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Because I'm telling you what, there was.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Some really like there was like two big calls that
should have been called man that dictated that will come
of that game.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's all I'm gonna leave it at that. It was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It was a game.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It was a game.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Look, look, not a believe I'm gonna say this. I'm
gonna just say this, TJ. I watched the way they played.
It was a very simple game plan. We should have
adjusted a little bit better, quicker, quicker than what we did.
But once we adjusted, the game was a game. And
on fourth, fourth and five, TJ. You can't have a
(05:54):
dude run at the top of his break and push
the dude with both hands and then break inside to
get to get I'm gonna say Penn State played.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
About as good as they could play offensively. They can.
They can't play any better than.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
That defense we we adjusted to. It was too late.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Of a door. Carter. Oh my god, that dude was
a monster. Hey, what is it about the dudes that
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That broad Hey it is you know, you know, talent
for receivers and quarterbacks and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Okay, have I been wrong yet? Though?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Honestly, like about this, he's going up on the wall.
How many eleven since since I been part of helping
choose and select who wears that number?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You did make me aware of Micah and so I started.
You did do that. You made me aware of who
Michael Parsons was. I guess when he was nobody in college.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Nobody even knew, nobody was saying anything.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I will agree with you on that one.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He's on the All American wall, he's in the hall.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Way the way you would talk about him prior to
him becoming my of Parsons. I will give you that.
You did make me aware of him.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Okay, So now I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Pay attention to abdual Carter because the boy special man,
pay attention.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
To Abdul Carter.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then there's another sticks coming, there's another sticks in
the wings man. And I'm just telling you. I'm just
telling you, and this might be my finest moment of
mentorship and development of the one that wears that number.
I'm just I'm just saying, you know, hey, y'all gonna
hear about him too at some point. I mean, it's crazy,
y'all won't even recognize Hi. When y'all see him, y'all
(07:34):
won't even recognize him. It's a it's a rap on
on that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, he better better cut that here. That's the
only one. I ain't gonna recognize him, you.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Know, you know that's his thing, Like, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Dude, I'm gonna recognize him. Then.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, he's so so deaf man.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But hey, look, speaking of Big Ten Championship and all
that old other stuff, well there's a coach that landed
in the AC and he's taken over you and see.
And my biggest question here is with the hire of
Bill Belichick landing and you know in the University of
(08:12):
North Carolina Tar Hills Country.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Does this change?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Is this now saying foreshadowing what's to come for college
football in this nil space? To me, bill Belichick accepting
a job to North Carolina fellas. I gotta say, there
ain't no way that man went in there to lose.
That's first and foremost. Secondly, if you think for two
seconds he didn't already have his funding lined up for
(08:41):
how he's gonna do and fund what he's doing at
the University of USC and they were aware of it
that you'd be crazy to think that he doesn't have
the companies and the advertisers lined up to follow him
there to turn them into a major player in the
NIL space.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Is this where this is going?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Because there are a lot all the influential people out
there that could go to a college. Hell, if it
don't work out for p and Las Vegas man f
the NFL, I mean, and if NIL is going in
a direction where Bill Belichick is going to take a
job at the college ranks, then you'd have to assume
going to a major college, a college that can can
(09:21):
offer the real estate where you can bring in advertisers
and bring in major donors, bring in investors to buy
into that school.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why not look at college?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean, when you look at Bill Belichick, one nobody
goes in any situation feeling like I'm not going to
be successful. And when you look at Bill on Inside
the NFL with Ryan Clark, Chris Long and Chad and
you see him on a Pat McAfee show, the Bill Belichick,
(09:56):
that we the perception we had of And when he
was with New England and how the players that played
for him may have seen how he was as That's
not gonna work in college. Bro, that's not gonna work. Now.
Can he be the guy that we've seen on inside
the NFL, the guy that we've seen on the Pat
(10:19):
McAfee show. That guy works because now you're you're personable,
You're showing your personality. But the calling guys out meetings
and just seem like you're being mean to players. That's
not gonna work in today's college football with today's athlete,
and so I'm eager to see how that goes. They're
(10:41):
always going to have an advantage defensively. He is so
good of a defensive coach that I believe North Carolina
will always have an advantage from that perspective. But if
you don't have the players, it doesn't matter how much
of an advantage you have. Because he's shown us offensively
that he felt like he was smarter than everybody by
(11:03):
naming Matt Patrician Joe Judge off co offensive coordinators. We
see how that turned out, but I'm excited to see
how the greatest defensive coach we've ever seen, how he
will fare in the world of college football, how he
will fare in the world of college recruiting in il
(11:23):
because this is a personality type of I want to
be able to like you, I want to be able
to play for you. And he will get kids because
he's Bill Belichick. But he's also yes, because he's just
everybody's thinking NFL, NFL, NFL. But he may lose kids
also because he's Bill Belichick. In the perception of what
(11:45):
he was in New England? Is he going to be
that in North Carolina?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Tej I agree with you defensively because I believe that's
where his greatest advantage is going to be, because he
is a great defensive mine. But offensively, I think you're
looking at it completely wrong because what high school quarterback
coming out of high school would not want to be
(12:11):
coached by Bill Belichick. He he's going to bring in players,
I think athletically better than some.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Of the players that they had in New England.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
There are players coming out of high school right now
that are going to be better athletes and better quarterbacks
than Tom Brady was. And I think he sold it
the right way. He said, if I was to run
a college program, it is going to be a pipeline
for players to go to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He said, he sells it and it kind of.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Takes me to Calipari and what he did, what he
has done over his career at Memphis, at Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And if you're a player coming in.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Why but I do not want to be coached by
Bill Belichick And he is going to have a staff,
I would say that they are going to be NFL
players or coaches.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're not going to be.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Coaches on his staff that are in college or whatever
the case may be. They're going to be the tie
Laws of the world or Richard Seymour to Teddy Bruski's.
These guys are going to be getting mentorship from an
NFL perspective. So if you're a player coming out of
high school and then he says that, oh man, Bill
(13:35):
Belichick is the coach that my favorite college that I
want to go to. You want to see, why would
you not want to go there and play for him?
And knowing that you are going to be taught the
game of football in the finest fashion. So I think
if you're a quarterback, if you're the best quarterback coming
out of college high school, you might not want to
(13:58):
go to Colorado, the more you might not want to
go to Georgia. You know what I am going to
learn under Bill Belichick, and everybody's talking about the Patriot way.
I think he understands that he is going to have
to tone his rhetoric down as a coach going to
the college level.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But man, if I'm an offensive player, who if Ty
Law is coaching.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Me or Lloyd Mallat, whoever he hires from from from
from a staff, these guys are going to be taught
the game of football from now.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What if he don't, what if there's not one former
player that played for him on staff? It does what
you're saying change how you feel? Man?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
How many how many players or coaches are not going
to answer the phone when Bill Pelichek picks up the
phone say, man, I want you to be my linebackers coach.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Who you think he's going to hire?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
He is going to hire great teachers and former players
and guys who are sitting at home who have coached.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
In the NFL.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
They are going to run at the opportunity for Bill
Belichick and the coaches football team.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I definitely think that he's done a lot to rehab
his image by being in the media, so we'll see
how that all plays out. It's a big conversation. I
wish we had more time to talk about it, but
we don't. Coming up next, this is up on Game
and we are live from the Tyraq dot com studios.
We're gonna talk to play or not to play. Something
(15:31):
happened in the forty nine ers game. Maybe you saw it,
maybe you didn't. Maybe you heard about it, maybe you didn't,
But we're gonna talk about it on the other side
of this break. All right, that is t J. Huschman's
out it. That is Plexico Burus. I am LeVar Arrington.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Here, come Santa Claus, Here, come Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Man. You sound like you fit right in on that
song or.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Did you say did you pick your boy?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow? Hey man?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Welcome back. It Up on a Game. We are live
from the tyrack dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Stee J.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Huchman's eyes, Plexico burst at LeVar Airy. We will get
to our boy. We heard uh We heard Plexico touch
on it last weekend, and we'll touch a little bit
more on it again. We'll talk about a legend and
and what you know, well what that has to do
with college football tonight being a big night in the
(16:44):
sport of college football. But first, let's talk a little
bit about this forty nine er situation payoff to tease.
They lost to the Rams on Thursday night. Football wasn't pretty.
It was a defensive struggle. At one point in the game.
Mid game, Uh, deve Andre Campbell was was asked to
go into the game a linebacker, a starter for most
(17:08):
of the year, based upon Dre Greenlaw not being available
yet from a season ending injury that, if people recall,
took place before he even really got to get going
in the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, he returns uh and and
Campbell was was basically now a backup. But I guess
(17:31):
he was having a little pain or whatever he needed
to come out. They wanted deve Andre uh to go in,
and he didn't go in. Not only did he not
go in, but then he left the sideline and and
that was that asked about it. Uh, you know, we
don't even need to use the sound but Basically, Shanahan
was asked about are you nervous about losing your players
(17:52):
and or any more players? His response basically was, I'm
not worried about or concerned about losing my locker room
or any of my players. We know how we feel
about that. This is just one guy that that quit
on his team when his team needed him.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
How do you guys view that? I mean, in.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Context, I can understand I can't really justify figure out
a way to justify it. In my mind, I would
never I would never take a personal feeling towards how
something played out when I knew what the scenario was
coming in when they brought me in Campbell. It should
be mentioned it's not a young guy. He's been in
(18:30):
for for He's a veteran. He's been in for a
while and and I think it was made very clear
to him when he came to the team why he
was being brought to the team, and that was to
get them through until Greenlaw got back. How how do
you guys, how'd you guys read this situation and how
it played.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Man, I'm gonna look at it from a player perspective,
from Campbell's perspective, Greenlaw goes down. Everybody know what happened
to him in the Super Bowl. He gets injured running
off the running on the field, coming off, he tests killers,
He comes in, he starts basically every game and he's
the second leading tackle only to Fred Ward or seventy
(19:07):
nine tackles. Green Law's healthy, He's able to come back. Hey, man,
you ain't starting to night were putting in green Law?
You know what, I'm not mad at him because everybody's
saying that he quit on the team between the team
quit on him because we've always known and said that
(19:27):
you shouldn't lose your you know, your position to injury.
But we're talking about twelve thirteen games into the season.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Season.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, and now I'm the second leading tackle on the team.
I signed a one year dial for five years, and
now I'm not good enough based off of where we
are as a football team. And now everybody's calling this
man selfish. Man, I put in this league for twelve years.
You're not just gonna treat me any kind of way
(19:55):
as a player and as a man. And everybody saying
are see Ryan included saying that it's a brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
We get it. We understand he should never play football. Again.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I get it, we understand, but I feel the samis
before the knowlers.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You have two decisions.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You can spend this suspend them without pay, or you
can release them. Cut him and he'll be arms the
free agent. Has any of those things happened yet.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We haven't heard anything of the sort, right, So I
would have thought he would have been I would you
than I need you.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You need me more than I need you.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And I'm not mad at him because I've seen things
happen in this business and these This is something from
from a personal player standpoint, like dog, you not just
gonna treat me like any kind of way.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Difference, that's the difference between today's athlete. Like the Ravens
suspended their receiver Deontay Johnson for basically the same exact thing.
He refused to enter the game Week thirteen lost to
the Eagles. They wanted Deontay to go into the game,
he refused to go in new game. I'm just adding
that to it. This is a different type of athlete.
This is a different type of era time where athletes
(21:13):
are more empowered and they're allowed to be more empowered.
We wouldn't have had these types of conversations. Back when
we played, it was a different type of It was
a different type of atmosphere and how things were perceived
and received that way.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Listen man, when he came Devondre Campbell, when he was
with the Green Bay Packers, he played his entire career
with the Packers before he goes to the Niners. He
was a captain. He was a captain of the Green
Bay Packers. As I saw the sea on his chest
when he played with the Packers. When he signs with
(21:52):
the San Francisco forty nine Ers, he knew what he
was signing up for. You're going to be the starter
until green Law comes back. The whole week of practice.
You think, what the whole the whole week of practice?
You don't think You don't think GREENLG got all the
starter reps. So he knew exactly what it was the
(22:15):
whole week of practice. So now why are you surprised
in the game come game time, because we all know
how it works. In practice, the one's gonna get You're
getting eighty five percent of the reps. So why now
during the game when we need you, the game was
in the balance, we needed you, and you do that
as a player. If he was on my team, I
(22:38):
would have been mad because the game is still there
to be won. We need you. Broh. I get it.
You can be upset, but now this is your opportunity
to show you should have been playing this whole game anyway.
But TJ, can you blame him? Though? Him? If I'm him,
(22:58):
you come from the earth that week I'm from. No, no, no,
that's what I'm saying. I don't I'm going in to
play me. But I will say this, I can't blame him.
But if I'm a teammate, I don't want him on
my team no more because we needed you, bro, and
that way we needed you and you weren't there like that.
(23:19):
To me, that's the worst part about it. It wasn't
like they just asked him going you was gonna play
the rest of the game. We had nobody else. Greenlaw
went back in because you wouldn't go in, and he
knew he was hurt. He went back in and he
knew he was.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Hurt and knew he was the reason why it happened too. Though.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's that's got to keep that he's the reason why
it happened. That's so weak, Bro, for you to because Ultimately,
football is an ultimate team game. But we also got
to think about me first.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
That that's that's a hard that's the hard reality out.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But if you're thinking about me first, he has to
be self aware. He has to know when he makes
his decision, his career might be over. So if you're
thinking about me first, me is about to be out
the league because if the Niners suspend him, you're not costly.
That's gonna because now they can come back and get
sign up on this money. So not only do you
(24:21):
not lose, you're not make the money you're supposed to
make the rest of the season. You paying back money now. Well,
he hasn't made any very clear that he it doesn't
matter to him. Okay, well that's fine, because it don't matter.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I don't want that. I don't want that type of
teammate either though.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I don't want him. I don't want him on my
team because it's.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
A hard that.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's a hard company, it's a hard it's a hard
subject to come to a conclusion on because if you've
been rocking out with him for for all this time
during the course of the season, and he has been
a positive contributor to the to the effect of being
second on the team in tackles. He he's been productive,
and so it's a hard that's a hard pill to swallow.
(25:05):
And maybe it didn't hit him emotionally how much it
bothered him that they turned away from him at that
point in if.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He was playing that great, he wouldn't have they wouldn't
have brought Grange Street lawn and made him a starter immediately.
If he was playing that great, green Law would have
come off the bench. So obviously we're talking about that
four and eight five and eight football. No, no, no, no,
that's not going to the playoffs. And he's second tackles
(25:34):
to Fred war. Being second tackles doesn't Being second in
tackles doesn't mean you're playing well. What that means you're
playing well. That was playing well.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Then it's a six one team there at the bottom
of of the the conference and the visions. But but
with that being said, there are only two games away
from the divisional leader in the in the Seahawks, So
in some type of weird ass way, they actually are
still in the They could still possibly.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I don't know if they could still possibly win it.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
If they're eliminated officially, but I mean it's still a
competitive division because there's not a super, super dominant team
in the division. So I would assume they're still playing
for an opportunity to make it to the playoffs. And
at green Law, green Law as a dog like I'm sorry, Look,
I know who you know. I've seen I've seen the
(26:30):
young man play like I've seen the and andre A
play like you mentioned while he was in Green Bay.
But I mean, I get if I get one of
my dogs back, when I have green Law and I
have Warner out there at the same time, there's no
way you can debate that this is a better team.
And if it's taking this long for him to get
back out there, I would assume they waited long enough
(26:52):
for him to feel as comfortable and as as ready
to go as he possibly could. I'm putting him back in.
You know how I'm putting back in.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You know how uncomfortable that would have been if it
was a road game, him getting on that plane. You
know how comfortable that would have been if they had
played on the road. I mean it would have been.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Imagine how it feels all weeks in the meeting room
knowing that this guy is coming back. I've been I've
been a started for thirteen weeks. Well, and that's what
I'm saying. You had a whole week.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You had a whole week to understand what was going on,
man like, you had a.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Whole internalized to digest it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah that you was getting man like, I just can't.
You can't do this, man, man that decision on Monday
to Wednesday. When he saw that game plan. They went
out there on Wednesday with short yardish and he like,
hold up, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Getting I got benched. Hey, listen, I got benched.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
For warck holeman, my my last year in Washington, and
I love WARP to death.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Like dope teammate, We're dope teammates.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I should have still been I should have been a
starter on the team at the time, Like not any debate.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I should have been starting.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I got benched for purposes outside of reasons, outside of
the game. But if I dressed, if I was ready
to play, I was going to play. I was going
to play. And I'll say this when I'm in a
moment of I'm putting on and maybe this is like
a different mentality, but you know it is what it is.
(28:24):
If you ask me when you are in a sport
where when you're putting on your uniform, I'm literally like
putting on my armor, Like I'm not putting on some pads.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'm putting on like warrior gear.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I'm a samurai getting I'm getting ready to go to
I'm going to battle. I'm going to get it in.
And I'm not an army. I am an army of one,
but I'm an army with my like I'm with an army.
Like we going out here and we're going together. And
I don't care if a coach is not going to
(29:02):
dictate me putting my best foot forward, they will never
And I'll say this out there to all the young
guys because sometimes things like this can be misconstrued and misinterpreted.
And what is what is being a kid that needs
to be hungry, stay hungry, stay ready, stay available, versus
being like catered to and being treated a certain type
(29:25):
of way. Hey, listen here, you put your best foot
forward every single time, because that's representation of who you are,
of what you do, of what you bring to the table.
And sometimes you don't have the best of circumstances that
are surrounding what you're doing. But Nonetheless, you put those
things to the side because that's what you represent. And
(29:48):
I'm not going to give somebody the opportunity to say
they took me out of character with what it is
that I represent.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Especially especially, I don't care if.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's just one person in that locker room that I'm
I have such an accountability for. I don't care if
it's one because something, the whole teammate thing can be missed,
it can like that can be misused. But if I
have one dude and not just one that I have
accountability for at the highest level, I'm going out there
and I'm going I'm gonna be ready because I know
(30:16):
what that represents to be be together and what that
you know to me, how I can look at him
and he can look at me and we feel good
about us being a team. I ain't never gonna turn
my back on you, no matter even if these dudes
are trying to come in between us. I'm not going
to turn my back on you if it's just one.
So to me, I kind of felt like it was
(30:37):
you know, to me, it was selfish. It was selfish,
and I don't I've tried to find ways to justify
it in my mind as.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
To why you would do it. I can't. I can't
seem to find a place to land on it.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So young dudes out there, whatever the circumstances are, you
signed up for it. And if it's not breaking the law,
if it's about team, if it's about team, you put
your best foot for man, make sure you put your
best foot forward. And speaking of putting your best foot forward,
let's get it update from Isaac Low and Crown.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
What you got my guy?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Well LaVar the Kansas City Chiefs putting their best foot
forward as the Super Bowl champions have activated place kicker
Harrison Butker off of injured reserve for tomorrow's game and Cleveland,
they therefore waved placekicker Matthew Wright.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Chiefs also get a chance to walk off.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I'm Davids the NFL Special Teams Player of the Week.
I mean, that's that's life. All you do is kick
the game winning field goal to win the division, then
go there and get wave. I'm man, high standards.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He ain't get it in. She got waved, he got way.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
He ain't get a chance to walk off the sideline.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Talk about high standards, you know, I mean he made
the field goal. But they're like, yeah, but you banked
it in off the upright, so you gotta go baby.
They also rolled out left tackle Dj Humphries for a
Sunday's game because of a hamstring injury. The Browns, meanwhile,
have just activated defensive tackle Mike Hall from injured reserve
and elevated placekicker Riley Patterson from the practice squad. Baseball,
multiple outlets report that the Aids are acquiring left handed
(31:58):
pitcher Jeffrey Springs from the Tampa Bay Raised College football
Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold has transferred to Auburn. Arnold started
nine games this past season for the Sooners. Cover it
up at three pm Eastern the Army Navy game from Landover,
Maryland with number twenty two Army at eleven and one
at Navy at eight and three. Then tonight at eight
(32:18):
pm Eastern, Heisman Trophy will be awarded the finalist Organs,
Dylan Gabriel, Colorados, Travis Hunter, Ashton genty of Boise State,
and Miami's Cam war That's what's trending. I'm Devondre Campbell.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Nice all right, sn dropped the Mike, Okay, I mean
there if any if anybody's supposed to do it.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It's supposed to be Isaac. Listen, we're gonna take a
quick break.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
On the other side of the break, you know, we're
gonna we're gonna touch on Heisman candidates, you know. And
one who was a Heisman candidate that Plex touched on
last week was Randy Moss. I don't know if we
have enough time to give it all the credit or
what it deserves, but we'll touch on that and we'll
talk Heisman. Maybe we'll take it in the hour two
as well. But you're listening to Up on Game. It
(33:07):
is Plex, Cooburst, it is t. J. Huschman's auDA, and
it's myself LeVar Arrington is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
All right, Welcome back into the show. This is Up
on Game is Fox Sports Radio. Shortly after the show,
our podcast will be going up, and if you missed
any of today show, well be sure to check it
out on the podcast. Just search up on Game wherever
it is you get your podcasts, and be sure to follow,
rate and review the podcast as well. Again, just search
up on Game wherever it is you get your podcast from,
(33:35):
and you'll see today's show post it right after we
get off of the air, all right. We had a
couple different things I wanted to touch on. We don't
have a whole lot of time, but obviously last week
you had alluded to and sent a prayer in a
shout out to Randy Moss. I just want to give you, guys.
Obviously it's since come out that he is he was
diagnosed with cancer and has been getting treatments on the
(33:57):
heels of the Heisman, the Heisman being awarded this evening.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I'll just start off super.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Quickly and get out of the way, but yet shots
out to you, love and prayers to you, Big Moss,
and listen, I appreciate when us as warriors really really
make ourselves vulnerable enough to tell people I know, I
just got a colonoscope, maybe like a couple months ago,
maybe three four months ago, and people are like, I
(34:25):
appreciate you being open enough to say you should go
get checked up. Listen, go get checked up, man, because
it could be the difference between you being here for
your loved ones or not. And it sounds as though
they detected what he had going on early enough to
give him the treatment. So I hope all is well
with him, and I hope that you have a speedy recovery,
(34:45):
my guy.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, man, it's it's unfortunate, but when you're in the battle,
you gotta fight. And so hopefully he'll get through this.
I don't understand, and I'll never understand, at least I
hope I won't what he's going through. But obviously prayers.
You know, he's gonna fight, He not just gonna give up,
(35:07):
and you just hope him and his family can get
through this. It just it's just so unfortunate. Man. Like
when you're younger and you feel anything, you like, I'm good.
But as you start, as we have, you start to
get older, you feel anything I know I do. I'm like, man,
I wonder what could this be? You just get it's
(35:30):
like a nervousness. It's just so weird and odd about
when things may bother you. When you're younger, you don't
think anything of it, though, I'm gonna be all right,
And as soon as you get older, man, at least
for me, just things start to cross your mind. Man.
I hope Moss pulls through with this. I believe he will.
(35:50):
I'm praying that he will, and him and his family,
you know, can get through this. Rough patch in his life. Yeah, man,
that's my dog.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
We go back a long time. Man.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Him coming out of West Virginia. I'm in Virginia, and
you know, we share the same you know, the passion
of fishing. Man that had the opportunity to fish with him,
you know, last spring, last summer, and you just never
know what anybody's going through.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Man.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
And if you were a wide receiver coming up in
the two thousands, if you played the position, you wanted
to be like Moss. I mean, it was just I've
never had the opportunity to, you know, watch Jerry Rice
in person. Everybody knows that he's the goat man, but
he was the finest, purest wide receiver man that you
(36:42):
ever wanted to see. And I was coming out of
high school and I was the one receiver in the country.
And Bob Prue was a coach at Marshall and I
had no idea who Randy was. They was like, oh, man,
this guy from West Virginia. Man, he's better than you.
I was like, man, there's nowhere in the hell there's
no way on playing it that's better than me. And
(37:04):
I go to uh get my visit to go to
Marshall and it starts snowing, so I don't take the
trip to Marshall. And we had the opportunity to actually
play on the same football field together. Uh you know,
coming out of high school, Man, it would you couldn't
(37:25):
imagine what that, what happened, what that would have been like.
It would have been sick. But but man, shout out
to Massie. Man, I love you to death. Man, and
you know your dogg Just keep fighting and uh, man,
I see you on the boat soon, hopefully in a
couple of months, you know, getting them stripers in them
blues out the leg out of the ocean. Whatever we
(37:46):
need to do, man, But prayers to him and his
family and marsh Man.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Just keep fighting, baby. Uh uh.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
You know we don't have enough time to talk Heisman
and Travis Hunter. I wanted to throw that get some
advice from you guys for a friend.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
We got to talk about on it.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna
set that one up for the top of the next hour.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
So there, y'all got absolutely we're.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Gonna talk Heisman, We're gonna talk Travis Hunter. You know
he's been blowing up the enter of you know, social media,
uh pages and and and trendings and and all that
good going viral for well relationships. And it's interesting because
he plays with one that has gone through a few
things in relationships and coach Prime and and so I
(38:32):
want to get TJ and in Plexico.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I want to get you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know what we're talking about this. I'm gonna
feel we're.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Gonna hit you in the chance after.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
The break, y'a this one. I'm like what they talking about?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Y'all ready to hear the get some of the smoke
per se. And this ain't Matt Barnes and my boy Stack.
But I tell you what we're gonna We're gonna have
a little smoke. We're gonna walk into the smoke on
this topic. And that's coming up in a matter of moments.
So make sure you stay locked in, tuned in. This
is up on game, that is TJ, that's plex Ave LeVar,
this is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Stay locked in.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We'll be right back
Fox Sports Radio News
Host
Jonas Knox
Popular Podcasts
True Crime Tonight
If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.