September 3, 2022 • 38 mins
LaVar Arrington and TJ Houshmandzadeh celebrate the start of the college football season by previewing Ohio State vs. Notre Dame and Georgia vs. Oregon. The guys give their thoughts on the College Football Playoff field potentially expanding to 12 teams. LaVar and TJ break down why Tom Brady’s relationship shouldn’t be the focus of the public. Plus, is Serena Williams really retiring?
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Are you trying to go home now? Alright? Alright, alright?
College Football Week one kicks off. We'll talk about that.
This is up on game. We got college football wall
to wall. We'll talk about other things, trouble and Paradise.
I will talk talk about it. I mean, I don't know,
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I don't know how I feel about this one, but
but we will touch on it because it is a headline.
That's what we do. We talk about these things. So
all right, my man Plexico Burst is out today. It
would just be me and my man t J. Fine
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M eighty three. Here we go, dowal up the smooth
sounds and the smooth music, because it's about that time
for me to ask t J. How you doing, brother man?
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I'm chilling. How are you doing? Uh? You know you
coached high school football last night, Toronto High School? How
are you doing? Yeah? I'm good man, I'm good. My
my week one, I ruined my entire um tenure of
coaching as what I would believe to be a a
really really strong, you know, productive career thus far. I
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ruined it all in one game. Um, and then I
fixed it. You know, it was fixed. It was a
team effort, my coaching staff, that the players on the field.
You know, we we fixed it. We tightened up. So
it was good man, it was good. We won the game.
I think was thirty thirty seven to seven, so you
know it went well. It went well thirty eight seven,
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like you really had to fix something, but okay, we
did because we were giving up a run. We gave
up like five hundred yards running. Week one, we won,
but we gave up way way too many, too many
rush yards, and um, it just looked like they weren't prepared.
And sports and life in general. Man, if you're fortunate
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enough to have another try to correct a mistake, and
in football you get the next week. Okay, listen, we
did this wrong last Friday. Let's be better the following
Friday at this and then so forth and so on,
and that's how you start building blocks to have a
successful season. Yeah. Yeah, it was a beautiful thing. Man.
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Uh you know, I was proud of them. You'd be
proud of man. Man. Jeez, he is he can ball man,
and he's fast. The dude is really really really fast, man,
Like he's like he's like a Michael Parsons fast. He's fast.
So it's pretty cool watching him move around. I was
like the dad and me was a little nervous because
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I moved him up the defensive end and I didn't
know if he was gonna be able to handle, you know,
the big boys and the trenches. But you know he
did a great job. So shouts out to Charter Oak Football.
It was a good deal, and shouts out the DraftKings.
I mean it is open and week we'll get right
to college football in siting here with t J has
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Big games today, my brother Notre Dame. Uh, they're planning
Ohio State obviously the head coach and Notre Dame is
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a former linebacker at Ohio State. Oregon is at Georgia.
So we got some big games coming out the gate.
Uh this week this weekend for for Week one college football.
I mean, what's what's your take? Are How excited are
you to see matchups like this this early because a
lot of a lot of big teams duck the smoke
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early on in the year, um and and then get
to it later on. But these are some big matchups.
How you feeling about it. Man. I once this day
comes around each year, for me, it's like, yes, football
every week, good football every week. Moving forward, I'm sitting
in the house all day. I'm watching every game that
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I can. Um, me and my son, we're gonna get
right in front of the TV and we're just gonna watch.
And I look forward to this especially. You know, I'm
connected to some of these kids that will be playing,
so I'll be rooting for them to play well. Um,
but I just want to see some good football. I
look forward to this time of the year, you know,
when I when I think about when football comes back
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and how exciting it is, not only one seeing it
in person, you know, from from the sideline, but being
able to watch it on television. One of the things
I struggle with, even with all of the excitement, is
being able to watch the game is just a fan
or as a civilian. You know, when I watch it,
it's like if they're not really really good commentators, it
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throws me off because I'm sitting there totally analyzing everything
that's going on. I even it's it's horrible because sometimes
I even rewind the plays, you know, like like I
stopped everyone the plays and and then you know, sometimes
I gotta fast forward to get to the live game.
But one thing that that excites me is again when
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you got big games like my my alma mater just
played Perdue that that was not only an opener, a big,
big time opener and a risky one going into West
Lafayette for for a primetime game, but it was you know,
it's the first week, you know, first week out the gate.
You're talking about Nebraska, UM Northwestern, that's a big ten matchup.
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You're talking about Purdue, uh, Penn State, that's a big
ten matchup. So these these games not only are good games,
but their games that count now today, you know, Notre
Dame taking on Ohio State and Ohio State uh in
Ohio is not these these games aren't Oregon and Georgia.
These aren't enter um you know, in in division and
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conference right in conference games. But not the less, they
have major implications on on the playoff playoff bit and
and Notre Dame. You know, a lot of people have
some high expectations for them, but there are a lot
of people that are skeptical. With Brian Kelly's departure. If
this team can be good again and then everybody's talking
about how good Ohio State is and kissing the ring.
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But if you were called this time last year, Oregon
went into Ohio State and gave him a spanking, And
and so I wonder if Notre Dame has the ability?
Do you look at Notre Dame as a team. I
don't know how much you know about them, but coming
into the season, do you look at Notre Dame as
a team that is competitive enough to actually win a
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game this of this magnitude? Not if Ohio State is
Ohio State, No Ohio State might be the best team
in college football if their new defensive coordinator has put
it together and has these guys understanding UM what to do.
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No like Notre Dame. Marcus Streeman his first UM game
as a head coach, Tyler Buner, I believe that's how
you pronounce his uh last name. A quarterback for our
name played a little bit last year, but he's gonna
be starting the season. Ohaw State has athletes all over
the field. O How State is looking to get to
the College Football Playoff and win it. Ohawo State probably
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has the Heisman Trophy, winning the top three pick in
the draft, and C. J. Stroud, a top ten pick
in Jackson, Smith and Jagba. They'll probably have ten and
twelve draft picks offensively and defensively. How State they know
last year what happened when they played Oregon. They don't
want that to happen again. And I don't believe it
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will happen again. I think Ohio State UM. And I
said this last weekend. I was wrong about Nebraska Northwestern,
but I think Ohio State will run a Notre dame
off the field today. Well about Oregon, so you you
brought up Oregon. Georgia lost a lot of players to
the draft. I mean a lot of players from that
national title team. But people are still high on Georgia
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to be good this year. What are you high on them?
Or do you think that this is a trap game
for them this early? When you are Georgia, Alabama, l S, U,
Ohio State, those type of schools Clemson, UM, you lose players.
You have really good players waiting to play, really good
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players coming in every year, and so you don't oh man,
it's a down year, you know, No, you just reload.
You reload when you're those type of schools, and so
Georgia will reload but the head coach at Oregon, what's
the defensive coordinator at Georgia last year. He knows this personnel.
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He knows philosophy, their philosophy on offense and what they
want to do. He understands that he's practiced against monk
in whose office coordinated at Georgia for years. He understands
what Kirby Smart wants to do. And so with that understanding,
Oregan should be very well prepared. They should have an
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understanding of how Georgia wants to attack him. He should
understand their line calls and what that means. And so
I feel Oregan has somewhat of an advantage here. Bo
Nick's transferred from an He's a quarterback at Oregon. He's
played in the SEC. He's played against Georgia, and so
that environment and the atmosphere is not going to make
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him nervous. That actually he should be able to help
his teammates out with that now. And so I expect
a really good game Oregon. They have athletes, They're gonna
be very competitive. They're good up front on the offensive line,
and so, uh, it's healthy. He was a man child
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in high school. Let's see if he can be a
man child in college and sel I mean they they
have They have a linebacking corps. The second organ is loaded, broy.
They have athletes across the board. But Georgia has athletes
every single year. I believe Oregan has a slight advantage
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from a understanding of how Georgia wants to attack them.
And if bo Nix can play, well, we got a
game on our hands. All right, it's a big week one.
I'll tell you that. There's a whole lot of football
going on and a big decision came out. They're going
to twelve games, man, twelve teams. Excuse me, uh a
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playoff college playoff expansion. We'll get to that. Uh yeah.
On the other side of this break, you're listening, Michigan
better tighten up. On his first drive, they went three
and out against Colorado State in Colorado stage is moving
a ball on them. They better tighten up. Well, I
mean Colorado State ain't. That's not an easy win. I
wouldn't assume, but tightened up Jay Norvell his debut at Colorado.
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Stay better tighten up in ann Arbor. He's a fine
coach and they got big ten ties by the way,
So I just connected to Wisconsin. Yeah, all right, we're
gonna talk college football playoff expansion. This is up on Game.
That's t J. Hushman's out of I'm LaVar Arrington and
we'll be right back. Hey, why you gotta be like
that and do that? And why you wanna go and
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do that? And why you want to go and do that? Well,
we wanted you to do that, which is listen to
up on Game. That's t J. Hushman's out of I'm
LaVar Arrington. Uh. You know, I hope you guys are
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Hushman Zada. When you thought the plot couldn't get any thicker,
it has expanded and the plot is now a bigger plot.
Uh Ryan, I got my man burst in the back man.
You know, shots out the Ryan shots out, the Sam
shots out to the legendary Ilo. We'll get the Isaac
gloan cron in a moment, Uh Ryan, what we got
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on this college expansion? Give us some color on this.
That's right. Yesterday, College Football Playoffs Board of Managers voted
unanimously to take the first step in pushing the playoff
beyond the current four team format. That's right. They The
expanded twelve team bracket that's proposed will feature the six
highest ranked conference champions as automatic qualifiers, along with the
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next six highest ranked teams. The board has approved the
new format to be utilized beginning in the six season,
but they hope that it could actually actually be implemented earlier,
as early as four. I mean, I don't know about you,
t J, but you once that expansion takes place, now
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you're you're lengthening the college football season. It's like, there's
no way you cannot lengthen the season, at least for
those few teams that make it into the playoff. So
now the question becomes, by then is this are they
now saying, Okay, we're gonna we're going to expand the
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college playoff Because guys are gonna get paid by the
time that expansion comes and and now we can start
to have the topic of these kids really should not
be treated fully as amateur athletes. They should be treated
as commodities and assets that that are able to to
benefit from everything that's taking place in the college you know,
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realm of sports. What what what was your first reaction
when you heard of the expansion. Everything's going to change.
It has to when when you expanded twelve teams. Now
that means certain teams if if you play the first game,
you're quite possibly playing three extra games after that if
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you get all the way to the championship, and so
it's just more games for these college athletes. They're gonna
get paid. I mean, that's just where this is heading.
Um N I L has shown that they're they're they're
gonna get paid. It to me, it's if you are
a surefire first round pick, even if your team is
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in that do you play It's a great question do
you risk it? And now this trickles onto the NFL
when I say that it's the combine is always held
in late February, it will be virtually impossible for them
to have a twelve team playoff and still hold the
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Combine at the same time. It will be virtually impossible
because the last game would probably be late January early February.
And so now that pushes the NFL offseason back. So
now everything goes back probably by a month. So now
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the combine will be held in late March. Now O
t s will probably start. I mean, there's just so many,
uh things that will change because of this twelve team playoff,
starting with guys will be paid more, the guys that
don't have n I L deals will be paid, and
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now the NFL offseason that will have to change. There's
just no way a kid is gonna play in college football,
and you know, and then go straight into training to
get ready for the compound. You have to let your
body rest and then start training. And so it's a
lot of dominoes that fall when you when you expand
the twelve teams. Is it excited outside of logistically the
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right mare and the mess that they're going to have
to navigate and and clear up? Is that exciting to you?
I find it outside of all of the games that
have to be played, because I think you gotta play
what ten games, eleven games. I think before you get
to just a bowl season, um and and in a year,
but to have what what would be what what are
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we gonna say? If it's a twelve team deal, that's
six teams. If it's six teams, then you're talking that's
what is that six games? I believe that that you
gotta you go from twelve to six, and you well,
there's no way you can go from twelve and six
and in six and three. So you'd probably give the
first four teams to buy and you go from eight
to four. And if the top four seeded teams would
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not play that week, and then now those four teams
that one will play the four teams that are waiting,
and then you go from eight to four, from four
to two to the championship. So, oh, it's a lot
of games. That's a lot of games. That's a lot
of games. I mean, I think it'll be exciting. I've
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always been a proponent of if you're gonna have a playoff,
how do you have a team that wins their conference
but isn't considered to be the best team for the playoff.
When you have a team from the conference that isn't
a conference champion, that's in the playoff. That sounds weird
to me. It's always sounded weird to me, like, Oh,
you could have a national champion, but that national champion
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didn't even win their their conference. That's weird. Is that not? Like?
Is that not weird? Team? That can be It can
be real tricky, man, because think about that. Man if
if it starts at twelve teams and then it reduces
to six. Man, like a team that was the number
one seed or perceived to be the number one seed,
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if you lose that first game, or do they give
out buys. I mean, you just don't know how they're
gonna do it. For may strictly football standpoint, just being
a fan of the game, I like it because it's
more football that I get to watch. Um, everybody always
makes a bill, Oh it's the same teams, man, it's
the same teams. Well guess what, it's probably still gonna
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be the same teams man in the final four. I
mean that's just what it is. Alabama is always gonna
have a chance to be there. Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia,
l s U. Hopefully uh USC can start to make
their way into that and I believe they will starting
today with Lincoln Riley and those guys, and so college football, man,
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it's it's really exciting to watch these kids live out
their dreams. Um, everybody can't make it to the league,
but it's nothing like playing college football, man. And when
you get to the NFL, you realize, like man, college
was a lot funner than it is now. I mean,
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it's just a different feel. Yeah, you get aid, but
the genuine excitement of playing college football, it's nothing like it.
Mm hmm. All right, Well, I'm interested to see where
it all goes and how logistically it's handled, because that's
a lot of football to be played at the college level,
at the amateur level of of competition. So we'll see
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how that all plays out. Uh, trouble in Paradise. I
don't know that I want to go into the details
of it, but I do want to get your opinion,
t J on uh this whole reporting of privacy of
family business with with Tom Brady. But first let's go
to my man, Isaac Lowing Crawn for enough date, fellas.
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We have nine college football games to tell you about
going on right now, starting with six ranked Texas A
and M scoreless with Sam Houston five minutes and thirty
seconds left to play in the first quarter. Eighth ranked
Michigan scoreless. No more again, Colorado State. Here's Doug Carshawn
w w j R. Pass Mcameric quick pass Roman Wilson,
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and he's got running room. Fifty forty thirty cuts inside
ten five touchdown Roman Wilson sixty one yards. It's six nothing.
They would make the extra point. They lead Colorado State
seven to nothing six minutes into the ballgame. East Carolina
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leads thirteen ranked NC State seven to nothing eight minutes
in on a thirty nine yard touchdown pass from Holton
Allers to C. J. Johnson. Yukon and Central Connecticut scoreless
in the first quarter. Same is true for Iowa and
South Dakota State. Maryland a seven nothing lead over Buffalo
on a thirty three yard touchdown run by Roman Hemby.
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Boston College up seven to nothing over Rutgers, six thirty
three left to play in the first quarter, Appalachian State
of fourteen to seven lead over North Carolina eight and
a half minutes in, and Delaware seven nothing lead at
Navy on a touchdown pass from Nolan Henderson to Bryce Demalley.
Nine college football games in full swing. All is right
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with the world, fellas back to you appreciated ill. Uh. Yeah,
there's a lot of football going on, super super exciting.
And I'll tell you what. What isn't exciting is this
next topic, because I just don't know how I feel
about it. I mean, I guess I do know I
feel about it. You know, Ever since Tom Brady took
the hiatus from from camp, you know, there were so
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many conflicting reports. There were reports that he had already
agreed to it before he came back. The reports that
you know, there were you know, trouble at home, uh
pre predetermined vacation, whatever it is. And now there are
reports that are surfacing that there is indeed a fight,
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a riff of sorts taking place between Tom Brady and
his spouse. I don't want to go into the story,
t J. I want to talk. I want to take
a different angle on this. Is it appropriate for like,
is at what point the average turned into that's too
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much coverage? And is that is this the price of fame?
I mean, Tom Brady is easily the most famous All
player probably ever to play the game, maybe outside of
Jim Brown, but might not even be close in that
regard Tom Brady is Tom Brady at some point, though,
you gotta know that even though he's Tom Brady, he
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is a person. He has feelings, He has a home life,
of personal life. What what's your take on reports surfacing
about there being a fight between him and his wife
and maybe she you know, she's she's left. Maybe there
their marriages on the rocks. Where where do you fall
on this? I don't care. And when I say I
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don't care, this is what I mean is let's leave
it on the football feel like when you start getting
into his family and his wife and then you go
do all this investigating trying to uncover why if Tom
Brady didn't come out and say why if the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers didn't come out and say why leave it alone?
Because you're digging into something that may eventually tear his
family apart, because you want to be nosy and you
want to break the story of why you Everybody can
have assumptions of why just let it be? And for
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Tom it's I feel a man you want to roll
until the wills fallow. Tom Brady came into the league
as a late six round draft pick and as the
greatest football player. The National Football League is from a
longevity standpoint and its accomplishments. I don't think it's even
a close second. That's just my opinion. He wants to
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roll to the wheels fall off unfortunately for him, and
obviously this is speculation. His wife doesn't agree with that.
She wants him to stop playing, and he's like, listen, man,
I want to play until I can't play anymore. I
believe he would continue to play if he wasn't getting
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pressure to not play. But that's what happens when you're
in a relationship. It's a lot of give and take.
He's probably gonna retire sooner than he would like. But
when you're in a relationship, especially in marriage, it's a
lot of give and take. You do some things you
don't want to do, and vice versa. But to dig
into his personal life and try to figure out this
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is the reason why I don't care um why he
took a quote unquote sabbatical during training camp. I don't
agree with it. I don't believe that's what you do
when you're playing a team sport. But because he's Tom
Brady and they need him, they had no choice. But
don't don't dig into why it happened, because you can
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end up damaging somebody's relationship because you want to be
the first to break it. Yeah, I just I honestly
believe it's such a slippery slope because you know, you
get used to seeing seeing things kind of be out
there with famous people. It's like you want to know,
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are they are they doing well with their money? Are
they going broke? That's a big that's a polarizing, that's
a that's an entertaining story. Are they alive as people
bro I've literally had people ask me, excuse me, man,
have you done well with your money? Like what like
little like really like if I let me ask you,
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think I would tell you. And if I'm doing great,
like huh me ask you are you doing well with
your money? You know. It's like kind of like, you know,
it's certain right, the things that people are programmed to
to think. When you're considered to be different. You know,
whether it's a professional athlete, whether it's a professional entertainer, whatever,
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it may be, your your rules now change, right, It's like, oh, well,
how is your health? They'll ask you about your money,
They'll ask you about your health. One of the biggest
stories that comes out is when somebody passes away, right,
it's like it's super super Uh what what is it like?
You know, consumable news when somebody that seemingly is as
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perfect as Tom Brady is. You know what's super consumable
is if he's having problems at home. You know, it's like,
all right, he's not superman, He's not perfect. There there
are there are things that are are not all the
way you know the right thing. And to me, I
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find it to be very interesting because when you start
bringing up people's wives or their husbands, or their kids,
or their parents, but especially like the home front, I
just it makes specially problems, especially if you're having especially
at what what happens answer this? If he's still in
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New England Patriot? Does Bill Belichick let him leave for
a week and a half? No? No, I mean you
thought about it. If you thought about it, I really
if it goes to Bill, it's a it's a no go,
no chance, it's a no. It's it's got to be
a no because that challenges everything that Bill Belichick built
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as what the Patriot way is. You can't allow any
any player to do that. He didn't he cut a
big time, a big brand football player, because he was
late to a meeting. He cut it. Yeah, you do
you remember who it was? Was it a Daily is
Slim Backer? Yeah? And check this out. The Daily has
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told me the story. It was snowing, he couldn't get
his car out the driveway, and Bill said, I don't care.
I told you guys the day before the meeting, it's
gonna be slowing bad. Stay in the hotel, Like you
think I'm gonna stay in a hotel and I have
a wife and kids at home. That he thought, Yeah,
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and you know that is at that time he was established.
He probably said so much to Bill. I just I
know that probably that Patriot Way ain't ain't the same
without a twelve. So the Patriot Way or was it
the Brady Way? Well, it was the Patriot Way via
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built through Tom Brady. I mean, all right, so is
this does this become a blessing and a curse? You're
Tom Brady, your TV twelve and because of what your
notoriety is, you have exceeded being just a football player.
You are now a celebrity commodity. Is it is it fair? Yes?
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It is? He covered that group? Is there yes, it is. Yes,
it is when I guess when you're bigger than life
and because you're a really good athlete, now you're a
worldwide figure. It comes with the territory. It is what
it is, whether you like it or not. It's fair
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and you know, I just said, you know, you shouldn't
do this and you shouldn't do that. But it comes
with the territory. And that's what it is. When people
care about things you do, so forth and so on,
that that's what happens. It doesn't hurt you leave in
training camp and you're the quarterback. You leave in training
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camp and you're the quarterback. And they could have literally said,
you know, as a family emergency. I mean, they could
have spun it. Well, here's the thing, right, they could
have done that. His wife is is famous, you know,
like you're you're doubling down. She's she's she at one
point was probably more famous easily globally for sure, probably
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even still now today globally, still a bigger brand than
her husband. So then there's that aspect of it as well,
is that you got a famous wife as well as
you being famous yourself. It's just the perfect storm for
something like this. To happen if you were to fall
into these conditions within your marriage. But man, if it
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is true, I wish you guys the best, Tom and Giselle. Honestly,
you can talk, we can talk sports all day long,
we can criticize, we can critique all day long about
the way somebody plays or the way they handle things
as a player, this down and the other. But when
you hear about a family unit that maybe uh in
the rest or needing to figure things out first and foremost, man,
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take care of your family on God, Because when all
them lights go off and the and the plays stop
being called and the throws stop taking place of one
constant man, your family, Man, your family, don't don't ever,
don't ever lose your family. You know the people that
that matter the most to you. You protect what what
what is there for you and and loves you back.
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So I wish you guys all the best, honestly, if
that's what's taking place. And yeah, up one game. We're
not gonna go deep into dissect and what you got
going on with your marriage. We're just gonna talk about
if you should be in training camp or not. That's all.
But this is up on game that's t J. Hushmon's
out of Plexico Birds is taking the day off. Um
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go figure for some family some family business that he
needs to take care of. Uh, not a thing, good,
good things that that he's doing. Obviously you know, well
he's he's out Ofliza's football games first high school football.
I let it out. I don't want no rumors getting started. Yeah,
he's a baller, his son's a baller. So he's there
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for him. So we're gonna take a quick break on
the other side. We'll we'll be right back. And I
was hoping, uh plex will be here for this next
topic DJ, because it's kind of funny. Anyways, it's up
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to figure out what what's the connection to this like Paradise.
I'm trying to figure this out in this star day
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All right, feels like uh like Paradise? All right? That's
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t J. Hudgmons OUTA. I'm LaVar Arrington, Uh t J. I.
I really wanted Plexico to be a part of this
topic because I found it to be very very very interesting.
Uh Bursch, give us, give us a rundown on this.
Serena Williams, she was she was doing very well. This
is seemingly her last major um I don't know that
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that's that that's what it's going to be, but it
has been covered that way that this is, you know,
the last one, and the coverage was wild. Wall has
been wild, of wall has been nuts and so so
much so that well what happened Birch? Well yeah, So.
About a month ago, in an essay with Vogue, Serena
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Williams cited her desire to have another child and in
essence gave her farewell to the sport, referring to it
more as an evolution and not necessarily a retirement. After
her match last night, uh in which she was eliminated
from the U s Open, here's what she had to
say on the court after her loss. It's been a
fun ride and I'm just so grateful to every single
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person that's ever said go Serena in life. I'm just
so rateful because yeah, you got my hair. Is there
any chance you'll reconsider? I mean, I'm literally playing my
way into this and getting better. I should have started
sooner this year. I don't. I don't think so, but
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you never know. Yeah, it wasn't very definitive, and I
mean there looked like there was still a whole lot
of competitive. Uh, juices flowing so to speak with with
the matches that that ensued, t J. But I found
the most interesting aspect of this story was ESPN bump
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Michigan States season opener off of off of the bank.
They bump, They bumped Michigan States game off. If it
filled it with Serena's match, Uh, I beg god, this
would have been a funny punch line. This would have
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been a funny punch line for Oregon State because I
would have been able to say, you know, it's Oregon State.
You know, it's like it's packed. You know, we don't
know it is. It's pack twelve is State? Right? But
the mighty Spartans of Sparta Andrina Williams. Though, Bro, that's
Serena Williams. She's alright, con She's the best tennis player
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in the history of tennis. So you condone it, you
you thought that was a good move for them to
do it. Serena Williams might be the best tennis player.
I'm talking men and women. H Yeah, she's the greatest
greatest woman athletes or is there somebody else out there?
If it is, I can't think of her right now, Yeah,
I can't I mean, Serena met she transcended the game.
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She definitely and that's why they moved Michigan State because
it was Serena. It was sold out. I was watching
and she was up five three first set and let
it go. I said, no, Serena, you can't do this.
Shouts out to the goat, Serena Williams. If it is
your last one, hell in respect. If it isn't, keep banging,
keep doing what you do. Everybody supports you. You're listening
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Are you trying to go home now? Alright? Alright, alright?
College Football Week one kicks off. We'll talk about that.
This is up on game. We got college football wall
to wall. We'll talk about other things, trouble and Paradise.
I will talk talk about it. I mean, I don't know,
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I don't know how I feel about this one, but
but we will touch on it because it is a headline.
That's what we do. We talk about these things. So
all right, my man Plexico Burst is out today. It
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M eighty three. Here we go, dowal up the smooth
sounds and the smooth music, because it's about that time
for me to ask t J. How you doing, brother man?
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I'm chilling. How are you doing? Uh? You know you
coached high school football last night, Toronto High School? How
are you doing? Yeah? I'm good man, I'm good. My
my week one, I ruined my entire um tenure of
coaching as what I would believe to be a a
really really strong, you know, productive career thus far. I
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ruined it all in one game. Um, and then I
fixed it. You know, it was fixed. It was a
team effort, my coaching staff, that the players on the field.
You know, we we fixed it. We tightened up. So
it was good man, it was good. We won the game.
I think was thirty thirty seven to seven, so you
know it went well. It went well thirty eight seven,
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like you really had to fix something, but okay, we
did because we were giving up a run. We gave
up like five hundred yards running. Week one, we won,
but we gave up way way too many, too many
rush yards, and um, it just looked like they weren't prepared.
And sports and life in general. Man, if you're fortunate
(03:01):
enough to have another try to correct a mistake, and
in football you get the next week. Okay, listen, we
did this wrong last Friday. Let's be better the following
Friday at this and then so forth and so on,
and that's how you start building blocks to have a
successful season. Yeah. Yeah, it was a beautiful thing. Man.
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Uh you know, I was proud of them. You'd be
proud of man. Man. Jeez, he is he can ball man,
and he's fast. The dude is really really really fast, man,
Like he's like he's like a Michael Parsons fast. He's fast.
So it's pretty cool watching him move around. I was
like the dad and me was a little nervous because
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I moved him up the defensive end and I didn't
know if he was gonna be able to handle, you know,
the big boys and the trenches. But you know he
did a great job. So shouts out to Charter Oak Football.
It was a good deal, and shouts out the DraftKings.
I mean it is open and week we'll get right
to college football in siting here with t J has
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Big games today, my brother Notre Dame. Uh, they're planning
Ohio State obviously the head coach and Notre Dame is
(04:24):
a former linebacker at Ohio State. Oregon is at Georgia.
So we got some big games coming out the gate.
Uh this week this weekend for for Week one college football.
I mean, what's what's your take? Are How excited are
you to see matchups like this this early because a
lot of a lot of big teams duck the smoke
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early on in the year, um and and then get
to it later on. But these are some big matchups.
How you feeling about it. Man. I once this day
comes around each year, for me, it's like, yes, football
every week, good football every week. Moving forward, I'm sitting
in the house all day. I'm watching every game that
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I can. Um, me and my son, we're gonna get
right in front of the TV and we're just gonna watch.
And I look forward to this especially. You know, I'm
connected to some of these kids that will be playing,
so I'll be rooting for them to play well. Um,
but I just want to see some good football. I
look forward to this time of the year, you know,
when I when I think about when football comes back
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and how exciting it is, not only one seeing it
in person, you know, from from the sideline, but being
able to watch it on television. One of the things
I struggle with, even with all of the excitement, is
being able to watch the game is just a fan
or as a civilian. You know, when I watch it,
it's like if they're not really really good commentators, it
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throws me off because I'm sitting there totally analyzing everything
that's going on. I even it's it's horrible because sometimes
I even rewind the plays, you know, like like I
stopped everyone the plays and and then you know, sometimes
I gotta fast forward to get to the live game.
But one thing that that excites me is again when
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you got big games like my my alma mater just
played Perdue that that was not only an opener, a big,
big time opener and a risky one going into West
Lafayette for for a primetime game, but it was you know,
it's the first week, you know, first week out the gate.
You're talking about Nebraska, UM Northwestern, that's a big ten matchup.
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You're talking about Purdue, uh, Penn State, that's a big
ten matchup. So these these games not only are good games,
but their games that count now today, you know, Notre
Dame taking on Ohio State and Ohio State uh in
Ohio is not these these games aren't Oregon and Georgia.
These aren't enter um you know, in in division and
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conference right in conference games. But not the less, they
have major implications on on the playoff playoff bit and
and Notre Dame. You know, a lot of people have
some high expectations for them, but there are a lot
of people that are skeptical. With Brian Kelly's departure. If
this team can be good again and then everybody's talking
about how good Ohio State is and kissing the ring.
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But if you were called this time last year, Oregon
went into Ohio State and gave him a spanking, And
and so I wonder if Notre Dame has the ability?
Do you look at Notre Dame as a team. I
don't know how much you know about them, but coming
into the season, do you look at Notre Dame as
a team that is competitive enough to actually win a
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game this of this magnitude? Not if Ohio State is
Ohio State, No Ohio State might be the best team
in college football if their new defensive coordinator has put
it together and has these guys understanding UM what to do.
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No like Notre Dame. Marcus Streeman his first UM game
as a head coach, Tyler Buner, I believe that's how
you pronounce his uh last name. A quarterback for our
name played a little bit last year, but he's gonna
be starting the season. Ohaw State has athletes all over
the field. O How State is looking to get to
the College Football Playoff and win it. Ohawo State probably
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has the Heisman Trophy, winning the top three pick in
the draft, and C. J. Stroud, a top ten pick
in Jackson, Smith and Jagba. They'll probably have ten and
twelve draft picks offensively and defensively. How State they know
last year what happened when they played Oregon. They don't
want that to happen again. And I don't believe it
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will happen again. I think Ohio State UM. And I
said this last weekend. I was wrong about Nebraska Northwestern,
but I think Ohio State will run a Notre dame
off the field today. Well about Oregon, so you you
brought up Oregon. Georgia lost a lot of players to
the draft. I mean a lot of players from that
national title team. But people are still high on Georgia
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to be good this year. What are you high on them?
Or do you think that this is a trap game
for them this early? When you are Georgia, Alabama, l S, U,
Ohio State, those type of schools Clemson, UM, you lose players.
You have really good players waiting to play, really good
(09:28):
players coming in every year, and so you don't oh man,
it's a down year, you know, No, you just reload.
You reload when you're those type of schools, and so
Georgia will reload but the head coach at Oregon, what's
the defensive coordinator at Georgia last year. He knows this personnel.
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He knows philosophy, their philosophy on offense and what they
want to do. He understands that he's practiced against monk
in whose office coordinated at Georgia for years. He understands
what Kirby Smart wants to do. And so with that understanding,
Oregan should be very well prepared. They should have an
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understanding of how Georgia wants to attack him. He should
understand their line calls and what that means. And so
I feel Oregan has somewhat of an advantage here. Bo
Nick's transferred from an He's a quarterback at Oregon. He's
played in the SEC. He's played against Georgia, and so
that environment and the atmosphere is not going to make
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him nervous. That actually he should be able to help
his teammates out with that now. And so I expect
a really good game Oregon. They have athletes, They're gonna
be very competitive. They're good up front on the offensive line,
and so, uh, it's healthy. He was a man child
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in high school. Let's see if he can be a
man child in college and sel I mean they they
have They have a linebacking corps. The second organ is loaded, broy.
They have athletes across the board. But Georgia has athletes
every single year. I believe Oregan has a slight advantage
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from a understanding of how Georgia wants to attack them.
And if bo Nix can play, well, we got a
game on our hands. All right, it's a big week one.
I'll tell you that. There's a whole lot of football
going on and a big decision came out. They're going
to twelve games, man, twelve teams. Excuse me, uh a
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playoff college playoff expansion. We'll get to that. Uh yeah.
On the other side of this break, you're listening, Michigan
better tighten up. On his first drive, they went three
and out against Colorado State in Colorado stage is moving
a ball on them. They better tighten up. Well, I
mean Colorado State ain't. That's not an easy win. I
wouldn't assume, but tightened up Jay Norvell his debut at Colorado.
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Stay better tighten up in ann Arbor. He's a fine
coach and they got big ten ties by the way,
So I just connected to Wisconsin. Yeah, all right, we're
gonna talk college football playoff expansion. This is up on Game.
That's t J. Hushman's out of I'm LaVar Arrington and
we'll be right back. Hey, why you gotta be like
that and do that? And why you wanna go and
(12:22):
do that? And why you want to go and do that? Well,
we wanted you to do that, which is listen to
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Hushman Zada. When you thought the plot couldn't get any thicker,
it has expanded and the plot is now a bigger plot.
Uh Ryan, I got my man burst in the back man.
You know, shots out the Ryan shots out, the Sam
shots out to the legendary Ilo. We'll get the Isaac
gloan cron in a moment, Uh Ryan, what we got
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on this college expansion? Give us some color on this.
That's right. Yesterday, College Football Playoffs Board of Managers voted
unanimously to take the first step in pushing the playoff
beyond the current four team format. That's right. They The
expanded twelve team bracket that's proposed will feature the six
highest ranked conference champions as automatic qualifiers, along with the
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next six highest ranked teams. The board has approved the
new format to be utilized beginning in the six season,
but they hope that it could actually actually be implemented earlier,
as early as four. I mean, I don't know about you,
t J, but you once that expansion takes place, now
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you're you're lengthening the college football season. It's like, there's
no way you cannot lengthen the season, at least for
those few teams that make it into the playoff. So
now the question becomes, by then is this are they
now saying, Okay, we're gonna we're going to expand the
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college playoff Because guys are gonna get paid by the
time that expansion comes and and now we can start
to have the topic of these kids really should not
be treated fully as amateur athletes. They should be treated
as commodities and assets that that are able to to
benefit from everything that's taking place in the college you know,
(14:48):
realm of sports. What what what was your first reaction
when you heard of the expansion. Everything's going to change.
It has to when when you expanded twelve teams. Now
that means certain teams if if you play the first game,
you're quite possibly playing three extra games after that if
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you get all the way to the championship, and so
it's just more games for these college athletes. They're gonna
get paid. I mean, that's just where this is heading.
Um N I L has shown that they're they're they're
gonna get paid. It to me, it's if you are
a surefire first round pick, even if your team is
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in that do you play It's a great question do
you risk it? And now this trickles onto the NFL
when I say that it's the combine is always held
in late February, it will be virtually impossible for them
to have a twelve team playoff and still hold the
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Combine at the same time. It will be virtually impossible
because the last game would probably be late January early February.
And so now that pushes the NFL offseason back. So
now everything goes back probably by a month. So now
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the combine will be held in late March. Now O
t s will probably start. I mean, there's just so many,
uh things that will change because of this twelve team playoff,
starting with guys will be paid more, the guys that
don't have n I L deals will be paid, and
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now the NFL offseason that will have to change. There's
just no way a kid is gonna play in college football,
and you know, and then go straight into training to
get ready for the compound. You have to let your
body rest and then start training. And so it's a
lot of dominoes that fall when you when you expand
the twelve teams. Is it excited outside of logistically the
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right mare and the mess that they're going to have
to navigate and and clear up? Is that exciting to you?
I find it outside of all of the games that
have to be played, because I think you gotta play
what ten games, eleven games. I think before you get
to just a bowl season, um and and in a year,
but to have what what would be what what are
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we gonna say? If it's a twelve team deal, that's
six teams. If it's six teams, then you're talking that's
what is that six games? I believe that that you
gotta you go from twelve to six, and you well,
there's no way you can go from twelve and six
and in six and three. So you'd probably give the
first four teams to buy and you go from eight
to four. And if the top four seeded teams would
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not play that week, and then now those four teams
that one will play the four teams that are waiting,
and then you go from eight to four, from four
to two to the championship. So, oh, it's a lot
of games. That's a lot of games. That's a lot
of games. I mean, I think it'll be exciting. I've
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always been a proponent of if you're gonna have a playoff,
how do you have a team that wins their conference
but isn't considered to be the best team for the playoff.
When you have a team from the conference that isn't
a conference champion, that's in the playoff. That sounds weird
to me. It's always sounded weird to me, like, Oh,
you could have a national champion, but that national champion
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didn't even win their their conference. That's weird. Is that not? Like?
Is that not weird? Team? That can be It can
be real tricky, man, because think about that. Man if
if it starts at twelve teams and then it reduces
to six. Man, like a team that was the number
one seed or perceived to be the number one seed,
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if you lose that first game, or do they give
out buys. I mean, you just don't know how they're
gonna do it. For may strictly football standpoint, just being
a fan of the game, I like it because it's
more football that I get to watch. Um, everybody always
makes a bill, Oh it's the same teams, man, it's
the same teams. Well guess what, it's probably still gonna
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be the same teams man in the final four. I
mean that's just what it is. Alabama is always gonna
have a chance to be there. Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia,
l s U. Hopefully uh USC can start to make
their way into that and I believe they will starting
today with Lincoln Riley and those guys, and so college football, man,
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it's it's really exciting to watch these kids live out
their dreams. Um, everybody can't make it to the league,
but it's nothing like playing college football, man. And when
you get to the NFL, you realize, like man, college
was a lot funner than it is now. I mean,
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it's just a different feel. Yeah, you get aid, but
the genuine excitement of playing college football, it's nothing like it.
Mm hmm. All right, Well, I'm interested to see where
it all goes and how logistically it's handled, because that's
a lot of football to be played at the college level,
at the amateur level of of competition. So we'll see
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how that all plays out. Uh, trouble in Paradise. I
don't know that I want to go into the details
of it, but I do want to get your opinion,
t J on uh this whole reporting of privacy of
family business with with Tom Brady. But first let's go
to my man, Isaac Lowing Crawn for enough date, fellas.
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We have nine college football games to tell you about
going on right now, starting with six ranked Texas A
and M scoreless with Sam Houston five minutes and thirty
seconds left to play in the first quarter. Eighth ranked
Michigan scoreless. No more again, Colorado State. Here's Doug Carshawn
w w j R. Pass Mcameric quick pass Roman Wilson,
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and he's got running room. Fifty forty thirty cuts inside
ten five touchdown Roman Wilson sixty one yards. It's six nothing.
They would make the extra point. They lead Colorado State
seven to nothing six minutes into the ballgame. East Carolina
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leads thirteen ranked NC State seven to nothing eight minutes
in on a thirty nine yard touchdown pass from Holton
Allers to C. J. Johnson. Yukon and Central Connecticut scoreless
in the first quarter. Same is true for Iowa and
South Dakota State. Maryland a seven nothing lead over Buffalo
on a thirty three yard touchdown run by Roman Hemby.
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Boston College up seven to nothing over Rutgers, six thirty
three left to play in the first quarter, Appalachian State
of fourteen to seven lead over North Carolina eight and
a half minutes in, and Delaware seven nothing lead at
Navy on a touchdown pass from Nolan Henderson to Bryce Demalley.
Nine college football games in full swing. All is right
(22:11):
with the world, fellas back to you appreciated ill. Uh. Yeah,
there's a lot of football going on, super super exciting.
And I'll tell you what. What isn't exciting is this
next topic, because I just don't know how I feel
about it. I mean, I guess I do know I
feel about it. You know, Ever since Tom Brady took
the hiatus from from camp, you know, there were so
(22:35):
many conflicting reports. There were reports that he had already
agreed to it before he came back. The reports that
you know, there were you know, trouble at home, uh
pre predetermined vacation, whatever it is. And now there are
reports that are surfacing that there is indeed a fight,
(22:55):
a riff of sorts taking place between Tom Brady and
his spouse. I don't want to go into the story,
t J. I want to talk. I want to take
a different angle on this. Is it appropriate for like,
is at what point the average turned into that's too
(23:16):
much coverage? And is that is this the price of fame?
I mean, Tom Brady is easily the most famous All
player probably ever to play the game, maybe outside of
Jim Brown, but might not even be close in that
regard Tom Brady is Tom Brady at some point, though,
you gotta know that even though he's Tom Brady, he
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is a person. He has feelings, He has a home life,
of personal life. What what's your take on reports surfacing
about there being a fight between him and his wife
and maybe she you know, she's she's left. Maybe there
their marriages on the rocks. Where where do you fall
on this? I don't care. And when I say I
(24:00):
don't care, this is what I mean is let's leave
it on the football feel like when you start getting
into his family and his wife and then you go
do all this investigating trying to uncover why if Tom
Brady didn't come out and say why if the Tampa
(24:21):
Bay Buccaneers didn't come out and say why leave it alone?
Because you're digging into something that may eventually tear his
family apart, because you want to be nosy and you
want to break the story of why you Everybody can
have assumptions of why just let it be? And for
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Tom it's I feel a man you want to roll
until the wills fallow. Tom Brady came into the league
as a late six round draft pick and as the
greatest football player. The National Football League is from a
longevity standpoint and its accomplishments. I don't think it's even
a close second. That's just my opinion. He wants to
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roll to the wheels fall off unfortunately for him, and
obviously this is speculation. His wife doesn't agree with that.
She wants him to stop playing, and he's like, listen, man,
I want to play until I can't play anymore. I
believe he would continue to play if he wasn't getting
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pressure to not play. But that's what happens when you're
in a relationship. It's a lot of give and take.
He's probably gonna retire sooner than he would like. But
when you're in a relationship, especially in marriage, it's a
lot of give and take. You do some things you
don't want to do, and vice versa. But to dig
into his personal life and try to figure out this
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is the reason why I don't care um why he
took a quote unquote sabbatical during training camp. I don't
agree with it. I don't believe that's what you do
when you're playing a team sport. But because he's Tom
Brady and they need him, they had no choice. But
don't don't dig into why it happened, because you can
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end up damaging somebody's relationship because you want to be
the first to break it. Yeah, I just I honestly
believe it's such a slippery slope because you know, you
get used to seeing seeing things kind of be out
there with famous people. It's like you want to know,
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are they are they doing well with their money? Are
they going broke? That's a big that's a polarizing, that's
a that's an entertaining story. Are they alive as people
bro I've literally had people ask me, excuse me, man,
have you done well with your money? Like what like
little like really like if I let me ask you,
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think I would tell you. And if I'm doing great,
like huh me ask you are you doing well with
your money? You know. It's like kind of like, you know,
it's certain right, the things that people are programmed to
to think. When you're considered to be different. You know,
whether it's a professional athlete, whether it's a professional entertainer, whatever,
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it may be, your your rules now change, right, It's like, oh, well,
how is your health? They'll ask you about your money,
They'll ask you about your health. One of the biggest
stories that comes out is when somebody passes away, right,
it's like it's super super Uh what what is it like?
You know, consumable news when somebody that seemingly is as
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perfect as Tom Brady is. You know what's super consumable
is if he's having problems at home. You know, it's like,
all right, he's not superman, He's not perfect. There there
are there are things that are are not all the
way you know the right thing. And to me, I
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find it to be very interesting because when you start
bringing up people's wives or their husbands, or their kids,
or their parents, but especially like the home front, I
just it makes specially problems, especially if you're having especially
at what what happens answer this? If he's still in
(28:27):
New England Patriot? Does Bill Belichick let him leave for
a week and a half? No? No, I mean you
thought about it. If you thought about it, I really
if it goes to Bill, it's a it's a no go,
no chance, it's a no. It's it's got to be
a no because that challenges everything that Bill Belichick built
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as what the Patriot way is. You can't allow any
any player to do that. He didn't he cut a
big time, a big brand football player, because he was
late to a meeting. He cut it. Yeah, you do
you remember who it was? Was it a Daily is
Slim Backer? Yeah? And check this out. The Daily has
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told me the story. It was snowing, he couldn't get
his car out the driveway, and Bill said, I don't care.
I told you guys the day before the meeting, it's
gonna be slowing bad. Stay in the hotel, Like you
think I'm gonna stay in a hotel and I have
a wife and kids at home. That he thought, Yeah,
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and you know that is at that time he was established.
He probably said so much to Bill. I just I
know that probably that Patriot Way ain't ain't the same
without a twelve. So the Patriot Way or was it
the Brady Way? Well, it was the Patriot Way via
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built through Tom Brady. I mean, all right, so is
this does this become a blessing and a curse? You're
Tom Brady, your TV twelve and because of what your
notoriety is, you have exceeded being just a football player.
You are now a celebrity commodity. Is it is it fair? Yes?
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It is? He covered that group? Is there yes, it is. Yes,
it is when I guess when you're bigger than life
and because you're a really good athlete, now you're a
worldwide figure. It comes with the territory. It is what
it is, whether you like it or not. It's fair
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and you know, I just said, you know, you shouldn't
do this and you shouldn't do that. But it comes
with the territory. And that's what it is. When people
care about things you do, so forth and so on,
that that's what happens. It doesn't hurt you leave in
training camp and you're the quarterback. You leave in training
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camp and you're the quarterback. And they could have literally said,
you know, as a family emergency. I mean, they could
have spun it. Well, here's the thing, right, they could
have done that. His wife is is famous, you know,
like you're you're doubling down. She's she's she at one
point was probably more famous easily globally for sure, probably
(31:29):
even still now today globally, still a bigger brand than
her husband. So then there's that aspect of it as well,
is that you got a famous wife as well as
you being famous yourself. It's just the perfect storm for
something like this. To happen if you were to fall
into these conditions within your marriage. But man, if it
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is true, I wish you guys the best, Tom and Giselle. Honestly,
you can talk, we can talk sports all day long,
we can criticize, we can critique all day long about
the way somebody plays or the way they handle things
as a player, this down and the other. But when
you hear about a family unit that maybe uh in
the rest or needing to figure things out first and foremost, man,
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take care of your family on God, Because when all
them lights go off and the and the plays stop
being called and the throws stop taking place of one
constant man, your family, Man, your family, don't don't ever,
don't ever lose your family. You know the people that
that matter the most to you. You protect what what
what is there for you and and loves you back.
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So I wish you guys all the best, honestly, if
that's what's taking place. And yeah, up one game. We're
not gonna go deep into dissect and what you got
going on with your marriage. We're just gonna talk about
if you should be in training camp or not. That's all.
But this is up on game that's t J. Hushmon's
out of Plexico Birds is taking the day off. Um
(32:54):
go figure for some family some family business that he
needs to take care of. Uh, not a thing, good,
good things that that he's doing. Obviously you know, well
he's he's out Ofliza's football games first high school football.
I let it out. I don't want no rumors getting started. Yeah,
he's a baller, his son's a baller. So he's there
(33:14):
for him. So we're gonna take a quick break on
the other side. We'll we'll be right back. And I
was hoping, uh plex will be here for this next
topic DJ, because it's kind of funny. Anyways, it's up
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All right, feels like uh like Paradise? All right? That's
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t J. Hudgmons OUTA. I'm LaVar Arrington, Uh t J. I.
I really wanted Plexico to be a part of this
topic because I found it to be very very very interesting.
Uh Bursch, give us, give us a rundown on this.
Serena Williams, she was she was doing very well. This
is seemingly her last major um I don't know that
(35:03):
that's that that's what it's going to be, but it
has been covered that way that this is, you know,
the last one, and the coverage was wild. Wall has
been wild, of wall has been nuts and so so
much so that well what happened Birch? Well yeah, So.
About a month ago, in an essay with Vogue, Serena
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Williams cited her desire to have another child and in
essence gave her farewell to the sport, referring to it
more as an evolution and not necessarily a retirement. After
her match last night, uh in which she was eliminated
from the U s Open, here's what she had to
say on the court after her loss. It's been a
fun ride and I'm just so grateful to every single
(35:48):
person that's ever said go Serena in life. I'm just
so rateful because yeah, you got my hair. Is there
any chance you'll reconsider? I mean, I'm literally playing my
way into this and getting better. I should have started
sooner this year. I don't. I don't think so, but
(36:09):
you never know. Yeah, it wasn't very definitive, and I
mean there looked like there was still a whole lot
of competitive. Uh, juices flowing so to speak with with
the matches that that ensued, t J. But I found
the most interesting aspect of this story was ESPN bump
(36:30):
Michigan States season opener off of off of the bank.
They bump, They bumped Michigan States game off. If it
filled it with Serena's match, Uh, I beg god, this
would have been a funny punch line. This would have
(36:52):
been a funny punch line for Oregon State because I
would have been able to say, you know, it's Oregon State.
You know, it's like it's packed. You know, we don't
know it is. It's pack twelve is State? Right? But
the mighty Spartans of Sparta Andrina Williams. Though, Bro, that's
Serena Williams. She's alright, con She's the best tennis player
(37:12):
in the history of tennis. So you condone it, you
you thought that was a good move for them to
do it. Serena Williams might be the best tennis player.
I'm talking men and women. H Yeah, she's the greatest
greatest woman athletes or is there somebody else out there?
If it is, I can't think of her right now, Yeah,
I can't I mean, Serena met she transcended the game.
(37:35):
She definitely and that's why they moved Michigan State because
it was Serena. It was sold out. I was watching
and she was up five three first set and let
it go. I said, no, Serena, you can't do this.
Shouts out to the goat, Serena Williams. If it is
your last one, hell in respect. If it isn't, keep banging,
keep doing what you do. Everybody supports you. You're listening
(37:56):
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