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Special Preview - Up On Game w/ LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh & Plaxico Burress – Super Bowl Mindset

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LaVar Arrington, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Plaxico Burress get you ready for Super Bowl LV and discuss the mindset that the Buccaneers and Chiefs have heading into the big game. Plus, who has the advantage in this game? 


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Bowl Chimpi and Plaxico Burres. This is the point that he just heard. Super exciting. Get out of Boss radio. You can catch me in a mantle on id Flexicope Burst at Flexico Burst, t J. What's your hand man at Tansata Man? It's t J four only on on the Instagram and you know I'm moving to social media. Arm Yeah, but you do pretty good at what I was hoping that. Yeah, I know because because it's part of the show. I mean, you're going on I g should be at stretch Armstrong, but but you you got

something different. So it's anyway. Welcome to Up on Game. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean I think that your mom, whoever names you did they did a great job. I mean, I think Plexicole is kind of a cool name. I mean I've never heard it. I only know one, you know, so it is what it is. Hey shouts out to the guys in the back that make us sound good, make us look good, all that good stuff. Gavin Sam shots out to you guys. We got them in the building.

David g back there doing our what's trending. So we got a big show for you guys lined up today, and I want to jump right into it because it is indeed Super Bowl fifty five weekend. So yeah, we're we're right here at it. Uh. You know where everybody has discussed and and talked about at length, the quarterback matchup going into this game. Guys. You know, after after we spoke, we wanted to take a different approach to

how we talk about previewing this game. And one of the things that I wanted to discuss with you guys is the mindset and preparing for the big game. Now, only one of us has played in the Super Bowl and and has won a Super Bowl, but there are some there are still some real movements in terms of in our careers where the mindset going into a major game. You know it doesn't you know, I'm sure you can shed a different light on it, Plex in terms of if it feels different going into the Super Bowl then

it does playing in any other game. But I'll say this, let's chat a little light on what the mindset of it is. But before we get into that, let's uh, let you know where we're coming from. We're coming to you live from the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios. When you switch the Farmers Insurance, you could save a bundle. All you have to do is call one eight eight farmers get a quote today. We are farmers. Yeah, y'all know what it is. Farmers. All right, So talk to me,

t J PLEX. Mindset going into a big game? What should these guys? You know, there's there's the mindset of you've already been there. Some of these guys have already played in the biggest game in the Super Bowl. Some of them have not. Obviously, the Chiefs are returning UH champions, defending champions. While it has been since two thousand three that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been in the Big Show, so basically nobody on that team has has really played

in the big Game. What's the mindset that you have personally, UM during the course of this week leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. Well, we're gonna let plaques go last since he's the only one that UH has firsthand experience with you. So we'll get ready plaques that you can really give us a true firsthand account of it. But for me, it would just be you approached the week the same as far as preparing yourself. But you but you know there there's more at stake every Oh, you

you don't change up if it's another game. It's not another game, and you'd be a fool to tell yourself that. But if you prepared the right way throughout the entire season, you keep that same preparation. Now now you know, obviously it's a Super Bowl, so you don't want to put too much emphasis on it because that could poss simply stretch you out. But you you have to be ready to go this. This is the last game, and you

want to put your best foot forward. And the biggest thing is you don't want to try and do too much. You don't want to get a ball as a receiver and try to fight for an extra yard or two and possibly cause a turnover. You don't want to be that defensive back that's running to the ball or that defensive player that's running to the ball so hard that you get a late hit fifteen yard on sportsmanlike penalty. And so you're gonna be real energetic, but you have

to calm yourself down. You have to breathe because once everything settles down, you are just playing football. And although it is a Super Bowl, you are just playing football. Hey t J. You know, you know going into this week, uh, you know, the personal and the mental part of it, there's a lot more intense than what you think it is.

I mean, your your preparation is always going to be your preparation, but going through this week, it's like the little details, like the little you know, uh, you know, don't be short on this route. You know, it's it's a window type throw different things like that. And for me, you know, I just kind of just disconnected from the outside world for that week, put the phone down and just really just focus on winning the football game. Everybody wants to get to the pinnacle to sport. Everybody wants

to get to the Super Bowl. And after you win the a f C, L, NFC championship, championship game. You know, you sit down and even like, Okay, I'm going to the super Bowl, but the object is to win to game. You're not just satisfied with just getting there. And I think that's a lot of the things that people forget on the outside, and even the players you know, who

didn't have an opportunity to make it. When you get there, you don't want to lose, so every so you on everything and you're impossible, you know, physically and mentally to get yourself ready for this game because you don't know if you're gonna make it back. You know, obviously Tom Brady's this is his temps super Bowl, but you know some of these guys are going into this game for the first time in the life and they'll never have

the opportunity to make it back. But like t J said, you do have to calm yourself down and to really you know, just really focus on the task in hand. But in the back of your mind, your mind is telling you know what, I'm in a super Bowl and and and I can try and I can really kind of play tricks on you mentally, because you know, you have to stay positive and and visualizing yourself making that big play or making great plays and just doing everything you can do so the next man besides you can

have a success. So the mental part of it, I think is more than than anything going into this game. And even if you have a bad play, you know you have to find, you know, a positive and really not going to the tank because you know you're realizing, Okay, I'm gonna see why this somebod or whatever the case may be. But it's it's so mental, and you know it's going to be the fastest, most physical football game.

These guys are going to play in the life. And when I got to that game and I was like, oh my gosh, I understand why tough it is to win this game because everybody is just playing so hard. Mm hmm. You know, I always wanted to be recognized as the best when I played. I always wanted to be the guy that was prepared well enough that when the game, when the game was on the line, you're looking at me as the one that, Okay, is he

gonna make the play. I always wanted to be the guy when the game was over that when we when we met at the middle of the field, when I met the coaches, met the players. There was an impact that I left on on them and on the game. And that's kind of my mindset. That has always been my mindset, and my approach to a game was never to never to let the game be so big that it creates a moment that's bigger than me. And that was the first thing that I always said to myself

going into game week. And it's interesting, even though I never played in a super Bowl, I did get an opportunity to play in the playoffs, and and just approaching the playoffs the way that that I did was almost a mirror image of how I approached every other game, which was going into going into the game we got, I always told myself, don't let the game be bigger than you. Don't don't let the moments where you're supposed

to make a play be bigger than you. And my mindset was always to say that, LeVar, your focus and your preparation is going to be bigger than the moments that are in front of you in the game. So as I looked at the film, as I prepared for the week, my whole idea was, you guys know you guys know this right going into a game, It's like, here is your matchup, right, there's gonna be a guy that's gonna want to challenge t J, that's gonna want

to challenge Plexico. You may get different guys that are going to cover you during the course of the game, but for the most part, you're probably and I'm I'm I'm assuming. But on defense, this is how it is. On the how it kind of matter, you know, shapes out and scouting report. On defense side of the ball

is you're gonna have a matchup. So coming into the week, you you're gonna have to have a match up with a tight end as a linebacker, you know, I I had opportunities to play against Shannon Sharp or match up against uh Tony Gonzalez and and different talented guys. I had the opportunity to play against running backs like Emmett Smith or Drone Bettest or Fred Taylor and all those guys, and going into the week, that was your matchup. Like,

you have to win your matchup. So a part of my preparation was how do I defeat the blockers if I got to deal with the lineman. So if it's one of them big boys, if it was Baselli, if it was trade um Trey Johnson trade. You know, who do I have matchup wise? And my mindset was, I

want to dominate what my matchup is. If I can, if I can erase and dominate the guy that I matched up against, then at some point in time, as I'm as I'm tracking that situation, as I'm tracking that dominance against the guy that I'm going against, then I'm I'm I guess I almost almost felt like a major play would develop and I would be a part of it, because more often than not, if it wasn't a receiver, you know, if the game was was going to be

in the quarterback, the running back or tight ends hands to be able to do something, then that was going to be me. That was gonna be at some point during the course of that game, that was going to be me that was going to make that play. And that was you know, that was my mindset, is to make sure that I'm as prepared to make those plays as I possibly can. Guys, now, let's talk about with

COVID the Chiefs arriving in Tampa Bay. I believe today where we get a better game because you don't have to go through the week of media obligations, and that also wearing you out mentally. You didn't you don't have that this year. Um, you're obviously traveling like it's a regular season game, getting in there the night before, whereas in years past you get there the week before. And

so will we get a better game? Will it be uh a worst game competitively or our guys just gonna be better prepared now because you don't have all these media obligations that you would normally having a Super Bowl week, especially the best players, you get pulled in so many different ways because everybody wants a piece of your time, and so that's something that needs to be taken into account.

That it's just a different super Bowl this year, all the way around from when you arrive, your obligations, and so I believe guys should be more focused on the game. You're gonna get a better game because guys should be

more prepared. Mm hmm. You know I want to add this, man, we gotta take take a little time after after we make this, but I wanted to to to kind of maybe narrow it down and focus in terms of what you're talking about, TJ, like that this being COVID and having a different approach in a different set up for this super Bowl. When you went to the when when you went to the super Bowl Plex, it was y'all's

first time going. When y'all played, y'all were playing against a team that had had been there, had one before, and was basically heading towards football immortality to be an undefeated team. On the other side of this break, I want to take a break, but on the other side, and I want to open this up to the callers, you know, and you guys can call in give an opinion eight seven seven nine six three six nine, keeping this theme a mindset on on the same on the

same level. I want you guys to think about this when you're going to the Super Bowl and you're about to play in this game as a first time participant, what what do you have to prove? What? What is motivating you? What? You know? What is the mindset of what basically would be perceived to be the underdog? And

then what what do you believe? What are we looking at from you know, from the chief side in terms of what do they need to be preparing for Because the wind blows hardest at the top, right, so they gotta come back. They gotta come in. They gotta defend their title against Tampa Bay. What does that? What does that feel like? What? How do you look at that? You know, I want to get y'all's opinion on that. On the other side of the break, you're listening to

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the sport. And Tom Brady and I just wonder what is the mindset that may not be your your thoughts on the calls. I want to hear your thoughts on the calls. It's still all mindset. But t J. Plexico, just real quick before we take the callers, what like is the legacy? Is the legacy more at stake? Is

it higher? Is is the amount of of passion going into it more to build a dynasty legacy or to knock off the guy that's trying to get that that legacy, that that that deal where they're remember for winning multiple super Bowls and creating that that dynasty type talk? What which which side has more pressure? Which which one has to have the stronger mindset going into the game. Honestly they I truly believe you can't have that the mentality

of oh I wanna out do this. Just do what you're supposed to do on each given play, do your job, and it's so cliche. And if everybody is doing that, you you just hope the ball bounces in your favorite These teams are evenly matched to a certain degree. I believe the Chiefs are the Chiefs are top heavy. They have the best players at critical positions, but I believe

overall the Bucks have the better team. And so you have to approach it as let me just do my job, and I hope the guy next to me does his job, and so forth and so on, because when you try to do too much, that's when mistakes are gonna happen, and you start to make mistakes. Mistakes will be the reason one team loses this game, not wind up mistakes will be the reason they're losing. So you just have to approach it that way. Do my job, and I

hope my teammate does his as well. Lava. When you're talking about the mindset, you know between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, and you're talking about legacy, if just to say, if Tom Brady loses this game, does it ton is his legacy? Absolutely not. This is this man's tenth super Bowl and what twenty seasons his his mindset has is the same. Is to go out and win this football game and to prove to everybody else and itself like it, like he always does, like he always says, is to

prove that he is the greatest of all time. He's calling it self the goat for for for Patrick Mahomes. I mean, think about this, if he goes out there, okay, this this is his second super Bowl in the row, and he's on the path to to to basically do what Tom Brady has done over the last twenty years. If Patrick mahone loses this game to Tom Brady, is it? What is time? What is Patrick mahomes legacy? He doesn't

even have a legacy yet. What they're saying is if if Patrick mahon goes out and win this game, he's already going to be considered one of the top ten quarterbacks of all time. I mean, I think that's kind of premature, but that is what they are saying. But if Tom Brady goes out of wins this game tomorrow, will you be surprised that he that he wins his game? No,

you won't, because like we've seen it before. Let's listen to this, uh In seventeen drive seven team first quarter drives in the Super Bowl, tom Brady has no and two interceptions. So that tells us, you know, he just makes his adjustments throughout the game and he gets better as the game goes on. If these two quarterbacks get into a duel of of you know, throwing the football every down. I think it's something that we all want

to see. And I just can't rude Tom Brady out for winning this football games if it comes down to just throwing the football. Mm hmmm, let's go. Let's see what the callers think. Let's see what the callers. Rodney in l A. You're listening up on Game Talk to us, Hey, thank you guys for taking my call. All right, and I appreciate And I know it's not a political show, but earlier you guys did open the political door. You know, you're talking about the Native Place program and Barack Obama

Cutty pretty program. Yeah, that was a different show. Next Albert Albert, Albert Albert and Riverside man up on Game Talk to us. What's the t j UM. I think this Super Bowl um book is will be the most focused we've seen a long time because there's no distractions being from the from the media. They're not there in the city. It's just football and just football. They go to practice, and they go home and and it's just and andreisna two weeks to prepare. Tom Berry has already

been there multiple times. As to the second nature of him. So books aren't going to be fully focused, no distractions. I agree, I agree, Yeah, I agree. Let's get to another one. Nice comment, Andre Massachusetts up on game talk to us. It was going on, guys, thanks for taking the call. Listen. I think this game is about the fact you only have a certain few people that have climbed out everything in the NFL. You guys know LeVar, top pick, super Bowl champion, Plaxico t J, great career.

Everybody has talent, everybody has a sense of confidence. Okay, but when you're climbing that mountain of greatness, everybody can't say they want a super Bowl. Everybody can't say that they're a Hall of Famer, and those things matter to certain players. Some players, you know, it's the it's the celebrity, it is the famous, the money, so one and fourth.

But then there's another category of players that is really determined to make it all the way to the top of that mountain, and they will feel that they're a failure if they don't. I think Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes both have that mindset enter stri having for those things. In terms of how the game plays out, you guys already mentioned it tom Brady's been there before ten Super Bowls. This is only Patrick mahomes third year, second Super Bowl.

But there's unfinished business in terms of what happened in the a f C Championship game three years ago. So I think that's in Patrick Mahomes mind in terms of I really need to go back and rectify that. And for Tom Brady, it's about proving that it was more him than the system in New England. So there's all these other things that tie into it. At the end of the day, As you guys mentioned, legacy is what looms large for that certain quality of player that really

wants to be in the gold conversation. This game is unique because both of those guys really are about that life. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, man, and right, no, it's sports. Yeah, he knows what he's talking about. He's a Massachusetts I kind of wanted to having rebuttaled some of the stuff that that that he said. You know, looking at this game, Fellas, I really yeah, I do believe guys are going to be focused, more focused because

of the given scenarios. But and and approaching this game, I just wonder, you know, we talk about xs and those you know, professionals will break down the xs and those they'll they'll give the prognostication based off of what game plan looks like in different things like that. But this is Tom Brady and this is Patrick Mahomes, probably one of the most legendary matchups that we're gonna see one of the most legendary years because of COVID, you know,

altering it. I just wonder in terms of participation of fans because the environment is going to be different. Um, there's just so many differences that are going to play out in this game this year. I wonder does that play to anyone's advantage. You know that this is a very interesting matchup in terms of, like we said, quarterback matchups.

But then you have familiarity with with the matchup that's taking place, and you're you're talking about Spagnola, who was the defensive coordinator on your team when you guys wanted in New York Plex is now on the sideline for Kansas City and we'll now match up once again with Tom Brady um on the other side. So both different teams, but a familiarity with one another. I just think that I'm just wondering, you know, in terms of the approach. Who do you guys think has the you know has

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I knew that we had awesome players. A lot of times, those things will give you a positive confidence in terms of the approach looking at these teams, guys, who who do you think has the advantage in terms of when you look at the matchups that are going to take place in this game, who has who has the advantage and and do you feel as though that that's a

confidence that these guys will take into the game. For for me, it's games of one up front on both sides of the ball, offensive defensive lines and in the biggest advantage would have would have to be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers going against that. Yeah, you know what's interesting about that, t J is that New York Giants team that had success against that, that was the defensive frontment

dominated that game. You look at the Dominican Sue Shack, Barrett j p p. Vita Vella in in the Chiefs having offensive linemen that are hurt and missing, that that's gonna be tough. If you chip, if you chip or you leave guys in the block, they're gonna rush with four guys play man to man and have seven so you can double one, you can rob another, and it's gonna make it tough. That to me is the key

of the game. If the Chiefs cannot protect or the Bucks can get pressure with four consistently, um that that will be the key to the game. That that will be the reason the Bucks win or lose the game. In my opinion, to me, when you talk about who has the advantage. I'm just you know, remembering back to two thousand and seven and the recipe that we have for the new and Patriots and Tom Brady being able

to defeat him. And I gotta say that the Kansas City Chiefs has the bigger, the biggest advantage the things that Teach just mentioned with JPP and in the defensive linte going against the office line and they got some guys out. But from a defensive standpoint, Steve Spagnola, who was one of the finest defensive play callers in all of football, him playing against Tom Brady and two Super Bowls thirteen years ago we beat him, uh in two

thousand and seven. He understands that he cannot fool Tom Brady. So his recipe to to to defeat uh, you know, Tom Brady is to play man and man, play bump and run and get pressure up the middle without blitzing, and hopefully these guys can cover for four or five seconds, because that's really the only way that you can have

a chance to really defeat Tom Brady. If you look back to the to the Super Bowl with the Falcons and the Patriots, the the the the Falcons were playing straight man and man all across the board and they're up twenty one or three going and a half time. And then they come out in the second half and they jump in his own and Tom Brady just pick him apart. You can't do that. So he understands, listen, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get pressure on Tom

Brady without blessing. I gotta disrupt the time between the quarterbacks and the wide receiver. And I know that he understands that he just can't cover Tyreek Hill one on one. I think they're gonna play bumper running the outside. They're gonna bracket him. But I think the guys that the guy is gonna make the most plays in this game because Tylree Hill is gonna draw so much attention as Travis Kelsey. I don't think they have anybody to go.

You gotta take those two out the game. You have to take those two have to be taken out of the game. And this is another key. When the Bucks get pressure on my Homes, they better not let him escape that pocket. With him being mobile, you're better pressure

him and keep him in the pocket. I just think Spags has the biggest upside of this game because he's played against him, he's defeated him, and he can't just sit back in the zone and let Tom Brady pick him apart because you can't fool him and you gotta get up there and play a man and man and this just up the passing game. Well, here's what I'll say, because for to one good matchup deserves another good matchup.

Todd Bowls is an amazing defensive coordinator in his own right and has has really elevated how Tampa Bay is playing. I like his approach to being totally committed to stopping the run on rundowns and then being able to mix up where he's blitzing from the aggressive blitzes. In terms of the mixed coverage, is not knowing exactly where the pressures may come from, exactly where the the coverages are going to go. So this could be something that made

possible be confusing to some degree. I'm not gonna say a great degree, because I think that uh Mahomes has done such an amazing job of diagnosing what defenses are trying to do and and partially in fact, I believe that that's the reason why Kansas City has been virtually unstoppable is because of his pre snap reads and the adjustments that these off this offense has been making all season.

But with that being said, there are some very very staple type of of characteristics and DNA of this Kansas City offense. They love running the ball without running the ball, so in other words, they love doing their jet their jet sweeps. They they love doing their misdirection, fast developing plays. They love throwing the ball out there to the receivers very quickly. These are running plays even though they're throwing the ball that is able to lose in these defenses

up and create space and opportunity in those windows. And and what I see a lot of is in the center of the field. There's always someone crossing in the center of the field. There's always somebody attacking and sent sitting in the center of the defenses in the center

of the field. For Kansas City, I think that Todd Bowls comes into this game and really if he if he understands that A if I can stop the fast, quick developing plays and hold it to a minimum by the time they get to the passing downs of of what's going to take place, because you cannot forget about the running game of Tampa Bay. They forgot about it in that last game and Leonard for Nette was able to hurt them gifts. They they have some really good

backs in that backfield. So I really believe that if if on the defensive side for Tampa Bay, they're able to stop them on early downs and and forced forced Kansas City to do other things like look to that that staple play in the center of the field on those third down plays, or force force him to try to do it my homes that is, to do it with his feet. I think they get the advantage in this game. But I just have not seen any defenses

really outside of Oakland, excuse me, Las Vegas. I haven't seen anyone jam up the routes with Kelsey or Hill going across that middle on those slants those end routes. I haven't seen anyone defensive well enough or or actually prevent those things from happening even when the defenses see it coming. So I don't know that's that's gonna be an interesting one. I think the advantage actually goes to Tampa Bay. But but you know, we're gonna have to wait and see. Fellas. I mean, it just is what

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the next few minutes? Look at photos of things other people. Eight called one eight eight Farmers to get a quote. We are Farmers, written by Farmers. Far insurance changes as on available in every state from the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio studios call Farmers today for quote t J. That's cutting the scratch. You like that? You you you were too tall to be be boy dancing. You You was not spending on your back and on your head, true East Coast man. We was breaking on cardboard boxes

and I was doing the whole thing. Man. You was pop blocking what I wasn't six six then? You know that was that was a little bit coming up. I was usual to be a lesser good mine electric used to be electric. Yeah. You got some friends, man, they want they want to chat in on the conversation. Man, let's get let's get to some callers. Let we got we got a lot of my home, Brian in Virginia. You're listening up on game talk to us. What we're

good fellas? Man, I'm telling you right now, I love y'all. Show. I playing my day around when I got to do my running around so I can make sure I hear y'all on the radio on the car Virginia. That's right, yeah, so plack. Actually, I know this is about the Dyna stand whatnot, but I did call earlier. No, what is the mindset? Good? Alright, stay there, so check it out. So plex um. My personal thing is whenever it comes to a mindset of a game, you have a lot

to do with that. Personally. I went to school only even the Green Run right and Mike Mike, you know, Mike Mike Lundy right right. When one night I came home, y'all were at my house and I asked what my father was and y'all were like, you know, you didn't know that he had left to go get married. So y'all actually broke that ice to me, and it made me angry. So every time that we would approach a game.

When first Colonnia played Green Run in football the track, I knew our team wasn't good enough to beat y'all in football or track anything like that. But my father always compared me to what you and Mike were doing. So I would prepare my mind to say, as long as I outdo plexing Mike, which I never did. I said, they leaves him to put my game. But getting that I played on offense, I never had to play against you really on offense, you know, because you played on offense.

I played on offense as a receiver, and I would I would smoke my defensive backs that I played the games so or something like that. So it was like, even though just like the majority of the people in the world, I never made it to the level of the NFL or any type of professional level that you all,

I had, the mindset is still the same. It's like you have that one burning thing that will push you if even if we know we can't win this game, like La Vosta earlier, can I win what I have to win during this game and that might be a victory. But yeah, my father, he always compared me to you and Mike, Mike and y'all on my nerves, So y'all with my motivation every game, play'st respect man. I really

appreciate it. Man, you call it, you know, DROP appreciate it putting everybody up on a game that y'all couldn't beat us in basketball, football and tracks Brian, thanks for calling. We're gonna get to one more Tony San Diego. You're listening up on game talk to us, so up tone. Hey, fella's thankful taking my call. I'd like to talk about the coaching situation with Andy Reid. Yeah, you know his son Brent just got his second d u I and the laws in the United States is on the second

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