00:00Let's talk all things NFL with recent retiree, 14-year NFL event, and Super Bowl champ Lawrence Guy.
00:08Hey, Lawrence, man, appreciate you hopping on, man.
00:11Old school, the new school way of playing football, the Eagles got this tush-push thing.
00:17What are your thoughts on the tush-push, man? Do you think this is the final season we see it?
00:22100% I hate the tush-push. I don't like goal line anymore because they keep jumping.
00:27And I had a full argument with the ref one day. I'm like, bro, how am I supposed to beat him if the right guard or the right tackle is jumping the snap on a goal line when my head's in the ground?
00:39Like, we got rid of the – well, I'm going with the field goal.
00:43We got rid of field goal blocking when it's pushing the defensive tackles into the line.
00:47They said, hey, it's dangerous. We got rid of hitting the snapper. It was dangerous.
00:51But we didn't get rid of the tush-push. And I don't think it's going to be – hey, it's going to be dangerous.
00:58I think they're going to get rid of it because they keep jumping and snap.
01:02If they're jumping and snap, it's an unfair advantage. I can't do nothing, and especially if you can't call it.
01:07So you go into these meetings with the owners and everybody and their coaches and you're like, hey, we can't stop it, but we also can't call the offsides.
01:17We got rid of, hey, challenging the penalty, doing that a couple years ago when we tried it out.
01:22But you can't call the offsides, and that's the main factor what people are getting upset about is the right guard or the left guard or the right tackle jumping the snap every time.
01:32You got to get rid of the play because it doesn't belong because it's an unfair advantage because you can see clearly when the D lineman jumps off the ball, and you're going to call that.
01:42But the offensive line continues to jump the snap, and it can't be called. It's an unfair advantage in that play.
01:48Yeah, it's an unstoppable play, hands down, but it's just one of those things that I think is going to get kicked out just because of the offside penalties.
01:56Or you could just be smart with it and everybody else puts their athletic defensive lineman or athletic offensive tackle, make them eligible, and push them through the line.
02:05That would probably be the end of it also if they do that.
02:08Yeah, I mean, that and the forward progress.
02:11Like you saw Jalen Hurts in the Giants game.
02:14Kayvon Thibodeau kind of snatches the ball away from him, and you're hearing in the broadcast everyone saying, like, that should be a fumble.
02:22That should be a fumble.
02:23And you can't regulate it, and that's the thing for me.
02:27I used to be Team Tush Push.
02:29I'm like, well, stop it.
02:31But then now people are finding ways to stop it, and the NFL or these refs continue to move the goalposts when it comes to it,
02:37and it's just like, all right, now it's time to get out.
02:40All right, man, welcome to the retired world.
02:43What's next for you?
02:45What you got going on?
02:45We going to see you on TV, like Brady and these guys?
02:48You don't see me out there talking, having a good time.
02:52Showing people what I come from and what the game meant to me, but I have to get the point of view of how we look at it.
03:01I think as former players, when we speak on broadcast and we speak about the game, we give a different perspective about it, and that's the best thing to the fans, right?
03:11I can tell you, hey, how it feels being Tush Push, that it sucks, and it's about us to look at it and say, look, well, it's not an unfair advantage of it.
03:19I think that's a unique aspect.
03:20And we still got my foundation, Lawrence Godfrey Family Foundation, where we're still active and rolling.
03:25We have a baby shower with Project Sweet Pea in December in New England at the Patriots Stadium,
03:31and we're just going to host single moms that are having babies or already have a baby for their essentials, car seats, strollers, everything for the first two years in life.
03:43And we're going to keep rolling.
03:44And I got kids.
03:45I got four kids.
03:47I got two on the way.
03:48They're all under eight.
03:50It's going to – I already lost my hair.
03:52I'm blaming it on the twins that have lost my hair.
03:55It's not because of genetics.
03:56I don't want to hear that.
03:58It is what it is.
03:59But I'm just going to enjoy this moment where I get to see them going and get my perspective every time I get a shot to go out there and get them from an old D-liners point of view
04:08and for someone that understands and that just literally plays with this new generation and how they're coming up and what they're going to be doing in this next couple years.
04:16Absolutely love it, man.
04:17I got a two-year-old, so I tell people I lost my hairline because of the two-year-old.
04:22But, you know, that's definitely genetics.
04:26My dad got the little widow's peak and all that, so I'm going to pass that down to him.
04:30But, I mean, with the foundation, man, what you guys are doing, not only did you have yourself a very successful career on the field,
04:37but with the foundation, you're going to be a legend off the field for helping, you know, for reaching out and helping people, man.
04:44So we appreciate what you're doing in the community.
04:47Congratulations on the retirement and the twins.
04:51And then good luck in your next ventures in life, man.
04:57I appreciate it.
04:58Thanks for having me.
04:59And like I said, when we got on here, it was amazing talking to you and even on here.
05:04It is great to have you to talk about stuff and have a good time doing these interviews,
05:09especially as somebody else that's not the lineman is going to agree with me that the tush push needs to go away.
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