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#9 - No One Cares About Kickers · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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  I'm alive. Welcome to the All Balls No
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  Philtre podcast. Live from the cabin kitchen.
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  I'm Zach. He's Brad.
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  Hi there. Behind the scenes, we have a man
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  that single handedly keeps the phileo fish on the McDonald's
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  menu because he can't stop buying him.
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  He's researcher Cal. Oh God, phileo fish is something
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  I've never ever tasted in my life, nor do I ever want to.
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  That's still so wrong. No, no, I can't.
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  I can't say I have right. And for some reason, sorry, I've
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  just knocked Everything Everywhere.
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  So you might be able to hear me moving things about.
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  I got a bit, I got a bit eccentric there.
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  But for some reason with the fillet of fish, there's just
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  something about it, like I like fish fingers.
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  I don't, I don't mind fish fingers.
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  I can't imagine being much different to a fish finger.
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  It's right weird, you know, because I think so much goes
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  into like a McDonald's burger for a way to start show the
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  Madonald's burger, right. I add it's, I think there's so
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  much in the bread because I've had, you know, on the the new
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  breakfast savers menu, they've got them just the sausage
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  sandwich now it's like £2 and it's basically sausage Patty
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  from your Egg Mcmuffin. But then like the bread from
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  just a normal hamburger. And it's the weirdest thing I've
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  had. Like it just like it's just a
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  weird taste. And I imagine that's what like
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  the fillet fish is. It's like a crap messed up fish
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  a sandwich and I don't get it. You should just be on thick
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  white bread. Yeah, and and and do you know
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  what right, I think they've just done a 11 as well like as a like
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  a secret menu thing they did. I think they did a 11 as well.
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  But yeah, the fillet O fish. What a way to start, eh?
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  Yeah, you can't can't beat it, eh.
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  How are you doing mate? Anyway, how are you?
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  I'm all. Right mate, I'm all right, yes,
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  not too. Not doing too bad in yourself.
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  Yeah, man, I'm, I'm good. Thanks.
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  I'm happy to be back. It's I'm, I'm really looking
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  forward to my, my Tuesday evening records.
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  I must admit they're there's something that I am looking
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  forward to getting into. But what do we have in store for
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  today's show? The offseason is here, Brad.
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  Take it away. Of the offseason is here for our
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  show today. Then we're going to touch on the
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  headlines, of course that have occurred this past week as
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  always and we'll be starting off our offseason programme.
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  So we're going to be looking at the franchise tags or any
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  potential franchise tags that we're expecting to see ahead of
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  the free agency frenzy and the combined start of this week.
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  So we'll, we'll visit Indianapolis and get any stories
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  that are developing there. And officially for the first
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  time, as announced last week, our I Can't Spake segment.
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  So along with our weekly all of the balls, we're going to be
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  visiting rugby league a little bit more regular.
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  But I think if we probably get straight into those news
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  headlines, we probably need to begin really with the sad news
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  coming out of Indiana in the town of New Albany.
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  So obviously, you know, if you're, if you're in tune with
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  the NFL and you follow on socials and things like that,
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  you'll have seen the sad news of Rondelle Moore, Vikings receiver
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  at the age of 25. I believe he was found with a
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  what's assumed to be or been, you know, discussed as a
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  self-inflicted gunshot wound. So he's found in a a garage of a
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  property in in New Albany where he he actually started his high
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  school football career. It's a really, really sad news
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  coming out of Indiana really, you know, a young, a young star.
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  And it's, it's sad to think what, what drove that?
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  But you know, it's all speculation.
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  But sad nonetheless. Yeah, it's it's not nice to
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  hear. And you know, as as thoughts and
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  prayers go to everyone that's that's involved, his life, his
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  family, his friends and everything.
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  Hey, look, you know, to anybody that's listened to this, if
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  speak out your help, you know, you've, you've got you, you have
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  someone out there that loves you and will listen to you.
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  So please don't ever feel like you can't speak.
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  So just do so. Yeah.
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  But yeah, very, very sad news. And we send everyone here at the
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  All Balls no Philtre podcast, we do send our thoughts and prayers
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  to everyone involved that's been that's been hurt by this.
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  But we're not going to touch on it too much because there's
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  still some speculation out there.
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  We are going to move on to the other headlines from around the
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  NFL and from around the world. The NFL scouting combine has
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  officially started started on Monday the 23rd of February.
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  We're going to be touching up on this a little bit throughout the
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  show, touching touching on this a little bit, you know what I
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  mean? So we're going to be touching on
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  this coming a little bit in the show and we're going to be
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  touched on this week in week out as well because for the next,
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  you know, a few weeks that's on now or next week or so.
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  I should really know this, but kind of mainly from there.
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  Yeah. So I'll be touching upon that.
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  And the NFL teams are starting to franchise tag their players
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  as well. Again, something be touching on
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  today. Some players will be in free
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  agencies, some people who getting franchise tag will get.
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  Will explain everything you need to know about that coming up
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  soon. Also the NFL international
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  games, they're starting to get announced more and more.
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  The Detroit Lions have announced that they'll be one of the teams
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  that are playing in Munich this year.
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  So Germany 2026 will have the Detroit Lions will be at least
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  one of the teams out there. So that should be fun to see.
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  I'm exciting to see the rest of the lineup.
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  I kind of like how the NFL do it where they they drip feed all
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  the teams going out and obviously the other
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  international game. We've got San Fran and Rams over
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  in Australia too. So it is definitely getting
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  international now. Bit of a big names.
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  There's been a few people being released around the NFL over the
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  past past few days, past few weeks, I'll say, but one of the
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  bigger, bigger names or should I say bigger contract names.
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  Yeah, a lot of Falcons have are set to release, should I say,
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  pretty much confirmed releasing Kirk Cousins now it back in
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  2024, Kirk Cousins signed like a big, big contract as a QB and
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  then they just designed Michael Pennix.
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  Also, the draft of Michael Pennock shall say, who then won
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  that QB battle throughout that year.
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  Bit of controversy there because of how much they paid Cousins
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  and I imagine now they're going to be taking some sort of some
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  sort of hit on this this on the on the cap now because of this
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  contract, but I'm not too sure on that land.
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  We'll wait until more of the numbers kind of get out there
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  and come out. But that's one of the bigger
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  names at this moment in time. We'll touch on a bit a few more
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  of them going forward, but any big names we'll report to you
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  from there. Brad, anything from the the news
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  this week that you want to touch on before we move on?
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  No, I think it's just been an interesting one to see where
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  Kirk ends up. Well, because I think there's a
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  few teams this year that could probably do with that veteran
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  quarterback. There's been a lot of
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  speculation they'll end back up at the Vikings, which would be
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  interesting to see. It's weird because it's a good
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  fit for the Vikings, but obviously they moved on from him
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  and you know that maybe teams like the Cardinals, maybe the
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  Dolphins, you know, places like that that could do with that
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  veteran sort of player, depending on what what moves
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  they might make. Obviously the speculation we've
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  touched on already. So we don't need to get in
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  about, you know, the Cardinals and Dolphins quarterback
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  situation. But it's not just those two, is
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  it? There's a few teams that could
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  do with that veteran presence. And I think he's still got, you
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  know, he's still got some left in him and he's still got some
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  in the tank. So.
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  I see him, I see him doing that like Joe Flacco role for the
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  next few years, just dipping in our teams, just helping out
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  backfield, like not necessarily getting that TV time, but doing
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  a lot of veteran QB work in that backfield, helping the young
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  guns kind of learn, learn the ropes a little bit slightly.
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  He's still got something there. But yeah, sweet.
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  So they're the news headlines from this week.
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  Now before I forget, guys that always leave this until the back
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  end of the podcast. If you're listening to this and
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  you want to see some really nice visuals of my face and Brads,
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  then head over to our YouTube channel or the Spotify.
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  Our Spotify channel does have videos on there as well at ABNF
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  pod across all of the socials. But yeah, head over to his
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  YouTube channel. Please hit subscribe, like
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  follow, leave as a comment, get involved.
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  And the main thing is sharing this to your friends.
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  We want to kind of get out there a little bit more and, and, and
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  get your views and your friends views and stuff.
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  We're getting quite a few comments through a Spotify at
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  moment. It's pretty nice to see.
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  So we'd like to keep getting some more interactions with you
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  guys from there. So again, head over, follow like
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  and all that jazz, right? Franchise tagging.
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  So we hear this, we hear this statement every year as an NFL
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  fan. And if you are new to the NFL,
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  you might think, well, what the you know is, is franchise
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  tagging. It's not something you see in in
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  like UK sports in particular. So Brad, do you want to give us
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  a quick 32nd explanation as to what franchise tagging actually
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  is? And we'll get into it from
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  there. Yeah, I'd be more than happy to
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  and I can't wait to mess something up and be called out
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  on it. But in essence that, you know,
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  for those who maybe are fully in the know, the franchise tag is a
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  tool that teams can use to essentially hold on to a player.
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  So as they're becoming a free agent, they can apply one of
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  three different tags to the player, two of which are called
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  franchise tags as exclusive and the non exclusive with slight
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  differences. And then the third type of tag
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  is a transition tag, which and much less common generally, in
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  essence, it's a way to be able to hold on to a player for an
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  extra year beyond the contract. Now that does come with a
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  caveat. So I think we've got a slide
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  here that will show us some average salaries, if I'm not
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  mistaken. And this, this is the caveat to
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  it really, because otherwise, you know, you've got a good
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  player and yeah, we'll just franchise tag him and pay him
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  $2,000,000. It don't work like that.
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  So in essence, each position has a franchise tag salary and for
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  the exclusive and non exclusive franchise tag, that's based off
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  the top five salaries at that position.
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  So if it's quarterback, for example, the five quarterbacks
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  with the highest annual average salary, it is an average of that
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  and that's what that player will get.
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  So if you've got, you know, a really good quarterback who's
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  had a great year and you want to carry that on, but maybe you're
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  not thinking is worth that top end, you know, 47, you know,
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  nearly $50 million or you don't have that salary cap space, then
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  you might not use that tag. You might need to try and
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  negotiate, but it's a bit of a bargaining chip.
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  As I say, there's, there's three different types and the, the
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  exclusive and non exclusive, basically the same.
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  It just allows or disallows negotiations and and there's
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  then a penalty if they declined to match like teams declined to
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  match it and picks trade in. We won't go fully into it, but
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  that's the franchise tags in a nutshell, really.
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  They never really do anything easy, do they?
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  They can never just blight eyes contract extension.
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  No, that it's just something and each team can only do 1
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  franchise tag per year. I'm right in thinking right.
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  So you kind of you have to choose wisely with who you
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  franchise tagging for that season, correct.
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  So if you if you sign like so, you've got a.
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  Choice between an exclusive and a non exclusive.
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  And then plus you can use the transition tag.
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  So just to sort of the transition tag's slight a bit
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  more different than the other two because you can negotiate
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  and you can match offers. There's no draft pick
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  compensation. But the flip to that is it's
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  this the average salary of the top 10 salaries.
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  So you can lower in that salary, but you've got a bigger risk
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  because when you're negotiating you don't get any compensation,
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  so. Hey, Joe, Yeah, so there's a
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  couple of big names out there, two in particular that strike
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  out to us that are expected to be franchise tag.
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  One of them in the news more than the other.
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  The big biggest one out of them to I should say the one more
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  confirmed is the Kyle Pitts news.
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  They're set to pretty much they're pretty much confirmed.
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  They are going to be the franchise tagging Kyle Pitts
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  going into next year's season, as well as have been heavy
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  rumours that George Pickens at the Cowboys will also be
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  franchise tagged. Kyle picks for me definite one
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  of the ones where like I think he's shown he hadn't shown that
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  potential what he came out of college to to have and he came
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  out of college this next big stud of a tight end and he I
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  don't think he's little to his name which yet, but he has shown
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  them glimpses of greatness. I say greatness, just really
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  good plays. So I think that's probably why
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  it is decision from their side of things.
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  I'm still not sure if it's like a dead cert that is still there
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  next year. There's there's two parts to
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  this one, I think because you you saw quite a lot of talk of
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  Kyle Pitts being in being at other teams.
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  And there's definitely I think that interest there as him as a
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  tight end, like he's clearly got the the athleticism to do
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  something special. It's just not converted.
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  Now. I think what what's probably
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  happening is the Falcons are probably looking at this as
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  right, we've brought in Stefanski, you know, he's had
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  some success with Joe Ku and things.
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  So can you replicate that? Obviously it's a different type
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  to end, but can you replicate that with pits?
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  Let's give it a year and see. And if not, then we'll move on
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  or we might trade him at the deadline or it's just gives you
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  that bit of capital to play with.
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  And I think that's probably a little bit of what it's to do
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  with, but I think it'll be an interesting one.
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  I think the pickings ones are a really like a really good
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  obvious want to do like he's he's performed really well and
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  Dallas had some really strong moments.
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  They're a good, they're a good side.
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  Last year they just fell short of it.
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  They're getting that two star, 2 five star wide receivers without
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  having to pay 2 five star wide receivers.
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  So that one extra year out there because I've already got CD
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  lamp, which are the, you know, the pain and such.
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  George Pickens after the year that he's just had will be
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  wanting it'll be Cincinnati Bengals 2.0 if you ask me, with
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  the the Higgins and and Jamar Chase kind of situation where
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  both people are paying. They've paid in both.
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  It hasn't worked out for him with this Dallas have got one
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  extra year of, you know, checking it into pickings and
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  seeing what what next year brings out.
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  Maybe get something for some one of them throughout the year
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  picked wise in a trade. So I think it's a no brainer for
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  me. If they can do it, they can do
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  it. I think it's, I think it's a no
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  brainer. And there is a couple more
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  rumoured players that just talked about a moment.
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  The Ravens in particular are rumoured to become rumoured to
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  be tagging or considering tagging Tyler Lindenbaum, the
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  centre. Now we had a comment on our
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  Spotify of a good friend of ours called Keelan.
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  It was a, it was a big rave of Ravens fan and he was like, I'm
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  begging if anyone from the Ravens organisation is watching
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  this, I beg you, please, like we need, we need to build a, we
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  need to build a line around this guy.
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  So the Ravens fans want it. Whether the Ravens do it or not,
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  I don't know it. Only time will tell.
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  And as well, The Jets are rumoured to be tagging or
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  considering tagging. Should I say brace hall now?
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  For me, I think that's a relationship that needs to part
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  separate ways. I just don't think it's worked
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  over the past couple of years. But it is The Jets.
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  You could say that about many Jets players couldn't be alike.
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  Are they hoping just, you know, it's they can't expect.
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  I think the difficult thing they've got that is they can't
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  expect to put Glenn in charge. And then, you know, there's
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  strong speculation that he could lose his job within the year.
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  But they're stuck by him and they can't then say, all right,
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  we're going to stick by a year, but we're going to get rid of
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  some more top players because they already did that last
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  season. They already got rid of a
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  couple. So I just can't see how they can
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  then keep doing that. And I think again, for the sake
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  of a year, it's and it's not with it been a running back as
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  well. It's not like it's breaking the
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  bank, is it? You're looking at your top end
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  sort of salaries on your line and your quarterback and you
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  receive a, you know, actually even all the way down to like
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  linebackers up there with that sort of offensive line and
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  defensive end sort of fees. But your running back is all the
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  way down there outside of your kicker and punters because no
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  one cares about kickers or punters.
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  Research account. I'm kidding, of course, just
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  trying to trigger him already. But you know, your running back
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  is way down there. It's 14 mil and the cap's gone
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  up this year as well. So like, you know, for a player
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  that's got quality, it's worth just giving another year, isn't
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  it? With that sort of head coach
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  going on, so. Yeah, and I'm surprised at what
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  the franchise tag is for, for the running backs compared to
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  what they've done in the past couple of years or the past.
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  The past 10 years has been kind of dominated around the the
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  running backs, you know, like Saquon Barkley and people are
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  coming out with Derek Henry. I'm surprised it's been so, so
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  long from there. What actually Justin, breaking
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  news right this second. Thank you research Cal for
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  throwing this into it. As we're talking about it.
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  Breaking news now the the Falcons have act of officially
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  franchise tag. I'll put a place a franchise tag
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  on Kyle Pitts. So as we're talking about it, it
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  has been broken right now. The timing on that, the timing
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  on that, that. News comes from Tom Pellicera,
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  by the way. Thank you, Research Cal, for
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  picking that one up. So if it's not accurate, it's
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  not Research Cal's fault, it's Tom Palacera's fault.
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  Well, thank you for that and yes, breaking was there.
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  So going on to that is not to be expected.
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  He has been placed on the place on the franchise tag list.
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  Now, just looking at some teams that I've been dubbed or been
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  rumoured to not be using any of the franchise tags this year,
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  and Giants and Seattle are two teams in particular aren't
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  looking to do so. Giants just due to financial
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  reasons. I think they're a bit up in the
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  air at the moment. Now this is what's been
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  reported. They're just trying to not do
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  anything just yet money wise and kind of lump it in maybe free
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  agency or I'll go from there. The Seattle one does strike me a
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  little bit because they could place Kenneth Walker the Super
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  Bowl MVP and I know we touched on this last week a little bit,
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  but where does this leave him now?
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  What is I know and you know, the Seattle have now gone up for
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  sale after winning the Super Bowl, but where does this leave
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  him? And what what kind of image does
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  this paint for Seattle not tagging or not wanting to keep
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  their Super Bowl MVP on the team the literally the following
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  year? It's been a while.
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  Has it been two weeks since the Super Bowl?
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  It could be one of many things and this is the the nature of
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  the franchise tag. It can be, it can be used to
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  hold on to players. It can be used as a tool to be
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  able to try and gain picks. It can be used as a tool to sort
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  of say to a player, I'm going to hold on to you for now because
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  we definitely want to make something happen with you and we
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  just need a bit more time to back and forth.
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  But it can also be used or not used rather as the as a goodwill
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  gesture as well. And just say, look, you know,
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  see, see what you can get. Fine.
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  You know, we want to give you that opportunity.
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  But look at the season you've had with us.
• 20:34
  You've won the Super Bowl MVP with us.
• 20:35
  We're going to run it. We want to run it back with you.
• 20:38
  But we appreciate you and want to give it a go.
• 20:41
  I don't know what Seattle's cat situation is off the top of my
• 20:44
  head. So I'm not sure whether it's
• 20:48
  anything like that. They've obviously got all the
• 20:51
  positions that they'll need to to sign re sign, negotiate
• 20:57
  contracts with. So I don't think it's a huge
• 21:01
  thing. But I think again, for that cap
• 21:03
  hit that we've just said 14 mil. Should they do it?
• 21:06
  Maybe, probably. So it's it's probably the
• 21:09
  surprising how how many Super Bowl MVPS have then reached free
• 21:12
  agency the the the very next week.
• 21:15
  You know that. 'D be nice.
• 21:16
  That'd be a nice cars could under, wouldn't it?
• 21:21
  But so yeah, I I'm a bit shocked, I'm not going to lie.
• 21:25
  But I do agree with the kind of a go get paid, mate, we're not
• 21:28
  going to pay. You would rather you go get paid
• 21:30
  and actually enjoy the money or kind of stay with us.
• 21:34
  The research calculating now per sport act sport rack, shall I
• 21:38
  say, still have the sixth highest cap space.
• 21:41
  So they've got the money there. So it's surprising.
• 21:43
  I don't think there's many more running backs on the market that
• 21:45
  they could, you know, getting that's going to do much better.
• 21:48
  But hey, look, you know, they must know something we don't
• 21:52
  just before we move on to the next section.
• 21:54
  May just a quick question regarding franchise tag itself.
• 21:57
  I don't know if it's just me this year or what, but do you
• 22:00
  think teams are moving away from franchise tagging as often?
• 22:02
  Because I feel like there's getting not less and less every
• 22:06
  year, but the bigger names are just kind of, I don't know, it
• 22:09
  doesn't seem to be as often now like in the in the previous
• 22:14
  years, it felt like in the news there was a big franchise tag
• 22:18
  every year or two or three, just say every year, big, big names.
• 22:22
  And now it's just to me that doesn't feel like there is.
• 22:26
  What do you reckon? I think, I think there probably
• 22:29
  is and I think, I think you're probably right.
• 22:31
  And I think or, or there's the element of it maybe is being
• 22:35
  used, but it's not those huge names because also what we're
• 22:38
  seeing more and more now, you know, if you look at receivers
• 22:42
  as an example, you know, your huge names there are commanding
• 22:46
  huge, huge money. And therefore as a result that
• 22:49
  that cap hit is getting bigger and bigger.
• 22:53
  But just look at how many top end wide receivers have been
• 22:57
  drafted over the last two 3-4 years.
• 23:00
  It's, it's almost like college players in those big money
• 23:04
  positions are been found more often or maybe better developed
• 23:09
  and they're coming into the NFL and they're having an impact
• 23:11
  much quicker. So is there as much of A need or
• 23:14
  is the value worth as, you know, worth as much as what it was
• 23:19
  when they're thinking? Well, actually we're scouting
• 23:21
  some mint receivers that are coming through and, and we'll,
• 23:23
  we'll take our chances there. It's, it's a tough one.
• 23:26
  Like the, the cap game's a messy thing.
• 23:28
  And the tagging thing, I don't think anyone outside of the game
• 23:31
  fully understands it. I think some of them actually in
• 23:33
  the game don't fully understand it, to be honest.
• 23:35
  But like, it's, it's a minefield and I don't pretend to be an
• 23:39
  expert, but it's, it's an interesting one.
• 23:41
  No, there's a lot of players as well coming through the draft in
• 23:43
  the the later rounds that I shined in it.
• 23:45
  It's just going to show that the first round picks, not
• 23:48
  necessarily always the best and you can give that with like just
• 23:52
  just throwing it out there. Two wide 2 wide receivers like
• 23:55
  Marvin Harrison Junior and Puka Nakua who were drafted, you
• 23:59
  know, in, in terms of the rounds in particular, miles apart from
• 24:03
  each other. And if anything, Pooka has had
• 24:05
  more of an impact on the NFL than what Marvin has.
• 24:09
  So, you know, it can go who deserves the money and I can,
• 24:13
  but I can guarantee from the name Harrison Junior is going to
• 24:16
  want to get paid at some point. He's going to he's going to show
• 24:18
  for it. But yeah, I agree.
• 24:20
  It's it's becoming one of them ways.
• 24:22
  I think they've been a bit more smarter now with what they're
• 24:24
  doing. So we're going to move on.
• 24:26
  The franchise tag's obviously happening.
• 24:28
  We're going to move on now to the NFL combine.
• 24:31
  Now, I'm a big fan of this. I love the NFL combine.
• 24:35
  But Brad Quick, 30 seconds What is the NFL Combine?
• 24:41
  So the NFL Combine is almost the the final stage or or second,
• 24:49
  the penultimate stage, if you like, of the scouting of college
• 24:52
  players. So college, the vast majority of
• 24:56
  the top end of college players will come to Indianapolis and
• 25:00
  they will basically work out on different physical tests.
• 25:05
  Some of those are about physicality.
• 25:07
  So like bench press, there's the 40 yard dash, etcetera,
• 25:09
  etcetera, the high jump, broad jump.
• 25:11
  And then there's the actual positional tests.
• 25:13
  So, you know, quarterbacks and receivers, for example, will do
• 25:16
  Pascalis. You know, running backs will
• 25:19
  have their sets, sort of route combos or runs that they're
• 25:24
  expected to do yaddy, yaddy. And it's an opportunity for all
• 25:28
  the teams to scout these players at the same time in the same
• 25:31
  scenario. The only thing that follows that
• 25:34
  really would then be the pro days.
• 25:36
  So your top colleges will host their own pro days, which is a
• 25:40
  little bit more and I'm sure we'll get to this, but they're
• 25:44
  probably becoming a little bit bigger now than they've used to
• 25:48
  be. And and sort of almost not
• 25:50
  overshadowing the combines combines got 319 players
• 25:54
  research Cal's saying there, but it's they're a lot more
• 26:00
  controlled. So the players and their
• 26:02
  trainers and the colleges can control them a lot more and show
• 26:05
  what they want to show, not what they've been forced to show are
• 26:08
  expected to show, which has its pros and cons, I guess.
• 26:12
  And sort of explains why Mendoza, for example, is, is
• 26:16
  skipping throwing. And he's the big name.
• 26:19
  And he spoke about him probably going first overall to the
• 26:21
  Raiders and he's skipped the throwing practise.
• 26:24
  And he's he's going to show that it is pro day instead.
• 26:27
  And it sort of suggests 2 things.
• 26:30
  It's confidence that he doesn't need to throw it in the combine.
• 26:32
  But the big thing for me, and it's becoming more common is
• 26:35
  that in the combine, they're throwing to players that they've
• 26:38
  not necessarily got a relationship with.
• 26:39
  So it can make them look worse than they potentially are.
• 26:44
  Whereas as I was talking about that control they're throwing to
• 26:46
  players who they know and they've worked out with.
• 26:50
  That's it. You we've seen people that don't
• 26:52
  know on this first time listing myself and Brad both coach over
• 26:55
  in the UK, coach while in the UK.
• 26:57
  And when we get a new QB or a new wide receiver that come and
• 27:00
  join the team getting that chemistry and that build up
• 27:03
  between. They don't matter how good they
• 27:04
  are getting that chemistry and build up between their
• 27:07
  counterpart. If it's a new QB getting that
• 27:09
  chemistry with all the receivers or if it's a new receiver
• 27:11
  getting the chemistry with the QB, you know where they're going
• 27:14
  to be, how fast they're going to be.
• 27:15
  You know, when you can look at a player running, is he running at
• 27:18
  full pace as a QB? You need to know this.
• 27:20
  If you're doing it your prodig and with with receivers that
• 27:23
  you've played three or four years with 24 seasons with,
• 27:26
  excuse me, you know where they're going to be.
• 27:30
  It can come down to minor. A minor thing could be a major
• 27:34
  thing in in in the the combine where if Mendoza, for instance,
• 27:37
  is throwing a ball and he's an absolute diamond, the receiver
• 27:41
  drops it that will that can be marked against Mendoza.
• 27:46
  And this is to give the kind of grey area that comes around it.
• 27:53
  Now I've got a list here, right, Brad?
• 27:56
  Just want to quickly just touch on this before we move on to
• 27:58
  some of the big names in in the combine.
• 28:00
  I've got a list here of all the QBs, all the notable QBs that
• 28:04
  didn't throw at the combine and wait for the pro day more than
• 28:06
  anything else now I'm Ward. Last year was the and and Shader
• 28:11
  Sanders were two of the big names from last year that didn't
• 28:14
  really throw or didn't throw at the NFL combine.
• 28:17
  Look at where they are now drafted first and then drafted
• 28:20
  in the fifth round. There's a big difference there.
• 28:23
  But if you look at the other names on this list such as Joe
• 28:26
  Burrow, Kyla Murray, Bryce Young, Sam Darnold, Andrew Luck
• 28:31
  and Matt Stafford, all first round picks, all top three other
• 28:35
  than other than Sam Darnold, all first overall picks as well.
• 28:39
  So do you think it's more of a common like you say, it's a bit
• 28:41
  more common trend now where it's if you kind of know you're
• 28:44
  backing yourself, you can't Is it confidence or is it cocky?
• 28:46
  Like which? Which one did you go I?
• 28:48
  Think it's smart, to be honest. I think if you're widely
• 28:51
  expected to be the first overall pick, and I think even when
• 28:55
  Donald went, there was talks about whether it would be him or
• 29:00
  Baker. And I think if you're widely
• 29:05
  expected to be the first overall pick, I think thrown at the
• 29:08
  combine or other bits such as that can only potentially hurt
• 29:13
  your stock. If you're already expected to be
• 29:15
  the first, then you can't become super first, can you?
• 29:18
  Whereas you could negatively impact your stock as people
• 29:23
  refer to it. So I don't, I don't know if it's
• 29:26
  necessarily cockiness. I guess there's an element of
• 29:29
  confidence to it. But these people have got, you
• 29:32
  know, they're not just kids at college like we, you know,
• 29:35
  understand them like, you know, some random lads coming out of
• 29:38
  universe third year university. It's not that it's these are
• 29:42
  they're athletes. They're only at college.
• 29:44
  I'm I'm really like stereotyping either at college to get into
• 29:48
  the NFL. That's why they're there as an
• 29:50
  athlete, as a as an NFL athlete, sorry, a football athlete to get
• 29:54
  drafted in the NFL. So these top end players will
• 29:57
  have teams around them. They'll have marketing teams,
• 29:59
  they'll have management teams and it will be there on their
• 30:02
  guidance. And obviously it works, you
• 30:05
  know. And as well, like if it if it
• 30:07
  did come across as negative stock, not as maybe not as bad
• 30:10
  as like the shadow standards look, because that was a real
• 30:12
  extreme one, but not so in you could get looked away from that
• 30:16
  first overall pick. And you've got to remember, 9
• 30:18
  times out of 10, the 1st overall pick is usually the worst team
• 30:24
  unless they've traded that pick away.
• 30:25
  So do you want to bring your stock down and see go more mid
• 30:29
  rounds to go to a more established team that could, you
• 30:32
  know, get a get a get a new QB? It's all it's all games.
• 30:36
  But yeah, so just a quick one. There is some more noticeable
• 30:39
  ones on on the screen. Again, guys, come and head over
• 30:41
  to our Spotify or our YouTube page.
• 30:43
  Come and see these lovely visuals.
• 30:44
  But yeah, some more noticeable names there.
• 30:47
  Just touching on some of some of the bigger names within the
• 30:51
  draft itself. Obviously Mendoza is the big,
• 30:55
  big name expected to go 101. We there's a lot of hype getting
• 31:00
  built up around the speed of a guy called Jeremiah Love.
• 31:03
  It was expected to be around the 4.3 average, 4.3 in the 40 yard
• 31:09
  dash, which is fast. This guy in college as well was
• 31:13
  electric to watch. I remember seeing him on the Pat
• 31:16
  McAfee show quite a few times just showing the highlights that
• 31:18
  he was electric to watch through there.
• 31:20
  So that's a name that we're definitely going to be keeping
• 31:22
  an eye on. And again with the combine, it's
• 31:24
  not just a 1/2 day thing. We'll be keeping you updated
• 31:27
  throughout the the course of this happening here.
• 31:30
  Now there is a few big defensive names as well.
• 31:34
  The defensive tackle class is getting some kind of big
• 31:36
  attention when it comes down to this, this draft, this year, a
• 31:39
  guy out of Clemson called Peter Woods who's showing he's a
• 31:44
  strong guy, but also with athletic.
• 31:46
  And you seem more of like the defensive lineman as such coming
• 31:50
  out being more and more athletic to just glorify tight ends,
• 31:54
  really like strong, really strong tight ends.
• 31:57
  Kaden McDonald out of Ohio State and Caleb Banks from Florida as
• 32:01
  well. Caleb Banks out of the three
• 32:03
  names there, the one who got the most concerns just due to
• 32:06
  injuries in the past. But other than that, them three
• 32:09
  of the big three names in the combine so far for the defensive
• 32:13
  side of things, few names on the offence side of things.
• 32:17
  We've got Jeremiah Love as mentioned before, running back
• 32:19
  from Notre Dame, Garrett Nussite, Garrett Nuss Meyer,
• 32:27
  Nuss Meyer, QB from Louisiana LSUI will get that right.
• 32:31
  Yeah, Kate Kubnik as well, QB from Clemson and Malik Benson,
• 32:37
  who was a wide receiver from Oregon.
• 32:39
  Now we're going to get into the draft a bit in later episodes.
• 32:44
  I love the draft, but this year for me, there seems to be a nice
• 32:46
  little nice balance of players. Normally you'll find with draft
• 32:50
  classes, they'll be as a QB draft class.
• 32:52
  It's a running back draft class. It's a defensive draft class.
• 32:55
  This year seems to be over than over than like Mendoza, who's
• 33:01
  like DQB, the other QB seems to be all right.
• 33:06
  Nothing major, but I think I feel like a lot of the players
• 33:10
  are there's no massively standouts this year.
• 33:13
  There just seems to be like a lot of all right players, but I
• 33:16
  don't know how that goes this year.
• 33:17
  I'm sure I'm sure I will see with the with the with the scout
• 33:20
  and combine and stuff going into it.
• 33:22
  But there are a few of the big names anyway man, anything from
• 33:25
  you that stood out combine wise or I don't sort of just started
• 33:29
  as such so. Yeah, no, I think, you know,
• 33:33
  it's a difficult one because of of the time and it been on
• 33:36
  through the week and I I tend to like you, I know spoke about it
• 33:41
  off off the mic about tend to pick up more of the highlights
• 33:46
  towards the back end. I'll be honest.
• 33:47
  And so it'll be interesting to see how these players do
• 33:51
  perform. I'm always quite intrigued and I
• 33:53
  guess it maybe lends itself more to the draft, but the number of
• 33:57
  players from the different schools or colleges, whatever
• 33:59
  you want to refer to them as that are there.
• 34:03
  So even just look, you know, thinking that list that you just
• 34:05
  read out there, I think there was like two or three names from
• 34:08
  Clemson. You had Oregon on there, you got
• 34:11
  Texas A&M, you got Notre Dame, I think maybe the second highest
• 34:15
  drafted school. I think it is.
• 34:16
  They're definitely top three if I recall rightly.
• 34:20
  So it's, I'm always quite intrigued by that because so
• 34:24
  that's another part of college sports which I think a lot of UK
• 34:27
  fans don't know unless they're into it.
• 34:29
  You know, if you're just the average watcher of the NFL, you
• 34:31
  might not realise. But like college players do
• 34:35
  enter what's like the portal as they call it, to move schools.
• 34:38
  And that's not normally for academic reasons.
• 34:41
  It's to further the playing career, you know, and getting
• 34:44
  those starting Rep opportunities or they might perform really
• 34:48
  well. So might try and get to a bigger
• 34:49
  school and have a better chance of getting somewhere.
• 34:51
  So I think I'm excited to see the combine develop definitely
• 34:56
  and, and see how it performs. Research Carl at Texas A&M have
• 35:00
  the most combined invites with 13 players.
• 35:03
  Thank you for that. Which is it's quite significant,
• 35:07
  actually. It doesn't sound a lot out of
• 35:08
  319, but when you do your research and look at how many
• 35:11
  schools there are in the states sending players to the combine,
• 35:15
  it's obscene. It's a.
• 35:17
  It's a big old number. With with the combine, obviously
• 35:20
  we're only inviting the 319 players and again, 319 seems
• 35:25
  like a lot of players. But when in the flip side to
• 35:27
  what you just said there, Brad, if you put that to how many
• 35:29
  teams throughout how many? And we've got 53 man roster on
• 35:32
  each team, you know, across all the team, that's not that many
• 35:35
  people are getting invited to it.
• 35:37
  Over the years there has been a few names, big name players that
• 35:40
  didn't actually get an invite to the combine.
• 35:43
  And there's names such as Tyree Kill, Julian Edelman, Antonio
• 35:47
  Gates, Adam Thielen, James Harrison, 5 names there in
• 35:50
  particular didn't get invites to the the the combine.
• 35:54
  And arguably all 5 have strong Hall of Fame candidacy, like
• 36:01
  shouts because they've all not just been running out.
• 36:04
  Yeah, Like, no, not just doing one year out the NFL off the
• 36:08
  pop, the big name. So as much as the scouting
• 36:12
  scouting combines good doesn't necessarily mean that, you know,
• 36:16
  if you're not invited to it, it's not the end of your career.
• 36:17
  But going back on to what you say about the academic side of
• 36:20
  things there. But like for for people that
• 36:23
  don't know much about college football and the NFL in
• 36:26
  particular with this draft, if you're not, what would there be
• 36:29
  the equivalent to like a straight A star student over in
• 36:32
  the UK? If you're not doing that in
• 36:35
  America, you're not getting drafted, no matter how good you
• 36:37
  are because they will test you and you have to have like they
• 36:41
  have, they'll have you have backup plans for your life
• 36:45
  because the NFLS you can, you can make millions upon millions
• 36:49
  of dollars each year or your career can be over within two
• 36:52
  games. And then what you're going to do
• 36:53
  with your life and they try and kind of get you, you know, like
• 36:57
  set for life afterwards. And I quite like about it.
• 37:00
  I want to talk more about that when it comes to the draft
• 37:02
  episode. But there's so much that goes on
• 37:05
  off the field and so much that goes on academically.
• 37:09
  It, it the NFL is such a small bit.
• 37:11
  It's it's crazy. The whole the whole sport is, is
• 37:15
  just wild with what it goes with.
• 37:17
  But we'll keep your day with the scouting combine.
• 37:21
  And yeah, that's pretty much it in terms of that, Brad, anything
• 37:25
  from yourself before we before we fly off to what I'm really
• 37:27
  looking forward. So I'm not going to lie.
• 37:30
  I can't speak. I know I'm good for.
• 37:33
  Mine. Let's let's get to it.
• 37:35
  Come on. I can't speak right.
• 37:37
  We are here with what's going to be one of my favourite features
• 37:41
  for the next few weeks in particular until I start joining
• 37:44
  my sorrows in what my team is going to be performing like
• 37:47
  after the last weekend. But our rugby league results and
• 37:52
  discussions from the last week in particular.
• 37:55
  Now last week was a little bit different to a normal week in
• 38:01
  the rugby league as we had the World Club Challenge, which was
• 38:04
  the the team that won the Super League last year against the
• 38:07
  team that won the NRL. That is that would with how you
• 38:13
  pronounce it. The team I won the NRL would,
• 38:17
  would, would, would face each other alternates each year
• 38:20
  correctly. One one year it's in Australia,
• 38:22
  the year after that being the UK and vice versa.
• 38:26
  I believe so. I feel like I actually made a
• 38:29
  mistake. Last week and I was called out
• 38:32
  for it. I got myself confused on it.
• 38:34
  We're talking about Vegas now. Vegas games do happen, but I
• 38:37
  think I've just got myself cross wired and so, Oh yeah, World
• 38:40
  Club Challenge is happening in Vegas.
• 38:41
  It wasn't in Vegas. Whole KR playing, whole KR
• 38:44
  playing in Vegas, but it was the World Club Challenge.
• 38:48
  So yeah, so it was Paul KR, the Grand Final, winners of the
• 38:51
  Super League and Brisbane Broncos, grand final winners of
• 38:53
  the NRL playing against each other are actually whole FC's
• 38:57
  ground. So they turned the black and
• 38:59
  white stadium red and white, didn't they?
• 39:01
  All cherry known as to cherry white, that's Wigan red and
• 39:03
  white. And yeah, it was, it was a good
• 39:07
  game. It was a surprising game.
• 39:10
  See, I I wanted to start. I can't speak the first I can't
• 39:15
  speak anyway, I want to start this with York City are the best
• 39:18
  rugby team in the world right now.
• 39:21
  And then this happened this week, right?
• 39:23
  So just rewinding back to round one, York's York York Knights,
• 39:28
  right beat Hulk AR. So York Knights got promoted
• 39:31
  York Hulk AR won the Super League last year and York beat
• 39:35
  them in round one. And I'm Oh my, my camera's froze
• 39:40
  as well. And I'm now thinking to myself,
• 39:42
  right, so I lost you, I thought. So I text Brad saying this, this
• 39:49
  just means like York are now the best team in the country.
• 39:52
  And then all of a sudden whole KR beat in Brisbane and I text
• 39:57
  Brad like, no, they're the best team in the world.
• 40:01
  And then they come out and lose. Don't just lose small amount
• 40:06
  either. They get absolutely battered by
• 40:07
  Leeds Rhinos. We're going to get in terms of
• 40:08
  guys a little bit. Let's talk about the World Club
• 40:10
  Challenge. What do you think of the game,
• 40:12
  Brad? It was, it was a weird one.
• 40:16
  I didn't expect Hold, to be honest.
• 40:20
  I didn't expect them to win, you know, for starters, but I didn't
• 40:24
  expect them to take the sort of lead that they did against
• 40:27
  Brisbane. And then, you know, that that
• 40:30
  late comeback where you thought, right, is this where that
• 40:33
  Australian quality is going to shine through?
• 40:36
  And really, you know, typically, again, if you're not a rugby
• 40:39
  league fan, the Aussies are typically seen as the the
• 40:42
  better, better players, the better league, the the stronger
• 40:45
  league in terms of quality. And you you'd be thinking,
• 40:49
  right, Brisbane are going to do this, They're going to come back
• 40:51
  and they're going to they're going to win it.
• 40:52
  But they didn't like Hulke Allen, they held on and a
• 40:55
  deserved win to be fair. But I think that means we're now
• 40:59
  actually, despite me just saying that about Australia being
• 41:04
  arguably better. I think we've won the World Club
• 41:06
  Challenge 3 on the bounce now actually.
• 41:08
  We're three different sides as well.
• 41:10
  Yeah, I'm sure it's three different sides.
• 41:12
  So I've not got this research in front of me.
• 41:14
  I'm sure Cal's going to get to it.
• 41:15
  But if I remember rightly, we've got Hulk, we've got Saints and
• 41:18
  Wigan. I think of the last three years,
• 41:22
  winners of the World Club Challenge.
• 41:24
  I'm probably going to get shot and I'm just took a, a spin at
• 41:27
  that. But I'm, I'm almost certain I've
• 41:29
  seen that. So yeah, it's, it's a, it's a
• 41:32
  big win for UK rugby really. 100% like Australian rugby's
• 41:36
  always seen as like the the the most prestigious, like the top
• 41:41
  level. If you are, if you are playing
• 41:42
  in the Super League, you kind of want to get that contract to go
• 41:46
  play out in, in Australia. You want the nice weather.
• 41:48
  It's it's a lot more bigger money out there.
• 41:49
  Like the Australian rugby is like football in the UK, like
• 41:54
  soccer in the UK, like they get that's where the money is.
• 41:57
  If you play, you play in the bigger stadiums or they're
• 41:59
  selling out a lot more and, and things like that.
• 42:01
  Now it it it was a good game, but had its controversy around
• 42:08
  the one player that in my opinion, shouldn't have been on
• 42:12
  that field. And that's a man called Mikey
• 42:15
  Lewis. Now, I would love to know what
• 42:19
  your view is on this. And because I don't like the guy
• 42:23
  and I'll be I don't like how his presence is on the I think he's
• 42:26
  a great I'm going to put out there he's a great player.
• 42:28
  I don't like his presence on the field.
• 42:30
  I don't like his attitude on the field.
• 42:32
  And I think his day and what he did the week before when he's
• 42:36
  playing against when he's playing against York and he's
• 42:39
  flying his leg out and he's he's deliberately, deliberately going
• 42:44
  to what looks like Trip, but then ends up kicking a York
• 42:47
  player. I don't think he should have
• 42:50
  been allowed to play in that game.
• 42:51
  And I think the only reason he didn't get banned, I think if
• 42:55
  it's anybody else that's not as good quality player with him,
• 42:57
  they get banned. I don't like that to think that.
• 43:00
  What's your view on it, mate? I.
• 43:02
  Think by the letter of the law, it should be a red card.
• 43:06
  And I think it's I think it's meant to be a two game ban for
• 43:08
  tripping again. Don't hold me to that, but I'm
• 43:12
  sure that's what I was sort of reading quite a lot on Twitter
• 43:15
  that that's what it should have been.
• 43:16
  And it did go to the is it the tribunal or whatever they call
• 43:21
  it? You know, it goes to the
• 43:22
  disciplinary panel. And obviously they deemed it not
• 43:25
  not a ban. And like there's just that
• 43:27
  cynicism there, isn't there? That they wanted Michael Lewis,
• 43:30
  arguably one of the best players in the British game, playing on
• 43:34
  the grand stage of the sport. You know, it's like having it's
• 43:38
  like, you know, Kansas City go into the Super Bowl and Patrick
• 43:42
  Mahomes get in a ban getting suspended the game before it's
• 43:45
  it's like that sort of level. So I understand why they'd want
• 43:49
  that. But for me, if if that's what
• 43:52
  you want and you want to protect yourself against it, then just
• 43:54
  change the ruling so that your bans are just for domestic
• 43:58
  competition and and be done with it.
• 43:59
  And like then you don't have to try and hide you like hide the
• 44:03
  the corruption that we all are pretty much guaranteed.
• 44:06
  It happens in rugby league. Another reason for it's, you
• 44:10
  know, it's frustrating a lot of people and and it maybe not been
• 44:12
  the best run organisation in the world, but he shouldn't have
• 44:16
  been on the field. I can't speak.
• 44:17
  He shouldn't have been on the field.
• 44:19
  I can't speak get him off ref and yeah, no, I I fully agree
• 44:24
  like this. There needs to be some level of
• 44:28
  consistency about it. And if it had to be the way
• 44:30
  down, I thought they'd been a player from Brisbane that we'd
• 44:33
  have seen do that the week before and then they were
• 44:35
  playing. They've been up raw and I don't
• 44:38
  know, I just, I, I don't, I don't like it.
• 44:41
  I don't, I don't like it. I don't like him.
• 44:42
  You did a really good analogy there, like comparing Mikey
• 44:45
  Lewis to Patrick Mahomes because they're both grade A toilets and
• 44:49
  like matching when it comes down to it.
• 44:52
  So yeah, no, I agree, mate. I don't think you should run
• 44:54
  that field. Move on to the rest of the
• 44:56
  scores for the week. Now, one score here really
• 45:00
  shines out to me. And I'm going to purposely leave
• 45:02
  it out because I'm going to talk about this a bit more because
• 45:04
  it's a bit of an underdog story, but lead Rhinos and York a bit
• 45:08
  of a blow out there. 4614 scorecard says it all.
• 45:12
  Nice close one though for over up in the the West side of the
• 45:16
  country, St Ellen's and Lee Leopard's two point game.
• 45:19
  Exciting game. Watched a bit of the highlights
• 45:21
  on that exciting game from there.
• 45:23
  Love a close game. Always nice when it comes down
• 45:25
  to wire the next game to lose castle for Tigers.
• 45:30
  Sometimes I'm going to touch on it and if you are listen to the
• 45:33
  pod gain, we might focus more on the Cass Tigers game because
• 45:37
  it's a thing that's close to mine and Brad's hearts.
• 45:39
  I'm not going to lie. But this game absolute shambles.
• 45:45
  If Cass keep playing the way that they played against
• 45:47
  Toulouse this week, it's going to be a very, very long year.
• 45:51
  But Toulouse looked good. That full back of Toulouse,
• 45:58
  what's his name again? He's got Double Ball surname.
• 46:01
  But that Toulouse fullback just ran the game, Absolutely ran the
• 46:07
  game. It was.
• 46:10
  He was lethal, but yeah. I mean, to lose the credit where
• 46:15
  it's due, like, you know, cast didn't look anywhere near as
• 46:18
  good as they did the week before into Wigan.
• 46:20
  The thing that they did really good against Wigan last year was
• 46:23
  defend their absolute backsides off and defended really
• 46:27
  aggressively and really well. You know, they held them out for
• 46:29
  like 10 minutes on the try line, but you just didn't see that
• 46:32
  against Toulouse. It was it was the opposite
• 46:35
  really. But I think Toulouse look like a
• 46:36
  solid outfit. It'll be interesting to see how
• 46:39
  their season goes just generally against other competition
• 46:41
  because they've got two games and two wins at the minute.
• 46:43
  Yeah, the Toulouse Catalan game is going to be a good one for me
• 46:47
  because Catalan have been a strong outfit the past couple of
• 46:49
  years and we're going to, I purposely missed out the first
• 46:53
  game on this list for a reason, but it'd be nice to see that
• 46:57
  French Derby because they have been quite strong and Toulouse
• 47:01
  are looking that stronger of the two French teams this moment in
• 47:04
  time. But looking out at the Wigan
• 47:05
  Warriors Hull FC game, bit of a surprising result there for me
• 47:09
  because Hull again, normally a good defensive pack 34 six is
• 47:15
  not what you're kind of expecting to see when it comes
• 47:18
  down to it. I know they've just lost will
• 47:20
  price as well. He's out with an ACL injury.
• 47:23
  Feels like to talk about the NFL.
• 47:24
  They were two Acls in two weeks. But he's out for the for the the
• 47:28
  remainder of the season. So, you know, I wish him a
• 47:32
  speedy recovery and that's not nice to see big a big a big
• 47:36
  result there for Wigan. I'm not going to lie.
• 47:38
  It's it's, I think they not not struggled against CAS, but they
• 47:41
  struggled for 3/4 of the game against CAS to put points on the
• 47:44
  board. As you know, a big number of
• 47:46
  points and they just kind of scored towards that back end
• 47:48
  quite a bit. But 30346 is a is a big result.
• 47:52
  We're putting up putting up against that that whole team
• 47:57
  last game. Sorry, second last game would be
• 48:00
  the Huddersfield Giants and Wakey Trinity about waking
• 48:03
  Wildcats 1816 to Wakey there now Wakey bit of a bounce back.
• 48:09
  They beat the loss to to lose last week.
• 48:13
  We had a bit of a we were texting about this.
• 48:15
  Weren't we about to lose beating him and bouncing back to beat
• 48:20
  the giants only just beating those two point game to the
• 48:23
  kicking kicking this game that that kind of solidifies it.
• 48:26
  Huddersfield Dubs with one of the bottom teams.
• 48:30
  So I don't know what this strikes awake after last year
• 48:33
  being so consistent and and so exciting to watch.
• 48:36
  Is it that Dallow Powell curse of exciting, exciting, exciting
• 48:41
  and then the drop off? I don't know what to think about
• 48:45
  that and say drop off to have won this year that they would
• 48:47
  have won this week, but they've only won by two points in
• 48:49
  Huddersfield. So.
• 48:52
  It'll be an interesting one to see how they developed through
• 48:53
  the year, I think. I think you're right.
• 48:55
  It's I, I've shocked, I was really shocked last week against
• 48:58
  Toulouse, but it was like, all right, it's Week 1.
• 49:00
  It could be a surprise, you know.
• 49:01
  And then obviously Toulouse beat us.
• 49:04
  It's like, OK, maybe they are a good outfit, but then to only
• 49:06
  beat Huddersfield by two points. But yeah, it'd be, it'd be
• 49:11
  intriguing to see what happens with Wakefield through the
• 49:14
  season after what was a really successful year for him last
• 49:17
  year, wasn't it? You know?
• 49:18
  Yeah, it was. They did.
• 49:19
  They did really well and they were.
• 49:20
  They're unlucky to to not progress further than what they
• 49:23
  did, to be fair. But the last result of the week
• 49:26
  is the the big underdog shock story for me, and that's
• 49:30
  Bradford Bulls and Catalan Dragons.
• 49:32
  Bradford Bulls beating Catalan 2810.
• 49:34
  Now I spoke briefly a minute. I spoke a minute ago regarding
• 49:37
  like Catalan being kind of a decent team for the past couple
• 49:40
  of years. I mean, Bradford have again, a
• 49:43
  newly appointed, a newly promoted team into the Super
• 49:47
  League, don't have a lot of financial backing either.
• 49:50
  And to come out and not just be Catalan by two points, like the
• 49:55
  wakey Huddersfield game, to come out and put 18 points more than
• 49:59
  them is a solid result. And that puts kind of Bradford
• 50:03
  down as like, you know, we're here, we deserve to be in the
• 50:08
  Super League this year. Like we're going to put one of
• 50:11
  your normally favourite teams or favourite to win teams anyway,
• 50:16
  we're going to come out, we're going to show that we're here to
• 50:18
  we're here for the game boys. You know what I mean?
• 50:19
  Like that's not a good game. But is is there anything from
• 50:24
  this week from you, Brad like that's that stands out to you
• 50:27
  about anything else because Super League or even the world
• 50:30
  of China, it's. Always hard to tell, isn't it?
• 50:32
  It's always hard to tell in these early games because you
• 50:35
  know, teams are finding themselves out a little bit.
• 50:38
  Weak ones always like, oh, look at that and then Week 2 and Week
• 50:41
  3 tend to settle it down a little bit.
• 50:44
  But I just think it's interesting when you look, if
• 50:45
  you looked at the Super League table now, you're top six, I'll
• 50:48
  just read it top to bottom. You've got Wigan at the top in
• 50:52
  second, you've got to lose third, you've got the Rhinos,
• 50:56
  4th you've got Bradford and then you've got Lee and Warrington in
• 51:02
  5th and 6th. Obviously Warrington have only
• 51:03
  played the one game so they could jump up with a win once
• 51:07
  that all balances out. But yeah, it's it's just
• 51:10
  exciting to get another exciting sport which obviously myself and
• 51:14
  and you are really, you know, really interested in.
• 51:17
  It's just exciting to get the season started and it's the sign
• 51:22
  that the the sunny days are coming and stood on the
• 51:24
  terraces. So yeah, I'm excited to see how
• 51:27
  the season goes. If you if you take to lose out
• 51:30
  of that, like, you know, is it top six that you just read out
• 51:32
  there? If you take to lose out of
• 51:33
  there, it screams like early 2000s, late 90s Super League
• 51:37
  table Bradford Bulls in there. You know, the only thing we're
• 51:42
  missing is the Halifax blue socks.
• 51:43
  You know what I mean? Like it's it's, it brings back
• 51:46
  them like them old, old school memories.
• 51:48
  But yes, the the sunny days are coming.
• 51:50
  I'm looking forward to I'm I'm actually going to the game this
• 51:52
  weekend and I'm super looking forward to it.
• 51:55
  I'm blessed. I'm taking my, my, my, my, my
• 51:57
  two daughters to to the game. So I'm there for the first time.
• 52:00
  So I'm looking forward to that. But yeah, we'll we'll be
• 52:04
  reporting back with more rugby league news as it comes in next
• 52:08
  week. So yeah, right, Brad, I think we
• 52:12
  need to move on now to another segment, another consistent
• 52:16
  segment here with the all balls, no philtre and that is going to
• 52:20
  be all the balls. So all the balls is here.
• 52:26
  Brad, will you just do me a favour?
• 52:28
  What is all of the balls? I'd be happy to explain Mr Zachy
• 52:33
  Boy. So all of the balls is where we
• 52:38
  touch on other areas of the world of sport.
• 52:42
  I almost weekly say where we touch on the balls and I'm
• 52:45
  pretty sure I have. But we are going to revisit or
• 52:49
  visit some of the sports that are happening around the world.
• 52:51
  Obviously we've got our rugby segment now as a bit of a new
• 52:55
  staple if you like, but just checking in on the latest news
• 52:59
  around the globe really. Happy days.
• 53:04
  Now I'm going to start with this one.
• 53:07
  That's all right mate. And I'm going to bring in
• 53:10
  there's, there's 4 balls involved, but 4 balls in the
• 53:14
  ring, should I say, and that's with these two boxes.
• 53:17
  It's very, very loose, very loose connection there.
• 53:20
  I try to bring in some sort of balls and connection.
• 53:26
  Anyway, testicles. I was talking about testicles.
• 53:29
  Yes, I was talking about testicles, but we have two boxes
• 53:34
  going back into the ring now. These are These are young
• 53:39
  whippersnappers stepping into the ring for a fierce battle at
• 53:43
  the prime age of 49 and 47. Netflix strikes a game with
• 53:50
  another as it's been branded carnival boxing match.
• 53:55
  Floyd the Money, Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao 2.0 Now
• 54:03
  Floyd coming in at 49 years old, Manny Pacquiao coming in at 47
• 54:08
  year old. They're coming back for a
• 54:09
  rematch. The last time these guys fought
• 54:12
  was in 2015 and it was Doug at the time, a very stale contest
• 54:16
  that happened five years too late.
• 54:17
  It's a cash grab. The first time they fought, it
• 54:20
  was Mayweather was reported to earn around $250 million while
• 54:26
  Pacquiao earned $150 million. And that's Per talks Bob on
• 54:31
  that. This is a shambles, if you ask
• 54:37
  me. This is.
• 54:39
  And if everyone watches this like they're going to do, myself
• 54:43
  included, then we're all mugs and we're all just feeding into
• 54:47
  Netflix's money pick that they're just throwing at
• 54:51
  fighters to just to do what they want to do.
• 54:53
  The rules are yet to be confirmed other than the fact
• 54:57
  that they're wearing 10 oz gloves and it's going to be 12-3
• 54:59
  minute rounds. And, and quite honestly, I think
• 55:02
  they need to stop doing this. They've done this with Tyson and
• 55:06
  Jake Paul. They've done this with Anthony
• 55:08
  Joshua and Jake Paul. They're just getting the old
• 55:12
  names that are guaranteed to bring the views in.
• 55:14
  And we all know it's going to be a shit fight.
• 55:16
  We all know it's going to be stale.
• 55:18
  We all know it's going to be nowhere near as exciting as what
• 55:24
  they should have been back in 2010 or 2000s or whenever.
• 55:27
  It's just not going to be good. The the probably 1 bonus of it
• 55:31
  is that it's been held at one of the coolest venues in the world,
• 55:34
  which is the Sphere in Vegas. Other than that it's it's yeah
• 55:41
  researched Carl Cooney actually a surprise not held in Saudi
• 55:43
  Arabia. So am I with her?
• 55:45
  But I think they they even look at this fight and going yeah I
• 55:47
  don't want this at Riyadh season like no I'm all right.
• 55:50
  So I want to get you fit boxes in I.
• 55:53
  Just remember I remember like being got old.
• 55:57
  Would I have been like a 17 year old kid working part time, you
• 56:01
  know, whilst at college selling suits?
• 56:03
  And my boss at the time, he was an ex professional boxer, you
• 56:07
  know, not big time or anything, but he, you know, he had that as
• 56:10
  a career in his in his 20s for a little while.
• 56:13
  And I wasn't really into boxing at the time.
• 56:15
  I do enjoy watching a, you know, a fight now and then now, and I
• 56:19
  don't pretend to be a massive avid fan of it watching it all,
• 56:22
  but I'll watch the big fights generally.
• 56:26
  But I remember constantly going on about Mayweather and
• 56:30
  Pacquiao, like, you know, this fight's got to happen.
• 56:32
  It was, they were basically seen as the two top pound for pound
• 56:35
  fighters. And it was like, it's got to
• 56:39
  happen, it's got to happen, it's got to happen.
• 56:40
  And then it didn't until like you said, then in 2015, it was
• 56:45
  just too little too late then. And I and I watched that match.
• 56:48
  I remember watching that fight. And will I watch this one?
• 56:51
  Yeah, I probably will. Will it bore me?
• 56:53
  Yeah, it probably will. It's just mad and like have you
• 56:57
  seen slightly different but related you're talking about
• 57:01
  obviously the the old fighters and stuff on Netflix.
• 57:04
  Have you seen the Ronda Rousey MMA one that's happening as
• 57:09
  well? And it's so it's not actually
• 57:11
  sanctioned by is it total knockout or whatever it is.
• 57:15
  It's not actually. It's a Netflix thing and it's
• 57:18
  sanctioned by is it MVP? Yeah, which is, which is Jake
• 57:22
  Paul's promotion, Yeah. So they're sanctioning the fight
• 57:26
  and it's Netflix exclusive. It's, I can't remember who she's
• 57:29
  fighting for the life of me now, but it's again, it's like an old
• 57:32
  rival sort of person. It's just it's getting silly
• 57:36
  like. It is.
• 57:38
  I know why they're doing it, but it's just silly.
• 57:40
  The thing is, and it must be so upsetting to be up and coming
• 57:44
  box around a box that's been around for a while.
• 57:47
  That's not kind of necessarily made the big naming lights that
• 57:50
  always I won't say a journeyman, but I would say like they've
• 57:52
  been around long enough to be on the card of a big like say Fury
• 57:56
  fight, for instance, but not not main event to see the likes of
• 58:00
  misfits and MVP bringing these events and because of their fan
• 58:05
  base through the likes of YouTube and the likes of
• 58:08
  everything else and Netflix throwing the money into it,
• 58:12
  bringing in like all these views and earning all this money like
• 58:16
  the the the misfits fighters and the the MVP fighters were really
• 58:23
  overpaid And like Jake Paul, the the guy's absolute douchebag.
• 58:27
  But one thing he's always said is I'm, you know, if I'm going
• 58:29
  to book these fighters, I'm going to pay them fairly.
• 58:31
  Like even Dana White was this big kind of dispute about the
• 58:35
  payment side of things. But like I, I feel like it must
• 58:39
  be better kicking teeth for these proper boxing fans that
• 58:41
  see the likes of Pacquiao, Mayweather, friends coming in
• 58:44
  being like these guys have done nothing for five years.
• 58:47
  They've just been spending all the money and now, now they want
• 58:50
  a bit of a pension coming in at 200, three, $100 million coming
• 58:53
  in. These guys that have been
• 58:54
  fighting their asses off to try and get the name for themselves
• 58:58
  might earn 50 grand a fight, which is a lot of money.
• 59:00
  I'm not saying it's not a lot of money at all.
• 59:02
  I'm just, I just think, you know, but then again, it's what
• 59:06
  brings the views in and we're the sucker to the system.
• 59:08
  But we're going to sit there and we're going to watch it.
• 59:10
  I I'm the same as you. I would be more inclined to to
• 59:17
  watch the big Dane fights. I'd be more inclined to watch
• 59:20
  him rather than week in, week out and did fight like this.
• 59:22
  I'm going to come in and go. Yeah, well, watch it and play
• 59:26
  into the system. I think I'm one of those though
• 59:29
  that would probably, you know, it's going to be a late fight,
• 59:32
  isn't it? It's in the States.
• 59:34
  I'll tell you now, I won't be watching it live.
• 59:35
  I'll be watching it like A7 AM, 8:00 AM when I wake up.
• 59:39
  But that that's just me. You know, for a fight like this,
• 59:42
  if it's a big fight, I'd do it, but I'm not.
• 59:46
  I don't think I'm staying up until the early hours for this
• 59:48
  one. No, no, I agree.
• 59:52
  Right. Well, that's my all the balls.
• 59:55
  What about yourself, my mum? What have you got for us this
• 59:58
  week? I guess it's something we've
• 1:00:01
  discussed in different ways over the last couple of weeks.
• 1:00:06
  You know, it's probably the biggest sporting event at the
• 1:00:09
  moment considering the amount of athletes involved and the
• 1:00:13
  nation's involved, and that's obviously the Winter Olympics.
• 1:00:15
  So that came to a conclusion. It actually ended up being
• 1:00:19
  Britain's most successful Winter Olympics ever.
• 1:00:22
  I think we finished 15th in total.
• 1:00:25
  But was it 3 golds? Was it And 1 silver and one
• 1:00:30
  bronze. So total of 5.
• 1:00:32
  So if you're not sure how the Olympics works, it's not.
• 1:00:34
  Your rankings at the end isn't based on total medals, it's just
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  purely based on golds. Then it's silvers as like a
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  tiebreaker, etcetera, etcetera. So we came 15th with those 3
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  golds, but really successful for GB, which we touched on last
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  week. You top, you top, and then
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  you've got Norway in first with 18 gold.
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  You got the USA second with 12 and then the Netherlands and
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  Italy both finishing at 10, but Netherlands getting that
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  tiebreaker, taking them to 3rd. Now we've touched on a variety
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  of stories from the Winter Olympics and there's there's
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  tonnes of them, but it's actually won.
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  I spotted just yesterday actually, and I won't lie to
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  you, it welded me up a little bit.
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  So the USA won the ice hockey gold medal at the weekend and it
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  was for them. That's like it's a big thing,
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  isn't it? For that's a big medal that the
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  USA team want to win. Now the thing that got me
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  emotional wasn't that the USA wouldn't, but one of the one of
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  the team mates, Johnny Gouge, I want to pronounce it right.
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  Goudreau. I think it is Goudreau.
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  Sorry, Goudreau. So a French spelling apologies
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  for that. So Johnny Goudreau was killed a
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  little while back, not not too long, but by a drunk driver.
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  And at the end of the game, the team were all gathering together
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  for their gold medal picture. And a couple of the the skaters
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  went off and they grabbed his kids and brought his two kids on
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  to the ice and had his jersey and laid out in front of him.
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  And and they were part of their like official sort of gold medal
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  winning picture. And I was just, I was like eyes
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  full red light sobbing mess, just looking at it.
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  Just things, things with kids and stuff.
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  They just get me. So it really stood out to me
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  and, you know, you know, again, love, love to to his family and,
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  and best wishes to them and and congratulations to the USA ice
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  hockey team. But yeah, I just thought it was
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  just a really beautiful gesture and it just, yeah, caught,
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  caught my eye. Definitely agree yeah, stuff
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  like always gets me. I'm a I'm a I'm a sucker for for
• 1:02:49
  things like that. And I I the respect is a big
• 1:02:52
  thing for me and and that's that's shows how much you are in
• 1:02:56
  May meant to people. So but yeah, it's really nice to
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  see and Congrats to USA and Congrats to to GB on on what
• 1:03:02
  were the most successful Winter Olympics that we've had.
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  So yeah, that's that's good to see.
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  That's good to have. So that was our all other balls
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  for this week. We're now going to move on to a
• 1:03:13
  segment which I quite enjoy my man, and we're going to do the
• 1:03:18
  stats that sound fake. So this week we're doing a NFL
• 1:03:22
  combine stat OK, so if it's your first time listing, we've done
• 1:03:26
  this a few Times Now. Don't worry wives, we're just
• 1:03:29
  coming back. But we're saving a couple of
• 1:03:31
  them towards the season, right? But stats that sound fake, There
• 1:03:34
  are three stats that are going to be on the screen in just a
• 1:03:37
  second. I'll read all three of them out
• 1:03:38
  between myself and Brad. We're going to decide which one
• 1:03:42
  is the real stat. Now we might both have different
• 1:03:46
  views on this, but we'll go from there.
• 1:03:48
  So starts that sound fake. Guess the real NFL combine
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  start. The first one is If you want to
• 1:03:56
  see this by the way, head over to our YouTube page.
• 1:03:58
  See it there. The first one is the highest
• 1:04:02
  ever Wunderlich score at the combine was recorded by a
• 1:04:07
  kicker. The highest ever Wunderlich
• 1:04:11
  score was at the combine was recorded by a kicker.
• 1:04:16
  So if you're not sure what the Wunderlix score is for people
• 1:04:18
  listening, it's the basically it's the intelligence test if
• 1:04:21
  I'm, if I'm thinking rightly, Carl, if you can confirm here.
• 1:04:25
  So it's just sort of measures their their general IQ aptitude,
• 1:04:29
  just general intelligence, if you like.
• 1:04:31
  So what Carl's basically saying there is the most intelligent
• 1:04:35
  person at the combine is a kicker.
• 1:04:41
  The second one is only one player before the year 2000 has
• 1:04:46
  run a sub 4.3 second 40 yard dash.
• 1:04:50
  So only one player before the year 2000 has run a sub 4.3
• 1:04:56
  second 40 yard dash and the last one.
• 1:04:59
  Confirmed the the record for the 40 yard dash.
• 1:05:01
  Is it 4.22? It's somewhere like that.
• 1:05:05
  Just find that for me while while we read out this last one.
• 1:05:09
  And the last one is the NFL scouting combine has only ever
• 1:05:12
  been held in Indianapolis in Indianapolis in Indiana.
• 1:05:18
  Yeah, so, so, yeah. So the combine's been at
• 1:05:22
  Indianapolis definitely for a while.
• 1:05:25
  Carl's confirmed that the 40 yard dash was 4.21.
• 1:05:29
  That's right. I think, yeah, it was 4.22.
• 1:05:32
  A little while. It's been broken a few times
• 1:05:34
  over the last sort of decade I think.
• 1:05:38
  Yeah. I feel like but I'm just trying
• 1:05:42
  to think where it was before and then so what's the most?
• 1:05:48
  Yeah. So for me, we know, we know
• 1:05:52
  research Carl personally. We, we feed him his biscuits
• 1:05:56
  with his lock to Wayne's cage, you know, just make him work a
• 1:05:58
  bit harder, right? And I know how he feels about
• 1:06:03
  kickers. And that one, the, the that's a,
• 1:06:08
  that's a research Carl stat. Is that for me?
• 1:06:11
  Is that the, you know, he, he walked around with that with
• 1:06:14
  pride. It would surprise me if I had it
• 1:06:15
  on a badge. You know that the kicker's got
• 1:06:17
  the highest score in a NFL combine.
• 1:06:21
  So you're saying you think that one's real?
• 1:06:24
  Well, I'm talking to the top 2 I think.
• 1:06:26
  I think the Sky combine has been Indianapolis for like, I want to
• 1:06:31
  say something daft like 13 years or something, right?
• 1:06:35
  Yeah, I feel like it's not always been there.
• 1:06:37
  No, I know it's been there a while.
• 1:06:40
  Right. But I think it's the I just try.
• 1:06:43
  I'm just trying to think. Pre 2000 you didn't really have
• 1:06:46
  speed demons did you? Again, I could be wrong.
• 1:06:49
  If I'm wrong, let us know in the comments what you guys think.
• 1:06:51
  Pause the video now. Pause it.
• 1:06:53
  Let us know. Right?
• 1:06:55
  Can we start again? So, but what?
• 1:07:00
  What are you feeling towards here?
• 1:07:04
  I'm almost certain. So I'm almost certain the NFL
• 1:07:09
  scouting combine has been somewhere else.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah. So I'm ruling that one out.
• 1:07:19
  Yeah, research cow. Just get getting ready for our
• 1:07:24
  chat. We've got a little chat down
• 1:07:25
  there. Don't post it in yet, but I want
• 1:07:26
  to know if if we're wrong, if we're right.
• 1:07:30
  Sorry, it's been, it has been somewhere else.
• 1:07:32
  How many years has it been Indianapolis Fox?
• 1:07:34
  I think it's, I want to say it's about 13 years or something that
• 1:07:37
  far, but don't post it in yet because I want to give anything
• 1:07:40
  away. I'm sure the kicker is the
• 1:07:43
  smartest person I've failed. That's my vote.
• 1:07:48
  So you're saying that's the real combined?
• 1:07:50
  Start. That's the real combined start.
• 1:07:52
  The highest ever Wonderlic score at the NFL Combine was recorded
• 1:07:55
  by a kicker. That's mine.
• 1:07:58
  I think it's a double bluff. I think it's a double bluff and
• 1:08:01
  I'm going to go only one player before 2000 has run a sub 4.3
• 1:08:06
  because I just feel like athletes have become more
• 1:08:10
  athletic. So yeah, so Cal let us know the
• 1:08:15
  right, the, the true start, the real start for us.
• 1:08:19
  Let's see who we've got. Silent drum rolls just while
• 1:08:24
  Callum scrolls away typing. The real start was B, yeah.
• 1:08:35
  That's me, baby. Congrats.
• 1:08:37
  So the only. One player before 2000 has run a
• 1:08:40
  sub 4.3 second 40 yard dash and the double bluff was wrong.
• 1:08:47
  I fell hotline and sinker for it.
• 1:08:50
  The person was. By the way, if you are
• 1:08:51
  interested, Rondell Mendez from Eastern KY in 1999 run a 4.24
• 1:08:58
  and the NFL Combine has been held Indianapolis since 1987.
• 1:09:01
  So I was way out and I was way out.
• 1:09:05
  Oh wow, the highest ever Wonderlic score was by a punter.
• 1:09:09
  Technically. Technically, he kicks a ball, so
• 1:09:12
  he's a kicker. Not not by position.
• 1:09:15
  Title He's not, pal. Damn it.
• 1:09:17
  Damn it. Fucking technicalities.
• 1:09:22
  Oh dear. Well, I enjoyed that.
• 1:09:24
  I enjoyed that bit. That's nice.
• 1:09:26
  I say stats that sound fake, I always enjoy them.
• 1:09:31
  Okay right mate we're going to move on to our final part of the
• 1:09:36
  show and that is Carlos Conundrum.
• 1:09:39
  So we have Carlos Conundrum last week to do and then going into
• 1:09:44
  next week. So last weeks Carlos Conundrum
• 1:09:47
  was, in terms of annual value, which NFL players signed the
• 1:09:51
  biggest free agency contract in NFL history.
• 1:09:55
  And how fitting for this show because the answer is now, well,
• 1:10:01
  going to be another free agent very, very soon.
• 1:10:03
  And that's Mr Kirk Cousins. So yeah, last week's Carl's
• 1:10:08
  Conundrum, the answer is Kurt Cousins.
• 1:10:09
  So if you got involved with that, if you let us know and you
• 1:10:11
  sent us a message or commented anywhere, there's your answer.
• 1:10:14
  So thank you very much for getting involved.
• 1:10:17
  He's soon to be another free agent.
• 1:10:19
  See where he's going to go there.
• 1:10:20
  See what, what kind of wage he's going to get next time round,
• 1:10:24
  right? Carl's conundrum for this week,
• 1:10:25
  mate. So your Carl's conundrum is
• 1:10:29
  which player holds the record for the most reps of the bench
• 1:10:34
  press at the NFL scouting combined with 51 reps?
• 1:10:38
  So which player holds the record for the most reps of the bench
• 1:10:42
  press at the NFL scouting combined with 51 reps?
• 1:10:48
  Let us know guys, comment, send us a message.
• 1:10:51
  Do what you want to do. This is going to be put on a
• 1:10:52
  social as well. Let us know what you think.
• 1:10:55
  Ask your friends as well. Get them to let us know what you
• 1:10:57
  think. Brad, anything pushing out
• 1:11:00
  toward positional wise? I ain't got a clue player wise
• 1:11:02
  but positional wise what you thinking?
• 1:11:06
  Got to be like a big boy lineman also like AD end type sort of
• 1:11:12
  figure for me. I'm thinking I've got someone in
• 1:11:14
  mind. Yeah, I've got someone in mind.
• 1:11:17
  But if I I wouldn't put money on it, I would not put money on
• 1:11:21
  this one. No, same tough one, this one,
• 1:11:24
  but it'd be interesting to see who it is.
• 1:11:26
  So once again, which player holds the record for the most
• 1:11:29
  reps of the bench press at the NFL scouting combine with the 51
• 1:11:33
  reps? Do like that.
• 1:11:34
  I do like the fact that we've got an NFL scouting one there.
• 1:11:37
  But yeah, so let us know, guys. Let us know everything from off
• 1:11:42
  that. Let us know what you think as
• 1:11:43
  well, right? That brings us to it shorter
• 1:11:48
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• 1:11:52
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• 1:12:08
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• 1:12:11
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• 1:12:14
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• 1:12:18
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  Anyway, good night, God bless. Catch you in a bit, Bruce.
• 1:13:20
  Later.