Latest / The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network / Foye Oluokon, Reece Parkinson & Week 1 Heartbreak
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- 0:03Speaker 1: It's twenty nine degrees in Jacksonville, fourteen degrees in Gateshead,
- 0:07Speaker 1: fifteen in Antrim. I'm Jay Lawrence, still no relation. He's
- 0:12Speaker 1: Key Ramsa and this is your Jaguars podcast with an
- 0:14Speaker 1: extra UK and Ireland flavor, whatever you might consider that
- 0:18Speaker 1: to be. How's it going, Key? Are you okay?
- 0:22Speaker 2: I'm I'm okay, Okay, it is okay. I'm not giving
- 0:28Speaker 2: you any more than that. Jay, the loss on Sunday
- 0:31Speaker 2: was tough, but your mention of Gateshead has brought it
- 0:33Speaker 2: all back. I'm now doing okay.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Well, we are going to discuss, obviously the loss on Saturday.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Coming up in this episode Foyer, Lucar and the Jags
- 0:41Speaker 1: middle linebacker. He sat down with Key this week post
- 0:44Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins game. We have actually, as our fans, something
- 0:48Speaker 1: a little bit different this week. Rhyes Parkinson's Okay interviews
- 0:52Speaker 1: Reese about the new season of Jankuer's weekly UK on Sky.
- 0:56Speaker 1: How was it?
- 0:57Speaker 2: It was lovely? So what we did was I interviewed
- 1:00Speaker 2: for this podcast and then Reese interviewed me for the
- 1:04Speaker 2: TV show.
- 1:05Speaker 1: So that will be the least viewed part of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: TV show. Is that correct? Is that? What we're anticipating.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I know you're bitter about the last mate, but.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Well we'll talk about that and say, we obviously are
- 1:18Speaker 1: going to talk about the upcoming game against the Cleveland
- 1:20Speaker 1: Browns as well. We won't, we won't focus loads on
- 1:23Speaker 1: that heartbreaking opener against Miami. We will talk about it. KEI, though,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I do want to talk to you about one thing actually,
- 1:28Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if you're aware of this already,
- 1:30Speaker 1: So this might be a little bit of a surprise,
- 1:32Speaker 1: A bit of news about the Jaguars game at Wembley
- 1:36Speaker 1: next month. I would actually call it breaking news. I
- 1:40Speaker 1: would this is breaking news. Key so much so that
- 1:42Speaker 1: you were unaware of this?
- 1:44Speaker 2: Go on?
- 1:45Speaker 1: So what do you reckon? You know what? What is
- 1:48Speaker 1: the probably the most said word at a Jaguars game?
- 1:51Speaker 1: Do you think what's the most Do you think it's douval?
- 1:55Speaker 1: And can you give us a Can you give us
- 2:01Speaker 1: a big duval? Can you do that for us?
- 2:05Speaker 2: Do?
- 2:08Speaker 1: Okay? I regret that I think the microphone might have broken.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Definitely thinked a little bit. Well, I got this email
- 2:15Speaker 1: the other day actually, and I'm gonna i'll read it
- 2:18Speaker 1: to you. Actually, should I do that? Let's do that
- 2:21Speaker 1: I'm going to read you this.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I'm so curious.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Okay, hello, I hope you're well. Would you like to
- 2:29Speaker 1: do the first duval for us from the Royal Box
- 2:31Speaker 1: at Wembley on game day? Who's going to be doing that?
- 2:34Speaker 3: Key?
- 2:34Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing that, dude.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I love that. That's so awesome, amazing.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I am unbelievably nervous to do this. Key. I am
- 2:45Speaker 1: so like you know, you know, I you know, I
- 2:49Speaker 1: talk to people, I'm on podcasting, on the radio or whatever.
- 2:52Speaker 1: But literally, you have one word, one word to do,
- 2:57Speaker 1: and if you do it wrong, there's going to be
- 2:59Speaker 1: the whole of Wembley Stadium watching.
- 3:02Speaker 2: What do you think? Do you think you might say? Move?
- 3:06Speaker 1: I think I'm more likely. Do you know what? Genuinely,
- 3:09Speaker 1: what I'm concerned about is like my voice cracking, you know,
- 3:12Speaker 1: like when you're a bit nervous or whatever, and like
- 3:14Speaker 1: your voice. Oh, that would be that would be to
- 3:18Speaker 1: do a pre record, and Brittany I literally felt that
- 3:22Speaker 1: early tal I was like, no, that would be even
- 3:24Speaker 1: even worse, I think, even more embarrassing. But I cannot
- 3:27Speaker 1: tell you how excited and how honored, genuinely, how honored
- 3:31Speaker 1: I am because I think it's going to be you know,
- 3:33Speaker 1: it's it's a big moment in every Jags fans you
- 3:38Speaker 1: know life, going to a game at Wembley Stadium and
- 3:41Speaker 1: I'm going to be ruining it by.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Leave it for a second. Jay, I'm so chuffed for
- 3:46Speaker 2: you man. That's really cool, that's really nice.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I'm really excited and yeah, it's going to be a
- 3:52Speaker 1: it's going to be an amazing moment from the raw
- 3:54Speaker 1: box as well, which I've never been to. I have
- 3:56Speaker 1: never been.
- 3:56Speaker 2: You know what I'm going to do, j I'm going
- 3:58Speaker 2: to film it and I'm going to put it in
- 4:00Speaker 2: Jaguars Weekly UK so that all the viewers you're.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Doing it, do it, do it. But it's going to
- 4:07Speaker 1: be Yeah, I'll tell you what can I get? Can
- 4:10Speaker 1: I be a diva and get final approval of whether
- 4:13Speaker 1: it goes in, whether or not my voice does break
- 4:15Speaker 1: or if I end up? Do you know what I'm
- 4:16Speaker 1: going to think throughout the whole thing. Don't say move,
- 4:19Speaker 1: don't say move all don't say move. I'll be texting
- 4:22Speaker 1: you before ah, make sure you don't say move A Yeah,
- 4:25Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so excited for Obviously it's a few
- 4:27Speaker 1: weeks away, so I need to, like, you know, get
- 4:30Speaker 1: into some open space or something to practice. You know,
- 4:34Speaker 1: if I'm having a good old practice here, my neighbors
- 4:36Speaker 1: are going to be extremely confused. Maybe I should put
- 4:39Speaker 1: a letter through theirgraphone technique as well. Yeah, oh yeah, exactly,
- 4:42Speaker 1: I'm going to get really close to the mic. There's
- 4:44Speaker 1: gonna be feedback through like the whole Wembley Stadium. But no,
- 4:48Speaker 1: very excited, very honored, Thank you very much for the
- 4:49Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars for for asking me to do that, because
- 4:52Speaker 1: I mean that it's going to be that's going to
- 4:53Speaker 1: be really cool. Now let's get onto something that I'm
- 4:56Speaker 1: not so excited to talk about, but I feel like
- 4:58Speaker 1: we do have to talk about it. Regards regardless, Jacksonville
- 5:01Speaker 1: Jaguars lost in Week one, a close game, such an
- 5:07Speaker 1: amazing first half from a JAG's perspective, from a JAG's
- 5:12Speaker 1: offensive perspective as well, hard watch in the second Jags
- 5:17Speaker 1: losing heartbreakingly really to a last second field goal twenty seventeen.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It went down in the end to the Miami Dolphins.
- 5:25Speaker 1: And you know, three minutes earlier, I was actually thinking
- 5:28Speaker 1: of you, key, because it looked like the Jags could
- 5:30Speaker 1: have the opportunity to get downfield, roll that clock down
- 5:35Speaker 1: to the one second and try and get Cam Little
- 5:37Speaker 1: to score that last second field goal, but they weren't
- 5:41Speaker 1: able to, you know, several sacks later and the Miami
- 5:47Speaker 1: Dolphins have the ball again. Disappointing. Do you have any
- 5:51Speaker 1: like broad takes on it?
- 5:53Speaker 2: I was very tempted. I was very close to being
- 5:57Speaker 2: pessimistic and saying a couple of I'll say a couple
- 6:01Speaker 2: of thoughts that I had about it, but then I'm
- 6:03Speaker 2: gonna switch and go positive.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Right.
- 6:05Speaker 2: The couple of thoughts that I had was even in
- 6:07Speaker 2: the twenty two season when we made the playoffs, there
- 6:10Speaker 2: was a tendency to not finish games, for example the
- 6:13Speaker 2: Eagles game. Right, we should have been winning that Eagles
- 6:15Speaker 2: game in twenty two and we didn't. And there was
- 6:19Speaker 2: a tendency last season to not finish games and to
- 6:24Speaker 2: lose to elite teams. And it felt like, Oh, Sunday
- 6:28Speaker 2: felt a little bit like that.
- 6:31Speaker 1: But I'm not.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Gonna do that because there was enough positives in the
- 6:35Speaker 2: first three quarters. In fact, I'm gonna say like they
- 6:38Speaker 2: played seventy five percent a really good game. Yes, I
- 6:42Speaker 2: understand it's four quarters and you've got to finish games,
- 6:45Speaker 2: but there was enough positivity in there on Sunday for
- 6:48Speaker 2: me to not get worried. The sky isn't falling, it's
- 6:51Speaker 2: not the end of the season. There's what sixteen more
- 6:54Speaker 2: games left, It's not the end of the world. It'll
- 6:56Speaker 2: all be okay. And there was enough positive stuff there
- 6:59Speaker 2: for me to go, it's all gonna be okay. Relax,
- 7:03Speaker 2: which is the little talk that I gave to myself
- 7:05Speaker 2: at the end of the game.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I do. I love the fact that, you know, we
- 7:08Speaker 1: can count ourselves as you know, not predicting the future
- 7:11Speaker 1: by any means, but we can count ourselves as that.
- 7:12Speaker 1: You know, two people that we did talk up last
- 7:14Speaker 1: week showed up. Brian Thomas Jr. What have we been
- 7:17Speaker 1: saying over the last few weeks. You know he should
- 7:20Speaker 1: have had two touchdo I mean he had an amazing touchdown,
- 7:23Speaker 1: but he could have easily had two if it weren't
- 7:25Speaker 1: for that Jalen Ramsey offensive pass interference which it'd lead
- 7:28Speaker 1: to a touchdown of course for the Jags. Cam Little
- 7:31Speaker 1: as well. I mean you were huge on him. I
- 7:33Speaker 1: mean he got a fifty plus yarda which is exactly
- 7:37Speaker 1: a great start to his career as well. The travisse
- 7:40Speaker 1: etti and fumble, it looked like it was going to
- 7:42Speaker 1: be a great victory if it wasn't for that fumble.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Essentially on the goal line. You just move on, you
- 7:46Speaker 1: move on. Key, Where did you watch it?
- 7:48Speaker 3: So?
- 7:49Speaker 2: I watched it in Brighton with a very large dog,
- 7:53Speaker 2: and it was it was great. It was great fun.
- 7:57Speaker 2: It was like the first the first three quarters of
- 8:01Speaker 2: that match was really great and then it was absolutely heartbreaking.
- 8:05Speaker 2: I will say one positive thing. Yeah, I think when
- 8:08Speaker 2: you look at what the offensive line was doing last year,
- 8:12Speaker 2: and I'm not saying they blew the Dolphins out of
- 8:15Speaker 2: the water at all, but the offensive line was better.
- 8:19Speaker 2: I think Mitch Morse made a big difference. I think
- 8:22Speaker 2: there's improvements to be made for sure, particularly with past protection.
- 8:25Speaker 2: But actually with the wrung game, I thought the offensive
- 8:28Speaker 2: line stepped up and it was it was It was
- 8:31Speaker 2: good to see that. That was one thing that I thought,
- 8:33Speaker 2: mm hmm, there's something, there's something improving here.
- 8:36Speaker 1: I've got to I've got to work on my what
- 8:38Speaker 1: I do on a Sunday night though, to watch these games.
- 8:40Speaker 1: What we is I just felt I felt, I mean,
- 8:43Speaker 1: you know, I've been looking forward to NFL season for
- 8:45Speaker 1: such a long time, but I almost felt stressed and
- 8:49Speaker 1: overwhelmed because I thought, let's try and watch as many
- 8:52Speaker 1: games as possible. Okay, it's I don't know if that's
- 8:56Speaker 1: the way I should go looking forward. I had a
- 8:59Speaker 1: laptop with Jack's game on laptop. How many screens did
- 9:03Speaker 1: you I had two screens. But the thing is is
- 9:04Speaker 1: what I kind of realized that you can watch so
- 9:06Speaker 1: on the on TV, I can watch a couple of games.
- 9:11Speaker 1: So I had I had Red Zone, I had another game,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and then I had that I sort of you know,
- 9:16Speaker 1: flick between, and then I had the Jags game as well.
- 9:18Speaker 1: So I have three too much going on. It's like
- 9:21Speaker 1: where am I looking at one time? I don't know
- 9:22Speaker 1: what to do in the future. And in fact, you can.
- 9:25Speaker 1: You can get in touch with us over you know, Twitter,
- 9:28Speaker 1: on the JAG's handle or on on Instagram as well
- 9:32Speaker 1: if you've got any like ideal solutions for like how
- 9:36Speaker 1: to watch on a Sunday night, what's the best way
- 9:39Speaker 1: to watch on a Sunday night? You can send pictures actually,
- 9:42Speaker 1: if you are you know, listening to this just before
- 9:45Speaker 1: you know the game on Sunday or something. I want
- 9:47Speaker 1: to know what your setup is because essentially I need
- 9:49Speaker 1: I need to improve mine. I'm not happy with it.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I felt I felt overwhelmed, I felt stressed. I need to.
- 9:55Speaker 1: You need to feel zen, don't you, or as zen
- 9:57Speaker 1: as possible when you're watching the NFL.
- 10:00Speaker 2: I don't.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I don't know that you do. So I did similar
- 10:03Speaker 1: to you.
- 10:03Speaker 2: I had Red Zone and the Jags game on, and
- 10:07Speaker 2: for me, like I like a little bit of that intensity,
- 10:10Speaker 2: especially with like two sets of commentary going.
- 10:14Speaker 1: On, that's that's too much, too much for me.
- 10:19Speaker 2: I don't think I could do a Sunday without Scott Hansen.
- 10:21Speaker 2: It doesn't feel right.
- 10:23Speaker 1: I don't think you can do a Sunday without you either.
- 10:25Speaker 1: To be fair key, yeah, you can. You can send
- 10:27Speaker 1: a send a photo of your setup. I'd be very interesting.
- 10:29Speaker 1: You can tag us in your Instagram stories at Jaguar's
- 10:32Speaker 1: UK and I e on Instagram, and we'll speak more
- 10:37Speaker 1: about the Cleveland We'll leave Miami there. Miami's Miami's there. Still,
- 10:41Speaker 1: it's done, It's done. We'll leave it there. We will
- 10:44Speaker 1: speak about the Cleveland Browns game. Shortly, of course, the
- 10:48Speaker 1: next game, Week two of the NFL season. Let's get
- 10:52Speaker 1: into though, the featured interview of today's episode, Key somebody
- 10:59Speaker 1: that well, you know very well.
- 11:01Speaker 2: I suppose, oh, I wouldn't say very well.
- 11:03Speaker 1: I think you're best friends.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Foyer is. He's a great dude. First and foremost. Foyer
- 11:10Speaker 2: goes under the radar, like his stats are phenomenal, and
- 11:15Speaker 2: I think that's to do with his work ethic and
- 11:17Speaker 2: his competitiveness, and so yeah, I chatted to him after
- 11:21Speaker 2: the Dolphins game. Really reflective, really reflective, lots of interesting
- 11:24Speaker 2: things to say.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Okay, let's say Foyer Lucan speaking to Key, I have only.
- 11:29Speaker 2: One question about Sunday, which was, how did it feel.
- 11:32Speaker 2: We're not going to talk too much about the loss.
- 11:34Speaker 2: How did it feel to be back on the field.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Man. It was exciting. It was exciting.
- 11:39Speaker 4: I don't think I ever get less nervous as the
- 11:42Speaker 4: year to go on for that first game, and then
- 11:45Speaker 4: kind of in preseason I didn't really get to play anyway,
- 11:47Speaker 4: just kind of nursing a little hamstring just to get
- 11:51Speaker 4: back out there with the boys, and even in a
- 11:53Speaker 4: new scheme and stuff. It's just excited and then going
- 11:55Speaker 4: against you know offensic you know is supposed to be
- 11:59Speaker 4: really good. You just want to go out there and
- 12:01Speaker 4: play your best and make sure that everything looks good
- 12:03Speaker 4: on tape. It was exciting, but I was nervous to
- 12:05Speaker 4: start the game. I am nervous in the locker room
- 12:07Speaker 4: and everything, just because so many expectations are put on
- 12:10Speaker 4: yourself by yourself, and then you always want to be
- 12:12Speaker 4: playing at you at your best when the best is required.
- 12:16Speaker 3: So that'll never leave. Just that nervousness, but excitement for sure.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Thinking about going into the Browns game, what adjustments do
- 12:23Speaker 2: you think you might be making for that?
- 12:25Speaker 3: We got to dive into what the Browns do.
- 12:27Speaker 4: I know, for the past what week and a half,
- 12:29Speaker 4: we've been all Miami, but week's week game plans can change,
- 12:32Speaker 4: so I'm sure we'll have a couple of base calls
- 12:34Speaker 4: that we carry weeks week. But we got to see
- 12:36Speaker 4: what the Browns specialize in and how they try to
- 12:39Speaker 4: attack defenses, how we think they'll try to attack us
- 12:41Speaker 4: based off what they know about us. But it's early
- 12:43Speaker 4: in the season, so like people have their identities, you
- 12:46Speaker 4: kind of try to match offensive identities and then when
- 12:50Speaker 4: they find out what you find out what their tendencies are,
- 12:52Speaker 4: then you know exactly what your game plan'll be.
- 12:55Speaker 2: And I'm thinking about that, and I'm remembering back on
- 12:57Speaker 2: the play at all. When we were on the bus,
- 13:00Speaker 2: most people are listening to a podcast or watching a
- 13:03Speaker 2: video on their phone. Do you remember what you were doing?
- 13:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to study of them on flaybook.
- 13:08Speaker 1: For sure.
- 13:08Speaker 2: You was studying the playbook. So dude, where does that
- 13:11Speaker 2: work ethic come from?
- 13:13Speaker 3: Uh?
- 13:13Speaker 4: You know, I have Nigerian parenting, and I feel like
- 13:16Speaker 4: when you have immigrant parents and they're doing their best to,
- 13:20Speaker 4: you know, get you to square one in this country,
- 13:23Speaker 4: you don't want to have that go to waste. So,
- 13:26Speaker 4: you know, a lot of it was put on me
- 13:28Speaker 4: and my brother to become successful. However it looked. We
- 13:31Speaker 4: did a lot of different things. Were always kind of
- 13:33Speaker 4: pushed to be the best at them. But kind of
- 13:37Speaker 4: with that you understand that maybe you're not naturally the best.
- 13:41Speaker 4: You may you might have to work at it some
- 13:43Speaker 4: So I think in order to be the best, you know,
- 13:46Speaker 4: I had to really study up my play but be
- 13:48Speaker 4: a little step ahead in terms of learning defenses. What
- 13:54Speaker 4: could happen instead of just straight reacting to it because
- 13:56Speaker 4: I came in this league not even as a linebacker,
- 13:59Speaker 4: So every every year I'm learning something different. I think
- 14:01Speaker 4: if I can just stay a step ahead mentally, that
- 14:03Speaker 4: helped me play a lot faster.
- 14:05Speaker 2: And your competitiveness is something else I noticed on the
- 14:09Speaker 2: tour as well. There was one moment where you and
- 14:11Speaker 2: Ross Matterseka trying to outthrow each other to some jag
- 14:15Speaker 2: tag kids. Does that competitiveness run throughout your life and
- 14:19Speaker 2: onto the field as well?
- 14:21Speaker 4: Yeah, growing up I kind of had a problem, but
- 14:25Speaker 4: it got me in some trouble always competing.
- 14:27Speaker 3: And then you know, I hate when people.
- 14:28Speaker 4: Tell me things like, oh, it's just the game, it's
- 14:30Speaker 4: just getting Like, No, I'm trying to win it everything
- 14:32Speaker 4: I do.
- 14:32Speaker 3: It's more fun when I win. Life is more fun
- 14:34Speaker 3: when you win.
- 14:34Speaker 4: And I think that if you kind of make whatever
- 14:37Speaker 4: scenario went to a winning lost scenario, it kind of
- 14:40Speaker 4: fuels you to be at your best in order to
- 14:42Speaker 4: get the most out of each scenario.
- 14:44Speaker 3: So I am very competitive.
- 14:46Speaker 4: You know, me and my brother didn't get along for
- 14:48Speaker 4: a long time because we always compete. But I think
- 14:51Speaker 4: it does fuel you to go even higher in life.
- 14:54Speaker 4: I remember even in school, I had one of my
- 14:56Speaker 4: good friends he's actually a doctor now. We used to
- 14:58Speaker 4: compete in like chemistry class. We better penny on every test.
- 15:01Speaker 4: But did I always win, No, But it always fueled
- 15:03Speaker 4: me to have, you know, better grades, just to not
- 15:06Speaker 4: lose my penny every test.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Raising that level of competitiveness? Was that there? For the
- 15:11Speaker 2: twenty twenty three game against the Falcons, What was that
- 15:14Speaker 2: like playing against your old team and beating them as well?
- 15:18Speaker 3: Yeah, I just didn't.
- 15:19Speaker 4: I for sure didn't want to lose because I did
- 15:21Speaker 4: leave them. I had a lot of familiar faces, and
- 15:25Speaker 4: I think the worst thing in life is like when
- 15:27Speaker 4: somebody has that over you, like, well I beat you
- 15:29Speaker 4: like that really pisses me off.
- 15:30Speaker 3: So I couldn't let that happen. Obviously it's not just me,
- 15:34Speaker 3: it's the full team.
- 15:35Speaker 4: But you don't want to know all these guys and
- 15:37Speaker 4: then have them always go, oh, yeah, I remember we
- 15:39Speaker 4: played you when we beat you.
- 15:40Speaker 3: No, I don't like that at all.
- 15:41Speaker 4: So that competitive side definitely came out, you know, pregames,
- 15:45Speaker 4: peaches or whatever. It actually me and another guy, Calvin Ridley,
- 15:49Speaker 4: you know, we played well that game too, So I
- 15:51Speaker 4: was very happy to get the win.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Fantastic And how are you feeling about coming back over
- 15:55Speaker 2: this season for two more games in London.
- 15:58Speaker 4: I'm excited. I look forward to the trip every year now.
- 16:01Speaker 4: The first time I went, you know, it was a
- 16:03Speaker 4: learning experience.
- 16:04Speaker 3: We did.
- 16:05Speaker 4: I got a thing that now I was with the Falcons,
- 16:07Speaker 4: we played the Jets and I was learning my sleep
- 16:11Speaker 4: schedule is all messed up. But now that I know
- 16:13Speaker 4: how to do it, I embraced the trip for sure.
- 16:15Speaker 4: And then now that we get to even spend more
- 16:17Speaker 4: time out there, it's definitely very cool. Actually, when we
- 16:21Speaker 4: get over there, it's like, oh, now I kind of
- 16:23Speaker 4: just want to stay because coming back you got to
- 16:25Speaker 4: do it all over again with the time change and everything.
- 16:27Speaker 4: But it's a fun trip for sure, and I just
- 16:29Speaker 4: want to make sure we come out with two wins
- 16:31Speaker 4: and then it's the best trip ever.
- 16:32Speaker 2: You're getting to know the UK a little bit now,
- 16:35Speaker 2: So what are some of the things that you love
- 16:36Speaker 2: about the UK? And maybe what's one thing that you
- 16:39Speaker 2: don't love quite so much.
- 16:41Speaker 4: It's a little bit of a Northeast field, but you
- 16:43Speaker 4: guys are a way have a lot more history. I
- 16:46Speaker 4: like the history about it, and you kind of just
- 16:47Speaker 4: look around, especially when you're driving through the countryside. I
- 16:50Speaker 4: don't know if y'all are as much battle ridden as
- 16:53Speaker 4: US wars and stuff. I just kind of think, like
- 16:55Speaker 4: what probably happened way back in the day on these
- 16:57Speaker 4: fields and stuff.
- 16:58Speaker 3: But you're the city.
- 17:00Speaker 4: It's crazy the history and the city, and it's a
- 17:03Speaker 4: little bit nicer than, like I said, our New York
- 17:06Speaker 4: and everything are philly and stuff like. It's way more structured,
- 17:08Speaker 4: I feel like, and I just like going around seeing
- 17:11Speaker 4: all the new places. I think it's great with diversity,
- 17:15Speaker 4: just because there's so many people that come to London
- 17:17Speaker 4: and stay in London work in London, so culturally you're
- 17:20Speaker 4: going to run into so many different things that I
- 17:22Speaker 4: didn't even know I would see all these types of
- 17:24Speaker 4: people there. But I like, you know, watching that soccer
- 17:26Speaker 4: game last year, Fulham versus Chelsea the Cottage or whatever, Yeah,
- 17:31Speaker 4: that was really exciting. I always I grew up playing soccer.
- 17:34Speaker 4: I always wanted to see a Premier League game, so
- 17:36Speaker 4: hopefully there'd be more. We go back over there in
- 17:39Speaker 4: a few weeks and I want to see another one.
- 17:42Speaker 2: And what about one thing that's you're not quite in
- 17:44Speaker 2: love with about the UK.
- 17:47Speaker 4: Man, your houses cost too much, that's about it.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Not a lot of space, kind of like our New York.
- 17:56Speaker 4: But two times three I was, I was googling some
- 17:59Speaker 4: stuff because I like it over there in there's a
- 18:02Speaker 4: little price man.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:04Speaker 4: Yeah, the house that I would want to have over
- 18:07Speaker 4: there would be a little bit too pricey.
- 18:08Speaker 2: So yeah for sure. Okay, last last question. We're compiling
- 18:14Speaker 2: a menu for players for when they come over, right,
- 18:18Speaker 2: I have one thing that is missing in the UK.
- 18:21Speaker 2: So what is the one thing that you would add
- 18:23Speaker 2: to the menu in the UK that you just cannot
- 18:26Speaker 2: get over here that you really want?
- 18:30Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:31Speaker 4: I just even was in front of me. What on
- 18:35Speaker 4: a menu? Damn dang. Y'all got everything. Y'all got a
- 18:42Speaker 4: solution and chicken.
- 18:43Speaker 2: And I have an anger. Lemon pepper Chicken.
- 18:48Speaker 3: You'll have lemon pepper. Oh you have that Perry?
- 18:52Speaker 2: We got Perry Perry over here.
- 18:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Yeah, to be fair, you were enjoying when you were over.
- 18:57Speaker 3: Here, Man, I do like it.
- 18:59Speaker 2: You'll have friend just tell yeah, not so much though,
- 19:04Speaker 2: that might be a good one. Chicken and whiffles there
- 19:07Speaker 2: we go. Oh my gosh, I love chicken. While you
- 19:12Speaker 2: haven't got no chicken. Best in that chicken, little honey
- 19:16Speaker 2: butter with the syrup. I love that. I love that, dude.
- 19:21Speaker 2: That's a great answer, boy, thanks so much for joining us, man,
- 19:23Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
- 19:25Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. All right, good luck next week, man,
- 19:27Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it.
- 19:30Speaker 1: On the Jags middle linebacker of course. Speaking to Key
- 19:35Speaker 1: Ram Suran, also known as my co host, on to
- 19:38Speaker 1: your talk, there's a couple things I want to pick
- 19:41Speaker 1: up on, and none of them are NFL related. To
- 19:42Speaker 1: be honest, chicken waffles. I think it's a good answer,
- 19:46Speaker 1: excellent good answer. No, I've never You've never heard of it.
- 19:51Speaker 1: You've never heard of chicken and waffles.
- 19:53Speaker 2: I'll be honest. It doesn't sound like a great combo.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I tell you what. It does. Sound like an odd combo.
- 19:59Speaker 1: But it's like with syrup over the top as well.
- 20:00Speaker 1: I think he had to bear in mind. Yeah, I
- 20:04Speaker 1: believe I'm correct. I've had it once or twice. Is
- 20:08Speaker 1: A it's a it's not so much of a thing here.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I'll be honest, it's not so much of a thing here.
- 20:13Speaker 1: But I feel like we are on our way to
- 20:15Speaker 1: creating a great breakfast lunch and dinner for the Jags players.
- 20:20Speaker 1: So they feel like when they're over here in the
- 20:21Speaker 1: UK in a few weeks time, then it doesn't feel like,
- 20:24Speaker 1: you know, they're too far away home from home.
- 20:26Speaker 2: I mean, what a culinary day off.
- 20:28Speaker 1: They're going to have exactly what we've got so far.
- 20:30Speaker 1: So we've got Ross Matisch, who wants stress stressing? What
- 20:35Speaker 1: did Evan Ingram want last week?
- 20:36Speaker 2: And a cornish I want to be I want to
- 20:40Speaker 2: be clear again.
- 20:41Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced of his love for cornish pasties.
- 20:43Speaker 1: I think he was just putting it on Evan Ingram.
- 20:45Speaker 1: What did he want?
- 20:46Speaker 2: My pepper chicken?
- 20:46Speaker 1: Lemon pepper chicken? And now we've got chicken and waffles
- 20:49Speaker 1: as well.
- 20:51Speaker 2: You know what, as much as people go on about
- 20:53Speaker 2: Americans not liking the food over here, I'm going to
- 20:56Speaker 2: be outrageous and say I'm not that mad Keane on
- 20:59Speaker 2: the food and America. No, I would never say to
- 21:05Speaker 2: bigger than me?
- 21:07Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fair enough. Well, the thing is America so big?
- 21:12Speaker 1: That's such a stupid and broad sentence. America is so big,
- 21:14Speaker 1: and it means that the culinary delicacies are so varied
- 21:19Speaker 1: across the.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Us chicken waffles and Sarah.
- 21:22Speaker 1: It is nice, it is honestly. We'll get you to
- 21:25Speaker 1: try some to hashtag content. Will try that in a
- 21:29Speaker 1: in a few weeks time. Key. Maybe that's what we
- 21:31Speaker 1: can have, is we can put that on the TV show,
- 21:35Speaker 1: especially if you've got ninety seconds to fill towards the
- 21:38Speaker 1: end of the episode. It's just keying chicken and waffles.
- 21:41Speaker 1: And the other thing I want to bring up is
- 21:43Speaker 1: and speaking like a true brit is his opinion on
- 21:47Speaker 1: house prices. Yeah. I love it. I mean not disagreeing,
- 21:51Speaker 1: but like the.
- 21:52Speaker 5: Phrase the kind of houses I'm looking at? All Right,
- 21:58Speaker 5: he has to move, he asked me for I've got
- 22:00Speaker 5: a room spare at the end of the interview and.
- 22:03Speaker 1: You no, no, I don't sorry.
- 22:06Speaker 2: For He's such a nice guy. That was really fun
- 22:09Speaker 2: chatting to him.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Yeah one of your favorite players of course.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, let's get into Duval dispatches, shall we? And
- 22:18Speaker 1: as you know, Wembley tickets off sale currently maybe a
- 22:22Speaker 1: limited release later this month. Someone actually said to me
- 22:25Speaker 1: recently on social media, They're like, I didn't manage to
- 22:28Speaker 1: get Jags tickets? What do I do? And the response
- 22:32Speaker 1: then that I gave them the responses. Now keep your
- 22:35Speaker 1: eye on Jaguar's UK and Island social channels at Jaguar's
- 22:39Speaker 1: UK and i E on Instagram. You can just keep
- 22:42Speaker 1: an eye on it. I think there's alerts you can
- 22:44Speaker 1: put on Bon Alerts, Bon Alerts. Jags Weekly UK back
- 22:50Speaker 1: this Wednesday. We're going to speak more about it in
- 22:52Speaker 1: a second, aren't we. Key Reese is going to catch
- 22:56Speaker 1: up with JP Shadwick. You'll get the low down on
- 22:58Speaker 1: the thoughts following some days. Get is also an interview
- 23:01Speaker 1: with Brian Thomas Junior from our trip to training camp
- 23:04Speaker 1: as well, and as we get closer to the London Games,
- 23:07Speaker 1: we were giving out information about the fan activity it's
- 23:10Speaker 1: going to be going on. We're talking pub parties with
- 23:12Speaker 1: special guests, in store signings, it's going to be a
- 23:15Speaker 1: chance to watch practice as well. Make sure you subscribe
- 23:18Speaker 1: to the Union Jack's newsletter, follow us on our social
- 23:21Speaker 1: channel so you receive all the details. Hopefully like more
- 23:25Speaker 1: to add next week about like you know, timings and
- 23:28Speaker 1: activities and the like. But it's going to be a
- 23:30Speaker 1: big few weeks for Jacks fans in the UK, isn't it.
- 23:33Speaker 2: I love game week. I love Game Week in the
- 23:37Speaker 2: UK vibe.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Isn't it before? Isn't it? You know what it's like.
- 23:40Speaker 1: It's like Christmas.
- 23:41Speaker 2: It's like a four or five day party. It's awesome.
- 23:44Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. I can't wait.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Man. Okay, so let's go. Let's talk into the Sky Show,
- 23:50Speaker 1: shall we? Key it is it is? Back? Last week
- 23:53Speaker 1: on the show, you said, I don't know what's happening.
- 23:56Speaker 1: We've just got so much good stuff I don't want
- 23:57Speaker 1: to put in. Have you been able to whittle it down?
- 24:00Speaker 1: You can you tell us what's going on? Can you
- 24:02Speaker 1: tell us when it is?
- 24:03Speaker 2: I can? It's so. It will premiere on Wednesday on
- 24:07Speaker 2: Sky Sports NFL at nine pm, and then there's repeats
- 24:10Speaker 2: of the show throughout the week. And the thing I'm
- 24:13Speaker 2: looking forward to does like the highlights, analysis and all
- 24:17Speaker 2: the good stuff. The thing I'm most excited about this
- 24:20Speaker 2: week was Brian Thomas Jr. Had a good week and
- 24:23Speaker 2: we thought, let's include our interview with Reese and Brian
- 24:27Speaker 2: Thomas Junior. And yeah, it's really it's really good fun
- 24:30Speaker 2: and he like, we don't know him that well rookie season,
- 24:35Speaker 2: so it's nice to spend a bit of time with
- 24:37Speaker 2: him and get to know him a little bit better.
- 24:39Speaker 2: And his jewelry game is phenomenal.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well you've got a good jewelry game. Were
- 24:44Speaker 1: you a bit jealous?
- 24:45Speaker 2: Oh jealous? Well, jealous isn't the word. He has a
- 24:50Speaker 2: slightly bigger salary, he can he could splash out a
- 24:55Speaker 2: bit more. But yeah, he was, but he's so humble. Yeah,
- 24:59Speaker 2: love love guy, cracking jewelry game, That's what I'll say.
- 25:03Speaker 1: And of course a host of the show, Reecee Parkinson,
- 25:06Speaker 1: he'll be back for another season and in fact, he's
- 25:08Speaker 1: back on the podcast now, Key he is.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Yeah, reason I sat down in the summer during the
- 25:15Speaker 2: player tour to have a chat about his journey to
- 25:18Speaker 2: becoming a Jags fan and what it's been like the
- 25:21Speaker 2: last couple of years hosting the show and getting to
- 25:23Speaker 2: know some of the fans and players a little bit
- 25:25Speaker 2: better and stuff.
- 25:26Speaker 1: Could you imagine if he was just like, yeah, I
- 25:28Speaker 1: haven't enjoyed it.
- 25:30Speaker 2: It's been awful, especially any time. Yeah, do we have
- 25:34Speaker 2: to do? It's my paycheck, all.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Right, let's get into it. Rhys Parkinson, Key, Ramsuren.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Reece Parkinson, Yes, Key, host of Jaguars Weekly, UK. Tell
- 25:46Speaker 2: me how you got to this point. Where did you
- 25:49Speaker 2: like get into NFL? How did you get into the Jags?
- 25:52Speaker 6: Okay, it's an interesting story. I'll start with NFL because
- 25:56Speaker 6: that leads up to doing this show. So for me,
- 26:00Speaker 6: I remember it was Madden on Xbox, Madden eight with
- 26:08Speaker 6: Brett fav as the front cover in a Green Bay Jersey,
- 26:13Speaker 6: and I remember getting this game and not having a
- 26:16Speaker 6: clue how to play it. All I knew was quarterback passes,
- 26:21Speaker 6: man catches and does dance, and I felt, I love this.
- 26:26Speaker 6: Why don't other sports do this? So you'd have like
- 26:30Speaker 6: ab y X or whatever to throw to and then
- 26:32Speaker 6: I kind of got to grips with it, and then
- 26:34Speaker 6: i'd understand different offenses, and then I remember falling in
- 26:37Speaker 6: love with certain players. So Regie Bush on the Saints,
- 26:40Speaker 6: I was like, you can't catch him, he just goes.
- 26:44Speaker 6: And then Chris Johnson on the Titans, I remember being like,
- 26:46Speaker 6: he's just unstoppable. And then you start to slowly understand
- 26:50Speaker 6: the defense. You kind of get the different cover zones
- 26:54Speaker 6: and man to man and how that works. And then
- 26:56Speaker 6: you try and use the user on defense just as
- 26:59Speaker 6: one player instead of just being the d line and
- 27:02Speaker 6: then you're like, I can, I can mark like one
- 27:05Speaker 6: of the and just falling in love with you. Then
- 27:06Speaker 6: then go on YouTube, then watching the highlights at that then.
- 27:09Speaker 2: You're not watching any NFL if just Madden playing.
- 27:12Speaker 6: Yeah, no access to watching it right, Well, I'm sure
- 27:14Speaker 6: it's on TV obviously, but not staying up that late
- 27:17Speaker 6: to watch it. Secondary school, going on YouTube, tapping Reggie
- 27:21Speaker 6: Bush USC highlights and other things like that. I remember
- 27:25Speaker 6: my friend took me to my first one of the
- 27:26Speaker 6: London games. It was Saints versus forty nine Ers. That
- 27:30Speaker 6: was the first game I went to, and then it
- 27:32Speaker 6: grew like that, and then over the years I would
- 27:34Speaker 6: listen to a lot of the sports broadcasting shows that
- 27:37Speaker 6: would touch on because I was a big NBA fan, NBA, NFL,
- 27:41Speaker 6: and then some boxing and their some golf as well,
- 27:44Speaker 6: and then you'd kind of just understand these storylines and
- 27:46Speaker 6: watch the Super Bowl every year, et cetera. And then
- 27:49Speaker 6: I was on a program called Fighting Talk on BBC
- 27:53Speaker 6: Radio five Live, and the majority of my answers on
- 27:56Speaker 6: that show, because it's like a quick fire question radio show, yeah,
- 28:00Speaker 6: would be American football. And the producer of that show
- 28:04Speaker 6: went to me, I'm working on a show. Might be interested.
- 28:09Speaker 6: You might say no, but all your answers are usually
- 28:13Speaker 6: American football answers. Do you want to host this show
- 28:17Speaker 6: called Jagus Weekly UK?
- 28:18Speaker 3: Oh?
- 28:19Speaker 6: And do you support a team? And I was like,
- 28:21Speaker 6: not really. I follow Cam Newton most of his career
- 28:23Speaker 6: and now he's not got a team. This could work
- 28:25Speaker 6: out really well. And then I became a Jackson fan
- 28:27Speaker 6: and started hosting Jagus Weekly UK.
- 28:30Speaker 2: How long ago was that? And what is it like
- 28:35Speaker 2: having an affinity for a team compared to not having
- 28:38Speaker 2: an affinity for a team before that?
- 28:39Speaker 6: That's really interesting. Having an affinity for a team makes
- 28:45Speaker 6: you go deeper under the surface on an organization and
- 28:51Speaker 6: a area, so you start to go, what even is Jacksonville?
- 28:55Speaker 6: Where is Jacksonville and what do they stand for? And
- 29:00Speaker 6: I kind of knew at the time because I'm a
- 29:01Speaker 6: Fulham fan as well, So it was just everything was
- 29:03Speaker 6: very soendipitous in terms of like you're a Fulham fan, Oh,
- 29:06Speaker 6: we'll actually be really nice with a Fulham fan to
- 29:08Speaker 6: host a Jaguars show because mister Karna owns both. So
- 29:11Speaker 6: that worked out really well as well. I would say
- 29:14Speaker 6: you start to on Sundays are a little different because
- 29:18Speaker 6: you don't just put on red Zone. My first thing
- 29:21Speaker 6: back in the day was red zone. Let me just
- 29:23Speaker 6: watch them all. Now it's what time the JAG zone. Yeah,
- 29:26Speaker 6: and then red zone if we got a bye week.
- 29:28Speaker 6: So yeah, they're a difference. So then you fall in
- 29:30Speaker 6: love with the players and then you know, we have
- 29:31Speaker 6: the privilege of actually getting to meet the players form relationships.
- 29:37Speaker 6: I remember last year on the JAG's UK Player tour,
- 29:40Speaker 6: we had a few other players come over and Josh
- 29:43Speaker 6: Allen was one of those players on the tour and
- 29:45Speaker 6: we got super friendly with Josh. You know, you go
- 29:48Speaker 6: to the gym in the morning and he's benching a
- 29:49Speaker 6: ridiculous amount and you're like, hey, Josh. But during game
- 29:54Speaker 6: week at Wembley, we were lucky enough to have access
- 29:57Speaker 6: in a tunnel and you were like, do a piece
- 30:00Speaker 6: of camera and when the players come out and you're like,
- 30:04Speaker 6: it's and I wasn't expecting anything. Yes, sorry, sorry, sorry, yes, yes, Bradford, Yeah, yeah,
- 30:14Speaker 6: you just came from the stands and like, do a
- 30:16Speaker 6: piece of camera. So you were like, you know, do
- 30:22Speaker 6: this piece of camera, and I was expecting anything that
- 30:23Speaker 6: happened when we're doing a piece of camera Josh Allen
- 30:27Speaker 6: before going out to play at Wembley. During that piece
- 30:31Speaker 6: of camera, co comes over when we're recording. He goes
- 30:34Speaker 6: and then runs out. It was like, oh, we're friends,
- 30:38Speaker 6: and that was really really cool. Forming relationships with the
- 30:40Speaker 6: players and you know, coaches is awesome. You feel a
- 30:44Speaker 6: part of something. Everyone wants to feel a part something.
- 30:47Speaker 2: So that's amazing. And we're doing that right now. Like
- 30:50Speaker 2: right now we are on the third annual play at
- 30:53Speaker 2: all and it's your second.
- 30:55Speaker 6: One, my second one second one.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Okay, so talk to us a little bit about what
- 30:58Speaker 2: that those players alike and the players a little bit
- 31:02Speaker 2: and that sort.
- 31:03Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:03Speaker 6: So the players tour a brilliant because I always feel
- 31:05Speaker 6: like it sets up for when we make our trip
- 31:07Speaker 6: to Jacksonville. You know, we have a yearly trip. I've
- 31:10Speaker 6: only done one last year. I've been only hosting the
- 31:13Speaker 6: showsans last year we did a trip to Jacksonville. And
- 31:18Speaker 6: because you've met some of the players, going to Jacksonville,
- 31:21Speaker 6: it's not all foreign to you. So, like I was
- 31:23Speaker 6: saying about Josh Allen, you go there, and this year
- 31:25Speaker 6: we've got Ross Matter sik Foyer, Lacan as well and
- 31:29Speaker 6: then co chief. So go in there. You know, to Jacksonville,
- 31:34Speaker 6: you're there and you feel much more at home. So
- 31:37Speaker 6: you know, if a play, if Dewey sees you chilling
- 31:40Speaker 6: with Ross, he's more likely to come over and be like,
- 31:42Speaker 6: oh Ross thinks you'll call that must mean so you
- 31:44Speaker 6: have more access and you know in media it's all about,
- 31:47Speaker 6: as you know, having access to the players making them
- 31:49Speaker 6: feel comfortable. Again, for the London game, when we're in
- 31:52Speaker 6: the locker room after a win, everyone's a static and
- 31:55Speaker 6: they just usually want to chill themselves. And that no,
- 31:58Speaker 6: because we know Josh because we've worked with him on
- 32:00Speaker 6: the player tour. In the locker room, he is like
- 32:03Speaker 6: he's going, you know, you can't buy that. Media and
- 32:07Speaker 6: journalists can't can't really buy it.
- 32:09Speaker 2: Makes the show better to watch, It makes it better
- 32:14Speaker 2: for the fans, And I just think like, actually, do
- 32:18Speaker 2: you know what right? The Jags are an organization where
- 32:21Speaker 2: everyone is super friendly and I'm i genuine everyone we
- 32:25Speaker 2: meet is so friendly, and I think forming those relationships
- 32:30Speaker 2: makes the show better.
- 32:32Speaker 6: That's because that's an interesting thing my role in the
- 32:35Speaker 6: show the Jags, because we have such a close tie
- 32:39Speaker 6: with the UK. We do have a lot of UK
- 32:42Speaker 6: and Ireland fans Draft Day and you've had him on
- 32:47Speaker 6: the pod Stevie. Stevie could tell you every player on
- 32:51Speaker 6: our roster we've had since the franchise was even a thing.
- 32:54Speaker 6: I can't do that. Jamie, one of the super fans,
- 33:00Speaker 6: goes to a lot of the player tour events that
- 33:02Speaker 6: we do in the community events, can tell you every
- 33:05Speaker 6: play that Doug would have made last year. I can't
- 33:09Speaker 6: do that. I've always said from the outset, I'm on
- 33:12Speaker 6: a learning journey to learn more about this franchise, fall
- 33:16Speaker 6: in love with this franchise, because in my opinion, that's
- 33:19Speaker 6: how everyone that's how that's the journey that everyone goes through.
- 33:23Speaker 6: The only thing is I'm just happened to be doing
- 33:24Speaker 6: it on camera, you know. So I'm never going to
- 33:27Speaker 6: pretend that I can tell you every single player since
- 33:29Speaker 6: the start of the franchise. But our fan base is
- 33:32Speaker 6: so diverse that I think that's why, you know, when
- 33:34Speaker 6: we go there, those people tend to show us a
- 33:36Speaker 6: lot of love when we interact with them because they're
- 33:38Speaker 6: aware they can see themselves in what we're doing on
- 33:42Speaker 6: the show, just like they did for not we're doing it.
- 33:45Speaker 6: We're just doing it on camera. I think that's the
- 33:46Speaker 6: good thing about this show is we're not trying to
- 33:49Speaker 6: be experts, never said we are. We're trying to have
- 33:52Speaker 6: the same journey that a new fan will have when
- 33:54Speaker 6: they first go to Wembley, just like I did and
- 33:56Speaker 6: go I love the logo, I love Trevor's, I love
- 34:01Speaker 6: traves ETM. Like that's how you fall in love with it.
- 34:04Speaker 2: So talk to me about what it's like. Because now
- 34:08Speaker 2: we'll go to Wembley, we'll go to Spurs, we'll go
- 34:10Speaker 2: to the JD Sports events, player signings, and people see
- 34:15Speaker 2: recently recognize how's that part of it being for you?
- 34:19Speaker 2: Like meeting the fans and.
- 34:20Speaker 6: Amazing I love sports, you know, and when you're a
- 34:25Speaker 6: face of a show, that just makes it even better
- 34:28Speaker 6: because it's some kind of there's like almost that pattern
- 34:34Speaker 6: recognition when we go, like we go to these events
- 34:37Speaker 6: and go, oh, who you are JAG's head one two
- 34:41Speaker 6: three on Twitter or something. You know, I'm just saying
- 34:43Speaker 6: a user name. It's like it's that time again. It's
- 34:47Speaker 6: Wembley time again, It's JD Sports on Wembley Week. It's
- 34:51Speaker 6: that time again. They're at the front of the queue,
- 34:53Speaker 6: we see him. There's some familiarity. That's what it is,
- 34:56Speaker 6: and that's what that's why the Jags in the UK
- 34:59Speaker 6: are are almost more of a family than fans of
- 35:04Speaker 6: the team. And the best thing is on their Facebook groups,
- 35:07Speaker 6: on the Twitter groups, they all go to the meetups,
- 35:09Speaker 6: people give each other lifts. That's very rare for not
- 35:14Speaker 6: football slash soccer. You know, we've seen that throughout the years.
- 35:18Speaker 6: For American football and a team to come over here
- 35:20Speaker 6: and have that kind of fan base, that's pretty incredible.
- 35:24Speaker 2: So talk to me about that, about how you feel
- 35:26Speaker 2: about what the Jags are doing in the UK and
- 35:29Speaker 2: Ireland in terms of growing the game, because like we've
- 35:32Speaker 2: also been going to like loads of community events where
- 35:34Speaker 2: we see really young kids doing jagtag and then the
- 35:39Speaker 2: older generation doing the Batha clinics as well.
- 35:41Speaker 6: Yeah, this game is super complicated, right it is. You know,
- 35:45Speaker 6: I try and.
- 35:46Speaker 2: It took me a full season to learn. Like when
- 35:48Speaker 2: I got into it, it was a full season before.
- 35:50Speaker 6: I truly understood, you know. So same as I watch you,
- 35:55Speaker 6: so if I watch you with my girlfriend, for example,
- 35:57Speaker 6: like I found myself going God, it's really hard to
- 36:02Speaker 6: try and explain just how I got into the game
- 36:04Speaker 6: was so hard understanding the downs. You're like, it took
- 36:08Speaker 6: me about a week to understand a first down? But
- 36:11Speaker 6: why ten yards? Who decided that?
- 36:14Speaker 3: You know?
- 36:14Speaker 6: So you have like but the community events take it
- 36:18Speaker 6: to the basics, and that's the best thing to let kids,
- 36:21Speaker 6: like I said, throw pass, catch dance, right, you know
- 36:26Speaker 6: that meme where it's like the mid curve meme. You
- 36:28Speaker 6: have the person that hasn't got a clue that goes,
- 36:31Speaker 6: I'm putting fifty thousand on this random mean coin and
- 36:34Speaker 6: it goes up on one hundred x of his money.
- 36:36Speaker 6: Then you have the person in the middle studying all
- 36:38Speaker 6: the things. Man, Actually I think we should trade for
- 36:41Speaker 6: this person because this person has a better overall accuracy
- 36:43Speaker 6: on a fourth down. His fourth down conversion rate is
- 36:45Speaker 6: And then you have the guy who's a Jedi on
- 36:47Speaker 6: the far card that goes just trust Trevor. It's like
- 36:51Speaker 6: for the community events, just keep it at that left
- 36:53Speaker 6: hand side, throw ball, catch dance. That's fun. What do
- 36:57Speaker 6: they do with the community events? What do they ask
- 37:00Speaker 6: every player when they come over.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Once they celebrator touchdown.
- 37:03Speaker 6: That's what's going to get the kids involved. That's what
- 37:05Speaker 6: they're going to remember because they see it on TATOK
- 37:06Speaker 6: and stuff like that. But the community events are awesome
- 37:09Speaker 6: and the best thing is people people care. You know,
- 37:11Speaker 6: we have people Andy for example, an organization that you
- 37:15Speaker 6: know is in charge of the community events here in
- 37:17Speaker 6: the UK and Ireland. That man truly cares how the
- 37:21Speaker 6: event goes, and he treats it like Sunday. He treats
- 37:24Speaker 6: it like Doug treats it on Sunday. He's serious because
- 37:27Speaker 6: he wants kids to fall in love with the game
- 37:30Speaker 6: that he loves. I want kids to fall in love
- 37:32Speaker 6: with the game that we love, and even adults as well.
- 37:35Speaker 6: When we it's not just kids that go to the
- 37:37Speaker 6: community events that we work with, university teams, UK teams,
- 37:41Speaker 6: American football teams that are set up to give them
- 37:43Speaker 6: a chance to learn from Foyer, to give them a
- 37:45Speaker 6: chance to learn how to tackle with Josh, to give
- 37:48Speaker 6: them a chance to get your positioning right with Devin Lloyd,
- 37:51Speaker 6: Like how cool? When do you see a football team
- 37:55Speaker 6: do that? As in the soccer team do that? I
- 37:58Speaker 6: very rare, very rare. Do you see? I don't know,
- 38:04Speaker 6: Harland go to a community event and teach do three
- 38:08Speaker 6: do three in a week in three different cities and
- 38:11Speaker 6: teaching underscore you don't you don't back to back games
- 38:17Speaker 6: this year. Cooler, cool girl, It's cool. It's the best.
- 38:22Speaker 6: It's cool, cool it.
- 38:26Speaker 2: And that was it. That's all I got out of him.
- 38:28Speaker 1: Okay, then, okay, it's cool, isn't it? Okay, it's cool.
- 38:32Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
- 38:34Speaker 2: I think I think might have been done.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Ell equip man eliquipment. It's cool.
- 38:42Speaker 2: It was It was so fun, Like I spent quite
- 38:44Speaker 2: a lot of time with the rece but it was
- 38:46Speaker 2: really nice hearing his his journey into it and how
- 38:49Speaker 2: much he's enjoyed it since then.
- 38:51Speaker 1: That was nice, an amazing thing to be part of
- 38:52Speaker 1: the Jack's community here in the in the UK and island.
- 38:55Speaker 1: As much as I sound sickly sweet when I say that,
- 38:58Speaker 1: but it's it's still true, isn't it?
- 38:59Speaker 3: So?
- 39:01Speaker 2: What a turning of the tide? Who did the duval
- 39:05Speaker 2: at Wembley last year?
- 39:06Speaker 1: Did I remember?
- 39:08Speaker 2: And now look he's getting it?
- 39:09Speaker 1: Now?
- 39:10Speaker 2: Come on, come on, do you know?
- 39:14Speaker 1: Do you know what's funny? Do you know what's funny? Actually?
- 39:15Speaker 1: Is I remember seeing Reese do that and I remember thinking,
- 39:18Speaker 1: I actually thought the time, I'd love to do that. Dude,
- 39:22Speaker 1: twelve months later, it's gonna be me that embarrasses myself.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Actually did a great job last time, so I can't
- 39:28Speaker 1: comment on how he did. But what a.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Difference to you?
- 39:31Speaker 1: What a different to you? It's gonna happen. It's going
- 39:36Speaker 1: to happen. I'm gonna get like people. I'm going to
- 39:38Speaker 1: ask people to, like, you know, film it, you know,
- 39:40Speaker 1: from wherever they are in the in the ground. You know,
- 39:43Speaker 1: that'd be amazing if you listen to this. I know
- 39:45Speaker 1: it's a few weeks away, I will be bringing this
- 39:47Speaker 1: up again, but you know, filming it from from around
- 39:50Speaker 1: the ground and then yeah, that'll be it'd been incredible moment,
- 39:53Speaker 1: to be honest. I mentioned it to my dad and
- 39:55Speaker 1: my dad said to me, can you can you just
- 39:58Speaker 1: not say like, you know, hello, we like, No, I can't.
- 40:02Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's why you said it like a
- 40:05Speaker 1: like Freddie Mercury, you know yeah. And I was, I know,
- 40:09Speaker 1: I'm not going to be doing that. I Am not
- 40:11Speaker 1: going to be a yeah to Mercury, Yeah exactly. I
- 40:18Speaker 1: was like, no, I'm really not going to do that.
- 40:20Speaker 1: I am going to I have one word to stay.
- 40:23Speaker 1: I'm sticking to that one word. I would love it
- 40:26Speaker 1: if I just went on a to grab the microphone
- 40:28Speaker 1: and went on the tirade about something else. But I
- 40:29Speaker 1: can guarantee that that will not.
- 40:31Speaker 2: Spris in the UK.
- 40:32Speaker 1: It's like a mate if you've got any any words.
- 40:38Speaker 1: It worked at the House Prize of the UK. Anyway,
- 40:42Speaker 1: Reese will be back. The show's Premierrey and Wednesday key.
- 40:45Speaker 2: The show premieres on Wednesday every week on Sky Sports
- 40:49Speaker 2: NFL at nine pm, and then there were repeats throughout
- 40:52Speaker 2: the week.
- 40:53Speaker 1: Okay, fantastic. Let's talk Cleveland Brown's Week two for the
- 40:57Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Hopefully my setup will improved by then and
- 41:01Speaker 1: I'll feel slightly more stress free watching, you know, maybe
- 41:05Speaker 1: less games.
- 41:06Speaker 2: I've got four more screens ready for this.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, it was a disappointing Week one for the
- 41:14Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. It was a disappointing Week one for the
- 41:17Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, losing to the Dallas Cowboys as well. In
- 41:22Speaker 1: Tom Brady's first game actually as a color commentator, of course,
- 41:26Speaker 1: thirty three seventeen, Week one, the Cleveland Browns. It wasn't
- 41:32Speaker 1: a good game for the Cleveland Browns.
- 41:33Speaker 2: No, I think it was worse for Browns fans than
- 41:37Speaker 2: it was for Jags fans because they didn't look good,
- 41:39Speaker 2: did they mate?
- 41:40Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of hope. I think a lot
- 41:42Speaker 1: of hope. That's not necessarily fair. There wasn't a load
- 41:46Speaker 1: of a load of positive things. From a Brown's perspective.
- 41:50Speaker 1: I think Deshaun Watson didn't look good. He hasn't really
- 41:54Speaker 1: had a brilliant Cleveland Brown's career, has he since he
- 41:58Speaker 1: left them? The Houston Texans twenty four to forty five,
- 42:02Speaker 1: So that's like fifty three percent completion percentage. You know,
- 42:05Speaker 1: it's not great. Two interceptions, one fumble. What I think
- 42:09Speaker 1: is and I remember thinking this as soon as I
- 42:11Speaker 1: saw the Browns play I was. I remember thinking this Jags.
- 42:15Speaker 1: I mean it still is to be fair, the Jags
- 42:17Speaker 1: first few games, it was tough on paper, and obviously
- 42:21Speaker 1: there's that loss to Miami. Week two against the Cleveland Browns,
- 42:27Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this is a this is
- 42:29Speaker 1: this is the Jags. The Jags can win this.
- 42:31Speaker 2: I completely agree. I think this is a chance for
- 42:34Speaker 2: redemption this week. I think they looked so poor in
- 42:37Speaker 2: Week one the Browns is, yeah, that this is a
- 42:41Speaker 2: chance for the Jags to like solidify some confidence and
- 42:46Speaker 2: go everything's all right, We're fine.
- 42:50Speaker 1: Yeah in Jacksonville as well. So first home game of
- 42:53Speaker 1: the season two. Yeah, So hopefully it's something that you know,
- 42:58Speaker 1: the Jags can Jackets, can exploit Cleveland's weaknesses which were
- 43:03Speaker 1: you know, pretty obvious on display against you know, a
- 43:05Speaker 1: good Dallas team. Granted, you know, the Browns have had
- 43:09Speaker 1: a good defense over the last few years. They've had
- 43:13Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb is obviously injured. He's been injured
- 43:16Speaker 1: for a while now, so he will not be playing.
- 43:20Speaker 1: It's gonna be an interesting game. But this from a
- 43:22Speaker 1: Jags perspective, I think is a game that you look
- 43:25Speaker 1: at and you think Browns weren't good in Week one.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Their quarterback was not good in Week one. He hasn't
- 43:30Speaker 1: he hasn't actually proven much whilst being in a Cleveland
- 43:34Speaker 1: you know, uniform. This is something that hopefully we can,
- 43:37Speaker 1: you know, we can get the first winning the season.
- 43:38Speaker 1: And you know, again, hard hard, first few games, but
- 43:42Speaker 1: you come out of Week two and you're one and one,
- 43:44Speaker 1: you don't feel awful about that do you.
- 43:46Speaker 2: No, exactly, And let's be honest. You know, Owen one
- 43:50Speaker 2: isn't that bad when you face an elite team in
- 43:53Speaker 2: week one, it really isn't that bad. And let's not
- 43:56Speaker 2: forget right Brown's last year. Yeah, they did really well,
- 44:00Speaker 2: but they didn't do that with DeShawn Watson. They did
- 44:02Speaker 2: that with Jock So that's something to bear in mind.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Another thing is like, I'm I'm not an offensive coordinator.
- 44:10Speaker 2: As you know, Jay, I would I would spend a.
- 44:14Speaker 1: Loads of breaking news on the show today.
- 44:16Speaker 2: I would seriously think about putting all five of the
- 44:20Speaker 2: offensive line on Miles Garrett.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, ok, yeah, you're definitely not an offensive coordinator.
- 44:26Speaker 1: Researcher George is given us the matchup of the week
- 44:29Speaker 1: in this one between the Jags and the Browns, and
- 44:32Speaker 1: it's essentially, you know, it's essentially what you just said.
- 44:34Speaker 1: To be honest, they're key. Miles Garrett is always going
- 44:36Speaker 1: to be the one that you know, people are going
- 44:38Speaker 1: to be focused on against that O line. However, I
- 44:43Speaker 1: don't think that five offensive linemen on Miles Garrett is
- 44:47Speaker 1: the answer. It's the key. No, I'm going to put
- 44:50Speaker 1: it out there and say that this is why I
- 44:51Speaker 1: didn't get the job, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That
- 44:57Speaker 1: is a good point though. I mean, there's not a
- 44:59Speaker 1: lot of tea that have elite you know, defensive ends
- 45:03Speaker 1: or you know, edge rushers, and this is a team,
- 45:05Speaker 1: you know, this is a defensive player of the year
- 45:08Speaker 1: of course in Males Garrett. That it means it's going
- 45:10Speaker 1: to be tough no matter who you're playing. But you
- 45:13Speaker 1: basically on that you think the line improved in that
- 45:15Speaker 1: game against the Dolphins, So it's about, you know, continuing
- 45:18Speaker 1: that improvement. And I suppose it's really showing showing how
- 45:20Speaker 1: much they've improved when they play against Males. Garrett.
- 45:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a really good test. Hey, is
- 45:25Speaker 2: there another interesting stat? Has DeShawn Watson's never lost to
- 45:29Speaker 2: the Jags? Oh?
- 45:32Speaker 1: It's all right, And of course he played for sure,
- 45:34Speaker 1: he played pretty short Texans of course, so yeah.
- 45:37Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he's never lost to the Jags. All right,
- 45:40Speaker 2: So let's hope Sunday is the first.
- 45:41Speaker 1: If he plays well, you can tweet us or you know,
- 45:45Speaker 1: get in touch. If you're thinking no, actually, key, that's
- 45:49Speaker 1: that's a wrong stat. You're peddling misinformation at Jaguar's UK
- 45:53Speaker 1: and I e you can just you know, just the
- 45:55Speaker 1: first time, let us let us have it or let
- 45:57Speaker 1: Key have it. Essentially, if you think that he's he's
- 46:00Speaker 1: completely wrong. Okay, let's do the prediction. So last week,
- 46:04Speaker 1: it's fair to say that with every single week we're
- 46:07Speaker 1: basically going to keep a prediction table prediction tally. There's me,
- 46:12Speaker 1: there's Key, and then there is the fans.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Pick.
- 46:14Speaker 1: Now, we don't have the fan on this week, so
- 46:17Speaker 1: instead we have Reese Parkinson. We just heard him, of course,
- 46:21Speaker 1: speaking to Key from the TV show. He's going to
- 46:24Speaker 1: be playing the role of the fan this week, predicting Key,
- 46:28Speaker 1: would you like to remind us how we did last week?
- 46:32Speaker 3: Was it zero?
- 46:33Speaker 2: Zero?
- 46:33Speaker 1: Zero? Ya?
- 46:36Speaker 2: Zero?
- 46:37Speaker 1: We'll move past that one quickly. All three of us,
- 46:39Speaker 1: you know, we are giving score predictions, and all three
- 46:43Speaker 1: of us said the Jags were going to win, and
- 46:46Speaker 1: they didn't. So we'll get onto this week. Shall we
- 46:51Speaker 1: hear Reese's first? I have Reese's prediction. I like that
- 46:59Speaker 1: Jags verse Brown's. He's given Jags seventeen, Brown's fourteen. Oh
- 47:06Speaker 1: what do we think?
- 47:08Speaker 2: I think that's quite good. I think we can definitely
- 47:11Speaker 2: hold them to fourteen. Yeah, I think that's quite good.
- 47:16Speaker 2: I think it's quite good.
- 47:17Speaker 1: Oh can we say last week, by the way, we
- 47:19Speaker 1: had Britt Jagon who said it was going to be
- 47:22Speaker 1: like what was it? He said it was going to
- 47:23Speaker 1: be like.
- 47:23Speaker 2: He said twenty four fourteen, Yes to the Jags. But
- 47:27Speaker 2: the thing that I said fast, no way we hold
- 47:30Speaker 2: Miami to forty but so far off?
- 47:33Speaker 1: Yeah, he was not what was yours? Yours was absurd,
- 47:34Speaker 1: wasn't It was like mine was absurd? It was like, yeah,
- 47:36Speaker 1: it was forty one thirteen. Idiot?
- 47:40Speaker 2: Your prediction waits, did you're here? This week's okay?
- 47:43Speaker 1: Okay? Well should I go first? I'm going to go
- 47:45Speaker 1: first because last week you was so ridiculously I feel
- 47:47Speaker 1: like it needs to be the one that was last
- 47:49Speaker 1: So my prediction this week is Jacksonville Jaguars twenty one,
- 47:56Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's seventeen. I think that the Jags have it. Actually,
- 48:02Speaker 1: I think the Jags have it. I do. I have
- 48:03Speaker 1: more confidence this week actually than I had last week.
- 48:06Speaker 1: I think the Jags have it. That doesn't mean that
- 48:09Speaker 1: it's not necessarily going to be close, though, Yeah, and
- 48:13Speaker 1: your prediction, don't give me the absurd prediction where it
- 48:15Speaker 1: gets to overtime, cam little you know, does a handstand
- 48:17Speaker 1: and manages to get the field goal to win.
- 48:21Speaker 2: There's nothing absurd about this.
- 48:23Speaker 1: Okay, go on all.
- 48:26Speaker 2: Jags. Twenty four Yeah, Cleveland Brown's ten. Oh, Ross Matters
- 48:32Speaker 2: Sick will score a touchdown this week?
- 48:35Speaker 1: Should we just end the episode now? Should just send it.
- 48:38Speaker 2: Ross Mattistick to score a touchdown? Genuinely, I think twenty
- 48:43Speaker 2: four ten. I really I think that that. I think
- 48:47Speaker 2: that is a solid prediction, the Ross Matters Sick thing.
- 48:50Speaker 2: Maybe being silly, twenty four ten, that is. But again,
- 48:53Speaker 2: that's so confident, though, isn't it. That is so confident
- 48:55Speaker 2: You've given them a fourteen point swing on that.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, all right, well let's see who gets closest
- 49:01Speaker 1: next week or hopefully won't continue the zero zero zero
- 49:07Speaker 1: in the table so far. Thank you. By the way,
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