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#7 - Talking Of P*nis*s · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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  Music. I'm alive.
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  Welcome to the All Balls No Filler podcast.
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  Live from the cabin Kitchen. I'm Zach.
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  He's Brad. Hello there and.
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  Behind the scenes, we have a man who always cheques the terms and
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  conditions before he actually accepts him.
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  He's researcher Cal. He's researcher, Cal.
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  He absolutely reads every word, doesn't he?
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  That's probably not a lie. That's probably not far fetched
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  to be fair. How are you doing mate?
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  You're right. What?
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  Do you mean it's not a lie? Nothing is a lie about
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  researcher Cal. Sorry, sorry.
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  They're all facts, I promise you now.
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  They're all facts that we state about Mr Research Cal.
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  Oh God, I just love the guy. Like I literally love the fact
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  that he like climbs the tallest towers in the world just for
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  fun. But it's just, that's it.
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  It's just the guy he is, isn't it?
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  That's it. How are you doing today, mate?
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  How? How are you?
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  How are you feeling? Yeah, I'm all right.
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  I'm all right. I think I've recovered from the
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  Super Bowl. I've, I say recovered.
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  I was a bit of a 1/2, a halfway man actually this year, which
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  we'll get to. But yeah, I'm all right.
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  I felt it a little bit yesterday for various reasons, but yeah,
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  I'm good. Generally good.
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  How are you? I mean about weekends I suppose.
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  But other than that, emotionally I'm I've overcome it.
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  I'm not as tired. I was absolutely shattered
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  yesterday and I was definitely, definitely far too hungover
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  yesterday as well. We had a did.
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  I see a picture of you. I'm interrupting.
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  Did I see a picture of you asleep?
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  No, so this has been taken so far out of context right because
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  he can't speak. I'm sure Kyle to our picture.
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  So what happened What one of the one of the many new we'll get
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  into this, but one of the many New England Patriots mistakes I
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  happened at the weekend. I knocked my heart down, put my
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  head against the wall and I was sighing and then he took the
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  picture and it looks like I've fallen asleep.
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  No, I was really drunk, but I was definitely not asleep on
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  that and I was wondering if you ever see that I've got social
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  like going across the socials. I definitely we were asleep on
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  that, but we so we had a very, very good Super Bowl party over
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  the game, but we had a very, very good Super Bowl party for
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  the listens. I don't know mean by the part of
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  the American football, British American football team called
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  Wakefield District Raiders. And we held our Super Bowl party
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  at one of our sponsor pubs, which was an absolute amazing
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  night. And just before we get into the
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  show as such, we raised like over £200 from Macmillan
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  charity, which is phenomenal and credit to everyone that turned
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  up. So I just want to say thank you
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  if you were down, by the way, for that.
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  Yeah, very hungover and I think I needed it.
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  You definitely did, mate. It's absolute.
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  Well, it's a great night, but a shambles of a night for a
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  Patriots fan. But you know, yeah, it was a
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  really good night. Obviously I wasn't there for the
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  duration for various reasons we won't get into, but the event
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  itself's a cracker. So like, thanks to everyone who
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  came down, thanks to our hosts, who've been our host for a
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  number of years now, and thanks to the guys and girls that put
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  their hands in the pockets for supporting our sponsors with
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  their ongoing Macmillan fundraising efforts.
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  That's just another another one of the many things they do and
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  another one of the many things that lads support them with.
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  So yeah, thanks to everyone for that little pluck, I guess
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  there. But an interesting night
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  generally. Interesting.
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  He's a very loose word you could say.
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  But before we get into Brad, what have we got in store on
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  today's show? Do you wanna let us know?
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  Yeah, I mean, surprise, surprise, we'll be getting into
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  the biggest game of the NFL season, the Super Bowl.
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  Obviously that'll be the main focus of tonight reviewing
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  Sunday night, but we'll also touch on the latest news from
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  the past week and of course, a return of all other balls for
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  other major stories in the world of sport.
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  And of course, the weekly staple now, Carl's Conundrum.
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  So yeah, like a condensed episode in terms of features
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  this week, but we've got quite a lot to chat about and discuss.
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  So should we, should we just get straight into it?
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  If, if we have to, I mean, we can, we can miss out the Super
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  Bowl if you want to. We can get straight to the
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  Carl's conundrum, which call it a day.
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  I'm more than more than happy to do so.
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  I'm not sure why you think, well, you'd want that, really.
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  It surely can't be anything to do with the 29th 13 victory to
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  the Seahawks, could it? Right, Super Bowl 60.
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  Let's just let's just address this, shall we?
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  All right, Weren't the most entertaining Super Bowl for the
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  1st 3/4 of it. I must admit that from a from a
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  from a layman's point of view, I'm going to touch into this in
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  a little bit for layman's point of view, and I want to put a
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  disclaimer out there before we get started and before I give
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  some definite Patriots views on this.
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  The better team 110% won. They were better all around the
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  field. They they deserved that way.
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  If we'd have won that game, I'd have 110% felt cheated out of
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  this. Like in that like they were
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  phenomenal on not every aspect of the ball, but most of the
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  most aspects of the ball. And then they just became
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  perfect towards the end of the game.
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  And what I mean by that is I don't think I've ever seen a a
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  defence as good in the time that I've watched football from play
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  one of the first quarter to the last play of the fourth quarter.
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  They were on real the Patriots could not stop them that they
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  they made the offensive line look like high school.
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  And it it was concerning to see because we've come up against
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  some good defences this year. And I and I, I will back that we
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  we have an easy schedule. And I don't don't actually the
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  be the easy schedule thing will really bite us at this moment in
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  time because I think any team in the NFL could have played that
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  game. And how come we're going to be
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  very similar regardless to who played because of how good that
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  defence genuinely, genuinely was.
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  They scored us across all areas of that field.
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  But yeah, it was tough, mate. It really was as a Patriots fan
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  going into it, I, I, I said to you before and I said like,
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  look, I'm really not looking forward to Super Bowl.
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  You know, as a, as a Patriots fan, you kind of go in there
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  expecting Super Bowls to, to go kind of your way.
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  And I saw that bad feeling. But talking their defence to
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  begin with, what, what were your initial views and that first
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  half in particular, Like what were your initial views of how
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  they came out as that defence? I thought they were just
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  absolutely dominant. And I think they had a real
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  clear plan to just make Drake May's night a misery.
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  And I know that's obvious, isn't it?
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  Like most people go, all right, let's go get the quarterback,
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  let's make him a misery. But it was really obvious from
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  the get go that they were just absolutely clinical in
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  everything they did. They knew their roles, they knew
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  their responsibilities. I thought they were very, very
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  good and and quite effective at sort of not disguising coverage
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  as such, although they did do that, you know, but just showing
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  enough differences throughout the game that Drake may and and
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  this isn't this is not a like a it's not a dig at the guy.
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  He's, you know, it's his second year.
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  I think I'm almost certain he would have been the youngest
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  quarterback to win. I don't know if he's the
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  youngest quarterback to be in a Super Bowl.
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  I'm almost certain he was the youngest one to win it.
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  The second one, it think he was second behind Dan Marino on
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  that. Yeah, I believe so research
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  college should double check on this.
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  But I've I've got I've got something to do with Dan Marino
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  in there and youngest and all along the lines of but I yeah,
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  go on. Sorry.
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  I mean, I should, I should know that one, shouldn't I really?
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  But like, I just feel that they they were just absolutely
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  clinical in everything they did. And I don't think they let up
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  until the fourth quarter really. Like, you know, Patriots were
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  scoreless until the 4th. And like, if we're honest, and I
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  think you'd probably agree, I think the scoreline probably
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  flattered the Patriots a little bit.
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  Like they did have the moments like, you know, and Drake may
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  have some great plays and, you know, he had a couple of really
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  good scrambles under pressure and a few really nice passes
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  that he completed. But he did also meltdown at
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  times as well. And I think it's it's kind of it
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  showed his it showed his position in terms of his career.
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  It was his second year in the league.
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  I think the Patriots arguably have just outperformed this
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  year. Their expectations.
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  They've almost, they've almost been ahead of the curve, like no
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  one expected them really to be in the Super Bowl this year.
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  I think the Ray Ball hire, they've recruited well.
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  They've made some good signings that you can see it there, like
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  you can see the promise for Patriots.
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  But the Seahawks were just absolutely ruthless.
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  They suffocated him, absolutely suffocated him.
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  There's one play, I made a note of it that's really stood out to
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  me about not above all, but there was, I think his name's
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  Mills. He's on the on the Hawks D line,
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  isn't he? And he, I can't remember who it
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  was. It was the tackle or the guard.
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  And I can't remember off the top of my head who it was for the
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  Patriots, but he sacked Drake May whilst the offensive line
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  player was actually in between the two of them.
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  It just absolutely bullied him that yes, it was, Oh no, it
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  might not have been, you know it, it might not have been.
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  It was Campbell or it was Wilson.
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  Research Carl's there. Thank you.
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  Yeah, it was. It was absolutely Wilson.
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  We'll come to Campbell in in a moment.
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  But he just absolutely bullied him right into Drake May.
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  And he literally just wrapped both of them up and sacked me.
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  It was. And that play was just like the
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  definition. I mean Research Carl's popped in
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  a stat here that apparently they only blitzed 15% of the time,
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  which is is absolutely nuts because of the absolute hammer
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  Drake May took. Yeah, I, I, I predicted in the
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  Super Bowl preview pod that we did last week.
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  And if you haven't listened to that guys, go check it out.
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  It's on his on his YouTube and all the Spotify and things.
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  But we, I printed on that one that I think, I think the
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  Seahawks will bottle it under the pressure and the Patriots
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  organisation. I know they've got youngest by
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  not younger squad, but they know they've got newer faces coming
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  into this. They will have they have that
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  experience as an organisation going anywhere.
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  In hindsight, it was the complete opposite way around.
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  Like again, I will go back to the scheduling thing that we've
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  had throughout the year, but at the same time on the on the
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  bounce that we've played them tough defences.
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  So as offensive line have come up against some tough defences.
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  You know, Drake may have come up against some tough pressures and
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  some tough defences to read into the coverage.
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  But I genuinely think from the moment they went out on that
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  field, it it was like they'd never played with each other
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  before, no pun intended, but it was like like they'd never done
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  anything on that field in terms of in in terms of anything.
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  It just looked lacklustre. Like, you know, I've seen
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  reports and people making ex not an excuse and such, but for Will
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  Campbell are ATAR his ACL, his MCL at some point throughout the
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  year was come back. He's doing well.
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  If you were 100% down put on the field, I understand it.
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  I understand it's been great, but they capitalised on a weak
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  part of the on a, on a weak area of that line.
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  And from halfway through the first quarter, they didn't let
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  up. They just hammered that left
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  side of our offensive line and it got and it worked and it got
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  through to Drake May. It got into Drake May's head.
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  He he every time the ball was stopped and it looked like it
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  was going to be a pass. He just felt like he couldn't
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  stay in that pocket. It was it's a neutral fan.
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  If you're, if it's your first time ever watching a Super Bowl,
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  that was the most boring 3/4 of a Super Bowl from a football
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  point of view, from a skill set point of view, that defence was
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  just textbook. Like we're sat in the pub, bro,
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  and I'm and I'm and me. This is like like me and Johno,
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  our friend Johno was a Patriots fan against the entire pub,
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  right? And it gets to like the third,
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  like the second quarter and me and every play, we just glancing
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  at each other like it's going to be a long night.
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  This it's going to be a long, long, long night.
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  Now, look, I agree what you're saying.
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  We're ahead of schedule, right? I'm not going to kind of scream
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  about how I I'd have been happy if we'd have gone out the, you
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  know, the game before DFC championship.
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  Like, is SA happy? I'd have been proud because of
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  how far we've come compared to the season before.
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  Getting to the Super Bowl is fantastic.
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  Do we set as expectations that high next year?
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  I still don't think we do. I still think we look at all
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  depends on how free agency goes and how we recruit in that free
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  agency because, you know, coming up against a team like Seattle
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  who did come out all all good blazing.
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  And I stand by the fact that I put any team in front of them in
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  that Super Bowl and the same result happens with that defence
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  anyway. I just think like we, we, we've
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  got to try and compete with the best we've got.
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  We've got a reactive free agency.
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  Now. I'm going to flip it round here
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  and look, the Patriots D played well.
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  I think both defences play phenomenal.
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  The the the Seattle one was far better because they stopped us
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  getting within any sort of field goal range where the Patriots D
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  didn't. We were doing no scars for what
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  were the first 3/4. I believe it was 2 1/2 three put
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  up tight and although scissor route through but like.
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  I think it was 0 until the fourth quarter, wasn't it?
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  I think. Yeah, and I, but I don't think
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  I, I think the Patriots D shut down the offence, the Seattle's
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  offence better than I expected to do.
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  Christian Gonzalez saved 2 touchdowns.
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  They, they, they should have been, there should be two
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  touchdowns up. He is.
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  And there's a still shot of him diving and like stopping the
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  ball, right. And it is absolutely.
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  Did you know if you're, if you're DBR, if you're, if you're
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  playing gonna play cornerback, that's the kind of play you want
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  to make in the biggest, biggest stage when everything's going
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  against you and you're still making plays like that.
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  I do think the D did well. Yeah, it was like, I mean, I
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  made a note of a Gonzalez, those two stops, like the first one
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  was against JSM, wasn't it, on a deep ball?
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  And if he did, he literally like leaped and managed to just back
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  that down. It was absolutely, I'm, I'm not
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  saying it's textbook because it wasn't textbook.
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  It that was like an unreal play. And then he did it again right
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  in the end zone at the end of the second.
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  I think it was just before half time.
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  I can't remember who it was, who the target was, but he just got
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  in in there where it looks like for sure a touchdown and he had
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  he did have a great game. And I agree with you, like I
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  think Patriots D did have a good game.
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  Like if you look at the games of the Rams, it a lot of them have
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  been not shoot outs as such, but high scoring.
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  Like I mean the Rams, sorry, I said Rams didn't have the the
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  games of the Seahawks. I'm getting ahead of myself.
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  The Seahawks games, a lot of them are really high scoring
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  from their offence. And then the game against the
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  Rams, hence the mistake there. That was a bit of a shoot out
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  between the two. Whereas, you know, I mean, I'm
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  sure we'll touch on it more with the special teams, but they held
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  the Seahawks back a fair, a fair while.
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  I think the difference, I think the real difference between the
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  two, it was that your defence, you can't win a game just with
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  defence, can you? It's got to be a complete
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  package. And I think that's what the
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  Seahawks had. And although no, they didn't
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  score touchdown after touchdown after touchdown, they had
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  players, Donald included. He had some real clutch plays,
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  which were almost like a like for like replica of what Drake
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  May was facing and May was getting sacked or he was
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  throwing incomplete passes or trying to get out and just was
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  nowhere near where's Donald. Like there's a few players where
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  he just stood there and he delivered a ball and then got
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  hit by two or three players or he just made a little step and
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  stepped then up into the pocket and delivered a rifle to
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  somebody. There was a good few of them are
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  Donald and it's it's almost like that role reverse.
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  He's got that famous thing as in a Donald of that game against
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  patriots of seeing ghosts. And it was almost like it was it
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  was Drake May's turn to see ghosts and Donald's kind of
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  there just like like I've been there.
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  And but I think generally I think Pats Dee did play well.
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  Gonzalez was a stand out for the Pats.
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  Definitely. If you could have like a I mean,
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  there's no rule is there that it's the winner or the loser
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  that gets the MVP. But if you could have a losing
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  team, MVPI would probably give it to Gonzalez.
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  But. Yeah, it's.
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  Just it was just a really weird game.
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  I think I think I agree with you the most of that.
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  I don't believe they were the full package in the first half.
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  I think special teams and defensive wise in that first
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  half they were. But the full package started,
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  you know, started the third quarter midway through.
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  Now I'm talking this next bit here.
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  I'm talking kind of taking stats away from it from a fan watching
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  the game, as a Patriots fan watching the game in particular,
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  it's probably one of the worst games I've seen Drake may play
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  in terms of just, it seemed that every single decision he made
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  was the wrong one. And then it got to a point and
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  again, taking stats completely out of this, it got to the point
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  where it felt like he was trying too hard to overcome the
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  mistakes. And then they're making more and
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  it just didn't look like the like the Drake made that we were
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  used to this year. You know, they're not a great
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  pro season. They haven't it's been no, it's
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  been no secret on that. And they've had some things
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  against them on this on this pro season.
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  But at the same time, they haven't the great the best pro
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  season. I just think the pressures just
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  got got, got, got got and it's finally hit more.
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  Hopefully there's only one or two ways to the Patriots.
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  It's going to be the biggest turning point where they're
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  going to like mature over the offseason massively.
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  They're going to walk out this and go right.
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  We can't cup like this again, like we got there.
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  We got embarrassed, we've got dominated, we got annihilated.
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  We are, we are go to work right now.
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  We recruit, we come back, we hit harder, we win or it gets to him
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  and it eats him away. It eats him away.
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  And then every game, every decision is the wrong decision.
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  But games happen. One of the things that we say as
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  coaches, when we when we're, when we've got our players and,
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  and stuff don't go our way, one of our things we say is it's the
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  last play, get on there, it's a fresh down.
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  Go back out there, it's a fresh down.
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  Now I understand there's a little bit of a difference
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  between Division 2 football and and the NFL kind of get that.
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  But at the same time, the principal's still there with he
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  needs to now be man managed and coached by, by the offence and
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  the by the Patriots and the organisation, him and the
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  offensive line, especially that left side, that rookie side, to
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  go back out and be like, look, shit's happened.
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  We can't change that now. Now you got to make shit right.
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  I think there was just, there was just times on there though,
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  like where you'd see him on the sideline, Drake May, you'd see
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  him on the sideline and he just looked, he just looked lost.
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  He just, it was almost as though he could see the game was done.
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  And I think I think most people, and I know you can never count
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  it out, can you? It's like we've had some amazing
• 20:46
  comebacks in the NFL and that's why we love the sport.
• 20:48
  But you could see from the get go from the first few drives,
• 20:52
  even though the score didn't reflect it, I think the first
• 20:55
  345 drives, it was like, yeah, this game's going to go exactly
• 20:59
  as everyone predicted. Seahawks are going to destroy
• 21:01
  them. And and that's going to be that.
• 21:03
  And you then wonder how much of that as well as the coaching
• 21:07
  team have done. Like, you know, we've sat here
• 21:09
  and sang variables praises. Josh McDaniels obviously is, is
• 21:13
  done really well with Drake May and I think he's made some
• 21:16
  really, it's not the same offence that he ran with Tom
• 21:18
  Brady. It's a different offence.
• 21:20
  He's he's playing to Drake May's strengths.
• 21:22
  You know, he's he's letting him scramble because he's a good
• 21:24
  scrambler. I think I heard a stat today or
• 21:27
  saw a stat that he's in fact, it might have been one of the
• 21:30
  commentators actually who said he's technically statistically
• 21:34
  the best scrambler in the NFL this year.
• 21:38
  Stats only tell you half of the story.
• 21:40
  Don't the book like that. They are, they've made a scheme
• 21:44
  around the players they've got, but it just felt like today they
• 21:48
  just didn't, not today, sorry, the Super Bowl, they didn't make
• 21:52
  those adjustments. They didn't change what they
• 21:56
  needed to change. Whereas the Seahawks absolutely
• 22:00
  neutralised the passing game of the Pats and that's what they've
• 22:05
  had and they, they, they absolutely smashed the life out
• 22:08
  of them. Ain't New England almost dealt
• 22:12
  their cards off the get go. You know, the D were were trying
• 22:18
  to make the big plays from the offset, but it was almost
• 22:22
  showing the Seahawks how they were trying to make those big
• 22:26
  plays. And I think that was almost out
• 22:28
  of an acceptance. It felt it felt like the Pats
• 22:31
  were went out there knowing the Seahawks were the better team
• 22:34
  and knowing they were going to probably win.
• 22:38
  You know, if we've been real about it.
• 22:40
  And they tried making those big plays from the get go and it
• 22:46
  kind of almost dealt dealt the cards off play one if you like.
• 22:51
  Whereas with the Seahawks, she kind of saw that composure in
• 22:54
  the forward planning. Like I think the first touchdown
• 22:58
  for the Seahawks. I saw the highlights of it
• 23:01
  yesterday. I didn't notice it at the time,
• 23:04
  I won't lie, but the the first touchdown of the Seahawks was an
• 23:08
  exact replica of the very first play of the game.
• 23:11
  It was like a a stretch play, an outside zone play to Walker and
• 23:18
  they ran it a few times just either side.
• 23:20
  And then the touchdown was the same stretch play but play
• 23:24
  action. And then the tight end was just
• 23:26
  a free release into the corner and it was just beautiful.
• 23:29
  And it's like. Were they planning to?
• 23:31
  Play one, it was beautiful. Perfectly scissor route, like I
• 23:35
  said, like a post in the corner with Titan seaman at the middle
• 23:38
  of them and it it will over to see.
• 23:40
  But on on the back of the Seattle defence side of things
• 23:43
  there and and and where where the the Seattle from again, from
• 23:48
  a from a fan's point of view from this where they kind of
• 23:51
  stopped us more than anything else was.
• 23:54
  I don't think the the coverage wasn't there throughout the
• 23:56
  entire you look at the camera behind the back be like a Drake
• 23:59
  May. So they were received open a lot
• 24:03
  of the time, but they're just bull rushed.
• 24:05
  And even though they didn't send blitzes, they manhandled.
• 24:09
  And again, I know I keep referring back to a lot of
• 24:11
  division to like a lot of brick balls.
• 24:13
  Just saying the kind of similarity and the stuff that
• 24:16
  myself and Brad have got with with brick ball and such.
• 24:19
  But if you ever go down to training and, and one of the
• 24:21
  coaches says, oh, you'd be great on offence or defensive line, a
• 24:24
  lot of people take that as like what you just called me fat.
• 24:27
  It's the most important position on the field.
• 24:29
  And that game there shows because the strength on that D
• 24:34
  line to get through the offensive line every single
• 24:38
  play. The fourth quarter that Seattle
• 24:40
  D line looked as fresher than in the first quarter.
• 24:42
  And that's how they won the Super Bowl.
• 24:44
  It's only I just can't. It pains me that I'm boasting
• 24:50
  and big enough a team that that destroyed the team that I love
• 24:54
  so much. What it happened and?
• 24:58
  Full disclaimer, I'm not calling anyone on the offensive or
• 25:01
  defensive line fat. Those words come out as Zack's
• 25:03
  mouth. Just just clarifying that one.
• 25:05
  No, but a lot of a lot of you know what I'm saying, A lot of
• 25:09
  people when you come down, you tell you tell you'd be great an
• 25:12
  offensive line and they just, they just look at American
• 25:15
  football and offensive lineman as the stereotypical guys when
• 25:18
  they don't realise what how difficult a position that is.
• 25:23
  It's the trenches, isn't it? They're like, they are the
• 25:25
  unsung heroes. Absolutely.
• 25:27
  Like our offensive line, like we, we've seen it, aren't we?
• 25:32
  In training we've seen it. We're talking Division two.
• 25:36
  We've seen it in training, we've seen it on games.
• 25:38
  Like when you've got your offensive line ticking you, you
• 25:42
  open up so many avenues like you can't win a game just passing
• 25:46
  the ball. You can't because then the
• 25:48
  defence will just play to the pass and you can't win a game
• 25:51
  just running if you've got no O line like it's vital.
• 25:56
  So the counter to that obviously is the D line.
• 25:58
  And I think you you absolutely saw that from the Hawks, didn't
• 26:01
  you? Like there's yeah, there's a
• 26:02
  start I've had written down here, which is nuts.
• 26:05
  Like so will Campbell, left tackle.
• 26:09
  He had the NFL worst fought allowed.
• 26:12
  Sorry, the NFL worst 14 pressures in the Super Bowl 14.
• 26:16
  Ridiculous isn't? It that's found a weak spot,
• 26:19
  they found a wait spot on that they they attacked it.
• 26:21
  Now talking about the D again about CRD and another swerve
• 26:28
  ball to brick ball here the Seattle Seahawks coaching staff,
• 26:32
  right? Who coaches the defence?
• 26:34
  Where's he from? Who did he coach?
• 26:37
  I tell you, he used to coach the London Warriors and so this is
• 26:41
  now a staple of how the bridge is now being kind of built
• 26:45
  because there was play. There's a player pathway
• 26:47
  programme for for, you know, international kids from like
• 26:51
  that America basically to try and get into the NFL.
• 26:56
  We've never really seen the coaching staff getting there.
• 26:59
  Now a coat now now an ex Brit ball coach, a British guy has
• 27:04
  won the Super Bowl. Now, if that don't inspire
• 27:12
  people that you, you just because you're in this country,
• 27:14
  you can't agree that is phenomenal like.
• 27:18
  You know what, this this really annoyed me last week because
• 27:21
  like, I'll give researcher Cal his his credit when he deserves
• 27:25
  it. And he actually dropped this
• 27:29
  into our sort of pre show chats that we have.
• 27:32
  And he actually mentioned this last week.
• 27:34
  And I'll be honest, I was completely oblivious to it.
• 27:37
  And, and I know you'd not mentioned it, Zach, either,
• 27:39
  whether you're aware or not, but Callum dropped that in and at
• 27:41
  the time of filming and recording the pod, it just
• 27:46
  completely passed me by and completely forgot to bring it up
• 27:48
  at all. And then I've seen nothing but
• 27:51
  from like NFLUK and all the British sort of media outlets
• 27:55
  and stuff and the US, to be fair, it was all on the the
• 27:57
  Super Bowl coverage, wasn't it like bigging him up and and they
• 27:59
  shared his success and it's mint.
• 28:01
  I'm glad they have because like, he deserves it, doesn't he?
• 28:05
  Like a. 100%. Brick ball team and and London
• 28:08
  Warriors have been dominant over the years like absolutely
• 28:12
  dominant. Obviously we've had another few
• 28:14
  teams sort of rise to their sort of level over the last five plus
• 28:19
  years, but it's it's been London Warriors for a long time and
• 28:25
  like it was just all over and credit where it's due, Cal
• 28:28
  research Cal, you've done your research and your knowledge
• 28:31
  there. I was kicking myself after like
• 28:34
  we didn't speak about it, but to bring it to your point, like
• 28:37
  it's it's absolutely massive, isn't it?
• 28:39
  It's huge for the British game and and there's some phenomenal
• 28:41
  coaches over here and some phenomenal players over here as
• 28:44
  well. And and for the fact that
• 28:46
  they're they're getting that recognition is massive and I
• 28:49
  think it's great. What I was what I was thinking
• 28:51
  about after is could this could this guy, and it's a tough one
• 28:55
  because the position is in, but could he ever, do you think he'd
• 28:59
  ever get a head coaching like opportunity?
• 29:01
  Because his name's gone massive now, hasn't it?
• 29:04
  And but he's kind of under McDonald's shadow a little bit.
• 29:08
  It's kind of. Thank you.
• 29:12
  Sorry, research was just interjecting.
• 29:16
  So he had interviews at Cleveland, so I wasn't aware of
• 29:18
  that. So, you know, maybe he will and
• 29:20
  maybe he'll be the first British head coach.
• 29:23
  You say he's under shadow. Isn't he?
• 29:25
  But. You say he's under the shadow at
• 29:27
  the moment and I and I get what you're saying, but look at the
• 29:30
  Seahawks now ex offensive coordinator.
• 29:34
  He's you know, Mike McDonald's got the big the main news over
• 29:39
  over the season regarding how how well the Seahawks have done.
• 29:42
  But you've got Clint Kubrak, who's just now officially
• 29:46
  announced that he's he's he's moving to the he's going to the
• 29:51
  Las Vegas Raiders. So, you know, just which baffles
• 29:56
  me because he's now going from a Super Bowl winning team to the
• 29:59
  Raiders. I get is for the head coaching
• 30:02
  role, but it just shows you why like, you know, anybody that
• 30:08
  team's got Seattle's gone from being a nobody team to be what
• 30:11
  they are in the space of a year pretty much because of the the
• 30:14
  highest of the maid and the two coaches that were there.
• 30:18
  I I think that the spot, I think, I think he doesn't put
• 30:20
  you in the shadows anymore. I think he kind of puts the
• 30:22
  spotlight on him a little bit more for them defensive minded
• 30:24
  organisations that need a team for people like him.
• 30:27
  And yeah. Maybe I mean the the danger, the
• 30:30
  danger is that it's kind of like I think that the most famous in
• 30:34
  recent years situation that is probably in it's like the the
• 30:39
  enemy and Andy Reid sort of thing.
• 30:40
  Isn't it like you've got an OC who's solid is liked by the
• 30:45
  players. He obviously does a lot of good
• 30:46
  work behind the scenes. But you, I know it's Andy Reid's
• 30:49
  offence and that's kind of what you've got.
• 30:50
  The Seahawks. I think the Kubiak higher is
• 30:54
  it's almost a replica but with a bit more grandeur now, isn't it?
• 30:57
  Of the Ben Johnson higher. You've got like the latest hot
• 31:01
  name, the hot property going with what you're going to assume
• 31:05
  is going to be Mendoza. You know, the 1st overall pick
• 31:09
  of for the Raiders, Sorry, they have Raiders have the 1st
• 31:13
  overall pick. You would assume that's going to
• 31:15
  be Mendoza at quarterback. It's going to be.
• 31:18
  So you what you probably hope in there and I think we touched on
• 31:21
  this last week is that it's going to be the Ben Johnson
• 31:24
  Chicago Bears sort of year where actually another team that
• 31:28
  probably over not overachieved but achieved ahead of
• 31:32
  expectations. I think everyone saw that leap
• 31:34
  with Ben Johnson and and Caleb but probably got further than
• 31:39
  they expected and maybe Raiders are hoping for the same sort of
• 31:43
  sort of outcome. But a big job for Kubiak, and
• 31:46
  probably well deserved, really do.
• 31:48
  You not, do you not find it a bit strange that he sort of
• 31:52
  announced it like at the, you know, the post game?
• 31:57
  I don't know, I liked it because he was asked, wasn't he was
• 31:59
  asked. It wasn't like he was just like,
• 32:01
  hey, guess what? So I can't, I can't quote it
• 32:05
  exactly, but they basically asked, you know, like, are you
• 32:08
  happy about the win? Because you know, you know,
• 32:10
  rumours have got it that you you're potentially going
• 32:12
  somewhere else. And he's like, yeah, yeah, I can
• 32:14
  confirm it basically. And I think most what I hate
• 32:18
  about the NFL is all the sort of hidden Incognito coach speak
• 32:24
  when it's clear as day. It's like it's obvious.
• 32:28
  It's clear. There's so many leaks in the
• 32:30
  sport. There's so many sources.
• 32:35
  Huge. Yeah, I mean, yeah, like Colin's
• 32:37
  got about 65,000 people who don't speak to him and one's
• 32:42
  lost. But no, it's he's, no, it's,
• 32:47
  it's like these sources have have got the links that they
• 32:49
  speak to in the media and it's obvious it's going there.
• 32:51
  So actually I quite like it that he was like, you know what,
• 32:54
  Yeah, I am going and I love this team and I love what we've
• 32:58
  achieved together and I am going.
• 33:00
  But I also hope to see him in Super Bowl next year, you know,
• 33:03
  against the Raiders. Obviously I'm highly doubtful,
• 33:05
  but who knows? You know, I don't think it's
• 33:08
  weird. I quite like it.
• 33:10
  So well done to them. Obviously good luck to Clinton
• 33:15
  in his in his future. And bravo to the I can never
• 33:19
  remember the guy's name from the London Warriors, but bravo to
• 33:22
  bravo to him for bridging that gap from from brick ball to the
• 33:25
  NFL. Aiden Aiden, dude, yeah, my bad
• 33:30
  on that one. Thank you.
• 33:31
  I see on that. But move back to the game now.
• 33:33
  I want to talk MVP with you a little bit because I think
• 33:37
  somebody got robbed of the MVP from the Super Bowl.
• 33:41
  And this is genuine. I think Jason Meyer should have
• 33:45
  got the MVP because for the the majority of the game, he was the
• 33:50
  one that kept his composure. And like, I know you've got down
• 33:54
  there, you've you've you've got the stashes on, on the screen
• 33:56
  right now. The longest were 41 yards, but
• 33:59
  I'm pretty sure out of the five that he made, four of them were
• 34:02
  33 plus yards, 35 plus yards. And the composure to know with
• 34:10
  how that game's going, you sell it games with the first kicks,
• 34:12
  the hardest kicks, you've got to get the points to the board.
• 34:14
  But every single time you go on that field, you're now you've
• 34:17
  seen that your offence is not moving, their offence is not
• 34:19
  moving. You're the one that's keeping
• 34:21
  this, this, this in. And, and the commentator said
• 34:24
  throughout the game, like, if this field go goes over now, I
• 34:26
  think you ought to make it were it 12 or Yeah, I think if we
• 34:31
  make 12, is that the game's going to be over because the
• 34:34
  Patriots will not be able to kind of keep up with just this
• 34:37
  like chipping away, chipping away, chipping away, chipping
• 34:40
  away, going for it. And I know it's a bit of AI
• 34:45
  might like a kicker getting the MVP.
• 34:47
  But this is when we brought back to the MVP the NFLMVP.
• 34:51
  He was the Most Valuable Player on that team throughout the
• 34:56
  majority and for the longest part of that game in my opinion
• 35:00
  because you can't give it to the full defence.
• 35:02
  So like it was. What's your view on the MVP side
• 35:07
  of things for this though? I'm torn.
• 35:10
  I'm torn because I completely agree to excuse me to a point.
• 35:16
  You know, he kicks 5 out of five, two points converge, 2 XP,
• 35:23
  you know, point convergence after a touchdown and so 17
• 35:26
  points in total. But even without those two
• 35:29
  touchdowns, he'd have been on 15 points which outscored,
• 35:31
  outscored the Patriots. So that is still 1.
• 35:35
  You know, he alone outscored the Patriots.
• 35:37
  But I think it does come down to that complete game that I talked
• 35:42
  about earlier, like Kenneth Walker, he didn't have the
• 35:47
  headline stats in terms of the touchdowns and things like that.
• 35:50
  But he had a game mate. He did like he had some big runs
• 35:55
  and he's he's so composed behind the O line.
• 36:00
  He's so slow behind the line. Yeah, yeah, he is, isn't he?
• 36:08
  Like he's just steady, steady, steady.
• 36:11
  And then that explosion out of the gates when he sees that gap
• 36:14
  and it and it's what we it's what we try and coach ourselves,
• 36:17
  don't we? With the running backs is like,
• 36:19
  you know, slow, slow, slow. And then you see the gap and you
• 36:21
  hit it, you know, put it in simple terms.
• 36:23
  And you don't always see that because not everyone has the
• 36:27
  skill set to do that. They don't have that like
• 36:31
  explosion out of the gates, that one step and bang, you are gone.
• 36:34
  That acceleration. And he's just, so I said the
• 36:38
  word about a million Times Now, but he's so explosive as a
• 36:40
  player. You're right, I saw the video.
• 36:44
  Myers and he put them into that position.
• 36:46
  Yeah, yeah. And I don't, I'm not angry about
• 36:50
  the fact that he got it because he played Unreal.
• 36:52
  And I just, I think that game, like you say, he outscored, he
• 36:56
  outscored the Patriots alone. And that that for me is what
• 37:00
  kept him. But going back to Kenneth
• 37:02
  Walker, saw a video circle at an X and it was Leven Bell and
• 37:07
  Kenneth Walker doing the exact same run where they hold back,
• 37:10
  they hold back, they hold back, they wait for the gap to open
• 37:12
  and boom, they're straight through it.
• 37:13
  And it is, it's textbook slow to the hole and fast through it
• 37:17
  like it is, it is textbook running back.
• 37:19
  And we go back to what we talked about with the Seahawks.
• 37:23
  You say they've got the complete package.
• 37:25
  You know, in that fourth quarter, I agree with you fully
• 37:28
  and that's it. In the most third quarter I
• 37:29
  agree with fully, but they showed aspects of perfection
• 37:34
  everywhere on the field. RC just coming with another
• 37:36
  great start here. Speaking of like the
• 37:38
  international game and and bridging that gap over.
• 37:40
  It's a big old bridges this light, but the the punter
• 37:45
  Michael Dixon Australian guy punts inside the 10 punts inside
• 37:50
  the 10 yard line, 2 inside the five yard line.
• 37:52
  He's Australian coming in to do this as well.
• 37:54
  So he got the aspects of the game I'm going to beat, beat the
• 37:57
  special teams from once again that winning the games for him.
• 38:00
  The pinning the Patriots back to the the Patriots couldn't do
• 38:03
  anything if they were on the Seahawks 1 yard line, like never
• 38:06
  mind their own 1 yard line and the pinning them back to there
• 38:09
  and then moving up field, the scoring field goes the moving
• 38:12
  the running the ball well, the defence is unstoppable.
• 38:14
  Like JSM went out of the game for, I mean, he did go in the
• 38:18
  blue tent, but I can't really remember JSN making any sort of
• 38:23
  impact on the game when he were in the game and when he were out
• 38:25
  of the game, he was locked down. So then they they changed and
• 38:29
  they looked around and then they had they adapted, which where
• 38:32
  the Patriots didn't they adapted to.
• 38:34
  OK, well, if you're going to quadruple team JSN and make him
• 38:37
  make our number one target not available, which give the ball
• 38:41
  27 times Kenneth Walker for him to run and grind the yards,
• 38:44
  grind the yards. And then when we get within
• 38:46
  scoring range, our chip shot a field goal over because I know
• 38:49
  you're not going to score against it does.
• 38:51
  And it was that package. It was had complete and well
• 38:54
  deserved. Like what it was well deserved.
• 38:57
  Carl just coming there with it with the actual stats.
• 39:00
  One kick, 11 field goal out of them for was under 30 yards.
• 39:06
  So they're not tough. They're not easy kicks to make,
• 39:09
  especially with the pressure of what it I mean, I imagine they
• 39:11
  got easier and easier with the game got out.
• 39:13
  But like especially the first couple.
• 39:15
  But yeah, I mean, All in all, one of them games the better
• 39:20
  team won and we're right on now and see how our offseason goes,
• 39:25
  really. I think, I think for parts it's
• 39:29
  that like we said, they're a year ahead out there.
• 39:32
  Yeah. And I think for them next year
• 39:35
  and I'm not trying to bring up the schedule here as a as like a
• 39:39
  dig. I'm all looking ahead is that's
• 39:41
  the that's the thing that's been hanging over the head.
• 39:43
  I know I've hammered it, so I've intentionally not mentioned it
• 39:46
  today. I'll be honest.
• 39:47
  But I'm bringing it up now because I think for the Pats,
• 39:49
  it's what happens next year because they're in a position
• 39:52
  now where they reached the Super Bowl.
• 39:56
  They've got gaps, they have got holes on the team.
• 39:58
  They need to fill that. They need to recruit well.
• 40:00
  They need to draft well. You know, I think they've
• 40:03
  drafted well and recruited well this year, but they're a young
• 40:06
  team. And they need to continue that.
• 40:10
  So they've got an advantage there where people are probably
• 40:13
  more likely to sign with them because of the success they've
• 40:15
  had. But they've had, as we know, the
• 40:18
  easiest schedule this year, but next year they've got, well, we
• 40:22
  don't know what schedule they've got, but they've got a first
• 40:25
  place schedule, haven't they? Because of the way the
• 40:27
  scheduling works so far for those that aren't avid NFL fans
• 40:32
  and and the schedule is probably one of the more complex parts of
• 40:35
  the game. Because they finished first,
• 40:39
  they will now play first placed teams from the other divisions.
• 40:45
  So they play their own division twice and they'll play a
• 40:48
  division from the NFC, but then they'll also play the first
• 40:51
  place teams from other divisions.
• 40:52
  So that's kind of what makes up their schedule.
• 40:55
  But we know in the NFL teams change year on year.
• 40:57
  And I think one thing that might play in the Pats favour this
• 41:01
  year is that the the NFL was just all over the place this
• 41:04
  year. It's been a really good year
• 41:06
  actually for the NFL, like as a new, yeah, it's been really
• 41:10
  good. It's been, it's been, it's been
• 41:11
  a really good season. And it's a shame about the Super
• 41:14
  Bowl, you know, I'll be honest. But I think if you look at the
• 41:17
  last 5-10 years more probably how many Super Bowls are the
• 41:24
  best game of the season? It's very rare.
• 41:27
  Championship weekend and your divisional weekend are the
• 41:30
  better games, don't you? I joked about last week it was
• 41:33
  the Ramsey Hawks that was one of the better games this year.
• 41:38
  That was the Super Bowl. But I think for the Pats, it's
• 41:42
  recruit well and try and maintain this sort of a lot of
• 41:47
  cap space. Pro.
• 41:50
  Yeah, yeah, it'll it'll be interesting to see what they do
• 41:53
  with it for sure. And they've got a really
• 41:55
  winnable division. Dolphins and Jets are shambles
• 41:59
  constantly. Bills are obviously the team to
• 42:02
  be in the division with Josh Allen and but like, they've just
• 42:06
  done it. So go out and do it again, see
• 42:10
  how it's been interesting to see what happens next with with
• 42:12
  Donald and and the squad really, because he's shown he can do it
• 42:17
  now hasn't he? Yeah, let's go see if we get
• 42:19
  back-to-back, but we've got just just.
• 42:22
  Before we do sort of move on to anything, we've not really spoke
• 42:25
  about Donald, have we? Like I've just, I've just
• 42:28
  realised, like we haven't. I don't think Donald had the
• 42:31
  best game of his career. I thought, I thought I genuinely
• 42:35
  and I'm just, I think he played all right.
• 42:38
  I think he was. I think the rest of his team
• 42:40
  just played better, as daft as that sounds.
• 42:44
  I don't think it was his best game this year, but I think I
• 42:48
  did mention him earlier in terms of like he had moments where he
• 42:50
  was able to step and evade and he was just composed.
• 42:55
  But I mean, we can't do a Super Bowl review without
• 42:59
  acknowledging, and we've touched on it in previous pods, but we
• 43:01
  can't not acknowledge the fact that he's gone from The Jets
• 43:05
  scene ghosts. And then he's been on, what is
• 43:07
  it, 5 teams he's been on. And you know, last year he had
• 43:11
  the year he had with the Vikings where really, let's be honest,
• 43:14
  they should have kept him, but they didn't because of JJ Jesus
• 43:19
  and oh God, yeah. But like, he's gone to the
• 43:22
  Seahawks and he's had an absolutely fantastic year and
• 43:30
  you've just, you know, he's never going to listen to this.
• 43:33
  But like, fair play mate, well done.
• 43:35
  Yeah, well done. Unbelievable.
• 43:39
  If you, if you listen to this, by the way, guys are not
• 43:41
  watching it. You want to see some of the
• 43:42
  stats from the Super Bowl? We've got them on screen now go
• 43:44
  check out his YouTube channel or on Spotify.
• 43:46
  We have got a video available there.
• 43:48
  All of the pods that we record have got a video to go with them
• 43:52
  with all the stats on screen, so it's a bit easy to follow if we
• 43:54
  are talking a lot, a lot of numbers.
• 43:56
  That's just on YouTube. All balls No Philtre podcast and
• 43:59
  everywhere else is at ABNF pod. You can see all the stats there.
• 44:03
  You mentioned that this weren't a great Super Bowl in terms of
• 44:07
  excitement and just like Super Bowls normally aren't, I knew
• 44:10
  this were going to be one of these types of Super Bowls as
• 44:12
  soon as the half time show was announced.
• 44:16
  Let's talk Bad Bunny because quite honestly, I've never
• 44:22
  wanted to turn. I've never wanted to put
• 44:23
  EastEnders on as much in my life as when when our time show came
• 44:27
  on, I think it was I, I didn't, I didn't dig it.
• 44:33
  I didn't dig the half time show. I'm just going to put that out
• 44:37
  there. What we all view on the half
• 44:41
  time show. Did you, did you listen to it
• 44:43
  more than anything else, like? Yeah, I did.
• 44:46
  I did. And just because of my, my full
• 44:50
  time job, which we won't go into, I have rewatched it a
• 44:53
  couple of times and I'm so torn with it.
• 45:00
  Like it's I didn't like it. I didn't like it personally, I
• 45:06
  didn't. And I've not really loved loads
• 45:11
  of the last decade, particularly not the last five years I think.
• 45:16
  Yeah, Kendrick would all die last year.
• 45:18
  It would all die. It was all.
• 45:20
  Right, It was all right. I mean, Shakur and Jayla was
• 45:23
  absolutely the best recent one that I.
• 45:25
  Don't know why. Why would you say that, eh?
• 45:28
  I wonder. But I think, I think Jay-Z
• 45:31
  dropped a ball. I think he's I think he's trying
• 45:33
  to he's too hip hoppy. It was always going to be too
• 45:37
  hip when when they like when we Snoop Dogg and Eminem and all
• 45:39
  that that were a decent woman that were a few years, but now
• 45:41
  one. That was a good one.
• 45:43
  That was a good one. Better ones to be.
• 45:44
  Fair, that was nostalgia. And then now it's going down the
• 45:47
  line of, you know, the Kendrick one.
• 45:51
  Jay-Z has to realise that the Super Bowl is not just watched
• 45:54
  by 16 year old kids, you know, And when, when, when you have
• 46:00
  the bands on them like their Green Day opening right about
• 46:04
  doing the opening. For me, Green Heads are a far
• 46:06
  better half time show. But that's just personal
• 46:08
  preference and Music Choice. I don't want to see, I want to
• 46:11
  be able to. I want to be, I'm normally
• 46:13
  steaming by half time, right? Super Bowl is my World Cup, I'm
• 46:18
  normally steaming by half time. I want to be jiving away,
• 46:21
  singing along and dancing along to the songs that are getting
• 46:24
  played at half time and having a good old laugh and being like,
• 46:26
  wow, this is like when Michael Jackson did it back in day.
• 46:30
  It was it was a spectacle to watch and to be a part of like,
• 46:35
  wow, this is amazing. And I remember looking up at the
• 46:38
  screen and just seeing loads of bushes walking onto onto the
• 46:41
  field. I'm like, what am I watching
• 46:43
  here? You know the estimated 120 a 120
• 46:49
  million people watch this, right?
• 46:52
  Some people are actually going as far as 135 now.
• 46:56
  Look, I'm not, there's a lot of, there's a lot of grey area with
• 47:01
  this and a lot of people like, you know, people aren't liking
• 47:04
  it for certain reasons because of things that are going on
• 47:06
  within the USA at this moment in time.
• 47:08
  That's got nothing to do with me.
• 47:10
  I've got nothing to do with anything, any of my views.
• 47:13
  I just thought it was shit that that's that for me.
• 47:17
  Yeah, it it wasn't great. It wasn't great.
• 47:20
  I do think Gaga was mint. I thought she was brilliant in
• 47:23
  her little cameo. I mean, Gaga's phenomenal.
• 47:27
  She is an absolute artist whether you're into her or not.
• 47:30
  Like she's a songwriter and she can perform.
• 47:33
  She can absolutely wail a tune cart.
• 47:36
  She she's brilliant. But I think like what you're
• 47:40
  going on to in terms of like, you know, you want to be able to
• 47:43
  get into it. I completely agree.
• 47:44
  Like, I made a joke about Shakira and Jlo and like, for
• 47:48
  obvious reasons, Like I remember that we were at a Super Bowl
• 47:51
  party together and the the absolute whole venue went nuts
• 47:55
  when Shakira did a little tongue waggle to the mic.
• 47:58
  But but you're right though, those songs, both of their
• 48:00
  songs, they're like ones that you just like want to drive to
• 48:02
  and you like get behind and stuff.
• 48:05
  I even thought the I thought the weekend was good.
• 48:08
  Was he 20? I mean, what was he, 2020?
• 48:11
  One when he was. COVID wasn't it.
• 48:13
  It was the COVID. 1/20/21 Yeah. I thought the weekend was good
• 48:18
  and and like considering there's no like real option there for
• 48:23
  or, or limited options because of the situation.
• 48:26
  Bruno Mars was phenomenal back in the sort of early teens.
• 48:30
  There's just been some absolutely outstanding
• 48:33
  performance. But I just think I think you're
• 48:34
  right. I think since Jay-Z and Apple
• 48:37
  Music officially have have got involved, it's just been, it's
• 48:41
  been very with Jay-Z and you. Yeah.
• 48:47
  And yeah, and, and there's nothing wrong with that.
• 48:49
  And I think you've got to go with the mainstream.
• 48:52
  Like when you're talking about some of the big performance,
• 48:55
  like if we were to talk about the big half time performances,
• 48:58
  a lot of them are back when, well, music's evolved, doesn't
• 49:01
  it continues to evolve. But I think this one was just a
• 49:05
  bit, it wasn't great. I think it was probably too
• 49:08
  political. I think you know it was.
• 49:11
  Last two years ago that's. Been it wasn't entirely Spanish,
• 49:14
  was it that the the vast majority of was Spanish,
• 49:17
  Japanese, Puerto Rican, I believe so I and there's the
• 49:23
  whole thing with Trump, which we won't get into.
• 49:25
  Like I know enough about it, but I don't pretend to fully know
• 49:29
  the insurance and outs of it. But I know there was like almost
• 49:32
  an anti and there are year on year.
• 49:35
  To be fair, there's alternative half time shows on and I know
• 49:38
  Trump's quite publicly said, you know, he's not interested in the
• 49:42
  NFL at the Super Bowl this year because Bad Bun is performing.
• 49:45
  And I almost think the whole full Spanish set was almost a
• 49:49
  response to that personally. But I don't like that.
• 49:53
  But I, I think that as much as I like it, like I love languages,
• 50:00
  you know, I'm, I'm a duolingerer trying to develop my Spanish
• 50:04
  myself. But like I I almost feel like
• 50:07
  that alienated for a lot of people as well.
• 50:10
  Yeah, I feel like it's just. Me, I don't know.
• 50:13
  I'm not going to get into, no, I'm not sort of getting into the
• 50:15
  politics behind it, but it's, it's just one of those really.
• 50:19
  No, like speaking from the the the language point of view, I
• 50:22
  just want to kind of jump with it and jive with it and have
• 50:25
  some fun with it. And they said the political side
• 50:27
  of things to get not touched into this, but last year, the
• 50:29
  whole Kendrick Drake beef, that was the far front of the
• 50:31
  Kendrick Lamar performance. And I just feel like I feel
• 50:36
  like, again, for a personal choice, there's bigger and
• 50:39
  better artists out there. You could have put any of the
• 50:42
  top five country artists that that that which that music genre
• 50:45
  is all has always been bigger in America, obviously, but it's
• 50:47
  taken over the world. It's probably the most popular
• 50:50
  music genre at this moment in time.
• 50:53
  Would have done a better show than what's going on there now.
• 50:56
  Look, I understand that that's a biassed choice from someone like
• 51:00
  myself who likes that type of music.
• 51:02
  But at the same time, I like hip hop.
• 51:04
  I like rap music, but yeah, and I was one of the only people
• 51:08
  last year in the in the pub when I've been with our Super Bowl
• 51:10
  part that I actually really enjoyed Kendrick's because I
• 51:13
  enjoy Kendrick Lamar's music. But I don't think Kendrick Lamar
• 51:17
  is a Super Bowl half time performer.
• 51:21
  I just, I don't say it was like if you put A$AP Rocky in there,
• 51:24
  they're great to listen to, but they're just not, they're not,
• 51:27
  oh, let's sing along together. You want people to sing along
• 51:30
  with you. People aren't going to say a lot
• 51:33
  of the words that are involved in these songs.
• 51:34
  So yeah, look, not for me. There was there was one cool
• 51:40
  thing though, Zach, I don't, I don't know if you've, you've
• 51:42
  seen this. I I didn't realise at the time,
• 51:45
  obviously, as you wouldn't, but did you see the bit where there
• 51:47
  was the wedding happening in like scenes and stuff?
• 51:53
  So by all accounts, that was actually, and I don't know how
• 51:57
  real this is, how true this is, but by all accounts, it was
• 51:59
  actually a genuine real wedding basically taking place.
• 52:02
  So apparently, and I'm sure this might come out in the washed, I
• 52:05
  don't know, but apparently this is a real, genuine couple who,
• 52:09
  you know, you hear about couples inviting celebrities to their
• 52:11
  wedding and then suddenly they like turn up.
• 52:14
  Apparently they'd invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and they
• 52:17
  basically got back in touch and said, I'll do you one better.
• 52:19
  What about you get married at the Super Bowl?
• 52:21
  And it was like a genuine actual wedding within the production.
• 52:26
  Now, I don't know what the legalities around that are.
• 52:28
  I don't know, but I thought that was quite like, you know, the
• 52:31
  production. Side.
• 52:32
  Of it I do like I like the production of the Super Bowl
• 52:36
  half time shows whether I like the music or not.
• 52:39
  So I'm always quite intrigued by that.
• 52:40
  Like the dancing trees thing was weird, but like the production
• 52:45
  was quite cute and they had a lot of celebrities in there,
• 52:48
  which I'm not asked about, but it's quite interesting to see a
• 52:51
  few certain names in there. Ricky Martin being a great one
• 52:55
  for me. But they.
• 52:58
  Yeah, to have that little wedding appearing in there as
• 53:00
  well. It was kind of like once you
• 53:02
  know that I say no, once you hear about the suggested
• 53:07
  narrative behind it, it's quite cute.
• 53:08
  But yeah, I hope they go for a change next year.
• 53:11
  But that's just, I guess it's just our opinion our our
• 53:14
  preference, but it was a bit of. A weird.
• 53:15
  That's it, that's it. But that's that's a super
• 53:18
  halftime show coup and that's the Super Bowl itself.
• 53:20
  You got anything you want to say before we move on to other parts
• 53:23
  of the pod, mate regarding the Super Bowl?
• 53:29
  No, no, I think it's, it's not one that's going to go down in
• 53:34
  history in terms of or it's not going to stick in the memory, is
• 53:38
  it? But I they're always a nice
• 53:41
  spectacle, spectacle. But yeah, I think, but it is
• 53:45
  what it is and we've probably covered it.
• 53:47
  Yeah, that was super Super Bowl 60.
• 53:50
  And yeah, want to want to forget from a Patriots point of view,
• 53:54
  we're going to move on now and we're going to move on to a
• 53:56
  little bit of a NEWS UPDATE from this week.
• 53:59
  Not much major news that we haven't already covered.
• 54:01
  We've already covered the the Quebec moving to to to the Las
• 54:06
  Vegas Raiders story, but there is another story coming from the
• 54:10
  Atlanta Falcons. Falcons rookie James Pace junior
• 54:14
  has been arrested in Florida on February 7th after what police
• 54:18
  have described as a domestic dispute against the WNBA player
• 54:22
  Ricky Jackson. Now, when will, when will
• 54:27
  rookies, when will NFL players just learn like?
• 54:34
  It's it's so bizarre, like I don't it's not even just
• 54:38
  rookies. Is it like it's I mean, there
• 54:41
  must be something in terms of the money side of things or the
• 54:47
  fact that I mean, when The thing is we never know, like the full
• 54:51
  insurance and outs of the history in the background of
• 54:53
  these people that are playing the game.
• 54:55
  And it's I'm sure a lot of them come from actually really sort
• 55:00
  of to I mean, I'm not talking about James Pierce Junior.
• 55:03
  I know nothing about his background.
• 55:05
  I won't pretend to, you know, it's, it just feels like the NFL
• 55:10
  seems to have more people in the sport who are causing carnage,
• 55:18
  basically, whether it's. Get arrested.
• 55:20
  Driving incidents, murder charges, robbery charges, you
• 55:25
  name it and it. And it's not just a recent thing
• 55:28
  that's gone on for a long time, but it just seems like the NFL
• 55:31
  is prevalent with it and. Yeah.
• 55:34
  Get it? There's another one.
• 55:36
  Research Club. Why would you talk about this?
• 55:38
  There's another one, right? And do you know what?
• 55:39
  I don't know why I'm not going down.
• 55:41
  A player's been shot in the ankle today as well or, or, or
• 55:44
  yesterday shot in the ankle. And I can't lie for me who it
• 55:47
  was and one of the ones I saw while passing like, and they get
• 55:52
  into these into these positions and just ask if you just just
• 55:56
  find that out that find that story out for me, right quick
• 55:58
  glam. And I'm just throwing a I'm
• 56:01
  putting my tin foil hat on here and I'm throwing a big
• 56:04
  conspiracy theory out that I think in 10 to 15 years time,
• 56:07
  there's going to be 49ers. The defensive lineman Keon White
• 56:12
  shot in the ankle from a dispute that happened when we were out
• 56:14
  and about Wild. I think this were his fault.
• 56:17
  I think you are He weren't like we have anything to do with it
• 56:22
  in the crossfire. But I I think in 10 to 15 years
• 56:27
  time, there's going to be a story break.
• 56:31
  That was a bit of supplement that NFL players have been
• 56:34
  taking that's legal. Like as in I'm not talking a pet
• 56:39
  or anything, but like some sort of something that goes into
• 56:43
  protein shakes or whatever because there has to be
• 56:46
  something. What's the difference between
• 56:49
  NFL and other sports where you get in the sheer amount of
• 56:52
  people making daft? Like there's money in other
• 56:54
  sports as well. There's young lads with money in
• 56:56
  other sports as well. I understand upbringing is
• 56:58
  probably a major thing, but these coaches that have such a
• 57:04
  big impact on these kids lives from day one, you know, should
• 57:09
  we can try and stay in bed and yes money is money, but I.
• 57:13
  Think it's difficult, isn't it? Because like look at the size of
• 57:17
  the teams as well. So like there's 32 teams,
• 57:20
  there's 53 players on a squad at any one time, plus practise
• 57:24
  squad, plus people who've been caught and been waved and all
• 57:28
  this, that and the other. Like when you actually work out
• 57:30
  the math on that, that's a lot of players.
• 57:32
  You're talking about 1500 players plus.
• 57:35
  So is there any other sport that has that many players in the
• 57:39
  league? I mean, I don't know this for a
• 57:43
  fact, but I'd probably guess at not.
• 57:45
  Or if there is probably not as close or if there is not as many
• 57:49
  with the money that they will be getting.
• 57:52
  But it's just barmy. It's absolutely barmy.
• 57:57
  You know, just to sort of it is, and I mean, look to look at
• 58:01
  what's actually happened with James Pierce Junior.
• 58:03
  So apparently there's been some domestic situation and the
• 58:09
  rumours are then it's it's sort of resulted in a police chase.
• 58:13
  Pierce's vehicle's being crashed.
• 58:16
  I've seen rumours on X that he's actually like repeatedly smashed
• 58:19
  it into Ricky's Jackson's car. Whether that's true or not, I
• 58:23
  don't know. It's it's Twitter, it's X.
• 58:25
  You hear all sorts, don't you? But apparently he's charged now
• 58:30
  with, I'm just reading this now, aggravated battery with a deadly
• 58:34
  weapon, aggravated stalking, aggravated battery of a law
• 58:40
  enforcement officer, fleeing police and resisting arrest, and
• 58:47
  apparently protective orders then also issued requiring him
• 58:49
  to stay away from Jackson. And it's it's just not because
• 58:53
  he's had an absolutely stonking year with the Falcons and he
• 58:58
  finished third in defensive rookie of rookie of the year
• 59:01
  voting. So it's like he's got all the
• 59:04
  potential ahead of him. So what's happened other than
• 59:07
  conspiracies with Zach? What's happened to result in him
• 59:13
  doing this? I mean, I'm sure we won't know,
• 59:15
  but we just hear of it too often.
• 59:16
  And it's it's a bit of a sad part of the sport.
• 59:20
  Like she, it's. He can't.
• 59:22
  He can't even say drugs though. He can't even say drugs can get
• 59:24
  drug tested all the time like he used to have.
• 59:26
  Like remember like Josh Gordon, he's get drug tested all the
• 59:29
  time and fail him all the time and get suspended all the time.
• 59:31
  So they get drug tested quite a bit.
• 59:33
  So what happens and why does it happen like that?
• 59:35
  That James Pace junior just said bye, bye to his career, but he's
• 59:39
  just said bye to his career because look at what's happened
• 59:42
  in the past when people have done silly things in cars, you
• 59:45
  know, they end up in gaol and the organisations aren't going
• 59:48
  to stand for anymore because there's too many people that
• 59:50
  can, you know, they don't want that baggage.
• 59:54
  They don't want that baggage, right?
• 59:56
  It's a shame to see. It's it's sad to see.
• 59:58
  But you know what it's It's an interesting one.
• 1:00:00
  Though, because the NFL are are kind of, they're also a bit
• 1:00:04
  backwards with that though, aren't they?
• 1:00:05
  They don't want the baggage. But there's also a lot of teams
• 1:00:08
  out there that have been really open to defend players who are
• 1:00:12
  quite clearly guilty of things. And it's innocent before proven
• 1:00:16
  guilty. It's only when you get the
• 1:00:17
  evidence that comes out that they're then like, Oh yes, we
• 1:00:21
  probably shouldn't stand by this guy.
• 1:00:24
  I mean, let's not get too deep into it because we'll be here
• 1:00:26
  all night with the the dramas. And stuff.
• 1:00:28
  So I'm going to. Start, but yeah.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah, it's an ongoing story that we can that we can catch up on,
• 1:00:35
  we can catch up on and we'll keep and we'll keep you guys
• 1:00:37
  informed when we do get to it. But that's the news, the main
• 1:00:42
  news from the week over than what we've gone through.
• 1:00:44
  I don't think we've missed much of probably have done.
• 1:00:46
  If we have, let us know in the comments, call us out.
• 1:00:48
  What have we missed? Let us know in the comments
• 1:00:50
  whenever you listen to this or over on social medias at ABNF
• 1:00:54
  Pod. But Brad, it's now time for one
• 1:01:00
  of our favourite segments of the week.
• 1:01:02
  All other balls. Brad, tell us what it's about.
• 1:01:06
  Well, yeah. I absolutely will.
• 1:01:10
  So all of the balls is the segment where we touch on where
• 1:01:15
  we touch other balls. It's the segment where we we
• 1:01:19
  pick up on other elements of the world of sport.
• 1:01:21
  So the intention when we started this pod was to look at other
• 1:01:25
  ball sports. But realistically we've found
• 1:01:27
  out that most of the ball sports aren't that interesting.
• 1:01:29
  So we touch on all of the balls, all of the sports rather, and
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  this week we'll be diving into the Winter Olympics, which have
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  started recently this year in old Italy I believe, and we'll
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  touch on the world of rugby league close to our hearts.
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  Back there going back to the to the old rugby league and now got
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  a few got a few honourable mentions afterwards as well.
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  It's not just two this week. We've got a little honourable
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  mention towards the back end of it, but we'll keep you a little
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  tease there if I will keep you into it.
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  Winter Olympics now I watch, I watch curling once every four
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  years and I get invested in curling once every four years to
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  the point where I that it's the only time I sweep my house once
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  every four years when I'm practising for the next Winter
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  Olympics. What a sport that is.
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  By the way, you don't sweep your house now the the Winter
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  Olympics of there's one major kind of storyline coming out of
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  this moment in time. We'll touch on the on the on the
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  the table soon and about how well Great Britain are doing.
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  But there's one major, major story and that's really that's
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  about a thought. Is it a 41 year old downhill
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  skier skier skier? Yeah.
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  Is it the slower that she does? I'm not.
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  I'm not too clued up with with like the all.
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  I just like curling and a few of the other bits and batsmen like
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  the bobsleigh stuff. But like so go on leaders with
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  this one, Brad. Yeah.
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  So this it's Lindsey Vonn. So she is an American skier, I
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  believe. And she, she retired in 2019 but
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  came back, I nearly said last year then, but she sort of
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  returned in 2024, yes. So she's 41, really, really well
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  well known skier. She actually won gold in
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  Vancouver in the 2010 Games and it's just been, it was really
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  sad and horrible to see. So I'm not skiing myself, but I
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  do snowboard to a point I guess. So I do get quite not invested.
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  But I do enjoy a lot of the aspects of Winter Olympics,
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  probably more than I do the Summer Olympics to be honest.
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  But the bit that gets me. So if you've not seen the
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  footage, if you've not heard about it, which I'd be surprised
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  if you haven't, she, she had a big crash 13 seconds into her,
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  her race, her, her stint, if you like, Obviously they go down one
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  at a time, don't they? She, she hit a gate and she, she
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  broke a leg and she was airlifted off the slope.
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  It was quite sad to see. The the thing that got me.
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  This is the weird thing that got me is that only 9 days before
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  she'd actually apparently torn her ACL with in like a warm up
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  race. Which I just I can't fathom in
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  my head because like we know obviously this is mostly an NFL
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  pod and we know how devastating Acls can be.
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  We've witnessed it with friends ourselves with the Acls.
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  I've had knee injuries in the past myself and to think of
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  skiing or snowboarding like with an ACL tear, I can't actually
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  fathom out how it's doable. So I'm a bit, I'm a bit torn
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  with this because it's a bit like it's heartbreaking to see,
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  but I'm almost like I have you got a death wish.
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  Like what is it? Yeah, so I ski.
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  I know you snowballed. I ski.
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  I ski for a long time and I haven't been for a while but I
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  know how impactful it can be on your knees if.
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  You just use like the little blades, you know them really
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  short ones. Why would a six foot five guy do
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  that? Right?
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  What what do you mean? Why would a six year?
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  It's way too small for me. So I know how impactful it could
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  be on your knees right. And I look not calling anybody
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  for false information. I don't understand how she's got
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  on. She's got on the ski and she's
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  going doing downhill in nine days.
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  That's tearing ratio. Don't get it, but I don't I
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  don't buy it For the for one, it's sad to see what's happened.
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  I really feel for it and I don't, I don't disagree that
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  she's her knee, but an ACL tear 9 days later, she's downhill
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  skiing. I don't know.
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  I'm calling, calling a little bit on that one.
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  If I were you, maybe maybe a bit of a media or just build up the
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  anticipation, the viewership, you know, get some, get some
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  traction on this and let this go.
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  I could be wrong, but like 9 days we could bring any of our
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  friends at that ACLS and go in nine days later.
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  You're going downhill skiing for your country?
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  I don't think so. Yeah, it's a messed up one.
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  That isn't it. It's it's yeah.
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  But I mean, you feel for her either way.
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  Like she's had a success. It's her fifth games, I believe.
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  You know, I don't think it's awful as we start to get older
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  ourselves. Like you don't think as 41 has
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  been mega old. But I guess for an athlete
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  performing at the peak, it is really, isn't it like not old,
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  but it's hard to maintain your peak at that age.
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  We've seen it in the NFL. But you know, the odds are
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  against you aren't there. So credit to her for giving it a
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  good a goodwill, but it just didn't work out.
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  But and there's two other stories that really sort of
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  caught my eye. The first one so talking about
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  skiing this, did you see this report those ski jumpers that
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  were apparently injecting their penises before being fitted with
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  their suits. So in essence, like if you think
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  of like their little bulge, Polk it out or their ski suits
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  because they're like super tight are they're injecting them.
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  Yeah. But like apparently it sort of
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  made them I guess swell a little bit.
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  So it created like a smoother or a larger like just improved the
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  surface area. So imagine like a little bulge
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  and then if it flattens out a bit or.
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  What certain? What's the?
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  What's the injection called? Just asking for a friend.
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  Research Carl will let you know that one is is well acquainted
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  with those injections, but like apparently it was just like
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  helping them gain extra distance on the jumpers, which just it
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  really, really tickled me. That's wild.
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  But I mean, yeah, but I mean on the topic of penises, I don't
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  know if you saw this, but Jura Leyden won gold for Holland in
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  the women's 1000 metre speed skating, which two reasons I
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  mentioned penises, one I won't. I just want to say the other is
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  where you going? Where you going this one?
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  Two reasons, One I won't mention, but the other talk of
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  penises is that she's actually the fiance of Jake Paul.
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  So. Did you see that video?
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  I did, yeah. I mean, yeah.
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  It's like unreal athlete. Unreal athlete.
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  Yeah, yeah, I've watched the, I've watched her a lot, numerous
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  times just to for research purposes only to watch it
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  numerous times. But but it pans to Jake Paul,
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  and he's crying. And I say crying in quotation
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  marks because that is the most Disney acting crying I think
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  I've ever seen in my life. Not a single.
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  Yeah. He's good at that, isn't he?
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  Like he's, it's like his whole career is based on acting.
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  Like he started on YouTube, he went to boxing.
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  Acts out on Disney. Now he's on Disney Channel.
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  Yeah, of course he was. Yeah.
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  Yeah, the both were wild. Wild for me, but yeah, Jake
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  Paul, guess where. What a can he?
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  He gets where? What a can.
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  But the Olympics tables so far, I believe that I'm open.
• 1:09:31
  This is updated correctly. Norway. 6 golds, 1 silver, 4
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  bronze. Top of the total medal table at
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  this moment in time with 11, so good for them.
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  I can't see Team GB on this list, so they must have 12 and
• 1:09:45
  we must have missed them off right.
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  Oh, we have a bit of a technical issue there.
• 1:09:57
  Has Brad left? Brad has been kicked off the the
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  podcast. He'll be back.
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  Injustice A we are is coming back.
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  Hello. You've you've got the teams that
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  are sort of leading the charge that you'd expect to on the
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  Winter Olympics. You've got, you know, you
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  Norways, Switzerland's up there, your Austrias, your your
• 1:10:19
  Germanys, Italy, those obvious ones that live where you ski and
• 1:10:24
  states are up there. But you know, GB not doing so
• 1:10:30
  well. They lost 53 to Italy in the
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  bronze medal match in curling, which would have been the first
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  medal. And they missed out narrowly on
• 1:10:37
  the women's snowboarding big air final.
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  So Mia Brooks just missing out on the medals there.
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  And then my my favourite events which have only been in I think
• 1:10:49
  maybe the last two Winter Olympics is the slopestyle.
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  So the slopestyle is essentially what you really watch skiing and
• 1:10:58
  snowboarding for. It's the big jumps with the cool
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  tricks. That's slopestyle, and they get
• 1:11:03
  points on that. And Christie Muir, I think you
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  pronounce her name, she just missed out on a bronze as well
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  by nought .41 points. Thank you for that research,
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  Cal. But yeah, just shame.
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  Close. Close, but no cigar.
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  Yeah, apologies for that technical issue you had there as
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  well, guys. It's a bit of a blip.
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  You know, what would a perfect episode be here?
• 1:11:22
  It'd be a bit rubbish, wouldn't it?
• 1:11:23
  You know. But yeah, so Winter Olympics
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  covered in a nutshell. I've got a feeling over the next
• 1:11:28
  couple of weeks we're going to, we're going to keep you informed
• 1:11:30
  with this, hopefully go Team GB, go from there.
• 1:11:34
  But yeah, moving on to our next balls or any other ball.
• 1:11:39
  Sorry, it's not balls. All of the balls.
• 1:11:42
  All the balls I will get the feature right, Okay is we're
• 1:11:47
  taking a trip back down. We've covered a couple of times
• 1:11:50
  and that is the rugby league and this week was the round three of
• 1:11:55
  the Challenge Cup. Now on screen, if you are
• 1:11:59
  watching, if not get to know, on screen is a list of the scores
• 1:12:03
  from the week just gone. Now I'm not going to read them
• 1:12:05
  all out, but there is a little bit of a running theme with some
• 1:12:09
  of these scores that we're going to touch on and a few
• 1:12:13
  whitewashers. So Alan's Workington 98 two to
• 1:12:17
  be precise, whole KR and Loch Lane 104 nil.
• 1:12:24
  Now, look, we we spoke about this briefing on Sunday, but
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  when we're just when we're just chilling before the Super Bowl
• 1:12:30
  and a lot of these teams on here are local to us.
• 1:12:35
  And we know, we know people play on these teams, for instance,
• 1:12:38
  And a lot, a lot of these teams are amateur.
• 1:12:41
  They don't get paid to play. They just make their way
• 1:12:44
  through. But at what point is it not
• 1:12:47
  growing the game? 104 NIL is not growing the game.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah, like what do you reckon to this?
• 1:12:58
  I just think it's like it's one of those sports where there's so
• 1:13:03
  many clubs and I, I love the Challenge Cup because it's got
• 1:13:07
  that potential for the FA Cup fairy tale.
• 1:13:09
  But I think the the difference is when you're comparing like
• 1:13:14
  the FA Cup football when to the Challenge Cup.
• 1:13:17
  Rugby league is, I think on a sport like football, which yes,
• 1:13:22
  it's a contact sport, but it's not about complete physical
• 1:13:27
  dominance, is it Like, all right, yes, if you're faster,
• 1:13:29
  you're more skilful, all that sort of stuff.
• 1:13:31
  Absolutely. But on the flip side, with
• 1:13:34
  rugby, you've got people who are, it's kind of like American
• 1:13:38
  football in it. If you put an NFL team against a
• 1:13:41
  brick ball team, you're going to get absolutely annihilated
• 1:13:45
  because you've got the absolute physical dominance in every
• 1:13:48
  single aspect of the game. And that's not to discredit any
• 1:13:51
  of the lads who play rugby. I mean, God, I'd get my bones
• 1:13:54
  broken within an instant these days.
• 1:13:57
  You, you've got, you've got professionals playing plumbers
• 1:14:00
  is what you've got. Literally.
• 1:14:02
  Literally. Yeah.
• 1:14:03
  Like. And it's not nuts when you look
• 1:14:05
  at. Oh, I'm sorry.
• 1:14:12
  There's a little technical. You look at like the whole KR
• 1:14:16
  lot lane score, right? That's nuts.
• 1:14:18
  And that's a close to home 1 104 nil.
• 1:14:22
  That's the biggest score difference, I think of the of
• 1:14:25
  the weekend. So I mean, Lotley and I are a
• 1:14:29
  complete amateur team, like completely.
• 1:14:32
  So you expect to score like that and you kind of accept it.
• 1:14:37
  So is there the potential for the upset there?
• 1:14:39
  No, there isn't. You look then more at scores
• 1:14:44
  like Widnes and Leeds 2512, you look at Doncaster, Castleford,
• 1:14:51
  14 to nil to Tigers. They are more closely sort of
• 1:14:56
  fought teams if you like, in terms of the standings and
• 1:14:59
  things like that. But then you start looking at
• 1:15:04
  teams that are super leagues for the top tier and you look at
• 1:15:07
  part time teams. So you've got Huddersfield
• 1:15:09
  Giants who were at the like the down in the doldrums of Super
• 1:15:14
  League last year and Hunslet are in the Championship, I believe
• 1:15:19
  52, six. It's it's a complete whitewash.
• 1:15:22
  So there's been a big review in rugby league, hasn't there,
• 1:15:26
  about sort of suggestions to make the sport better, more
• 1:15:30
  exciting and therefore now more viable.
• 1:15:33
  And which we know is an issue in in rugby league, it's very much
• 1:15:38
  a generally a northern sport. And one of the suggestions was
• 1:15:44
  to bring Super League teams into the Challenge Cup at the round
• 1:15:48
  of 16, which if I'm not mistaken, is the next round on.
• 1:15:53
  And to almost have a bit of a like a Millennium, not
• 1:15:55
  Millennium magic, sorry, that's it's original name, a magic
• 1:15:59
  weekend sort of set up for the Challenge Cup, which I think is
• 1:16:04
  probably right. Because then what you've got
• 1:16:05
  instead of like whole KR Loch Lane 104 NIL and and then Hull
• 1:16:10
  FC and Salford RLFC, which think is the new rebirth of the
• 1:16:14
  Salford team, 60 nil or cast Tigers, Doncaster 14 NIL.
• 1:16:19
  Those teams are getting hammered.
• 1:16:21
  You're actually going to get much more closely fought teams
• 1:16:24
  and you might end up then with like an exciting team.
• 1:16:27
  And for those that do get through, there's probably a big
• 1:16:29
  paycheck for those teams as well because there's less of them.
• 1:16:33
  They're playing at a big stage and I think it's just got loads
• 1:16:35
  of potential. But there's there's just a big
• 1:16:39
  issue. And one of the one of the things
• 1:16:41
  I've seen quite a lot recently, because there's been loads to
• 1:16:44
  talk about Super League and rugby league this last six
• 1:16:47
  months to a year because of what's happened to Salford,
• 1:16:49
  because of what's happened to Oldham recently going into
• 1:16:51
  administration, because of what's happened to Feverstone
• 1:16:54
  going into administration. And I've recently had announced
• 1:16:56
  Halifax have now entered administration.
• 1:16:58
  It's it's really sad. And there's a lot of talks been
• 1:17:01
  talks about like the NRL model in the in Australia that so you
• 1:17:06
  just have 10 teams or 12 teams, whatever number you pick who are
• 1:17:10
  the Super League and they're franchised.
• 1:17:12
  So for NFL fans who aren't into rugby league, you know, you only
• 1:17:15
  have your NFL teams. There's no promotion relegation.
• 1:17:17
  That'd be, that's what they're talking about.
• 1:17:19
  When the same franchise, you basically get a licence to play
• 1:17:22
  in that league. And then what the NRL have under
• 1:17:26
  that are like feeder clubs in the Queensland Cup.
• 1:17:30
  So like Brisbane for example, as the Brisbane team in NRL and
• 1:17:34
  they have a Brisbane team in the Queensland Cup if I'm not
• 1:17:37
  mistaken and they feed into each other.
• 1:17:39
  It's almost like a it's like a promotion within the team for
• 1:17:42
  players as opposed to a promotion of a team.
• 1:17:46
  But like I I think. There's a lot of merit there.
• 1:17:49
  I agree, but could you imagine Fair being approached to feed a
• 1:17:53
  team for Cass well? Who is?
• 1:17:56
  I mean, who is? I know, but I know, but that's
• 1:17:59
  just no, it's just an example into the rivalries at the moment
• 1:18:03
  within Super League. But I it's a dying, it's a dying
• 1:18:05
  spot. It's a shame to see it's a dying
• 1:18:07
  spot. I wanted to touch with a
• 1:18:08
  positive sign from this though, the lock lane social media pages
• 1:18:12
  and stuff and some of that. One of the players on my
• 1:18:16
  Instagram and they shared a video the locker room after the
• 1:18:23
  104 NIL that they they got beat and the locker room's bouncing
• 1:18:29
  locker room the the singing, the banging on tables they didn't
• 1:18:32
  give they didn't care they didn't give two toss that they
• 1:18:33
  just lost 104 NIL. The experience of them being
• 1:18:36
  there that have come from their day jobs, then going to play at
• 1:18:39
  all KR against all KR that that's that's top flight to most
• 1:18:45
  of these guys who've got farmers who've play sport for a bit of a
• 1:18:48
  laugh on a weekend. And like you say, I agree with
• 1:18:52
  take the Super League teams out there.
• 1:18:53
  Let let the smaller clubs, quote unquote, play another round
• 1:18:58
  because that money for a team like Loch Lane and again going
• 1:19:01
  back to brick ball for always, for instance, with our team,
• 1:19:06
  that money is like it's life changing to clubs.
• 1:19:10
  Look at where we used to play when, when that Ruby went sort
• 1:19:16
  of professional, they would not. They were the division that they
• 1:19:18
  got promote with, went some professional, got loads of money
• 1:19:21
  pumped into it and it changed the way they could invest within
• 1:19:24
  the clubhouse and that money goes a long way.
• 1:19:28
  And I just think, I think like Wigan beat in Rochdale 83 now,
• 1:19:31
  it's not a good luck for them. Neither team wants to do it,
• 1:19:36
  neither team wants to do it. But yeah, but yeah, it's all
• 1:19:41
  about touching on growth for the game though.
• 1:19:45
  We've got the World Club Challenge coming up and that's
• 1:19:50
  Brisbane Broncos coming over to the UK this year, but at the MKM
• 1:19:54
  Stadium, and that's Hull FC and they play at the.
• 1:19:56
  But that's where the MKM Stadium is, where Hull FC play, Sorry,
• 1:20:00
  but they're playing Hull KR this year and that's on the 19th of
• 1:20:04
  February, which is, and I like this, I like because we take it
• 1:20:07
  in turn and going over and it never ends nicely for the
• 1:20:10
  British team, I must admit. But it's a nice way to kind of
• 1:20:12
  grow that game and to spread the.
• 1:20:17
  Spread the out of the bringing that exciting team over.
• 1:20:20
  You always sell the tickets when they want to see the Australian
• 1:20:22
  NRL teams. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:20:26
  Yeah. And I think, I think that's a
• 1:20:28
  testament to then the growth that you've seen
• 1:20:30
  internationally, isn't it because of the Vegas games?
• 1:20:33
  You know, you've got Leeds against Hulk AR in Vegas on the
• 1:20:37
  28th of Feb and then you've got 2 NRL, sorry, two NRL fixtures
• 1:20:43
  as well. So I think you've got Canterbury
• 1:20:47
  and Saint George against Newcastle and North Queensland,
• 1:20:51
  which I think that's up to this year.
• 1:20:52
  Was it just two games last year? It might have been three.
• 1:20:55
  I know it's gradually increased over the last few years, but
• 1:20:58
  that's been massive. Like I think that's huge and
• 1:21:01
  there are there are US teams that play rugby league.
• 1:21:04
  I remember like a good few years ago, it ended up dropping on
• 1:21:07
  like a league that's happening over there.
• 1:21:09
  And there was the push one the recently for the Canada team,
• 1:21:12
  which obviously didn't quite work out, but there's growth
• 1:21:16
  there. And and I think the thing that
• 1:21:18
  kills me as a as a Yorkshire mining town lad is the rugby
• 1:21:23
  league is one of the most exciting games to watch.
• 1:21:27
  It's brilliant, it's fast-paced, it's skilful, it's high impact.
• 1:21:33
  It's almost that. It's almost what people who like
• 1:21:36
  the NFL but dislike the stop start of it.
• 1:21:39
  It's almost like, OK, watch rugby league.
• 1:21:43
  There's the less, less of a chess element to it, but it's,
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  it's got all the, the bits that you like, the big hits, the
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  skill level, the, the physical dominance side of it and, and
• 1:21:56
  then the pace is there as well. I, I love the sport and it's
• 1:22:00
  good to see it expanding and, and getting out and about.
• 1:22:05
  I just, I just hope, I hope it, it's saddened, I hope it
• 1:22:09
  survives. I hope someone can come in and
• 1:22:11
  really lead it and take it somewhere and grow it because
• 1:22:14
  it's an absolute world class sport.
• 1:22:17
  It's top level. Like watching the NRL is unreal.
• 1:22:19
  Like they are unreal. I agree.
• 1:22:24
  You know, we'll see. I agree.
• 1:22:26
  Quick honourable mention before we get off of this and into
• 1:22:31
  Carl's conundrum. We've got the Man City Liverpool
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  X time madness Highlands 90th penalty, right, Which we we saw
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  this just before our Super Bowl party started and the guy
• 1:22:42
  started turning up for it was absolutely wild.
• 1:22:45
  The the keeper comes out some some mess up happens, a halfway
• 1:22:49
  line goes for a shot. It's like a bubbled shot.
• 1:22:52
  It's rolling down. Harland's getting chased down.
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  There's Dominic Subosley, Subosley.
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  I think I pronounced that right. I had did try and Google that
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  before, before the pod pulled Harland back and then Harland
• 1:23:07
  pulled him back. The ball went in and scored a
• 1:23:09
  goal, but then went to VAR because the initial pull back on
• 1:23:14
  Harlem was deemed A foul. It got disallowed at the goal.
• 1:23:16
  They went to a penalty. This is not the 19th.
• 1:23:20
  I mean, I, I, I think it were actually written down as the
• 1:23:22
  93rd minute, but I'm sure it was 97 minutes at one point up there
• 1:23:24
  when they were still debating what was happening and Harlem
• 1:23:28
  then scores the penalty. It goes wild.
• 1:23:30
  And they would end up winning three, one or some.
• 1:23:33
  I'm not a massive football lover but it was just, that's exciting
• 1:23:37
  to watch it. It was just a bit.
• 1:23:38
  Everyone did the pubs growing mental to begin with.
• 1:23:41
  It's just one of them, but it was.
• 1:23:44
  A weird one it like it's messy a messy.
• 1:23:47
  That's it, that's it. Well, that's the end of I
• 1:23:50
  mentioned and that is all the balls.
• 1:23:54
  We're now going to move on to our final segment of the evening
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  and that is Carl's conundrum. And Carl's conundrum last week,
• 1:24:03
  mate, was which player holds the record for the most career
• 1:24:07
  rushing yards in Super Bowl games across multiple Super
• 1:24:11
  Bowls. So we had a bit of a Super Bowl
• 1:24:12
  theme one last week because of the Super Bowl.
• 1:24:15
  And the answer to that was Mr Franco Harris.
• 1:24:20
  So if you got that, well done. Thank you for the guys that got
• 1:24:23
  in touch and dropped as a message or a comment across the
• 1:24:25
  socials and on Spotify and stuff.
• 1:24:27
  Thank you very much for that. We're now going to get into next
• 1:24:31
  week's Carl's Conundrum, something for you to take home
• 1:24:33
  and listen to. So take take home, think about
• 1:24:35
  and let us know what your answer to this would be.
• 1:24:38
  And that would be which two players are tied for the most
• 1:24:43
  sacks in a single Super Bowl? So which two players are tied
• 1:24:48
  for the most sacks in a single Super Bowl?
• 1:24:51
  If you want clarification on this, head over to our socials.
• 1:24:54
  We'll post the conundrum up there for you so you can see it
• 1:24:58
  one more time. Which two players are tied for
• 1:25:00
  the most sacks in a single Super Bowl?
• 1:25:01
  And we will give you the answer next week on on the pod.
• 1:25:08
  We're now going to have an offseason plan in terms of what
• 1:25:11
  we're going to focus on. If there's something you guys
• 1:25:13
  want us to focus on, please let us know in the comments, let us
• 1:25:15
  know in the DMS, let us know in the messages.
• 1:25:17
  Then we're going to do a bit of a fantasy football pod, a bit of
• 1:25:20
  a bit of a draft way pod, maybe an ABNF fantasy Football League
• 1:25:25
  next year. Who knows?
• 1:25:27
  Who knows, maybe so. But yeah, that's it for today,
• 1:25:32
  though. Brought anything from yourself
• 1:25:33
  before we before we fire off? No, I just think it's it's been
• 1:25:38
  really good getting this off the ground.
• 1:25:40
  So it's it's weird because we've not been doing it too long and
• 1:25:43
  it it almost feels like the end of end of season 1 almost, which
• 1:25:48
  I mean, it's not we're going to keep going weekly outward, but
• 1:25:51
  it just yeah, it's been really nice to get off the ground.
• 1:25:53
  So those of you that are listening in our really doors
• 1:25:57
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• 1:26:00
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• 1:26:05
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• 1:26:09
  And we'll keep going weekly, even during the offseason, and
• 1:26:11
  we'll probably have a bit more of a focus on all the balls at
• 1:26:15
  times because it's all balls. No philtre, of course.
• 1:26:20
  But yeah, it's been good. It's been, it's been really fun.
• 1:26:22
  I've enjoyed it getting started with this.
• 1:26:24
  So I guess thanks to you, mate, thanks to Research Cal and
• 1:26:28
  thanks to the audience that have been listening.
• 1:26:31
  So we'll keep going and just, yeah, just thank you.
• 1:26:34
  And it's been a fun one. Pretty sure, yeah, we'll get the
• 1:26:37
  technical difficulties sorted at some point, but the make it fun.
• 1:26:40
  The make it fun. But yeah, thank you very much.
• 1:26:43
  We'll see you soon. Have fun.
• 1:26:45
  Stay safe and booze.