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#13 - Sling Yer Hook Pal · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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I'm alive. Welcome to the All Bars No
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Philtre podcast. Live from the cabin kitchen.
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I'm Zach. He's Brad.
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There. Behind the scenes, we have a man
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who is in the top 1% for talking 1st and thinking later.
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He's researcher Cal. That can't be more true about
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him. But it's not even like he'll
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just talk first. He'll just, he'll impose himself
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over you. So even if he's not first, he's
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going to make sure he's the first person you hear.
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That's it. That's how we doing mate.
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Anyway, how we doing? You all right?
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I'm good. You know what, like I've had the
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right good day today. Like the sun's out.
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Got a little bit of Sunkist red forehead, maybe intentional,
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maybe not. I'm not sure if that'll show up
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on the on the video, but check us out on YouTube to see if it
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is. Research calcium, yes.
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But now I'm good. I've had a right good day.
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Been out for a nice hike in the peaks with the dog.
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So yeah, I'm I'm good. How are you?
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Thanks. I am it's over stimulated the
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right word. So just for context guys, we
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what, why are we now we are a minute into the pod.
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I'm going to come clean. We are trying, we're trying a
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new way to kind of present and produce the pod.
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And it's one of the reasons why we're not we were around last
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week. We're trying to iron things out.
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And I'm not going to lie to you, this is the first recording and
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I'm already. So if you do hear any technical
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glitches or anything like that, yeah, bear with us.
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We're hoping this is a better way.
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It's kind of go. But other than that, I am
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absolutely tipped off. It's been nice, long Easter
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weekend. Definitely drank far too much
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ale needed to, and we'll get into why very, very soon.
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But yeah, other than that, absolutely spot on weekend.
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Absolutely spot on. So what we've got in store for
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today's show, mate? Yeah.
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So obviously, as you said, we've been MIAI guess for for the last
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week. We normally like to do every
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week, don't we? But the last sort of month we've
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just sort of hit every fortnight.
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So we'll catch up on the NFL news.
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There's not been too much happening, but there has been a
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few big stories come through this last couple of weeks,
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hasn't there? And we will, as is normal now,
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we'll visit the world of rugby league in our I Can't Speak
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section, which I'd probably rather avoid.
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And we will check in with all of the balls across the world of
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sport. But yeah, I mean, should we get
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straight into the news? Yeah.
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So we've got some, I'd say some relatively big headlines this
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this time of year is relatively quiet because they're waiting
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for the pre draft stuff, which hopefully next week we're going
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to focus a bit a bit more on the draft itself.
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But they have their owners meetings and there's a few
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contract signings there and there, but realistically the
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rule change in the owners meetings of what's happening
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now. So there's been a few kind of
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rule tweaks and changes that we're going to have a look on,
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get a discussion on, see how what what our views on it are
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and, and, and yeah, go from that really.
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And starting from the top on this is there's been a bit of an
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onside kick rule changing within the NFL going into this year.
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And previously the change the kick off in general, which I'm
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actually a big fan of now, I really like the new kick off
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rule, but they changed the onside kick so he could only do
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it in the fourth quarter and when you were trailing.
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And I just think for me, it kind of ruins the element of surprise
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about it, ruined the element of surprise a little bit.
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Because sometimes a a good onside kick is, is fantastic,
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Like Pat Mcafee's onside kick they did years ago was, is, is,
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is generationally it's, it's absolutely fantastic.
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But going into this year now, they have tweaked that ruling
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where teams can now declare. So you still need to, you still
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need to declare the onside kick, but they can now declare the
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onside kick at any point in the game.
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So Brad, asking you here now, as you know, as just a general
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football fan taking your your coaching experience out of the
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out of the equation here, what's your view on the onside kick in
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general? I'm mixed with it because I
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think, I mean, let's be honest, how how often does it actually
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work? How often does it come off like
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it don't really does it? It's not it's not something
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that's like a big or or a regular game changing play.
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But I think the beauty of the onside kick is when it does
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happen and when teams catch people by surprise with it,
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which I think this is better that the new rules, better that
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you can now to do it at any point in the game, don't just
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have to be the 4th when you're trailing fine, great, really
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good move forwards, but you've still got to declare it.
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And I think that's the like the the naff bit about it.
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Really. It's like, oh, hey, everybody,
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guess what we're going to do on the next play.
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Like it's just, it's not really what American football's about.
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It's about outsmarting your opponents and being clever with
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your strategy and your approach. And I think that element of
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surprise is a big part of that, which obviously they got rid of,
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but I do think this is a step in the right direction.
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I just wonder if they'll actually go back to not having
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to declare it at all. Basically, you know, just been
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able to surprise them when you want to really.
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Yeah, I get, I get what you're saying there in terms of the
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element of surprise. And to be fair to you, I agree.
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I I think they should be able to just do it at any point
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basically and not have to declare it because that on that,
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that, that view of that, that that kind of element of surprise
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works great, if that makes sense.
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But it all comes down to preference.
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And obviously teams are voting in externally.
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So look, it's one of them. We'll have to kind of see how
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how it goes from there. And I think it works enough for
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it to still be entertaining because if it worked all the
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time, then it it worked all the time, it'd be less fun when it
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does pay off. I think coming for like the it'd
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be beneficial when it does, if you know what I mean.
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Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. The next rule we had changing, I
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don't know if you you'd seen much about this, was the kickoff
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penalty. So when the ball's kicked out of
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bounds, that penalty has now moved to be more significant.
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So it used to be the 40 and now it's the 50.
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So it's obviously a change there in 10 yards, which I think makes
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people have to think a bit more wisely about it now and actually
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be a bit more aware of what they're actually doing.
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You know, sometimes you could be quite tactical with it, couldn't
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you? I don't think you see it too
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often, but you could be quite tactical with this really.
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But now it's obviously a more significant penalty.
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So that's obviously changed by the 10 yards and then you've got
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some minor tweaks to the formation at kick off just to
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improve safety. Probably quite technical to get
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into the insurance and outs of this one for, you know, a lot of
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the sort of just day-to-day fans.
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But it's it's all about basically safety and and trying
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to improve sort of the returns of kickoffs.
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Really two more rules we've got as well, which I'm quite pleased
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about these. I don't know what your thoughts
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are on these, Zach. We've got an expanded
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officiating intervention. So it's a one year rule
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basically where the league is able to replay of what they're
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saying is clear and obvious errors.
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So that is it New York, I think the basis isn't it?
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They can step in and they can basically overrule any errors
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and that are clear and obvious that the referees have done.
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Now I think this is a big one because it's probably there's
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two parts to this for me is it's probably moving into the
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direction that the sport is probably going to go in
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eventually anyway. Yeah.
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But it's also an opportunity for the NFL to not allow the huge
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controversy, controversy, sorry, that they'll have when referees
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make those basically just wrong decisions now with they're
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human. So we get it.
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But I think it's a good opportunity to improve
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officiating generally. See, I agree with everything you
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say in there, right, that it definitely will improve the
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officiating and go, But at the same time that human error and
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it look, but when the human error is against your team is
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shit. And I'm not going to say it's
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not, but that human error is is kind of part of the game.
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That's like, if it keeps going this way, there is going to be
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10 years time. There'll be no officiating crew.
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It'll all be done by computers, lasers, you know, everything
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will be along the lines of that. I mean, they're already getting
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down, getting rid of the down markers and the down markers are
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now digital. Like everything's along the
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lines of that. I just feel like the key, I get
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it, you know, these clear and obvious things can go review it.
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So at what point do they go, well, we're reviewing clear and
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obvious things. AI is advancing at the moment.
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It is now. Can we just not like to do this
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anyway? They could invest the I mean,
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I've done it wrong. I think.
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Why is it are the NFL referee still part time?
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They can, but either way, they're still getting some sort
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of fee for it. They can invest that money a
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year into the kind of AI system a bit more and just do every
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single game digitally from 1:00 central hub by.
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I don't know me, I, I get it. And, and I, I, you know, when
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something happens to the Patriots that he's a clear and
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obvious foul and it doesn't get called, I'll be all singing all
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of his praises. But at the same time that human
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error in games, whether it's amateur, you know, professionals
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and professional, it happens. And, you know, I say it goes, I
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say it goes. I like, I like this.
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I like the refereeing crew being out there.
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Yeah. And obviously there's another
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one in terms of the officiating as well.
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So they can now as well. There's not really too much to
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discuss on this I don't think, but officials can now consult,
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consult off field to decide on objections and that includes non
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play incidents. So just a bit of opportunity
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there for them to consult with others around those sort of
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objections, which can be game changing.
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Currently really, I think the main one for me about the rule
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changes was one that actually, well, it wasn't that it was not
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approved. It was one that actually got
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withdrawn. So there was a proposal to allow
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trade in draft picks. I think it was five years into
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the future. So currently the rule is 3.
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But of course it's the Browns. The Browns were proposing that
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you can use five years in advance of trades.
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Now I wonder if there's a bit of a motive behind this.
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Had they got a big trade lined up or were they trying to get a
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trade over the line because they, you know, they did
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withdraw it or is it just actually they realised that
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other teams are probably not going to back it?
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What's your thoughts on that? Like five years.
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I'm, I'm surprised it's not gone ahead because there's teams like
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the, I want to use The Jets and the Browns an example.
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There's teams like them that are in an obvious rebuild that are
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going to, that could potentially I'm going to throw, just going
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to throw a random ass trade out there right now.
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Like let's say this, this, this gets accepted and prime Lamar
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Jackson, prime Papa Homes is there and the Browns come in and
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go, look, I'm going to give you your XYZ and I'm going to give
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it for the next 5 years, for instance.
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That then creates these blockbuster trades and these
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these shit or bust make or break trades where you could be
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throwing everything you do the entire kitchen sinking to kind
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of one player or a package or or something.
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But the flip side to it is, you know, look at the trade where we
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we Dallas, you know, getting all the draft picks in and they've
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recruited really well out of it. You could create a super team by
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giving a team X amount of draft picks from for the next 5 years.
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Because they can they can become so valuable.
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I can see positives from both sides of it.
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I just think it makes a bit of fun entertainment if you ask me.
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Like, I just think it's a little bit different.
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I feel like the teams that probably weren't supporting it
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were actually probably trying to protect like teams like the
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Browns and Jets, because I mean, look at the shambles of the
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whole Deshaun Watson thing. Like that alone was ridiculous.
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So imagine if The Jets or the Browns could mortgage five years
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worth of their future draft picks.
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I feel like they would potentially be ruining their
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franchises even worse than they do at the minute.
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Like I think there's an element of protection there for them,
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but it does happen in other sports.
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Like I'm not big into sort of like the NBA and MLB and stuff,
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but I'm pretty certain I know you can do it in the NBA like
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more years in advance. I don't, I don't know the exact
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figure, but I think it's quite significant when you compare it
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to the NFL. Actually, it could even be like
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if more than double. But I just feel like when you've
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got teams like The Jets and the Browns, it's dangerous to have
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that much to play with. It is, it is pretty.
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It could be a bit of fun at the same time, but like, you know,
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X, you know a lot, $1,000,000 on the line here and there's
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there's there's livelihoods and things like I like, I get it.
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But at the same time it just makes that better that better
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controversy going on to I mean as much a liar rule and coming
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off of the rulings down going on to more player orientated
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things. Kyle Pitts announced that he's
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actually agreed to the franchise tag and don't quote me on
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numbers there, but I believe it's around 15,000,000 a year
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for the next year. Sorry.
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There is still a chance though that they can kind of they can
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throw another contract at him to, you know, the bigger money
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got a feeling they want to see a little bit more of him because
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it hasn't been they stood that they thought they were going to
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be coming out of college. I don't think he's a little to
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his his reputation or anything like that.
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So I think I reckon see how he goes for the first few months of
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the season. Then they probably excite him to
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an extension from there. But the reports are like he's
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going to where he is reporting to the workouts, which is an
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obvious sign that he's going to be playing and good to go for
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the start of the season and not holding out for a contract.
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But yeah, so they can still, they can still kind of go
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through and and get this. I think he's a smart decision
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for him. He hasn't been that player
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personally. No.
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And there's there's talks about him being traded or, you know,
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if he ended up at free agency, a few teams interested in him.
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And he's always had that potential around him.
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Like when he came into the league, he was like a massive
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name. Wasn't he?
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Like this unreal athlete playing at tight end.
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But you're right, he's just not lived up to to his expectations.
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But you wonder how much of that is more about the team is that
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as opposed to him as a player? But yeah, I I think it's smart
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money for both sides. We'll we'll see.
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Obviously he could tie up a long term extension.
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There's been another big name in the news though, aren't there?
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So Dexter Lawrence Giants, he's been pushing and pushing for a
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new deal for around what, 2 years?
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But he's finally now tail between, well, not tail between
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his top legs, is it? But is is requested to trade,
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doesn't he? He wants out.
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Yeah, and I'm shocked more than anything else about this.
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And look, I get people play for for money and there is just the
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job and all that jazz, and I fully understand that.
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But hypothetically, the Giants in the best place they've been
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in the past, I want to say at least five years, at least five
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years. These you're maybe even 10 years
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like you're talking now. The Giants are in an area, my
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opinion anyway, where within the next two years they could be
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pushing Super Bowl because of the team and the the the
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signings. Not there's not necessarily a
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sign, but the team at the building around at this moment
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in time and the coach that they've just signed, he's he's
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really shit or busting for me. I just think he's earning a good
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crack. Anyway.
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I don't know if this is a bit of a rush to I, I, I don't know me
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personally. Like they've got a real young
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QB. They've got an exciting running
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back. Yeah.
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And done it wrong here himself last year, but he was exciting
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at the time. They've got exciting wide
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receivers that just signed a really exciting coach who's had
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experience with QBs like Jackson that in the past.
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It's not as if he's QB that's never so it's time to be a coach
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that never run with a a mobile QB before and and not not a
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success. I just think there's a lot of
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things there point in the right directions for the Giants and
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that really kills to say the patriots fan.
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I'm not going to lie, but like I just feel for that.
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I don't. I just feel for me, it's one of
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them like he's probably going to regret this.
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Do you think it's more? Chance of like players leave the
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Giants and then go and have a bit of success.
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And like he's he's had losing season after losing season, yet
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he's probably the best player on the team or definitely one of
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and he's like getting paid like, I don't know, 10-12 like among
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defensive tackles alone. Like, I don't know, it's
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probably annoying. You wouldn't like if you were in
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a job and someone was worse at their job than you, but they
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were getting paid more than you, that that would infuriate you,
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wouldn't it? Fully I fully get that.
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Maybe so more if it were maybe more so if it was on their team
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and not necessarily elsewhere. That's like, you know, I'm a
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truck driver is we we know this. That's like me comparing another
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company paying a truck driver more like I I get it, but like
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if it's with the giants, then maybe so I could understand that
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more And yes, it's all you're always going to be fighting for
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that that bigger wage. But at the same time, the Giants
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again haven't been in this situation.
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Think about the last time the Giants, you thought about the
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Giants being, you know what, these are exciting.
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They've got good, good, a good young core of an offence in
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particular. Like not just one player in
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particular. They're a bunch of players in
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the offence that got injured last year in particular, but are
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excited and they finished with a decent draft pick this year as
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well. So they could draft well this
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year to our trade, potentially going to a free agency and
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signing the hottest coach on the market for this pre season.
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Everything for me just kind of stands there with the with the
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giants is like actually could be a decent team going forward.
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And then this guy's walking and going.
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You pay me. I'll leave if I'm a giant.
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So I'm like slinging up bowl like, yeah, you're good, you're
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good, you're good. But like we're probably going to
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be attractive to signs from decent players in the offseason
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like free ages. I don't understand, like like
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he's passing now but I don't know me.
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I just think he's, I could be wrong.
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He's getting too big for his boots here.
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He's definitely one of those players, though.
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That's just he's holding out in there.
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He's he's not going to be at training camp.
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He's he's not doing any of that. So do you do you think
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realistically that the Giants miss him in in if he holds out
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for the season, do the Giants miss him or does he start turn
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around when the Giants get the playoffs?
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He's like, oh shit, I'll come back now.
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Hiya guys, I'm here. Nah.
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I don't know. I can't, I can't see Giants get
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into the playoffs, to be honest. I think they've got some good
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pieces. I think they're going to be
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exciting, but I think it's still going to be a little bit of a a
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project for them. But he's he's, he's good to let
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go. Yes, yes, look, I'm not I'm not
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saying he's not good at his job. I'm not saying he's he's
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arguably top five, top ten, but he's he's up there.
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He's very, very good. But flip side to this is like I
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just I, I feel like they're they're on a 2 year plan,
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potentially a A5 year plan with a 2 year goal is what I'd be
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looking at the giants for with this.
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If you've done well within two year, they've got the the team
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driven if where they can start trading around and looking to
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replacing things they're not banking all the money on like,
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you know, like, like they are in a Rogers situation.
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They've got good pieces elsewhere and this team's going
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to grow up together and if they're all mature together,
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then there could be a, there could be a real good team if you
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know, to stop getting concussion more than anything else, like,
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but that's, that'd be my view. I, I just, I just think it's a
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bit of a like if this is, if this is Miles Gallot and the
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Browns, then you're throwing everything at him because you've
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got nothing realistically. Like I think the giants have got
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some good pieces around him. That's why look at the oh, the
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Raiders situation, right and there was allowing him to go for
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the trade because realistically, you know, they have other things
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that can build around now, especially going with the first
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round pick and and pick one O 1. Yeah, as we were staying half a
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days champion Max Cosby would stay a lot.
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You know what I mean? But I don't know, it could have
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held out. And the Raiders are stubborn.
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Like, yeah, sound. Yeah, I guess time will tell.
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And you know, we get these every year, don't we?
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Someone else is holding out, someone else's requesting
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something. We get them every year.
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So let's see what happens to Sexy Dexy and then Stefan
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Gilmore. Then just to round up sort of
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the headline news, I guess, before we move on to a couple of
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big contracts as. Yeah, so Gilmore's officially
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retired. He's actually had a year out of
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the season already, I believe. But, you know, after a long
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career, you know, played for six teams as a Super Bowl champion,
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is 2 time All Pro, five times Pro Bowl.
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He is. Yeah, he's done.
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His cleats have officially been hung up.
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This this for me falls into who was we spoke about the other
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week, Hilton Ty Hilton and and retiring.
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I I'm not going to lie, I'm a dude.
23:10
Gilmore's been great Gilmore great for the Patriots.
23:12
He's a phenomenal player. I thought he'd already retired.
23:15
That's poor knowledge from my side of things, but I think he's
23:17
just kind of keeping development to there.
23:21
He he he was fantastic and I've took me off to him.
23:23
What a career he had. He he was never a dirty player,
23:26
never a bad player. He just put his arms all into
23:28
every jurors that he was. So credit to him and good
23:30
looking retirement and you know, spending all this hard earned
23:33
money basically. Indeed.
23:36
And so I guess Speaking of that hard earned money probably loses
23:42
nicely on to the biggest, I guess, news story of this past,
23:47
what, 5-6 days, Mr Cousins? Who's his agent and how do I get
23:56
him to negotiate me a new contract to drive a truck?
23:58
That's what I want to know because this guy has just earn
24:02
money guaranteed money as well. Like what's going going into
24:09
this year, right? It's it's a five year contract,
24:13
right, which is never going to see five years out of it.
24:15
It's guaranteed 11.3 million now research card.
24:20
If you could just find some information out from me in the
24:21
back, and I know it's a ridiculous amount, the amount of
24:24
money he's been paid or the amount of contract money he's
24:28
had over the his career to the amount of guaranteed money he's
24:31
had over his career is a ludicrous number for Kurt
24:35
Cousins. Now, I'm not saying Kurt Cousins
24:37
is the worst QB in the world, right, because there's been
24:40
worse QBs out there. But what he's done to get this
24:44
money is scandalous. Like he has.
24:48
Oh wow, he's just a brass. It's just Madden it.
24:52
I think I saw something the other day that he's now
24:55
officially out earned Tom Brady, which obviously Brady will have
24:59
a lot of like like sponsorship deals and stuff like that.
25:04
Yeah. Yeah, that Cousins won't have
25:07
bought to out earn the greatest quarterback ever.
25:11
And your name's Kirk Cousins, and you haven't really got that
25:15
much to show for yourself, have you?
25:16
I mean, yeah, he's had a solid career, like a better career
25:19
than I've had in the NFL, but. He's.
25:21
Just it's not to think the money is getting there.
25:25
Research Carl's put it into the chat there a total of $321.7
25:31
million, that is. Is that is that what he's earned
25:35
or is that what he's always that really guaranteed because like
25:37
because I'm I don't want to. I know he's I said no, I think I
25:42
saw that his contract to his contract could have been to what
25:48
he's actually and he's so close to each other because he's
25:52
crazy. His age is always going and
25:53
gone. You won't guaranteed money like
25:57
you know I'm guaranteed money and they've always paid it.
26:00
I think that was like a thing, wasn't it until recently.
26:03
And like it might just be this last year or two that he'd
26:05
always had guaranteed contracts the whole time because he'd
26:10
always just signed like short term deals, you know, which like
26:15
this, if you look at this contract, this is a bizarre
26:17
contract, isn't it? It's 5 five years, 172 mil.
26:21
But when you actually sort of dig down into it, it's it's 20
26:25
mil guaranteed because you've got Falcon still paying part of
26:29
the salary you would have earned this year.
26:31
But it's it's basically a one year contract at 20 mil is what
26:33
it is. But there is the, the bit for
26:37
the Raiders, which I think's the good business on both sides.
26:40
I think it's a great contract for both sides is you've got
26:44
Raiders who are going to sign Mendoza.
26:46
You've got Kirk Cousins who is going to be a great mentor.
26:49
Like if you've seen him in the the quarterback show on Netflix,
26:53
like he's great there. And he was put in a tough
26:55
situation in Falcon at the Falcons.
26:58
But I think he's coming in and knowing exactly what situation
27:01
he's going to be in. But the Raiders have got a two
27:03
year option, I believe. So let's say Mendoza isn't
27:08
ready. Mendoza is not what they want
27:09
him to be. Because it happens quite
27:11
regularly, doesn't it? College quarterbacks go into the
27:13
NFL. They've still got a solid
27:15
quarterbacking Cousins. Well, this is what we're going
27:18
to get into and I'm going to get credit where credit is due.
27:20
A green bear phenomenal of doing this.
27:22
The fantastic. They did it with Rogers.
27:24
They did it with Love. They draft a QB and they don't
27:26
go right. You know you, I don't care how
27:28
generational, how good you were, you're going on the bench and
27:31
you'll learn of RQB now and we're going to put you in when
27:34
you're ready and like, I don't know, just learnt of Brett
27:36
Valve, right? And you're learning from the
27:39
best, the best there. Jordan loves them.
27:40
The same with Rogers. Like I'm not saying Jordan loves
27:43
these Rogers, but he's definitely coming out of his
27:44
shell more now. And look, Kurt Cousins here for
27:49
me, 20 million, you're either going to start or you're going
27:52
to be up bench for a year. Either way, get get yourself a
27:54
Goodyear out of this. See how you're going from there.
27:57
The Raiders need to really be smart about this, in my opinion.
28:02
Now, look, these guys are getting paid a lot of money in
28:04
that in that backroom, right? And the the, the the management
28:08
know what they're doing, obviously.
28:10
But for me, they need to just sit Mendoza for a year, a
28:16
season, right, Be straight with Kirk, say look ball out this
28:20
season, right? We could trade you, get you a
28:23
starting job somewhere else, play for a starting job
28:24
somewhere else. Basically, I want you to I want
28:26
you to mentor Mendoza and we pass the torch at the end of the
28:30
year and get get Mendoza some reps coming in, whether it be
28:33
pre season, whether it be you know, if if the Falcons are
28:37
doing you know they need they need a backup towards the end
28:40
and there was an injury, Sir. But having sat there because for
28:42
the light look alike Baker Mayfield coming in for the for
28:46
the Browns. Yes, it weren't the right fit.
28:48
But if this sat him for a year, for instance, behind her an
28:50
experienced QB, they might have got a bit more Johnny Manziel
28:53
might be the same. They might have got a bit more
28:55
out of him rather than just chucking a bit deeper and going.
28:57
You've played college ball, but you've never called a player in
28:59
the huddle before. Get yourself on that field in
29:01
front of all these thousands of people is a ridiculously long
29:04
play card. I want you to execute it right
29:05
for me. I just think it's just such a
29:11
good position here to do something if they're smart.
29:15
But the fans will just go. That's our one O 1 pick.
29:18
Get him on that field. He needs to win the Super Bowl
29:21
now. It just don't happen though,
29:24
does it? Like that's just not the way.
29:26
You don't win a Super Bowl that way.
29:28
Like how? I mean, when can you ever
29:30
remember that happening? Like it just doesn't and people
29:34
push it too soon and they're impatient.
29:39
I'd be interested to know the last time a rookie QB got too
29:44
deep in the playoffs or what's the deepest a rookie QB has got
29:48
in the playoffs before, Like, because we just said that there.
29:52
What's the what's the with the last QB as a rookie QB ever got
29:58
to the Super Bowl? You know, I'm just trying to
30:02
think like research Carl coming in coming clutch a championship
30:05
game. Who was it?
30:05
Because I'm just trying to think now off the top of my head, like
30:08
who was the the rookie QB that got there to the championship?
30:10
I should probably know this, but in terms of rookie never been to
30:14
a Super Bowl because like, like you say, it's such a if you look
30:18
at Mendoza's tape from the from his pro day, like it didn't look
30:25
anything spectacular. Let's just say.
30:30
Well, that's, I mean, that's, that's the talk, isn't it?
30:32
That like. Jayden Daniels, thank you very
30:35
much. And property that's mad.
30:39
So the talk about Mendoza is actually, you know, if this is a
30:43
different quarterback draft is not going to necessarily be the
30:48
top quarterback in the draft, maybe might still be up there.
30:52
But I think it's the fact that there are no quarterbacks
30:55
available really after him that are any good.
30:58
You've got a couple of names that as they always do leading
31:01
up to the draft, start to sort of rise a little bit.
31:04
But it's that panic of if we want a quarterback, we've got to
31:08
get him with that first pick. Whereas if it's a different year
31:12
and you've got 5-6 quarterbacks all going in the first round,
31:15
you've got options, then you could you could trade back and
31:17
build a bit of draft capital. You've got more flexibility, but
31:20
it's just not going to happen this year.
31:24
But I don't know. I mean, the Raiders are not
31:26
making the Super Bowl this year, whether they play.
31:28
No. Mendoza or Kirk Cousins as the
31:31
best career any quarterbacks ever had them, they're just as a
31:34
team. They're not ready.
31:36
But I think, I just think it's a smart move.
31:39
What about shock Situation comes in on the draft day here and the
31:43
Browns signed Cousins for this deal and decide to trade 101
31:49
away for the better draft class. Maybe not Maybe not move into
31:54
the first round. Maybe not move move further into
31:56
the first round of this draft. That Raiders.
31:59
Sorry. Yeah, like not moving to it's
32:03
this draft. I think you know, we'll get rid
32:05
of one O 1 moving to the 2027 draft class into the first
32:10
round. Lumping it on maybe getting it
32:12
because it could be a more QB and Ed team out there because
32:16
realistically now the Raiders don't necessarily need a QB
32:20
because they have Cousins to a fighter.
32:21
If they want him, that could have him for at least a year,
32:23
see him out there, go out there and then potentially look at a
32:26
better QB, draft a QB, yeah, QB class in the next year or the
32:31
year after and say we might get more value for his money X we
32:35
might get a first and potentially 1/3 depending what
32:39
team it is. I think there's just that risk
32:42
factor because you don't know where that team that you trade
32:46
in with is going to end up the year after.
32:48
You don't know how that's going to pan out, but I think I think
32:51
the beauty of this signing with Kirk Cousins as well is that
32:56
when we're speaking about like fans putting pressure on to sign
32:59
that to get like Mendoza on the field and things, I think that
33:02
kind of plays into the Raiders hands a little bit as well.
33:05
Because what you've seen over with Kirk Cousins over the last
33:08
3-4 years no longer really is. He has that period of games
33:13
where he's falling. Yeah.
33:16
And then he'll have three or four games on the bounce where
33:18
he's thrown pick after pick and he's just bang average.
33:20
And that's a perfect opportunity then for Raiders to go.
33:23
Yeah, OK, now's the time. Let's get him on.
33:26
Yeah. So it's, it's, I think it's
33:27
clever in more ways than is maybe just seen on the surface.
33:32
Now I get you there mate. And you know what?
33:34
It's probably, you're probably right.
33:37
You know, I like throwing wild scenarios out there with them,
33:41
training at a first round pick. You never know what happens
33:43
because if it comes in this guy called here, you know.
33:46
Speaking of other contracts though, Trayvon Walker with the
33:48
Jacksonville Jaguars has signed a four year extension, $110
33:52
million to be exact, where 77 million of that is guaranteed
33:56
and about 50 million paid at signing.
33:59
I wouldn't mind getting paid 50 million when I sign a contract.
34:03
I must admit, good sign, sign in, solid sign.
34:07
It keeps in there up until 20-30.
34:10
If they keep to see the contract out, I think that's a pretty
34:12
decent sign of me. What about yourself?
34:16
Yeah, I think, I think it's solid.
34:18
Like I think it's an interesting contract because it's not one
34:21
that basically says you're the best player in your position
34:26
because he's not. But I think it's a contract that
34:29
says, you know what, we respect what you've shown us and we
34:34
value you as a player. So.
34:36
So here's a good chunk of money that you're going to be happy
34:39
with and, you know, keep doing it.
34:41
And then we'll probably going to be pay the big, big bucks.
34:43
But I think it's a really fair deal that is probably pitched
34:48
about right for how he's played. I think he's a solid player.
34:52
I'd take him. It's a good bit of business.
34:55
Yeah, I can't, I can't really grumble too much.
34:57
Don't have too much to say about it, if I'm honest with you, but
35:01
I just think it's a solid bit of business.
35:03
No, that's that, that's right. It's yeah, again, solid there
35:07
the two major signings and contracts from the week that
35:11
we've had there and to be fair, if your teams signs from that
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35:33
We're trying something a little bit new with the whole
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production side come and see our beautiful faces.
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YouTube and Spotify have a video version of each one each episode
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milestone face review, face. Yeah.
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Review reveal, face reveal, research A cow, right?
35:57
But we'll have to work out there and see if he might, might work
36:00
something out there. Right.
36:02
Moving on. May the Falcons have updated
36:06
their uniforms. First thoughts.
36:09
What do you think? Well, let's take a look at them,
36:12
shall we? I think they are.
36:15
I think they're fine. Like, I think they're fine.
36:17
It's interesting that the last part we did two weeks ago was
36:22
our power rankings for the jerseys.
36:28
Would the Falcons have ended up a bit higher than they did?
36:31
Probably. I think I like them.
36:32
I think they're clean. I think they're a classic look.
36:38
You know that it's red, it's white, it's black.
36:40
It's it's fine. But I do think it's an
36:43
improvement for sure. And I like the font.
36:47
I like, I'm not sure if the font's the same or not, I'll be
36:50
honest with you, but I do like it.
36:53
I think it's a clean look. And yeah, yeah, it's good.
36:56
It's a good move. I I really don't like the old
36:59
numbers on the on the old jersey.
37:03
That kind of style they tried they tried to push towards it
37:06
were Michael Petite. This looks cleaner, but research
37:09
college probably a little comment into our little chat
37:11
here saying barring home jersey just the Cardinals away jersey,
37:15
the booked away jersey. Really really agree with you
37:18
that my biggest issue is the the NFL teams nowadays are not I
37:25
said no, that's that's that's disrespectful.
37:27
This in particular here is just so late night, our late early
37:33
90s, late 90s kind of vibe of that.
37:36
Just we're going to get a colour go.
37:38
It's a number and a logo on it, £110 please, $110.00 for this
37:43
jersey, please. That's just a plain red jersey.
37:45
When you've got college teams out there making these sick
37:47
jerseys like Oregon's OR, I've always got dope jersey to go
37:51
away. Oregon.
37:53
Yeah, that you don't mind spending.
37:55
I, I, I, I don't I'm not an Oregon fan, but I would spend
37:59
$100 on on an Oregon jersey because it's so good.
38:02
This you look at and it's just like, come on, guys, do
38:05
something, get a get a design team in there because you could
38:09
really cut that market. You could hit that market hard
38:12
with a with a gorgeous design look at the charges bringing
38:15
some nice designs out there. I just feel like NFL teams go
38:19
SO1 dimensional sometimes and this it's a poor example of a re
38:24
not rebrand, but like we bring a New Jersey out, it's red, get
38:28
out of here, get out of here. It's, it's just a bit meh.
38:33
It's fine. Like I think that is the best
38:35
way of all the best words I can find to describe it is just,
38:39
it's fine. So I mean, it's not offensive.
38:43
That's probably part of it really, isn't it?
38:45
Like they want to appeal to as many people as they can.
38:48
So it's not offensive. It's nothing crazy, but it is
38:51
definitely an improvement. Yeah, it's not the one, is it?
38:55
It's not the one. Anyway.
38:57
Let's get off that. It's not there.
38:58
It's just he's just plain old, plain old.
39:00
But that's the NFL kind of roundup that's going on at the
39:03
moment within the world of football.
39:06
We're going to move on to a very similar shaped ball now and
39:09
we're going to move on to another passion of myself and
39:11
Brad's, which is a new feature. It's I can't speak, get him off
39:16
ref. Well, we're talking all things
39:19
rugby league from this week now. It's going to be a bit of a sore
39:24
subject to this, I'm not going to lie, because me and Brad were
39:30
actually a spontaneous Saturday night decision.
39:34
Fancy game tomorrow, Bank holiday Sunday, couple of pints,
39:38
watch the game, get a bit of a live old action and good old
39:42
review. And what a waste of money that
39:46
one. Hey mate, I'll waste that money,
39:49
that one. It was absolutely, well, not
39:51
complete waste. I mean, we had a great day, to
39:53
be fair, a heavy day, but the game was tragic.
39:59
Like I'll be honest, I was I was thinking that first the first
40:03
half. So just for anyone who's new to
40:06
this, like we're talking Castleford Wakefield here, just
40:09
for clarity on that one. But I thought, I thought the
40:12
first half. I wouldn't say Castleford were
40:15
like terribly worse than Wakefield, like Wakey were
40:18
probably the better side. And I'm not.
40:21
I'm never one to sort of blame refereeing decisions and things
40:24
like I really, I try not to do that as much as possible.
40:28
But I do think the referee in this game was woeful.
40:32
I don't think it's going to check.
40:33
It wouldn't have changed anything like but I thought no,
40:37
I thought the first half was casts were a little bit worse
40:39
than Wakey, but the referee in massively helped Trinity.
40:44
But then the second-half was just absolutely, it was
40:47
absolutely diabolical. It was.
40:48
Terrible yeah. So this, this game hurt me in
40:54
many ways, right? Not just my pride from sat there
40:58
or stood there watching the game, but financially because it
41:02
made me drink more for one. But then financially when I got
41:07
home that night, I went to hang my coat up and ripped, ripped
41:13
the coat hanger off the walls, had to buy a new one and put
41:16
that on the yeah. So I was not in the good books.
41:21
I I woke up the next morning to all the coats on the floor
41:23
downstairs and a very angry wife anyway.
41:28
So yeah, not just that, but but it made me do you know, right.
41:32
Rugby league fans are passionate, but they do not talk
41:36
some balls at times that you know, then where it were just
41:41
one of them games where you know what I put up field.
41:44
Somebody was in the wrong and the the fans made themselves
41:46
aware of it. And you if you look at it from a
41:48
bigger point of view and cast were diabolical.
41:50
And but I fully agree with you. The first half, the refereeing
41:53
was atrocious. But that second-half, if Waker
41:56
decided to go home halfway through the second-half, Cass
41:58
would have still found a way to to knock on, let the ball out of
42:02
touch, kicking. How how we can have a field that
42:05
we have that would play on as a home field week in week out
42:09
right and still can't find space when we kick that ball.
42:13
It is diabolical. There's there's people on that
42:15
field that that needs to just realise that they need to get a
42:19
job stocking shelves somewhere and not on a rugby field.
42:23
And you know what that's that's that's disrespectful to people
42:25
stocking shelves actually, because they're better than what
42:28
I saw in that field at weekend It it was awful.
42:33
I'll do it again. I'll go waste your money again.
42:36
I know I will. It's just they're going to lose
42:41
support. They're going to lose the
42:42
support soon. They were, they were a sellout
42:44
crowd. They're going to lose support
42:45
soon. I mean, is it another month's
42:47
time that researcher Cal's asking us to go see Wakey casts
42:51
at Trinity? No Wakey Leeds, won't it?
42:55
Wakey Leeds. That's right.
42:56
Sorry. Yeah, that's it.
42:58
I mean, yeah, don't tell me she'll disown me if we go to
43:02
that game. Well, I mean, it was Rivals
43:06
Week, wasn't it? So obviously we've touched on a
43:08
warm rivalry there. I think there was one.
43:11
Well, there's two games actually that I were really quite
43:13
interested in seeing how they pan out.
43:16
And the first one was Bradford, Leeds.
43:19
I mean, how many years has it been we've been waiting for this
43:21
game to? It was like it was the old
43:24
rivalry. It was like it was the pinnacle
43:27
of Super League, these games, wasn't it?
43:28
Bradford and Leeds always top 2, you know, for a period of years,
43:32
definitely like top three or four.
43:34
And it was always a slog. And it was, it was quite
43:37
exciting to see. I saw some like marketing and
43:40
publicity around the game. We've been waiting how many
43:43
years for this ball? It must be nearly 20 years or
43:46
something, maybe a bit less than that.
43:48
But it's. Yeah.
43:49
Like there was that one and then a new rivalry really, Catalans
43:54
and Toulouse. I was really intrigued how that
43:57
one would pan out like Toulouse of not been terrible at all.
44:02
They started really strong, dropped off a little bit, but
44:04
they started really strong and I thought they had a chance to to
44:08
beat Catalans to be fair, and the score was close to be fair,
44:11
like 3326. It's a it's a drop goal game,
44:15
isn't it? That's got the victory.
44:18
Well, not the victories are trying to drop goal, but you
44:21
know, they were depending on that drop goal because it was a
44:23
close game. So I think, you know, I think
44:26
All in all rivalries week was was quite a success really, I
44:31
think. Yeah, and it you know what
44:34
touching back on the market in there that that that leads
44:36
Bradford game. I really enjoyed.
44:39
I'm going to credit Sky Sports here.
44:40
To be fair, they they went around the fans pregame and
44:45
they're like putting like a phone camera in the face.
44:47
It's like right who you know in the prime, who you have been
44:50
Leon Price, Ryan all and it'll bring back all these like, you
44:54
know, in the prime moments and it's like, oh, just bringing
44:57
back keep seeing you got mentioned at one point.
45:00
I'm like, well, what a geezer. He will like speak with me about
45:03
my child and really well, really well, kind of produced and and
45:07
and marketed there across. Now I want to touch on that to
45:12
lose Catalan game in a second, but going back to the the first
45:16
few times we did the I can't speak Pog their features on it.
45:20
We were speaking really highly of the, the, the newly promoted
45:24
teams and all the newly promoted teams are playing and performing
45:26
against against existing teams, York in particular to lose.
45:30
We're doing all right as well to be like you said, but York in
45:32
particular now, are we seeing that that fall off that decline
45:37
happen because, you know, yes, they're playing the same amount
45:40
of games whether we'll be in the championship, if not a couple
45:42
less depending on how the the playoffs go.
45:45
But they're playing a tougher opponent week in, week out now.
45:48
They're not playing. They're not playing the teams
45:51
that they can kind of walk over and get some rest if they're
45:54
needed to. Are we seeing this decline now,
45:56
like to lose, have lost now the tools are looking what they look
46:00
like at first couple of week, York losing to Huddersfield.
46:03
Now I want to touch on that in a bit more detail in a second, but
46:07
York losing their, Bradford losing to Leeds, like tough
46:11
games, don't get me wrong, But are we seeing that that the the
46:15
realisation of it in the Super League now and not in the
46:18
Championship, is that coming into play, do you reckon?
46:21
Yeah, maybe. I mean, I've just, I've just
46:24
loaded up the the Super League table now just to have a gander.
46:27
I've not, I've not looked since the weekend, to be fair.
46:29
And you've got the Wolves at the top on 10 points that played six
46:33
games. So they've actually got a game
46:35
in hand there. And you've got then from 10th
46:40
downwards. So to lose Giants, York Lee,
46:44
Leopards and Tigers all on four points.
46:48
So you know, it's it's early in the it's early in the season,
46:52
isn't it? But you've had a few upset
46:54
results to begin with. So your Rhinos have played seven
46:58
games, so they could be on 14 points, They're on 10.
47:01
So they're in second at the minute.
47:02
Same with Warriors, Wakey, Saints.
47:06
So they're all the top five are on 10 points, the bottom five
47:11
are on 4 points. So it's still all to play for.
47:13
But I think you're right in what you're saying that those new
47:16
teams started really strong and they've dropped off haven't Then
47:22
it's you'd think it maybe go the other way, like teams tend to
47:28
find their form and actually, yeah, maybe it's actually that
47:33
the teams they be are finding the form.
47:35
I mean, the Huddersfield loss for York is probably that's
47:40
that's going to hurt that one, because I'm saying Huddersfield
47:43
are the team that should be propping up the league, like
47:45
Tigers are currently propping up the league.
47:47
But they are that team really a Huddersfield.
47:53
So it's been, I don't know, it's, it's probably
47:55
disappointing one that I can see the making playoffs.
48:03
No, no. But the Huddersfield thing
48:07
assumed that I was. I was touching with you there.
48:09
Like since firing the coach. OK, so it's the same amount of
48:16
players. The fire coach got a new
48:17
coaching right And they played like a completely different
48:21
team. They beat Wigan last week and
48:24
they they absolutely, I don't think I remember texting you
48:27
actually. Like have you seen this score?
48:29
Like Huddersfield were up and they were playing well.
48:34
And if I, if I'd have had a bet, if someone said to me give me a
48:38
surefire bet for this weekend that I can put my house on, it'd
48:41
have been we're going to be, we're going to put 100 past
48:43
Huddersfield. And no, he came out and now
48:47
they're not just being York, they're they're putting 20
48:52
points past York positively right and dominating that game.
48:58
He's just a new turn. But this goes back to what was
49:00
what we spoke about with like the giant situation in the NFL.
49:04
He's this new coach and you see our time with new coaches and
49:07
new managers coming in football, rugby, American football.
49:10
They'll do well for half a season.
49:11
I'll do half a less that season, get a get a contract and then
49:14
bash. But the touch on the teams like
49:17
we were spoke away with York, Toulouse and Bradford.
49:21
You say that teams normally find the farm going into the season,
49:24
but you think these are kind of getting found out more now to
49:29
lose. If you if you kind of contain
49:32
their fall back, they've got nothing but not much more.
49:35
The teams have been doing that. So then they're not going to be
49:38
as expressive anymore. So it could not be something
49:41
that they're looking at more than anything else.
49:44
Yeah, it probably is. It probably is.
49:45
And that happens, like you say, in every sport, doesn't it?
49:47
Like you start to find those teams out.
49:50
I know more than most from an NFL point of view where Miami
49:52
Dolphins come up firing in the first half of the season when,
49:55
you know, we had the Mike McDaniel, you know, start of his
49:59
tenure, like Dolphins were electric and then they started
50:02
figuring out how to rock the boat and, and we're seeing that.
50:06
So yeah, I can't see them. I can't see them been playoff
50:10
bound. The new teams, to be honest, I
50:13
mean, Bradford are currently 8th.
50:15
So they're at the top of the for the new 3 teams into the league.
50:20
But we'll, I think we'll see how it goes.
50:22
Staying out of that yeah, he's staying on that bottom 2 for him
50:25
really proving that they're not a bottom two team.
50:27
And if you can start that, I think it's a success.
50:30
But yeah, that's that's that's the rugby league better rundown
50:35
from from this week now. Good.
50:39
Moving on to one of our favourite features now, our
50:43
reoccurring feature of all other balls.
50:47
Brad, if you would like to explain to the lovely listener
50:49
at home what is all other balls? Absolutely.
50:54
So all of the balls is where we touch on other areas in the
50:59
world of sport. Obviously our rugby league
51:03
feature started in all of the balls before making its way into
51:07
a sort of ongoing feature throughout the NFL offseason.
51:10
But we'll touch on other sports from around the world.
51:12
Sometimes it's a nice funny story, sometimes it's a success
51:15
story, or sometimes it's just genuinely what's going on in
51:19
different areas. And that's kind of what we've
51:21
got on today for you. So we don't often to say we're a
51:25
British podcast. We don't often discuss football
51:28
as in soccer, football, soccer, soccer ball.
51:33
But we did this week. After the tragic Tigers loss we
51:39
we went to drown our sorrows in a local ale.
51:43
House we did, actually. And we, I mean, the game was on
51:49
in the background one, we didn't actually see the end of this.
51:51
So it's just been a highlights thing for me.
51:53
But Leeds, so Leeds United, probably the most sort of
52:00
supported local team for where Zach and I are based and
52:04
research Cal, I know you're a big fan yourself.
52:08
Leeds actually have made the semi finals of the FA Cup for
52:12
the first time in 39 years which is absolutely nuts to think and
52:20
I hope research Cal for your sake that that stat is correct.
52:24
He's not in confidence, no one can see him but he's like yes
52:28
yeah so Leeds beat West Ham on penalties.
52:31
I think it was 2/2. Was it the main game?
52:34
Obviously extra time and penalties got leads to the
52:37
victory. So they're in the semi finals
52:40
for the very first time. And then I think the other upset
52:43
really from the weekend from the FA Cup sort of side of things is
52:49
Arsenal, who are currently dominating the Premier League in
52:54
terms that I think they're like, is it 9 points clear?
52:57
I think of City, they were knocked out by Southampton,
53:02
which was a real upset. So Southampton progress and
53:07
Arsenal, who it's their league to lose when you're talking
53:11
about the Premier League, are out of the FA Cup.
53:13
So it will be an interesting being interesting round.
53:17
When When are the next fixtures? Researcher Cal.
53:21
I love an underdog story, though.
53:23
Me, I love the underdog story. It's, it's, it's, it's great.
53:28
April 25th, 26th sweet. Well, we'll definitely keep an
53:30
eye on that. Touch on Leeds right quickly.
53:32
I know we don't want to talk too much about, but touch on Leeds
53:34
right quickly, like growing up in our area, football's massive
53:40
to the to, to people and, and especially in school and stuff.
53:45
The scenes start there. And again, research Carl if it's
53:49
wrong. By the way, guys, please roast
53:51
him and don't roast me and Brad. We just read what he puts on the
53:53
we could put anything he wants to the script and we read his
53:55
start. That's why we get him wrong
53:56
sometimes. But for me, I remember that
53:59
Leeds Man United Derby like like push it up and in the Premier
54:04
League and they were great. To see that as like the first
54:07
time I were alive, the last time that they got to the semi final,
54:11
which it blows my mind because Leeds were a good team, but
54:15
we're a great team but. It is weird.
54:21
Like that's what that's why I want to like we'll talk.
54:23
We always have a chat down before the show.
54:25
And he'd mentioned about the 39 years thing.
54:27
Oh yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Like the knocked down to the
54:31
Championship and further like, and then as I was just sort of,
54:36
you know, sort of reading through that, that statement
54:40
again, the 39 years thing, I was just like, hang on, that just
54:43
seems a bit bizarre. But I mean, he's just put in
54:48
here. So 1987 we lost to Coventry, who
54:51
won the Cup that year and we're a second, the second division
54:55
club at the time. Nuts.
54:57
Absolutely not. That's wild.
54:59
That's wild. Well, good luck to him.
55:02
A newer board. We'll definitely keep you posted
55:04
on that. Now moving on to less than fun
55:07
news and a bit more serious news.
55:09
Now Mr Tiger Woods has been arrested once again for DUI in
55:15
America. And so for you know, the Brits
55:19
that don't know what DUI is, he's been caught basically drink
55:21
driving or drug driving, depending on what they're what
55:25
they're testing for there. But this is the second time
55:28
after the 12 to 2017, which wouldn't his first one were not
55:34
ideal. There were plenty of mug shots
55:37
photos getting circulated around with him sat in the back of the
55:40
the cop car getting drove back there.
55:43
Look, he's checked himself into rehab, which all we can do is
55:48
send teasing peace towards him and and hopefully actually works
55:52
this time around for him and, and he kind of sorts himself out
55:54
because the guy's going. He's had a lot of controversy in
55:59
his life and I think his success outweighs the controversy.
56:03
I'm not in any way, shape or form, by the way, condoing
56:06
anything that he's ever done. But I think the reason why he
56:09
keeps getting these second, third chances because of his
56:12
success that he's had and what he's done for the sport of golf.
56:15
I think like he just needs to really knock it.
56:19
Think about his decisions. I think he needs a better group
56:22
of friends around him as well because somebody has allowed him
56:26
to do that. He's he, I mean, I've been alone
56:30
and drove off as a realistically someone's kind of clocked on
56:32
that he's going to do. He's going to drove.
56:34
So just speak to be better people around him.
56:36
But that being said, moving back onto the NFL as well as kind of
56:41
ties in with this story as well. Buku Nakura has also checked
56:45
himself into rehab in preparation for the season
56:48
coming up. Just due to some rash, rash
56:52
decisions that he's been making off the field and posting on his
56:55
social media. Somebody take that guy's phone
56:57
off him, please. The irony of this is on the last
57:02
part we recorded and we were chatting about this before the
57:04
show, is that you were like, oh, yeah, he's done amazing this and
57:08
the other thing in all his praises.
57:09
And then I think it was literally like, we'd signed off
57:12
and over that night the story came out about these charges
57:15
that someone had been pressing against him or lawsuit or
57:19
whatever they call in America these different ways of doing
57:22
it. But yeah, like, what is in it
57:24
that he'd, like bit her or something?
57:26
And like, he's messed up. The guy is a concern.
57:31
He's a real concern. Yeah, just just cover him my
57:35
back again. Do not condone anything that and
57:38
even have done in any way shape or form.
57:40
And real is the place for them to go anyway.
57:44
Let's move on swiftly before I dig myself.
57:47
And all disclaimer, disclaimer. Yeah, got to put that out there.
57:51
Right. Let's go on to Carl's Conundrum,
57:53
shall we? I need to remind myself of the
57:56
Carl's conundrum from previous weeks.
58:00
I've got it. We'll get up on the screen now.
58:03
Believe. Yes.
58:05
Perfect. So the Carl's conundrum from
58:07
last the last pod, which is which NFL team holds the record
58:13
for the longest regular season losing streak in NFL history And
58:17
that goes down to the Chicago Cardinals, who are now the
58:22
Arizona Cardinals. As I said, all these that that
58:26
isn't all these that. So credit where crazy if you got
58:28
that one without Googling anyway.
58:31
Yeah, make sure with these that you are sort of chiming in on
58:35
socials and putting your responses on there.
58:37
It's quite nice. Like on Instagram, we'll, we'll
58:39
always try and share it as a story and you get people
58:41
replying to the story and it's like comment on the post.
58:45
Please. You know, we're not get
58:47
ourselves out there. So, you know, drop a comment for
58:49
us, whether it's on YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, wherever you
58:53
you get in the pod. Hell yes at ABNF pod on all your
58:58
socials as well for that one guys right, let's move on to
59:01
this week's Carlos could under that you can't get involved in
59:04
and that is who is the only player to score a rushing
59:08
touchdown, a receiving touchdown and a kick return touchdown in
59:12
the same NFL playoff game. Why do I feel like I know this?
59:17
Who is? I was thinking the exact same
59:19
thing. Why is it who is the only player
59:24
to score a rushing touchdown receiving this isn't?
59:26
That old this one, is it Cal? No, I know this one.
59:32
I know it. So who is the only player to
59:35
score a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown, a kick
59:36
return touchdown in the same NFL playoff game?
59:40
Why do I know this? Cal?
59:44
Can I can we, can we ask? Like, you've got it.
59:48
Yeah, you've got it. I've got it.
59:52
I'm going to leave you to Stew on that one.
59:53
I've got this one. This isn't that old.
59:55
This is a this is a good one. I like it.
59:58
I, I, I feel like I know this and it's going to Stew on my
1:00:03
head all night now, just what I need if I'm going to bed, right?
1:00:09
But yeah, if you know this one, guys, let us know.
1:00:11
Get involved, please let us know and get involved so we can so we
1:00:14
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1:00:17
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1:00:19
So yeah, head over there. Let us know while you're there
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there. Bob, Brad, that is the pod done
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for the first time in our new little cell.
1:00:44
You'll be you'll be glad about that one, won't you?
1:00:48
Listen, listen, this I was this close to saying right, you've
1:00:52
got this one solo. I'm done.
1:00:54
Me dunzo, see you later. I'm off.
1:00:57
My teddy was out of the window, big style.
1:01:00
So from the cabin kitchen is is literally been defined tonight.
1:01:05
The kitchen's held up and the cab absolutely has not.
1:01:08
Bless him, he's had a blessing, but we'll, we'll get there.
1:01:13
We will. We will get there indeed right.
1:01:16
Let's hope this goes out. If it doesn't, you've been a
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right life anyway. Head over to all the social
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listen there. What?
1:01:25
I don't even know what I'm saying now I'm off rise bedtime
1:01:28
for me. Good night.
1:01:30
God bless anything for myself, Brad.
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At ABNF Pod. Thank you and good night.
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One there please see ya.