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#5 - Big Balls · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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  Are we live? Welcome to the All Balls No
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  Filler podcast. Live from the cabin Kitchen.
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  I'm Zach. He's Brad.
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  What's? Up and behind the scenes, we
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  have a man that in 2008 was the World XL champion.
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  He's researcher Cal. Hey, researcher Cal, welcome you
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  all right, Zach, how are you doing?
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  I'm good, my man, I'm good. I'm even better after the
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  weekend, I'm not going to lie. How are you?
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  Yeah, yeah, I'm all right. Not too bad.
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  It's been a busy one, a bit of a chaotic weekend and early start
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  to the week, but I'm really excited to get stuck into it.
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  Hell yeah what we've got in store for today, mate.
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  Yeah. So as always at this time of
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  year, we're going to revisit the coaching carousel and of course,
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  check out the biggest games of the season so far for our balls
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  of the week, and that's the AFC and NFC Championship games, of
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  course. And as always, we can't forget
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  all of the balls, which we're quickly learning don't always
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  include balls, and just those general major stories in the
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  world of sport and the return of drum roll stats that sound fake.
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  Oh I, I like this. For me, I like this one.
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  This the stats that sound fake. I'm looking forward to this.
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  But we've got jam packed episode as per usual, so let's get into
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  our coaching carousel for the week.
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  Boom, we are here. There's been a lot happening.
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  I think, hey, look, I think the NFL will listening to the all
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  balls no filler podcast because we said it as soon as Jim
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  Harbaugh, so John Harbaugh gets gets hired, boom, everyone else
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  is going to do and it is happened, right?
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  There's been loads of hires over these past, you know, two week.
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  We covered a few of them last week.
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  More going on this week. There's stuff going in as we
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  speak every single day. Do you want to run through a
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  couple of them mate? Yeah, so just to recap, if you
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  didn't check us out last week and you've been living under a
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  rock in the NFL world, we have John Harbour hired as the head
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  coach for the Giants. Robert Salla was taken on by the
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  Titans. Kevin Stefanski was one of those
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  other top two, probably top tier names that has been floated
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  around. He lines himself up with the
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  Falcons and in a really exciting potential, I think with that
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  team. Jeff Haffley to my Dolphins,
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  they're really impressed with his opening press conference.
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  By the way, I don't know if you caught it, him and Sully, the
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  new GM definitely in lockstep. I was dead impressed with that,
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  but I won't go on. And then since then, if I'm not
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  mistaken, we've had Jesse Minter hired by the Ravens, which I
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  think when John was first let go, I'm not sure if his name was
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  there at the forefront, I could be wrong, but he definitely
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  became that front runner, didn't he?
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  Through the process, Steelers hired Mike McCarthy, so the
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  return of the big dog. And then just today, as we
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  record, I believe Joe Brady promoted at the Bills, so kept
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  within to the head coach. What's your thoughts?
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  You know what, right, I like that Mike McCarthy with me,
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  right. I like Mike McCarthy at
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  Steelers. He's a he's a, he's a, he's a
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  Pittsburgh guy. Like I'm sure, I wonder why.
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  I'm sure research Carl's going to have something to say about
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  it as well-being being a a Steelers fan himself.
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  But I like him there. I believe as well as that he's I
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  think he's the oldest head coach that they've ever hired.
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  So like they don't want to go for the younger guys.
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  I quite like that there. I'll be honest with you.
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  There's a couple of names standing out there.
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  Robert Salad at the Titans. I do.
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  I do like that big, but it it it contradicts itself being a
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  defensive coach with a with a with a with a generational.
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  I know you'll love that when I'm going to keep bringing up the
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  generational QB that they've got in in camp Ward.
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  But yeah, there's there's there's a few in there.
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  The Browns. Let me laugh now I'm going to
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  touch on the Browns in a second. But what's your view on on on
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  these? Anyone stand out to you?
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  Yeah, I probably agree. You know, and I think the you
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  mentioned the seller 1 and that's actually really
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  interesting, isn't it? Because I'm sure it's officially
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  it's official or it's nearly official, but Brian Dabal is
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  going to the Titans as the OC I believe.
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  And I think that's, I think that's probably probably one of
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  the best moves I think of this hiring cycle.
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  Like you look at the work you did with Alan at the Bills and
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  he obviously didn't have that same success at the Giants or
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  that he could argue he was polishing a turd a little bit at
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  times. Like he did have some good Danny
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  Dimes years or at least a year of good Danny Danny Danny Dimes.
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  So I think that hire there for Cam Ward is potentially one of
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  the top hires of the whole coaching carousel.
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  And I know we won't have time to dig into every OCDC quarterback
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  DB coach higher there is, but that's definitely one that
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  stands out. I think another one obviously
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  not on this list because we're looking currently at the head
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  coaches again, trying not to be biassed, but might.
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  But Daniel, who's unless he secures a head coaching job, is
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  the OC of charges. And I think that's just there's
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  just a little nugget as a Dolphins fan that really
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  interests me with that one because there's always the
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  Justin Herbert to thing. You come, you know, you're
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  comparing two different players. But it's going to be really
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  interesting now Mike's gone there.
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  But on the flip side, how many offensive coordinators have gone
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  there hoping that's going to catapult them into a head
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  coaching role? And it's failed miserably.
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  So it's yeah, it's it's interesting.
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  It's. Some personality class for me
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  for charges like you've got Jim Harbour and you've got you've
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  got Mike McDaniels right there who are two completely.
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  You look at them on on paper. It's like kind of chalk and
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  cheese. I saw like a pretty funny video
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  circle on exit like this guy's recreated that the interview
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  process and it's just it's so it's so funnily accurate and
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  nothing's talking about football and it's like it's like, you
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  know, going deep dive into into conversation with.
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  But he's got an I'm excited to see it because I agree with you
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  there. I think he's got the potential.
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  He's got everything written on the cards to be a very, very,
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  very exciting signing there. Like, but I mentioned the Browns
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  not so long back and they're still vacant at the moment.
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  And there's been loads of things circulating about the hiring
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  process of what the Browns are doing right now.
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  And they're sending questionnaires out and they're
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  sending this out and they're sending that out and they're
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  making you do this, this and this.
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  And it's like people are withdrawing themselves because
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  not the right fit. And at what point do you realise
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  like, Hey, hang on, we're having to the kind of resort now and
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  and again, I'm probably going to get this wrong.
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  I'm going to open up so you can kind of back me up on this.
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  They're they're about like bumping the DC up to to head
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  coach. And it seemed like a bit of a
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  bit of like a we ain't got anybody.
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  So get yourself an air pal like that kind of higher well.
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  That's the rumour though, isn't it?
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  That apparently a lot of guys are pulling out because the
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  Browns love this guy and they're saying, well, you're keeping him
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  on as ADC, but actually, who knows what goes on behind the
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  closed doors? Is it actually that the Browns
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  want him, NOA? And they're just going through
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  the motions. They've got to go through that
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  cycle, haven't they? They've got to interview so many
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  people and so many people, certain backgrounds, XYZ.
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  But you've got Jim Schwartz there rubbing his fingers,
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  rubbing his hands together, thinking this is mine, this is
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  mine. Just because I'm an
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  inconvenience, this is going to be mine.
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  I think it's fall withdrawals. Researcher Carl's saying, you
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  know, that's whether, you know, The thing is we don't always
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  hear about everything, do we? But it's really quite public
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  this year that Browns have had four people withdraw.
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  And you think of the guys that are withdrawing, they've worked
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  their backsides off for as long as they've been around.
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  You know, the sport, which for most of these guys will be since
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  they could walk and throw a ball.
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  And then to turn down opportunities to be a head
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  coach, which in the coaching game is the biggest job you can
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  have. It's, it's a bit awkward, isn't
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  it? That I agree.
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  I agree. I just think it's at what point
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  do you give your organisation a bit of a look at and think,
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  right, OK, if people are pulling themselves out, there's, you
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  know, there's there's guys that I've taken jobs, you know, like
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  you say with, with, with Matt McDaniel, if he doesn't get a
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  head coaching job elsewhere, he's going to be the OC at the
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  Chargers. Well, he's pulled away from a
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  head coaching role, like as in a potential being in line with
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  that. He's pulled away from that by
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  just a bit of a shake up there and another curveball in the
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  coaching, the coaching carousel world.
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  The Bills hired Joe Brady, but there were a little name getting
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  thrown around, which I liked about the Bills next potential
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  head coach before Brady got got named.
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  And that one I missed a Philip Rivers went in for an interview.
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  Now, could you imagine Philip Rivers walking into that
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  building being like the most, even in his prime, the most like
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  immobile QB just stood in the pocket, threw the ball right,
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  left, right and centre walk up to Josh Allen Green right.
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  We're going to make you a pocket passer.
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  This is what we're going to do. Like, Can you imagine?
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  I just, it'd be so surreal seeing that in my for me, but.
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  I thought it was hilarious because like you, you hear about
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  all these press conferences and the sacrifices that people make.
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  I can't remember. It was now I saw it that one of
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  the head coaches sees his kids for like 30 minutes in a week
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  because he comes home early from the facility.
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  One. Yeah.
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  Mike McDonald, Thank you, Cal. It's easy.
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  Kids for 30 minutes a week. Now, we won't get into the the
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  arguments about that side of stuff, but it's funny because
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  then you've got Philip Rivers who's probably going for these
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  head coach, this head coach job to get away from his 65,000
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  kids. So he's not got to see them for
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  half an hour a week. That's it, That's it.
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  But yeah, that's that's the that's the main kind of stories
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  around the around the coaching world and what's going in the
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  head coaching side anyway, Not coordinate.
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  As I said, if we missed anything, guys, do us a favour.
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  Let us know in the comments below.
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  What's your favourite signs? Well, what are you looking
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  forward to? Your team got a new head coach.
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  If so, what do you reckon? Let us know because we're
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  interested in, we want to kind of engage with you guys more
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  about what you think on this. So yeah, question.
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  For you just before we move on, let me let me interrupt this
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  one. Obviously we know the results
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  and we'll get into those. But a year ago, two years ago,
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  every year there's been a question about the one and only
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  LA Rams head coach. Is he or is he not going into
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  the world of media? Is he going to retire with his
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  model life? Like, do we see that happening
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  or is that how close he was again?
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  To attempting I, no, I think, I think he's there.
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  I think he's there for the good. I think he doesn't need to move
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  on. I think he's crucial.
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  I don't think his jobs under scrutiny at all.
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  I like this. I don't think to be forced out
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  like say Tomlin was, for instance, or anything from just
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  not getting there because I think he's, you know, he's
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  borderline across that mark pretty much most of the time
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  anyway. I don't know.
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  It's at what point, because he's still pretty young, right?
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  In terms of the into the coaching world, he's still
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  pretty. He's still got a life ahead of
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  him. I mean, I just actually bringing
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  that coin in me until it starts, until the pressure starts
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  getting. It's not like he's Bill
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  Belichick where like, I mean, he could retire if he wants it, but
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  he's old now to a point where he's got all this money and he
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  can't really enjoy his life that much, you know, whereas what is?
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  HE303839 I'm not even, I don't even think he's 40 or he's close
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  to 40. Like he might have just turned
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  40 maybe. In fact, I'm just looking now
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  actually, he has just turned 40, actually just a few days ago.
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  Nice. But you know, like he's got,
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  yeah, he's got another 40 plus years ahead of him, you know?
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  Oh yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't in mind.
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  I don't, I don't see him going to another team if I if that
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  makes the question any better. I don't see him going to other
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  teams. I think when he's finished at
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  the Rams, he walks away into the sunset with all this money and
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  he's really hot wife like. It'll be interesting.
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  On it, yeah, it's just. Just a long nugget.
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  It's just sort of been in my mind since obviously Sunday
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  night and just like what does, what does it mean next?
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  But I'm sure we'll unpick that a little bit.
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  That's it. And Speaking of the Rams, we're
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  making those balls of the week this week.
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  We've only only been having two games on this week.
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  We've only got 2 balls of the week and we'll be we'll be deep
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  diving into these games in particular this this episode, by
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  the way, guys, is more of a championship round episode.
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  We're going to deep dive into the Super Bowl next week in
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  particular in the preview for that next week.
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  This week all about the championship championship.
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  Remember that word, Brad? Championship round when we get
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  into our second balls of the week.
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  But the first one, over to you, my man.
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  Who is it and what we got? Well, we have course got the
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  Super Bowl happening Sunday night, just passed with the LA
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  Rams falling short against the Seattle Seahawks.
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  I mean, this has absolutely been the game of the year or, you
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  know, it's up there with the other two games that they've
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  had. It's just there's no other way
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  to really describe the battle that these two teams have had.
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  I mean, the back and forth, the Seahawks go up front first and
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  then the Rams start bringing it back and take the lead and it's
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  back and it's forth and it's back and it's forth the whole
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  way through the game. It was just an absolute classic
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  from start to finish. I mean, Donald had a career
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  night, 346 yards, 3 touchdowns. We spoke about it last week
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  about this, this story of Donald and I just love it for the guy.
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  Absolutely love it. It was an absolute battle of
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  offence as well, which is the weirdest thing.
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  You know, Seattle's known this last year or two for its
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  defence, like it's Smash Mouth defence and ultimately that is
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  what the game came down to, didn't it?
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  They had the big red zone stop and it won the game for them.
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  But for both those players to have, I mean, just the stats,
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  look at those stats on the screen.
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  Now you've got, as I said, you've got Donald 346 yards, 3
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  touchdowns. You've got Stafford 374 yards
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  and three touchdowns. It's just an absolute battle the
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  whole way through. I absolutely loved it from start
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  to finish. Now, I won't lie to you, I
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  watched this yesterday. I didn't watch it live.
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  I wasn't staying up for reasons that I'm sure we'll get into
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  shortly, but it was just, you can see where this is going,
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  can't you? But.
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  He was talking. About an absolute classic in
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  every sense of the word. And I almost just feel not sad
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  because the Super Bowl is always a great night.
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  But I just, you know, I'm just imagining this as we do, you
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  know, we we attend the same Super Bowl party and just
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  imagine him watching this game with that atmosphere would have
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  just been it'd have been electric and the game was
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  electric. You know, it's just.
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  Fully agree. Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
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  Absolutely brilliant from start to finish.
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  It was, it had it had a bit of everything in there.
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  And again, I didn't stay up to watch the game.
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  We watched the highlights. Just it is a stupid time for us
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  a lot of the time. Is it the later games in
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  particular? But it had that, that
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  entertaining championship game factor behind it.
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  It really did. And there's no, you know, the 2
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  championship games were so chalk and cheese, and not just because
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  of skull lines either. Just the way the games went and
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  what happened within the games. But like this one, everything
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  that was on the field was just, you know, JSN is something is a
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  machine. There were a pass, right?
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  And that there were a password. JSN brings it in one handed,
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  right? When you deep dive and look at
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  that pass, it's actually a no look pass from Donald.
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  You put that in in the cheeks 2-3 years ago.
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  It had been blown up on the Internet and I saw it being
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  shared by some guy on on XI. Don't actually follow it.
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  It was just a random a random tweet out there.
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  It was, it was incredible to watch.
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  And I agree what you're saying, that that was the Super Bowl.
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  There's no two ways about it. And we'll get into kind of that
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  in a little bit. But it was a Super Bowl quality
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  game. It's what you want within the
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  Super Bowl. But it did come with some
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  questionable bits towards towards the back end.
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  But again, starting a second with with with that.
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  It's a special teams. I'm going to have my special
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  teams again because I love it. But anything else from yourself
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  on that? I just think it was like just
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  the way that the ball was spread around amongst players on both
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  sides, you know? Like there's a reason Stafford's
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  quite possibly, I think likely maybe to be the MVP.
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  And he did he he did have an absolute stormer of a game.
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  You know, Devante was there for him.
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  It was just it was just brilliant.
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  You had Mevis who's kicking like the the 50 hour plus field goal,
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  keeping them going, keeping them in the mix.
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  And then on the flip side of that, you know, as you say,
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  you've got JSN. The big one for me which really
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  caught my attention was Cooper Cup.
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  Yeah, like. There's some story there.
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  Well, the obvious story there, but it's that storytelling
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  within the game and it's, I love it.
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  Like just little Nuggets like that.
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  It was just from start to finish it was, it was just brilliant,
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  like an absolute electric game. Entertaining to say the least.
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  And we're going to touch into special teams now and I know
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  we've we've battered on about this over the past couple.
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  It feels like every week recently we've been saying
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  something about how special teams can make or break your
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  your game. And This is why it comes down to
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  him. Xavier Smith had two muffed punt
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  returns now. The first one he were lucky
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  enough he dropped it and picked it back up.
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  The second one he called a fair catch, fell backwards, dropped
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  the ball. The Seahawks picked it up, put
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  them in prime, prime position. They went and scored.
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  I mean, it was it was 17 three at the time in the third quarter
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  when this happened. I don't know what he was
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  thinking when he did it. Just to if I just to explain, if
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  you are listening to this and you're relatively new to the
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  sport, If if, if we if my team punts the ball to Brad's team
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  and Brad's team fair catches it waves the hand up in the air to
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  walk away from where the ball is going to land.
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  It hits the floor. My team picks it up.
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  It's still Brad's team's ball because no one on his side of
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  the ball touched it. Now if I kick it up in the air,
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  Brad's team fair catches it, goes to catch it, drops the
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  ball. That ball then becomes live on a
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  punt. So if my team picks it back up,
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  it's my ball from there, right? So as a coach and you know,
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  research, Carl is is is also an assistant when it comes down to
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  coaching special teams, the one thing we try and hammer in at an
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  amateur level is if we try to move away from that ball, if
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  you're all fair, catch it in a safe, safe spot, just move away.
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  If you're not going to return the ball, just move away.
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  Like you wouldn't risk in the biggest game of of your career,
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  like up to lead to the biggest game of your career as well the
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  Super Bowl. Don't risk it.
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  What was he thinking? I mean, if that ball swirled as
• 20:21
  much in the air. Is it is it look to beef to make
• 20:25
  him move backwards and roll backwards and whatever he wants
• 20:30
  to try and catch the ball should move out the way.
• 20:32
  Your team would rather be on their one yard line moving up
• 20:35
  the field than giving the ball back on the 30 yard 20 yard line
• 20:38
  to go into the end zone. It is just that there lost in
• 20:42
  the game. It was 17 three third quarter
• 20:44
  which which then gets to a touchdown to make it 2413, which
• 20:47
  puts the momentum back in It's 2 score game, then puts momentum
• 20:51
  back in to to the Steelers hands.
• 20:54
  Actually Steelers sorry, I'm sorry the the Ram, the Rams, the
• 20:57
  Seahawks hands. We'll get my words out.
• 20:59
  Eventually. Yeah, I'll just name all the
• 21:01
  teams, but yeah, it that just blew my mind from that side of
• 21:06
  things. I mean, it's, it's basics, isn't
• 21:10
  it? It's absolute basics for them.
• 21:12
  And you know, maybe the pressure got to him.
• 21:15
  You know, it's like you say, it's the big one of the biggest
• 21:18
  games of his career. And the pressure does get to you
• 21:22
  in those situations, doesn't it? Like you can be as experienced
• 21:24
  as you want. You can be as composed as you
• 21:26
  want. But like the pressure does get
• 21:29
  to. And we've all experienced it in
• 21:30
  different avenues of life. But I think it just that that
• 21:36
  chain of events just gave Seahawks that little bit of room
• 21:39
  that they needed to be able to then control that fourth
• 21:41
  quarter, you know, sorry, the rest of the game from that
• 21:45
  point, really like. Yeah, third quarter was what it
• 21:49
  was. The fourth quarter had I think
• 21:51
  no points if memory serving, right, you know, and you added
• 21:56
  the Rams who had that late push, they had the long drive, was it
• 22:01
  like 7 plus minute drive and marched down the field, but they
• 22:05
  just didn't have the time. And there was the red zone stop
• 22:10
  and it was just, it's all ifs and buts, isn't it?
• 22:14
  Like, I'm a big believer and you can't blame one play.
• 22:17
  On. Again, and you know, we're going
• 22:19
  to have that same discussion point in the the Patriots
• 22:22
  Broncos game. I can, I can see it already, but
• 22:25
  you can't blame one play on losing the game.
• 22:27
  But it just shifts that momentum.
• 22:29
  It just gives that team that little bit of a, an opportunity
• 22:34
  to compose themselves and to to be able to control how the rest
• 22:39
  of that game goes. And, and when you've got control
• 22:40
  of the clock and you know, we know it's a game of chess, isn't
• 22:44
  it? So.
• 22:46
  It was a tough one. For him to swallow that.
• 22:48
  If you are an aspiring player and you're going to go play
• 22:51
  amateur or whatever in the UK, please, please just take notice
• 22:57
  of special teams because it can. It can literally lose your games
• 23:01
  in both this game and the next game.
• 23:03
  It can win or lose your games. It really can.
• 23:05
  But before we move on to the next game, I want to talk about
• 23:09
  chance and luck and fate, right? Rashid Sahid started the year at
• 23:18
  the New Orleans Saints. He's finishing the year going to
• 23:24
  the Super Bowl. Is that the trade of the trade
• 23:28
  deadline or what is that for? I can't think of a better
• 23:33
  progressional trade for a player like this year.
• 23:40
  I mean, he's got to be up there, hasn't it?
• 23:42
  Like he'll be absolutely loving life.
• 23:46
  It's it's, it's an interesting chain of events, the way this
• 23:49
  spot works and you know. Names who?
• 23:52
  Have I'm not saying like a name who's nothing, but like it's not
• 23:56
  you're not thinking, Oh my God, you're going to go out and get
• 23:58
  that guy. It wasn't like all the talk,
• 23:59
  obviously like like Tyree kill, where's he going to be by the
• 24:02
  trade deadline, obviously before he destroyed himself.
• 24:05
  But like it wasn't one of those names, was it?
• 24:08
  It was just a steady trade and. What happened happened.
• 24:13
  It came in last minute as well. Super Bowl, Yeah, that it came
• 24:16
  in last minute as well. And he's arguably played better,
• 24:20
  better games here. That has been performed a lot
• 24:25
  better. He just goes to show, you know,
• 24:27
  that player, all these players that play professionally are
• 24:30
  obviously very, very good at the job.
• 24:31
  But if they're in the wrong scheme and they're doing them in
• 24:33
  the wrong environment, Sam Donald's key for this.
• 24:38
  But yeah, anything else on the Rams and Seahawks game before I
• 24:42
  move on to our Game of the week? Not Ball of the Week, the Game
• 24:47
  of the week. The game of the week.
• 24:48
  That's an interesting take. The the only thing really I had
• 24:53
  is, and I don't know how much it did or didn't really
• 24:57
  particularly with this game, but how much home field advantage
• 25:01
  matters because you've got Rams and Seahawks who have been
• 25:06
  arguably or unarguably actually the best two teams in the league
• 25:09
  the whole way through from start to finish.
• 25:12
  And it was literally battling between those two teams who'd be
• 25:15
  the first seed in the NFC. And obviously Seahawks got that
• 25:19
  and they got their home home field advantage.
• 25:20
  And it's just interesting, like with the game this close and
• 25:23
  there's, there's no quantifiable data to show this is there?
• 25:27
  And but how much did that really matter?
• 25:32
  And I think adding to that, Seahawks struck first and got
• 25:35
  points on the board 1st and took that bit of a bit of a lead and
• 25:38
  a bit of an advantage gets the momentum behind the crowd.
• 25:42
  I don't know. It's just just a food for
• 25:44
  thought. All right, we'll expand on that
• 25:47
  a little bit, right. And let me just ask you a
• 25:49
  question back here and you're and this is just literally just
• 25:52
  coming to me now, the NFC has undoubtedly been the better
• 25:57
  conference this year with the more exciting teams in it,
• 26:01
  right? If it continues to go this way.
• 26:05
  And like you say, the, the the Rams, Seahawks was the Super
• 26:08
  Bowl as such, do the NFL look at a playoff structure very similar
• 26:17
  to like what college would be where you know, once you get to
• 26:20
  the playoffs, you then have bowls, for instance, like it
• 26:24
  could be an AFC bowl, an NFC bowl, just just for instance,
• 26:27
  like your championship games could be the top two teams from
• 26:30
  just something along the lines of and then you have a one and
• 26:34
  two seed that would get to the Super Bowl.
• 26:37
  So you could see the likes of Ramsey Hawks at the Super Bowl
• 26:41
  because they could, once it gets to the playoffs, you could then,
• 26:44
  you know, get your top however many teams, 12 teams, whatever.
• 26:48
  Concepts. I just think that concepts quite
• 26:51
  hard, isn't it? Because I think it's different
• 26:53
  at college because players will value the ball games because
• 26:56
  they're looking for exposure and they're looking for
• 26:58
  opportunities. I.
• 27:00
  Think in the NFL, you know, you're looking some players are
• 27:03
  still looking for that, but they're in the NFL, so they want
• 27:06
  to be the best. And now I you could argue it's
• 27:08
  still the best two teams, you know, XY and ZI just wonder if a
• 27:14
  are you taking away that reward for smashing it through the
• 27:18
  season? But on the flip side, what would
• 27:20
  be interesting is do you give home field advantage throughout
• 27:24
  the playoffs and then the championship game?
• 27:26
  You have at like a neutral venue, similar to what happens
• 27:30
  in football over here. You tend to get those neutral
• 27:32
  venues by the time you get to the semis, don't you?
• 27:34
  Or you do, you know, particularly in some tournaments
• 27:38
  within football and rugby, we we've experienced that as well.
• 27:42
  But how much of that then are you taking away the reward for
• 27:45
  grafting through the season and and keeping pushing to the very
• 27:47
  end to get that first seed? It's it's a difficult one.
• 27:51
  Neutral venue would be cool for me.
• 27:52
  I'd like neutral venue and kick off at the same time.
• 27:54
  And is it for a for a for like a a fan side of things?
• 27:58
  You have the choice of watching like, you know, Scott Hanson on
• 28:01
  red zone again for these two games back and forth, like in
• 28:04
  between. Or you can watch your own game.
• 28:06
  I think it'd be great because then you get to see who's in the
• 28:10
  who's in the Super Bowl at the same time.
• 28:12
  It just adds that bit of excitement towards it.
• 28:14
  But that was just again, just a bit of a, do they, do they have
• 28:17
  a real look at seeding to make the Super Bowl?
• 28:20
  You know, the 2IN form teams I should say, because you, you
• 28:26
  want to put the best team being Seahawks at the start of the
• 28:28
  year. Would you be in form all year?
• 28:29
  And they haven't dropped. Yeah, fair, fair comment,
• 28:33
  definitely. Right, Rams, Seahawks done
• 28:36
  dusted. We're now moving on to the balls
• 28:38
  of week #2 which is the New England Patriots at the Denver
• 28:42
  Broncos, finishing 10. Seven.
• 28:44
  Now look for the best example of a championship game.
• 28:50
  But the weather didn't help. And I will touch the weather a
• 28:52
  few times. But as I said in previous
• 28:54
  podcasts, it's the same for both teams.
• 28:57
  If you'd gone to bed and woke up the next night, the next
• 29:00
  morning, sorry, not watched any of the football, checked your
• 29:02
  phone, opened your NFL app up seen 10/7 and seen the fact that
• 29:06
  the winning quarterback goes for 10 for 2185 passing yards, no
• 29:11
  touchdowns, no interceptions, you think what the is this this
• 29:16
  pre season? Like what is what?
• 29:18
  What's happening here that we said?
• 29:21
  That was no passing touchdowns. I'm sure he was the only
• 29:24
  touchdown scorer of the patch. Yes, I'm just literally just
• 29:27
  about to go into that there. The only touchdown that had that
• 29:30
  that was scored with a nice little 6 yard touchdown from his
• 29:32
  QB Mr Drake, mate, right. And so he did, he did go into
• 29:36
  that. Now look, if you there were a
• 29:39
  screen, there were still getting put on the on the screen
• 29:42
  throughout the fourth quarter. I know you fell asleep at the
• 29:44
  fourth quarter. It's like there was there's
• 29:46
  still that got put on. I did from the first for the
• 29:49
  first to the fourth quarter, right?
• 29:51
  And the weather difference was unreal.
• 29:55
  I think it dropped to minus A at one point, right.
• 29:56
  It was absolutely balmy. So it all kind of came down to
• 30:00
  like the first half in particular for the, the, the,
• 30:04
  the points as such. But it came down with both
• 30:09
  defences realistically here earning the earning the the
• 30:12
  wage, both being put out there, who was going to put like stop
• 30:16
  it more than anything else. And the Pats, he kind of came
• 30:19
  out on top on that. Now, yes, don't get me wrong,
• 30:22
  there was a door Stidham in the backfield, right?
• 30:24
  Which look, I'm going to say this now.
• 30:27
  Stidham came out and I text my mate Jimmy, our mate Jimmy,
• 30:29
  right, plays what team? He's a Pats fan.
• 30:31
  I texted him after I through the first quarter saying we've lost
• 30:33
  this. We're bottling it because
• 30:35
  Stidham came out firing. He looked calm, he looked
• 30:38
  composed, he looked in control. He eventually went for, you
• 30:42
  know, 17, thirty, 133 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 interception.
• 30:46
  I have decent stats for the weather, right?
• 30:49
  That being said, the first, the first big issue that occurred to
• 30:56
  him, the shovel, the shovel pass, right?
• 31:00
  That will end up going as going as a fumble.
• 31:02
  He lost, he lost every he lost his momentum there and then,
• 31:05
  which look, Boenich would not have done that, would not have
• 31:09
  made that decision to do that pass which would which, which
• 31:13
  which led to the Patriots scoring, right?
• 31:16
  I'm not, I'm not I'm not disputing that.
• 31:17
  I'm going to touch on Bonex in just a second, right?
• 31:20
  He did come out and throw 133 yards in the in the -8 in the
• 31:25
  snow. It was first start in over 2
• 31:27
  years, like start anyway, you know, over 2 years in an NFL
• 31:30
  game, the first time he's ever been in the playoffs.
• 31:33
  And I was really impressed how he came out.
• 31:36
  But that composure did show. Now, I'm going to ask you here,
• 31:42
  Brad, and I know, I know what your answer is going to be with
• 31:44
  it already. But realistically, let's say,
• 31:48
  let's say the the Miami Dolphins was where the New England
• 31:51
  Patriots were there and then, right, realistically, does Bonex
• 31:57
  make much more of a difference because of the weather?
• 32:01
  100%. See, I disagree.
• 32:03
  I think I I don't. I echo everything you said about
• 32:09
  the star he had. And I texted another one of our
• 32:12
  friends who's a Pats fan, Johno, and all I sent him was a little
• 32:15
  meme, just a little face looking a bit cheeky and a bit smirky.
• 32:20
  And then another friend says if Pats win this, it's going to be
• 32:23
  our fault. Brad and I was just like, yeah,
• 32:26
  absolutely. We've got Callum chiming up in
• 32:29
  the background here. Obviously you can't see him, but
• 32:32
  he's absolutely echoing my thoughts.
• 32:35
  What you don't have with Stidham, what we've seen from
• 32:39
  Bonex, 2 things. You've got the composure which
• 32:41
  you've already alluded to, Zach, I don't think, I don't think
• 32:44
  Nick's makes those slight questionable plays, you know,
• 32:48
  or, or he executes them in a different way.
• 32:51
  You know, that that lateral pass which actually went backwards.
• 32:54
  So it was a fumble, which was crap that the referees blew that
• 32:57
  dead, by the way, you know. Yes.
• 32:59
  It's, it's frustrating, but you know, it didn't impact anything.
• 33:02
  Pat's converted. They got the touchdown that they
• 33:04
  should have had anyway. So nothing changed there,
• 33:07
  thankfully. But I think little things like
• 33:10
  that he maybe doesn't make. And even if he does what you've
• 33:14
  got in a game like this as as research, Cal's correctly saying
• 33:18
  you've got that Russian threat, which you just don't have from
• 33:21
  Stidham. Stidham's a pocket passer.
• 33:23
  You've got the Russian threat for him.
• 33:24
  You've got the composure, he's got the connection with the
• 33:26
  players like he's got the the the chemistry.
• 33:30
  And I just think in a game this close, like it obviously was
• 33:37
  close and the weather absolutely impacted it did.
• 33:39
  And I'm not going to shed away from that.
• 33:41
  You know, those that have listened for the last few weeks
• 33:44
  know my thoughts on this New England Patriots team, and I'll
• 33:46
  give them the flowers, like during the chuffing Super Bowl.
• 33:49
  Like, credit where credit's due. Yeah, my team's don't.
• 33:52
  My team's nowhere near it. So, like, fair play.
• 33:56
  And they've played some really good football.
• 33:58
  They have. But I just think with Nick's
• 34:03
  playing, it's a Broncos victory when it's a game this close.
• 34:07
  Like, I just can't. I can't shake away from that.
• 34:12
  See, I think that first, obviously we didn't score a
• 34:17
  touchdown afterwards and and and hindsight's a wonderful thing.
• 34:20
  And if books and maybes we we you know, you alluded to earlier
• 34:24
  on that you know, you don't really like doing them, but you
• 34:26
  know it happens with it. I agree.
• 34:29
  I don't think Knicks makes that shovel pass.
• 34:33
  I, I don't think, I think the exception at the end of the game
• 34:37
  to seal it for the Patriots was if, if Mike Vrabel has purposely
• 34:43
  put the Patriots all in white because he was due of Blizzard,
• 34:46
  he's the smartest man in football.
• 34:47
  I don't believe he did because a lot of the reports come back
• 34:49
  were that the snow or the, the weather wasn't forecast to be as
• 34:54
  bad as what it actually was. And I've listened to a lot of
• 34:56
  podcasts like these past couple of days just bouncing around the
• 34:59
  NFL as such. And they've all said, like, I
• 35:02
  checked the weather before and I weren't expecting the, the, the
• 35:04
  severity of what it was. I think still have looked up
• 35:07
  there not just not not seeing gonzo because of the because of,
• 35:11
  because of the, the snow that's absolutely battering around.
• 35:14
  And I think obviously that's the, you could tell you it see
• 35:18
  because it was just such a half ass pass.
• 35:21
  I, I agree with the rushing aspect of it.
• 35:26
  My flip side to the rushing aspect of that is perhaps I've
• 35:29
  got a pretty decent rush stop and they have done mostly I mean
• 35:34
  they held Denver to 79 motion yard this like yesterday alone,
• 35:37
  Sunday alone. I understand that Bonex weren't
• 35:39
  there and having that like you could send them into pass and
• 35:41
  you can escape out that very much Drake esque like feel to
• 35:46
  it. I get that.
• 35:48
  I think the game gets away and whatever the score like pretty
• 35:53
  much at halftime is, is kind of what's going to carry on going
• 35:55
  through just because of the weather now.
• 35:59
  I'm going to touch on a play really quickly now and I'm
• 36:01
  coming back to my boys, the special teams, the special
• 36:05
  teams, right? And how 1 minor mistake for the
• 36:08
  Broncos made them not score points.
• 36:13
  So there are 45 year, 45 yard field goal attempt that the
• 36:17
  Broncos went for, right? And Taylor, the third I think is
• 36:23
  comes through, gets fingers to it, taps it away.
• 36:27
  The athleticism there for for the the player of his size is is
• 36:31
  unbelievable. Now post game, Will Lutz comes
• 36:34
  out and says there's snow without thick on the field.
• 36:37
  I actually marked it. I got got me spotted to spot the
• 36:41
  ball a yard closer to the centre than I would have done normally
• 36:45
  by mistake because he couldn't see the yard marks on the floor.
• 36:48
  So if he had gone back a yard and been where he were, that tip
• 36:52
  would never that tip would have never have happened.
• 36:55
  I find that like, you know, just he'll be sat in bed tonight
• 36:59
  going like why don't I just why don't I just count?
• 37:01
  Like I know I'm just, I can't. Believe that.
• 37:04
  I just do not believe that for a second.
• 37:06
  Like I'm sorry, but these kickers, right?
• 37:09
  They literally and and I hate when people use this word but
• 37:12
  they literally have one. Job.
• 37:16
  Their job day in day out, all day every day is to kick field
• 37:20
  goals. I'm sorry but they don't need to
• 37:22
  see yard markers to know how far back they need that ball.
• 37:25
  That is absolute baloney to use an American.
• 37:29
  That's a load of rubbish. I am inclined to agree with you,
• 37:34
  right? I am.
• 37:35
  I just think it was just a great play from the Pats D Now let's
• 37:39
  talk a fourth down play again. We were we're we're in a group
• 37:43
  chat that briefly touched up on this 4th and one you've got the
• 37:48
  momentum because Stidham is playing well at the time.
• 37:52
  OK, was it the correct decision to go for it on that fourth and
• 37:56
  one or hindsight again is a wonderful thing.
• 38:01
  The conditions were after some they put them 10 nil up as RC to
• 38:05
  tell me to shift that and make it a 2 score game.
• 38:10
  Do you go for that field goal to calm, stood them down or what do
• 38:14
  you reckon? Absolutely.
• 38:16
  I think Peyton needs to own that.
• 38:19
  And I in that situation, like people can look at it in
• 38:23
  hindsight and hindsight's a wonderful thing, isn't it?
• 38:26
  I think at that moment that was absolutely the 100% right call.
• 38:31
  I think Stidham was marching. I thought New England looked
• 38:33
  terrible at the time. I don't think the defence was
• 38:36
  worrying him too much. They were marching down the
• 38:39
  field. They'd put points on before, you
• 38:42
  know, they'd had a big score, a big sort of deep pass to set
• 38:45
  them up for that touchdown. I think 100% it was the right
• 38:49
  call. What wasn't the right call was
• 38:51
  the actual play call. I think the play design was
• 38:54
  shocking and I think the fact that was the the time out, if
• 38:57
  I'm not mistaken at the time as well, it allowed New England to
• 39:01
  adjust and they sent like 6-7 big guys and they just flooded
• 39:07
  the space. I think.
• 39:09
  I think the call was the right call.
• 39:11
  I think the play call was quite clearly the wrong call.
• 39:16
  I fully agree with you there, mate.
• 39:18
  I fully, fully agree with you and as much as points mate, you
• 39:21
  know points get prizes. This or what this one the the
• 39:24
  first quarter this happened is not this went a fourth quarter
• 39:27
  decision to make this one early in the game stood and were
• 39:30
  driving and I just agreed. I just hit the run that I just
• 39:33
  think think the design play wasn't the one and I think the
• 39:40
  mix. Comes in handy though doesn't
• 39:42
  it? Like you've got 4 from 1 and
• 39:43
  with that threat of his legs you've got multiple choices that
• 39:46
  the D need to like, worry about then don't they?
• 39:49
  Which is understandable. It is is completely
• 39:51
  understandable. But Bonex were on that field
• 39:55
  still in war. So the Patriots go to the Super
• 39:58
  Bowl right now. I want to touch on something
• 40:04
  with you in now. You've been quite vocal about
• 40:07
  the Patriots schedule like everybody else has, because
• 40:10
  nobody could just give us credit, right?
• 40:14
  Yes, I admit stood in the leading right, stood in, stood
• 40:18
  in scores, like scores touchdown to create, create such down
• 40:21
  things like happy days. But there's people up against
• 40:24
  our offence as well. And that's a team, that's every
• 40:27
  team's defence. Now the Patriots have come up
• 40:32
  against three of the top five defences in the playoffs alone.
• 40:38
  Right, Come on. Right.
• 40:43
  I get, I get, look, I'm going to, I'm going to shoot my own
• 40:46
  argument in the foot. I get CJ Stroud would ask the
• 40:49
  charges. Offensive line wasn't the best
• 40:51
  at the time and I get that stadium a player and not bone
• 40:53
  it. But then they they don't play
• 40:55
  defence, they don't play defence like we've got guys running our
• 40:59
  guys and you could think about one of our one of our biggest
• 41:02
  weaknesses last year with the offensive line and it's still
• 41:05
  not fantastic now, but with March doing about 3 of the top
• 41:08
  five defences. Look, listen again, giving them
• 41:14
  the flowers. New England can have all the
• 41:16
  flowers they want. They're in the Super Bowl, They
• 41:18
  are representing the AFC, they're representing the AFC
• 41:21
  East. But look, they've still no, and
• 41:29
  I, and I stand by this, they've still not played a high quality
• 41:35
  team. And I'm emphasising here the
• 41:37
  word team, right? Because the NFL has three phases
• 41:41
  to it. The D that you've just referred
• 41:44
  to, they have the special teams, which you're saying has
• 41:48
  obviously played a big part. And then there's the offence,
• 41:52
  right? Let's just revisit LA Rams and
• 41:55
  Seahawks 3127. That's a combined points of 58,
• 42:02
  yeah. Defence didn't do the job.
• 42:05
  Simple you can. Argue that.
• 42:06
  You can argue that absolutely. But so I was having this
• 42:11
  conversation with a friend of mine earlier today, actually.
• 42:14
  So in the background, unbeknownst to you Zach,
• 42:17
  researcher Karl has been squirrelling away, finding some
• 42:21
  interesting stats. OK, OK.
• 42:25
  So when looking at playoffs, just the playoffs alone, because
• 42:28
  that's what you're talking about, yeah.
• 42:30
  Yeah. Go for these in DS right in
• 42:33
  1979. So just just take that year into
• 42:38
  the head. 79 That's over 50 years ago.
• 42:41
  God that's crazy. The Rams made the Super Bowl and
• 42:47
  their average points per game throughout that playoff series
• 42:50
  was 15 points. So just to confirm, that is the
• 42:54
  lowest in history points per game that a team has made the
• 42:58
  Super Bowl. OK, I'm sure you can see where
• 43:01
  this is going. I can 2nd place Yep in second.
• 43:06
  Place you have the 2025 Pats with 18 points per game average
• 43:11
  through the playoffs. Like that is atrocious.
• 43:13
  They are going to get absolutely smashed to pieces next week
• 43:18
  fortnight. See, people have said this about
• 43:21
  the past couple of weeks and about happy about coming up
• 43:23
  against teams against certain calibre and things like that.
• 43:26
  Now, look, couple of things to say back to that, if a lot and
• 43:30
  I'm not, I'm not going to go into the Super Bowl Naive, by
• 43:32
  the way. I understand what's against us.
• 43:35
  Trust me, because I've backed pretty well and I've like other
• 43:38
  than other than in our predictions when we spoke about
• 43:41
  the games coming up, I've said I think the Patriots will probably
• 43:44
  lose. I've just backed my boys because
• 43:45
  they're my boys. I've, I've been open and I've
• 43:47
  not been naive about that. If the Patriots beat the
• 43:51
  Seahawks, what's your excuse then?
• 43:53
  What's the excuse then? Do we do a lucky?
• 43:55
  Because there will be, there will be an excuse.
• 43:57
  There will be. Yeah, there will Sam Darnold
• 43:59
  seeing. Ghosts exactly, exactly.
• 44:03
  And the next one to this right, obviously, yeah, 3127 up a great
• 44:07
  game, you know, 10-7. We've we spoke about it's in
• 44:10
  rugby terms. Sometimes you can get a 22IN
• 44:12
  rugby. It's been one of the best games
• 44:13
  you've watched. It's been a defensive battle,
• 44:15
  but yeah, but this one, Yeah, but he's causing more.
• 44:19
  These were. These were a defensive box.
• 44:20
  It's snow. But anyway.
• 44:22
  And listen, quite literally, put me to sleep.
• 44:25
  It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter either way.
• 44:28
  But because if Lewis Hamilton wins by a millisecond or a
• 44:30
  second or 10 seconds or a minute, he still won.
• 44:33
  And that's what we did. We won.
• 44:35
  That's why we're in the Super Bowl.
• 44:37
  I'm all for it now. Look, I don't want to talk too
• 44:40
  much Super Bowl because I want to wait until next week.
• 44:42
  I don't want to get too irate about it until next week.
• 44:45
  I art daft, all right, but we'll go for it from there, right.
• 44:51
  So let's have a look at his predictions.
• 44:53
  Let's have a look at where we stand from this week alone
• 44:56
  because I believe. Yeah, there we go.
• 44:58
  It's on screen now. So me and Research Carl both
• 45:01
  backed the Seahawks to be the Rams and then all three of us
• 45:05
  backed New England to beat Denver because of the obvious
• 45:08
  reason, which for the week, we've got a nice little graphic
• 45:12
  here, which for the week puts us at 1:00 and 1:00 for you Brad,
• 45:15
  and then two and O for both me and Carl.
• 45:16
  Now next year, guys, we will talk about this behind the
• 45:19
  scenes next year. I think we're going to do a bit
• 45:21
  of a running total going forward and what I might do is we might
• 45:27
  set like a bit of a bit of a way for you guys to get involved as
• 45:29
  well. So we can be like US versus you
• 45:30
  guys as well. See get you you as a collective,
• 45:33
  get you as a poll. I can get a poll on the go.
• 45:35
  And to do that, get yourselves over to all the socials at ABNF
• 45:39
  pod everywhere you want to go. Got it right.
• 45:42
  Look and check them all out. Head over to YouTube to see all
• 45:45
  the graphics and things as well. Guys, if you are listening in
• 45:47
  your vehicle or or without the the video there, Spotify and
• 45:51
  YouTube have these go hit follow and all that jazz.
• 45:53
  Keep up to date with everything right?
• 45:57
  Predictions done. We've spoke about this week.
• 46:00
  We're going to save the Super Bowl for next week.
• 46:06
  I reckon we should roll into a bit of stats that sound vague.
• 46:12
  How do you reckon? How about we hit all of the
• 46:17
  balls first? All the balls, I'm up.
• 46:20
  It's got all the balls to go. Yeah, I'm OK.
• 46:22
  Right. All right, fair enough.
• 46:25
  Right. All the balls, Brad, take it
• 46:28
  away. What is all of the balls and
• 46:30
  what we got in store for the this one?
• 46:33
  So all of the balls is where we hit the latest news stories in
• 46:37
  the world of sports. And as I said at the top of the
• 46:40
  show, they don't always include balls or they have slightly
• 46:43
  misshapen balls. And you could kind of say the
• 46:45
  same about our first story because they have 4 slightly
• 46:50
  weird shaped squished balls. If we're using your analogy
• 46:54
  about the puck last week, you could argue.
• 46:57
  Yeah. I would like to call you out on
• 46:58
  that. Yeah, Yeah, it's a very ideal
• 47:00
  link. Gotta give me that one.
• 47:03
  I'll give you that one. I'm of course talking about the
• 47:05
  the F1 season, you know, so if you're into F1 or you, you're
• 47:10
  into Motorsports in general, obviously Formula One is the
• 47:14
  arguably the the biggest sport in the world of motorsport.
• 47:19
  And this week sees the launch of pre season testing.
• 47:23
  So we've started having a few liveries sort of been revealed
• 47:28
  and I'm sure we'll touch on that because that's definitely the
• 47:30
  sort of superficial world of the F1, but it it seems to be one of
• 47:35
  the biggest parts of the pre season.
• 47:38
  But I think this year alone, well, it does.
• 47:41
  It's a fact. Has seen the biggest changes
• 47:44
  ever, all at one second. Oh, you're a big Formula One
• 47:47
  fan, just as I am. Yeah.
• 47:49
  Do you fancy taking us through those changes a little bit?
• 47:53
  So where, where, where do we start with them to be fair, Like
• 47:59
  they've brought in the regulation changes.
• 48:02
  So they're all on the same engineering now out there.
• 48:03
  They've they've tweaked that engineering now.
• 48:05
  So everyone's kind of running a very similar one there Mercedes.
• 48:09
  So with with with the power units, they get know if I like a
• 48:13
  season or two seasons in advance where it's going to change.
• 48:16
  It's like Mercedes, for instance, who've been on the
• 48:19
  back burner for the last two years because they knew where
• 48:21
  they were going to be at to kind of get ready for this now to
• 48:23
  then go out and and and smash it from where it is there and the
• 48:29
  tests are kind of going out there in Barcelona to get shown
• 48:33
  from it. They're all running in wheels
• 48:34
  now as well out there the the like flat facing wheels.
• 48:40
  Yes, it's really interesting, isn't it?
• 48:41
  Because like obviously you mentioned the engine and now
• 48:43
  you've dropped on the wheels. But it's, I think it's the first
• 48:46
  time ever or definitely in a long time that the engines
• 48:50
  changed, The regulations around the engines changed, the
• 48:52
  regulation about well, the wheels have changed, but then
• 48:56
  also the actual chassis requirements have changed as
• 48:58
  well. So like all three things have
• 49:00
  changed at once. So I know sometimes you might
• 49:03
  get 2 or you might just get one, but all three have changed at
• 49:07
  the same time. So it's it's quite an
• 49:11
  unprecedented season really where you're going to see a lot
• 49:15
  of change. I mean, you've got 2 new teams
• 49:16
  on the grid. You got Audi and Cadillac now on
• 49:20
  the grid, but then you've got a host of teams now running their
• 49:25
  own power units, their own engines basically, which are
• 49:30
  5050 split, I believe. So previously it was a slightly
• 49:35
  less electric import, but now it's a 5050 between the electric
• 49:39
  and the like combustion engine, much bigger battery.
• 49:43
  And the way that's deployed is different as well, isn't it that
• 49:46
  power, the way it's built and deployed?
• 49:47
  It's, it's weird. It's.
• 49:49
  Interesting. You normally find when like when
• 49:51
  a powertrain or an engine unit gets kind of redone, you know,
• 49:54
  they find like Mercedes have planned to do this year, like
• 49:59
  Red Bull did it last time. There were a bit there were a
• 50:00
  big change over. And when that's when like
• 50:03
  Verstappen went from being and and Mercedes bought all the exit
• 50:07
  1 basket for that, that 2021 kind of, you know, season where
• 50:12
  Verstappen end up taking it towards the back end of it.
• 50:15
  But then the year after Mercedes didn't keep up with it.
• 50:18
  So the the the gap were massive and they're trying to do all
• 50:22
  this now to kind of like bring that gap down and and limit that
• 50:27
  gap between the top three. But it was the top three.
• 50:31
  The top three are now changed. It used to be like Red Bull,
• 50:33
  Mercedes, Ferrari, Ferrari in our argument out of that McLaren
• 50:37
  into that because of the season that they had last year, because
• 50:39
  of the research that they put into it.
• 50:40
  But I mean, for me, I for me, I won't tell them until end it.
• 50:44
  Yeah. As to what's going to be brought
• 50:45
  in regulation wise, because you can, it's very similar with like
• 50:48
  the American football team start tanking because they know
• 50:52
  they're not going to do anything this year.
• 50:53
  So they're kind of putting all the R&D to next year.
• 50:55
  But the flip side to it is the need to finish at a certain
• 50:58
  like, like a certain position to have the money.
• 51:02
  And that's where like Mercedes have lacked over the past couple
• 51:04
  of years, whether they've not been finishing, you know,
• 51:07
  arguably that top spot or top two, depending on what you know,
• 51:10
  the years and not be getting as much money in as compared.
• 51:13
  So it's it's just been tough for him and having to find that
• 51:16
  money elsewhere. But I mean, I'm looking forward
• 51:18
  to it. What makes me laugh, though, is,
• 51:21
  is the fact that William just haven't got a car.
• 51:23
  He's not there. He's just not there.
• 51:29
  How do you how do you this this date is the same every year.
• 51:34
  Well, you've got this team, haven't you?
• 51:35
  Like Williams is probably one of the most historic teams in
• 51:40
  Formula One. You know, alongside like, you
• 51:42
  know, you think of Formula One, you think Ferrari, like you
• 51:45
  know, they're they're there to have been there from season 1.
• 51:47
  But then right alongside him, you got Williams like they've
• 51:49
  had some major success. They're obviously British team
• 51:53
  and it's like, how can you not have a car at this testing?
• 51:58
  And this testing's so vital, isn't it?
• 52:00
  Because a lot of it's behind closed doors because of all
• 52:03
  those changes and everything. There's no media, so there's no
• 52:08
  like publicity around the timings.
• 52:10
  There's no live TV. So essentially anything we've
• 52:12
  been fed is either through like people hiding in bushes trying
• 52:16
  to get little bits of video footage on the phones or what
• 52:19
  the teams want us to know, which is obviously not, I guess, but
• 52:25
  for Williams just not to show up, What they're going to
• 52:27
  experience is going to the next round of testing.
• 52:32
  And, you know, you might have Red Bull, Mercedes, Audi,
• 52:36
  whoever really struggling this week.
• 52:39
  But that's what this week's about.
• 52:40
  Little interesting analogy you've kind of got like this
• 52:43
  week's about sort of just checking like reliability more
• 52:48
  so than how quick the car is and you know those little nuances.
• 52:52
  It's kind of like NFL pre season reps.
• 52:55
  They're more concerned about the reps They're not concerned about
• 52:57
  the score line. And I think it's quite a nice
• 53:00
  comparison there. But yeah, it's imagine imagine a
• 53:03
  team having no pre season games. So you you speak about.
• 53:08
  The the reliability side things now I, I tend to not watch too
• 53:13
  much testing just because it doesn't give you it doesn't give
• 53:17
  you an accurate representation because no, no team ever goes
• 53:20
  out and puts 100% into the car because they don't want to give
• 53:22
  anything away yet. But Ferrari when I had.
• 53:26
  A really bad lead they. Decided poor year last year,
• 53:29
  especially the Hamilton side of the of the pod act.
• 53:30
  And it they just, they just, they shoot themselves in the
• 53:35
  foot every single time, every mistake, 90% of the mistakes
• 53:39
  that Ferrari make, it's an error on their behalf, whether it's
• 53:42
  the pit wall or whether it's the, the racing plan or the
• 53:44
  whatever it is, their engineer is always that no one their
• 53:48
  fault. They go out this, you know, in
• 53:50
  the practise, I saw something and the, the, the car just
• 53:52
  didn't work. Like it just didn't work all.
• 53:55
  And then they then they put a statement out somewhere saying,
• 53:58
  Oh yeah, we were meant. It were meant to do that.
• 54:00
  We knew we were going to do that.
• 54:01
  Well, why are you putting out on track and getting it recovered?
• 54:03
  If you knew we were going to do that like you, you just
• 54:06
  wouldn't. It's just ridiculous.
• 54:09
  Isn't it like it's so ridiculous.
• 54:11
  They've almost become a bit of a running joke.
• 54:13
  And then I mean, it's, I feel, I feel for Lewis and I know he's
• 54:17
  very much, I think a divided character or a divided opinion
• 54:21
  on him, you know, But did he go to Ferrari?
• 54:26
  Because it's Ferrari and it's that boyhood dream.
• 54:28
  I think. So.
• 54:29
  Like, like I said, when you think Formula One, you think
• 54:31
  Ferrari, but also he's getting paid a whacked tonne of money.
• 54:34
  So did he go for there for the money?
• 54:36
  You know what, probably both, let's be honest.
• 54:39
  I mean, he won't. He won't shy a lot with two of
• 54:41
  his headies. Wouldn't he?
• 54:43
  No, not at all. And, you know, last.
• 54:45
  Year I had a miserable season. And he was quite bluntly honest
• 54:47
  about that, but it was just laughable when you hear some of
• 54:50
  the radio comms that he had to deal with or not deal with
• 54:52
  because the guy never spoke. But they've gone out and they've
• 54:56
  rooms. Are they pulling someone from
• 54:58
  McLaren? What's it?
• 55:00
  Yeah. They've got a new race engineer
• 55:01
  for him now. Yeah.
• 55:02
  So I couldn't I couldn't take the name.
• 55:03
  But yeah, see how see how this season goes, I guess.
• 55:06
  But. Let's talk the superficial
• 55:08
  level. What have you seen of deliveries
• 55:11
  and, and what's your. I think I'm saying that right?
• 55:13
  It's always a word. I've struggled with livery.
• 55:15
  Yeah. What's your favourite?
• 55:17
  I I see, I like. I like the.
• 55:19
  I like the Mercedes 1. I've always torn with that
• 55:23
  Mercedes 1. I like how it's not Mercedes
• 55:27
  don't even go for Silverado or the full black one right.
• 55:31
  And I like how this is a bit of both as after that sounds
• 55:34
  because I as much I like the Silverado, it's never my
• 55:37
  favourite aesthetically. Like I always prefer the the one
• 55:42
  that's normally all black, for instance, and I just really like
• 55:45
  the fact that they're kind of gone with this 5050 there for me
• 55:51
  every year rolls in one of my favourite liveries on a on a on
• 55:55
  a on a car or on a team is the racing bulls.
• 55:58
  I think the racing bulls always do a better job than what the
• 56:00
  Red Bulls do, but the racing bulls livery is always always,
• 56:04
  always just wonderful. But.
• 56:08
  They're they're the two of us. On out to be the most.
• 56:10
  I love that you mentioned the Red Bulls and Racing Bulls
• 56:13
  aren't too much. Better for this this year It's
• 56:14
  like I'm not sure Red Bull can fit any more sponsors on theirs.
• 56:19
  Like it's just a really fast page of.
• 56:23
  Words driving. Around the around the track,
• 56:26
  it's it's crazy, yeah. Just be a list soon.
• 56:28
  Just be a list going down. I mean 11 obviously that I was
• 56:32
  really. Excited to see, you know, a lot
• 56:35
  of Audi's a big name, obviously Cadillac's the other one, two
• 56:38
  huge brands and Audi particularly a massive name in
• 56:42
  motorsport outside of Formula One.
• 56:45
  They enter Motorsports and a few years later they win and they've
• 56:50
  openly said like, you know, we're not, we're not going to
• 56:52
  compete this year, like it's the first season, but 20-30, we want
• 56:55
  to be winning, we'll be winning championships.
• 56:57
  So they've been an interesting 1.
• 56:59
  And when we're talking about the aesthetics, I've loved
• 57:01
  everything they've put out, like the racing suits.
• 57:03
  I think I did a suits, really simplistic design, love it.
• 57:08
  The branding that they've put out, love it.
• 57:11
  And I was really excited to see deliver it.
• 57:13
  And then I saw it and I was a bit like, oh, OK, it's
• 57:19
  minimalist. It's just three block colours.
• 57:21
  I'm not too sure. And me and a friend of mine, we
• 57:24
  always chat about Formula One. And so every day we've got like
• 57:27
  the calendar. So every day we're like, oh,
• 57:29
  have you seen this one? And we were both a bit flat
• 57:31
  about audit. And then I saw a video of it on
• 57:33
  track and it just looked stunning on track.
• 57:37
  It looked absolutely, but little is more in it.
• 57:40
  I. Definitely.
• 57:41
  I've probably been the most distant than I have in the past.
• 57:47
  10 year. On Formula One this year and
• 57:50
  it's not, it's not because of lack of interest.
• 57:53
  He just from lack of time on on it.
• 57:55
  I'm going, I'm going to the I'm going to the Austrian GP this
• 57:59
  year. I can't, I can't wait my first
• 58:00
  time going. I genuinely can't wait to go.
• 58:02
  And I'm looking forward to kind of seeing them all live now with
• 58:06
  the Audi Cadillac thing. And as much as I agree with you
• 58:09
  with Audi Motorsports and and and what they plan to do, what
• 58:11
  they try and do and with. With the Formula One.
• 58:17
  Is so much R&D as it is about like driver choice and I get and
• 58:23
  I know that sounds really obvious, but if you put Red Bull
• 58:28
  show on this, if you put loads of money into a car, but you
• 58:30
  don't put that right driver, it's like it's like it's like
• 58:32
  Sam Donald put Sam Donald a bad team.
• 58:35
  He's not going to take him to the Super Bowl.
• 58:37
  Put him in a good team. He's going to do you need to
• 58:38
  have that right driver fit for it.
• 58:40
  And I think their biggest choices now is not going to be a
• 58:42
  case of like and with formula, it's so money orientated.
• 58:45
  Like a lot of the drivers buy their seats in teams like they
• 58:50
  need to look at, yeah, who's given us the money to kind of
• 58:53
  come and join U.S. team. But at the same time, who's
• 58:55
  right for who's the right fit for the team?
• 58:58
  So only time will tell. I I can't remember the last time
• 59:02
  I saw a team actually actively join rather than just rebrand
• 59:07
  like AR rebranded and things. I can't an actual team joining.
• 59:11
  I can't remember the last time I saw one joining, and it'd be to
• 59:16
  me as well. There's been a bit of press
• 59:18
  about it, but there's not been like, it's not been hammered.
• 59:21
  Oh, my God, This is what how do they do?
• 59:22
  This is what Cadillac are doing. It's just been, oh, yeah,
• 59:24
  there's two new teams in that. We're going to crack on with
• 59:27
  usual proceedings. Yeah.
• 59:28
  I think it'd be interesting being like, obviously Cadillac.
• 59:31
  Been a big American brand and obviously the the Formula Ones
• 59:36
  had a massive push in the States over this last five, 6-7 years.
• 59:41
  I think is it 3 races we've got now in the States, which makes
• 59:43
  sense because it's a huge landmass, isn't it?
• 59:45
  And we've got on that in Europe. So be interesting though just to
• 59:50
  see how much attention Cadillac gets.
• 59:53
  I think delivery is one of the last ones to be released.
• 59:56
  And I think it'll be, I think F1 will give a big push then
• 1:00:00
  because this is this new market that they're really trying to
• 1:00:02
  capture. And I think Netflix has done a
• 1:00:04
  lot of that, hasn't it, with the Drive to Survive show, which
• 1:00:08
  starts soon, I think. Is it in about a month?
• 1:00:11
  Yeah. And like that massively helps
• 1:00:13
  them. And then now they've got more
• 1:00:14
  races, obviously, one being at Hard Rock Stadium, the other one
• 1:00:17
  on the Vegas Strip, and then the other one in Texas.
• 1:00:21
  Is it Austin? Yeah, Dallas.
• 1:00:22
  Austin, right. Yeah, Sorry.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah, Dallas. Austin Yeah.
• 1:00:26
  So like it'll be interesting to. See how that goes.
• 1:00:28
  But yeah, I think it's going to be a really exciting season
• 1:00:30
  actually. I'm really looking forward to
• 1:00:31
  it. Yeah, I can't wait.
• 1:00:33
  I can't wait. And and with the season.
• 1:00:35
  Being in our offseason with the with the NFL, we'll be talking a
• 1:00:38
  bit more about Formula One and other sports like that.
• 1:00:42
  So yeah, get ready. Get ready for that.
• 1:00:45
  So nice. I like it.
• 1:00:47
  I'm getting excited for it. I actually, I've been a bit
• 1:00:49
  behind on it, I must admit back. I'm looking forward to getting
• 1:00:52
  stuck back into it. You're going to jump into my all
• 1:00:55
  the balls. And I'm talking about two big
• 1:00:59
  balls, bigger balls than I could ever imagine me having, right.
• 1:01:06
  And they are owned by a man named Alex Harnold, right?
• 1:01:12
  Have you, have you heard, have you heard this name?
• 1:01:14
  Have you seen, have you watched it?
• 1:01:15
  Right. I didn't know his name, but I've
• 1:01:17
  seen it. It's impressive.
• 1:01:19
  So I watched this yesterday. I saw it.
• 1:01:22
  I didn't watch. It live.
• 1:01:23
  I watched it yesterday. It's Netflix live streamed Alex
• 1:01:27
  Harnold climbing the top is is is perhaps taupe.
• 1:01:31
  I think the taupe tower it's taupe 101 right?
• 1:01:35
  It's 101 floors feet, 508 metres tall and he free climbed this.
• 1:01:41
  No ropes, no no safety, just a bag of chalk on his back and he
• 1:01:47
  set off climbing up the side at building right.
• 1:01:50
  What got me is the fact that Netflix streamed it live. 1
• 1:01:55
  wrong move and he's gone right. The contingent to plan there and
• 1:01:59
  the health and safety, they must have gone through the paperwork
• 1:02:02
  they must have gone through to get this going because this side
• 1:02:04
  of this building weren't just like flat.
• 1:02:06
  They had these weird things on corners and so it will like like
• 1:02:14
  so much higher. And then there were these, they
• 1:02:16
  were called 7 bamboo shoots or something and they were like
• 1:02:20
  slanted going out. So we'd start on the bottom bit
• 1:02:23
  which like in and as you were climbing out, you were
• 1:02:26
  overhanging the floor. And you do that seven times
• 1:02:29
  also. But then I get to the top and he
• 1:02:30
  got the spy a bit and this bit blew my mind and like, I'm not
• 1:02:33
  fantastic with heights, but I'm watching.
• 1:02:35
  So, you know, it's not, not really, I'm not doing it.
• 1:02:38
  He gets like the top bit and there's these like 7 or 8 rings,
• 1:02:42
  right? And they're on this Spire, these
• 1:02:44
  rings, and they go progressively from smaller to bigger to
• 1:02:48
  bigger, then back up to smaller to smaller, like a big kind of
• 1:02:50
  like the circular sort of shape. And he gets to like the one
• 1:02:54
  that's the furthest out, our second furthest out.
• 1:02:58
  And he's climbing up, resigning, right?
• 1:03:01
  And he hooks his feet around this ring takes both of his he's
• 1:03:05
  at top at tower, bearing in mind pretty much he takes both his
• 1:03:09
  hands off, just puts his hands down, rests them for two like
• 1:03:12
  30. The car strength there right is
• 1:03:16
  unbelievable. This one he climbed in an hour
• 1:03:19
  and 31 minutes. So I think he's like an hour and
• 1:03:21
  15 minutes, an hour and 20 minutes into this because he's
• 1:03:23
  really close at the top. His arms are aching, but his car
• 1:03:25
  strength to hold him up. I just I just couldn't believe
• 1:03:29
  it. But then the the camera work had
• 1:03:34
  these cranes installed and there's these guys hanging from
• 1:03:38
  like 1890 floors up in the air just hanging on like a swing
• 1:03:43
  like a just one cable coming down or one wire coming down
• 1:03:46
  swinging bomb on the camera just following like went up up the
• 1:03:51
  side of the building mental I. Like get like anxiety when so.
• 1:03:58
  So I went to New York for the first time, not last summer,
• 1:04:02
  summer before. So I've always wanted to go.
• 1:04:05
  They really look to see a lot of America and they've just not
• 1:04:07
  done New York. So I was buzzing when I was
• 1:04:09
  there and I'm looking at some of these buildings and it doesn't
• 1:04:12
  do it justice when you see it like on TV and things like, are
• 1:04:14
  you like, Oh my God, this city is insane.
• 1:04:17
  And then we're looking at the like the window cleaners, you
• 1:04:20
  know, come down on this sort of like plain things.
• 1:04:24
  I'm just like, Oh my God, I always absolutely kick my pants
• 1:04:26
  doing that. And I'm I'm all right with
• 1:04:27
  heights. I'm not, It's never really
• 1:04:29
  bothered me. I've not a humble brag, just a
• 1:04:32
  brag. I've jumped off the tallest
• 1:04:34
  building in the Southern hemisphere.
• 1:04:35
  I'll have you know, twice. So like amazing experience.
• 1:04:40
  Auckland Sky Tower if you're wondering.
• 1:04:42
  But like I'm looking at it like I would absolutely cack my
• 1:04:47
  pants. Obviously when we did Auckland
• 1:04:48
  Sky Tower, you're all strapped in.
• 1:04:49
  It's basically like a, you've got bungee cords attached to you
• 1:04:52
  and all that sort of malarkey. This guy has nothing.
• 1:04:55
  Absolutely nothing. I don't know.
• 1:04:58
  Have you ever tried climbing before?
• 1:04:59
  Have you, have you been climbing?
• 1:05:00
  Have you done that? Rock climbing?
• 1:05:01
  Yeah, I've loved the rock climbing walls and things, but.
• 1:05:04
  Yeah, and it's like even that, like the little Hooverhangs you
• 1:05:08
  sometimes get. There and you know, you when
• 1:05:11
  you're doing the, the free climbing, like the bouldering
• 1:05:13
  and you've not got your harness and stuff and you, you're still
• 1:05:15
  a bit like, oh God, I don't want to fall even though these
• 1:05:17
  massive crash mats and I'm only like a metre high.
• 1:05:20
  You know, this is just nuts. That fools me because like, I
• 1:05:24
  watch it and. They're like viewing platforms
• 1:05:27
  in this tower. So like every so many floors,
• 1:05:29
  there's just crowds of people taking pictures of him while
• 1:05:32
  he's climbing up this this window.
• 1:05:34
  And he had he had some earphones.
• 1:05:37
  In that they were. Playing that he made a playlist.
• 1:05:40
  They were playing music in his ear to concentrate tool.
• 1:05:43
  What is artist of choice they were listening to growing up?
• 1:05:48
  Climbing up. Sorry, but they also had radio
• 1:05:51
  communications. So he got to like certain.
• 1:05:52
  Checkpoints. And they were interviewing him.
• 1:05:55
  Are you feeling? Yeah, No, dear, I was there.
• 1:05:56
  I'm like, this guy's super calm and he's at the top.
• 1:05:59
  He's like, oh, I'm getting a bit tired now, but I just crack up
• 1:06:02
  and then your next checkpoint is like, well, I might take my
• 1:06:04
  T-shirt off because it's just just getting it away and me
• 1:06:07
  chalk bag. And I'm like this guy's his,
• 1:06:09
  his, his arms, his forearms are like pulsing.
• 1:06:11
  They're just massive. And yeah, hey, look, credit
• 1:06:15
  where credit's due to my. It was.
• 1:06:17
  It was something I never thought I'd see live on TVI thought you
• 1:06:20
  could even make a documentary about it, whatever.
• 1:06:22
  But a live show was was absolutely mental.
• 1:06:31
  But yeah, it's it's just wow to have the kahunas to do this is
• 1:06:42
  it is beyond me. But yeah, that is my all other
• 1:06:46
  balls for this week. We have got a couple of
• 1:06:50
  features. Oh, thank you.
• 1:06:53
  I. Enjoyed Alex's balls as.
• 1:06:54
  Well, I must admit it's, it's been one of them.
• 1:06:57
  But we're going to, we're going to swiftly move on and we're
• 1:07:00
  going to get into our two features for this week.
• 1:07:03
  In fact, I think let's just read you a little bit.
• 1:07:06
  Let's get into Carl's conundrum. I want to know the answer to
• 1:07:08
  this, right? So if you don't know what Carl's
• 1:07:11
  conundrum is, guys, basically we ask you a question week in week
• 1:07:16
  out that researcher calls found or, or, or asked, shall I say,
• 1:07:22
  for you guys to get involved with.
• 1:07:23
  Very, we had a couple of comments actually on our, on our
• 1:07:26
  Spotify feed about this. So it'd be nice to kind of get,
• 1:07:29
  get stuck in with. So let's have a look, shall we?
• 1:07:36
  OK, so. I can see the answer now, Brad,
• 1:07:39
  because the. Slide's been popped on my screen
• 1:07:40
  and you can't. But I'm very surprised about
• 1:07:43
  this. Anyway, last week's Cow cow's
• 1:07:47
  conundrum was which current NFL head coach has more career
• 1:07:52
  rushing yards than Bo Jackson? And the answer was a Mr Jim
• 1:07:57
  Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh?
• 1:08:01
  Yeah. That was that.
• 1:08:04
  Yes, it was. It was.
• 1:08:07
  I didn't. I didn't never guess.
• 1:08:10
  To be fair to you, I didn't even think we did play with him by
• 1:08:14
  the day. I'm sure he was a quarterback.
• 1:08:18
  Yeah, so I mean like so it must have been.
• 1:08:22
  He must have. Yeah.
• 1:08:24
  I that's, that's wild to think about that.
• 1:08:26
  So well done if you got it. I know, I know.
• 1:08:29
  We had a couple of coverage. Well done if you got it.
• 1:08:32
  I'd like to get you blood to your brain ticket.
• 1:08:34
  We'll move on to the Carl's conundrum for this week to go
• 1:08:39
  into it. So again, guys at ABNF Pod, if
• 1:08:42
  you want to get involved with this or if you're watching this
• 1:08:43
  on YouTube or Spotify, feel free to drop a comment and let us
• 1:08:46
  know on this. Carl's conundrum for this week
• 1:08:50
  is the Cleveland Browns quarterback.
• 1:08:52
  Should Sanders was voted to the Pro Bowl as an alternative this
• 1:08:56
  week after the New England Patriots made the Super Bowl.
• 1:09:02
  Don't ask me the review on that, but we'll get into it anyway.
• 1:09:04
  But the question is, who was the last Browns quarterback to make
• 1:09:08
  the Pro Bowl? So I'll repeat it one more time
• 1:09:11
  for you. So you get this Cleveland Browns
• 1:09:13
  quarterback shoulder Sanders was voted to the Pro Bowl as an
• 1:09:16
  alternative this week after the New England Patriots made the
• 1:09:19
  Super Bowl. But who was the last Browns
• 1:09:22
  quarterback to make the Pro Bowl?
• 1:09:24
  If you've got any ideas guys, let us know in the comments
• 1:09:26
  please, or drop us a message. We will be processed onto our
• 1:09:29
  socials as well now. Pro Bowl I want to touch on next
• 1:09:37
  week more. Anything else?
• 1:09:39
  But how on earth he's got there is beyond me.
• 1:09:45
  It is absolutely. It is criminal and it's all.
• 1:09:49
  About his publicity. And he's, and he's marketed is
• 1:09:53
  why he's there. One of our friends, one of our
• 1:09:56
  friends said earlier, didn't they?
• 1:09:57
  Is Sanders going to be able to like Sanders probably going to
• 1:10:00
  throw an interception in the like quarterback only skills
• 1:10:05
  tests? Like it's just, it's just barmy.
• 1:10:10
  It's just barmy. Like you could list 567.
• 1:10:15
  No, you could. List most.
• 1:10:16
  Quarterbacks who played better than should know this year.
• 1:10:19
  Like, I mean, fair play. He's a rookie, you know, and he
• 1:10:21
  had some good moments. He had some very nice like one
• 1:10:24
  off throws. Credit to him.
• 1:10:25
  But like the guy is not one of the top.
• 1:10:29
  What would it be top 4 was it couldn't tell you to be fair.
• 1:10:35
  I try. I I the one that's gone.
• 1:10:36
  I think he went in for Drake May, didn't he?
• 1:10:38
  I think. Yeah, because, yeah.
• 1:10:41
  So like he's not up there. He is not up there at all.
• 1:10:45
  It's Barmy. Let's yeah, let's not get into
• 1:10:48
  this now because yeah. So just to repeat that.
• 1:10:52
  One, who was the last Browns quarterback to make the Pro
• 1:10:55
  Bowl? Let us know in the comments
• 1:10:56
  below, guys right, we're going to move on to our last feature
• 1:10:59
  for the evening and that is stats that sound fake, but one
• 1:11:04
  of them is real. So with this.
• 1:11:08
  We have. Tasked research account to go
• 1:11:11
  find us a very obscure start from this weekend from the
• 1:11:17
  Championship games, and he's bumped it into a bit of a bit of
• 1:11:21
  a slide for us and he's masked it with two other stats that are
• 1:11:24
  completely bogus and we have to guess which one is the real 1.
• 1:11:31
  So let's have a look at these, shall we?
• 1:11:34
  Brad? Can you see them?
• 1:11:35
  Have you got them on your side as well?
• 1:11:38
  So the first one the Broncos became.
• 1:11:42
  The first team this century to start a different quarterback in
• 1:11:47
  the conference championship than they did in the divisional
• 1:11:50
  rounds. So the Broncos became the first
• 1:11:52
  team this century to start a different quarterback in the
• 1:11:54
  conference championship than they did in the divisional round
• 1:11:58
  is our first start. OK, so first in this century.
• 1:12:09
  So research account, just for clarity behind the scenes.
• 1:12:13
  When you say this century, do you mean as in in the 2000s or
• 1:12:16
  do you mean within the last 100 years?
• 1:12:19
  I'm assuming it's since 2000. Just getting that clarity.
• 1:12:23
  Yeah. First team in the 2000 and 2000.
• 1:12:26
  Perfect. Zach, do you want to take the
• 1:12:28
  second? One would Seattle's win.
• 1:12:32
  It is the first. Time that a team has played in a
• 1:12:35
  Super Bowl at a divisional rivals home stadium.
• 1:12:39
  So with Seattle's win, it is the first time that a team has
• 1:12:42
  played in a Super Bowl in a divisional rivals home stadium.
• 1:12:49
  Interesting. And then for the last.
• 1:12:52
  One then in the AFC. Title game.
• 1:12:56
  There were the most missed field goals in Championship round
• 1:13:01
  history. Interesting topic by the way.
• 1:13:06
  Allow the. Focus of these.
• 1:13:08
  RC Yeah, see, I'm drawn on 2. I'm drawn on 2 and I'm not going
• 1:13:15
  to lie to you, I'm literally going to go a 5050 vote and just
• 1:13:18
  hope. I hope I guess right I'm.
• 1:13:25
  In my head. In my head, I'm eliminating.
• 1:13:28
  The middle one I. Couldn't quote if a team.
• 1:13:33
  Has played in the in the the divisional rivals at home
• 1:13:38
  stadium. But in my head probably happened
• 1:13:41
  somewhere. I don't know why, but it made it
• 1:13:42
  probably happen somewhere. The Broncos 1 is what's what I'm
• 1:13:45
  favoured with the most at this moment because.
• 1:13:47
  So hang on, is that middle one then?
• 1:13:49
  Not the real one We're trying. To find the real one, right?
• 1:13:52
  Yeah. So I yeah, so I don't I.
• 1:13:55
  Don't think that's real, I think.
• 1:13:57
  There's been more. I think it's happened.
• 1:13:58
  This is not the first time, all right?
• 1:14:01
  So I don't think it's the first time.
• 1:14:02
  I don't think that's real. I Yeah, sorry, I'm with you.
• 1:14:04
  Yeah, I think I'm. I'm towing towards the Broncos
• 1:14:09
  becoming the first team to start a different QB.
• 1:14:12
  So I'm trying to think of a QB that got injured and came in.
• 1:14:18
  When did when did falls come in? This is that's that's.
• 1:14:22
  What's throwing me off? That's what's throwing me off.
• 1:14:25
  When did falls come in? He's the only one that I can
• 1:14:29
  think of. Although is there like, is there
• 1:14:33
  a little nuance to this one that it doesn't actually mention
• 1:14:37
  anything obviously about the Super Bowl because Broncos
• 1:14:39
  didn't make it to the Super Bowl, did they?
• 1:14:40
  So are we just thinking Falls because he was a big story and
• 1:14:44
  he went to the Super Bowl? Yeah, but what's what happened
• 1:14:48
  before? What's striking on that is a
• 1:14:50
  foals. Tweeted out.
• 1:14:52
  Didn't he saying like, don't worry, they've got a bit of
• 1:14:54
  losing to backup QBs in big games like so that this is title
• 1:15:02
  game? I like this Callum.
• 1:15:03
  I like it and I hate it at the same time.
• 1:15:05
  Yeah, you've thrown me off there.
• 1:15:08
  It's like. A really boring start, I'm
• 1:15:10
  sorry. And I know you're a kicker,
• 1:15:12
  Callum, but this is a really boring start.
• 1:15:15
  But it's believable because believable because of the
• 1:15:18
  weather. I I can't think.
• 1:15:20
  In fact, you know what? I'm locking it in.
• 1:15:22
  I'm locking. The third winning because you'd
• 1:15:24
  think about there were three missed field goals, right?
• 1:15:27
  It doesn't say anything about it, doesn't say anything about
• 1:15:29
  extra points there, but there were three missed field goals
• 1:15:32
  attempts in that game in the AFC.
• 1:15:36
  Game that's that's a. That's a large number to be
• 1:15:38
  missed in one game, but do you not think like back in like the
• 1:15:41
  70s, sixties? 50s when like surfaces were
• 1:15:45
  horrendous and the weather was a bit silly.
• 1:15:48
  Like, do you not think that that's probably happened before?
• 1:15:54
  I'm, I'm struggling. I'm really struggling with this
• 1:15:57
  one. You know what, I'm just going
• 1:16:00
  for it. I am saying the middle one is
• 1:16:04
  the real stat. Right.
• 1:16:11
  So you're saying middle, I'm saying.
• 1:16:13
  Last, right, So just for the audio listener, just for the
• 1:16:17
  audio listeners I am. Saying with Seattle's win, it is
• 1:16:19
  the first time that a team has played in a Super Bowl at a
• 1:16:22
  division rivals home stadium. And Zach, you are saying in the
• 1:16:26
  AFC title game, there were the most missed field goals in
• 1:16:28
  championship round history? Yeah, that's exactly what that
• 1:16:33
  that's that's. Yeah, research, Carl.
• 1:16:36
  Which one's real? The first one.
• 1:16:41
  The one that I said, oh I hate this.
• 1:16:45
  So much. So the start one that were real,
• 1:16:48
  the audio list is once again, the Broncos became the first
• 1:16:50
  team this century to start a different quarterback in a
• 1:16:53
  conference championship game than they did in the divisional
• 1:16:57
  game. Hey, just on on this one as
• 1:16:59
  well. I see these best be real, by the
• 1:17:01
  way, because you've been called out.
• 1:17:03
  We've been having messages about you, by the way, but where are
• 1:17:05
  you finding new facts from? So these best be right now.
• 1:17:08
  You'll be getting built. Yeah, you've been found out with
• 1:17:10
  some of your research, Mr. Research, Yeah.
• 1:17:12
  Ah, so he's saying here KC played the.
• 1:17:15
  Raiders Stadium 2. Years ago, of course they did.
• 1:17:18
  It's so obvious. Once you hear it, it's like,
• 1:17:20
  yeah, so. Carl, when did when did fall
• 1:17:24
  start? Then if it wasn't the
• 1:17:25
  championship round, was it divisional round or was it even
• 1:17:28
  before that? Like Oh my, well that's so
• 1:17:31
  frustrating. That is so I even.
• 1:17:34
  Think. He started the.
• 1:17:38
  Last three games, he said. Wow, it's.
• 1:17:40
  It's crazy. How would you mind gets like
• 1:17:42
  tainted? Isn't it because?
• 1:17:43
  All you think about is. That Super Bowl, Yeah, yeah, I
• 1:17:48
  remember watching that Super Bowl.
• 1:17:49
  Jesus, but that brings us to the end of the episode, matey.
• 1:17:56
  So again, we're focusing next week on the Super Bowl, Mike
• 1:17:59
  Dutch on the Pro Bowl. I think we've got an extended
• 1:18:02
  look on the Super Bowl and two Super Bowl teams next week.
• 1:18:06
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  go. Good night and God bless
• 1:18:31
  everyone. And thank you for listening.
• 1:18:33
  Watching And Zach, it's been a pleasure.
• 1:18:36
  Researcher. Cal, we hate you.
• 1:18:39
  Just kidding. Yeah.
• 1:18:42
  Take care, everybody. See you next week.
• 1:18:44
  Pretty so See you later.