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#10 - Athletes Should Stop Being Athletes · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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  Music. And we're live.
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  Welcome to the All Balls No Philtre podcast.
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  Live from the cabin kitchen. I'm Zach.
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  He's Brad. Hi there.
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  And behind the scenes, we have a man that once ran a 7 second 40
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  yard dash downhill. He's researcher Cal.
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  Oh, bless him. I love that we started with
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  these titles as in like been really nice and positive and
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  kind of like expressed like, as you know, begin him up.
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  But now it's just like pure ridicule and I love it.
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  I'm here for it. I mean, there might be a few
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  nice I've got to find the nice ones is what it is.
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  I've got to find the nice ones out is what it is about him.
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  These are just all facts. What do you mean find them?
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  We're going to say that it's absolutely factual about
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  researcher Kel. Exactly, I've got to try and
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  find nice things. These ones are less than nice
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  things. But anyway mate, how are you
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  doing today? How are you?
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  Yeah, I'm, I'm all right. I feel a bit detached from
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  reality this last few days. It's been a, a whirlwind of a
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  few days. But yeah, I'm good.
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  I'm, I'm really good, just as normal, just plodding along.
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  You know how it is, mate. How about you?
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  I'm not going to lie, I'm full of it.
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  I'm coming down with the dreaded man flu from what it feels like.
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  So I want everyone just took a moment of silence.
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  Feel sorry for me because it's it's here.
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  So I'm just going to quickly give you an apology in advance
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  that if you hear me sniffling, I'm going to try my best to not
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  do. All right.
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  But we soldiering on, we're here.
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  I'm pleased though that time when you were like, oh if you
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  hear me sniffling I apologise. And you didn't actually put the
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  big snore in before. We always do a bit of a pre show
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  like before we start recording and Zach say, oh, I'm really
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  sorry if if I sniffle be in college.
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  Like what on earth is this carnage?
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  You know, we got to do what we got to do.
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  I'm here. I'm trying to clear myself up,
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  but we're all good anyway. Brad, what have we got in store
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  for today's show? So we'll start off by, as
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  always, getting the world's smallest violin out for Zach and
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  then we'll quite swiftly move on to the headlines, I guess that
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  are coming through from the week.
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  I think bit of a weird one this week.
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  So a lot of the headlines are going to sort of blend into some
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  of our offseason topics. Obviously, we've got the combine
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  to touch on and we've got sort of some trades starting to come
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  through. We're leading up to that free
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  agency and of course, coming with that are cuts, trades,
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  tags, etcetera. And then as always, we've got
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  our all of the ball segment and for the second time now enjoyed
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  it last week. We've got I can't speak where we
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  touch on a passion of Zack and I's the rugby league world.
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  Yeah, a jam packed one I think, but exciting nonetheless.
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  Yeah, it's has always got quite a bit to go through so we're
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  going to start off get into it. The news headlines from this
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  week. The Bears Centre has hung up his
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  cleats at the age of 27 years old.
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  What's going on there? Drew Dolman, the centre from the
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  Bears has decided that he's he's retiring after I believe was it
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  five years in the in the NFL, which is is a shock.
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  I think whatever whatever they expected across.
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  I might be wrong there, but whatever they expected.
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  This is news that I've just come in within the past couple of
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  hours. I was kind of prepping for the
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  show. So it's still relatively fresh
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  for us. But yeah, Bear centre 27 year
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  old hanging his cleats up. We've also got the franchise tag
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  deadline ended 10 minutes ago. So we have got research.
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  Carly's frantically, you imagine like the hamster on a wheel
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  trying to get power on the go. That's research.
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  Carl, working behind the scenes now getting more information
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  about these franchise tags and what's happened and if anything
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  has happened. So we will bring them to you as
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  soon as we can. And as well, we got the
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  quarterback carousel, some news throughout the show about the
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  quarterbacks and about where they stand and what's going on
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  with them. But we're going to touch on that
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  towards it. Brad, anything from yourself
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  regarding the news that you've we've just, we've just gone on.
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  I think they're starting to come through now.
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  This is this is probably my, I'll probably say this is my
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  favourite time of the offseason. I actually think I prefer it to
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  the draft. Like the draft's so unknown in
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  terms of what you're actually going to get out of and when you
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  convert to the NFL. But the free agency friends is
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  like kind of where it at, where it's at.
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  You've got these names, everyone knows them, everyone knows the
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  impact and it's where it starts setting up that draft.
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  Free agency is what really leads us to OK, right, we've got an
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  idea now what this team's actually going to do.
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  So it's probably my favourite bit from like a, a logistical
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  side of running an NFL team that I really enjoy.
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  Obviously training camp's great, but no, it's good that it's
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  starting to come through now. I'm excited for it.
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  Yeah, there's a lot of mock draughts getting sent out there,
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  which is it's always fun to see and there's some outrageous ones
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  that get put out, but kind of pick one O ones pretty much
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  nailed on and the combines showing the other potentials
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  because obviously they didn't really take take part in it did
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  Mendoza. So you're showing some of the
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  other parts. We're going to get into the
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  combine now. Going to touch on this because
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  the combine's now finished. We have had some quite big the
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  results as such with them. First of all, the the Vanderbilt
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  tight end Eli Stowers or Stowers.
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  I'm not too sure how to pronounce his surname jumps A455
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  right in the vertical jump. Now he that's that's the second
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  highest in history. Is that now the first one was a
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  guy called Josh E Mot or baby Emote baby.
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  Anyway, look his name, right? I, I, I googled how to pronounce
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  it and I've got it down here at the side of it, right?
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  But yeah, he wasn't, he went to the Jaguars and in 2021 he got
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  the second height. He got the he got the highest,
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  sorry, vertical jump, I think like 46 inch or something like
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  that. So he's not too far off in Eli
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  Star Wars, but coming in here, that's a ridiculous.
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  He was a 1 1/2 inch jumping jumping 1 1/2 inch higher than
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  everybody else in in the class, which is ridiculous when you
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  think about it. There's a still screenshot
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  knocking about of the jump and it's ludicrously high.
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  Like I. Mean it's not even just that,
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  though. It's it's it's actually set.
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  I think a record, isn't it since 2003 for the highest vertical
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  ever at the event. But then adds to that.
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  The broad jump I think was 11 foot plus.
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  Like it was just massive. I know, I know he had the record
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  for that as well. Like he's just a machine.
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  He's 40 yard dash was 4.512 something like that.
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  Like he's just a machine. And when you think of that, it's
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  6 foot 4 and 239 lbs. It's insane.
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  Like it's been a good few years for tight ends.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Is he top five? Is he top five now?
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  Top. 10 I mean, I'd go, I'd go towards, you know, an outsider
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  saying top ten because the the the the Travis Kelsey and Rob
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  Gronkowski era of I know they're quite at the back end of their
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  careers now, but they've set a they've set a standard for the
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  tight ends being these mobile, not just blockers, non sexual
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  alignment, these agile hybrid runners, blockers, you know,
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  catchers that they've set that kind of that kind of stead for
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  it now and having someone that can come and do this, that can
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  jump high like they can Randy Moss people if he needs to and
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  can, can run relatively like really fast for a tight end for
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  a big guy. He's he's draft stock.
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  As long as he can catch him all his draft stocks up and to the
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  right for sure. Like it's it's wild to see and
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  research college probably into his chat.
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  The the picture I mean to try and get onto a socials at some
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  point, but it is mental how high this guy jumps absolutely crazy
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  for it. Speaking of his 40 yard dash,
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  this has been like the fastest running back class in in history
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  of the combat. Not the fastest overall, but
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  just for the running backs, which shows good kind of stock
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  in them guys as well. The wide receiver class though,
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  coming through 4.26 by Brennan Thompson, the Mississippi wide
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  receiver, it's just showing that there's a constant speed and the
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  40 yard dash for for people like receivers and running backs is
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  such an important key. And there were a video that got
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  posted out round X and it was so it was circulating around X of
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  Brendan Thompson and Xavier Worthies 40 yard dashes
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  together. And there was there's like what
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  is the .0 for him in both of the 05 sorry, in between both and 40
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  yard dashes. But the the distils look look
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  worlds apart. It looked worlds apart and it's
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  you look at the time .04 and you're like geez, that you look
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  at the distils of the of the video and it's just it looked
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  massively. Apart, it's mad though, isn't
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  it? Like because obviously I know
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  obviously we're talking about completely different sport here,
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  but we're both quite into our Formula One as we've touched on
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  in previous episodes. And when when you get down to
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  those milliseconds, you know, we're talking like 10th, we're
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  talking hundredths of a second here.
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  So you know, .5 difference. And then in Formula One, when
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  you're talking about like thousandth thousandths of a
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  second and it looks just well, because of the actual speed
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  they're going obviously in this much smaller distance,
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  significantly high speed athletes here.
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  And I think we're seeing it more and more out with like it wasn't
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  too long ago where getting sub 4.3 was huge, like huge.
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  And now it's just it's happening every year like that.
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  I think just they're becoming more athletic, more powerful
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  every year, which is mad, mad. It's the industry standard
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  you've got. You've got Speaking of like the
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  receiver side of things. Well, not just the speed.
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  You've got the Arizona State wide receiver, Jordan Tyson,
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  who's who's Rico who's done 26 reps on the bench press, right,
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  which which is great, absolutely fantastic, like 26 reps on the
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  bench press for a receiver, which is 9 short of Aaron
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  Donald's record right And Aaron Donald is not a receiver right,
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  226 reps sorry, 225 lbs Thank you research Cal and nine shy of
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  Aaron Donald. They're comply.
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  They're worlds apart when it comes down to position wise in
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  particular. So this is a great showing now
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  for the receivers coming out strong as well, not just fast,
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  but they're coming out strong. So this combine has shown a lot
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  when in in terms of the, the, the diversity of, of, of
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  players. Is that, is that the right word?
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  I'm thinking of? They're like just the different
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  skills and, and what they can show, not just the standard
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  skills that you think for a receiver or for running back and
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  things like that. It's, it's not it's good to see,
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  it's exciting, makes it makes the draft more exciting because
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  people's draft stock then becomes a lot higher.
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  There's also. It's an interest.
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  It's an interesting sort of weak really, isn't it?
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  Because you see those names that are floating around say like the
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  low first rounders and then suddenly because they're showing
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  like pure athleticism end up in that top end, like top ten, top
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  15 draft when we know it's not always, we know it doesn't
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  always convert. You know, thinking about well,
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  Anthony Richardson, we might touch on him a little bit later,
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  but he was drafted on very few reps in the college game purely
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  based on his pure athleticism. I mean, I'm just looking now
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  that the receiver record for the bench press, forgive me if this
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  is wrong. It's just a real quick research
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  while we're chatting now. It was set in 2001 by Kevin
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  Casper and it was 27 reps, So one Rep short of the record
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  there, which, you know, arguably you'd maybe say Aaron Donald may
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  be underperformed when you start looking at.
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  The position as well. But still impressive
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  nonetheless. You know, as a receiver putting
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  that sort of record on show, Yeah, brilliant.
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  It's it's huge. It's absolutely huge.
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  But there's one main talking point that I want to take from
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  this draft and I think this this this skill in particular has
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  sent his draft stock up and gone is that he's definitely moved up
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  X amount of places. I think he's shown with this in
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  this is this skill in particular just over over, you know,
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  diamond in the rough type type pick here and and that's
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  Jennings Duncan from Iowa. This man has to have the best
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  haircut I've ever seen in my life.
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  He has the big ginger mullet. If you haven't seen this guy's
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  40 yard dash, go check it out in the NFL.
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  It's not good. NFL sent reposted in slow motion
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  and his hair is just bouncing. Absolutely I go like the locks
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  are going through. I'm all all for that.
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  Like he's great. It is great to see and like
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  every church guy was probably picture in there and you can see
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  a picture of him. Wow, I am all for this.
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  Like this guy here is that he brings this typical Texas Texan
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  look, if that makes sense. I I love this.
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  He's he's my favourite. He's my favourite player from
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  this combine without doubt. That really famous Texan look,
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  The ginger mullet. Yeah, worldwide known.
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  I don't know, there's just something about it that gives
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  that that gives that like Outback kind of look.
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  I don't know. He's my he's my favourite.
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  He's my he's the guy I'm rooting for him in the draft.
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  He's he should go one of one just because of of of the
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  hairstyle on this. But that's the kind of the talk
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  of the town when it comes down to the draft.
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  We've hit the main points there, just if you have one.
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  Guy we're forgetting here. There's one fact, one guy we're
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  forgetting. I think in my eyes anyway, like
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  I don't, I don't pretend to be a massive combined guy.
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  I think, you know, we touched on it a lot last year, last week.
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  Sorry, God, we're doing that again.
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  When we were talking about last year and it was last week, we
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  touched on it last week as to why we're not necessarily overly
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  combining people. But Sonny Styles, like the guy
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  had an absolute beast of a combine for, you know, your
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  linebackers typically are not necessarily high value picks in
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  a draft, but this guy's gone first across the linebackers in
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  2026. He's gone first all time along
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  linebackers for the vertical jump 43.5 inch, and then he's
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  gone 4th all time and all linebackers for the broad jump.
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  I think that guy, when we're talking about those who suddenly
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  pushed their stock up from like low first round, second round
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  picks to top end first round, I think you could see him going
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  maybe even the top 10 for me. Where is it projected?
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  Is that sort, you know what, I've not, I've not necessarily
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  looked since the combine. I know previously it was sort of
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  like you look maybe low end 1st and sort of into the 2nd and 3rd
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  rounds, like maybe not third round, but a second day pick.
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  Like your linebackers typically aren't those high value picks,
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  are they? Like you look at your offensive
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  tackles, you look at your quarterbacks, you look at your
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  edge rushers. They're the positions that tend
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  to get over inflated and we'll probably see it this year.
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  You know, there's probably 1 quarterback that deserves to go
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  first round, but will we see two maybe those positions get
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  inflated whereas Sonny Styles is is gone out and I guess done
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  what the combine's about and what we've spoke about like you
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  can massively, massively help you stock and it's going to be a
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  first round pick, I think after this weekend.
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  Well, and he's he's got his brother as well and he's the
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  brother Liz Lorenzo. It was a safety out there and
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  he's recording a 4.27 in the 40 as well.
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  And obviously you kind of expect the safety to be a bit quicker
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  than a linebacker, but that's more of a showing for his
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  brother Sonny, of how good of a player he is when he's, you
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  know, he's close to his safety. Brothers, I.
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  Mean Sonny Styles is 6 foot 5 and he's 244 lbs.
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  Jesus, it's crazy. In that vertical and that broad
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  jump, it's nuts. It's absolutely.
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  Nuts. At what point do athletes just
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  stop? Like, because if you think about
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  it, they're just getting better and better each year.
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  At what point do they just stop? Because what?
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  At what point can they just not get any better than what they
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  are? Aaron Donald, when he first came
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  into the NFLU, he was a right. He was the specimen.
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  He was the he was the man to be. And now you go, you're looking
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  at like, the likes of like, you know, Max Cosby and people like
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  that, and, you know, Miles Garrett and stuff, who are
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  arguably on par with Aaron Donald, they're not making him
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  shine as much. Does that make sense?
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  Like, what point do athletes just stop being good at stuff?
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  He's crazy. God damn athletes, we just stop
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  being athletes already. I know right?
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  Stop putting all your life and solving making it all bad, you
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  know, but that is the combine there now guys, if you have if
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  It helps us out more than I can ever, ever tell you.
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  It's great to just kind of get us out on the algorithm.
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  But combine's done, draft stocks kind of getting done and dusted
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  and moving around. Now people are going to get in
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  there set in stone, but there's plays in the NFL now that are
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  either getting tagged, going to free agency, are getting traded.
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  So I want to touch on a few of these guys, Brad, because
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  there's been since last week, there's been a bit of an update
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  with the whole situation. And two players in particular,
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  in fact three players now actually just prior to this,
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  prior to the pod, and that is Carl Pitts, Pickens and Breece
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  Hall have all been franchised tagged.
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  Now we I say we, I definitely said two of these three was
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  probably going to get franchise tagged and one of them should
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  part ways with the team because it's just not working out.
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  I'm very surprised Breece Hall has had that tag, but on him as
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  much of a good player he is. And I think obviously The Jets
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  know is a great player, but I don't think he's right for the
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  organisation. I just don't.
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  I just think he they're, they're starting again out, they're like
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  they're going to have a different quarterback.
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  The rumour is that Justin Fields won't be there next year and he
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  wasn't good enough this year. And I'm not necessarily a anti
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  Justin Fields guy. You tend to get like 2 camps
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  with Justin Fields and I'm I'm probably quite comfortable in
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  the middle, but I thought he had potential there to be fair, but
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  it just wasn't right. I mean The Jets.
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  Organisation as a whole is a shit show and, and the season
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  was like that anyway. But I think having a running
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  back like Bruce Hall, who's still young, he's got potential.
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  I think the tag's a good move. I think you kick the can down
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  the road for another year at least.
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  Maybe they'll re sign him, who knows?
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  I, I don't know, but they, they've got him for another year
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  at least. Maybe they trade him, maybe
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  they, you know, they re sign him, but it just provides a bit
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  of a foundation for whoever they get in to play quarterback to be
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  under centre. You you need that run game
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  there. You need someone who can play to
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  support that. And I think The Jets need that.
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  So I I don't think it's a bad move.
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  Actually, it's probably quite sensible move from The Jets in
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  my opinion. I mean, it it a big team, if he
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  came up against them at some point in front of the team and
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  just run by it over him. I, I, I get it and I get it's a
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  smart move. I just think as like the The
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  Donald and the Baker Mayfield, the history shows, I just think
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  sometimes a player can not be the right fit for the
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  organisation. Now talking on like Justin
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  Fields, he kind of falls into that same category of and we'll
• 21:22
  talk about that in like the Kylo Murray situation, which is not
• 21:24
  as good in my opinion. But with Justin Fields, he shows
• 21:27
  that. He shows that promise for like
• 21:31
  1/4 every three games. But that but that promise that
• 21:34
  he shows that for that 1/4 every three games, it makes people
• 21:38
  trust that he's going to have this amazing season.
• 21:40
  And then he just does the stupidest things for the
• 21:44
  remaining 3/4 and it just all goes downhill for it.
• 21:47
  But you know this I mean. Go back 6-7 years.
• 21:52
  Go back 6-7 years and you're talking about the Super Bowl
• 21:54
  winning quarterback. Well, yeah.
• 22:00
  It's, it's the same thing, isn't it?
• 22:01
  Like you've, you've got a guy who he was in the Bears when
• 22:03
  they were a dumpster fire. He's now at The Jets and that is
• 22:07
  they're a dumpster fire. Like get the guy in an
• 22:10
  organisation that has the right team around him and knows how to
• 22:13
  use him, maybe he'll have an opportunity and.
• 22:15
  We've seen that. More and more, yeah.
• 22:17
  And that's what we need now, isn't it?
• 22:19
  Like it's just the way the way the league is.
• 22:22
  So we've seen it with we've seen it with Mayfield and Donald, the
• 22:26
  two that you mentioned. He he's just not, I don't think
• 22:31
  he's had the right team around him.
• 22:32
  And there's researcher Cal piping up.
• 22:35
  He was four and two at Pittsburgh and he got benched.
• 22:37
  Yeah, fine, he was. And you know, there's probably a
• 22:40
  lot of politics behind that move, but Steelers weren't the
• 22:44
  right organisation around him either.
• 22:46
  Like he needs to go somewhere with the a good offensive mind
• 22:49
  around him who's going to drive him forwards like Donald had
• 22:53
  over the last two seasons. You know, he had KOC, Yeah,
• 22:57
  Kubiak. And they've driven him forward.
• 22:59
  And look at him now. He's a Super Bowl champion,
• 23:00
  which he'd have never said that however long ago.
• 23:03
  You know he left The Jets now. You're right.
• 23:06
  No, you're right, mate. And I, I, I'm, I'm not a Fields
• 23:11
  hater. I think Fields has the potential
• 23:12
  to be better than a lot of QBs. And again, it is that it is that
• 23:15
  fit when it comes down to it. And I, and I do.
• 23:18
  Speaking of QBs, though, one QB that has, hasn't been franchise
• 23:22
  tagged, but he's been transition tagged is Indiana Jones himself.
• 23:27
  Daniel Jones stayed at the Colts for at least one more year.
• 23:30
  What can they do? This transition tag, by the way,
• 23:32
  is worth $37.8 million. So they're they're looking at
• 23:37
  this knee injury that he had, but he's not going to be quick.
• 23:41
  Look, I say it's a weird one for me.
• 23:42
  Is this because when he had this knee injury, he's not destined
• 23:45
  to be coming back for the start of the season.
• 23:49
  They're already talking. They've already told Anthony
• 23:51
  Anthony Joshua, Anthony Richardson that he can look for
• 23:55
  a new club secret trade. So what do they do starting QB
• 23:59
  for the week one game because Daniel Daniel Jones is not going
• 24:02
  to have a pre season. He's not going to have a mini
• 24:04
  camp prior will be at OTAs like what they're going to do week 1.
• 24:09
  And if they've only tagged him for a year and he comes back mid
• 24:15
  season, he's got to get back into the swing of things.
• 24:18
  If you're making a playoff run with a QB that's got you there
• 24:20
  from Week 1, what do you do with this?
• 24:23
  Now don't get me wrong, it's Penny.
• 24:24
  It's a different, it's Penny, isn't it for them, but.
• 24:28
  I think it's a really clever move.
• 24:29
  Again, like I think there's, I think with these tags pre free
• 24:32
  agency and the moves we're making so far, maybe not all of
• 24:35
  them, but I think it's, it's a really clever move because
• 24:39
  you've got you've got Alec Pearce, who by all accounts is
• 24:43
  potentially A franchise tag. So you can, you've got that toss
• 24:49
  up. Who do you franchise tag?
• 24:51
  Who do you transition tag? So just just for clarity, for
• 24:53
  those who maybe missed last week's pod and I'll go a little
• 24:56
  bit more into detail. You've got two types of
• 24:58
  franchise tags and then you've got a transition tag.
• 25:01
  So you can use one, one, sorry, I'll put my teeth in.
• 25:05
  You can use one franchise tag and you can use one transition
• 25:09
  tag. Now the difference basically are
• 25:11
  the main differences. The franchise tags are worth
• 25:14
  more money, one of which then if they are then sent to another or
• 25:21
  sign with another team, you get compensation back from that
• 25:23
  team. So it's effectively a trade.
• 25:26
  Whereas the transition tag is you are paid a top ten salary as
• 25:36
  opposed to a top five average salary.
• 25:40
  But what essentially you can negotiate with another team.
• 25:44
  Another team gets a chance to say, I'm going to offer you this
• 25:46
  much money. And then the host team has
• 25:49
  placed the tags of the Colts in this situation can can basically
• 25:54
  say, yeah, we'll match it. If they don't, there's no
• 25:58
  compensation. So I think for the Colts, it's
• 26:00
  really, really a smart move in that you can essentially give
• 26:09
  Daniel Jones, who basically has done something similar, New York
• 26:13
  Giants where he had one really good season and then the rest of
• 26:16
  his career was bang average. And at the Colts he started
• 26:20
  really, really strong and he got injured, but he's going to miss
• 26:23
  part of the season. So realistically, how many teams
• 26:27
  are going to want to pay him? What the Colts are essentially
• 26:30
  saying, we're willing to pay you, which is just sub 40 mil,
• 26:34
  which in my eyes is probably where he's worth.
• 26:38
  You know, with the QB market, we'll look at a lot of
• 26:40
  quarterbacks now in the 40s and 50s.
• 26:42
  We know it's gone silly. The salary cap's gone up.
• 26:45
  So then you could argue, well, those salaries are going to be
• 26:48
  inflated even more. So actually, I think it's a
• 26:51
  really, really smart move. Now we've got Callum piping up
• 26:54
  in the background here saying you can only use one or the
• 26:56
  other. I am sure he's wrong.
• 26:59
  I'm calling him out. I'm sure you can use one of the
• 27:02
  two franchise tags plus one transition tag.
• 27:06
  I'm almost certain on that one. So if I'm wrong, call me out in
• 27:11
  the comments because I'm almost certain I'm proving researcher
• 27:15
  Cal wrong on this one. I can see him scoring a major
• 27:18
  background. He looks, he looks so panicked,
• 27:20
  you guys can't see him, but his face looks panicked.
• 27:23
  It's brilliant, but. I'll die.
• 27:25
  On that hill. Imagine that speak so going on
• 27:30
  with free agency you you touched on the the fact it could go to
• 27:33
  free agency, which I'm I'm with you.
• 27:35
  I do think he's a smart move by Indianapolis.
• 27:37
  I think it's a do draft a QB. I'll get a younger QB in and
• 27:40
  then he struggles Daniel Jones there to help him out.
• 27:42
  Plus it'll be on the sideline and the sideline at training to
• 27:45
  kind of give him a bit of experience of that playbook that
• 27:48
  he's had for that time. But speaking on the kind of free
• 27:53
  agency where he could have gone to there is some big names
• 27:58
  pretty much set and confirmed to be going to free agency to in
• 28:02
  particular is Trey Hendrickson and Kenneth Walker.
• 28:06
  Now that the Trey the Trey Hendrick Hendrickson one for me
• 28:12
  is wild that they're not doing something with him.
• 28:16
  I've been put in all the all the money into the two wide
• 28:22
  receivers that they have done. They've been an absolute shit
• 28:25
  show organisation. After putting these the money
• 28:28
  into into the two wide receivers, you want to surely
• 28:31
  you want to be keeping some some sort of backbone to your
• 28:36
  defence. Surely you do because he goes to
• 28:39
  somewhere else, like the Ravens or something wild.
• 28:44
  It's it's barmy. I think that it's such a weird
• 28:47
  free agency class this year because there's so many players
• 28:50
  where you're just thinking, Oh my word, like why are you not
• 28:53
  signing these guys? And on top of that, with this,
• 28:57
  like I just mentioned, the salary cap going up, teams have
• 29:02
  got more flexibility. So I just don't see it.
• 29:06
  No, I just don't. I don't understand it, sorry, I
• 29:09
  just don't get it. We've got we've got some more to
• 29:12
  touch on free agency in a second.
• 29:13
  So I don't want to go on too much about that one.
• 29:15
  The next big storyline from this kind of trade like cycles going
• 29:20
  on. Dave Montgomery on the move.
• 29:22
  He has moved to the Texans from the Lions and the Sonic and
• 29:26
  Knuckles partnership with Gibbs is over now in Detroit.
• 29:31
  He's moved on for 1/4 a 7th and the offensive lineman juice
• 29:34
  scrubs. What a name by the way, but
• 29:37
  moved over. It's probably a smart move get
• 29:39
  get a few more reps The Texans were kind of the need of that
• 29:45
  start that veteran running back when it comes down to that pack
• 29:50
  at the hard and I think that's what what whether whether weaken
• 29:54
  in our fairness. But I think it's a good move.
• 29:56
  I think he gets more upset that way.
• 29:58
  He's never going to be running back one while Gibbs is at
• 30:01
  Detroit, especially after how Gibbs performed last year.
• 30:07
  So yeah, but where any any thoughts on that mate?
• 30:11
  Any thoughts on on that on that trade?
• 30:14
  I think it it makes sense for him.
• 30:20
  You know, what did they used to call?
• 30:21
  Was it Sonic and Knuckles they used to call them or something?
• 30:24
  Like that Sonic and Knuckles. But I think it was kind of
• 30:27
  always in, you know, in the shadow really.
• 30:32
  I think I've had him in fantasy a few years and and I know like
• 30:38
  fantasy is not the real world, but it's it's probably a true
• 30:43
  reflection of kind of what he's like as a player.
• 30:46
  And but what he could be even as, would you argue as an RB2 or
• 30:51
  is it a true split back field? I'd probably say he's like a
• 30:54
  1.5, but he's got an opportunity now to go and be a 1.
• 31:00
  And I think for someone like CJ who has been a little bit under
• 31:04
  fire really, you know, he's had a really good season and then
• 31:07
  he's been bang average moments of crap.
• 31:11
  And there's a lot of rumours that he was going to potentially
• 31:16
  be traded and they've they've now said no, he's here, he's
• 31:20
  staying. So actually to to have a running
• 31:23
  back like Montgomery, who can you can use him, You can really
• 31:29
  use him. Is he a three down back?
• 31:31
  Probably. I think it could be, arguably.
• 31:34
  I'm not sure if that would. I just, I just think it means
• 31:39
  that veteran, listen to that. Yeah, it brings that veteran
• 31:42
  mindset into that backfield. But I think it's a decent trade.
• 31:45
  I'm looking forward to more trades happening.
• 31:48
  We've got Jerry Jones though, on the on, on the the kind of hunt
• 31:51
  next. Jerry Jones has come out to the
• 31:54
  press and said he's going to be aggressive in this free agency
• 31:56
  and he's decided to go in and he's restructured contracts for
• 32:00
  duck, for CD and for the guard Tyler Smith, making about
• 32:07
  66,000,000 free in cap space, which he's come out.
• 32:13
  And he said like, we're attacking this free agency quite
• 32:15
  hard because they think they're close to doing something.
• 32:18
  Again, for the rugby league fans out there, the Cowboys or the
• 32:21
  Warwick and Wolves, it's always our year and they underperform
• 32:25
  somewhere down the line. And I think that presstop played
• 32:30
  really well last year. He he did and so did CD as he
• 32:34
  always does. They've got pickings now, which
• 32:36
  they're now franchise tagging. They've got that kind of set
• 32:39
  there. If they're going to start
• 32:41
  smashing that free agency, then it's be getting the it's not,
• 32:44
  it's now or never now or never for them in my opinion, because
• 32:47
  they need to do something with it.
• 32:50
  If not, people like CD are going to start looking around and
• 32:54
  jumping, jumping ship in my opinion with that.
• 32:56
  But we will soon see, you know what Jerry's like.
• 32:59
  He does drastic things like trade his best defensive player
• 33:03
  away for 1000 picks and, you know, look, look, look what he
• 33:08
  did there. But Matt, I'm going to move on
• 33:10
  to free agency right quickly. OK, touch on the free, the free
• 33:13
  agency room and mill that is knocking moment in time.
• 33:16
  So commanders set to release. Now all this is what we've found
• 33:21
  on research, by the way, a lot of it's per Adam Schefter.
• 33:24
  So if you don't don't agree with it, don't believe it, go speak
• 33:26
  to him about this. Commanders are set to release
• 33:29
  defensive back Marshall and Lima.
• 33:31
  The Cardinals set to release Kylie Murray, The Chiefs are set
• 33:36
  to release one of their main offensive tackles, Juwan Juwan
• 33:40
  Taylor, we've got the Vikings set to release Aaron Jones and
• 33:45
  their defensive tackle Jayvon Hargrave, and the Dolphins are
• 33:48
  rumoured to be releasing tour after the 1st of June.
• 33:53
  Now pretty big names there. The QB mark is up in the air.
• 33:57
  Kyla Murray linked with the Vikings that I've seen so far.
• 34:04
  Anything from you when it comes down to these names here?
• 34:08
  I mean, I'll, I'll go to the obvious.
• 34:12
  First of all, not just two, but Kyler as well.
• 34:16
  I think it's a really weird year this year because you've
• 34:20
  potentially got 345 potentially quarterbacks who teams could
• 34:29
  sign in a year where the quarterback draft market isn't
• 34:35
  at its highest. You know, it's pretty poor
• 34:37
  generally, you know, comparatively speaking.
• 34:41
  And let's just use two as an example.
• 34:44
  You've got the Dolphins who are going to say, fine, all right,
• 34:46
  we can't find a tray for this guy, so we're going to take the
• 34:48
  hit. We'll take on his contract.
• 34:50
  So you will be able to as a team sign a guy who is out to prove
• 34:58
  that he can play. So he will sign on a league
• 35:02
  minimum contract without a doubt because he's still getting paid
• 35:06
  is 50 mil over the next, you know, 50 mil for two years and
• 35:11
  he can play for next to nothing. You know, you could sign him
• 35:13
  arguably, although I think I don't think he would, you could
• 35:16
  sign him to a two year league minimum contract.
• 35:19
  Now arguably he's not going to do that.
• 35:21
  You probably sign a one year league minimum contract,
• 35:23
  hopefully play for another contract and and make big bucks.
• 35:26
  But same with Kyler. You've got a quarterback who
• 35:31
  just like to have had flashes of greatness.
• 35:35
  You know, they both can play, can't they?
• 35:37
  Like they are, they are a start. Both of them for me are NFL
• 35:43
  starting quarterbacks in the current climate and the current
• 35:46
  market. But they're just in positions in
• 35:48
  their careers where teams are ready for a reset and they're
• 35:50
  ready to move on. So, you know, you look at the
• 35:52
  Vikings, you look at The Jets, you look at the Steelers, you
• 35:57
  know, a number of teams who are potentially in the market for a
• 36:02
  quarterback who can start from day one.
• 36:04
  And I think you've got 2 here. I've seen the same research,
• 36:08
  Carl's type in the background that he's seen rumours of Jets
• 36:11
  and Kyla Merritt. I've seen the same things.
• 36:13
  I don't think that's a bad fit. I don't like, you know, give,
• 36:19
  give them a mobile quarterback. They've got one who's.
• 36:22
  Maybe better than Justin Fields. I'd argue he's better.
• 36:26
  I don't know, me. I, I think he's been better.
• 36:29
  I think if you put Justin Fields in, in the Cardinals, I think he
• 36:33
  does equally as well. I don't know.
• 36:35
  Actually, I don't know. I like all three QBs.
• 36:38
  I do like a mobile QB kind of kind of fit.
• 36:41
  But let's Fast forward 12 months.
• 36:45
  We're in the offseason of next year or yeah, give or take.
• 36:50
  Where do you see these three QBs and how do they fit?
• 36:55
  Where? Where do these?
• 36:55
  Where do these all? In the exact same scenario that
• 36:58
  they're in this year, I think the vast majority of them, maybe
• 37:03
  not just in fields. I, I don't know his contract
• 37:06
  details. I don't know how much of his
• 37:07
  money was sort of front loaded in that two years, but I see
• 37:11
  Kyler and I see two in the exact same scenario.
• 37:13
  I think they will both get signed.
• 37:15
  I think they will both see starting reps.
• 37:18
  I'm not necessarily saying game one, but I think they'll both
• 37:21
  see starting reps and I think they will both be in a position
• 37:26
  to re sign somewhere in some capacity.
• 37:30
  You know, look at Russell Wilson.
• 37:31
  He got ousted from the Broncos. He was earning big money, signed
• 37:35
  a league minimum contract at the Steelers and then moved on, then
• 37:41
  to New York. And all right, it didn't work
• 37:43
  for him, did it? But he was in basically the same
• 37:45
  position a year later because he played, OK, Like he played all
• 37:50
  right at the Steelers, you know, he wasn't the Russell Wilson of
• 37:53
  old, but he played all right. You know, I could see Kyler Otur
• 37:57
  in KOCS offence for example. I think I think it's either go
• 38:06
  if either go to either go to the Vikings that beat JJ McCarthy to
• 38:09
  the starting spot that don't rate JJ McCarthy.
• 38:12
  I just don't rate them all. I think 2 in particular would
• 38:15
  definitely get a starting spot in the NFLII don't think The
• 38:18
  Jets would take on Kyla because of the experience that they had
• 38:22
  with Justin Fields. And I understand and thinking of
• 38:24
  it, yes you're probably right. He's a better QB than Justin
• 38:28
  Fields. But the similar attributes to
• 38:31
  both QBs, you kind of replace him like for like if if Kyla
• 38:35
  Murray was leaps and bounds above Justin Fields, then I
• 38:40
  could have kind of unders If it were Lamar Jackson, who's
• 38:43
  another mobile QB, for instance, but he's leaps and bounds better
• 38:46
  than Justin Fields going into then yeah, I can understand.
• 38:49
  But I just don't put I put on both CT or QBs and I just don't
• 38:55
  see why they go from one to another on that on that front.
• 39:00
  But that being said, I would, I do think in particular out of
• 39:04
  all three of them, Q BS, I think Kyla Murray and two are in
• 39:07
  particular get starting roles elsewhere where I don't know.
• 39:13
  And I think potentially it's only a starting role due to an
• 39:17
  injury. Let's say Kyla Murray goes to
• 39:19
  the Steelers as a backup and a rod stays for another year.
• 39:24
  A rod goes down, Kyla Murray gets that shot and he's there
• 39:27
  for he's there for another two years, for instance, because he
• 39:29
  did well in that back season, because he's got good people
• 39:31
  around him. That'd be kind of my prediction
• 39:34
  when it comes down to them too, more than anything else.
• 39:37
  Do you think Aaron Rodgers will be at the Steelers next year?
• 39:40
  Like it's, it's a weird 1, isn't it, this year?
• 39:42
  Because he kind of had the Steelers over a barrel last
• 39:46
  year, in my opinion. Like Steelers went all in on him
• 39:49
  basically, didn't they? And said we're just going to
• 39:50
  wait for you to decide. But I don't think I think he
• 39:54
  played well. I think he was absolutely fine,
• 39:58
  but he wasn't like he didn't set the world on fire.
• 40:01
  Like, do the Steelers really need to hang around for him or
• 40:04
  is it more that the QB draft class this year isn't great?
• 40:08
  So we'll ride out for another year with a rod.
• 40:10
  And he knows the organisation, he obviously knows Mike
• 40:13
  McCarthy. So we'll do another year, we'll
• 40:15
  kick the can down the road, and then we'll look to draft someone
• 40:17
  next year where the class looks a bit heavier on the QB side.
• 40:22
  I think if they're not drafted a QB, so sorry, if they keep a
• 40:28
  rod, they're not, they're not looking to draft AQB next year.
• 40:31
  They're looking to trade because I think a rod gets him in that
• 40:34
  mid mid to late draft pick category, right?
• 40:38
  Which if you want AQB, you want top five pick.
• 40:42
  You're not going to get a top five pick with a rod as your QB
• 40:46
  because you've got the people around him like Metcalf and
• 40:48
  stuff around him who as shown through a through a lot of about
• 40:56
  a lot of the the this season how how well they've played
• 40:59
  together. I do genuinely think that put
• 41:03
  Ayrod here. I think I think Ayrod stays for
• 41:05
  one more season, sees how they get on, see how they go
• 41:09
  throughout it. I think if it's not going well
• 41:13
  by by like Christmas or just before Christmas, he pulls up
• 41:19
  injured or something along the lines of just not good just
• 41:23
  before before that trade headline to do they bring
• 41:26
  another QB in or something. But I do I do see him being
• 41:29
  there and I don't see him drafting a QB.
• 41:32
  I see him trading for a QB at the end of next year rather than
• 41:36
  drafting Vaughan. But then again, if they were
• 41:38
  doesn't come in and then they put someone like Kyler in, for
• 41:41
  instance, they've got that. They've got the opportunity.
• 41:44
  So this ever still got Mason Rudolph.
• 41:45
  Is he still? Is he still thing there like
• 41:47
  they? Yeah, he is.
• 41:49
  Yeah, so they've got a choice then to be the Mason or Kyla,
• 41:52
  for instance, who, if it works, happy days, you've found your
• 41:56
  new franchise QB because they're both relatively still young.
• 41:59
  If it doesn't work, you've got a a relatively high draft pick.
• 42:04
  That'd be my thoughts on it anyway.
• 42:08
  Yeah, I don't disagree with any of that, to be fair.
• 42:10
  I love that we've got research Carl in the background.
• 42:13
  Oh, they've got Will Howard, too.
• 42:15
  It's like sick. I do a bad job.
• 42:21
  I have a word. I have a word.
• 42:23
  You know what? That I.
• 42:24
  Really want I want research account to get on this pod at
• 42:27
  some point and have a voice but that's I'm quite enjoying just
• 42:30
  ridiculing him. He's got nothing to come back
• 42:32
  with. It's brilliant.
• 42:33
  We, we, we can say what we like about him.
• 42:35
  It's fantastic. Nobody else has what he's
• 42:37
  saying. He's it's absolutely great.
• 42:39
  But that's like the current rumour mill of the free agency
• 42:42
  and, and the touch on the, the trades and the franchise tags
• 42:44
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• 42:49
  We don't tend to be, we don't, we don't pretend to be experts.
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  We've made this podcast because we enjoy talking crap about
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  We had them again just because I'm I'm in the mood to ridicule
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  them. Today we had research Caroline
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  in the background. You know the little emoji with
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  the man with his hand up like this.
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  Please, Sir. I'll speak.
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  Wait your turn boy, wait your turn.
• 44:35
  Say what cowardy when you when you get 3 or more stats right,
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  we might consider it you know. But but anyway, talking, talking
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  sport in general and talking other things other than American
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  football, Bloody hell, I can't spake today.
• 44:56
  We're going to get into it, Brad.
• 44:58
  Let's talk to rugby league, get him off rest right, let's talk
• 45:03
  rugby league now. This is something that you're
• 45:05
  going to hear a little bit more of going forward.
• 45:07
  The rugby league season start. It's a passion of mine and
• 45:09
  Brad's and we've had to be fair. We've had some good feedback
• 45:11
  about talking rugby. Now this is rugby league and
• 45:16
  we're going to recap from this week's scores and and headlines
• 45:20
  from this. Now First things first, what on
• 45:23
  earth is happening at Hull KR? The Champions have had the
• 45:29
  worst, I think, I think I saw it on BBC News somewhere that
• 45:32
  they've had the worst start as defending champions in Super
• 45:36
  League history. Now they lost 58 nil.
• 45:40
  It's a long way to travel if you're in a way from by the way,
• 45:43
  because this game was in Las Vegas.
• 45:45
  They played Leeds in Las Vegas and lost 58 nil.
• 45:50
  Now I'm taking nothing away from Leeds because Leeds looked good
• 45:53
  but all KR looked poor, absolutely poor with this.
• 46:01
  They're sitting at the bottom of the Super League table.
• 46:03
  They are like and they've got a game in hand, but they are quite
• 46:06
  literally sitting at the bottom of the table counting that with
• 46:10
  Warrington, who have also got the game in hand.
• 46:12
  They're 5th. So you can't just sort of say,
• 46:17
  Oh yeah, you know, yeah, we we ain't got into the rhythm.
• 46:20
  They went out and they played really well against Brisbane.
• 46:23
  So, you know, I've I've, they just put all their eggs into
• 46:26
  that basket and they want that title.
• 46:27
  They want to be the Champions of the world.
• 46:29
  So therefore they've sacrificed the week before and after.
• 46:32
  Maybe you can't blame the travel because Leeds absolutely
• 46:35
  trounced them and it's just they've just looked woeful.
• 46:41
  I mean, to get beat by York first of all, who have started
• 46:44
  really strong. Like, don't get me wrong, you
• 46:47
  know they've had three games, they've had two wins, which one
• 46:49
  of which we'll we'll touch on you.
• 46:50
  You'll be able to see it on the on YouTube if you're looking
• 46:53
  there. Absolute drop gold kings your
• 46:55
  car by all all accounts. But as defending champions of
• 47:01
  Super League, the grand final winners, you can't come out and
• 47:05
  lose your only two for like starting league games.
• 47:08
  You just can't. No, no, do do you not think it's
• 47:11
  well as well if you if you finished the you start the
• 47:16
  season, right, start the season, come round, OK, I've just won.
• 47:18
  And then they were dominant last year.
• 47:19
  They were dominant in the NFL, in the NFL, in the in the Super
• 47:23
  League last year they they were really good start this year
• 47:26
  comes round, you go, you're lucky.
• 47:27
  You go about your first 3 fixtures, you play in York, you
• 47:29
  play in Leeds and you play in Brisbane, OK, you're going to
• 47:33
  win one of them games. Which one are you going to win?
• 47:36
  Oh, well, they're going to, they're going to beat York.
• 47:38
  No, they beat Brisbane of all, of all the three teams there.
• 47:42
  They beat Brisbane and they played really, like I say, they
• 47:45
  played really well against Brazil.
• 47:46
  I just think there's something at the moment, research Carl
• 47:49
  flying the name, that it's the first, the first defending
• 47:52
  champion since 2016 to lose both opening games.
• 47:56
  Ironically, the team that was before them that did that was
• 47:59
  the Leeds Rhinos, who absolutely trounced them this weekend in
• 48:04
  America. We'll have to see what we'll
• 48:07
  have to see what like this weekend brings and the
• 48:09
  following, you know, the following few weeks to see where
• 48:11
  what what's happening with all KR there, see if the can kind of
• 48:13
  bounce back. Neither whole team at the moment
• 48:16
  is looking anything fantastic, which is a bit of a shame, but
• 48:20
  we'll have to kind of keep it up from there now.
• 48:23
  Classic ass are they're back. I went to the game on Friday
• 48:28
  night. We look great.
• 48:30
  Look, this is this is a Patriots of this year where the where
• 48:35
  they played an easy team. OK, they played the knees team,
• 48:38
  they played, they played the Huddersfield Giants who look
• 48:40
  poor look shocking. Now I watched this game and that
• 48:46
  took my daughters with me. It were fantastic.
• 48:48
  I really enjoyed it and it would just it were like watching the
• 48:52
  old cast of Daryl Paul's era through a nice little pass out
• 48:55
  little dumbass. We were we were having fun when
• 49:00
  playing rugby and that were the main thing to see.
• 49:03
  Did you did you want to go into the game?
• 49:05
  So I know you were supposed to go.
• 49:06
  Yeah, I did. No, I did.
• 49:07
  It was very, very last minute. One of the guys managed to sort
• 49:11
  me out with the ticket. Who appreciate that oppo but a
• 49:17
  yeah, I ended up going quite last minute.
• 49:18
  I was working until like 7:00 and I literally bombing up the
• 49:21
  A1 to get there for kick off. I think I missed the I think I
• 49:24
  missed the 1st 32nd. Well, maybe a little bit more.
• 49:28
  I met my my friend Gaz who kindly had gone to the bar and
• 49:32
  I've got you, I've got you a beer and he met me just waiting
• 49:35
  to go up the steps and I just heard the crowd go and I heard
• 49:37
  it and I so I missed the first try, caught it on the replays.
• 49:41
  But I just thought, you know, it was, I mean a couple of things
• 49:45
  like talking about polishing a turd like the old girl, Weldon
• 49:49
  Rd, the jungle, the one ball, whatever it is now, like she
• 49:54
  looks great, like you've definitely rolled it in glitter.
• 49:58
  There's work to do. We all know that we want the new
• 50:00
  stand, but she looks great and the work the club have done have
• 50:03
  been it is brilliant and there's still work to go.
• 50:06
  And I love that they're actually responding to feedback like the
• 50:08
  food's been crap and they're responding to it like we won't
• 50:11
  go into that rubbish. But the atmosphere down there
• 50:15
  was great. And to say it was just shy 7000,
• 50:17
  which isn't amazing, but actually when you looked around
• 50:21
  that stadium, I bet 6 1/2 were Cass.
• 50:25
  And. 40,000 no, like Cass has got a population of around
• 50:30
  40,000. So when you think just shy 7000
• 50:33
  were there on a Friday night against a poor team like
• 50:37
  Huddersfield, that's that's you know, it's not bad to say the
• 50:41
  season we had last year. We we've done better and we'll
• 50:44
  do better. Like I think what I loved was it
• 50:47
  was like watching that game against Wigan.
• 50:49
  Now the score was completely different because it was
• 50:51
  Huddersfield. Like let's not pretend that's
• 50:53
  not the case, but the passion was there, the desire was there,
• 50:58
  the guys were having fun. You know, like is it Ashton,
• 51:03
  Ashton Golden? Like he had an absolute storm
• 51:09
  and he, he came on for Hood didn't he?
• 51:10
  Who picked up an injury and God, he just, it was his debut for
• 51:15
  cast and it looks like he'd been playing there for like 3 years
• 51:18
  and the crowd is behind him. You can just see he's going to
• 51:21
  be a fan favourite. Yeah, against the team, against
• 51:24
  his ex team, the team didn't want to sign him, let him go.
• 51:27
  He came on and he he, I mean he's a, he's a, he's a chunky
• 51:31
  lad now. He puts somebody puts some of
• 51:32
  the old timber and I'm not going to lie to him.
• 51:34
  You can tell him I've been playing for a while.
• 51:36
  But he came on and like and I said to me, because I went with
• 51:38
  my mum, you see, took me a moment girls.
• 51:40
  And I said to him halfway through as soon as he walks on
• 51:43
  field, you could you could see as soon as he walks on failure,
• 51:44
  bringing some energy when we were we were X amount of points
• 51:47
  up at time. He didn't he didn't necessarily
• 51:49
  need to go on an attack. But I said to me, Mum, I went,
• 51:52
  he's playing for a contractor and you could see it.
• 51:55
  Every time we got that boy, we were hungry.
• 51:57
  Every time we got a boy hungry and that try that he scored away
• 52:00
  burst lying and he's not going that fantastic.
• 52:03
  It was great. And like you said, the
• 52:04
  atmosphere was great. It was, it was lovely to see.
• 52:06
  It was nice to be back down. Yeah, great.
• 52:10
  Great all around. And you know.
• 52:11
  It was for me and and I only saw that.
• 52:14
  We don't want to bias it towards cast, but we've kind of got to
• 52:17
  as fans, I want you a little bit.
• 52:18
  We've got to acknowledge that. But it was just really there's a
• 52:21
  few things that really stood out for me as a off the field.
• 52:25
  I mean, it was on the field, but as a non performance side of
• 52:27
  things, you add Weaver, who had a great game and you know that
• 52:34
  that spine on game one looks fantastic and and the toughy
• 52:38
  injury was unfortunate and we've made some moves and and still
• 52:42
  looks relatively all right. I think that if it plays them
• 52:44
  all together, it'll really develop.
• 52:45
  And but the few things that stood out for me, you add until
• 52:50
  most of the players had gone in. And as we're walking out,
• 52:52
  there's Weaver still down in the corner taking pictures with the
• 52:56
  fans. Like long after the end of the
• 52:59
  the whistle's gone. You had you had the coach who
• 53:03
  was he'd not done the usual Daryl Powell walking across the
• 53:06
  field clapping the fans. He'd clap the fans.
• 53:09
  But he was making a target for every single player.
• 53:13
  There was a hug, there was a pat on the back.
• 53:15
  There was like he went out of his way to to literally as far
• 53:19
  as I could see, every single player.
• 53:20
  And it's it's kind of just backs up everything that Cass have
• 53:24
  been putting out on the promos. And and I think, you know, even
• 53:27
  if you're losing, no one wants to lose.
• 53:29
  But it's year 1 of essentially new projects.
• 53:32
  And I think if you've seen that passion and you've seen that
• 53:35
  drive, people will get behind the team.
• 53:37
  If you can see where it's going, it's not what we've had the last
• 53:40
  couple of years, but my first instincts from pre season, from
• 53:44
  the social media stuff, and I know you can skew socials.
• 53:47
  And then just what I've seen in in the flesh on on Friday night,
• 53:51
  it's going in the right direction.
• 53:53
  I think there's the right people in place.
• 53:55
  So I I hope it continues. Same and you talk about Blake
• 53:58
  Taffer coming. Blake Taffer, sorry Weaver
• 54:01
  coming down to the corner. Well that's where I was sat in
• 54:04
  that corner of Princess St there and I got a picture with him
• 54:07
  with my 2 girls, my mum. And it was like the girls wanted
• 54:12
  to go down and they were they were shouting for cast all game
• 54:14
  like it will find they've been before in the past and they
• 54:17
  didn't enjoy cast games. They love that cascade, they
• 54:19
  want to go again, they want to go and meet the players.
• 54:22
  So we went and stood there for 5 or 10 minutes to end the game
• 54:24
  and he came over, got a pitch with us and we were we were
• 54:28
  right in the corner and he started on the halfway line and
• 54:30
  walked down. And every single kid that we're
• 54:32
  there, they got a picture with like because that because the
• 54:35
  kids are what the next generation are.
• 54:37
  And so you can imagine you got way down to me and you think
• 54:40
  he's getting a bit sick of this now.
• 54:42
  Same energy to what it wore at the stage.
• 54:44
  Bear in mind he just played 80 minutes of rugby like and the
• 54:48
  same energy from start. Great to see Long live it.
• 54:52
  That's hopefully we're not talking next week when we've
• 54:54
  just been trounced. Hopefully this week we I mean we
• 54:56
  play Leeds, which is going to be a tough a tough one, but you
• 54:58
  know we'll see we'll see how we get on moving on to the next
• 55:02
  team who now have the world's best pie because Wigan look
• 55:07
  unbeatable. They look, I couldn't believe
• 55:12
  that. I think I texted you on Thursday
• 55:14
  night going have you seen this score 54 nil, They beat Lee now
• 55:19
  Lee are a good team, right? But Wigan, we're going to take
• 55:25
  some beating this year. We're going to take some
• 55:27
  beating. I'd be surprised if I lose a
• 55:29
  game this year. They were unreal to look at.
• 55:33
  Those look smooth. They're getting to the point
• 55:35
  where it would they were they were just playing they were
• 55:38
  playing lock lane like they were just playing some Sunday league
• 55:41
  stuff. Just bopping about having some
• 55:43
  fun. Yeah, it it, it Adults with kids
• 55:47
  at weekend for them. Two points difference over three
• 55:51
  games. 92 points difference over three games.
• 55:55
  That's just for context. That's 20 points more than
• 55:59
  second place Rhinos. And you'll only get 4 points for
• 56:02
  a try. It's it's over 60 points more
• 56:08
  than Saints who are in 3rd. Jesus, that is if they can
• 56:14
  maintain that, that level and consistency, the the the walk in
• 56:19
  it, it'll be a walk it. But they try to keep the red
• 56:21
  because they look they look absolutely incredible.
• 56:25
  But a team that doesn't look incredible like normally does
• 56:28
  1/2 of the French teams Catalan, their struggles are continuing,
• 56:33
  losing 36 four to Saint Helens. Saint Helens are a good team,
• 56:36
  but Catalan we're at home and Catalan at home is a hard place
• 56:39
  to go and a hard place to go and and win.
• 56:43
  And Saints went over there and just did that.
• 56:46
  Don't know what's happening here.
• 56:47
  There's the Toulouse and Saints, kind of the Toulouse and Catalan
• 56:51
  rivalry now for who's going to be the more French team.
• 56:53
  Toulouse did lose this weekend as well to, to, to a decent look
• 56:57
  at Bradford, but Catalans haven't got going yet.
• 57:01
  They've got they've got nothing. They've got no, no zazz about
• 57:05
  them at the moment. And it's, it's, it's a weird one
• 57:07
  to see because normally, I mean, I know Tompkins don't play for
• 57:10
  them anymore, but normally you associate that, that Catalan
• 57:13
  team with, with some Tompkins now and having that fun and just
• 57:17
  looking like a strong pack and a tough pack to go and beat.
• 57:20
  And now they're, they're they're just not it's a it's a wild 1.
• 57:25
  Is that one for me? I don't think anyone had
• 57:27
  predicted to lose being above Catalan at this point.
• 57:32
  You got to lose in 6th and Catalan down at 11th, which you
• 57:35
  just wouldn't have expected. I'm I'm really looking forward
• 57:38
  to that Derby game, though, like that's going to be I feel like
• 57:41
  that's going to be a real close game, even if to lose are like
• 57:44
  continuing to do well. And I think it's just going to
• 57:46
  be one of those like absolute, like smash, whack, wallop, to
• 57:52
  use the comic book terms, like sort of games, you know,
• 57:56
  physical, probably not that high scoring, just real impact driven
• 58:00
  games. I can just see it in the French
• 58:02
  teams. I think it'll be the busiest
• 58:04
  we've ever. Obviously it will be the busiest
• 58:05
  we've ever seen in the French stadium as well.
• 58:08
  The French ground. It'll be, it'll be, I think the
• 58:09
  atmosphere will be electric. I think it'll be great to see.
• 58:12
  I think I'm, I'm really looking forward to it now.
• 58:14
  Toulouse, on the other hand, who came out and ran right against
• 58:18
  us. I lost to Bradford this week,
• 58:21
  which I'm very, very, very surprised about.
• 58:22
  Not taking anything away from Bradford because Bradford played
• 58:25
  well. I did manage to watch a bit of
• 58:26
  this game and Bradford looked solid when they were playing.
• 58:29
  Toulouse just didn't get going and I'm very surprised about
• 58:32
  that. It was.
• 58:33
  Is it because Toulouse were on the road?
• 58:35
  Because you know, when they looked great against us, but we
• 58:40
  were on the road, we, we had to go over there.
• 58:41
  Now they were going to Odd Soul, which is never an easy place to
• 58:44
  go because it's always -4 even it's summer in Odd Soul because
• 58:48
  it's that far underground. But like, I don't know.
• 58:52
  It's, it's, it's a strong result for Bradford that that is a
• 58:56
  statement. Is that from Bradford?
• 58:58
  It's a big statement. It was an.
• 58:59
  Interesting one. Like the thing, the thing that I
• 59:02
  took from the game the most and like, not to be superficial on
• 59:05
  it, but after the the first Bradford home game, it was a
• 59:08
  night game, won't it? And actually, it looks cool.
• 59:11
  Like the stadium was lit up. Well, they had all the showy
• 59:14
  stuff going on, but you couldn't see all.
• 59:17
  You know, you had your main stand where you could see
• 59:20
  because it was lit up, but then you couldn't see all the sort of
• 59:23
  bowl. Around it.
• 59:25
  And then this game obviously wasn't a night game and you
• 59:29
  could just see how horrendous it looked and how.
• 59:31
  Empty. It looks, and it was like this
• 59:33
  is coming from a CAS fan. You know, we get it, but it is,
• 59:39
  God, it's an awful ground. It is awful.
• 59:42
  And that looked horrendous for telly.
• 59:45
  You know, when we're talking about like IMG ratings and stuff
• 59:47
  like that, it that is a turd and it's not been polished.
• 59:51
  Actually, no, no, I'll, I'll give them the credit where it's
• 59:54
  due. Actually, probably I've done a
• 59:55
  lot of work to that, but it still looks awful.
• 1:00:00
  It's not. Ideal, yeah.
• 1:00:02
  I mean, it's a no. I mean, there's a team though,
• 1:00:04
  like, like you say, I didn't expect them to take this
• 1:00:07
  victory. I thought to lose were probably
• 1:00:09
  going to be a bit more physical. But credit where it's due.
• 1:00:11
  I mean you got Bradford to lose and York in the top 8, Bradford
• 1:00:15
  4th to lose 6th and York in 7th which is nuts.
• 1:00:18
  I am so surprised at the start of this season.
• 1:00:22
  I'm really happy with how it's going because I think it's it's
• 1:00:25
  going to be a really exciting season.
• 1:00:27
  Now you mentioned York being in the, we say the top 10 York and.
• 1:00:33
  Yeah, 7th. 7th right to York. 7th get into a final, I can't
• 1:00:38
  speak headline the drop goal Kings that I York Knights second
• 1:00:44
  game this year that they've beat A-Team a solid team as well by
• 1:00:49
  via a drop goal. Now don't get me wrong, this
• 1:00:53
  drop goal didn't come in the dying seconds.
• 1:00:55
  It came first half. I believe Paul McShane passed it
• 1:00:58
  out as as you seem to do plenty of time for the forecast passed
• 1:01:02
  it back drop goal went over just solidified the point there, but
• 1:01:05
  the score finished 1716 against Hull FC.
• 1:01:08
  Now, excuse me, Hull FC are a team that are known to have a
• 1:01:13
  strong pack, to be a physical team, to hit hard, tackle hard
• 1:01:17
  and play hard and York bettam, and I think it's I think it's so
• 1:01:24
  good to see how long York can keep winning by a point.
• 1:01:27
  I don't know it's it's one MBO. You win by an inch or a mile,
• 1:01:30
  you've won a game either way. Like I don't know how long I can
• 1:01:34
  keep it up for, but it's so good to see that these teams that
• 1:01:38
  have been promoted are coming in and being like, hey, show us
• 1:01:42
  some and respect. You know, I mean we're here.
• 1:01:44
  We're not just these. We've actually been given this,
• 1:01:46
  this, this opportunity. We're here.
• 1:01:51
  I mean you've got York who they've beat KR, they've
• 1:01:57
  obviously just had the victory this week and their only loss
• 1:02:00
  comes to Leeds who've just absolutely spanked the world
• 1:02:04
  champions. You know, they've got Wolves
• 1:02:08
  next I believe and then I think it's Wigan after that, not
• 1:02:11
  counting the cup. So I think that, you know,
• 1:02:13
  they've got 2 tough games ahead of them.
• 1:02:15
  I think those two games are probably going to show really
• 1:02:17
  what they're about. You'd have thought that'd come
• 1:02:20
  from Hulky out of it. Let's just let's just try and
• 1:02:21
  give them benefit of the doubt, you know, World Cup challenge
• 1:02:24
  coming up, blah, blah, blah. But you've got next two games,
• 1:02:27
  you've got Warriors, sorry, not Warriors, Warrington, who are
• 1:02:31
  fifth and then the Warriors who we've spoke about already.
• 1:02:34
  So I think the next two Super League games anyway, I think
• 1:02:38
  I've got Keighley I think in the cup.
• 1:02:41
  But the next two Super League games are going to be
• 1:02:45
  definitely, definitely tougher, so it'll be interesting to see
• 1:02:50
  how they go with with those. Yeah, it will, it will.
• 1:02:55
  And I hope it continues. I really do.
• 1:02:58
  I hope I hope it continues in terms of of this this kind of
• 1:03:04
  progression throughout it now do what a team that missed out on
• 1:03:07
  getting promoted to the Super League last year and that was
• 1:03:10
  the London Broncos now. And the reason why I'm bringing
• 1:03:12
  these up, I know they're in the they're a championship team, but
• 1:03:15
  they they played. We'd just gone against North
• 1:03:19
  Wales Crusaders. And if you remember the first
• 1:03:23
  time we brought up the rugby league thing, we spoke about the
• 1:03:26
  whole KR and Loch Lane Scott, which ended up like 104 nil 10.
• 1:03:33
  I don't know. So whatever it was along the
• 1:03:35
  lines of that, right? And that's that them divisions
• 1:03:39
  are one's one's a full Time Team, all the ones a Saturday,
• 1:03:44
  Saturday afternoon team and they just happened to play each
• 1:03:46
  other. Well, London went and played
• 1:03:49
  North Wales Crusaders this weekend, same division or same
• 1:03:53
  league championship, right? And they beat them 100 and 618.
• 1:04:01
  Now if that's not like AO, we should be up there.
• 1:04:05
  Why are Huddersfield Giants up there type thing?
• 1:04:08
  I mean, I know it's North Wales, but North Wales have recruited.
• 1:04:11
  I mean, Greg Eden plays there. What's he plays there, don't he?
• 1:04:14
  Have you, have you seen the stat though?
• 1:04:16
  So the skull was 100 and 618, and within that for The
• 1:04:21
  Crusaders, Greg Eden and Hat Trick.
• 1:04:25
  Oh, did you really? Seriously.
• 1:04:28
  Yeah. So I saw this tweet and I'm in a
• 1:04:30
  I'm in a group chat that it's like a Super Bowl league.
• 1:04:33
  So a bit like, not quite fantasy league, but you do your
• 1:04:36
  predictor scores for every, every rugby league game.
• 1:04:39
  And I put it in there. It's this tweet.
• 1:04:41
  I'll credit him. It's Mason Hurst 18.
• 1:04:44
  So if you're on Twitter, RX Mason Hurst 18 So Greg Eden
• 1:04:48
  scoring a hat trick while also conceding 106 points can take
• 1:04:52
  the man out of cast, but not the cast out of the man Just I loved
• 1:04:57
  it. But it's it's.
• 1:04:59
  Mad. I mean, I mean, the score was
• 1:05:01
  like 5058, yeah, 58, six at half time.
• 1:05:05
  But I think I think more than anything, like I mean, the
• 1:05:08
  score's ridiculous, but I think that's more a testament to like
• 1:05:11
  London of, of I think London had every expectation to be in the
• 1:05:16
  Super League. Or if they or if they knew they
• 1:05:18
  weren't going to be in Super League, they are pushing,
• 1:05:21
  they'll be in the Super League next year.
• 1:05:23
  I can't see how they won't be with, with what is obvious that
• 1:05:27
  rugby league wants out of Super League.
• 1:05:28
  Obviously there's new talks again about the NRL or the
• 1:05:33
  bosses of NRL putting offers into Super League and God knows
• 1:05:36
  how that'll go because the sport's absolutely corrupt and
• 1:05:39
  nuts when you look at the top end.
• 1:05:41
  But there's a sport, we love it. But you know, if London aren't
• 1:05:46
  in Super League next year then it's just going to be, it's
• 1:05:49
  going to be nuts to see what they're doing the Championship
• 1:05:52
  year after year. Yeah, if if you are new to rugby
• 1:05:55
  league, the rugby league's AM 62 corridor sport and it always has
• 1:05:59
  been, it's you. And they wanted to kind of
• 1:06:03
  expand. That's why they brought the the
• 1:06:05
  likes of Catalan in to begin with and they looked at Toronto
• 1:06:07
  and that never worked out for obvious reasons.
• 1:06:10
  And you're and, and London have always been a team that have
• 1:06:13
  been in and out in and out, in and out, in and out over for as
• 1:06:15
  long as I can remember. And I thought the sport pretty
• 1:06:18
  much all my life. And they've always been that
• 1:06:19
  team that goes in and out from where you know, from what, what
• 1:06:24
  there should be. And forever they get this
• 1:06:27
  opportunity in and they'll lose all the players.
• 1:06:29
  And I think now that kind of time with the the the club where
• 1:06:35
  it's just, I agree this should be in, but at the same time I'd
• 1:06:39
  struggle. I mean, other than Huddersfield,
• 1:06:41
  I'd sure take anybody else out of the Super League at the
• 1:06:43
  moment that that don't deserve to be in there for them.
• 1:06:47
  But yeah, I'd be, I'd be excited to kind of see how this goes
• 1:06:53
  with it to be, to be, to be quite honest with you, I'd be,
• 1:06:55
  I'd be kind of really excited to see how it goes.
• 1:06:58
  But that's the the rugby league roundup.
• 1:07:01
  I can't speak get him off ref. I can't that's that's that's the
• 1:07:05
  I can't I mean, I love this feature.
• 1:07:06
  I mean, I'm not going to lie. So that's the rugby league
• 1:07:08
  roundup. We've got a couple more just.
• 1:07:11
  For context, if you don't know the reference, just get on
• 1:07:14
  YouTube and just search rugby league.
• 1:07:16
  I can't speak. It'll be the best 2 minutes of
• 1:07:19
  your life. Seriously.
• 1:07:20
  Cass Wigan Knighty. Is it Cass Wigan Knighty
• 1:07:24
  somewhere? I don't know.
• 1:07:25
  It's it's great to watch. It's Cass.
• 1:07:28
  Wigan. I'm going to try and get that
• 1:07:31
  sound bite. Yeah, I'm going to try and get
• 1:07:33
  the sound bite is what I'll try and do.
• 1:07:34
  But we've got a couple more segments to go through.
• 1:07:37
  First mate, we've got all of the balls and we've got a new one
• 1:07:40
  coming to the show now. All the balls.
• 1:07:45
  He's a favourite of ours. It's something we do quite a
• 1:07:47
  lot, something to do every week. Brad, do me a favour, just tell
• 1:07:50
  the other people what are the what all the balls is please.
• 1:07:55
  I shall. So all of the balls is where we
• 1:07:59
  touch on all the other sports around the world.
• 1:08:03
  Now we have obviously touched on rugby league.
• 1:08:06
  We've got our I can't speak segment now, but we'll touch on
• 1:08:10
  other things now. I won't lie to you, I've come in
• 1:08:14
  dry on this one that this isn't anything to do with balls at
• 1:08:20
  all. Not only is it not to do with
• 1:08:22
  balls, it's not even to do with sport.
• 1:08:26
  What the hell is going on, Zach? Right, right, so so this is me.
• 1:08:32
  This is this is my I said to Brad, we're doing anything not
• 1:08:35
  doing all we're not doing all the well this week, right.
• 1:08:37
  Just let me let me run with this, please.
• 1:08:39
  Right, Jim Carrey, right. I've seen it, I've seen it.
• 1:08:46
  Have you seen this Jim Carrey conspiracy?
• 1:08:50
  I take my tin file that out is what I need to do.
• 1:08:54
  So there's been an award show, right where Jim Carrey's won is
• 1:08:58
  a lifetime achievement award or something.
• 1:09:01
  Now look, the pictures of Jim Carrey.
• 1:09:04
  That ain't Jim Carrey. I'm telling you now, right?
• 1:09:07
  That ain't Jim Carrey. But there's a guy that's come
• 1:09:09
  out and I believe his name's Alex Woman.
• 1:09:13
  I better tell you exactly how we're looking on a look on the
• 1:09:15
  guys Instagram earlier on today, Right?
• 1:09:18
  But his name is Alex Stone and he's a mask maker, right?
• 1:09:23
  He makes these like PV, like these, these rubber masks,
• 1:09:27
  right? And he's put a story outgoing.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah. It weren't Jim Carrey.
• 1:09:32
  It was me all along. And he's shown Jim Carrey's face
• 1:09:35
  mask on a mannequin. This is wild because Jim
• 1:09:40
  Carrey's kind of kept, I mean, he's public, his public, his
• 1:09:44
  publicist has come out and said it was Jim Carrey, the award
• 1:09:48
  show. But Jim Carrey himself just sat
• 1:09:50
  there doing nothing. But if you look at this picture,
• 1:09:53
  if you look at the at the Jim Carrey's face, they say Jim
• 1:09:58
  Carrey. I'm telling you now.
• 1:10:01
  Have you actually seen it though?
• 1:10:02
  Like obviously that the Alex guy, like he makes masks.
• 1:10:05
  It's obviously a a social media thing to get attraction.
• 1:10:09
  Jesus Christ. But it's like what I think the
• 1:10:12
  thing that gets me is that Jim Carrey all these years has been
• 1:10:15
  like anti Hollywood. So there's loads of rumours that
• 1:10:21
  obviously he knows about the whole like Epstein stuff and all
• 1:10:24
  that. Because he's like, if you look
• 1:10:26
  at some of his old awards, I guess not that old, like
• 1:10:30
  actually in the 2000s and then the 2000 and 10s when he's
• 1:10:33
  winning stuff or he's up for awards, it's kind of like almost
• 1:10:37
  anti establishment when it comes to Hollywood when he says things
• 1:10:40
  and it's almost like he's saying stuff to tell people, but
• 1:10:44
  without wanting to get killed. And then he's he's obviously
• 1:10:48
  always been like anti face work. And it's obvious he's just ended
• 1:10:53
  up having this face work done where he's like a motionless,
• 1:10:57
  you know what? They used to call him like
• 1:10:59
  rubber face, didn't they? Because his face would just be
• 1:11:01
  like like all over the place. Whereas now it was just like,
• 1:11:04
  there's just nothing there. Sorry, I just hit my leg.
• 1:11:06
  There was nothing there. And it's like, it's just mad.
• 1:11:11
  But it was great. Like it was great publicity.
• 1:11:13
  Publicity from the Alex guy. Research college put into it the
• 1:11:17
  mask. I'd heard like one of the really
• 1:11:20
  deep ex rabbit all on this by the way, and I'm looking on
• 1:11:23
  profiles on profiles and profiles that I've had all these
• 1:11:25
  wild conspiracy theories. Anyway, this is just a big
• 1:11:29
  marketing ploy because there's a new mask film coming out and
• 1:11:33
  it's like I might look I could kind of believe the rubber
• 1:11:38
  peeve, that mask thing. But when he speaks, it's going
• 1:11:41
  to be Jim Carrey, you know what I mean?
• 1:11:42
  But I agree with the saying. Like he's had this work done and
• 1:11:46
  it looks like it looks like a caricature, big, like boulders
• 1:11:50
  underneath his eyes for his cheekbones.
• 1:11:53
  It's like he's had a Brazilian butt lifting his face, right?
• 1:11:56
  And it's all of his. He's always had them.
• 1:11:59
  They're not wrinkles other than, but they're like because of his
• 1:12:02
  face being quite rubbery where he does like a he'll do a facial
• 1:12:05
  expression and you can see the creases in his in his face.
• 1:12:08
  He's always had them. They've gone, they've gone now
• 1:12:12
  like and it's it's just absolutely bar me to see.
• 1:12:16
  So yes, there's no balls in the older balls other than on his
• 1:12:19
  cheeks. But I just thought this story is
• 1:12:22
  too, too wild for us just to not sit and talk about for two
• 1:12:26
  minutes. Mate.
• 1:12:26
  It is mental. So stupid, Yeah.
• 1:12:33
  So I apologise to tell you it's not getting on all the balls.
• 1:12:36
  This is this was the reason why we are now going to move on to
• 1:12:41
  our new segment of the week. For this week.
• 1:12:45
  We've got something fun. It's called the multiverse
• 1:12:49
  trade, Brad. Right.
• 1:12:50
  So with this, what I'm going to do is I've got a, I've got a
• 1:12:56
  task for you, should I say? All right?
• 1:12:58
  And with this, you're going to get a random athlete from the
• 1:13:01
  world. You can choose who it is,
• 1:13:05
  whatever shape, size or whatever you want to do with that.
• 1:13:09
  And this athlete, you have to put him into an NFL position and
• 1:13:13
  tell me why. OK, I've got one lined up ready
• 1:13:16
  to go. A player, a position and why he
• 1:13:20
  would suit that position. Now look, I'm going to give you
• 1:13:23
  about 60 seconds to do so and explain it to me why.
• 1:13:25
  But if you want, I'll go first give you a bit of a example as
• 1:13:31
  to what what, what the the feature is about.
• 1:13:36
  So. I'm excited.
• 1:13:38
  I'm excited. Now, with this, I went a little
• 1:13:42
  bit out-of-the-box with this, and I thought, I was trying to
• 1:13:45
  think. Obviously, you've got your
• 1:13:47
  obvious ones who can be who and who can be what.
• 1:13:49
  Now hear me out. I've gone for Erlin Harlan, OK?
• 1:13:55
  Now I think, and I don't, I don't think you're going to
• 1:13:57
  think, I'm sorry, where I've put him, I don't think you're going
• 1:14:00
  to guess. But to begin with Erlin Harlan,
• 1:14:03
  I think he would be a perfect edge rusher.
• 1:14:07
  All right? Now you put him out on the edge
• 1:14:09
  and here's my reasons why he's he's like, what is he 6436 foot
• 1:14:15
  4, all 6 foot 4 of him and he's fast.
• 1:14:17
  Now you put him on that out and on on the edge on the outskirts.
• 1:14:21
  Soon as that ball snaps, he flies round.
• 1:14:23
  You know, and even if he's getting held up by by any sort
• 1:14:26
  of offensive lineman, he's gangly arms because he's he's a
• 1:14:29
  long guy. He's a long guy.
• 1:14:31
  He could just get around get himself in there, You know, like
• 1:14:35
  like reach round for the QB, stop the run games, things like
• 1:14:39
  that. When it comes down to it, I
• 1:14:41
  think, yeah, you could, you could probably put him out wide,
• 1:14:46
  his foot and use his height there.
• 1:14:47
  But I just think it because he's strong.
• 1:14:49
  He's always been that strong physical build of a man.
• 1:14:53
  He's always man and all players in box.
• 1:14:55
  And if you think about it and I just think putting him out wide
• 1:14:58
  there, put him in someone like Dan Campbell's the Lion and he'd
• 1:15:01
  be like the Nordic Wrecking Ball or whatever.
• 1:15:04
  I think. I just think he'd be perfect
• 1:15:05
  there for me. So my multiverse, so my
• 1:15:11
  multiverse trade is getting early Highland from I think, I
• 1:15:15
  think I actually pronounced his name wrong to begin with as
• 1:15:17
  well. Early Highland from Man City,
• 1:15:19
  fetching him over to the NFL, getting him on the Detroit Lions
• 1:15:24
  as an edge rusher. There's my multiverse trade.
• 1:15:28
  I'm mostly intrigued by that from the financial side of
• 1:15:32
  things like what the hell is he getting paid at City now?
• 1:15:34
  And what would he be getting paid at the Detroit Lions?
• 1:15:37
  Like I see it, I'm just not sure if it's like, I mean, from
• 1:15:41
  football terms, it's as in like soccer football terms.
• 1:15:45
  It's quite a a machine really. And it's tall, it's powerful.
• 1:15:50
  But from an NFL point of view, is he at the end?
• 1:15:55
  I don't know. I see.
• 1:15:56
  I see the rationale as fast, as explosive, as long as gangly, I
• 1:15:59
  get it, I get it. I just don't know if he's got
• 1:16:01
  that weight side of things. Whereas my guy.
• 1:16:07
  OK. My guy, when we're talking about
• 1:16:12
  weight, whether it's his weight or the weight that he shifts.
• 1:16:19
  OK. Eddie.
• 1:16:20
  Eddie Hall. God.
• 1:16:25
  OK. Like OK.
• 1:16:27
  Come on, So Eddie Hall is the world's strongest man champion
• 1:16:32
  in 2017, right? He's won Britain's strongest
• 1:16:36
  man, UK strongest man, England's strongest man a million times
• 1:16:40
  over, however many times it is. I don't, I don't know.
• 1:16:44
  He is an absolute beast, as in he is the beast.
• 1:16:49
  So he first set the record for the deadlift.
• 1:16:53
  He was the first man to lift half a tonne, 500 kilogrammes.
• 1:17:00
  This guy lifted and I'm there like, you know, I'm out of shape
• 1:17:06
  as shit at the minute. I've gone back to the gym and
• 1:17:09
  I'm there like, oh please, let me push these up a little and
• 1:17:13
  he's there. I'm dead lifting 500
• 1:17:16
  kilogrammes. Like it's absolutely barmy.
• 1:17:19
  So I'm talking like Eddie Hall 26/20/17 Time here is like an
• 1:17:25
  offensive line. I'm thinking a guard.
• 1:17:28
  So this man absolutely moves stuff.
• 1:17:31
  So I'm just looking at some of his records here.
• 1:17:34
  In the log lift it was a 213 kilogramme record.
• 1:17:39
  The axle press 216 a squat, a raw squat, 405 kilogrammes.
• 1:17:46
  A bench press, a bench press, 300 kilogrammes.
• 1:17:53
  Put this guy on my line and I will go nowhere other than
• 1:17:58
  behind him and he can take me wherever the hell he wants.
• 1:18:02
  I don't even care if he's slow as shit.
• 1:18:04
  Nobody's. Talking to me, that's my only
• 1:18:07
  concern with him is his athleticism and his speed.
• 1:18:11
  But being guard, you suppose you don't really need to be that
• 1:18:14
  fast unless you're pulling, but you're not going to pull him
• 1:18:16
  that much. But we research colleges, took
• 1:18:18
  the picture into our little group chat here of every hole in
• 1:18:21
  some pads. And you know, he actually looks
• 1:18:22
  smaller in pads than what he does without him.
• 1:18:24
  I don't know how that works but. He does, to be fair.
• 1:18:27
  But like, I, I love it. I love it.
• 1:18:30
  And I would love to see that match up between the edge rusher
• 1:18:33
  and the guard, like if it came on the inside of a little cross
• 1:18:36
  or something. And the Highland Hall little
• 1:18:39
  rivalry going off, I mean, Eddie.
• 1:18:42
  Hall over Holland anytime. I see you say this, but I've got
• 1:18:47
  the reach. I've got the reach of how?
• 1:18:49
  And Eddie also get to him first, his little stubby arms going to
• 1:18:51
  get to him. He's the Reach is there for
• 1:18:54
  Harlan, for me. Dare you say that to his face?
• 1:18:57
  Say that. To his face, maybe one day,
• 1:19:01
  maybe one day. But yeah, the multiverse trade
• 1:19:04
  is there. We've got the 2 picks in Erlin
• 1:19:07
  Holland, edge rusher and Eddie Hall the guard 2 very similar
• 1:19:11
  positions as well. Hey guys, if if you like this
• 1:19:14
  little concept we've done here a little little bit of fun, let us
• 1:19:17
  know in the comments below who would you have as well.
• 1:19:19
  We're going to, we're going to touch back on this in a few
• 1:19:22
  weeks time. We'll get some more ideas and
• 1:19:24
  stuff swinging through. But we're nearly at the end of
• 1:19:28
  the episode, which means one thing is coming up and that's
• 1:19:32
  Carl's conundrum. Now we had a comment off of on
• 1:19:39
  on on our Spotify basically saying if anyone gets this
• 1:19:42
  Carl's conundrum without using Google, they're a better man
• 1:19:45
  than me. All right, And we're going to
• 1:19:47
  touch on last week's Carl's Conundrum first before we go
• 1:19:49
  into the into this week's. So if you don't know what Carl's
• 1:19:52
  conundrum is, first of all, we'll give you a question
• 1:19:55
  that'll go on all the socials at ABNF pod.
• 1:19:58
  You can then get involved, answer it, drop it in the
• 1:20:00
  comments, do whatever you want to do with it.
• 1:20:01
  Don't cheat, don't Google. No one likes.
• 1:20:03
  No one likes it when that happens.
• 1:20:05
  And then we'll touch on the week after.
• 1:20:07
  So last week's question was which player holds the record
• 1:20:09
  for the most reps on the bench press and NFL scouting combined
• 1:20:14
  with 51 reps and that was Justin Ernest in 1999.
• 1:20:19
  So some time back. But if you got it, well done.
• 1:20:22
  Bravo. Good on you.
• 1:20:23
  Without using Google. Nice.
• 1:20:26
  All in the I had no idea. I'm not going to lie, Brad, I
• 1:20:29
  want to get that with 100 guesses if I'm going to be
• 1:20:31
  perfectly honest. But you know, it is what it is
• 1:20:36
  going on to this week's Carl's conundrum.
• 1:20:40
  So your Carl's conundrum for this week is who is the highest
• 1:20:45
  drafted kicker in NFL history? So who is the highest drafted
• 1:20:51
  kicker in NFL history? Have a think.
• 1:20:53
  Let us know this, this question. We get put out on our on all of
• 1:20:57
  our socials, our stories. So do me a favour share it if
• 1:20:59
  you can do as well get your friends involved with it.
• 1:21:02
  They'll go in there. And if you've got any idea, let
• 1:21:04
  us know in the comments below. Who is the highest drafted NFL
• 1:21:07
  kicker? So who is the highest drafted
• 1:21:10
  kicker in NFL history? Now I've got no idea with this
• 1:21:15
  because as soon as it comes out like the second round, I
• 1:21:18
  couldn't tell you who's who like unless the notable names.
• 1:21:23
  So I've got no idea with this. But then again, I've got no idea
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  with any of the colours conundrums because I just, I
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  just don't. I've got no idea.
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  I feel like it's every week we just say it's like, yeah, not a
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  clue. Anyone else?
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  We've done our research for the episode.
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  It's the guys at homes turn to do some research.
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  You can let us know. You can give us some knowledge.
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  So who is the highest of the kicker in NFL history?
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  Let us know on there. But Brad, that's it.
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  Episode done. Episode 10, actually. 10 It's
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  been emotional. Episode 10 done and dusted.
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  Anything you'd like to say before we'd sign it all off?
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  Yeah, no one cares about kickers and that's about it.
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  So thanks for tuning in. As always, don't forget to catch
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  seriously, like we want to interact.
• 1:22:23
  We want to get ourselves out there a little bit.
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  And if you're interested in joining us on the pod, please do
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  to let us know. We're genuinely open to anybody
• 1:22:31
  and anyone who feels it can contribute a little bit.
• 1:22:34
  So we definitely want to hear from you guys.
• 1:22:38
  So yeah, thank you. Thank you as always.
• 1:22:40
  Cheers, Zach. Cheers.
• 1:22:41
  Research Cal and look forward to being back here next week.
• 1:22:45
  Right, stay safe, goodnight, God bless it and peace.