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#17 - Still A Bit Sh*t: NFC Team Sentences · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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And we're live. Welcome to the All Balls No
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Philtre podcast. Live from the cabin kitchen.
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I'm Zach. He's Brad.
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We're back. And behind the scenes, we have a
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man that was once reportedly barged from IKEA for walking
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around it the wrong way. He's researching cattle.
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Researcher Carl. I mean, that's a rocky move,
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walking the wrong way around IKEA like that's an accident
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waiting to happen. There's literally arrows on the
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floor. There's literally arrows on the
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floor. How can you get so wrong?
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How you doing mate? All right.
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I'm good, mate. Yeah, I'm good.
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It's good to be back. We've had a week off again.
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I mean for good reason I think. Yeah, yeah.
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Good to hear my mind. Good to hear.
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It would not, it would Nice have a bit of a break to be a hug of
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the light here. I thought it'd be a lot more to
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go through today, but we're going to get into that in just a
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second. But yeah, we're back.
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So yeah, what have we got to go through today, mate?
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Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Oh, God, the NFL, right. Like there was so much publicity
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moving up to the draft and like, you know, the teasing bits and
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we knew this draft was a little bit meh.
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Is it it were it were like the the obvious one-on-one pick.
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We're going to go somewhere and all this jazz, right?
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But we knew it a little bit meh. And the breaking news that we
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have for you today is that Chris Boswell signed an extension.
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I mean like. Absolutely send it all.
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Jesus, Like it's just it has just died off.
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There's not there's not even been much talk or clips of of
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the NFL rookies kind of online. There's been there, there's been
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the odd one and none of them looked fantastic.
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It yeah, it's just a bit mess. So I apologise on the NF LS
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behalf that we haven't got much more.
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It kind of goes through with you guys today.
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It's a really weird period though, isn't it?
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Like because obviously you've had a few of the sort of rookie
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mini camps are the called I don't know.
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So you've seen some of the rookies turn up to their sort of
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new teams and have a bit of a runaround.
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But even then the star is a pretty dry and pretty naff.
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But you know, we'll, we'll get to it anyway and we'll, we'll
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try and keep you entertained for the next 3 minutes.
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And, but, but we have got something nice in store.
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So we will, we will touch on the news, the, the very bits of news
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that there is. But if you listen to our pod
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week in week out or Fortnite, Fortnite out, that's not saying
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is it? But if you listen regularly, we,
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a few weeks ago, we sort of touched base with all the NFL
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teams in the AFC. We got in, we got our sort of
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way into the AFC and it's took us a bit of graft over the last
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few weeks. That's that's, you know, maybe
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part of the reason for the delay.
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But we've actually finally been able to bring you the latest
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words from all of the NFC team. So today's app will feature NFC
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sentences. So one statement from each of
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our NFC teams we will visit. I can't speak for the Challenge
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Cup semi final weekend. And as always, all of the balls
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and Cal's conundrum. Well, yeah, now they were tough
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getting the the NFC team. They didn't play, they didn't
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play too much ball to get, you know, as as what was like.
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But we're here. We've got the scoop for you.
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We used our insider inside a null to get to get from that
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there. We have got a little bit more
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news. We did kind of play down to it
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there. We've got a little bit more news
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for you in the Chris Boswell extension.
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I mean, I know it's exciting. David Unjoku has signed for the
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charges. Justin Herbert has got himself a
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new weapon over there. I like this sign.
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I'm not going to lie. I've I think Joker who's been
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one of them. Like he had that so much praise
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and promise and, and he were consistent at Cleveland, but
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consistently average. And I always think he had that.
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He had that bit more in him than what Cleveland got out of him.
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But I just thought he were comfortable there.
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I like this signing personally. What do you think?
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I think it's a good one. I think it's, I think it's a
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good one for Herbert to have someone like Unjaku and Joku
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there. I think it's it's a nice signing
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for Mike McDaniel as well. It was kind of the thing, other
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than the sort of one season maybe when he was at Miami, that
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having that tight end there was probably the thing that eluded
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him a little bit. The only thing with Joku though,
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is I do rate him. I think he's a quality player.
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He's been a favourite of mine in the fantasy leagues for a few
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years. I know that's not the real
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world, is it? But he tends to just have like
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he is generally consistent, but he just has these moments where
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he'll catch a pass that he really shouldn't catch or he'll
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just drop an absolute clanger, whether that's like a mist block
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or a drop that was in his hands. It's it's generally consistent.
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But he just has these random moments where you thinking
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easily or oh, he's actually nowhere near as good as I
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thought. So hopefully, you know, in the
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right game plan and and with a what is ultimately a quality
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quarterback, really, he has some success there.
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I think Chargers will probably suit his playing style, I think,
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But obviously time will tell because it's going to be
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slightly it's going to be new, isn't it?
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You got Mike McDaniel there now, but I think Harbaugh will still
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have his sort of fingers all over that sort of playbook to an
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extent. And then you've just got the Wiz
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kid mastermind working, like drawing up crazy, wacky ideas
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for it within that same sort of vision of Harbour, I think.
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So it'll be an. Interesting.
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That's it. And I think you kind of you you
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phrased it kind of right and he's consistently inconsistent
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with his with his with his stuff.
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And I agree he's, he's just, he can be, he can excel.
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And I, I think he was, if he's ever going to see the best of
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him, it will be in this offence where he has consistent weapons
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around him to to kind of not give him that likes here or
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there. I mean, it's, it's a one year
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deal. What what's he got to lose?
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Will he see, will he see the field all the time?
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Probably not. But yeah, I will tell him with
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time, we'll tell him that. But Oswell's deal, four years,
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28 million for a place to come, decent money coming in for him.
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He's just, he can't save himself up there with the Steelers,
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really. Yeah, I think, you know, I think
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last year and Callum will probably chime up in our chat if
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I'm wrong here, but last season was probably one of his more
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average seasons if I do recall. I won't pretend to be completely
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all over it with kickers, but you know, Boswell's pretty a big
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name really is is pretty consistent.
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He's is a solid kicker, but I think last year he's probably
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had a more average year by his standards.
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And so I think, you know, four years, 28 mil, What's that 7 mil
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a year? That's not bad money for a
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kicker. I'm sure they can't complain.
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You know, it's one mil less than Joker.
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Yeah, it's it's not a bad place to be, is it?
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Getting that consistency from a solid kicker for the Steelers.
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As they exactly is good is good. From there, we also have the NFL
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and the referee, the referees association.
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They have signed a new deal. So if you were aware, the
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referees don't work for the NFL, they work with the NFL.
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They're a completely different organisation.
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They're like subcontractors and they've just signed a new deal
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to kind of carry on being subbies, babe, which blows my
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mind because I'm pretty sure and please roast me in the comments
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down below all over our socials at ABNF pod.
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By the way, if you're not following, go follow roast me
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down below. If if this is wrong, I am pretty
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sure that the the majority of the NFL refs are actually part
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time like they they were on a part time wage prior to it.
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I think they are, yeah. But I think the the interesting
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thing with this though is just trying to get the sort of new.
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It's like they're, it's the bargaining deal or whatever the
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call, isn't it? I forgot the official name for
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it, but it's that. But what like you see the NFLPA
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doing, but it's for the referees now.
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I think what would have happened here, unlike with the NFL
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players, obviously, if they don't get their deal, then you
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end up in like a shutdown like you've had.
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I can't remember how long ago it was, but with the referees, what
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you'd have ended up with is almost like backup referees on
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the field. And I think we already complain
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about the missed calls or the poor sort of human error element
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to it. So you'd have had that even
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tenfold. So I think it's it's a good
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thing really that we've got experienced refs on the field.
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Yeah, no, it is. And like I said, what what would
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the what would the do if the if it didn't happen?
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I mean, technology takes over. What hell, it's it's a good.
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This is as exciting as the news guys.
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We're trying to make it fun for you, I promise you.
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But this is the biggest it gets. The NFL will have to sign a new
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deal. I can't say much more on it.
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Yeah, right. Moving on to the juicy bit.
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The NFC teams have responded. They have spoken.
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We asked them the same as the AFC teams.
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Give us, give us a give us a sentence that describes your
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team in the best that you can do.
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Be brutally honest. We promise you, I won't tell
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anybody else we want. You're brutal, honest first
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person. Yeah.
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Review self. Review self.
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It's like the the confession box when you see in churches.
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That's what that's what this is right now, Right.
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And we're going to start with the NFC East, Brad.
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So who who got back in touch with yourself when it came down
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to this mate? So I went for the big dog.
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I went straight to Jared Jones. You know, good old.
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Joe OK. Cocktails and whiskeys or
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whatever in his hands. Yeah.
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And. And he was, you know, it was
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really sort of quite forthcoming, really.
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And I won't try to emulate his accent.
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And but he said about, you know, the Dallas Cowboys, look, we win
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the offseason every single year. Look at us this year, Sky
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Sports. They're telling us we're
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contenders. But then ultimately, we fold
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under pressure like a deck chair the second the playoffs start.
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What can we do? Hey, at least he's honest.
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I I kind of agree, Jerry, I kind of agree with that right.
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I kind of agree with that. You, you do you do get that, but
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you do feel like a bit like a deck chair.
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Well, funny you say that because the, the Philadelphia Eagles got
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in touch with me right and I sent him a bit of an e-mail.
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I like I like Saquin. To be fair, I, I didn't, I
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picked him up with it. But to look, describe yourself.
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And the Philadelphia Eagles replied with We win one Super
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Bowl and suddenly after our fans think that we should win it
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every season and it should end in a parade.
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But they're wrong. And I kind of get it.
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They do get there, but like, they need the family to wake up
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and realise that it's not going to be every season.
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Who's next on your own? Conversation from the Eagles.
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There exactly that. Exactly that.
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I I spoke to the Giants, you know, so speaking obviously
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spoke about 1/2 hour brother and speaking about the other now,
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yeah, I got in touch with the the Giants and you know, the big
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dogs, the big name that they are.
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And I think I think the feeling it this year.
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So they said, look, we've cleared the decks.
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We've moved on from the old era we've got as a QB and now we're
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fully back in our favourite phase and that is convincing
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ourselves that this rebuild is finally the clever one.
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Hey, better late than never, right?
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Better late than never. With it, I am better than ever.
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I got a quick response from the Washington commanders when it
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when it came down from the NFC East there and they they're
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they're pretty confident. They're pretty confident, but
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they're a bit shocked at the same time.
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Man, we finally look, we finally look competent again.
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And honestly, nobody knows how to react.
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Now we've got this quarterback and look, I kind of see where
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they're going. I mean, he's he's just come back
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of injury. I kind of see where they're
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going with this, that no one knows how to react now.
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Now Washington are actually a decent team.
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Oh, what? You know what, I'm just think
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I'm just thinking back here, right?
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I don't think anyone knows how to react to this new sort of
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rebrand again of theirs or slight rebrand.
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I don't think, I don't think we ever spoke about this on the
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pod. So have you seen their logo with
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the spear going through it? Yes, yes.
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So I don't know if you've noticed this and I have seen it
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on socials anyway, but my eye sort of light just latches onto
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these sort of things straight away.
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It's basically an impossible logo.
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So like the spear kind of goes, obviously it's it's going
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through the West, but it kind of goes like behind part of the
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West in front of part of it and then behind it sort of thing.
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But if you actually look at it, it's it's actually like, it's
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one of those like optical illusions, you know, where it's
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just, it doesn't, it can't actually happen in the way that
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it's showing. And it's so, so bizarre.
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Callum's just put a picture of it into our our private chat
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now. So you've got it like coming.
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Oh yeah, left to right in front. And then it kind of like just
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comes through the middle of the double.
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It's so weird. It just doesn't work.
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It just doesn't. Work it is.
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It is why it's like they've missed.
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It's like they've missed a bit off the middle to make it like
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it's going through the West. It's like that you got a
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staircase that goes up and down in that, in that square.
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Yeah, yeah. It's like that.
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It's so bizarre because you think how many hundreds of
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thousands upon millions of the probably paid on this rebrand
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and the design. And that was literally when I
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saw this logo, the first thing I noticed.
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And it's a shame actually, because I really like the
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Washington rebrand. But as soon as I saw this I was
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like, Oh my God, what is that? I'll never I'll not be able to
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see that now. I'll not be able to understand
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that. I've I've I've not I've seen the
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new logo. I'd seen the new rebound.
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I really like it. I think it looks clean, but I'd
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not seen I'd not noticed that I'd now seen that.
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I won't Unsee that. Have you seen it?
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If so, let us know in the comments whether you're cheating
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on YouTube or listen on Spotify. There's videos on this, by the
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way, so you can come and see our beautiful faces.
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If you want to over on over on YouTube, drop us a follow while
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you're there and hit like and all that judge.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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Let us know your thoughts on that.
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Are we moving on to the NFC North now, Brad, is that am I
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correct on that? Yeah, let's do it, Let's do it.
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Who've you got for us, Zack? So Chicago Bears were kind of
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got me an e-mail back. We're back in five.
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That's how they were doing. I asked how are Caleb's doing?
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You know, my fantasy starting QB, my boy.
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And yeah, they said, look, we've been searching for an elite
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quarterback for so long, I was starting to think they're not
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real until now. So look, they've got all of
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their. They've got all of their,
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they're backing Caleb. But I'm all for this.
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Let's go. I'm I'm back here.
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I'm back. The Bears.
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I mean, they've definitely sort of shown that improvement,
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haven't they? So I like the confidence.
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I like the confidence. Let's see if they can put the
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money where the mouth is. Speaking of the confidence, the
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Detroit Lions, they're saying, look, I've fully bought into
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this whole biting kneecaps running through brick walls.
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We're tougher than you, identity.
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And now I'm not just lovable anymore, I'm actively trying to
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fight the entire league and somehow still managing to win a
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lot of the time. Aggressive, fair reflection.
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Aggressive I'm I'm I dig it. I dig it.
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See Green Bay, Green Bay. I don't think they kind of
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caught on with the sarcasm as like, be honest and I promise
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you I won't tell anybody what you're saying type thing because
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they were a little bit too honest to be fair.
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Because they come back and say, like, we spend every draft
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ignoring the wide receivers in what, in round one, just to see
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how long it takes our QB to notice it's a little bit, you
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know, taking shot, taking shots at your QB.
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They're like, Jesus, come on, I know what I mean.
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Hi boys. I like it.
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I like it. The the Vikings had a very
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similar message to the Giants. You know, I don't know if
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they're on a similar sort of wavelength here, but they said,
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look, we've gone through more starting quarterbacks, the most
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teams go through coordinators. We've been cycling through hope,
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through hype and through heartbreak on a yearly basis.
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And now I'm just sat here pretending that the next
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experiment is definitely the one that finally makes sense.
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I'm not sure it is. I'm not sure it is.
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I think that if we emailed them again next year when they've got
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another QB that they've drafted, I think they'll be saying the
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exact same thing once again. Copy, paste, save.
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Yes, exactly that. Now moving on now to the NFC
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South, who we are. First reply back if you got any
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owl that is from the NSC South. It was the yeah, no, I was quite
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lucky. I've I've, you know, I've been
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consistently lucky with this. Like, so it took us a bit of
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graft, but we've got the Outlander Falcons and they said
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I've gone all in on the most niche quarterback identity
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crisis in the league, building my entire offence around
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left-handed QBs. And now I'm basically running a
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system so specific it feels like I'm not trying to win games, I'm
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trying to win trivia nights. Hey, I like it.
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I like it. I I, I do you kind of the
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falling, the falling into that rhythm are there?
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Yeah, it's the beside in two and next.
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I mean which? Team has two left-handed
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quarterbacks on in the backroom. Exactly, exactly.
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New Orleans Saints again, they they decided to to pour that
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out. You know, nice, short, snappy
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little. I keep, I keep kicking the
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salary cap down down the road, but the future me won't notice.
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But yeah, you are hammering that salary cap and your future me
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will notice this. You need to be careful about
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this. You know, I mean, that should
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have been a statement. From 10 years ago.
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And it's still active now. It's still active now.
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When they sent me, I was like, I'm just going to have a quick
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Google on this and make sure that they're not looking at the
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books from like five years ago and they're still terrible on
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their salary cap, but I'm pretty sure they're not still paying
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like. Like you've got to give them
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like credit for it though, aren't you?
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Because it's just messy and and they're still managed to make it
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work. Exactly that, Exactly that.
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Who's your final team from the NFC South?
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Them. The Panthers had a very sort of
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honest self reflection, so they said look managed to sneak into
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the playoffs and we briefly convinced everyone that we were
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building something special. But in honesty, it just turns
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out I was just the least messy team in an absolutely horrendous
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division. And now reality is well and
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truly turned up to remind me I'm not actually there yet.
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I'm still a bit shit. Hey, look, I like it.
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He's he's he's right. He's right, He's right.
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But Tampa Bay, Speaking of being trying to be a little bit shit,
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as I say, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they they responded quite
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honestly as well with it. So look, we were supposed to
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collapse once Tom Brady left, which is awkward because we kind
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of forgot how to do that by signing the people we did.
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So they tried to collapse, but they haven't.
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And it just hasn't worked for them.
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Yeah, fair enough. That's difficult.
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Books, isn't it like they've they've kind of just kept going,
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They've just kept going and and kind of just there.
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Fair play. Yeah.
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And you know what, like when they signed Baker, I guarantee
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now when they signed Baker, it were in the backroom.
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Staff were signing for a couple of year, maybe we'll say signing
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to get 2 years out of him, decent season, get a couple of
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decent draft picks, you know, rebuild that way.
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And now while the 3-4 year, three years in with him now and
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he's the best he's been He's yeah, the the best, the best
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he's been. So yeah, moving on now to yeah
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exactly. Moving on now to the NFC West.
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Arizona Cardinals made they they said, look, I'm rebranding, I'm
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rebuilding and somehow ending up exactly where I started.
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So that's the moon there. Yeah, it's an honest, an honest
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wound. From there it.
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Was an it is. It is the LA Rams.
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So I'm still clinging onto my MVP calibre QB like my whole
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identity depends on it. But I've also panic drafted his
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replacement in the first round, so I've basically paid premium
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price for a backup. I'm going to pretend I didn't
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overthink while quietly starting the most expensive, unnecessary
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quarterback awkwardness in the league.
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Yeah, pretty much right. Pretty much right with that one.
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Absolutely nailed it there. They scream like the Falcons of
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last year when they when they had that, you know like that two
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QB by the side 2 QB type thing. I'm almost thinking like Green
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Bay when they drafted Jordan Love.
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Oh yeah, good shout. Good shout, actually, yeah, good
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shout. I like that one.
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Well, look, the the Niners, my final team, the final response
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and they took a while to respond, to be fair.
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But look, I'm grateful either way.
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The Niners came back and said, look, we create, we collect all
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pros like Pokémon cards and still end the season explaining
23:07
why. We're explaining to our fans why
23:09
we didn't win the Super Bowl. So the collecting, the
23:13
collecting the good players, Yeah.
23:17
Yeah, fair, fair. I mean, they got Mike Evans now
23:19
and they're like, it'd be interesting.
23:20
Exactly. Hands out.
23:21
It's a great signing. It's a great.
23:23
I agree. Our final one, then here are
23:25
Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks.
23:29
I've just won the Super Bowl and I'm acting like I've unlocked
23:33
football itself. I'm parading around like I'm the
23:36
blueprint for success even though deep down everyone knows
23:41
I'm about 5 roster decisions away from either repeating it or
23:45
immediately remembering. And still the same franchise
23:48
that enjoys chaos just as much as winning.
23:53
I like it. I like it honest and honest as
23:57
always Look guys, they are our NFC one line sentences, right?
24:03
It took us a lot. It took us a lot of work to get
24:05
there. Mr and from the AFC as well.
24:07
Let us know what was your favourite, which one which team
24:10
described themselves the best? Let us know in the comments
24:12
below. Let us know on a social as well.
24:14
Please feel free to go over there and and hit the follows
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and all that jazz. Promise you're getting close to
24:18
the season. We will have more excited news
24:21
and things to talk about and we would go from there.
24:23
And but that does kind of leaders away from the NFL now,
24:28
mate, we are we've spoke about it.
24:30
We've we've discussed it. We're going to walk away from it
24:32
a little bit now try and get some new actually to tease for
24:36
next week. The schedule is getting released
24:40
around this time. We've had some reports already.
24:42
We haven't missed that. We we know that already, but we
24:45
want to save that for a bit more of a in depth episode next week
24:48
on the schedule. So please bear with us during
24:51
next week. We'll discuss it and we'll
24:52
breakdown who's got the best, who's got the worst, easiest,
24:54
hardest, all that jazz. So we're going to there now
24:58
moving on 2nd favourite sport. We're talking rugby league.
25:02
I can't speak get him off ref. It's back with the IT will
25:06
Challenge Cup semi final weekend.
25:09
Some surprising scores, Brad, some very surprising scores.
25:15
And by some I mean one. I mean, to nil Saint Helens like
25:23
that is, I mean, we've we've said it really a few times this
25:26
season. And with that we can have looked
25:28
very, very, very good. But to nil Saint Helens 32 nil
25:35
was just yeah, I mean outstanding, outstanding
25:40
performance for a semi final, which typically tend to be
25:42
really quite close games a. 100 percent, 100% and we say that
25:46
we're going to be really good this year.
25:48
This past couple of week they've not been on form, they've not
25:50
walked like the Wigan that started the season off as good
25:53
as they did do. But then to come out and they
25:57
say if this would have been a, you know, a normal Super League
26:01
ground fixture, 32 nil, you can kind of look at it and go, Oh
26:04
yeah, nice and modern. But a Challenge Cup semi final
26:07
to get to Wembley, you know, which is I think is it next week
26:09
or the week after? This is a big result, a very big
26:13
result. And is this Wigan back on their
26:16
their way of, you know, winning and to go into the second
26:21
fixture of of Hawke R and Warrington 3212 to Hawke R there
26:26
without touch on both games, like independently at the start
26:29
of the season. If you'd have said before any
26:30
games, you said, oh, who's going to be the Grand final or who's
26:33
going to be the Challenge Cup final, you'd have hands down had
26:36
these two teams in there. But we're playing both of them.
26:39
And then they both wouldn't start off really well, wouldn't
26:41
start off quite poor. And now he's he's looking back
26:44
in that way where, OK, I put a dominant performance against
26:47
Wallington. Yeah, yeah, I think it's going
26:51
to be a I think it's got all the makings to be a really good
26:55
final actually. And you're absolutely right.
26:57
Like we were looking at at the beginning of the season, there's
26:59
just chalk and cheese teams. But I think we've said it a few
27:02
times, aren't we? But maybe that distraction of
27:04
the the World Club Challenge and then the the Vegas game and
27:08
things, probably too much of A distraction for a team like
27:11
whole KR, which ultimately probably aren't used to the big
27:14
time games. You know, if you look at teams
27:16
like Wigan or Saint Helens probably would have managed that
27:19
a bit better because they used to being in them scenarios.
27:22
But it is coming good for Hulke out at the right time.
27:25
They're going to be in the final.
27:26
They're doing well in the league again.
27:28
So I think, you know, it's got, it's got the potential to be a
27:31
really good final. So that's two weeks on Sunday or
27:35
Saturday, the 30th of May, whatever day that falls on.
27:38
But you know, it'll be a, it'll be a cracker for sure.
27:43
Yeah, definitely it's it's good and and to be fair, these games
27:48
from the weekend if if you haven't, if you get a chance to
27:50
watching the game so we can go look go online and look at any
27:53
of the news. These were hard hitting games.
27:55
Both of the games they had some solid hits and I'm talking this
28:00
it genuinely with it with the first weekend of rugby for a
28:02
while. What reminded me of like late
28:05
night is early night is kind of rugby, you know, the bring back
28:09
the Biff, you know, there there was some mates and it was just
28:12
nice to see. Yeah, it was it was just nice to
28:17
see. And you know, look, if Wigan win
28:20
the Challenge Cup, do we do a round two of pies?
28:23
Who knows, We'll have to see. But yeah, that's the that's the
28:29
run now for it. Just who wins, who wins the
28:31
Challenge Cup final? OK RR Wigan.
28:35
Oh, that's tough. That's really tough.
28:37
I think, I think this season the way it's kind of gone, it makes
28:42
it really hard to say because like we'll just discuss like the
28:45
slow start for all the the good start for Wigan and that's kind
28:48
of switched a little bit. I'm going to go, I'm going to go
28:54
to the Paiaters, I'm going for Wigan.
28:57
Research Cal's Police Victor Penson as well.
29:00
He's saying we're going to look. My heart says maybe no, me head
29:07
says Wigan, my heart says Wigan, but I can't agree.
29:11
We're both come on. OK, R.
29:16
My heart doesn't say a wig, and I want the Yorkshire team to win
29:19
it, even though it's sort of like East Riding is kind of like
29:23
that weird sort of, you know, sibling that you didn't really
29:27
want. But I'm kidding.
29:29
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Listeners, if you're from the
29:31
East Ridings, please keep listening.
29:32
We love you all, but yeah, I think we can probably just just
29:37
do it. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm back in.
29:40
OK, go on. Let's go, boys, let's go.
29:43
That's the rundown of the rugby league this weekend.
29:45
We're flying through this, babe, but we are going to touch some
29:49
of the balls right now and we're getting into our regular
29:53
occurrence, our regular segment of all other balls.
29:57
Hey Brad, we do me a favour and just explain to the lovely
29:59
listeners at home what is all the balls?
30:04
I will. So all the balls is where we
30:08
talk about other sports. So it's not talking about balls,
30:11
although sometimes it is, although as we've found rarely
30:14
it involves balls. Yeah.
30:16
So we visit the sort of stories or headlines from the world of
30:20
sport in general. And the first one actually does
30:25
kind of involve balls. So Zach, take us through it.
30:30
This was a sort of an in team fight, right?
30:33
Yeah, so Real Madrid had a training session the other day
30:39
and two of their players got into a bit of a bust up in the
30:41
in the locker room, on the in the tunnel, the way out.
30:44
And, and I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not even going.
30:48
I looked at the names and thought, Nope, in the bin.
30:51
So they're just two players that decided to to get into a bit of
30:55
a bit of a scuffle right in the changing rooms and they got into
30:59
a fight basically where 1 ended up, I think he hit his head and
31:03
got taken into hospital because of it.
31:06
Now both players have been fined €500,000 which works out about
31:11
470,000 British pounds. What made me chuckle the most
31:16
out of out of this story is when you read in the story in the
31:21
league they want Sky Sports News over everyone.
31:23
These did. The statement states Real Madrid
31:26
called a crisis meeting. Like like they go into like,
31:30
like it's World War three calling a crisis meeting over
31:33
two players having a bit of an argument and yeah, a bit of a a
31:36
bit of a fistic up. Neither have probably been hit
31:38
that hard in their life. Like, yeah, it might toughen up
31:42
a little bit. I just thought a bit of a funny
31:44
one. No one likes an inter team kind
31:47
of argument and and things. So hey look, it don't happen all
31:51
the time and get a bit, get a bit balls behind and let's go.
31:57
Yeah, I mean, we've seen it and we like obviously in our team in
32:00
brick ball, like every now and then you're going to get it when
32:03
guys are competing, like, you know, they want to compete, they
32:06
want to be the best that they can be.
32:08
And like, emotions run hot and you can sometimes see that.
32:12
And but like a crisis meeting sounds a bit dramatic, I guess.
32:15
But, you know, let them let them sort it out.
32:20
It just, it just made me chuckle that the crisis, but they have
32:25
that when bad things happen, not not a little fight like get over
32:28
it guys, come on. So that's the first story of the
32:31
the all of the balls go into story #2 brag what we've got.
32:38
F1's back, baby. F1 finally, it's like, you know,
32:43
let's start this amazing new season with these new
32:45
regulations for a couple of weeks and then we'll stop for
32:48
like a month and 1/2 obviously out of control.
32:51
You know, the, the sort of Middle East war sort of
32:54
basically cancelled a couple of races out there.
32:58
So, you know, let's not talk too much about that.
33:01
But it's back and it was back in Miami, which is always like a
33:04
big sort of celeb hotbed when it comes to the F1.
33:09
And you see all the big names, you see the sport stars and you
33:12
see the celebs, the actors, the actresses and musicians, blah,
33:15
blah, blah. But you also see Kimi Antonelli,
33:19
like, just dominating this year, absolutely dominating.
33:24
He was unreal and I just think that Mercedes is unreal list
33:32
this year. I think Kim is going to take
33:34
some some beating long term. I think he's going to take I
33:39
don't know what I don't know what sort of George and why
33:41
George can't get there to like in the same kind of speeds, if
33:48
that makes sense. I don't know what the issue is
33:50
there between them because they're running very similar
33:52
cars. If anything, George is the the
33:54
first driver. Kim is just getting more out of
33:57
it. Just just touching right
34:00
quickly. I know you mentioned Miami's
34:02
like a a big celebrity kind of ordeal and did you did you did
34:08
you watch the race by did you watch the build up to the race?
34:10
I say. Yeah, I did.
34:12
Obviously, you know, they, they moved early, didn't look to the
34:15
potential weather and things and then it ended up being
34:17
completely bone dry. But yeah, I did.
34:20
Well, the one the the grid walkout were happening and Colin
34:24
Farrell got interviewed on the grid walk right?
34:27
And you see these celebrities on the grid right when the walk
34:31
down and they're doing their interviews and stuff and none of
34:34
them have got any clue what's going on.
34:37
No one knows. They're just there because
34:39
they've got a free invite. It's it's free publicity.
34:42
Colin Farrell gets this, gets gets interview.
34:44
This guy knows F1. I am talking.
34:49
He will like Oh my God. Yeah, you know, blah blah.
34:52
Did this, this and this and he started really mean.
34:54
I went to my first race back in like 9 when I was like 17 with
34:58
the boys. So and so came first.
35:00
So and so came second. So and so came third.
35:02
It was this and this. It was that season when they had
35:04
the V10 and then it was just like, wow, you know what, credit
35:08
where credit's due. You deserve that ticket onto
35:11
that grid walk because you know this and I, I knew we were going
35:14
to be talking everyone this week.
35:15
I just thought, you know what that needs mentioning because
35:18
the it's good to see. Yeah, it's like Miami is your
35:24
your big one. You get your sort of Middle East
35:26
ones actually that are quite big for it.
35:29
And you get your Vegas one where you tend to get all your
35:31
celebrities. Silverstone's quite big for it
35:33
actually as well now. But yeah, I thought, you know,
35:37
it's impressive when you see actually people who were there
35:39
and actually know what they're talking about.
35:41
And they're not there just for the the glitz and the glam of
35:44
it, I guess. And he's bringing it back to the
35:47
race itself, though, and talking about Antonelli and, and how
35:50
he's sort of had an impressive year.
35:51
He broke a record or set a record, however you want to
35:55
phrase it in Miami. So because I'm just, I'm reading
35:58
this just to make sure I say it right.
36:00
So he becomes the first driver in F1 history to convert his
36:04
first three career poles into wins.
36:08
So for those that aren't into Formula One, a poll basically
36:12
means you LED qualifying. So you start at the front of the
36:15
race and then you and then he then converted that into a win
36:19
and he's done that. His first 3 poles have been his
36:22
first three wins and he's done that.
36:26
Not just, you know, throughout a season he's done it in
36:28
consecutive races for so for three races in a row he's set
36:32
the best time in qualifying and then won the race, which at
36:36
what, 19 I think is it. So he's actually one before he
36:40
even had an actual driving licence.
36:43
Like, you know, it's it kind of repays Toto because he's sort of
36:48
seen him develop and developed him and he skipped him sort of
36:52
stint. Normally you'd go like F3F2F1,
36:56
that sort of thing, but Antonelli's actually missed
36:59
various stages and has been put there and it's kind of been like
37:03
Total can now sit there and say told you again.
37:05
Yeah, there's, there's there were a lot of trust there for,
37:08
for fucking me. And when he first came in, you
37:11
know, last year and it were like, is he the right
37:14
replacement for Lewis? Like he can really contract car
37:17
as well as what was so-called last year and then this year
37:20
it's it's complete even know George is is the he's the first
37:25
driver. But what what makes me chuckle
37:29
more than anything else and and it's Max Verstappen, for
37:33
instance, he every week he's like bringing himself back into
37:37
the media. I don't know if it's going to be
37:38
my last year. I'm enjoying racing else.
37:40
But no, no, you just don't like losing all the time.
37:43
You don't like not being the top 2 fighter that then when him and
37:46
Hamilton had the rivalry and he was losing to Hamilton, he liked
37:49
to because he was the top 2 and then he took over that one and
37:51
now Red Bull's shit. He don't want to be.
37:54
He wants to jump ship while he can do and go do what he needs
37:57
to do because he's made his money.
37:59
I kind of get it, but suck it and see, brother.
38:01
Like you can't. You can't.
38:03
Like look at Alonzo. Alonzo is still just racing
38:06
along, getting points here and there, just earning.
38:08
Brad, he knew he used to be the best, if not the best in the
38:12
world, and now he's not. It's like, dude, come on.
38:16
I saw a random meme after the Miami race or during that
38:20
weekend. I can't remember the numbers
38:22
now, but it made me chuckle because obviously part is
38:24
partnered up with Lance Stroll, Aston Martin, whose dad
38:27
basically owns the team. And it was a quote from Lance
38:34
Stroll. I think when them first 2 ended
38:37
up just first being a team duo. And it was something along the
38:42
lines basically saying like he's old and I'm I'm going to be
38:45
faster. And since that statement, I
38:48
think it was something daft like Stroll has outpaced.
38:55
Oh God, mine's gone. Thank you.
38:58
I got so caught up in the numbers.
39:00
He's outpaced Alonzo once and every other single race since
39:06
that quote over the last however many years, Alonzo has outpaced
39:09
him. So it's just like, yeah, Lance
39:11
Stroll, you probably shouldn't be here, but money, money talks.
39:16
Yeah, definitely shouldn't. And Alonzo is the is the
39:18
definition of just earning A pension.
39:20
He's just, he's just feeding his pension pot right now each year.
39:24
He don't need the money. He's just chipping away, racing
39:28
away, still earning bread, being the face of it.
39:31
It's nice to see there's some nice deliveries this this week
39:33
as well. It would be racing ball.
39:36
You posted a picture of the racing ball in our little group
39:38
chat. I wasn't a lover of it on paper.
39:42
And then I saw it on the grid and they were like, jeez, that's
39:46
not too bad that, you know, I quite like that.
39:49
Yeah, yeah, It looked lovely, didn't it?
39:51
And then I thought the Cadillac was nice.
39:53
It was. It was subtle, but I do like I
39:56
like that they sort of, you know, is their first home Grand
39:59
Prix on American soil. And nice to see that they had
40:02
the like the subtle stars and stripes and then on the back of
40:05
the wing and the rear wing, they had this sort of red, white and
40:07
blue there and stuff, which is quite cool.
40:09
It was nice. There's a couple of others, but
40:11
I think they were the this stands out.
40:12
I think was Alpine that had some slight variances.
40:15
There weren't as many. I thought this year for Miami.
40:17
Miami is quite a popular one to have the different liveries.
40:21
Quite a few in Texas as well. Texas have a have a quite a few
40:24
of them and that way I'm like that.
40:26
Just I think they're now more just spreading out.
40:30
The deliveries are getting spread out more rather than
40:32
being concentrated to one or two races, which is nice to see
40:36
because you're getting them. I'm not a Red Bull fan but are a
40:39
racing Bull fan to be to be exact.
40:41
But they always do super, super, super nice deliveries.
40:46
Like when when Red Bull do the white one, I think he's very, is
40:49
it Japan or wherever they go When Red Bull do the white one.
40:52
Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. But yeah, F1's bat baby, and I
40:59
am so happy about that. So, so happy about that.
41:07
Right, let's. Get Kyle's conundrum.
41:10
Let's do it. Let's do it indeed, mate.
41:13
Right. Last week, actually last.
41:15
Not last week before we had a Kyle's conundrum.
41:17
I actually think I just thought I knew it and then I started
41:22
second guessing myself right. If I remember correctly, it was
41:25
the which two, which two NFL team played the first game in
41:29
London now? Yeah, is that is that is that
41:34
the word in? Yeah.
41:35
Is that the word in for it? Yeah, so first game in London.
41:39
Yeah. So I I went to what I thought, I
41:44
think is that game, which is Miami and New York Bucket 2008
41:53
maybe. 2000 and. 70 I got a year out.
41:58
The the word in confused me because it didn't say Wembley
42:03
and London. It could have been.
42:04
It could have been. I was thinking he's going to
42:06
stick me up here with one of his stupid little knowledgeable
42:09
megamind things and go back to 80s and find a game because he
42:14
don't like. I just I'd second guess myself,
42:18
get in. I think of the year, but I would
42:20
die. Rained.
42:21
It rained. I'll give you that.
42:25
I, I knew it was dolphins. I, I wasn't there, but I knew it
42:31
was dolphins and I just, I wasn't, I felt like it was
42:34
giants, but I wasn't absolutely 100% certain.
42:38
But I was fairly confident. I knew it was the mid 2000s, but
42:41
I wouldn't, I wouldn't have sort of been confident to put any
42:44
money on it. But yeah, I mean, yeah, not bad
42:47
one with that one. I think a few people on the
42:48
socials got that one right last time as well.
42:52
Yeah, which is she's good to see it.
42:56
Yeah, I remember it quite really the first game I've been to,
42:58
absolutely sailing. Now, weirdly enough as well,
43:00
they've always been in October and for the first, this is
43:03
global warming striking now. But for the 1st 5 or 6 years of
43:07
the NFL game has been in in London, it absolutely sailed it
43:11
down. The weather were awful and I
43:12
remember actually thinking about cancelling the games because
43:15
Wembley and the Football Association were getting that
43:18
wound up by tearing the England field up.
43:20
But they didn't like it and all of a sudden global warming
43:23
happened and the weather's half decent down most of the games.
43:27
Yeah, it's mad. I do remember that.
43:28
I do remember seeing that all over the news because I feel
43:30
like England had a game not long after it.
43:33
Yeah, So they were talking about how ridiculous it was and look
43:37
at the state of the field because the NFL blah, blah,
43:39
blah. Yeah, I do.
43:42
I've really vividly remember that.
43:44
I can't even get my words out. Vividly remember that.
43:47
Shall we have a look at this this week's conundrum?
43:51
Yes, please, let's go. I'm on.
43:52
I'm on A1 win streak now. So before Patrick Mahomes in
43:59
2020 and 2023, who was the last quarterback to win in the NFLMVP
44:04
and the Super Bowl in the same season, who was the last QB
44:10
before so? Before Patrick Mahomes, 2023.
44:16
OK. MVP and Super Bowl.
44:21
OK. And the Super Bowl, I think this
44:23
is. Quite this far as in the chat, I
44:26
think it is, but I just want some clarity.
44:27
Is it which was the last quarterback to win the NFLMVP
44:31
and Super Bowl or NFLMVP and Super Bowl MVPI?
44:35
Just want to get that absolute sort of clarity on that one.
44:39
I feel like it's obvious. Yeah.
44:42
So NFLMVP and just a Super Bowl title, OK.
44:46
And would you and we just say it's the last QB before him?
44:49
I think it's. I think, yeah, I think I should
44:53
get this. That makes sense.
44:56
That's that's why. That's why.
44:57
That's why I'm swinging with this, Yeah.
45:02
I'm not sure it's right though, but that's where that's where my
45:06
mind sort of instantly goes. But I'm not sure.
45:08
I feel like this is like one of those potential trick ones where
45:12
like, of course it's that guy and then it's not.
45:16
But that's it. But it's that era anyway.
45:19
Look, let's have a think by discussing in the comments
45:22
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45:38
this, he said, He said, I think this is going to be one of them
45:40
ones. I'm going to say my, I'm going
45:42
to shoot my shot and keep my answer.
45:44
But I think it's for anyone that's too obvious to be true.
45:46
It could be somebody else. Well, TuneIn next week and we'll
45:52
find out. And obviously next week we will
45:54
be picking up on the NFL schedule and the international
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games that have been announced and the sort of we'll look at
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sort of which team's got the roughest schedule.
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So I think, you know, next week's going to be a good one, a
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jam packed one probably. So TuneIn next week and we will
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reveal the answer to what we think is maybe an obvious one
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here, but might have thrown a little curveball in a cheeky
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little research account. There we go.
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Right guys, we'll see you next week.
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Stay safe out there and God bless.
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Bye bye. Music.