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#4 - Easy Ride · 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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  Hello there. And behind the scenes, we have a
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  man who was once rumoured to be the Sig, the Stig's secret love
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  child. That's what we're getting at.
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  It's researcher Cal. It's researcher Cal, the love
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  child himself. Oh, I put me teeth in today.
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  I thought I'd try my hardest and put me teeth in but evidently
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  with 35 seconds into it and I've messed up already.
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  How are you doing mate anyway? Yeah, I'm good.
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  I mean, I'd expect nothing less from you, mate.
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  We were stressing over last week's, weren't we?
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  A little bit. But here we are and we go as we
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  mean to. Carry on, I guess.
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  Progressively getting worse each week, but we're still here.
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  Hey, what we got on today matey? So we have the coaching carousel
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  coming up. We've had some big news over the
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  last few days, quite a few hirings there, so we'll pick
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  those up straight after we visit all four games from the
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  divisional round in our balls of the week before, of course,
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  looking ahead at the AFC and NFC Championship games.
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  And we can't forget, of course, I think we've got a good one
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  this week. All of the balls for other major
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  stories in the world of sports, and the return of for those who
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  listen to the first Pod Live's words.
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  Looking forward to it, right? We've got a packed episode as
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  per usual. Lots to talk about, lots to have
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  questionable takes on. But let's get into balls of the
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  week, shall we? Boom, Balls of the week.
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  Your first, my man. Let's go.
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  I am indeed with an absolute stormer that took us all the way
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  to overtime. Buffalo Bills versus Denver
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  Broncos at the Mile High, ending 3330 to the Broncos in an
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  absolute stormer of a game. I mean, we'd expect nothing less
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  from these two competitors and I think the controversy's there.
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  There always is when it comes to the Bills in the play offs.
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  There is the controversy and I'm sure we'll get to it, but I
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  think we just lay it all out as the game took place.
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  Really. It was an absolute roller
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  coaster, wasn't it? You know, Josh Allen, 25 for 39
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  passing over 250 yards, 3 to these two inceptions.
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  Crazy. But then on the flip side,
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  you've got Bonex throwing 46 times for a similar amount of
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  yards there at 2793 touchdowns, interception, what a game.
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  From start to finish, it was back and forth, absolute nuts.
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  What do you think that do? You know what, I I managed to
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  watch the highlights this I was busy on on Saturday when, when
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  the when the game were on, but like I when I switched the
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  highlights to it and just there's something about Bonex.
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  Bonex looks like a year five year 6 QB that settled into his
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  prime. Is, is peeking at where he is.
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  He's he's been around the organisation for years.
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  He's best mates with the owner, yet this guy's an absolute stud.
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  In what? Year two?
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  Yeah, yeah. Year 2. 2 I believe Yeah yeah 2.
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  Yeah, yeah, Year 2 absolute stud and seems to just be looking to
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  get better and better as weeks go on and your credit and
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  commiserations to to Josh Allen and the bills like killed Sabine
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  and you know a rival individual rival and everything.
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  But they played so well yet. But Denver just turned up and
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  and Bonex just ran that game from me.
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  He conducted the offence like an absolute professional.
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  What a guy. I mean, he's, he's in his second
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  year, but he's probably one of the oldest quarterbacks in the
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  league. I would take a guess out.
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  You know, he's, he's, he was at college for quite a while,
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  wasn't he? But he's, it's worked out for
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  him, hasn't it? Like even just last year when he
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  came in as a rookie and he he's commanded the field.
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  Sean Payton absolutely loves the guy and it just shows in his
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  game that, you know, week in, week out, it's absolutely
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  gutting. Really what's happened to him.
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  Isn't he obviously right at the back end of the game there ankle
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  injury. I'm not sure if it's a break or
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  a fracture, but either way, he is done.
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  He's out for the season. He will not be playing in the
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  AFC championship game and we'll pick up the implications of that
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  later in the pod. But you've then got Bills same
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  old story fallen short. This team that have been backed
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  for how many seasons now has it been the bills year that they've
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  got to do it, they've got to make it.
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  And I think it's showing that well, it has shown, hasn't it?
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  We obviously have heard the news that Sean McDermott has been
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  fired and we'll we'll pick that up as well.
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  But for Josh Allen, it's the same old story really is we, we
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  spoke quite actually last week and we spoke about how actually
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  in his early career is quite erratic and he's very up and
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  down. And this was probably an up and
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  down game frame really wasn't it like 3 passing touchdowns?
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  But then on a flip side, you've got 2 inceptions.
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  I think there's a fumble or two thrown in there as well.
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  And it's just has the, is the moment too big for Josh Allen or
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  is he just distracted with his beautiful life too often?
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  I don't know. I don't.
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  Know what it is. So I'm going to throw a bit of a
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  niche reference out there that the a lot of the English list is
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  all, especially the ones across the M62 corridor will
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  understand. The Bills remind me of the
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  warrant and walls. It's always our year and that's
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  what the fan base gives year in, year out.
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  Oh, it's our year. Josh Allen's going to lead us
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  there. Mcdermott's going to leave us
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  there, lead us there, sorry. And they're fantastic.
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  They're a phenomenal team. But they get to the point of of
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  the playoffs and they just seem to bottle it like Josh Allen's
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  never been a a quarterback of, of of his kind of calibre, never
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  been to a Super Bowl. Is, is, is barmy and I and I
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  just think that the McDermott firing is it I we'll, we'll get
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  to it soon. I don't want to touch it too
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  much now. We'll get to it soon with the
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  McDermott firing. So it goes into the other
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  coaching side of things that I want to touch on.
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  But I don't know. I don't know if it were the
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  right call personally at this time, but something had to
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  change. They're not going to change Josh
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  Allen Allen because he's he's the franchise.
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  So. No, and there's only so many
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  times though that the club can have the season they've had,
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  they can have the wins that they've had.
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  I mean, it's been a little bit of an up and down season for
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  them as well. Obviously they didn't win their
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  division for the first time in however many years.
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  But when you've got a team playing like they do and they
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  can, I mean, James Cook had 117 rushing yards on 24 carries.
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  You got Dalton Kincaid with six receptions, 83 yards, one
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  touchdown. Like there's the quality there.
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  There is the quality there, but they're just not getting over
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  the hump out there. And I hate that saying myself,
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  but it's the absolute definition of the Bills.
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  They're just not getting where they need to be.
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  And you know, the Sharma Dermot stuffs cropped up the last few
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  seasons, actually. Like, if they don't get to the
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  Super Bowl, is this going to be it?
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  If they don't get to the Super Bowl, is this going to be it?
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  Oh, no, is this year going to be it?
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  And this year was it, wasn't it? He's gone.
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  Yeah, that's it, That's it. Where does this now lead?
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  Where's where does this now leave the Broncos?
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  So the Broncos actually playing phenomenally well, the team that
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  quite quite rightly would of deserved to win the Super Bowl
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  this year, still still do deserve, shall I say, to to win
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  the Super Bowl. It should have been phenomenal
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  all year, but they're playmakers out.
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  They've got QB stepping up who's not taken a snap in two years.
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  Like, yes, he's going up against his former teams, but and and
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  research car. Actually, while while we talk
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  about this, I'm pretty sure if you just double check something
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  for me, the last time John had stood him started, he threw for
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  like 370 something yards like, which is fantastic.
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  But that was over two years ago. So where does this go?
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  And we all we all saw with the whole shoulder thing with with
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  with Cleveland when he when he got thrown in.
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  He doesn't he doesn't have been training with the first team.
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  He'll have been training with the first team since yesterday.
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  So he's got like 6 days or something to, to, to build up
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  and to get them the, the knowledge of the receivers and
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  the roots and the reads and things like that before the
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  biggest game of his career. And he's like, I, I saw him
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  start the event and I knew I should have written it down.
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  I saw him start the other day. He's the first QB to have his
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  first start of the season in the post season.
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  He's like 1970 something. It just doesn't happen normally.
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  Yeah, I were expecting, I were expecting Sean Payton to get
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  Drew Brees up for and I'm not going to lie to you, you know,
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  we've seen it was before already this year with somebody else,
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  you know, you're coaching QB kind of a handshake.
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  But look, it's one of them. I feel for the guys, I do, But
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  at the same time, no, I don't because we're playing them next.
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  It's a tough one, isn't it? It's, you know, Stidham's is
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  probably one of the better quarterbacks.
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  Let's be on the better backup quarterbacks.
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  Sorry. He's definitely up there at
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  least top 10 backup. And I don't know if that's
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  really a start to scream and shout about, but he's definitely
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  up there. And I know, you know, we always
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  used to speak about Matt Moore as Miami Dolphins fans being
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  like the best backup quarterback in the league.
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  And it is important, isn't it? Like I can't remember who it is
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  now, but there's that there's a guy who always says, oh, you
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  know, you're the best, most important player in teams.
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  You caught about your second most best, most important player
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  on your team is your backup quarterback.
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  That sort of mantra, and it's right, isn't it?
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  Because we see it too many times when the big dog goes down and
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  the team's just not the same team.
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  But Peyton's quality. Peyton's got experience.
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  It's, you know, he's come out and he's said students ready to
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  go, which of course he's going to say.
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  But time will tell, won't it? Yeah, there are a that kind of
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  research colleges come up big. They'd be through for 500 yards
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  over three starts in 2023, which is is still is still good.
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  But what still surprises me is that they don't have a day of
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  the week for the backup just to get some reps in with the first
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  team. Like I know there's a lot to go
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  through, but these guys are professional.
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  These guys are these guys could be training all day.
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  And I think there should be some sort of rotation because because
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  of the just in case. And I didn't realise how much, I
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  think that's how much the backups didn't have have much to
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  do with the first team like receivers and stuff until I
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  listened to the Pat McAfee show about it.
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  And obviously that, that, that, that panels got all sorts of
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  experience when it comes down to the, the, the NFL.
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  And they were all saying the same like you, you just don't
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  get any unless you're the starter.
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  And it, it comes from there. But yeah, it's surprising me,
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  but you know, it's, it's, it's got 5 days.
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  Yes, yes. You know, he's got the advantage
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  that they're at home for the championship game.
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  So it helps, I guess. He's there in that vicinity.
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  He's training at the altitude. XY and Z over media statements
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  that you want to say, but we'll see.
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  We'll see. I mean, obviously the the big
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  news we've sort of touched on coming out of the game as well,
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  or the day after the game is Mcdermott's gone.
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  It's an interesting one to see where this takes the Bills next.
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  I'm sure there's a couple of coaches maybe considering they
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  might have signed some contracts a little bit too early.
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  Not naming no names now. You know, no names just yet, but
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  you know, it's, it's one of those, isn't it?
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  Like, you know, you've got a top tier quarterback, top five
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  quarterback, definitely they're available and that's what
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  organisations have to choose between the coach and the top
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  five quarterback. And we know that those don't
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  come across come along very often.
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  So decisions been made, hasn't it?
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  And it'll be interesting to see who takes the reins.
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  Could it be the return of day ball?
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  Who knows? We'll we'll see in the coming
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  days and weeks, I guess. But All in all, a real cracker
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  of a game. And I hope, you know, the next
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  three games that we've got left of the season are just as good.
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  I agree, mate, I agree. So right, balls the week #1
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  let's move to balls the week #2 shall we?
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  Which is the Houston Texans against the New England
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  Patriots. Now this finished up 2816 to the
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  Patriots. And look, for me personally,
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  this is a win win game because I predicted the Texans to win last
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  week and I predicted the Texans to go all the way to the Super
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  Bowl. But we did warn you at the start
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  of the episode, guys, and the start of the show.
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  We don't talk a lot of facts, you know, we talk a lot of
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  waffle and waffling back then, all right?
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  But that being said, it's a win win for me.
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  I either get the prediction right or my team gets through to
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  the next round. And look, we got through OK.
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  We're going to touch on Houston to start off with.
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  Houston's D did come out strong and Eusis D was strong
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  throughout. They were, what let them down
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  was the offence in CJ Stroud. So CJ Stroud comes out 20 or
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  47212 yards, 1 touchdown, 4 interceptions, three of which
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  were in the first half. Now look, my 2 feature game this
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  week are going to have something very similar to about them both
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  and it's this next statement. Yes it rained and yes it snowed,
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  but it snows and rains for both teams.
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  OK, 3 exceptions in first half isn't, isn't necessarily just
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  weather orientated, it's just bad play.
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  And I think, I think with CJ Straub now, you know, he's got,
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  he's got that experience behind him.
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  He's no longer a, you know, a quote unquote rookie
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  quarterback. He's he's still a relatively new
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  quarterback and a young quarterback, but it's not the
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  first time he's been to the playoffs.
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  He needs to mature a little bit and calm down in them
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  situations. The Texans that we saw on Sunday
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  night were the Texans that we saw the first six week of the
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  season. When was it they went oh, and
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  six for the first six week or whatever it was and they just
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  weren't the team. They weren't coming out firing
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  and it it puts a bit of a dump on that Texans D because they
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  were phenomenal. They were great.
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  They did stop a lot of the stuff to begin with.
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  They were getting to Drake May. They were making Drake may
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  fumble, but it wasn't enough when the offence came out And
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  you know, look, not only the interceptions, it's the bad pass
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  and the bad accuracy like Kade Stover is.
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  I was looking at his name at Kade Stover goes down with the
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  knee drill. Now it's not been reported yet.
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  As of today, it's not been reported yet.
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  What damage is done to his knee. But the the password that far
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  behind him that his own players up to twist go down and he he'll
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  basically look at the bottom of the bottom of his foot when he
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  when he was going down, it were awful to see and there were no
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  defender around him. He weren't like you were under
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  double, double coverage or anything.
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  There were nobody around him. It were just a bad pass.
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  And I just feel like yesterday. I have Nico Collins, so they
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  have one of the major weapons. I get that, but still came out
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  and like a day like it's like a deal in the headlight situation.
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  And I don't know, I think without putting too much
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  pressure on him and things that are like, I just think he was
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  the the biggest factor as to why the Texans didn't do much
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  yesterday on on Sunday, Sorry. I think the.
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  Texans have got a really big decision to make with him now,
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  haven't they? Like, he's played three seasons
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  now, and his first season was brilliant.
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  Like, genuinely great. You know, Texans generally were
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  great that season, but it was CJ Stroud who led the Storm.
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  And last season was poor, not great.
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  And then this season obviously they've outperformed
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  expectations and they've done it in style.
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  That defence is phenomenal. But obviously it's his fourth
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  year. Next year they'll have the 5th
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  year option. But realistically with first
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  round picks, it's that fourth year that really matters.
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  It's it's the tour trap. Basically what you can do I
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  think with CJ is give him the money in the fourth year to make
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  him happy and him not progress. We've seen it with two or after
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  he got the bag. It's not been great.
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  It's not he hasn't progressed. You could argue he's regressed.
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  And I think Texans have got a really tightrope really to walk
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  with say CJ because like you say, he just wasn't good.
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  Was he like you can't throw 3 interceptions in the first half
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  against the team that have performed like New England have
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  now? I'm still going to die on this
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  hill. New England have not yet played
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  a good team. I'll come to that.
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  I'll come to that. No, no, no, right.
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  Don't get me started already. Get me started.
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  After I've done my next couple of points, we're going to we're
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  going to go out of town on this because as much as I agree with
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  you, I've got fighting points back all right, but I agree too
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  often they give QB's money too early and then they get
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  comfortable like they give me before when they can extend that
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  fifth year, for instance, they get comfortable with it and in
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  EU, since it happened before, I agree they've got a big decision
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  to make on CJ. Now let's talk about the good
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  parts. Let's talk about the New England
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  Patriots right? Drake May 16th 27 Not ideal, not
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  great, but again, we've not seen the best in best of Drake May in
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  in a postseason yet. I still think Drake May's again
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  maturing in the post season. There are quite a few fumbles as
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  well, which is is alarming to see.
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  But it was same on both sides. It's wet and snowy, you know is
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  where it is. 100 and 79179 yards, 3 touchdowns, 1
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  interception and that one interception would have bounced
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  up right? But for me, the playmaker for
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  the New England Patriots is Keisha Booty, right?
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  K Sean Booty mimicking the the past that he did earlier in the
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  year, the one under grabbing to the end zone.
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  Oh my sweetie. And this is this is a compliment
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  to to Drake May the offence and McDaniels in background doing
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  everything they can to make everyone feel as complicated.
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  And yeah, we've got big names like, you know, digs on on that
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  field as such as being a leader. But K Sean Booty, he wasn't
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  wasn't exactly a five star receiver within the NFL and he's
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  coming and making catch that because Drake May's putting him.
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  We talk about this when we coach all the time, Brad for people I
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  don't know, first time me and Brad both coaching in the UK are
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  both coaching British team, Wakefield district Raiders.
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  And when we coach you in particular, the tips that we
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  give to to the to the QB, sorry, we're throwing like a sideline
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  pass or a ball into the end zone.
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  You throw it to where your receiver can catch it or nobody
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  can catch it. And then my next ball of the
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  week is in the next game I'm talking about, we have another
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  throw that's exactly the same as that.
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  It just shows funnily, if it's the 2 MVP candidates that are
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  being smart enough to throw the ball into a certain area that he
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  can trust that his his guy's going to catch.
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  And if no one, if he's not going to catch it, ball goes dead.
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  We'll go back for another play from there.
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  Now look, conditions weren't great on either side at all, but
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  I think for what it is, it just got too much for Stroud on
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  there. The turnover battle won the game
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  and it went in the favour of the parts which now they're moving
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  on and they're facing another tough team being the Broncos.
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  Yes, they're missing a major offensive player.
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  Peed being the quarterback now Amy out on this?
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  Before we get started, I fully agree that the New England
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  Patriots have had an easy Rd up there, but I just want to open a
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  bit of a debate to it. And if you listen in the
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  comments as well, guys, get involved with this comment.
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  But don't jump down my neck saying all this about New
• 20:13
  England. At least listen to me first,
• 20:14
  right? They've got an easy schedule.
• 20:16
  Yeah, but if you look hard enough, A-Team, every year's got
• 20:20
  an easy schedule. We've played the top three
• 20:23
  defences in the past however many weeks.
• 20:25
  We've played the best defence in the NFL last week and torn them
• 20:30
  apart, right? We're going to win the Super
• 20:33
  Bowl. Face it, if, if, if any other
• 20:36
  team let's OK, let's just put this into perspective.
• 20:40
  Let's say the Denver Broncos had our schedule.
• 20:42
  Would everybody be talking about how easy ride, how easy the ride
• 20:45
  is that Denver have had to to the Super Bowl?
• 20:47
  No, they wouldn't. No, they wouldn't.
• 20:50
  No, they because the team every year has an easy schedule, but
• 20:53
  no one complaints about it. But because the England Patriots
• 20:56
  haven't had a bucket offseason a bad time.
• 21:00
  Now it is. Look, no one can.
• 21:02
  No one can fault how well Drake May's played like he's come in
• 21:05
  his rookie season last year. He's played brilliantly.
• 21:09
  He deserves the credit that he's getting in terms of the MVP
• 21:13
  chatter, and he very much might win it.
• 21:15
  Fair play. But the New England Patriots
• 21:18
  this season have had the third easiest strength of schedule
• 21:22
  ever since that record has ever existed.
• 21:26
  And then they go into the playoffs and they face a
• 21:29
  horrendous CJ Stroud, and now they're going to go into the AFC
• 21:33
  Championship and face Stidham. Yes, but we still got the
• 21:37
  Broncos defence to face. Yeah, I know, I agree with that.
• 21:41
  But it's not as it's not as if. It's not as if Crash walked into
• 21:44
  to Mr Goodall and God, right. I want the third easiest
• 21:47
  schedule. We haven't asked for it.
• 21:49
  We just, you got, you play the hand that's dealt, right?
• 21:52
  And that's what's in front of us.
• 21:54
  I fully agree, you can only play what's in front of you.
• 21:57
  Fair play. Absolutely.
• 21:59
  It just so happens that Patriots have always had trash in front
• 22:02
  of them. So.
• 22:03
  Hey, look, right? I I'd I'm not bothered.
• 22:06
  It is raised we still I I, I have PTSD over Nick Foles and
• 22:12
  what happened with the Patriots against the Eagles.
• 22:15
  I I'm not running and I'm much I said that we were going to Super
• 22:19
  Bowl. We have got did.
• 22:20
  You see, Nick Foles's tweet did. You see Nick Foles, what a shit
• 22:23
  out, what an absolute shit house he is.
• 22:26
  You know what I mean? For those of you that haven't
• 22:28
  seen it, I'm not quoting exactly, but he basically said,
• 22:31
  you know, like Broncos fans, don't worry.
• 22:34
  I heard the Patriots have a tendency of losing against
• 22:36
  backup quarterbacks. Absolutely brilliant like.
• 22:41
  Sorry. And it just properly made me
• 22:43
  howl. Before I move on to the the next
• 22:45
  ball of the week, what what concerns me is is McDaniel like
• 22:50
  he he used to rave about Stidham when he were at the Patriots.
• 22:54
  He's to love him and that don't feel me with confidence if like
• 22:58
  Roc really likes him. But he had thrown the ball for a
• 23:01
  while. So we'll see how it goes.
• 23:02
  It's going to go. It's going to go one way or
• 23:03
  another. It's really embarrassing or it's
• 23:06
  going to be you've had another easy ride Super Bowl, right.
• 23:11
  Let's go on to the next ball a week.
• 23:12
  Charlie, Brad, what is it? Yeah, yeah, let's so Seattle, my
• 23:20
  word, Seattle Seahawks versus 49ers.
• 23:23
  I'm laughing at the the last sentence you just said, but I'm
• 23:26
  also laughing at this game. What an absolute shambles for
• 23:29
  the 49ers. Gosh, I mean, I actually
• 23:32
  predicted 49ers to win this one. I thought they were going to
• 23:36
  turn it on their head a little bit.
• 23:37
  And yeah, I just, it didn't happen, did it at all.
• 23:42
  And you know, they absolutely took it to the 49ers, did the
• 23:47
  Seahawks, and they basically said we're going to the Super
• 23:51
  Bowl, whether you like it or not.
• 23:52
  So Rams, it's up to you to come and get us.
• 23:55
  They just absolutely dominated from start to finish.
• 24:01
  Unbelievable performance on every side of the ball.
• 24:08
  You know that the special teams start in the game as they did
• 24:12
  the defence just dominating wherever they could.
• 24:16
  I mean, credits 49ers like they've had a good run.
• 24:18
  They've been banged up like probably like no other team this
• 24:21
  season and to get where they've got was really, really
• 24:25
  impressive. But it was just an absolute
• 24:29
  trouncing and there's not much more to say about the game.
• 24:33
  It was, I'll be honest, it was a poor watch.
• 24:36
  Unless you're a Seahawks fan, it was a poor watch.
• 24:38
  It's not the sort of game you expect in the divisional round.
• 24:41
  It was almost like a week too late.
• 24:43
  You normally get those sort of games in the wild card round,
• 24:46
  but it was just an unbelievable destruction of what is seen as
• 24:53
  one of the yearly top teams. You know, you're always talking
• 24:55
  about Shanahan and the Niners. It doesn't matter that they're
• 24:59
  always going to come be competitive, and they have.
• 25:01
  But Mike McDonald's coming to the Seahawks and he's
• 25:04
  absolutely, I say transform the team.
• 25:06
  You know, he's got them playing exactly how he wants them to
• 25:08
  play. He's got the physicality that he
• 25:11
  wants to show that he showed when he was down round at the
• 25:13
  Ravens. And I think they're going to be
• 25:17
  a tough, tough team for the Rams to beat next week.
• 25:20
  I really do. The The Seahawks team is just
• 25:26
  unreal. And I think if you look at, you
• 25:30
  know, awards and like most improved and things like that,
• 25:33
  this team are unreal. There's not there's nothing much
• 25:37
  more to say about. Funnily enough, I was talking to
• 25:40
  to our friend Max tight end and I winded him up.
• 25:44
  Obviously just saying that we're going to go to Super Bowl, we're
• 25:47
  going to beat the Seahawks and he's biting so hard on on have
• 25:50
  you not seen the Seahawks team? I know how good this Seahawks
• 25:53
  team is this this Seahawks team will take some beating.
• 25:56
  The only thing that can beat the Seahawks team right now is
• 25:59
  themselves is Sam Donald is him staying fit going.
• 26:04
  I think they walk, not walk all over the Rams.
• 26:09
  I think they'll beat the Rams by by by a good chunk.
• 26:14
  I just think they're too good for a lot of teams out there and
• 26:18
  if they get to the Super Bowl, like I kind of hope that don't
• 26:21
  at the same time because I think if they get to the Super Bowl,
• 26:24
  it'd be a very one sided boring Super Bowl to watch because
• 26:27
  they're just having those run away with it.
• 26:28
  I think they're just that good of a team right now.
• 26:30
  They are just, they're electric and they're fun to watch.
• 26:35
  And if you are a Seattle fan and you've gone through the shit
• 26:37
  times of being a Seattle fan, now is your time to sit there
• 26:42
  but like relish it and enjoy themselves And like research
• 26:45
  colleges brought up a really cool they're really fully
• 26:46
  started that that that Panero slide tackle that you tried to
• 26:48
  do off at RIP talk about signing of the century in in the which
• 26:54
  you followed the like transfers finished transfers.
• 26:58
  Yeah. Is it Rashid Sahid is that
• 27:01
  exactly pronounce his name off the RIP 90 yard kick return.
• 27:09
  Just what a way to start a playoff game against arguably
• 27:14
  one of the favourites to go to the Super Bowl and win it just
• 27:18
  Yeah, well, it. Just set the stall, didn't it?
• 27:20
  I mean, 24/6 at half time, I think the score was and that
• 27:23
  just that said everything you needed to say, like there was no
• 27:27
  way you could see it as they were walking off.
• 27:29
  They didn't look like the 49ers. They're like heads seemed down.
• 27:32
  They were just, you know, they're professional athletes.
• 27:35
  They're training every day. They're conditioned to go out
• 27:40
  and, and play what regardless of the score and and you know, 24,
• 27:44
  six, it's not a score that you can't come back from at all.
• 27:47
  We've seen it multiple times this year, but it was just
• 27:50
  obvious and I think they they just felt it.
• 27:53
  I think from the get go, starting the game, how they did,
• 27:57
  controlling the game the way that he did.
• 27:59
  It was just absolutely dominant in every single way.
• 28:04
  Now you mentioned Donald, obviously he had the the late
• 28:07
  injury news coming through. Was it an oblique injury?
• 28:10
  Am I right? Yeah, you were 5050, weren't
• 28:12
  you? Yeah, and you know, there's,
• 28:15
  they're saying he'd not thrown a ball until that day.
• 28:18
  He didn't warm up with the rest of the team in the same way.
• 28:22
  I guess that's the one to watch heading into next week.
• 28:25
  Is that a thing? Does it stick around?
• 28:28
  Is it a nagging injury? And Donald, we've spoke about
• 28:32
  this a couple of times, actually, the way the way he
• 28:34
  ended his Vikings career was by basically shit in the bed.
• 28:38
  And it'd be real shame for him to do that this year.
• 28:42
  I mean, his record over the last two years is phenomenal and he
• 28:45
  deserves the credit he's getting.
• 28:47
  He's turned his career around and he's leading the Seahawks
• 28:50
  team. It'd be amazing.
• 28:52
  Can you imagine saying this 343 years ago?
• 28:56
  Sam Darnold's potentially, you know, Sam Darnold's in a
• 28:59
  championship game, let alone Sam Darnold is very possibly going
• 29:03
  to be playing in a Super Bowl. You you wouldn't have thought
• 29:06
  especially the start of the year, but I just they're just
• 29:12
  they're just so good to watch research college got to start
• 29:14
  actually that I can't actually believe myself.
• 29:18
  But excuse me. There were 26 offensive plays
• 29:22
  called all game. Right.
• 29:24
  So 26 plays all game by Seattle and 18 of them were runs.
• 29:27
  If and if that don't show that the ground and pound works then
• 29:32
  you know I don't know what will It's it.
• 29:35
  Yeah, it's unreal. Like it's just good to see and
• 29:38
  and it's scary to see. But at what point, Speaking of
• 29:42
  Donald's injury, our our concern pregame, you fought, he won six,
• 29:48
  you finishing game. What point do you do you think
• 29:50
  about pulling them out of the game just in case?
• 29:54
  Because I know it's, I know it's a playoff game.
• 29:56
  Half time for me. Well, he's exactly, but at what
• 29:59
  point? Why didn't they?
• 30:01
  I understand that he wants to play and everything, but keep
• 30:03
  the guy fit and then if they start catching back up, send him
• 30:06
  back on like, I don't know, I don't know.
• 30:09
  It's a big one for me is that it's it's.
• 30:11
  There's the argument, though, isn't the the Rams do it, don't
• 30:14
  they? They never rest their players in
• 30:17
  like the last games of the season.
• 30:19
  They're always like, yeah, we'll just go out and we'll play the
• 30:20
  game and we'll keep the momentum.
• 30:22
  So I get it. But at the same time, the
• 30:23
  quarterback's a bit of a different sort of bag, isn't it?
• 30:27
  That's it, that's it. Well that's game three mate.
• 30:29
  Anything else you want to say about Game 3 before I move on to
• 30:32
  game #4? No, the quicker we forget game
• 30:36
  three the better in my opinion. Okie, dokie, right, Balls of the
• 30:40
  week #4 is the LA Rams versus the Chicago Bears finishing 2017
• 30:45
  in overtime now? This again for me, what an
• 30:48
  electric game this was. Wow, wow, wow, right.
• 30:55
  Matt Stafford goes 258 passing yards throughout.
• 30:57
  No TDs, no interceptions. Now that's like chocolate.
• 31:00
  That's like, Oh yeah, really good.
• 31:02
  But then I don't know about that because you're not doing any
• 31:05
  interceptions it was snowing I told you I've been another snow
• 31:07
  gaming. It was snowing there was snow on
• 31:09
  the field there No no T DS is a bit but no interceptions is just
• 31:14
  shows how clinical he can be. I'll cheers for that Callum.
• 31:20
  Now the comments are going to ruin me that start about the
• 31:22
  Seahawks, by the way, with second-half only.
• 31:24
  Cheers for that Callum Comments, research call time to research.
• 31:28
  OK. But yeah, anyway, going back
• 31:30
  into the the the Bears game. So we're going there.
• 31:35
  The the Rams offence came out, drove really well down field,
• 31:39
  letting Williams punch it in for a touchdown at first quarter.
• 31:41
  And then for me, the second and third quarter the the team just
• 31:46
  they lost that drive. They lost that bit of oomph
• 31:49
  about them. There were a few incomplete
• 31:51
  passes. They weren't really moving the
• 31:52
  ball on the on the ground to begin with for me, with just
• 31:57
  that second and third quarter, you could you could have taken
• 32:00
  out of the game and you'd probably not not even noticed in
• 32:03
  the highlights. There was nothing much to show
• 32:06
  from it. But then again, is it because it
• 32:09
  was outdoors? Ramsay's playing in a Dome is
• 32:12
  did the cold get to him? Did they get a bit throughout
• 32:17
  it? I don't know.
• 32:19
  But that being said that that Adam's catch in overtime was a
• 32:25
  thing of beauty and I've got I've got written down and
• 32:27
  actually in my notes Speaking of what we spoke about with about
• 32:29
  Drake way, rule 101 of the sideline throw, throw it away.
• 32:32
  Your guy can catch it on nobody. And as a up and coming QB as
• 32:36
  anyone that wants to study the game or, or or anything like
• 32:39
  that, you watch that throw on repeat and it doesn't get
• 32:42
  boring. It is phenomenal how good that
• 32:46
  ball was. But I mean, we're talking
• 32:49
  overtime now. There were four quarters prior
• 32:51
  to that. It were a great back and forth
• 32:54
  game. I do think for me, the Bears
• 32:59
  were the better team, but they just didn't execute right and
• 33:03
  there was a few mistakes on that.
• 33:05
  Now before I jump into the the Bears and the best starts
• 33:08
  because I'm going to glaze over Caleb Williams again.
• 33:11
  But like when we get into that in a second, one thing we spoke
• 33:15
  about previously on the show is special teams wins your games
• 33:19
  and a lot of people will come out and a lot of people don't
• 33:21
  know football. And the Walker, Oh my God, he's
• 33:23
  got this guy. His job's just kicking their
• 33:25
  ball kick. You're just, he walks out then
• 33:28
  kicks the ball, right. The thicker kicker, Mr Harrison
• 33:33
  Mevis came out after four hours of football, right slugging back
• 33:39
  and forth, boated a 42 yard field goal straight down middle
• 33:43
  at six and won the game. This is why special teams
• 33:47
  important because not only, yeah, you can run the ball up
• 33:50
  and down as much as you want, but if you're not hitting them
• 33:51
  field goals and you're not getting them extra points and
• 33:53
  you're not getting them game winners.
• 33:55
  It's it's crucial to the spot. And for me, seeing that, like a
• 34:01
  lot of people moan about when when the when it comes down,
• 34:05
  it's like a game when you feel goal.
• 34:06
  But for me, I just think it just shows that all, all areas of
• 34:10
  the, of the, the game is just so, so crucial, absolutely so
• 34:16
  crucial when it comes down to it, right?
• 34:19
  We're going to move on to the Caleb Williams Appreciation Club
• 34:21
  right now, right? This guy 2342 in the snow, 257
• 34:27
  yards in the snow, 2 touchdowns, 3 interceptions.
• 34:31
  One of them were on 1/4 down in all fairness, and it went
• 34:33
  straight through his his receiver's arms, right.
• 34:36
  The last one to DJ Moore were the laziest route I've ever seen
• 34:40
  DJ Moore running in his life right.
• 34:43
  So I'm giving you a bit of credit where credit's due there.
• 34:47
  The the the a player like Caleb to go from what it was last year
• 34:51
  to what he is this year is incredible.
• 34:53
  This guy is just excelling. I I dare you to find me a better
• 35:00
  touchdown than that Cole Comet one to send into overtime.
• 35:04
  It's the single. It's going to be the single
• 35:06
  greatest regulation play I've ever seen.
• 35:08
  If you if you were with your mate, right, you sat watching a
• 35:13
  football movie and that play happened on the movie.
• 35:16
  You turn team A and go. That never happens.
• 35:19
  That's the biggest load of squad I've ever seen in my life.
• 35:23
  That shit don't happen. The guy's backpedalling.
• 35:26
  He has what looks like the entirety of the 53 man roster
• 35:30
  running at him. He jumps, he throws the ball
• 35:34
  perfectly into the end zone for like he's like a 53 yard throw
• 35:38
  or something into goalkeeper's hands.
• 35:41
  Wow. If this Bears team continue
• 35:44
  commiserations for ending where it's ending now, I do think you
• 35:48
  were the better team. If this Bears team continues
• 35:51
  this momentum, they will be a scary team in the next year or
• 35:56
  two, or a scarier team in this next year or two.
• 35:59
  What do you reckon, Brad? I reckon that, ladies and
• 36:03
  gentlemen, you've just survived a three hour monologue by Zach.
• 36:10
  No, listen, listen, credit where the credit's due, mate.
• 36:13
  Like, you're absolutely right. And I agree with absolutely
• 36:15
  everything you said. Caleb Williams has, he's done it
• 36:19
  week after week actually, hasn't he?
• 36:20
  Like I think the last three, 4-5 weeks he's had like that throw
• 36:25
  or he's had, oh, did you see that touchdown?
• 36:28
  And he's just doing it consistently.
• 36:30
  Like from what it looked like last year where it was all like,
• 36:33
  oh, is he the real deal? Is he a bust?
• 36:35
  No, you can see glimpses of it. And this year, I mean, Ben
• 36:39
  Johnson just worked wonders with the Bears.
• 36:40
  But with Caleb especially, like he is firing on all cylinders.
• 36:44
  This is another game where the Bears have brought it back in
• 36:47
  the 4th to take it on to that next step.
• 36:51
  They just fell short. And like, Can you imagine the
• 36:53
  fairy tale if they were in the the championship game?
• 36:57
  Do I think they'd get to the Super Bowl?
• 37:00
  Probably not. I mean, they haven't, obviously,
• 37:02
  but they've had an absolute stormer of the year.
• 37:07
  They deserve all the credit they've got, especially after
• 37:10
  the years and years and years of purgatory for Bears fans.
• 37:16
  It's it's beautiful to see. But Caleb looks like the real
• 37:19
  deal with Ben Johnson. And long may it continue.
• 37:22
  It's nice. It's exciting that you know, the
• 37:24
  North is, is really dangerous. It's the for me next year that's
• 37:31
  looking like the division to watch.
• 37:34
  Yeah, fully, fully agree with you there mate.
• 37:37
  It's it's, it's good. It's nice.
• 37:41
  Not it's nice talking about different teams doing well, like
• 37:44
  the Seahawks, the Bears, the Texans are three teams that over
• 37:49
  the past three years, you probably thought, you know, they
• 37:52
  used to be good. You know, they used to be great.
• 37:55
  You know, the old legion of boom era was the the Pete Carroll era
• 37:58
  was the Seahawks, the JJ, what era was the Texans and all that.
• 38:02
  And then the the the shows rebuilding and just perseverance
• 38:06
  and, and, and things go with. But there is balls of the week.
• 38:10
  I don't want to talk too much. Oh, in fact, I don't know.
• 38:11
  I've got a fun fact for you, Brad, actually so fun fact about
• 38:16
  the Bears and Rams game. Sean Payton had the Rams put
• 38:21
  cayenne pepper in their socks to warm the feet up because
• 38:24
  apparently it's like a a reaction that happens to warm
• 38:27
  your feet up. KM Sean Payton.
• 38:30
  No, not Sean Payton move. This is my head it'd.
• 38:34
  Be pretty weird if Sean. Payton had that very sorry, but
• 38:37
  very my Sean Mouvey hadn't put the like.
• 38:39
  It's like a talcum powder and cayenne pepper mix in the socks
• 38:43
  to keep the feet warm. That's an interesting one.
• 38:47
  Don't you think the season? I was just thinking like about
• 38:49
  those teams that you were just mentioning that.
• 38:50
  Don't you think the season is very much like, you know, the
• 38:53
  there's the meme or like it's not a meme.
• 38:55
  It was like a picture of I think you've got was it Case Keenum?
• 38:59
  You got foals, Brady was in there, and then, God, it was it,
• 39:03
  I want to say bottles. 20/17/2018, that really strange
• 39:09
  year where it was just like weird anomaly quarterbacks.
• 39:12
  Actually the year that the Eagles won the Super Bowl, I
• 39:14
  believe, just to remind you of that one.
• 39:18
  Don't you think this year's like that?
• 39:20
  It's just the same sort of thing again, like these just random
• 39:23
  ass quarterbacks. I love it.
• 39:26
  It's great. It's just, it's just great to
• 39:28
  see. Who's the Brady?
• 39:29
  That's the question. Stafford.
• 39:32
  Stafford But you'd never you'd never compare what you thought
• 39:36
  it's. Got a is the MVP favourite.
• 39:39
  He's got the experience, the age on everybody else.
• 39:42
  He's just fucking good. Like he's, you know, he's he's
• 39:45
  he's just good. That for me would be would be
• 39:47
  what it is there. So yeah, they're the balls, the
• 39:50
  weekly. Reviewer Show Review our
• 39:53
  predictions, Zach. Let's get into our predictions,
• 39:55
  mate. All right, let's get into his
• 39:57
  predictions, shall we? Boom.
• 40:02
  Predictions are now alive. Look, Buffalo Denver.
• 40:10
  Let's go get that. Buffalo, Denver, 3033.
• 40:13
  I printed that research cow predicted that.
• 40:15
  San Francio research. Cow predicted that mean you
• 40:19
  didn't. Texans, New England.
• 40:23
  My heart predicted that, but we didn't predict anything.
• 40:27
  OK, my heart predicted that, but we didn't predict anything.
• 40:30
  And then the LA Rams and the Chicago Bears, both you and
• 40:34
  researcher Cal predicted them. So that puts us this week on the
• 40:38
  following. You were one and three, Cal were
• 40:42
  three and one. I were one and three.
• 40:46
  I mean, that's. A poor week you can see what.
• 40:48
  For us, you can you can you can see why he's the brains behind
• 40:51
  Gaia like you know, it's it's one of them.
• 40:55
  But on these predictions as well.
• 40:56
  Guys, if you want to get involved with these predictions,
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  come into our YouTube channel, hit on the the comment box box
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  below. Fire your predictions in for
• 41:04
  next week and we'll talk about it.
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  Fire any sort of takes that you think we've missed as well
• 41:09
  everything's coming here over there.
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  If you listen to this, by the way, on audio, we do have a
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  video version on both Spotify and on YouTube at ABNF pod
• 41:18
  across all of the socials. Come on fire over there.
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  Get involved with the chat as well.
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  I got it right this week, Brad. I got it right this week.
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  Yeah. So I think next year we're going
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  to do these predictions over the season as well and can tell it
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  helps with nice to get you guys involved like an audience tally
• 41:33
  as well. So that'll be pretty cool to get
• 41:34
  involved with. But this week, me and Brad one
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  and three, Carl three and one. That's why he's locked in a in
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  the box somewhere. You know one of them.
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  Right. Then let's get into the next
• 41:44
  part of the evening. So the coaching carousel, it
• 41:51
  continues. Where are we currently?
• 41:54
  Let's have a look at it. This is the list so far.
• 41:58
  OK, so there are four coaches being hired, all right.
• 42:02
  And across them, the Titans have got a coach, the Giants have got
• 42:05
  a coach, Falcons have got a coach, and your beloved Dolphins
• 42:08
  have got a coach. How many of them four people
• 42:12
  regret signing the contract now I.
• 42:16
  Think you've got two big names there who definitely regret it.
• 42:20
  You know, it's got to be Harbaugh and Stefanski.
• 42:22
  They're the big names out that they were the big names of this
• 42:24
  cycle. Harbaugh.
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  Flip side to that, sorry, right, sorry.
• 42:31
  Flip side to that, when Harbaugh became a free agent, as such,
• 42:37
  there was there was reports from Shefter that teams were reaching
• 42:41
  out to him that had a head coach.
• 42:45
  Do you think the Bills reached out to him and said, look, if we
• 42:52
  don't get past, if we don't get through to the the championship
• 42:55
  game, we're going to be reassessing.
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  Do you think they reached out to him because because that firing
• 43:03
  of the Bills was an overnight. That was that was an overnight
• 43:07
  decision. No, it it won't have been.
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  But at the same time, I think if you harbour and you've had the
• 43:15
  bills reach out to you, throwing that out there.
• 43:19
  I mean, he could he could have waited as long as he wanted.
• 43:22
  He could have waited until this game or he could have waited
• 43:24
  until next weekend. I think if McDermott gets to the
• 43:27
  Super Bowl, there's no way he's getting fired.
• 43:29
  But you know, when did he sign? Just before the weekend, was it
• 43:35
  or over the weekend? He could have had another
• 43:39
  another week at least research. Carl's chiming in and he's
• 43:43
  echoing my exact thoughts. I think it was the Dolphins.
• 43:47
  The reports are that it wasn't. But considering those reports
• 43:51
  came out and then I think it was the next day or the day after
• 43:54
  that that Mike McDaniel was then fired, that to me makes more
• 43:58
  sense. But I don't know.
• 44:02
  It's, I don't, we'll never know, will we?
• 44:04
  Let's be honest. But I think of these 4 hirings,
• 44:06
  you know, you've got Harbaugh going to the Giants.
• 44:08
  It makes sense. It was kind of writing on the
• 44:09
  wall really, wasn't it? Once, you know, the sort of dust
• 44:12
  settled of the firings, it was wide widely reported that that
• 44:17
  was going to happen. You got Stefan's given to the
• 44:19
  Falcons, which is interesting. They've got, you know, arguably
• 44:22
  the best player in football. A lot of potential there.
• 44:27
  It makes sense. I think Stefanski could do some
• 44:29
  really good work with the Falcons.
• 44:32
  Sala to the Titans is interesting.
• 44:34
  A defensive coach with Cam Ward, an interest in hire.
• 44:41
  You know, there's lots of reports and we've seen it this
• 44:43
  year and with it, the NFL is going through that transition.
• 44:45
  It goes through every five to six years where, you know, the
• 44:48
  defence catches up, so everyone wants a defensive coach and then
• 44:52
  the offence then starts to outsmart the new defensive
• 44:54
  strategies and everyone wants an offensive coach and it's just
• 44:56
  cycle, cycle, cycle. So, you know, I kind of get the
• 45:01
  attraction of a defensive coach to a point, but I think when
• 45:05
  you've got first round QB and sorry, first pick of the first
• 45:12
  round QB and Cam Ward, who's meant to be the real deal, he
• 45:15
  showed glimpses of it towards the back end of the season.
• 45:17
  Obviously needs a lot of time to develop.
• 45:19
  It's just it's an interesting hire.
• 45:20
  I don't think it's a bad hire, you know, I think.
• 45:23
  I agree. It's not a terrible coach at
• 45:25
  all. I mean, any coach that goes to
• 45:28
  The Jets is going to struggle in my opinion, but I don't think
• 45:31
  he's a terrible coach at all. It'll be interesting to see who
• 45:35
  he brings in as the OC Callum stay in there in the background.
• 45:39
  He thinks he'll bring bring Kubiak along from the 49ers.
• 45:43
  Time will tell. And then obviously you've got
• 45:46
  Jeff Haffley DC from Green Bay. Makes sense with our GM hire.
• 45:51
  Not blown away with that hire personally, but the, the
• 45:55
  positive for me is that you've got AGM and a head coach who you
• 46:01
  would assume are going to be in lock step, you know, through
• 46:05
  the, through the whole process, which is what you need,
• 46:07
  especially if some teams do it differently, don't they?
• 46:10
  But generally GM has the the say over the actual personnel and
• 46:14
  it's the coach job to make it work.
• 46:15
  So if you've got two guys who are working hand in hand and
• 46:18
  have worked together clearly and hopefully it's a good thing.
• 46:23
  But just for me as a Dolphins fan, I just wish we could grab
• 46:26
  someone who's not first time head coach.
• 46:28
  I think it's been seven in a row or maybe eight in a row now.
• 46:31
  First time head coaches. It's just it's, it's a tough
• 46:36
  experience. For once.
• 46:38
  Everyone needs a first gig but you when you're doing 7UP
• 46:40
  bounces you realise it's not working.
• 46:42
  Sometimes getting some experience in isn't a bad thing.
• 46:45
  But with them far I've been hired, the Browns have still got
• 46:48
  vacancies that the Raiders, the Cardinals, the Ravens, the
• 46:51
  Steelers and the Bills. Now, if you if I said to you at
• 46:53
  the start of this season, bro, and you know what, next season
• 46:55
  we might do a bit of a daft poll, for instance, or like a
• 46:59
  daft prediction. If I said to you that Harbaugh
• 47:02
  after 17 seasons would not be the Ravens.
• 47:05
  Tomlin after 19 seasons wouldn't be the Steelers.
• 47:08
  McDermott wouldn't be at the Bills, them three jobs would
• 47:14
  have been available at the end of the year.
• 47:19
  Would you believe me? That's the most.
• 47:21
  Imagine if you put a bet on that.
• 47:24
  Imagine if you didn't put a bet on that.
• 47:27
  Exactly. So that that all that all vacant
• 47:31
  there. Just having a quick look now
• 47:33
  through some of the interviews that have been held.
• 47:36
  So we've got a few teams here that have had a few interviews.
• 47:38
  We've got the the names up on the screen now.
• 47:39
  So if you have listened this audio wise, like I said, guys,
• 47:41
  YouTube and Spotify, you can see everything all the graphics
• 47:44
  there. Should I pick a few names out
• 47:46
  from each one and see what crack is on this Browns who's been
• 47:49
  interviewed so far? Big the two big names for me on
• 47:52
  this would be Mike McDaniel and Jesse Minter.
• 47:56
  I don't see Daniel getting another head coaching job
• 47:59
  personally. I think he's think he needs.
• 48:00
  I think he's going back to be back, back to being in our seat
• 48:02
  personally. But for me.
• 48:05
  He's getting a lot of interviews though, for head coach, isn't
• 48:07
  he? He's getting a lot of.
• 48:09
  I know they've got to go through the process and I know they need
• 48:11
  so many coaches and they need to need to meet this rule and that
• 48:14
  rule. But it surprised me actually how
• 48:16
  many interviews he's getting for the head coach.
• 48:19
  I said last week didn't I think he'd be better dropping back to
• 48:22
  OC, rebuilding that credibility, which I don't think he's
• 48:25
  entirely lost, to be honest. I think people can see that the
• 48:29
  Dolphins aren't necessarily the best organisation or haven't had
• 48:32
  the best GM in in, you know, supporting the organisation or
• 48:36
  leading the organisation. But.
• 48:39
  You've had 8 consecutive first time head coaches for the for
• 48:44
  the Dolphins. Thank you very much for research
• 48:45
  Karl. And coming in there with the
• 48:47
  odds as well. Grant Odinsky, the Judge OC,
• 48:51
  he's the current favourite for the Browns.
• 48:54
  Before we move on to the next team being the Raiders.
• 48:56
  Anything on the Browns interviewees so far?
• 48:59
  I just don't think it's an appealing place to go and coach
• 49:04
  really. I mean, anyone's going to go
• 49:06
  through that if they're going to get a head coach opportunity
• 49:08
  because why the hell wouldn't you know?
• 49:09
  That's your dream. You know, you do it and you try
• 49:11
  your best. But I just, I just think it's
• 49:14
  probably one of the least attractive places, maybe even
• 49:20
  less attractive than the Raiders.
• 49:22
  I think the Raiders have got a few bits going for them, to be
• 49:25
  honest. You know, they've got some nice
• 49:27
  players interest, you've got the Tom Brady link, blah, blah,
• 49:30
  blah. But yeah, I think Browns is
• 49:32
  probably the least attractive spot for me.
• 49:36
  We move on to the Raiders now, right?
• 49:38
  And I've seen a lot of traction these past couple of days, today
• 49:44
  in particular on X about the Raiders going all in on Lamar
• 49:51
  Jackson. Don't know how true it is, but
• 49:55
  there's a lot of accounts kind of pushing it out there that
• 49:59
  there's a there's a lot of traction going for Lamar
• 50:02
  Jackson. There there's a few names been
• 50:04
  interviewed, Matt Nagy, Vance Joseph, Mike Lafleur, Mike
• 50:08
  McDaniel. Again, there some of the the
• 50:11
  names for me, Chris Shuler, There's some big names getting
• 50:13
  interviewed for this Raiders job.
• 50:14
  They, you know, and to entice these people in for these
• 50:19
  interviews, they're going to have to be feeding him some sort
• 50:23
  of here's our plan kind of spiel.
• 50:26
  I just can't. See how I just can't see how the
• 50:30
  Ravens would fire Harbour and then shift on Lamar.
• 50:34
  Sure. Just that would just seem
• 50:36
  completely backwards to me. Like there was loads of
• 50:38
  reporting before Harbour was fired that Lamar might be going
• 50:41
  back to Miami, back back home and this that and the other.
• 50:43
  And then Harbour got fired and then that was the last you ever
• 50:46
  heard of it. You know, on this obviously
• 50:48
  accounts that I see a lot of, I just can't see.
• 50:51
  I completely agree with you, but I just can't see how the Ravens
• 50:56
  fire harbour and trade away Lamar and then try and recruit a
• 51:00
  head coach coach so he does. We've got nothing.
• 51:04
  Yeah, same. But I just think there's got to
• 51:07
  be something, there's got to be something there like to entice
• 51:12
  these people. The Raiders were so bad this
• 51:14
  year. They were so, so bad this year.
• 51:18
  And to have arguably the longest list of names other than the
• 51:23
  Ravens at this moment in time of interviewees.
• 51:25
  It was coming down if I rang you up and said I wanted to an
• 51:29
  interview for for head coach down at Raiders.
• 51:32
  You know, if it's if it's a bad team, you as much as you might
• 51:35
  want a head coaching role, there's probably other jobs out
• 51:38
  there that you're going to get less, less shit for online, more
• 51:42
  satisfaction where when you're when you're not getting beat
• 51:45
  week in, week out because your team don't want to play
• 51:47
  together. The thing is about the Raven,
• 51:48
  the Raiders, sorry for me is that they've got so many studs
• 51:52
  on the team that just don't play well together.
• 51:55
  It's like the team's curse that you put that, that, that jersey
• 51:59
  and it's like, yeah, I can't. I'm going to play for myself,
• 52:01
  man. Just do nothing for the team.
• 52:03
  But that's a coaching issue, isn't it?
• 52:05
  You've got to as if you go in and and applying or interviewing
• 52:09
  rather for like head coaching jobs, you've got to believe that
• 52:12
  you can go and fix that problem because you're right.
• 52:16
  They've got studs all over and you've got to believe that
• 52:20
  you're the guy to do it. It's an interesting one.
• 52:24
  I think there's the there's the sort of overhanging thing of
• 52:28
  Brady isn't that and he's only a minority owner.
• 52:30
  Everyone says he's pulling all the shots, but I don't know how
• 52:33
  much he's really doing. He's our show.
• 52:36
  He's our. Show knows him, won't he?
• 52:37
  But I think he's, yeah, he's not going to be running the
• 52:39
  day-to-day. No way.
• 52:42
  Well, but it just yeah, there were national championships,
• 52:45
  weren't there? Sorry, sorry about that.
• 52:47
  There were there were there were national championships watching
• 52:51
  Mendoza, who's obviously going to be the pick because the need
• 52:55
  of QB for it and he's a quote unquote generational.
• 52:58
  Q better you love that one. There's a generational QB, but
• 53:03
  every year, every year. So the Raiders there.
• 53:05
  We've got the list up on the screen now.
• 53:07
  So we've got the whites of Matt Nagy, like I said, Mike, the
• 53:09
  floor, Matt McDaniel, Chris Schuler, amongst other names up
• 53:12
  there. We're moving on now to the
• 53:13
  Arizona Cardinals. This is the job that the team
• 53:17
  just needs a shake up. I think Marvin Harrison junior
• 53:20
  needs to get out of that team. I think the team just needs kind
• 53:22
  of bending off and re rostering completely because they're on a
• 53:26
  fast track to be the next Browns in my opinion at the Cardinals.
• 53:30
  Quite a shortish list of of names, Vance Joseph being the
• 53:35
  favourite to take this role, but also Chris shows on this as
• 53:37
  well. Just a minute, Raheem Morris as
• 53:39
  well on this. Not much to say about the
• 53:44
  Cardinals over then. Good luck to whoever goes in
• 53:46
  there because they're on a fast track down in my personal
• 53:48
  opinion, which is a shame. And where does Kyla Murray go
• 53:51
  next year? Who knows?
• 53:54
  There's a lot of unknowns with this team in there.
• 53:56
  That's it, That's it, right? Moving on to the Baltimore
• 54:00
  Ravens, one of the hot spots for this offseason, now in
• 54:04
  contention with the Bills. A lot of names on here, a lot of
• 54:07
  names that we've seen already. Jesse Minter is the favourite
• 54:12
  for this job role. I'd like Cliff Kings where
• 54:16
  they're me. I must admit, I think he's got
• 54:17
  an exciting mind and seeing him with Willamar would be nice to
• 54:21
  see. But hey, look, I don't own the
• 54:23
  team. It would definitely be
• 54:26
  interesting. I think he deserves a shot.
• 54:28
  And The thing is, we Ravens, like they're arguably one of the
• 54:32
  best run organisations in the NFL, aren't they?
• 54:35
  Like they, they make decisions in the right way.
• 54:38
  They've made some questionable decisions standing by
• 54:40
  questionable people until they've got no other choice.
• 54:44
  But that aside, I think they do things right.
• 54:48
  I think they approach the draughts really well.
• 54:51
  I think they have employed generally very well.
• 54:56
  They sign free agents very well. They're just a really attractive
• 55:01
  team to play for. And then you add Lamar into the
• 55:03
  mix and it's it's a no brainer. Seeing someone like Cliff would
• 55:07
  be quite interesting there. But I just don't know if the
• 55:09
  Ravens would go for a character like him.
• 55:12
  But he's got his credibility back like we spoke about.
• 55:15
  So maybe, maybe. That's it, that's it.
• 55:19
  All right, moving on now to the Pittsburgh Steelers about final
• 55:23
  team that we look on with the coaching carousel because the
• 55:25
  Bills were so recent. We're still waiting to hear some
• 55:28
  news from there. Again, another exciting team to
• 55:30
  go with a lot of potential within there.
• 55:32
  Who knows what a rod's going to do.
• 55:33
  I think he's kind of waiting for who's who gets hired next.
• 55:36
  It wouldn't surprise me if I had a bit of influence in it, but
• 55:40
  it, you know, it's one of them. The Bills, the the Steelers have
• 55:44
  always had that mid round pick. So they've never had a good
• 55:46
  enough pick to get a generational QB, quote unquote,
• 55:50
  or, or a generational player at the top, top of the, of the
• 55:53
  draft side of things. So it's going to be tough for
• 55:58
  him going forward, but they've got a few names on the board
• 56:00
  there. The current favourite for the
• 56:01
  Steelers is Marcus Freeman purse bet 365 again, Mike McCarthy as
• 56:07
  well. He's been linked here across
• 56:09
  numerous sources and I think that would be a good.
• 56:11
  I don't think Mike McCaffrey McCarthy, sorry, is unemployed
• 56:15
  next year. I think he's working somewhere,
• 56:18
  don't know where, but I think he's working somewhere and the
• 56:20
  Steelers, I'm sure he like he's even from or he's been that way
• 56:24
  on. He's done a lot of work over
• 56:25
  that way. I think it'd be a nice, I think
• 56:28
  it'd be a nice fit for him being on that side of things.
• 56:36
  So if you're hiring a coach this season and you've got the names
• 56:39
  available to you, let's not think about the team.
• 56:40
  This is just you. Do you.
• 56:42
  First of all, do you hire a first time head coach or someone
• 56:47
  with experience? And is there a name that stands
• 56:50
  out? To you.
• 56:52
  But this is what I want, this is what I want to talk to you
• 56:54
  about, about the bill situation. I don't think there's enough
• 56:56
  good names out there that would change my organisation.
• 57:00
  I think the good names out there that are 10 year head coaches
• 57:07
  and the likes of Harbour and Stefanski who are still within
• 57:12
  the age of the career where you think you could get a good five
• 57:14
  to 10 years out of them. The rest of the the rest of the
• 57:17
  coaches, I'm still a bit like unsure because you see a lot of
• 57:22
  the time OCS will come up and they'll go as head coaches and
• 57:25
  our DCS will come up and go as head coaches and they're just
• 57:27
  not good enough. And they know this.
• 57:28
  Look at Josh Mcdanielson from the the pages.
• 57:31
  He went, he went and jumped in and he weren't good enough like
• 57:34
  twice. He's twice exactly.
• 57:36
  He he weren't good enough and he's got, he's gone back down to
• 57:39
  being OC now and he's doing an absolutely phenomenal job of it.
• 57:42
  I just think for me, if I'm if I'm doing it, I don't know.
• 57:48
  I think your draft is a big a big part on obviously what how
• 57:53
  old your QB is. If I'm the Steelers, I'd be
• 57:55
  really worried because you've got a really old QB with not
• 57:59
  necessarily there's no QBs in this draft over them like what
• 58:03
  Mendoza and and Beck like. I don't see many more top 10
• 58:13
  NFLQ BS coming through or predicted coming through.
• 58:16
  And what do you do with free agent to why do you look at
• 58:21
  someone like Kylie Murray or something like that where you
• 58:23
  can bring somebody in our tour, for instance, but you've got the
• 58:25
  contract here. I think as a coach, if I'm
• 58:28
  looking for a coach, sorry, I don't know.
• 58:30
  I don't know. I, I think experience beats what
• 58:32
  everyone needs to get experience.
• 58:36
  I don't know, I think a Cardinals style of team you take
• 58:40
  first time head coach. I think if you're Ravens, Bills,
• 58:45
  potentially Steelers, you want in that experience to movie team
• 58:50
  on I. Think you can throw Steelers
• 58:52
  into the same boat as the Cardinals?
• 58:53
  They just need a big shake up. They've not got a QB.
• 58:56
  Rogers is obviously free agent. I can't see him playing another
• 58:59
  season, not at the Steelers at least.
• 59:02
  Maybe he'll try and throw his hat in the ring somewhere else
• 59:03
  again because let's be honest, he just can't see his own
• 59:08
  reflection in the mirror. But I think I think you're right
• 59:13
  with the Ravens. I think you're right with the
• 59:16
  Bills, I think they go for experience and I think a lot of
• 59:20
  the others will go for first timers and give them an
• 59:22
  opportunity to build a bit of a team and see how they go.
• 59:25
  I mean, does it? The proof is generally it
• 59:28
  doesn't work, but it does as well.
• 59:30
  You know, Sean McVay, he was the first time head coach.
• 59:34
  He was the youngest ever head coach I believe when he took
• 59:38
  over the Rams. You got KFC who's done really
• 59:40
  well in Minnesota. Obviously a bit of a down year
• 59:43
  this year, but generally pretty well respected.
• 59:46
  So it does work, It works, but you've just got a hit on the
• 59:49
  right person, aren't you? That's it.
• 59:51
  That's it. I just, yeah, it's for them, for
• 59:54
  me, I think. I mean, there's been an alarming
• 59:58
  amount of coach roles available this year, but I don't think
• 1:00:01
  there's an alarming amount of good coaches about to take over
• 1:00:05
  them roles. So someone's going to have to
• 1:00:06
  take the hit on that basically so.
• 1:00:11
  Right, let's move on to the championship round games of this
• 1:00:14
  week, mate. We're going to have a look
• 1:00:16
  through at the two games coming up as we are getting to crunch
• 1:00:19
  time now of the season and we're going to have a bit of a talk
• 1:00:22
  and chat, a prediction going into next week as to who we're
• 1:00:26
  going to see in the Super Bowl. So up first we have the AFC
• 1:00:32
  Championship round, the New England Patriots are playing at
• 1:00:34
  the Denver Broncos. Thoughts.
• 1:00:37
  Predictions. What do you reckon mate?
• 1:00:40
  I think if you'd have asked me this, you know, these two teams
• 1:00:44
  are going to go to the championship round before Bo
• 1:00:47
  Nicks was injured, I think I would have said the Broncos.
• 1:00:52
  And you know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to bash the
• 1:00:56
  Patriots again. I've said what I need to say.
• 1:00:58
  But I think we'd stood them at quarterback and Patriots have
• 1:01:03
  played well this season. They have, and they're on a roll
• 1:01:06
  and they've got the momentum behind them and they've got the
• 1:01:08
  team they want. I see.
• 1:01:11
  I still see a tighter game than they'd want, yeah, but I think
• 1:01:15
  I'm predicting a Patriots victory in this one.
• 1:01:20
  Yes, I would like to say I agree with you.
• 1:01:22
  I do agree with you. I think, I think, I think the
• 1:01:27
  the Denver defence will hold back the Patriots offence, but I
• 1:01:30
  think it'd be a very similar situation to what happened
• 1:01:32
  against the Texans. I don't think the offence, I
• 1:01:34
  don't think Stidham will keep the defence off the field enough
• 1:01:37
  to allow them to rest, to allow any sort of movement.
• 1:01:41
  I think Stidham will struggle. I think especially in the first
• 1:01:44
  half, I think that's where that's where they're going to,
• 1:01:47
  they're going to excel more than anything else.
• 1:01:49
  Patriots. And that's been a big issue for
• 1:01:50
  us. We've start strong end week or
• 1:01:53
  start week and end strong. I think if we come out the the
• 1:01:55
  gates like running this week in the first two quarters, I think
• 1:01:59
  it'd be a big issue for Denver because if Stidham can't get
• 1:02:04
  going, if you can't get that ball moving, if you can't get
• 1:02:06
  that progression and read through his reads, I just think
• 1:02:09
  they're going to struggle long term and it and in that game,
• 1:02:11
  and it's a shame to see. I mean that I do because Denver
• 1:02:16
  have been so excited to watch this year and the impartial side
• 1:02:19
  meets the so, so exciting to watch. 2 weeks ago I said the
• 1:02:23
  same thing about I said last week, sorry, I said the same
• 1:02:27
  thing about Houston. My heart says that we're going
• 1:02:28
  to win. My head says we're not going to
• 1:02:30
  win because they're just the defence is so good.
• 1:02:32
  And I said the exact same if we'd have played against Denver
• 1:02:34
  last week. I just think the QB is just not
• 1:02:38
  there for it for me personally. Yeah, I think so.
• 1:02:42
  I mean, there's the old saying, wasn't there a good few years
• 1:02:46
  back? It was with the Legion of Boom
• 1:02:47
  with Seahawks and and Broncos at that same sort of period as
• 1:02:51
  well. Like defence wins championships,
• 1:02:54
  no complimentary football wins championships.
• 1:02:57
  And I think you're absolutely right.
• 1:02:59
  You know, the Broncos D are up there and they'll put, they'll
• 1:03:02
  put a fight in, but they're going to tie it.
• 1:03:04
  They're absolutely, I mean, the Patriots themselves have got I
• 1:03:06
  think the 8th ranked defence, I think somewhere in that
• 1:03:10
  vicinity. So I think you've got the
• 1:03:12
  advantage that New England are playing complementary football
• 1:03:16
  and in a championship game that really matters.
• 1:03:18
  I just can't, you know what, like it'd be great to see
• 1:03:23
  Stidham do it. It really would.
• 1:03:24
  It'd be. And this isn't a shot of
• 1:03:26
  Patriots. It's just it's always good to
• 1:03:28
  see the underdog do well. Like look how nuts everyone went
• 1:03:31
  for Falls when he won that Super Bowl or even just when he got
• 1:03:34
  them there. It'd be so cool to see that
• 1:03:37
  again, but I just don't see it. I see Patriots taking this one.
• 1:03:41
  I don't think it's going to be a walkover, or if it is, I think
• 1:03:44
  it's going to be sort of garbage time touchdowns.
• 1:03:49
  I just think I don't, I just don't see a way that patriots
• 1:03:53
  don't don't make it this year now.
• 1:03:57
  I agree, but that worries me because of the next game, the
• 1:04:01
  Los Angeles round in the Seahawks, which is arguable the
• 1:04:03
  Super Bowl that everyone wants that nobody can have.
• 1:04:06
  OK, right. It's, it's that, it's that Page
• 1:04:09
  3 model that you look at in the paper and you know you're never
• 1:04:12
  going to have, right? It's it's that it's on paper the
• 1:04:15
  most exciting game I think of the past few weeks in
• 1:04:21
  particular. I just think, I think it's got
• 1:04:23
  all the, all the especially how good Seahawks are at the moment
• 1:04:25
  with their momentum. It's got all like the, the marks
• 1:04:28
  have just been an absolute storm of a game.
• 1:04:30
  It could be a record-breaking game for all different types of
• 1:04:34
  reasons. For me personally, I think the
• 1:04:37
  Seahawks too good. I think the Seahawks beat the
• 1:04:40
  Rams. I think they're beaten by two
• 1:04:43
  touchdowns at long run. I want the Rams to beat them
• 1:04:46
  because if we do get to the Super Bowl, the last team I want
• 1:04:50
  to play is the Seahawks because I fear, I fear for our Super
• 1:04:58
  Bowl party if we are playing the Seahawks.
• 1:05:01
  Oh, I'm coming down with a bit. I'm coming down with a bit of an
• 1:05:03
  headache already. I think you know that, that it's
• 1:05:06
  just one of them. It's for them.
• 1:05:08
  What do you reckon on that game mate?
• 1:05:10
  It's it's really tough to call probably the hardest game of any
• 1:05:16
  obviously divisional rivals that played each other twice.
• 1:05:19
  I think they've shared the spoils in that.
• 1:05:21
  I'm sure they both won one each in that.
• 1:05:24
  It's really, really tough to see.
• 1:05:28
  I think arguably as an all round team, Seahawks are probably edge
• 1:05:32
  it. I just think the experience of
• 1:05:37
  McVeigh and the experience of Stafford could edge this one
• 1:05:42
  out. I think you might end up with
• 1:05:44
  Dan or bless him. And again, I'd love to see the
• 1:05:47
  underdog go to the Super Bowl, but I think the lack of
• 1:05:50
  experience in these sort of games.
• 1:05:54
  So I'm going to go out there and I'm going to predict a Rams
• 1:05:58
  victory and the Super Bowl will be a replay of New England and
• 1:06:04
  Rams replay of 2019 with Rams taking the Super Bowl.
• 1:06:11
  OK, OK, I like it. I like it.
• 1:06:14
  So there are predictions for the the championship round coming up
• 1:06:17
  this weekend. Hopefully we're in for a good
• 1:06:21
  weekend of football and we'll be reviewing it next week on the
• 1:06:24
  pod as well. So as well guys, let us know in
• 1:06:26
  the comments below whether it's on socials, Instagram, Twitter,
• 1:06:30
  all that jazz. We've got the socials everywhere
• 1:06:33
  at ABNF pod. Let us know your prediction as
• 1:06:36
  well. And our head of the YouTube
• 1:06:37
  channel and do the exact same there.
• 1:06:39
  We're going to get into our next segment of the evening, one that
• 1:06:43
  I'm looking forward to. We're going to get into wives
• 1:06:46
  words, right, Brad? Wise words, take us away.
• 1:06:52
  What is it? What's today?
• 1:06:53
  Well, let's get it up and have a look.
• 1:06:56
  So wives words is where the three of us ask our better
• 1:07:00
  halves a question relating to the game of American football.
• 1:07:05
  This could be absolutely anything about the game, about
• 1:07:09
  teams. And we ask them to anonymously
• 1:07:13
  answer the question. And so we haven't seen this, We
• 1:07:18
  haven't seen the answers. And what we've gone for this
• 1:07:21
  year is a nice, simple one. All.
• 1:07:24
  We have to do is this year, sorry this week, although it is
• 1:07:28
  the first one this year, so. Yeah, yeah, this.
• 1:07:31
  Week, we asked the girls to guess the team name from the
• 1:07:38
  logo, so we wanted the full team name and the example I gave was
• 1:07:43
  Miami Dolphins. So location and mascot, now
• 1:07:46
  that'd be too easy. So we've not used the Miami
• 1:07:48
  Dolphins. The first one we've gone for is
• 1:07:52
  the LA Chargers logo. So Zach, if you haven't already,
• 1:07:57
  can you bring up their responses?
• 1:08:01
  It's already up there right now. So the wise word gets the logo
• 1:08:04
  with LA charges bolt on the screen for any confusion is the
• 1:08:08
  LA Chargers. The Los Angeles Chargers would
• 1:08:12
  be the name there. So we have the North Carolina
• 1:08:15
  Thunderbolts. It's a college name and half as
• 1:08:19
  a high school name. And I shall say we have the
• 1:08:21
  Seattle Thundercats in brackets, definitely.
• 1:08:26
  And then we have the Chicago Flashing Bolts.
• 1:08:31
  So, OK, which one's your favourite?
• 1:08:36
  Which are my favourite? The North Carolina Thunderbolts
• 1:08:38
  all day long. I mean, the North Carolina
• 1:08:40
  Thunderbolts is probably the one that is probably the most
• 1:08:44
  believable. Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  Now I am just thinking though, Seattle Thundercats.
• 1:08:49
  Now that's a mega team name that is.
• 1:08:52
  Thunder, you know, just think I love that the scream the scream
• 1:08:55
  Friday Night Lights. It's just high school football
• 1:08:58
  names. Yeah, they do it just screams
• 1:08:59
  high school football names. It's great.
• 1:09:02
  Any anything standing out to you that would that would like make
• 1:09:07
  you think, oh, you're, you're, you're a better ass, said this
• 1:09:10
  one. You know what's interesting
• 1:09:13
  actually just before sort of doing that is that all three
• 1:09:17
  have almost, if we get rid of the North have actually located
• 1:09:22
  accurate team locations, first of all, which is impressive.
• 1:09:29
  I would go for. I've got my, I've got my 3.
• 1:09:38
  I think North Carolina Thunderbolts would be from my
• 1:09:45
  household. I would say Chicago Flashing
• 1:09:51
  Bolts would be from your household.
• 1:09:53
  Zack and the Seattle Thundercats brackets, definitely.
• 1:09:57
  I'm not sure what that bit's about would be.
• 1:10:00
  From research Cals, they're my guesses.
• 1:10:04
  See. They would be my guesses also.
• 1:10:09
  Cal, can you please in the chat reveal the correct answers?
• 1:10:19
  Anticipation waiting for research.
• 1:10:20
  Callie's typing underbolts is from CALS.
• 1:10:27
  Oh. Thundercats from mine and we
• 1:10:30
  nailed on flashing bolts. Wow, OK, OK, we're not.
• 1:10:36
  That's not too bad that that's not too bad.
• 1:10:38
  But after the next logo, which quickly just two second chat on
• 1:10:43
  these logos because there's a reason why we chose logos this
• 1:10:45
  year that this week you've got me saying yeah, now this week
• 1:10:48
  because last time we did a like a ruling 1 and we want to kind
• 1:10:52
  of help out. Brad, your camera's gone.
• 1:11:00
  You still there? Yeah, but just we get this back
• 1:11:04
  up here. Oh, there we go.
• 1:11:06
  We've got your back up and running now.
• 1:11:08
  Don't know what happened there. We said a bit of a technical
• 1:11:10
  issue, but we're going to get into the next one now, which
• 1:11:13
  will be the next logo that we sent to our lovely better
• 1:11:17
  halves. Which is who?
• 1:11:19
  Brad? So the next logo we sent, again,
• 1:11:22
  we tried to keep it interesting, not too obvious.
• 1:11:25
  We went for the Houston Texans logo.
• 1:11:30
  So with the Houston Texans here, we have three possible answers.
• 1:11:34
  We have the Texas Bowls, which that's easy, reliable, Yeah, the
• 1:11:41
  Pennsylvania American Bowls, and then we have the Texan Bowls.
• 1:11:49
  So we have the Texas Bulls and the Texan Bowls.
• 1:11:53
  That's that's tough. Two very similar ones there.
• 1:11:57
  The Pennsylvania American Bulls is an interesting one.
• 1:12:02
  I'm not quite sure where the Pennsylvania American bit comes
• 1:12:08
  from over the maybe the staff, the American bit, but I think
• 1:12:12
  the link to Texas and Texan is obvious.
• 1:12:16
  It's the the star from the Texan flag, the Lone Star, isn't it?
• 1:12:22
  I think they call it. Yeah, I'm going.
• 1:12:26
  To go, go on. Sorry, go.
• 1:12:28
  On you go first. OK.
• 1:12:30
  So for me I would say Texas bulls, my household,
• 1:12:34
  Pennsylvania American bulls is cow's household and the Texan
• 1:12:41
  bulls yours. Now the reason why is because I
• 1:12:45
  think my household would have seen the bull and gone down the
• 1:12:49
  cowboy kind of route, Yellowstone kind of route and
• 1:12:53
  would more know Texas than Texan.
• 1:12:57
  And if I like, you know, that's that's the way I've gone down
• 1:13:01
  with mine. Anyway, What about yourself?
• 1:13:02
  What's what's your your view on this one?
• 1:13:05
  And then I can get, we can get Carl can get them ready to send
• 1:13:08
  in. I think so.
• 1:13:15
  Mine I feel is confident with the geographical knowledge.
• 1:13:19
  So I definitely would go with Texas or Texan.
• 1:13:24
  I'm going to go Texas from my household just because that is a
• 1:13:29
  location, a specific location, whereas Texan is what you would
• 1:13:33
  call somebody from that location.
• 1:13:37
  I'm going to agree with you on the Pennsylvania bull, American
• 1:13:40
  bulls being from Cal's household and I'm basically flipping
• 1:13:44
  hours, I think. And Texan bulls from yours,
• 1:13:48
  that's where I'm going. Oh, so Texas bullies mine.
• 1:13:56
  Pennsylvania American Bulls is Carl's and Texan Bull Tex Yeah.
• 1:14:01
  Texan Bulls is yours. 3 for three on that one.
• 1:14:05
  Right? Just right.
• 1:14:07
  Quickly on these logos, it just goes to show that the logos can
• 1:14:13
  mean absolutely nothing. So there's some logos that I've
• 1:14:15
  got the name and I want to touch on that.
• 1:14:17
  Like at what point with your logo, with your branding, if you
• 1:14:21
  were creating a team and you were creating a logo, would you
• 1:14:23
  put your location and name on that?
• 1:14:26
  For reasons like we're showing now.
• 1:14:28
  If you're new to the spot and you're, you're looking around
• 1:14:31
  and you're like, well, I don't know.
• 1:14:34
  I don't know who are these teams are or where, where they're from
• 1:14:37
  or anything like that. Would you, would you include
• 1:14:38
  your like geographical location or name or something on the logo
• 1:14:42
  that kind of told you where they were?
• 1:14:45
  I like having alternate versions personally.
• 1:14:49
  So like I like having a version where you can include the name
• 1:14:53
  and the name is branded and I like versions where you can have
• 1:14:56
  that without. I also there's there's a few
• 1:15:00
  teams that do quite well where they have like alternate logos.
• 1:15:03
  I know the Ravens, for example, they've obviously got the Ravens
• 1:15:05
  head, but then they've got their their Crest, which I don't.
• 1:15:09
  I won't pretend to know the full background about my friend.
• 1:15:11
  Gaz has probably told me a million times.
• 1:15:13
  But I like that. It's like something that's
• 1:15:16
  unique to them. It's not their main logo, but
• 1:15:18
  it's it's a branding that that links to them.
• 1:15:22
  I do like that. I think I would say no,
• 1:15:26
  especially in an American sport such as the NFL, where those
• 1:15:29
  teams relocate so often. Think about the Raiders, think
• 1:15:33
  about the Chargers. You know, they their logos don't
• 1:15:38
  have the the name in them. And when they relocated, nothing
• 1:15:43
  changed. Literally nothing changed in
• 1:15:44
  terms of their logo. You've got the Rams who
• 1:15:47
  relocated recently, their logo. They have changed their logo
• 1:15:51
  since, but they sort of like tweets, the colours and things
• 1:15:55
  both times they've moved. But I like that the Raiders,
• 1:15:59
  it's still the Raiders. We've just moved a little bit
• 1:16:02
  which is weird for UK fans to get their heads around and I
• 1:16:05
  still find it bizarre, but I think now without the name makes
• 1:16:09
  more sense to me I think. Yeah, and I think from it's been
• 1:16:15
  a fun for so long and we're watching watching the sport for
• 1:16:18
  so long. You can I'll look at a logo and
• 1:16:20
  I'll know straight away. But you put a basketball logo in
• 1:16:22
  front of me and I've got no idea at all as to as to what's what
• 1:16:27
  on that. But it's, it's one of them for
• 1:16:31
  me. I, I can kind of see from a
• 1:16:34
  layman's point of view, if you were looking around, let's say,
• 1:16:39
  let's say Miami's going to be a hard one because the Dolphins
• 1:16:41
  are such a recognisable team. But let's say you've been to
• 1:16:43
  Miami on a holiday as a, as a kid or whatever, and you start
• 1:16:45
  getting into the sport and you think, oh, well, I went to Miami
• 1:16:48
  as a kid. And you start looking at the NFL
• 1:16:50
  list and you don't know who's who.
• 1:16:51
  Because I, I agree if you don't want too much of A cluster logo,
• 1:16:56
  but I would just see what your view was on having that.
• 1:16:59
  But that's wise words. And they're bringing a bit of
• 1:17:03
  sense into and a bit of realism for us into the game.
• 1:17:06
  What we, we, we followed for so long.
• 1:17:08
  And I'm very grateful that they're that they're taking part
• 1:17:10
  in it. I must admit.
• 1:17:11
  Going to move on now, mate, On to our next little feature.
• 1:17:15
  We've got a couple of features left.
• 1:17:17
  We'll move on to all other balls where we're going to be talking
• 1:17:20
  about all sports from around the world.
• 1:17:25
  And we're starting, if that's all right, mate, we're going to
• 1:17:27
  talk about the AFCON final. Have you seen this?
• 1:17:32
  By the way, I. Haven't.
• 1:17:34
  I haven't, Right. I've read about it.
• 1:17:37
  I haven't seen it. Play a protest, an awful penalty
• 1:17:43
  and fan uproar that were the headline that I read about this.
• 1:17:46
  I'm like, you play a protest, you've got me hooked, right?
• 1:17:50
  So the final score where he was Senegal, Morocco one nil to
• 1:17:53
  Senegal. Eventually right deep into out
• 1:17:55
  of time, Morocco would have awarded a penalty after the AVAR
• 1:17:59
  review for the foul. OK, I've watched I, I read this
• 1:18:04
  at first, I didn't watch the game.
• 1:18:05
  I've set this and I'll watch the highlights and I'll watch this.
• 1:18:08
  This foul, it looked like a giveable foul.
• 1:18:10
  It looked like any of the foul that you'd see in the Premier
• 1:18:12
  League, probably a bit soft, but it looked like a foul, went to
• 1:18:14
  VIR, went to a little screen thing outside at pitch, Give it
• 1:18:18
  as a foul. Anyway, Senegal's players and
• 1:18:21
  coaches with that in disgust. The coach has gone on the field,
• 1:18:26
  told all of his players to go off into the changing rooms,
• 1:18:29
  pulled all of this. This is deep into out of time
• 1:18:31
  pulled all of his players off right took him off the onto the
• 1:18:34
  sideline. You then got Sadio Mane stood on
• 1:18:39
  the field who's who's part of obviously the Senegal team stood
• 1:18:43
  there trying to get people back onto the fields to carry on this
• 1:18:45
  game right. So anyway, he's he refused to
• 1:18:50
  quit. He's getting his team mates back
• 1:18:52
  on the game anyway, 15 minutes later they get the game back
• 1:18:56
  underway. This penalty happens right?
• 1:18:59
  Morocco's star, their top tournament goalscorer, right by
• 1:19:04
  a name of of Diaz, his surname, right, Raheem Diaz.
• 1:19:07
  I think he's I think his name anyway, steps up right and tries
• 1:19:12
  a Pantech, a pan pan Anchka style kick.
• 1:19:17
  And I'm not sure if you've seen one of these where they're like
• 1:19:19
  they'll run up and they'll try and chip it down middle, not go
• 1:19:22
  for either side. They'll just try and chip it
• 1:19:23
  down middle. Well, Senegal's goalkeeper just
• 1:19:26
  stood there and caught it right. Roll on, roll on like 3 minutes
• 1:19:32
  later. It's at a time a real nice, a
• 1:19:37
  real nice counter attack from Senegal hits the scoring
• 1:19:41
  absolute beauty of a winner and send Morocco home.
• 1:19:45
  So they so like Senegal moaned about it.
• 1:19:49
  They got awarded a penalty against them.
• 1:19:50
  They kicked off for 15 minutes and still won the game.
• 1:19:53
  It was bar me to watch if you get a chance to watch the
• 1:19:56
  highlight. I mean, I've probably missed
• 1:19:58
  some bits out of there. I'm not a soccer fan, guys, I'm
• 1:20:00
  really not. I watch it, but I don't I don't.
• 1:20:02
  I don't worship it like some people do, but it will just bar
• 1:20:07
  me to see apps and I wonder what the repercussions are going to
• 1:20:10
  be of him taking his taking his team off the field.
• 1:20:13
  But that that for me is is story.
• 1:20:15
  When I'm glad you don't, I'm glad you're not.
• 1:20:16
  You've not heard it. So you can give me an honest
• 1:20:18
  reaction from it. But that's that's the first
• 1:20:19
  story of balls of the week this week.
• 1:20:21
  All the balls, sorry, all the balls.
• 1:20:24
  I just think it's nuts like So what?
• 1:20:27
  What I'm trying to get my head around here is when they scored
• 1:20:30
  the the counter attack goal, had the team come back onto play at
• 1:20:34
  this point or were they just playing like to an open field?
• 1:20:37
  No, no. I'm.
• 1:20:38
  Just visualising these eleven players, just like, yeah, this
• 1:20:40
  is going to be easy. So the team that scored was the
• 1:20:44
  team that went off the field. So the team, so the team that
• 1:20:49
  got the got awarded the penalty, right was Morocco.
• 1:20:53
  Senegal kicked off about the penalty being awarded.
• 1:20:55
  They jumped off the field. They came back on 15 minutes
• 1:20:58
  later and scored a counter attack.
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  Barbie, absolutely Barbie of a chain of events.
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  If you get janted, I would highly recommend watching the
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  highlights. He's he's absolutely just
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  skipped forward to the last five minutes.
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  He's fantastic. But yeah, that is all small
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  story. To finish on this, as soon as we
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  click finish, I'll be going to watch that.
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  Yeah, please do give me a view on it.
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  Please do. Over to you mate.
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  Why you got We got. Yeah, I've got an equally balmy
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  story myself. So big fan of hockey, ice hockey
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  we're talking about here. I say big fan.
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  It's not something I sit and watch all the time, but to watch
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  live I absolutely love. I've been to a few college games
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  out in the States when I've been out there skiing and seen a few
• 1:21:39
  games over here. So we're just a little bit north
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  of Sheffield, so been down to see the Sheffield Steelers a
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  good few times and I love it. It's such a great sport.
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  It's action-packed. There's still one bit I just
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  don't fully get my head around. And it's the fighting.
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  Like it's, it's brilliant when it happens.
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  It's not often in British ice hockey as it is in the States,
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  but it's great form when it happens and you're watching it.
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  But I just don't quite get it. Like it happens.
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  It's kind of OK that it happens, but it's not OK that it happens
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  because then they go to the penalty box and stuff anyway.
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  But in a recent game between Florida Panthers and San Jose
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  Sharks, there ended up being this like off the play hit and
• 1:22:22
  it just sparked a bit of a melee.
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  So there's like various skaters involved and the Shark's goalie.
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  And I'm going to have to try and pronounce this one.
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  It's a tough one. Alex Nadel Kovitch, I think, I
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  hope I've done that justice, actually.
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  It felt all right. He steps out of his crease and
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  he gets involved, which is like pretty nuts anyway.
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  So you don't normally get goalies like dropping their
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  humongous gloves and stuff to start scrapping.
• 1:22:45
  So the Panthers keeper down at the opposite end sees this
• 1:22:53
  keeper get involved and start having a go at one of his mates
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  and basically says I want a bit of that action.
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  So drops his glove, skates down to the opposite end of the ring
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  and there ends up just being this goalie on goalie fight,
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  which I did a little bit of research on this because I was
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  intrigued. And I think the last time, if I
• 1:23:16
  remember in this right, there was a goalie on goalie fight was
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  like 2020. So like one in every six years
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  if you like. It's just absolutely Barney.
• 1:23:29
  And then you ended up having so 5 minute penalties for fighting,
• 1:23:34
  2 minute penalties for leaving their creases to participate in
• 1:23:37
  the fight. But then Despite that brawl,
• 1:23:40
  that brawl, sorry, neither goalie was actually ejected and
• 1:23:43
  both finished the game. Like, it's just not so the other
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  goalie Again, I'm going to try and pronounce this way.
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  This right, Sorry, is Sergey Bobrovsky.
• 1:23:51
  I think so. We've got Sergey Bobrovsky and
• 1:23:54
  Alex Nedelkovich. I hope I'm pretty pleased with
• 1:23:58
  that. Yeah.
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  But yeah, like goalie on goalie, scrap in the ring.
• 1:24:04
  Yeah, again, I just read that story originally and then went
• 1:24:06
  and had a little look at the highlights of it on X.
• 1:24:09
  It's just barmy, you know, you've got a multi Stanley Cup
• 1:24:13
  winner in Babrowski. He's not had a single fight
• 1:24:17
  until this one. Like not a single one.
• 1:24:20
  But he's just thought, Oh yeah, I can see my mate getting
• 1:24:22
  pummelling by a goalie. I'm going to have some of that.
• 1:24:24
  Why not not done this before? It baffles me.
• 1:24:27
  It baffles me the fact that they allow him to fight on ice.
• 1:24:31
  I love it. I, I, I'd love to go watch the,
• 1:24:35
  the, the hockey model over here, like Steelers are in Leeds and
• 1:24:37
  stuff. I would love to go.
• 1:24:38
  And I keep saying to myself, like my Barber, he, he goes and
• 1:24:41
  watches Leeds all the time and I keep saying I'm going to go and
• 1:24:44
  then I can never get down to going.
• 1:24:46
  And I, I really wish I'd like to get into it more.
• 1:24:48
  Don't really fully understand the rules at the moment, but
• 1:24:50
  like I would just love to to get into it more as as as a sport as
• 1:24:55
  such, but. I'll do a plug for the Steelers.
• 1:24:57
  I'm not sure what Leeds Knights do.
• 1:25:00
  They're probably smidge more local than Steelers ish to where
• 1:25:03
  I am, but the Steelers do. I'm pretty sure they still do
• 1:25:06
  it. They do 5 LB Knights so it's £5
• 1:25:08
  a ticket. It's normally the Wednesday
• 1:25:11
  games that they have and it's just yeah it's great.
• 1:25:14
  Like get your big 2 pint things and you've got all like Chuck a
• 1:25:19
  puck at half time to try and get it in the middle and it's yeah,
• 1:25:23
  it's brilliant. Also is Leeds Chief Research
• 1:25:26
  Cal's saying not Leeds nights? I always thought it was nights
• 1:25:28
  but clearly not. I thought yeah, I'd recommend it
• 1:25:32
  to anyone. Is Research Cal making a mistake
• 1:25:35
  again, I think, is it not one of those subsidiary teams?
• 1:25:42
  So like the Sheffield Steelers? You've got the Steel Dogs,
• 1:25:44
  haven't you? Which is like the team below.
• 1:25:46
  Yeah. I wonder if, I wonder if there's
• 1:25:47
  those two. Maybe.
• 1:25:48
  I don't know. But yeah, I'd recommend it.
• 1:25:50
  Ice hockey is so cool to watch. It used to be the Chiefs.
• 1:25:54
  It did get it wrong. It did get it wrong.
• 1:25:56
  It used to be the Chiefs. Kyle, you're going to get
• 1:25:59
  sacked. Super telling.
• 1:26:01
  Me. Right.
• 1:26:04
  So they are all other balls for this week. 2 nice interesting
• 1:26:10
  stories. One including a ball, one
• 1:26:11
  including a flat ball. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:26:14
  A flat ball like a book, you know.
• 1:26:16
  Sure, sure. Right.
• 1:26:18
  We're going to move on now to our final section of the
• 1:26:22
  evening. One that you guys at home, we
• 1:26:24
  urge you to get involved. We would love you to get
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  involved with this. And that is Cow's conundrum.
• 1:26:31
  OK, so we're going to move into Carl's conundrum now and on the
• 1:26:35
  screen now if you are watching on YouTube or Spotify, if you're
• 1:26:39
  listening to this through Apple podcast, the last week's Carl's
• 1:26:44
  conundrum was including trade UPS, which two NFL teams have
• 1:26:48
  held the 1st overall pick in the NFL draft the most times.
• 1:26:52
  And the two teams were the Indianapolis Colts and the LA
• 1:26:56
  Rams. So thank you very much for that
• 1:26:58
  Carl in there. Well done.
• 1:26:59
  If you if if you got this, if you got it right, thank you for
• 1:27:03
  taking part. If you do, I know some DMS about
• 1:27:05
  it. We're going to bring up another
• 1:27:06
  Carlos conundrum for next week in just a second.
• 1:27:09
  I want you guys to get involved with this.
• 1:27:10
  Think hard. And yeah, let us know what you
• 1:27:14
  think. Let us know what your thoughts
• 1:27:15
  are on this. So Carlos conundrum for the
• 1:27:19
  following week off of this week going into next week is which
• 1:27:22
  current NFL head coach has more career rushing yards than Bo
• 1:27:28
  Jackson? And just for reference on this,
• 1:27:30
  Bo Jackson has 2000 had 2782 yards.
• 1:27:37
  So which current NFL head coach has more career rushing yards
• 1:27:43
  than Bo Jackson? Let us know in the comments.
• 1:27:47
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• 1:27:49
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• 1:27:58
  Brad, anyone sticking out to you at this moment in time?
• 1:28:02
  No, really not. These.
• 1:28:04
  Have been interesting. I know last week's I didn't get
• 1:28:07
  and and I love a pub quiz so I haven't cheated and it was
• 1:28:09
  literally just earlier today I said right research Cal What
• 1:28:12
  what are the answers? And he told us like, yeah, it
• 1:28:14
  makes sense, but I didn't know No, I just I'm trying to blast
• 1:28:18
  through all the head coaches now but my mind's a blank at the
• 1:28:21
  minute, but it's one I'll I'll refer back to.
• 1:28:22
  So yeah, make sure you hit us up in socials and leave comments on
• 1:28:25
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• 1:28:28
  X wherever you saw hitting us up at ABNF pod we.
• 1:28:33
  Could narrow this down because there's only 22 head coaches at
• 1:28:36
  most there were 10 vacancies. So.
• 1:28:40
  So we could narrow this down. Hired 4.
• 1:28:42
  That's what. Yeah, it's OK.
• 1:28:43
  So we're 26. We've got one in 26 chance of
• 1:28:46
  getting this right. But I, I've only joked, but
• 1:28:48
  yeah, get involved with this guys, please.
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  This is more for you than for us.
• 1:28:51
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• 1:28:54
  Yeah, that is, that is it mate, That is it for this evening's
• 1:29:00
  pod. It's been a fun one.
• 1:29:01
  I've really enjoyed this one. To be fair.
• 1:29:03
  It's that's about some good, some good points in it.
• 1:29:07
  That being said, guys, I know I've plugged it a few times
• 1:29:09
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• 1:29:10
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• 1:29:17
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• 1:29:21
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• 1:29:36
  I really enjoyed it. Thanks, Zach, and thank you,
• 1:29:38
  Cal, as always. Perfect peace.