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Neil Reynolds on NFL Expanding Internationally and Jaguars Bouncing Back | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Who better to sit in an English garden with than
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  Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds of Sky Sports in the UK. Here we
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  Speaker 1: are again. It's year eleven for the Jags, six and
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  Speaker 1: six record now in London, but we're back and it's
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  Speaker 1: good to see you again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a beautiful day, feels like it's summer. This is
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  Speaker 2: like summer weather for us. So yeah, it's great. It's
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  Speaker 2: great to have the Jags back in town. This is
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years now since the NFL's played a regular season
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  Speaker 2: game here. Obviously, the JAG's been coming since twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: You'd have seen it at Tottenham last weekend. It just
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  Speaker 2: never gets old, and the passion is as fervent then
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  Speaker 2: as you know now as it was then. It's incredible
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 1: The growth, certainly. Is Jaguars has been a big piece
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  Speaker 1: of that over the last decade or so. Certainly, And
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  Speaker 1: you know it seems like at least last year, the
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  Speaker 1: home and road back and forth two weeks here worked
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  Speaker 1: out with two wins. We'll see the result of it
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  Speaker 1: on the field, I guess coming up at Wimbley. But
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  Speaker 1: from all accounts and everything else except on the end
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  Speaker 1: the game this time around, it's been a success again,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that's been a positive. I'm sure Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell from hearing from him the other day, he said
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  Speaker 1: he learned a lot from having a team over here
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you look at what's happened over the years,
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  Speaker 2: they've tried so many different things, playing three games in
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  Speaker 2: a row, playing without teams having a bye week. It
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  Speaker 2: always used to be that the bye week was an
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  Speaker 2: automatic straight after a London game. Now teams can choose
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  Speaker 2: when to have it because they feel comfortable getting in
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  Speaker 2: and getting out. So yeah, it's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: the NFL likes to do is see different ways that
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  Speaker 2: this can run. And the Jags coming in now second
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  Speaker 2: year in a row, back to back games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been it's certainly been well received by
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  Speaker 2: the fans, the by the league. I think everything's worked logistically,
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  Speaker 2: and it seems that, you know, from a team level,
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  Speaker 2: certainly it's it's not been a bad thing for Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's I think it's been a
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  Speaker 2: positive across the board.
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  Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds from SkySports with us and from a Jaguars perspective,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the last year. The Wembley deal. Currently
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  Speaker 1: it feels like that's going to come back around at
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  Speaker 1: some point. Nothing's been announced as yet. So I mean
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  Speaker 1: having the Jaguars as that base team in what could
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  Speaker 1: be an expanding international series over the years, there will
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  Speaker 1: always be Jaguars games at Wembley.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like, yeah, and I think that's good to
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  Speaker 2: have that. I think that's a foundation. I think when
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  Speaker 2: you look at what the Jags have done coming back
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  Speaker 2: year after year and then by extension, how many games
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  Speaker 2: there have been in the UK, that is a comfort
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  Speaker 2: blanket that allows the NFL to say, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 2: how it needs to be done, this is what teams
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  Speaker 2: are looking for, and no team's been tested more than
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  Speaker 2: the Jags in terms of logistics and what it needs
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  Speaker 2: to what you need to do, and that allows the
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  Speaker 2: league to go to Germany, to go to Brazil, to
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  Speaker 2: go to Spain next year and beyond. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see games in Ireland. I think we'll see
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  Speaker 2: games in France, We'll see games in it I think
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  Speaker 2: we'll see games all over the world. I think this
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  Speaker 2: is coming. I think this is this is only going
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  Speaker 2: one way, but the fact that a team comes back
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  Speaker 2: year after year and leaves happy. I'm not gonna use
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  Speaker 2: the word happy, leaves content that everything worked because obviously
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  Speaker 2: there's always a winner and a loser, but content that
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  Speaker 2: everything worked the same as if they were in America.
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  Speaker 2: That's allowed the league to really expand and spread its wings.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the match up today under the arch
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  Speaker 1: of Wimbley battle of one and five teams. We know
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots are rebuilding group. They've actually said that out loud,
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  Speaker 1: and they've put in the rookie quarterback now to be
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  Speaker 1: a second start coming up against the Jaguars. So where
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  Speaker 1: are the Patriots in your mind right now?
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  Speaker 2: So exactly that I kind of applaud Jared Mayo, the
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  Speaker 2: head coach, for saying this season is not about wins
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  Speaker 2: and losses. It's about which young players can we rely
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  Speaker 2: on by the end of this season to go into
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  Speaker 2: two twenty twenty five. So they clearly have holes in
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  Speaker 2: their roster, but to me, they are thoroughly more watchable
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  Speaker 2: and more dangerous with Drake may in the lineup. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't perfect against Houston last week, but he gave
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  Speaker 2: him life. You know, he threw three touchdown passes he's
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  Speaker 2: a fearless player. So to me, that's where everything when
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  Speaker 2: I think about the Patriots is all about that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback league. We know that, we know it's a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback driven league, and they have a guy they're going
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  Speaker 2: to take a good long look at to see if
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  Speaker 2: he can be what Mac Jones wasn't for them, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the proper replacement for Tom Brady. So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: where I start. I start with, I start with the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback and yeah, with Jacksonville, I want to see I
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  Speaker 2: want to see the response.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean arm bells the
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  Speaker 1: size a big binner ring. And right now around the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars with all that was said after the game last week,
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  Speaker 1: when when Andre Cisco says he saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: quid out there, when the head coach in his postgame
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  Speaker 1: press conference talks about needing a culture change, those are
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  Speaker 1: massive red flags. So the question is how do they respond,
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  Speaker 1: how do they push back? Can they do it? Do
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  Speaker 1: they have the guys to do it? These are all
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  Speaker 1: huge questions. There's only week seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was the most alarming part to
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  Speaker 2: me was that you talk about culture at this stage
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  Speaker 2: of the season, because that should be established and shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be really questioned for that to come from the head
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  Speaker 2: coach puts puts me kind of on alert. This is
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  Speaker 2: a this is a must win game. This is absolutely
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  Speaker 2: a must win game to turn this season around, and
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  Speaker 2: it can be done. Look at how they started on
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  Speaker 2: defense against the Bears for the first quarter. Look at
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  Speaker 2: it felt like every good play last Sunday was followed
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  Speaker 2: by a bad play, Like the completion to Evan Ingram
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  Speaker 2: is a pretty decent game, then the balls on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: so tidying that stuff up. We know there's talent on
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  Speaker 2: this team. That's that's obvious. And I thought Trevor actually
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  Speaker 2: had the exception was the interception when they're chasing the
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  Speaker 2: game at the end. You know, Trevor made some great throws.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he threw three touchdown passes on one drive.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that two of them were dropped right and
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  Speaker 2: then he finally got the touchdown at the end. So
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  Speaker 2: it goes beyond like individual performances. This is a team response.
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  Speaker 2: This is a this is a gut check game now
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  Speaker 2: for the Jags, because win this one against the team
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  Speaker 2: that you should be beating, to be honest and then
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  Speaker 2: you've got something you can look to build on when
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  Speaker 2: you get back to America. Lose this one, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where it goes from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't go a good direction, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And the week at the month ahead, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: murderer's role. It's four strate NFC contenders coming up for
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  Speaker 1: the Jags, so they got to get a win under
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  Speaker 1: the belt here in Wimbley. How about your schedule, what's
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  Speaker 1: been going on. I know you're busy around the NFL games,
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  Speaker 1: but not for all of the games themselves. Your in
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  Speaker 1: and out. What's to do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So this this week has been a little bit quieter.
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  Speaker 2: I finished the I write and edit the game day magazines,
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  Speaker 2: so I printed at that one, went to the printers
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  Speaker 2: this week for the Jags Patriots, and now I'm straight
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  Speaker 2: onto Panthers Giants for Munich. Sunday is not a Sky game,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm going to be back in our studio. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be doing little pregame bits for the Jag So I'll
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  Speaker 2: be at Wembley for a while. I try and drag
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  Speaker 2: it out, try and watch a quarter of it. I'll
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  Speaker 2: try and watch. The fan in me doesn't want to leave,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll try and watch some of the game, but look,
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  Speaker 2: it comes at the curtains, coming down on another three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic for us here in London. October is our Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, the game just doesn't slow down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't slow down. And like I spoke to the commissioner,
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  Speaker 2: like you last weekend, you know, we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: eight of these international games soon and as soon as
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  Speaker 2: they go to eighteen regular season games in the US,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have sixteen international games played all around
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  Speaker 2: the world. And one thing I stopped. I actually interviewed
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  Speaker 2: the Commissioner last weekend and I set a new record myself.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what I did. I didn't mention the
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  Speaker 2: franchise word. I think the franchise talk has gone away.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see a Formula one version of
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  Speaker 2: the NFL traveling around the world. Three games in London,
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  Speaker 2: two in Germany, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Australia. We're gonna it's coming.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have this traveling road show of NFL
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  Speaker 2: international games. And I don't know if Sky have got
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  Speaker 2: the budget to send me to all of them, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to put my hand up and throw my
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  Speaker 2: hat in the ring.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good to be. How's your German and French
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  Speaker 1: by
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  Speaker 2: The way, nine nine no, but you know I'll speak
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  Speaker 2: the language of football, the international language of the gridiron