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#14 - I'm Not Very Smart · All Balls, No Filter Podcast

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I'm alive. 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 everybody. And behind the scenes, we have a
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man who is absent in both mind and presence this week because
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he's not here. Once again, it's researcher Kyle
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who's not here. It's interesting that you say
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his absence in is absent in mind and presence, considering his as
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the sort of nickname amongst our group is Megamind.
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The irony is not lost on me with that one.
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Rumour, and as it the reason why he hasn't shown his face yet is
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we can't find a camera big enough for his head.
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Wow, he's getting personal now. God research Kyle, get on it.
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It's slander. He might join us.
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He might join us throughout the session.
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He's just got something on at this moment in time, which we
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might get into a little bit later.
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But he's he's, he might, he might join us in a little bit.
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But anyway, Brad, how are you today?
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Yeah, I'm not too bad at all to be honest.
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I think last week I'd spoken about having a bit of time off
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work and things, which has been lovely.
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Back to the grind this week, but not going to woes me story that
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one. But now I'm I'm I'm not too bad.
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How's yourself? Hey, I'm good, I'm good.
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I feel I'm this week, last week, I'm a bit flustered.
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If you couldn't tie on the episode, a little bit flustered.
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My teddy nearly got thrown out of the waggon.
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I'm not going to lie to you, but we're a little bit better today.
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We're a bit of a better spot touch ward, you know, and all
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that jazz. We we we're getting there at a
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decent weekend and yeah, looking forward to the show today, mate.
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What we're going to start is the main question.
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Yeah, I mean it's been probably a fairly quiet ish one in the
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world of the NFL. There's a few stories we'll
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definitely touch on, but we're going to visit those headlines
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obviously on a quiet pre draft week.
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So we're not far away from the draft now, are we?
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That's just over a week away. We'll probably I think the plan
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is to dig a bit deeper into the draft next week.
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So bear with us on that one and and obviously make sure you tune
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in for that. We've had an interesting week
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though. Actually.
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We've touched base with all of the AFC teams this past week and
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they've shared with us just a word or two about how they feel
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about themselves. And, and I'm being honest here,
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they really wanted to speak with those nobodies.
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So I hope you're interested to hear what they've got to say and
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that'll be coming up later in the show.
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And then for the first time properly, I guess we're actually
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going to discuss the world of brick ball.
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So for those that don't know, that term, brick ball is the the
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title, if you like, given to American football played over
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here in Britain. And so the adult contact season
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commences this weekend. So we're going to have a little
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look at that and of course visit the world of rugby league and
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other sports. Away and I'm looking forward to
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hearing what these teams have to say I'm not going to lie I'm I
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am I'm I'm looking forward to it but let's get into the news
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headlines for the week shall we and coming into this has Mike
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Rabel been a naughty boy all right and it's a bit bit Ash is
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that I must admit but if you're not seen all over X Mr Brabel
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has been caught in a compromising position with the
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New York Times NFL reporter Diana Rossini.
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I believe now I'm not just throwing all the blame on one
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side here because I want to touch on this a little bit.
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I mean, so today, but I want to touch on this a little bit,
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right, which is the fact that miss or misses actually, I think
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I think is at the memo because she has a fella.
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This is not the first time she's been caught in a compromising
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position with someone from the NFL.
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Whilst presumably everything, by the way, is a is is a highly
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presumed allegation and and it's all an assumption.
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Let's just say she's been caught a couple of Times Now doing the
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exact same thing while trying to get a scoop with a team in with
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an informed team or a how can I put it like I highly spoke about
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team at the time. Now, look, the photos don't look
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great. I'm not going to lie to you, but
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pictures speak 1000 words and we don't know the the context
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behind these. So we're definitely not going to
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throw shape where we don't know facts.
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That's that that that is something there.
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But she was caught back in 2015 with Sean Vay, the Rams head
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coach at the time, which then ended up leading into a drunken
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fistfight with Mcveigh's other half of the time Brit McHenry.
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But we then ended up getting into a scrapper with them and
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not only that issue caught in 2012 with the with the then
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Redskins GM now Commanders, but the then Redskins GM at the time
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caught in a compromised mission with them.
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Now look, right. I don't know what you think
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about this, Brad, but I just think, you know, you're still
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getting caught If you're going to if you're going to, you're
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going to start doing this so much places and going outside,
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if you know what I mean. Well, I was, I wasn't aware of
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this until this like the last sort of 24 hours or so.
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Obviously this broke I think. Was it like late last week I
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think or over the weekend? And apparently so, you know, the
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pictures of them sort of at the hotel laid on the sun lounges
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and stuff next to each other. Apparently it's like, obviously,
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I mean, obviously it's quite an exclusive hotel, but there's
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rules around phones, you know, allowed phones in actual like
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public areas. And it's quite clearly like an
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iPhone picture or something like that, isn't it?
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It's not like a professional hidden in the bushes sort of
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job. So it's just interesting to see,
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you know, to know where that sort of leak, if you like, has
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come from. I think it's it's a difficult 1,
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isn't it? You don't want to sort of
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comment on people's private lives too much.
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But what I think's quite interesting about it, My
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perspective is realistically it's all the sort of he is on
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her. And I know you kinda have said
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like the this this form there. And I'll be honest, I've I've
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got no awareness of that history whatsoever.
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But I think the heat actually potentially comes from the job
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she's in. You know, she's she's basically
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an insider, isn't she? Is it the athletic she works
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for? I think she's part of the New
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York Times. I think that's a part of the New
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York Times, isn't it? So she's basically their
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insider, if you like, she's their main sort of NFL reporter.
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So you're saying they're like, you know, she's trying to, is
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she trying to get the scoop and, and things like that.
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And what's interesting is like as a, as a reporter, like I
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don't, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a reporter by any means
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of the word, but part of your authenticity is that sort of the
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way you go about your business and the way you get your
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contacts and the way you deal with other people.
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And actually, what's quite interesting with this one, and
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I'm not sort of taking any credit from this sort of angle.
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I've actually sort of read this and heard it in a few different
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places. And I kind of see where they're
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coming from. Is, you know, one of the big
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sort of stories that's coming from the Patriots camp this sort
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of offseason is the sort of interesting players like A.J.
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Brown and things like that. And it'd be interesting to see
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how to know how much that angle is coming from her or, or is she
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trying to get the inside track on that And, you know, to be
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able to drop the news for, I don't know, Obviously neither of
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us know, but it's certainly not a a good position to be caught
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in for either of them, is it? No, it's not.
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No, it's not. We're not.
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We're not going to have people's lifestyles on air, but it's just
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one of them. It's not.
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It's not a great look, but I'm sure it'll all come out and
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they'll be statements from both parties as to as to what was
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actually going. Oh, well, that thing, well,
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yeah, well, we, we'd like, we'd like to think so anyway.
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Moving on. The Texans have exercised their
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5th and that is on two players. CJ Stroud has exit as a guys 5th
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year extension which has been claimed to be worth around $25
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million for the year, as well as their defensive end Will
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Anderson, who is also worth roughly around $21 million for
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the year. For me, smart bear business CJ
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CJ Stroud has shown he shows some lightning lightning ability
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and he has he's he's got them to good places and he he is good.
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He has lacked that maturity and just that that ball knowledge in
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the NFL and he's get to grow up quite a few times like in the
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game, if that makes sense. You're just making them silly
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mistakes that so I I think it's a very smart decision in terms
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of just get one more year out of him.
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See how he gets on it is what it is.
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If we don't work out the move on.
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But I, I, I see, I think, I think he's decent.
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I think he's a good little sign in front, to be fair.
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I think for a player like CJ, you've got to you've I think
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you've probably got to take the 5th year option.
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I don't think he's being consistent enough to justify a
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real big contract. You know, you potentially enter
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in that to a trap, aren't you, where you you make the big deal
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because you've just got to with the quarterbacks.
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It's just the next man up, isn't it?
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And this probably just gives them another year, another bit
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of breathing space. My assumption would be they'll
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probably tie Will Anderson up to a longer term contract sooner
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rather than later, you know, probably before CJ.
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But then on the flip side of that, if you are thinking about
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keeping him, you probably need to do the business with your
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quarterback because that's going to be the highest paid contract
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in your team, you would assume. But I think, yeah, I agree.
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I think it's the right sort of next step for the Texans and
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it'll be, it'll be interesting to see what comes next for these
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two players and whether they produce the goods that, you
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know, the Texans are hoping. Yeah, For me, it forces CJ to to
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play well for the first the first half of the season because
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you know, a lot of the time they'll get these big contracts
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towards like the middle of the season when, especially in these
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50 years in particular, the game on towards back end of the
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towards the middle of this season.
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They've got to play the skin out to earn it.
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And if they're not playing, if he's not playing that consistent
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CJ Stroud that we know where he's playing really well every
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game, he ain't going to get paid.
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And if he continues to do that, he would go into free agency
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next time around and probably turn into a backup QB with how
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the QB draft looks class looks in the next couple of years.
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So I think he's really smart for both sides because it forces him
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to play better. It forces him to improve that
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game rather than not saying it happened with two, but that two
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attract where they gave him the money and he just declined
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rather than improved and rather than forced him to do it.
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I don't think I said I didn't think a lot of it's
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psychological for for for two were there.
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But I think it's a good thing for for CJI, think it's a good
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thing for the Texans in general. Yeah, I agree.
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I think it's yeah smart little bit of business.
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It's, it's the right thing to do and we'll see see if it works
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out for them. But I think it's relatively low
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risk, potentially high reward on the 5th year option.
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So I think it probably makes sense generally.
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Completely agree. Right?
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We have two of our passions. Big crossover rugby league NFL
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crossover. Is it happening again?
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Rugby league giant Ben T Ben Tokora Brisbane Broncos has been
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given permission to do a six week NFL training camp in hopes
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of impressing teams. Now the big question here is why
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and has it worked in the past? It it's a mixed bag, isn't it?
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Obviously you hear of some big names going across and it it
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very rarely works in my opinion. You know, I always remember
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Jared Hayes like he was sort of, hey, sorry, the first one sort
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of who went across and you know, when he went across, he he was
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seen as an absolute top end player to care, if I'm not
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mistaken, has probably had quite limited playing time in the NRLI
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think he's had a few injuries and a few knocks and things
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there. So will it work?
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I don't know. I just think when you grow up
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playing rugby and that's your whole career, you're then
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suddenly shifting across and trying to compete with players
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who have grown up their entire life playing in the NFL.
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And when we look at some of the athletes in the NFL, these are
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like, we're talking like top athletes.
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Plus then the fact that they've played this sport their entire
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life, so it's just difficult to be able to compete with that.
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See, for me, I don't think it's the athleticism that ever lets
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them down. I think it's the the knowledge
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and just how smart they are as a a person.
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And I don't mean any disrespect to anybody because I'm not the
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brightest person in in in the world.
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I'm all my hands up to that. But like you imagine not knowing
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it's it's he's talking another language, a massive table, a big
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thing to to prove this, Gruden just put out his new QB classes
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on YouTube, right to go watch them.
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And he sits down with the QBs in the class this year in the
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draft. And he just shouted A shouting
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place to each other. And it is just a complete other
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language. And This is why I feel like a
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lot of them don't work because they're going, you know, as they
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expected. I would be a wide receiver going
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to be a running back. And they just can't grasp the,
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the coaches have to tweet the playbooks and things to make a
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simpler play for when, when they're in rather than being
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able to express themselves because they don't understand
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the lingo, the jargon, just the way the game works.
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They're just expecting to get the ball.
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We've seen it in the past, bro, when we've had when we've had
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rugby players come down and play our level of football, which is,
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which is nowhere near like what these guys are.
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And they've come down. Oh, you're just wearing pods and
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omics on the ball. And then they realise there's a
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lot of thinking. It's chess we contact at the end
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of the day you've got to think further front and that for me is
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what I think is the biggest let down for the the rugby players
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trying to go into it. And it's just not only that
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comes with time and knowledge. You know, again, a practise one
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out of it doesn't get you either at all, does it?
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No, it doesn't and I think you're absolutely right.
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It's it's like, you know, learning.
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You kept learning a completely new language.
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I mean even just compare like rugby league to rugby union like
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that, it's 2 completely different sports.
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Compare American football to flag football.
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It's, it is just a different game and it's so hard and you
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know, you will have people who do fairly well, but they're not.
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How much time can an NFL team give you when you've got all the
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players who've been doing it the whole life and are just as
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athletic who can do it? You know, I think the
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interesting thing about this guy, and and it's probably a
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reason you've got NFL teams potentially interested in this
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sort of trial for six weeks, is that by all accounts is the
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tallest player in the NRL. So he is, if I'm getting this
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stat right, 205 centimetres tall.
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I don't know what that works out.
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Yeah, yeah, nearly as tall as you, but I'm just quickly
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figuring this out now. So it's six?
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Yes. It's 6 foot 8:00 and it's 6 foot
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8.7 inches. So he is a beast.
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It'd be interesting to see where they saw her start placing him
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as a as an athlete really on the field for an NFL team.
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But you know what? I wish him well.
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I wish him well. I hope it works for him.
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It's apparently a dream of his. So it's, you know, they've given
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him this opportunity to go and do that six week, six week trial
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at training camp. So maybe it'll work, maybe it
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won't. And you know, nothing lost is
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there all. The time we'll tell him we'll
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try and keep up with with that. We'll we'll we'll try and keep,
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you know, in the loop with that right, we're going to move on
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right quickly, mate, just to a couple of signings and trades
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that have happened around the NFL.
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Dontavian Wicks to the Philadelphia Eagle Eagles, a
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wide receiver that's gone for a 2026 fifth round and a twenty
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27th 7th round. So he's going to send to the
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Eagles for them picks, low level picks, nice little, nice little
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backup receiver, just adds that depth across there.
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Brandon Allen's gone to the Giants QB backup, no contract
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details just yet as a free agent.
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So he's going to be there. Just supporting that QB room bit
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of knowledge in there and just just getting that backup QBs are
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so underrated in the NFL, especially when the veteran
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backup QBs to just to bring that knowledge and just to support
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the QBs. That QB room in particular as I
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just spoke about how how knowledgeable you've got to be
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as AQ as a QB and a large more to the Philadelphia Eagles and
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other wide receiver there. One year, $5,000,000.
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It's got a sign. It's got a sign in there for
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that. And again, another little
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addition to both of that, that Eagles wide receiver room,
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really. Lovely little.
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Bit of business, not too bad, not too bad.
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I am looking forward to this next bit we're getting into.
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I mean you, you were the one that kind of got this deal for
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us. You were the one that that got
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in touch with the teams. I worked really hard.
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I've worked really hard on this. We're still waiting for the NFC
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teams to come back though, right?
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Yeah, that's it. I thought, you know, 16 teams is
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a big job for me, you know, so I've sort of got my agents out
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there. They're sort of working with
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some of the NFC agents and sort of representation from the teams
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and we're hoping we might have them maybe next week, maybe
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after the draft, we'll we'll see how the land falls, but we'll
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find the right time to share this wonderful insight that
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we're getting with you. OK, so let's start off with team
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sentences, OK? So again, we're going to start
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off with the AFC East, OK? And now I've just seen the the
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e-mail that's come through there.
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So the Buffalo Bills, the statement about the Buffalo
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Bills. I'm elite enough to dominate in
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January, but not quite enough to survive it.
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How very honest and open of pills to admit that.
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Yes. And then for some reason the
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Dolphins, the Dolphins got in touch with me about this one.
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May the Dolphins. Sure they did.
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Team #2 the Miami Dolphins. I look like a Ferrari in
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September. They're mysteriously breakdown
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when winter hits. So let's start.
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Well, but then, you know, I've been, that's what we're trying
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to get at the start. All right.
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And then just the wheels fall. Off it's interesting that Miami
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seems so self aware finally that actually that there's kind of
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like a a double meaning here that they shit the bed later in
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the season but ironically refer to the weather.
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What? What a coincidence, Shadow.
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Right. Is there two AFC team for
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myself? Yeah.
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And then so the New York Jets, the the lovely franchise that
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they are. So they had an interesting
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statement that they shared with me.
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They said we are just one healthy season away from
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greatness. Unfortunately, that season is
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purely theoretical. Hey, I'm liking the honestness
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that's coming from these teams right now.
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This is this is pure like, you know, exclusivity that we're
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getting on the all balls no for the podcast here that they're
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giving us the honestness here. The, you know, the honesty.
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Should I say you're right from there?
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Maybe it's the fact that we are just nobody, so like no one's
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listening to this so we can just get it off of our chest as like
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a bit of an outlet or something. Maybe so.
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You know, speaking about that honesty, your beloved Patriots
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were quite interesting, sort of kind of saying what we're all
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thinking really is that, you know, admitting that.
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Well, I'll, I'll just read it word for word.
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So we used to be a dynasty. Now we're just aggressively
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nostalgic about Tom Brady. Hey, look, right?
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Their words, their words. There were a look like some
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greatness and and and he was the greatest of all time in the
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greatest dynasty of all time. So yeah, I get what they're
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saying. I get what they're.
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Saying, do you not feel like they could have?
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Do you? Do you not feel like you know
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the greatest quarterback of all time?
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Greatest player of all time in one of, if not the greatest
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dynasty of all time? Probably should have honoured
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him with one of the best statues of all time, as opposed to the
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shambles they did erect. That's like, that's like, that's
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like Portugal and the Cristiano Ronaldo 10 my.
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Word. It's awful.
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What he did is, is like as a footballer, the, the you think
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the country would like get around him and get the best
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people involved with it. And it was the worst like.
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Is it? Is it outside?
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Is it Madeira's airport? Is that where it is?
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God, it's just horrific. He looks deformed, doesn't he?
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Yeah, but I agree. I I got a better thing me about
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statues. I just don't think you should do
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them. I I I don't think you should be
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making statues. Madame Tussauds the sound
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because he's wax and all that jazz, but statues I just don't
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think you should be doing because they never come out
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right. No statue.
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I you know what, right prove me wrong in the comments below.
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Find me a statue that looks good that looks like the person that
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he's supposed to look like legitimately not just like
22:29
always got got the same nose. No, find me a statue that looks
22:33
good because I'm just, you know. I'm just throwing it out here
22:37
mate, I feel like you're opening yourself up to some absolute
22:40
carnage here. Considering the different sort
22:44
of representational characters you have amongst our friendship
22:49
group, you are in serious bother here.
22:53
Oh yeah. I might even get on there on the
22:56
comments myself. Are we try it's not right moving
23:01
on AFC North the Cincinnati Bengals got in touch and very
23:04
similar, you know, weirdly, you know, very similar to the New
23:07
York Jets woman. And and since that Bengals got
23:09
in touch in the base time, I said, look, I'm one Joe Burrow
23:12
healthy season away from being everyone's nightmare, which I
23:16
think is quite honest. You know, they just can't keep
23:19
him fit. They just can't keep him fit.
23:21
They can't. They can't blast them.
23:24
And then we've got the Pittsburgh State, Pittsburgh
23:26
Steelers who came in saying, look, I refuse to have a losing
23:29
season, but I used to I but I also refuse to have a scary 1.
23:34
So you know that that winning record there, I think, but
23:37
they're just still pretty shit. You know what?
23:40
Do you think is going to happen with that?
23:42
Do you think that record of theirs is still going to lie?
23:44
Is it a Pittsburgh Steeler record or is it a Mike Tomlin
23:47
record? Like you're so interested in
23:49
this to see how this goes. I, I think it's whatever you
23:56
know. I don't know.
23:57
I don't know, to be fair. I mean, they don't have a
24:00
quarterback at the minute, do they?
24:01
Like it's so unknown. No, and I honestly, I don't
24:07
know. I think the I think it's just
24:10
going to sound really obvious. I think it's six of them both
24:13
until it's broken, if that makes sense.
24:16
Like the moment Pittsburgh Steelers have it without him,
24:20
for instance, is at the moment it's a Mike Tomlin record.
24:23
Do you know what I mean? At this moment in time, it's
24:26
just up in the air as being both of the records for the for the
24:28
foreseeable. It's like a weird version of the
24:31
Brady Belichick sort of discussion, isn't it?
24:35
Yeah, yeah, exactly the same. Like exactly the same.
24:38
That's that. That'd be my view on that.
24:39
You're AFC Northwest, buddy. Yeah, so the Baltimore Ravens
24:43
reached out directly back to me after obviously, you know,
24:46
asking them for the the inside scoop.
24:48
And they were really open. And ironically, they said, you
24:52
know what, it's it's probably likely that the Bills are going
24:54
to say something similar. They say, you know, we dominate
24:57
from September to December and then we just politely excuse
25:01
ourselves from January. Yeah, yeah, I I dig it.
25:08
And then quite closely followed by the Cleveland Browns, they
25:11
were sort of in there straight away and they said, look, we'll
25:14
give you statements for the next 5-6 years if you get approved at
25:17
the owners meeting. But said no, no, no, just this,
25:19
just this moment's all right. And they said I very much enjoy
25:22
spending huge money each year just to creatively reinvent
25:28
disappointment. I.
25:30
Love it. You can't reinvent the wheel,
25:32
but you can reinvent disappointment.
25:33
I love it. You can indeed.
25:36
Indianapolis Colts came in and they were talking they were they
25:41
were humming and hiring which way to go about this, but they
25:44
went with the the the narrative on themselves being I spin the
25:47
QB wheel. I spin the QB roulette wheel
25:50
every year and I swear this time at London a winner.
25:55
They got that one there and the tie ends and another AFC S team
26:00
came in talking about the state of their team at the moment and
26:05
and where they're at as a franchise and the basically turn
26:08
around to look I'm I'm mid rebuild, I'm mid identity and
26:12
currently just mid. How very transparent.
26:22
So honest. It's almost like 2026 is like a
26:26
new year, new me in terms of teams, transparency and honest
26:31
and sort of self-awareness. It's crazy.
26:33
It's. It's like a new like a new me,
26:36
new year, new new year, new me thing.
26:39
Yeah. Oh, that's your bang.
26:41
Yeah. So the Texans got in touch and
26:45
they said, look, we went from rebuild to contender so fast,
26:50
even we're a bit confused. And everyone around us seems to
26:53
pretend that they saw it coming. Hey.
26:58
Look right with that right. So just I love the honesty there
27:03
with the Texans, right. And when you think about it, it
27:08
is quite, it's factual that because we all were like, Oh
27:13
yeah, we can sequence because of the defence and everything.
27:16
But they kind of halted in signings, if that makes sense.
27:19
Because I don't like, I think they're, I, I don't think they
27:22
realise they're probably 2 years above their schedule and
27:25
everybody else. Yeah, and it was it like I think
27:27
they had when they first got CJ, didn't they?
27:29
They had that really big year and then they had a quiet a year
27:33
or two and then suddenly last year, I know where it was like,
27:35
well, here it was. They were like quietly sneaky
27:39
good whole season. And then suddenly they're like
27:42
battling it out to be in the Super Bowl.
27:43
Just madness. A team that wasn't battling out
27:48
to be in the Super Bowl, that was the Jaguars.
27:51
And they were quite open and honest about their sort of legal
27:58
obligations. So they came back to me and they
28:02
said look, we need to be more careful because we start looking
28:07
like a playoff team right up until remembering that we are
28:10
legally obligated to collapse mid season.
28:15
That now that you you brought our friendship group into that
28:20
could bring some of our friendship group on your back
28:21
here in the comments, you know, because that is a that is direct
28:26
fire the Jaguars there. I know they're not your words.
28:30
These are my. Words.
28:31
I know they're not your words don't shoot the messengers, as
28:34
the saying goes. But you know when they say, when
28:38
they say the truth hurts. He's he's getting there, right.
28:45
Moving on to the AFC West. Now the Denver Broncos got a
28:48
touch. And you know, to the quite
28:50
honest, to be quite honest with you, I'm still paying for
28:53
yesterday's decisions while hoping my next QB fix finally
28:57
sticks. So that big chunk of money going
29:01
out hoping that this next QB, yeah, we get it.
29:05
And they've got a lot of a lot of promise with the QB.
29:09
I'm not sure if you got those emails right way around that
29:11
could have quite easily been from my dolphins.
29:14
Well, yeah, there is that, to be fair, coming from a law team as
29:17
well, to be quite honest, I'm sure that it was.
29:19
Yeah, denver.broncos@gmail.com. That's where it where it came
29:22
from. Legit with them.
29:24
Right, Exactly. So AFC West continues with the
29:28
Los Angeles charges. And these were these were one of
29:34
the most honest reviews, I must admit that we got back in and it
29:37
was I find new and creative ways to waste elite talent every
29:43
single year. So honesty A is fine.
29:48
It's there from our our Los Angeles charges.
29:51
Indeed I. Can't believe Harbaugh let that
29:53
go. No, right.
29:55
I don't think he realised to be fair.
29:57
I'm sure when he listens to this episode tomorrow he will be
30:00
fuming. Yeah.
30:05
OK, so for the last two we've got, I'm not going to end with
30:09
the Chiefs because I feel like that's just cliche.
30:11
But the Chiefs did get in touch and they said, look, we're at
30:15
the point now a little bit longer this one.
30:17
We're at the point now where we're ready to get back to our
30:20
old ways. Ways where even when we're
30:23
playing badly, we still somehow win.
30:25
Like that one mate who turns up late to 5A side, does nothing
30:29
all game and then scores the winner and acts like it was the
30:31
plan all along. I like it.
30:35
I like it. Bravo, Chiefs.
30:36
Bravo. Very well done, Chiefs, if I do
30:39
say so myself. And then last but not least, the
30:43
Raiders, which are an interesting franchise, aren't
30:47
they? So again, really, really honest
30:50
this one. This one's in first person so I
30:52
don't know if it's from Mr Brady himself or other higher ups in
30:56
the team, but it says I make bold headline grabbing decisions
31:02
that are all absolutely genius and full of swagger.
31:07
Where we then wake up and realise they were made at 2:00
31:09
AM after 3 pints and a dodgy kebab.
31:13
And by the morning, you're left trying to piece together what on
31:16
earth you were thinking and how it's somehow got even more
31:19
chaotic than before. See that that could that could
31:24
have quite easily been from the Browns.
31:26
So I'm going to be honest with you as well, but that it does
31:29
the Browns, the Raiders, the very similar team this moment in
31:32
time. But I I enjoyed them.
31:34
I enjoy them and I try to say thank you to all the NFL teams,
31:37
all the AFC teams just say for getting in touch with us and
31:40
giving your super honest team reviews right now.
31:44
Hey, guys, if you liked that, let's know.
31:46
Let's know which one your favourite one as well in the
31:48
comments below or on our socials ABNF pod across all your
31:51
socials. By the way, let us know which
31:53
one, which one your favourite were.
31:54
And if you want to hear the NFC ones, I believe that they are on
31:57
the, you know, the via carrier pigeon on e-mail coming over the
32:02
the the the sea right now to us. So if you want to hear them next
32:06
week, give us a shout, let us know.
32:08
And yeah, it's sort of a bit of fun, a bit of light hearted
32:11
while we move on. We move on with things from
32:13
there now moving on to across the pond and to this side.
32:20
And we want to talk a little bit about the British game.
32:24
So the British game, brick ball buffer, British American
32:28
Football Association is what is is known of.
32:31
And across from there, he's very close to mine and Brad's heart.
32:35
We've been involved with the sport for nearly eleven years
32:37
this year now. And this this weekend is the the
32:40
start of a new season. And I'll be honest with you,
32:44
it's a really exciting time to be a part of buffer and just
32:49
just the game as a whole within the UK, right.
32:54
And the reason being is this last year there was for the
32:59
first time in a good couple of years, to be quite honest with
33:01
you, there was quite a major like divisional structure
33:05
realignment. So we both, we've been in this
33:10
ball with the sport, we've been in the same division for quite a
33:12
few years now, aren't we are very similar division, shall I
33:15
say for quite a good couple of years where maybe one or two
33:18
team have just changed sort of chain between them.
33:20
But like we've played this very same teams and now it's changed
33:25
and there's been quite a big twist and turn in it.
33:28
I just think it's going to look, it's exciting for this weekend.
33:31
What are your thoughts on that, Brad?
33:33
I just think it's for a lot of teams, you know, there's,
33:37
there's been a few big scenarios across the league such as you
33:42
know, 2 Premiership teams have disappeared so London Warriors
33:48
withdrew from BAFA. So London Warriors, if you're
33:51
sort of not involved in brick ball directly and you're not
33:55
sort of in the know, they are quite consistently one of your
33:58
top teams within the country and you know, countless titles.
34:04
And they've basically, we've drawn from Baffa the the
34:08
assumption, I don't know if it's officially confirmed yet or not,
34:10
to be honest, but is that they're going to be playing in
34:12
the European leagues or our European league because there's
34:16
drama there as well, isn't there, with competing leagues.
34:19
And then also Scunthorpe Alphas, who are a pretty new team
34:24
actually, but have done really, really well and they've sort of
34:27
been promoted. I think it was back-to-back,
34:30
maybe I can't actually remember now, but they've folded.
34:34
Oh, well, they've merged with Humber.
34:38
They're they're folded in essence, I think really.
34:43
But so with that, you get a lot of, you know, talent moving on
34:50
to different teams in the area, which then shakes up the teams
34:53
and adds extra spiciness there. And then, as you said, Zach,
34:56
obviously some new league alignments and you know, look,
35:01
we don't really closely cover brick ball in terms of like as a
35:04
media or as like a like a podcast, for example.
35:08
We are involved in it, you know, day-to-day, but we don't cover
35:11
it as such. But it's quite interesting
35:13
seeing some of those outlets that do cover specifically brick
35:17
ball and, and the British game who and they do a great job.
35:21
It's really interesting to see sort of the posts of like who's
35:24
going to win this league, Who's going to win this league and the
35:26
amount of variety of, of responses.
35:29
And I think that's sort of shows how open the air the start of
35:34
the season at least will be. There's always variety with
35:37
Brick Ball anyway, but it it'll be interesting to see how it
35:40
goes this first few weeks of game.
35:43
Yeah, and yeah, and and in brick ball we don't a lot of the time
35:47
you don't have you don't you won't have like a block of games
35:50
back-to-back to back-to-back to back freezers.
35:52
You might have two or three games back-to-back and then a
35:54
big break. And you're going that way just
35:55
just because of how the season aligns up and everything.
35:58
And we're going to have a look at a minute at this weekend's
36:00
schedules and just have a look to the website and and and see
36:02
if any of them that kind of strike out to us.
36:05
But as Brad said, some of the new matchups are there is is
36:09
exciting and and I think as a whole, this, this moment, the
36:15
the brick ball kind of media has got that level of like
36:19
engagement, which I've never seen before.
36:22
And it's so good to see. And do you know what's really
36:25
good to see as well? That Division 2, the lower
36:29
level, right Division 2 has is getting some of the most amount
36:33
of interaction and engagement and conversation about it
36:36
because it's because of the structural realignments.
36:39
It's exciting to see. And that's always really nice
36:42
because as you go up the the divisions, it becomes more and
36:47
more kind of not serious as such, but just, you know, the
36:51
the training multiple times a week and things that where you
36:53
are more you are more city based teams there, because it's really
36:57
good to see that across the entirety of the league
37:00
alignment. It's getting that traction.
37:02
And you know, the numbers are all an all time high with with
37:05
player counts and everything. It's it's just so good to see as
37:08
a whole. But let's just have a look right
37:10
quickly here, But I'm just going to quickly Bob up on the screen
37:13
now. If you if you again, if you're
37:15
watching this here, head over to the our YouTube channel or
37:19
Spotify. So we have the the schedule for
37:25
this weekend and this weekend has got quite a a good number of
37:28
games going across and just looking across this here with
37:34
the Warriors not being the London team anymore, The first
37:37
one that kind of strikes out to me this Prem S game, the Blitz
37:40
and the Aztecs. Can the Blitz kind of emerge as
37:43
that number one team in the city centre at this moment in time?
37:46
Yeah, I mean, there was a period, what wasn't there like
37:49
where it was sort of which team will win the season, Is it going
37:52
to be Warriors or Blitz back and forth.
37:54
But Bristol Aztecs are arguably you're sort of number one team
37:59
at the minute, are definitely sort of, I think as far as
38:04
general consensus goes, they're going into season as your
38:08
favourite. So I think that'll be a real
38:11
interesting game to see how that one comes out.
38:15
Yeah. And and as well with this
38:18
Premnarv and Prem staff, you've got two games in each in each
38:20
one of them. And it's nicely a good chunk of
38:22
games happening around and wherever you are in the country
38:25
kind of getting to see them. The years killed Brian
38:27
Nottingham that some travellers that I must admit tough away
38:32
game first came a season, I'm not going to lie, but heading
38:34
down there as well. It'll be it'll be a decent game
38:38
just going through here as well. We have a couple of Division One
38:42
games happening across across the field and there's just a one
38:45
in each division from what we can see here And again, another
38:51
London team being a London London Olympians.
38:53
I believe for the newest London team.
38:56
You see the mother Wembly styles that couldn't tell you off top
39:00
of my head. Believe so.
39:03
Yeah. So again, another another tough
39:05
game there in Division One. But scrolling through here and
39:12
getting down to we've got Division two now where another
39:15
chunk of games are happening across and this is where the
39:18
biggest kind of shift up has happened.
39:20
And some of the newer team like the newer alignments are in
39:26
there. It'd be interesting to see to
39:27
see. So we've got Darlington and
39:28
Humber be a real tough game that two people that we've faced in
39:31
the past. Humber looking really strong
39:33
this year as well. So that'd be a really good test
39:36
for both teams. And I think on paper, Humber of
39:42
the team to be in that division and I think everyone's going to
39:44
be wanting to beat them just to kind of prove a point to the
39:48
rest of of the division really. Yeah.
39:51
I think for that, I think a lot of the talk about Humber, you
39:54
know, they've the last couple of seasons, they've always been
39:57
that sort of top end division two bottom end Division One sort
40:01
of team that when we mentioned about the Alphas who've had some
40:04
real good success recently, you know, they've merged with Humber
40:07
now and. I think everyone's expecting
40:10
them to have that sort of firepower, but as I say, like a
40:14
lot of stuff changes year on year, so who knows?
40:17
It's different coaching, coaching crew, although they've
40:22
got some very good, well established coaches at Humber,
40:27
Absolutely. So yeah, I think it's going to
40:29
be an interesting one to see how that that division goes, to be
40:31
honest. A. 100% and then we're Lincoln
40:34
and and gates said to Gates are close friends of ours to be fair
40:39
to you very strong game. They're looking forward to
40:41
seeing the result of that. It's it's a shame we got we got
40:45
a game this weekend. Otherwise it'd have been nice to
40:47
go to go watch that. So that'd be a good game.
40:49
Good test to see where the where the guys said that Midlands
40:54
here, Bulls at Raiders. I don't want to give too much on
40:58
that just for obvious reasons. But yeah, Bulls and Raiders be a
41:01
be a good game to start off with the Bulls coming out of a strong
41:04
team and an old Division One moving down to Division 2.
41:07
So they've got a point to prove within that.
41:09
And then you've got Rossendale and Doncaster.
41:12
Now Rossendale, that bogey team no one knows much about because
41:15
they are new to the the division.
41:18
That would be an exciting kind of start off.
41:21
They are, but they've had some good games in their associate
41:23
leagues in their associate seasons and games.
41:25
So I think they're a dark horse. I don't think anyone should be
41:29
taking them for granted really. Mustangs have been around for a
41:34
long time and they seem to have recruited well.
41:37
They seem to have had a good pre season.
41:39
So I think and you kind of see try not to be biassed here, but
41:43
I guess the feedback's been very similar on your social medias
41:46
and things. The the NFC 2 Midlands is the
41:48
one probably that's had a good chunk of check, a good change
41:52
amount of change. Sorry, I'll get my words out
41:54
eventually. It's probably one of the more
41:57
open divisions, I would say. So I think it's I think it's
42:02
going to be a really exciting season.
42:04
I do. I'm looking forward to to being
42:06
a part of it and seeing the results of it.
42:08
To be fair to you. Moving on to the Southern
42:12
divisions now teams, I'm I'll be honest with you, I don't know
42:16
much about we've got the Berkshire Raiders, Berkshire
42:18
Raiders, sorry, and the Ewes Valley Eagles and Norwich Devils
42:21
and Ipswich Cardinals. Couldn't tell you much about any
42:24
of the teams to be quite honest with you.
42:26
But hopefully if we came here, we can carry on this segment
42:29
going forward. Just showing a little bit of the
42:30
brick ball game. We can kind of follow on the
42:32
teams and who's who, where's where type thing.
42:35
It's not it's not a division we've ever been.
42:36
You know, we're a part of our, our, our, you know, play the
42:41
name of the teams really to be fair to you.
42:43
One thing I can tell you is that Cornwall probably have early
42:48
starts most Sundays. Yeah, yeah.
42:53
We've actually, we've actually had a player join our team from
42:57
Cornwall. So he's, he's in the military
42:59
and he's he's moved up here now and we've got an early start for
43:04
our or an earlier start than what we're normally used to on
43:08
Sunday. And I remember chatting to me
43:10
like, so how, how early is early?
43:11
And I'm like, well, we'll probably be setting off about 7
43:13
and half seven. And you're like, that's a lie
43:15
in. The guy, yeah, but the guys
43:19
come. The guys come from the now is
43:21
his job. It quite requires an early
43:24
start. So it probably is a lie in to
43:26
him like, but yeah, that's that's brick ball in a nutshell.
43:30
Just to touch, you know, with some little, little little bits
43:32
about we're probably gonna get some shade for brushing over a
43:34
certain team, in particular for our friends.
43:36
But we're trying not to be biassed, all right?
43:39
Because we're going to be biassed in a second.
43:41
Because we're going to be moving on to our next favourite segment
43:45
in just a second, which would be the I Can't Speak segment where
43:52
we're talking all things rugby league.
43:57
Yeah, This week was a Challenge Cup, mate.
44:01
What did you do You watch any of the games first of all?
44:04
I watched bits of a few that the main, the one that I did watch
44:11
the vast majority of us, the Wakefield Wigan game and as you
44:14
can probably see by the score is probably the game of the
44:17
weekend. Now I don't want to sit here and
44:19
say yes, it was because I didn't watch all of the others, but it
44:24
was it was great. It was an absolute cracker and I
44:30
think, you know, Wakefield were were leading I think to begin
44:34
with. I tuned into it just a bit late
44:35
so I didn't catch the beginning of it, but Wakefield were
44:39
winning I believe. And then Wigan sort of came back
44:42
and took the lead. But towards that last sort of
44:44
20-30 minutes of the game, it was so tight and it was, there's
44:49
a bit of biff going on there as well.
44:52
Tempers were flaring. It was quite heated at times.
44:55
It was just a good old school Challenge Cup game.
44:57
But you know, I thought, I thought Wakefield were going to
45:00
do it. I really did towards the back
45:02
end of the game. But we're going to just, they
45:05
just know how to close games out and they, yeah, they just
45:08
managed. Yeah.
45:09
So I. Didn't I didn't get a chance to
45:12
watch a lot of the game just when we when we finished
45:15
training actually on Saturday, two of the games running the
45:17
club out after. So I got managed to watch a
45:18
little bit there. But then afterwards I just had
45:20
things on. So I didn't get managed to watch
45:22
them live by car with a little bit of it online and just a few
45:26
of the highlights and one thing that kind of shown out to me
45:29
with a whole KR, you're getting out whole KR haven't played very
45:31
well this year. It's no secret they haven't come
45:33
out firing like they have done in the past.
45:35
They haven't come out looking at the team that they have done in
45:37
the past. That being said, York have taken
45:41
a sharp decline after the first couple of weeks, three or four
45:45
week of the season where they looked like a really good team
45:47
coming up and they looked like they were going to be competing
45:49
with the best of the best this year.
45:51
And they've taken that decline. And watching the start of I'm
45:55
pretty sure it was yourself that I said it to in the clubhouse
45:58
watching the start of that game, I turn around thing.
46:01
I said, OK, I was going to put 100 pastor mayor.
46:04
And I was surprised when York scored because it it looked like
46:09
that lock lane game which we spoke about when they got bet by
46:14
100 points he started looking at to start off with.
46:17
That's probably probably giving York quite a bit of disrespect
46:21
to them, but they just didn't look like the team that they
46:23
were at the start of the season and is fatigue kicking into that
46:28
starting set now that the struggling with much fitness at
46:35
this level consistently. And that's what strikes to me
46:38
when the, you know, 48 and taking nothing away from OK,
46:40
Ari, OK, I played well. OK, I looked like the OK R of
46:44
last year. Is it too late to be getting
46:46
into that form now with how good we can just look?
46:49
Maybe. I think, I think the thing we
46:51
call KR is, if we're honest, I think they were probably
46:53
distracted with the other games that they had going on.
46:57
You know, they had the the World Club Challenge, they had the
47:01
Vegas game and I think that was probably just a distraction for
47:08
them to be honest. So I think they're probably just
47:12
finding their feet now and they're just sort of where they
47:15
need to be. They they put on a show in the
47:19
New York just couldn't quite compete.
47:21
But I think, you know, next round, the semi finals are going
47:24
to be some real good games I think.
47:27
So you've got Saints and Warriors on the 9th of May,
47:31
that's Saint Helens against Wigan and you've got Warrington
47:34
Wolves against Hulk AR on the 10th of May.
47:38
So a nice little weekend there for the semi finals.
47:42
I'll definitely be tuning into those because they always tend
47:44
to be good games. Arguably a lot of time they're
47:46
better than the finals, which is just no different to like the
47:49
NFL. Is it?
47:50
You know, I think the the conference championships are
47:53
normally better than the Super Bowl, so and I think the
47:57
division games are sometimes even better than the conference
47:59
championships. So I don't think it's too
48:02
different, but probably the right four teams to be there, if
48:07
we're really honest. They're based on current form.
48:10
Hulk out of that anomaly, maybe, but they're showing that they're
48:14
where they need to be at the minute.
48:17
I mean, going into the going into the, you know, start of the
48:21
season as such, if you were going to put four teams into the
48:23
you're going to put four teams into, into the semi finals, then
48:30
it you won't, you won't get great odds back in these four
48:35
because they're probably 4 of the favourites. 2 games in there
48:38
and it's no surprise. Has the semi final draw been
48:41
released yet? Who's playing who?
48:46
Give me word mate. Sorry yeah the the semi final is
48:52
what I've just gone through. Oh, do you know what I think
48:55
we'll talk about the next 4 game into in in their schedule.
48:58
That is my but I wish we're we're paying attention to.
49:03
Thanks mate, you must have been distracted by researcher Cal
49:06
actually surfacing his head and turning up to our show finally.
49:11
He's he's he's actually here. Can you believe it?
49:14
I still can't find a cattle dignity for his head, so all I
49:16
can see is his eyes. But yeah, it's he's back.
49:20
Easy. It was a good game.
49:21
Just go recap the scores. Right?
49:23
Quickly saying 36. Catalan's four.
49:25
OK. R 48.
49:26
York 10. Water and 24.
49:28
Lee 10. Wakefield 26.
49:30
Wigan 20. That's right.
49:32
Wakefield 22. Wigan 26 so an All in all a good
49:36
stellar week for rugby getting back into the season the the
49:40
regular season next week. So we'll have more games kind of
49:42
go through and just touch on and digest from there going into the
49:47
season though as well. Let's know what you think about.
49:49
I can't speak if there's anything that you want us to
49:52
talk more about with it as well. When it comes down to it, you
49:54
know, we're brushing on all the games.
49:56
Would you rather us do feature games rather than touching them
49:58
all? You let us know.
49:59
We want to know what your views are.
50:01
You could do that by hitting the socials all over at YouTube and
50:05
our balls know, fill up podcasts on YouTube, Spotify, Yeah, Apple
50:08
Music and all that jazz. Or at ABNF pod across all of
50:12
your socials, Right. Then it's time, I believe, for
50:18
Carl's conundrum, Right? And we gain.
50:22
We, we, we, we're flying through this.
50:24
And sorry, it's not. No, it's not a lie.
50:27
A lie. I would not look at the rice
50:29
right by the scripts there, Sir. My head's all over the place.
50:32
Carl's really thrown me off here.
50:35
We're getting into all the balls.
50:36
We get into all of the balls. I can read, I can read.
50:40
Touch it on all of the balls. Brad, do me a favour, save me.
50:44
What's all of the balls? I think I need to save you this
50:47
10. Jeez.
50:49
Oh, we'll see if we can be bothered editing this in post or
50:52
not. All of the balls is where we
50:56
touch on the wider world of sport.
50:59
As you know, rugby league is sort of a main feature now, but
51:03
we'll touch on other games, other sporting games, other ball
51:08
games, whatever you want to call them, that's happening around
51:12
the world. We've had a couple of quiet
51:13
weeks, but I think this one, we've got a good couple of
51:16
stories or two to touch on. Zach, do you want to take us
51:19
through the first one or two? Yeah.
51:22
So Rory McIlroy has won the Masters defending his title.
51:26
Now I'm going to say some stats here that are could be in the
51:30
feature stats that could be fake because I, I don't trust myself
51:33
for what I'm saying here, but I'm pretty sure as well, I've
51:35
seen back-to-back titles for Rory coming into this, the
51:39
Masters as well as he's one of like 3 or 4 people that I've
51:45
done this. I think he's the 4th.
51:48
I think he's the 4th person. To to win back-to-back and he's
51:53
earnings. I saw something about his
51:55
earnings and where that if I was just asking research Cal to try
51:58
and grab it right quickly. He's earnings at the masters
52:00
over the past. I think he's 4 attempts he's
52:03
been there were like a couple of 100,000 a couple of 100,004
52:09
million, 4 million like his his earnings just from the Masters
52:15
alone have been ridiculous and he's he's in fact there was
52:22
there was a start. I saw a bit of a golf NFL clash
52:28
and it was Rory Mcilroy's managed to win back-to-back
52:30
Masters in the time that The Jets have still not got an
52:33
interception. So I did see that.
52:37
Which is which is fantastic. He's the first person since
52:39
Tiger was to win. It went back-to-back, which is
52:41
absolutely great. And you know what, credit where
52:43
crazy is making golf exciting again.
52:44
He's come back in some form. He dropped a bit of form a
52:46
couple of years back and well, I say dropped a bit of form.
52:49
Still a fantastic golfer, but just weren't at that top of his
52:51
game. Now he, he's just looking like
52:54
he's out there having fun, which is which is all good to see.
52:57
We then move on to the Grand National, a very controversial
53:02
horse race. A lot of horses run around a
53:06
lot. A lot don't make it to the end
53:09
because the fall over, you know, not no other reason but the fall
53:13
over. As such, this one though the
53:16
favourite wins, which is very rare actually for the National
53:20
and it's the second time he's won it but won the National
53:25
shall I say. But I watch this at home as you
53:28
do. I'm a Fairweather horse racing
53:31
fan. I'll watch the big races.
53:32
I don't mind going to the races things that but I'm not an avid
53:34
week in week out watcher. What got me this year is it just
53:37
seemed there are a lot more rogue horses now.
53:40
A horse will fall, plenty of horses falling in the National.
53:43
But with this one there just seems to be a lot more getting
53:45
in the way without a jockey. Like a joculous horse and it it
53:51
were just one of them where bad to say but it added the
53:56
excitement because it up that danger level.
54:00
But just want to cover my own back here.
54:02
The knives are going to be coming out for you mate.
54:05
This episode in particular, just want to cover my own back here.
54:09
It adds the excitement because the dangers and the jockey.
54:12
I don't want any harm to come. I don't want any harm to come to
54:14
the masses because you know, I'm just going to stop back
54:17
pedalling. If like what's your view on the
54:20
on the National? I don't care about the jockeys,
54:22
I just care about the horses. Lovely.
54:24
I'm trying to get Peter on my side.
54:25
You know what I mean? Because they're the ones that
54:27
are going to come and stab me. Animal welfare.
54:31
Yeah. I mean, look, it's it's a
54:33
difficult one in it because look, we know there's a lot of
54:37
controversy, but on the flip side, there's been horse racing
54:40
around for a very, very long time.
54:42
You know, you could say the same thing about alcohol.
54:43
Like if alcohol was a new thing, it'd be banned.
54:45
It wouldn't be legal, but it has been around for a long time.
54:48
It, I'm not going to get into the politics of that, but I am
54:50
Maximus. So winning it for the second
54:53
time, he is, I believe, the first horse since Red Rum to
55:00
regain his title, if I am not mistaken.
55:03
Obviously quite a big name there.
55:06
So yeah, winning it's second Grand National, so well done to
55:10
I am Maximus, the horse and his trainers and the jockey.
55:13
I won't pretend to know all the names because I don't, but there
55:19
you go. Breaking News Breaking News
55:26
Diana Rush Diana Rossini, who we spoke about at the start,
55:30
announces her retirement from The Athletic.
55:33
Resignation I'll. Say breaking news but yeah so
55:36
yeah but yeah I got my head you still at least that I apologise
55:41
right now I am I am got since you've quit call this were flaws
55:44
until you came. In yeah, you started so well.
55:47
To be fair, you even pronounced her name right earlier.
55:51
Well, Speaking of of pronunciation, we're going to
55:56
get into the story. The third story, you're getting
55:58
3 Oliver Balls and Brad. You're going to take this one
56:01
for obvious reasons, in about 6 words time.
56:06
Yeah, so Saxon Fury and he made his millionth comeback, a
56:14
successful comeback, beating Makhmodov, Makhmodov in a
56:20
unanimous decision over 12 rounds.
56:23
So it was I'd say it was a bloodbath.
56:26
It wasn't because I don't know if you watched it or not, Zach,
56:28
but he he just played with him, didn't he?
56:31
And like, it was just comfortable the whole way
56:35
through. And it was, you know, I like
56:37
Fury. I used to hate him.
56:39
I don't know why. I just really hated him at one
56:41
point. And then he just really grew on
56:42
me and grew on me. And now I really love him.
56:44
Like, he's hilarious. I think, you know, it's got he's
56:48
just got this character, but still at what, 37 or 3837?
56:55
You know, he's still fast on his feet.
56:56
He can still move for a big boy and his hands are quick.
56:59
Like he has got some skills there.
57:01
And he just, it was like, I don't know, it's so lopsided.
57:05
And I think he could have had him knocked out way earlier in
57:09
the in the the fight, but it was just getting those rounds under
57:12
his belt, wasn't it? Yeah, we had we had some friends
57:14
around watching the fight that night and I'm again fair where
57:18
the fighting fan. I'll watch the big fight.
57:21
So I'm not going to stand there and tell you that I'll watch
57:22
week in week out, but it would just it got to a point where I'm
57:26
like, we just end this now and you could tell that we're using
57:30
it. It'll basically getting paid
57:31
like 8 mill or whatever he got got paid for it to have a
57:35
sparring match because he would just utilise the new things.
57:39
And then the biggest thing for me were that cringe WWE ending.
57:47
You dosser, I'm pretty Joshua, I want you you there and then I'm
57:53
for his late sat there, even though the you know, Netflix had
57:56
already announced that the fate and in in in August or whatever.
58:00
You're the one that keeps you're the one that keeps, you know,
58:05
not sending it contract or not. It's like, mate, come on, just
58:08
we don't need the theatrical side of it.
58:10
They it's got no I, you know. It was silly.
58:16
It was just ridiculous, wasn't it?
58:18
Like, but I mean that's part of his character though as well.
58:21
But I thought Joshua was cringe after it.
58:23
It was just the whole thing was cringe.
58:26
No, it got me right and I don't think they've realised it was
58:29
televised as in Fury and AJ. So the the fight finishes and
58:34
Fury leans over before the before they announced the
58:37
winner, the fight finish and Fury's talk.
58:39
They're talking to each other. It's like feels like come on in
58:42
and age is like no, and this is your night.
58:43
Just enjoy the night. Like have some respect for your
58:46
opponent. It's your you 2GO there and do
58:48
it and and Fury's like no no, no man, come on in, come in.
58:51
And then 5 minutes later it's the screaming age.
58:54
You remember Rose. You try to sell.
58:56
We know you try to sell the fight.
58:58
I think that was probably part of the cell there, wasn't it?
59:00
I think he wanted him in the ring so they could do the whole,
59:03
you know, face off sort of thing.
59:05
And it's just it's it is so showy.
59:07
Is it? Yeah.
59:08
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's the fight.
59:10
I'll watch it and it'll probably be one of the biggest standing
59:12
fights in Britain for a long time.
59:14
But it's, yeah, I don't know. Who do you think could win?
59:23
Right, if it goes distance, Fury, if It's A Knockout, AJ,
59:26
that'd be my that'd be my my view on it.
59:28
I think I think Tyson is too skilled of a of a just getting
59:34
them quick jabs in. But at the same time, I think I
59:38
think Fury can. And so I think AJ can can can
59:44
pack in that punch. I really do.
59:46
And I know neither of them in the reggae.
59:48
What the what it would have been five years ago, this would have
59:50
been a mega, mega fight. This would have been unreal,
59:55
unreal in a fight. But yeah.
59:59
I think it's a good bit of marketing as well that you had
1:00:02
the Fury comeback fight on the Saturday and then on the Sunday
1:00:05
Netflix were releasing at home with the Furious Season 2.
1:00:09
Then it's now on #1. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, I
1:00:11
watched the first season. I quite enjoyed it.
1:00:13
I will watch the second season, I'm not going to lie to you.
1:00:15
But yeah, good bit of marketing, wasn't it?
1:00:19
Of course, they know what they're doing down there.
1:00:20
Well, that's our all the balls for this week.
1:00:23
We'd give you 3 three balls this week you.
1:00:26
Lucky buggers. You lucky, lucky buggers.
1:00:30
We're going to move on to Carl's Conundrum for this week and for
1:00:35
last week, so we get to get touched into this now.
1:00:41
I struggled because I had a mind blanket and not very often often
1:00:45
happens as you can tell that with with this one, I just it
1:00:50
would only it would just in your head.
1:00:52
I could not think it would save my life.
1:00:54
But let's let's let's recap over this again.
1:00:56
And it was who was the only player to score a rushing
1:00:59
touchdown, receiving touchdown and a kick return in the same
1:01:02
NFL playoff game. Now, I realised a couple of days
1:01:09
after that I mistakenly put all my thought into Super Bowl.
1:01:14
And I'm trying to think like, when has this happened in a
1:01:16
Super Bowl? I can't think of this happening
1:01:18
in a Super Bowl. And I was trying to go back to
1:01:20
like, you know, peak Patriots time because I thought it'd be
1:01:26
kind of aimed on that down that route.
1:01:27
And I'm like, I just think to save my life.
1:01:32
But yeah, the answer was Brad. Dionne Lewis and that was
1:01:37
against Houston in the 2016 slash 17 divisional Round.
1:01:43
Yeah, so, you know, I I enjoyed that without without war.
1:01:46
The first coming during a couple of days that really stuck to me
1:01:50
that we're trying to a lot of them for me.
1:01:52
I'm well, going to be honest, not very smart.
1:01:56
Second time I've I've I've made it this this this pod, right.
1:01:59
So a lot of them are just like, yeah, I don't know this move on.
1:02:02
This one really kind of started playing in my mind.
1:02:05
But as always, if you got it well done.
1:02:08
Happy days. Thank you very much for taking
1:02:09
part in it. We're going to give you another
1:02:11
one now and we're going to give you next week's next week's
1:02:16
Carl's conundrum for you guys to get your teeth stuck into.
1:02:19
And this is who is the youngest player to ever play in the NFL.
1:02:23
So who is the youngest player to ever play in the NFL?
1:02:27
If you know the answer without using Google because no one
1:02:30
likes cheetah mix, get on to do all of our socials, which will
1:02:33
be posted on there or on the YouTube and Spotify and all that
1:02:39
jazz. Let us know in the comments
1:02:40
below. I need to stop talking.
1:02:43
My mind has gone right. This is like one of the earliest
1:02:47
podcasts we've recorded. It's one of the shortest
1:02:50
podcasts we've recorded, and you think we'd be filming it like
1:02:53
2:00 AM? Honestly, you stayed this long.
1:02:59
I love you and I appreciate you all so much.
1:03:01
But that's this week's Carl's Conundrum.
1:03:03
Who is the youngest player to ever play in the NFL?
1:03:04
Let us know because all of our socials broad, that is all done.
1:03:09
Thank the Lord. You're telling me, brother,
1:03:13
thank the Lord indeed. I want to thank you every single
1:03:15
person that is, that is listening week in, week out, all
1:03:18
the subscribers that we're getting week in, week out and
1:03:19
the people I get in touch with as well.
1:03:21
Thank you so, so much. Let us know what you want to
1:03:23
see. We are on the work of getting a
1:03:25
guest on. We've got some guests lined up.
1:03:27
We were just making sure that we had things working in the
1:03:30
background. And I think we have at this
1:03:31
moment in time. Brad, anything from yourself
1:03:34
before we go? No, just thanks to those of you
1:03:37
that are listening as you say thank you to you Zach, for
1:03:40
actually making it through the episode.
1:03:42
Thank you to you researcher Cal for nothing.
1:03:45
And we'll see you all next week, hopefully.
1:03:49
And yeah, pre draft show next week and then the draft itself.
1:03:55
So exciting week next week. Hell yeah, right.
1:03:58
Goodnight. God bless, peace out and have.
1:04:01
Fun bye bye.