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Run right out to the Eka Commas
Perial Health hotline. THO, I'll bring

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our good buddy Ryan, Michael Ryan, how you doing this evening? Doing

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well? Ben Grant? Now you
guys doing pretty well. First of all,

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congratulations sir on your your the next
thing that you've added to your impressive

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CV sheet as you are now working
for the Barcelona Dragons. I believe,

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yes, sir, thank you.
Yeah, it's something I'm incredibly excited about.

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I had the fortune of having opportunities
with a number of LF teams,

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but really, in the end,
Barcelona I felt was far and away the

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best fit for me, and they
really won me over. The culture there,

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the professionalism, the commitment to winning, and you know, from our

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owner and managing director Jason Robinson,
our head coach David Shelton, and the

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rest of the coaching staff Sean Cooper, Darien Simmons, Jason Hillery, we

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have such an expansive staff and it's
a group of guys who are passionate high

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football like you, hard working,
committed to helping our peer succeeds. You

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know, my role on the staff
is small, but I'm excited to be

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a small part of it, and
I'm excited for the twenty four season.

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Yeah, I'm excited for you as
well. One of the quarterbacks that they

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have on the team, Connor Miller, is actually an American. Went to

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the Florida Atlantic was undrafted in twenty
nineteen. So I don't know if he's

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still on the roster there or not, but he was with the Dragons,

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I believe was last year. I
knew him through a friend of a friend,

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so I'm not sure if he's still
there or not, but you know,

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he used to be small world.
Yeah. Levi Lewis is going to

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be our starting quarterback this year,
and he's a guy who spent time with

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the Seattle Seahawks, and you know
a lot of people have described his style

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of play as a fusion between Russell
Wilson and Kyler Murray, but Levi is

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really his own man, and I
think he's going to be the perfect fit

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for the up tempo offense that we're
going to be running. So we're excited

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to get at it. Yeah,
that'd be really cool. You know,

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can you stream it from the website
or I mean, I'm trying to figure

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out how anybody would get a chance
to watch the europe In football like that.

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Yeah, you can sign up for
the ELF season Pass, and then

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we're really excited about how that's going
to help us reach fans it away with

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growing technology that we didn't necessarily have
during NFL Europe. So it's it's definitely

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a league that's on the rise,
and we're very excited to connect with our

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fans and definitely tune in. It's
going to be some exciting football. Well,

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you tell coach if he needs a
slow, over forty white, short

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dad bod type wide receiver that I
am. I am there for him.

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All right, you got it?
Oh my goodness, yes, good status

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about Peyton Manning out there today on
the net yards per attempt at how the

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Broncos kind of sort of fell off
a cliff once Peyton Manning, as it

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were, fell off a cliff and
then and then departed. What could the

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Broncos do? First of all,
how bad was that? Because I mean,

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and they went from basically first in
the league to the bottom third of

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the league. But what can the
Broncos do to turn that around? Now?

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With Sean Payton and ostensibly bon Nicks, I mean, Peyton Manning was

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truly a unicorn in terms of what
he did well, and really him and

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Dan Marino were the two toughest the
sad quarterbacks in the history of professional football

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by some distance. Through Breas in
my view would have been third there,

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but he would have been a distance
third. And so if you look at

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the stats that I posted earlier this
evening, the Tim Tebow era, Bronco's

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twenty ninth in that yards per attempt, So you're factoring in the yards lost

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the sacks. And then we went
on a run three consecutive years the Broncos

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finished first place with Peyton and then
you know, obviously injuries caught up with

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him during our Super Bowl year in
twenty fifteen, and since then we've definitely

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been in the bottom third of the
league. You know, Bonnix being a

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guy who was sacked and only one
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at Oregon is going to be that
perfect fit. I know. It's something

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that coach Payton was frustrated about last
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that he took. So, you
know, we brought in a guy who

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doesn't make a lot of mistakes,
an accurate passer, whose pocket pricing is

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really one of the greatest strengths of
his games. So we're certainly hoping to

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see some improvement in that. Can
is going to be a first place finish,

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I wouldn't bank on that, but
are we going to improve from where

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we were twenty fourth and twenty twenty
two twenty first last year. Yeah,

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I'm looking forward to seeing some improvement
in that metric for sure. Well it

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goes into that metric for the fan
at home when we reference that number,

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what does that mean? So the
fant home can unpack that? Sure?

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So netyards per attempt or ny over
A is really just a metric that factors

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in the yards per passing attempt,
and it accounts for the yards lost to

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sacks. And something that a lot
of people may not be aware of is

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that sacks are drive killers at almost
the same rate as interceptions are automatic drive

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endors. So if it's third and
fifteen and a quarterback wants to preserve his

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passer rating and he throws a three
yard slant, that doesn't help us anymore

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than Brett Favre chucking a deep.
Maybe it gets picked off, but that's

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not really any different than a punt
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given the reality that touchdowns are heavily
influenced by field position and intercept as well.

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You know, if you're a quarterback
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down seventeen points, you're going to
be facing some loaded coverages and you're going

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to throw more picks, and so
I like to hone in. Net Yard

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per attempt is one of my favorite
stats because it's a great reflection of the

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value that a quarterback brings per drop
back, and it's something that isn't necessarily

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impacted by touchdowns and interceptions. Adjusted
net yards per attempt is a more comprehensive

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measure for those things. But in
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and net yards per tempt, Paydon
Manning was the best player in the history

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of professional football. Well, if
he was the best player, what was

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his or what was the best season
in the history of professional football? Using

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that number? That is a good
question, and off the top of my

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head, I don't have a ranking
through net yard per tempt alone. In

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my view, I would say in
the top two seasons in the history of

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pro football at the quarterback position or
both paid Manning seasons two thousand and four.

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In terms of efficiency, he threw
a touchdown pass on a nearly one

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out of every ten attempts. You're
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especially with a sample size throwing as
many passes as it did, And

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so his efficiency wasn't quite what it
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the time we got to twenty thirteen, there was greater volume. But when

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you consider the reality of the injuries
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consider the reality that he threw fifty
five touchdowns five four hundred and seventy seventy

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cards in fifteen and a half games. Do you remember they pulled him at

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halftime in the season finale against Oakland? He could have thrown another four touchdown

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pass in the second half conceivably,
So his volume numbers and also efficiency throwing

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that many passes when you factor in
what he had to come through to just

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make his return to professional football,
and you know he joked about it himself

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that Grady might break next year or
if not that, the year after.

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And here we are Dak Prescott like
the NFL with thirty six touchdowns last year

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in a seventeen game schedule. No
one has touched the fifty five after Mahomes

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throwing fifty is the only thing even
remotely close. Yeah, and it's weird

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how that looks almost like an aberration
now. I mean, you know,

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it's funny because you thought the extra
games would pad the numbers as far as

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that goes, but as you're absolutely
right that Prescott was far far below that

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with the benefit of an extra game. How did the injuries affect their trajectory

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of Peyton Manning's career, because you
know, we saw, you know,

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the big injury with the Colts there, and at the time, you know,

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it was kind of like, hey, he's one sneeze away from being

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a quadriplegic, but then he comes
back to have some of the most statistically

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significant seasons ever. I think that
his comeback to the to the Broncos,

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to professional football, signing with the
Denver Broncos is arguably the most impressive thing

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I've ever seen at the quarterback position. Because clearly I'm not a doctor,

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but a lot of folks have made
the argument that given the severity of his

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injuries, he should have never returned
to pro football. And there's a difference

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between being capable of returning and is
this a good thing to do for your

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long term health. I can't speak
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you is when he came back in
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shocking to me than twenty thirteen,
because he immediately jumped into a new team

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with a new system and the new
coaching staff. Led the NFL in success

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percentage fifty four percent, led the
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eight, led the league in netyards
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attempt as we had just mentioned,
set Broncos franchise records for touchdown passes and

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passer rating, and he was a
first team All Pro selection immediately his first

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year back, and he was again
at first team All Pro selection his second

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year. His seven first team All
Pro selections are far and away the most

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in the history of the quarterback position. Tom Brady won three of those in

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twenty one seasons. Hayton Manning won
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alone. So what he was able
to do really for the first two and

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a half years in Denver he is
unseekably brilliant. But eventually, and this

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shouldn't have been a shock to anyone, the injuries caught up with him,

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and I had my read on the
situation when it was was that he had

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limitations in arm strength due to the
neck entry. He couldn't run away from

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that, and that led to greater
demand on his legs because he had to

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generate torque and Peyton Manning's passing mechanics
were damn near perfect, but to collective

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wear and tear of basically using your
legs to generate arm strength that wasn't there

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anymore, led to his quads tearing
in twenty fourteen, and then you know,

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you follow that through the twenty fifteen
he tears. His plan of fashion

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has left foot and just the injuries
became too much to keep up with.

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So what happened there and a lot
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to go with their legs. Their
arm could continue for a few more years.

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But when you lose your legs,
especially in Manning's case, it really

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impacted his pass accuracy, which was
the strongest aspect of his game. But

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what I will say for Peyton,
even in that last year, I mean

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most Broncos fans are familiar with the
fact that he threw nine touchdowns seventeen interceptions,

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so the efficiency marks weren't good.
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on the road than Brady did to
eighty three point four Brady had two eighty

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two point three. That year.
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yards per attempter more to put that
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seven months all NFL quarterbacks. In
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and sack percentage again. He led
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include the postseason, and certainly that
two touchdown, zero interception performance against Brady

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in the pass in the AFC Championship
game gave Von Miller and the defense the

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opportunity to really tee off on Tom
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I always say that twenty fifteen is
the greatest bad season in pro football,

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which is a weird backhanded compliment.
But the Testament do all the things that

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Peyton Manny could still do well at
a high level upstairs right. I don't

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know if you know this, but
the Barcelo and Dragons have a history of

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going out and being innovators in a
sense. They brought Michael sam back to

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football, the first and openly gay
player to enter the NFL draft. Sam

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been out of football for uh for
several years, and uh, he's we've

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brought back as a defensive line coach. Now they since moved on. He's

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moved on, I believe to a
Polish team. I can't remember off the

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top of my head, but uh, you know I I I didn't know

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if you knew that or not.
I did. Yeah, And absolutely a

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number of big names have actually come
through Barcelona Denver Broncos. Connection would be

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Jerryus Jackson, Yeah, playing quarterback
for US. Yeah, he spent a

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few years playing for the Barcelona Dragons
and then later ended up finding great success

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in the CFL, winning a couple
of great cups. So definitely a lot

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of great NFL CFL connections in Barcelona
for sure. Got to uh always got

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to gotta love that. And I
love the fact that that, you know,

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American football has become a global sport, you know in a lot of

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ways, and uh and all that
what what what? Uh? I don't

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want to say what got you into
that position? But how did you find

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out about the positions availability? And
how did you come about getting on with

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the staff there? Sure, so
I keep an eye on professional football across

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the globe by the year working for
the Hamilton Tiger Katz of the CFL as

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a staff writer, and you know, just seeing what the ELF has done

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overseas, it's far and away the
best professional football that you're going to find

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over in Europe. And one of
the coolest parts is the fact that a

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lot of the original NFL Europe franchises
are now Barcelon Dragon's being one of them,

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of course over there in the ELF. So it provides great opportunities not

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just for American players to display their
skills overseas, but really to develop a

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lot of homegrown talent across the globe. We've seen the NFL do wonderful things

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with the International Games coming every year, and that continues to expand. So

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I think it's very clear that there
is a strong demand for American football over

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in Europe. I think this is
really just the tip of the iceberg.

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Well, I'm looking forward to it. I'm gonna you got a subscriber out

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of me, So I'm going to
be keeping an eye on Barcelona this year.

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Just just just for you, my
god. By the way, you

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know, our own Nick Ferguson played
de Canadian football, not with the Tie

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Cats always with Saskatchewan Ryan Fire and
the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. As the text

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line is reminding me at this moment. We were talking earlier about you know,

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Peyton Manning and you talked about twenty
fifteen being the greatest bad season of

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all time. But you know,
the Broncos are looking forward. Peyton Manning

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is the standard. I guess that
they want to get back to it.

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That's a very lofty standard, if
not the greast indeed, But when you're

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a franchise that has a John Elway
and a Peyton Manning on the books,

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and even to an extent that Jake
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it's tough as a quarterback not to
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the lens that we saw those quarterbacks
through. What can bo Nix expect for

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a grace period, you know,
like early on, because everybody's going to

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he was drafted in the first round. People are going to expect greatness.

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I think the NFL world is a
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played with us. I mean truly, if you look at John's numbers from

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when he was a rookie in eighty
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they were somewhere around league average,
and he had some really good years

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mixed in with some really tough years, But he wasn't a quarterback who stepped

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into the starting lineup and played at
an elite level quickly. That's something we

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almost take for granted because we see
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you and I have talked about,
then, you know, when we're seeing

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young quarterbacks really step into that starting
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all cases, Andrew Lukins twenty twelve
would be one of the few exceptions,

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but in almost all cases, they're
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one side, oftentimes both sides of
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Chiefs are a great example of this. They had great success or Patrick Mahomes

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stepped into the starting role. Ole
Smith led the NFL in pouncer rating during

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mahomes rookie year, and Mahomes is
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Smith. God knows, but the
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when you missed tremendous talent with tremendous
situation, get tremendous results. Have to

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be realistic. We're coming off an
eight win season and we're coming off an

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eight year run where we really have
not lived up to the standard that Peyton

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Manning, John Lway, Nick Ferguson
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before both set for us. So
I think as far as Grace period,

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you got to give him a solid
two seasons at least to get his seat

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wet, to really learn sean system
that's not an easy system to learn,

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so there are going to be a
lot of bumps and bruises, but to

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really give him an opportunity to develop
and give the recipient of great coaching.

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That's what we hired Jean Payton to
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would temper our expectations and for me, I'm looking to see what bow Knicks

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looks like as a quarterback in twenty
twenty five. I'm definitely definitely with you

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on that, Ryan. We appreciate
it as always at the Ryan Michael on

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Twitter, the contributing writer and analysts
the Pro Football Fame of course, our

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official and official statistician and on you
now an offensive defensive analyst with the Barcelona

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Dragons of the E l F will
be paying attention. Man, appreciate you.

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Take you bet absolutely take care