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Well, here we are Happy Friday
everyone special live episode this week. Coming

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off of a cabin season here Cottage
season. Been on VACA this week watching

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the XFL Combine and getting ready for
CFL Week eight, so I figured we

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would do a live show today.
Luckily, Andy Murray gracious enough to find

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time in his busy schedule between working
and watching the Combine and everything to come

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on, so we will do kind
of half XFL combine. What do we

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think thoughts? I watched a lot
of the post combined interviews with Miss Garcia,

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with Bob Stoops everyone else, so
we'll talk about that. And then

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Andy has been chomping in the bit
to talk CFL, so we will get

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that as well. Andy, how
are you doing. I'm great man,

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It's so good to be back.
And also congratulations to you for escaping from

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the woods. You made it out, so you get you're a little sabbatical

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there and did well. It was
good. Yeah. Our my father in

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law, Dorothy's father, we rent
a house out. It's really easy,

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but you know how it is.
Sometimes getting back from vacation is as tiring

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as you know going on vacation.
But we're back. I was excited.

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Jason Hussey and Evan joined us on
Monday. We did the CFL and all

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that, and then obviously we'll do
previewing today. Excited because we don't always

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get to preview on Jason does his
CFL previews as well over on his channel

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if you want that. But we'll
get Andy's thoughts. Andy, XFL combine

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this here. We did our offseason
charting. XFL needs more offseason content.

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What did you make up the combine? I mean it's the second football related

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combine we've watched this year so far, including the NFL one, so we've

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gotten quite a bit of that.
And honestly, as far as the idea,

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I think it's great. I think
the idea of having this sort of

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setting where you have new talent that's
potentially coming into the league, you have

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players who are working out with all
the coaches, you have interactions with the

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standing coaches, league executives, you
have some of the media personalities involved there

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with obviously with sam Acho being able
to interview, but everybody can kind of

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rope around. I think that is
a great idea. As far as you

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know certains of the technicalities of it, I mean, you know it's not

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going to be a really nice,
posh studio show kind of thing. I

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wish it was a little bit more
of that, of course I would,

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But you know, for what they
have and what they've done so far in

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their first year iteration of the league, I think it's a welcome thing because

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last year all we had was,
you know, some of the reporting on

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the showcases like you did in Arizona
with the guys, and it was not

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really you know, it wasn't live
content. Right, this is full live

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content for two straight days. I
mean, that's that's outstanding. That's more

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than I I would have expected coming
out of the season. Two months out

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of the season. I did not
think they'd be doing two full days of

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this on YouTube for everybody to see. And also interactions with the fans,

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all the giveaways, the trivia.
I think that was also great. So

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as far as just giving us something
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the year, when it's been two
months since the season ended, I think

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it's tremendous. Yeah, I give
kudos, and I've I've kind of gone

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back and forth and I've had time
to digest this. You know, we

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were on vacation. I pull it
up and you know, it was very

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overwhelming. I was surprised, like
how many people were on there. I

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think when I tuned in there was
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That's all great. I've gone back
and forth because it originally I was very

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down on it. I thought,
hey, this maybe, like you said,

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wasn't as Paul, but you know, but then I've sat here this

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week and like, what else do
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combine is boring by all you know
accounts anyway, right, and here we

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have this live thing. You have
the interactions. I thought they were great.

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That that Sam was great. They
got a little Marky Mark and the

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fun bunch a little bit when they
were talking with miss Garcia and oh,

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you know, thank you so much, and they like you're the host like

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you were you know, you're with
XFL here like this isn't you know?

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If I was there, I would
be like, you know, kissing the

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ring like you you know, you
work, you work for the league.

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Here, let's not whatever. But
my only critique would be handheld NonStop for

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you know, three hours, two
days was a lot. Let's get a

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stationary, let's have I don't know
if it's Matt Barry. I don't know

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if it's you know, stormy,
if you want to have heard you like,

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because it's it's really hard to maintain. And I know this just from

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we do live streams, and you
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really hard to have NonStop handheld.
I know we have like two cameras,

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we're kind of switching back and forth. That would be my only thing from

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a techno standpoint, because I do
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this, but you know, if
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I could probably replicate that that's not
a good thing. But I thought that

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the content was great. I thought
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really cool. You know, hey, we're live here day two. Look

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Danny Garcias, you know, talking
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thought that was cool, you really
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be my only thing, Like let's
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keep going back and forth to check
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them have to carry it the entire
time, because I cannot imagine in whatever

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how hot the temperature was there,
how sweaty and hot they were going live

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for two days. I mean,
kudos to them, tremendous effort. I

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was very impressed with that. Yeah, great point there, especially with the

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weather. Obviously, we're used to
the NFL Combine being in a nice air

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conditioned venue. Even though it's late
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in Indianapolis, so it's nice,
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of weather conditions to deal with there, obviously, and as opposed to this

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case when it's it's nice and toasty
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year. So I think that's that's
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give him a little bit of a
break. I give him props for running

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around so much, you know,
dude, that and this this sort of

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almost Blair Witch project project, as
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you know, dulled down just a
little bit. I agree. Maybe you

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get you know, get a steady
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least have some more stationary items to
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said, I'm impressed that they were
able to keep up so much and be

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able to interact with all the different
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just saw so many different people involved
in the league, you have to be

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at least happy, especially getting the
new coach in there. Blevin's getting talked

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into him was great, and that's
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voice to somebody that you may have
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past unless you followed him very closely. So getting him involved and getting him

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into the fold was great too.
I'm sure there was a lot of notes

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from the management meeting they had last
week that we were able to trickle out.

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Obviously, I think that the timing
on that was really well done as

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well. So yeah, I think
going forward you want to have maybe you

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know, a couple more cameras,
have kind of a stationary setup where people

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can kind of toss back between that
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maybe another personality to kind of go
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You want to have that, right, Just those two different dieconomies for covering

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these kinds of events. But again, seeing the people who were involved,

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I have to be pretty happy with
who we were able to get at the

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end of July, and just I'm
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you know, thirteen thousand for the
stream Thursday half that, you know,

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five point eight for the for the
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have both of these titled Thursday to
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So I don't that would have been
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seventh, but you know, January
that kind of how and I thought he

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was get the kJ sales? Like
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story on this? Because I watched
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didn't watch every second, Like do
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involved? Because obviously Sam and he's
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get that? Do we know?
Great question? I was not able to

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ascertain that. I don't know exactly
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Good for him, though, I
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as a player, and we've seen
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kind of interacting this role. I
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full time, you know, does
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don't think that's the case either.
I haven't heard anything about that, but

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he certainly seemed very very gregarious he
had a lot of great energy. He

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was just very involved in the entire
production of it. So maybe this is

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sort of like a transition thing for
him. Again, it's gonna be interesting

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to see. We obviously know about
the slew of ESPN layoffs that happened the

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previous month and some of the content
shifting around as well. Some of the

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individuals were not kept on just the
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but also a couple of the XFL
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to put into place later on once
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strategy is going forward with ESPN.
So I'm happy for kJ. I think

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that was a really good role for
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how he got that role exactly.
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the stream. We talked to Eve
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be more in Zelma content. They
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think it's great because now if you're
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you're watching that. I I like
one thing I thought Fanketow Football did

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really well, you know, and
they did lots of things well and they

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did some things not so well.
But it was like, how can we

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brand and market these players and give
them opportunities outside of football? Right?

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How can they use their time in
Fanketow football to kind of elevate their stock

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is as a mark of the athlete
and stuff like this is really good because

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he was, you know, for
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of the league here in the last
two days along with Sam. I thought

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that was great. I just like
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had, you know, this was
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one of the statfires like you know, nine players to watch in the XML

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combine with a lights a little bit
more like, okay, we have you

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know, who who are we like
seeking out? You know, when I

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was on it's like who's the chat
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eight, talk to nine, go
talk to eighty seven. You're like,

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okay, okay, okay, I
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hey, let's try to hit these
couple of people. But again, like

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I kind of I was a little
critical about it, but then I'm sitting

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there. I'm like, you felt
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you were at chalk Ta. You
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and I heard this and I had
to go back and check because I didn't

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want to. I didn't want to
give unnecessary, you know, hardship here.

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But when they were talking with Levin's
Jim Haslet was there, right,

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And they were talking with Jim and
they said, hey, you know,

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what are you thinking? What are
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you chis going that you're going to
be in Deniver And he goes, uh,

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and I love to coach Haslet,
he's our coach or this house Dragons

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goes, We're set at quarterback.
We have Harrison. Uh, we have

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our three string quarterback. He's good. We have Harrison Frost and Montes Sweat.

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And I said, I didn't know
that Washingt commander and Montes Sweat was

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involved. Uh, you know,
Jim, that's a little terrifying. I

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understand that. You know de Nucci, Uh, you know is was you

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know the primary qb. Uh.
You know Stephen Montez right dressed for every

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game. Harrison Frost was there.
I thought that was very terrifying. You're

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going into the XFLC Dragons off season, the coach Haslet didn't know that.

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Hazlet is the stereotypical example of the
old school defensive coordinator in that if he

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runs the football team, he worries
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then whatever the offense does, he
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not involved with that. I don't
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us. That's very much his whole
mantra. It's very old school traditional in

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terms of how he runs his operation, and that obviously was the case with

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the Ducci last year. I kept
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well di Nuci just turned the ball
over again. I think Hazlet's probably sharpening

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his knives getting ready to take him
out behind the wood shed after this,

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because he always was just so upset. Obviously, he literally said after a

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game on national television, I'm going
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had one of the most hideous performances. I think it was against San Antonio,

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So I'm not surprised. That's kind
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his mantra towards offense, and yeah, I mean, hey, good for

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Monty Sweat. I'm glad that he's
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plays for a different team. Kudos
to him. Yeah, I thought that

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was a lot I had here too. They were talking with I thought was

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cool seeing I like seeing like Randy
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I like seeing some of the guys
like you know, we know the DPPs,

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but getting them, you know,
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was talking about them being able to
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in terms of I think they were
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okay, we gotta get you we
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we have to get x number of
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know, this year, and this
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we can we can really meet with
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interview them. I thought that was
nice, and I just I thought it

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was neat seeing that they had David
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on Twitter and social media. Like
I like that we could, you know,

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like you said, Blair Witch,
like we're kind of walking around like,

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oh, here's Dave Dan, Like, let's go talk with him for

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a little bit. I like that
it felt a little bit more alive that

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way. I think so too.
Yeah, let's like again like MTV reality

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show, you know, just like
okay, camera crew's gotta run over here.

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Oh wait, hey, can we
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like just really run over and sort
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almost like I guess, like a
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thing, right, Um, like, oh look it's so and so let's

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go talk to them, you know. But um, it's good to see

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coach Wade Phillips. It's good to
see a coach Soups. It's great to

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see all the again, these hosts
of characters involved again and just be able

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to put personalities to the league again. Like you were saying, it's just

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important to keep that connection for all
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I mean, I'm going to remember
players from last year and coaches from last

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year who are no longer with the
league, but I'm just gonna remember them

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so prominently. Like to Ducci,
you know, it's just a guy that

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I don't really forget about, even
someone like I'm sure the expelled want me

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talk about this but like coach Rod
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Like you know, he really got
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it's stuff like that that I think
gives you context and also give you something

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to revert back to or reference in
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or how someone reacted to a certain
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That's how you sort of build your
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you build your your league because now
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and you have personalities to latch onto. I had some notes here.

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They they posted in the media portal. They did some more formal interviews,

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kind of media scrums with everyone.
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talked with Danny and Hines Warred,
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interesting note, and then I had
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obviously chairwoman and owner I wanted to
get into. But one of the local

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reporters asked about what her connection was
or kind of what she was able to

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translate being a professional athlete into running
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you know, and we've talked about
before, like we know, kay,

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you know Danny Garcia, you know, obviously met The Rock you at University

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of Miami ride and they were in
the weight room together, and she's a

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professional bodybuilder. But I thought it
was interesting, you know, seeing her

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off the top of the stream day
two addressing the you know, addressing the

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athletes, that she really is able
to put herself in that psyche of being

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a professional athlete in the way that
like no offense to like Vince McMahon or

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someone like you know, Vince portrays
to kind of be an athlete. Vince's

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is not you know, Vince touris
quad walking to the ring, is here

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at the World Rubbot. So I
thought that that was cool to me.

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That gives a little bit more like
validity. But just I reson resonates more

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to seeing her address kind of like
talking to the troops. I like that,

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and I know that The Rock does
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The Rock is an athlete in this
zone the way, but I like that

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we're Danny Garcia, you know,
had just retired from professional bodybuilding kind of

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do all this. It just feels
a little bit more like I get you

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guys. I don't know if you
you know, we've talked about them at

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past but I thought her talking about
it doing the post and seeing her on

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the stream kind of resonated with me. I mean, it's something for her

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to relate to, and it's something
that she can use as a connection to

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the players, because You're right,
she knows what it's like to put in

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the hard work and the dedication to
be a bodybuilder. She knows the struggles,

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she knows the just the work that
goes into having dedication and trying to

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make a name for yourself, trying
to make a brand for yourself. She

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really knows what that entails, and
so she's trying to do the same thing

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for the players too. I believe
she's trying to get them to have their

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own identity, their own brand in
a lot of ways. But a lot

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of that involves hard work, and
it involves opportunities to do so, and

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she truly believes that. I know
it comes through her spirit. I can

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tell how much she cares about it. I don't think it's it's fake or

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any sort of mantra giving off that
she doesn't care about it. She really

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does. And I like that a
lot. For somebody who owns the league,

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I think you should and that's awesome. You know. McMahon, to

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his credit, I think he cared
too. I think he just had a

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little bit more ego mixed in and
not saying ego doesn't it mix in with

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have a little bit of that as
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Hey, I got the pockets to
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it. You know, I'm gonna
walk around and show, you know,

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show off my guns. It's like, okay, cool man, you have

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every right to do that. And
you know, ultimately it did end up

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being for a good cause. It
just came from a different angle. But

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with Danny and The Rock and even
The Rock a little bit too, being

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able to show this humanity of we
were at this point before we had this

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happened to us and this is where
we got after all this time and all

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this hard work. So I think
it is extremely relatable. It's kind of

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like we talk about player coaches.
I mean, this is like player ownership,

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right, This is kind of how
it feels, and it's uncharted territory

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for a lot of people, but
it's really but it's I think it's very

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engaging and it's very humbling in a
lot of ways for these players to be

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involved with this and be able to
kind of relate to this. I think

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that's why some of them do gravitate
towards the Rock and Danny. So I

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had some quotes here. I wanted
to get into with Danny first and then

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we can do because I thought hines
Worth had a couple. If it was

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said by any other person and I
read this quote, I would think it

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would be very alarming. But Danny
looked very excited in the post event interview.

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I just thought, like you could
really tell like I'm I'm in miss.

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They asked, you know, how
did you feel about season one?

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We said, we're extremely pleased and
yo, she said, I was.

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I don't want to say, but
it's and we're in year one of a

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startup leak. There's a lot of
colleges. We can look at our rules,

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health safety player success over one hundred
players to NFL camps, thirty one

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that have been signed. We could
look at the play quality that was on

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the field, and I thought this
is interesting, And we could look at

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our radians, our raidings are compared
to our other competitors who are out there,

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we did a really wonderful job.
And I don't remember a lot.

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lot. I thought that was interesting
for her to purposely say, we can

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look at the radiings of our other
competitors who are out there, we did

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a really wonderful job. Any kind
of things strike out to you. I

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mean, she sparingly mentions it,
and I really think the last time that

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she prominently mentioned it was when you
asked her about it in person last year

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at almost the exact same time in
talk to our stadium, and you asked

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about putting teams in hubs and putting
teams in their own home markets. She

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made that quipable like, well,
we're putting our teams, you know,

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on their own home markets. So
you know, she that's but they don't

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get too much into the weeds with
that, especially like Russ Brandon is very

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careful to talk about stuff like that, you know, Julio is like really

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careful about saying stuff like that.
They're really they're not trying to kick up

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as much dirt as much as the
USFL does sometimes and trying to compare themselves

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to the XFL. I think the
XFL just says, this is our mission

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statement, this is what we're doing. Of Course they're going to compare themselves,

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you know, ultimately are I mean, you're in the same space,

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competing for the same players at the
same talent, all of us the same

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time. Of course you're going to
compare yourself. The CFL does it all

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the time too, and they're not
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I mean, ultimately, at the
end of the day, you have players

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that you have to compete for.
So of course they're all looking at each

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other through their window blinds. But
it's a matter of which one of them

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are talking about it to their neighbors
openly out in the field or in their

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front yard, telling people how much
they don't care for their neighbor, you

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know's it's different attitudes with that.
So I think for Danny, I'm not

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surprised that she sparingly mentions the US
develoor any other leagues, because I do

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believe she is solely focused on what
they're trying to accomplish. But when they

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do have something they can kind of
champion, of course, they're going to

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take that opportunity and say, hey, look this is what we did.

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Because you should. At every angle
you should. You're going to have to

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try and jockey for position and for
attention from other people and notoriety to make

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your brand known more than the other
competitor. They asked about wanting to have

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more of a grassroots feel to the
league, and Danny said, we want

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to be relatable. I think that's
interesting as well, and we've talked about

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that in terms of kind of the
bde that the USFL has sometimes and wanting

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I just I like that quote,
like, we want to be relatable.

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We purposely want this to have kind
of a grassroots feel. Anything on that,

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well, I guess, do you
feel like the XFL is relatable?

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I do? I mean, I
do? I mean, do you I

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do? Sometimes I think they get
a little too glitzy for their own bridges,

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and sometimes they're a little tone death. But not not all the time,

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but I do think they're a little
bit. I get I think it

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was. To be honest, I
thought twenty twenty was a little more grassroots

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if if I'm being honest, I
thought just because Vince McMahon, that's his

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that's his thing. He's just like, he's like the every people's entertainer,

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you know, every man's every man's
billiare exactly that's that's how he pitches himself.

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So maybe it's just when I'm comparing
it to that, maybe that's why

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it doesn't feel as grass roots.
But it is more so than trying to

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flex on every other person who doesn't
believe in your product like sometimes other leagues

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do. And so I think this
is why it's important to establish that identity.

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I will say, as much as
they try to be relatable, at

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the end of the day, you
do look at Danny and the Rock and

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say, well, you guys are
in pretty nice positions in your lives.

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Obviously, it's it's hard to relate
a lot to that. I mean,

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you try to relate to it in
terms of their early years, of course,

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but we've moved far past that era, so I think. But I

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do think it is important to focus
on other individuals, right the players and

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some of the coaches who are getting
their opportunities. That's where you can get

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more grassroots. That's where you can
get more reliability, and that's where you

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can get people who really believe that
they have a shot to do something special.

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You know, it's saying like,
look, this guy had been toiling

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around here for so long, and
now he has this chance to be a

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head coach or would be assistant coach, or to be involved in in this

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way. Well, this player never
really got this opportunity. I never had

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really a shot to play, and
now here he is, he's got a

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starting position here. It's it's sort
of if you keep the focus on that,

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then you keep it grassroots. And
I do think I will say the

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combine in the showcases do give me
much more of that feeling too, where

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it's just anybody has a chance.
Anybody has a chance to come in,

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they work out, they have a
chance, and it's all about them.

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And if someone doesn't show up,
like if a player no shows, that's

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on them, right, That's that
you had your chance and you didn't take

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it. Okay, Well you know
that's that's like a job interview. If

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you don't show up to the job
interview, you know you're not giving yourself

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an opportunity. Also, you know, to relay back to like having kJ

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sales on there, I thought,
you know, it feeling that helped it

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to me feel a little more grassroots, where hey, we got players on

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it. It's not just you know, you want the NFL and it's you

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know, it's eyes in and you
know you got Kurt Warners on buy and

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we're all suits and ties and we're
here. You know. I like that

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kJ and Sam kind of sweating their
lives away, you know, stumbling around

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chatt Stadium. They asked about changes
after the season, Danny said, we

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looked at what needed to change.
We made change its structurally within the organization

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so that we could be very fine
tuned for execution moving forward. In relation

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to obviously, you know, laying
off some of the marketing people. But

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this is what I this is now
what we've talked about this before. As

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we went through our first season,
we realized we could go to a more

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seasonal model. So we staff up
and we staffed down. We didn't actually

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need that many individuals all year round. We will continue to respond in that

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way, will make sure there's no
discrepancy in the quality of the the deliverables

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to our athletes to play on our
fan experience. Well, you know,

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look a lot of leagues do this. I know the XFL is not unique

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in that way. There's a lot
of teams that hire for seasonal employment,

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right you know, if you're working
in ticketing, or if you're working in

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sales, or sometimes if you're working
as an av staff or something in an

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arena, you're going to get part
time employment with an entity like you know,

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baseball team. Like I mean,
I've seen I've seen ads for my

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teams down here, and it's all
seasonal employment, like, hey, we

408
00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.880
want you to work with these games, and then once you're done, you

409
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.599
know, you'll be on your way
go find something else. So that's not

410
00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:45.279
too different than what I've seen in
the past. I think it's more of

411
00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:49.160
just can they stay structurally sound in
terms of what they're operating and how are

412
00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.640
they able to get content out.
Clearly, they've done a good enough job

413
00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.400
so far in the first couple of
months to get a lot out that they

414
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.599
weren't able to last year at the
same time, so they are at least

415
00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:03.440
able to execute that. It's just
a matter of can you have some of

416
00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:10.799
the teams operating and keeping them in
the fold or you know, communicating with

417
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.680
the head office of the staff.
I think that's something they're still trying to

418
00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.519
figure out. But obviously they had
to cut a lot of fat because they

419
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.720
realized that their budget may have been
a little bit over what they wanted it

420
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.920
to be after the season ended and
they had to make some adjustments. So

421
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.559
and that's gonna be a process.
How many people can you keep on?

422
00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.480
Who can you keep on? How
important is it to keep on some of

423
00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:37.119
these individuals really, And that's that's
part of any league. I think it's

424
00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.519
just the fact that they're trying to
figure that out is maybe the part that

425
00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.079
feels a little unsettling because most other
leagues know exactly who they need and what

426
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.839
they need and when they need it
because they've been around for so long,

427
00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.440
so that that I feel like it's
going to be a little bit rocky for

428
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.400
that part of it for a little
bit at least. And that's just something

429
00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.160
they're going to have to figure out
in the next coming years. It struck

430
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:06.319
me that Danny at least felt um, you know, and said to me

431
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:08.599
the correct things of like, well, you know, we lived through this

432
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:12.559
now we know, like we didn't
know we thought maybe whatever, I will

433
00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:15.640
say, you know, between doing
the combine, we have the you know,

434
00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:19.039
the eight one thing coming up.
I think they've done a tremendous job.

435
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.799
And you know, this is a
really slow time of year, right

436
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.839
you know, for you know,
NFL's getting in and CFL. You know,

437
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.160
we didn't even have XFL on the
show last week. You know,

438
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.920
we we led with CFL. And
so I think considering all that, I

439
00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.359
think they've done a very good job
right now. I mean we we pounded

440
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.640
the table and said we want to
see some offseason content. I will say,

441
00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:44.119
so far, I feel good.
And to me, what I liked

442
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.599
even better was talking with the interviews
where they had with Stoops and with with

443
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:52.039
Hines and with Wade Phillips. Football
people are are still working a lot,

444
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:53.960
you know what I mean. And
so yeah, okay, maybe we're we're

445
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.519
scaling down. We don't have as
many you know, game day you know,

446
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:00.240
experienced managers were iver you want to
call it for that, But I

447
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.440
do feel like from the football side, they're working tremendously hard right now.

448
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.799
I mean they just obviously did the
showcase and everything else or the showcases in

449
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.920
the combine, but at least where
it matters, it feels like the people,

450
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.519
like you said that they're keeping those
people. You know, I'm on

451
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:19.079
board right now, and I think
that that matters. The talent accumulation is

452
00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:22.200
the most important part of this entire
operation, and they've done a great job

453
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.200
of that. They did a great
job last year, and I think they're

454
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.400
doing a really good job this year
still being able to maintain all that.

455
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:32.240
I really want to see who's going
to stay and what players are going to

456
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:34.519
be still be there next year.
That's that part kind of excites me the

457
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:40.759
most, is all right starts seeing
familiar faces and people to latch onto from

458
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.519
the previous year. Obviously, we
want to see people go and do well

459
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:45.720
in the in the NFL, But
are we gonna be able to get some

460
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:49.480
of those familiar faces like a kJ
Sales for example, or you know what

461
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.839
happens to some of the quarterbacks.
Are they going to come back? Like

462
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.039
is Dark King going to come back
at some point? Or is he just

463
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.680
going to be on a practice squad
floating around forever? And those are the

464
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:02.200
kinds of things that I wonder about. As far as getting an identity built,

465
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.559
Obviously, the USFL had that a
little bit this past year and it

466
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:10.480
worked to their favor. Someone like
Alex Mgoo got so much more notoriety and

467
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.039
now here he is at Green Bay
Packers camp signing autographs. You know,

468
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.759
that's incredible. And he was not
in that position at all last year.

469
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:21.680
I thought he was very pedestrian his
first year and second year he took leaps

470
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:26.000
and bounds. He was much better. And that's because he was able to

471
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.039
stay in the system and build upon
his resume and really work and focus on

472
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:33.000
his craft. And then once he
came around, I mean, he proved

473
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.759
me wrong when he got When jay
Mark Smith went down, I was like,

474
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.400
ah, I don't know, man, the still staling seems kind of

475
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:44.079
in trouble. And he came out
like Gangbusters. He was awesome. And

476
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.359
that's something that a lot of There
might be other players under the surface who

477
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.720
you may have not been impressed with
last year, who suddenly take that leap

478
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.920
in development. You go, oh
my god, and where did this come

479
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.519
from? And you are going to
have that hopefully happened next year and just

480
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.359
sort of building on that. That's
something that's really important for all leagues.

481
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.599
Honestly, all leagues need that,
and that's what the whole point of this

482
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.240
is. It's not just the new
guys coming into the guys who were there

483
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.079
before, and how had they continue
the trend upward. We have a couple

484
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.680
of comments here, let's just check
in. The Jersey King is saying,

485
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.599
how do you guys like the combine? Obviously we were talking about that.

486
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.240
Go back at the top, Hailey, check it in. Here are c

487
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.640
Dragons, you know manager And I
think she was down at choc Ti or

488
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.480
at least helping kind of manage all
of that stuff. She's comment so trying

489
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:32.920
to give the fans of excellent content
as we can, try to keep the

490
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.839
hype going. And then we have
comments. And I tweeted about this this

491
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:40.319
week. I was on vacation.
What was it the XFL Central I think

492
00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:45.440
account posted about, you know,
the LA Wildcats trademark being being trademarked by

493
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:51.039
the XFL. I already tweeted all
of that out. But the LA Wildcats

494
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.599
has been trademarks since I believe August
or was it August or December? And

495
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:57.799
then it went lie But of twenty
nineteen, this is just like paperwork transferring

496
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.680
it over. So I know that
that got a lot of play. I

497
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:04.359
think it was sent to me and
then I was sitting by the campfire that

498
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.440
night, and I'm like, what, you know, like fifty thousand impressions

499
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.720
later, like was it going on? So no, I do not believe

500
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.519
that anything with the La Wildcats is
involved with eight one. Mike Mitchell already

501
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.000
reporting I think my internet cut out
there, Mike Mitchell already reporting that eight

502
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.359
one's going to be in this season. Ticket sales going on sale. So

503
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.400
Mike, Mike already reported on that. So that's that's kind of confirmed.

504
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:29.200
So the eight one thing will be
exciting. But yeah, the La Wildcats,

505
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:32.079
I don't know, do you have
anything to stay with that? Because

506
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:33.160
it was such a non story that
really blew up. I'm like, this

507
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.359
has been trade like you, it's
these it seems like, and not that

508
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:41.720
I'm any better, but these amateur
kind of like internet saluts going down on

509
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:45.440
trademark databases. That's what I was
under the impression too. I thought that

510
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.039
trademarke had already been common neared and
it was already in the system, that

511
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:53.319
had been reported by a couple of
people, like it got over like a

512
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.920
year or two ago, that that
that had been already in the system.

513
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.400
So I was surprised that people were
reacting so this really too, because I

514
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:06.880
thought it had already been around.
But the idea of the Wildcats coming back

515
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.880
isn't fascinating one because one, I
think it runs anti to what the league

516
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.759
has going right now, which is
saving money and putting a team in LA.

517
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.359
I don't think it would just be
saving them a lot of money as

518
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:21.440
far as structurally goes. I mean, you could go back to digging the

519
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.480
Health Sports Park if you were trying
to put a team there, but I

520
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.000
don't know if that's the most viable
option. I think it's just something to

521
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.519
hold on to as far as they're
building their identity and their brand. If

522
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.880
they're going to hold on to that
for the time being and tell fur their

523
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:38.400
notice, that's you know, that's
all on them, that's fine. But

524
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:44.200
I don't know if that means there's
going to be any movement. I agree

525
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.400
with you. It's been in the
system for a while and it's not something

526
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:52.160
that's going to change drastically all of
a sudden like this doesn't pretend to things

527
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.519
that are going to change in the
future, at least not that I'm aware

528
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.599
of, And I don't think it
really changes anything. Yeah, nothing in

529
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:02.400
the time being. I mean like
I said, I'm here. This is

530
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.559
uh. It was filed in August
twenty nineteen August fifteen, published for opposition

531
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:14.160
May twenty six, twenty twenty,
just transferred over and the original LLC here

532
00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:17.200
is basically changing their uses. They're
eliminating a lot of their uses, so

533
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:20.680
they're just kind of moving stuff over. So it's exciting. But again,

534
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.440
like people, you know, I
don't know, I don't think you can

535
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:30.799
change cities that much and do one. Yeah, Hailey's corroborating here the xblup

536
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.759
handles for some of the teams twenty
twenty. Yeah, that's all it is.

537
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:42.039
So I just I, you know, others post videos and I guess

538
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.839
try to capitalize on a lot of
that. I don't try to do that.

539
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.079
I don't try to do a lot
of that click baby stuff on here.

540
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:50.680
So that's why I try to kind
of do that. Um anyway,

541
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.680
So that's a couple of other quotes
I had. I thought with heinz ward

542
00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:59.680
I and to me, I don't
know if this is people that are covering

543
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.880
this at the combine and not having
watched the season a lot, but they

544
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:07.160
were asking, like, you know, the Brahmas were not good and so

545
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:08.239
I would say, like, how
are you guys going to be better?

546
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:12.320
Right? Where it was? It
was, well your former NFL, you

547
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:15.480
know, superstar and what do you
think here? And what's it feel like

548
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:16.639
coaching? And like it was a
lot of those kind of things. I'm

549
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:20.320
like, how do you you know? How would you fix this season?

550
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.119
He blamed injuries for a lot of
it, and he said I'm going to

551
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:27.400
get things turned around. This was
the quote, And I have another quote

552
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.360
to transition to the other coaches.
This is a direct quote from Hines Warp.

553
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.880
I don't care about wins and losses
because I know I'm a winner in

554
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.679
life. Now we know Hines and
like Hines is, you know, very

555
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:43.440
famous individual. Like if you had
heard that from many other coaches, not

556
00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:45.760
knowing the individuals whose math back came
out, if that is an alarming quote,

557
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:47.800
what do you think about the quote
I don't care about wins and losses,

558
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.400
going to I'm a winner in life. Well, I'm glad he doesn't

559
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.280
care about wins and losses because the
fans really do. So that's nice.

560
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:59.000
Higns Also, I don't think he
cared about it very much in Batman when

561
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.719
he was running around field was blowing
up and vain was causing mass destruction,

562
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:07.559
so clearly he didn't care about it
in that film either. No, I

563
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.960
look, that's an odd quote to
have, especially considering what they went through.

564
00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:15.719
I understand he's probably frustrated because they
just had terrible luck this past season.

565
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.880
I mean, every quarterback on the
roster kept getting hurt, read Senet.

566
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:22.519
It's a real shame he got hurt
because I thought he had a chance

567
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:24.480
to do something with them and maybe
helped turn their season around. I mean,

568
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.119
between them and the Renegades, I
don't think they were that dissimilar in

569
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:34.480
my opinion them the Renegades were very
on the same pathway of Okay, defenses

570
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.760
are great, they have a special
teams player that's really good. Our kickers

571
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:39.159
really good. I mean John park
a Roma was awesome. I know he

572
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:42.559
missed that final kick of the season, but if he makes that kick,

573
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.679
they go into the playoffs instead of
the Renegades. To think about that,

574
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.400
you know, they were not that
far away. So the Brahmas just weren't

575
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.519
able to get that break like the
Renegades did where they got Perez and they

576
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.880
caught fire. So I mean,
for him, I'm sure it's a lot

577
00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:01.039
of frustration. But that's such a
weird sentiment to it does matter. At

578
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:04.719
the end of the day, every
other team in this league, and everybody

579
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.639
talks about this league is people care, players care, They want to win.

580
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.559
This isn't just some like side stop. I mean for me, okay,

581
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:14.039
maybe for a few of them it
is. Obviously, Denucci was very

582
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:15.480
you know, gun home about getting
back to the NFL, and some of

583
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.519
them are. But a lot of
people care. This is a livelihood,

584
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.519
and this is something that a lot
of people care about. They want to

585
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.719
win, they want to do well, they want to compete. I cared.

586
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.199
I thought about that every time I
watched the Guardians. Anytime they lost,

587
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.039
I just thought, man, that's
that's a shame, because they really

588
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:32.880
are putting in the work, in
the dedication to all. Buckley cares about

589
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.760
this. You know, he really
wants to your players win bonuses. I

590
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:44.840
certainly care whether you win or financial
the incentive trade. I mean, you

591
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:45.760
know, well, he's on the
gravy train, but it's his own gravy

592
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.119
train, not everyone else. No
one else is on that, so yeah,

593
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.199
exactly, It's it is bizarre,
it's it's it feels a little tone

594
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.920
deaf. But again if I if
you said that anywhere else, Yeah,

595
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.079
he gets he gets flamed. I
mean the media eats him alive for saying

596
00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:02.000
something like that bigger role. So
I think he's still trying to figure this

597
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:06.960
whole coaching thing out. Jason Hussey
checking in here. We haven't gotten the

598
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.119
CFL yet, Jason, So cover
your ears. What is here? Hailey?

599
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.360
Check fun fact I'm an extra and
the dark Knight rises in the football

600
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.440
scenes. So now we know where
they got the Now we know where the

601
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.039
Brons did get their uniforms from.
That is incredibly small world on that.

602
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.199
Uh. And the other thing that
the quote we had from Hinz and this

603
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:29.760
relates to Stoops and Way and then
we'll kind of round out this portion the

604
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:31.960
conversation less you have anything else.
He's talking about, you know, getting

605
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.440
guys to the you know, the
the NFL, and he says, I

606
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.199
don't want a ten year career guy
in the XFL. We have talked a

607
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:42.199
lot on here, and you and
I and I have with a lot of

608
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:47.079
people like you need to have some
like not like not everyone, so you

609
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:51.079
know, and I was doing the
mat so there's like fifty guys right per

610
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.760
roster. We had injuries and all
that, but you know, four hundred,

611
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.440
four hundred and twenty five guys who
through the XFL on hundred people have

612
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.760
gotten you know, camp visits and
thirty one signs so far, and we

613
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.400
had a couple of guys that got
cut that weren't actually signed, so maybe

614
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.079
that number is actually higher. But
you know, if twenty five percent of

615
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.800
the guys that played in the XODL
get a look, that's a lot of

616
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:14.079
people that didn't. And that's fine, but you need to embrace like that

617
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:15.639
side of it too, Like you
have to have guys that are going to

618
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.079
play in your league for any sustin
at the time. What do you make

619
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:22.719
about I don't want a ten year
career guy in the XFL. I mean,

620
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.119
is he going to be around in
ten years? That's my other question.

621
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:29.920
That's that's that's really that's the thought
I have. It's like, well,

622
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:31.679
maybe he says that, because quite
frankly, I don't know if he's

623
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.239
gonna be around that long. But
I disagree. You need to have continuity,

624
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:39.360
You need to have faces to relate
to the CFLs going through this right

625
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.960
now, where like, look,
people are already talking about this season as

626
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.639
great as someone like Chad Kelly or
Dustin drum and how electrifying they've been.

627
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.400
People already talking about their next opportunity
the NFL. You just lost Nathan Rour

628
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:58.039
who you desperately needed as far as
quarterbacks stability this season, and you're already

629
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:01.079
talking about guys who aren't even at
that level, who are already potentially going

630
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:04.280
to be moving on. I mean, that's disheartening. As the franchise.

631
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.599
You want to keep those guys around. You want to have those kinds of

632
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:08.760
players to build off of, because
you don't get a lot of people like

633
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:13.719
Burnon Adams Junior or bull leave By
Mitchell, you know, being able to

634
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.880
stay around forever, being prominent in
their role. I know, you know,

635
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.679
people get de made about how effective
VA is, but like, you

636
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.280
need that kind of stability. But
soule he's hurt. You know, Souli's

637
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.639
career might be over and he at
least had some sort of consistency and prominence

638
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.599
to his role in the league.
You need to have people who stick around.

639
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.840
You need to have guys who play
vital roles in their community and also

640
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.800
in just having a face to look
to and I absolutely believe you need to

641
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.760
have ten year players in this league. I don't and not everyone can.

642
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.880
And some people, you know,
again, end of the day, some

643
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.519
people just want to play. I
know, everyone says, and I know

644
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.960
Pat Raffino posted about this yesterday because
there was an injury the Joe Burrow about

645
00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:57.239
his calfe injury and he said,
well, one of the people they could

646
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.679
call upon immediately, you know,
And it was a photo of j McCarron.

647
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:02.800
But look, Ajian McCarron. His
whole point of being in the XFL

648
00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:07.199
was to play in front of his
sons and he got to do that,

649
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:08.920
and he probably wants to keep doing
that. If he goes to the NFL,

650
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.360
maybe he's another shot to play,
but there's no guarantee of that.

651
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:15.199
And some of these guys just want
to do that. They just want to

652
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:20.039
get out there and they want to
fall out. And I give them tremendous

653
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:23.079
props for wanting to do that and
not just trying to say and collect a

654
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:25.320
paycheck. I get it, you
know, some guys do, and there's

655
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:28.960
nothing wrong with that either, But
you need to have ten year players,

656
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:31.039
right. I don't agree with that
sentiment. At all. Every league needs

657
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:35.000
to have identity, and every league
needs to have people that you can latch

658
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:38.039
onto if you're gonna be able to
build your brand and your style. And

659
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:43.960
again, some guys just maybe prefer
that, you know. Yeah, he

660
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.280
had the other quote here, So
this is going on to Stoops here,

661
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:50.800
Bob Stoops. He said, you
know, they're asking Wall players going to

662
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:52.039
the NFL getting all these times he
goes, We're all for it. This

663
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.559
is what this league is all about. Uh, you know, and and

664
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.000
to just to echo that again,
like that can't be what this league is

665
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.119
all about. It can be a
good portion of what this league is about.

666
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:05.199
It could be a majority of what
this league is about. But it

667
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.760
can't be when when you have a
you know, seventy five percent churn rate

668
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:12.239
of guys and aren't making it on
there and it's just the practicalities have it

669
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:15.280
with building a football team. You
know a lot of the quotes were also

670
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.639
talking about like from all the players
and you were and everyone like, it's

671
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.440
so much easier now that you know, we at least have some foundation and

672
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:24.559
that's going to continue. But it
just can't be with all it's about.

673
00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:29.800
He had a quote he ex expecting
offenses to be up to speed from day

674
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.480
one. Wade Phillips said he expects
football quality to be enhanced in season two

675
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.039
just because of the continuity of all
of that we've lived through USFL season two.

676
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:44.119
Do you share those same sentiments then, just by nature of like in

677
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:47.719
them coming back now that because USFL
is slow starting out, Yeah, I

678
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:52.239
mean it is a bit of a
slog as far as like getting all of

679
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:58.239
your pieces together and everybody trying to
get out of the gate. I again,

680
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:02.400
I don't think there's a lot to
be said about how much people need

681
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:07.320
to get all their players together and
how just it's going to generate trying to

682
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:08.960
generate interests. It's just going to
take a while. And this is something

683
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.280
with competing interest now, how it's
going to take especially you know, the

684
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:16.719
USFL has to think about this too, as far as what players and continuity

685
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:20.719
they're going to have and how are
they going to get people to latch onto

686
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:24.159
them and continue to keep interest in
their product. I mean we saw this

687
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:28.760
past year. Obviously, one of
the biggest names we were looking for this

688
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.079
past year was case Cookus and the
Philadelphia Stars. Well, um, they

689
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.800
flamed out. You know, the
offense didn't stick and Case got hurt.

690
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.039
You know, he got banged around, he got stacked a jillion times,

691
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.039
and it didn't ever come to fruition
for them. So it's kind of like,

692
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:46.480
well, now, what like that? What have we looked for now?

693
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:53.800
So you need to have the ability
to have something to look to when

694
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:57.320
you're coming back out of the fold. You know. In the CFL this

695
00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.519
year I was excited for because there
were there were some names that I was

696
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:02.679
familiar with, people that players that
I'd finally been following for a while.

697
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:10.440
And we're able to look up at
toy at every step at every team,

698
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.360
and that's something that again every team
needs to kind of work on and be

699
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.119
able to establish their identity and moving
forward. I just think it's going to

700
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.320
have to take some time to get
all of that together. So I've not

701
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:30.119
I don't know. I think the
NFL again needs their their messaging needs to

702
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.079
be a little bit different, especially
from the coaches just saying like, well,

703
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:34.960
we're trying to send all the players
and we're trying to get rid of

704
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.880
everybody, and it's like I don't
really want that either. That's not what

705
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.480
I look for. I want guys
to get chances of course at the next

706
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:44.719
level, but I don't expect them
all too by the way. You know,

707
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.159
like, what what do you think
about someone like Austin Prowle? You

708
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:51.840
really think Austin Prowle is gonna be
latching onto an NFL team anytimes soon,

709
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.159
no offense. I think he's going
to be an XFL player for perpetuity from

710
00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:58.519
here on out. And if it
means him, we're working with his dad

711
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:00.199
on the Saint Louis staff. Great. Also, I like that. That's

712
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:04.880
good. That's a good story.
And he if he does well and he

713
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.159
plays well like he has in the
past, and he has a role to

714
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:12.480
play, and then what's wrong with
that? Yeah, I just there has

715
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.000
to be some sort of balance,
sir, and I've I've talked and we

716
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.039
had Greg Parks on and kind of
the you know, good to go back

717
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:21.159
to Vincent, the ww that you
know, that NX team model, you

718
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.159
know, that was when NXT with
it was at its peak. It was

719
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:28.880
always known that the ultimate goal of
the you know, of the NXT was

720
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:30.639
to develop the guys, get them
up to the main roster where they could

721
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.039
get the you know, the big
million dollars checks, but you have to

722
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.519
make a compelling product in the meantime. And so I just I wish the

723
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:42.159
coaches, I wish more, you
know, And like they're talking on the

724
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:44.400
live cham releasing the interviews, I
saw it was a lot of like,

725
00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:46.760
yeah, we're getting our next crop
to go to the NFL. It's like

726
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.960
I would like you to get your
next crop to help win win games as

727
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.280
well. Like I get I don't
care who wins the x cull champ.

728
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:57.559
You know, I'm not like see
dragon, like it doesn't matter to me.

729
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.519
But I just think for the for
the health of the league, you

730
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:02.159
have to also winning also matters,
and having Hines Wards saying well, I

731
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:06.159
don't I don't care about winning as
long as we get these guys on and

732
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:08.519
we had to quote from back to
last year. You know, if every

733
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:12.679
single player for my team went to
an NFL roster, that would be successful.

734
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.559
Like yeah, yeah, and I
I like, I agree with that

735
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:17.920
because I don't care. But for
the for like the legitimacy of the league,

736
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:21.800
you have to value you know,
winning as well on that well,

737
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:23.800
Like I mean, if you're a
college coach, like the college coaches run

738
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:27.079
around saying like, yeah, I
can't wait to get these kids out of

739
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.519
here, Like, yeah, I
don't. That's I still remember a press

740
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:36.000
conference back in the day when Pete
Carroll was at USC and Mark Sanchez announced

741
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.599
that he was leaving the school and
early he declared for the NFL Draft early,

742
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:43.760
and Pete Carroll walked out of the
press conference because he was so upset,

743
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.159
thinking like I could have you know, had you come back, and

744
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:47.800
we could have made a run in
a national title, and now they can't.

745
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:52.440
Like they college coaches very much care
about winning, and they know very

746
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:55.280
well that. Okay, I understand
the circumstances are different because kids have to

747
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.079
move on eventually, but I just, yeah, this this like almost gun

748
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.360
Hoeness about like, yeah, I'm
trying to get you the hell out of

749
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.800
out of our league so you can
go on to do better things. It's

750
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.360
it's an odd sentiment, and I
don't think the USFL really feels that way.

751
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:13.920
I know they champion it sometimes when
a player gets signed, but I

752
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:16.119
don't hear the coaches being like,
yeah, obviously we're trying to send everybody

753
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:22.639
off to the NFL. I think
they to me sometimes the USFL coaches care

754
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:28.280
maybe give off the mantra at least
that they want to win. Now whether

755
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.480
or not they execute that vision very
well is up for debate, but they

756
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:37.239
obviously have They have the intention I
think of trying to win in most cases,

757
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:40.800
but it's hard to say. I
think everybody's in it for different reasons.

758
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:43.880
It's kind of the same thing with
the players. The coaches seem like

759
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:45.960
they all have different reasons for why
they're in there. What their skin in

760
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.440
the game is. Is it,
you know, just trying to coach again,

761
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:51.599
is it trying to be successful in
that league? Is it trying to

762
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.760
send players off to another league?
It's it's not really sure. The CFL,

763
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:58.360
obviously it's all standard. It's like
we're trying to win, trying to

764
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.519
win the Great Cup, end of
story, no other debate. Well,

765
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:06.440
that's also like, like I didn't
like Marshall Ferguson's comments here on the XFL

766
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:07.920
is it week one or two where
he's like, well what is this?

767
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:12.960
I'm like, this is a week
week two of an up start? Actually,

768
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.360
you know football league here, Like
I've seen CFL worst play Week seventeen.

769
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.880
Well, you tell me who the
Edmonton Elks are Marshall, I want

770
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:23.840
to hear that story. Tell me, tell me about that team Will James

771
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:25.760
this year the CFL, because I
don't want to keep you forever. I

772
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:31.000
know you need to work any other
thoughts combine and any other thoughts combined.

773
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:35.599
Like I said again, presentation wise, I'm fine with it. I do

774
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:38.000
want them to scale up their production
next year next time they do this.

775
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:42.199
Now, do we get another one
of these? I don't know. I

776
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.079
don't think so. I think you're
just gonna do showcases and then we'll work

777
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.199
our way towards the draft eventually.
I don't know if we really need to

778
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.360
have a second combine one one one
is good enough. Really. I think

779
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:54.199
the timing is great though that will
say, like you were mentioning earlier,

780
00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:57.880
July is a good time to do
it because there's nothing else going on.

781
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:01.000
If your baseball team isn't in it, you don't care. The only other

782
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:04.920
things that are going on really is
like WNBA, which I watched now a

783
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:09.000
little bit more these days because there's
certain players that I follow. But I

784
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:12.760
mean, the summer is kind of
a scourge. There's not a lot going

785
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.039
on besides maybe the occasional PGA event. Or a tennis event. It's a

786
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:22.079
it's an open realm for content.
Obviously the CFL we watched religiously, but

787
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:23.440
even then during the middle of the
week, there's not really much going on.

788
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.039
So I think for them it's a
great time to do this. It

789
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.360
really is. And right before training
camps start, before the NFL starts kicking

790
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.599
back up, I think it's a
good time for them to do it.

791
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:39.079
So more of this just maybe you
know, make some schedule, some production

792
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:45.599
adjustments going forward, and maybe get
some other individuals involved with this. Yeah,

793
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.400
to recap, because we probably had
more people watching now than we did

794
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.559
that started the show, like,
you know, a plus effort. I

795
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.239
was thrown back at the beginning,
tuning in, like wasn't quite sure what

796
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.639
to expect, and that having lived
through it and it kind of processed it,

797
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.840
I think this is a good fit. I don't think. I think

798
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.840
there's like a juice versus the squeeze
of like how much you know, we

799
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:13.960
could scale up another thousand fold and
get you know, are you getting tempers

800
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.599
at more engagement? You know?
Like I thought they did good. The

801
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.480
numbers looked good for me, I
thought, having as lively of a chat

802
00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:22.679
I thought helped it feel alive.
You know, we get chat here with

803
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.320
our you know, peanut viewers compared
to what they had, and you know,

804
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.400
it makes it feel like more,
you know, than you're just sitting

805
00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:30.320
here talking into a vacuum. So
I thought that was good. Like I

806
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.519
said, I just at a stationary
next year, Have you know, have

807
00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.320
whoever it is, have you know
maybe have you know, I don't know,

808
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.519
Like Sam was good walking around.
You need someone, like I said,

809
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.960
like get Matt Barry or someone just
sitting there and we can just bounce

810
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.199
back and forth, bounce back and
forth, and that would be good.

811
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.280
Um, Mike says, I hope
they live streamed the draft on YouTube as

812
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:52.639
well to fading the gagement. I'm
cool with them not simply you can do

813
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.639
it so if you know, you
know, you know, I'm I'm happy

814
00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.559
to kind of carry that Mattrau and
then Hussy's chat in here. I hate

815
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.760
to side with this as some fans
like one of these out leagues and not

816
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:06.440
the others and field they need to
crap on it whenever you get the chance.

817
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:09.679
Oh yeah, football, football,
football and any other combine. And

818
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:14.039
we're gonna preview CFL Week eight here
real quick, well not real quick,

819
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.159
you know, fifteen minutes worth probably. I can't wait to see some of

820
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.639
these guys potentially be on the field
next year. I want to do more

821
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.320
tape study and kind of look back
at some of the things that they've done

822
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.840
in college. But overall, a
lot of research to be done, a

823
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:30.960
lot of things to be done,
and big end like this isn't going to

824
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.760
be all the players, obviously,
There's still many more that I think are

825
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.320
going to be in the fold.
Who knows, we might get some surprise

826
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.360
names. I'm curious too with all
the free agency news obviously with a lot

827
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:45.000
of players who haven't been signed yet, keeping a close eye on some of

828
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.280
those names too, as far as
what players don't end up being brought back

829
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.519
in the NFL if they don't sign
during this year, if some of those

830
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:54.719
guys end up being in another league, who knows, you know, there

831
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:59.679
was obviously a guy like from our
Tavis Bryant, for example, who showed

832
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:01.400
up in the XFL, didn't really
do much, but there's a there are

833
00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:05.800
going to be players like that still
floating around who might end up coming back,

834
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:07.920
or Brett Humley or something of that
nature. We are going to see

835
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:10.519
it. I think we're gonna see
more guys like that too, but not

836
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:14.320
too many, because again, the
XFL does a really good job of balancing

837
00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:17.280
saying, hey, we know you're
a veteran, you have good chops and

838
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.079
you've been around for a while,
but we also want to give chances to

839
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:24.280
people who haven't had a lot of
them either are really young. So I'm

840
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:29.719
very curious to see how the training
camps and the free agent lists shakes out

841
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:35.000
too in the NFL in the coming
months. Yeah, talking here, Yeah,

842
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.480
Gary's agree and as they have my
preferred leagues on tickdown to anyone,

843
00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:44.280
Yeah, Max says, because Hailey
Sanchie doesn't think people to be interested,

844
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:47.000
we'd be interested in feel analyzed draft
Irean players and they announced the picks after

845
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:50.679
they actually did the draft. I
guess it's hard to do a live show

846
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.800
with the resources available. Yeah,
I guess. I mean Rick, Rick's

847
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.320
been on here a bunch, and
you know, give us the list.

848
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:59.039
Rick knows all these guys, or
get Evan, you know, get us

849
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.320
on. You know, we know
these It's hard to do the big dump

850
00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:06.239
that way. I at least,
you know, if we knew when it

851
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:07.679
was going to be. Like I
said, I had emailed in and I

852
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:09.760
said, can we get on the
zoom call? Can we get on?

853
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:13.840
Can we get some of these players
and start making notes and stuff as opposed

854
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:16.760
to just this freak out like oh
it's all happening here. But anyway,

855
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:20.639
um, good stuff. Like I
said, shout out all the players have

856
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.119
got the opportunity I think two hundred
plus right, and shout out Sam and

857
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:28.440
kJ and everyone and like everyone the
ESPN and Haley all the other people involved

858
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:30.639
in that a lot of work with
that, So just we appreciate it.

859
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.960
You know, we were on here
pound in want offseason content. So CFL

860
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:38.159
Week eight here, you know,
Hussey and I have been obviously doing our

861
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:45.519
weekly recaps. Tonight we have Hamilton's
and Ottawa, you know, Dustin Crumb

862
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:49.280
sweeping the nation here for the CFL
andy. What do you make of this

863
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.159
because I you know, it's a
couple of weeks ago. This isn't that

864
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:55.119
exciting of a game. Bows coming
back? Right? Bows on? I

865
00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:59.840
think I saw him activated, So
this is gonna be Bow versus Dustin Crumb.

866
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:04.559
The game we didn't know we wanted, you know how that trailer for

867
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.519
that new Willie Wonka movie dropped and
how they're trying to come out with another

868
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.760
one with the people and all that. Yeah, okay, well, if

869
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:17.320
if Crumb was a Wonka bar,
he Crumb did allumptious because he's been nothing

870
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:22.800
but sweet for this Ottawa team.
I am enthralled by Dustin Crumb. I

871
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.400
love his play style, I love
what he's done. I was so impressed

872
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.480
by him against Calgary because they took
away his legs, they started spying on

873
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:32.920
him, and he just started dropping
bombs down the field. That guy has

874
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.960
so much talent to him. I'm
really really excited for him, and I

875
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:40.559
am so happy for Ottawa. This
team has been in such a dirge as

876
00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:45.599
far as notoriety, as far as
success, as far as not being able

877
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:46.880
to win at home. They've won
back to back home games after they're just

878
00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:52.480
horrendous home losing streak that they had
had for you know, years plural and

879
00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:55.880
for them, I mean, it's
awesome. I think Ottawa has a real

880
00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:59.719
chance to now get into the playoffs, which I did not think it was

881
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:04.000
going to happened even before the season
started, but especially two weeks ago when

882
00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:07.239
it just seemed like their entire world
had crumbled, no pun intended, and

883
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.079
it seemed like it was over.
But that come back against Winnipeg because has

884
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:15.400
just completely jumpstarted them. They're exciting. I don't think they get into another

885
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:20.199
overtime match this time around. This
game, I feel very confident in them

886
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:24.599
taking I look Hamilton, Jason would
tell you first obviously that they're having a

887
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:29.159
lot of struggles. Their defense has
just been gradually going down further and further

888
00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:31.920
and further in terms of efficiency.
A guy like Simony Lawrence can only do

889
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:35.239
so much, and I know he's
getting up there in age too, so

890
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.280
I this secondary for Hamilton has just
been tested and has not really shown up

891
00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:44.840
in a lot of context. Ottawa
is just really getting their stride, especially

892
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:49.119
offensively. It's really exciting to see
all these things developing them for them.

893
00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:51.559
And I like Bob Dice, I
like there, you know they're they're a

894
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:55.119
coach that they they hired. He's
really I just think he seems like a

895
00:54:55.280 --> 00:55:00.360
very players oriented coach and he seems
to really get a lot of these players

896
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.119
and a lot of their personalities,
and it's very exciting for this team.

897
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:05.679
They just feel like a young,
upstart team in a lot of ways,

898
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:09.199
and it's I'm just I'm thankful to
finally see this kind of come to fruition

899
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:14.920
for them, especially after all just
the horrendous injuries they've had happened to them,

900
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:19.320
the bad luck they've had. I
see Ottawa taking care of business here

901
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:24.800
pretty easily. I don't know.
Yeah, Bo didn't look good before he

902
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:30.519
was hurt. Now we've handled this. Was it? Was it tire Taylor

903
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:36.559
True with the third string for Hamilton
Taylor Powell coming back? Yeah, I

904
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:38.360
don't know. I mean I I
kind of thought Crum was a one trick

905
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:42.679
pony here and then obviously, you
know, being able to do it against

906
00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:47.880
Winnipeg and being able to do it
against who is it against Calgary here,

907
00:55:47.880 --> 00:55:51.119
I'm going back here. There was
a long way the last week. It

908
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:53.519
was a long week ago here.
But no, I mean, this is

909
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:57.880
exciting, Like I like this.
You know, we had the nighthan work

910
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.559
of it all, and you know, kind of everyone knew that, Okay,

911
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:05.000
he's gonna be whatever. People I
knew, you know, you knew

912
00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.760
he was going to be good.
You know how good he was going to

913
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:09.679
be here, We've had, you
know, injuries, everything lead to this.

914
00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:13.159
I mean this is a movie here
at this point I said week one,

915
00:56:13.199 --> 00:56:16.559
when crime came into relief that you
know, if it was a movie,

916
00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.840
he would have made that tatdown at
the end was tackled shot here ended

917
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:23.719
up doing it, taking them to
overtime, and all of that after should

918
00:56:23.719 --> 00:56:28.800
be sid me. Is this the
game of the week, I suppose so.

919
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:31.960
In terms of the matchup the quarterbacks, I mean, Hamilton's desperate.

920
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:36.920
They definitely need to get a win, like they're they're in trouble. This

921
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:40.400
is this Eastern playoff picture. I
know the other teams in the division besides

922
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:45.679
Toronto a little bit weak, but
they need this desperately because it's very much

923
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:51.360
a difference between if their second or
third, and potentially they could be last

924
00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:54.800
if things don't go well. If
Montreal somehow ends up winning, then they

925
00:56:54.920 --> 00:57:00.920
could be looking at the basement here
if they're not careful. But I would

926
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.000
say it's not the sexiest matchup,
but I do think it is at one

927
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.280
of the most vital matchups of the
entire weekend. So as far as the

928
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.800
East standings go, yes, it
is something that they have to be.

929
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:15.760
They have to be cognisant of what
could happen to them. If they don't

930
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:21.360
tiecats don't get there's things together,
It's going to be a rough second half

931
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.119
of the season. The first third
has not been very kind to them.

932
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:29.880
We'll leave, I Mitchell, I
don't know. He's just like you said

933
00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:31.079
at the beginning of the year,
you said it before the season started.

934
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:36.639
I mean, his physical tools have
deteriorated and he's been hurt, and I

935
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:38.280
don't know if he has it anymore. And also this receiving cord just is

936
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:44.800
so frustratingly inefficient. This team cannot
punch it in in the red zone,

937
00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:47.199
like they just keep having these instances
where they cannot score in the red zone.

938
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:52.199
I thought Matthew Schiltz has played the
best out of all the quarterbacks.

939
00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:55.920
He just had a lot more bravado. He attacked down field a lot more.

940
00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:59.400
But even then, even with him, they still couldn't get it done

941
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:01.480
in the end zone. I remember
that game. I think it was against

942
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.280
not Toronto. Who was it?
There was Montreal When they played against Montreal

943
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.039
at home. I thought that was
a really lost opportunity because they just could

944
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:14.519
not put in the end zone.
Montreal scored touchdowns and Hamilton's scored field goals.

945
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:16.079
That's kind of the story of their
season. I very much did the

946
00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:20.599
same thing happening this weekend, where
the Red Blacks will be able to punch

947
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:22.719
it in and Crumb will be able
to work some magic. The tiger Cats

948
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:27.119
will probably get end up kicking field
goals and ultimately that's going to end up

949
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.039
in them dropping another one of being
two and five. Yeah, I don't

950
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:34.760
know this the tie Cats Red Blacks
series, the big division game Friday night.

951
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:39.400
That excites me. Looking here Saskatchewan
going and this is the big what

952
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:45.519
is it? The touchdown? Atlantic
here owen or five five? And note

953
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:51.880
Toronto here we have Mason Fine coming
in, Trevor Harris going down, season

954
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:57.239
ending. I don't uh, I
don't have high hopes here for the saskatch

955
00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.440
from our friends day is this?
Is this the upset of the sense it

956
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:05.840
would be, especially considering how an
f their offense was last week, and

957
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:08.840
also as far as a coaching matchup
goes, this is a huge mismatch.

958
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:15.679
Craig Dickinson is going to be in
big trouble this season because he did not

959
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:21.079
perform very well last week. That
third down decision when he went for it

960
00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:22.960
he got it, and then he
didn't go for it when there were five

961
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:28.039
yards out from the end zone and
decided to kick a field goal after burning

962
00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:31.760
time on the clock and then being
down seven. Was that was extremely negligible.

963
00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:37.800
I cannot believe that happened. That
being said, Saskatchewan still had a

964
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:42.199
chance in that game because the offense
for BC had just kind of run into

965
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:46.320
a rut. The one thing that
Saskatchewan has going for them is Mario Alford.

966
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:51.400
That guy is electric. When Sean
White went out for that field goal

967
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:53.400
to go up ten to kick it
to make it a ten point game for

968
00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:58.159
BC, and he starts lining up
and I'm seeing Alford in the end zone.

969
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:00.800
It's less than a minute left in
the game, and all I'm thinking

970
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:02.840
is if this doesn't go well,
Alfred could run this back and he could

971
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.880
tie the game. After all of
that, despite how poor and inefficient Saskatchewan

972
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:09.199
had been, they still had a
chance to be in that game. And

973
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:14.800
Alfred is really their calling card.
But against Toronto, I imagine they're going

974
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.519
to neutralize him and I don't think
they're gonna have a lot of options,

975
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.800
And this is Skatchewe defense is just
gonna get worn out by Toronto's run game.

976
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:27.119
Chad Kelly has been playing outstanding.
He's I think he's getting better and

977
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:30.760
better every week. His his accuracy, his rapport with receivers has been awesome.

978
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:36.679
Davante Cox has been great. I
love Angio Hollett is just awesome.

979
01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:40.440
I mean, he's kind of a
man crush like he's he's he has to

980
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.480
be one of the most marketable players
in the league in my opinion. And

981
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:47.320
this Toronto team, I mean,
this is gonna be this should be a

982
01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:51.840
walk, and this is not really
much. There's not much scatch one can

983
01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:55.159
do. I mean, and also
the travel distance Scatchewan had to travel to

984
01:00:55.320 --> 01:00:58.920
BC, back to Skatchewan and now
all the way to out the Halifax,

985
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:02.639
Like that's rough. That's travel schedule, travel schedule. Toronto doesn't have to

986
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:07.199
go that far obviously, And so
um yeah, I mean this is this

987
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:12.519
should be a walk for Toronto and
not really much of a matchup to look

988
01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:14.760
forward to. I mean, it's
great camaraderie, it's great for the league

989
01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:17.800
playing out there and having this whole
situation. But I imagine, I mean

990
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:22.000
two weeks ago you were looking at
Trevor Harrison at above five hundred squad against

991
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.480
an undefeated Toronto team and it looks
like a pretty decent matchup, and in

992
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:29.239
two weeks it soured pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don't. I don't know.

993
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:31.880
Here in Toronto seems to be Rolland
who are they playing next week?

994
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:37.719
They're at Calgary, I mean Ottawa, I mean Ottawa week ten, but

995
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:40.400
that's at home. I don't.
I don't see a game where Toronto loses

996
01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:43.800
here for a long time. They're
back on a buy in week eleven.

997
01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:45.400
Then maybe then they get banged up. Maybe that's it, you know,

998
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:49.000
they go on their buy and then
they came back. Like I mean,

999
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.519
I see Toronto making a making a
big run here, especially like you said,

1000
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:54.920
with the travel and everything. I
don't know, does a touchdown Atlantic

1001
01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:58.519
do anything. I mean, I
know that this is always supposed to like

1002
01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.679
show we're doing the expandion. I
think Hodge had posted today like sites that

1003
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.800
we can use for futures, Like
I kind of tired talking about this,

1004
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:09.280
you know, with the experision,
any thoughts on that and trying to get

1005
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:14.239
that that area of the country you
know, excited. I mean, this

1006
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:20.199
is DejaVu because Jason did a great
thing yesterday where he posted a video of

1007
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:23.320
kind of detailing the history of the
Touchdown Atlantic Series. This has been going

1008
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:28.320
back since since the eighties. This
has been an idea from the league for

1009
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:30.360
quite some time of putting a team
out there and putting a tenth team,

1010
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:36.639
and it has never come to fruition
because of one reason or another. It's

1011
01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:39.320
Randy and Rosie's mission statement to make
that happen. I don't know how viable

1012
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:43.559
it isn't happening. Would I love
to have it? Yes, absolutely,

1013
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:45.840
I mean having a tenth team would
solve so many problems. I can't believe

1014
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:51.000
they didn't have Toronto playing the first
week because at being nine teams and they

1015
01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:53.920
left them off the schedule. Your
first game of the schedule should have been

1016
01:02:54.199 --> 01:03:00.360
Hamilton at Toronto, first game of
the season, like no uses, that

1017
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:01.719
should have been your Thursday night matchup. And it said we had to wait

1018
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:05.239
till week two at the end of
the week on Sunday night for that.

1019
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:07.840
That's ridiculous. And this whole nineteen
thing has always been really weird to me.

1020
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:13.119
That being said, trying to force, you know, Nova Scotia's hand

1021
01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:16.239
into trying to fund a team here. It's hard to publicly and you know,

1022
01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:22.920
encourage people to fund a team or
put resources into building a team when

1023
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:24.920
not everybody is going to utilize that
resource. You have to kind of play

1024
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:28.639
your own hand. And unfortunately,
I don't know if the league has the

1025
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:31.679
resources to do that or is willing
to do that. So for them,

1026
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:35.320
I mean, it's a nice series, it's cool, but it's got to

1027
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.000
at some point push cups to shoves. Something has to change here, and

1028
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:43.079
something has to be done because they
can't keep playing this game of chicken forever

1029
01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:45.960
because people are gonna get freshened and
fed up with it if they haven't already.

1030
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:50.639
Something has to change, you know, I don't know what like it.

1031
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:54.000
Should they just have the mantra like
you know the Vegas Vipers and Rod

1032
01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:57.159
Woodson saying, well, we'll playing
a parking lot, it doesn't matter,

1033
01:03:57.519 --> 01:03:59.960
you know. Do they just take
that mantra with them and just do that

1034
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:02.280
instead, Because I don't know what's
going to get it out there. If

1035
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:05.119
you can't just wait around for the
perfect venue and be able to have the

1036
01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:09.559
perfect situation, maybe you're just gonna
it's gonna have to be a makeshift situation.

1037
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:12.440
You're just gonna have to eat it
for a few years. I don't

1038
01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.400
know. It's just like I don't
know. I always feels like we just

1039
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:17.119
kind of get bored on here and
we go forward with this, and you

1040
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:19.880
know, like it's kind of like
the XFL expansion talk, like with the

1041
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:23.639
trademarks, like, oh, how
can we pop how can we pop some

1042
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:29.000
impressions right now? Like let's talk
about it. Amazing it is our quarterback

1043
01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:31.880
Greggs giving find a long leash as
riders or I don't. I mean,

1044
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:35.159
I don't think they have any I
don't think they have many other options there.

1045
01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:41.840
Craig h You know, if if
you were cool with Mason fine,

1046
01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:44.880
you wouldn't have gone down and got
Trevor Harris. Like so it's really hard

1047
01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:46.920
now to be like, well,
you know, we're he's fine. I

1048
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:49.599
mean, I don't know, you
mentioned Cody last year, you did all

1049
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:53.079
this stuff, and then now to
be kind of in the same position you

1050
01:04:53.119 --> 01:04:58.159
were, it has to feel I
don't know, that has to feel upsetting,

1051
01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:00.119
right if you're the Saskatchewan rough Rider, like team building, I hear,

1052
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:02.039
you know, we really thought we
were going to make a run and

1053
01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:05.159
they had such a pitiful last year
and missing the playoffs and hosting the Gray

1054
01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:10.039
Cup in Regina and kind of all
that coming back out on here. M

1055
01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:16.199
Hussey had a comment about Dave Evans
throwing four interceptions and giving me nightmares this

1056
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:18.639
week? What do you make of
this? Is this a trap game from

1057
01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:23.639
the BC Lions BC at Edmonton here
where this would be last number twenty one?

1058
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:26.920
This would be the record breaking,
right because they've tied the record now

1059
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.239
at twenty would be the record breaking
at twenty one? All right? Read

1060
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:36.920
listen, I think it would be. And I'm an insane man in some

1061
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:45.159
respects so badly want to pick Edmonton
to come in with the upset here for

1062
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.920
a couple of reasons. One,
I like David Evans, but he's not

1063
01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:51.880
that great of Evan upgrade and not
having Va around I think does alter the

1064
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:56.400
offense a lot. It's going to
be a very low scoring, sluggish game

1065
01:05:56.400 --> 01:06:01.000
in a lot of ways. But
I can't in good con at pick Edmonton.

1066
01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:08.320
And here's why. Last week,
in my opinion, Chris Jones did

1067
01:06:08.840 --> 01:06:12.960
what I thought was comparable to a
fireball offense. And here's why I know

1068
01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:16.719
everyone's up in arms about Trey Ford. I know everybody's incredulous about the start.

1069
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.719
I know everyone's just you know,
losing their minds over you know,

1070
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:27.079
what is it Maurice French who got
released from the team this week at you

1071
01:06:27.119 --> 01:06:30.960
know a lot of the creative control
differences with how he handles players. But

1072
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:35.920
here's my point about it. You
just watched game tape of the Winnipeg Blue

1073
01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:44.440
Bombers failing miserably to contain Dusted Crumb
in his legs because one they didn't put

1074
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.719
a spy on him, and two
they're an older defense, like they can't

1075
01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:51.920
chase after running quarterbacks. I've seen
the one Kilee seal for Winnipeg this year

1076
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:59.719
is they cannot stop quarterbacks who run. Va gave them trouble and Crumb gave

1077
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:02.840
them trouble. Now Here you are
with Taylor Cornelius, who we all know

1078
01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:08.760
has been less than enviable as far
as a pastor. But one of his

1079
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:12.760
assets is his legs, and a
couple of times he got out he made

1080
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:15.559
some big plays with his legs against
Winnipeg. Did they go back to that

1081
01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:18.480
at all after he made a big
play with his legs? No, they

1082
01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:21.239
continue to try and throw the ball
around and pretend like he was a seventy

1083
01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:25.639
percent completion pastor, and he was
not, and he has not been and

1084
01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.079
he will not be. I don't
understand why Chris Jones decides to make fetch

1085
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:35.239
happen when clearly all you have to
do is put Trey Ford into position to

1086
01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:41.559
use his legs and use his assets, get out there and make Winnipeg earn

1087
01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:45.920
it. That was extremely negligible to
me. I cannot believe that they not

1088
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:49.800
find a way to get any sort
of mobility packages, RPO, anything to

1089
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:54.079
get their quarterbacks to run against that
Winnipeg defense, which is old and running

1090
01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:57.360
down like it is. It's just
that it's an Achilles heal for them.

1091
01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.920
They clearly did not do enough tape
study or it was just some sort of

1092
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:08.119
some sort of forced idea of what
they were going to run on offense.

1093
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:11.280
To me, that was extremely negligible. I don't think they would have won

1094
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:14.039
the game, but they would have
given Winnipeg a run for their money.

1095
01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:16.439
And it said they just folded and
quit in the second half like they usually

1096
01:08:16.439 --> 01:08:20.079
do. So I can't trust this
Edmonton team at all until further notice,

1097
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:25.640
and Chris Jones has completely lost me. We have a little bit of breaking

1098
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:28.520
news year, I have pulled up
but this was shared over Mike Mitchell in

1099
01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:32.319
our chat. Gregor Parks sharing it
here, but uh, it was it.

1100
01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:38.199
Michael Bandy being signed to the Denver
Broncos would be and we gotta get

1101
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:43.119
we need to get like because right, isn't this thirty two because because like

1102
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:46.800
Fago and the other one they were
they were like cut before this they were

1103
01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:51.840
kind of on the rosters but not
but unofficially officially thirty four players here assigned

1104
01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:56.720
to the to the NFL. Here
any any comments on this? I saw

1105
01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.159
it coming into the chat Mike and
sent it over too. I mean for

1106
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:01.439
Bandy, you know, I think
he ends up in the practice squad again.

1107
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:04.119
Obviously he got a lot of burn
with the Chargers last year and was

1108
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:08.600
sort of an emergency option after all
the injuries that they had to their wide

1109
01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:12.880
receivers. You know that someone else
like Bailey Gaither is getting looked out by

1110
01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:15.159
the Chargers this week. But my
comment at the time was, well,

1111
01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:17.479
there's no room for him, but
maybe there would be a room if something

1112
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:19.640
happened. Of course, I don't
want that to happen. I don't want

1113
01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:25.439
any more Charger bide receiver injuries,
So I very much prefer that doesn't happen.

1114
01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:28.279
But you know that's the case for
someone like Bandy, He's just gonna

1115
01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:30.920
have to wait around until something happens. You know, if Sean Payton likes

1116
01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:33.119
you, that asks nast to be
in something, right, So I think

1117
01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:38.319
good for him, you know,
kind of keep away, keep around Hinton.

1118
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:41.640
It's a shame that he's not able
to be around. He's a multi

1119
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:45.520
faceted option. We obviously saw him
play quarterback that one game when the Broncos

1120
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.680
had no quarterbacks because of COVID,
And for Bandy, I mean, that's

1121
01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:51.880
a good opportunity. We'll see.
He's probably gonna get a lot of preseason

1122
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:57.640
burn now and I'm not sure what
his familiarity with their offensive scheme is.

1123
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:00.640
But that's good. That's a good
sp for him to be in. And

1124
01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:03.760
you know that's gonna be the reality
for a lot of these players who are

1125
01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.279
signing in this lad it's just gonna
be okay, Well, something happened,

1126
01:10:06.319 --> 01:10:09.600
we need somebody else. Who do
we know? Oh we know this guy,

1127
01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:11.880
he played in this league. Oh
he has this tape. You know

1128
01:10:12.039 --> 01:10:15.119
we have we have information on him. Again, the end of the day.

1129
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:16.680
That's all it is about, right, It's just having information all these

1130
01:10:16.680 --> 01:10:20.039
players to be able to pass it
around and be able to use these analytics

1131
01:10:20.039 --> 01:10:23.720
and the models and say, okay, we can go call this guy.

1132
01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:28.800
So yeah, good for baby.
You gotta like, I mean, not

1133
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:32.119
that Burrow is injured, but you
gotta like Herbert going out getting his bag,

1134
01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:34.800
you know, kind of in this
you know, pissing contest back and

1135
01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:36.920
forth, and then Burrow going out
and kind of getting hurt. I mean,

1136
01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:41.800
I hope that that's not a serious
injury, but you know it's crazy

1137
01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:44.359
to think that they were kind of
doing this hold out back and forth and

1138
01:10:44.399 --> 01:10:48.840
then you know, obviously Herbert gets
and then Burrow coming out. Let's get

1139
01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:51.520
here, final thoughts and then we
can wrap up if there's anything else.

1140
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:57.319
Calgary at Montreal, Cody, So
it's good. I like, I like

1141
01:10:57.439 --> 01:11:00.239
my boy Cody. What do you
make about the alouttes here? He's been

1142
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:04.039
fine. I mean, I think
he's got more stability in his life now,

1143
01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:06.800
he doesn't have to worry about being
chased down by people in the grocery

1144
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:10.960
store anymore. So I think for
his sanity, it's good for him.

1145
01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:15.920
But as far as Montreal overall,
I'm not crazy about them. I just

1146
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:18.199
don't think their offense is run as
efficiently as I would have liked, and

1147
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:24.760
I'm not really big on them as
far as what they've been accomplishing on that

1148
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.960
side of the ball. I still
can't believe, speaking of Mario Alford from

1149
01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.920
earlier, I can't believe they let
him just go to Saskatchewan like that.

1150
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.119
To me is insane that they let
Mario Alford walk because that's such a weapon

1151
01:11:34.159 --> 01:11:38.239
they have on your team. As
far as Calgary goes, I mean,

1152
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:42.159
look, Jake Mayer stats wise,
obviously had to bear a good game last

1153
01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:45.199
week, but the thing that still
gets me about him is he still just

1154
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:48.760
throws picks that really hurt his team. The turnover margin for Calgary is not

1155
01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:56.199
good because of his negligible decisions,
and their defense is kind of getting pounded

1156
01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:58.880
on. I mean, they've given
up a lot of points in some instances,

1157
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:02.039
and they've got to be careful what
where they're going forward because they just

1158
01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:05.800
have not really been able to have
like a pass rush or really been able

1159
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:10.039
to kind of get any sort of
pressure under these quarterbacks. I mean,

1160
01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:14.039
again, Crum just absolutely dice them
up all game last week, So for

1161
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:16.680
them, I mean, this is
kind of a must win. But at

1162
01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:20.479
the same time, Saskatchewan is also
falling apart. So for Calgary, they

1163
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.840
might look out and still get the
third slot in the West because Edmonton is

1164
01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:29.439
just in a black hole and Saskatchewan
is trending downwards. Says Calgary might look

1165
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:32.239
out ultimately in this season, but
they're you know, they still have to

1166
01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:35.079
win games if they're going to expect
it to the crossover. Really, what

1167
01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:40.680
you're looking at here is crossover potential
now right. So here, if you

1168
01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:44.079
look at the standings, you know
what's going to happen at that bottom tier

1169
01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:45.520
with the East. Now, the
East is much more even in terms of

1170
01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:51.279
who has wins and who doesn't,
So somebody from there is probably I mean,

1171
01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:55.840
they might just stay stay put and
kind of have their spot. But

1172
01:12:56.159 --> 01:12:59.399
who's going to do the crossover here? It'll be interesting since Calgary is kind

1173
01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:03.720
of floating around and I think they
just have to win enough games. But

1174
01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:08.760
clearly I said it before the season
started. I said, I don't I

1175
01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:11.479
think they're not gonna be as good
as people expected to be because I think

1176
01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:14.119
I don't think they've been able to
replenish their talent, and that's clearly been

1177
01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:16.199
the case so far. The rest
of the league has outpaced them. You

1178
01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:20.199
know, Blue Bombers are always good. Lines have been great. You know,

1179
01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:25.680
Ottawa's revived themselves and are gonna started
just you know, steamrolling people.

1180
01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:30.359
So it's kind of for me.
Calgary they have to fix some of their

1181
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:32.920
issues. I don't know if they
can fix it defensively. Offensively, they

1182
01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:35.359
just need to stop turning the ball
over and may or need to stop throwing

1183
01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:41.039
picks. Yeah, mad chatter commenting
here and I just needed it. There's

1184
01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:43.960
someone like me and here. Well, you were asking about Alex McGoo.

1185
01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:46.960
We talked about mcgu off the top
of the show getting signing the autograss over

1186
01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:49.600
at Packers training camp. So you
know, I mean, we're doing other

1187
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:54.399
thing. I can't I can't control
the chat too much on here. Mike

1188
01:13:54.479 --> 01:14:00.159
has a question in regards to the
combine our comment players gonna be added the

1189
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:02.399
upcoming draft or individual teams you make
an offers to the players they liked.

1190
01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:05.600
It was my understanding that they were
going to be part of the first supplemental

1191
01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:10.159
draft and then there'll be the second
supplemental draft. That will be kind of

1192
01:14:10.359 --> 01:14:15.560
not like leftovers, but anyone else
NFL players, especially as kind of anything

1193
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:19.119
with that. Am I correct in
that understanding? Andy, Yeah, it's

1194
01:14:19.119 --> 01:14:21.840
all calendar related. So it's all
just players that are coming out of the

1195
01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:26.880
showcases and the combines, and then
following that anybody who's been a roster or

1196
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:30.920
got onto an NFL roster and then
becomes available after that will be the supplemental

1197
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.119
draft following that. So it's kind
of like what the USFL did a little

1198
01:14:33.159 --> 01:14:36.199
bit, although this case, obviously, since we're in the middle of the

1199
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:40.840
NFL season, there's potential for a
lot of transition, a lot of change,

1200
01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:43.680
you know, because this is going
to be in the fall, and

1201
01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:45.039
then it's going to be a winter
for the second one, so it's sort

1202
01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:48.079
of all this transition going on.
But yeah, I mean, the first

1203
01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:51.239
one is just going to be all
the players that come from these showcases and

1204
01:14:51.319 --> 01:14:56.520
the combine. Yeah, and you
know, I we had our big talk

1205
01:14:56.520 --> 01:15:00.439
with I'm sorry, it's like we
have our big talk with Russ a couple

1206
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:03.439
of weeks ago that for whatever,
whether it was time, you know,

1207
01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:08.359
timing and anything else going on,
I didn't perform super well. So you

1208
01:15:08.680 --> 01:15:11.920
want to know about the XFL offseason. It was what forty minutes or whatever

1209
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:15.079
with Russ talking kind of all that
stuff and getting his thoughts. So that

1210
01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:18.359
was all on there as well.
Anything else we'll wrap up here soon.

1211
01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:21.319
Anything else on the games, like
I said, might I have a fear

1212
01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:26.000
Trap game here circled with the BC. But anything else from this week Obviously

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01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:30.359
Blue Bomber is on and buy here
after taking care of business against who did

1214
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:34.920
they beat demolishing in Edmonton. I
think we're going to see a lot of

1215
01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:40.560
status quot this weekend. And it's
funny to say status quo with Ottawa in

1216
01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:43.439
terms of winning, but that's kind
of where we're at with them right now.

1217
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:45.840
I think they hold pat Toronto is
gonna be fine. BC. I

1218
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:50.399
think we'll be okay because I just
don't trust Edmonton. That Calgary Montreal game

1219
01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:54.159
is gonna be really weird. Some
some stuff's gonna go down to that game.

1220
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:57.279
I can see that getting really out
of hand and just being really wacky.

1221
01:15:57.359 --> 01:15:59.920
So that might end up actually being
the most entertainment taining game of the

1222
01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:02.319
of the entire weekend. Maybe the
matchup we look forward to the most is

1223
01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:08.560
the outaway game, but I that
Calgary games just reeks of weirdness, so

1224
01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:11.720
that could be end up being the
most wackiest matchup. But as far as

1225
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:15.479
drastic trend setting or anything, I
don't think there's gonna be anything different.

1226
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:19.760
Your dividual leaders are going to probably
both win and Ottawa. I think we'll

1227
01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:24.039
continue to ascend and be about five
hundred, whichuld be at this point of

1228
01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:28.439
the season. It's tremendous. So
I'm looking on here. I just on

1229
01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:33.439
my Fubo. The Saturday games are
both going to be on the CFL or

1230
01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:38.920
a CBS Sports network whatever, But
at the game tonight I think should be

1231
01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:41.840
free on CFL plots if you want
to watch a game tonight, if you

1232
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.239
want some more football content after the
XML combine and all that, I think

1233
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:47.279
there should be a good one tonight. Bo coming back And like I said,

1234
01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:50.479
with Dustin't crumbing and anything else,
Andy, we did good here,

1235
01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:54.680
we did. I appreciate you know, it's kind of a weird week and

1236
01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:57.640
the combine and you know, hours
of live content to go through. Anything

1237
01:16:57.640 --> 01:16:59.920
else you want to get off your
chest before we get out of here,

1238
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:02.760
Well, thank you for having me
on. I've been shopping at the bit

1239
01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:05.680
to talk about CFL. Every time
I watch you and Jason and evan't chop

1240
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:09.399
it up. I just want to
desperately jump on and say something, you

1241
01:17:09.399 --> 01:17:12.880
know, be like that road caller. But I appreciate you having me on.

1242
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:16.680
I'm excited about some of the other
showcases. And I mean, we're

1243
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:19.199
getting into NFL training camps. We're
gonna see some of these players that we

1244
01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:23.840
know out in the preseason games soon. We're gonna have some real familiarity with

1245
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:26.840
some of these players. I will
be at a preseason game myself in two

1246
01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:30.560
weeks. I will actually be at
a Raiders preseason game, so we'll see

1247
01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:34.159
if I have any familiar faces to
observe in that game. So this is

1248
01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:39.840
really exciting time for people that we
follow in, players that we've been you

1249
01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:44.239
know, religiously watching for the last
year or so. I'm you know,

1250
01:17:44.399 --> 01:17:46.760
football season never ends for us.
It might be starting up for a lot

1251
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:50.640
of other people, but for us, you know, the role out continues.

1252
01:17:51.399 --> 01:17:56.319
Yeah you know, I mean you
got to keep doing it on here,

1253
01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:59.960
you know, no weeks off,
and it is interesting. It's exciting,

1254
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:01.600
and like I said, I like
having the CFL stuff right now.

1255
01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:05.600
I wish that performed a little bit
better. You know. I don't know

1256
01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:10.359
if that's a demographics thing or if
it's a you know, candidate thing or

1257
01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:15.000
whatever. But the season has been
good. I still think there's problems to

1258
01:18:15.159 --> 01:18:18.039
be had. We had C Simmons
on we're talking like, yeah, it

1259
01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:20.920
was the greatest weekend of CFL games? Was that two weekends ago? Like,

1260
01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:24.279
there's still a lot of glaring issues
here where I think a lot of

1261
01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:27.399
CFL people look and they're like,
oh, look see like they're great,

1262
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:30.439
Like we're fine. It's like,
well, you know, you just happened

1263
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:33.199
to be the dust and crumb is
like the second coming up Michael Vicker or

1264
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:36.159
something here, like we didn't you
know, we didn't know going in.

1265
01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:40.960
You know, so things change and
it's good that it worked out. But

1266
01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:45.720
I think there's stuff like that u
XFL retweeting now, oh that's good.

1267
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:49.479
Oh that's talking about kJ sales on
here they're tweeting out Marquette King's new songs.

1268
01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:53.279
So yeah, I mean, let's
like I said, the best thing

1269
01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:56.920
to FCF did was help get these
guys you know, doing their own streams

1270
01:18:56.920 --> 01:19:00.960
and everything else. So that will
do it. I said, we'll be

1271
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:04.319
back Monday, Hussey and I and
Evan I assume at nine am Pacific,

1272
01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:08.239
and then I got to figure out
next week here could be you know,

1273
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:13.840
another dry week post XFL combined.
We have a Thursday game here BC at

1274
01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:15.560
Winnipeg, so I'll kind of throw
a wrench in things. We had the

1275
01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:19.720
eight one announcement on Tuesday, Like
I said, it'll be cool, but

1276
01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:24.239
Mike Mitchell already reporting the season tickets
going on sale, So I don't think

1277
01:19:24.399 --> 01:19:29.680
we're getting full season, single game
ticket schedule here in August. That feels

1278
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:31.600
very early. I do think,
well, hopefully we'll get that earlier this

1279
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:34.880
year. But you know, it's
something to kind of make weights here.

1280
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:41.520
Andy anything else, keep on fucking
man. I hope the weather's treating you

1281
01:19:41.560 --> 01:19:45.039
well, and I hope your baseball
teams play playing better than mine. Well,

1282
01:19:45.079 --> 01:19:48.000
I'll tell you we just said we
had we had to come from behind

1283
01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:53.720
victory there against the Twins, and
then you know, Julios hiting again.

1284
01:19:53.800 --> 01:19:57.640
We're going to Arizona tonight and then
we will be Socks are coming into town

1285
01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:00.920
on Monday, so we will be
there for the Socks game Mariners at that

1286
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.479
So yeah, Hopefully that was it. The Friars are doing all right?

1287
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:09.600
Is how it is aboard mission?
Man, it's not happening. I appreciate

1288
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:13.119
it, I appreciate Haley stopping by. Everyone else, appreciate Andy, and

1289
01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:26.079
we'll see you guys next time.
Thanks,