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And it will be time for these two teams to settle it

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between the white lines.

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Elway, Elway, he is going to fire to the end zone.

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Marino.

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Montana.

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He's looking downfield.

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The one-man wrecking crew.

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Unbelievable.

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Let's go.

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How did he do that?

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For the win.

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Unstoppable.

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Hello and welcome to a new season of NFL, back once again.

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Joining me, NFL safety Jason Bell and two-time Super Bowl

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winner Osi Umenyiora.

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Twice, yes.

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And hopefully these guys are as excited about the new season

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as Tampa Bay's Gerald McCoy was, when he returned to pre-season

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training sporting a kimono.

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He'd been on holiday to Japan and wanted everybody to know.

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And actually, as we will see a little bit later, players do

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return in a variety of odd ways to pre-season.

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I mean, now, with social media, everybody wants to put out

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who they are and their personality, but these guys are

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getting ridiculous.

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Though it's funny, and I enjoy it.

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Why aren't you in a kimono?

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No, no, no, I don't do that.

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I did once come dressed up as a sumo wrestler.

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That was cool.

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Did you?

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To pre-season.

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There's no pictures, but that was cool.

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My mission this season is to find those pictures.

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Before we actually get into this season, we're

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going to cast our minds back to February and what was possibly

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the greatest Super Bowl ever.

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Welcome to NRG Stadium and to Super Bowl LI

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between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons.

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New England tonight is trying to become a five-time

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Super Bowl winner.

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The boot, the flashbulbs go off, Super Bowl LI is under way.

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Devonta starts out.

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Wide left, into the end zone.

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He took a big leap, and Atlanta has grabbed the lead in Super Bowl LI.

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Chased by Macmillan, close to the far side.

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Jones makes the catch.

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Diving catch, touchdown, Atlanta.

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These Falcons have been well prepared for this

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game to say the least.

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Four-man rush.

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Pressure.

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He throws down the middle.

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The pass is picked off.

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It's coming back to the right.

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Goodbye.

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Could you play any worse right now?

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And the second New England turnover is cashed in right away.

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My goodness!

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Half this quarter has almost already gone so at some point

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the sense of urgency has got to be increased here.

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The Falcons lead 28-3.

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Fires left, catch made by White.

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Turns to the inside.

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Dives across the goal line.

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Touchdown, Patriots.

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And maybe, just maybe, there's the one you need.

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Into the upright.

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No good.

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You've got to be kidding me.

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Now it's time for somebody on the defensive side

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to get to Matt Ryan.

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The Patriots will try to stage the greatest comeback

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in Super Bowl history.

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It's loose.

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Are you kidding me?

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Unbelievable.

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The sack just can't happen.

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That cannot happen.

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Takes the step, backs up, looks left, throws it.

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Touchdown, Patriots.

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They will go for two.

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5.56 to go here in the fourth.

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He's in for two.

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Now we've got a ball game, folks.

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Touchdown, Patriots.

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They've drawn within two in Super Bowl LI.

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Screen left.

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Everybody that's supported you, everybody behind you today...

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Reaches across the goal line.

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It's a tied game in Super Bowl LI.

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I can't believe it!

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The first ever overtime game in Super Bowl history.

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Let's go score and win this thing, baby.

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For your mom.

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For your mom, bro.

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Takes the step.

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Tossed wide for James White.

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Cuts it upfield.

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Driving forward, diving to the goal-line.

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Touchdown.

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The title for the Patriots.

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I can't believe it!

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They have completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.

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I've seen it all.

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I have seen it all.

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He will be handed a Lombardi Trophy for the fifth time.

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You wanted one more, New England, and you got it.

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I've got goose bumps watching that, and the first thing that comes

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to mind is that there isn't a better sport when it comes

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to how it is covered, both cinematically, and the sound.

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Because people are miked up in this game.

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It gives you such an insight into it.

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Truly amazing, and the NFL does an outstanding job of allowing

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people to experience everything that goes on with those

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players on the field.

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People still talk to me about that game, seven months on,

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which isn't surprising, really.

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I feel like we witnessed the greatest Super Bowl ever.

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We were there, we saw it, we felt it, the emotions were happening.

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Not ever.

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It was a good one.

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It was ever, man.

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Are there two others that were greater for you?

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I can think of two other Super Bowls that were a little bit

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better than that one.

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That was good.

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It was a good one.

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The greatest comeback.

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The greatest comeback.

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I don't want this whole season to be about Brady

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and your animosity towards Brady, but you did end our coverage

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that night by saying he is the greatest of all time.

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Yes.

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Well, I have to apologise for that because I was a little

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emotional at the time, after seeing him defeat

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the Atlanta Falcons.

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But no, he's not the greatest of all time, man.

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That was the greatest comeback we've seen.

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That might have been the greatest performance we've

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seen in the Super Bowl, but the greatest of all time,

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I'm still not sold.

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So you've changed your mind?

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I changed my mind.

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What you will find, ladies and gentlemen,

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boys and girls watching, is that over the course

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of this season, they both change their minds an awful lot,

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particularly when it comes to predictions

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and who they are fancying, and all of that kind of stuff.

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The crucial point in that Super Bowl was the Edelmann catch,

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and the great thing about that, going back to coverage

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and the access we get, was that this was miked up,

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so you could actually hear this, shortly after he took the catch.

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I caught it.

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I caught it.

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I caught it.

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Crazy, I swear to God.

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No way, look at that.

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Watch.

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No, no.

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It was an amazing catch, and amazing footage as well.

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The thing is, he is Brady's go-to guy for the Patriots,

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so throwing it on to this season, he's going to be out

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for the season, isn't he?

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Edelmann.

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Devastating injury, because just like you said,

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that's his go-to guy.

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And you hear them talk about each other.

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They understand each other as friends and on the field,

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and that's important.

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They see the game the same way.

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Tom Brady needs him.

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This is the preseason game in which he did

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his cruciate, isn't it?

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So how much does that weaken New England, because actually,

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if you look at the stuff that they did, since winning

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the Super Bowl, they have strengthened in many ways.

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Yes, it doesn't weaken them, not one bit.

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And here's why I say that.

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Who was Tom Brady's go to guy last year?

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Gronkowski.

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What happened?

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He didn't play.

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They ended up winning the Super Bowl without him.

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This New England Patriots team is a well oiled machine.

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It doesn't matter who they have out there at receiver.

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They've brought in Brandin Cooks they brought in to Dwayne Allen,

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two outstanding receiving options for this guy.

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Gronkowski's coming back.

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They are going to be able to move on without Julian Edelmann.

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Do you find it remarkable that they are stronger already

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than they were last season, given how well they

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worked last season?

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And if so, let's get the question out the way

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on the preview show, can they go 19-0, the whole

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season undefeated?

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I don't think they can go undefeated.

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It's just so hard, week to week, to get up for every game.

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Things happen, you don't know.

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But as long as Tom Brady is taking that snap,

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they've got the chance to be great.

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And you'd say they are stronger than last year?

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Yes.

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OK.

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Well, we hope you were with us all of last season but we also hope

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to bring in new viewers and fans of the game, so if this

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is the first time you have dipped your toe into the NFL,

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here's a little explainer to get you up to speed.

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The 32 teams in the NFL are split equally between two conferences,

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the AFC and the NFC.

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Each conference is made up of four divisions that contain four teams.

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Each team will play 16 games in the regular season.

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They'll play their divisional rivals home and away every year,

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with their remaining ten games spread out across both conferences,

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based on a predetermined rotation.

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The aim in the regular season is to top your division by having

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the best win-to-loss record.

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As an example, here is how last season panned out.

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By winning your division, you automatically reach the play-offs.

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But there is also a back door.

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If your win-loss record is good enough, you can sneak into one

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of the four wild card spots.

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Once in the play-offs, the 12 teams who have qualified

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battle over who will be crowned conference champions.

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Then, on February the 4th in Minnesota, the NFC champions meet

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the AFC champions and they fight for the big one, the Super Bowl.

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I'd like to talk about Houston first of all with you both

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and what they are going through at the moment as a city.

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It's a city that you know very well.

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You lived there, you played for the Texans.

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It's such a sad situation and I actually was playing there

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when they had a hurricane before.

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I've been through the same situation.

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It was our bye week during the season, so we were able

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to get out of town, but I have team-mates that just

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had terrible stories about trying to get out of town,

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being in traffic.

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Scary.

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Did you feel a need, then, to step up as a group

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of players for the area, because there is no doubt

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that is what JJ Watt has gone over the past few days,

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as the face of the franchise?

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Absolutely.

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When we got back into town and saw what had happened,

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we definitely, the community, the players, the organisation,

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Bob McNair is a great owner, got behind it and we did as much

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as we could for the community.

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This might be a difficult question to answer, really,

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but if you go back to when Katrina hit New Orleans, New Orleans,

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the couple of seasons before Katrina went eight and eight.

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The season of Katrina, which damaged their stadium,

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they went three and 13.

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Do you think it could damage Houston?

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I know it pales into insignificance, but do you think it could damage

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their season on the field?

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Well, I would hope not, but from all indications and things

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I've seen in the past, it definitely has

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an effect on teams.

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Like you said with New Orleans and hurricane Katrina, we actually

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played against New Orleans that year, and they had to come,

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instead of playing in New Orleans, they had to come and play against us

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in New York, which was their home game.

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They were just a terrible team, and you could tell that the focus

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wasn't there, their mind was elsewhere, and rightfully so,

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because who really wants to be playing football in a situation

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where it's your whole town is decimated like that?

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So it might have an effect on their season but I hope it doesn't.

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Let's look at some of the other teams in the AFC.

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The Raiders were so close last year until they lost

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Derek Carr with a broken leg.

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He is back and he's fit, so what do you assess of their chances?

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Well, offensively, they are dangerous.

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With Marshawn Lynch now a closer, with that high-powered

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offence, they are amazing.

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I mean, I feel like what they did last year was just so significant,

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I don't know if they can do that again.

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And especially, I think nobody's talking about their weakness,

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which is their secondary.

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Well, I like the Oakland Raiders but I just don't think,

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like he said, they're going to be able to continue the success

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that they had last season.

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I think even though they brought in Marshawn Lynch,

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they have Derek Carr, the reigning defensive

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MVP in Kahlil Mack, an outstanding football player,

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but when I watched their games last year it just seemed to me

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something was missing.

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I can't put my finger on it right now but something seemed to be

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missing from that team and I don't think they are going

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to be able to dethrone the New England Patriots.

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All right, the best team in the AFC?

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New England Patriots.

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Best team in the AFC?

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New England.

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OK, the dark horses in the AFC, somebody that might surprise us,

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bearing in mind I will hold you to this all season?

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The Miami Dolphins.

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Really?

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Yes.

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And this is why I say that.

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Jay Cutler is an outstanding quarterback, under Adam Gates.

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He had his best season ever under Adam Gates,

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who is the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

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They have everything.

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Outstanding receivers, a good defence, tough

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physical running back.

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This is a good football team and this is my dark horse team.

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OK, we might come back to the Dolphins later.

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Houston, Texas.

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And I will tell you why.

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You are not going to outscore the New England Patriots.

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Yes.

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Who gave them the roughest time in the play-offs?

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Houston.

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Yes.

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They can stop them.

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If they get a little bit of offensive engine going,

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they can pull that off.

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Who is their quarterback, though, Tom Savage?

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They just need to keep it close, and DeShawn Watson

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will be on the field.

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For the first time this season, you to start to argue

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and the editor in my ear says, "Wrap it up".

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That's how it will be for the next few months.

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This season, I am told we are breaking new boundaries

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because in addition to our UK audience, we now have viewers tuning

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in around the world, apparently.

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No pressure.

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One of those nations taking in the show is Nigeria.

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So this next section is dedicated to the watching Umenyiora family,

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who no doubt have often wondered what Osi means when he says

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he's on the telly.

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Welcome to NFL this week.

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Joining me once again, former NFL quarterback Jason Bell,

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and two-time Super Bowl winner Osi Umenyiora.

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That was a great save.

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A touchdown for the Patriots.

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Give them the X, they need that.

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Keep throwing it up.

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Give me that X.

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Running like me when I was a kid in Africa.

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Have you ever been chased by a rhinoceros, man?

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We're going to have to send you to acting school.

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I'm the greatest the world has ever seen.

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This guy's humble.

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They closed that space down quicker than I close down my computer

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when my wife walks in the room.

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Show me what you got.

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Squeeze it in tight.

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I would hit him there.

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Talking bad about you when you're not around.

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Are you serious?

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I'm sorry.

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I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me.

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Paparazzi.

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There it is, that's it.

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Well, as we already saw with the kimono, preseason

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for an NFL player throws up the bizarre and the

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outright brilliant.

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Let's take a look around the leagues at what's been happening.

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Let's start with Antonio Brown and how he arrived for preseason

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at the Steelers in a vintage Rolls-Royce.

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You can't give everybody money.

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You can't give everybody money because this is the kind

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of thing that happens.

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He looks so calm and relaxed.

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Look at him.

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Would you...

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I mean, would you like team-mates doing this?

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Yeah, for me it was always good because I would like to be that guy.

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I was trying not to get cut every year!

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I definitely wasn't doing anything like that, but to watch

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guys like Osi come in, it is cool.

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They seem relaxed.

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Don't give him ideas on how to arrive for each show from now on!

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Odell Beckham Jr is a favourite of the show, obviously, for his skills.

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In preseason practice already, Osi, he has

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demonstrated what he does best.

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This guy just isn't a human being.

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Who makes catches like this routinely?

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He does this in the game, in practice.

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I mean, this is ridiculous.

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The good thing about this, it does show how much

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he does practice it.

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It isn't just like that.

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I mean, nobody really...

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They look at the catch, but watch him jump.

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He's jumping off of footwork that triple jumpers do.

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It's amazing.

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Speaking of serious preseason practice, this is unbelievable.

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This will make you wince.

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James Harrison of the Steelers, they are playing beach volleyball

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with a medicine ball.

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Wow.

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That's my boy Rob Golden, that's the safety, number 21.

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Could you do that?

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No.

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This right here is intimidation.

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He's doing this for guys to watch and think when they are playing

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against him, that he will just muscle them to death.

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This is just my regular work-out!

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In case you don't know.

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The greatest worker-outer there's ever been.

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I thought you might say that.

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Let's take a look at the London games coming, because we will get

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four NFL games in the capital of England this year.

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And there they are...

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Let's start with the Miami game, shall we, against

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the New Orleans Saints.

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You have already tipped them, Osi, as a dark horse.

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Do you think Cutler is a better option than

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Tannehill, who's injured?

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I think so, but only because of Adam Gase,

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and the fact we know he had his best season under Adam Gase in 2015.

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I think continuing that same offense, he's

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comfortable down there.

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He has even better receiving options than he had in Chicago.

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I think they will be a really good team.

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There will be a lot of hype around that game in London

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because Jay Ajayi will be back for the Dolphins,

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back in his hometown.

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Absolutely, and he's one of the hardest running running

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backs in the league.

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He breaks more tackles than anybody.

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It's going to be interesting to see him play.

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Do you think there will be a lot of pressure on him this season

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in general because of what he did last season, to now repeat it?

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Definitely, and a quarterback's best friend is the running game,

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so he has to continue.

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Every time I think about Jay Ajayi, do you know what I think?

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Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.

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LAUGHTER.

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Do you?!

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I don't know why, it just caught in my mind,

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because he's English, he's an Englishman.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Do you think that when you see me?

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Not really.

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For some reason it doesn't quite...

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Doesn't work the same way... No correlation, not really.

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Let's talk about Minnesota against Cleveland and I want

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to focus on Cleveland here.

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This is at Twickenham on the 29th of October.

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Last season you two took the mick out of Cleveland mercilessly.

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Just us two, right?

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Just you two.

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Only us two!

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I stood up for them all the time.

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But do you think they might be a different proposition this season,

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and if so, why do you think that?

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I definitely do.

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I think they did the right thing by working on and improving

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that offensive line.

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When you improve the offensive line, you give whoever is playing

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quarterback the ability to be successful.

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I think they did that and addressed that this offseason.

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That's what they did in the offseason, and then they debated

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for a while who their quarterback was going to be.

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Brock Osweiler is there, of course.

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They have gone with DeShone Kizer, who they drafted.

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He will be their quarterback.

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You don't want to expect too much from a rookie, do you?

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You don't, but it's the right move.

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This is a young football team.

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They can't get any worse than they did last season.

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They could get one game worse!

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They were one and...

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Now you are trying to get me to take the mick out of them.

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They were 1-15.

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This is a team that's going to grow.

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They will have some growing pains with the younger quarterback.

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They have a good head coach in Jackson, so this is a team that

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you really need to be on the lookout for.

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And they had the number one draft pick, and they picked

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with that Myles Garrett, so both of you give me

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an appreciation of what he's going to bring.

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What everybody can look out for when he plays

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for the Cleveland Browns.

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When you talk about a guy like this, you want your defensive ends to be

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the cornerstone of your team.

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This is an outstanding physical specimen.

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Huge, speed, athleticism, he has it all, and he can rush the passer.

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You want a guy in your team for ten or 15 years,

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this is going to be the guy.

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Yeah, it's hard to find guys like that, you know.

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Osi was one of those rare breeds.

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Because of that you can put pressure and win games with guys like that.

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But it's great, you normally expect a quarterback to go

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number one in the draft.

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It hasn't.

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It's quite nice to see somebody different going number one

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in the draft and seeing how big a superstar they could be.

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Somebody different for people to look out for.

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Yeah, but he's that important.

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Besides the quarterback, it's the guy who stops them.

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You want to get a guy like that.

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And you don't want to waste that first-round pick on somebody

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who doesn't have super talent.

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OK, the first go on the touch screen to do all the analysis

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is Jason this season.

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The first pick?!

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The first pick, Jason, make your way over, if you could.

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Can I get cut?

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Go and practice.

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As Jason heads off to the touch screen, I'm going to tell

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you about a new feature we are going to do over

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the course of the campaign.

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We are going to look at positions in the NFL,

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pick out the big names and tell you why they are the

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best in the field.

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But we will also give you a player to look out for this season.

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Jason is over there and he's going to start us off with quarterbacks.

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We all agree that Osi's favourite quarterback,

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Tom Brady, is the greatest.

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But let me talk about another three guys that I like,

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and I like specific things they do well.

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Let's start with my man, Drew Brees.

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What Drew Brees does well is he's a quick decision maker.

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He has the highest percentage of passes thrown quickly in the league.

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That's effective for a guy who needs to keep his offense operating

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quickly and efficiently.

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As you see now, he's making quick decisions down

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here on the goal-line.

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This is where you have to get the ball out quick, and he does that

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better than anybody.

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Tight spaces, tight windows, you have to make quick decisions.

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That's true veteran quarterback play and it takes years

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to get that skill down.

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Drew Brees is one of the best at it.

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Let's go to my man, Russell "Loose Legs" Wilson.

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Now, what Russell Wilson does better than anybody is he operates

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in what I call orchestrated chaos.

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His O-line is not the best, and he's never had the greatest O-line.

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So what he has to do is create plays using his legs.

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I want you to watch his feet here.

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As you see, as soon as he gets the snap, he has pressure on him.

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He has to move around.

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He has to make time for his guys to get open down the field.

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That's a 3rd 11 play, that's huge.

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He has to give his team time to get open and operate,

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and with a tight end like Jimmy Graham, that's

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what you need to do.

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Once again, look at him operate, look at his footwork.

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And he gets the ball out.

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He created that whole play using his legs.

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Once again, that's why footwork is so important for a quarterback.

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You have to know who you have around you and he knows he has

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to move because his O-line isn't the greatest.

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Osi loves guys like that.

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Now, my main man, Aaron "Mark Chapman" Rodgers.

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LAUGHTER IN BACKGROUND.

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As you see, this is a serious point in the game.

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31-31 in the playoffs.

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Fourth quarter, 12 seconds, 3rd 20.

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This is where accuracy comes into play.

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And Aaron Rodgers is the best in the league when it comes to that.

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Comes out, gets the snap, he's got pressure on him immediately.

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He rolls out.

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Look at this, he throws across his body, down the sideline.

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I mean, this view is OK, but let's watch this next one.

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Watch where he places this ball.

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I mean, I've never seen anything like this.

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Look at the guy at 31, he's like, I can't believe he pulled that off.

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Because nobody can usually squeeze these in these windows like this.

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And that's what Aaron Rodgers does better than anybody.

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He squeezes in those tight spaces.

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And this other clip will show you even more.

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Down by the goal-line, this is where it's most important,

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because you don't have a lot of space in the red

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zone, in the end zone.

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The throwing lanes are tighter.

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You see him creating with his feet and throwing and getting a tight

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lane without any space.

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You have to be so accurate to throw touchdowns down in the red zone,

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in the end zone, and that's what he does well.

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That's why most teams try to run.

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They prefer to run in because it's so hard to get the ball

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in those tight spaces.

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Now, we always got to talk about the future, right?

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We've talked about the now.

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Hey, there's a bunch of young guys right now that I like,

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but this guy, Jameis Winston, he's my favourite.

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And I'll tell you why.

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He's a born leader.

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If you watch hard and see him talk, the guys got it.

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But as you see, he's got the arm, he's got the nobility,

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and he can make plays.

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This is a very good highlight of all those things.

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He's got pressure, he's moving around.

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He's keeping his eyes downfield.

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That's the main thing.

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You've got to keep your eyes downfield of who you're throwing to.

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You can't panic back there.

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And look at this arm.

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This is amazing.

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With all that pressure, he's got weapons around him.

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And for a young quarterback to develop, they have to have good

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offensive weapons around them.

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Good receivers, good tight ends, good offensive line,

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good running game.

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And Tampa Bay has that.

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He needs to continue to develop.

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It takes about four or five years for these guys,

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but he's on the right path.

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Jameis Winston for the future.

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Those are my picks.

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I like quarterbacks.

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He does like quarterbacks.

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As he comes back over, let me ask you, Osi,

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what type you would fear most when you were playing,

0:24:590:25:01

of the ones Jason highlighted?

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No question it would be Aaron Rodgers.

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You can prepare for a mobile quarterback.

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You can also prepare for a standard pocket passing quarterback.

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But nobody can prepare you for a guy who can do both.

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Now, Aaron Rodgers in the pocket isn't looking

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to run most of the time.

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He's scrambling in the pocket with his eyes downfield looking

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to throw the football and buy himself five, six, seven seconds,

0:25:170:25:19

which no DB can cover for.

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He's a nightmare to play against.

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Interesting thing, on your list there of what you are looking

0:25:250:25:27

for in a quarterback, you didn't have Matt Stafford

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on there, who this week has become the highest-paid quarterback

0:25:290:25:32

in the NFL.

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Yeah, and taking nothing away from him.

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And for him it was just timing.

0:25:350:25:36

His contract was up.

0:25:360:25:37

He was the top guy out there.

0:25:370:25:39

He gets the top dollar.

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The other thing that shows, just very quickly, is particularly

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with Rodgers and Brees and the experience of Brady as well,

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so when we are looking at young quarterbacks over the course

0:25:450:25:48

of the season, you can't expect too much, too soon.

0:25:480:25:50

Is that fair?

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Of course.

0:25:510:25:53

The quarterback position is the hardest position

0:25:530:25:54

to play in sports.

0:25:540:25:55

Not just football...

0:25:550:25:57

Is that what you have to learn?

0:25:570:25:58

..In sports.

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Exactly.

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It takes a couple of years for them to truly develop.

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You only see guys like Dak Prescott come in once a generation.

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Let me ask you, one of the stories in the NFL at the moment,

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and that's Dallas, who were very good last season.

0:26:090:26:11

They are known as America's team.

0:26:110:26:13

They don't have Ezekiel Elliott for the first six games.

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He has been banned by the NFL for domestic violence.

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The interesting thing about this story is that the NFL have looked

0:26:180:26:20

at it with their conduct policy.

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Elliott himself hasn't actually been charged with anything by the police,

0:26:220:26:25

but the NFL have taken a strong lead on this and said, this affects

0:26:250:26:28

the image of our game and this is what we are doing.

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They are going to err on the side of caution every time.

0:26:310:26:34

They are going to bring the hammer down.

0:26:340:26:36

They will use a sledgehammer to knock that down.

0:26:360:26:38

Because there is no place for that in our game.

0:26:380:26:40

You don't need to be behaving like that.

0:26:400:26:42

You don't need to be doing things or conducting yourself like that.

0:26:420:26:45

Playing in the NFL is a privilege.

0:26:450:26:47

If you go against that, this is exactly what happens,

0:26:470:26:49

and I think they are correct.

0:26:490:26:51

I think in his case, they've got to do something to take

0:26:510:26:54

away something he loves.

0:26:540:26:55

Because he keeps getting in trouble, right?

0:26:550:26:56

This guy could be a star for a lot of years.

0:26:560:26:59

You've got to give him the opportunity to improve on himself.

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It's a bit like the Houston conversation, it's tricky to then

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bring it back to football, but that's the nature of this show.

0:27:040:27:07

How will it impact on the Cowboys at the start

0:27:070:27:09

of the season, not having him?

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Zero impact whatsoever.

0:27:130:27:15

And here is why I say that.

0:27:150:27:19

Everybody thinks the Dallas Cowboys stars are Dak Prescott,

0:27:190:27:21

Ezekiel Elliott or Dez Bryant, but they are not the stars.

0:27:210:27:23

The stars of that team are the offensive line.

0:27:230:27:26

These are the guys who have been dominating that position

0:27:260:27:28

for the last five years.

0:27:280:27:30

You had a guy by the name of Darren McFadden rush for 1000

0:27:300:27:33

yards behind that offensive line, and he had done nothing

0:27:330:27:35

in his entire NFL career.

0:27:350:27:38

I'll put it to you like this, J Bell, Mark Chapman could rush

0:27:380:27:41

for 1000 yards behind that offensive line, man!

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I'm telling you.

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You've just got early-season enthusiasm.

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No, no, he's an outstanding guy and it's an outstanding offensive

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line and they will continue to go through.

0:27:510:27:53

I instinctively breathed in when you said that,

0:27:530:27:55

to make myself more of an athlete.

0:27:550:27:57

Your NFC favourites are...

0:27:570:28:00

NFC favourite is Atlanta.

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You think they will be able to come back from

0:28:040:28:07

the disappointment of the Super Bowl?

0:28:070:28:08

That's why I was a little hesitant.

0:28:080:28:10

It's going to be hard, but they have the talent.

0:28:100:28:12

Green Bay.

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Green Bay, and your NFC dark horses?

0:28:140:28:16

Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

0:28:160:28:17

They have everything.

0:28:170:28:19

On the defensive side they have everything,

0:28:190:28:21

great pass rushers, great secondary.

0:28:210:28:23

Offensive, great quarterback, great receivers and a good offensive line.

0:28:230:28:25

I think these are what people are sleeping on right now.

0:28:250:28:29

Your NFC dark horses?

0:28:290:28:31

I would have to go for the New York Giants.

0:28:310:28:34

Is that just because a rule of this show is that the Giants have to be

0:28:340:28:37

mentioned at least once because you both played for them?

0:28:370:28:40

Defense wins championships.

0:28:400:28:41

And Eli gets hot, and when he gets hot, things can happen.

0:28:410:28:44

All right, we've made a note of all those predictions

0:28:440:28:46

and we will come back to them over the course of this season.

0:28:460:28:49

Just before we go, we are back on Saturday, September 9th

0:28:490:28:52

in the early hours of the morning with highlights of the opening

0:28:520:28:55

game on Thursday as the Kansas City Chiefs -

0:28:550:28:57

who, if you watch last year, you will remember Osi

0:28:570:28:59

is a huge fan of them - and they visit the

0:28:590:29:02

New England Patriots.

0:29:020:29:03

And we preview the opening round of the regular season.

0:29:030:29:05

That'll be from 12:15am.

0:29:050:29:06

A further reminder, every Tuesday we will have extended

0:29:060:29:09

highlights and all the fallout from the weekend's action

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on NFL This Week, and that will start on Tuesday,

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September 12th.

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Thank you to you for watching.

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We hope you will be with us through the whole season.

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Thank you to you two as well.

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We will see you next week.

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That's the new one, the Milly Rock.

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Is that the new dab!

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On the front line of Britain's fight to control immigration,

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a secret world of drugs, violence and abuse...

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Oi! Get off him.

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..where some foreign nationals are locked up

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