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And it will be time for these two teams to settle it | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
between the white lines. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:08 | |
Elway, Elway, he is going to fire to the end zone. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
Marino. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
Montana. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:13 | |
He's looking downfield. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
The one-man wrecking crew. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:21 | |
Unbelievable. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Let's go. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
How did he do that? | 0:00:25 | 0:00:26 | |
For the win. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
Unstoppable. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
Hello and welcome to a new season of NFL, back once again. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
Joining me, NFL safety Jason Bell and two-time Super Bowl | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
winner Osi Umenyiora. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
Twice, yes. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
And hopefully these guys are as excited about the new season | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
as Tampa Bay's Gerald McCoy was, when he returned to pre-season | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
training sporting a kimono. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
He'd been on holiday to Japan and wanted everybody to know. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
And actually, as we will see a little bit later, players do | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
return in a variety of odd ways to pre-season. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
I mean, now, with social media, everybody wants to put out | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
who they are and their personality, but these guys are | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
getting ridiculous. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:10 | |
Though it's funny, and I enjoy it. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
Why aren't you in a kimono? | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
No, no, no, I don't do that. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:15 | |
I did once come dressed up as a sumo wrestler. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
That was cool. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:19 | |
Did you? | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
To pre-season. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:21 | |
There's no pictures, but that was cool. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
My mission this season is to find those pictures. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
Before we actually get into this season, we're | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
going to cast our minds back to February and what was possibly | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
the greatest Super Bowl ever. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
Welcome to NRG Stadium and to Super Bowl LI | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
New England tonight is trying to become a five-time | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
Super Bowl winner. | 0:01:55 | 0:02:00 | |
The boot, the flashbulbs go off, Super Bowl LI is under way. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
Devonta starts out. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:04 | |
Wide left, into the end zone. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
He took a big leap, and Atlanta has grabbed the lead in Super Bowl LI. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
Chased by Macmillan, close to the far side. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
Jones makes the catch. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
Diving catch, touchdown, Atlanta. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
These Falcons have been well prepared for this | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
game to say the least. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
Four-man rush. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:26 | |
Pressure. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
He throws down the middle. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
The pass is picked off. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
It's coming back to the right. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
Goodbye. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
Could you play any worse right now? | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
And the second New England turnover is cashed in right away. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
My goodness! | 0:02:40 | 0:02:48 | |
Half this quarter has almost already gone so at some point | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
the sense of urgency has got to be increased here. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
The Falcons lead 28-3. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:55 | |
Fires left, catch made by White. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
Turns to the inside. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
Dives across the goal line. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
Touchdown, Patriots. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
And maybe, just maybe, there's the one you need. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
Into the upright. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
No good. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
You've got to be kidding me. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
Now it's time for somebody on the defensive side | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
to get to Matt Ryan. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
The Patriots will try to stage the greatest comeback | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
in Super Bowl history. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
It's loose. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
Are you kidding me? | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
Unbelievable. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:18 | |
The sack just can't happen. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:19 | |
That cannot happen. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
Takes the step, backs up, looks left, throws it. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
Touchdown, Patriots. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
They will go for two. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:28 | |
5.56 to go here in the fourth. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
He's in for two. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
Now we've got a ball game, folks. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:34 | |
Touchdown, Patriots. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
They've drawn within two in Super Bowl LI. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
Screen left. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
Everybody that's supported you, everybody behind you today... | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
Reaches across the goal line. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:53 | |
It's a tied game in Super Bowl LI. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
I can't believe it! | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
The first ever overtime game in Super Bowl history. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
Let's go score and win this thing, baby. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
For your mom. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
For your mom, bro. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Takes the step. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Tossed wide for James White. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
Cuts it upfield. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:20 | |
Driving forward, diving to the goal-line. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:28 | |
Touchdown. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
The title for the Patriots. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
I can't believe it! | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
They have completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
I've seen it all. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
I have seen it all. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
He will be handed a Lombardi Trophy for the fifth time. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
You wanted one more, New England, and you got it. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:57 | |
I've got goose bumps watching that, and the first thing that comes | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
to mind is that there isn't a better sport when it comes | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
to how it is covered, both cinematically, and the sound. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
Because people are miked up in this game. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
It gives you such an insight into it. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
Truly amazing, and the NFL does an outstanding job of allowing | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
people to experience everything that goes on with those | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
players on the field. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:19 | |
People still talk to me about that game, seven months on, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
which isn't surprising, really. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
I feel like we witnessed the greatest Super Bowl ever. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
We were there, we saw it, we felt it, the emotions were happening. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Not ever. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:32 | |
It was a good one. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
It was ever, man. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:36 | |
Are there two others that were greater for you? | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
I can think of two other Super Bowls that were a little bit | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
better than that one. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
That was good. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
It was a good one. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:45 | |
The greatest comeback. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
The greatest comeback. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:47 | |
I don't want this whole season to be about Brady | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
and your animosity towards Brady, but you did end our coverage | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
that night by saying he is the greatest of all time. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
Yes. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:55 | |
Well, I have to apologise for that because I was a little | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
emotional at the time, after seeing him defeat | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
the Atlanta Falcons. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:01 | |
But no, he's not the greatest of all time, man. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
That was the greatest comeback we've seen. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
That might have been the greatest performance we've | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
seen in the Super Bowl, but the greatest of all time, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
I'm still not sold. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
So you've changed your mind? | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
I changed my mind. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
What you will find, ladies and gentlemen, | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
boys and girls watching, is that over the course | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
of this season, they both change their minds an awful lot, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
particularly when it comes to predictions | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
and who they are fancying, and all of that kind of stuff. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
The crucial point in that Super Bowl was the Edelmann catch, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
and the great thing about that, going back to coverage | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
and the access we get, was that this was miked up, | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
so you could actually hear this, shortly after he took the catch. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
I caught it. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:47 | |
I caught it. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
I caught it. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Crazy, I swear to God. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:52 | |
No way, look at that. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
Watch. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:54 | |
No, no. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
It was an amazing catch, and amazing footage as well. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
The thing is, he is Brady's go-to guy for the Patriots, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
so throwing it on to this season, he's going to be out | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
for the season, isn't he? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Edelmann. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
Devastating injury, because just like you said, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
that's his go-to guy. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:12 | |
And you hear them talk about each other. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
They understand each other as friends and on the field, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
and that's important. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:18 | |
They see the game the same way. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:19 | |
Tom Brady needs him. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
This is the preseason game in which he did | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
his cruciate, isn't it? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
So how much does that weaken New England, because actually, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
if you look at the stuff that they did, since winning | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
the Super Bowl, they have strengthened in many ways. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
Yes, it doesn't weaken them, not one bit. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
And here's why I say that. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
Who was Tom Brady's go to guy last year? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
Gronkowski. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
What happened? | 0:07:39 | 0:07:40 | |
He didn't play. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
They ended up winning the Super Bowl without him. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
This New England Patriots team is a well oiled machine. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
It doesn't matter who they have out there at receiver. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
They've brought in Brandin Cooks they brought in to Dwayne Allen, | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
two outstanding receiving options for this guy. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:52 | |
Gronkowski's coming back. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:53 | |
They are going to be able to move on without Julian Edelmann. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
Do you find it remarkable that they are stronger already | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
than they were last season, given how well they | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
worked last season? | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
And if so, let's get the question out the way | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
on the preview show, can they go 19-0, the whole | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
season undefeated? | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
I don't think they can go undefeated. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
It's just so hard, week to week, to get up for every game. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
Things happen, you don't know. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:16 | |
But as long as Tom Brady is taking that snap, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
they've got the chance to be great. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
And you'd say they are stronger than last year? | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
Yes. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
OK. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
Well, we hope you were with us all of last season but we also hope | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
to bring in new viewers and fans of the game, so if this | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
is the first time you have dipped your toe into the NFL, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
here's a little explainer to get you up to speed. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
The 32 teams in the NFL are split equally between two conferences, | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
the AFC and the NFC. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
Each conference is made up of four divisions that contain four teams. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
Each team will play 16 games in the regular season. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:52 | |
They'll play their divisional rivals home and away every year, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
with their remaining ten games spread out across both conferences, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
based on a predetermined rotation. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
The aim in the regular season is to top your division by having | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
the best win-to-loss record. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
As an example, here is how last season panned out. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
By winning your division, you automatically reach the play-offs. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
But there is also a back door. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
If your win-loss record is good enough, you can sneak into one | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
of the four wild card spots. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
Once in the play-offs, the 12 teams who have qualified | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
battle over who will be crowned conference champions. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
Then, on February the 4th in Minnesota, the NFC champions meet | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
the AFC champions and they fight for the big one, the Super Bowl. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:42 | |
I'd like to talk about Houston first of all with you both | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
and what they are going through at the moment as a city. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
It's a city that you know very well. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
You lived there, you played for the Texans. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
It's such a sad situation and I actually was playing there | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
when they had a hurricane before. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
I've been through the same situation. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:00 | |
It was our bye week during the season, so we were able | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
to get out of town, but I have team-mates that just | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
had terrible stories about trying to get out of town, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
being in traffic. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
Scary. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:11 | |
Did you feel a need, then, to step up as a group | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
of players for the area, because there is no doubt | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
that is what JJ Watt has gone over the past few days, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
as the face of the franchise? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
Absolutely. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
When we got back into town and saw what had happened, | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
we definitely, the community, the players, the organisation, | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
Bob McNair is a great owner, got behind it and we did as much | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
as we could for the community. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
This might be a difficult question to answer, really, | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
but if you go back to when Katrina hit New Orleans, New Orleans, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
the couple of seasons before Katrina went eight and eight. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
The season of Katrina, which damaged their stadium, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
they went three and 13. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
Do you think it could damage Houston? | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
I know it pales into insignificance, but do you think it could damage | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
their season on the field? | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Well, I would hope not, but from all indications and things | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
I've seen in the past, it definitely has | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
an effect on teams. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
Like you said with New Orleans and hurricane Katrina, we actually | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
played against New Orleans that year, and they had to come, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
instead of playing in New Orleans, they had to come and play against us | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
in New York, which was their home game. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
They were just a terrible team, and you could tell that the focus | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
wasn't there, their mind was elsewhere, and rightfully so, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
because who really wants to be playing football in a situation | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
where it's your whole town is decimated like that? | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
So it might have an effect on their season but I hope it doesn't. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
Let's look at some of the other teams in the AFC. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
The Raiders were so close last year until they lost | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
Derek Carr with a broken leg. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:33 | |
He is back and he's fit, so what do you assess of their chances? | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
Well, offensively, they are dangerous. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
With Marshawn Lynch now a closer, with that high-powered | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
offence, they are amazing. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
I mean, I feel like what they did last year was just so significant, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
I don't know if they can do that again. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
And especially, I think nobody's talking about their weakness, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
which is their secondary. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
Well, I like the Oakland Raiders but I just don't think, | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
like he said, they're going to be able to continue the success | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
that they had last season. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
I think even though they brought in Marshawn Lynch, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
they have Derek Carr, the reigning defensive | 0:12:05 | 0:12:06 | |
MVP in Kahlil Mack, an outstanding football player, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
but when I watched their games last year it just seemed to me | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
something was missing. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
I can't put my finger on it right now but something seemed to be | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
missing from that team and I don't think they are going | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
to be able to dethrone the New England Patriots. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
All right, the best team in the AFC? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
New England Patriots. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:23 | |
Best team in the AFC? | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
New England. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:26 | |
OK, the dark horses in the AFC, somebody that might surprise us, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
bearing in mind I will hold you to this all season? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
The Miami Dolphins. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:34 | |
Really? | 0:12:34 | 0:12:35 | |
Yes. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
And this is why I say that. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
Jay Cutler is an outstanding quarterback, under Adam Gates. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
He had his best season ever under Adam Gates, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
who is the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
They have everything. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:45 | |
Outstanding receivers, a good defence, tough | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
physical running back. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
This is a good football team and this is my dark horse team. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
OK, we might come back to the Dolphins later. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
Houston, Texas. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
And I will tell you why. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
You are not going to outscore the New England Patriots. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
Yes. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:02 | |
Who gave them the roughest time in the play-offs? | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
Houston. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:05 | |
Yes. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:06 | |
They can stop them. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:07 | |
If they get a little bit of offensive engine going, | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
they can pull that off. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:11 | |
Who is their quarterback, though, Tom Savage? | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
They just need to keep it close, and DeShawn Watson | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
will be on the field. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
For the first time this season, you to start to argue | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
and the editor in my ear says, "Wrap it up". | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
That's how it will be for the next few months. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
This season, I am told we are breaking new boundaries | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
because in addition to our UK audience, we now have viewers tuning | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
in around the world, apparently. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:32 | |
No pressure. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:33 | |
One of those nations taking in the show is Nigeria. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
So this next section is dedicated to the watching Umenyiora family, | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
who no doubt have often wondered what Osi means when he says | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
he's on the telly. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
Welcome to NFL this week. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:51 | |
Joining me once again, former NFL quarterback Jason Bell, | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
and two-time Super Bowl winner Osi Umenyiora. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:58 | |
That was a great save. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
A touchdown for the Patriots. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:02 | |
Give them the X, they need that. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
Keep throwing it up. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
Give me that X. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:06 | |
Running like me when I was a kid in Africa. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
Have you ever been chased by a rhinoceros, man? | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
We're going to have to send you to acting school. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
I'm the greatest the world has ever seen. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
This guy's humble. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:17 | |
They closed that space down quicker than I close down my computer | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
when my wife walks in the room. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
Show me what you got. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:23 | |
Squeeze it in tight. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
I would hit him there. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
Talking bad about you when you're not around. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
Are you serious? | 0:14:30 | 0:14:31 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
Paparazzi. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
There it is, that's it. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:43 | |
Well, as we already saw with the kimono, preseason | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
for an NFL player throws up the bizarre and the | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
outright brilliant. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
Let's take a look around the leagues at what's been happening. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
Let's start with Antonio Brown and how he arrived for preseason | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
at the Steelers in a vintage Rolls-Royce. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
You can't give everybody money. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
You can't give everybody money because this is the kind | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
of thing that happens. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:04 | |
He looks so calm and relaxed. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
Look at him. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
Would you... | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
I mean, would you like team-mates doing this? | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
Yeah, for me it was always good because I would like to be that guy. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
I was trying not to get cut every year! | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
I definitely wasn't doing anything like that, but to watch | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
guys like Osi come in, it is cool. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
They seem relaxed. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:25 | |
Don't give him ideas on how to arrive for each show from now on! | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
Odell Beckham Jr is a favourite of the show, obviously, for his skills. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
In preseason practice already, Osi, he has | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
demonstrated what he does best. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
This guy just isn't a human being. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
Who makes catches like this routinely? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
He does this in the game, in practice. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
I mean, this is ridiculous. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
The good thing about this, it does show how much | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
he does practice it. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
It isn't just like that. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
I mean, nobody really... | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
They look at the catch, but watch him jump. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
He's jumping off of footwork that triple jumpers do. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
It's amazing. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
Speaking of serious preseason practice, this is unbelievable. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
This will make you wince. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
James Harrison of the Steelers, they are playing beach volleyball | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
with a medicine ball. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Wow. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
That's my boy Rob Golden, that's the safety, number 21. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
Could you do that? | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
No. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
This right here is intimidation. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:20 | |
He's doing this for guys to watch and think when they are playing | 0:16:20 | 0:16:24 | |
against him, that he will just muscle them to death. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
This is just my regular work-out! | 0:16:26 | 0:16:27 | |
In case you don't know. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
The greatest worker-outer there's ever been. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
I thought you might say that. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
Let's take a look at the London games coming, because we will get | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
four NFL games in the capital of England this year. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
And there they are... | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Let's start with the Miami game, shall we, against | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
the New Orleans Saints. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
You have already tipped them, Osi, as a dark horse. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
Do you think Cutler is a better option than | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
Tannehill, who's injured? | 0:17:02 | 0:17:03 | |
I think so, but only because of Adam Gase, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
and the fact we know he had his best season under Adam Gase in 2015. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
I think continuing that same offense, he's | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
comfortable down there. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
He has even better receiving options than he had in Chicago. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
I think they will be a really good team. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
There will be a lot of hype around that game in London | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
because Jay Ajayi will be back for the Dolphins, | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
back in his hometown. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:25 | |
Absolutely, and he's one of the hardest running running | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
backs in the league. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
He breaks more tackles than anybody. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
It's going to be interesting to see him play. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
Do you think there will be a lot of pressure on him this season | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
in general because of what he did last season, to now repeat it? | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
Definitely, and a quarterback's best friend is the running game, | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
so he has to continue. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:44 | |
Every time I think about Jay Ajayi, do you know what I think? | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
Do you?! | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
I don't know why, it just caught in my mind, | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
because he's English, he's an Englishman. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:57 | |
Yeah, yeah. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:58 | |
Do you think that when you see me? | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
Not really. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:01 | |
For some reason it doesn't quite... | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Doesn't work the same way... No correlation, not really. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
Let's talk about Minnesota against Cleveland and I want | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
to focus on Cleveland here. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
This is at Twickenham on the 29th of October. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:17 | |
Last season you two took the mick out of Cleveland mercilessly. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
Just us two, right? | 0:18:20 | 0:18:21 | |
Just you two. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:22 | |
Only us two! | 0:18:22 | 0:18:23 | |
I stood up for them all the time. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
But do you think they might be a different proposition this season, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
and if so, why do you think that? | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
I definitely do. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:31 | |
I think they did the right thing by working on and improving | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
that offensive line. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
When you improve the offensive line, you give whoever is playing | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
quarterback the ability to be successful. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
I think they did that and addressed that this offseason. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
That's what they did in the offseason, and then they debated | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
for a while who their quarterback was going to be. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
Brock Osweiler is there, of course. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
They have gone with DeShone Kizer, who they drafted. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
He will be their quarterback. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
You don't want to expect too much from a rookie, do you? | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
You don't, but it's the right move. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:57 | |
This is a young football team. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
They can't get any worse than they did last season. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
They could get one game worse! | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
They were one and... | 0:19:04 | 0:19:05 | |
Now you are trying to get me to take the mick out of them. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
They were 1-15. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
This is a team that's going to grow. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
They will have some growing pains with the younger quarterback. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
They have a good head coach in Jackson, so this is a team that | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
you really need to be on the lookout for. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
And they had the number one draft pick, and they picked | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
with that Myles Garrett, so both of you give me | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
an appreciation of what he's going to bring. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
What everybody can look out for when he plays | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
for the Cleveland Browns. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
When you talk about a guy like this, you want your defensive ends to be | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
the cornerstone of your team. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
This is an outstanding physical specimen. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
Huge, speed, athleticism, he has it all, and he can rush the passer. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
You want a guy in your team for ten or 15 years, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
this is going to be the guy. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
Yeah, it's hard to find guys like that, you know. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
Osi was one of those rare breeds. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
Because of that you can put pressure and win games with guys like that. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
But it's great, you normally expect a quarterback to go | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
number one in the draft. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
It hasn't. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
It's quite nice to see somebody different going number one | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
in the draft and seeing how big a superstar they could be. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
Somebody different for people to look out for. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
Yeah, but he's that important. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
Besides the quarterback, it's the guy who stops them. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
You want to get a guy like that. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
And you don't want to waste that first-round pick on somebody | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
who doesn't have super talent. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
OK, the first go on the touch screen to do all the analysis | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
is Jason this season. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
The first pick?! | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
The first pick, Jason, make your way over, if you could. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
Can I get cut? | 0:20:28 | 0:20:29 | |
Go and practice. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
As Jason heads off to the touch screen, I'm going to tell | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
you about a new feature we are going to do over | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
the course of the campaign. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:39 | |
We are going to look at positions in the NFL, | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
pick out the big names and tell you why they are the | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
best in the field. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
But we will also give you a player to look out for this season. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
Jason is over there and he's going to start us off with quarterbacks. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
We all agree that Osi's favourite quarterback, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Tom Brady, is the greatest. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:57 | |
But let me talk about another three guys that I like, | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
and I like specific things they do well. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Let's start with my man, Drew Brees. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:03 | |
What Drew Brees does well is he's a quick decision maker. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
He has the highest percentage of passes thrown quickly in the league. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
That's effective for a guy who needs to keep his offense operating | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
quickly and efficiently. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:17 | |
As you see now, he's making quick decisions down | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
here on the goal-line. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
This is where you have to get the ball out quick, and he does that | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
better than anybody. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:27 | |
Tight spaces, tight windows, you have to make quick decisions. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
That's true veteran quarterback play and it takes years | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
to get that skill down. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:32 | |
Drew Brees is one of the best at it. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:38 | |
Let's go to my man, Russell "Loose Legs" Wilson. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:43 | |
Now, what Russell Wilson does better than anybody is he operates | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
in what I call orchestrated chaos. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
His O-line is not the best, and he's never had the greatest O-line. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:53 | |
So what he has to do is create plays using his legs. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
I want you to watch his feet here. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
As you see, as soon as he gets the snap, he has pressure on him. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
He has to move around. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:04 | |
He has to make time for his guys to get open down the field. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
That's a 3rd 11 play, that's huge. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
He has to give his team time to get open and operate, | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
and with a tight end like Jimmy Graham, that's | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
what you need to do. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
Once again, look at him operate, look at his footwork. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
And he gets the ball out. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
He created that whole play using his legs. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
Once again, that's why footwork is so important for a quarterback. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
You have to know who you have around you and he knows he has | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
to move because his O-line isn't the greatest. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
Osi loves guys like that. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
Now, my main man, Aaron "Mark Chapman" Rodgers. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:40 | |
LAUGHTER IN BACKGROUND. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
As you see, this is a serious point in the game. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
31-31 in the playoffs. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
Fourth quarter, 12 seconds, 3rd 20. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
This is where accuracy comes into play. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
And Aaron Rodgers is the best in the league when it comes to that. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
Comes out, gets the snap, he's got pressure on him immediately. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
He rolls out. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
Look at this, he throws across his body, down the sideline. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
I mean, this view is OK, but let's watch this next one. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
Watch where he places this ball. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
I mean, I've never seen anything like this. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:14 | |
Look at the guy at 31, he's like, I can't believe he pulled that off. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
Because nobody can usually squeeze these in these windows like this. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
And that's what Aaron Rodgers does better than anybody. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
He squeezes in those tight spaces. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
And this other clip will show you even more. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
Down by the goal-line, this is where it's most important, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
because you don't have a lot of space in the red | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
zone, in the end zone. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
The throwing lanes are tighter. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
You see him creating with his feet and throwing and getting a tight | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
lane without any space. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
You have to be so accurate to throw touchdowns down in the red zone, | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
in the end zone, and that's what he does well. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
That's why most teams try to run. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
They prefer to run in because it's so hard to get the ball | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
in those tight spaces. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:49 | |
Now, we always got to talk about the future, right? | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
We've talked about the now. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
Hey, there's a bunch of young guys right now that I like, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
but this guy, Jameis Winston, he's my favourite. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
And I'll tell you why. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
He's a born leader. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
If you watch hard and see him talk, the guys got it. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
But as you see, he's got the arm, he's got the nobility, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
and he can make plays. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
This is a very good highlight of all those things. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
He's got pressure, he's moving around. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
He's keeping his eyes downfield. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
That's the main thing. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:19 | |
You've got to keep your eyes downfield of who you're throwing to. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
You can't panic back there. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:23 | |
And look at this arm. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
This is amazing. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
With all that pressure, he's got weapons around him. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
And for a young quarterback to develop, they have to have good | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
offensive weapons around them. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
Good receivers, good tight ends, good offensive line, | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
good running game. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:36 | |
And Tampa Bay has that. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
He needs to continue to develop. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
It takes about four or five years for these guys, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
but he's on the right path. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:44 | |
Jameis Winston for the future. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
Those are my picks. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:48 | |
I like quarterbacks. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
He does like quarterbacks. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:56 | |
As he comes back over, let me ask you, Osi, | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
what type you would fear most when you were playing, | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
of the ones Jason highlighted? | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
No question it would be Aaron Rodgers. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
You can prepare for a mobile quarterback. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:05 | |
You can also prepare for a standard pocket passing quarterback. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
But nobody can prepare you for a guy who can do both. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
Now, Aaron Rodgers in the pocket isn't looking | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
to run most of the time. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:14 | |
He's scrambling in the pocket with his eyes downfield looking | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
to throw the football and buy himself five, six, seven seconds, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
which no DB can cover for. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
He's a nightmare to play against. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
Interesting thing, on your list there of what you are looking | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
for in a quarterback, you didn't have Matt Stafford | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
on there, who this week has become the highest-paid quarterback | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
in the NFL. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
Yeah, and taking nothing away from him. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
And for him it was just timing. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
His contract was up. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:37 | |
He was the top guy out there. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
He gets the top dollar. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
The other thing that shows, just very quickly, is particularly | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
with Rodgers and Brees and the experience of Brady as well, | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
so when we are looking at young quarterbacks over the course | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
of the season, you can't expect too much, too soon. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
Is that fair? | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
Of course. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
The quarterback position is the hardest position | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
to play in sports. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
Not just football... | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
Is that what you have to learn? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:58 | |
..In sports. | 0:25:58 | 0:25:59 | |
Exactly. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:00 | |
It takes a couple of years for them to truly develop. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
You only see guys like Dak Prescott come in once a generation. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
Let me ask you, one of the stories in the NFL at the moment, | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
and that's Dallas, who were very good last season. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
They are known as America's team. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
They don't have Ezekiel Elliott for the first six games. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
He has been banned by the NFL for domestic violence. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
The interesting thing about this story is that the NFL have looked | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
at it with their conduct policy. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
Elliott himself hasn't actually been charged with anything by the police, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
but the NFL have taken a strong lead on this and said, this affects | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
the image of our game and this is what we are doing. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
They are going to err on the side of caution every time. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
They are going to bring the hammer down. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
They will use a sledgehammer to knock that down. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
Because there is no place for that in our game. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
You don't need to be behaving like that. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
You don't need to be doing things or conducting yourself like that. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
Playing in the NFL is a privilege. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
If you go against that, this is exactly what happens, | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
and I think they are correct. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
I think in his case, they've got to do something to take | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
away something he loves. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:55 | |
Because he keeps getting in trouble, right? | 0:26:55 | 0:26:56 | |
This guy could be a star for a lot of years. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
You've got to give him the opportunity to improve on himself. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
It's a bit like the Houston conversation, it's tricky to then | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
bring it back to football, but that's the nature of this show. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
How will it impact on the Cowboys at the start | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
of the season, not having him? | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
Zero impact whatsoever. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
And here is why I say that. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:19 | |
Everybody thinks the Dallas Cowboys stars are Dak Prescott, | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Ezekiel Elliott or Dez Bryant, but they are not the stars. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
The stars of that team are the offensive line. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
These are the guys who have been dominating that position | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
for the last five years. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
You had a guy by the name of Darren McFadden rush for 1000 | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
yards behind that offensive line, and he had done nothing | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
in his entire NFL career. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
I'll put it to you like this, J Bell, Mark Chapman could rush | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
for 1000 yards behind that offensive line, man! | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
I'm telling you. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
You've just got early-season enthusiasm. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
No, no, he's an outstanding guy and it's an outstanding offensive | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
line and they will continue to go through. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
I instinctively breathed in when you said that, | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
to make myself more of an athlete. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
Your NFC favourites are... | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
NFC favourite is Atlanta. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
You think they will be able to come back from | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
the disappointment of the Super Bowl? | 0:28:07 | 0:28:08 | |
That's why I was a little hesitant. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
It's going to be hard, but they have the talent. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
Green Bay. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
Green Bay, and your NFC dark horses? | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:17 | |
They have everything. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
On the defensive side they have everything, | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
great pass rushers, great secondary. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
Offensive, great quarterback, great receivers and a good offensive line. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
I think these are what people are sleeping on right now. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
Your NFC dark horses? | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
I would have to go for the New York Giants. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
Is that just because a rule of this show is that the Giants have to be | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
mentioned at least once because you both played for them? | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
Defense wins championships. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:41 | |
And Eli gets hot, and when he gets hot, things can happen. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
All right, we've made a note of all those predictions | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
and we will come back to them over the course of this season. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
Just before we go, we are back on Saturday, September 9th | 0:28:49 | 0:28:52 | |
in the early hours of the morning with highlights of the opening | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
game on Thursday as the Kansas City Chiefs - | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
who, if you watch last year, you will remember Osi | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
is a huge fan of them - and they visit the | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
New England Patriots. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:03 | |
And we preview the opening round of the regular season. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
That'll be from 12:15am. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:06 | |
A further reminder, every Tuesday we will have extended | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
highlights and all the fallout from the weekend's action | 0:29:09 | 0:29:11 | |
on NFL This Week, and that will start on Tuesday, | 0:29:11 | 0:29:13 | |
September 12th. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:14 | |
Thank you to you for watching. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
We hope you will be with us through the whole season. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
Thank you to you two as well. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
We will see you next week. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:21 | |
That's the new one, the Milly Rock. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
Is that the new dab! | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
On the front line of Britain's fight to control immigration, | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
a secret world of drugs, violence and abuse... | 0:29:38 | 0:29:42 | |
Oi! Get off him. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:43 | |
..where some foreign nationals are locked up | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 |