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[Assistant] A lot of candidates go in and they're so desperate to work at a job, they'll say, �I'll do anything.� It doesn't matter what it is, I'll do anything. Now, these are usually people who are not employed right now and, you know, maybe they've been out of work for six, nine months, maybe even two years and they aren't desperate for a job and they will do anything.


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[Assistant] But if you go into a job interview and say, you know what, I don't care what it is, I'll do it, I'll do anything, uhm, just, just give it to me. So when you do this, you end up showing a certain level of desperation that


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[Assistant] This just doesn't come out very well. You want to go in there. You want to go into the interview and you want to talk about what you can do and the value you can bring and that you are excited to do it.


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[Assistant] That's what you want. You don't want to just say, yeaah, I'll do whatever you got, I'll do it, I'll sweep the floors, uhm, I don't care. No. You want to go in there specifically. Tell them what you want to be doing. You have to.


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[Assistant] You have to hold tight to your values. You have to hold tight to your beliefs and what you want to be doing because if they just give you anything, if they just give you any kind of job there,


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[Assistant] You know, in two months, you won't be happy doing it. I guarantee you.


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[Assistant] Employers know this. They know that if you go in there and say, I'll take whatever you got and they give it to you, you know, two, three months later, you'd be like, you know what? This sucks. I don't want to do this anymore. And you'll leave.


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[Assistant] And you leave them high and dry and then they just wasted a whole bunch of time and they're going to have to go interview somebody else and it costs them a lot of money to deal with mishires, you know, like you. So, when you go in there.


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[Assistant] Don't tell them that you'll just do anything or you'll take anything. It just sends a message of desperation. Alright, let's move on to number three.


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[Assistant] So when they ask you, you know, maybe tell me about yourself or, you know, what are some of the things that you're good at, don't tell them that you're, you know, a self-starter or that you're a quick learner or that you're results-oriented, any of that stuff. Now, what you do want to say is,


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[Assistant] How you have led people. You want to talk about groups of people. There are teams that you have built and assembled to work on certain projects. You want to talk about how you've done it. You don't want to just say that you're results oriented. You want to talk about projects that you completed and you finished on time and under budget and you want to talk about the details.


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[Assistant] All the results oriented and the leadership will come out in the context of what you're saying. Does that make sense? So, don't go in there and just say I'm a results oriented leader.


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[Assistant] Put it in context for them and show them how you have done this before.


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[Assistant] And then the underlying message will be that, hey,


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[Assistant] This person, you know, they're a pretty good results-oriented leader. I mean, that's a label that you get put on after the fact. Alright? Makes sense? So, go in there and just tell them.


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[Assistant] You know, how you have done things, not you know, how you would do them. Alright, let's move on to the next one here, number four.


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[Assistant] And let's say, you know, you know, do you know how to do this? Don't tell them that you don't know how.


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[Assistant] Don't say to any interviewer that I don't know how to do that or I've never seen that or, you know, I have no idea. I mean, that's the worst possible thing you can say, even if it's the truth. But what you do want to say is,


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[Assistant] You know what? Uhm, let me think about that for a second. And then you think and you're like, and what you wanna do?


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[Assistant] If you want to connect it to something that's similar to what you've done. So you say, you know what? I haven't done that exact thing, but I've done something that's similar.


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[Assistant] And what that does is that shows them that you at least have some level of understanding of what they're talking about because if you show no level of understanding about the question,


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[Assistant] And it's probably, it's most likely gonna be a competency question. And if you know anything about competency questions, those are weighted.


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[Assistant] The heaviest. So if you miss one or two competency questions, that could be it.


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[Assistant] That could wipe you out right there in the interview. You could be done. Just two competency questions. One, maybe you can get away with, but it depends. It depends how crucial the question is because competency questions pull in a lot of fundamentals. And if you don't know a lot of fundamentals about what you do, that says that you don't know a lot about what you do. So, never tell them that you don't know.


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[Assistant] Always try to come close to something. Connect the dots for them. And maybe, maybe you need to pull a lifeline here and say, you know what?


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[Assistant] Can I think about that for a minute and can we circle back around? And they're going to say yes.


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[Assistant] If you pull that lifeline technique too many times, like maybe, maybe more than once or twice, you know, that's it. You're done. So you need to.


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[Assistant] Give yourself a little bit of time to think about how you can connect your experiences to what they're talking about. And I know you can. I know you can. Alright?


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[Assistant] Let's move on to the last one here, number five. When you go into the interview,


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[Assistant] Don't ask them, you know, so what does your company do here?


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[Assistant] That's the worst thing you can do. That shows that you did absolutely no research, no preparation on this company, this division, the department or the projects they're working on or anything.


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[Assistant] Don't ask them what do they do here. You should already know that. If anything, ask them specifics about some of the things that they are doing.


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[Assistant] But don't go in there blinded and just say, well, you know, what do you guys do around here? Hmm, that sounds interesting. I think I might like to do that.


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[Assistant] That's the worst possible thing you can say that doesn't, that shows that you have no level of excitement about this company or about what they're doing. It shows that you put no preparation into the interview. You spent no time researching this company or the position.


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[Assistant] It just basically says that, you know, you showed up and maybe you'd like the job. It doesn't work that way.


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[Assistant] It doesn't work that way out there. There are so many hungry job seekers out there who want these positions and they are going to beat you over ten times fold.


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[Assistant] Tenfold, they're going to be so much sharper than you. They're going to be on their game. They're going to be talking about their experiences, about how they relate to the job. They're going to know what that company does.


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[Assistant] They're going to know. They're going to have looked it up and you can too. So take that extra step before your next job interview and spend some time.


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[Assistant] Researching the position. Gather as much information as you can so that you can go in there


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[Assistant] Now you can ask them questions that will help qualify you about this job and about this company and if it's a place that you even want to be. I mean, if you think about it.


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[Assistant] That's really what a job interview is. You are out there talking to them and you're interviewing them too. You're interviewing them to see if this is something that you want to be doing. That's the whole key to a job interview. All right, my friend?


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[Assistant] Good luck on your next interview. Now, before you go on your next interview, I would strongly suggest...


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[Assistant] Different interview questions and answers in it. It goes into detail about the STAR method, behavioral questions, you know, where they, where you have to use the situation, the task, the action and result. I've got about 20 questions in here that just explain that. I teach you how to answer. Tell me about yourself. Why do you want to work here? Why did you leave your last job?


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[Assistant] It's strongly recommended. It's like 50 bucks. You can get it from Jobinterviewtools.com. And if you like, there's like, there's an audio version. You can download all the audio tracks. You can put them on your phone and you can listen to them. You can listen to the questions while you're driving into work.


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[Assistant] And even some people, they listen to those questions out in the parking lot. They like get to their job in an interview like an hour before and they'll just listen to the questions.


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[Assistant] Before they go in. So it just kind of puts you in a more heightened state.


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[Assistant] A more elevated state, more pumped up, energized state before the job interview. So, grab this book. It's a good book. It's going to help you a lot. I've been around over 10 years. I keep it updated all the time. And one of the best things about this guide, one of the best things about this guide


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[Assistant] That, that no other guide has, you can go on Amazon and buy books, they have questions and answers, but this guide includes support from me.


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[Assistant] So, if you get stuck, if you get stuck or you have a question about something in the job interview process, you can email me and I will actually reply. Not some college student or uhm, or any of the people around here. You get me.


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[Assistant] You have me, I am your coach. So when you own this guide.


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[Assistant] I am your coach and you can email me directly and I usually get back to you within a day or two.


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[Assistant] So, no, nobody else does that. There's, I don't know anybody else on the planet that will actually, no other author will let you email them questions about their book for help.


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[Assistant] I guarantee it. Look on Amazon. There's hundreds of books out there and they all have questions and answers and not one of those people puts their email address in their guide so that you can email them for help.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I want to be here for you. I want to help you. I want to help you succeed. Alright, good luck!


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[Assistant] Good luck on your next interview and I'll see you in the next video. Bye now.


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[Assistant] If you found this video helpful, then give it a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe to my channel, so you get notifications every time I release a new video. And by subscribing, you support me, my message and this channel, so I'd really appreciate it. Make sure you hit subscribe.


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[Assistant] Uh, pay consultant, or you could be a consultant. Now I think he probably volunteered to come out to the Saints, because like you said, uh, he's very familiar with Derek Carr. P. Carr, Michael, why? Because it's like a fraternity who you network with. Why wouldn't you want to know,


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[Assistant] You know, like through, through the games and what was the game, the plays like Derek Carr really had the utmost success. So why wouldn't they do that if they had that opportunity?


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[Assistant] Like it might be a handful of tidbits. It might be something in critical, down and distance. Maybe like two minute offense or something. That uh, it might be a handful of tidbits. You take notes. Oh, we're going to try that and see how that works. Where Derek Carr is at within our scheme.


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[Assistant] Now, if you're a conspiracy theory guy, and you know, this day and age, you have all of those kind of people in society, oh no, no, let me tell you, everything is a conspiracy.


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[Assistant] Now, I can tell you this, Dennis Allen knows he has to win. He knows you can't go three straight seasons without being in the postseason.


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[Assistant] Pete Carmichael has to be successful as an offensive coordinator without Sean Payton. So Pete Carmichael wants to succeed. So I wouldn't be surprised in the future. Now I'm looking at 2024. I don't think John Groon's done.


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[Assistant] That, uh, I could see John Gruden potentially coming back before he could be a head coach again, maybe being like an offensive coordinator. No, the emails, uh, I think we are a forgiving society. You might say, oh, no, Bobby, uh, Gruden went over the line, but a lot of people will probably send texts or emails that they're not proud of. And then, so you held accountable the rest of your life. You can act of forgiveness, whatever. So that's why.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's why John, look he was outstanding on ESPN on Monday night. Like he was getting paid big bucks. Now they're really getting paid the big bucks when they're trying to cut back. Look at Tony Romo, I think he had to take a pay cut, but I think Troy England's still making about $18-20 million with Monday Night Football.


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[Assistant] That's a different tangent, but story, but, uh, looking at Groon, he didn't forget football because he got in trouble, like, and he's familiar, uh, with Derek Carr. So yeah, why wouldn't you want to pick their brains? But it's like, oh, you wouldn't believe the number of people that have stopped me. Bobby, what do you think? The Saints hired John Groon. And I just like, I was like, oh.


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[Assistant] It's like, almost pretend I didn't hear it and I want to walk away. And I just turn around and say, no, they didn't hire John Groon. He's like a consultant. You have a consultant in different business. You might have a consultant close to erosion. Okay.


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[Assistant] You've been a consultant before, but when you're dealing with the water in Jackson, how they wanted you to go be a consultant. They're trying to turn that around. I wouldn't be surprised if Flint Michigan called you up. Mike, uh, I know you experienced, uh, dealing.


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[Assistant] After vacating the Women's World Championship last week, Rhea Ripley that is, Becky Lynch won it in a Battle Royale on this week's show. But was she the right choice? Yes. I'm Luke Owen Dee- Well, okay, well.


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[Assistant] I'm joined by the professor, the truth, your former Jam That Jampion, Dan Layton, and welcome to the rest of the podcast review.


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[Assistant] Monday Night Royal, please do press the subscribe button, give us a little thumbs up as well while you're at it, leave a comment down below with what you thought of this episode and the choice of Becky Lynch being the Women's World Champion, and if you're watching us live, join our SWAFT Nation, join our wonderful live community and get your thoughts in. We'll read out anyone's thoughts on the air from Restor.com.


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[Assistant] Speaking of putting over a younger talent, Becky Lynch won the Women's World Championship. I'm joking of course, I'm being facetious. I said this in my editing review because I did see


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I sort of, I don't go on Twitter much these days, but after I've watched the show, I'll just go and have a quick like, a quick browse just to get a bit of a lay of the land. Not a lot of people talking about this show I saw, and I went to like Reddit and you know, sort of see the reactions that people have got to certain things. Kind of prepare myself for what I might encounter while I'm doing my day-to-day job. And I saw a lot of people down on that.


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[Assistant] Which is nuts to me, but also not nuts to me at all. Yeah, cause it reminded me of, remember a handful of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, you and I led with a podcast title was like, is Becky Lynch overpushed? Because there was a real like backlash and negative sentiment towards Becky Lynch that she's always been.


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[Assistant] Where's the, where's the new people coming up? Where's Liv Morgan? Where's this and the other?


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[Assistant] So when Becky won here, like, I'll be honest, when the match started and I was like, oh, Becky's the only viable winner of this match outside of Liv for the storyline reasons, but Becky's the only one who feels like an actual star here.


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[Assistant] And I think, and I said this in my edited review, this felt like a break glass in case of emergency moment.


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[Assistant] Your top star goes out, so you just replace her with your other top star. So Becky Lynch is completely the right choice. You had a planned vacation? Scrap that off, Jon Moxley. We've got a world title situation on our hands. We need you to come back to work.


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[Assistant] And Becky came back to work, and she won this match, and she is the new Women's World Champion, and I really do think it's probably the right call.


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[Assistant] I, like you, was disappointed when they announced I was a battle royal. We actually joked in the office.


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[Assistant] Tempest and I were saying like, because they announced last week, we're going to crown a new champion next week.


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[Assistant] And me and Tempest were like, what are they going to do? Like, you know, like a one night tournament or something like that. And then we both went, all they could do a battle royal. We haven't done one of those in about 20 years. And I'm like, nah, this is a new era. They'll think of something better.


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[Assistant] So when they announced it was a battle royal, I was like, that is the route one laziest option that you could have picked. Granted, you're in a slightly tricky predicament. You've got a lack of stars in your women's division at the moment because you haven't spent the time building anyone.


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[Assistant] So now he's like, okay cool, well we'll pull the other one back from vacation, and now,


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[Assistant] Once they announced that Becky was in the match, I was like, oh well Becky will probably win then, because that would be the safest option.


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[Assistant] I said on last week's show that I think it was the right move to crown a new champion this week from a business perspective. You've got house show loops you need to sell, you need world titles to fend it on those house shows in order to try and pull in the tickets. So crowning a new champion, I didn't think we were going to wait until Queen of the Rings.


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[Assistant] Backlashes soon. You probably already sold out the shows that are coming up soon, so it probably would have been something you probably could have foregone.


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[Assistant] But I did think a battle royal was route one laziest way to get a win. I also think it feels


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[Assistant] Like it's, it does not have the cool trappings of a royal rumble where you get to pop for entrances and sort of like build to different spots and stuff.


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[Assistant] Battle Royals by and large are already the exact same match every single time, and I do think this was your template Battle Royal with a very good final three. I think I was gonna, which, sorry, which is the usual trappings of a Battle Royal is every Battle Royal you've ever seen with a good final two.


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[Assistant] I think they did that certainly with, potentially with Piper. I think that they did a good job of setting Piper up as a first challenger.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, she, uh, dragged her out of the ring and was gonna get, try and put her through a table. She then dragged Nia Jax out of the ring as well. Didn't eliminate, just dragged her out of the ring. But it was kinda Nia that was the one that stood tall in the end. She tried, she body slammed, or she tried to choke slam Piper Niven onto Becky Lynch.


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[Assistant] I am the table, it did not break. So she hoisted her up into a Samoan drop. I am the table, it did not break again. Raw rolls on, we came back from commercial and the table was broken. It was like, during the commercial break, Naya finally broke the table.


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[Assistant] You put her on a ticket, people will buy that ticket because people love Becky Lynch. It's not, you were a star six years ago.


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[Assistant] Here is one thing I would have done to have fixed this Battle Royale. Have the Smackdown stars in it as well.


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[Assistant] Jade in this. But that doesn't matter. Like it, it, that's star power. And like, this match was lacking in star power because what this was, was Becky Nia Liv and a bunch of nobodies. Right. And so we just meant the first


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[Assistant] We're just waiting to get to that final three because that was the inevitable final three of the match. I agree with that. But if you had some extra star power in there that don't need to win, Becky should always be the eventual winner of this match. It would have elevated this match somewhat and would have elevated the title as well.


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[Assistant] Sure. So weird, every time I talk about these things, I'm like, in 2014, and it's because I'm currently in a 2014 mode to what we're doing on WrestleTalk Extra at the moment, brand new episode of that drops tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Uh, where we were reviewing the episode of Monday Night Raw, uh, where the shield break up. The week after that episode is when the authority announced that Daniel Bryan has been stripped of the world title because he's not medically cleared. It's now going to be up for in Money in the Bank and Money in the Bank is going to be a Money in the Bank ladder match. The winner of that is going to become the new WWE champion.


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[Assistant] And Oli was like, it just sucked that it was Senna because why don't you just try and put on a new guy? Like why don't you just, why don't you try Bray Wyatt? There's a Cesaro right there. It's like why not take a risk on someone like that? Because you're just going with the simple safe bet. And my counter to that was because the plan was that whoever was going to win was going to lose it to Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.


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[Assistant] The plan from Brian winning the belt was, you win it at Mania 30, you're dropping it to Brock at SummerSlam, and he's gonna do the big squash match. So if you're gonna do the same big Brock squash match at SummerSlam, don't put it on a, don't put it on a Bray White, don't put it on a Cesaro, because then that just gives them a NAF transitional reign.


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[Assistant] With these new potential fresh characters to feed to Brock Lesnar.


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[Assistant] And I think it's the same thing here. If the aim goal of us is to just get the belt back onto Rhea Ripley when she comes back,


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[Assistant] Don't put it on a Liv Morgan now, because then she becomes the transitional champ. It's much safer to put it on a Becky Lynch who loses nothing by being a transitional champion in the same way that John Cena lost nothing by being a transitional champion. The reason he lost nothing was that was his


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[Assistant] He'd only been on the main roster nine years.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I've just seen a lot of people being like, live to no bray white, that he just really compared live to bray.


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[Assistant] Yes, which is not what Jericho is trying to do. Jericho is as a bad politician, he's no hog.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna hold the ladder there to help you also climb up on that.


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[Assistant] And what I'm hoping with this Becky run is that Becky can replicate some of what she did with that NXT division. I'm hoping on a slightly grander scale because- Oh yea, big time. While we can- big time, Bex. While we can sort of like look a bit like, oh, you know, Becky had matches with Tegan Nox. Yea, there were three minute matches and they sort of did nothing for either person in the end of the day.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it. It's a good idea on paper sort of fumbled in execution. What I'm hoping for this one is that we get the good idea and not fumble it in execution.


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[Assistant] And then Liv Morgan can win it at Summerslam. She poses with a belt. This is my brutality hit.


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[Assistant] Getting time in, making the belt feel important, and with a bit of luck and a bit of time and effort, elevating some people. So that if this thing happens again, you're not stuck with a battle royal where two people are stars. Right. And the rest of it's Maxime Dupreeh. Yea, and I feel like there's- Nothing against Maxime Dupreeh.


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[Assistant] I was slightly taken out of the ending of the match though, because Liv Morgan dragged Becky Lynch through the ropes, and it felt like Michael Cole was about to say it, and then realized it was the finish of the match. It was like, I better not highlight.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think the world would be better off if we just TNA'd it a few more times. Well, let's, you know what, let's do a poll here. I would imagine that... I'm scared of this poll. I was thinking three options. Of like, Becky, Liv, someone else. Undecided.


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[Assistant] Undecided maybe? I think there's someone else I'd probably go with, because there was a part of me when I was watching this, I was like, ah, do you know what, just put it on Piper.


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[Assistant] It feels, uh, quite harsh considering, uh, what happened over the weekend. You gender it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, it was a good match. I don't think it's... I still think both your ideas are... Both of your thoughts are still correct. Right. You were not wrong to think this was a lame idea. No. No. Uh, but the outcome of it being good does not remove the fact that this was a lazy way to put the time on Becky Lynch.


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[Assistant] That is all well and good in theory. I hope that is what we're going to.


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[Assistant] But that is, it's going to come, like we, it's not like, well this is it and Liv Morgan's never going to win the belt before, like win the belt again.


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[Assistant] You've got to build this live heel character slightly more before, because otherwise, you strap the rocket to it, you strap the belt to it, and it might, it might sink.


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[Assistant] The women's division has never needed a mid-card title more than it does now. There are so many underpushed talents that it feels like they're without direction. Give them something to fight for and they'll get over. Also, Steinemath is better than the pipe bomb.


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[Assistant] Um, once again, I say this on every show, you can do that without belts. Uh, Aiden here said, uh, Danielson and Omega, sorry, Danielson and Osprey was not about a belt. You can do these things without belts. Aiden here said, I'm not saying this.


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[Assistant] Danielson Ospreay, before people get, uh, asky about that in the comments, which is saying that you can tell stories effectively without belts. Hangman's Swerve was not about a belt.


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[Assistant] It was about the idea of going four belts. Yes.


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[Assistant] Aiden here said, Becky winning is 100% the right choice. Have Becky hold it like she did the NXT title. Build Liv up as a proper heel. Liv wins at SummerSlam. Builds to Rhea's comeback and let Becky have her more than earned time off. I agree, Aiden.


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[Assistant] Justin has been in Menberg for 14 months in a row, said Liv should have won the Battle Royale, but if she beats Becky in a couple of weeks then it's fine, but Liv needs to be the champ while Ria is out for it too.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kuzu here said, and again, I just saw there, that's not a fair comparison, Luke. I'm not saying that the Raw Women's Division is just like... I am! Ospreay and Danielson. I'm just saying, that is a match that is not about a belt.


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[Assistant] You can do storylines that aren't about belts. It's actually very, it's actually very easy to do. You just get there. You know, CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre is currently not about a belt. It can be done people. You don't need a world title or a mid-card title for people to have feuds over.


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[Assistant] Chris here said that was the worst raw in a long time. Uh, the pop is over, down the hill we go. Becky is just Charlotte's at this stage, stealing others' moments. Uh, just like all the horsewomen do, who's actually gotten more over thanks to Becky's? I has released Livestalling, and now Alexa returns 0 out of 5 shots.


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[Assistant] Alex here said, what's up guys? I'm a bit gutted Liv didn't win. Honestly, I'd love to see Liv join Bo in his new group, especially considering her eerie stare down into the camera backstage after the match, and they could take on Rhea and the Judgement Day. Your thoughts? I mean, I'm ready for, uh, for Judgement Day to be over.


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[Assistant] Raphous here said, I don't mind Becky as champ, as long as it's not, uh, it's not just a lead in for, to run Charlotte vs Becky again for Charlotte to win. Though saying that, after listening to Becky's book, they could capitalise on that and keep blurring the lines of reality and kayfabe. Wanna talk about a match that doesn't need a belt? Yeah. That one right there. Absolutely. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I have an unknown username, please do let our moderators know. Uhm, uh, we have a Streamlabs issue. I think the reason why the Battle Royale didn't live up to expectations was because, as you said, a lack of star power. Specifically because it was in Columbus, and when Roar was in Columbus, who were people looking for? Hint rhymes with Agenda Crisp.


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[Assistant] I don't know, because I heard that reaction. It's not like, people weren't chanting, where's Alexa? People weren't chanting for Alexa Bliss. They went bonkers when Becky won. Like, I don't...


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[Assistant] Am I mad here? Am I wrong in thinking that this crowd weren't there for Alexa Bliss?


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[Assistant] But it is not like this match then built a massive star out of Shayna Baszler or Natalia. My point was more, this show, this match was lacking in star power because we've spent a year not building them to be stars.


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[Assistant] And so I'm like, so you need to bring some star power in with some of the other stars that you have built. So that is not me being like,


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[Assistant] Those aren't two opposing ideas. No. I don't think- I don't think just build some new stars and then you wouldn't have to bring in the Smackdown stars to make this feel like it's a star


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[Assistant] If you'd have made Chain of Beys look like a star in the first place. And that's where the- yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] If we're being honest, Damien Priest doesn't feel like a world champion yet. If we also put the women's title on someone who doesn't feel like a world champion yet, where does that leave Raw now? They needed Becky right now. I mean, I agree on that one, actually. That's a really good point.


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[Assistant] It could, uh, it would be a fresh face on top and it would make her a credible monster here. I was, you could have made a very, very good argument for not winning that belt.


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[Assistant] Will Campbell said as Dan said before, look what Becky did holding the NXT belt did for people like Tiffany and Lyra Valkyria. Becky's program with Tiffany boosted her to a superstar level, especially after the banger at No Mercy, and it made Lyra's eventual win that much bigger.


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[Assistant] The nicest way to put this. The diplomatic way. The diplomatic way.


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[Assistant] The viewership of Raw is so much higher than the viewership for NXT. So it's not like Tiffany was a star because of what she did down in NXT. She feels like a star because they presented her as a star since she's coming to Smackdown.


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[Assistant] But those are, again, two different things, but you're right, but also this point over here is.


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[Assistant] That was also correct. I think you were. It's just that I'm trying to make sure. Well, what I've learned over the last couple of weeks is that if you can have two ideas in your head, but are diametrically opposed from each other, people think that you don't agree with it. You have to agree with one or


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[Assistant] Chris said, Becky isn't Hogan or Stone Cold, she's Sena from Mania39 and she doesn't elevate anyone. Let's look at, uhm...


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[Assistant] I mentioned that, it is part of the storyline that she is turning heel and she stole the spotlight away from Willow. Right. So it's not like Mercedes Monet saw that match and was like, fuck this, no one's talking about me, pushed people out of the way and stormed down to the ring, play my theme music, Tony Khan.


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[Assistant] Michael Abbott! Oh, wonderful. Michael Abbott here.


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[Assistant] Uh, we had Pat and Michael Cole in the ring to explain that the title had been vacated and they threw it to a video package to explain that the title had been vacated. I wrote it here. This feels very Vince. Uhm, then Jay Uso came out for a promo. You'll hear me say the words blank came out for a promo a lot on this episode.


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[Assistant] And he said that I'm here to prove that I can be the world champion. Damien Priest came out and said that, look, we both worked hard to get to the main event, but


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[Assistant] Really, I'm the one who's next and I'm the one who's now. You're just on the first of a list of people that the machine are gonna feed for me to make me look good.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jay then said that the only reason Priest is the leader of Judgment Day is because Ria's out, so now you're gonna be Dom's bitch.


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[Assistant] JD McDonner tried to attack Jeyuso, but it didn't work, and Jeyuso left while Judgment Day crumbles around him. You mentioned it earlier, and I suppose we'll talk about it now. This feels very mid-calibre.


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[Assistant] Did elevate the title somewhat because Seth was involved with The Rock.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but even then, like, you know, it's Roman's promo as being like, I don't think that particularly helps things. I think the problem more with Damian Priest is, and this is what we were talking about in the lead up to WrestleMania, of like, I don't think that Priest is going to cash in money to bankers because they had not built him up to be the main event guy.


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[Assistant] So I don't think that is an inherent problem with Money in the Bank. That is not an inherent problem with the world title. That is an inherent problem with not building stars. Yeah. And you have spent, you spent almost a year, nine months say, from when he won Money in the Bank to WrestleMania.


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[Assistant] And you didn't do the things that you probably could have done to make him feel like a top guy. So that when he cashed and he won the world title, he feels like he is the main event. Because last week's show, Cody Cut sent you a farewell promo to Raw.


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[Assistant] And with Seth out, Seth has had surgery now, so he's gonna be out for a while, CM Punk is out, Drew is now a heel.


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[Assistant] So he endorsed Jeyuso. Jeyuso's now the number one babyface. He's the top babyface on Raw. But again, has not been built like he's going to be the guy to replace Cody Rhodes or Seth Rollins or CM Punk. He was like number four, number five, probably below Sami Zayn in terms of like-


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[Assistant] So, Jeyuso is now the number one babyface who's supposed to be going for the world title, but he feels like main event. I think Midcard Jeyuso going up against another Midcard guy who's got the world title, because you didn't spend the time making them feel like credible guys.


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[Assistant] I think it's, the King of the Ring tournament feels like a bigger thing than the World Title does at the moment, with the people who've announced themselves for it. Exactly, exactly that. And that is because you've spent the last year building a Star Ride of Gunther and building a Star Ride of Drew McIntyre. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the World Tag Titles were on the line as DIY took on the Awesome Truth. Uhm, Truth and Miz won when they hit the Truth Crushing Finale. After the match, Johnny Gargano shook hands with Miz and Truth, but Ciampa refused to shake hands because in the Triple H area, if you can't get him to the babyface, just turn him here.


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[Assistant] No, I guess not. I don't, but you know. And I'm a Miz guy. Now we've, uh, we've lost to Imperium as a tag team. I think New Day feels like a, uh, not past it, but like if they just put the belts onto them, that feels like that's not really doing much with the division. So yeah, I don't know who else there is. Can't be Alphara


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[Assistant] Well that's it. We are in a bit of a holding pattern until the draft.


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[Assistant] Uh, backstage, Priest told JD McDonough that, uh, he, there was no plan. I don't know what you were thinking when you came out here. And then Dom Risteria revealed, he is also injured. Uh, 54Sec report, this is a legitimate injury. There's no timetable on his return. He was pulled from the, uh, matches that he had in the European Tour.


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[Assistant] And Priest tells them to handle their business, because this is copy and paste from every Judgement Day segment. And Dominic Mysterio was sporting


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[Assistant] Uh, Gunther came out for a promo, putting over his icy title reign, but he said, you know what, thank you Samus Aim, because the weight...


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[Assistant] Later on Gunther said this is all beneath me. That's beneath him.


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[Assistant] Number one, it is for a title shot. And if Gunther wins, have that title shot at Bash at Berlin. That sounds like a great idea to me. Number two, get rid of the crown.


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[Assistant] He is just an accolade. It's an accolade that he's got. He won the King of the Ring tournament in 2024 and he gets a title shot out of it.


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[Assistant] That is what I want out of my King of the Ring. That is what King of the Ring used to be, and I want that again. And when I say used to be, sort of like in the late 90s to the early aughts. So then we had New Day versus Imperium, much like my GM mode, this feud was on cooldown, and New Day won.


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[Assistant] Yeah, afterwards, uh, Gunther walked to the back rather disappointed in his team for losing, and then they had a very, a hilariously long, uhm, well, tease, basically.


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[Assistant] We're not broken up Imperium, just kicked Vinci out of Imperium.


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[Assistant] So perhaps there is a spot open for putting some new people within there. Uhm, or it's just a case of maybe they'll just go off in there in separate ways, like Vinci can go off on a singles run. Maybe you don't need to add another person in there. I did see someone earlier say like, uhm, Luke doesn't want Imperial to break up but keeps going on about how Judgement Day needs to break up.


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[Assistant] Because you've done everything with Judgement Day. Yeah. We haven't even started anything with Imperium yet. Like, we put the group together and then just started teasing them break up.


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[Assistant] Uh, he got screwed at WrestleMania, he got screwed at Raw, and he's announced himself the King of the Ring, which I'm really, really excited about. And then Sheamus came out, and I was like...


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[Assistant] The thing with Too Many Limes is that I hold too much of it as like, well, it was just the meme of like, early day Twitter. It was like, the meme was Too Many Limes. So I can't take that song seriously. But you know, maybe I'm not supposed to.


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[Assistant] But I got excited when Shamus came out, and cards on the table, this was far and away my favourite thing on the show. I loved this segment, as I have done with most Drew segments, because there's something about Drew segments that don't feel like, you kind of look at what the Damien Priest and Jey Uso thing was earlier. Like it's just, it's a lot of like,


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[Assistant] It's catchphrases and it's just, I'm going to say a call and response things. But this is like real human roar emotion. Like Drew doesn't feel like a character. Drew is just Drew. And shame standing across the ring was just shame. And they're mates. And they're mates. And this just felt like actual humans as opposed to


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[Assistant] Wrestlers? Like, in a way, like, if that makes sense, but like, I know that they're all wrestlers, but Sheamus had this great point, he was like, dude, you're a champion, like, you kept telling me, all of these years, the only thing you've told me is that you're gonna win that world title in front of fans, and you did it.


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[Assistant] And then you blew it. And why? Because of a social media spat and a t-shirt.


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[Assistant] You threw everything away for that. And that is a friend telling another friend some home truths that they need to hear. And Drew, not knowing how to process that, went route one and just said, well you're fat, mate.


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[Assistant] Because he said, look, you know, you used to tell me that it's banger after banger, since you've come back, it looks like it's burger after burger. Objectively a brilliant line. It is a great line, but what was great about that is it wasn't really, it came across that it was Drew going route one, but it's not. And this is why I love Drew McIntyre so much.


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[Assistant] Drew is making reference to a social media thing from last week that not everyone in the building is going to be aware of.


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[Assistant] And he then turned that into a kayfabe scenario that is within the wrestling world which is, that's what everyone was saying about you in the locker room last week. Everyone in the locker room behind your back is saying, you've gotten fat mate. But not me, because I don't say things behind your back because I'm your friend and as your friend, I've got your back.


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[Assistant] I'm really, really interested to see where we're gonna go with this Drew Shamus thing, and I actually feel like this segment here has elevated Shamus. Oh massively. This is now feeling like Shamus is not maybe on the same level as Drew, but it feels like he's on a much higher level than when he was last week.


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[Assistant] So he then, like, he went up against Shinsuke Nakamura and I was like, what a downgrade for Seamus. Like, cause this is an easy win for him to get. This felt like a big, like, moving up the ladder for Seamus. I really, really like this.


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[Assistant] I feel like those bicycle shorts were an optical illusion last week. They were, in a way. Like his old Seamus O'Shaughnessy shorts. Seamus O'Shaughnessy. Um, I've been all gold. Went back to the trunks. Looked great this week. And I thought he looked great last week in fairness.


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[Assistant] Kathy Kelly interviewed Sammy backstage. He said, look, I'm not going to talk about the Chad thing. I'm biting my tongue. There's a lot of things I want to say, but I want to hear what Chad has to say first. And Bronson Reed walks up and says, well, really you've got a...


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[Assistant] Then if I told you my new phrase that I like to see get put in the room 101. What? Uh, I'm putting the division on notice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't need to ever hear a wrestler say that ever again. So Chad Gable came out for a promo and some lad had a go at Gable on Pat's show and then Chad gave his reason for why he turned here last week. It should have been me.


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[Assistant] And he's like, Sammy stole my moment at WrestleMania. He knew what that moment meant to me.


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[Assistant] And then, to make matters worse, he put the belt in my face, but I'm the better man, so I raised his hand.


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[Assistant] But then he had to take it one step too far and he hugged his wife in the crowd. He knows that should have been me hugging my daughter in the crowd. So I had to do what I had to do. I've been spending too long training losers and hanging out with dorks.


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[Assistant] From now on, this is what the Academy is going to be about. It's honest feedback and working to make sure that Chad Gable wins the IC title. Together, we're gonna win my Intercontinental Championship, no matter what.


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[Assistant] And he makes Otis say, no matter what.


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[Assistant] And the sad, comedy characters walked sadly behind the evil healer.


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[Assistant] Apparently that was Char- that was Charles Barkley. Who was the bloke who was on Pa- Was it really? I did not recognize that as Charles Barkley. They said it was Charles Barkley. I did not hear them say that. I just saw them- I was actually waiting for the end of it to tell me who it was. I did not recognize that was Charles Barkley. I've seen Space Jam.


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[Assistant] I have nothing to give. It's a chance if you dance at the Space Jam. Alright. It's a great film.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so last week I was a bit of a Debbie Downer on the Chad heel turn. Not because I didn't think it was executed well, because I thought it was executed brilliantly, and I think that it was an awesome, awesome heel turn.


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[Assistant] And a great moment and it kind of caught me off guard and I love him literally ripping, uh, Sammy out of his wife's arms to give him the German soup legs. Loved that.


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[Assistant] My thing was more, I was like, I was not- I didn't think we needed to turn chat here.


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[Assistant] Cause I don't think we'd had enough of the baby face run yet. I still think there was gas left in that tank to do some stuff with the Chad baby face run.


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[Assistant] So I was kind of like, it wasn't like I was down right now, I was just more like, ah man, we could have had something really good. Also, I think we could have really built this story better as opposed to doing it in four weeks. Man, I think we could have spent a bit more time building to this moment.


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[Assistant] But I thought this was a very good promo, and I'm quite looking forward, as I said, I'm looking forward to that moment when Otis does stand up, because I think Otis is one of those charismatic guys that can make that moment mean something. And the crowd reactions to these three people getting dressed down by Chad Gable shows that people have really invested in the Alpha Academy.


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[Assistant] My argument that I gave last week, so I won't repeat too much of it here because people have heard me talk about this already, was that we had a really good moment, he was getting so much organic babyface momentum, and then we just pressed pause.


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[Assistant] And then we did nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing, and then we turned him heel.


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[Assistant] And I feel that there was, there's a big, big chunk there that's missing of like, you could have done something really good in that time when you were doing nothing.


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[Assistant] You could have had a really good run, which would have, I then wouldn't have been sat here being like, ah man, I wish we had more of that baby face run of Chad Gable, as opposed to him doing the gun to the match, losing, and then just being a tag guy that loses on TV every now and again, and then turns heel.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it's classic Triple H, is that he's very bad at follow up.


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[Assistant] Very wacky finish to this match, which saw Andrade throw JD McDonough off the top rope, while on the other corner Santos Escobar hit a top rope hurricanrana, which turned into Ricochet hitting a leg drop on JD McDonough, and then Andrade hit his finish for the win. Then after the match, Damian Priest got in the ring and beat up both Ricochet and Andrade, and told JD and Dom, I don't need you, you need me.


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[Assistant] That is a superb idea. Because this was brought up on the Fightful post show last week. Because I did it on three count of my three words were pegged by Liv. Because it used to be pegged by Rhea. And now he's going to find his new mammy. It's funny as well because like,


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[Assistant] And then we had the Women's Battle Royale to end off the show. I gave this 3 out of 5, uh, I thought this was a totally fine little episode of the TV show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was a totally fine episode of television. One of those shows where I say there was a bit too much talking.


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[Assistant] Uh, I thought it was a very excellent way to end off the show. So thank you all so much that we got a poll going up to let us know what you thought if it is a thumbs up, thumbs down, or thumbs in the middle show. Well, we give a special shout out to our wonderful backers over at patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk. Head on over there now to get exclusive content like WrestleTalk Extra, where Ollie and I are currently reviewing the year 2014.


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[Assistant] Looking at the breakup of the shield. Brand new episode drops tomorrow, which is us reviewing Raw.


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[Assistant] The June 2nd edition of Monday Night Raw, where the Shield break up. And let me tell you, if you think this was a bad episode of Raw, you should go watch the June 2nd edition of Monday Night Raw from 2014 because that was butt ass.


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[Assistant] Until the final five minutes of the show. And that was the overrun.


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[Assistant] So it was, it was real, real bad. Really bad show. Uh, so, but go and check that out over there. We'll be reviewing that tomorrow on Rest Talk Extra, as well as early access to the Monday Night War and the booking podcast that we do over there, and exclusive episodes of Survival Series.


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[Assistant] Sean, the movie Luke has never seen, Selina, the Pharaoh, Steve and Matt's a Pharaoh, and that is your Hall of Fame class for Tuesday the 23rd of April 2024. Let's get into the rest of your remaining ultra chat, kicking things off with Timothy who says I love Becky Lynch so much.


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[Assistant] The little moment with Maxine pre-Battle Royale almost made me cry. With everything she's dealt with online and storyline, it felt massive to have my GOAT, who had her own struggles, Paul and Max decided to give her her love. Becky is the best.


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[Assistant] I was there in the trenches in 2018, uh, when this company, this company


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[Assistant] Kept telling me that she was a heel, and I was like no, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] She should be your number one babyface. Push her as such. I remember being there in 2016 when the draft happened, and she just got thrown onto SmackDown with a bunch of nobody and was like, oh yea, here's a consolation belt for you, now try and make something of this, and she bloody did. Uh, the NXT days where


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[Assistant] Ah, I was pulling for her to win. And Bailey was my girl, but I love me some Becky Lynch. I mean, those four working together were just magic.


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[Assistant] I get a lot of crap online because I points out, and I don't think I'm wrong in this, that they are the ones who really did start this women's revolution in WWE. I know.


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[Assistant] But when those four were actually pushed as the, almost the main event scene of that show, that is the moment that women's wrestling in WWE did change. Not taking anything away from Paige, not taking anything away from Natalya and Emma and all of those matches that they had.


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[Assistant] It was the Four Horsemen, it was that Charlotte Nattie match, uhm, that really did.


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[Assistant] Force WWE to put a spotlight and be like, oh, maybe TNA been right since 2006 and we can make money with women.


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[Assistant] Women's wrestling in TNA in 2006, 2007, 2008 was outdrawing the men in terms of ratings to the point where they were going to launch a whole second show that was just the women's division, that was just the TNA knockouts.


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[Assistant] Gabriel has been a member for 33 months in a row, says I didn't like the Super Becky aspect of it, would have been fine if the table spot was taken out. I'm sure Triple H knows best and time will tell. As a result of the poll, crikey it's closer than I thought actually, Becky 49% lived 31% of the vote, where someone else got 18.


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[Assistant] So, Becky, half of the votes there, but I thought the live one might be slightly stronger, but I think that actually just shows that it's the vocal minority in the live community who are angry at the Becky Lynch thing.


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[Assistant] Nick Devine here says, I just don't want to boo Chad Gable. Sorry! Yea, me too. Uh, JLL said, I think the Chad storyline has legs. A slow burn of manipulation where Tazara and Maxine do start to believe he'll heal Gable, yet Otis pulls away and can eventually set up Gable versus Otis for the title. Obvs Chad wins that match.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if this is going to lead to Chad winning the, the belt. I don't know if this is going to elevate Otis into that position. I think that, sorry, I should turn it back because I think Chad will win the IC title, uh, eventually.


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[Assistant] Uh, Caleb here said hello lads, hope you're doing well. What are your thoughts on the speculation that Ilya Dragunov will join Imperium? I was into the idea a few months ago, but I'd rather see him cut loose on the IC division by himself. Thoughts on who will move in the draft?


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[Assistant] My wand that I'm pretty like, if I was a betting man, which I'm not, I would put money on, is Elo Knight being drafted to Raw.


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[Assistant] Avinchi, I think Ivar, like the, the, the, the report sides, Ivar and Final Testaments, uh, probably added to NXT. Um, but yeah, as for Ilya Dragunov, yeah, I'm kind of like pushing for him as a singles guy. There's a worry that he could just get lost in the show. So at least if he's with Imperium, then like he's on a featured TV show, a featured TV group.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I don't think Elion needs to join Imperium. Yes, I agree with that.


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[Assistant] Kett here said, first the Usos, then Vinci and Kaiser. What is Triple H's obsession with breaking up tag teams that don't need to be split up? At least a Vinci and Kaiser match sounds much better than a Sleeper brother match we had at WrestleMania.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I mean also be careful when you say the sleeper match because that makes it sound like people missed out on a really good match.


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[Assistant] You know what, I don't think is really helping. And maybe this is just me.


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[Assistant] Them being a little DX cosplay thing, it all is so cringe. I wrote in my notes here and I haven't, I didn't want to say it because I was afraid that people might come after me, but you know, and I've got enough of that on my plate at the moment.


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[Assistant] Huge undercard, like, dorks. Yeaah. With their DX cosplay nonsense. Right. And then during the match, Champa gave a crotch top and hit a pedigree and I'm like, oh, this is, it's so indie riffing.


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[Assistant] New era started with the Awesome Truth winning a tag title match and ended with Becky Lynch winning a women's title. Instead of building the company around DIY or Shayna Baszler, they instead defaulted to established stars. It's just boring.


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[Assistant] Joe C. Will J. said, Hello Luke and Hello Dan. Prediction to him, as Drew McIntyre has still not re-signed and that's up around June time. If Punk is healed, can we see Punk Cena in Chicago 2011 reaction with Drew in Scotland? Punk vs Drew vs Damien at Clash of the Castle. Drew wins, and when Drew wins the title he leaves via the crowd blowing a kiss at Punk.


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[Assistant] With Drew now gone from the company, he can be off TV for a month, returning to Attack Punk, setting up the singles match against him at SummerSlam Thoughts on this.


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[Assistant] I would agree with you. My hope is that Drew does re-sign and stays here. I disagree that he wouldn't get this level of creative elsewhere.


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[Assistant] Uh, Matt here said, I think Becky winning was the right call. She's the biggest star in the division because once she signs her new deal with WWE, she's going to be the highest paid woman in wrestling. But that also adds to her Liv story. Over the last two years in WWE, Liv has been the runner-up. Back-to-back Royal Rumbles and Elimination Chambers. I don't think Becky has a long run as champ. I think Liv winning the title of Backlash and Becky could get drafted to Smackdown.


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[Assistant] Uh, while I'm disappointed DIY didn't win the tag titles, I do like the direction. I don't think they're splitting. I see one of the three directions. One, they go heal and be awesome tree for the tag titles.


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[Assistant] Uh, while I don't, uh, while I want them to be champs, they've been organically over as babyfaces, and I'd rather them win the tag titles as babyfaces. Then as heels, option two, they go to SmackDown, and with a more serious edge, still as babyfaces and win the tag titles from A-Town Down Under at SummerSlam, which is in Johnny's hometown. Option three, they tease the champ return more on TV, like the NXT during the revival.


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[Assistant] They win the tag titles, have a short run as champions, lose them, and then champ returns to Gargano in time for Wrestlemania, which is what they did in NXT. Really like the Chad Hill character, glad Finn is staying with WWE, dude looks like he's having fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Finn Balor signed recently with WWE, uh, very, very smart, apparently the big money offer. I, um, I don't know on the, uh, Becky thing, because obviously Mercedes Monet is now, uh, officially the, the, uh, the highest paid woman in wrestling history.


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[Assistant] I'd be amazing, I'd love to see if WWE can match that because the thing that people have been saying about WWE in these contract negotiations is that Tony Khan will always offer more money.


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[Assistant] And if he can offer more money and that forces WWE to have to offer more money and then Becky gets a much bigger payday out of this, then that is a huge upside for like for anyone. That's a huge upside for everyone in this industry. So I hope that Becky Lynch gets that money.


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[Assistant] I personally was not a big fan of it as, as most were. The overproduction for me took out, took me out of it. But something I noticed almost immediately was, modern WW music is pretty stinky bad, huh? I had to listen to most of the stuff since, uh, I had yet to listen to most of the stuff since CFOs was dropped from their contract and the music nowadays is just not good. Anyway, my silly comments aside,


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[Assistant] Chris said, do you know what the worst thing is as well? Do you know what gets stuck in my head?


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[Assistant] Uh, Chris said, I'm about done with the double standard WWE and the fandom have towards, uh, why only the horsewomen, super Bianca, or crybaby Rhonda can waltz into title matches or moments of people like Alexa, uh, Asuka, and now Liv, who are as important. I'm not even hyped for the Wyatt 6 now.


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[Assistant] Anonymous here said, I think decades of short-term, quick-pop booking have made people develop bad habits when watching WWE. This is an episode that did its job setting the table and that's necessary for long-term success and satisfying stories.


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[Assistant] Jcos here said, I know Luke will disagree, but I would prefer less wrestling on weekly TV, more promo time. Bloodline, Drew, Cody all got over mostly through mic work. Give Gable and DIY and others promo time vignettes to build a great pay per view matches. That's how you get over. Guess what, Jcos? You can do both. Yeah, it's a balance of the two.


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[Assistant] It's not that I don't disagree with you, because promo time does help people get over.


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[Assistant] As does matches, and you can do both of those things on three hours of television. It is actually very easy to do both of.


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[Assistant] Did you see the infographic, uh, that WWE, both Raw and Smackdown has more commercials than in-ring wrestling? I did not see that. That's quite funny. Well, that's America.


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[Assistant] Uh, Prime here said, Ospreay attended Pride this week, then puts on one of the best matches I've ever seen in an interview where he talked about his struggles with autism and just how he and I, uh, just with how he, I feel like someone who's representing me and just happens to be insane at wrestling. I just love him.


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[Assistant] I'm listening to a Wrestling Observer radio from June 2nd, 2014 in preparation for Restalk Extra. And Brian Alvarez opened the show and said, hello and welcome to Wrestling Observer radio. It is June 2, 2014.


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[Assistant] How's it going everybody? Uh, Brian, Brian the Snider has become a member and has got no message as has Asselroy! And we've got a couple of last minute chats to go through here. As Zachary said, hey guys, it's been so long, how's everyone been? Just wanted to ask Luke. Uh, what do you think of the new Big Monkey and Big Lizard versus other Big Monkey movies?


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[Assistant] I have not seen it yet. Me neither. I have not seen it yet. Unfortunately, yeah, I've not had the chance to go to the pictures. And the only thing I might be going to see, like I want to go see the new Planet of the Apes movie.


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[Assistant] But uhm, they're doing, the Prince Charles are doing a series, uh, they're showing pretty much, I think they're showing all of the Showa era Godzilla movies. So I've written down the ones that I could possibly go to. So I'm gonna try and go to as many of those as I can.


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[Assistant] And next month they are doing a Transformers 40th anniversary event where they're showing the first four episodes of the TV series. Those are the things I might try and go out of my way to get the pictures for.


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[Assistant] Mr. Toff here has been a member for 15 months in a row, but that's no message. Lobie here said, uhm, oh that's the one we had earlier about Ria and Dom. And the legit underboss Jimmy Thomas said, For the two film guys with Tony Storm's story being based around all about Eve, what other classic movies would make good wrestling stories? Clucks.


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[Assistant] I think there's something about, uh, clerks. You can get that in there. It's like, you know, some guy's not supposed to be there today, and he was called in. And then, you know, another wrestler dies wanking on the loo.


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[Assistant] Yeah? Yeah. I think that's stuff to be mined from the Will Ferrell era of comedy. Elf. From Elf.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeaah, uh, I can't think of a serious answer to that, unfortunately. Pulp Fiction, let's tell wrestling stories out of order. I actually know they're doing that!


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[Assistant] I saw someone say that that got shown at a film festival recently, cause it's uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, you should do, it's very good. I mean, spoilers though. Uhm, alright, let's end this poll and see what you thought of this. Low, I will say, although rather split. It is currently looking to be... 54% thumbs up, 40% thumbs in the middle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought it was a very middling episode of Monday Night Raw. But, as that ultra chat said earlier, necessary. Drafts on the way, you can't have banger episode after banger episode after banger episode. Sometimes you do need to just...


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[Assistant] Actually, you're absolutely right. I mean, you can do. It is actually totally possible for you to do so.


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[Assistant] We'll be back on Thursday with the AEW Dynamite review, so please do press the subscribe and leave a comment down below with what you thought of this episode of Raw. Give this video a thumbs up, I've no idea if it helps in the algorithm, but it's part of my spiel, so do it anyway. Thank you everyone who's joined us live, thank you all so much for watching, we'll see you on Thursday. I've been Luke Owen, D.A.D. That has been the Professor Dan Leighton, Jam that Jam!


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[Assistant] And enlightening sports talk from your favorite sports fam was popping fam. I hope y'all had a fantastic week.


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[Assistant] Much love to the, who that nation man, appreciate you guys for being in this thing is this one called are the saints next up for hard knocks? Indeed, man. So we had never had to deal with that.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying it's going to happen, you know, but you never know, man. So we got to cover it. So shout out to the fam.


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[Assistant] Appreciate each and every last one of y'all for being up in this thing. OG Jerry, Elite Pelicans, NOLA.


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[Assistant] Be kind. Good to see y'all up in this thing. JT, much love. Good to see you. Poppy 504. Brother St. John Butler. Shout out to you. Good to see you. St. Doug. I see you brother.


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[Assistant] Much love to you brother Jeremy Dana. Shout out to my queens up in this thing. Appreciate y'all. T Dirty was popping my brother T Dirty. Good to see you fam. Much love to all of y'all man in this thing. As the coma represent man, we popping on


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[Assistant] For about three o'clock, this is an unusual time for us, but why the hell not? You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] You know, I hear you, but guess what? If the NFL come a calling, man, you cannot refuse them, man. You can not refuse them. So there it is.


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[Assistant] So let's get right into this article right here. Y'all feel free to hit the like button for me. Hit the like button.


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[Assistant] Hit the subscribe and share button and share the show on your social media feed. Much love to the fam.


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[Assistant] All right. Shout out to you, Colorado. Good to see you. Big bull hoffa. Shout out to you. All right.


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[Assistant] They could be, are they next up man? Let's get into it. NFL might find some trouble here trying to find a team. No, they won't. They won't. They can force you to do it. Remember they did that to the Raiders.


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[Assistant] And I'mma go over some information. You know how I do fam. You know, I'mma, I'mma, I'mma show y'all some stuff, uh, in this and, uh.


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[Assistant] You know, and show you, uh, an article on how this rolls, you know, how teams do after they go on a hard knock. It's a lot of people do not want to be involved with the project simply because of it's, and they call it a distraction.


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[Assistant] Listen, if you're a win, if you're a team that's in the NFL, and especially if you're a team that's losing, don't keep your distractions down. That's absolutely the case.


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[Assistant] But as we've known over the many years, especially the last several years,


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[Assistant] Of off season distractions the last several years and we've had some pretty big ones. You know, just to keep it a buck 15 with you. We've had some, some real sizable


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[Assistant] Uh, distractions, all feel distractions from just stuff that was put out there just by the players alone. You know what I'm saying? And then the team alone outside of just that, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Remember the stuff that was dealing with the Catholic Church? That was something attached to the Saints. That was the stuff dealing with various other players off-season shenanigans.


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[Assistant] So we've dealt with our fair share of distractions and we're able to go through it.


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[Assistant] This will give, be a, and I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying that the Saints are among four teams that they're considering and they have taken a while here to decide on which team they're going to go to. And I'm like, man.


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[Assistant] We, we fit the criteria, so let's get into it right here.


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[Assistant] And get into some of the criteria for this. So anyway, the NFL could have a tough time finding a team for the hard knocks this year and that's because half of the NFL teams eligible to be on the show.


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[Assistant] The one big reason why it's taking so long for the league to pick a team.


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[Assistant] The calendar and FL calendar has hit June and the league still hasn't made an announcement about the team.


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[Assistant] And which, you know, who'll be getting the hard knocks treatment this year. Last year, the announcement of the team was made in March.


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[Assistant] For those of you who are unfamiliar with the hard knocks formula.


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[Assistant] They have a first year head coach in place. That's not you. That was last year. Rule number two. They have a playoff berth in the last past two years. That's not you either.


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[Assistant] I hate to sound like that, but the truth is the truth, right Arsenio?


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[Assistant] So they have, uh, he's saying the third one is they appeared on heart knocks in the past 10 years. Sakes never have. Never have.


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[Assistant] Never. Never, ever, ever. Shout out to you, Big Bull. Appreciate you, man. Much love.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, Dana. She said first they have to go and break up the bounty.


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[Assistant] We gotta do, we gotta do. All right, now let's get back into it fam. As we continue to cover it now.


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[Assistant] Also, for instance, the Broncos don't have to be on the show in 23 because they have a new coach.


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[Assistant] The Patriots won't have to be on the show because they made the playoffs at least once in the past two seasons. And the Cowboys won't have to be on the show because they appeared


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[Assistant] Uh, in the past 10 years, they were on their last, uh, the year before last, if I'm not mistaken, because Detroit was on their last year.


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[Assistant] Alright, so when we factor in these rules and apply them to everyone, we're left with just four teams that the NFL can force.


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[Assistant] That's the, that's the, that's the four teams. Small choice right here.


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[Assistant] The obvious choice here would seem to be the Jets, who are now one of the most fascinating teams in NFL thanks to the addition of Aaron Rodgers. However,


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[Assistant] I wouldn't go betting anything on the Jets getting picked because they don't seem too excited at the idea of landing on hard knocks. Just ask coach Robert Sala.


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[Assistant] He said, I know there are several teams that would love Hard Knocks to be in their building. And, uh, he said Friday, we're just not one of them suckers.


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[Assistant] It's also probably worth noting that the Jets special teams captain Justin Hardy, who formed a Saint.


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[Assistant] Once nothing to do with the show, which he believes would be a distraction. Dennis Allen also said that he said he doesn't, he don't want it and he's put it out there.


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[Assistant] I know John's saying that. What's up Jerry? Shout out to the OG man.


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[Assistant] Good to see you. I agree with you, Johnny says Jetson and he could have it man. But yeah, I hear you on that bro, but.


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[Assistant] Let's see what, you know, the NFL, man, what, what, what they're going to do here. Justin Hart says, man, y'all can give hard knocks to another team, man. We trying to focus and win. That's a distraction.


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[Assistant] We keep forgetting this, even though that is facts that is veritized from Justin Hardy.


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[Assistant] Also, you got to realize that whether they're there or not, you got distractions that you got to deal with. And even if the hard knock people come a knocking.


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[Assistant] We still got to handle the business, man. It's something telling me we hadn't have to deal with this.


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[Assistant] We didn't have to cause we were winning, but this is one of the things that teams that are not winning have to deal with. This is one of the things where you're not winning. You got to deal with a hard knocks that come a knocking in the door.


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[Assistant] Can we come, can we come in and film you guys? You can't tell them no either. John says, are we going to see Trey Quine get that pink slip? Hey bro, this is a good year for it, man. No doubt about it. Alright, so anyway, let's keep it moving.


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[Assistant] Into it, and I'm gonna answer some questions from the family members after we cover this. Also, let's not forget that Jets owner Woody Johnson gave a non-committal answer when he was asked about the possibility of doing hard knocks at the annual league meeting in March. Whether we do it this year, I think we have to take a hard look.


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[Assistant] And it might sound like Johnson is on the fence, but here.


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[Assistant] You know, we're in favor of doing the show. They likely just say that. For instance, back in 2012, he made it clear that the team was open to bringing on, bringing on hard knocks. They didn't end up getting picked though that year. Now the Jets have previously appeared on the hard knocks back in 2020, excuse me, 2010, which is mostly remembered for Rex Ryan's telling his team to go eat, you know, there you go. And we ain't going to say that. And there is it right there. We ain't going to play that. All right. So anyway, another coach who seems adamantly against it is Dennis Allen.


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[Assistant] The Saints coach gave a pretty clear answer on June the 6th when he was asked about how he would feel if the team gets picked for the show.


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[Assistant] And Dennis Allen said something pretty good. He says, I wouldn't like it because I just want to focus on our football team and getting better and any distractions are exactly that. Distractions that keep you ultimately from reaching your goal. Distractions happen fam. So it looks like the Saints and Jets are out. How about the Bears then?


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[Assistant] It looks like the Bears are out at the annual league meeting. Bears chairman.


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[Assistant] George McCasky made it clear that he would be glad to see any team on the show this year except the Bears. We feel there are a number of teams that have compiled stories to tell.


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[Assistant] It hard knocks, but he says McClessy said the owners meeting saying via the athletic 31 other teams, they're not interested. The commanders, Austin, Jeremy Reeves was the special teams all pro in 2020. Doesn't sound very interested in doing the show either. He said they can keep that man.


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[Assistant] One thing, and that's another thing. So as you can see, even the Jets, commanders, saints, bears don't want, don't want to be on hard knocks. That doesn't mean they won't be picked. The NFL can force one of four eligible teams to be on the show.


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[Assistant] The Raiders didn't want to do the show in 2019 but the NFL picked them anyway. On the other hand, the four candidates for this season could be off the hook if a team volunteers to be on the show.


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[Assistant] The Rams and Chargers did the show together in 2020, even though they weren't on the list of eligible teams. Don't seem like anybody's volunteering for it. That's for certain.


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[Assistant] With only four eligible teams this year, the NFL is going to have to hope one of the teams have a change of heart or that another team volunteers. The league could also point to the commanders and basically say quote, if we get yourself finalized, we're putting you on the show and we don't want to hear any complaints. End quote. The show generally starts filming at the start of training camp.


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[Assistant] So the NFL will want to pick someone soon. However, the league doesn't necessarily have to rush its pick in 20, you know, rush his pick. Back in 2019, the hard knocks team wasn't announced until June the 11th when the Raiders got picked.


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[Assistant] And 21 NFL waited until July 2nd to announce the Hard Knocks team that year, which ended up being the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Basically what this means is you can, I likely expect to hear an announcement on who the hard knocks team will be at some point in the next four weeks. And don't be surprised if that announcement is sooner rather than later. So that's some of the, that's, that's the call on it.


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[Assistant] Are all eligible for the hard knocks. Nobody wants the hard knocks because they all deem it as a distraction. Now listen.


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[Assistant] That's the bad part about it. The obvious part about it is the fact that it is a distraction, right? We call it a distraction. It's mentioned as a distraction, right?


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[Assistant] We see that, but the good part about it is it's another cameras, another aspect into our team to see what's going on. Like, you know.


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[Assistant] They have, they'll be there covering all of the stuff that's going on. You know, they're going to be up in there getting the scoop for that year. So you'll have like a, a great.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, you know, content to talk about. So that's the, the good side of it is, is more access to see the inner workings, to see more stuff that's going on behind the scenes with the team. And that's a positive.


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[Assistant] And then the other side of it is the team doesn't like it because they don't want the cameras there. Why are they doing anything? Because they can't really feel comfortable dropping game and doing what they got to do. Cause the camera, the people moving around. So I get that part about it. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, parents see you ahead of the game, baby. Let me go ahead on the common drop that. Cause that's what I was about to get to the next portion of the game. And we already know.


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[Assistant] About this, but let's get into this article right here. Hold on here it is right here. And this is kind of dated back in the day. This is back article that was written back in, well actually November 8th of 2022 for Sportskeeda.


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[Assistant] And what it did was, it basically gave some game about, you know, every team that HBO's Hard Knocks has covered and how they fared that season. So we have a historical or a.


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[Assistant] Kind of a analytical approach in terms of looking at how certain teams fare. Not all the success is not, you know, it depends based on what team, you know, was there and they just were able to deal with it. So let's take a look at how some of some teams perform.


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[Assistant] You know, being on hard knocks. Now, here, you know, back in 01, Baltimore Ravens, as a starting hard knocks in 01, the Ravens went 10-6 and made the playoffs. They finished second in the division and lost in the divisional round of the playoffs. Elvis Garbach.


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[Assistant] Was the Ravens Q, remember that's an old throwback, Elvis Garbach. My goodness. Was the Ravens QB that year and he threw 15 touchdowns versus 18 interceptions.


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[Assistant] The old two cowboys, five and 11 missed the playoffs after their time on the hard knocks. Good. Their quarterback, Chad Hutchinson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, some really bad quarterbacks. 08, the Cowboys. Dallas went 9-7 and missed the playoffs in 08. Tony Romo pulled the strings of the Cowboys that year throwing for 26 touchdowns against 14 interceptions. Cowboys finished third in the division in 08. 09, the Bengals.


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[Assistant] Followed their stint on hard knocks with a 7-9 record. The quarterback was Ryan Tannehill.


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[Assistant] Who was in his rookie year he threw for 12 touchdowns against 13.


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[Assistant] In exceptions, 2013 bangles back at it again. A few years later, the bangles are back on hard knocks. They went.


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[Assistant] The quarterback was Andy Dalton who threw 33 touchdowns against 20 interceptions. 2014 Atlanta Falcons.


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[Assistant] The Falcons win 6-10 missing the playoffs in the following of their appearance on Hard Knock.


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[Assistant] Was the quarterback and he threw 28 touchdowns against 14 interceptions. 2015 the Houston Texans.


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[Assistant] They went nine and seven, won the division. They made the playoffs that you're eventually losing in a wild card round.


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[Assistant] Ryan Hoyer was the quarterback for the Texans and he had 19 touchdowns against just seven picks. 2016 it was the Rams.


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[Assistant] It went four and 12 after that time on the hard knocks. They finished third in the division and played hot potato with Case Keenum and Jared Golf.


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[Assistant] Golf was 0-7 as a starter in his rookie season. 2017 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They went 5-11, missed the playoffs, finishing fourth in the division. The quarterback was Jameis Winston.


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[Assistant] In 2019, seven and nine finished third in the division. They missed the playoffs in their final season in Oakland.


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[Assistant] The car, car, there you go. I got car was the quarterback. He threw 21 touchdowns against eight picks for 2019. So we do have Derek Carr.


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[Assistant] Both went there, both covering hard knocks that year. The Rams was 10-6, finished second in the division. Golf was the quarterback at 20 touchdowns against 13 picks. The Rams made the playoffs and lost in the division around that season. The Chargers meanwhile posted the 79 mark.


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[Assistant] They missed the playoffs and finished third in the division. However, Justin Herbert was an explosive rookie season.


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[Assistant] Throwing 31 touchdowns against just 10 picks that guy special. Cowboys back at it again.


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[Assistant] What will the Cowboys do? And this is 2021 where the article stopped up, stopped at, but I picked up where it is in the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] In 21, they did this. They finished 12 and 5 that year. In 21, they finished first in the NFC East, right?


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[Assistant] And then you can see the numbers right there, averaging over 31 points per game or giving up 21 points per game. You see they rushed that almost 125 yards per game and passed almost 292 yards. So pretty good stats. They were number one and passing, uh, points per game. Excuse me.


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[Assistant] And you can see the offensive opposing points were 7th versus the rush was 9th and he also passed at almost 292, which was 3rd in the game. So you can see they also lost in that wild card.


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[Assistant] Then this was the team last year, the Detroit Lions.


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[Assistant] Detroit Lions was up in that thing. They finished nine and eight. They didn't make it to the playoffs. They finished second in the NFC North.


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[Assistant] And you can see they're at their points per game or 26.6. Good for five. They gave up 25 and a half. That's 28th. They rushed at that thing. 128.2. That's good for 11th in the NFL. And most a lot of that was Jamal Williams. We got him on the squad and 261.4 is what they threw per game. Eighth in the NFL. So you see.


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[Assistant] Detroit nine and eight and they hit a winning record. So that brings us to the black and gold. So is the black and gold ready for this? And I'm not saying we're going to get it.


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[Assistant] But we are talking Roger Goodell. The reason why they couldn't pop this crap on us before is because we were winning, we were handling the business. Unfortunately, we are not winning or handling the business currently.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you, it's a mixed bag, but more losing than winning with the hard knocks, but it's also based upon, uh, the maturity of your team.


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[Assistant] And, and that's the thing. I understand a lot of people like you, man. We don't want that crap down here. We don't, you know, what's up, Swack? Shout out to Swack. We don't want that. What's up, Josh? Shout out to you, bro.


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[Assistant] We don't want that crap down here. We don't die, but, but, but, but, but, but guess what? You don't have any control over that. If the NFL tells the saints, Hey, you're going to take this team. You're going to take the hard knock like crew. They're going to walk around here, such, such, they got to deal with. There is no disputing that. And it's taken, it's taken a while. So we're going to see exactly between the four teams once again.


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[Assistant] This ain't so one of four teams that the NFL could choose.


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[Assistant] For the hard knocks and like I showed you the long list, it's a mixed bag, more losing teams than


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[Assistant] You know, good team, but you've seen in recent, uh, you know, recent, you know, time.


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[Assistant] That the Cowboys actually did pretty good, but the Cowboys were exposed to it several times before. Saints never had to deal with this hard knock stuff because we were, we didn't fit the criteria. We were winning.


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[Assistant] So this is a part of when you lose, this is what comes along.


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[Assistant] With it. Aight, what's up Swag? Shout out to you, man. Appreciate you. Thank you. Aight, so what do you guys think about this, man? What y'all think about this?


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[Assistant] I want to know what, how, you know, the coaches, all of them are saying the same thing. We don't want the distraction. The truth of the matter is as a team, you're going to have to deal with distractions, whether the NFL heap them on us or we heap them on ourselves. We've done a pretty damn good job of heaping distractions upon ourselves. You know what I'm saying, family? So I mean, at the end of the day, we have to figure a way.


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[Assistant] How to, you know, just keep it moving. We got the Elvin Kamara distraction. We got the DUI situation that could be a mini distraction in terms of what's going on with Marcus May reported on that and whatever else might rear its head.


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[Assistant] During the off season into the season, you know what I'm saying? It's always something and you just have to adjust and deal with it. So anyway, this is the 2022 stats from the Saints. If you could bear to stand it seven and 10 and third in the NFC South and really came down to the last.


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[Assistant] With P Carmichael 22nd overall, that will not happen this upcoming year. I assure you, die hard.


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[Assistant] I promise you not even injury, it gets you down there. I'm serious. 19.4. It will not happen.


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[Assistant] Now, so anyway, 20.3, that's good for 9th in the NFL last year. Them numbers going up offensively speaking.


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[Assistant] And then of course, when we, you look at the rushing attack, you had Jamal Williams along with Eldon Kamara, Kendre Miller, who averaged your 116.6 19th in NFL. Expect that to go up.


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[Assistant] That running game, that passing game all working together. They were middle of the pack in the NFL last year with 23 and a half.


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[Assistant] And we had Andy Dalton sitting on top of the team mixing reps with Taysom Hill. And we were still able to be middle of the pack in terms of passing yards.


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[Assistant] You got a guy that can throw the D ball. We got weapons all over the place. I assure you who that nation.


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[Assistant] 19.4, you're going to run through that and laugh at that from a historical standpoint. Let's move on to the next one fam.