Speaker 1: Course we'll talk guys Ao and Luke nee Karf and
Speaker 1: what I previously some of the big games coming up
Speaker 1: this weekend was the first day Night came. But firstly, Brian,
Speaker 1: you've got to credit the P and G team.
Speaker 2: You have to credit them the way they're gone about it.
Speaker 2: They're almost building Jerome Lewie and Brian told best friends.
Speaker 2: They bring their kids together, they live in the compound,
Speaker 2: like there almost has to be one of the prerequisites
Speaker 2: are building that list is does everyone get along? Like
Speaker 2: it has to be like there's part of it, like
Speaker 2: you've got to do a bit of background checking on
Speaker 2: do they have an issue, is there whatever, Like there
Speaker 2: would be more than just saying.
Speaker 3: This guy is a good player.
Speaker 2: And they seem to be building a group of people
Speaker 2: that have played together, like enjoy each other's company, just
Speaker 2: as the building blocks and then plugging other people in.
Speaker 3: But I like it. Like the one thing that.
Speaker 2: P and G will struggle to do is I'm I'm
Speaker 2: going to guess they're gonna have a lot of turnover
Speaker 2: players one year, two year, maximum three year deals. They're
Speaker 2: not going to sign people for long term, so they
Speaker 2: will have to continue it to turn over and be
Speaker 2: active in the market.
Speaker 1: It's both a strength and a challenge for them, you
Speaker 1: know the fact that you can bring players in people going, oh,
Speaker 1: make the sign and Blakes at this point in their
Speaker 1: career it's perfect two years then turn over the roster
Speaker 1: and in the first ten years. I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: have a problem turn over the roster with tax free dollars.
Speaker 1: I know it all comes back to that, but I
Speaker 1: like the signing because he's a big character. It'd be
Speaker 1: great to sell there. And as you said before, you
Speaker 1: can see what they're doing, you know, as far as
Speaker 1: the close living quarters, but also coops you know just
Speaker 1: very much the football and how you train everything, Like
Speaker 1: when a club starts, you know, the formative years are
Speaker 1: so important to a culture of a club. Isn't like
Speaker 1: you know, Melbourne Storm, you come out of that, you know,
Speaker 1: like Melbourne Storm started, you know, with such a strong
Speaker 1: base of Blakes with character who trained hard, and that
Speaker 1: just set you know, set the whole place along on
Speaker 1: it on.
Speaker 2: With that culture, with that character, I think they're also
Speaker 2: going to need a genuine leader and that's the person
Speaker 2: has to be signed yet. I haven't signed a half back.
Speaker 2: Haven't signed too many like big alpha type players, but
Speaker 2: that's coming and I think that'll be the key part,
Speaker 2: like who is going to be their captain, that that
Speaker 2: will set the culture compass for them.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what they're building. Another one I'm
Speaker 1: hearing quite a bit is either they're not buying any forwards.
Speaker 1: Where's all the artists are going to come from. Well,
Speaker 1: they've got the best two yardage backs that I've seen
Speaker 1: in the game in the last decade, probably Brian and
Speaker 1: Zach Lomax. So I mean that's just evidence of the
Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're doing and what they're building.
Speaker 1: It's just not going to be the Harlem Globe Trotters
Speaker 1: coops isaaia. It's a torn peck, it's not ruptured. They're
Speaker 1: going to try to Rehabhi getting back for Week one
Speaker 1: of the finals. If it did surprise me that when
Speaker 1: we first of all there was news come through that
Speaker 1: they thought he was gone for the entire season, then
Speaker 1: everyone just went up put a line through Penriis I
Speaker 1: didn't there to me, still the benchmark regardless.
Speaker 3: I agree with that with Isaiah.
Speaker 2: Isaiah they can without him, they can still win four
Speaker 2: to six for a peck, But the way that it happened.
Speaker 3: On no dogs. I'm not a physio, sure they are.
Speaker 2: Think they're just doing what Nathan did a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago for that Grand Final. Just put in there
Speaker 2: just in case a miracle can happen four to six
Speaker 2: for a position that he plays. For a peck, it's
Speaker 2: going to be dodgy whether it gets back to full strength.
Speaker 2: But you know what, front of stumps have a crack.
Speaker 2: He's professional. He just might be able to do it.
Speaker 2: So I think they can still win it. But they
Speaker 2: come back to the field a little bit. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you the reason why. The combination. It's like clockwork with
Speaker 2: Isaiah and Nathan. You can't replace Isaiah, but Lindsay Smith,
Speaker 2: for me, has been doing a little bit of it,
Speaker 2: and he will start as thirteen. That means Jack Couga
Speaker 2: starts on the bench. For me, Jack Cogger is the
Speaker 2: type of player that came on and replaces and does
Speaker 2: a little bit more Isaiao type stuff. But he's not
Speaker 2: the big physical one. I means Blaze to Lungy now
Speaker 2: is the six. I feel like that's going to be
Speaker 2: their rotation through the middle of Jack and Lindsay. The
Speaker 2: problem I have with that is Jack's a damn good play.
Speaker 2: We've seen him attack really well. But you'll have Jack
Speaker 2: and free Lasik defending together in the middle of the
Speaker 2: field up against the Warriors, Fish Harris, Aaron Clark, up
Speaker 2: against the far who White and Victor Radley. For the Russes,
Speaker 2: they are more vulnerable through the power game now than
Speaker 2: they were before without Isaiahoh.
Speaker 1: It's interesting with the football coup. I sort of differ
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think it'd be a mistake for
Speaker 1: Penrith if Isaiah let's say, for instance, if he's gone
Speaker 1: for the season, but he's gone for this net, let's
Speaker 1: pretend he's gone for a bit, Okay. I think it's
Speaker 1: a mistake to try to play the same way, given
Speaker 1: the fact that it's very easy to look at Isaiah's
Speaker 1: role and say, right, A, well, let's bring Lindsay in
Speaker 1: because he can do that role, and that's the temptation.
Speaker 1: But you know, the quality of Isaiah's past selection and
Speaker 1: all those things, and his vision, you know, like you
Speaker 1: just can't put that into another player. What I would
Speaker 1: like if for Penrith, what I'm looking for, I would
Speaker 1: love to see Nathan as opposed to playing on those
Speaker 1: sweep shades, playing more flat square on the event.
Speaker 3: So who's his sixth Then it's Coger.
Speaker 1: I'd been coggering, right.
Speaker 2: So you're going to play Nathan more up on the
Speaker 2: advantage line, and then Cogger's going to be the guy
Speaker 2: that's got to use his speed to get the outside.
Speaker 1: It'll be I think what we've seen that twenty minutes
Speaker 1: at that Grand Final is that one thing when Jack's there,
Speaker 1: When Jack cogg is there, Nathan can step back and
Speaker 1: become second but arna for a little while. It gives
Speaker 1: him more flexibility in his football because I just think
Speaker 1: I just don't think you can you can play the
Speaker 1: same style of football without Isaiah.
Speaker 2: I think I think differently. I think this it was
Speaker 2: always Nathan's team. This is definitely his team. Now he
Speaker 2: first receiver, here's seven, and for him to do more
Speaker 2: of the organizing early touches, take control, he's going to
Speaker 2: need someone a bit more dynamic at the back of shape.
Speaker 2: He can create shape for anyone Blaze to Lungey needs
Speaker 2: to get his defensive game on, and it could be
Speaker 2: the thing that is the point of difference. I think
Speaker 2: this is all on to lungy like for me, at
Speaker 2: his best, he is the sixth For Pederick at his
Speaker 2: best he is defensively some issues. Has he gone back
Speaker 2: and fixed that? That's up to Blaze and I think
Speaker 2: that determines whether he's in the side or not.
Speaker 1: What did you What did you think of the Bulldog's performance?
Speaker 1: I mean it was I mean that did credibly well.
Speaker 1: I mean they should have won it. All sorts won.
Speaker 1: That should have won it.
Speaker 2: The best thing about the Rooster's performance, I think if
Speaker 2: that game was played to a month so that they
Speaker 2: lose that that's the type of game.
Speaker 3: That they weren't at their best.
Speaker 2: They were sort of bit patchy with the way they
Speaker 2: played in that second half. Sam Walk was frustrated doing
Speaker 2: some things that he's more developed out of. I'm going
Speaker 2: to give daily Cherry Evans a bit of rap here
Speaker 2: because we don't see the impact he's having on the
Speaker 2: game in terms of tries and try sists. But the
Speaker 2: little bit of calm had, the little bit of game management,
Speaker 2: made a couple of good decisions with his kicks and
Speaker 2: field position. Comparatively speaking, the thing that lost the Dogs
Speaker 2: was one the decision to catch that ball that went
Speaker 2: up between Galvin and kinnor Tracy and the experience at
Speaker 2: managing the game at the back end. Like Crichton's a
Speaker 2: damn good play but some of his kicks.
Speaker 3: Weren't the right one.
Speaker 1: That's at the end of the day. That's what separated
Speaker 1: the two side exactly, is that one side had two
Speaker 1: pure playmakers and one side had Lucky Galvin who still
Speaker 1: find his way in that role and Stephen Crichton, who
Speaker 1: is the center who's been a make chief seeks and
Speaker 1: done incredibly well. But you just saw at the back
Speaker 1: end of the game how you need that playmaker there
Speaker 1: to Lockie.
Speaker 2: Did a good job score that try he combined with
Speaker 2: Preston early in the game was annoying Sam Walker a
Speaker 2: little bit. I thought Crichton missed a couple of opportunities.
Speaker 2: If you're going to play against the Roosters, you got
Speaker 2: Cherry Evans one on one Villa Army kickout, play short, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: play short more than you play at the back. But
Speaker 2: there is an opportunity there, I think, and you know,
Speaker 2: from a pure technical kicking point of view, he had
Speaker 2: some poor options.
Speaker 3: There's an area that he needs to improve.
Speaker 1: In that bigople well one thing I reckon Nathan, we'll
Speaker 1: see an op and will pick up is that I
Speaker 1: thought that the Roosters, the young Fords are just outstanding
Speaker 1: what they're doing at the moment, but they were caught
Speaker 1: out a couple of times as far as like Lachland
Speaker 1: going to the line and some little shapes are doing
Speaker 1: one in one out, they'll get they'll getting caught out
Speaker 1: a little confused by it. Nathan will just go it
Speaker 1: relentlessly with that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Like it's a number one principle as a middle forward,
Speaker 2: like don't allow halfback to go through on your inside
Speaker 2: childer or miss tackle like when Lachlan Galvin went through
Speaker 2: like he should have been sandwiched. Yeah, that's what a
Speaker 2: good defensive team would do. Ye think it was Spencer
Speaker 2: Land knew Robson turned out mister tackle. So I think
Speaker 2: the Roosters that was again they would have dropped them
Speaker 2: versus Panthers this week. Yes, Nathan's going to see that.
Speaker 2: He's going he's going to go to work for sure.
Speaker 1: Both thirty six points, Penrithy got better for and against
Speaker 1: by one hundred and forty one hundred and forty points.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's why they're ahead of at the moment.
Speaker 1: But I mean the bottom line for these two clubs,
Speaker 1: they're not going to sweat out of the minor premiership
Speaker 1: just top two.
Speaker 2: I can put you on the spot here. Penrith lose,
Speaker 2: can they win the premiership?
Speaker 3: Yes, Roosters lose. Can they win the premiership?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Oh so you think the Roosters lose to Penrith, yep?
Speaker 2: They can we still win?
Speaker 1: Yep? I do talk to me because I just don't
Speaker 1: see the Roosters as a real formula team that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Roosters for me, I look at the Roosters and I
Speaker 1: go with the Roosters can beat anyone on their day,
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: But I you can say that about ten teen.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But I think I find the Roosters that more
Speaker 1: than any other side I look at when you look
Speaker 1: at the players, the very nature of their players. You
Speaker 1: know Sammy and even do you see you at this
Speaker 1: point in his career when they take chances and they're
Speaker 1: hit and miss. Yeah, one week they could play this
Speaker 1: week against Penrith, they do a few things, it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out and they get beat. Two weeks later they
Speaker 1: do it and nail all of them.
Speaker 2: When convincingly, but they can I think they have to win,
Speaker 2: but at least at put in a show and where
Speaker 2: they play.
Speaker 3: Very very well.
Speaker 2: Like if Penrith win this by sort of eighteen, I'm
Speaker 2: going to say they're going to struggle to put your
Speaker 2: When you're back in your playing day playing against what
Speaker 2: team like the Bristoon.
Speaker 1: Broncos in your day and want to make a statement.
Speaker 3: You want to make a statement. This is a month
Speaker 3: out before final start.
Speaker 2: Your record against this team has been poor for a decade.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably too much, but say ten games.
Speaker 2: You need to have a little bit of confidence that
Speaker 2: you can do this on prelim final. Whether you roll
Speaker 2: out of the bed on the right side or the
Speaker 2: wrong side, you still need to put your best game
Speaker 2: of four together to be.
Speaker 1: I think the really important thing here for the Roosters
Speaker 1: and it will be the Panthers as well, But these
Speaker 1: sides at this point of the year is strong showing
Speaker 1: probably as is important. It's probably more important than the results.
Speaker 1: Strong showing, but seeing, like collating information on a team
Speaker 1: that makes sense, like you know we've played I remember
Speaker 1: Newcastle we played sides at the back end of the
Speaker 1: season and whilst they beat them, we collated information on
Speaker 1: them and then got them in the more important games.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that that's the big thing
Speaker 1: going forward for the Roosters. As far as beating these
Speaker 1: very elite sides like Penrith and so on, I think
Speaker 1: the important thing is not so much the winning, but
Speaker 1: finding them making ground up all the time.
Speaker 2: Let's say this, then, if pen win by eighteen, I'm
Speaker 2: going to say the rus are going to struggle to
Speaker 2: beat them in a big final if Pen win or
Speaker 2: the Roosters win by two or four.
Speaker 1: Rightah, I like.
Speaker 2: That because you can slightly change. I didn't do this right,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to slightly change that next time we
Speaker 2: did this.
Speaker 3: Well, we need to do it again.
Speaker 2: There's a little bit of a scoreboard that tells whether
Speaker 2: the Roosters are a chance a.
Speaker 1: Far who are white. It's a big game for him.
Speaker 1: He's playing great football, having a great season. But if
Speaker 1: you watched James Fisher Harris last week, right, and he's
Speaker 1: the big dog, is zi alpha, He's got all that experience.
Speaker 1: But he went out there and you order had to
Speaker 1: do against the Penwrith pack and straight away just got
Speaker 1: right in their face and really picked up the intimidation.
Speaker 2: It's one of the best captain's performances I've seen for
Speaker 2: a while, definitely this year what he did from a
Speaker 2: spiritual point of view with indigenous round, from a leadership
Speaker 2: point of view of his carries into liota and not
Speaker 2: taking a backward step. And then there was a call
Speaker 2: it a try saving effort late in the game where
Speaker 2: it looked.
Speaker 3: Like Penrith were coming.
Speaker 2: Shift the ball down the left hand side and just
Speaker 2: watch Fisher Harrisey in the middle of the field. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have to do this, This is not his job.
Speaker 2: This is exactly what leadership is all about. And not
Speaker 2: only just makes a tackle, absolutely makes his mark. Who
Speaker 2: knows what that play could have been, a flip pass
Speaker 2: to inside of fish hours is not there. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a player of the day and one of
Speaker 2: the great captain's knocks from them.
Speaker 1: Certainly was the big question in this game. Coop comes
Speaker 1: out of it. Let Luke Metcalfe, who went into the
Speaker 1: Wars number seven jersey first time for a long time.
Speaker 1: Will he still be wearing the seven finals week one?
Speaker 1: You don't think so, Coop, But to have look at
Speaker 1: all these touches, I absolutely think so I think there's
Speaker 1: some areas he's got a tidy up, mainly his defense.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a tidy up, but I back him.
Speaker 1: I back him to do that Coup. I like it
Speaker 1: with Chanel and Tamare for me, they both play very
Speaker 1: similar game, just with this play gives them a little
Speaker 1: bit of something different. And because the of course the
Speaker 1: Warriors are so good in yardage, can really bend the lineback.
Speaker 1: His style of football, that run first mentality works. And
Speaker 1: the other thing too is Wade Egan's doing a lot
Speaker 1: of that finesse in the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: I just think Metcalf's running game supports supports that.
Speaker 2: He's only played a couple of games this year, that's
Speaker 2: a hell of a performance. Like this kid has been
Speaker 2: under pressure for a number of different reasons, injuries and
Speaker 2: leaving together the Dragons. It was a stellar It was
Speaker 2: class performers. The Dragons will be happy with what's happening
Speaker 2: next year. But sometimes I think we fall in love
Speaker 2: or get romantic too quickly. The Warriors have been a
Speaker 2: damn good team all year. Who've been the harves Combo,
Speaker 2: Tomati Martin, Yes, right, they have done a really good
Speaker 2: job and until they prove that they can't do the job.
Speaker 2: I think Metcalf's on the bench and he has got impacts,
Speaker 2: so why why move him from the bench position which
Speaker 2: has done most of the year.
Speaker 3: I think Tomato and Harris s Tafita deserve it.
Speaker 2: Let's give the Warriors and Webster a big rappi because
Speaker 2: when the Metcalf thing was going on, I don't know what's.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong with you, whether he wanted to get
Speaker 3: out or whatever.
Speaker 2: But they said they are in the window for a premiership.
Speaker 2: The clubs wanted him earlier and a lot of clubs
Speaker 2: would have gone, yeah, get out of here.
Speaker 3: But Webster has.
Speaker 2: Managed that kid to a point that he delivered for
Speaker 2: his team on the weekend, and he will deliver for
Speaker 2: the Warriors again in the next six weeks. He will
Speaker 2: be needed at some stage.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. Maybe he's doing Andrew Webster might be and
Speaker 1: turned out to be a good hitting Tim Kale situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that one, Cahill. I remember like to give
Speaker 1: people a bit of background in Australia versus Japan in
Speaker 1: that soccer World Cup, you know, the first one being instance,
Speaker 1: I think you might have been seventy eight and we're
Speaker 1: at the ground Kaiser slouton and they're all warming up
Speaker 1: and suddenly word comes through that Timmy Cahle had been
Speaker 1: banched and Mate, you could see how filthy he was,
Speaker 1: Like the coach was trying to talk to, being the
Speaker 1: manager he's walked off and just holding him back, holding
Speaker 1: him back, holding him back, and suddenly let him go
Speaker 1: and being Bean just totally turns the game. Seasons are
Speaker 1: hell a lot longer than what we're talking about there,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, he's been He's felt
Speaker 1: like in his mind that he's been on too a
Speaker 1: certain degree, that's all been bruined on him and that's
Speaker 1: led to this result. Maybe Webster's managed that, he's managed
Speaker 1: that well that the club needed him.
Speaker 2: And if someone was disgruntled, pissed off, do you really
Speaker 2: think Metcalfe is delivering that tope of performance and will
Speaker 2: he be able to do it again? I got to
Speaker 2: give Webster a huge amount of credit. I think to
Speaker 2: Marty Martin is the halfback and I think he has
Speaker 2: got that team Andrew Webster in the palm of his hand,
Speaker 2: and they are absolutely chance of winning this title.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if you played in the halves
Speaker 1: with the Warriors, you'd be just you'll be loving it
Speaker 1: because I mean those those forwards are just bending the
Speaker 1: lineback and they've got a nine who's creating space off
Speaker 1: that as well. I mean some of Wade Egan stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean you watch this little play here. I mean
Speaker 1: this is like a little rock play he did this.
Speaker 1: This is like like that just little that that touch
Speaker 1: on the ball. I mean, that's that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tough like it looks as simple play. That's a tough
Speaker 1: play to execute.
Speaker 2: Home again, I think this is Webster. I think this
Speaker 2: is the coaching. Like that is not a player. I've
Speaker 2: never seen the Warriors do that. That is not a
Speaker 2: play that they've just called off the top of the head.
Speaker 2: That is, hey, guys, look at this first marker. They
Speaker 2: get around this field position, they have a tendency to
Speaker 2: lean in and there's a space outside. So how about Wade,
Speaker 2: you do your thing, set up a big four run
Speaker 2: on the outside and all you need to do is separation.
Speaker 2: That's Webster knowing a little bit at Penrith, doing some
Speaker 2: video analysis and then having a crafty little number nine.
Speaker 2: That what he's doing now. Wade Egan is he always
Speaker 2: had the craft but probably overplayed the craft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's got it dilled in very well.
Speaker 1: Now, when we're talking about this title, there are certain
Speaker 1: sizes who will come out of nowhere and snatch you.
Speaker 1: But at the moment, if we're talking about the big three,
Speaker 1: at the moment we're talking about Penrith, the Wars and
Speaker 1: the Roosters, what order do you have them in?
Speaker 3: Penrith Warriors Rooster, I'm the.
Speaker 1: Same, Yeah, I think, boy what mate? The Warriors. Warriors
Speaker 1: have got the Broncos this Saturday night at San Corps Stadium,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be a Warrior's home game. The
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of that crowd will be Warriors fans.
Speaker 1: They're setting for a big end of season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I think key for one of the Warriors is
Speaker 2: to finish top two. Like if you can get too
Speaker 2: home finals massive, it's a big advantage because if Warriors
Speaker 2: play the Roosters tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Who are you picking?
Speaker 1: I go the Warriors Warrior is at home.
Speaker 2: For me, Roosters at Alliance now prelim final. I'm probably
Speaker 2: picking the same thing. Even if Penrith put in that situation.
Speaker 2: If Warriors are playing Penrith here in Sydney, I'm picking Penrith.
Speaker 2: They're playing the Warriors over home, I'm picking the Warriors.
Speaker 1: What I like about the Warriors coop they've been playing
Speaker 1: a finals style of football since round one.
Speaker 3: To attack the best completion rate.
Speaker 1: They play final football every week. That's their system. It's
Speaker 1: designed to win these games. Dolphins unbelievable down twenty four
Speaker 1: nil against the Broncos after twenty minute just quickly. It
Speaker 1: just shows you the quality or the worth of Billy
Speaker 1: Walters on how he unlocked Ezra but big turning point.
Speaker 1: Max Plath twenty four nail down. He comes onto the
Speaker 1: field of twenty minutes and I tear what water performance
Speaker 1: and how things change when he came on him and
Speaker 1: Kurt Dona who to a lesser extent Kurt, but this
Speaker 1: bloke was just Yeah.
Speaker 2: They've got call it a representative bench Donahue Fiji and
Speaker 2: you've got Max Platt doing his thing. Foos is on there,
Speaker 2: Gilbert is on there as well. If you talk about
Speaker 2: the consistency and the system that is the Warrior is
Speaker 2: the Dolphins have got this individual brilliance that any number
Speaker 2: of players can really impact the game. And then once
Speaker 2: one of them catches fire, like if it's a farm
Speaker 2: Worth run or a Plath run, the catch fire and
Speaker 2: get enthusiasm and follow the leads. So they are a smoky.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins a big time smoky. But I just I
Speaker 2: just concede points, like conceding twenty four noil.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's great.
Speaker 2: They chase it down, high octane, great entertainment, but the
Speaker 2: premiership teams really get down twenty four il.
Speaker 3: Well where Broncos did.
Speaker 1: We're just talking about the playing finals football since round
Speaker 1: one that that's not finals football.
Speaker 2: And the Broncos did it last year right down on
Speaker 2: the school board, but caught fire through rees and everything
Speaker 2: went like that's a bit of a lightning bulb moment
Speaker 2: what the Broncos did last year. Could the Dolphins do
Speaker 2: something similar? Maybe, but I really like some of their individuals.
Speaker 2: If they catch fire the Dolphins, they could definitely.
Speaker 3: Cause them headaches.
Speaker 1: Second second game up from that from the broken wrist man,
Speaker 1: he was good.
Speaker 2: He is the spiritual leader of everything the Dolphins do.
Speaker 2: Is the key shot caller, one of the leaders, and
Speaker 2: when he decides to make a play, he it's it.
Speaker 2: There was a try that he set up that It
Speaker 2: just sums up his absolute football intelligence.
Speaker 3: They took a run into the middle.
Speaker 2: Reese Walsh stayed out of the tackle and then Reesebolsh
Speaker 2: comes into the tackle and all of a sudden, Aaa,
Speaker 2: car Teller goes, you know what, he's in the tackle.
Speaker 3: Let's go it is. So this is Respolsh coming in.
Speaker 2: Watch the eyes of Isaiah car Toe here his spots
Speaker 2: that Reese Walsh is in there, calls Nick Arima out
Speaker 2: of the play and says the kicks on. Reesk goes
Speaker 2: the wrong side, and Nickorema calls it like that. That
Speaker 2: is heads up, eyes up reaction, the best I've seen
Speaker 2: this year. Watch his eyes call it change a play,
Speaker 2: change of play Quicklyick quick.
Speaker 3: Coming, I'm kicking it. Nickorema just falls into shape.
Speaker 1: That's intelligence in the funny coupe. And like for playmakers,
Speaker 1: as you said, making that change, that that shot, call
Speaker 1: that little change at the last moment is hard to do.
Speaker 2: So the NFL reference is what they call it, like
Speaker 2: an audible. So NFL quarterback has a play, then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the defense shifts a different player somewhere,
Speaker 2: and then the quarterback says okay, someone else's open change play,
Speaker 2: change of play in something that is the half back
Speaker 2: court audible NFL play right.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, as a half pack. One of the
Speaker 1: most important things, Well, it's a corner stone in football.
Speaker 1: It's communication and particularly communication when things are going on
Speaker 1: a million miles around you to have to be clear
Speaker 1: and concise to your teammates. With communication, it's and a
Speaker 1: lot of players, you know, I talk to young playmakers.
Speaker 1: I talk about the importance of that and my right
Speaker 1: thing to them. Would you go and do it? Would
Speaker 1: you do a public speaking talk for eighty minutes and
Speaker 1: not practice it, not practice what you're going to say,
Speaker 1: And no, I wouldn't. Well, you're going out and play
Speaker 1: in a regular game for eighty minutes. You've got to
Speaker 1: communicate all these calls. You go down to the park,
Speaker 1: practice your communication under pressure.
Speaker 2: And we've seen a lot of teams doing breathing exercises
Speaker 2: or regulatory breathing exercises and.
Speaker 3: What that does.
Speaker 2: So imagine if Isaiah Cartel was redlining to the point
Speaker 2: that he's just hovering too quick and he's.
Speaker 3: Going come there, move that, move that, move the.
Speaker 2: Move left, move right, he doesn't see rees Walsh, but
Speaker 2: he works at a decent level that he's going Yet
Speaker 2: I got that play here, I go, oh wow, there's
Speaker 2: respons Hey, Nikoreimac come here.
Speaker 1: We're wrongod Valentine Holmes when he first came back from
Speaker 1: New York Jets or Philadelphia Eagles, he was in New
Speaker 1: York Jets, Thanks Scotty, and it was the Jets and
Speaker 1: he came back and we interviewed him when he first
Speaker 1: got back signed with the Cowboys, and I asked him
Speaker 1: and said, how did you How difficult is to learn
Speaker 1: all the you know, the calls in the NFL And
Speaker 1: he said, well, he said, it's about that thick. He
Speaker 1: said that the playbook and you know, all these variations
Speaker 1: very similar to us. You know, where you might have
Speaker 1: a formation which is called split, then you have a
Speaker 1: split block, split more, split again. All those sort of
Speaker 1: things come off. But he said, he's so complicated. And
Speaker 1: he said he found himself in the game once. It
Speaker 1: must have been one of the preseason games and he's
Speaker 1: standing there and they said, I forget what his number
Speaker 1: might have been. Less they's twenty one, twenty one up,
Speaker 1: twenty one up. So he goes up there, yep, gets
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and they make a call. Omaha,
Speaker 1: he goes and his mind's gone, I've got it. Then
Speaker 1: last second they just changed the call another one and
Speaker 1: he said, you just totally lost by it.
Speaker 2: And that's that's why you've got a half back at
Speaker 2: a quarterback to take on all the thinking. And you
Speaker 2: talk about communication. One of the jobs of a halfback
Speaker 2: is to know the role of every player, so you
Speaker 2: tell them if they're in the right spot or not.
Speaker 1: At the moment. We got dogs versus bunnies this week.
Speaker 1: This is a mass game. When you calculating gone, I
Speaker 1: agree with you.
Speaker 3: Who's gone?
Speaker 1: Yep? I agree with that. Particularly the dogs like the
Speaker 1: dogs drop this one. I think they've lost touch. But
Speaker 1: Cowboys have got a dream run back. The Knights have
Speaker 1: accumulate enough points soon.
Speaker 2: It is one of those can jump in and someone's
Speaker 2: going to miss out.
Speaker 1: If you're made up tea, what if you're a South supporter?
Speaker 1: Is never a dull moment twenty twenty eight l And
Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, Cody's on fire. It's like
Speaker 1: you make you're headed for a sixty point victory. God,
Speaker 1: they like you to win it. At the end.
Speaker 2: They are flighty, but they're good is great, they're bad
Speaker 2: as horrendous.
Speaker 1: Who do you think wins this one?
Speaker 3: Dogs?
Speaker 2: I think they've got the game style if their players
Speaker 2: can execute that will win some big games. But what
Speaker 2: they've done to get to where they are, it was
Speaker 2: just a couple of decision making and game management stuff
Speaker 2: that caught them out against him. And to be fair,
Speaker 2: kind of trace you Lachlan Galvin catch that ball. I
Speaker 2: don't see them losing that game.
Speaker 1: So curious ascilitator would South with the Ashton Wards with
Speaker 1: the hamstring, Yeah, what goes on there? I do like
Speaker 1: souths a couple of things just to finish with quick
Speaker 1: because we're running out of time. Again, well done Jackson Purdue.
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good for the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the Seven Jersey Knights. Mate Knights just justin Holebrook stand
Speaker 1: out for Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: Every time I think about the Knights, think about the
Speaker 2: coal mines, they just they do like Dylan Brown gone.
Speaker 1: Lucas gone, Francis Manu le la la unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coach, I can't argue with it.
Speaker 1: Well, under the Dragons yesterday they are really really good,
Speaker 1: But what does it say about the Sharks, but they're
Speaker 1: not going down that same route they have the last
Speaker 1: there's a reason why we said, like Fitzy last week
Speaker 1: was banging the desk and we said, maybe he's just
Speaker 1: making a statement of his players. Maybe he saw what
Speaker 1: was coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there was some lacking intensity like there was
Speaker 2: if there was a ball on the ground yesterday.
Speaker 3: The Dragons got through it first