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Speaker 1: Who better to sit in an English garden with than

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Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds of Sky Sports in the UK. Here we

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Speaker 1: are again. It's year eleven for the Jags, six and

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Speaker 1: six record now in London, but we're back and it's

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Speaker 1: good to see you again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a beautiful day, feels like it's summer. This is

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Speaker 2: like summer weather for us. So yeah, it's great. It's

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Speaker 2: great to have the Jags back in town. This is

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Speaker 2: seventeen years now since the NFL's played a regular season

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Speaker 2: game here. Obviously, the JAG's been coming since twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 2: You'd have seen it at Tottenham last weekend. It just

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Speaker 2: never gets old, and the passion is as fervent then

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Speaker 2: as you know now as it was then. It's incredible

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Speaker 1: The growth, certainly. Is Jaguars has been a big piece

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Speaker 1: of that over the last decade or so. Certainly, And

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Speaker 1: you know it seems like at least last year, the

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Speaker 1: home and road back and forth two weeks here worked

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Speaker 1: out with two wins. We'll see the result of it

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Speaker 1: on the field, I guess coming up at Wimbley. But

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Speaker 1: from all accounts and everything else except on the end

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Speaker 1: the game this time around, it's been a success again,

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Speaker 1: So I mean that's been a positive. I'm sure Roger

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Speaker 1: Goodell from hearing from him the other day, he said

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you look at what's happened over the years,

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Speaker 2: they've tried so many different things, playing three games in

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Speaker 2: a row, playing without teams having a bye week. It

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Speaker 2: the NFL likes to do is see different ways that

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Speaker 2: this can run. And the Jags coming in now second

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Speaker 2: I think it's been it's certainly been well received by

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Speaker 2: certainly it's it's not been a bad thing for Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's I think it's been a

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Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds from SkySports with us and from a Jaguars perspective,

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Speaker 1: I think it's the last year. The Wembley deal. Currently

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Speaker 1: some point. Nothing's been announced as yet. So I mean

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Speaker 1: having the Jaguars as that base team in what could

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Speaker 1: be an expanding international series over the years, there will

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Speaker 2: It feels like, yeah, and I think that's good to

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Speaker 2: have that. I think that's a foundation. I think when

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Speaker 2: you look at what the Jags have done coming back

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Speaker 2: year after year and then by extension, how many games

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Speaker 2: there have been in the UK, that is a comfort

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Speaker 2: blanket that allows the NFL to say, Okay, this is

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Speaker 2: the Jags in terms of logistics and what it needs

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Speaker 2: go to Spain next year and beyond. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: going to see games in Ireland. I think we'll see

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Speaker 2: year after year and leaves happy. I'm not gonna use

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Speaker 2: That's allowed the league to really expand and spread its wings.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the match up today under the arch

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Speaker 1: of Wimbley battle of one and five teams. We know

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are rebuilding group. They've actually said that out loud,

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Speaker 2: So exactly that I kind of applaud Jared Mayo, the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean arm bells the

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Speaker 2: it can be done. Look at how they started on

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Speaker 2: it felt like every good play last Sunday was followed

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Speaker 2: it goes beyond like individual performances. This is a team response.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't go a good direction, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: the belt here in Wimbley. How about your schedule, what's

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Speaker 1: been going on. I know you're busy around the NFL games,

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So this this week has been a little bit quieter.

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Speaker 2: I finished the I write and edit the game day magazines,

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Speaker 2: this week for the Jags Patriots, and now I'm straight

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Speaker 2: onto Panthers Giants for Munich. Sunday is not a Sky game,

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Speaker 2: so I'm going to be back in our studio. I'll

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Speaker 2: so I'll try and watch some of the game, but look,

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Speaker 2: it comes at the curtains, coming down on another three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic for us here in London. October is our Christmas.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the game just doesn't slow down, you know,

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Speaker 2: they go to eighteen regular season games in the US,

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Speaker 2: the world. And one thing I stopped. I actually interviewed

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I did. I didn't mention the

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Speaker 2: franchise word. I think the franchise talk has gone away.

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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see a Formula one version of

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Speaker 2: two in Germany, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Australia. We're gonna it's coming.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have this traveling road show of NFL

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Speaker 2: international games. And I don't know if Sky have got

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Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good to be. How's your German and French

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Speaker 2: The way, nine nine no, but you know I'll speak

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Speaker 2: the language of football, the international language of the gridiron