Star Wars Characters Playing Football ft. Sean Conley (Former NFL Kicker)

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This is probably gonna be draft pick that for years people are gonna be talking about and questioning.

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But I'm just gonna take a chance here for Oline slash DLine Jabba The Hut.

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Hey, I'm William Glasser here.

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I'm the host of the Substantiate podcast.

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Welcome back.

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Today I've got an exciting episode.

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Today's hypothetical match-up is Star Wars characters playing football.

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I have an amazing guest today, Sean Conley.

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Sean is a former NFL kicker.

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He played briefly for three different teams, the Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, and New York Jets.

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Ultimately, injuries took him away from the game, but he goes on throughout his life and winds up writing a book called The Point after he talks about basically his entire life, his entire story.

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It's a great read, about 250 pages.

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I'll link to it down below.

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And that's Sean other news podcast, obviously at Substantiatepod, Instagram and Twitter.

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Some stuff coming out there.

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Like I'm posting my NFL playoff picks.

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As Instagram reels, they get a bit more engagement than putting it as one long video.

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So that's out there.

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Although I went over four last weeks, maybe don't take my word for everything.

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But anyway, X NFL playoffs.

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What an exciting week that was.

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I'm not going to take up much more time here, but we've got Sean on here today.

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Again, all the links down in the description.

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And let's hear some Star Wars characters playing football today.

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I'm joined by Sean Connelly.

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How are you today, Sean?

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I'm doing great, William.

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Thanks for having me here.

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Excited.

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I guess we can call you a former professional athlete, right?

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Former, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Well, you're the first former professional athlete on the show.

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We've had some College players before, but you're the first pro.

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So do you want to tell the audience a little bit about your football background?

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Oh, yeah, sure.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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I played for the University of Pittsburgh back in the 90s, and then after that I was assigned by the Detroit Lions'and.

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I just bounced around the NFL, I guess you could say I was a journeyman.

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I went from Detroit to the Indianapolis Colts to the New York Jets.

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And I played one year over in what used to be called NFL Europe with the Scottish claim wars.

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Like a lot of kickers, I just bounced around looking for work for a handful of years.

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Yeah.

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So with that expertise in football, we are talking today about Star Wars characters playing football.

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So we are each going to draft teams of players with one offensive linemen, one quarterback, three receivers or tight ends, one running back, and then you can place them however you feel fit on the defense when we talk about that side of the ball.

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And obviously with Sean's position, one kicker that will round up the rosters today.

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So, Sean, would you like to have the first pick in this draft?

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Wow.

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First pick.

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Okay.

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One QB, one kicker, two wide receivers, one line.

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Yes.

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One kicker.

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What am I missing?

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Oh, one running back, of course.

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Okay, got it.

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All right, I'm good.

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All right, so with the first pick of the 2022, what's the name of this draft?

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What are you going to call it?

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We'll call it the substantiate Star Wars Playing Football Draft.

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Okay, perfect.

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I'm going to have to go with my favorite.

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Han Solo is the first pick, and he's going to be my quarterback.

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That is an excellent pick.

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Definitely a lot of accuracy going in there and willing to take risks.

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Exactly.

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That's what I'm thinking.

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He's kind of a cowboy and nobody ever wants to tell him the odds.

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So no matter what the situation in the game, we still got a chance.

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That's a great pick there and slotting them into a nice position.

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And I know at one point in your buck you're talking about and you tell someone that the kicker is the backbone of the team and they're like, well, isn't it the quarterback?

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So starting off with the backbone of the team and someone else's words.

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Exactly the truth now.

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All right, so with my first pick now, I'm going to split up Han and Chewie Chui is coming to my team.

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I mentioned it before we started.

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I'm going with Chewbacca as my offensive linemen.

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And again, when you only have one lineman versus the regular five, you just take the traits of that character and sort of extrapolate them to the offensive line as a whole.

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But Chewbacca obviously a very strong player on defense.

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He can definitely double up as a D lineman.

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He's got a ton of size, ton of weight, ton of strength, and he won't have Han Solo, but Han Solo also won't have him.

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No, I love it.

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All right, so we already got arrival re happening here.

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All right, with my second pick, I'm a little out of the box here.

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I'm going to go wide receiver Boba Fett.

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Based on flying skills.

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Bobathet there obviously with a jet pack and all of his other powers.

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He's definitely strong.

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And I'm not sure if you've seen the Book of Boba that recently on Disney.

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Not yet, but soon.

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Well, it's not spoiling much, but he comes and he starts training with some tusking Raiders on the planet of Tatooine.

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And he definitely has a strong work ethic, someone that has a lot of skill.

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Again, a lot of strength, good fighting.

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He'll go up and grab the 50 50 balls for Han Solo.

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All right.

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Love it.

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All right, now with my next pick, I want to draft a running back.

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I want someone that is going to be fast.

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And Sean, I know during your time with Detroit, you were partners with Barry Sanders and warm ups, just throwing the ball around.

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So what kinds of traits and what kinds of things did you see in Barry that made him such an exceptional running back?

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Great question.

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Yeah, I think in so many ways Barry Sanders was unique as an athlete, NFL player.

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And one thing was just he was soft spoken and humble, and he just worked.

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He was like a leader based on just how he showed up and presented himself not only on the field, but also off the field and just how his demeanor and his professionalism.

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He wasn't someone who needed to brag or be boisterous.

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It was just like he just did what he needed to do.

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So now when I'm thinking of running back, hopefully to emulate some of those skills, because who wouldn't want someone that emulates Barry Sanders on their team?

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I'm not telling you who to draft for me, but what Star Wars characters pop out to you in that category?

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I'm thinking Luke Skywalker would be the most obvious there, but young Luke Skywalker was a little cocky and he matured as time went on.

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So Barry was kind of got that right away.

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There's someone I can say, but I don't know if I want to say it because it might be my next pick.

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So I'm just going to leave it at that.

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All right.

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We'll have to circle back to that.

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Once you draft that player.

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The card with Rays, right?

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So I won't go with Luke out of fairness, or at least on this pick, because you just threw that one out there.

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But definitely someone for speed.

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I mean, this might be a little unconventional, but speed and agility.

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I'm going with Yoda.

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He might not show it in the original trilogy, but back in the prequels, when you see him fighting Count Dooku in the second or in episode two and then against the Emperor in episode three, you know, he is very fast when he's fighting.

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He has plenty of agility going up, doing all kinds of flips and things mid air, and he'll still strike home where it'll score him some points.

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So a bit of an unconventional pick.

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You don't see Yoda and think pounding the ball down the middle, running back, but that's who I'm going with there.

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It's a good pick.

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Well, this is going to force me to counter, and I don't want to do that.

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This is probably going to be a draft pick that for years people are going to be talking about and questioning.

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But I'm just going to take a chance here for Olineddline Jabba the Hut.

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Well, I'll give you this much.

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Jabba the Hut is big.

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He can definitely block someone.

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Not sure about all of the physicalities there, but he's definitely commanding, and he's going to have things go his way as long as there's no slaves tied up in chains on the field.

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Exactly.

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His secret weapon is no one can play mind tricks on him.

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Exactly.

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Nobody's going to be able to get into his head because Jabba the Hutt, my tricks don't work on them.

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I mean, that's a whole other element to this game that we haven't really mentioned yet, but all of the beyond physical abilities.

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Right.

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You've got, whether it's Luke Skywalker, obviously, he progresses as a Jedi with mine tricks or Obi Wan Kenobi, famously with the original Star Wars movie Tricking the Stormtroopers into letting them pass.

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Or really just any of the Jedi, or even Seth, for that matter, with all of the non physical, non football abilities that come in there that Chewbacca as my offensive lineman, I guess it doesn't work the same if it's Java versus if you had a Jedi there.

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But let me pass, let me get to the quarterback.

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But again, another bit of an unconventional pick, but there's definitely reasoning behind it.

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When it's all said, I might be like the Cleveland Browns of drafting picks.

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Yeah, it might be a stretch, but you can definitely still see it.

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So there's a lot of good names on the board still.

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Yeah.

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So just to recap what we have so far, your first pick was Han Solo at quarterback.

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Then I drafted Chewbacca as my linemen.

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And then you drafted who is your second?

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Boba Fett.

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Right, Boba.

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And then I drafted Yoda as my running back.

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And after that, you drafted Job of the Hut as your D linement.

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So that leaves me still looking for a quarterback.

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And like we said before, quarterbacks are very important.

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And again, this might seem maybe a little unconventional, but I'm going to go with Emperor Palpatine as my quarterback.

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He is someone that, if you're thinking about someone that can control the game, that's him.

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He's controlling everything leading up to the prequels, through the prequels, and ultimately just taking power as the Chancellor and then Emperor of the Galaxy.

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He's someone that has a game plan.

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He's got it figured out.

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And ultimately, when it comes down to selfishness, yeah, I guess he's selfish.

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He might try to run the ball a couple of times, but still, he knows what has to be done to win the game.

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All right, off the board, Palpatine.

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All right.

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Well, it's my next pick, another one that I think is probably going to be questioned for years.

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I'm actually dropped the kicker number four for a couple of reasons.

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Number one, just love kickers.

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But most importantly, I can't pass up on Princess Leia for a couple of reasons.

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Number one, I'm worried about Han Solo, just, like needing some balance, him, like getting undisciplined.

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So she's going to keep that balance.

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And also just for the kicking skills.

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She's calm, she's cool under pressure.

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She's a Jedi.

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So if the ball is going to the right, the wind is taking it.

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She'll get right down the middle.

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Yeah, I think that's a great pick there.

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And that's something you talk a lot about in your book, about your mindset and kicking and how you always visioned envisioned the ball passing through the uprights.

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Do you want to talk to you know how important that is in being a good kicker?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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There was actually a segment the other night, I can't believe it.

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After all these years on kickers on 60 Minutes when I check out something like ten minutes.

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But it was so cool.

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It was actually a lot of the stuff that I talk about in the book, and it was the mental game.

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And they asked the kicker for the Ravens, what's his name again?

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Steve?

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No, Justin Tucker.

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Justin Tucker.

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There you go, Justin Tucker.

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And he asked him how much is mental?

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And he said 90% is mental, as is the next 10% as well, especially like at that level, if you're able to get to the level of Division one, College or the NFL, you obviously have the physical skills.

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But what's most important is how does your mind handle failures which are going to happen?

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You're going to miss a kick, especially like this year in the NFL.

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I think it's like 14 or 15 NFL teams have switch kickers, and everything is meant to that game.

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So you need some sort of tools or skills.

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For me, this would help me as a kicker.

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I had a coach at Pitt who told me when you're watching videos of yourself either after practice or after game, spend maybe 10% of the time on the kicks that you missed or that you made a mistake where it looked like it was going to go wide, you stuck it in it wasn't your best kick.

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But he told me to spend the most time as possible on the kicks that I made.

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To get that in my mind, I always use that, like either before or after game.

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I would try to envision the kicks that I had already made, or I would also envision kicks that I would just make up scenarios.

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Like if we're playing Notre Dame, I would just envision myself making a last second field goal, and I would do this in my bed at night in the hotel, but also like my locker room.

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And I think that made a difference.

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And another thing you speak to a few times is your ad, and while it may have some downsides and upside of it is your ability to hyper focus on something.

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Was that a big advantage when it came to kick in?

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Yeah, I felt like that it was an advantage.

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Sometimes it was a disadvantage if I would all of a sudden miss a couple of kicks and my mind would start focusing on those two kicks.

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But the good thing was when I was able to manage it and get it under control and I could then shift it to positive and then just think of making kicks, making kicks.

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It got complicated by Add because it also came into my training a lot.

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Like, I would overtrain which the amount of training I put in helped me get really far.

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But I trained so much that I didn't last long.

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Once I made it to NFL because my leg wore out.

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So I think Leia there is a good pick.

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She obviously has many of those traits like you were talking about and sort of balancing Han Solo out, which leaves me I still have not drafted a wider receiver or tight end.

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But you're going to have to wait a minute before we get back and you can hear my pick because first I need to tell you about Bill Barr.

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Yesterday I had a double chocolate bar.

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I know some of my other favorite flavors are marshmallow churro, puffs, as well as coconut brownie, chunk, and as well as all the other flavors, they've got peanut butter brownie, Mint brownie, all kinds of different things.

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Fruity, chocolatey.

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And they've always got limited time flavors coming in and out.

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And in this case, I'm looking for someone that is reliable, someone that I know.

237
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Okay.

238
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Palpatine can always just get out there and get the ball to and can trust that the job is going to get done.

239
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So in this case, I'm going with Darth Vader, but not Darth Vader old mechanical trouble breathing, because I'm not sure how great that would prove.

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I think he'd be fine physically on a football field, but I'm thinking more Anakin at the end of Revenge of the Sith before he gets all burned up.

241
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And he may not have as much of the power of the dark side at that point in time, but he still has, to some extent, a chemistry with Palpatine, someone that Palpatine is creating trust with to go out and finish the mission.

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I think that those two can work together on this team.

243
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Wow, what a pick.

244
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So our draft room here is scrambling.

245
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Vader was our next pick.

246
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What position were you going to put in that?

247
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Oh, we can't tell you that.

248
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Yeah.

249
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We have to circle the wagons here where we have a backup plan, luckily.

250
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So we're going to go running back Lando Calrissian, and we're going to go Lando, because Lando, he was like a swindler.

251
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So he's like the perfect running back.

252
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He's going to be very elusive.

253
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You have a hard time catching them.

254
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And he can be one of those running backs, actually, even like Barry Sanders, like running wise, you think you have him in the back field, but all of a sudden he makes this amazing run, comes out of nowhere.

255
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He's also a good team player, even though he seems like he's not on your side now.

256
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He's on your side.

257
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And so I'm worried about some locker room problems now with Lando and Han and the same locker room.

258
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They're probably going to be fighting in the locker room sometime.

259
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But luckily we got Leia.

260
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I'm thinking I may have some locker room problems and now I have Boba Fett locker room.

261
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I'm not to think about a coach at some point, I'm thinking out loud about I got some positives, but now I got some attitudes in the locker room.

262
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Yeah.

263
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So out of all the locker rooms you had been at in high school, in D three and then at Pitt and even on into the NFL, what were some of the things that you saw that made a good locker room, some things that coaches would look for to create?

264
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Yeah.

265
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Wow.

266
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Interesting, because every great question because every locker room was different and the locker room in many ways was determined by the coach.

267
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Of course, the players are part of it, and there are certain players that the coaches, no matter how they try to get them to be part of the culture, they just can't.

268
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It's just how it goes.

269
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But looking back, probably one of the most positive locker rooms I had would be with the Indianapolis coach, which was this guy.

270
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The coach's name was Ted Mark GIBRATA.

271
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And I think the reason why he had a lot of success there is he was a player's coach.

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So I think a lot of the players felt like they were valued because there are some locker rooms that I had where it was like, here's coach, here's player.

273
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And so you have to be careful.

274
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Of course, if it's player player, then they'll try to take advantage of you or something like that.

275
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But he was one of those guys who could balance that out, similar to like Mike Tomlin today.

276
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He's known as a player's coach, but obviously he's able to also get them to buy in on what he's doing because he's had so much success.

277
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Yeah.

278
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He must be doing something right if he's lasted in Pittsburgh for this long and so many winning seasons.

279
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I know at one point you also mentioned that you got the opportunity to meet Mike Tomlin back when your special teams coordinator from Pitt was with the Steelers.

280
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So when you met him, did you see that in him?

281
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What was special about him?

282
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Yeah, just a really genuine guy who just makes everyone around him feel like they're super important because I just stopped in.

283
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And like I said, I only got to meet him because of my special teams coach friend who was with the Steelers at the time and now he's with the New York Giants.

284
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But he just made you feel like just asking you a few questions about what's happening.

285
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It was crazy because I'm thinking, why does he want to meet this random old kicker at this point?

286
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But obviously he's got more important things to do.

287
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But he's just one of those guys.

288
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He's really present when he's around people.

289
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And I wish him the best of luck with the Giants because I am a Giants fan and we'll see how much of the coaches and training staff are retained, unfortunately.

290
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But I know we're recording this on Friday the 21st.

291
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Earlier today, the Giants announced they're hiring Joe Shane.

292
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I think it's how you say it as their new general manager, the former Buffalo assistant GM, the first of NFL GM hiring this off season.

293
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So we'll see if he stays.

294
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But his credit arguably the best part of the Giants the last couple of years.

295
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Graham Ganelle with the kicker.

296
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So he's been doing something right.

297
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Yeah, it's a tough business.

298
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He's been with a lot of teams, both College and pro, but he's still in it.

299
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Yeah.

300
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Credit him for that.

301
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All right, so that was your Lando was your last pick.

302
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I believe, running back.

303
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Yeah.

304
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So I'm not going to lie, he did cross my mind at one point, but yes, that whole thing of sort of switching sides, although it wasn't really I guess he did technically switch sides.

305
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He made a deal with Vader and then wound up joining the Rebels.

306
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But he's still someone that comes through on promises.

307
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So give him that much.

308
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Now I'm looking again.

309
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I've got an alignment, a quarterback or running back.

310
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Now I think it's my turn to draft a kicker and someone that has again, I feel all of the qualities you were talking about earlier.

311
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I'm going with Obiwan Kenobi as my kicker.

312
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He's someone that he's got the calm mindset.

313
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He may not have had quite of the same aura around him that he did in the original trilogy back when he was younger and had maybe better physical conditions, but he's still someone that has a combined he can focus, he can come through, get the extra point, get the 50 yard field goal.

314
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And like you were saying, with Leia, he can push the ball back, left or right to make sure it gets through.

315
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Wow.

316
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If either kick or misses, it will be shocking.

317
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Yeah.

318
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I bet you're glad you never had to compete against them.

319
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Oh, wow.

320
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Okay.

321
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So what do I have left?

322
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I have a wide receiver.

323
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Yeah.

324
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And what else?

325
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Yeah, I think that's just it.

326
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Unless you want to add any other positions.

327
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Okay.

328
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So I got one more.

329
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This is my last pick.

330
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Yeah.

331
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And actually, then we can draft a coach or tip.

332
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Okay, one last pick.

333
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I mean, all the big names are off the board.

334
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Vader, Skywalker, Han, Leia, Chewie, Obiwan.

335
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I love three PO, but I just don't see how that's going to work out.

336
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I'm not sure he could be a great head coach, but assistant coach.

337
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Wow, the statistician guy.

338
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All right, interesting one last pick.

339
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Wide receiver.

340
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Oh, I got it.

341
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I'm going out of the box.

342
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I know my expertise is the original Star Wars, but I'm going with Ray for the wide receiver in the opening scene where she's basically, like flying when she's scavenging, right?

343
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Yeah.

344
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And also, like a nice, strong, balanced personality in the locker room.

345
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Because like I mentioned earlier, I think I'm going to have some locker room issues.

346
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I need someone else in there.

347
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I could see her, like when Hansel and Boba Fetter going out and she steps in like, hey, guys, got a game, get it together.

348
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So I'm going with Ray for my last pick.

349
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Yeah.

350
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Now I think that's good.

351
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She can definitely go out and find something.

352
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The whole scavenging thing.

353
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She comes from humble beginnings, right?

354
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I like that.

355
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She's definitely powerful and she has to learn to control her power out of the players so far on your team, do you think there's a mentor in there for her, or do you think you would want to draft a coach that can fill that role?

356
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I would have to see Lauren as a mentor.

357
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I mean, it's possible when this is all said and done, I don't want to give up the secrets, but I may even end up doing Laya player coach.

358
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And I may not draft a coach, but it's possible.

359
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Yeah.

360
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I mean, generally she definitely can come up with a plan, manage the situation and perform.

361
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Do you know who's still waiting to get drafted?

362
00:29:17.686 --> 00:29:18.478
But he hasn't.

363
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He's still sitting there waiting.

364
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Jar.

365
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Jar Banks, one of the more controversial characters of all time.

366
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Yeah, he's sitting there watching on TV.

367
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He's got a family around him.

368
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Hopefully he's drafted.

369
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Yeah.

370
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I'll go in.

371
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Maybe this won't count as a pick, but I'll draft him as my ball boy or water boy, although actually that's giving him maybe a little too much responsibility.

372
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But he was a Senator in the Galactic Senate, so hopefully he can manage that.

373
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He has a big responsibility.

374
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If he's your ball boy, he's got to make sure he's got the kicker balls.

375
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Time to kick.

376
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So can Jargon do that?

377
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Yeah.

378
00:30:01.584 --> 00:30:04.706
So what is special about the kicking balls?

379
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Yeah, so the kicking balls.

380
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If you go to the history of the kicking balls when I played, this was before you can follow the whole rules with the NFL.

381
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I forget how long ago it was.

382
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Maybe ten or twelve years ago.

383
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They made a special change or special rule where it had be marked with a K as well as, like, they were set aside the week before the game because what would happen, like when I played up until 2000 or so, is the kickers would take the balls and they would doctor whatever they needed to do with them.

384
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They put them in a drying machine, they would oil them up, put them some lotions, and they would basically, as a kicker, you want the ball to be as smooth as possible.

385
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Those dimples on there, you want them all gone or as flat as possible.

386
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And so you want the ball to resemble closer to like a beach ball versus something that's contracted and hard.

387
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So the whole thing with like Tom Brady, because quarterbacks want to do certain things with their footballs, and then the kickers and punters want to do something else.

388
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So they're separated out the K balls.

389
00:31:10.826 --> 00:31:12.778
They can still mess with them.

390
00:31:12.804 --> 00:31:17.986
So I believe the latest rule is, like about a week before the game, they get them, they can brush them down.

391
00:31:18.108 --> 00:31:22.718
So the ball boy is super important because he only has limited time with the balls.

392
00:31:22.754 --> 00:31:30.670
But within that time, they can still do a really good job to get them to be broken in and sort of to go along with that.

393
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When you're kicking or even punting, for that matter, in most cases, the ball, it has sort of backspin on it.

394
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And unlike a spiral, which is how you would throw it.

395
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So what's the importance of that?

396
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And I know I've seen some punts.

397
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I was at the Giants Week 18 game, and I noticed some of the punts were sort of shifting to spiral.

398
00:31:55.154 --> 00:32:00.526
So I know you were a kicker, not a punter, but can you speak to that a little bit?

399
00:32:00.648 --> 00:32:01.522
Yeah, absolutely.

400
00:32:01.656 --> 00:32:03.490
Actually, in the World Football League, I had to do both.

401
00:32:03.540 --> 00:32:06.614
And I was like the backup punter at Pit.

402
00:32:06.782 --> 00:32:08.314
So I would still punt during the week.

403
00:32:08.352 --> 00:32:19.062
But when you punt it, if you put your foot in that nice position where it's flat and pointed, the hope is that it will hit a spiral.

404
00:32:19.086 --> 00:32:22.960
And if you hit a spiral, it'll cut through the air better.

405
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So whenever a punner hits a spiral, he's going for distance.

406
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The new trend now in punning is you see, like this Australian style, or they'll hit end over end because they want to place it more.

407
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So the art of punting has really shifted.

408
00:32:40.194 --> 00:32:45.326
Like back in the day, it was always ticket as far as as high as you can.

409
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But now they're being a little bit more like, hey, that's punting different ways to put in different spots, maybe pin them in the corner or maybe just pop it up really high where you force a fair catch.

410
00:32:56.890 --> 00:33:00.530
And then that's when you'll see the ball maybe going more end over end with the punters.

411
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Yeah.

412
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And that's something that I know you also talked about at one point.

413
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His name is escaping me, but you called him the rocket the kick returner on Notre Dame, I think it was who you just wouldn't give the ball, too, because you did by accident.

414
00:33:20.718 --> 00:33:26.462
But he took it 97 yards in the wrong direction, but sort of that same idea.

415
00:33:26.536 --> 00:33:30.350
But in kicking, what are the other contexts there?

416
00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:38.654
Yeah, for kicking, the best way for the ball to travel the furthest is now end over end.

417
00:33:38.812 --> 00:33:41.282
You can't kick like a spiral, like off your foot.

418
00:33:41.476 --> 00:33:47.478
And the more pure it goes, end over end, most likely further and also like the straighter.

419
00:33:47.514 --> 00:33:53.042
So sometimes when you see those kicks that are missed and they look more like a helicopter, like, oh, he shanked it.

420
00:33:53.056 --> 00:33:54.042
He'd like a helicopter.

421
00:33:54.126 --> 00:34:01.730
What most likely happened is the kicker, because the sweet spot of the football that they want to hit is about the size of a dime.

422
00:34:02.050 --> 00:34:13.730
So if the kicker misses that, even just a little bit, you won't see that pure end over end doesn't mean like he'll miss it because there's still, like a little bit of a margin of error, depending on how close you are.

423
00:34:13.900 --> 00:34:16.614
So if he's kicking an extra point, he doesn't hit the sweet spot.

424
00:34:16.662 --> 00:34:18.078
The ball can still rotate.

425
00:34:18.114 --> 00:34:20.138
Funny, but chances are it'll still go through.

426
00:34:20.164 --> 00:34:26.298
But the further you go out, the more or the less margin bear you have that you better hit that sweet spot.

427
00:34:26.334 --> 00:34:34.722
Otherwise, for that ball, like, if you're kicking a 50 yarder and you miss that sweet spot, the chances that ball is still straight after 50 yards is much slimmer.

428
00:34:34.806 --> 00:34:35.270
Right.

429
00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:40.038
All right, so now taking it back here to our Star Wars characters.

430
00:34:40.194 --> 00:34:44.874
I need one more receiver to fill out my lineup.

431
00:34:44.982 --> 00:34:46.530
This one's tough.

432
00:34:46.650 --> 00:34:53.606
And, I mean, I think I might dip into the sequels as well.

433
00:34:53.788 --> 00:35:10.466
And again, maybe sort of he's still young, so maybe not the same kind of a mentor, but PO, he escapes death somehow in episode seven, and he comes out.

434
00:35:10.528 --> 00:35:17.946
He's strong, he's confident, as we saw in The Last Jedi.

435
00:35:18.078 --> 00:35:25.180
When he goes and starts arguing with Leia's replacement, I forgot her name.

436
00:35:26.590 --> 00:35:27.798
So he's confident.

437
00:35:27.894 --> 00:35:30.554
He's someone that can get out there.

438
00:35:30.592 --> 00:35:37.694
He's reliable, he can do the job, and he's also just someone that's having fun out there.

439
00:35:37.732 --> 00:35:43.300
He's going to see the light in things and hopefully boost some morale for the team.

440
00:35:43.990 --> 00:35:45.326
That's a good pick.

441
00:35:45.508 --> 00:35:46.070
Yeah.

442
00:35:46.180 --> 00:35:51.530
All right, so now do you want to think about your coaches for a minute?

443
00:35:51.970 --> 00:35:58.370
And then we can also see where we would each want to play our teams on defense.

444
00:36:00.590 --> 00:36:08.250
I guess you said before you would still want Java to be your D lineman, and I'm not sure what else you're going to put them on defense.

445
00:36:09.590 --> 00:36:10.734
So you've got that.

446
00:36:10.832 --> 00:36:14.480
And where do you want to put someone as a safety or line back?

447
00:36:15.170 --> 00:36:18.126
Yeah, we're doing coaches, right?

448
00:36:18.248 --> 00:36:18.714
Yeah.

449
00:36:18.812 --> 00:36:20.418
In any order, if you want.

450
00:36:20.564 --> 00:36:20.910
Okay.

451
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.522
Awesome coaching.

452
00:36:22.546 --> 00:36:30.586
I was thinking there's a couple of different directions I could go here, I could go Grand Moff Tarkin if I want this Bill Belichick kind of coach.

453
00:36:30.778 --> 00:36:34.280
Everyone's like this guy wins all the time.

454
00:36:34.910 --> 00:36:38.778
Sometimes no one likes the Patriots, right.

455
00:36:38.804 --> 00:36:40.498
The same thing like with Graham off Tarkin.

456
00:36:40.534 --> 00:36:48.990
But I'm looking at my roster right now, and I think a much better fit is going to be Admiral Akbar headphones.

457
00:36:49.430 --> 00:36:51.630
That is an excellent pick.

458
00:36:51.680 --> 00:36:52.280
Yeah.

459
00:36:53.690 --> 00:37:00.978
To work alongside Leia, Lando, Han, he's already got experience there.

460
00:37:01.064 --> 00:37:02.178
They all trust him.

461
00:37:02.204 --> 00:37:04.062
They look up to him.

462
00:37:04.256 --> 00:37:08.946
So I think with about half of your team, that's a great pick.

463
00:37:09.068 --> 00:37:11.346
And then the rest of it.

464
00:37:11.468 --> 00:37:15.870
Ray, sure, she's probably fine, but how much is Java going to like that?

465
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.160
How much is Boba Set going to like that?

466
00:37:20.630 --> 00:37:22.782
We'll have to see how that is.

467
00:37:22.916 --> 00:37:31.498
Yeah, that's the locker room issues I'm going to have to contend with or Admiral Akbar is now not as a general manager.

468
00:37:31.534 --> 00:37:31.806
Right.

469
00:37:31.868 --> 00:37:34.160
So it's his team.

470
00:37:35.630 --> 00:37:42.310
Hey, just like we were talking about with the Giants before, you're still attaching your name to this fictional scenario.

471
00:37:42.490 --> 00:37:43.590
That's true.

472
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:48.260
So obviously I have Emperor Palpatine on my team.

473
00:37:48.590 --> 00:38:03.114
And if you're talking about egos, he's probably a big ego, and he never really has anyone above him that we see in at least any of the movies or even TV shows.

474
00:38:03.272 --> 00:38:12.826
The only time he has someone, a master is before the events of the prequels take place is former master.

475
00:38:12.958 --> 00:38:23.720
And so I think it's going to be hard to get a good coach to work with Palpatine, but at least someone with a similar vision, I'm thinking.

476
00:38:24.170 --> 00:38:39.380
So you sort of tried to trace it back, and we don't really see too much interaction with him in the original trilogy with anyone other than Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker, for that matter.

477
00:38:41.910 --> 00:38:45.600
Palpatine is a bit of a tricky one there.

478
00:38:47.910 --> 00:39:00.818
I think I'm going to have to go with Snoke, and I'm not sure if that pick will be technically allowed because he's more like a marionette sitting in there for the coach.

479
00:39:00.914 --> 00:39:09.926
But it's someone that Palpatine is going to be comfortable with because he directly controls Snoke.

480
00:39:10.058 --> 00:39:14.422
So I think that can sort of keep the locker room together.

481
00:39:14.616 --> 00:39:15.226
Well.

482
00:39:15.348 --> 00:39:21.540
So now do you want to go to an assistant coach or look at the defense first?

483
00:39:22.350 --> 00:39:23.546
Let's go defense.

484
00:39:23.678 --> 00:39:24.202
All right.

485
00:39:24.276 --> 00:39:24.802
Yeah.

486
00:39:24.936 --> 00:39:27.586
Jabba, he's going to go both ways for sure, right?

487
00:39:27.648 --> 00:39:28.090
Wow.

488
00:39:28.200 --> 00:39:28.860
Okay.

489
00:39:29.310 --> 00:39:31.954
Boba Fett, definitely both ways on D.

490
00:39:32.112 --> 00:39:33.780
He'll make a great corner back.

491
00:39:34.470 --> 00:39:35.650
Han Solo.

492
00:39:38.410 --> 00:39:42.940
I think about him, the first movie where he appeared that he's kind of in it for the money.

493
00:39:44.290 --> 00:39:47.620
I don't know where his head is going to be at, so he definitely doesn't want to go both ways.

494
00:39:49.270 --> 00:39:51.842
I don't want him to get too worn out.

495
00:39:51.976 --> 00:39:57.414
So let's see, I got defensive lineman, cornerback.

496
00:39:57.522 --> 00:39:59.282
We need someone in the rush to pass her.

497
00:39:59.356 --> 00:39:59.630
Right.

498
00:39:59.680 --> 00:40:05.042
So I'm going to go with defensive end Darth Mall wow.

499
00:40:05.236 --> 00:40:06.230
You didn't take him, right?

500
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:06.914
He's still on the board.

501
00:40:06.952 --> 00:40:08.066
No, I did not.

502
00:40:08.248 --> 00:40:09.186
Darth ball.

503
00:40:09.258 --> 00:40:09.806
All right.

504
00:40:09.928 --> 00:40:14.846
Definitely someone out there very aggressive in the time that we see him.

505
00:40:14.968 --> 00:40:21.760
He does damage and also receives damage, so I think he can fit in there.

506
00:40:24.230 --> 00:40:25.686
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507
00:40:25.808 --> 00:40:33.690
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508
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509
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510
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511
00:40:59.630 --> 00:41:00.810
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512
00:41:00.860 --> 00:41:09.222
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513
00:41:09.296 --> 00:41:16.580
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514
00:41:16.970 --> 00:41:23.518
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515
00:41:23.674 --> 00:41:31.446
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516
00:41:31.568 --> 00:41:40.302
Then your purchase will get tracked back to me and it just goes and helps cover the costs of the show.

517
00:41:40.436 --> 00:41:43.594
Seeing with built bar, which I was talking about earlier.

518
00:41:43.702 --> 00:41:48.090
So you can go down there and find those links in the show notes.

519
00:41:51.510 --> 00:41:59.302
I mean, just if I were to slap my team into defense, I would say Chewbacca is going to stick with the line.

520
00:41:59.376 --> 00:42:01.214
He'll be the lineman.

521
00:42:01.382 --> 00:42:08.842
And going up against Jabba the Hut, that might be the most interesting match up we have here.

522
00:42:08.976 --> 00:42:18.660
Because I think other than Darth Maul, who at least operates like a human in terms of his physical abilities to walk.

523
00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:19.822
Right.

524
00:42:19.956 --> 00:42:25.642
Chewy and Java are the furthest things from humans in this game.

525
00:42:25.776 --> 00:42:29.590
That's definitely a match up to pay attention to.

526
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:33.190
But yeah, Palpatine, I feel the same way.

527
00:42:33.240 --> 00:42:35.594
I'm not sure I'm putting him on defense.

528
00:42:35.702 --> 00:42:41.246
We're not risking our star quarterbacks on the other side of the ball.

529
00:42:41.318 --> 00:42:46.930
So I'll match you with the end and for this position.

530
00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:48.358
Actually, you know what?

531
00:42:48.384 --> 00:42:50.338
No, I'm not going to go with the end.

532
00:42:50.424 --> 00:42:57.910
In this case, I'm going to go I'm going to put Luke Skywalker as a corner back.

533
00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:03.158
I think that it may seem like, well, how does that really fit his abilities?

534
00:43:03.254 --> 00:43:06.290
But he's someone that's definitely controlling.

535
00:43:06.350 --> 00:43:11.210
If you think about Revenge of not Return of the Jedi.

536
00:43:11.330 --> 00:43:11.614
Right.

537
00:43:11.652 --> 00:43:32.350
You're thinking, well, he's sort of put in a defensive stance when he's captured by Palpatine and Vader, and he's someone that tries to manipulate the situation or get the ball back in his hands and get back to the offense.

538
00:43:33.210 --> 00:43:36.206
All right, so what's coming next for you on defense?

539
00:43:36.338 --> 00:43:43.738
I think I'm going assistant coach and I'm going back and forth on this, but I think I'm going to go three P.

540
00:43:43.764 --> 00:43:43.990
O.

541
00:43:44.040 --> 00:43:47.954
As the assistant coach, not the offensive coordinator.

542
00:43:48.002 --> 00:43:49.570
Defensive, that's not his thing.

543
00:43:49.620 --> 00:43:53.282
But he's going to be more about the scouting.

544
00:43:53.366 --> 00:43:57.110
He's going to find the other team's weaknesses and strengths.

545
00:43:57.230 --> 00:43:58.498
He's going to have them completely.

546
00:43:58.644 --> 00:44:01.474
He'll help with the game plan, not executed because that's not a thing.

547
00:44:01.512 --> 00:44:09.866
It's just like giving us the numbers, their tendencies, and then Adam Akbar, using his intuition, will make the decisions.

548
00:44:09.998 --> 00:44:10.680
Yeah.

549
00:44:11.550 --> 00:44:15.478
The first droid to go in here today, I think that's a good one.

550
00:44:15.624 --> 00:44:16.450
So you know what?

551
00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:24.454
I'm going to come back to my DND here, and I'm going with R 2D two, another out of the box pick.

552
00:44:24.552 --> 00:44:33.926
But he's someone that he's going to with his different flying or lighting the ground on fire abilities.

553
00:44:34.058 --> 00:44:41.630
He's going to find a way to get to the quarterback, and we'll have to see about his tackling abilities.

554
00:44:41.750 --> 00:44:46.882
But he does have those, like, arms that poke out of his body or whatever when he needs them.

555
00:44:46.956 --> 00:44:50.410
So I think he can get something going there.

556
00:44:50.520 --> 00:44:57.240
And, I mean, if you're talking about his speed, he literally has a rocket on him, so he's fast.

557
00:44:59.010 --> 00:44:59.638
All right.

558
00:44:59.724 --> 00:45:00.886
Am I missing anything?

559
00:45:01.008 --> 00:45:13.178
If you wanted to put any of your other offensive players on defense, you could or otherwise, then we can talk about the keys to this game for both teams.

560
00:45:13.334 --> 00:45:13.762
Okay?

561
00:45:13.836 --> 00:45:14.602
Yeah, absolutely.

562
00:45:14.736 --> 00:45:20.242
I'm getting calls from the agents of some Stormtroopers, but we're just not going to go there.

563
00:45:20.316 --> 00:45:21.514
There's too much.

564
00:45:21.672 --> 00:45:27.242
There's too much clumsiness, and their shooting skills are horrible.

565
00:45:27.326 --> 00:45:27.610
Right.

566
00:45:27.660 --> 00:45:29.386
Like, what's their success rate?

567
00:45:29.568 --> 00:45:30.814
It's pretty low.

568
00:45:30.972 --> 00:45:37.054
They're easily deceived, so unfortunately not going to pick any.

569
00:45:37.152 --> 00:45:51.094
All right, so, I mean, with the rest of my team, how they might play out Yoda on defense, I'm putting him as probably a safety, someone that will stay back, conserve a little of that energy.

570
00:45:51.192 --> 00:45:59.530
He's not running around as fast as the corner backs, but he's someone out there that's still reliable.

571
00:46:00.090 --> 00:46:01.090
Vader.

572
00:46:01.830 --> 00:46:05.554
He'll probably be a linebacker, keep him up close.

573
00:46:05.652 --> 00:46:08.246
Sometimes he might come in for the blitz.

574
00:46:08.378 --> 00:46:10.740
Sometimes he might drop back.

575
00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:14.594
Other than that, Palpatine, I said I wasn't.

576
00:46:14.642 --> 00:46:16.210
So I guess we'll leave it at that.

577
00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:19.150
And then an assistant coach.

578
00:46:20.190 --> 00:46:26.306
This is going to be hard just because of my whole reasoning with Snoke as my head coach.

579
00:46:26.378 --> 00:46:31.870
But I don't know, I guess I could I don't know.

580
00:46:31.980 --> 00:46:41.280
You kind of use your assistant coach spot for the game planning of it, and I'm not sure how much Palpatine is going to like that.

581
00:46:43.050 --> 00:46:43.630
I don't know.

582
00:46:43.680 --> 00:46:47.350
Maybe R 2D two will be the playing coach as well.

583
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:50.326
Sort of like you had going with Leia there.

584
00:46:50.388 --> 00:47:00.206
And he might not have the same functionality as C threePO, but he's someone that you still got the robot brain.

585
00:47:00.278 --> 00:47:05.758
He's not going to miss something, and he'll find the best way to do it.

586
00:47:05.784 --> 00:47:07.250
And he's also creative.

587
00:47:07.310 --> 00:47:09.406
He has a personality of his own.

588
00:47:09.528 --> 00:47:12.538
He'll add that to the game plan.

589
00:47:12.624 --> 00:47:20.582
And especially I think he'll be calling more of the plays on defense, and I think that will be some of his specialties.

590
00:47:20.666 --> 00:47:21.094
But.

591
00:47:21.192 --> 00:47:21.562
Right.

592
00:47:21.636 --> 00:47:28.786
So when you look at this game, what are maybe two keys to this game for either team?

593
00:47:28.908 --> 00:47:32.880
What does each team need to do to win the game?

594
00:47:34.050 --> 00:47:42.982
Well, I think like looking through the rosters, there's a mix of the dark side and the good side.

595
00:47:43.116 --> 00:47:47.966
So I think it's going to be are they able to play together?

596
00:47:48.028 --> 00:47:50.046
Like can Han Solo play with Boba Fett?

597
00:47:50.118 --> 00:47:51.400
It's going to be a big question.

598
00:47:52.090 --> 00:47:53.320
Keys to the game.

599
00:47:53.650 --> 00:48:00.662
I'm not worried about Lando and Han and their little skirmishes to get in because I know when it's game time, they're going to show up.

600
00:48:00.736 --> 00:48:09.350
I think it's that I think it's Java, like Hanson, he's had this history with Java, but they can be able to put that to the side.

601
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:12.758
So I think it's going to be playing as a team.

602
00:48:12.904 --> 00:48:13.430
Yeah.

603
00:48:13.540 --> 00:48:25.974
And I think if you put that on, if you apply that to my team as well, what you're going to see is you have that, but sort of even more extreme.

604
00:48:26.022 --> 00:48:37.122
You have Palpatine Invader on one side, and on the other half of that you have Yoda, who literally duels Palpatine.

605
00:48:37.266 --> 00:48:45.710
You have R 2D, Two, OB one, they're just going along with Yoda.

606
00:48:46.090 --> 00:48:56.810
And then there's Chewy, who I'm not sure if he's considered a strong personality, but you sort of have that taken to an extreme.

607
00:48:57.490 --> 00:48:58.610
Is it possible?

608
00:48:58.780 --> 00:49:02.838
I'm going to throw this out there right now, straight up Boba Fett for Chewy.

609
00:49:02.994 --> 00:49:04.420
I mean, I don't know.

610
00:49:06.070 --> 00:49:09.770
We'll have to see maybe there will be a trick play somewhere in there.

611
00:49:09.820 --> 00:49:26.246
Maybe Chewy takes a couple of snaps in the defensive secondary, but I think that your team probably edges out mine in terms of that category of working together.

612
00:49:26.368 --> 00:49:36.458
But nonetheless, you still have Darth Maul on your defense, and I think so that definitely gives your team the upper hand.

613
00:49:36.604 --> 00:49:43.610
But where my team, I think has a chance is coming back to Jabba the Hutt.

614
00:49:44.170 --> 00:49:51.338
And how well is he going to keep up with Chewbacca with R 2D Two?

615
00:49:51.484 --> 00:50:10.910
So are there any football NFL College scenarios that either you were a part of or have seen where you have maybe a bigger offensive lineman matched up against a star DM?

616
00:50:11.290 --> 00:50:13.766
Yeah, that's such a great question.

617
00:50:13.888 --> 00:50:32.530
I think the job is not going to be a good pick because the speed now required in this game back in the day, you could get away with it, but he's just not going to be able to contend with you on that side of the ball.

618
00:50:32.710 --> 00:50:34.494
I just don't see that happening now.

619
00:50:34.592 --> 00:50:39.930
My only question is because we saw Boba Fett or excuse me, we saw Java.

620
00:50:40.730 --> 00:50:51.140
I don't know where he was at that point in his career was there a point in his career where he was more mobile or was he always just sitting there like that?

621
00:50:51.650 --> 00:50:53.398
I almost think of Job of the Hut.

622
00:50:53.434 --> 00:50:56.350
More like Pizza the Hut baseball.

623
00:50:56.410 --> 00:50:59.938
But was there a time when Java was more mobile?

624
00:51:00.094 --> 00:51:01.842
Yes, there may have been.

625
00:51:01.916 --> 00:51:05.878
But I'm definitely thinking about that Dallas game last weekend.

626
00:51:05.974 --> 00:51:12.390
Is he going to be able to get the ball down and get the referee to touch it so that it can be snapped?

627
00:51:13.310 --> 00:51:15.030
Yeah, this is going to be a weakness.

628
00:51:15.350 --> 00:51:15.786
Yeah.

629
00:51:15.848 --> 00:51:19.400
Another thing, he doesn't really have legs to snap the ball between.

630
00:51:20.690 --> 00:51:23.660
If that's part of his responsibilities there.

631
00:51:24.530 --> 00:51:26.502
Yeah, there may have to be.

632
00:51:26.636 --> 00:51:27.320
Yeah.

633
00:51:27.770 --> 00:51:30.750
We can always pull someone out of free agency.

634
00:51:31.670 --> 00:51:32.370
There you go.

635
00:51:32.420 --> 00:51:33.500
Just like you.

636
00:51:35.450 --> 00:51:36.018
All right.

637
00:51:36.104 --> 00:51:48.080
So now just to wrap this up, any last thoughts, who you think is ultimately going to come out on top of this Star Wars match up?

638
00:51:48.950 --> 00:51:56.794
I think if you have to make the person, I think who's going to be the edge here is going to be Yoda.

639
00:51:56.962 --> 00:52:02.578
And if I were to go back, that probably would have been my first pick, but I felt like I needed a quarterback.

640
00:52:02.614 --> 00:52:06.510
But I think you can't bet against Yoda.

641
00:52:07.130 --> 00:52:10.530
Can'T bet against Inspirity, can't bet against Yoda.

642
00:52:11.570 --> 00:52:20.910
I mean, even once Yoda passes, he still has this energy and he'll still make an impact on the game.

643
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:25.854
So, yeah, the team with Yoda, that's where I put my money on.

644
00:52:26.012 --> 00:52:30.246
Yeah, I think that is a good take.

645
00:52:30.368 --> 00:52:41.718
And I think just that, combined with Java's lacking of physical abilities, was an interesting pick.

646
00:52:41.804 --> 00:52:45.882
And obviously we would have to see it in real life.

647
00:52:45.956 --> 00:52:54.706
But he's definitely got other qualities beyond just the physical aspect.

648
00:52:54.778 --> 00:53:11.660
If you're talking about those that have things figured out that are controlling things, you're probably thinking of Palpatine in Jabba the Hut, that he controlled so many people for so long until Leia puts that to an end.

649
00:53:13.250 --> 00:53:17.960
Well, I was going to say foreshadowing in this game, but Layo's on your team, too.

650
00:53:18.410 --> 00:53:21.440
Yeah, that's another locker room issue I just thought of.

651
00:53:23.270 --> 00:53:29.360
All right, well, do you have any last thoughts and where else can the listeners find you?

652
00:53:29.750 --> 00:53:30.894
Yeah, this is a lot of fun.

653
00:53:30.932 --> 00:53:32.334
I really appreciate you having me on.

654
00:53:32.432 --> 00:53:34.306
Yeah, I have a website, shafonkali.

655
00:53:34.378 --> 00:53:42.438
Net, so if they're interested in the book, they can find that there and that's about it.

656
00:53:42.524 --> 00:53:42.774
Yeah.

657
00:53:42.812 --> 00:53:51.874
And I'll link to that down in the show notes the points after that.

658
00:53:51.972 --> 00:53:54.482
Is it for this episode.

659
00:53:54.566 --> 00:53:56.582
Thanks again for coming on, Sean.

660
00:53:56.666 --> 00:53:57.422
Thank you, William.

661
00:53:57.446 --> 00:53:58.030
I had a good time.

662
00:53:58.080 --> 00:53:58.678
Appreciate it.

663
00:53:58.704 --> 00:53:59.520
A lot of fun.

664
00:54:02.310 --> 00:54:03.058
As always.

665
00:54:03.144 --> 00:54:07.586
Thanks for listening to this episode of Desubstantiate podcast.

666
00:54:07.778 --> 00:54:09.862
Come back again in two weeks.

667
00:54:09.936 --> 00:54:17.050
I think in two weeks I will be previewing the Super Bowl with a fantastic guest.

668
00:54:17.370 --> 00:54:23.134
And that episode is going to be centered a little bit more around the betting side.

669
00:54:23.172 --> 00:54:24.038
Of the Super Bowl.

670
00:54:24.074 --> 00:54:40.080
We're going to be going over the spread we're going to be going over a bunch of different proposals and stuff on statementgames.com and we're going to get you ready for the Super Bowl again, that is in two weeks.

671
00:54:40.410 --> 00:54:51.710
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