Jordan Kounelis with an NFL Preview (11.09.26)

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1:03Now, it's your time. We go, we go, we go, we go. Ask your prescriber about Wigovie, some Maglatide Injection 2.4 milligrams, a GOP1. Call 1-8-3-3-4 Wigovie or visit Wigovie.com to review the medication guide and to learn more about Wigovie. Why wait? We go, we go. Say yes, IDD to going out after the game. Get your warehouse working smarter. Visit dexin.com.au today. Switch to a Cogan mobile, low price phone plan. Cogan.com, click an awesome. Kane and King. Fire on. That's a very good morning to those waking up at 701 as fans are streaming into the MCG. Lots of ballers here at the Pullman Live. We've had good quiz, we've had good action, putting a selfies, all happening down here. Where else would you rather be than right here ahead of this landmark game

2:04between the Rams and the 49ers coming up? The commission's going to join us for Roger Goodell. Maybe the most famous guest we've ever had. It would be, look, it's not a long list to be fair. We have an, I mean, it would be at the top of a tier again. Oh, the genius. Yeah, well, he's a regular of ours. He's into a prelim, which is the guts upper. Made you very happy. I saw the, I went to Corrin McCurlan's lunch and yesterday. He had Michael Irving there. He was terrific. The Dallas Cowboys superstar, number 88, as we know over here. And as I got out of the car, there was an ex-Hawthorne, ex-North moment coach, just starting his walk around the Albert Park Lake. Really? I didn't have the courage to go over and say good-bye, Clarke. I thought I'll just let him just, I'll just let him go for a walk of me. Just calm down, just let him calm down. It was exciting in the wild. JK is with us, JK. Good morning. Morning, boys. How are you? I'm alright, brother. Are you in action today on the sideline? Yes, sideline for S&. Hightman. Hightman. Yeah.

3:04I've never done sideline or boundary before. I'm joining the crew, the union, the boundary rider, the union king. The BRU, the boundary rider. You're the one who played by a play man, the best in the business. How are you not doing play by a play today? I'm fine doing it. I feel privileged to be on the field. Very diplomatic. No, I know. Very diplomatic. I know you don't get me into this. I know you don't mean that, but it will move on. You're a humble man, I can't believe it. You did the show, the NFL show, throughout the course of the year, which starts incredibly early next Monday. Yep, yep. Three in the morning. Two thirty. Two thirty in the morning. I ride through a total stumps. Give us your view on this game and what it means to Melbourne. To have this occasion around one proper divisional rivals in Melbourne. Yeah, it's probably the best possible way to start the NFL Melbourne campaign. So we know it's going to be the initial deal. It's three games over four years. And I think having these two teams, the 49ers and the Rams,

4:04who are divisional rivals, so it's not a small market team like the Jacksonville Jaguars, who normally get put out in London. We get two big teams from California, division rivals. And it's week one, which I think is also the other really fun aspect of this. It's not hidden in the middle of the season, among all the other international games. It's the first international game at the start of the season. And it comes with the excitement of being in Melbourne, but the excitement of being the first week of the new season. So there's just multiple layers to it and being in Australia now. It's Australia. I mean, we're already a football following country, NFL following country. But now we're an official NFL nation. We're part of the team now. Two of the best coaches go on head to head, J.K. Just give us a little snapshot of these two McVeigh and Shanahan. They're two good friends. They work together at Washington for about three years. Together they overlap. Carl Shanahan was the offensive coordinator there first. And then Sean McVeigh took over after him at Washington. And now they coach the 49ers and the Rams. McVeigh was one of the youngest ever head coaches in the NFL. He was 30.

5:04I think when he came in to take over the Rams. So both offensive minded head coaches, both the offences of these teams are the standout points. So that bodes well for us. Hopefully it means we get a high score in game today with the two high-powered teams. So yeah, I think it's interesting sort of listening to the two coaches as well during the week. And Colchana Han talking about the scheduling and Sean McVeigh was... They looked a bit... What's a bit sour coming off the plane yesterday. They were very odd pictures. But that's true. That two attacking minded coaches. So hopefully it makes my score in today. Have you seen the venue yet? Have you been out in that look? No, I haven't yet. No. It'll be a strange view for the MCG so that the configuration... How much space will there be from a sideline to the stands? I'll be a bit of a silly than some of these guys here. Where they are in level four as compared to the sideline. How far away will that be? It's not as bad as I thought just seeing the pictures online.

6:05I thought the field was going to look very small compared to the entire playing surface. The corners of the field sort of do just about reach sort of the front row. But as far as the wings, I don't know in terms of distance, there is going to be a bit of a distance. I suppose if you're sitting level one in the front couple of rows, the biggest conundrum is that you're going to have all the players on the sideline right in front of you. So that's going to be... It's not great I suppose. It's just the realities of having a square field on an oval plane. You're there. You're there so it doesn't matter. Yeah, we sort of winch when teams miss out on the Murphy reads and they slip in the draft and these top things. What about the 9th is quarterback Brock Burty. Picky. 200, sorry. Picky, 62. Yeah. Last pick in 2022 has just signed a fresh $265 million contract. How does that happen? With all the money and the wealth and the game and the recruiting, how can he get missed?

7:07It is incredible actually. There's not too many success stories from the last pick of the draft. Mr. irrelevant, they call them, which is a pretty brutal nickname to give the last pick. But he's bucked for trends and he gets... He's the last pick of the draft and Matt Stafford, the other quarterback in the Rams. He was pick one in his drafts in 2009 it was. So you got pick one against the last pick. How does it happen? It's a nod one. I don't know. They had a few quarterback issues for a long time. I couldn't quite settle on a quarterback. So he was sort of just brought in by necessity at the time that he was. And he's turned out to be pretty good. The one thing with college players coming into the NFL is they are ready to go. So it's not like the AFL when you bring 18-year-olds in and you have to develop them for a couple of years. When you come out of college, you are ready to play. You are expected to have an impact straight away. So he was, I guess, for him right, right man, right time for the 49ers. What will be the thing that the fans are struck by the most? I think you go the tennis, you see how hard they eat the ball.

8:09It's different to what you see on TV. Golf, they're just bending it and all sorts of crickets. They're all fast unless it's Cam Green. Unless it's Cam Green. It goes over the fence. What will be the thing that hits the fan that goes for the first time? That's a good one. Firstly, getting used to... The NFL is a very TV oriented sport. Stop start. Yeah, getting used to having those moments in between plays and sort of sitting around and watching what's going on. I'm sure the NFL, I know the NFL that produced all the in-stadium packaging. So on the big screens, I'll be a lot of explainers that are going on for new fans, casual fans who might not know all the rules. So they'll be a lot of that happening and filling in all the details. But that's going to be a new thing because we're obviously used to AFL and how continuous it is. So having those lulls of sort of 20 to 40 seconds in between each play is going to be a new thing. I thought you had a better answer than that. No. The gaps in between play. That is the thing that struck me when I first played that. Athletically, what do they got? Well, these guys are shitting off the size of the players.

9:11He just said that. We agree. We're asking the expert. The size of the players and the heaviness of the hits is a big thing. Correct. That's what I'll say. Thank you. But it is interesting how, like, we are obsessed with keeping the ball in motion. Last touch out of bounds, kicking, getting it up, throw it up. As much ball the motion as you can possibly get, the thing about the NFL is you can watch the play, goes for like five seconds, then you talk to your mate about it in the par bowl at the ground. And then it's ages before they come back onto the ground. So it's completely different feel, I guess, in terms of the spectator experience. And the other thing for the spectators is the, we spoke about this last night on the preview show, is the fan interaction with the game is actually flipped around. So you don't want to make noise when your team has the ball, you want to be quiet when your team has the ball. So if you're a 49ers fan and the 49ers are in possession, you want to stay quiet to allow them to communicate on the field, and then make noise when the Rams have the ball so you can try and put them off and try and make it harder for them to hear the play calls.

10:13Just before we go, the positional sort of side of things, would there be room for a tagger in the NFL? Yeah, put here. Well, like a cornerback is kind of attacking. He like takes the wide receiver and tries to shut them down. Sometimes with two, isn't it? Yeah, sometimes with double teams. Cornerback and shaping so many coverage. You mentioned tagger and he gets so excited. I'm going to get that in, can I get that in the coverage? He's like a tagger, he's like a tagger, y'all. I want a y'all in there. Hey, have a great day mate. Thank you boys. Well done mate. There's nothing he can't do. He dominated the world cup. He dominated the world cup. Great footy cola, great NFL cola, and we're lucky to have him, J.K. Nationwide is so much more than a great insurance company. They're one of America's largest financial services companies. Just like I'm so much more than quarterback Peyton Manning. I'm also Peyton Manning. Insurance and financial services together?

11:13It's a masterpiece. Peyton Manning does it again. For your insurance and financial needs, Nationwide is on your side. Nationwide investment services corporation, Ember Finra, Columbus, Ohio. There is so much NFL on ESPN right now. Monday night football, plus pregame and postgame. NFL live, NFL prime time. Everything you need to stay on top of every game, every week. Unbelievable. And now NFL network is on the ESPN app. More football, more coverage, more ways to watch. Football's on. All season long on ESPN and streaming on the ESPN app. Every game day you show up for your team. Now it's your time. We go, we go, we go. Ask your prescriber about Wigovie, some Maglatide Injection 2.4 milligrams, a GLP 1.

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