Want to have some of my nuts? No. Only if they're big bees. Not talking about the twins.  See if it's a Corbin. I'm nuts. See what I did there? What did we just see that in? That was our watch along. Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it was. I was like, welcome. How did I see that?  No.  Actually, you did.  Today, we're doing a movie review. I couldn't do it because of the nuts in my mouth. Yeah, we're used to it. Fitting for lust stories. If I could get my own nuts in my mouth. Today, we're doing a movie review of lust stories.  I watched the wrong movie. Ah, man. But if you haven't seen our reviews of lust stories one, just watch that just a couple of days ago. We did. Loved lust stories one. This was true. And we also saw Bombay Talkies. So if you haven't seen that, we actually did a little watch along with that one. So you can go check those out. But the way it's going to be just like the last list of stories review, we're going to review each of the four short stories individually. And then we will go over like our rankings of which ones we like best and what we didn't like as much. But the directors are bulky who we've seen quite a lot. Not English fingers. What did we see? It was not. He'd produced that. It was. And we've seen the trailers for several of his things too. Like Mission Mongol, Padman. I know you. Hold on. That he helmed? Chini Koum. Oh, that he was a director of Chini Koum. I was like, we've seen something he's directed before. Sujoy Josh. Dost or Bondu. Bondu. Yup. Amit. Ravinderanath Sharma. Who did he direct, Badai Ho? Marvel. Yes. Yeah. He directed Badai Ho. And Konkona Sanchama, who I don't think we've seen anything she's directed, but we have seen quite a bit of her as a actress. Yes. Obviously. And then it's starring, including multiple Dosts. Yes. And it's not a Dost, but Kajal. Future Dost. Future Dost and Kajal. Dost. Tilla Tama. Tilla Tama and Vijay Varma. Yes. Are the Dosts that round out these films. But we're going to go over the, I think it was Bulkies first, right? Yeah. The Grandma one, essentially. The Grandma one. So this is going to be a full spoiler review. If you'd like to see non-spoiler ones, just go watch those. It's hard to do short films that just, in that way. That's true. So if you just want to do short, go watch it. Come back and you can hear about it. But we're going to go over his first. Rick, what did you think of Bulkies short? I thought it was okay. I thought it, like, and you'll hear this about pretty much all of them as a whole, that I felt that this was, I wrote down that none of them really came close to matching the quality for me of the first four. Yeah. Definitely not as anywhere near as good. Yeah. I mean, there were a couple of good performances from through the actors, but other than those four, I felt that a lot of it, and this one was particularly that way as it led off, that a lot of it felt formulaic, forced, that had flaws to use to continue the Fs. I felt like they missed the beautiful human complexity of the first four. I didn't find the grandma to be particularly believable. I also didn't think it was a particularly good lesson to make a marriage sex and orgasmic centric to happiness, even if it's a thought. I just really felt it was pretty simplistic and was far more for the shock value of having a grandma talking about sex and orgasms than anything necessarily a good moral to take away from. Yeah. I liked the concept in terms of having a sex positive grandma because you don't get that a lot. No, especially in Indian culture and cinema. But yeah, I ended it as I was like, that was it? Exactly. We couldn't go any deeper than that in terms of like either her relationship or like why she's feeling this way, like why she has this thought process or also just like go just, it just felt very surface level to me. Yep. Absolutely. It felt like the takeaway as well. Did you see the story with the grandma who talks about sex? Yeah.  Yeah. But I need more. It just felt like, I don't say a student film, but in terms of like the concept. The concept. In terms of going deeper. Yeah, yeah, the writing concept. It was shallow. It was shallow. Yeah. I wanted more from this concept because right when it started, I was like, oh cool. We're going to have a grandma that's kind of defying the odds of what tradition, family tradition is and all that. I was like, cool, cool, cool. And it just didn't go any farther. I agree. I agree. And I also felt that some of the humor moments between her and her granddaughter, the laughter felt forced. It didn't feel like it was genuinely funny in the moment. Yeah. I mean, I know they were trying to go with the uncomfortableness of the nature of was like, you're my grandma. Why are you talking about sex? Ha ha. Yeah. She did it a lot. A lot. And so it did seem a little overboard, even though I know in Indian culture it is different obviously. Yeah. And yes, there definitely should be, we talked about this in the last one, there should be a discussion made in regard, again, nothing new was said. We already saw a story in which it was important in the last one, it was the last of the four, the Karan and Johar piece to be specific, where Vicki gives her the ice cream. We already got the message in the storytelling prior that it is important to make sure that you take care of the other person, that you're not selfish in your sexual expression, that it isn't just about your orgasm.  I mean, yes, orgasm should be included, but just because someone doesn't have an orgasm doesn't mean the sexual expression wasn't a good one or it was unhealthy in some way. It becomes orgasmic centric, which is pretty shallow like the short story.  Well, if you're going to keep the car analogy, then you're going to probably want a new car after a hundred thousand miles. And that's a pretty sucky analogy to have for a marriage. And if your sex centric, what are you going to do if you get married and on your honeymoon, someone has an accident, now you have to love a paraplegic. Sex isn't going to be what you expected. You're going to leave them. I just, it just didn't work. This didn't work for me at all as far because it's storytelling. And the first four had these beautiful complex morals to their stories that aren't so easily surmised. And this one just felt like it was going for shock value. Yeah, I just wanted, I just wanted more. And I don't feel like I have the exact same opinion that you have of that. Even though I understand, and I think with better writing, it could have been handled better. I think they were trying to go for the fact that since India, sex is such a taboo that you need to know if you are compatible in that aspect. And so I just think if there was better writing as a whole, it could have gone even farther, you know, and had more impact. Corbin, are you daring to say that theater, whether it's stage or screen, needs good writers? Yeah. Wow. It's probably the most... What a concept. You mean to say... It's probably the most important part of filmmaking and then theater.  Yeah. Yeah, wow. Isn't that wild? Yeah, it's crazy. Anyway, so yeah, that, let us know your opinion of that one, obviously. Yeah. Now we're going to go on to Konkona Sen Sharma's with Telotama and the other actress is... Oh yeah. We've... Hold on. I'm going to find her here. It's bothering me that her name is bothering me. This one right here. Amruta. Thank you. We have seen her many times before. So sorry, Amruta. This was by far the best one, I think. 100%. This one was almost as good as the prior for. Absolutely. Konkona Sen Sharma, a phenomenal actress apparently also has a phenomenal eye for direction. Yep. And also, hiring great actresses and performers is, I think as an actor, it's probably, it was very important to her. She's like, I know I need good actors. The two best moments were the fight and then the fruit stand. Those were my favorite moments. I love this whole short. I love how, this one fit the theme better than any of the other ones in this. Yeah, like the first movie set, right? Yes. Yeah. Like, and I know there was like elements of lust in all of them, but I feel like the first one, there's like, oh, this overwhelming thing of different types of lust. This one just had a little lust element. A little lust element. Yeah, I wrote down, we all have our little picadillos. Yeah. Right? Our little things that are the turn-ons to us that we're embarrassed, but we ought not be. Yeah, this one was the most lusty, I guess. Yeah, well, they both got turned on by something that's taboo. She liked to watch. She liked to be watched. Yeah, both of them, it was like, questionable to not tell the other person, obviously. Yeah. She used to watch people without their permission and shouldn't have sex in somebody else's house without their permission. Exactly. But, you know, they ended up working it out. They worked it out. They worked it out. But the performance is, Tilo Tama is a phenomenal actress, obviously, adosed. She gave a really good nuanced performance in this one. And it was very complex. And you saw so much going on behind her eyes. I love the fact that it was directed by a woman so you could, like, she wasn't showing, you know, breasts to show breasts. She was showing it from the female gaze. And it was all on eyes a lot of times. And I really thought each of the moments we got to see where they were having sex with Tilo Tama's seeing, I thought they were awesome because they were graphic enough to really show us stuff that's going on and get you, for lack of a better term, as titillated as Tilo Tama would be watching it without it being gratuitous and over the top. Because in the wrong hands, a director could have done this and made it distasteful. Yeah, like whoever directed the idol. The what? The idol, you hear about that? No. It's the Lily Rose Deb HBO show. It's the director of Euphoria. Oh, it's Saino Moore. Yeah, he's... Saino Moore. He's getting, for doing like way too gratuitous graphic.  You seen Euphoria? No. Yeah. I stopped watching Euphoria because all it was about was gratuitous porn. Yeah, I think it's for different audience, for sure. Yeah, it's definitely a different audience. Somebody who wants to go to porn hub. Yeah, pretty much. Anyways, but yeah, Tilo Tama did a phenomenal job. And also, and don't forget her, Amruta. Yeah, magnificent performance. The moment she found out and then got this sense of power, the power and the turn on. Yeah, she's like, I never felt this power. Right. She's like, hmm, I kind of like that. Over my boss. Yeah, I don't know if it's the fact that, you know, that she was being watched, I was turning her on, but the fact that it was her boss who has been in charge of her for all these years, basically. Yeah. That's the, that was the turn on. The fact that somebody who was in authority over her. Sure. Or higher or rich or whatever. I also loved that she's been probably married to this husband for many, many years and they still have a really active sex life, man. They turn each other on. Yeah. It's a great example. The guy did a good job as well. He did. I loved their, the whole dynamic. I loved how complex it was. I love the fight scene. It was phenomenal. Oh yeah. Great fight scene. That was been a joy to act in and film. My, my, I have only one problem with this one. I felt it was a little long. I felt like it didn't need. Yeah, I wrote down a couple of times. I said, once we've established what's happening, it was enough. We didn't need to see it for as long as we did. It's fine. But then also I wanted it to end when she handed her the keys and they parted at that fruit stand. I wanted to fade to black. We didn't need to go back to the apartment and watch the door open. It was like, we, we know. Yeah. You already ended it there. It was a creative choice that she decided she wanted. And yeah, I agree. I'm always for the, even though it was a strong moment, opening the door is a strong moment. Sure. But yeah, I agree. The, the handoff of the key would have been a stronger moment for, for me as well. But yeah, this is definitely my favorite. Me too. Of the, the one, definitely the least amount of flaws, I guess. Yeah. Um, so let us know what you thought about this one. Obviously now we're going to go on to our Bondus Sujoy Josh. This is one that I, a lot of people have a lot of feelings about that I found. That doesn't surprise me. Um, some people said he thought he was in ghost stories. He thought he was making a ghost. I knew, you knew what was going on, didn't you? Oh, immediately. Well, it's kind of, yeah, it's like, why is it so picturesque? Yeah, it's because he's dead. Yeah. Or like he's a, I thought it was like almost in a, he was either dead or in a coma. I thought it was more of in like, he's in a purgatory. Yeah. Whatever happened, he didn't just have an accident. Now he's walking through a town. Yeah. It was very clear immediately. There was no Twilight Zone. Yeah. We're going to get a payoff. Clearly he was, he made that choice to have it that, because immediately upon the driving, I was like, why is it such bad green screen right now? Yeah. And then it continued. I'm like, who clue, this is a choice that we're making. Right, we're making, right. We're not being subtle. Yeah. The VJ of Arma, also a doster, so it's a double doster. But yeah, this one, a lot of people either didn't get or just didn't like it, obviously. And this is. It definitely feels like the odd wheel in all eight stories. Even though it does have elements of the lust, and I think I got what he was trying to say, it's probably still my least favorite of them all. I think it has the weakest message. Between this one and the grandma one. It's just, I don't know if it all, that he was trying to convey worked. I agree, right? Yeah. Had I'm not fully convinced that I know what he was trying to convey other than maybe the pathway of lust is death, I don't know. Well, I think. I don't know if that's it. And there wasn't a payoff. When he came to look at the dead body, I had already known that 15, 20 minutes earlier. I knew it was going to be him on the ground. So I did like, has nothing to do with the moral of the story or the lust aspect of it, I did like the Western music with the, this town isn't big enough for the two of us when the cop gets with him. But I didn't. I didn't understand where all of these this far have a very clear moral to the story. The only takeaway I got from this was, you know, don't have phone sex while you're driving. Don't lust after people that you're not married. I don't know. It was weak. Yeah. It definitely had a convoluted message for sure. And also just choices that were strange for us to judge us from what we've seen at least of his that, you know, he obviously decided to make those choices and it was just, they didn't work for a lot of people. I looked on IMDB and I also looked elsewhere. I can't find specific writing credits for each segment. Can you? I think they were all written. Just like the last one. All of them wrote all four. I believe so. Collaboratively. No. No, no, no. They wrote their piece. Just like the last one. Okay. The last one, Anurag wrote his. Yeah. Well, that was clear in the credits on IMDB. I believe it's the same. I mean, there's no writing credits on IMDB Pro. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. I believe it's the exact same thing. They wrote their specific. And this one again, like the first one, though they're very different, this one felt like we have an idea we want to play versus a message we want to share. Yeah. It definitely seemed like he had this concept. It was a concept. And tried to, and I'm all about, you know, directors, you know, thinking of something and trying to do it, but it doesn't always work. Yeah. Not that I think this was like awful or anything. It's just, I don't think it was, I think his, the concept he had in his head probably just didn't come to fruition the way maybe he wanted it to. Yeah. I think. Because it was definitely the weakest. I feel like, even though I thought VJ, he's a great actor. I thought he did a good job, but there was nothing like amazing in this. And it was, when I was watching, I knew my wife immediately upon seeing the stuff. I was like, they're in purgatory or they're in a different realm or something like that. And I saw some people on Twitter said, Suju and Josh thought he was in ghost stories, not lost stories. Yeah, that's true. So, oops, sorry, missed the memo. It was very much. And it just, it also pacing-wise, it just dragged. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, let us know what you thought about this episode and then now we're going to go on to, who's the director? The last one is Amit Rabindranath Sharma. Sharma. This would be my second favorite of the two, of the four. Yeah. But still, far behind Konkanas. Konkanas is up here. Yeah. And then this one's way down here and then the first one's way below it and then they're kind of equal. Yeah, I just, the only one for me that was a take away to watch was Konkanas. The other three for me were all kind of equally flat and just, and I have reasons for it with this one. And it's a shame because I felt of these three other than the Konkanas one, I felt this one had the greatest potential and it just didn't hit the potential based on the story that was outlined for us and the payoff at the end. I felt it had a lot of potential and it just felt really short for me. Well, where did it fall short for you? It fell short in a couple of respects. There were some things, for example, it's very rare for someone with that level of alcohol addiction to have that high of libido. It's just not that this doesn't happen. Secondarily, it seemed completely incongruent with the character we'd been shown of the husband to withhold a slap. When he went to slap her and didn't, it made no sense to me. He should have made us uncomfortable. I should have been just, you just hit Kajal? He did multiple times. All the more reason why, when he had the opportunity to do it, when he turned her around, why he withheld it made no sense in light of the way the character had been displayed. I also thought it was really dumb for her to just bring Reika in.   Was it a murder or suicide by way of an infected prostitute? Do you think she knew she was eventually going to die too? I think she was probably hoping to leave with her son. I think it was probably that. I think she was just trying to find a way to have more revenge. And if she died in this time, she basically already seemed like a walking corpse almost at time. To a certain extent so that she could have stuff for her son? Yeah. So I think that was the intent there. I also felt that with what it was given, you have someone of the caliber of a cajol. I just felt like they didn't give her enough to work within a story that could have been powerful. It felt real short for me. It did fall that short for me in terms of how short it felt for you. I enjoyed cajol's performance. I enjoyed the thing because it's not like a fun story. No, it's not. But I did enjoy the payoff of the... Not of the twist at the end. I liked that. That she basically killed her son. Right. Morbid. Love it. I did really enjoy that twist there. Do I think it could have been even better? Yeah, I do think it could have been better with some more intensity at times. Sure. And maybe a little faster in terms of progressing the story. Yeah. It did pace-wise. Got boring. But I enjoyed it in terms of... I mean, if this one was in the last one, yeah, sure, it'd probably still been the last. The least of the... And the last four. I might have enjoyed it. All of them have actually been under... Oh, yeah. They're all under the first. I might have also enjoyed this a little bit more. Had it been upfront, because by the time I reached it, I already had had three that fell short of Lost Stories 1, so I kind of was already in a state of disappointment, which I'm sure helped shape some of my disappointment in this segment. Yeah. Well, yeah, it definitely... This Lost Stories does not even hold a candle. Nah. Even the... Con Conna's is fantastic. Hers is worth watching. Could have fit in the first Lost Stories, even though it would have still been the weakest if you had all the other Lost Stories in there. It fell cut from the same cloth. But I thought that one was definitely the best. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her. But this one, for this four, I thought was the second best. And I enjoyed a lot of elements of it. Sadly, I think it fell victim to... In the first one, they had a very clear vision of what they wanted to portray and a very clear idea of a message they wanted to get across in their storytelling. And it felt like this was, hey, Netflix has greenlit a part two. Let's do it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I could definitely see that. But, you know, it's... So how would you... You said your ranking would be... Con Conna's is at the top. This one, way below that one, and the other two basically... Yeah, because the story for this one, I felt could have... Same ranking. This would be my second favorite. And then, as shallow as it was, the grandma would be three, and then the weird ghost story one would be last. Yeah, I think... I don't think this one would be as far as you had for two for me, but I think I would have the exact same ranking. But points, and this is maybe what attracted Sujo Ghosh to the project, tip of the cap for doing something different outside the box. Definitely get it... Get it originally. You get a tip of the cap for that. He usually does. Yeah. I'd rather do that and fail than be predictable and boring. He was definitely trying for something. Yeah, absolutely. So let us know what your ranking of these ones would be. And... I bet this isn't a 40-minute review, is it? Like, love stories. No. Love stories one was a 39-minute review. I bet it's 25. Yeah, yeah. Just because you have to talk about it. You can always tell from the length. Oh, yeah. How much you enjoy it. Exactly. And we really enjoyed our stories one. Thank you very much. So if you let us know your rankings of the short stories and how you enjoyed them, we will probably get to go stories, but it will probably be in October. Just we're going to save that for... Spooky times. For spooky times, just so we have some spooky stuff to watch. We love spooky times. And if there's other anthologies that we should watch from any language, please let us know what those anthologies should be down below.


Hi, good morning or good afternoon everyone, depending on where you are based. My name is Vakas Mirza, I'm the CEO of Anza Innovations. We are a company based in UAE Dubai and our today's discussion topic is UAE Trade Connect, which is a national platform in UAE to facilitate trade. We'll start the presentation now formally. The UAE Trade Connect in summary is a consortium of banks, eight leading banks in UAE for now and there are another four banks that are joining this consortium. We are bringing them on board currently in the first wave, but these are the eight founding banks who have come together to launch this platform. The platform has been developed by my company, Anza Innovations and the platform is being operated by the National Pelco, Ithasalat in UAE. Now I'll tell you what this platform does and then we'll go to the technical and operational aspects of UTC, UAE Trade Connect. So the industry problem that this platform solves is that of duplicate invoice financing. For people who are not familiar with this, I'll just give you a brief overview. So this is invoice discounting or invoice financing is a global product that banks offer to SMEs all over the world to help SMEs with their cash flows. So for example, if I'm an SME in UAE and I have a receivable say of $200,000 from my customer and I've raised an invoice and submitted an invoice to my customer and my customer will pay me in say 60 or 90 days, I can take this invoice to my bank. The bank will validate the legitimacy of the trade. Maybe they'll get in touch with my customer as well. And then they will finance 67% to 80% of the invoice value to me. So that helps me in my cash flows and by the time when I receive my payments from my customer, I can pay the bank back. So like I said, this is a global product that is used by banks to help SMEs with their cash flows. Now, the problem in UAE that we've had for the past many years is that as an SME, I can go to Bank A, seek financing against an invoice or a trade. Then I can go to Bank B, then I can go to Bank C. I can seek financing against the same invoice or same trade from three, four different banks and then I can disappear from the country and never come back. Also keep in mind, please, that the population dynamics of UAE are very different from other countries. There are 80% expats that live in UAE and just 20% national population is present over here. So it's relatively easier for people to wrap up and then just leave the country. So that basically increases the problem or compounds the problem. So this is the problem that UTC solves as the first use case. UAE Trade Connector UTC is a broader platform, but this is the first problem that UTC aims to solve. Like I said, it is done by a consortium of banks. They have actually conceived this and then work on the concept and the solution while Avanza, my company and Ithasalata National Telco have developed and then Ithasalata operates this. Ithasalata obviously has a revenue model around it that for every invoice verification that happens on this platform, Ithasalata charges these banks. So there's a very solid commercial model with an ROI behind this and Ithasalata has not charged anything upfront from the bank. So in order to join this platform, banks did not necessarily have to pay anything. Obviously, we integrated into their systems. They have to dedicate their teams. So there was effort from the banks, but there was no upfront payment that was received from the bank for this platform. Now, if you look at this platform at a wider national scale, what this does is that this platform eventually becomes a catalyst for economic activity in UAE. We all understand that SMEs are the backbone of any economy and if SMEs have healthy cash flows, the trickle-down effect of this kind of an initiative is huge in terms of overall economic activity in the country. So that is why this project is very, very important for UAE, that on one hand it gives the banks a safety net where they're reasonably sure that whatever trade they're financing is a legitimate trade and that, you know, on the other hand, they can now be less conservative in extending their financing to the bank or to the SMEs. So it increases the financing to SMEs. And then the other objective is there's a huge drive of digital first in UAE across all verticals and sectors. So this is in line with that digital trade landscape or invoicing landscape that UAE as a country is pursuing. Just to give you an overview of what the journey has been like. So this platform was basically, let me just switch on my pointer. So this platform was conceived by FAB, first Fabudabi Bank, which is the biggest bank of UAE, Itasalat, the National Telco. So FAB went to Itasalat, the National Telco and said, hey, this is an industry problem in the banking sector. And we would want you being a state-owned entity and a neutral entity to champion this. And then Itasalat, you know, hired Avanzar to build the platform. So the consortium was, the concept was conceived in 2018. We started developing the platform in 2019. We did need a nod from the central bank. It was very important that central bank approves of this. And then central bank obviously had a list of questions from the operator as well, from Itasalat, you know, in terms of different risks. So central bank has been part of the steering committee, the central bank of UAE. And this played a very important role in terms of guiding the consortium and making sure that we comply with all the regulations. And then we started our pilot testing in 2020 towards the end of 2020. And this year in April, in fact, on the 19th of April, 2021, we've gone live with the first eight banks. And like I mentioned earlier, there are many more banks that are joining. We are already onboarding four other banks. So this has been a journey. This is a classic case of co-creation with industry, in this case banks, national institutions being the National Telco and the central bank development company such as ourselves, Avanza. So the scope of the first use case or whatever we've gone live with in April is to make sure that the same invoice or the same trade is not getting financed by multiple banks. And in addition to that, we also ensure that the trade doesn't have any elements of financial fraud, that it is not a case of over-envoicing or under-envoicing. The buyers and the sellers are not part of any blacklist. So this is a big blockchain play, and we'll go towards the technical side of the solution. I'm just setting up the business side of the solution right now. This is a big blockchain play, but this is a big AI play as well because people who do these kinds of frauds, they will change the invoice and the trade details when they're presenting it to Bank A or Bank B. So there's a lot of fuzzy matching that we do. There are machine learning models that constantly learn the type of frauds. And then we have personas of traders as well as products, for example, or commodities, which determine whether somebody has submitted an over-envoiced value or an overvalued product. So just to give you an example, if somebody is importing steel billets into the country, the invoices for steel billets from all importers will be part of the platform. So that is why building a persona of steel billets and its acceptable price range 30 days from now is relatively easy. So that's how we've built the personas of products, and we've also built the personas of traders, buyers, and sellers both. So in addition to having a distributed blockchain-based network, there are a lot of machine learning and AI components into the platform. That is why it has been a very interesting and exciting project for us to develop. So these are the kind of checks under financial fraud risk and duplicate invoice financing that we do. And as a result, this is first of its kind national platform being used in UAE by the banks, and it puts UAE in the center of digital trade in the entire region. So if we scratch the surface a little bit more and try to see what's happening under the hood, basically you have a blockchain-based network. I mean, you all understand that we don't have one big blockchain. Every bank has their own blockchain node, but for illustrative purposes, it makes more sense to show you the blockchain layer over here. Every bank has a blockchain node that they have set up either on-prem or they have, but now in UAE we have a lot of local clouds available, because a large-owned cloud being one, and then we have Microsoft Azure over here. So in summary, a bank has their blockchain node, and through their in-house systems, through their trade finance systems, they share or submit the details of a trade. So the invoice itself and the supporting documents are uploaded onto the platform, onto the blockchain node through APIs. We also have given a web-based interface to the banks so that they can run their OCRs and then use this web UI to basically post the invoice data onto the blockchain node, but that is not recommended, of course, because of human intervention, there could be human errors or all that. But for practical reasons, it was important that we do give them a web UI so that it can fast-track the testing of the application while the APIs are being generated internally within the banks and they have something to look at, you know, so they can feel something as well in addition to APIs. So there's a web-user interface available and there's an API interface available for the banks to upload their invoices data. This invoice data is obviously replicated across the nodes of all the other banks and Etasalat's main node. Since these are competing organizations, we ensure that the hash of the invoice values is just posted on on the other nodes, and none of the other banks are able to view this bank's details or the invoice details or the trade details. In the central Etasalat node, we have our ML and AI engines running. This is where the rule engine runs, does the matching across multiple nodes and then comes back with an outcome for this particular bank telling the banks the risks that are associated with this particular invoice. And the risks are not Boolean decisions. They're scores. So there would be a score for whether this particular invoiced system has found another similar invoice from another bank. What is the score in terms of financial crime list, you know, over invoicing or other things, whether the logo or the stamp has matched with something else. So basically it's an accumulation of a number of rules that we've configured in the system and then overall accumulated score is sort of shared with the bank. And then it's the bank's discretion whether they want to go ahead and finance the trade or invoice or whether they want to do further investigation or whether they want to just, you know, reject the invoice, the financing base. And all the other banks have this information updated with them that this is an invoice that came and it was rejected or it was accepted by a bank so that if a similar invoice comes or if the same invoice comes, the system knows that this invoice is already been financed. In terms of technology stack, we have used Hyperledger Fabric. This is Hyperledger Fabric 2.4. There's many other technology elements in there as well. There's a big component of OCR. As you all probably understand, trade documents are still paper based and the invoices and supporting documents that are submitted by the corporates to their banks are mostly paper. So that is why to convert that data into electronic data, we did need OCR. So in doing so, this has helped the banks in automating their trade finance desks a lot. So that's one component and obviously we could not have done this in a bureau model as you all probably understand. Even if a central bureau was set up and the model was for banks to dump their invoices into a central repository, this would not have been acceptable by the banks for n number of reasons. You're creating a honeypot for somebody to break into. You're creating a single point of failure. It will probably violate n number of GDPR compliance points. So that is why blockchain was an ideal vehicle for banks to have their own invoices data on their own nodes and still be able to verify whether an invoice is being financed by somebody else or not. In terms of project management and delivery, if you're doing a national scale project with around 9 or 10 entities, it is never easy. All these organizations have different cultures, different pace at which they work, different internal security compliances. So people who've done blockchain projects will probably relate with this better that the biggest problem of doing blockchain projects is not the technology itself, it's the lobbying, it's the discipline, it's to make sure that everybody is working at the same pace. So Avanza has done 20 plus production-grade blockchain implementations in our region, in the Middle East and North African region with peer-run government entities, regulators, logistics companies, port authorities. So we understand these things. We've gone through this a number of times. That is why the way these projects are managed within Avanza, we ensure that the governance model is very, very strong and we make sure that everybody moves along at the same pace.  The championing entity has to play a very important role in all of this. Now once you've delivered this kind of a national platform, obviously the workplace is in stock there. You need to make sure that the housekeeping and the overall management of the technology stack is done properly. So that is why a lot of banks that are part of this platform are not even well-versed internally. They don't have skilled resources internally to support this kind of a technology stack. We work in containerized environments and microservices and then the blockchain and AI ML itself is a new technology stack. So that is why a lot of hand-holding is required for post-Goliw or post-launch governance support of this kind of a technology stack. And again, having gone through a number of implementations and a number of launches of city-wide or national blockchain projects, we understand the dynamics of post-Goliw challenges in this kind of a platform. What is also important when you're setting up this kind of a platform is to ensure that once the pilot entities, in this case fake banks, are live, the remaining entities that are not found in banks, it becomes very, very easy for them to onboard or to onboard them onto the platform. So that is again, we've come up with certification and onboarding packages, which very precisely tell a bank what it is that is required for them to join this platform, the trainings, the orientation, the API testing, test beds, everything is spelled out in a lot of detail with a lot of detail so that anybody going through this documentation easily understands what it will entail for them to join this kind of a platform. So a lot of focus and emphasis is given to new entities coming onboard this particular platform. I think that I don't need to preach the converted over here. We're all blockchain community members, but this question does get asked a lot that why did you have to build this platform on blockchain and could this have been done in a centralized environment in a bureau model? And like I mentioned earlier, banks would not have been comfortable in dumping their invoices and trade data onto a central platform with a central governance model. So that is why while there is an operator, which is the national telco, but the governance of the platform in terms of what gets shared, who shares what and the steering group is all led by banks. So this is a purely decentralized application, not just in terms of technology, but also in terms of spirit and the governance model. So it's the banks who drive the platform and even their new use cases that we're bringing on to this platform and the banks are basically telling us how to build those new cases or what new use cases need to be built. So that is why blockchain was chosen because the data is not shared between banks. It is easier to bring newer banks on board or onboarding of newer banks and then it is easier to collaborate with other networks. We all understand they've been very regional or global initiatives in the trade finance and logistics space and the plan is to join those platforms eventually. So that is why we're looking at the overall landscape of trade finance and logistics solutions and networks in the world thought that blockchain is the best vehicle once we integrate with those international or regional platforms. I'll give you a few glimpses of the platform. Like I said, basically it's back end. So API is basically exchange data between the blockchain platform and the banks systems, but we do have a user interface which banks can use which has been mostly used for testing purposes. So this is what it looks like. Basically a bank will upload their invoices onto the platform and these are the kind of scores that come out when our rule engines run. So here, for example, the system has determined that this is 100% duplicate so the system has found an exactly identical invoice in the system. Then in terms of financial risk, crime risk, the 30% score is there and UTC is recommending that this invoice should not be financed by this particular bank. Now within the financial crime risk, we have a number of other risks which accumulated score, this 30% that you see over here is shown and these are some of those risks. Like I said, we do a lot of checks on the product, on the buyer, on the seller and scores of these risks are then shared with the bank. We do a lot of object detection as well. So we look at the invoice and we do a lot of stamp matching, logo, stamp signatures to ensure that whether it's the same company or some other company so a lot of object model detection is also part of this outcome. So these are some of the system outcomes and system screens through which a bank can verify whether they should or determine whether they should invoice, finance a particular invoice or not. And then whatever decision they've taken is also entered into the system either through the UI or through the API and then it's replicated across all the nodes. Yeah, I mean I could go on there with many things as you can imagine but this is what the system looks like in the UI. There's obviously a multi-year roadmap for this platform. So we are here right now. We've done the commercial launch. We've done the duplicate finance detection and the financial crime risks. We will keep on adding to the financial crime risks. Some of the banks have very good ideas which we are currently building but the eventual objective is to go towards a complete digital trade landscape in UI on the back of this platform. The idea is that eventually all trade should be digital, paper-based trade should be eliminated and in doing so we will also want to connect with other trade networks such as WeTrade or Mark Popolo. So this is the invasion. So these are multiple milestones and they obviously have a date with them. So I think in 2021 we are supposed to do these two and then in 2022 I think they're supposed to do these two and then finally we will be open to integrate with other platforms. So this is what the roadmap looks like. So this is, I guess, from my end. If anybody has any question, please, I will go through the question and answer session and see if anybody has any question and I'll try to tell those questions. So far I don't see, yeah, so I see a question, which consensus model. So we've used RAF because we do use in Hyperledger 2.0. So that is why RAF consensus model is used with the bank nodes disposed from InVal. So thank you, InVal, for the question. We still have some eight minutes left in the session. So if anyone has any question or if anyone wants me to explain anything, very happy. Yes, so every bank has their own CA. ETHESLA did offer their own CA because being the national telco, but yes, every bank is using their own CA. So that's how the identities are managed. So this was from Jaya Simah Prasad. So thank you for the question, but every bank has their own CA. Okay, how do we onboard users and participants? This has come from Aman. So basically, the banks have the discretion to either set up their own blockchain node or ETHESLA being the national telco has a cloud environment or we have Microsoft Azure over here. So the node decision is taken by the bank where they want to host their node. And once they've done it, we go and we deploy the entire DAP of UPC on their node. And then they have very thorough documentation in terms of API interfaces and the training materials for the UI. We do a lot of hand-holding for them to join the platform. So there's a complete certification and onboarding package that we give to them. So think of it like a bank joining Visa or MasterCards. If a bank wants to join Visa or Master, Visa or Master has very, very elaborate and precise information about how this bank would get certified. So this is exactly what happens.  Before that, we do a lot of hand-holding with them, a lot of training, orientation, and then we enable them to test. So typically, our onboarding package is, I think, a four to five week package which involves orientation, training, initial, you know, hand-holding and then testing. Okay, so there's another question. Have you integrated into banking systems or that they're submitting? No, so they have a UI. This question is from Suji. Thank you, Suji, for your question. So there are two models that are available. They have a web UI. Every bank has access to their web UI through which they can upload the invoices and data. But this is just for testing. Eventually, or actually right now, the banks use APIs to push that data. So we are integrated into the bank's trade finances. Some sort of they have a channel through which, you know, they receive invoices from their customers and SMEs. Would you like to know the difference between WeTrade and UTC? So this question is from Eugene. Eugene, thank you very much. So the difference between WeTrade and UTC is that UTC is led by banks. So WeTrade and other platforms. So pardon me if I don't know WeTrade in detail as much. But the difference between other platforms that I've seen for trade finance and UTC is that generally those platforms ask SMEs to upload an invoice onto the platform.  They're not necessarily interested in bidding war, especially the bigger banks. So that is why this platform as opposed to WeTrade is led by banks and conceived by banks. So that is why banks receive, you know, invoices data from their customers and then upload onto the platform and then, you know, hedge themselves against any risks. So this is the biggest difference. Then there's a question from Diakomo. Is the ML built on-chain? How do you verify an invoice is already present into the platform? So the ML is not on-chain. And this is one of the biggest design decisions that we had to take that the academic definition of blockchain is that it has to be decentralized. But we all understand that machine learning is not efficient if you do it on-chain. So that is why we had to make a replica of the data onto the Ethisalat node. And this is where a lot of regulation was also required to back us up. So much so that banks had to get consent from their customers that we will be sharing your data with a third party called UTC or Ethisalat. In this case, and we had to get an endorsement from the central bank as well because as per the GDPR rules, a bank cannot share their customers' data. So they had to get customers' consent because we're replicating this data onto Ethisalat's node and some of the invoice data has to be decrypted because the ML would not be very efficient in terms of, you know, if the data is encrypted. So that is why ML is not on-chain. It is off-chain. We replicate the data into another database. And how do you verify an invoice is already present in the platform? So that's where our rule engines kick in. So like I said during my presentation that people who do these kind of frauds, they will change the invoice a little bit. They change the invoice value, they'll change the description of goods. So we've built a fuzzy matching model that constantly runs as a machine learning model and it determines whether it's the same invoice or not. And in doing so, like I said, we have object detection happening as well. We match logos, stamps, description of goods. So there are n number of rules that determine whether the invoice is already present in the system or not. Karthik has a question. Conventional software have an upgrade cycle once a year, but in the blockchain world things are changing by the day. How do you keep DAF and underlying tech up to date? Yeah, this is a problem that we face on every... So we've been doing blockchain projects since 2018 and 19 and some of our customers who are on Hyperledger 1.4, we're moving them and migrating them to Hyperledger 2.4 right now and you understand that the consensus mechanism has changed. And now these customers, our earlier customers from 2019, want to join networks or bring on board other participants who are on 2.4. So it is a bit of a nightmare. We're going through at least two upgrades right now. So it's challenging and some of these things are unknown. So when we are migrating from 1.4 to 2.4, things are not as seamless, but this is a constant struggle for any new technology if you're working in the nation technology space. Then we have a question from Suji. If the invoices are available in all the loads, which are with all the banks, how the GDPR on entities can be managed? So Suji, the hash of the invoices are available. This is just to ensure that even if one of the nodes is compromised, the system knows that somebody has changed something in an invoice data. So it's not open data and we all understand hash is one way. So that is why we make sure that only the hash of some of the fields of the invoice, the fields that are required for the rule engines, are replicated across all the nodes of the hash basically. Okay, Jayasema has another question. Can you speak to the privacy part a bit more please? You spoke about storing only the hash of the invoices on banks other than the banks that financed an invoice. So this is basically how we ensure. So the agreement with the central bank and all the banks is that your data, in addition to Ethasalath, which is the operator of the platform and a state-owned neutral entity, will not be disclosed to any of the other banks. So much so that if a particular bank has financed an invoice or rejected an invoice, we don't even disclose to the other banks, which bank has financed this particular invoice or trade. So all these things are basically insured through hash and through private collections and other things to ensure that the other banks do not have access to this data. I'm happy to answer any question after the session as well. AvanzaInnovations.com is our website. You can reach out to me through our website, through our info email address or I would request Hyperledger Foundation to share my contact details if anyone has any other question. I think we are out of time. Thank you very much for being patient. And I think we will close the event now. Thank you very much everybody for attending.


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In this video, we're going to talk about scatter plots. So scatter plots are used between two quantitative variables to show how the two variables change together. And as we've used in the previous videos, we will also be using plot 9 or ggplot plotting tool. So here we are in Google CoLab. We're actually going to use a new data set for this particular video. In particular, we're using the Marcellus shale data set, which I've already read in using the first method in our import lesson. And so to give you an idea of what this data frame looks like, we can look at the first five rows. And so here we've got all of these different columns. They've got a lot of metadata on different wells within the Marcellus shale formation. But the things that we are going to be interested in are these two columns here, total gas and max gas. These are two quantitative variables that we will use to create scatter plots. And so because the data is already ready to go, there isn't much that we need to do in terms of cleaning. And so I'm going to jump right in to the plots themselves. So we're going to start off with a basic scatter plot. And again, this is quantitative first quantitative. And again, we're using ggplot and we give it our data frame, which is the mark, what we call mark for Marcellus. And here we have another geome for ggplot, but we're going to give it geome underscore point. And so this is how you specify a scatter plot is by having points. And similar to previous plots, we need to have an AES statement. So we can say x is just max gas and y is total gas. And so for a scatter plot, you do need to specify both x and y, and they both need to be quantitative. But we can see here from this plot, we could make some assumptions to show whether total gas increases to max gas. We can see that maybe there's some outliers over here, but it's really just a basic scatter plot. And so what we can do to make this a little bit more descriptive is we can actually add a best fit line and a confidence interval. And so I'm going to just copy this from above because we're going to be building off of this existing plot. And right here, I'm going to add a second plot. And this plot is going to be stat smooth. And stat smooth works very similarly to a geome. So we still need to say max gas and total gas. And then outside of the AES, we need to specify the method. So this is how it's going to fit the best fit line. And in this case, LM is for linear regression. And if we wanted to, we can give it a color so that it looks differently than our dots. And so if we run this, we can see here that we now have this best fit line. And if you zoom in, you can see there's a slight confidence interval there that shows what the 95% confidence interval for this data set is.


So either the market goes bottom, you know, today or tomorrow, yes, if there's rally going. So anyhow, the market did pull back. And the only time you really want to buy, if you start see panic in the market, if you don't have panic, then you're not going to have a bottom. And on Tuesday, uh, the market trend closed at 1.71 anything above 1.2 is the center panic. And ideally if I see down to greens minus 200 or greater, we got 177. That was close. And there's some rules that kind of developed over the years with that. Um, when you get that kind of combination where you get a trend above 1.2 and down to greening below minus 200 and quite magic, but usually, uh, start looking for a low within the same day as readings to us two days later.


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I mean, I think certainly, yeah, I mean, give them credit and, you know, we're, we're at fault, you know, the same way. It's when you talk about the first key is being able to, you know, attack the road environment and come out and great field position. And then the pre snap penalties, which was something that, you know, we practiced and talked about and worked on and, you know, not being able to do that.  Not that it can't be overcome, but certainly don't want to start drives like that or start him four times like that. So, yeah, there's some rust, some, some good execution and some, some execution that has to improve. And, and I'm sure that I'm positive that it will. Well, I don't think it's a new feature of the offense or just trying to get everybody involved. And, you know, I think it's continued to find ways to get Taj and Derek in there. Derek certainly gave us a chance to win his performance and and so did Taj.  Certainly his, his average when he carried the football would lend itself to tell us that, that he has to carry it more and, you know, try to continue to find ways to get both of them involved at the same time and in same package and whatever it may be. To that four minute offense with that game being close. One of the trademarks has been Derek Henry in the fourth quarter. He only got three carries there. Was there anything behind that? Was there a reason why he wasn't featured as much? No, not specifically. We weren't in that, you know, four minute mode. We were trying to go score.   And it'll, it'll be, you know, Derek will be a large part of what we do. But, but when you get into third and longs and you get into second and 15s and, you know, we had the second and 20 that we threw him a swing pass to. You know, he's going to continue to help us. Yeah, I don't know. I don't. I wish that I knew. I wish that I could tell you we have to be better. Ryan has to be better. We have to hit guys that are open and we can't, we can't force the ball into double coverage. And so we have to, you know, give them cleaner pockets like we gave them in the second half earlier. There were some of that and they, again, we can point to them when the play goes bad. We can point to a lot of different things, but, you know, we have to be better. We can't, we can't turn the football over. We can't get punts blocked and on and on and on. Might you have been over determined to get the ball to DeAndre?  We can't throw a back shoulder. I'm okay with the decision, you know, when you're over here and, you know, you're going to, you're going to give DeAndre a chance, but you got to give them a better chance and, you know, but I just think that there's times where if guys double covered, we certainly need to progress through and to progress through, you have to have a, you know, past protection to be able to take an extra hit or to be able to come back and work, work the backside. This morning, just how's he kind of responded after?  He's, he's been a great competitor for us. He's been unbelievably tough and determined. You know, I'm positive that those results will, will be different. Was recovered well enough from the knee injury or was he having any issues in terms of separation and those sorts of things? Well, I mean, there were times that trailing was open. There was times that trailing was open and caught the ball. There was times that he was open and unfortunately dropped the one.  And, you know, that's, I've tried to explain to every skilled player on our team, you know, when it's a pass, your job is to, to get open and you can't control whether you get the ball or not.   In those type of situations with personal, I know in the past, like Tony Doos would communicate with Derek, hey, you're out, you're in, et cetera, with the new coach. How does that work now, with Coach Ottenau in the mix? The same way, but, you know, J.O.'s upstairs and Tony handles, you know, substitution and, you know, we have different packages that we call on or the coordinator calls on that he wants in the game. And, you know, those guys go in there and sub or if Derek, you know, has a 46 yard screen pass and needs a break, then Derek will, you know, kind of do that as well. Yeah, you know, I think so.  So I made a decision and he made the kick. Do you mind elaborating a little bit on that difficult decision of the fifth field goal as well and kind of what went into that? Well, I think at the time it wasn't a difficult decision. You know, I thought our chances and still believe that is to play defense with three timeouts and get the ball back with our offense with one timeout, get the ball somehow into the 35 yard line and make a kick. And we had converted two third downs and fourth and sixth with that amount of space for them to cover. I didn't think that that was going to be our best way to win the football game. I believe our best way to win that game would have been to play defense, stop them, which we didn't do, which is unfortunate, and then somehow find a way to make a kick. Had you not gotten it, they would have been inside your 10 yard line and all likelihood. Does then how they handle that? No, because again, we're still going to probably, you still would need a touchdown and you'd still need, you know, at least 65 yards. No, it was our thought process was to use the two minute warning, have a timeout for our offense, you know, and be able to move the ball, you know, 40 yards to be able to attempt the field goal. That decision and that was all field not concerned about analytics. You're just looking at the field again. I mean, you can run the numbers, but also I think that there's a certain level of we all watch the same game and points were hard to come by. You know, both defenses were doing a nice job and competing and getting red zone stops that, you know, they got a third and seven that they scored a touchdown on. But just the flow of the game and the way that I felt like what our best chance for victory was was to do that to make the kick to cover the kickoff. Use the two minute warning and get a stop. Interception fumble play and I'm sure you saw the Jacksonville game yesterday, almost an identical play that went the other way. Would they tell you about why they did why they didn't let that play out and why they didn't reverse the call? Never talked to Ron. Certainly not going to reverse it in replay. Those are you're going to watch throughout the next week. It's going to be a fumble the week after that it's going to be an incompletion the week after that it's going to be a fumble. And the what they're going to tell you in replay is that the call in the field matters. The call in the field is important. I would love for it to let it play out and go to replay, you know, show the clip last year same exact situation. I think it was week one. I think it was the Chargers and Washington ball on the ground and a every player on our team. I'm like, is it a fumble or an incomplete? And they say we don't know. And I said that's exactly right. Like they know that they know that they're not sure. So Kevin and everybody responded exactly how we want them to knew that they blew it dead. So knew that we would just get the ball at the spot, but also knew that it was going to be hard to reverse and replay because of what the call in the field was. It's going to be the next week. There's going to be another one guys. I don't know what to tell you. There's nothing I can do. There is nothing I can do. Speed of the game and let it let it go to replay and maybe, you know, let them all go to replay and let replay, you know, decide. And if maybe clear and obvious doesn't doesn't get it done, then we need a different term because a lot of these quarterback, you know, I mean, they're all happening. You know, those are the ones that are hard is the ball in the hand is coming forward. And I can see where the conflict occurs. It's not why we lost the game. I just want them to be decisive and want them to I would like for them to, if they're not sure, you know, allow replay to sort it out. That's why we play to the recovery of the ball and not the whistle or anything like that. I think it's a I think it's a difficult job on the field. I think when you look at it in replay, it becomes somewhat reasonable to expect that you could determine whether it was a forward pass or a fumble. But I know having stood back behind the quarterback that that is more difficult than some other calls. You guys can just ask the league about what they instruct the officials to do. Well, I mean, I certainly am not going to be able to speak for them. I apologize. Whatever the call is, we're going to have to adjust to it and figure it out. But if they want to talk to you, they're happy to talk to you. What do you think of Harold's first game back and might it take him a little bit of time to kind of get back to full form? Well, you know, we've expected a lot from Harold and he does a lot for us and he'll have to continue to help us and will and be more impactful.  And we just, you know, we're expecting and we are positive that we'll get good things from Harold. What do you see in the week to get a lot of looks from Kiko when he was the elevation and maybe had some other guys that were active that weren't playing as much as he was? Peco's always been somebody that's, you know, done it exactly the way we need it to be done and can play multiple positions. And so he can rotate in there for Tierra or Jeff and, you know, playing base, decided to take four guys to the game. And that may change based on practice, game plan, you know, who we have. But, you know, he's always been a dependable player and somebody that can play multiple positions. Disruptive as a guy as you see maybe for week one. Well, I thought him and Danico, you know, certainly affected a quarterback and made plays on the football. Danico, you know, had some tackle for loss and showed up in the backfield and set the edge when we needed to. And both of them, you know, factored and that was, you know, really good to see. We'll need a lot of it, but those were the camps. Those guys had those type of camps and so we'll need to, you know, we'll need as much as that as we can get. You said you take a guy back into the game when they tell you they can come back into the game. In hindsight, was Christian equipped to come back in the game? He was kind of galloping with the limp there. I mean, when we see him run on the sidelines and the trainer tells me he's cleared. You know, he was playing on third down in the second half. We'll see where he is going forward. How did you get there first out of the Diller and Hubbard?  Maybe just not knowing or not feeling him where he was. I think after we continued to bring it to his attention and realize that he wasn't doing a good enough job of setting the width of the pocket, I thought it improved. I thought there was some, you know, some good snaps of him in the run game. I thought Chris did a nice job over there on Cam Jordan. I thought when the end tried to spike or got a little heavy on, when Jordan got a little heavy on Chris, he went and captured the outside number and gave him a shove and Derrick ran outside for 15 or 16 yards. But there was also some, there were some good plays and some bad plays and, you know, but I thought it was a good place to start. I loved how they responded in the second half and we had some good pockets in the second half, probably better so than in the first half. What's the dropper technique like for a corner? DBA to defend a double move by a receiver? Not look in the backfield, start there and play the man and, you know, if you break on the first move and you go through the man, you know, it's an illegal contact or a holding. But certainly nobody's trying to defend a double move by looking in the backfield. That'd be the most important place to start. What did you make for all in this game? I think it has to be better. It has to improve. I think we need to, we need to challenge. We need to play square. You know, if these are the rules which we try to explain that they put out an officials video and teaching the officials and they've sent it to us and the teams, which is great that if you're square or you're playing the football that you're going to be afforded a certain level of, you know, leeway. Just like the interception down there with Chris Moore. Guy was playing the football. There's a lot of contact and that's what it is. And so we know that and we have to play that same way. 0-2-7-3-4-0-1-2-12-5. They thought the end of the world. Well, it's a long season, Corey. And it was a great test of, I think, a good football team on the road in an unbelievable environment. Could have been a lot better. Could have been a lot worse. Our job is to win the game. We didn't. But our guys fight. They compete. And we need to keep improving. And we say this all the time. The teams that improve, are they going to be the ones that are playing in January? 49ers and, you know, talking with Brunskill after the game. He's like, hey coach, you know, and I love getting to know Daniel and his story. And just how he's gotten into this league. He's like, hey coach, 49ers, you know, they lost Week 1 in Chicago. And we were playing late in the year. And I said, I appreciate you reminding me of that, Daniel. Week 1 has a tendency to do that throughout the league where you get some surprising results every year that seemingly aren't indicative of what a team ends up being. So in your experience, why is it difficult? Because this is a unique league. This is a unique league. It's an eight and eight league. Nine and eight, eight and nine. However you want to put it now with 17 games. But that's what the structure is. The structure is designed for parity. And, you know, maybe there's teams that are at full strength or there's teams that maybe didn't quite prepare or somebody hit some plays that, you know, they didn't see in practice or teams continue to get better as the season goes on. Maybe they threw a different coverage at somebody. The ball security, right? And you talk about maybe there's some fumbles or, in our case, in interceptions, right? That lead, you know, block punt, right? The things that we talked about that would really hurt us that show up in Week 1. Because, you know, you're playing 70 snaps and it's just, it's different than training camp and preseason. Just beat underneath. I thought Shade could have come out and help him a little bit. But, you know, can't be up and under. Everybody that's been here that's in protection, whether it's an offensive lineman at running back or somebody on the punt team, you know, we have to block inside out. It was one of our special teams' keys. We knew that they would rush punts, whether it was JT Gray, who ultimately didn't play, whether it was Taysom Hill or Bond or Granderson, you know, that was something that they did. They did it on field goals. They did it on punts.  How's Groski holding up in his first game? Pretty good. You know, I thought pretty good. There was a couple of times where he could have been better in protection.   They got us on a game there where, you know, we need to be better. But I think it's a good start. What were some of the things that were going wrong there? Penalties, you know, penalties, right? We didn't execute. It's just tough. We got behind the sticks and, you know, so we get the ball. Whenever we get it, we lose yardage. You know, we get down the other time and it's second and 20, right? Long yardage situations in a red zone are tough. There's just not a whole lot of space and every yard is critical. We've talked about that. So self-inflicted wounds and then, you know, give them credit as well. Beyond being behind the sticks. Third and eight, you know, I average a third and eight on third down. I'm going to be better on third down. Don't have him be so long. As you expected him to be when you signed him. Five for five. I wish that he was six for six. Tim, when the coin toss with the head or a table is called? You know what? I don't know if he typed on his little, I don't know if he typed on his tablet heads or tails for KB, but that was a unique moment for me to be able to see Tim and Steve there together before the game. And, you know, Steve talks with an interpreter.  And that was, that was cool for me to communicate with him through her.  So, you know, hopefully that brought some awareness to an unbelievable disease, but also to two great alumni of the National Football League. Would you say that the way things went with Henry in the fourth quarter, or just the second half, would you say that that's an outlier, like something that probably doesn't happen? Yeah, I mean, I don't think that, you know, those are something like we need, we're going to need Derek and we're going to need everybody and making sure that we get into a rhythm and that we figure out things that we can do consistently. And Derek will be a huge part of that. I can assure you. Appreciate it, guys. Well, I mean, with the start of the season, I mean, there's still a lot to clean up. The Saints, I mean, that's a big test to go into a stadium like that. I told a few people this, but I mean, that's probably one of the top five loudest places or toughest environments to be in. So we definitely have a lot to learn. We had a few fall starts early on in the game and you can accredit that to the noise. I mean, it's definitely tough, especially the wider out you get a couple of miscommunications on a couple things. So we got we got to continue to build on that and be able to take, I mean, you can't go back and change the outcome of the game, but what we can do is learn. And that's a great game, great environment to learn from. There's not a lot of places. I mean, Chiefs, Seattle, they get like much louder than that. So, I mean, to be able to have that and then build on that going forward, I think that's going to be huge. Frank said you were putting a point out to mention to him that the Niners lost the Chicago game opening day last year and it didn't have a bearing on your ultimate fate. And he said he appreciated the reminder of that. What were you guys thinking last year when you went through that one? I mean, it was it was almost kind of similar situation. We had a young team, a lot of new guys to the team. And, you know, they had we we had a lot to learn at that point in the game. And and so I mean, at the end of the day, like it's the NFL. I think any team can go out there and beat any team. It doesn't matter if you're favored by 20 points or not. Like it's, you know, it's it's the NFL. So there's every team is capable of beating anybody. They have the star talent and if they play the right and they don't make the mistakes, you know, they can go out and beat anybody. So I think at the end of the day, I think we made more mistakes in the Saints. Were they perfect? No. But at the same time, you know, that they were able to capitalize a couple of times on some things and we didn't capitalize on some of the things that, you know, could have won us the game. And I mean, for a one point game to be decided, you know, there any play could have changed that outcome. So I think at the end of the day, we have a lot to clean up. And if we can learn from those things, that's what's going to make the season great going forward. And that's I think any game in the NFL, you what you can learn from the game is is what we can take advantage of. But like the Chicago one, the Niners learned a lot and they were able to change their season go to the NFC championship when a lot of people wouldn't have thought they did that on a third quarterback, but they still were able to do that. So I mean, anything can happen. You can make things happen. What's your most about Peter Skorovsky? He kind of still gains his footing in the league.  And I think Peter's doing a really good job of every time if he gets beat on something, he's learning from that and being able to correct things very fast. And then also, I think he's very poised for a young fellow.  So, you know, you get out in an environment like the Saints, you know, that's when they start panicking, making more mistakes. It's not really them making the mistake is just kind of their emotional. And so they're kind of just kind of getting a mistake from that. But I think I think Peter does a great job staying poised, staying level headed and be able to move on. And if someone was to beat him, he doesn't get really flustered from that. And so he's, you know, that's really, that makes a really good player piece.  I think that's what he's done really well. You had a whole lot of chances in the running game, but what did you think of run blocking in general and kind of cohesion that a bunch of new guys had in that first game? I think, I know I had one block for sure that could have been cleaned up. I think there's a, there's a few things, but I mean, in the run game, we just got to keep pounding it. They did a really good job of taking away some of our outside zone games by putting out the 3D lineman and then they would spike the 3 technique to the side that we were running a little bit so that the linebacker can run free and then we couldn't get out to the linebackers. They were making it really hard for our double teams to get off to them. But I mean, they had some things teamed up and then we just got to be able to execute and then go onto the sideline, figure out what they're doing and find an adjustment to what they're doing. And that's, you know, the NFL. And I think we did an alright job and I thought the running backs did a hell of a job running it. Kaje got out on that one. You could see his, you know, explosiveness. That was awesome to see. Derrick was, I mean, he's always falling forward.  I mean, if it's blocked up for one, he's falling forward for three or something. So, I mean, he was doing an amazing job with that. And I think we just kind of keep pounding it and then just kind of clean up where we can because there's a few where we could have maybe broke Derrick free or just won away or back side end is, you know, coming like unblocked because he's the last guy that we can't block. And if we can find a way to create a little bit more space so he can just kind of get maybe a toe tackle to where he can break that and get out.  So I think there's a few runs that are really close. And we just got to keep cleaning up what we can. How do you feel like the communication went and Niels first prolonged exposure together as a unit? The communication, I think it was alright. I think there was definitely some times. There was the delay game. Ryan's clapping. I got to do a better job of when I'm looking back. If nobody can hear that clap, I got to just start yelling at the guys. Hey, we got to go. We got to go. But we were in a double cadence kind of thing. And that kind of got us. I think we can do a better job of communicating which linebackers we're going to. So everybody's on the same page a few times. But I think for that environment and for a lot of new guys, I'm not going to say it was just bad just because, I mean, that's tough to go in that with all that. And I think a lot of guys were able to, you know, to get on the right page for the most part. But we still have to clean up because I mean, at the end of the day, we lost. And there were a few plays where if we can get on the right page, we can make a better play out of that. And that could have been the deciding factor. Like I said, one point game, any one play could have changed the game. When you have a back like Derek and some of those situations you mentioned, like it's not blocked up all the way. Somebody misses. It's a minus game. Then it's a zero game. Then it goes for 40. Does it require more patience for a back like that? But what do you mean by patient like? Mm hmm. Oh, I got you. Yeah.  So we're not trying to just, you know, pound Derek, you know, until he can't. So I think at the end of the day, we just have to do a better job of cleaning up and trying to do our part of making sure that he's free.  He is a chance to take it all the way. And so we definitely have to be able to have the ability to be like, you know what, you know, they're doing a good job of stopping us and maybe we're making a few mistakes here too. But let's get this cleaned up and let's see if we can maybe get one of those to pop.  I mean, that'd be awesome. But at the same time, that's not fair to Derek, but at the same, like we just got to kind of keep going with it.  And I think if everybody else can do their job, we can, you know, take a little bit off of them and then we have them for later in the season when we're going to need them the most. But he only had five carries in the second half. I know you love to run black, I think. Just by the realignment, I said I love to run black. That's why you come and play for the Titans. Any disappointment that you weren't able to do it or it wasn't called to do it a little bit more in the second half yesterday? I mean, I'm not going to say there's disappointment at the end of the day. A lot of those plays, there were some plays where we still had like opportunities, even without Derek.  But I mean, you guys could all see Taje, Taje was explosive. Taje was picking up. There was a one where they had an end stunt and Cam Jordan, we were watching it today.  You know, I mean, those games are hard to pick up and instead of the center coming off late and where Cam could maybe be a factor, Taje just stoned them.   So he's been able to get that opportunity to get some plays out there. So I think that might play into it.  Just got a block for what's out there. But I mean, I think we've got some phenomenal guys. And I mean, Jules, he made the team. He is what he did in the preseason. I mean, we watched him ball out preseason. So we got three guys that can really, we give those guys an opportunity. They can make some plays. So I think they were just kind of probably just, you know, trying to keep those guys fresh throughout the game and trying to keep getting them in and making sure every time they're in there fresh and we're not, you know, wearing one of them down. And that probably was what played into it. But I mean, I think all three of those guys earned the right to be out there. So I think we just got to keep going. And like I said, it was a one point game. So I don't know if that was the deciding factor or anything. I think there was plenty of opportunities to make some big plays. And we just happened to miss our opportunities and they capitalized on one of their opportunities and they were able to get a touchdown and win the game. And I think that's what it came down to. So we just got to do better as a whole unit to just make that one play to make the difference. The things you said to the tour's aside that you guys are trying to run to? The three tech, yeah. Yeah. Did they have a little bit of an indication at times where they thought that you guys were going to run? Is that? I mean, I don't know. I don't know what, I mean, every once in a while you got teams that are able to have some tells or something. But yeah, they had a few times where they just kind of made it hard getting into the backers. Late in the game, they had a perfect end spike on the outside zone of the right. And then they were able to have their DB come down and fill. So I mean, I don't know if they had a tell or they could have got just lucky sometimes, you know, defense line. Like maybe they weren't even told to do that. They just do something sometimes. And I don't know whether it was called by them and they had to tell or if they, you know, happened to fall into it. But they just happened to make the right plays when they needed to. And we didn't. So we just got to, you know, get better and capitalize on it. What do you mean? Grains itself on pass protection and things like that. Are you as critical of yourself if the quarterback is flushed or hit as you are if he's sacked? I mean, for me, I mean, I'm critical of our feeder on it. Like even if he doesn't get hit, like if we're on top of the quarterback and he can't make a throw, I mean, that should be critical because we're affecting the throw if he can't step into it. So I think anytime we're to, you know, anywhere super close around him where it affects the throw and, you know, maybe he throws it high or he can't step into it or now he's got to, I think all those, you know, take into it. So I think I'm critical on any of those.    So I think we just have to keep getting better, you know, learning out where he's setting up in the pocket on certain plays because every play like that changes a lot of things. If he's setting up at five yards, that's a big difference for the offensive line because now, you know, you can run them at seven, seven, eight yards. You can run those big D-ends around and we need to be really firm up front.  So I mean, there's a lot that goes into it.  Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. Oh, yeah, I think it's definitely encouraging. It's stuff to build off of. But, you know, I think we can't give up the explosive plays because I think you look at a lot of the drives. Those are the things that were hurting us. Just giving up the chunk plays. And obviously, the last driver to game, you know, put an opportunity to, you know, get that 34 or whatever it was, 35 to stop him and didn't get it done. So it was definitely tough. To him said, I was a 49ers, lost the season opener, went to the NFC championship game. You're obviously on that team. What's your perspective of that? Oh, yeah, to be truthful, that's all I could think about when the game ended. I literally was thinking the exact same way because it reminded me a lot of that. Just played some good defense that year, last year, but didn't play enough to win the game. And I think we lost by a point or two points if I'm not mistaken. And it was definitely a huge, like, you know, hit. But we realized, like, man, we could take it as far as we want to take it and, you know, just bounce it back. So I truly, you know, that's what I expect from this team. You know, a lot of the same similar building blocks and character of the guys and, you know, the people on this team. So I'm expecting to do the exact same thing. Let down when you guys have a lot of excitement and so many new faces felt like there was a buzz about seeing this team debut, like, moving into next week. I think the beautiful thing about the National Football League is for every team that won and every team that lost, you got about, what, it's 12 o'clock or whatever, you got about two more hours. And you better get moving fast. If you don't, then you won the game, you're probably going to lose. And if you lost the game, you're probably going to lose again. So you got to figure out a way to build off of it, learn from it, whatever it is, celebrate the win for 24 hours, soak in your misery for 24 hours, but then get back to work like it's a National Football League, you know, so that's the best of the best and every week you got to bring your best. So I mean, now it's literally like my mind said, we watched the film as a group, probably going to hear from Ravel, you know, on Wednesday when we have our meeting about it, maybe at the beginning and like all the way to the Chargers. So I think it was good for the situation. Obviously the stadium, but I think it was pretty good. You know, obviously just try to make sure we act on communicating the calls and everything across, you know, the front, but also with the back end guys. And I think it was pretty good communication. What does the body feel like after playing in a game for the full game for the first time in, what, eight, nine months? And what do you do maybe on Mondays to kind of get it back? I think my body's sore. Like you definitely get sore. I think my pride is a little bit more sore than my body.  I like to lift, you know, and we all pretty much get a lift in on Monday trying to work that soreness out. But yeah, you definitely got to be ready to go on Wednesday. So take advantage of those two days that you get. Talk to y'all on defense about the sack fumble rule, that sort of thing. Just what do you remember about what he said? Just have you guys as defense respond to that rule when it seems like it's kind of inconsistently called? He just always tells us to scoop the ball regardless and let them make the decision. And I think that's exactly what KB did. And you know, they decided what they decided. And I don't lie to you, I don't get paid to do that. I get paid to do something completely different. So now I let them do their job and I'll do mine, but you know, you can't ever really, I guess count on a ref to do anything for you. But you know, it is what it is.  But KB did exactly what we always coach, you know, just finish to the recovery of the ball. And you know, that's what he did. And it makes it a harder, you know, situation where if that was a fumble, then it would be a clear recovery. We get the ball and, you know, it is what it is. But they asked kind of like what we were always coached to do. You find the application that inconsistent when you're watching games? No, I think like maybe the motions of the throws and what they consider as a throw versus a fumble might be inconsistent. But if you recover the ball both times, you know, that's pretty much what we're coached is just always recover the ball if you have an opportunity and let them figure it out because we don't know. It's too, you know, split second decisions. You have no clue what's actually going on that fast. So just recover the ball and let them figure it out. I guess when you came out of the car, I guess you got up close to his helmet area. What can you maybe learn from that as far as the technique standpoint and maybe kind of lose track of your hands there? Yeah, honestly, when I was running down there, I'm already thinking like, oh, I'm not going to hit him because I don't want to get flagged.  But then like it was like this weird space, you know, where I would probably tell myself is I play football for a long time, you know, maybe not thinking so much. If anything I learned from that is I'm not going to think about it. He's running outside the pocket. You can hit him obviously below the head of neck area. So next time I'm just going to hit him. As you guys practice situations so much around here, how do you feel like the defense responded to some of those selling change positions you were put in yesterday? I think he did a good job.  But obviously, I have no control and none of us on defense, you know, we're not responsible for anything that happens on the other side of the ball. You know, we're supposed to do our job and like I always just challenge the guys like don't let their defense outplay our defense, you know, whoever we're playing that week and that kind of keeps it out of a point finger mentality to where it's more so like, hey, look at what their defense just did. We got to go get that same thing because when they needed to stop, they got it, you know, but when we needed one at the end, we couldn't get it.  But I think he did a good job with some of the sudden change stuff, just responding and holding them to field goals. But yeah. Any surprise to you what Arden was able to do here? No, you know, I played with Arden in San Francisco back in 2021 and obviously he's still good friends and kept up with him. He had a good year last year with the Jaguar. So just knowing that he was going to have an opportunity to, you know, get a bigger role and have more opportunities rushing to pass on third down, you know, that's a part of his game and he's really good at. So it didn't surprise me at all.


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