Hi, I'm Leila. I'm from Israel and I study international management. I'm in my first year and I'm the president of the Student Council. Definitely this one course I have, it's issues in the contemporary business environment. You study like a real-life situation of how to take a company abroad in the different forms and different functions you have to consider and I find it really interesting. The advantages of living in a student residence would definitely be the price and what you get with the amenities and a shared kitchen and everything. You can even get a kitchen that's not shared and the 24-hour front desk. Definitely the social part of always being surrounded with people your age who are also students and you can even just pop in for a quick dinner. It's super fun. I would recommend it definitely because it's so clean and it's so nice to be in a new city that has so much history and it's beautiful. What I would highlight about living in Prague would definitely be meeting so many new people who are from so many places and it's something you don't get in a lot of places. At first I was a bit nervous because of all the metros and the trams and the buses and all of that but I got used to that very fast, especially with Pierre-Dily Tachka which I really recommend using. In terms of settling in, everybody is nervous at first, there's nobody who isn't and what really helps actually is the welcome week. I found that the activities they do really do make you connect to people and find your friends. I'm still to this day friends with people I met on welcome week. I do find it quite easy to keep the balance between my social life and my academic life at PCU. I feel that the professors are quite considerate and they really like especially in your first year lend your hand. If I had to describe the experience in one word it would definitely be exciting. If I had to give any advice for new students it would definitely be to not be nervous. Everything will go just fine, it will run smoothly and it will be an amazing experience.


What's up everybody and welcome to a summer school edition of the falcons final whistle podcast I'm Scott Bayer alongside my partner in crime Tori McElaney. How's it going? It's good. How's your summer? You know, it's nice that we're keeping in touch This is the first time that we've seen each other in a solid 10 days, which may be a record That it probably is joined forces last camp. Um, but yeah, and this is like our 30 34,000th podcast is it 34,000? Yeah. Yeah, it's congratulations everyone. If you've been listening Congrats on 34,000 to all of those and as we're kind of moving through the summer heading towards training camp We learned a lot over the course of the off-season program and the mandatory minicamp We know because Tori McElaney wrote 2,500 or so words about it at my request Here's the thing if anyone read the so Scott and I like switched up and did like five Uh, like story lines observations from camp and I wrote in that I was like, I don't think Scott wrote or read the other 2,500 words that I've already previously written on this and then Scott text me was like, um Just so we're clear, uh We're desperate for stories. We're desperate for stories right now and, uh, we're just trying to make it through the summer and, uh Everything's fine. Yeah. Yeah, everything's fine. We're good. Uh, and so after what is now probably more like 4,000 words between your minicamp notebooks and our top five OTA observations. Yes um It's time to move forward because we've taken a look at all those notes And we've decided that there are some lingering questions beyond All those words that we've written down on atlantafalcons.com And there are some lingering questions because there's a lot of things we That just can't be accomplished with the practice rules of minicamp and there's a lot of um roster movement that may happen between now and training camp So as everyone across the atlanta falcons fan base is wondering What are they going to do with this and they submit mail bag questions and i'm sure you get questions on social media What about this what's going to happen here? Well, let's go through Four or five of them shall we uh and of course we're going to talk about quarterbacks because that's what we do around here When you have an uncertain quarterback situation There's going to be some roster movement as we head into training camp There's some questions about inside linebacker d on jones. We're going to address all that We're going to talk about rookies that may make an an instant impact And also nobody's worn pads yet Nobody's more excited about wearing pads than tyler algear by the way Every time he has a press conference. He says how geeky is to hit someone Does he use that geek? Probably I wish that sounds like a scott term. That's definitely a scott term But I love it nonetheless. Thank you about tyler saying geeked. Yeah, I feel like that would be good for him You would be like my brother. I know he's always so like relaxed and calm But yeah, clearly ready to hit someone. What did you call him a bowling ball with spikes? Uh bowling ball covered in butcher knives yet. Um Anyway, so we're going to talk about all that and There's a couple of position groups that haven't been able to do what they really do Well, and that's the linemen because you can't put pads on and you really can't have that full physical contact So we can identify what we saw in seven on sevens and then talk about When they start playing rough and tumble football. So we're going to get to all that stuff, right? Um, let's go back to a story Tori Hey, I can't believe I've never done that before Surely it'll be a segment on something that we write at some point. We gotta get it sponsored now I mean, uh, tori stories. Tori's takeaways. Tori's notebook. It's all right there for the taking Um, you wrote an interesting story that was well received. Thank you everyone for reading it about the falcons roster Ah, yes How it's how it's disproportioned, right? There's I think now there's 12 wide receivers seven tight ends That's a lot even on a 90 man roster and arthur smith and you talked about a why do that now and then transition To make things more evened out I I guess give us kind of an an explanation of that and would you expect to see More more big boys join the team. Yes and yes So essentially this was something that arthur smith talked about Within one of the very first like open otas that we had he made the comment He was like you see a lot of receivers you see that we've signed a lot of receivers But just know that that's going to change this roster is going to turn over We're going to add more to the line both offensively and defensively as you get closer to training camp because it goes back to What you're talking about they get to put the pads on they actually get to hit each other There's actual pre-season games in which they're going against Competition right now or I guess the last month or so You haven't been able to do that so a lot of seven on seven a lot of seven on sevens a lot of kind of just walk Throughs um and and when you do that it's more of an opportunity to see your skill guys And that was kind of what arthur smith was saying is that this is a chance for us to really get in the work with Your receivers your tight ends Quote unquote running backs even though even running backs you don't get to see all that much at this point in time in the off season In the connection that they have with desmond redder and marcus mariota and so now What I think we're going to see over the next six weeks is we're going to see those wide receiver and tight end numbers dwindling down While they're dwindling down I imagine that the offensive and defensive lines are going to start trending upwards You're going to get more linemen in here for training camps specifically in the pre-season So to answer your question that's kind of the overall gist of what they're doing in terms of the idea of roster construction And also yes, there will be more more linemen come The end of july on this roster. So for everybody who's freaking out about it. Don't it's fine. Yeah, we already Started to see that happen that they signed a veteran senator jonathan harrison and uh and a defensive lineman from the saints and bears What a shock um as well In exchange for a wide receiver and a running back So we're starting to see that flip one Player that there are question marks surrounding Is deon jones? Yes, if you go back to terry fontanose Combine press conference. I believe they all kind of run together. They really do I have no idea when I was going to say pre-draft at some point during this long Eventful off season terry was talking about The big contracts right matt ryan's contract has been moved That's going to help them salary cap wise in a major way next year. They have 62 million dollars in dead money right now So they they dealt with that contract grady jaret and jake matthews. They dealt with those contracts calvin ridley obviously is Unavailable all season. So that contract is kind of let's put that off to the side, right? The other one is deon jones, right? That one hasn't been touched yet So there are a lot of questions about Are they going to move him my mailbag is full of these questions? Are they going to move them? What are they going to do with deon jones going into it? He makes a ton of money. He has a cap hit over 20 million There isn't a ton of savings, but now that we're after june 1st You get the designation where you split that cap hit in half, right? So there is an opportunity to say some cash. There's also an opportunity to gain even more cap space next year Um, as we know arthur smith said that he missed the off season program the on field portions of the off season program While recovering from a procedure. I think was the term that he used So he's not healthy. You can't trade a guy who's not healthy But as you evaluate how do you evaluate the prospect of moving deon or not moving deon? You know kind of pros and cons list this thing for us Yeah, goodness. I could write a whole story about it, which i'm sure I will at some point this off season I think when I look at it, it's You kind of go both ways You can look at it in terms of the money in terms of the cap in terms of the dead money All of those things you can look at it as a financial business decision And then also look at it as to what you need on the field My question in this is How much do you need? What's how do you weigh how much you need deon on the field versus how much you need that relief And or opportunity that moving him provides in 2023, right? Those are what I weigh when I'm looking at this I guess scenario and when I think about Where the inside linebacker room is right now Yeah, that's a good point. I I don't know if I can weigh that they have to have deon Out there and I know that's crazy to say Because deon jones has been such an integral part of this defense Since he's been here But I do think, you know, there can come a time where that's not necessarily like one person isn't is no longer I don't want to say needed But I just see that you do have rashaun evans You do have michael walker that I think those two specifically and then you go out and get Troy anderson and you you sign some free agents and and all those kind of things But those two specifically I feel like can do what needs to be done to get you through 2022 and if deon's not Healthy fully healthy and and I know that also plays into okay. What does a trade market look like for him? These are all like moving pieces, right? But I do think like the main the main things that I weigh is Financial business Decision versus how much do you really need him physically on this defense, right? and that's a crazy thing to say because he is A modern NFL linebacker with elite talent and we've seen that For with him representing this franchise you go back to 2020 his stat line was Unbelievable, but ultimately you're right It's about weighing all these pros and cons and the fact that draft capital for a team that is building Trying to build a young foundation even if it's a day three pick Yeah, that's a kind of a big deal. Maybe you could go out I mean you saw what they were able to do on day three Yeah, that's what I was going to say is like even if it is a day three pick You look at the guys that they were able to get I think that someone like tyler algear Is an important day three pick 100 and that he's actually going to be a An important part of this running back rotation. I'm not saying that he's going to go out and be starter day one That's not at all what I'm saying, but what I am saying is I think that they saw this guy Slide to that third day and they really valued that pick because you have to bring someone in who is going to be able to help Cordial lighten the load of what cordial Patterson does For the offense in the backfield mainly Cordial Patterson does a lot of other things for this offense, but let's just talk about that You know, and I think when you're thinking about deon jones, and it's like How much do you value that day three value pick? And what that pick could potentially be later on? I mean you even think about I don't know grady jarrett was a Fifth round pick. He was a day three pick. I mean even going back to um foyer aluekin who is now with the the jags. He was a Third day pick. Yeah russ gauge was a day three pick. Yes a lot of there's a lot of good play exactly and so I know there's a lot of not good players probably that have come from that But don't you want to roll the dice? Right, exactly And if you get draft capital and you want to bring in guys into your system that you Want to mold and you really believe in ade o gendagi A guy who is probably going to be a starter at outside linebacker this year in his second year fifth round pick fifth round pick Yeah These are all guys that at this point in time in this organization are going to make an impact How much do we weigh that in terms of how much you value dion jones and his future within the organization? Right, and those are all difficult questions that terry fawn know in the front office have to evaluate and we do not And we do not we can just talk about it and that is There's a lot less pressure. Right. I would say But nonetheless, I I do think that there's going to be some pre Uh training camp movement Deon jones is obviously one that everybody is keeping an eye on if he's still on the team You just have a really really really good linebacker on the team either way. That's not the world's worst thing either So they've got options. I think that's a good place for terry fawn know to operate from Um, especially when you look at the depth at linebacker There's a lot of different ways that you can move pieces around to try to be as competitive as possible again While setting up your cap situation in the best possible way Which would be to touch all those contracts make them a little bit more palatable or ship them As we move Through it right you you mentioned tyler algear right as a guy who could Come in And make that quote-unquote instant impact that fans desperately want and coaches want to say Hey, let's chill. Right. So obviously kyle pits had a massive one. Richie grant was on a different Um track a different development plan jays a jail in mayfield was forced into one So ultimately you you look at this rookie class and the state of the falcons roster Suggests that some of these higher picks are going to play a lot that not everybody will have the luxury of coming along slowly I would put drake london in that class Almost as much as anybody. I would put arnold ebacate in that class I think he could play a lot right away and sometimes it's unfair. Here's a guy who Spent six months in a job at interview and the previous four months in a football season And now he's gonna he's going pro and then you're like, okay, just just play three downs You're the 38th pick but play three downs or you're the 180 second pick play all three downs That's a tough expectation puts a lot of pressure on these guys And I think arthur smith does a good job of alleviating that pressure That's important to him and I think that it should be important to put these guys in the best position to succeed At the track where they can do it because how many times and i'll get off my soapbox here How many times do we see young players in bad situations or young players who buckle under The pressure of trying to be a franchise savior In week one you don't want that but you have to look at this draft class and wonder Who could be the guys and we're going to find out during training camp? This is lingering questions. This is not bold predictions time, but you look at this draft class and you think Okay, there could be quite a few guys here who are going to play lots of snaps Yeah, and I think we almost knew that when we were going into the draft I think I remember saying maybe on this podcast But saying this Group whoever it is that they bring in Has an opportunity to do something that a lot of rookie classes across the league won't be able to do Simply because of how many needs The falcons had On the roster. I mean, I know we don't want to say like oh drafting for need etc etc I think that you're always drafting for a need That's a that's a secret Secret sauce is that you're always drafting for need. Um, whether it's this year next year that you're after that and so with that considering that I think This rookie class has an opportunity to make their rookie year what they want it to be I think that they are going I think every single one of them is going to have an opportunity to play Some type of role on this 53 man roster And when we get to that cut down I think that even I even think about like the two Georgia guys Justin Schaefer and John Fitzpatrick just going to bring them up Yeah, I know that they're I don't foresee them. They're not going to come out and be day one starters Absolutely not but they're going to push the guys who are and I think that is just as important when arthur smith talks about competition competition competition Bringing in guys who can push guys and play a different type of role I think those two specifically Justin Schaefer can push Jalen Mayfield at that interior guard position. I think john Fitzpatrick provides a different type of tied in He's not Kyle Pitts. He's never going to be Kyle Pitts But he could be lee smith. He could be lee smith exactly and that's why I think We have to think about this overall scope of these rookies and how many opportunities that they have At their disposal you could see guys be you talk about Drake London, Arnold Aberkette, Troy Anderson, Tyler Algier, and then we not even getting into Desmond Ritter yet I mean these guys have the opportunity to play starting roles and heavy rotational roles Yeah, absolutely. And we're kind of getting towards the end of this podcast So I was going to dive into a lot of the position battles coming up We've got all summer to do that So let's just get right to the quarterbacks here and wrap it on that note because we and we're going to talk about quarterbacks Every time too. Yeah, but nonetheless, this is another one of those things that I go back to the mail bag It's kind of like a pulse of where the fan base is and I get so much of that Scott. You keep saying it's marcus mariota He's gonna start. He's leader in the clubhouse. He's the clear number one at this point I think that they want me to say something else. They want you to say it's desmond ridder Or this is gonna be a showdown in it flowery branch. I'm not ready to say that now that we get our Our our movie trailer voice going Yeah, but nonetheless, I think that they want some big showdown Maybe that will develop over the course of the preseason. Maybe desmond ridder will generate some buzz and some enthusiasm With a preseason performance or two But nonetheless, I still think it's marcus mariota early and I don't think that's bad for desmond ridder either No, I don't think that's bad for him. No, I mean I think the reason why you bring marcus mariota in here Is to be to have this other chance at starting arthur smith wouldn't have brought in just anyone off the street He wanted marcus mariota because of the history that they have because of the chance that they have to Kind of resurrect his career. So in saying all of that I think it's really good to have marcus mariota in here for you know, two years Maybe more maybe less. We don't know Because I don't think if desmond ridder was the number eight pick. I think this is a completely different conversation 100 he was not he was the 74th overall pick that changes I think the vision that you have for someone at that position. So I think this is all good. I think they work really well together in that quarterback room I think they're learning alongside each other. I think they're gonna push each other I I don't mind that That it's gonna be I don't I don't mind that it's not going to be desmond or it is going to be marcus I mean, I think this is Okay, overall you don't have matt ryan anymore like I know you're looking for a franchise quarterback, but I just don't know at this point in time You don't have a matt ryan on the roster matt ryan was drafted third right third right desmond was drafted 74th And I think there's some confusion because desmond was the second quarterback taken that maybe that that he's giving some Some kind of falsely elevated status, but nonetheless I think we need to go into it With this lingering with the understanding that we're not gonna know who the long-term solution is at at quarterback in camp Nope, or in week one. Nope, or heading into the 2023 draft exactly. Maybe not even then Like this is such a long process. It's a slow burn. I want people to get that through their heads Yeah, and I and and and I think that that's okay. You want if you're arthur smith You want options if marcus mariota. I'm sorry marcus mariota takes this job stranglehold style And runs with it. He's 28 years old. You have a good quarterback. Your offense is fun and entertaining Which is what falcons fans like entertaining and winning together, right? And don't we all? Yeah, that's true. That's why we all go see top gun more than once. Um, nonetheless, you look at that Um, and that's a good thing And if desmond rudder develops on a slower path or a quick one and he Earns the job or steals it. That's not a bad thing either if you come out of this and you say we don't have any After 12 months or a couple years you say we don't have any long-term solution go back into the draft You're not committed to anything long term because the investment is not great So we're probably going to talk about quarterbacks again I would assume on a future installment and you can make sure it goes Straight to your phone by subscribing On itunes, look at that transition. How about just the falcons channel on youtube? Have you seen what they're pumping out these days? Oh, it's good stuff. It's good stuff. Uh, nonetheless, do all those types of things Um, I think we're gonna do like a mail bag podcast. I just came up with that right now So, uh, we'll ask for questions on social media at that time, but get them ready Even if they're quarterbacks, that's fine. We like talking about them too Even if you're wondering what starbucks drink i'm drinking right now. Yeah, it's uh, I'm reading it and there are so many instructions. I can't possibly something about light ice and 28 pumps of vanilla 28 seems excessive. Yeah. Well, that's what I said when I ordered you one one time Anyway, we got to get out of here Thank you guys so much for joining us.  I promise you go find a white sand beach That's what all the falcons players are doing. They're running and staying in shape on like on the white sand beach And then they're laying on a chase lounge under the sun. Do what you gotta do Yeah, I'm We all need to do that from time to time because we got training camp coming up way It's pretty soon. So nonetheless, enjoy your time off. Thank you so much for listening and we'll talk to you again real real soon


Hey, what's happening? No, sir, my name's Jacob, Jacob McDonald. Welcome to my channel. And welcome to the third installment of my reaction as a rugby player to lingerie football or the LFL. We're about to listen to a news report on Nightline by ABC. Now I'm not sure whether I should, I'm not sure what this guy's gonna say actually. He looks like he might be interested in it, but I feel like we're gonna go back and forth on this news story. This is a news story originally aired on December the 28th, 2013 by ABC News about lingerie football league and whether the league is sexist or sexy. I'm not sure, we're about to find out. I'll refrain from making my judgment until the end, but what I am gonna do is read the description, okay? And before I do, look, I am gonna mention there is only one thing, one thing that I didn't like about what I've seen so far and that is the language that the coaches used at the game with the opposite team, like that they really go in hard. I feel like there's no rules around language.  So I guess you'd hope in that environment that no players are being taken advantage of or that the wrong message is not being spread. You know what I mean? So before we continue, I'm gonna take this off because I kind of feel like Darth Vader and that's not the look we're going for today. I'm gonna try and look in the camera lens and not at myself. I'm gonna get the screen recorder going and then we're gonna watch this news report. It's interesting. I've seen a little bit of the league now. I wanna know what the public think. This is seven years ago, times have changed. Times have changed, I will say that. But the description says, players in the all-female league wear skimpy uniforms and hockey helmets. Many feel it's damaging to the development of young woman with war paints smeared on their faces, football pads on their shoulders and garters dangling from their lace chimp shorts. The all-female football team known as the Chicago Bliss filed into their locker room at halftime. They were beating their Midwest rivals, the Green Bay Chill, but their coach was not at all pleased with how they were playing.  Welcome to the Legends Football League where ladies dressed in nothing but a bra, booty shorts and hockey helmet play seven-on-seven football. Ground stomping, body bruising, football. Okay, that is exactly what I was talking about. The language that I heard from the coaches. But we're about to get into it. So without further ado, sit back, relax at your popcorn and let's find out where the Lingerie Football League is super sexy or super sexist. Well, with college bowl games and the final regular season battles in the NFL, but there's another league that's shaking things up this season. This one involves tough female athletes, but instead of suiting up, they're stripping down. ABC's Juju Chang gets up close and very personal for another look at Lingerie Football. And tall and just as tough as the guys. Now, these aren't pro athletes. They're the girls next door, some, even moms. I feel really good. I feel like we have the momentum we need half time. See, that's interesting. I was wondering whether these girls were like, well, obviously not pro athletes, but ex-college athletes. And I'm thinking they're all in really good shape. They all seem to be pretty athletic. I'm sure a lot of them have had experience in sports, but to hear that some of them have had kids and they're playing, that's impressive. In a football, even though they're ahead, their coach is not at all pleased. Get your s**t down here! That girl's giving me a f**king bath! After 18 years of coaching men, Coach Hack feels the biggest compliment he can pay these ladies is to treat them just like the guys.  You guys are much better than this. You're going to get the bat right, you're great, Blake. Hit back and cross the grand. Welcome to the Big Leagues, the Legends Football League, where ladies dressed in nothing but a bra and booty shorts play football, ground-stomping, body-brewzing football. The Chicago Blitz is part of what league promoters say is the fastest growing sports franchise. What? What? Hang on, that was the first... Sorry guys, sorry, but that was the first time I've seen any... Which I'm sure it happens a lot actually, but the first time I've seen any clothes actually come off. Yeah, I guess that's probably a regular occurrence, but... Do you football? The Chicago Blitz is part of what league promoters say is the fastest growing sports franchise. But the LFL also has a chorus of critics who accuse them of objectifying women to sell tickets. So is the sport super sexy or just plain sexist? Most football training doesn't include manicures. What do you think of critics who say, oh well, you know, you're just exploiting skin? I definitely get why people feel that way, but at the same time, we're serious. It's just the past. Yashi Rice plays defensive tackle. And Yashi Rice chases her down. None of the players get paid, so her day job... We're going to think of the information C.O.R. is first selling life insurance. Her brother, Simi and Rice, played 12 years in the NFL and even won a Super Bowl. Allie Alberts is the wide receiver. Ah, this is sick, bro. How can you hate on this, man? How can you hate on that? It's just a costume. It's literally just a costume. And this should be, this is actually inspiring. If I was a girl watching this, knowing that these girls are mums, they've got jobs, yet they want to get out there and play hard, play a sport, play a man's sport, effectively a man's sport, hard and show that us girls can do this. You know, that is sexy to me, to be honest. That ain't sexist. Her specialty, periodonture. Allie Alberts made a good play to you. And brutal hits. You're putting yourself at great physical risk. At your hand. And you have already suffered concussions. See, that's the thing, it's a hard game, man. Some of these hits that I've seen, there's definite concussions happening. Okay, and these helmets aren't as big as the normal football helmets. So, I'm going to give them respect. And yet, you're most concerned about my right hand. Like, if I break a finger on this right hand, I really can't do any dentistry. Tiden, Jamie Barwick shrugs off the risks. Tell her about when you saw me. As a single mom, she wants her seven-year-old son, Jackson, to see her as tough. Go mom!  Don't be afraid of anything. People always ask why, why not? I love sports, I love being part of the team. It's 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Game day. That would be fun, man. I joined the ladies of the Chicago Bliss on a road trip to do battle with their Midwest rivals, the Green Bay Chill.  They've got a marathon ride to Green Bay ahead of them. Archie, Archie! The team should spend the ride mapping out their game strategy. Yay! But it's hard to focus. Welcome to the Good Show. Damn! This bus feels like a supercharged sorority house. It's a long and out time. It's a sorority house, right? After years of playing in lingerie, it's... I was going to say, that kind of environment would probably only suit certain players, just like it would only suit certain guys in that environment. Clear, these women are comfortable in their own skin. Wardrobe malfunctions and all. Yeah, I don't see them at all. Well, open air. Your ride's in Green Bay. Juju in the house! It's time to get suited up and all done. Looks good. The locker room quickly turns into a beauty salon. One girl to my make-up, one girl to my reaction. I put my stuff. It's before game time, emotions run high. Just the team I picked to go to Warwick. Let's do it for us. Let's do it for our fans. As the teams face off, it appears to be more performance than play. Hey. You practice a move? You practice a dance? Start off strong. But the rough and tumble of the game is not for the faint of heart. During her first outing, Allie, the dentist, got knocked out cold.  That was definitely the main argument that my family had, like something you've worked your whole life towards. You know, why would you do this? And my answer is that I can't not do it. I love it. I love it. Allie's alberts in the corner of the end zone. Although the league requires that these women Ooh! insurance, the league doesn't pay for it. They're playing on a field half the size of the NFL, but the fear of concussions is ever-present, especially since they're wearing almost no padding and tackling with hockey helmets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you concerned that they don't have enough helmet protection? There's a reason why the NHL has far less sustained concussions in the NHL versus the NFL. Because once you put them in a football helmet, oftentimes it's used as a weapon. They tend to spear one another. These women are smart. If they felt in any way that they weren't protected out here, they wouldn't come back. Although there are higher risks to playing with such little padding, Commissioner Mitch Mortaza says they do it all for the love of the game. But he makes no apologies for the league's business model that sac sells. We just happened to have an entire league of Tom Brady's and David Beckums and Maria Sharapova's. That's the business model. We're very upfront and honest about it. And I think to a degree, that's definitely helped in the marketing of the sport. In the second half of the game, the Green Bay chill now to come back. I am killing me. I am killing me. But in the end, the Chicago Bliss prevail, 27 to 18. Victory is sweet. We have successful women on our team. We have mothers on our team. I mean, we're not just football players. There's so much more. With their skippy outfits and trash talking weight. Honestly, that makes it even more intriguing and exciting to follow these players. And it does the NFL players, because I mean, these girls have actually got something else going on. So that's admirable, if nothing else. These athletes may just be the unlikely vanguard for the new feminine history. This game really moved up to the billing. Next week, LA. For Nine Line, I'm Juju Chang in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Good shit, man. OK. Hey, look, I'm not going to make any claims. I'm not going to stick my foot in it. I feel like I've given a fairly fair, unbiased reaction. And what I'm going to do is just look up.  But I do want to know if it's still on. You know what I mean? If it's still going, because that was back in 2013.  OK, so there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 teams. In a new competition played in 2020, we've got Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Kansas, Los Angeles, Omaha, and Seattle. And there's plenty of former teams played between 2009 and 2019. There's a Canadian League. There's an Australian League, believe it or not. OK. Only played between 2013 and 2014. They must have stopped it in 2014 for some reason. Let me try and find a draw. What? Gardening, gardening tools, home and kitchen. Oh, what? Huh? Laundre football league 2021. All right, let's go Wikipedia. Here we go. The league was originally founded in 2009. December 13, 2019, the LFL announced that it would not be holding a 2020 season and instead restructured as the X-League, placing new teams mostly in the same locations as the 2019 LFL season. OK, so it's called the Extreme Football League. 2020 Extreme Football League. And we're looking at the eight teams. Oh, my god. 2012, the Legends Football League, in 2012, the Legends Football League teamed with Japanese-based Uxco Limited to design and develop an official LFL game but was never released. Now that, I'll tell you what, that's a disappointment. But what we do have is a Bikini Basketball Association and a Laundre Basketball League and Foxy Boxing. I'm going to leave those there. I'm going to leave the Legends Football League there. And I'm just going to say that that was a whole lot of fun. That was a whole lot of fun. And that is what I get from that. I don't think it's sexist. I think that if anything, the concussion risk is huge. But it's a huge risk in the game of men's American football too. And whenever I see a big collision, I can sort of tell, OK, in real time, I can kind of tell if the head was compromised. If the head's compromised, there's a big collision. I can tell the head's compromised. Someone's lying on the floor.  I don't like seeing that. But when I see girls going up against each other, having fun in their team environments, loving the game of football, like that girl said, right? She loves it. She loves it. Ain't nobody going to tell someone not to do something that they love. Life's too short and that's all I've got to say. So, thank you for watching. That was my look into LFL. I had two missions for today. Finish the top 100 series and have a look at the Laundrie Football League, or what's better known as Extreme Football League. So for all the athletes in the Extreme Football League, I want to say best of luck and have a great night. Thank you, everyone, for watching. Peace out. And I'll see you on the next one.


I would imagine you're happy with the performance, but disappointed with the result, is that pretty much it? I don't need to speak any more than Vince, do I? No, I think that's a fair assessment. I knew the game would be tight, it would be very close. In close games you're hoping that you get a little bit of luck, you know, a few decisions here and there and it just wasn't to be. Performance-wise I can't fault them, I thought they applied themselves excellently, the way they approached the game was excellent and obviously we can see the goal on a free kick through a deflection, which actually wasn't a free kick, but you have to take it sometimes, we'll learn from it and we'll move on. My audio just cut out there for us thinking on the free kick when you saying that wasn't there, is that what you said? I don't think it was a free kick, no. Were you happy with just the general play of you guys, for a team that's probably just had three key players come in very soon for the start of the season, it seemed to gel quite nicely there? Yeah, there were some good phases, is it the end product, is it the final product? No, we know we're way off that, but there were glimpses of how we want to play and the way we're going to play, which is positive. Obviously we're a little bit tired on the legs as well, which is why I made the subs that I needed to make. We bought energy as well, sometimes you ask substitutes to come on and they're disappointed they don't play, but they make an impact and our subs didn't that, but the fight till the end was encouraging, I think that was important. I just said to them in there after the game, I said sometimes you don't get what you deserve in football, I think it was a fairly tight game and the difference was one ricochet of a free kick. Chances-wise, we've got to be more clinical with our chances, we had good chances, so did they, but obviously their keeper come up strong. Carl, how did you assess the performance of really new signings? Ziggy Gordon seems to have a really good game, but James Streezy and Bernie Abinia? Yeah, I thought they were all positive, I thought Ziggy defended very well, he does what it says on the tin, he blocks, he defends, he puts his body on the line, I think James and Bernie. It was good to have them, they're good players, you can see they're going to be good players for us, but also you can see that they've probably missed a lot of football in pre-season, you know, they got a little bit leggy at the end, which is why I don't want to take a risk with Bernie, that's why he played an hour, I thought Nicolai Muller when he came on was exceptional, and Jimmy just does what Jimmy likes to do, is runs and dictates the game and passes and moves, but we created things from that, there were areas I know we need to improve, which I knew that before the game, and they highlighted today against a very strong team, we know that as well. What do you make, Carl, of the new boys, not only in the league, but in your region, they're putting in an impressive showing from their point of view in terms of the local rivalry as well, what do you make of that as Bondura's coach? Of MacArthur? Yeah, it's that rivalry that will develop from this. That's great, listen, you want rivalries, you want storylines, you want a little bit of drama, you want some controversy, and you know, they're a new team, it's never easy being a new franchise, I experienced that in Major League Soccer more than anyone, every year there seems to be two or three coming in, so it's great, obviously they'll be delighted tonight because they got the first victory at our place, we're disappointed because it was on our home turf, and sometimes you have to accept that, you know, inside, you know, I'm quietly fuming, but sometimes you've got to hold yourself, your head up high and hold yourself with dignity as well when you lose, it's easy to be a good winner, but when you lose, you have to conduct yourself right as well, and that's what I'll do. Oh, would you say the Wanderers played with a little bit more energy and enthusiasm today? And more than previous, what do you mean? Just a bit more than you guys today. The MacArthur played more than us, you say? Yes. No, I don't think so, I think they had their game plan, they had their way of playing, and they've done that very well with the front three, and we had our way of playing, and you know, they blocked up areas which we wanted to try and exploit early on, which was credit to them, you know, sometimes game is about, it's a chess match, it's about tactics and things like that, other times it's just about good old-fashioned hard work, roll your sleeves up and individual battles, and I think that's what sort of it was today. I don't think there was too much between the teams other than a deflect free kick. Carl, you're back out there in a few more days. This is a difficult sort of schedule for you guys. I think you had something like nine games in January, that's changed, there's only four now. How are they going to be backing up when there's so many underdone bodies in your squad at the moment and a short turnaround between those games? Yeah, well, like I said, players want to play, if there's players that are not in the team, they want more games. Obviously the schedule's been impacted because of Covid, and we know that, and you know, the most important thing was everyone's health and safety.  You know, the first three games have only been two goals in the three games, but I think there's been some very, very good football played from a number of teams. So you just prepare right, you move on, and we're the same team as we were this morning, we're the same team as we are tomorrow, we just need to get a little bit more focused and work harder and have a little bit of luck, which we will.


The next item of business is topical questions. We start with question number one from Douglas Ross. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the consultation document, Policing 2026, our 10-year strategy for policing in Scotland. We welcome yesterday's publication of the draft Policing 2026 strategy, which sets out the steps that Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland propose to take in order to better meet the policing challenges of the future. The strategy's clear focus on improving the operational capacity of our police and enhancing the quality of the service that the public receives is something that we very much support. Once finalised, the document will play a key role in shaping the future direction of policing, and I would encourage all those who have an interest in participating in the consultation to do so now that it is under way. Douglas Ross. Yesterday, we learned not from the 2026 strategy but from the accompanying press conference that 400 officers will be cut from the single force by 2020 and that officers are currently backfilling administrative roles. That backfilling mission came just a week after I received a letter from David Page, the Deputy Chief Officer with Police Scotland, denying that the policy even existed. What confidence can the public have to respond to this strategy? I agree with the cabinet secretary that we must respond to it, but what confidence can the public have to respond to it if it does not even mention police officer numbers? Given that the word rural is not mentioned once in the strategy, despite a rural population growing at a faster rate in recent years than the rest of Scotland, does the cabinet secretary agree that this is a crucial consideration and what assurances can he give that rural communities will not be overlooked? Let me try to unpick a few of the points that Douglas Ross has made there. The issue around the police numbers is again a draft proposal that has been put forward by the chief constable and by the Scottish Police Authority on a change in the way in which they wish to have the mix of staff within Police Scotland. It is right to recognise that the nature of crime that the police service and the demands on the police service over the past 10 years has significantly changed. The way in which they now have demand in the form of demand from mental health issues, from missing persons, from vulnerable individuals and ageing population, the demand that they now have from crimes that are now taking place within a private place—we have saw big drops in crimes that take place within a public place, particularly crimes such as violence—has now moved into the private place, with an increase in domestic violence being reported and the way in which we have saw an increase in cyber-related crime. It is important that the police have the right mix of staff and the skills to be able to meet those types of crimes and new and emerging threats effectively. That is something that I have said on a number of occasions. That is something that we set out in our manifesto last year in the election campaign. Chief Constable set out his vision of how, over the next 10 years, he believes that can best be achieved. Part of that is to make sure that some of the transformation that has not taken place, as the chief constable also confirmed, in the corporate, in the support role within Police Scotland—much of which has remained the same as it was with the previous legacy forces—is part of that, as we are moving officers who have been in those roles out into front-line responsibilities and reforming the way in which they provide support to officers through corporate and wider support and organisation. I think that that is to be welcomed. I think that that is important, and I think that there are important lessons there for us to consider over the coming weeks. On the issue of rural matters, of course, that is a significant issue for Police Scotland. We would expect that to be set out in the final strategy, because, of course, no doubt the member will want to make his views known to Police Scotland and to make his own submission to this consultation exercise, and no doubt the issue of rural concerns is a matter that he will choose to focus on. I still have concerns that, if the chief constable was able to tell a press conference immediately after the release of that strategy, why is it not in there to get the public's feedback on that? However, I would like to concentrate on one other issue, which is technology. By its own admission, Police Scotland's technology is slow and outdated, and there is duplication of input. Those problems were supposed to have been overcome by the merger and the failed I6 project. Technology is a linchpin of that strategy, but the single-forces track record on the front has been poor to date. We now learn that Police Scotland will invest in technology, streamlining processes through greater self-service and automation. That could further distance officers from local communities who just want to speak to their local officer. What safeguards can we take from the strategy that those ties will not be further eroded? The member seems to fail to recognise the fact that this is a draft strategy, which Police Scotland has put out along with the Scottish Police Authority to allow people to comment on and to express their views on. Those are issues that can be considered over the period of the consultation exercise. I say in particular on the issue of IT infrastructure in Police Scotland. The reality is that the vast majority of the IT infrastructure that we have in Police Scotland has been inherited from the previous legacy forces. In addition, the I6 initiative was one that is genesis, because it is a way back to the legacy forces when it was looking for a single-place IT system in Scotland. The I6 programme has not been delivered on by the company that was appointed to deliver that particular initiative, but the need for IT improvement is exactly why we have provided additional reform money in the draft budget that we took through Parliament just last week in order to allow that type of IT investment to take place. That will support the police in being able to make sure that they are releasing the capacity that they have within the organisation at the present time that has been taken up by the slow and outdated IT systems that they have at the present time. That is the type of thing that, as the chair of the SPA set out and also the chief constable will set out, will be key priorities in moving forward with the strategy in the coming years. For context on those islands, can the cabinet secretary provide some detail on how the number of police officers in England and Wales compares to the number of police officers in Scotland? I am very clear about the purpose behind any strategy that is going to be approved by the Scottish Government as one, which is making sure that we have sufficient police officer numbers in order to deliver the safety and security to the people of Scotland. We have, over the last 10 years, been committed to 1,000 extra police officers. There are no plans to change police officer numbers in the forthcoming financial year. The present level of police numbers in Police Scotland is at 17256. What I am not going to accept is a strategy that follows the approach that has been taken by the Home Secretary in England and Wales, which has been to destroy some aspects of police operation provision in England and Wales, with 19,000 police officers being lost over the same period of time as we have been protecting police numbers. That has had a direct impact on the quality of policing that it has received in England and Wales. That strategy is not about delivering that, it is about making sure that we improve capacity and improve the service that the public receives from Police Scotland. I asked the First Minister about this last week, so I am intrigued with the question today and the statement yesterday from the chief constable. The First Minister denied that there was any change in policy. She committed to the 1,000 extra officers and said that it was not going to change this year. If the chief constable wants to reduce the officers by 400, as he stated yesterday, will he have the backing of the justice secretary? As I said yesterday, we will consider the details of the draft strategy, the feedback from the consultation and the final strategy before it is approved by Government. On that basis, it will be yes, because it will have to be approved by Government. John Finnie I wonder if the cabinet secretary would agree with me that the obligation that a chief constable has assessed the risks in putting place mechanisms to address the risks. That is not necessarily about numbers or buildings, it is about the quality of service. Will he undertake to move the whole conversation away from the obsession with 17234 and ensure that, if the chief constable comes with further requests based on an evidence need of developing threats and trains, he will support that? As I mentioned earlier, and I have stated in a number of occasions, it is important that the police are able to respond to the changing nature of our society and the changing nature of crime. That is about making sure that the police service is able to keep pace with those changes both at a societal level and at a crime level. The intention behind the strategy as a chief constable is to make sure that the police service in Scotland is able to meet those challenges effectively, delivering better capacity within Police Scotland and, at the same time, a better service to the public. I am very clear about the need to make sure that that is delivered. That is why I have said that there are a number of occasions about getting the right staff mix within our police service so that we can deliver a first-class service to the people of Scotland and to keep them safe. I will continue to have discussions with the chief constable over the coming weeks, as the consultation is taken forward and after the consultation is being completed, and we can make sure that Police Scotland is able to do that, not just in some parts of Scotland but right across the country. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that one in 10 training places is going unfilled, what action is it taking to encourage more people into teaching? The Government is determined to create an education system that is world-class, and teachers have a vital role to play in helping to achieve that ambition. Increasing the number of teacher training places available is crucial, which is why we are taking a number of actions to support universities to meet them. We are spending £88 million this year to make sure that every school has access to the right number of teachers. We are investing £1 million in the Scottish attainment fund to open up new and innovative routes into the profession. I recently launched our new teacher recruitment campaign, Teaching Makes People, building on the success of last year's campaign, which helped to drive a 19 per cent increase in PGDE applications to Scottish universities compared to the previous year. I want to see our universities build on that success and take further steps to attract high-quality students into their teacher education programmes. I thank the minister for that answer. As the Scottish funding council said about last year's cycle, one of the main problems with ensuring a good match between subject targets and intakes is that the timing of the announcement of intakes. An early announcement helps universities to plan and helps the Government's recruitment campaign. Last cycle, the Scottish Government sent guidance to the Scottish funding council in December. When did the Government send their guidance to the Scottish funding council for this cycle? The advice that was sent to the funding council in advance of the announcements that have been made and the decisions that have been set out to enable the universities to take forward the recruitment that is necessary. Daniel Johnson Thank you, Presiding Officer. Maybe I can help the cabinet secretary. The fact is that the Scottish funding council only received its annual guidance from the Scottish Government on 14 February. That is eight weeks later than last year. Last year, it got it before Christmas. This year, it had to wait until Valentine's Day. On the second problem that is identified by the Scottish funding council, the lack of student demand for some subjects, the Government launched a campaign this month, but this was also a month behind last year's efforts. The fact is that universities still do not know what their allocation and how many teaching students that the recruit will be. We also support efforts to boost the number of teachers and support this vital profession. This is rightly a top priority for the Government. Why are the eight weeks behind last year and does the minister commit to do better for next year's recruitment cycle? John Swinney As with most things about the education system, Mr Johnson's enthusiastic support for the Government's approach is very closely veiled by the way in which he articulates his arguments in Parliament. It takes a lot of digging to find out Mr Johnson's firm support for the Government's intention. I would have thought that Mr Johnson would have taken this opportunity to welcome the fact that the Government has significantly increased the number of places that are available for individuals to enter into teacher education and that Mr Johnson would have wanted to weigh in behind the Government's efforts to ensure that more and more young people decide to choose to enter into the teaching profession. That is what our approach is designed to do, to ensure that we can recruit the number of teachers to fill the teacher vacancies, which Mr Johnson is always moaning and whinging about. I was asked a question on Friday at an event in the Cared Holland Dundee in front of hundreds of teachers, and they asked me what would improve the perception of Scottish education. I said that if some members of Parliament improved the way in which they talked about Scottish education, the person that I had uppermost in my mind was Mr Daniel Johnson. I remind members that I am the PLO to the Cabinet Secretary for Education. Clearly, we need to ensure that there are enough places and sufficient take-up of those places at university for teachers, but an important part of that training is the opportunity for probationer teachers. Can the cabinet secretary advise what the Scottish Government does to support probationary teachers and what progress has been made on providing employment to teachers after they complete their probationary year? The Government has, as part of the last local government settlement in 1617, made available £37.6 million to local authorities to secure places for all probationers who require one. We work closely with local authorities to allocate places, and I can confirm that places have already been found for all eligible students since 2002. At the last available census, 87 per cent of probationer teachers were in permanent or temporary employment, which is a very encouraging figure, showing more probationer teachers are finding employment and stability. Has the Scottish Government had any discussions at all with the teacher training bodies to establish how many professionally qualified potential applicants from other jurisdictions would be able to fill some of those places if their qualifications were recognised in Scotland? Well, there are a number of issues that pertain there. One of them is about the free movement of individuals. I would have thought, Liz Smith might have thought more carefully, about asking me the question that she has just asked me, given the position that her United Kingdom Government takes on the approach that individuals have been able to apply to come in to teach in Scotland as a consequence of some of the issues with which we are resting and will be debating in the course of this afternoon. Obviously, in relation to some of the issues about accreditation and registration of teachers, I am in regular dialogue with the General Teaching Council for Scotland to ensure that the General Teaching Council is taking every step that it possibly can do to ensure that individuals who have the requisite qualifications in other jurisdictions, principally south of the border or perhaps in the north of Ireland as well, are able to have the most efficient and seamless transfer of their registration into the Scottish system, although, of course—and I am sure that Liz Smith would agree with me at this point—assuring the quality of any applications that are made by individuals. The GTCS is very firmly focused on that point. In relation to the colleges of education, I have had direct discussions myself with the colleges of education about the importance of those issues, and they have been fully involved in the discussions around the planning of the teacher intake numbers that we take forward. 3. Liam McArthur To ask the Scottish Government whether the Highlands and Islands Enterprise Board will retain its current strategic, operational and budgetary decision-making powers in accordance with the recent vote in the Parliament. As I have mentioned many times before, I remain committed to keeping high firmly in place and at the heart of the Highlands and Islands economy, which is why I ask Professor Lawn Crierer, chair of high to lead discussions with the other agency chairs and some members of the ministerial review group, to provide me with his views on the principles and proposals for a strategic board. I am currently reflecting on the detail of the proposals outlined by Professor Crierer, the views of the ministerial review group and those expressed by wider interests in taking forward the development of the strategic board. I remain committed to the services and support that High provides, and I am happy to listen to members across the chamber in order to discuss the way forward ahead of a statement to Parliament in the coming weeks. 4. Liam McArthur Thank you, cabinet secretary. He might reflect on the views of Inverness-based economist Tony Mackay, who described the Crierer report as a whitewash. If the report's recommendations are implemented, the role of the High's board will be reduced to a mere delivery. It will be answerable to a new centralised superboard, chaired by an SNP minister. The loyalty of High's chair would be to Edinburgh to the minister, with the needs of the Highlands and Islands, our businesses and communities, a secondary consideration. How can the cabinet secretary square that with the expressed will of this Parliament to retain the full, current powers of the High's board? 1. A number of the points that Liam McArthur makes are speculative as to how the strategic board, for example, will be composed and some of the other outcomes that he mentioned. It's also true to say—and he's right to mention—the results or the comments that are made by an individual in the Highlands. There have been a number of different comments. For example, members of Cohe, the Convention of the Highlands and Islands, who, when I and the Deputy First Minister met them last week, expressed support for the continuation of the board. I acknowledge that point, but I also said that the nature of the board had to change to take account of developing circumstances. We've also seen comments from High themselves, which have been supportive. We've also seen comments from a number of other commentators, too. The important point, as I've said a number of times, is to listen to those points, including the points that Liam McArthur has made. I've also asked my office to arrange meetings with each of the other groups to see if they can come to some common ground in relation to this and to listen to the points that I've made. I've said that I've been willing to listen and I've talked to some members from the chamber, but it's much better if we can have direct conversations about that. That's the right spirit to take those things forward. Perhaps some of the fears that Liam McArthur has expressed might not come to fruition, but the best chance of achieving that kind of outcome would surely be to have a dialogue about what might happen in the final stages of phase 2 of the review. Liam McArthur Thank you, Presiding Officer. I've listened carefully to what the cabinet secretary said, and let me make it clear that I don't believe that this is about the political affiliation of the minister. This is an arrangement that I would not support under any minister at all. Professor Jim Hunter is right when he says that this is centralism run riot. He remains unconvinced in the press and journal yesterday. He said that the changes would subject highs no longer autonomous board to constant outside oversight and direction, claiming that it will be, quote, no good for the Highlands and Islands or for Scotland. The cabinet secretary mentioned the discussions at the convention of the Highlands and Islands in Shetland last week. Can he tell the chamber whether the convention backed his latest proposals? The cabinet secretary said that the convention didn't have sites of long careers and proposals at that time that were not published. It did have a number of characteristics of what he had to say. There was strong support from what he had to say, but I want to acknowledge the fact that it did not have the full detail of that at that time. It was in advance of the ministerial review group. The two defining characteristics of the response was general support for the attention of a board for high. I have mentioned that already, but also an acknowledgement of the nature of that board had to change. In two other points, one that the board itself had to change because circumstances had changed. Most particularly, the point about the regional development assistance, which the Highlands and Islands have had through the European Union over many years, and the threat that Brexit presents to the continuation of that development. That was a matter of real concern, and for that reason, if for no other, the acknowledgement was that things had to change. In addition to that, the need for collaboration is a vital part of Lorne Crerar's report. If we take the example of the aluminium smelter at Fort William, that was a result of work done by Scottish Enterprise ministers and people from different agencies collaborating, that kind of thing should happen automatically. That is what Lorne Crerar was pointing towards, but, as I said, those are Lorne Crerar's proposals. Those are not the proposals of the Scottish Government. We are willing to listen and to discuss it with willing partners. The Crerar report recommends retention of the high board. However, it will be subject to the strategic board and therefore to the control of the Scottish Government. High was set up to benefit the Highlands and Islands. Can I ask the minister whether he listened to public opinion, and could he also explain to the Parliament why Government-backed benchers had access to the Crerar report and thereby so did the press before other members of the Parliament? I think that I have said on a number of occasions that, yes, of course, I am willing to listen to different shades of opinion. I have made that point repeatedly. What I have not had yet is the direct conversations that would support that listening exercise. As I said, I have contacted the other parties to say that if they want to have that discussion, then I am more than happy to do that. To do that in advance of the statement, when I will come back to Parliament in the next few weeks to say what the outcome or view is on the Government's review held by Lorne Crerar. I think that Lorne Crerar has undertaken a tremendous piece of work. He has not undertaken it under the direction of ministers. He has been asked to do this. He has discussed it with other agency chairs. It is a broad-pace piece of work. He tries to take forward the number of things that different members and parties in the chamber all say that they are committed to raising Scotland's economic performance, to ensure that we do it in a much more collaborative way among the agencies. I would have thought that, if we had that as a starting point, we could certainly agree on some of the other issues around the nature of the strategic board and how collaboration should best work. I am more than happy to have that discussion with Rora Grant and other members across the chamber. I have made the offer before. It is a sincere offer and I hope that members will take it up.


Uh, yeah, let's move. Come on, keep Moe Boxing on me, boy. Just ruin his day with fears, man. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Moe Boxers in shambles, bro.


I got to get this story, man, so you guys end up on Def Jam. How does that happen? Is Gutter Y'all's manager at the time or no?  Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. She is beautiful. She is talented. She's one of the ones that I look at as one of the ones that I call staples in the whole Dallas area, the south. You know what I'm saying? Because I got this little chart I keep and I insert more as I be like, we better than everybody because of this one. And she wanted them ones, man. I appreciate it. Since Mali is in the building. I appreciate that. Big dog for sure. Niggas don't be respecting me. Man, please, these niggas in trouble. I'm here now.  I got to get this story, man. So you guys end up on Def Jam. How does that happen? Is Gutter Y'all's manager at the time or no?  Okay. He was my manager.  Had like 20 people on live and one of those 20 people was a fan of us screen recorded it. Screen recorded us dancing to 223. And then Brooke woke up posted it on Twitter. We were like a million views.  And that was your first million views. Yeah, yeah. It was just a video of us on live dancing. Like not even dancing. We were just like rapping our song, you know? And then so we check our emails. We both get an email from a Def Jam and our time about, hey, we seen your video. We like it.  Next thing you know, we find out meeting with all the labels. We in New York meeting with everybody, but Def Jam actually like, they spending money on us before we sign. Wow. That's the, that's the determining factor. So is that why you chose? Hell nah. We chose them just because we felt at home with them. Like they wasn't pushing too much. They wasn't doing too much. They just felt good at the time. The only reason why I wasn't good no more is because our original team left. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah. Like the team that we had behind us were not even our team. All the teams left. Like everybody. Why did everybody leave them? Def Jam got a new thing going on and they just knew new roster, new employees. Rosenberg left the CEO. He left like, you know, so it was just not it. No more. They wanted to, they wanted to do a new like venture with me. Let's use the word venture a new route with me.  I'm like, no, I'm done. Right. I don't want to be here. And they're like, well, I'm like, I'm done. But when you have a contract, can you just do that? No, but that's the thing. They broke our contract basically.  All right. Let me go.  Was this a 360 deal?  Was this a 360 deal?  First, that's what I heard. I listen, listen. So they were, we had a video. You know, we had a song with Lil Yachty. We have a song with Lil Yachty. I seen it. I asked about that. Yeah.  So the video got canceled, you know, and it settled him back during like, come on. We got this company and said, like, you know, this is a treatment for this video. Let's go. They didn't do that. They slowed down after that should happen. Team left. Now we're not at the top of the show because at the time Danny Lay is top of the show. You know, like that's how a label work. They not, it's a priority, priority list.  Like, you know, and when you do have those numbers, they're going to put more behind them numbers to make sure they stay high. So, you know, at that time it was Danny Lay.  And so we just wasn't, we were the priority. Yeah. That's so crazy. In business, always a numbers game is who producing more is who making more money. At that time, they signed like 15 people, you know. So when everybody left, they didn't know what to do with those 15 people because now those new A&Rs are signing 15 more people. So now it's just like, we got 30 folks in here that we don't even know what to do with. Did anybody else leave? Like, all the 15 people that you're talking about. We had, um, yeah, what was it called? Undisputed. I don't know if y'all seen that, Def Jam Drop Undisputed. And basically, everybody's gone.


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Maybe once again, all the learning points are moving forward. Perfect. Next up, not talking about PRSA, but about living PQC culture is an adversity. And here's Mike, go. All right, thanks. This is another way to categorize broken submissions. Instead of by a kind of submission, you can do an ad-homnot characterization, asking where these submissions came from. And there's a particular European project. There's a conference called PQC, that's with capital PQC. And there's this European project, PQC with all the capitals. And that one submitted 22 of the proposals to NIST, of which zero has experienced attacks. And then, in fact, are there any attacks at all? Any with zero broken? And then there's the other 47 submissions, of which a third are broken. And, well, the PQC Crypto project also has looked at everything into a library. So that's with the PQC Crypto. And that you can get from livepqcrypto.org, HTTBS works with the PQC Crypto.org. And only pre-prolonged HTTBS. And that one includes 77 different systems from 19 of these 22 submissions. Of course, each submission has things like different security levels, or whatever, different options. So 77 systems, total of the signature system, 27 encryption systems. This includes much more serious tests than the NIST test framework. So this is something where, if you plug in other submissions into this test framework, you'll catch all sorts of bugs, which aren't caught by NIST's known answer test. There's bindings to, well, first of all, everything's in C, but then beyond that, you can use it from Python 2, Python 3, the command line, and from the command line, you can use it from lots of other languages. There's also command line tools for just collecting benchmarks in the sizes, things, the speed of things. So this is an ongoing project, extending past the end of the PQC Crypto project. The people have patches, gestures for things to do. We have all sorts of internal code reorganization that we're working on. Of course, making things faster on multiple machines, improving the internal, for instance, there's like 50 different implementations of the Ketchak, that's obviously not how things should be, it should all be centralized and optimized in one implementation. So this is something which we're going to be improving moving forward. If you want to try playing with post-bond cartography and use nice simple interface for it, this is just like the well-known sol, tween sol in the Soviet Supercop, et cetera, so you find it easy to use just like other applications and try dropping it into your application, see how it goes. That's it, thanks for your attention.


Hi everyone, it's MJ, the fellow actor, and in this video I want to talk about Sklar's Theorem. Now, I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly, Abe Sklar. So he was an American who basically put forward this theorem in 1959. What he did is he wrote a letter to a very prominent statistician, Maurice René Frichet. I don't know if I'm pronouncing the French properly, who was doing a lot of work around joint distributions in 1956. Sklar writes to him in 1959, Maurice polishes up a little bit of his French, changes one or two things, and then publishes this as Sklar's Theorem in a French Journal. And essentially the theorem is as follows. It says, let f of x and f of y be marginal cumulative distribution functions of two random variables x and y, which means f of x is equal to the probability that x is less than an x and the f of y is equal to the probability that y is less of y. Then it says, let fx of y be a joint cumulative distribution function such that fx of y is equal to the probability of x less than x, given that y is less than y. And then here comes the magic. It says, then fx of y is linked to f of x and f of y through a copula or the joint distribution is linked to the marginal distributions through a copula. And thus we get this basic formula or this framework for the copulas, which says the fx of y is equal to this copula function, which is taking two marginal distributions as its input. Now, if you're writing the actual exam and they ask you to state Sklar's Theorem, do not forget the following point, because this is going to get you your final half mark. And that is to say that because Sklar also said, and if f of x and f of y are continuous, then the copula is going to be unique. Anyway, that is Sklar's Theorem. Thank you so much for watching.


I decided that I wanted to go back to school to be administrative professional. My mother and my sister graduated from LTC last May. And when we were leaving the school, I told my mom, cause I really didn't talk to my mom about it yet. And we were walking out and they had like a stand of all the different like programs that they have of all their gen, their core classes and all that stuff. And my mom's like, well, why don't we just grab this right away? So, my mom kind of pushed me a little bit further. And then I walked into LTC to talk about signing up and the gentleman that helped me was amazing. Helped me through everything to get signed up for everything. And I got into it and I ended up becoming a tutor in my first semester. I tutored three girls, three ladies in my classes and still tutoring them now. And I had the opportunity to get a position as a student help in the president's office with Mike Lancer. So I'm working there right now and I'm looking forward to what comes with the next year.


Scott, thanks for taking the time today. Just wanted to ask you about Imani Hooker and just the development you've seen out of him. Yeah, hi, Kayla. Appreciate you asking a question about Imani. Imani's done a really good job in this second year of really trying to understand the NFL game, really trying to understand our defense and really do a deep dive into our defensive scheme over the Zoom time and everything else. And then over these first few weeks of practices, you can see improvement with him in some of the things we've asked him to improve and whether that's open field tackling, whether that's being able to make some plays in space or make some plays on the ball, you can see him trying to improve those things. And so I've been happy with his progress so far and look forward to continued progress before we get to September 14th. Harry? Scott, if you were to sum up Mike Vrable, his coaching style and the way he goes about his business in running this team in a sentence or two or a word or two, what would that be? His coaching style or how he runs the team, I just want to make sure I... Both, both. If you could sum that up in a couple of sentences, what would it be? Gotcha, gotcha. Well, you know, again, I don't want to speak for Mike Vrable, but from my perspective, Mike Vrable is a hands-on head coach who is very detail-oriented and is involved in all three aspects of the game. And he wants to impress the same competitiveness on every single play, every single drive, every single game that he had when he played and put that into our team and make it the blueprint. Thanks. Rex Road? Got that on mute, Rex Road? Well, shoot, does that mean I was unmuted and I muted? I'm sorry, sorry about that. I'm still learning Zoom. Yes, Scott, thanks for doing this. I just, I wanted to ask you about Kenny and Kevin and their chemistry back there. And I guess their versatility too to sort of do everything. How important is, you know, the communication chemistry between them in terms of how they both do their jobs? Hey, Joe, appreciate you asking that about those two guys. So, you know, Kenny and Kevin, really in their third year in our defense, have a really good chemistry back there. They're able to communicate both verbally and non-verbally, which is great. And, you know, you can see that in some of the things that we do on the field. And then just talking about them as far as leadership and all that type of stuff. Both of them have taken a big step in leadership of not only the defense of back room, but I'd say of our defense as well, just being able to be a veteran voices back there. Thanks. Hang on for me just one sec. Paul? Hey, Book, how much is Dane missing out on right now and how to try to keep him up to speed?   And so that's exactly what we're doing with everybody, you know, who's not able to be out there. So he's been engaged. He's been doing all the things as far as, you know, in the meeting and stuff like that and doing extra stuff as well. So we'll continue to do that as long as we need to. Rex Road? It's got a following up on Kevin and Kenny. How would you, I guess, compare their skill sets to each other and I think we have a good feel for obviously Kevin's leadership, as you mentioned. You know, that's obviously been building since he's been with the Titans. What about Kenny in particular as a leader, as a vocal presence? You know, how are they the same maybe? How are they different? Yep, Joe, I appreciate that. And Joe, you know, I actually didn't answer the question about versatility. So I actually want to touch about their versatility as far as comparing them. I don't really want to get into the comparison of each other, but talking about both their versatility, both Kenny and Kevin, you know, Kenny playing at another, you know, on another team and stuff like that. He's done a lot in his, you know, six or seven years in the NFL. So he's shown a great deal of versatility with us and in his past teams. And then obviously Kevin, same thing, you know, as far as just being with us, but he's obviously been in another system before we came here. And his versatility to play in the post, play man to man, you know, and do everything we need him to do has been pretty evident. And then like I said, with Kenny being able to do multiple things as well, it's a big plus for us so that we don't have to put one guy in a certain position and one guy in another position. We're able to use them in multiple ways. As far as Kenny's leadership, you know, Kenny came in here almost two years to the day and really just has been the same person since he came in. And really what I mean by that is that he is one of the hardest workers. We have one of the first guys in the building and that hasn't changed since, like I said, the first day you got here until right now. And he's honestly one of our most intense defensive backs. He loves the game. And his leadership style is that he shows everybody how much he loves the game, holds himself to a high standard and will hold other guys to the same standard that he holds himself to on a daily basis, on a play-by-play basis, see how physical he plays out on the field and he demands that from his teammates. And like I said, he just works very hard and a really good job, especially for the younger guys that we have in the defensive back room. That ability to interchange those guys, would you say it's unique or would you say maybe you guys have a little bit more ability to do that than other teams do with their safeties? Shoot, I don't know if I can answer that. All I'll say is that it's great for us. It's great for us that we can interchange those guys and those guys aren't pigeonholed as far as this guy's type of safety and this guy's that type of safety. So for us and what we do in our defense, that's really how we want to operate. We don't want to put our safeties into saying that they're just this one type box guy and this other guy can't play in the box. So it's been great to have these past two years going on the three years. Awesome, thanks, we appreciate it. Jim. Hey, Scott, good to see you. I'll ask you a question about a couple of guys. I guess one's Amani and we had him on a Zoom yesterday talk about wanting to lose some weight to play faster. Are you seeing that from last year to this year and is that something that he thought he should do or somebody else say, hey, it might be a good idea to help your speed if you lose a little bit of weight? Yeah, I think, you know, definitely like I said before with the other question about Amani that he's really taking strides into doing things that we've asked him to do from year one to year two. And after every season, we touch base with our guys and give them goals on the field, off the field, weight room-wise and also with their weight. And so with discussion with a lot of people, Amani did lose a couple pounds and I think he's more comfortable at that weight. And more importantly, just from my perspective, I see that he is playing at a faster rate. So yeah, I think that's been beneficial to him. What's kind of next for him? I mean, he played a lot, certainly played in every game, a lot of special teams, but what's his next step in year two? Yeah, I think we're emphasizing with him just the development of our defense and not just knowing exactly what's on that piece of paper, but bringing that piece of paper to life, the playbook, bring that playbook to life and putting his twist and spin on it, obviously within our defense, but still being able to put his own twist on it. And then also just emphasizing with him along with our other players, safety is making plays. We're putting a lot of positions at the safety position here with our defense to make plays. And whether that is to be able to make tackles, to be able to break up balls, to be able to have interceptions, all that types of things you can see from our safety position. And we wanna make sure specifically Taimanamani that he is making those plays when they come to him. And last one from me on Chris Jackson, it seems like he's a pretty feisty guy on the practice field. What have you just seen from him? And what's he maybe need to improve on moving forward? Yeah, I think what you probably don't see obviously on the practice field that we see is just his attention to detail in the classroom. He really is a student of the game, really smart. And then on the field, the thing has been the improvement from day one. He didn't have OTAs as a rookie. You know, his first practice was obviously in late July and just see the improvement from late July until August 25th practice was our last practice, has been great to see. Every now and he improves in one aspect of his game and you keep on putting those type of days together. And he has pretty productive camp as a rookie. Obviously a lot of things work on and he by no means has mastered anything, but just the day improvement has been a great thing to see. Thank you, Scott. Hey, Kim, if no one else is in here, I may slide in one more. Okay, go ahead, Jim. I was just gonna ask you, I know it helps you, Scott, that you've got a lot of guys returning that have been with you in the past, but what has camp been like as far as a teaching, from a teaching perspective? You have to do that more now that you maybe wouldn't have done if you had OTAs in many camps.  Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. First off, I think that the Zoom meetings, the way our guys approached them, allowed us to get a lot of things taught, obviously in the classroom. So that's a positive. And then they retained a lot of that information too that was taught. So that's a positive too. When we came back and we taught to them and we're in a classroom, there was a lot of retention of discussion. But as far on the field, there's no question that not having the OTAs with our footwork, with ball skills, tackling all those things that you just build upon in those OTA practices. We were playing a bit of catch up, but nobody had OTAs. So we're all a lot of the same amount of time during this time in practice. And so we're making sure that we hit all of those things as far as our fundamentals and our everyday drills and our both skills every single day. And maybe making sure that we get them a little harder or making sure we're a little bit more intentional with them because we know we didn't get them in May and June. But yeah, we're hard.


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