The Philippines is the United States' oldest ally in the Indo-Pacific. Our relationship is based on the shared interests and values of Americans and Filipinos, including our abiding commitment to democracy. For decades, we've worked together to promote peace and stability across the region, and we're growing that effective partnership in scale and scope every single day, including through very productive, very rich discussions today. Our security alliance is an enduring source of strength for both of our nations. Today, we focused on ways to continue our close partnership under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement so that our forces can work even more closely together, including to provide humanitarian assistance and respond to disasters. Secretary Austin and I also reaffirmed the United States unwavering commitment to standing with the Philippines against any intimidation or coercion, including in the South China Sea, and to preserving a region that's governed by international law where goods and ideas and people can move freely. We also discussed deepening our robust economic ties, including through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity. We're working closely with other IPEF partners to build out this framework to help our economies grow faster and fair so that all our people can reach their full potential, lead on issues shaping the 21st century economy, and do it in a way that is sustainable for our planet. One way that we're putting our partnership through IPEF to work is by collaborating to increase economic opportunities for women and girls in the Philippines. We're providing training in growing industries like data science and artificial intelligence, where women have been underrepresented and boosting digital literacy rates. And more broadly, as we discussed today, we're committed to expanding our economic cooperation across the board. Indeed, we discussed a number of areas where we can deepen our collaboration cooperation in pursuit of that goal. Together, we're stepping up to address global challenges that no country can solve alone. We discussed our shared efforts to combat the climate crisis and strengthen energy security. The United States is committed to helping the Philippines reach its ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent by 2030. To do that, the U.S. government and critically, the private sector, are supporting the growth of the offshore wind market, the development of nickel and cobalt facilities that will help the Philippines sustainable process minerals essential to the clean energy transition. We're also providing technical assistance and regulatory guidance to support the growth of the Philippine Civil Nuclear Energy Program. We're looking to grow our cooperation through a 123 agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, which will make it easier for us to share technical knowledge as well as nuclear material and equipment. We're delivering solutions to the food security challenges impacting the Philippines, like so many other countries. Philippines-based companies, with the support of the United States government and the American private sector, are making impressive progress in developing climate-smart food systems, increasing their productivity and the sustainability of their supply chains. We're looking forward to continuing this progress at the inaugural U.S.-Philippines Food Security Dialogue a little bit later this year. We're able to do this work not only because of the partnership between our governments, but also because of the partnership between our peoples. This year, we're celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright program in the Philippines, the longest-running Fulbright program in the world. More than 22,000 Filipinos have come to the United States of the Fulbright and other U.S. exchange programs, enriching our communities with their perspectives and experiences, innovating and launching businesses, building enduring bonds between our people, bonds that to this day renew and revitalize the friendship between our countries. Across all of these areas and more, the United States values and is proud of our robust and deepening partnership with the Philippines. Secretary Austin and I appreciated the opportunity to discuss in depth how we'll make this essential relationship even stronger in the months and years ahead. So really grateful to our colleagues for being here today, grateful to their teams, the hard work that's been done, but not grateful simply for their presence, but also the spirit in which together we are working to strengthen the bonds between our countries. Ricky, over to you. Thank you very much, Tony. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III. Senior Undersecretary in OIC, Carlito G. Galvez Jr. Friends from the media, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I'm very pleased to be here in Washington and to address all of you today. Some of you were with Secretary Blinken when we held our first meeting in our current capacities in Manila last August. We agreed then to work together in sustaining the positive momentum and trajectory of Philippine U.S. relations, including by reconvening our two plus two ministerial dialogue in 2023. And I'm happy to report that we have, in fact, followed through on that commitment. Today is only the third iteration of our dialogue in the two plus two format since it was established in 2012. After a seven year gap since the second meeting in 2016, this meeting holds particular significance as it further reaffirms our shared commitment to advancing our common priorities as treaty allies and close partners amidst evolving regional and global security challenges. The joint statement we will issue today in the various areas it covers demonstrates the breadth and depth of our bilateral relationship. We've reached a number of key understandings that the Philippines believes will truly elevate our relationship and translate into direct, substantial and tangible benefits for our peoples and countries. At today's meeting, we redoubled our commitment to modernizing the Philippine U.S. alliance, recognizing that our partnership will need to play a stronger role in preserving an international law-based international order. This means ensuring the conduct of high level and high impact, high value joint exercises, trainings, and other related activities. We especially welcome the United States pledge to fast track and ramp up support for the modernization of our defense, civilian law enforcement, and humanitarian assistance and disaster response capabilities, especially in the maritime domain, as well as the implementation of EDCA projects and investments in and around EDCA agreed locations. I wish to point out that we also underscored the importance of equally ensuring that our modern alliance not only serves as an instrument of peace, but it shall also be a force for good that brings about sustained economic benefits to our two countries down to our local communities. Our discussions and proposed ways forward are aligned with the Philippines' priorities on agriculture, food security, promoting energy security as we transition to clean energy, boosting trade, and building resilience of our supply chains, as well as enhancing connectivity and digitalization. Our discussions focus also on areas such as economic cooperation, climate change, renewable energy, economic resilience, and economic security. Thank you. Well, good afternoon. Secretary Blinken, Secretary Manalo, and Secretary Galvez, I'm honored to be here with you today for the third U.S.-Philippines 2-plus-2 ministerial dialogue. As you've heard, it's the first of its kind in seven years. But first, let me just say a few words about the story that I know many of you are tracking. I was first briefed on the reports of unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified material on the morning of April 6th. And since then, I've been convening senior department leaders daily on our response, and I've directed an urgent cross-department effort. And we've referred the matter to the Department of Justice, which has opened a criminal investigation. Now, I can't say much more while the Justice Department's investigation is ongoing, but we take this very seriously. And we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners, and nothing will ever stop us from keeping America secure. Now, let me turn to today's important discussions. We've come together at an historic moment in our alliance. For more than seven decades, U.S. and Philippine forces have trained and fought alongside each other. And today we're building on those bonds to bring greater security, stability, and prosperity to the Indo-Pacific for the next 70 years and beyond. The commitments that we made today will spur even deeper cooperation to help ensure that we're poised to tackle the defining challenges of our time. Together, we all reaffirmed today that our Mutual Defense Treaty remains the bedrock of our cooperation. As Secretary Blinken and I have said clearly and repeatedly, the Mutual Defense Treaty applies to armed attacks on either of our armed forces, our aircraft, or public vessels, including our Coast Guard, anywhere in the South China Sea. And so today we built on our work together during my recent visit to Manila and discussed plans to operationalize the four U.S. and Philippine forces. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. First of all, we would like to take this moment to express our propundice thanks to the U.S. We are grateful to the U.S. government and the American people for their kind assistance in our current environmental sea disaster in containing the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro. Upon our request for assistance, the Secretary depends, the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Navy manifested their unwavering support through its deployment of the remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, as well as the technical support provided by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to help contain an oil spill. The timely and efficient response of our allies in providing the technical and material support, amounting to more than 20 million U.S. dollars, was very instrumental in mitigating the impact of this environmental disaster on our coastal communities that might impact millions of Filipino people. The aid and cooperation demonstrates the strength of the Philippine U.S. Defense Alliance. And we are very proud to be partner of the United States and your commitment to assisting us in this time of need has reinforced the bond of friendship and mutual trust between our nations. We will not forget. As the Boxing Star, I would like also to reiterate our appreciation for the 3.6 million vaccine doses donated by the U.S. government to the Philippines, which saved millions of Filipino lives and helped our economy to recover. Today, we have just concluded the third two-plus-two ministerial meeting between the Philippines and the United States. And I am pleased to announce that it had been a most productive meeting which expanded to even to economic security. The last time the two-plus-two ministerial consultation were convened, when is January 2016, the fact that we are able to convene once again, highlights the continued importance and relevance of our partnership and the need for continued dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest. It is also noteworthy that this is the first time the meeting will be convened under the Marcos administration, which highlights the Philippine government's commitment to strengthening our alliance with the United States. Our meeting today will set a direction that we would like to be the Philippine-U.S. alliance to take in consideration of our present-day realities and common security challenges. Along this line, I wish to emphasize the strength and the credibility of the Philippine-U.S. defense alliance, which is founded on a shared commitment to regional peace, stability, and security. Our partnership has weathered many challenges in the past and continues to stand strong today. We reaffirm our commitment to the mutual defense treaty, which is our cornerstone of our partnership. Our defense establishment recognized the need to work together to enhance our interoperability, increase our defense capacity, and build our resilience against emerging challenges. To this end, we agreed to explore new areas of cooperation and deepen our existing partnership in key areas, such as mutual defense, maritime security, and information intelligence sharing, and joint sales and solidarity patrols. We also welcome the ongoing conduct of the biggest-ever exercise Malikatan, which involved 70,000 forces, 12,000 U.S. personnel, 5,000 AP personnel, and 111 Australian defense forces. And observers from other like-minded countries with capacity states are armed forces to train and operate together, improve interoperability, and enhance our respective capabilities. With the announcement of the four additional sites where enhanced defense cooperation agreement agreed locations can be developed, and we reaffirm our commitment to work together in implementing EDCA through the completion of both existing and potential projects. Lastly, we discuss opportunities for future cooperation with like-minded partners in the region. We recognize that we cannot address such a wide range of security challenges, and that we need to work with other countries to share our interests in accordance with our respective national laws and policies. We reaffirm the commitment to sustain regular exchanges through existing platforms, namely the 2-plus-2 ministerial consultations, bilateral strategic dialogue, the Mutual Defense Board Security Engagement Board, and among others. In conclusion, I want to emphasize that the Philippine-U.S. Defense Alliance is strong and credible, and we are committed to modernizing our alliance to meet the evolving security challenges of the region. This alliance is for peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. We'll take three questions. First, we'll go to Dmitri Sevastopolou with the Financial Times. Thank you. Good afternoon. I have questions for both sides. Secretary Austin, can you give us a sense of what kinds and numbers of military assets and personnel that you intend to position or rotate through the Etikocytes in the Philippines? And can you explain how specifically does this enhanced cooperation increase your ability to prepare for any possible conflict with China over Taiwan? And to Secretaries Manalo and Galvez, how will the Etikocytes be used if the U.S. and China go to war over Taiwan? And will there be any restrictions on what the U.S. military can do with the sites? And finally, Secretary Blinken, this is a China question. Your relations with China appear to be deteriorating continuously with only sporadic signs of positive developments. Is this the long-term future of U.S. relations with China, or is there some kind of a realistic way to turn things around and when do you expect to go to Beijing? Thank you. Well, thanks for your question, Dmitri. EDCA is a key pillar to our alliance. It provides us the opportunity to train together to increase interoperability. And you know, Dmitri, interoperability is not something that you can show up at the last moment and snap your fingers and achieve. It's something that you got to work on each and every day. And so the addition of these EDCA sites puts us in a position to be able to not only train together, but also respond to meet the needs of the Philippines in the event of a crisis like a natural disaster or a requirement to rapidly provide humanitarian assistance. And so I think it helps us not only work together, but it helps us address the needs of the Philippines as well. And I think it's essential to our ability to strengthen our combined deterrence posture. I think it's a bit early to try to discuss numbers and specific timing of rotations, but certainly these are things that Secretary Galvez and I will continue to work on going forward. But again, it is a tremendous opportunity. I would finally emphasize that whatever we do in the future in terms of rotations and numbers of troops, it is a joint decision between the Philippines and the Philippine government and the US government. So again, a great opportunity. I'm excited about the ability to increase interoperability and look forward to continuing our great work together. Thank you very much for your question. What I can say at this stage is that the new sites that have been identified, the new EDCA sites, are mainly aimed at increasing or improving interoperability as well as addressing potential human, humanitarian disasters or climate related disasters. And in operationalizing these sites, of course, much work still has to be done. We have to identify the terms and references, how these activities will be undertaken. So I don't think we're really at any stage yet to answer how they might be used. They're still open to discussion. But I think we have already reached an understanding that the basic elements of these sites would be, the basic purposes of these sites would be to address humanitarian disaster related events to increase and improve interoperability and training of Filipino and American assets and also to be in a position to improve interoperability and perhaps respond to other types of security challenges. Dimitri, with regard to China, you've heard me say before, Secretary Austin, others say before that the relationship between our countries is among the most consequential and also the most complex of any that we have. The same could probably be said for many other countries. We're not reducing it to a bumper sticker, as again I've said before. It has different aspects to it. Certainly competitive, cooperative in other respects, and in some instances, more adversarial. What we've been working to do, first of all, is to make sure that when it comes to our own strategy and our own approach we're following through on it, making investments in ourselves and our strength at home, we've done that, aligning increasingly with partners around the world, whether that's in Europe and Asia, and we've done that with greater conversions than I've seen at any time with key partners on the approach to some of the challenges posed by China and putting those assets together so that we're competing very vigorously in upholding our interests, upholding our values and building our vision for the future. What I hear from countries around the world and what I believe is profoundly in our interest is for us to manage the relationship with China responsibly. And our goal is peace, security, stability, creating opportunity. It's not to engage in a new Cold War, it's not to contain China. But in doing that, in trying to advance a world that is peaceful, secure, stable, and with more opportunity, we're going to stand up very vigorously for our values and for our interests, and we're doing that with regard to China. We're also prepared to work cooperatively with China where it's in our interest and their interest, and I believe in the interest of the world. And there are a number of issues that we've laid out, transnational challenges that no one country can solve alone, where it would benefit all of us and benefit the world for us to find ways to work together. Through all of this, it's, I believe, important to maintain channels of communication, to make sure that we're speaking to each other clearly, and we've certainly continued to do that, even through what's been a challenging period in our relationship. I think as our two presidents agreed when they met in Bali at the end of last year at the G20, it would be important to continue to find ways to strengthen those channels of communication. So we'll see, we look to do that in the time ahead. And when it comes to my own visit to China, when the conditions are right, I'll certainly look forward to pursuing that. We'll next go to Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. Thank you very much. Secretary Austin, you just said that you first learned about the leaked documents on the 6th of April. They've been online for months. Why didn't US intelligence, the rest of US government see that those leaked documents online for all those months? Is that an intelligence failure? And I'd like to ask Secretary Blinken that same issue, as well as your conversations with Foreign Minister Kuleba of Ukraine. We have seen documents that indicate that Ukraine has crossed with Ukrainian agents working for the government, have launched drone attacks in Russia and in Belarus, contrary to commitments that they would not do that. Are you concerned that this would will undermine Western support for Ukraine? And can you talk about the overall damage that these leaks have caused to our reputation for handling intelligence with our closest allies? And Mr. Foreign Minister, do you have concerns about sharing intelligence with the United States given the fact that these leaked documents were online for so many months? Thanks Andrea. The documents that we are aware of are dated the 28th of February 1st of March. I don't know if there are other documents that have been online before. These are things that we will find out as we continue to investigate. But the documents that we are focused on thus far, 28th of February and the 1st of March, again, we will continue to investigate and try to determine the full scope of the activity. Well, there were somewhere in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point. We simply don't know at this point. So, and again, I won't speculate, Andrea. I will tell you that we take this very seriously and we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it. I don't have much to add beyond what the Secretary said. Let me just say with regard to broadly allies and partners and these documents we have engaged with allies and partners at high levels over the past days, including to reassure them about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence and, of course, our commitment to our security partnerships. With regard to Ukraine itself, I did speak to Foreign Minister Koleba today and in speaking to him, among other things, I reaffirmed our enduring support for Ukraine and for its efforts to defend its territorial integrity, its sovereignty, its independence. Reaffirmed the extraordinary support that we have provided to Ukraine along with dozens of other countries over the last year to help it defend itself. Support that will be ongoing, indeed, as you've seen just as recently as week, additional support that was provided. I'm not gonna comment on specific actions that Ukraine takes when it comes to defending its sovereignty, its territorial integrity, but we are determined to assist Ukraine in the efforts that it's making to regain the territory that's been seized from it. And I reaffirmed that commitment today in speaking to Foreign Minister Koleba.  Again, I'm not gonna speak directly to any particular actions and I'm certainly not gonna comment on these purported documents, but Ukraine has to make decisions about how it can most effectively defend itself against Russian aggression and take back the territory that's been seized from it. We give our advice as appropriate. We provide the support that is well known, but Ukraine makes the decisions about how it actually prosecutes the effort to regain its territory. First, let me also share the view of Secretary Blinken that we are very confident after especially for today's meeting, the commitment to our alliance and our partnership. And I really don't want to jump to any speculation or jump to any conclusions at this stage. We have full confidence in the investigation that will be undertaken. And certainly we would have to wait for the results before we can even comment, but just let me say that we are confident of the strength of our relationship and our growing partnership. Final question, Will Molden of the Wall Street Journal. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. First, under Secretary Galvez, they mentioned exercise is gonna take place later this year in the South China Sea. I wonder what countries would be involved in those exercises and whether there are any concerns that these exercises or the ongoing ones or different steps that the US is taking with its allies and partners in the region would generate a response, a dangerous response from China. For Secretary Austin, I wanted to ask, irregardless of where the investigation into the documents takes us or the veracity of the documents, they're posted online and definitely seen by the Russians as well as the Ukrainians. I wonder to what degree this will affect the tactics of the expected Ukrainian offensive this spring or summer. How, to what degree would their tactics need to change? To what degree will you recommend changes in those tactics? Finally, for Secretary Blinken, I wanted to ask about my good friend and colleague, Evan Groskovich, you found him wrongfully detained and so wanted to ask when your staff will be able to get consular access to him in Russia, what's taking so long there and will there be any leverage that you can exert? Is there any leverage that you can exert to get Russia to provide that access and what strategies will you work on and will the administration be working on to free him? Thank you. The Balikatan exercise is its 38 iteration and it's been, we're doing the Balikatan yearly and we don't expect any violent reaction considering that this exercise is intended for our collective defense with the U.S. and other allies. For today, for this Balikatan, we have the participation of, as I said earlier, 17,000 troops, including 12,000 Americans, 5,000 Filipinos and 111 Australians. We have also observers from the Asian nations and also from other allies and we are happy to say that these exercises have varied exercises on counterterrorism, humanitarian response and also on developing interoperability with our U.S. forces and also our Australian friends. Well, thanks for the question. I just spoke with my counterpart in Ukraine today, Minister Olexei Reznikov. We talked about a number of issues, but as we typically do, but he and the leadership remain focused on the task at hand and I have every confidence that they will do what good leaders, great leaders do, they will fight the enemy and not be driven by a specific plan. They have a great plan to start and but only President Zelensky and his leadership really know the full details of that plan. So, you know, they have much of the capability that they need to continue to be successful. We've trained an enormous number of troops. We've provided a substantial number of platforms and so I think he feels that they're in a pretty good position and we'll stay focused on continuing to generate security assistance capability so that they can continue to be successful, whatever they choose to take up offensive operations. And again, the sustainment will be there throughout. We'll stay connected with our allies and partners. We next meet, you know, for our next round of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting on the 21st and I look forward to seeing him and the rest of our colleagues at that meeting. And we'll ask your question regarding Evan. Yes, I made the determination yesterday that he is being wrongfully detained by Russia. President Biden had an opportunity to speak to his family today, I believe I've spoken to your colleagues, including leadership of the Wall Street Journal multiple times about Evan's situation. When I spoke to Foreign Minister Lavrov about a week ago now, just after Evan was detained, I of course pressed for his immediate release but I also pressed for immediate consular access to him. The fact that Russia has not granted that access puts it once again in violation of international commitments it's made, commitments that are at the heart of diplomatic relations between countries and the ability of our citizens as well to be able to safely be present in other countries. I think Russia not following through on meeting its obligations to consular access never mind the practice of detaining people arbitrarily for political purposes is going to do even more damage to Russia's standing around the world, standing that has been in free fall, particularly since its reinvasion of Ukraine last year. And I think it sends a very strong message to people around the world to be aware of even setting foot there lest they be arbitrarily detained and in the context of being arbitrarily detained, not even having access for the diplomats who are there to look out for their interests and who is a matter of solemn international obligations that Russia has undertaken should be allowed that access. I'm not gonna get into what measures, steps we're taking or might take to do that. I can simply tell you that we are engaged every single day in pressing for that access as well as pressing for Evan's release. Thank you, Your Excellencies.


I wanted to ask you about AJ, especially in terms of the yards after catch. He's never necessarily had like the blinding speed, or at least not considered to. And I don't know what his separation is on most routes, but what is it in your mind that despite maybe not being at the top of the charts and some of those numerical fields, he still gets that incredible yards after catch? What's he doing at that point when he catches the ball? He has a lot of power. He's a really strong kid. And when he gets in the open field, his competitive spirit and that power all kind of combined makes it hard to catch. But he's just a powerful guy that understands how to generate that speed and he can hold it because he's so strong. Does he make that catch real quick? Can I have you move your cameras a little bit so we can see you? I'm sorry, man. I apologize. You're good. Go ahead. Sure. I wonder, does he make that kind of transition from, you know, before the ball gets there to catching it and moving with it quicker than most receivers? I think when you have a guy like AJ who's got really strong natural hands, it allows you to get up feel quicker because you're not body catching. You don't have your feet off the ground. His feet are always on the ground. That's why he transitioned so quickly. Okay. Thank you. Jim. Hey, Rob. Hope you're doing well. Adam, I guess, is still trying to find his way back. What are you able to do with him to get him up to speed so when he's ready to return, he hits the ground running?  So I think that's going to bowl well for him. But really just put him through the, you know, the everyday grind that we go through, you know, to make sure that he's, you know, firing on all cylinders. You know, make sure he's got his timing back. Make sure he, you know, gets all the different looks he's going to need to get. But really it's going to be a matter of him, you know, being able to go through a full practice, a full week of practice anyway, you know, to kind of get his feet back and get his timing back. That's what it's going to come down to. And I got one for Corey and I'm sorry if you've been asked this, but just kind of remarkable. The last couple of weeks he's been able to keep on playing and producing despite, you know, losing his brother. How much have you talked to him to try to keep him, keep his mind in it? And what do you say when he's dealing with something like that? You know, fortunately, you know, I've never, you know, I have three brothers of my own and a sister and they're all with me. So I haven't had to deal with that. But, you know, having lost my dad, you know, I was extremely close to, I do have a perspective on it, but it's different for everybody. I think he's done an unbelievable job of being able to reconcile what's happened to him and somehow compartmentalize and be able to focus on the job at hand. You know, but I can't sit here and take credit for anything he's done. He's just done a great job of showing a lot of maturity. Really a lot of, seen a lot of growth and initiative in terms of be able to handle some tough situations.  And that's just something that, you know, we have to tip my hat to him because not everybody can do. And I got one on AJ. I think it was Xavier Rhodes seemed like he got so riled up. I don't know even what he did, but AJ kind of takes a lot of that back and forth with a smile on his face. What's he like from a personality standpoint on the field? He seems like he's got the killer instinct, but he doesn't seem like he gets, does anything mean spirited and always seems to have a good nature about him? Well, I think, you know, anytime we're all as players, we all have those certain things that trigger us and certain things that we may not like when done to us. And it's different for everybody. And it was just the episode in the game where, you know, he did something that he didn't appreciate and he kind of, you know, wanted to send a message to him like, hey, don't do that. And that's basically what happened. Terry? Rob, back on AJ for a minute. How much do you feel like that the drop he had in the first indie game kind of ate at him because it was most likely going to be a touchdown? And do you want guys to just put things like that behind him? Or was he able to kind of use it as motivation because he played really well on Sunday? Oh, yeah, he was really upset with himself. You know, he was really upset with himself because he knew that it was a play that could have gave us some momentum and really could have changed the course of the game. So that's something that he dealt with for a couple of weeks and he had circled this game to kind of redeem himself. But, you know, one of the things we talk about in that room is that we got to have a short memory. You know, we're going to make some mistakes and things are going to happen that we don't want to happen. But this is a week-to-week league and every week you got to find a way to get refocused no matter whether you had a great game or didn't play as well as you want. So that those bad things have happened, they don't become repetitive because we can't put them behind us. And then on another unrelated topic, a lot of times at the wide receiver position, you get productive guys, but a lot of times they have ego and there's baggage like that that comes with them. What's the key with your guys? Why are they so productive but they don't seem to have the ego that a lot of guys bring at that position? You know what, I think Coach Verbal does a great job of really defining for these guys what a team is.  And these guys know that there's nothing that they can't ask for in terms of if there's a need in regards, I need this to be a better player.  But I also think that there is a measure of ego that's involved with it because that's how you survive in this league.  So, you know, there's a certain amount of healthy ego you got to have in order to play at a high level with this league, because so many people tell you what you can't do, what you're not, and all those other things. So, you know, there's a healthy amount of that you got to have and it's just a matter of knowing how to control it and not letting it get in the way of team goals. Toronto. It was so close looking at AJ and some of the things that you guys have worked on you're seeing improvement there like with the hand to hand within the routes and just being able to be more sudden at the line because they're playing closer. How would you say he's progressed with the work that you guys have done and what's happening in games now. He's still a working in progress. When it comes to that, I think he's gotten a lot better, you know, at the top of the route, turns to being able to play with his hands and understanding how to disengage and all those things. But at the line of scrimmage, you know, we still have some work to do. But the one thing about him is, is he's constantly trying to find ways to get better. And he's one of those guys that'll put the work in to get it done. Some guys pay pay lip service to it. Say you want to get better at it but don't actually put forth the work to get that done. And he's somebody that will certainly take the time to to try to improve whatever his weaknesses are. Within that receiver room. Do you ever use clips like show these guys clips of any other players maybe even yourself. Of course, not myself but you know we watched the other guys we watched we've watched Michael Thomas and Devonte Adams and Adam Thielen and you know all the guy because every receiver in this league probably has a route that that defines them and player you always want to find that okay, you know, how is he excelling at this route, and it may be a route that I'm not quite as good at. So we always looking for different ways. And the best way to learn a lot of times is by actually seeing somebody else do it. How far back was your catalog go because you mentioned all guys that have played now but did you go back you know maybe to Chad Johnson or Stevie Johnson, or anyone like that. Um, you know I have not, I have not gone back that far basically been really if something catches my no matter who it is or when they play, you know I tag it and if I think it can help us I'll show it to him. Got you thank you. Coach what was your defining route. I love the shake route the post corner. That's what that's probably my favorite route in the goalball. Those are my two favorites. That's some of those routes that show me the money. The original ride too well. They did that they did. That's funny.


Konnichiwa and welcome to Jurassic World Alive. Oh, it has been an interesting week, hasn't it? We've had our chance to dart all of well Indoraptor and a few other legendaries as well as two Uniques that being Ardentis Maxima and Quetzarine. So which one did you go for? I'll tell you which one I went for Ardentis Maxima Because that's what I'm going for as far as the legendaries go. I Well, I'll show the footage. I think it's somewhere there. Is it there? It could be there It's definitely not there because that's that's that's suggested videos, isn't it? Unless you're on foam in which case It's probably the toilet floor because that's probably where you're watching this in the bathroom, isn't it? Yeah, I know I know what you're doing So Yes, you can see I did an amazing job of darting Indoraptor. Not really Indoraptor is a really hard one to dart, but Out of all of the ones it was either Indoraptor Gen 2 or Phosphor Phosphor that that one the Terabird hybrid that one, but I decided we're gonna be getting Blue DNA. I'm gonna be getting it.  It's a good dinosaur. I hate it. I hate it though I don't want to use it, but anyway this week we have a Jurassic World 2015 event because we just had the two-year anniversary as you can see my hair is very floppy. Look at that so long It's so floppy. Oh dear, and it's all itchy. Oh So what do we have we have from Manita wins the comments are nothing too special There things you can find a Patasauce, Stegosaur, Demorphodon and Triceratops Gen 2. The Reyes are Charlie Delta Echo and Saturday, this is what you want to look out for this is like Indoraptor Gen 2 week including like last week just gone On Saturday blue and T-Rex six chances to dart any of them So really six chances to dart blue because that's what you're gonna go for isn't it? Would you go for anything else? Probably not and Sunday one chance to dart in Dominus Rex There's the gyrosphere incubators going around so I'm assuming that You'll probably get all of those that are up there including blue in those incubators. I think on Friday We have a legendary incubator. Oh I can't really tell what that is, but it's a special it's is on Friday always get like a like a special Epic incubator where it's like you got 200 of some Dinosaur but for the most part everything seems to be normal. I think we've got a sauropod ear or sauropod Cent that is on the Monday and the Thursday and the Saturday But I'm glad that we're least where we're darling blue We're gonna see a lot of Indoraptor Gen 2's come out But that is not all that we have for news. No, no, no, no, no, definitely not so first off and Something that is good. I think We're getting a stat boost refund Coming up is from Jurassic World alive As we continue to work on the upcoming summer update We'd like to help you prepare by keeping you in the loop regarding some of the changes involved with many creatures and ability alterations on the way Hence the reason why we're getting this stat change We are aware of your concerns in regard to stat boosts in the new update each creature's stat boosts will be Funded this will give you the opportunity to redistribute them so that you may match them with the new changes that are implemented great Fantastic because good Lord. I mean, I think I've only ever refunded a dinosaur stat boost once because it's not worth it It's really it really isn't worth it. I think it was some I think it was an Indoraptor I think it was interrupted that I put like one speed boost on it. I was like us Take that off But everything else. I I'm just I was waiting for something like this. So Whatever you've boosted your creatures, you're gonna get a refund now I hope fingers crossed that we do Legitimately get our stat boosts back so they get like and they don't do it manually because when this first happened I think Lydia just gave everybody a set amount of stats to use But I'm hoping that It would be really cool if they did that and they just get everyone a set But but then again people might have spent money to get the stat boost any other words and in short Stop boosts if a lo of a hatem aren't going anywhere anytime soon the next big news This is really big news actually the battle mode. That's the one hold on. Let me find this New car mode so to kick off your weekend We are ecstatic to share that I dress it with live team is how to work to bring you in your update in the summer Next nobody will introduce a new cooperative battle mode where you'll face off against dangerously powerful new creatures with your alliance and friends Bread for destruction these fearsome opponents are designed to challenge even the most experienced team players So practice hard in campaigns and get your creatures ready So is that a hint towards like more Lord lethulniks and stuff like that? That would be cool I want to see stuff like Juggernaut from Jurassic World the game and Omega o9 in this that'd be cool And I wouldn't be surprised if they did bring them into it like a boss battle Your existing dinosaurs will see some changes in order to adapt to the upcoming co-op mode so you won't need to Go out and find it a bit like with Pokemon go you won't need to go to a gym to participate You don't need to because of of course the quarantine still going on again Big thanks to Lidia for keeping that gig ascent in the game and keeping darts being bought in the game as well But this is the biggest this is a really big update. This is the new creature families Wow there we recently announced of course the battle mode come and dress the world alive We're very excited by the community reactions so far. Thank you so much With that being said We want to do juice the new families with co-op abilities that are designed to support the upcoming Competitive battle mode today. We're revealing three of the creatures or three of the creature families with you So first up is a steg so stegos already a family So this includes karnatalkers who saw us to jungle so stegos or stegon god stegodus Miragaia kentrasaur and the the countering decelerator one this Sinderbeer whatever it's called so what you get with this decelerates the whole opponent team with area effect Thagamizer stegosaurus idea that counter attacks now mostly focus on deceleration instead of armor piercing This is a big deal. Um, this is a big change to miragaia Miragaia is a dinosaur that everyone would use just to get like a counter hit off and it would shield counter hit off Slow them down and then do like regeneration kentrasaur Karnatalkers and the sundoprists thing whatever it is they all counted some did rendering damage some did decelerating damage and kentrasaur just did out like a armor piercing these now will only focus on deceleration So I'm wondering whether they'll all just do deceleration and hit counter, but won't do the armor piercing So that's a bit if karnatalkers doesn't do this and I've seen it used in the high ups high up leagues That's that's a big big difference. That's like loads people max out. That's gonna be like a waste of coin So don't let this group of herbivores fool you They will completely slow down your opponent's entire team with the use of the area effect agamizer now I don't know how long that lasts for that's like all game That's that's scary. Now. Obviously this means that you have to have The full team of them Well, maybe you have to have three in a team because one two three four five six seven eight Is that enough for a full team? Yeah, that's enough to actually have your full team as the next we've got the counter attacking medium Theropods stuff like Carnotaurus Megalosaurus Majungasaurus and stuff that's more commonly used like the Dijungasaurus thing And what do we get here the medium theropods torn the opponent's team teams attack while deploying shields Counter. Oh, sorry shields counter attack specialized in anti-tank Wren shattering and or other piercing so I'm not too sure what that means Maybe they all get the ability It doesn't really leave much It's like well, they all do that though at least with the thagamizer you got like oh well It's a whole team the end like the opponent team this one's like well They do that anyway, and we'll have to see what that one looks like and the next one damage increasing a medium Theropods this one makes more sense like the theropod give damage increasing fewer hair I can't even talk ferocious buffs to whole team perform and defense its shattering attacks So you know you have like bironics and stuff like that. There's only like four of these is bironics Bironics gen 2 irritator, and I can't remember Tristornix. I think that is so all these dinosaurs have that like ready to Whatever it's called and they do a lot of damage But it looks like they give it to the whole team now if this is like a constant thing These are definitely gonna change up how these dinosaurs are used like so much And we'll definitely see Tristornix being used as just like a setup. You're probably dying like two hits But at least you'll set up and then If it lasts it can't last for the whole battle or else everyone would be using this that would be crazy And you'd have to have you'd have to have nullifying dinosaurs or something like a cleansing dinosaurs You'd have to and that is right now Three of the families three of them that they're gonna showcase to us. There's probably gonna be more I mean definitely they said only three so far So there's gonna be like the raptor. I'm sure like they'll all have Like a pounce ability that will decelerate the whole team for fifty four like, you know fifty percent for the god knows How long they'll be the t-rexes? But you know, I mean we've seen the sense and these are the sense But now they they do more than just bring dinosaurs And I'm glad that Lydia are actually seeing that people will be annoyed if they can't move their stat boosts over Giving everyone like a fair chance I really would like them not to be you know boost stats in the game like mods or whatever you want to call them stat boosts But they're here to stay And Lydia have made that very clear Well, I mean even when they first came in everyone hated them there was huge backlash They gave everyone like refunds and stuff Um, and they they slowly brought in like oh you can buy them and Yeah, it's it's microtransactions. This game is hands down pay to win Which is such a shame When it could have been Like not that it could have been fair And you know you only get so many boosts so you can only get you know, it's a fair playing field But it's not it's not It was for a while like oh if you play loads, then you'll be fine But now it's like well if you just got lots of money, then every how is it every two days or something? When do we get these special events? Where are the stat boosts every day every day? So let's okay every two days you can boost a creature because 50 and 50 that's you know 100 now that's thousands upon thousands of bucks it's thousands of pounds More than thousands of pounds if you do this, you know if you kept on buying books because I haven't bought books or bought anything On this game except for vip In months months like I can't remember you probably go back to episode 12 or something when I bought incubators or whatever And I've got 7 000 books and yes I've bought epic sense and stuff But for a person who just wants to feel free to play vip is good for me just because it means I can Dot more I mean if I play the game I get more dots and I get more resources So it makes more sense to me anyway. Anyway, it's just it's just frustrating to see it because Here here's a reason now my leaderboard my highest. I had this two days ago 5,869 trophies I am now down to 5,636 trophies and I was almost down to below 5,600 I was almost back into uh the tier below um And it's it's weird because one day I was against people that weren't As good as my creatures whether it's stat boosts or levels and I was just going up and up and up last night I spent two hours straight 200 almost 300 cups two hours 10 losses if not more in a row Do you know what that does to a person? It makes them no one to play the game There's just no like You think you get to a point you got up down up down up down, but I got to a point How Either the game needs like balancing in some sort of way or I don't know man. I don't know. It was weird. I'm not blaming like oh these guys had more stats in me I'm like, how does the game put me up like oh, this is where your stat Your level is and then the then you face up against the people that just absolutely trance you either way That's what happened to me. I don't know how you guys are fairing I was like I think I just need one more battle and I'll I'll get how much is it because if I went up to 5900 trophies, which I was you know close to like two battles away I'd get another 400 blue DNA pretty good and then I lost like 300 trophies so That happened, but the tournament is here and Thankfully, oh god. Why are we to the left? What is going on in here? Well anyway, um, so Last time this was out Um, we won. I think it was this incubator But they decided that not since not even the top tier Um Rewards were met by the the highest alliances. Um, they decided to half the entire amount you needed So now you only need six 64 650 thousand points and Not even apex predators got it. Um, not even killer raptors, which are very active game press And we work with killer raptors for the 20 sanctuary. So thank you. Um So but but but I'm saying that we are on the reward tier seven And even though we do have a few members that have we've got one member that didn't even contribute So we have a good chance of even getting the tier eight reward, which would give us 250 of that But we get 200. It's not an unlock if I remember I need 250 But it's it's close and it gives you the resources and you need these I think you need those creatures to you to to fuse it. So Hey ho, there it is. You can kind of use it Not bad. Not bad at all. Um, finally this last battle arena. I'm happy with I love it It's well, apart from the levels.  But before we get into that, look at it.  They're so good so good. And now I can take from 5000 Sorry 4,066 help and 1,944 attack to above and beyond Oh, yeah, 2000 2000 attack for magnetator. Oh my god. That's it max done. I am so pleased Uh, our denis maxima. Well, you know level 29 still takes us pretty high with that help almost 8,000 Now these mods are going to be taken off. I'm going to get loads of refunds So it's going to be interesting to think like, oh, what should we go for next? Um, I will do just a couple more fuses on this guy because we're going to need it The final push. We're on the final lap now for our denis maxima getting it to level 30 I do have um one more creature to make. Oh my god, that's good That gives us an extra pop five pops for another our denis maxima But that's not going to get us to level 30 unless each one's a hundred Um, and even then no because we need 750. So I do have one more creature. Um, I've been Thinking in my spare time like we're on the sanctuaries just getting this because this is the only creature That you can get from buying at the moment. You can't get an incubators. You can only get it in the market or sanctuaries So if you have this creature, this is because somewhere along the line Really really really really really far back somebody bought it put it in a sanctuary and then everybody Um fed it and got the road and then put it in another sanctuary. So The unsung heroes probably there's only like a handful of people that did it and then it all got shared out Thank you But now I have 1,300 of it because I've just when I've had loads of resources left I'll just get that because eventually things will have a hybrid and because this is so hard to come by we only have three more left And one of them has been here for a while. I'm on a rhino and the other two are kind of new So that's not too bad. I'm pretty that's I think that's the lowest amount of hybrids I've needed left to get And this one went we're getting there because we just need mammoth thereum But how about we uh We take that tournament out for one last go so you can get some cups shall we let's do it Let's see if I can get some losses. Give me pros a rata mimus or my level 24 t-rex. You know, I'll take it I'll take it. You know, I'm having to start to wear hair pins in me hair I can't work out with it because like if I'm working out and I'm jogging It's like in my hair. Look at that. This is horrendous I know I could have when he cut it, but I don't trust that So let's start with the one that does not allow them to swap out. Oh, yes Sarko Sarko Rixis Who smiled on oh interesting interesting. He's a lot quicker than me for size pounds. Oh, we've definitely we've killed it It's dead.  We would have killed it in one head, but Of course the pounds forgot about that, but we do get the ferocious impact. So that's a thing Uh, is it immune to stuns? No, it's not. I always double check these days I don't want to risk it. Um a base of strike. Hmm should have went for the stun then shouldn't I should have Um, oh Even with the dodge. We still somehow managed to get it. So oh his own and it's boosted and it's level 30 We've lost. There you have it We've lost fantastic That's all it takes. That's all it takes is one guy who uses this normally and that's it. We're done We're done. We're done. We're done. There's nothing we can do. We've lost. I'm just gonna should we just skip to the next battle Yeah, let's skip the next battle. Okay. See you guys later Just in case you didn't guess. Yes, I lost that I I lost it three one Oh my god Now that's kind of what battles are like normally with stat boosts. It's great, isn't it fantastic Well, at least now we've got the pros right now. So we would stand somewhat of a chance against the sarcox Um, should we just go for it? Let's go. Let's go for it. Like a source gen two I really should just have Thera though. Um Oh, he's does he have a speed boost? He doesn't but he does have regeneration Uh, he's immunity though. So he may as well just go from oh, he swaps Oh a carbon emis interesting interesting. Okay Fair enough. Well, I'll just go for a big hit. Anyway, you can definitely recover that um Hmm What should we go for here guys? What should we go for? You know, it is I've kind of just got to Take this like hate and I've just got a look at source. It's just got to die um Unfortunately, there's The really there really isn't much I could do. Yeah, I thought he would go for a dig in. I thought so. That's why I didn't go for my Rampage was expecting that God, I've got this blumen tortoise just screaming in my ear off turn that down Uh-huh. I've got my speed boost now, son Go for your devastation. But at least I'll do some damage to you There you go Could have been a lot worse. Oh, wait, what? Wait, really? Oh, did you just want like to get his dig in? I assume it goes for a deficit. He should have just went for devastation anyway. He would have killed me, right? Yeah, well, that's an eight hundred.  I think we should I mean what I do 2000 and odd damage Yeah, we'll just approach all the mimers come in I could have had t-rex, but I kind of just want to save t-rex He can't go for devastation Dig in's the only thing he can do and even then I can Can I kill him in two hits? It depends how much he recovers from health Maybe No, I can't I have to I have to go for this big hit. I have to Okay I think I've won unless he's got another level 30 epic just waiting in the wings Or a level 30 epic like his own processor here post-eratomimus um Or like a the sarko one that I mean from this the biggest worries have been that the uh the sarko rick So we will go for this then we'll go for a oh Oh, well, I'll take it. He did. Oh, even he doesn't get it like five percent chance I get my crit and 20 percent chance for hip 30 percent. He didn't get his. Oh, that's unlucky But if anything, I guess it's just speeding it up because this is I mean this is what these battles have been It's like as soon as I faced up against that level 30 sarko. I was like I've lost The man as soon as he faced up against this he's like I've lost Well, there you go. I lost three one. He loses three one. There you have it Except I only got 20 now. I I think I lost like 30 odd or something But let's should we try one more? Maybe I'll get the 24 t-rex and the level 30 sarko. I'm I'm so There we go. Oh, yes. Yes. There we have it Beautiful Let's put a t-rex in There's no d-rex. What's worse that can happen and in dominoes rex gen two Is that the worst? I mean if he goes for cloak I he could be tempted to go for cloak.  I mean should we should we fodder off sino? I'll fodder off sino. I could take the hit onto pros around a minus But then that's still 1,800 with a potential crit chance I'd rather just fodder off pros. Uh, sorry sino Uh, if you just get a crit I'm dead anyway So he knows we've got a t-rex Let's put in pros around us. Have a little setup. Shall we there's one of reasons why I like dino cherris Because dino cherris you could like set up um like In this situation and next time you could go for the uh the stun Um, great at stunning or you could go for Okay, this guy's lost. He knows I lost. Uh, you go for the stun or you could go for rampage and run Yeah, he he's that was a quick switch and he was like Oh, the platypus. Oh fantastic beautiful nullifying nullifying nullifying Oh, I feel like it does feel bad But in a way like getting your um Epics up to level 20 takes a lot of coin because it's a lot of fuses. It's it's uh, it's it's horrible Um, and this is the only one I've got up to level 30. Um, but I'm sorry dude. I'm sorry Has everyone else been like this just either losing three one or winning three one Uh, whoo, is that new look still not a high enough right? Oh god. I lost so much from that first one. I think um 232 is the highest I've ever got shall we get higher? Let's do one more. Let's see what we tempt fate Let's see if we can lose three one shall we Spit on the camera there looking more and more like a scruff. Get a good ify. I'm worried everything's close Oh, not bad. Not bad. I'll take this. Uh, shall we put the sarko? Yeah If there's a level 30, whoo, whoo, whoo first level 30.  I think he might go for the bleed Well, you know what? I'll take that trade that level 24 Sometimes people use that at level 30 because it can be a bit of a health tank. Yeah, at least for wood I thought as much. I thought as much. I'm okay. I'm happy trading sarko. Um in this circumstance Uh, green becky is my uh my win So green becky is my win condition. He's probably gonna go for instant destruction actually sod him Sod him. No, I'm expecting him to go for instant destruction. I'm not falling for it because he wants me to bleed out I think right. Yeah, there you go Beavers and james beavers. That was my james bond move You thought I had a barbie came out of nowhere Ooh Wow, jesus did not expect that level 29. You know sutious Is it you know, oh, what is this the inner sutures?  So I mean he'll expect me to go for the big hit and he'll just go for like Digging or whatever it is because it has a dig in. I'm just gonna go for regular Oh, he didn't expect me to go for digging. Ah, okay Okay, he's gonna go for ferocious strike, which is only one time's damage. It's a hundred one thousand five hundred There there easy Um Oh dig oh now he goes for the dig. Well, I'm sorry pet, but you're dead unless digging gives you like half instead of 25 percent Nope, it's dead. I think is it nine and fifties? I know Yes, it is. It's a whoo Almost double right. Okay. Well, okay. That was his win condition was the inner sutures I think maybe this guy just has a really good team for this tournament like an inner sutures and that irritator and Oh, is that so? Hmm Well then You're I'm expecting him to go for instant destruction again. We've seen him do it once before right? So I'm expecting him to do it again So with that in mind let's switch out Oh, I mean Oh, yeah, I was immune that was lucky I'm still not used to facing this I'm still not used to facing Oh my god Oh, yeah, he couldn't have done it instant destruction. Could he?  Well, he's dead anyway. He's dead in one hit. He's got less than 2000 health And he doesn't have oh a crit and a crit for that really Really? Right. Okay. Well, we'll just go for the instant charge and then go for digging and then go for a deceleration If we're not dead at that point, then we go for another instant charge But apart from that, let's see how we do This could be a 3-0 win.  I don't mind losing Sino. I do not mind losing Sino At this point his his best bet was just to try and do a normal hit And then get the counter with the Becky That's what he was hoping to do but Not happening Now it's dead. It doesn't matter what this thing does.  Is it gonna go for instant destruction? You could probably kill me if you did that but Instant destruction is how much? Oh 33 percent. Oh, yeah, that could kill me.  I thought that looked like there was just just below. So in comes Becky Good good And I even if you could have dragon startups, I think I would still survive There's nothing he can do here nothing even a regular hit from a beggar.  So gonna be another 3-1 victory. I think you look I've had my own share of 3-1 losses Okay, it's other people can have it too Diplo tater um What can you? 1.5 damage at level 30.   I go Oh my god Oh, it's horrendous Oh, there we go. There we go. We're in the top 2000 which I think means we get another Another yeah 375 now to not a rex. Uh, well guys, I'm gonna leave it there I'm happy with that whether I drop down a little bit more. It's to not a rex. I don't care Yeah, I saw it turn out a source But if you join this video, I'll leave a like a good luck on dotting blue because I'm pretty sure that's what you're gonna go for And it don't miss rex until next week on monday where I can say that in this episode I'll see you later. Oh description below Click the link get 50 bucks, and I'll see you later. Bye