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We're trying to win every game, you know, regardless of the circumstance, regardless of who's playing at quarterback.

James is more than capable.

Obviously, we can play better.

We can do better in the red zone to come away with more touchdowns.

I think that gives us more advantage.

Happy with the win.

How did you feel? How smoothly did the operation of the offense go?

So with that in mind, what have you learned about making sure you're as available as you can at this point in your career?

Yes, it's fine in my routine.

changing my mindset.

I think when you're a younger player, you kind of have nicks and bruises, and you think you're being tough by not addressing them, not talking to trainers or whoever you work with outside the team to make sure everything's right.

But now, being a veteran, I'm just more proactive.

Even if I feel great, I'm doing things to recover and make sure my body is fresh for the whole year.

Did you guys catch on to some of that stuff, keep an eye out, watch that? I know some of you guys were at some games here and there, but seeing them go on a run, win a championship, see that in New York, how much does that inspire players?

It's special.

Yes, absolutely, and I know you always like to give credit to your assistant coaches and everybody involved with the Post 285 program, so I guess I'll give you a chance to shout out some people that helped you guys have

such a success.

Yes, yeah, a ton of people.

We'll start with our chairman, our co-chairs, Kyle Spencer and Lori Sykes, to handle a ton of stuff behind the scenes with fundraising, things of that nature that take a lot off our plate so we can focus on baseball.

Jeremy Klein, the general manager of the program, helped me with building out our roster, with being my first year as a head coach.

He's a great sounding board for me.

So we'll start with those two.

Well, Coach Thomas, when these guys look back on the program and this year they had, what do you want them to remember most?

So what was kind of your approach going in?

Yeah, we knew they were playing better.

I have a good relationship with Coach Trout and the head coach there.

So kind of stayed in touch with them through the summer.

especially with this being my first run in the Legion program.

So I knew they were going to play good and they were going to play hard.

And the bottom line is I really didn't think we did that.

let's talk about what's going to happen here between games uh kind of what tonight's about play for jay day kind of talk about that a little bit

Watching him duel in one-on-ones was like, this is just like the funnest thing ever to watch.

No, the first thing I'll say, all those guys, it's, it's tough, um, to block them.

One, they're all different, but two, one-on-ones are made for D linemen.

Like it's just a disa- a disadvantage.

It's a, it's a tough rep.

But what I'll say with Burns is obviously he has the, the athletic gifts, right? He can bend, he's, you know, lateral quickness, all that stuff like that.

He's lanky.

... talk about like some of the things that you guys are doing?

But I don't think there's – you had a couple of home runs, not a ton of power, but just guys putting it in play.

Yeah, I mean, we are slugging it pretty well.

We have a team OPS of over 1,000 right now.

Oh, wow.

We're hitting a lot of doubles, but even when we're not – Program itself prides itself on some small ball and doing that type of stuff.

So we're getting on.

We're steel.

Who's helping you out?

Like, are things about to get a whole lot worse?

The short answer is getting worse, yes.

Iran is an interesting case when it comes to military activity in general.

They like acting in this kind of asymmetric space, that they're not quite as powerful as their adversaries, but they can wreak a lot of damage and chaos.

W-we've seen a lot of that over the last few hours.

They've attacked basically every single Gulf state that has a US base, except for, I believe, one.

They've tried to attack the US CENTCOM command.

Do you think that will happen?

With what David Lammy's announced today, do you see any hope that our courts could be less clogged up by the time of the next election?

Listen, I, Ian, I've listened very carefully to your introduction to this discussion, uh, uh, and, uh, I hate to tell you that today has got a lot of very good news.

Um, the...

I- it is a whole package of measures, um, that the, the, the government are going to bring forward.

W- we've got strong opposition, uh, uh, amongst criminal barristers to changes to trial by jury, but the penny is slowly, um, dropping, um, that actually, that trial by jury issue is a complete distraction.

The things that are going to make a real difference, as Kasia has shown in various reports she's produced, are not getting rid of trial by jury, even for, um, uh, tho- those cases that are described as, uh, lesser offences.

Um, Kasia has done a lot of work on the statistics, even taking the government's own figures at face value.

Well, uh, voters aren't going to-- I mean, if, if you're within the criminal justice system, um, mm, either as somebody who's accused of an offence or whether you are a lawyer or a judge, you kind of want to think that within the next three and a half years, something may have got better.