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A lot of personalities on each of these teams.

They're going to be on display tonight.

What do you think the wild card personality, though, is from opening night,

who that will emerge? One of my favorite stories is the Jalen Hertz one, where he's in Alabama,

and he gets replaced by Tua, and he's got a forge his own path, goes to Oklahoma. I love the A.J. Brown

story, going from Ole Miss to the Titans to hear. I think one of the most fun stories is this young

man who went from the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, Under 18's Rugby Team, to the Titans to hear. I think one of the most fun stories is this young man who went from

the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs under 18's rugby team to the South Sydney Rabbit Toes

to then being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, having never

played a down of professional football in his life, having never played a down of college football

in his life, give me the big Aussie, 365 pounds, Jordan Maillotta. I think tonight Maillada's going to shine. We've had

him on our show since 2018. He's been a part of our show. We know his personality. We know he is

this lovable giant, but he also has a little bite to him. Like, he's not scared to bite back. He's not scared to take shots. And I think when you've got this international flavor, you're talking about a guy that can bring more than just the football audience, more than just the American audience. I don't know what these sound effects are. Did you do behind me? I didn't ask for that, but I'll take it right now. You'll see one tonight. Um, ultimately, my lottoe was asked, you could stay with the South Sydney Rabbit Toes of the Rugby League in, in Australia, or you can go and leave and chase this NFL dream. And he's chasing and leaving this NFL dream. And guess what? Eagles gave him a chance. They gave him a second contract. The guy makes nearly $100 million to play professional football at the age of 25. Less than seven years ago, he was a kid in high school who had never seen an American football before. I love the Jordan Maillata's story. I love his accent. I love his fury. I love his everything. I think Maillata is going to be a stud tonight on Media Night and the world is going to get to know his story. Someone will have a boomerang tonight. I hope they have a live koala. I think you got to just go for it. It's got. Yeah. No, live. Live koala there. Jordan Maelotta came by Good Morning Football on the day of the draft when it was at Jerry World in Texas and he comes on set and he's just very green and new and it's kind of getting used to things. Juju Smith-Schuster had done a prior segment and he's over

on the side of the stage playing video games. It was like a bit that we were doing. And we're like, oh, Jordan, welcome. That's that's Juju. You know, he plays for the Steelers and he goes, he plays for the Steelers and he said, we're going to bleep you up.

Like right to Juji was like, what?

Easy big man.

We were saying easy.

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