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The Dawn of AI in Sports: A New Era for the NFL
What if the way we watch sports was about to be transformed? This riveting discussion promises to uncover how the NFL and Amazon Prime are harnessing the power of AI to revolutionize the viewing experience of Thursday night football. From enhancing real-time viewing using machine learning to spotlighting key game strategies, we've got a thrilling chat that marries technology and sports in a way you've never imagined.
The conversation gets even more exciting as we delve into how AI is reshaping our understanding of the game. We discuss how AI and machine learning are serving up customizable viewing experiences that could change the way we perceive critical game moments. From the nail-biting pressure of fourth and two situations, to the strategic brilliance behind fakeouts, we unpack how AI tools can offer an unparalleled insight into the world of football.
But we're not stopping there. We also venture into the captivating future of sports broadcasting. Imagine having detailed analytics and statistics at your fingertips, thanks to the power of AI. We discuss the potential of AI in crafting 'struggle charts' to illustrate game momentum shifts, and explore the stark differences of watching a game at home versus live in the stadium. Could AI impact ticket sales or even fill NFL stands? Join us as we explore these intriguing possibilities, and much more. Don't miss out on this engaging journey of technology-meets-sports.
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Yeah, let's go ahead and get into our topic, man, we got a good one that we're going to run through for you guys. It's all about the NFL, man, and not just the NFL, but Thursday night football on Amazon Prime, and I think they're really making a rush for the fun, to make their themselves the primary showman, if you will, of NFL. With these features, it just makes it in real time, with the help of AI, more accessible and intuitive for nerds of football, without gaining the way of the casual viewer. You know, I inadvertently ended up in the first night of it ever going live tonight, so I also found an article on it as I was just trying to bring the game up and I was like, oh wait, let's see what this is all about. So I say we jump into it, man. What do you think?
Speaker 3:I think so too, bro. Let's do it.
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Speaker 1:But I would say, based on what I know and correct me if I'm wrong but you're more of a casual viewer of football, right, yeah, yeah, that's true. So let me ask you this and answer however you feel necessary New AI, in depth tools to understand the game better, and the risk of a sack or the opportunity for a touchdown here and things like that how is that appeal to you? You're not logging off.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, I think it's. I think it's really cool. I think it's a really really cool integration of AI, right, you know, I think it's. It's a great way to make the game even more interesting, especially for for casual viewers like myself.
Speaker 1:OK, so you do think so. If you're watching a game, you would say you know, I'm actually a little more invested in this game now. Yeah, that's, that's great, that's fantastic, that's great news. And you know, we're going to jump in and explain to everybody what these are all about. Christina, here in the comments, she's saying no, because I was like no, not at all. So Christina is not in tune, she's not one to tune into the to the football game, just because they got more stats coming to rise. Yeah, but let me. Let me lay some of these features out for you.
Speaker 1:Now, this is just on Amazon Prime. Right For Thursday Night Football. Now, today was the first day of the season for a prime to feature Thursday Night Football. It's always either Amazon Prime or OK or NBC, right, so it's going to be interesting too, because that's a huge investment. Right For what they are going to, basically, I think, just have half of Thursday Night Games, right? Yeah, you already get less viewership. It's interesting. So I'm going to scroll down here a little bit.
Speaker 1:One of these features all of this used with multiple types of AI to enhance your real time viewing, not not highlights looking back. Now, this is that, right, so prime targets. This is a machine learning model that highlights which receivers have created separation from defenders within their roots and are in position to convert a first down. It's all unfolds on the screen in real time and that way you get to know what possible options in real time the quarterback would use. Right, a great option. I will say this I'm wanting to go through every option one by one, every option, every feature one by one. But I want to say this before I continue. On man, that seems like a huge investment in technology with such little relief from it, because in the time that receiver separates themselves from a defender to where it would say hey, this is the person that quarterback wants to throw to, you know what's happening. By the time that circle comes around, quarterback's like is that quarterback throwing?
Speaker 3:Yep exactly.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Split second decision. It's a split second decision, quick reaction time. It's not like the AI is going to circle a receiver. You're going to be like, hey, you should throw it to that guy. No, it's already going to be like. It's going to be like circle, boom, catch. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Exactly, Exactly. The AI is going to want to be like treating it like Dora the Explorer. There's a good amount of time. Where is the receiver? Where is the quarterback going to throw the football?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it gives you like ABHT. Yeah, exactly Right, I feel that that's what it makes it sound like when you're reading it, but when you're watching a game, that's just not practical. You know what I mean. So I think, yeah, let's go through these one by one, because what I'm starting to get is Amazon is investing money in a product that is more just hey, look at us rather than actually benefiting the viewer in a large way. Right, yeah, of course they're aiming at really in-depth football viewers. I get why they would right, because those are the people watching the NFL on Thursday night.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean Exactly. They're the fan of football people, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yes, I do.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know it's in statistics.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm coming back for a third win, bro, let's go, okay. So, second feature of seven Okay, a fourth down decision guide. A fourth down decision guide allows fans to place themselves in the shoes of NFL coaches when it comes time to make pivotal decisions Should a team go for it on fourth down or should they punt? The feature uses machine learning to not only calculate the likelihood of success for both options, but also how the decision will affect the team's game winning probability. So I'm going to play it this way. Right? It's a close game. Five minutes left in the game, right, you're on the other team side of the field, so you've crossed midfield. It's fourth and three, right? What are you going to do? Let me just ask you what are you going to do? Get casual football fan, okay.
Speaker 1:So, you're on the defensive side of the field, you've already crossed midfield, you're down, you're trying to score in this five minutes left in the game. Which means with five minutes left in the game, you could punt the ball or give it to the other team, and let's just say you're at midfield. That'd make a lot more sense. We take field goals out of this, right. Yeah, you're at midfield. You could punt it away, give it to the other team and potentially get a defensive stop and get the ball back in time to go score. Or you could go for it on that fourth and three, get the first down and keep your drive going. Which one would you do?
Speaker 3:Honestly, I would punt it man. I'd punt it Because you're midfield. I'm not even close to field goal range and, yes, technically there's a possibility of me getting within. You know, if I can get that first down, it gets me within field goal range, most likely, and then I can go from there. But I think, just the pop. If I've been struggling this hard, if my team has been struggling this hard, just to get midfield, we're going to go ahead and punt it man.
Speaker 1:I feel that Christina says double it and give it to the next person which, oh my gosh. I forgot that option. That's my bad yeah. I'll tell you honestly man, that would probably be the best decision or the best reason for that fourth down decision guide. So you, as a viewer, are looking at analytically what would be the best thing to do here.
Speaker 1:You know, what I mean, what makes the most sense if I were the NFL coach, whether I should move forward and go for a fourth down or whether I should bail my defense. I'll tell you what I'm in favor of this feature. Because, say you have the New York Jets in that situation, right, it's probably going to say, go for it, because their defense is not that good. Okay, oh wait that's a lie.
Speaker 1:Sorry, sorry, nfl viewers, that's a lie. Defense used to not be that good. Defense is actually pretty decent this year. But go to a lower team like the Vikings, lesser defense, right. It probably tell them to go for it. However you have like Cowboys, they got great defenses here. It's not just because I'm a fan. You go for it. That would be a different toll analytic. It would probably lean more to punt it. Rely on your defense. Get it back.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean rather than turn it over with a rule field position. Aaron, good to see you, man, Glad that you're here. Aaron's chiming in on the comments. He says, hey, given Sunday man, this is a game of inches. It is To the point of this particular Amazon feature, this Amazon Prime feature for Thursday Night Football. That's a good feature because it's location dependent, it's team dependent. If that AI is accurate. That's a very impressive feature. Let's scroll down. Defense of alerts Prime vision with next gen stats. New defensive alerts feature employees in neural network driven by generative AI that grows stronger and more accurate as more and more plays unfold. It tracks the movements of defensive players before the snap, reads their acceleration, buys players of interest that are likely to rush the quarterback or the potential blitzers identified. A red circle appears under them to give viewers a head up. Okay, how do you feel about this one?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And you know, I think I think this is kind of similar in the same vein as the quarterback one. It's a nice to have, but I don't think it's really that much of a game changer, right, and things are happening so fast that I mean sure it probably has more time to write like this is what's going to probably happen, or blah, blah, blah, but it's, you know, it's negligible For the most part. I'm pretty sure it's stuff that we already knew, like as football fans, you would already know like OK, this is probably where we're going to. You know, we're going to see our biggest pressure moment or pressure spot.
Speaker 1:Exactly right, man. That's a great external beauty of this, bro. It really is, because if you know the team or just if you know football right, Like people know, for example Sorry, I'm just going to keep giving Cowboys players right yeah, so they know who your team is.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I mean, I'm not going to lie. I grew up there, bro. I have to. You know, um, but yeah, you know, it's just, you're right, it's going to be one of those things where you're going to know, because Micah Parsons, for example, is, yeah, he was a star defender. Um, other people have stepped up, stefan Gilmore being one of them, being a new acquisition to the team, um, and then Trevon digs, definitely. But the thing about it is, if you're watching and you know it's like fourth and two, right and um, you know, linebackers are lined up like I was, like I was mentioning right, so you have them like clothes on the uh, why I'm scrimmage, right, they're clothes like this. You know Micah Parsons is going to rush, man, you just know that it's going to happen because they're going to try to stop the defense from getting that first time and having a turnover on that Right, yeah, no, you're not wrong.
Speaker 1:Otherwise, man and this may be just a by opinion I'd love to know what our comments feel, uh feel, but I just feel like that the defensive alerts are worthless otherwise, because you're going to see, or you're already going to know, you know, you're going to be able to read those people and know what they're going to do, you know yeah, no, I think you're right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think. I think our chatterbox knows this. Um, it may help in certain situations. What would be interesting for me is people that fake like they're falling back and it circles them saying they're going to rush a quarterback If that ends up happening that's be cool, that would be really neat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it ends up having ants right, then that would blow my mind. I'm going to have to watch prime football a couple more weeks to know if that's true or not. Um, key plays, ai and machine learning also provide in-game options for viewers to tailor their experience. Key plays is the new feature that allows fans to view in-game highlights and key moments on demand while watching Thursday night football on prime video. So it basically, if you're recording the game, you get to bounce, like imagine you were recording on YouTube TV right.
Speaker 1:You're like your friend comes over and hey man, you should totally see this. You get the bounce to it immediately rather than having to rewind Right. Mm, hmm. That's really all that is, but also for AI to be able to learn that in-game at the moment, it's impressive. Yeah, it is impressive, I won't lie. But I mean, is there anything to write home about? No, yeah, that's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3:No, I mean and you know that's the thing I mean looking at some of these features so far is already. You know it's impressive in general for an AI to be able to do this without having that human intervention right, but you know it's stuff that we already kind of, as football fans, you already kind of know about.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, Aaron said in the comments I actually just remembered I am facing off against Aaron and fantasy football right now and he said hey, uh, you notice that 70 points to seeing on my bench for good old Kirk cousins shaking my head, 70, bro, and he lost. See, that's the crazy thing about fantasy football, is it translates different, you know it's you know, the MVP of the league is not necessarily the best fantasy player.
Speaker 1:You know that press got several times in the last year rated mid level for league quarterbacks, but he's often been the best quarterback for fantasy players. Um, and man Aaron, rip bro. I mean you got hold on. Let me go back. You not only lost 70 with Kirk cousins on the bench, but 17 points with Addison, his wide receiver. So I got 45 with Jaylen Hertz and Philadelphia defense, bro, but I got Patty Mahomes, my guy. Yeah, I've had Patty Mahomes for the last three years, bro. I keep making him my keeper. I'm like I'm not giving them up to somebody else. I'm still predicted to win on. Yahoo, fancy yeah.
Speaker 1:But, as as Aaron goes on to say, this is his opinion, this stuff is super cool for people who aren't football people, that's a great, that's a great perspective, right, like, say, you're in this game with somebody like that doesn't understand football. Right, this is a simple assist, it's a way to explain how football can work and not just on a surface level, but like an in depth level.
Speaker 1:You know, it's a great point. It's a great point. I like that. Thought. Rapid recap, Denison, and I actually tried this out. You can jump in anytime you want on the game. At any point, hit rapid recap and it will give you a good point. It's a great game. At any point, hit rapid recap and it will give you up to 13 highlights of the game to let you know why it we're at where we're at and how it got there.
Speaker 1:You know the biggest plays that happened. I guess it's kind of redundant, but you guys know what I'm saying. So yeah, it's, that's a very effective thing. We just tried it. The edits were absolutely clean. It looked great. It was. There was no slow motion replays of anything. We did notice that it was just clean cuts and onto the next. Yeah, exactly, it was great. So pretty simple explanation there. X-ray this is something that you can use when you watch movies to get in depth information on actors and filmographers and stuff like that. With football, you get player performance metrics, team and player info, shopping to fell merch and predict the outcome of the game with fan polls. So that's pretty basic level stuff, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we're not breaking any new ground, not really.
Speaker 1:Not at all. Not with that right. I mean, that's all stuff. A quick Google search will get you, Mm hmm, you know, I think it's the only.
Speaker 3:the big thing about it is that you know you can get all that from the comfort of your own couch, right From the couch that you're watching.
Speaker 1:Right, sure, but it's not necessarily easy to navigate that stuff on a TV compared to doing on a computer, you know you're not wrong.
Speaker 3:You're not wrong, but you know I'm just saying I think I think again. You know it's one of these. It's. It's like Aaron said. You know these are features for non football people and it's a great way to to keep those people more engaged and to choose Amazon as the platform that they want to watch any of their sports on Right.
Speaker 1:Somebody's like. You know what man? I'm becoming a Cowboys fan now, because of course I would. Then they're like just buy it while they're watching the game. It's a good feature. I get it. I get it. I guess I would just have to test out how fluid it is of a feature, you know, yeah. Is it janky? Does it bounce around, do this, do that? No, you have, I just have to test it out. You know what I mean? Yeah, same.
Speaker 3:So yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's a quick one on that one Pressure probability not out yet. Spoiler alert Denison and I went over this. I like the idea of this, right yeah.
Speaker 1:It will come out later this season. I don't remember how many games Prime is covering for Thursday night compared to NBC. I know they split it. I don't remember what the split is, but this program, this effect, will capture the pressure on quarterback and how it evolves after the snap Um. So you know. That's really all it explains it, as what you can guess is there will be a little bar at the bottom right that shows how much pressure is being put on the quarterback in real time. I love that because when you're up from the press box it's you get an idea but not as good of an idea until it replays it from the cable as to how close that pressure was on the quarterback right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly yeah, and you as a viewer sometimes don't notice just how much pressure is going on until you see it during the replay, because you know there's a lot going on at the snap. So being able to kind of like have a visual bar that just kind of like showing you or or some sort of visual is really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I completely agree, man. I think that that's something that changes in real time. I personally would love to know what is constituted as quarterback pressure, when obviously you have people coming up on you and it's kind of hard to see. Oh, I'm going to expand the shot so this is easier to explain. But you know, when you have people coming up on you like this you know, that's a lot of pressure when they're coming up on you like this.
Speaker 1:how does that affect the quarterback? You know all those kind of things. I'd love to know the difference with the angles from a data, yeah, from a data point. So those are really the features, man, and I think it's cool. It'll be interesting to see how this affects other broadcasts or if this just remains an Amazon thing for a while. But yeah, I mean, that is something that we've kind of dipped on or dipped into. But what, overall, do you feel like this means for the future of football viewership and maybe even from a perspective of expanding it? Right?
Speaker 3:I think this is, you know, just the tip of the iceberg, because I can, I can see a lot of really, really neat and cool features to come out of this that we haven't seen before or, you know, can be even more efficient or even cooler to look at or whatever like that just more things to really get. I think. I think right now this is mainly for non football people, but I think, in general, as this evolves, as the technology evolves and gets better, I think I can really see this becoming like an integral part of like how football, how fans view football right and help people get more into speed and help more people get into the sport. So I only see it, you know, going up from here really and truly. I think this is just a testing ground, and Amazon is honestly one of the few companies that I think could truly pull this off, just because of the amount of backing that they already have.
Speaker 1:It really is interesting, man, how they've been advertising their AI capabilities. Right Now we're seeing it in football. They use a very simplistic version of it in F1 because AWS which is, you know, a part of Amazon. Yeah. What's the stand for, bro? You remember, is the Amazon Web Services.
Speaker 3:It's not right, it is Okay. Amazon Web Services.
Speaker 1:Real quick. Aaron says analytics is involving in so many sports. How soon do other sports adopt the tech for viewers? Well, yeah, I mean, and that's kind of where I was going into. So when you watch F1, right, which I do every race, of course, this has been going on for I think five years now, if not more they use AWS to predict the closing rate of a car, chasing down the car in front of it, right? So with F1, for people who don't know, it's not a bad thing if you're 10 seconds behind the car in front of you, like NASCAR. You know, for American racing viewers, with NASCAR you'd be like, oh well, that guy's not going to win, right?
Speaker 1:It depends on your tire strategy and the capability of your car. You could be 10 seconds behind, have a good fast car and be on a good tire strategy, catching those people in front right, and they use AWS to track at what lap those two cars will meet each other right when the trailing car will catch the one from it. That's a very simplistic thing, right? I mean there's so many other things that you go into with that. Really, you know, you don't see this kind of stuff in any car. You don't see it in NASCAR, you don't see it. I don't recall seeing anything like this. And well, you definitely don't see it in basketball.
Speaker 1:You don't see it in the NBA. I'm not a regular hockey or baseball viewer. I know in the leagues and baseball they do a heck of a good job knowing what the speed of the pitch was and the distance of the of the hit. They do a great job of that. I do know that.
Speaker 3:They do.
Speaker 1:And that's impressive with the. It's more impressive with the distance of the hit than it is just the speed of the pitch, really, you know, yeah, it's really amazing. But you know, another thing I've noticed in Formula One is they're able to highlight a space around the F1 car. That stays true as the car goes like this really fast through corners with a little there number of their icon above them. You know, it's nothing special, right? So I feel like Aaron asks a good question. When this will actually become a prevalent thing In other sports? Man, it just makes you wonder, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly. I mean, yeah, I think there's A ton of really really neat features that I think can be really employed into a lot of sports and really evolve how things are done. As you are, I mean, I love that you put you brought up baseball, because I think baseball is one of those things. Sorry, baseball is not for me. So all your baseball fans, please don't get mad at me, but it's just not for me.
Speaker 3:I do really enjoy being in watching baseball, you know, in person. But if I'm watching on the TV it's just, it's just not fun. But if you know, if they're able to employ AI to somehow I don't know how, but get me into baseball enough to where I can watch it. And like there's all these, there's all these stats and statistics going on and like, maybe even like some sort of like a like a struggle chart. It sounds weird, but like you're seeing kind of like the momentum and kind of pressure, that what each side is giving each other, and kind of like showing how much closer it's getting to one you know, to one team than the other and just showing how much more momentum they're getting. I think that would be really cool. I think there'd be a really, really cool feature to implement, and I think that's something that AI could easily do, just going off of the amount of information that it's gathering. Yeah Well, it's one of the things.
Speaker 1:So Brooke is tuning in on the podcast and Brooke, so great to see you and hear from you. Hope you're doing well. She says just tuning in. I might have missed you all talking about this. But what about ticket sales? If the stations just need AI? Why people go pay for good seats anymore, you know it just depends. It depends on who you are as a viewer. Right, because either you're a person or a person that watches from home and I'll say it like this, this is from my experience. Right when I'm at home, I try to dive into every nitty-gritty part of what's going on. Right, because you're able to do that with a broadcast.
Speaker 1:When you're at the event, you're experiencing it, right?
Speaker 1:You're not so much worried about this for that I think that the goal is different here. You know, I don't think it's trying to take away the people at the stadium. I'm sure there is a possibility of a loss with that. Absolutely, this technology is not advanced enough yet to make people stop buying tickets, for sure, but it does make you wonder if someday it gets so good where you feel you're at the stadium. I mean, it's highly probable. Someday, a couple hundred years from now, we're all in AI, some sort of thing produced by AI that makes us feel like we're at the stadium and we're not, and the players are on some type of playing field. You know, yeah.
Speaker 3:I can see a whole VR experience. Right, you just put your VR headset on and say VR gets advanced enough to where it jacks into your nervous system, to where you can experience that whole possibility. But I think, as stuff evolves, I think things will be different. Right, so maybe you may not go outside to go to the game, but maybe you still purchase tickets to the VR experience or something similar to that. So I feel like just the environment of being in a stadium. I don't think that's going to go away anytime soon, I agree.
Speaker 1:Let's tackle Aaron's question here too. He says another thing is the momentum of football perfect for this display? Would baseball be too slow, basketball be too fast? I'm not, you know, trying to disagree over this stuff at all, but I think it would work for me personally. Let me put it this way If they started because, first of all, some of this stuff is not needed in football, right, it's not Like some of it that we went over is just not effective. You don't need it. Yeah, I unfortunately went away from the page where I would reference it, but I do think that you know it's starting with football, because football is the biggest revenue generating sport. There is an America, right, I think it would be perfect for things like soccer, you know yeah, I think so too Real.
Speaker 1:Imagine a thing that says the likelihood. It gives a percentage likelihood of making a kick right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that'd be cool.
Speaker 1:That'd be epic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you could do the same thing with basketball and free, free, free point, sure Throws or three point shots. Sorry, gosh darn free.
Speaker 1:I'm having a hard time, but yeah, you know with that kind of a thing though Aaron makes a great point Would it be too fast? Well, that is some of the risks with some of the things they're integrating with football. You know, like what routes receivers are running, that like make them open and they highlight them. They're they're noticing that at the exact same quarterbacks, are noticing that the exact same time the players are being circled, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:If anything.
Speaker 1:All you're going to do is show, show up like exploit subpar quarterbacks. You know what I mean. Yeah that's what. That's what that's going to do. I agree. He says soccer is like the same momentum. I do agree. Go ahead bro.
Speaker 3:Well, I was just thinking. You know, as this, as we all know right, ai is sorry. Ai is one of those things that is consistently learning and growing and all sorts of other stuff like that, and I wouldn't be surprised with you know, two or three years down the road, that it's able to predict just as well as the quarterbacks are going to do, and so it's going to be able to essentially in the exact same time and speed right, because AI is fast, its reaction time is almost instant, essentially, if it's, if it's trained well to where it'll draw that line right and it's a like bam, they're going to do this. I can see something similar to that. I do?
Speaker 1:I agree, man. Yeah, if it would, you know, predict the play before the play even starts. So let me backtrack. I'm not going to disagree with you, aaron. I think you're exactly right. Man, With what we're describing here, you really kind of only works for football. It has to be totally different approaches to AI for it to work at all with other sports. You know, I do think with baseball it's interesting, right, because it would appeal to more tech appreciative people. Right, because it has so much time to exploit. Ai is predicting this or this is what will happen here, that kind of a thing. And even so, I'd go so far as to say it could even just completely ruin baseball because there's only so many possibilities of outcomes that could be predicted. Right, yeah, that's true, but yeah, it's just something that I'm I don't man, I don't have the answers right now. I don't have the best answers for what could be used for in the best way, you know yeah, same but.
Speaker 1:I think that with racing, there's a definite use for it there. Yeah, basketball, you know you could use it pregame. Here's where this person will hit the most shots from this is where defenders need to watch out for you know Mm hmm. And and stuff like that score.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for each team, yeah, I think you know, except for, except for racing. I think that AI like this, at least how we're imagining it now, you know, giving that possibility that we're not using wide enough imagination, it may only appeal to technology people or just, you know, not the casual fan, whereas I think, with the NFL, with it using these AI additions to the broadcast, I think it's a welcome addition for those broadcasts, you know or either just completely well, and with the example I was giving with basketball, right, those are only going to be good for people who watch pregame.
Speaker 1:They're not going to care, if you know. They're not going to know watching the watching it live, because it's not going to be able to show you that in real time. I mean, maybe it could if they just repeat it over and over again, but it's going to show AI, hey, pregame. This person is likely going to hit this shot from here, here, here, here, here, right? Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:But they also already have that data. So it's just it's tough. It's kind of tough for me to predict how the else this could be used, you know.
Speaker 3:Mm. Hmm, exactly Same it's. Um. It's kind of cool, though, just to see that we're doing this kind of stuff. I didn't think that it was going to get integrated into like more mainstream things like football, this suit.
Speaker 1:Well, that's a great point, man. That's actually. It's a great point because, as I've continued to talk about AI and these kind of advances, now everybody's on board with this man. Everybody wants this type of involvement. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, you're right, and I'm not trying to be like a naysayer or talk badly about anybody, but there's probably people out there that are like man, this is just going to take over. Uh, so you're going to have robots playing football. You know what I mean? I mean, seriously, you're going to be people that perceive it that way.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, that's true, you're right. You're right. There's going to be plenty of people out here that are going to say that. They're going to say, oh, we'll see, robots are taking over, the computers are taking over and you know, the sport is no longer a fund anymore. It's going to be like chess. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 1:Dude, that'd be actually really interesting to watch. But yeah. Anyway, let's answer Brooke's question real quick. She said I should have specified the example the Rams last game. There weren't enough fans in the stands that the NFL would have liked to have been there, so they could use AI to fill the stands. You know, like having some movies and TV shows et cetera. Yeah, I can see that. I can see that too.
Speaker 3:But, you know. The problem is is that you know, we we noticed this during the pandemic right and players really do like get a lot of fuel off of the fans being there and that's something that sure, as a as someone who's watching on the TV, they won't notice, but I feel like you will notice in how the athletes play.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I completely agree. So, yeah. And one thing I would say about that too, is it just I could see something of that? Yeah, you would notice how the athletes play, but you know, if they really want from a national TV audience to, you know, put that on Sunday night football, even though there aren't that many ticket sales, and they would, they could just fill it in with AI, but that would become noticed at some point, probably. That day.
Speaker 1:You know at least how it is now, and I think that would take away from football the NFL as a whole. So, let's see, it's a good thing to bring up Brooke and and definitely a possibility for sure. So we appreciate you doing that. Yeah, man, I think we had a good discussion on this and we're so good, so many of you all jumped in further this conversation. We really appreciate it. So thank you, yeah, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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