The Collapsing Pocket

Episode 139. Wardy strolls in late for the first weekly review of the year. All sixteen games under the microscope including an enthralling tie in Arizona, a drubbing in Miami and the same old story in Foxboro. Enjoy!

Episode 138. With Wardy away on business, Sam & Si meet up to go through all the news in the final week of preseason. There's a lot of it - full of signings and cuts as you'd expect. They tackle their final segment of the offseason - Forked By Thanksgiving - before offering up their picks for week 1. FOOTBALL IS BACK!

Episode 137. Si, Rob & Sam gather once more to discuss Andrew Luck's shock retirement plus all the other news of the last two weeks. They offer some preseason takeaways from weeks 2 and 3, and then Wardy offers out his first wave of fantasy advice for the 2019 season. Enjoy!

Episode 8. The NFL, as a brand and as a product, seems impervious to competition. Many startup leagues have tried to take on the billion dollar empire and help itself to a slice of the pie. All of them have failed. On this latest Inside The Pocket, the boys look back at the USFL, XFL and the recent AAF and try to understand what went wrong, and if they ever really stood a chance. Enjoy!

Episode 136. Preseason is in full flow and real football is tantalisingly close. The boys gather together to discuss AB, Christian Wade & a kicker trade before making predictions for this year's major awards. They even have a few pint bets too. Enjoy!

Episode 135. Preseason is here and nobody cares. The boys gather in the office studio to deliberate the news before diving into their weekly segment - which head coaches are on the hotseat going in to 2019? Find out by listening now! Enjoy!

Episode 134. The new season is on the horizon! With the Hall of Fame game due to be played on Thursday, the boys gather in the pub office studio to to predict their division winners, wildcard spots and postseason matchups. And for once, Sam's suggestions don't seem quite so outlandish. Enjoy!

Episode 7. A man who was so good at football he forced the rest of the National Football League to adapt to him. A man who was so bad at self control he came close to the abyss on more than one occasion. Terrified opponents simply knew him as '56' or 'LT'. Hall of Famer and two-time Superbowl winner Lawrence Taylor is the subject of our latest Inside The Pocket. Enjoy!

Episode 133. After a three week hiatus the boys gather once again in the pub office to dissect Sam's t-shirt choice and go through the news before breaking down their top ten 'running back tandems' in the NFL. As per usual they each seemed to have their own definition of the task in hand. Enjoy!

Episode 132. Sam joins Si once more to talk about his trip to Tottenham. Interviews with Bears DE Akiem Hicks, Buccaneers TE Cameron Brate, Rams LB Samson Ebukam and Jaguars K Josh Lambo. Enjoy!