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Gerald McCoy and Kevin Pamphile are as excited about Game of Thrones as you are

Hard Knocks with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may give us some insight into Game of Thrones, too.

Jeanna Kelley
Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.

This new season of Game of Thrones has been amazing, and it’s given us all so much to discuss. Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy and offensive lineman Kevin Pamphile are no exception.

A Hard Knocks camera crew caught these Tampa Bay teammates discussing the most recent episode.

First of all, that whole interaction between Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow really didn’t go the way I expected. McCoy and Pamphile were just as surprised, clearly.

Jon Snow didn’t want to bend the knee to the Mother of Dragons, and understandably so. Her father burned Snow’s grandfather alive, which would result in some hard feelings. But what really surprised McCoy, Pamphile, and probably the rest of us watching, was that Jon Snow didn’t even seem terribly impressed by Daenerys’ three dragons.

“He acted like the dragons meant nothing,” McCoy says incredulously.

You really do know nothing, Jon Snow.

Look, we were already planning to tune into Hard Knocks for the epic kicker battle between last year’s second-round pick, Roberto Aguayo, and veteran Nick Folk. But now we’re also going to watch for McCoy and Pamphile’s Game of Thrones analysis.

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