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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty nine, to hope everybody had a tremendous Thanksgiving break.

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Speaker 1: Kids are back at school today, parents back at work,

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Speaker 1: the in laws are gone. Everybody back to the usual grind,

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Speaker 1: and boy do we have a lot of sports to

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Speaker 1: talk on this beautiful, beautiful Monday morning in southern California.

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Speaker 1: I actually thought about opening the podcast with the Lincoln

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Speaker 1: Riley USC news. As you guys know usually I talked

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Speaker 1: to Cowherd on Sundays and hit the first words out

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Speaker 1: of his mouth. I I think Lincoln Riley is bigger

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Speaker 1: than any NFL story today. He said to me yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and I was a little stunned. And you know, think

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Speaker 1: about it, and Lincoln Riley is a big move leaving

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma for USC. Significant. We'll do a little bit on

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Speaker 1: it a little bit later. It's a big story, and

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Speaker 1: the ramifications are massive, and the trickle down and what's

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Speaker 1: what are the dominoes to fall? But I can't get

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Speaker 1: over what happened in Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 1: essentially state, claimed that they are now the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL with an impressive far oh butt kicking

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Speaker 1: of Sean mcveigh's rams off of By. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know really if there's any other way around this, Like

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Speaker 1: there's no dominant team in the a f C. We

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Speaker 1: can all agree, like the Ravens are the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: Now they ain't the number one seed. The Patriots are rolling,

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Speaker 1: they're not formidable. The Bills will see they've got a

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Speaker 1: huge game Patriots Bills this week. And you look at

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Speaker 1: the NFC and it's pretty clear that's where the dominant

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Speaker 1: teams are. Six teams in the NFC better all of

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Speaker 1: them are have at time, has been very dominant in

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Speaker 1: the a f C. You've got twelve parody reins in

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Speaker 1: the a f C. But in the NFC, really it's

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Speaker 1: the old guys, know what, No Country for Old Men? Gosh,

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Speaker 1: I have Savage that shows so that movie so many

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Speaker 1: times on podcast on my old radio show that I

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Speaker 1: used to do. People love that movie. I think it's

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Speaker 1: Cohen Brothers did that. Um and I like the first

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes, first hour, so riveting. No Country for

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Speaker 1: Old Man amazing, and then it goes off the rails.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can do a spoiler alert about a

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Speaker 1: movie that's like fifteen years old, right, Um, when they

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Speaker 1: killed who I thought was the main character, um without

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Speaker 1: even showing his death. You know, they kill him in

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Speaker 1: that hotel room and they're like they show the Mexican

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Speaker 1: guys speeding off, and it's like, what, we don't even

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Speaker 1: get to see the lead guy in the movie go

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Speaker 1: out that all. I thought that was awful, so disappointing

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Speaker 1: now right there, I checked out, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: the final like thirty minutes kind of peter out and

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Speaker 1: tried to get all arts. I didn't love it personally.

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Speaker 1: The movie for the first hour was leave probably top

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Speaker 1: ten movie I've seen it. It was though, like American

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Speaker 1: Pie in the first hour. It was not really Vanilla Sky. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I went there in the first hour, which is off

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Speaker 1: the charts good and it still holds up pretty good

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Speaker 1: at any rate. I think, without question, we've got the

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Speaker 1: Greenmt Packers, the best team in the NFL, and the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucks are right behind him, and it seems

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna get a rematch in the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, I mean, the way the Packers

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Speaker 1: are winning these games like Aaron Aaron Jones is hurt. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll put in uh Dylan and how does he do? Uh? Great?

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Speaker 1: He got to pass out of the backfield. He runs

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Speaker 1: people over like a two pound bowling ball with good

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Speaker 1: bad the Packers were beat up for drafting him over

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Speaker 1: a receiver. Turns out it was a pretty decent pick.

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers did not practice all week. Didn't practice.

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Speaker 1: He's got to toe his left tackle down for the season.

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Speaker 1: Box tr his all Pro left tackle who has played

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Speaker 1: a game yet this year, had another surgery. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be down for a little bit more. No big deal.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers comes in, carves up the Rams defense, which

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Speaker 1: is not nearly as good as it was last year.

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Speaker 1: Seven yards six point eight yards per tempt, two touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: You know they get nine two on the ground. Davante

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Speaker 1: Adams has his way with Jalen Ramsey. Yes he did, folks.

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Speaker 1: while matched up with Adams, Adams called five passes on

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Speaker 1: Ramsey of course capping his rough day by losing in

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Speaker 1: space to thirty seven year old Aaron Rodgers at the

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Speaker 1: goal line. On on. You know, it was kind of

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Speaker 1: a big play. And overall the Packers are just dominant folks.

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Speaker 1: They can beat you in so many ways. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna remind you their best defensive player, Jaire Alexander

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Speaker 1: Rogers not practicing, Like, what is there left to say

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Speaker 1: about this? Packers team nine and three, five and oh

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Speaker 1: at home, have not lost at home. Teams they've beaten

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Speaker 1: who currently have a winning record forty nine Bengals, Cardinals

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Speaker 1: then of course there's the massive game against the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: although I don't know how massive that is. I'll get

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Speaker 1: to the Ravens shortly. I don't think there is dominant,

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Speaker 1: Vikings and Lions. But green Bay right now is dominant,

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Speaker 1: and it's just one of those delicious stories in sports

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Speaker 1: where everybody wins. If you have a podcast, you're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: If you write about the NFL, you're going to win.

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Speaker 1: If you talk about it on radio, show, TV show,

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Speaker 1: any capacity. The Aaron Rodgers saga going from I want

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Speaker 1: out of here. I hate you guys. You lie to me,

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Speaker 1: you would not listen to me, trade me. I don't

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Speaker 1: like it. I don't trust you. Like the offseason was

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Speaker 1: all about the Aaron Rodgers drama. He's gonna end up

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Speaker 1: in Denver. No no, Aaron Rodgers isn't gonna end up

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is gonna I mean, like, this is the

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Speaker 1: learned my lesson. You can't win significant money betting against

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers one last week. This week not so much

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Speaker 1: betting against Aaron Rodgers. But we can we can sit

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Speaker 1: here in him and Hall and said, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Packers are not killing teams. They didn't kill the stealers,

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Speaker 1: he's never lost back to back games in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: I knew he's got Aaron Rodgers and that makes life

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Speaker 1: Right now, A quick word on the Rams, who as

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Speaker 1: Now it's so far and I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: We went three and two in the contest. Um one

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cups numbers have gone down dramatically, and oh, what

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Speaker 1: is getting savage this morning, as he should. I mean,

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Speaker 1: drives where it's like eight minutes later we'll kick a

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Speaker 1: field goal, or ten minutes later we scored. I mean

427
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Speaker 1: that just wears down defense. His Shanahan's doing a great job.

428
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: But again, Jimmy g is really pulling all the strings

429
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Speaker 1: on that offense. I mean, they imagine they scored. Let

430
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: me see how many points they scored on the on

431
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Speaker 1: the vikings. They scored thirty four points on the vikings

432
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Speaker 1: and George Kittle has one catch for thirteen yards. That's

433
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Speaker 1: pretty impressive. What happens when they start working Kittle into

434
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: the mix? You know, I like this Diners team. I

435
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: have futures on them to win the Super Bowl. That's

436
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: probably a little ambitious given all the defensive injuries. I

437
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: like the cut of this Niners GiB. Right now, I'm

438
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Speaker 1: not going to talk much about the Patriots today. Mac

439
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: Jones another game who turnovers, pretty impressive win. The Tennessee

440
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 1: Titans stink out loud right now, guys. I mean they're very,

441
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: very bad at football. They have nine turnovers in the

442
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,959
Speaker 1: last two weeks. No A. J. Brown, no Julio Jones,

443
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: no Derrick Henry. They had two guys. One of them

444
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: is four men who you know, I think he went

445
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 1: to Texas and the other guy Hilliard. They had two

446
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: hundred foot yards rushing and combined and they still got

447
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: their butts kicked in New England third, sixth third team.

448
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee is just not good at football right now, guys,

449
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: they're not. It's comical that this is a playoff team

450
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: because I can guarantee, I can almost guarantee you they're

451
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: gonna be underdogs in the playoffs. Now. The Colts still

452
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: have an outside chance to catch them. But they beat

453
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Speaker 1: the Colts twice. If this was college football, given you know, uh,

454
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Speaker 1: the playoffs situation, there's that, there's nobody that would vote

455
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: the Titans into the playoff. They just don't look like

456
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: a good football team right now. They're not the same.

457
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: And speaking of running back injuries, Christian McCaffrey in a

458
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: walking boot, um not good. You had like thirty five

459
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: yards in fantasy whoopie damn do? Dalvin Cook injured look

460
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: pretty bad shoulder injury. The entire Viking sideline was like

461
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: devastated for the guy he carted off um running backs,

462
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: Just you know what's Todd Gurley doing? Is he working

463
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: for Amazon? I thought I saw him deliver me a

464
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: package on my ring doorbell. Recently, It's like what has

465
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Speaker 1: happened to them? I you can't really trust any running back.

466
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Speaker 1: They're all getting hurt and McCaffrey is just so disappointing,

467
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean, always hurt. Now. Cordurell Patterson is the guy

468
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: I hope you haven't been fantasy. He was incredible. One

469
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Speaker 1: of the coolest stats I saw Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons

470
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: were the last team in the NFL to get a

471
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: twenty yard carry. Cordourell Paterson had won against Miami. Their

472
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: longest carry before that had been eighteen yards. That's embarrassing.

473
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Speaker 1: Nice one for the Falcons. I was gonna do something

474
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Speaker 1: on the Steelers and Big Ben stinking, but we've I

475
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: feel like we've covered that at nauseum. Big Ben look slow,

476
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: looked old, late pick six. They got pubbled. The Bengals

477
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: outscored the Steelers sixty to twenty in two meetings this season.

478
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: Bengals are looked like they're headed to the playoffs. Um,

479
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: I guess the last note? Uh, you know, just Cleveland

480
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: Browns team. Man, I don't think they're gonna make the playoffs. Guys,

481
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: schedule is tough, Baker's hurt. How do you not win

482
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: when Lamar Jackson throws four interceptions the Ravens they played?

483
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: They have a bye week now the Browns, and then

484
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: they play the Ravens again, which will probably just seal

485
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: their fate. But the Browns have lost one, two, three, four,

486
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: five of eight games after that three and one started.

487
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Speaker 1: It all started with the Chargers game, which was which

488
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Speaker 1: I was at out here in l A wild, wild

489
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: stuff but disappointing from the Browns. All right, let's quickly

490
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Speaker 1: go to college football and the Lincoln Riley moves. So

491
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Speaker 1: this was the interesting thing when I asked a couple

492
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Speaker 1: of people about this, like, how did this happen so quickly?

493
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 1: Because Lincoln Riley was not in the mix for this

494
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Speaker 1: job to three or four weeks ago, no mention of

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Speaker 1: his name since the firing of Flay Hilton. He was

496
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: not on any like watch list. Now he was mentioned

497
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: a lot to l S. You. He specifically said, I'm

498
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Speaker 1: not going to be the next coach there, but he

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Speaker 1: didn't address anything about us. See, so this is apparently

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00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 1: what happened. Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma and Bedlam, right, and

501
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: it's clear at this point the Sooners have no chance

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Speaker 1: at the college football playoffs. So now Lincoln Riley is like, huh,

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00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: we're not going to the playoff. We're starting to head

504
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: towards the SEC. I'm not going to have much of

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00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: a chance to win in the SEC at Oklahoma. Like,

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00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: We've got good talent, but I can't hang with I'm

507
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: not recruiting at the level of playing l s U

508
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: Alabama auburned no way. And I don't know if Lincoln

509
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: Riley put the bug out there or USC just said

510
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: let's try a hail Mary, but apparently it came together

511
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: extremely fast from Saturday night to Sunday and it was

512
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: a done deal in like twenty four hours. And the

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00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: worst part is, I'm Oklahoma fans. I don't know many

514
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: of them, but online they are just absolutely at rock bottom.

515
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: And what do you know, some of the great recruits

516
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: that had Oklahoma had lined up are already liked committing,

517
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: and now Lincoln Riley's calling them to stay in California

518
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Speaker 1: and go to USC, and I don't know how anybody

519
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: could hate this move for Lincoln Riley, like is he

520
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: afraid of the SEC? No, but you're not on a

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00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: level of playing field, like Oklahoma is not recruiting against

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Speaker 1: l s U and Florida and all burning out. Its

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Speaker 1: just not can they get great classes? Of course they can, yes,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt playing in the Big twelve. Yeah,

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00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: It's one thing to play Baylor and Oklahoma State and Texas.

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Speaker 1: It's another to face the teams in the SEC. And

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Speaker 1: I just it's I think like a Riley made a

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00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: great move. He's going to be a king at US

529
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Speaker 1: see total domination. Are they going to get back to

530
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll levels? I? I don't know, come on, takes

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Speaker 1: a lot for that to happen, but I wouldn't rule

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Speaker 1: it out. And the best part is once they expand

533
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Speaker 1: the playoff here shortly, USC is gonna be in there

534
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: practically every year. We don't know how long Mario crystal

535
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: Ball is for Oregon, but you know, Chip Kelly sounds

536
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: like him and U c l A probably not sticking together.

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00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how U c l A raises the

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00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: roof on this. Rob g will be back tomorrow and

539
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure he will be just his Raiders pick up

540
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: a massive win on Thanksgiving. But he gets a kick

541
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Speaker 1: in the teeth with USC getting Lincoln Riley. I mean

542
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, but you know six years ago, was he

543
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: anybody's special? No, But Bob stops leaves. They hand picked

544
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: Riley to be the guy. And all he does is

545
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: the Baker Mayfield, the Kyler Murray, the Spencer Rattler, the

546
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: this new kid, the freshman this year. It's a good coach.

547
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: Now who replaces? Look at Riley at Oklahoma was funny

548
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: because and listen, I'm not gonna bag on this guy.

549
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: I know him. Um, we're friendly. But Adam Schefter has

550
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: stepped in it a lot recently and he put out

551
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Speaker 1: this tweet that a candidate to replace Lincoln Riley at

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma has to be Cliff Kingsbury of the Arizona Cardinals,

553
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Speaker 1: who only has one year left on his deal. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know how that sausage gets made, right, Cliff Kingsbury's

555
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: agent has no leverage at all for Kingsbury to get

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Speaker 1: an extension in Arizona. Have you made the playoffs? No?

557
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: Do you have a playoff win? No? Why are we

558
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: paying you more? Can you get to the playoffs and

559
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: maybe win a game? Like what if you flop in

560
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: the first round? You know, if you don't get the

561
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Speaker 1: number one seed and you have to play in the

562
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Speaker 1: first round and you lose at home? Are we sure

563
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Speaker 1: you're the guy? I mean, Arizona would like him to

564
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: be the guy, obviously, but I think at this point

565
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: we can all agree that like Cliff Kingsbury has left

566
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: something to be desired despite some really nice wins this season,

567
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: he has no leverage to go in and ask for

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00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: more money because of a couple of regular season wins. Guys, sorry,

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00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: so what does his agent do? Goes to schefter and says, hey, Oklahoma,

570
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: there no offense. They could just call up Cliff Kingsbury.

571
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: But why because he had an under five hundred record

572
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: in college football? Is the head coach comebine? You think

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's leaving Arizona in the NFL where he's currently

574
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC with the Arizona

575
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,959
Speaker 1: Cardinals and Kyler Murray, it's gonna go to Norman, Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. There's no chance. But you know,

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00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: if you're the agent, that's your job. Plant that with Schefter. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would say zero point zero percent of Kingsbury leaving

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. You don't leave a good NFL. Didn't Mike

580
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: Tomlin cover this like I'm with the Steelers? Why the

581
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: hell am I leaving for USC? Like, get a clue,

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's winning in Arizona. They were good last year,

583
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: just missed the playoffs. A bit of a cliff meltdown.

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00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: He's not leaving. I heard Brent Brent Venables. I saw

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Speaker 1: some stuff about David Randa from Baylor, who's been really

586
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Speaker 1: really good. UM. I think Matt Campbell probably makes the

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00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: most sense. UM, although it is kind of weird how

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00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 1: he's underachieved this year. Um, they've been ascending. You know,

589
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: they're the stock that you keep hearing is hot, hot, hot,

590
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: and it just keeps inching up, but it hasn't really popped. Uh,

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00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: Nobody would Nobody would say Campbell is not a good coach.

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00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: It's just like, I think there's more buzz than actual

593
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: um product on the field so far. It's not like

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Speaker 1: it's been bad, it just hasn't been as good as

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Speaker 1: we we keep hearing. UM. But I think the guy

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: to watch is probably the defensive coordinator Grinch. Um, it's

597
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: funny Grinch Christmas coming up. But the way things shook

598
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: out from Stoop to Riley, the continuity was great. I

599
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: just don't know if Grinch is highly thought of in

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00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: the building as Riley was. Um, Grin's being a defensive guy.

601
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: We know college football, UM offense sales tickets. I don't

602
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: even know if you'd say defense win championships. But we'll

603
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: see Grinch, Campbell, Randa. It'll be interesting that. I mean, listen,

604
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: that's not a job we're gonna spend a ton of

605
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: time on. But um, it's just a fascinating move by

606
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Speaker 1: Riley and now I you know, guys are tripping over

607
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: themselves to put out stats like Los Angeles now has

608
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: three incredible football coaches under the age of forty. McVeigh,

609
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley, who by the way, is not going to

610
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and Lincoln Riley. Like, I know, we want

611
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: to crown guys and all that, but McVeigh has actually

612
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl. I mean, I definitely have

613
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: to check, but I don't think Brandon Staley, who's a

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Speaker 1: rookie head coach, is yet in the amazing category. Um,

615
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: and let's be realistic, Like Lincoln, Riley has done some

616
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: really really really good things, and he's been great as

617
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: a big fish in a small pond. I don't know

618
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: if the Pack twelve is as small of a pond,

619
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: and the spotlight is not going to be on him

620
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: out here in l A. Given everything else that's going

621
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: on with the Rams and the Chargers and Lebron and

622
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and even when Kauai gets back with the Clippers,

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00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what happens with Riley. But

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00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: I think he's probably gonna crush it. I think that's

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00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: a safe bet. Um. I gotta quickly just give a

626
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: shout out to Jim Harbaugh for beating Ohio State. Um,

627
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: I feel I've felt. I know Hardball's kind of douchey,

628
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't like him, and he's

629
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Speaker 1: a little socially awkward, and some of these interviews he

630
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,760
Speaker 1: gives just he comes off as Gosh, this guy's terrible.

631
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: He's insufferable. But the thing I like about him is

632
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: everywhere he goes, he wins. Everywhere. He turned Stanford into

633
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: a powerhouse. I know they've fallen on hard times, but

634
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: Hardball set the table there. Um goes to San Francisco,

635
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Speaker 1: makes Colin Kaepernick a king and takes the forty nine

636
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Speaker 1: within one play of the Super Bowl, goes to Michigan,

637
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Speaker 1: wins ten games. Well, he hasn't been house state. He

638
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Speaker 1: can't began state. I did that Dan Patrick show Friday

639
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: with Rob Parker and Brob Parker's just killing harball the

640
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Speaker 1: whole time. I'm like, the guy's winning ten games in

641
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Speaker 1: half his seasons and they tried to run him out

642
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Speaker 1: of town. He takes a pay cut and stays, why

643
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Speaker 1: are we hating hardball? Like the guy's having success. He

644
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: just has to win meet ohouse state and guess what

645
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: he won as a seven point dog at home. You

646
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Speaker 1: have to feel good for hardball right now there, and

647
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it in Best bet here shortly. But

648
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Speaker 1: they're considerable favorites to win the Big Ten championship against Iowa,

649
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Speaker 1: and if that happens, I don't know how you keep

650
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Speaker 1: Michigan out of the playoff. The only way it gets

651
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Speaker 1: a little dicey. If Alabama beats Georgia, you get Georgia's

652
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Speaker 1: obviously in Alabama. If they beat the number one team,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get in. I think Cincinnati's a lock.

654
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Speaker 1: And then what becomes of Michigan or Oklahoma State? And

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Speaker 1: if you're just doing like the blind resume test, you

656
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: know Oklahoma State's got a decent resume. It's good. But

657
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Speaker 1: from a star power perspective, keep an eye on Notre

658
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Speaker 1: Dame on the outside lurking. We know the cloud Notre

659
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Speaker 1: Dame has. I think Michigan would be good for college football,

660
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Speaker 1: but their brand of football is not visually appealing. I'm mean,

661
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: they just run the football at nauseum three yards in

662
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: a cloud of dust on repeat, and I don't mind it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely for not for this generation. People are going

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Speaker 1: to be like a Michigan Georgia Like, I think you

665
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Speaker 1: gotta give Michigan the two seed, right, and they would.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine Michigan being the four seed. They did

667
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Speaker 1: lose to Sparty, But I mean, I would personally like

668
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: to see Cincinnati get the three so they don't have

669
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Speaker 1: to get crushed by Georgia in the opening ground. Um,

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Speaker 1: but my money says Michigan probably going to be the

671
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Speaker 1: two or the three and they're gonna have a chance

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Speaker 1: to play for the Natty. I don't think they'll have

673
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Speaker 1: a chance to beat Georgia, but it's not like Georgia

674
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Speaker 1: could get separation. It's a wacky year in college football.

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Speaker 1: Just I'm very excited for championship weekend, which we'll get

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Speaker 1: a quick best bet here on Straight Fire for Monday

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Speaker 1: night football. It's a good game, not a great game.

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Speaker 1: Washington and Seattle. Seattle is a major disarray, but I

686
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: saw a funny stat and because of the seven team

687
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: game season now basically nobody's out of playoff contention until

688
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Speaker 1: the very very end. Seattle's like one game away from

689
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 1: being one game away. So they pull off the win tonight.

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Speaker 1: You know, Seattle's back in the mix. And this is

691
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Speaker 1: kind of a good spot for Seattle. Right. Nobody wants them,

692
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Speaker 1: Nobody's back on them here. Everybody's betting on Washington. Seattle

693
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: opened his a favorite, then it swung to Washington. Now

694
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: it's back toward pick them. My only real interest in

695
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: this game is Taylor Heineke. I started him in fantasy

696
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: this week over Derek Carr because I'm an idiot. I

697
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: guess Derek Carr had twenty three, I would have already

698
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 1: had the victory. And this is my kind of big

699
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: ish money league. Um And so I gotta get like

700
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Speaker 1: twelve points from Taylor Heineken, which is not a lot,

701
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: but I mean we're talking about Taylor Heinekey, folks. You know, Uh,

702
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense is no great shakes at all. Copemccoy

703
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: ran up and down the field against him, but there's

704
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: a divisional familiarity there. You know, Taylor Heineke. I just

705
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can trust him to do

706
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: anything right. My son needs Terry McLaurin in the league.

707
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: I need a decent game from McLaren in another one.

708
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Speaker 1: So I have a lot of fantasy applications. Frankly, I

709
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Speaker 1: don't I would. I would almost rather saved my money

710
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: for college football Championship weekend. There's some real tasty games

711
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Um. I don't know if you said, Jay,

712
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I got a hundred dollars, who do

713
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Speaker 1: you want to put it on? Jeez, You're not gonna

714
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Speaker 1: like this, folks, But I would. I would take Seattle. Um.

715
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Speaker 1: And there's a talk coming from a guy who lost

716
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Speaker 1: on Seattle last week against Arizona. I thought Seattle was

717
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: a slam dunk coming off getting shut out. And you know,

718
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: you'll you'll hear all the silly narratives that, oh, Washington

719
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: is getting back in the mix in the NFC. The

720
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: Eagles lost, Cowboys lost, Washington gets a win here and

721
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: things get interesting. I just I Pete Carroll not going

722
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: to USC obviously staying at Seattle for the time being.

723
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Speaker 1: The Seattle situation with Russell Wilson, Uh, if you read

724
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: some stuff in the Seattle media this week or I

725
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: guess Thanksgiving week, um, there were it seems like there's

726
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: some unhappiness there. There's nobody's on the same page. It

727
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like it's going well. But again, this

728
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Speaker 1: is Washington. This is not a great defense. They've been

729
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: run up and down the field on past events. Is

730
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: very suspect. I know they've played well the last two weeks,

731
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Speaker 1: But what kind of sample size is that? So if

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Speaker 1: you're asking me, I would I would just lay it

733
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson prime time. You know, coming off two losses.

734
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever lost three games in a

735
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Speaker 1: row in his career. He's this guy's a Hall of

736
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Speaker 1: Fame star. I Russell will Sin versus Taylor Henkey. Really yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would go Russell Wilson here. I do want to

738
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Speaker 1: say on the College Football Championship weekend, there's so many

739
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: good gets, Like the Oregon rematch against Utah is really interesting.

740
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: Utah opened is a three point favorite. Money already coming

741
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Speaker 1: in on the Ducks. Not a huge surprise there. The

742
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State bailor game is really fascinating because Dave A. Randa,

743
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: as we talked about earlier, is a hot name connected

744
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Speaker 1: to l s U, maybe connected to Oklahoma. Is his

745
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: focus going to be on Oklahoma State? I don't know

746
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Speaker 1: money coming in on Baylor. It's already come down from

747
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Speaker 1: six and a half to five. Irana is a really

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Speaker 1: good coach, you know, Mike Gundy worked magic with this

749
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Speaker 1: team this year. I don't I would look at Baylor,

750
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: but as it comes down, you wonder if it's too far.

751
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: Of course, the Georgia Alabama game. Nobody, absolutely nobody betting

752
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: Alabama here. Okay, when was the last time Nick Saban

753
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: nobody wanted anything to do with his team Georgia from

754
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: four and a half to six and a half. Brice

755
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: young freshman quarterback nearly lost in the Iron Bowl, had

756
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 1: some amazing throws late in that game and and overtime,

757
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: and now he's in his first SEC Championship game. You

758
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: always love the vibe in the pageantry around the SEC

759
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: title game. I'm fired up for it this week. I

760
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: know that's a lot more college football than normal on

761
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: a Monday, but listen, this is what happens with the

762
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: calendar turns to November. And of course Iowa Michigan. Michigan

763
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: levin point favorites over Iowa. Now listen, if you followed

764
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: my backing of Iowa early in the season, it was

765
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: all smoke in mirrors. They were getting so lucky with

766
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: the turnovers the opponents. This should be a Michigan blood

767
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 1: bath and Jim Harbor should win big. But nothing ever

768
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: comes easy for hardball in a spot like this, so

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00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: just be careful. Um. Again, it's early in the week.

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Speaker 1: We'll monitor all that stuff. It's gonna be a fun

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Speaker 1: week here on the on the pod. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow