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Speaker 1: straight Fire? Fa M. It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Friday, September two. College Football Week one officially kicks

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Speaker 1: off tomorrow Monster Slate. Very excited for it. I'll have

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Speaker 1: some best bets later in the podcast. Obviously a disclaimer,

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Speaker 1: do not fire your entire bankroll opening weekend. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: everybody when they were in their early twenties they got

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Speaker 1: giddy about the NFL and they went opening weekend and

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Speaker 1: you flush and then you're like, oh my gosh, you

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Speaker 1: have to reload by week three. Everybody's been there. Anybody

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Speaker 1: Um Week one College Football. A lot of good games,

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Speaker 1: a lot of enticing matchups. I found some edges. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what I played. Hopefully we could give out

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Speaker 1: some winners here on the podcast. Later obviously, we will

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Speaker 1: talk about the Tom Brady l Bombshell report from page six.

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Speaker 1: Bummer for Brady, And if you're Tampa Bay Bucks fan,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady not happy at home. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: in a little bit, but we gotta start with the

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Speaker 1: big blockbuster NBA trade on Thursday. I mean some people

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Speaker 1: may take umbradge with the word blockbuster. It's certainly was

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Speaker 1: a shocker. And I've talked about this ad nauseum for years.

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Speaker 1: All these reporters who float, oh yeah, Donovan Mitchell's going here,

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Speaker 1: and um Kevin Durant's going there and this, and none

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Speaker 1: Ainge sends Donovan Mitchell to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who, let

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Speaker 1: me check my notes here, nobody had that. Nobody, absolutely

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Speaker 1: nobody had two calves landing Donovan Mitchell. So don't try

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Speaker 1: to say, oh, well, this guy talked about it four

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Speaker 1: months ago. If you mentioned it in Passing Shoot, I

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Speaker 1: can mention ONNY teams that are in the mix for

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Speaker 1: any player and act like I do a victory lap

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Speaker 1: on that nobody had this. Everybody thought it was the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: And here's where you know, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: how things break. But on Wednesday they announced the big

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Speaker 1: r J. Barrett extension, and that must have ticked off

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Speaker 1: the Jazz because the Knicks essentially said, hey, guys, we

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Speaker 1: don't think you have any better offers out there. For

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, we have the most picks. Nobody else has.

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Speaker 1: Any good players we have are J. Barrett, and I

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Speaker 1: would argue our J. Barrett is better than Colin Sexton,

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Speaker 1: I like all those three guys, but I like r J.

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Speaker 1: Barrett way better. I mean r J. Barrett, you know,

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Speaker 1: Who knows? But I think r J. Barrett could be

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Speaker 1: But they they did not overpay. And then b I

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Speaker 1: don't mean this is weird, but it feels like a

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell. Now he's a zero time All NBA player,

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Speaker 1: most meaningful titles in sports this century. Yeah, that's not hyperbole.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Now Lebron from Akron, Ohio is watching Cleveland

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Speaker 1: They don't get free agents. So what do you do

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Speaker 1: if you're Minnesota? You overpay for Rudy Gobert. Cleveland ain't

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Speaker 1: getting no free agents. What do you do? You overpay

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Speaker 1: for Donovan Mitchell. So ultimately, I think both those deals

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Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert will figure it out. We've got as much

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Speaker 1: here on the podcast Betting the Trenches. I'll take Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Not a huge play for me, but if you can

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Speaker 1: get seven, awesome. If not, good luck. Um the other

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Speaker 1: one and this one, uh is is kind of off

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Speaker 1: the beaten track. If you're looking for an underdog, a

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Speaker 1: dog with fleas, perhaps that could really really shock some people. USF.

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Speaker 1: So at Fox we have a new thing this year

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Speaker 1: where you know, they they have certain games and they

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Speaker 1: want picks on them. So for the Fox website, we've

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Speaker 1: got to just make picks. And I gotta sign this

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Speaker 1: USF um B y U game. And I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know much about USF, but of course this

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Speaker 1: is the job. You dig into the teams and you

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Speaker 1: look into us F, You're like, geez, okay too. In

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Speaker 1: ten last year, nobody's been in this team. Everybody loves

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Speaker 1: b y u. B right, you returns the quarterback, great receiver, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: B y U. Team is stacked. And then you start

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Speaker 1: looking a little bit closer and you're like, oh, B

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Speaker 1: yu schedule is all anybody's talking about? Huh? B y U.

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Speaker 1: Who did they Let's see who they have next week. Oh,

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Speaker 1: wait a sec. Next week they're hosting Baylor, which is

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Speaker 1: a top ten team. Hm. And so what happened in

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Speaker 1: the meeting last year? Oh, b wy you was up

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Speaker 1: twenty one nothing, destroying USF, and then they kind of

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Speaker 1: took their foot off the gas. USF storms back covers.

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Speaker 1: Us F was a twenty four point dog last year,

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Speaker 1: only lost by eight. Interesting. Now b wy you has

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Speaker 1: to go from Provo to South Florida, and I just said,

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Speaker 1: just for the f of it, let me just check

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Speaker 1: the temperatures. Oh, it's gonna be ninety five degrees. Oh

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Speaker 1: at Raymond James Stadium. So USF home. Nobody's gonna take

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Speaker 1: them seriously because they're bad as everybody has in college football.

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Speaker 1: They got a quarterback transfer from Baylor. Actually, Gary Bohannon, sorry,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Bohannon started twelve games last year. They got eighteen

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Speaker 1: returning starters. They've got revenge, they've got a new good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They've got a team that may overlook them in b

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Speaker 1: y U. They've got an early start at one o'clock,

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Speaker 1: not not early, but one o'clock start, getting eleven and

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Speaker 1: a half at home when they covered twenty four last

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Speaker 1: year on the road. Huh. I took a flyer in USF.

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Speaker 1: If you want to put some on the money line,

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Speaker 1: I got some at plus three. Twenty could be fun,

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Speaker 1: easy to root for. Now. Listen, I don't think USF

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Speaker 1: is winning this game by us a good team, but

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Speaker 1: I can see a scenario where by you overlooks it,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody's talking about the game coming up against

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Speaker 1: UM Baylor. I think they've got Oregon. I think they

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Speaker 1: have Notre Dame. Like their schedule, they return a lot.

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Speaker 1: I can easily see them thinking, Holy Cal is a

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Speaker 1: cake walk, and then they get out there, it's a

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Speaker 1: heat and and the next thing you know, it's like

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Speaker 1: twenty with four minutes left. And I just think it's

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Speaker 1: worth putting a couple of couple of shekels on us

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Speaker 1: F on the money line. I did take the eleven

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Speaker 1: and a half points. We'll see what happens at the line. Um.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do anything on Ohio State Notre Dame yet.

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Speaker 1: I might add to it tomorrow one of my Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame sources. And I should preface this by saying it

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Speaker 1: is not my dad League basketball teammate Dame Chris. But

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Speaker 1: one of my Notre Dame guys said, he thinks you've

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Speaker 1: got to take the seventeen and a half. Now. He is,

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Speaker 1: you know, a donor season ticket holder. UM, former Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame athlete. Like he's plugged into the community there. He

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Speaker 1: loves Freeman. A lot of questions about the talent. I

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Speaker 1: just unfore I can see O how State remember last

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Speaker 1: year in the first game with a Stroud and Henderson

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Speaker 1: they kind of struggled a bit and then pulled away late.

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Speaker 1: I can see that happening here. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get kind of backdoored. So if anything, I would say

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Speaker 1: wait until kickoff and maybe you can get a big

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame number first half. UM, but I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see that. There's gonna be obviously game

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Speaker 1: day plays. You guys can send me um your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll piggyback some UM. It's exciting. I went to

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Speaker 1: Vegas this week Lates and bets futures NFL college football.

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Speaker 1: It's just very exciting. I listen. I don't reveal too

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Speaker 1: much on here about the gambling because you never know

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Speaker 1: who's listening. And UM, but I'll just say you've got

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Speaker 1: to have multiple accounts. You have to have multiple accounts,

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Speaker 1: Sharp Books, Square Books if you want to have a

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Speaker 1: local not the worst thing in the world. Uh, there

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Speaker 1: are options out there, guys. And we're gonna do a

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Speaker 1: lot of the gambling this season. I can't wait. I'm

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Speaker 1: fired up. That's it for today's pod. Now, remember we

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Speaker 1: are doing a special Saturday podcast with Matthew Berry for

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Speaker 1: all your fantasy needs, so look for that Saturday. Um

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if we all have a podcast

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Speaker 1: on Monday, because you know, the Saturday podcast was special,

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Speaker 1: so maybe we'll just keep that out Monday. I will

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Speaker 1: be on the Herd yes Monday, and I signed a

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Speaker 1: contract so it will be for several years. You will

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Speaker 1: see me on the Herd unless I kick me off there.

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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm very excited for that. So I will

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Speaker 1: see you Monday morning.