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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight Firepan, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: fire for Thursday, March the thirteenth March is always one

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Speaker 2: of the best months on the calendar. Listen. I started

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Speaker 2: to dig into my taxes. Oh man, that's not fun.

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Speaker 2: Taxes doing a month started to fire up those you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't change my own flat tires and I don't

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Speaker 2: do my taxes. Come on, guys, you gotta pay somebody,

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Speaker 2: pay the experts to do it. Save yourself some time

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Speaker 2: and energy and frustration. But I do not need to

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Speaker 2: pay anybody to look at the college basketball landscape. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: Wednesday was a bit of a bloodbath for your boy.

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Speaker 2: If I can boast about an eight and two Saturday,

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Speaker 2: it on the Chin Arkansas, which Thomas, our guest yesterday, loved.

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Speaker 2: They had to push, but it's for lost. A three

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Speaker 2: team parlay ended up chasing. It's just not a great Wednesday. Hey,

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Speaker 2: it happens, boot and rally. As I told my boy,

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Speaker 2: you just got to move on. And today the landscape

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Speaker 2: is incredible. To Cooper, Flag and Duke take the court

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Speaker 2: at high noon at the ACC Tournament. You got Iowa

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Speaker 2: has Xavier Marquette. Those games are on Peacock, which makes

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Speaker 2: hell is the next season of bell Air coming? I'm

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Speaker 2: still waiting for It's a great show. I miss it,

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Speaker 2: deeply need bell Air back, so big Thursday in college

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Speaker 2: basketball obviously this weekend, you guys are gonna do all

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Speaker 2: your scouting to cram for the Test aka March Madness.

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Speaker 2: I wrote up for Futures Bets you Need for Fox Sports,

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Speaker 2: and I also wrote up for Sleepers. I think both

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Speaker 2: of those will be posted either already or soon on

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Speaker 2: Fox sports dot com. But you know I love March. Guys.

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Speaker 2: Now listen, we're gonna get to the NFL at a

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Speaker 2: minute and a lot more is happening. That being said,

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Speaker 2: I quickly need to address, just briefly, this NBA showdown

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Speaker 2: See this game matters. This is a big one and

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Speaker 2: the Thummer Thunder come out on top of a nice

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Speaker 2: road win. What eighteen one to twelve MVP SGA, Listen,

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Speaker 2: he did what free throw merchants do. He got to

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Speaker 2: the line. He was ten of eleven from the line.

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Speaker 2: These Celtics as a team were ten of twelve. The

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Speaker 2: Celtics shot sixty three three pointers. That is a seed.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. Sixty three to three pointers. The rest of

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Speaker 2: field forty three percent put on threes. They were twenty

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Speaker 2: But not when you're giving up twenty five free throws

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Speaker 2: and Boston only makes ten. You know, like that the

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Speaker 2: Porzingis did not play. Tatum was pretty damn good. Didn't

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Speaker 2: really struggled, ended up fouling out, ended up complaining about

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Speaker 2: how physical Okayse he was? Okayse was missing Jdubb what's physical?

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Speaker 2: I just walk away from this as like, Okay, okay

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Speaker 2: so many text threads where nobody believes in OKAC, and

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Speaker 2: I just I got to see it to believe it. Again,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a hater.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the NFL, where nothing really

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Speaker 2: shocking happened on Wednesday, at least nothing from my perspective,

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Speaker 2: there was nowhere to go for Rock Purty. Obviously, the

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Speaker 2: And Shanahan's going to be highly motivated to kick some

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Speaker 2: Other NFL moves that were moderately interesting. Mike Williams back

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Speaker 2: Let's not forget Ashton Genty is a hot name around

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