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

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire fan hits me Jason McIntyre Straight Fire for Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: March twenty nine. I can't believe April's almost here. It's

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Speaker 1: I swear that the days go by so slowly and

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Speaker 1: the months just fly by. It is incredible that we

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Speaker 1: are in April. But I mean, listen, March madness is

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Speaker 1: pretty much over. You got the Final Four, you got

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Speaker 1: the Masters coming up, you got the NBA playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: April always has the NFL Draft, So April's always a

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Speaker 1: pretty good month. I mean, if you're ranking them, obviously,

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Speaker 1: obviously marches number one. November is extremely strong because you

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Speaker 1: have NFL College football, NBA college basketball, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I actually know. I'll say, I'll say November's first, then March,

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Speaker 1: then you could pick whatever football month you want. January

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Speaker 1: is good. Februaries okay, but it was not bad. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big golf guy, but I do know

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Speaker 1: the weather warms up, so I'll be playing volleyball with

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Speaker 1: my buddies out here in La pretty soon. I've been

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Speaker 1: missing that with all this blasted rain. At any rate,

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Speaker 1: A surprisingly busy Tuesday yesterday in sports, I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: with a couple obscure stories that I do think you

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Speaker 1: guys will find some interesting. And the first one is

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Speaker 1: probably I guarantee you no other shows talking about this.

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Speaker 1: I'm almost certain of it because a lot of them

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Speaker 1: probably won't have an angle. But authenticity, I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's part of my brand. I'm just gonna be honest

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Speaker 1: and real with you guys, even if you hate it's sorry,

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Speaker 1: tough darts. But Andre Drummond, do you guys remember him

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Speaker 1: coming out of college? He was a base seven foot

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Speaker 1: NBA in like the nineteen eighties, he would have been

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Speaker 1: dominant for a while. But he's quickly the NBA pivoted

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Speaker 1: You can't defend the pick and roll? And Andre Drummond's

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Speaker 1: still in the infancy of social media, right It's I mean,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff, and the power that it has on

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Speaker 1: and then I try to put a couple of notes

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Speaker 1: the three two one strategy. Do not eat anything three

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Speaker 1: Now that is very difficult to do. Try it. It's tough,

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Speaker 1: Note how the phone has a hold over you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: on young men? Professional athletes, anytime you go on your phone,

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Speaker 1: through it, I mentioned Andrew Drummond. Bradley Beale of the

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Speaker 1: Washington Wizards had an incident that was picked up by

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Speaker 1: of thirteen hundred dollars. You bleep, bleep, bleep bleep yelling

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Speaker 1: the guys in our soccer team ownership group that the

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Speaker 1: buy the franchise. Daniel Snyder, who everybody hates. I'll just

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Speaker 1: the franchise when he bought it. He is going to

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Speaker 1: clean up on this sale. Six billion dollars for an

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Speaker 1: NFL franchise. The reason these franchise as his go first

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Speaker 1: so much, as you guys know, is scarcity. You can't

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Speaker 1: just go and buy one. It's just not available. You

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Speaker 1: any car you want, you can buy a house anywhere

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Speaker 1: you want, do whatever you want with your money, but

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Speaker 1: You can't just say, oh yeah, I want to buy it. Nope,

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Speaker 1: it's not that easy. Somebody's got to want to sell first,

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Speaker 1: and that ain't always an issue. Basically, Snyder is kind

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Speaker 1: a prick to everyone else. There's just like making him

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Speaker 1: sell the team. And now he's gonna make a ton

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Speaker 1: of money, which I'm sure he loves. Listen, anybody who's

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Speaker 1: in on a sports ownership team kind of sort of

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Speaker 1: loves this news. Now, the trickle down is not quite

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Speaker 1: at the soccer level where we're absolutely cleaning up, but

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Speaker 1: it is a pretty darned cool aspect that teams valuations

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Speaker 1: continue to go up. The COVID bump. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of concern over COVID. What's gonna happen with

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Speaker 1: these sports teams? Absolutely nothing? Two years later, everything's fine, right.

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Speaker 1: I saw the Minnesota Timberwolves. Something's going on there with

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Speaker 1: their sale. I think it's complete or close to complete.

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Speaker 1: But these sports teams man a nfls just unbelievable. And

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Speaker 1: one final draft note before we wrap up. You know

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Speaker 1: clev Ta who comes on the pod, he saw that

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Speaker 1: somebody put Hendon Hooker in the top ten of his

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Speaker 1: mock draft. I don't remember who it was. That's a

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Speaker 1: little bit much. I have hyped Hooker. I have hyped Hooker.

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Speaker 1: I thought Hooker had a chance before the ACL injury

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Speaker 1: struggles against Georgia. I mean again, it's Georgia who doesn't

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Speaker 1: Although c J. Strout with a month to prepare, carved

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Speaker 1: them up. Hooker gets hurt, he had the bad game

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Speaker 1: against Georgia, and oh, by the way, he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: twenty five years old. To CLEVTA looked at quarterbacks who

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Speaker 1: round over the last twenty eight years. I will give

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Speaker 1: you the names. Brandon Weedon, now he's a former baseball

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Speaker 1: player who went to Oklahoma State. Brown's drafted him. Obviously

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Speaker 1: he is was he did not pan out. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to call him a bus but he did not

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Speaker 1: went to Virginia Tech. I remember him because I spent

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Speaker 1: some time in Virginia Tech and his stories. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy was a big man on campus, shall we say.

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Speaker 1: And Jim Druck and Miller did absolutely nothing when the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers drafted him. Achille Smith, if you guys

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Speaker 1: remember him, Oregon quarterback seventeen starts and was out of

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Speaker 1: the league. So that's I would say three whiffs, weed

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Speaker 1: and Druck and Miller and Smith. The three well, two

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Speaker 1: hits if you want to say hits are Ryan Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: who's still in the league, has started a ton of games.

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Speaker 1: He's been to the playoffs. They were the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a home run. He's not a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. I mean, but he's had a long career.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you drafted the first round, he didn't

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Speaker 1: he's been, you know, pretty good. I think in Tennessee

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Speaker 1: he started over one hundred and thirty games in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You know, in a league that they say not for long,

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Speaker 1: that's not bad. Then you have Chad Pennington, who who

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Speaker 1: would be the level up from Ryan Tannehill. And before

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Speaker 1: you bashed Chad Pennington as oh, he wasn't good, he

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Speaker 1: went to Marshall. I want to say through passes to

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Speaker 1: Randy Moss, but I might be wrong on that. Chad

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Speaker 1: Pennington quarterback in five playoff games with the Jets. He

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Speaker 1: won two playoff games with the Jets two and three,

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Speaker 1: and then in Miami he went oh and won in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But Chad Pennington was he was a solid

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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. I'm not saying he was great. Nobody would

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a guy who was twenty four draft

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Speaker 1: in the first round. He worked out like you get,

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Speaker 1: You draft him, and you go to the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: five games and you win two. That's not bad at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna remind you, guys, I would love to see

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Speaker 1: the hit rate of guys who who were drafted in

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Speaker 1: like the first round, who were under twenty one I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: under twenty two. I guess there are not a lot

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Speaker 1: of good. Really young guys have panned out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're too young to be a quarterback, doesn't pan out,

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Speaker 1: and they're usually going to an awful team. The last

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Speaker 1: one is interesting because it's Kenny Pickett, the most recent name,

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Speaker 1: and I thought Pickett was okay in Pittsburgh. I think

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Speaker 1: I thought he was good. I mean, I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the starter this year. Obviously he's got some upside.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. But you look at that list and then

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Speaker 1: you're like, huh, Hendon Hooker, Well, if you are as

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah speculated here last week. If you're the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings and you draft Hendon Hooker, you give one more

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Speaker 1: year of Kirk Cousins, and all of a sudden, you know,

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Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker's got some pieces in place. Justin Jeffers does

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Speaker 1: not going lear anywhere. I guess Dalvin Cook may still

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Speaker 1: be a hund two years. I don't know, but Hendon

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Speaker 1: Hooker can win some games in Minnesota. With Kevin O'Connell,

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Speaker 1: I think we like him as a head coach. I

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Speaker 1: think Hendon Hooker I would not be surprised total playoff appearances.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say if he goes to Minnesota over under

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Speaker 1: one and a half or two and a half. I

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Speaker 1: mean again, if you draft him in the first round

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, you're thinking this guy could be the dude

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Speaker 1: if we move on from Kirk Cousins. Now there are

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Speaker 1: other options, shall we say for mister Hendon Hooker. I

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Speaker 1: will be having my mock draft pop for Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: either today or tomorrow, and I speculated another team that

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Speaker 1: wears purple, the Baltimore Ravens, who are drafting twenty two.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty clear that Lamar Jackson era is over. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that fence can be mended. Lamar Jackson feels

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Speaker 1: very headstrong that he is done in Baltimore, and folks,

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Speaker 1: I don't care how much you like what Snoop Huntley

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Speaker 1: that can't be your guy going into this season. It

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Speaker 1: just can't. You've got to have a competition, and I

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Speaker 1: think Kendon Hooker would certainly have a shot in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't. I'm not saying he's gonna be the guy,

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Speaker 1: but Baltimore is a really good franchise, the Ravens, they

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Speaker 1: got a pretty good roster. I don't love the receiver,

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver talent, as I'm sure Lamar Jackson didn't.

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Speaker 1: But when you like look at the opportunities for Hooker.

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Speaker 1: If he goes late first round, he goes to Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: Lamar's gone. I don't see why he can't have a

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Speaker 1: chance Minnesota one year. Sit behind, sorry, sit behind Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins for a year. I don't know. I'll just toss

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Speaker 1: this out there. The New York Giants, I know day

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Speaker 1: Boll has his guy and Danny Dimes, but you know,

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Speaker 1: opportunity for Hendon Hooker to land with the Giants. He

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Speaker 1: has talent. I mean, this is a guy who's goods,

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Speaker 1: good seasons at Virginia Tech and was incredible at Tennessee

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Speaker 1: with NFL receivers. I'm rooting for Hendon Hooker. I'd like

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Speaker 1: his story, obviously, the Virginia Tech connection, and that is

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Speaker 1: a lengthy Wednesday podcast. Guys, enjoy hump Day back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you then.