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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Straight fire. It's me Jason McIntyre. Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: January twelfth day. Great day in America. Hopefully it's great

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Speaker 1: for everybody else, great for me, and great for Alabama

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Speaker 1: football fans. And I think kind of sort of great

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Speaker 1: for Philadelphia Eagles fans who are completely sick of Doug

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Speaker 1: Peterson and now he's gone. We will get to that shortly. UM,

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Speaker 1: NBA games getting canceled left and right. It's starting to

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Speaker 1: look ugly for the NBA. But we've got to start

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Speaker 1: with the Natty, the National Championship. It was a snoozer.

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Speaker 1: If we had sounds that we kind of piped in

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Speaker 1: here to make it fun, um, we would have somebody

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Speaker 1: storing because that was basically what happened with Alabama. UH

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Speaker 1: fifty two Ohio State twenty four. It was not a

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Speaker 1: game in the second half. Uh. You could argue it

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Speaker 1: was not really a game in the late second quarter. Um,

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Speaker 1: I just listen, college football is kind of broken. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people refuse to admit it. Uh

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Speaker 1: in college football is fine, it's fun. Look at the

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Speaker 1: writings and it's cool and the pageantry and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: College football playoff was pretty terrible. Guys. Clemson loses by

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Speaker 1: a million, Notre Dame loses by half a million, and

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Speaker 1: then Ohio State loses by a million in the title game. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know that there are theories out there, Jason, you

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Speaker 1: want to expand the playoffs. That's not going to really

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Speaker 1: change anything, probably not, but it is a thousand percent

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Speaker 1: going to change the excitement level of the sport. Folks.

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Speaker 1: Like it was boring. It was a boring season. Now

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Speaker 1: I know COVID interrupted it, and uh, an expanded playoff

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Speaker 1: probably would not a change that. But looking forward, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough to build momentum off this season in

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Speaker 1: which Alabama eviscerated everybody and by halftime the talk was, hey, uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Alabama is the greatest team of

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Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know, that's just boring. Um. You

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Speaker 1: know Chris Felika, I know him a little bit. Uh,

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Speaker 1: nice guy, the bear from College Football Game Day. He

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Speaker 1: had an interesting stat there have been twenty one college

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Speaker 1: football playoff games, Seventeen of the have been won by Alabama, Clemson,

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Speaker 1: or Ohio State, and like, that's just staggering. Three teams

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Speaker 1: have won. I'm doing the math off the top. I

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Speaker 1: had seventeen and one. Rob g will check me. There

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Speaker 1: um of the games in the playoff have been won

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Speaker 1: by three teams. And there's how many teams in college

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Speaker 1: football undrew? Like that stinks, that's boring, it's predictable. I

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Speaker 1: I just it's very disappointing that college football has not

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Speaker 1: yet expanded the playoffs. I mean, think about this. The

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Speaker 1: excitement level of seeing Cincinnati even having a chance, a

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Speaker 1: snowball's chance in hell, of playing with and getting creative

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Speaker 1: and trying to hang with a big boy. That would

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Speaker 1: have been more exciting than Alabama blowing out Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: a game that was never closed for a second in

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Speaker 1: the second half, Ohio State Clemson never closed for a

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Speaker 1: second in the second half, and of course the championship,

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Speaker 1: which was a laugher in the second half, and it

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Speaker 1: was really tough to pay attention after for the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: like we're just like, wait a second, why are the

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Speaker 1: Alabama NFL players still on the field. Davante Smith in

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Speaker 1: the first half, cat twelve for two fifteen and three

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the first half. Like I mean, he had

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Speaker 1: more yards at half time that Ohio State had. Now,

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Speaker 1: I like Davante Smith a lot, and we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: plenty on the NFL Draft leading up to what you

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Speaker 1: guys know, well, those who know my history, No, I've

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Speaker 1: been to the combine. I do NFL mock draft for

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports, like I like to a draft process. I

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Speaker 1: bet on it. There are plenty of big edges. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now. DeVante Smith as awesome as he is.

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Speaker 1: He won the high Span, he set records, He's fast.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys six ft to six ft one

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Speaker 1: of them in the draft is not pretty. It just isn't.

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Speaker 1: The numbers. Say a six pound receiver, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he's got like probably an inch and a half on me,

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Speaker 1: Peter Warwick was That's who I wanted. I was watching

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Speaker 1: like Vic I think should have won the Heisman and

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Speaker 1: went to like Ron Dane or somebody dumb. No disrespect

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Speaker 1: to Ron Dane obviously, but like Devonte Smith just dances

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Speaker 1: and DeVonta Smith is gonna win. He's gonna win against

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Speaker 1: torched Wi Stay. It is pathetic. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the defensive game plan was, um, but it hit for

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Speaker 1: the best. Bet want a little bit of money. UH

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Speaker 1: which would have cleaned up my NFL weekend. But let's

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Speaker 1: stick to college football. UM. It just it feels like

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Speaker 1: a sport that needs an injection of life. UM. We

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Speaker 1: just we need to expand the playoffs. I've been chirping

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Speaker 1: That's probably too many, but again we're talking about a

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Speaker 1: regular season. Go look at the ratings for college football

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Speaker 1: this season. Ratings were down across the board. Now, I

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Speaker 1: team was unbelievably stacked. Okay, they had the number one pick.

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Speaker 1: favored over this Alabama team. I know that Alabama team

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that obviously later in the week, but

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Speaker 1: They went to Texas and they got all they could handle,

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Speaker 1: barely be the Texas team that end up losing four

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Speaker 1: how good were? They're really really good? An all time

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Speaker 1: They struggled to put away Indiana, they struggled to beat Northwestern,

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Speaker 1: they had an amazing game plan against a Clemson team

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Speaker 1: I would take two nine L s U over two

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Speaker 1: And then I guess the last point I want to make,

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Speaker 1: these are the facts, just the facts on a kid

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Speaker 1: Eighteen and thirty three picks and was sacked five times. Folks,

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Speaker 1: that was a bad performance from Justin Fields. He played Northwestern,

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Speaker 1: Who is the real justin fields? And I'll ask you this,

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields and he's thrown. He's sailing balls against Alabama. Um,

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Speaker 1: And that's not a slight to Justin Fields. I thought

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Speaker 1: he played average below average against Alabama. I know it's

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Speaker 1: just like Bill Belichick is a defensive coach. And their

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Speaker 1: BS stories that come out, clearly leaked from one side

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Speaker 1: to make them look good. It's really pathetic and unseemly,

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Speaker 1: but it happens. It's the industry. We're gonna do about it.

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Speaker 1: And I just keep coming back to, like, at what

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Speaker 1: point do you give the guy a little bit of rope?

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Speaker 1: Something ugly must have happened. They built a statue and

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Speaker 1: then fired the guy in three years. I think that's

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Speaker 1: gotta be on record the fastest we built a statue

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Speaker 1: for for you and now you're fired. That's got to

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Speaker 1: be the fastest ever. And I don't really know where

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Speaker 1: the Eagles go from here. Uh. I'm sure Rob g

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Speaker 1: will have some some idea, but like Eric the enemy,

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Speaker 1: but does he want to go there? They just fired

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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh what am I walking into? Like,

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Speaker 1: is this the quarterback I'm gonna have? Like, if you're

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Speaker 1: at Eric the Enemy and you can coach Mattie Ice, uh,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson justin Herbert, why the hell would you pick

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I don't think the Eagles job is that attractive, folks.

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Speaker 1: Um It's just I don't know, man, I don't think

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Speaker 1: this is as good of a job as Eagles fans

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Speaker 1: think it is. Scoop position players, like are they that good?

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Speaker 1: Offensive line? Injury prone? In aging Jason Peters, like forty

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Speaker 1: seven years old? Defense? I mean the secondary still is hot, Dodo.

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Speaker 1: I just don't see where the case is that the

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Speaker 1: Eagles is an attractive job. Frankly, I think the Jets

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Speaker 1: job is better. You get multiple number one picks, You

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Speaker 1: have all the capit room in the world, something you

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Speaker 1: could mold. Do you want to go in and try

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Speaker 1: to fix it? You're gonna have to gut that locker

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Speaker 1: room take out the first of all, you gotta identify

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Speaker 1: who hates who, who's backstabbing, who's talking to the media, who,

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Speaker 1: who's just they're collecting a paycheck? That takes a full year.

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Speaker 1: You can't just walk in and identify that instantly, So

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Speaker 1: then you've got to not only get rid of those

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Speaker 1: guys given the salary cap, but you've then got to

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Speaker 1: find your guys and put them in place. This is

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Speaker 1: a multi year rebuild for whoever gets the job. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I was focused on the college football game

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Speaker 1: late on Monday night, and I haven't been able to

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Speaker 1: see anything about speculation as to who's to getting it now.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that I don't love is the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets are being rumored as an obvious landing spot

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Speaker 1: for Peterson. Less than enthusiastic about that. Let me just

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Speaker 1: say that Doug Peterson won a Super Bowl with his

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator as Frank Raik. Look at the offensive numbers

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Speaker 1: since Frank Wryight left, it sounds like they lost their quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles had a good run. It's not like they

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Speaker 1: had lost their offensive line or really anything. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that changed is the quarterback went from awesome m

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Speaker 1: v P level Carson Wentz to replacement level hot garbage

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. You know, so, I don't love the idea

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Speaker 1: of Doug Peterson coming to the Jets. But it sounds

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Speaker 1: like man his relationship with the GM, who came from Philly,

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Speaker 1: um sets it up for the Jets to be going

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Speaker 1: after Doug Peterson. I am not exactly thrilled about that.

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Speaker 1: But Rob G, were you surprised they fired Doug Peterson? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: actually I was, And and it's because I think that

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Speaker 1: Um they turned him into the fall guy. I think

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Speaker 1: Howie Roseman is clearly the biggest problem in Philadelphia, the GM,

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Speaker 1: and from what our good buddy Jay Glazer reported, heading

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Speaker 1: into Week seventeen, Doug Peterson was safe that he was

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Speaker 1: gonna be back next season. What changed between before that

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Speaker 1: game and now is the whole Nate sub foul Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts quarterback situation. When anybody who has a pair of

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Speaker 1: eyeballs can tell you Doug Peterson did not make that

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Speaker 1: decision to pull Jalen Hurts in favor of Nate sud foul.

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Speaker 1: Like you know as a Jets fan, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to tanking, coaches do not tank. Players do not tank.

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Speaker 1: Front offices tank. These guys are still trying their best

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Speaker 1: because if they're not going to be successful, and wherever

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Speaker 1: they're they're they're auditioning for the next place. Adam Gates

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Speaker 1: really wants to win every game as much as possible

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Speaker 1: because he still wants to coach in the NFL somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: So Doug Peterson, I'm willing to bet my life savings,

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Speaker 1: which is maybe like a weekend worth the gambling for you,

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Speaker 1: but I'm willing to bet everything I have have that

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Speaker 1: He got the uh the note from upstairs that said, hey,

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Speaker 1: if we lose this game, we go from drafting nine

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Speaker 1: to six. So maybe take Jalen out put in Sudfeld.

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Speaker 1: See what happens. I'm not telling you not to try

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Speaker 1: to win, but let's just do that for the team.

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Speaker 1: He did it. Obviously, there was some kind of locker

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Speaker 1: room mutiny because they were talking to how guys. He

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Speaker 1: kind of lost the locker room, and just like that,

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Speaker 1: Howie Roseman has his fall guy and Doug Peterson has

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Speaker 1: to go. And I think it's it's it's unfair what

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Speaker 1: happened to him. Like you mentioned, they had injuries. Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: you know, fell off a cliff, and now their whole

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Speaker 1: plan to to replace Doug Peterson in Philly is more nepotism.

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Speaker 1: The one name that I've seen reported multiple times. I

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Speaker 1: think the first one who had it was our guy

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Speaker 1: rap Sheet Ian Report, NFL Network, former Eagles quarterback and

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid disciple, Mike Kafka. Oh and and the whole

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Speaker 1: reason that he's even being considered is because he's connected

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Speaker 1: to Andy Reid, the same reason Doug Peterson got the

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Speaker 1: job because he's connected Danny Reid. And it's like, come on, man, like,

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Speaker 1: really that's what you're gonna do. I don't get it. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's funny. You're a U c l A guy, so

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with Chip Kelly right now. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you brought up Howie Roseman. So Chip Kelly goes to

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia and he realizes that Howie Roseman is not a

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Speaker 1: football guy, but he has all this power and chip

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Speaker 1: Kelly basically banishes him, and that ticked off Roseman. He

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Speaker 1: was so angry. Um ticked off some Eagles fans, and

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Speaker 1: of course Chip Kelly, you know, everybody's in this for power.

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Speaker 1: And by year two, the wheels come off with Chip

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Speaker 1: Kelly and eventually he gets outsted and guess who comes

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Speaker 1: back as the power player, Howie Roseman. Uh. It's just

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Speaker 1: such a weird, weird setup in Philly. So I would

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Speaker 1: assume that Doug Peterson eventually will start leaking negative stuff

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Speaker 1: about Rosemand and it will get really juicy. But man,

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Speaker 1: that is just an ugly setup, and and it stinks

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Speaker 1: for a young quarterback like Jalen Hurts who's got to

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Speaker 1: go through this. Carson Wentz clearly like, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: see how you can trade him with that contract. So

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Speaker 1: messy days ahead for the Philadelphia Eagles. Rob g Anything

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Speaker 1: else you want to add anything I missed in the

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Speaker 1: sports world on Monday that you think could be a

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Speaker 1: big deal today. Um, I think the Bill Belichick shunning

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Speaker 1: President Trump with the Medal of Freedom was kind of

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Speaker 1: a big deal. But just going back to what you

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Speaker 1: said about the Eagles, and you know that what's gonna

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Speaker 1: leak with Doug Peterson. Just wait until eventually I move

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Speaker 1: on from this podcast. I'm gonna go and speak to

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Speaker 1: Awful Announcing or Barrett Sports whatever, and I'm gonna trash

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Speaker 1: you so hard anonymously. It's gonna be good. I can't wait,

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Speaker 1: Rob g Awful Announcing, come on alright, Well anyways, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really have much on the Belichick thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: I saw it, and UM, I wonder if Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: gets asked this week about you think I think that

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Speaker 1: comes out. Remember Drew Brees uh stepped in it. What

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Speaker 1: I forgot what the topic was for the anthem and

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Speaker 1: kneeling for the anthem. Yes, this would be an interesting

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Speaker 1: week for the media to bring that up. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they will at any rate. Lots of football

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Speaker 1: this week. We have a good guest coming up tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: No best bet tonight, but Alabama was a winner. Um.

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Speaker 1: Alabama combined with the NFL weekend now up to sixty six,

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Speaker 1: sixty two and five not tremendous. We were on I

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Speaker 1: think that's it. I'll look it up in double check

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow. Um. We were rolling and then we hit

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Speaker 1: a bit of a speed bump. I love one of

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Speaker 1: the games this weekend. Um, I should have given it

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Speaker 1: out earlier because the lines dropping. You know, I basically

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Speaker 1: gave it out Ravens. I went and made a big

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Speaker 1: play Sunday night, Um, before we recorded, and I told

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Speaker 1: you guys, if you listen closer to Monday, I love

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. After that, I don't love a lot, but

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Speaker 1: we'll figure out some bets. A little teaser action. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tomorrow.