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

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Speaker 1: meet Jason McIntyre here on Straight Fire Wednesday, October And

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Speaker 1: a big night in the NFL last night, Holy cow,

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Speaker 1: can't ever say that about it Tuesday? But not only

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Speaker 1: was their Titans bills. And we'll talk about the bad

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Speaker 1: loss I suffered on Best Bet. Hey, it happens. You know,

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Speaker 1: we were on a hot streak. Took an l last night.

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Speaker 1: But the Levi on Bell News with the New York Jets,

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Speaker 1: you guys know how the Jets fan for over thirty years.

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Speaker 1: I will get to that shortly. Obviously. I want to

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Speaker 1: remind you subscribe, rate, and review too. Straight Fire on iTunes, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: m it's a big NFL show today. Later we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about a situation brewing. One of the best receivers in

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Speaker 1: the league popping off. Uh, and franchise kind of throws

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Speaker 1: him under the bus. Uh, it's getting ugly for Michael

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Speaker 1: Thomas in the Saints. But first I gotta start with

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Buffalo. Just a bad read by me. Listen, it happens,

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Speaker 1: I you know, silly me. I assumed that the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: don't get to practice. Kind of hurts, especially when you're

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Speaker 1: about to play the Buffalo Bills, who come in four No.

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Speaker 1: One of the hottest teams in the league. They're suddenly

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Speaker 1: so good all season. Just a fantastic start to the

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Speaker 1: That's that how you want to start a Tuesday night

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know that the Buffalo Bills ended

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Speaker 1: never felt for one moment that, oh, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills have a chance here. Um, it was just okay,

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Speaker 1: UM in the third quarter, and that was when you

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Speaker 1: It becomes the third quarter after that Alan pick, and

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I don't care what you say. That one

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Speaker 1: no point in this game did the Bills look like

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Speaker 1: the Titans couldn't play their game last week because of

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Speaker 1: last minor, let's just go with the last year. And

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Speaker 1: It's the first game on you have been out of

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Speaker 1: just weird, folks. I mean sixteen nobody had that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: That's curious game from from Jayble. But again to Tuesday

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Speaker 1: Levian Bell was signed two you know, bring some life

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Speaker 1: they cut him. They cut him on Tuesday afternoon. Levian

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Speaker 1: And I can't pin all this on Levian Bell. Did

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Speaker 1: But it's pretty clear that Michael Thomas is not exactly

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Speaker 1: a Calvin Johnson who's just gonna go go about his business,

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Speaker 1: put up massive stats and deal with the lose it.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting that all this comes out as the

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Speaker 1: Saints are off to an ugly start. Now they could

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Speaker 1: right the ship. I mean, the pretty clearly stinked this year. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know they got the Bears coming up. Falcons are

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Speaker 1: are a tire fire. The Broncos are going nowhere fast.

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Speaker 1: I think the Saints will ultimately be okay, but this

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a championship team. And when you have

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Speaker 1: your best player, and sorry, Drew Brees ain't the best

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Speaker 1: player anymore, Michael Thomas is the best player on that team.

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Speaker 1: When it's going this way in October, I think they

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Speaker 1: got real problems. I don't know what the solution is, um,

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Speaker 1: but I'm curious to see how practice goes this week

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Speaker 1: with Michael Thomas, because he's got to go in there wondering, yo,

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Speaker 1: uh so, who rather be out? Was it Sean Payton?

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Speaker 1: Was it the receiver's coach? Was it another receiver? Was

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Speaker 1: it the defensive backs? Was it the training staff? Like

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Speaker 1: some Michael Thomas is gonna go in there and probably

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Speaker 1: not be very talkative today at practice. He's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: be like, I don't know who doesn't have my back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's squealing to the media. Ugly, ugly

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Speaker 1: situation for the New Orleans Saint It's and Michael Thomas