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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight fired for

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Speaker 1: Tuesday September, and boy, oh boy, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: across this country this morning are saying, Wow, Cooper Rush

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Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback of the Cowboys. Two wins this year,

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Speaker 1: one last year against the Vikings, and the Cowboys, after

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Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. I gotta say, listen, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of us wrote off Dallas when Dak went down.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say there's a quarterback controversy, but

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Speaker 1: the numbers don't lie. Cooper Rush is simply not making mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Look what he did last week against the Bengals completions

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Speaker 1: all right, we got this Giants, We're going to three,

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Speaker 1: give it to Kellen Moore to awesome play calls. They

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Speaker 1: This is a guy with almost zero pedigree. I I

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Speaker 1: and be Patrick Mahomes. They're riding Cooper rush and a

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Speaker 1: nasty defense. They sacked Daniel Jones five times. I saw

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Speaker 1: last season, it was a mistake filled game. The penalties

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Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott draw, the clock running out, it was

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to say it, but I might

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Speaker 1: Jerry just wants us talking about him. Everybody knows that. Again,

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Speaker 1: are going to discuss it? Because guess what, it's the

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Speaker 1: you trusting? They're in a big spot. Neither one any history,

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Speaker 1: been there. It's funny that a Jerry Jones led team,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think Mike McCarthy actually makes any

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Speaker 1: my Man Cooper Rush, who you're gonna I'm gonna keepe

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Speaker 1: and it was it was probably one of those like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we made the playoffs, but right like yes, you know,

426
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're thinking that this is the future.

427
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Speaker 1: We've got something here, and Russ was probably still like

428
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Speaker 1: come get me, Okay, I need to get back to

429
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: l A, my family, my friends. I'm out here in Washington. No,

430
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Speaker 1: thank you, So like I'm sure Russ invited the deal, right, yeah,

431
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Speaker 1: they said that he he was actually according to multiple

432
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Speaker 1: reports that you know, he was, as you know, active

433
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Speaker 1: on the phones as Lebron was. The other direction, according

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Speaker 1: to at least think was Roma she Elburn Westbrook trying

435
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Speaker 1: to get to the Clippers first, like he because it

436
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Speaker 1: wants to be in l A. They wanted to be

437
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Speaker 1: in l A. So so when you think about that,

438
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Speaker 1: and context matters in this NBA stuff. But there's one

439
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Speaker 1: other thing besides the um the Lakers. Fox Sports Radio

440
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Speaker 1: has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch

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Speaker 1: R to listen live. Should we talk about Kyrie or no?

444
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: I feel like Kyrie generates more action on this podcast

445
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: than anything else that we do. I just it's tough, man.

446
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: So I know the dad's out there have had moments

447
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: with their kids where you're just so frustrated and annoyed

448
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: that you just can't. You just gotta walk away because

449
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: it's you just it's just stupid. You can't deal with

450
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: this crap anymore. And every time I hear Kyrie, Irving

451
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: opens his mouth and complete utter nonsense, like he said

452
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: on Monday, something to the effect of, yeah, basically I

453
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: turned down a hundred million dollars by because I didn't

454
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Speaker 1: want to get vaccinated, and you just like kind of

455
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: close your eyes. You're like, wait, is this reality? Did

456
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Speaker 1: did you just say that? Because that's not remotely factular, factual,

457
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: not even close. He just says ship he's listen. I've

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Speaker 1: inged him on Instagram when people let me let me

459
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: know that he was re popping crap from that Alex

460
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: Jones nut job who hopefully will go to jail and Rott.

461
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 1: But like I mean we're getting into conspiracy theories now?

462
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: Is that what we're doing, Kyrie? Are we are we

463
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: going there? I mean, it's it's not even the preseason

464
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: and he's starting with the nonsense, and it's like, I

465
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Speaker 1: just I can't with this guy. I know that sounds

466
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,959
Speaker 1: like a cheesy thing to say, but like it's just

467
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 1: aggravating to hear the stuff that he's saying because it's

468
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: so nonsensical and I uh, this is buried deep in

469
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,199
Speaker 1: the pod, so hopefully some people will have tuned out

470
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: into I now. But Rob, on some level, it feels

471
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Speaker 1: like you're talking to that relative who is like deep

472
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: in the Q and on rabbit holes and just saying

473
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Speaker 1: ship and just like look at them like, oh my gosh,

474
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: this is one of those guys. And then you just

475
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 1: gotta kind of oh, yeah, sure, you know, I'm gonna

476
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:54,719
Speaker 1: go get a drink, and then you get the hell

477
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Speaker 1: out of there and you can't really talk to that

478
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: relative anymore. I've got a couple of those, I know,

479
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: cop with people like that too, anything Kyrie saying, I'm

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00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: I can't like this is this is not reality? Like

481
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: where are you? What planet are you living on? Dude?

482
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: And listening to him and listen, I don't know if

483
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Durants drinking the same stuff that Kyrie is. I

484
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: know they're smoking the same you know what, But Kevin Durant, Oh,

485
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't know nets fans anything. What. You have four

486
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: years left on your deal and you said, get me

487
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: the hell out of your trade me. What do you mean?

488
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Speaker 1: How do you expect these people to cheer for you?

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Speaker 1: K d You said you were gonna build something with

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and at the first side of adversity, Kyrie

491
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: crazy swept by the Celtics. You say you want to

492
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Speaker 1: trade what do you mean? Really? The guy who sits

493
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Speaker 1: online all day responding to idiots and d m ng

494
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: everybody and their mom, and now he says, I don't

495
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: know that the fans anything. All you do is talk

496
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: to fans all day on social media because you're angry

497
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: with them and you don't know them. What's going on here, Rob, Well,

498
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: let let me clarify, because you know you said that

499
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Speaker 1: what Kyrie said, he just says stuthing about und million

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Speaker 1: dollar contract. Now, people might think that you're responding to

501
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: the headline and just because you don't like Kyrie, that

502
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: you're just saying whatever he said doesn't make sense. I

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00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: will defend Jason mcntire in this situation because Kyrie Irving said,

504
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: verbatim he felt like he had an ultimatum that said,

505
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,239
Speaker 1: either you get the vaccine and we give you this

506
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: four year, a hundred plus million dollar contract, or you

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Speaker 1: don't and we pull it. He said that quote an ultimatum. Well,

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Speaker 1: a few minutes later, you know, after Kyrie the buzz

509
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: dies down, GM Shawn Marks takes the podium asked him

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Speaker 1: about it. His quote, there was no ultimatum being given here,

511
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: like he flat out denies it. Okay, and then um

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00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: Bobby Mark's ESPN A salary cap guru says, well, you know, technically, yes,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie turned down the opportunity for a four year, eight

514
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Speaker 1: six million dollar contract, which is true, you know, because

515
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: he didn't. If he would have got the max contract

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00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: before before the season last seven started, that's what he

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00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 1: would have gotten. But anyone who knows anything about NBA

518
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: salary cap and how it works, you know that most

519
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: times these transcendent NBA stars or all star level players,

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00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: they don't take the extension. Do you know why, because

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00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: you can make a whole hell of a lot more

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00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: money by going into free agency and resigning with your

523
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: team afterwards to get more money. So you can either say, oh, yeah,

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00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: Kyrie turned down four years seven when he could have

525
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: gotten five years to forty something, it's like, oh, I

526
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: think I'll go with the five year one. So Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving thinks that because he speaks in roundabout ways and

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00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: he uses big words and the way he kind of

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Speaker 1: presents himself that he thinks he's the smartist guy in

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Speaker 1: the room. But like those Q and On folks you

531
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: talk about, and that we both know, if you just

532
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: take a step back and let them speak, you'll realize

533
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: a lot of the times what they're saying doesn't make

534
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: any sense. Yeah, it's it's really sad. I'm just telling

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00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: you guys, a true story. I was so enamored with

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00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving's handle back in the day, back when he

537
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: was on Cleveland before he went ballistic and said trade

538
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: me lebron Um and I got a Kyrie Irving jersey.

539
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: I was a fan. I love this guy as a

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00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: basketball player. I mean, dude, he was ridiculous. The dribbling videos,

541
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: the USA video where he was like dribbling up the

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00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: court against Kobe and like three other guys. I'm sure

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00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: you've seen this rob It's all over Instagram all the time.

544
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: And he's doing like between the legs, behind the back

545
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: spin moves, going through like Jerry Stackhouse Kobe, like unbelievable stuff.

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00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: It's like hypnotic and he just went off the deep end.

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00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: I would love to drill down and listen. I'm not

548
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: saying this guy's there, but have you noticed a different

549
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers robes in the last year and listen, I

550
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: know Cowherd bangs on the ayahuasca and he you know,

551
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: a lot of other people are saying, boy, he looks

552
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: like the guy who steals a catalytic converters. Ha ha.

553
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: But Aaron Rodgers went to the podium and after the

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00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: win over the Bucks, and I guess he had his

555
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: hair back and he was wearing like a baggy white

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00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: T shirt. He was wearing like some crystal around his neck.

557
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: And I swear if you close your eyes and we're

558
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: not listening, and you just looked up at the video

559
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: and you saw no cry ons on the screen with

560
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: no identification of who who it was, you would think

561
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: this guy was like a sea level reality star talking

562
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: about something. He just does not look like a football

563
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: player at all. And I'm not knocking he but this

564
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: looks like a totally different dude then we saw for

565
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: like pretty much much of most of his career. I

566
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: don't know what. He just doesn't look like the same guy.

567
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that, Rob, I'm not criticizing him.

568
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like he just is a completely different human.

569
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: It appears to me he's still a great quarterback obviously, Um,

570
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: but he just he seems like a different guy, does

571
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: he not? Oh yeah, like he's on some kind of

572
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: spiritual journey that makes sense to him. I just don't

573
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: know if it makes sense to the rest of the world,

574
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: because you know, he's I don't know if they fully

575
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: understand where he's going. Um. The one thing I will say,

576
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: he understands. Yeah, I think he's kind of just like

577
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: a self discovery sort of thing. The one thing I

578
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: will say about Aaron Rodgers that that works in his favor,

579
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: that it doesn't work in Kyrie's favor, is it doesn't

580
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,239
Speaker 1: seem like Aaron Rodgers tries to get you to like

581
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: he's not trying to lead you anywhere He's like, Hey,

582
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing, and you like it or

583
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: you don't like it. It It is what it is, and

584
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: Kyrie it doesn't seem to give off that vibe. Um

585
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: either way, I can't wait for Kyrie to be a Laker,

586
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: so it's all good. I want to make some bold

587
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: statement like I will refuse to go to games if

588
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: Kyrie is a Laker, and then my buddies who have tickets, like, hey,

589
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: j we're going to know. I want principle, Like, listen,

590
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: I have some principles and I don't care if I

591
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: reson on the team, I'll definitely go. Anyways, we've gone

592
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: on a little too long. I did want to add

593
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: one other bet that I made Denver getting too in

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00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: Vegas against the oh and three rob g Raiders. Um, Robert,

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00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: would you be betting the Raiders this weekend in a

596
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: must win spot? Absolutely? Absolutely. I'm betting all the money

597
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: that I have, which after that vacation is like nine dollars,

598
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: but I'm throwing it all down. Yeah. Yeah. When you

599
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: go to the Big Baller resort in Hawaii, Um, that's

600
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: an expensive joint. Um, but you know what you're you're

601
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: rolling in the door so, uh, you know, maybe you'll

602
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: you're back. I would not back the Raiders here. I

603
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: don't know. I I part of me wants to think

604
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: that Denver figured something out late with Russ and I

605
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: know that defense is very, very good. Certain on Adams.

606
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: I think this is a good spot for Denver Um

607
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: coming off the win. I'm surprised they're underdogs against a

608
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: winless team. I asked Fox, and I can get all

609
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: these numbers from them. Give me the trends over the

610
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: last five years, the last ten years, the last twenty years.

611
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: Teams that are winless at owen three and yet are

612
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: favored against the team. I guarantee you it's not often.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll have that answer for tomorrow show. As for now,

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Speaker 1: we're done. See you then,