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

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: February fourteen. Teppy Valentine's Day to our seventeen female listeners. Uh,

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Speaker 1: sixteen of them are family members, obviously. I hope everybody

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Speaker 1: enjoys a good Valentine's Day with the wife, girlfriend, jump

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Speaker 1: offside piece whatever that. Maybe make sure to get flowers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you wanted to candy a card,

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Speaker 1: that's your show. But I'm not gonna waste any more

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Speaker 1: time with Valentine's Day a made up day. We have

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Speaker 1: a tremendous Super Bowl to dive into. Holy hell, the

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Speaker 1: Rams came through for your boy. And yes, I'm a

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Speaker 1: little fired up on a Monday morning. You could imagine

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Speaker 1: how crunk I was at the Super Bowl party we

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Speaker 1: went to. Um My buddy got his house, redone, and

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Speaker 1: where the kitchen bleeds into the family room. It's all

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Speaker 1: got like a little sport court there. It was lity lit.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to him and his wife for inviting us. A

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Speaker 1: lot of fun, a lot of Rams fans and people

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Speaker 1: are going bonkers. And I don't know, listen, Rob, I

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Speaker 1: know as a l A denizen, OK at that seven

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Speaker 1: dollar word to start the day. Um It, it's tough

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Speaker 1: for me to see people out here in l A

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Speaker 1: who were casuals not getting into the Rams. Like, even

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Speaker 1: if you're not a huge football fan, or maybe you're

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Speaker 1: like I like the Chargers, how could you not be

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Speaker 1: rooting for there? What a great story, tremendous. They Addvan Stafford,

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Speaker 1: they add Von Miller, they add Odell Beckham, and they

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Speaker 1: go and win the Super Bowl. Like, that's a great story.

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Speaker 1: Stafford had never want to playoff game in his life,

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Speaker 1: and now he's a super Bowl champion, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's got a case for the Hall of Fame. Rob

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we want to break the game down, Rob, Um,

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Speaker 1: I think over arching, I can't totally disagree with Cooper

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Speaker 1: to make these sweeping statements like Stafford to Cup is

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Speaker 1: as good as Montana de Rice, but it was only

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Speaker 1: like one season and one playoff run. That being said,

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Speaker 1: I know you guys are laughing out there. Just remember

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Speaker 1: against Tampa tie game, late stafford A Cup, bomb down

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Speaker 1: the field, cup out of monster game, next game against

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Speaker 1: the Niners downtown and the fourth stafford A Cup over

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Speaker 1: and over and over again, super Bowl down four fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter Cup had been bottled up and double team like

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Speaker 1: just quick bone to pick rob with the NFL, I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry with the NBC, I didn't get enough of Hey,

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Speaker 1: here's how the Bengals have shut down Cooper Cup because

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Speaker 1: guess what, They're six minutes left in the game and

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup has four catches for fifty something yards. And

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Speaker 1: where was NBC with the breakdowns? Like it was clear

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Speaker 1: to me because I again, you guys remember after the

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Speaker 1: Niners uh Rams game I talked about on this pot.

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Speaker 1: I was telling my son every third down, where's Cooper Cup?

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Speaker 1: Identify him? See watch him get open, watch the routes,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Everything. I watched every Cooper Cup play

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Speaker 1: so he had very little airspace. I was disciplined, NBC.

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Speaker 1: She didn't break that down because like it's Cooper freaking Cup.

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Speaker 1: You know. Anyways, for whatever reason, fourth quarter, six minutes

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Speaker 1: plays on the final drive, just historic stuff to bring

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald just boat races his guy is in burrows

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Speaker 1: Congrats to the Rams. Congrats to all my Rams buddies.

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Speaker 1: I had way more people who are Rams fans at

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Speaker 1: Congrats to Sean McVeigh, youngest coach ever to win a

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Speaker 1: mcveigh's called a pretty piss poor offensive performance. It's staggeringly bad. Rob,

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Speaker 1: he had a sneak that did not get in. Stafford

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Speaker 1: slow motion, it looks bad. Um. I didn't have a

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Speaker 1: major issue with that. Did you have a problem with

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Speaker 1: that call? A little bit? I wouldn't say a major issue,

425
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: had a little bit of an issue, Um. And again

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Speaker 1: I was rooting for the Rams because I number one,

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00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: I wanted to be right because in the preseason I

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00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: picked the Rounds win the Super Bowl. But number two,

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00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: because I said, my dad's a huge Rounds fan. I

430
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: wanted him to be happy, you know. But my issue was,

431
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: and people keep pointing out, well, you know, the t

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00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: Higgins face mask was the biggest play of the game.

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00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: It was a seventy touchdown. You know that if they

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00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: call that play, it never happens. And the Bengals, uh,

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00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: you know, don't really have a legitimate drive in the

436
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: second half, you know, outside of that play. My issue though,

437
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: was you could have called those holding and past interference

438
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: penalties on the Bengals pretty much since the middle of

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00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: the second quarter, like as soon as Odell Beckham Jr.

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00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: Got hurt, and they knew that Cooper Cup was the

441
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: only legitimate threat on the outside. They were holding him,

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00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: they were bracketing him, they were doing a lot of

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00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: little tricks of the trade. I'm gonna say it was

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00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: dirty or blatant, but they were doing all the little

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00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: things that you can get away with if the rest

446
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 1: lets you, and they, for whatever reason decided the officials

447
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: to let all that go. And that's fine if they

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00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: want to let him play like that, cool, but don't

449
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: start calling that stuff in the most important drive in

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Speaker 1: the game. That's where I had an issue, like, if

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Speaker 1: you if you were going to call it like that,

452
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: you should have called it the whole game. I didn't

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Speaker 1: like that they only called it they're at the end.

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00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: I think it was the next play they went back

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00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: to the air. Cup makes a ridiculous catch, touchdown, gets drilled,

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00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: obvious targeting or whatever they call it in the NFL,

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00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,719
Speaker 1: and then there was an offsetting flag. Rob Maybe it's me,

458
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: but I went to YouTube. I can't find the hold

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00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: and I don't recall NBC showing the replay. Was there

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Speaker 1: a hold to offset the obviously in the end of

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00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: the replay. You know, when I was watching that play,

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00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: I was not looking at the line of scrimmage. BETWEA

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00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I was watching that That was

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00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: a great throw by Stafford. The Cup and for Cup

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Speaker 1: to hold onto the ball after he got lit up

466
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, just to point this out, Jason,

467
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: there were four total flags thrown prior to that final

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00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: Ram scoring drive if you count that offsetting penalties. But

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Speaker 1: we just mentioned the Cooper Cup helmet, the helmet in

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Speaker 1: the hold. There were four flags thrown during the Rams

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Speaker 1: goal to go sequence. I mean it was it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of laundry there on. You don't you don't

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Speaker 1: like that, But again, I mean, it's late in the game.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to give up the score. You grab it,

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Speaker 1: get a little grabby. So they were real penalties. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying like like they were legitimate penalties. Let's wanna

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Speaker 1: make that clear. Um two more before we get to

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Speaker 1: the halftime show, which needs to be discussed. Um, Matt

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00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: Stafford cannot get the ball to Cooper Cup. It is

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00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: fourth and one at their own like twenty nine yard line.

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00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: This is on the game. When he touchdown drive, Cup

482
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,959
Speaker 1: goes in motion. You know it's going a Cup, but

483
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: you don't know it's coming in jet sweep. It's sneaky.

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00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: One of my favorite players in the game. Cup gets

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00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: it is at full speed. Has to basically pivot, cut through,

486
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: slice between two defenders and get the first And it

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Speaker 1: was just like, the guy's a freaking money player. He's

488
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: just so good, he's awesome. And that was kind of

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Speaker 1: the springboard to Cup for the rest of the drive.

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Speaker 1: After that, Um, you know, he gets a couple of

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Speaker 1: passes over the middle. The guy just I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you guys can't love Cooper Cup. I think he

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00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: killed the sports books by getting the MVP award, UM

494
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: two touchdowns cash He did not hit the over for

495
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: yards or receptions. But and again, Robert again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: it's almost blasphemous to put him in the category of

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Speaker 1: Rice and Moss. But this season that he just had

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00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest for any receiver in the

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00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: history of the sport. He won everything and I know

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00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: there was an extra game, fine whatever. Look at his

501
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: freaking postseason stats. He's like unguardable. The guy is ridiculous.

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00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,239
Speaker 1: And when you now have the Rams one of the

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00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: best or the most valuable receivers in the game, you

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00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: have one of the best most valuable defensive tackles, if

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00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: not the best, never Donald, one of the best ed

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00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: rushers in Von Miller and yeah he is still really, really,

507
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: really good, one of the best cornerbacks in Jalen Ramsey,

508
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: he had a rough game, like you're now collecting like

509
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: high end talent despite having deficiencies elsewhere. It doesn't matter.

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00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: If your superstars win, you're gonna win. I kind of

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00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: like this model, Rob. Do you think we're gonna see

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00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: other teams kind of punting on picks and saying just

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00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: give me superstars. No no, And the reason being the

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00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: O'Dell Beckham junior injury is gonna be why you don't

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00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: see that kind of stuff happened now. I know in

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Speaker 1: this case, the Rams didn't give up a hell of

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Speaker 1: a lot. I don't think the give up anything. I

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00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: think they time to a minimum contract with a bunch

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00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: of incentives. Wisely forced his way out to get him.

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00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: You know, but you saw when your roster is that

521
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: top heavy, if one of those guys goes down like

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00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: it's tough, it is brutal to watch at times, you know.

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00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, I think they gave up to first and

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00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: a second. Jalen Ramsey had a horrible game by his standards.

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00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: You know, so if if if you invested that level

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00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: of capital into one guy and he doesn't play like

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00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: a superstar. You know, it's it's usually a rap. It's

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00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: the it's the NBA model. You know, if you invest

529
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers forty million dollars forty four million dollars

530
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: on a point guard, you can't shoot. It's not looking

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00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: too hot for you, you know. And so I don't

532
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: think you'll see too many teams try to duplicate this model,

533
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: because I think they're just it's your your your your

534
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: margin rare is so small, by the way, you know,

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00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, I don't want to I want to back

536
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: you up on this one. This season, he won the

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00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: receiving Triple Crown, was NFL Offensive Player of the Year,

538
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: and Super Bowl m v P. Jerry Rice the only

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00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: wide receiver in NFL history to do all of those

540
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: things in an entire career, and Cooper Cup did that

541
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: in one season. It's not Cooper Cup better than Jerry Race. Science.

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00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: I mean, some of these throws that Stafford was making

543
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: to it man on that final drive, You're like, how

544
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: was open? It's just the guy looks so ghast. Late

545
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: in the game, You're like, jeez, you just let the

546
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: clock run out. Take some time outs, get Cooper cups

547
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,240
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Speaker 1: I think we should talk about the halftime show rob

552
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: because you guys know, I was a young guy in

553
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: the nineties. I love nineties rap um. I've told the

554
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: story many times. Dr dre Um his his for his

555
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: awesome album The Chronic came out when I was a

556
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: young guy. Very impressionable. Um Snoop Dog Doggy Style also

557
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: came out when I was very young, impressionable. I love

558
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yes, I'm setting it up to say

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00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: I thought the halftime show was really good. But was

560
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: it the greatest? I don't know. I don't think it

561
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: was the greatest. I know that's sacrilegious to say this.

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00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: It was a very good halftime show. Certainly, what am

563
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: I favorites? I liked all the tunes, good vibe, good energy.

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00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: But I'll say right now I could rattle off three

565
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: they were better. That's a hot take on a Monday morning.

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00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: It's not that out of a take. I don't want

567
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: to be like if you if you were on Twitter

568
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: during the game, I was told that it is the

569
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Speaker 1: greatest halftime performance. I was not on Twitter. Um, Bruno

570
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: Mars a few years back was electric. It was awesome.

571
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: You guys know him in the tank for Bruno Mars.

572
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: Some people think I look like Bruno Mars sometimes. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just a humongous Bruno Mars fan. I

574
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: thought his was better than the nineties rappers. Um, I really,

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00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: I know Prince's Purple Rain in the rain in Miami.

576
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: I think it was the Rex Grossman Peyton Manning showdown.

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00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: That was a tremendous performance by Prince. His halftime show

578
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: was off the charts. And I'm a humongous Prince fan.

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Speaker 1: The third one, which I know is going to get

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00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: brushed back and Rob's gonna take my head out for it.

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: And it's fine. You guys can come after me. I

582
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm comfortable in my skin. I'm comfortable with

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00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: what I like. I thought Katy Perry's halftime performance about

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00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: five or six or seven years ago was better than

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00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: the one I saw already here Rob, Katy Perry, what

586
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: a loser she sucks? Um, I had just moved. I

587
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: think it. I think I was just either moving to

588
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: California or I just moved to California. And that was

589
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl song, the halftime thing, the California girls,

590
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: Katy Perry and the Baby Sharks dancing or whatever. I'm

591
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: smitten for Katy Perry. You know, I'm not gonna go

592
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: overboard and say really really really really graphic things and

593
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, Katy Perry, would you know blah blah blah,

594
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: Like I'm a fan of Katy Perry. I thought horror

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00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: performance at halftime was better than the eminem Dre performance.

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00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: Is that now that's a hot That is the hottest

597
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: take you had on this podcast. Go look at a point. No,

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00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I like Katy Perry, but if I recall,

599
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: the most memorable thing of her performance was the dancing shark, right, No,

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00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: I thought it was her. But but to your point,

601
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: though about this, you know last night's halftime show. I

602
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: love all of those artists. You know, I knew all

603
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: the words every song they performed. I'm of the belief, however,

604
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: that it is almost impossible for a rap artist to

605
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: put on an iconic performance because most of the time

606
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: they're just kind of standing there with the mike doing

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00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: their song. Like I thought Kendrick Lamar was awesome, and

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00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: that's because he had some choreography to it, Like there

609
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: was little things that he did to make it more

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Speaker 1: of a show. I love Snoop, I love Dre, I

611
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: love Eminem, but they were standing there rapping. You know.

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00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: The coolest thing he did was wrap upside down, you know,

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00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: because like that's what he did in the end the

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00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: club video. And and it's like it's nothing against them

615
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: because I love their songs. I love their music. And

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00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to a few months ago

617
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: there was like the Kanye Drake Amazon Prime Live event,

618
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: and it's like it's just two guys standing up there rapping,

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Speaker 1: you know it. There's it's we're kind of off topic here,

620
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: but I remember going to the jay Z Beyonce on

621
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: the Run tour at the Rose Bowl, and I know

622
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: a couple of Beyonce song and I'm not gonna sound

623
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: like a huge deep into a catalog. I know a

624
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: lot of jay Z songs. Jay Z is up there,

625
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: he's doing his thing, you know, I'm throwing up the rock.

626
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: It's all good. And then Beyonce comes you're like, oh, yeah,

627
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: this is what I paid to see. This is this

628
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,720
Speaker 1: is a performance. This this is something that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: remember and tell people that I saw. There was nothing like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, did you see what Snoop did when

631
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: he transferred the mic from his left hand to his

632
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: right hand in the middle of next episode? Like that

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Speaker 1: very difficult for rap artists to put on that level

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Speaker 1: of showmanship like and Bruno Mars like a prince or

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the halftime performance. I love the fourth quarter. I

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Speaker 1: love the game, um more than anything. I like Cooper

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Speaker 1: Cups finish and the Rams delivering was was really really,

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Speaker 1: really really good for me. So, guys, that does it

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Speaker 1: for the football season. Fortunately, fortunately there is you know,

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Speaker 1: free agency. It's all it's all gonna get deadly. Um,

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Speaker 1: but thanks for following, thanks for gambling during the football season,

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Speaker 1: and um it was decent prop showing Disappointed that Burrow

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Speaker 1: didn't throw an interception. That one kind of hurt um.

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Speaker 1: Cooper cups longest reception did not hit the under hit

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Speaker 1: for the game, um McPherson more points than gay hit. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I that's how degenerated I got. Thank you for that one.

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Speaker 1: But it's a great super Bowl and we'll talk to

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