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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Wednesday, December the eleventh. How about last night, folks?

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Speaker 2: Give out a rare college basketball pick on the pod

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Speaker 2: because I was able to look in advance because there

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Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of action on Monday Big Slate Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: and gave out Syracuse a winner. Uh minors sweat in

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Speaker 2: the second half, but they led by twenty much of

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Speaker 2: the way coasted to the victory. Starting the week off

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Speaker 2: right after the Monday Night football lost. But no gambling here.

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Speaker 2: We got some spicy stories. Okay, I told you I'm

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Speaker 2: obsessed with the Belichick story. Belichick to North Carolina, and

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Speaker 2: we'll get to that shortly. But there is another story

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Speaker 2: that is on the come up. So as you guys know,

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Speaker 2: NFL season starts, everybody thinks they got a shot at

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. You know, even the Panthers had some hope.

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Speaker 2: Saints like the dregs in the league, My Jets, come on,

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Speaker 2: everybody thought they had a chance. By mid season. You

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Speaker 2: know who's terrible? And now here we are getting into

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Speaker 2: what week fifteen? You know who the bottom feeders are

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Speaker 2: week fourteen, fifty, whatever it is. I've lost track. Half

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Speaker 2: the league doesn't matter at this point, so you start

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Speaker 2: looking at things like the draft. And this came across

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Speaker 2: my desk on Tuesday. You guys might have heard of

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Speaker 2: the name Nevin Shapiro. He is the big booster at

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Speaker 2: the University of Miami for the Hurricanes. He's been embroiled

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Speaker 2: in some NCAA drama for a while, but bottom line

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Speaker 2: football scene. Okay, whether it's up and coming stars, high

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Speaker 2: So he went on a podcast that's hosted by pac

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Speaker 2: Man Jones, the former cornerback from the Bengals, among other teams,

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Speaker 2: and Nevin Shapiro booster put the stuff together, as I'm

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Speaker 2: saying it, booster for the Miami Hurricanes. Okay, he is

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Speaker 2: on record. He wasn't holding back. He said that cam

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Speaker 2: draft and it is quote guaranteed. Adding a layer of

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Speaker 2: intrigue is that Nevin Shapiro claims Miami's offensive coordinator Shannon

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Speaker 2: So cam Ward and the Miami o c allegedly going

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Speaker 2: to the Giants in the draft. Now, it's interesting that

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Speaker 2: What's weird about it is, if you look at the

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Speaker 2: current draft setup, the New York Giants are basically battling

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Speaker 2: the Raiders for the top spot. After that, remember there's

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Speaker 2: the Patriots, the Panthers, the Jets, the Jags, the Titans.

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Speaker 2: They're all tied with three losses, a lot of bad teams.

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Speaker 2: But right now and on the tiebreaker, currently the Vegas Raiders,

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Speaker 2: who have lost nine straight after the two and two start,

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Speaker 2: they hold the edge according to strength to schedule. But

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Speaker 2: there's still what are we had thirteen so it's four

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Speaker 2: games left, four games left in the season. So how's

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Speaker 2: he predicting cam Word to the Giants when we don't

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Speaker 2: even know if the Giants are taken first or second pick. Ah. Well,

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Speaker 2: this is the second layer of intrigue that mister Shapiro

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Speaker 2: offered up. Dion won't let his kid go to the Giants.

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Speaker 2: He wants him on the Raiders. This is the direct quotes.

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Speaker 2: It made the rounds on some social media. Not like

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Speaker 2: you're not gonna see this on the front page of

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Speaker 2: Fox or ESPN or CBS. This is stuff you got

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Speaker 2: to kind of go out there and find. Now, Nevin Shapiro,

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Speaker 2: I know someone'll say, Oh, that guy's I don't know

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Speaker 2: if we could trust him. I don't know about that guy.

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Speaker 2: He's shady. It might be who cares. He's got some

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Speaker 2: interesting information. And it's like, well, wait a minute, who

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Speaker 2: of when Eli Manning's dad said Eli is not going

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Speaker 2: wins two Super Bowls. And now, if this gentleman is

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Speaker 2: to be believed, Dion Sanders' son wants nothing to do

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Speaker 2: to the Raiders. Now that is very interesting. Now, I

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Speaker 2: do believe that this has something to do with Tom

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Speaker 2: I've got no problem with that, none whatsoever. I think

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Speaker 2: And the Giants in the last five years are one

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Speaker 2: my Jets. Things are great in New York. But what

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Speaker 2: makes it interesting is, huh so Shader to the Raiders, Well,

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Speaker 2: what happens if will Dabol and the Giants be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we're holding firm, Sorry, we want you. Do you got

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Speaker 2: we've seen this done before. And my only thing for

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Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce is bro I know. There is that video

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Speaker 2: it's a little over a year old of Dion Sanders

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Speaker 2: Dion saying all the right things. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 2: right now, if Schadour goes to the Raiders, start the

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Speaker 2: it to the bank. Come on, at some point, Dion's

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Speaker 2: I don't think we've ever seen that before in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: be real. The Vegas Raiders, you know, I made this

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Speaker 2: It's tough to just jump bring a team to a

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Speaker 2: come root for us, blah blah blah. Like that's difficult

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Speaker 2: if you don't have a star, very very difficult. And

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Speaker 2: a swing on what's his face car that did not

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Speaker 2: if I'm remembering that correctly. Was it Carr they took

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Speaker 2: And now you think Raiders and you don't think anything.

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Speaker 2: There's no identity, they got nothing. You don't think brock Bowers. Sorry, guys,

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Speaker 2: tight ends aren't faces of the franchise. Sure you can

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Speaker 2: And I mean, I don't know how much of the

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Speaker 2: too high, shall we say. Nevin Shapiro, we know, is

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Speaker 2: does this guy care?

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Speaker 2: Let me quickly go to something I saw regarding NFL

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Speaker 2: As of right now December, we're recording this December eleventh

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Speaker 2: in the morning the Super Bowl. The team with the

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Speaker 2: greatest chances to win the Super Bowl are the Detroit

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Speaker 2: Lions at thirty eight percent, far and away. Number one.

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Speaker 2: Number three Kansas City at twenty six. Then there's a

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Speaker 2: drop off to the next tier, okay, and that would

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Speaker 2: and then you've got the Ravens at Eagles, who are

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Speaker 2: pretty much locked it. Well, Eagles are certainly too Ravens,

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Speaker 2: their offensive numbers just really skew a lot of the ratings.

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Speaker 2: And then after those five you have the Packers at

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Speaker 2: in terms of Super Bowl odds. Pretty much nobody else

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Speaker 2: they get Dobbins and mcconkee back and they be dangerous,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about that shortly, but win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I don't see the Chargers winning or getting to the

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Speaker 2: or getting there. I thought Washington had a shot. Let's

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Speaker 2: see how they come out of the buy with Jayden Daniels.

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Speaker 2: This week they got a match up against the Saints,

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Speaker 2: the defensive line to Mario Douglas. When he's healthy, he's

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Speaker 2: good two hundred ten. In the draft, he got a

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Speaker 2: couple nuggets. Obviously he's not hitting grand slams. The league

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Speaker 2: has changed. He was slow to adapt, so what you

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Speaker 2: know what, He's now had a year off and he

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Speaker 2: resurfaces in college and I think he crushes it. That's

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Speaker 2: it for today, back tomorrow, talk to you then.