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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Welcome everybody, Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: December one. We made it to December. What an incredible feat.

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Speaker 1: Just like the car said, went town Mary, Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: your boy got lucky. We will talk about the Monday

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Speaker 1: night football game. We'll talk about two pretty significant a

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Speaker 1: f C South drug suspensions on Monday's Super Random. Um,

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Speaker 1: the dumpster fire situation that is Raven Steelers. Um it

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Speaker 1: is now getting bumped on the TV schedule for a

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree lighting and I'm not kidding about that. We

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Speaker 1: got a quarterback injury to get to all of that

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Speaker 1: in a pretty packed show. And remember, I'm hyping up

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Speaker 1: the Big Wednesday podcast and everybody can't wait for We

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Speaker 1: got a big time guest coming on. I consider him

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Speaker 1: big time. I don't know him. Um, we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that tomorrow. Very excited for that. But instead of starting

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Speaker 1: today's show pumping my chest up over getting lucky on

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Speaker 1: the best Bet with Seattle not covering, I had the

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Speaker 1: Eagles in a hold your nose special. Um, Listen, the

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Speaker 1: easy way out of this is, Oh, I'm gonna just

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Speaker 1: take a giant dump on Carson Wentz, who is terrible

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go after Doug Peterson, who has lost

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Speaker 1: his way, and where's Jalen Hurts. But I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: opposite of that to start because I saw something on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Then everybody's gonna miss because they're so

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Speaker 1: focused on the Eagles ineptitude. And that's the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks have a defense. Now. I mean, do

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Speaker 1: you guys remember the first, like I don't know, six

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Speaker 1: games of the season, all we heard about what Seattle was.

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Speaker 1: They've given up more yards than anyone in NFL history

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Speaker 1: through three through six games, and they can't stop a

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Speaker 1: football to save their life right now, they hung thirty

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Speaker 1: And then I think it was the Josh Allen game

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Speaker 1: where he was just unstoppable. They had forty four points

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Speaker 1: and that was kind of the the tipping point, if

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Speaker 1: as they've started to get healthy, Holy cow, is this

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Speaker 1: defense trending in the right direction? Folks. Philadelphia Eagles before

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Speaker 1: that garbage time drive at the end of the game

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Speaker 1: fifty eight minutes had a hundred and ninety two yards

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Speaker 1: of total offense. That's it against Seattle, I means stunning.

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Speaker 1: Seattle was living in the backfield their front four. Remember

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Speaker 1: they just added Carlos Dunlap via trade from the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: He had a strong game, half a sack. Felt like

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Speaker 1: Puna Ford had three quarterback hits. Okay, Jamal Adams playing

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Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage was just terrorizing Wentz. They

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Speaker 1: sacked in six times. kJ Wright had a sack, two

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Speaker 1: tackles for loss. Folks the Seattle defense, and again I

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Speaker 1: cannot stress how inept this bunch was earlier this season,

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Speaker 1: six acts, six tackles for lost, twelve quarterback hits. That's

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Speaker 1: the real story here. We told you after Seattle was

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Speaker 1: Seattle team could threaten for the number one seed in

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Speaker 1: the NFC. And some people were like, Oh, you're getting

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Speaker 1: a little hyperbolic here, j come on, And then I said, look,

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Speaker 1: at the schedule. Next up, they have the Giants, and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about the Giants quarterback injuries

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Speaker 1: later in the podcast. But Seattle will be facing Colt McCoy,

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Speaker 1: Then they will be facing Sam Donald in the Windless Jets.

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Speaker 1: Then they will be facing Alex Smith and Washington. Then

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Speaker 1: there's a remat to the Rams, and then the Niners.

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Speaker 1: We don't know where the Niners will be at that

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Speaker 1: stage of the season. I think they're gonna win three

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Speaker 1: and then it sets up a huge, humongous rematch with

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Speaker 1: Um that will be massive for seating implications in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at the NFC, Okay, we know

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Speaker 1: the Saints, because their defense has emerged as incredible, has

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Saints of what eight

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Speaker 1: not there, sorry, folks, um Seattle. Now with a defense,

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Speaker 1: then how piste off the Eagles were that they were

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Speaker 1: roughing him up. Darius Slay trying to come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is rocked up. He's an Adonis

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Speaker 1: That's what you're looking at with DK Metcalf. He's unguardable.

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Speaker 1: Darius Slay, who gave I think he gave himself the

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Speaker 1: nickname Darius big Place Slay. He got eaten up. But listen,

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Speaker 1: can't wait for that rematch. Um. But Metcalf had a game.

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Speaker 1: At one point, folks, Okay, Eagles had a hundred ninety

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Speaker 1: nuts problem, folks. Everything is wrong with this team. Everything.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line is a joke. Carson Wentz has lost

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Speaker 1: his way. I texted Colin Cowherd on Monday Night. Is

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz the new Chuck knob Block? Because it looks

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Speaker 1: to me like Wentz has the yips and Doug Peterson

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Speaker 1: has no confidence in him. They don't let him really

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Speaker 1: this season, Arizona to beat Buffalo, Carson Wentz and I

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Speaker 1: And I told him at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: all we we agree the Eagles are a really, really

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. And it's not because he's a good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It's not because you know, Jalen Hurts might be a

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Speaker 1: bad quarterback. It's because there are massive salary cap complications

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Speaker 1: as to why Carson Wentz will not be losing his

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Speaker 1: Wentz after this season, just move on, Say, Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: who's I mean, there's some really bad quarterback play in

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Speaker 1: Football Talks Mike Florio about a potential walkout. Now I

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Speaker 1: know Florio personally, I don't YE know. He's We've we've

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Speaker 1: had a good relationship. I know a lot of other

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Speaker 1: people feel strongly one way about him and it ain't good. Um,

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Speaker 1: I tell you, I'll take it for what it's worth

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Speaker 1: that he's he's onto something there. The game has been

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Speaker 1: pushed to Wednesday, not just Wednesday night, but Wednesday at

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Speaker 1: three forty in the afternoon, and the reason it's in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. Is because the game will be on NBC.

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Speaker 1: It was supposed to be NBC Thanksgiving Night. It has

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Speaker 1: of the Rockefella Center tree lighting ceremony. That is big

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Speaker 1: business for NBC. A lot of advertisers have already locked in. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a ceremonial deal. And I assume NBC said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, We're not gonna fight this because it ain't

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson playing. It's a bunch of backups on the Ravens. Um,

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Speaker 1: no big deal. And the and the NFL is not

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Speaker 1: gonna fight that. So we have a game at Wednesday

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Speaker 1: at three forty in the afternoon. Now if you think

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. And it is next Monday, okay, six days

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Speaker 1: from now. There are three Monday night football games, two

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Speaker 1: at five o'clock and then a nightcap which I'm really

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Speaker 1: excited for, Bills at forty Niners. And the game is

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Speaker 1: gonna be played in Arizona because the forty Niners can't

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Speaker 1: practice in their county. Um, and the NFL in is

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Speaker 1: just in I don't even how do you describe it

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Speaker 1: at this point? I mean, I don't I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get too personal here, and I know nobody cares

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Speaker 1: about my fantasy football team, but I I was hot

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Speaker 1: early and then I learned a bad losing streak, had

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Speaker 1: some COVID issues on my team. I'm all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden trailing by like fourteen points that I have Claypool left,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm like, oh my gosh, do I not

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Speaker 1: start Claypool? So I had to make Travis Fulham my backup,

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Speaker 1: and of course we saw how he did on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. And it's like, if this game doesn't happen, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make the fantasy playoffs. And I know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, who cares to go about the

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Speaker 1: players health? Jason, get real and I get all that,

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Speaker 1: Yes I do, Um, obviously I get that, But I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying they're the trickle down from all this is insane.

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Speaker 1: And we talked about our on Monday's podcast. If the

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Speaker 1: NFL doesn't bubble up and get their act together here,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get ugly. Um. I I can just I

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Speaker 1: could see this really getting ugly for the league. I

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Speaker 1: don't want it. I need football. It's my business. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is what I do is where my bread is buttered. Um,

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Speaker 1: you guys remember this podcast in August when we launched.

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Speaker 1: We launched we initially and I talked about this early

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Speaker 1: on in the podcast. We met about starting this podcast

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Speaker 1: back in like March, um, after the Super Bowl. You know,

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Speaker 1: we briefly discussed it around the Super Bowl, and then

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Speaker 1: we said, oh, let's meet in l A and we

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Speaker 1: talked about it. We were getting set to launch, and

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Speaker 1: then sports go away, and of course I'm sitting here thinking,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm totally screwed. Oh that podcast that

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Speaker 1: I was gonna have, it's done. We're never gonna do it. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then we had to wait and wait and wait,

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Speaker 1: and eventually, Um, the world improved in the sports world specifically,

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Speaker 1: and UM, we launched in August, and when there were

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Speaker 1: no football games, it was a little more challenging. We

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Speaker 1: had some college football drama. Luckily there was the NBA bubble,

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Speaker 1: and luckily we've had football since. And I'm a little

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Speaker 1: nervous about what could happen here in the month of

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Speaker 1: December to the NFL. I'm I'm hopeful, but this getting

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Speaker 1: a game booted to Wednesday, three Monday Night football games,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not complaining about that. Um, but man, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it's some level. The players are really ticked off,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know how they can't be. We know

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Speaker 1: the coaches don't love it. No, nobody's happy with this,

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Speaker 1: but it is what it is. We've got to make

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Speaker 1: the best of a terrible situation. And I guess let's

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Speaker 1: rejoice over Wednesday Afternoon NFL Action. What are the best

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Speaker 1: rivalries in the league? So, um, that'll do it for

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Speaker 1: day today's podcast. Not a ton of juicy stuff happening.

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Speaker 1: Oh I forgot, I forgot the other story. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: I almost I almost skipped over this. I've been bagging

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Speaker 1: on Danny Dimes of the New York Giants for a

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Speaker 1: little while now, turnover machine. He went through a stretch where, um,

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Speaker 1: he had to turn over like nineteen straight games and

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Speaker 1: it was doubling up the turnovers. It was ugly. And

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Speaker 1: I made the mistake of betting on the Giants this

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Speaker 1: past weekend. And of course it looked great when Danny

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Speaker 1: Dimes is running up and down the field, Um, but

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Speaker 1: the Giants could never get out of their own way.

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Speaker 1: up a kickoff return for touchdown UM and then Danny

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Speaker 1: Dimes gets injured and Cult McCoy comes in, and my

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Speaker 1: first thought was, well, I'm screwed. There's no way on

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Speaker 1: earth Colt McCoy can deliver and the Giants can cover

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Speaker 1: six and a half. They were up, like, uh at

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Speaker 1: the time, I think the line was six, actually was

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Speaker 1: thirteen ten, and they up getting a field goal and

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Speaker 1: then another field goal. But ultimately, the numbers for Colt

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Speaker 1: McCoy in that game, you know, the Giants ran something

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Speaker 1: like thirty one plays in less than a half with

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Speaker 1: Colt McCoy. That's how bad this game was. Thirty one

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Speaker 1: plays with Colt McCoy for seventy five yards. That is

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Speaker 1: ineptitude at the highest level. Like that's awful football. And

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Speaker 1: I joked on social media I wouldn't trust Colpe McCoy

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Speaker 1: to pick up my mail if I were on vacation,

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Speaker 1: and all these Coulte McCoy fans got angry at me,

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Speaker 1: you know, and he's such a nice guy. I get that,

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Speaker 1: I got I understand that. I'm just saying I don't

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Speaker 1: trust him with this lead. Okay, there's no way he's

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Speaker 1: going to deliver the cover, and of course he didn't. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever. Um, but it looks like Colpe McCoy

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Speaker 1: is gonna have to start for the Giants now. And folks,

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Speaker 1: we're getting closer to Alex Smith and the Washington Football

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Speaker 1: Club stealing the NFC East. I I this is not

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Speaker 1: something I could have scripted. Um. Chase Young and that

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Speaker 1: defense has been pretty good but not great. Alex Smith

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Speaker 1: has been okay, serviceable. UM. I just still can't get

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Speaker 1: over this. They're gonna host a playoff game and the

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Speaker 1: funniest part is they're probably gonna end up hosting somebody

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Speaker 1: like the Rams or maybe the Cardinals. Um, it's a

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Speaker 1: chance they could host the Tampa Bay Bucks Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: in Washington. I'm just floored by this. Like, mostly I'm

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Speaker 1: embarrassed for the NFC East, Like they're terrible and I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to bet on those teams. Um, But

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I'm started getting starting to get fascinated

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Speaker 1: by the prospect of one of these awful teams hosting,

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Speaker 1: say Tom Brady in a cold weather January playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know Tom Brady obviously now, Mr Tampa,

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Speaker 1: I know cold weather is not a big knock for him.

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Speaker 1: But the Super Bowl goes through is in Tampa this year.

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Speaker 1: Everything's lined up for the Bucks and they might have

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Speaker 1: be bad weather, a pretty rapid defensive line, and I

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Speaker 1: think the Bucks might be favorite in that game, and

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Speaker 1: I think I'd better to win that I do. I

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Speaker 1: definitely would take the Rams. They already crushed Washington. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't it was terrible. Um of course I was on

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Speaker 1: Washington in that game. McVeigh just rolled him. Never close.

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Speaker 1: But those are the three stories. Uh here on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: that kind of popped. I want to wish everybody a

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Speaker 1: happy December. Remember we got a big interview coming tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: not somebody from the sports world. I think you're gonna

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Speaker 1: like it anyway. We'll talk to you then