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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntire,

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Monday, August the nineteenth. I hope everybody

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Speaker 2: had a phenomenal weekend. Mine was kind of sort of

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Speaker 2: laid back. Did get to play hoops for the first

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Speaker 2: time in a month. Watched a little preseason, not too much, honestly,

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Speaker 2: I can't stomach too much preseason. Watch some soccer EPL

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Speaker 2: back in action, watch Caitlyn Clark and the Fever cook listen.

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Speaker 2: It's football time, obviously, but I did think it was

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Speaker 2: worth starting with Caitlyn Clark and the Fever winning Friday

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Speaker 2: against a good team, winning Sunday against a good team,

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Speaker 2: and folks, it's one of those situations where sometimes you

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Speaker 2: gotta deal with you gotta shovel a lot of shit

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Speaker 2: good stuff. You know. Maybe you gotta deal with a

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Speaker 2: lot of sour and then you get to the sweet,

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Speaker 2: you know. And Caitlin Clark being left off the Olympic team,

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Speaker 2: as much as that kind of hurd and was painful,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure for Clark and her fans and just anybody

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Speaker 2: who likes watching her play basketball. What a blessing that

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Speaker 2: she was able to have a month off come back rejuvenated.

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Speaker 2: And so far it's early two games back, but early

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Speaker 2: returns are she is motivated, rested, and she's destroying the league.

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Speaker 2: It's only two games, but the schedule, remember, works in

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Speaker 2: the Fevers way. And I'm just telling you, Caitlin Clark,

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Speaker 2: the league has a problem on their hands right now. Clark.

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Speaker 2: I got her at MVP of the league at plus

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Speaker 2: five eighty before the season, like an idiot MVP. Come on,

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Speaker 2: what rookie does that? Well, she did just set the

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Speaker 2: rookie assist record. She's gonna obliterate it because she's got

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Speaker 2: still tons of games left. And I did bet them

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Speaker 2: to win the title plus two thousand. Now I know

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Speaker 2: he was just saying, Jason pizza money flushing it down

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Speaker 2: the drain? What are you an idiot? Come on? Maybe

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Speaker 2: probably I've been called worst. That being said, this team

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Speaker 2: went through a bunch of garbage early with rotations coach,

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Speaker 2: obviously some backlash to Clark. They survived it, and now

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Speaker 2: you come playoff time fever gonna be a bit of

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Speaker 2: just gonna be fun and interesting, and you have to admit,

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Speaker 2: regardless if you're an Angel Rehes fan, Diana Tarassi fan,

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Speaker 2: a Caitlin Clark fan. Whatever. The idea that a rookie

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Speaker 2: from Iowa could come into this league and maybe, well

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Speaker 2: she's gonna win Rookie the year, that's obvious, but maybe

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Speaker 2: the finals, this would be starting. This would be some

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Speaker 2: kind of Hoosiers type shit that went down in the WNBA.

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Speaker 2: It's a little early for that, but just thought, I

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say you never want to go

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Speaker 2: too overboard in the NFL preseason because a lot of

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Speaker 2: the storylines are kind of bunked. It's like, oh, Russell

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Speaker 2: eight minutes until reality sets in. I did think, and

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Speaker 2: I'll just be very brief on the Steelers I did

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Speaker 2: think that Mike Tomlin opening his presser after another subpar

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Speaker 2: but you want to see crispness. You want to see fluidity,

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Speaker 2: Let's not get too excited. You never want to get

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Speaker 2: had a losing season under Tomlin. Yeah, I get that.

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Speaker 2: And past perform is not an indicator of future results.

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Speaker 2: That's just a fact.

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Speaker 2: You can say, hey, Tomlin always finds a way as

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Speaker 1: Five win team.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I've been too harsh on them this offseason. There's

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Speaker 2: Now in the moment, it's like, oh my gosh, look

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Speaker 2: The backyard football stuff that makes him and Mahomes so similar,

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams looked pretty damn impressive, making a few splash plays. Well, folks,

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Speaker 2: that's what he did at USC. He made the splash place.

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Speaker 2: He was making every throw, scrambling his tail off the kids.

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Speaker 2: We know that, Okay, we totally get all of this.

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Speaker 2: What we don't know if he's able to rein it

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Speaker 2: that I mean, he's they're gonna confuse him. He's not

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Speaker 2: be my guess. It's all very vanilla at this point.

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Speaker 2: Let's be real. The Tennessee Titans are in Week one.

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Speaker 2: What are the Tennessee Titans doing in the preseason. We're

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Speaker 2: looking to see, if for who's gonna make the roster.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're too deep, ain't great, And it's like,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Tennessee Titans defense, and yes, they

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Speaker 2: holy cow, Caleb Williams is going into a great freaking spot.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, last year where wide receiver

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Speaker 2: now it's oh, we've got Keenan Allen and Roma Dunze. Okay,

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift in the backfield. I like it. I thought

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Speaker 2: I think this is a really good Bears team. And folks, again,

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Speaker 2: you can do is look at this schedule and say, oh,

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Speaker 2: how is it? Shit? Stack up?

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Speaker 1: Step up the stack up for a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 2: And according to one metric from our guy Ta who's

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Speaker 2: been on the pod, if you missed it, go back

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Speaker 2: and search for it, he's got a ton of good shit,

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Speaker 2: the easiest schedule in the first twelve weeks of the

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Speaker 2: season belongs to the Chicago Bears. The easiest, folks, Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: Seven of the eleven games they have a buy in there.

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Speaker 2: Now, what we didn't totally know is this next story

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Speaker 2: is that Gardner Minshew was gonna be QB one in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: We know he is a A He's an e elite

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Speaker 1: He could deliver.

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Speaker 2: He's proven that he kept the Colts very competitive last

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Speaker 2: Parlay Teaser in the contest everywhere Chiefs come on, it's

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Speaker 2: the questions on the offensive line and the coach and

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Speaker 2: the quarterback. It's tough for me to say, Oh, Raiders

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Speaker 2: them being one of these frisky teams that really he

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Speaker 2: hangs around in rounders, remember hanging around alligator blood hanging

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Speaker 2: around I think the Raiders probably. Now, let's see how

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Speaker 2: the secondary turns out, because the kid Jack Jones was

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Speaker 2: really really awesome last year, but if you read up

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Speaker 2: his background, you almost need he needs like someone like

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Speaker 2: not a babysitter, but he needs somebody with him. He's

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Speaker 2: had a bunch of out of pocket stuff that can't happen.

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Speaker 2: He's excellent. Morigg, the young kid from TCU, is very good.

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Speaker 2: They probably could use another piece in the secondary linebacker

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Speaker 2: solid listen. I don't want to say the Raiders are

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Speaker 2: a seven eight nine win team, but it does strike

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Speaker 2: me that Minshew could he get them to seven? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Luke Getze is the OC. He didn't do

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Speaker 2: I don't think much of the Broncos. I want to

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Speaker 2: a world where the Raiders finished second in the division

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Speaker 2: and win seven games. They won eight last year, and

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Speaker 2: you know they had quarterback issues last year with Garoppolo.

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Speaker 2: So this minshe news is not totally surprising. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to do a full team breakdown of the Raiders,

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Speaker 2: but I just they're one of these teams. I don't

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Speaker 2: really know what to do with them. I have a

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Speaker 2: feeling they're going to be a solid underdog bet here

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Speaker 2: early in the season when nobody thinks much of them,

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Speaker 2: but mostly because Minshew is as long as he hasn't

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Speaker 2: to keep them in games. And you know, maybe things

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Speaker 2: break your way and boom, all of a sudden, there's

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Speaker 2: six and two against the spread, even though they're three

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Speaker 2: and five team. You know that like that world does

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Speaker 2: certainly exist. So a little Bears, Little Raiders fun start

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Speaker 2: to the week back tomorrow with more NFL. We are

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Speaker 2: locking in two fantasy guests here. For the next two weeks,

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Speaker 2: we'll start to do a little more NFL reporter centric.

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Speaker 2: I know you guys are desperate for Jets reporters. It's

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Speaker 2: so important, So we'll get to those eventually. Talk to

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow.