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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 3: Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Thursday,

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Speaker 3: August the eighth, and oh boy, do I have a

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Speaker 3: story for you. This Brandon Auk nonsense continues to dominate

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Speaker 3: the headlines of the NFL. But before we get to

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Speaker 3: the malcontent, yeah, I can go there. A couple quick

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Speaker 3: thoughts on Major League Baseball, which is kind of sort

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Speaker 3: of heating up. Maybe I'm all excited because I went

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Speaker 3: to a Dodgers game this week and it was it

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Speaker 3: was fun. But you look around the AL and the

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Speaker 3: wildcard race is tight. You've got the Astros lurking three

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Speaker 3: and a half back. We got what like, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: like fifty forty ish games left. Astros are lurking, but

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Speaker 3: so of the Red Sox. Yankees are in the wildcard

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Speaker 3: because Baltimore's tae overtaking them. Twins Royals, like the AL

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Speaker 3: is interesting. The NLS bananas, the Padres are absolutely on fire,

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Speaker 3: Braves slumping. The Mets are only one back folks for

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Speaker 3: the NL wildcard race. And I know I don't talk

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Speaker 3: a ton of baseball in here, but I'm counting one

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Speaker 3: two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine teams within

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Speaker 3: five and a half games of the final wildcard spot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you peel off ten straight. If the White

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Speaker 3: one of these teams win ten in row. And it

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Speaker 3: gets really interesting. Yeah, the Mets are in there. I

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Speaker 3: know I bashed the Mets a lot, but they are

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Speaker 3: still in the mix for a wildcard spot. It's just

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Speaker 3: a National league. American League Baseball is gonna be fun

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Speaker 3: here leading into September and October, obviously the October Classic.

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Speaker 3: But we got to start the podcast with this, Brandon

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Speaker 3: Aiyuk just, I mean, it just won't stop. And here's

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Speaker 3: the weird part. It almost feels as if the forty

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Speaker 3: they were doing a good job of it. But if

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Speaker 3: you noticed the big guns who get all their stuff

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Speaker 3: fed to them from teams and agents, and that's Wrapaport

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Speaker 3: and Shifter, they're not leading the charge on this. This

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Speaker 3: is this feels like it's growing on social media, if

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Speaker 3: you will. And I'm gonna go ahead and guess that

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Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk is being so transparent with the stuff he's

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Speaker 3: putting on TikTok and Instagram stories and Twitter that people

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Speaker 3: this and he wants to go there, and he's got

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Speaker 3: this connection. And it's almost as if the people are

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Speaker 3: driving this story, because, folks, I'm just telling you, as

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Speaker 3: recently as two weeks ago, everybody who covers the NFL,

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Speaker 3: anybody who I've talked to on this podcast, any gambler,

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Speaker 3: everybody thought Ayuk was staying and this was just him

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Speaker 3: acting tough, get me out of here. I need money,

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Speaker 3: and Okay, that's good, we understand, and you're still in

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Speaker 3: a contract. So show up and kind of kindly be

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Speaker 3: quiet and be great, and then you make a lot

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Speaker 3: of money after this season. Right, that was what everybody thought.

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Speaker 3: And then you see, you know, this Dj Moore deal

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Speaker 3: go down where he got Let me see what Dj

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Speaker 3: Moore got. I think he got four four for one

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Speaker 3: hundred or four for one to ten with like eighty

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Speaker 3: million guaranteed. Awesome numbers, Folks. I'm telling you, the margin

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Speaker 3: between Dj Moore and Brandon Nyuk is not that significant.

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Speaker 3: And I know i Uk first team All Pro. He's

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Speaker 3: in the Kyle Shanahan system. If we can knock and

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Speaker 3: I don't, But if you can knock brock Purty for

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Speaker 3: being in the Kyle Shanahan system, what would he be

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Speaker 3: without Kyle Shanahan and Simac and Debo and Kittle and

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. Why doesn't the same hold true for

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Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk. Well, he's getting schemed open by the best

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Speaker 3: in the last decade in the NFL, Like it's weird.

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Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey, very good with Carolina, one of the best

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Speaker 3: backs I've seen this century with the Niners. Brock Purty

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Speaker 3: seventh round pick, and all of a sudden he's an

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Speaker 3: MVP candidate with Kyle Shanahan. Why doesn't the same hold

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Speaker 3: true for Brandon Ayuk. I don't have an answer. Nobody

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Speaker 3: to put him down. I'm just saying, like, he's not Jefferson,

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Speaker 3: DJ Moore contract is more than reasonable for Ayuk. Again,

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Speaker 3: was great. Yes he's fast and twitchy, and he made

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Speaker 3: But why should the forty nine ers kowtow to a

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Speaker 3: guy who is, yeah, really good and could probably fetch

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Speaker 3: almost feels like they're saying, go ahead, test the market.

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Speaker 3: You want to see what's out there, Go get it, go,

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Speaker 3: get go, stack your paper, buddy, And Brandon ayuk Is

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Speaker 3: is kicking the tires, and you know the Patriots are

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Speaker 3: to go just to get leverage. He doesn't want to

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Speaker 3: whiff that ayuk was just playing them for leveraging.

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Speaker 3: By all accounts, the Pittsburgh Steelers are where he wants

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Speaker 3: to be. I have not seen or read what the

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Speaker 3: we're talking about a guy who is everything I've seen.

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Speaker 3: don't know. Maybe his dad was a forty nine Er fan,

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Speaker 3: don't know, something it doesn't add up. Maybe he wants

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Speaker 3: how's that gonna go over? How's he gonna like? Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 3: You're not beating us for sixty seventy year touchdowns to

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Speaker 3: All right, let's move on to another issue between an

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Speaker 3: Rob This is ugly stuff. I mean, we're talking, you know,

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Speaker 3: just thinking, how do we continually improve?

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Speaker 2: I e.

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Speaker 3: What can I get more on my plate to help

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Speaker 3: the offense. And it sounds like that rubbed Siriani the

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Speaker 3: wrong way. He just kind of wanted to run it back. Hey,

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Speaker 3: let's get a figurehead in here and do exactly what

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Speaker 3: Stikeen to be doing. And I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you've seen baseball, right rob Like Pitcher goes through the

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Speaker 3: lineup once a nine up, nine down, four strikeouts, You're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we got this, And second time through they're hitting them

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Speaker 3: a little harder. Third time through and they're drilling him

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Speaker 3: and he's knocked out of the game. You can't keep

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Speaker 3: doing what you're doing, right, You had to adjust. Now,

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Speaker 3: maybe some of that is hurts, but they've got all

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Speaker 3: the pieces and now they add Barkley. I don't who

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Speaker 3: you got Lions or Eagles, who do you think is

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Speaker 3: who do you think more highly of this season heading

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Speaker 3: into Week one?

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's a really tough one because ordinarily I would

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Speaker 4: say I would lean Eagles because number one, their experience

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Speaker 4: and number two as in battled as he is. I

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Speaker 4: trust Nick Sirian in a big spot to have a

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Speaker 4: lot more than I trust Dan Cabell.

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Speaker 3: Right, And who do you trust more? Hurts or Gough?

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Speaker 2: Jared Goff?

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Speaker 4: Actually, oh really, yeah I did not. Jared Goff at

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Speaker 4: least has shown it multiple times. Jalen Hurts is not.

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Speaker 4: That's the only argument against it. Yeah, but he said

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Speaker 4: he's had one great season in his career. One let's

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Speaker 4: not to say he can't do it again. And actually,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'll be honest, I don't know if this

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Speaker 4: is a hot take. I don't believe he's ever gonna

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Speaker 4: duplicate that magical year that he had two years ago.

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Speaker 4: And that's not a knock against him because that was

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Speaker 4: one of the great individual seasons we've seen in the

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Speaker 4: last decade.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, similar to Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 4: Patrick mahomes first year as a starter, many say it

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Speaker 4: was his best year as a starter statistically. Now he's

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Speaker 4: a better quarterback now, but he's not duplicating those same numbers.

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Speaker 4: Jalen Hursts can do the same thing. He can become

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Speaker 4: a better quarterback, a better player, but that doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: he's gonna have the kind of all world, all pro

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Speaker 4: level numbers year in and year out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's I mean, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 3: I just I don't know about the Lions. Like the

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Speaker 3: teams are heading in opposite directions, right, The Lions are

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Speaker 3: ascending and now they're gonna be hunted. Right, everybody know

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Speaker 3: the Lions aren't seeking up on anybody this year, whereas

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Speaker 3: the Eagles they were. The Lions last year start ten

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Speaker 3: to one, crater to the finish, destroyed in the wildcard round. Now,

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Speaker 3: everybody's kind of off Philly, right. They lose Kelsey, their center,

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Speaker 3: and it's like, oh, Sirianni loses both of his assistants.

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Speaker 3: He's on the hot seat. I mean, the dude started

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Speaker 3: ten in one the last two years. So it feels

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Speaker 3: like the Eagles and the Lions are two ships passing.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know. I think I would lean Eagles

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Speaker 3: over the Lions. Now, where do you have niner? Still

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Speaker 3: one for you?

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Speaker 2: For now? I mean until proven. Otherwise you got to

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Speaker 2: stick with them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, as long as they have Kyle Shanhan even

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Speaker 4: for all his wards, as long as they have Brock Purdy,

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Speaker 4: who seems like steady Eddy, and if Christian McCaffrey is healthy,

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Speaker 4: they're still going to be at their worst case, you know,

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Speaker 4: a ten win team. So and unlike the rest of

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Speaker 4: the teams in that NFC, they have a history of

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Speaker 4: playoff success. May not always be you know, winning a

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Speaker 4: super Bowl, but they historically perform well in the postseason.

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Speaker 4: So you always have to give the edge to San

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Speaker 4: Francisco no matter who is on their roster. Provided Shanahan

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Speaker 4: party and again McCaffrey's there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we could wrap up with quick picks on today's

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Speaker 3: Olympics showdown in men's hoops, France five point dogs against

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Speaker 3: Germany eight thirty am Pacific tip and then the usay.

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Speaker 3: Now this was seventeen and a half and it's now

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Speaker 3: down to sixteen and a half. I still think there's

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Speaker 3: value on Serbia in that one. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: I feel think Germany is the better team, but I

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Speaker 3: feel like you can't give France five points. Wembin Yama

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Speaker 3: and the home court advantage, So I would lean toward

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Speaker 3: both dogs, France and Serbia in today's game. We gotta

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Speaker 3: start getting ready. The mindset of best bet rob given

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Speaker 3: an NFL is a couple of weeks away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you're the guy they count for the best bet.

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Speaker 4: No one has ever looked to me for gambling advice,

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Speaker 4: So it's more about you than me. Because to illustrate

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Speaker 4: that point, you're taking the dogs, both of them, taking

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Speaker 4: the favorites in.

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Speaker 2: Both of them. Oh gee, so one of us is

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Speaker 2: gonna look like a genius. It's probably gonna be you.

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Speaker 3: But now Germany's clearly better than France. But you know,

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Speaker 3: the go beart situation, which is we talked about yesterday,

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Speaker 3: which is bizarre. Ken wembin Yama takeover. You know, I

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Speaker 3: would love to see Wemby against the USA. I just

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Speaker 3: I don't I think Germany would give the US a

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Speaker 3: better shot in the final, which is this weekend. All right,

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Speaker 3: that'll do it for today's pod. Back tomorrow. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you then,