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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight Fire Fan? It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Tuesday, December twenty fourth. Christmas Eve is

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Speaker 2: upon us. Shout out to everybody who celebrates Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza,

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Speaker 2: Boxing Day coming up for the Canadians out there. I

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Speaker 2: hope everybody is having a fantastic holiday season. Listen. I

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Speaker 2: tried my best to put some extra change in your

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Speaker 2: pocket with the college football playoff picks. It was a

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Speaker 2: banner weekend last weekend. Let's see we can keep it rolling.

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Speaker 2: We are obviously recording early this week. This will be

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Speaker 2: the last pot we do until Friday. Yeah, we'll preview

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Speaker 2: the weekend. I think although I know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people down with the flu. Man my house, it hit

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Speaker 2: us hard, It hit rob G. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: are really sick right now. The flu's going around. Listen,

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Speaker 2: you're traveling, it's cold, the weather, hanging out. We were

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Speaker 2: in Vegas two weekends ago, and that's what we think

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Speaker 2: our flu got it. But you know, I am a

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Speaker 2: weirdo who doesn't touch door handles, and you know I

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Speaker 2: don't drink that much and I try to stay healthy.

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Speaker 2: And I keep getting fortunate and lucky. Maybe working out,

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Speaker 2: going to the gym helps. But for whatever reason, I

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Speaker 2: was able to dodge most of the illness that hit

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Speaker 2: my fan. But here we are, Christmas Eve. A lot

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Speaker 2: to be thankful for this holiday season. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: quickly buzz through. I thought we would look at the

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Speaker 2: college football playoff because I did get some pushback from

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Speaker 2: some of you guys via DM on ig about my

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Speaker 2: Boise State love and I'll get to that, but it's

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Speaker 2: a weird setup. And I listen, I know Christmas historically

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Speaker 2: has been the NBA's starting point, and that is allegedly

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Speaker 2: day one of the NBA season, because hey, and it

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Speaker 2: tips off in late October. Everybody checks in the opening

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Speaker 2: week and then it's kind of a you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: we got to go back to football, college football, NFL,

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Speaker 2: and then Christmas. A lot of NFL teams have been eliminated.

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Speaker 2: College football is down to eight teams. Christmas slate for

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Speaker 2: the NBA is pretty tremendous. You get Wemby against my

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Speaker 2: are eight and a half point favorites at home against Wemby.

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Speaker 2: That's the early tip nine am Pacific, noon Eastern. Then

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Speaker 2: you get oh yeah, oh no, wait, actually the second

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Speaker 2: game is Timberwolves Mavericks. Ooh that's spicy. A rematch of

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Speaker 2: the conference finals last year. Timberwolves kind of struggling. You

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Speaker 2: then get Sixers, Oh, poor Sixers. They are going to Boston.

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Speaker 2: It'll be the Tyrese Maxi Show. And I guess they'll

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Speaker 2: have Paul George. I don't haven't even seen what the

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Speaker 2: due to injuries. Then the main event, Lebron vus Steph Curry,

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Speaker 2: possibly for the last time. If you want to get

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Speaker 2: excited for this matchup, just go back and look at

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Speaker 2: some of the Christmas games they've had. There was one

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Speaker 2: where it was essentially Katie and Curry against Kyrie and Lebron.

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Speaker 2: Just an amazing game. Those were like just spectacular stuff.

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Speaker 2: I love those stack Warriors teams, and those Stacked Caps

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Speaker 2: teams are pretty damn good with Kevin love, Kyrie and Lebron.

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Speaker 2: The nightcap is the Denver Nuggets, who are reeling a

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Speaker 2: little bit. You're starting to hear some potential trade chatter.

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Speaker 2: They're going after my guy Zach Lavine against these sons

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Speaker 2: who have their own issues. So listen, it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a great NBA slate. Fortunately, I think many of you

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Speaker 2: action on the football front. And this is where we'll

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Speaker 2: all pivot to the NFL. And I'm just gonna say, listen,

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Speaker 2: I get it. The NFL is not afraid of any league.

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Speaker 2: They don't care about college football, they don't care about

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Speaker 2: the NBA. They're going ham And it's like, let me

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Speaker 2: just take a step back and say, yes, last year,

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Speaker 2: the NFL had major success on Christmas. The games I

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Speaker 2: barely remember them. All I remember is the NFL was

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Speaker 2: on Christmas, which was different, and it was good and

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Speaker 2: you know whatever, we enjoyed it. But this year, Christmas

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Speaker 2: falls on a Wednesday, so the NFL felt was so

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Speaker 2: hell bent on keeping it going. Hey, we had a

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Speaker 2: big ratings win. Let's do it. Let's win the day.

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Speaker 2: It feels like an archaic way to look at things,

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Speaker 2: But go off, guys, if you want to do that, fine,

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Speaker 2: And there are some really good games this week. Now

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Speaker 2: here's the problem with the Christmas Day games. First up,

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Speaker 2: you've got the Kansas City Chiefs, because you've got to

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Speaker 2: got Patrick Mahomes. You've got maybe Taylor Swift showing up

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Speaker 2: You've got Chief Steelers on Netflix at ten am. The

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Speaker 2: don't know. It's a Wednesday game. There has not been

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Speaker 2: a Wednesday game this season. That's for a reason. It's

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Speaker 2: such a short week, guys. And I know you gotta say, well,

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Speaker 2: they played Saturday, so tech lak, there's just a Thursday game. Okay.

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Speaker 2: You can argue that all you want. Next up is

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Speaker 2: That guy started off awesome and then he got hurt.

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Speaker 2: Remember he was blocking at like the goal line, in

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Speaker 2: Unlikely the Tank Dell will even start next season playing football.

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Speaker 2: And I don't like the Texas here. I'm looking strongly

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Speaker 2: if you uh, if you take Baltimore, You've got to

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Speaker 2: Ravens individual. I just I know the Texans fight really

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Speaker 2: I will go Ravens and down.

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Speaker 2: The earlier game. I just have no read on that.

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Speaker 2: I'll be rooting Pittsburgh Steelers, and as I said on

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Speaker 2: the Herd, I am looking into ordering a terrible towel

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Speaker 2: in case the Steelers play the Chiefs in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: rooting for the Steelers. And then here's the other thing.

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Speaker 2: your Thursday game, you know, Seattle at Chicago. Seattle just

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Speaker 2: the tough loss of the Viking. Don't not really quite

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Speaker 2: three on Saturday. Now, I do recall they had Saturday

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Speaker 2: NFL credit. These three games Saturday are huge. They're enormous.

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Speaker 2: You get Chargers at Patriots, huge game for the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs or Bills in the opening round. Patriots have

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Speaker 2: not quit. They keep fighting hard. Drake May looks good.

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Speaker 2: Then you got Broncos at these all three around NFL Network.

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Speaker 2: Broncos at Bengals is fascinating because the Bengals are trying

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Speaker 2: that doesn't totally apply to this game. But like Chargers Patriots,

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Speaker 2: bet them here. Patriots have nothing though, that's already baked

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Speaker 2: into the line, and that's why you're paying a higher premium.

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Speaker 2: Bengals Broncos. Everybody knows the Broncos are reeling. Bengals offense

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Speaker 2: That's a tough one. That's going to be a great game.

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow fighting for his playoff life. The NFL needs

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow in the playoffs. No disrespect to Peyton and Knicks.

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Speaker 2: the Rams will know what the situation is because Seattle

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Speaker 2: It's like groundhog Day with that guy. He's always making

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Speaker 2: As such, I just I can't get behind Gino. So

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Speaker 2: so I think the Rams win that game. Now that's

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Speaker 2: a big spread six and a half. Again, this is

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Speaker 2: one where it's like, hey, the Rams have everything to

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Speaker 2: play for. The Cardinals have nothing to play for. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: when you have nothing to play for, you're free and loose.

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Speaker 2: So maybe consider a first half Cardinals bet. Cardinals come out.

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Speaker 2: I know they're coming off an overtime game in the

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Speaker 2: to so Far. But there's not like a huge home

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Speaker 2: field advantage of so far I would consider first half Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I don't know a full game because the rams off

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Speaker 2: Connor got hurt in that game. But the problem is,

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Speaker 2: so I just rattled off. So there's two Wednesday, one Thursday,

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Speaker 2: leaves a really pedestrian Sunday slate. Guys, it is not

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, we'll just dip briefly, very

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Speaker 2: But I don't I think Notre Dame. I do believe

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame is going to crowd the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 2: and yours, Merry Christmas to all. Will hopefully be back

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Speaker 2: on Friday, back in the mix, preparing for the NFL

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