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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Happy New Year, everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's back Straight Fired. I am your host, Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, January four. I hope everybody had a

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Speaker 1: splendid and safe happy New Year. Twenty twenty one is here.

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Speaker 1: We're hoping it continues to do well on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: which was phenomenal in obviously the year of sucked um,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully one will be better for everybody. And we

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Speaker 1: have a pretty NFL Jim Pack Show. I would love

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Speaker 1: to wedge in a word about Steph Curry's sixty two points,

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Speaker 1: but I think Rob g is going to nix that

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Speaker 1: because the NFL playoffs are here. We have a new

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Speaker 1: tanking story. It's so funny, the selective outrage among fans

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Speaker 1: and media member it's really unbelievable. I think I gotta

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Speaker 1: start with that before we get to the NFL playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Will do the best matchups. I've already bet one game.

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Speaker 1: I have a teaser already that I've laid money on um.

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Speaker 1: But I have to start with Doug Peterson and the

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Speaker 1: Eagles pulling Jalen Hurts in a close game against Washington

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Speaker 1: and the backup Nate Sudfeld. Um, you know, first five snaps,

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Speaker 1: he has two turnovers and everybody's already outraged. Every Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, the the integrity of the game. It's just

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Speaker 1: the worst thing. Ever, how could this game be on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night football? Just people just losing their minds and

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Speaker 1: it's just the selective outrages. The phrase you guys need

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Speaker 1: to remember. So I jotted down some notes during this game,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of things jump out. Number one, when

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets, my New York Jets, we're tanking

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Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence, it was all, oh, great job, way

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Speaker 1: to go. All the Jets are really doing a great job. Tank.

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Speaker 1: They're keeping their coach Adam Gates because he sucks so

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Speaker 1: they can get the first pick. Then the Jets beat

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Speaker 1: the Rams, and it's like, look at these idiots, what

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Speaker 1: are they doing that Jets what a game and costs

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Speaker 1: themselves Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wow, look at

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Speaker 1: them tank. They were able to lose every single game

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Speaker 1: after winning the opener, and they tanked brilliantly. But when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the Philadelphia Eagles on the final game

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Speaker 1: of the season, when they can raise their draft order

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Speaker 1: from ninth to six. Oh my gosh, where's the integrity

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Speaker 1: of the NFL? What what? What's the deal, folks? Why

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Speaker 1: are we getting so jammed up about Doug Peterson pulling

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, a rookie quarterback by the way, for Nate

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Speaker 1: Sudfeld in the final game of the season when we

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Speaker 1: applaud tanking, But now we're changing our minds and having

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Speaker 1: selective outrage over who can tank and who can't. And listen,

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Speaker 1: I get it. If you're a New York Giants fan

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Speaker 1: or a New York Giants player, and I saw all

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Speaker 1: the player tweets and Instagram notes, they're pissed, And I

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Speaker 1: get it. You're pissed, understandable. So but Doug Peterson doesn't

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Speaker 1: care that you guys, we're six and ten and missed

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's not his job to help you guys

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Speaker 1: get in When we're talking about a New York Giants

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Speaker 1: team that backed into the playoffs after beating Seattle to

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Speaker 1: grab first place. You guys could do nothing offensively, nothing

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Speaker 1: at all, embarrassed yourselves and then got lucky to beat

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Speaker 1: Dallas in the final game of the season. And now

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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. It's supposed to try his butt off to

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Speaker 1: take on Washington so you can get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I just don't get why anybody who is just a

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Speaker 1: casual observer of the NFL or a fan of the

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Speaker 1: NFL would give a ship that Doug Peterson is tanking, Like,

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Speaker 1: who cares? That's on Doug Peters. He can do whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell he wants to do. Why aren't people upset

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Speaker 1: that the Miami Dolphins went ten and six double digit wins,

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Speaker 1: Brian Flores's second year coach to a tongue avaloa rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback from much of the season. Fitzpatrick gets COVID can't

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Speaker 1: bail them out. They're gonna miss the playoffs at ten,

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Speaker 1: at six? Why where's the anger there? Where's the outrage? Oh?

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Speaker 1: The system is flawed? Where's that? Oh? Oh, I kid?

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Speaker 1: Who cares about the Miami Dolphins? That game happened at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock? There was six other games happening at the

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Speaker 1: same time. Who cares? I don't know. It just seems

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Speaker 1: very weak and pathetic and um just like you know,

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Speaker 1: be outrage. I'm really piste off about this. It's so

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Speaker 1: terrible that Doug Peterson could do that. No, man, did

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Speaker 1: you guys not see the injury report on Friday and Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Like the Eagles pulled anybody with a pulse and what

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Speaker 1: like exclusively the backups. The wheels were in motion for

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Speaker 1: this well before Sunday night. And Doug Peterson got word

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Speaker 1: from his organization that he's fine next year. He's sticking around.

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Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz, the defensive coordinator who was abominable this year,

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Speaker 1: he's gone. But Doug Peterson sticking around. So why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: I help myself and go from the ninth pick to

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Speaker 1: the sixth pick. I mean, listen, they are desperate for

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Speaker 1: and get an elite cornerback, Patrick Certain the cornerback from Alabama,

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Speaker 1: really good players that the Eagles are totally in the

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Speaker 1: mix now for. And let me remind you, when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about drafting six, you're in the sweet spot potentially

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Speaker 1: but if somebody wants to trade up, hey, come up

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Speaker 1: drafting seventh? Now that the Eagles were able to tank

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Speaker 1: asking out drafting eight. Carolina Panthers. They need a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They pulled Teddy Bridgewater in a embarrassing noncover against the Saints.

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about that game. I

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Speaker 1: know the final scores. Deceptive. Carolina was totally in that game,

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Speaker 1: and Bridgewater killed him two red zone picks, one in

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Speaker 1: the end zone. I'm just so pissed about that Carolina noncover,

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Speaker 1: although it was a profitable Sunday uh in the NFL

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Speaker 1: Week sevent team, which can be difficult, um, but we

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Speaker 1: got there. Denver is drafting ninth. They don't have the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of their future. Okay, so seven, eight, nine and

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Speaker 1: maybe they look at a quarterback Giants at eleven, who's

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Speaker 1: your quarterback? Day? Any times you think he's the future? There? Uh?

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Speaker 1: San Francisco twelve, A lot of report. Jimmy Garoppolo's done

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Speaker 1: in San fred So by tanking Doug Peterson, by pulling

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Speaker 1: was not ready for the moment. They just leap frog

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Speaker 1: a bunch of teams that need a quarterback. That is

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Speaker 1: good strategy. Doug Peterson should not give a rats ass

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Speaker 1: about the New York Giants now. In next year's Giants

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Speaker 1: that next year. So I don't have an issue with

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Speaker 1: you gotta get the job done yourselves. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: next weekend? Folks? Three NFL playoff game Saturday three on

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Speaker 1: Ohio State taken down Clemson, I mean dismembering Clemson. So

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Speaker 1: cannot wait for that. So three straight awesome days of football. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's a great way to start the new year. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, rob G. Do you think I should rank

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Speaker 1: the games in interest? Um? Do you want me to

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Speaker 1: start with the game I bet? Should I talk about

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Speaker 1: upset special? Um? I don't know. There's many ways we

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Speaker 1: could go, rob you. I know your Raiders are not

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Speaker 1: in the postseason, with like taking a shot at your Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, now you know I would love to

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Speaker 1: hear which game you bet on, so I know which

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Speaker 1: My first bet was the Baltimore Ravens, favored by just three.

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Speaker 1: I got it three. It looks like it's up to

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Speaker 1: the quote unquote revenge narrative. Um, but I think the

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. Didn't the Titans take down the Ravens

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and you're Lamar Jackson, you lost in

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Speaker 1: the first round the last two years, you've lost your

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Speaker 1: I would expect Jim Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson to be

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Speaker 1: completely ready for this game. Right now. The run games working.

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Speaker 1: It's j K. Dobbins, it's Lamar Jackson. Logust. The US

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Speaker 1: mark ingram was dusted off in Sunday's season finale. They're

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Speaker 1: not gonna get cute here. The Tennessee Titans don't have

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Speaker 1: that Derrick Henry story is great. UM. I know you

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Speaker 1: badly wanted two thousand yards. He got it. He ran

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Speaker 1: a nosebleed. It's embarrassing. So Derrick Henry first player and

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Speaker 1: over fifty years to lead the NFL in rushing yards

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry went back to back. However, the load he

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Speaker 1: Really for Derrick Henry? Was it that important to get

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Speaker 1: four carries? Guys, that is do you know how excessive

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Speaker 1: the hardcore nerds will know that three seventy used to

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Speaker 1: will probably be one of the bigger storylines as we

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Speaker 1: move forward. Now, rob G, I thought you were going

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Speaker 1: to just steal it when you started talking about this game.

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Speaker 1: We have discussed it on the podcast. Tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: forty three years old. TB twelve loves to talk about

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Speaker 1: how he gets a good night's sleep, and he goes

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Speaker 1: to bed early, and Tom Brady wakes up early. He

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Speaker 1: goes to bed early, wakes up early. The guys always grinding.

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Speaker 1: Guess when he has struggled this year, Rob g in

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Speaker 1: the NFL at night. He is one in three in

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Speaker 1: night games this year. Owen four against the spread. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and I broke down all the games. We remember them

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Speaker 1: right the Chicago game on Thursday Night football, and some

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Speaker 1: people want to toss that out because all of his

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Speaker 1: wide receivers were hurt. Fair enough. They lost that game

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Speaker 1: to nineteen. I believe Folds was a quarterback for the Bears.

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Speaker 1: I was on Thursday Night Football. Then they had a

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Speaker 1: Monday night football game against the New York Giants. Bucks

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Speaker 1: trail for much of that game. They did come back

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Speaker 1: and win. They survived Danny Dimes missing a late two

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Speaker 1: point conversion. Now Brady was pretty bad for a half.

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Speaker 1: He did come back in the second half through a

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Speaker 1: couple of t D passes. Then came the real troubling results.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady at Night is a thing. The Sunday night

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Speaker 1: football blood bath against the New Orleans thirty eight to three,

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Speaker 1: and Brady never was in that game from the jump.

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Speaker 1: He was awful. I mean, one of the worst performances

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Speaker 1: that Tom Brady has had at night probably in his career.

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Speaker 1: I think that went down as the worst beating he's

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Speaker 1: ever taken, thirty eight to three, thumping. Finally, you had

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Speaker 1: that Rams game, which I think was Sunday Night football,

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Speaker 1: Rob G. But I remember watching that. I had bet

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Speaker 1: on the Bucks and they were playing from a position

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Speaker 1: of weakness the entire night. The Rams were better offensively,

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Speaker 1: yes with golf, they were better defensively. Brady was not good.

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Speaker 1: And guys, this is gonna be a story tom Brady

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Speaker 1: at night this year one in three, five TV passes,

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Speaker 1: five interceptions. And if you remember, before that Rams game,

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Speaker 1: Bruce Arians made a point to say, we collectively, right,

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Speaker 1: we haven't played well at night. Um, so we're gonna

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Speaker 1: change up our practice schedule and try to get in

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Speaker 1: some late. This is and Rob G. The second layer

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Speaker 1: to this book, besides the night thing, is everybody is

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Speaker 1: looking forward to Tom Brady versus Aaron Rodgers in the

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Speaker 1: second round. Everybody the TV networks will be battling over

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Speaker 1: that game. It will probably be to this date in

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Speaker 1: the season, the most viewed game in the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we've ever had Brady Rogers. No, we haven't

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Speaker 1: because they would have had to meet in the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and my memory does not have the Packers and the

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Speaker 1: Patriots in the super Bowl. The two of the five

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Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in NFL history. Aaron Rodgers is the m

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Speaker 1: v P. Tom Brady I believe just threw forty three

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the forty three year of his life, which

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Speaker 1: is nobody's ever sniffed that at his age in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the game we all want, right, rob

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Speaker 1: g I mean I can totally see the Bucks overlooking

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Speaker 1: a what are they sixes six and six, nine and

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Speaker 1: one Washington team? I think they had a tie, right

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Speaker 1: or no? Um, I can completely see that, and there's

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Speaker 1: nowhere to run from Chase Young. I hope the left

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Speaker 1: tackle of Tampa is ready, because Chase Young is putting

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Speaker 1: on a show here late in the season. He has

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Speaker 1: been utterly giving up the seven points according to Fox Bad,

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Speaker 1: what's that? Are you giving up the seven points? If?

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Speaker 1: According to our friends at Fox bat, that's the question?

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna Here's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: This is what this would be my lean, And I

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Speaker 1: said I did do a teaser. I would tease Tampa

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Speaker 1: from seven down to one. I think Tampa will win.

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Speaker 1: I think New Orleans you take that from nine. If

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Speaker 1: you can get nine down to three, they win by

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Speaker 1: a field goal. Just in case Trabsky does some stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect it, um, but yeah, Tampa is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a huge teaser liability. Uh because everybody thinks they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this game, right. I can't envision Alex Smith

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Speaker 1: beating this Tampa defense. The Washington offense is garbage. You

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Speaker 1: guys just saw them struggle again the j V unit

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Speaker 1: from the Eagles. I mean, they have Terry McLaurin and

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Speaker 1: he's banged up. Not they have Gibson, he's banged up.

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Speaker 1: We saw Mkissic briefly leave the game against the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: They have no offense like Logan Thomas, a converted quarterback

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Speaker 1: from Virginia Tech, is like a weapon for Washington. I

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Speaker 1: can't make a case that they're gonna win that game.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't see Washington winning, but I do

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Speaker 1: like Tampa to win. I would tease it down to

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Speaker 1: one to be safe, all right, fair enough, fair enough,

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Speaker 1: because with with you, it's thought about picking the games,

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Speaker 1: about picking the spread. So yeah, that's that. Let me

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Speaker 1: quickly listen, we don't we don't need to waste time

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Speaker 1: on un bear Saints, and I just quickly want to

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Speaker 1: just put this out there into the ether. Okay. I

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Speaker 1: don't have a very strong feeling, but I've done a

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Speaker 1: lot of reading obviously on Jets potential coaches, and I

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Speaker 1: mostly have looked at offensive guys, but I did look

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Speaker 1: at a defensive guy and his name is Matt eber Fluse,

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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator of the Colts. Their defense has been

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Speaker 1: lights out this year, okay, and eber Flus is the

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Speaker 1: one guy I would not totally want to face if

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Speaker 1: I were Brian Dable and Josh Allen because I remember

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Speaker 1: a game I think it was a Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: last year or two years ago, and eber Flus through

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Speaker 1: some zone stuff at Pat Mahomes that he had never

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Speaker 1: seen and that was the only time Pat Mahomes was like,

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Speaker 1: huh really really not good. And you can go look

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Speaker 1: up the old not the old twenty two, but the

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Speaker 1: YouTube condensed version of the game. MA Homes just missing passes,

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Speaker 1: not reading the defense. They were able to get after

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and Pat Mahomes struggled and the Colts pulled

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Speaker 1: a major upset. They were double digit dogs in that one.

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Speaker 1: And usually the Homes figures it out, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl figures it out late in the game, beats

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Speaker 1: the forty nine. He just couldn't figure it out. And

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Speaker 1: if Eber Fluce can come up with something, because remember

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable, the offensive coordinator of the Bills, He's basically

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Speaker 1: the hottest coaching candidate right now. They hung what they

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Speaker 1: hang fifty nine on the doll fins or something absurd.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they just lit them up. Whether it was

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley or Josh Allen didn't freaking matter. Um Brian

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Speaker 1: Dable getting it done. I would love him as the

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Speaker 1: Jets head coach. Um. I think abra Flus is probably

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Speaker 1: gonna get a look. I I like an offensive guy.

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Speaker 1: I do want to note um Jeremy Fowler of ESPN

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Speaker 1: real sharp guy. UH known him for a while. He

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Speaker 1: floated the idea of David Shaw of Stanford. I guess

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Speaker 1: he has a previous relationship with the Jets. GM Joe Douglas.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna give away anything here, but

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Speaker 1: I um happen to know some people, someone specifically on

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Speaker 1: the board at Stanford. Um he knows, uh, David Shaw. Well,

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Speaker 1: I instantly texted my guy and he says, very unlikely. Um,

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Speaker 1: you guys can look it up. David Shaw has a

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Speaker 1: sibling going through something. Um. And you know he's got

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Speaker 1: some health issues. And you know, Shaw's very rooted in

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Speaker 1: the community there in Palo Alto. His kids are in

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Speaker 1: the school system, and everybody's kicked the tires on him. Um.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is the year to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know. Listen, Jets want to call good, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds like they have no shot and really nobody has

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Speaker 1: a shot at this juncture to make a run at Shaw.

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Speaker 1: I would love Dable personally, will have plenty of time

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Speaker 1: now that Adam Gays has been fired to dive deep

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Speaker 1: into Um who who we want? Um Joe Brady of

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Speaker 1: Carolina Uh and now Rob G's like, listen, I rather

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Speaker 1: you talk about Steph Curry's sixty two on Dame, then

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Speaker 1: dive into the ten guys who are going to reject

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Speaker 1: the Jets because nobody wants to Uh, nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: coach said or awful franchise. But Rob Gi let me

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Speaker 1: just go out on this, UM, and we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: do a best bet. I haven't even tallied the numbers

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Speaker 1: from the weekend on the games, but we will start

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Speaker 1: do an NBA and also college basketball. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the algorithm is back. Um. It had a good Saturday

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Speaker 1: of five Sunday. Um. But college basketball picks and they're

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Speaker 1: coming folks. UM. Just a quick word on the Jets,

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Speaker 1: uh and just and Fields and again we'll do much

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Speaker 1: more on this later. I like Justin Fields. Um, he

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Speaker 1: did not look good against Northwestern. I'm not gonna kill

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Speaker 1: the guy for it. He looked great against Clemson. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say he's the greatest thing ever because he

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Speaker 1: killed Clemson. Um, let's see what he does against Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Alabama has a couple of pro corners and certain and job.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it will be as easy sledding four

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Speaker 1: Fields and I kind of I'm not a pent all in,

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Speaker 1: but I really am starting to put my weight and

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Speaker 1: support behind the kid from b y U, Zack Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Um Jets have the number two pick. I wouldn't mind

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Speaker 1: to trade down a couple of slots and get Wilson

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Speaker 1: pick up more picks. Did Jets have a crap roster? Guys?

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Speaker 1: You can't just say, oh, hey, it's the Jets. Take

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields. Yeah, we're gonna go. Justin Fields is surrounded

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Speaker 1: by five star talent at Ohio State. Did Jets have

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Speaker 1: a lot of two star talent? Okay, they could use

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Speaker 1: an extra to pick. They already have an extra one

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Speaker 1: from the Seattle trade. Doesn't help that the Seahawks have

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Speaker 1: been really good and it picks like twenty seven or something. UM.

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Speaker 1: I personally would like the kid Wyatt Davis guard from

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. He's a based Mahler would be great next

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Speaker 1: to Beckton for the next decade on the Jets O line.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm losing the audience? Who doesn't care about

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Speaker 1: my love affair with the New York Jets? All right,

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Speaker 1: anybody everybody that'll do it for the first episode of

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Thank you for subscribing, rating, and reviewing. You

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Speaker 1: know my faithbook feed has the link to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Um It's on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio Podcasts. We got

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Speaker 1: a couple of good guests lined up this week and uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tomorrow