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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Good morning, everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Monday, December twenty feet.

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Speaker 1: Hope everybody had a strong, fun winter weekend. I know

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Speaker 1: all my friends in the Northeast were digging out. I

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Speaker 1: just say that. Out here in sunny California, we had

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Speaker 1: a great, family filled weekend and um, I don't know

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Speaker 1: bittersweet Sunday. Uh, Saturday was amazing. Did the radio show

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Speaker 1: celebrated my daughter's eighth birthday. Because we live in l

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Speaker 1: all weekend. And um, I swept the college football slate.

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Speaker 1: The picks that we gave out on Friday on Straight

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Speaker 1: It was a great gambling weekend for me six and

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Speaker 1: And it all went out the window Sunday when the

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Speaker 1: I've got several Obviously, I need to choose my words

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Speaker 1: I'm an emotional man. That's what we are. We're emotional.

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Speaker 1: We get fired up during sports. If you can't get

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Speaker 1: He'd chat about it. And for whatever reason, Honey Badger

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Speaker 1: in the game where he's just juking guys left and right,

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Speaker 1: months nobody will remember. In six months, it will be

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Speaker 1: an afterthought. You won't know to score a year from now.

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Speaker 1: But losing Trevor Lawrence, that's a generational change right there

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Speaker 1: for the Jets. You get a quarterback and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to hear this garbage. Oh well, come on, Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrences good, but it's not the best quarterback ever. Guys,

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Speaker 1: we've had a couple of former GMS on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: We've had some NFL reporters. Trevor Lawrence is the best

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Speaker 1: prospect to come out of college since Andrew Luck. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember what Andrew Luck did after he came from

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Speaker 1: went to the playoffs. The first year lost, first round,

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Speaker 1: instant success, what it should be prolonged success. Now finding

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Speaker 1: The guy's amazing. And now the Jets lost him, and

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Speaker 1: And it sucks, and I'm really really piste off um,

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Speaker 1: If he was gonna be the number two pick to Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: all good. Hey, Jacksonville's got a potential franchise quarterback. Jets

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald. Guys, Sam Donald is in your three. I believe, Okay,

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Speaker 1: You got Allen Robinson, you get players around him. Alright,

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Speaker 1: the one one positive spin I can have. And I

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Speaker 1: like you mentioned at the top of the show, is

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Speaker 1: the Jets. And I wanted to talk you off the

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Speaker 1: ledge a little bit. I know that you were, you know,

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Speaker 1: crying yourself to sleep, you know, using your tears and

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Speaker 1: and wiping them all over a frame photo. You have

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Speaker 1: a Trevor Lawrence in the photoshop jetsture. I saw it

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Speaker 1: on your desktop, But we just had one of the

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Speaker 1: great NFL team builders, Scott mclewin. Frank Gore has said

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Speaker 1: to Scott mcclewin, Sam Donald is the truth. Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: is a franchise quarterback. Now, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: personally don't see it, but I trust Frank Gore's judgment

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Speaker 1: a lot more than my judges. And this whole idea

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Speaker 1: though about Trevor Lawrence, that he is a savior, that

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Speaker 1: he is going to show up and make whatever team

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Speaker 1: that he's on an instant, you know, legitimate threat. We're

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Speaker 1: not saying Super Bowl getender, but a legitimate team. He's

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Speaker 1: most been compared to Andrew Lucky. Everybody likes to talk

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Speaker 1: about Andrew Luck. You know, eleven and five, eleven and five.

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Speaker 1: You look at what he was doing on those seasons,

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Speaker 1: twenty three touchdowns, eighteen picks, twenty three touchdowns, nine picks.

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Speaker 1: He had one great season touchdown sixteen picks, but either way,

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Speaker 1: he was a turnover machine. His best seasons. Quarterback rating wise,

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Speaker 1: we're right around nineties. You know who has in nineties

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Speaker 1: six quarterback rating in today's NFL. Guys like Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Tom Brady. But be again because his team

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Speaker 1: was eleven and five. They say, oh, well he's he's

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback. You know he wins. Are you denigrating

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck Yeah. I mean, like, it's not to say

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Speaker 1: he's a bad quarterback. He's not a bad quarterback. He's

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Speaker 1: a very solid, above average quarterback. But he's not like this,

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Speaker 1: this God's gift to quarterback play like people make him

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Speaker 1: out to be. And the same thing can be said

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Speaker 1: about Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence, for all of his abilities,

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Speaker 1: turns the ball over a lot for a guy of

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Speaker 1: his stature. He's thrown what already four picks in day

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Speaker 1: games that he's played this season. He threw eight picks

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Speaker 1: the year before that. And what I'm saying is you

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Speaker 1: can't assume, because he has these measurables, which is measurables

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Speaker 1: aren't even that great to begin with, that he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the guy who shows up and just makes this

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Speaker 1: thing all work. There's so much that goes into building

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Speaker 1: a good football team. And sorry to say, but your

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Speaker 1: Jets needed a lot more than just a quarterback for

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Speaker 1: them to become a good football team. And I think

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Speaker 1: that them losing, and I still think they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: worse than number two pick. If Sam Donald is as

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Speaker 1: good as a Frank Gores thinks he is, they can

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Speaker 1: trade that pick down. Someone's gonna come up to get

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields or whatever other quarterback that they like, and

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Speaker 1: suddenly you have a bunch of other assets you can

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Speaker 1: build around Sam Donald and get a coach in there

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Speaker 1: that actually knows what he's doing, because we've seen with

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Speaker 1: Adam Gaze, for whatever reason, people perform a hell of

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Speaker 1: a lot better when they're away from him. Ryan Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: DeVante Parker. So, I don't know why you're so like

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Speaker 1: more abound right now. Like you, I can see in

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Speaker 1: your eyes as we're as we're doing this this podcast,

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Speaker 1: because I can see them zoom. You look like you've

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Speaker 1: been crying all day and every time I'm telling I

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Speaker 1: am desponding, no tears. Come on. It's a football team,

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Speaker 1: Um okay, So quickly on Andrew luck. So when he

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Speaker 1: came into the league, the Culture one in fifteen, they

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Speaker 1: were at the end of their run with Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne was a fossil, uh t Y Hilton was

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Speaker 1: a pup. That team was awful. I just started looking

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Speaker 1: at some box scores. When you brought him up, they're

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Speaker 1: they're they're running back with somebody named Vick Ballard. The

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Speaker 1: defense had nothing, they were not a good team. Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck literally put them on his back and carried them

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs somehow. Uh, the guy was a magician.

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Speaker 1: I believe Trevor Lawrence will do that now to address this.

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Speaker 1: You know, Sam Donald idea. Okay, so let's say you

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Speaker 1: get the two, you got number two, and um, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, give me a team who wants to trade

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Speaker 1: up for Justin Fields, and you decide we're gonna keep

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald. I think that we're gonna keep Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: Question has to be asked to your next coach, Joe Douglas,

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Speaker 1: the GM and whoever. The Jets coaches need to look

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Speaker 1: at the Sam Donald tape see if they think this

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Speaker 1: is salvageable. You said, Donald, you know, hasn't been that bad. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at football outsiders. Aaron Schatz. They have a

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Speaker 1: stat d y A R. Carson Wentz is dead last

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Speaker 1: at thirty four. Sam Donald is at thirty three. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: real quick, I do not mean to shoot on our guy,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Shafts because we had him on. He's a super

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Speaker 1: nice guy. But his metrics also said that the Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers were the best thing they did. They did. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well a R. Then there's d v o A another

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Speaker 1: stat for quarterbacks, Sam Donald dead last thirty four. Then

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Speaker 1: there's qb R Sam Donald checking in at thirty three

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Speaker 1: by almost any metric, He's been one of the worst

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league this year. And then then then

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Speaker 1: it becomes quite weird, like, okay, well, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill sucked with gays and now he's really really good.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Donald Salvage, I don't want to hang my hat

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Speaker 1: on maybe, like you know, maybe you ain't gonna cut

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Speaker 1: it like so again again, I don't mean to trash

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck like I feel like I'm trashing to It's

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Speaker 1: just okay, Andrew Luck. That season we said he turned

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Speaker 1: him around. They put it to him on his back.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three touchdowns, eighteen picks, fifty percent completion percentage. He

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Speaker 1: was a mediocre quarterback who turned the ball over a lot.

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Speaker 1: But because when they had Peyton Manning, they never even

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Speaker 1: practiced with the backups. There was a famous quote where

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Speaker 1: they asked one of his assistant coaches like, hey, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see the backups get any practice time on the

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Speaker 1: field with you guys when during your walk there's anything

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Speaker 1: like that said, Oh, well, that's because if Payton's out,

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Speaker 1: we're fucked, and we don't practice fucked. So they knew

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Speaker 1: that their backups were terrible. They were never going to

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Speaker 1: get into a game. They never even practiced again to

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Speaker 1: prepare for a game. So there's a reason why they

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Speaker 1: went one in fifteen or whatever that season was. Paton

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Speaker 1: got hurt because they had nothing behind him. So by

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Speaker 1: virtue of just being a above average talent, of course,

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Speaker 1: that team was going to be a lot better with

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. And this whole idea that wins are a

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Speaker 1: quarterback stat doesn't hold any water like that. That's why

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Speaker 1: you have situations where people think Tom Brady is obviously

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Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback has ever played, even though, like we've

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Speaker 1: talked about on this podcast, you and I know hundreds

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Speaker 1: of different football guys, former players, current players, analysts, coaches, GMS.

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Speaker 1: How many of them have said that Tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback they've ever seen, none, zero zero. Because

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Speaker 1: he has the Super Bowls, Yes, he has the Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: And that's why there's a reason why that you've heard

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Speaker 1: from hundred two d three different guys. You know what,

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Speaker 1: Damn Marinos the best quarterback I've ever seen and Rodgers

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback I've ever seen. That they only have

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Speaker 1: one super Bowl between them, but because the way they

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Speaker 1: play the position, you can tell which guys are great

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Speaker 1: and which guys are Hey, they just happen to win.

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Speaker 1: They have something about him, So you you can't just

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Speaker 1: put it all on this one quarterback like I'm trying to.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to trash these other guys to help

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Speaker 1: you out, but that's what I'm trying to make you

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Speaker 1: see is that your team needed a lot more than

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Speaker 1: just a quarterback. And now you're gonna looked into this.

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Speaker 1: Even though you lost and it sucks, you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to build that team with more players. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: make you better in the long run. So I had

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Speaker 1: uh if any of you listened to my Saturday radio

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Speaker 1: show or you heard the podcast, it jumped, it went

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Speaker 1: in the feed over the weekend. I had a guy

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Speaker 1: on who wrote a story about Kevin Stefanski and his

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Speaker 1: impact on Stefon Diggs. Now the story was mostly about

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Speaker 1: Digs and shifting from Minnesota to Buffalo, but in reading

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Speaker 1: the story, I started to think about it. Okay, when

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Speaker 1: Stefanski took over the offense in Minnesota, what happened Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins broke through what was the impetus? Well, they started

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Speaker 1: handing the ball off more. Stefon Diggs is uh receptions

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Speaker 1: and everything went down. He started to get angry that

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Speaker 1: he wasn't getting the ball. What they won, Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: got them a playoff win on the road in New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: The offense was incredible and they, you know, lost in

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Speaker 1: the second round of the playoffs. The best season of

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Speaker 1: Kirk cousins career. So Stefanski gets the job in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: What happened, Well, they had Odell Beckham, who's kind of

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Speaker 1: in the Stefon Diggs role. And Odell Beckhams numbers are

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Speaker 1: gonna falling off a cliff. Now, he did get Hurdies

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Speaker 1: out for the season, But what's happening success with the offense,

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield thriving, Brown's headed toward the playoffs. So the

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Speaker 1: coach does matter significantly. Maybe Rob G's right, You get

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Speaker 1: the right offensive coordinator Brian Dable says, I love Sam Donald.

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Speaker 1: I want to coach the Jets he leaves Buffalo, get

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Speaker 1: a couple of players, maybe Donald salvageable. I do like

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Speaker 1: the optimism, Rob G, thank you. I'm optimistic. With the

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Speaker 1: right coaching decision, the Jets can turn it around. Now,

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Speaker 1: we spent way too much time talking about the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I do want to quick touch on one other things.

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Speaker 1: So NBA starts on Tuesday, we will be giving out

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Speaker 1: some futures bets. Uh me and Rob Geo bat around

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Speaker 1: some preview ideas and hit you with something for Tuesday's pod. Um.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we like the NBA a lot, and nfls are

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Speaker 1: bread and butter. Um. I love college basketball. We barely

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Speaker 1: talked to any college hoops on here. I mean, Gonzaga

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Speaker 1: had a huge win over the weekend, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Gonzaga's second leading scorer could have shown up at my

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Speaker 1: door with a pizza on Sunday and I would have

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Speaker 1: had no clue who he was. Um, they do have

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Speaker 1: an awesome guy who led them, who's gonna be maybe

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Speaker 1: the top three pick in the draft. But like, I

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Speaker 1: can't do college hoops on here, Rob G'll have my head.

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Speaker 1: He the producers know what works, and clearly, uh, the

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Speaker 1: NFL works. So NBA fans, I know you're waiting. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to some NBA. I also should add Rob g Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like Notre Dame getting in over Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M to the playoff is even worthy of

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Speaker 1: a topic, right, No, it's just funny that on this

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Speaker 1: was it forty eight hours after saying if there's no

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Speaker 1: families allowed in the stands, then we're gonna boycott the

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Speaker 1: college football game. And then Notre Dame proceeded to do

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Speaker 1: everything they could to get excluded from the college football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: And luckily for them, you know, they have that one

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Speaker 1: win over Clemson that helps them out from Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: and like you know, you guys have to remember about

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Speaker 1: college sports, it is a business. And I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame is a great brand for the college football Playoff.

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Speaker 1: Casual fans from age I don't know, eighteen to eighty, No,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame across the country. They've got alumni and fans

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Speaker 1: because Notre Dame is a historically great program. I know

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Speaker 1: they haven't want a ton Texas A and M just

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Speaker 1: saying it. I would have maybe like to see Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M in the playoff. I would have liked

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Speaker 1: to see an expanded playoff, but there's no way they're

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Speaker 1: taking Texas A and M to get the four seed

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Speaker 1: and get destroyed by Alabama when they can get noted

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Speaker 1: game to get in there. Draw some more eyeballs, drum

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Speaker 1: up some more business. This is a business. It's a

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Speaker 1: billion dollar business. Um. I haven't seen a spread rob

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Speaker 1: g on Alabama Notre Dame, but I don't. You could

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Speaker 1: not make it high enough for me to take the

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Speaker 1: irish um Alabama how much nineteen I bet MGM. Now

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Speaker 1: it might have moved since then, but that was the

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Speaker 1: last time I saw bet am. I would take that

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns for that. Alabama offense is nothing. Now. I

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Speaker 1: know the defense is no great chicks. Uh. There's not

641
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: a good Alabama defense, no doubt about that. But not

642
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Speaker 1: to Dame. It's not be able to keep up. They're not. No,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty one. That's easy. Uh, that's an easy one.

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Speaker 1: Clemson Ohio State, that'll probably be a double digit spread too. UM,

645
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Speaker 1: And I think you gotta look at Clemson there. Ohio

646
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: State looked very pedestrian. UM against Northwestern again, one of

647
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Speaker 1: the best bets that I gave out Northwestern first half

648
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: that cashed easily. I will say this, we gotta wait

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Speaker 1: for or the COVID stuff. Regarding Ohio State. They had

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Speaker 1: twenty two guys unable to play in the Big Ten

651
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: championship game, and because the Big Ten has like a

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Speaker 1: twenty one day window, a lot of them may not

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Speaker 1: be eligible for the playoffs. Now I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: probably end up changing that because yeah, I was gonna say,

655
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Speaker 1: they've already suggested that they're going to change. So you

656
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Speaker 1: remember before the season, Hey, we're not gonna play at all.

657
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: It's not safe. Okay, we'll play later in the season.

658
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Speaker 1: You know what we're not gonna get You have to

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Speaker 1: get at least six wins to get into six games

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Speaker 1: to get in the Big Championship. Well, you know we'll

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00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: move around that are Hey, you gotta miss twenty one

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00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: game or twenty one days if you have COVID. Oh,

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00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: you know what, we're in the playoffs. And maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: admend that too. Yeah, the Big Tens of fraud. Man, know,

665
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: all those guys who need to play will play in

666
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: that in that playoff game. All right. So that's uh,

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: basically recapping what was an interesting sports weekend and not

668
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: great for me. Um, outside of gambling, it was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: The only thing better than sitting on your couch watching

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Speaker 1: the game. He's making money while he's do it. Here's

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Speaker 1: your best beat listen, guys, Um, this was a monster

672
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: weekend for US gambling. And if you guys were in

673
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Speaker 1: on the picks from Friday, you want a lot of

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Speaker 1: extra Christmas money. Six and two on the Best Bets

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Speaker 1: College Football three and O Saturday's NFL Favorites Teaser four

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Speaker 1: made US four and now Patriots lost four and one.

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Speaker 1: Um Jets rams under. I thought it would be like

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00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: thirty to seven Rams, Uh, it was forty four and

679
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: a half landed on forty three, so that made US

680
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: five and one. Seattle, Gosh, that freaking hurt. Seahawks up

681
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: twenty to three and one in Washington. They just picked

682
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: off Dwayne Haskins third quarter. You're like, oh, it's over,

683
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: and Seattle goes to sleep. It's going to coast mode.

684
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: Don't even try and Washington ends up coming in the

685
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 1: back door with Haskins. Total garbage. Um, Haskins is terrible.

686
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: So that made it five and two and then the

687
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Speaker 1: Arizona Colts teaser. Uh so teasers were profitable. This weekend,

688
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: folks made a six and two. So we're up to

689
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Speaker 1: sixty forty seven and five. Getting hot. I mean, folks,

690
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: we're rolling right now. Things are good. Let me give

691
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: out one more winner, and this one's gonna be tough

692
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: to stomach. I'm sure some of you are gonna be

693
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: like j J J J. I can't touch this? Are

694
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: you crazy? You want to lay it with Pittsburgh on

695
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Speaker 1: Monday Night football at two tuddies, Yes, I did. I

696
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: got thirteen and a half before the news on was

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00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: it Friday that it was gonna be Ryan Finley? Um,

698
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Speaker 1: and I took fourteen to now you could still get

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Speaker 1: some fourteens. Um. I suggest trying very hard to get

700
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Speaker 1: a fourteen. Fourteen and a half obviously not ideal. Um,

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00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: grab a fourteen. It might be juiced, but I'm telling

702
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: you I've seen the Ryan Finley experience and it is awful.

703
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 1: I was backing the Bengals against Washington earlier this season.

704
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: The game got hurt and Burrow moved the ball up

705
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: and down the field. Against Washington, they missed like two

706
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: field goals and an extra point. It was ugly. Burrow

707
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: goes down. Ryan Finley comes in off the bench. The

708
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: rest of the game twenty one plays yards. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Finley is yikes. After that game they were so,

710
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he's awful. They called up Brandon Allen

711
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: from the practice squad and started him. He's now hurt.

712
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: They've got to go back to Finley. Steelers already dismembered

713
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Speaker 1: Burrow earlier this season. I know it's a big number

714
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 1: and this is a perfect letdown spot for tomlin. Um.

715
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Speaker 1: This is just a play significantly against Ryan Finley, and

716
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: as a Pittsburgh team who's lost two in a row,

717
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: Um this you could argue that this should be six team.

718
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: That's how bad Finley is. Even if he's able to

719
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: get them a touchdown, a Fluke touchdown, ten points. The

720
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: Bengals defense just lost Gino Atkins, the best defensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: They're not good to begin with. This feels like at

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Speaker 1: thirty to ten, Steelers in a walkover, like it's the

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Speaker 1: kind of night where Rob g We'll say to his wife,

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Speaker 1: you know, we should go look at Christmas lights, drive

725
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: around with our baby, and let's just go look, you know,

726
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: take the new ride out for a spin, and let's

727
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: look at Christmas lights like who cares about Ryan Finley

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Speaker 1: in the Bengals. So that's what I recommend. I laid it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get one more winner in and we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow