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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Fire, Pam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 2: Foyer for Monday d December the first. Oh boy, December

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Speaker 2: is a great month. Obviously chaotic as well. You got

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Speaker 2: the holidays kicking into high gear. Hopefully you got your

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Speaker 2: Christmas tree over the Thanksgiving break, I will I'll be

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Speaker 2: on solo today, so I'll be brief on the Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: break recap. I'll just say it was so refreshing. Guys

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Speaker 2: got out of town not far and was able to

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Speaker 2: chill out. No working out, no listening to podcasts, just

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun board games with the family, caught

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Speaker 2: up on some Stranger things, caught up on bell Air,

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Speaker 2: which is a great show. I really like it. My

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Speaker 2: son thinks of the stuff as Ai generated. My wife

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Speaker 2: thinks it's corny whatever. They're not really watching. They're like

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Speaker 2: it was just fun, a great break. And I'll just

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Speaker 2: say this, Thursday's Thanksgiving football games were amazing. Friday's Bears

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Speaker 2: upset splendid. You know, listen, we had a lot of

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Speaker 2: picks on the podcast, and Thursday and Friday's games were

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Speaker 2: great college football not an amazing weekend. Sunday was wild

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. And you know, I don't know how

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Speaker 2: much we should go back into the Thanksgiving games. Obviously

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs upset by the Cowboys is huge. Well, I

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Speaker 2: think we'll eventually get to that. I think though we

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Speaker 2: got to start. I mean, listen, the college football stuff

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Speaker 2: was bonkers. Lane Kiffin leaving will definitely get into that.

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Speaker 2: I just think, you know, I remember back like Week

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Speaker 2: three and there was like nobody that great in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And I think by like week four or five, like

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Speaker 2: in the season like, man, nobody, nobody's that good. There's

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Speaker 2: no dominant team here. And then every like few weeks

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Speaker 2: throughout the season we try to crown somebody as dominant.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, you know, the Eagles are eight and two,

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Speaker 2: they're dominant, And I kind of bought into the egles.

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Speaker 2: They look the opposite of dominant against the Bears. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it was just that was their one mulligan where they

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Speaker 2: then you look around and you're like, well, what about

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Speaker 2: the Seahawks, And you know, they got the nice win

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Speaker 2: in cover for us, but they did lose to the

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Speaker 2: Rams straight up. And then it's like, well then it's

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Speaker 2: the Rams, and I'm like, well is it the Rams?

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Speaker 2: And they go out Sunday lay a colossal egg against

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Speaker 2: the Panthers. Now it was raining, Okay, it was a

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Speaker 2: bit of a letdown spot after that huge Rams win

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Speaker 2: like to crown people as MVP MVP MVP and then

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Speaker 2: of course what happens. Matt Stafford goes out and throw

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Speaker 2: three picks. First, one not his fault, I'm sorry, two

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Speaker 2: picks in a fumble. The pick six was brutal, and

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Speaker 2: then he had the fumble which lost the game on

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Speaker 2: the game time drive, and all of a sudden, the

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Speaker 2: Rams looked mortal. But it wasn't just Stafford. Let's just

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Speaker 2: put things in perspective. The Rams offense moved the football

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Speaker 2: at will. I don't know how many times they punted,

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Speaker 2: but it wasn't many. I mean they averaged seven point

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Speaker 2: four yards per play. How's this. They only had five

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Speaker 2: third downs in the entire game. That's how much they

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Speaker 2: were cooking on first and second down. Only phase five

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Speaker 2: a game. Rams had two hundred and forty six yards

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Speaker 2: at halftime. They were a machine, but undone by turnovers

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Speaker 2: and the pick six obviously hurt badly. And let's be real,

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young on the high leverage downs looked like a

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Speaker 2: franchise quarterback. I'm not calling him one, of saying he

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Speaker 2: looked like one when it's third and eight and he

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Speaker 2: mean I'm talking like perfect passes. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: what Bryce Young. I don't know what you do with

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Speaker 2: the Herd if you like the Packers against the Lions,

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Speaker 2: and I love the Packers, you want to buy their

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl futures before that game. They are now in

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Speaker 2: great position to get potentially overtake the Bears in the division,

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Speaker 2: which is hilarious. As of this moment, as I record

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Speaker 2: this right now, the Bears are the number one seed

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Speaker 2: not a slight to the Bears. That's just the reality

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Speaker 2: here come the Niners with a really nice win over

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Speaker 2: that Browns defense at home is tough. But all of

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Speaker 2: how's this stat for Bryce Young and the Panthers. They

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Speaker 2: have seven wins this year. That's more than they had

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Speaker 2: the last two seasons combined. Any way you slice it.

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Speaker 2: Dave Canalis, who was with Baker Mayfield in Tampa, has

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Speaker 2: done a terrific job. Bryce Young, Listen, it hasn't been

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Speaker 2: And that's your biggest upset of Sunday by I think

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Speaker 2: by a country mile. I'm still alive in Survivor with

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Speaker 2: my big, big pool. A lot of people had the Rams.

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Speaker 2: It's down to I think one hundred and thirty seven left.

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Speaker 2: This coming week is gonna be unbelievable. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a major Survivor sweat if you do not have Tampa

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Speaker 2: is insane. If he doesn't play, I guess you could

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Speaker 2: take the egos if you still have them. But if

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, whatever you have next weekend, like I

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Speaker 2: all these incredible games for next week. So Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: Alma Rosside Brown, and I mean, you just watched Jordan

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Speaker 2: We're still only a couple games out of winning this

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Speaker 2: the Jaguars are tied with the Colts atop the division. Folks,

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Speaker 2: So Bears Packers is an unbelievable game at Lambeau green Bay.

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Speaker 2: Six point favorites Rams Cardinals is nothing special. Broncos Raiders is.

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Speaker 2: next Monday, Eagles Chargers. I mean, if you talk to

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Speaker 2: an impressive win. I don't want to do too much

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Speaker 2: turned around thanks to sky Moore, remember him former Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: And then the San Francisco pass rush. They got Cleland

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Speaker 2: a sudden, Robert Salah is manufacturing pressure. And folks, I'm

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Speaker 2: just just be careful with the Niners. Everybody's sleeping on them.

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Speaker 2: Guess what, They have a bye next week, the late bye,

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Speaker 2: So anybody who can get healthy get healthy. It is

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know you want usually the late by,

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Speaker 2: but I think this could be a springboard to the

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Speaker 2: postseason for the Niners. Just keep an eye on that team.

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Speaker 2: I do think there is a whiff of implosion when

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Speaker 2: it comes to the Steelers. So they go up seven

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Speaker 2: to nothing. James Cook fumbled and the Steelers go up

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Speaker 2: seven to nothing. I think it's seven to three at halftime.

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Speaker 2: And in the second half Pittsburgh could do nothing. Folks.

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Speaker 2: I was shocked. I mean, I didn't have any money

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Speaker 2: Is he gonna get that chance? We'll see they play

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Speaker 2: up with college football. Huge news on Sunday. Pat Fitzgerald

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Speaker 2: place to retain your stars. So it looks like they're promoting.

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Speaker 1: Pete go Golden Golding.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to say his name who I

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Speaker 2: was reading some articles about this guy, Pete gold Ding,

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Speaker 2: sorry Golding. He is kind of like a football I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I want to say savant, but bottom line

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Speaker 2: is he was like an awesome youth apple. I read

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Speaker 2: all these profiles of amazing youth athlete, but was tiny,

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Speaker 2: went to a small college. Cooked When he was at

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Speaker 2: the small college, an amazing coach came in who had

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Speaker 2: him at safety, like calling the defense and the defense

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Speaker 2: is amazing. Next thing you know, he gets coaching job.

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Speaker 2: After coaching job, he's like, I don't know twenty six

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Speaker 2: and Nick Saban calls UTSA and says, hey to he

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Speaker 2: was friendly with the head coach. Hey, this peak Golden guy.

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Speaker 2: Can I do you mind if I talked to him? Like?

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Speaker 2: Nick Saber calls And as soon as that call comes,

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Speaker 2: you know he's leaving. So five hours after an interview

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Speaker 2: takes five hours. Nick Saban and this peak Golden guy

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Speaker 2: and he gets hired on the spot. And then he's

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Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator at Alabama in short order. And then

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Speaker 2: he goes to Old Miss with Kiffin and he's going

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Speaker 2: to be their new head coach. Now, apparently he's an

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Speaker 2: amazing recruit recruiter. He's like young, relates to the kids.

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Speaker 2: He it, has a sharp mind, really good defensively, he's

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Speaker 2: a large obviously, Lane Kiffin's offense was what made Old

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Speaker 2: Miss great. His defense is what took them to playoff caliber. Now,

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Speaker 2: for a moment, I was kind of rooting for Old

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Speaker 2: Miss to get shut out of the playoff because they

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Speaker 2: lost their coach. If you remember to FSU they lost

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Speaker 2: their quarterback, denied from the four team playoff. Now, of

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Speaker 2: course there are some differences. Jordan Travis goes down. They

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Speaker 2: played a game without him and looked like ass and

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Speaker 2: so the committee was like, yeah, no, sorry, you're out.

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Speaker 2: We won't get to see Old Miss in a game

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Speaker 2: without Lane. So it's very unlikely that they'll boot them

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Speaker 2: for say Miami, but Ole Miss will be in. And

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Speaker 2: it's a fun story. Like Lane Kiffin. You know he's

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Speaker 2: going to LSU. You get what you pay for. This

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Speaker 2: guy has some ugly exits wherever he's gone. He's a firestarter,

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Speaker 2: but he's you know, football lifer, born on third base

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Speaker 2: if you will. In the football community, obviously everybody knows

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Speaker 2: his dad, Monte Kiffin, and so he's going to go

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Speaker 2: to LSU. It's interesting Penn State doesn't have a coach.

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Speaker 2: And I see guys tweeting at me aj Mack, you

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Speaker 2: said Penn State was a better better gig, I said, no,

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Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I said you can win quicker

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Speaker 2: at Penn State than you can LSU. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know know who the Penn State coach is going to

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Speaker 2: be next year. I don't think it's going to be

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Speaker 2: the interim guy. It doesn't Clerk Lee's staying at Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 2: They missed an opportunity there. And there was one other name.

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Speaker 2: Oh I heard Brian Daboles name mentioned weirdly. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's going to get it. But wherever they go, right,

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Speaker 2: that coach will have an opportunity to win ten games

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Speaker 2: this year because you're Penn State, because you have a

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Speaker 2: lot of talent, okay, and the schedule is not as

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Speaker 2: tough as you go to LSU. Look at the schedule

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Speaker 2: next year, by the way, Penn State does visit oh

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Speaker 2: Miss and what's going to be a crazy ticket. It's

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Speaker 2: going to be a high profile TV game. Just it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be wild. I do believe that the Penn State

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Speaker 2: Nitney Lyons would be more likely to get to the

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Speaker 2: playoff than LSU in the next two years. And I'll

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Speaker 2: stand by that. Now, I don't I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you can actually wager on that, but I'm just telling

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Speaker 2: you the road to the playoffs through the SEC is rough. Now. Yes, five,

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Speaker 2: maybe six teams will get out of the SEC this year.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe we'll see Texas, I don't know, Oklahoma somehow

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Speaker 2: saying that's perplexing to me. But I got a digger

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Speaker 2: deeper this week. But yeah, wild weekend in college football.

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Speaker 2: Finally, let's go to Monday Night football, and I'd love

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Speaker 2: to say I have a bet on this game. Other

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Speaker 2: than the New York Giants getting seven and a half

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Speaker 2: in the contest, I don't really see any major edges.

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Speaker 2: We know that quarterbacks when they rush back from the

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Speaker 2: concussion historically don't perform well. CJ. Stroud was very good

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Speaker 2: against the Colts. I don't expect the Patriots to blow

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Speaker 2: them out. And I don't want to say the Patriots

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Speaker 2: are leaking oil a little bit. But if you just

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Speaker 2: look at their last few games, like they were riding

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Speaker 2: high and then all of a sudden, it's like struggle

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Speaker 2: with the Jets didn't cover the spread, really struggle. Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: got fortunate barely be dead landa a few weeks Before that,

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Speaker 2: the Tampa game was interesting. They played really well, a

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Speaker 2: couple of big splash plays. The Giants are getting healthier.

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Speaker 2: The Giants have a bye week after this. I listen.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much you guys want to read

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Speaker 2: into this bye week stuff, but I was trying to

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Speaker 2: do some analysis on teams heading into the bye week.

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Speaker 2: So four teams are heading into the buy next week.

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Speaker 2: Patriots who play tonight, the New York Giants who played tonight,

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Speaker 2: the Niners. Very convincing victory even though money went against

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Speaker 2: them all week. And the Panthers very convincing victory even

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Speaker 2: though money went kind of sort of against them. It

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Speaker 2: was ten and a half. I think it closed it well.

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Speaker 2: I no, it might have been some little money on

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Speaker 2: the Panther's not not enough to be significant, but you

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Speaker 2: get that. Can the coaches get enough buy in? Hey man,

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Speaker 2: we need this game. Game. Let's go. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: and Kafka and the Giants listen. I kind of scoffed

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Speaker 2: at the whole James Winston stuff. I mean, there, let's see,

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Speaker 2: they didn't cover the spread against the Niners. They I

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Speaker 2: think they did against the Bears. I think they pushed

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Speaker 2: against the Packers, and they definitely covered against the Lions.

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Speaker 2: They've been friskier than I expected, and that's without Molik Neighbors,

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Speaker 2: without Cam Scattaboy. They're manufacturing stuff, so I think they

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Speaker 2: keep this close. I don't expect them to win. If

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Speaker 2: I come up with any props or anything extra that's fun,

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Speaker 2: I'll hit you with that. But yeah, listen exciting Monday podcast,

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Speaker 2: Busy Week. Listen to college football playoff. That's gonna be

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Speaker 2: huge with Championship Week in college football. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: telling you next week in the NFL, just banger after banger,

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Speaker 2: get the Honeydews done during the weekfellas, talk to you tomorrow.