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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome everybody.

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire, Monday, November six. What a weekend it was,

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Speaker 1: NFL Masters, college football, and folks, the NBA is clearly back.

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Speaker 1: So much happening this weekend. I hope you guys had

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Speaker 1: a great weekend. You can tell I'm excited. It was

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Speaker 1: So small change today. I'm gonna open with a couple

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Speaker 1: in the comments and leave a review. All right, onto sports,

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Speaker 1: I have to start here. We will get to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Just be patient. One quick minute. The Lakers made a

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Speaker 1: pretty great trade, folks. Okay, they get Dennis Shrewder. I

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Speaker 1: think it's Shrewder, Schroeder, Shrewder whatever. He's got the umuleat

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Speaker 1: over one of the letters in his last name. I

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Speaker 1: don't know which one, doesn't matter. He's also got like

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Speaker 1: the tuft of blonde hair he was acquired from okay

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Speaker 1: See for yes, my neighbor Danny Green, not my next

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Speaker 1: door neighbor. He lives right around the corner. And pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft. This is stealing for the Lakers. They

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Speaker 1: just got a free player who's very good. Shrewder is

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Speaker 1: essentially gonna make up for Danny Green, Rondo and who

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Speaker 1: whatever else they lose in the off season. Shooters a

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Speaker 1: very good player, folks. Think about it. In that first

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Speaker 1: round series for okay See against the Rockets, he was

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Speaker 1: okay See's second best player after Chris Paul average seventeen

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Speaker 1: a game, three points, three, three assists, three rebounds, and

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Speaker 1: the more important thing was he was unguardable for two games.

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Speaker 1: The Rockets went up two oh on okay See, and

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Speaker 1: then Shrewder took over. He had twenty nine points in

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Speaker 1: Game three led them to victory, had thirty in Game

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Speaker 1: four led them to victory, made it a series. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you that is a huge acquisition for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shooter a slam dunk. I mean you you're not

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Speaker 1: doing better with Pick helping this team. Shooter can be

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Speaker 1: the sixth man. I mean he could start. This kid

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Speaker 1: can play what a steel? Okay onto the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: thought Drew Brees injury was big. He left the game

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Speaker 1: after a brutal sack in the first half against the Niners.

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Speaker 1: They said it was ribs. Uh. I guess we'll find

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Speaker 1: out here early today. Uh something broken or maybe just

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Speaker 1: got the wind knocked at him and couldn't come back.

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Speaker 1: Jamis Winston came in in the second half, did not

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Speaker 1: look very sharp. Saints win and cover um, but Breeze

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Speaker 1: is old. That's something worth monitoring. The Drew Brees rib

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Speaker 1: injury home teams Folks eleven and one straight up on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: unbelievable run Carolina the only home team to not get

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Speaker 1: a victory. They were predictably awful. You know we gave

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Speaker 1: out Tampa. That was an easy, easy winner. Hope you

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Speaker 1: guys cash on that one Sunday night football. I don't

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna spend a lot of time on this.

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Speaker 1: We may spend a lot of time on one player, um,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. And if you listen to Friday's podcast, guys,

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. We had a bookmaker

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Speaker 1: from FanDuel come on and say, the biggest need they

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Speaker 1: have this weekend in football, maybe all season, was the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. I'm sorry, the New England Patriots against the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Everybody and their mom was betting on the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: The house, the sports book needed the Patriots. What happened,

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Speaker 1: Patriots winning a monsoon by six. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody's gonna worry or panic about Lamar Jackson. But you know,

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Speaker 1: this was the first time in the Lamar Jackson era

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Speaker 1: that the Ravens offense did not get twenty points and

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Speaker 1: once again unable to come back from a double digit deficit. Again,

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Speaker 1: maybe he gets a small pass. It was a monsoon,

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Speaker 1: but still, I mean, that's a that's not a good

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Speaker 1: loss for the Ravens. Steelers in the driver's seat for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right now, it's uh, it's time for the big,

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Speaker 1: I think the greatest finish of the season, without question,

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Speaker 1: when you get a hail Murray, are we calling it

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Speaker 1: a hail Murray? I like that. I dig it. It

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Speaker 1: was Kyler Murray magic and folks, Kyler Murray winning the game,

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Speaker 1: winning me multiple bets, winning a best bet with a

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Speaker 1: hail Mary pass to DeAndre Hopkins. Was was just so exciting.

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Speaker 1: Let's just let's just get this out there right now.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is the most exciting player in the NFL

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Speaker 1: right now. There's no doubt about it. Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: an incredible quarterback. He's your m v P leader. I

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Speaker 1: think Kyler Murray's without a doubt. Second, he has flown

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Speaker 1: past Aaron Rodgers, who was bad Sunday, and he's flown

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Speaker 1: past Russell Wilson, who had another couple turnovers Sunday in

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Speaker 1: a loss Kyler Murray is so dynamic, folks. We just

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Speaker 1: talked about Lamar Jackson unable to come back from double

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Speaker 1: digit deficits. Kyler Murray was down thirty with five minutes

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Speaker 1: left to the Seattle Seahawks, down ten with five minutes left,

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Speaker 1: came back and won the game in overtime. Okay, Kyler

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Speaker 1: was down Sunday to Buffalo twenty three to nine in

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Speaker 1: know it's a hail Mary, and people look at like

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Speaker 1: it's a lucky win. I don't think so, folks, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, it's a very fortunate result. But when

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Speaker 1: you break down that play, and I've watched it at

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Speaker 1: least twenty times now, Kyler Marie on the run, doesn't

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Speaker 1: come to a complete stop and throws it basically on

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Speaker 1: a dime two DeAndre Hopkins, who doesn't have to move.

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Speaker 1: You could even see when the camera pans DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to move. He essentially just out jumps to defenders.

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Speaker 1: That's how accurate that pass was from fifty yards out

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Speaker 1: kind of on the run. That's an unbelievable past. The

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Speaker 1: accuracy is just you've never seen anything like this. And

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Speaker 1: remember when Kyler Murray came into the NFL, the big

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Speaker 1: you see over the line of scrimmage? I mean, how

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Speaker 1: funny does that stuff look? For? Look at now? I

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Speaker 1: mean it's like, really, we're complaining about his height? Does

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Speaker 1: it even matter? Hasn't come up once this season. Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray and the Cardinals are tied for first in the

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Speaker 1: best division in football because of Kyla Murray. And I

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear you know, Listen, Jake Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: This is different, guys. Kyler Murray is not Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: not even close. Kyler Murray has more rushing yards you

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Speaker 1: ready for this this season than Todd Gurley, Ezekiel Elliott

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Speaker 1: to lightspeed. He's basically gone to an entirely new level. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Hopkins matters a lot. And I know people are gonna say, listen, man,

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Speaker 1: after last year. We gotta pump the brakes on Kyler Murray. Uh, folks,

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Speaker 1: He's doing things that you don't expect him to do.

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Speaker 1: He's winning with his arm and the accuracy and his legs.

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Speaker 1: He's the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era to

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Speaker 1: have i've rushing touch to have rushing touchdowns in five

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Speaker 1: straight games. Mike Vick didn't do that. Lamar Jackson didn't

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Speaker 1: do that. Cam Newton did not do that. Kyler already

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Speaker 1: with ten rushing touchdowns. The NFL record is fourteen by

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Speaker 1: Cam Okay. Last year. We love Lamar Jackson. I think

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Speaker 1: he had thirty one under yards passing. Kyler is on

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Speaker 1: pace for four thousand. He's gonna go four thousand, one

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Speaker 1: thousand this year. That's what Kyler Murray's looking at. The

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Speaker 1: guy is off the charts talented and remember he was

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Speaker 1: the first round pick in Major League Baseball. What's not

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Speaker 1: to love about this kid? The Cardinals have a franchise

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Speaker 1: schedule is brutal, so we can't talk about them as

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Speaker 1: suffered some major injuries. Uh, Chandler's already down. They lost

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Speaker 1: Their defensive line is just just brutal right now. They're

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Speaker 1: just getting beat up. But Kyler Murray's keeping him in

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Speaker 1: all these games like there's no panic when he's on

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Speaker 1: not score points, and that's how they nearly lost this game.

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, who's a good coach so far. I know

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Speaker 1: in in the college level, people are like, what the hell,

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Speaker 1: five record got fired, Like Cliff is Cliff Kingsbury that

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Speaker 1: and it cost him. It nearly cost him against Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Kyler bailed him out and the Cardinals are six and three.

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Speaker 1: And listen, Rob g I think you were on this

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Speaker 1: I think, without a doubt, right now, Kyler Murray is

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Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback in the NFL. You could argue

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Speaker 1: would take him over any quarterback outside of Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray because he can run just as well as

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson can, and Lamar is probably the most electrifying

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Speaker 1: on pace to become the first quarterback in history to

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Speaker 1: throw for over four thousand and run for over one thousand.

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Speaker 1: Remember last year when Lamar Jackson won unanimous m v P,

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Speaker 1: Avery was like, we wouldn't never say anything like this, This

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Speaker 1: This is incredible. Kyler Murray's putting up better numbers across

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Speaker 1: the board than what Lamar Jack did last year, and

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Speaker 1: I honestly did not think was gonna work at all

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Speaker 1: and not because you're designing run plays for him to

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Speaker 1: out of bounds. He's awesome. Sixty eight percent completions for

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and I mean this guy, I'm I'm stunned

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Speaker 1: that throw, You really break that down, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: all you're gonna see anywhere today on TV the internet

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Speaker 1: is uh, frame by frame breakdown of how Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: looked at the Raiders Broncos box score. So this Broncos defense,

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be good, apparently is quit on vic Fngio.

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Speaker 1: Here's a stat, rob g Guess how many quarterback hits

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Speaker 1: not secks hits the Broncos had on Derek Carr three zero.

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Speaker 1: They didn't touch him. How do you not hit the quarterback?

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Speaker 1: And the Raiders having a i think their ninth different

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Speaker 1: offensive line combination, they were down to their third string

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Speaker 1: right tackle. Since you got to brag about fantasy, I

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Speaker 1: will say, I have my whole is on a bike.

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Speaker 1: So I had to pick a quarterback and there's like

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Speaker 1: nobody available twelve team league. It was between Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: and Drew Lock, and I said, oh, well, Drew Lock

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Speaker 1: is the ultimate garbage time quarterback and they're playing in

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Speaker 1: a dome. If he could put up big numbers against

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Speaker 1: the Falcons, and this is what against the Charger's just

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Speaker 1: what Drew Lock does. Guy comes out those four frigging interceptions,

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Speaker 1: he has a rushing TV called back like no garbage

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Speaker 1: time and I lost. I mean, anyways, we're done with that,

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Speaker 1: all right, We quickly need to pivot. I just want

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Speaker 1: to do a couple of minutes here because this is

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Speaker 1: a big story in the NBA. There is more than

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Speaker 1: talk that the Houston Rockets, and if you listen to

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Speaker 1: last week's podcast, folks, we were I hate to brag

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Speaker 1: and say we're early on this stuff, but we can

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Speaker 1: see stuff before it happens. We're talking about it before Pops,

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Speaker 1: the Rockets owner, has said, oh I don't care about

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Speaker 1: going into the luxury tax I don't care, And now

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Speaker 1: he's entertaining an offer to ship James Harden to the

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Speaker 1: Nets in exchange for some type of package involving Kariss Laverte,

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Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwittie Tory and Prince Jared Allen and you know,

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Speaker 1: a draft pick or whatever. You've got to be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: The guy says, Oh, I don't mind. Yeah, I'll pay

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Speaker 1: the luxury tax. And now you're going the first thing

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do is trade James Harden. Say you don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay the tax because you know Russell Westbrook's

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Speaker 1: going out the door next now, putting the Houston Rockets

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Speaker 1: aspect of it aside. I gotta give my guys, Steve

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Speaker 1: Nash a shoutout. Steve Nash has never had a head

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Speaker 1: coaching job in the NBA. It seems like there's decent

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Speaker 1: odds his first head coaching job well involve James Harden,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. It ain't gonna be drawn

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Speaker 1: up the plays, that's the problem. It's gonna be managing

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Speaker 1: the egos and all that in the locker room. I

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Speaker 1: will say this, if anybody has a head start, Rob

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Speaker 1: g and you can. I mean, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much of this is out there. Durant has the head start,

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Speaker 1: not just because of the Golden State Warrior stuff, but

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Speaker 1: I have heard they were hanging out. Durant and Nash

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Speaker 1: k D was out here in my um my neck

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Speaker 1: of the woods. I think we talked about on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm fairly certain it was like September August, but I

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Speaker 1: think I tweeted out of there was a video of

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Speaker 1: Durant on the beach, and then I was asking people

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Speaker 1: who know Nash was Nash with him? Oh? Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were hanging out, getting together. Durant and Nash have a relationship.

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Speaker 1: Durant is going to be the guy in that locker room.

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Speaker 1: I know. People say it's gonna be Kyrie, and Kyrie

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Speaker 1: is sing. You know, he could be a little weird. Um.

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Speaker 1: Durant and Harden also have an existing friendship from their

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Speaker 1: time in Okay. See uh, rob g. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: could just hand them the title in the East. If

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Speaker 1: those three get together, I don't care who else is

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Speaker 1: around them, they will not lose to the Heat or

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Speaker 1: the or the Celtics or the Bucks or the Sixers

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Speaker 1: in the East. I'll put that down in Penn Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But if you put that three together winning the East

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Speaker 1: is not what you're signing up for. You're getting the

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Speaker 1: championship and and I I would much rather have k

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Speaker 1: D and Kyrie only are Katie and Harden only than

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Speaker 1: all three of them together. I don't think you can

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Speaker 1: trust that trio mentally and emotionally to work to stick

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Speaker 1: out through the whole season. Because the only one who

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Speaker 1: I think that you're gonna say definitively his role is

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Speaker 1: X Y and Z is Kevin Durant, James Harden, and

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. Specifically Kyrie Irving. What's going to happen when he,

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Speaker 1: you know, doesn't get the shots that he wants or

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Speaker 1: James Harden says, I need to be the guy who

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Speaker 1: initiates the offense because I'm I know what to do

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Speaker 1: in these situations. Kyrie Irving, is he going to play

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Speaker 1: the Chris Bosch roll because I don't think he's going to.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that the Chris boss rolls fascinating because

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Speaker 1: none of these guys are Boss. None of these guys

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Speaker 1: is sacrificing everything Kevin love style and taking a back seat.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, Harden is the only guy here

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Speaker 1: without a ring. So if anybody should sacrifice, probably should

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Speaker 1: be hardened, right. Yeah, but at this point I would

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Speaker 1: argue that James Harden is the best of the three players,

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Speaker 1: and it would have been Kevin Durratt had he not

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Speaker 1: blown out as a kid, because Kyrie is coming off

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Speaker 1: an injury too. Yeah, and Kyrie has never been what

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Speaker 1: his reputation says that he is. And he's living off

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Speaker 1: that one final, which was a great final series. But

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Speaker 1: he's been living off that now for what four years.

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Speaker 1: We know he's a great player. But I wanted to

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Speaker 1: add to your point about who's gonna sacrifice. Okay, Katie's

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Speaker 1: not going to be doing any back to backs obviously

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Speaker 1: coming off the off the major surgery. Um. I can

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Speaker 1: foresee a situation where these guys kind of divvy it

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Speaker 1: up and take nights off so they're fresh for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: We've seen hard and melt down, just run out of

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Speaker 1: energy in the postseason. I think that's a great strategy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we saw that worked out for the Clippers when they

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Speaker 1: decided we're just not going to play our guys together

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Speaker 1: at the same time. That's a great idea. Let's just

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll work it out when the playoffs come.

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Speaker 1: That is not gonna work if you're or at Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, if you're a Brooklyn Nets fan,

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Speaker 1: you'd much rather keep the guys that you have now

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Speaker 1: than to go ahead and blow it all up for

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Speaker 1: those three because it's a science experiment that's bound to

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Speaker 1: explode up in their face. M M. Well, listen, it's

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Speaker 1: not a done deal, so we will obviously monitor that

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Speaker 1: throughout the week, but once it happens, you can be

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Speaker 1: sure we will be hitting that one hard. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's time here too. You know, we wrapped up

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Speaker 1: the weekend pretty well. I think it's time for Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football and the best bet. The only thing better

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Speaker 1: than sitting on your couch watching the gig. He's making

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Speaker 1: money while you do it. Here's your best bet, or

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Speaker 1: it's time for the best bet here on Straight Fire.

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Speaker 1: Had a great weekend back in the winning column. You

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Speaker 1: know last weekend we will not talk about it. Oh

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Speaker 1: and four last weekend that we want Thursday night football

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Speaker 1: with the Colts, and we went three and one this

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Speaker 1: weekend the aforementioned Eagles loss. I'm done with the NFC

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Speaker 1: East folks. I don't understand those teams they all really stink.

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Speaker 1: The coaching is putrid. So a three and one, UM,

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. You know, listen, you can't win them all,

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Speaker 1: but it should have been an undefeated weekend. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: with the result. I wish it was a AFORNA. So

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Speaker 1: Tonight's game, Monday Night Football, the Chicago Bears are home underdogs,

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Speaker 1: mildly surprising against the Minnesota Vikings, and this is simply

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Speaker 1: too great of a line move. Um, Listen, you guys

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Speaker 1: know I don't like the Bears. We've mocked them soundly

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. If you can get the Bears getting

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Speaker 1: three points at home, you've got to take it. And

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Speaker 1: it's more to do with the number getting three at

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Speaker 1: home as opposed to the actual Bears. I actually think

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Speaker 1: that this is more a play against Kirk Cousins and

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Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football narrative. Kirk Cousins, of course, oh

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Speaker 1: and nine in his career on Monday Night Football, owen

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Speaker 1: six in Washington, oh three with Minnesota. His numbers haven't

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Speaker 1: been awful eleven touchdown, six picks. But it's just always

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Speaker 1: a loss when Kirk Cousins is under center on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. And I know that is not a great

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Speaker 1: handicap when you're breaking down xs and ohs Hey, Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook is the reason that the Vikings are favored here.

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Speaker 1: They were not favored a week ago at this time

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Speaker 1: heading into this game, and Dalvin Cook has been dominant.

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Speaker 1: Two amazing performances. But against the crappy Packers run D

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Speaker 1: and the equally bad Lions run D. What have the

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Speaker 1: Bears done in their last three games against Alvin Cook? Oh,

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Speaker 1: they've held him under forty yards every time they know

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Speaker 1: what's coming. Uh. Now, I will say, Um, Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: could get loose tonight. Um worries me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: This bears secondary. But overall, listen, Bears have had Minnesota's number.

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Speaker 1: They've won four straight against the Vikings. I know, in

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Speaker 1: weeks seventeen last year Cousins didn't start. It was a

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Speaker 1: backup because the Vikings were headed to the playoffs. But um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Bears here. Listen, Nick Foles

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Speaker 1: getting three at home when we saw the Bears look

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Speaker 1: pretty good and feisty against the Saints at home, got

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Speaker 1: to cover there, I can get three. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with the Bears. So that is the best bet oh,

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Speaker 1: I gotta give the number obviously. Listen, there were some

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Speaker 1: two and a half. It hit three at a lot

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Speaker 1: of spots. I got the Bears getting three at home. So, uh, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're now up to forty three thirty three and five. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not quite the sixtent we want to

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Speaker 1: be at. That exceeds expectations, but you know, hopefully the

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Speaker 1: Bears can help get us there. And I'm already looking

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Speaker 1: at week eleven and there are some very tasty matchups.

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Speaker 1: Don't fire yet. We'll talk about him tomorrow. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you then