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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Wednesday, December.

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Speaker 1: Only a few days left to get Christmas shopping done, folks.

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Speaker 1: If you're starting to look now, you know you probably

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Speaker 1: didn't do a great job. Let's just leave it at

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Speaker 1: that and hope that you know you guys have a

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Speaker 1: great wife like mine who handles almost everything while I

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Speaker 1: record podcasts, watch sports, and um play sports. I laugh,

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Speaker 1: I should not, but um, it's the holiday season, folks.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta say Tuesday night was one of my

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Speaker 1: greatest nights in the NFL this season. Eagles win survivor,

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Speaker 1: I go well, I go to an oh in fantasy.

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Speaker 1: My son went one or no winning on Monday, and

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Speaker 1: all teasers and parleys for the Eagles clothes out like

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it was ten nothing Washington right

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Speaker 1: out the gate because Jalen Hurts kind of had an

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Speaker 1: unlucky interception, then a fumble and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's getting nervous. And then Eagles got their

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Speaker 1: game after that first quarter, and they pull away from

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Speaker 1: a bad Washington team which was led by Garrett Gilbert,

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Speaker 1: who apparently I don't know, Rob g if you've read

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Speaker 1: about Garrett Gilbert, this guy was like a high school

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Speaker 1: had a couple of nice plays, but overall, Eagles role

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Speaker 1: and I think the big takeaway from this game is

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Speaker 1: I saw this on the timeline as I'm you know, Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: living in l A, I only got Ramseahawks, so I

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Speaker 1: had to follow Eagles Washington play by play, just a

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, it's gotta be the guy. Look at these

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Speaker 1: stats against Washington, I'm like, well, hold up, hold on.

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Speaker 1: As a Washington team decimated by COVID and injuries, Okay,

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Speaker 1: their defensive front could get no real pressure on Hurts

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Speaker 1: and they still tact him three times because he holds

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Speaker 1: a ball too long. He put up good numbers, right,

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Speaker 1: all six of his incompletions were drops eleven point four

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Speaker 1: yards per tempt. But they's got guys running wide open

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Speaker 1: all night. It's Washington. They're cratering to use this as

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Speaker 1: a benchmark. And it's like one of the problems I

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Speaker 1: it with Huntley in Baltimore. I mean again, Huntley's look

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Speaker 1: came in for the injured Lamar and he beat the

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Speaker 1: Bears and look good against Packers. So yeah, a couple

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Speaker 1: mean Mike White of the Jets put up thousand yards

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Speaker 1: did this idea that Jalen Hurts all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: he's had a solid season. But let's be realistic saying

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Speaker 1: you use some smoking mirrors and manufacture a bunch of wins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what the Eagles are doing, and they're gonna manufacture

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Speaker 1: wins all the way into the playoff. Mix. They're not

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Speaker 1: they have to step up in class. Oh, Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts shredded the Denver Broncos. Well, they got a

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Speaker 1: the football strategy. It really works. Can it work the

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Speaker 1: to get in. But I have this idea that Jaellen

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Speaker 1: Now some of that is did they draft him in

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence any good? And you know he's good. The

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Speaker 1: body of work says it all. Jalen Hurts had a good,

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Speaker 1: Does that make up a franchise guy? No. Now, Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: feel like Jalen Hurts is beating up bad teams. I'm

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Speaker 1: Rob any big takeaways from Eagles Washington seventeen, Well, my

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Speaker 1: rat They had absolutely nothing to do with what happened

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Speaker 1: But you know, I tend to agree with you, and

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often, you know, But just look

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Speaker 1: six weeks, he hadn't crossed a hundred eighty yards passing

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Speaker 1: I think the turnovers probably killed Hurts, right, is that? What? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And let's be honest, Jalen Hurts kind of got going

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Speaker 1: you know. And basically after that, they just said, we're

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I definitely not see

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna get the second season

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Speaker 1: And the reason was because of Cooper Cup. He's on

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Speaker 1: my fantasy team. And I'm sure Cooper Cup wreaked havoc

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Speaker 1: in a if you notice, Rob, the Tuesday games and

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Speaker 1: it's Tuesday and nobody looked like they were ready to

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Speaker 1: Rams defensive front. This was a nice, nice showing from

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Speaker 1: the Rams. But I think my bigger takeaway is on

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Speaker 1: listen live. I will close out with this, Rob Lebron

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers. Lebron kind of tweaked his ankle. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw that last night. Still

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Speaker 1: kept playing and you know whatever. Listen Rob. It's so

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Speaker 1: funny because I saw a guy tweet at me. It's, um,

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Speaker 1: you say you're not going to talk about the NBA

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Speaker 1: and then you go ten minutes on the Lakers and Lebron,

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Speaker 1: And again, part of this has given the people what

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Speaker 1: they want. We have a lot of Lakers fans who

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Speaker 1: listen to this. I am just curious, Rob, we are we'

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Speaker 1: let's see where are we on the NBA's I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to look at the standings here and we're not quite

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Speaker 1: halfway through the season, but um, I guess we are Lakers. Uh,

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Speaker 1: thirty games in right, so the Lakers, I'm sorry, Lakers

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Speaker 1: have played now thirty two games, not quite the halfway Mark.

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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling great about them making the playoffs. Um,

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Speaker 1: people that you know, the DeAndre Jordan's stuff is really

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Speaker 1: angering people. I don't know um about this whole Isaiah Thomas,

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Speaker 1: but this at Vogel's grasping at Straws trying to play

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas and Russell Westbrook at the same damn time. Well,

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Speaker 1: Vogel is not even coaching right now because I don't

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Speaker 1: you know, he's giving him the game plan. Obviously, come on,

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Speaker 1: you know the g is. I'm sure he's involved, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's his decision during Hey,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get I T, Russell Westbrook and Rondo all

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Speaker 1: at the same time. Bro, It's there's no this idea

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Speaker 1: that Isaiah Thomas should be on the quote with Westbrook

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Speaker 1: at the same time as insanity. Okay, Isaiah Thomas, wasn't

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Speaker 1: he working at Chipotle like three weeks ago? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what the hell? What is he doing starting now? Obviously

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Speaker 1: he didn't start against the Sons, but you know he

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Speaker 1: got come on, as I say, like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: know people are excited. Remember when he is an m

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Speaker 1: v P candidate with the Celtics. Yeah, yeah, seven years ago,

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Speaker 1: or whatever it was like again, the Lakers are starting

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Speaker 1: Wayne Ellington right now, and I know I'm optimistic about

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Speaker 1: the roster. By the way, where the hell's Kendrick Nunn?

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Speaker 1: What is that guy doing? Get to the line. He

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Speaker 1: has the worst bone brews apparently in NBA history. And

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Speaker 1: you know when when the guys off your bench. These

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Speaker 1: are the first four guys off the Lakers bench. Carmelo Anthony,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven, Trevor Ariza, who's coming off surgery and actually

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Speaker 1: playing well, thirty six, Isaiah Thomas, the former Chipotle worker,

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Speaker 1: and then Rondo, who only really shows up in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs anyway. Uh, he's thirty five. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: Rondo limited minutes yesterday and was just abysibal, I mean,

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Speaker 1: getting towards left and right, bringing nothing to the table.

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Speaker 1: We knew this roster had some issues. We thought it

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Speaker 1: would be would work itself out. But with a d

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Speaker 1: down Rob, I don't know, man, I'm I don't feel

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Speaker 1: good at all. And it's weird like the NBA is

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Speaker 1: gonna plow through this as they should and and not

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Speaker 1: stopped like the NHL. Some of these games are unwatchable.

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Speaker 1: Like an idiot, I bet on Minnesota. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota's playing well, I know Edwards isn't there, but no,

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Speaker 1: Luca Dodges, Minnesota's got this and they get smoked, bad,

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Speaker 1: bad wager by me. Jillen Brunson. Jillen Brunson always looks

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Speaker 1: good when Luca Donch is just not there. But anyways, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know Rob Nick, not the Knicks, Lakers any

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Speaker 1: thoughts were still thirty two games in and you know

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Speaker 1: they're five. But go ahead, I'm gonna say this very succinctly.

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Speaker 1: If you follow me on Twitter, you already know I

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Speaker 1: feel about it. But let me just break it down

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Got the rest Russell westbook trade that was

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Speaker 1: universally panned, right pretty much everybody. Yeah, Dwight Howard, Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis fighting on the sidelines on national TV. I think

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Speaker 1: in the third game of the season, Lebron gets hurt

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Speaker 1: and misses ten of the first twenty games. Lebron gets

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Speaker 1: a false COVID positive, so that becomes a big all

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Speaker 1: talking point. Russell Westbrook gets a false COVID positive and

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Speaker 1: and immediately comes back and they get smacked by the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is the undrafted hero makes a game winning

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Speaker 1: shot against the MAVs, immediately hits COVID protocol. They bring

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas in fresh off the Chipotle distribution line. Athony

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Speaker 1: Davis gets hurt. It's out for a month and a half.

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Speaker 1: Half their team has COVID. The other half has n't

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Speaker 1: played pretty much this season. It's gonna make for arguably

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Speaker 1: the greatest championship DVD. It's true. I like that, that's spicy.

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Speaker 1: I have not wavered at all that what this team

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Speaker 1: needs is time and and because they don't have it

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Speaker 1: going wrong, they haven't had any. They have not had any.

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Speaker 1: So until I actually see them together, which we're not

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Speaker 1: going to see what a d being hurt until like February,

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Speaker 1: until we see them together for ten fifteen games, it's

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Speaker 1: hard for me to have judgment either way. So here's

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Speaker 1: the here's one of the pushbacks. Right, So the Suns

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Speaker 1: lost Devin Book, Remember he was out I don't know

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Speaker 1: what three weeks, a couple of weeks. They didn't really

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Speaker 1: miss a beat. They got such a great broster sham.

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Speaker 1: It can come in Cam Johnson campaign and you guys

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Speaker 1: can scoff and be like, oh, those guys stink when

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Speaker 1: you got Chris Paul and you've got DeAndre Atan in

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Speaker 1: the in the middle, like you're good, mcil bridges on

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Speaker 1: the wing, like this team is good. It's not a

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Speaker 1: roster thing with Phoenix. Phoenix is they have a style

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Speaker 1: of play and all their guys fit that style. They

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Speaker 1: play exactly the way that they are designed to fit together.

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Speaker 1: Because it's it's the sum is greater than the parts

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix and it and that's not a knock on them,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's complimentary actually that they know exactly who

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Speaker 1: they are and they play to fit their strength and

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Speaker 1: that's what they're going to be appreciated. It's interesting because

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Speaker 1: the Sons and the Warriors, when you watch them play

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Speaker 1: and then you watch everyone else in the West, and

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Speaker 1: I confess to not watching a ton of the Jazz,

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Speaker 1: the Sons and the Warriors are playing like a different

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Speaker 1: game than everyone else. Now, the Jazz are killing teams

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Speaker 1: as usual, this is what they do every regular season,

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Speaker 1: and then you know what happens in the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: the Sons and Warriors are just so much better than

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Speaker 1: everybody else in the West. It's crazy. And folks um

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Speaker 1: lay because in the play in. I wouldn't rule it out.

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Speaker 1: Lakers missed the playoffs. I'm not ruling that out. They

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Speaker 1: are a Lebron toenail away from being in the lottery,

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Speaker 1: and they probably don't even have lottery picks right because

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Speaker 1: they gave him to New Orleans and the Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: deal or something like that. Yeah, and the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the West, by the way, is who it's bleak Rockets

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Speaker 1: Pelicans who Pelicans are turning the corner still without um

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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. Okay, see thunder wins like every third game.

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Speaker 1: Um Spurs stink. By the way, Popovich still in the league.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised he going through this rebuild and then Portland

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Speaker 1: with the Dame Saga and like then you got the

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Speaker 1: Kings and the Timberwolves. Can you imagine just what would

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Speaker 1: Lebron feel like if he was in a playing game

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Speaker 1: against like the Sacramento Kings. Think you'd be happy to

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Speaker 1: be there? Or ship man, we gotta play the Kings

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Speaker 1: and we gotta get smoked by Phoenix or Golden State,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't I don't know, I mean, Rob, I'm

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Speaker 1: being I'm keep in it a hunted with you, like, uh,

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Speaker 1: we've seen Lebron shut it down before. There was a

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Speaker 1: crazy stat in last night's game, totally crazy against the Suns.

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Speaker 1: They showed this song the screen. First fifteen seasons, Lebron

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Speaker 1: missed seventy one games. Last four seasons he's missed seventy.

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Speaker 1: So fifteen games, fifteen seasons, miss seventy one, last four

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Speaker 1: he's missed seventy and he's turning thirty seven in ten days.

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Speaker 1: Do with that what you will, all right, guys, we

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Speaker 1: went a little bit long here. We always love to

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Speaker 1: crowbar NBA and just because you guys love it, you

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Speaker 1: love it, and um, we'll talk to you tomorrow