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

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Speaker 1: What up? It's Friday, September. You can hear the glee

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Speaker 1: in my voice. It's a beautiful morning. The parlay hits

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Speaker 1: best bet on the winning track, The Lakers come through.

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Speaker 1: About the only negative on my Thursday Night in Sports

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Speaker 1: was I started this kid Isaiah Ford in fantasy. You

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Speaker 1: don't care he only had two catches. Uh, folks, it's

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Speaker 1: another NFL weekend ahead. We have a great guest coming

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Speaker 1: up later in the show. Really good guy. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: probably know him from social media, you know him from TV.

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Speaker 1: Ian rappaport a k A rap sheet. He's just a

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Speaker 1: nice guy. I got to know him in a couple

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Speaker 1: of Super Bowls when he was on his way ascending

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Speaker 1: to the top. We stuck, we stuck in friendship, and um,

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Speaker 1: he's just a nice guy. And he came on and

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Speaker 1: talked and I think you really liked the interview. But

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Speaker 1: let's get right to the big Thursday Night in sports,

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Speaker 1: And we have to start obviously with Thursday Night foot No,

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Speaker 1: we don't. I mean, come on, it was a terrible game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Jags look like a team that's gonna be drafting first,

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Speaker 1: they looked as bad as the Jets or worse. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those. How the hell were these guys favored?

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Speaker 1: They get their teeth kicked in just a curb stomping

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Speaker 1: by fits Magic and the Dolphins. And that's about all

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Speaker 1: we'll do on that garbage football game. Um, let's get

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Speaker 1: to the real story Lebron James. Listen, guys, I had

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Speaker 1: this big rant set up, and you know, while I'm

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Speaker 1: If you couldn't tell, I'm very passionate about sport. I'm

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Speaker 1: a passionate guy. Um, and my friends who were hearing

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Speaker 1: A who I coach sports with, they know me. It's fun,

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Speaker 1: like life is good, man, you gotta enjoy it, and

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Speaker 1: we actively look for ways to tear down people. And

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Speaker 1: you know, the number one guys, Lebron. For whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: these keyboard warriors all over the internet, a lot of

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Speaker 1: want to bash Lebron. They look for ways to puncture

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Speaker 1: his greatness. And coming into Game four, all we heard was, well,

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Speaker 1: Lebron has been fading down the stretch and Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: just carrying this team and Lebron only took two free

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Speaker 1: throws in Game three? What's going on? And uh rob

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Speaker 1: g putting me out a story on where's the CBS

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Speaker 1: Sports that you know was basically going after Lebron James

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Speaker 1: and saying, listen, he's old. He's an old fart. He

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Speaker 1: can't do anything. And the CBS Sports is saying, you

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Speaker 1: know what, Lebron's only played forty minutes once in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs so far, and that was against Portland in Game one,

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Speaker 1: and he hasn't played forty minutes since he's old. Look

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Speaker 1: at his shooting percentage, just it's going down. First half,

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Speaker 1: he's in the sixties. Second half he's in the forties.

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah, Lebron has played so many playoff minutes

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Speaker 1: in his career. He's basically played another three seasons. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. CBS Sports without coming out

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Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old. What do you expect? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing? You were bassing a thirty five

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Speaker 1: I know about Lebron um as most of you know,

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Speaker 1: guy's dunking in our game. I'm like, who is this guy? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's on the Nickelodeon show and he's Lebron's body double.

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Speaker 1: What And of course you know me, I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he's Lebron's body double in sprite commercials and

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Speaker 1: he was in Space Jam and he starts telling me

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Speaker 1: about Lebron and how good of a guy he is,

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Speaker 1: and all these stories about Listen, Lebron doesn't it put

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Speaker 1: like you know, yes you can eat that apple, no

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Speaker 1: and just these stories you hear about Lebron or legendary.

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Speaker 1: did in game four? Let's just take his totality of

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Speaker 1: his night into perspective number one. After having six turnovers

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Speaker 1: he didn't have any games with no turnovers. And that

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Speaker 1: That's how impressive last night was. And he's thirty five. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the next thing, Lebron only took two foul shots

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Speaker 1: the free throw line. Fourteen free throw attempts for Lebron.

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Speaker 1: gonna tear him down for this. Jamal Murray has been

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Speaker 1: cooking every laker. Just putting Caruso on a blender, Rondo

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Speaker 1: Jamal Murray is a killer, and he was putting on

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Speaker 1: just get hand off Jamal Murray to Anthony Davis and

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Speaker 1: it's a mismatch, and Lebron fought through every screen. You

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Speaker 1: And Jamal Murray drives in and it's easy to get

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Speaker 1: Where's the call? Because he's been getting the call throughout

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Speaker 1: the end. It was largely academic. It didn't matter. Lakers

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Speaker 1: Is he old? Yes, he's old. He could still play

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Speaker 1: Is he aggressive enough? Yeah, he shot fourteen free throws.

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Speaker 1: Kenny guard the best player the OPODI. Yes, Lebron did everything,

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Speaker 1: just curious, guys, what is going to be the argument?

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Speaker 1: Nine points in the fourth quarter helped Jamal Murray without

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Speaker 1: a basket in the final five minutes, twenty six points,

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Speaker 1: How are we gonna go after Lebron? Rob g I

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Speaker 1: know you like Lebron and you want to find a whole. Jason,

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Speaker 1: I know you left something open. Where's the whole? Where

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Speaker 1: did Lebron not play a fantastic game in Game four

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Speaker 1: dogs here. But I haven't seen a Lebron James, or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, a playoff Lebron game in this series. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's putting up numbers because that's what he does. He's

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Speaker 1: like James Hard and Russell Westbrook, where you can in

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Speaker 1: It's just the way that they play. But Lebron hasn't

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Speaker 1: so he's averaging. He's nine in right, but you know,

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Speaker 1: they they say Father Time's undefeated. Well, Father Time is

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Speaker 1: just hitting Lebron with jab right now, just peppering him

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. They are a much better, longer defensive team.

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Speaker 1: They could throw Jimmy Butler at him, They can show Drake,

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Speaker 1: they can throw Jake Crowder at him. Bam out of

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Speaker 1: we'll see Cafeteria Lady Kelly Olenick guard Lebron like Kelly Olinick.

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Speaker 1: By the way, remember he injured Kevin Love. I don't

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Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome into the podcast. Ian Rappaport. You

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Speaker 1: wasting my time. Um, I don't know this Sam Donald

423
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Speaker 1: Adam Gaze stuff. It looks like Gaze's toast and Donald

424
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: will get his third coach in four years. But the

425
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: questions real. I mean, I'm trying to dodge it in

426
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: if the Jets get the first or second pick, you know,

427
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,719
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Justin fields looks good at

428
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Trey Lance is a promising young prospect, and

429
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,400
Speaker 1: of course there's Trevor Lawrence, who's maybe the best prospect

430
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: since Andrew. Look, I know it's early, but any anything

431
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: on the Jets and and they're you know, really sad

432
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: depressing situation. Yeah, what if it's number one? What if

433
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: they go one in fift I mean, you know, someone's

434
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:47,919
Speaker 1: gonna lose a lot of games. I don't know who

435
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. I mean, but what what if what

436
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 1: if they have a chance to draft Trevor Lawrence. I

437
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 1: mean I don't know. So, UM, I would say this, like,

438
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: at the end of this year, you hope the Jets

439
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: have some sort of sample size on what Sam Donald is,

440
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: not not like a glimpse, but a real view. Three

441
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: years is a long time. It's more than enough time

442
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: to make sure that you got the right guy. Um,

443
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: I would say the jury is still out. There's been

444
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: a lot of good, there's been a lot of bad.

445
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of question marks with some injuries

446
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: and some weirdness. I mean, Mano would be a weird one. Um,

447
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: pretty weird. So I don't know. I mean, I think

448
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: he has a lot of promise, and I know the

449
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: previous regime thought he was going to be an absolute

450
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: rock star. But two plus years in, we don't know

451
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: what Sam Donald is. So you hope by the end

452
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: of the year you know either way. UM, if you

453
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: don't know, then you probably have to look at your evaluation.

454
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: But like, I think all of those questions are real. Um.

455
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Speaker 1: Speaking of a young quarterback, Joe Burrow, who sixty one

456
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: passes last Thursday night, and I thought he looked good

457
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Speaker 1: against major pressure. If anybody looked bad, it was a

458
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: j green. Any thoughts on Joe Burrow going into Philly Sunday, Well,

459
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be an easy one for him. Philly

460
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be an angry team. They're owing to their

461
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators under fire, their head coach is getting shots

462
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: at Carson Wentz has stunk up the joint. Any thoughts

463
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: on Joe Burrow going into Philly. Now, I don't know

464
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: how much you watch line movement in but a lot

465
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: of money is coming in on the Cincinnati Bengals in

466
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Speaker 1: this game. I do not watch line movement at all. Um,

467
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't that's interesting. I don't know why that would be,

468
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, um, and I don't know if that's if

469
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 1: that's meaningful, if it's just the public thinks something's meaningful. UM.

470
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: I am a huge Joe Burrow fan. UM. I loved

471
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Speaker 1: watching him play the other night. I mean, the Bengals

472
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: aren't on TV at toime. I was so excited to

473
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: get to watch him play. And the fact that you

474
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 1: threw at sixty one times, like, I think he got

475
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: hit too much. And you'd like to see him get

476
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: rid of it, just like you'd like to see him slide.

477
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: But like if you wanted to tell me that, since

478
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Speaker 1: he would be a team that threw a fifty times

479
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: a game because their quarterbacks good enough to talk fifty

480
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: times a game, I'm cool with that, right, Like they

481
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: have a good running back and mixing is good. It's good,

482
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: it's fine. Um, I mean, I think they got the

483
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: right guy. They think they got the right guy. Uh,

484
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird in like two years when Cincinnati's

485
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: one of the best teams and there must see TV.

486
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: But I think that's wow. Is that too fast? Yeah,

487
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: come on, these things take time. I mean, well, then again,

488
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's in here two and I think he I

489
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: bet him on the off season to win the MVP Awards,

490
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: So maybe it does go kind of quick. I mean

491
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Speaker 1: he you know, Kyler is looking Kyler is looking like

492
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: they thought he was gonna look. Now, on the other side,

493
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: you mentioned Philly, like the Carson Wentz, he hasn't looked great.

494
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: Their teams looking kind of I mean, that's that's a

495
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: whole different situation. Um, that's like the bad side of

496
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: having a great quarterback and extending him sometimes it doesn't

497
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: end up great, you know, skill position players not really

498
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,199
Speaker 1: showing out yet for the Eagles. But the best thing

499
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Speaker 1: that I like about Week three, obviously before we get

500
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: to Ravens Chiefs, is that there are eight games at

501
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: one o'clock and five at four o'clock, obviously going with

502
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: the eastern time. One of the biggest questions I have,

503
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: and I know you get this a lot, and you

504
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: may not have the answer, why don't we have that

505
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: all the time? I hate when it's just three o'clock,

506
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: three games at four o'clock. I know they want the

507
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: ratings to be huge and I get that, but from

508
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: a viewing perspective, like ten eleven games at one o'clock

509
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: is not ideal for me, I would disagree with that.

510
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this as someone who understands the

511
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: TV landscape, because I mean I work in TV, as

512
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: do you. I could not understand less what goes into

513
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: why a game is where it is, Who does the times?

514
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: Which network gets to remember, the NFL changed the rule

515
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: on allowing sort of like doubleheaders on cities that have

516
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: two teams, and I have to have it explained to

517
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 1: me like five times before I actually understood I suck

518
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: at all that. But I love the three games at

519
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: four o'clock because I actually three games is not a

520
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: lot I can actually watch. I'm gonna have three TVs.

521
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: There's three games. I could put them all on. I

522
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: could watch all of them. It means that the game's early,

523
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: like you know, you watch some of those, but like

524
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: kind of more monitor and pay attention. I like being

525
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: able to really focus on the three four o'clock or

526
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: whatever games and then comes on and it's by itself

527
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: basically in the fourth quarter, and I love it. Yeah.

528
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: So Dallas Seattle the marquee game this week. Um, everybody

529
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: loved Dallas coming into the season and I didn't. Um,

530
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: Seattle's looked way better than I thought. Any thoughts on

531
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: I mean, are the ste you consider the Seahawks super

532
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: Bowl contenders? Oh yeah, I mean, you know, barring injuries

533
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: and whatever, but if Russ is gonna they can't stop

534
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: anybody to give it up over almost nine yards of

535
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: offense and two games. Yeah, I mean that's true. Um,

536
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to really stop anyone whatever.

537
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: To me, you know, the Sharks are in the place

538
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: where if it's close, they will probably win. I mean

539
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: that's just what I mean. They have such a great quarterback.

540
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: They've been there before so many times. I think if

541
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: it's close, they will probably win. Um. I like them,

542
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 1: and I think Russ is probably playing as good as

543
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: maybe he ever has. I still like Dallas, though I don't.

544
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything that would make me jump off

545
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: the bandwagon there. I think offensively they're explosive. Defensively, I

546
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions. They also have a new coordinator,

547
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: so maybe that takes a little time. Yeah, I mean

548
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: defensively they their doubt a ton of injuries at cornerback.

549
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: Russ is gonna doubt just murder them this week. It's

550
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: gonna get ugly. Um. Now, the eight o'clock game where

551
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: the Sunday night football game Packers at the Saints. Everybody,

552
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,959
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Saints lose to the Raiders

553
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: on the you know the Island game. You you were

554
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: the Thursday night, Sunday Night and Monday night. Those games

555
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: get way more eyeballs. As you said at the four

556
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: o'clock ags, and I think the overreaction is peled. Well,

557
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: now everybody thinks all Raiders are great. They're awesome, and

558
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't know the Saints. Drew Brees is washed. Saints stink.

559
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean this, this sets up as one of those

560
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: games where everybody's like, wait, the Packers are undefeated and

561
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: they're now underdogs in New Orleans and there's no fans

562
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: for the Saints. It feels to me like this is

563
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: Saints or nothing. I mean this, you hit it on

564
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: the head. Everyone was watching and it looked like Breezes

565
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: was not great. Now the defense wasn't great either, you know,

566
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: not not being able to cover Darren Waller was really

567
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: just brutal watching. But he's a great player. Um here's

568
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: my thing on the Saints. They're so good, they're such

569
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: a great You gotta love with the kids Jump sid interview.

570
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: Do you want to say hello Jude? Oh, now you're

571
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: gonna be shy after you walked in. You don't need

572
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: the airpi just say how they can hear you? Good

573
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: to see you, Jude By gotta love when the little

574
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: so Ian listen. I know we're all working from home,

575
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: he said, had the AirPods? Have you had moments where

576
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: your kids interrupt or not only that, but you kind

577
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: of encourage it because you know the potential for going

578
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: viral on those things. Well, we had one where I

579
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: was we did go viral when Jude walked in the

580
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: middle of a doz Bryant report a couple of years ago,

581
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: and it was hilarious and I was so angry, Um,

582
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: just that had happened, because it could have been so bad.

583
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 1: You know. Um, I actually left the door, but now

584
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: by accident, because I thought that there just come back

585
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: from baseball. Um. I do not like those moments. If

586
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna be on, I like to plan it out. Um.

587
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: Those always scared me because you never know what they

588
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: could say. You literally, I mean it literally say anything. Um. Plus,

589
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: I've had enough internet viral stuff. Yeah, getting hit with

590
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: the football with the football, um it was I believe

591
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: Texans Packers on Sunday Night and they had one right

592
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: high five the guy in the I, um the I

593
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: five as it is called on inner webs. That was

594
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: another good one. So I think I've gone viral enough,

595
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: you know. And that leads me to a question like

596
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: your high profile and TV. I mean, you're the guy

597
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: for NFL network. Like that's when when you think of ESPN,

598
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: you think of Scott van Pel when you think of

599
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: FS one, Colin Coward, when you think of NFL Network

600
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: right now, Ian Rappaport, like, when you go out in public,

601
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, grocery store, bike ride? Are you getting

602
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: people shouting you out all the time? I would certainly

603
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: say that Rich Eyes and and our player analysts are

604
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: much more. But I appreciate you saying that stopping. You're

605
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: the news guy, You're the information to appreciate that. Um,

606
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,719
Speaker 1: what I get a lot is I get a lot

607
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: of stairs, So there's a lot of like should I

608
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: go over? And so like sometimes I'll just be like

609
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: I see someone literally staring, like come over here and

610
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: then have a conversation, because that's so much rather that

611
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: than like staring while we're eating dinner, you know, um,

612
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: because you can see it because no one's slick. It's

613
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: like when you check out, you know, if you were

614
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: like a high school boy looking at a girl like yeah,

615
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: they oh you're working, Like it's not you're not. You're

616
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: not sick. So no, no one slick. So I always

617
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: would be like, hey, what's going on the other thing

618
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: that happens is and I thought, it's like a weird phenomenon,

619
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: but it's happened the last probably five or six years.

620
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: I'll be sitting somewhere, like let's say, at a coffee shop,

621
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: people walk up and talk as if we're in the

622
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: middle of a conversation. So they're like those giants last night, man,

623
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: you know, as if as if we've talked about it.

624
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: And so I'm constantly having to be like, all right,

625
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: do I know this person? Do I not? It's just

626
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: like one of my wife's friends, or I have to

627
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: process real quick, like is this fan? Is this someone

628
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: I actually know who I've only met once? Like that

629
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: That is more of an issue than anything else, is

630
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: when people come come up and just start chatting. I

631
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: have to be like, who is this person? Um? The

632
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: best one I had recently was we were in like

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Speaker 1: a foot locker pre pandemic, and I'm with the kids

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Speaker 1: are trying on sneakers for sports, and this guy comes

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Speaker 1: up and it's like, yo, man, you nailed it on

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Speaker 1: and I totally I forget what the NFL topic was.

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Speaker 1: He was like that was great, and my kids like,

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Speaker 1: what's what's going on? Oh? And then my wife is

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Speaker 1: kind of like over to the side. It gives like

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Speaker 1: that viral like, oh God, here we go. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: here's the ego. So you know, you're walking around a

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Speaker 1: little bit laughing. I gotta ask them, have you had

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Speaker 1: any weird like angry fan encounters, because you know, on

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Speaker 1: the internet, everybody talks tough, but then in person, nobody

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Speaker 1: ever says ship. Yeah, I've had a couple. No, nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing too too bad. Um. So let's see, like a

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Speaker 1: couple of years back, Um, I reported on Antonio brown

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Speaker 1: Bill's trade that was close and then the deal fell

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Speaker 1: through and remember that, um, and so you know it was.

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Speaker 1: It happens. I think we've all I've I've learned from

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Speaker 1: it and you know, worked on different ways to be

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Speaker 1: better and all that stuff, change phrasing on some things, everything. Um,

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Speaker 1: but you know it happened. So whatever. Um, We're at

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Speaker 1: Belmont going into the races and some guys literally waiting

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Speaker 1: online and he's going like a b to the bills

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, why, like what are we doing here?

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Speaker 1: You know you first family or just the wor my

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Speaker 1: wife okay, and she was like what is that. I'm like, guys,

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Speaker 1: I don't even worry about it, you know, like because

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Speaker 1: usually it's like all good, because you know, people save

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Speaker 1: the bad stuff for the keyboards, right, And you know

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Speaker 1: there'll be a couple other times or people say stuff,

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Speaker 1: but usually when they're really really drunk, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm not in the ton of those situations, certainly, not anymore. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's really not really not too bad. Usually it's all right,

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Speaker 1: and if it's in front of the family, it's always good. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Usually people are respectful. I did have a guy who

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Speaker 1: playing pick up basketball who we had played with a

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Speaker 1: ton and then he realized I was on TV and

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Speaker 1: he started talking some ship from the sideline and other

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Speaker 1: people were like, oh, Jason's on TV, like they didn't know,

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Speaker 1: and tell them to watch. Well, this this guy is

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Speaker 1: like a young little punk and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: fired right back. I was like, yeah, what do you

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah, that's my job, that's what

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Speaker 1: I do. What do you do? You sit out on

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Speaker 1: the basketball court and lose all you and I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna like take it, you know, so anything. None of

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Speaker 1: us are that cool anyway, So hey, speak for yourself.

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Speaker 1: Come on you, I mean you look cool because you're

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Speaker 1: not wearing sleeves, but not actually none on a zoom

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Speaker 1: interview and rap sheets going after me. All Right, I'll

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Speaker 1: wrap up with this sea and um is Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Monday. Obviously the best game might be the best

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Speaker 1: game of the season season. Is the winner of this

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Speaker 1: game gonna come out of the a f C. And

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Speaker 1: I asked that because Baltimore last year look like a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl team and they kind of kind of had

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Speaker 1: a let down. I feel like this game means way

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Speaker 1: more to Baltimore than it does Casey. Yeah, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: with you on that, because I mean, Casey played a

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Speaker 1: tough game last week against the Chargers, almost lost, probably

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Speaker 1: should have lost. Um, if they lose this, no one's

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Speaker 1: gonna be like, Okay, well they're not found to the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, like everyone's Kenny City is gonna be good

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Speaker 1: and a super Bowl favorite until they are knocked out, right. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think if Baltimore wins, or god forbid, they win convincingly,

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Speaker 1: then I think everyone will go, Okay, this is our

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Speaker 1: this is our super Bowl favorite. Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: but it was Honestly, if it's not them, like, who

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Speaker 1: would it be Packers? Maybe Packers are good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's I think I'm with you. It's I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like I think I do wonder. I think I'm not

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Speaker 1: panicking on Mahomes hasn't looked sharp in the first two games.

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Speaker 1: I know he had to come back against the Chargers

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Speaker 1: divisional rivalry, YadA YadA, YadA, didn't throw it too much

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Speaker 1: against the Texans. And again I'm not going after Pat Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: but it is there, you know, super Bowl hangover, he

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Speaker 1: got the big contract, um or is this just a

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Speaker 1: slow start. I'm just saying Mahomes has not lit the

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Speaker 1: world on fire in the first two games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's obviously still awesome. That goes without saying what I

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Speaker 1: think a couple of things. One, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: he prepared to play football, Like obviously he did everything

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Speaker 1: he could, but some guys need o t as a

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Speaker 1: minicamp to be great. I remember hearing about Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: you know, when he was with the Redskins, former Redskins,

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Speaker 1: whatever the name. Um that when you saw him on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday of a practice, on a practice, he looks terrible.

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Speaker 1: Thursday he looks fine. Prouday he looks great. Sunday in

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Speaker 1: the game he was awesome. He needed practice to go

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Speaker 1: through the game, needed the game plan to be really good.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Mahomes needed the off season. The other thing is

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Speaker 1: everyone spent two years gunning for him and making sure

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Speaker 1: they're ready for him. He's got one of the best

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Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL. I'm sure they will adapt, But

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Speaker 1: what you might be seeing now is the preparation from

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Speaker 1: the off season for everyone was trying to stop this guy.

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Speaker 1: That mean that happens too. That's a great point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's the one guy you got a game

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Speaker 1: play for, all right. Ian Rappaport NFL Network, Ian, do

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Speaker 1: you want to mention any NFL Network shows that the

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Speaker 1: ADI and should watch or um, do you want to

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Speaker 1: mention anything for old takes? Exposed to get me on

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Speaker 1: an Odell Beckham call, I don't know if you want

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Speaker 1: to you want to put anything out there in the ether?

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Speaker 1: That was such a great moment. The responses I got

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Speaker 1: were like, oh, it was just it's great. Um. I'm

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Speaker 1: on Game Day morning on Sunday, I'm on TV all

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Speaker 1: day and the NFL Network. I'm on Twitter at rap Sheet,

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Speaker 1: I do Instagram stories, I dominate. Um that's about it.

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Speaker 1: So I got you, dumb. I don't even I gotta

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Speaker 1: follow you on I g follow on Instagram. It's good,

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Speaker 1: it's good time. Well, I think I might get just lost.

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Speaker 1: You get some new many followers you have, You get

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Speaker 1: some news, and then you get some barbecue comments. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: two hundred sixty eight thousand followers. Okay, I'm now following

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Speaker 1: apologies two six eight thousand, I have like eight thousand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, jeez, but you only follow Yeah, you got

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Speaker 1: up that to one three buddy, Um, you gotta you gotta.

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Speaker 1: I need that follow man, I got you got me

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Speaker 1: by two hundred sixty k. It must be good to

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Speaker 1: live to be Ian Rabbitport All right, enjoy week three

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Speaker 1: and now will be in touch. All right, good stuff, man,

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00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: take care. The only thing better than sitting on your

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Speaker 1: couch watching the games. He's making money while you do it.

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Speaker 1: Here's your best bet, all right, it's that time. It's

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Speaker 1: best bet time here on the Straight Fire Podcast. Last

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Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL two and one missed on the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and folks, I really want to take the Eagles this

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Speaker 1: weekend against the Bengals, but I might do it in

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Speaker 1: the contest, but I don't have the stomach for it.

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Speaker 1: Here on the straight fire best bet. So I'll give

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Speaker 1: you three NFL games. I'm not gonna do a college

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Speaker 1: football one, honestly, just too many cancelations. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Pack twelve is now playing football. Uh, they decided that

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Speaker 1: on Thursday Night. That's happening. I don't know in a

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Speaker 1: few weeks, the Big Tents coming back. I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: not locked in because there's so many moving parts. I'll

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Speaker 1: get excited eventually, but I'm not ready to throw down

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Speaker 1: any after tax dollars on college football just yet. So

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Speaker 1: here we go, three NFL's best bets. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Current line is Patriots by six,

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Speaker 1: and I listen, you'd never want to take a Chalky favorite. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Six is pretty big, especially when it's the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: But this is just an awful spot for the Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. Short week. They had the big win on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Now they're two and oh everybody thinks

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Speaker 1: they're good. And if you really watch that game closely,

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Speaker 1: remember the Saints were up seventeen seven with like five

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Speaker 1: minutes left and a half cruising, and the penalty started

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Speaker 1: to add up and the offense did ring up seven

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Speaker 1: point four yards per play. It's not like this Raiders

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Speaker 1: defense is good. Okay, And remember the Panthers hung thirty

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Speaker 1: on them in the opener, And now you go across

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Speaker 1: the country to Foxborough and you're possibly down to starting

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Incognito got hurt in the Monday night football game.

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Speaker 1: He's out. We'll see about the status of Trent Brown.

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Speaker 1: But that would take away their running game, which is

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Speaker 1: where they have their big advantage. Josh Jacobs is a beast.

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Speaker 1: I love that kid out of Alabama. But if you

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Speaker 1: take him away, and you know what Belichick likes to do,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kind of scheme out your best offensive weapon

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Speaker 1: through the air. If you remember, famously, Tyreek Hill was

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Speaker 1: taken away in that an f C Championship game a

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Speaker 1: couple of years back. He had zero catches at halftime.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just an incredible job by Belichick in that secondary.

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Speaker 1: And I can see them doing the same to Darren Waller.

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Speaker 1: He had almost twenty targets against the Saints on Monday.

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Speaker 1: That's unheard of. He was unstoppable. If you take him away,

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Speaker 1: do you trust Hunter renfro and uh Henry Ruggs, Who's

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Speaker 1: kind of banged up that group of receivers to to

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Speaker 1: get through what was the number one secondary in the

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Speaker 1: league last year. I know they got litt up by

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson on Sunday Night Football, but I'm sorry, um,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's weapons are way better than what Derek Carr has.

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Speaker 1: So give me the Patriots favored by six. I like

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Speaker 1: it at six and a half. Seven is just too

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Speaker 1: rich for my blood. Second pick, and you know I

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Speaker 1: gotta go with the dog. I'm telling you this weekend

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Speaker 1: is dangerous. Okay, we saw the favorites cover at a

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Speaker 1: ridiculous rate last week. Straight up favorites were fourteen and two,

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Speaker 1: So the dogs are gonna be barking on Sunday. And

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Speaker 1: if you think back to last weekend, the only underdogs

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Speaker 1: to win straight up where the Rams, who are now

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Speaker 1: two and oh and shocking that they were an underdog

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Speaker 1: underdog again Sunday and the Raiders on Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 1: So the book's got killed on the money line, parlays

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Speaker 1: and the teasers, and it just feels like if you

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Speaker 1: guys have seen the Return of the Jedi Um Admiral Akbar,

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Speaker 1: I know you remember that scene where they're getting ambushed,

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Speaker 1: and he goes it's a trap, and it became a

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Speaker 1: meme and a ha ha ha act bar. You know

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Speaker 1: the guy who looks like a lobster. It's got the

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Speaker 1: eyeballs on the side of his head. Look up that

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Speaker 1: meme if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like a trap weekend, and I might

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Speaker 1: be falling into one here with the with the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants getting four, it's mostly four everywhere now in

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Speaker 1: the contest. I'm in the Circle one point four million

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Speaker 1: dollar contest. It's only three and a half, so I

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Speaker 1: have to give it second pause. But I actually think

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Speaker 1: the Giants offense will be okay without Sae Kwon Barkley.

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Speaker 1: They were so geared to getting him the ball in

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Speaker 1: space and running with him. It resulted in so many

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Speaker 1: negative plays. I just feel like they can have Danny

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Speaker 1: Dimes operate out of the shotgun far more often. Now

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Speaker 1: I know, no Shepherd, but Ingram's healthy takes back. I

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Speaker 1: think they'll be fine against the San Francisco defense that

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Speaker 1: is so beat up. Listen. I know that they have

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Speaker 1: depth on that team, no doubt about it. But if

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Speaker 1: you look at the second half against the Jets, and yes,

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Speaker 1: they were up twenty one three and I think I

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Speaker 1: believe it halftime. Jets player to a standstill ten ten

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Speaker 1: in the second half, and that was when the injuries

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Speaker 1: started to take their toll. San Francisco is down to

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Speaker 1: its third and fourth string running backs. And yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know they're they're talented players. And I like Nick Mullins.

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Speaker 1: I think he's one of the better backup quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the league. I just feel like Danny Dimes can keep

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Speaker 1: this remotely close if the Giants can. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I have three or four turnovers. Danny Dins has been

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Speaker 1: a turnover machine. Again, you're down your three best defensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything about de Ford playing either, so

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Speaker 1: I I think the Giants can cover. Would not shock

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Speaker 1: me if they want out right, And uh, I like

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Speaker 1: the Giants as getting four is my second best bet

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Speaker 1: of the weekend. And finally, and listen, this one was

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Speaker 1: a toss up. There are several tasty favorites I like,

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Speaker 1: and I know that I should be looking at the

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Speaker 1: Jets getting double figures, first double digit dog of the season.

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Speaker 1: I should be looking at a gross, disgusting dog with

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Speaker 1: fleas like the Minnesota Vikings, maybe Detroit, and I am

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Speaker 1: looking at the Lions, but I'm gonna go a little

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Speaker 1: favorite here. Tampa Bay favored by six, and I know

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Speaker 1: the public is all over Tampa Bay. Listen, the public

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Speaker 1: doesn't lose every game, Okay, but this is a Denver team.

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Speaker 1: If you think the forty Niners are beat up, look

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Speaker 1: at Denver. They're down QB one. Drew Lock is out

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Speaker 1: there down wide receiver one, Courtland Sutton. He's done for

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Speaker 1: the season. Their wide receivers two and three are rookies,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and kJ Handler. Um, you're down RB two

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Speaker 1: in Philip Lindsay, you are down your best d drusher

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Speaker 1: in von Miller. You're down your best cornerback in a J. Bouye.

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Speaker 1: This team is so beat up, and you I know

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Speaker 1: what you're saying, Well, Jason, they were able to hang

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Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh. Listen, Drew Lock came in. I'm sorry, Drew

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Speaker 1: Lock went out. Jeff Drisco came in. Jeff Drisco banged

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Speaker 1: up the Pittsburgh defense. He was able to do some

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Speaker 1: damage because there's no tape on him. They prepared for

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Speaker 1: Drew Lock. Drisco comes in was able to work some magic.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh probably thought the game was in the bag. They

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Speaker 1: had a comfortable lead and Drisco was able to lead

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Speaker 1: them back. This is a defense in um Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: that's very good. I know Bridgewater was able to move

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Speaker 1: the ball late a little bit in comeback mode, But

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Speaker 1: think about this for Tampa and Tom Brady. Seven drops

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Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers last week, or that's a blowout over Carolina.

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Speaker 1: LaShaun McCoy dropped the touchdown pass. Chris Godwin is back

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Speaker 1: at Evans and Tom Brady seemed to be on the

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Speaker 1: same level at this point. Remember the opener, they were

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Speaker 1: a little confused. I just I'll be stunned if Tampa

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Speaker 1: doesn't hang twenty eight to thirty points in this game.

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Speaker 1: They are really setting up for a run here. And

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Speaker 1: remember I saw a great stat I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I talked about on the podcast or not, but Leonard

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Speaker 1: Fournett has the law. I think he has the most

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Speaker 1: longest run, most longest touchdown runs in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: since Leonard Fournette. Just they wear you down. They got

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Speaker 1: your Ronald Jones. You bring in four net to kind

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Speaker 1: of thump it. Uh and where the other where the

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Speaker 1: opponent down. I just like Tampa Bay. I know it's

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Speaker 1: a big number, it's tough to stomach. Six is a lot,

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Speaker 1: but for me, it was between Tampa and Pittsburgh, and um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride Tampa and Tom Brady. So there are

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Speaker 1: your three best bets for the NFL weekend. Patriots favored

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Speaker 1: by six, Giants getting four, Tampa favored by six. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend, enjoy the NFL. Obviously listen. If

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Speaker 1: you have the gambling questions for me, hit me on

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Speaker 1: Twitter on the Graham. The d ms are starting to

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Speaker 1: add up as I've gotten hot in gambling, so I

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Speaker 1: don't I can't get to all of them, but I'll

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Speaker 1: do my best. Everybody. Thank you for subscribing, rating, and reviewing.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you Monday.