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Speaker 1: The volume. This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire. What

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Speaker 1: is up straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Wednesday, November eighth. Hope everybody had a fun

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Speaker 1: Election Day. Fast fact, I did not even know it

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Speaker 1: was election Day. All of a sudden I noticed there

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Speaker 1: was no NBA games. I'm like, what the heck? I see,

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Speaker 1: it's Election Day. NBA wasn't playing. So a slow Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night in sports. However, of course we got good stuff. Now. Listen,

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Speaker 1: college hoops started Monday. I told you guys, I went

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Speaker 1: to the UCLA game, and just for fun, I decided

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Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, let me let me just

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Speaker 1: throw some money on some games. I picked the Baylor

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Speaker 1: Auburn game. Is the game that you know. I just

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Speaker 1: did a little back of the Napkin handicap by myself

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Speaker 1: and I landed on Baylor. And then a buddy of

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Speaker 1: don't know that it's technically an algorithm, but his algorithm,

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Speaker 1: whatever he's doing with it, has been doing all right

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Speaker 1: for NFL. And I said, well, do you have anything

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Speaker 1: for college hoops and he said, you know, I haven't,

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Speaker 1: but let me, let me see what I can do.

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Speaker 1: And he comes up with three picks, and you know,

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Speaker 1: he texts them to me, and I'll be honest, like,

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Speaker 1: this is this is some crazy stuff. He says. Florida

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Speaker 1: they are at Vanderbilt, and then Presbyterian Vandy under one

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Speaker 1: thirty five. I purposely never bet totals early in the

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Speaker 1: college hoops season, simply because of, you know, just total

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Speaker 1: wackiness with everything three point shooting usually off at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season. I just avoid totals at all.

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Speaker 1: Those three from the machine from his algorithm three. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Presbyterian one outright. I put him on

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Speaker 1: Instagram yesterday. I don't know if anybody tailed Florida Golf

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Speaker 1: Coast kept it close with Indiana. Wacky things happening here

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Speaker 1: early in the college basketball season. Folks like, listen, I

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Speaker 1: know nobody's paying attention. I like college hoops, so I

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Speaker 1: will look. But we've actually got some real news. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get to an NBA story in a second, but

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Speaker 1: I got to start with some NFL news. So we're

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Speaker 1: doing the Herd Tuesday, and out of the Blue Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter pops up and these are my favorite breaking news pieces.

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Speaker 1: The Rams have signed Carson Wentz. Okay, Carson Wentz has

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Speaker 1: been on the sofa since I don't know whenever he

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Speaker 1: got released back in March. Nobody kicked the tires in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. Nobody kicked the tires when quarterbacks were dropping

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Speaker 1: like flies left and right. I will remind you guys.

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Speaker 1: Nine backup quarterbacks started a week nine. Zach Wilson, yes,

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Speaker 1: he's the backup to Rogers. Will Levis started, Clayton tuone Bagent,

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Speaker 1: Jaren Hall started in Minnesota he got knocked out, Taylor

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Speaker 1: and then Aidan O'Connell for the Raiders. Nine. I think

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Speaker 1: the number is gonna go probably well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's back, Justin Fields may be back. We'll see

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Speaker 1: what's happening. But that's how desperate. The league is for quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: and nobody called Carson Wentz. No reporter had a whiff

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Speaker 1: that the Rams were interested at all in Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: And then McVeigh and Snead go out and know, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll grab Carson Wentz. And this is guy who's thirty

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Speaker 1: years old, turns thirty one in six weeks. This will

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Speaker 1: the positive before I come with the negative. There is

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Speaker 1: more negative as you might expect. The positive here is

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Speaker 1: anything McVeigh touches is gonna have a chance of success.

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield parachutes in last year with like no time

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Speaker 1: incredible late drives. Okay, McVeigh is just that good of

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Speaker 1: a coach. He's gonna do some things for Wentz. Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna restore his value? I doubt it. Remember I

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Speaker 1: just said four teams in four years. He was run

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Speaker 1: out of Philly, a total disaster in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: total meltdown. In week seventeen, they lose ersays seen enough.

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Speaker 1: I cannot stomach this. We lost to a garbage team.

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Speaker 1: Get out of my face. We're dumping him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Washington and desperate, Ron Riviera, Riviera, Ron Rivera. What am

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Speaker 1: I saying? Picks up Carson Wentz and he's middling and

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Speaker 1: at that point you're like, Okay, he's had three chances,

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Speaker 1: you go to five like, you keep getting chances and

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Speaker 1: getting chances. And now McVeigh and the Rams decide, oh,

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Speaker 1: let's go grab Carson Wentz. So they had drafted stetson

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Speaker 1: personal issue It's still unclear exactly what's going on. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: hasn't been for I think a couple months. He's back

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Speaker 1: in Georgia, maybe with the family. I don't really know

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Speaker 1: what happened to Stetson Bennett, but bottom line is he's

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Speaker 1: not with the team, and they trotted out Brett Rippon

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Speaker 1: against the Packers. Brett Rippon, you know, who had had

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Speaker 1: I guess the Rams said, you know what, we don't

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Speaker 1: want to mail in the season. Now, why would they

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Speaker 1: remember where I read this, but I saw this funny quote.

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Speaker 1: the rams, and not just the rams. We're talking a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams, the giant lot of teams should have

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Speaker 1: been doing not necessarily out now tanking. But like listen,

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Speaker 1: it's not working. Let's quickly get to the bottom and

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Speaker 1: get get this thing turned around. For whatever reason, this

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz move strikes me as we're not done. We

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Speaker 1: got a bye week. Carson Wentz can get up to speed.

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Speaker 1: We got Pooka, we got Cooper Cup. Let's go make

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Speaker 1: something happen. And I don't get it. What do you

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Speaker 1: want to do with Carson Wentz? Mess around and win

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Speaker 1: seven or eight games and then you're drafting like eleventh?

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Speaker 1: mac Jones has been so bad it's weird. Belichick hasn't

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. It almost feels like the idea of

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is better than Carson Wentz simply because where

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Speaker 1: I personally don't get the move by McVeigh. Again, I've

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Speaker 1: four to twenty five. That's a spread of seventeen Washington Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Seattle messes around and keeps Washington in the game.

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Speaker 1: The Monday night game Denver Buffalo, Like, this is just

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Speaker 1: a gross week in the NFL. Let's quickly move to

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Speaker 1: college football. As you know the Michigan story, I don't know, guys.

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Speaker 1: Michigan at Penn State. Oh, it's Saturday. It's a day game. Sorry,

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