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

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Speaker 1: straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: March seventh, March Madness in full bleepity bleep effect. A

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Speaker 1: couple of nice games last night. They came down to

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Speaker 1: the wire gambling on March Madness. I remember how much

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Speaker 1: fun it used to be. And then I just had

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Speaker 1: some excruciating beats the last couple of days. For instance,

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Speaker 1: betting Towson. Towson led Charleston. I think seventy to sixty

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Speaker 1: like no overtime and they lose by five and don't

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Speaker 1: get the cover like me. Come on, it's just a

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Speaker 1: tough one BYU with a push two two in one.

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Speaker 1: But Championship week peeks up in earnest. I will just

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Speaker 1: remind you guys before we get of the podcast. You

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Speaker 1: know the drill with first halves. Teams that play say,

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Speaker 1: if you play on Tuesday and then you win, and

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Speaker 1: you play on Wednesday against a team that did not play,

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Speaker 1: you bet the team that played first half. It's been

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Speaker 1: a tried and true method for I don't know what

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Speaker 1: five six years I've been doing this now, and I

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Speaker 1: would highly recommend it. I'll obviously be posting those on

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Speaker 1: IG stories before we move forward. I can't read this

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Speaker 1: funny email. But last year, if you guys remember, I

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Speaker 1: was a late entrant into a Calcutta for March Madness.

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Speaker 1: I had never done it before, but you guys know,

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Speaker 1: And a buddy of mine who has a kid in

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Speaker 1: my daughter's grade, I was like, Hey, we got a

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Speaker 1: group for this Calcutt. Are you interested? And I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I had. I had kind of done one

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Speaker 1: online before, but I'd never done one in person with

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Speaker 1: of course. And then I went to the Calcutta and

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Speaker 1: it was just crazy. The numbers were bonkers. They set

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Speaker 1: all these records for what teams went for. If you

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Speaker 1: think we got them for like sixty three thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: which ended up winning the title. If Kansas had not

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. I remember being in Mexico. We were on

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I am wide open when I look

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Speaker 1: drumroll please, the New Orleans Saints spurning my Jets, Derek Carr?

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Speaker 1: Are you guys aware of what his career record is.

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Speaker 1: don't mean anything, Jason, Come on, what are you talking about? Okay?

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Speaker 1: the funniest part. So and again, I like Car. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna reveal it. Derek Carr's worst game last season was

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Speaker 1: It was ugly. They had one hundred and one yards passing,

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Speaker 1: the sinking ship that is the Atlanta Hawks. They lost

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Speaker 1: They just got Quinnsider. I know they're out is hey,

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Speaker 1: saying it's happening that more Shawn Lattimore is in a

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Speaker 1: That's how much they like their other tight ends. They

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Speaker 1: an impact there. The arrow is pointing upwards and Peney

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Speaker 1: I know everybody was like, oh, we should have got

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Speaker 1: This is a really promising Detroit Lions team. When we

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Speaker 1: that I can obviously the Detroit lines are gonna be

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Speaker 1: I can't say that word, a couple of bucks on

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are a team I'm gonna want

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Speaker 1: happen in the free in free agency. And I'll just

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Speaker 1: say this. The longer this Lamar Jackson stuff drags on,

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Speaker 1: the more you start to wonder, like, is he gonna

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Speaker 1: end up somewhere else. I'm standing behind the Jets having

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Speaker 1: a shot at Stafford, although I am a realist and

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Speaker 1: I do realize, oh gosh, it's probably gonna be Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: But we shall see. By the way I did touch

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Speaker 1: based with Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network. He's gonna come

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Speaker 1: He knows Joe Douglas well, he's saying Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 1: his speculation. I don't know if that's to throw off

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Speaker 1: the scent. I would if you ask me, Jason, who

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Speaker 1: I would say Stafford simply because Rogers. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where his head's going to be at in six months, hell,

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Speaker 1: six weeks, he might want to up and retire. You

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Speaker 1: just don't know what you're getting with Farv and I

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Speaker 1: know that I should not. I'll drop this late in

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Speaker 1: the podcast. It doesn't matter. But he's just such a

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get combat of with the media. Remember he

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Speaker 1: played the game with the vaccine and it was like

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Speaker 1: with it. Listen again, I don't he could do that.

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Speaker 1: I could care less. I'm just saying, don't go and

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Speaker 1: screw with my team, which has an arrow pointing upward.

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Speaker 1: I don't need that, Aaron. We just don't need that.

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Speaker 1: The Brett Farve Dance was fun for half the season

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Speaker 1: and then it crater had it ended in disaster, you know,

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Speaker 1: really having rebounded. I mean, they haven't done anything since

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Speaker 1: the Mark Sanchez years. But I just I don't really

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Speaker 1: want to see Aaron Rodgers and jet screen. Obviously, I'll

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Speaker 1: root for him if it happens, but given my choice,

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Speaker 1: I would take Stafford. Now, I'd obviously take Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to cost two first round picks if

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Speaker 1: he does the non exclusive tag with Baltimore, and then

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Speaker 1: you got to pay him, and that takes all the

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Speaker 1: value I think out of Lamar Jackson. But at any rate,

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Speaker 1: that'll do it for today. We will talk to you

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Speaker 1: Maniana