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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, Straight far or fam It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Boyer for Wednesday, January the twenty eighth. Goodnight in

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Speaker 2: college basketball. Some really good games. Nebraska Michigan an absolute thriller.

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Speaker 2: That Nebraska team is good. One of the best passing

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Speaker 2: teams I've seen this season. And if you guys saw

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Speaker 2: the site I gave out Nebraska plus eleven, you're welcome.

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Speaker 2: I do need to dive right into the biggest story

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Speaker 2: in sports, and we're just getting lucky this week. There's

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Speaker 2: just not a lot happening, getting kind of slow. Nobody's

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Speaker 2: that excited to coach the Browns. There's zero movement on

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Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals job. Raiders seem to be waiting for

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Speaker 2: somebody is at Kubiak. I don't know. It's a coveted

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Speaker 2: job because Mendoz is there. It feels like they have

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Speaker 2: their guy. They're just waiting and maybe the guy's still coaching.

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Speaker 2: But something went down. A bit of a neutron bomb

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Speaker 2: hit the NFL or Tuesday after dude, So the Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame. Oh, you know what, let me

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Speaker 2: preface this. I'm not a huge Hall of Fame guy.

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Speaker 2: Some people love that stuff. Hall of Fame Weekend is

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Speaker 2: like a big to do. People want to go to

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Speaker 2: the game, people want to listen to all the speeches.

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Speaker 2: I mean, people get really really excited for the Pro

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Speaker 2: you know. I like the games. I like betting, I

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Speaker 2: like fantasy. I don't really care what a former player

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Speaker 2: are epic and memorable, but if I want an epic speech,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'll take it from someone who's a former

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Speaker 2: an entrepreneur or a philosopher or something. I just I

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Speaker 2: can't get that worked up about speeches. And yes, I've

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Speaker 2: seen some of them on YouTube. Obviously, some of them

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Speaker 2: my head. But it's just not a big thing. I

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Speaker 2: some names who are very painfully obvious to the Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame. One of those names is Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 2: and in a blockbuster story that dropped yesterday, out of nowhere,

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick was not voted a first ballot Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, of course, the second winningest coach in the

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Speaker 2: history of football, eight time Super Bowl winner, six with

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Speaker 2: the Patriots, two with the Giants. Folks, I mean, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: He's the most accomplished coach in the history of the sport.

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Speaker 2: He's the best coach. He should be a slam dunk

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Speaker 2: first ballot Hall of Famer. I mean, when Lebron and

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes are weighing in on this on social media

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Speaker 2: it's a bit of a travesty. Now there's several layers

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Speaker 2: to this. I'm gonna get to all of them. Some

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Speaker 2: background people have been, you know, doing backflips finding out

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Speaker 2: Belichick Spygate to flight Kate. He shouldn't come on, he's

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Speaker 2: got to pay that tax. He does not deserve to

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Speaker 2: be a first ballot Hall of Famer. I'm gonna step

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Speaker 2: back from that just for a moment. We'll revisit, but

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Speaker 2: it should be pointed out someone dug up a book

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Speaker 2: that or maybe it was an article that Belichick talked

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Speaker 2: My dad knew a couple of people there that he

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Speaker 2: Belichick is a true student of the game. He loves football. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you can say what you want about him. He's a jerk,

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Speaker 2: many years. All that stuff. I'm not denying any of that,

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Speaker 2: who's been on the podcast plenty of times, he's a

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Speaker 2: football voter. Some people who voted for Belichick came out

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Speaker 2: fifty voters each pick three of those five guys and it.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a world where the math just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: Now one would think Bill Belichick's name comes up. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I vote for him, that's obvious. I loved Roger Craig

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Speaker 2: And well, Robert Kraft has been in the mix for years.

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Speaker 2: I think I saw fourteen years, which was insane.

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Speaker 2: I gotta vote for him. You know, Belichick's gonna get in.

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Speaker 2: That's a no brainer. What are we worried about? Belichick

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Speaker 2: the totally wrong attitude, But what do I know. That's

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Speaker 2: This idea that Bill Belichick should wait a year, I

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Speaker 2: think deserves to take a back seat to the Kraft

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Speaker 2: Belichick ending. Now I think we've forgotten. It's not even

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Speaker 2: two years old. I think we've forgotten how ugly that was.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it got bad, so I decided to look it up.

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Speaker 2: So January twenty twenty four, Kraft dumps Belichick. However, at

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Speaker 2: the time, right after the season ended, Kraft called it

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Speaker 2: a parting of ways mutually agreed upon, and then they

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Speaker 2: I'm not taking questions. I'm out of here. Leaves Craft

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Speaker 2: It was very awkward. Everybody knew some something went down.

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Speaker 2: How could you fire Belichick? Well, we didn't fire It

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Speaker 2: was mutually agreed upon parting of ways, right, So then

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Speaker 2: a big risk, So of course, Belichick, you know, that

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Speaker 2: And you can see how that gets heated. So Belichick,

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Speaker 2: after taking the North Carolina job, and he clearly had

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Speaker 2: not forgotten the dig from Craft, and Belichick was asked

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Speaker 2: and Belichick said, there's no owner, there's no owner's son,

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Speaker 2: Wooooo whoo ooh wie. Now, then Dennick devolved into Craft,

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Speaker 2: Belichick should wait a year before induction as penance for spygate.

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Speaker 2: Bill Pollion saying he should wait a year. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the media, you know, they got guy's phone numbers. So

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Speaker 2: someone named Matt Matt ver Duraim whatever his name is,

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Speaker 2: from Sports Illustrated, I just spoke on the phone Bill

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Speaker 2: Pollion asked whether he was an influence in Belichick being snubbed.

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Speaker 2: Here's what Bill Pollion said. That's totally and categorically untrue.

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Speaker 2: the finger pointing game. Is Bill Pollyan perhaps being a

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Speaker 2: was Pollyan was driving?

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Speaker 2: Really? Be sure? Well, we know Robert Craft has way

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Speaker 2: too much power for anybody to take him down. Then,

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Speaker 2: and I coming after Robert Craft, you can't. He's bulletproof.

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Speaker 2: You never know. Like I mean, you go to college,

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