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

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire fan? It's me super producer rob Gs sitting

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Speaker 1: in for Jason McIntyre here on Straight Fire for Wednesday

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Speaker 1: August got me with you all week this week while

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Speaker 1: Jason is out living it up on a beach somewhere

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Speaker 1: for vacation. Hopefully he's having a great time. You follow

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Speaker 1: him on Instagram. He looks like he's having a good time.

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Speaker 1: But even though we're looking forward to having him back

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Speaker 1: on Monday morning in the cap birds see where he belongs.

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Speaker 1: We got the fan mail segment coming up later on

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Speaker 1: in the program. I really enjoy it. Hopefully you guys

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Speaker 1: are enjoying it again. If you want to get your

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Speaker 1: questions asked and answered on the podcast, hit me on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at the producer Archie. The d m s are open.

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Speaker 1: Shoot me whatever kind of questions you want to know, again,

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Speaker 1: whether it's about me, whether it's about the show, whether

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Speaker 1: it's a sport, take whatever, anything and everything is welcome

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Speaker 1: and we'll try to get through as many as those

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Speaker 1: as we can. I got two big stories that I

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Speaker 1: want to address on today's podcast before we get to

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Speaker 1: the fam mail segment. But before I do. I gotta

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Speaker 1: talk about the big news of the day on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and no, I'm not talking about the debut episode of

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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks. I don't care how many times y'all tag

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Speaker 1: me in these videos of Dan Campbell and his Dan

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Speaker 1: Campbell is ums. You could not pay me enough to

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Speaker 1: watch a Hard Knocks season headline. But the Detroit Lions,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have a little more standards than that guy's.

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Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions are everything that's wrong with the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that they're not a historic franchise.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate that. What I'm saying, though, is the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions have not been a good team and like decades,

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Speaker 1: it feels like, and yet we get them every year

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. We get to watch them get plastered on Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: and now we get them on Hard Knocks. So no,

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Speaker 1: I will not be talking about Hard Knocks, even though

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Speaker 1: shout out to my guy Jared Goff, who would I

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Speaker 1: think if I'm I might I could be wrong, but

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Jared goff. But the reason why

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Speaker 1: Tuesday was such a big day for me was because

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Speaker 1: your boy got out and played eighteen holes of golf. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: all right. Now, my birthday is coming up next week

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Speaker 1: He said, Hey, I know we're both gonna be out

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Speaker 1: I've been golfing for about twelve or thirteen years now,

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Speaker 1: You know. I was going to the range like every week,

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Speaker 1: You know, in your first year, only broken a hundred

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Speaker 1: Two stories, I wanted to address one of them very quickly,

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Speaker 1: he said that you have Serena Williams ahead of Jordan

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Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke with the media and let

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Speaker 1: it be known that they will be seeking at least

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Speaker 1: one year suspension for Deshaun Watson in their appeal that

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Speaker 1: is currently under review. And Goodell's rationale in this situation

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Speaker 1: Goodell said in his statement, I believed, before all of

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson should get a minimum of twelve games for

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Speaker 1: his actions in all of those massage therapy parlors, hotel rooms, bedrooms,

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Speaker 1: wherever he was doing it. I agree it was predatory behavior,

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Speaker 1: Robinson should stand, I don't believe that this is fair

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Speaker 1: to the process. What Deshaun Watson did was heinous, and

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Speaker 1: I believe he is guilty. The judge believes he is guilty.

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Speaker 1: But that's my two cents on the issue. Alright. Sorry

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Speaker 1: is maybe the second or third best division in all

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Speaker 1: of football. You record, you're you're you're playing the a

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Speaker 1: f C West this season, that to me is easily

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Speaker 1: the best division all of football. So with Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: under center, you're what six wins maybe seven, or you

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Speaker 1: stick with Drew Lock Geno Smith the poop poop ladder,

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Speaker 1: and you take your lumps developed the young guys. You

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Speaker 1: win three games, maybe four, and suddenly you're in the

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Speaker 1: cat bird seat for c. J. Stroud or or Bryce

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Speaker 1: Young or whatever quarterback that you think is the best

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Speaker 1: coming out in the NFL draft. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: their plan is, and and I think it's a good

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Speaker 1: plan because one thing that we know in today's NFL

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Speaker 1: is if you don't have the quarterback situation locked up,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a guy there that you believe is

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Speaker 1: a franchise dude, then you need everything around him to

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Speaker 1: go correctly for you to be any good. Like Jimmy

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Speaker 1: g and San Francisco had Kyle Shanahan, you know, the

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Speaker 1: running game, the great defense, Deebo Samuel George Kittle, and

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Speaker 1: they had all those things go right. They made a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They're winning by ten points in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter and Patrick Mahomes happened. Flash forward to last season.

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Speaker 1: They get to the NFC Championship, a team that they've

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Speaker 1: owned basically for years. The Rams and and Matthew Stafford happened. Like,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have the quarterback situation secured, it's really, really,

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Speaker 1: really difficult to win at a high level. And when

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Speaker 1: super bowls in the NFL, and the Seattle Seahawks, because

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Speaker 1: of the success they've had under Pete Carroll, are not

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Speaker 1: going to be comfortable just being a solid team. Their

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Speaker 1: benchmarks have changed that the bar has been raised in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: like they are no longer like, hey, we made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's a good season, though, like they they are now

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Speaker 1: in the business of winning super Bowls. So I think

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Speaker 1: that they understand that for them to get back to

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Speaker 1: where they want to be and where they think they

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Speaker 1: deserve to be, they need a quarterback, a franchise quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and the best way, the easiest way, the cleanest way

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Speaker 1: to do that is to be bad on the field

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Speaker 1: and get a high draft pick. So that's my answer

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Speaker 1: for the quote unquote biggest surprise heading into the upcoming

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Speaker 1: NFL season. Um, all right, that's it for me. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: you guys had a you enjoyed the podcast. I'm having

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Speaker 1: a good time hosting it. I have a great rest

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Speaker 1: of the day, and we will talk to you tomorrow