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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. You like

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Speaker 1: how that rhymes? Monday, February fift If you're getting this

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Speaker 1: on your morning commute, you might have already seen me

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Speaker 1: on First Things First with Chris Brussard. Had a jolly

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Speaker 1: good time that's folk show. And if you are listening

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Speaker 1: to this before the show starts at am, then I

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Speaker 1: applaud you. You're a die hard. Well done. Um a

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Speaker 1: big weekend in sports, Actually not really, it was one

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Speaker 1: of the slower sports weekends. I don't know about you.

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Speaker 1: Valentine's weekend, guys. I hope you were able to hang

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Speaker 1: with the wife, the girlfriend, the mom, whoever. Um, no

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Speaker 1: football to worry about or think about. I gotta be honest.

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Speaker 1: After I jumped off the radio show Saturday morning, I

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Speaker 1: was just all systems go on everything except social media.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was updating Instagram because Instagram is fun,

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Speaker 1: but I did my best to stay off Twitter. Rob

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Speaker 1: g will be happy. It was like Sunday afternoon and

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Speaker 1: I started prepping for First Things First, and I realized

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what's happened in sports. Really. Over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, I did some college basketball gambling. Um. I

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Speaker 1: took a couple of looks sees at the NBA while

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Speaker 1: channel surfing. But I watched a movie with the family

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. I think it was called We Could Be Heroes,

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Speaker 1: Rob g Are you familiar with this movie? I am not. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those you know, kids parents movies. UM,

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Speaker 1: I guess it was all right. I gotta be honest,

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Speaker 1: since the wife is not gonna listen. I was tired.

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Speaker 1: I did fall asleep for about thirty minutes. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: but I gotta be before we get the sports. I

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Speaker 1: loved going to the cinema back in the day. I

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Speaker 1: did love a good movie theater. I'll never forget. I've

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Speaker 1: seen plenty of movies solo back when I was single.

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Speaker 1: I'm not waiting around to take a chick on a

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Speaker 1: I love even more the idea that everything that's in

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Speaker 1: be slow to go back to the theater. Sorry all

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Speaker 1: to the bag holders with the amc uh stock. I

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Speaker 1: sports after I just recap my not that exciting Valentine's weekend. Um,

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Speaker 1: I thought the biggest story came out of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of NFL ish stories. One will

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Speaker 1: get to. Kyrie Irving and James Harden played together. I

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Speaker 1: think it was like the seventh time, along with Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, they destroyed the Warriors. No surprise there. And

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Speaker 1: after the game, Kyrie Irving basically made a big announcement

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is amazing news for the Nets.

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Speaker 1: And after the game, Draymond Green said that the Nets

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Speaker 1: are the best team in the East. I had picked

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Speaker 1: the Sixers to get to the finals. I have a ticket.

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Speaker 1: Will the Lakers meet the Sixers in the finals? That

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Speaker 1: He is a better fit with Kevin Durant than Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 1: We don't know if Kyrie Irving is gonna go a

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Speaker 1: during a playoff series. This is a guy who Game

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Speaker 1: seven Celtics calves. Kyrie opted not to even sit on

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Speaker 1: extremely talented. No, no denying that, but I think it

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Speaker 1: does reveal Kyrie Irving telling Harden, hey, you're the point

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Speaker 1: Irving really is not the guy you want leading a team.

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Speaker 1: He just isn't. He's not the kind of guy you

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Speaker 1: James Harden is better leading a team. James Harden is

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Speaker 1: a better point guard. I mean seriously, he actually said,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna play shooting guard. He said, I will be

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Speaker 1: shooting guard. That's the kind of ego this guy has

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Speaker 1: a six ft one maybe shooting guard. That would put

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Speaker 1: him as I think the smallest shooting guard in the league.

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Speaker 1: Scary Terror Rogier who's going off recently for my fantasy

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Speaker 1: By the way LaMelo Ball is playing off the charts.

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Speaker 1: We will eventually get to him, but this this Kyrie Irving,

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Speaker 1: I'll be shooting guard. I don't know if he really

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Speaker 1: realizes what he's getting himself into. Think about this for

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Speaker 1: a second. Every shooting guard with James Harden over the

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Speaker 1: last oh, i don't know, five years has been a

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Speaker 1: catch and shoot guy. Catch and shoot is not Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving's game. I did look this up. Okay, the best

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Speaker 1: catch and shoot three point shooter on the nets, Joe

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. Guys Landry shamm It, No, Lie, Landry shamm

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Speaker 1: It is a cut above Kyrie Irving as a catch

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Speaker 1: shamm It was at like three point four. But how

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Speaker 1: happy is Kyrie Irving gonna be when James Harden's dribble dribble, dribble,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Joe Harris over Kyrie Irving for catch

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Speaker 1: a shooter. I don't know that I go Landry sham

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Speaker 1: it over Kyrie, but his Kyrie Irving realized ball in

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Speaker 1: his hands means, um, you're not gonna be the focal

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Speaker 1: Irving was not the focal point of his offense? Like?

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Speaker 1: Maybe never? Like maybe you could say him and Lebron

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Speaker 1: is Lebron's team. So Kyrie Irving now works. We're supposed

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Speaker 1: to believe he's just handing over the team to James Harden.

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Speaker 1: Here's the reins, it's your show. I just I'm very

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Speaker 1: curious what's behind this. Was this a team decision that

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Speaker 1: Kyrie is maybe not revealing everybody. Was this a Steve

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Speaker 1: to see how this plays out. Personally, I think the

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Speaker 1: nets are better with Harden at point guard. We've seen

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Speaker 1: him off the ball for a couple of years. Guys, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it ain't pretty. When Chris Paul ran the offense in

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Speaker 1: the waiste of Curry does hard. It would basically take

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Speaker 1: basically be James Harten just sitting there resting while the

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Speaker 1: I'm more worried about Kyrie and how he handles this.

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Speaker 1: He's saying all the right things, which is great, but

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Speaker 1: actions speak louder than words. And a guy who bails

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Speaker 1: suddenly Lebron came back to Cleveland and it was no

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Speaker 1: longer Kyrie Irving's team, I just I have a number

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Speaker 1: for you, and you know, I think Rob and I

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Speaker 1: have discussed this. It's a bit of a surprise Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving in his career in the playoffs without Lebron James

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Speaker 1: five wins and four losses. That that's it. What has

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Speaker 1: he done? What has he done? He's always injured, He

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Speaker 1: did nothing early in the in his career when he

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Speaker 1: gonna crush him for it, um, But i mean, how

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Speaker 1: did hit that shot in Game seven, Okay, that's great,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. There's I think that was a catch and shoot.

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Speaker 1: There might have been a dribble rob. You could probably

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Speaker 1: check me on that. But I'm not a certain this

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Speaker 1: to Neggie meg. Another thing I dug into when looking

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Speaker 1: He's been a scoring champ three times, He's led the

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Speaker 1: league and assists. He's been First Team All NBA six times.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving has never led the league in the points,

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Speaker 1: never led the league and assists. He's never been All

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Speaker 1: All NBA first team. Has Kyrie Irving ever led a

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Speaker 1: These are facts. I hate this bit, facts that you

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving has a large fan base. People still love

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Speaker 1: him for the Uncle Drew stuff. They love him because

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Speaker 1: you know, he's fun as hell to watch. But when

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and the body of work, what do we have?

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Speaker 1: Rob GM being too pessimistic here? Uh a little bit

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Speaker 1: only for this that. I mean, everything you said was true,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like you're not correct or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But I think you're being pessimistic because everybody who watches

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Speaker 1: are they going to work together? And because you knew

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Speaker 1: talent wise, they're gonna blow most teams out of the water,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be an issue. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that they have only what seven games in it together,

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Speaker 1: all three of them, and they've already kind of decided

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Speaker 1: while here's one role that we have settled away, James Harden,

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Speaker 1: You're the point guard. Now, whether that works, you know,

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Speaker 1: for now. I think that's a good sign for the Nets.

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Speaker 1: If you, or if someone like me who has a

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Speaker 1: this is a good sign for them. I maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: maybe this is too hot of a take. Rob Looking

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Speaker 1: at James Harden now and Mike and I am watching

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Speaker 1: him closely. He's on me and my son's fantasy basketball team.

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Speaker 1: It's almost as if James Harden was overrated in Houston. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he can't win the big game, he can't get out

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and it's like he's almost underrated now

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Speaker 1: was that was a pretty swift note. Like like I said,

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Speaker 1: if your if your argument is they can win even

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Speaker 1: if Kyrie goes a wall, I might question Tyler Johnson.

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Speaker 1: This is the kid who got what the toxic um,

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Speaker 1: not the top It was like the poison pill. Invent

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Speaker 1: almost invented the poison pill. He got like I think

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Speaker 1: the great story that Windhorse has told is he signed

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Speaker 1: the deal and then ran to the bathroom and vomited

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Speaker 1: because he had no clue he was ever gonna make

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Speaker 1: like sixty eight million dollars or whatever it was. He

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Speaker 1: he hit three threes against the Warriors and that beat down. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a very limited sample size. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I trust him defensively. He's six three and

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Speaker 1: weighs like a couple of pounds more than I do. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if he's a guy. But again,

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Speaker 1: you've got as long as you've got Durant Harden, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the Lakers had Lebron and a d and they,

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Speaker 1: like you said, they needed guys to step up in

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Speaker 1: certain roles. Alice Caruso is probably never going to be

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Speaker 1: a good offensive player, but you know he can defend

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Speaker 1: at a high level. KCP got extremely lottery pick. You're right,

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Speaker 1: I'm selling him a little show. KCP got extremely hot,

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Speaker 1: and he's always been and above average defender. He's very

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Speaker 1: streak as a shooter, but he can. Joe Harris is

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Speaker 1: a decent defender and he shoots forty nine from three.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me Joe Harris can't can't pull a Duncan

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Speaker 1: Robinson And in a couple of games, how many guys

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Speaker 1: do you trust on them that that can have that

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Speaker 1: kind of performance At the same time, because where the

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Speaker 1: Lakers were lucky last year is that almost every single

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Speaker 1: game there was at least two different role players that played,

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Speaker 1: you know, a big role that in that win whatever,

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Speaker 1: whatever game. Give me all the Landry Shammitt TLC. I

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Speaker 1: can't count. Joe Harris is a role player. He makes

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Speaker 1: like real money. DeAndre Jordan's no, just keep him off

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Speaker 1: the court. Um, I don't I need to see their

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Speaker 1: G league roster. Maybe the net and we've gone way

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Speaker 1: too young. Who actually trusted on their team more than

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Speaker 1: anybody other than their big three is Jeff Green. Jeff, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to play me. They're gonna need

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Speaker 1: like regular contributions. He can't be like maybe he'll show

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Speaker 1: up in Game three. Um, all right, so quickly, let's

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Speaker 1: pivot from the nets. I saw this from the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles beat writer, and I was absolutely stunned. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much meat there is on this bone,

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Speaker 1: but it's a fascinating tweet from a guy who covers

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. I'm told a group of Eagles young receivers

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Speaker 1: are planning on working out with Jalen Hurts in Texas

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Speaker 1: sometime in the next month. Okay, let that sink in

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Speaker 1: for a second work out with Jalen Hurts like that,

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Speaker 1: That to me is a big sign that it's over

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Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. He's not even making an effort to

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Speaker 1: talk to the guys and win them over. And if

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Speaker 1: he's not traded, because remember over the weekend, I think

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Speaker 1: it was was that Michael Lombardi of the Athletics said,

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Speaker 1: right now, the going rate for Carson Wentz is two

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Speaker 1: second round picks. Nobody's offering a first. Again, when you

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Speaker 1: see some of these people saying, oh, you're good first

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Speaker 1: for Derek Carror to first, Just Daniel Jeremiah came out

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Speaker 1: here and was like pretty emphatic. No, definitely not to first.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a late one, but more likely a two and something.

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, who was by many statistical measures, the worst

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL last year. That is not hyperbole,

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Speaker 1: that is not a hot take. That is statistical fact.

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Speaker 1: He was the worst by many measures. Okay, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's getting you two twos, I mean you

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Speaker 1: you're buying extremely low. And he's got a ship contract okay.

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Speaker 1: And now he's lost his young receivers. Okay, now they

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Speaker 1: don't even have great young receivers. They got the kid

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Speaker 1: Fulham who was pretty good filling in last year. Um h,

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Speaker 1: John high Towers decent. I would assume when they say young,

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Speaker 1: they do not mean to Shawn Jackson and Alshon, Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: Jalen reagor um greg Ward. You know, I would not

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Speaker 1: be shocked if week one Jalen hurts is the guy,

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Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz is either on the bench or he's

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Speaker 1: starting in like Houston or some you know team that

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Speaker 1: desperate for a quarterback. I just don't know who's taken him.

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Speaker 1: The Cults are not. The Colts cannot be that dumb.

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Speaker 1: The front office is too smart. They cannot be that stupid. Now,

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Speaker 1: if Belichick gets the Eagles to eat like three four

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Speaker 1: of Winz his contract, I'm sure Belichick would take a chance.

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Speaker 1: Belichick's got six rings. He's like the Angel investor who

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Speaker 1: can take chances on anything. And you can't be like,

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Speaker 1: well that's a dumb move. Listen, man, the guy's got equity.

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Speaker 1: He's got six rings. He could do whatever he wants.

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Speaker 1: He can take chances on anyone if it with so

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Speaker 1: freaking what put the rings on the table. What do

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Speaker 1: you got? Like, Belichick is kind of bulletproof. Now, the

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Speaker 1: caveat to that is Belichick does not want to go

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Speaker 1: down this road and fail again. He failed with Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: well not really, his fault Cam was shot. He had

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Speaker 1: like two good games and it was over. Um, you

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Speaker 1: fail with Winz. I mean, at that point, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about Belichick being seventy and probably done right. Um, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, rob G. I don't want to go overboard here.

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Speaker 1: This to me is a is a sign that it's

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Speaker 1: over for Wents in Philly. Oh, it's been over for

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Speaker 1: Wents in Philly. I mean that's that's But what when

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Speaker 1: they fired the coach, When they fired Peterson, You're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna bring in somebody to coach up their

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Speaker 1: guy Wins. Remember that was that was the perception was, Hey,

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Speaker 1: they shocked and Dustin Peterson, remember after he got like

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Speaker 1: the vote of confidence and then he tanked for them

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Speaker 1: in week seventeen. Um, he the new guys gonna fix

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Speaker 1: Nick Siriani from Indie, he'll fix Wins. And here it

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Speaker 1: is now and it's like whoa once it's gone right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's been over as soon as you said when

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Speaker 1: they said, hey, we're gonna fire Peterson so that wherever

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Speaker 1: we bring is gonna fix Wins. They brought in a

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Speaker 1: guy specifically because he worked with the guy who fixed

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz before and he still wanted nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with him. So as soon as that happened, you knew

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Speaker 1: it was a rap. And I'm surprised that you're dismissing

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Speaker 1: the Carson Wentz the Indie so quickly because I think

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Speaker 1: that if I were to bet on it, which I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to, because these things can someone can manipulate

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Speaker 1: the market and that you know, they take my money

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Speaker 1: from me the way they do that because someone know

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Speaker 1: knows information. But if I were to bet on it,

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Speaker 1: I would bet on him going to the Colts, because

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Speaker 1: I don't They're a team that is right there on

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Speaker 1: the cusp of being a super Bowl contender. All they

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Speaker 1: need is a quarterback and I don't know what other

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Speaker 1: quarterback they can get that is definitively better than Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna go in there with a rookie quarterback

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Speaker 1: thinking they're gonna win the super Bowl. It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be Jacoby Brissette. Apparently matt Ryan's not going anywhere. Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford has already been traded. Maybe what Jamis Winston, Who

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Speaker 1: would you take a chance of, Marcus Mariotta or Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Wow, I don't understand, Like I know that

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Speaker 1: we're up. Okay, Jamis Winston or Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: You know they have the same amount of playoff wins. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jameis Winston had the greatest receiving corps in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I still through thirty picks. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that I take Winston, but I would under present take Mariota. Why.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because you saw one game where he came

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Speaker 1: in in spot duty for a defense that wasn't ready

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Speaker 1: for him, and you're like, yeah, this guy's legit. I did.

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Speaker 1: I was looking into his situation in Tennessee and I

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Speaker 1: believe he had three offensive coordinators in five years. And listen,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of quarterbacks go through some crap,

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Speaker 1: but like, look at the receivers he had in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: and I know the counters will look at what Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tannell has done. Well. He also had the kid what's

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Speaker 1: his name Brown? Um, who's been who was unbelievable. Um.

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Speaker 1: I just I'm a Mariota guy. I like him. I

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Speaker 1: like it. Gut quarterback who can win with the r

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Speaker 1: p O s in the modern era? Um Carson went

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Speaker 1: so many injuries. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm alone. Maybe I'm on an island here. Yeah, definitely

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Speaker 1: on an island on that one. Uh, is there another

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Speaker 1: quarterback over went I'm trying to well that's the problem.

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Speaker 1: That's why I said that. I think he's gonna end

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Speaker 1: up with the Colts. And next oh, I forgot, I

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Speaker 1: forgot about a J mccaren. Yeah, you know. Actually, you

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Speaker 1: know it would be funny is if the Colts do

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Speaker 1: end up getting a former ego quarterback and it's Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, big dick Nick Nick Foles. He is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, listen, that guy's delivered to the play. He's

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Speaker 1: got a Super Bowl So anyways, all right, so that's

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Speaker 1: the state of the Eagles the nets. Um. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll wrap it up there. Hope everybody had a fun

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Speaker 1: Valentine's weekend. We got some good guests lined up this week.

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Speaker 1: Very excited. Everybody. Have a safe Monday night. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.