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

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Speaker 1: January tenth. That I know everybody really, really really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the Natty last night. It's so fi, rainy, Sofi stadium.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it was competitive for four minutes. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, probably the worst college football championship game ever.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure even Georgia fans are saying the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Listen when the score is thirty eight, I think I've

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Speaker 1: got this right. Thirty eight to seven at halftime, you

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Speaker 1: know it's a clunker. By the second half, I was

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Speaker 1: flipping around on cable watching wild Things for like the

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Speaker 1: seventy ninth Time Shooter, criminally underrated Mark Wahlberg movie. I

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Speaker 1: was just looking for anything like I could not deal

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Speaker 1: with a absolute beat down. Like you see, you couldn't

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Speaker 1: I told you Georgia was gonna roll. I said thirty

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Speaker 1: seven seventeen. I was giving TCU way too much respect.

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Speaker 1: Georgia scored thirty eight in the first half. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have time on this podcast today

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Speaker 1: would take just like an hour. But I'll say this

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Speaker 1: largest margin of victory ever in the playoff, not a surprise,

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Speaker 1: largest margin of victory ever in a bowl game. That

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Speaker 1: surprised me. Seven Are you serious in a bowl game?

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Speaker 1: I'm son. Georgia twenty nine wins in going back to

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Speaker 1: back securing the national titles most into two years span,

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Speaker 1: tied foremost in UM a two year span in college

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Speaker 1: football history. Listen, I made a bunch of stets In

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Speaker 1: Bennett jokes last year. He was uh leading Georgia to

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Speaker 1: the national championship. You know, Um, Stetson Bennett can do

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Speaker 1: your taxes, but Stetson Bennett cannot win you a national championship.

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Speaker 1: Of course I was way wrong on that one. He

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Speaker 1: won not one, but two. You know he can make

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Speaker 1: all the jokes you want. Stetson Bennett the fourth let

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Speaker 1: You can joke around all you want, But the twenty

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be in the NFL. I know he doesn't

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Speaker 1: like the Kurt Warner stuff. They made a movie at

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Speaker 1: a Kurt Warner's career. Stetson Bennett no scholarship offer from

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Speaker 1: Georgia was a walk on five eleven one ninety. That's

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Speaker 1: probably the size of you know, some of the kickers

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Speaker 1: I love what Kirby Smart did in I think it

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Speaker 1: was like early fourth quarter. He go sends the offense in,

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Speaker 1: He tells the team don't come over the sideline. He

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Speaker 1: points at step Sin Bennett and says you come over,

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Speaker 1: and the crowd at so far gives him a standing ovation.

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Speaker 1: That was pretty awesome. I really like what Kirby Smart

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Speaker 1: did there. And listen, all he's done is win and

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Speaker 1: h Nick Saban. I know he was talking on TV

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Speaker 1: chap his ass that Kirby Smarts out here going back

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Speaker 1: to back with Stetson Bennett and Nick Saban could not

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Speaker 1: win a national championship. Having Bryce young the last two

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Speaker 1: Saban looked a little ticked off under all the laughing

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Speaker 1: people are excited about Notre Dame as am I they

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Speaker 1: And at this point it's like, holy cow, can Saban

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Speaker 1: quarterback from USC Could you, if you're Arizona, sell that

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Speaker 1: to your fan base. We're rebooting, and then you unload

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Now, I don't know who's gonna want Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray's damaged goods. A lot of risk and reward there.

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Speaker 1: Um will table that for another day, But I think

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Speaker 1: the Colts job with Jonathan Taylor, Uh, the lineman Quentin Nelson.

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Speaker 1: There's more talent on the Colts, not much than the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals that's coming back and locked into contracts. Also, you

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Speaker 1: can win quicker in the Colts Division than you can

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Speaker 1: and the Arizona Division. I think the second best job

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Speaker 1: opening right now is the Carolina Panthers. There is some

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Speaker 1: real talent on this on this roster. You should have

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Speaker 1: saw some fight and again that division next year is

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Speaker 1: going to be available, Folks. Tom Brady, we know, is

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Speaker 1: leaving the Bucks. He's a percent not coming back. So

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Speaker 1: what are you afraid of? The Falcons and Desmond Ritter,

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Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints quarterback TBD is at Winston? Is

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Speaker 1: it Andy Dalton? Uh? They're not good and I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you Tampa is gonna fall unless a big time quarterback

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Speaker 1: falls into their laps and I don't know. I haven't

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Speaker 1: looked at their cap situation. But even if one does,

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Speaker 1: do you trust Byron left at which, after what you've

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Speaker 1: seen this year and and Todd Bowles top Bowls could

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Speaker 1: be in trouble for all we know if Dallas goes

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Speaker 1: in and stomps him. So I think Carolina is a

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Speaker 1: live team to make make some noise in the division

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Speaker 1: next year. They got the picks of the McCaffrey deal.

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Speaker 1: I like. I like Caroline's chances next year. I think

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Speaker 1: they're they're a good job. I think, you know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if hardball is seriously considering that, but I

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Speaker 1: think Caroline is something. And I think number one is

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Speaker 1: Denver for sure. I don't even think it's close. Um

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is by far the best quarterback of any

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Speaker 1: on the top five teams available. You've got an owner

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Speaker 1: who's clearly willing to spend money. You've got a defense

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Speaker 1: that's pretty ready made. You're gonna have to start selling

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Speaker 1: off some pieces with Russ's contract picking up. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: do you try to ship? Can you get a first

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Speaker 1: for Jerry Judy? I doubt it but he has looked

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Speaker 1: pretty good. And you've got Tim Patrick coming back next year.

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Speaker 1: You've got Courtland Sutton coming back like there will even

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Speaker 1: whoever you want to trade to those receivers, I think Judy,

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Speaker 1: you get you the most in return, and if you

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Speaker 1: trust your offense, Patrick, Hammler and Sutton is plenty along

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Speaker 1: with the tight ends they got. I think Denver's got pieces.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line needs to be bolstered. I think they

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Speaker 1: can rebound quickly. So I think Dead for the best job,

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Speaker 1: Peyton or Hardball seemed like the favorites. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: R to listen live. I'll close on this. The most

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Speaker 1: juicy speculation centers around this McVeigh. You're just taking a

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Speaker 1: gap year or brief retirement or just taking a breather

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Speaker 1: from football. That's the juiciest thing out there. And here's why.

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Speaker 1: The only reason Matt Stafford is with the Rams is

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Speaker 1: because McVeigh courted him on a beach and I think

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Speaker 1: it was Cobbo, and they bonded and they hung out

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Speaker 1: and then they called the GM and they're like, we

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Speaker 1: gotta get this guy, and boom, they made a trade.

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Speaker 1: So Stafford came to l A for McVeigh. If McVeigh

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Speaker 1: is saying, I'm out pulling a lebron and you know,

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Speaker 1: departing after winning the championship, why wouldn't they just trade Stafford?

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Speaker 1: And you say, you know what, maybe we don't have

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Speaker 1: enough talent. The Super Bowl formula work last year. We

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Speaker 1: got it. Let's tear it down. Stafford, where would you

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Speaker 1: like to go? And then all of a sudden, it's like, whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 1: whoa whoa. Matt Staffords in the market. Where does he

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Speaker 1: rank with Derek Carr, Stafford Garoppolo, Stafford Brady. I'd go Stafford.

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Speaker 1: I Roger stuff we're gonna try to get into. I

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Speaker 1: don't really, it just doesn't seem feasible. We're having a

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Speaker 1: cap guy come on tomorrow to talk about the feasibility

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Speaker 1: of Rogers changing teams. So we'll table Rodgers for now.

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Speaker 1: But Stafford turns thirty five in February. He is coming

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Speaker 1: off an injury plague season. Former number one pick. He's

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Speaker 1: taking up some beatings, but he also won a Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl and was pretty freaking magnificent in that Super Bowl run.

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Speaker 1: So if mcveigh's out and they say, all right, trade Stafford,

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Speaker 1: is there a bidding more? Well, the only thing you

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Speaker 1: want for Staffords picks now a quarterback who's thirty five.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're giving up what the Broncos gave

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Speaker 1: up for Russell Wilson, given what we just saw from

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Speaker 1: Ron's especially with Stafford coming off injury. But I bring

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Speaker 1: up Matt Stafford for a reason. My New York Jets

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Speaker 1: have a connection. Stafford went to the Rams despite the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners trying hard as hell to get him. Why

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Speaker 1: Because Kyle Shanahan loves Matt Stafford for his system, absolutely

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Speaker 1: loves him, fits perfectly, can make all the throws. Remember,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo can't make those those throws outside the numbers deep.

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Speaker 1: It was a crazy stat like brock Purdy had the

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Speaker 1: team's first touchdown pass outside the numbers of forty yards.

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Speaker 1: I forget exactly what it was, but basically brock Purtty

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Speaker 1: had the first one of those in it was like

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Speaker 1: week thirteen or something, and like Garoppolo, just he can't

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Speaker 1: make that throw. And they think Trey Lance can that's

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Speaker 1: why they went after him in the draft. Well, they

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Speaker 1: know Stafford can. He's been doing it for you know,

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Speaker 1: almost fifteen years. So if he fits the Shanahan system,

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Speaker 1: you gotta look at the Shanahan Alkallights who would make

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Speaker 1: a run at him. Well, what about the la Fleur

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Speaker 1: brother with the New York Jets, who, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he's on the hot seat for all we know. Later

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Speaker 1: this morning he could get canned. I I read somewhere

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Speaker 1: on his speculative websites that the owner wants a head,

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Speaker 1: wants somebody fired because they lost six straight, and Robert

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Speaker 1: Sale is doing everything he can to keep his guy

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Speaker 1: Lafleur for continuity. We'll tell you right now la Fleur

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Speaker 1: trying to run the Shanahan system with Matt Stafford would

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Speaker 1: do a lot better than Zach Wilson, Joe Flacco and

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Speaker 1: Mike White, that you can be certain of. Now, the

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Speaker 1: question is would Stafford want to go to the New

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Speaker 1: York I think the other question is where would Stafford

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Speaker 1: want to go? Well, he did go to the University

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Speaker 1: of Georgia, which is which is in outside of Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Falcons have Jasmine Ridder. Are the Falcons ready to contend well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you get Stafford, Drake London, Kyle Pitts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's clear that Jets have more talent,

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Speaker 1: but the division Atlanta plays in as much easier. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Miami gets in the mix. Well, first

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Speaker 1: of all, could Miami afford him? They were spending like

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Speaker 1: drunken sailors with two on the rookie deal. Can they

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Speaker 1: afford Matt Stafford? I don't know. The Jets certainly can't.

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Speaker 1: All their best players, with the exceptional Quinny Williams, are

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Speaker 1: on the cheap because they're young. Breeze Hall, Gara, Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Um saw Gardner, all those guys are young. All their

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Speaker 1: center pieces are young. You know, the league would love

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford to go to a marquis uh market like

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Speaker 1: New York. I know I'm a Jets fan and i'm

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Speaker 1: sounding Homers, but again, if McVeigh leaves the Rams, does

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Speaker 1: the fire sale begin. You're looking at Jalen Ramsey, You're

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Speaker 1: looking at Aaron Donald, You're looking at Cooper Cup and

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. Those are the four big guys. And you

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Speaker 1: know what you trade all those guys, you get a

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Speaker 1: cadre of picks or or are you ready for this?

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Speaker 1: You trade all of them this offseason, you bought them out,

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Speaker 1: and you get the guy who's been in your backyard

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Speaker 1: torch in college football for the last year, Caleb Williams. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know that's two teams that could tank for him,

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Speaker 1: But we are in the year of tanking for Wemban Yama.

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Speaker 1: In the NBA. We're gonna start seeing here as we

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Speaker 1: approached the trade deadline in February, We're gonna start seeing

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Speaker 1: teams say, you know what, we're selling everything. We want

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Speaker 1: to bottom out and have our best chance. Now the

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Speaker 1: NBA has the draft lottery. The NFL just has bottom

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Speaker 1: out and and lose as many games as possible. If

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Speaker 1: you're the Rams, you've got the Super Bowl. Who cares

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Speaker 1: if you win one or two games? So what you want?

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be dumb like Houston and be

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Speaker 1: putrid all season, then win wake week a team for

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Speaker 1: no reason and get the number two pick when you

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Speaker 1: should have had number one. Now we don't know if

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Speaker 1: Drake may is going to continue his ascension to potential

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Speaker 1: number two pick behind KAYLEB Williams. But again, I know

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna say that nobody wants to lose games

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Speaker 1: on purpose. But I've been saying this about Lebron and

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. If you've been listening to these segments, your

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Speaker 1: job as the GM is to put your team in

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Speaker 1: the best position to win. If you're less sneaed, you're losing, McVeigh,

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Speaker 1: you go to the owner and say, hey, man, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be ugly for a year, but we just won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'd like to trade Donald cup Ramsey

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Speaker 1: and Stafford, get a boatload of draft picks in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of years, and we can build this thing

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Speaker 1: back up quickly. What say you if you're the owner again,

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Speaker 1: these billionaires, you don't never know how they're going to react.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm less sneat, that's what I'm selling. You

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Speaker 1: had it, you enjoyed the high life, You've got the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Now let's reboot it and do it again.

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Speaker 1: Because it's pretty clear that's that McVeigh wants out. I

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Speaker 1: think the NFL offseason is about to get super fascinating.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we could have Brady on the move McVeigh leaving.

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Speaker 1: Last year's Super Bowl champs just torn down to the studs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is so fun and exciting. It's great

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Speaker 1: for content, great for the podcast. We are lucky to

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Speaker 1: cover the NFL and watch it and enjoy all the

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Speaker 1: trappings of following the ins and outs of this sport

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Speaker 1: called football. Gosh, it's so fun and exciting. Um. A

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Speaker 1: couple of you upset that I did not mention Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant's injury, Like, I don't know what to say. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like he's out five or six weeks. Obviously not

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Speaker 1: great for the Nets. I don't know where they go

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Speaker 1: from here, Like they had been playing extremely well, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's the ceiling for this team? Where are

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Speaker 1: they going? They're trying to play as good as they

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Speaker 1: can in the regular season. For what, They're not getting

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Speaker 1: past Milwaukee. They're not getting by Boston, are they now again?

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the boat of do whatever the Lakers

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Speaker 1: can to get better. Well, the Nets are in as

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Speaker 1: I mean, as good as they can be, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be in position to go into the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: if something happens to uh take my Janice, I'm Middleton,

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Speaker 1: Drew Holiday nuts are right there, baby. So the Durant

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Speaker 1: injury hurts but again, the NBA season is so long

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Speaker 1: that it's tough for me to get too worked up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, by the way Steph Curry is expected back tonight,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even realize it was that soon. He felt

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Speaker 1: like he'd been gone forever. Um at any rate, obviously,

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Speaker 1: best wishes to Kevin Durant, big fan. He's been having

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Speaker 1: a great season. You guys know, I've had some back

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Speaker 1: and forth with k D on the Graham. I haven't

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Speaker 1: tried to hit him up, but maybe I'll send him

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Speaker 1: a get well soon. Any rate, are you guys tomorrow