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Speaker 1: straight Fire family, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire or Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: February fifteenth. I hope everyone had a splendid Valentine's Night

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Speaker 1: Come on, I know we do have some female listeners,

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Speaker 1: including you know, family members. But obviously thank you as

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Speaker 1: always and thanks for listening throughout this football season. Holy hell,

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Speaker 1: was it a good one. In the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: every one of the finals seven playoff games were ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Just a great NFL playoffs and we got some more

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Speaker 1: NFL content for you today. I thought I was gonna

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Speaker 1: open with Steph Curry going postal on the Clippers, but

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Speaker 1: as they've looked, as good, as as great as they've been,

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Speaker 1: as much as Curries an MVP candidate, and he's certainly

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Speaker 1: one of the top guys. Without Draymond, their defense is

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Speaker 1: winning the title without Draymond Greening there. He's that instrumental defensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, cominga looks good, but come on, it's Johnathan cominga.

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Speaker 1: Guys like what nineteen years old? All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: to a couple of NFL topics before we get to NBA.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're gonna save NBA for tomorrow. And

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Speaker 1: it is interesting they're already taking shots at James Harden.

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Speaker 1: He's been gone for what seventy two hours, and they're

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Speaker 1: already taking shots. Everybody likes each other in the locker room. Now.

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Speaker 1: I saw that quote from one of the nets. It's like, really,

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Speaker 1: any rate onto the NFL. I UM. I saw a

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Speaker 1: quote from Richard Sherman, the Great Richard Sherman Now I

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Speaker 1: only saw it because someone pulled the tweet out Sherman.

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Speaker 1: As you guys know, faithful listeners know, he blocked me

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Speaker 1: way back. I think it was like twenty seventeen, whatever

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna act like a total moron yelling at

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Speaker 1: and how bad crab Tree is. Like jeez, Richard Sherman,

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Speaker 1: Sherman instantly blocked me, so I'm not able to see

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Speaker 1: his tweets. Um that being said, Richard Sherman went in

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Speaker 1: on Matt Stafford because somebody, I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. Now was a Hall of Fame case. I

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Speaker 1: said it on the cow Hurt Joe Friday. I said,

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Speaker 1: this guy went twelve seasons in Detroit without a playoff win,

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Speaker 1: not considered for the Hall of Fame. The guy had

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Speaker 1: bigger than that. In sports. It's one thing. Game seven,

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Speaker 1: And yes, that's partially true. But Richard Sherman, I'm not

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to name somebody for you who was

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Speaker 1: either of them he's never been an All Pro quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But because Richard Sherman thinks all pros so important, here

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Speaker 1: are a couple of guys who made All Pro during

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Speaker 1: So what who cares? I'm just gonna remind people Matt

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Speaker 1: He is a clutch quarterback. That's the only way to

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Speaker 1: say Matt Stafford was great in Detroit, just surrounded by ineptitude.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why Richard Sherman is so salty about that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? It is really the benchmark. Well,

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Speaker 1: he played in an arrow with Mahomes, Rogers, Brady, Peyton, Brees.

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Speaker 1: Who's how when is Matt Stafford beating out any of

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Speaker 1: So when you get one, and I think Kyler's got

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Speaker 1: knock it from the headlines. Maybe tomorrow we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you then,