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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Street

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Speaker 2: Fire for Monday, December twenty third. It's Christmas week, ladies

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Speaker 2: and germs. Hope everybody had a phenomenal weekend. Mine was

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Speaker 2: just outstanding. We got family in town, doing family things

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Speaker 2: out here, and daughter had a birthday. It was just

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Speaker 2: a spectacular weekend. And oh, by the way, the gambling

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Speaker 2: was phenomenal. The college football playoff was good to us.

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Speaker 2: I told you, guys, my first bet was a teaser.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there were some laughter. The teaser cleared so

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Speaker 2: easily every favorite one, and the teaser luck continued into Sunday.

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Speaker 2: The only unlucky stuff we ran into was fantasy football

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Speaker 2: in the championship. So listen. I'll get to the games

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Speaker 2: at a second, the big storylines, because there are a

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Speaker 2: couple and I already really liked some college football action

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Speaker 2: for Knicks. Actually not next weekend, but like ten days

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Speaker 2: from now when they play. I just have to say, folks,

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen is the MVP of the league. He has

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Speaker 2: been on like a nine week heater carried my son's

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Speaker 2: team to the Fantasy championship. He had forty one Fantasy

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Speaker 2: points last week, fifty one the week before. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he had below twenty for like a ten week stretch,

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Speaker 2: and against the Patriots clearly a letdown spot. And Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen had like twelve Fantasy points. And my son loses

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Speaker 2: the championship. Very disappointing. I mean, maybe the Packers defense

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Speaker 2: scores like forty tonight, but that's not gonna happen. It's

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Speaker 2: just devastating for him. I will move on in my

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Speaker 2: league to the finals. In my big money league, which

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Speaker 2: I'm fired up about. I had Jalen hurt starting a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He goes down. I think it's over. I'm livid. And

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Speaker 2: then Jackson Smith and Jigba a couple other guys just

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Speaker 2: absolutely carried me. It was a phenomenal comeback, and I

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Speaker 2: took down a team that had been number one for

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Speaker 2: a good stretch of the season. Your boy, listen, I

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Speaker 2: don't always get all the bets correct. I sometimes forget

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Speaker 2: to do some stuff that my wife tells me to do.

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Speaker 2: But man, in Fantasy this year I was locked in.

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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas twenty eight, Jamiir Gibbs My Guy twenty five,

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Speaker 2: James Cook twenty seven, and oh, by the way, picking

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Speaker 2: up the Falcons defense, they had two pick six's off

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Speaker 2: of Drew Lock. Oh it was glorious. So I've been

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Speaker 2: in the championship next week. Anyways, Actually now getting to

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Speaker 2: real football, And honestly, I was close to starting with

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Speaker 2: college football. I'm so fired up about the playoff and

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Speaker 2: all these silly takes I see online, but I am

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Speaker 2: going to start with the NFL. And the first thing

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Speaker 2: I think we need to talk about, absolutely need to

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Speaker 2: is what the hell happened to the Raiders. They were

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Speaker 2: in line for the number one pick in the draft.

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Speaker 2: I actually took them this week in the contest because

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know what Antonio Pierce saying rolling

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Speaker 2: over and oh, by the way, Mac Jones stinks Raiders

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Speaker 2: get the win, they fall from first in the draft

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Speaker 2: to six. Does that take them out of the Shidur

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Speaker 2: Sanders rankings? I know. Listen, Antonio Pierce got asked about

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Speaker 2: after the game, and he's just grinning ear to years like,

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Speaker 2: I don't care. You got to ask Tom t Lesko

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Speaker 2: to the GM. I don't care about that stuff. I

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Speaker 2: want to win games, you know, And they're all fired up,

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Speaker 2: and the Raiders fans are excited. They end a long,

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Speaker 2: losing street game, and O'Connell was good. And this was

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Speaker 2: no run game. I mean, they had like sixty nine

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Speaker 2: but it was just one of those oh well, okay,

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Speaker 2: there's something here. These guys are fighting. Antonio Pears. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to say he saved his job, but that

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Speaker 2: moons ago. That cost us Trevor Lawrence. We had to

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Speaker 2: settle for Zach Wilson, and now the Raiders almost certainly

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Speaker 2: have cost themselves Shador Sanders. Now, I guess you could

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Speaker 2: trade up. You could actually try the whole Hey, shaduur

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Speaker 2: tell them you're not gonna play for anybody unless it's us,

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Speaker 2: Tennessee definitely needs a quarterback. The Mason Rudolph Expence experiment

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Speaker 2: This is one of those things where, Man, the Raiders

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Speaker 2: winning screw in the short term. It's a high, high

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Speaker 2: events for the Raiders. Rob g is under the weather.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's got the flu, a lot of people sick right now,

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Speaker 2: so he's not here to defend his Raiders. I'm sure he's,

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Speaker 2: you know, blowing his nose and crying about the Raiders

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Speaker 2: losing out of Trusty. Hey, as a Jets fan, I've

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Speaker 2: been there. If it's a devastating victory, if that makes

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Speaker 2: I know people are gonna say, well, what about the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: You said the Eagles were the best. Guys, Eagles lose

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts in the first quarter to a concussion, But

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Speaker 2: what are you're gonna take something away from this game?

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Speaker 2: not shocked to remember. I told you guys, I like Washington

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Speaker 2: and I actually said on Friday's podcast, I hated the

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Speaker 2: bet because all the big money was coming in. This

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Speaker 2: is the week guys. I did not say screw the

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Speaker 2: good weekend for Washington Commanders fans. And here's why I mean.

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Speaker 2: I you watched Jaden Daniels, guys, and again he had

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Speaker 2: I'm Philly in the playoffs. However, of course, the history

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Speaker 2: the game's at night at the Link in Philly in January,

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Speaker 2: a great spot for him. If they can somehow make

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Speaker 2: do think Philly it's probably gonna be at night because

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Speaker 2: again we're talking about the Eagles big media market against Washington,

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Speaker 2: big media market. There's a chance for good numbers there.

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Speaker 2: But if you are Philadelphia, you do not panic at

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Speaker 2: all off this loss. I will start here. I guarantee

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Speaker 2: you there's gonna be some hot take artists out there firing,

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Speaker 2: oh oh, come on, this Eagles team, well, how can

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Speaker 2: they be contenders? They lost to Jayden Dails. They blew

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: You know, if Davanta Smith catches a basic basic sland

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Speaker 2: with what about two minutes left, it would have given

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Speaker 2: put him up five. And we've talked about this a

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Speaker 2: Philly had no I guess they felt they had no

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Speaker 2: I don't read too much into this loss for Philly.

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Speaker 2: If Devanta smi and again you guys can see the replay.

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Speaker 2: Devanta Smith, the ball literally hits him in the hands,

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Speaker 2: Washington would have had to burn some time outs and

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Speaker 2: we're still on the Eagles man. Wha what a resourceful,

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Speaker 2: impressive win. After Jalen Hurts went down, that would be

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Speaker 2: the storyline. I dug into this box score. You guys

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Speaker 2: ready for this. So Hurts and Kenny Pickett combined for

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Speaker 2: fifteen completions, eight of them to AJ Brown, six to

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Speaker 2: DeVonta Smith, won to Kenneth Gainwell, that's it. Three guys

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Speaker 2: caught all the passes. Now. I don't know about you guys,

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Speaker 2: but that ain't great. They really miss Dallar Goddard on

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Speaker 2: ir Saquon Barkley's got to get in the pass game.

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Speaker 2: the ball around way, way, way, way, way more than

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Speaker 2: this if they want to get to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: and win the damn thing. Devanta Smith that that that

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Speaker 2: drop was brutal. I'm sure he said the losses on me.

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Speaker 2: You know, he took took ownership. AJ Brown had a

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Speaker 2: good game, just roasting. And I mean Marshall Lttimore, who

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Speaker 2: just damage goods? Here is the old what's going on?

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Speaker 2: I think you need to be aware of, Josh Sweat

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Speaker 2: So again I'm not freaking out about the Eagles loss.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have Jalen Hurts, and yes, getting five turnovers

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Speaker 2: how thinn the Margins are in the NFL. If DeVonta

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Speaker 2: Apologies to the Lions fans who listen to the pod,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's quickly go to college football. And I'm

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Speaker 2: kick by Ohio State. Should they not have been there? Yeah, oh,

425
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Speaker 2: they should not have been there. Why because they lost

426
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Speaker 2: a football game? Guys, let's go back your resume. What

427
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 2: you do during the season dictates whether or not you

428
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Speaker 2: get to the playoff. What happened in the playoff is

429
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Speaker 2: totally independent of the regular season. You've gotta play and

430
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Speaker 2: win and coach and do all the things in the

431
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Speaker 2: regular season to make it to the playoffs. And SMU

432
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 2: did that, Indiana did that, and Tennessee did that. Now,

433
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:46,880
Speaker 2: what everybody undervalued was a three weeks off to prepare

434
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 2: b home field advantage and see which doesn't isn't going

435
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 2: to apply every year. But it was several warm weather

436
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 2: teams going to cold weather Tennessee. The coldest game they

437
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 2: had played in all season was like forty five degrees.

438
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 2: It was like sixteen degrees in Ohio State. SMU's coldest

439
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 2: game this season, I think was like forty three degrees

440
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 2: or something. In any acc championship, and then at Penn

441
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 2: State it was freezing. It was like, you know, eighteen degrees,

442
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,159
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty degrees, that stuff mattered, did you now? Listen?

443
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: SMU handed the game over turnover on downs, pick six,

444
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 2: pick six, turnover on downs, like they just gave that

445
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 2: game away. Tennessee looked like they were totally shook and

446
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 2: shell shocked because Will Howard. Will Howard, who I've criticized

447
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 2: on this podcast plenty, was unbelievable against the Balls. Now

448
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 2: is it a Will Howard because A he had three

449
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 2: weeks to prepare for the playoff game? Is it b?

450
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 2: Chip Kelly had a come to Jesus moment where he said,

451
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do what I did against Michigan. Is

452
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Speaker 2: it See? Will Howard was concussed against Michigan in that

453
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Speaker 2: big time hit in the first quarter and was never

454
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Speaker 2: the same after that. Or is it d that Ohio

455
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 2: State's just really friggin good and everybody overreacted to Michigan.

456
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: Probably the answer is not usually one. It's usually a

457
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: combo of all of them. But for whatever reason, I

458
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 2: was I've had a great college football season gambling, and

459
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 2: I was able to notice almost all of those things.

460
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 2: And I told you guys the teaser it was an

461
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Speaker 2: easy that one of the easiest no sweat winners of

462
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 2: all of the entire season, and then straight up all

463
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Speaker 2: the favorites rolled. Now let's that's in the past. Let's

464
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Speaker 2: go to this week. So A, the games are not

465
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Speaker 2: this coming weekend. Okay, not this weekend. The games will

466
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Speaker 2: be on the thirty first. So next Tuesday is the

467
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Speaker 2: damn it, I don't be order. Oh yeah, next Tuesday

468
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 2: is the Boise State Penn State game, and that one

469
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Speaker 2: is in Glendale, Arizona. So no home games this week, correct,

470
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Speaker 2: no home games for the next round of the college

471
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Speaker 2: football Playoff. They are neutral site games Boise Penn State

472
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Speaker 2: from Glendale, Arizona. Now, Penn State fans, they have a

473
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Speaker 2: history of traveling. I would assume many are going to

474
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Speaker 2: want to leave Happy Valley in Penn State, in the

475
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Speaker 2: East Coast in cold weather for Glendale Arizona. I'm certain

476
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Speaker 2: Boise State will travel extremely well for this game. Okay,

477
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Speaker 2: And I will tell you the first bet I made

478
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 2: was on Boise State getting ten and a half. That

479
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 2: was the first bet. And folks, I am going to

480
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 2: look close because I think there might be a money

481
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: line play here on Boise State. Go back and watch

482
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: a condensed version of Penn State SMU. And again, I

483
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 2: know that's just one game, but I mean SMU literally

484
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: handed the football game to them, which is ineptitude left

485
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 2: and right. Okay, And I don't know that Madsen, the

486
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: Boise quarterback, is going to make those type of mistakes. Again,

487
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Speaker 2: not outdoors, not an adducted for one hundred and eight

488
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 2: thousand people, is a neutral psych game. Okay. So I

489
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 2: think that's a big edge for Boise. And I know

490
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 2: people are gonna say, oh, Boise, look what happened. All

491
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 2: the teams couldn't have been there, Look at him. Come on, Jay,

492
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 2: Indiana shouldn't have been there. They got smoked. SMU, you

493
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been there. They got crushed. Clemson total trash.

494
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 2: And everybody's just gonna do that in round two to

495
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Speaker 2: Boise in Arizona State. I'm just listen, man, you want

496
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 2: to if you guys have the time and you are

497
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: into gambling, go back and look at Ashton Genty against Oregon.

498
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 2: You can watch all his runs. You look on YouTube,

499
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: search it hard enough and the people cut up all

500
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Speaker 2: of his runs against Oregon. Okay, Ashton Genty destroyed Oregon,

501
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 2: and you could say it was earlier the season, Jay fine, Okay,

502
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: chalk it up to that. But Boise played Oregon tougher

503
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: on the road, okay than Penn State did against Oregon

504
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 2: at a neutral syche game, like Penn State was in

505
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten Championship, but you never really felt like,

506
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Speaker 2: oh they got there, They're in this. Boise would not

507
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 2: go away. And I'm just I was reading up some

508
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: stats on Ashton Genty. He has more yards after contact, okay,

509
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 2: after first hit eighteen hundred and eighty two yards then

510
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 2: anyone else in the country has. Just rushing the football.

511
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 2: You can't bring down Genty with the first hit. He

512
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: is so fast and tough. This kid is special. And

513
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: I know everybody loves Travis Hunter. Listen. I don't know

514
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 2: gent personally. I don't know anyone in circle, but I'm

515
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: telling you right now, GENTI believes he should have won

516
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 2: that Heisman. He's said it. He said as much. And

517
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: if you can think of anybody with a chip on

518
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: their shoulder, and oh, by the way, he will have had.

519
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 2: I believe it is four weeks since his last game

520
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 2: to think about this and let it marinate since the Heisman.

521
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: If I'm Boise, i am taking the ball first. I've

522
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 2: had over three weeks to cook up my best stuff.

523
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 2: I'm taken the ball first. I'm going down and scoring,

524
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Speaker 2: and it's going to be an action gent type drive.

525
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: I would expect Boise too, as the kids like to say,

526
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Speaker 2: empty the clip, and this one is going to be interesting.

527
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 2: Pennisate is a very good team, no doubt about that.

528
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Speaker 2: I'm not totally dismissing them, but I think people are

529
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: gonna va. People are gonna gravitate towards the favorites. The

530
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 2: general public is gonna see the favorites grote rolled and

531
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Speaker 2: they're gonna take all their Christmas stocking money. I'd say,

532
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 2: oh yeah, give me, give me that favorite, give me

533
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 2: that favorite. I'm just telling you right now, be careful

534
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: with Boise and pen Sate. Be very careful. Now. The

535
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 2: opposite is, well, what to Penn State gets the ball first,

536
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 2: goes down, scores, and then Boise can't score and Penn

537
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 2: S's goes up fourteen to nothing. Genti's out of the game.

538
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 2: That not so fast because Penn State's offense ain't that great.

539
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: They're not unimaginative. I don't. I didn't see anything against

540
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 2: SMU where I was like ooh, other than getting the

541
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: ball to Warren and scheming him up all over the place.

542
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 2: I don't nothing Nobody on Penn State scares me, and

543
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 2: I think Boise State is gonna be very live in

544
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 2: that game. Now the other three I haven't done as

545
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: much work on. I don't know. Arizona State, Texas is

546
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. That's a puddle jumper, if you will, from

547
00:27:54,160 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: for the Long Horns in Austin. Very curious what unfolds here.

548
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: I love the cut of Arizona State's jib. Great coach,

549
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: I love that running back Scatabo Skattaboo, however you say

550
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,239
Speaker 2: his name. They just they're not going to have their

551
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: number one receiver. I know what they did to Iowa State,

552
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 2: and okay, that's great. This Texas team, man, they just

553
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: they laid the wood to Clemson. I mean I felt

554
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 2: like they could have had fifty forty points at halftime.

555
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 2: I mean they were they were just totally dominant. So

556
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 2: I'm a little less confident in Arizona State making a close,

557
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: but I like their coach a lot, and I in Dillingham.

558
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: I believe, I trust, so we'll see what happens there.

559
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: Ohio State Oregon. The world is going to be on

560
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: Ohio State in this game. And I do believe what

561
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: you saw from the Buckeyes is a lot more of

562
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: what you we expected to see against Michigan. Hey, we've

563
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: got the best receiver in college football and he is

564
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith. He's better than Travis Hunter as a receiver. Sorry,

565
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: that's just the truth. Travis Hunter's is an exceptional athlete.

566
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 2: But it was fun that Ohio State recognized, Oh, we've

567
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 2: got this this guy who's awesome, and oh, look they're

568
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: trying man coverage on our guy who is kind of

569
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 2: a Calvin Johnson Brandy Moss hybrid. That's what he is.

570
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: Watch Jeremia Smith. The guy's incredible. And Will Howard was

571
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: dealing and got the ball to him and I saw

572
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 2: a stat that he had more catches in that game

573
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: then he had targets in the Michigan game. And I'm like,

574
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,239
Speaker 2: I don't know what Chip Kelly was thinking. Maybe they

575
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: just got tight against Michigan. And I have no idea,

576
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: but the world is going to be on Ohio State.

577
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: I can totally understand. The game is at the Rose Bowl,

578
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: so Oregon will be well wrapped, as will Ohio State.

579
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great game on January first. You

580
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 2: guys are gonna want to lock in for that. I

581
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: give the lean to Ohio State. I thought they were

582
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: the better team at Oregon. Will Howard cost him the game.

583
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: I don't want to overreact to a great game from

584
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: Will Howard against Tennessee, but I think you remember the

585
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: public loved Tennessee in that game. So the public just

586
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 2: watched their valls get waxed by Ohio State, and everybody's

587
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: going to be on Ohio State. I don't know that

588
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: I can back Oregon here. I need to do some

589
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: more work. I like their coach, I like their quarterback.

590
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 2: Been a bit of a layoff for the Ducks. We

591
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: will see. I would lean Ohios day. And then in

592
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: the last one, Notre Dame Georgia. If you go back

593
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: to the talk with Brad Powers from last week, George

594
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: is gonna be it with their backup quarterback, and Notre

595
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: Dame looked pretty good. I didn't think they looked as good,

596
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I thought they looked really good.

597
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, I didn't think that they look

598
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: the most impressive of the three. I just thought that

599
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: a lot of that was just Indiana like this, we

600
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: expected this, right. If you strip out the ninety eight

601
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: yard touchdown run from Notre Dame, I'm not gonna lie.

602
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 2: I think Marcus Freeman and that coaching staff held some

603
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: stuff back. I did not see a ton of creativity.

604
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they were saving stuff, because you can't

605
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 2: really do that, but this was once they got the

606
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: fourteen to nothing lead. Ninety eight yard touchdown run as a

607
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: game changer, obviously, but once they got that lead, it

608
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: felt to me like, okay, power down, Let's just get

609
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 2: conservative here. We got the game, let's not let's not

610
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: lose the game. But with our defense, we're gonna be

611
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: in good shape now. Georgia, they don't really have the

612
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: receivers to scare Notre Dame secondary, which yes, was carved

613
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: up by us. He's backup quarterback like about a month ago.

614
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: But at the same time as the line of scrimmage

615
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: for Georgia is man, they just dominate. You saw what

616
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: they did to Texas that Georgia front. I did my

617
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: mock draft. I got one of those monster defenders going

618
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: to my Jets and the kicker is where is this game?

619
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: It is at the Superdome, which is like a second

620
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: home to Georgia. Now that sucks for Notre Dame because

621
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 2: they're basically going into enemy territory. I don't know how

622
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: Georgia always gets to play in New Orleans at the Superdome,

623
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: but like that's an easy drive, and I think Georgia

624
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 2: is gonna have the crowd advantage. I want to be

625
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 2: on the Irish. I'll definitely be rooting Notre Dame. I

626
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: need to need some more work on that. I got

627
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: to reach out to my Notre Dame people and see

628
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: what they're saying, what they're because again, this Georgia backup quarterback,

629
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: you look good for a drive the first one against Texas,

630
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: and after that I didn't see anything special. But the

631
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: college football games the next couple of weeks is just

632
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: going to be extraordinary. I'm extremely fired up, and obviously

633
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: it helps when you when you have a great gambling weekend.

634
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: All right, As for programming, I don't don't. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what the game plan is. I think we'll probably

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Speaker 2: have one tomorrow and then we won't have to preview,

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Speaker 2: you know, Christmas and stuff, and then we'll probably have

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Speaker 2: one for Friday to wrap up the Christmas week festivities.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, it was a good it was a

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Speaker 2: great weekend. Not just good, it was great and we

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Speaker 2: hope to have many, many more of these NFL playoffs

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Speaker 2: are on the horizon. College football, Oh, it's just getting

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Speaker 2: so good. Talk to you tomorrow.