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

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Speaker 1: straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: January twelve, two thousand and twenty two. And nice day today,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? January twelveth We'll have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: on today's podcast. Tomorrow we have a good guest for

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Speaker 1: the best NFL playoff game. Um, you can guess which

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Speaker 1: game that is. I don't think you're gonna guess our guests.

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Speaker 1: But he did play for one of the teams about

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Speaker 1: a decade ago. And he has a great, great nickname,

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Speaker 1: or he had it when he was playing in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But January twelve, we've got a lot to get to today.

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Speaker 1: It is, um, obviously a day of big birthdays. Howard

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Speaker 1: Stern Jason McIntyre, Yeah, a big day obviously. But I

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Speaker 1: think we need to get the real sports stories because

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Speaker 1: there's good ones out there. Uh and Joe Judge getting

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Speaker 1: fired by the Giants is not one of them. That's

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Speaker 1: way down the list. Um. The college football final ratings

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Speaker 1: for Georgia Alabama were, oh my god, they were staggeringly bad.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that shortly, but I think we have

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Speaker 1: to open with the NFL because a couple of people

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Speaker 1: sent me this and I missed the text. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: then of course Rob g producer to the Stars, sends

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Speaker 1: me some topic ideas and I was like, wow, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about that, and then he sends me this one.

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Speaker 1: And Pro Football Focus. We've had several guests from Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus. I like their stuff. Um. I I either

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Speaker 1: subscribe or someone gave me the code to look at

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, but I used it every week, almost

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Speaker 1: every day, um, to look at grades. I mean I

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Speaker 1: just submitted an NFL mock draft. Uh, mock draft four

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Speaker 1: point oh, yes, four point oh. We start them right

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Speaker 1: after the draft happened. So fourth one in what is

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Speaker 1: this nine months now? Um? And you're on Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: like looking at where their deficiencies on NFL teams. You're

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Speaker 1: football players and Pro Football Focus. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: valuable resource. But then they go out and do nonsense

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Speaker 1: it's all protein and they're starting running backs obvious, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: all that. That stuff is easy, Deebo Samuel's reflex like none,

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Speaker 1: You know you got Eric Donald obviously, Uh, Max Crosby

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Speaker 1: you look at quarterback, which is obviously the most important

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Speaker 1: position in sports pro football focus when with Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: and their second tea quarterback is Joe Burrow. Okay, let

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Speaker 1: that sink in for a moment. Now, why would they

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Speaker 1: do this? Well, as someone who ran a sports website

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Speaker 1: several ways you can easily gin up clicks. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: did something called the Roundup every day the best links

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Speaker 1: we'd have some attractive female, Um, Jessica Beal whoever it was,

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Speaker 1: Super random? Anyways, that was always one of the most

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Speaker 1: the Roundup. What you could also do lists right list.

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Speaker 1: People love the lists. You just quickly look through it.

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Speaker 1: there's no explanation. They hype up Brady. He led the

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Speaker 1: doesn't exist. So that's obviously the first trick, right, you

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Speaker 1: certain multiple blogs, green Bay blogs, green Bay newspapers, green

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Because how the hell do is snub Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers when he was easily the best back in the

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Speaker 1: Why did I talk about Pro Football Focus? Because they

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Speaker 1: call that necessarily clickbait because it's more of a trick.

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Speaker 1: A clickbait is when you advertise something that is totally

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Speaker 1: my opinion. I'm sure other people have theirs, but this

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Speaker 1: this is. Smart move by Pro Football Focus. Y'all got me?

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it. But there is good news for the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers crowd. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

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Speaker 1: Peter King Incredible Football Morning and America Guy. Um he's

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Speaker 1: sports writers. He pulled thirty six media members and former

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Speaker 1: Thirty two of them said Aaron Rodgers. Thirty two of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I think that's going to be more symbolic

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