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

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Speaker 1: Fire Family, Jason McIntyre here, Straight to Fire for Thursday, May,

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Speaker 1: NFL schedules out. Oh, I know everybody had it circled

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Speaker 1: on the calendar, you guys. Obviously, the NFL schedule releases massive.

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Speaker 1: We now have gambling lines for week one. You can

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Speaker 1: load up. You can go ahead and load up on

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars against the Houston Texans. Go ahead and

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Speaker 1: do it. It's probably a college tuition payment. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can do it. Put it on Trevor Lawrence and Urban Meyer.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead. I know I've given out gambling advice right

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Speaker 1: out the gate, but um, I thought we'd pretty much

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Speaker 1: just dedicate the entire pod today to the NFL schedule release.

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Speaker 1: I have five big takeaways that I will reveal. It's

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Speaker 1: interesting because we know the opponents that's out there, but

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Speaker 1: Browns last year, they opened with the Baltimore Ravens and

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Speaker 1: they got squashed, and everybody's like, oh, say, bald Browns.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Browns come back, had a great season,

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Speaker 1: Then the Browns have a bye, and then the Browns play.

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Speaker 1: Browns play the Ravens again, so they play in week

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Speaker 1: twelve by for the Browns Week four teen, Browns Ravens again.

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Speaker 1: Very odd. But then what we can now do because

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, their biggest rival. We know what happens

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Speaker 1: after the week after. Usually those teams are spent from battling.

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to get too excited about my

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that. I will say I did an awesome, fun,

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Speaker 1: spectacular over an hour show at Fox, a gambling schedule

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Speaker 1: check it out. It's on YouTube, they posted on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: it's on Twitter, Fox Sports dot com. And I wrote

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Speaker 1: up a piece, just a quick hit piece breaking down

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Speaker 1: every team and Mike early thoughts based on the schedule release.

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Speaker 1: And I'm very excited it's May. There's still a lot

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Speaker 1: sure you've heard a lot of other names. Obviously, June

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Speaker 1: one is a big day for Aaron Rodgers. Uh. Once

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Obviously, the NBA playoffs are close. Not gonna

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Speaker 1: NBA on Wednesday, And I had a Buddy invited me

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Speaker 1: number one. The San Francisco forty Niners have the easiest

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Speaker 1: the bank. Most of the analysis you'll read today is, oh,

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Speaker 1: That's straight up, like you know, two thousand and seven analysis.

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Speaker 1: You know, what matters more now is the gambling lines.

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Speaker 1: Vegas has a better read on teams than a win

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Speaker 1: a minute. But the forty Niners have the easiest schedule

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