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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Oh boy, here

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Speaker 1: we go. I'm very, very excited for this podcast, folks.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I did not think it was

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Speaker 1: gonna happen today, Wednesday, September six. It's a big day

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, the Glee and My Voice. Folks, what

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Speaker 1: a memorable night we just witnessed in sports. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's got to be up there, Clippers gagging for the

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Speaker 1: third straight game, not clip city, choke city. Listen. There

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Speaker 1: are fifty different ways to go on this. I could

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Speaker 1: spend two hours just berating the Clippers. My phone was

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Speaker 1: blowing up. People are like, my friends are like, oh dude,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have so much good material. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be great. And a little I will start here, A

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Speaker 1: little bit of me, a little part of Jason is

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Speaker 1: a little sad that we will not see Lakers Clippers. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's that's true. I mean we've been waiting fourteen months

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Speaker 1: for this, since free agency happened. Everybody's like, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get Lebron Verse Kauai showdown, Battle of l

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Speaker 1: a blah blah blah. They had some good showdowns during

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Speaker 1: the season, everybody thought it was gonna happen. We don't

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Speaker 1: get it now, but I guess we're gonna have some

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Speaker 1: fun tearing down the Clippers and Doc Rivers, one of

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Speaker 1: the most overrated coaches, not only in the NBA but

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Speaker 1: in sports in the last like three decades. But before

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Speaker 1: we go there, the big picture takeaway is, you know, you, guys,

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Speaker 1: we all have choices to make in life. There there

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Speaker 1: are some pivotal moments in your life. You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: you gotta you got a decision. We had one, Jason,

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Speaker 1: do you want to move out to l a away

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Speaker 1: from your comfort zone, away from your friends and family

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Speaker 1: and your wife's family, and try this TV thing out

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Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. I've never lived anywhere except

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Speaker 1: basically the Northeast and in a stint in North Carolina

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Speaker 1: briefly after college. And it was a tough decision, but

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Speaker 1: ultimately I wanted to be here. The wife was on board,

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Speaker 1: and there are job decisions that are difficult to make.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you look at what just went

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Speaker 1: down with the Clippers to pinpoint the decision that Kawhi

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Speaker 1: to the Clippers and I'm gonna bring Paul George with me.

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Speaker 1: That was kawaise master plan. He thought he was a genius.

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Speaker 1: He thought he was building a super team. If you remember,

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Speaker 1: there was a moment it was Lakers, Clippers and Raptors,

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Speaker 1: and there was some thoughts that Drake could convince Kauai

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Speaker 1: nobody had that Paul George, who had just signed Remember

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Speaker 1: he was staying in Okay. See Paul George got extinguish

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Speaker 1: a row, and he's, oh, I'm gonna stay. And then

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Speaker 1: quickly Kauai calls Paul George says, come on out here,

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Speaker 1: and we'll make l A a Clipper city. And that decision,

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Speaker 1: you have to wonder. He's Kawhi Leonard going to Uncle Dennis,

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Speaker 1: Dennis his handler was going to the Lakers saying, we

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Speaker 1: want access to a private Jed at all times. I

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Speaker 1: want this, that, and the other. Kauai is making all

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Speaker 1: sorts of crazy demands. Remember I took a lot of

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Speaker 1: heat for saying Kawhi Leonard got the luckiest championship that

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Speaker 1: I can remember. Remember that Game seven against the Sixers,

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Speaker 1: the luckiest bounce in a Game seven final shot ever ever,

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Speaker 1: it was a lucky prayer that went in. I still

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Speaker 1: go on YouTube. The seventy Sixers had their chances, folks,

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Speaker 1: in Game six, and that's a rap. Kauai got lucky,

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Speaker 1: And I took a beating for saying Kauai got lucky.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, Kauai, He's maybe the best player on the planet.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do we do we want to start with

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Speaker 1: or do we want to just go to Game seven.

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Speaker 1: One of those chokes city Kauai Leonard zero points in

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Speaker 1: thought that was frigging hysterical. Little a little Slanders. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is a very good player. He's a top

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Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets. Now, Rob G can you know answer

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Speaker 1: this one later. I think the one time Lebron lost

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Speaker 1: The Celtics won the Ring, Dwight Howard lost to Kobe

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Speaker 1: But bottom line is, I mean, the hype for Kauai

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Speaker 1: Paul George and they didn't deliver. And you know, folks,

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Speaker 1: it's not that they lost to like some juggernat Okay,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Murray had forty in Game seven crunch time, Paul

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Speaker 1: a system guy. He was in a system in San Antonio.

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Speaker 1: they had two good guards. Freddie van Vleet bailed them

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Speaker 1: Kauai was Finals MVP, yes, but there was a nice

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Speaker 1: and I think the Raptors still won fifty games and

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Speaker 1: as a note, when Lebron leaves the team, the bottom

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Speaker 1: in Kauai in the same sentence. It is silly, it

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Speaker 1: is reductive. Lebron is the system. Kauai maybe he's a

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Speaker 1: more notes here. Um Doc Rivers, I was I was

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Speaker 1: done is underachieve as an NBA head coach. You want

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Speaker 1: suddenly a little questionable. Remember, Paul George one more year

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Speaker 1: I gotta keep it real here. This team underachieved. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear that Nuggets are gonna be a problem. U.

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Speaker 1: We know that they're not going anywhere. Lebron breathing Lakers

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Speaker 1: quickly get to this story in the NFL that I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna fly under the radar because of the

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Speaker 1: shenanigans that happened in the NBA. But Odell Beckham is

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Speaker 1: an immensely talented football player. We know that. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: a fact. That's a hard stop. There's no getting around it.

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham is immensely talented, but he's also become such

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Speaker 1: a problem at both New York in the locker room

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Speaker 1: and now Cleveland that you've got to wonder where is

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Speaker 1: he going to go next, because folks, there is legit

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Speaker 1: unhappiness from Odell Beckham in Cleveland. He essentially said it

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Speaker 1: to the media this week after the loss, the embarrassing

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Speaker 1: loss to the Ravens, and I just want part of

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Speaker 1: me should not be surprised because we've seen this show

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Speaker 1: before with him, and I have maintained that Odell Beckham

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Speaker 1: was a normal receiver, awesome talented guy, but a normal human,

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Speaker 1: not a superstar. And then he has the catch against

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, the amazing one

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Speaker 1: handed catch, and overnight Odell Beckham becomes a legit superstar

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Speaker 1: off one catch. He went, I mean astronomical, he I

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Speaker 1: mean he became a global sensation off one catch. Then

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Speaker 1: it was the hair, it was the swag, it was

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Speaker 1: the speed. Uh. He got the largest football contract ever

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Speaker 1: from Nike. He's dating celebrities, he's hanging out with Bieber

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Speaker 1: he's running with the Kardashians and the Hollywood Hills in

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Speaker 1: the off season, like Odell Beckham blew up after that catch,

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Speaker 1: and since then it's been just a headache after another

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Speaker 1: with the New York Giants and now with the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns and the comparison I have for Odell Beckham. And

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Speaker 1: if you listen to my Saturday show, I've used this

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Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown and I've used this with Odell Beckham.

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Speaker 1: The story of the Scorpion and the Frog. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you guys know this. If you haven't heard it,

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Speaker 1: just imagine Odell Beckham as the scorpion. Okay, scorpion needs

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Speaker 1: a ride across the river. And the scorpions like, hey, frog,

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Speaker 1: can you give me a ride across the river? I

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Speaker 1: can't get across And the frogs like, why would I

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Speaker 1: do that? You're a scorpion. You're gonna sting me and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get killed. And the scorpion goes, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: why would I sting you? I need a ride across

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Speaker 1: the river. If I sting you, I'll die too. And

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Speaker 1: the frogs like, oh, okay, that's a good point. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a ride and of course, halfway across the river,

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Speaker 1: the scorpion right on the back of the frog. Oh,

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Speaker 1: why the hell did you do that? We're gonna die.

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Speaker 1: Scorpion just shrugs. That's what I do. I'm a scorpion. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: and they die. And Odell Beckham is the scorpion. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a class act. He's happy to be

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. He loves Baker Mayfield. Odell Beckham after the

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Speaker 1: loss to Baltimore. I just want to win and produce Odell.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be happy, and he's got a big contract

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Come on, we're gonna win some games. He's

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Speaker 1: got his buddy Jervis Landry from college on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham actual quote. He said, I need to get

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Speaker 1: the ball early in games because it's like an NBA shooter.

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Speaker 1: You start shooting a couple of threes early and you

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Speaker 1: get hot and maybe you go for sixty. Like he

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Speaker 1: said that to the media. Let's listen. Odell Beckham is

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Speaker 1: a little bit delusional. First of all, the NBA analogy

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Speaker 1: just falls falls apart. Okay, the NBA is a high

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Speaker 1: variant sport. You can go three or four minutes without

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Speaker 1: Lebron taking a shot in the first quarter, and he

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Speaker 1: can get everyone else involved because Lebron's gonna get his shots.

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Speaker 1: There's a million possessions at an NBA game, in an

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Speaker 1: NFL game like against the Ravens. I noted this on

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Speaker 1: Twitter that oh, look Odell Beckham because I I have

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Speaker 1: him on my fantasy team. Now, I didn't draft him.

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Speaker 1: I'm in a league some of the guys listening to

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Speaker 1: this podcast and it was like spotty WiFi, and somehow

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Speaker 1: I accidentally been on Odell Beckham and I swear I

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Speaker 1: did not mean to. I would never draft him. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of Odell Beckham as a fantasy guy,

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Speaker 1: and I get stuck with it. So I've got him

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Speaker 1: He had a monster Sunday, and I noticed Odell Beckham

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Speaker 1: has one target as we approach halftime, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna go over well. And then you start

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Speaker 1: reading the reports that O'Dell said, well, yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 1: first touch I think with like four minutes left in

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Speaker 1: the half, and you knew something happened. In the locker room,

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Speaker 1: Odell pouting, O'Dell shouting because in the first drive the

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Speaker 1: Browns had Baker went right to him three or four times.

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Speaker 1: They got a couple of penalties, um, and he had

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Speaker 1: a couple of catches, but it was it's like four

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Speaker 1: catches for thirty six yards or whatever it was. Odell

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Speaker 1: Beckham was a total non factor. Here. Here are the numbers.

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Speaker 1: Ten targets, three catches, twenty three yards. Second lowest yardage

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Speaker 1: output in his career. Now, since he's been in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: he's faced teams in the a f C North Goals

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Speaker 1: Raven Steelers. Two of those teams have good secondaries. Odell

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Speaker 1: Beckham in seven games in the division has twenty one

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Speaker 1: catches and two touchdowns. The Browns gave up a first

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Speaker 1: and a third and Jibro Peppers. Who's the starting safety

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Speaker 1: um for Odell Beckham. I mean he's he's the guy

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Speaker 1: who's going to display the body language that I want

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Speaker 1: out when he doesn't get his way. He's just not

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Speaker 1: into it. And this is bad news for the Browns,

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Speaker 1: a team I am invested in this year. So you

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Speaker 1: know what makes sense for Odell Beckham. And we'll see

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Speaker 1: if there's able to materialize. I'll give you one guess

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Speaker 1: which team has top three cap space. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: could have three guesses if you want, but it's an

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Speaker 1: obvious one. You know where I'm going. The New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Who loves to shop in the bargain basement been Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: He's paying I think Cam Newton's on a minimum deal.

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Speaker 1: Guests who worked out in the off season with Cam

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Speaker 1: new Odell Beckham. You mean to tell me if Odell

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Speaker 1: Beckham is a problem in the locker room and Odell

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Speaker 1: Beckham's complaining and getting in Baker Mayfield's head and being

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Speaker 1: an issue in the huddle, that the Browns wouldn't cut

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Speaker 1: their losses and ship him to the Patriots. Now, Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick is gonna drive a hard bargain. Hey, you gotta

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Speaker 1: pay a large chunk of this salary because I'm not

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Speaker 1: footing that bill. But come on, folks, this makes all

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Speaker 1: the sense in the world. Patriots have the second most

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Speaker 1: cap space. O'Dell and Cam Newton are tight. Km's gonna say, Yo,

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Speaker 1: look at this, we gotta win. I need to get

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Speaker 1: some receivers. Nik kill Harry's fumbling out of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: We caught Mohamed Sanu. Can you go grab me, oh

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Speaker 1: b J. Just keep an eye on that. It would

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Speaker 1: not shock me if Odell Beckham was shipped out of

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Speaker 1: town and the Patriots got him on the cheek. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know Tom Brady's gonna send some cryptic

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Speaker 1: tweet about hey, or maybe he'll put on Facebook, because

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Speaker 1: Tom's a Facebook kind of guy. Boy, Bill, we lose

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Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski, you replace it with nothing. Cam Newton comes

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Speaker 1: in town, you get him. Odell Beckham, Thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: Bill Um, this is a situation worth monitoring. Odell Beckham,

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Speaker 1: major superstar, probably top ten jersey seller in the league.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna find a lot of non quarterbacks in there.

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Speaker 1: And Odell Beckham is already unhappy after one loss in

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Speaker 1: week one. Let all of that marinate. So uh, folks,

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