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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, Straight Fire family, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Tuesday, November nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Right, the boy's feeling it this morning. Why because Houston

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Speaker 2: Texans came through last night. It was not pretty at all,

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Speaker 2: but the Texans throttle the Dallas Cowboys. Oh, the reeling Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Holy cow, it's gotten really bad in Dallas thirty four

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Speaker 2: to ten. A beatdown pushed me to a four and

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Speaker 2: one in the Vegas contest. You guys definitely don't care

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Speaker 2: about this, and I actually didn't mention it last week.

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Speaker 2: So a guy that I work with at Fox, the

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Speaker 2: social media guy for cow Herd and the Herd, this

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Speaker 2: guy named Wes, really good tennis player. He told me

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Speaker 2: about this pick'em contest. So I entered last year and

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Speaker 2: I was like near the top, and then I created

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Speaker 2: the last two weeks and I didn't cash, but it

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Speaker 2: is like maybe one hundred twenty five people or whatever,

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Speaker 2: and I did pretty won a couple weeks whatever. So

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Speaker 2: this year I did it again and I was doing

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Speaker 2: good running hot last week, not this past weekend, but

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Speaker 2: I guess two weekends ago I was so slammed with

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Speaker 2: family stuff, kids stuff. I decided to play basketball Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: I forgot to put in my picks, and so I

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Speaker 2: only got one game, the Thursday night game, and I

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Speaker 2: was just devastated. And I'm like, oh, there's no change,

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Speaker 2: it's over. I can't make a run. This stinks. But

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Speaker 2: I ain't no quitter. You know, guy, You guys at

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Speaker 2: this point, you know me listening. I'm a hyper competitive weirdo.

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Speaker 2: And I went twelve or fourteen in the contest in

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Speaker 2: the pick them this week, and you have to the

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Speaker 2: tiebreaker is the final score of Monday and football. So

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Speaker 2: I had Houston and I had forty four and the

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Speaker 2: game landed thirty four ten. So a nice victim. Nice

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Speaker 2: bounce back. Listen, Never stay down. You're gonna get knocked

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Speaker 2: down in life. We know this. Never stay down, bounce

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Speaker 2: back up. There's always another day, another battle to fight. Onward.

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Speaker 2: As I like to say, Anyways, enough bragging, although I

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Speaker 2: do like to do that sometimes. Listen, I guess we'll

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Speaker 2: start with the Texans. I'm not gonna lie. I was

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Speaker 2: not oppressed with this Texans victory. Slowick was catching a

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Speaker 2: lot of heat for some of the sequencing of play

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Speaker 2: calls like they come out first play like a bubble screen.

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins takes it to the house, but it comes

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Speaker 2: back out a penalty, and that was frustrating. I had

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins anytime touchdown did not cash. And then Joe

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Speaker 2: Mixon takes over. But then on a weird third and

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Speaker 2: one third quarter, nursing a twenty to ten lead, they

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Speaker 2: decide to throw with a deep out and Stroud was

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Speaker 2: way off and everybody's like, what are we doing? Joe

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Speaker 2: Mixon is dominating this sad sack. Cowboys run defense. They

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Speaker 2: can't stop anybody on the ground. They had a buck

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Speaker 2: forty one for Houston five point six yards per carry,

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Speaker 2: and you're not handing it off to mix it on

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Speaker 2: third and one Slowick just left a little something to

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Speaker 2: be desired. The offensive coordinator, remember he was a hot

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Speaker 2: commodity last year when he was so good. And that

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Speaker 2: offensive line is just total. As my son likes to say, cheeks.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's the new word for you know, ass.

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Speaker 2: But Laramie Tunsul is a penalty machine. They were just bad.

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Speaker 2: The offensive line was bad. They were getting beat in

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Speaker 2: the trenches and this is kind of what happens with

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Now, they're feisty for a half member. Against Philly,

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Speaker 2: they were kind of feisty, and then they got blown

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Speaker 2: out because you know, they don't have the talent. Cooper

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Speaker 2: rush stinks. I mean, Cooper rushed through the ball fifty

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Speaker 2: five times, guys, like if you had him in Fantasy three,

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Speaker 2: and there's no way you had him in Fantasy three

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty four yards Like, it was a little

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Speaker 2: strange how often they had him throw. But they have

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Speaker 2: no run game, none whatsoever. And amazingly, because Stroud didn't

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Speaker 2: throw as much, they ran it. I had an amazing

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Speaker 2: Again you don't care, but in fantasy football, I had

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Speaker 2: Ferguson who got concussed on the first drive. I had

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Speaker 2: fair Baron, who's maybe a top three kicker in the league,

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Speaker 2: and then the Houston defense, and I was down, like

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Speaker 2: and in just an unbelievable turn of events, the Houston

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Speaker 2: Fairbaron hits ten and I pull off an unbelievable, unbelievable

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Speaker 2: team in fantasy. But again, I'm not like I was.

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Speaker 2: I think I was like one and six to start,

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Speaker 2: not gonna quit. I'm gonna try to fight and get

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs, because like, what's the point of quitting.

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Speaker 2: I just don't understand in life why you would quit.

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Speaker 2: That being said, I want to segue to the Cowboys,

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Speaker 2: who I thought looked like they quit in the second half.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Ceedee lamb very frustrated, understandably so,

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Speaker 2: Geyton went down. It was weird. Geydon scooped up. When

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Speaker 2: Cooper Rush fumbled, Geyiton scooped it up and tried to run,

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Speaker 2: which I mean, okay, fall on it or try to run.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Usually it's just fall on the damn football.

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Speaker 2: But Jalen Petrie came up and just drilled Giton, who's

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Speaker 2: not used to carrying the football, and he was like, upright,

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Speaker 2: And it was like, I I think, I don't know

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Speaker 2: probably his last year in Dallas. He left injured. Another

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Speaker 2: offensive lineman I want to say. His name was like Brooks.

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Speaker 2: It's not like it's good. He goes down and at

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Speaker 2: that point you're just like, oh my gosh, you're at

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Speaker 2: the stage where and again I mentioned the word quit.

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Speaker 2: I don't like to quit in anything, whether it's sports, gambling, whatever. Folks,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you. It looks to me

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Speaker 2: You know. It's my Jets, I think are one. I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna lie. I think the Jets are starting to

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Speaker 2: look like a team that's quitting. Maybe they're not totally

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Speaker 2: throwing in the towel, but the tackling isn't as cris

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Speaker 2: They're getting beat, they're not as locked in. They have

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Speaker 2: nothing to play for and they know it. But last

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Speaker 2: to the quarterback. Right. We talked yesterday about Jacksonville quitting.

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Speaker 2: five straight games. This is what they've given up at

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Speaker 2: Washington this week, and Washington's lost two straight and you

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Speaker 2: have to assume that there are some injuries on the

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Speaker 2: Dallas front line. I think as soon as that commander's

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Speaker 2: Washington it's gonna be an inflated number. It might be six.

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Speaker 2: That's again, Jaden Daniels should not be a six point favorite.

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Speaker 2: But the way Dallas is playing I think that's an

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Speaker 2: and frankly other you know other teams. I was thinking,

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Speaker 2: we'll get to the Giants and their big quarterback situation.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the board and I'm like, hmmm,

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Speaker 2: where the other quitting teams. Well, Houston's playing Tennessee. That's

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Speaker 2: a divisional matchup, so I don't know if they'll totally

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Speaker 2: though they're only two and eight, and so I don't

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Speaker 2: why I was able to have I think, a really

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Speaker 2: good week. You just identify the rotten teams. Oh, the

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Speaker 2: divisional matchup. There's major weather here. The total's already getting

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Speaker 2: bet down. I got thirty six and a half, it's

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get those Lake effect wins. Precipitation. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be ugly and again rivalry games kind of I expect

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Speaker 2: though the Browns kind of look like they quit in

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Speaker 2: New Orleans, I don't know that they quit at home

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Speaker 2: their wounds. But this week's games actually pretty damn good.

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Speaker 2: So Eagles Rams Sunday Night football is a hell a

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Speaker 2: good game. Before you think, oh, you gotta go with

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Speaker 2: the Rams here, just just know it's gonna be sixty

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Speaker 2: three guys. I'm not gonna lie, and it's a great,

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Speaker 2: great opportunity for the Chargers to pick up a huge win.

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Speaker 2: The two key injuries I'm going to monitor all week

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Speaker 2: are Roquan Smith, the better linebacker, and then Kyle Hamilton.

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Speaker 2: So you're looking at a back end of the defense

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Speaker 2: that already stinks and now you're potentially missing your top

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Speaker 2: the green dot linebacker in Roquan and Kyle Hamilton, who

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Speaker 2: does a little bit of everything, and against the smash

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Speaker 2: mouth Chargers. I don't think that's good. I think the

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Speaker 2: Chargers decided that one. Now I haven't I haven't met

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Speaker 2: it yet, but I'm just putting that out there.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, back to the Cowboys, it is interesting that they

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Speaker 2: try their really hardest. Obviously, you know Mike mccarr, he's

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Speaker 2: not thrown in the towel in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 2: And again, if you're just looking at box scores, You're like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: cowboys had uh cowboys had three hundred eighty eight yards.

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Speaker 2: They weren't terrible, but again, you just look at the ineptitude.

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Speaker 2: Five sacks given up, nine penalties. I mean, you get

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Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty eight yards and you get to

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Speaker 2: the red zone once, Like, that's that's not good. Zero

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Speaker 2: for four on fourth down. The fake punt was, I

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Speaker 2: mean comical. I just I think this is a Cowboys

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Speaker 2: team is doa now? My buddy Dan, faithful listener of

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Speaker 2: the podcast. He is excited for the potential of Shador Sanders.

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Speaker 2: He is very excited that Shduur could be coming at

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Speaker 2: Dallas and then with McCarthy on his way out, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, is there a package deal with Dion, you know,

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Speaker 2: I want to quickly pivot to the Giants who made

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Speaker 2: it's not Drew Locke, it's Tommy Davito. Ay, And that

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Speaker 2: What's that about? So there's two trains of thought. Number one, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: basket maker in NBA history, James Harden. And it's weird

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Speaker 2: because this is how narratives work, guys. Harden had a

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Speaker 2: run in Houston, whor Man, he was fricking unstoppable, and

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Speaker 2: But there was a there was a time where James

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Speaker 2: Harden was like being called He's the best scorer since

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Do you guys remember that that was a

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Speaker 2: thing now? I think it was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen

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Speaker 2: when they had those battles with the Warriors. But Harden

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Speaker 2: the step back and every day they basically made a

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Speaker 2: because it was I don't know, I guess people were

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Speaker 2: the forefront of rule changes. He's almost underrated. Like when

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Speaker 2: I say, where's James Harden all time NBA, and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I hadn't really thought of that. And people would probably say, well,

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Speaker 2: Clyde Drexler's better than James Harden. And again it's a

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Speaker 2: longer discussion. We could have to debate with someone else,

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Speaker 2: but like, yeah, maybe I'll get my guy, Chris Boussard

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Speaker 2: I don't think he ever was on an Olympic team,

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Speaker 2: and that seems to be a big barometer for people. Well,

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Speaker 2: Clyd Drexler was on the Dream team and I'm looking,

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm sorry. Harden was on the twenty twelve

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Speaker 2: London Games, the World Cup. I'm sorry, the Olympic team

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Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. So let me look at the stats

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Speaker 2: real quick. It was Kevin Durant led them. That was

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Speaker 2: when Durant went off. Chris Paul Lebron, Kobe, Tyson, Chandler.

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Speaker 2: James Harden played nine minutes a game. He had seventeen baskets,

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Speaker 2: six of twenty from three, so he didn't play a lot.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis was on that team, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love,

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Speaker 2: the Carmelo was on that team. He was good Deron

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Speaker 2: And I know Drexler went to the finals a couple

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Speaker 2: times with Portland, But like, it is weird how James

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Speaker 2: Harden somehow is not like in that discussion of some

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Speaker 2: of the best guards in NBA history, Like we know

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Speaker 2: he's not you know, he's not Dwayne Waite. That's obvious.

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Speaker 2: But depending on how you characterize Harden, I wonder where

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Speaker 2: he falls because the narratives around him are his playoff failures.

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Speaker 2: Would rather party than work hard. Always showed up just

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Speaker 2: a little bit out of shape, not terribly, but it

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Speaker 2: didn't matter because he could still give you forty, right,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I just I need to give

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Speaker 2: it more thought. But just seeing that stat that Harden

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Speaker 2: has made more threes than everybody in the history of

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Speaker 2: away by that, you know, so maybe we could have

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Speaker 2: a fun hard in discussion soon. In other NBA news,

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Speaker 2: the Sixers lost again. They're now two and eleven and

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Speaker 2: Joel Embie didn't play. The only bright spot seems to

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Speaker 2: be the young kid out of Duke Jared McCain. Paul

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Speaker 2: George did play. Tyrese Maxie is still hurt, and I

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Speaker 2: know the East is a tire fire. But guys, at

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Speaker 2: two and eleven, we're getting close to Oh shees, are

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Speaker 2: these guys? Are they gonna make the playoffs? We're not

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Speaker 2: there yet, I think once we get to the quarter mark,

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Speaker 2: which would be and let me get out the old

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Speaker 2: trusty calculator because it's too early to do math eighty

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Speaker 2: two divided by four, so we need about twenty and

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Speaker 2: a half game. So at the twenty one game mark,

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Speaker 2: we'll see where they are. But two and eleven, let's

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Speaker 2: keep an eye on the Sixers. You know, I love

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Speaker 2: a good implosion. And finally got to give a shout

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Speaker 2: out to the USA soccer team. They smoke Jamaica for

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Speaker 2: two Christian Pulisic two nice goals. USA look really sharp,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm a soccer guy, so we got

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Speaker 2: to throw that in. All right, back tomorrow, talk to

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Speaker 2: you then,