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

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Speaker 1: Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday, January.

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Speaker 1: It was a good Monday show. A lot of reaction, Uh,

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Speaker 1: some laughs at the girl Scout cookies. Hope you guys

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Speaker 1: are ordering. Would mean a lot to the wife, would

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Speaker 1: mean a lot to the daughter, would mean a lot

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Speaker 1: to me. A lot of joy over the Rams pick up.

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Speaker 1: Aparently I made you guys a lot of money over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. You love to see it, You love to

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Speaker 1: see it. Um, this weekend will be a little tougher.

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta gotta get a little bit exotic

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Speaker 1: for NFL Conference Championship weekend. But there's actually some decent

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Speaker 1: storylines here. Um. I'm not gonna open with Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: possibly likely returning tonight to action. Um, we'll see. Obviously

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Speaker 1: Lakers could use him. Frank Vogel probably begging a D

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Speaker 1: to return at this stage. Uh, Lebron's playing out of

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Speaker 1: his mind, and you get a D back and this

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Speaker 1: team can easily salvage his road trip. It was a

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Speaker 1: grueling road trip and like as are back in business,

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Speaker 1: you know, here for the final home stretch, if I

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Speaker 1: could quickly before we get to the NFL, because there's

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Speaker 1: way better stuff in the NFL and the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: just want to laugh at the Philadelphia seventis. I have

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Speaker 1: to laugh Darryl Morey, who is clearly losing the battle

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Speaker 1: um in Philadelphia. They are now the sixth seed I

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Speaker 1: believe in the East. And Joel Embiide it sounds like

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Speaker 1: best player. Yes, he's their second best player, and Darryl

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Speaker 1: Morris taking heat like, you know, what are we gonna trade?

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna unload Ben? And Morey puts it

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Speaker 1: out there through I don't know Shams or one of

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Speaker 1: these other media guys that they are gonna make a

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Speaker 1: move on James Harden in the off season. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: that's the Sixers game plan. They're going to try to

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Speaker 1: playing trying to checkmate Ben Simmons into capitulating and joining

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Speaker 1: same time, they're trying to play Kate and Be by

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Speaker 1: saying hey, hey, hey, we're doing our best, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: Help us on the way next season, and be should

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Speaker 1: see through this cunning ruse and call out Mori and

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Speaker 1: really let this go to def Con one because it's

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Speaker 1: getting close. And that's probably like your top three NBA

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Speaker 1: story heading into February once the NFL winds down, but

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Speaker 1: the NFL is still kicking. And I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: I should lead with Aaron Rodgers leaving because I think

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Speaker 1: it's happening. You know that I'll be driving that bus

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Speaker 1: probably into a gutter this offseason, the Sean Payton stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I saw this. I don't know if a lot

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Speaker 1: you guys could tell, I'm not a huge fan of

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. I just think he's a great a knucklehead,

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Speaker 1: a buffoon. I'm not gonna sit here and call him

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Speaker 1: any more names I could easily, but essentially, Antonio Brown

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Speaker 1: where do you want to go? And he said oh,

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Speaker 1: I want to play with Lamar Jackson. But he didn't

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Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson and you're just like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: what Lamar Jackson. And then you start digging around, You're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: they've worked out together their Miami Florida guys, Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: they don't give you no whiteouts. I mean, they drafted

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Speaker 1: they picked up Sammy Watkins in free agency? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he knows the quarterbacks in this league want nothing

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Speaker 1: of me. If I'm a Ravens fan, you know hardball,

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Speaker 1: I think you would be lighting the future of the

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Speaker 1: But the bigger story is the Aaron Rodgers situation, and

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Speaker 1: it is getting dicey in Green Bay. Obviously, the loss

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farffe now played twenty nine since

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because Eli Manning has long been considered, Ah,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be Nathaniel Hackett, who offensive coordinator of

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Speaker 1: This is not about Nathaniel Hackett like some offensive mastermind

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Speaker 1: The Broncos must think that hack it can be a

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Speaker 1: Rogers was very close to going to Denver, very close.

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Speaker 1: So you start making these connections. And again, do I

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