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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. This is straight

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Speaker 1: fire or Tuesday, November six, Nice little victory lap to

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Speaker 1: start today, right, everybody loved yesterday's pick me and Rob

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Speaker 1: g head to head. Rarely do we go head to head.

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Speaker 1: I told him the Niners were the side. It was

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Speaker 1: a gross play, but you gotta do it. And you know, Rob,

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Speaker 1: no way gotta go Rams come on? And Uh, folks,

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Speaker 1: I don't know would that qualify as what the kids

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Speaker 1: seven in a game that was not closed for a

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Speaker 1: second in the second half. Just this is what the

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Speaker 1: NFL is. It is the most unpredictable sport in America,

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Speaker 1: and that's why we love it. I mean, nobody had

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Speaker 1: so insane. The Bills loosed Jacksonville Mr. Jacksonville nine to six,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh my gosh, all right, they were

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Speaker 1: just the league is weird. The league is insane. I

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Speaker 1: And you know what the reaction is this morning because

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Speaker 1: They can't win at home. I mean, they're just awful

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Speaker 1: this is a layup. It's obvious Rams are the side,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't the side. So today the reaction is, oh,

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Speaker 1: think for a moment. Who won the Super Bowl Tampa

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Speaker 1: play clock, they minimize the possessions because they think that, hey,

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Speaker 1: if we shortened this game, it's going to keep our

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Speaker 1: count your guy. And so that one of them for him.

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Speaker 1: Do you trust la Fleur in the playoffs? Not really? See.

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Speaker 1: So here's the interesting thing. And I didn't really think

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Speaker 1: questioning him. At some point, Rob his record has to

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Speaker 1: So his first season thirteen and three, his second season

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Speaker 1: to give the guy a little bit of credit, do

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Speaker 1: we not? Just a little a shred? I know we

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Speaker 1: could say, well, he's got Aaron Rodgers. Well, okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: show me the coach has got a great record without

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, right. I mean, I'm not a huge leafloor guy.

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Speaker 1: He's failed in boat championship games. But again, this guy

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Speaker 1: the rough, choppy waters with Rogers. He doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we can talk about McVeigh all

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Speaker 1: got Tom Brady. Okay, um floors down a pretty damn

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Speaker 1: good job. I say the Packers are the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. I know people aren't gonna

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Speaker 1: want to hear that at all. I mean, I would

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Speaker 1: probably agree with you. I just can't say with a

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Speaker 1: straight face that I think that they're easily better than X,

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Speaker 1: Y and Z team, because, like you mentioned, they have

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Speaker 1: a lot of holes too. Nobody's without holes, right, No,

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Speaker 1: But I mean they probably have more holes than any

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Speaker 1: of the other elite teams. You can think of. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's a better way to frame but who is the

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Speaker 1: Oh what Dallas? Even then, I don't feel great about it.

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Speaker 1: But I mean theoretically it's Buffalo, but they don't actually

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Speaker 1: play like that team all the time. Yeah, they got it.

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Speaker 1: They got a real bigly. That Colts game is gonna

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Speaker 1: be philmenal let me just look at Dallas real quick.

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Speaker 1: We'll wrap up on this. So Dallas lost a close

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Speaker 1: one to the Bucks in the opener, beat the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Nice win over the Patriots, great win over the Vikings

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Speaker 1: smashed the Falcons. So their best win is on the

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Speaker 1: road over a rookie quarterback in mac Jones. Teams they've

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Speaker 1: beaten there over five hundred right now, would include the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: I think the Charges are five, right, yes, yeah, So

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Speaker 1: they beat a couple of teams that are currently five hundred,

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Speaker 1: and they have one win over a team over five.

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Speaker 1: So again that's not if you know, if you were

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Speaker 1: to put the blind you know how during n C

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Speaker 1: like this resume versus this one who should get in

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Speaker 1: you'd be like, all right, what else you got? You know,

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Speaker 1: It's like you're not that impressed or blown away by that.

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Speaker 1: And frankly, if you're just going on the resume, I

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Speaker 1: think you have to go in Arizona. But again, resume

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Speaker 1: is not everything. Like Arizona has they smashed the Titans, Okay,

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Speaker 1: they beat the rams Um, I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: forty niners, those that forty niners sweep, is that impressive.

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Speaker 1: And you've got the inexplicable loss to the Panthers, Like

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Speaker 1: everybody has a bad loss or two. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's just a tough one. Rob. It's very difficult this year,

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Speaker 1: which is what makes it amazing and fun. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the running theme of this whole season is that you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that's why it's hard to to say definitively

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Speaker 1: who's the best. You know, any given Sunday, right, you

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Speaker 1: thought of you mentioned it. Football Outsiders, they um, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna come out later today with their new d v O. A.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm fascinating. I'm gonna try to get Aaron Chatz

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Speaker 1: they're taking a lot of heat for some of them,

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Speaker 1: Like they don't. D v OI does not like the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. The Titans are eight and two. The d

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Speaker 1: d v O I likes the forty Niners, you know,

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Speaker 1: like it's it's weird. But it does break down numbers

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has the best t D to interception ratio

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Speaker 1: Like nobody thinks Kirk Cousins is remotely close to the

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Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league, right, rob, I mean, what

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Speaker 1: is even a top ten quarterback? No? Okay, So he's

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Speaker 1: putting up ridiculous numbers and it's like, what are the

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Speaker 1: vikings good? And it's just more questions and it almost

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Speaker 1: feels like we're going down like a rabbit hole of

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Speaker 1: riddles and uh, hopefully we'll figure it out. So a

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Speaker 1: good NBA guest coming up, hopefully Aeron Chats and maybe

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Speaker 1: another gambler. If you guys do have requests for guests

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Speaker 1: or something you think we should get, maybe I've been

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Speaker 1: missing out on By all means, hit us up on

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Speaker 1: social media let me know. Um. All right, that'll be

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Speaker 1: it for today, talk to you tomorrow.