On today’s episode, Jason discusses the Philadelphia Phillies’ nightmare series-ending loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, why the Philadelphia Eagles offense appears to be stuck in the mud, what - if anything - Saquon Barkley can do to return to his 2024 form, and whether Jaxson Dart’s style of play is even sustainable. Later, J-Mac closes the show with his Best Bets for the upcoming college football and NFL Week 6 slate of games.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Fire for Friday, October the tenth, and it is
a rough one today in the city of Philadelphia. Oh
my goodness, just a brutal Thursday night in Philly. For sports.
(00:32):
You had the Dodgers taking down the Phillies, and you know,
I don't know that it was a classic. It was
an okay baseball game. It was kind of exciting there
at the end, and in brutal fashion, the Phillies lose
it in the bottom of the eleventh, bases loaded to
come back or to the pitcher. He throws it wide
of the catcher by a considerable amount. It was not
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a close walk call. I read somewhere that it was
the first time in baseball postseason history that an error
walked off the game and ended the series. It was
an unbelievable play. I was watching. My mind was blown.
I was like, wow, now I will And then the
Eagles went on to get their ass kicked by the
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New York Giants, and we'll talk about that in depth.
Holy cow, was I wrong on that one. Oh my gosh,
Thursday night is becoming a landmine. But quickly, I just
want to briefly get into this, this Phillies ending, So
you know, there's this I don't know if you guys
know are familiar with Scott Galloway aka Prof g. He's
been talking a lot lately about like what a man
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is because you know, there's this issue with young men
in this country. They're not getting good grades, thus they're
not getting into college, they're not getting good jobs, and
then women don't want to start a family with some
guy who doesn't have a lot going on, right, And
there's all this what is a man? And then you've
got the man of sphere online or claiming what men are.
(02:03):
And then you've got you know, the bro podcasters who
are all that, they're all like telling you what a
man is. And listen, if somebody is pushing it that hard,
they probably have no idea and they're just they know
that they can market to young men because there isn't
really a market for them. But I will say this,
I had never heard of the Phillies picture. Who made
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the mistake. His name is Orion Kirkering, right, he made
the gaff at the end, and it's not going to
be forgotten anytime soon. It will go down as oh
my gosh, what a brick. So I was not familiar
with his work. And then late last night I was
on social media and I saw video in front of
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his locker and the media is grilling him, and in
my opinion, this is what men do, okay, Orion kirkering,
And I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, and somebody's gonna
call me on it. Stood in front the locker and
fighting back tears, was answering every question. His arms were folded.
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He was trying to put on a brave face. And
he owned it. You know, he talked about how low
he felt, and he made a mistake and he let
everyone down. And obviously, listen, you guys know sports. He
win as a team, you lose as a team. You know,
they shouldn't a Phillies. Phillies were the better team most
of the season, most not all the season, and they
shouldn't have been in the spot, you know. I mean,
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you could point to many instances in the series where
they could have taken over and they should have done this,
should have done that. Obviously, this is a tough way
for it to end, but it's not They didn't lose
the series because of Orian Kirkering's error. Okay, obviously that
was the last mistake of the series and costly, but
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it's not all on this guy, right. This wasn't even
Game five. They didn't even get back home to Philly.
So in my opinion, I think I'm going to show
this video my kids. I'm gonna find a way to
show them the highlight and then show him manning up. Now,
he did say some f bombs and stuff, but my
kids are getting this stage where they hear that stuff
all the time. I will just seek out this video
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of Orion facing the media and just you know, and
you could tell there's like tears kind of welling up
in his eyes. And fortunately one of these ink stained
wretches takes like fifteen seconds to get off a question,
so he's able to compose himself. But that that's what
men do. We make a lot of mistakes, man, trust me, Okay,
we got to own it, right, and this is him
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owning it. A lot of people act like they make
no mistakes, they're perfect, and listen, man, this guy really
nice job by him, And congrats to the Dodgers. Moving on,
they will face either the Cubs or Brewers. Cubs again
had a good first inning and advance to face I'm sorry,
advance to Game five, which will be in Milwaukee, which listen,
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I'm not gonna lie. Dodgers' clubs would be really good
for business at Fox. You can't convince me anyone in
Toronto is good business for Fox at in the AL.
But but maybe it'll be good. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Being said, this was the appetizer for the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
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Giants thirty four Eagle seventeen was the main course. Guys.
This this is two weeks in a row on Thursday
and football that I've been absolutely floored by the result.
I don't even know where to really start here, folks.
The Philadelphia Eagles, it's so funny, like they were four
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and zero and they were in really good shape, right,
they had beaten Dallas, didn't look great, kind of held
on there there was the delay. They went into Kansas
City and won just bye two hundred and sixteen yards
of offense. They get kind of sort of lucky to
beat the Rams huge comeback and then a block field
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goal to Horn, and then they get a big lead
on Tampa and hold on despite just two hundred yards
of offense. Then they're up seventeen to three on Denver
and all of a sudden it just falls apart and
they lose. And then they go to New York and
they lose again pretty soundly. They did not score a
point in the second half. I would say that's trouble
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in getting outscored fourteen nothing in the second half by
Jackson friggin' Dart. Now here's the stat you need to know.
Six games for the Eagles, they've been out gained in
every single one of them. If you told me, hey,
one or two games, maybe three, they've been out gained, folks.
This is for an o start out gain in every game.
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Oh and two last two games outgains as well. Now,
it's some of the gaps are big and small. Only
one that Tampa won was a significant over one hundred.
The other were small. But that's besides the point. You
how are you getting out gained by Jackson Dart who's
missing the leak neighbors, He's got it's not only a
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rookie quarterback, a rookie running back. They were thrown to
a guy and I saw him catch his first pass.
It was on the first drive. He went up and
got it. It was he went up and grabbed it,
and he had all these dreads. I'm like, who is
that guy? It was Lil Jordan Humphrey. That's like his
actual name, little former New Orleans saint. Here's the weird part,
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Little Jordan. And you here heard his name before I.
For whatever reason, I forgot that he was six foot four.
So little Jordan Humphrey, who was a practice squad guy. Yes,
that's right, practice squad guy, goes up and has four
catches for fifty five yards. And I know the Eagles
defense is hurting. When you're left the game. Hert Jalen
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Carter didn't play. Blah blah blah. Listen, every team's dealing
with injuries. Last week, the Niners came in here with
half their offense down practically and got the win. Thursday
night football is getting crazy. So the last three road
teams to play on Thursday Night football, Eagles get smashed
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on the road, Niners win on the road in overtime,
Seattle holds on to beat Arizona in overtime. Miami covers
in overtime. I think after that Green Bay, green Bay
beat Washington in week two on Thursday, I think Dogs
are four and oh since then on Thursday Night football,
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and the last two have been over a touchdown. Eagles
were a touchdown. San Frean was anywhere from seven to nine.
I don't want to say it's panic time for the Eagles,
but I do have to ask if you go one
for nine on third down against a team that just
kind of got rolled by Spencer Rattler, like Spencer Ratler
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had had a better game than Jill it Hurst did
last night against the same defense. It's five days ago.
I mean, the worst part is if you're the Eagles,
they couldn't get off the field on third down. The
Giants were eleven of sixteen on third down. The New
York Giants, this is an inept team. I mean, frankly,
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my big, big takeaway is this is great news for
the Jets. They're gonna have a better pick than the Giants,
period and of story, but this is a rotten Giants team.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You can't sell me that they're good like Jackson Dart's
a fun, plucky story. You know who. He reminds me
of Matt Sarason from Friday Night Lights QB one. Matt
Sarrison would just like run around, make plays. He had
what I like to moxie. It's like the perfect word
for sorry. Undersized white quarterbacks and Jackson Dart three games now,
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all three of them. His rushing total has gone over.
He had thirteen for fifty eight in this one. Now
here's the wacky part. Okay, this guy cannot keep this
up without getting hurt because it's not like he's running
like Lamar and he's not sliding, and he's not big
like Josh Allen. He's not getting out of bounce. He's
running in the middle of the field. And last night
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he took a shot and was down and wincing in
pain and it was unclear if it was a concussion,
just got the wid knocked out of him. What happened?
Who knows? And Russell Wilson comes in the game.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Russell Wilson, of course, was benched a couple weeks a
few weeks ago, and there's a video out there after
I think it was three plays of Russell Wilson, Brian
Dable rips off his headset and starts paced like cursing
and then pacing looking for the team doctor. And you
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can see him gesture, we got to get him out there,
you could, you could, and now Dabele has his back,
but you can see from his jests we got to
get him out there. And he goes up, you know,
and then he takes a headset off again and he's
talking to the team doctor. You could. He turns around
out mfing just the world. Essentially, he was like he
saw just three plays. I think it was three plays
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if Russell Wilson was like, get him the hell out
of he like, I need Jackson Dart and I mean
I laughed at that, but it kind of shows how
far Russ's fallen. Are you surprised that they didn't try
to flip Russ to the Bengals or Russ anywhere as
quarterbacks have been dropping like flies. I mean, maybe there's
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just no market and be like, hey, I'm out on Russ.
No thanks, I don't know, but Dabel clearly is out
on him. And when Russ sees this video, you know,
he's probably gonna be like bro I was in for
three plays and you lost your mind like that. I
had a little disrespectful. Now I had a men's league game,
so I didn't see every single play of that third quarter.
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I watched the first half closely. I almost bet the
first half it was it was Eagles onous four. Thankfully
Dodds that bullet. But this league is getting tough. I
don't I have some job Eagles buddies, and I'm just
gonna point this out therefore, and two, there are four wins. Okay.
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They beat Dallas by four, and the gaymore CD Lamb
kept dropping passes. It was that huge delay. They beat
the Chiefs when Travis Kelce bobbled that ball to the
goal line and it resulted in an interception, that rams
result that I mentioned. And they beat Tampa by six.
Holding on late four wins by one score. It's starting
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to get a whiff of Kansas City Chiefs with the
Philadelphia Eagles. Remember how the Chiefs went through that just
They were just not an explosive offense last year. But
they were winning the one score games. Well, as you
guys know, those flip and this was not a one
score game. They got some and you know, I don't
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know there's some chatter about some off season stuff between
Hurts and Brown that didn't go well. Brown had six
for eighty on nine targets. Dallas Gotter was the big,
big one. Of course, he's on my bench in fantasy.
Hurts had a big miss on DeVonta Smith early, overthrown
by like two yards, which would have easily been a touchdown.
Saquon Barkley I thought this was a get right spot
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for him. He did his first carry the game went
for eighteen yards. The next eleven went for a total
of forty. Listen, man, I don't know what to say
about Saquon. You were at the point in the league
right now where you need two running backs, right Montgomery
and gibbson Detroit, Bucky Irving Rashad White in Tampa. Seattle
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has to an extent. Charbonnet is the backup to Kenneth Walker.
I mean, you look around the league and if you
don't have a second change of pace guy to take
the load off your your bell cow is gonna get
exhausted pretty damn quickly. And I'm worried about this. With
the McCaffrey. Arizona loses James Connor and now it's like
Trey Benson and he goes down like it's tough. Running
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backs are getting harder and harder to find, which is
weird because it felt like there were so many of them.
Remember the Rams tried to make Blake Korama thing after
that fumble on Thursday, and football, I don't think you
got to carry the rest of the way. The Jets
had it with Breys Hall and Braylan Allen. Then Allen's
hurt and now Hal's fumbling, and it's like, it's just
it's tough. But I think you've got to make it
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a priority because Sequon was so heavily used last year
that he's got nothing left this year. Nothing. It just
looks like it's not happening. We'll see on the injury
to Quinnyon Mitchell. Obviously, Jalen Carter, you never want to overreact,
obviously to just a loss. Here. Let me take a
quick gander at the schedule before we get the best bets.
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So they have the Minnesota Vikings, they travel there next,
then they play the Giants again, Packers Lions. Those will
be two tough ones. Um Cowboys Bears, Chargers Raiders, they'll
be all right. Two against the Commanders very late in
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the season. Hmm. You can't make a bull proclamation that
they're going to miss the playoffs or anything. Obviously they
got to right the ship. I don't know. NFC's tough, man.
If Washington beat Chicago, they're suddenly tied atop the division.
If Dallas beats Carolina, they're just half a game back,
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knocking on the door. The four and two Eagles have
a minus one point differential. Folks, wrap your head around it.
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Here's your best bet.
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All right, it's a great Saturday for college football. Sunday
Slate is pretty good, pretty good. We'll start with college football.
So things have been going pretty well this season in
college football. I wish I had been betting more than
I would be up more, but I bet more on
the NFL and NFL until last week had not been
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going great. Let's buzz through college first. I'm gonna go jeez,
I can't believe I'm doing this, So it's funny. I
initially thought, oh, cheess, Oregon's gonna have no problem with Indiana,
and then I was like, wait, you know, I haven't
really seen Indiana that much, and there's just not a
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lot of respect out there for Indiana. But folks, I've
mentioned it, but we've had a on the podcast. The
sharpest college football better out there is Rufus Peabody. I mean,
he's been torrid this season. He's on Indiana, and I
mean I had to think twice. I'm like, well, I
missed seven and a half, I missed eight. Miss seven
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and a half is down to seven? So do I
fire on seven or wait for the game day? Money
on the Ducks because it's gonna come. Oh, Oregon's at home.
Now here's the thing. It's a day game, so strip
away some of the big advantage. I mean, obviously this
is a big travel spot for Indiana. A touchdown doesn't
seem like much for a Ducks team that went in
and beat Penn State in overtime. Ultimately, I'll be on Indiana.
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I haven't fired on the Hoosiers yet. I am on USC.
I kind of sort of regret it. Minus two and
a half Missouri plus three. Very nervous about Missouri because
you know, I mean, like, listen, the Missouri Tigers are
always a fun story. It's like, oh yeah, they're in September.
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I don't see them beating Alabama. But at plus three,
why is the line so light? So I'm a Missouri
plus three, Oregon State Beavers plus three, Georgia State plus three,
Auburn plus three and a half. A lot of lines
are too close for comfort. In my opinion, I think
I want Texas Tech at fourteen and a half. Remember
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Texas Tech has been a gold mine for us. We
call that early. They spend on nil. It's funny, Belichick
spens it doesn't quite work out. Texas Tech spends so far,
so good, including thrashing of Oregon State, thrashing at Utah,
crushed Houston. So the only thing that's holding me off
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of Kansas is Texas Tech at Arizona State next weekend.
That's a big one. Does Texas Tech get caught napping
at home here? Do they come out sleepy thinking about
ASU next week which is a big one on the road.
So that's the only reason I'm holding off for now.
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Oklahoma sooners. Texas should be good. Now. I haven't fired yet,
but the kid Mateer, the quarterback from Oklahoma who had
surgery last month, now being listed as probable. I was
absolutely floored by that. If anything, I would lean to
the under, just because arch Manning can't freaking do anything.
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And my guess is Sark's not gonna want the young
fellow to lose the game. So I would expect a
ball control, cautious offense, nothing really deep beyond ten yards,
and let's play it safe and let we don't want
to lose the game and keep us alive to potentially
win it late in the game. So I'll go under
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forty three and a half, even though Red River Rivalry
or whatever they could shoot out whatever they call it.
Usually he tends toward at crazy high scoring games. I
am strongly considering going with Texas A and M. It's
a big number against Florida, but this is simply a
fade of Florida after beating Texas last week. I'm just
telling you those this week, that week kind of deal
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those who have been doing well. Illinois getting fourteen at
home against Ohio State. I was dumb enough to get
on Washington A couple of weeks ago against Ohio State
getting I don't know what it was, it seven to
ten somewhere around there. No, we might have been more
than that. Anyways, they didn't cover the spread because Ohio
State is just that good. And remember, before you make
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any bets against these huge teams like in Ohio State,
always look to see who they have next, because in
college it's very easy for these guys to overlook some
teams when you have a big guy on deck. In
this case, they don't. They're at Wisconsin and Wisconsin is very,
very bad this season. CJ. Carr and Notre Dame. Let
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me see, do I have anything on the Irish I
do not. Their minus twenty three and a half against
NC State. That's a huge number. My buddy for my
hoops team, who played quarterback at Notre Dame, he is
going to that game. But the reason I'm leary to
lay it against NC State is next week Notre Dame
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USC humongous game. Okay, Notre Dame's even resting their best
wide receiver, great house. They're sitting him in hopes that
he'll be ready to go next week. So that's just
the only word of caution when it comes to these
college games. Really good Saturday Slate. I have no idea
what my Saturday Saturday holds, but I promise you I'll
be following the games, maybe some live betting, all right
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onto Sunday, NFL and my picks on heard headlines last
week five and one, contest three and two. So it's
good to get back on the winning track after some
scuffling there this week. A little dangerous one thing that
jumps out should be obvious. A lot of hooks hanging
around Denver. Money coming in on the Jets. I see
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Denver six and a half, this was seven. Who's betting
the Jets? It's certainly not me? Had them last week?
How'd that work out for you?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Jay?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Not good? Kyler Murray and the Colts are you monitoring
the Arizona Cardinals injury report? Because Kyler popped up on
it and it's like, whoa wait a minute, what's that
all about? And then on Thursday, everybody's waiting waiting, so Kyler,
are you good? He didn't practice again? And it's like, well,
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what the hell's happening here? This is bad news? So
I mean, I was fortunate enough that I got Colts
about a six and a half Earlier in the week,
I have Colts in one two teasers. This is a
great teaser weekend if you're looking for teasers. And I
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know last week Dogs went out right, chances of them
doing that all again very slim. Last week was the
greatest week for Dogs in three years, I think. So
Colts is out to eight. You wanna six or seven
point teaser? You take the Colts under a field goal,
take the Rams under a field goal. What was the
other one? Oh, you take the Broncos under a field goal,
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and you could take the Steelers down to just win
the game. You mix and match those four. I mean,
who's screwing that one up? Maybe the Browns and Dylan
Gabriel find a way to screw it up. I don't know.
I saw this at six and a half. I think
game day money is gonna come in on the Steelers.
I don't know how the Jets pull this off. Maybe
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there's a hangover from the Eagles win for the Broncos.
But if I'm Sean Payton, I just show my guys, Hey,
the Eagles that you beat, Yeah they're not that good.
They won the Super Bowl, but they just lost to
the crap, Giants. You guys are nothing special. Now go
ahead and kill the Jets. But I don't think the
Jets win that game. Where's Justin Field's doing against his defense?
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I mean Justin Field struggled against the Dallas defense. I'm
not saying maybe struggled as harsh. He didn't cook against
the Dallas defense. Do you expect him to cook against
the Broncos? Like, let's say Certanne follows around Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Where's the offense company? Is this a Mason Taylor game?
I don't freaking know. I'm still let me check the
Baltimore Ravens injury report because obviously, besides Kyler, you got
the Kyle Hamilton, you got Ronnie Stanley. This game has
me nervous because I feel like it's easy, easy money
for the Rams. First of all, nothing's ever easy money.
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But yeah, you got to totally monitor what's happening with
the Ravens because it was brutal last weekend. They got
curb stumped. So Thursday's practice, Kyle Hamilton did practice, Zay
Flowers light Lamar did not, Marlon Humphrey light, ro Qwan
Smith did not. I mean, can you go to battle
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with that defense against Stafford Puka, Kyron Davante, an angry
Rams team, extra rest off the Niners. You don't think
we're gonna move the ball up and down the field
against these guys. I mean again, Cooper rush against that
pass rush, I don't think he has much of a chance.
Rams are healthy. Haven Stein, you know, kind of is
still dined up. But the Ravens defense stinks like they
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just hemorrhage points every week. Maybe they show up for
a half, but I don't see how the Rams blow
that and then the other. The fourth team is, like
I said, the Colts, and like I'm waiting for the
wheels to fall off the Colts. So I'm a little reluctant,
but ultimately you gotta just hey man, I'm gonna trust
the numbers that the Colts are freaking good. So those
four are money in teasers. I think two team teasers
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just hot mix and match. I know I'm the Kansas
City Chiefs hater, but I did fire on the Chiefs
money line. I'm sorry, guys. I did minus one thirty five,
so it'd be like one hundred thirty five bucks to
one hundred. Just win the game. And it was interesting
because I was looking at the Lions and I'm like, oh, well,
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you know, Cowherd loves the Lions. Everybody's got the Lions,
like power rated top three in the league. Huh. I mean,
let me just see, since that Packers game where they
shit their pants in the opener, what have they done?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So they went up against Chicago at home and they
stopped them fifty two twenty one. Then they faced the
Ravens and they wanted Baltimore and it was like, oh,
that's the most impressive win. Well, given what the Ravens
have done since then, is that that impressive? Then they
beat Cleveland at home thirty four to ten. Cleveland is
not good on the road. Like at home, they're feisty, frisky,
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on the road not so much. And then last week
they beat Jake Browning and don't be fooled by thirty
seven to twenty four. Mosch of that was garbage time
from bet Browning. So like, you're going Detroit defense from
facing Jake Browning, Joe Flacco the last two weeks to
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Patrick Mahomes and a Chiefs team. I know they're on
a short week, but a Chiefs team that's gonna come
in kind of somewhat fired up right. She's man, we
can't go two and four. I think it's a tough
spot for the Lions guys. So I'm on the Chiefs
money line and I don't love backing them, but I
do have Mahomes on my fantasy team. I have Rashi Rice.
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My buddy probably listens to this. I have a sheet Rice.
I drafted him two leaks to just stash. My buddy's
trying to trade for Rashi Rice. I'm like, dude, that's
not happening. Just stop asking. This is is not unless
you're giving up Jamiir Gibbs. This is the injury report
Thursday for the Lions. Starting cornerback Terry on Arnold did
not practice. Offensive tackle Taylor Decker did not practice. Safety
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Kirby Joseph did not practice. That's not good. That's arguably
your best offensive line and two starters in the secondary
going up against the mighty Xavier Worthy. So I'm on
Chief's money line. I'm one of the Bills Falcons over.
I'm looking at getting taking the Falcons with the points,
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but it's probably if the Bills had won against the Patriots. Maybe,
but I'm just on the over forty nine. It's down
forty nine and a half. I had liked Washington at
four and a half, but I'm gonna just pump the brakes.
I did not bet it, obviously, nothing on the Packers.
I did take Patriots minus three. I'm not giving the hook.
I know it's kind of a square play since the
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Patriots just beat the Bills and everybody's gonna want them,
Everybody's gonna want to fade the I'm sorry, everyone's gonna
want to fade the Patriots. But uh, I'm doing it.
I think this team is. It feels like they're as
sending Vrabel. It took you know, remember how Belichick used
to take the first month as like a incubation period
with all the new guys and seeing what's out there.
That I feel like is what Rabel's been doing. And
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I don't that Spencer Ratler can do it. I don't
think the defense can generate as many turnovers as they
did against the Giants, because remember Giants were down fourteen
to six. I'm sorry, we're up fourteen six on the Saints.
Before that they imploded. Is Drake meganna do that? I
think that he already used up his five turnover game
against the Patriots a few weeks ago, So I'm on
the Uh, I'm sorry against the who do who is it? Patriots?
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Drake May had five turnovers. U it was a couple
of weeks ago. Oh his Steelers, Yeah, really bad and
I had them that week. Nothing on Raiders Titans. I'm
on Niners plus three. I don't love it since it
looks like no Jowan Jennings and it looks like no
Ricky Piersall. That's a tough one. I just don't think
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I can get. I don't have this intestinal fortitude to
back the freaking Dolphins. I wanted Jags, but a sharp
buddy of mine is imploring me to go Seahawks. So
nothing there. And then Dallas Carolina, I mean Carolina at
home has pulled two kind of upsets, beating the Dolphins
and then that smashing of the Falcons. Could they do
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it again? I mean, they're not going to catch Dallas napping.
I don't know. That game messes me up because if
Dallas is so impressive, why are they only three? I
know that's not a lot of sides, but I'm a
little cautious. After all, the Dogs won last week. You
never want to go too heavy, but if you're asking
for favorites, yeah, I think Steelers and I don't like
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them at all. And trust me, it's win win because
when Aaron Rodgers blows the cover and they lose the
game to Dylan Gabriel, I'll at least really be able
to unload on Rogers. Just kidding, And I kind of
wanted to listen if Kyler's out. Do you even know
who the Arizona Cardinals backup quarterback is. Let's say it's
not Colt McCoy. Let's see if I can beat you
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to it. I'm sure somebody out there knows it. Arizona
Cardinals backup, oh, Jacoby Brissett. So they'd be if Kyler
doesn't play backup quarterback, fourth string running back, third string
running back. Offensive line not great. I mean, the problem
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is they'll be able to move the ball in the Colts.
It's a tough one, guys. Yeah. Anyways, that's a lot
of bets. I'll try to post them. I'll try g stories.
Oh survivor, there's a lot interest in that. So obviously
we got clipped in one with the Cardinals got clipped
in the Baker one with the Cardinals, but me and
a buddy have a local one that I could say.
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I think it pays one hundred and eighty thousand or
two it pays two hundred k, and I think something
one hundred and eighty to two hundred in that ballpark.
But very interesting. We we had five entries, we're down
to one, and we went a lot of chalk with
the one entry that we have left. So obviously, listen,
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if you have team left and survivor, you gotta go
Packers this week. I know they already lost to Joe
Flacco once, I'll be if they lose to Joe flat Yeah,
Joe Flacco is like a time you tip your cap
and walk away. Packers are fourteen and a half point favorites.
Flacco's had I think two practices with the Bengals, is
he really gonna go? I mean just chucking duck with
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take t Higgins, Jamar Chase and score a million points.
I mean, maybe anything's possible. I just it's tough for
me to envision the Bengals getting a stop and that
Bengals offensive line to protect Flacco. So I think Packers
has to be your survivor play. If you're looking for
a backup. You know, I think the Rams. If you
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played the Rams, well, if you played the Rams last week,
you lost. But if you still have the Rams, I
think you got to consider Rams. You got to consider Colts,
You got to consider Steelers. However, Steelers is a divisional matchup.
Those are dangerous. And then do you go Denver?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Possibly?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, at this point, if you're still alive and
there's under one hundred people left. Honestly, I think the
move is to not get too risky and be like, oh,
you know what I could I could maybe steal one
here if I go Commanders like I like Commanders, but
I don't know. That's I think if you get through
the first five six weeks, that's when you lean into
the chalk or facing backup quarterbacks or whatever. You know.
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So I think Packers is smart play. All right, enjoy
the weekend. Talk to you on Monday,
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Fire for Friday, October the tenth, and it is
a rough one today in the city of Philadelphia. Oh
my goodness, just a brutal Thursday night in Philly. For sports.
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You had the Dodgers taking down the Phillies, and you know,
I don't know that it was a classic. It was
an okay baseball game. It was kind of exciting there
at the end, and in brutal fashion, the Phillies lose
it in the bottom of the eleventh, bases loaded to
come back or to the pitcher. He throws it wide
of the catcher by a considerable amount. It was not
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a close walk call. I read somewhere that it was
the first time in baseball postseason history that an error
walked off the game and ended the series. It was
an unbelievable play. I was watching. My mind was blown.
I was like, wow, now I will And then the
Eagles went on to get their ass kicked by the
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New York Giants, and we'll talk about that in depth.
Holy cow, was I wrong on that one. Oh my gosh,
Thursday night is becoming a landmine. But quickly, I just
want to briefly get into this, this Phillies ending, So
you know, there's this I don't know if you guys
know are familiar with Scott Galloway aka Prof g. He's
been talking a lot lately about like what a man
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is because you know, there's this issue with young men
in this country. They're not getting good grades, thus they're
not getting into college, they're not getting good jobs, and
then women don't want to start a family with some
guy who doesn't have a lot going on, right, And
there's all this what is a man? And then you've
got the man of sphere online or claiming what men are.
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And then you've got you know, the bro podcasters who
are all that, they're all like telling you what a
man is. And listen, if somebody is pushing it that hard,
they probably have no idea and they're just they know
that they can market to young men because there isn't
really a market for them. But I will say this,
I had never heard of the Phillies picture. Who made
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the mistake. His name is Orion Kirkering, right, he made
the gaff at the end, and it's not going to
be forgotten anytime soon. It will go down as oh
my gosh, what a brick. So I was not familiar
with his work. And then late last night I was
on social media and I saw video in front of
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his locker and the media is grilling him, and in
my opinion, this is what men do, okay, Orion kirkering,
And I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, and somebody's gonna
call me on it. Stood in front the locker and
fighting back tears, was answering every question. His arms were folded.
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He was trying to put on a brave face. And
he owned it. You know, he talked about how low
he felt, and he made a mistake and he let
everyone down. And obviously, listen, you guys know sports. He
win as a team, you lose as a team. You know,
they shouldn't a Phillies. Phillies were the better team most
of the season, most not all the season, and they
shouldn't have been in the spot, you know. I mean,
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you could point to many instances in the series where
they could have taken over and they should have done this,
should have done that. Obviously, this is a tough way
for it to end, but it's not They didn't lose
the series because of Orian Kirkering's error. Okay, obviously that
was the last mistake of the series and costly, but
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it's not all on this guy, right. This wasn't even
Game five. They didn't even get back home to Philly.
So in my opinion, I think I'm going to show
this video my kids. I'm gonna find a way to
show them the highlight and then show him manning up. Now,
he did say some f bombs and stuff, but my
kids are getting this stage where they hear that stuff
all the time. I will just seek out this video
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of Orion facing the media and just you know, and
you could tell there's like tears kind of welling up
in his eyes. And fortunately one of these ink stained
wretches takes like fifteen seconds to get off a question,
so he's able to compose himself. But that that's what
men do. We make a lot of mistakes, man, trust me, Okay,
we got to own it, right, and this is him
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owning it. A lot of people act like they make
no mistakes, they're perfect, and listen, man, this guy really
nice job by him, And congrats to the Dodgers. Moving on,
they will face either the Cubs or Brewers. Cubs again
had a good first inning and advance to face I'm sorry,
advance to Game five, which will be in Milwaukee, which listen,
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I'm not gonna lie. Dodgers' clubs would be really good
for business at Fox. You can't convince me anyone in
Toronto is good business for Fox at in the AL.
But but maybe it'll be good. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Being said, this was the appetizer for the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
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Speaker 2 (05:27):
Giants thirty four Eagle seventeen was the main course. Guys.
This this is two weeks in a row on Thursday
and football that I've been absolutely floored by the result.
I don't even know where to really start here, folks.
The Philadelphia Eagles, it's so funny, like they were four
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and zero and they were in really good shape, right,
they had beaten Dallas, didn't look great, kind of held
on there there was the delay. They went into Kansas
City and won just bye two hundred and sixteen yards
of offense. They get kind of sort of lucky to
beat the Rams huge comeback and then a block field
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goal to Horn, and then they get a big lead
on Tampa and hold on despite just two hundred yards
of offense. Then they're up seventeen to three on Denver
and all of a sudden it just falls apart and
they lose. And then they go to New York and
they lose again pretty soundly. They did not score a
point in the second half. I would say that's trouble
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in getting outscored fourteen nothing in the second half by
Jackson friggin' Dart. Now here's the stat you need to know.
Six games for the Eagles, they've been out gained in
every single one of them. If you told me, hey,
one or two games, maybe three, they've been out gained, folks.
This is for an o start out gain in every game.
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Oh and two last two games outgains as well. Now,
it's some of the gaps are big and small. Only
one that Tampa won was a significant over one hundred.
The other were small. But that's besides the point. You
how are you getting out gained by Jackson Dart who's
missing the leak neighbors, He's got it's not only a
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rookie quarterback, a rookie running back. They were thrown to
a guy and I saw him catch his first pass.
It was on the first drive. He went up and
got it. It was he went up and grabbed it,
and he had all these dreads. I'm like, who is
that guy? It was Lil Jordan Humphrey. That's like his
actual name, little former New Orleans saint. Here's the weird part,
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Little Jordan. And you here heard his name before I.
For whatever reason, I forgot that he was six foot four.
So little Jordan Humphrey, who was a practice squad guy. Yes,
that's right, practice squad guy, goes up and has four
catches for fifty five yards. And I know the Eagles
defense is hurting. When you're left the game. Hert Jalen
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Carter didn't play. Blah blah blah. Listen, every team's dealing
with injuries. Last week, the Niners came in here with
half their offense down practically and got the win. Thursday
night football is getting crazy. So the last three road
teams to play on Thursday Night football, Eagles get smashed
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on the road, Niners win on the road in overtime,
Seattle holds on to beat Arizona in overtime. Miami covers
in overtime. I think after that Green Bay, green Bay
beat Washington in week two on Thursday, I think Dogs
are four and oh since then on Thursday Night football,
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and the last two have been over a touchdown. Eagles
were a touchdown. San Frean was anywhere from seven to nine.
I don't want to say it's panic time for the Eagles,
but I do have to ask if you go one
for nine on third down against a team that just
kind of got rolled by Spencer Rattler, like Spencer Ratler
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had had a better game than Jill it Hurst did
last night against the same defense. It's five days ago.
I mean, the worst part is if you're the Eagles,
they couldn't get off the field on third down. The
Giants were eleven of sixteen on third down. The New
York Giants, this is an inept team. I mean, frankly,
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my big, big takeaway is this is great news for
the Jets. They're gonna have a better pick than the Giants,
period and of story, but this is a rotten Giants team.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You can't sell me that they're good like Jackson Dart's
a fun, plucky story. You know who. He reminds me
of Matt Sarason from Friday Night Lights QB one. Matt
Sarrison would just like run around, make plays. He had
what I like to moxie. It's like the perfect word
for sorry. Undersized white quarterbacks and Jackson Dart three games now,
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all three of them. His rushing total has gone over.
He had thirteen for fifty eight in this one. Now
here's the wacky part. Okay, this guy cannot keep this
up without getting hurt because it's not like he's running
like Lamar and he's not sliding, and he's not big
like Josh Allen. He's not getting out of bounce. He's
running in the middle of the field. And last night
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he took a shot and was down and wincing in
pain and it was unclear if it was a concussion,
just got the wid knocked out of him. What happened?
Who knows? And Russell Wilson comes in the game.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Russell Wilson, of course, was benched a couple weeks a
few weeks ago, and there's a video out there after
I think it was three plays of Russell Wilson, Brian
Dable rips off his headset and starts paced like cursing
and then pacing looking for the team doctor. And you
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can see him gesture, we got to get him out there,
you could, you could, and now Dabele has his back,
but you can see from his jests we got to
get him out there. And he goes up, you know,
and then he takes a headset off again and he's
talking to the team doctor. You could. He turns around
out mfing just the world. Essentially, he was like he
saw just three plays. I think it was three plays
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if Russell Wilson was like, get him the hell out
of he like, I need Jackson Dart and I mean
I laughed at that, but it kind of shows how
far Russ's fallen. Are you surprised that they didn't try
to flip Russ to the Bengals or Russ anywhere as
quarterbacks have been dropping like flies. I mean, maybe there's
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just no market and be like, hey, I'm out on Russ.
No thanks, I don't know, but Dabel clearly is out
on him. And when Russ sees this video, you know,
he's probably gonna be like bro I was in for
three plays and you lost your mind like that. I
had a little disrespectful. Now I had a men's league game,
so I didn't see every single play of that third quarter.
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I watched the first half closely. I almost bet the
first half it was it was Eagles onous four. Thankfully
Dodds that bullet. But this league is getting tough. I
don't I have some job Eagles buddies, and I'm just
gonna point this out therefore, and two, there are four wins. Okay.
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They beat Dallas by four, and the gaymore CD Lamb
kept dropping passes. It was that huge delay. They beat
the Chiefs when Travis Kelce bobbled that ball to the
goal line and it resulted in an interception, that rams
result that I mentioned. And they beat Tampa by six.
Holding on late four wins by one score. It's starting
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to get a whiff of Kansas City Chiefs with the
Philadelphia Eagles. Remember how the Chiefs went through that just
They were just not an explosive offense last year. But
they were winning the one score games. Well, as you
guys know, those flip and this was not a one
score game. They got some and you know, I don't
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know there's some chatter about some off season stuff between
Hurts and Brown that didn't go well. Brown had six
for eighty on nine targets. Dallas Gotter was the big,
big one. Of course, he's on my bench in fantasy.
Hurts had a big miss on DeVonta Smith early, overthrown
by like two yards, which would have easily been a touchdown.
Saquon Barkley I thought this was a get right spot
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for him. He did his first carry the game went
for eighteen yards. The next eleven went for a total
of forty. Listen, man, I don't know what to say
about Saquon. You were at the point in the league
right now where you need two running backs, right Montgomery
and gibbson Detroit, Bucky Irving Rashad White in Tampa. Seattle
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has to an extent. Charbonnet is the backup to Kenneth Walker.
I mean, you look around the league and if you
don't have a second change of pace guy to take
the load off your your bell cow is gonna get
exhausted pretty damn quickly. And I'm worried about this. With
the McCaffrey. Arizona loses James Connor and now it's like
Trey Benson and he goes down like it's tough. Running
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backs are getting harder and harder to find, which is
weird because it felt like there were so many of them.
Remember the Rams tried to make Blake Korama thing after
that fumble on Thursday, and football, I don't think you
got to carry the rest of the way. The Jets
had it with Breys Hall and Braylan Allen. Then Allen's
hurt and now Hal's fumbling, and it's like, it's just
it's tough. But I think you've got to make it
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a priority because Sequon was so heavily used last year
that he's got nothing left this year. Nothing. It just
looks like it's not happening. We'll see on the injury
to Quinnyon Mitchell. Obviously, Jalen Carter, you never want to overreact,
obviously to just a loss. Here. Let me take a
quick gander at the schedule before we get the best bets.
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So they have the Minnesota Vikings, they travel there next,
then they play the Giants again, Packers Lions. Those will
be two tough ones. Um Cowboys Bears, Chargers Raiders, they'll
be all right. Two against the Commanders very late in
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the season. Hmm. You can't make a bull proclamation that
they're going to miss the playoffs or anything. Obviously they
got to right the ship. I don't know. NFC's tough, man.
If Washington beat Chicago, they're suddenly tied atop the division.
If Dallas beats Carolina, they're just half a game back,
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knocking on the door. The four and two Eagles have
a minus one point differential. Folks, wrap your head around it.
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Here's your best bet.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
All right, it's a great Saturday for college football. Sunday
Slate is pretty good, pretty good. We'll start with college football.
So things have been going pretty well this season in
college football. I wish I had been betting more than
I would be up more, but I bet more on
the NFL and NFL until last week had not been
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going great. Let's buzz through college first. I'm gonna go jeez,
I can't believe I'm doing this, So it's funny. I
initially thought, oh, cheess, Oregon's gonna have no problem with Indiana,
and then I was like, wait, you know, I haven't
really seen Indiana that much, and there's just not a
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lot of respect out there for Indiana. But folks, I've
mentioned it, but we've had a on the podcast. The
sharpest college football better out there is Rufus Peabody. I mean,
he's been torrid this season. He's on Indiana, and I
mean I had to think twice. I'm like, well, I
missed seven and a half, I missed eight. Miss seven
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and a half is down to seven? So do I
fire on seven or wait for the game day? Money
on the Ducks because it's gonna come. Oh, Oregon's at home.
Now here's the thing. It's a day game, so strip
away some of the big advantage. I mean, obviously this
is a big travel spot for Indiana. A touchdown doesn't
seem like much for a Ducks team that went in
and beat Penn State in overtime. Ultimately, I'll be on Indiana.
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I haven't fired on the Hoosiers yet. I am on USC.
I kind of sort of regret it. Minus two and
a half Missouri plus three. Very nervous about Missouri because
you know, I mean, like, listen, the Missouri Tigers are
always a fun story. It's like, oh yeah, they're in September.
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I don't see them beating Alabama. But at plus three,
why is the line so light? So I'm a Missouri
plus three, Oregon State Beavers plus three, Georgia State plus three,
Auburn plus three and a half. A lot of lines
are too close for comfort. In my opinion, I think
I want Texas Tech at fourteen and a half. Remember
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Texas Tech has been a gold mine for us. We
call that early. They spend on nil. It's funny, Belichick
spens it doesn't quite work out. Texas Tech spends so far,
so good, including thrashing of Oregon State, thrashing at Utah,
crushed Houston. So the only thing that's holding me off
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of Kansas is Texas Tech at Arizona State next weekend.
That's a big one. Does Texas Tech get caught napping
at home here? Do they come out sleepy thinking about
ASU next week which is a big one on the road.
So that's the only reason I'm holding off for now.
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Oklahoma sooners. Texas should be good. Now. I haven't fired yet,
but the kid Mateer, the quarterback from Oklahoma who had
surgery last month, now being listed as probable. I was
absolutely floored by that. If anything, I would lean to
the under, just because arch Manning can't freaking do anything.
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And my guess is Sark's not gonna want the young
fellow to lose the game. So I would expect a
ball control, cautious offense, nothing really deep beyond ten yards,
and let's play it safe and let we don't want
to lose the game and keep us alive to potentially
win it late in the game. So I'll go under
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forty three and a half, even though Red River Rivalry
or whatever they could shoot out whatever they call it.
Usually he tends toward at crazy high scoring games. I
am strongly considering going with Texas A and M. It's
a big number against Florida, but this is simply a
fade of Florida after beating Texas last week. I'm just
telling you those this week, that week kind of deal
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those who have been doing well. Illinois getting fourteen at
home against Ohio State. I was dumb enough to get
on Washington A couple of weeks ago against Ohio State
getting I don't know what it was, it seven to
ten somewhere around there. No, we might have been more
than that. Anyways, they didn't cover the spread because Ohio
State is just that good. And remember, before you make
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any bets against these huge teams like in Ohio State,
always look to see who they have next, because in
college it's very easy for these guys to overlook some
teams when you have a big guy on deck. In
this case, they don't. They're at Wisconsin and Wisconsin is very,
very bad this season. CJ. Carr and Notre Dame. Let
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me see, do I have anything on the Irish I
do not. Their minus twenty three and a half against
NC State. That's a huge number. My buddy for my
hoops team, who played quarterback at Notre Dame, he is
going to that game. But the reason I'm leary to
lay it against NC State is next week Notre Dame
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USC humongous game. Okay, Notre Dame's even resting their best
wide receiver, great house. They're sitting him in hopes that
he'll be ready to go next week. So that's just
the only word of caution when it comes to these
college games. Really good Saturday Slate. I have no idea
what my Saturday Saturday holds, but I promise you I'll
be following the games, maybe some live betting, all right
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onto Sunday, NFL and my picks on heard headlines last
week five and one, contest three and two. So it's
good to get back on the winning track after some
scuffling there this week. A little dangerous one thing that
jumps out should be obvious. A lot of hooks hanging
around Denver. Money coming in on the Jets. I see
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Denver six and a half, this was seven. Who's betting
the Jets? It's certainly not me? Had them last week?
How'd that work out for you?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Jay?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Not good? Kyler Murray and the Colts are you monitoring
the Arizona Cardinals injury report? Because Kyler popped up on
it and it's like, whoa wait a minute, what's that
all about? And then on Thursday, everybody's waiting waiting, so Kyler,
are you good? He didn't practice again? And it's like, well,
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what the hell's happening here? This is bad news? So
I mean, I was fortunate enough that I got Colts
about a six and a half Earlier in the week,
I have Colts in one two teasers. This is a
great teaser weekend if you're looking for teasers. And I
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know last week Dogs went out right, chances of them
doing that all again very slim. Last week was the
greatest week for Dogs in three years, I think. So
Colts is out to eight. You wanna six or seven
point teaser? You take the Colts under a field goal,
take the Rams under a field goal. What was the
other one? Oh, you take the Broncos under a field goal,
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and you could take the Steelers down to just win
the game. You mix and match those four. I mean,
who's screwing that one up? Maybe the Browns and Dylan
Gabriel find a way to screw it up. I don't know.
I saw this at six and a half. I think
game day money is gonna come in on the Steelers.
I don't know how the Jets pull this off. Maybe
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there's a hangover from the Eagles win for the Broncos.
But if I'm Sean Payton, I just show my guys, Hey,
the Eagles that you beat, Yeah they're not that good.
They won the Super Bowl, but they just lost to
the crap, Giants. You guys are nothing special. Now go
ahead and kill the Jets. But I don't think the
Jets win that game. Where's Justin Field's doing against his defense?
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I mean Justin Field struggled against the Dallas defense. I'm
not saying maybe struggled as harsh. He didn't cook against
the Dallas defense. Do you expect him to cook against
the Broncos? Like, let's say Certanne follows around Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Where's the offense company? Is this a Mason Taylor game?
I don't freaking know. I'm still let me check the
Baltimore Ravens injury report because obviously, besides Kyler, you got
the Kyle Hamilton, you got Ronnie Stanley. This game has
me nervous because I feel like it's easy, easy money
for the Rams. First of all, nothing's ever easy money.
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But yeah, you got to totally monitor what's happening with
the Ravens because it was brutal last weekend. They got
curb stumped. So Thursday's practice, Kyle Hamilton did practice, Zay
Flowers light Lamar did not, Marlon Humphrey light, ro Qwan
Smith did not. I mean, can you go to battle
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with that defense against Stafford Puka, Kyron Davante, an angry
Rams team, extra rest off the Niners. You don't think
we're gonna move the ball up and down the field
against these guys. I mean again, Cooper rush against that
pass rush, I don't think he has much of a chance.
Rams are healthy. Haven Stein, you know, kind of is
still dined up. But the Ravens defense stinks like they
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just hemorrhage points every week. Maybe they show up for
a half, but I don't see how the Rams blow
that and then the other. The fourth team is, like
I said, the Colts, and like I'm waiting for the
wheels to fall off the Colts. So I'm a little reluctant,
but ultimately you gotta just hey man, I'm gonna trust
the numbers that the Colts are freaking good. So those
four are money in teasers. I think two team teasers
(25:49):
just hot mix and match. I know I'm the Kansas
City Chiefs hater, but I did fire on the Chiefs
money line. I'm sorry, guys. I did minus one thirty five,
so it'd be like one hundred thirty five bucks to
one hundred. Just win the game. And it was interesting
because I was looking at the Lions and I'm like, oh, well,
(26:12):
you know, Cowherd loves the Lions. Everybody's got the Lions,
like power rated top three in the league. Huh. I mean,
let me just see, since that Packers game where they
shit their pants in the opener, what have they done?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So they went up against Chicago at home and they
stopped them fifty two twenty one. Then they faced the
Ravens and they wanted Baltimore and it was like, oh,
that's the most impressive win. Well, given what the Ravens
have done since then, is that that impressive? Then they
beat Cleveland at home thirty four to ten. Cleveland is
not good on the road. Like at home, they're feisty, frisky,
(26:48):
on the road not so much. And then last week
they beat Jake Browning and don't be fooled by thirty
seven to twenty four. Mosch of that was garbage time
from bet Browning. So like, you're going Detroit defense from
facing Jake Browning, Joe Flacco the last two weeks to
(27:08):
Patrick Mahomes and a Chiefs team. I know they're on
a short week, but a Chiefs team that's gonna come
in kind of somewhat fired up right. She's man, we
can't go two and four. I think it's a tough
spot for the Lions guys. So I'm on the Chiefs
money line and I don't love backing them, but I
do have Mahomes on my fantasy team. I have Rashi Rice.
(27:30):
My buddy probably listens to this. I have a sheet Rice.
I drafted him two leaks to just stash. My buddy's
trying to trade for Rashi Rice. I'm like, dude, that's
not happening. Just stop asking. This is is not unless
you're giving up Jamiir Gibbs. This is the injury report
Thursday for the Lions. Starting cornerback Terry on Arnold did
not practice. Offensive tackle Taylor Decker did not practice. Safety
(27:52):
Kirby Joseph did not practice. That's not good. That's arguably
your best offensive line and two starters in the secondary
going up against the mighty Xavier Worthy. So I'm on
Chief's money line. I'm one of the Bills Falcons over.
I'm looking at getting taking the Falcons with the points,
(28:13):
but it's probably if the Bills had won against the Patriots. Maybe,
but I'm just on the over forty nine. It's down
forty nine and a half. I had liked Washington at
four and a half, but I'm gonna just pump the brakes.
I did not bet it, obviously, nothing on the Packers.
I did take Patriots minus three. I'm not giving the hook.
I know it's kind of a square play since the
(28:33):
Patriots just beat the Bills and everybody's gonna want them,
Everybody's gonna want to fade the I'm sorry, everyone's gonna
want to fade the Patriots. But uh, I'm doing it.
I think this team is. It feels like they're as
sending Vrabel. It took you know, remember how Belichick used
to take the first month as like a incubation period
with all the new guys and seeing what's out there.
That I feel like is what Rabel's been doing. And
(28:58):
I don't that Spencer Ratler can do it. I don't
think the defense can generate as many turnovers as they
did against the Giants, because remember Giants were down fourteen
to six. I'm sorry, we're up fourteen six on the Saints.
Before that they imploded. Is Drake meganna do that? I
think that he already used up his five turnover game
against the Patriots a few weeks ago, So I'm on
the Uh, I'm sorry against the who do who is it? Patriots?
(29:22):
Drake May had five turnovers. U it was a couple
of weeks ago. Oh his Steelers, Yeah, really bad and
I had them that week. Nothing on Raiders Titans. I'm
on Niners plus three. I don't love it since it
looks like no Jowan Jennings and it looks like no
Ricky Piersall. That's a tough one. I just don't think
(29:43):
I can get. I don't have this intestinal fortitude to
back the freaking Dolphins. I wanted Jags, but a sharp
buddy of mine is imploring me to go Seahawks. So
nothing there. And then Dallas Carolina, I mean Carolina at
home has pulled two kind of upsets, beating the Dolphins
and then that smashing of the Falcons. Could they do
(30:05):
it again? I mean, they're not going to catch Dallas napping.
I don't know. That game messes me up because if
Dallas is so impressive, why are they only three? I
know that's not a lot of sides, but I'm a
little cautious. After all, the Dogs won last week. You
never want to go too heavy, but if you're asking
for favorites, yeah, I think Steelers and I don't like
(30:26):
them at all. And trust me, it's win win because
when Aaron Rodgers blows the cover and they lose the
game to Dylan Gabriel, I'll at least really be able
to unload on Rogers. Just kidding, And I kind of
wanted to listen if Kyler's out. Do you even know
who the Arizona Cardinals backup quarterback is. Let's say it's
not Colt McCoy. Let's see if I can beat you
(30:48):
to it. I'm sure somebody out there knows it. Arizona
Cardinals backup, oh, Jacoby Brissett. So they'd be if Kyler
doesn't play backup quarterback, fourth string running back, third string
running back. Offensive line not great. I mean, the problem
(31:09):
is they'll be able to move the ball in the Colts.
It's a tough one, guys. Yeah. Anyways, that's a lot
of bets. I'll try to post them. I'll try g stories.
Oh survivor, there's a lot interest in that. So obviously
we got clipped in one with the Cardinals got clipped
in the Baker one with the Cardinals, but me and
a buddy have a local one that I could say.
(31:31):
I think it pays one hundred and eighty thousand or
two it pays two hundred k, and I think something
one hundred and eighty to two hundred in that ballpark.
But very interesting. We we had five entries, we're down
to one, and we went a lot of chalk with
the one entry that we have left. So obviously, listen,
(31:52):
if you have team left and survivor, you gotta go
Packers this week. I know they already lost to Joe
Flacco once, I'll be if they lose to Joe flat Yeah,
Joe Flacco is like a time you tip your cap
and walk away. Packers are fourteen and a half point favorites.
Flacco's had I think two practices with the Bengals, is
he really gonna go? I mean just chucking duck with
(32:13):
take t Higgins, Jamar Chase and score a million points.
I mean, maybe anything's possible. I just it's tough for
me to envision the Bengals getting a stop and that
Bengals offensive line to protect Flacco. So I think Packers
has to be your survivor play. If you're looking for
a backup. You know, I think the Rams. If you
(32:35):
played the Rams, well, if you played the Rams last week,
you lost. But if you still have the Rams, I
think you got to consider Rams. You got to consider Colts,
You got to consider Steelers. However, Steelers is a divisional matchup.
Those are dangerous. And then do you go Denver?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Possibly?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, at this point, if you're still alive and
there's under one hundred people left. Honestly, I think the
move is to not get too risky and be like, oh,
you know what I could I could maybe steal one
here if I go Commanders like I like Commanders, but
I don't know. That's I think if you get through
the first five six weeks, that's when you lean into
the chalk or facing backup quarterbacks or whatever. You know.
(33:19):
So I think Packers is smart play. All right, enjoy
the weekend. Talk to you on Monday,
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