November 11, 2025 • 26 mins
On today’s episode, Jason discusses what's currently ailing the Green Bay Packers after they turned it yet another underwhelming offensive performance against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football, what led to Brian Daboll's firing in New York, why you should still expect Daboll to be a hot head coaching candidate this upcoming offseason, and how Victor Wembanyama, Donovan Mitchell and Cade Cunningham made Monday night a fun one for the NBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Tuesday, November eleventh, Happy Veterans Day to all.
My kids are off school, so are yours. I'm pretty
sure the markets are closed, banks are closed. I don't know.
I hate running errands anyway, man, I don't even know
(00:33):
where to begin with last night in sports, if I,
if we're being honest, I should start by talking about
the NBA and how many freaking incredible games happened last night.
The Lakers were not one of them. They roll over
the Charlotte Labello ballless team, and I mean the NBA
had I think one, two, three, four, maybe five games
(00:55):
decided at the horn or in the final seconds. Crazy night.
And then you flip over to n F. Well, and
I delayed talking about the NFL for a moment because
so as good as Saturday and Sunday was for your boy,
if you follow me on ig, you saw the stories
and the picks and like, it was a great weekend.
So Monday was like an unmitigated disaster. I lose the
(01:16):
Packers side that in the picks pool there are I
don't know the exact total, but I think like one
hundred and thirty people in this pool. And I was
in first place this week and I had the Packers
and they lose, so I fall to second place. I
don't win the big weekly pod. I have to share
it with some JIBBRONI okay, so that's over two. In
(01:40):
Fantasy Member, I had Christian Watson. What a terrible night
he had, So I lose that matchup, I will be
in first or second place. Now. I was in first
all alone. My son who was facing DeVonta Smith and
the Packers defense was clinging to a lead in the
fourth quarter, and then the bomb to DeVonta Smith. He loses.
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I mean, I know you don't give a rats ass
about my fantasy team. I also don't care because this
is what I talk about on the pod, like my
life and sports. And it was just an all time
crap game from the Packers. I lost everything. And then
you actually look at the game and you're like, holy shit,
are the Packers any good? I mean, I tried to
(02:23):
write off the Packers Panthers s show last week as oh, well,
you know, it's a trap game. Let's not read too
much into it. You knew the off the big win
over the Steelers Sunday night, but you knew there would
be a little bit of a come down for the
Packers at home. Okay, they didn't punt, they moved the ball, fine,
you know, they lose. So then you come out to
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the Eagles game. And I started the game at Costco.
You know, idiot me thinking like I'm not going to
go to Costco on weekends. I like to go to
Costco once a month, but during football season, I load
up in August because I mean, hell, I can't do
a Tuesday afternoon Costco. I'm the Costco guy. The wife
hates Costco, and I'm like, let me just load up
(03:10):
in August. And I got us three months of all
the essential toilet paper, tissues, paper, to all that crap,
you know, and we're like running low on that stuff.
And instead I did like a little holdover, loh, let
me go to Target and grab a couple. And that's
so expensive compared to Costco. So I go to Costco.
I'm loading up, watching the game, go to my daughter's
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volleyball practice. Watching the game, I'm like, boy, this is
a rough start for offense. First scoreless, first half, of
the NFL season. I mean, this game was brutal. It
was just bad, ugly football. And at that point I
start wondering, like, geez, maybe the Eagles have problems. I
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don't know. This cannot all be Tucker Craft related, like, oh,
we don't have Tucker Craft, so you know our offense thinks, well,
not really, It's more than that. The wide receiver room
is just a disaster. Matthew Golden did not dress injured
Christian Watson. It doesn't appear that he's one hundred percent.
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And it's weird because when he runs these deep routes,
he not every single time, but I would look every
time because I am in fantasy in the formation. He's
not on the field every play after the deep routes,
I'm like, damn. So they got Dontavian Wicks, whoop, he
damn do Romeo Dobbs one catch on four targets and
he got injured during the game. So it's a lot
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of dump offs to Josh Jacobs, a couple tosses to
Luke Busgrave, and they were desperate enough folks that on
a key fourth and nine they throw it to Bo Melton.
Now this stat I could not confirm it because I
didn't see anywhere online, but I could have swore I
heard them say that's the eighth snap he's played on
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offense this season on the pass that he dropped. Now,
maybe was like coming into the game, he had eight
STAPs on offense. He's a converted cornerback. The fourth and
nine pass hits him in the chest and he drops it.
I'm like, oh my gosh. So this team all of
a sudden is like down bad. Remember Jaden Reid is
on the ir And it's funny because the Packers wide
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receiver room, you could argue is one of the best
in the league. The only problem is reads out. Golden
was out, Dobbs got hurt. You know, Wicks is a
bit of a space cadet. He had the incident last
year where he kind of like was pissed that he
wasn't getting the ball, and Watson's coming off the injuries.
All of a sudden, you got no, your receiver room
is depleted. Tucker Kraft is gone, and the Eagles basically
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sold out to stop the run, bottled up Josh Jacobs
and in the process hurt Elkin. Jenkins, the offensive lineman
of the Packers, and you're like, oh, man, I mean
green Bay. At this point, Folks is as Mike as
my son likes to say, down bad. I mean it
all of a sudden feels like what was started off
as an incredible season. And Jenkins, for those wondering, he's
(06:02):
having a very good season at center. He is a
veteran and if you watch closely, blowing up the middle
was mister Jalen Carter. Very often he helped get pressure
up the middle, and as they compensated coming off the edge,
you had oh yeah, Jalen Phillips, the new new acquisition
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from the Miami Dolphins, and Jillen Phillips actually had like
a pretty good game. Aikman was gushing about him on
the broadcast. They have him for two quarterback hits, one
tackle for loss, four solo tackles. I mean, Jalen Phillips
was like actually a factor. I was stunned. And again,
we know Philadelphia's good, we know the defense is strong.
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I'll be honest, I was surprised at how bad the
Packers looked. Now, obviously we need to scrutinize one really
really bad decision, and that was you know, like twenty
eight seconds left maybe thirty seconds left. It's fourth and seven,
fourth and eight, something like that, and essentially the Eagles
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are faced with, oh do we punt? Do we pooch punt? Like,
what do we do? We don't want to really go
for it. We end the game by making them go
ninety yards and no timeouts. We're fine. No, Nick Sirianni
was just like, hey, you know what we're gonna do.
I'm chucking it down the field to AJ Brown. Now
I do wonder if that was because on the game
AJ Brown had two catches on two targets for thirteen yards.
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But on fourth and ballgame they decided, let's just throw
it down the field. The problem is incompletion stops the clock,
no flag, and all of a sudden, the Packers get
the ball way upfield around the thirty five forty somewhere
around there, and it's like, oh my gosh. Now Green
Bay had zero no timeouts, so they were only able
to complete one bomb over the middle, and you know,
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setting up a horrifically embarrassing field goal attempt for the
victory by Brandon mcbannis, which I don't even it got
to the like to the ten yard line. It was
so bad. But it was just like, you know, Sirianni's
gonna escape criticism for that decision, which is fine. He
obviously can't do that in a game that matters or
in a moment where it's not a lock.
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I do feel if I'm a green Bay Packers fan today,
all of a sudden, I'm like, sheez, guys, are we
gonna be okay? Now? Detroit and Detroit lost to the
Packers in the first meeting. I don't think Minnesota is
really a factor in the division. The Bears are frisky
and ooh interesting. The Packers have two more left against
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the Bears. But when you score a grand total of
twenty points in two home games back to back against
Carolina and Philly, I think at that point you gotta
be all right, what's wrong? We need to do a
little bit of an analysis.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The problem is Green Bay had the early buye remember
after the Dallas forty to forty tie, and if you
look at the season of the Packers in totality, folks,
it's a lot of highs. Early beating Detroit, beating Washington,
although in hindsight that Washington win doesn't look nearly as good.
Ohthough Jade Daniels did play. Then the mysterious blown late
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lead against Cleveland when they settled for the tie or
the loss, I'm sorry the loss. Then the tie against Dallas,
which was embarrassing for the defense. You beat Jake Browning,
whooped the damn? Do you beat youa Kobe Brissett but
don't cover a big deal. You come back to beat
Aaron Rodgers and a Steelers team that does not look impressive,
and all of a sudden you're like, oh, lost to Carolina.
(09:46):
Really Carolina, the team that just lost to the Saints Eagles.
No shame in that. But you really start to drill
down and they have essentially, for my money, one quality win,
and that was over Detroit in week one when Detroit
didn't Ben Johnson and they were adjusting to life without him.
So you strip away after that Detroit win. I don't know, guys,
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are the Packers any good? And I asked that, you know, fortunately,
they have the New York Giants coming up. We'll talk
about the Giants at a moment they fired their coach,
which I mean, weirdly, the internet totally disagrees with me
on this one, but we'll get there. They are the
Giants Vikings and then the Thanksgiving date at Detroit, which
will be a big I mean just a massive game.
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And that's tough because you go Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, all
divisional matchups. Then you go a random game to Denver
that should be fun, and then it's Chicago, Baltimore, Minnesota.
So now you know you don't want to panic. But
all of a sudden, it's like, well, if we can
lose to the likes of the Browns and the Panthers,
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are we a lot to get to the playoffs? I mean,
this was a team, folks, I don't This is really
a shocking development. How inep they look. And this cannot
all be about the loss of Tucker Craft. There has
to be something else fundamentally wrong. But the Packers, the
defense appears to be okay. Did just the inability of
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Jordan Love to get anything cooking. Josh Jacobs, who was
good last year as a grand total of zero games
rushing for one hundred yards, He's over ninety yards once
I mean the offensive line. Now we'll see what this
Jenkins injury is. But all of a sudden, I mean
they're like, can we get Jaden Reid back? Now we're
starting to get in like Kansas City Chiefs territory. Oh
(11:38):
wait till we get Xavier Worthy and where she Rice.
It's like this Jaden Read's got some pop, He's got juice.
He can do a lot of things, slot outside, gadget
guy like he's really talented. I don't know, man, All
of a sudden, I'm really getting nervous about the Packers'
chances to get to the playoffs. No cap, seriously, look
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at this. I mean this schedule. Let's see if can
I find there. I can't find an NFL strength to
schedule this juncture. But it's all of a sudden not
looking great for the Green Bay Packers. All right, Before
we get to NBA, let me just quickly address this
New York Giants firing. So in what I thought was
(12:21):
a mild surprise, although in hindsight, I should not have
been given the news that came out last week. Last
week according to I don't know if it was multiple
reports or just one that after the Giants blew that
huge lead in the fourth quarter in Denver. The ownership said,
that's it, screw Dable, We're firing him. I can't, we
(12:41):
can't take this anymore. And they wanted to fire Brian Dable.
So then they said, all right, let's do a little
cooling off period once we land see how it looks.
Reconvene tomorrow. So cooler heads prevailed, Hey, we're not gonna fire. Well,
Brian Dable had another blown lead, his fourth double digit
blown lead, this one on Sunday in Chicago, and I
(13:06):
guess the decision to kick a field goal from the
one yard line as opposed to go for it and
go for like the jugular. I'm guessing that's was the
final nail on the coffin. The Bears come back and win,
and Brian Dable gets fired on Monday. Okay, let's just
start with just listing the facts. Number one, Yes, Brian
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Dable started the last three seasons two and eight. That
is a fact. Inarguable, you start two and eight, that's
not great, obviously, but context is needed. Right, So two
years ago, Daniel Jones gets hurt. The year prior, Daniel
Jones had the Giants in the playoffs. As a result
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of that playoff trip and the win over Minnesota, and
I believe it was Kirk Cousins in Minnesota, the GM
extended Daniel Jones. Everybody knew would be stupid, and they
gave him way too much money. Daniel Jones gets hurts
the next year, and then you know, he tries to
come back last year, which was a disaster. They wanted
(14:10):
nothing to do with him. They cut him out right
after ten games. And Daniel Jones, if if you hadn't
been paying attention, is kind of thriving with the Colts. Okay,
that same GM let Saquon Berkley go when they signed
Daniel Jones. Saquon Barkley, of course goes to the Eagles,
has one of the greatest running back seasons in the
history of the support, wins the Super Bowl. That GM
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is still employed now. I don't know if he'll ever
get the right answer on this one, but who pushed
for Jackson Dart Was it Brian Dable or was it
the GM? The GM still has his job, and I'm
not defending dables record. Obviously, he was not a great
head coach with the Giants. He was not great. He
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was a good offensive mind in Buffalo. He helped develop
Josh Allen. That's undeniable. But as a head coach and listen,
sometimes guys are lieutenants and they're really not the guy
to run the show. Maybe that's the case, Hey, trust me, guys.
As a guy who's a wingman on a show, I
have a lot of people saying, oh, yeah, j Mac,
when are you gonna get your own show? And then
(15:17):
I see a lot of idiots online, Yeah, you're only
a wigman. There's no way you're going to be the
main guy. And I don't know will we find out.
I have no idea. I don't know, we'll see. Dere
have certainly been opportunities, but I think he's got to
be the right opportunity. I love my spot right now.
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But if you're Brian Dabole and you're an offensive coach,
maybe you wanted to be the boss in charge of everything, right.
I mean he wanted it. He got it with the Giants,
He had a little bit of success with Daniel Jones,
and then it kind of sort of went away, and
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all of a sudden, people look a out, Well, Mike McCarthy,
he could be a good fit. Kat Lane Kiffin. He
could be Oh my gosh, maybe they go Marcus Freeman.
So all of a sudden, people think the Giant's job
is a good one. But I've got to ask, when
you have your best offensive player, elite neighbors go down.
Right after that, the skill position players fall off significantly.
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Your second best skill position player was a rookie Cam Skataboo,
and then he was lost for the season. Yet, somehow
Brian Dable had good enough game plans that he had
four games where he took with a rookie quarterback. Now,
one of them was with Russell Wilson the Dallas game.
He took double digit leads with a rookie quarterback and
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no skill position. Guys, wait a second, how did he
do that? Well, that's because he's a freaking good offensive
game planner. That's clear. Brian Dable knows offensive football, so
he's able to get the leads. Harkening back to the
great Jerry Seinfeld episode where he's at a car rental
counter and he goes, oh, you don't know how to
(17:05):
hold a reservation. You know how to take a reservation,
you don't know how to hold one. Well, Brian Daboles
certainly knows how to get a lead, just to know
how to hold one. So maybe we should look at
the defense, the Mighty defense where they got Abdul Carter
at the top of the draft top four three or
four great defense, allegedly Brian Burns, Cavon Thibodeau, not Lawrence.
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They got one other awesome guy in the middle. They
have a stacked defense in front seven and they can't
stop anybody, but the defensive coordinator still employed. I don't know, guys.
This is what strikes me is very odd. It's just
that I don't blame Brian Dabole for everything. And as
a matter of fact, I don't know anything about Joe Shane.
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If he's really the guy as the GM, I don't
know that I would have kept Dable. But here's the
weird part. What do you do with Jackson Dart Because
he was a dable guy. Dabell clearly wanted him. You
guys can read the stories dabel push for him. We
know he likes running quarterbacks. He had Jalen Hurts at Alabama.
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More on that later, because you guys remember what happened
to Hurts at the end of that season. He had
Josh Allen and he had Daniel Jones, he ran all
those quarterbacks, and then he had Jackson Dart and who
he ran a lot. Now, Jackson Dart has not been
able to hold up. If you noted, every single reporter
had Jackson Dart was in the medical tent in four games.
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I mean, we've been talking about this for weeks. He's
running too much. But guess what you needed him to
run in that system because he ain't got no players,
there's nobody a throat to So again I don't this
isn't easy, but I don't know what you gain by
dumping Brian Dabele. Now there is the theory, Hey we
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got Kafka and every year he's getting interviewed, so maybe
we see what he's got. All right, Okay, maybe that works,
I have I don't know. I frankly, I don't give
a shit about the Giants. I can't stand them. In
the NFL teams I don't like as a Jets fan,
I think it's basically Giants, Patriots, Dolphins. Yeah, basically those
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three teams the rivals to the Jets, and so I'm
happy that they're struggling. But is your new coach or
prospective coach is gonna look at Jackson Dart and say, yeah,
I don't know, man, not my prototypical guy, more of
a running quarterback, not for the system I want. And
are you gonna lose coaches because they might not watch
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Jackson Dart? I mean, I think Dart's been good. He's
exceeded all of my expectations. I'm frankly stunned. I don't
think his style is sustainable given the hits he takes.
But at the same time, I don't know that he's
a frank quarterback again. Can he be the starting quarterback? Sure?
Can he be your franchise quarterback who you build around?
I don't know. I would guess no, but somebody's gonna
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find out. Now what does that leave Dabele? I think
instantly you're gonna hear rumors about, well, hey, the Buffalo
Bill's offense. They're coming off that horrible game in Miami.
So McDermott's instantly getting asked, Yeah, yeah, could you guys
bring back Brian Dable? I mean, I don't see it,
but I suppose anything is possible. Could they bring back
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You know, Dable is some kind of advisor they do.
Teams do do that for coaching staffs in the playoffs.
And then there's Miami, which likely will have a head
coach opening, assuming you know, McDaniel doesn't tear off what
like six wins in a row here or something, McDaniel's
probably gone. And if they cannot get out of the
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too a deal or they find it too onerous, maybe
they go get Dable, who, oh, by the way, was
the offensive coordinator at Alabama in twenty seventeen when Jalen
Hurts was a quarterback. Tua was the backup. And then
Tua comes in midway through the National Championship game and
wins it four. Okay, it is I think certainly in
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play I personally think Dable will can have his pickup
offensive coordinator jobs, or I think he's gonna get some
interest as a head coach. The Tennessee Titans have cam
Ward Young quarterback. We know Dable knows quarterbacks. I know
he struggled with all some other facets of the team,
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but I think Brian Dable is gonna be a hot
candidate here come January.
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All right, let me quickly wrap up with some of
this NBA. You guys, don't I love the association? I mean,
I don't know where to start. So wembin Yama had
an amazing sequence at the end of the Bulls game
where he blocks a shot and then calls for an
ISO against Vuchichic ISO's against him at the top of
the key and splashes the three in his face to
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win the game. Here's the webbin Yama statline. Thirty eight
and twelve, five assists, five blocks. Are you ready for this?
Six of nine on threes, ten of ten on free throws.
Oh my gosh. And the Chicago Bulls, by the way,
are coming back to earth now. I'm seeing Josh Giddy
did not play, and I think this could be because
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Josh Giddy had his ankles broken over the weekend by
I think it was a guy on Cleveland, DeAndre Hunter.
It's one of the most amazing highlights you'll see. It
looks like something out of an and one mixtape or
like an open gym. Essentially, he crosses up Giddy to
the point were Giddy both of his ankles like buckle
and he falls down and then they called time out
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because they thought he was injured. It was like quite
the devastating moment for Giddy. Anyways, amazing performance from one Minyama.
Desmond Baine hits a prayer three to beat Portland at
the buzzer. Bain has kind of struggled. It was his
only three of the night. He's kind of struggled there.
In Orlando, they're looking to get their footing early. But
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a great shot for the game winner Cleveland. In Miami,
Donovan Mitchell hits a prayer three from the corner with
four tenths of a second left. Mitchell, by the way,
is just in Sendiary. To start the season, he had
twenty eight, fifteen boards and eight assists. Okay, hits a
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three from the corner with four tenths of a second,
You're like, oh my gosh, what a game winner. Mitchell
actually struggled ten of twenty eight shooting. Nevertheless, the Miami
Heat and embattled coach Eric Spolstro, who just had half
his health down Spoilster downs up the perfect play an
alley oop inbounds pass to Andrew Wiggins for the win.
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Spectacular finish. Heat went at the buzzer for the other
for the third game of a crazy night in the NBA.
And then there was Jannis against Cooper Flag and folks,
I'm just Cooper Flagg. Pretty impressive game, maybe one of
his best of the season. Twenty six, nine and four.
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At the end of the game, had a great spin move,
went right into Gianni's body to body, scores on him
and the Bucks take the Maps take the lead. Then
the Bucks score and unfortunately PJ. Washington goes to the
line for three free throws to win it and could
not deliver Dallas another tough loss. Clay Thompson seventeen minutes.
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I honestly think wron Clay Thompson. Watch. I don't know, guys,
I don't know who's taking him. Maybe the Warrior, I know.
I'm just kidding the were Thompson's in a tough spot.
And finally, I'm not gonna mention the Lakers. We'll talk
about them plenty. Quick shout out to Kid Cunningham, who
I think at this point, yeah, he I think so
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far has been a top six player in the league
this season. Folks, listen to this forty six points, twelve boards,
eleven assists and they beat the Wizards. Now here's the kicker.
It is the Caid Cunningham Show. He had forty six points.
I don't know that I've seen this in a while,
own forty five shots, what forty five field goal attempts?
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And he was sixty to eighteen off three throws. So basically,
you know, I guess they got some guys out because
they started Ron Holland, Duncan Robinson, Javonte Green. It was
essentially Kate go get us a win, steal us a
win against the Washington Wizards who were one to ten,
and Kate Cunningham did keep an eye on Detroit. They're
frisky in the east, all right, So it's well over midnight.
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Monday night football did not go my way. But you
know what week eleven's gonna be fire. Try to secure
a couple of guests for this week, I don't know.
Remember I got two Men's League championship games. Obviously, I
think I can go to and Oho. The reality is
I'll be very happy with one and one. I will
be honestly devastated if we if I go h and two.
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And I know you don't care, but it's the small
victories in life folks, and uh for me, men's basketball
league titles mean a hell of a lot, all right,
see you tomorrow.
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Tuesday, November eleventh, Happy Veterans Day to all.
My kids are off school, so are yours. I'm pretty
sure the markets are closed, banks are closed. I don't know.
I hate running errands anyway, man, I don't even know
(00:33):
where to begin with last night in sports, if I,
if we're being honest, I should start by talking about
the NBA and how many freaking incredible games happened last night.
The Lakers were not one of them. They roll over
the Charlotte Labello ballless team, and I mean the NBA
had I think one, two, three, four, maybe five games
(00:55):
decided at the horn or in the final seconds. Crazy night.
And then you flip over to n F. Well, and
I delayed talking about the NFL for a moment because
so as good as Saturday and Sunday was for your boy,
if you follow me on ig, you saw the stories
and the picks and like, it was a great weekend.
So Monday was like an unmitigated disaster. I lose the
(01:16):
Packers side that in the picks pool there are I
don't know the exact total, but I think like one
hundred and thirty people in this pool. And I was
in first place this week and I had the Packers
and they lose, so I fall to second place. I
don't win the big weekly pod. I have to share
it with some JIBBRONI okay, so that's over two. In
(01:40):
Fantasy Member, I had Christian Watson. What a terrible night
he had, So I lose that matchup, I will be
in first or second place. Now. I was in first
all alone. My son who was facing DeVonta Smith and
the Packers defense was clinging to a lead in the
fourth quarter, and then the bomb to DeVonta Smith. He loses.
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I mean, I know you don't give a rats ass
about my fantasy team. I also don't care because this
is what I talk about on the pod, like my
life and sports. And it was just an all time
crap game from the Packers. I lost everything. And then
you actually look at the game and you're like, holy shit,
are the Packers any good? I mean, I tried to
(02:23):
write off the Packers Panthers s show last week as oh, well,
you know, it's a trap game. Let's not read too
much into it. You knew the off the big win
over the Steelers Sunday night, but you knew there would
be a little bit of a come down for the
Packers at home. Okay, they didn't punt, they moved the ball, fine,
you know, they lose. So then you come out to
(02:46):
the Eagles game. And I started the game at Costco.
You know, idiot me thinking like I'm not going to
go to Costco on weekends. I like to go to
Costco once a month, but during football season, I load
up in August because I mean, hell, I can't do
a Tuesday afternoon Costco. I'm the Costco guy. The wife
hates Costco, and I'm like, let me just load up
(03:10):
in August. And I got us three months of all
the essential toilet paper, tissues, paper, to all that crap,
you know, and we're like running low on that stuff.
And instead I did like a little holdover, loh, let
me go to Target and grab a couple. And that's
so expensive compared to Costco. So I go to Costco.
I'm loading up, watching the game, go to my daughter's
(03:32):
volleyball practice. Watching the game, I'm like, boy, this is
a rough start for offense. First scoreless, first half, of
the NFL season. I mean, this game was brutal. It
was just bad, ugly football. And at that point I
start wondering, like, geez, maybe the Eagles have problems. I
(03:52):
don't know. This cannot all be Tucker Craft related, like, oh,
we don't have Tucker Craft, so you know our offense thinks, well,
not really, It's more than that. The wide receiver room
is just a disaster. Matthew Golden did not dress injured
Christian Watson. It doesn't appear that he's one hundred percent.
(04:12):
And it's weird because when he runs these deep routes,
he not every single time, but I would look every
time because I am in fantasy in the formation. He's
not on the field every play after the deep routes,
I'm like, damn. So they got Dontavian Wicks, whoop, he
damn do Romeo Dobbs one catch on four targets and
he got injured during the game. So it's a lot
(04:34):
of dump offs to Josh Jacobs, a couple tosses to
Luke Busgrave, and they were desperate enough folks that on
a key fourth and nine they throw it to Bo Melton.
Now this stat I could not confirm it because I
didn't see anywhere online, but I could have swore I
heard them say that's the eighth snap he's played on
(04:54):
offense this season on the pass that he dropped. Now,
maybe was like coming into the game, he had eight
STAPs on offense. He's a converted cornerback. The fourth and
nine pass hits him in the chest and he drops it.
I'm like, oh my gosh. So this team all of
a sudden is like down bad. Remember Jaden Reid is
on the ir And it's funny because the Packers wide
(05:15):
receiver room, you could argue is one of the best
in the league. The only problem is reads out. Golden
was out, Dobbs got hurt. You know, Wicks is a
bit of a space cadet. He had the incident last
year where he kind of like was pissed that he
wasn't getting the ball, and Watson's coming off the injuries.
All of a sudden, you got no, your receiver room
is depleted. Tucker Kraft is gone, and the Eagles basically
(05:39):
sold out to stop the run, bottled up Josh Jacobs
and in the process hurt Elkin. Jenkins, the offensive lineman
of the Packers, and you're like, oh, man, I mean
green Bay. At this point, Folks is as Mike as
my son likes to say, down bad. I mean it
all of a sudden feels like what was started off
as an incredible season. And Jenkins, for those wondering, he's
(06:02):
having a very good season at center. He is a
veteran and if you watch closely, blowing up the middle
was mister Jalen Carter. Very often he helped get pressure
up the middle, and as they compensated coming off the edge,
you had oh yeah, Jalen Phillips, the new new acquisition
(06:24):
from the Miami Dolphins, and Jillen Phillips actually had like
a pretty good game. Aikman was gushing about him on
the broadcast. They have him for two quarterback hits, one
tackle for loss, four solo tackles. I mean, Jalen Phillips
was like actually a factor. I was stunned. And again,
we know Philadelphia's good, we know the defense is strong.
(06:45):
I'll be honest, I was surprised at how bad the
Packers looked. Now, obviously we need to scrutinize one really
really bad decision, and that was you know, like twenty
eight seconds left maybe thirty seconds left. It's fourth and seven,
fourth and eight, something like that, and essentially the Eagles
(07:08):
are faced with, oh do we punt? Do we pooch punt? Like,
what do we do? We don't want to really go
for it. We end the game by making them go
ninety yards and no timeouts. We're fine. No, Nick Sirianni
was just like, hey, you know what we're gonna do.
I'm chucking it down the field to AJ Brown. Now
I do wonder if that was because on the game
AJ Brown had two catches on two targets for thirteen yards.
(07:31):
But on fourth and ballgame they decided, let's just throw
it down the field. The problem is incompletion stops the clock,
no flag, and all of a sudden, the Packers get
the ball way upfield around the thirty five forty somewhere
around there, and it's like, oh my gosh. Now Green
Bay had zero no timeouts, so they were only able
to complete one bomb over the middle, and you know,
(07:52):
setting up a horrifically embarrassing field goal attempt for the
victory by Brandon mcbannis, which I don't even it got
to the like to the ten yard line. It was
so bad. But it was just like, you know, Sirianni's
gonna escape criticism for that decision, which is fine. He
obviously can't do that in a game that matters or
in a moment where it's not a lock.
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I do feel if I'm a green Bay Packers fan today,
all of a sudden, I'm like, sheez, guys, are we
gonna be okay? Now? Detroit and Detroit lost to the
Packers in the first meeting. I don't think Minnesota is
really a factor in the division. The Bears are frisky
and ooh interesting. The Packers have two more left against
(08:48):
the Bears. But when you score a grand total of
twenty points in two home games back to back against
Carolina and Philly, I think at that point you gotta
be all right, what's wrong? We need to do a
little bit of an analysis.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The problem is Green Bay had the early buye remember
after the Dallas forty to forty tie, and if you
look at the season of the Packers in totality, folks,
it's a lot of highs. Early beating Detroit, beating Washington,
although in hindsight that Washington win doesn't look nearly as good.
Ohthough Jade Daniels did play. Then the mysterious blown late
(09:25):
lead against Cleveland when they settled for the tie or
the loss, I'm sorry the loss. Then the tie against Dallas,
which was embarrassing for the defense. You beat Jake Browning,
whooped the damn? Do you beat youa Kobe Brissett but
don't cover a big deal. You come back to beat
Aaron Rodgers and a Steelers team that does not look impressive,
and all of a sudden you're like, oh, lost to Carolina.
(09:46):
Really Carolina, the team that just lost to the Saints Eagles.
No shame in that. But you really start to drill
down and they have essentially, for my money, one quality win,
and that was over Detroit in week one when Detroit
didn't Ben Johnson and they were adjusting to life without him.
So you strip away after that Detroit win. I don't know, guys,
(10:07):
are the Packers any good? And I asked that, you know, fortunately,
they have the New York Giants coming up. We'll talk
about the Giants at a moment they fired their coach,
which I mean, weirdly, the internet totally disagrees with me
on this one, but we'll get there. They are the
Giants Vikings and then the Thanksgiving date at Detroit, which
will be a big I mean just a massive game.
(10:30):
And that's tough because you go Minnesota, Detroit, Chicago, all
divisional matchups. Then you go a random game to Denver
that should be fun, and then it's Chicago, Baltimore, Minnesota.
So now you know you don't want to panic. But
all of a sudden, it's like, well, if we can
lose to the likes of the Browns and the Panthers,
(10:55):
are we a lot to get to the playoffs? I mean,
this was a team, folks, I don't This is really
a shocking development. How inep they look. And this cannot
all be about the loss of Tucker Craft. There has
to be something else fundamentally wrong. But the Packers, the
defense appears to be okay. Did just the inability of
(11:17):
Jordan Love to get anything cooking. Josh Jacobs, who was
good last year as a grand total of zero games
rushing for one hundred yards, He's over ninety yards once
I mean the offensive line. Now we'll see what this
Jenkins injury is. But all of a sudden, I mean
they're like, can we get Jaden Reid back? Now we're
starting to get in like Kansas City Chiefs territory. Oh
(11:38):
wait till we get Xavier Worthy and where she Rice.
It's like this Jaden Read's got some pop, He's got juice.
He can do a lot of things, slot outside, gadget
guy like he's really talented. I don't know, man, All
of a sudden, I'm really getting nervous about the Packers'
chances to get to the playoffs. No cap, seriously, look
(12:00):
at this. I mean this schedule. Let's see if can
I find there. I can't find an NFL strength to
schedule this juncture. But it's all of a sudden not
looking great for the Green Bay Packers. All right, Before
we get to NBA, let me just quickly address this
New York Giants firing. So in what I thought was
(12:21):
a mild surprise, although in hindsight, I should not have
been given the news that came out last week. Last
week according to I don't know if it was multiple
reports or just one that after the Giants blew that
huge lead in the fourth quarter in Denver. The ownership said,
that's it, screw Dable, We're firing him. I can't, we
(12:41):
can't take this anymore. And they wanted to fire Brian Dable.
So then they said, all right, let's do a little
cooling off period once we land see how it looks.
Reconvene tomorrow. So cooler heads prevailed, Hey, we're not gonna fire. Well,
Brian Dable had another blown lead, his fourth double digit
blown lead, this one on Sunday in Chicago, and I
(13:06):
guess the decision to kick a field goal from the
one yard line as opposed to go for it and
go for like the jugular. I'm guessing that's was the
final nail on the coffin. The Bears come back and win,
and Brian Dable gets fired on Monday. Okay, let's just
start with just listing the facts. Number one, Yes, Brian
(13:27):
Dable started the last three seasons two and eight. That
is a fact. Inarguable, you start two and eight, that's
not great, obviously, but context is needed. Right, So two
years ago, Daniel Jones gets hurt. The year prior, Daniel
Jones had the Giants in the playoffs. As a result
(13:49):
of that playoff trip and the win over Minnesota, and
I believe it was Kirk Cousins in Minnesota, the GM
extended Daniel Jones. Everybody knew would be stupid, and they
gave him way too much money. Daniel Jones gets hurts
the next year, and then you know, he tries to
come back last year, which was a disaster. They wanted
(14:10):
nothing to do with him. They cut him out right
after ten games. And Daniel Jones, if if you hadn't
been paying attention, is kind of thriving with the Colts. Okay,
that same GM let Saquon Berkley go when they signed
Daniel Jones. Saquon Barkley, of course goes to the Eagles,
has one of the greatest running back seasons in the
history of the support, wins the Super Bowl. That GM
(14:34):
is still employed now. I don't know if he'll ever
get the right answer on this one, but who pushed
for Jackson Dart Was it Brian Dable or was it
the GM? The GM still has his job, and I'm
not defending dables record. Obviously, he was not a great
head coach with the Giants. He was not great. He
(14:56):
was a good offensive mind in Buffalo. He helped develop
Josh Allen. That's undeniable. But as a head coach and listen,
sometimes guys are lieutenants and they're really not the guy
to run the show. Maybe that's the case, Hey, trust me, guys.
As a guy who's a wingman on a show, I
have a lot of people saying, oh, yeah, j Mac,
when are you gonna get your own show? And then
(15:17):
I see a lot of idiots online, Yeah, you're only
a wigman. There's no way you're going to be the
main guy. And I don't know will we find out.
I have no idea. I don't know, we'll see. Dere
have certainly been opportunities, but I think he's got to
be the right opportunity. I love my spot right now.
(15:38):
But if you're Brian Dabole and you're an offensive coach,
maybe you wanted to be the boss in charge of everything, right.
I mean he wanted it. He got it with the Giants,
He had a little bit of success with Daniel Jones,
and then it kind of sort of went away, and
(15:59):
all of a sudden, people look a out, Well, Mike McCarthy,
he could be a good fit. Kat Lane Kiffin. He
could be Oh my gosh, maybe they go Marcus Freeman.
So all of a sudden, people think the Giant's job
is a good one. But I've got to ask, when
you have your best offensive player, elite neighbors go down.
Right after that, the skill position players fall off significantly.
(16:21):
Your second best skill position player was a rookie Cam Skataboo,
and then he was lost for the season. Yet, somehow
Brian Dable had good enough game plans that he had
four games where he took with a rookie quarterback. Now,
one of them was with Russell Wilson the Dallas game.
He took double digit leads with a rookie quarterback and
(16:44):
no skill position. Guys, wait a second, how did he
do that? Well, that's because he's a freaking good offensive
game planner. That's clear. Brian Dable knows offensive football, so
he's able to get the leads. Harkening back to the
great Jerry Seinfeld episode where he's at a car rental
counter and he goes, oh, you don't know how to
(17:05):
hold a reservation. You know how to take a reservation,
you don't know how to hold one. Well, Brian Daboles
certainly knows how to get a lead, just to know
how to hold one. So maybe we should look at
the defense, the Mighty defense where they got Abdul Carter
at the top of the draft top four three or
four great defense, allegedly Brian Burns, Cavon Thibodeau, not Lawrence.
(17:32):
They got one other awesome guy in the middle. They
have a stacked defense in front seven and they can't
stop anybody, but the defensive coordinator still employed. I don't know, guys.
This is what strikes me is very odd. It's just
that I don't blame Brian Dabole for everything. And as
a matter of fact, I don't know anything about Joe Shane.
(17:53):
If he's really the guy as the GM, I don't
know that I would have kept Dable. But here's the
weird part. What do you do with Jackson Dart Because
he was a dable guy. Dabell clearly wanted him. You
guys can read the stories dabel push for him. We
know he likes running quarterbacks. He had Jalen Hurts at Alabama.
(18:15):
More on that later, because you guys remember what happened
to Hurts at the end of that season. He had
Josh Allen and he had Daniel Jones, he ran all
those quarterbacks, and then he had Jackson Dart and who
he ran a lot. Now, Jackson Dart has not been
able to hold up. If you noted, every single reporter
had Jackson Dart was in the medical tent in four games.
(18:38):
I mean, we've been talking about this for weeks. He's
running too much. But guess what you needed him to
run in that system because he ain't got no players,
there's nobody a throat to So again I don't this
isn't easy, but I don't know what you gain by
dumping Brian Dabele. Now there is the theory, Hey we
(18:59):
got Kafka and every year he's getting interviewed, so maybe
we see what he's got. All right, Okay, maybe that works,
I have I don't know. I frankly, I don't give
a shit about the Giants. I can't stand them. In
the NFL teams I don't like as a Jets fan,
I think it's basically Giants, Patriots, Dolphins. Yeah, basically those
(19:27):
three teams the rivals to the Jets, and so I'm
happy that they're struggling. But is your new coach or
prospective coach is gonna look at Jackson Dart and say, yeah,
I don't know, man, not my prototypical guy, more of
a running quarterback, not for the system I want. And
are you gonna lose coaches because they might not watch
(19:48):
Jackson Dart? I mean, I think Dart's been good. He's
exceeded all of my expectations. I'm frankly stunned. I don't
think his style is sustainable given the hits he takes.
But at the same time, I don't know that he's
a frank quarterback again. Can he be the starting quarterback? Sure?
Can he be your franchise quarterback who you build around?
I don't know. I would guess no, but somebody's gonna
(20:12):
find out. Now what does that leave Dabele? I think
instantly you're gonna hear rumors about, well, hey, the Buffalo
Bill's offense. They're coming off that horrible game in Miami.
So McDermott's instantly getting asked, Yeah, yeah, could you guys
bring back Brian Dable? I mean, I don't see it,
but I suppose anything is possible. Could they bring back
(20:33):
You know, Dable is some kind of advisor they do.
Teams do do that for coaching staffs in the playoffs.
And then there's Miami, which likely will have a head
coach opening, assuming you know, McDaniel doesn't tear off what
like six wins in a row here or something, McDaniel's
probably gone. And if they cannot get out of the
(20:55):
too a deal or they find it too onerous, maybe
they go get Dable, who, oh, by the way, was
the offensive coordinator at Alabama in twenty seventeen when Jalen
Hurts was a quarterback. Tua was the backup. And then
Tua comes in midway through the National Championship game and
wins it four. Okay, it is I think certainly in
(21:19):
play I personally think Dable will can have his pickup
offensive coordinator jobs, or I think he's gonna get some
interest as a head coach. The Tennessee Titans have cam
Ward Young quarterback. We know Dable knows quarterbacks. I know
he struggled with all some other facets of the team,
(21:39):
but I think Brian Dable is gonna be a hot
candidate here come January.
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All right, let me quickly wrap up with some of
this NBA. You guys, don't I love the association? I mean,
I don't know where to start. So wembin Yama had
an amazing sequence at the end of the Bulls game
where he blocks a shot and then calls for an
ISO against Vuchichic ISO's against him at the top of
the key and splashes the three in his face to
(22:18):
win the game. Here's the webbin Yama statline. Thirty eight
and twelve, five assists, five blocks. Are you ready for this?
Six of nine on threes, ten of ten on free throws.
Oh my gosh. And the Chicago Bulls, by the way,
are coming back to earth now. I'm seeing Josh Giddy
did not play, and I think this could be because
(22:42):
Josh Giddy had his ankles broken over the weekend by
I think it was a guy on Cleveland, DeAndre Hunter.
It's one of the most amazing highlights you'll see. It
looks like something out of an and one mixtape or
like an open gym. Essentially, he crosses up Giddy to
the point were Giddy both of his ankles like buckle
and he falls down and then they called time out
(23:04):
because they thought he was injured. It was like quite
the devastating moment for Giddy. Anyways, amazing performance from one Minyama.
Desmond Baine hits a prayer three to beat Portland at
the buzzer. Bain has kind of struggled. It was his
only three of the night. He's kind of struggled there.
In Orlando, they're looking to get their footing early. But
(23:26):
a great shot for the game winner Cleveland. In Miami,
Donovan Mitchell hits a prayer three from the corner with
four tenths of a second left. Mitchell, by the way,
is just in Sendiary. To start the season, he had
twenty eight, fifteen boards and eight assists. Okay, hits a
(23:47):
three from the corner with four tenths of a second,
You're like, oh my gosh, what a game winner. Mitchell
actually struggled ten of twenty eight shooting. Nevertheless, the Miami
Heat and embattled coach Eric Spolstro, who just had half
his health down Spoilster downs up the perfect play an
alley oop inbounds pass to Andrew Wiggins for the win.
(24:09):
Spectacular finish. Heat went at the buzzer for the other
for the third game of a crazy night in the NBA.
And then there was Jannis against Cooper Flag and folks,
I'm just Cooper Flagg. Pretty impressive game, maybe one of
his best of the season. Twenty six, nine and four.
(24:30):
At the end of the game, had a great spin move,
went right into Gianni's body to body, scores on him
and the Bucks take the Maps take the lead. Then
the Bucks score and unfortunately PJ. Washington goes to the
line for three free throws to win it and could
not deliver Dallas another tough loss. Clay Thompson seventeen minutes.
(24:50):
I honestly think wron Clay Thompson. Watch. I don't know, guys,
I don't know who's taking him. Maybe the Warrior, I know.
I'm just kidding the were Thompson's in a tough spot.
And finally, I'm not gonna mention the Lakers. We'll talk
about them plenty. Quick shout out to Kid Cunningham, who
I think at this point, yeah, he I think so
(25:15):
far has been a top six player in the league
this season. Folks, listen to this forty six points, twelve boards,
eleven assists and they beat the Wizards. Now here's the kicker.
It is the Caid Cunningham Show. He had forty six points.
I don't know that I've seen this in a while,
own forty five shots, what forty five field goal attempts?
(25:42):
And he was sixty to eighteen off three throws. So basically,
you know, I guess they got some guys out because
they started Ron Holland, Duncan Robinson, Javonte Green. It was
essentially Kate go get us a win, steal us a
win against the Washington Wizards who were one to ten,
and Kate Cunningham did keep an eye on Detroit. They're
frisky in the east, all right, So it's well over midnight.
(26:07):
Monday night football did not go my way. But you
know what week eleven's gonna be fire. Try to secure
a couple of guests for this week, I don't know.
Remember I got two Men's League championship games. Obviously, I
think I can go to and Oho. The reality is
I'll be very happy with one and one. I will
be honestly devastated if we if I go h and two.
(26:28):
And I know you don't care, but it's the small
victories in life folks, and uh for me, men's basketball
league titles mean a hell of a lot, all right,
see you tomorrow.
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