September 4, 2023 • 28 mins
On today’s episode, Jason is back following some minor surgery discussing what’s next for Colorado following their upset win over TCU, how the transfer portal has allowed college coaches like Deion Sanders to reshape their rosters almost overnight, what the arrival of Trey Lance means for Dak Prescott’s future with the Dallas Cowboys and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What
is up Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
Fire for Monday, September. Yeah, September fourth. The calendar is correct.
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It's the first week of the NFL. Everybody get excited.
More importantly, your boys back. I'm healthy. I think we
shall see if the voice holds up. I'll get into
it shortly. I did miss. Apparently a lot a lot
was happening college football. Oh boy, tons happened in college
football NFL. I had some fantasy drafts, won another championship
in my men's league, which I know everybody cares about.
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But first I guess we should start about talking where
the hell I was. I'll try to condense this. Also
programming note, I will be having at least two guests
to preview Week one of the NFL this week. My
boy Ta you guys remember him from way back during
the radio show. I don't know. He doesn't want his
face on video because he has a job, you know,
a real job. You remember, like what I was doing
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back in the day when I started the blog anonymously.
He's kind of doing his thing with football gambling. He's
been very good. I've been talking. She's ten years now.
And by special request, mister Baker, the winner in the
past and top five guy when it comes to the
Big Vegas gambling contest. He's gonna come on later in
the week. So lots of picks coming on the NFL front.
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Also another programming note, I will be hosting one hour
of The Herd today. It's just from eleven to twelve Pacific.
Apparently there's drag racing on Labor Day. Who knew. And
the final hour of the show will just be me,
no wingman, no cow Herd. He's back Tuesday, just me
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riffing for an hour and it takes galore because you
know this is what I do. Okay, So where the
hell was I you guys do this. I went on
a vacation in August. We went to Hawaii, and while
I was there, I got sick and I just increasingly
kept getting worse. I was struggling to breathe at times.
Now we were at altitude, visited some volcanoes I'm sure
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you saw on Instagram. And then the flight back, I guess,
you know, six hour flight from Hawaii, things got worse,
and you know, I get back and I'm feeling like
total ass and you know, I'm struggling. I'm sure you
heard me that Monday on the Herd. I sounded terrible.
They were like, dude, do you want to take a
sick day? I was like, I don't take sick days, okay.
And then that Monday night, I'd like wake up in
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the middle of the night struggling to breathe. I'm like,
f this, I'm going to the er. But I was
all hopped up on Benadryl and robotussin and I didn't
really do a good job of finding the closest hospital.
So I drive to what's known as UCLA Harbor Hospital. Later,
two doctor friends told me, bro are you out of
your mind? You only go to UCLA Harbor if you
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were in a major car accident or you have a
gunshot wound. Never go there, Okay. I didn't know that. Also,
Robotussen and Bendroux yes at the same time. So I
end up walking into the ear about two thirty in
the morning and there's like forty people there. I'm like,
what is going on? Give me a break. So anyways,
they quickly swab me up. They're like, you don't have COVID.
You don't have STRIP, you don't have RSV, you don't
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have anything. It's like, well I got something. I'm dying here.
And they were like it's about a three hour week
to see the doctor. I was like, I'm not doing that.
I gotta go to work. So I headed home showered up.
That's what I said on the HERD that I went
to the er and blah blah blah. So the next
day my wife's like, listen, just go to the NT.
See what the deal is. So I talked to a
friend who was a fairly prominent doctor. He gets me
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into instantly with a good NT. He shoves that camera
up my nose. He comes out with good news bad news.
Good news is it's just a ton of mucus and
we can resolve that. I'll take a lot a week
to ten days. You know, we get this basically. I
don't know if anybody's had allergies, but you use this
thing called the Nettie Pot. I got like a Nettie
Pot on steroids. Then you go buy over the counter.
It was like a hundred anyways, I had to do that.
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Oh but the bad news is there's like a cyst
growing in your throat and it's you know, fairly significant inside,
so we should get that out. And I'm like, what
the heck? Okay, so I quickly schedule it. They're like,
you know, you're probably gonna be out of action for
anywhere from three to seven ten days in that range,
depending how you know, how the surgery goes. So it's like,
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let's just get it over with. Cowhard was already taken vacation,
so it's like, fine, I'll take the surgery. And they're like,
we're gonna go under. We're not gonna cut you open.
We're just gonna go in and laser it out and
we'll pull the cyst out. I was like, all right,
So I've only been under once for a coldon oskarfee.
Obviously I recommend that for everyone. And I'm getting nervous,
you know, like you don't know what they're gonna find.
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And I go under. I wake up and I'm like, oh,
I throw it's killing. They're like, well, what's the pain level.
I'm like it's it's at least a nine or ten
out of ten. It's really bad. So like, all right,
we got some oxy code one for you. It's like wonderful.
So they give it. I've never took in oxy code
on before I take it. I don't remember the car
ride home. I don't remember anything. Oh, I was just
in a fog, go to sleep. You know. I apparently
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ox he's super dangerous. You gotta be careful. I know that.
But then they send me an image of the cyst.
I'm not going to show you. I've showed my friends
and buddies, but it's fairly significant. And it was like
a orange rock growing in my throat. They run tests, biopsies,
not cancerous. Got the clean bill of health, but they
said basically no talking for a week. And I said,
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you know, doc, I got. I got my championship basketball
game in two days. He's like, you can't play. You
just had surgery. He's like, you can't play. I was like,
what do you mean I can't play? It's a championship.
I worked all season for this, dude. He's like, listen,
you can't put any stress on your throat because you
don't know what's going to happen to wound from us
lasering it out, lasering it open, to pull the cyst out.
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Like you don't know what's gonna happen. You could be
caught it up blood like it's not smart. It's like fine,
of course, you know, we get semi finals. I'm like,
I'll sit. We got this and we won, but I
gotta play in the championship. I have to play in
the champion at least a couple of minutes of garbage time.
But there was really not any garbage time. But our
team was, you know, and I'm like fiery on the bench,
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but I gotta be quiet. And I noticed there's a
moment where I'm like, you know what, I could just
go in. Let me go in for ninety seconds and folks,
I'm not even joking. The games on YouTube you can
see it. It was one of those moments, like the
stuff dreams are made of. You know, we're up, I
don't know one or three late first half, and you know,
I go in and I'm basically like floating around the
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three point line as usual, and it just so happens.
My guy lost me within fifteen seconds going in the game.
I get the ball first, shut up, and it goes in,
and you know, our bench erupted, and the teams that
were in the semifinals, one of them, who knows me
a little bit from the show in the podcast, his
whole team stuck around because they like us, you know,
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nice guys, young dudes, like twenty five year old guys,
and they're all freaking out. But here's the craziest part.
So I make that shot. It's all exciting. The other
team comes down and they have like a wacky turnover
and we have a runout a three on one break.
I go to the corner and I get I'm open, like,
I hits me with the pass and I put the
shot up and I'm not even joking. I was like,
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I was like, this can't be real. This is not real.
But it rimmed out. I could hear everybody go oh,
like they were like, holy wow. That almost went in
back to back three's instantly. So I sprint down court
and my teammate takes a charge and I go, yeah,
I'm all fired up. I'm pumping the fist and I'm like,
all right, I need to come out. I instantly came
out of the game because it's tired. And then that
was that was basically it for your boy. But I'm healing.
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I think I'll be fine, and now let's get to sports.
I debated whether to start with NFL because nothing huge
happened at the end of preseason. We could talk about
the Arizona Cardinals. I have a strong take on that.
I'll use it on the Herd. But it's like the
Arizona Cardinals. Who cares the Jonathan Taylor thing. Nothing happened,
no big deal some Week one lines on the move.
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We could discuss them later in the week. I think
we have to start with what went down in Colorado
TCU Saturday afternoon. I do need to add my I
have Spectrum Cable out here in LA and Spectrum Cable
has been great. That's how you watch a Lakers all
that stuff. Folks. They're in a dispute with ESPN right now,
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and as a result, if you're a Spectrum cable owner,
you're not getting any ESPN games or ABC games. So, like,
I'm devastated as a sports fan, I'm like, what the
hell am I supposed to do? I can I can
stream games illegal, I can go to a buddy's house.
You can't watch it on your phone. You're blocked on
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the app. It's like really bad. And as a result,
I'm going to be dropping Spectrum in the next twenty
four hours. If this doesn't sort itself out. I can't
not have it, so I'll be going. A lot of
people are saying sling TV is like a decent option,
and then YouTube TV, so I'll be exploring those two.
If you have any thoughts, certainly hit me up on
social media. I'd love to hear at any rate I
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am able to watch. Colorado TCU is a Fox game,
and I've been making fun of Colorado like most people
because they have I think seven returning starters. I think
that's the number seven returning let me get it. I'm
sorry three Colorado has three returning starters, nine scholarship players back.
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They have eighty seven new players. This is a team
that won one game last year. They were twenty one
point underdogs at TCU. And so I watched the you know,
first draft, I'm like, oh, Dion's kid, he's nice, But
that was probably a scripted drive that they've been working
on all summer. They put that package in. I get it.
And then the weird thing is it continued and Deon's
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kids throws for five hundred yards. He has a fourth
down like dump off that goes for a score late
in the game, and it's the go ahead touchdown, TCU
fails on their final possession in Colorado as a three
touchdown underdog on the road, wins outright forty five, and
everybody's freaking out. Deon Sanders was the story of the
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Sports Weekend. I'm not mister negative. I'm not. I just
need some clarity, Okay, Number one, this is not the
same TCU football team that lost to Georgia in the Natty.
This is not the same TCU team that beat Michigan
in the Semi five. It's just not We know, they
won thirteen games last year. In the offseason, Max dug In,
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their quarterback, graduated, offensive coordinator, moved on. Top two running
backs gone, top three receivers gone college football. There's a
lot of turnover. Okay, TCU lost a lot of guys.
My first glance, they look like maybe a five hundred
team this year. I don't know. In that ballpark. They're
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not going to be a threat in the Big twelve.
TCU will not, So that perspective needed to be there now. Obviously,
what Dion did was incredible. You go from one win
to an unbelievable victory. One win last year to an
unbelievable win at TCU as a heavy underdog. That's impressive. Now,
it's pretty clear that the market sorely misjudged a Colorado
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this year and BTCU Colorado was not expected to win
this game or be competitive, and you just look at
their offensive machine was like, what do we have here?
I mean, Sanders looked like an NFL quarterback. This is
mind you a guy. I had to look this up.
Sanders had offers from FSU, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, so
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he was no pushover. Obviously. He ended up going to
Jackson's State with his dad and they crushed it. The
other kid that had a massive game is Travis Hunter,
and I'll be honest this kid. First of all, let's start.
Travis Hunter is a dual threat cornerback wide receiver. He
was highly touted as a cornerback coming out, very talented
and skill wide receiver. This guy is a borderline superstar.
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I saw the comparisons to Otani a little silly, but
one hundred and forty four snaps is pretty incredible. He
was tested nine times, only gave up three completions, and
had the red zone interception. That was big and then
the more interesting to me as a receiver Okay, he
was going up against the preseason All American quarterback, the
kid Newton, Josh Newton at TCU, and he lit him up.
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Newton got beat up badly, like he got exposed, and
Travis Hunter just came out and crushed him. And you're like,
who can two players win in college football? And answers
not really. The real answer is this is the new
college football. Okay, we saw it. Not only Colorado win
as a big upset, but Texas State was a twenty
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seven point dog against Baylor in one Outright, these two
teams through the transfer portal were able to rebuild their
entire program in essentially a heartbeat. You're bringing in over
thirty and forty guys through the portal, and the days
of we got a new coach, it's gonna take him
a few years. That's out. The way that stuff's gone.
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The new formula is, let's bring on a coach, let's
hit the transfer portal hard, let's get a bunch of
new starters. Forget about bringing these high school eighteen nineteen
year olds up. Why don't we just hit the portal
and grab twenty twenty one year olds who've proven themselves
and you know I don't think we're gonna talk a
lot about the FSU beat down of LSU Sunday night.
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But FSU went to the portal grabbed a kid named
Keon Coleman from Michigan State six four two fifteen oh
three touchdowns in its first game with FSU. It's like,
that's how quickly you can rebuild a program by hitting
the transfer portal. Now what's gonna hurt is the lowest
tier programs are gonna essentially become feeder programs to schools
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the way people joked at the Florida Marlins are like
a feeder system to the rest of MLB. We're gonna
find the diamonds in the rough. Well, then we've gotta
sell them off to you guys. We're gonna trade them
for a ton. And in college football though there's no trade.
You sign awesome kids or middling kids. They explode and
pop and hopefully you can hold on to them. Otherwise
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they're gonna go to FSU. Now, Michigan State to FSU
is interesting, But a lot of the guys Colorado got.
Deon Sanders is like a name. Okay, people are gonna
easily Deon Sanders is calling you he wants you to transfer. Oh, primetime. Now,
I know Dion was in the nineties. A lot of
these guys who are playing college football now, they're born
in the two thousands, most, I would say, all of them.
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I'm sure there's a couple of twenty four to twenty
five year olds out there, but by and large they
didn't know deon Primetime, but their parents did. Hey, dad,
Dion Sanders called me, and it's parents are gonna freak out.
That's obvious. Deon Sanders. The guy's a legend, well, of
the best cornerbacks in the history of the sport, and
he's now becoming a major disruptor in college football, not
just because of the transfer portal, but his attitude and demeanor.
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I mean, I saw a thing as small as you know,
teams put the C for captain on players jerseys, right,
you put the SEE on it. You're a captain, you
go do the coin toss. Okay. Dion Sanders has a
new thing okay where he apparently and I have the
exact thing in my phone. Instead of having captains, Dion
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Sanders now has a thing where it's called L for leader,
D for dog. Captains are out. It's now leaders and dogs.
They will go out and do the coin toss. They're
your team leaders. So it's not only that though. He's
now going into press conferences and when people raise their
hand and ask a question after the game, he's like,
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hold up, hold up, I remember you you were a
doubter or do you believe now? We don't see coaches
do that. Nick Saban won't go that far. Deon Sanders
is younger. He's a little brash, he's abrasive. He's not
gonna be for everybody he's talking to, talk and eventually
there will come a time where he will not back
it up. We get that you're not gonna be able
to back it up every game, but to come out
like this opening weekend, run your mouth all summer, go
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on the road, play a team that just played for
the Natty. We know they're not that good, but again,
the common the average fan doesn't know that. To beat
them and then talk more, I think this is gonna
be a massive boon to the Colorado Buffalos program. TCU
apparently had. It was like they decided to make this
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a big recruiting game where a bunch of high school
kids were invited to that game, potential TCU recruits. How
many of those guys do you think were like, damn,
Colorado looks good? Say understand what more years he going pro?
What's going on here? Dion? I mean they look like
a real player. Now, I don't think they're gonna go
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and win eight, nine, ten games? Okay, will they hit
their overttal? Maybe we'll see. Schedule ain't easy, but this
is what's super interesting next week. So Vegas puts out
their lines for week one and week two. Warely in
the summer, we had Brad Powers on before I had
the surgery, who talked about this game Nebraska. It was
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a seven and a half point favorite in week two
against Colorado seven and a half point favorite. So Colorado
beats TCU, Nebraska loses a close one, and Sunday the
lines come out and Colorado is now favorite. It's up
to three as we record this, So the line has
moved from Nebraska by seven and a half to Colorado
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by three. That's a ten and a half point swing
in one game. Now that's what I like to call
a minor overreaction. I'm not touching Colorado, Okay, I think
the only bed here has to be Nebraska. And Matt Rule.
Everybody's gonna be hyping Colorado. Everybody's gonna be hyping Hunter Sanders.
They're gonna be rock stars on campus. Colorado's gonna have
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a tough time focusing on Nebraska this week given everything
that just went down. And don't think agents aren't gonna
be putting their runners out there. Hey, we need to
focus on this Sanders guy. We need to get it.
We need to kind of get in touch with Hunter.
We need to lay the groundwork because they look like pros. Now,
it's very early. It's one game, but the hype on
social media, you turn on TV, any college football, it's
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all about Colorado. I would just pump the brakes a
little bit. Impressive as hell, no doubt, and Colorado's gonna
be very, very good eventually. But I would just caution this.
We're going to the playoff. Deon's coach of the year
standards for the Heisman. Let's just slow down. I know,
we don't like to preach caution anywhere because it's got
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to be all gas, no breaks. You know, Jason likes
to preach a little bit of caution. So yeah, just
keep an eye on some of these transfer portal teams.
Texas State and Colorado were two of the biggest ones.
But the portal. Sam Hartman, the new quarterback at Notre Dame,
is now two and zero again easy wins. But the
transfer portal is the new game changer in college football,
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and I think Deon Sanders is going to be a
massive disruptor in the sport. Remember this is a guy
who a year ago interviewed for the TCU job. They
gave it to Sunny Dyke. He ended up going to
the ninety Dion now goes to Colorado. People like, what
are you going to Colorado for? Deon Sanders wins his
first game and who knows what's next for the Buffaloes.
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I do want to pivot quickly to the NFL. Nothing
colossal happened while I was gone. Thank goodness, Aaron Rodgers
did get a start for the Jets. Yes, I saw it,
very exciting. I guess the biggest news that I saw
related to my Jets is that Von Miller will be
on the pupp list to start the season out for
the first four games. That's huge for the Jets. They
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don't have to face him. I'd like to remind you
at this time last year in the season opener, Rams
Bills Rams. Coming off the Super Bowl. I think they
sack Stafford nine times. Nine sacks against Stafford. And that
offensive line, Jets offensive line is a weakness. It sounds
like Beckton's going to start on the right, Dwayne Brown
on the left, and we'll see how they hold up.
But no Von Miller. That's kind of big. Also, no
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Jonathan Taylor of the Colts. He's on the puplist squabbling
with Jim Mersay, uh, just file us away. I'm gonna
talk more about it later in the week. Indianapolis Colts
owner last year decided to call an audible after they
fired their coach and bring in Jeff Saturday, who was
on the studio set for ESPN. It was a resounding failure,
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an embarrassment to the organization, and Jim Mersey looked like
a clown, which is kind of on brand for him.
So how does he follow that up? I don't know.
Eight months later, he decides to pick a fight with
his well respected running back Jonathan Taylor, who if you
some of the stories that are trickling out of that
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locker room. And Jonathan Taylor is like loved by everybody.
He's a nice guy. He's like a leader on the team,
and the owner, for no reason at all, picks a
fight with his star running back and then I start
running back down on the puplast to start the season.
I'll just give you a hint of where I'm going.
Here's a breadcrumb. If you are gonna be the number
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one pick and the Colts somehow get the number one
pick and they decide, oh, we want that quarterback. I
know we just drafted Richardson. Who cares. We're you gonna
pull an Elway or Eli Manning and just say I'm
not going there. I think that's well within your right.
You don't want to be anywhere near an owner like that.
I certainly know I wouldn't want to be. But I'm
not gonna be the number one pick like KAYLEB Williams is.
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It's not gonna be Drake made. Drake may look good,
Kayler Williams look fantastic. But we'll do more on Collins
later in the week. I guess the one NFL take
I've been marinating on I started to read more. So
the Trey Lance thing went down right before we took
a little hiatus, and it started to become increasingly clear
that Jerry Jones did this by himself. He didn't consult
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McCarthy on whether or not Trey Lance would be a
value add to the quarterback room. At least it doesn't
sound like he did. Maybe he's bluffing and putting up
a front, but everything I've read is Jerry Jones just
said that's value. I want it. And I did have
this take several months back that this is a massive,
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massive season for Dak Prescott. And if you can start
to read the tea leaves, they paid Zach Martin. I
just gave a huge crap ton of money to Terrence Steele.
They let Zeke go, they got Pollard, they got to
pay Micah Parsons, they got to pay I think CD
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lambs next. And you guys might remember this take, but
I said, look at who Dallas has lost to in
the playoffs the last two years. Jimmy Garoppolo and the
Niners in a game where Dak and Kellen Moore, whoever
you want to blame it on, vomited all over themselves
on the final drive, and then Dak and Kellen Moore
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could not get the offense generating anything against the Niners.
Also in the playoffs, one was at home, one was
on the road. Either way, Dak, a higher paid quarterback,
lost to Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock Purty. And I'm just
I put this out there, and I didn't get a
lot of pushback. I guess people just didn't love the take.
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But I said, if I were Jerry Jones, I would
seriously look at building everything around the roster. And they
have arguably the best defense on paper in the leagues.
With the addition of Gilmore that defensive line, they're gonna
be good, really good. They got good receivers, offensive line,
they're paying people. We'll see about Pollard and duce Vaughan,
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but Dak Prescott is the big question. I wanted to
spot track and I looked up his contract. Did you
guys know that there's an out in his deal after
the season. Dak led the league in interceptions last year
despite missing five games. He was not good. I know
people want to say he's a top ten quarterback. Fine,
if you want to say that's fine, doesn't mean a
hill of beans to me. So let's just put this together.
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Your owner decides, well, Owner slash GM, I'm gonna go
pick up this quarterback that didn't do anything in San
fran The coach says, I'm getting rid of Kellen Moore.
I want to call the shots. Who do you think
is the next to go? In Dallas? Like, let's just
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say they have a good season, they haven't reached a
conference championship game in twenty five years or whatever. Let's
say they lose in the second round of the playoffs.
Who's to blame. Is it gonna be McCarthy, Is it
gonna be Dak? It's gonna be one of those two
or possibly both. I mean, I think McCarthy the easy fixes.
You just slide Dan quinn in a coach. He's a
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defensive guy, perfect right. Not what I would do, but
I think for Dallas it's a seamless transition that defense
is gonna carry the team this year. And then it
becomes what do you do a quarterback? Are you gonna
pay Dak a crap ton of money to be mediocre?
Because that's what he was? The numbers do not say
Dak has been an excellent quarterback, and the turnover numbers
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are bad. The playoff numbers are worse. Cooper Rush versus
Trey Lance, is that your preseason battle next year in
Dallas if the Cowboys come up short. Is Cooper Rush
versus Trey Lance the Dallas quarter Cowboys quarterback quandary next
offseason Because there is an out in Dak's contract after
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this season, there's still sixty one million dollars a dead cap,
and I know people are gonna freak out at that.
In the grand scheme of thing, that's not that bad
because otherwise, well, you're gonna extend Dak for what three
more years? One hundred and twenty million dollars. Way, what
are you doing to do what Dak's not getting you
over the hump in any of these games. I don't know, folks.
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I've never been a huge Dak Prescott guy. I think
he's underwhelmed in the playoffs. I mean, if you want
to give him the win over Tampa Bay, great, congrats Dack.
One of the high pay quarterbacks in the league, and
you have now two playoff wins. I think, what are
you gonna win a game that matters in the postseason?
And I think that's the biggest question in the NFC,
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because honestly, Philadelphi Eagles Jalen Hurts has been a great
quarterback for one year. That's it. It was one year.
You look before that, guys, nothing Rock Perdy eight starts,
that's your competition in the NFC. So based on what
Dak's being paid, isn't he the best quarterback of the
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NFC contenders? Now? People say Jalen Hurts, But I'm just
saying that Jaalen Hurts had one great season. Dak's been
around a lot longer. Like it's weird, we love Jalen
Hurts all of a sudden for one awesome season. Great,
he was phenomenal, almost won the MVP. What had my
vote if I had one? Even though he missed the
two games late? Yet for Russell Wilson struggling last year, Oh,
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he might be washed. He's not top ten. Aaron Rodgers, Ooh,
I don't know. He kind of washed off one year.
But Jalen Hurts has one year. Obviously he's younger, and
it's like, wow, Jalen Hurts is the man. Listen a
lot overreactions and maybe I'm doing paralysis by analysis, But
the more I look at this NFL season, the more
uncertain I am about a lot of things. And it's
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really gonna have to be a week to week journey
as opposed to making like, hey, I really think this
is gonna happen full season. I mean, between the injuries
and shocking teams and crap teams like season's a long slog.
I'm starting to feel good about Week one. Beyond that,
who the hell knows or it will be back tomorrow
breaking down Week one with one of my buddies. After that,
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I think we'll do college football and then of course
we got mister Baker coming on later in the week.
It's gonna be a big, big week for NFL. Lions
Chiefs is Thursday night. Gosh, I can't wait for the
season start art. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
The volume. This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What
is up Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
Fire for Monday, September. Yeah, September fourth. The calendar is correct.
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It's the first week of the NFL. Everybody get excited.
More importantly, your boys back. I'm healthy. I think we
shall see if the voice holds up. I'll get into
it shortly. I did miss. Apparently a lot a lot
was happening college football. Oh boy, tons happened in college
football NFL. I had some fantasy drafts, won another championship
in my men's league, which I know everybody cares about.
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But first I guess we should start about talking where
the hell I was. I'll try to condense this. Also
programming note, I will be having at least two guests
to preview Week one of the NFL this week. My
boy Ta you guys remember him from way back during
the radio show. I don't know. He doesn't want his
face on video because he has a job, you know,
a real job. You remember, like what I was doing
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back in the day when I started the blog anonymously.
He's kind of doing his thing with football gambling. He's
been very good. I've been talking. She's ten years now.
And by special request, mister Baker, the winner in the
past and top five guy when it comes to the
Big Vegas gambling contest. He's gonna come on later in
the week. So lots of picks coming on the NFL front.
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Also another programming note, I will be hosting one hour
of The Herd today. It's just from eleven to twelve Pacific.
Apparently there's drag racing on Labor Day. Who knew. And
the final hour of the show will just be me,
no wingman, no cow Herd. He's back Tuesday, just me
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riffing for an hour and it takes galore because you
know this is what I do. Okay, So where the
hell was I you guys do this. I went on
a vacation in August. We went to Hawaii, and while
I was there, I got sick and I just increasingly
kept getting worse. I was struggling to breathe at times.
Now we were at altitude, visited some volcanoes I'm sure
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you saw on Instagram. And then the flight back, I guess,
you know, six hour flight from Hawaii, things got worse,
and you know, I get back and I'm feeling like
total ass and you know, I'm struggling. I'm sure you
heard me that Monday on the Herd. I sounded terrible.
They were like, dude, do you want to take a
sick day? I was like, I don't take sick days, okay.
And then that Monday night, I'd like wake up in
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the middle of the night struggling to breathe. I'm like,
f this, I'm going to the er. But I was
all hopped up on Benadryl and robotussin and I didn't
really do a good job of finding the closest hospital.
So I drive to what's known as UCLA Harbor Hospital. Later,
two doctor friends told me, bro are you out of
your mind? You only go to UCLA Harbor if you
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were in a major car accident or you have a
gunshot wound. Never go there, Okay. I didn't know that. Also,
Robotussen and Bendroux yes at the same time. So I
end up walking into the ear about two thirty in
the morning and there's like forty people there. I'm like,
what is going on? Give me a break. So anyways,
they quickly swab me up. They're like, you don't have COVID.
You don't have STRIP, you don't have RSV, you don't
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have anything. It's like, well I got something. I'm dying here.
And they were like it's about a three hour week
to see the doctor. I was like, I'm not doing that.
I gotta go to work. So I headed home showered up.
That's what I said on the HERD that I went
to the er and blah blah blah. So the next
day my wife's like, listen, just go to the NT.
See what the deal is. So I talked to a
friend who was a fairly prominent doctor. He gets me
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into instantly with a good NT. He shoves that camera
up my nose. He comes out with good news bad news.
Good news is it's just a ton of mucus and
we can resolve that. I'll take a lot a week
to ten days. You know, we get this basically. I
don't know if anybody's had allergies, but you use this
thing called the Nettie Pot. I got like a Nettie
Pot on steroids. Then you go buy over the counter.
It was like a hundred anyways, I had to do that.
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Oh but the bad news is there's like a cyst
growing in your throat and it's you know, fairly significant inside,
so we should get that out. And I'm like, what
the heck? Okay, so I quickly schedule it. They're like,
you know, you're probably gonna be out of action for
anywhere from three to seven ten days in that range,
depending how you know, how the surgery goes. So it's like,
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let's just get it over with. Cowhard was already taken vacation,
so it's like, fine, I'll take the surgery. And they're like,
we're gonna go under. We're not gonna cut you open.
We're just gonna go in and laser it out and
we'll pull the cyst out. I was like, all right,
So I've only been under once for a coldon oskarfee.
Obviously I recommend that for everyone. And I'm getting nervous,
you know, like you don't know what they're gonna find.
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And I go under. I wake up and I'm like, oh,
I throw it's killing. They're like, well, what's the pain level.
I'm like it's it's at least a nine or ten
out of ten. It's really bad. So like, all right,
we got some oxy code one for you. It's like wonderful.
So they give it. I've never took in oxy code
on before I take it. I don't remember the car
ride home. I don't remember anything. Oh, I was just
in a fog, go to sleep. You know. I apparently
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ox he's super dangerous. You gotta be careful. I know that.
But then they send me an image of the cyst.
I'm not going to show you. I've showed my friends
and buddies, but it's fairly significant. And it was like
a orange rock growing in my throat. They run tests, biopsies,
not cancerous. Got the clean bill of health, but they
said basically no talking for a week. And I said,
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you know, doc, I got. I got my championship basketball
game in two days. He's like, you can't play. You
just had surgery. He's like, you can't play. I was like,
what do you mean I can't play? It's a championship.
I worked all season for this, dude. He's like, listen,
you can't put any stress on your throat because you
don't know what's going to happen to wound from us
lasering it out, lasering it open, to pull the cyst out.
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Like you don't know what's gonna happen. You could be
caught it up blood like it's not smart. It's like fine,
of course, you know, we get semi finals. I'm like,
I'll sit. We got this and we won, but I
gotta play in the championship. I have to play in
the champion at least a couple of minutes of garbage time.
But there was really not any garbage time. But our
team was, you know, and I'm like fiery on the bench,
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but I gotta be quiet. And I noticed there's a
moment where I'm like, you know what, I could just
go in. Let me go in for ninety seconds and folks,
I'm not even joking. The games on YouTube you can
see it. It was one of those moments, like the
stuff dreams are made of. You know, we're up, I
don't know one or three late first half, and you know,
I go in and I'm basically like floating around the
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three point line as usual, and it just so happens.
My guy lost me within fifteen seconds going in the game.
I get the ball first, shut up, and it goes in,
and you know, our bench erupted, and the teams that
were in the semifinals, one of them, who knows me
a little bit from the show in the podcast, his
whole team stuck around because they like us, you know,
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nice guys, young dudes, like twenty five year old guys,
and they're all freaking out. But here's the craziest part.
So I make that shot. It's all exciting. The other
team comes down and they have like a wacky turnover
and we have a runout a three on one break.
I go to the corner and I get I'm open, like,
I hits me with the pass and I put the
shot up and I'm not even joking. I was like,
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I was like, this can't be real. This is not real.
But it rimmed out. I could hear everybody go oh,
like they were like, holy wow. That almost went in
back to back three's instantly. So I sprint down court
and my teammate takes a charge and I go, yeah,
I'm all fired up. I'm pumping the fist and I'm like,
all right, I need to come out. I instantly came
out of the game because it's tired. And then that
was that was basically it for your boy. But I'm healing.
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I think I'll be fine, and now let's get to sports.
I debated whether to start with NFL because nothing huge
happened at the end of preseason. We could talk about
the Arizona Cardinals. I have a strong take on that.
I'll use it on the Herd. But it's like the
Arizona Cardinals. Who cares the Jonathan Taylor thing. Nothing happened,
no big deal some Week one lines on the move.
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We could discuss them later in the week. I think
we have to start with what went down in Colorado
TCU Saturday afternoon. I do need to add my I
have Spectrum Cable out here in LA and Spectrum Cable
has been great. That's how you watch a Lakers all
that stuff. Folks. They're in a dispute with ESPN right now,
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and as a result, if you're a Spectrum cable owner,
you're not getting any ESPN games or ABC games. So, like,
I'm devastated as a sports fan, I'm like, what the
hell am I supposed to do? I can I can
stream games illegal, I can go to a buddy's house.
You can't watch it on your phone. You're blocked on
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the app. It's like really bad. And as a result,
I'm going to be dropping Spectrum in the next twenty
four hours. If this doesn't sort itself out. I can't
not have it, so I'll be going. A lot of
people are saying sling TV is like a decent option,
and then YouTube TV, so I'll be exploring those two.
If you have any thoughts, certainly hit me up on
social media. I'd love to hear at any rate I
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am able to watch. Colorado TCU is a Fox game,
and I've been making fun of Colorado like most people
because they have I think seven returning starters. I think
that's the number seven returning let me get it. I'm
sorry three Colorado has three returning starters, nine scholarship players back.
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They have eighty seven new players. This is a team
that won one game last year. They were twenty one
point underdogs at TCU. And so I watched the you know,
first draft, I'm like, oh, Dion's kid, he's nice, But
that was probably a scripted drive that they've been working
on all summer. They put that package in. I get it.
And then the weird thing is it continued and Deon's
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kids throws for five hundred yards. He has a fourth
down like dump off that goes for a score late
in the game, and it's the go ahead touchdown, TCU
fails on their final possession in Colorado as a three
touchdown underdog on the road, wins outright forty five, and
everybody's freaking out. Deon Sanders was the story of the
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Sports Weekend. I'm not mister negative. I'm not. I just
need some clarity, Okay, Number one, this is not the
same TCU football team that lost to Georgia in the Natty.
This is not the same TCU team that beat Michigan
in the Semi five. It's just not We know, they
won thirteen games last year. In the offseason, Max dug In,
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their quarterback, graduated, offensive coordinator, moved on. Top two running
backs gone, top three receivers gone college football. There's a
lot of turnover. Okay, TCU lost a lot of guys.
My first glance, they look like maybe a five hundred
team this year. I don't know. In that ballpark. They're
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not going to be a threat in the Big twelve.
TCU will not, So that perspective needed to be there now. Obviously,
what Dion did was incredible. You go from one win
to an unbelievable victory. One win last year to an
unbelievable win at TCU as a heavy underdog. That's impressive. Now,
it's pretty clear that the market sorely misjudged a Colorado
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this year and BTCU Colorado was not expected to win
this game or be competitive, and you just look at
their offensive machine was like, what do we have here?
I mean, Sanders looked like an NFL quarterback. This is
mind you a guy. I had to look this up.
Sanders had offers from FSU, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, so
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he was no pushover. Obviously. He ended up going to
Jackson's State with his dad and they crushed it. The
other kid that had a massive game is Travis Hunter,
and I'll be honest this kid. First of all, let's start.
Travis Hunter is a dual threat cornerback wide receiver. He
was highly touted as a cornerback coming out, very talented
and skill wide receiver. This guy is a borderline superstar.
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I saw the comparisons to Otani a little silly, but
one hundred and forty four snaps is pretty incredible. He
was tested nine times, only gave up three completions, and
had the red zone interception. That was big and then
the more interesting to me as a receiver Okay, he
was going up against the preseason All American quarterback, the
kid Newton, Josh Newton at TCU, and he lit him up.
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Newton got beat up badly, like he got exposed, and
Travis Hunter just came out and crushed him. And you're like,
who can two players win in college football? And answers
not really. The real answer is this is the new
college football. Okay, we saw it. Not only Colorado win
as a big upset, but Texas State was a twenty
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seven point dog against Baylor in one Outright, these two
teams through the transfer portal were able to rebuild their
entire program in essentially a heartbeat. You're bringing in over
thirty and forty guys through the portal, and the days
of we got a new coach, it's gonna take him
a few years. That's out. The way that stuff's gone.
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The new formula is, let's bring on a coach, let's
hit the transfer portal hard, let's get a bunch of
new starters. Forget about bringing these high school eighteen nineteen
year olds up. Why don't we just hit the portal
and grab twenty twenty one year olds who've proven themselves
and you know I don't think we're gonna talk a
lot about the FSU beat down of LSU Sunday night.
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But FSU went to the portal grabbed a kid named
Keon Coleman from Michigan State six four two fifteen oh
three touchdowns in its first game with FSU. It's like,
that's how quickly you can rebuild a program by hitting
the transfer portal. Now what's gonna hurt is the lowest
tier programs are gonna essentially become feeder programs to schools
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the way people joked at the Florida Marlins are like
a feeder system to the rest of MLB. We're gonna
find the diamonds in the rough. Well, then we've gotta
sell them off to you guys. We're gonna trade them
for a ton. And in college football though there's no trade.
You sign awesome kids or middling kids. They explode and
pop and hopefully you can hold on to them. Otherwise
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they're gonna go to FSU. Now, Michigan State to FSU
is interesting, But a lot of the guys Colorado got.
Deon Sanders is like a name. Okay, people are gonna
easily Deon Sanders is calling you he wants you to transfer. Oh, primetime. Now,
I know Dion was in the nineties. A lot of
these guys who are playing college football now, they're born
in the two thousands, most, I would say, all of them.
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I'm sure there's a couple of twenty four to twenty
five year olds out there, but by and large they
didn't know deon Primetime, but their parents did. Hey, dad,
Dion Sanders called me, and it's parents are gonna freak out.
That's obvious. Deon Sanders. The guy's a legend, well, of
the best cornerbacks in the history of the sport, and
he's now becoming a major disruptor in college football, not
just because of the transfer portal, but his attitude and demeanor.
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I mean, I saw a thing as small as you know,
teams put the C for captain on players jerseys, right,
you put the SEE on it. You're a captain, you
go do the coin toss. Okay. Dion Sanders has a
new thing okay where he apparently and I have the
exact thing in my phone. Instead of having captains, Dion
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Sanders now has a thing where it's called L for leader,
D for dog. Captains are out. It's now leaders and dogs.
They will go out and do the coin toss. They're
your team leaders. So it's not only that though. He's
now going into press conferences and when people raise their
hand and ask a question after the game, he's like,
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hold up, hold up, I remember you you were a
doubter or do you believe now? We don't see coaches
do that. Nick Saban won't go that far. Deon Sanders
is younger. He's a little brash, he's abrasive. He's not
gonna be for everybody he's talking to, talk and eventually
there will come a time where he will not back
it up. We get that you're not gonna be able
to back it up every game, but to come out
like this opening weekend, run your mouth all summer, go
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on the road, play a team that just played for
the Natty. We know they're not that good, but again,
the common the average fan doesn't know that. To beat
them and then talk more, I think this is gonna
be a massive boon to the Colorado Buffalos program. TCU
apparently had. It was like they decided to make this
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a big recruiting game where a bunch of high school
kids were invited to that game, potential TCU recruits. How
many of those guys do you think were like, damn,
Colorado looks good? Say understand what more years he going pro?
What's going on here? Dion? I mean they look like
a real player. Now, I don't think they're gonna go
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and win eight, nine, ten games? Okay, will they hit
their overttal? Maybe we'll see. Schedule ain't easy, but this
is what's super interesting next week. So Vegas puts out
their lines for week one and week two. Warely in
the summer, we had Brad Powers on before I had
the surgery, who talked about this game Nebraska. It was
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a seven and a half point favorite in week two
against Colorado seven and a half point favorite. So Colorado
beats TCU, Nebraska loses a close one, and Sunday the
lines come out and Colorado is now favorite. It's up
to three as we record this, So the line has
moved from Nebraska by seven and a half to Colorado
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by three. That's a ten and a half point swing
in one game. Now that's what I like to call
a minor overreaction. I'm not touching Colorado, Okay, I think
the only bed here has to be Nebraska. And Matt Rule.
Everybody's gonna be hyping Colorado. Everybody's gonna be hyping Hunter Sanders.
They're gonna be rock stars on campus. Colorado's gonna have
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a tough time focusing on Nebraska this week given everything
that just went down. And don't think agents aren't gonna
be putting their runners out there. Hey, we need to
focus on this Sanders guy. We need to get it.
We need to kind of get in touch with Hunter.
We need to lay the groundwork because they look like pros. Now,
it's very early. It's one game, but the hype on
social media, you turn on TV, any college football, it's
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all about Colorado. I would just pump the brakes a
little bit. Impressive as hell, no doubt, and Colorado's gonna
be very, very good eventually. But I would just caution this.
We're going to the playoff. Deon's coach of the year
standards for the Heisman. Let's just slow down. I know,
we don't like to preach caution anywhere because it's got
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to be all gas, no breaks. You know, Jason likes
to preach a little bit of caution. So yeah, just
keep an eye on some of these transfer portal teams.
Texas State and Colorado were two of the biggest ones.
But the portal. Sam Hartman, the new quarterback at Notre Dame,
is now two and zero again easy wins. But the
transfer portal is the new game changer in college football,
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and I think Deon Sanders is going to be a
massive disruptor in the sport. Remember this is a guy
who a year ago interviewed for the TCU job. They
gave it to Sunny Dyke. He ended up going to
the ninety Dion now goes to Colorado. People like, what
are you going to Colorado for? Deon Sanders wins his
first game and who knows what's next for the Buffaloes.
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I do want to pivot quickly to the NFL. Nothing
colossal happened while I was gone. Thank goodness, Aaron Rodgers
did get a start for the Jets. Yes, I saw it,
very exciting. I guess the biggest news that I saw
related to my Jets is that Von Miller will be
on the pupp list to start the season out for
the first four games. That's huge for the Jets. They
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don't have to face him. I'd like to remind you
at this time last year in the season opener, Rams
Bills Rams. Coming off the Super Bowl. I think they
sack Stafford nine times. Nine sacks against Stafford. And that
offensive line, Jets offensive line is a weakness. It sounds
like Beckton's going to start on the right, Dwayne Brown
on the left, and we'll see how they hold up.
But no Von Miller. That's kind of big. Also, no
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Jonathan Taylor of the Colts. He's on the puplist squabbling
with Jim Mersay, uh, just file us away. I'm gonna
talk more about it later in the week. Indianapolis Colts
owner last year decided to call an audible after they
fired their coach and bring in Jeff Saturday, who was
on the studio set for ESPN. It was a resounding failure,
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an embarrassment to the organization, and Jim Mersey looked like
a clown, which is kind of on brand for him.
So how does he follow that up? I don't know.
Eight months later, he decides to pick a fight with
his well respected running back Jonathan Taylor, who if you
some of the stories that are trickling out of that
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locker room. And Jonathan Taylor is like loved by everybody.
He's a nice guy. He's like a leader on the team,
and the owner, for no reason at all, picks a
fight with his star running back and then I start
running back down on the puplast to start the season.
I'll just give you a hint of where I'm going.
Here's a breadcrumb. If you are gonna be the number
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one pick and the Colts somehow get the number one
pick and they decide, oh, we want that quarterback. I
know we just drafted Richardson. Who cares. We're you gonna
pull an Elway or Eli Manning and just say I'm
not going there. I think that's well within your right.
You don't want to be anywhere near an owner like that.
I certainly know I wouldn't want to be. But I'm
not gonna be the number one pick like KAYLEB Williams is.
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It's not gonna be Drake made. Drake may look good,
Kayler Williams look fantastic. But we'll do more on Collins
later in the week. I guess the one NFL take
I've been marinating on I started to read more. So
the Trey Lance thing went down right before we took
a little hiatus, and it started to become increasingly clear
that Jerry Jones did this by himself. He didn't consult
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McCarthy on whether or not Trey Lance would be a
value add to the quarterback room. At least it doesn't
sound like he did. Maybe he's bluffing and putting up
a front, but everything I've read is Jerry Jones just
said that's value. I want it. And I did have
this take several months back that this is a massive,
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massive season for Dak Prescott. And if you can start
to read the tea leaves, they paid Zach Martin. I
just gave a huge crap ton of money to Terrence Steele.
They let Zeke go, they got Pollard, they got to
pay Micah Parsons, they got to pay I think CD
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lambs next. And you guys might remember this take, but
I said, look at who Dallas has lost to in
the playoffs the last two years. Jimmy Garoppolo and the
Niners in a game where Dak and Kellen Moore, whoever
you want to blame it on, vomited all over themselves
on the final drive, and then Dak and Kellen Moore
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could not get the offense generating anything against the Niners.
Also in the playoffs, one was at home, one was
on the road. Either way, Dak, a higher paid quarterback,
lost to Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock Purty. And I'm just
I put this out there, and I didn't get a
lot of pushback. I guess people just didn't love the take.
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But I said, if I were Jerry Jones, I would
seriously look at building everything around the roster. And they
have arguably the best defense on paper in the leagues.
With the addition of Gilmore that defensive line, they're gonna
be good, really good. They got good receivers, offensive line,
they're paying people. We'll see about Pollard and duce Vaughan,
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but Dak Prescott is the big question. I wanted to
spot track and I looked up his contract. Did you
guys know that there's an out in his deal after
the season. Dak led the league in interceptions last year
despite missing five games. He was not good. I know
people want to say he's a top ten quarterback. Fine,
if you want to say that's fine, doesn't mean a
hill of beans to me. So let's just put this together.
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Your owner decides, well, Owner slash GM, I'm gonna go
pick up this quarterback that didn't do anything in San
fran The coach says, I'm getting rid of Kellen Moore.
I want to call the shots. Who do you think
is the next to go? In Dallas? Like, let's just
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say they have a good season, they haven't reached a
conference championship game in twenty five years or whatever. Let's
say they lose in the second round of the playoffs.
Who's to blame. Is it gonna be McCarthy, Is it
gonna be Dak? It's gonna be one of those two
or possibly both. I mean, I think McCarthy the easy fixes.
You just slide Dan quinn in a coach. He's a
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defensive guy, perfect right. Not what I would do, but
I think for Dallas it's a seamless transition that defense
is gonna carry the team this year. And then it
becomes what do you do a quarterback? Are you gonna
pay Dak a crap ton of money to be mediocre?
Because that's what he was? The numbers do not say
Dak has been an excellent quarterback, and the turnover numbers
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are bad. The playoff numbers are worse. Cooper Rush versus
Trey Lance, is that your preseason battle next year in
Dallas if the Cowboys come up short. Is Cooper Rush
versus Trey Lance the Dallas quarter Cowboys quarterback quandary next
offseason Because there is an out in Dak's contract after
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this season, there's still sixty one million dollars a dead cap,
and I know people are gonna freak out at that.
In the grand scheme of thing, that's not that bad
because otherwise, well, you're gonna extend Dak for what three
more years? One hundred and twenty million dollars. Way, what
are you doing to do what Dak's not getting you
over the hump in any of these games. I don't know, folks.
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I've never been a huge Dak Prescott guy. I think
he's underwhelmed in the playoffs. I mean, if you want
to give him the win over Tampa Bay, great, congrats Dack.
One of the high pay quarterbacks in the league, and
you have now two playoff wins. I think, what are
you gonna win a game that matters in the postseason?
And I think that's the biggest question in the NFC,
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because honestly, Philadelphi Eagles Jalen Hurts has been a great
quarterback for one year. That's it. It was one year.
You look before that, guys, nothing Rock Perdy eight starts,
that's your competition in the NFC. So based on what
Dak's being paid, isn't he the best quarterback of the
(26:42):
NFC contenders? Now? People say Jalen Hurts, But I'm just
saying that Jaalen Hurts had one great season. Dak's been
around a lot longer. Like it's weird, we love Jalen
Hurts all of a sudden for one awesome season. Great,
he was phenomenal, almost won the MVP. What had my
vote if I had one? Even though he missed the
two games late? Yet for Russell Wilson struggling last year, Oh,
(27:03):
he might be washed. He's not top ten. Aaron Rodgers, Ooh,
I don't know. He kind of washed off one year.
But Jalen Hurts has one year. Obviously he's younger, and
it's like, wow, Jalen Hurts is the man. Listen a
lot overreactions and maybe I'm doing paralysis by analysis, But
the more I look at this NFL season, the more
uncertain I am about a lot of things. And it's
(27:25):
really gonna have to be a week to week journey
as opposed to making like, hey, I really think this
is gonna happen full season. I mean, between the injuries
and shocking teams and crap teams like season's a long slog.
I'm starting to feel good about Week one. Beyond that,
who the hell knows or it will be back tomorrow
breaking down Week one with one of my buddies. After that,
(27:49):
I think we'll do college football and then of course
we got mister Baker coming on later in the week.
It's gonna be a big, big week for NFL. Lions
Chiefs is Thursday night. Gosh, I can't wait for the
season start art. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Host
Jason McIntyre
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