September 27, 2024 • 26 mins
On today’s episode, Jason discusses the dreadful 'mid-off' between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football, where Dak Prescott ranks amongst the best quarterbacks in the NFC East and the idea that the Giants could be 'quiet tanking' in order to get a franchise quarterback to replace Daniel Jones in the 2025 NFL Draft. Later, J-Mac hits us with his Best Bets for the Saturday college football slate and Week 4 in the NFL
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
Fire for Friday, September twenty seventh. I would say, what
a great night in sports, but Cowboys Giants was awful. Now,
now the Gray Foxes by men's basketball team, that was
the jam folks. Since we added Richard Jefferson in the
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transfer portal, we got a little crowd showing up in
some of these games. It's funny fox has win by
twenty five. We did face a guy who played point
guard at usc like three years ago, and he was awesome.
He's just too tough, like a point guard who's a
tank and just body contortions and he had probably thirty
but we just had too many weapons. You boy hit
a like four threes. It it's just fun. But next
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week play the defending champs. I don't even know if
for favor they're really good, But honestly, like that was
more exciting than Cowboys Giants Cowboys twenty Giants fifteen. You
know what's more interesting than the actual game is that
I bet Cowboys four and four and a half both hit,
Thank you very much, and I put up some props
on Instagram stories and one of them was first touchdown
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Rico Dudell. Hello, I thought that the screen pass was
gonna get called back. I also had some overs on
CD LAMB those hit thanks to the fifty five yarder.
It's weird though. The Cowboys to me, don't come away
as the story of the game. And you know Rob
g has a Giants take. I have a different Giants take.
It's weird. Like Daniel Jones has really limited the turnovers
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this season, and it's the brand of football they're playing
is not pretty right. Jones will only turnover was a
hail Mary at the end that had no chance. But
it's like, hey, we want to be It's essentially to me,
Brian Dables looking at his team is like, we cannot
go toe to toe with people. We need to be
like Pittsburgh Steelers. I need Daniel Jones to turn into
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Justin fields. Just make the right reads, make the easy passes,
scramble when necessary, Okay, don't turn the ball over. That's it.
Justin fields in Chicago, turnover machine. Justin fields at Pittsburgh
not so much now. They're not an explosive offense. The Giants,
outside of Malik neighbors. Neighbors said, it's staggering. Twelve for
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one fifteen, he had fifteen targets. So Daniel Jones drops
back to pass forty times. Fifteen went to neighbors. Fourteen targets.
That is to one Dale Robinson. But it's all short stuff.
You know, they had a blown coverage on Neighbors early.
That was a big one. But other than that, they're
you know, basically, and we know this. We've known this
for a couple of years. Teams are sitting back in
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the too high shell saying, we're not giving you ader touchdowns.
That's just not happening. We'll give you the underneath stuff
if you can take it and your quarterback can make
those passes come on down the field. Well, the Giants
moved the ball in between the twenties. Great, and then
they get to the red zone twice and they have
to settle for field goals. You can't win the game
when all you do is kick five field goals. You're
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not winning that. Now, I know what you're saying, Jay Jay,
You just compared to the Steelers. The Steelers did win that. Yes,
the Steelers won one game when they kicked six field goals.
In the in the home opener. Was it the home open? No,
it was a road opener against Atlanta. Sure that can
work in a one off, but that was against an
Atlanta Falcons team that's limited. Now, the Cowboys ain't great,
as we know, but the Cowboys are certainly better than
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the Atlanta Falcons as a threat. Now I don't. I mean,
maybe the Falcons win more games this year because they're
in a weaker division with a cake schedule, but the
Cowboys are a better team. But this is rob this
is the thing I love most so all week. You know, oh, well,
the Giants game plans easy. You just have to run
on the Cowboys because they can't stop the run. I mean,
Derek Henry had a buck whatever and Lamar Jackson ran
wild Baltimore ran for two hundred and thirty yards and
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three quarters. That's easy. That's the game plan. That's not
how football works. And this is why, as I said,
I think I said it on the pod early this week,
the zigzag theory in the NFL is a real thing.
One week a team will look like total garbage. The
next week, Oh they're good, right, Nobody is as good
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or as bad as they were the week before the
Cowboys run defense. You want to hear how they did
against the Giants. New York had twenty four rush attempts
for twenty six yards. That's it, twenty six yards. Derek
Henry had more than that on like one carry last week, okay,
where he was stiff arming dudes to the ground. It
was And so Dables game plan to me was, hey,
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keep it simple, kiss it baby, keep it simple, stupid,
and that can work in between the twenties and you
make your field goals. But Dallas breaks off. Dallas two touchdowns,
and when you score two touchdowns, and then you've got
like one of the best kickers in the league. Although
I will say I have Aubrey rob in fantasy and
I was stunned that he missed a field goal. It
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was fifty one and he does seem automatic. But I
wasn't watching the telecast I was following. Was that his
first miss of the season, Yes, it was. Man, he's
a good kicker. So anyways, like Dallas played it safe,
the Giants played it safer. It was a crack game.
I don't know. I look at both these teams. I
don't think either of them, Rob or playoff teams in
the NFC.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, you know when you said last week and it
was a big promo, we coult it out and put
it on the internet on social media. Jason McIntyre says
the Dallas Cowboys not one of the top six teams
of the NFC. I thought that was, you know, one of
the hotter takes that we've seen in weeks, and then
we watch what happened on Thursday night and it's like, eh,
you know what, you may have been ahead of the
curve on that one, because they're just not They're not terrible.
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I'll give them that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They're two and two.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They're not the worst team I've seen. They are the
definition of as a kid say, they are mid. Everything
about the Dallas Cowboys is mid, all right. Dak Prescott
his counting stats look fine. Two of twenty seven, two
twenty one, two touchdowns, no picks. He said, Oh, you know,
the running game was averaging just in their four yards
to carry, so you know it must have been an
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easy Dallas Cowboys win over the Giants, who have they
run roughshot over them for years now. But they had
eleven penalties. You know, they're three for ten on third down.
They only had the ball for twenty four minutes. Like
this game was so terrible to watch. And it's going
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a little quick tangent for you here though. So you
mentioned the two high safety. Everyone saying, hey, the two
I safety goes ruining football. We're not getting the big
play like we used to, and it's it's hurting the
television product. I'll take you one step further. It's not
just that they took the two to two high safety
and it's making things so that it's dink and dunk
kind of offense. It's that they also have eliminated all
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of the physicality that we got in the NFL back
when I was younger and you were younger, Like you
know the jacked up segments that we got on ESPN.
You cannot hit a guy high, you cannot hit a
guy low. You cannot touch the quarterback. You cannot grab
him from behind and sit down. That's a hip drop tackle.
Can't grab him by the top of his shoulder pad,
that's a horse caller tackle. So they've eliminated the physicality
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because they wanted to encourage more offensive football. The teams
have adjusted and now you're seeing scoring is way down,
so we don't got the smash mouth. We don't got
the high fly act. We're stuck in this dead zone
where nobody is scoring very well, fantasy numbers are way down,
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and on top of that, we have to sit and
watch two teams, one of them who can't keep shooting
themselves in the foot, the Dallas Cowboys all the penalties
and generally uninspired play, and the New York Giants, who
mostly looked like they were playing not to get blown out.
Because I saw this stat before the game, Daniel Jones
entering Thursday night, had the worst primetime record among any
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quarterback with ten plus starts since the seventies. He was
one and twelve, now one in thirteen. Eight of those
twelve losses were by double digits, four were by at
least twenty points. Our cousins get the rap for being
the bad prime time quarterback. Daniel Jones has lapped the
field when it comes to uninspiring prime time performance. Last
night he wasn't even bad. But he's now one and
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thirteen TD interception ratio on prime time, twelve touchdowns, nineteen picks.
It looked to me like Brian Dayball was saying, the
last time we played these guys, they beat us by
thirty five points. We are not gonna have that happen again.
We're gonna take the points when we get them. Even
if we're down at the three yard line. We're gonna
kick the field goal, safe and steady. We're gonna stay
within striking distance. If we can win the game, great,
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If not, at least we'll cover the spread because it
definitely feels to me like Brian Dayball and the rest
of the New York Giants organization understand that Daniel Jones
is not the guy for them moving forward. Yeah, no noise,
and if they can showcase moleakue neighbors, which is what
they've been doing a whole hak of a lot of
the first month of the season. Currently on pace to
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set the record for the most targets in NFL history
by a wide margin, and he's a rookie. They're setting
the stage for we're gonna limp to a four and
thirteen finish. We're gonna pick in the top ten, probably
top five. We're gonna get our quarterback, and hey, you
get to throw to the most prolific rookie wide receiver
in NFL history.
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Speaker 2 (09:26):
Look at the schedule, and you're right. They might not
win to so Seattle next week. Then the Bengals the
Giants will be underdogs in both those games. Then the
Eagles and the Steelers. I think they're underdogs in both.
So at that point they could be one in six
more than seven. I mean, it does ease up a
little bit. Commanders Panthers, but you're you're right, you're probably
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onto something on Thursday night football. So obviously we had
Chiefs Ravens to open it, which was fine. Week two
was was that the Jets No no, Yeah, it was
no Jets Patriots, and then Miami.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No I think we I think I think it was
Miami Buffalo, and then Jets.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Miami Buffalo sucked. Jets Patriots was terrible. And then this
game was borderline unwatchable. Next week, Get excited America Tampa
Bay at Atlanta. Baker Mayfield, Kirk Cousins, Like, you're right,
it's tough with these Thursday games to get excited. They
felt kind of sloppy. I don't know, It's just I'm
not impressed with with Dallas at all. Obviously the Giant stink,
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but I am curious. Rob uh rinked for me the
best quarterbacks in the NFC East just based on this season,
not history, not last year, and not five years. Just
what you've seen through three.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Games nfcas NFC East from what just this season? Yep,
Dak Prescott, jayde and Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Wow, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That okay, Dak? Huh yeah, I thought you some people,
I think we go. Jayden Daniels has been the best
quarterback this season. I don't think many would, but I
think some people would credibly argue that Jillen Hurts has
been a turnover machine. Unfortunately, I just don't know that.
Let me call up the Dak numbers real quick, because
I didn't think Dak had been particularly good. He wasn't
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great against the Browns. Dak Prescott through three games has
four touchdowns, two picks, uh sixty percent completions, which would
be a career low. His QBR, if that's worth anything,
is a career low. His quarterback rating is a career low,
so he's not off to a great start. It's weird
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the division.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, those numbers are gonna go up because they haven't
updated from this last night, so.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's right, it's only for the first three. Yeah, yeah,
it's just it's a little difficult for me to say
he's been playing great. I mean, the guy just got
sixty million per year. You know, it's it's tough for
me to like, I'm happy for him, but like, what's
the quote, it's tough to get out of bed when
you're wearing satin pj's or something like that. Mike silk sheets,
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silk sheets, right, right, right. You know, Dak's got all
his money and he's going out there and it's like, Okay,
the giant stink is boring. Ced Limb yelled at me.
I got a fource, feed him the ball. They don't
have a lot of dudes like Jake Ferguson. By the way,
Fantasy what a bum he's been speaking of, Rob. What
the hell's going on with fantasy football tight ends this year?
Nobody's anything. I saw a stat that there's like five
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kickers have outscored every tight end in fantasy I mean,
other than the opener for likely Trey McBride's head of flashes,
but he's now got concussed. It's just a weird, weird
year so far.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's terrible. And I listen I regularly just listened to
Matthew Berry's podcast for end of the show. He has
the Fantasy podcast for NBC Sports, and I was listening
to one of the recent episodes. They're talking about the
tight end position and they're saying, hey, you know, if
you can get Tyler kank Lamb, if you can get
Hunter Henry, you know their their low end, mid range
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tight end to you know, you're hoping for a touchdown.
And then one of the guys says, well, at this point,
isn't that every tight end of the league. You just hey,
if one of the guys gets a touchdown, like that
saves the day, cause you mentioned it. Like Sam Laporta
was the consensus top guy. I think he's averaging five
points a game in fantasy. Travis Kelcey has eighty nine
yards through three games. You know, Mark Andrews basically got
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benched in Week three for Isaiah Likely. I think he
only played thirty percent of the snaps. You know, you
go down the trade. Mcbridey mentioned the concussion, you go
down the list and all the guys you might have
been counting on. Dalton King Kate had his first touchdown
you know, this past week, and he was the fourth
option on that play. It was Josh Allen Scramble Scrims touchdown. Yeah. So,
and it goes back to my previous point. It's like,
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the reason why NFL football is so popular is Number one,
I believe fantasy because it's something that everybody does. Number Two,
it's betting, gambling, and it's it's it's the it's the
one sport because it's one game a week usually you know,
two or three at the most that you're able to
really hunker down and get an edge. And there's an
entertainment factor. If the fantasy numbers are down, that's like
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a half of your audience where it's like, how why
am I going to watch? If if this finals? My
tight ends getting me four points?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How about the how about the I mean survivors small
potatoes gambling? But I don't know anyone's so alive in fantasy?
Oh no, I do know one guy who texted me
a buddy and he's like, hey, who's your lock this week?
I'm still there's six six people left in fantasy. It's
week four. I think he's only like one hundred and
twenty five people, but six are left, and I was like, oh, well,
chalk go with the Niner. Sounds like Kittle's coming back,
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you know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But when that happened, Like, let's say in that scenario,
let's say that your your buddy's in the one hundred
and twenty high people and everyone's eliminated by week seven?
Is the guy who's last does he get paid out?
If it's only made it's a week seven. I have
no clue or is there like a minimum threshold you
have to get before it any can cash in? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That just seems like it's just a point. And I
didn't even do the buyback because I was so upset,
Like how could I whiff so badly? The first two?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
First two weeks I was out. I had two entries,
both done. I'm like, damn, that stings. But you guys know,
I had a good week last week in NFL gambling
five to zero in the contest. Can I run it back?
So let's do bets for week four in the NFL.
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Here's your best bet.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, let's start in college football, where the big
game of the weekend is Georgia at Alabama. It's weird.
This game does not have a ton of juice. Obviously,
it's two top five teams, but a I think it's
so early in the season that people are struggling to
kind of wrap their head around. Oh my gosh. Usually
these two meet in like the SEC championship game, and
they very well might. I don't have anything on this
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game as of right now. I probably will go Georgia
closer to game time. I'm sorry, I just need to
see it. From Milroe, the quarterback of Alabama. I still
have a sour taste in my mouth from him early
last year. But the guy got bench twice. Okay, I
think he got bench against Texas in some other game.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I know he's a good player and he's a pro prospect.
And I saw an article. I haven't fully read it.
It's open on my tab, but a guy who writes
for the Athletic Dame Brugler. Can Jalen Milroe be the
next Jalen Hurts. I'm like, all right, I haven't flagged,
I haven't read it yet, but I'm gonna ride with Georgia.
I think a little bit of an overreaction to the
Georgia Kentucky game and people are kind of like, oh,
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Georgia doesn't look great. I will agree, Carson Beck has
not looked tremendous. It should be a good game. I
don't have anything lined up Saturday, so I will be
locked in on that. I do have a bunch of bets.
I'm leary to give them to you. Last week was
good four and two. I just there's some real dogs
with fleas here that I don't think you're gonna want
to get involved with. I go out with Washington in
State plus six and a half. They are against Boise.
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I had Texas Tech monus three and a half, Texas
A and M minus six, Stanford plus twenty one and
a half. Yes, that's real. Against Clemson, that's a tough one.
I am riding with Dion Sanders and company Colorado plus
fourteen against Central Florida Oklahoma State plus five And that's
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all for now. Any additions I will put on the
Instagram stories over the weekend. And now to the NFL. Listen,
I had a five and oh week last week in
the contest, bumping my record to nine five and one
first five and oh other season. Very excited. I'm in
like the top four hundred out of five thousand, and listen,
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you guys know that I like to be completely honest.
Every single night this week, I've woke up and I've
been like, can Tampa Bay really pull this off? Do
I need to go INDI? Should I not get in
front of Pittsburgh I'm doing every single night it's one
or more of these games. It's in my head. I'm
really nervous now. Usually, and I've told you guys this before.
My theory has always been trust your first instinct. Don't
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be scared off of a team by by sharp perceived
sharp money and all this nonsense. It does happen, Okay,
I'm doing my best to not let it happen this week.
So the first bet I made was the Chicago Bears
minus two. The second bet I made and this is
going back to like Monday as soon as I looked
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at the Joe Alt situation, the slater, the bosa, I
hadn't even announced Irwin, James and Herbert, and I said,
I got to hit the Chiefs minus seven. So I
hit the Chiefs minus seven. A couple totals over forty
six for Seattle Detroit. That's a great game. I don't
have anything on that game. It's weird. I want to
go Detroit. But if you remember last ye's game, was
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I think with last year or two years ago, just
a great shootout. Keep an eye on Seattle. Kenneth walker Back,
I don't know. I don't know that I trust the Lions,
And sorry for the aside. If you go back to
yesterday's pod and you could listen to Adam Churnoff talk
about teams that are overvalued, undervalued, blah blah blah, there's
a weird thing happening where Lions and Texans, two of
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the hottest offseason teams. Everybody loved them after last year.
Their lines seemed to be inflated a tad this year
and as a result, they're not covering now. The Lions
did get lucky to cover against the Rams, so they're
two and one against the spread. The Texans depending they
haven't covered a game yet. Okay, Texans lines are inflated,
so this Detroit Seattle. I don't know about a side,
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but I do like the over forty six. I went
under thirty seven on Tennessee Miami. I went blind. I
don't even know if it's Tyler Huntley. I went under
thirty eight on Broncos Jets. This is my I'm of
the belief that the Jets will totally shut down bo
Nicks here. The only problem is Nat Hackett could go
on a big revenge game against the Broncos and the
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Jets hang thirty and then can is Denver gonna be
held under eight. I took the Bengals minus four against
the Panthers. I'm certain that the Bengals will be one
of the five that I submit for the contest. Actually,
is it four and a half in the contest? Uh, yeah,
it's four and a half. Not great, but four and
a half to me is a tell that they are
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definitely the side. Now, Carolina has some big time injuries.
I just I think Cincinnati wins with margin here. I
think the defense cannot be as bad as it was
last week. Could not stop a nose. But remember they
were good against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We're solid.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I think they show up here at the offenses. It
has a lot of potential now that t Higgins is back.
How's this for a teaser? Chiefs to two and a half,
Buccaneers up to eight and a half. Two team teaser
Tampa and Casey Casey under a field. Come on, listen,
Casey's boring a major injury. They're not losing to. I
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think it's gonna be Taylor Heineke, maybe Eastern Stick. I
don't know. I can't imagine with Justin Herbert getting a
bye next week that they would force him back out
on the field. That would be foolish. If Justin Herbert
gets hurt and he's out six weeks, the season's over.
There will be no playoffs for the Chargers. If you
can just say, you know what, let's power down this week.
Let's get you two weeks of rest with the bye
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next week, Justin we'll come back with a vengeance. I
think that ultimately they'll do that. I did get the
Jags plus seven earlier this week. Now, I'm sure you
guys have seen the reports. Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Joe Mixon,
a lot of injuries for the Texans. Nobody likes the Jaguars.
I think I'll probably end up scooping the Jags in
the contest, but I did bet them getting seven. I'm
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on the Falcons minus two.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Falcons Saints feels like kind of a dumb bet to me. Right,
they seem very much alike. Don't think you can trust
either team. But you look at the Saints' injury report,
and for me, it's a better than Atlanta. Now, I
know Atlanta's kind of dinged up in the trenches, but
New Orleans is dinged up everywhere, I mean Camara. It
does not look good for the Saints, and as such,
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I'm on Atlanta. I don't know if I'll submit them
in the contest. I went Tampa Bay money line and
I went Tampa Bay plus two. There is some concern
that there's Hurricane Helen Helene, whichever Helen Helene.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
There is some concern that this could be sloppy and
gross field, and maybe there's some lingering rain. I don't
know how bad it's going to be, but I'm on
the Bucks getting points and money line, and I almost
certainly will have Tampa in the contest. I don't think
they're great by any stretch, but if you're sensing a
theme for those of you writing this down or listening
while walking the dog and jotting in your note section,
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I like teams coming off a loss facing a team
that just covered. And I didn't use this all week.
I texted it to some of my buddies who we
talk about gambling all week. So last week, teams that
were coming off of a loss, okay, facing teams that
were coming off of a win. If you bet the
team that did not cover the week prior this past week,
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they went seven and two. The only two that did
not were Houston. Remember I loved Houston and the Titans,
which they can never win a game. So Denver covered
coming off a loss. The New York Giants did the Eagles.
That was one of the things that swayed me late
in the contest that helped the five and zero. Now
there's a lot of those this week, coming off of
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a loss versus sorry, a cover versus coming off a
non cover. And if you look, it's Dallas did not cover.
The New York Giants did. Take a look at Thursday
Night Football's result, Chicago. Bears did not cover last week,
the Rams did Bears. Probably my biggest bet of the week,
Tampa did not cover. Philly did Philly against the Saints.
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So Bears Tampa Chargers. That's what I just I can't
rock with them, not with the Herbert situation. Sorry. Bengals Panthers,
and then Arizona Washington, And I'm also on Arizona against Washington,
so I know that's it seems very simplistic, but even
the matchups all favorite the teams I like. And if
you look closely, the Bengals are getting the hook at four,
a very big tell in my eyes that Cincinnati's the side.
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Then you take a look at Arizona, they're stuck on
three and a half, another tell they're the side. Tampa
under three and headed toward pick and the Bears the Bears.
A lot of people see bears by like the Bears
are favorite against the Rams. They're perplexed. I said it
to Coward on Monday. He was like, I bet the
Rams are favored. I was like, no, the Bears are,
and I bet them. He's like, what it's surprising Rams
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beat the Niners. Now that if you go back, that
was super lucky guys. Honestly, they're down ten with seven
minutes left. Everybody needs luck every now and then. But
that was a total luck box victory for the Rams,
and they face a Bear seam that nobody believes in.
Bears have looked awful. You lose to the Colts Sunday
Night football. They get sacked eight times against the Texans.
By the way, Texan Bears covered that game. Quietly, I'm
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just saying, like, just don't take everything at face value.
Take a minute look under the hood, poke around. A
lot of these games are very enticing to me this weekend.
And yeah, I dance card is full of interesting teams.
And if you will look, the Bears are favored, Tampa's
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a dog, Bengals are favored, Cardinals are favored. I know, listen,
not the sexiest group of teams. Other ones I'm considering
in the contest are the Jags. I just don't know
if I could pull the trigger. They're only six in
the contest. Remember I bet them at seven Atlanta. I'm
just I don't really know. I don't know what to
do with Jets Broncos. Both teams did cover last week.
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I'm of the belief the Jets are the side here
and they get it done, and I bet them. I
just don't. The contest is a different animal. Like you
win money, wonderful. You want to go after three million
dollars or whatever the payout is in this Vegas contest, well,
you can't screw around. You need you need to really
not play it safe. But you need to take some
of the uglier teams because guess what. Ain't nobody touching
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those and the lines are screwy and those are the
ones that cover. So listen, there's zero chance I pull
off another five and oh, but man, wouldn't you pull
off a five and oh? And have a monster weekend?
It's a friggin great feeling, all right, everybody. That's it
for straight Fire this week. We are back on Monday.
Hopefully it's a productive weekend for you and certainly myself.
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
Fire for Friday, September twenty seventh. I would say, what
a great night in sports, but Cowboys Giants was awful. Now,
now the Gray Foxes by men's basketball team, that was
the jam folks. Since we added Richard Jefferson in the
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transfer portal, we got a little crowd showing up in
some of these games. It's funny fox has win by
twenty five. We did face a guy who played point
guard at usc like three years ago, and he was awesome.
He's just too tough, like a point guard who's a
tank and just body contortions and he had probably thirty
but we just had too many weapons. You boy hit
a like four threes. It it's just fun. But next
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week play the defending champs. I don't even know if
for favor they're really good, But honestly, like that was
more exciting than Cowboys Giants Cowboys twenty Giants fifteen. You
know what's more interesting than the actual game is that
I bet Cowboys four and four and a half both hit,
Thank you very much, and I put up some props
on Instagram stories and one of them was first touchdown
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Rico Dudell. Hello, I thought that the screen pass was
gonna get called back. I also had some overs on
CD LAMB those hit thanks to the fifty five yarder.
It's weird though. The Cowboys to me, don't come away
as the story of the game. And you know Rob
g has a Giants take. I have a different Giants take.
It's weird. Like Daniel Jones has really limited the turnovers
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this season, and it's the brand of football they're playing
is not pretty right. Jones will only turnover was a
hail Mary at the end that had no chance. But
it's like, hey, we want to be It's essentially to me,
Brian Dables looking at his team is like, we cannot
go toe to toe with people. We need to be
like Pittsburgh Steelers. I need Daniel Jones to turn into
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Justin fields. Just make the right reads, make the easy passes,
scramble when necessary, Okay, don't turn the ball over. That's it.
Justin fields in Chicago, turnover machine. Justin fields at Pittsburgh
not so much now. They're not an explosive offense. The Giants,
outside of Malik neighbors. Neighbors said, it's staggering. Twelve for
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one fifteen, he had fifteen targets. So Daniel Jones drops
back to pass forty times. Fifteen went to neighbors. Fourteen targets.
That is to one Dale Robinson. But it's all short stuff.
You know, they had a blown coverage on Neighbors early.
That was a big one. But other than that, they're
you know, basically, and we know this. We've known this
for a couple of years. Teams are sitting back in
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the too high shell saying, we're not giving you ader touchdowns.
That's just not happening. We'll give you the underneath stuff
if you can take it and your quarterback can make
those passes come on down the field. Well, the Giants
moved the ball in between the twenties. Great, and then
they get to the red zone twice and they have
to settle for field goals. You can't win the game
when all you do is kick five field goals. You're
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not winning that. Now, I know what you're saying, Jay Jay,
You just compared to the Steelers. The Steelers did win that. Yes,
the Steelers won one game when they kicked six field goals.
In the in the home opener. Was it the home open? No,
it was a road opener against Atlanta. Sure that can
work in a one off, but that was against an
Atlanta Falcons team that's limited. Now, the Cowboys ain't great,
as we know, but the Cowboys are certainly better than
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the Atlanta Falcons as a threat. Now I don't. I mean,
maybe the Falcons win more games this year because they're
in a weaker division with a cake schedule, but the
Cowboys are a better team. But this is rob this
is the thing I love most so all week. You know, oh, well,
the Giants game plans easy. You just have to run
on the Cowboys because they can't stop the run. I mean,
Derek Henry had a buck whatever and Lamar Jackson ran
wild Baltimore ran for two hundred and thirty yards and
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three quarters. That's easy. That's the game plan. That's not
how football works. And this is why, as I said,
I think I said it on the pod early this week,
the zigzag theory in the NFL is a real thing.
One week a team will look like total garbage. The
next week, Oh they're good, right, Nobody is as good
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or as bad as they were the week before the
Cowboys run defense. You want to hear how they did
against the Giants. New York had twenty four rush attempts
for twenty six yards. That's it, twenty six yards. Derek
Henry had more than that on like one carry last week, okay,
where he was stiff arming dudes to the ground. It
was And so Dables game plan to me was, hey,
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keep it simple, kiss it baby, keep it simple, stupid,
and that can work in between the twenties and you
make your field goals. But Dallas breaks off. Dallas two touchdowns,
and when you score two touchdowns, and then you've got
like one of the best kickers in the league. Although
I will say I have Aubrey rob in fantasy and
I was stunned that he missed a field goal. It
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was fifty one and he does seem automatic. But I
wasn't watching the telecast I was following. Was that his
first miss of the season, Yes, it was. Man, he's
a good kicker. So anyways, like Dallas played it safe,
the Giants played it safer. It was a crack game.
I don't know. I look at both these teams. I
don't think either of them, Rob or playoff teams in
the NFC.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, you know when you said last week and it
was a big promo, we coult it out and put
it on the internet on social media. Jason McIntyre says
the Dallas Cowboys not one of the top six teams
of the NFC. I thought that was, you know, one of
the hotter takes that we've seen in weeks, and then
we watch what happened on Thursday night and it's like, eh,
you know what, you may have been ahead of the
curve on that one, because they're just not They're not terrible.
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I'll give them that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They're two and two.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They're not the worst team I've seen. They are the
definition of as a kid say, they are mid. Everything
about the Dallas Cowboys is mid, all right. Dak Prescott
his counting stats look fine. Two of twenty seven, two
twenty one, two touchdowns, no picks. He said, Oh, you know,
the running game was averaging just in their four yards
to carry, so you know it must have been an
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easy Dallas Cowboys win over the Giants, who have they
run roughshot over them for years now. But they had
eleven penalties. You know, they're three for ten on third down.
They only had the ball for twenty four minutes. Like
this game was so terrible to watch. And it's going
(06:20):
a little quick tangent for you here though. So you
mentioned the two high safety. Everyone saying, hey, the two
I safety goes ruining football. We're not getting the big
play like we used to, and it's it's hurting the
television product. I'll take you one step further. It's not
just that they took the two to two high safety
and it's making things so that it's dink and dunk
kind of offense. It's that they also have eliminated all
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of the physicality that we got in the NFL back
when I was younger and you were younger, Like you
know the jacked up segments that we got on ESPN.
You cannot hit a guy high, you cannot hit a
guy low. You cannot touch the quarterback. You cannot grab
him from behind and sit down. That's a hip drop tackle.
Can't grab him by the top of his shoulder pad,
that's a horse caller tackle. So they've eliminated the physicality
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because they wanted to encourage more offensive football. The teams
have adjusted and now you're seeing scoring is way down,
so we don't got the smash mouth. We don't got
the high fly act. We're stuck in this dead zone
where nobody is scoring very well, fantasy numbers are way down,
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and on top of that, we have to sit and
watch two teams, one of them who can't keep shooting
themselves in the foot, the Dallas Cowboys all the penalties
and generally uninspired play, and the New York Giants, who
mostly looked like they were playing not to get blown out.
Because I saw this stat before the game, Daniel Jones
entering Thursday night, had the worst primetime record among any
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quarterback with ten plus starts since the seventies. He was
one and twelve, now one in thirteen. Eight of those
twelve losses were by double digits, four were by at
least twenty points. Our cousins get the rap for being
the bad prime time quarterback. Daniel Jones has lapped the
field when it comes to uninspiring prime time performance. Last
night he wasn't even bad. But he's now one and
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thirteen TD interception ratio on prime time, twelve touchdowns, nineteen picks.
It looked to me like Brian Dayball was saying, the
last time we played these guys, they beat us by
thirty five points. We are not gonna have that happen again.
We're gonna take the points when we get them. Even
if we're down at the three yard line. We're gonna
kick the field goal, safe and steady. We're gonna stay
within striking distance. If we can win the game, great,
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If not, at least we'll cover the spread because it
definitely feels to me like Brian Dayball and the rest
of the New York Giants organization understand that Daniel Jones
is not the guy for them moving forward. Yeah, no noise,
and if they can showcase moleakue neighbors, which is what
they've been doing a whole hak of a lot of
the first month of the season. Currently on pace to
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set the record for the most targets in NFL history
by a wide margin, and he's a rookie. They're setting
the stage for we're gonna limp to a four and
thirteen finish. We're gonna pick in the top ten, probably
top five. We're gonna get our quarterback, and hey, you
get to throw to the most prolific rookie wide receiver
in NFL history.
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Speaker 2 (09:26):
Look at the schedule, and you're right. They might not
win to so Seattle next week. Then the Bengals the
Giants will be underdogs in both those games. Then the
Eagles and the Steelers. I think they're underdogs in both.
So at that point they could be one in six
more than seven. I mean, it does ease up a
little bit. Commanders Panthers, but you're you're right, you're probably
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onto something on Thursday night football. So obviously we had
Chiefs Ravens to open it, which was fine. Week two
was was that the Jets No no, Yeah, it was
no Jets Patriots, and then Miami.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No I think we I think I think it was
Miami Buffalo, and then Jets.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Miami Buffalo sucked. Jets Patriots was terrible. And then this
game was borderline unwatchable. Next week, Get excited America Tampa
Bay at Atlanta. Baker Mayfield, Kirk Cousins, Like, you're right,
it's tough with these Thursday games to get excited. They
felt kind of sloppy. I don't know, It's just I'm
not impressed with with Dallas at all. Obviously the Giant stink,
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but I am curious. Rob uh rinked for me the
best quarterbacks in the NFC East just based on this season,
not history, not last year, and not five years. Just
what you've seen through three.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Games nfcas NFC East from what just this season? Yep,
Dak Prescott, jayde and Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Wow, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That okay, Dak? Huh yeah, I thought you some people,
I think we go. Jayden Daniels has been the best
quarterback this season. I don't think many would, but I
think some people would credibly argue that Jillen Hurts has
been a turnover machine. Unfortunately, I just don't know that.
Let me call up the Dak numbers real quick, because
I didn't think Dak had been particularly good. He wasn't
(11:16):
great against the Browns. Dak Prescott through three games has
four touchdowns, two picks, uh sixty percent completions, which would
be a career low. His QBR, if that's worth anything,
is a career low. His quarterback rating is a career low,
so he's not off to a great start. It's weird
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the division.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, those numbers are gonna go up because they haven't
updated from this last night, so.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's right, it's only for the first three. Yeah, yeah,
it's just it's a little difficult for me to say
he's been playing great. I mean, the guy just got
sixty million per year. You know, it's it's tough for
me to like, I'm happy for him, but like, what's
the quote, it's tough to get out of bed when
you're wearing satin pj's or something like that. Mike silk sheets,
(12:02):
silk sheets, right, right, right. You know, Dak's got all
his money and he's going out there and it's like, Okay,
the giant stink is boring. Ced Limb yelled at me.
I got a fource, feed him the ball. They don't
have a lot of dudes like Jake Ferguson. By the way,
Fantasy what a bum he's been speaking of, Rob. What
the hell's going on with fantasy football tight ends this year?
Nobody's anything. I saw a stat that there's like five
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kickers have outscored every tight end in fantasy I mean,
other than the opener for likely Trey McBride's head of flashes,
but he's now got concussed. It's just a weird, weird
year so far.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's terrible. And I listen I regularly just listened to
Matthew Berry's podcast for end of the show. He has
the Fantasy podcast for NBC Sports, and I was listening
to one of the recent episodes. They're talking about the
tight end position and they're saying, hey, you know, if
you can get Tyler kank Lamb, if you can get
Hunter Henry, you know their their low end, mid range
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tight end to you know, you're hoping for a touchdown.
And then one of the guys says, well, at this point,
isn't that every tight end of the league. You just hey,
if one of the guys gets a touchdown, like that
saves the day, cause you mentioned it. Like Sam Laporta
was the consensus top guy. I think he's averaging five
points a game in fantasy. Travis Kelcey has eighty nine
yards through three games. You know, Mark Andrews basically got
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benched in Week three for Isaiah Likely. I think he
only played thirty percent of the snaps. You know, you
go down the trade. Mcbridey mentioned the concussion, you go
down the list and all the guys you might have
been counting on. Dalton King Kate had his first touchdown
you know, this past week, and he was the fourth
option on that play. It was Josh Allen Scramble Scrims touchdown. Yeah. So,
and it goes back to my previous point. It's like,
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the reason why NFL football is so popular is Number one,
I believe fantasy because it's something that everybody does. Number Two,
it's betting, gambling, and it's it's it's the it's the
one sport because it's one game a week usually you know,
two or three at the most that you're able to
really hunker down and get an edge. And there's an
entertainment factor. If the fantasy numbers are down, that's like
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a half of your audience where it's like, how why
am I going to watch? If if this finals? My
tight ends getting me four points?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How about the how about the I mean survivors small
potatoes gambling? But I don't know anyone's so alive in fantasy?
Oh no, I do know one guy who texted me
a buddy and he's like, hey, who's your lock this week?
I'm still there's six six people left in fantasy. It's
week four. I think he's only like one hundred and
twenty five people, but six are left, and I was like, oh, well,
chalk go with the Niner. Sounds like Kittle's coming back,
(14:35):
you know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But when that happened, Like, let's say in that scenario,
let's say that your your buddy's in the one hundred
and twenty high people and everyone's eliminated by week seven?
Is the guy who's last does he get paid out?
If it's only made it's a week seven. I have
no clue or is there like a minimum threshold you
have to get before it any can cash in? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That just seems like it's just a point. And I
didn't even do the buyback because I was so upset,
Like how could I whiff so badly? The first two?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
First two weeks I was out. I had two entries,
both done. I'm like, damn, that stings. But you guys know,
I had a good week last week in NFL gambling
five to zero in the contest. Can I run it back?
So let's do bets for week four in the NFL.
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Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, let's start in college football, where the big
game of the weekend is Georgia at Alabama. It's weird.
This game does not have a ton of juice. Obviously,
it's two top five teams, but a I think it's
so early in the season that people are struggling to
kind of wrap their head around. Oh my gosh. Usually
these two meet in like the SEC championship game, and
they very well might. I don't have anything on this
(16:03):
game as of right now. I probably will go Georgia
closer to game time. I'm sorry, I just need to
see it. From Milroe, the quarterback of Alabama. I still
have a sour taste in my mouth from him early
last year. But the guy got bench twice. Okay, I
think he got bench against Texas in some other game.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I know he's a good player and he's a pro prospect.
And I saw an article. I haven't fully read it.
It's open on my tab, but a guy who writes
for the Athletic Dame Brugler. Can Jalen Milroe be the
next Jalen Hurts. I'm like, all right, I haven't flagged,
I haven't read it yet, but I'm gonna ride with Georgia.
I think a little bit of an overreaction to the
Georgia Kentucky game and people are kind of like, oh,
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Georgia doesn't look great. I will agree, Carson Beck has
not looked tremendous. It should be a good game. I
don't have anything lined up Saturday, so I will be
locked in on that. I do have a bunch of bets.
I'm leary to give them to you. Last week was
good four and two. I just there's some real dogs
with fleas here that I don't think you're gonna want
to get involved with. I go out with Washington in
State plus six and a half. They are against Boise.
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I had Texas Tech monus three and a half, Texas
A and M minus six, Stanford plus twenty one and
a half. Yes, that's real. Against Clemson, that's a tough one.
I am riding with Dion Sanders and company Colorado plus
fourteen against Central Florida Oklahoma State plus five And that's
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all for now. Any additions I will put on the
Instagram stories over the weekend. And now to the NFL. Listen,
I had a five and oh week last week in
the contest, bumping my record to nine five and one
first five and oh other season. Very excited. I'm in
like the top four hundred out of five thousand, and listen,
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you guys know that I like to be completely honest.
Every single night this week, I've woke up and I've
been like, can Tampa Bay really pull this off? Do
I need to go INDI? Should I not get in
front of Pittsburgh I'm doing every single night it's one
or more of these games. It's in my head. I'm
really nervous now. Usually, and I've told you guys this before.
My theory has always been trust your first instinct. Don't
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be scared off of a team by by sharp perceived
sharp money and all this nonsense. It does happen, Okay,
I'm doing my best to not let it happen this week.
So the first bet I made was the Chicago Bears
minus two. The second bet I made and this is
going back to like Monday as soon as I looked
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at the Joe Alt situation, the slater, the bosa, I
hadn't even announced Irwin, James and Herbert, and I said,
I got to hit the Chiefs minus seven. So I
hit the Chiefs minus seven. A couple totals over forty
six for Seattle Detroit. That's a great game. I don't
have anything on that game. It's weird. I want to
go Detroit. But if you remember last ye's game, was
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I think with last year or two years ago, just
a great shootout. Keep an eye on Seattle. Kenneth walker Back,
I don't know. I don't know that I trust the Lions,
And sorry for the aside. If you go back to
yesterday's pod and you could listen to Adam Churnoff talk
about teams that are overvalued, undervalued, blah blah blah, there's
a weird thing happening where Lions and Texans, two of
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the hottest offseason teams. Everybody loved them after last year.
Their lines seemed to be inflated a tad this year
and as a result, they're not covering now. The Lions
did get lucky to cover against the Rams, so they're
two and one against the spread. The Texans depending they
haven't covered a game yet. Okay, Texans lines are inflated,
so this Detroit Seattle. I don't know about a side,
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but I do like the over forty six. I went
under thirty seven on Tennessee Miami. I went blind. I
don't even know if it's Tyler Huntley. I went under
thirty eight on Broncos Jets. This is my I'm of
the belief that the Jets will totally shut down bo
Nicks here. The only problem is Nat Hackett could go
on a big revenge game against the Broncos and the
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Jets hang thirty and then can is Denver gonna be
held under eight. I took the Bengals minus four against
the Panthers. I'm certain that the Bengals will be one
of the five that I submit for the contest. Actually,
is it four and a half in the contest? Uh, yeah,
it's four and a half. Not great, but four and
a half to me is a tell that they are
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definitely the side. Now, Carolina has some big time injuries.
I just I think Cincinnati wins with margin here. I
think the defense cannot be as bad as it was
last week. Could not stop a nose. But remember they
were good against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We're solid.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I think they show up here at the offenses. It
has a lot of potential now that t Higgins is back.
How's this for a teaser? Chiefs to two and a half,
Buccaneers up to eight and a half. Two team teaser
Tampa and Casey Casey under a field. Come on, listen,
Casey's boring a major injury. They're not losing to. I
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think it's gonna be Taylor Heineke, maybe Eastern Stick. I
don't know. I can't imagine with Justin Herbert getting a
bye next week that they would force him back out
on the field. That would be foolish. If Justin Herbert
gets hurt and he's out six weeks, the season's over.
There will be no playoffs for the Chargers. If you
can just say, you know what, let's power down this week.
Let's get you two weeks of rest with the bye
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next week, Justin we'll come back with a vengeance. I
think that ultimately they'll do that. I did get the
Jags plus seven earlier this week. Now, I'm sure you
guys have seen the reports. Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Joe Mixon,
a lot of injuries for the Texans. Nobody likes the Jaguars.
I think I'll probably end up scooping the Jags in
the contest, but I did bet them getting seven. I'm
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on the Falcons minus two.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Falcons Saints feels like kind of a dumb bet to me. Right,
they seem very much alike. Don't think you can trust
either team. But you look at the Saints' injury report,
and for me, it's a better than Atlanta. Now, I
know Atlanta's kind of dinged up in the trenches, but
New Orleans is dinged up everywhere, I mean Camara. It
does not look good for the Saints, and as such,
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I'm on Atlanta. I don't know if I'll submit them
in the contest. I went Tampa Bay money line and
I went Tampa Bay plus two. There is some concern
that there's Hurricane Helen Helene, whichever Helen Helene.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
There is some concern that this could be sloppy and
gross field, and maybe there's some lingering rain. I don't
know how bad it's going to be, but I'm on
the Bucks getting points and money line, and I almost
certainly will have Tampa in the contest. I don't think
they're great by any stretch, but if you're sensing a
theme for those of you writing this down or listening
while walking the dog and jotting in your note section,
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I like teams coming off a loss facing a team
that just covered. And I didn't use this all week.
I texted it to some of my buddies who we
talk about gambling all week. So last week, teams that
were coming off of a loss, okay, facing teams that
were coming off of a win. If you bet the
team that did not cover the week prior this past week,
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they went seven and two. The only two that did
not were Houston. Remember I loved Houston and the Titans,
which they can never win a game. So Denver covered
coming off a loss. The New York Giants did the Eagles.
That was one of the things that swayed me late
in the contest that helped the five and zero. Now
there's a lot of those this week, coming off of
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a loss versus sorry, a cover versus coming off a
non cover. And if you look, it's Dallas did not cover.
The New York Giants did. Take a look at Thursday
Night Football's result, Chicago. Bears did not cover last week,
the Rams did Bears. Probably my biggest bet of the week,
Tampa did not cover. Philly did Philly against the Saints.
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So Bears Tampa Chargers. That's what I just I can't
rock with them, not with the Herbert situation. Sorry. Bengals Panthers,
and then Arizona Washington, And I'm also on Arizona against Washington,
so I know that's it seems very simplistic, but even
the matchups all favorite the teams I like. And if
you look closely, the Bengals are getting the hook at four,
a very big tell in my eyes that Cincinnati's the side.
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Then you take a look at Arizona, they're stuck on
three and a half, another tell they're the side. Tampa
under three and headed toward pick and the Bears the Bears.
A lot of people see bears by like the Bears
are favorite against the Rams. They're perplexed. I said it
to Coward on Monday. He was like, I bet the
Rams are favored. I was like, no, the Bears are,
and I bet them. He's like, what it's surprising Rams
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beat the Niners. Now that if you go back, that
was super lucky guys. Honestly, they're down ten with seven
minutes left. Everybody needs luck every now and then. But
that was a total luck box victory for the Rams,
and they face a Bear seam that nobody believes in.
Bears have looked awful. You lose to the Colts Sunday
Night football. They get sacked eight times against the Texans.
By the way, Texan Bears covered that game. Quietly, I'm
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just saying, like, just don't take everything at face value.
Take a minute look under the hood, poke around. A
lot of these games are very enticing to me this weekend.
And yeah, I dance card is full of interesting teams.
And if you will look, the Bears are favored, Tampa's
(25:14):
a dog, Bengals are favored, Cardinals are favored. I know, listen,
not the sexiest group of teams. Other ones I'm considering
in the contest are the Jags. I just don't know
if I could pull the trigger. They're only six in
the contest. Remember I bet them at seven Atlanta. I'm
just I don't really know. I don't know what to
do with Jets Broncos. Both teams did cover last week.
(25:34):
I'm of the belief the Jets are the side here
and they get it done, and I bet them. I
just don't. The contest is a different animal. Like you
win money, wonderful. You want to go after three million
dollars or whatever the payout is in this Vegas contest, well,
you can't screw around. You need you need to really
not play it safe. But you need to take some
of the uglier teams because guess what. Ain't nobody touching
(25:54):
those and the lines are screwy and those are the
ones that cover. So listen, there's zero chance I pull
off another five and oh, but man, wouldn't you pull
off a five and oh? And have a monster weekend?
It's a friggin great feeling, all right, everybody. That's it
for straight Fire this week. We are back on Monday.
Hopefully it's a productive weekend for you and certainly myself.
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