November 27, 2024 • 27 mins
On today’s episode, Jason hits us with a preview of all the upcoming Thanksgiving and Black Friday NFL action, including thoughts on Detroit Lions vs Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers vs Miami Dolphins, New York Giants vs Dallas Cowboys and Kansas City Chiefs vs Las Vegas Raiders. Finally, J-Mac closes the show with a few of his Best Bets for the college football slate.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up straight Fire? Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Fire for Wednesday, November twenty seventh. This is your
Thanksgiving edition podcast. I was going to try to ask
Rob g who, by the way, is back. He will
tell you where he's been next week. I was going
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to try to get the number of what episode this is, folks.
I think we're like three years into the pod, five
days a week. I mean, is this like, are we
closing on a like episode like thirteen hundred twelve hundred.
I mean, the number's got to be massive. But it
has been a lot of fun and Thanksgiving week, you know, Listen,
we're late in the football season. Your boy's a little
worn down. I'm getting so old. I go to a
(00:51):
Chargers game, I'm home at a reasonable hour, and in
all honesty, I'm like, I gotta take a nap the
next day. Practically, I'm just absolutely gassed, barely been working out.
I mean it's listen, Thanksgiving week is tough. Historically, if
you followed the radio show on I used to have
on Saturdays or this podcast, Thanksgiving Week has not been
good to me because there's so many moving parts, family friends,
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getting ready for the holidays, and I don't even do
a ton. I'm just like along for the ride. You know,
you got to support the wife, you gotta hang with
the kids who are now off school, and there's just
a lot of stuff. You're out of your normal routine.
I'm a creature of habit. I like to do my
reading up on NFL at this time, and then the
next day. I know when to check the lines right
first thing when I get up. And now it's like
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there's just so many things happening. I'm not complaining, just
being transparent. I will also add I recently. First of all,
I think I've mentioned the show Penguin on Max. I
know before you're like, oh no, I don't want that
Marvel superhero Batman type nonsense. It trusts me. It is
really good. Highly recommend checking out Penguin. It is extremely dark.
(01:57):
You get to episode I think it's and you're like, oh,
oh what and it is just but it's good. It's good.
Colin Farrell is the Penguin. You won't know him if
I didn't tell you. You won't know until you look
start reading about it. You're like, oh, that's Colin Farrell.
They did a great job. And I also checked out
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recently a movie called The Fall Guy. Now, I am
an eighties nerd. I love eighties TV show theme songs,
night Rider, the A Team. Some of you young guys
are probably like, what's wrong with this guy? I'm just
telling you The Fall Guy was an awesome show in
the eighties. I can sing the entire theme song. And
I just watched the movie with Ryan Gosling, and you know,
(02:38):
I texted my brother, Oh, you got to see Fall Guy.
It's good. He's like, yeah, it was all right, and
he usually likes a lot of movies. I know what
I'm getting when I go into movies, guys, I know
what I like, and that's why I'm seeing it. Like
I'm gonna be seeing Gladiator this weekend, and I've heard
it's good. It's not amazing. It's not as good as
the first one. Well, obviously the first one was historically great,
but I'm gonna I like Glaudiator. I already know that.
(03:01):
I know Black Panther too. I went and I liked
the action. I like Black Panther, and so we were like,
it wasn't as good as the first one. Yeah, Obviously,
the second one is never as good as any first one,
although Top Gun has an argument that's how good Top
Gun Maverick was. But the other movie I've got teed
up up and watch this weekend is Twister with the
guy from Maverick, Glenn Powell. I've got that cute up.
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I'm a cheap Oh I'm not gonna pay seven ninety
nine to rent a movie when I can just wait
another month and it comes out for free on one
of these million streaming platforms. So I'm excited. Obviously, Thanksgiving
a lot to be thankful for. This podcast, you guys
downloading it. Health is a big one. Family, friends, employment, like,
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there's just so many things to be thankful for, and
I do like to become like a creature of habit
on Thanksgiving. I'm the night before. I'm not going to
the bar guy anymore. That's just not me. I know
that was a thing when you're like in your twenties
or from college, you go to the bar, you see
all your friends who are back from college, or you
go back to your hometown and then you see all
your friends who were in the hometown. I'm far from home,
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so I will not be heading to hometown anytime soon.
And as a matter of fact, somebody just asked me
a guy from my high school, dude, when have you
been back? And I was like, pro decade, baby, And
the last time I was back it was like for
a high school reunion. And on the way back, we
nearly got killed. I think I've told that story before
where the car literally broke down on the highway and
(04:30):
we got towed on like a Sunday morning to the
closest place, because that's what TRIPLEA took us. And I
guess the people working this was in a rough area
in Maryland. The people working tipped off one of their
boys and they came and we're gonna try to rob us.
You know. It was a little sketchy, and you know,
I had the wife call the police, and I put
the car in reverse. Even though the car couldn't really move.
(04:53):
The stereio wouldn't turn. I could just go forward and backward,
and so I just had to like just put it
in reverse. And I guess the guys were stunn because
they thought we were totally broke down and they got
They literally were out of their car walking toward us,
and the whites on the phone with nine to one
one and I'm like just basically crapping my pants because
you know, I mean, it's just me and the wife
(05:14):
in a parking lot nobody around Sunday morning, and I'm
like damn, and I put it in reverse and the
guys are like, oh, the car can drive, and they
got back and left, and then the tow truck guy
shows up and I was like, dude, it took you
so long. Man. He's like, yeah, when you told me
the area you're in, I was like, I better hurry
up and get these guys. Anyways, that was the last
time I went home. So my new routine the night
before Thanksgiving is to watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with the fam.
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Yes I'm a sucker for that, and then I do
like a good Macy's Day parade. Not gonna lie get
under a blanket, make a cup of warm tea, maybe
some green juice something, Just lie down and watch a
Macy's Day parade, mute the commercials, hang with the fam.
To me, it's a great day. And then obviously the
football comes and we'll get into the football soon. I
just want to give a shout out to college basketball.
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How good? Where the games on Tuesday. I mean, Alabama
Houston goes overtime. That's a tremendous game. You had the
Yukon Huskies defending champce lost for the second day in
a row, a nailbier to Colorado. You had the Kansas
Duke game. I mean, this was good college basketball action.
I know you guys aren't keen on college hoops, but
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I'm just I love me some hoops. Anyways.
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What we will do here is we'll go through the
Thursday games on Thanksgiving. It's not the greatest slate ever,
but you already knew that. I'll start with Lions and Bears.
I'm on the Lions minus ten. It looks like that's
at ten and a half, folks. I think we talked
about it a little bit like this is a fragile
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Bears team. They are tied for third in turnover differential
in the league. Right, tied for third in turnover differential
and they're four and seven. Look at the other teams
in like the top five, all of them winning records,
impressive teams, and then you got the Bears who can't
get out of their own way. I mean, think about it.
If Will Levis hadn't handed that game to them in
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the opener, geez, where would this team? He? Probably Iberflus
would have been fired by now. But it's like this
is this is not a good Bears team. They do
fight the good fight on occasion, but you don't know
when that's gonna be. And as such, I'm on the
Lions minus ten. I know they've lost their last I
think they last won Thanksgiving game in like twenty sixteen
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might have been. Goff and Campbell combined are zero and
three on Thanksgiving, including a bad loss last year when
favored against Green Bay. It was one of those like
GoF had three fumbles, one of them was a scoop
and score. But this is this is just a juggernaut
right now. They look so good. They're not even playing
close games. The close games they had were against the
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Texans and the Vikings. Would those games have in common?
They were on the road and at home. They're a machine.
I don't know how you can back the Bears here.
Bear's coming off that grueling overtime game on Sunday and
now have to play on Thursday on the road against
the best team in the NFL. And yes that's a fact.
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They're the best team in the NFL. So just on principle,
I think you've got to go Lions. And then you
start to break it down and you're like, man, I
just don't see a world where the Bears slow these
guys down. The only potential hiccup is the Lions defense
gets a little leaky. However, I'm gonna predict that Aaron
(08:40):
Glenn is gonna dial up major pressure for Caleb Williams
and the Lions at home. It'll be noisy. I don't
see a good game happening for Kaleb Williams. Remember that
offensive line keeps breaking down. Caleb's bailing them out. But
I'm just gonna remind you, guys, Sam Darnald rang up
four hundred and fifty yards of offense seven yards of
play last week. Sam Darnald, Lion's gonna do at home.
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So I'm on the Lions minus ten, ten and a half. Fine,
I'm sure it'll hit eleven on game day because nobody's
betting the Bears favorites. I got this insane number for you.
There's all these silly trends, and I'll talk about trends
in a secon but double digit favorites on Thanksgiving are
eleven and zero against the spread since in nineteen ninety.
What does that mean? Trends are not predictive, as we
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know we talk about all the time. What it means
is they're really good teams. The house knows the public
is going to back them, so you're paying attacks. But
the really bad team on a short week and a
holiday week, no less, they don't show up. Do the
Bears show up here? I'll go ahead and guest no,
and I'll say Lions thirty three fourteen. The second game
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is just a real true dumpster fire. I don't know
how much of this I'll watch. This is probably the
portion of the day where you are throwing the football
outside with your kids. I guess it depends on where
you are cold weather or warm weather. But you know
there's no need to get in front of the TV
for de Vito versus Cooper Rush or potentially Drew Lock
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because Divito has this alleged sore arm. I don't know
what that means, but if David doesn't go Drew Lock,
and I actually think Drew Lock probably gives them a
better chance. I don't think DeVito is a quarterback in
this league, so I mean, I kind of sort of
like Dallas to win. But I mean, can you lay
after tax dollars with Cooper friggin rush favor by four
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and a half? I can't do it. So I actually
don't have a cent on this game. If I were
doing it, I would probably just take the under because
it's going to be a gross, disgusting game. And that
leaves the final game of the day, Packers and Dolphins.
And much has been said obviously about Miami's cold weather issues.
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I thought it was zero to six, but according to
the Fox stats guys, And that's where I get all
these trends and stuff. Fox just sends all this stuff
to because I write about gambling for Fox Sports. If
you look at cold weather Miami with two quarterback, they
are oh and four against this oh and four straight up,
one and three against the spread, and they you know,
you got a warm weather team going to cold weather.
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That stuff's all baked into the line. We know that.
What we don't know is just how cold it's gonna
be below forty is one thing. Are we gonna get
single digit wind chill temperatures? It looks like and again
you're gonna you're gonna have to check the weather on
Thanksgiving Day. But it looks like there is snow expected
and wind chill wind chill temps are gonna be in
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the teens, perhaps single digits. So it's not gonna be
as cold as that Chiefs Dogs game, but it's gonna
be freezing. Now. I don't know what's up with jay
r Alexander. He only played a few plays and then departed.
Last game. The Packers didn't look amazing against the Niners,
still got the easy win. It seems like they're trusting
Jordan love less and less because he's been so spotty,
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and I kind of wonder if they just make this
a Josh Jacobs game where they like, let's just ground
and pound again. Miami defense has been better, but it's
still nothing great. Now. I take nothing away from that
win over the Patriots. The Patriots are total trash. But
even before that, it's like, okay, who if we faced
we faced the Rams on the road and that was
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the one surprise, right, But before that you lose to
the Bills, and a close one you lose to the Dolphins.
In a close one you lose to the Colts. I
don't think, Yeah, they didn't have too for that game.
I think two. It came back for the Cards game.
But okay, so they beat the Raiders in the Patriots
thirty four nineteen thirty four to fifteen. Does that tell
me anything about them? No? So now you've got to
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go on Those were two at home games. By the way,
Now you've got to go on the road to face
a good green Bay team. And somebody tried to sell
me on green Bay being the third best team in
the NFC. Niners are out. I don't think it's Tampa.
I definitely don't think it's Atlanta. I don't know that.
I trust the Vikings. And then Washington slipped, So maybe
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is the Packers? And are they undervalued here at three
three and a half against a Miami team traveling north?
And oh, by the way, the Dolphins' schedule coming up
is rough because after this they have a huge divisional
showdown with my Jets, then they have a huge AFC
game against the Texans, then they have the Niners. I
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would expect brock perties back by then, but we don't
know for sure. And then they close out with two
more cold weather games at Cleveland December twenty ninth at
the Jets week eighteen. So this is the first of
three cold weather games from Thanksgiving onward. Not ideal for Miami.
They're probably going to get one of them. I don't
think it's going to be the Green Bay game. And
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I do believe that the narrative is real because we've
seen teams go to the Miami Heat and wilt. Why
is it a shot that the Dolphins then would go
north to cold weather and crumble like that should not
surprise anybody. So I'm going Lions, Packers, and then you know,
I guess I would go the under if you made
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me bet the Cowboys Giant Sad Sack game. Now, the
problem with the contest is if you want the Thanksgiving games,
you got to lock in all your picks. So I've
got to have three other picks. If I want Packers
and Lions, I have bet the following games. I'm on
the Bengals at minus two and a half. I do
think this is a Cincinnati team, obviously, that has as
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much talent as any four win team in the league.
They lose in fall to four and eight and it's over.
So I'm on them here. I think at home they
get the job done. I know, Mike Tomlin underdog, blah
blah blah. The Bengals are weird because I think they're
gonna show up. They've shown really well in divisional matchups.
They fight their butts off. That game against the Eagles,
they got their doors blown off, but it's like that's
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a non divisional game, and it almost feels like the
Bengals don't because they went to a super Bowl. They
don't operate at their best unless their backs are fully
against the wall. That Chargers game at halftime, Debt getting mauled,
come back, fight like hell and the and of course
McPherson stinks it up. So I like the Bengals here
to win and cover. Would not shock me if they
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won this kind of sort of handily. And I know
that's silly to say, because Pittsburgh is one of the
biggest surprise teams in the league. Pittsburgh's losses this season
are by six, one, five. Oh, I'm sorry, those are
the Bengals losses. Pittsburgh's losses this season are by three,
three and five, and wouldn't you know it, two of
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them are in the AFC. They played a tough game
against the Ravens, and this begins an begins continues a
really tough stretch for Cincinnati. They've got the rematch with
the Browns at home in week fourteen, then they've got
the big Pennsylvania matchup against the Eagles, and then it's Ravens,
Chiefs Bengals. I'm just telling you right now, if the
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Steelers lose this game, we can start the uh oh,
are they gonna miss the playoffs? Then they'll bounce back
and beat the Browns for the ninth win, and then
they probably will lose out and miss the playoffs. That
would be my guess if you made me guess today,
I'm on the Rams minus three. How were they only
minus three at the Saints? Is everybody just selling Rams
stock because of that loss? Because that bad loss to
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the Eagles? Hey, guys, news flash, the Eagles are really
freaking good. Just because the Eagles smash somebody, don't discount
that team. I mean, this is a Philly team that
dismembered the Bengals by twenty took apart the Cowboy the
Cowboys stink and took apart the Rams by seventeen. Like
this is a good Eagles team starting to peak. And
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I don't know. I don't take anything away from that
Rams game because it's the Saints can't do any of
the things the Eagles did. I e get pressure, run
the football, like none of that stuff scares me. What
Alvin Kamara really I don't see it. So I'm on
the Rams minus three. I'm on the Bills minus seven.
It's a big price, I know. Against the Niners, I'm
going under the assumption that brock Purty does not play.
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That's just a guest on my part. Party does not play.
Totally speculative. Even if he does, I'll need to know
what's going on with Trent Williams, with Alis McCaffrey, what's
up with Ward. There's just so many guys on that team,
banged up, Deebo, Samuel, George Kittle. So I don't know.
I just took the Bills. I think they pretty much
do kind of what the Packers did, which is just
grind san Franz poor tackling defense into dust. I'm on
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Seattle minus one against the Jets. That numbers going up
to two and a half. I don't hate it two
and a half. I saw Aaron Rodgers did his weekly
pay Me a Lot of Money situation with Pat McAfee,
where he went on and basically said, yeah, if I
do play, the Jets are my number one option. It's like, Bro,
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just can you just you're becoming Jerry Jones, just incessant
talking and giving interviews. Nobody cares, Bro, Just go away,
leave it's over. I'm just He's just he's the one
who wants to get all the toxic negativity out of
the locker. Remember that, and now here he is driving
it all the time. And if it sounds like I
like a lot of favorites, boy, here's three more Texans.
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It's five and a half. We'll see if Trevor Lawrence plays,
obviously this number will go down. You know, Texans are
a weird team. I can't get a handle on them.
The offensive line is putrid. It's a divisional matchup, so
it's probably gonna be close. So why did I take
the Texans? It opened at six and a half, it's
down to five. Well, I smell quit in the Jacks.
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I'm shocked that Peterson was not fired and I wonder,
and this is like super negative, but is it possible
that Peterson wasn't fired because ownership thinks keeping Peterson is
the team's best chance at losing. Does that sound like
it's possible. I know that's extremely negative. But if you
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want the number one pick and you want an either
draft Shadoor or I would say trade the pick. You
got to get the number one pick and Peterson And
these awful game plans. I mean, the Jacks don't know
what they're doing, and it feels like the Texans are
frustrated and they're probably getting can close to opening a can.
I would expect a huge game here from mixing on
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a bounce back. I like the Texans here big. Just again,
let's remember it's a week to week league. Nobody is
as good or as bad as they were last week.
The Texans were rotten last week. Are they that bad?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Are they good? Not really? But they're not as bad
as they showed in last week's loss, which to me,
you know the zigzag theory, which a lot of people
tend to use. They've lost three or four and the
one win was over the Cowboys. They have not looked good. Now,
this is a lot of high profile. They had three
high profile games in a row, and that was my
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logic with taking the Titans. Now it's like, okay, time
to bounce back. This is right before their buy they
go into the by strong. It's really nice to have
that Week fourteen by also NFL, what is up with that?
Six teams on a buy next week? A lot of
the fantasy football leagues I'm in, they have the playoffs
start now next week. So if you rode Lamar and Derrick,
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Henry and I think Jayden Daniel says a bye too.
If you rode a lot of good teams or players
to the playoffs and they're gonna be out, that's just awful.
I mean, it's really stinks. I'll get you the exact
same team. So here are the Week fourteen buys. The
Broncos A lot of people. Some people have bon Nicks,
the Colts, Anthony Richardson, I have Jonathan Taylor, Patriots have
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really nobody commanders, Jayden Daniels, Scary Terry Baltimore, ravens Lamar,
Derreck Henry, Ze Flowers, Houston Texans, c J. Stroud, Joe Mixon,
Nico Collins like those are a lot of good fantasy
football players, and none of them are in because of
the Week sixteen. By the last one, I'm on again,
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you're not gonna like this. It's a big favorite. And yes,
I just told you that seven teams I like and
they're all favorites, and that's Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, I've
seen the numbers. Patrick Mahomes has not covered a spread
as a double digit favorite in since like the ice age,
I believe it is, and I don't really care. I don't.
That's not predictive. That's just in the past they haven't.
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That doesn't mean in the future they won't. Now a
sample size of what like seven eight games for Patrick
Maholmes ten games, that's like nothing. That's like benching Anthony
Richardson after poor ten games, Like what are we doing here?
How'd that work out? So I'm just some of these
sample sized trends, even the double digit spread thing on Thanksgiving,
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you know, favorites eleven or oh since nineteen ninety, Well,
there haven't been a lot of them, and the ones
that have have covered, I don't put a ton of
stock in that. That being said, yes, there is something
to the Chiefs taking their foot off the gas, maybe
saving the good plays for a game that matters more.
Let me see who the Chiefs have in week fourteen.
Oh and they have the Chargers. So there is the
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thought that why would Kansas City go run up the
score on the Raiders when they got the Chargers next week?
Why would they reveal any good plays? You know, any trickeration.
They're not going to give anything. I mean, there's a
terrible rate team. Aidan O'Connell is getting the start. But
where I think Kansas City has the edge is the defense.
Remember how the defense is leaking oil. I've been saying
that for a couple weeks. It was a big storyline
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in the last couple of days. Kansas City's defense is
letting them down. Where's Chris Jones? Nobody's doing anything. Spagnolo
is a master of this. He is gonna I would
suspect to put o'condle in a body bag and the
Chiefs just run away from the Raiders and hide. That
being said, I did think there was a world where
won't Spagnolo do that to Bryce Young? And that's when
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the Chief's lack of defense showed up. I think a
lot of people were on the Chiefs last week. I
don't think anyone will be on them. I like them
this week to cover thirteen and a half two total.
Now it's down to twelve, which I hate. Closing line value.
Shove it up, my uh okay, totals under forty five
Arizona Minnesota that'll be low scoring for sure, and under
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forty four and a half Tennessee Washington, which will be
a defensive slugfest. By the way, Washington just walking wounded.
Doesn't sound like either of their to running backs or
a goof It's Jeremy McNichols time.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yes, I did pick him up or tried to pick
him up in fantasy. Haven't even checked the waiver wire
yet to see if I got him.
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So those are my plays for the NFL. Let me
hit you at the college plays real quick. College only
six so far. Again, when you're doing this on Wednesday morning,
I don't have a ton of bets. You know. You
hit me Friday, I'm gonna add some. So I'll add
him to the ig stories. I'm on Wisconsin minus one
and a half, Iowa minus five, SMU minus three and
a half, LSU minus six, Texas minus six against A
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and M and U el Monroe plus eight and a half. Oh,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's not SMU Jmu JMU minus
three and a half. I can't even read my damn handwriting.
I don't have anything on Ohio State Michigan. I think
this total sales over if you're looking at the big favorites,
assuming there's no letdown, it does feel to me like
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a team like Ohio State is gonna need to prove
a point. Okay, it feels to me like Indiana they're
looking for revenge against Michigan. Ryan Day. You know, he
badly needs this game to be he can't lose this game, obviously,
but it does feel like they're probably not going to
take their foot off the gas. And I would guess
Indiana needing style points at I mean, I didn't list
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these two, but Indiana's what minus twenty eight and a
half like Purdue is terrible. But I just see it
as if you're Indiana, you've got to win and impress
the committee. Hey, I know we didn't show well against
Ohio State, but here's a fifty five to ten win
over Purdue. Stick that in your pipe and tell me
what you think. Like. Indiana needs to really perform well
here and put on a hey, we are worthy performance
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if you guys care. The college football playoff rankings came
out again last night, and I can't get too worked
up about anything.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Three, we lost SEC team in there, which is nice.
Wait where does Tennessee have three? Damn Indiana, they still
have clinging smu in there. Arizona State forks up, baby,
Arizona State. Ohio State point two big big party schools
on the scene there. Clemson was the last team out.
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Clemson is not that impressive, man, They would get smoked. Honestly,
they are not a good football team. I do want
to quickly just check Tennessee. No, they are only a
two loss team the balls and Tennessee this week has
Vandy not a walkover, and it's on the road. Vandy
did take down Alabama at home, so this is a
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big one for Tennessee. This is their last chance to
impress the committee and not get leapfrogged. If you are
a Clemson fan rooting for chaos. You definitely are rooting
Vanderbilt if you are. If you don't like Indiana or
don't think they're worthy, hope that they struggle mightily and
win by a field goal. And then it's like, see,
I told you those guys aren't good. Alabama, by the way,
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is the second team out, and you know they're going
to try to do something awesome in the Iron Bowl
against Auburn. I have a feeling Alabama gets back in
the discussion but gets left out, and there's outrage. How
is Arizona State in? How's byu Boise State? They don't deserve,
they don't belong. Well, Alabama lost three games. I'm sorry
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you lose three games. I don't think you can make it.
And then comes, well, wait a minute, going forward, a
we don't want to schedule anybody like It just doesn't
make sense. Why would you schedule tough teams when you're
in the SEC Big Ten. You've got a lot of
tough games anyway, so scheduling tough opponents is silly. You're
only hurting yourself. And second, you do not want your
tough games at the end of the schedule. You want
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as many layups as possible. Roast Beef Tech. You want
Directional Michigan University that kind of deal. You want the
fifty five nothing beatdowns so your players can rest in
the second half and you don't have to worry about
a loss. But college football should be awesome this weekend.
NFL obviously will be very good. Keep an eye on hoops,
folks for getting close. Enjoy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Hopefully
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you're thankful for a lot of stuff, and we're back
on Monday. Talk to you then,
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
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What is up straight Fire? Bam, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Fire for Wednesday, November twenty seventh. This is your
Thanksgiving edition podcast. I was going to try to ask
Rob g who, by the way, is back. He will
tell you where he's been next week. I was going
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to try to get the number of what episode this is, folks.
I think we're like three years into the pod, five
days a week. I mean, is this like, are we
closing on a like episode like thirteen hundred twelve hundred.
I mean, the number's got to be massive. But it
has been a lot of fun and Thanksgiving week, you know, Listen,
we're late in the football season. Your boy's a little
worn down. I'm getting so old. I go to a
(00:51):
Chargers game, I'm home at a reasonable hour, and in
all honesty, I'm like, I gotta take a nap the
next day. Practically, I'm just absolutely gassed, barely been working out.
I mean it's listen, Thanksgiving week is tough. Historically, if
you followed the radio show on I used to have
on Saturdays or this podcast, Thanksgiving Week has not been
good to me because there's so many moving parts, family friends,
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getting ready for the holidays, and I don't even do
a ton. I'm just like along for the ride. You know,
you got to support the wife, you gotta hang with
the kids who are now off school, and there's just
a lot of stuff. You're out of your normal routine.
I'm a creature of habit. I like to do my
reading up on NFL at this time, and then the
next day. I know when to check the lines right
first thing when I get up. And now it's like
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there's just so many things happening. I'm not complaining, just
being transparent. I will also add I recently. First of all,
I think I've mentioned the show Penguin on Max. I
know before you're like, oh no, I don't want that
Marvel superhero Batman type nonsense. It trusts me. It is
really good. Highly recommend checking out Penguin. It is extremely dark.
(01:57):
You get to episode I think it's and you're like, oh,
oh what and it is just but it's good. It's good.
Colin Farrell is the Penguin. You won't know him if
I didn't tell you. You won't know until you look
start reading about it. You're like, oh, that's Colin Farrell.
They did a great job. And I also checked out
(02:18):
recently a movie called The Fall Guy. Now, I am
an eighties nerd. I love eighties TV show theme songs,
night Rider, the A Team. Some of you young guys
are probably like, what's wrong with this guy? I'm just
telling you The Fall Guy was an awesome show in
the eighties. I can sing the entire theme song. And
I just watched the movie with Ryan Gosling, and you know,
(02:38):
I texted my brother, Oh, you got to see Fall Guy.
It's good. He's like, yeah, it was all right, and
he usually likes a lot of movies. I know what
I'm getting when I go into movies, guys, I know
what I like, and that's why I'm seeing it. Like
I'm gonna be seeing Gladiator this weekend, and I've heard
it's good. It's not amazing. It's not as good as
the first one. Well, obviously the first one was historically great,
but I'm gonna I like Glaudiator. I already know that.
(03:01):
I know Black Panther too. I went and I liked
the action. I like Black Panther, and so we were like,
it wasn't as good as the first one. Yeah, Obviously,
the second one is never as good as any first one,
although Top Gun has an argument that's how good Top
Gun Maverick was. But the other movie I've got teed
up up and watch this weekend is Twister with the
guy from Maverick, Glenn Powell. I've got that cute up.
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I'm a cheap Oh I'm not gonna pay seven ninety
nine to rent a movie when I can just wait
another month and it comes out for free on one
of these million streaming platforms. So I'm excited. Obviously, Thanksgiving
a lot to be thankful for. This podcast, you guys
downloading it. Health is a big one. Family, friends, employment, like,
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there's just so many things to be thankful for, and
I do like to become like a creature of habit
on Thanksgiving. I'm the night before. I'm not going to
the bar guy anymore. That's just not me. I know
that was a thing when you're like in your twenties
or from college, you go to the bar, you see
all your friends who are back from college, or you
go back to your hometown and then you see all
your friends who were in the hometown. I'm far from home,
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so I will not be heading to hometown anytime soon.
And as a matter of fact, somebody just asked me
a guy from my high school, dude, when have you
been back? And I was like, pro decade, baby, And
the last time I was back it was like for
a high school reunion. And on the way back, we
nearly got killed. I think I've told that story before
where the car literally broke down on the highway and
(04:30):
we got towed on like a Sunday morning to the
closest place, because that's what TRIPLEA took us. And I
guess the people working this was in a rough area
in Maryland. The people working tipped off one of their
boys and they came and we're gonna try to rob us.
You know. It was a little sketchy, and you know,
I had the wife call the police, and I put
the car in reverse. Even though the car couldn't really move.
(04:53):
The stereio wouldn't turn. I could just go forward and backward,
and so I just had to like just put it
in reverse. And I guess the guys were stunn because
they thought we were totally broke down and they got
They literally were out of their car walking toward us,
and the whites on the phone with nine to one
one and I'm like just basically crapping my pants because
you know, I mean, it's just me and the wife
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in a parking lot nobody around Sunday morning, and I'm
like damn, and I put it in reverse and the
guys are like, oh, the car can drive, and they
got back and left, and then the tow truck guy
shows up and I was like, dude, it took you
so long. Man. He's like, yeah, when you told me
the area you're in, I was like, I better hurry
up and get these guys. Anyways, that was the last
time I went home. So my new routine the night
before Thanksgiving is to watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with the fam.
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Yes I'm a sucker for that, and then I do
like a good Macy's Day parade. Not gonna lie get
under a blanket, make a cup of warm tea, maybe
some green juice something, Just lie down and watch a
Macy's Day parade, mute the commercials, hang with the fam.
To me, it's a great day. And then obviously the
football comes and we'll get into the football soon. I
just want to give a shout out to college basketball.
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How good? Where the games on Tuesday. I mean, Alabama
Houston goes overtime. That's a tremendous game. You had the
Yukon Huskies defending champce lost for the second day in
a row, a nailbier to Colorado. You had the Kansas
Duke game. I mean, this was good college basketball action.
I know you guys aren't keen on college hoops, but
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I'm just I love me some hoops. Anyways.
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What we will do here is we'll go through the
Thursday games on Thanksgiving. It's not the greatest slate ever,
but you already knew that. I'll start with Lions and Bears.
I'm on the Lions minus ten. It looks like that's
at ten and a half, folks. I think we talked
about it a little bit like this is a fragile
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Bears team. They are tied for third in turnover differential
in the league. Right, tied for third in turnover differential
and they're four and seven. Look at the other teams
in like the top five, all of them winning records,
impressive teams, and then you got the Bears who can't
get out of their own way. I mean, think about it.
If Will Levis hadn't handed that game to them in
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the opener, geez, where would this team? He? Probably Iberflus
would have been fired by now. But it's like this
is this is not a good Bears team. They do
fight the good fight on occasion, but you don't know
when that's gonna be. And as such, I'm on the
Lions minus ten. I know they've lost their last I
think they last won Thanksgiving game in like twenty sixteen
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might have been. Goff and Campbell combined are zero and
three on Thanksgiving, including a bad loss last year when
favored against Green Bay. It was one of those like
GoF had three fumbles, one of them was a scoop
and score. But this is this is just a juggernaut
right now. They look so good. They're not even playing
close games. The close games they had were against the
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Texans and the Vikings. Would those games have in common?
They were on the road and at home. They're a machine.
I don't know how you can back the Bears here.
Bear's coming off that grueling overtime game on Sunday and
now have to play on Thursday on the road against
the best team in the NFL. And yes that's a fact.
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They're the best team in the NFL. So just on principle,
I think you've got to go Lions. And then you
start to break it down and you're like, man, I
just don't see a world where the Bears slow these
guys down. The only potential hiccup is the Lions defense
gets a little leaky. However, I'm gonna predict that Aaron
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Glenn is gonna dial up major pressure for Caleb Williams
and the Lions at home. It'll be noisy. I don't
see a good game happening for Kaleb Williams. Remember that
offensive line keeps breaking down. Caleb's bailing them out. But
I'm just gonna remind you, guys, Sam Darnald rang up
four hundred and fifty yards of offense seven yards of
play last week. Sam Darnald, Lion's gonna do at home.
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So I'm on the Lions minus ten, ten and a half. Fine,
I'm sure it'll hit eleven on game day because nobody's
betting the Bears favorites. I got this insane number for you.
There's all these silly trends, and I'll talk about trends
in a secon but double digit favorites on Thanksgiving are
eleven and zero against the spread since in nineteen ninety.
What does that mean? Trends are not predictive, as we
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know we talk about all the time. What it means
is they're really good teams. The house knows the public
is going to back them, so you're paying attacks. But
the really bad team on a short week and a
holiday week, no less, they don't show up. Do the
Bears show up here? I'll go ahead and guest no,
and I'll say Lions thirty three fourteen. The second game
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is just a real true dumpster fire. I don't know
how much of this I'll watch. This is probably the
portion of the day where you are throwing the football
outside with your kids. I guess it depends on where
you are cold weather or warm weather. But you know
there's no need to get in front of the TV
for de Vito versus Cooper Rush or potentially Drew Lock
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because Divito has this alleged sore arm. I don't know
what that means, but if David doesn't go Drew Lock,
and I actually think Drew Lock probably gives them a
better chance. I don't think DeVito is a quarterback in
this league, so I mean, I kind of sort of
like Dallas to win. But I mean, can you lay
after tax dollars with Cooper friggin rush favor by four
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and a half? I can't do it. So I actually
don't have a cent on this game. If I were
doing it, I would probably just take the under because
it's going to be a gross, disgusting game. And that
leaves the final game of the day, Packers and Dolphins.
And much has been said obviously about Miami's cold weather issues.
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I thought it was zero to six, but according to
the Fox stats guys, And that's where I get all
these trends and stuff. Fox just sends all this stuff
to because I write about gambling for Fox Sports. If
you look at cold weather Miami with two quarterback, they
are oh and four against this oh and four straight up,
one and three against the spread, and they you know,
you got a warm weather team going to cold weather.
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That stuff's all baked into the line. We know that.
What we don't know is just how cold it's gonna
be below forty is one thing. Are we gonna get
single digit wind chill temperatures? It looks like and again
you're gonna you're gonna have to check the weather on
Thanksgiving Day. But it looks like there is snow expected
and wind chill wind chill temps are gonna be in
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the teens, perhaps single digits. So it's not gonna be
as cold as that Chiefs Dogs game, but it's gonna
be freezing. Now. I don't know what's up with jay
r Alexander. He only played a few plays and then departed.
Last game. The Packers didn't look amazing against the Niners,
still got the easy win. It seems like they're trusting
Jordan love less and less because he's been so spotty,
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and I kind of wonder if they just make this
a Josh Jacobs game where they like, let's just ground
and pound again. Miami defense has been better, but it's
still nothing great. Now. I take nothing away from that
win over the Patriots. The Patriots are total trash. But
even before that, it's like, okay, who if we faced
we faced the Rams on the road and that was
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the one surprise, right, But before that you lose to
the Bills, and a close one you lose to the Dolphins.
In a close one you lose to the Colts. I
don't think, Yeah, they didn't have too for that game.
I think two. It came back for the Cards game.
But okay, so they beat the Raiders in the Patriots
thirty four nineteen thirty four to fifteen. Does that tell
me anything about them? No? So now you've got to
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go on Those were two at home games. By the way,
Now you've got to go on the road to face
a good green Bay team. And somebody tried to sell
me on green Bay being the third best team in
the NFC. Niners are out. I don't think it's Tampa.
I definitely don't think it's Atlanta. I don't know that.
I trust the Vikings. And then Washington slipped, So maybe
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is the Packers? And are they undervalued here at three
three and a half against a Miami team traveling north?
And oh, by the way, the Dolphins' schedule coming up
is rough because after this they have a huge divisional
showdown with my Jets, then they have a huge AFC
game against the Texans, then they have the Niners. I
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would expect brock perties back by then, but we don't
know for sure. And then they close out with two
more cold weather games at Cleveland December twenty ninth at
the Jets week eighteen. So this is the first of
three cold weather games from Thanksgiving onward. Not ideal for Miami.
They're probably going to get one of them. I don't
think it's going to be the Green Bay game. And
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I do believe that the narrative is real because we've
seen teams go to the Miami Heat and wilt. Why
is it a shot that the Dolphins then would go
north to cold weather and crumble like that should not
surprise anybody. So I'm going Lions, Packers, and then you know,
I guess I would go the under if you made
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me bet the Cowboys Giant Sad Sack game. Now, the
problem with the contest is if you want the Thanksgiving games,
you got to lock in all your picks. So I've
got to have three other picks. If I want Packers
and Lions, I have bet the following games. I'm on
the Bengals at minus two and a half. I do
think this is a Cincinnati team, obviously, that has as
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much talent as any four win team in the league.
They lose in fall to four and eight and it's over.
So I'm on them here. I think at home they
get the job done. I know, Mike Tomlin underdog, blah
blah blah. The Bengals are weird because I think they're
gonna show up. They've shown really well in divisional matchups.
They fight their butts off. That game against the Eagles,
they got their doors blown off, but it's like that's
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a non divisional game, and it almost feels like the
Bengals don't because they went to a super Bowl. They
don't operate at their best unless their backs are fully
against the wall. That Chargers game at halftime, Debt getting mauled,
come back, fight like hell and the and of course
McPherson stinks it up. So I like the Bengals here
to win and cover. Would not shock me if they
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won this kind of sort of handily. And I know
that's silly to say, because Pittsburgh is one of the
biggest surprise teams in the league. Pittsburgh's losses this season
are by six, one, five. Oh, I'm sorry, those are
the Bengals losses. Pittsburgh's losses this season are by three,
three and five, and wouldn't you know it, two of
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them are in the AFC. They played a tough game
against the Ravens, and this begins an begins continues a
really tough stretch for Cincinnati. They've got the rematch with
the Browns at home in week fourteen, then they've got
the big Pennsylvania matchup against the Eagles, and then it's Ravens,
Chiefs Bengals. I'm just telling you right now, if the
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Steelers lose this game, we can start the uh oh,
are they gonna miss the playoffs? Then they'll bounce back
and beat the Browns for the ninth win, and then
they probably will lose out and miss the playoffs. That
would be my guess if you made me guess today,
I'm on the Rams minus three. How were they only
minus three at the Saints? Is everybody just selling Rams
stock because of that loss? Because that bad loss to
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the Eagles? Hey, guys, news flash, the Eagles are really
freaking good. Just because the Eagles smash somebody, don't discount
that team. I mean, this is a Philly team that
dismembered the Bengals by twenty took apart the Cowboy the
Cowboys stink and took apart the Rams by seventeen. Like
this is a good Eagles team starting to peak. And
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I don't know. I don't take anything away from that
Rams game because it's the Saints can't do any of
the things the Eagles did. I e get pressure, run
the football, like none of that stuff scares me. What
Alvin Kamara really I don't see it. So I'm on
the Rams minus three. I'm on the Bills minus seven.
It's a big price, I know. Against the Niners, I'm
going under the assumption that brock Purty does not play.
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That's just a guest on my part. Party does not play.
Totally speculative. Even if he does, I'll need to know
what's going on with Trent Williams, with Alis McCaffrey, what's
up with Ward. There's just so many guys on that team,
banged up, Deebo, Samuel, George Kittle. So I don't know.
I just took the Bills. I think they pretty much
do kind of what the Packers did, which is just
grind san Franz poor tackling defense into dust. I'm on
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Seattle minus one against the Jets. That numbers going up
to two and a half. I don't hate it two
and a half. I saw Aaron Rodgers did his weekly
pay Me a Lot of Money situation with Pat McAfee,
where he went on and basically said, yeah, if I
do play, the Jets are my number one option. It's like, Bro,
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just can you just you're becoming Jerry Jones, just incessant
talking and giving interviews. Nobody cares, Bro, Just go away,
leave it's over. I'm just He's just he's the one
who wants to get all the toxic negativity out of
the locker. Remember that, and now here he is driving
it all the time. And if it sounds like I
like a lot of favorites, boy, here's three more Texans.
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It's five and a half. We'll see if Trevor Lawrence plays,
obviously this number will go down. You know, Texans are
a weird team. I can't get a handle on them.
The offensive line is putrid. It's a divisional matchup, so
it's probably gonna be close. So why did I take
the Texans? It opened at six and a half, it's
down to five. Well, I smell quit in the Jacks.
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I'm shocked that Peterson was not fired and I wonder,
and this is like super negative, but is it possible
that Peterson wasn't fired because ownership thinks keeping Peterson is
the team's best chance at losing. Does that sound like
it's possible. I know that's extremely negative. But if you
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want the number one pick and you want an either
draft Shadoor or I would say trade the pick. You
got to get the number one pick and Peterson And
these awful game plans. I mean, the Jacks don't know
what they're doing, and it feels like the Texans are
frustrated and they're probably getting can close to opening a can.
I would expect a huge game here from mixing on
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a bounce back. I like the Texans here big. Just again,
let's remember it's a week to week league. Nobody is
as good or as bad as they were last week.
The Texans were rotten last week. Are they that bad?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Are they good? Not really? But they're not as bad
as they showed in last week's loss, which to me,
you know the zigzag theory, which a lot of people
tend to use. They've lost three or four and the
one win was over the Cowboys. They have not looked good. Now,
this is a lot of high profile. They had three
high profile games in a row, and that was my
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logic with taking the Titans. Now it's like, okay, time
to bounce back. This is right before their buy they
go into the by strong. It's really nice to have
that Week fourteen by also NFL, what is up with that?
Six teams on a buy next week? A lot of
the fantasy football leagues I'm in, they have the playoffs
start now next week. So if you rode Lamar and Derrick,
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Henry and I think Jayden Daniel says a bye too.
If you rode a lot of good teams or players
to the playoffs and they're gonna be out, that's just awful.
I mean, it's really stinks. I'll get you the exact
same team. So here are the Week fourteen buys. The
Broncos A lot of people. Some people have bon Nicks,
the Colts, Anthony Richardson, I have Jonathan Taylor, Patriots have
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really nobody commanders, Jayden Daniels, Scary Terry Baltimore, ravens Lamar,
Derreck Henry, Ze Flowers, Houston Texans, c J. Stroud, Joe Mixon,
Nico Collins like those are a lot of good fantasy
football players, and none of them are in because of
the Week sixteen. By the last one, I'm on again,
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you're not gonna like this. It's a big favorite. And yes,
I just told you that seven teams I like and
they're all favorites, and that's Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, I've
seen the numbers. Patrick Mahomes has not covered a spread
as a double digit favorite in since like the ice age,
I believe it is, and I don't really care. I don't.
That's not predictive. That's just in the past they haven't.
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That doesn't mean in the future they won't. Now a
sample size of what like seven eight games for Patrick
Maholmes ten games, that's like nothing. That's like benching Anthony
Richardson after poor ten games, Like what are we doing here?
How'd that work out? So I'm just some of these
sample sized trends, even the double digit spread thing on Thanksgiving,
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you know, favorites eleven or oh since nineteen ninety, Well,
there haven't been a lot of them, and the ones
that have have covered, I don't put a ton of
stock in that. That being said, yes, there is something
to the Chiefs taking their foot off the gas, maybe
saving the good plays for a game that matters more.
Let me see who the Chiefs have in week fourteen.
Oh and they have the Chargers. So there is the
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thought that why would Kansas City go run up the
score on the Raiders when they got the Chargers next week?
Why would they reveal any good plays? You know, any trickeration.
They're not going to give anything. I mean, there's a
terrible rate team. Aidan O'Connell is getting the start. But
where I think Kansas City has the edge is the defense.
Remember how the defense is leaking oil. I've been saying
that for a couple weeks. It was a big storyline
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in the last couple of days. Kansas City's defense is
letting them down. Where's Chris Jones? Nobody's doing anything. Spagnolo
is a master of this. He is gonna I would
suspect to put o'condle in a body bag and the
Chiefs just run away from the Raiders and hide. That
being said, I did think there was a world where
won't Spagnolo do that to Bryce Young? And that's when
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the Chief's lack of defense showed up. I think a
lot of people were on the Chiefs last week. I
don't think anyone will be on them. I like them
this week to cover thirteen and a half two total.
Now it's down to twelve, which I hate. Closing line value.
Shove it up, my uh okay, totals under forty five
Arizona Minnesota that'll be low scoring for sure, and under
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forty four and a half Tennessee Washington, which will be
a defensive slugfest. By the way, Washington just walking wounded.
Doesn't sound like either of their to running backs or
a goof It's Jeremy McNichols time.
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Baby.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yes, I did pick him up or tried to pick
him up in fantasy. Haven't even checked the waiver wire
yet to see if I got him.
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So those are my plays for the NFL. Let me
hit you at the college plays real quick. College only
six so far. Again, when you're doing this on Wednesday morning,
I don't have a ton of bets. You know. You
hit me Friday, I'm gonna add some. So I'll add
him to the ig stories. I'm on Wisconsin minus one
and a half, Iowa minus five, SMU minus three and
a half, LSU minus six, Texas minus six against A
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and M and U el Monroe plus eight and a half. Oh,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's not SMU Jmu JMU minus
three and a half. I can't even read my damn handwriting.
I don't have anything on Ohio State Michigan. I think
this total sales over if you're looking at the big favorites,
assuming there's no letdown, it does feel to me like
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a team like Ohio State is gonna need to prove
a point. Okay, it feels to me like Indiana they're
looking for revenge against Michigan. Ryan Day. You know, he
badly needs this game to be he can't lose this game, obviously,
but it does feel like they're probably not going to
take their foot off the gas. And I would guess
Indiana needing style points at I mean, I didn't list
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these two, but Indiana's what minus twenty eight and a
half like Purdue is terrible. But I just see it
as if you're Indiana, you've got to win and impress
the committee. Hey, I know we didn't show well against
Ohio State, but here's a fifty five to ten win
over Purdue. Stick that in your pipe and tell me
what you think. Like. Indiana needs to really perform well
here and put on a hey, we are worthy performance
(24:50):
if you guys care. The college football playoff rankings came
out again last night, and I can't get too worked
up about anything.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Three, we lost SEC team in there, which is nice.
Wait where does Tennessee have three? Damn Indiana, they still
have clinging smu in there. Arizona State forks up, baby,
Arizona State. Ohio State point two big big party schools
on the scene there. Clemson was the last team out.
(25:20):
Clemson is not that impressive, man, They would get smoked. Honestly,
they are not a good football team. I do want
to quickly just check Tennessee. No, they are only a
two loss team the balls and Tennessee this week has
Vandy not a walkover, and it's on the road. Vandy
did take down Alabama at home, so this is a
(25:41):
big one for Tennessee. This is their last chance to
impress the committee and not get leapfrogged. If you are
a Clemson fan rooting for chaos. You definitely are rooting
Vanderbilt if you are. If you don't like Indiana or
don't think they're worthy, hope that they struggle mightily and
win by a field goal. And then it's like, see,
I told you those guys aren't good. Alabama, by the way,
(26:04):
is the second team out, and you know they're going
to try to do something awesome in the Iron Bowl
against Auburn. I have a feeling Alabama gets back in
the discussion but gets left out, and there's outrage. How
is Arizona State in? How's byu Boise State? They don't deserve,
they don't belong. Well, Alabama lost three games. I'm sorry
(26:26):
you lose three games. I don't think you can make it.
And then comes, well, wait a minute, going forward, a
we don't want to schedule anybody like It just doesn't
make sense. Why would you schedule tough teams when you're
in the SEC Big Ten. You've got a lot of
tough games anyway, so scheduling tough opponents is silly. You're
only hurting yourself. And second, you do not want your
tough games at the end of the schedule. You want
(26:48):
as many layups as possible. Roast Beef Tech. You want
Directional Michigan University that kind of deal. You want the
fifty five nothing beatdowns so your players can rest in
the second half and you don't have to worry about
a loss. But college football should be awesome this weekend.
NFL obviously will be very good. Keep an eye on hoops,
folks for getting close. Enjoy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Hopefully
(27:14):
you're thankful for a lot of stuff, and we're back
on Monday. Talk to you then,
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